The Straits Times, 19 September 1950

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times. MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER; ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, SEPfgftlllEß 19 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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  • 337 1 Tokyo Rumour Of N. Korean Peace Moves TOKYO, Monday. QENERAL MACARTHUR announced tonight that fighter planes had befVU using Kimptt r rn jjjiifn nf tffi? Hari fttwr west ©f Seoul There ■Te persistent rumours in Tokyo that the North Koreans have begun fteace overtures. The
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  • 72 1 Rediffusion Strike: New Conference REPRESENTATIVES of the Singapore Rediffusion Employees Union and .Redlffu^lon (Singapore) Ltd. have mutually agreed to re-open negotiations to settle the 46 j dayi' old strike on Friday at t h i .abour Department. cl'irt" Reinstatement of Mr. D. N. Bootn. the unions president; Ann lal salary
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  • 185 1 Churchill Memoirs:War in Malaya THE Strairs Times will resume publication of 1 Winston Churchill's War Memoirs on Oct. 10. with the fourth volume in the series "The Hinge of Fate." The first book in this entitled "The Onslaught of |apan and tha highlight, include the |apanese occupation of Malaya and
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  • 167 1 MAN DETAINED IN GUNMEN HUNT A (HiNi:SK was detained yesterday by the' Sln- ixire police for identification in connection with the shooting on Sunday morning of a Malay constable by two gunmen in Lorong 2>, Geylang. vu detained an the, si ond day of <t Sin- 1 \/idp h'.mt. wldch
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  • 59 1 BANGKOK. MON. has egreed to export O 700 he:>d of cattle a month to Malaya to help fill the couiv.ry's meat require-; tr.ents. A committee composed of representatives .of the Interior Commerce and Agri--ultural Ministries granted the Malayan request after an Investigation revealed that
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  • 38 1 STOCKHOLM. Mon Sweden's urban and county council elections yesterday resulted in h^avy losses by the Pnmiliilllil i They lost 63 of their 92 seats. Four years ago the Communists had 180 s-ats. Reuter.
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  • 52 1 LONDON. Mon. Tin and rubber are included in an order by the United States National Production Authority which forbids manufacturers and dealers to buy. receive order or deliver more than "a practicable minimum working inventory" of 32 war materials that are scarce or are likely to
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  • 153 1 TAEGU FRONT. Mon. ■pHE Communists were nght- I Ing as stubbornly as ever on the Naktong River front today despite intense shelling and air strikes on their forward positions and a heavy B-29 attack just behind their lines. The latest prisoners caught by Americans said
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  • 43 1 PRAGUE. Mon— Convicted of murder and of plots to murder Czech Defence Minister Alexel Cepisko and kidnap Miss Ludvlck Svoboda one man was sentenced to rieath today and others in the same trial were given lifelong imprisonment with hard labour.— Reuter.
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  • 101 1 ONE of the 8.8.C.'s "Iron Curtain" broadcasters arrives In Singapore today by air from London to take up a "psychological warfare" post In the Federation. He is Mr Carleton Greene, brother of Graham Greene. I the novelist Mr Greene has been se- > conded by
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  • 18 1 LUXEMBOURG. Mon. Luxembourg is to send a volunteer force of about 50 men to Korea.
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  • 47 1 FOREIGN MINISTERS of France, the United States, and li it U«— M. Robert Schuman, Mr. Dean Acheson, and Mr. Ernest Brvin gave priority to western European defence when their conference began at New York at the end of last week. A.P. picture.
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  • 100 1 JAKARTA. Mon. A SETTLEMENT has been reached here between the estate workers trade union and the Oeneral Agricultural Syndicate, ending the nearly month-old strike of estate workers In Java. Sumatra and Madura, according to Anota. The unexpected settlement followed negotiations on ministerial level. Under the agrepmrnt
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  • 25 1 SYDNEY. Mon. Dockers who have been on strike here since last Thursday dfclded at a mass meeting today to resume work tomorrow Reuter-AAP
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  • 26 1 BOMBAY. Mon. The car of Jayaprakash Narayan. Indian Socialist leader, was stoned today In a strike bound mill area here. He was unhurt.— Rputer.
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  • 56 1 luinlhjm. Mon. me tjnusn Ministry of Civil Aviation has taken action against the owners of the Tudor airliner which crashed In South Wales last March, killing 80 passengers. The Ministry has taken out a summons against Falrfllght Limited? alleging contravention of one of the conditions of
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  • 140 1 CAIRO, Monday. PGYPT, which exercises control over ships taking *V British troops and stores to and from the Suez Canal Zone, wants to extend supervision to planes usine R.A.F. aerodromes in the area. A government spokesman said that British planes landing In the
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    19 1 TANK CREW firing at point-blank range during an American attack on the Korean battlefront. A.P. radio picture.
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  • 240 1 f ROUND servicing parties left Changi yesterday to pave the way for the last lap of the longest military mass airlift ever undertaken by the Royal Air Foree a 11,250-mile lift from England to Japan in support of the I.N. operations in the Korean
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  • 61 1 i xirm. Mon fHINESE newspapers reported that the Formosa Southern Aw Commander win etmtinnr a ban on officers an* nea marrying or Kftting enraged. Reasons Riven were, first ly, to reduce the soldier's responsibility. Secondly, to be a revolutionist (the Chinese Army still considers its
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  • 18 1 LUTON. Mon. Oeorgf Bernard Shaw's condition showed a "slight improvement" today. a medical bulletin announced. A.P.
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  • 393 1 From Our Own (orre.pondent LONDON. Mon A RGUING that the highest development of economic ""sources is the best way to nght Communism. Mr Gordon Gray. President Truman's Spe S a n advlser has presented a dollar gap report which proposes great new development programmes for
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  • 184 2 "RED" IS CONGRESS PRESIDENT JOHANNESBURG. Mon. T\R. Yusuf Dadoo, one of the first South Africans "named" under the suppression of Communism bill was elected president of the Soutb I Africa Indian Congress yesterday. Congress met behind closed doors In Johannesburg as' Dr. Dadoo is barred from attending public meetings. The
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  • 388 2 KHARTOUM, Men. THE official Sudan Monthly Record has made a red-faced apology for Its report on "anti-natal" clinics proposed for Port Sudan. After a correspondent pointed out that such clink* would make unnecessary a projected midwifery school there the record said that "anti-natal" was intended A.P.
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    • 229 2 WATSEKA (Illinois), Monday. vy HEN Andy Kasalo drove through Watseka. he caused a "commotion." Policeman Gene Bricker said Kasalo's car: Knocked down four telephone poles, broke a main cable, put 40 telephone* out of order, broke an oil pipe line, damaged an industrial sprinkler system and
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    • 25 2 BA CUT taking the oath of allegiance to Emperor Bao Dai before bis troops were Incorporated In the Vietnam Aimy. A.P. pictnM.
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  • 52 2 LONDON. Mon. London had ts first glimpse of the month-old Princess Anne, daughter of Princess Elizabeth, when she left here yesterday evening with her mother and two-year-old brother. Prince Charles, for Balmoral. Princess Elizabeth left by train with her two children to Join her parents, the King and
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  • 111 2 CAPITAL MAY GO TO BERLIN BERLIN, Mon. WEST Berlin's Lord* Mayor. Dr. Reuter yesterday demanded that the West German Oovernment transfer its headquarters to Berlin as symbol of its resistance to Soviet pressure on Oermr Dr. Reuter said that military measures alone will net. solve the problem. R« sad that
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  • 55 2 NASSAU, Bahama. \U.i Sir George Ritchie ftuitorri, Governor of the Bahama since February, died yesterday of a heart attack. Sir George, who was 57, hal served 25 years tn the Colonial service. He woke pestwday complaining of indigestion and a short time after was found dead in
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  • 58 2 VIENNA, Mon. Soviet technicians and equipment are boosting crude oil output in the rich Ploestl fields but newspaper reports from Rumania say that sabotage and absenteeism are giving trouble. The drilling programme s directed by Russian su;:c visors and with Soviet eqiii >- merit. Hundreds
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  • 387 3 SAIGON, Monday. FRENCH and Vietnamese police have smashed a Communist-led plot to stage a general* attack inside Saigon, authoritative sources disclosed today. The Red-led Vietminh of Moscow-trained Dr. Ho Chi Minh had planned to employ a battalion of terrorists smuggled into this capital of
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  • 30 3 MR. MOHAMMED NATSIR. the new Indonesian Premier, beinr swbm in by President Soekarno at Jakarta. Indoneaia's Chief Justice holds the Koran behind the Premier's head. A.P picture.
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  • 151 3 LONDON. Mon. will play a greater part in the Government of Gambia, the West African colony, foilowing constitutional changes an- nounced here today An African will gradually assume leadership of the Colony's Legislative Council The people of Bathurst. the colony's main town, will elect two member^
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  • 28 3 MR. TSACHANG Kbanrhang joint leader of the Tibetan delegation in India, pays his respects at the Birla TemDl*> at New Delhi. --GIIS. picture
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  • 61 3 LONDON. Mon. Gales reaching 82 miles an hour, which swept Britain yesterday, subsided early today but were expected to blow up again tonifiht or tomorrow. The tail end of a cyclone that battered shipping off New York a week ago, the fierce winds, estimated to
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  • 42 3 HONG KONG. Mon. A Hong Kong-Australian radio- > Dhone was started today. Calls can be made only between 10.30 a.m. and 12.00 noon. The charge is HK$4B for the first three minutes and HK$l6 for each minute there- after.— A.P.
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  • 255 3 LONDON. Monday. 'PHK Government has decided against a general 1 election this year unless it is defeated in tomorrow's vote on steel nationalisation, it was authoritatively stated after today's Cabinet meeting. 1 Unifficial quarters have been suggesting that Vie Government contemplated an autumn election, whether
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  • 134 3 LONDON. Mon. LORD Salisbury, leader ol the opposition In the House of Lords, today called the Government's decision tc carry on with steel nationalisation "a crime against the nation." "I protest vehemently against this putting party before nation," he told tht Upper Chamber, adding that
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  • 125 3 BELGRADE, Mondaj. TWE Communist party of Yugoslavia, backbone of Marshal Tito's authoritarian regime is to be made more democratic. Party leaders have been sending circular letters and publishing inspired articles in party journals condemning "bureaucratic" aai "monopolistic" practices. The undemocratic practices now condemned are identified
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  • 84 3 INCHON. Mon. 'I^HREE correspondents were Injured on Klmpo airport road north of Inchon today when a Jeep crashed head-on Into a truck in swirling dust. Lachie Mac Donald, of the London Dally Mail (whose home Is In Singapore) suffered, j a cashed head and an injured shin Time
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  • 41 3 YOI.ANDE UIUU, el Alabama, was named Mis.s America of 1950 at a nationwide beauty contest. She weighs 119, Ib.. has 35 in. bust. 34 in. waist. 35* in. hips, and is 5 ft. 54 in. tall -\.f. picture.
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  • 77 3 WASHINGTON, Mon. THIRTY-TWO- war mater- ials, including steel, timber, Industrial alcohol and nylon yarn, were placed under American Federal arttlhoarding control last night. The order' l» -fteetlve tamorrow at the stmt time ta goremment ceitrlctjons are restored on ea*v nayment credi* for motor-cars, lurnl-
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  • 242 3 UK Workers Plan New 'Rebel" LONDON Mon. f INOFFICIAL workers' leaders at London meetings yesterday proposed rebellion against the executive of their union, the mammoth 1,300,000-member Transport and General Workers Union, unless it accedes to their demands. The meetings were co-or-dinated among the members of the transport, waterfro.it, and food
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  • 51 3 LONDON, Mon —The Admiralty last night confirmed that investigations wore being made into a second possible sabotage attempt in the 13--190-ton light aircraft carrier Vengeance. It was announced on Sept. 5 that a small amount of sand had been found in the lubricating system of the carrier's engines.
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  • 250 3 TEHERAN. Monday. DERSIANS are hoping that the more cordial 1 atmosphere created by the trade talks with Russia now going on in Teheran may lead to an improvement in diplomatic relations between the two countries. I For virtually the first time i since Russian troops left
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  • 27 3 MANILA. Mon. Seven v-iously burned victims of Hibok volcano's eruption were flown to a hospital in Cebu last night by seaplane for treatment.— A.P.
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  • 330 4 Priority For Upcountry Under grads SINGAPORE undergraduates cf the University of Malaya will have to quit their rooms in the university hortels to provide accommodation for students from the Federation in the coming academic year. This decision of the University authorities is
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  • 30 4 PUNTER MARRIED AT K.L MB. W. H. DOWNS, of Tebong Estate, Malacca, with his bride. Mrs. Nancy Sheila Cotter, at St. Mary's Church Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday. Straits Times picture.
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  • 165 4 WANTED: a hotel in two years JOHOHE Bahru wants a first class hotel and wants it within the next two The Government of Johore is ready to lease for 60 years, more than seven acres of land on a delectable site two miles from Johore Bahru and facing the Straits
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  • 30 4 PARIT BUNTAR. Mon. Admitting a charge of having hawked Ice cream when he had no licence. Ng Bak Huat was fined $10 in the Parit Biintar Court.
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  • 295 4 from uur Man correspondent KIALA LI'MPUR, Monday. DANDITS who fired on a military armoured car in Nejfri Sembilan yesterday afternoon had a hock. An armoured car has a turret and a run XI 4 I T*l_ 1.1 lit Ike a tank. I his car blasted
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  • 30 4 HMJ B9NG >00. son «i Mr. Sus Kooi (noon, who l< tt Singapore yesterday in the Nieuw Holland to study civil engineering in the University of Melbourne.
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  • 130 4 'I^HE following were among those who arrived at Kallang airport. Singapore, yesterday. Passengf rs in transit are not Included In the list. QAXTAS BOAC from Sydney: Mfe»n. L. V. Apt*, K. O. Apte. B. Chakradeo. K K.ilb. S. D. Patil, V. Shirgagnar. Prof. D. O. Vinod and
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  • 27 4 Frt>M Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon Chong Thlan Long a lorry driver, was flned $30 In tht Batu Pahafc Police Court for negligent driving.
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  • 315 4 THE Singapore Social Welfare Secretary, Mr. T. Eames Hughes yesterday denied a report that any woman, whose treatment at the Social Hygiene Hospital, Middle Koad. Singapore had been completed, had been "gaoled in the detention ward of the hospital against her will for six months.
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  • 49 4 WOMAN (60) FINED FOR FIGHTING TWO women were charged in the Sinrapore Third Police Court yesterday with behaving in a disorderly manner and fighting at Keppel Hill on Saturday. Hoe Gong, aged SO, who pleaded guilty, was flned $5. Kamariah binte Suteah, 22, i l.iimrd trial and wm acquitted.
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  • 62 4 I ri. .11 Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Mon.— The For- i eign Office has announced that Mr. ACS. Adams will replace Mr. H. R. Sawbrldge as Charge d'Affaires ad interim In Korea. Mr. Adams was Charge d'Affaires In Bangkok In 1948. and last year was appointed Consul in
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  • 37 4 WOMAN GAOLED From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING. Mon. For disobeying a police order to stay away from Kampong Gudang. Batu Kurau. a 27--year-old Malay woman. Som binte Saud. was sentenced at Taiping to three months' simple Imprisonment.
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  • 106 4 From Oar Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The community centre at the Tampoi leper camp, built by the inmates through the help of the Welfare Department and private individuals who gave the materials, was opened on Saturday by Mrs. J. F Hodgkinson. wife of the British
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  • 68 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The Public Relations public address and cinema unit has concluded a week's tour of the islands off Merslng. Johore. Among the places visited were Pulau Aur. Pulau Permangil, Pulau Tinggi and Pulau Besar. The party Included the District Officer.
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  • 127 4 'PWELVE Rediffusion sets have been smashed over the past 10 days by gangsters of a party operating at night. They have also cut Rediffusion cables in certain sectors of Singapore. These Incidents are bellev- I ed to be connected with the strike which
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  • 65 4 From Our Mafl ('orretpoudrut M \l LI'MPUR. Mon. J<H)R their effort in sending the bic{«st single donation to the University of Malaya Endowment Fund, the 1 .pl«- of Pasir Puteh have been specially commended by the Mentri Besar of Kelaiiun. Nik Ahmed Kamil bin Haji Mahmud.
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  • 313 4 KILLER NOT INSANE, TO DIE CAVING thAt there was nothing in the evidence to Justify the submission .that he was insane at the time of the murder, the Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday dismissed an appeal by Tan Joon Long against sentence of death passed on him at the August
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  • 113 4 From Oar SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. JfOa r DERATION Government officials would not comment today on reports that the Government was considering a proposal for a ban on the export of Malayan rubber to Russia. "This question goes very much further than Malaya; It
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    • 198 4 6ven Venus couldn't getaway with thati To stay on her pedestal, goddess should stay nice to be near Your beauty will get a lift from that fragrant bath f But what's to keep your freshness from fading after the bach is over si'Mplt r.t this: Mum's the word for lasting
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  • 288 5 PACED with monthly losses amounting to thousands of dollars from people who default on bar chits which they have signed, leading Singapore hotels and first-class licence, holders are considering the formation of a protective association. Although the idea of a licensees' association
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    44 5 jlj, »>!• >ik> nooinson 1' r ria after their wedding a' the Church of Our Lady of Ihe Immaculate Conception at Johore Bahru last wvrk. The bride was >liss Kftherine Gomez, sister of Mr. M. G. Gomez of Johore Bahru. MHN Tim*s picture.
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  • 75 5 Mrs. AW. Pinnirk. Chief C rl Guide Commissioner for M Maya and Singapore, and I Mrs. Godman. H.Q. Commissioner for Camping, are turning to Singapore to meet lite 47 Guides and officers who H!;- returning in the Gorgon from Australia on Sept. 21. The Guides will
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  • 73 5 i rum uur Mian i orresponarni < IPOH, Mon. The Jhinese community of Ipoh will give a c'innor on Wednesday to the Sultan of Perak. Sir Yusof izzucUn Shah. The Perak Chinese Chamber of Commerce is sending two delegates to meet the Indian trade delegation
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  • 23 5 son of Anandan, of Yong Pong Estate, was fined $200 or three weeks' Imprisonment for causing hurt to Savia with a knife.
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  • 47 5 With reference to a report from our Kluang correspondent published on Sept. 13, under the heading Lorry Driver Fined $300." the lorry attendant. Choo Eng Hoe. was not killed in the accident, as was stated. Choo was admitted to hospital and later discharged.
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  • 33 5 TAIPING. Mon— The Ceylon Association. Taiping. has sent a cheque for $420.55 to the University of Malaya Endowment Fund, the proceeds of the Taiping community show during Varsity Week.
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  • 35 5 from Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. For the purpose of assessment, the value of jelutong will be taken at $100 per picul during the last quarter of this year in Johore.
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  • 114 5 HARI RAYA HAJI MASS MEETING THE 3.500.000 Muslims of Malaya will celebrate Hari Raya Haji. the great Muslim festival marking the end of the annual HaJ pilgrimage, on Saturday. Singapore Muslims will hold a mass prayer meeting at Jalan Besar Stadium at 9 a.m. on Sunday, at which lectures on
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  • 27 5 rrciTi Our Sufi Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Movement of food on the Johore Bahru— Merslng road from the Mawal Junction to Mersing is now restricted.
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  • 165 5 A SINGAPORE student nas achieved the rare honour of being placed first among students from all parts of the world in an examination. He is 26-year-old Thomas Wong Yihmin Warn, committee clerk of the Singapore Municipality, who was placed first in the
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  • 251 5 THE first two Malayans ever to attend a Common- wealth conference. Dato Onn bin Ja'afar and Mr. C. C. Tan, accompanied by the CommissionerGeneral, Mr Malcolm Mac Donald, Wt Kalians airport yesterday in a Qantas Constellation for London. Members of the Federal and Singapore Legislative
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  • 42 5 TWO hundred monkeys, an orang nuUng and 20 tropical birds wilt leave Singapore today by QEABOAC freighter aircraft for New York. They are being sent by a Singapore agent to Ame- rtca's biggest wild animal dealing firms.
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  • 55 5 From Our Staff Corrnpondent KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The Malayan Association for 1 the Prevention of Tubercui losis has fixed the date of 'their Flag Day for Sept. SO. A meeting of the Publicity i Committee decided that 100.ItM flags would be printed.: !It was estimated
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  • 63 5 From Our SUff Correapondent KUALA LUMPUR. Mon ,The followln* Police Inspec-| tors have been promoted to i i Assistant Superintendents of 1 Follce with effect from July 1. 1950: Inche Salleh bin Abdul I Rahman, who is at present j .attending a course In Hen|don United Kingdom: Inche Abdul
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  • 38 5 From Our Mall t:»rre*P":'dent MALACCA, Mon. The annual general meeting of I the Straits Chinese British j Association will uk» place at the Klebang Besar home of Mr. E-? "-\v Kirn or. Saturday at 2 n.r-
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  • 31 5 From On Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Sun Mr. E. J. Strugnell. State For- eat Officer, Johore, and Mrs. Strugnell. have left Johor? Bahru for a ihort vacation Jn [Australia.
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  • 122 5 from Our SUIT Correspondeat KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. THE Bill to amend the Federal Agreement and provide for State citizenship, which was to have come before the Federal Legislative Council next week, will not be introduced for some time. The Straits Times was told today that
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  • 64 5 From Our SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon Women members of the Selangor Indian Association are meeting every week in Kuala Lumpur to knit pullovers and sew clothing for victims of the recent Assam earthquakes. Contributions of materials are urgently required and any one willing to
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  • 44 5 SEREMBAN. Mon Tampin Welfare Week will be held from Sept. 26 to Oct. 2. Two of the major attraction are a football match on Sept. 30 and a cinema show when three prizes will be awarded to lucky ticket holders
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  • 32 5 from Our »!an I orresponor-m SEREMBAN. Mon. Hari Raya Haji will be celebrated in Negri Sembilan on Saturday. Sept. 23. which will be a public holiday In the State.
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  • 205 5 THE Colonial Development Corporation (r&r tasi) 1 Ltd.. which has been part owners with the Hong Kone Transportation Company of five hemp estates in British North Borneo, is now to take over complete control of the estates Mr. O. E. Mott, Director of the corporation
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  • 108 5 SHOP ASSISTANTS WANT A UNION r VHE Labour Party of Singapore is taking immediate steps to form a Shop Assistants Union in Singapore for both industrial and non-industrial workers. A statement issued yesterday by the Party says that the Party had received several letters from Singapore shop assistants, asking it
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  • 19 5 OVERLOAD— $13O KLUANG, Mon. Chong Kee LJm, a lorry driver, of Merslng, for overloading his orry was fined $130.
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  • 98 5 AMONG the 7N exhibits now on show at the Royal Photographic Society Exhibition, which opened in London this week, are several prints contributed by Mr. K. V. Won* Singapore. One print. cWrribed as "Conveying .an atmosphere pi spiritual calm" is a study of two
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    • 191 5 RED HEART JAMAICA A ~^mWm %yP^^<y WHOLESALE W^k <jj m r& RETAIL PRICES p. ON APPLICATION. SuU- Agents:EVERYTHING A TYRE CAN DO II r*w *W* '"itetd of four, and you drove 24 hours day for almost 4 years, you wouldn't pile up n much tyre mileage at Goodyear drivers have
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  • 50 6 MADAM NO TECK CHUI pas.- M away peacefully at her residence No. 57, Jonker Street. Malacca, on the 17th instant. tr.hr leaves behind, her beloved husbnnd. Yoong Soon Kiew. five tons, six daughters, two daughters-in-law, three .sons-in-law, and. twenty-two grandchildren. The funeral will takp place on the am kwtaat.
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  • 65 6 THE FAMILY of the late Mr. We OtiK Ann thank all relatives •nd friend* who attended the funeral as well as those who sent »re;itli.% and letters of condolence. THE FAMILY of th. late Mr. Tham Poll Loke wish to thank the staffs of Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co.. Standard Vacuum
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  • 736 6 The Straits Times Singapore. Tues. Sept. 19, 1950. In Pulasan Road Very few people in Singapore had ever heard of Pulasan Road until Mrs. W. L. :Blythe, wife of the Colonial j Secretary, formally opened six new terrace-houses there the other day. It is a pleasing and poetic name, much
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  • 442 6 The Civilian At The Gap It is time to prod the Colony Government about its plan to buy back seventy acres of the land which the Army acquired in the Pasir Panjang district in 1946, and convert this land into a public park. This popular scheme was re- vealed shortly
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  • 909 6  -  ERNEST ATKINSON By LONDON, Sept. 17. p()R the Government, the main argument about going on now with the nationalisation of the iron and steel industry is that Parliament has already authorised it, and that there should no longer be any uncertainty whether it intends to fulfil
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    • 305 6 IS it not time that one of us Old Singaporeans who have known pre-war Singapore— when Europeans did not think it "such a bore" having to live here, and when Europeans tried to understand the people living nere with whom they were called upon to work— is
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    • 187 6 I AST Thursday, when I happened "lo be visiting the Lake Gardens with my wife and children. I came across a bitter fight between two dogs. One of them, a ferocious 1 animal, had caught hold of the other, which was moaniriK pitifully, frightening the I
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    • 157 6 LAST Thursday at 130 p.m.. I went to the Food Control Office in Orchard Road. Singapore, to enter a few names on the ration card. Th«re were two queuesone for males and the other for females— in the hot sun. I joined a queue and
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    • 141 6 AM writing this as a resuit of a recent visit to the Rationing Office, Johore Bahru, in connection with my child, who was born in December, 1948, but was not included in my ration card. I took along the child's birth certificate, but wax told by the
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  • 446 6 Bahasa Meluyu MANNERS makyth man U the motto of Winchester, one of the oldest public •rhools in England, and also of New College. Oxford. This motto is quoted by Inche Zalnal Abidin at the close of his paper on "Malay Manners and Etiquette" In the latest number of t'.ie
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    • 753 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. I > THE ENOAOEMENT is announrrd b?tween Mr. Lee Ah Chonfr, younger brother of Mr. It Ah Soo. J. 8.. Mis* F\ng Wnl Hmp, 3rd daughter of Mr. ft 'he late Mrs Fung Slfw Kui. «>' Canton THE ENOAOEMENT U anno'inrid between Michael Robert Cflo. «on of the
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  • 337 7 Extra Service Period Keeps Forces Back UECAUSE of the extension in the National Service period by six months, the 10,000-ton trooper Orduna left Singapore yesterday with onJy 20 Service families— 6o people and 30 single members of the Forces. The trooper has space for 200 families
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  • 156 7 Bishop gives warning on education from Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A WARNING against education without '•moral restraint and spiritual insight" was given by Bishop Donald H. Tippett, of San Francisco. in an address to teachers at i Methodist schools at Kuala j Lumpur today. Bishop Tippett is on
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  • 36 7 Mr. R. Ramamurthl. only son of Mr. R. Ramani. the Federal Legislative Councillor, left Singapore by QEA-BOAC aircraft yesterday for London where he will join Faraday House for a course In electrical engineering.
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  • 66 7 pROM atom-bombed Hiroshima and other Japanese cities, 36 Japanese nationals with their wives and families arrived In £inganore on the 14.000-ton liner Boissevain yesterday en route to South America, where they will start a new life. Under existing regulations r^Rardinpr Japanese, none of th^m was
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  • 86 7 Mrs. D. Sypula, mother of Able Seaman Blng who was wounded In the explosion aboard H.M.S. Barwlnd, writes, through the Straits Times, to thank the doctors, sisters and staff of the British Military Hospital, the Red Cross, Padre and Mrs. Davies, and the Admiralty for their attention
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  • 320 7 3 MONTHS' GAOL FOR SIX MEN $54,000 LOTTERY /X)NVICTED of assist- v mR in the management of a $54,000 chap ji ki lottery at a hut off Paya Lebar Road on Aug. 23. six Chinese were sentenced to three months' imprisonment each in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday. Thpv
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  • 42 7 Yong Kan Tin. 25, who j pit ailed guilty in the Singa- 1 riore Third Police Court yes- i terday to trespassing in the military depot in Alexandra! Road on Sept. 11. was fined $25. or seven days' simple imprisonment.
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  • 31 7 The annual thanksgiving i day service of the Methodist Church in Johore Bahru will Ibe held on Sunday. Oct. 1. when the Rev S. M. Thevathasan. of Singapore, will preach.
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  • 108 7 From Oar Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. VTEGOTIATIONS are eon--11 tinuing between the i Malayan Planting Industries Employers' Association and representatives of the Rubber Workers' Unions on the question of increased wages for tappers and weeders. A meeting; which started this morning was still going on
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  • 129 7 'COOLING MIXTURE' 2 DIED HOW five Chinese women and girls became violently ill, resulting in the deaths of two, after drinking a Chinese "cooling mixture" was described by Teo Beng Hiang, 11-year-old daughter vt one of the dead women, at a Singapore inquest yesterday. I was offered a bowl full
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  • 57 7 The Court of Appeal yesterday reserved judgment in the appeal by Ong Thiam Lock against a sentence of one years imprisonment for being found in possession of 500 taels of gold, valued at about $60,000. in a sampan in the Singapore River on May 23 last.
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  • 68 7 Nineteen year old Leslie Walker of the R.A.F. Chanßi Cycling Club, who fell off his racing bicycle in front of the Princes' Restaurant in Orchard Road on Sunday is doing well. Walker dislocated his shoulder, but is free of head injuries which had been feared, and
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  • 26 7 More than 500 people attended the second anniversary OaW Ball of the Musi- clans Union of Singapore held yesterday at the Raffles Hotel.
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  • 15 7 Ten Ullang fires cauaed by the hot weather, occurred In Singapore yesterday.
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  • 50 7 Ho Kirn Chai. 23, of Duxton Road, claimed trial in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to theft of a raincoat from Ho Poay Guan at the railway station car park on Sept. 7. Ball of $250 in one surety was allowed until Sept. 25.
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  • 229 7 THE five-man Burma police team which has spent a month in Singapore studying the control and use of police wireless equipment, returns to Rangoon by the Sangola today full of praise for the Singa- pore police force. They were so impressed with the methods used In
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  • 290 7 1.0. U. CHIT SYSTEM CRITICISED A 60-YEAR-OLD Eurasian book-keeper, described in the Singapore Second District Court yesterday as "a man who has held positions of responsibility and trust in 14 firms", was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment for criminal breach of trust. He was
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  • 289 7 ANNUAL DANCE RECITAL LABOURING under difficulties, the Taylor Dance Studio held its annual dance recital at the Capitol Theatre last night. This was the first time since the liberation the Captml Theatre had put on a whole evening's live show, and I although the stage was made for live entertainment,
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  • 101 7 WITH the departure of the Commissioner General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, to the United Kingdom yesterday, the members of the Federation of Services Union feet that they have come "one step nearer to getting the housing allowance due to the civilian workers in the Services." Mr. C.
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  • 73 7 GIRLS 40 FT. FALL ON TYRES A NlBy«ar-old Chinese girl fell 4« feet from the ledie of the balcony of her room in a Beach Road lodging house and bounced off a pile of old tyre* on to the road. She was only ■lightly hart. The girl, Lhn Ah Choo,
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  • 222 7 CLOSE SHAVE FOR THE ONG FAMILY rpHE Ong Kirn family of Changi had a narrow escape on Sunday night when their old dilapidated hut collapsed just after they had moved into their newly-built home They had had warning of the impending collapse of their 30-year-old home, however, for the roof
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  • 95 7 THE Public, Relations Office. Singapore, has arranged monthly film shows for prisoners in Outram Gaol and Changi Prison. A special programme of selected educational and instructional films, with the latest newsreels. has be'ii drawn up for a .show on Thursday. The Public Relations F*!m Uiiit
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  • 63 7 LIM KIM ENG. 26. and Oh Heng Tonp, 36, were charged in the Singapore i Third Police Court yesterday with possessing seven gallons of dutiable gamsu. Lim pleaded guilty and Oh claimed trial. Lim was allowed ball of $1,000 In two sureties, while Oh was allowed
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  • 61 7 Ng Poh Wan. 22. or Havelock Road, claimed trial in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to theft of iwo sports shirts from Churii?/ Nam and Co.. on Sunday He also claimed trial to an alternative charge of dishonestly retaining two ahtrta which he had reason to
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  • 33 7 From Oar Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Mon Ng Yon Choon was charged ,at Johore Bahru today with murdering Sim Chua. a I woman living at Tampoi. Ng was remanded in custody.
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  • 27 7 Froir. Out SJalf Corrrspcrt-'ont JOHORE BAHRU. Mon 3oh Sui Mul was fined $50 at 3atu Pahat for driving a car n a mechanically dangerous :ondltion
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • 439 8 VALUE OF RUBBER UNDER PRE-WAR 'Rise A Recoil 9 Sir John Hay FVEN at prevailing prices, the purchasing J power of rubber in terms of cotton, wheat, tobacco and maize, all of which must be bought in dollars, is still less than it was before the war, says Sir John
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  • 333 8 SOLDIERS ACCUSED OF TAXI THEFT T*WO British soldiers, 1 Michael Frank Hickling and Derek James Nicholls. were charged in the Singapore Relief Court yesterday with causing hurt to Giam Guan Lai, a taxi-driver, and with robbing him of his taxi valued at $4,000, at midnight on June 22. Giam suld
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  • 69 8 l -is Our SUff Correspondent PENANG. Mon. "How w;>uid you like to be put into i a basket just big enough to I hold you and another person'" the First Magistrate. Mr E. M. Smallwood. asked Yi'oh Kirn Tean who pleaded Kuiltv
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  • 201 8 'I^HE appeal by the repreA sentative of the Government of the United States of Indonesia against the order of prohibition granted to "Turko" WesterUnn to stop continuation of the extradition proceedings against him in the District Court was mentioned before the Court of Appeal in Singapore
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  • 37 8 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. N. Tambusamy. of Kulai, who erected a cubicle in his house without the authority of the Town Board, was fined $10 in the police court today.
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  • 45 8 Frcm Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Bun. Wong Sze Thong, of Malacca, was fined $750 in the Johore Bahru Police Court for attempting to evade Customs duty of 112 on two cameras, valued at $280. The cameras were confiscated.
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  • 56 8 '|'H! Singapore Malay I'nion will oppose the formation of an I.MNO branch in Singapore on the ground that political conditions in Singapore are different from those in the Federation. The union believes that the establishment of a branch is not suitable in Singapore, where political activities
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  • 161 8 THE Singapore Education Department proposes to x provide two new secondary schools in 1951, Mr. A. Halliday, of the Department, told the Straits Times yesterday. Together with equipment they are initially estimated to cost up to $350,000 each One of them is provisionally sited in
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  • 340 8 $6,000 From The Ipoh Chettiars THE cheltiar community of Ipoh have sent a cheque of $6,000 for the University of Malaya Endowment Fund The latest list of donations is a.s follows: PER\K:-3trff st«V Secretary. $8: Staff. Chairman. Town Board. Kint a $19.65: Mr J o. Feruuson ranjong Rambutan
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  • 53 8 From Our SUIT t'orresoondent TAIPINO Mon.— For c rlmin breach of trust, of a wristlet watch. 24-year-old Llm Hoi Kirn was fined $100 or two months' rigorous im- prisnnment at TalDlng. He I borrowed the watch from Chlew Chai Hock, promising to return it within three days, but
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  • 165 8 PUBLIC and private burial grounds In Singapore will be surveyed by a Govern-ment-appointed committee to consider whether any should be closed. It will consider whether land should be developed if us/>d to resettle lndusiivU wnrkrrs in the rural areas. The c ..nlttee WJII also be re■uired
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  • 225 8 Rubber Factory For J.B. Plan DLANS are before the Colonial Development Corporation Board in London for the building in Johore Bahru of a centralised rubber processing; factory, and approval is hoped for In a few weeks. Mr. O. E. Mott. Director of the Corporation in Singapore, yesterday told the Straits
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  • 101 8 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. PE small seaside village of Paslr Oudang. opposite Seletar, followed Johore Bahru yesterday in celebrating the Sultan's birthday Proceedings began In the morning with the inspection of the kampong guard by Inspector Dahardi O.C.P.D. Plenton K after which there was
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  • 37 8 MONEY FORGAMES From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. The State Welfare Home, Johore Bahru, has received $50 from the Kluang District Welfare Committee and the money will be spent In buying material for games for children.
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  • 201 8 'Must Be Equality Of Sexes In Malaya From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. Monday. IF Malaya is to make more rapid progress there 1 should be equality of the sexes so that women may contribute their fair share towards eventual selfThia was advocated in Pej nang today by Mrs. Shirin Fozdar.
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  • 92 8 From Oui S at Corresponornl IPOH. Mon. ALLEGED to have burnt a 9-year-old child with hot iron tongs and a lighted cigarette on Sept 14. a 39--year-old woman, Ng Slew Kee, wax today charged before the Ipoh Magistrate. Inche Bahaudin bin Yacob. on two counts
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  • 70 8 »Rom Oui Staff Correspundeul TAIPINQ Mon.— At the annual general meeting of the Kempe Club, the following were elected offlce bearers for ♦he ensuing year: President: Mr. H. E. Josselyn vice-president: Mr. fi. A. Molssjnac hon. secretary lache Mahmud bin Abu Kassim hon treasurer: Inche Mih Zuhari Committee
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 173 8 S//£ IV/IS M/SSMG JUi MffM M UNTIL SHE REGAINED HER ENERGY J i \E IVIsHfP EArtLV. H^TYOt) USED ToTTkeTH I OARIIMf. UTS C^^^B^HH^T I GOING OUT SO. •P^W'^^^^^B T0 A MtU '^^^■TdSOONERSTAY BUT YOU YCx^ TIR£D I FAT OL ;y/^^^B HOME, DtAR I LJ I O N)LY WANT TO STAY
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  • 299 9 Miniature tableau really works FROM AN ESTATE BUNGALOW I RECENTLY admired a Chinese tableau which consisted of a scene in a glass case. The scene was of people in a boat and of others waiting to cross a ferry, with little tin coins all ready in their hands. Probably it
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  • 71 9 Sonia Barbara Anthonisx, axed 12 months points with flee to the birthday cake of Maureen de Briais Backer, aged two. Sonia is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs C. F. Anthonisz cf Kenr Chin Road, Singapore, and Maureen's parents. Mr. and Mrs. P M.
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  • 601 9  -  NURSE JANET MOTHERCRAFT JN MALAYA B^ A MOTHER writes to say that her child, aged two-and-a-half has started to stammer and she is worried about his future, if this impedient is to remain with him all his life. Stuttering Is quite common between the ages
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    431 9  -  POPPY RICHARD Up-to-the-minute report from Paris on By PARIS" WHEN a Parisienne returns from hpr honChe? flr'JtTnve"!" ment is a new hat. She sees nothing inconEruous in wearing a longhaired autumn felt before the gutters are thick with leaves- -in fact with her summer clothes. This is
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  • 91 9 Jill Raymond. 22-year-old actress who plays the part of a bride in "They cot What They Wanted" at the Phoenix Theatre. London, became a real bride when she married Mr. C. Freud (a relative of the famous psychoanalysis pioneer). The honeymoon has been postponed so
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 262 9 K lumpur cert Orcb.); 830 A* Spore: 10 SINGAPORE I, ,n 7 a. "P*" l Twnp'e »nd the Madison v .-h h» o.* 55 a T" M^'f, L°" 2 Plrt Myttn": 1090 D«nce Music: 11 10 a.m. Newi, followed by Spore; 6. "Mall Ba« 7. Aa c!o8e N frn— K
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  • 1687 10 gadget-conscious wives and old-fashioned cook-boys |MlAt day I had to scrounge a lift back from the office my wife was out shop ping again. I can't imagine for one moment what she can find to do in town for two and
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  • 322 10  -  'TuanHaji* B> PERTH (U.A.) r THE monthly pahlt party, in August, held always on the third i Friday of the month, at the Malayan Association's rooms wai as bright as ever and attended by 40 guests, among whom were several visitors Including Dr. Noel Charlie ar.<i
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 121 10 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD n SfcVw 17 i 2» i tin *°j i i i#m 14, Frequently wsocialcd wilb fi" rh J 4 »«-~i Pol*mtk«TbL«noiK,4. SH H iH__M_S3| L_J_J M i n mJi:« T^ *^l v« win v*\ m yd FT 1 tOLUTHW TO tMNfW Tim v horJff'ul\lO>° I I I
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  • 299 11 LONDON, Mon. 'THE London Stock Exchange was irregular today with trading restricted by parlla- i xrentary and end account considerations. Tomorrow, will bring the vital steel debate In Parliament and the end of the Stock Exchange < trading period. Closing middle prices 01 selected itocks m supplied to
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  • 230 11 6 Vi-Cent Drop In October First-Grade THE Singapore rubber market was quiet yesterday in the absence of support, and prices were inclined to sag throughout the day. By noon, spot loose buyers were at $1-50, four cents below Saturday's level while October first-grade also dropped by H cents
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  • 37 11 SINGAPORE, Mon., Sept. ig_|*****i (down $2.62*.) «coi/ i j £***** a ton in London LONDON, Mon., Sept. 18. —Spot £757 £76* Forwar#| £75$ Settlem £76# Turn-OT«r: 5 15 v mja- aa >m- ton»-
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  • 119 11 I*HE price of copra dropped sllghUy In a quiet market In Singapore yesterday, with business done at 847 H per picul and further sellers at 847%. Buyers later reduced their bids to 847V4Coconut oil was dull with sellers a* $I<H per plcul. There were no buyers. Peppw
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  • 44 11 From A Market Correspondent T5EDFORD Plantations made $55,428 (13 per cent) for the year to Mar. 31, 1950. A final dividend of five per cent is recommended, making 10 per cent for the year, against eight per cent last year.
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  • 38 11 Ipoh «»OH Tin Dredging directors 1 propose to recommend, at the annual general meeting on Nov. 14, a final dlvidend for the year to March 31, 1950, of Ss. 6d. per stock unit, less tax.
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  • 214 11 From A Market Correspondent THE Malayan share market opened the week yesterday on a much stronger tone, with good buying Inquiries particularly In Tins and In- dustrlals Most shares were marked up. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: ■Van otMtf Fruer Ne»re Ort. IjIO Gammon
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  • 56 11 HONO KONO Mon. PEE market currency exchange for Hong Kong dollars was quoted today as toUowj: US$l. HK1635; £1. HKBISW: <"» tael of gold HKB2M.—UP. rpHB Malayan Exchange Bank* Association announcef that the fre« market currency ex- change rate for Hong Kong dollaM U now: Sellers T.T./0.D.. 53U:
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  • 172 11 Ships Bil3 godowns last night were: I Outer Roals: Hal Hsuan. Buniatra. Van Heutsi EtUvebank, La Charent*. Cariadl. Kllwa. Mu.ng Bams. Ulysses. Stan Meifoa. KatabU. Jnner Roads- Indraglrt. Bin Hong Ho, Buloh, Hong Soon. Darvel, Klstna, Sedenak. Serdamg, Kamuning, Tong San. Merauka, NaVa^af. Kotanlca. Salon?.
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  • 509 12 Penang's Mahroum Also In Team rWFNTY SKYKN -YKAK -Ol I) l< unl in. former Singapore star forward, will be seen in action again when he leads the attack of the Combined Indonesian soccer team, who are visiting the Colony sarly next month. The Indonesians are expected
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  • 75 12 IN a friendly Rugby match played nn Raffles Institution ground' yesterday, the school team played exceedingly well to beat a Police 1 raining School XV by nine points (t/o penal'y goals and a try) to three points (a penal' y goal). T. Paul kicked
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  • 94 12 The Singapore Polo Club start- i ed a small American polo tournament at Thomson Road yesterday. Three teams are competing, and yesterday's results were: Gunners beat Mixed Grill twoone; Mixed Grill drew with Black Cats two-all: Bluck Cais arew with Gunners one-all. Th« tournament I will
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  • 193 12 /CUSTOMS held a Singapore \j Recreation Club XI to two-all draw In a game of I i hockey played on the padang yesterday. Right winger P. Neubronner opened scoring, fur SRC. with a solo effort down the wing midway through the first half. Imm°c'
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  • 359 12 THERE will be 65 racing days in 1951— the same number as the current season according to the list of racing fixtures drawn up by the Straits Racing Association at a meeting on Sunday. The Singapore Turf Club will have six three-day meetings and each
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  • 66 12 'THE Straits Racing Association decided at a meeting on Sunday that, from the next racing year, sole owners of horses will not be allowed to race under assumed names (about 170 assumed names of owners were registered by the SRA at the end of last season).
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  • 125 12 GH.Q. Signals trounced Singapore Base District by five goals to one in the i second round of the S.A.F.A. I Junior Cup competition at Tanglin yesterday. Feature of the match was a hattrick by Mills, who scored four of his side's gosls. Exerting their superiority
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  • 55 12 A. W. Balgent won the W. O. Smith Cup last Sundsy In the ExServlces Association of Singapore annual shooting competition held at the Singapore Rifle Association range at Seletar. The Bikerdyke Tankard was won by Major Grey. Ahmad bin Berjong won the Bochan Cup. and the E.S.A.S.
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  • 297 12 I*HE following tie* in the Singa--1 pore Badminton Association'sopen tournament will be played at the Clerical Union Hall this weekSATURDAY AT 1.3* p.m. Intcr-Cammerelal Houses: Shell Sports Club v Borneo Motors B.C. Tournament official. Wee Ohlm Teng; umpire, R. L. S. Manlam; referee, Willie Tan. Men* Singles
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  • 96 12 piNK GIN. only horse to score a double at the recent Singapore Gold Cup Meeting, has been promoted to Class 1 together with Spithead and Tomtoy. Spithead scored over I'« miles in Class, 2 Div 1 on Saturday while Tomtoy ran a good
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  • 232 12 Schoonbeck Hits 111 n.o. versus S.C.C. JOHOR BAHRU. Mon. TOHORE Crioket Club brought a successful season to a close on Sunday when they defeated the Singapore Cricket Club by 65 runs at Johore Bahru. A feature of the match wa« a well compiled 111 not out by Van Schoonbeck. one
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  • 369 12 Starting Bl6cks Are Vital— Dyson THE importance of using a starting block for sprints, preferably an athlete's own, was stressed by\ Geoffrey Dyson, chief coach of the British Amateur Athletic Association, in his second lecture for coaches at Victoria School yesterday. "Any Singapore atklete competing in a major meeting overseas
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  • 173 12 'PHE Bhawanipore Soccer X team of India will visit Malaya towards the end of Oct. for a series of matches. Mr. 8. R. P. Naidu. Singapore representative of tne Bhawampoi-e soccer team, said the team will probably play six matches in Singapore. He is also
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  • Article, Illustration
    36 12 GEOFFREY DYSON, chief c ach to the British j!*'- How on Hi« > -r>-r« tn demonstrate the correct position for the "bullet" st rt for sprints at his second Kciuie a. nit i<cw. •■> > yesterday. Straits Times lire.
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  • 44 12 Dato C. J. Paglar. president of the Singapore Table Tennis Association, will entertain members of the two visiting teams Wing Sun of Hong Kong and ihe All Indixr.s at a luncheon pai at his residence. Joo Chi«t Place, today.
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  • 27 12 The Colony's first batch of women swimmers to appi ar for live-saviru instruction will turn up at Mount' Emily Pool today at 5.30 p.m.
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  • 134 12 All India t.ib'.e tern;s we i itx-ir third BatcH iii > Colc.y by beating CMMM Spot ing Association by four gam*-, one at the Happy World last night* Indians were lully extended, w«h four of ihe fbe BB I reaching ihe "rubber To Veag Coon, youngest
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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    • 432 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. Cnntlntied from previous eel. WANTFII TO PURCHASE SANTONIN GUM BENSOIN Storax supplies wanted from reput.ible source of supply. Por»iird quotations Santonin per cilo. other Items per pound ReJly Box No A 503. S.T. K L TUITION AT YOUR HOME: Priva> Tuition for all standsrds by e»perieneed teachers from
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 25 12 SINGAPORE TIDES T')-)\Y: 345 J m (7f.. 6in. n-1 258 p.m. 'Bft. lin> TOMORROW: 5.3 i a.m. (6t\ 'In. 1 and 3.58 p.m. (Bft. lln.i.
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    • 41 12 SOCCER: Buslnru Hs*. A: sime Darky Borne* Motors at < V.MA; Business Use B: Cable Wireless Onthrles at BOD; Jnr. up-Ue RAPt N«« .Moon Fathal Karl* at Geyhtot aUdlwa. HOCKET: Ceylon Assn. v P.WJi. al BalosUer Eo»4; S.C.C. KhaM Aom. on iaiaiiy.
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