The Straits Times, 4 September 1947

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING ISfEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • 347 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday THE view that no single step could raise the dotiarearning capacity of the Colonies so much as a recovery in the price of rubber was exprewed by the Under-Secretary for the Colonies, Mr. Ivor Thomas, in a speech
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  • 658 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. AFTER three and a quarter hours' discussions this afternoon, representatives of the Malayan Union Government and the Pan-Malayan Council of Government Workers reached an agreement conditional on the railway workers at present on strike returning. Negotiations will
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  • 86 1 Tne Singapore immigration authorities yesterday told the Straits Times that the visa of M. Nlcolao Plakhin, Soviet Trade Envoy, has been extended from time to time and that therefore, he is still legally In Singapore. A British Foreign Office spokesman said recently that active consideration
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  • 191 1 HARBOUR BOARD REPLIES MEN MEET TONIGHT AMASS meeting called by the Singapore Harbour Labourers' Union for 5 p.m. today to consider a reply from the Harbour Board last night to six demands will decide whether or or not to call another strike. The union called off a 4><i day strike
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  • 137 1 Yorkshire coalminers have struck again in sympathy with the men in the Grimethorpe pits who refused to return to work with the general body of miners on Monday. Thirty-eight pits are affected. Page two. India and Pakistan are to take part in the talks to be held in
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  • 257 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday FIVE young Chinese gunmen attacked tw 0 houses at the third mile, Klang Road, this morning, with revolvers and a hand grenade, but got only a watch and a motor car key. They fired ten rounds with revolvers, wounding
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  • 188 1 Malayan Austerity Committee Meets nT'HE Governments of Singa 1 pore and the Malayan Union have set up a joint committee to advise on import and export policy. .The committee, which first met yest.-r--day at the Governor-Gene ml "a office in Singapore, will be the instrument of Malaya's austerity, in line
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    • 124 2 HAMBURG, Wednesday. INDICATIONS in Hamburg that a "figrht to a finish" might be staged by 4,350 Jews due to arrive on Monday have caused the British authorities to draw up complete plans for the event. The Jews are would-be Palestine immigrants now on
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    • 60 2 LONDON. Wednesday. Deaths reported yesterday were: Edgar Johnny Crickmere, 62, famous old-time Jockey who rode many winners in France, Belgium, Austria, Russia and Spain. Sir George Higgins, 80, chairman ol Lloyds Register of Shipping until his resignation in 1943. Major Frederick Russell Burnham, 87, Boer War veteran and
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    • 112 2 SOUTPORT, Wednesday. —In an urgent call to action to save the nation, Labour Mtatltar Mr. George Isaac disclosed j*» the Trade Union oongress her 3 yesterday that talk* were to oe held between the Government and the Trade Union General Council to decide the oest means of
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    • 84 2 LONDON, Wednesday. The Ministry of Health announced yesterday that preliminary result* of trials ol the new drug, streptomycin, proved sufficiently encouraging to justify the view that patients suffering from tuberculosis or menlr.gitis should be given an ppporturity of receiving treatment with the drug. The Ministry of
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    • 62 2 SAN DIEGO, California. Wednesday. U.S. Marine Corps Colonel, James Deveraux, hero of Wake Island, was listed among defence witnesses in the Navy court martial of Lieutenant Richard Cascoig-ne on charges or mistreating fellow war prisoners in Japan which opened here yesterday. Col. Doveraux, captured on Wake
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    • 77 2 LONDON, Wednesday. —The original manuscript of Lord Baden-Powell's book "scouting for Boys" published in 1908 upon which the world- wide Boy Scout movement was built up is now In the possession of the Boy Scouts' Association It wui- taken to the S-'ouk" Imperial Headquarters by a man w^
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    • 25 2 JOJJriNNESBURG. Wednesday. A small contingent of South African troops may attend Princess Elizabeth's wedding, the Rand Daily Mail's political correspondent reported yesterday. A.P.
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    • 128 2 MELBOURNE. Wednesday— The Australian Council of Trades Unions decided yesterday to ask the Federal Government to nationalise the coal and steel industries. The Council also decided to conduct a campaign for the nationalisation of banking, proposed on Autrust 16 by Mr. J. B. Chifley. the Australian Prime Minister.
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    • 66 2 TORONTO, Wednesday. The death roll in the head-on train collision at Dugaid. near Winnipeg, yesterday morning was believed last night to be about 35 as rescuers continued to extricate burned and tofti bodies from the wreckage. A passenger train crashed headon into a stationary express setting both
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    • 63 2 LIVERPOOL, England, Wednesday. A 16-year-old British boy who stowed away to England at Bombay aboard the troopship Francoola said his father in I^idia wanted nothing more to do with him. A charge against him was dismissed in the juvenile court todayafter It was stated his father had spent
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    • 64 2 NEW YORK. Wednesday. Banks throughout the United States were kivaded yesterday when thousands of ex-servicemen of World War Two rushed to cash their lerr-obilisatior. deterred, gratuity bondv In Louisville. Kentucky, the .rush was so great that one bank called t*n police to restore order. In Philadelphia it
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    • 94 2 T roopsn ip A rri ves LIVERPOOL. Wednesday.— T!\e 27,000 tons «liner, G/>rffic. carrvintr the first troops and the'r families from India, arrive-^ In Mersey last night. Thn^ renumbering 4,000 w»ll .Usembari: this morning. The troops "will be welcomed home by senior officers from the Army Western Command. Regular officers
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    • 91 2 LONDON. Wednesday.—Detectives called in curious hobbyists known as speliologists today to help solve a mystery of two skeletons found in caves gouged In the hills of Yorkshire by the ice-ag« glacier 25,000 years ago. Until medical examination Is complete police will not know whether the bodies are those of
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  • 216 2 MINERS STRIKE IN 38 PITS 40,000 Men Out In Sympathy LONDON, Wednesday. MINE after mine throughout the South Yorkshire coalfields-^-Britain's biggest went idle today as miners came on strike in sympathy with Grimethorpe colliery men who stopped work 23 days ago in protest against working bigger areas of the coal
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  • 99 2 From Oar oialT Correspondent KUALA LU ..IPUR. Wed.— The Vehicles Priority Board has issued the fo'lowini statement: The allocution of permits to buy new cars has hitherto I necessarily been limited to j applicants wuh claims to the I highest priority. i The position lias now
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  • 120 2 WASHINGTON. Wednesday. The Soviet Government rejected i United States representations on I opening the Manchurian port of > Dairen to international commerce in a note delivered to the United State? Embassy in Moscow last 1 Wednesday, the State Department i confirmed here tonieht. The note reiterated
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  • 86 2 TOKIO. Wednesday.— Mr. William J. SebaJd, author of booki on Japan who has been acting chief of the diplomatic section of the Supreme Council of the Allied Powers, has been named by the Supreme Allied Commander Japan, General MacArthur, as his deputy on the Allied Council.
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    • 711 2 NOTICES MUNICIPALITY OF SINGAPORE Applicant* for the posts of Additional Accounts Clerks In the Municipal Trea-t-jrer's Department are thanked for t.clr applications and are hereby Informed trtat the posts have been filled. THE NEW INDIA ASSURANCE CO. LTD.. BOMBAY Cir-apore Brnrrli I Flnlays:»n Green. NOTICE having been given ot the
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    • 726 2 NOTICES AUCTION SALE OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE Comprising: 5 sets sitting room suites. 3 sets dining room suites, wardrobes, dressing tables with centre mirror and •tools to match, chest-of-drawers, centre and bedside tables, writing desks towel rails, clothes and hat stands. Sic. To be held at our saleroom, Nos. 14 16
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    • 109 2 SALE OF ARMY FOODSTUFFS FOR ANIMAL FOOD. 1. Tenders are invited for the purchase of the following quantities of Army Foodstuffs: AtU 2.000.000 lbs. Flour 182.700 Milk Powd«r 12.664 v Rice Sw opInCT IS.3X Ground Nuts 9.040 m Vermicelli 4.870 2. These foodstuff* are lying In various cqpdltions at Main
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    • 104 2 CARPETS? Yes! INDIAN, KASHMIR AND BOKHARA CARPEIS A Choice Selection at your Dinnosal front our Latest Shipment! ASK FOR SHROFFS FOR FINE POTNTS ON FINE FURNISHING Buy in Singapore, otherwise let us help you send your selection home, on very favourable terms, SHROFFS CURIOS CARPETS LTD (AC.FNCY SHOWROOMS) 47-79, STAMFORD
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  • 427 3 DOMINIONS TO MEET U.K. FOR CRISIS TALKS Will Decide How To Share Dollar Pool LONDON, Wednesday. DRITISH Dominions in the sterling area, including India and Pakistan will confer in London as soon as possible probably within the next few weeks to decide in detail how to share the Commonwealth dollar
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  • Article, Illustration
    59 3 This ptimo. lakM nv.ar il mij. arpur (Punjab), shows Hindus, who fled from their homes in the village of Naro Nangal, returning after Sikh mobs had slain or driven away all Mnham. .it chin residents of ths village. They are carrying staves. A .soldier of the j int Indian. Pakistan
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  • 255 3 SOUTHPORT. Wednesday. SOME countries who were living: in a fool's paradise imagined that Britain was no longer a great nation, but she had fought, and fought clean, and was still great, the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Bevin. said last night He was speaking to members of the
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  • 60 3 A collection of all different Japanese overprinted stamps u'. Malaya, containing the Perak Be. with overprint inverted. Kedah v> $5, and high values of Trengganu, estimated by Mr. H. R. Harmer, the well-fcnowm stamp auctioneer, to be worth £70, realised £90 when put up for auction or. June
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  • 114 3 Thau Seek Kiong, a 20 yearj old Chin sc, pleaded guilty in 1 the Third Police Court yesterday to stealing five locks, valued at $2.50, from Harbour Board premises on Feb. 7, this year and with escaping from custody on the same date. It was
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  • 61 3 The textile position in oingapore, which is today reported very good, will be further enharicerf by the release of 400,000 yards of Japanese textiles in a few days' time. Government is making distribution of these textiles to '-he Chambers of Commerce some time this week. The
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  • 242 3 A SANITARY inspector ofj the Singapore Harbour iioard, George Gfuron, yes-J jterday pleaded not ffuilty to 1 two charges of voluntarily j causing hurt to his wife. Vivie Gladys Gauron. gjt their bungalow at Telok Blanga on Aug. 16. After evidence had been taken, the
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  • 42 3 A 19-year old Indian, K. Suppiah, pleaded not guilty to the thoft of a $2,000 b.<lcs of cloth from Rodown 13 in 'he Third Police Court, yesterday. He was allowed bail of $1,000 in two sureties till September 10
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  • 228 3 Sons .i; Remember, Carnegie I Hall. Till The Clouds Roll By... and now Blue Skies. Malayan cinemagoers have enjoyed a run of i musicals in the last few weeks. i Paramount's colourful Blue Skies is In the same tradition. It proves that the Bing CrossbyFred Astaire
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  • 71 3 Three masked and armed Chi. nese robbers forced their way by the back door Into a attap house in Payax Lebar Road at 1.30 a.m. yesterday, and robbed a Chinese driver and a copra labourer of $70 in cash, five pairs of gold earrings, six
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  • 333 3 MALAYAN trade has made a quick recovery from its fall in June by registering a $14 million increase in exports and $8 million increase in imports during July. In June, exports fell by $45 million and imports by $23 million compared with May, which, so
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    • 75 3 SINGAPORE UJHITERUIRVS (WHITEAWAY. LAIDLAW fr CO.. LTD.) KEEPPiffi DOW Ever since the Liberation we have resisted higher price* and refused to sell goods at prices higher than our conception of good value. r I "DEEPSLEEP' A IJ Mum I Interior spring mattress by the ■fM|V r f*KN,t j Makers of
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  • 1197 4 S 'pores Chance As A Trade Centre CINGAPORE'S opportunity as the potential financial and commercial centre of the Far East, and Singapore's "headache" in the potential rivalry of the Netherlands East Indies and other states in the Far East, were described to members of the Singapore Rotary Club yesterday by
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  • 706 4 Industry The Key To The Future rE industrialisation of Singapore was not only vital, but was t» be looked o n as the salvation of the future of Singapore, said Mr. L. Cresson, president of the Singapore Manufacturers' Association, at the Singapore Rotary Club, yesterday. He added that Singapore's industrialisation
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  • 420 4 "SAW JONES ON THE LAWN TTHREE prosecution witnesses 1 at the Singapor c Assize Court yesterday said they had seen Irwin Oliver Jones and Lena Navis on the lawn of the Malayan Seminary, Singapore, on the night of Oct. 31, 1946. The three witnesses, who gave evidence at the re-
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    • 241 4 ATTENTION: OWNERS of SEAHOUSES FLOWER brand ENAMEL i« your IDEAL PAINT giving you Brilliance, Attraction it Long Ageing. And other paints all available from Paint Merchants. Sole Agents: CHINA TRADING CO., LTD. 79. Cross Street, Singapore. Dis P erBe That Gai 1 After Meals With De I Witt's Antacid Powder
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    • 227 4 Lasl 3 Shows 3. 6.15 9. IS p.m. ANNA NEAGLE Id PICCADILLY INCIDENT An emotional domestic drama -Opening To-morrow— •SINBAD THE SAILOR" In TrehnU-olor— GREAT WORLD GLOBE 7—9.15 p.m. "War of the Wildcats" SKY 7—9.15 p.m, "Laat Chance" NEW WORLD SUN 7—9.15 p.m. "Spellbound" ROYAL 3.30— 6— 8 M p.m.
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  • 543 5 "SAVE GANDHI'S LIFE" APPEAL TO RIOTERS Fast Till Calcutta Achieves "Sanity" NEW DELHI, Wednesday. A CALL to save the life of Mahatma Gandhi, who has announced that he will fast "until sanity returns to Calcutta," was made yesterday by the city's Central Peace Committee. Moral responsibility for savin; his life
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    62 5 Tolerates of tn«, Women's Association of the Malayan Union at a conference in Jotaore Bahru. 'J.h.- conference was presided over by Che Putch (seated sixth from the right in the front row the picture), wife of the ftcttag Secretary General of UMNO, Che Zainal Abidin. One plac« left rf Che
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  • 341 5 LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday. 1 T NIT£D Nations circles tonight considered that the plan for the partition of Palestine proposed by a majority of the United Nations Committee had a good chance of obtaining the required majority in the General Assembly, but after a stiff fight.
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  • 131 5 From Our Staff Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. »T its last committee meeting, the Association of British Malaya decided to forward copies of the recent speech of Mr. A. W. Wallich on the cereal ration in Malaya to the Colonial Office and to certain Members of Parliament. The
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  • 31 5 LONDON. Wednesday. The British Foreign Office announced today that Russia had agreed to hold a meeting of Foreign Ministers' deputies on the German Pe^ce Treaty on Oct. 6. In London —UP.
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  • 230 5 Cheaper Ploughing In Malaya ANEW type of agricultural implement which should prove of consideration interest to planters, market gardeners and the ricegrowing industry in Malaya is the Rotary Hoe. This machine Is little larger than a motor mower, ar.d can be handled as easily. A test carried out over land
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  • 120 5 Vietnamese of Singapore celebrated the second anniversary of the establishment of the Republic of Vietnam at the Malayan Democratic Union Hall on Tuesday night. Mr. Nguyen Negoc Vy, leader of the local Vietnamese community, presided. Representatives of various political organisations in Singapore also took part in the
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  • 245 5 CANBERRA, Wednesday. >T»HE Australian External Affairs Minister, Dr. Herbert A Evatt, in a speech before a public session of the Japanese peace conference yesterday, said the aim of the talks was to form the basis for a stable Pacific peace free from threats of Japanese
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    • 229 5 ''The SUn of the Import Specialists" FOUR POINTS FOR IMPORTERS .1. It you have any import problems, consult us. We are import specialists. 2. We accept orders from rfce Trade ONL* 3. We maintain regular communication with Works by Cable and Telephone, in addition to the usual Air and Sea
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    • 370 5 Keeps for months before opening You have been waiting a long time for this: meadowsweet, creamy-rich milk by the bottle! Avo Milk is safo without boiling and stays unspoiled for a week after the bottle has been opened, if kept refrigerated. Fresh tasting The new AVO process miraculously preserves the
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  • 32 6 Mr. and Mrs. Walter T. Dana, thank all relatives and friends who attended their wedding and the Home Coming reception, sent telecrams. presents Bnd letters of congratulations on thur ro'vnt marriage.
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  • 20 6 HOUSE— At Singapore on 3inst. E-.flvon Constance (nee Murray) The Beloved Wife of Kenneth O. House Singapore Harbour Board.
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  • The Straits Times
    • 1281 6 "The position in simple language is that the cake which the country will have available over the 1 next year to divide up among its citizens is considerably smaller than in 1939. and the maintenance, let alone an increase, of the size of the pre-war slice
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    • 101 6 A correction tn a corrigenda sttpr tn the report of the Wages ConunUsion gives the present wage of ttoe Government rural labourer In the Malayan Union as $1 JO a day. not $1.30 as stated In our leading article last Monday. TSe rate for the urtoar. labourer
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    10 6 WHO SAID AUSTERITY (Photo by Squadron-Leader J. E. Brown, R.A.F.).
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  • Man In The Street
    • 420 6 T AM no economist and I 1 really cannot get the hang of thw business of income tax. All I know is that under the proposed scale in the Heawnan Report I shall have to cough up something like $60 per
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    • 139 6 QO much has been wrjKen *3 about income tax in your paper and much more will be said in time to come. The following Is a comparison of costs In the budget of an average Malayan family. 1941 1947 Sugar per katty OS 50 Rice per
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    • 171 6 if AY I please, through the "Straits Times, ask the many people who will be sailing trom Singapore in the near future to help St. Andrew's Cathedral by giving all their unwanted clothes, ornaments, household equipment, etc. to us for the first of our Jumble sales to
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  • 101 6 COMPARISONS may be odious, but at times they are illuminating. Here are some figures given to Mr. L. D. Gammans in the House of Commons and supplemented by others taken from a 1947 edition of Whitaker. Territory Approximate Approximate Governors' area ha population in total so., miles millions
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  • 666 6 Government In The Padi Business: A Miller's Viewpoint THE former Technical Advi--1 ser for Rice Mills, Malayan Union, created a sensation recently by his outspoken statement in the Press criticising the rice milling industry and the padi purchase scheme. The rice m'lllrig industry U Indeed a failure this season, because
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  • 207 6 WITH regard to CHinese cri- ticism at the last Malayan Union Advisory Council meeting "against the investing of full powers o n immigration j policy in the hands of the j Malays," does this mean the policy is a matter for decision confined to the Malay
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  • 127 6 I NOTE that the dralt Income Tax Ordinance at- tached to the Heasman Keport is now referred to as tae Heasman draft Income Tax i Ordinance. It was, however, created by an Inter-departmental Government Committee in the year 1922 and was shortly thereafter adopu
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  • Malayan Round-up
    • 151 7 A JAPANESE major, Mizoe Hachizo, was sentenced to death at Changi Gaol yesterday for his complicity in the killing of four R.A.F. personnel at Malang, Java, in May 1942. The four men two officers.. r— a warrant officer and a sergeant pilot, escaped
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    • 57 7 1 IN Indian, Ram Dm, fo*u>d asleep by a constable on the railway line on Tuesday, was remanded by the Fourth Polk* Magistrate yesterday in order that a doctor might see him. Ram Das, who pleaded guilty to trespass, said he lost h« head, and thought he
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    • 112 7 PENANG, Wednesday.— A suggestion that military "out oi bounds" notices wer an ln«ult to residents in demarcated areas end should now be removed was .made at a meeting of the Penang Crafnc Advisory Committee today. Dr. Oheah Chong Poh, who raised this question, said the signs had already
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    • 76 7 THt Fourth Police Mefistrate, Mr. B. S. de Bantie was informed yesterday that a Chinese who was altered to have «H<**npU<i suicide, by strangling himself with a bandage in ttie General Hospital on Tuesrli. stiu Patient there. The man 26-year-oid Chtia nong Thong, who was to have
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    • 27 7 THE President of the Singapore Rotary Club, Mr. S 8 Franklin, announced at the weekl ly luncheon yesterday that th* Eft».S: B Fund had
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    • 86 7 THE Garrick Theatre, at Geylang, which Is popular with those who like Hindustani and Egyptian pictures, is showing today an Egyp- film called "Sallamah' with Om Katsom. the Egyptian singer ana Abu Abdul Raahman in the principal roles. Apart from music and songs which make the picture enterI
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    • 37 7 G.H.Q., FARELP, has approved the payment of arrears of the Pyke cost of living allowance to civilian* sta£ employed by the Army in Singapore. The arrears cover the period April to September, 1946.
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    • 48 7 rE Straits Times regrets to announce the death on June 8, suddenly at sea, on R.M.M.V. Warwick Castle, of Captain Montague Hay Hawkes, late Indian Army, and later Comptroller, Customs and Excise, Malaya, Jamaica, atid Northern Rhodesia Colonial Service. Mrs. Hawfce* Is now In Edfcibungh.
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    • 92 7 IPOH, Wednesday.— At a private reception at the Residency this evening the Honourable Mr. A_ C. Jomaran, Resident Commissioner of Perak, presented to Miss Dawr. Kathlgasu the card of commendation awarded her last week by the Governor of the Malayan Union. During the occupation, the Japanese
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    • 97 7 rpjVO Malayan engagements X were recently announced In London. One is the engagement of Mr. Donald Neville Turner. Singapore Police, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Neville Turner. Harkers Hall, Jamaica, and Ann Sutherland Masters, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs. P. J. Rolt. of Hartgrove, Hampshire. The other
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    • 57 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— An official communique issued this morning outlined an alteration in the present policy with regard to applications for mining leases, prospecting licences and permits. At present consideration of such applications is restricted to ap- plication* for extensions cons!- i dered essential for existing mining undertakings.
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  • 482 7 UMNO FAVOURS INCOME TAX "IN PRINCIPLE" Sub-Committee To Make A Report JOHORE BAHRU, Wednesday. RESOLUTION "that this General Assembly resolves that income tax as a source of revenue for the country is acceptable in principle" was carried at today's session of the General Assembly of the United Malays National Organisation.
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  • Article, Illustration
    29 7 i s^£%j^^^r^ wwa' The Governor of Sarawak. Sir Arden Clarke, recently paid a visit to Sibu on H.M.S. Black Swan. This picture shows Dayak visitors on board the ship.
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  • 186 7 rB Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter, and a jury of six, yesterday found that the shot which killed a Harbour Board labourer, Vengadasarny, on Aug. 21 and brought on a four-day strike of Harbour Board labourers waa fired by Akbar Shah, a police constable,
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  • 119 7 Rubber fell by i of a cent yesterday and No. 1 sheet txy.b registered its first change in the closing price since Saturday when business finished last night at 28 cents per lb, buyers. F.o.b. sellers were 2/8 of a cent higher with spot
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  • 89 7 When a 26 year old Indian, R. Velauthan was charged in the Fourth Police Court, yesterday with voluntarily causing grievous hurt to Govindasamy and hurt to Ramasamy with a knife, at Sembawang Road on Tuesday night, he said he was set on by three men. Velauthan,
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  • 213 7 T"HE first application for the 1 extradition of an Indian from Singapore to the new Dominion of the Union of India was heard in the Second Police Court yesterday. .The Indian, A.R.K.V. Shanmugam» Chettlar, alias AJI.KN Shanmugam Chetttar, of 45, Market Street, Singapore, was charged
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  • 179 7 PLANE TO FLY FISH TO S'PORE DAILY NEW service which will bring to Singapore daily plane-loads of freah fish caught off Malaya's east coast, will begin tomorrow. This is the first enterprise of Its kiio In Singapore. The Ash will be sold In the Singapore markets by public auction aeon
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  • 487 7 Continued from page 1 4. The Beard and the Union to co-operate with each other by I writing to Government and ask- ing for an assurance that such incidents will not be repeated. 5. A special sum to be paid as compensation to the dependants iof
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  • 66 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. ALLEGING violation by th« administration of the terms of a n aggreement signed on March, 24, this year railway englnemen, handed t« the railway administration this morning a demand that conditions of service should be finalised by Sept. 7. meeting of
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  • 60 7 Ships alongside the Singapore wharves yesterday (godowns In brackets) were: Main Wharf: Marine Flier 32), Senggarang (33-34), Steel Agt tfft-37), Rhesus (39), Bermevis (40) Empress of Scotland (42--43). West Wharf: Ikauna (1-2), Islander (3), Gamaria (4-5), Marella (6-7), Calcha* (8-9), Atreus (10), Senal (13), Bniaa (14-15). Empire Dock:
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 172 7 TODAY: Y.W.C.A. Drew Making Claas. 8. Fort Canning Road, 10 a.m. and 5.5 p.m Chinese Inter-School Athletic Sports, organised by Director of Education and Committee of Chinese Inter-Bchool Sports. Jaten Besar Stadium. 10 a.m. Y.W.C.A. Wayfarers meet for toymaking and drama. 'The Hut." corner of Clemenceaux Avenue and Buyong Road.
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  • Straits Times Thursday Magazine
    • 823 8  - Open Letter To England From Australia Clive Turnbull By ,i RNB HfcRALD SPECIAL WRITKK). Col. KiJred J. Suivthw-Dooley. The Fantods. Much Magma BucksEngland. MY Dear Smythe-uooiey, I was delighted to hear that you contemplate emifrating to Australia. Your arrival will compensate us for the departure of Mr. Neville CaraUo. Yes,
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    • 378 8 New York Round-u NEW YORK (By Airmail). —When you're choosing a dog in this city, you can now get its horoscope from a Canine Astrologer. The idea is, you'll know what you're getting. For instance, according w> one reader of dogs' stars, a pupipy born under Capricorn (December
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    • 405 8 The name "Chukai" as the tow n of Kemaman (Trengganu) is known literally means "tax." In olden times crocodiles took human victims every year from the Kemaman river, and it was said that these unfortunate people were taken as chukai by the divine reptiles. Eventually the river which
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    • 772 8 NEW YORK, (By Airmail). GHREWD merchandisers in the United States have opened a major assault on the great American nose. Perfuming goods to stimulate sales is becoming a major business practice. Already you can buy boot polish which smells like roses irk which smells
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    • 245 8 TOKIO (By Airmail) HIROSHIMA Chamber of Commerce decides to export atomic rubbish from the great Bomb Desert which surrounds the devastated city. Terada-san, president of the Chamber, is convinced that iwa:, woodtn boxes of the atomised rubble would sell widely outside Japan. "Excellent idea." approves Mayor Hamal. who
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    • 122 8 THE MILK fba/woa/ S^p* sinjaport toys CISIt,THC lORDEN COVf liyVzX'i lt Br0 tminnn--- Cop*. Hr^r.«i. Corf. iwiKrtaOk f^ Start his- fa PIP AND ENERGY Jf L r I hj\ ARE VITAL I I l\og FOR SUCCESS FT 1 I A There is no better way to *j I supply extra
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  • 832 9 NOVEL OF THE WEEK THE LONELY, by Paul Gallico. London: Michael Joseph. THE novelette isn't a very popular form these days, perhaps because publishers feel the public wants something more bulky for its money, perhaps because of the higher demands it makes on the
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  • 216 9 For Your Dustbin (From BRIDE— MAYBE, by Sheila Burns) "In her life all ships must pass In the night."— Page 10. "Ships that pass in the night, she reminded herself, ships that PASS.'— Ditto. she kept telling herself that the ship must pass in the night.'— Page
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  • 776 9 THE WIDE HOUSE, by Taylor Caldwell. London. Sydney: Collins. J^OW I know how our grandparents felt after a good night at East Lynne, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or some other barnstorming suc•cess of the "nineties. This novel is melodrama of the rare, old, unashamed
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 146 9 Ligterine cleans your /•^SSk^. teeth for you-' R?L^ rand makes your mouth tmfk^. \\VB b l end ed ln accordance with a^ C-V^Hllll Win tfle improved American for\TV\jQ iSj^P:- I \\\a «nul»- The red seal "GuaranvMNl I ■<j^^wliA \\\u tee<J Improved \merlcan vVKT^ \\jn Formula" on every package lr\ 1»
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    • 188 9 MODERNISE YOUR BATHROOM with a i JE YES' TOILET CONTAINER 6OLE AGENTS SANDILANDS. BUTTERY ft CO, LTD. I SINGAPORE AND PENANG V J PapxHcau was scientifically destgned*^^^,^ sf^xo resist every direction of skid and to^^. 14 1 If fivt "Higher Mileage". For 40 years it has v^Clj II II (tven
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    • 640 9 aot'Kco in to*Jjs oa l could not expect to make his singleton f bl v*u *P l w elective. que en of heart*— declarer would lay *£frt'h I* /k w, down a hl h honour from dummy be-North-Soutn vulnerable. fore talcing a heart finesse— and ther. was certainly Uttle hope
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  • THE STRAITS TIMES THURSDAY MAGAZINE-SECTION III
    • 574 10  -  JOSEPHINE O'NEILL By BRITAIN today is filmink an extraordinary number of period tales. They're not lush romances like Th e Man in Grey, Fanny by Gaslight, Caravan, or The Wicked Lady. Producers have gon e to Dickens, to Tolstoi, to Oscar Wilde, for
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    • 46 10 Free look at a million-dollar look: This is Hollywood starlet JANICE CARTER sicnin* an application to insure her eyes for $1,000,000. The highest "eye cover" her agent could set her was $500.000 the amount for which Eddie Cantor has insured his eyes.— A.P. pholo.
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    • 32 10 BING CROSBY, teamed with dancing Fred Astaire and bloode Joan Caulheld, croons 16 Irving Berlin hits in Paramount's Blue Skies (Cathay. Singapore). Latest study of Esther Williams, Hollywood swimmer— actress.
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    • 139 10 HOLLYWOOD.— In The Crime Doctor's Gamble, a film with a Parisian locale. 27 of the 30 speaking parts have been allotted to French players, many of whom are appearing In their first Hollywood picture. They include Henri Letondal. Bernard Leroux. Alphonse Marvel, Robert Verdaine.
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    • 108 10 HOLLYWOOD— In the 20th Century Scottish clans are still sensitive about family histories which kept Columbia Studio researchers busy during preparations for The Swordsman, co-starring Larry Parks and Ellen Drew. The story deals with a bitter leud between two Highland clans in the 18th Century
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    • 114 10 HOLLYWOOD.— Michael Redgrave and Leo Germ. British stars, and Ramond Massey. a Canadian, were selected to play the top male roles in RKO's Mourning Becomes Electra In preference to American actors because producer-director Dudley Nichols considered they resembled New Englanders of the Sixties more
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    • 245 10 SKYWAYS <f« east) LTD. (Incorporated tn Honjricongi DIRECT LANCASTRIAN PASSENGER AND PREIOHT SERVICB BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND HONGKONG IN 7 HOURS N&XT DEPARTURES Friday sth September Tresday 9th Septer ber Friday 12th September Fnnnlrlr* to THE BORNEO COMPANY LIMITED. Uiicurporaled in England) Gftifr»l Arrnt* Telenhoiw: Singapore 3876. Penan* 7. K. Lumpur
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    • 154 10 n on rvr.>»_- ii 4fl Conjofe, H. 30 Show Tim«: 12.00 Starlit Hour; RADIO MALAY* *™J£»^ M i&S££T« > wjd* "fta ENGLISH-1 p.m. R«lio Orchestra- derewski); 9.45 Talk; 10.15 Singers Inurval; TOO Transatlantic H*UConduotor: 1.40 Calllnn AU Ho«- of Renown »Alexander Kipnis); 10.2' i Hour; 4.30 Bahd of the \Veek.
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  • 382 11 LONDON. Tuesday. rpHK stock market account I 1 has finished in poor style says Renter's financial corresi pondent Contributory factors to the reneral dullness were fears of an autumn budget and with it fresh taxation, and the reluctance by dealers to take more stock on their books than
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  • 108 11 NEW YORK. Wednesday.— The market fluctuated around the day's best levels yesterday afternoon In very slow trading. Sympathy was aided by the recall of 70.000 Oeneral Motors Corporation workers. unabated flow of favourable eranlngs and dividends and the Inflationary effect of the cashing of soldiers' terminal leave
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  • 334 11 Produce Market 1 By A Market Correspondent rpUE market for sugar has come to life aram with a slight A rain for Java white. i White and black pepper, which enjoyed a good market last week have become slack quite suddenly, chiefly because dealers buying for
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  • 129 11 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE. Wednesday. TtfiE market continued in a dull, state, but showed a slightly easier tendency. At the lower prices a few buyers were attracted. Changes In price quotations given by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association today were as follows: Buyer Seller Alex Brick Prcfs 3 35
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  • 64 11 rbe Singapore Chamber OX Commerce Rubber Association'; prices at noon yesterday were: Buyer* Sellers Cta. CU per Ib. oer Ib. No. 1 R.S.S Spot kx»e (nominal) 271 271 Nc i R.B I foe in bales Sept 28 281 No 2 R.B£ fob in bales Sept 27] 28 No 3
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    • 646 11 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. ilnrorooraleo r Sinraporei BLUE FUNNEL LINE MMMM rKOM UK AND 0.8 A. -Calcha*' from U.K G. I from U.K G II "Alrinou*" from U.S. A Roadi "Eurypylus" ..Due from U.K Sept It "Van T Ho«r Due from U S.A gent.' 11 '""<■"«' Dae Iram U.S. A Sept.
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    • 303 11 PRESIDENT LINE SAILINGS IX) NEW YORK AND BOSTON INDIA EGYPT MEDITERRANEAN PORTS Arrives MARINES KLIER SINGAPORE GJ> Jl/Jt PENANG SEPT. MOUNT MANSFIELD PENANG SEPT. < SINGAPORE SEPT. 11 PT. SWFTTFVHi<* «FT*T. IS AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, juTD. OMMM BI.DG TELS.. W2B XXI 5751 PASSAGE 494«. WATERMAN LINE mm. F airport Singapore
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    • 253 11 to JS^fi th f" lntCTest d ta Shipping Intelligence are referred < U> advertisement, to Coh. 6 and 7 opposite pare and to Shipping Notices on Page t P 6c O s. s. CANTON From Singapore Nov. 30th dv« London Dec. 22nd Feb. 29th March 2Urd Passage Rates Singapore /London
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    • 536 11 ELLERMAN KLAVENESS LINE oUCKNALL (Incorporated wiui Limited C m irn Liabllltv In Norway) 5.5. CO., LTD. LOS ANGELES. (incorporated In England) S4N FRANTICrn HAVRE. LONDON VAVrniVFR «.t. CITTT OF KHARTOUM VANCCirVER Dim 17 Sept Due. CITf OP CARLISLE "CASTLF.VILLE" 8 Sent D«< End Oct. Calu p %wtttrnbum Omuuic *renu»Me A
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  • 811 12 RECORD ENTRY FOR IPOH RACES Two Trophy Events For Class 1 Horses From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wednesday. TNTRIES for the Perak Turf Club September meeting, on Sept. 13, 17 and 20, total 190 constituting a record for post-war racing. There will be only one run for horses class two.
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  • 89 12 SUSSEX DRAW WITH, TOURISTS HOVE. Wednesday— The South Afrlcarjs ye. Sussex match ended in a tame draw. Behind by 140 runs after the South Africans had declared at the overnight score of 555 for six. Sussex were unable to repeat their big scoring of the first innings, which they declared
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  • 61 12 I The following will represent the Chinese Swimming Club In a water-polo match against the O.H.Q. FARELF nt the Chinese Swimming Club pool at 11.30 a.m. on Sunday: Eu Cheow I Kang. Yeo Jul Mole, Loh Heng Kee, I Mm Thye Hock, Kok Kirn Cheng, Chan
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  • 94 12 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, Wednesday. INHERE was an ugly scene at A yesterday's cup-tie when Indian supporters threatened the referee, Mr. Ho Seng Aun, for his decision in awarding the decisiv c goal to the Cameron Highlanders. The arrival of the police, who escorted the
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  • 385 12 Following are this week-end's fixtures in the Junior and veterans' championships of the Singapore Badminton Association SATURDAY. 2.15 p.m. MEN'S JUNIOR DOUBLES: S Ahmad Alhabshee and Wee Chye Koori Eclipse vs Chia Chin Seng and w%e Ly« Seng (Eclipse); Chua Poh Khoon and Koh Thiam Kwee (Jacques) vs
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  • 58 12 The Old Raff Wans and the Anglo-Chinese School Old Boys, Singapore, diew one-all in a keenly contested game of soccer yesterday on the S.R.C. ground. After a goalless first half, Harith scored for the Old Rafflesians with a penalty kick. In the closing stages Tan
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  • 291 12 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. rpHREE runs one of them for a cvp and a consolation x race will be provided for griffins taking part in the Penang Turf Club's autumn meeting The dates are Oct. 25, Oct. 29 and Nov 1 The cup rac«
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    36 12 Norm Coleman, a leading batsman of the Singapore Cricket Club side, and his bride, the former Miss Eileen Byrnes. They were married in Singapore yesterday, a few hours after Miss Byrnes' arrival from Australia.
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  • 314 12 LONDON, Wednesday. UNG LAND'S international centre-forward has had his request for a transfer refused by Chelsea Club. "At a meeting of the Board of Directors following the annual general meeting, Lawton's request for a transfer was refused," said a Chelsea statement. Despite rumours for sometime,
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  • 185 12 LONDON. Wednesday. CINAL positions in the County cricket championship table are (all played 26 matches): Ist. Inns. No Lead includes two points for ties in Ist Innings In match lost. Reuter. Middlesex Gloucester Lanes Kent Derby Surrey Worcester Yorkshire Glamorgan Sussex Essex Notts Somerset Leicester Wwlckshlre Hampshire
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  • 214 12 I A century by N. Dow and a "hattrick" by Dass featured the cricket match In which H.M. Dockyard beat the 223 BOD XI at Seletar. The Dockyard team scored 267 and dismissed their opponents for 100. Scores DOCKYARD XI H. Beeson lbw Bowmer 5; E.
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  • 33 12 The Singapore Chinese Recreation Club will hold rugger practices on Tuesdays and Thursdays. More than 20 players are available, and it Is proposed to field a team against other club sides.
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  • 35 12 There will be a meeting of all club and service representatives at 5 pjn. on Wednesday, Sept. 10, at the Singapore Cricket Club for the purpose of arranging fixtures for the forthcoming season.
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  • 31 12 LONDON, Wednesday.— U.K. Football League results yesterday were: THIRD DIVISION (Northern) Rochdale 1 Hull City 0 Tranmere 1 H'pools 0 LEAGUE GOLD CUP 2nd Rd. Olentoran 3 LlnAeld 1
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  • 28 12 LONDON, Wednesday.— Middlesex the champion county, lost to Lancashire by 64 runs yesterday. Lancashire scored 352 and 153 an; Middlesex 134 and 307 (Comptou 139). Reuter
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