Malaya Tribune, 30 July 1949

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  • 64 1 MALAYA Tribune BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Jth tribune" Spore LARGER SALES THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALAYA Phone 5811/3 I Nine Lines rullikKta nmultantousiy at UUtgapore, Kuaia Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang. TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE: E. Maurice
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  • 213 1 A.P. HONG KONG, Friday. Five British and wo Chinese merchant ships hne left Hong Kong for Communist ports during the past 24 hours, in what appears to be the first organised attempt to run the Nationalist blockade. The ships sailed in the wake of four
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  • 58 1 U.P. MANILA, i'ri. Press reports today said floods caused by heavy rains in central Luzon province c'aimed five '.ives, destroyed seedling over a area, and paralyzed motor traffic in some highways. The five deaths occurred near Gabsumtuan. Nueva Ecija. Pour of the victims were drowned
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  • 113 1 U.P. TOKYO. Fri. ments were completed today for opming trade talks between Japan and the British sterling area countries which will seel to double last gear's I *****.000.000 trade between the two areas. Talks will begin on Tuesday, following a preliminary ace ting between the
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  • 45 1 U.P. BERLIN. Fri. -The Western Allies today ordered the end of the history-making Berlin airlift but warned that they were retaining the standing nucleus of the world's greatest peacetime aerial op- ration Just in case they might have to use it again.— CP.
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  • 18 1 PENANG, Today.—The going will be good today. 'For best bets and race review see page ten.
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  • 277 1 Highlights Of Asia's Newsfronts 1. #7.5. Consulate 2. Ships Defy 3. Truce Agreed Invaded K.M.T. Blockade On At Jogja Reuter. WASHINGTON, Friday.—More than a hundred Chinese seized control of the United States Consulate General offices in Shanghai today to enforce back pay demands against the
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  • 156 1 SINGAPORE'S death rate fell from 50 per 1,000 m 1911 to 13.46 per 1.000 in 1948. stated the report on tne health services of the Colony tabled at yesterday's meeting of the City Fathers. The intantile mortality rate too nas dropped considerably with the years. In 1911
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  • 28 1 Tomorrow's Sunday Tribune n ill contain the special Trinine Form Guide for Monlay's Penang races. Make ,ure of getting your copy of tomorrow's Sunday Tribune.
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  • 45 1 Reuter. NEW DELHI, Fri. The Indian Government has fixed Aug. 18 as the last date for filing appeals to the Privy Council by Nathuram Gode and Narayan Apte, two of the five men sentenced to death for the murder of Mahatma Gandhi. —Reuter.
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  • 92 1 Mr. Andrew Gilmour, Singapore Secretary for Economic Affairs will leave early next week for Tokio to attend the impending talks on a new trade agreement l>etween Japan and the Sterling Area. He will Join the United Kingdom delegates who have already reached Japar. The talks are
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  • 18 1 U.P. WASHINGTON, Fri. The World Bank today approved a U5515,000,000 loan to the Netherlands. —U.P.
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  • 108 1 Reuter. LAKE SUCCESS, Friday.—The United Nations Atomic Energy Commission today decided to discontinue its meetings until the Big Five Powers and Canada reach a basis for agreement. Only the Soviet Union and the Ukraine voted against the resolution, which was proposed by the United States.
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  • 38 1 U.P. BANGKOK, Fri. The Siamese Parliament passed a vote of confidence today in the Cabinet of Premier Phibun Songgram, 63-to-31, after 20 days of debate which began on July 6 with time out for Buddhist holidays.—U.P.
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  • 122 1 MR. Pat Johnson (Labour) yesterday won his demand for a commission of inquiry to investigate the Pontian water tunnel fiasco, first revealed in the Sunday Tribune. In one of the stormiest meetings of the Municipal Commission, during which he was accused of publicity stunts and giving
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  • 47 1 JOHORE BAHRU. Today. -Two Chinese dressed in black went into a kongsi house on the South Malayan Pineapple Association estate at the 27th mile, Pontian road, last night, called out a Chinese who" was inside and clubbed him to death with a blunt instrument.
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  • 107 1 Reuter. Bradley WASHINGTON, Friday.—First priority of joint North Atlantic is America's "ability to deliver the atomic bomb", General Omar Bradley, United States Army Chief of Staff, declared here today. General Bradley, who was testifying bltfore the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on America's $1,450,000,000 military
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  • 34 1 The Municipal President announced yesteraay that Government has approved the scales of ihe Municipal Salaries Revision Committee's recommendations, and that it is hoped to commence payment of arrears some lime in August.
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  • 176 1 Reuter. BATAVIA, Friday. A cease-fire agreement has been reached between the Dutch and Republicans in Indonesia, Dr. Julian Van Royen, chief Netherlands delegate, and M. Mohammed Roem, Republican leader, announced in Jogjakarta today. An early announcement of the results of their talks and the subsequent
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 96 1 EASTERN ARTS To add that Oriental touch to your home. Kor quality and complete rangevisit I The Old Capital j 31 Stamford Road, Singapore. Phone 2867. I 1 The most wanted pen PARKER 51 j GOLD FILLED CAP MADE DC U.S A. NEW MODEL $35/- EACH ALSO QUINK AVAILABLE IN
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    • 172 1 ON TIME ALL the TIME! All our watches or clocks have to undergo a ndnute precision test to ensure absolute accuracy before offered for sale. TO WOH HING 429, North Bridge Road, Singapore Phone 7922. t music from r~sr\ X jUBJ THE MOVIES LifLJ "Warsaw Concerto" from "Dangerous Moonlight DX.1062
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  • 409 2 MR. W. Jago, representative of the British Rubber Development Board, in a ITI broadcast over Radio Malaya last night gave three pointers as to how the Malayan-man-in-the-street can heln the nlantinsr industry. I Firstly every Malayan in a position of authority I should remember
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  • 82 2 Qantas Empire Airways have recently purchased an R.A.F. Dakota aircraft in Singapore for their SydneyNew Guinea service. The Dakota, now at Kallang Airport, will be flown shortly to Sydney where she will be completely overhauled and converted into a 21-seater. It will them join
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  • 47 2 The Singapore branch of the Society of Licensed Aircraft Engineers will hold a meeting at Kallang Airport Tuesday to discuss the projected activites of the Society on Air Day, August 20). lt hr also proposed to hold a dance early in September.
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  • 172 2 Sir Henry Ourney, High Commissioner of the Federation In a statement which he issued last night thanked Singapore for he? gift of $4,285,715 to tne Federation. He said: "I welcome and warmly appreciate this contribution to the cost of Security in the Federation. It is not only
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  • 67 2 The British cruiser London will be returning to the I'nited Kingdom from Singapore on August 4, iafter completing two years in commission as Flagship to the Commander-in-Chief Far East Station. She will visit Penang on her way back. The London is commanded by Captain P. G. L.
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  • 52 2 The Governor appointed the following persons to be Justices of the Peace for the Co'.onv of Singapore: Mr. Lionel Cresson, Dr. Poh Ctyee Juav. Mr. John Kenneth Gwinnell, M.C., E.D., Mr. Eric lVan Henton Mt. rJdward Ciolert Tolliday Mr. Tay Soo Yong, Mr. AueaTuiir Maurice D'NettO. Mr. Norman
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  • 55 2 Fourteen Malays, an Eurasian and an Indian. Locally Enlisted Personnel, wer? charged in the Fourth Police Court yesterday with rioting at Sembawang Road junction of Thompson Road and Man dai Road. Two Malays pleaded guilty, the rest claimed trial. Each was offered $100 bail. The case
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  • 44 2 The well-known Singapore firm of contractors Messrs. Woh Hup Ltd., aad lis Managing Director, Mr. Yoag Yit Lin, 1 pnve promised to donat* a.i aggregate sum ot {0,000 to the Pnnd to he paid In five annua! liiNtalmerits of $4,080 each.
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  • 297 2 THE youngest orchestra leader of Holland, Mr. 1 Yvon Baarspul, who is a visitor in Singapore, said yesterday that if Singapore could have her own Hollywood Bowl preferably in the Botanical Gardens a great many international artistes would be glad to "drop in on
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  • 31 2 The pilot who was killed on July 27 when his Spitfire crashed in the vicinity of S- rn'oawang airfield was Pilot IV A. H. NAISH of Cuddesdon, Oxford.
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  • 52 2 The eighth Singapore Assizes will open at the Supreme Court before Mr. Justice Brown on Tuesday. Tbe Assize calendar contun.- only four cases for trial. These is one case of attempted murder; one falsification of accounts: one housebreaking; and one of armed robbery and unlawfl possession of arms
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  • 54 2 Two Stradfordshire. bull terriers and a horse from the United Kingdom arrived in Singapore in the Blue Funnel passenger-freighter, Maron, yesterday. The terriers, Angus and Gilla, arc for Major J. H. Tom, while the horse is fori Lt.-Col. Fox. The vessel brought 2.000 tons of
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  • 136 2 A young European, Mr. Candiliotis summoned before the Fourth Police Magistrate yestetday oh a charge of using abusive lAß&uage to Ifi.ru. C. Stevens, an aged woman. Mrs Stevens told the court she had a house in Coleman Street. She rented a room to Mr. Candiliotis. She claimed
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  • 207 2 pIFTY-TIIREE-YEAR-OLD LieliteriaTit-Genera] sir John Harding, Commander-in-Chief desi: Far East Land Forces, is due to arrive at Tengah by Constellation aircraft this afternoon. General Harding, X.8., C.8.P:.. D.S.Q.. M.C.. served in the Western Desert during the war and commanded the famous Seventh Armouied Division at El
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  • 1502 3  -  —An d Wins Call For Inquiry Commissioners Storm Tossed Over Tunnel Fiasco says Johnson i\ Bred coatrasl to Thursday's quiet and orderly Legislative Council meet- ing, the City Fathers had a stormy session yesterday, accusing one another o{ urr\ins out press stunts, innuendo, mdiscriminaie release of
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  • 792 3 tii. Pat Jplinrop yesterday; tried to negative a MuntcipiUty piactice whereby scnio. office, get memcal attention and treatment froth a Him of If a: y-c in doctor- it! Singapore;!' Th'- Ccninilssion pays SS per month per heat! on about 100 senior officers, arid ftlsp pays for
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  • 1159 3 ||P. Pat Johnson produced these facts and figures irom Municipal files which led up to the stoppage of work on the Pontian tunnel.' The work for which tehdery' were invited in January 1947 was a proposal to shorten the* letigth of the Ayer
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  • 108 3 Mr. W. L. gMytkc, thiPreVhi. m of the MunlH- pn' C*m"tfnis\inh>rsY ope*irtg vVsterdhvV meetine;. j said* that the 1. Arthur l!: nk film uhlt which wa* hiking picture* *f tb* .'roci'edlajr/s for a "Thrs Mbflerti' Age" docutrtrn- tarV, bad asked Mm ro •:>v that they hart not
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  • 182 4 A.P. BANGKOK, Friday. How can Thai (Siamese) women be considered as having equality with men when the males are permitted to have more than one wife? So asked Nang Nantaka Suprabhatanand, former chairman of the Women's Law Association, amid the cheers of the
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  • 762 4 (By Our Shopping Reporter) ItfHEN Fitzpatrick's Food Supply Store, in Orchard Road, opened its doors for business recently, the first customer in—a Singapore house-wife—couldn't help but rub her eyes and look again. "Am I dreaming?" she exclaimed. "Whatever's happened?" There were similar comments from other
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 413 4 mJTV VFTU'fIRIf Carl Walters'; 9.00 Hawaiian 5.00 p.m. Time Moat, Openj\JKi PtHjl fTV/IVaV Melodic: Mt Time Signal A ing Annct. I I'mnrai ENGLISH PROGRAMMES News; !»45 Music of yesterday- mary with Sip. Tune; h 9.00 a.m. Danre music by A Reminiscent programme of corded music; :.n > Today* sp„; ltrilish
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  • 862 5 Rajah Tells The Whole Story A MEMBER of a firm has recently written to the papers about a tender he is d in, and which this Commission has rejected. Is it usual for tenhose tenders have been rejected to burst into print?" Municipal Commissioner Mr. A. P. Rajah,
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  • 665 5 THE following wore the annrers to Mr. Pat Johnson's pritlon on tho Cunong Pulai Water Work- Scheme: O: What did the Cunong Pulai Water Works Scheme cost to eontruct? A: Approximate Costs to Ottc (tM scheme is still not fuli y completed* are
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  • 423 5 Fact Finders Will Listen To All Sources 'pHE five-man U.K. Commission of -Inquiry, sent here to "find the facts" relating to conditions of service of civilian employees in the Services Departments in Singapore, paid a courtesy visit to the Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B. MacKerron, yesterday and had talks
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  • 36 5 Fifteen cases of scru typhus have beta reported m the Federation for the week ending July IG. Th< re wi nfi no deaths. There was one case of death from urban typhus in Johore.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • 619 6 ANCE upon a time there lived a humble clerk who worked in the Grand Vizier's office with much diligence but little reward for his labour. The times were hard, and to keep his wife and children fed he had, from time to time, to recourse to a
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  • 1287 6  -  The Marshall Aid and the plans for rearming both America and Europe are ideal from the point of view of Wall Street an d industrial magnates because tney enjoy the benefits cf war-time economy with none cf the restrictions that go with
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  • 506 6  -  BLUNDER IN THE FAR EAST-4 By BURTON HEATH TWO years ago, the United States still had two choices in Indonesia. Desiring a stable, strong, friendly government as a bulwark against Communism, it could have chose&thc Republic—which it did—or the Federalists. Our State Department took the
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  • 405 6 A.P. LONDON. BRITISH public opinion favours teaching youth the A-B-C"s of sex In the classroom, says Mass Observation, a privately financed research organization. Mass Observation recently polled 2,000 people on the subject of sex education. Those Interviewed "were selected to mirror the general population in
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  • 761 6 Sir,- J. L.\s letter of July 26 is a good example of .what Mr. C. C. Tan has called "the attempts by certain quarters to create a fog around the true extent of the ourden which wouid have to be shouldered by the Malayan taxpayers
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  • 345 7 LONDON, Friday. JJJISFORTUNE and tragedy in the life of a woman who, in pre-Revolution days in Russia, when she was a beautiful 17-year-old brunette Polish countess, became engaged to and married a Russian military engineer, was disclosed by her will, published
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  • 80 7 Reuter. AdHFORD. Kent. Fri.—A cord in Kent campanology bell tinging has been se: Mr. Edward Ruck, captain of the church bel'at Willcsborough, MM here. Mr. Ruck has celebrated hi- 82nd birthday and completed 70 years as a ringer. H t mi 12 years old when
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  • 134 7 Reuter. BROADSTAIRS, Kent, Friday. Fifty-three bearded Viking "invaders" got a rousing reception when they beached at Broadstairs today. Led by ttrcir chief Erik j lard the warriors leapt waving swords, iptan and battle-axes, but thousands of holidaymakets broke through the barriers tramped the official
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  • 101 7 A.P. LONDON. Fri. Little Nicholas Lowther, who is a Viscount at the age of seven because a potential millionaire yesterday. The will of his great grandfather, Lord Ullswater leaves him an estate of £229.073 when he is 21. Meanwhile, the property will be held in trust by Lord
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  • 54 7 Reuter-AAP SYDNEY, Frt. An ironical reflection of industrial and domestic hardship caused by the general coal strike in Australia was shown in a placard in the window of a Sydney cakeshop: We've had it! No Coal! No Gas! No C'/oke! No Electricity! No milk! No Staff! No
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  • 128 7 Reuter-AAP. TOKYO. Fii Police caught up with the entrcpicneurs who boldly advertised their money-lending business on streets of downtown Tokyo in defiance of the law against usury and found they wertf two university students. TWcntysix-year-old Akitsugu Yamazaki of Tokyo University was president and 24-year-old Senya Miki. of
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  • 29 7 A.P. SEOUL. Fri. A Korean government spokesman said yesterday that five minerwere killed by Communist guerillas who raided a Tungsten mine about 250 miles south-east Seoul.—A.P.
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  • 188 7 LONDON, Fri. A HUNDRED Britons with 40 vehic'es set out recently on a 500-mile uncharted route from the port of Lindi in Tanganyika, to Lake Nyasa. The convoy took equipment, which the Portuguese Railway could not carry, to the Colonial Development Corporation's
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  • 28 7 SALZBURG. Austria. Fri. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor and members of the Egyptian Royal family ar~ expected here soon to attend the Salzburg Music Festival
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  • 27 7 NEW REGULATIONS HONGKONG. Thurs. The government announced today that exporters of cotton yarn must surrender 50 per cent of the dol'.ar proceeds from exports financed in dollars.
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  • 41 7 Three Chinese have been arrested for involvement in unlawful secret society activities. They are alleged to be metnben of the Jee Chai Hay Society. Another Chinese was arrested on suspicion of being a member of the Malayan Communist Party.
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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  • 283 8 No Aid For Time Being U.P. and A.P. WASHINGTON, Friday. SECRETARY of State Dean Acheson dealt China completely out of the United States global arms programme, at least for the present, today in declaring that American officials are unanimous in believing that there is
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  • 159 8 A.P. THE HAGUE, Fri. The nitch Minister of War, Wlllem F. Schokking. will visit Indonesia next month to have talks with the Dutch Commander in Chief, General Buurman Van Vrede, and the War Department of the Provisional Federal Government, it was officially announced yesterday.
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  • 106 8 A.P. MELBOURNE. Fri. Most Australians favour sending help for the defence of Hongkong, if the Crown Colony is attacked, a Gallup poll taken here shows. Here are the figures of the i toss-section survey on the question: "If tne Chinese Communists look hke attacking Hongkong would
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  • 27 8 Princess Elizabeth plays with her non, Prince Charles, ut \Viud'esha:n Moor, England. The young prince is much too übsor-ir'd to pose for the cameraman.
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  • 310 8  -  RATING; Fair; Good; c Very Oo.tJ;'* ExccUcnt. by OSWALD HENRY PAVILION RATING: FILM: "Bond Sire, t" STARS: Jean Kenl, K.dand Wiling, Kathleen Harrison, Derek Parr, Hazel Court, Roua'il Howard, Kenneth Griffith. Patricia Pltttkfett, Pau'a Valeiiska and Robert F!einyng. THIS li a honey of a picture that will
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  • 296 8 RATING: FILM: "Jungle Jim" STARS: Johnny Weissniu!ler, Virgina Grey and Geoig»> Reeves. YOU may come back from this film as disillusioned as I did, especially after hearing Johnny (ex-Tarzan> Weissmuller talk. Despite his manly frame and one-time jungle piercing King Ape calls, there is something decidedly "sissy" in that
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  • 270 8 X I ING: FILM: "Wake of the Red Wiuh" MTARS: John Wayne, Gail iIUKvtU LatlMSr Adier, A del. Mara, Glk Young and Henry Deafest. IT is good to see John YV hack before the helm again. For, so long has he been "typed" in aenrboy pictures that one forgets
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  • 311 8 RATING FILM: "Red C anyon" STARS: Howard Duff, George Brent, Ann Blyth, Edgar Buchanan and John Mclntlre. A FULL-BLOODED story, with adventures galore, marks the reels of this colourful Western which spotlights tne Ln-i-king of a wild horse that eventually proves its worth on the racetrack bef6re it is
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  • 313 8 BATING: FILM: "Typhoon" STARS: Dorothy Lainour, K;>bert Preston, Lynne Overman, S. Carrol Naish and "Koko." ITS been a long, long time .since we've seen Dottie in a sarong, and it's been a long, long time since we've seen this picture (of pre-war vinhne, I ihinki. Let that not, however,
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  • 302 9 A.P. ]J|ANILA, Friday. The effect of President Truman's announcement that two cent per pound tax would be rei in posed on coconut oil arriving from points outside of the Philippines has been generally anticipated here. The local market began firming ip last month
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  • 86 9 THE market throughout the week has ruled steady supported by some outside orders and covering against E.C.A. purchases, although holidays here and in the Federation have hampered busines.-f. Estimated American consumption of natural rubber for June at 47,688 tons was slightly better than May, and synthetic
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  • 103 9 THE rubber commodity market was very quiet yesterday with the holiday feeling predominating. But prices ruled very steady unchanged from Thursday. The markets will be closed till Tuesday morning for the August holidays. t Closing prices were Buyers Sellers No. 1 Aug. RSS 33 No. 2 Aug.
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  • 34 9 Surface arrivals are expected today from Burma. Latest time of posting at the 0.P.0. to Java, Australia, Christman Isle, USA, Canada, Philippines, India and Pakistan is noon and to Thailand 6 p.m.
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  • 64 9 Mail is expected from Aden, N. S. America, W. Indies, Europe, Africa, Eire, Gt. Britain, Egypt, Iran Iraq, Pakistan, U.S.S.R., Australia, N. Zealand, Burma, Ceylon, and Java. Latest time of posting at the G.P.O. to Aden, N. S. America, Eire, Gt. Britain, Iran, Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, U.S.S.R., Australia,
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  • 27 9 PATNA, Fri. Large re»serves of Kankar, raw material used in the manufacture of cement, has been located at Jhajha, in Monghyr District of Bihar.
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  • 272 9 UPIS. WASHINGTON, Friday. The effects of improved business sentiment in the United States are becoming evident. They are not yet of sufficient size or duration to be conclusive, but they are being watched keenly by economists and businessmen. Stock market p»ices advanced slightly last week for
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  • 35 9 NEW DELHI, Fri. The Government of India have decided to allot 1,000 tons (including the 700 tons agreed to earlier) of jute goods to Indonesia for the year ending December 31. 1049.
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  • 118 9 CONSIDERABLE buying interest from India for coconut oil was in evidence yesterday and earlier this week. Business was done at the level of $4834 f.O.b. Th?re was only limited business in sago flour throughout the week. Pepper sellers are still holding back. They believe pepper prices have not
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  • 33 9 A.P TOKI ĕt i. Japan will produce an estimated seven tallica pounds of fish that year, William C. Neville, Fisheries Division .Oepuly Chief of SCAP pi edicts A.P.
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  • 22 9 Despite slightly easier conditions in London, the local share market remained very steady. IriduMt rials also showed practically no changes.
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  • 804 9 Singapore, Fri. Buyers. Sellers Atlas Ice 15.50 16.50 Alex. Brick Pref. 2.45 2.55 Ords. 2.05 2.15 8.8. Petrol 37/6 38/6 B.M. Trustee 7.50 8.5u Cons. Tin Ord. 13/- 14/--do. (P) 21/- 22/E. Utd. Assur. 40.75 41.75 Estate 4 Trust 7.00 8.00 Federal Dispensary 7.00 7.25 F. N.
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 216 9 KSDICAL take D. T. Art I Htri tonic and Obatpriok. ellent aids to perfect widely known. D. T. rnpany, 24, Prinsep Street. Singapore. VLWAYS A STEP AHEAD" s < cificatio* of THE GREAT CHINA OPTICAL CO, «31 North UrUhre Band, i\n:r Bra* llasah lid.,) S'|M»re. Prof. ILMI DDIN ALAHI. (Astro-Palmist
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    • 397 9 THE HO HONG S.S. CO. (1932) LTD. 18, CHULIA STREET, PHONE 5944-5 (Incorporated in Singapore! PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICES To HONGKONG, SWATOW, AMOY, PENANG, RANGOON, 'ALEMBANG. DJAMBI, PAKAN BAROE. RENGAT and BAGAN SI API API "Hong Siang" Sails for Hongkong, Swatow Amoy Aug. 2 "Hong Ann" Salle f<.r Palembang Aug.
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  • 1397 10 Going should be good Penang Gold Cup Meeting From ALLAN LEWIS PENANG, Friday. THE best each way bets for tomorrow's races, the 1 third day of the Penang Turf Club's Autumn (Gold Cup) Meeting should be MEKLIN, TEMPEST. ATLANTAS, and KNIGHT GALLANT. The weather has
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  • 117 10 HACK QMS i I. I l>iv. 3 —b I Ml BLACK I h Jadi j Oakiel BACK TWO CI. 2 Div. 4—« |f. SILVER LINING j Fairlyn Streatfield j Outfdder: PrincesNuffield rack nun Ci. I Div. S—H F. I ADY kalang 1 iremaster RACE FOI R
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  • 665 10 Following is the eftfd for today's races at Peining. The Big Sweep will be drawn on Rnce 8. RACE ONE 2.30 P.M. HOjpUUM (L\ss WV •>—6 Fl us. F. 1,, Ifc V-n ~.ojh I* SS& JtSLk Tail feS IMay.MHt, Stabl. Martin 'Wooda -8.(16 ll'*' rgbrtoW SUbK Fox i
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  • 41 10 Reuter. SCARBOROUGH. Fri. The anticipated last four itt the Slazenger professional lawn tennis tournament emerged frnmtoday';; quarter hnals from which Jack Kra- i r and Don Budge of America. Dinny Pails of Australia and Pancho Segura of Equador survived.—Reuter.
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  • 19 10 U.P. GLENDALE, California. Fri. Vince Dundee. 41, former middleweight boxiiv; champion, died today after a seven-year illness.—U.P.
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  • 35 10 A.P. NBW YORK, Fri.— Hai Robin.'■n, world welterweight champion, and Steve, Belloise a main eonlinder for middleweight hun- •nr. agreed Wednesday lo tenne for a ten-round 'nun here on August 24. A.P.
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 344 10 Announcement Iflf A.nd 5 0 A f i QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS in parallel with j BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION I wish to advise S I CHANGE OF PREMISES j J of their Administration Accounts Depts. j to MACDONALD HOUSE ORCHARD RD. (Ist Floor) v j ON Ist. AUGUST 1949 Phones:
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    • 116 10 FINEST ENGLISH ii CUT CRYSTAL GLASSWARE II r r. S. dv Sil\n ii r ii JEWELLKKS 106 ORCHARD ROAD CHOSEN AGAIN-. Dankp 1 1 fORr I MALAYAN 1949 CHAMPIONSHIPS 'FORT' TENNIS BALLS IHE FACTS ABOUT FRESHER BREATH md 0 LISTEHINE Tooth Post. ———I In scientific tests, more than 10% ofCMM
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  • 18 11 3-mile event mile race in pro* ..■Merdav's Singa- atuer Athletic Aaae;..impi<»nships.
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  • 658 11 THK day of the Eleventh annual championship meeting at Jalan Besar v.v no records broken. The weather was bright and sunny with the ero:in *In tip-t-.p condition. mnv a a v Twenty women took part in the heats for the Women
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  • 54 11 Lee Boau Swan and his sister Mis. Han Soen Lok, two of Java's leading tennis players arrived here by plane yesterday and will now compete in the Malayan Lawn Tennis Championships. 3oen Swan was unable to make the journey with his compatriots earlier this week because of
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  • 32 11 COPENHAGEN, Fri. Jersey Joe Walcott, Camden, New Jersey, heavvwettrht boxer will fight an exhibition bout here if he defeats Sweden's Ole Tandberg on August 14. Promoter Vlademar Cnrrstiansen said today.
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  • 499 11 Pakir Defeats J. W* Spence TWO overseas tennis champions, H. K. Ip of China and Tan Liep Tjiauw of Java, became hot favourites when they came through the first round of the men's singles in the Malayan Liwn Tennis h nipionsjiins yesterday fairly easily. The championships
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  • 168 11 Reuter. SCARBOROUGH. Fri. Jack Kiamer and Tonal.' Budge, both of the L'niteu States, leached the final ot the Slazenger professional lawn tennis tournament here today. Kramer beat Pancho Segura of Equador in one semifinal 6 1.2 6. 6 0. 6 3. while Budge beat Oinny Pails. Australia,
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  • 37 11 Reuter. OSLO. Fri. The United States staged a fine recovery today to. win the big threeday track and field meet against Scandinavia at the Bislet Stadium here by 238 points to 224 l <b. Reuter.
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  • 254 11 THE Java Chinese boxers. 20-year-old Bobby Ngoo 1 anfi Tan Gwat Teck (23» arrived in Singapore yesterday by plane from Batavia. Looking very fit, Bobby, the lightweight champion of Java expressed his confidence of beating 30-year-old Nai Phol, eighth world ranking bantamweight
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  • 55 11 Following are invited to turn up for M.F.A. v. Indonesian Chinese at Jalan Besar Btadiuari tomCMTOW at 4.45 p.m.:— Osman Angulha. Arsnad. Abdul Raliman. Salleh, Abdul Rah- man (Junior). Haritli. Haji Garhan. Khamis Bedol. Ismail Bnjani;. Shariff Madnn. Ahmad YusofT. Samad. Ranilan. Ah PaKor, AwanK Gabos.
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  • 249 11 The following are today's ties:-* a.m. Mews Singles: Lee Boen Swan vs. G. T. Holloway. Men's Doubles: F. W. Hearne and J. van Dopperen vs. Goh Teik Cheow and Wong Thian Teck; Leong Hoe Yang and Goon Kok Ying vs Wee Ens Lock and Tan Hock
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 333 11 I 1 fHE BEAT WAVE DOESN'T HIT US—Because I WE ARE NEAR THE SEA! jctetto!» THE HAPPY I (The Largest Spring Dancv Floor in Malaya). 1 When there is ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW TOPICAL. THE ELECTION OF THE 1949 j HAPPY'S QUEEN < mmrnriaj: "raaa TONIGHT to 7th August, 1949. J
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    • 460 11 NEDERLAND LtNfe ROYAL DUTCH MAIL Notice To Consignees S.S. "BENGKALIS" Doe Singapore about 3rd August, 1949. frrrm U.S.A. Ataiantic Coast Ports. Dlcharging car;;o alongside-S.H.B. wharves. Consignees are requested to app'\ 'cr Delivery Orders to: NEDERLAND LINE ROYAL DUTCH MAIL 41, Robinson Road. Tel: 3443 712S THE MOTOR VEHICLE (COMMERCIAL USE)
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    • 574 11 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS LENA YAM and family of the late Freddie Yam of Johore Br.hru wish to thank all friends and relatives for sending wreaths-, messages of condolences, paying Vts*ts and attending the funeral on 27-7-49. ~Mr. Ng Kwok Kee and Miss Ng fcki Cheng wish to thank al! their relatives, friends
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 107 11 DVNAMiTI- <&GOOD GRtEF:: I 1 f\J DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.' CURLvI f l KNOW, JOE BUT Y-VEAH!] |AT THE I WQM T REST Tl_ DiD YOU READ J DIDN'T TMINK CURLY WOULDN'T DO SUCM A THING J CJRLY DID LOOK MAD /IT SURE r YA BE r N HERE I SPEAK
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  • 195 12 A.P. SHANGHAI, Fri. Editor Randall Gould and Charles Miner, manager of the C. V. Starr Enterprises in Shanghat.were released by the Post and Mercury employees yesterday after being held in Miner's office for 29 hours. The American Post and Mercury, which ceased publication on June 15.
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  • 83 12 MANILA. Fri. Maj. Gen. i Eugene L. Eubank, former 1 Commander of the 13th Air j Force, and now chief of th>: Air Force manpower group, I heads a group of 14 high airi force officers who will call on President Quirino today. The party, including
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  • 384 12 'We Welcome Legitimate Agitation Creech -Jones Reuter. LONDON, Friday. The British Communist Party is making a "deli berate drive" in British colonies, Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones told Parliament today. Communist agents in these territories were making a real effort to create trouble, he said
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  • 27 12 Reuter. CALCUTTA, Fri. Two people were injured in the centre of Calcutta today when a bomb aimed at a moving tram-car exploded near it.— Reuter.
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  • 25 12 A.P. DETROIT, Fri. Motor vehicle production in the Unit ed States this week will total 140,794 vehicles, the Automative News, estimated yester day.—A.P.
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  • 126 12 LON'DOX f 'Mm that ti„. I decline in Brit is) Macka has I, tedged aection ol T T h Oft. Stork Exchan ..Lot*, valeaeent stage today r jT ?> were fractional,'. ltT initial Imaemi "Ye of a relaix, i, ruled out. nn ot b* Trading in am BWnßf
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  • 294 12 TODAY'S TRACK WORK PENANG, Today From ALLAN LEWIS DERMITA DORMEZ (Laycock) ran the best three this morning when Monday's runners were griven their final workouts today. Lonprchamps II (E. Donnelly) did the half mile in 55 and the last three in 40. while Courtenay
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  • 251 12 Reuter. SHEFFIELD. Fri.—After an exhilarating and fluctuating day's play the match between the New Zealander? and Yorkshire was left drawn, with Yorkshire's last pair at the wicket I in the absence of the injured Trueman). The New Zealanders scored 261 and 228 and Yorkshire replied with
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  • 204 12 The qualifying rouni of thr Royal Singapore Golf Club Duf fer.« Cup Competition vis played at Bukit Tm and tomorrow and the following qualified for Match Pin J. E. Witt 82 12 J. C. Barry 86—1.1 (gui R. D. Evan.' V > K. E. Inirie
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  • 156 12 General CHINESE T.M.C.A.: "Two Mrs. Carroll*''—7.30 pjii. Singapore Chess Championship 3 p.m. at Y.M.C.A.. Orchard Road. YOING MEN'S MI'SLIM ASSOCIATION Dinner in relsbratlon of Hari Raya Puasa at 31. Lioront; 12, Geylant; MM) p.m. PEr YOI'TH UUOUE: Camp Fire and Social from 6.30 p m. at the residence
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  • 322 12 TODAY SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHIRCH: (5. Penang Road. Sabbath School 3.30 p.m.. preaching service 5 p.m. TOMOBROW CHURCH OF ENGLAND: St Andrew's Cathedral 7 a.m.. 8 a.m.. 10.30 a.m.. 11.30 a.m., 5.30 p.m. St George's Garrison Church. Tanglin. (open to civilians) 7.15 a.m.. 9 a.m.. 9.45 a.m.. 6.30
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  • 346 12 CATHAY: "Wake jf the Red Witch John Wavne. Young Adele Mara. Luther Adler 11 a.m.. 1 45. 4.15. 6.45 9.30 p.m. Midnight: "Streets of Laredo" with William Holden. William Bendix, Mac Donald Carey, and Mona Freeman Tomorrow, Midnffcht: "Floating Life" with Sar Lee and Shu Shih. Translated from a
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  • 120 12 SINGAPORE TODAY TENNIS: Malayan L.T.A. championships S.C.C ATHLETICS,: Singapore A.A.A. championship? .taMAdnnraltv Oo .Sports ILK. Oo kMrd "sHOOTlVfi: A'imeeting (S.K.A.) S <r Kav 8 a.m. BADMINTON: J* I 1 Championships -Clerical 1 7.3" t*.m. GOLF: S1npa|>or* ships 2.1. r p.rn. I«a rwir-KKT: C.S.C. v. > —C.S.C.: Police v. C>
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  • 60 12 TOMAV r}iair BADMINTON: pionships Victor < tion Hall. a.m. 7 p.m. to 10 pm- «JM# ATHLETIC S AI R i Sikh A.A. Sports 1 3 p.m. PENAN G TOI'AY p,l,i RACING: 3r<l. G»nlonu'. 0 -;*h CUICKET: N International Clis•> Tide TODAY: H.W. :1 J' t 4 1 »5
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    • 560 12 MHm iiiiaiii .iii i(i«i iaalir lalk iiiki(it»Mi-iiitiiii:iii linil<l Maa( ltfi: 1 11 Hi DON'T SA V BRAND V j fl say COUPVOISIERI 1 OF NAPOLEON Honoured by the Werrent of Si!|>|>h t<> the late King George V and MM. King George VI. 1 Courvoisier has also received similar distinctions S
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