The Straits Times, 17 July 1947

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED IB4S. TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • 264 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. ;i riK Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Edward Gent, has declared the Malay organisation A.P.I. (Angkatan Pemuda Insaf to be an unlawful society, said an official statement this evening. This action was taken by the Governor, it was
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  • 108 1 Girl Defies Gunmen NICE, Wednesday. A HOLLYWOOD girl today defied two American gunmen who are reported to have been ordered to kill her. She is Virginia- Hill, "girl friend" of an American racketeer who was found dead recently m her Hollywood home. She disappeared from a hotel m Paris and
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  • 104 1 Dutch Police Plan Opposed BATAVIA, Wednesday. I REPORT from Jogjakarta says that political party leaders have rejected the latest Dutch joint constabulary proposals, thus dslaying the formation of a federal interim government. The leaders are meeting tonight In me Republican working committee to give a final answer to the Prime
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  • 102 1 SHANGHAI, Wednesday:— The authorities are beginning a roundup of Germans who have so far managed to evade repatriation to their homeland either on the pretext of illness or by Jumping ship. Today. 14 were arrested, including two women and three children. Homes of all those arrested will
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    51 1 Mr. Hans I1I 1 inch Su:^r. of Zurich, Switzerland, and Miss Joan Fraxer, of Sydney, photographed by the Straits Times after their wedding at the SinTa^oxe Presbyterian Church Tarterday. 'ihe bride was riven away by Mr. H. ScbweUer. Mjs>. Scnweiscr was matron of honour. The honeymoon will be svent m
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  • 192 1 A YOUNG English-speaking Chinese Mho tried to extort $50 from a Chinese' businessman m Robinson Road on Tuesday fell on his knees and begged for mercy, when the businessman seized him by the co!^tr, and summoned the Singapore Criminal Investigation Department. The Chines-; was
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  • 47 1 MUNSTER. Wednesday. THE 100,000 inhabitants of the German city of Munster have Just received their latest cloth allocationIt consists of one handkerchief. The mayor announces that he will probably put it in the museum as a record of the current shortages.— A.P.
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  • 65 1 NEW YORK. Wednesday.— A scientific expedition has set out to study the range of undersea mountains believed to have been left In the Atlantic when America separated from Europe and Asia.* Th# range rises two miles from the ocean floor and runs from Iceland
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  • 390 1 LONDON, Wednesday. BRITAIN from today, under the new Anglo-American agreement, removes all restrictions on the spending of current sterling for current purposes. An eminent London authority, clarifying sterling's new international role under the agreement, emphasised that Britain intended to maintain the exchange rate
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  • 42 1 WASHINGTON. Wednesday.— Thp Navy announced yesterday that its 63-year-old Chief of Naval Operations. Fleet-Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, had entered Bethesda Naval hospital for treatment for inflamation of the right leg. His condition was not serious, the Navy said.— AJ>.
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  • 195 1 August Talks On Jap Peace WASHINGTON, Wednesday. THE United States today formally announced it had invited the 11 member nations of the Far Eastern Commission to meet l n Washington on Aug. 19 to discuss a pe.ee treaty for Japan. This move is taken to mean the complete abandonment by
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  • 73 1 Shots From China Wound H.K. Police HONG KONG. Wednesday, A British police officer, SubInspector L.G. Nippard, was today wounded In the spine by a bullet fired by a Chinese from Chinese territory. A Hong Kong Chinese police officer was also seriously wounded. The incident occurred w'^en the two policemen tried
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  • 36 1 SHANGHAI, Wednesday.—Central News reported from Kweilin yesterday that at least 23,000 persons riled and 1,500,000 rendered homeless m the recent Kwangsi flood which was described as the worst m 30 yean>. A.P.
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  • 212 1 New India Army Commands NEW DELHI, Wednesday. 'THE Indi n Government has 1 invited Gin. Sir Wll am, Joseph Slim, former Commander of the 14th. Army and aide-de-camp to the King, to be Commander-in-Chief of the new Dominion of India Army. It is reported unofficially that Lieut-Gen. Sir Prank Messervy,
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  • 127 1 RUBBER rose more than two cents yesterday when the market reacted on the better ton e i n New York and the rise in prices there. The closing price for No. 1 ribbed smoke sheet f.o.b., buyers, was 30i cents per lb. as against Monday's close of 28|
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  • 220 1 NEW YORK, Wednesday. lADY Iris Mountbatten, a second cousin of King George and a first cousin once removed of Viscount Mountbatten, has been arrested on a fugitive warrant, charged with issuing a worthless cheque for (U.S.) $88.05 m Washington. Familiar to thousands of «übn way
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    • 38 1 U.S.deS For DIAMONDS L GEMS V JEWELLERY A. 106, Orchard Rd. f Tel. 2466. In this tiny handbag phial you can buy Goya's incomparable 'No.j ptrjwru, sophisticated luxurious 1 tICIAM IT I 111 RE* KID ST LONDON Wt
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    • 56 1 \jai/Uotuitfe MAOt-T»-o*O£Mt^ IN OTHER PAGES Search for Kidnapped Sergeants 2 India BUI Third Reading 3: History of A.P.I 4 Aid Conference Completes Work In Four Days 5 Editorial 6 Gloomy Rice Prospects 7 Thursday Magazine 8, 9 Sc 10 Financial 11 Sport 13 WILLIAM JACKS «c CO., (MALAYA LTD. 1
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    • 1224 2 fl8 months, members of the (Wester Australia), who Mountain View gold mine at Da] Within the next six months they expect to win gold worth an additional £25.000. They bought the mine for £5.000 six years ago, and gold won since has amounted to
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  • 202 2 SEARCH FOR KIDNAPPED SERGEANTS 80 Terrorists Arrested JERUSALEM, Wednesday. WHILE British Army troops and police combed their way yesterday through the Jewish town of Nathanya in a search for the two British sergeants kidnapped last Saturday, they arrested 12 known terrorists and 68 suspected terrorists. Altogether 1,200 people were questioned
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  • 111 2 MACARTHUR WANTS TO RETIRE IN U.S. TOKIO, Wednesday. General Douglas Mac Arthur told a irroup of visiting newspaper editors on Monday afternoon that he would like to settle down m Milwaukee m the United States after tne Japanese peace treaty is signed. This was the first indication that General Mac
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  • 122 2 LONDON, Wednesday. The House of Lords yesterday sent the Labour Government's inlan.l transport nationalisation bill back to the Commons with a -iozan amendments passed over Government protests. The bill is designed to bringBritain's railways, bus-lines and long-transport contractors uncier Government ownership by next January. Conservative Peers
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  • 283 2 More Aid Or Less Democracy SALT LAKE CITY, Wednesday THE United Stales Secretary of State, Mr. George C. Marshall, declared on Monday i the United States must protect its incalculable stake m Europe by enlarged economic aid, or see that continent turn away from democracy. He told a conference of
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  • 85 2 NANKING, Wednesday. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, was touring the city's streets raid t>ie Hsin Mm Pao when a Chinese Army jeep ran ahead of his sedan and suddenly halted. The Generalissimo's sedan missed a collision by inches. The Army driver, not knowing the Generalissimo, thought it was
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 717 2 NOTICES TRAFALGAR LIMITED. Notice Is hereby Riven that the rhirty-thlrd Ordinary General Meeting •f Trafalgar Limited. wlU be held at the Registered Office of the Cotnocny. Mo. 2. Prince Street. Smrapore. on rrW»y the 18th July. 1947. at 12 noon, to ncetre the Dtrecton* Report and fcceounts for the rear
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    • 763 2 NOTICES SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY Claims for refund of assessment oa Vacant Houses. Notice is hereby Riven that claims for refund of assessment on vacant houses within Municipal Limits for the period from 1 January to 30 June 1947 must be submitted on or before 31 July 1947. Applications for refunds should
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    • 624 2 TENDERS TENDERS Tenders wIU be received at the Office at the Director of Public Works, Singapore up to noon of the 21st July, 1947 for Construction of 50 Sub-War-den quarters (Alternative Design) at Outram Road, *Blngapore. Plans and Specification and all particulars may be obtained at the Office of the
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    • 24 2 L I SWASHBUCKIING W^^/\ I GALLANTRY! 1 !^§H|f I ROUSING ACTION <*"( 'tWiitA Sherwood Forest Rings yyjjyg^gr Again to the Battle Cry of the Outlaws!
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  • 164 3 HASTINGS, Sussex, Wed. /GENERAL Secretary of the world's largest union, the British Transport and General Workers' Union yesterday called for a return of many wartime measures, including a limited policy of direction it labour to lead Britain out of her grave economic crisis. Addressing more than 700
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  • 92 3 wmo«, weanesaay. Although railway authorities I claimed that only 21 persons were killed and 56 injured m the train i wreck north of Yangteh on July 10, It is believed the casualty list Is much greater. The railway authorities are unable to say how
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  • 1871 3 India Bill Given Third Reading In The Commons "SYMPATHY AND HELP FROM BRITAIN" PROMISED LONDON, Wednesday. THE Indian Independence Bill, which will create the two new dominions of India and Pakistan on Aug. 15, was given its third reading without division in the House of Commons last night after just
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  • Article, Illustration
    22 3 Princess Elizabeth chatting to a Colour Serjeant when she inspected the First Battalion of the Grenadier iiuards at Chelsea Barracks.— AP. Picture.
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  • 244 3 MELBOURNE, Wednesday. TTHE Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Viscount Montgo1 mery, has accepted a gift of 1,000 cubic feet of timber from Moe branch of the Returned Soldiers' League (Victoria) to build a home for himself m England. Moe branch of the R S.L.
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  • 136 3 NEW DELHI, Wednesday. TNDIA'S Constituent Assembly yesterday accepted for consideration a committee report proposing provincial constitutions modelled on the states of the United States after one member had objected because the constitutions were not designed on the Russian model. The provincial constitution proposals provide for adult
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  • 190 3 Philip Evades Marrriage Query EDINBURGH, Wednesday. pRINCESS Elizabeth and- her fiance, Lieut. Philip Mountbatten, made their, first appearance alone to-« gether when they visited the Scottish regiment, the Argyll' and Sutherland Highlanders, of which the Princess is the. Colonel-in-Chief. The regiment presented Eliza-, beth with a regimental broach in diamonds
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    • 66 3 T 4 If/ mk l f' rli^llfelk. > iHhSB^ uW/ STAYS h**mT*n*| Because it's TOUGH Take a tip trom truck and fleet owners, railroads and independent operators who buy (his Finish for long term results! They find Ph» cote protects better rt« tains its beauty. Under the worst driving conditions
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  • 1109 4  -  HARRY MILLER By CINCE the day of Boestaman's arrest, no member of the Angkatan Pemuda Insaf has worn uniform —the white shirt with the "API* flash, the white trousers, and the Mack songkok, fronted by red and white buttons. Officers wore red ties, and Boestaman, as leader,
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  • 320 4 Increased Rubber Estimates PROVIDED the supply of labour is adequate, two Malayan estates developed with high-yielding stock expect their estimated crops for this year to be exceeded. The first is Middleton Estate, belonging to Cheviot Rubber Limited. It expects to crop 4,723,000 lbs. The second is Glendale Estate, belonging to
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  • 208 4 TpHE Singapore Labour Ad1 visory Board has sent a protest to the Government against the proposed Control of Rent Bill and suggested that the Bill should not be passed m its present form. The Board, which discussed the Bill at its last meeting, held the general opinion
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  • 23 4 New Moon Day which falls today will be celebrated by Madame Sena at the Sinhalese Buddhist Temple, 96 Outram Road.
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  • 294 4 A 52 year-old Chinese boatswain, Yong An Sang, who was awarded the British Empire Medal (Civil Division) by the King for meritorious service on a torpedoed oil tanker during the war, received his award m Singapore, yesterday. The presentation was made by Rear Admiral H.
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 380 4 The Professor (Gary Cooper) characterised reports on the "Flying Saucers" as sheer imagination Bat he admitted having seen a "BALL* OF FIRE" (Barbara Stanwyck), m Singapore, which he was studying because of the devastating affect «n the male population. ChHttkta'i I WIW I diamond m* H T Baf Christina* complexion
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    • 398 4 What a relief gfifp No More Soar Acid Stomach. -Thanks to De Witt's E Antadd Powder, I car. I^J now eat what I like, f Ssgfl without fear of any 111 K^p^P effects afterwards." Ja= =y^ (A35) If you are suffering from excess acidity. Indigestion, heartburn flatulance. etc. why not
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    • 200 4 GREER GREGORY GARSON PECK THE VALLEY DECISION CATHAY TOMORROW Phone 3400 for Seats. i mmmm OPENING TO-DAY! 3 SHOWS DAILY: 3. C.15 9. 15 pro JOHNNY WEISSMCjLLER In his greatest triumph "TARZAN FINDS A SON" with Maureen O'SaDlvan John Sheffield QUEENS THEATRE Pbon« MS7« Geylanjr OPENS TO-DAY: I. «.N, 9.
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  • 415 5 Post- War Record Established PARIS, Wednesday. THE 16-nation economic conference on the Marshall plan for aid to Europe yesterday completed, without a division, its blueprint for an organisation to draft a reconstruction programme outside the Russian sphere. The conference's third plenary session, meeting for
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  • 95 5 MALACCA. Wednesday. Chee Ah-Chik, arrested m connection with the double murder of a Chinese police detective, Tay AhMlng, and his wife In Bunga Raya |n April, was granted a discharge, not amounting to an acqufltai, after the 0.C.P.D., Mr. Hamilton, had informed the magistrate at the preliminary
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  • 243 5 OFFER OF BRIBE ALLEGED From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. PIVING evidence at the trial U today of a prominent Chinese merchant, Mr. V. Kandiah. Assistant Supervisor of Custom.-;, declared yesterday that the merchant, Tan Swee Tin, had offered him a bribe of half the proceeds of over $12,000 worth
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  • 49 5 The public meeting which is being convened by the Singapore Clerical and Administrative Workers Union to debate the propond Conteol of Rent Bill will be held at the Victoria Memorial Hall at 5 p.m. tomorrow. The Union has received permission to use the hall for the meet-
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  • 53 5 THE proprietor of a coffee shop Lavender Street, Yee Yew Seng, was yesterday fined $^)t>, or six months' r.i. for serving beer without having a licence to stated m the Third Poikce Court that the beer was bought by a revenue officer, who paid for It with
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  • Article, Illustration
    43 5 Charley Delps emerges from the flooded Mississippi River at the foot of Washington Street, St. Louis, U.S.A.. on July 2 after securing a tow rope to a truck which was completely submerged by flood water whilst unloading oil into a steamer.— A.P. Picture.
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  • 192 5 I tit former cmcer-m-charge of the Singapore Food Control 1 Inspectorate, Chief inspector Claude William Roberts, appeared m the Second -District Court yesterday on a summons charge of abetting the commissinn of the offence of the concealment of 198 bags of controlled rice by a Chinese.
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  • 61 5 LONDON, Wednesday. The British Foreign Office announced last nigh that the British political representative m Finland, Mr. F M. Shepherd, had been appointee Consul-General at Bat avia with the rank of Minister. J. M. L. Mitcheson, m charge of Batavia Consulate-General has been appointed head of
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  • 41 5 alongside the Singapore wharves yesterday < god owns in brackets) were: Mam Wharf: Dagnar Salen (36-37), Titan (38-39), West Wharf: Scottish Prince (6-7), India (10-11), Glengarry (15-16). Empire Dock- Somerville (1920), Trinity Victory (23-24), MuU u/ 1 2u-26) Gujarat (29-30).
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  • 136 5 CHILD-FEEDING CENTRES IN KAMPONGS The Social Welfare Department has opened ia various kampongs and villages m Singapore free chilo- feeding centres which are supplying nutritive meals of curry, rioe, fruit and milk to children under seven years. They are opened everyday except Sunday. Some of them are under the management
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  • 311 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday THE Malay Sultans were 1 present at 3n investiture ned at Kings House this evening. The Governor, Sir Edward Gent, conferred decorations and medals and presented certificates and cards of commendation to 29 Government officers, volunteers, and civilians. The
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  • 165 5 From Our Own Correspondent. SEREMBAN, Monday.—Several prizes and special awards were won at the second agri-horticul-tural exhibition of the SerembanPort Dickson districts held here, which was declared open by the Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan and attended by the Governor, Sir Edward Gent, Lady Gent, and
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  • 33 5 The Acting Trade Union Advisor, Mr. R. P. Bingham, will address the Singapore Hospital Assistants' Union at Its inausuial general meeting on Saturday *t 3.30 D.m. at the club premises, 15-A ColTepe Road.
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  • 144 5 TOREE armed Chinese entered a petrol agent's shop 1 m Waterloo Street yesterday at 9 ajn., and robbed the 55-year old Chinese proprietor of $2,800 m cash and $1,000 m jewellery. They were all armed with pistols, and wore handkerchiefs on the tower parts
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  • 24 6 Mr. 4c Mr. A. Balaslngam thank all their friends and relatives who attended their wedding and for the valuable presents and telegrams received.
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  • 1080 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs. July 17. 1947. CHILDREN IN THE NEW MALAYA Under the hopeful heading MOVE TOWARDS CHILDREN'S CHARTER m Tuesday's Straits Times, m a report on new legislation passed by the Malayan Union Advisory Council, there was 1 this sentence: "One measure approved raised the employment age
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  • 121 6 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. The U.S. Department of Commerce announced today an easing 31 rubber control regulations, permitting natural rubber to be used m several additional products and allowing expansion of its use m latex foam, but added that t!:is would mean no substantial changes m the ratio
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  • 66 6 TOKIO, Tu3£d?.y. Gen. MacArthur has lscuad an order prohibiting civll'an sirl employees weartnj su.r. suits m public. Slacks ire psrmitted only under certain editions. Fl's Old?.- ::ays. "Civilian employees mutt wsar conventional dress at all times when m the buildings of general- ■•eidquarters or m
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  • 813 6  -  JIMMY LEE By CHINATOWN, anywhere, is incomplete without the peanut vendor, and especially is this true of Chinatown m Malaya, where tlys romantic figure can be seen any night. Unlike his Indian business rival, the Kachang Puteh and Kachang Kudah seller, he does not remain at
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  • Man In The Street
    • 670 6 From a countryman niG and poultry rearers fall Malaya are finding it no j easy matter to pay their way because of th c high cost of fodder. They should be given every encouragement to rear more pigs and poultry m order tc' increase the
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    • 89 6 SINGAPORE'S Financial Secretary disclosed recently the amount lost by irresponsible buying and just how broke the colony is. When will the Malayan Un^n'.-? Financial Secretary do th e same and let us know the losses incurred m the last six months as the result of the
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    • 932 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. i I i 1 1 OHLSEN. To Joy <nee Johnson) a-r.d Ernest, at Kandang Kerbau, 15 July, a son. Adrian Errest. JEYARAJ. On the 16th July. 1947. at Bungsar Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, to Ranee, wife of C. Jeyaraj of the Far Eastern Broadcasting Service and late of the
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    • 53 6 Scientific Glare Control American POLAROID OAY GLASSES Flis-QNS also available. rbe only type ot glasses tbat really controls glare. Dunn? the war used by the American Arm.v and Navy. Call for a demonstration to Drove cne differences from orilriarj sun glasses Various New Types ot Spectacle Frame.) Si Monntlncs also
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    • 227 6 CHEMICAL INDUSTRY T X his is the symnoT of imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., the great British chemical combine known familiarly throughout the world by its initials I.C.I." Formed in 1926 fc$r the amalgamation of four famous companies— Brunner Mond Co., Ltd., Nobel Industries Ltd., United Alkali Co., Ltd., and British
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  • 1149 7 GLOOMY RICE PROSPECTS FOR MALAYA Singapore Meeting OfS.E.A. Delegates CPEAKING of the future, at the 14th meeting of the South East Asia liaison officers yesterday, at his Singapore office, the Special Commissioner, Lord Killearn, said that the rice prospect was "such as to exclude complacency." The Food and Agricultural Organisation's
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    27 7 Mr. id Mrs. Tan Hcay Djin photographed after their weddin™ at Wesley Church, Singapore last Saturday. The bride was formerly Miss Daily Lim Quee Hon? of Singapore.
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  • 147 7 THE Singapore Criminal Investigation Department yester1 day began a recruiting campaign for Chinese detective. Object of the campaign is to strengthen the Singapore Defective Force for a drive against the organised criminal gang menace. The Force, which now numbers 190 men, will be built up
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  • 60 7 At an exira-oruinary m:cting of the Unicorn's Club (formerly known as the Jolly Brother's Club) the following office bearers were elected: Prosickr.t and patron, O. R. Sicharam; hon. general secretary, T. S. Nathan; assist, general secretary, A. Marshall; hon. treasurer, O. R. Perumal; hon. sports secretary, Alex
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  • Malayan Round-up
    • 709 7 A SINGAPORE Chinese girl whose father was killed m the Malayan Railways accident at Senai, was rescued from the sea at Malacca yesterday by a Malay youth. The girl told the police she lived in Beach Road, Singapore. She was oil her way with
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  • 113 7 An urgent appeal for publio help m the reconstruction of the Society for the Prevention cf Cruelly to Animals m Singapore, was made at yesterday's meeting of the SP.C.A. at the Council Chamber, Secretariat. An old hand-book of the rules of the society would be of great
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  • 133 7 Ten hours after his bride Lad'i disembarked from the Dutch ship, Oranje, Mr. Francois Joubert, i Senior Trade Commissioner r.f South Africa (Far East), married I Miss Elizabeth Baker, at St. An- i drew's Cathedral, Singapore, on I Tuesday. The Archdeacon of Singapore, I the Rev. H. D.
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  • 318 7 Rotary T.B. Clinic Fund Expanding THE Singapore Rotary Ciub" 1 has decided to r*?M $80,000 to open a clinic lot diagnosis and preliminary treatment of T. B. cases. This was announced by Mr. S. S. Franklin, the president of the Rotary Club, at the weekly luncheon meeting held yesterday at
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  • 51 7 Well known local artists will judge the Inter-School Art Exhibition to be held m the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Hill Streer, from August 11 to 16. The Chinese Consul General will open the exhibition which will include oils, water colour, Dastels and needlework from all schoois m
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  • 175 7 THE Army is to de-requisi-tion Goadwood Park Hotel on Aug. 31. The building is to be handed back, complete with accessaries, to the pro prietors, who propose to restore it to its pre-war function as a private residential hotel. Mr. Vivian Bath representing the owners, said, yesterday
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  • Straits Times Thursday magazine
    • 811 8  -  WtANCES BAILEY BT KECENTLY the King has made several decisions involving changes in Court etiquette that would have made Quee n Victoria's hair stand on end. He has Granted a knighthood to two <9voTce«s famous screen and stage star Laurence Olivier and Treasury expert
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    • 86 8 LONDON, Wednesday The Vatican generously disposed of an anomaly which has puzzled and pained Catholic Eskimos for years. Their staple diet formerly consisted entirely ef flsh and sealmeat, yet they regularly offered prayers asking: "Give us this day our daily bread." For most Eskimos, bread
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    • 301 8  -  RICHARD HUGHES By Close-Up of The March of Democracy in Japan TOKIO, Wednesday.--'! he Government plan to reward prompt and full rice deliveries from farmers with bounties of sake to embarrassing the patriotic farmers of the Saitama prefecture, who have consistently maintained one hundred per cent deliveries. •Fujisawa
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    • 426 8 New yorker's Round-u p DRIED BY VACUUM NEW YORK, Friday. -It's :>.w possible to dry a swim-girl, complete with costume, within 25 seconds after she leaver the water. Experts showed how this week, with the new bagless-type vacuum cleaner, to which water and dust are one. Model Paule McCanco dived
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    • 954 8 SYDNEY, Wednesday. I AST week I went to a corset convention at Ushers Hotel just a small convention conducted by one company. In a jcora, on the third floor, I found 20 executives of Dowd Associates tiy. Ltd., corset manufacturers, dscusing corsetry tiends and ways
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    • 147 8 NEW York WednesdayClyde Lamb, 34, walked out of prison on parole one day this week convinced that the drawing pen was mightier than th c hold-up gun— and more profitable. Ten years ago Lamb was gaoled for armed robbery. Always he had liked to draw. Now
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  • 1042 9 C PP^ S _OF_THE WEEK HORACE GREELEY, PK1NT■t, EDITOR, CRUSADER, by Henry Luther Stcddard. New York: Putnam. AN HONORABLE TITAN, ny C,rr.»H W. Johnson. New York: Harpers. IN the 19th century era of personal journalism people sometimes waited outside newspaper offices to bash up •the proprietor. Today the
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  • 345 9 1UYSTERY OF THE WEEK SO MUCH BLOOD, by Zelda Popfcin. London: Hutchinson. rS young poisoner of today, I fsar, seldom reflects on th 2 glittering advantages he enjoys, comparad with the limited opportunities that presented themselves to his grandfather, or even his father. Domestic or family poisoning
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  • 160 9 Trrnspcr: Administration La Tropical Dependencies, try George V. O. Bulkeley, C.B.E I* l. Mech. E, (m collaboration with Ernest J. Smith, P.C. 1.5.. The Railway Gazette. 205.). The Railway Gazetie has produced a comprehensive survey of transport problems m the tropics. Mr. Bulkeley, who was successively
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  • 98 9 The corps* was bloodless, a botch of reds and whites, Its open, staring eyes. Were lusixe!ess deadlights Or cabin-windows en a stranded huik Heavy with sand. From the Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket, by Robert Lowelwinner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. the eoiled-up wreck of a human hulk,
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 642 9 When the opponents take the rubSmc by bidding and making a slam, vii'ir reward is so high that you can afford a very substantial sacrifice in order to take the bid away from them. Even in this sort of sacrificing, hair ever, there must be a logical limit. Consider this
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  • 315 10 Alice finds new wonderlands in Hollywood and Paris HOLLYWOOD.— Two versions of Lewis Carroll's "Alice In Wonderland" are coming to the screen, one of wh'ch will take thre2 years to make. American producer Lou Bunin has flown to Paris with staff to make a three-dimensional puppet film m which the
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  • 263 10 STUDIO SIDELIGHTS British composers will write the music BING CROSBY will sing in his British picture next year. Crosby signed the agreement with Mr. J. Arthur Rank during a game of golf In California. Crosby's comment after signing the contract: "That man Rank knows where to do business who could
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  • 80 10 scenes of life abr%ad HOLLYWOOD— Cary Grant is off to Engfcnd before the end of the year with a new kind of international film company in mind. His scheme: to travel from country to country making pictures that will heip Americans understand foreign culture and
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  • 152 10 HOLLYWOOD.— Popular star of n the British screen Phyllis Calvert has made in inauspicious American debut in Uni-versal-International's "Time Out Of Hand." Unfortunately cnly a few of the American millions who will see "Time Out of Hand" are acquainted with Miss Cal vert's
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    • 259 10 SKYWAYS (far as?) LTD. (Incorporated id Hongkong) DIRECT LANCASTRIAN PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND HONGKONG IN 7 HOURS NEXI DEPARTURES Friday 18th July Tuesday 22nd July Friday 25th July Enquiries to THE BORNEO COMPANY LIMITED. (Incoioorateu lr. England) General Agent* Bookings also accepted at Straits Central Agencies, Majestic
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 113 10 K^y^^^ B \^T*\ ffiii'iiiiLfH, RADIO MALAYA SINGAPORE ENGLISH 8.15 p.m. Headlines; 8.20 Vera Lynn; 8.30 "Swing Club;" 9.00 Crazy Gang; 9.30 News; 9.45 "Confound The Experts;" 10.16 "The Curtain Rises;" 10.30 Picture Parade; 11.00 CloM Down. MALAY 6 p.m. Women's Hour; 8.30 Religious Hour; 6:45 Arabic Selections; 7.00 Halaman Kcbudayaan;
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    • 130 10 Prose Reading. INDCNESIANMALAY 7.45 Dance Music; 8.00 News; 8.12 Dance Music. ENGLISH 0.30 News; 9.45 Daneo Music; 10.30 Radio Newsreel; 10.45 Development of the English Novel; 10.50 j Music in Miniature; 1130 News; From Today's Papers As Harold Nicholson on "The International Scene;" 12.00 Light Music; 12.15 News; 12.30 Close
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    • 130 10 Master, Pianists Arthur Rubinstein: 9.45 Benny Goodman; 10.00 World News; 10.15 Helen Jepscn (Soprano) Charles Kullman (Tenor); 10.30 Australians on Record Lionel Cecil (Tenor) Marjorie Lawrence (Soprano); 10.45 Australian News; 10.55 Victor Sylvester; 11.00 Talk; 11.10 Celebrity Violinist; 11.15 Waltz Time; 11.30 Close Down. RADIO SEAC 7 p.m. Film Theatre
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  • 174 11 LONDON* Tuesday. THERE wms nothing very en- couraclnc about the markets the last day of tfae account, further Oiltedged losses Imparting dullness m other domestic tones, although finally IndtwtrJalg developed a siiaihty better tendency. writes EetrUr'a financial Corregpondent. Following vi« today* eloatna} mkhUe prices oT srtected stocks a«
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  • 295 11 SINGAPORE. Wednesday. rpBDS Malayan Sharebrokers' Association resorted inJL dastriais steady, tins slightly steadier and more in«ririe* for rubbers at barraln prices: One* Kan +/J Imp. Chem. art. 52/6 -A* Hup. Chen, pref. 41/ +/3 Inn. "Kb <*ui n/n —in* Int. Mefcel SSH Lotct Bras. Unflmr M/6 1/ lUM'A'
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  • 60 11 The Singapore Chamber ot Commerce Rubber Association's prtca at noon yesterday wejj: Buyers Sellen Ctt. CU. per Ib. per U>. NO. 1 R.8.S. Spot k»M 29J 29} No. 1 R.8.8. fob in bales Aug. 30 96* No. 3 R&S. fob in bales Aug. 29 i 29J No. 3 R-8J3
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  • 260 11 Prom A Market Correspondent Foodstuff prices have declined m the last day or twrv. Latest quotations were as rafcMaK— Rice: 31am No 1 $107, Mb. 3 $105. 3 SIO4, .without brand $95. Glutinous rice, Slam No. 1 $88, No. a $84. Sugar: Jam white $60. Australian 861. Philippine
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    • 352 11 Shippers and other* Interested In Shipping Intelligent* are referred to Advertisements in col. 6 and 7 opposite pace and to Snipping Notice* on page t. P&O B.I. For Co.'onbe Bombay Cargo Only M. V. Mullah Sailing July 21 For Calcutta direct cargo only Warina due July 19 For Hong Kong
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  • 514 12 from Our Racing Correspondent iPOn. Wednesday. FE latest importations liom Australia include such clC3.s norses as Viva, a Melbourne Cup and Victoria Derby runner; Strauss, who won a six-furling rtCe in 1 mm. 121/2 sees— 1/ 1U of a se.otid belter timing than the Malayan
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  • 110 12 Baby Baltazar and Emilio IbaiK". t vo of the first Filipino boxers to visit these shores since the re-occupation, arrived m Singapore yesterday by the Bagmasalen lrom Manila. They were accompanied by Battling Sima. the Singapore Filipino who is billed to fight the Australian, Leo Heaney,
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  • 107 12 I rem Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Wednesday Tho Sclangor Golf Olub is holding a swimming gala on July 18, Hari Rayj. A tram of swimmers and water polo players is expected from the I;> 'li Swimming Club; dnd it is also h p>-d
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  • 292 12 PATERSON COLLAPSES IN GYMNASIUM Dramatic End To Title Bout Plans GLASGOW, Wednesday. THE world flyweight championship fight between Jackie Paterson, British holder, and Dado Marino of the Philippines, arranged for tonight, did not take place. Paterson, 27-year-old champion, collapsed m his gymnasium today a few minutes before he was due
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  • 234 12 Prisons Johore Champions From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wednesday IOHORE Frsons, by beating j J Rangers by five goals tc j two yesterday, won the 1947 Soccer League championship They have now won League honours three times, the pre vious two occasions being ir 1939 and 1940. A few
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  • 98 12 From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA, Wednesday.— The Malacca State cricket team to play Selangor at Malacca on Sa tut day and Sunday was selected last night by the, Crtekct Association. The team is: J. Bailward, C. da Silva. C. A. Devries, G. Emmanuel. R. C. Erkhe,
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  • 186 12 BAD EGGS THROWN AT TOURISTS BOOING spectators threw ro.tan eggs at th-? Manila basketball touring team to►wards the end of their game with the A'l-Malaya Chinese combined team at the Kappy World Stadium on Tu-sday n ght. Th.3 tourists won 66—36 m a match which was otherwise without incident. Net
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  • 56 12 And Rocks In Davis Cup ZAGREB. Wednesday. Eight thousand booing, rock-throwing tennis fans forced Yugoslavia yesterday, to default m thefr last Davis Cup match against Czechoslovakia because the Czechs had substituted a third ranking player against Yugoslavia's second ranker. The Czechs, by winning all five games, won the right to
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  • 25 12 T.day: High water 10.40 a.m. (8.3 ft.) and 9.32 p.m. (9ft). Tomorrow: High water 11.29 a.m. 8.7 ft) and 10-25 p.m. (9.9 ft).
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  • Sporting Fixtures And Results
    • 56 12 The Non-Benders will play cricket against R.A.P. Tengah at 2.15 p.m. on Saturday at Tengah. The NonBenders team is: T. J. Lcijssius (capt.), H. B. Noon, V. I. Evan Wong, Lt. Col. Lane, Major Gordon Mackay, Claude Massey, Dr. R. P. Morrow, V. C. Westcrhout, J. E. Jeans,
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    • 108 12 The Ckiing Hwa Badminton Party beat the E. O. 8. Club by six games to one. Results (Chung Hwa players first): TUn Chiang Teo beat AU b. Mohamed 9-15, 15 9, 15-10; Pang Kl* Seng beat Hee Chit Lim 14-14, (3-0), 15-3; Teo Thuang Kwee lost
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    • 59 12 The following were elected official* of the Young Companion Athletic Association at the annual general meeting: President. Mr. Teo Choo Soh, hon. secretary. Mr. Quek Hock Seng, hon. treasurer. Mr. Loon Seng Poh, hon. auditor. Mr. Loh Leong Pai, hon. sports captain. Mr. Tan Yew Seng, and two official
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    • 64 12 The Dawnlight Association beat the Liberty Sports Party at tabletennis by 3 games to 2 last Saturday: Results (Dawnlight first): Leong Kun Seng lost to Choo Pak Chow 2-3, Chow Yue Woon lost to Koon Weng Fook 0-3, How Yew Weng beat Koon Poh Seng 3-2, Cheong Beng
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    • 58 12 The following will play cricket for the Hospital Assistants and Dressers Association against the S.C.R.C. at Hong Lim Green on Saturday at 2.00 p.m. Ram Singh, R. V. 8. Sundram, A. Shecaran, Sim Ten* Peng, S. John, K. Yafthlllngam. Swee Lim Swang, Chang Kow Thye, O. T. Retnam.
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    • 44 12 The following will represent the Borneo Motors Limited Soccer XI against the M.P.H. Soccer XI, on July 18, at Kampong Melayu ground at 5 p.m.: Wood, Md. Oman, Mr. Aarscn, Ah N'gan, Md. Kirn, Osman Yusoff, Samad, A. Johari, Panl Aziz, Leman.
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    • 42 12 There will be a meeting of the Sports Section of the Old Rafflesians Association next Wednesday, July 23 at 530 p.m. m th« school hall. Old Boys interested In football, badminton, hockey, cricket, table-tennis and swimming are invited to attend.
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    • 35 12 A friendly game 'of soccer was played on Monday at Jalan Besar Stadium. The Bendemeer Athletic Club beat the Haikowyu Sports Club by two goals to one. B.A.C. scorer: Yip Choon Kan (2).
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    • 28 12 The final of the O. S. C. Billiards Championship will be played off on Saturday at 7.30 p.m. between Tan Thean Teck and Lim Chuan Oeok.
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  • 287 12 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. WITH 184 horses entered for all four classes, there will te nine laces o« each day of the Penang Turf Club Summer Meeting to be held on Saturday July 26, Saturday, Aug. 2 and Monday, Aug. 4. i 9
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  • 148 12 rE teams to represent Selangor and Penang m the northern semi-final of the Foong Seong Cup badminton competition to be played at the Kuala Lumpur Town Hall on Sunday at 10 a.m. have been announced. A. S. Samuel will be Selangor'S"! captain, and other players are
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  • 108 12 The qualifying round over 36 holes for the Royal Simgapore Golf Club Championship was played on Saturday and Sunday and the following qualified for match play: R. Craik 156, W. Eldred 153, 0. O. Cruickshanfc 159, B. W. F. Goodrich 161, E. Laidiaw Thomson
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  • 81 12 NEW YORK. Wednesday. Toe Louis will not defend his world heavyweight championship this year, according to a statement made yesterday. Instead of defending his title as originally arranged on Sept. 19, .Louis will participate In two nontitle bouts over 10 rounds at Madison Square
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  • 506 12  -  Middlesex By LONDON, Wednesday. MIDDLESEX, captained by William Edriih fcr the first time since he turned*amateur,. gained a sensational win m one of the most dramatic finishes ever seen m first class cricket. With 24 minutes left for play, Midd'esex started their second innings requiring 66 iuns. Instead
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  • 235 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Wednesday. Good batting by Phuah Pek Hoe and S. Kamal. who scored 36 and 54 respectively, enabled the Selangor Coast Club to beat the Klang Club by five wickets m a matoh played at Klang on Sunday. Klang Club batted first, and scored 106
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