The Straits Times, 4 July 1950

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY. JULY 4, 1950 PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    U. S. TROOPS RUSH NORTH
    445 1 Expected To Clash With Reds Today TOKYO, Monday. A MERICAN troops, including armoured units, rushed north today to try to smash a tankled four-pronged Communist North Korean drive that already has outflanked strategic Suwon. U.S. officers expect their troops and the North Koreans to meet
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    32 1 FIELD MARSHAL Sir William Slim, C.I.G.S, shakes hands with a Gurkha officer of 12 Gurkha Rifles at llu Pandan camp. Singapore, which he visited yesterday. Straits Times picture. Story in Page Five.
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    AUSTRALIA RECALLS BOTH HOUSES
    110 1 AUSTRALIA RECALLS BOTH HOUSES CANBERRA, Mon. "TTCU Prime Minister, Mr. 1 Robert Menzies, announced today that both Houses of the Australian Parliament, at present in recess, will re-assemble on Thursday to discuss the Korean situation. There will be a special meeting of the Defence Council the day before to consider
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    Shah's Friend Kills Herself
    85 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Mon.— An attractive 24-year-old artist, Miss Ruth Stevens, who was the companion of the Shah of Persia during his weeklong visit here in December, died today of an overdose of sleeping pills before the eyes of her mother and her fiance, William Morehouse. Police
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    NEHRU'S APPEAL TO PAKISTAN
    153 1 NEW DELHI, Monday. r j HK Indian Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, urged today that, in view of the increasingly tense world situation, India and Pakistan should forget their minor differences and jointly concentrate on issues concerning both nations. Addressing an unofficial Pakistan trade delegation which catled
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    Gang Fight: Two Dead
    78 1 ANOTHER man has died as a result of Sunday after- noon's gang ftt;lit 111 Teiok I 8.-Ungah Road. Singapore. He was Abu B^.kar bin Abu. i Malay nkUer, who died in th'» General Hospital yesterd*y afternoon. Tliis brought the number of casualties in the gang fight
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    36 1 MR. AND MRS. Hu Wei Hsien after their recent wedding The bride was Miss Yong Foiif Mui. The bridegroom is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Oh Gim Keoy of .lohore Bahru. David Photo picture.
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    New Squadron Takes Over In Malaya
    158 1 Ne w Sq uadr on Takes Over In Malaya THE first heavy bomber squadron to operate against A the bandits No. 57 Squadron, equipped with Lincolns is being replaced by No. 100 Squadron. Aircraft of the replacement squadron are already engaged on bombing operations against bandit hideouts and concentrations in
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    Pakistan Ready To Use Force
    187 1 LONDON, Monday. TTOE Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Liaquat AH A Khan, said today that Pakistan was prepared to use force if necessary to halt Communist aggression 1 in Asia. He told a Press conference: "I beliete in peace but if force Is to be
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    GOING HOME
    27 1 ONE-year-old Alan Doehren, son of a sergeant in the R.A.M.C smiles happily before going aboard the troopship Empire Orwell in Singapore yesterday. Straits Times picture.
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    FELL TO HIS DEATH
    47 1 Within five minutes of booking a room at the International Hotel, Jalan Besar, Singapore, Moh Kim Say, a 29-year-old Teochew fell from a window on the floor of the building. He died in a few minutes. Moh had a wife and two children.
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    AID PLAN MEN DUE IN S'PORE
    106 1 BOMBAY, Mon. ITfR. O. L. Williams and Mr 'xl P. Nicholls, British Treasury officials visiting SouthEast Asia countries to assist in the formulation of a coordinated plan for economic aid as decided by the Sydney lei re today by air for Ceylon. Mr. Williams
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    New Salary Scales In Force Soon
    154 1 New Salary Scales In Force Soon UTEPS are being taken by me Singapore Govern- ment to implement the recommendations of the Benham Report very soon possibly this month or in August. An official circular is being prepared providing for the salaries conversion to the newly recommended scales. Option forms for
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    Red Terrorists Kill Publisher
    62 1 SAIGON, Mon. J U KHE the publisher of an important IndoChinese newspaper, Anh Sang was assassinated today as Communist-led Nationalists stepped up their icave of terrorism. French sources said they believe Moscow has ordered all its followers in Asia, including those in Indo-China, to step up
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    TALK ON KOREA
    39 1 Mr. G. G. Thomson, the Singapore Public Relations Secretary, will open a series of talks on current international affairs at 8 p.m. on July 11 in the V.M.C.A. hall with an address on "The Korean Climax."
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    MURDER HUNT IS MAKING PROGRESS-CID
    234 1 MURDER HUNT IS MAKING PROGRESS-CID gINGAPORE police, investigating the murder of Winnie Annie Spencer, now know the details of a part of her travels from Katong with the 20-year-old Indian for whom a wide search is still going on. "We have made progress, thanks to public information since our appeal
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    U.S. MAY REOPEN PLANTS
    163 1 SYNTHETIC From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Mon. DEFENCE considerations reinforced by heavy pressure from the American rubber industry make it likely that the U.S. Government will soon reopen one or two more of the stand-by synthetic rubber plants, reports the Financial Times Washington correspondent. Consideration of
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    Royal Birthplace
    33 1 GLAMIS Mon Glamls Castle, birthplace of the Queen and Princess Mar* garet. with a history going back to Shakespeare's Macbeth, is to be opened to the public— at a small fee.--Reu-ter.
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    Red Embezzler Ogled Girls
    102 1 A(lllua.A (lllua HONG KONG. Mon. %hl i?fh C i^ mu Ist clal who according to the Shanghai L«berat, on Daily was flirti wjth X 5 party" expelled from the Commutu i"", 1 11 1 C l n Tsu-shan, was Deputy Director or the local Railway Police
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    U.S.I. Not Claiming East New Guinea
    172 2 U.S.I. Not Claiming East New Guinea DARWIN. Mon. AMR. Raden Oetoyo, first Indonesian Ambassador to Australia, said on arrival here yesterday that Australia need have no fear that Indonesia would claim East New Guinea (which is administered by Australia). "We keep our hands off other countries' affairs. The Indonesian Government
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    SLOWER FASTER
    57 2 SLOWER FASTER TWO FASTERS vied with each other to be slowest in leaving their glass cases to take food.. Willy Schmitz (inset) lived on soda water and cigarettes at Frankfurt to establish a world record after 53 days. The Indian fakir Is seen emerging from his coffin in France after
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    GAVE OUT BILLS
    35 2 TOKYO, Mon —The police authorities of Fukuoka City, Kyushu. have raided the headquarters of the "Korean Liberation Movement Relief Corps" and arrested Koreans responsible for distributing handbills on the Korean trouble— Reuter.
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    LIAQUAT ALI KHAN TO MEET KING
    61 2 LONDON, Mon. V|R. Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan's Pr me Minister, who ITI arrived in London hyair from New York yesterday morning, is likely to leave London by air for* Karachi on July 9, it was learned here. Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan will on Thursday
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      One Cwt Cross Stolen From Cathedral
      165 2 EXETER, Monday. THHIEVES on Saturday night stole a five-foot one hundredweight solid silver diamond-studded cross from the altar of Exeter Cathedral. A cathedral door was forced open The cross was found yesterday morning 14 miles away in a field near Honiton, on the road
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    SCRAP IMPORT CONTROLS APPEAL
    187 2 SCRAP IMPORT CONTROLS APPEAL GENEVA. Mon. 'THE scrapping of imDort controls by 40 nations meeting at Torquay. England, in Septembei "could tip the scales" for world economic recovery, an International Trade Organisation official said yesterday. Mr. Eric Wyndham White, executive secretary of the I.T.O. Interim committee, urged member nations of
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    EXTRA WATCH
    76 2 TOKYO, Mon.— Japanese Maritime Safety Board divisions along the coast of Northern and Western Japan have been alerted against an expected increase in the number of illegal entrants as a result of the outbreak of hostilities in Korea. Extra watch has been made in the vicinity of Tsushima
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    FIGHTERS HIT U.S. GROUND TROOPS
    348 3 War Veteran Becomes The First Casualty With the U.S. Forces in Korea, Monday. POCKET firing North Korean fighters today hit American forces shortly after their deployment in South Korea, inflicting the first casualties on American ground troops. For 25 minutes seven fighters strafed with rockets
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    U.S. ARMY ADVICE
    65 3 U.S. ARMY ADVICE KOREAN Brigadier-General Yu (left) explains how his artillery iren operate. Listening from left are: Mr. John Foster Dulles, U. S. State Department; Col. W. H. S. Wright, Chief-of-Staff of the U.S. Army Military Advisory Group in Korea; Major-Gen. Choi Byung Duk, South Korean Army Chief-of-Staff; Mr. .John
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    Chiang Offers To Send Men To Korea, Told 'Formosa First'
    223 3 WASHINGTON, Monday. THE United States yesterday turned down a Chinese Nationalist offer to send 33,000 troops from Formosa to aid the U.N. forces in South Korea, but left the way open to use them later if necessary. The offer was
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    H.M.S. KENYA IN HONG KONG
    51 3 HONG KONG, Mon. THE British cruiser, H.M.S. Kenya, arrived in Hong Kong from Singapore yesterday. The Royal Navy I i declined to comment, but the Kenya has been transferred here presumably to I free the Navy's Hong Kong I contingent for possible use in Korea.
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    76 3 Til FUMKBAL service for Mr. Tan Jee Hoe of Singapore, at Karrakatta crematorium, I'trth. \V. A. recently. Mr. Tan was killed in the crash of a Skymaster aircraft just after it had taken off from Perth. His ashes will be brought to Singapore by his two uncles. Mr. Tan Henu
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    WATCHING GAME BY RUSSIA
    129 3 WATCHING GAME BY RUSSIA LONDON. Mon. n USSIA is expected to siay out of the Korean camU there are prospects of a rapid Western ouccess, according to diplomatic cirelc« In London. idler rVzn>v MacLcan, a Member of Parliament who ha i specialised in Communist said in the News of the
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    'LAY DOWN YOUR ARMS' HUKS TOLD
    135 3 s MANILA, Mon. j- THE Vice-President, Mr. Fernando Lopez, ippeal- ed to Hukbalahap rebels, bandits and other dissidents j to lay down their arms and work for Philippines unity in I the face of a worsening world situation. Stating that there were nt grievances
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    IMMEDIATE CREATION OF U.N. FORCE URGED
    189 3 LONDON, Monday. TWE immediate creation of a United Nations milij A tary force was proposed today by the News I Chronicle in a leading article. "At the moment, we have at best a piecemeal defence in the Far East." the paper said. "The Americans
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    Trade Union Mission On Way East
    171 3 Trade Union Mission On Way East From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Mon. A N International Trade Union mission left Brussels on Saturday to study Labour organisation in the Far East, reports the Financial Times' Brussels correspondent, who says that Great Britain is represented by Mr. F. W. Dalley, "an authority
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    RESERVES OUT
    57 3 WASHINGTON, Mon— Mr. Dan Kimball, Under-Secre-tary of the United States Navy, said yesterday 'hat part of the Pacific "mothball fleet" warships now lying idle might be put into service if more American ships were needed in Korean waters. Units of the Atlantic fleet would probably not be shifted
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    S'HAI TYPHUS
    29 3 HONG KONG, Mon. Shanghai's Public Health Bureau says 882 cases of typhus have been reported in the first five and a half months of this year. A.P.
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    JAPANESE BISHOP
    23 3 BISHOP YASHIRO. first Japanese to visit Australia since the war, takes a cup of tea with a Melbourne clergyman. A.P. picture.
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    JAPAN MOVES TO AID S. KOREA
    145 3 TOKYO, Monday. JAPAN today made a move to put her shipping facilities at the disposal of General Mac Arthur to aid the Republican Korean forces in what a Japanese newspaper pointed out could well be the first step toward Japan's admittance to the United
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    "PROVOCATION"
    35 3 SYDNEY, Mon.— The court discharged, on a good behaviour bond, a man who i.dmitted assaulting his wife and mother-in-law on Mother's Day. Leslie Harrison told the court there had been provocation from his mother-in-law.—A.P.
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    New French Cabinet Formed
    262 3 New French Cabinet Formed PARIS. Mon. 1/1 HENRI Queuille yes-. iTl# terday formed a new French Cabinet with the strongest Right win? make up since the second world war. M. Paul Reynaud, the independent Rightist who was premier at the fall of France, will take over a new and important
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    New Title For N. Korea "Heroes"
    59 3 THE creation of a title. "Hero of the People I Demo ra4 tic Republic of Korei has been announced by the North Korean Republic Moscow Radio said last »iaht, quoting a Pyongyang message. The title will be awarded for spectacular military fen*- '-nd is
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    400 OIL WELLS SUNK IN BRITAIN
    106 3 LONDON, Mon. JJIGGING for oil in Britain, started by the AngloIranian Oil Company 14 years ago, has resulted in mineral discoveries of national importance although little oil has so far been found. The largest annual amount of oil produced so far In Britain was
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    CHINESE POLICE PARTY KILLS 6 TERRORISTS, SAVES ARMS. AMMUNITION
    468 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. A SMALL party of Chinese policemen fought a galhnt action against 50 well armed bandits in the Grik area of Perak last month, it was revealed today. They killed at least six of the
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    Wins Scholarship
    33 4 NINETEEN YEAR OLD Henry Conceicao, of the Building Surveyor's Section of the Architect and Building Surveyor's Department, Singapore Municipality, who has been awarded a scholarship to the Technical College, Kuala Lumpur.
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    Back From Hong Kong
    70 4 THE veteran North China Blockade runner s.s. Yochow arrived In Singapore yesterday from Hong Kong ,with 152 Malayan personnel of the 91st. Squadron, R.A.F. Regiment, who have served in Hong Kong for one year. Most of the Malay troops looked extremely well and spoke enthusiastically of
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    YOUTH AND CARD
    50 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— The case against Omar bin Ahmat, charged with failing to register, was again postponed at Johore Bahru. On his second appearance, Omar stated that he lost his card the day he was arrested. The postponement was granted for police Inquiries.
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    FOR OBSERVATION
    47 4 From Oar Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— Veerappen, charged in the Johore Bahru Police Court today with failing to produce his identity card and with having been out during curfew hours/ was ordered by the Magistrate to be sent to the hospital for mental observaion.
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    NO RUSH AT 3 NEW SCHOOLS
    119 4 T^HREE of the five regional A schools which opened in Singapore yesterday could not enrol enough pupils to start afternoon sessions. The acting Deputy Director of Education. Mr. R. Bretherton, told the Straits Times last night that the three schools— two boys' schools at
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    Dance Nets $5,000
    67 4 A CARNIVAL atmosphere was the prevailing mood In the Singapore Victoria Memorial Hall last night when the Junior Chamber of Commerce held a fancy dress ball. Over 500 people attended the dance, which was in aid of Boys'- Town, and the night's takings realised about $5,000. Besides
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    S'PORE TALENTIME
    39 4 The audition for the competitors In the Singapore Talentitne contest, organised by Mr. Khoo Teng Eng and Mr. S. R. S. Naidu, will be held at the Great World cabaret on Saturday July 8 at 2.30 p.m.
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    Divorce Bill Will Affect Federation
    120 4 SINGAPORE'S divorce lav.\ will not be affected by the Bill now before the House of Commons governing divorce In certain Colonial and other teritories. The Bill, which extends the provisions of the Indian and Colonial Jurisdiction Acts, will, however, have important bearings on the existing
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    Johore Fund For Muslims
    165 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. THE ZAKAT FUND, on whose 1 behalf the Johore Religious Affairs Department makes collections and disbursements, last year provided poor Muslims with cash and gifts worth $10,000. Those who have benefited this year from the fund include Muslim patients
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    ACID THROWN IN MAN'S FACE
    61 4 From Oar Staff Correspondent PENANG, Mon. A CHINESE had his face and eyes badly burnt when an unknown Chinese flung: acid in his face yesterday evening- while he was sitting in a Dato Kran at Road coffee shop. The motive for the attack was obscure,
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    Building Offences
    22 4 Fines totalling $345 were imposed on 16 persons in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday for offences against building bye-laws.
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    MORE PROFIT FOR RICE DEALERS
    118 4 ritHE Singapore Government has agreed to increase x the rice retailers' margin of profit from 45 cents to 55 cents per picul, although the price to the public will not be affected. This decision followed suggestions made by Mr. Tan Chin Tuan, who represents Singapore
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    Malayan Students In Britain
    138 4 MALAYAN STUDENTS at the Brighton Terminal college after a dinner at the Brighton Chinese restaurant in honour of Mr. P. Navaratnam (third from left) who has graduated M.Sc. (Engineering) at London. He is returning to Malaya this month. From left are: Mr. I. Arshad, Drainage and
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    Woman And Girl Killed In S'gor
    233 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. DANUITS murdered a Chinese woman and her 20- year-old daughter and also a Tamil in Selangor during the weekend Yesterday afternoon In JOHORE a Malay motorcyclist and his pillion rider were flred on by bandits. The driver
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    Alleged Hurt To 2 Women
    52 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. R. Kandasamy, of Kluang Estate, claimed trial today in the Johore Bahru Police Court on two charges of voluntarily causing hurt to two women, Rasinah and Vellamah. The case was adjourned for trial and Kandasamy was allowed bail
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    FOR K.L. POST
    50 4 MR. O. W. L. GALE, formerly Director of the British Council in Persia, who is to take up a similar post in Kuala Lumpur, arrived in Singapore yesterday by QEA-BOAC Constellation. The post of director in Kuala Lumpur has been vacant for six months. Straits Times picture.
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    ANTI-BRITISH PENANG POSTERS
    45 4 From Our SUIT Correspondent PENANG. Mon. I FTER a lull of several veeks, Communist pampw.ets Have reappeared in Penang. This morning several posters in Chinese and English were found in the public market at Balik Pulau. They were all antiBritish in tone.
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    $200 FINE
    34 4 A woman chap-jl-kl runner, 22-year-old Lam Sol Wan, was yesterday fined $200 or 14 days' Imprisonment when she pleaded guilty In the Singapore Fourth Police Court to assisting in a public lottery
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    FOUND HANGING
    28 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Early this morning, the body of an unknown person was found hanging behind an old school in Kuala Lumpur.
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    BATHERS MUST BE QUIET
    93 4 From Oui Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAIIKU, Monday. BATHERS along the sea front in the vicinity of Galloway Pier, must not make so much noise when they use the beach for bathing, states a notice put up by the Johore Bahru Town Board today. The Board's action
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    RENTS OF S.I.T. POSTWAR FLATS REDUCED
    215 4 TENANTS of post-war A flats of the Singapore imjirovement Trust will get reductions in rent, recently approved by the trustees, of from $5 to $12. The reductions are worked out on the basis of 15 per cent, not on the present actual rents, but
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    Two S'pore Divorces
    105 4 TH E Chief JusUc Sir Charles Murray-A;ns'.e granted decrees nisi to fee made absolute in thri <-• months in two petitions for divorce in the Sinn;apoie Supreme Court yesterday. Thtresa Lilian Btubbs, said that her husband, Hugh C. Stubbs hari Lit, her in 1946, and had not
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    GAMING HOUSE
    39 4 In the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday. Mr. D. A. Fyfe fined a woman. Poh Lam Hoay. $100 for all >\vinu her premises in Swatow S reet to be used for cc-rmon Ins purposes on March 30
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    Slim Visits Gurkhas, Is Pleased
    218 5 Slim Visits Gurkhas, Is Pleased 'Bill' Slim meets a fturkhali wife -A DISTINGUISHED ex- Gurkha officer yesterdvy morning paid a visit to the Ist Bn. 2nd King Edtoard VII a Own Gurkha Rules at Ulu Pandan camp, Singapore, and left well pleased nuth what he had ±zcn. H- was the
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    Beaten And Bitten
    99 5 A CHINESE woman who al-i I "td she was beaten and I t ii by two sisters was awarded $10 romp?nsation by the Singapore Fourth Police istrate, Mr. p. Claque, rday. The sisters. Molly Chiew r.:r.i Chirw Ah Chan, were also bound over to be of good
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    CHANGED ADDRESS
    39 5 JOHORE BAHRU Mon Chan Yew was fined $5 in the Johore Bahru Police Court today lor failing to notify his change of address. He said he went to Ayer Bemban Police Station but nobody there understood Chinese.
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    THEFT CHARGE
    40 5 MUAR, Mon— Bail of $100 was allowed Yacob bin Montok. aged 60. when he was charged at Muar with theft of $10 from Chong Sim Kiong at Sungei Mati. The case was fixed for trial on July 6.
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    Singapore Diary
    131 5 PHILIPPINES INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATIONS. Thanksgiving Hlgh^Mass. Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, 7 p.m.. Children's party. C.V.M.A.. Bras Basah Road, luncheon. Raffles Hotel. 1 p m.. dance. Raffles Hotel. 8.30 p.m Y.W.C.A. WAYFARERS, annual meeting, 26, Newton Road. 4 p.m. Y.W.C.A.. 5. Raffles Quay, cookery class, 5 p.m., ballroom
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    NEW AIRLINE TO SERVE STORE
    49 5 Mr Bhu Mitra, of the Indian aviation company, Bharat Airways, arrived in Singapore, this weekend to prepare the way for the first of his company's flights to the Colony. Bharat Airways will operate a weekly set vice from Singapore to Calcutta, calling at Bangkok.
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    'CAMPAIGN IN MALAYA MORE IMPORTANT'
    216 5 'CAMPAIGN IN MALA YA MORE IMPORTANT' From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. 'THE campaign in Malaya was more important to 1 Malaya than the situation in Korea, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Field Marshal Sir William Slim, told the Straits Times today. Sir William would not comment
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    Legal Conference
    41 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon Mr. D. B. W. Good, Legal Adviser, Johore, and Mrs. Good, have left for Fraser's Hill on holiday. Mr. Good will attend the quarterly conference at Kuala Lumpur of Legal Advisers of the Federation of Malaya.
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    FAMILY RETURNS
    39 5 CORPORAL I. H. Stokes of the RAMC with Mrs. Stokes, and their four children, Patsy, Ivor, Hazel and seven-weeks-old David, before going: on board the trooper Empire Orwell at Singapore to return to Britain. Straits Times picture.
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    HIGH COURT TRIBUTES TO MR. D. K. WALTERS
    411 5 ELOQUENT tributes to the memory of the late Mr. D. K. Walters, Colony lawyer, who, in the words of the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, "would always be remembered as an inspiration to those who are making their way in the Bar
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    SUICIDE BID OVER DEBT
    62 5 A 20-year-old labourer. Yam Wang Kee, was bound over in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday in one surety of $100 for three months after pleading guilty to attempted suicide at the King George V Park on June 19. Yam told the court that he decided
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    SALESMAN ON BRIBE CHARGE
    502 5 $3,600 Offer To Military Officer Alleged A 38-YEAR-OLD salesman, Ong Teck Hock, was tried in the Singapore Second District Court yesterday, with offering a bribe of $3,600 to a lieutenant in the Royal Military Police. It was alleged that Ong offered the money to the lieutenant
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    Got Woman Drunk, Then Stole Gems
    83 5 Got Woman Drunk, Then Stole Gems ABDUL Salam, an unemployed Indian, yesterday pleaded guilty in the Singapore Second Police court to getting a woman drunk and then stealing her earrings and a ring valued at $230. He was sentenced to four months' rigorous imprisonment to be followed by year of
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    Peon Forged Cash Chits
    103 5 A Malay peon, Ramlee bin Yacob, aged 22, pleaded guilty in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday to three charges of cheating the Straits Times Press by altering the amounts of $6 in petty cash chits on May 30 and June 1 to $16, and trfe
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    NIGHT WORK FOR GAS LABOURERS
    40 5 Municipal labourers of the Gas Department worked till midnight on Monday, under portable electric lights, in an endeavour to keep to schedule the laying of brackets carryIng an eight-inch gas-main over Coleman Bridge, In Singapore.
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    FOUR FOUGHT
    39 5 Tan Lek Hoe, Tan Bee Lai. Lim Seng Kwong and Chia Ah Miang pleaded guilty in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to a charge of fighting: in the Singapore Harbour Board They were fined $5 each
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    KALLANG AIRPORT ARRIVALS
    170 5 THE following passengers were j among those who arrived at Kallang airport yesfceiVJay Horn points outside Malaya on the various air services. Passengers in transit are not Included in the Ust. a Q.E.A.-8.0.A.0. From Calcutta: Messrs: C. W. L. Oale, Wild, Dr. C. H. WaiUcr. and Lt.-Col.
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    GOING TO U.K.
    57 5 MR. L. R. ESTROP, 32-year-old Engineering Assistant, Singapore Municipal Electricity Department and well-known Malayan pole vaulter, who will be leaving on August 10 in the Corfu for England on a four-year scholarship. Mr. Estrop was awarded a scholarship for the Faraday House Diploma in Electrical Engineering under
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    DISPUTE OVER 8-HOUR DAY
    188 5 T»HE 2,000-strong Singapore Coffee Shop Employees x Union is to seek the assistance of the Commissioner for Labour to get the employers to fulfil the terms of an agreement signed in December, 1945 This decision was taken at a recent meeting of the Union's executive committee
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    NURSES' DANCE
    22 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— Nurses of the General Hospital, Johore Bahru, will hold a dance at their hostel on July 6.
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    CLERKS' GIFT TO ORPHANS
    109 5 CLERKS' GIFT TO ORPHANS TLERKS of a large oil comv pany In Union Building, Singapore, yesterday sent the Straits Times $148 for the Chee orphans whose parents committed suicide in the sea off Marine Parade, Katong, on June 10. A senior clerk of the company told the Straits Times yesterday
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    MCA GIVES $1,000 FOR HARI RAYA
    68 5 Malacca, Mon. The sum of $1,000 has been approved for the welfare of Malay detainees throughout Malaya at Hari Raya Puasa, said Mr. Tan Siew Sin. publicity chairman of Ibo Malayan Chinese Association, to-day. There are 800 .Malay detainees at Malacca, l.~>0 at Ipoh,
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    RETURNING TO CEYLON
    48 5 Ceylon's High Commissioner in Australia, Mr. J. A. Martenz, arrived in Singapore yesterday afternoon on his way home on private business. He was met on arrival at Kallang by the Commissioner for Ceylon in Singapore, Mr. M. Saravanamuttu. Mr. Martenz leaves i for Ceylon today.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    132 6 THE RELATIVES of the late Mr. D. K. Walters wish to thank nil frletids who were kind enough 10 attend the funeral and to send flowers and wreaths in his remembrance. MRS. CHIA TWEE KIM and family sincerely thank relatives and friends, who so kindly attended the nlght-vlslt and
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    IN MEMORIAM
    17 6 RHARPE ELLIOT. In loving memory of my darling husband John who died during Internment 1944.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., July 4, 1950. The South Holds On
    805 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., July 4, 1950. The South Holds On Although the week-end hysteria is fast being drained out, the situation in Korea remains partly obscure and, wher^ not obscure, not for the moment very encouraging. But the important fact is that Scuth Korean resistance has not collapsed,
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    A Calcutta Lie
    274 6 Calcutta Weekly Notes is a law journal edited by Mr. J. Chaudhuri, barrister-at-law. However, it is rather more than the collection of notes on legal matters and reports of cases that a law journal usually contains, for in its issue of May 1 it had leading article
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    MR. F.R. VINE
    28 6 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Mr. F. R. Vine, of the General. Hospital, Johpre has returned from leave, relieving Mr. H. McGladdery, who has returned to Singapore.
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    Probing For The truth In The Korean Strife
    945 6  - Probing For The truth In The Korean Strife ANDREW ROTH By who has visited both South and North Korea several times since the war to analyse the political and economic factors behind the strife between the two Governments, and whose last tour of the country was made last year. IN
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      161 6 IN reply to "Elector", whose letter was published today (Monday) under the heading "Progressive Leader", allow me to tell him and you, sir, that I am not the leader of the Progressive Party on the Municipal Commission. On the day In question (when ihe Commission chose a
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      Mr. D. Robertson
      160 6 AS I am presumably one of the members of the Progressive Party abused of "staying from the special meeting of the Commissioners at which the Scales-Marcus question was debated and decided, I tfnuld lik° to imform your Correspondent •Elector" that l was on fune 23— on a
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      KUALA LUMPUR'S MORALS
      79 6 ITU ALA LUMPUR needs to clean up its morals! Its bookstalls openly sell the same sex magazines which Singapore has had cause to ban. There appears to be insufficient police supervision of hotels. The police may have their hands full with the emergency. But periodic checks with
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      SEAFORTHS AT KALLANG
      109 6 gO the band of the Seaforth Highlanders was sent to Kallang Airport to welcome a Sikh bridegroom. Is he *n ex-me<mber of the battalion? Or is he going to Join them in their Jungle warfare? If he is neither, then as a taxpayer I object. Let the
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      "CITY STATUS"
      133 6 A LOT has been said and written about the suggested grant of "city status" to the town of Singapore, but nobody has explained in what way such status would alter the present position. Will the Royal Charter give Singapore a fully-elected Municipal Council and an elected Mayor? If
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    On the Margin
    370 6 Sunday Work AST Sunday afternoon. while sitting In my horsebox in the Straits Times editorial department, absorbed in the daily task of fishing in a mental vacuum for ideas to fill a vacant column. a head poked itself around the door, and a colleague said: "Can you
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    FIRST VARSITY DEGREES FOR 70
    338 7 Oei Tiong Ham Hall Ceremony On Saturday SEVENTY undergraduates will receive the first degrees to be awarded by the University of Malaya at the Convocation on Saturday at the Oei Tiong Ham Hall, Bukit Timah. These will be conferred by Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, Chancellor
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    'REGISTER' CALL BY LAYCOCK
    214 7 MR. John Laycock, a Progressive Party member of the Legislative Council, railed upon all qualified sons and daughters of Singapore to register quickly for votes In the next two weeks before the time ran out. Making the appeal over Radio Malaya last night. Mr. Laycock said
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    Labour's 3 Meetings
    83 7 rpHE Singapore Labour 1 Party held three meet■sterday to urge people to register for the Legislative i tuncU and Municipal elecVT KTIX(; No. 1 took place a 1 lunch time at Empress The Party's president. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, the general secretary Mr. P. M. Williams. and
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    PEON GAOLED
    39 7 1! an bin Haji. Marzuki, 19-year-old peon, pleaded guilty In the (Singapore Second r Court yesterday to lllng a motor-lorry dynamo, worth $20, and was sentenced to four months" ligori Ufiprisonment and a year of police supervision.
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    SHE APPLIED TOO LATE
    55 7 Because she was two days overdue in applying for an identity card, an Englishwoman. Christina Small Dow. appeared before Mr. H. E. Kingdon. the Singapore First District Judge yesterday. Mr. Kingdon cautioned and discharged her after the prosecutor. Mr. M. C. Boyle. A.S.P. said she would
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    7 Get Arts Honours Degrees
    227 7 7 Get Arts Honours Degrees THE last University of Ma- laya results to be released are those for the Bachelor of Arts (Honours! and Bachelor of Arts. All seven who attempted the B. A. (Hons) passed; two received first class honours. They are Mrs. Geh Ik Cheong. daughter of Mr.
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    BOUND OVER
    37 7 For stealing a sheet of corrugated iron worth $2 from the Gillman Barracks, M. Suppiah, aged 40. was bound over for six months in $100 in one surety in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday.
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    R.A.O.B. At Funeral Of Mr. C. Short
    272 7 MEMBERS from six lodges of the Royal and Ancient Order of Buffaloes were present in full regalia at Bidadari cemetery yesterday evenIng for the funeral of one of their Order, the late Mr. Charles Short, 49-year-old British aeronautical engineer. Mr. Short, who was
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    Coldstream Guards
    67 7 300 YEARS THE Coldstream Guards celebrate their tercentenary tomorrow. In London, the King will present Colours to the Third Battalion. A description of this ceremony, broadcast by the 8.8.C., will be relayed by Radio Malaya at 6 p.m. At 10 p.m. the Commanding Officer of the Second Battalion,
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    Trespassed Into House
    67 7 T*WO Europeans, Bernard -i William Booth, 26, and Betty Smalley. 24, pleaded guilty In the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday when they were charged with house trespass. It was alleged that on July 3 they entered a house In Anderson Road with the intention of assaulting the
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    LIQUOR CHARGE
    35 7 Poh Ah How, aged 42, was charged in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday with possessing dutiable Jlquor. Bail of $50 In one surety was allowed. The case was postponed to July 10.
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    NOT LICENSED
    26 7 For selling ice-cream in Sumbawa Road without a licence, Yeo Kirn Sal, aged 38, was fined $5 In the Singapore Third Police Conrt yesterday.
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    NINE WILL CHECK ON HOLIDAYS
    210 7 VINE inspectors have been assigned by the Singall pore Labour Department to ensure that retail shopowners understand the full Implications of the Weekly Holidays Ordinance which became operative on Saturday. f Each will cover roughiy two postal areas within the Municipality. They will be "on
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    CRUEL TO FOWLS
    47 7 Koh Tian, aged 53, of West Coast Road, Singapore, pleaded guilty In the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to a charge of causing unnecessary suffering to nine fowls by tying them by the legs and keeping them in two baskets. He was fined $30.
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    How to bring up your daughter
    565 7 —BY 4 STORE MOTHERS TPODAY, daughters in America, Australia, China and India are brought up to be independent and self-reliant. This was the opinion of the symposium on "How to bring up your daughter" held by the International Fortnightly dub at the Y.W.C.A., Singapore
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    S'PORE SCOUT WINS SILVER CROSS
    177 7 THE Silver Cross, a Scout medal presented for galantry. has been awarded to 16-year-old Samson De Sllva, Patrol Leader In the Singapore 22nd. Group, for his attempts to save the life of H. Q. Plyasena, who disappeared off Changi Beach, Singapore, in May. The award
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    NEIGHBOURS SAVED SHOP
    53 7 An electric short circuit in a Market Street shop caused a fire shortly after 10 o'clock last night. Neighbours, who noticed the fire by the smell of burnt rnbber. poured buckets of water over the electric wiring and put out the fire before the Fire Brigade arrived
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    AMERICANS & FILIPINOS CELEBRATE...
    353 7 AMERICANS FILIPINOS CELEBRA TE. —BUT WITH AN EYE ON KOREA OIK hundred Americans in Malaya will celebrate Independence Day today restrainedly with America participating in a war and American troops on their way into action in South Korea. Today is also the fourth anniversary of the Independence of the Republic
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    LINEN GUILD
    25 7 The annual meeting of the St. Andrew's Mission Hospital Linen Guild will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Y.W.C.A. Raffles Quay.
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    3 Years For Robbers
    74 7 TWO Chinese. Lim Ah OJI and Teo Eng Hui, were yesterday sentenced to three years' imprisonment in the Singapore Assizes when they were found guilty of robbery. The two. with four others, entered a house in Dunetri Road in April last and robbed cash and jewellery
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    DANCE IN HONOUR OF GRADUATES
    47 7 A dance to honour the 1; t graduates of the Unl of Malaya is being organised Iby the Students Union n iconjunction with the Conv< cation to be held at Harrow r 'Hall. Faculty of Meclirii: 'Singapore, on July 8. 8.30 p.rr.
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    Five Colony Taxis Have Test Meters
    85 7 SINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners are considering the byeUws governing the installation of meters on taxK said Mr W. A M. Watts. Register of Vehicles, yesterday. Five taxis have been fitted with meters as a test. When it becomes compulsory for all taxis to have them,
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      122 7 rWe Completed our Annual Stock Taking JUNE 3O€h And in each section of our Singapore Store there were a few Items which for various reasons were "written down in value These goods we can mm dispose »f at "CLEAR-OUT" PRICES And on Wednesday mornings for the next few weeks we
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    A Open Letter To Eric Symes
    467 8 THE CHINESE BIRTHRATE riRIC SYMES, while declaring that there is no racial antagonism in his words, pointing out the high birth-rate as a cause against the successful combatting of T.B. and disease, seems to be very bitter about the failure of enlightened Chinese to
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    Maggi seeks British styles
    119 8 kJACGI McNell.s, U.S. fashion expert, went to London recently for a three-day visit. In America fifteen million women slavishly try to look like Maggi who is the television fashion queen and voted one of America's ten best-dressed women. But she went to Engiand to try and
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    Weaning into childhood
    673 8  -  NURSE JANET MOTHERCRAFT IN MALAYA by gETWEEN the ages of one to five the young child's body is steadilv growing. Contours of the body are filling out and he is leaving infancy behind. Hand in hand with this steady growth of bodv. goes the growth of brain.
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    THE WEEK'S BONNIEST BABY
    33 8 Master Lee Kw.ii Leong. nine-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Mum Ho of Raub, seemi t« enjoy standing on his feet for the first time in his life.
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    It can be so lonely
    484 8 FROM AN ESTATE BUNGALOW [SUPPOSE most humans suffer from what is commonly called "the herd instinct" rather than being like Greta Garbo, who wanted to be alone. All the same I have certainly been cursing up-hill and down -dale the repairers and painters were in.
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      249 8 Looking for a tasty dish FILLET OF FLOUNDER AU GRATIN INGREDIENTS: Flounder fillets for 4 persons; 1 tablespoon butter; 1 tablespoon flour; 1 small onion; pint milk; 1 cup grated cheese; i cup breadcrumbs (stale bread); salt and pepper; I teaspoon mustard. Cooking Method: Rub a casserole with the cut
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    Korea War Shakes Australia
    732 9 Says BOBGILMORE in his Weekly Newsletter MELBOURNE, June 26: JI1K Korean headlines enabled Australia's Federal Ciovernment to H>> whal it had been planning to do for more than three weeks buy into the Asian shooting war shooting job U.iable to step too .head of public opinion.
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    BRUMAS FILMED
    67 9 BRUMAS FILMED THAT siar of Britain 1 Pi ess. radio, television aud newsreel. Brumas. the b.iby poiar bear, has now intu films. OwIng to the demand fo \nres of the Ljndon 7 <>s greatest attraction ice the Giant Panda, a ."-■"■•ri:i une-.eei film suonbored by General Film Dis- 1 i
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    In silence and in secrecy
    248 9 NORTH ot Kashmir where the mountains range ove* 18 000 feet all along th« frontier an Iron Curtam o< vlence and secrecy descends Beyond Mount Godwin Austen peak only 752 feet lower than Everest the Russians are at work They dig tor coal they bore
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    Has America stayed too long in Japan?
    602 9  -  STEFFAN ANDREWS by TOKYO: (JENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR i s gradually losing the good will of the vast majority of the Japanese people who regard him almost as the second Emperor of Japan. The occupation, which at one time was hailed as a model,
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    Church Leaders Meet To Discuss Equality
    191 9 TORONTO. fHURCH leaders from many lands will assemble in Toronto July 8-15 for the annual meeting of the policy-making Central Committee of the World Council of Churches. The gathering at Emmanuel College will be the second for the 90-member committee since formation of the
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      286 9 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD t*«J2S..»_. ai 9e9 e hicle: CROSSWORD No. 92 (6). U. French word and sacred KLjJUUJ I- I i, i 1.-l^. I I. I 1 1 kuuj 9. Anclmt god resUd by ff^ H 4 NTI vessel (6) 25 Behold at last a convex *3?^ I §s§j I
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    Inside the 'Berlin Kremlin'
    1076 10  -  WILLIAM HAMSHER BERLIN. By BLACK CUARDS pistol on hip, patrol outside walled compound in the Soviet sector of Berlin. Inside live the Moscow-picked men and their families who have been set up as the East German Government. A croup of experts have pieced to gether this
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    "BLUEBIRD II" SQUEEZES OUT
    76 10 Lntl r the supervision of Donald Campbell (bottorr. left), the world-famous speedboat "Bluebird ll' was taken from its Reigate Hill, Surrey, garage recently for the road journey to Lake Coniston where Campbell will attempt to smash the world water speed record set by his father, the
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    Sea Horse Express
    628 10 By DAVID CLAYTON fYNE of my bottles has come from the sea. As a sure-fire method of making penfriends, stuffing a note in a bottle, offering five shillings on demand to the finder and casting it into the ocean from a Dlotted point far out at sea
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      187 10 S HOME LOMPOR B.F.E.B.S 10 a.m. News from K.L.; 10.05 55 am Mu lc Emergency Editorials"; 4.55 Prokonefl- 5.15 dose; 10 50 Schools; 12 Mala,; News; 10.10 Close; 10.50-2 PJ Sur^f 3 1 pm Light Music- 1.30 News; Spore; 6 Mall Bag; 7 News. ..p aul Temple and the Sullivan
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    Forward Sales
    311 11 rE following companies announce details of forward sales of rubber: Bruseh Rubber Estates for the January-December, 1850, crop period 403 2001b at a gross average price (London landed terms) ot Is 2.80d per pound and for the Jan-Dec, 1951, crop period 134,400 lbs. at Is. 3.81d. Sarawak Rubber
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    TAKUAPA VALLEY TIN DREDGING
    29 11 TAKUAPA Valley Tin Dredging announces that in June the mine's two dredges worked 1.223 hours, covered 270.000 cubic yards nnd won 790 piculs of tin-ore.
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    Consol. Smelters: Tin Marketing Criticism
    103 11 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Mon. POXSOLIDATED Tin Smelters' chairman, Mr. E. V. Pearce, X/ voices strong criticism of the Government marketing of Straits tin. In his opinion the method of s?lling ex-eon cl gnm»nt in New York diverts bids from Singapore, with an adverse
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    Kinta Kellas Tin
    14 11 I^INTA Kellaa Tin Dodging In June produced 332 piculs of tin-ore.
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    MALAYAN SHARE PRICES EASE
    211 11 From Our Market Correspondent THE political situation continued to dominate the 1 Malayan share market yesterday and price changes were mostly downwards. Price changes announced yesterday by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: INDUSTRIALS Fraser Sc Neav Ordj 305 Gammon 2.3S M ColU 1.60 O. Chinese Bank
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    TIN PRICES
    28 11 SINGAPORE, Man., July 3— 5305,871* (down $0.25). LONDON, Mon July 3.— Spot: £609*— £610; Forward, £610— £6101; Settlement, £610. Turnover: morning, 85 tons; afternoon, 60 tons.
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    168 11 gXCHANGE quotations, as announced by the Malayan Exchange Banks Association, are: Free Market Currencies selling i.i.fuai London 2s. 4 l/16d. Australia 2s. lid. New Zealand 2s. 4 l/32d. India. Burma Ceylon 155% Pakistan 108% Hong Kong 53% Buying T.T OJ>. London 2s. 4 3/16d. 2s. 4 7/32d. Aust.
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    Rubber Is Steadier
    161 11 THE Singapore rubber market again being very nervous after opening rather easy yesterday, steadied throughout the day, closing with buyers over 80 cents and sellers reserved. Closing prices yesterday were per lb.: No. 1 R.s.s. spot loose buyers 80 cents, sellers 80% cents; No. 1 R.S.S. f.o.b.
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    98 11 rZ Singapore produce market was generally steady In all sections yesterday, some price changes w?re noticed in the case of a few commodities. Prices (per picul) quoted yesterday in the Singapore Chinese Produre Exchange were: Gambier, rough slices $210; Java cube $65; Hamburg cube $70; pepper, Muntok
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    TUGRA ESTATE
    35 11 JUGRA Estate for the year to Mar. 31 pays a dividend of 10 per cent, less tax (against the previous year's 7'i per cent, and five per cent. Jubilee bonus), absorbing £5,280 net.
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    SHIPS ALONGSIDE AND IN THE ROADS
    232 11 CHIPS situated in the Singapore Outer Roads and Inner Roads and alongside Harbour Board Godowns yesterday were: Onter Eoads: Uritsky. Hal Hsuan, Camphuys. OaKel (R.F.A.), Washington Mail, Bemreoch, W Charante, Chit Sein, Pernfleld, Ulysses, Union Pioneer, Eastern Saga. (Man of War Anchorage): Rajput, Rana.
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    HOLLOWAY STRETCHES CHEW BEE
    545 12 Women 'sDoubles Final Decided rpHE FAVOURITE for this year's singles title, 26- year-old Ong Chew Bee, who was last year's singles runner-up, was taken to a hard-fought three sets by 46-year-old veteran G.T. Holloway in the semi-final of the Singapore Lawn Tennis Association Championships at the
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    BROTHERS MEET IN SEMI-FINAL TODAY
    55 12 BROTHERS 11. Kimis and A. G. B. Pakir meet in a men's singles semi final tie i.i the Singapore Lawn T.-nnis Association's championships on the S. C. Courts today. In another semi-final, in the mixed doubles, G. T. Holloway and Mrs. L. Tiinks meet One
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    Ooi-Law Final Expected
    174 12 PENANG, Mon. Penang's two Tn >-nas Cup players. Ooi Teik Hock and Law Teik Hock, have lii drawn In opposite sections In the men's singles of the Pen■ng Badminton Championships mhich start this Sunday at the Chung Ling High School's new *2»0.000 hull. I..iw is defending the
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    SBA TOURNAMENT: RESULTS & TIES
    648 12 SB A TOURNAMENT: RESULTS TIES ANDREW Tan (Diehard 8.P.), joint-favourite with Goh Tian Chye for the Singapore Badminton Association's junior singles title, was last night made to work hard to eliminate bespectacled Foo Hon Hin (Tiger S.A.t. The score of 15-3. 15-4 in Andrew's favour belied the run of play,
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    45 12 JAROSLAV DROBNY, who now plays for Efypt is among the last eight in the men's singles at Wimbledon this year. Here he takes a well placed shot from C. Orandet (France) -on the volley in a centre-court match in the opening day's play.— Reuter photo.
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    1 Goal Reward For Non-Stop Attack
    294 12 p A.F. SELETAK scraped home winners by an only goal in their SAFA senior league encounter against R.E.M.E. at Seletar yesterday. From start to finish, Airmen showered the R.E.ME goal with shots from all angles, but luck was against them. Time and again, R.E.M.E.
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    WIMBLEDON: RAIN DELAYS START
    126 12 WIMBLEDON, Mon. HEAVY rain delayed the opening of the second week of Wimbledon lawn tennis championships today. For the first time since the championships began a week ago, Wimbledon presented a dismal scene. Flags and bunting were soaked and bedraggled and the lawns, on which last
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    NO SCORES IN JUNIOR SOCCER
    39 12 Indian Recreation Club and 30th Battallion R.A.O.C. played a scoreless draw In a S.A.F.A. Junior Al soccer tie at Oeylang stadium yesterday. Exchanges were even and both teams missed many chances in the match.
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    BROTHER SCHOOLS OLD BOYS SPORTS
    85 12 The Christian Brothers' Old Boys' (Singapore) Association intend to hold an Athletic Sports Meet on Saturday. August 19 on St. Joseph's Institution ground. The meeting will be open to all Old Boys of the Christian Brothers' Schools. It will be run on team basis. All
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    Sports Diary
    35 12 SOCCER: Snr. ige: Chinese Athletes v Royal Engineers at Jalan Besar stadium; Jnr. BZ: Town Ranger* v Star Soccerites at Geylang; Friendly: Indian Assn. v Indian Navy. TENNIS: Colony championships (cont.) at S.C.C.
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    72 12 FRANK SEDGMAN. Australia's No. 1 seed In the Wimbledon championships, is down in the above picture but it was his opponent, Britain's H. Walton who was out in the end, Sedgman, very evidently troubled by his Injured wrist which was well bandaged.' won 6-4. 7-5, 6-4. and is among the
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    Record Purse For Dawson
    94 12 SYDNEY, Mon. American negro lightweight Freddie Dawson, second in world rankings, and Australian aborigine lightweight champion Jack Hassen each received £A2,500 for their recent fight, won by Dawson on a knockout in the seventh round. It was the biggest purse paid on a percentage basis in
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    FATE OF CLASS 5 HORSES IN THE BALANCE
    401 12  -  EPSOM JEEP By IPOH, Monday. WHILE THERE has been no unqualified approval of the Perak Turf Club's blueprint for a complete revision of the old system of stakes distribution which deprives second raters of reaping equal benefits from the ever increasing added
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    Spain Beat England 1-0
    243 12 WORLD SOCCER RIO DE JANEIRO, Mon. ENGLAND were beaten by one goal to nil here yesterday and are eliminated from the World Cup soccer competition. Spain's goal was scored by centre-forward Zarra early in the second half off a pass from Igoa. Spain had to win
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    CASUALS ROUT TAMILS 5-NIL
    254 12 Casuals 5 Tamil B.A Nil ATTACKING persistently from the start, Chinese Casuals trounced Tamil B.A. by five goals to nil in the S.A.F.A. Senior League a I Jalan Besar yesterday, j The Casuals played with ten men throughout, vrtiile the Tamils lost the services cf inside
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    Navy Rally Brings 2 Goals & Victory
    276 12 Navy Rally Brings 2 Goals Victory Indian Navy 2 S.H.A f A SECOND half recovery when two goals were scored gave Indian Navy an unexpected two-one vlctor y against a Singapore Hockey Association XI on the padang yesterday. The favoured S.H.A side who led by a goal at the Interval
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    57 12 Glamorous Wimbledon star, Nancy ChafTee of America ?iveS r fo d rt W hl th tVH mm H aCto €S?S ?i r Romero" when rt?n.h?£ the v thlrd da y the Wimbledon tennis ihamth? NN 1 nC f WaS beaten ln the fourth r ««nd the women's singles on Satu
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    "ENGLISH SOCCER DIES AT RIO"
    87 12 LONDON, Mon. THE British Pres3 was practically in mourning for English soccer on Monday after Spain's onenil win over England at Rio De Janeiro. The Daily Herald used a formal funeral announcement black bordered and in old English lettering on its front page, The text
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