The Straits Times, 30 March 1947

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  • 20 1 FINAL EDITION THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NETI SALE /A MALAYA No. 609. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 1947. PRICE 19 CENTS.
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  • 47 1 Indian troops of the Britlsh Common wealth Occupation Fcrce in Japan are sharing guard duties with Amer can troops in Tokio. Third from left is L'Cpl. Namedo Jadhao, of Ahmednr.sar, in Bo.vbiy Province, who 1 olds the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military award.
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  • 119 1 Soviet will reply on U.S. aid to Greece vV \ORK, Saturday. A DIRECT and >^cial Rus- < ;:n statement on Presiu&nt Truman*! programme to Hid Greece raid Turkey resist Commur.i m has be.n pro- by M. Andrei Gromyko, ihc Fu£Sian releja'e to the fcj uriiy Council. M Giomyko gave notice
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  • 22 1 < rcat cr.s between British md Russian representatives for a r?vs on of the Anslo-Sovlet b^fpn in Mosccw jretterday, says Riuter.
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  • 66 1 NANKING, Saturday, i OEN. Chair: Chun. Governor of Szechuan and leader of the Liberal "political science gronn" of the Kuomintang, will brcome the next Premier of China, Renter learned from a high authoritative source tcday. The appointment will be offlc'ally announced next week.
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  • 455 1 New storage supply plans Sunday Times Staff Reporter r assist in relieving the Malayan coal shortage and in order to help restart idle industries, large quantities of fuel oil are going to be imported and, as soon as coal-burning plants can be converted to oil, tin mine plants,
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  • 204 1 PARIS, Saturday. PTARVATION has killed thousands of peasants in four 5 separate regions of the Soviet Union during recent weeks, according to a highly placed informant, who listed these regions as the Ukraine, lower Volga, upper Volga, and western Siberia. The fanvne conditions were created
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  • 55 1 LONDON, Saturday A Control Office spokesman said new German food demonstrations occurred in Dortmund this morning with some 2,000 people involved. The spokesman said the situation in Duesseldorf and in other Rhur cities had calmed down Four thousand Ruhr men, at Dortmund, struck in a demonstration against
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  • 162 1 NEW DELHI, Saturday. A MILLION tons of rice are stored up in Vietnam controlled Cochin China for e::porf to India and South-East Asia as soon as the French blockade is lifted, said Prof. Transvan Giau, former President of the Vietnam Resistance Committee in Cochin-China,
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  • 149 1 NEW TIN PLANT MORE URGENT THAN HIGH PRICE Straits Times Correspondent LONDON, Saturday. [MALAYAN tin circles, comment- ing oa the Ministry of Supply I announcement that the price of I tin has been raised from today jfrcm £380 10s. to £437 a ton, say that the price to Malayan aimers
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  • 100 1 New York, Saturday. THE United Naticns Economic and Social Council has given final approval to the design of machinery* to aid in the reconstruction of war-devastated areas. There will be two commissions, one to work exclusively in Europe and the other in Asia, with
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  • 122 1 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. A gang ol 20 Chinese opcivuiig from a hilltop killed two persons and abducted a 17-year-old girl in a daring hold-up reported today from Kroh, the Perak border town near the Kedah-Siam boundary. The bandits fired on a
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  • 86 1 CALCUTTA. Saturday. THE police fired several rounds 1 today to put down communal incidents in the disturbed areas of Calcutta Fifteen such incidents, including a few cases of arson, have b»en reported, sinoe midnight One company of British troops was still patrolling the disturbed area
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  • 276 1 SJAHRIR ATTACKS DUT CH NAVAL BLOCKADE BATAVIA, Saturday. IVUTCH maintenance since the signing of the Linggadjati Agreement of what he described as an economic naval blockade of the now recognised Indonesian Republic was criticised today by Sutan SjaJhrir, the Indonesian Premier. He said that he was afraid negotiations since the
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  • 49 1 MALAYAN WINS AIR TROPHY Seremb&n-born Group Capta.n K. M. Donaldson, D.S.u., A.F.C has been awared the Britannia Trophy fcr 1946. The award is given yearly by the Rr»y-| Acrj C1 i and went to <;.-.).!,- C t Drnaldson for breaking the world air speed record of 616 m.n h. 7
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  • 57 1 LONDON, Saturday. DRITAIN will ask Immediately for a special session of the United Nations Assembly to consider the problem of the Palestine mandate, said a Foreign office spokesman today. Sir Alexander, Cadogan, permanent British representative to the United Nations, has been authorised to
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  • 206 1 YESTERDAY was ti. e greatart I sports day ever in Britain. Never have so many varied and important events been staged in one afternoon. The ban on mid ueex sj.ort was partly rcspons ble for this massing of Saturday entertainment, which was
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  • 34 1 LONDON, StfurttaT Throughout most of Britain tM rivers swolien by huge floods, M 300 years, were needing todM after damaging scores of dttej and villages and causing g*HV agricultural losses.— A.P.
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  • 27 1 It is proposed to create foot more legal holidays in the United States, including Aug. 14, th« anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender— A P
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  • 1039 2 SPOTLIGHT On MALA YA Clifford Peer Turns His AN his way to Bri- tain on leave after an eventful year's work in one of the key Government jobs in the Peninsula is MR. JOHN JEFF, who followingmore than 20 years in the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs has been the Malayan
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    • 340 2 The Air This Week; 8.30 'Music for Marie Ormstcn (pianist), Tlie Melody SINGAPORE everybody"; 9 r 30 News; 9 .45 Play: Men {VO<Al) cantreU's SfSrs iv-TV.*; f? KUALA umfm a sir.: a r^?rs MS £telctL L^^Tnd <ci UZ, SUNDAY Presented by London Sympony Orches--4.8- Simesacycte. per second (61 metre 3.
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  • 564 3 PLAN TO FIGHT JUVENILE CRIME Special Schools, Camps, Courts Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. K SYSTEM of youth movements, boys' camps, juvenile courts, approved schools to deal with young offenders, remand homes and a Borstal Institution have been strongly recommended to the Union Government by a committee set
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  • 174 3 vVHE wcddu.g place at St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday el Mr Rodney Franks, son of the late Mr. G. J. Franks and |dro. Fra. ks of Harrow and Miss Jean Elder, twin daugh er .f Dr. and Mrs. E A. Elder, of Singa'pcre. The bnd e wore a heavy
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  • 57 3 21,700 TON SHIP EXPECTED TODAY MAKING her first post-war ra voyage since b?ing reconverted and reconditioned In Hong Kong from a troop trarsport into a passenger ship, the 21,700-ton K.PM. liner Ruys ii expected in Singapore today. In a few months, her sister ship the Tegelberg will undergo a similar
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  • 26 3 THE Secretary of State for the Colonies has approved the appointment of Mr. J:hn Alfred Brazier as Trade Union Adviser, Malayan Union and Singapore.
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  • 232 3 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. CONTACT has been established for the second time between the Kelantan police and bandits operating across the Siamese border, it is understood, and it is hoped that news of the offer of pardon and repatriation made by
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  • 148 3 Sunday limes Reporter MR. Anthony Brcoke, form!! Rajah Muda of Sarawak, said in a statement yesterday tin. according to reports he had uceived from Sarawak there was propaganda against cession in S!bu during the visit of the Gov-ernor-General. Mr. Ma!olm MacDonald Mr. Brooke said: "In
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  • 61 3 IN old boy ol St. Andrew's School, Singapore, Sgt. Char 2; Frederick e ander.«'n. Australian Im-erial F.rc?, has been awarded me DHi.inguisued Conduct Medal for the work he d'd in Borneo when he was dropped behind the lines during I the Japanese occupation. Sgt. Sanderson
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  • 136 3 Troops help in Perak man-hunt Sunday Times Correspondent IPOH, 3aturday. ROUND-the-clock patrols by the Perak Police a^^ j .ed v. armed troops are scouring the I country around Sitiawan fo" eight desperate prisoners who escaped on Wednesday from the Sitiawan police lock-up. Perak's Resident Commissioner. Mr. A. V. Aiton, said
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  • 128 3 MORE than $67,000 is to be spent 31 by the Singapore Municipal Commissioners in the rehabilitation of quarters for tbo subordinate staff. General repairs, colour wasning and painting of quarters at Kampong Kapor are to be canieu out, and a tender for $51,000 for this Job
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  • 79 3 GOVERNMENT is to appoint a special committee to draw up a tentative scheme on the best distribution of ambulances for the benefit of the Singapore public. Reference to this is made by the Municipal Commissioners In their committee minutes reporting the nomination of a Commissioner, Mr.
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    35 3 MI3S BEKTHA TAN, who was yesterday placed third in an oratorical contest hell by the Singapore Methodist Youth Fellowship. Mr t prize was won by Mr. H. Fang with Mr. P. Lim second.
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  • 248 3 Sunday Times Reporter THERE was a general rise in the property market in 1946 and several properties were sold &y auction and by private treaty at prices which appeared incommensurate with present rents, says the Singapore Municipal Assessor in his annual report covering the pericd
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  • 192 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter niNEAPPLE canners and employees' representatives are to* 1 day discussing the post-war wage scale for a struggling industry which was wor'h $10,000,000 annually to Malaya be/ore the war. The Pineapple Workers' Union is demanding a 200 per cent, increase in
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  • 55 3 Cheeseman report to be debated Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE Cheeseman Consultative Committee's report is being debated on Apr. 10 in the Union Advisory Council, but up to the present there has apparently been no decision on v^nt n*ocedure will be followed after the tabling of the report,
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  • 159 3 HEALTH TALKS TO ISLAND'S VILLAGERS Sunday Times Reporter A THIRD mobile d spensary to j >erve the rural areas of Singapore is likely to be added to those now operating before the year is out, Singapore's Chief Health Officer, Dr. R. S. Johnston, told me yesterday. The two dispensaries now
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  • 29 3 THE annual general meeting of j the Singapore Chinese Sv.im- ming Club will be held at the' club premises in Katong at 11 1 a.m. today.
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  • 112 3 Sunday Times C rr-soondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. SCHEME for recruiting wo- men between the ages of 16 and 27 for the new role of counter clerks and clerical stafft in the postal service is now in force, it is understood. Although it has been
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  • 51 3 AMASS ire l&| o'.vcmhcc Df the Malay People's Front and the CjU^u.i ol J lut Act-on w.ll bo hcid at ZTaurr Park S.ngapsre. tcday at e'vn o'clcck in ordec to rally pub io support for the tw: bJd es fuel to nrot"st against th 3 Fjdeial C:nstitutional
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  • 462 4 FUEL CRISIS DELAYS... BRITAIN'S Xuei-cum-weather crisis has had the unexpected result of causing still another postponement in applying the new Constitution of Ceylon. Causa of the trouble is the electoral registers, which are being printed in Britain. Till they are ready, the nrst parliamentary elections cannot be
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  • 500 4 IN George Orwell's "Animal World." the Major's speech began It all. So persuasive was he In his account ot the hardships the animals had to bear because of the tyranny of man (the Major, Incidentally, was a prize Middle White boar), so vehemently did he preach
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  • 947 4  - PREMIER TO BECOME BANK CHIEF? Bob Gilmore Tfttf Australian Scene by MELBOURNE, Mar. 19. GOSSIP (two-star) from Canberra this week concerns the resignation of both Prime Minister Chifley and Opposition Leader Menzies. The Chifley rumour is that the Prime Minister will quit to take the kingpin finance job of Governor
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    30 4 RITA HAY WORTH wears this off-the-shoulder ncgi fc. of pluk souffle with a wide velvet sash in her new picture "Gilda" which is showing: at the Rex Theatre th<-. week.
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  • 57 5 SIR SHENTON THOMAS (left) pre-war Governor and High Commissioner in Malaya, greeted delegates to the British Commonwealth trade talks in London at a reception given by the Overseas League. Sir Shenton, who is chairman of the League's council, is seen with Dr. H. C. Coombs (Australia)
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  • 107 5 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. A MAN who rose from an inspectorship in the Singapore l'olice to be head of the Customs Department is retiring v.ithin two or three weeks. He is Mr. H. W Phear, Comptroller of Customs in the Malayan Union, who
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  • 190 5 Sunday Times Correspondent TELUK ANSON, Saturday. DECOMMENDATTONS for banishment on the expiry of their A sentences were made by the South Perak District Judge, Mr. J. G. Adams, after he had convicted two Chinese of participating in a secret society. A 62-year-old podl planter, Otiong
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  • 338 5 Watch on rice Sunday Times Staff Reporter EXTENSIVE new powers which have been given to the Singapore Marine Police, the creation of forbidden zones for small craft, special harbour berthing arrangements and extra protective guards for ships have combined to reduce the reported $1 million a month
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  • 98 5 Sunday Times Reporter AUSTRALIANS are responding to the suggestion of the Australian Commissioner lor Malaya, Mr. Claude Massey, made during his broadcast from Radio Malaya last week that they register their names with him for the purpose of founding an Ausv :alian Association. Mr. Claude
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  • 45 5 SOCIAL SERVICE institutions in Singapore, both official and unofficial, are short of reading matter and the Social Welfare Department makes a special appeal to people who have illustrated magazines which they no longer require, to send them to the old Supreme Court building.
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  • 49 5 CINGAPORE rubber prices yes- terday were as follows: fo. i n.s.s. spot IOOM ro. i k.s.s. fob In bales April ro. 2 R.S.S. fob la bales April io. S R.S.S. fob in bales April Cto. per Ib. 4S*i 4SH 4*K cv. per Ib. 44 «3H 44 H
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  • 86 5 KL COFFEE SHOPS' PLE A TO GOVT. Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Saturday fOFFEE-SHOP owners in v Kuala Lumpur have decided to request the Government to withdraw the order for the keeping ol daily accounts of cigarettes retailed. They propose, instead, to report f heir monthly purchases of cigarettes to
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  • 125 5 At the annual general meeting of Sln pore Sinhalese Association held on Mar. 23 the following officebearers were elected: President: Mr P. E. Perelra; Vice-presidents: Massrs W Sena, K. D. Cornells, and Freddy Karunaratne; Secretary: Mr. D O de Silva: Asst. Secretary: Mr. T.A. Simon Treasurer: Mr.
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  • 193 5 NORTH MALAYA GANGS GO UNDER COVER Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. STRICT police vigilance on the Province borders with Kedah and Perak has resulted in March being the quietest month in Province Wellesley since the reoccupation. Apart from one incident two weeks ago, when six merchants successfully resisted a kidnapping
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  • 106 5 Sunday Times Reporter CINGAPORE shippers have de- elded that the $33 a ton, or 50 cubic feet, charged for carrying rubber from Singapore to Japan is "not an economic proposition" and that the figure represents only a few cents more than that charged for shipping
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  • 57 5 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. THE Chinese of Kuala Lumpur observed a holiday today on the occasion of "Youth Day," held in commemoration of the "72 Martyrs" who perished m the Kuomintang revolution. Some 2,000 youths took part in a fathering presided over by Mr. Yoh
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  • 339 5 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. pENANQ students are learning current affairs i n a big way and liking it to:>. In a move aimed at extending this new subject beyond the classroom, a leading girls school earlier this week t:ok its Standard Eight class
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  • 619 6 THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE, MARCH 30, 1947. Vital Industries STEADY and progressive reha- DiMation of Malaya* two great basic industries, tin and rubber, is toda> of vital importance not only to tine recovery of this country from the grim years of the Japanese occupation but also to the sorely pressed
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  • 1154 6  -  PETER GLAD WIN Backdrop for Four-Power Conference by THIS Moscow, where the Foreign Ministers' Conference is trying to hammer out the beginnings of a new agreement on Germany's future, is a fascinating city. You are quickly aware that, from a visitor's viewpoint, the cost of living is
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  • 639 6  - WHYDRJEKYLL WAS MR HYDE JOHN LANGDON DAVIES You and who else? by EVERY now and then we read of a case of "dual personality"; of a respectable and respected doctor of high mental attainments turns out to fee a drug pedlar in his off hours; of a clergyman, well loved
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  • 202 6 Commons new home growing THE British Government is r.cT/ turnine a fraction. of its attention to the rebuilding of the House of Commons in Westminister Palace, reduced to rubble en May 10. 1941 when it was hit by a German bomb. Work jn the foundation and steel iramework of the
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    • 20 6 Each month will bring increased supplies. P.oducers Boh Plantations Ltd. Distributors Harper GiifilSan Co., Ltd. Kuala Lumpur Brunches throughout Malaya.
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  • 45 7 This steel barge, in course of erection and almost r ~dy for launching, is part of a fleet 150 bought by Singanor- G-v--ernment which are being assembled at Geylang. They will eventually be sold to river and harbour interests in Singapore.
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  • 82 7 Sunday Timss Correspondent. DETURNING to Toulon after discharging 7.000 French reinforcements at Cap St. Jacques on the coast of Cochin China, *hs 43,450-ton He de France, Vne largest French liner afloat, is expected to arrive in Singapore today. The giant ship is carrying war wounded
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  • 54 7 SINGAPORE'S St. John Ambulance Brigade Nur.-ing Divisions may soon be restarted and a meeting is to be called shortly to discuss the mattei and to find out how many are likely to rejoin. Anyone wishing to Join should contact the District Officer, Mrs. J. V.
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  • 464 7 $170,000 LIGHTING PLAN FOR CITY Strategic points Sunday Times Staff Reporter A NEW lighting scheme for Singapore, consisting of approximately 250 mercury-vapour lamps, covering a distance of about six miles and costing $170,000 has just been approved by the Singapore Municipal Commissioners. The area of streets to be lighted is
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  • 134 7 SYLVESTER GRIGG, a young R.A.S.C. driver, who said he remembered nothing that happened after he had turned his vehicle into Robinson Road on i,he morning of Oct 2 last ye*: was found guilty by the Singapore Third District Judge, Inohe the death of a Chinese.
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  • 301 7 Sunday Times Reporter 'THOUGH there are 10,000 less civil vehicles on Singapore 1 roads than in 1941 the larger number of Service vehicles operating brings the total to more than pre-war and is responsible for much of the congestion on Singapore roads today. In addition,
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  • 115 7 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. A war memorial for members of the Malayan Union Medical Services who were killed, lost or are missing as a result of the wai or occupation, is being planned. As a first step, the Director of Medical Services has asked all
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  • 246 7 Sunday Times Reporter. (SINGAPORE'S Municipal Com- mLssicners have decided to take a firm line with Chinatown stall-holders who have been repritrdlv P"t't' r n'ne them 'n an attempt to stay put in congested parts of txie ».-.>. They have decided that the licences
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  • 40 7 TOMORROW night at 9.45 Radio Malaya will broadcast a talk about universities in the colonies by Sir Alexander CarrSaurd?rs, who heads the Higher Education Commission now In Malaya This will replace the usual talk on world affairs.
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  • 315 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter ALARM systems to foil burglary attempts have now been fitted to a considerable number of Singapore godowns and to private houses, making the properties prcof against si!*nt entry either through doors, windows or roofs. One Singapore company, who are 1 pioneers
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  • 138 7 Sunday Times Correspondent IPOH, Saturday. MRS. A. C. KATHIGASU, wife of Dr. Kathigasu, of Ipoh, who suffered greatly at the hands cf the Japanese during the occupation and who was flown to England In December, 1945, recently underwent another major operation Her condition is stated
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  • 54 7 Sunday Times Correspondent. SEREMBAN, Saturday. THE first film produced by the Malayan Film Unit of the Department of Publio Relations, entitled "Help Yourselves" which concerns food production was shown at the Residency last night before tha Yang di Pertuan Besar. the Resident Commissioner, Mr. W. A. Gordon Hall,
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  • 118 7 Police may not join trade unions Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. DOLICEMEN or members oW 1 +he armed forces of His Majesty or the Malayan Union Government are prohibited^ from becoming membtrr of a trade union. All other Government employees m?.y now join trade unions whoso membership is confined
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  • 99 7 THE 'Nurs?s of Malaya Furd, which is b 2 ng run to provioa sch larships for nurses and 3 provide mcdallior-s for those who served during tha Japanese" occupation of M^b.ya. so that th^ heroism and unselfish work of nurses ca.i be commemora cd.
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 655 8 I AM frequently asked this question: Do you open lighter In third or fourth position than you do In first or second position? The answer is no. And then I equivocate by adding: except on certain types of hands. To begin with, when you are conumpiatxiig a third or fourth
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    • 621 8 LJ o by NEIL mUNRO 'i'HIS weei I am prcic-ii.ing you 1 with something rather different. As you v.iU sje. there are 35 questions, but you have not necessarily finished when you ;iave answered them. You have to solve them in such a way that the answers to certain questions
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  • 819 9  - Britain looks at homes of the future MARY HEATHCOTT by LONDON, Mar. 17. I IKE many of you in Maiaya, most of us are still a long way from our ideal home, if indeed, we have a home at all, but that everyone builds ideal homes in the air is
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    32 9 This hiffh-neck:d evening gown cut on Grecian lines is by Bruyere of Paris. Made of white silk jers°y its only ornamentation is a wide, tight belt embroidered with artificial diamonds.
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  • 470 9 1 ask my husband to do a small job. He promises but he doesn't do it. His broken promises over small things are nagging me. I feel frustrated and mad. He has the time and he Is good with his hards, while 1 am the go from dawn
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  • 384 9 IN YOUR GARDEN MOST cf us I'm sure like to see plenty of colour in the garden and the usual colour one sees Is created by the presence o: flowers. But if you look around you'll probably notice, as I have done, that a 4
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  • 80 9 pROFESSOR M. Moisel of Moscow is reported to claim proof that vitamins are exhaled into the air from plants. This has been found, he says, by observing microbes placed close to plants. The vitamins identified by the Russians as plant exhalations are B-l, nlcotlnic acid, the
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    • 229 9 FOOD PARCELS One of the hundreds of Letters received from satisfied clients Singapore 13/3/47 Dear Sir, I am now able to report the receipt of the parcels in question. You will be pleased to know that my relatives and friends have expressed their pleasure both with their contents and packing.
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  • 26 10 Showing Dettei teamwork and control of the ball, the Segamat Police swamped the local 0.E.8. at soccer over the weekend to win five-nil.
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  • 811 10 Sunday Times Soccer Reporter CHINESE II 3 MALAYS 2 EXCELLENT crowd control, thrilling soccer and splendid C refereeing were features of yesterday's big league game between the Malays and the Chinese, victory going to the Chinese by three goals to two as the result
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    93 10 Twenty-nine yew old John TnrnbuH oT 37"Mb€arl n?*a. Crosahlil, Glasgow, Is teavtoff shortly to "bike" his way to Aik/.raii* in scare* a« T nvumw ween**— am there's a spare mat for anyone who -*ifits f■» jtSm ~SBav~ nam expects to oovor ttve land part of his journey in lost over
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  • 124 10 Sunday Times Correspondent MUAR. Sat. rE Muar Police sewed a very crcdlable four-nil victory over tne Tans^ak football team on the Muar Club padang yesterrtay when they met In a first division match of the Muar District soccer league competition. The police, with an unbeaten record,
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  • 351 10 Sunday Times Correspondent I POH. Saturday. LAST week-end's State cricket trial must have shown State selectors that, except for possibly last two places, the State team picked itself. Of those who had so tar established themselves in selectors' minds and were, therefore, fighting for a
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  • 158 10 MUAR PLAYER SUSPENDED FOR 6 MONTHS Sunday Time* Correspondent MUAR, Sat. STRICTER measures are to be adopted to check rough play In league matches in order to keep soccer In Muar as clean as possible. This was one of the decisions arrived at during the committee meeting of the Muar
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  • 78 10 The following play cricket for the Indian Association "A" XI against RAF. Tenrjah at Tengah ground today at 11.00 a.m. Plryers are 'requested to meet at Balbir Co., 11l North Bridge Road at 10.00 a.m. R. Sltharam (Captain), R. S. Sithambaram D.K. Samy; Kevin Mallal; R. Retnasamy; Z.
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  • 671 10 BADMINTON TITLES WILL BE HARD TO RETAIN Sunday Times Badminton Correspondent W.i'H only five days left the 1947 Malayan open badminton championships begin at the Chinese Assembly Hall at Kuala Lumpur, competitors will end their training today so that there will be no hint of staleness about them when the
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  • 473 10 AUCKLAND, N.Z.. Sat. THE M.C.C. completed their tour with a fine victory over Auckland by an Innings and 65 runs here today. The tourists scored 240, but then on a sticky wicket they dismissed Auckland for 85 -and 90. The M.C.C. owe a great deal to
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  • 282 10 ANDRES TAKES 5 FOR 32 IN PENANG TRIAL Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG. Sat. AN aggressive innings of 39 by Llm Cheng Poh and a steady contribution of 30 runs by Khoo Boon Choo, together with some elective bowling by the former State am. Colony player, Joe Andres, were highlit .is
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  • 1560 11 WIN THE PEACE PAYS $142 AT K.L. RACES Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. U/IN the Peace, a recent importation owned by "Lucky if Kongsi," won the last race of the day from a big field of 12 runners the biggest since the Liberation and returned the biggest dividend,
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    35 11 The Mayflower Badminton Party which beat the Dapat B.P. of Jen ore Bahru, seven games to n il at the Happy World Stadium. In the top left-hnnd corner is Wong Peng Soon, the Malayan champion.
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  • 90 11 DIVIDENDS AT A GLANCE RACE l.SUttab ($3l. $9). Happy Valley ($7). Skipper ($11). RACE 2. Trumplngton ($6O, $13) Bex Flash ($7). Yutoi ($9). RACE S. Shoot Up II ($ll, $7). Bitter Sweet ($9). Lovely Bore ($8). RACE 4. Jackpot ($lO. $C). Turn Over ($7). Blue Boy ($7). RACE 5. Victory
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  • 217 11 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. rh Aicket was still heavy for the first day of the Sclangor State cricket trial to select a team to play Singapore in Singapore. 11.A.F. Brookes' side batted first and were still batting at the close of
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  • 88 11 LONDON, SaturuuE,— A Soviet sports chief visited the Olympic Games Organizing parlours yesterday, thereby stockIng up one of the hottest I sports riddles In London. "Will the Russians compste in the 194 a Olympics.?" The inquiring Russian w&s General Mirhael Gromov, presi- dent of the Moscow Sports
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  • 108 11 KLUANG, Saturday. Playing at Kluang In a soccer match, the Dorscts were defeated 2 goals to 1 by the Malays. Both teams took to the attack from the start and in spite of d??ermined efforts by the Dtrsete, the Malays took the it ad and scored
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  • 58 11 The following will represent The Clarke Rangers at cricket today aga'nst the 6Ut Coy. K.A.S.C. at Bidadari. Play to commence at 11 a.m.:— l. Lsa (Captaii), ft M. Ally. S. Nair. P. da Suva, H. Sh;Ji. H. Rodrigues. M. Shah. A. Jansen, Ail Omar, Gregory d 3 SUva,
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  • 217 11 Sunday Times Correspondent TELUK ANSON, Sat. /"•ROUND conditions bampereed good ▼J footoall here yesterday when the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders played a friendly with Mr R.T. Malal's XI on the Speedy R?r.d upper padang. This padang is at present in a very unsuitable
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  • 157 11 ALCR STAR, Saturday.— Following ure the fixtures for the rest of the matches for the first half of the Kedah soccer season: 31/3, Police vs P.W.D. 9/4, Food Control vs Pengawai Jawantan Rendah. 10/4, Supply Depct vs Sunrocs. 12/4, Sungei Kcrok Malays vs Police. 14/4, Gurkhas vs Food
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  • 56 11 Members of the Ch'cte Sing Athletic Union, Singapore, who wish to join a picnic to Haw Par Island are asked to contact Mr. Yeo Koon Kirn or the Hon. Secretary, 231, Tampenis Road, not later than April 1. A General Extraordinary Meeting will be held on Sunday
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  • 111 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. I A NUMBER of applications from members of the Selangor Turf Club all ever Malaya for sweep tickets for the Easter race meeting in Kuala Lumpur. I which have gone astray," are consider- j able, states J. Archer, secretary of the
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  • 53 11 The following players will represent the C.V.M.A. (Singapore) in a friendly table tennis game against the Singapore Tailors' Association today at the premises of St. Peter Paul at 7.00 p.m.: Tan Teng Slang, Tan Chek Khoon, J. Nalpon. W. Hendroff, Ang Yong Boon, Louis Lim, Ang Yong Mong
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  • 18 11 DLAYING at Johore Bahru yes- terday evening The Singapore Star Soccerites beat Johore Bahru two goals to one.
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  • 189 11 RAIN again interfered with the Padang cricket yesterday. While no start waa made In the two-day fixture between the S.R.C. and the Ceylon Sports Club, the match between the (S.C.C. and the S.C.R.C. "A" was. I begun bu( later interrupted by a heavy downpour. Betting
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  • 163 11 IN a friendly badminton match of five) .1 singles and four doubles between; I the Amicable Sports Union and the, Combined Friendship Badminton Party! I played at the latter's court the Amij cable Sports Union won by five games to four The following are the results. I (AmlcabV;
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  • 178 11 MALACCA, Saturday. Sparkling badminton was seen on the Argonauts coui: when the Starlight B.P. of Sercmban met the Arsonaucs! B.P. in three sets of singles and four o? doubles. Although all the lion >v.:s for the singles went to the visiting i party with comparatively little effort the
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  • 86 11 i RAIN stopped play in a cricket match i between St. Andrew's Old Boys' "Association am. the Police at the Police J Depot yesterday. St. Andrew's Old Boys' had scoreU 47 runs for one when j rain fell. Scorers were: A. Jansen not) out 34; E. Ebert
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  • 89 11 In a friendly badminton match, the Serangoon Rangers B P beat I the Roeyth B.P. by five games to I two. Results are as follows (Rangers I first) I Ng Heng Kwang lost to Cbua Kee Meng; Chua Poh Koon beat A. j Henry; Llm Ah Haung beat
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  • 178 11 NEW YORK, Saturday. MARCEL' Cerdan of Morocco, middleweight champion of Europe, rocketed toward a world title flght yesterday by knocking out young Harold Green of Brooklyn, in two minutes and nineteen seconds of the second. round, in the Jammed Madison Square Garden. An explosive
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    • 848 12  - 100-1 CAUGHOO WINS NATIONAL Vernon Morgan Quarte r Million Crowd Staggered From AINTREE, Sat. fAUGHOO, Irish-owned and bred 100-1 outsider, today won v Britain's premier steeplechase, the Grand National, by 20 lengths. LOUGH CONN (33-1), another Irish-bred horse, was second while French-bred KAMI (33-1) was third, four lengths away. Prince
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    • 189 12 Cup Semi-finals LONDON, Saturday. /'HARLTON Athletic beat New- castle by four goals to nil in the F.A. Cup semi-final at Leeds to enter tihe final at Wembley for the second successive year. Aft?r extra time, the other semi-final between Burniey and Liverpool at Blackburn was drawn,
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    • 136 12 Rugby Football SWANSEA, Saturday. WALES defeated Ireland 6 points to 0 in the Rugby Union International today. A capacity crowd 01 36,000 watched the game in which there was no c^ore at half-time. It was a grim battle of forwards, with Ireland hovering around the Welsh line.
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    • 87 12 NEW YORK, Saturday.— Basket Ball rules for b^th crllcge and amateur Athletic Union teams in the- United States and teams in Ctfina France, Spain, Mexico, Portugal, Columbia, Ecuador, Uruguay and Brazil are being made the same in prcparati'n for the 1948 Olympics. The Amateur Athletic Union
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    • 240 12 AINTREE, Saturday. IT is 20 year» Tin a 1 vftUti c won the Grand National and 15 years since the last English borse was successful. Bookmakers were jubilant at the result and a leading: member of this profession said that, out of 100,000 doubles laid
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    • 60 12 VANCOUVER. Saturday. THE University of California held the University of British Columbia to a three-all draw in the third game of a four game total point rugger series for the World Cup, on Friday. California won the first game 24 to 21. British CoulmMa won the second
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    • 292 12 LONDON, Saturday. Results in today's League Soccer programme d'd net affect the championship, promotion or relegation. i M.1.1M1 Lt.U.l L FIRST DIVISION Aston V. 2 Chelsea 0 Blackpool 3 Leeds U. 0 Brentford 0 Grlmsby T. 1 Derby Co. 1 Boltcn W. 3 Everton
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    • 50 12 In a soccer match today betweea Darul Bahar Club and Pulau Bukom Sport Club the following will represent Darul Bahar: Mohd Yasln, Ahmad Haron. Abd. Rahman Jr., Ahmad Yusof. Kamis, Bakar, Awang Oebos. Sani, Kamid, All Sagor, Ismail. Reserves: Yahya, Ahmad Ma 'on, Madl. linesman: Captain Husin.
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    • 50 12 CANNES, Saturday. DAULINE Beiz defeated Deniso 1 S&lvet of France, 6 2, 6—3 In the women's singles quarterfinals of the Beaulieu Summer Tennis tournament en Friday. Miss Betz, from Los Angeles, California, is the U.S. National and Wimbledon outdoor champion and the National Indoor champion. A. P.
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    • 64 12 IN the wrestling at the Great World la*t night the Singapore R.AJf, Championship final waa won by Alex Shand, R.A.F. Changl, who beat Jack Winspear, of the R.A.P. Seletar, in five rounds. Other results were: Malayan heavyweight semi-final resulted in a draw between Son of Kong and Stan
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    • 47 12 ra friendly soccer match played yesterday, the Jollllads Athletic Union defeated the Bukom Sports Club one-nil at Bukom. The game was fast and exciting throughout. The goal came after half time when Muniyandl scored off a free kick. Mr. M.P. Samy refereed the macth.
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    • 488 12 LONDON, Sat. PAMBRIDGE, leading from start to finish, scored an easy V victory in the annual inter-Varsity boat race, beating Oxford by ten lengths in covering the four and a quarter mile course in 23 mins., 1 sec. As evening shadows were beginning
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