The Straits Times, 29 September 1950

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    SEEING THE WORLD
    60 1 THIS PKIEON. rescued from the sea off Seattle by a Malayan ship's took, has tin (imp a firm favourite with the crew of the Silveroak, now at Singapore. It i., seen above with 21-year-olri David Poland, a young Lloyd's broker from London, who has sinned on as
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    INDIES TO OPEN CONSULATE INKL
    210 1 INDIES TO OPEN CONSULATE IN KL From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. AX Indonesian consulate will be set up in Kuala Lumpur very soon. The Representative of the Republic of Indonesia in Penang, Mr. M. Machoses, is now in Kuala Lumpur looking for office accommodation. I When the consulate
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    NO NEW RUBBER TAX BEFORE DEC. 1
    1538 1 NO NEW RUBBER TAX BEFORE DEC. 1 Promise After Council Attack From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. ANY proposed increase in the export duty on rubber will not be imposed in Malaya overnight. At least two weeks' notice will be given and no variation will be made before Dec.
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    NEW MALAYAN RADIO WEEKLY OUT TOMORROW
    58 1 rill Straits Times Radio Weekly will be on sale throughout Malaya tomorrow. It will contain detailed Radio Malaya programmes for the week Oct. I—71 7 and overseas programmes. There will also be features on radio personalities in this country and other parts of the
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    Another 'Yellow Top' Destroyed
    253 1 fiOMMI'NIST terrorists fired another yellow top taxi in Singapore last night; On Monday night they set lire to eight yellow taxis. CJ T !__3 Shortly after 9 o'clock last night two Chinese youths ftvpoed the taxi driven by 43- .-^irWld Hiwsain bin Moha-"tr'j-d. an Arab, at
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    Coal Gas Knocks Out 3 Workers
    112 1 r PHREE of six Municipal labourers overcome by gas fumes were removed to hospital yesterday afternoon. The mandore. Yayah, is In a serious condition. The men had been working on a main gas pipe outside Jalan Datoh Singapore, for five hours wnen Yayah collapsed
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    SHIP AGROUND, REFLOATED
    55 1 SOUTHAMPTON. Thurs. Coast-guard officials said today that the French luxury liner, Liberte. was refloated last night after running aground near the mouth of Southampton harbour. Officials said the Liberte swung free from a mudbank and anchored off the Isle of Wight. The giant liner, it was added,
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    U.S. BACKING
    33 1 NEW YORK Thurs.— The United States has decided to suppore Brazil. Turkey and the Netherlands for« Security Council seats in* the elections to be held soon in the Genpral Assembly. A.P.
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    9 HUKS KILLED
    20 1 MANILA. Thurs.— A Philippine Army patrol killed nine Communist Hukbalahaps In a clash in Camarines, North Province.
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    ROBBED OF $68
    24 1 Two Chinese and an Indian held up Ho Ah Huey at Sit Wah Road last night and robbed him of $68.
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    'Halt Bleeding Of The Australian £'
    134 1 'Halt Bleeding Of The Australian SYDNEY, Thursday. rpHE Sydney Daily Telegraph calls on the Govern--1 merit to "halt inflation now" in an editorial occupying all its front page today. "The Australian pound is bleeding to death the Federal Government has offered a proposal to stop this deadly 1 haemorrhage", says
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    SYNTHETIC PLANT TO RESTART
    40 1 AKRON Thurs. Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. announces that It will reopen its synthetic rubber plant here "in the near future." It is believed the plant will be ready within 00 days or less.— U. P.
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    N. KOREA REDS TOLD TO QUIT
    140 1 N. KOREA REDS TOLD TO QUIT SEOUL. Thurs. VORTH Korean leader 1 Kirn II Sung has ordered his troops to break off contact with the United Nations forces and retreat north of the 38th Parallel, an authoritative source told Reuter tonight. The source said that American intelligence agents had intercepted
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    U.N. TEAM TO FIGHT T.B.
    70 1 From Our SUIT Conespondmt KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— A BCG anti-tuberculosis vaccination team sent by the United Nations International Children Emergency Fund will arrive in Malaya early next month. State and Settlement teams nl a doctor and two nurses will be attached to It for training.
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    PRESS ATTACHES
    24 1 JAKARTA, Thurs. The Indonesian Government will send 30 press attaches for its foreign representation In every major capital In the world.— Reuter.
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    METAL CONTROLS
    23 1 OTTAWA. Thuri— Canada today extended export controls to 86 new articles, mainly metals which could be used for war production. A.P.
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    NEW U.K. RED "CONSPIRACY"
    119 1 LONDON, Thurs. THE Labour Minister, Mr. George Isaacs, warned last night that British Communists have gone underground In a widespread "conspiracy" to frustrate and aabotagt tiM nations He told a nationwide radio audience that the British Communists have adopted the technique of ''secret strike committees, secret
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    Muslim Women Forced To Discard The Veil
    77 1 BELGRADE, Thursday. THE Yugoslav Republic of Sosnia-Herzegovina today removed the traditional veil, of modesty from trie faces of tens of thousands of Muslim A government decree, formally endorsing a suggestion from Marshal Tito's Communist government to prohibit the wearing of veils, was passed
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    DUTCH FOR TOKYO
    33 1 THE HAGUE, Thurs— Two staff officers of the Dutch detachment .for the U.N. forces In Korea left early this morning by air for General Mac Arthur's Headquarters In Tokyo— A.P.
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    BIG CELEBRATION
    20 1 TAIPEI, Thurs. Koreans living in Taipei are planning a mammoth celebration of the liberation of Seoul. A P.
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    U.N. TROOPS ARE CLOSE TO THE PARALLEL
    269 1 TOKYO, Thursday. TJNITED Nations forces were tonight within a few miles of the 38th Parallel, starting point for the North Korean invasion three months ago. Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur said in a communique that his troops had reached the town of Yongjongni, northwest
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    FIGHTING TROOPS MAY CROSS LINE
    103 1 WASHINGTON. Thurs. A UNITED Nations spokesman said yesterday that the decision to cross the 38th Parallel into North Korea will rest with General Mac Arthur. If it is considered necessary to go over the parallel to smash the North Korean army. General Mac Arthur can
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    Battle For Seoul Ends
    106 1 SEOUL. Thurs. SE Ml lay to American Mar. s f ter three days of fierce it "anting. CommunLst rt to tha American onsl i ddenly crumbled shoi* I dawn. Forward troops fou :d that the series of roadblocks whicft had barred their pah .very few hundred
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    SECURITY GUARDS
    40 1 BRUSSELS. Thurs. The Belgian Government announced today it will build up a special force of territorial guards to protect the interior of the country notably against any action by a fifth column in the event of war. Reuter.
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      QMS Borrowed From Private, Reduced
      249 2 LONDON, Thursday. EiIFTYTHREE-year-old Company Quartennaster- Serjeant Frank Wylde, of the Royal Pioneer Corps, was marched before a district court-martial at Marlborough Farm Camp, Leamington. He heard the president say: "It is painful to see a man of your age before the court; the sentence Is
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      LAUGHING DIPLOMAT
      23 2 MR. DEAN ACHESON (left) U.S. Secretary of State, chats with British Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, at Flushing Meadows.— A.P. picture
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      FOOD PROBLEM IN INDIA "ACUTE"
      60 2 COPENHAGEN. ThuM. Mr. O. V. Mavlankar, President of tne Indian Parliament, told reporters here that, unless India cou d solve the food problem, she could not so'vi; any of the other* facing her. The p*cblems of Iniin are not so much difffrent from these of
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      ITALY TO ACCEPT ERITREA PLAN
      31 2 FLUSHING MEADOW,! Thurs. A well-informed source predicted yesterday that Italy will reconsider her position and will accept tne formula of federation between Eritrea and Ethiopia. UP.
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      NO RED' DRINKS IN NEW YORK
      43 2 NEW YORK, Thursday. 'JACK TOWNSHEND, boss of the New York Bartenders' J Union, is sending orders to bis men this week that they most refuse to serve vodka or any other drink that earns dollars for Russia.
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    Britain's Dollar Reserve Soars £ MAY BE REVALUED
    858 3 Britain's Dollar Reserve Soars MAY BE REVALUED Big Benefits Tribute To For Asia Malaya LONDON, Thursday. A DRAMATIC change in the sterling area's dollar reserve position and an expectation in London that sterling may be revalued were disclosed today by Sydney Gampell, Reuter's Financial Editor. In a far-reaching review of
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    U.K. Freighter In Dramatic Escape
    232 3 HONG KONG, Thursday. riHE Britijh freighter, Jade Leaf (500 tons) arrived in the Colony last evening after a dramatic dash along the Fukien coast on Monday night following an interception for half an hour by two Nationalist warships while attempting to enter Amoy. Ti'.e crew
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    GIRL BORN IN MID-HARBOUR
    57 3 HONG KONG, Thurs. A GIRL was born last nUht aboard a crossharbour ferry. The mother, who in a Shanghai woman, Mrs. Hu Shao-yu, said she felt uncomfortable after dinner at a iriend's house and rushed home. While crossing the harbour, she felt labour pains and gave
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    Beer Is A 'Menace To Our Troops'
    173 3 LIVERPOOL. Thurs. Jh'REE beer for front-line troop 8 in Korea is "a menace to our m«?n which must be stopped at once." One hundred temperance de- legates decided this at the i annual conference of the Band of Hope Union at i Liverpool.
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    40 Nations Meet To Cut Trade Tariffs
    150 3 TORQUAY, (England), Thursday. REPRESENTATIVES of nearly 40 nations met here today at the opening of the International Tariff Conference. The task of the delegates is to pull down trade barriers through agreed reductions in tariff charges. I Represented at the conference are signatories
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    MADE IN RUSSIA
    47 3 SOVIET MARKINGS on a captured North Korean mach-iin-gun are displayed to the Security Council by the U.S. delegate, Mr. Warren Austin. RIGHT: Lt -GEN L.C. Shepherd points to the red star on the win*; of a wrecked aircraft on Kimpo airfield. A. P. pictures.
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    UK BANS FOREIGN PEACE PLANNERS
    141 3 LONDON, Thursday. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, has informed the secretary of the British Peace Committee that the Government will not allow foreigners to come to the United Kingdom to organise the congress, but it would not prevent the congress from sitting if it remained
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    CANADA PLUGS EXPORT LEAK
    66 3 OTTAWA, Thurs— Canada has decided to put controls on exports to plug leaks of strategic materials to Com-munist-dominated countries and protect raw material stock-piles for Canadian industries A spokesman said there had oeen evidence that strategic goods shipped from North America had been transhipped to countries
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    27 KILLED, 16 HURT IN BURMA
    52 3 RANGOON, Thurs—Twentyseven persons, Including two policeman, were killed and 16 wounded today when rebel Karens ambushed a bus near Mergul on the south Burma coast. An unofficial report said the Karens threw grenades to halt the bus and then poured rifle fire at the
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    Reds Call Off Strike
    86 3 VIENNA. Thurs. 'pHE Llnz Chamber of Labour was cleared of Communist rioters last night. .The Communists left the building quietly. It Is reported that they had heard the Austrian Communists had decided to call on the general strike In Austria and return to work today. Th«
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    NEWS OF MISSING GENERAL
    100 3 WITH THE U.S. IST CAVALRY DIVISION IN KOREA. Thurs. A MERICAN counter-lntelll-A gence officers said today t>>» South Korean informers v .rted they recently o*er-| William F. Dean f.\>m j.igju stockade to BfoajL Jen Dean has been missing since the July retreat from Taejon. J3H Dean
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    INDIA URGES BIG 4 TALKS
    194 3 INDIA URGES BIG 4 TALKS FLUSHING MEADOWS. Thurs. ISRAEL and India yesterday urged the Foreign Ministers of the United States, Britain, France and Russia to meet "with or without others present at the United Nations General Assembly, in an attempt to settle all their outstanding disputes."' Sir Benegal Rau. chief
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    ARMS ORDER
    33 3 ROME, Thurs.— ltaly Is to place orders immediately for 150.000,000.000 lire (£86,000--00 worth of arms and equipment to bring her army up to the peace treaty limit of 12 divisions.— Reuter.
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    HOUSING TRUST BILL PASSED
    48 4 KTALA Ll'.MPl'R. Thurs. rE Housing Trust Bill was passed at today's meeting of the Federal Legislative Council on a motion by the acting Chief Secretary, Mr. M. V. Del Tufo. The acting SolicitorGeneral. Mr. T. V. Brodie, seconded the motion for its third reading.
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    LAWYER STRUCK .OFF
    891 4 Mixed His Client's Money With Own, High Court Told A SINGAPORE lawyer who was described by his counsel as a "foolish young man" was yesterday struck off the roll of the Colony's list of advocates and solicitors by an order of the full Bench of the High
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    56 4 LORD LISTOWEL and Mrs S. W. P. Foster Sotton. wife of the Officer Administering the Government, in the Legislative Council at Koala Lumpur Just before the opening of Wednesday's meeting. Lord Listowrl last saw the council when it was formally inaugurated in 1848. He was then Minister of State for
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    NEW AIR SERVICE TO STORE
    112 4 NEW AIR SERVICE TO STORE INDIA'S Director-General of Civil Aviation, Mr. T. P. Bhalla and other high Indian Government officials. have been invited to fly in the Skymaster that wll! open the new Bharat Airways service between India and Singapore next week-end. The inaugural flight will leave Calcutta next Saturday
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    SOLDIER ALLEGES THREAT BY M.P.
    340 4 rpWO British soldiers were acquitted by a Military Court Martial in Sin;*ipore yesterday on a charge of theft of six motor tyres and 16 jerry cans of petrol belonging to the War Department. The court did not call for their defence. The two soldiers. L
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    Graduates Want More Seats
    358 4 UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA COUNCIL THE Guild of Graduates should have more representation on the Council of the University of Malaya, said the president of the Stamford Club. Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin, last night. He was speaking at a joint dinner given by the Stamford Club and
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    CRASH, FINED S6O
    47 4 From Oar Own Cc. respondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs Noh Hong Cheng, of Kulal, was fined $80 at Johore Bahru today for Inconsiderate driving as a result of which he collided with another car. He said that the mishap was due to a tyre bursting.
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    KALLANG AIRPORT ARRIVALS
    323 4 T<HE following w«re among those who arrived at Kallang airport, Singapore, yesterday. Passengers In transit are not Included lii the list. QEA-BOAC From Lond«n: Messrs. W. F. dake. B. J. Blssdale. A. R. Voetzky. S. C. Hooker. D. C. Boa, J.O. Tapp, M. P. Stevens, W. Whyte.
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    Certificate Was Altered, Court Is Told
    474 5 Certificate Was Altered, Court Is Told '4 YOUNG Eurasian, Ronald Duclos, was charged before the Singapore First District Judge, Mr. H. E. Kingdon, yesterday with fraudulently altering a certificate of admission into thp Colony on Nov. 10. 1949. .us alleged that th R cci i.'i ate had been altered in
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    TEACHERS MAY FORM T.U.
    44 5 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA. Thurs. The formation of a trade union will be the main discussion at the general meeting of the Malacca Malay School Teachers' Association to be held at, the Bukit China Malay School on Oct. 9
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    BACK FROM U.K.
    44 5 MR. B f RIIMHI K «.P. of the Radio Division or Ihr Singapore Police force pictured on his arrival at Kalian* airport yesterday by QEA-BOAC Constellation after a course in Britain. Mr. Blcsdale declined to make any comment. Straps Tines picture.
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    ARTIST & HIS ART
    53 5 ARTIST HIS ART MR. GERARD DALTON HENDERSON, an artist, and his sister. Miss Cecilia Henderson, of Saundirs Road, Singapore, study Henderson's pa in tint "Malay Girl." which is catalogued at $12* at the opening of the fourth V.M.C.A. Art Club Exhibition at the T.M.C. V Hall. Orchard Road, last night.—
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    F.P.A. SERVICE AT K.K. HOSPITAL
    203 5 A DVICE on birth control will be given for the first A time at Kandang Kerbau Maternity Hospital, Singapore, when the Family Planning Association opens a clinic there in the first week of October. This Medical Department. K'^jig Kerbau is the naternity hospital in and
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    Unions Seek Interview With M.P.s
    102 5 Unions Seek Interview With M.P.s 'J'HE Singapore Federation of Services Unions hopes to see the six British Parliamentarians, now touring the Federation of Malaya, when they return to Singapore. The Federation's secretary, Mr. C. S. Sivaswamy, has written to the Colonial Secretary for an Interview with the MP.'s. The Federation's
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    CHANDU IN BOAT
    38 5 Kwek Lian.*4B, pleaded puilty in the Second District Court, yesterday to having possession of 88 leaf packets of chandu on board his samnan at Boat Quay on Sept. 27. Sentence was postponed to Oct. 4.
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    On Way To Talks
    98 5 ]yjR. D. A. MacLennan, national secretary of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, arrived in Singapore yesterday afternoon by QEA-BOAC en route to Lucknow where he will attend the conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations. Another Canadian delegate to the same conference, Professor F. H.
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    University Fund
    135 5 IN addition to regular monthly subscriptions collected in Government offices in various parts of the Federation, the following donations have been received for the University of Malaya Endowment Fund: SINGAPORE: S. M. Sundram 12. KELANTAN: Mr C. J E Oldham, $5; Mr. J. a. Rothwell, ts> District Officer.
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    DIDN'T STOP
    28 5 Fw.rn t\,, r s'^ff fn-rrvrtnnilrnt JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs For falling to obserye,the slrti "Stop, Look, Oo", bng Boon Banir. Singapore driver, wu fined $10 here yesterday.
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    STRAY DOGS 'KEPT AT LEAST TWO DAYS'
    175 5 CTRAY dogs In good health and with a collar, collected by the Municipal Animal Infirmary, are kept for at least two days for the owners to claim them. Dr. J. C. Drake, acting Municipal Veterinary Surgeon, told the Straits Times yesterday. Through the
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    76 5 SINGAPORE LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLOR. Mr. Thio Chan Bee. pictured at Kalians airport, with two members of the Victoria Legislative Assembly, Mr. D. Walters (Country Party) and Mr. 11. V. MacLeod (Liberal). They arri-rd here by QEA-BOAC Constellation en route for home after attending the Caux (Switzerland) Moral Rearmament Assembly. Mr. Thio
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    MALAY REGT. MAY SERVE IN ANY PART OF WORLD
    405 5 MALAY REGT. MAY SERVE IN ANY PART OF WORLD From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. OFFICERS and men of the Malay Regiment will be required to sign fresh attestation forms agreeing to serve in any part of the world, said the Secretary for Defence, Mr. D. C. Watherston, in
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    YMCA ART SHOW OPENED
    104 5 YMCA ART SHOW OPENED ABOUT ?00 paintings, sketches and etchings fey about 20 artists were displayed at a four-day V.M.C.A. Art Club Exhibition which was opened by the American Consul General, Mr. William R. Langdon. at the V.M.C.A. Hall. Orchard Road. Singapore, last evening. Most of the money raised from
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    OVERLOADED
    27 5 From Oar SUIT Correspondent MUAR, Thurs— For overloading his lorry at Jalan Merlam. Tan Uan Kee was fined $25. or two weeks' hard labour, at Muar
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    $4,000,000 Budget For Singapore
    135 5 $4,000,000 Budget For Singapore J^ draft of next years budget for the Singapore Municipality, which is being examined by the Finance Committee of Municipal Commissioners, provides for the expenditure of approximately $4,*****0 in special services against $2,845,000 in the current year. Under special services works generally for the improvement of
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    Man Who Stopped Thief Praised
    220 5 'pHE conduct of an Indian station-wagon driver in stopping his vehicle and arresting a bicycle thief, Jud eM?T AhT Singapore Second District 1 He was Mariappan. an employee of the Government of India Office at Grange Road. The bicycle thief. Yeo Ah Noh. who had
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    94th Union For S'pore
    94 5 rE newly-formed Singapore Glass Factory Employee* Union has applied for registration as a trade union in the Colony. It will be the 94th union in Singapore. Formed on Sept. 17. the new union has about 200 men and wovnen members of different categories of employees, with
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      72 5 V.M.C.A.. Orchard Road, art exhibition. 9 a. m. to 6 p.m. SINGAPORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, extra-ordinary general meeting. PullTton Building 2.15 p.m. MUNICIPAL COMMISSION. monthly meeting. Board Room. 2.30 p.m. \M.l.t> < HlVr'Sr SCHOOL. opening or the new building Barlcrr Road. 5 p.m. Y.W.C.A., Mala* beginners class s. is p.m
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    DEATHS
    83 6 IJM-MRS. LIM PENG SIANG parsed away peacefully at her residence 11 Palm Road, Siglap, at 3 a.m. 28th September 1950, leaving behind her 6 sons, Scow Kiew. Scow Eng, Scow Chuan, Puiw I lock. Scow Peng and Scow Bfng, 3 daughters. Slew Leng (Mrs. Chua Chow Teck), Slew Kh!m
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Fri., Sept. 29, 1950. M.C.S. And Others
    1032 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Fri., Sept. 29, 1950. M.C.S. And Others An old bone of contention in the higher levels of the Public Service of this country will be finally buried if the Benham Committee's report is approved by the Federal Legislative Council. For many years before the war it
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    AID FOR KOREA
    59 6 WASHINGTON, Thurs, The Economic Co-operation Administration, which has been assigned th<: responsibility of aiding the i ivillan economy of Korea, announced yesterday that offers of emergency relief supplies for South Korean civilians had been accepted from Israel, Denmark and Pakistan. Denmark and Israel have offered medical supplies
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    A Penang Teachers' Musical Venture
    676 6 A Penang Teachers' Musical Venture From A Correspondent THHE recently formed A Penang Teachers' Choir invited some hundreds of friends and known music-lovers to hear two performances of its first concert last week. The programme was an interesting one. The first part consisted of a group of three Elizabethan songs
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    39 6 Photograph by A.M. I. Austin THE NEW SEVEN -FURLONG STRAIGHT AT IPOH. Just completed, this course will be used for the first time at the Ipoh race meeting which starts tomorrow. The Kinta hilb are seen In the background.
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      "Good Times In Bad": a producer on rubber rumours
      561 6 "Good Times In Bad": a producer on rubber rumours yoUR editorial of Sept. 26, headed "Good Times In Bad", reflects a dangerous lack of appreciation of the conditions governing the economic prosperity of this country. Malaya is dependent for her income on two main products, rubber and tin, and the
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      BUT WHAT OF ALLOWANCES?
      131 6 YOUR leader of last Monday 1 mentioned a divergence of opinion on the difference ,In salaries between those holding positions In outside organisations and those in posts affected by the Benham recommendations. I feel that your paper has, In common with its contemj poraries, failed to
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      THE NAKED KOREANS
      96 6 pROM the recent release of pictures of naked North Korean prisoners, one must conclude that the Unltied Nations commanders, 1 correspondents and photographers In Korea have lost all sense of decency. We were indignant when the North Koreans bayonetted U.N. prisoners whose hands had been tied behind
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      Is 'Streetcar' Desirable?
      108 6 "QIC Transit Gloria Rep," O deploring the approachIng periormance In Singapore of "A Streetcar Named Desire," obviously knows nothing about the theatre. Such a play, he declares, "is nothing more than a vehicle for the conveyance iof libidinous-minded customers." He Is apparently unaware that "Streetcar" won all
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      STAGE WHISPER
      19 6 JIJY reply to "Sic Transit Gloria Rep" Is: flonl Soit Qul Mai y Pense. VIRGINIA JOHNSON. Singapore.
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    On the Margin
    492 6 On the Margin A Mawas Story TN a recent note on the word Mawas I said that in addition to being the Malay name for the orang utan in Sumatra and Borneo, this is also the name of a legendary creature supposed to live in the jungles of the Malay
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    FEDERAL CITY ELECTIONS NEXT YEAR
    696 7 Assurance Given After Council Passes Bill From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. Tin: first Federal elections to Municipalities will be held after Jan. 1, 1950. This was the assurance given by the acting Chief Secretary, Mr. M. V. Del Tufo, at today's Federal Legislative
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    Tessensohn Re-elected President
    122 7 Tessensohn Re-elected President THE management committee I of the Federation of Singapore Government Employees Unions, at a recent special meeting, re-elected Mr. G. A. Tessensohn. as Its president. Mr. Tessensohn Is president of the Singapore Government Administrative and Clerical Services Union. Mr. G. Kandasamy, secretary of the Singapore Union of
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    CHINESE ASK FOR LONGER VISAS
    159 7 w^ru.vMnix umnese bodies in Singapore, led *by the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, are making representations to Government to revise the new Visas Regulations limiting travel permits to China to a period of three months The new regulations will be enforced on Sunday. These regulations
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    FROM BROADWAY TO SINGAPORE
    32 7 VIOLA KEATS, the English actress well-known on Broadway, who will appear as Blanche in the Singapore Repertory Players' production of "Streetcar Named Desire" next week.— Straits Times picture.
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    Gimson To Open $434,000 School Building Today
    205 7 Gimson To Open $434,000 School Building Today THE Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, will today open the new $434,000 building of the AngloChinese Secondary School at Barker Road. The new building, built from funds contributed by old boys and friends of the school, and a $250,000 grant from the Singapore Government,
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    $5,000 REWARD OFFERED
    59 7 From Oar Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Thun. THE Federation Police Head- I quarters today announced j a $5,000 reward for the arrest of the person responsible for the hand-grenade Incident in a shophouse at Kuala Pilah !O" Monday night which resisted In the death of five children and
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    $3,000,000 SETS A PROBLEM FOR GOVT.
    185 7 $3,000,000 SETS A PROBLEM FOR GOVT. MALAYAN currency valued at $3,365,000 has been recovered from enemy banks in Singapore by the Custodian of Property. The Singapore Government has not yet decided how best to urn this money. But, it is possible that it might ultimately be transferred to the reparations
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    OFFERED 95 CTS., FINED $100
    44 7 Pleading guilty in the Singapore Fouth Police Court yesterday to offering 95 cents to a police constable to induce him to release him from legal custody, Lim Beng Hiang. of Frankel Estate, was fined $100, or one month's Imprisonment.
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    BIRTHDAY OF GANDHI
    45 7 The Singapore Regional Indian Congress will celebrate the birthday anniversary of Mahatma Oandhi with a public meeting at 6 p.m. on Oct. 2 at 6, Race Course Lane. Speeches on "Non-Violence and World Peace" will be given In English, Hindustani and Tamil.
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    4 BANDITS KILLED IN NEGRI
    174 7 4 BANDITS KILLED IN NEGRI From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. POUR bandits were killed by security forces in Negrl Sembilan today One was captured and two others wounded but escaped. In separate attacks in Johore yesterday, two European Assistant estate managers were shot at by bandits. In the
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    NO HOLIDAY: $15
    37 7 Three Chinese shopkeepers were each fined $15 In the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday after pleading guilty to falling to remain i entirely closed on days sped- fled by themselves to be closing days.
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    No Shortage—But Prices Are Up
    105 7 No Shortage— But Prices Are Up RESPITE a glut of cigarettes of all brands in Singapore, retailers are charging one to two cents extra per packet for certain brands. Retailers bUune wholesalers, who, they say, ate delaying the issu« of weekly quotas j as a result of which they (retailers)
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    FLYING SEAMEN
    25 7 Twelve Italian seamen arrived in Singapore yesterday by X.L.M Constellation from Rome to man the freighter Nasslro-Saro. which Is expected in Singapore tomorrow.
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    MISSING: BACK
    25 7 A 33-year-old woman. Wong Mcc Fun, with her three children, reported missing from her home at Jalan Keledek since Monday, has returned home.
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    MR. CONRAN (84) LEAVES HIS SHEEP FOR REST
    120 7 MR. CONRAN (84) LEAVES HIS SHEEP FOR REST \FTER 70 years' of sheep raising on the Australian Downs, ti-year-old Mr. L.C. Conran decided it was time he had a rest. Mr. Conran passed through Singapore yesterday afternoon by QEAI BOAC Constellation from Darwin on his way home to his sister
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    Dud Coins Charges
    50 7 A CHINESE. Pang Huat Huan, was yesterday sent for trial at the Singapore Assizes on charges of counterfeiting 50-cent coins and possession of instruments for counterfeiting. Pang was arrested in a house in East Coast Road in a police raid conducted by Mr A. C. Good. ASP.
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    AMMO FOUND
    24 7 Two rounds of unserviceable .45 rounds of ammunition were found In the compound of a house at Jalan Kayu on Wednesday evening.
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    Taximen To Guard Against Attacks
    231 7 Taximen To Guard Against Attacks EMPLOYERS of 4,000 Singapore taxi drivers may soon seek to extend their motor insurance policies to cover riot and civil commotion if recommendations nut fcrward by the president of the Singapore Hire Car Mr. T. A. Simon arc accepted by his committee. This action is
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    $1,000 FINK
    36 7 Sng Kwang Joo, 58. of Lavender Street, who mi found guilty of assisting in the carrying on of a chap il ki public lottery on May 11, was fined $1,000. or three months' imprison/Kent
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    13 CASKS
    23 7 Thirteen bankruptcy a set" are listed for hearing before the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray Aynsley. in the Supreme Court today
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    'SHYLOCK' TAX DEPT. REGARDS WOMEN AS 'IMBECILES'
    202 8 'SHYLOCK' TAX DEPT. REGARDS WOMEN AS 'IMBECILES' From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. AMENDMENTS to make the Income Tax Ordinance "more equitable" were agreed to by the Federal Legislative Council this morning. During the debate on the amending bill, Mrs. B. H. Onn made an appeal for income relief
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    EUROPE WANTS MALAYA BAUXITE
    70 8 I mm Our Sla/T Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. /'OVMNK.m U countries V are becoming interest- I in Malayan bmuite. Ituycrs in Holland and Belgium have asked a local .shioper for 50.000 tons. The shipper told the Straits Times today that Kurope stood littlr chance of getting
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    PRIVATE BUILDING DOUBLED
    120 8 I»:?IVATE building in the Singapore Municipality liM pear almost doubled the rut rate, and the number of I'.itis for new buildings approved by the Conunteloners ii the hghest recorded since l Th» Is seated by the MuniCtpil Architect and Building Siirv.yor. Mr D. C Rat, in In;
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    GAMBLERS FINED
    30 8 I r'.n Our Staff t'crri poiidnit IWUAR. Thurs.— Three Chini who pleaded guilty at o gambling in a public \otc ?r.ch fined $12 or .n-x days hard labour.
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    Teachers TO Display Paintings
    95 8 Teachers TO Display Paintings THE Singapore Art Society will hold its first open exhibition of works by Malayan teachers and art students in the British Council Hall from Oct. 21 to Oct. 29. The Municipal President. Mr. T.PF. McNeice. will open the exhibition at 5 p.m. on Oct 20. Entries
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    INSURANCE TOUR
    53 8 Mr. W. A. Osborne. general manager of the Guardian Assurance Co. Ltd.. is passing thiough Singapore on his way to London after a tour of the company's branches :n Australia and New Zealand. Mr. Osborne will spend several days in Singapore visiting the principal agencies of the company
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    WITNESS CALLED A GLIB LIAR'
    269 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Thursday. m'BMISSIONfc that the stories of witnesses of the other side were untrue were made by both counsel in their arguments during the final day's hearing in the Kuala Lumpur Supreme Court today of the suit instituted by Dr.
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    Marriages Under 16 Are 'Unfair'
    192 8 Kroir. Our Own t'orresi>ondrnt .JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs. T is very unfair to allow I any child under 16 years i to be married." Che A- -in binte Jaffar. princinii vi the D.-.Tiestir Science School Johore Bahru. and a member of the Johore Council of Sta'e.
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    RELIEF FUNO
    33 8 From Our SI.-*!! Correspondent MALACCA. Thurs. An Assam Earthquake Relief Fund Committee h3s been former! by the Ma:accD Indian ChdniU3r of Commerce to collect cash and rrat.P r ials from members
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    TRADE TALKS
    29 8 THE SECRETAY for the Economic Affairs in Singapore. Mr. Andrer Gilmour. having informal discussions with the Indian trade delegation leader. Mr. Narielwala (right) yesterday. Straits Times picture.
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    GOVT DEFERS MARRIAGE BILL
    57 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA. 1.1 MPI K. Thursday. THE Christian Marriage Bill was deferred until the next meeting of the Federal Legislative Council at the request of the Acting Attorney General, Mr. M. J. P. Hogan, today. Mr. llogan said Government had received representations regarding
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      MUSICAL FEAST
      862 9  -  JOHN BEHAGUE Cinema news by SOMETHING is astir in Singapore; something that I hardly dare put into words; but something that bodes good for the more serious minded patrons of the Arts. Let me whisper it one at least of our cinema directors has discovered that not all
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      The manager was a gentleman...
      93 9 WATCHING the manipulation of the crowds attending 19 the screening of the film "The Sands Of Iwo Jima," I noticed the manager, observing an expectant mother wedged in the dollar crowd who were struggling to get In, gently draw her from the crush, lead her
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      Language that died overnight
      318 9 rpHERE are about 90 languages in use in the world today, so when film director Sidney Gilliat telephoned to the London School of Languages and asked Georglna Shield to create a new language for his picture "State Secret" the request to her might have seemed a
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      New Western
      56 9 i ]Vf.G.M.' s "Ambush," with Robert Taylor, John Hodiak and Arlene Dahl is due to be screened in Malaya shortly. From all accounts it Is an adventurous Western with U.S. Cavalry and Apache Indians ambushing and clashing with each other, kidnappingft of beautiful girls and a tense climax.
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      212 9 *j WEEK 40 MO HAVE NOW SEEN THE MARINES'^GREATEST HOUR! HAVE YOU? BOOK NOW F9S THE WEEK -END VMLY FIVE >K w- il n A, &A n» m 45> TODAY EXCITEMENT ACTION THRILLS A TOUGH RUGGED MARSHAL vs. SIX SHOOTER LAW KTj; I THRILL-FILLED K IPY MIDNIGHT f**iSrA*b TOMORROW iiPal^^_
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      225 9 NOW! Ist time in Singapore! CINE-VARIETY ON SCREEN DORIS i I Lf*3| f EL tVEN DAY I M Wi v ALL-TIME J !\3r FAVOURITE ii Kirk D^U. I SONG HITS Lauren Bacall LV With •ad Hoaiy PjjL^ >4 v DORIS DAY Caraickael in j N^f* SINGING 4 Wanert' WBt 9-^
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      155 9 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD SSS.«~w a rjmft'W.'*"' l CBOSSWORD No. 178 j»mlliiir pl«c« 4 ''^i,,.. v r "W* colour 881^"^ HM' KB in a msoncr ol* tpf yhlnj oowm BBB».^^ HS^^^B^sflh^^^HJftA^L^^^ r*^- <\ IS. S»r« tide (MIIJ (•> i Bold and tru« but I j I j U Pudi protnued^to M»l
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    Malayan homes & fashions
    197 10 Malayan homes fashions THI "Dream Hou»e" it hat been called by many who hay* jj X I called at Barabara Church t horn* in Queen Airrid Park, 3, Singapore, and a dream o' a houte it certainly it, for it it a lovely ji achievement of careful thought and planning.
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    She just waits for a call
    241 10 HOLLYWOOD: I\IIRIAM Hopkins observes that there are two schools of thought on how to get ahead in the world. One is "Seek and ye shall find The other is "All things come to him who waits"' The latter suits her better "I do not
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    GIRL WITH A SPARKLE
    991 10 177— VT^TiJwTWTpi^iiPPiW fr roving reporter gets her L jj~yj~jjg^ best interview on a bus. IN the bus last week, I saw a girl with a sparkle in her eyes, and an eagerness about her entire being which did not fail to catch my eye. In that
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    Love in the East Zone
    499 10 BERLIN: rrO be in love in the Russian zone of Germany you must have certain qualifications none of which has anything to do with the glories of being in love, as the Western world knows it. Reni, wh«se last name has not been revealed, belongs
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      298 10 Rupert and the Dragon Pills— B Unfastening tht |ir. Pong<Ping and stopt blowing smoke ai he, lakei one of the pill* and pun it in gently ukes the pill. "How Pupert'* hand. "Theie are Chinete extraordinary I sight Rupert in dragon pills." he siys. Dragon* relief. Then they go out.
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    LONDON STOCKS
    352 11 LONDON, Thurs. SPECULATORS and others were again taking profits on the London Stock Exchange and today price movements In many sections were irregular but with a majority of small losses. Once again there was a fair turnover In rubber and tin issues but sellers outnumbered buyers and the
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    RUBBER MARKET
    251 11 Singapore Responds To N. Y. With A 10-Ct. Drop ON account of the big price fall in New York, the Singapore rubber market yesterday opened at about 10 cents below Wednesday's close. Trading grade in the morning. Short-covering transactions i and a little trade buying were reported. The
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    TIN: $4017/8 A PICUL
    32 11 SINGAPORE. Thurs.. Sept. 2S—*4#lJ7>/2 (down $2,874) £782V 2 a ton in London LONDON, Thurs.. Sept. 2S. —Spot £782— £783; Forward £773—£774; Settlement £782. Turn-over: a.m. 170. p.m. 125.
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    The Produce Market
    158 11 From A Market Correspondent ORICES In the three Important section of Singapore produce market, copra, pepper »nd coconut oil, again dropped slightly yesterday. Copra opened with buyers at $4! per plcul and sellers at $4itt. Later in the day, bids Increased to $4i' t and $41 H,
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    Malayan Shares
    184 11 Profit-Taking In Tins From A Market orrrspondenl TOTTH profit-taking In London and locally, nn share prices veered slightly downward yesterday. Rubber shares had very little Interest and Industrials remained quiet. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: INDISTBIALS Bayers MM rr»»er Neave Ord« 3.17J irnry Waui.li
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    H.K. EXCHANGE
    30 11 HONG KQNO, Thurs. U*REE market currency exchange r for Hong Kong dollars was quoted today as follows: US$l, HK»b3l £1. HKBIS 60; one tael of gold HKB2BI.— UP.
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    Shipping In The Roads And Alongside
    254 11 CHIPS in the Singapore Outer and Inner Roads and alongside Harbour Board godowns yesterday were: Outer Roads: Hal Hsuan. Nlla, Olaucus, Carladi. Thai Gunboat, Mul Ann. Samarlnda. Dukat, Islander. Bosnlk, La Campana. Tourcoing (Man of War Anchorage): Bisson. Anenone, Hortensla, Jasnln. Margolalne. Inner Road.:
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    MISS NATHAN LOOKS RODGERS' BEST
    467 12  -  EPSOM JEEP No Regrets Will Run In Sprint Test Tomorrow By IPOH, Thursday. AM ISS NATHAN will so to the post in the Perak Gold Vase on Saturday a iTI very fit horse. This strapping grey by Black Monk staged an outstanding gallop this morning
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    $25,000 STAKES FOR 1951 PERAK DERBY
    52 12  -  By EPSOM JEEP IPOH, Tburs. NEXT year's stakes for the Perak Derby over one and a half miles have been increased to 5!.>.000 with a sold trophy to the winning owner. The race will probably be run on the last day «L the club's
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    DYSON COURSE OPENS IN K.L.
    49 12 From Our Staff Correspondent I KUALA Lumpur. Thurs.—Dtle- pates from all states except Penang i and Kedah today attended the I opening of the course for coaches and athletes by Geoff Dyson, chief coach of the British A.A.A held at M.p P.W.D. Spor's Club
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    Heidelberg Ready For First Win
    381 12  -  EPSOM JEEP By IPOH, Thursday. T»RAINER Pop Sleigh's two promising: youngsters, x Heidelberg and Windy Island, ran an interesting trial over the straight 5-f. course which was specially opened this morning to allow horses to acquaint themselves with a straight course. Breaking: from the 5-f.
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    Fook Hung Not For Paris
    287 12 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Thurs. THO FOOK Hung, British Empire bantamweight champion, Is definitely not going to Paris to compete in next month's weight lifting world championships. On the contrary, he is "seriously contemplating retirement". Tho, who should have left for Paris today, has
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    TOUR TEAM HELD
    45 12 PENANG, Thurs— The l'eraic Chinese F.F. Combined XI, now delayed In Peiiang from making their tour of Indonesia by visa trouble, today drew three-all with a Penang XI whom they trounced six-one last week. Dollah Don •eorad all tha tour team's goals.
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    ANNUAL SOCCER TOMORROW
    73 12 /COMBINED Services will \j meet Singapore Civilians in their annual Tay Lian Teck Shield soccer fixture at Jalan Besar tomorrow. All proceeds will toco to the Poppy Day Fund. S.A.F.A. passes will be suspended for the match. The following will represent Civilians: Chee Seng; Haji Garhan, Salleh;
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    Colony Malay Team Claim Gold Cup
    268 12 Colony Malay Team Claim Gold Cup rE FINAL of the Sultan's Gold Cup soccer competition between Singapore Malays and Penang Malays will not come off. Singapore is claiming the Cup on default. Inche Admn. sports secretary of the Singapore Malays, told the Straits Times last night that Singapore will not
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    MCCToPIay Ceylon
    125 12 LONDON. Thu/;. ENGLAND'S chances of regaining "the Ashes" in Australia this winter may depend largely upon the success or failure of pace I bowler Alec Bedser. It is not surprising, therefore, that team captain Freddie Brown will not permit Bedser to bowl In Sunday's match in Ceylon though
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    Victorious Farr Gets Huge Ovation
    160 12 PONTYPRIDD, Thurs. TOMMY FARR, former British heavyweight chambton, made a successful start to his comeback last night when he knocked out Jan Klein, of Holland, In the sixth round of his ten-round contest. It was Farr's first fight for ten yeurs. Klein was unconscious for
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    NEVER AGAIN SAYS BEATEN JOE
    509 12 NEW YORK, Thursday. JOE LOUIS failed at Yankee stadium last night in his bid to make boxing history by regaining the world heavyweight boxing championship. He was trounced on points over 15 rounds by 29-year-old Ezzard Charles, the Cincinnati Flash, who thus retained a title
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    S.A.F.A. REQUEST IN MELTING POT
    861 12 By The Sports Editor TK)DAY Singapore Amateur Football Association's 1 request to the Municipal Commissioners for a reduction in the rental of Jalan Besar Stadium will be in the melting pot again. In July last the Finance Committee examined the request fully; heard S.A.F.A.'s case
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    A.C.S. CRICKET: PAST v PRESENT
    108 12 i The Anglo-Chinese School Old Boys will p.«v Present Bens and Staff at cricket at the Y.MCA. on Saturday at 2 pm. Thl« match Is part of the programme of activitlej commemorating the openafrker Road During the tea interval Mrs. Lee Chin Ghee, srlfe of
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    23 12 TODAY: 12.30 a.m. Oft. 51n., and 12.24 p.m. (9ft. 2in i TOMORROW: 1 ajn. <9ft. lln) and 12.45 p.m. Oft. 2in
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    Malays Beat Chinese 3-1, Deciding Tie v Europeans
    449 12 Malays 3; Chinese 1 MALAYS, who are engaged in a hot dispute for the championship with Europeans in the S.A.F.A. Community League, took another step nearer to their goal when they defeated Chinese three-one at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Malays now Just
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      61 12 SOCCER: Jnr. Cup Quarterfinals: GHQ. Royal SlfS. f H.M. Dockyard at Jalan Besar; Police v I.R.C. 'A' at BOD; Business Hae. A: Tiger Standard v Sime Darby at Geylaiu; Bus. Hrn. B: Chartered Bank v Mansneld at CYMA. Rt'GBY: St. Andrews School v Police Training School at Thomson Road. TABLE-TENNIS:
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