The Straits Times, 21 August 1950

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 .TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1950 PRICE TEN CENTS
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    U.K. INFANTRY FOR KOREA
    211 1 Troops Going From H.K. 'Immediately THE United Kingdom Government has decided to send an infantry force from Hong Kong to Korea immediately. This is announced in official statements issued in London and Singapore. The action is in response to the request by the Commander-in-Chiei of the
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    RED BOMBS HURT 11 IN SAIGON
    144 1 SAIGON, Sunday. I^I.KVEN Vietnamese were injured when Com■J munist-led guerillas threw four har.d-grenades outside the crowded Kirn Chung gambling casino, Vietnam police reported yesterday. The new terrorist attacks coincided with the fifth anniversary of the Communist-led Vietminh rising. The Vietminh ordered its student followers
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    31 1 ELIZABETH smiles fi ippilv ;ts she drives from < irenee Boose, following Mir birth of her lirsl yrandii milliter, the i-hild <>f Prini ->n Elisabeth and th»* Duke Ktiinbunth. A. P. picture.
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    H.K. Burial For Bandit Victim
    119 1 H.K. Burial For Bandit Victim From Our St«ff Coi respondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. MRS. Nora Evelyn Stutchbury, who was shot and stabbed to death by bandits in Pahang. is to be buried in Hong Kong, where she was born. Arrangements are being made to fly the body there. Her body
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    "IMPROVING"
    38 1 Mr. K. I. Middleton, the Singapore racing motorist, who was injured in a road accident on Saturday, when his passenger, Ismail bin Ahmad Paldi, was killed, was stated to be "improving" and now out of danger yesterday.
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    MR. THIVY WILL LEAVE TODAY
    47 1 The Indian Representative in Singapore Mr. John A. Thivy. will leave Singapore for Mauritius this afternoon in the m.s. Ruys. He will be accompanied by his 84-year-old father, Mr. Louis Thivy. Mrs. Thivy and his four children. Eugene, Theresa. Subhashini and Noel.
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    HONG KONG FIRES COST $2,500,000
    44 1 HONG KONG. Sun. It \.s estimated thai HKs:>,Mi'.OOO weie lost a.< a result Oi tires in the Colon y last > i The fire brigade an583 calls during the i< i lod. Tbese Included r.', 1 Ise alarms .Rf uter.
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    FOR FAR EAST
    25 1 CONDON. Sun. The BriI aircraft, carrier Warrior < i:?. 350 tonsi left Portsmouth to take personnel for <i'i(v to the Far East. ReuU-r.
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    MET THE PREMIER
    31 1 MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL, accompanied by Mr. Anthony Eden, arrives at 10. Downing Street, London, to m«*i the Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, on the recall of Parliament. Reuter picture.
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    N.Koreans Preparing For New Drive In The South
    546 1 TOKYO, Sunday. Korean troops, rolled back all along the line for the past three days, were building: up again today for another south coast stab at the vital Korean south-eastern supply port of Pusan. It was a quiet Sunday over most of
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    BIRTHDAY PARTY ENGAGEMENT?
    40 1 LONDON. Sun. THE Sunday Pictorial said Princess Margaret, who will be 20 years old tomorrow, has a birthday secret her engagement announcement to the 26-year-old Earl of Dalkeith. The Earl has known the Princess since childhood.— U.P.
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    RED CHANCES 'LESS GOOD' IN INDIA
    115 1 LONDON, Sun. •pHE Economist said yesterday that chances of eventual Communist success in India were "far less good" than they were In China. The people of India, having emerged from one era of imperial rule, were by no means inclined to let another fasten
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    Police Chief Dies In Mob Attack
    99 1 INDORE, Sunday. DOLICE opened fire on about 3,000 workers here 1 today after they attacked them with brickbats and sticks. The Deputy Superintendent of the lnaore Police, who was injured in the attack, died in hospital half an hour later. The workers were employees
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    45 1 Last-minute preparation for the children taking part ta the many cultural displays during the festivities yesterday marking the fifth anniversaryv ersary of the Indonesian Republic at the residence of the Singapore representative, Dr. Zain, in Patterson Road, Singapore. Straits Times Picture. See also Page 7.
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    RUSSIANS AT THE RAFFLES
    76 1 Two Soviet officials of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Mr. S. Kosarev and Mr. G. Sernonov. passed the night here at Raffles Hotel last night on their way to Sydney, Australia They arrived at Kallang airport last night by the Q.E.A.-8.0.A.C. plane from London and they
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    MENZIES IN N.Z.
    30 1 NEW ZEALAND, Sun.— Mr. Robert Menzles, Prime Minister of Australia, arrived in New Zealand today by air from Vancouver having visited London, Washington, Ottawa and Tokyo.— Reuter.
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    MORE ELECTED MEMBERS FOR THE COLONY
    211 1 THE Secretary of State for the Colonies has approved in principle the recent proposals to strengthen the Unofficial membership of the Singapore Legislative Council and of the Executive Council, an official announcement stated last night. The approval will result in an increase of three
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    'Burma Surgeon' In Custody
    78 1 'Burma Surgeon' In Custody RANGOON, Sun. f)R Gordon Seagrave, Unned States medical mi sionary working at Namking in Northern Burma, has been taken into custody and brought to Rangoon for interrogation, it was stated here today. He is the author of the American best-sellers "Burma Surgeon" and "Burma Burgeon Returns".
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    TAN KAH KEE TOURS CHINA
    110 1 HONG KONG. Sup. Mr. Tan Kah Xc", a former Malayan rubber magnate, > reporced by the Chinese Rons to be pleased with the "great progress in New China." Mr. Tan said in an inirvlew in February that ho was not a member of the Communist
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    CAMP FOR REFUGEES
    69 1 SOMEWHERE IN KOREA. Sun. South Korean war refugees are being taken to Koje an island south-west of Pusan. The island refugee camp was selected primarily to collect the homeless in one area, where feeding and housing facilities could be more efficiently handled. The Americans also remember how
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    ACTRESS MEETS A LLAMA
    44 2 ACTRESS MEETS A LLAMA THIS YOUNG LLAMA, less than two weeks old, r intains a dignity and reserve that would do credit to .V older and more worldly creatures In a similar situation. Proferring the endearments is American film star Ava Gardner. A.P. picture.
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      Polio Kills 218 In U.K. In Eight Months
      167 2 LONDON, Sunday. TNFANTILE paralysis has killed 218 people in Bri- tain this year up to Aug. 12, compared with 98 for the same period last year. There xrer- roses up *-> Aug. 12, compared with 707 in the same period last year,
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    TALKS ON FAR EAST AT HAGUE
    100 2 THE HAGUE, Sun. (r PHE Australian Foreien Minister, Mr. Percy Spender, will discuss the political situation In the Par East, and possibly New Guinea, with the Netherlands Foreign Minister, Mr. Dirk Stikker informed sources said here yesterday. Mr. Spender is arriving for a two-day
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    America To Make New Appeal To Europe On Rearmament
    226 2 America To Make New Appeal To Europe On Rearmament -SHOWING TOO MUCH COMPLACENCY" WASHINGTON, Sunday. HIGH United States official yesterday said that America will again ask for a speed-up in European rearmament at Tuesday's meeting in London of the North Atlantic Pact Deputy Foreign Ministers. The United States Government believed
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    WARNING ON "PEACE APPEAL"
    114 2 WARNING ON "PEACE APPEAL" BERLIN. Sun. ROMAN Catholic leaders ypsterdav ordered 2,*****0 Catholics In the Soviet zone of Germany not to r.l^n the Communist sponsored Stockholm "Peace Appeal. The message, broadcast from two West Berlin stations, warned Soviet zone priests not to be "hoodwinked" by the appeal, which it described
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    U.S. EMBARGO ON RUSSIA
    79 2 NEW YORK. Sun.— The International Longshoremen's Union yesterday decided in favour of an embargo on ail future shipments of Soviet products entering the ports of New York and Boston. The ban followed the decision of New York dockers not to unload a cargo of Russian furs.
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    BRITISH PROTEST ON RED SHELLING
    67 2 LONDON, Sunday. FOREIGN Office officials said yesterday that the British Charge d'Affaires in Peking. Mr. J. C Hutchinson. has been instructed to protest against the shelling of HMS Concord b y Communist shore, batteries. The officials also said the British ambassador in Cairo had been
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    FOR TALKS WITH MacA
    71 2 WASHINGTON, Sun Admiral Forrest Shen..:m C n.-f of Nava] Open Wins, iiid (J- n. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, left yesterday for Tokyo where they will hold stratr-y talks with Gen. Mac Arthur Before taking off Gen. O!lins expressed optimism about the Korean war. He
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      421 2 NOTICES PROBATE k ADMINISTRATION •MM Ismail Ma Sultan Mobamrd decrasrd (Sir Ismail, ex Sultan of KclanUn) ALL PERSONS having claims aK-inst the estate of the abovenamed deceased who died at Kota Bharu. Kelantan on 20th June 1944, are required to submit their rlaltm in writing to the under•ifrned not later
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    PLAN TO BEAT WORLD POVERTY
    424 3 Mutual Aid— UK Labour Party LONDON, Sunday. j'HK British Labour Party today proposed a lonjr-term "world plan for mutual aid" to succeed Marshall Aid in 1952. The Party I xccutive, in a new statement of policy issued here today, said work on the plan should
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    STORM IN EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY
    179 3 STRASBOURG, Sun. THE French Socialist leader, M. Guy Mollet, y.\slerday brought to a head i lie clash m British Labour and continental representatives which has threatened to split Uk Council of Europe since ii was inaugurated a year ago. He resigned as secretary of the Assembly's
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    FESTIVAL OF THE LOVERS
    63 3 HONG KONG. Sun .Sacrificial tables were laid last nisht at millions of homes in China and Hong Kong in honour of the annual rpunion of China's two greatest loves— the star of the weaving girl and the star of the shepherd Today the seventh day of
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    'U.N. Has No Rights In Colonies'
    186 3 LAKE SUCCESS, Sun. WHILE maintaining its atv titu«e that the Colonial powers cannot be held to account by the United Nations Committee on information from non-self-governing territories, the British Government has declared its intention of co-operating with the Committee within certain limits. It has
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    Commission To Meet On Korea Today
    111 3 Commission To Meet On Korea Today TOKYO, Sun. United Nations Korean Commission will study post-war Korean problems when It meets tomorrow at the port of Pusan on the south-eastern tip of the wartorn peninsula. The Indian delegate. Dr. Anup Singh, who will preside over this crucial session of the United
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    Korean Beauties In Red Propaganda
    158 3 TOKYO, Sunday. VTORTH Korea's Communist army opened a psychological warfare campaign on the southwest front yesterday telling Americans "we are not your enemies" and promising good treatment. One leaflet showed a photo of a pretty Korean girl making up a cot for a prisoner. Another—
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    QUEEN'S COIFFEUR
    33 3 THE WIFE of King AkenKua. ruler of 700,000 Nigerians, had her hair plaited and weaved tightly when she flew into London recently. The coiffeur is permitted only to the King's wives.
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    ARRESTS BAN
    29 3 TAIPEH. Sun.— Nationalist China's Cabinet has banned arrests of suspected criminals without proper warrants. It said habeas corpus— a writ before a court must be guaranteed.— A.P.
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    FAROUK WINS AFTER GAMBLING ALL NIGHT
    121 3 FAROUK WINS AFTER GAMBLING ALL NIGHT DEAUVILLE, Sun. KINO Farouk of Egypt, on holiday at Deauville, spent most of yesterday in bed, after winning an estimated £20,000 at night-long baccarat. Meanwhile, sources close to the 30-year-old King, continued to deny that 17-year-old Mlm Narrlman Sadek, whom he Is reported to
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    KEEPING WATCH
    45 3 AN AMERICAN soldier keeps watch from a fortified ridge overlooking a burning village in the Ponang area of the Korean front as he covers comrades patrolling the hillside. An American medium tank (right) blasts at enemy positions in South Korean hills. A.P. pictures.
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    10 MIL. LB. REACH FRONT BY AIR
    63 3 TOKYO, Sun. IJNITED STATES Air Force cargo planes have flown 10,000,000 pounds of war materials and more than 6,000 passengers from Japan to Korea sines the Communist invasion, saj/s Gen. Mac Arthur's Headquarters With C-47s (Ski/trains) forming the nucleus, cargo airplanes being used
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    WHOLE VILLAGES SWALLOWED UP
    290 3 ual,uutta, Sunday. pNTIRE villages in the Indian state of Assam were swallowed up by the great earthquake which rocked Tibet, the "roof of the world", last week, according to delayed reports last night. The total recorded deaths f already stands at 20, but authoritative quarters feared
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    SHIPS SPEED TO KOREA
    99 3 MALTA, Sun. AN aircraft carrier and several heavy warships of the United States Sixth Task Fleet suddenly broke off exercises with the British Mediterranean Fleet yesterday and left the area at top speed for "other commitments." Unofficial sources said the warships were, making for the Suez
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    100,000 Strike To Protest Killing Of Red Leader
    284 3 100,000 Strike To Protest Killing Of Red Leader LIEGE, Sunday. THE Belgian Prime Minister, Mr. Joseph Pholien, yesterday made a radio appeal for nationwide calm as lightning strikes broke out among 100,000 workers in this Belgian "Ruhr" in protest against the assassination of the Communist Party chief, Mr. Julien Lahaut.
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    REDSSEEK U.S.-MAO FIGHT
    162 3 REDS SEEK U.S.-MAO FIGHT LONDON, Sun. THE Times yesterday called x on the Western powers to "make it plain" that the war in Korea would be localised and that they "pay full attention to the Asian voice that speaks through India." It warned that it would suit Russia to have
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    "NO PROPOSALS"
    43 3 BELGRADE. Sun— Mr. Ernest Davies, British Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, denied at a Press conference here yesterday that he was taking to the Yugoslav Government any Greek proposals for the reestablishment of normal diplomatic relations between the two countries.— Reuter.
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    700 YEARS AGO
    27 3 iNsraumoN i<>r this style worn by Uiana L] mi was found in the 13th itiitury. The head-dress is of white Jersey silk. Rrtiter picture.
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    'H.K. Faces Heavy Jap Dumping'
    175 3 HONG KONG. Sun. 'pRADE and industry in Japan is rapidly recove ing to pre-war levels, aci ing to a Chinese Industrie who returned here attir an extensive tour <>t Japan plants and facton He said practically all larse-scule factories. shipbuilding and cotton mills have resunipd
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    VERY GOOD"
    32 3 TOKYO. Sun.— Dr. Wellington Kco. Chinese Ambassador to the United States, said yesterday that, In his personal opinion, the prospects of an early peace treaty Japan were "very good". UP.
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    CONTROL CHILD MARRIAGES DEMAND IN SINGAPORE
    250 4 THE Singapore Government is expected to be asked shortly to initiate legislation to control child marriages in the Colony, the Straits Times understands. This move, it is understood, is not a direct outcome of the Maria Hertogh marriage, although this case has focussed attention
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    Maria Gets More Aid Pledges
    100 4 Maria Gets More Aid Pledges JLfIORE letters promising financial aid and .support have been received by Maria Hertogh and her Malay husband, Inche Al Mansor Adabi, from Indonesia, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. The letters, were mainly from welfare associations and social organisations. and include a few .individual letters containing financial
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    RAILWAYMAN ACQUITTED
    45 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. Omar bin Tahir. Clerk of Works. Malayan Railway, who was charged" in the johore Bahru Police Court today with accepting $100 from a railway contractor, was acquitted and al.scharged by Inche Taib bin Hj. Andak today
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    Taiping Transfer
    20 4 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Sun— Mr. Lee )on Wee. the Selangor iortsman, has been transrred to Taiping.
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    Gaoled For Theft Of Copra
    62 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Sat Samachu bin Ahmad and Mohamed bin Kotan, were convicted in the Batu Pahat Police Court today of theft of one pikul and 65 katis of copra from Tee Cha. of Parit Perpat. Ringit. Samachu was sentenced to four
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    NEW CHILD WELFARE CLINIC
    186 4 NEW CHILD WELFARE CLINIC FE Acting Colonial Secretary. Mr. W. L. Blythe, on Saturday opened a $32,00G child welfare clinic, built by the inhabitants of Bukit Panjang District. Mr. Blythe said the clinic was a monument to the communal efforts of the people of Bukit Panjang. The clinic will be
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    HAD SEDITIOUS PAPERS, JAILED
    77 4 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Sun.— A Chinese, Goh Book Chooi, was sentenced to one year's rigorous Imprisonment for possessing seditious publications when his case was heard in the Malacca Magistrate's Court. The Prosecution said that Goh's personal effects were examined by an officer at the
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    Singapore Diary
    78 4 EXHIBITION OF ENGLISH HANDWRITING. British Council Hall, Stamford Road, 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. RED CROSS WORKING PARTY, Guide Hat, Clemenceau Avenue, 10 a.m. to noon. Y.W.C.A., Raffles Quay. International Fortnightly Club, Mrs. R. S. C lemons on "Care of Animals and Birds in Singapore," 10 a.m. Indian
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    GOING TO POLLS
    105 4 Independent Candidate For Rochore A NEW Independent can- didate. Mr. M. A. Rahlm Khan, a 30-year-old Singapore businessman, will fight the Rochore ward in the forthcoming Municipal elections. Mr. Khan is a non-commu-nalist and a trade unionist. He was president of the Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association,
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    $1 Mil. Wireless Station To Open
    171 4 A NEW $1,000,000 wire- less receiving station, with the latest equipment, comes into partial operation today for, Cable and Wireless Ltd. The station, which is lorried in the north-eastern part of Singapore, has been huill on a former 250-acre rubber estate, bought by the
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    Passengers By Air
    233 4 'pHE following passengers were anion* those who arrived at Kalian^ airport yesterday from 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 Sjdnry: Mr. T. Falkini;ham. Mrs. Tait and 2 childitn. Mrs. C. Riieway and child, and
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    Tenants' Welfare Assn. Move Welcomed
    106 4 Tenants Welfare Assn. Move Welcomed THE organiser of the proposed Sub-tenants' x Association, Mr. S. M. A. Chisty. Labour Member in the Singapore Municipal Commission, said yesterday he welcomed the new move to organise a Tenants' Welfare Association in Singapore. Mr. Chisty said that he hoped the new Association would
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    PREPARING COLONY BUDGET
    145 4 FkEPARTMENTS of the fittn- gapore Municipality have been extra busy this month preparing their estimates of revenue and expenditure for Inclusion In the City's Budget for next year. Under Municipal Administration Bye-laws all depart- ments have to submit their estimates for the next year to the Municipal
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    JEWISH WEDDING
    39 4 MISS HELEN ELISHA, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Elisha. of Singapore, and Mr. Charles Lelah. employed in the Accounts Dept. N.A.A.F.I. Anson Road, who were married yesterday at Maghain A both Synagogue. Straits Times picture.
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    Midnight Gifts To 7 Sisters
    220 4 Midnight Gifts To 7 Sisters From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. COON after the clocks struck midnight last night, there were bonfires all over Kuala Lumpur as Chinese families burned sacrificial offerings to seven sister goddesses sa r 1 to be the most beautiful in heaven. Womenfolk offered up
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    ALLEGED THEFT OF WALLET
    50 4 TAIPING, Sun. Trooper J. E. Brown was charged before the Taiping Magistrate with theft of a wallet belonging to Capt. C. S. W. Chown at the 2nd Malay Regiment Officers' Mess on Aug 10. The rase was postponed to Aug. 28. Bail of $100 was allowed.
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    Strad. Masterpiece In Singapore
    165 4 A HISTORIC Stradivarius cello, over 200 years old, arrived in Singapore yesterday, closely guarded by its owner, Mr. Edmund Kurtz, a world-famous cellist, who had special permission to carry Uie instrument himself in the QEA-BOAC Constellation j from Sydney. The cello, which is ed as one
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    3 On Drug Charges
    93 4 TAN Soo Kow, of Syed Alwi Road, claimed trial In the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to administering to himself a deleterious drug. Tan Kit Chor, of Victoria Street, claimed trial to permitting the administration of morphine in his house when he was not a medical
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    Takes Off On Three Engines
    45 4 TIE KLM Constellation on a scheduled flight from Jakarta to Bangkok which had to make a landing at Kalian* airport on Satnrday on thrr« <*igin?s bettne of engine trouble, toojt off yesterday morning on tstt •oflnea fo> Jakarta *ot rrpair».
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    Children sold to save them from starvation
    1414 5  - Children sold to save them from starvation FRANK MORAES Critical food situation in three Indian States By BOMBAY: THKRK is great disquiet on India's food front. In three States, Bihar, Madras and West Bengal, the situation is particularly critical. Starvation deaths have been reported in Bihar and Madras, and the
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      284 5 10.50 School*; 13-7.30 pjn. Al story: 10.15 -Ploor-ShoW 10.30 v. n- I S'pore; 7.30 BBC Midland Light Dance Music; 11 Close. 10 a.m. News, followed by Emer- Orcn 8 As s'pore: 8.15 Julal Tan gency News from KL.; 10.10 Close; an( T yalerlo; 8.30 "Music BFKBS 12 Malay; 1 pjn.
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    87 6 MRS CHIU SECK JOO (nee Wong Yuek N<?ow> «ge 45. beJ<'.r' wifp of M. Ohiu Seek Jon of Keller Piano Company, and nofhfr of Chiu Nan* Hons of! Kuala Lumpur, and Chiu Nanc: Y.ine. pMMd away peacefully on F-T'-Mav 19'h An", nt 810 p.m. t her rpsidrn^o 70. Sophia
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    PERSONAL
    41 6 MISS On IFFITH-JONES A ertmtcour, would like to Cameron Hiehlinds 01 T<pclin Sohrol parents, who may «Hrtl to mntaet Hie:n. on Friday .'.SMi. b'twerp 9.30 a.m. noon, nt :h,> new Tanijlin preflinol prprrmcv Holland K<i Rrvond Pirrop Rd Tel *****
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Aug. 21, 1950. Western Aid For Asia
    1009 6 Optimists outside Asia who believe that a benevolent Western interest in the economic problems of this area will repeat in the course of a year or two the benefits of the Marshall Plan, will find no encouragement in
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    ASIAN ECONOMICS
    47 6 The Economic Bulletin referred to in our leading article was prepared by the Research and Statistics Division of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East. Published by the U.N. Commission in Bangkok, it was printed in Singapore by the Straits Times Press Ltd.
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    2 U.S. FIGHTERS COLLIDE IN AIR
    51 6 QUONEST POINT. Rhode Island, Sun. Two Corsair fighter planes collided 1,000 feet over this naval air station on Friday. One pilot was killed, but th> v other brought his plane to a safe landing. Sixteen of the fighters were circling the field after manoeuvres.
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    An Amah At The Fall
    228 6 ■^yE should like to expiess our sympathy for Mr. and Mrs. Hertogh. Like them, we too lost a child for. one year only we were lucky. We had a Chinese amah. We had four children and she looked after the smallest. When the Japanese came
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    36 6 JACOB EPSTEIN AT WORK THE unconcerned eighteen- month-old who sits as model for the famous sculptor is Portland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Mason. She plays with the clay while Epstein moulds it. Reuter photograph.
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      THE NON-ASIAN TAXPAYERS
      400 6 YOUR leading article in Wednesday's Straits Times on the subject of income tax, coupled with the official figures broken down into community contributions, must surely give rise to serious thought on the part of European taxpayers. It is perhaps hardly surprising that it has taken the authorities
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      IS THE GOVT. DOING ITS BEST?
      151 6 QN Aug. 16 you reported that two Chinese found consorting with bandits had been sentenced to four years' and seven years' imprisonment A few days ago a woman bandit threw a grenade at a Gurkha soldier. She was caught, tried, proved guilty and sentenced
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      SLEEPLESS IN PENANG
      214 6 T«HE O.C. Traffic, Pe- nang, stated in an Advisory Committee meeting on July 22 (reported by you on July 24) that many people were using the public streets as open-air garages for their motor vehicles. The noise and filth created by such people are a nuisance, and
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      How About Controlling The Boys?
      148 6 AFTER reading of the recent events concerning the "banned boys" of the Singapore Chinese High School, one is entitled to wonder what the principal. Mr. Cheng An Lun, proposes to do about things. Why were the black-listed students allowed tj hold a meeting in the
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      "The Rip Van Winkles"
      219 6 "The Rip Van Winkles" "So far nothing done for the unfortunate owners of Government War Loans bonds wh ich were lost." IF a reminder was wanted of the complete lack of nous on the part of Malayan officialdom, it was to be found in letters from the Federal Financial Secretariat
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      A TRADE UNION QUESTION
      240 6 jtfI UCH has been said of the importance of trade unions to the advancement of the workers in a democratic country. This lately formed the subject of a query from a Singapore Legislative Councillor. We have the Trade Unicn Adviser to settle any dismite between employers
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    On the Margin
    434 6 Fascinating! WHEN my bettei half insisted on Saturday on our going to the Handwriting Exhibition in the British Council hall in Stamford Road, as a step forward in our cultural education, I went under protest, thinking that this sounded like one «'r those things that are t
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      696 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. okahaM: To Joy, wife of D.D. Graham, on the 20th Aug., •t Randan* Krrbau Hospital, daughter Jennifer Ann. RENWICK: To Mary (nee Maclean), wife of C. C. Renwick. ■t .Tohore Bahru Hospital, on 18th Aur 1B50 b daughter. Both well. c-ornisH-CURRIE. The marriage took plncp at Kuala Lipis
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      22 6 THE PRECISION WATCH SINCE 1856 for Men from $115 for Ladies $125 EXPERT SERVICE AFTER SALE It (OUTER QUAY SUWAPOTt SOLE ACENTS
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    AIR FORCE DROPS SUPPLIES TO 'LOSTTRIBE'
    363 7 Rice Seed, Tools -And Whisky By A Special Air Correspondent SINGAPORE, Sunday. JHE "Lost Tribe of Lundayas". in North llorneo, will owe their next padi-harvest to the R.A.F., which, despite operational commitments in Malaya, has found time to supply-drop the tribe a vitally-needed cargo
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    Colony Indonesians Celebrate ANNIVERSARY OF THE REPUBLIC
    107 7 Colony Indonesians Celebrate ANNIVERSARY OF THE REPUBLIC Thousands of Indonesians and Malays yesterday celebrated the fifth anniversary of the Indonesian Republic founded actually five years ago last Tuesday —with a colourful party at the Patterson Road home of Dr. Zain. Indonesian representative in Singapore. As the Indonesian flag was hoisted
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    FOOD TOO DEAR
    43 7 from Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Sun. THE Food and Price Control Advisory Committee which met in Ipoh, has drridrd to ask Government to introduce legislation to control the high prices of cooked food in restaurants, eatin e shops and Stalin.
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    Two Die In Accident
    82 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. 4 BDULLAH bin Kunji MaiA. din. a 40-year-old Indian Muslim, was killed yesterday when the cycle he was riding crashed into a lorry on Julan Trus. A Chinese lorry attendant died in hospital as the result of serious Injuries received when he jumped
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    INSTANT CHECK ON THUMB PRINTS
    152 7 INSTANT CHECK ON THUMB PRINTS tiROM today, Singapore policemen will carry pocket fingerprint outfits for on-the-spot checks of suspicious characters. During the past three months, 600 policemen have undergone a course in fingerprint checking at the Criminal Registry Office of the C.I.D. The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. W. J.
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    PUBLIC LECTURE
    32 7 Mr. N. C. Chaterjee. bar-rister-at-law. retired judge of the Calcutta High Court, will speak on "India Today'" at the Ramakrishna Mission. 9, Norris Road, Singapore on Wednesday at 6.30 p.m.
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    DRUNK $10
    32 7 Urban Theseira. a 50-year-old Eurasian, was fined $10 by Mr. P. Claque in the Singapore Fourth Police Court after pleading guilty to being drunk and incapable of taking of himself.
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    Quit Legion, Now On Way Home
    262 7 Quit Legion, Now On Way Home A HANDSOME young German, Franz Goretzki. is now aboard the Mariekerk in Singapore, on his way to Germany after an arduous escape in Indo-China from the French Foreign Legion. Twenty-year-old Frani, who is an ex-Wehrmacht soldier, exprisoner of war and now exLegionnaire, deserted from
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    NO UMNO AID FOR HELD MALAYS
    109 7 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA. Sunday. PHE true, interpretation of Clause 2C of UMNO rules "does not include the giving of financial assistance or aid in kind to those detained under the Emergency Regulations". This was resolved at a divisional committee meeting of the
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    MUSICAL SOCIETY REHEARSALS
    76 7 The Singapore Musical Society's first choral rehearsal for its Christmas concerts will be held in the Victoria Memorial Hall this evening at 5.30. The Society's programme in December will consist of two parts of Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" and the first part of Handel's "Messiah." New members will
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    HAD SCRAP
    44 7 From Oar Own Correspondent KAJANG, Sun.— Llm Tai Moy, who was arrested on West Country Estate. Kajang, for unlawful possession of 3f 2 kattis of scrap rubber worth $1.75 was sentenced to a week's imprisonment by the Kajang Circuit Magistrate, Inche Anuar.
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    WED IN STORE
    34 7 A teacher at the Ismail English School, Kota Bahru, Kelantan, Inche Hussain Mohamed, was married yesterday in Singapore to Che Khairun, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Haider, of Singapore.
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    Education Drive In Kampongs
    223 7 THE Singapore Malay Union plans to extend night classes to all its branches soon, in a move to combat illiteracy among Malays in both the urban and rural areas of Singapore. The classes will be divided into two English for those who already have had Malay
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    US MISSION HEAD SEES DATO ONN
    83 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. ILfR. John F. Melby, head of the U.S. Mission touring Malaya, Major-General Graves B. Erskine, Mr. William Langdon, U.S. ConsulGeneral, Singapore, and Mr. Lawrence, of the U.S.I.S. Singapore, called on Dato Onn bin Jaffar, Director of the
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    BAN ON SHOPS
    92 7 From Our (Inn Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. rE acting Mentri Besar. Johore, has by a Gazette notification ordered the dally closing of all shops except between 2 and 4 p.m. in the following places:— All shops in Kangka Bahru, Yong Peng area; All shops in Yong Peng,
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    Welfare Of U.S. Seamen
    97 7 MISS Frances Dailor, Chief of the Seamen's Bureau in the State Department in Washington, left Singapore yesterday on the President Monroe for the U.S. after completing investigations into the conditions of American seamen in the Colony. Miss Dailor, who will make a full report to the
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    TOBACCO THEFT
    27 7 Two hundred tins of cigarettes and 150 tins of tobacco, valued at $500, were stolen from a shop in Bouth Bridge Road, Singapore last night.
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    WHY WAS 'THE BLUE LAMP' BANNED?
    255 7 T<HERE was a Press preview on Saturday of "The Blue Lamp," a nlm which has been held-up for two months by the Censor and which, apparently, has displeased the police In Singapore. This picture was passed without a single cut by the Federation Board
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    Motor Trishaws Again Urged For Singapore
    154 7 Motor Trishaws Again Urged For Singapore A SINGAPORE motor hi Urn applied to the Municipal Commissioners lor permission to operate 1,000 motorised trishaws in the city. The application will be considered shortly by a Municipal committee. The firm exhibited the trishaws at the recentl Trade Fair and Exhibition at the
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    Two Bandit Helpers Shot Dead
    134 7 Two Bandit Helpers Shot Dead From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. rO bandit helpers no tried to escape fr< m police in PERAK on Friday night were shot d< ad. On the same night., a Chinese was abducted I v Perak bandits. in pahang yesterday, a. bus was set
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    2 REMANDED IN CUSTODY
    86 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Two young Malays, Abu Bakar bin Haji Tahir and Mohamed Khalid bin Abdul Aof, claimed trial to four charges at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. They were alleged to have committed trespass at the Government rice store at Bungsar Road, stolen $650 worth of rice
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    SILVER JUBILEE
    54 7 The Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church held its Silver Jubilee Celebration week from Aug. 10 till Aug. 18. six nights being devoted to special revival meetings. The present pastor of the Church is the Rev. Hong Hang Keng. who has seen 18 years' uninterrupted service among the Chinese
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    MALAY CLASSES
    42 7 From Our Own < emaponsKnl TELUK ANSON, Sun. There are ntw seven Malay classes five for boys and two for girls— for sih year students ol the San Mm School, in Teluk Anson, since Mai; y was included In the curriculum
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    BROKE CURFEW
    22 7 From Our Staff (orrespnndrnt SEREMBAN, Sun. Ong Sang yesterday was fined MO at Seremban for breakiiv. (he curfew order village.
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    USE IT NOW
    462 8 says Major P. G. Roberts, M.P. IF the United Nations is to maintain peace it must be ;«l>le to use the highest sanction the Atom Bomb. The authority of the United Nations is being t.'sted now. just as the authority of the League of Nations was tested
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    THE BOMB
    2 8 THE BOMB
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    NOT YET
    427 8 says Ma,]. -Gen. J.F.C. Fuller, C.8., C.8.E., D.s.o. fHK war in Korea is following a normal course, and because it is, it is so terrifying: Brst surprise; secondly, total unpre p a r e d n c ss; thirdly, atrocities; and, fourthly, hysteria, which means that within a
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    I talked with Hitler's generals in Werl Gaol
    694 8  - I talked with Hitler's generals in Werl Gaol SEFTON DELMER by I PUSHED the slip of paper which was my pass through a narrow slit in the big, solid steel gate of Werl penitentiary. I could sense someone on the other side examining it carefully. Then a key turned in
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      596 8 THERE are a great many combined hands would P'^y different types of bridge better at diamonds but, North playerTbut surely one of the was in no better positlor i to inmost dangerous, is th. type who sist on that than to reb id to iniisU on telling his partner far-from-soltd
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    A New Synthetic Rubber
    231 9 A New Synthetic Rubber ANEW Synthetic rubber, made without critically short styrcne, has been developed by the Phillips Petroleum Company in co-opera-tion with the Office of Rubber Reserve, says last month's Rubber Age. Limited road tests Indicate that the new rubber, called polybutadiene or "PB" rubber, is superior to GR-S
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    The Produce Market
    99 9 From a Market Correspondent THE Singapore produce market was slightly easier at the wrek-eiid. Prices dropped in the white pepper section, and there was a big demand for nutmegs. Selling prices (per plcul) quoted on Friday in the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange were: Gambier. rough slices »220;
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    GOLDEN EGGS FOR THE TAX COLLECTOR
    684 9 The Week In The Share Market From A Market Correspondent f THE pan-Malayan income tax report published last week has excited considerable comment. The most striking aspect was the large proportion of tax derived from companies. Out of Singapore's total of $26,059,416, 662 companies
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    Business Done
    293 9 JJUSINESS clone In the Malayan share market last week included: Industrials Consolidated Tin Smelter Ord. 16s. 6d. to 175., Fraser Neave Ord. C 2.85 to (2.90. Gammon $2.17*2, Goodwood Park Hotel $102., to »1.05, Hammer •34, William Jacks (Malaya) »2 05 to $2.07 'j, Hongkong Bank (Colonial) $620.
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    SUNGEI TUKANG
    57 9 From A Market Correspondent SUNGEI Tukang Rubber Company made r88,728 (12 per cent.) in the financial year to Mar. 31. 1950. and a final dividend ot five per cent, is recommended, making 12 2 per cent, for trie year. An interim on account of the current yrnr is
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      1325 9 MANSFIELD ot CO.. LTD. incorporated in Singapore) BLVE FUNNEL LIMB Carrier option to proc.ed .la other port* to load and <J C SAILINCS to LIVERPOOL. CLASCOW LONDON b CONTINENTAL PORTS Ova Sail* P. Sham Penang w L'VerDoo'L VerD00 C. 35/36 A.g. 26 A-g. 27/29 A-, 30/S.pt Rhcienor lor Holland, nhuig
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      383 9 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS TO NFW rORK AND BOSTON VIA CEYLON INDIA ECYPT and MEDITERRANEAN PORTS S'oor* Vnam r»enang Pres. Monroe Cdn. 11 S.vk 19 Aug. 20 Aug. 21/22 Aug Pres Buchanan 22/27 Aug 28/29 Aug. 30Aug./1 Sept. Pres Harding 5/10 Sept 11/12 Sept 13/15 Sept Pre« Van Suren 20/24 «ent
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      547 9 WEEK-END RUBBER PRICES London Rubber New York Rubber LONDON. Aug. 18— Spot 38d. In U.S. cents, closine: Sept. 37', d. Oct.-Dec. 34 ',d. Aug. 17 Aug. 18. Jan.-Mar. 32' id, Apr-June 30d 1 R.S.S. Sept 43.75 44.00 Aug.-Sept.. c.i.f. 35 id. Nominal traded traded Sept.-Oct. c.i.f. 34.d. Tone: Quiet. Market:
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    SPURS, WEDNESDAY SOUNDLY BEATEN
    471 10  - SPURS, WEDNESDAY SOUNDLY BEATEN JIM CHAMBERS By Start Of English Soccer Season LONDON, Sunday. EWGLISH football's two Stanleys Mortensen and Matthews were in tip top form on the first day of the new season as they combined to help Blackpool soundly whip Tottenham Hotspurs four to one. A near capacity
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    72 10 SHIRLEY MAY FRANCE, "A limp piece of flesh," is hauled out of the water about seven and a half nautical miles from the Dover coast at the end of her second unsuccessful bid to swim the English Channel on Aug. 8. She was taken aboard her pilot boat to Dover
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    Selangor B. A. Plan Fair To Raise Funds
    180 10 Selangor B. A. Plan Fair To Raise Funds From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. 'TUE SELANGOR Badminton Association !s to run a fun and food fair as the first step in a campaign to raise funds for the proposed $80,000 badminton hall at Birch Road, Kuala Lumpur At a
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    TANJONG KATONG INDIANS WIN
    22 10 Tanjong Katong Indian Badminton Party defeated Pasir PanJang Wsst End Badminton Party by four games to three recently.
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    Cold Storage Win
    60 10 Cold Storage beat CommissionerGeneral's Office by 69 runs in a game of cricket played at Farrer Park on Saturday. Scores: Cold Storage: 117 for 5 dccl. (P. de Kretser 6fi not out, H. W. Taylor 20 not out. Bottomley two for 32). C.G.0.: 48 (J. Metcalfe 19.
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    RUSSIAN TEAM FOR BRUSSELS
    83 10 MOSCOW, Sun.— Forty Russian athletes left Moscow for Brussels yesterday to compete in the European track and field championships starting next Wednesday. The Russian news agency, Tasa. reported .that the parly includes the tnree Russian women and one man who hold world records. The journey is
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    Negri Statement On Foong Seong Tie
    548 10 LETTER TO THE SPORTS EDITOR AS IT IS possible that an article published in Aug. 11 issue of one of your contemporaries regarding the Poong Seong Cup match between Johore and Negri Sembilan might create a wrong impression, the Negri Sembilan Badminton Association feels
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    NORTON Ist IN ULSTER RACE
    87 10 BELFAST, Sun. GEOFF Duke (Britain), riding a Norton yesterday won the 500 c.c. event In the 22nrj Ulster Grand Prix run over the Clady course here. He covered the 247i-mlle circuit In 2 hr. 29 mln. 15 sec. for an average speed of 99.56 m.p.h.
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    Traffic Police Win
    25 10 THE Trafflc Police B.P. beat the Eng Eng B.P. "B" team In a frlendhr badminton last Sunday by four games to three.
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    Manchester City Beat Preston N.E.
    217 10  -  JIM CHAMBERS THE SECOND DIVISION By LONDON, Sunday. EVERY SEASON the fight for promotion from the second division is always tough. Southampton and Sheffield United, who both missed so narrowly a season ago, set out on the new campaign with high hopes. Southampton made the
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    Arsenal Men Quit Union
    137 10 LONDON. Sun. A RSENAL football play- ers have quit the Football Players Union and they will not rejoin unless there is a change of policy and control in the Union. Laurie Scott the Arstn.il and England right -bark, the spokesman :or the Arsenal soccer team, said
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    REME Hold SCC To Draw
    194 10 SS CC. and RE ME. drew in a game of cricket played on lh« padang on Saturday. Scores: 8.C.C.: G. Wlnton b Henchlev 5; G. L. Heard c Simpson b Henchley 15; A. W. Hayes c Freud b Henchley 1; D. Price b Wright 28;
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    HOTSPURS S.C.
    72 10 The team to represent Hotspurs Sports Club in a iriendly game of soccer against Star Soccerih-s aL Farrer Park on today will be selected from the following. Wilfred Skinner. Ho Ec Bin. Dollah Hamid. Wun Mahmood. Lim Seng Chains;. Daud bin Rof.ulu (capt.). Lim Kirn Hian; N. Ganesan.
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    COLONY BADMINTON DRAW
    593 10 nnHE following is the draw for the open events in the Singapore Badminton Association, Championships: MEN'S SINGLES Top Section: Ng Cheng Hwa (Marigold) bye. Lim Chin Aik (Marigold) v. S. A. Durai (A.A.U.); Loong Pan Yap (Lucky Strike) v. Wong Peng Kow (Mayflower); Goh Tian Chye (Useful)
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    RAMADHIN 8 FOR 15 IN 40 BALLS
    376 11 Gloucestersh ire Out For 69 CHELTENHAM, Sunday. OEM ARK ABLE bowling by Sonny R a mad h in, 20-year-old West Indies spinner, caused a complete breakdown of the Gloucestershire batting here yesterday when the county were put in to bat on a rain-damaged
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    53 11 WEEKES, WALCOTT and W RIGHT were first in the rush for souvenirs as the fourth and last Test match between England and West Indies ended last Wednesday. The tourists won this last Test at the Oval by an innings and 56 runs and won the series by three Tests to
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    Scoreboard
    104 11 iiLOtXtSItKsUIKt— IST. INNS. l.mmrii b Ramadhin :rt Sir D. Bailey c Cbrlstlanl b Jobmon t B U. Allen c and b Gomel 2 D Vuanc Ibw Ramadhln 0 A Wilson b Ramadhin 0 T. GravenrT b Ramadhin 19 A. Milton c Weekes b Ramadhin 0 G Lambert c Trestrail
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    Sports Diary
    42 11 SOCCER: Business Hse. A: Hongkong Shanehai Bank v Borneo Motors at Geylang; Bus. Hse. B: Chartered Bank v Oversea Chinese Bank at 8.0.D. and Cable Wireless v Oriental Telephone at C.V.M.A. Friendly: Hotspurs v Star Socce rites at Farrer Park.
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    Singapore Chinese Were Tired Team
    352 11  -  GUNN CHIT THYE By PENANG, Sunday. SINGAPORE Chinese looked a tired team for 50 out of the 60 minutes of their Malayan Chinese F.A. Cup Final against Penang Chinese on Victoria Green yesterday. The visitors, too, did not have the best of luck and though
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    European AA Meet Opens On Wed.
    436 11  -  WILLIAM AJNDEKSUN By BRUSSELS, Sunday. TN THE headquarters of the Royal Belgian Athletic 1 League in Rue Marche Aux Herbes, Brussels, stand several big, heavily padlocked boxes. Labelled variously "javelin", "discus", "hammer"', etc., they symbolise that arrangements for the 1950 European athletic championships are
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    Phillips Wins E.S.A. Golf
    113 11 p\ J. Phillips won the annual golf competition of the ExServices Association of Singapore, played yesterday at the Royal Singapore Golf Club. In a stroke competition over nine holes he returned a net 32. Harry Bowrey, with 33 which included a birdie, was second and D.
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    Lanes. Well Placed v. Leicester
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    AIRMEN WIN BY 3 GOALS
    84 12 t> A.F. Tengah eliminated CYMA (PM> by three goals to nil in a hard fought SAFA Junior Cup-Tie fixture played at Geylang stadium yesterday. The superior Airmen were held to a one-nil lead till the last three minures of the game when they scored two
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
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    Selangor Club Win Stonor Shield Again
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    Junior Scoreboard
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    Andrew Tan Just Beats Masrom
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    MARIGOLD B.P.
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