The Straits Times, 9 October 1950

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE. MONDAY, OCTOBER 1950. it PRICE TEN CKNTS.
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  • 449 1 Assault On Wonsan Port Launched TOKYO, Sunday. AMERICAN troops today made their first crossing into North Korea over the 38th Parellel at Kaesong, near the west coast, British and Australian troops were expected to join them shortly in a crossing in strength. On the east
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    23 1 lUBBLE LITTERED streets and smoke from burning buildings fills the sky as tanks lead United Nations forces to recapture Seoul— A.P.picture.
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  • 198 1 NEW VOKK Sunday. AN American plan for a world peace army to stand ready to combat aggression will be submitted to the United Nations Political Committee on Monday. i be plan, made public yesterday, is sponsored by seven nations so far Canada. France. Turkey. Philippines
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    24 1 INTi-KIOR VIEW of the S.T. C. bus which was fired by in North Bridge Road, yesterday. Straits Times picture THREE MEM WITH A PARCEL
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  • 62 1 LONDON Sun— The Archolshop of Canterbury. Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, today appealed for a day of national prayer on United Nations S.inday, Ort 29. because "K ;tr of war brood* over the lacp of the earth." Dr. Fisher Is on his way to New Zealand where
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  • 53 1 Mr I.cc Kong Chlan. Singapore Chinese millionaire, won a prize at the atitumn meet of thi" Royal Singapore Archery Club at Cluny Road yesterday. Mr. Lee was second in the handicap shoot tor beginners with an aggregate of 202 points, the winner being Maior Martin
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  • 126 1 TOKYO. Sun. rEV had to rescue the rescue pilot ichen his '•runaway" helicopter turned over in a rice field, according to a story disclosed by Gen. MacAr/hur's headquarters today First Lieut. Arthur R. Boncrojt landed 15 miles south-east of Seoul to pick up an injured Marine Corsair
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  • 243 1 ARSONISTS set flre to two Singapore Traction Company buses yesterday. In both the outrages, identical methods were used by three Chinese each time. I The first took place along; North Bridge Road at 6 a.m. The other was along Rochore Road at 8.45 p.m. In
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  • 122 1 MERCED, California. Sun. A CHEQUE for US$BB2 has been sent by men of the Castle Air Force base here for distribution to families of British soldiers killed when they were accidentally bombed by United States aircraft in Korea last month. Colonel Charles Bicking. Castle
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  • 869 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Sunday. DATO ONN bin Ja'afar, President of the United Malays National Organisation, yesterday gave his support to the Federation Governimot s plan for a semi-Cabinet system under which certain Unofficial Members would become responsible for groups of departments
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  • 61 1 BETHUNE. Northern France. Sun. ENOUGH tobacco to make 300.003.000 cigarettes went up in smoke here last night when one of the country's largest tobacco warehouses was destroyed by fire. The three storey building -with all its modern machinery and 500 tons of tobacco was a total
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  • 55 1 rE Commander-in-chief of Far East Land Forces, Gen. Sir John Hard inc. left Singapore by air yesterday on a routine visit to Hong Kong. He will also go to Tokyo in response to an invitation from Gen Mac Arthur. Gen. Harding hopes to visit
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  • 162 1 60,000 Want Reds Purged VIENNA Sun A CROWD of 60,000 80- cialists rallied in front of the city hall yesterday, demanding that the Communist rioters and strike instigators be brought to justice tor their part in the abortive putsch here last week. While bands played traditional Socialist songs, workers shouted
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  • 65 1 BELGRADE. Sun. RUSSIA has been pouring tanks and ether armour into Eastern Europe's Cominform countries at an increased rate during recent months, say reliable sources. This, add the reports, has reached a point where the balance of power between the satellites collectively without direct Russian intervention
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  • 24 1 Jothtram Sin?h of Cecil Street was robbed of $1 «):;5 cash along Neil Road yesterday afternoon. Police have U rested two Sikhs
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 109 1 lߣt4t 6U&I XMAS PARCELS FOR U. K. It's time to think about those food parcels you want to send home! You can choose your own or send one we have made up on the advice of Mary Heathcott of the Sunday Times." "Mary Heathcott Parcel*' 16 ox. Bronte Stewing Steak
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    • 55 1 LONGINES WATCHES Keep Time on Malaya N. SENA LTD. Penan* 1 1 Bangkok Singapore Malayan Breweries will re-purchase all their empty standard brown bottles (as illustrated) embossed with the name MALAYAN BREWERIES mm m \\\j i Mm} fr Return your empties to your normal source of supply and CUT THE
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  • 134 2 MANILA, Sunday. /CONTRADICTING reports from Indonesia that Mohammedans in the Southern Philippine islands want to join the Republic of Indonesia, Princess Tarhata Karim said: "It is indeed possible that natives of Borneo and the Celebes may want incorporation into the Ph'lippines". The Princess Is in
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  • 46 2 MOSCOW, Sun. Russia has agreed to Britain's request for an Embassy official to visit a British seaman sent to prison in August. The seaman was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for striking a docker on the head with a piece of wood. Reuter.
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  • 17 2 MRS. W. S. Gifford. wife of the new American Ambassador to Britain. A.P. picture.
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    • 238 2 CHARLESTON, South Carolina, Sunday. rpHE mutilated body of a two-year-old bo> was 1 found stuffed into an oil drum in South Carolina and police said that they would charge the child's 12-year-old aunt with the murder. The authorities obtained a court order
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    • 72 2 PRAGUE, Sunday. JVfAM h\( ITKURS of Bohemian glassware are still producing Dianas on horseback and maidens holding globes, and are still following "the old cosmopolitan traditions," says the cultural newspaper I.ihove Noviny. "Would not a member of the Youth In ion in a blue shirt, holding
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    • 450 2 NOTICES TENDER NOTICE Tenders are Invited from registered Contractors not below Cla.sK C. (or b« construction of r a Health Centre at Arau. Perils. Tenders dose at 4 p.m. on Mth t October, 1950 at the office of the Slate Engineer. Alor Star, Kedah. Pnitlculars and Tender Forms may bf
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    • 773 2 NOTICES DOCUMENTARY FILM SHOW The flrst In a series of documentary film shows will be given on Wednesday. Uth October at the British Council Centre, Stamford Road at 7.30 p.m. on "English Criminal Justice". The Honourable the Chief Justice Sir Charles Murray-Ayns-ley has kindly consented to address the meeting. Free
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    • 258 2 NOTICES COAtWWC tN AT»L»ia Mr Geoffrey Dyson, Chief Coach to Urn British Amateur Athletic Association, who has been lecturing in Singapore and the Federation for the Malayan Amateur Athletic Association will deliver his final lecture <n the British Council Centre. Stamfoid Rood, on Monday. 9th October, at 7 30 p.m.
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    • 843 2 NOTICES fWAUHIWC WOTICE DEMOLITION OF WRECK OF FLOATING CRANE IN POSITION IN DEGREES OUTER C HOAL BEACON i-8 CABLES (I.E. APPROXIMATELY ON A LINE BETWEEN OUTER SHOAL BEACON AND TANJONG PAGAR LIGHT AND JUST OVER HALF A MILE FROM THE FORMES) 1. Operations will commence on or about October 9th,
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    • 289 2 Nona X.L.M.-ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES wish to announce that with effect from October 15th 1950 their FREIGHT DEPARTMENT will be transferred from the Town Office on the 4th floor KPM Building. 1 Pinlayson Green, to KALLANO AIRPORT. As from that date ALL Freight will be handled at KALI ANO AIRPORT. Telephone
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  • 405 3 U.N. Wants Unified And Independent Korea FLUSHING MEADOWS, Sunday. TIIK United Nations General Assembly last night gave Gen. M;i( Arthur the "go ahead" for crossing the 38th Parallel in pursuit ol North Korean forces. This was the effect of an Eight-Power resolution passed
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    36 3 INDONESIAN armoured unit parades in South Sumatra where there are about 5,000 troops. Mobile equipment was provided by the Dutch who have withdrawn most of their forces since Indonesia gained its independence. AP picture.
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  • 75 3 MtMl Sun. PRESIIMtNT SyM«in ;i ii Klit-i- said yesterday that there should he elections in North Korea to fill the seats that had been left vacant from representaUvw from that area. lie ad led that there was no need for a general election for the
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  • 203 3 U.N. Votes Debate On Formosa NEW YORK Sun. THE United Nations General Assembly, against strong Chinese Nationalist and Russian objections, voted yesterday to put Formosa's future on its agenda. By 42 votes to sevpn with eight abstentions, the Assembly aDproved inclusion of the question originally proposed by the U.S and
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  • 249 3 FLUSHING MEADOWS Sun. ON the eve of its takin a final decision on the future of Korea. Mr Andrei Vlshlnsky warned the General Assembly that its programme was "not a programme of peace" and that It would fail in Its objective Spi-akinn <>f the Eight -power resolution,
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  • 124 3 LAKE SUCCESS. Sunday. THE U.N. General Assembly's Political Committee yesterday named Siam as the seventh member of the U.N. Korean Commission, which is to supervise elections for all Korea and to rehabilitate the country. fcIOBbCH of the new commission are: Pakistan, the Philippine* and
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  • 241 3 JAKARTA, Sunday. DADIO Ambon, monitored here, has claimed that South Moluccan troops, in counter-attacks on Ambon, have recaptured the town of Hitulama, on the northern part of the island. On Ceram island. South Moluccan troops are reported to have retaken Ruman and Kai. two villages, in
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  • 69 3 LONDON Sun. fHE Financial Editor of the Daily Express reports having heard in financial quarters that the Australian Government has a "blacklist" of people who have shipped their idle cash to Australia in the hope of making a handsome profit if the Australian pound is revalued upward.
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  • 144 3 China Reds Weed Out Small Firms HONG KONG. Sun. rE Foreign Trade Control Bureau in Shanghai recently announced that regist red export and Import firms who have not done any business up to the end of September are liable to have trade permits cancelled. Reports reaching Hong Kong said that
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  • 34 3 NEW YORK Sun.—Marquette County Democrats failed to withdraw the name of their candidate for election to the post of county treasurer who was Judged Insane after he had filed his nomination.— UP
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  • 37 3 HONG KONG. Sun. Chinese Communists are smuggling an average of four tons of opium a month into Hong Kong, the magazine X-vsdom declares. Most Is -:'i'pped to the Philippines i the United States.— A.P.
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  • 44 3 PANDIT NEHKU recrivw x food parcel, a token of the 15. 51. 000 worth rushed to the earthquake sufferers of Assam, from Mr. M T. Johnson, chief In India of the Co-operative for American Remittances to Europe and Asia. A.P. picture.
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  • 65 3 HAMBURG. Sun.— The bigjesi ship to be built in Oermanv since the war. the 'JO.OOO-ton double screw tanker. Ireland, built for a DaDlah firm, was launched yesterday. With a speed of 14 knots, it wa& built under a special licence from the Allied Hit-h Commission, which
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  • 53 3 LONDON Sun.— British police chiefs have decided to strengthen guards on all members of the Royal family and their homes, says the London Evening News. The paper said that after the recent burglary at Marlborough House. London home of Queen Mary, It waa decided to
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  • 46 3 HONO KONO, Sun Rescue workers yesterday removed the bodies of a mid-dle-aged Chinese couple from the ruins of a squatter community above Hong Kong's fashionable Happy Valley. This brought to nine the total number of victims recovered after a landslide.— AP.
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  • 181 3 PARIS. Sun. ]yjR Paul Hoffman, who guided the Marshal Plan through the crucial first half of Its existence, said yesterday that the free world will win any new war that Russia may start, just as It Is winning the war In Korea The retiring Marshal Plan
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  • 192 3 French Hope Of US Arms Speed- Up PARIS. Sun. REGROUPING of Fran-co-Vietnam forces north of Tonklng, near the Chinese frontier of Indo-China, made necessary by recent withdrawals from advanced posts, is nearing completion according to plan, say military circles here. An "important transformation" of the Insurgent forces in this mountain
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  • 67 3 TEHERAN. Sunday— After seven weeks of secret talks, of the signing of a trade pact between Persia and the Soviet Union was reported today to be Imminent Reliable sources said both parties had agreed on quantities and prices, and were anxious to start business at once.
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  • 30 3 HONG KONG, Sun. A Russian pilot was killed when the Chinese Government survey plane he was flying crashed In Kwangtung Province, according to a Chinese report. ReuterAAP.
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  • 244 4 America To jitody Commonwealth Plan WASHINGTON, Sunday. THE American State Department would be inclined to support the U555,000,000,000 British Commonwealth-sponsored programme for aiding South-East Asia if it believed the programme to be realistic. State Department officials said the amount their Government might
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  • 391 4 JOHN Forbes-Sempill, in choosing Tennessee Williams' "A Strretcar Named Desire" for production by the Singapore Re- pertory Company, has, in the event, proved that the Rep is capable and worthy of serious, significant modern drama; and that such drama, well played, will utterly hold a
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  • 53 4 A Chinese hawker, Quek Choon Hoe, was fined »10 for spitting at the back of the Singapore Second Police Court on Saturday, and not for spitting from the dock, as was stated In yesterday's report. In his defei.ee. lie .'•aid he was newcomer to Singapore and did not
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  • 32 4 SEGA M A T. Sun. An aoDcal to all labourers in the district to give a day's wages t-n the Malayan University Fund has been" made by thf* Segamat Comnrittee.
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  • 40 4 From O»r Own Correspondent IPOH, Sun— The TeachersUnion of Perak, representing 450 Government and aided English schoolteachers In the state, today unanimously rejected the much criticised Benham report at an extraordinary general meeting held at the St. Michael's Institution.
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  • 69 4 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING. Sun. A CHINESE fisherman. Belt Ah Kan, aged 23, while out catching; cockles in the Sungei Tiram Kanan in Matang was dragged away by a crocodile. Several days later his body, minus the trunk, was found floating in the river. His
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  • 41 4 BANDITS DELAYED WEDDING MB. MICHAEL Cameron Cole and his bride. Miss Marie Ernestine Rodrigues. who were married al St. Peter's Church. Malacca, on Saturday. The wedding was postponed when Mr. Cole was wounded by bandits last month. Malacca Photo Co. picture.
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  • 286 4 ]tf ORE than 40,000 live tropical fish, valued at ITI nearly $3,000. are being shipped to the United States this week on the Isthmian freighter Steel Voyager, which is now at the Singapore wharf. The fish, which have been supplied by Teo Way Yong of
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  • 133 4 Australia Increasing Troops rE Australian Government is Increasing the strength of its armed forces, Mr. A. G. Cameron, Speaker in the Australian House of Representatives, told the Straits Times yesterday. Mr Cameron arrived by QEA-BOAC Constellation on his way to London to attend the opening of the new Parliament by
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  • 51 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sun.— The annual Koran reading competition for boy« in Johore resulted: First: Abdullah bin Md. Yusof. brother of Inche Kadir Yusof. Magistrate. Johore fiahru. Second: Mohd. Zain bin Abdullah, of Bandar Penggerang. Batu Pahat and third, Noordin bin Hal' Rasldl. of
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 78 4 I.W.C.A M 5, Raffles Quay, International Fortnightly club bridge school, 9.30 a.m.. cooking American dish. > p.m REO CROSS WORKING PARTY, Guide Hut. Clemenceau Avenue, 10 a.m. to noon. ■T. JOHN AMBIXANCE ASSOCIATION, nrst-nid class HQ Stamford Road. 5 p.m SINGAPORE LIFE GUARD CORPS., training class, Mount 1 Enuly Pool,
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  • 961 5  -  MARY HAGUE During an operation at St. Mary's Hospital, London, Mrs. Mary Hague was pronounced dead. From the jaws of death she returned to tell this Remarkable story. By yyHAT happens when we die? My heart ceased to beat. My breathing stopped. Heat beaan to
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  • 725 5 DINNER-BY 'CHUTE' FEW days ago I met up with a company of Gurkha soldiers In the Jungle of Central Johore. I had gone in to meet them with a small section and planned to stay only a short while before returning to civilisation with a platoon that had been out
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 268 5 TODAY'S RADIO swcaporz 1030 Piao PUybmm ».!H urn. Schools; 9.5S Interlude; a»BIIAM© 10 News, followed by Emergency 10 *<<». News; 1-2 p.m. Aa News from XL.: 10.14 Close; Spore; 6 "Listeners Calling": IO.So Schools; 12 Malay; 1 pm. 7 News. Sham Market; 7.1S "HotM Mond..y Matinee; IJO News; on the
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  • 18 6 IN PRECIOUS MEMORY of Gladys who died In Colombo on October Bth. 1947— Sadly missed— Mother.
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  • 771 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Oct. 9, 1950. A Medical Crisis From what was almost a chance remark by the retiring senior surgeon of the Singapore General Hospital, Singapore has learned of a crisis in the Colony's medical services. It is a crisis too for the Federation, for the situation
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  • 325 6 By a vote of 47 to five, with seven abstentions, the General Assembly of the United Nations has approved its Political Committee's recommendation of the eight-nation plan for the unification of Korea. The plan creates a new United Nations Commission whose principal task it will be to
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  • 310 6 I^UALA Kubu Bahra, in lv Ulu Selangor, l s soon going to be without an English school. The present Mission School (known as the AngloChinese School) has about 120 pupils from Primary Ito Standard in. In an ordinary single shop-house-type building three teachers do their
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  • 387 6 DECENT reports In the Straits Times referred to Co-operative Society officials' surprise at Mr. Andrew Gilmour's warning that State shops would be ready at short notice, if needed in an emergency. I should like to state that I am definitely in favour of State shops, as
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  • Man in the Street
    • 412 6 A PROMINENT surgeon, leaving this country after 15 years of service, has been quoted as saying that "most Asian doctors who took up surgery found difficulty in handling inst™*™*™** If such a statement were i made in purely medical circles It would merit the contempt that It
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    • 480 6 A WOMAN APPLAUDS IN PENANG I REFER to Mrs. B. H. Oon's speech in the Federal Legislative Council meeting of Sept. 28. To quote Shakespeare we have here. A Daniel come to judgment! yea. a Daniel! O wise vouna judge, how I do honour thee The married women as a
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    • 235 6 AS one of the original sponsors of the Students Party I cannot Jet the statement by Prof. T. H. Silcock go unchallenged. He said that an organisation like the Students Party might stir up communal feelings among the students. How and where Prof. T. H. Silcock or
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    • 154 6 THE point which the President of the S.C.B.A. and your correspondent. Kee Yew Hock have missed is that far from wishing to cause a cleavage between the Singapore Chinese and the Federation Chinese, it is one of the alms of the MCA. the bring together
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    31 6 I have the honour to assure your Lordship that any departure from thr normal that may be apparent in the behaviour of my staff is quite unconnected with your Lordship's visit"
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  • 513 6 On the Margin Occupation Beard "rtHE other day Mr. A Ignasi. of the Railway Department, Sungei Siput. told a couple of Malayan yarns at a dinner party, and the unanimous vote oi the party was that these yarns should fct passed on to Cecil Street so that they might regale
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 837 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. PDLLEY: On October Vh, at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, Singapore, to Betty and Chris Pulley a son. CHAN-KOK. The engagement Jx announced between Mr. Michael Chan Cr.ye Thuan, the eldest son cf Mr. Chan Kung Choon and the lati- Madame Chla Oln Neo, to Mis* Annie Koh Poh Neo.
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  • 377 7 Visit To SIT Flats —Then To Slums 100 Yards Away I'HK contrast between modern housing conditions and the filth and squalor of a Singapore slum was shown to two members of the British Parliamentary delegation who visited the Singapore Improvement Trust housing estates
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  • 173 7 I- 1 1.1 summary of the work of the Common- wulth Consultative Committee meeting just concluded in London will be tabled at Friday's budget meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council. I in tne course of his bud-gi-i, speech the Governor. Sir Franklin Gimson is expected
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  • 84 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. 'J'lH first official celebration in honour of the birth in London of a daughter to the Sultan and the Sultanah of Johorr. took place turvght in the brilliantly-lit Istana Besar, where the Regent of Johore and his Consort
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  • 25 7 A first-aid class will be held at the headquarters of the St. John's Ambulance Association in Stamford Road, Singapore, at 5 p.m. today.
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  • 172 7 'HOT SPOT' TO BE CLEARED From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. AN area on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur notorious for bandit activity has been declared a controlled area from which all residents must move. The area Is about six miles long and two miles wide lying east of
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  • 73 7 MR. J. A. Stevenson. Commonwealth Jute Controller of Australia arrived at Kallang Airport, Singapore, last night on his way to Calcutta on "official business" relating to the supply of Jute goods for Australia He described the situation as "pretty grim" although he added that at
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  • 96 7 LESS than three months after being sentenced to four years imprisonment for house breaking and theft, a 20-year-old Indian. V. Supplah, was brought from gaol and pleaded guilty before Mr. H. E. Kingdon. Singapore First District Court Judge, to three similar charges, for which he was sentenced
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  • 174 7 By Our Woman Correspondent MALAYAN scenes in water colour and black and UM white sketched by the young Malay artist Inche Mahat suggest themselves as original but inexpensive Christmas presents for friends overseas. They are framed as pictures or mounted as Christmas cards and form
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  • 168 7 VARIETIES of native Malay cakes, cloth-work, handcrafts, and some 167 paintings and drawings in oil. poster colour, water colour and pastel were displayed yesterday at an exhibition, the first of its kind, organised by the Kesatuan Kampong Kembangan, Singapore. The exhibition, which was opened
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  • 77 7 From Our Own Corrfspondrnt JOHORE BAHRU. SunWhen Rengasamy and Peralsamy were charged today with being drunk and causing a disturbance in the labourers' lines on an estate*, the Magistrate said that where the alleged offence occurred must be a public place. He asked whether labourers'
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  • 25 7 JOHORE BAHRU Sun. The Double Tenth (Oct. 10) anniversary will be celebrated In Johore Bahru on a reduced scale compared with former years.
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  • 244 7 MORE STUDENTS, NEW DEPARTMENTS From Oar University Correspondent THE first lectures of the University of Malaya's second academic year will be delivered today. In the second year oi the University's existence there I will be a dozen additions to the staff and about 200 new students.
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  • 30 7 TWO STUDIES of 17-year-old Millie Ridsdale dam mc the exciting number "Tabu" at the Hawaiian night at Raffles Hotel in Singapore on Saturday. Straits Times picture.
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  • 71 7 ABOUT 58 men, women and children were given joy rides in the Bharat Airways Skymaster yesterday afternoon. The aircraft took off from Kallang airport and could only make two trips Instead of the scheduled three, due to aircraft landing at the time. Each trip
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  • 120 7 MR. J. P. Edwards, Director of Forestry, Federation of Malaya, left Singapore yesterday for Bangkok to lead the United Kingdom delegation to meetings of the Forestry and Forest Products Commission for Asia and the Pacific today. The meetings last until Oct 18. Mr. Tan Keng Seng,
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  • 81 7 I nnn Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sun.— A verdict of death from shock caused by accidental burns was recorded by the Batu Pahat, Coroner after an inquest on a seven-month-old Infant. It was stated that the father, Ahmad bin Kaman. a rubber tapper, and
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  • 55 7 From O«r Own CorreqMßitent JOHORE BAHRU. Sun.— Pte. P. Rees. of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, was charged today in the Magistrate's Court with driving a military vehicle without consideration lor the saiety of othtr road users and colliding with civilian motor vehicle co the Kota Ttaggl
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  • 85 7 MEDICAL BENEFITS SCHEME DRAFT scheme for medical benefits for Municipal officers and their dependants has been forwarded to a Singapore Municipal committee for consideration. The committee has under consideration, among other things, a suggested basis of allocation of charges between the officer concerned and the Municipality. The scheme provides data
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  • 229 7 Mil. Library For The University A MODERN three-sto- ried library costing $500,000 will be constructed by the University of Malaya at Bukit Timah soon. Designs and plans have been approved by the Council and the building is expected to be completed In time for the next academic year. Designed as
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  • 53 7 IN CALCUTTA FOR TALKS From Our Own Cc-re^pondent JOHORE, BAHRU. Sun Ungku Aziz bin A. Hamid. of the Johore Civil Service, who is on loan to the Universi'y of Malaya. has gone to Calcutta to attend a I conference. Unnkti Aziz represents V~t Johore Civil Service Association in the Johore
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    • 106 7 REAL ifj^ Scotch <OOWL Whisky J^^l Famous in Scolland and Jgv I incomparable smoothness. M ,W^^ I Distilled and Blended in I Scotland "Johnnie Walker" is M I Scotch Whisky at its best. Ask J/P for "Johnnie Walker" by nume. fj I JOMIMI t BORN H2»- STILL GOING STRONG IT
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    • 72 7 Flying To Sydney Alone rUGHT-YEAR-OLD Regai Pu»m to^^ KakUs. a Grrfk orphan from Athens who lost both his parents B in the Greek civil war, arriyed la Singapore by QEA/BOAC Con■M ste llation yesterday wearing a gaily H ornamented bine peaked cap of which be is very proud. '•^J^MW Betas,
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  • 948 8 An honorary official of a Co-operative Store hag written this commentary on the Straits Times leading article of Sept. 28 headed "The Co-op Stores". I AM an advocate of the Co-operation Stores movement in Malaya, in which I see great possibilities for the improvement of
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    18 8 Sir Benegvl Rau of India addresses delegates to the United Nations' General Assembly at Flushing Meadows, New York.
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  • 697 8 SIR PERCIVAL GRIFFITHS presents the first true picture of what actually happened when the earthquake rocked Assam in August TT is a great thing to be able to sleep at night, free from fear. The people of Eastern Tibet do not enjoy this blessing, for
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  • 312 8 STORY OF A GREAT BALLET COMPANY Britain today: LONDON: DEYOND the tremendous success which it is already clear will be enjoyed by the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company during its 28-city tour of North America, Just started in New York City, is a story of genius and perseverance by two remarkable
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  • 570 8  -  BOB GILMORE AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTKR By AUSTRALIA has not been i told officially yet why the Australian battalion did not enter the line in Korea until the day General MacArthur announced that "organised resistance has ended." To put an admittedly crack battalion in Korea had taken
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    • 230 8 Rupert and the Dragon Pills 16 Rupert clambers about tht top lihl* bear clapa hi» handa to hia branches ol iht pin* net. but tha eara. What on earth ia ht doing dragon «aaily avoids him. I'd thai lot h« wonder*. Th« notaa better back and tctl Pong-Ping docm'i Uit
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    • 33 9 •r'-r°--^-" v "-^i^r.z"-- CUSS tttGK^ yO tB» 1 m. 111 COLD MEDAL ANCHOR beer Brewed, matured and bottled in Singapore by ARCHIPELACO BREWERY CO. (1941) LTD Distributed by:- Fraser Neav Ltd., Singapore Branches
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  • 277 10 NATURAL RUBBER FIGURES WASHINGTON. Sun fihe world production of 1 natural rubber totalled 170.000 long tons in August, the Commerce Department estimated yesterday. The figure was a new high for the third successful month compared with July's 167.500 tons and the August. 1949. output of 132.500 tons The Department said
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  • 67 10 MALAYAN Tin Dredging dneclon> have declared a fourth interim dividend of 3d. per share. les.< income tax. for the year to June 30. 1950 This Ls equivalent to approximately three-quarters per cent on the capital invested in the business, including profits profits ploughed back The directors do not
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  • 69 10 SOUTHERN Malayan Tin Dredg--0 iriK directors have declared a fourth interim dividend of ls. per share, less income tax. for the year to June 30. 1950. This ls equivalent to approximately 6' 5 per rent, on the capital invested in the business, including profits ploughed back. The directors do not
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  • 581 10 From A Market Correspondent AM ALA VAN markets had another active week, ITI with the volume of dealings spread fairly evenly over all sections. Industrials were a firm spot. Tins met profit-taking in all three departments, while from a good list of Rubber
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  • 383 10 BUSINESS done last week In the Malayan share market I included Industrials: Prater M Neave Ord. $3.32tt to $3 17', c.d. c.b.. William Jacks $2.30, Roblnsor Ord. U 15 to $2.20. Robinson 2nd Pi if. $9.30, Singapore Traction Ord. 15 6 to 16/- Straits Steamship $17.00 to $10.75.
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  • 43 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUftT Sun. rpHE Federation produced 424,480 cases of tinned pineapples between January and August this year, according to the monthly Statistical Bulletin of the Federation. For the whole of 1949 production was 321,185 cases.
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  • 28 10 HON KONG. Sun. CMiEE martet currency exchange 1 for Hong Kong dollar* «v quoted as follows: US$l HK56.37: £1. HK515.60: one tae of gold HKS2B9 UP.
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    • 34 10 I ONDON. Oct. 6. Spot 46d. Nov 45'< d. Dec. 44'« d. Jan-Mar. 40'jd, Apr-June 36\d. Oct. c.l.f. 44 ad, Oct.-Nov. c.l r. 42 l »d. tfov.Der. elf. 41 Ud Market Idle
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    • 22 10 In 0.8. cents per lb closiiifc nominal: Oct. 4. Oct. 5. 1. R.S.S. Oct. 56 75 55.50 Maiket: Steady.
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    • 1194 10 MANSFIELD tfc CO., LTD iincorooialed m BLUE rOMNBL IMB Carrier'! option to proceed via othei jon la a>ao and discharge cargo lAILINCS te LIVERPOOL CLASCOW LONDON 6 CONTINENTAL PORTS Ova Sail* it'ham »ananf fydeui toi Liverpool Avonmouth Oct. S/8 Oct. 9/10 lU*—% for Havra L pool C. 21/24 Oct. 12
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    • 376 10 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS TO NEW TORK AND BOSTON VIA CEYLON. INDIA ECYPT and MEDITERRANEAN PORTS j'pora •> sharti r'anang Pres. Van Buren In Port Sails 8 Oct. 9 Oct. 10/ 1 1 Oct. Pres lettersca 7/12 Oct 13/14 Oct 15/16 Oct "»res Polk 2S/29 Oct 10/J1 Oct To LOS ANCELES
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  • 267 11 Full U.K. Rugby Results LONDON, Sun. YESTERDAY'S UJC. Rugby football results are:RUGBT UNION Guy's Hospital 5. United Services Portsmouth 6: Harlequins 8, London Scottish 3; London Irish 3, Bristol 8; Old Merchant Taylors 21, Old Paulines 6; Old Blues 3, Wasps 17; Richmond 14, London Welsh S; Rosslyn Park 10.
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  • 27 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— Police Depot yesterday trounced Selangor Club by six goals to nil In a friendly came of hockey played on the padang.
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  • 336 11 Irish Defence Was Brilliant BELFAST, Sunday. ENGLAND won the first home soccer interlJ national of the season here, defeating Ireland by four goals to one after leading I—o1 0 at half-time yesterday. A crowd of 50,000 at Windsor Park watched England, In Ideal conditions, clinch
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    38 11 GORING, Arsenal centre- forward, and VERNON, West Bromwirh Albion centre-hair and captain (in stripes) in a heading duel during the Football League (First Division) match at Arsenal Stadium, Highbury, London, on Sept. 30. Arsenal won 3-0. Reuter photo.
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  • 125 11 PORMBY. Lanes.. Sun rIMY BRL'EN (Muskerny) and Wally Smithers (Long Ashton) esterday won one of the major British foursomes golf events when they beat M. Jones (Llandudno) and W. J. Branch (Berkhamstead) four and two In the final of the £3.000 Daily Telegraph amateurprofessional tournament Jones
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  • 46 11 PARIS. Sun —Captain Bob Hoffman of the United SUtes team, here for the World Weight-lifting Championships, predicted yesterday that Egypt would take most of the titles up to middle weight. He believed that the Americans should win the heavyweight titles— UJ».
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  • 54 11 MEXICO CITY, Sun.— Unseeded Felicisslmo Ampon won his way Into the final of the Pan-American Tennis Tournament yesterday by defeating Straight Clark of Los Angeles 6-1, 6-2, 6-1. He will meet fourth- seeded Tom Brown Jnr. (8. Francisco) today. Brown downed top seeded Art Larsen 3-6. 6-3.
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  • 636 11 LONDON, Sunday. AN EVENTFUL English Football League pro. gramme saw both the remaining unbeaten sides, Newcastle in Division One and Manchester City in Division Two, suffer their first defeats of the season and it cost each of them the leadership in their respective divisions. i
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  • 161 11 Israel Win Jewish Olympics TEL AVIV, Sun. ISRAEL won the 1950 aU-Jewlab World Olympics, outstripping the entrants of 18 nations by hundreds of points Tentative figures announced by the Olympics Organising Committee today show Israel piled up 532 >, points in all events In the 12-day contest. Oreat Britain's team
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  • 718 11 LONDOK, Sun. COOTBAix League standings after Tistsrday's matches were: FIRST DIVISION P W D L T A pu Arsenal IS 7 I 2 24 11 17 MWbrou«h 12 1 ***** 17 UuclWlvDU t i I 1M II Nr ircutle U. II I I 1 II 1* 16
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  • 412 12 INDONESIANS SCORE LUCKY 1-0 WIN Chinese Fritter Away Chances Banka-Billiton 1; Singapore Chinese 0. npHE visiting Indonesian soccer team won their match against Singapore Chinese at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday, but it was by a solitary goal obtained In the last minutes of play and after they had been on
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    41 12 A THRILLING PHASE of play in Navy's goalmouth during Saturday's Singapore A.F.A. Cup final in which Royal Navy beat Rovers S.C. two-one. Here Morton, Rorers' skipper, is seen contesting the ball with Navy defenders after a corner kick. Straits Times picture.
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    65 12 t. MITCHELL pictured after breaking the 50 metres freestyle record for boys under 17 at Singapore Amateur Swimming Asso* ciation championships on Saturday. His time was 28.8 sec., which was .8 sec. better than the old mark. Mitchell also won the 200 metres breaststroke for men, 30 metres backstroke for
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  • 126 12 LONDON, Bun. Tf^HE appearance of Jaroalav Drobny. the self-exiled Cxech, in the British covered courts lawn tennis championships which begin at the Queen's Club. London, tomorrow will give the event lta greatest International flavour since the war. Drobny will be competing for the first
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  • 677 12 AS EXPECTED, the holders of the Singapore doubles badminton title, Wong Peng Soon and Teoh Peng Hooi (Mayflower 8.P.), reached the final of the men's doubles in the Singapore Badminton Association championships by beating Cheong Hock Leng and Wee Chye Koon (Eclipse 8.P.) 15
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  • 232 12 By EPSOM JEEP IPOH, Sun. EIGHT winners, two seconds and a third brought trainer Hobbs's stable $63,950 in stakes earnings at the Perak Turf Club Autumn Gold Vase meeting which wasebncluded yesterday. Herb Charles easily topped the Jockeys' list with seven wins and four seconds
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  • 204 12 BOMBAY. Sun. OONNY RAMADHIN, the West Indies spinner, today took six j wickets for 23 for the Commonwealth touring team against the I Indian Board of Control Presid- ent's XI. The match ended in a draw. i Frank Worrell declared the Commonwealth first innings closed th.s morning
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  • 906 12  -  EPSOM JEEP By IPOH, Sunday. MR. EDDIE NATHAN of Singapore did not become owner of Miss Nathan. Saturday's winner of the Perak Gold Vase, by a chance purchase. There is, in fact, a touch of romance about the chain of events which led to
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  • 37 12 OUAYAQUIL, Ecuador. Bun.— Lloyd Laßeach. Panama, ran the 100 metres In 10 1 seconds In the Bolivian games here yesterday. Officials said they would try and have it recognised as a world re-cord.-A.P.
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  • 553 12 r THE Singapore Swimming Club's pool resounded 1 with terrific applause on no less than 12 eventful occasions as the announcement blared out over the overhead speakers: "another record has fallen this is a new record" during the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association championships which ended
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    • 808 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. (Continued from paw 6) SITUATION VACANT BOOK-KEEPER required by Chinese Commercial Firm. Must be able to keep complete set of books and work on own Initiative Salary according to experience. Apply Box No. A 2430, S.T. WORLD-WIDE Ami .ican manufacturing Company long established as leader in trade and
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    • 155 12 U.K. SOCCER AND OTHER SPORT-P. II Sun glare and heat used to tire me "M> dear." she said. "You mu\i pi<>out, made my eye\ ache, brought on lect voure>cf C omcand hrn jhonie headaches. Luckily I met Anne of Opirex no*- u^e n e*cry J.t> So. whenl got home 1
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    • 77 12 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: 1.47 a.m (tit.) and 9 19 p.m. (8ft. Sin.); 3.17 am (2ft 2in> and 3.30 p m (4(t. lln 8OCCEB: J»i. Cap wmi-final: Fathal Karib v Police at Jalan Beaar stadlam; Business Hae. B: Straits Time* Bukotn at Geylaag. RUGBY: S.C.C. "B" Nee S*on "A" on aa4ang;
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