The Straits Times, 12 July 1950

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  • 19 1 The Straits Times MALAYAN NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 twelve pa<;es SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1950 <fr I'KlfcE TEN CENTS
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  • 406 1 RED DRIVE U.S. Troops On 'No Retreat' Positions TOKYO, Tuesday. T»IRED American troops, outnumbered five to one in men and four to one in tanks, today fought furiously in the battle of the triangle for vital river defences and the cross country railway system of South
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  • 44 1 REFUGEES croud OB a train at Siwh to rsi-npr Irotn the North Korean advaace. Soulh Korean* puked into open nnan and even perched in the of the locomotive. RIGHT: A woimdfd ricaa MMier hi-int: wacuat-«-J hv plane. A. P. pictures.
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  • 142 1 TOKYO. Tups. TWO American war correspondents were killed in the Korean lighting yesterday aoenrdin^ to reports trom the front. They wore Identified as Ray Richards. 56. of the International News Service, and Corp »ral Ernie Peeler, of the Pacific edition of the Service newspaper, Stars and Stripes.
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  • 126 1 SYDNEY, Tuesday. 'THE External Affairs Minister, Mr. Percy Spender, charged today that the Communists were trying to "cripple" Australia and pledged strong Government measures against their attempts to halt arms aid to South Korea. "I have little doubt a concerted attempt will be made by the
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  • 62 1 LONDON. Tues. -London's unofficial strike ot 5,500 food and transport workers, which began in the central meat market at Smithfield 17 days ago after a wage Increase dispute, is over. A mass meeting of motor lorry drivers and meat market workers decided almost unanimously today to
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  • 30 1 LONDON. Tues. Mr C. Jeffries, aged 58. of Allostock. Cheshire, who was machine-gunned at Gaza, Palestiije, In the First World War. has just coughed up the bullet.— Reuter.
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  • 33 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. REWARDS totalling $350,000 were paid for information on bandits between Jan. 1 and May 31 this year, it was officially stated today.
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  • 108 1 RUSSIANS AT ATOM TALKS LONDON, Tues. >T*HREE Russian scientists A have received visas to come to Britain this week to hear leading Western specialists talk about development of atomic energy. The Russians, who it was understood would be led by V. A. Golubston, announced they will attend sessions of the
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  • 124 1 LOS NEGROS, (Admiralty Islands*, Tues. LIEUT. General Fusataro Teshima, Commander of the 2nd. Japanese Army, showed no emotion when he was acquitted on murder charges at an Australian war crimes court. He was also acquitted on a charge of having permitted war crimes. Three Japanese officers
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  • 331 1 ROBERT C. MILLER, U.S. Correspondent With American Forces SOUTH KOREA, Tues. A MERICANS are taking A another licking today, suffering heavy casualties and fighting a losing battle against an overwhelming force of North Korean tanks and infantry. But they are fighting and for what little ground
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  • 69 1 LONDON Tues.— Britain's Service Chiefs of Staff and Service Ministers discussed the Korean situation at a meeting of the Cabinet Defence Committee called by the Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee. today The Defence Committee studied the latest reports on trie fighting in South Korea and submitted its
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  • 152 1 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. I^RAFT machinery (conscription) to produce the 20,000 recruits asked for by the U.S. Army was in motion today, while military leaders sought ships to carry already trained troops to back the defence of Southern Korea Infoivned U.S. fpnators said today they expect
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  • 317 1 EX MALA VAN STA YS BEHIND IN SEOUL KFrom Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Tuesday. SIONER Herbert Lord, formerly otticer landing the Salvation Army in Malaya, is still in Seoul, according to an announcement by the Salvation Army authorities in London. Commissioner Lord, who spent ten years developing Salvation Army work
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  • 117 1 REFINED tin In Singapore yesterday made its record} recent pric* Jump- $8 to S3Z9 a picul. Defers atuibiiie the ruse! to stoek-pliing intensified by' events in Korea. Tiiey con 4 skier that the price will cou-'i tinue to rise tiil overseas cpmand falls off.
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  • 140 2 U.K. May Invest More Money In Asia UN Told GENEVA, Tues. LORD Alexander of Hillsborough, British delegate, told the United Nations Economic and Social Council yesterday that Britain hopes to sten up its investments in under-developed countries but warned that a targe immediate increase was not likely. '•We hope to
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  • 33 2 RANGOON, Tues.—Brigadier San Po Thin, former special Commissioner for Bassein and Burmese Cabinet Minister, was released from prison yesterday by government orders after being detained for more than a year. Reuter.
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    44 2 MAHARAJAH Jam Saheb of Nawanagar, president of the administrative tribunal of the United Nations, (right) with Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Indian Ambassador to the U.S., and Mr. Louis P. Lochner, president of the Overseas Press Club at New York. A.P. picture.
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  • 43 2 LONDON, Tuesday. THE Western Powers conferred with Russia for the 256 th time on the Austrian peace treaty on Monday, exchanged charges for two hours, but reached a tentative agreement on only one pomt to adjourn until Sept. 7. U.P.
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    • 201 2 SAN FRANCISCO, Tuesday. THE head of the world's largest bank, L. M. 1 Giannini, President of the Bank of America, was threatened with gaol yesterday for contempt of court in a banking deal So was Sam H Husbands, president of Transamerica. A
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  • 205 2 WASHINGTON, Tues. PAKISTAN became a member of the International Monetary Fund at a ceremony here today. Her joining the International* bank will follow shortly. The Pakistan Ambassador to the U.S., Mr. Ispahanl signed the articles of agreement for Pakistan's adherence to the Fund. Witnessing the
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  • 46 2 PARIS, Tues.— The great new port of Paris, which will eventually cover nearly 1,000 acres with seven miles of quays, was officially opened yesterday. So far, only one dock has been completed. The new port will eventually have six docks. Reuter.
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    • 612 2 NOTICES THE MALAYAN EXCHANGE BANKS ASSOCIATION All members of the above Association in the Colony of Singapore will be closed for business on Monday 17th July being Harl Puasa Holiday. SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY Drainwork on frontages of Lots Not 109-3. 109-2, 101-J. 100. 99-1 pt and 99-2, T.B. XXVIII. Kvrlyn Road
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    • 853 2 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS DRAINAGE AND IRRIGATION DEPARTMENT. APPOINTMENT OF TECHNICAL APPRENTICES Applications are Invited for appointments as Technical Apprentices in the D. And I. Department. 2. Candidates should submit their applications giving full particular* of education, qualifications, date and place of birth, etc., to the Director, D. And I., Kuala Lumpur,
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    • 81 2 P.W.D. NOTICE Tenders will be received at the office of the State Engineer. P.W.P., Selangor, up to 12.00 coon of the 19th July, 1950, for the Construction of Hostel at High School Kajang In Ulu Langat District. Plans and specifications may be seen md all particulars obtained et the office
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    • 288 2 NOTICES SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY TENDERS (For particulars see Tender Room Ground Floor, Municipal Offices) MUNICIPAL ENGINEER'S DEPARTMENT: Earth Cutting at i Site off Thomson Road, Transport Ing, Tipping. Spreading and Main tenance of Filling at Site c Proposed Sewerage Departmen Store Quarters. Forms ant particulars from Engineer's Offici (Room No. 218).
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  • 288 3 But Refuses To Back U.N. Move lAiKU, Tuesday. gGYPT has decided 'that she "fully concurs' that aggression in Korea should be stopped but she will not support the United Nations resolution to aid South Korea because she feels "the United Nations has not acted as
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  • 182 3 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. INDONESIA has told the United States that any miivc by the IS. t« bring down the price of natural rubber would drive Indonesian rubber growers Into the planting: of other crops and more remunerative occu pat ions. Indonesia's case was presented to
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  • 52 3 LONDON, Tues— Britain Is to make a fresh review ol iis policy in the Antarctic, the i Under Secretary, Mr Ernest Davies. told the House of Commons yetfterd >v. Ht- told Mr. Fit/roy Maclean, Conservative, that a leview of British Antarctic policy In general is sheitlv to be
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  • 105 3 Siam Rice Leak To Red China BANGKOK. Tues. PiIAMESE police have begun i 5 investigating an operation whereby a syndicate of merchants have surreptitiously exported at least 60.000 tons of Siamese rice to Communist China in the past five months. The police action follows a Siamese Government discovery that insufficient
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  • 42 3 JAKARTA. Tues. The leader of the fanatical Darn] Islam mo.-.irent Kartosuwirjo, was alleged yesterday to have been killed in an armed clash between a Darul Islam gang and units of .ns Indonesian Army, according to Dutch reports. A.P.
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  • 101 3 5 Killed On 'Recreation' Cruise OFFICIAL sources said yesterday that the five soldiers killed by a Korean shell which struck the British cruiser. Jamaica had been taken on at Hong Kong for a "recreation and instructional cruise. They came aboard before the North Korean invasion and there had been no
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  • 75 3 THE HAGUE. Tups.— A Dutch Government note today concerning the X.L.M Royal Dutch* Airlines 39.500.000 guilders loss durln* 1949. said the total in-! come of K.L.M. increased 13 per cent a s a result of deva- luation. but expenditure rose almost 21 per cent. The losses
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  • 62 3 SYDNEY, Tues.-Leaders of the Australian Miners Federation are trying to form a triple-front with the Seamen's Union and the Waterside Workers Union in support of the Communist "hands off Korea" campaign. All the three unions are Communistcontrolled The miners union has sent out circulars to all branches asking them
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  • 30 3 VATICAN CITY, Tues. The Holy See has given orders to all Roman Catholic missionaries in Korea to rernaia at their posts, it was disclosed last night.'— Reuter.
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  • 201 3 i,i;.iuu,i, xuesuav. OFFICIALS of the South Korean legation said yesterday that the Korean Minister, Mr. Thai Chang-yun, had received many hundreds of offers from British and East European ex-servicemen to fight on the Korean front against Communism. Volunteers included an association of former R.A.F.
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  • 69 3 WASHINGTON. Tues. US. military officials said yesterday that the United States now has enough men and equipment in Korea to slow the Communist advance, but no one should expect an immedli'.'p t i n the tii« ol batt !e. for reporters at military caution against orer-optt-mism
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  • 44 3 LONDON, Tues.-The Government yesterday rejected a proposal in Parliament that it should protest to the Soviet Embassy in London against "propaganda on the Korean situation" published in Soviet News, a daily publication by the Press Department of the Soviet Embassy. —Reuter.
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  • 170 3 PARIS, Tues. MRENE Pleven. 49-year- old Defence Minister in the last two French Governments, was elected Prime Minister by the French National Assembly today after a three-week political crisis. M. Pleven, a near Radical, I was elected by 373, votes to 185. Socialists, who
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  • 49 3 LONDON. Tues. THE British Government yesterday announced the end of soap rationing one of the few domestic rigours from wartime. It will be freed on September 10. Members laughed ichen a Conservative, Sir Thomas Moore. asked whether children had been consulted about the decision.
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  • 181 3 Did Not Say 'Use The Atom Bomb' LONDON, Tues. FOUR British members resigned today from international committee for j the study of European questions which last week sug- gested using the atomic bomb to end the Korean fighting. The resignations followed publication last week of the committee's report to the
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  • 370 4 CIR Roland Braddell, President of the Council of the University of Malaya, believes that increased research is needed in two fields at the University anthropology and the study of the history and geography of South-East Asia. "The test of the quality of a University lies
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    98 4 WELFARE QUEENS DANCE hostesses' coupons at Kuala Lumpur last weekend were donated for welfare funds. MISS LINDA HO, who collected most coupons at the Bukit Bintan; dance hail, is seen (upper left) receiving her cup as welfare queen from Mr. Khoo Cheang Keat, president of the Selangor Chinese Welfare Committee.
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  • 104 4 From Our SUB Correspondent PENANQ, Tues. TWO Malayan delegates, Miss Pitt Chin Hui and Miss Lee Wong Peng, who represented the Singapore Buddhist Federation at last month's Buddhist World Fellowship Conference In Ceylon, returned by air from Rangoon this afternoon. Eleven Penang delegates, ed by Mr.
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  • 78 4 A BILL-COLLECTOR, Lim Hin. 19, who gambled away part of his day's collection, was yesterday bound over for six months when he pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal breach of trust of $199.50 He was also ordered to make good the amount in seven months,
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  • 129 4 THE Singapore Federation oi Government Employees Unions has sent a note to Government pressing for an early establishment of a Whitley I Council, the Straits Times understands. The establishment of the Council, which is in accordance with a resolution taken by the Federation at it
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  • 58 4 QUIETLY and wtthout fuss, H.M.S. Unicorn, an aircraft canler used mainly as a "floating base" for other carriers and as an aircraft repair ship, slipped Naval Base yesterday afternoon on her way to Korean Maters. Only a few dock labourers and naval ratings were on the
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  • 234 4 From Oat Own Correspondent LONDON, Tues. IN an intensive drive to recapture from Britain the profitable Indian and SouthEast Asian markets, Japan is to produce an $18 bicycle, modelled on the highest quality British bicycle, this month, reports the Tokyo correspondent of the Financial Times.
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  • 48 4 A. Somasundram, 19, clerk at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, claimed trial in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to three charges of criminal breach of trust of $30, $10 and $50 belonging to the University. The case will be heard on Oct. 5,
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  • 47 4 From Our Own rorresiiii'w-ent JOHORE BAHRU. Tues.— S. Leo, of the Road Transport Department, Johore Bahru, was charged in the Johore Bahru Police Court with using criminal force with intention to disgrace Che Chlk binte Yunos. The ease wai fixed tor trial on Aug. 21
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  • 105 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Ten Johore students at the Sultan Idris Training College, Tanjong Malim, have been successful in the examination for Grade two certificates. They are Abdullah bin A. Rahman, Abdul Samad bin Ahmad, Abu Bakar bin Mahat. Mohammed bin Said, Sharif! bin
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  • 43 4 SITIAWAN, Tues. POSTING $75,000, the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial building in Sitiawan is expected to be completed by the end of the year. In front of the Memorial Assembly Hall will be a globe, with a full-siard statue of the Mahatma.
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  • 37 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— S. Peralsamy, a taxi driver, was acquitted here today of a charge of carrying two extra passengers in his taxi and with failing to stop when signalled by a constable to do so.
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  • 128 4 R EOPENING OF TODDY SHOPS 'SUICIDAL' DINGAPORE labour leaders yesterday described the decision of the Governments of Johore and Penang to reopen toddy shops on the estates as a "move detrimental to the welfare of the estate labourers." Mr. G. Sarangapany. a Tamil leader In the Colony said that the
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  • 147 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. rE first action to control sales of various articles and commodities which may find their way into the hands of terrorists has been taken in Perlis in a district on the Perlis-Siam border. A Gazette notification today [states
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  • 50 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Tuts. Tas Bahadur Rai, of the 1/10 Gurkhas, was brought for trial today in the Johuve Bahru Police Court on a i charge of negligently driving a military car resulting in a collision with a cyclist. The case was postponed to Aug. 11 for hearing.
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  • 35 4 MUAR, Tues.— Alleged to have been found behaving in I a disorderly manner at Jalan j Sayang, Ang Eng Ton and I Lim Beng Phuan were admonished and discharged by the Muar Magistrate.
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  • 266 4 Plan For Single Nation Is Right -Thivy POKTY-live year old 1 Mr. John A. Thivy, wno has been the Representative of the Government of India in Malaya for the last three years, told the Straits Times yesterday that the move to establish a Malayan nationality was one of the ways
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  • 64 4 A Singapore bank c l rrk. Kao Koh Jen. was yesterday granted a decree nisi from his wife Alice Tav Song Ngor in the Singapore Supreme Court before Mr Justice W. J. Thoroeood. The decree nisi is to be made absolute in six weeks The suit,
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  • 59 4 JOHORE BAHRU, TU< Thou Sai Chung, wher admitted in Ui" Sessions C iirt that five packets of chandu found on him at Kului were for his mv.i consumption, was conditionally rfieaaed on his entering into a bond of $100 for 15 months. In that period he
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  • 127 4 THE Singapore Harbour Boara Staff Association is expected to begin negotiations with the Singapore Harbour Board this wees on housing allowance for its 800 members. The Association^ decision to open negotiations with the employers' followed a n put recently of an agreement reached between the
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  • 70 4 THE Sultana of Johore, 35-year-old Rumanian born wife of the 76-year-old Sultan of Johore, is expecting her first child in September, the London Daily Telegraph reported yesterday, says United Press. In Johore Bahru, senior Government officers said they had received no Information from the
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  • 47 4 I From Oar Own Corresuondi'nt JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. Chan San Moy, a woman who was convicted in the Sessions Court on a charge of having chandu dross in her possession at Senai, was conditionally discharged on her entering into a bond of $100 for 12 months.
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  • 35 4 MUAR, Tues. TJie Muar Magistrate fined Quek Seng Hee $20, or 10 days' hard labour, for storing 14 sheets of rubber and 20 katls of rubbrr lumps without a licence at Parit SakrJ.
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    36 5 MR HAROLD WILLAN. reti rinlf rhief Justice of the 1 (ru;ht>. listens to Mr. E. A. S. Wagner express farewell tributes on behalf o f the Bar at Kuala Lumpur. —Straits Times picture.
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  • 225 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KIT ALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. A MALAY special constable, Muhammad bin Johari. was charged in the Supreme Court, Kuala Lumpur, today with the murder of a 60-year-ald Indian, Sithambaram. Muhammad is alleged to ha/c murdered the Indian at Kuala Lapa Batu Lima Bias
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  • 74 5 Tan nif mie Tax to have more senior qualified officers England 1 d by Mr. R B Heasman. Comptrol- -General of Income Tax returned by air London on Monday weeks on duty. '•i Si >•■ he .1 that he had endeavourto recruit qualified senior
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  • 104 5 < HIM BE VM A.. Si'legie Road. i:I meeting, 9 a.m.. badminton, r > 30 p.m.. basketball. 5.30 p.m U (A. KATONG CROUPS 1 MEETING. St. Hilda's School. C-vlon Road. 4 p.m. V.M.C.A.. Orchard Road, chess club, 5 p.m.. art club, life class, li I 111 POLH B
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  • 194 5 PLEA that a Malay soldier who assaulted a lance corporal had brooded over what he felt waT™ unjust charge, was put forward In miSJa«M of sentence by the defending officer faWr r!m at a court martial at Selaf £,£s?"' Signals, pleaded guilty to gaultln s L/Cpl.
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    42 5 ME. AND MBS. Ailrian An s alter their marriage at 'aiiossa onvcnt, Singapore. At the left are Mr. Sebasiini Tan and Mrs. A. J. A. Mission, sponsors, and at <Ik> right, the bridesmaid. Miss Doris De'Silva, and the liestitin, Mr. Richard Arnold.
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  • 174 5 2 FINED $7,000 FOR EVASION I rum Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. LUA Chin Glaw and Goh Yok Kirn were found guilty in the Pontian Police Court yesterday for evasion of Customs duty on lOi bags of Siamese tobacco, weighing 872 lb and five tins of I matches. Lua
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  • 58 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues Yon fi Tak Biow. aged 22, was bound over in $100 for six months when he was found guilty in the Johore Bahru Police Court today of attempting to commit suicide Yong. it was stated, had been three months in hospital with
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  • 250 5 'Pllt: following pas-sinßCis w re UMng them who arrived at Kullang airport yi ..in-day from p. lints outside Maluva on the var■;r si ivicfs. faMenam la ir.uisil arc mi included in the Hal I|KA 80.A.C. From Sydnt-v: VV Cmdr. Carle, W Cir.dr. Dundas; Was Dumble!ull. Imm Jakarta:
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  • 1144 5 WishfulTh in king, Says Witness In Malacca Trial From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Tuesday. "I THINK it was wishful thinking on the part of Mr. Atkinson," said Mr. T. Hamilton, Officer-in-Charge, C.1.D., Malacca, when he was called to give evidence before Mr. S. Bon Bernard in
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  • 49 5 THE REV. (hiu Ban It. a former Penan? lawyer who has foresaken the bar for the pulpit The Rev. Mr. Chin, who was ordained at Birmingham in 1945, has arrived at Singapore to take up staff duties at St. Andrew's Cathedral. Straits Times picture.
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  • 135 5 ALOR STAR, Tues. 'PHE Sultan of Kedah and the British Adviser, Mr. E.V.G. Day, were among the large gathering at the funeral, in Alor Star today of Hajah Che Mariam, wife of the Mentri Besar of Kedah, Haji Mohd. Sheriff. Che Mariam, who was
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  • 17 6 THOMSON: At Bexhill-on-Sea, on July 10th, Yvonne Mary, %idow of H. W. Thomson, C.M.G. date M.C.S.>.
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  • 45 6 THE FAMILY of the late Mrs. Dh Jitt Kwang sincerely thank all jelatives and friends who so kindly •Mended the funeral of their befcived mother on Saturday and •••nt floral tributes, gifts, messages •f condolence, loan of cars, buses, etc., in their sad bereavement.
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  • 27 6 IN I.OVINO memory of my husband ".Jock'' Pilgrams killed J>ily 12th. 1949 Grant to him Oh Toiri eternal irst and let hi shine upon him.
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  • 720 6 There is better news from Korea despite the fresh attack begun yesterday. Since Saturday the armoured columns which are Russia's principal contribution to the war have been badly mauled by the bombers and by anti-tank guns well used by
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  • 400 6 The Korean war has driven off the front page, and nearly out of the newspapers altogether, the agreement which Western European nations have reached on a Payments Union. But it is still the most' important step which Europe has taken towards the resumDlion of multilateral trade, and
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  • 1042 6 Raden Oetoyo, first Indonesian Ambassador to Australia and till recently Indonesian Representative in Singapore, took up his duties in Canberra early this month. He announced on arrival that the Commonwealth need have no fear that Indonesia would claim East New Guinea (which is administered
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    • 506 6 r THE Singapore Public Relations Secretary, in his x letter of Tuesday contradicting the Sunday Times' July 8 report of a renewed film "banning spree", has obviously omitted to state the actual number of bannings. The Kinematograph Renters' Society has no desire to join issue
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    • 173 6 ¥F Singapore's City 1 Fathers and City Mothers insist on being paid. as Municipal Commissioners, then they should get out of the Commission as fast as they can. They should make way for others "who can afford to wonk for nothing" as Commissioners and look after the
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    • 346 6 yyiULE denouncing ag- gression in Korea, Singapore editors have been strangely silent regarding aggression nearer home. I refer to the naval blockade and armed invasion force being used against the people of Ambon, in the Moluccas. These folk, who do not wish to be part of the
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  • 435 6 Prawn Ponds TVER since I came upon a reference to prawn ponds i in the Colony annual report this year, I have been trying to find out more about them. Six hundred acres of ponds In brackish mangrove swamps I producing 150 tons of prawns a year
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    • 141 6 ■M-M-f THE "INIMITABLE" CHARLIE KUNZ. 8394 CHARLIE KUNZ PIANO MEDLEY No. D.M Intro: Best of All; We all have a song in our heart; Is It true what they say about Dixie; Music! Music! Music!; Cherry Stones; Music! Music! Music! 93fi5 CHARLIE KUNZ PIANO MEDLEY No. D.95 Intro: Wh* !s
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  • 387 7 Unemployed Man Tells Court Of Alleged Plot fHUA Seng K^e, an unemployed fitter, told the Singapore Relief Court yesterday that he was offered $800 by two Indians to kill and bury a man he had never seen before. He was giving evidence in the
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  • 169 7 New Union For Seamen Defended p \KISTANIS In Singapore are forming a seamen's union of their own because with Mr. M 'A. Majiu's Indo-Maiay-Paklstani'B Seamen's Union, Miid the organiser of the new union, Mr. Asuhub Miah. in a P. ess .statement yesterday. Mr. Miah *as replying to a .statement issued
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  • 37 7 Cling Kee Siang. 25. a contractor of food supplies to prisoners in the police lockups, was fined $10 in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday for using abusive language to a policeman at Stamford Road.
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    16 7 MISS MACLEAN kisses the kukri presented her as a parting gift by the Ist 2nd Gurkhas.
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  • 145 7 THE BEST BURGLAR ALARM.... THE best burglar alarm is a "properly secured house," said the Deputy Commissioner, Special Branch, Mr. R. C. B. Wiltshire, when told that there was a "waiting list" in a local firm of people wanting burglar alarms. Asked if aiarms were of assistance to the police,
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  • 76 7 A RECITAL given by Blanche Urquhart, soprano, was attended by members of the Singapore Music Circle in the Raffles Institution's hall last night. Pamela Stacey accompanied Mrs. Urquhart through a programme of 16 Items, which included pieces by Handel, Puccini, Haydn and Brahms. The three Brahms items
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  • 60 7 The result of the Radio Malaya book review competition will be announced at 10 o'clock tonight. Entries for the next month's competition should reach Radio Malaya before the end of July. Reviews should be about 500 words each on books published within the last five years. A
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  • 30 7 Mr. V. K. Nair, a vicepresident of the Singapore Labour Party, made a radio appeal last night to qualified people to register for the Legislative and Municipal elections.
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  • 23 7 While visiting his relatives at Hallpike Street, Sarban Singh, a 45-year-old Sikh watchman had a heart attack and died yesterday morning
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  • 52 7 NAVIGATOR ILL— PLANE TURNS BACK AFOI'K KN(iINKI) Lancastrian freighter aircraft, bound for "Rangooh, returned to Kallang airport. Singapore, .yesterday as a precaution when the navif ator was taken ill midway between Singapore and Rangoon. The navigator, although feeling shaky when he arrived back at Kalians, was said not to be
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  • 238 7 The 'Little Mother sails— so the Gurkha wives cried. ...and cried fURKHA wives cover ec their faces with theii veils and wept on Singapore quayside yesterdaj afternoon when the trooper. Lancashire, carried theli "little mother," Miss Marffaret Mac Lean, away from them, to her home in Rosshire, Scotland. For two
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    17 7 A LA i -MINUTE llwal tribute is hauled up the side of the ship on a rope.
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  • 178 7 'SENTENCE MUST BE HEAVY— JUDGE ONG Teck Hock, 39-year-old salesman, was yesterday sentenced to 16 months' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Tan Ah Tah, Singapore Second District Judge, for offering $3,600 to a Lieutenant in the Royal Military Police to forge certain Army authorisation documents. Before
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  • 101 7 Prison food AFTER being sentenced to four months rigorous imprisonment, a young Indian asked the First District Judge, Mr. H. E. Kingdon, yesterday If he could be "served with European food in gaol as I am not accustomed to Asian food." "That will have to be a
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  • 19 7 Almost five hundred Navy, Army and R.A.F. personnel from Malaya left on the Lancashire far home yesterday.
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  • 271 7 AN English-speaking Chinese, Koh Hua Quee, in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday, was ordered to pay $70 monthly from June 1 to his wife, Mary Tan Hwee Leng, for her maintenance and his youngest son, who is in her custody. Koh, whose
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  • 58 7 Lav Ming Too, alias Lav Meng Toh, alias Lav Ming, was charged in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday with escaping from a detention camp in Kluang, Johore, where he had been detained under Emergency Regulations. Th magistrate, Mr. C. H. F. Blake, ordered the case to
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  • 75 7 COLLOWING representations r from the overseas markets, the Government of India, is to release an additional 100 million yards ,of coarse and medium cloth for export to soft currency areas during the rest of this year, Sardar Joglndis Singh, Trade Commissioner for India in Singapore, said
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  • 33 7 A 22-year-old Malay woman, Mariam binti Ibrahim, yesterday pleaded guilty to a charge of theft of a brooch from a house in Geylang Road. Bail of $200 was allowed pending sentence.
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  • 219 7 KOREA: Future of Asia at stake Thomson THE invasion of South Korea has projected the problem of Asia's growth, from the future where optimism kept it a distance, into the realistic present, said Mr. G. O. Thomson, Singapore* Public Relations Secretary, addressing a public meeting in the V.M.C.A. Hall last
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  • 296 7 From Our Staff Con espondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. THE bodies of five bandits believed to have been killed during their abortive attack on Kambau police station in Johore on June 28 were located in two graves one mile from the police station
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  • 56 7 ONE of the latest additions to Denmark's fast expanding luxury cargo passenger liners arrived in Singapore yesterday with a cargo of 2,000 tons of tinned mi:k for the Colony. The four-masted, 6.993-ton motor ship is under the command of Captain H. I. Vaering, who served as a
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  • 54 7 A shopkeeper. Tan Chiew Chuan, claimed trial in the Singapore Second District Court yesterday, to a charge of having failed to display a sugar price ll^t In his shop in Seletar Road on July 8. Bail of $100 was offered, and the case comes up for
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  • 153 7 $9,000 THEFT LUliMlttiN 4UU-1D D;i Vj cotton yarn worth about. &9.000 were stolen from a >tore at Cecil Street. Singapore, yesterday morning The thieves are believed to nave gone to the store in a lorry and calmly loaded tinDales of cotton, giving the impression
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  • 53 7 Lady DigDy who arrived i i Singapore by X.L.M. yesterday from Britain for a month's visit to Malaya, was met at Kallang airport y< terday by her son. Capt. Me Honourable Edward Digty if the Coldstream Guards, who will shortly become A.D.C. to the C.-in-C, FARELF, General
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  • 43 7 Ban of $1,000 was extended a Goh Whay Yam, 25; ol Sovent Row. who claimed ;riai in the Singapore Tiihd Police Court yesterday t« sermitting his house to be ased as a common gaming louse. Hearing was postponed to Sept. 13.
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  • 168 8 CHILD LAW IN FORCE SOON TPHE Children and Young Persons- Ordinance which has been passed by the Singapore Legislative Council, is likelv to be gazetted wi+.hic the next fortnight, a Government sd ikcsman told the Straits Times vesterday. The legislation makes it dear that no child un .<■ the a»e
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  • 27 8 D. Saviappan and M. Chelllab wei e fined $5 each In the Singapore Third Puiice Court ay for lighting in Tiong Bnhru Ruau on Sun-
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  • 230 8 Schools Opening May Be Delayed SINGAPORE police detained a teacher of the Chinese High School on Monday afternoon under the Emergency Regulations. Altogether,, two teachers and eight students of tho school are under detention. Thp reopening of the Singaporo Chinese High School and the Nanyang
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  • 188 8 RAF officer acquitted on 2 charges AR.A.F. Officer F/Lt. J. E. Whitlork was acquitted Dy Mr- P. C. Claque in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday on a charge of trenching a padlock off the Joor of a storeroom in a house in Bournemouth Road. Sinjapre. WhltiorK. who was also
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  • 204 8 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Tuesday. h FTEH having carried on for 3£ years, the Settle- t of Penang Association, post-war successor to the Straits Settlements (i'enang) Association, i have to close shortly if a resolution for its tig un is adopted at a special
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    35 8 Ml>s KTUT TANRI ("Sourabaya Sue") who arrived in Singapore yesterday by QEA-BOAC Constellation from Jakarta. She told the Struts Times that an English newspaper would be published soon in the Indonesian capital Straits Times picture.
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  • 71 8 From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA. Tues. St. Peter's Church, Malacca, will be the venue of a big gathering of reiatives, friends and parishioners on Sunday morning when the Rev. Father Lanceiot Rodrigues will be the celebrant of his first soiemn High Mass In Maiucca. He is
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  • 50 8 The Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, watched various clerical systems being operated at the Department of Income Tax yesterday, when he made an official routine visit. Accompanied by Mr. D. H. Tudor, Comptroller of Income Tax, Sir Franklin spent nearly one hour in the Department.
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  • 29 8 The Commander-in-Chief, Far East Air Forces, Air Marshal Sir Francis Fogarty, returned to Singapore yesterday 1 after a 11-day tour of the Federation. Lady Fogarty accompanied him
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  • 62 8 MR. K. M. R. MENON, president of the Indian Fine Arts Society, garlanding the Representative of the Government of India in Malaya, Mr. J. A. Thivy. during a farewell tea party, given in his honour by the Society at G. H. Cafe, yesterday, Mr. Thivy is
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  • 142 8 Unions To Meet OnMore Pay From Our Staff Correspondent K. LUMPUR, Tues. A MEETING of repre- sentatives of all registered unions catering for Government daily rated workers in the Federation will take place at the Mechanical Sports Club. Sentul, Kuala Lumpur, on Sunday, July, 23. Mr. M. P. Rajagopal, president
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  • 435 8 'Striking' Seamen Given 2 Alternatives They didn't like Greek food decision has yet been reached on the fate of the 14 Indian seamen and one Indian radio officer who walked off the Greek ship, Persephone, in Singapore on Monday afternoon for alleged illtreatment and bad food. Discussions between tae Representative
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  • 47 8 PROFESSOR F. G. Brown of London University, who arrived in Singapore yesterday by Q.E.A.-8.0.A.C. Constellation from Sydney en route to U. K. While in Australia and New Zealand, he lectured to University students and doctors on obst \f tries and gynaecology. Straits Times picture.
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  • 175 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tuesday. WITH brown-tinted water ?oming from the taps in Klang and Port SweUrnham, householders are looking forward to the day when the $3,000,000 Klang water scheme will be completed. The Straits Times was told this morning that the
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  • 32 8 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. Chia Tong, of Masai, was found guilty here today on a charge of driving a car without reasonable caro and was fined $25.
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  • 33 8 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. For using car* whfth were In "dangerously unsound mechanical condition," Hoong Tong was fined $15 and Poon Kang Slang, of Singapore, $7, here today.
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  • 53 8 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. DURING screening operations in South Johore recently a JaMimp* >m found on an estate working as a tapper. he was detained and a few days ago was repatriated to Japan. He is the second Japanese to be repatriated
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  • 13 8 The Singapore Government has accepted tenders for Treasury bills for $3,030,000.
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  • 54 8 A Chinese woman, Tong Ah Heng, was sentenced to three months' gaol in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday for permitting her house in Tembeling Road to be used as a brothel. Two other women, who were alleged to have lived on the immoral earnings of
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  • 33 8 Mr. Yee Koon Seng has been given an honorary commission as a Cadet officer with the rank of Cadet acting Sub-Lieutenant in the Junior Technical (Trade) School, Sea Cadet Corps, Singapore.
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  • 138 8 From Our Staff Cor; n >nrt"nt KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. piIFTY boys, some of whom have to travel 50 miles a day to get to and from Klang High School, will soon live In a palace: Work is going anearl with the conversion of the
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  • 1245 9 The London Letter LONDON, .Inly 3. APART from a A £10(MHM),(KK) slash from Stock \i\rluinae values on the day il all began, people here have accepted the significance «f the war in Korea with a calmness so complete as to he almost sl.n Iling
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  • 455 9 Are you content with the way you speak and write? Are you sure that you are not making mistakes mat cause people to underrate you? Never has the importance ot erlective speech jvna writing been more widely recognised than i-ida\ II you can express yourself persuasively :mci
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  • 98 9 The Couses that Gives You Confidence Tho Regent way to the mastery of English Is the sure wav and tllp swift »;i\ can study tt.e EOecUve Er.itliih Course In the odd minute* of the day. rhe Course is so planned that ynu muke definite progress from Me .cry first lesson.
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  • 303 9 IN the ordinary work- aday England, people are discussing the rumour that the Government will force employers to reserve some of their jobs for people over 45. It has just been rediscovered that under the Sunday Observance Act (1781, still going strong) to kiss a girl on Sundays
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 275 9 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD «RMi 24. Border with Inner circl* rPHClSWOnn TVrt 1 OR Not the sort to put beef (6). IKUMWUKU XNO. iUO into what he does (10) 23 Pu» «fen In itate of Anc.ent c:ty in the m.d»t uncertainty (8). g| i ill 2 HI 5 Hll* il! 5
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  • 201 10 LONDON. Tues. WITH a less pessimistic view being taken of the international situation, the London Stock Exchange today showed firmness in many sections. British Government stocks led an upward movement in better class issues and closed with gains of half point. Dealers reported a steady flow of small
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  • 167 10 TPRADE inquiries irom the Dnttoi A States and Britain gave a lift to prices in the Singapore produce market yesterday. Sellers were still holding out. demanding more for pepper, crpri and coconut oil. Muntok white pepper was prked at SB9O, the hichest for several months: Sarawak was
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  • 909 10 From Our Market Correspondent THE Malayan share market improved slightly as far as concerned Tins and Industrials yesterday. Some prices showed small gam? on the day Quotations announced oythe Malayan SharebroKers' I Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS BUTeri Sellers Alex. Bricks Pref a.25 Ords. 2.22J Atlas let- 11.80 B.B
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  • 26 10 SINGAPORE, Tues., July 11—5328 (up $8). LONDON. Tues., July 11— Spot: £649— £6491; Forward. £649—£6491: Settlement. £649. Turnover: morning, 440 tons; afternoon. 275 tons.
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  • 206 10 THE SINGAPORE rubber market opened firm yesterday on better orders from abroad. Prices in the afternoon appreciated slightly £bove Monday's average levels. Some factory interest was in evidence. The market was steady at the close. Closing prices yesterday were pei lb No. 1 R.S.S spot loose buyers 87'
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  • 166 10 CHIPS in the Singapore Outer i and Inner Roads and alongside Harbour Board godowns yesterday were: Outer Roads: Hai Hsuan. Suiat. Ulysses, Tjiondok. Persephone, Kairmma. Ting Yuan, Benarty, Benvee. Concalo Velho (Man of War Anchorage). Inner Roads: Rantau. Sedenak Tanjong Pinang, Kotanica, Sirusa. Resang.
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    • 1019 10 McALISTER tfc CO.. LTD. (Incorporatec in Singapore) Telephone No. 5906 ELLERMAN etc BUCKNALL KLAVENESS LINE LONDON HAVRE. ROTTERDAM LOS ANCELES. SAN FRANCISCO. J HAMBURC PORTLAND SEATTLE 0 VANCOUVER CITY Of COVENTRY Accepting cargo tor Central South S'poie P Sham Penang American Ports 14/,9,-h, ,2/13|u,, 11/UW, BOUCA.NVILLI Calls Antwerp Spore P
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  • 501 11  - CEYLONESE STARS FOR GRANDPRIX EDIN PETERS By Biggest Motor Event Planned rWO CEYLONESE motor cyclists who took part in this year's Isle of Man T.T races will be among the Ceylon Motor Club's team of four to ride at this year's Johore Grand Prix to be held at Johore Bahru
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  • 100 11 From Our Staff Correspondent PEN ANG, Tues. BECAUSE of lack of funds, the Penang Amateur Athiletic Association has chosen I only ten athletes for special I training for the Malayan I championships at Singapore in August. Those chosen are Tang Eng Joo, Mahlnder Singh,
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  • 120 11 SINGAPORE Chinese Football! 13 Association beat the Indian Recreation Club two-nil in a friendly game of soccer playetl on the BODCA ground yesterday. Starting off in whirlwind fasiiion, Chinese took less then a minutes from the kick off to open the scoring through centre-forward Boon Kok Peow
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  • 43 11 C.Y.M.A. beat Tuan Mong O B.A. by two goals to nil in a S.A.F.A. Junior B-l soccer tie played at C V.M.A. ground yesterday Andrew Lim and Chu Ah Koon scored for C.Y.M.A during the second half of the game.
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  • 26 11 The sixth annual sports of the Boys* Brigade, Singapore Battalion, will be held at St. Andrew's School grounds on Saturday from 230 i p.m.
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  • 59 11 The following are the fixtures of the Christian Brothers Schools j Old Boys (St. Joseph's, St. Patrick's and St. Anthony's) in the Evan Wong Shield Cricket July 22: v. St. Andrews Oi< Boys; July 29: v. Raffles Old Boys. Aug. 5: v. Victoria Inst. Old
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  • 52 11 MARATHON MATCH AT WIMBLEDON KEN MCGREGOR reaches for a high shot while his partner, Frank Sedgman, looks on in the four-hour marathon men's doubles quarter-final against Americans Budge Patty and Tony Trabert in the Wimbledon Tennis Chan pionships. Patty and Trabert won 6—4,6 4, 31 29, 7—9,7 9, 6 2.—
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  • 229 11 From Our Staff Correspondent I'ENANG, Tuesday. pENANGS two Teik Hocks, Ooi and Law, are among the four Settlement entrants for the men's singles in the Malayan badminton championships to be held at Ipoh during the August holidays. The others are Cheah Thian Kiu, former junior
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  • 84 11 International Archery On Sunday MALAYA will be represented for the first time in ay international archery competition when the Singapore Archery Club, Royal International Club of Johore and the newly-formed Naval Base Bowmen, Singapore, take part in the International Seefab Cup Competition at H.M. Dockyard on Sunday, Juiy 16. The
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    60 11 MISS LOUISE BROUGH (U.S.A.). this year's winner Of the women's singles title of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis championships for the third successive time, stoops to return a low shot from her American opponent, Miss Doris Hart, in the semi-final. Miss Brough also won the mixed doubles and women's doubles with
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  • 131 11 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Tues CCHOOLBOY Wong Van Seng last night qualified for the Malayan badminton championships when h? defeated Leong Hew Meng in a three-s3t elimination played on the P.B.A. courts. After winning th? first set Leon* l?d half way In the second set
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  • 310 11 ■RESULTS of ties In the V.M.C.A. Lawn Tennis Tourney championships which started yesterday were: Novices' Open Singles: C. T. Wong beat Khoo Peck San 8-6, 0-6, 6-3; Un Hon Kun beat Yeo Teck Lim 6-0, 6-2; Sco Putt Seong beat Tan Keng Khlan 6-2, 6-4;
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    • 143 11 TODAY'S RADIO SPORE 10 a.m. Emergency News from K.L. 10.05 Close; 10.50 Schools; 12 Malay; 1 p.m. Dance Music1.30 News: 1.45 Light Music: 2 Close; 6 Childr3n; 6.20 Radio Orchestra; 7 News. Share Market; 7.12 Radio Scientist; 7.20 Interluds; 7.30 Rhythm Parade; 8 Radio Doctor: 8.10 International Trio; 830 "Band
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  • 756 12  -  EPSOM JEEP By Grey Bloom To Make Amends T«HE POWERFUL van Breukelen establishment, 1 with an entry of 26 headed by Snowy Owl 11, Pat's Fancy, Reve de Gloire and Grey Bloom, is well equipped with prospects for the Singapore Turf Club's three-day
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    66 12 DENIS COMPTON. to test his knee on which an operation was recently performed, is seen going out to field for the M.C.C. in a one-day match against Brighton College at Brighton last week Later he informed the England selectors that he was still unfit and would not be able to
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  • 744 12 pROBLEM-HORSE Park (la*e Harrison) appears to be greatly benefitted by his four-month spell in the hills. With Tulloh astride, this Blue Peter gelding outsprinted the well-performed Glorify (Tait) over 3 f in 38 sec. at Bukit Timah yesterday. This is the easily ihe best form
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  • 78 12 NORTHAMPTON. Tues. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE held the West Indies tourists to a draw in their three-day fixture which ended today. All out for 252 in the first nnings, Northants fulioued Ml 179 runs behind and at ;iose of play had scored 206 for only one wicket.
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  • 145 12 >\IM INDIES— 1ST. INNS.: |;I for 8 drcl. NORTHAMPTON— 1ST. INNS. Brooke> Ibw Kaniadhin H Oldfield run uut M Livincstone b KamaUhin I Karnm Ibw Gomez Jakeman c Goddard b <...m.-; 17 Brown c b i.oiuci t PrlM b Ramadhin I Nulirr b Johnson IH Brodrrlck not out IX
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  • 97 12 SINGAPORE'S cricket team to meet Johore on the Singapore Cricket Club padang on Sunday and Monday each day at 11 a.m., is:- 1 R Lynch (capt.). Sgt. Lee, T. H. A. Potts. W. Ratnayake. Selakan Singh, J. C. Smith, Tan Huck Chuan. L. S. Thivy,
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  • 388 12 Poor Rovers XI Saved By Pak Tong A WEAK, fumbling Rovers S.C. side forced a lucky one-all draw when they met the Royal Navy in a S.A.F.A. Senior League game at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Boon Leone and Ah Ylk were on the sick list and their absence was keenly
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  • 232 12 LONDON. Tues. YORKSHIRE and Warwick- I I shire easily held their positions at the top of the County cricket championship with convincing victories in the series of games ending today. Yorkshire beat Nottinghamshire by an innings while Warwick defeated Middlesex by ten wickets. By taking four
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    53 12 Budge Patty, the American from Paris (in grey jersey) and Frank Sedgman of Australia, finalists this year in the ivans singles championships at Wimbledon, walking on to the court to start their match. Patty beat Sedtrinan. who was favourite for the title, by 6—l,6 1, B—lo,8 10, 6—2,6 2, 6—36
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  • 276 12 KOK LEM WINS PENANG TENNIS From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Tuesday. pOON KOK LEM today successfully defended his men's singles title for the fourth consecutive year when he beat the former Singapore player, Robert Chia, in straight sets 6—3,6 3, 7—57 5 in the Penan*
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  • 40 12 LORD'S. Tues—The annual Inter-varsity cricket match between Cambridge and Oxford was drawn today. Seorpi in brief were: Cambridge 200 and 193 for 7 dec. (Stevenson not out 64). Oxford 169 and 122 for five (Carr 55).—Reuter.
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  • 40 12 SOCCER: Snr. lge: 8.0.D.C.A. v S.R.C. at Jalan Besar stadium: Jnr. B 2: Guard Dog Unit t Social AJ. at C.V.M.A.; TENNIS: V.M.C.A. and Tanglin Club tournments Icont.) SPORTS: Raffles' Girls' School sports at R.I. ground. 4 p.m.
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  • 430 12 "pEGMAR," Piccadilly (late I*(I Knight's Legend) and Keel 1 Rose, all in Class 1, have had no outstanding performances to I their credit In England— ln fact "Timeform" gave each of them a rating several points lower than 1 that of Pink Gin—
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  • 148 12 A MEETING to be held in the Singapore Cricket Club on Friday at 5.15 p.m. to discuss a proposed Singapore Society of Rugby Refrees has been convened by Mr. K. H. Cantrell. Formation of a society along the lines of the London Society of Referees will be
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  • 173 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. rrilE Selangor Club is to have a new experimental cricket pitch laid with a combined cement r.nd rubber material, and this will be the first pitch of its kind laid in the East. This type of pitch
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  • 226 12 RESULTS of tennis ties played in the Tannin club tournament yesterday. Men's Open Singles: Maj. R W 6-3. 8-6: Paul Clerc bt R. L. Griffiths 6-1. 6-2: G. T. Hollowav bt Lt. Col. H. N. C. Smith 6-1 6-0; P. H. Bayley bt K. E. HUborrie ti-i'
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  • 40 12 The Johore Bahru Rifle Association will hold a tourney on July 20 and 21 on the club's range at Kolani Ayer Road. Cups for the tourney have been offered by the Regent of Johore and Dato Dr. Paglar.
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