The Straits Times, 11 September 1951

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    10 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES
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    ANOTHER 'VIOLATION' CHARGE
    304 1 Neutral zone strafed— Nam II m REDS STEP UP AIR ACTIVITY TOKYO, Monday. A NEW Communist charge that Allied aircraft L strafed the Kaesong neutral zone, increased Communist air activity and continuing battlefront clashes, hinting at a new Chinese offensive, marked today's developments m Korea. A United
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    Huks ambush patrol
    46 1 MANILA, Mon. A band of Communist Huks ambushed an army patrol near Dinalupihan. on the only highway lord ing to the Bataan peninsula, last night. The patrol reported six of its s?ven members were wounded, but claimed that five Hulu were slain. A.P.
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    U.K. plans Persian $ cut
    270 1 U.K. plans Persian cut LONDON, Mon. OKITAIN Is planning D action that will make it more difficult for Persia to get dollars, according to a Treasury statement yesterday m London. An otlicial decision on new financial arrangements may be made this week unless Persia has a change of attitude on
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    They know their onions
    50 1 BRISBANE. Mon. FLJCE and farmers '.n the Brisbane river valley, Queensland's biggest onionS rowing area, are sending out tght patrols against thieves. One grower said: "The thieves certainly know their Ibnions "They tramp over the Jest of the crop to get at the pest rows."— Reuter.
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    WHEN MR. MORRISON WAS A BOY
    102 1 WHEN MR. MORRISON WAS A BOY Reunion m Frisco SAN FRANCISCO, Mon. •JWO middle-aged men met m a San Francisco hotel. "Herbie," said one. "Stanley," said the other. For the next half-hour they chatted about their boyhood days as 21-shilling-a--week shop assistants m a London suburb 40 years ago. Then
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    Mac Arthur attacked
    74 1 RHODE ISLAND. Mon. SENATOR John O. Pastore, Rhode Island Democrat, yesterday censured Gen. MacArthur for making "political speeches" while m uniform. Addressing 2,000 people at thp annual State Democratic outing. Senator Pastore said that he was not questioning Oen Mac Arthur's right to attack the administration, but
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    Japan-Indies run opened
    49 1 TOKYO, Mon. THE Transportation Ministry announced the re-opening of the Japan Indonesian shipping service. The Osaka Shosen Kaisha and the Tokyo Sempa Saku (Tokyo Shipping Company) have been authorised to operate a twice-a-month round trip service linking Japan with Macassar, Sourabaya. Semarang, Cheribon and Jakarta.— UP.
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    PASSING THE POST
    37 1 ATHENS, Mon— Field Marshal Papagos, the "White Horseman" of Greece, is certain to become Greek Premier with an absolute majority In parliament, according to unofficial election returns. Running second Is the "Black Horseman." A.P.
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    Liquid assets total over $15 in
    207 1 EX-JAP PROPERTIES IN FED. KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. T IQUID ex-Japanese assets m the Federation at present m the hands of the Custodian of Property totalled $15 million, the Custodian, Mr. V. s. Kelly, told the Straits Times today. But the value of pre-occu-pation ex-Japanesp
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    MALA YA 'IN' ON BIG TALKS
    118 1 MALA YA 'IN' ON BIG TALKS KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. MR. J. A. E. Morley, deputy economic secretary, Federation, and Mr. Andrew Gilmour, of the Commissioner General's office, Singapore, will represent Malayan interests at a meeting of Commonwealth Ministers m London on Sept. 24. The Ministers will discuss the problem of
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    'BE FRIENDS'
    27 1 HOBART, Mon. The Tasmanian Premier, Mr. Robert Cosgrove, last night appealed to the people m Tasmania to "extend the hand of friendship to Japan."— UP.
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    Rooftop hunt lor a man
    140 1 WATCiIED by a large crowd, Singapore police and three firemen chased a 49--year-old Chinese over the rooftops of a row of threestoreyed buildings m Synagogue Street, Singapore, yesterday. The man jumped from roof to roof and weaved and ducked his way between his pursuers for
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    New ration cuts in Britain
    105 1 LONDON, Mon. MEW ration cuts came into force m Britain today. The weekly cheese ration fell from two ounces to one and a half ounces for each person. The butter ration fell to three ounces from four. From next Sunday, the bacon ration will drop
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    5 Power protests on China arrests
    178 1 5 Power protests on China arrests LONDON, Mon. BRITAIN has made further representations to the Chinese Government against the detention without trial of British Commonwealth and United States jubjects, the Foreign Office announced today. The British Charge d'Affaires m Peking, Mr. Leo Lamb, expressed "grave concern" at China's policy toward
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    H.K. bank is robbed
    53 1 HONG KONG. Mon. riOUR armed men today r robbed the Sin Hua (New Ch..ia> Bank m Hong Kong of an estimated HK5350,000 The bank Is partially owned by Communist interests. According to preliminary reports, the men walked into the Bank and took the money from a
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    NEW POST FOR COUNSEL
    48 1 Mr. E. N. Griffith-Jones, acting Solicitor-General m the Federation, has been appointed Solicitor-General for Kenya. Mr. Griffith-Jones will go on leave to Britain before taking up his new post. He was m Singapore before the war and was promoted senior Federal counsel m 1948.
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    Reds slay girl of 11
    110 1 KUALA LUMPUR, MOn. A SPECIAL constable was killed and a European estate manager and the driver of his jeep wounded m a bandit attack m the Kulim district of Kedah this morning. An 11 -year-old Chinese girl. Leon* Ah Yoke, who was abducted by bandits
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    16,000 TO STRIKE
    38 1 SILCHAR, ASSAM, Mon. About 16,000 workers on 20 tea estates m the Machar district of Assam today decided to strike on Sept. 20 for subsidised food rations. They also demand a bonus from profits.— Reuter.
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    India ending state of war with Japs
    110 1 TOKYO, Monday. INDIA formally told Japan today of her intention 1 to end the state of war between the two countries. In a letter to the Japanese, the Government of India, which did not sign the San Francisco peace treaty, said that the
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    Pakistani posts attacked
    50 1 NEW DELHI. Mon.— Kabul Radio reported today that bands of Pakhtunistan forces attacked Pakistani police and military posts within eight miles of the border city of Peshawar. The radio said that other bands of Pakhtunistan force* had attacked Pakistani military installations m the Khyber Pass region.— AP.
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    2 REDS CAPTURED
    29 1 TAIPEH. i Mon.—Natidnallst guerillas on the night of Sept. 1 captured two Russian advisers m the outskirts of Swatow. the "Military Information Service" reported today.— Reuter.
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    'PAy DEBTS OR BE SACKED'— LAST WARNING
    146 1 'PAy DEBTS OR BE SACKED LAST WARNING SINGAPORE Municipality workers have had a "final warning" to get out of debt or they may get the sack. The Municipal President, Mr. Norman Ward, m a circular to all Municipal departments, says thaf under existing service regulations, a worker who is) m
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    Big three turn to Germany
    100 1 WASHINGTON. Mon. MR. Dean Acheson. US. Secretary of State, arrived here by air today with Mr. Morrison, British Foreign Secretary, and M Schuman French Foreign M'nister :or talks on Germany. Mr. Acheson will first nave a meeting with Mr Morrison tod"y and with M. Schuman
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    Slaves for Russia
    55 1 TAIPEH, Mon. f ]THB pro-NationalLst China Union Press today salj that 100,000 "prisoner*' from eastern China had been seal to north-China to b« Russian slave labourers. The report said that these prisoners would be sent tfr southern Sinklang province, bordering Russia, where they would be put to
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    BODY IN SEA
    28 1 Singapore Marine Police found the body of a Chines* woman, believed to b,» abouj 50 years old, In the sea o# East Coast Road yesterday.
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    HUNDREDS WANT TO GO ON MOON VOYAGE
    142 2 HUNDREDS WANT TO GO ON MOON VOYAGE I 'Many of them are cranks? I LONDON, Monday. HUNDREDS of people m Britain and overseas have asked for seats In the first space ship to the moon, an official of the British Inter-Planetary Society said here yesterday. Interest m space travel has
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    REST OF THE WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF
    163 2 REST OF THE WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF THE millionth American 1 to die hi battle fell on the Korean battlefield test week. BURMESE rebels hare occupied-Myaungya airfield, 90 miles southwest of Rangpon. Emir Hussein, eldest son of King Talal, has been proclaimed Crown Prince of Jordan. HONG KONG has installed
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    -Others may like this
    87 2 MELBOURNE, Mon. lOHN Greenston, a 57-year-J old bachelor, tired of Melbourne's "frustrations,'' is recruiting men and women to go with him to an island Utopia. He plans to "escape the city Jungle" and establish a co-operative village settlement, probably m New Guinea or the Torres Islands,
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    Aga Khan's 'double' is not happy
    145 2 PARIS, Hun. DR. Do Huu Thinh, Vie. nam member of th French Union Council, is the "double" of the Ag Khan. He told Paris Sunday papers how awkward this is for him during his stay m France. "It is dramatic," he said. "Wherever I
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    ENVOY GOING BACK TO U.S.
    42 2 BOMBAY, Mon.— firs. Vljaya Lakshmi Pandit, India's Ambassador to the United States, left for London by air yesterday on her way to Washington. Mrs. Pandit has been m New Delhi for about three weeks for consultations. Renter.
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    FRENCH FIND OIL DEPOSIT
    37 2 PARIS, Man. French :echnicians have struck oil m the Pyrenean foothilLs near Pau They found It at a depth of about 13,400 feet. First reports indicated that the deposits were comparatively rich Reuter.
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    SMILING LINDA IN LONDON
    49 2 SMILING LINDA IN LONDON SMiLING UNDER a heartshaped hairline, displayed ■nder a small hat set well tack, fa Hollrwood star. Linda Darnell, pictured daring a stroll k* the Embankment Gardens, London. Linda is hi Britain to work on "Saturday Island" hi which she portrays Canadian nursing sister. Reuter picture.
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    Blackout made two jets crash
    89 2 LONDON, Mon. A BLACKOUT yesterday lost Britain two Jet fighter aircraft and nearly killed two pilots. The power failure put the pilots out of radio touch with their home station m South Wales. They cruised around trying to make contact until they ran out of
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      469 2 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY WATER DEPARTMENT: Assistant Water Engineer In Class II ($5OO x A3O 590 x 40 630 x ASO 750 I A4O 870 BAR 910 I 40 950 I 50 1.0001 Degree m Engineering Science of a British Commonwealth University recognised by the Institute of Civil Engineers or
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      717 2 NOTICES > FOR PUBUC INFORMATION It is notified for general talormaUon that Mr. TAN CHOON CHWEE, the Town Board Contractor for the removal of Nlghtsoil m the Townahip of Johore Bahru has ceased to be such a contractor for the Town Board, Johore Bahru. aa from Ist September, 1951. 2.
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      292 2 TODAY'S RADIO SINGAPORE Radio Malaya Trio; 10 "Paul T&m--935 a m SAook 9 T Inter P* and tb VaDdvke Affair"; 10 JO uJo a.m. ocnoou, aas inter- •njr na i r Mi ff v>t"- 11 rn»w> lude; 10.— 10.10 News from XX.; Music mgDt CIOBC< 10.45 12 Schools; 1 p.m.
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    Mossadeq to send his ultimatum to Britain
    350 3 Mossadeq to send his ultimatum to Britain HARRIMAN WILL PLAT POSTMAN TEHERAN, Monday. PERSIA'S Premier, Dr. Mossadeq, yesterday gave Britain 15 days to get out of the country or accept Persian proposals for a settlement of the oil dispute. He said he would inform Britain of his ultimatum through the
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    PERSIAN LOAN TO WAIT
    90 3 PERSIAN LOAN TO WAIT WASHINGTON. Mon. 'THE World Bank disclosed today that it had halted loan talks with Persia, pending settlement of the oil disDute. In its annual report to the board of governors now meeting m Washington, the bank said it was waiting until the situation is clarified sufficient
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    Setbacks for Vietminh
    65 3 SAIGON, Mon. pRENCH troops m two big sweeps inside Tonking Delta bridgehead took 343 prisoners and killed 45 Vietminh troops, a French communique said today. Stocks of arms and ammunition v ere captured m the r 1 iin operation, which began i Wednesday m the Traly region
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    Ban cartels, U.S. urges
    59 3 GENEVA. Mon. fHE united States today proposed international action to end cartels. In a resolution before the United Nations Economic and Social Council it asked that a seven-nation committee consisting of India, Britain, Canada. France, Sweden. United States an<j Uruguay be appointed to plan a drive
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    GOVERNMENT PAYS UP
    32 3 LONDON. Mon —The British Government has paid £1.000,--003 000 since April 1949 to ov ners of property damaged In »he war. rno:ny action damaged or deployed 3.420,000 buildings. "'.enter
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    1,300 m.p.h. at 77,674 feet up
    53 3 THIS needle-nosed, roc-ket-powered U.S. Navy plane, the Douglas Skyrocket, is said to have climbed up to 77,674 feet and flown at over 1,300 miles an hour recently. The 45-foot-long plane is usually dropped from the belly of a B-29 bomber to get initial momentum.
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    Russians leave
    21 3 SAN FRANCISCO, Mon.— The Soviet delegation to the San Francisco conference left for New York by train today.— AJP.
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    Put up gold price, say producers
    169 3 WASHINGTON, Monday. DELEGATES from 50 nations met today for the World Bank and International Monetary Funds annual meeting amid growing pressure to raise the price of gold. South Africa and Canada, two of the world's major gold producers, are leading a drive to raise
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    Britain backing wrong horse —Trevelyan
    71 3 CAMBO, Northumberland, Mon. SIR Charles Trevelyan, thwice Minister of Education m Labour Governments, said yesterday that as an Englishman he was sick of Britain always following the lead of lh* United States. As a Socialist he deplored it enormously. He hoped it would not be
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    MORE U.S. BASES IN BRITAIN
    112 3 LONDON, Man. BRITAIN is preparing bases for more American bombers under a wcret programme for the peace-time reinforcement of American air forces m Britain, according to the Sunday Times yesterday. The paper said plans provided for more United States forces m peace and for additional
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    Plane accidentally 'strafes' houses
    82 3 Plane accidentally 'strafes houses LONG BEACH, California, Monday. A U.S. Air Force fighter plane accidentally strafed an exclusive residential section of Long Beach yesterday, endangering thousands and terrifying the community. No casualties were reported. The Air Force base commander. Colonel Lee Wasser. blamed the shooting on a short circuit In
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    HE BOUGHT 15 PACIFIC ISLES
    34 3 CANBERRA. Mon.— Fifteen uninhabited Pacific islands have been bought from European owners to accommodate natives from overcrowded centres. The buyer is South Pacific Commission scientist. Mr. H. E. Maude.
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    BLONDE 'QUEEN'
    91 3 ATLANTIC CITY Mon.— Fair haired Colleen Kay Hutchins, aged 25, of Salt Lake City, yesterday began her year's reign as Miss America— *^c first blonde to win he lii-le for 13 years. JUS Asa Khan (centre), dressed m ihe rarb of an Oriental potentate, Is seen at raiulor*
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    REDS 'CANNOT CALL THE TUNE NOW'
    250 3 REDS 'CANNOT CALL THE TUNE NOW' LONDON, Monday. rpHE American-Japanese alliance would end the time when the Russian-Chinese combination could call the tune m the Far East, said the newspaper Observer yesterday. This new alliance would be supreme m the East, Japan's return to the international- field as a sovereign
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    ISLAND MAKES A TREATY PROTEST
    79 3 TOKYO. Mon. riLAGs were flown at r half-mast by the people of Amaml Oshitna island, south of Japan, yesterday to protest against the signing of the Japanese peace treaty, according to the Japanese Kyodo News Agency. This island is m the Rvoku an* Bonln group*,
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    HIS VIEWS
    27 3 NEW DELHI, Mon. Dr. Frank Graham, U.N. Kashmir mediator, submitted documents to the Indian Government on "certain limited aspects" of the IndoPakistan dispute on Saturday
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    STALIN 'SCOOPS' PAPER...
    169 3 STALIN 'SCOOPS' PAPER... HONG KONG, Mon. MISSING a deadline m Communist China is not only bad newspaper business, it's a "serious political mistake." The director of the Shanghai "Liberation Daily" confessed this oq the newspaper's front page m an article apologising for the failure to carry Marshal Stalin's V-J Day
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    PLANE KILLS SIXTEEN
    56 3 SAN PAULO. Brazil, Mon.— Four people dining m a house on the edge of the airfield were killed when a Brazilian airliner crashed into the house after taking off on Saturday night. Six passengers and four members of the crew were also killed and two unidentified bodies
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    TITO GOVT. 'NEARING end; he says
    141 3 TITO GOVT. 'NEARING end; he says MOSCOW, Monday. MARSHAL Vassily Sokolovsky, First Deputy War Minister, told a Sofia audience during the weekend that the Yugoslav regime of Marshal Tito wa3 Kring its end. was the third time In months that top Soviet officials had forecast the overthrow of Tito. The
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    TRUMAN RETURNS TO WASHINGTON
    34 3 WASHINGTON, Mon.—President Truman flew back to Washington last night after a seven-day trip to the Japanese peace treaty conference m San Francisco and a home I town holiday In Independ-
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    DRAGON DANCE TO RAFFLES
    296 4 'Make it great City Day, say the Chinese THE Singapore Chinese community will honour Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore, on City Day, Sept. 22, when a dragon will stop m tront nf his statue m Empress Place during the lantern procession and peform a special
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    Municipal workers need passes
    147 4 Municipal workers need passes MUNICIPAL workers will not be able to watch the presentation of the Royal Charter to Commissioners on City Day. Sept. 22. from the Municipal building. The building will be closed and under police control during the ceremony, which will begin at 8 a.m. A circular to
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    Blackout areas
    137 4 ■JLECTRIC ITY may be cut-off In the following areas today: DAY Armenian St. D.C., Tan < hvc Pla<- Fort Canning. Seah St. Waterloo St.. St. Andrews/High St /Stamford Ed., Albert St.. N™ Ice Works, Firestone, Mackenzie Rri Rukit Timah Pumps. Balestier Rd.. JaUn AnipM, 8.M.8.C.. MrRitchie. BraddeU RUe.
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    ACCIDENT VICTIM DIES
    93 4 ACCIDENT VICTIM DIES TAY SWA TEE, the five yearold girl who was knocked down by a jeep at Stanley Street on Sunday, died m the General Hospital yesterday. Singapore Police have made no further arrests m connection with the shooting incident following the accident. Three shots were fired when two
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    WOMAN GETS DIVORCE
    64 4 Mrs Maude Williams, who sued her husband, Mr. Eric Williams, for a divorce on the ground of adultery, was granted a decree nisi by the Acting Chief Justice Mr. Justice Brown, m the High Court yesterday Thp decree nisi Is to be made absolute m six weeks
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    Lecture on brotherhood
    56 4 A leader of the International Theosophical Society, Mi*. C. D. T. Shores. Is expected to arrive m Singapore on September 13 to lecture on universal brotherhood". He is at present on a lecture tour at Kuala Lumpur and Penang, where he arrived recently from the International Headquarters
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    Rejectw suitor guilty, to hang
    96 4 ABDUL Rahi.n bin Abdul Wahab, a South Indian eatine shopkeeper, was found guilty at Singapore Assizes yesterday of the murder of an 18-year-old girl. Lee Yuet Kwai. and was sentenced to death. The murder was committed y m front of a shophouse m Colombo Court
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    50 CHARGED, 49 PLEAD GUILTY
    92 4 Fifty people, Including 15 women, residing at the Singapore Harbour Board labourers' lines. Blair Plain, were produced before Mr. S. E. Teh. the Third District Judge, yesterday on a joint charge of falling to notify the change of their addresses. Only one of them, Rarnasamy
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    KNIFE CHARGE
    44 4 Charged m Singapore yesterday with causing hurt to Jantan bin Tusof with a knife at the No. 3 Sub. Depot 223 BOD Alexandra. Goh Guan L*r>ng. aged 21, claimed trial.. The case, was postponed to Sept. 17. Goh was allowed $500 ball.
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    S'pore display of HK products
    244 4 TRADE MISSION VISITING COLONY THE Hong Kong Chinese Manufacturers' Union will stage a $400,000 exhibition of Chinese products at the Happy World Stadium m Singapore from October 14 to 23 during a tour of South-east Asia by its trade mission of §3 members. A messenger
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    WHY THERE WAS CONFUSION
    72 4 /CONGESTION m the car \j park at the Singapore Turf Club after last Saturday's meeting was due to a shortage of 'marshals.' Mr. L. C. Bailey, secretary, said yesterday. The re-arrangement of the parking space, he said, was done after consultation with the bus companies. The
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    Over 1,000 teachers will vote
    104 4 Over 1,000 teachers will vote Nominations for the second election at Singapore Teachers' Training College should be In by 4.30 p.m. on Sept. 25, the Returning Officer, Mr. Michael Campbell, acting college principal, said yesterday. Papers handed m after this time will not be considered. Mr. David Thambyah, the outgoing
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    UNION FAILS TO TURN UP
    73 4 The first attempt to break the negotiations deadlock between the management of the Hindhede Quarry and their employees, to settle the workers claims, broke down yesterday. The Singapore Granite Workers Union, which represents the workers, failed to attend a meeting, at the company's office at
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    Talk on Pharmacy
    36 4 Mr. A. S. Caldwell, head of the Department of Pharmaceutics m the University of Malaya, will address the Civics Class of St. Andrew's School at 3.15 pjn. today on "Pharmacy As a Career.''
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    POLICE WANTTRAFFIC REGULATIONAL TERED
    112 4 POLICE WANTTRAFFIC REGULA TIONAL TERED pEPRESENTATIONS have been made to the Government for the alteration of a clause of the Road Traffic Regulations which lays down that at 'uncontrolled' crossings, motorists shall give way to the traffic approacHing from the right, some time, the Stra'.ts Times understands, the traffic police
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      98 4 FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN EX. HIBITION. U.E. Building, 9 a.m. to 6 pjn. Y.W.C.A. Raffles Quay. Mandarin (advanced) 10.30 a.m.; ballroom dancing (advanced) 5 p.m., beginners 6 p.m. y.M.C.A. Orchard Road. MUay class, 5.30 p.m.; French class. 5.30 pjn.; St. John Ambulance Parade at tennis pavilion, 5.30 pjn.; commercial classes. 5.30
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    FED. A.T.C. TO BEGIN IN KUALA LUMPUR
    263 5 FED. A.T.C. TO BEGIN IN KUALA LUMPUR KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. AN air training corps **for Federation youth Will be started next month when a unit is formed m Kuala Lumpur. Units will also be formed m other parts of the country later, said Mr. K. G. Hamnett, who will be
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    FOUND HANGING BUT NOT DEAD
    38 5 Oil Kirn Teck. aged 50. was found hanging m a house near the Telok Ayer Market. Singapore, yesterday. Hp was taken to the General Hospital where his condition is reported as "not serious
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    299 reported tor speeding
    75 5 ONE thousand traffic offences were reported by the mobile squad last month, the Superintendent of the Police Traffic Branch, Singapore, stated yesterday. The ivcrst offence was speeding, particularly along Bukit Timah Road, Serangoon Road. Mountbatten Road, Keppel Road and Holland Road. Tno hundred and ninety-nine cases
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    $60 FOR SPEEDING
    32 5 JOHOHE BAHRU. Mon. M. Visvalingam, of Singapore, was fined $60 m the- Police Court, Johore, for driving a car at 50 miles per hour. The speed limit is 30.
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    To fly to Singapore next month
    96 5 THIS JKT-PROPELLED airliner, capable of flying at 40,090 feet— well above "the weather" carrying 36 passengers and cruising at 490 miles per hoar, is one of the new de Havilland Comets with which 8.0.A.C. is making testa m preparation for the introduction of a
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    STEEL CONTRACTORS DENY PRICE ALLEGATIONS
    360 5 T»HE term 'black market' was hardly the correct A one to use m connection with the local purchase of steel for the new Pasir Panjang power station works, the agent for the contractors says m a letter to the Municipal Electric Engineer. At the last
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    Two S.H.B. men killed: three held
    147 5 Two S.H.B. men killed: three held A POLICE party burst into room at the Singapore Harbour Board labourers' quarters at 2 a.m. yesterday and found a ma n lying dead on a bed. Another man, it was stated, was standing nearby, slashing himself with a razor. The dead man was
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    Scouts from Malaya to see Britain
    152 5 Scouts from Malaya to see Britain OCOUTS from Far Eastern countries, including Malaya, are to be invited to a series of international scouting activities now being planned m Britain for next year. The first world camp for 5,000 scoulers, including women, will be held at Oilwell Park, Essex, next year.
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    Fewer trishas —more cars
    40 5 Fewer trishas —more cars There are 19,823 motor cars m Singapore 3.231 mor» than at the beginning of the year. Other vehicles: taxis 1.526, an Increase of 50; motorcycle 5,296. an increase of 524; trLshas 6,172, a decrease of 651.
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    SAVINGS BANK HAS $4,400,000 DEPOSITS
    164 5 A TOTAL of 14,000 new accounts have been opened with the Postal Savings Bank since July 2, including nearly 10,000 by students The total deposit has passed the $4,400,000 mark while the excess deposit over withdrawal is $2,225,000 The postal authorities are to launch a
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    OPIUM IN SAMPAN
    38 5 Urn Orte Ling, aged 43, pleaded guilty m Singapore yesterday to being m possession of 120 leaf packets of opium In a sampan. The case was postponed to Sept. 17. Lim was allowed $300 ball.
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    CARGO DELAY IN STORE
    66 5 Direct shipments of cargoes from Singapore to North Borneo were coming through as well as could be expected but transhipment cargoes were not, states the August report of North Borneo Chamber of Commerce. "The fault appears to lie more with the Harbour Board's Incapacity to deal
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    NEW OFFICES
    21 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.Johore Government has set aside $750,000 to build offices, court houses and staff quarters for 20 sub-districts
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    Students told: 'Be road conscious'
    203 5 MR. Sandy G. Pillay, president of the Singapore Junior Safety First Council, yesterday urged 435 boys of the Rangoon Road English School to be "road conscious" and told them that more selfrontrol while using the road would result m "less grief, tears, hurt and troubles."
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    JINNAH DEATH ANNIVERSARY
    54 5 The Overseas Pakistani League, Singapore, will observe the third anniversary of the death of Mr. Mohamed All Jinnah, founder of the Muslim League today. The League will hold a mass prayer at the Sultan Mosque, North Bridge Road, at 7. p.m. Food will be distributed to the
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    Govt. wages board plan
    231 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon T^EGOTIATINQ machi- nery, jvith provision for an arbitration board, is to be set up for salary negotiations between the Government and its employees. Mr. J. D. Hodgkinson, Deputy Chief Secretary, said yesterday that it will give Government ttvde unions an opportunity for fresh
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    Tomorrow a public holiday
    65 5 Hari Ray a Haji which will be celebrated tomorrow will coincide "with the sixth anniversary of the Japanese surrender m Singapore. The day will be a public holiday. Photographs of the surrender of the Japanese Forces m September 1945 will be displayed In Raffles Museum, and
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    Thousands to join pay protest
    102 5 Thousands to join pay protest FIE Singapore Federation of Services' Unions will hold a protest meeting on Sept. 29. at the Victo&'a Memorial Hall. The meeting is to record the protest of members against the recent cost-of-living allowance increase granted to Services workers. Thousands of Service workers are expected to
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    HOUSEBREAKER GAOLED
    44 5 Pleading guilty to two charges of housebreaking, Jasman bin Haji Abdul Salam. 27, told the Third District Court yesterday that he was led astray by bad company Jasman was sentenced to one year's imprisonment or each charge, the sentences to run concurrently.
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    $200,000 GIRLS'SCHOOL TO OPEN
    87 5 $200,000 GIRLS' SCHOOL TO OPEN rpHE Choong Hwa Chinese Girls' High School, Singapore, will celebrate their anniversary by opening their $200,000 building at Bartley Road on Sunday. The new school, bulU from public subscriptions, can house more than 1.000 pupils. It has 24 clas« room s and a big hall.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Tues. Sept 11, 1951. Peace With Japan
    815 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues. Sept 11, 1951. Peace With Japan Forty-eight nations signed the Japanese peace treaty m San Francisco on Saturday. It is long odds that during the Japanese occupation, no Malayan ever imagined that peace with Japan could come so furtively. The treaty was published, of course,
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    A Nehru Victory
    316 6 The installation of Mr. Nehru as President of the Congress Party closes the Party's ranks well m time for the first instalment of India's general election before the end of the year. At Mr. Nehru's own request there will be a plenary meeting of the All India
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    Malaya, Britain & freedom
    594 6 Malaya, Britain freedom AFTER reading and bearing so much about Dato Onn and his Independence of Malaya Party during the last few weeks, it Is refreshing to read m the Straits Times Inche Ismail Merican's statement that "self -rule m seven years Is absurd.'* If Dato Onn would only come
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      UN-COMMUNAL EDUCATION
      376 6 IN the next Federal Council meeting the Barnes 1 and Fenn-Wu Reports will be discussed. The general impression is that any debate will be on communal lines, and that members will not nght shy of verbal warfare to guard the interests of any one community against those of
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      THOUGHTS ON HOMEWORK
      229 6 HAVE a daughter m a mis- sion school and a aon attending a Government -school. The homework my daughter has to do is about three times as much as my son's. Is too much homework being thrust upon pupils m mission schools? I have been told by
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      TELEPHONES IN THE S.H.B.
      119 6 Y^OU refer m a leader to the back of telephones m the Singapore Harbour Board area as a nuisance. Nuisance indeed! To seamen, it is a life and death matter, which the S.H.B. promised to remedy as soon a, the First World War was over m
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      Mr. Nehru, Mr. Bose and Japan
      282 6 *pHAT Mr. Nehru has been ftßti-Ffesclst Is correct. But Is it not unreasonable to expect him to have fought anyone, even the Japanese. m order to retain the British Raj m India? Let "Indian View" understand that if Lord Mountbatten had been In the
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      Bananas and hard cash
      244 6 Bananas and hard cash THOSE who deposited 1 money with the Chinese banks before the Japs came -here (only Chinese banks operated during the occupation), and who withdrew their deposits, are ruled by the Debtor and Creditor Ordinance to hare withdrawn their xood Malayan dollars, although they were given banana
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      'INSIDERS AND OUTSIDERS'
      102 6 p£RMIT me to convey my congratulations to Mr. Thomas O. Richards. His letter. "Insiders and Outsiders on the Waterfront." was an admirable piece of work. Downright facts and a very straight-forward opinion indeed are only to be expected of any really and truly conscientious British citizen The
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    On the Margin
    395 6 M P«mU>ma M 'THE Skicaport pt^frionae of Radio Malaya tonight will bring a naifeuUr of very curlotw link b«tw««n Malsiy poetry and modern European classical music, and on* which most members of the musical audience m this country °»ye never heard of. The work to b» played
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      35 6 EVERBRIGHT OPTICAL CO. Offering Compute Services essential to Eye Comfort 9 Visual Efficiency. (1) MML UmltV* #> W aW^ LM 2) VISUAL TWAHUIG (3) GLASSES IF REEK) a S. CHONG OPT. D. 19, CHUUA ST. S'PORL
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      124 6 What a picture of strength and ijk Bjf\ energy Here's a man who 7^^ enjoys good heahh all the year ttliv /v>y round SevenSeaS pure J cod live? oil is the finest &E j >^ natural food which supplies, m concentrated form, just V^/ jj those essential fats and f
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    $2 MILLION PLAYFIELDS PLAN
    202 7 New parks, swimming pools BUT MONEY SETS A PROBLEM TO provide more recreational facilities for residents m the city, Singapore Municipal Commissioners are proposing to spend nearly $2,(100,000 on parks, open spaces, playgrounds and swimming pools next year. Bu.t whether or not this sum can be
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    RUBBER EXPORTS 14,000 TONS UP
    209 7 RUBBER EXPORTS 14,000 TONS UP A TOTAL of 99,362 long tons of rubber, including latex, concentrated latex and revertax, was exported from Singapore and the Federation by sea during August, according to Malayan Rubber Statistics. This brings the total export for the period January to August by sra to 806,474
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    THREE MEN CLEARED
    41 7 Ithnin bin Alias, aged 27, Mohamed Noor bin Hussein. nj;"d 24 and Yahaya bin Tahir. aged 34, were acquitted m Singapore yesterday on a charpe of housebreaJting by night into the R.E.M.E Base Workshop, Aycr Rajah Road. Singapore.
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    NEW MAGISTRATE
    15 7 Mr Roy Lister Nevilp has be i appointed a Policp Magistrate In Singapore.
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    DANCE IN AID OF HALL FUND
    100 7 Eclipse 8.P., one of the Colony's leading badminton parties which has collected and contributed a considerable sum of money to the Singapore Badminton Hall Fund, is holding a dance hi Raffles Hotel tonight m aid of the Hall Fund. Mrs. Chan Chee Seng, wife
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    WILL GIVE PARTY
    35 7 Singapore Sikhs will give a tea party to honour of I.t Col O. 8. Gill, president of the Cm Manak Sat Sangh, Madras on Saturday Sept 15, at the O. H. Cafe.
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    Greetings flowers for Judy
    166 7 Greetings flowers for Judy THREE little boys an In--1 dian, a Malay and a Chinese will each present a basket of flowers to Britain's Festival Oirl, a 19-year-old Kensington typist. Miss Judy Breen, when she makes a personal appearance on the Cathay stage tomorrow. Miss Breen is doe m Singapore
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    Had no permit for medicines
    47 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon Chung Yin, a woman, was charpcd In the Police Court today with removing medicines from a restricted area m Kulai without lawful authority. As the medicines were not m court for inspection, sentence was deferred. The woman pleaded guilty.
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    Move towards 'truly Malayan' theatre
    183 7 A PROPOSAL by Mr. Donald Moore to form a Singapore Arts Treatre was unanimously supported by members of the Little Theatre at an extraordinary general meeting held m the Adelphi Hotel roof garden last night. Mr. Moore, who recently produced Christopher Fry's "Tb* Lady's Not
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    RAILWAY'S $4,600,000 IN JULY
    100 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Man. FE Malayan Railway's revenue from passengers, goods, wharf fees, ferries and road services and miscellaneous rents amounted to $4,611, 995 m July. total tonnage of 115,779 was handled m July m Port Swettenham and Prai railway whanres. Port Swettenham dealt with 88.236 tons
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    'Lost' crew comes back
    132 7 WIRED and dishevelled but L smiling happily. th« four members or th*» crew of a fishing vessel which drifted for a day and night In the Straits of Malacca when its engine broke down, yesterday returned to Singapore They wer* towed back to Singapore from Port
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    Back after two years
    68 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. GREAT welcome awaits the Sultan and Sultanah of Johore on their return to the Btate tomorrow after an absence of two years. The Chines* community hurt erected an arch or welcome at the Johore Bahru end of the Causeway where the pupils of
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    STORE LADY WITH' THE LAMP
    140 7 ■THIS Siaoporr une will iep«eaent all Singapore aancs on pasters which will shortly be distributed to publicise the premiere the Florence Nightingale film. "The Lady With A Lamp," proceeds of which will to towards establishing a scholarship for Singapore nurses to do a posttraiaiag cowrie
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    Threw child into well court told
    162 7 A YOUNG woman, Lou Ah Kirn, who wu alleged to have thrown her two-year-old daughter, Chua Bee Chan, into a well at the 12ft mile Choa Chu Kang Road on I April 8 this year, was charged with murder In the Asstaes yesterday. Lou
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    Independent to contest City
    204 7 T4iE first Independent candidate for Singapore's fourth Municipal Elections m December announced h* ini^tion. yesterday, to stand m the City Ward. He is Mr. Hassan Ali Jivabnai. President ol the Aga Khan League. In Malaya. Originally elected to the Singapore Municipal Commission m the first elections
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    Rode pillion, cautioned
    70 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. WHEN she was charged with w riding pillion on a bicycle, a woman. Chin Sin Moy, told the magistrate that she was ill and her husband was taking her to hospital. Remarking that her husband was a good man to do so the magistrate
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    'Derby' run at Raffles
    50 7 ffOHLIOHT of last night's Jockeys' Association Dance at Raffles hotel was the Derby m which Malayan jockeys participated, each riding self-propelled toy horse Ttv Derby was won by New Blood "owned" by Mr. and Mrs A. H. Lim, of Penang. and ridden by Jockey Harry McLeod.
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    HAD NAAFI BEER
    47 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon Teo Bale Heng who was charged m the Police Court with, possession of 30 cases of NAAFI beer on which duty had not been paid, was fined $70 for having seven bottles of dutiable NAAFI beer. Mr. A. J. Braga defended
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    $60 FOR INFORMER
    39 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. For gaming m public near the railway station 20 Chinese women were fined $10 each and five men fined $15 each m the Police Court today. The Court awarded $60 to the informer.
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    Child fell from second floor
    53 7 Ho Kirn Peng, aged two years and three months, fell from the second floor of a S.I.T. flat In Tiong Bahru to the compound of the house, it was stated at Singapore Inquest yesterday. H e died latex. The Coroner. Mr. choor Singh, recorded a
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    Woman war victim traced for Mr. X
    104 7 SINGAPORE Social Welfare nee. a win Deparfmea* has gather** The wosasw. wi.h ber %mier, information about a fwrxaer wat t»ter«ed >m U» Dikk hUeniee and passed M«nU» East Inijn six yews a**. a Japanese e»-lfa«tma*<, a The lUpail— i»f» m**tWy Mr. X. wb*
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    THE DIP-IN FOOD BOWL IS A RISK
    281 7 THE DIP-IN FOOD BO WL IS A RISK WsWlN^^fflO^^P DOCTORS m Singapore said yesterda that the Chinese practice of dipping chopsticks into a common food bow) was a risk to health. But they said It was not a potent factor m the spreading of tuberculosis. A letter m yesterday's Straits
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    TO STAND TRIAL
    34 7 Lee Wee. Loh. alias Boh Gay, was committed yesterday by the First Police Magistrate, Mr. R. C. S. Bell, for trial before the next Assizes on two charges of armed robbery.
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    4face revolver, papers charge
    264 7 4face revolver, papers charge WHEN a police party raided a lean-to hut m Lorong 14, Geylans Road, on Feb. 28, they found a revolver, 49 rounds of ammunition and official receipt books of the Malayan National Liberation Army Singapore Office. This was stated yesterday In the Third Magistrate's Court. Teo
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    K.L. BANKERS FINED
    49 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Three directors of Malay National Banking Corporation were fined at Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court today for not holding a k rural meeting. Mustapha bin M. Yusof wns fined $200 and Mrs. Kamsiah Maarof and Yah?ya bin Mohamed Sph $20 each. They pleaded guilty.
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    ONN WAIVES 10-YEAR RULE
    50 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon Formation ol a Parliamentary Branch Associate n composed of members of the Independence of Malaya Parry who have seats m tie Federal. State and Se.tl* ment councils wtll be ore of the first steps taken after I.M.P. comes i-tn h i*»t. mxt Sunday.
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    Colony rugger season will be brighter
    1303 8 S.C.C. HAVE SEVERAL GOOD NEWCOMERS By W. E. TREVOR I AST YEAR, by all accounts and according to people m a position to judge, was the best season of rugger Singapore has enjoyed since the war. How Is the present season, which is just
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    R.A.F. take Services tennis title
    122 8 R.A.F. take Services tennis title THE R.A.F. carried off the Malayan Inier-Servlce Lawn Tennis Championship for the first time, on Saturday, when they defeated the Army 4-1 at Changi. Luck favoured the R.A.F., however, for all the matches wore evenly contested. During the previous rounds of the tournament the RAF
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    FATHUL WIN 4-1
    43 8 A hat-trick by centre-forward YusofT Ali and a spectacular lastminute goal by Khali enabled Fathul Karib to beat Kota Raja "A" by four goals to one m a S.A.F.A. Division 2 soccer match played at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday.
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    RASC XV TO MEET REME TOMORROW
    106 8 Royal Army Service Corps team to meet REME at rugger at Rowcroft Lines, Ayer Rajah Road, at 5 pjn tomorrow will be: MaJ. Mitchell (OHQ PARELF) Capt. BYRNE, Pte. Clarke, MaJ. Moyle (RASC School), Lt. Luckcraft (75 Coy RASC): Cpl. Isles (37 Coy RASC),
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    RAY IS READY: AND SO IS RANDY
    319 8 POMPTON LAKES, N.J., Monday. SUGAR Ray Robinson cut loose yesterday m his final sparring session for Wednesday's title fight with middleweight champion Randolph Turpin of England. He hurt sparmates Dave Green of Chicago and Terry Moore of Baltimore with right smashes to the
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    B.H. group winners decided
    354 8 ALL teams m the various Groups of the Business Houses League Cup competition have completed their ties, and the competition has now entered the semi-final stage where group winners will meet each other on a knock-out basis to decide the champion teem. The last game of
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      412 8 Indoor smells killed m the airl^Jll^ NiW AMAZING DISCOVIOY 0 g Am amazino oiicuvtir, Air-wick. v§4^Bs^Bsß II l- ji 1 kilU uiiplrasani indoor unclls even S3BB jWWU_ the (irongest onutung smcUa. itale S&^Z^Ez^pai «Bg^^^g tobacco tmelb, bathroom uncUi li kill* g^^j^jjLa^ them m ihc air. It actually makes your :::*j'
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      217 8 What kind of a car is the Wolseley* "y^^^Lftfcßyf 1° *h* Wolseley tuudein styling is cleverly merged with traditional K-nf un« inoorporating the functional advantage of simim ■lining. kA Wolseley is long-term purchase. Iv engine m precision built and it* appointment*, both externally and internally, stamp it as a car
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    FIRST BABIES ARE ALWAYS A PROBLEM
    833 9 NURSE JANET on Mothercraft lIOW often has a mother thought if only she had known what she does now she could have saved herself so much worry over her first child. By the time the second and third child are born a mother begins
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    C.C.C.
    12 9 Collect six of these coupons to join the Children's Corner Club.
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    Widespread Error Over Weaning
    313 9 Widespread Error Over Weaning ANE of the biggest problems In Singapore Infant Welfare Centres Is trying to persuade mothers to begin weanIng their babies at the age of about six months, says Sister Agnes O)a, In charge of the Bmcit Panjang Centre. A Government Health Doctor confirmed that this was
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    WISDOM FOR WOMEN
    72 9 WHAT every young; girl should know is rich young man. 1 Paulette Goddard. CHE'S the sort of girl' I! 3 you'd like to take; home to mother If only, you could trust father. j > Joe E. Lewis. j I QNE chorus sirl to; another: "He says.
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      349 9 Cf r «.> c Ti"~»**c rVz-wcc r- A with the CO. (7) DTrcf^S 1 J7T*3S V^rOSSWCrd 26. He oils the machinery (7). i- 27. "And tell sad stories of 2 3 I 4 TT 6~ 7 I ("King Richard IT') 3, 6. I 2. 5). Ivv^ i. DOWN. iH_ 111
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    HOLIDAY MAKER SAKE DIFFERENTNOW
    420 10 CORNWALL: JMAGINE a land of J little, very green fields, tall hedges and whitewashed farm cottages with patches of brillianl sunshine travelling swiftly across it, m terspersed with the looming shadows of rain clouds driving between the earth anri the sun. Beyond the land, on three
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    Trawlers running for shelter
    54 10 'THERE are other details la the picture: French and English fishing trawlers running m for shelter, seeming to slide astern as the great seas lift them, then rushing down the slope of the next Atlantic roller with the surf spreading away from their bows; Bevies of
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    The London LETTER
    108 10 small children with the baby fat still on them squat In the shallow sandy pools and splash; older boys and girls climb around the slippery sea-weedy rocks angling for little bull-headed fish m the rock pools with bent pins and cotton; aged villagers with rounded shoulders patrol
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    Looking At Life
    353 10 I^RIENDS coming back r to Britain after three or four years'- absence abroad say that they are amazed by the richness of the display m shop windows that were mostly filled with junk when they were last here: also that they could hardly have imagined that, amongst
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    V Wagers wear state deaf-aids
    294 10 F doesn't take half an eyt to see that the villager! are benefltting from the new social services. A surprising number of them are wearing the little white knob at one ear which Is the outward and visible sign of the National Health Service's standard
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    footplate men want G.W.R. back
    128 10 Footplate men want G.W.R. back VOICING the demand arc the footplate men themselves many Cornish drivers and firemen have signed the petition organised by former G.W.R. footplat* men m Wales: "We demand the recall of the former G.W.R. experts to resuscitate their highly efficient mechanical, technical and welfare administration. We
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    Adventures of AH and Rukiah
    62 10 Around the stone appeared strange, lone, grey object, wavinc up and down. "It's the giant's via." whispered Rukiab. trylnr to shrink even further behind the boulder. Then a Urge frer head appeared. "Why are you hiding-?" it trumpeted. "Why it's only Ezanl Elephant." rasped Ruklah.
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    Banks are losing their clerks
    230 10 Banks are losing their clerks AN tht railways not only porters but even station masters art leaving to take better paid jobs m the factories. and Cornish banks like those m England, are losing many clerks (throughout Britain, the Bis Five banks are receiving more than 100 such resignations every
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    Middle classes no longer come
    165 10 THERE are easily remarked 1 changes, too. m the tourist trade. The middle class professional people who came to Cornwall m .such numbers m the (for them) prosperous days be**.veen the wars are now littto m evidence. Instead, the trains and 'he swarming cars bring
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    London Stocks
    293 11 LONDON, Mon. A brisk turnover In foreign bonds provided the major interest and price movements m the London Stock Exchange today, German Government loans were strong on persistent demand encouraged by good weekend press comment and ahead of the Washington three-power talks. Cloalng raidcUe price* of «etocußd stocks,
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    130 11 »T»HERK were better bids In tht Singapore copra market yesterday, buyers quoting $39 < a a picul. Sellers stood firm at $40. The coconut oil section remained unchanged and quiet, sellers quoting $67 a picul. Buying interest was at the $65 level. Papper was -quiet and unchanged
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    H.K. EXCHANGE
    34 11 HONG KONG. Mon. pREE market currency exchange for Kong Kong dollars was quoted at the close today as follows: US$l HK56.672 (cash), HK56.70!4 (T.T.); El HK$l5.BO, one tahil of gold HKS334U.— UP
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    Melbourne share market
    163 11 From Our Own Correspondent. MELBOURNE. Moo. pRICE falls were generp 1 In the Melbourne Stock Exchange as wool went five per cent down at the opening of the Melbourne wool sales today. A long list of Industrial and General snares were marked down, Investors transferring attention to
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    RUBBER MARKET
    201 11 Buyers still speculdte"; price rises slightly From A Market Correspondent SPECULATIVE buying was still the feature m the Singapore rubber market after the week-end interval. Prices fluctuated very narrowly yesterday around Saturday's closing levels. liness was moderate, one was quiet throughie afternoon and buyers first-grade, September tent, closed
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    TIN: $4464 A PIUL
    42 11 SINGAPORE, Mon., Sept. 10— 5446.12* (down $2.75.) London: £960 a ton LONDON. Mon. Cash Bayers £96*. Sellers £965; Forward B v y e t s *9M» Sellers £915; Settlement £955 (down £25). TornOTer: a.m. 55, p.m. It tons.
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    World rubber figures
    89 11 LONDON, Mon. vyORLD natural rubber produc- tlon during July was 157.300 tons according to figures Issued m London yesterday by the Rubber Study Group Secretariat. Stocks at the end of July amounted to 737,500 tons, 10,000 tons fewer than on Jan. I. This excluded Government stocks m
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    Malayan shares
    192 11 Finn opening T*H£ Malayan share market opened the week firmer In all sections, particularly In Rubbers and Industrials. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were: INDISTKMLS Bu;cr» SeUtfi Fraaer Near* Pref (40 O.M Ordt «H 4 15 Henry Waugh 3»5 496 cbl U'kook In. S'aai
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    TIN COMPANY OUTPUTS
    68 11 AUSTRAL Malay Tin directors A announce the following August returns, In hours run, cubic yards dugr and piculs of tin-ore won, In that order: Kampong Kamuntliig Dredging «41. 141,000, 370. Pungah Dredging— 6lB, 286.000. 1,103. Austral Amalgamated Asam Kumbang BecUon (on tribute) 429, 26.000, 80: Ulu Yam
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    DROP IN THE 'FREE POUNDS
    133 11 LONDON, Mon. 'THE pound sterling, on some free international markets, <bas dropped m value to about 10 per cent below the official exchange rate. British economic experts believe the drop to be temporary. They acknowledge. however, that much will depend on whether the Government is
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    lop sprinters take over tomorrow
    548 12 Top sprinters take over tomorrow GREAT RACE IS PROMISED IN CUP TRIAL By EPSOM JEEP VOW that the excitement of the Singapore Gold 11 Cop trials is over, the scene temporarily shifts to the top-class sprinters who will have their Liberation Cup rehearsal over 6f. at Bukit Timah tomorrow, second
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    FOUR O'CLOCK IN PICTURE AGAIN
    66 12 Cold Cup parade... s JAST YEAR'S Gold Cup favourite Four o'Clock II rehabilitated himself with dazzling exhibition m the Cup Trial on Saturday. Fourth m the Quineat first m the Derby they say m England. In Singapore this year fourth m the Qold Cup trial
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    FOUR O'CLOCK II
    259 12 Six-year-old bay English gelding by Columcille Princess Anne Owned by Trainer MR. EU ENG HOCK "Chum" WADSWORTH, Koala Lumpur. HERB CHARLES Probable Jockey: Four o'clock II ia right back m the Gold Cap limelight after his gallap bid m the Cup trial over a mile on Saturday.
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    CLASSES 3 & 4 FOR PENANG
    99 12 CLASSES 3 4 FOR PENANG PENANO. Mon Classes 3 and 4 horses will be catered for at the Penang Turf Club's three-day Autumn Meeting on October 13, 17 and 20. First run for Class Three horses will be over 6f. or 7f. and second run over 6f. or l 1
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    S.R.A. SHOOTS
    41 12 The following dates have been fixed for Singapore Rifle Association spoon and inter-Colonial practice shoots at Buk.it Timah range: Sundays: Sept. 16, Oct. 14 and Nov. 18 at 8.30 a.m. Saturdays: Oct. 6 and Nov. 10 at 2.30 p.m.
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    Scotch Express will find support
    449 12 Vass nets 2 m Bank's win CCORINO off a penalty m the first half and adding a second, goal after the Interval, A. Vass, Singapore's Malaya Cup half-back, yesterday helped Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank to beat O.T.E.C. two-nil on the padang QCOTCH EXPRESS, a
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    WEEKEND BADMINTON
    194 12 (Flower) XHE following badminton ties wll. be Dlaved at the Cierica. Union this weekend: SATI'BDAV AT 7.1S P.M. Womrn'i Junior Onr (Mmi-flnali) Miss Lav Hul Huang I Mayflower) Miss Ang Kirn Choo i Wembley); Miss Rosie Poong i Marigold) v Miss Rose Soong (Swift). U'omen'i Junior douMc* (semifinals
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    Inter-club golf match
    211 12 OTARTINO times for an lnter- club match between Royal Johore International Club and the Island Club at the Island Club tomorrow are: FIRST TEE 930 ajn., Mr. Justice Storr (IS) J. N. Davles (14) v. V. Dawson (9) ft F Sadka (12); 8.35, R. Carnaby (16) St
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    R.A.A.F. CRICKET
    69 12 The Royal Australian Air Force crlckjet team, which has beaten Singapore Combined Navy and Combined RAF. teams, will play their last match of the season against a Combined Army team at Nee Soon on Sunday. The R.A. A.F. team will be: W/Cdr. Conaghan, G/Capt. Headlam, F/O Black, P/Lt.
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    SBA JNR. 'GIANTS' TO CLASH EARLY
    238 12 piVE of the strongest teams In the Singapore Badminton Association inter-club championship were drawn In the same section, when the draw took place yesterday at the Clerical Union Hall. The "Big Five" are Bournemouth, Mayflower, Useful "Blues/ Gentle and Marigold. Lucky Strike had the
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    VICTORIANS HAVE A STRONG TEAM
    296 12 VICTORIANS HA VE A STRONG TEAM Inter-school hockey SINGAPORE schools are making full preparations' for their hockey season which starts earlj next' month and are putting everything they have into' their practices which are held twice weekly For the past two seasons. Victoria School have reigned supreme and the only
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    SCHOOLBOYS & SPORTSMANSHIP
    939 12 SCHOOLBOYS SPORTSMANSHIP W WkHHHHMHHK«JHBHKHMLi4BHHJ' TtlY recent remarks on the standard of iTI sportsmanship m our schools— or the lack of it— have brought me many letters. Most of them agree that the will-to-win, almost at any cost, predominates over the desire to make a food, clean fight of a fame
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      34 12 SOCCER: Community Lge., Malays v Navy— l. Besar: Jnr. Captie, Marine Dept. v RAF Tengab —BODCA. HOCKEY: S.C.C. v SJt.C— SCC SINGAPORE TIDE TODAT: 0636 )T ft.). 1083 (It): 00.2 (2.61. 1151 16 51.
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