The Straits Times, 2 August 1951

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1951. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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  • 1327 1 Lack ef water hampers fire fighters in early stages THE SCENE AT KAMPUNG BUGIS yesterday at the height of the fire. The flames leapt up to heights of over 60 feet. Strait* Times picture. 'Mercy Goddess* survived Sire DAMAGE PUT AT 1 m. By Straits
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  • 85 1 GRIFFITHS QUERIES GOVERNOR Press law LONDON. Wed. UR. Jamea Griffiths, th Colonial Secretary, sair! today he la investigating Singapore's new emergency newspaper regulation through correspondence wLh the Governor of Singapore. Questioned In the House of Commons, he declined to elaborate his statement. Mr. Stan Awberry (labour 1 had asked him
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  • 49 1 SOUTHAMPTON. Wed. Britain's newest oil refinery— the largest in Europe when in full operation— wiJl b> opened by Prime Minister, Mr Attiee. on Sept. 14, it was annornreri here. It will be capable of producing about 1.000.07)0 gallons of hiah quality motor spirit Reuter.
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  • 173 1 TOKYO, Wednesday. pEASE-FIRE delegates found no way out of their stalemate at today's session and the Chinese Field Commander in Korea, General Peng Teh-Huai, said the talks would fail should the United Nations delegation make impossible demands and enforce them. Allied and Communist •jtiators will
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  • 85 1 MORRISON TO VISIT U.S. SOON LONDON, Wed. rpHE Foreign Secretary, Mr A Herbert Morrrison, will visit Washington early next month for talks with the U.S Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson and other American officials, it was learned here yesterday. He will stay about a week. The visit wllL take
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  • 28 1 'LOUISE' FOR H.K. TAIPEI. Wed. Southern Formosa was spared by Typhoon Louise which, instead of striking the island as expected, headed in the general direction of Hong Kon&.
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  • 175 1 fTHE Lord Mayor of London, Sir Denys Lowson, will A have with him a State sword, dating from 1680 when he arrives in Singapore today. The sword, part of the Lord Mayor's traditional regalia, has a gold hilt and uold-banded scabbard. It has been
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  • 248 1 Attlee denies charge by Nehru LONDON, Wed. MR. Attlee, the Prime Minister, said today he greatly regretted that Mr. Nehru, Indian Prime Minister, had supported "unfounded allegations" that senior British ex-officers had taken part in military planning discussions in Pakistan. (In a speech at Bangalore on July 18 Mr. Nehru
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  • 42 1 BANGKOK, Wed— The Australian Minster for External Affairs, Mr. Richard Casey, was unable to leave Bangkok for Hong Kong as scheduled today when his plane postponed Its flight because of a reported typhoon in the Hong Kong area.
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  • 58 1 TAKE IT EASY U.S. URGES KARACHI. Wed.— Pakistan has replied to the recent United States' State Department's message urging Karachi and New Delhi to take no action jfhich would increase present tension on the IndiaPakistan border. Government sources here disclosed last night. The sources gave no indication of the contents
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  • 34 1 WASHINGTON, Wed. General J. Lawton Collins. Army Chief of Staff, told Senators yesterday that the United States will have a military force of 344.000 men in Europe by June 30, 1952.
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  • 102 1 BANGKOK, Wed. THE Siamese Government last night, in a Royal decree, placed destination controls on tin ore, wolfram ore, iron ore, lead, antimony zinc, rubber, castor oil. From July 31, exporters will have to get special permits to export these materials. It did not specify which
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  • 47 1 SAIGON. Wed Vietnam police today arrested a leader and 20 other members Of an ultra-Nationalist youth organisation at Sadec. 80 miles south-west of Saigon where General Charles Chanson, French Commander in Cochin-China and the South Vietnam Governor. Thai Nap Thanna, were assassinated yesterday. Reuter.
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  • 189 1 The $3000 a month superman is found KUALA LUMPUR, Wed nPHE $3,000 a month x "superman" for the Co-operative Department has been found. He is Mr. Edward Francis Lawrence Russell, aged 37, who will take up his appointment as general manager of the Malayan Cooperative Wholesale Society Ltd., in about
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  • 76 1 ABADAN. Wed. JLf R- Averell Harriman, President Truman's special envoy, flew back to Teheran from London today to speed preparations for a resumotion of British-Persian talks on the oil Issue. Mr. Harriman was expected to press for an early acceptance of "certain conditions" so that the talks
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  • 220 2 SHERMAN WARNED GREAT PERILS AHEAD ,\]iu WASHINGTON, Wed. A TESTIMONY, made public today, revealed that the late Admiral Forrest Sherman told the House Appropriations Committee that a general war was "probable" though "not inevitable". Admiral Sherman, chief of naval operations at the time, also warned the United States must again
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  • 53 2 WASHINGTON, Wed— The State Department confirmed that it had received a note from India commenting on the Anglo-American draft of the Japanese peace treaty. The Department's spokesman, Mr. Michael McDermott. said he was not at liberty to disclose its contents or make any comment on the
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  • 58 2 FLOATING SNACK BAR COME AND GET IT! Puerto Rico Introduces a new idea in aquatic luxury, the Floating Snack Bar, which made its debut at the Cari^e Hilton Hotel in San Juan. It is a fastronomlcal delight for the swimmers who help themselTes to sandwiches, drinks, pineapples anld peanuts as
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  • 114 2 KARACHI, Wednesday. AMASS meeting of women in Karachi yesterday passed a resolution assuring Premier Liaquat Ali Khan they were prepared "to sacrifice our all in defence of our counry". Begum Mohammed Ali. wife of the Secretary-Gen-eral of the Government, moved the resolution, and Begum Liaquat
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  • 105 2 WANTS A DISARMED JAPAN BOMBAY, Wed. MR. Mosaburo Suzuki. chairman of the Japanese Social Democrat Party, said yesterday his party wanted the "complete disarmament'" of Japan as the basis of a peace treaty. Mr. Suzuki, who is visiting India after a tour of the United States, said Japanese Socialists wanted
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  • 244 2 CHU TEH WANTS STRONGER ARMY HONG KONG, Wed. PEN. Chu Teh, Com- mander-in-Chief of Red China, yesterdav called for strengthening his country's armed fences with modern equipment, and politically trained soldiers to ac-* complish the tsfsks facing China. He was speaking at the 24th anniversary of the Chi-> nese Communist
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  • 48 2 J.O.XG BKACII, California, Wed pRNEST Haneline chased a half nude burglar from his home, but modesty forced him to let the cul- I prit escape. The would-be ruhli wore only a shirt but Baseline, because of the heat, had been sleeping entirerj no —UP.
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 464 2 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS -KPPLICATTONS are invited for feimle TELEPRINTER TYPISTS In the Salary Scale $75 x 8A 115 B 125 x 5A 180 p.m. plus Cost of Living. Singapore and Housing Allowances. For a basic ■alary of $75, p.m. the total monthly emoluments received would amount to $162.25. Applicants should be
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    • 405 2 MALAY^ADMmw^ATiVt SERVICE Applications are invited for Probationer CadeUhlps in the Malay Administrative Service. 2. The salary scale is: $275 /300/320X20-400/ 430 X 20 510 540 X 90 600 p.m. Cost of Living Allowance and Housing Allowance will be payable in accordance with the appropriate Regulations. 3. Candidates should not normally
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    • 785 2 NATfRAIISATrON NOTICE Is hereby given that Llm Kee Say of 1, Lloyd Road, Singapore S Is applying to the Governor for naturalisation, and that any person who knows any reasons why naturalisation should not be granted should send n w-itten and signed statement of the facts to the Colonial Secretary,
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    • 651 2 NOTICE Yt> S&GAPORE IMPORTERS No. 41 INTERNATIONAL WHEAT AGREEMENT FLOUR FROM AUSTRALIA SECOND ISSUE AGAINST 1951/ 52 QUOTA The second Issue of licences for the Import of I.W.A. wheat flour from Australia for the period 1951/1952 is now due to be made. This Issue will be based on the actual
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    • 85 2 fir ydfcfa down I&4wr&k>' SpeciaUy designed for earth-moving for the next traction bite. The rubber equipment, the connected double braced dipped body with its extra heavy sidewalls bars of this self- cleaning tread pack down and special cut-resisting, long-wearing rubber loose earth as they dig into the ground ready combine
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  • 353 3 OU WERE FREE YUU "WfWjLD RlvUw... LONDON, Wednesday. •JHE Foreign Secretary, Mr. Morrison, told the Russian people today that if they were really free they would know the West wants peace and the Soviet leaders are sowing the seeds of war. Mr.
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  • 46 3 PRINCESS ATTENDS WEDDING 1--./.V. „o, 1.1 uiit and tunic-fronted summer dress is Princess Margaret as she attended the wedding of her friend. .'Miss Rachel Brand to the Hon. W. Douglas Home. She is talking to the vicar of St. Peter's Church. London, where the wedding was
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  • 235 3 TWO MUST DO WORK OF THREE The Menzies Plan SYDNEY. Wed. AUSTRALIA'S economic crisis conference ended last nlfht with a call from the Prime Minister, Mr. Menzics. to the nation urging that every two men should do the work of three. "In Australia we have a tr?mendous treble task" he
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  • 81 3 ROME. Wed. THE Italian Premier Signor Alcide de Gasperi yesterday formally presented his new government to the Senate, outlining its policy in a 30-minute statement. Sicnor de Gasperi pledged his seventh successive government to work for the revision of the Italian Deace treaty. 1 Italy can leave
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  • 78 3 DAMASCUS. Wed. SYRIA'S 20,000 Gorernment employees are In the second day of their lightning strike demanding wage increases. All official and commercial business U Interrupted. Syria's ministerial crisis remained fluid yesterday as Premier Khaled El Azem Bey would neither confirm nor deny reports of his resignation.
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  • 120 3 RAILMEN WANT 10 P.C. RISE LONDON, Wed BRITAIN'S 580,000 railwayu men have asked for a ten per cent increase in pay, their union announced yesterday. The rise would cost the country's nationalised railways over £17,000,000 a year. Last February, after months of negotiation, the railwaymen were granted a seven-and-a-half per
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  • 58 3 r S U Z> c i— Tne American John Chester Kendall (7,176 tons) damaged in a collision on July 28 while carrying the first United States wheat shipment for India discharged her cargo here yesterday. The wheat— lo,ooo tons— is expected to be re-shipped for
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  • 162 3 BERLIN, Wednesday. THE three Western Allies have begun a new small scale air-lift to defeat Soviet restrictions on exports from Berlin, it was announced today. Four extra civil planes two French, one British and one American will daily carry 30 tons of Berlin exports to
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  • 45 3 HONG KONG, Wed.— Hong Kong did HK$778,000,000 worth of trade in June a drop of 6.9 per cent over May, according to Government statistics. Exports to China dropped HK$4.400.000 to HK$141,300,000 largely because of the recent ban on rubber shipments. A.P.
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  • 156 3 ARMED WITH A .280 RIFLE D LONDON, Wednesday. M?L Emanuel Shinw e", Britain's Minister of *^H C fu le ?y? y air yesterday for Washington to KSS? ?%*n tet™?™ Britain, the United States, France and Canada on the standardisation of small drillo. He told reporters
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  • 50 3 JOHANNESBURG, Wed. k YELLOW 511!, carats n diamond has been found by Mr. J. Venter, of Nooitgedacht, near Kiniberley. The stone, unvalued as yet, is the third largest found so far. It will probably be of less value, comparatively, then others, because of a flaw. A.P.
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  • 83 3 WASHINGTON, Wed. THE General Services Administration (G.S.A.), the United States Government purchasing agency, "has no thought of getting out of rubber buying," a spokesman said yesterday. He added the Administration has been "fully success- r 'il in forcing rubber prices down to reasonable levels" and
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  • 38 3 WASHINGTON, Wed.— Mr. Dan Kimball,* former Undersecretary of the Navy, was worn in today as the new Secretary of the Navy. He replaces Mr. Francis Matthews vho takes up the post of Ambassador to Ireland.— Reuter.
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  • 182 3 'FREE NATIONS' ACCUSED BY SENATOR WASHINGTON, Wednesday. DEMOCRATIC Senator Herbert O'Conor charged today that some of the free nations are still shipping war materials to Communist China despite the United Nations embargo. He said, however, that India, Denmark and Panama have taken to Leart the warnings of his Senate Subcommittee
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  • 100 3 LONDON Wed. BRITAIN faces a serious shortage of scientists, government advisers warned yesterday. The advisory report of the Council of Scientific Policy said the rearmament programme would make heavy demands for physicists, chemists and engineers. If all the plans to develop under developed areas of
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  • 74 3 DAR-ES-SALAAM, Wed. ALL was quiet on the island of Zanzibar yesterday following Monday's incidents when three people were killed and 11 injured during a demonstration outside a gaol. Police flred on a crowd protesting against the imprisonment of 17 cattle owners for refusing to obey
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  • 120 3 British atom test to be in Australia LONDON, Wed. rE Daily Telegraph reported today that the first British atomic test would take place soon in Australia. It hinted that a Canberra jet bomber, first of a series being built in Britain for Australia, which Is due to leave today for
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  • 129 3 a four-day factfinding visit to Singapore and the Federation, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York left Kallang airport yesterday morning in an U.S. Army Air Force Dakota for Jakarta, on the next leg of his South-East Asia tour. Mr. Dewey gave this farewell message to
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  • 38 3 MONTREAL, Wed.— British deputy Opposition leader Mr. Anthony Eden arrived in Canada yesterday on the "Empress of France." He will spend a fortnight in Canada before going to the United States on a lecture tour.
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    • 406 3 The Five Golden Rules oLleamaking t.^Uie good qualify tej." IVT ttej" frethly-drawn and freshly boiling water: Good tea cannot be made with under- or overboiled, stale or Hat water. 8. Always warm the pet. 4. Use "short •our" take the teapot to thekettte. 5. Tea should be brewed, not stewed
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  • 238 4 $1,000,000 YEARLY RELIEF FOR THE NEEDY IN SINGAPORE iruvuriimeiii iruuifj* hqmiv ■iiupvuu.a.uv GOVERNMENT relief allowances to the widows, orphans, aged, sick, disabled and unemployed of Singapore have been trebled as from yesterday. The new rates, payable under the Public Assistance Scheme, will cost nearly $1,000,000, annually, compared with about $270,000.
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  • 209 4 ChioLan,11 finds her mother PLUMP, eleven-year-old Cbio Lao ha* liund her mother. But, for the present, she will stay at the Girk' Homecraft Centre. York Hill, Singapore. It to almost aix months sine* Chio Lan was found crying outside Dockyard Gate No. 5. The Social Welfare Department placed her in
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  • 84 4 A police informer, whose name was not disclosed, was yesterday awarded $500 for helping the police to arrest Tan Swee Kin. 34, for assisting in the management of a chap-ji-ki lottery in Singapore on July 24. In the Singapore First Police Court. Tan was fined $1,500 or
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  • 43 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed.— Syed Yahaya bin Syed Hashim a Customs labourer, was allowed $500 bail in the Police Court today, pending trial, on a charge of corruptly accepting a bribe, from a lorry driver on behalf of an Outdoor Customs Officer.
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  • 126 4 Festival of Britain Exhibition, U.E. Building: 9 a.m. -6 p.m. Y.W.C.A. Raffles Quay: sewing class (advanced* 10-12 noon; beginners class from 5-7 p.m.; Wayfarers meet at 4.30 p.m.— basket making. New Malay udvanced' ehM at 5.30 p.m. Y.M.C.A. Orchard Road: French class, 5.30 p.m.; gymnastics and keep-fit class.
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  • 224 4 WAKENED BY SON'S SHOUTS SEVEN days after she had given birth to her third child. Koh Ah Hoe stabbed her second child, a three-year-old girt, fatally and wounded her first son and husband whiU they were all asleep on the Mght of Apr. 26, 1947, it was alleged in the
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  • 102 4 Results of election of nominees of the Guild of Graduates to the Council and Court of the University of Malaya were announced last night by the Registrar. W. D. Craig: Dr. B. R. Sreenivasan reelected to the Council from Oct. 8, 1951 to Oct. 7. 1955. Mi*F. C.
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  • 54 4 Lai Jit Seng pleaded guilty before the Singapore First Police Magistrate, Mr. R. C. S Bell, on Monday to criminal breach of trust of a bicycle worth $175, at Kirn Keat Road. Singapore, on April 19. Bail of $2,000 in two sureties was granted until
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  • 29 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Lee Yew Sin. a lorry attendant, was allowed $200 bail today, pending trial on a charge of criminally misappropriating a bicycle belonging to Muttulingam.
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  • 116 4 ASOCIAL insurance expert from the International Labour Organisation, Mr. Daniel S. Gerig, has arrived in Singapore to advise the Commission, inquiring into a retirement benefits scheme for Colony workers. An American, Mr. Gerig has been a member of the ILO's Social Security Division for the
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  • 47 4 The Postal and- Telecommunications Uniformed Staffs' Union states that the accused in a case of alleged stealing of a letter containing $6 and a bill, which was mentioned In a Singapore police court on Monday, was a postal clerk and not a postman as reporUJ.
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  • 51 4 JOHORE BAHRU Wed Lee Hong, a sawmill kepala of Tiran, whose residence was restricted under the Emergency Regulations, was charged in the Police Court with changing his residence without prior sanction of the Chief Police officer, Johore. Lee Hong was allowed bail in $200 pending
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  • 291 4 ROYAL Navy civilian fire-fighters from H.M. Dockyard Fire Brigade swept the board in the annual Inter-Services Trailer Fir e Pump competitions at Nee Soon Camp yesterday. The Dockyard sent two teams for the Medium Class and one team for the Light C]oss. The three team*
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  • 76 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— Instead of a Fun Fair during Welfare Week in aid of the funds of the Johore Bahru District Welfare Association the organisers have decided to hold a Carnival for which an elaborate pro--gramme is being planned. The dates for the Qarnlval are Aug. 30
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  • 29 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. Qek Ah Shin was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, followed by six months' police supervision, for attempted theft of a motor car tyre.
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  • 160 4 WHEN Shell Company (Singapore) gave $100,000 to the University of Malaya Fund in 1949. Mr T. W. Pennington, Shell chief executive, said: "We have been anxious to recruit locally-born men into executive posts in our company, but the right materials is at present lacking. We
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  • 274 4 RAAF Lincoln gets her century A ROYAL Australian Air Force Lincoln medium bomber number A73-31 landed back at Tengah airfield yesterday after attacking a bandit target near Oemas, to become the first Australian-built Lincoln ever to have completed 100 operational flights. "Thirty-one"', as the aircraft is known in her squadron,
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  • 64 4 Tan Pong Kay, 20, an employee of the British Military Hospital, Alexandra Road, was detained while trying to get past the 'out' gate with three kettles worth $30, the Singapore Third Magistrate, Mr. H. B. Livingstone, was told yesterday. Tan, who pleaded guilty to stealing
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  • 47 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed.— The death took place yesterday of 84-year-old Mr. M. Perumal. the oldest Indian resident of Johore Bahru Mr Perumal came to Malaya from India when Jv was 10 years old and lived all his life in Johore
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  • 192 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. TiHREE horses will convey a special prayer from a few Chinese maidens Id Kuala Lumpur to the seven most beautiful virgins <n Heaven on August fl a prayer for beauty. Expert Chinese craftsmen are now making Mfe-size model horses from paper and
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  • 283 5 Two Brigadiers direct 'war in three states KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. jyjALAYA'S two most important priority areas Johore and Negri-Malacca have come under direct army control with the appointment of two high-ranking army officers as Deputy Assistant Directors of Operations in charge of them, it was announced
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  • 33 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed.— Miss Lois Oakley, daughter of Cdr R. Oakley RNVR, of Hornchurch, Essex, and Capt. C. Delyie Turner, Royal Signals, of London, were married at Johor e Bahru toda».
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  • 131 5 THE Singapore Government and Municipal Labour Union will tell Colony Municipal Commissioners, of their dissatisfaction at the recent decision of the Commissioners Services Committee to grant only three days' annual leave for daily-paid employers, in addition to 12 public holidays a year. The secretary of
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  • 54 5 Singapore branch of the Malayan Chinese Association has decided to start a fund for a welfare centre for chronic T.B. cases. The branch committee has deferred approval of $5,000 recommended by the M.C.A. Welfare Sub-Committee for the S ATA. building fund. A Singapore District Association
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  • 83 5 SHANGHAI-BORN Russian Lj among 32 Singapore citizens who will receive certificates of British naturalisation from the Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blythe, at a ceremony at the Victoria Memorial Hall this afternoon. This is the second batch to receive naturalisation certificates this year, the first batch
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    33 5 CROWDS stand on the pier and in small craft watchin? great clouds of smoke rise from the Are which made 5.000 people homeless in Singapore yesterday. Other pictures in Page 7.
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  • 253 5 jyiß. W. A. Cooper, Singapore's Director of Posts, iTI yesterday said that the interest rate fixed by the Government for the Post Office Savings Bank in Malaya would not be increased. He told Singapore Rotarians: "The interest rate of 2y 2 per cent compares very
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  • 55 5 I Ong Sang Kah, 32, of Kallang Road, wu yesterday charged at the Singapore First Police Court with cheating Ng Kok Huat of *260 at Bencoolen Street between May 20 and 24 this year. He was remanded until Aug. 15 pending transfer of the case
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  • 49 5 A second-hand hardware dealer, Chiunh Chui Kan. aged 38, of Johore, was sentenced in Singapore yesterday to 18 months*' imprisonment for cheating Quek Eu Wan, a bus inspector, of $3,000 In a Singapore bar. A charge of assaulting a detective was postponed to Aug. 14.
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  • 257 5 IP Government is sincerely interested in the welfare of its employees, then it must provide at least a living, not an existence, wage on the border of starvation, said Mr. Lee Thian Kee on Tuesday night, at the third annual meeting of the
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  • 31 5 Mr. Harry Hopkins, correspondent of John Bull magazine, who is now in Singapore, will write a series of •i r tides on South-East A^Ja. He will tour the Federation'
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  • 262 5 BRIGGS ADVISED ESTATE SALES KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. tiNEMY rubber estates in Malaya were advertised for sale in one lot on the advice of the Director of Operations, Lieutenant-General Sir Harold Briggs. This was stated today by Mr. V. S. Kelly, Custodian of Enemy Property. Federation of MaJaya. when he answered
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  • 279 5 Paair Pmnjanf, Optam Faet*ry, Reformatory lUad. Oiyjen Factory. Cressonite, St. James, MW Road, Silat Sm«, Bukit Pasob, 8.A.T., Trafalgar Street, Prince Edward Road, Sago Street, Peoples rark Nansoa Road Lam Soon Oil Mills, Guan Hin, DX Network. VX. FaeUry River Valley Road. KilUney Road, Orchard Road, Armenian St.
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  • 105 5 THE shortage of stop wat1 ches for timing the Johore Grand Prix on Sunday has been overcome following the appeal of the Singapore Motor Club president, Mr. Paul Gibbs-Pancheri, on Tuesday. Mr. Gibbs-Pancherl told th» Straits limes yetterday that the Club Had received about
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 64 5 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 10-10 ajn. New* from K.L. 1 p.m. Light Music; 1.30 News; 1.45-3 Dance Music; 6.15 "Calling All Hospitals"; 7 News; 7.12 Talk: "Career* For Young Malayan*" ("Agriculture") 7.20 Interlude; 7.30 Augmented Radio Orch S "Guesa What"; 8.30 "Hit Parade": 9 "The Master of BaUanUae"; 0.30 New*; .45
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  • 30 6 MR. A MRS. PATERSON FAMILY of Klrkby. Lonsdale. England, thank all for floral tributes received at the funeral of their ■on. Douglas, who was killed on 18th July. 1951.
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  • 748 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs. Aug. 2, 1951. The F.P.A. Battle The Singapore Family Planning Association is asking the Government to increase its annual grant from $10,000 to $20,000. While there are similar associations elsewhere in Asia, Singapore is ihe only Asian territory, except Japan, where a Family Planning Association
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  • 333 6 If the facts were correctly stated in the Municipal Commissioners' debate on Tuesday, the grant of Crown land on Collyer Quay on a 99-year lease for a new building to be erected for the Singapore Chamber of Commerce and the Singapore Club becomes more obscure than ever.
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  • 169 6 Prices: action, not words fONGRATULAT lONS, Yeo Tong Hal, foi your letter of Tuesday, "Prices Fight: A Criticism". You have taken the words out of my mouth in your criticism- of Mrs. Robert Eu and the Consumers' Resistance Movement. Of course, she must find some scapegoat and that is the
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  • 132 6 I WOULD remind "H.W.R.," whose letter you published on Friday, that selling exJap estates at one fifth of their value is the most effective plan that the Government has yet produced to combat inflation. If these estates were sold in small lots to local people, then
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  • 115 6 rE Director of Telecommunications, Federation of Malaya, is to be congratulated on the opening of the new telephone exchange at Kuala Lumpur; an exchange which obviously has been planned to meet the needs of the public several years ahead. Would the Director now give
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    9 6 Pho :.!yj\iyh by tOiig Penxj Scon SCHOOL HOLIDAY SPIRIT
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    • 278 6 THE POLICE THE WITNESS IN last week's Straits Times reports of a Kuala Lumpur Supreme Court trial, much newsprint was devoted to allegations by defence counsel to the effect that physical violence was used by the police in order to extract statements from witnesses. In the Sunday Times of July
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    • 203 6 AS a student of languages, I would like to offer my opinion on the claims made by Professor Jou Bienming, whom you quoted in your editorial "Chinese Without Tears." Although Western Sinologists have adopted a system of romanlsing the Chinese language, they have never dreamt of abolishing the
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  • 415 6 WITH reference to recent correspondence on afternoon schools, some points have struck me which I, as a father and one who has nothing to do with the teaching profession, should be glad if you would permit me to express. In what way are afternoon schools
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  • 105 6 AS a teacher In a local mission school. I fully endorse the statements made by "Sucker" in last Saturday's Forum. In the school where I am employed, all letters addressed to members of the staff are censored by the Principal. "Sucker's" statement that promotions In mission schools depend
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  • 257 6 Inflation and timber THINK I can enlighten Mr. P. S. Markandan on his "Question on Timber", which appeared in last Saturday's Forum. Malaya is the third Underproducing country in the world if I remember correctly. Though tin and rubber are acknowledged as the first and second causes of the present
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  • 116 6 '"'■"V. x on Mi^cr i Industry provided th» v. ..:1 I.^i.i i »ij{j in June. Tin came second with $5,925,968.10. Other taxes appear to be somewhat excessive, but in view of the present situation, cannot be considered to be abnormal. Now Took at the total revenue for June.
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  • 408 6 On the Margin And i\ow Snails UY Malacca correspondent, "Omar," who started tie discussion on Why CWebaki Don't Fall Off— of course thcj sometimes do, especially m amatory exercises— has writ? ten to me again. I now suspect that he is no kampong dweller after all, and that he knows
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    • 752 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. TO MAHBBWARI c/o Mailvaganam, daughter at the Bungsar Hospital on 90th July 1951. PATON—OR AH AM: At Holy Trinity Churfch Batu Gajah on the 37th July tt the Rev. AC. Dumper, Jamfs Russell Paton to Haxel Margaret Graham ot Whitecralgft, Glaigow. BCHOPTBLP-NORRIS, at St. Gaorge't Church, Penang, 2nd
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  • 315 7 Survey on for master plan to develop island ALL Singapore slums would be down for eradication when the master plan for the island's development was produced, said Sir George Pepler, Singapore's town planning consultant, yesterday. Sir George, who returned to Singapore on Saturday, will be here
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  • 83 7 More than 350 women yesterday attended the bridge and mahjong drive in aid of the Red Cross at the home of the Singapore Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blythe. Prizes were plven by Sime. D-rby. G.E.C.. Robinsons, Teck Joo and Mulchands. Mr. Nonee Sen, of
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  • 229 7 ..And as the flames roared ABOUT 60 houses In Sin Koh Street, occupied by about 700 people, were razed. Mr. K- T. Lim. otip of the owners, said that if tenants holding rental receipts applied to his office at 9A, Cross Street, they would get relief. "My brothers and I."
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  • 110 7 ABOUT 50 people made homeless by the fire were given food and a place to sleep by Mr. S.M.A.H. Chisty, Singapore Municipal Commissioner, at his home In North Bridge Road last night. Singapore Social Welfare Department and the Red Cross worked up to late
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  • 107 7 After the million-dollar blaze at Singapore's Kampong Bugis THE STRAITS TIMES photograph, taken by staff photographer Norman Cotterell from the top of a gasometer .at the Municipal Gas Works in Kallang Road, shows clearly the 20-acre area at Kampong Bugis which was devastated by fire early yesterday morning. The black
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  • 122 7 'pHE Australian trade exhibition will open on time on Saturday, although almost all the exhibits were destroyed in yeifi&rdav's fire. mtesioner, Mr. James Payne, who leaves ih a few dogf f or a hew post in San frtflßUod last nia£t sdid that local ■mZrehants were coming to
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  • 35 7 MUAR, Wed— Cham Tuam, aged 45, was fined $30 in Muar for moving half a katy of rice without a permit within the controlled area at Jorak Estate, Bukit Pasir, on Julf 25.
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  • 101 7 Singapore helps 10 millions MacD. rpEN millions in Asia enjoyed a better standard of of living because of the port of Singapore said "he Commissioner General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, I Singapore last night. w nations in Asia made eater contribution to the ire of Asians than Sihre, said Mr. MacDonald
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  • 44 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— One of the 12 bandits killed by Gurkhas In the Segamat area of Johore on Saturday was Wong Yeu. a branch committee member of the Malayan Communist Party, who had a price of $2,5<V) on his head.
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  • 65 7 TRIED TO KILL 3— CHARGE Seng Joo Geok, woman was produced yesterday afternoon befor« the Singapore Second Police Magistrate, Mr R. B. I. Pates, on three tentative charges of attempted murder by feeding two boys, Tan Song Peng and Tan Song Lan, and a girl, Tan Song Eng, with caustic
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  • 1545 7 gIR Stafford Foster Sutton, President of the Singapore Court of Civil Appeal, hearing the appeal by Inche Mansoor Adabi against a Supreme Court declaration in December last year that his Muslim marriage to Maria Hertogh is invalid, said yesterday: 'The whole proceedings seems to be
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  • 174 7 Concert for schools a success f fHE MID- YEAR CQrcert for schools of \,he Singapore Junior Symphony Orchestra and the Combined Schools Choir at the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday was attended by about 600 schoolchildren and a few guests. including: the Singapore Director of Education. Mr. A. W. Frisby. "I
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  • 133 7 SHB refuses to sell land cheaply r fHE Singapore Harbour Board has refused to sell 17,100 square feet of land in the Keppel area to the Municipal Commissioners to build a sewerage pumping station at less than the current market price. The Municipal Assessor valued the land at $1 a
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  • 167 7 KOYLIs told: You will always be remembered KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. THE people of North Malaya will not forget the help and protection given t<» them by the Second Battalion, the King's Own. Yorkshire Light Infantry, said the High Commissioner, Sir Henry Gurney, in a message to the battalion today. The
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  • 64 7 The Royal Navy and Ihe Royal Malayan Volunteer Reserve gave a truly nautical touch at last night's first night of the film "Horatio Hornblower. R.N." at the Capitol when nearly lf>:) officers and men in tropical kit attended the show. Rear Admiral H. W. Faulkner and Mrs.
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    • 13 7 ■TV \^d*» Q^^//(\ -<*" AGENTS C E MORTON (malaya) LTD. Singapore Kuala Lumpur Penang
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  • 322 8 Draft dodgers want to return but Govt says 'No' CHINESE YOUTHS SEEK RE-ENTRY PERMITS KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. fIRAFT dodgers, who fled Malaya a few months ago when the Manpower Regulations were first introduced in the Federation, are trying to return to this country. Several hundred parents have applied for reentry
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  • 69 8 Hajara Singh, 31, a market watchman, was acquitted by Mr. S. E. Teh. the Singapore Third District Judge, yesterday on a charge of causing grievous hurt to Jit Singh, a driver, with a knife at Upper Serangoon Road on the night of April 1. The
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  • 76 8 FOUR girl striken of the Singapore Glass Manufacturers' Company line up for free drinks, fruit and biscuits near the factory in Henderson Road yesterday. In all. more than 4W strikers jot gifts donated by 11 Colony trade unions. Mr. K. Jaganathan. secretary of the Singapore Trades
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  • 95 8 PLAN TO CUT FOOD PRICES A proposal to set up a central depot for the distribution of food to retailers is to be made to Singapore Government by Mr. T. F. Carey, director of the Malayan Cooperative Movement. The plan is aimed at reducing the cost of living. It results
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  • 83 8 OINGAPORE Volunteer Corps will go to their annual camp from August 3 to August 12. Camping grounds are SR.A. (Vi at Blakan Mati. SJt.E. (V) at HQ S.V.C., Infantry (V) at Selerang and S.A.S.C. (V) at Pulau Brani. Units will assemble at S.V.C. HQ.. Beach
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  • 27 8 Chong Her Tie. aged 42, of BuUit Timah Road, Singapore, was found stabbed near his home last night. He was taken to the General Hospital.
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  • 64 8 Toh Hock Soon claimed trial in the Singapore Second Police Court on Tuesday to a charge of fraudulent possession of £18 (Australian currency) and 10.000 French francs at the General Post Office on Monday. The Australian pounds and francs were suspected to be stolen property or fraudulently obtained.
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    • 56 8 TV .^JJTmf^iP UKAWN BY PETER JACKSON SOUND Of f KJhTinG. SdCXtfti 7l r f\ v* nnrvt m fk",m? *^**«<* 1 1 'Ai f «am(ul ruu oqwQn* i 1 n*f >a rtwu aj I r j~—i_if 11 1 n» Tuff CAfJt 1 I ff jlf ft JT'^r^^\ m^f» \MJU9 l \J
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  • 73 9 S im. tun blmde, Alice in W onderiar.d has come to London, and like the "Alice" of Lewis Carroll s famous story, she is spending much of her time before the looking glass. Alice," or to give her real name, Kathryn Beaumont will be heard in Walt
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  • 141 9  -  MAGBA DUNIN By IN hot weathes most women 1 wilt like flowers and wilted flowers lose their scent! Now. there are countless ways of wearing perfume: dabbing, spraying, or pouring it on: here, there, and everywhere And there is also a simple
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  • 135 9 \1/ HY n white? So ww many women tend to think of white in terms of weddings and blouses actually it is tf.e smartest, coolest shade tor our tro- pical climate. Sketched here are three white, right, outfits. ON THI LEFT for the teen-ager a sun
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  • 807 9  -  MARY DUNBAR By WHEN I was a small girl, I hated having my wispy hair curled up In lumpy rag-crackers. I can remember my Victorian grandmother tryIng to comfort me with the saying: "Pride must endure a pinch." She also had suffered, for ringlets were modish
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    • 232 9 Straits T-SntM Crossword. A».r 27. Coach without wheels (5) t Nsxyj ,3^,, -8. A Sheridan comedy (6). H 3 4 H 5 6 7 < 9 "Up the came the rebfj iSS B§£ SSSS read" < Wliittier) (6) H^ 2. Monomania (9\ 10 S||§ n asasj 3 part or lhe
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  • 550 10  -  Talbot Chambers By PHOTOS BY SAM KAI FAYE THIS IS THEPROiiLEuI FACING THE S.I.T. TOWN PLANNERS v MONKEY swung on the temple roof and children played on the temple steps. There are temples in all my properties.' the landlady said, tidying a rubbish dump. 'I have owned
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    • 246 10 For swift ddhruies and easy manoruwring in city and suburban areas, this van is unexcelled fbr the carrying of many types of merchandise It has an all-steel body with safety sliding doors, and provides excellent visibility for the driver. Loading space exceptional, no less than 150 cubic feet I The
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  • 361 11 LONDON STOCKS LONDON, Wed. Fhas been another day of very erratic movements on the London Stock Exchange, many of which were due to activities on the part of speculators. Industrial and oil shares both encountered heavy sellins: in early dealings, some of which was again reported as "forced." Buying for
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  • 200 11 RUBBER MARKET Steady day; one cent up at the close TTOE Singapore rubber market was steady yester- day on factory buying, short covering, and sellers' reserve. The close was also steady, with August first-grade at $1.42 a lb. buyers, one cent, above Tuesday's close. Turn-over was moderate. Business was done
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  • 38 11 TIN: $410⅛ A PICUL SINGAPORE, Wed. An* 1 $410.12'. (down $2,371/2) London: £817£ a ton LONDON, Wed. Cash Bayers £8174, Sellers £822%; Forward Buyers £810, Sellers £812V 2 Settlement £819 (down £7). Turn-over: a.m. 55t tons, pan. 15.
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  • 92 11 •THERE were no price changes 1 to spealc of In the Singapore produce market yesterday. Copra and coconut oil were dull. Pepper was quietly steady. Selling prices (per plcul) quoted yesterday In the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange were: Gambler rough slices (350; Java cube (110; Hamburg cube
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  • 32 11 HONG HONO, Wed. pREE market currency exchange for Hong Ron? dollars was quoted the close today as lotlows: US$l HK16.30 ica*h); £1 HKJ15.70: one tahil of gold HK$3lO»i— UP.
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  • 34 11 »T»HE Malayan Exchange Banks Association announced yesterday that control direct rates for Canadian dollars were: Buying TT 34 13 16. Airmail (0.D.) 34 15/16. (90 days) 35 3/16; Selling, T.T./0.D.. ready 34
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  • 160 11 THE result* of Borneo's labour shortage were described In his annual review when Mr. A. Parker Smith, chairman, addressed the annual meeting of Lawas (Sarawak) Estates in London. A disappointing profit and loss account was In the main due. he said, to the difficulty in obtaining the
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  • 140 11 Malayan shares Little business, slight easing TPHERE was very little interest In the Malayan snare market yesterday and business was difficult to transact.. The undertone was slightly easier. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: Barer* B.B. Petrol 41/8 Prater A Neave Ords 382J Gammoiu 3.46 Henrv Waugh
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  • 22 11 TTNITED Malacca Rubber Estates in June produoed 95,878 lb. of robber to make a two-montl: total of 164,978 lb.
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  • 186 11 CHIPS in the Singapore Roads and alongside the Singapore Harbour Board godowns at 4 p.m. yesterday were: Outer Roads: Oriental Phoenix. Baud, Hannah Moller. Tjimenteng. Dunera. Eastern Queen. Bougainville, Hal Hsuan, Inchmull. La Colorada. Foo Yu. Chong Ya. R. Kerr. Steel Surveyor. Inner Roads:
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    • 1406 11 (Incorporated In Singapore) blub roimsL lins Carrier s option to pncnd via after p«rtt to load and discharge cargo. tAILINCS to LIVERPOOL. GLASGOW LONDON 6- CONTINENTAL PORTS Duo Sail* P. Slum Penang Ancnrs*s for Liverpool b Glasgow Auf 2/4 C'lchjs for L'pool C. 13/34 Aug. 7 Aug. I/I 1 Aag.
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    • 404 11 PRESIDENT LDfER SAILINGS To New rork md Boston >ia Ceylon India Ecvpt «nd Singapore P Swettenham r>enane is "PRESIDENT lOHNSON" C. 15-16/7 Aug. 8/9 Aug. 10/11 Aug. s.s. "PRESIDENT MONROE 10/18 Aug. 19/20 Aug. 21/22 Aug. s.s "PRESIDENT HARRISON" 14/22 Aug. 23/24 Aug. 25/26 Au«. s.s "PRESIDENT BUCHANAN" 10/lSSept 19/20
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  • 432 12 Six players warned, one Sent Off BUT PLAY WAS ROUGH TO END By Our Soccer Reporter R.A.F. Seletar 3; Chinese Athletic 1. IL?HAT promised to be a thrilling Cup-tie turned out to be probably the roughest game seen this season when R.A.F. Seletar beat Chinese Athletes three-one at Jalan Besar
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  • 138 12 Straits Times Sports Club defeated Imperial Chemical Industries S.C. by two goals to nil in a thrilling Business Houses League Cup soccer game played at Farrer Park yesterday. StraiU Times opened scoring •:-:M'i.!l! right wing Taib. who turned in a beautiful centn from left inside Aliamrd
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  • 129 12 CINGAPORE'S football captain. O Harith, who missed the Malaya Cup match against Combined Services last Sunday because of suspected appendicitis, was discharged yesterday from General Hospital where he spent the last three days under medical observation. Wearing his usual happy grin at Jalan
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  • 194 12 MALAYA FA. have named 10 players from whom to select a side to meet Europeans in their first Community League game this season at Jalan Eesar Stadium on Saturday. Skipper Harttn and Ibrahtm Doliah are on the sick list, b>jt Malays should be
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  • 100 12 PW. FRANCIS became the new j tennig champion of Tanglln Club when he defeated Lt. Col. N. I. Power in straight seta In the final yesterday. Francis won 9-7, 6-2. Three seml-finala were played yesterday, resulting as follows:— Women's singles: Miss C. Ansell beat Mrs. Innes-Hopkins
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  • 44 12 SOCCER:. First Div.: Rovers REME. Stadium; Second Div.: Ki»U Kaja 'A' T RAF Tengah. St. r.eorie'i Ro*d; Third Div.: Socials v HMS Terror, Geylang. TENNIS: Colony championships, 8.C.C.; Tantlln Clnb tie.. TanfUn. ATHLETICS: Convent of the Holy Infant Jmus annual sporU mret.
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  • 252 12 PLANS of the Singapore Hockey Association include an invitation to a New Zealand team to play in the Colony during the coining season, and the building up of a team to take part in the 1956 Olympic Games, the president of the Association, G.
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  • Sentinel's Sportlight
    • 984 12 DOXING, at least the professional variety, **may see a revival before this month is out. A Singapore promoter has already signed up a batch of overseas fighters and has plans for a series of shows with a tournament featuring Empire middleweight champion Dave Sands as
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  • 39 12 In a Business House League Cup fixture played on the Police Training School ground yesterday, Hongkong Bank S.C. defeated CTEC, by three goals to nil. Scorers were F. de Sousa, A. Beins and Rahim Omar (penalty).
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  • 44 12 LONDON. Wed —England defeated Australia by IST rum Id the tnird and fln»l women's Test at the Oval veiterday. England scored 238 and 174-7 dccl. and Australia replied with 192 and 83 (May Duff an 5-301 Australia won the second Test. The
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  • 86 12 Katong Convent held their annual sports on the school ground yesterday and a card Of 34 events, comprising team games, was gone through. Red House with 46 points gained first position. Blue and' Yellow Houses tied for second place with 45 points each. Green House (42)
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  • 64 12 Fol.o-.vin* wiU 'represent P.w D Singapore, in the annual Malayan P.W.D. sporta meet at Kuala Lumpur dwrmg the August Bank HolidaysTham Tuck Yen. Quek Teo HenX I. Rozarlo. Ooh Poll Fong Tati Chew Guan. M. I. Osman Haron bin Abbas. O. Ba:akrishnan. H. Balakrishnan. Jaffar Singh.
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  • 515 12 s^IX Far East Air Force record* were broken at the annual Royal Air Force Base Seletar swimming championships held at the Base yesterday afternoon. Maintenance Units collected 70 points to win the Inter-Wing challenge cup. Second with 24 points was R.A.F. Station and third
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  • 469 12  -  EPSOM JEEP By PENANG, Wednesday. pVERY so often the handicapper flings a challenge to students of form, and by far one of the most intriguing races he has framed is the Class 2, Div. 3 six furlongs sprint on the second day of
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  • 211 12 ENGLISH soccer faces Another strike threat. With league players already starting training for the opening of the season on August IB, deadlock exists between the Foothall League and the powerful Players' Union. The League bosses and Union officials have failed to reach m
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  • 151 12 EWERGREEN Lim Bong Soo, who first won the Colony singles title 21 years ago and is third-seeded this year, entered the quarter-finals round of the Colony yesterday lawn tennis tournament yesterday with a straight sets victory over A. t, Pereira. The score was 6-3, 7-5.
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  • 57 12 LONDON. Wed. -Lie-ores in Count* cricket games starting today arewSsrafe Nor,& s( ih u>t u2EVu? ÜBt (NoUs Kent 42M 33 J" Tkt T >erb r <Harro»ate>: Derby 3 if"*** Sbss (Soulh.nd): Esses nh&«Lfsr. <sw 27 9 L "G"u V c.^r-87 laCkP<>Ol): L M L ce *"r" r v
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  • 55 12 IT Taun'on. So'itli Africa were ad out 135 'McUlew 68. Manse* 62) against Somerset, who had scored 1515 at close Khan M<>>: immed of Pakistan, a fast medium bow>r mida a promis^iK debut fur Somerset b» taking three wickets Intruding Nours» for 74. The Rowans art not
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    • 34 12 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: 11.39 a.m. 18.3) and 10 31 urn i»4); 4.58 a.m. (1.4) and 4.53 TOMORROW: 12 07 a.m. '8.O and 11.08 p.m. (9 7t 5.31 am. (1.3) and 5 20 Dm. (4.8).
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