The Straits Times, 15 August 1950

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY. AUGUST 15, 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS
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    U.S. GAINS ON THREE FRONTS
    296 1 800 Reds Die In River Crossing TOKYO, Monday. THE American 24th Division slogging through the mud and rain today smashed the face of the North Korean Changnyong bridgehead for a depth of more than a mile. About 40 miles north, the American First Cavalry Division
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    'Tiny Tim' Smashes Chungju Bridge
    178 1 TOKYO, Monday. r<ARRIER-BASED Corsair attack planes fired "Tiny Tim" a 12-inch armour piercing rocket for the first time in the Korean war yesterday. It completely wrecked a bridge at Chungju in the middle of the peninsula. Tiny Tim, developed sincn the war, packs "a hell
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    STRIKERS GAOLED
    36 1 HONG KONG, Mon. A I Shanghai court recently senjtenced five workers of the i Heng Tung Cotton Mills to j from five to eight months in prison for inciting other workers to strike. AP.
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    TOUCH JOB
    29 1 MAJ.-GBM. J. H Church, iotnmandinx icMrsl of th«Uh Division, shows ltic strain of his command as he rests at a post in S.nth Korea. A.P. radio picture.
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    USI ADOPTS NEW CONSTITUTION
    195 1 JAKARTA. Monday. INDONESIA will proclaim herself a single "one for all" state tomorrow, replacing the 16-unit federation in existence when the Dutch transferred power last year. Thll WM offlcial'y announc-<-<i here today liter the inn House of Repre.v ntativeg, by 90 votes to 18, had approved
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    RICH MEN'S SONS FOUND DEAD
    64 1 CALIFORNIA. Mon. A SEARCH party has found the bodies of iv.fi 17-year-uid heirs to millionaire (\siates »lio apparently plunged to death while scaling Mount Whitney in California. The youths are Steven Reynolds, son of a millionaire IJ.-w York broker and Christopher Ste-v.-iis Reynolds, .sun of
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    33 1 BLACK-LISTED students of the Singapore Chinese High School raise clenched fists when they delayed reopeninr of the school yesterday by passing certain resolutions pre/entin/ the staff from entering the assembly hall-Straits Times picture.
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    Specific Requests For Aid Made To U.S. Mission
    339 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. SPECIFIC requests for aid in the fight against Malaya's Communists have been made to the United States Military Survey Mission, which completed its discussions with the Federation Government today, it was revealed by the head
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    Queen Stays By Princess
    86 1 LONDON, Mon. POLICE were standing by ready to control the large crowds expected again today outside Clarence House, where Princess Elizabeth is awaiting her second child. The King travelled overnight in the Royal train to Balmoral to 3tart his annual Scottish holiday on Deeslde. Queen Elizabeth,
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    ILLEGAL ENTRY
    20 1 TIPEH, Mon.— Eleven persons have been arrested since July 11 on charges of Illegal entry into Formosa. AP.
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    12,000 On Strike In Bombay
    81 1 12,000 On Strike In Bombay BOMBAY, Mon. •fWELVE-thousand textile 1 workers In Bombay stopped work this morning in response to a call for an indefinite strike on the issue of a bonus. Six out of a total of 60 mills closed down today, but the Goverament-recognised textile labour organisation campaigning
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    Prayers For UK Polio Victims
    79 1 LONDON, Mon. <&>ECIAL prayers were satd today in churches on the t!>re of Wight, holiday island 0// Britain's south coast, for the 38 sufferers from polio there. First death in the Isle of Wight outbreak was reported yesterday, the victim wa s Mr John Pocock,
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    U.N. TRIBUTE TO COL. NAYAR
    127 1 NEW YORK. Mon. FE New York Times today paid editorial tribute to Col. Unnl Nayar, who was killed in Korea: "The United Nations has lost a devoted official and hundreds of persona have lost a charming and gracious friend In the death In Korea of
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    BANNED BOYS DEMONSTRATE AT SCHOOL
    696 1 BANNED BOYS DEMONSTRATE AT SCHOOL gLACK-LISTED students of the Singapore Chinese High School yesterday barred the principal, Mr. Cheng An Lun, for ten minutes from reopening the school while they conducted a meeting in the hall during which clenched fists were raised to adopt "resolutions". The demonstration lasted for about
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    Murder Attack On Dancers
    100 1 Murder Attack On Dancers SAIGON. Mon. pOMMUNIST-LED uu.-nlbts, \J firing machineßuns and mortars in a surprise night attack on a planters club in Cambodia, southwest InrioChina. killeo. thnv French planters and a young Prencttwoman and kidnapper 1 children. About 50 people were piaying cards, dancing and iolcIng in the club
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    VOICE OF AMERICA
    20 1 NEW YORK. Mon. The Voice of America has bejjuu broadcasting in the Vietnamese language to Indo-China, AP.
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    SCRAMBLING FCR RUBBER MAY STOP'
    53 1 Tilt: New York report that the United States Goternment will impose controls on ail natural rubber used commercially is expected to have some simp reaction on the rubber market today. (See Pase I). "This may stop the wild scrambling that we h:ivc seen recently." said
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    United States Of Africa With End Of Colonial Rule And Troops
    266 2 United States Of Africa With End Of Colonial Ru le And Troops THREE SOCIALISTS AT 'EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY URGE STRASBOURG, Monday. ESTABLISHMENT of a United States of Africa and setting up of an African Constituent Assembly have been proposed in a motion tabled in the European Consultative Assembly. The signatories said
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    MONGOL ATTACK
    36 2 HONG KONG, Mon.—Twenty thousand Mongol cavalrymen under the leadership of Prince Teh, who is still loyal to the Nationalists, took Pailingmiao, in Suiyuan Province, on Aug. 10, according to the Chinese Press here.— Reuter.
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    SHANGHAI TAX DODGERS TO PAY
    75 2 INVESTIGATION lasting a month by a" staff^of^more 1 than 1,300 has revealed that 3.000 Shanghai businesses have not paid the "democratic tax."' Action against tax evaders will be taken after their financial standing and status have been investigated. One result of the check has been
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    "H-BOMB WEAKENS THE U.S."
    189 2 "H-BOMB WEAKENS THE U.S." WASHINGTON, Mon. •pHE existence of the hydrogen bomb would result in military weakness rather than strength for the United States, Prof. Hans Bethe, Professor of Physics at Cornell University, said In a report published by the Foreign Policy Association. The association is an influential private organisation
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    A DAILY PROBLEM FOR ANN
    54 2 ANN MILLER, Columbia Pictures star and a girl who takes good care of her dancing feet, has C 1,500 worth of shoes in her wardrobe in Hollywood. Ann is seen here surrounded by part of her collection and pondering the daily problem of which pair
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    Cable Flashes Ava Denies 'Interest' In Bullfighter
    206 2 Cable Flashes Ava Denies 'Interest' In Bullfighter NEW YORK, Monday. SCREEN star Ava Gardner returned from London yesterday by plane and immediately refuted reports of two romances one with handrnme Spanish bullfighter Mario Cabre and lh* second with crooner Frank Sinatra. She said that reports of any love Interest on
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    APPEAL ON FOOD SUPPLIES
    114 2 LONDON, Mon. r THE world has enough icsources to ensure adequate food supplies, but food production needs international attention over a wide fu'.d of Allied problems, In U\f opinion of Dr. Charles K<ilog. Director of the Soil Survey Division of the U.S. D» partment of Agriculture.
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      313 2 NOTICES THE MOTOR VEHICLES (COMMERCIAL USE) REGULATIONS Kolirr of Application far a Permil to Authorise thr Use *f llarknry Carriage I, TAN THEOW TECK of No. t. Jalan Muar. Jementah, hereby five notice of intention to apply for hnckney carriage permit for •ne vehicle to operate from Jemrnuti village to
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      764 2 NOTICES THE AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY, SYDNEY. AUSTRALIA, hereby gives one month's notice of its Intention to issue a SPECIAL POLICY in place of Policy No. *****06 on the life of William Charles LAWRENCE declared to have been destroyed. SINGAPORE MUNICIPAL 4h% DEBENTURE STOCK 1939/70-80, NOTICE is hereby given that
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      295 2 NOTICES AUCTION SALE OF VALUABLE PREEHOLL> SINGAPORE PROPERTIES To be beld at our saleroom. No. 10 Ciralia Street. On Wednesday, 16th August 1950, at 2.M p.m. Lot 1. Freehold land and houses Nos. 7 to 29 (odd Nos. only) Lorong 104 and Nos. 14 16 Lorong 105 off Changi Rd.,
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      724 2 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE FEDERATION OF MALAYA Applications are invited from Federal Citisens for appointment as Assistant Superintendents. Grade 11. In the Taiping Approved School for Boys and the Sungel Buloh Approved School for Boys. 2. The salary scale (subject to revision)) Is $285-Al5-$345. together with allowances in
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      299 2 H.M DOCKYARD, SINGAPORE SALE BY TENDER NO. 151/5* Tenders will be received at the Office of the Superintending Naval Store Officer up to noon on Friday, 25th August, 1950, for the purchase of unserviceable caisson hauling machinery and electrical equipment with various serviceable spares at King George VI Dock. The
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      258 2 H.M. DOCKYARD, SINGAPORE SALE BY TENDER NO. 150/50 Tenders will be received at the Office of the Superintending Naval Store Officer up to noon on Wednesday, 23rd August. 1950.^ for the purchase of 29 Lots comprising 44 items of Motor Transport Vehicles including Ariel 350 C.C. Motor Cycles, Austin and
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    U.S. RUBBER USAGE MAY BE SLASHED
    339 3 Plan To Aid Stockpiling NEW YORK, Monday. TIIK United States Government will impose controls on all rubber for tyres and other products on Sept. 1 under one of the first' industrial mobilisation orders resulting from: the Korean war. the Journal of Commerce! reported yesterday.
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    WEST GERMANS WOULD FIGHT
    70 3 KARLSRUHE, Germany. Mon. Dr. Hermann Puender, German delegate to the Council of Europe's General Assembly, said yesterday that the West German Government was "ready to do Its share" in mobilising a unified all-European army to oppos? any Russian aggression. Dr. Puender warned, however, that West Germany
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    OGS FOR DUTY SOUTH KOREA
    23 3 IS. SERGEANT with one of the police dogs to be shipped from California to South Korea. A.P. picture.
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    SIKHS TO FIGHT CONGRESS
    149 3 SIKHS TO FIGHT CONGRESS AMRITSAR. India. Mon. THE Sikh communal or••anisation has decided to quit the Congress whicb il joined Immediately after Imiian independence in 1947. The party executive na.s aow directed all Akali Dal Sikhs In Parliament and the Pmjab legislature fo resign i ieir seats and fi-ht 'he
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    KOREAN WAR JOLTS WORLD
    127 3 KOREAN WAR JOLTS WORLD OTTAWA, Mon. fJISTORY may record that the Korean war served to awaken the free nations of the world from "dreams of ease," the Australian Prime Minister, Robert Menzies, said last night in a recorded broadcast. Not Normal The Korean war had made ii abundantly clear to
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    BERLIN RAIL DEMAND
    50 3 BERLIN, Mon.— West Berlin railwaymen yesterday demanded a road and rail corrider between Berlin and West Germany to be controlled by all four Allies. Such a corridor votiki prevent any further Soviet interference with inter-zonal rail and road transports, the railvaymen decla"cd at a meeting here. Reuter
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    "STREAMLINED" ENTRY RULES
    44 3 WELLINGTON, Mon.—Literate foreign visitors to New Zealand will no longer be fingerprinted under new "streamlined" entry rules an- nounced by Mr. Fred W. Dodge. Minister of External Affairs and Tourist ur.d Health resorts. The fingerprinting of illiterate aliens will continue.— Reuter.
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    Ex-British Officer Killed With Rebels
    223 3 RANGOON, Monday. /CAPTAIN David Vivian, former British officer rescued from a Burmese prison by Karen rebels last year, was today reported killed in a battle between Karen and Government forces near Moulmein. His body is believed to be one of three found by Government forces
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    WAR CASUALTIES
    42 3 W ASHINTON Mon -The Defence Department, yestorday identified 192 more casualties in the Korean war —three killed, two died ef wounds and 108 wounded. 15 Injured, 64 missing In action. Three of the casual -lea were Filipinos and three Hawaiian*.—U.P.
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    Menzies Warned Off Battlefield
    221 3 IUKKO, Monday. DRITISH Commonwealth sources in Tokyo report I "that Gen. Mac Arthur has turned down Mr. It. G. Menzies' request for permission to visit the Korean war zone, as Gen. Mac Arthur believes the situation there "too fluid" to risk the safety of the Australian
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    FORCED TO LAND
    62 3 FRANFURT. Mon. Two; passengers of a Czechoslovak transport plane, currying i five persons, forced its Czech I pilot to land in the American zone on Friday night, the German police headquarters at Aichach reported last night. Police said the plane, carrying two adults and two children as
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    INDIAN DELEGATE
    15 3 STIi BTNEGAI, TV\U Indian delegate on the United Nations Security Council. A.P. picture.
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    TWO NATIONS ACT
    88 3 WASHINGTON, Mon. THE IS. Government is seeking to have the bail of 11 convicted Communist leaders revoked on the ground that their conduct and activity is dangerous to the security of the United States, it was announced last night. The Coimnunists are to show cause before Thursday
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    'Recall House Sooner'
    319 3 'Recall House Sooner CHURCHILL LONDON. Mon. MR. WINSTON Churchill. Conservative Opposition leader, and Mr. Clement Davies. Liberal leader, have ask;d the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, to recall Parliament for argent defence discussions "in a week or ten days", it was announced today. Mr. Attlee. who had already cut short
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    PAKISTAN LEAGUE CHIEF QUITS
    193 3 KARACHI, Monday. \|K. Chaudhri Khaliquzzaman, 63-year-old PreiTl sident of the All-Pakistan Muslim League resigned last night on the eve of the anniversary of Pakistan's independence. His action followed demonstrations before his house here by groups from Karachi's refugee population, estimated to number 300,000. I For some
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    TORSO, LEGS IN PILLOW CASES
    86 3 VIENNA, Mon.— An epidemic of sex murders in Ausiria claimed a new victim yesterday in this city of East-West intrigue. The limbless torso of a 33-year-old woman and her severed legs were found in two separate pillow cases on the banks of a stream flowing
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    BRITISH SHIP SAVES PILOT IN RED PORT
    112 3 TOKYO, Mon. A BRITISH destroyer dash- ed Into the Red-held Inchon harbour in north-west Korea and rescued a US. Navy pilot, says an American naval source. The pilot. E. A. McCallum, ditched his carrier-based Corsair after being hit by Communist ground fire over
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    BIGGER STORE TRADE WITH NEW GUINEA IS FORECAST
    436 4 Dutch Scheme To Develop Hollandia SINGAPORE, which has exported more than $2,000,000 worth of equipment to Dutch New Guinea during the past six months, may do even more trade with the comparatively unexplored colony if a scheme to develop it is approved
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    NOT RENEWED
    44 4 From Our Own Correspondent I JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Wu Chow Hong and Yong Boon Keng, two drivers of Singapore motor vehicles, were each fined $10 here today for failing to renew their Road Tax Licences for the second half of 1950. I
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    Plane Could Not Land At Ipoh
    84 4 TN driving rain and poor visibility, a Malayan Airways Dakota flying from Penang to Singapore yesterday made several attempts to land at ipoh and then decided to carry on to Kuala Lumpur. There were 21 passengers in the aircraft including seven for Ipoh. Five
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    S'gor M.C.A. Forms Home Guard Body
    122 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A HOME Guard committee j has been set up by the Selangor branch of the Ma- layan Chinese Association to help the Government when j the call is made tor volun- I teers for the new force.
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    Broke Bond: 3 Months
    89 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. TAN Ah Huk was sentenced in the Sessions Court to- j clay to three months' impri- j sonment for failing to keep i !to the conditions under which he was released on bond recently. When convicted on a charge
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    WOMAN FINED
    49 4 from Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon Incornee binte Sanbaii was I fined $75 in Batu Pahat lor falsely representing herself to I be Mariadee binte Abu Yassim and thereby inducing the Assistant Collector of Land Revenue to issue a certain 1 land title to her. i
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    OLD PHOTO BEST
    38 4 From Our Start Correspondent SEGAMAT, Mvi:.- -My uld photograph got soiled so I put in a fresh one," said Muthusamy. aged 31. when Charged at Segamat with defacing his identity card He was fined $10
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    50 4 DR. HOEY CHAN CHANG. Health Officer. Perak. who returned to Malaya yesterday on the President Monroe after a year in the United States and Canada, where he was attached to the United Nations School. With him are his wife and two children who came to meet him. Straits Times picture.
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    $30,000 Claim In High Court
    675 4 A CLAIM for $30,000, being first payment due under an agreement for the sub-lease of a block of houses in the Orchard Road area, formed the subject of a dispute in the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday before Mr. Justice Thorogood. The plaintiff in the case
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    Hertoghs Give Full Power To Consul
    215 4 Hertoghs Give Full Power To Consul THE document which the acting Dutch Consul-General in Singapore has been waiting for in connection with the Maria Hertogh case, arrived this week-end. It is a power of attorney signed by both Maria's parents giving Mr. J. Van der Oaag, the acting Dutch Consul-General
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    PENANG TRADE UP $14 MILLION
    87 4 PENANG, Mon. THE present high prices for tin and rubber have raised Penang's export trade in both commodities by over $7,000,000 last month. This together with an earlier increase of another $7,000,000 in June, means an increase of over $14,000,000 in two months. Rubber shipments
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    KALLANG AIRPORT ARRIVALS
    201 4 I*HE following passengers were 1 among those who arrived in Singapore yesterday Irom points outside Malaya on the various air services. Passengers in transit are not included in, the list. Q.E.A.-8.0.A.C. From London: Messrs. L. W. Lloyd, and R. A. Turner; Madames: D. L. Lewis, and O.
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    COLONY URGED: 'FORM T.U.C.
    259 4 COLONY URGED: 'FORM T.U.C. THE International Con- federation of Free Trade Union delegation, now on a fact-finding tour of the Federation, has urged the early formation of a Trade Union Congress in Singapore to enable the Colony to affiliate with this world labour organisation. This ICFTU call was made on
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    TRAINS GO THROUGH TO TIME
    100 4 TRAINS GO THROUGH TO TIME From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. FE night mail trains between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore left as scheduled tonight, though earlier today it was expected that the service might have to be cancelled because of bandit activity Early this morning the pilot train ahead
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    To Train In Colony
    64 4 A FIVE-MAN Rangoon police team is to undergo a Singapore Police course on the control, administration and use of police wireless equipment. The team left Rangoon on the Sangola yesterday and la expected in Singapore this week. It consists of Inspector U Mang Maung. Sub-Inspector U
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    GIFTS TO LEPERS
    43 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon All Muslims patients in the Leper Colony at Tampoi have received a sarong and $3 cash each from the Religious Department, Johore. The gifts vere made available from charitable funds of the Department.
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    OUT OF DOORS
    35 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHOE BAHRU. Mon.— Ho Kee Huat and Llm Lee Chua. of Singapore, were each fined $10 here today for being out of doors at Scudai during curfew hours.
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    `WE WILL FIGHT FOR YOU'
    510 5 ICFTU Tells Federation Trade Unions From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. THE fact finding mission of the International confederation of Free Trade Unions, which is touring the Federation, declared at a Press conference this morning that it was prepared to fight for the rights
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    TAX DEPT. REPORT OUT TODAY
    145 5 TAX DEPT. REPORT OUT TODAY •HTHIS morning, the first annual reports of the Income Tax Departments in the Federation and Singapore will be released simultaneously in Kuala Lumpur and tabled before the Singapore Legislative Council. The two reports will be arrompanted by a report from the pan-Malayan Comptrol-ler-General of Income
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    'My Rations' —Seaman
    65 5 'My Rations' Seaman ('HO gee sang, 35, claimed trial In the Singapore Turd Police Court yesterday to possessing more than three lb. of dutiable cigarette i and five lb. of dutiable tobacco. *v- said he vas a seaman t.i the s.s. Pangkor and that the cigarettes and tobacdo I c
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    TO MEET TODAY
    45 5 The sub-committee ol the •pore Vesak Celebration mlttee will meet today at V. Narcis Street, to consider, among other things, the findif the Select Committee he Legislative Council which recently decided that Vesak Day should not be n ade a public holiday.
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    Council Query On Efficiency Man
    159 5 'VHE question of appointing an efficiency expert 1 for the Singapore Government departments will be raisnl at today's meeting of the Legislative Council by Mr. R. Jumabhoy (Indian Chamber of Commerce). No such otflcpr has yet been appointed, although this question was first raised by
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    Pakistani League
    58 5 The President of the O*W*MJ j Pakistani League, Mr. Bushir A. Mallal, writes to point out :hdt at I the Leagues meeting on Pu:irtay he said his community was grateful to the Governor of binsc-ipoiv tor allowing the flying of the Pakistan flag. Our report of yesterday stated
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    PORT CAPTAIN
    37 5 (APT. Archibald Sim.tisUd «>i' tin* American President Lines, who arrived m SinK.ipore from .Manila on the President Monroe yesterday to take up his post as Port (attain and Vessels Operations Supervisor here. Straits Times picture.
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    TAIPING PLAY FOR WELFARE
    68 5 TAIPING. Mom.— A mystery drama "Grand National Night" will be staged by the Taiping Players ;il the King Edward VII School Hall on Aug. 18 and 19 in aid of the Lnrut and Matang District Welfare Society The cait comprises Molly Corkran. Mrs. R. Burton, Mr.
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    TRAPPED BIRDS
    50 5 TELUK ANSON. Mon. Ha.ii Bahaudin bin Bharm and Amiluddin bin Hr.ji Babaudin wore charged with Ire.spassing on Arcadia Estate, Baffin Datoh, and trapping "btnong puna!." They pleaded guilty to the second charge and were fined $10 each or 10 days' imprisonment. On the first charge, they were discharged.
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    GOING TO PARIS
    55 5 AN AUSTRALIAN surgeon who has performed several successful "Blue Baby" operations arrived in Singapore yesterday en route to Paris. He is Dr. F. H. Mills (above) of the Hallstrom Institute of Cardiology, Sydney.^ Dr. Mills is accompanied by Dr. K. Maddix. who Is in charge of the
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    ON WAY HOME
    60 5 MR. WE. LEE. (right), manager of the Overseas Farmers Co-operation (London), who arrived in Singapore yesterday by Q.E.A.- 8.0.A.C. Constellation from Sydney. Mr. Lee spent two months in Australia investigating the fruit situation there, and is now on his way back to U.K. He was met at
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    PLANTER DIES FROM WOUNDS
    323 5 Bandit Ambush In Kedah From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. A EUROPEAN assistant estate manager died of wounds a few hours after he was ambushed in Kedah this morning. Two special constables in the same vehicle as the assistant were seriously wounded, but the party
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    He Ran A Drug Den
    120 5 FOR allowing his house in Dickson Road to be used for the unlawful administration of deleterious drugs. Lee Hal Tong was yesterday in the Singapore Second District Court sentenced to four months' imprisonment. Eleven Chinese, most of whom were trisha-riders, were convicted of being found
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    Singapore Diary
    68 5 Singapore Film Society: film "Man About Town" at Victoria Theatre at 8.30 pjn. V.W.C.A.: American Frcs;':|; at 2.30 pjn. at Raffles Quay for Town Wayfarers; Visit to Orthopaedic Hospital at 4 p.m.; Dane Class at Raffles Quay at 5.30 p.m. Man Li Benevolent Association: Twa Loh Koh practise,
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    8 Hurt In Explosion
    80 5 From Our Staff C'urrespondenl PENANG. Mon. ONE of six cylinders containing anhydrous ammonia stacked alongside thr Pcnang Harbour Board godowns at Swettenham Pier exploded this afternoon Injuring eight labourers. The injured were removed to hospital suffering from gas fumes but their condition was stated as not
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    MALAYA DISTRICT HAS NEW TITLE
    50 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The designation of Headquarters, Malaya District, senior military fonnaiion in Malaya, has been changed to Headquarters, Malaya. This change has been made owing to the creation of South Malaya District. Major-General R. E. Urquhart continues to be G.O.C.
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    GIFTS TO RESCUED SEAMEN
    138 5 GIFTS TO RESCUED SEAMEN PE six Indonesian sailors who were shipwrecked last week outside the Banjermassin River, rescued and brought to Singapore, were yesterday presented with six pairs of shorts, six pairs of canvas shoes and four shirts by Robsinson and Co. Other gifts of clothes, cigarettes and money have
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    PRIZES FOR AUDIENCE
    61 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— A quiz with S5O in prizes for the audience will be part of the show which Kuala Lumpur Boy Scouts will present at the Chinese Assembly Hall rvxt Friday The High Commissioner, as Chief Scout for the Federation will attend.
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    ON TRANSFER
    24 5 Mr. G. K. F. Armstrong Air Traffic Control Officer of the Department of Civil Aviation (Singapore), left yesterday for Labuan on transfer.
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    To Study Malay Schooling Problem
    287 5 To Study Malay Schooling Problem ALL aspects of Malay education in the Federation are to be examined by a special committee headed by Mr. Leonard Barnes. Director of Social Welfare Training at Oxford University, who arrived at Singapore at the weekend. "It would appear," Mr. Barnes told the Straits Times,
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    JOHORE GOVT. TRANSFERS
    75 5 Johore Banru. Mon The following transfers in the Johore Civil Service are announced: Incr.e Karim oin Hitam from the District Office. Johore Bahru. to Muar as First Assistant District Officer. Syed Hashim from Segamat to Johore Bahru as First Assistant District Officer. Inche Abdul Aziz bin Shukor
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., Aug. 15, 1950. The Child Bride
    673 6 One result of the controversy over Maria Hertogh's marriage at the age of thirteen years and five months has been to focus public attention on Malaya's marriage laws or lack of laws. I and, in particular, to make the
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    Jawi And Rumi
    439 6 Those who are interested in the perennial argument as to whether Jawi or romanised Malay is more suitable for Malay education in modern Malaya should note the result of an experiment which has just been conducted by the Muslim weekly magazine Dawn published in Singapore. The English
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    ROTARY DISTRICT
    39 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.--A district assembly of Rotary clubs in Malaya, Slam, Sarawak and Borneo is to be held In Kuala Lumpur on Sept. 10. The assembly will be presided over by the Rotary District Governor, Prince Dhani.
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    AMERICA'S STAKE IN INDOCHINA
    930 6  -  SEYMOUR TOPPING, A. P. By Correspondent SAIGON. AMERICAN weight will begin to be felt this month in IndoChina with the delivery of the first important shipments of economic and military aid to the French against the Vietminh rebels. Some time during August two vessels will unload
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      A thousand acres of rubber today
      448 6 fJLTITH the price of rubber over $1 per lb., most of the essential requirements of man have become dearer in Malaya. The estate employers are quite aware of this but they have not moved a finger to raise the Asian staff's salaries and allowances.
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      Clutches Of The Law
      53 6 IREP-ER to a report in the Straits Times of Aug. 11, in which your. Kuala Lumpur Staff Correspondent quotes Captain Jennings' remarks about the police laying in wait for motorists. 1 feel I must protest against such a fowl accusation about a fine body of men.
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      IN A MALAY MIND
      164 6 IN the Nadra case A which has been whipped up. alas, by your paper into a racial and religious issuemuch has been made of the fact that Che Aminah has been invited by the Hertoghs to Holland. The inference we are asked to draw is that,
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      WHAT IS FREEDOM?
      104 6 QNE sometimes wonder what our freedom really Is. Recently there was some alarming news about Government's rather stern attitude towards the freedom enjoyed by the Press. Lately two big Chinese schools came in for some very drastic curbing of their rights to function Then again, when the
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    On the Margin
    488 6 Before TheM.CS. AN obituary notice ol Walter Peacock, who joined the Straits Settlements Civil Service in 1898. is published in the July number of British Malaya magazine, received from London last week. It will probably surprise most readers of the Straits Times today to learn that there
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    300 VILLAGERS JOIN MAN-HUNT
    402 7 All-out Search For Kampong Murderers From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR, Monday. AVER 300 villagers joined the Perlis police during the week-end in one of the biggest man-hunts ever organised in the State. So far. one bandit suspect has been killed and another, with a shot
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    4 YEARS FOR RED FARMER
    187 7 CHNG Pia Kwang, a 20-year-old farmer, who was charged in the Singapore First District Court with placing Communist placards at the East Coast Road market on June 19, and with being found in possession of ».eclitious publications and two other posters, told the court day
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    Stole From Mother
    61 7 lEE Jn.i M<>ng. aked IT. was j charged in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday with thett of two fowls from a woman in Upper F( rangoon Road on Aug. who pleaded guilty to tiie charge, told the court that ilie woman was his mother Bail of
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    FIRST-AID CLASS
    35 7 First-aid classes will be Jield at the St. Jonn Ainbuiknee Association headquarters. Stamiord Rosd, every Monday at 5.15 p.m. beginning Aug. 28. Those wishing to attend may enrol at the Association s headquarter.".
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    COLONY'S BLACKEST 24 HOURS'
    135 7 Road Accidents •THERE were 668 accidents in Singapore In July— the second highest on record and the highest during the year Thirteen people died in these accidents. The 24 hours between July 24 and 25 were the blackest in traffic history In the Colony. During this
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    C.G. To Meet Unions
    84 7 "PHE Commissioner General. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, has granted representatives of the Singapore Federation of Services Unions an interview at the end of the month. Mr. C. S. Sivaswamy secretary general of the Federation, told the Straits Times that the non-payment of housing allowances to Services
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    Big Samsu Find
    71 7 THE largest iilicic distillery to be found in Singapore this year was discovered yesterday morning by Singapore Customs officers half-a-mile off Braddell Road. In the same raid, the largest seizure of fermented rice for this year was also made. The distillery was in actual operation when discovered.
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    DECREE GRANTED
    46 7 A decree nisi to be made absolute in three months was granted yesterday by the Chief Justice. Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley. to Peter Tristram Gordon OgilvieMitchell against his wife. Gwendolyn Linda Lourdes Ogilvie-Mitchell, on grounds of adultery. Mi\ C. G. Menon was for the petitioner.
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    NEW MAGISTRATE
    24 7 The Governor has appointed Mr. P. R. Metcalfe to be a Ipolire magistrate in Singa- pore, it was announced last I night.
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    TO CELEBRATE
    15 7 Indonesians in Singapore will celebrate the fifth anniversary of their independence on Thursday.
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    IN ACTION OFF KOREA
    64 7 BOY SEAMEN of H. M. S. Belfast. British cruiser just arrived in Singapore from the Korean war, admire Roy Tillett's picture of his girl friend. Marlene Horsley, who is in Ipswich sanatorium. Below: Capt. Sir Aubrey St. Clair-Ford, (left) in command of the cruiser, with Admiral
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    BAPTISM OF FIRE FOR 30 BOYS
    204 7 riE veteran cruiser, H.M.S. Belfast, one of the first British ships to go into action in Korean watefs, where she fired over 1,000 rounds of shells and razed the town of Yangdok. came into Singa- pore yesterday. For the 30 young seamen boys— part
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    TWO ACCUSED OF ROBBERY BID
    43 7 Two Britons, Leonard Gallahan. 25. and Clifford Pool, 20. claimed trial in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to attempting to rob Ahmad bin Abu Bakar in Tanglin Road on Aug. 11. They were remanded until Auk. 21.
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    Only One Man Wants This Job
    89 7 Only One Man Wants This Job QNLY one application has been received for the position of Bandmaster of the Singapore Police Band, the Straits Times was tola yesterday. The vacancy was caused when Chief Inspector John Hitch retired in June after conducting the band for 15 years. The Staff Officer.
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    DUD NOTES
    34 7 Forged 50-cent notes have been found circulating in Penang and It Is quite likely that there is a certain amount of these forger">; circulating in Singapore, the Singapore Government announced last night.
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    REDIFFUSION GETS 20 NEW MEN
    130 7 REDIFFUSION GETS 20 NEW MEN J^R. G.H. Oldridge, Rediffusion general manager, announced yesterday the engagement of 20 new maintenance hands 16 wiremen and 4 drivers— as the strike con tin uea for the tenth day. He said about 180 applications for the maintenance service had been received following advertisement in
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    AN EXTRA $600,000 A YEAR FOR SMC
    185 7 AN EXTRA $600,000 A YEAR FOR SMC 'fHE additional revenue 1 which the Singapore Municipality hopes to derive from advertisements exhibited on sunblinds outside business premises in the city, might be in the neighbourhood of $600,000 a year. The Municipal Commissioners have decided to tax advertisements on sun-blinds from Jan.
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    RUBBER STOCKS
    35 7 Stocks of rubber in dealers hands at the end of July totalled 58.779 tons, about 11.000 tons less than at the end of June. There were another 21.696 tons at the principal ports.
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    ACQUITTED
    27 7 Ho Kok Hin. 26, of Belilios Road, was acquitted in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday of theft from a military workshop in Ayer Rajah Road.
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    WELFARE STUDY
    31 7 MISS TAN Sai Hua, first assistant protector of women and girls at Kuching, who is on a year's United Nations Children's Emergency Fund scholarship in Singapore. Straits Times picture.
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    Bad News From China
    60 7 So she tried to end life IJECAUSE she received "bad news" from her family in China. 25-year-old Tham See Fun tried to end her life by taking lysol. Yesterday, in the Singapore Co. oner's Court, Tham waa bound over in one surety of $25 for three
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    3 Robbers Take $1,000 Basket, Court Is Told
    267 7 A DARING $1,000 armed robbery in daylight In which three Chinese snatched a basket containing $1,000 from a contractor at his office door, was described in the Singapore Relief Court yesterday, when a preliminary inquiry into the robbery was begun. In the
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    Car Bonnet Hid Cigars
    61 7 JJUTIABLE tobacco was found hidden in the bonnet of a car at the Woodlands customs station, it was stated in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday. The driver of the car, Chan Kam Loon?, 31, of Woodlands Road. pleaded guilty to possessing 15 lb. of dutiable
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    PARENTS FAINT AT INQUEST
    192 7 A man and his wife yesterday fainted within a few minutes of each other In ;he Singapore Coroner's Court during an inquiry into the death of their 10-year-old son. At the end of the inquiry, the Coroner. Mr. W. O. Port. that he would send his
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    Promotion For Brig. King
    48 7 The Kint; has approved the appointment of Brigadier H F. S. King to bo Inroector nl the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, with the rank of Major-Genera 1 Brigadier King left Sir nore last month He Director of OrdnD.no> S. vices. Far East Land Force.*
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    Growth of a baby
    1072 8  -  NURSE JANET Mothercraft in Malaya by yyATCHIMi a baby grow and develop is one of the mosi fascinating eipcri cnivs thai can happen to Hie normal human hcing. It is the history of the human race re pealing i I self down the ages. The supreme
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    Here's another bonny baby!
    39 8 "Out of the way. I'm busy says 10-months-old Phillippe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Batters, of Cornwall Gardens, Singapore. Five dollars are on the way to Philippe for being the bonniest baby of the week.
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    Malayan homes & fashions
    171 8 Malayan homes fashions ATTRACTIVE Marjorie Hill fiat not been in Singapore for very long^-bur within that thort space of time the hat managed to pick up tome beautiful bits of Chinese furniture- and curios for her home, which it a graciout achievement of careful thought. Here you tee her ttanding
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    We do get our moneys worth'
    323 8 FROM AN ESTATE BUNGALOW vyHEN we go to town we always give our escort S.C. not only his machan money but enough for the "pictures" as well. We did it at first Just to be decent because it seemed a shame to go and
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      267 8 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD 1M JTS "•ft&.'sr-*"* 9°: o s y? R N 1 0 rupect (8). is. Ljy bar* (6). I I* I B. And gac his reins 28. Indian mon«f <Urta I I L, ..I TTO I.,... shake. With Adieu lor miking history (6) S§1 H H |H H
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    MALAYA'S LOST TOWNSHIP
    661 9  -  Eric Mitchell By TWENTY miles from the small, mushroom township of Dungun on the north-east coast of Malaya, including 18 miles trek through the whispering beauty of Trengganu's Jungle, is a large clearing. But it is not an ordinary jungle clearing. Instead of the faintly gurgling stream,
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    Local 'Hawaiians'
    262 9 BANDS THAT PLAY IN SINGAPORE— 2 fPO the Hotel de P A Europe, commonly known as the Cockpit, the credit of engaging a local-born woman musician of over quarter of a century's 'cnce. and a local band of Hawaiian musicians who have never been separated since they first
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    Played to Prince
    73 9 Kathleen Beth's musical background dates back over 30 years when her parents thought she liked mi' Sic and introduced her to the piano She was -one Of the first women musicians to play for Raffles Hotel and the Van Wijk Hotel. She it-members IL-24 when tlie Duke
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    A club for dancers
    270 9 THE far-sightedness of six youthful Chinese who pooled together about $60 and formed the Singapore Union Dancing Party the only one of its kind in Malaya are now seeing their dream come true. For a subscription of only three dollars per month, the party offers its
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    Schoolgirl of the week
    180 9 CJ£R~NE Lim is on.. t.i.rteen and a half, but she is already a junior assistant at the Taylor Dance Studio, Singapore. She is such a good dancer that her teacher, Mrs Taylor, could not help singing her praises when I spoke to her the other day.
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    DR. LIM RECALLS HIS TOWCHANG CRUSADE
    514 9 Straits Times Special Reporter JN an attap-roofed bungalow last week 1 had an interesting conversation with a man who 54 years ago started a crusade in Malaya against the towchang (or queue) among the Chinese community. The name of Dr Lim Boon Keng with
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    AUSSIES AWAIT WORD ON KOREA
    1139 10  - AUSSIES AWAIT WORD ON KOREA BOB GILMORE A ustralian newsletter by MELBOURNE, Sun. |£Y nil signs, Australians will have to.awnit Prime Minister Menzies* return from abroad, late next week, until they know what is sought of them as a result of Korea. Mindful maybe of the ease of Australian civilian
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    MISERABILISTS
    389 10 From R. M. MacCOLL IUISERABILISM-SUR- SEINE (known to the ignorant as PARIS). This is where it all started, the cult of crybabyism, the feeling that life is Just too awful for words And for the devotees it involves the paradox of wearing a uniform. For the girls this consist
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      219 10 LAST DAY kSt|& 1 i I I 1 ffIAIH LWHIMINO TOMORROW p^ BOOK NOW P David O. Selznick 's ortrait .Jennie JENNIFER JONES"? JOSEPH COTTEN HERE FOR THE Ist TIME The MAGNASCREEN and MULTI-SOUND UNIT INSTALLED AT GREAT EXPENSE ■"^"^B^B^^lBjl^r^ BSaajaa^^ajflasaj ~-jm S^*™«B& You can now experience THE ACTUAL IMPACT
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      589 10 COUTH made his doubled three- m no-trump contract In today's deal, lirst, by reaching the correct end-position, and then by hand- Q 9 ling it properly. K 9 South, dealer v Q O Q «i Both sides vulnerable K 0 W 7 K J 10 7 6 NORTH si!,, A
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      331 11 LONDON. Mon. DESPITE an undertone of caution whilst awaiting developments in Korea, the London Stock Exchange recorded quiet Frmness in many domestic issues today. British Government funds responded with fractional i gains to small buying and there were improvements of a few pence in better class industrials. Rail
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      QUIET OPENING IN SHARE MARKET
      201 11 From A Market Correspondent rpHE Malayan share market opened quietly yester1 day and Tin shareholders were inclined to await London's opening. Industrials were steady. Rubbers had little interest. Price changes announced yesterday by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: Bajers H'kong S'hal Bank (H'kongreg.) 800.00 Robinson
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      PRODUCE MARKET
      108 11 From A Market Correspondent rE copra section of the Singapore produce market yesterday lacked sellers. The tone was quiet, with buyers at $42 sellers $43%. Coconut oil was very steady, with $68 per picul quoted. Other sections were firm. Prices (per plcui) quoted yesterday in the Singapore Chinese
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      TIN PRICES
      27 11 SINGAPORE, Mon., Aug. 14—5404.75 (up $0.62!-.) LONDON, Mon., Auj. 14.— Spot: £82*— £821: Forward, £820— £821; Settlement, £821. Tournover: Morning:, 95 tons, afternoon. 65 tons.
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      Malayan Tin Shipments
      167 11 rpHE Straits Trading Company announces the following July shipments of tin, in tons: From Singapore to: U.K. 200, U.S.A. 2,369, Continent 1.083U, Canada 100, Pacific 13, India 75>4, South America 60, Africa one, Middle East 1%; total 3,909*. From Penang to: U.S.A. 2,497, Continent 663%, Canada 95,
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      Hong Kong Exchange
      29 11 HONG KONG. Mon. FREE market currency exchange for Hong Kong dollars was quotrd today as follows: US$l. HK56.39; £1. HK»15.60 one tael of gold HKS3I4.— TJ.P.
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      Singapore Rubber
      182 11 fHE Singapore rubber marA ket was quieter yesterday at the opening. There was a slight Improvement when some Japanese buying orders were received, but the volume of business was on the small side. Prices went up slightly with first-grade September shipment registering $1.30 at noon, when the tone
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      London Rubber
      31 11 LONDON, Aug. 14.— Ail prices Nominal, Spot 42>4d, Sept. 40d. Oct.-Dec. 35d, Jan.-Mai. 30»id Apr.-June 27d, Aug. c.i.f. 36d, Aug.-Sept., ci.f. 35d, Sept.-Cct c.i.f. 34d. Market: Easy, buyers scarce.
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      RUBBER ESTATES' JULY CROPS
      38 11 HARRISONS Crosfleld (Malaya) announce the following July rubber crops, in lb.: Allenby 38,000 Benta Est. 103,500 Jeram Kuar.tan Est. 78,000 Kundong Est. 35,000 Mentakab 97,500 Sungel Bagan 135,000 Sandycroft 25,500 Tanjong Pau Est. 51,000
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      Hitam Tin Output
      14 11 PJITAM Tins output of tin-ore in July amounted to 107 piculs.
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      Shipping In The Roads And Alongside
      159 11 CHIPS in the Singapore Outer and Inner Roads and alongside Harbour Board godowns yesterday were: Outer Roads: Hal- Hsuan. Mul Hock, M. Brander, La Capirena, Van Heutsz, Szechuan Sidajoe, Vedboy. Tamalpais, Aimee Lykes, Kurdistan. Hermelin, Chit Seln. Inner Roads: Halvdan, Katong, Mentakab, Sin Soon
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      369 11 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS TO NEW YORK AND BOSTON VIA CEYLON. INDIA ECYPT and MEDITERRANEAN PORTS. Spore P Sham Penang Pres. Monroe Cdn. 11 Sals 18 Aug. 19 Aug. 20/21 Aug. Prei Buchanan 22/27 Aug. 28/29 Aug. 30 Aug./I Sept. Pres Harding 5/10 Sept. 11/12 Sept. 13/15 Sept. Pres Van Buren
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    WEST INDIES ALL OUT 503
    1072 12 Wright Gets The 'Big Three In His Five For 141 LONDON, Monday. INDIES were all out for 503 in their first innings here today, second day of the fourth and final Test against England. At close, England had scored 29 without loss through Simpson (12)
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    RAFFLES BEAT V.I. AT HOCKEY
    90 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. DAFFLES Institution gave a creditable account of themselves to defeat Victoria Institution two-one at hockey this afternoon on the V.I. ground. Stubborn defence by Sinnappah, the V.I. full-back, prevented Raffles Institution from scoring more goals in the closing stages. Sulaiman, V.I. centre
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    U.K. Football League Fixtures
    254 12 LONDON. Mon. FOLLOWING aw U.K. Football League fixtures for Saturday. August 19: DIVISION I A. Villa v W. Bromwlch; Burnley v Arsenal; Charlton v Bolton; Chelsea v Shef. Wednesday; Everton v Huddersfleld; Manchester U v Fulham; Plymouth v Middlesbrough; Stoke v Newcastle; Sunderland v Derby Co.;
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    18 12 FOUR O'CLOCK Charles) being: led in by Trainer Chum Wadsworth after winning the Penang Gold Cup on Saturday.
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    18 12 TODAY: 12.26 a.m. (Bft. 8ln.) and 11.54 p.m. (10ft. 3in.K TOMORROW: 12.51 p.m. (Bft. 9 In).
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    Tulloh Takes Lead Among Jockeys
    315 12  -  EPSOM JEEP By IPOH, Monday. JOCKEYS Colin Tulloh and Arthur Ayres. both in 3 their second season on the Malayan Turf, are now neck and neck in front in the race for the jockey premiership. Riding six winners at the recently concluded Penang August Bank
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    2 M.C.F.A. GAMES THIS WEEKEND
    115 12 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Mon. "PHIS YEAR'S M.C.F.A. North South soccer match will be played in Ipoh on Sunday. Proceeds will go to the family of the late Khoo Eoh Chye, a former Penang State footballer. It will be recalled that Khoo died during
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    Clifford Cup Draw & Aug. Medal Results
    194 12 Clifford Cup Draw Aug. Medal Results R.S.G.C. TOURNEYS The draw for the first round of the R.S.O.C.'s Clifford Cup to be completed not later than August 27 is as follows:— P. H. Steed v N. Mckee; E. H. Larive v H. E. Wilkinson; M. M. Paterson v O. McGuffln; D.
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    50 12 T. 1.'.-lJssius [left) S!n T:\Tjore Non-Bonders captain and A. j. Rostock Hill, Federation captain, after the toss in the annual Non-Benders cricket match held last weekend at Kuala Lumpur. Both were in the Malayan XI which beat the Australian team In X.1.. in 1927.— Photo by C. F. I. arm
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    EX-SERVICE ASSOCIATION GOLF
    208 12 HPHE Ex-Service Association of: A Singapore will be holding its annual golf competition by courtesy of the Royal Singapore Golf Club at Bukit Timah on Sunday. Air Marshal Sir Francis Fogarty will be leading the field behind a suitable advance guard and about 40 competitors will join
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    ARSENAL GET READY
    36 12 ARSENAL, F.A. Cup champions, prepare for the bi; kick-off. "Reds" centre-forward P. Goring is seen as he takes a shot for goal against "Whites" goalkeeper Swindin while full-bark Scott races up to cover.
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    S.O.S.C. Receives 2 Invitations
    320 12 PRELIMINARY information on the XV World Olympics to be held at Helsinki. Finland in 1952 and an invitation to the First Asian Games to be held at New Delhi this year, have been received by the Singapore Olympic and Sports Council. This was revealed In the
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    R.I. SAVED BY CLOCK
    144 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. CCORES of 64 and 77 by Hazara Singh and Khoo Chooi Leong respectively featured the cricket in which Victoria Institution ]ust j failed to beat the touring Raffles Institution of Singapore in their match on the V.I. ground here
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    Sports Diary
    52 12 SOCCER: Community l*e: Malay* v Eurasians at Jalan Besar stadium; Business Hae. A: Malayan Airways v Slme Darby at C.V.M.A.; Business Hse. B: Mansfield v Oversea Chinese Bank at Geylanc; Jnr. Cup-tie replay: Cheerful Lads v Social A.P. at 8.0.D. ground. TENNIS: Tanglln Club and yjtf.C.A. tour na
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    DAVE TO FIGHT AT HARRINGAY
    123 12 J)AVE Sands, Australian holder of the Brit/sh Empire middleweight title is going to Britain next month to be on top of the bill at Harrinsav on Oct. His opponents will be chosen from Randolph lurpin, Leamington contender for the European title, world champion Jake Lamotta
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    O.T.E.C. WIN 3-1
    30 12 Oriental Telephone and Electric Company S.C. defeated Chartered Bank S.C. by three itoals to one in a SAFA Business Hou^e b fixture played at Geylang Radium yesterday.
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    Weekes In Line For 2 Records
    212 12 LONDON Mon. EVERTON de Courcy Weekea whose batting feats hay» exposed the limitations of the English county bowler thia aummer, Is In sight of at least two more records. When he scored 147 off th« Glamorgan attack at Swansea he equalled the performance of
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    MALAYAN NONBENDERS C.C.
    118 12 From Our Staff Corrrspnndcnt KUALA LUMPUR. Mjm. Dm Singapore v Federation f!..i>Benders cricket mutch next vr >f will be held in Magapon The annual general meeting H the Malayan Non-Bender* CC. was held In Ihf Bdailgor Club >v Saturday nk'hr Mr. H. D'Arcy Irvino i.S.n pore) was
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    MALAY TEAM FOR TODAY'S SOCCER
    59 12 The Malay soccer clevin to tn i Eurasians in the S.A.F.A C munity League tie .n Jalan B -.r today will be picked fro.n tha following: Arshad. Osim:!) AoguUla, S:iii> i. Haji Garhan. Abdul Rahman Sir.. Ismail Bujang, Hnrith. Ibrahim Abdullah, Sh;<iitf Msdon. Aw-.i Bakar,
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    R.A.F. REFEREES
    25 12 The R.A.P. Referee;- Society i holding its first annual dinner in Singapore on Friday. Sept. 15, a<, the Shackle Club at 7.45 D.in.
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