The Straits Times, 11 July 1950

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAdES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1950 <£ PRICE TEN CENTS
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    BIG RED ATTACK FORECAST
    396 1 Fresh Troops Moving Up TOKYO, Monday. NEW large-scale attack by North Korean forces was foreseen tonight in a communique from General Mac Arthur's headquarters. The communique said Communist pushes during the night in the Chonan-Chochiwon area had temporarily lost momentum, but the reconnaissance elements were active
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    FREAK STORMS
    36 1 LONDON, Mon. After a night of freak storms, the sun shone over southern England again today, heralding a resumption of the three-day neat wave that yesterday sent the temperature rocketting to 80 degrees Fahrenheit.—Reuter.
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    Ready To Make Life Hot For Enemy Fighters
    48 1 AMERICAN TROOPS manning s multi-barrelled light anti-aircraft gun on Suwnn airfield in Korea keep a wary look-out (above) for marauding North Kon-'ii Yik fighters. Below. Dispirited North Korean prisoners squat in a prison stockade guarded by South Koreans. A.P. pi«-tur?s.
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    POLICE GUARD MENZIES' PLANE
    369 1 J>OLICF maintained an all-night guard on the 1 QEA-BOAC Constellation which brought the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies, and •us party to Singapore yesterday afternoon, as part mi the tiffli test-ever security precautions at Kallang airport. Mr Mrnzirs and his party i>i ••ight in
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    EXECUTION OF 7 U.S. SOLDIERS
    103 1 EXECUTION OF 7 U.S. SOLDIERS KOREAN FRONT. Mon FE bodies of seven executed American soldiers were found today near the American front line shortly after they had been seen surrendering to North Korean troops. The bodies yere found by Lieut. D. C. Gates In the area just behind the American
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    'ENEMY STOPPED' -Stratemeyer
    148 1 'ENEMY STOPPED' -Stratemeyer TOKYO. Mon. LIEUT.-General George E. Stratemeyer said today the "great effort of our ground forces, the navy and Far East Air Force has stopped" the North Koreans. The American Far East Air Force Commander said n o targets beyond North Korea would be bombed. But. he added,
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    No U.K. Aid For Formosa
    142 1 LONDON. Mon. MR. Ernest Davles, British Foreign Under-Secretary, when asked in the House of Commons today what assistance Britain had promised the United States for the defence of Formosa, replied None." Mr Woodrow W y a 1 1 (Labour) who raised the matter, urged the
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    King Cobra Caught With Bare Hands
    220 1 rREE Chinese greenkeepers of the Island Club caught a deadly 15-foot king cobra with their bare hands on Sunday morning. They thought It was the mate of a 15-foot python which they had trapped in almost the same spot on Thursday. Yesterday the king
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    1,500 London Drivers Go On Strike
    117 1 1 500 London Drivers Go On Strike LONDON, Monday. VJORE than 1,500 London road haulage drivers iTi struck work today in response to a call for an unofficial stoppage in support of the 16-day-old London meat market. The nationalised road haulage executive announced that though 80 p^r cent, of their
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    HONG KONG C-in-C PAYS FLYING VISIT
    99 1 LIEUT.-Gen. E. C. L. Mansergh, G.0.C., Hong Kong, made a flying visit to Singapore on Friday and had a conference with the Command-er-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces, Genera" Sir John Harding. Arriving on Friday night, Lieut.-General Mansergh had his conference on Saturday, and returned
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    Court Packed For Nonis Case
    433 1 MORE than 120 people packed the Singapore Relief Court yesterday and a crowd milled outside, when Michael Joseph Nonis, a 25-year-old Eurasian, was produced again on a tentative charge of the murder of Winnie Annie Spencer, the 10-year-old Eurasian schoolgirl. However, unknown to the crowd,
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    Gunmen Enter Bombay Temple
    65 1 Gunmen Enter Bombay Temple BOMBAY, Mon. FOUR gunmen entered the Mahalaxmi Temple here this morning and fired 10 shots at the priests and temple servants, seriously wounding three. The gunmen took the jewels on a plate worth about £400, but had little time to remove more from the four-armed Goddess
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    10,000 PILGRIMS
    32 1 CAIRO, Mon.—Ten thousand Indonesian Muslims, the largest number since the war, will make the Haj this year, said Maitre Mohammed El Rasheedy, Indonesian Minister to Egypt and Saudi Arabia.—A. P.
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    C.I.O. Attacks Cut In Point 4 Aid To Asia
    241 2 C.I.O. Attacks Cut In Point 4 Aid To Asia WASHINGTON, Mon. •yHE Congress of Indusx trial Organisations yesterday branded a recommended cut in aid to backward countries as "economy gone mad", which would furnish "indirect aid to the Kremlin". The C.1.0., the American trade union organisation, in its telegram to
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    AN OLD TRICK
    40 2 AN OLD TRICK SMALL GIRLS use an old trick in their determination to see the Queen when she visited the Royal Norfolk Agricultural show. They burrowed under the tent flaps, and found they were welcome just the same. A.P. picture.
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    LEVY ON WOOL IN AUSTRALIA
    81 2 CANBERRA. Mon.—Australia is to impose a levy of V/ 2 par cent on wool in the 1950SI Australian wool season, the Commerce Minister, Mr. John McEwen, said yesterday. The levy, effective on Aug. 26, will be the first step in laying the foundation for the
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    STRIKE ENDS
    44 2 CHICAGO, Mon. About 1,500 railway men yesterday ended a two-week strike on the Rock Island railroad. The strike was broken late on Saturday night by a court injunction, and the union president. Mr. Arthur Glover, told his men to go to work.—AP.
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      Special Survey For Atom Commission
      250 2 WASHINGTON, Monday. rpHE United States Atomic Energy Commission has 1 announced that the firm of E. B. Dv Pont de Nemours and Company has started a special technical survey for the Commission. The Commission said the j survey covered "facilities, processes and technical problems in
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      HUKS KILL SIX IN AMBUSH
      56 2 MANILA, Mon.— Six people were killed and another wounded when a band of Communist-led Hukbalahaps ambushed a party of civilians and soldiers near the town of Magalang on Saturday night. The report said that those killed included two constabulary corporals and four civilians, while a
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    VATICAN PLAN FOR TOMB OF JESUS
    203 2 VATICAN PLAN FOR TOMB OF JESUS VATICAN CITY, Mon. "THE Vatican, after 10 1 years' study, proposed yesterday that a great new Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre be built in Jerusalem which would contain seven separate churches with free access for all to the tomb of Jesus. The project was
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    CHIANG CONFERS ON DEFENCE
    51 2 HONG KONG, Mon. Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek on Saturday presided over another military conference, according .o Chinese Press reports from Taipeh. The conference discussed defence measures for Formosa and collaboration with the U.S. Seventh Fleet, sending Nationalist troops to Korea and plans for a return to the
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    P.I. WANTS JAP SENT BACK
    105 2 P. I. WANTS JAP SENT BACK MANILA ,Mon. rpHE Philippines Government wants SCAP to return a Japanese war criminal, taken last year as a witness In another trial, so that they can shoot him. The Defence Department said that the Philippines Government "loaned" Warrant Officer Toshio Tezuka In July 1949
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    Hong Kong Population Reported Decreasing
    170 2 HONG KONG, Monday. fTHE population of Hong Kong which reached an 1 all-time record shortly after the fall of Canton, has been decreasing by at least 3,000 to 4,000 daily in the past fortnight, according to a newspaper report here. Observers in Hong Kong believe
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    LOST THEIR WAY
    37 2 HONG KONG, Mon. AN Army L.S.T., with five Servicemen aboard, returned to Hong Kong last night after being reported missing for more than 12 hoars. The crewmen explained they had lost their way. A.P.
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    STILL SICK MAN
    25 3 MR. ERNEST BEVIN. British Foreign Secretary, leaves the London Clinic where he is convalescing for a short outing. A. P. picture. m
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    'POLICE ACTIONNOT WAR'
    184 3 'POLICE ACTIONNOT WAR' NEW YORK. Mon. MR. Ame Sundf, of Norway. this month's president <'f the United Nations' Security Council, said in a broadcast .statement yesterday that the United States had been asked to lead "an international po.ution." not a war in Korea. What the Security Council had done, he
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    NO NEWS ON FACTORIES
    117 3 WASHINGTON Mon.— The United Sla'ei Army has clamped on Infomation about tne future s.'st\is <>f iactoiif*s which rnijjhl quickly be < inverted to prv-ductlorj of military materials. Siuii Informs* (ton, It was s lited ye6ten;:.v. whs now m ming i: was In on" of several categories
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    U.S. GUNS SMASH RED TANK THRUST
    94 3 While Planes Have Their Best Day Yet TOKYO, Monday. [JNITED STATES artillery, with the help of air spotters, drove back a North Korean armoured thrust near Chonan yesterday. One road Leading to the American front was littered with the wreckage of burning Communist tanks
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    PEACE AGAIN
    31 3 RANGOON. Mon.— The Burmese Prime Minister. Thakin Nu, has named July 18 as Armed Forces' Day "as part of four-day activities hailing the return of peace to Burma.— A.P.
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    SHORT SUPPLY
    25 3 NEW DELHI Mon. The Government has announced it will liberalise import licensing of streptomycin because the wonder drug is in short supply.— A.P.
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    'Air Was Filled With Shells'
    313 3  - 'Air Was Filled With Shells' ROBERT MILLER B y of United Press tiny liaison plane circled 1 overhead keeping in constant radio contact with artillery units. From our shrubcovered knoll only the hits could be seen as the tanks were hidden behind a hill a mill and a half to
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    'DEBRIS BLEW SKYWARD'
    218 3  - 'DEBRIS BLEW SKYWARD' ROY MACARTNEY By Of Reuters A USTRALIAN Mustang fighA ters led the Allied planes in their terrific rocket and machine-gun strafing attack upon North Korean tanks and infantry. I had a grandstand seat for tne attack In an observation post overlooking the olastered area. It was ideal
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    Closer U.S., China Co-operation Hope
    150 3 TAIPEI, Monday. /^LObE co-operation is expected between the Chinese Air Force and Navy and the United States Seventh Fleet and planer in patrols reconnaissance or in the event of an attack on Formosa This, said Chinese sources today, would be a result from Vice-Admiral A.D
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    24 3 Lieut.-Col. Charles B. Smith, 34-year-old commander of the coirfoat group of U.S.A. troops at Taejon, temporary South Korean Capital. Camera Press and AJ\ pictures.
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    SHELL KILLED SIX
    70 3 LONDON, Mon. GIX members of the crew were killed and three wounded on Saturday when North Korean shore batteries shelled the British cruls«r HMS Jamaica, an Admiralty spokesman said yesterday. The Admiralty spokesman said that five men were killed during the shelling and the sixth died of
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    U.N. STATUS FOR PEKING URGED
    195 3 M DO NEW YORK, Monday. RS. Vijayalakshmi Pandit, the Indian Ambassador to the United States, said in a radio discussion yesterday that the United Nations should recognise Communist China as a move to strengthen She was one of three speakers who called for continued strong
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    STRIKE THREAT BY DOCTORS
    42 3 TEL AVIV, Mon. DOCTORS employed in all institutions run by the Israeli Ministry of Health will strike on July 20 unless they get higher salaries. Hospitals are already crippled by the strike of 3,400 nurses and orderlies.— A.P.
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    BATTLE SCENES
    44 3 mmm G.l.'s ARRIVE: South Koreans cheer wildly as truckload after truckload of American troops stream through a small village on their way to the front. Above: South Korean troops in a camouflaged truck on their way to meet the invaders. A.P. pictures.
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    Senator Flays U.S. 'Failures'
    254 3 WASHINGTON, Monday. A MERICAN action in Korea has been a series of r% atrocious failures and a monument or tombstone to ineptness and bungling", suki Senator Alexander Wiley, Republican, Wisconsin, in Washington in a blistering attack on the Government's handling of the crisis. He demanded that
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    SWATOW MINES SWEPT
    133 3 HONG KONG, Mon. ]?LEVEN Nationalist horntype mines were swept from the harbour of Swatow. opposite Formosa, last week, it was reported today. The report came from Captain B. Patey, skipper of the British steamship Empire Park, which has just returned from that Fukien port. Capt Pat?y said
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    TRADE APPEAL
    48 3 HAMILTON (New YorkJ, Mon.—Sir Sydney Came, head of the U.K. Treasury and Supply delegation in the U.S. said last night that the United States and Britain should lead the way in ending "discriminatory" international trade practices. He proposed that course as a means toward world security.—A.P.
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    Aid By Air To 'Quake Victims
    173 3 BOGOTA. Colombia. Mon. A SERIES of violent destroyed mountain villages *In North-eastern Colombia last night, leaving 220 feared dead and 500 injured The mountain ranges in tiie oil-rich country quiv in a series of eight heavy shocks. More than 150 bodies already have been
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    Promise On Prisoner
    137 3 TOKYO, 111 n QEN. Douglas Mac Arthur today promised humanitarian treatment to North Korean prisoners of war t n 1 said he expected similar treatment for captured Americans and South Koreans The promise was contrir.rl in a leaflet dropped on North Korean troops and installations by the
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    VERBAL DUEL IN MALACCA CASE
    1052 4 Wo Prosecution Statement By CID Chief Alleged From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Monday. "VOTHING will be done about this. We have put the investigation papers before the \ttorney-General for an opinion and he informs us that since eye-witnesses state that Lim Kee Jin struck the
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    INDIAN ASSN. OFFICIALS
    101 4 Office-bearers ol the Inaian Association of Singapore are: Patrons Messrs. Hardlal Singh, R. Jumabhoy, D. T. Assomul, Tarachand Dalamal, Durgadas SachUev and Koman Lai, President, Dr. M. Abraham; Vice President, Mr. Jamnadas J| Mehta; honorary general secretary, Mr. M. S. Menon; honorary treasurer. Mr. R. M. Krishnan.
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    S'pore Trench Week' Opens
    388 4 THE first French Week ever held in Singapore started yesterday when the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, opened an exhibition of posters and photographs of France and Indo-China, sponsored by the Alliance Francaise, in the Britisli Council Hall. On display were 300 views, showing ail aspects of
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    SPENDING HOLIDAYS HERE
    50 4 SISTER AND BROTHER, Mavli (14) and d R <J^ orr.v^rt in Singapore yesterday afternoon by QfcA-BOAC Constellation from Britain to spend their summer hoUCoHeV X* Scotland, in London, and they flew out to s?n*a£>re together. Captain White is a pilot of the Sincere Pilotage Association.-Straits Times picture.
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    HARIRA YA PLANS IN STORE
    133 4 HARIRA YA PLANS IN STORE ACCORDING to a circular issued by the Aii-Ma)aya Muslim Missionary Society, Singapore. Hari Raya will be celebrated on Sunday if the moon is seen the previous evening Otherwise it will be celebrated on Monday. .The Muslim Missionary Society and the Indonesian Committee in Singapore have
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    NEW TEACHERS
    41 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Ten probationer teachers oi English, who recently passed their final examinations, have been posted to Malay schools nThis°is the first posting under the new scheme to teach English in all Government and aided Malay primary schools.
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    MORE POWERS FOR SPECIAL POLICE
    114 4 MORE POWERS FOR SPECIAL POLICE rpo give men of the Special A Constabulary the same nowers as those of the regular police force, a Bill to amend the Police Force Ordinance is to be introduced in the Sinpore Legislative Council. The Police Force Ordinance, 1941, provide! that members of the
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    ONN MAY JOIN FEDERAL COUNCIL
    252 4 ONN MAY JOIN FEDERAL COUNCIL From Our Staff Correspondent K. LUMPUR. Mon. IT is understood that Dato Onn.bin Ja'afar, wh j recently resrgned the presidency of the United Malays National Organisation, and has since accepted the chairmanshio of the new Rural Development Board, has been appointed a member of the
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    He Slept: Gaoled
    55 4 OMAR oin Haji Mahmoud. 20. a special constable living in Anson Road, wits i sentenned to three weeks' rigorous imprisonment in the Singapore. Third Police Court yesterday fur sleeping while on active armed duty at a military store in Trafalgar Street. Omar said that he was ill
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    Abused PCs -$20 Fine
    60 4 __«ZJ1««- j, f t_» WOMAN factory worker, r\ Tay Poh ChOO, 24, was fined .$2O in the Singapore Second Police Court jesterday for using indecent language to two police constables in Unner Hokkien Street. The constables told the court that Tay refused to hand them her
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    Warning To Indians On Party Politics
    191 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. PIDIANS in Malaya were warned yesterday to keep aloof from party politics by Mr. J. A. Thivy, Representacive of the Government of India, at a farewell tea party given in ;us honour in Kuala Lumpur by the
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    $5,000 Reward On His Head
    94 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A REWARD of $5,000 has been offered by the Federation Police to anyone giving information leading to the arrest of a Perak Malay named Chik bin Arsad. whom the police allege is guilty of gang robbery, attempted murder
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    SINGAPORE WEDDING BELLS
    43 5 MISS MARJORIE FREY and Mr. Lan Medlycott of the Electric Department of the Singapore Municipality, who were married at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd yesterday. They will be leaving for their honeymoon in Western Australia today. Straits Times picture.
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    POLICE CLOSE SHOPS AND STALLS IN TERROR AREA
    321 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. ILL shops and roadside stalls in 9th Mile Village, on the main ro.id from Kajang to Kuala Lumpur, have been closed by the police, They are now allowed to open only between 12 noon and
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    Man Front Prague
    122 5 II JR. FRANK KOTALA, of Lfl Kovo. the big Czechoslovakia!] engineering concern of Skoda WOrks fame, pictured on his arrival in Sinna >ore by (JEA-BOAC Con- ;on from Rome yesterday. His firm manufactured a number of diesel encines in Malaya which -.ire now out of order. II
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    Just Missed Shelling
    108 5 rE cargo ship Mui Ann. sister ship of the Mui Heng which was shelled by Nationalist gunboats off the China coast recently, called at Singapore yesterday from Hong Kong. A spokesman of the vessel told Uie Straits Times that the Mui Ann was on her way back
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    MERSING PADI
    33 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— Pad! planting has begun at Ti-npthu, Triang and PenvaboriK in the Mersing district where transplanting will b>>i?ln on Air^. 15. Wc.'ding Is timed to bi-uin on Seot. 25.
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    Boxing tickets fraud alleged
    255 5 PHILIP Tan, aged 21, and William Smith, a 24- i year-old Eurasian boxer, were charged yesterday in the Singapore Second Police Court with cheating Hu Chee Ngee, manager of the Sincere Dispensary, i of ten admission tickets, priced at $3 each, for the Dave Sands-Boy Brooks
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    AIR C-in-C IN MALACCA
    82 5 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA. Mon. rE Air Officer Command-ing-in-Chief. Far East Air Force, Air Marshal Sir Francis Fogarty. and Lady Fojrartv arrived in Malacca from Kuala Lumpur by air today, landing in a R.A.F. Dakota on Batn Brrandam air strip, four miles from Malacca town.
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    'Victim Of Plot' Says Accused In Bribe Case
    413 5 'Victim Of Plot' Says Accused In Bribe Case MAKING an unsworn statement in his defence, 39iT1 year-old On* Teck Hock, a salesman, denied that he offered a bribe to a British officer of the Royal Military Police, when his trial was resumed before Mr. Tan Ah Tah, the Second District
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    A FIELD DAY FOR THE TRADERS
    161 5 SINGAPORE traders had a Held day yesterday when 540 French troops, on their way home from fighting the Communists of Indo-China, stopped off to buy a few mementoes for madame, maman, mademoiselle et la famille." With their trooper, the s.s. Abbeyilie, sailing at 5
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    FOR JAMBOREE
    22 5 PATROL LEADER Violet D'Souza. one of the two Nejri Sembilan Girl Guides who will attend the Australian Jamboree next month
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    6 MONTHS' GAOL
    48 5 Chia Ah Heng, 42, who pleaded guilty in the Singapore Second Police Court to having stolen a bucket, a gas lamp and a cooking pot from a coffee-stall, was yesterday sentenced to six months rigorous imprisonment to be followed by a year of police supervision.
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    BACK ON DUTY
    30 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Miss Enid Fernandas. State Welfare Officer, has returned from furlough and resumed duties in Johore Bahru at the headquarters of the State Welfare Department.
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    GAMBLERS FINED
    22 5 MUAR, Mon.—Four Chinese pleaded guilty before the Muar Magistrate to gambling at Kempas fistate, Tangkak, and were each fined $18.
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    TRADERS NOT WORRIED
    178 5 TRADERS NOT WORRIED SYNTHETICS •THERE was no despondency 1 in Singapore rubber circles yesterday over the news that the American production of synthetics would be boosted by 88,000 tons. Rubber experts hold the opinion that the Malayan rubber industry may -not be unduly affected by this latest U.S. move, as
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    P.C. Hurt In Blaze
    64 5 MARINE Police Constable Subari bin Murid. dived from his burning motor boat into the sea when his boat caught fire alongside the Singapore Marine Police Station early on Sunday morning. Subari was removed to hospital severely burnt on the face and other parts of the body.
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    PROFESSOR ON WAY TO U.S.
    66 5 Professor Graham Hough. who has resigned his position as Professor of English at the University of Malaya, left Singapore on Sunday to take up a special appointment at the John Hopkins University in tho United States. The Professor will spend a year in the United
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    Singapore Diary
    144 5 .YW.C.A.. 5, Raffles Quay, film show, 3 p.m. English cooking, 5 pjn ballroom dancing. 5.30 p.m. CHINESE V.M.C.A, Selegie Road, basketball. 5.30 p.m., body-building class, 7 p.m., mouth organ class. 7.30 pjn.. chess club. 7 p.m. POLICE BAND, Kulim Place. 5.45 p.m. to 6.45 pjn. YJft.C.A.. Orchard Road,
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    KALLANG AIRPORT ARRIVALS
    279 5 npHE following passengers were 1 among those who arrivad at Kallang airport yesterday from point* outside Malaya on the varKna air service*. Passengers in trarnit are not included in tbe list. CJiJi. 8.0.A.C. Fr«m L*nd«n: Messrs: R. Heasban, J. HenL O. Wfayte. A. B*lfour, L. Ward. Eckles,
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., July 11, 1950. An Angry Visitor
    1049 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., July 11, 1950. An Angry Visitor A visiting American .film magnate had some angry things to say about the film censorship in Singapore in an interview on Saturday. This moved a patriotic Briton to indignant retort in our correspondence columns yesterday, the burden of his
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    DEATH
    55 6 M-.DAM WEE KEE NEO. aged «2. pass<Hl away peacefully at No. 129, Devonshire Road, leaving behind a daughter, Lee Eng Neo, find a son-in-law, Teo Swee Lim and several grand-children and Rres<t grand-children to mourn her loss. Funeral will take place on Friday, 14th July 19V), at 11.00 a.m.
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    BISHOPIN PENANG
    52 6 KUALA LUMPUR Mon. The Bishop of Singapore, the Right Reverend H. W. Baines. has arrived in Penang where he will stay /or about six weeks during the absence in England of Archdeacon Stanley S Collier. Ft is understood that Archdeacon Collier will be married in England In the
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    'TWELVE FILMS BANNED'
    268 6 'TWELVE FILMS BANNED' The Facts TTIE Sunday Times of 1 July 9 carried a story on film censorship, the first sentences of which read: "The film censor Mr Jack Evans is at it again. His latest 'spree' includes the banning of 12 films and the trimming of many others." These
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  • Letter
    THE COLONY FILM RENTERS' REPLY
    338 6 THE COLONY FILM RENTERS' REPLY r AM directed by my 1 society, the Kinematugraph Renters' Society of Malaya, to refer to the letter appearing in this morning's (Monday's) issue of the Straits "Mmes, from a correspondent using the nom-de-piume "D.E.S.". commenting on a Press interview granted by Mr. M. J.
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    14 6 "PSST! MAHJONG AT WONG'S TONIGHT IF THE OLD BOY DOESN'T GET STARTED ON KOREA!"
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      $500 A Month For Councillors
      262 6 YOUR leader of July 6 on "City Fathers" reveals a fact of which I believe the majority of the public is unaware that payment of 3500 a month is made to each Unofficial member of the Federal Legislative Council on a vote taken by the
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      WHY WAIT FOR PENANG?
      131 6 A SINGAPORE Harbour Board Staff Association spokesman has recently stat- Ed that the association is closely watching developments in Penang regarding the housing allowance ques- tion mooted by the Penang Staff Association. But why should the Singapore body await the results of its sister association's hard
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      WHAT'S IN A NAME?
      70 6 TETTERS asking correspondents to reveal their j identity were published in the Straits Times lately. Why do these advocates of identi- 1 fixation worry more about who writes a letter than bout what is stated in it? My only complaint against pen-names in this country is
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      FORTY YEARS A PLANTER
      378 6 FROM time to time it is stated at Asian estate employees' union meetings that they are underpaid. Yet figures are never given. It would seem that only meaningless parrot phrases are uttered by the malcontents. Before the war^here was a movement to form an association of
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      Observing The Fast in Ramadan
      165 6 I REGRET to say that your editorial of July 1 headed "Bulan Puasa" was both offensive and misleading. From my limited knowledge of Islamic doctrine, I would like to enlighten you and those of your readers who might have been misled by the assurance given
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    On the Margin
    446 6 G.I. And V.I. A SENIOR studmt of tlie Victoria Institution, Kua h\ Lumpur, writes to say that l.o has long been puzzled by two Initials which keep cropping up in the news, so he has derided to consult "the walking encyclopaedia and fountain! of knowledge." That s
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      721 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. NORMAN: At Bungsar Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, on 10th July, 1950. to Ann. wife of P. A. O. Norman, Shell Co., K.L., a ion, Anthony Geoffrey. SITUATIONS VACANT TYPIST: Wanted for British Firm competent copy typist with knowledge of shorthand. Box No A1385. S.T. WANTED mechanic/plant foreman, preferably English
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      31 6 EVERBRIGHT OPTICAL CO. Offering Complete Services essential to Eye Comfort Visual Efficiency. (1) VISUAL ANALYSIS (2) VISUAL TRAINING (3) GLASSES. iF NEEDED C. S. CHONG, OPT D 19. CHULIA ST., SPORE
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    CHINESE HAVE WORST TEETH, INDIANS BEST TRATMAN
    397 7 UNIVERSITY'S AIM: 30 Dentists A Year •JuiE department of dentistry at the University of Malaya hopes for an output of 30 qualified dentists per year, which by 1962 should provide one dentist to every 10,000 in population if the population does not increase
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    FROM HOLIDAY
    34 7 MRS. W. L. BLYTHE. wife v «>f Singapore's Colonial l Secretary, pictured on her < arrival at Kalians airport yesterday afternoon by QBF-BOAC Constellation :ifter a holiday in Britain. r Straits Times picture.
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    Sacked, He Tried To End Life
    87 7 TWO ;:ys after he was .sucked, Cheng Hong Seo*v, an -i.-,tuiiL of Chop Leoiig Tong Fcok i:i South Bridge Road, ipore, took caustic -soda ii hia house Thil was state.! in the id Poiice Con t y ester- 1 day, when Cheng pleaded i
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    MEMO ON UNIONS' PROBLEMS
    140 7 MEMO ON UNIONS' PROBLEMS THE newly re-constituted Singapore Federation of Services Unions is preparing a memorandum for the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions delegation, which is expected here next month. The memorandum is expected to contain "all the facts" about the trade union position in Singapore. The idea behind
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    EAST AND WEST IN MUTUAL "QUIZ"
    48 7 The East West Society, Singapore, will be conducting an "East-West Quiz" on Thursday at 8.30 p.m. at the British Council Hall. Stamford Road East and West will quiz each other on tradition, custom, culture, etc. Visitors' views and questions will be accepted.
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    10 DIE IN ROAD ACCIDENTS
    141 7 SINGAPORE roads took a toll of 10 persons killed and 157 injured in June. The total number of accidents during the months was 654. Among the dead were two motor-cyclists, four cyclists (two children) and three pedestrians. Among the injured were 56 cyclists (five children!.
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    QUITE A CARD
    40 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon Charged at Johore Bahru with failing to have an identity card, Lim Toh replied. 'I am the identity card." He was sent by the Magistrate to hospital for mental observation.
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    Air Victim's Funeral
    99 7 FE ashes of the Singapore born medical student, Mr. Tan Jee Hoe. who was killed in an air crash just outside Perth. Australia, on June 26, will arrive in Singapore tomorrow in the Gorgon. The "Gorgan," was the ship that took him to Australia His mother, two
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    HOARDERS
    32 7 Four men who appeared in the Singapore Second District Court yesterday charged with either hoarding sugar or failing to display price lists pleaded guilty and were fined a total of $650
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    RADIO TALK
    34 7 Mr V. K. Nair, vice-pres r dent of the Labour Party ol Singapore, will talk on the registration of voters for Legislative and Municipal elections, over Radio Malaya at 7.12 p.m. today
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    36 7 MISS TEOH GIN KOCK. the University of Malaya badminton champion from Penang and Miss Lim Sian Seek of Kuala Lumpur, both members of the university sports contingent who sailed for Hong Kong yesterday.— Straits Times picture.
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    His Watch Gave Him Away
    122 7 His Watch Gave Him Away AWRIST-watch which he wore betrayed a housebreaker when he entered the bedroom of a house in Veerasamy Road. In the Singapore First District Court yesterday. Lee Kwang Weng. who had pleaded guilty to a charge of housebreaking. was sentenced to five months' rigorous imprisonment. "The
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    BLUKAK FIRE
    31 7 A large area of blukar was on fire at 4i mile Thomson Road. Singapore, yesterday afternoon. One fire engine from the Central Fire Station brought the fire under control.
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    RED PAMPHLET
    24 7 A Chinese yesterday handed over to the Singapore Police a Communist pamphlet, which, he said, he received by post in the afternoon
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    AUSTRALIA'S PRIME MINISTER ARRIVES IN SINGAPORE
    43 7 AUSTRALIA'S PRIME MINISTER ARRIVES IN SINGAPORE THE AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister. Mr. R G. Menzies (right) talks to the Commissioner-General. Mr. Malcolm Mar Donald at Kalians airport yesterday. The acting Australian Commissioner in Malaya, Mr. L. R. Mclntyre, also met him Straits Times picture.
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    'I was told of plot to kill me,' man tells court
    384 7 AN elderly, bearded Muslim who claimed that ho "worked only in the name of the Prophet yesterday told the Singapore Relief Court how he had been forced to go into hiding for a month after he had been warned
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    PRACTICE FIRING
    21 7 Practice firing seawards will take place from Siloso fort, Singapore, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. on July 25.
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    IT RAINED POTS AND PANS. but...
    102 7 r>OTS and pans came crash1 ing on Geylang Road in front of Happy World, Singapore, yesterday evening. They were being hurled down through the first floor window of a house. But nobody dared to go up to investigate. When all was quiet again, a
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    Off-duty PC stole
    87 7 A 17-year-old Malay. Abdul bin Haji Abdul Hamid. pleaded guilty before Mr. P. C. Claque in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to entering a house in Martia Road. Singapore, on July 8. and stealing $5. a waJlet and two pairs of grey trousers belonging to Mr
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    AMMO FOUND
    16 7 A British Army captain found 59 rounds of rusty Japanese ammunition at Changi yesterday.
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    TO SHOW U.K. MALAYA'S WORK
    179 7 pHOTOGRAPHS and handicrafts representing the work of the Salvation Army in Malaya will be displayed in London by the five Malayan delegates to the Salvation Army International Youth Conference, opening in London on Aug. 10. The delegation is composed of Brother Chia Chong Fook Brther
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    Girl's Evidence Sends Man To Year's Gaol
    137 7 AN eight-year-old Malay girl gave evidence in the Singapore First District Court yesterday when a young Indian shop-assistant Mohamed Shariff bin Mohamed Kassim, was charged with housebreaking at Tampenis Road. Shariff, who had a previ- ous conviction for robbery and another for theft,
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    MUST PAY
    47 7 An appeal by a Chiiu be carpenter Loh Yee alias Loh Van Fong, to set aside a maintenance order of $45 monthly made against him in the Fourth Magistrate's Court on Feb. 21 was dismissed by the Singapore Chief Justice, Sir Chs^'^s Murray Aynsley, yeste'
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    FIGHTING IN PLAY
    43 7 Tan Koon Soon and Quek Ah Wee were fined $10 each in the Singjo^re Third Police Court yesterday for fighting in the Singapore Harbour Board. They said they had oniy been fighting n piay, bu'. pleaded guilty to the cruise.
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    FAMILY PLANNING
    27 7 Th<- annual general meeting of the Family Planning Association will be held on Thursday at 5.15 p.m. at the Infant Welfare Clinic In Prinsep Street.
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    3 PRIESTS AT HIS WEDDING
    86 7 3 PRIESTS AT HIS WEDDING WHEN 30-year-old Soo Ah Peng and 17-year-old Ruth Tan Kah Cheng were married of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, yesterday morning, there were three priests officiating at their wedding They were the Rev. NXN K Ho Le. Rev Kinross Nicholson and Rev. Chiu Ban It. Soo
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    ALLEGED RED CHARGED
    66 7 Chan Hong Meng, alias Han Meng, was charged in the Singapore First District Court yesterday with being a member of the Malayan Communist Party, alternatively with assisting in the management of the party. .He also faced a second charge of being a member of the unlawful Malayan
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    FELL FROM TREE
    33 7 A 32-year-old Malay. Mohamad bin Radan. was taken to the General Hospital in an ambulance with a broken arm after a fall from a coconut tree at Alexander Road yesterday
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      68 7 Cocktail Disks j THE NEWEST SILVERWARE I i E. P. N. S. These combination sett keep fruit s.ilads ice cream cold or soup hot. The bate holds broken ice or hot water. The top silver container contains the fruit salad or ioup ready for serving. I $16.50 each I WATCH
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    Malayan Homes & Fashions
    176 8 Malayan Homes Fashions TANIA Murray-Aymley, th. new Knight s Lady is at artist to her finger tips and he home is a perfect complement t< her personality Every room, ir her beautiful home, the furnishm« of which she herself has planned and supervised, is a work oi art Many and
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    Decoy for the jungle fowl
    587 8 FROM AN ESTATE BUNGALOW IT is not at all uncommon to rmd here hall-bred iungle-cum domestic fowl, for we border ri-^li! on to the jungle, and 1 have gradually (since I began to take an interest in these (losses i found quite a number of
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    Cookery Corner
    292 8 IN THE busy days in England, I would rush home from, work, beat together two ounces of margarine and two tablespoonsful of sugar to a creamy froth; beat in two eggs separately adding little by little two ounces of wellsifted flour and a teaspoonful of vanilla or lemon
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    Ante Natal Care
    1904 8  -  NURSE JANET by NURSE JANET MOTHERCRAFT IN MALAYA Ante Natal Care rpHREE expectant mothers have written asking for advice during their pregnancy. First of all. pregnancy is a happy normal phase of nature, during which time, two beings are be- ing fed and nourished. It is not
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    23 8 Bonniest Baby this week comes from Malacca. She v eight ionths old Mlm To^«^ e^ o i lra ***th*t of Mr Bd Mrs>
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      39 8 Boby Elaine > i FOR THE WORLD'S BABIiS Brought up on this speciolly-preporcd Baby Food, Elaine has a sturdy frame and eyes that sparkle with mischief. To families going borne on leave. LACTQGEN is readily obtainable in England. L. 15/50,
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      226 8 Make your puddings richer, creamier, with AOTRN EVAPORATED MILK THE EASY WAY TO PUT NOURISHMENT INTO MEALS COLD STORAGE Singapore Cold Storage Co., Ltd. yj <^ I^^ Specially Recommended 3L Breath and against vakeroy "throat pastilles SOLE AGENTS THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTP^ V fON^3 JWWHS jf^\ f SCIENTIFIC TESTS
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    South Africa Leads In Battle With Nature
    924 9  -  MICHAEL ARDIZZONE By CAPETOWN. yOl' may find him ;inv <|;)\, in tlie s\\ amps of f,ake Ftangweulu, on the meen highlands of Kenya or in Ihe jungle of ihe central Congo; and vow may know him al once for a South African In
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    45 9 THIS map shows the distri tuition of Korea's agricultural and industrial production. North of 38th parallel will be found most of the industries while south of it contains the country's "bread basket." Korea is an area 1 of 85.000-square miles and its population is 23,000.000.
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    Philippines in danger if Formosa falls
    653 9  - Philippines in danger if Formosa falls STEFFAN ANDREWS By MANILA. "J\ one year the Communists in Ihc Philippines can f:iko over and overflow the government." That is the way a topranking American diplomat describes the Communist situation in the Philippines today, on the basis of the latest American intelligence reports
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      39 9 U\HGBR hi 1 a nee vour c coVt 1 46/48 PECK SEAH STREET. SINGAPORE. Phone: 7941 21 ORCHARD ROAD. SINGAPORE. Phone: ***** 449 CEYLANC ROAD. SINGAPORE. And throughout Malaya. Singer Sewing Machine Co, (Inc. in USA) Meyer Chambers, Singapore.
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      273 9 y S getting somePEP VIGOR "bdscjettinq c=^^UJ ft safety- withaBKGLASSofKLIM tays ELSIE the BORDEN cow It's not surprising how much energy youngsters can gaio from drinking KLIM milk every day Every gla>sful brimi with wholesome nourishment «o accessary for growing children. You can depend oo KLIM to build rout young-
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      352 9 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD CROSSWORD No. 98 cnois 20. Drone or nothing to us It t. Ttu». this light b s Curny 18). tignal (41. 22. A sheep Roes different kyss&i s*aa i^si fey tsssi >. >SSK) KK&a 7 fc"^ ;or chm, ,0- „».«.> h 7/ b Y B r d
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    ARRIVES FOR POST IN SPORE
    44 10 MR. H. N. TRI'SCOTT, new Secretary to the Australian Commissioner in Malaya, who arrived in Singapore on Sunday on the liner Mactsuycker. with Mrs. Tr"uscott and their two children. Marilyn, aged two-and-a-half, and Janice, a?ed one-and-a-half.— Straits Times picture.
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    K.L.To Start On $16,000,000 Sewage System Next Year
    284 10 K.L.To Start On $16,000,000 Sewage System Next Year WATER-BORNE SANITATION From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR^ Monday. injALA LUMPUR is to have a $16,000,000 water-borne sewerage system next year. This was revealed today b.v Mr. H. T. TV. Oswell, President of the Municipal Commissioners. Mr. Oswell said that the Municipality
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    FROM CADET TO CHIEF JUSTICE
    508 10 SIR HAROLD W1LLAN RETIRES From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Monday. rROM a Cadet in the Malayan Civil Service at 1 Tapah in Perak in 1920 to the Chief Justice of the Federation of Malaya is the proud record of Sir Harold Willan who today
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    HOW MUCH WILL YOU HELP? —60VT. ASKED
    175 10 HOW MUCH WILL YOU HELP? 60VT. ASKED FE steering committee of the proposed Singapore Tourist Bureau has asked the Government to indicate the extent to which it will finance the scheme. Tbo committee of six is exploring possibilities of opening sucii a Dureau in Singapore, but it is faced with
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    72,200 Air Passengers
    70 10 AIR passengers wno arrived, departed from or passed through Kallang and Tengah airports last year, numbered 72.200, Singapore civil aviation authorities said yesterday. For the first half of this year passengers numbered more than 46,500. Mail handbd by these two airports totalled 1.763.557 lb and freight. 3.303.898
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    94 10 THIS is the sketch which eight-year-old David Wee Poh Kok of St. Andrew's School, Singapore, drew to win the prize in the Singapore Animal Lovers League competition sponsored by Radio Malaya. The idea for David's picture derived from a talk <>n the aims of the League given to the school
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    Ship-Shore Phones To Tackle Smugglers
    204 10 te ADIO-TELEPHONE apparatus is to be used in Singapore's war on smugglers. Seven sets are expected from the United Kindom at the end of this month and will be installed in Customs Depart- ment launches. Mr. R. S. demons, Assistant Comptroller of the Preventive Branch,
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      82 10 Today's Radio Progrmmers S'PORS 10 a.m. Emergency News from XX.; 10.05 Close; 10.50 Schools; 12 Malay; 1 p.m. Light Music; 1.30 News; 1.45 Dance Music; 2 Close: 6 Listeners' Choice; 7 News, Share Market Interlude; 7.30 "Crime Gentlemen, Please"; 8 •Music Shop"; 8.30 Talk of the Town; 9 London Studio
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      96 10 Share Market; 7.12 London 'Con- cert Orch.; 7.30 Eric Scott and his Quintet: 7.45 Radio Doctor; 8 Popular Classics (Offenbach), Saint-Saens, Orieg); 8.30 As Spore; 9 Variety Bandbox; 9.30 News; 9.45 Dance Music; 10 "Blue Danube"; 10.30 "Those Were The Days"; 11 Close. PENANG 10 a.m.— 2 p.m. As Spore;
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      79 10 Temple and the Curzon Case": 10.30 Dance Music; 11 Close. 8.F.E.8.8. 4.45 p.m. "From the London Editorials"; 4.55 Purcell; 5.15 "Colonial Commentary"; 5.30 "Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery"; 6 Indonesian; 6.30 Cantonese: 6.45 "Music from the Screen"; 7.15 French: 7.30 English Half-Hour; 8 "The Bololat Performs"; 8.15 Thai; 8.45
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      London Stocks
      320 11 LONDON, Mon. AN initial hesistancy In the market today was replaced later by firmer condilions in domestic issues. Trading generally remained under the influence of the war in Korea and was restricted to leading issues. Closing middle prices or selecteo stocks, as supplied to the Straits nmea oy
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      MALAYAN SHARE MARKET
      233 11 From Our Market Correspondent THE better tone which developed in the Malayan share market towards the end of last week was maintained yesterday, but business still passed on only a very small scale. Price changes announced i yesterday by the Malayan Sharebrokers* Association were: INDUSTRIALS Bo.Tf r«
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      TIN PRICES
      28 11 SINGAPORE, Mon., July 10-«20 (up $1.50) LONDON, Mon.. July 10 Spot: £633— £633}; Forward. £633— C633J; Settlement, £633 i. Turnover: morning. 620 tons; afternoon, 31S tons.
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      Jap Interest In Produce
      216 11 From A Market Correspondent r THE steady rise In prices in the Singapore produce market is attributed to foreign trade inquiries, especially from Japan. Dealers are showing reluctance to part with stocks. Japanese traders are reported to be seeking revision of the forthcoming import schedules to
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      Guthrie Group Outputs
      54 11 /■^UTHRIE Company announce the following outputs, for June and for Jan. I—June1 June 30, from the estates and mines in the Guthrie group: June To date '50 Rubber (lbs.) 6.692,234 38,523,392 Black tea (lbs.) 154,000 964,700 Palm oil (tons) 1,238 8,136 Palm kernels (tons; 276 8 136
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      Singapore Rubber
      183 11 TPHE Singapore rubber market yesterday opened at about Saturday's price levels, but with sellers predominatI ing during the day prices closed about three cents below Saturday's. There was little trading. The maifket closed firm. Closing prices yesterday were per IV: No. 1 R.SJ3. spot loose buyers 84% cents,
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      P.D.-LUKIIT (F.M.S.) AND LATEX
      108 11 LONDON, Mon. pORT Dickson-Lukut (F.M.S.) Rubber Estates' chairman, Mr. R. F. McNair Scott, in his statement to shareholders, says the need to conserve resources is the reason why the directors have felt it undesirable to pay a larger dividend than the Id. per 2s. share recommended.
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      SHIPS ALONGSIDE AND IN THE ROADS
      164 11 CHIPS in the Singapore Outer and Inner Roads and alongUde Harbour Board godowns yes--erday were: Outer Roads; Hal Hsuan, Lancashire, Wave King, Tjipondok, ring Yuan, Benveg. Benarty. Jlysses, (Man of War Anchorage) 3oncalo Velho. Inner Roads: Rantau, Natuna, Satong, Angby, Darvel, Mentakab, Senggarang, Kah
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    ONG CHEW BEE WINS TRIPLE CROWN
    425 12 Beats Kamis In 3 Good Sets ONG CHEW BEE won his third title in the Singapore tennis championships held at the S.C.C. yesterday by beating H. Kami > in the men's singles final by 4—6, 6—3, 6—2. Chew Bee won the doubles and mixed
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    Sports Diary
    46 12 BOOCBS: Snr. l«e: Royal Navy v Rovers MX at Jalan Besar stadium: Jnr. Bl: Singapore Dlst. Slg. Regt. v Cheerful Lads at Geylang stadium: Jnr. Bl C.V.M.A. v I n ir Mans OBA at CTMA. TENNIS: V.M.C A. tennis tourn*y starts: Tanglin Club tourney.
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    Scores Tied In Last Minute
    147 12 f> E. M. E., scoring one minutt before the final whistle, drew one-all with Tamil B A. in n SAFA Senior League game at Jalan B^nr yesterday. Tamils* were without key men centre-forward Chandra and cvntre-half Suppiah, and R.E.M.E. wore able to dictate play for
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    Colony Team Of Ten For B. A.M. Meet
    279 12 SA. DURAI has filled the last berth In the Singapore contingent to the forthcoming All-Malayan Badminton Championships to be held at Ipoh during the August holidays. Durai defeated Loong Pan Yap in the last eliminator in three sets (17-15, 15-17. 15-11) at
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    Mann, Yardley Decline
    127 12 LONDON. Mon. T<HE M.C.C have announced that F. G. Mann of Middlesex has declined an invitation to captain the M.C.C. team which goes to Australia for the cricket tour next winter. Mann captained the toartag sidt in South Africa in 1948-49 but on his return said he
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    INGLIS NETS 3 GOALS
    93 12 With Inglis, Singapore rightinside scoring thr:e snap goals. S. H. B. Aux. Police beat Singapore Chines? Engineering Assn. by six goals to two .in a S. A. F. A. Jn. A. 2 game at Geylang Stadium yesterday. This was Engineer's first defeat In the competition. Police
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    SINGAPORE JULY MEET WEIGHTS
    654 12 W LIGHTS for all CLASS 2— Div 4— eight races at 6 Furs. St 5 yds. Rukit Timah on S.turday. first day of Penso 9.00 the Singapore Turl Alphonsus 8.13 (!ubs July meeting, Abbotsford 8.12 and four on Wednes- Constance 8.11 I div. July 19. the
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    MALACCA AND JOHORE DRAW
    57 12 MUAR. Mon.— A gift goal in the lirst half and another in the last minute of play, srored by Wee Tiam Tye, enabled Malacca Chin- ese to hold the Johore Chinese to 5 a two-all draw when they clashed at Muar yesterday in the Malayan I
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    Snowy Owl Sets July Meet Poser
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    Christiani Scores 130
    155 12 NORTHAMPTON. Mon WEST Indies took their Saturday overnight score of 348 for five to 431 for eight wickets at lunch today in their match against Northamptonshire. The Innings was then declared Christiani getting 130 before being run out. His sixth wicket stand with the skipper Goddard (30)
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    TIGER S.A. WIN
    103 12 Tiger Sporting Association became table tennis champions for the second successive year when they defeated the Chinese Sports Association by five goals to four in the S.T.T.A. Senior Inter-Club final at the Great World on Saturday. Results (Tiger S.A. players mentioned first): Chua Kirn Hearn bt. Chan
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    TANGLIN CLUB TENNIS
    155 12 TANGLIN CLUB TENNIS yESTERDAY'S tennis results in [i I the Tanglin Club's annual i championships were: I Men's open doubles: Brig. C. S. Bright and Gr. Capt. H. W. S. Smith beat E. G. Symes and J. I W Millest 7-5, 6-2; W. G. Fryer and Lt. Col. Hoyland beat
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    McLACHLAN TO BE EXTRA OFFICIAL
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    Policeman Breaks Malayan Record
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    BRITISH STAR RETIRES
    54 12 LONDON, Mon. -Mrs b->/ Hilton Harrison. Briu 'n top woman tennis player, yesterday announcrd her retirement no.a big time tennis "I have fini.slie;i for good with big time, tennis." shi> told reporters. "I have had my <I:iv am! >v any case I do not think th;<t tnarriage
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