The Straits Times, 14 November 1950

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 184S TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1950. ir PRICE TEN CENTS
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    INSURGENTS NEAR CAPITAL
    311 1 Nepal Govt. Appeals To India For Aid RAXAUL, Monday. ADVANCE columns of Nepalese insurgents, thrusting from Birganj, today reached Amlokhganj railway terminus, about 40 miles south-west of Katmandu, capital of Nepal, according to frontline reports received here. The main body of those forces, thrusting; at night from
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    LONGEST FLIGHT JETS FOR EAST
    167 1 LONGEST FLIGHT JETS FOR EAST VAMPIRE jet-propelled lighten which are to re-equip squadrons of the Far East Air Force have left Britain for Singapore in a series of •hops'' across the world. Their 8,500-mile journey to the Colony will be the longest .ircraft c'elivery flight by any air force. Airfield*
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    20 CHARGED WITH REVOLT
    54 1 JUAN. Puerto Rico. f Twenty Puerto Rlcan ■inalists arrested after ••ecent revolt aguius Amer.can rule wvre charged v. i!i conspiracy to overthrow t!'. Governmt-nt. The minimum penalty is in pears' Imprisonment. More then 250 nationalists Communists were nrrestod nf:e r the unsuccessful risin Router. i Revolt
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    'FOR U.N.'—TITO
    40 1 'FOR U.N.'— TITO FRANKFURT. M»n.- Marthal Tito said in nn interirie published here today tiut Yugoslavia would support all majority <!eri.sions of aed Nations on Korea and v.ovid help to carry them wit. 'We are for UNO." he -,mi Reuter.
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    WORD PICTURE
    26 1 BELGRADE. Mon. The Russian Foreign Minister, Mr. Vishinsky, as seen by the per Omladina: "He U underhanded. He is a symbol of hypocrisy." -A.P,
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    BEATIFIED
    24 1 VATICAN CITY. Mon A French-born Canadian nun, Sister Margherita B< nrßooys. who became known as the Mother of Montreal was beatified today. Renter.
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    'Withdraw' Call By Tibet
    132 1 'Withdraw' Call By Tibet NEW DELHI, Mon. 'TIBET was reported tonight to have called formally on Communist China to withdraw Communist troops to the Tibetan-Chinese frontier. A Tibetan diplomatic delegation in India was said to have made the demand to the Chinese Embassy here, declaring that, unless it were met.
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    2-DAY VISIT
    36 1 General Hartemann. Com-manclor-in-Chief of the French Air Forces in the Far East, arrived at Chanpi yesterday from Saigon for a two-day informal visit to Air Marshal Sir Francis Fogarty. C-in-C Far East Air Force.
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    ACE CYCLISTS DIE
    22 1 MONTELIMAR, Mon. French cycling aces, Jean Rey and Jacques Mujics were killed l°st night In a car crash. A.P.
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    'Showdown Soon'
    120 1 SAIGON. Mon. FRENCH patrols skirmished with Vietminh Communists along a 65-mile front near the Chinese Communist border today, and a French military spokesman said a showdown battle wa* expected at any moment. Communist forces, have been Infiltrating foi weeks through the 65-mile Dinhlap-Moncay line along Colonial Route Number
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    'NO BARGAINING'
    31 1 CAIRO, Mon.— The Egyptian Prime Minister, NarVis Pasha, said here today that Egypt would not agree to "bargaining" on the evacuation of British forces from the Nile Valley. Reuter.
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    FOR REED FILM
    27 1 COLOMBO. Mon.— Carol Reed's 22-year-old Arab girl discovery, Kerima, arrived here yesterday to play the load In the film. "Outcast of the Islands." A.P.
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    FOOD FUND ENDS
    24 1 SYDNEY. Mon— The Food for Britain Fund was officially closed on Saturday after selling 5,000,000 parcels in five yean A -P-
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    SIX DIE IN FLOODED CAVE
    110 1 DIJON. (France), Mon. ONLY a young doctor survived when a sudden flood engulfed seven cave explorers 1.500 feet under the ground near Blamont, In the Jura mountains of eastern France. The doctor named Mairey, rescued last night after members of a French Army engineering detachment
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    NEW DUTY: BIG K.L. MEETING
    155 1 A COMBINED meeting of all rubber interests in Malaya will be held in Kuala Lumpur on Friday to protest against the imposition of higher export duty on rubber to take effect in January. The meeting will have representatives of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber
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    'DANGEROUS'
    51 1 LONDON, Man.— Mr. Konni Zilliacus, former Labour M.P., today declared that he believed Britain's alliance with America was "dangerous and wrong." "But I am not prepared to accept the proposition that the only alternative to being run by the Americans is to be run by the Russians" he added.—
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    BOY'S BODY FOUND: MOTHER FAINTS
    100 1 A MOTHER, whose son was washed away from Rochore Canal during a storm on Sunday afternoon, collapsed yesterday evening when the Marine Police asked her to identify the body The mother. Foo Teck Jo»g, aged 40, of Dunlop Road, was taken to the General Hospital
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    SERVICE AGAIN
    15 1 TOKYO, Mon. The telegraph service between Japan and Korea has been restored. Reuter-AAP.
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    17 1 TUNGKU MIRIAM in the arms of her father, the Sultan of Johore. in London. Hay Wrightson picture.
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    House Allowance For Local Staff
    152 1 THE three Services will, with effect from July 1, 1950, award a housing allowance to the locallyengaged civilian staff and employees in Singapore and Malaya who are not occupying official quarters. The allowance will be similar to that given by the Singapore and Malayan Governments
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    NEW TREMORS IN ASSAM
    44 1 DIBRUGARH, Upper Assam, Mon. Two successive earthquake tremors of great intensity, after a break of a fortnight, were felt here early this morning. The first one lasted ten minutes. No damage has been reported so far from any area. Reuter.
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    To Visit Hiroshima
    17 1 TOKYO, Mon.— Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt will shortly visit the atom-bombed city of Hiroshima.— Reuter.
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    RUSSIANS SPEED BATTLE FLEET
    56 1 LONDON. Mon. A LEADING British naval authority reports that Russia is constructing with all possible haste a "balanced" navy, which includes not only an enormous fleet of submarines, but four battleships. Two battleships of about 35.000 tons each have been completed within the last year and
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    Baby Born After Accident
    79 1 Baby Born After Accident 4 2- year-old Chinese woman, injured in an accident, fare birth to a baby boy in an ambulance yesterday. Lim Ah Kee, of Upper Serangoon Road, was slightly injured when her taxi collided with a lorry at the Serangoon Road-Lavender Street junction at 6 p.m. yesterday.
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    Judge Asks: Is It War?
    126 1 SYDNEY, Mon. JUDGE F. W. Berne, in the New South Wales Appeals Court, today asked the Federal Government whether Australia was at war in Korea and Malaya. He was hearing an appeal by William Fardon Burns, publisher of the Sydney Communist newspaper Tribune, against a
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    SHIPS CRASH
    27 1 LONDON, Mon— The 6.979ton Italian steamer Noree was heavily damaged in a collision with an unidentified tanker yesterday In the Gulf of St. Lawrence.— Reuter.
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    GETTING WORSE
    21 1 WELLINGTON, Mon.— The condition of Mr. Fraser, New Zealand's Labour Opposition Leader, was reported today to be "intermittently deteriorating."—Reuter.
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    4 DIE IN CRASH
    24 1 GREENVILLE, South Carolina, Mon. A military airplane was reported to have crashed east of Greenville today, killing four people. UJ.
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    REDS BUILDING UP DEFENCES NEAR BORDER
    299 1 FIRST U.S. CORPS IN KOREA, Monday. T S. First Cavalry elements advanced one and a miles today and sent patrols to the outskirts of the walled city of Yongbyon without contact with the enemy. American main forces were outside Yongbyon. The Communists, estimated now
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    ADMINISTRATOR MURDERED
    34 1 JAKARTA, Mon.— The oldest administrator of Pamanukan and Tijiasem Estates, a 58-year-old Dutchman, Graham Adrianl, has been murdered by rubber thieves at his residence near Subang, West Java, on Saturday night. Reuter-A.A.P.
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    Hope For Missing Tug-Given Up
    154 1 Hope For Missing TugGiven Up JJOPE has been abanciom-1 for the tug which hat been missing in the Soulii China Sea near Honburgb Light, 38 miles south-east of Singapore, since Saturday afternoon, an official of the Master Attendant's office said yesterday. He added that his oflirj had received an official
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    LATE NEWS
    44 1 PARIS. Mon. Possible ways of merging the British fight in Malaya against Communist terrorists and the French fight in IndoChina into a common war against Communism were discussed in Paris today by Mr. Malcolm MaeDeoaid with high British and French officials.— A.P.
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      Irish In Korea Want Potatoes & Liquor
      261 2 Irish In Korea Want Potatoes Liquor THE Royal Ulster Rifles, now in an anti-guerilla role north of Seoul, are feeling the shortage of potatoes. They want a special "spud ship" sent to Korea with the weight made up of Irish whisky and Guiness stout. The ration issue of dehydrated potatoes
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      QUIRINO TO SIGN
      53 2 MANILA, Mon.— President Quirino is expected to sign a draft agreement this week on U.S. economic aid for the Philippines. He will meet ECA administrator, Mr. William C. Foster, at Baguio. a mountain resort north of Manila, to discuss final details of the Bell Mission's $250 million
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      TO MEET MacA
      41 2 WASHINGTON, Mon.—Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Francis P. Matthews, leaves here on Sunday on a 20-day inspection tour of the Pacific and Far East. He will confer with General Mac Arthur and inspect the Korean battle areas.— UP.
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      AUSTRALIAN VISIT
      20 2 DR GEOFFREY FISHER at Ballarat on the first visit of an Archbishop of Canterbury to Australia, AJP. picture.
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      FOOD AND WATER
      24 2 GOA, Portuguese India, Mon. Two canals being built here will irrigate 2,500 acres of land, producing 10,000 ions more rice. A.P.
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      HERO TARZAN
      23 2 RANGOON, Mon. Burmas 10,000,000-a-year cinema audiences prefer American films, says a trade Journal. Hardriding cowboys and Tarzan are most popular.— A.P.
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    DOCTOR ON KIDNAPPING CHARGE
    83 2 SANTA FE, New Mexico, Sundry. A r-RoAiiNfcNT Santa Fe physician is being held by the FBI on a kidnapping charge. Dr. Nancy Campbell, 53- obstetrician, was arrested last night as she reached for ransom money at the rate of the Allen Slarnm estate, on the outskirts
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    EUROPE MUST BE HELPED AFTER M-AID, TRUMAN TOLD
    303 3 EUROPE MUST BE HELPED AFTER M-AID, TRUMAN TOLD WASHINGTON, Monday. THE Hatted States should go on aiding Europe for at least 18 months after Marshall Aid ends in 1952. President Truman has been advised. In a report submitted today, the President's chief adviser on post-Marshall Aid economic policy, Mr Gordon
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    Direct Talks With Mao Plan
    134 3 Direct Talks With Mao Plan LAKE SUCCESS. Mon. \r;i I.LING Chinese Oominterference in X •I'tiwarranted f>nd :uv." Australia's Mr j PllmcoU flew to :hr y yesterday for what J es ill he direct ri9gOU with Red leaders en t. Lion Plimsoll, a member of tt Dnited Nations i i rean
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    UN To Study Middle East
    81 3 3U< CESS, Mon. r j ed Nations Sec irlty jcU will today exh ning i tuatlon. 1 Hashemlte Kingdom < n has charged [srael lons of the armist greements set up two aid Israel hi ret .--s charged the Arab i with establishing a b
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    FLOODS IN FRANCE
    44 3 LYONS. Mon. Police were planning to vacuate about 1.200 people from flood -threatened areas In the suburbs of Lyons last night. After almost continuous rainfall during the past 24 hours the river Rhone was rising about four inches an hour.— Reuter.
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    KING FAROUK ACCEPTS C-IN-C's RESIGNATION
    140 3 KING FAROUK A CCEPTS C-IN-C's RESIGNATION CAIRO, Monday. J7ING Farouk yesterday accepted the resignation IV of the Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces, General Mohammed Haidar Pasha, as the Government's investigation into alleged army embezzlement reached if- climax. Reliable sources sain that i General Osman El Mahdi Pasha. Chief-of-Staff. would
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    HUKS HIT HARD AT WEEKEND
    103 3 MANILA Mon. UUKBALAHAP guerillas suffered heavy casualties in weekend skirmishes with Government troops. A Philippine Army pa'.rol yesterday routed guerillas i'rom a stronghold near Santa Rosa. Nueva Ecija Province, reportedly killing several. The troops razed Huk barracks and captured .xrms and medicines. Te.i Huks. trapped
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    GOLDEN EGGS
    28 3 BELGRADE. Mon.— lt is the hen which is laying the golden eggs in Yugoslavia these Says. A single egg sells for the equivalent to $1.62.— A.P.
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    'PREFERENCE CHOULD STOP'
    82 3 WA^iI.'NOTON. Mon President Truman's foreign economic adviser recommended yesterday that the United States negotiate with other governments to end preferential assignment of cargoes to shioping lines under their own flag. A foreign economic rcoort made to the President by a former Army Secretary Mr. Gordon Gray, argued
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    SERETSE 'PLANS TO BE CHIEF AGAIN'
    93 3 PR2TORIA. Mon. QERETSE Khama and his uncle. Tshekedi, agreed in August to renounce their own and their children's rights to the chieftaincy of the Bcmangwato tribe in Bechuanaland, said Tshekedi today. He released a document on this because, he said Seretse was trying to
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    PISTOL PACKER
    22 3 POLICEWOMAN in Puerto Rico holds a gun on women after round-up of susperted nationalists following an abortive revolt. A.P. picture.
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    China Promises Tibet Autonomy
    196 3 BERLIN, Monday. pOMMUNIST China yesterday promised "auto- nomy'* to Tibet, the Soviet-licensed news agency, ADN. reported. I In a Peking dispatch, the agency quoted a sweeping proclamation by the Chinese invasion commanders. apparently intended to sap Tibetan resistance The proclamation said: "Officials of the Tibetan Government
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    U.S. 'MUST TRUST ASIA'
    138 3 CHICAGO, Mon. Mr. B. Shiva Rao, an Indian delegate to the United Nations, told the International Women's League of Peace in Chicago last night that in order to reduce the threat to world peace it was essential for the Uni r ed States to understand the
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    2 DIE IN CRASH
    37 3 RIO DE JANEIRO. Mon.— Two people were killed and nearly 30 injured in a train crash today near Vespasiano in southern Brazil. Some of the injured were r" ported in a serious condition.—Reuter.
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    DEATHS IN RIVER
    20 3 PRESTON, Lane. Mon. A landslide swept two fishermen to their deaths in the river Ribble yesterday. Reuter.
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    GERMAN PLAN FOR ARMS REJECTED
    86 3 BONN, Mon. AMERICAN, British and French authorities have turned down a proposal from the Security Office of the West German Government to allow German manufacture of automatic weapons, mortars and other arms. The suggestion was submitted by former Wehrmacht Lieutenant General Gerhard Count Schwering. When
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    'Peace Congress' Want A Warsaw 'Special
    305 3 'Peace Congress Want A Warsaw 'Special LONDON, Mon. OFFICIALS of the World Peace Congress are planning to transport delegates across Europe by special train to Warsaw now that their Sheffield congress has been abandoned because Britain would not allow in most of the delegates. But the visa difficulties which kept
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    Birthday Cake For Passengers
    162 4 4 BIRTHDAY cake, which will be served to passengers flying between Calcutta and Singapore on Thursday afternoon u> mark the 30th anniversary of Qantas Empire Airways was presented in Singapore yesterday to Captain A. J. Myers, the commander of the QEA Constellation which leaves today for
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    Police Chief's 60-m. Trek To See Home Guards
    312 4 From Our Special Correspondent KOTA BAHRU, Monday. THE Commissioner of Police of the Federation, Mr. W. N. Gray, travelled by plane, jeep and on foot to one of the most inaccessible parts of Malaya at the week-end to congratulate and reward the
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    SULTAN AT DANCE
    21 4 THE SULTAN of Setangor watching: the Poppy Day dance at the Selangor! Club. Kuala Lumpur. iWong Studio picture.
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    MANSOOR MAKING PROGRESS
    110 4 MANSOOR MAKING PROGRESS TNCHE Mansoor Adabi, the Malay schoolteacher husband of 13-year-old Dutch girl Maria Hertogh, who was injured in a motor-cycle accident on Sunday night, hopes to be able to leave hospital in time for the hearing of the suit brought by Maria's parents to regain custody of the
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    TO SUCCEED DR SELWYN-CLARKE
    41 4 Dr. Percy Selwyn-Clarke, formerly Chief Health Officer in the F.M.S., is to be succeeded as Governor and Commander-in-Chlef of the Seychelles Islands by Mr. Frederick Crawford, Director of Development in Northern Rhodesia. Dr. Selwyn-Clarke retired In August.
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    TERM EXTENDED
    39 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA. LUMPUR, Mon. Inche Mohamed Din bin Haji Mohamed Arlff, J. P., will be a temporary Unofficial Member of the Federal Legislative Council for a further period from Oct. 13 until Jan. 31.
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    OVERLOADED: $50
    37 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. For carrying an excess weight of six cwt. of timber, Hang Tang Cheng, the owner of a lorry, was fined $50 in the Johore Bahru Police Court today.
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    $2 For Missing Prayers
    71 4 From Our Malay Correspondent (~INE hundred and thirtyMico Malayans from various kampongs in Kuala Pilah, Negri Sembilan, ivere each fined $2 by the Kathi's Court in the district for absenting themselves from the Friday congregation prayers recently, Vtusan Melayu reports. The paper reports that for the
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    Permuda Plans Lottery
    64 4 KUALA TRENGGANU. Mon. r PHE Perikatan Permuda 1 of the United Malays National Organisation here, has decided to organise a lottery which tcill function on similar lines to lotteries note being held by the Malayan Chinese Association. A permanent committee has been elected to dr.tjt by-laws. The
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    ACID THROWN AT TEACHER ON CYCLE
    129 4 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Monday. A PAIR of spectacles he was wearing saved Mr. Waung Yong Nian. headmaster of Malaya's biggest Chinese school, the Chung Ling, from being blinded by acid. i Mr. Waung was cycling along a path in Hai Keat Estate,
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    Report On ECAFE Talks
    88 4 A LONG-TERM policy of coordination and co-oper-ation was adopted at the recent ECAFE conference on inland transport held in Bangkok, Mr. E. A. Gardiner, Director of Public Works, Singapore, said yesterday. Mr. Gardiner was one of two delegates who attended the conference as delegate for Singapore,
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    4 DIE IN PERAK RIVER TRAGEDY
    187 4 4 DIE IN PERAK RIVER TRAGEDY From Our Own Correspondent TELUK ANSON. Mon. T»HE second boat tragedy x within five days in Lower Perak occurred yesterday when a passenger motor boat capsized near Utan Melintang and four Malays were drowned. The boat was carrying 12 passengers and the helmsman from
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    'Connie' Tyre Ripped
    88 4 'J'HE pierced steel mesh runway at Kalian^ airport yesterday ripped two chunks out of one of the rubber landing wheels of a X.L.M. Constellation which arrived from Jakarta en route to Amsterdam. Ground engineers who inspected the aircraft oa arrival discovered the damage. The thick rubber tread
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    SPEEDING: $30
    30 4 Frcm Our Own Cont-pondent JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Leong Seng Aik, of Singapore, caught speeding on the Scudai road, was fined $30 in the Jojiore Bahru Police Couri today.
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    S.-E. Asia Youth May Meet Here
    100 4 S.-E. Asia Youth May Meet Here gINGAPORE may be the venue of a regional meeting of South-East Asia National Committees of the World Assembly of Youth. This suggestion, made at a meeting of. the World Assembly ot Youth in Istanbul, will be considered by the Singapore Youth Council Committee on
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    $89 FOR WORKER
    40 4 Kiom Our Own (.orrr.spondent MUAR. Mon. Maruthai. employed at Melville Estate. Labis, cut his fingers while doing slashing work in September this year. He has been awarded $89 compensation by the Commissioner for Workmen's Compensation. North Johore.
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    BANDITS KILL POLICEMAN
    173 4 Frjm Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A POLICE constable was shot and killed by bandits in Negri Sembllan yesterday. One bandit i«s believed to have been wounded during an engagement in the same State. Food and clothing were recovered L.st night bandit* burned a r umber
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    BOY (15) HELPED TO KILL 2 IN ANT-HILL AMBUSH
    403 5 From Our Special Correspondent KOTA BAHRU, Monday. FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Mahomed bin Dris, a Home Guard of Kampong Kalai, Kelantan, told me this weekend how he, his two brothers and his father helped to kill two bandits in what the villagers of Kampong
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    MUSLIMS TO CONFER IN S'PORE
    160 5 From Our Malay Correspondent THE Indonesian Muslim Party (Masjoemi). the most powerful political organisation in Indonesia, has decided to send a delegation to the forthcoming South-East Asia Religious Conference in Singapore, it Is reported from Jakarta. Thp conference, sponsored by the All-Malaya Muslim Missionary Society,
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    VICTORY SAVINGS
    24 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The sale of Victory Savings Certificates up to the end of October amounted to $936,246.
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    Singapore Diary
    137 5 LADIES' WORK PARTY Monthly meeting. Presbyterian Church Hall, Orchard Road, at 10 a.m. V. M.C A.: Tennis tournament 5 p.m.; Commercial classes 5.30 p.m.; Billiards tournament 6 p.m.; Beginners' gym class 6 p.m.; Tabletennis tournament 7 p.m.; Week of Prayei meeting 8 p.m.; V's Men's club dinner 9
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    WRONG SMELL
    32 5 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. For selling durlans when his only licence was to sell fish, Lim Jo n Fatt. of Kulai. was fined $13 at Johore Bahru.
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    26 5 MR. CHAN Van? Pun and .Miss Won? who won the Selangor novices' dance championship at the Rainbow Cabaret, Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday. C F. Larru picture.
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    CHINESE BUS DRIVER COMMENDED BY OAG
    100 5 i row Our SUff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A Chinese driver, who was severely wounded when his bus was ambushed at Batang Malaka in Malacca on Sept. 28, but drove his vehicle to safety, has received a Letter of Commendation from the Officer Administering
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    Accidental Bombing Protest
    113 5 Accidental Bombing Protest From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. 'THE Selangor branch of the Malayan Chinese Association will protest to the Government against the accidental Doming by the RAF. of the latex collecting shed on Utan Simpang Estate In which 12 labourers were killed and 20 injured, an MCA.
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    $20 FOR ABSENCE
    38 5 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Abdul Hamid, police supervisee, who failed to report at a police station, was fined $20 here today. He was made a police supervisee by a Kelantan court order.
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    'Attap Houses Can Ease Crowding'
    121 5 /"'HEAP "sub-standard" houses, such as of attap, v should be built to ease overcrowding and insanitary housing conditions in Singapore, suggests the Technical Working Party appointed by the Municipal Commissioners to revise building by-laws The Working Party considers the need urgent and is j against
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    Candidates On The Air
    97 5 SPRESENTATTVES of the Progressive and Labour 'Tti»s in Singapore will make iCction broadcasts in the ext few weeks. The acting president of the 1 lunicipal Commission, Mr. T. F. McNieee, will broadcast cOday m "What a CommisCan Do" to Inaugurate the broadcast series. On Nov. 17
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    HAD CHANDU
    29 5 JOHORh BAHRU, Mon Chew Mul Kirn, of Kong Kong Estate, Masai, was bound over for 15 months h«r« today for possession of an opium pipe and chandu.
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    MARRIED AT KATONG
    33 5 MR GERALD JALLEH and Miss Josephine Rufus after their wedding at Katong Convent Church, Singapore. The bridegroom is attached to the R.A.F., Seletar, and the bride works for Shell Aviation.
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    Asked To Share $1200, Court Told
    328 5 vyOON Tham Cheng, a young Kuala Lumpur businessman, yesterday told the Singapore Fourth Police Court Magistrate, Mr. P. Claque, that Tan Kok Teng, a former business partner, who had been entrusted with $1,200, had offered him half the money provided he signed a receipt.
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    DEATH AFTER A PARTY
    46 5 Mr. Tan Miang Chiang, aged 52. of Ipoh Road, Singapore, who collapsed while entertaining friends at the Hoe Kee Club, Keong Siak Street, died shortly after admission to thr General Hospital. Mr. Tan was on the staff oi the Standard-Vacuum Oil Co.
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    DEATHS
    55 6 COR DWELL V. H. M., LleuUn.int P.N., R.N.A.S., tilled whilst on flying duties. Malta. 11.10 50. TAN MIANO CHIANG passed t <ifi!lly on 12.11.50, leaving behind his beloved wife, 1 son <Tan Nt'lap Chiani, 1 daughter-Jn-l;iw A- 2 grandchildren to mourn his lo>s-. Funeral on Saturday ■M Mini 18.11.50.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., Nov. 14, 1950. Shaking The Tree
    760 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., Nov. 14, 1950. Shaking The Tree The Federal Government's intention to appoint almost at once a committee to consider modifications in the proposed mechanics of applying the export duty on rubber should not be mistaken for official surrender to criticism of the new duty. When
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    Obituary E.V. FOWLER
    438 6 Obituary E.V. FOWLER V\fHEN Ted Fowler retired as head of Singapore's Criminal Investigation Department in March of this year, countless people in this city felt that they were losing not only a brilliant detective officer but a friend. "Big Ted" was then still at the peak of his career, but
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    Out Of A Rubbish Dump
    513 6  -  GERALDINE HORTON By HTHE story of Keppel A Harbour Children's Centre, Singapore, started at the beginning of 1948, under a cherry tree on the site of a garbage heap. There were 33 children, whose ages ranged from two to 14 years, and whose mode of
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      Selangor Schools: "Disgraceful"
      358 6 IT is heartening news that Dato Onn is to lead a new group in the Federal Legislative Council. I should like to bring to his notice the disgraceful state of affairs where education in Selangor is con- cerned. On the average, about 200 boys only can be
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      QUESTIONS IN PENANG
      164 6 IT is high time the Government stopped wavering and blundering through the years. Here are a few questions which many taxpayers would like answered INCOME TAX Compare the number of car-owners in Malaya with the number of taxpayers. Surely every owner of a car should pay income
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      THREE-MONTH WINDFALL
      105 6 CEVERAL months ago, Goveminent pensioners were given hopes of a revision of their pensions, Including payment of arrears, which could most certainly alleviate their precarious condition. These hopes received some sort of confirmation when the pensioners received an advance payment of three months' basic pension. They anticipated a
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      NARAYANAN: A WORKER'S VIEW
      232 6 NARAYANAN: A WORKER'S VIEW TT is high time that your correspondent "N o t Starved" (whose letter was published on Nov. 9) knew Mr. P. P. Narayanan, the secretary of the Negri Sembilan Plantation W o r k c r s' Union and chairman of the Rubber Estate Work c
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      FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
      105 6 'THERE is a church in Singapore which tolls its bell daily at an unearthly hour, thereby creating a full-scale disturbance, particularly to sleeping children and invalids. I air my complaint through the Straits Times in the hope of producing in our innocent bell-man a better
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    On the Margin
    418 6 On the Margin Bygone Klang gINCE writing about thf Ceylon House-crow in Klang I have talked with the son of the man who first introduced this bird into Malaya. This was Dr. Foenander, who was seconded from tha Ceylon Medical Service in 1881 to open the first Government nospital in
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    10 S'PORE POLIO CASES IN 13 DAYS
    159 7 10 S'PORE POLIO CASES IN 13 DAYS SINGAPORE'S health stalT are taking precautions to combat the spread of poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) in the Colony. Ten cases have been reported this month. This brings the total since January to 32. There were 12 cases In October, and two deaths. The Senior
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    'Bill Against Muslim Law'
    89 7 'THE Singapore Muslim Council ot Religious Authorities yesterday held a .special meeting to discuss Mr. John Laycocks Marriage A;re Bill, now under consideration by a Select Committee. The meetinp:. which was presided over by the Singapore Chief Kathi. Tuan Haji AH. unanimously decided that the Bill,
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    FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 'REGRETS ERROR'
    1284 7 Mr. Tan Kee Gak Gets Apology For Detention Prom Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Monday. "QOVERNMENT greatly regrets the mistake which has been made and the anxiety and damages which it has caused. In the circumstances, it has made an offer to pay a substantial sum to
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    Clerk Is Acquitted After 'Confession'
    192 7 STATING that he was not satisfied with the prosecution case, the Singapore First District Judge, Mr. H. E. Kingdon, yesterday, acquitted Yeo Siang Lim, a clerk, on two charges of criminal breach of trust of $14,266, belonging to the Balim Estate, Jurong Road. Yeo was
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    Malay Plea On Houses
    105 7 •THE Singapore Malay Wel- fare Counci!, at a meeting presided over by Tuan Sidik bin Haji Abdul Hamid, yesterday decided to approach the Municipal authorities to prevent action being taken against unauthorised houses in Kampong Wak Tanjong. Twenty-eight Malay families in the Kampong Wak Tanjong Estate
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    ACCUSED OF CHEATING
    61 7 Alleged to have falsely represented that he was an agent of Malayan Constructions and dishonestly induced Lee Hunnie to deliver $1,600 on three occasions for an agreement that he was able to build a house. Chia Eng Hoe, of Tiong Bahru, claimed trial in the Singapore Third
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    GODOWN GUARDS READY
    219 7 GODOWN GUARDS READY Special Police Will Guard Godowns ONE hundred young men, aged from 18 to 25, passed out of the Police Training School yesterday after 24 days' intensive training to become the Colony's first an-ti-sabotage Godown Guards. The men, armed with shotguns, will report for work tomorrow, with commercial
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    IMMORALITY CHARGE
    54 7 Two women, Scow Ah Eng and Lum Kwai Kum, pleaded guilty in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to a charge of soliciting for immoral purposes at the junction of Queen Street and Bras Basah Road. The case was postponed until Nov. 20 for sentence and bail of
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    FAREWELL PARTY
    43 7 Mr. Henry Basten, Chairman of the Singapore Harbour Board, and Mr. A. J. Wilson, Deputy Personnel and Welfare Manager, who are both retiring soon, were entertuined by the Sandiwara and Cinema section of ttie S.H.B. Recreation Club at Keppel Road yesterday.
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    'IF ANY FRIENDS GET DRUNK....'
    63 7 WHEN JOHN HERNES, a youngs European seaman, was fined S8 in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday for being drunk and disorderly, he beckoned to a colleague. The Magistrate. Mr. D. A. Fyfe. told He rues' friend: "If any of your friends get drunk in
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    BEAT DOG TO DEATH, FINED $50
    123 7 A 39-YEAR-OLD Chinese merchant. Fong Lim Kee, of Paya Lebar who killed a dog with a stick, was fined $50 in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday. Yong was stated to have killed the dog at Jalan Tai Seng. Yong, who claimed trial, said
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    ART SHOW
    52 7 Mr. Yong Mun Seng, the Penang artist, will hold an art exhibition at the Victoria Theatre and Memorial Hall tomorrow and Thursday. The exhibition will be opened by Lady Harding at 5.30 this evening. Mr. Yong will donate 20 per cent of the proceeds to the Singapore Poppy
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    SENT TO PRISON
    49 7 Hussien bin Haji Mohamed, aged 20, yesterday was sentenced to one month's and one day's rigorous imprisonment in the Singapore Fourth Police Court for dishonestly inducing Tong Teng Hoon to deliver $250 on two occasions on a pretence that he was able to sell some rubber.
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    Singapore Nursing Status Is To Be Improved
    397 7 DEGULATIONS which put Singapore nursing on a modern professional basis came into force yesterday, when they were gazetted. They provide for the establishment of a Nursing Board, one of whose first steps it is understood, will be to ob tain recognition of the
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    'RAIN BLURRED CARD'—$l
    38 7 'RAIN BLURRED CARD'— $l Fifteen-year-old Liew Chin Yong was fined $1 in the Singapore First District Court yesterday for defacing his identity card. Liew, said that as the card entries were blurred by rain he had been rewritten.
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    GAVE PRESENTS TO A.S.P.—YEAR'S GAOL
    162 7 GAVE PRESENTS TO A.S.P.— YEAR'S GAOL uO Ah Kow, a 22-year-old building sub-contractor, A was yesterday sentenced by the Singapore Second District Court Judge, Mr, Tan Ah Tah, to one year's imprisonment on each of three charges of bribing a police officer. The sentences will run concurrently Mr. D. G.
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    First Cruise Of M.N.F.
    65 7 First Cruise Of M.N.F. THE Malayan Naval Force began its first training cruise yesterday when a detachment of 40 recruits under three officers left the Naval Base for the west coast of Malaya. The object of the cruise is to enable the ratings to put into practice the theory they
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    Dearer Rubber Brings Crisis
    152 7 Dearer Rubber Brings Crisis A NUMBER of small manufacturers of! rubber goods in Malaya face a crisis because of the rise in rubber prices and dearer canvas and chemicals. From last Saturday they have added another 20 cents to their goods in Singapore and the Federation. A representative of a
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    $65 STOLEN IN CHURCH
    72 7 While Evelyn Mary Vlyatl was arranging flowers at tinaltar of Tanglin Garrison Church $65.50 disappeared from her handbag in the vestry. At Singapore Third Police Court yesterday Matjarom bin Haji Sari, aged 20. was sent to prison for a month for stealing the money. Inspector M.
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    IMPROVING
    35 7 Mr. Tan Ah Choi, an exdetective of the Singapore C.I.D. who was shot and wounded by an unknown Chinese gunman in Robinsoi Road early on Saturchv morning, was last rpght reported to be improving.
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      31 7 Boy (12) Didn't Come Back A 12- YEAR-OLD Chines* boy, Ton* Ah Kiat, residing at Tanjong; PUffsr RoM, VW last nifht reported mUring He was last teen early hi t£e morning'.
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    POLICE OFFICER BOUND OVER
    220 8 POLICE OFFICER BOUND OVER From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Mon. A 24- YEAR-OLD police lieutenant, W. C. Mugford, who said he "had a liking for old Austins", was today convicted in the Ipoh Magistrate's Court on a charge of theft of an Austin car belonging to a Chinese at Yau
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    FINED $10
    31 8 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Chop Heap Moh, of Singapore, who used a motor vehicle in a mechanically unsound condition in Johore was fined $10 here today.
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    6 PLANES ARRIVE
    34 8 A CRATE containing part of an RAF. aircraft, one of six unloaded from the Blue Funnel freighter Promrtheus yestenlay«l>eins lifted on to a trolley at Singapore docks yesterday.— Straits Times picture.
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    Tenders Soon For Gandhi Memorial
    182 8 TENDERS will be sought soon for the construction of the Gandhi Memorial Building in Singapore, the chairman of the Gandhi Memorial Fund Committee, Mr. R. Jumabhoy, announced yesterday. Mr. Jumabhoy said that the final plans for the building were before the Municipal Commissioners and as
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    Donations To University Of Malaya
    218 8 T»HE University of Malaya Endowment Fund at the end of last week had reached a total of $3,680,849. In addition to monthly subscriptions received from regular donors to the Endowment Fund in various parts of the Federation and Singapore during the week ended Nov. 4.
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    Estate Union Seek 50 p.c. Cost Of Living
    220 8 Estate Union Seek 50 p.c. Cost Of Living Frojn Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Mon. AN emergency meeting of the Negri Sembilan Estate Asian Staff Union decided last night to press for a cost of living allowance of 50 per cent of basic salary and i parity with Government employees. These
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    OIL FIELD MEN NEEDED
    96 8 Cable and Wireless and Shell Company in Singapore have asked the Labour Department's Employment Exchange to find them skilled artisans for work in the Cocos Islands and the New Guinea oil fields respectively. The Exchange has not been successful yet but last month it helped another
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    SITIAWAN POST
    41 8 From Our Own Correspondent SITIAWAN, Mon. Mr. S. N. Nalliah, a clerk of the Central Electricity Board, has been transferred to Taiping where he is attached to the Health Office. Mr. Chong Lip Luck has succeeded him at Sitiawan.
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    TRADERS TOLD: PLAY GAME ON HOURS
    129 8 PINGAPORE shopkeepers who w force employees to work longer hours on working days to make up for their weekly compulsory holiday were warned yesterday that they were adopting a shortsighted policy." Mr. C. C. Tan, chairman of the Progressive Party, which played a major
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    'Americans are landing tomorrow'
    1911 9  - Americans are landing tomorrow' WINSTON S. CHURCHILL By mmmktmMmmmmmmmiß^amKmmmmaLßM pOR the all-Ame-rican landing in Morocco there was hope of active local support. Gen. Bethouart the French Commander at Casablanca, had fought at Narvik. He was zealous against the Germans. At a late stage he had been brought into the secret,
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      246 9 SINGAPORE Trcz Amigos from Malacca"; Gentlemen, Please"; 10 30 "Serr- "*5 Radio Doctor; 8 Popular nade"; 11 Close. 10 a.m. News Emergency News Classics (Mendelssohn Tchalkofrom XL. 10.10 Close; 10-50 wsky, Easdals); 8.30 As Spore- BFBBS Schools; 12 Malay; 1 p.m. Radio 9 Tommy Handley In "ITMA"; Orcn.; 130 News;
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    SHE'S HYPNOTIC
    117 10 LOOKING straight at you are the alluring eyes of Columbia star, Joan < aulfield. They have been included m a list of the most hypnotic eyes m the United States, compiled by the Hypnotists' Institute of America. Joan's deepblue eyes will be available for close study shortly m
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    A Gift To Remember
    53 10 A Gift To Remember HOWEVER late the hour, there'll be no more fumbling: for that elusive door- key, and there'll be no excuse for forgetting it now that Swiss craftsmen have i produced this wonderful in- novation a 14 carat key- ring watch. The key blank (inset) is concealed m
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    THE GUARDSMAN
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    BABY'S NAME? CHOOSE WISELY
    343 10  -  Joan Herbert pHOOSiNCi a name for a new member ol *he family is an exCiting yet serious busl- here are so many factors to consider, may quite easily Influence the childs whole life. it may be necessary nslder family names. v if there is any n
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    Advice for travelling
    471 10  -  NURSE JANET MOTHERCRAFT IN MALAYA By TO most people living A in Malaya, at some period or other, comes the day when the family has to pack baggage and move camp. Whether by train, car, or ship, whether to India. Australia, America, or the United Kingdom, it
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    Do they have top teeth?
    252 10 Do they have top teeth? ESTATE BUNGALOW I ASKED the gardener if water buffalo have any top teeth! He said they had not and other Malays confirmed this. I don't suppose many Europeans get a chance to look in a water buffalo's mouth I shouldn't like to. They seem very
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    Bonny Boy
    34 10 Laurence Bracewell, aged eight months, son of Mrs. E. Bracewell. of Pulau Brani plays in his bath with a toy fish He wins S5 for being the bonniest baby of the week.
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      414 10 A* far as the children could move. The stuff wears off alter see there were row§ and rows of a while, but by that time we little men lined up. They were have disarmed them." dressed In some shniinr. material 'The trouble la though," went and some of them carried
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    LONDON STOCKS
    337 11 LONDON, Mon. JAPANESE bonds soared on the London Stock Exchange today. Advances of one to three points followed news of the listing of 15 Japanese loans on the New York Stock Exchange and were generally well held in a moderate turnover. Malayan rubbers inclined lower while tins were
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    RUBBER MARKET
    236 11 Price Drops Eight Cents To $2.10 A Lb. DUSINESS was done in first-grade November rubber in Singapore yesterday at prices down to $2.10 a lb., eight cents below Saturday's closing price. The drop, caused mainly by lack of support, took place towards the close. The market opened yesterday
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    RUBBER CROPS
    61 11 UARRISONS Crosflaid (Malaya) announce the following October rubber crops. In lbs.: AUenby 41,500 BentaEst. 115,000 Jeram Kuantan Est. C 6.000 Kundong Est. 36,000 Mentakab 103,700 Sungei Bagan 134,000 Sandycroft 22,200 Tanjong Pau Est, 58,000 QTHER October rubber crops, in v lbs., are announced as follows: Ayer Molek 36,000
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    TIN: $525 A PICUL
    36 11 SINGAPORE, Mon., Nov. 13— 5525 (up $18.50). £1,082 Vi a ton in London LONDON. Mon. .Nov. 13.— Spot £I,oBo— £1,085; Forward £1,045— 51,050; Settlement £1,110 (a.m.) Turnovers: a.m. 140; p.m. 60 ton?.
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    The Produce Market
    154 11 From A Market Correspondent rpHE ,;oconut oil section of the Singaoore produce market was firmer yesterday although there was still no evidence of buying interest. Millers quoted $76 a picul. Capro was firm but quiet with sellers asking $45 i a picul. Buyers withheld at around the
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    Ships In The Roads And Alongside
    190 11 SHIPS in the Singapore Roads and alongside the Singapore Harbour Beard godowns yesterday were Outer Roads: Hai Hs»;an. Star Betelgeuse Oregon Mail, Luxmi, Mvi Nam, Saint Gregory. Baut, Xv ai Yang. Choy Sang, Hai Heng, Nimaris. Chas. Macleod. Komton, Paul Gosseny, Lombok, Ophir, Fred.
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    Malayan Shares
    250 11 Tins And Rubbers Ease Slightly from A Market I urrcsDondcnl •T^HE Tin and Rubber sections A of the Malayan share market yesterday were inclined to be slightly easier with the exception of one or two Tin companies. Industrials continued firm. Price changes announced by thr Malayan Sharebrokers' Association
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    S. BAGAN RUBBER ACCOUNTS
    97 11 From A Market Correspondent SDNOEI Bagan Rubber's accounts for the year to June 30. 1950, show a profit of $278,528 (37.6 per cent.) and a final dividend of 15 per cent, is proposed, making 25 per cent., against 15 per cent, for the previous year. Net
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    Canadian Dollars
    32 11 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association announced yesterday that control direct rate for Canadian dollars were: Buying, T.T. 34\, Airmail (0.D.) 34 I j, i9O days) 34*1; Selling T.T./OX). ready 34.
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    SID FLETCHER v BOY BROOKS
    86 12 SINGAPORE boxing; promoter, Walry Oakes has cabled Leichardt Stadium, Sydney, asking for official confirmation that Sid Fletcher, Australian welterweight, who arrived on Sunday with Tommy Watts, holds a victory over Alfie Sands. Oakes has sent this cable to Sydney following the refusal of the Singapore
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    9-0 Win For Cricket Club
    167 12 JINGAPORE Cricket Club •B1B 1 beat a REME XV by line points (dropped goal, jenalty goal and try) to nil >n the padang yesterday. S.C.C. were superior in every deDartment and controlled the run of )lay throughout Five minutes after play began SCC were awarded
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    RAF MALAYA v SCC
    86 12 O A.F. Malaya win meet Singa- pore Cricket Club at hockey >n th» padang today. After the natch Air Force representatives or the Combined Services side to ■neet Singapore Civi'ians in Thurslay's Poppy Day Fund match will te selected. The teams are: RAF Malaya: WO Davis:
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    SINGAPORE RACE WEIGHTS
    621 12 WEIGHT! far Saturday, first day „f the Singapore Turf Club WlnUr Meeting, aie: Class l Dlv. l 7 F. Less 17 Yds. Four O'clock II 9.0; 111 Abbot 8.09 Indian neither 8.07 Kaj Mahal 8.05 J'Avr.nte 8.02 Dark Bio.ade 8.02 Kinder Gold 8.00 Happy Travellrr 8.00 Electropjale
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    POOR RESPONSE TO FREE HANDICAP
    759 12  - POOR RESPONSE TO FREE HANDICAP EPSOM JEEP By But Fields Big For Other Races AFTER a "picnic meeting" at Kuala Lumpur, the scene shifts back to Bukit Timah, headquarters of Malayan racing, with its usual high-class programme. Biggest prize of the Singapore Turf Club Winter Meeting— the Free Handicap, worth
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    SAFA PRESIDENT THANKS GOVT.
    64 12 The Singapore Government and Municipality were thanked last night by the -President of the Singapore Amateur Football Association. Mr. W. McGregor Watt for their efforts to "advance the standard of football in the colony." Mr. Watt was speaking at. the Bnt annual dinner and dance of
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    K.O. HOCKEY OFF
    30 12 The Singapore Hockey Aitsoclation Knockout t'lmn-iment opening tie betwern Singapore Cricket Club and R.E.M.E. Civilian* on the padantr yesterday hart to be postponed indefinitely because of rain.
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    55 12 TOMMY FARR, former British heavyweight champion lands a straight left to Belgium Piet Wilde's chin in the third round of their bout at Granby Hall. Leicester, on Nov. 7. Farr knocked out Wilde in the third round. This was Farr's second fight in his comeback bid. He stopped Dutchman Jan
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    Sports Diary
    38 12 SOCCER: S.AF.A. six-a-slde tournament (final), Jalan Besar stadium. HOCKEY: R.A.F. Malaya v S.CC, Padang; Victoria School v Johore English (ollrr.e, V.S. ground; Singhalese Assn. v P. T. Union, Serangoon Road. TENNIS: Y.M.CA.. tournament. Bras Basah Road.
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    Harvey Hits First Shield Cricket 100
    169 12 Harvey Hits First Shield Cricket 100 ADELAIDE. Mon. pENTURIES by Neil Harvey (141) and D. Kerr (104). who added 192 in 14a minutes for the fifth wicket, enabled Victoria, to score 303 In their second Innings against South Australia on the third day of their Sheffield Shield match here. South
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    BOBBY LOCKE
    51 12 C" ANEERRA. Mon. Australian open golf champion Norman von Nida and local professional J. Peterson defeated British open champion Bobby Locke and club champion D. Corrigan two and one in an exhibition match here today. Von Nida's card totalled 66 and Locke's 67 against a par of 72.
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    Solitary Tries Decide Inter-School Games
    165 12 'pHE first and second rugger teams of Raffles Institution. Singapore, each won their match by a try over Victoria School team at the V.S. ground yesterday. In the main gam* Raffles dominated the exchanges but keen marking and constant touch finding by Victorians' defence prevented
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    "Sixes" Soccer Ends Today
    350 12 THE Singapore Amateur Football Association six-a-side knockout tournament reaches its deciding phase today when the four semi-finalists R.A.F. Seletar, Kota Raja "B". Star Soccerites and Pulau Brani United will stake their claims for the cham- pionship. Seletar and Kota Raja "B" will clash in the top-section
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    Police Rally Too Late
    113 12 a REMARKABLE second-half recovery which brought two goals could not save Police S.C. from a three-two defeat at the hands of S.R.C. in a friendly hockey match on the padang yesterday. In spite of the sodden ground, the match was played at a cracking pace Police
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    11-Pt. Win For Police
    23 12 Singapore Police beat O.K.Q. Tanglin by 38 points to 27 In a basketball game played ai lan; in yesterday.
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    CAMERONIANS' XV WIN 11-3
    336 12 gNATCHINO a few hours" leave from operational committments, the Rugger team of the Ist Bn. The Cameronians (Scottish Riffles*, travelled to Kluang for their first game since their arrival in Malaya, ngalnst the Kluang Garrison XV. Cameronians won by 11 points fgoal; dropped goal, try) to
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    Wickets Tumble After Compton And Hutton Go
    336 12  - Wickets Tumble After Compton And Hutton Go REGINALD HAYTER By SYDNEY, Monday. jlj C.C. SAVED the follow-on by 30 runs on the J third day of their match against New South. Wales here today. They were dismissed for 339 in reply to New South Wales first innings total of 509
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    SCOREBOARD
    124 12 NSW— Mr INNS .Vl!» lor .1 dr<<Uli-.l Mf(-IM INN-. Hut lon b l.iml-i.ill II Washbnmk Mur.i. b .lohnston ■lapsaa <■ ,v b l«hn»l«« i Compton a Sltnir> b I uhnslwn Shrppard o l.indMall I lusr si M.rnr. b Johnson 14 M; iniir, nc, i out Railrr b Rrn.iuil lird^rr
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    Blows Exchanged In K.L. Rugger
    47 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Mm BIOWI wi>M exchanged when Selanior p ml Srlaiieor All Blues :net In a rfturi garni- or Rugby here tndav. Police who won the Him Kimr woa| again today by nine points (drop! joa:. try and pfnaltvi to Hirer try).
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      42 12 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: 148 am. >8 5< and U.M p.m. i96>; 652 am. .48' »nd T.tt' p m iO :u TOMORROW: 246 am <H (I i aa4 1 M pm. i»2.; 1 :)6 m 1ft.31 fl 4.i p m il ft i
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