The Straits Times, 10 August 1950

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPEU: ESTABLISHED 1845 PRICE TEN CENTS. TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1950
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    YANKS' MOST SUCCESSFUL DAY
    279 1 Retreating Reds Shot By Comrades TOKYO, Wednesday. r THE American Eighth Army announced United Nations successes today on all fronts. Reds who had crossed the river in the T*aegu area were thrown back by South Koreans near Waegwan. A reliable front-line source said that when Reds
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    GOVT. RESIGNS
    11 1 COPENHAGEN, Wed Denmark's Socialist minority Government resigned today.— Reuter.
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    NEW LEGAL CHIEF
    23 1 Mil M. I. HOG AN, new Solicitor-<ieneral for the Federation, who arrived in Singapore yesterday by QEA-BOAC. Straits Times picture.
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    SCHOOLS' FATE: TALKS TODAY
    224 1 A DECISION or some definite announcement on the fate of the Singapore Chinese High School and the Nanyang Girls' High School is expected when the Singapore Executive Council meets today. Mr. Lee Kone Chlan, chair- nrin of the joint committee ot the two schools, told the
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    FLU VICTIM
    30 1 ADELPHI. Wed.— Mr. Pat rick Gordon -Walker, Britisl Secretary for Commonwealtl Relations, is suffering witl influenza and has had to cv Ins programme of visits It Australia. Reuter.
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    LANCASTERS IN 3rd NIGHT OP.
    47 1 IN their third night bombing operation since they arrived in Singapore last March, Lancasters of No. 100 Squadron pounded bandit positions in North Johnre tonight. The operation was in support of security forces in the area. (Other terror news in Page 5.)
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    92,375 Reds In Japan
    45 1 TOKYO, Wee 1 JAPAN has 92,375 registered Communists on July 31, according to figures compiled by the Attorney-General's Office. This figure was a drop of almost 16,000 in the Communist membership from the peak of 108,000 In Feb. this' year. Reuter.
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    Secret Papers On Atom Stolen
    133 1 LONDON, Wednesday. HPHE Daily Herald reported today that secret papers 1 on atomic energy had been stolen from an American scientist who has been working in the United States on Joint British-American Atomic Research. The theft occurred while the scientist, identified as F. W. Greentrees.
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    Ten Million Homeless
    90 1 HONQ KONG, Wed. A LMOST 10,000,000 persons In China's eastern proTince ot Anhwei have been made homeless by the area's worst flood In history. Chinese Communist newspaper reports reaching here said yesterday. The reports said flood waters of the Hual River and Its tributaries Inundated 28 villages
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    KOREANS ATTACK WOUNDED
    125 1 KOREANS ATTACK WOUNDED TOKYO, Wed. ITNITED Nations offl- cials here said today they were notifying Lake Success of at least two known instances of North Korean daylight attacks on "plainly marked" American ambulances. A United Nations official said attacks had been "verified" after on the .<=uot investigations Dy observers. Capt.
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    Gun Battle At Quemoy
    80 1 TAIPEH, Wed. PHINESE Nationalist gunners on Quemoy Island, off the Chinese mainland 300 miles north of Hong Kong, yesterday fought a duel with Communist batteries on the mainland for the second day running, a Nationalist Defence Ministry spokesman said here today. The Nationalists reported no casualties
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    U.S. HEIRESS TO HAVE BABY
    36 1 NEW YORK, Wed.— Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowskl. aged 26 who married 68-year-old conductor Leopold Stokowski five years ago, is expecting a baby. Gloria Inherited a $4,500 000 estate from her father. UP.
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    U.S. VICE-CONSUL ARRIVES
    68 1 MR. A. E. 1 AIT, who is to become U.S. vice-consul at Penang, on his arrival in Singapore by QEA-BOAC Constellation yesterday with his wife (centre) and Mrs. Ludkins, wife of the Consul designate. Mr. and Mrs. Tait came here from their honeymoon In Britain. He is
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    30 1 DR. VICTOR PURCELL, former Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Singapore on his arrival at Kallang. yesterday from Saigon. The ground hostess, Mrs. M. Smith, is seen giving him a message.
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    B-29's Wipe Out Second Target
    187 1 TOKYO, Wednesday. pi ANT American Super forts have scrubbed a second target from their black list. Their raid on marshalling I and munitions works in ;yang, capital of North l, on Aug. 7 and 8 was vastating "that it may iposslble to itemise or itc
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    THESE HAYSTACKS BLEW UP
    80 1 TOKYO, Wed. SECOND-Lieutenant Donold P. Streich of Oakland, California, was flying over South Korea in his jet tighter yesterday when he saw two haystacks in the middle of a road. No hayseed himself, he went c.r.vn for a closer look. The third time he went in
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    BRITISH CHIEF FOR KOREA
    63 1 TOKYO, Wed.— Maj-Gen. Sir Horace Robertson, Com-mander-in-Chlef, British Commonwealth Occupation Forces, will fly to Korea tomorrow to visit advanced bases from which Australian Mustang fighters are staging and operating. It will be Gen. Robertson's first visit to Korea where no British ground forces are yet committed.
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    WALLACE QUITS
    23 1 NEW YORK, Wed.— Mr. Henry Wallace yesterday left his Progressive Party because of its Communist-line stand on the Korean war. U.P.
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    FIRMS WANT GODOWN GUARDS
    126 1 UORE than 50 European firms In Singapore have told the Singapore Chamber of Commerce that they want to employ armed constables to guard godowns and ware* houses under the new police scheme. The Deputy Commissioner of Police. Mr. W. J. Parks, told the Straits Times yesterday,
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    U.S. ACCUSES RUSSIA AT LAKE SUCCESS
    343 1 U.S. ACCUSES RUSSIA AT LAKE SUCCESS LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday. r pHE United States last night charged the Soviet Union with obstructing the majority's will on the Korean question, and said the Security Council will be stalled for the remainder of August if these tactics continue. The Soviet delegate, Mr. Jakob
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    Rediffusion Union Chief To Explain
    168 1 ]y|R. d. n. booth, i reddent of the Singapore RedifTusion Employees' Union, which is now on strike, will tell "all the facts" c locem ing the dispute on Saturday in the British Council Hall, whore local trade union leaders will meet the International Confederation of
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    Kwangtung Floods
    25 1 HONG KONG. Wed.— Th« New China News^Aeeney reported today thiU^lai-R"' areas in K\vanr>t/.ins were flooded following dyke breaches punched by rain-swollen rivers. U.P.
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    N.AMERICA PLANS WAR INDUSTRY
    123 2 N.AMERICA PLANS WAR INDUSTRY OTTAWA, Wed. Fmap out a Joint industrial blueprint for war Panada and the United States met Industrial planners from today to approve principles which, It is expected, will release millions af dollars worth to American var orders to Canadian factories. The meeting was the f rst
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    22 CHINESE IN P.I. ARRESTED
    48 2 MANILA, Wed.— ln a sudden raid In Manila's Chinatown, Philippine Constabulary Investigators arrested 22 Chinese suspected of having been smuggled into the country recently. The Chinese claimed that, they were old residents of the city but could not show proper entry papers. UP.
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    CUTTER GOES TO AID OF SHIP
    55 2 NEW YORK. Wed.— The U. 3. coast guard Cutter Dexter Is alongside the Belfri, reported earlier yesterday to be in d'.fficultles off Newfoundland. The crew of the Belfri is trying to make repairs with nvire and concrete. Although tier pumps are working clay teeps
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    RUDE?-GIRL, 6, POINTS TO JUDGE
    39 2 ADELAIDE, Wednesday. I NTRAL figure in a police action here, a six-year-old girl was asked to indicate the man in court who had been rude to her. Unhesitatingly, she pointed to the magistrate. Reuter-A.A.P.
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    No 'Confidence' In AEC Chief, Quits
    287 2 Cable Flashes WASHINGTON, Wednesday. MR. Carrol L. Wilson resigned as general manager of the Atomic Energy Commission yesterday with the blunt explanation that he lacks "confidence" in its new chairman, Mr. Gordon Dean. Mr. Wilson Issued a state- 1 ment in which he deplored
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    ESCORT FOR H.R.H.
    47 2 FRIENDS of Princess Margaret say that her favourite escort is now 26-year-old Mr. William Wallace. He is the son of a former Minister of Transport, who died in 1941. His mother is the daughter of Sir Edwin Lutyens, who designed the Cenotaph. A.P. picture.
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    REDS MOVE ON TIBET
    70 2 LONDON Wed. No confirmation was available in London yesterday of reports that Chinese armies are now advancing toward the Tibetan borders. Well-informed quarters say that the Western Powers have for some time recognised that they are not In a position to offer effective military aid to
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      473 2 NOTICES "notice NOTICE is hereby given that JEAN GERASIMOB TIPALJDOB of Flat No 37 Cathay Building. Singapore, to applying to the Governor for naturalisation, and that any person who knows any reasons why naturalisation should not be granted should send a written and signed statement of the facts to the
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    FREE EUROPE TOLD 'BEWARE'
    255 3 France Wants United Army STRASBOURG, Wednesday. CUCCESSIVE speakers warned the European Assembly yesterday that the free nations of Europe must face the threat of possible Russian aggression. The French Socialist leader, M. Andre Philip, made a call for the creation of a European army financed by
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    Mecca Ban For Health
    116 3 KAHAt'HI, Wed. I^HE ban on Pakistani pil- grims to Mecca was imposed at the request of Egypt, Syed Abdul Hamid el Khatib, Saudi Arabian Minister, told a Press conference here. He said the ban would dc lifted as soon as the Wor'ri Health Organisation informed his
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    U.K. TORIES PLANCOAL, IRON POOL
    111 3 STRASBOURG. Wed. BRITISH Conversatives toauy countered the French S( human plan for pooling f-al steal with .i project to put those industries In the hands of the Council of Europe. The Conservat ive proposal ■owled^ed its deb; to the Sr human plan, but 'he scheme
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    LEOPOLD LAW POSTPONED
    195 3 BRUSSELS. Wed -Belgian Sorilists yesterday agreed to a one-day postponement in the passage of a law to strip King Leopold of his royal powers. The Chamber of Deputi".-; agreed to this timetable for the transfer of royal powers to 19-year-o':d Crown Prince Baudouin: Today the Deputies were
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    HUKS SLAY VICE-MAYOR
    136 3 MANILA. Wed. HuKbalaliap raiders on Monday night killed the Vice-Mayor, Sixto Guerra, and seven members of his household at Ibeah. Batangas Province, according to reports. Near Cabanatuan, Nueve Bclja Province, a constabulary patrol reported slaying two Huks in a band of 50. Three constabulary men were wounded
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    'TIGHTEN ESPIONAGE LAWS'—TRUMAN
    160 3 'TIGHTEN ESPIONAGE LA WS' TRUMAN WASHINGTON, Wednesday. PRESIDENT TRUMAN yesterday asked Congress to tighten up laws covering espionage and sabotage. Congress, in this time of "international tension", he said, should re-examine the need for more workable laws to protect the United States In a 3,000 word message, he recommended that
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    DEATH BAN
    14 3 I JERUSALEM, Wed. The Israeli Parliament .ia$ abolished the death penalty AP.
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    INDIAN PILOTS TO FLY VAMPIRES HOME
    130 3 LONDON, Wed. about Aug 23. CIX Indian Air Force pilots Indian's allocation is said arrived in London today to be the biggest granted to to fly back the first of the 39 any Asian country by Britain. Jet Vampire fighters India haa The Indian
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    PRECISION BOMBING
    68 3 KE POL'RS upward from the North Korean oil rennery at Womon after planes of the U.S. Seventh fleet bombed it. The smoke could be seen 68 miles at sea. A.P. radio picture. i>.viuivt. nil us upward lrom tnr Nortn Korean on refinery at Won Son after planes of
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    75,000 More For Jap Police
    174 3 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. GENERAL DOUGLAS MAC ARTHUR disclosed yes- terday that he has taken steps to strengthen Japan's defences by adding 75,000 reserves to the Japanese police force. He said that he would order additional recruitments in the home guard police force "if the situation requires."
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    HERRIMAN FLIES BACK TO U.S.
    120 3 TOKYO. Wed— President Truman's special assistant, Mr. Averell Harriman left by plane -for the United States yesterday after visiting the Korean battlefront and conferring here with Gen. MacArthur. Gen. Mac Arthur was said to have told Mr. Harriman that American prestige has risen in Asia
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    PAKISTAN TRADE
    26 3 KARACHI, Wed.— The FaI kistan Government hus set up a foreign trade development j council to bring about closer I association between businessmen andthegovermnent^^^
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    CROSS-CHANNEL TWO GIVE UP CLOSE TO SHORE
    127 3 CROSS-CHANNEL TWO GIVE UP CLOSE TO SHORE DOVER. Wed. rO men failed yesterday in attempts to swim the English channel. 24 hours after a 31-year-old American girl had set a new record of 13 hours 23 minutes for the i crossing. Alberto Abertonodo of Argentina gave up after 25 hours
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    Flood Death Toll Rises
    87 3 MANILA. Wed.— The death toll in floods sweeping the Central Luzon provinces in the past fortnight rose to 10 with a report that a woman teacher and two companions were drowned while trying to cross a swollen river. Five more people were believed to have been
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    MENZIES ARRIVES IN OTTAWA
    47 3 OTTAWA. Wed— The Australian Prime Minister. M.-\ Robert G. Menzies, has arrived in Ottawa on his first visit since 1948. Mr. Menzies was received by Field Marshal Viscount Alexander, the GovernorGeneral, Mr. Lester B. Pearson, External Affairs Minister, and other Cabinet Ministers. Reuter.
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    GANG HELD ON FORGERY CHARGE
    42 3 HONG KONG Wed.— Th<Netherlands Consulate here with the aid of local police, has cracked down on a gang believed to have been forgina Dutch visas. Five persons, suspected ol forging visas, have been d»»talned by police.— A.P.
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    Cease-fire Arranged In Macassar
    202 3 JAKARTA, Wednesday. FIE Defence Ministry announced late last night that a cease-fire has been arranged in the fighting between former members of the Dutch Colonial Army (KNIL) and Indonesian guerillas at Macassar. The cease-fire, which came into force immediately, was arranged by Major-General L. J. Scheffelaar,
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    GordonWalker, On Tour, Sick
    58 3 ADELAIDE, Wed. ■MR. PATRICK GordonWalker, Secretary for Commonwealth Relations, was not well enough to attend a State Government dinner arranged in his honour last night. The rest of his Australian goodwill tours may have to be curtailed. Stncc arriving in Sydney on July 31, he has
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    'PAY HEED TO MR. NEHRU' SAYS TIMES
    267 3 LONDON, Wednesday. fHE Times yesterday urged the United States and Britain to give close attention to the words of the Indian Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, on Asian problems. "Mr. Nehru, by reason both of his own character and of the power of India,
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    SIR OWEN TO SEE NEHRU
    90 3 KARACHI, Wed. CIR Owen Dixon is flying: today to New Delhi to meet Pandit Nehru with Pakistan's reactions to India's offer of solving the Kashmir issue. Pakistan has made her own offer for which Sir Owen wants India's reactions. United Nations circles in Karachi believe
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    SHELL PROFIT
    42 3 NEW YORK. Wed.— Th:Shell Oil Co. has reporter; earnings of U.S. $17,418,296 equal to U. 5.1.29 a share, for the second quarter ol 1950. This compares with U5516,119,622 or US$l.2O a share, for the June anart"' of last year.— A.P
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    U.S. MISSION TO SEE UNITS IN FEDERATION
    302 4 U.S. MISSION TO SEE UNITS IN FEDERATION If EMBERS of the United States Military Aid Survey Mission for South-East Asia, which is at present 'in Singapore, will visit security force units fighting the Communists in the Federation. This was slated at a Singapore Press conference yesterday by one of the
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    Devonshire Course For Govt. Men
    116 4 Devonshire Course For Govt. Men THREE Singapore Government officers are taking the administrative officers' course in Britain this year. Of these, two are taking the second Devonshire course for experienced administrative officers. They are Mr. M. C. Compton, Principal Assistant Financial Secretary, who left for U.K. last Saturday, and Mr.
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    4 On Drugs Charge
    98 4 THREE Chinese. Ho Ah Guk, Tay Ah Yeow and Lim Teck Hock, claimed trial in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to being found in a house in Upper Weld Road, for deleterious drugs to be administered to them on Aug. 8. Bail of $300 each
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    OBSCENE PHOTOS CHARGE
    45 4 Phua Cheng Seng claimed trial in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to possessing 29 obscene photographs and materials for producing them on Aug. 8. Bail of $300 was allowed I until the rase comes up for i hearing on Aug. 23.
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    U.S. SURVEY MISSION
    40 4 MR. J. 11. MELBY, leader of the United States surrey mission, (left) with the director of th« United States Information Service, Mr. W. H. Lawrence (centre) and the Press officer, Mr. J. J. Halsema. Straits Tirrrs picture.
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    'Americans Realise They Can't Be Isolated'
    236 4 Americans Realise They Can't Be Isolated' GEN. DOOLITTLE IN SINGAPORE [JEN. JAMES DOOLITTLE, leader of the Tokyo bombing raid, said in Singapore yesterday, that the people of America realised that the U.S. was intimately tied-in with everything going on in the world, whether it was in Malaya, Indonesia or Korea.
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    Tribute By Court
    113 4 I From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Wed TRIBUTE was paid this! j 1 morning by the President of the Sessions Court. Mr. W B. Sutherland, to the late Mr i Ec Yue Peng, .senior Chinese Interpreter, who died yeste» day. The court stood in silence for
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    CRADLE TO GRAVE -AND THEN SOME
    67 4 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wed. 'THE Penang Municipality offers more than the "cradle to grave" services of the Socialist State, Mr. H. G. Hammett, the Municipal president, told Rotarians today. "We undertake to look after you in our ante-natal clinics before you are
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    '5 TIMES AS MUCH TO LIVE'
    225 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. INDIAN officer of the Department of Co-opera-tion estimates that a labourer would have to spond $50 a month now for a stand- i ard of living that cost him 1 $10 before the war. This is stated
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    Retrial Is Ordered
    121 4 A RETRIAL was ordered by the Chief Justice. Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, yesterday. In an appeal by Ang Telk Leong against an order made against him In the Civil District Court for the payment of $110 a month as maintenance for his wife, Tan Tin, and her child.
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    KALLANG AIRPORT ARRIVALS
    384 4 nnHE following passengers were x among those who arrived at Kallang airport yesterday from points outside Malaya on the various air services. Passengers in transit art not Included in the list. Q.E A. -8.0.AC From London: Messrs. N. C. Man Kit. K. Tang, M. J. Hogan, D.
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    July Rubber Exports Biggest Since 1937
    210 4 July Rubber Exports Biggest Since 1937 \/lALAYA in July ex11 ported the largest amount of rubber in a single month since 1937. From Singapore and Federation ports 101.929 tons were shipped. This was an increase of 25.331 tons over June exports, and brought the to'al rubber exported from Malaya, this
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    MUSICIANS UNION OFFICIALS
    69 4 The officers of the Musicians, Union of Singapore lor the current year are: President, Mr. N. TebnefT; vice--president, Mr. G. Soliano: hon. secretary, Mr H. Alexander; honorary asst. secretary. Mr. T. Mac. hon. treasurer. Mr. S. Stephen; committee. Mean, L. A. Curtiss. A. Martin. C. Bosilo. F\
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    Friend Of Internees Goes On Leave
    491 4 MR. H. Schweizer, manager for Malaya of Diethelm and Co., Ltd., Singapore, left Singapore aboard the Maetsuycker yesterday for Australia on leave before retiring after nearly 30 years here Mr. Schweizer will be remembered by thousands of former prisoners of war and internees who
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    SENT TO PRISON
    29 4 Fiom Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Wed. Low Choon, aged 55, charged in the Segamat Sessions Court with possession of chandu wm sentenced to six days gaol.
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    WIFE'S STORY IN MURDER CASE
    437 5 ''Lover Standing By Husband's Dead Body 9 AN attractive 23-year-old Chinese woman told the Singapore Relief Court yesterday that half-an-hour after her lover and her husband had Rone out for a talk, she saw her lover standin? beside her husband's dead body. The woman, Tan
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    Radio H.Q. Stone-laying Ceremony
    108 5 Radio H.Q. Stone-laying Ceremony 'PHE foundation stone of the new $484,000 two-storey headquarters for Radio Malaya in Thomson Road will be laid by the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, on Friday v c k at 6 p.m. The np \v headquarters, which will bo the most up-to-date in Asia., will be
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    S'PORE HOLIDAY INSPECTORS
    55 5 The following have been appointed Inspectors under I' the Weekly Holidays Ordinance nf Singapore: Messrs Chan Kok Mm. Wong Chee: Fong, Lam AhKal. Kwek Beck Heng. Lee Ah Weng, A. Nadcsan, Anwar Ibrahim. ing Tee Pow. Phua Poh Lim, M ('oomarasamy. C. Sreedh- •ran Nair and" Miss
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    SUCCESSFUL
    33 5 Mr. Tan Ng Seng and Mr. I Ong Teng Lum, employees of i the Oversea-Chinese Bank- i: Ing Corporation, have passed 1 the final examination of the Institute of Bankers, Lon- j
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    On Way To New Life
    63 5 MRS. MARY MARTIMNI and Mrs. Galia Falchia. two White Russian women married to Italian officers of the pre-war Italian luxury liner. Conte Verdi, which was scuttled in Shanghai during the war. who left for a "new life" in Australia on the Maetsuyker yesterday, a few
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    3 Bandits Killed, Station Burnt
    274 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. TMIREE bandits were shot dead in Perak yesterday and a shotgun, a pistol and some ammunition were recovered. This morning bandits burnt a railway station in Trengganu «"d stnl* riot* and supar. In KELANTAN yesterday the body of
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    JUDGMENT IS RESERVED
    82 5 THE Singapore Second Dis1 trict Judge, Mr. Tan Ah Tah, reserved judgment at the conclusion of the hearing yesterday of a case in which a woman, Teo Ah Toh, was charged with, possessing 164 lb. of opium at Kampong Heap Guan San on Apr. 11. Mr. J.
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    DUTY NOT PAID
    32 5 For possessing 1,441 dutiable cigarettes and half a pound of dutiable cheroots. Abdul Majeed bin Ismail of Allenby Road, was fined $50 in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday.
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    Jeep Ambush Victim Named
    63 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. POLICE cadet officer Douglas Alston Craig was the officer killed yesterday in Perak when bandits ambushed a jeep in which he was travelling. Mr. Craig served 15 years in the British Army and was a warrant officer class one,
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    PHYSICIAN IS CLEARED ON HURT CHARGE
    386 5 PHYSICIAN IS CLEARED ON HURT CHARGE VTEO Swee Hong, aged 46, a physician, was yesterday 1 acquitted after a three days' hearing on a charge of voluntarily causing hurt to Khoo Soo Thuan, a footballer, at a garage in Eng Watt Street at midnight on Mar. 9. It was alleged
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    HURT CHARGE
    46 5 B. Krishnan claimed trial jin the Singapore Fourtii i Police Court yesterday to a charge of voluntarily causing hurt to another Indian, T. Krishnan, in Sembawahg Road, on Aug. 8. The rase comes up for hearinj on Sept. 13. Bail of $200 was allowed.
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    SHB Cargo Volume All-Time Record
    209 5 tHDR the year ended June 30, 1950, the Singapore Harbour Board handled 4,061,961 tons of cargo, an all-time record, according to the latest statistics of the Board's Traffic Department. The number of vessels which berthed alonside the wharves during this period, although not an all-time
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    TAX RETURNS DISPUTED
    79 5 A CTIOX in several cases has been taken by the Income Tax Department against persons whose assessment forms entries have been found to be incompatible with the real facts. A spokesman of the Department told this to the Straits Times yesterday He added that all these cases
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    THREE WOMEN ARRESTED: 200 'STRIKE'
    113 5 THREE WOMEN ARRESTED: 200 'STRIKE' THREE Chinese women labourers in the Mi-chelin-Tyres godown in Kirn Yam Road were arrested on Tuesday following the finding of two Communist posters, written in Chinese, in the women's cloak room at the godown earlier in the morning. The arrest produced a protest from about
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    $500,000 T.B. Clinic For S'pore
    203 5 THE Singapore Anti-Tuber-culosis Association is hoping to have its $500,000 clinic and treatment centre in Telok Ayer Basin ready for use by January next year. Mr. C.L. Edwards, chairman of the Association, toid the Straits Times that plans had been drawn up but he was
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    TWO WOMEN REMANDED
    60 5 nPWO Chinese women, Soh Onn, 51, and Soo Ah Nia, 33, claimed trial in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to a chars? of living off the earnings of prostitution between July 11 and Aug. 8. They also claimed trial to a second charge of assisting in
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    82 5 i Ni 1 VEAK-OI.l) Miss J inn Cane was flown out from her mother's home in Surrey under an arrangement by the War Office in an effort to save the life of her brother, Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant Richard P. Cane of the 4th, Queen's Own Hussars. He was seriously wounded
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    Today's S'pore Diary....
    89 5 RED CROSS OLD PFOPLE'S CLUB, Wesley Hall. Fort Canning. 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. CHINESE Y.M.CJV.. Selegie Road, badminton, S p.m., basketball, 5.30 p.m.. body-building class. 7- p.m., table-tennis. 8 p.m.. Mandarin Bible study. 8 p.m. Y.W.C.A.. Raffles Quay, Malay tranced class, 5.15 p.m. V.M.C.A.. Orchard Road,
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    53 6 MRS ARNOLD of Romford. •<> th;ink iilt tho^e \>!u> MTit floral tributes and attinderi the funeral of her brother Hi bt e Mr. Chirles Short. MRS I PARKER, nnd daughter wish to th;mk all their i tor ;h<>ir kind me^ages of sympathy ind for their floral tribute* r.n trip
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Thur. Aug. 10, 1950. The Malay Girl
    637 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thur. Aug. 10, 1950. The Malay Girl Illiterate girls make ignorant mothers and ultra-conser- vative grandmothers. There are about 151,000 Malay boys in school in the Federation, but only 81,000 Malay girls. That is a position which must cause concern to all who realise what enlightened
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    The Covenant Of Human Rights
    462 6 In "On The Margin" yesterday our columnist commented on a letter from a Penang reader which praised a broadcast on the "Bill of Human Rights" heard in a "Voice of America"' programme. Both that letter and our columnist's comments were illustrations of the fact that
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    Culture For The Teacher
    710 6 CHEONG HOCK HAI stresses the importance of general cultural subjects in the new Training College for English school teachers in Cairnhill Road, Singapore the first college of its kind to be opened in Malaya. A group of the first trainees, taken by a Straits Times photographer,
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      Maria Hertogh's Marriage: A Muslim View
      447 6 A RISING from your editorial of Aug. 5 headed "A rt Wedding," I should like to say that there are Muslim countries which, very long before Israel, prohibited the marriage of girls, Muslim or nonMuslim, under 16 years of age. Among such countries is
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      FROM A MALAY
      130 6 YOUR leader of Aug. 5 setting out the facts of the Hertogh marriage was very commendably written and, without doubt, expressed the opinion of almost all educated people of every community in Malaya, including the Malays. The issues of the case as to who should be Maria's
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      AN INDIAN VIEW
      274 6 I HAVE followed aghast the controversy on Maria Hertogh which was climaxed by this small girl's marriage. I congratulate the Straits Times for its bold, unbiased editorial on the subject xm Aug. 5. Right-thinking people will also join me In endorsing the views expressed in a letter
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    On the Margin
    397 6 The Wali APART from all othe'- considerations In the Muria Hertcgh case, there Is one particular point which is causing uneasiness among those who are familiar with Muslim marriage customs as followed In the Malay community. Under Islamic law every bride must have a guardian (Wall), who
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      275 6 RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION The chemical industry is the keystone of national production. Without a vigorous and efficiently organised chemical industry production would suffer almost at once, alike in factory and in field Without constant supplies of chemicals che staple industries of Great Bnta n could not continue. Coal, iron and
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    CONSULATE TALKS ON MARIA CASE
    424 7 CONSULATE TALKS ON MARIA CASE 'Legal Action Being Taken Spokesman A FINAL conference was held yesterday between a representative of the Dutch Consulate and lawyers representing the parents of Maria, the young Dutch girl who last week married 22-year-old Malay school teacher, Inche Al Mansor Adabi. For six days now,
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    'A Challenge To Justice Of Britain'
    150 7 LONDON, Wed. TVJE Daily Express said in an editorial today "Two humble people of Bergen-op Zoom in Holland challenge the justice of Britain in the name of all parents. "They are Janus Hertogh and his wife, who, in Indonesia, handed over their small daughter,
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    NADRA'S HUSBAND REPLIES
    439 7 NADRA'S HUSBAND REPLIES THHE letter by Mr. A. Cor-vin-Romanski and the editorial comments made below the said letter in the issue of the Straits Times of Wednesday has come to my notice and I think it is my duty to make certain things clear to the public, although, I myself
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    Two To Get Damages
    80 7 JUDGMENT for the owners J of two taxis which were dimaged by a lorry while they wefe parked in Jalan Besar. was given by Mr. Justice Evans in the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday. The two owners, Ng Ah Seng and Chew Ah Seng, who were represented
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    TWO CONNIES IN ONE MINUTE
    41 7 Two Constellations landed within a minute at Kallang airport, Singapore, yesterday afternoon. The QANTAS aircraft from London was on the taxi-track on Its way to the terminal building as the BOAC aircraft from Sydney touched down.
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    Hospital Concert
    22 7 Mr. and Mrs. Otto Foorman •will give a poncert at the British Military Hospltar at 7.30 pan. on Aug. 20.
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    COMPENSATION FOR AIK HOE WORKERS
    104 7 I>UBBER workers— men and women of the Aik Ho Rubber Factory. Singapore, who are still unemployed will receive their compensation from the management on Friday. Bach will receive a month's i I month's food allowance and $25 for loss of proP' f V This was
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    TALK ON YOGA
    31 7 There will be a public lecture on •Psychology in Science and in Yoga" at 6.30 p.m. today at 8. Cairnhill Road, under the auspices of Singapore Theosophical Society.
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    Thefts And Robberies Up In July
    157 7 Thefts And Robberies Up In July FIGURES of thefts and armed robberies in SingaI pore which were below the j average for June, rose again in July, but there was a sharp decrease in the number of housebreakings. Statistics issued by the Sini gapore C.I.D. yesterday show I that there
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    First Trip To S'pore
    78 7 For 21 Boys 'TWENTY -ONE Malay boys and four girls of the Government English School, Johore Bahru, made their first trip to Singapore yesterday afternoon in a truck. The children, all under 13. also paid a visit to Kallang airport, and were thrilled at the sight
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    NO PERMITS: $70
    30 7 For entering the Singapore I Harbour Board without perimits two Chinese were fined $35 each by Mr. P. Claque in the Singapore Third Police I Court yesterday.
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    Loans To 'Camps' Scaled Down
    283 7 MAXIMUM OF 75 PER CENT A MAXIMUM of three-quarters of loans made by internees during the Japanese occupation to the internment camp fund at Sime Road, Singapore, after the 1943 "Double Tenth" will be refunded by the Singapore and Federation Governments, says an official statement
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    5-Day Camp For S.V.C.
    87 7 'THE Singapore Volunteer Corps (Liaison Regiment) will hold a combined Corps camp at Neesoon for five days, beginning Aug. 25. Making this announcement, the Commanding Officer of the Corps, Lt.-Col. H.J. Ra«\ has asked all members to make every effort to attend the camp, even if
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    Passing-out Parade
    74 7 SEVENTY-ONE recruits of the R.A.F. Regiment of Malaya will feature in a pass-ing-out parade at Changi at 8.30 this morning. The salute will be taken by the Air Officer Commanding. Malaya, Air Vice-Marshal jF. J. W. Mellersh. The recruits will go off on 14 days' leave immediately after
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    KNOCKED DOWN
    28 7 A 15-year old Malay boy, Awang bin Sabi, cycling along Dunearn Road yesterday evening, was knocked down by a R.N. car. H© was admitted to hospital.
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    UNION IMPOSES LEVY FOR 'FIGHTING FUND'
    136 7 Civil Service Association canteen to discuss the implementation of the Benham salary scales and "all other aspects affecting the interests of the clerical services." (COLLECTION for the "Fighting Fund" to secure "fair living wages and other legitimate privileges" for members of the Singapore Government
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    APPEAL ALLOWED
    38 7 An appeal by Tan Soon Chwee against a prison term of one month for alleged fraudulent possession of 46 catties of coffee beans and a tin of margarine, was allowed in the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday.
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    Hid Opium In Car Door
    62 7 A YOUNG Chinese. Kang Kirn Poh, was sentenced to 20 months' imprisonment in the Singapore Second District Court yesterday for possessing 28 lb. of opium in a car at Woodlands on July 19. Leong; Peng Kee. driver of the car, was acquitted The opium was
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    NINE YEARS' GAOL FOR S'PORE RED
    324 7 NINE YEARS' GAOL FOR S'PORE RED A WELL-DRESSED 28-year-old labourer living v. Malay Street was yesterday sentenced to a total of nine years' imprisonment by Mr. H. E. Kingdon, the Singapore First District Judge, on three charge* of assisting in the management of unlawful societies. He was Chan Hong Meng
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    FREE SHOW
    30 7 A free cinema show arranged by the Tiong Bahru Community Centre for the public will be held today at 7.15 p.m. on the playground behind Eng Watt- Street.
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    NO LID: $5.50
    26 7 For failine to provide a metal cover for her dustbin, a Chinese woman was fined $5.50 in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday
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    ...AND A LETTER FROM ESTHER SAYS 'THANKS'
    134 7 ...AND A LETTER FROM ESTHER SAYS 'THANKS' SUSAN LIM. a 17-year-old Singapore schoolgirl (left), is the proud owner of a letter from the well-known actress. Esther Williams. Susan had sent Miss Williams a gift a beau- > tiful sarong some months ago, and she received her letter last Friday. The
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    MALAYAN REDS 'DIFFERENT'
    298 8 'Minority Trying To Impose Will On Majority 9 A DISTINCTION should be made between A what is happening in China and what is happening in Malaya, Dr. Victor Purcell, former acting Secretary of Chinese Affairs in Malaya, said on his arrival in Singapore yesterday. "In China you
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    MONEY DOWN THE DRAIN'
    108 8 MONEY DOWN THE DRAIN' Kmm Our St.ifT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Wed AN application by a dls charged prisoner for a $000 loan to t-nable him t«' produce a "show" in Kuala Lumpur was turned down by the Selangor State Welfare Committee today. A representative of the Pr. suns Department said
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    BOYS CLUB OFFICERS
    58 8 O, the Prine? Edv aid Ra4fcßoys' Club for the VH are: President^ Johv Koh: viee-rr.-sident. bin Check Sian: n-tnrv, Chan Kam Yang; "'A" j-.tain. .Jihiny Koh; Sports captain. Ho Hay Cr.wce; Chan Kuni Yong. B" Hoire captln, Chan Kum Yong: Sport* cr-Dtain. Benedict Jodbi: "C House- captain.
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    Johore Bahru Funeral
    47 8 JOHORE BAHRU, WedTh 1 funeral took place yesterday of Inrhe Manap bin Buyong. Assistant Registrar of the Sessions Court, Johoro Bahru. at the cemetery Included Mr. W.B. Sutherland, President of the us Court, as well as affi of the Supreme. Sessions and Magistrates' Court*
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    173 ACCIDENTS
    26 8 KUAI INHERE were 173 road ace month in which seven in.iur-d. \--i'ordins to statistics t: Advisory Committee meetin: <>l (lie arridrnts alcohol oi A
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    'Punishment Must Be Substantial'
    163 8 'Punishment Must Be Substantial' THE penalty for keeping a brothel must be substantial, said the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murrayi Aynsley, yesterday, when he dismissed an appeal by a Chinese woman. Yong Ah Wee, against sentence of four months for allowing her I house to be used for prostitution. i
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    IN K.L IN JULY
    38 8 i.irt Correspondent I A I IMPLR. Wednesday. i dents in Kuala Lumpur last people were killed and 46 a bled at the Municipal Traffic I today, animals caused three ne. cyclists 22 and pedestrians
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    Case Transferred To Singapore
    73 8 i From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Atan bin Ahmat. of Parit Sulong. Batu Pahat, was charged in the Johore Bahru Sessions Court today with theft in Singapore on June 4 of a gold ring and scene clothing valued at $61. the property of Lagris
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    ENGAGEMENT CELEBRATED
    34 8 MR. LAI KIM FAH and Miss Tham Quee Sake cave a tea party to their friends on Monday at the Capitol Blue Room to celebrate their eng ajement.— Y. C. Lee picture.
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    'DEBT WIDESPREAD AMONG MIDDLE-CLASS'
    222 8 'DEBT WIDESPREAD AMONG MIDDLE-CLASS From Our Staf KUALA I "^IGNS are not wanting amongst middle-class at all levels of salaries' Co-operation, Mr. T. F. C for last year issued this Contributary factors Mr Carey says, are: Shortages of staple foodstuffs of their customary family diets which made it necessary for
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    A.P. ACQUITTED
    42 8 j From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Wed One; Ing Chuan. an auxiliary policeman of Layang Layang. was acquitted in the High Court today ty Mr. Justice Storr on a charge of being !in possession of explosive* without, a permit
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    TELECOM. WHITLEY COUNCIL
    131 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. THE Telecommunications Department is now ready to form a Whitley Council of its own. Rules will be drafted and the constitution will be signed at Its first meeting to be held on Aug. 14, when matters of interest to both
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    BOMBED SITE MAY BE LEASED
    125 8 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wed. THE bombed site of Penang's pre-war Government offli ces, outside the Harbour Board gates, may shortly be I leased by Government. The Collector of Land Revenue, Mr. R. H. L. Peel. told the Straits Times today that Government might
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    REDS BOAST: 'WE CAUSED AIK HOE FIRE'
    262 8 npHE Malayan Communis pamphlet issued as Freedom News on July certain "gallant comrades i Corps" who set fire to ar Rubber Factory. Disclosing this yesterd Deputy Commissioner of C Press statement that "so ruffian who destroys the perty. and who robs them their
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    DISCHARGED
    40 8 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed A. B. John who was charged with riding an unlicensed bicycle, was cautioned and discharged after he explained that he was on his way to obtain the licence when he was arrested.
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    UNION OFFICER
    33 8 MR. NG Kirn Scan?, a-mem-ber of the Federation Police Clerical Service, who hus been appointed Chinese Trade Union Officer in the Trade Union Adviser's Department at Kuala laimpur. Straits Times picture
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    'Turko' Appeal For September
    60 8 'Turko' Appeal For September T"HE appeal lodged by tha Government of 'hr Rppublic of the United Slates of Indonesia against th^ judgment of Mr Justice Evans in the Singapore Supreme Court granting "Tuiko" Westerlin? an Order of Prohibition to stop the continuation of th.; extradition proceedings against him will probabl/
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    1325 9 CONTINUING THE ADVENTURES AT SEA OF A WOMAN AND HER TWO CHILDREN IN THE YEAR 1841 gUNDAY, 9th.— Last night was the most miserable one I ever spent; it rained and blew with great violence through the whole night. Mr. Dainty and myself had to keep watch
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    In Your Garden
    364 9  -  fCeoun QI have an old Canna bed which for years has never been really good. I have planted frequently and given it plenty of manure and compost, but it never seems to pive a really good show of flowers. Can you please tell me what is wrong?
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      238 9 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD mm 13 Thi. dot «u i lot of CROSSWORD No. 136 I Boring exercise* (81 «jrmpathy i I I I I. I Ufetbt I I I <» I l« 1 4 A Scott Christian name 14. Co »way 3) I H K Flock, of wild geete <»>
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    London Stocks
    341 10 LONDON. Wed. AFTER a slow start to the new account, in which rubber shares displayed the the London Stock Exchange only real activity, interest on broadened as the day progressed to show a wide range of improvements by the close. There was a broadening of interest in tin
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    'EVIDENT NEED OF PRICE CONTROL'
    231 10 MR. VV.M. WARREN ON TIN: From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. TIN price movements of the past month should 1 provide ample evidence in support of the need for some machinery to prevent violent price variations arising from .circumstances such as those now being
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    111 10 From A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE dealers attribute the steadily rising price of copra to buying demands from London agents of manufacturers in Germany. A quiet tone prevailed In the coconut oil section. Prices (per plcui) quoted yesterday in the Singapore Chinese Produc* Exchange were: Gambler, rough slices
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    Shipping Alongside And In The Roads
    150 10 CHIPS in the Singapore Outer and Inner Roads and alongside Harbour Board godowns yesterday were: Outer ROads: Hai Hsuan Gornzavodsk, Ribnovsk, Grenoble M. Brander Rajula Orbita. Inner Roads: Hftlvdan. Kotanica, Katong. MenUkab, Batoebahru. Grenadier. Darvel, Bruas, Hua Heng, Seroei. Kenong. Senai. Van den Brook.
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    TIN PRICES
    32 10 SINGAPORE. Wed., Aug. 9—***** S378 (up $4,124 to a new record). LONDON. Wed.. Auk. 9 Spot: £776— £777; Forward. £762— £764; Settlement. £776. Turnover: Morning:. 175 tons, afternoon. 130 tons.
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    Tin Shares Favoured
    140 10 From A Market Correspondent FERE was a slight tendency in favour of Tins in the Malayan share market yesterday. General conditions remained rather quiet. Rubbers showed little change. Industrials were mainly steady Price changes announced yesterday by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: INDUSTRIALS Berera Sellers Fraser A
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    Hong Kong Exchange
    29 10 HONG KONG. Wed. riREE market currency exchange for Hong Kong dollars was quoted today as follows: US$l. HK$6.3l: £1. HK515.65; one tael nf gold HKS3I4— UP.
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    Rubber At $1.48 1/2
    249 10 OUBBER prices plunged again In Singapore yesterday when sellers converged on the market. The lowest level, $1.32 a lb., was touched an hour after opening. The market recovered slightly, and by noon thesprice was slightly higher, standing at $1.41. 30 cents below Tuesday's noon level. Some
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    TIN OUTPUTS IN JULY
    68 10 KUALA Ldumpur Tin in July treated 1 51. 760 cubic yards in 1.011 hours to produce 613 piculs of tin-ore. "pONGKAH Compound's July 1 figure* were 468 hours. 89,041 cubic yards. 225 piculs of ore. I^ONGKAH Compound No. 2 pro1 duced 845 piculs in July after
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    EURASIANS LUCKY TO WIN 2-1
    406 11 Navy Had Run Of Play For 30Mins. Eurasians 2; Royal Navy 1. EURASIANS stole a lucky two-one victory against the run of play in the opening match of the S.A.F.A. Inter-Community League tournament when they met Royal Navy at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Eurasians a
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    EASY VICTORY FOR O.T.E.C.
    72 11 I A superior forward line enabled Oriental Telephone and Electric Co.. Ltd., to defeat Mansfield Co., Ltd., by four goals to nil In a Singapore Business Houses soccei fixture played at Geylang Stadiure yesterday. O.T.E.C. attacked for most ol the first half and netted thre« goals
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    St. Andrew's Win Cricket v Guard Unit
    190 11 ST. Ardrew's School scored an easy cricket win over 21 Guard Unit at their own ground in Wodsville yesterday. Guard Unit could only score 87 and in reply St. Andrew's were 111 for three at close. Scores: 21 Guard Unit: Southan lbw Ross
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    Tan & Piruz Sail On Augl9
    110 11 Tan Piruz Sail On Augl9 From Oar SUB Correspondent IPOH, Wed. ATALAYA'S two competitors for the Indian Badminton Championships, Tan Jin Eong of Perak and A. Piruz of Selangor, will leave foi India on August 19. Both are eager to take part in the championships which are being organised by
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    Basketball Win For Singapore
    86 11 HONG KONG, Wed.—Singapore's visiting basketball players last night defeated the Kowloon Chinese V.M.C.A by 63 to 30 This was the visitors' second straight win. Singapore were compiete masters of the situation, and after a 13 to 8 lead in the first quarter they ran away with
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    BOYS CLUBS' CUP SOCCER DATES
    105 11 The Boys Clubs* Football Cup semi-final match between the Katong Boys' dub and the C-Y.M.A. will be played at the Polic» Training School Ground on Saturday. Kick-off will be at 5 p m. The winners of this match will meet Prince Edward Road Boys' Club
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    353 11 A DEFENDER made nice play in today's deal, and by giving declarer the chance to get the wrong "count on the hand," defeated the slam contract. South, dealer Both sides vulnerable NORTH A1 i V 4 Kiflll WEST X Q 10 EAST ITIS"* ft TJ ♦KQJIIII ?AlO
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    Encourage Stars With More Pay
    550 11 By JOHN MACADAM REMEDY FOR BRITISH SOCCER ANE of the things that we kept on telling all the foreigners in Rio and that "all" covered every nationality in the world was that Britain was having a bad time in the athletic sense because of not
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    DAVE SANDS WINS ON TKO
    64 11 SYDNEY, Wed. Triple champion and British Empire Middleweight champion Dave Sands, (161% lbs.) easily defeated American Henry Brimm, (159y 2 lbs.) at Sydney Stadium last night. Brimm was knocked down three times in the first round and after being floored again in the second, the
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    CEYLON S.C. CRICKET XI'S
    101 11 Ceylon Sports Club cricket team for matches this weekend are: G.H.Q., PARELF on Saturday at the C.S.C. ground:— S. Yogarajah, S. Nagalah, K. Thambirajah.A. P. Rajah, N. Balasingham, Thangathurai, Sebastian, L. S. Kulaisingham, Wijiyaweera, K. Sinnathamby, and E. Doralsamy. Reserves: M&niam and 8. M. Vasagar. Team
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    25 11 Entries are invited for the Chinese Swimming Club Billiards jmpetitoin. Entries, forms are available at the dub. TSm closing dat« is Au*. 31.
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    NEPTUNE'S DAUGHTER, TAIL LIGHT SCORE
    1888 12 Tulloh Rides Three More Winners By EPSOM JEEP PENANG, Wednesday. WAIL LIGHT and Neptune's Laughter, two three-year-olds of promise, scored 1 their maiden wins at Penang today, third day of the Penang Turf Club August Bank holiday meeting. Tail Light, ridden by Porky Donnelly, routed
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    22 12 TODAY: 9.46 a.m. (7ft. 2in) and 8 p.m. (8ft. 2in). TOMORROW: 10.34 a.m. (7ft. 7in). and 0.04 p.m. (8ft. 6in).
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    32 12 RACK FROM HONG KONCi after a successful meeting: against Hon* Kong: University, members of the University of Malaya contingent check their luggages when they disembarked from the Sirdhana yesterday. Straits Times picture.
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    University Tour Teams Return
    265 12 »T»HE UNIVERSITY of Malaya cricket, hockey bad1 minton and tennis teams returned from Hong Kong yesterday on the Sirdhana, bringing with them the Ride Shield for cricket and the Badminton Cup. The contingent of 23. inI eluding two women, spent three weeks in Hong Kong and
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    W.lndies 156: Grove 8-38
    134 12 BIRMINGHAM, Wed. rE WARWICKSHIRE fast medium bowler C. Grove took eight West Indian wickets for 38 runs in helping dismissing the tourists for 156 in the match starting here today. When Warwickshire batted they themselves were at once in trouble »nd at close they had lost
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    PENANG'S MALAYA CUP FINAL XI
    112 12 PENANG' S MALAYA CUP FINAL XI from Our SUIT Correspondftit PF.NANG, Wed. TWENTV-N1NE-YEAR-OLD Abu Raidah, who scored all five goals for Penanagainst Perak recently, has again been chosen to lead the Pengng attack against Singapore in the Malaya (up Final at Kuala Lumpur this Saturday. Penan* will be Melding the
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    ARMY CUP SEMIFINAL ON AUG. 19
    210 12 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed T»HE 26 Field Regiment, A (R.A.). clash with Second Battalion Scots Guards in the semi-final of the Far-East Army Cup at Malaya District H.Q. on Saturday, August 19 should be one of the best service matches of
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    LANCASHIRE NOW 24 POINTS AHEAD
    332 12 LONDON, Wed. LANCASHIRE, gaining four points for first innings lead against Yorkshire in the series of games ending yesterday, have increased their lead at the head of the county cricket championship table to 24 points. They now have 180 points, and are followed by Yorkshire
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    BROOKS WANTS TO FIGHT WINNER
    84 12 BOY BROOKS, triple champion of the Orient, has challenged the winner of tomorrow night's fight at the Happy World between Flashy Sebastian and Nai Tawan, the Siamese middleweight title contender. Brooks has already accepted terms offered him by Messrs Ho and Oakes, the promoters, and
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    47 12 AIRCRAFTMAN EDEN pictured after winning the 200 yards free style at the R.A.F. Maintenance Base Seletar Inter-Wing swimming championships at Seletar yesterday. Eden also won the 50 yards free style and, with a second m the 100 yards free style, became the Meet champion. Straits Tiir.es picture.
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    2 Handicap Finals Won
    149 12 YMCA TENNIS TYR. ONG SWEE LAW and Un Hon Kun beat Poh Guan Chwee and Robert Lim to win the Class B Handicap Doubles title in the V.M.C.A. lawn tennis tournament yesterday. Ong and Un Kon Kun (—3O) won 6-2, 6-8, 8-6 over Poh and Lim
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    GREENWOODS WIN TITLE
    64 12 Major and Mrs. K. Greenwood won the married couples doubles final in the Tanglln Club tennis tournament yesterday. They boat Maj. and Mrs. A.R. Da we 9-7, 6-1 in the final. Today's ties: HANDICAP DOUBLES: M. Buttrose and Shafer v Maj. K. Greenwood and Maj. Dawe. HANDICAP
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    Sports Diary
    44 12 SOCCER: Junior B Final: Cheerful Lads v Katong Sajarah at .la Ian Besar stadium; Jnr. Cnptie: H. Q. S'pore Dist. v Customs at (ieylang, Bus House B: Borneo S. C. t Guthrie's at C.Y.M.A. TENNIS: Y M.C.A. and Tanflin Club tournaments cont',
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    SINGAPORE AAA GETS DONATION, CABLES DYSON
    272 12 SINGAPORE AAA GETS DONATION, CABLES DYSON TWE SINGAPORE Amateur Athletic Association is 1 now able to make an offer to Geoffrey Dyson, the British A.A.A. coach. t 0 come out to Singapore and the Federation to conduct classes for local coaches. This was made possible by a substantial donation from
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    C. WASHBROOK NOT TO PLAY
    97 12 LONDON. Wed— Cyril Washbrook Lancashire and Eng.and opening buts-. (iJHn. as the result of a medical exumi^ nation, has been found unfit to take part In a five-day Test match. He WM therefore withdrawn from the England team to meet the West Indies ln 'he
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    A.C.S.O.B.A. TEAM
    73 12 Anglo-Chinese School Old B<»ys' cricket team for their Evan Wong Shield fixture against Christian Brother Schools Old Boys at Hong Lim Green on Saturday at 2 p m. is:-Dr. Ong Swee Law (capi.),: Cheong Thiam Siew. E Dorai- samy. E. Ebert. Ha Fook Sian. Tarn Olm Lock, Lav
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    AcEdenTakes Honours At Seletar Gala
    309 12 AIRCRAFTSMAN Ed-u (Technical! took Individual honours in thf- annunl swimming gala of Royal Air Force Maintenance B a <„ (F.E.I Seletar yesterday it. Seletar. Eden come in a Rood first in the 50 yards and 200 yard* free style and second in the 100 yards
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    Kampong Bahru S.C.
    54 12 Kampong Bahru Spci ts Club irfll meet. R.A. Blankang Mali at .-.ockmon Saturday at Blal::in« Mali. lln following players are requesled l» meet at Jardinp Steps by 4.4a p.m.: Tom. Ali. Hassan. Ah Biou. HaniiT Abu Bakar. Yem DoU. Sulnn<;. George Philip;, Peng Yew i Doli. Yunos.
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