The Straits Times, 27 July 1947

Microfilm: NL5183
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    19 1 TBnmSmoN THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NETT SALE IN MALAYA No. 626. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1947. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    S'PORE G.M.C CHIEF
    33 1 MB. V. Keith White, Singapore representative of General Motors Corporation, who will be responsible for opening the G.M.C. car assembly plant to be built in Singapore. Story in Page 3.
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    INCOME TAX IS 'NOT URGENTLY NEEDED'
    337 1 INCOME TAX IS NOT URGENTLY NEEDED' Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE Singapore Association's committee on income tax reports that it considers there is no urgent necessity for income tax in the Colony during the next 12 months. If introduced, income tax should be imposed only by the new Legislative Council,
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    MINE KILLS 2 SOLDIERS
    44 1 JERUSALEM, Sa'.utrday.— Two men of the Royal Corps of Signals were killed today on the Jerusa-lem-Jaffa road when a mine exploded, it was officially slated. The men were digging to find the broken end of a telegraph cable. I Reuter.
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    RICE ADVISER QUITS IN PROTEST
    317 1 'Thousands of tons lost' Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE Technical ASviser to the Malayan Union Government of Rice Mills, Mr. N. M. Clark, \old the Sundny Times yesterday that he had resigned owing to dissatisfaction with the Government's control and administration of the rice industry.
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    TRAITORS ASK FOR PRISON COMFORTS
    105 1 SHANGHAI. Saturday. A GROUP of Chinese collabora11\ tionists serving time in War Road gaol, the world's largest prison, touaf sent a petition to me warden asking ii they might be allowt-rf to have three hot weath.-r comforts— water melons, mosquito ne:s and ice. The warden
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    NO JAPANESE TOYS FOR AUSTRALIA
    89 1 CANBERRA, Saturday. NO Japanese toys, crockery or fancy goods will be allowed to enter Australia when trade with Japan is resumed, Mr. Joseph B. Chifley, Australian Prime Minister, announced here today. Declaring that the first party of Austrian businessmen to visit Japan since the war
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    INCREASING DREAD' OF MALAYANS
    129 1 Sun.ia. Times Staff Corn. ■iMicnt MALACCA, Saturday. THE Malay Nationalist Farty is convening a merlins; of all political organisations in Malaya at Malacca on July 31. Mr. M. 11. A. RaUt..*t. Secretary of the MNP, announcins this in a statement to the Press i today, expressed
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    FOOD INSPECTOR ASSAULTED IN GEYLANG
    125 1 A 34-YEAR-OLD Singapore 'J\ Eurasian Food Inspector, Mr. M. D. Pestana. was assaulted with sticks by three Chinese and a Malay, while inspecting stalls inside the Sims Avenue Market, Geylang, yesterday at 10 a.m. Mr. Pestana was later admitted into the General Hospital, with a
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    JAIL FOR BRIBERY
    40 1 WASHINGTON, Saturday. ANDREW May, former chairman of the House Military Committee, and the munitions-mak-ing Garson brothers, Henry ar.d Murray, were sentenced yestarday to from eight months to two years in Federal prison or. war bribery charges. I
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    U.S. COLONELS ACCUSED OF SLAUGHTER
    223 1 THE Manila Evening News corre--1 spondent at Vigan Iclocos Sur on Friday reported that extradition papers had been filed for the return of two famous wartime American guerilla" off! cers of the American Army in the Philippines. They were accused of responsibility for the execution
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    AUNG SAN LIES IN STATE
    72 1 U Aung San (now referred to as "Bogyoke" in Burma, meaning Great Leader), Deputy Chairman of the Burmese Executive Council, who with seven other Cabinet members and one secretary, was assassinated on July 19, now lies in state at the Jubilee Hall. Rangoon, with the
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    DUTCH THRUST FOR VITAL COAST ROAD
    390 1 BATAVIA, Saturday. WHILE the Dutch forces are making an armoured thrust eastwards from Cheribon, in an effort to link the whole of the north coast road between Batavia and Semarang, the Republicans claim to have recaptured Tjitjalengka, 15 mil s east from Bandung, and
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    G.-G. SENDS JAVA APPEAL TO UK
    92 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter rE appeal made by the head of the Indonesian Red Cross, Miss Koernianingrat, which was broadcast on Fridjtf evenir.g to Mrs. Malcolm Mad%» nald. wife of the Governor-Gene-ral, was immediately reported to His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom by
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    BANKS TO BE MOVED
    64 1 NANKING. Sat.— The Executive Yuan has ordered the head offices of four Government banks to be mcved to Nanking from Shanghai by the end of the year. The banks are the Central Bank of China, the Bank of China, the Bank of Communications and the Farmers'
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    Robbers tie up 3 watchmen
    172 1 Robbers tie up 3 watchmen Sunday Times Staff Reporter TIGHT armed robbers took t about $4,000 -jvorth ol new motor car tyres and shoes from the Singapore store of Bata Shoe Company at Kampong Soopoo, off Geylang, at 1 a.m. yesterday after trussing up the store's throe Sikh watchmen, two
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    END OF CHIANG'S RULE PREDICTED
    141 1 TORONTO, Saturday. MR. James G. Endicott, of the United Church, back home in Toronto after 22 years as a professor at West China University, Chengtu. said yesterday that Chiang Kai-shek would last only to the end of the year as Chinese President. "There is ample
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    CANADA BUILDS SHIPS FOR YANGTZE SERVICE
    76 1 OTTAWA, Saturday. UNDER a credit arrangement guaranteed by the Central Government of China, Canadian shipyards are building nine specially designed ships for operation on the Yangtze River. Because of the shallow draft required, builders are using principles Involved in aircraft construction and other innovations.
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    SPOTLIGHT on MALAYANS
    1001 2 SPOTLIGHT on MALA YANS Clifford Peer Turns His CTAUNCH upnoiaer of the rights of Malays in Malaya and in particular of the rights of individual States, SULTAN BADLISHAH O F KEDAH celebrates his fifty-se-cond birthday on Tuesday. Seventh son of the late Sultan, he succeeded his father, having been rege|xt
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    They find work in the street
    240 3 They find work in the street Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE operation of Singapore's unofficial labour exchanges offers one of Chinatown's most unusual sights. Every night, just nf.ir dusk, hundreds of femalo Chinese labourers gather in Upper Chin Chew Street, seemingly just in c tattet and exchange gossip. 'U-.'-y are
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    BOOTLEGGER FINED ON TWO CHARGES
    67 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PARIT BUNTAR, Saturday.— Admitting possession of apparatus for the manufacture of liquor and also being in possession Of lermented mash, 64-years old Tan Keng, was fined $100, or two months' rigorous imprisonment on the first charge, and $50, or one month,
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    WAGES COUNCILS BILL FOR MALAYA
    106 3 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur. Saturday. A SPECIAL meeting of the Malayan Union Labour Advisory Board was held on Thursday to consider a preparatory draft of a Wages Councils Bl 1. This draft was based on the United Kingdom Wages Councils Act of 1945
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    Mrs.BROOKEOFF TO SARAWAK
    211 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MRS. ANTHONY BROOKE, wife of the ex-Rajah Muda of Sarawak, who arrived in Singapore on July 14 fro/n London, sailed for Kuching yesterday morning by the s.s. Darvel. She expects to be in Sarawak for two months. Accompanying Mrs. Brooke to I Sarawak
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    GENERAL MOTORS TO EMPLOY 1,000 MEN
    555 3 GENERAL MOTORS TO EMPLOY 1,000 MEN Spore factory ready in 1 948 Sunday Times Staff Reporter AT least 1,000 workers will be employed by General Motors Corporation in its new assembly plant in Singapore, which will be ready early next year. Five hundred unskilled men will be drawn from Singapore,
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    AMOK KILLS MAN
    78 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter Penang, Saturday. WHILE the S.S. Wo Sane was on her way to Penan*, a Chinese deck passengejr ran amok and attacked the other passengers killing one and seriously wounding two others. The man then jumped into the sea and was tost. The master
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    Court looks like tobacco retail shop
    120 3 Court looks like tobacco retail shop Sunday Times Staff Reporter mHE Singapore Third Police X Court resembeld a tobacconist's shop yesterday morning, when nearly a 100 lb. of tobacco and cigarettes were exhibited following as island-wide drive by Customs officers on Friday. Fourteen defendants appeared in court charged with the
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    TWO MALAYS ON ROBBERY CHARGE
    51 3 Sunday Time* Correspondent MUAR, Saturday. TWO Malays, Mohamed bin Jais and Manap bin Sentoh, were charged before the magistrate, Che Hassan bin Abdullah, today, with committing robbery of property valued at $60.70 belonging to a Chinese, Sin Chai Tiang. The case was postponed until July
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    HIGHWAY ROBBERS OPEN FIRE ON VAN
    67 3 Sunday Times St...T Reporter SEREMBAN, Saturday. FUR armed Chinese fired two shots when they held up a van which was returning to Seremban after delivering cigarettes to dealers In Tampln. One shot grazed the left car of the driver. The robbers demand, ed cash
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    S'PORE DOCKERS MAY BOYCOTT DUTCH SHIPS
    196 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter CHINESE and Indian dock workers are considering taking action to boycott Dutch ships calling r Singapore. If such action materialises, their leaders are confident It will receive the backing of the labouring class in Singapore. An official at the Enggor
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    WAR IN JAVA HITS PENANG TRADE
    279 3 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. r-'. outbreak of hostilities in Java has "completely halted" Penang's coastal trade with the Dutch East Indies. Commenting on this today, a leading Penang merchant told the Sunday Times that even smugglers had decided to su»p«nd operations. Vessels,
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    SCHOOL POSTERS FOR DISPLAY
    146 3 Sunday Times Reporter MALACCA, Saturday. AT a regional exhibition of entries in the school posters competition held at the Malacca Public Relations Department promises this morning, four posters were selected by the judges to be entered in the forthcoming Malayan Agrlhc-t cultural Exhibition. Five schools participated
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    AUSTRALIA BANS AN OLD WORD
    1027 4  - AUSTRALIA BANS AN OLD WORD Bob Gilmore says AUSTRALIA'S tro- pical civil servants in New Guinea and Papua henceforth are forbidden to address native servants as "boy". Extreme leftist External Territories Minister Eddie Ward lays it down in writing that "continuance of the use by Administration officials of the terms
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    DARK RECESSES OF THE MIND
    636 4 DARK RECESSES OF THE MIND BOSTON ADVENTURE" is a remarkable study of the dark recesses, of the numan mind, of the brooding that eventually loads to insanity. And it is a most remarkable first novel. The first pages I found hero to read, partly because of a certain flatness in
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    Shyest animal caught
    293 4 rUR of the worlds rarest animals half giraffe and half zebra, a. 3 called okapis have just been captured by the most elaborate methods ever usod in jungle trapping. The extreme shyness of these elusive animals mak s detajled plans for catching them vital, and even though
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    BOOK SHOW FOR MALAYA
    433 5 2,000 exhibits from Britain Sunday Times Staff Reporter TWO thousand British books ranging from 1 political testaments to fairy tales sent from England by sixty firms of publishers will be exhibited in the Victoria Hall, Singapore, for one week from August 16. The exhibition «v ill
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    LAND SCHEMES RESTRICTED
    115 5 Sunday Times Correspondent IPOH, Saturday. GOVERNMENT land settlement \J schemes in Perak are at present restricted, as far as schemes of any size are concerned, to the settlement scheme for Malays, at Stage Four, Sungei Manik, and the settlement scheme for Chinese, at Changkat Jong, also in
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    MOTHER WILL TAKE BABY TO PRISON
    85 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PENANG, Saturday. MR. Justice C. W. V. Carey yesterday granted permission to an Indian woman to take her two-months-old baby to prison with her. The woman, Letchumy, had been sentenced to 18 months' simple imprisonment for stabbing her cousin, Govindamal.
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    Border Bandits Kidnap Official
    171 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PENANG, Saturday. BANDITS operating on the Kedah-Siam boundary have kidnapped a Siamese Immigration Officer, Mr. Pairojna, attached to the immigration department at Sadao. Mr. Pairojna was going to Kedah when half a dozen armed Chinese fired on him and held up his
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    Brooke Files Libel Action In Sarawak
    116 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. AN action for libel has been filed by the former Rajah Muda of Sarawak. Mr. Anthony Brooke, against the Attorney Genera of Sarawak, Mr. K. H. Digby, and the Sarawak Press Company, publishers of the Sarawak Tribune. Mr. Brooke is
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    EX-RAJAH MUDA DENIES REPORT
    94 5 Sunday Times Stan* Reporter KLANG, Saturday. FNGKU Musa Eddin,^ the exRajah Muda of Selangor, said today that the report that he had fileo a claim for $1,000,000 damages against the British Government for alleged iLdignitiea was entirely without foundation. Expressing distress over publication of the false
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    BUDDHIST MEETING
    59 5 FE annual general meeting of the Singapore Buddhist Association will be held at 4 p.m. today at 96, Outram Road, Singapore! The honorary secretary, Mr. M. G. de Fonseca, will present the annual report, and the honorary treasurer, Mr. B. A. Ranasinghe, will present the accounts which show
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    PUT DEAD BODY ON ROADSIDE
    141 5 Sunday Times Correspondent SERFMBAN, Saturday. MANSOOR bin Sawang, a xuck driver, today told the Ser^mban District Judge, Mi. D. M. K. Grant, how, on April 24, he had .knocked down an elderly Chinese, Lim Ah Poy. with his truck. Mansoor was charged with culpable homicide
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    RUBBER
    58 5 rpHE Singapore Chamber ot X Commerce Rubber Association's prices at noon yesterday were: Cto. oer Ib. Cto. per Ib No 1 R.S.S. Spot loose 29 Vi No 1 B.S.8. fofc in bales August 30 No 2 B.S.S. fob in baled August 2$V* No 1 B.S.S. fw In bales Aasiut
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    BRIDGE BUILDERS LEAVE MALAYA
    182 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. 1 1BR successfully building many bridges and reconstructing many miles of Malayan roads, th* 93 (Royal Bombay) Indian Field Ooy., Royal Indian Engineers, has returned to India. They first lnr'Yd at Morib in SeDtembe.-, 1945. a*i In January last
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    THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE, JULY 27, 1947 MACHAM TADI
    637 6 THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE, JULY 27, 1947 MACHAM TADI VTOW that the magic date of ll uly 15 Is well past without -y violent repercussions on Malaya's economic structure, and, apparently, without any official cognition that Clause 7 of the Washinfeton Loan Agreement came into force on that date, the
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    UK restores her great national library
    1361 6 UK restores her great national library THE restoration of such a famous-coU lection as the library of the British Museum in London, after the damage done to the buildings and books by bomb- ing, was a formidable task, but it has been tackled with vigour and success. BY A BRITISH
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    MAPPING OPERATION
    626 6  -  JOHN LANGDONDAVIES UNTIL now the maps of the moon's surface have been more accurate in detail than the maps of the earth's surface. There are two reasons for this. First, we look up at the moon with an unimpeded view, whereas mountain ranges, forests and all sorts of
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    UNION PLANS PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS
    375 7 UNION PLANS PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS Meeting place of 75-man Council Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. IN a few years time, provided all conditions are favour1 able, Kuala Lumpur should have its new central goVernment offices and a parliamentary chamber commensurate with its dignity and position as the capital of
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    MAKING HER BOW
    39 7 rpHIRD prize winner in the Miss X Trade Fair 1947 competition held at the Great World Cabaret on Friday night. Miss Woo Wan Chine is seen here making her bow to the judges of the competition.
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    30 7 WINNER of the title Miss Trade Fair 1947 at the Great World Cabaret on Friday night was Miss Peccy \J'ont, right. The second Drize winner, left, was Miss Lily Yong.
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    MURDER VERDICT ON MAN FOUND DEAD
    122 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A verdict of murder against a person, or persons unknown was returned by the Singapore Coroner, W. G. Porter, at the inquest, yesterday on Lee Ting I Moon, Cantonese, who was found 'dea<? in Albert Street, en Julj 11. Lee's
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    POULTRY INJECTED AGAINST PLAGUE
    91 7 bOAMU ~.i.nSs Slail Reporter PENANG, Saturday. IN the first large-scale experiment of its kmd carried out in Penang and Province Wellesley, nearly 2.0.00 fowls hart been inoculated in Bukit Mcrtajam this week. The campaign is directed against poultry plague epidemics, usually prevalent between August and September.
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    MUSLIM WELFARE WORK
    252 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. SINCE its inception in May, the Muslim Welfare Committee comprising various Muslim organisations in Kuala Lumpur, has rendered help to destitutes and also to boys of Muslim parentage at the Children's Home in Klang Road. The organisation hopes to extend
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    KINTA POPULATION
    48 7 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent IPOH, Saturday. OWING to the great Increase of population in Kinta, it was no longer possible for the Town Board to flush out the city's drains on a large scale, the Resident Commissioner. Mr. A. W. Aston, said at a -press conference.
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    U.S. SAILORS 'RESCUE' 3 MONKEYS
    349 7 U.S. SAILORS RESCUE' 3 MONKEYS •I Sunday Times Staff Reporter CRUELTY seen at bird and v animal shops in Rochore Road, Singapore, yesterday, shattered visions of shore leave and beer for three sailors of the United States Navy who paid $(U.5.)15 to "rescue" ttiree monkeys from a "heil on earth
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    PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO CHEATING CHARGE
    88 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter IWAS drunk." said Thakar Singh when he pleaded not guilty in the Singapore Fourth Police Court, yesterday to cheating Muhram Singh of $2.30 worth of food, which had been served to him. at Tanjong Pagar Road, on July 25 and
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    FULL SUPPORT U RGED FOR WHITE PAPER
    206 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter I PENANG, Saturday. THE Federation of Malaya 1 scheme outlined in the White Paper deserved wholehearted support from the peoples of Malaya, Mr. H. E. Nixon, a Penang Settlement Advisory Councillor, said to the Sunday Times today. He suggested,
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    REAL ESTATE DEALS REACH $25 MILLIONS
    255 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter TWENTY-FIVE million dollars have changed hands in 723 1 real estate deals in Singapore since July last year $7,000,000 more business than was done over a similar period at the height of the 1927-1928 land boom. Commenting on this record
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    CONSERVATIVES WIN MOCK ELECTION
    126 7 SuiKi.*.. n.nes Staff Reporter ST. ANDREWS Old Boys who gathered at Cecil's Restaurant yesterday for their monthly lunch meeting took part in mock elections staged by Mr. G. H. Hawkins, the Supervisor of Elections, Singapore. Results of the voting which followed saw Mr. Dong Chui Sing
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    PERAK CAMPAIGN FOR BLOOD DONORS
    60 7 IPOH. Saturday. A CAMPAIGN for blood donors is being conducted in Ipoh by women of all communities led by Mrs. A. V. Aston, wife of Perak's Resident Commissioner. Mrs. Aston has been making visits to Malay schools and to many other institutions where she spoke
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    CARS INTERFERE WITH RADIO SETS
    268 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MANY Singapore owners of shortwave radio sets are complaining that reception of programmes is being badly interrupted by noises caused by "unsuppressed" electrical apparatus on buses and lorries. The police too have found that signals from their radio patrol cars are
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    WOMAN BOUND OVER ON CHANDU CHARGE
    80 7 MALACCA, Sat. A well-dressed, middle-aged Chinese woman, Lim Boon, stated to be a resident of Bukit China, Malacca, was charged before the District J^lge, Che Hamid bin Mustapha, with possession of seven leaf packets of chandu and was bound over for six months in
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    SALES ARE WITH US AGAIN
    854 9  -  MARY HEATHCOTT A Woman Looks At Britain BY LONDON, by Air Mail. THOSE old pre-war jamborees the July sales are here again. With a difference, of course. The crush is worse and the queue at one Bond Street shop this week began forming at six
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    549 9 In Your Garden WRITING in a local paper recently a plame stated that since using L..i).T. on his estate, chiefly in order to eradicate vermin from the labourers' quarters, he had found that fruit was not setting o.i his tomato plants. He suggested that -he
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    483 9 The husbana, 50 has two daughters; the wife has been in a mental hospital for years. They were happily married, and he has always hoped for his wife's recovery. The dau -h* is bavr t»">ir #>w»: activities work, music, dramatics, studies, and boy friends fill their lives.
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    TAIPING SCHOOL HAS GOOD CRICKET XI
    206 10 TAIPINO. Sat. THE criclcet team of St. George.; Institution. TalDirg. up to date nve had a very successful season with some creditable victories aeainst -*oocl club sides in the town. Early in the season the schoolboy.defeated the Food Control Boons Union and. later in
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    WON TOP HONOURS IN 2 GAMES
    729 10 WON TOP HONOURS IN 2 GAMES Malayan Soccer Stars: Goon Kok Ying By A Special Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. rthe "hall of fame" of Malayan sportsmen, few deserve a higher place than diminutive Goon Kok Ying who has heard a roar of applause from appreciative crowds throughout the Far East, on
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    PRESIDENT OF TWO TURF CLUBS
    389 10 Turf Personalities... No. 4 From Our Racing Correspondent PEXANG, Saturday. rEN Mr. Sydney Bacon Palmer, C.8.E., is not busy lighting on behalf of the rubber industry and championing the cause of Malayan planters, his chief occupation is racing and today he is unique in being
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    KL PREPARES FOR CRICKET MEETING
    226 10 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. PREPARATIONS are being made in Kuala Lumpur to hold the inaugural meeting whioh will launch the Malayan Criclcet Association during the August Bank Holiday week-end. The meeting, it is understood, will be held at the Selangor Club, probably
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    CIVIL SERVICE ASSN SPORTS CONVENORS
    113 10 THE following have been appointed convenors of the various spores activities of tlie Sir -r- r\ Service Association. Badmaron: Kir. I. > >> th>.Treasury; table tennis: Mr. Quck Song Quee, co Audit Dept., Maxwell Road; tennis: co Mr. Sect Tiong Geok. co Medical D.'pt., Health
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    STARLIGHT B.P.
    80 10 Sund 'V Times t riv-pond. Nt SEREMBAN. Sat. THE Starlight Badminton party of Seremban will meet the Argonauts B.P. of Malacca in a friendly match of three singles and four doubles at the King George Fifth School Hall, beginning at 9.45 a.m., to-morrow (Sunday) The following players will
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    RAILWAY INST. SPORTS
    27 10 THE Railways' Ar.nual Athletic Sports for all Railway employees will be held at the Kuala Lumpur Railway Institute premises on Sept. 12 and 13.
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    TRIBUTE TO BADMINTON OFFICIALS
    423 10 By Oar Badminton Correspondent THE first round t;es or the Singapore Badminton Association were played off at the Clerical Hall last Saturday and Sunday. Although most of the contestants had an easy passage, tl:ere won* some h-:d f.^usr't "itr-es Th» heat, especially in the afternoon, affected
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    NORTH TEAM SELECTED
    83 11 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE North cricket team for the match asainst South which will be played during the August Bank Holidays at Kuala Lumpur has been selected as follows: Lall Singh (Selangor), I Ingleton (Selangor), Khoo Bin Keng (Selangor), H. O. Bennett (Selangor),
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    KING ARTHUR SETS NEW MALAYAN RECORD
    2551 11 Sunday Times Racing Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. KING ARTHUR broke the Malayan record for the six fiirlongs today, first day of the Penang Turf Club Summer Meeting, when he beat a strong field of sprinters in 1 mm. 12 15 seconds. King Arthur's time is
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    108 11 Race I—August1 August Blessing $9 $5, Constance $6, Thro West $6. Race t— Wonder Bird $36 $12, Golden Slipper $16, Sun God $10. Race 3— Golden Oak $19 $12, Bright Mengseng $38, Rontella $13. Race 4 Heroden $44 $16, Slipstream $17, Phar Gay $12. Race s__som
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    PENANG REST SCORE 136
    248 11 Sunday Time* Staff Reporter PENANG. Saturday. THE Europeans won the toss in the annual cricket match today against the Rest and sent in their opponents. The Rest made 136. LaBrooy and Abdul Hamid scoring 39 each. When stumps were drawn the Europeans had lost five wickets
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    Indians Hit 83 For Two v S.C.C.
    161 12 Indians Hit 83 For Two v S.C.C. BEN BARNETT, former Australian Test player, was uncomfortable behind the wickets for the Singapore Cricket Club^n the Padang yesterday. He conceded 12 byes out of a total of 83 runs for two wickets scored by the Indian Association, but gave occasional flashes of
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    LEO HEANEY MEETS SOM PONG TONIGHT
    126 12 IF the Australian welterweight. Leo Heaney, scores a clear-cut victory over Battling Sima at the New World Arena tonight, he will qualify for a fight against Som Pong next week. This was stated jHt the Singapore Boxing Board of ConlS>l yesterday. The Australian sill
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    GOLF FINAL TODAY
    76 12 RAIN stopped play In the final of the Royal Singapore Golf Club championship between Dr. E. Laldlaw Thompson and Mr. B. W. P. Goodrich yesterday after only three holes had been played. The championship will be decided to-day Eighteen holes will be played to the riming, fcetfmntag
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    AFRICANS OUT FOR 175 IN TEST
    660 12 AFRICANS OUT FOR 175 IN TEST Butler, 4 for 34, starts well LEEDS, Saturday. AFTER slowly scoring 123 runs for four wickets before tea in the third Test match at Leeds today, the South Africans collapsed after tea and lost their remaining six wickets for 52 runs in 90 minutes,
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    Army Lose Vital Paint To Indians
    675 12 Army 1 Indians 1 THE Indians created one of the biggest surprises in the cur 1 rent S.A.F.A. league when they held the Army to a oneall draw at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday and robbed Army of a vHal point. It was a colourless
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    COUNTY CRICKET
    106 12 LONDON. Sat. PLOSE of play scores to-day v were At Maidstone: Ker.t vs. Essex. Kent 580 for six. At the Oval; Surrey vs Yorkshire. Yorkshire 350 for 8. At Leicester; Leics. vs. Glos., *31os. 267, Leics., 88 for 2. At Rushden. Northants vs -Derby. Northants 149 and 51
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    BADMINTON RESULTS, TIES
    197 12 RESULTS of the games played yesterday in the Singapore Badminton Association's Junior championships are: Mawi bin Samadi (Porhimponan) i beat Pang Kia I.im. 13-13 (4-5), 15-12. 15-5, Chua Poh Koon (Jacques) beat Omar bin Ahmad (Eclipse) 15-12. 13-13 (5-2); Miss I.au Hui Keow (Mayflower) beat Miss Josephine
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    Evan Wong 5.7 Retired for Non-Benders
    338 12 Evan Wong 5.7 Retired for Non-Benders THE crkkit maUh between the Straits Chinese Recreation Club and the Non-Bendem. played at Hong Lim Gnen, yesterday ended in a draw S.C.R.C., batting first, were 103 fcr three when rain stopped play. When play was resumed they increased he ir score to 173
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    PRESENT BOYS SKITTLED
    173 12 gT. Andrew's Present Boys were all out for 65 runs In their first Innings agaln&t the Old Boys In the annual two-day fixture which began at Woodleigh yesterday. Most successful bowlers for the Old Boys were Arthur Armstrong who took (four for 47) and lan Ross (three
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      139 12 Today's Sports Events CRICKET: S.E.C. v S.C.C, S.E.C., 11 m.m.; S.C.C. t 8.A.F., Srletar. S.C.C, 11 a.m.: S.C.E.C. t C.S.C., S.C.R.C, 11 am; St. Andrew's Past v Present, Woodsville, 11 a.m.; Colonials v R.A.F. Paya I< bar, Thomson Road, 11 a.m. SOCCER: Training for Malaya Cup Veterans, Jalan Besar Stadium,
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