Malaya Tribune, 21 July 1949

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    35 1 MALAYA Tribune the LARGER SALES IHAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALA YA Phone 5811/3 Nine Lines Published gimultaneouaty at Singapore, Kuaia Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang. EIGHT PAGES. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS
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    Crime And Punishment
    864 1 TEL THE PEOPLE pOR more than one hundred years the people of Malaya have lived under the British Crown. They have enjoyed British justice. They respect it. And they like it. They like it because British justice tempers the strict letter of the law with the priceless
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    LABOUR DEMANDS STATE CONTROL OF WAR DAMAGE CASH
    293 1 NATIONAL planning bodies to administer all War Damage funds on a Malaya-wide scale have been proposed in a memorandum submitted to the Colon al Secretary by the Singapore La Sour Party, it was officially announced today. The Party's memorandum opposed any direct
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    WOOLWORTH HEIRESS IS CRITICALLY ILL
    93 1 A.P. DKDHAM, Massachusetts Wed. Barbara Hutton. the Woolworth heiress, now critically ill in Venice, is to haw the custody of her l.?-ycar old son Lance Reventlow nut;! Sept. 15 to help her recover. This ruling was given today by Judge Arthur Davi in the Dedham
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    BRITAIN FORKS OUT
    107 1 Reuter. LONDON, Wed.—Bri- J tii v.» »,«wn w. |.i«iiu'- td £160,500,000 to the ttrilish I olonies since January 1, 1944, Colonial Secretary Arthur C reech ««oae!» said in a Parlla- j ■uentarv reply today. i This included £120,000,- 000 under the C olonial S Development and Welfare
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    REVOLT OVER
    54 1 U.P. •ll' ATEMALA CITY. Wed The military revolt against Pn ident Juan Joke Arcva Jo'.s Government has been put down and order restored. Officials estimated that ."00 people were killed or wounded in the two-day revolt— -the 20th uprising against Arevalo since he came to power in the
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    'CUT MALAYA'S DOLLARS'-M. P.
    493 1 'CUT MALAYA'S DOLLARS'- M P. LONDON, Wednesday. Sir John Barlow, Liberal National. urged in House of Commons debate tonight on the Colonies that Malaya should be asked to use less of the U.S. dollars earned from tin and rubber exerts, in order to aid Britain. u.y The amount of hard
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    HOUSING BOARD BILL IS FILED
    108 1 A BILL for establishing Singapore Housing Board has been filed, and notice hat been given by Mr. John Lay- I cock that he will move the first reading at the next meeting of the Legislative Council. I The proposed Housing Board will carry out the
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    PALESTINE ARMISTICE
    30 1 Reuter. SYRIO-ISRAELI BORDER. Wed. The Syrian-Israeli armistice, which has been under negotiation since April, was. signed today in a tent in no-man'sland in northern Gah- 1 lee. —Reuter.
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    SAFE PASSAGE
    43 1 Reuter. HON G X O NeG. Wed. Th Chinese Nationalist Governni. n lias guaranteed the safe cond'w of the Hongkong tug Caro'n; Moller to go to Shanghai and tow the damaged Blue Futri^ 1 steamer Anchiscs to Japan for repairs. Reuter.
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    Body Snatchers Baulked
    96 1 Reuter. CALCt'TTA, Wednesday. Police tonight cleared up the mystery behind the 14 human bodies cut into pieces and packed in bundles found in a pond in the southern part of the city last night. After day-long investigation* the police announced that the corpses were remnants of dissected
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    More Troops Embark For Hongkong
    72 1 Reuter. LIVERPOOL. Wed.- The sknl of bagpipes was heaid across the Rlvei Mersey today hs the First Battalion of thr King's Own Scottish Border (•is embarked in the troopship Devomhtre here to reinforce the Hongkong garrison. The Devonshire will al i take the headquarters staff
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    COMMONS CLASH OVER SARAWAK
    343 1 Reuter LONDON, Wed.- The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Arthur Creech-Jones, told Parliament today that the principle of continuity would be kept in mind in appointing a new Governor of Sarawak. Mr. William Teeling, Conservative, had asked why the Governor of Sarawak. Sir Charles Ardern Clarke, had been
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      19 1 ffo\, and, SINGAPORE 5420 /5429 KUALA LUMPUR ***** arrives fcr mere JWers THERE IS ALWAYS TIME FOR A TIGER
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    UN VISITORS TO SEE S'PORE TRADE EXHIBITIION
    325 2 THE Happy World Trade Exhibition which was to have been held in August has been postponed until September or October, after the Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, suggested that the 500 foreign visitors who will be in Singapore then for United
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    Committee Of Approval
    67 2 Mi. Lim Koon Teck has been appointed chairman of the Committee of Appioval to succeed Mr. Claude dc Silva who has resigned. I Mr. Jee Ah Chian has been appointed to thfe same comI mittee in place of Mr. D. I Robertson who has aiso re- signed.
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    HOLIDAYS
    37 2 The American Consulate- General will be closed on Wednesday. July 27. in observance of the Hari Raya Puasa holiday. It will also be closed on Saturday, July 30. and Monday. August 1 for the Bank holidays.
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    TIES FOR NEEDY
    27 2 The Secretary for Social Welfare expressed thanks ycstci day from an anonymous gift of neckties sent thiough the post and marked "For the Needy".
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    Hari Raya On July 27
    35 2 the public holiday <>»» II he occasion of Mar; i Kaya Pixasa will fall, on, Wednesday-, July ?J, and not on Tuesday, July 26, t lit was officially am nounced yesterday.
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    Varsity Fund $152,592
    79 2 Several laige donations 10 the University of Malaya Endowment Fund were recently received from individuals and firms, bringing the total of the Fund to $152,592.04 up to July lb. The latest large donors are Mr. Lee Choon Seng $10,000; Mr. Lee Wee Nam $5,000; Mi. P. F.
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    New Plant To Save Dollars
    346 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) A twenty-milion-pound plant which produces a substance that "makes water wetter" and helps to keep Singapore's streets clean, aids weedkillers on plantations and makes foam rubber foamier will be opened at Stanlow, in England, this morning. The plant is the extension the
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    EX IU BODY TO CELEBRATE
    48 2 The Ek Iv Association will celebrate its forthcoming twelfth anniversary at its premises in Palembang Road. Mr. Lam Eng Koon, Hon. Secretary of the Association, said yesterday. Mr. Lim is also treasurer of the Boon Ewe Sia and Bian Sim Sia of Singapore.
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    255 CHINESE SCHOOLS REGISTERED
    118 2 There are now 255 registered Chinese schools in Singapore, with 64,600 pupils, fhiis 91 per cent of the total enrolment. Of these pupils 37. 500 attend Aided Schools. In addition there are 60 unregistered Chinese Schools in the Colony, 42 in the Municipality and 18 in
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    S.V.C. Seeks Specialists
    57 2 The Singapore Volunteer Corps has vacancies for a medical officer and six assistants, an intelligence officer and twelve assistants, also catering experts to advise on rations for local personnel and on local food for British soldiers. Men with this special knowledge may contact the Duty Officer at
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      425 2 Rf ¥TF XFTWORK Signal N*wi, 9.45 Time for Sig. Tnne, 5.02 Recorded music. T» M|ll(ic Nf> üby th< Bt Mi<lajul ;,.05 Today s Spotlight. 5.08 Tamil aw MMfeiLM L«»«t Orchestra Conductor Oil- Popular %unr», 5.35 K»ral Ilro^iltWOLlSß IBOOKA3IBJIS yjiUer. 10.15 nit i s in H»r- Muslim sc nj;s. «00 10.00
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    JUDGE RETURNS GOLD BARS TO SEAMAN
    514 3 Lower Court Verdict Reversed AVER $100,000 worth of gold bars, belonging to a Chinese seaman and confiscated by a Police Court order will be returned to him. A Police Court fine of $300 will also be refunded to the seamanThis was the result of
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    TRISHAWMAN FINDED
    32 3 Ho Swee Leng, 30, trishaw rider was fined $50 when he I was found guilty in the SecI ond Police Court yesterday of being in fraudulent possession 1 of rice.
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    Coroner Returns 2 Findings
    247 3 BUKIT TIMAH CAR CRASH THE Singapore Coroner, Mr. I \V G. Porter, returned i two findings at the inquest of I Malay driver, Ismail bin Dafer, and Tan Meng Keng. of whom were killed in a :atal motor accident at 4 1 Milestone. Bukit Timah Road,
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    CLERK LOSES BRIBE APPEAL
    90 3 Tan Peng Khim, assessment clerk at the Volunteer Record Office, now under sentence of j eight weeks' imprisonment tor attempting to cheat the widew ot a volunteer, will I serve hi:5 period. i His appeal against convic tion w/as dismissed by the Chief Ju. tiC.\ Mr.
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    Indian Ban On Labour Explained
    306 3 This information will clarify the present position with regard to the emigration of unskilled labourers from 'India to Malaya. The ban which has b?en imposed by the Government of India on such emigration since June, 1938. applies to all unskilled labourers irrespective of the length
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    Sawyers, Owners Try To Reach Accord
    124 3 AFTER one month of unsuccessful negotiations on wage-cuts, representatives of the Singapore Sawmillers' Association and of the workers in thirteen sawmills met at the Labour Department, yesterday before the Deputy Commissioner for Labour, Mr. C W Lvle, to reach a settlement. No decision was
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    3 HAD DUD NOTES CHARGE
    69 3 I f Wong Keh Han. (32), j Tahir bin Wok. (30). and Saman bin Haji Ismail, (32), J were charged in the Fourth j Police Court yesterday with I having Indonesian counterfeit notes. It was alleged that the notes, 200 of 25 Roepiahs, were found
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    S'pore Boy To Study In U.S.A.
    145 3 Mr. Lee Hiok Simui, who is yoimj to the U.S.A. to continue his studies, is a son of the Singapore Chinese hmmker, Mr. Lm Wee lite**. lit to nrocetfMne tit Hongkong by «»r today, Fimn Hongkong he. will board th> Prisidmt Wilson for California
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    Bill To Register Societies
    102 3 Kuala Lumpui, Wed A bill will be- introduced at the next session of the Federal ative Council on August 3 to p rov 'de for registration of Societies in Malaya. The bill is already published in the Government Gazette. Under the proposed bill, drery local Society
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    SERVICES RESUMED
    19 3 X.L.M. Constellations ate to resume regular landings twice weekly in Singapore on the trip Schipho'.-Batavia and back.
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    WORKERS WON'T TAKE REFUSAL
    113 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The All-Malayan Railway Workers Union has decided that the refusal of the Railway Administration to make further concessions to railway j employees is unacceptable. The decision was taken by the j executive committee of the onion, The Railway Administra- tion's reply is now
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    SOLD OUT
    35 3 The Rex, Johore Bahru. marked its opening with a charity performance of the film '"The Laughing Lady.' The house was sold out. The entire proceeds was donated to the Johore Bahru Welfai. Fund.
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    New Use Mooted For War Damage Compensation
    229 3 MR Thio Chan Bee, Legislative Councillor, will move at the next meoting of the Singapore Legislative Council on July 28, that a part of the War Damago Compensation Scheme be Bel aside for relief, rehabilitation and housing. community. "If government takes tin. step
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    SATELLITE DIPLOMATS DO NOT UNPACK THEIR BAGS
    610 4  -  The widespread purge in the countries behind the Iron Curtain is causing confusion among satellite diplomats stationed in Western Europe BY LEON DENNEN THE purge of nationalists and Titoists which continues unabated in the countries behind the iron curtain H causing widespread confusion
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    CHINESE REDS HAVE NEW BURDEN
    524 4 THE comparative lull in the Chinese civil \/ar may be as much due to Communist efforts to get big cities funcUontng as to stiaightout military necessity Ever since the Communists took Mukden at the end of October, thus abandoning guerrilla-type warfare for formal conquest, tney
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    BETTER THAN NYLON
    290 4 WILMINGTON, Delaware -You get silk from silkworms, wool from shef p. But what makes stuft that the bugs won't eat. The answer is a new test tube at the Dupont Company. It produces a new kind of fibre, called orlon, which bugs of all kinds, from fungi,
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    SCHOOL FOR THE HEAD END KIDS OF GERMANY
    654 4 Reuter The country house of a former Nazi war leader is today a school for Germany's wildest boys. A COUNTRY house which belonged to the late FeM Marshal yon Keitel. the former Nazi war leader who was sentenced to be hanged following
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    ROCKET SHIPS TO THE MOON
    394 4 A.P. FRANKFURT GERMANY'S atom and rocket scientists want to shoot manned rockets to the moon. They claim to have "won haif the battle already" by completing the basic theoretical calculations for the design of a moon rocket. "All we need now is tne chance and
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    THEY DON'T LIKE BOOGIE-WOOGIE
    47 4 SYDNEY, Natives in the Pacific islands had developed a liking for film shows since the war, but they frowned on boogie-woogie musical and jibbed at the classics, said an executive of a film company recently returned from a survey of the "jungle" boxoffice,
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    Private Property Under Soviet Socialism
    492 4  -  by TOM WHITNEN A.P. MOSCOW. IZVESTIA and Pravda recently explained to Soviet readers "what personal perty Soviet citizens may possess under Soviet law. These papers further declare that there are very essential differences between private property of citizens of capitalist nations and personal property of
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    MANILA IS MORE PEACEFUL NOW
    142 4 Reuter. MANILA Manila s chief of police. Colonel Eduardo Quintos, claims the peace and order situation in the city is "a great improvement" over that existing three years ago or immediately after liberation. He says "major and minor crimes have decreased considerably, and police records
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      54 4 AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES HUNDREDS OF OTHER USES. HINSONIS FUEL b «47. AlB. MLC *M*T|DUNCHNROBEDTSt UfATTcmrtf Sfotc rwni JQU 1111 TAN-SAD,.-^» CO*S s OPENS OR FOLDS INSTANTANEOUSLY IN ONE QUICK. EASY MOVEMENT 1 104 R03INMJN ROAtt T L i 3 Vt8 StNGAPORt. TEL.648Q AlSU a: KUAL» LUMPUR t P£NANG J *0 *IA*S
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      31 4 The Collar with the Curve 1 "VANHEUSEN" COLLARS ;4 variable in three shapes Nos: 11, 99, I and in all sizes price 1.10 each THE MAN'S SHOP ROBINSONS' RAFFLES PLACE SPORE.
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    Rescue Device
    95 5 Moved by the tragic death of three year old Kathy Fiseus, who was killed by falling down a disused wellshaft, retired engineer Gourgen Vanikian of Beverley Hills, California, has invented this rescue device, which he calls ihe Yaniscope. Based on tne principles with which he rescued a man
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    91, SHE STILL WANTS HER BICYCLE
    70 5 LONDON, Wednesday: Someone recently offeree to buy a bicycle—about 40 years old belonging to Miss Ellen Sciatton. of Cobharn, Kent. But --natton m*i will M this month. refused to part with it because, she says, she never knows when she will want to go
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    GRANDPA KNOWS...
    46 5 Judge Scobeil Armstrong, who is 72, thinks the elderly have a future as J.P.'s. He said at Helston, Cornwall: "As a Victorian, I think putting grandpa on the shelf out of court is wrong. Grandpa often knows more about the young than daddy does."
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    Shakespeare Goes To The Pubs
    166 5 Reuter. LONDON, Wed. Shakespeare has been added to darts, dominoes and drinking as a public house amenity in the London area this summer. And it has proved just as popular as darts and dominoes, and much more popular th-»n modern drama. 1 In dockland, customers
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    MOTOR TRISHAWS BANNED
    65 5 A.P. MANILA. Wed The Philippine government has nipped in the bud a proposal by a Hong Kong Briton to operate motor l ickshaws in the island.-. The refusal was not on the grounds of human dignity. The modern rickshaw is a light motor-powered tricar. National and city
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    U.K. NEWS IN BRIEF
    145 5 Lion Cubs Two lion clubs and a pair of ostiiches are being flown from Africa for the London Zoo. Presence Of Mind When his car caught fire a motorist drove to the firestation in Park-lane, Croydon, where firemen put out the flames. Dusky Visitors Six chieftains
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    STICKY END FOR THE RATS
    82 5 Reuter-AAP MELBOURNE. Wed—Rats will meet a sticky and in a new trap, if the claims of the inventors, a Melbourne chemist and a journalist, are realised. The inventors said the trap is a flat piece of material with a sticky solution in the middle of
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    THEY NEED MORE THAN BACHELORS'
    295 5 Heartfelt Plea For Husbands A.P. CINCINNATI, Wednesday. A MAN with v family should get more pay than a bachelor for the same work. This theory wa« advanced here by Dr. Paul Popence, director of the Ame- rican Institute of Family Relations at Los Angeles. Dr.
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    GIANT EGG (Valued At EA300) TO BE X-RAYED
    114 5 Reuter-AAP. Melbourne, Wed. Housed in the National Museum (Mcl- i bourne i since 1862, an egg whose volume compares with that of 148 hen eggs is to be X-rayed to asceitain its contents. It is the egg of an extinct ostrich-like bird
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    Air Force Gives Cupid A Hand
    160 5 A.P. WASHINGTON, Wednesday. The U.S. Air Force has made things easier for cupid. Sometime ago an official directive stated that would-be bridegrooms in the four lowest pay ranks must obtain the consent of squadron commanders before saying "I do." The Ait rorce'a position was
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    KEEPING PEACE
    30 5 CALCUTTA, Wed —Calcutta is organising a voluntury corps "to maintain peace on the football field." The volunteer corps will comprise representatives of all football clubs in the city.
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    'Tell Us The Facts Of Life' Say These Boys
    165 5 A.P. WASHINGTON. Wed. Ignorance about sex and lack of preparation for family responsibilities are the No. 1 handicaps of American youth, a group of 19 "boy governors" < concluded. For four days these 19 teen-agers met on Capitol Hill and studied
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    Wives Should Give Up Twenty Years To Children—Bishop
    443 5 Wives Should Give Up Twenty Years To Children Bishop But This Is What The Church Thinks LONDON, Tuesday.—Dr. H. W. Bradfield, 50--year-old Bishop of Bath and Wells, and the father of two sons and two daughters, said that it is worth any woman's while to set aside 15 or 20
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      149 5 LI L ABXEB by A1 t<>PP "-.lY-HOW PRETTY WAS j esTeD IN YOUR, I'M AND MY LEGS USED TO BE> J S kun NOW THAT r-' SOMETHISJ' LEGS-NOT IN < BADGE AND HOPSE DO A BEFORE I BECAME A Vjgfl FQ? ?tS f AWFUL WHEN S YOUR OPINIONS.? I'LL RETURN
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    AMERICA & THE TIN PRICE
    670 6 AMERICA THE TIN PRICE A.P. NEW YORK, Wednesday. TREDIT part of the money Americans spend for canned goods to the dollar crisis abroad and Uncle Sam's good will policy. Americans are spending about US$65 million a year for the tin to coat their cans of fruit, vegetables and beer. Tin
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    Yugoslavia, UK to sign trade pact
    80 6 A.P. LONDON, Wed. Britain and Yugoslavia are on the point of sealing a five-year trade pact covering about U551,200,000,000 worth of business. Qualified sources said negotiators in Belgrade are now bll on "a final winding up process." The pact is expected to provide Yugoslavia
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    Along The Godowns
    66 6 ALO\<; THE GODOWNS Anhui (44); Somali (42 43); Mount Mansfield (38, 39); Benvorlich (M 37»; Bantam (31 39); Peraaide (17 iBi; Gor(l9/30); Frederick Clover ■21 22); Idomeneus »2.'; 2»i; Atreus (25 26); Benarty (27 28); Amsteldiep (29 30); Sairala d 5 16); Eurvpylus (12 13); Soe.stdijk (11);
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    AIR MAIL
    68 6 Ait mail is* expected today from Aden. N, s. America, West Indies, Europe, Africa, Eire, <: Britain, Egyot, Iran. Iran, Pakistani, u.s.S.r.. Australia, New Zealand. Thailand, Ceylon arid Indonesia. Latest time of posting at the G. IV O. to Aden. N. S. Am i ica. Europe. Africa, Eire.
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    SEA MAIL
    21 6 Surface mail is expected from China, Hongkong and Japan. Today la the last day of posting for Eastern Australia.
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    GOV'T JOBS
    30 6 Nearly 4.000.000 persons are employed by the 48 States and thousands of local government units in the United States. About 2.100.000 persons work for the Federal iu\ ernment.
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    RUBBER MARKET
    119 6 The Singapore rubber market had good buying interact yesterday despite easier prices in London and New York. The Market ruled very «teady with business passing at 1 4 cent higher than previous. Closing prices were: Buvets Sellers No. L Aug. RSS 33 i 4 33 1 2 No.
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    Produce Market
    158 6 With no indication of fresh arrivals in appreciable volume of pepper from the Indies coupled with a drop in stock-figures Black Lampong Pepper price took a $10 jump yesterday, at *318. White pepper prices again rose by $3. with Muntok quoted at $421 and Sarawak at $420. London
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    SOAP CHEAPER
    45 6 A.P. CAMBRIDGE. Ma SSnChUetts, Wed* —Wholesale price euls t irotn four to eight percent in soap products were announced by Lever Brothers Company. 1 ac Company also announced a two cents (US) a pound reduction in the wholesale price of spry. a shortening.—A.P.
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    NEW HOSPITALS
    22 6 AlxMit U*****,000,000 was spent on construction of new hospitals in the United States in 1948. the American Hospital Association reports.
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    Little Interest
    25 6 w M again no interest in tin shar*» in th«* local -'..i!. market yr*terd*> and prit-cs IrheWeO lit llf rhanae. Industrials wrir q»i«t.
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    Malayan Share Quotations
    833 6 Singapore. Wed. Burma Malay 10 Chenderiang 8/- 10 Buyers. Sellers, c-openg Con. 9/6 10/6 cd Atlas Ice 14.50 16.50 Hitam 20 30 Alex. Brick Hong Fatt .79 83 Pre* 2.45 2.55 xd Hongkong 11 3 12/3 xd Ords. 2.00 2.10 ldri s Hydr 5/- 5/6 8.8. Petrol
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    OOI AND WONG IN OPPOSITE SECTIONS
    727 7 Full Draw j Eighth Malayan Badminton Championships From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. QOI TEIK HOCK and Wong IVng Soon, the two Malayan top ranking badminton players were classified into different sections in the men's singles of the Eighth Malayan Badminton Championships to
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    Gibbs In 3rd Round
    85 7 A.P. EDINBURGH. Wed. W. J. Cibo, cl Sc.angor, reached the thjnt rpiApd at Uu- Scottish amateur goli champion- hip <;u the MuiriieV. course. t Let man, today, lie receipted bye in the first round and detentad J. Lj Me, ci LjutSoesa New, by holes in the
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    Dollery Reaches His Batting Peak
    399 7 Reuter. LONDON, Wednesday. JHE four matches which comprised the current county cricket programme will have no immediate effect on the leadership in the county championship race, as Worcestershire, who head the ♦*>blc, are engaged in a friendly match against Devon, Yorkshire are playing the Army,
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    Veterans Threaten Champions
    179 7 MALACCA. W>d. Tne newlvcrowned tennis doubles champions of Malacca. Dollah and Dom. playing for the Hospital Tennis Party against the Kubu Tennis Party on Sunday, nearly lost to veterans Sect Chee Pen"? and Chan Boon Pen?. The ?ame was not competed, however, the score b-ln? f, 4.
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    I.C.I. WIN 5-2
    25 7 In a football miilun with -he Municipal Btorea al PVirre* Park ua .m..iij»\ tfea 1.0.1. Kir.-i \1 won ay In Baali io
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    Billy Carol & D.R.B. Race Called Off
    357 7  - Billy Carol D.R.B. Race Called Off From ALLAN LEWIS TrlC match race between Billy Carol and D.R.B. will not. take place, as arrangement* were not tini«U*e4, Capt. lindsay Year* said yesterday. The tentative arrangements were for a race over seven furlongs with $1,000 aside, in which Billy Carol was to
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    BRITISH CHAMPION FINED £750
    109 7 A.P. LONDON. Wed. Rillv Thompson. British lightweight boxing champion, has been I tT.'O r,y the Boxing Jard of Control, his manager Benny Huntman said today. The fine, the heaviest in recent years, came as a result of Thompson's disqualification during defence of his Eurotitle again -t
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    Changes In Island Club Schedules
    141 7 MEMBERS of the Island Club are notitied that new arraagcawata have been >iade vith Royal Singapore Golf Club. TheM restricted arrangement.wen Mccaattated because the R.S.G.C. were to have played lOsir Duffers Cup (for which than was a very large entry) on July Hi, but rain
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    USEFULS TO PLAY F & N
    79 7 USEFULS TO PLAY F N The Useful B.P. will 'lay badmintoa with Fraser Veav* >:>orts Club at the latter" s indoor lourt on Saturday at 2.30 v.m. The followin? will pla., for the l'-.ful 8.P.: SINGLES: Chan Una Kit. Lan >'.hin Otian. Sim Thiam Yew and Louis Loh. DOUBLES: Teo
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    545 7 No. 3 of a series c f articles by BEN HQGAN, U.S. Open Champion. THINK before you shoot. Don't hurry your shots. This is the surest way to save strokes and temper. If you feel that such advice is Polly-anna-ish then look back on
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      99 7 f YOU'LL FIND T!M MORN I AM T j F Ml, CURLN -DID \?'J TI SAW Twe- Kvou LISTEN ME TiM CRN-W f BUT, CURlV- I M "it NEVER MIND^ < v IN THERE, CURLVPLENTVy SEE THOSE TERRIFIC V STORIES, IF YOU DON'T GET A RETRACTiOM; J DOING IT FOR
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    NEW HOPE FOR DOCK STRIKE SETTLEMENT
    440 8 G O VT. CLA SHES WITH DOCKS ADMINISTRATION Reuter. LONDON, Wednesday. IUEW hopes of ending I»ndon's crippling dock stoppage emerged tonight 11 after a day of confusion and conflict between the Government and its own national Dock Labour Board. As two vital meetings affecting
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    SIDWELL IN CUP MATCH
    54 8 A.P. I MONTREAL. Wed.—Bren- den Macken will meet Billy Sidwell. Australia, in the first single match of the Davis Cup beginning here tomorrow. 1 Henry Rochon, Montreal, drew Frank Sedgman, for the j second singles match. The Australian team manager Cliff Sproule dropped j veteran John
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    ATTLEE TURNS DOWN DIVORCE PROBE
    97 8 Reuter. London. Wed.—Prime Minister Clement Attlee today turned down a suggestion in ParttaaM nt that he should appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the pr< suit state of the divorce law in Hiitain. Mr. Marcus Lipton. Labour, said that many people of all parties
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    STEWARDS CUP ACCEPTORS
    187 8 Reuter. LONDON. Wed. The final acceptors for the Stewards Cup, the big sprint event of the Goodwood meeting, to be run over six furlongs next Tuesday were announced today. Numbering 30. they are < v/ith weights): Combined Operations (9st. 7lbs.). Luminary ana Baccarat (0.0), Irish Dance fft.lt).
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    WEMBLEY B. P.
    73 8 A mulch of tjudniin'in will be played on Saturaay at 2.30 at 461» Pasir Panjanji Koad between Wembley Badr.rn.on Party and the Venus Badminton Party. The following have been seiacaaf to play for Weniuley j* P.: Benny Kee. Tan Hum; Chwee, Lee Kwee Swec, Tan fian Siew.
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    LONDON SHARES
    194 8 Reuter. LONDON, Wed. P.-ard 01 I Trade returns for Juie- atktwiag details of the fall < f United Kingdom exports to dollar areas brought some dullnes- to the London Stock Exchange toltj. Small declines were fai..y WMH* spread anions Indust.iuls hut Breweries and MTartlleal Equipment shares were resi
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    Soekarno Pleads For Unity
    183 8 Reuter. JOGJAKARTA, Wednesday. Republican and Federal Indonesian representatives met here today to lay the foundations of an Indonesian United States, at the first session of the Inter-Indonesian Conference. The conference, intended to bridge the gulf between Federalists and Republicans befoie the Hague round-table talk* with the
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    RAIN HINDERS FAST WORK
    229 8  -  From ALLAN LEWIS PENANG, Today. IJEAVY rain again prevented horses from galloping n ami all the work this morning was done in even time and threequarter pace on the inside s.iid track. The rain has been fairly consistent here, and at the moment it looks that
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    S'pore Gold Cup Meeting On Aug. 27
    182 8 THE Singapore Turf Club's Autumn (Gold Meeting will be held over five days on Aug. 27 and 30. Sept. 3. 7 and 10. The main race of the meetine will be fore Class I Div. 1 horses over 1% miles for the Sineranore
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    EURASIANS BEATEN 1-5
    57 8 Singapore pjstrict XI ttoi'iiced the Eurasian XI in a Community League soceei fixtuie at Jalan Besai yesterday, defeating them by five goals to one. Todd, the soldiers' inside light was top scoier with three goals to his credit. Inglia ccntre-foi-ward and Barnes inside left scored a goal
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    Mrs Price Interviews The C-G
    92 8 Mis. Violet Pi ice. editoiial researcher for the Time" and "Life"' magazines aft- i a three-week tour of Indonesia spent an hour last flight interviewing the Commis.-ionet-General. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald at Bukit Serene, and Dato Onn. Mcntri Be.ar of Johote While in Java she met
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    OFFICIALS OF TAMIL ASSN.
    150 8 Reuter. At an annua. |«Mral BfcMfeaaj of the Tamil Brotherhood mmc ciat ion held at Farrer Park following were t pj 'The bearers for the year President —Mr. K. Periuvab (reelected! Vi« c Pe.Nident Mr. S. R P Naidu. Hon. Omm ral Secretary —Mr. Palani. Hon.
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY
    91 8 General SINGAPORE LODGE MIEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: Talk by Mr. Charles R. Salisbury on "The Arts in You," at 8. Caimhill Pd. —6.30 p.m. BROADWAY MISKAI PARTY: Music practice at 70, I orong 19, Geylang 8 p.m. MALAYAN VEGETARIAN SOCIETY Monthly informal general meeting at the Theosophical Society premises,
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    Cinema
    144 8 CATHAY: "The Set-Up" with Robert Ryan and Audrey Tot- ter. 11 a.m. 1.45, 4.15. 6.45 and 9.30 p.m. PAVILION: "The Window with Barbara Hale. Bvbby Drisroll, Arthtir Kennedy. Psul Stewart and Ruth Roman, 2. 4.15, 6.30 and 9.30 p.m. KEX: "Lloyds of London" with Tyrone Power. Madeleine Carroll and
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    Sports:
    18 8 INTER COMMI NIT t MATCHES: Navy Team vs. R.A.F. Combined) at Jalan Besar Stadium. 3.15 p m.
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    11 New Records At S'pore Army Sports
    458 8 gLEVEN records were broken out of total of 19 events at the Singapore District Athletic Championships held at the Garrison Sports ground Nee Soon, yesterday. The new records are Three Mile Race. One Mile Race, *80 Yards, 440 Yards, 220 Yards, 100 Yards.
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    NEW PREMIER
    24 8 U.P. SOFIA. Wed. Vast] X 72, acting Premier wa.- unan,mously elected Pranu i Parliament today sue© ding late comrade Georgi DuattroY. —U.P.
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