The Straits Times, 2 October 1947

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1947 PRICE TEN CENT
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  • 427 1 RUSH TO BUY NEW CARS IN THE UNION Second-hand Prices Likely To Fall THE news that control of the sales of new cars had been lifted kept the inquiries departments of the bigger motor dealers m Kuala Lumpur busy yesterday. In Singapore, where de-control freed about 12 makes of high
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    59 1 A military jeep, driven by an Indian captain, after it crashed into and wrecked the fronts of two shop houses m Bukit iimah Tillage along the Singapore -Johore main road at 8.25 a.m. yesterday. The driver (right) said it was raining at that time and the jeep skidded and went
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  • 185 1 Visit Of Siamese Air Chief rrHE Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Siamese Air Force, Air Marshal Luang Devaridhi Panluk, and a representative mission from the Royal Siamese Air Force, will arrive m Singapore on Oct. 8 on a visit to Headquarters, Air Command, Far East. They are coming at the invitation
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  • 27 1 BANGKOK. Wednesday. A Siamese Airways Dakota is leaving Bangkok tomorrow morning lor Penang on a survey flight preliminary to opening a service with Penang.— Reuter.
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  • 107 1 Electricity Appeal "A Failure" THE Singapore Municipal Electrical Engineer, Mr. J. Payne, said last night that the appeal to save electricity was practically a failure, ParU> of the Tanglin district were blacked out for three quarters of an hour from seven o'clock. Economy is necessary from 6 p.m. to 10
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  • 206 1 From Our Staff Correspondent A^^ ¥Tm KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. BOUT 1,500 workers on five oil palm and rubber estates m the Batang Berjunlai area, m north-west Selangor, are on strike— l,2oo of the men on four of the estates being out m sympathy with
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  • 434 1 Bishop's Message To Cinema Audiences rE Bishop of Singapore, the Right Rev. J. L. Wikon, has authorised the showing of a slide before th c screening of the film Black Narcissus at the Pavilion theatre, stating that "the convent and the characters of the nuns it
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  • 101 1 RUBBER UP 1/8 CENT ILTHOUGH rubber advanced n appreciably m both London and New York, only a gain of Ys of a cent was recorded on the Singapore market, yesterday. Brokers described the market as hesitant. No. 1 sheet f.o.b. closed at 32 7/8 cents per lb., buyers, and 33
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  • 330 1 UNO Welcomes Pakistan To Membership NEW YORK, Wednesday. THE new Dominion of Pakistan was formally admitted to membership of the United Nations yesterday. The voting was 53 to one m favour, with one abstention. The only nation to oppose Pakistan's application was Afghanistan. The reason for her opposition was the
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  • 98 1 BATAVIA, Wednesday. rS Indonesian Cabinet announced today that the Republic supports the proposal by the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. J. B. Chifley, that the three-power mediation commission talks b e held at Singapore. United States insistence In carrying out their own investigation of the truce and
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  • 80 1 PAHIS, Wednesday. Delegates frc-n .so countries attending a Women's World Fellowship Conference yestf day heard a German woman ask that military toys for children be abolished. Dr. Gabrielle Stecker, broadcaster for Radio Frankfurt m the American zone, told the conference that German ruins were more
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  • 71 1 The marine police and fire brigade throughout last night waited for high tide this morning to take a second load of carbide out to sea for dumping. The carbide remained from tho tongkang that blew up last week m Singapore River. The wreck is expected
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  • 205 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday IT is officially stated by the 1 Road Transport Department of the Malayan Union that the price of petrol has not been increased. It remains at $1.40 a gallon. It has been discovered however that a small number
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  • 173 2 GERMAN WAR PLANT ALLOTTED BERLIN, Wednesday. rUR thousand tons of German war plant reparations equipment were shipped from the American zone of Germany during the last two weeks, the American Military Government announced last night. Belgium received general purpose machinery from the Dornier works at Aubino m Bavaria and from
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  • 295 2 Navy Tracks 4 Jew-Laden Ships LONDON, Wednesday. rUR ships, with about 12,000 European Jews, are heading for Palestine, according to reports received here today. The British Navy is keeping a close eye on all the ships. Two of the ships are believed to be carrying about 4.000 Jewish immigrants from
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  • 93 2 ATHENS. Wednesday The Crock Ministry of Public Order .said yesLorday that from Oct. 12, 1044, day of Greece's liberation, to Sept 25. 1947, Communists had killed 45.214 civilians m Greece. The Ministry said that m addition 316 officers and 2.715 men of urity forces were killed
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    • 126 2 NEW YORK, Wednesday. TRANS-ATLANTIC planes were grounded m America and Europe yesterday when 500 1 American Overseas Airline pilots and flight crew members staged a walk-out yesterday morning. The walk-out threatened to halt all services of the Airline, which operates 24 roundtrip flights
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    • 82 2 BERLIN. Wednesday Jewish violinist, Yehudi Menuhin. who gave a benefit concert last night before a German audience told reporters afterwards that he was pleading m the former Nazi capital for world-wide tolerance because he reco/v?"<1 "no races, only people. Menuhin said that his sentiments extended not only
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    • 131 2 LONDON. Wednesday.— An austerity wedding breakfast will be served at Buckingham Palace after the marriage of Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey, it was announced last night. Guests will be served drinks and sandwiches buffet style. It was revealed that Elizabeth replied to the Board
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    • 61 2 BRADFORD, Yorkshire. Two of the quadruplets born on Sunday night to 29-year-old Mrs. Eileen Homer of Bradford died last night. The babies the fourth set of quads born m Britain this year were nine to 10 weeks premature and have been fed on glucose and water. They
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    • 35 2 BERLIN Wednesday Prince Ferdinand Schoenaich Carolath, stepson of th e late Kaiser, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment by a British summary court her c today for falsifying an Allied security questionnaire.— Reuter.
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    • 58 2 SHANGHAI. Wednesday.—Police shot a robber dead- m a running gun battle m the crowded Shanghai downtown district last night. He was one of a gang who rob- bed a bank m daylight and es-| caDed with 10 million Chinese dollars. Two pedestrians were also hit by bullets and
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    • 25 2 FRANKFURT, Wednesday. A five-member team arrives m the American zone of Germany next week to select 164 displaced persons for Canada's garment Industry.—U.P.
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    • 64 2 WASHINGTON. Wednesday. The engineering chief for the nations major builder of jet engines said yesterday that the United States has "at least caught up with and m some ways is ahead" of the British m jet propulsion. This view was expressed to the President's Air Policy Commission by
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    • 66 2 TEHERAN. Wednesday. One hundred and twenty people were killed and a further 300 are missing, almost certainly killed, as the result of an earthquake at Doostabad. m Persia's northwest province of Khorassan. near the Soviet border. The earthquake occurred three days ago. but communications with the area
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    • 35 2 LIVERPOOL, Wednesday. —The Cunard White Star Lines announced yesterday that the 83,600 ton liner Queen Elizabeth would go into dry dock at Southrunnton m early November for an annual routine overhaul.— A.P f
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    • 54 2 BELFAST, Wednesday. Harland and Wolfes are engaged m a contract for 63 diesel engines for oil pumping stations m the Middle East and hope to be successful m securing the order for engines for tihe first new pipelines to the Mediterranean, Sir Frederick Robbeck the chairman of the
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    • 87 2 LONDON, Wednesday.—Sightseers at Westminster Abbey saw a labourer who was working on the gallery just 20 yards from the altar where Princess Elizabeth will be married fall to his death. He was encased on scaffolding work above the poets* corner m the Abbey. He appeared to overbalance
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    • 106 2 HAMBURG, Wednesday.— One of the "exodus" Jewish refugees now m camps at Poppendorf and Amstau; near Luebeck, sought permission to enlist m the British Army today, following an announcement that they would I go on German rations tomorrow instead of th* larger displaced persons diet, British official
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    • 137 2 SALISBURY, Wednesday.— Earl Nelson, great grand nephew of Admiral Lord Nelson, hero of the Battle of Trafalgar, died m a nursing home on Tuesday. He was 89. The Earl, ennstened Thomas Horatio lived on his Wiltshire estate, Trafalgar. His government pension of £5000 a year will terminate
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    • 64 2 TRIESTE. Wednesday.— British Army authorities announced last night, that Private F. Tonge, who disappeared at Outpost 10 on the Yugoslav border on Monday night is now known to be m Yugoslav hands. Tonge. the first British soldier to disappear since the establishment jf the Trieste Free Territory,
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    • 45 2 BERLIN. Wednesday.— United States Army detectives began an investigation today into the death of Ella C. Pane. 29-year-old military governn-/.it secretary of Dunmore, Pennysjvania. whose body was found by a Ctermar maid this morning m a gas-filled room at her home. UP.
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    • 159 2 SYDNEY. Wednesday. International airline officials are mystified at the odd collection of goods left m aircraft by passengers. Qantas-BOAC lost property office m Sydney is crammed with an assortment of clothes, food and furniture taken by passengers on the long flights and abandoned. They say that only 50
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    • 70 2 ROME, Wednesday— The Central Institute of Statistics announced yesterday that the cost of living index m Rome had risen 507.9 per cent over the 1938 level. Food prices went up one per cent m the first two weeks of September while black market prices went up 1.3
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    • 32 2 BERLIN. Wednesday. The world-famous physicist and Nobel prize winner Max Planck, 88, lapsed into semi-consciousness today according to the Soviet-licen-sed news agency at Goettinger where he took ill.— U.P.
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    • 123 2 LONDON, Wednesday. The death of a cinema theatre manager after a private showing of a newsreel has been followed by numerous cases of nausea and fainting among those who have seen it. Dozens of film exhibitors throughout the country yesterday cut a sequence showing a man supposedly
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  • 534 2 AMERICANS WARNED RATIONING MAY BE REIMPOSED WASHINGTON, Wednesday. THE U.S. Secretary for Labour, Mr. Louis Schivelle*bach, yesterday warned the American people that if President Truman's campaign for voluntary feed conservation failed, there would have to be a return to rationing. Mr. Schivellenbach added, "I am confident the people of this
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  • 98 2 LONDON Wednesday-Aldermen of the ancient Court of the City of London marched m their furtrimmed crimson and black robes bomb-scarred Guildhall on Monday. They elected 63-year-old Sir Frederick Wells as Lord Mayor of London for 1948. Sir Frederick, well-known manu. facturing chemist and lons an. alderman,
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    • 641 2 NOTICES NOTICE The office of the Trade Union Adviser, Malaya, which Is now housed In the G.M.R.'s office, Malayan Railway Headquarters, will be removed to Block No. 4, Young Road, Tanglin Hospital area, Kuala Lumpur with effect from Monday 6UI October, 1947, Telephone Ho. 3852. NOTICE "NOTICE is hereby Riven
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    • 38 2 NOTICE Xl \l.\ MMFIiR WATEB SUPPLY Bitwt't n the M and the sth October, alterations are being made to trunk wa'er mains. To avoid cneral inconvenience it Is requesu-i that water be used with economy durine this period.
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  • 505 3 Earl Russell On "Atom War" BOSTON, Wednesday. MR. Henry Wallace, former Vice-President of the 1W j tet j states, proposed yesterday that President Truman and Marshal Stalin should meet m Berlin to seek to improve relations between the United States and Russia. Meanwhile, at Amsterdam,
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    39 3 The birth of the Trieste Free Territory on Sept 15, was marked by riots and bloodshed. Here two injured rioters are being assisted into a jeep. On the left holding a truncheon is a Yenezia Giulia civil policeman. A.P.
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  • 280 3 LONDON, Wednesday. rE British people pulled their belts a little tighter last night as the newly appointed Minister of Economic Affairs, Sir Stafford Cripps, xook over direction of the battle for economic recovery. While several new austerities •v m force, disgust is general at a
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  • 209 3 U.S. CHIEFS' AUDIENCE WITH POPE CASTEL, Gandolfo, Wed •PHE Pope told eight Ameri- can Congressmen to whom he granted a special audience yesterday that the key to world peace lay m the 'just and equitable exercise of legitimate government." In a short address m English the Pope said: "Your presence,
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  • 64 3 MADRID, Wednesday.— A special Te Deum will be sung m Madrid today to mark the 11th anniversary of General Franco's accession as Chief of the Spanish State. A reception will also be held at the Royal Palace for members of the Government and other notables.
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  • 198 3 NUREMBERG. Wednesday. CZECH children kidnapped from Lidice wiU be brought to Nuremberg to face their abductors m open court. United States War Crimes Prosecutors disclosed yesterday. The trial of 20 defendents including women will start m about three weeks time. Investigators have discovered 13
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  • 323 3 'World's Largest Murder' Film At Trial NUREMBERG, Wednesday. rE United States War Crimes prosecution yesterday completed a whirlwind two-day presentation of its case m the "world's largest murder trial" of 23 commanders of Nazi Einsatz "extermination" groups accused of killing more than 1,000,000 Jews, gypsies and Russians. The prosecution case,
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  • 119 3 MOSCOW. Wednesday Mufti Ishan Bala Khan Ibn Abdul Medjld Khan, president of the Ecclesiastical Board of Muslims of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, m a broadcast from Tashkent "to Muslims of the world" reported by Tass, the official Soviet news agency, said that Muslims of the Soviet
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  • 178 3 LONDON, Wednesday.—Newsmen have finally cornered "MR. DAYBREAK", London's latest mystery figure who turned the racing world upside down with his uncannily accurate "pavement tipstering." For the past three weeks early risers profited on his horse race tips, neatly spelled out m chalk on a Broadway sidewalk. "Mr.
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  • 369 3 HOME, Wednesday. THE question of th e future of the former Italian African' Empire is to be discussed by the Big Four Foreign Ministers Deputies m London on Friday. Well-informed Italian Government sources said last night that the future of Anglo-Italian relations "for years
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  • 66 3 IT was stated at a meeting of 1 Chinese volunteers at the S.V.C. Mess m Singapore yesterday that payments m accordance with the Worley recommendations would probably be made before December. Capt. Yap Pheng Geek, whj presided at the meeting, said that if volunteering were reintroduced,
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  • 88 3 LONDON, Wednesday. A WAR-TIME Halifax bom her plane will take oft from Britain at midnight tonight on an 8,000-mile flight to Singapore with a s* -ton propeller shaft for the steamship Lake Chilco, which was towed into Singapore harbour last week with its propeller
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  • 236 3 FLUSHING Meadows, Wednesday. AFTER seven successive ballots had failed to break a deadlock over the choice between the Ukraine and India for a vacant seat on the United Nations Security Council, the General Assembly overrode Soviet objections and decided to postpone further efforts to settle the
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  • 408 4 CALCULATING on a minimum basis of one warder to five prisoners, Outram Road Gaol is understaffed, said the Singapore acting Commissioner of Prisons, Mr. W. B. Oliver, yesterday. The position would be improved next week, however, when a batch of 20 sub-warders who had completed
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  • 61 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wednesday. -The Mariners Club at Port Swettenham will be opened by the Governor of the Malayan Union. Sir Edward Gent, on Friday at 5.30 p m. I. is expected a large catherine of all communities will be present for this event which is symbolic of the
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  • 266 4 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Wednesday. WITH tongues and cheeks pierced by steel spikes, men and women one a 60-year-old woman some carrying children, ran over burning coals m th c annual fire-walk-ing ceremony at the Thirobalhai Amma n temple, Malacca, on Monday. Thousands flocked to
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  • 61 4 SHIPS alongside the Singapore wharves yesterday (godowns m brackets) were: Main Wharf: Celebes (31-32), Mount Davis (33-34), Cape Fear (36 37), George Chamberlain (42-43). West Wharf: Empire Wye (1 2), Salong (3), Talthybius (6-7), Glenartney (10-11), Tydeus (13), Atreus < 15-16 > Empire Dock: Hugo de Vries (19-20),
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  • 220 4 Rubber Workers Go Back After 1 5 Days MINE hundred workers of the Aik Hoe Rubber l Factory, Singapore, yesterday decided to call off their 15-day-old strike. Only about half that number will return to work today, however. At a meeting between representatives of the
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  • 126 4 Cholera In Egypt Increasing CAIRO, Wednesday. •THIRTY SEVEN deaths from 1 cholera and 76 new positive cases were reported by tho Egyptian Ministry of Public Health last night. This brings the totals number of cases and deaths to 599 and 103 respectively the highest since the outbreak of the epidemic.
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  • 101 4 VERDUN, France, Wednesday.— An armed convoy of 142 French army trucks left this city yesterday, through streets cleared of barricades, carrying 410 tons of sugar for civilians m Germany after a bloodless "second battle of Verdun" with Communist demonstrators who had blocked the I shipment for
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  • 63 4 CANBERRA, Wednesday. The \j Australian Minister of Defence, Mr. Dedman, yesterday said that Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery had "expressed himself well satisfied with Australia's defence plans, particularly the plans for co-operation with the United Kingdom m British Commonwealth defence." He was commenting on a statement by Mr. Randolph Churchill
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  • 269 4 Distress In Labok, Kelantan From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday LOW prices for rubber and a poor rice crop early tins year were partly responsible for the recent distress among kampong folk m Labok, Kelantan, states an official press release. "The condition of the people of the Labok area
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  • 179 4 The undernoted newly added nunfiction and fiction works will be ready for Issue on Saturday at Raffles Library: Cbandos (Dane) Abbie. Constanuros (Mabel) Shreds and Patches. Ennion (E.A.R) The Story of Migration. Farge (la Henry). Lost Treasures of Europe. Howell (Wing/Commdr. Edward) Escape to live.
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  • 114 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. —The Malayan Association may appoint parliamentary "agents" m London so that "full and proper" answers to questions con. cerning Malaya may be given In Parliament. The Association states that it has been obvious, from the replies given by the Secretary
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  • 75 4 The Chinese Government has fixed the end of December 1947, as the time limit fo r submission of claims by the Allied companies and individuals to property m China which was under Japanese or Puppet control during the war. Property unclaimed after this date
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  • 41 4 A dinner was held last night at the Empress Hotel to mark the engagement of Mr. Joseph Van, secretary of the Singapore Table Tennis Association, amd Miss Tan Yoke Meng, a nurse at the Kwong Wai sui Free Hospital.
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  • 361 4 From Our Own Correspondent 3ITIAWAN, Wednesday. rW a police effort to hoodwink a gang of alleged kidnappers with Jap "banana" j currency failed, was told m the Sitiawan magistrates' court today. The magistrate, Y.M. Raja Chik Jarfiir ibni Sultan Abdullah, committed for trial at the n«xt
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  • 70 4 From Our Own Correspondent. TAIPING, Wednesday.— ln re. cognition of the service of Senior Warden Ngah Hun, of Taiping, the Corps of Air Raid Wardens will be presented with a card of commendation from the Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Edward Gent, by the
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  • 204 4 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. AN increase in the price of tin probably early next year is predicted by well-informed quarters, the Financial Times learns. The world price, unofficially but reliably regarded as the Bolivian selling price to th e United
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  • 534 5 $14 MILLION DROP IN MALAYAN EXPORTS August Was Worst Month This Year EXPORTS from Malaya at $85,455,568 m August registered a record low this year, falling by $14 million from July, as trade declined for the second time m three months. Following the downward trend, the August imports of $105,799,985
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    31 5 Picture taken at the service of the dedication of the Fifth Singapore Company Bugle Band and presentation of Colours last Sunday at the Katong Presbyterian Church, 41, Koon Sent Road, Singapore.
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  • 29 5 Australian trade with countries of East ond S.E. Asia is now more than three times greater than before the war. Figures released by the Com-
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  • 280 5 WHILE the pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca has been banned owing to a cholera epidemic m Cairo, news has reached Singapore that Malaya's pilgrims have already arrived safely at Jeddah, and will undertake the pilgrimage. Those who have gone on the HaJ this
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  • 69 5 In the caption to the picture of the swearing-in of Malay recruits to the R.A.F. Regiment, Malaya, which appeared m the Straits Times of September 26, Haji Mohd. Takir was described as a kathi from Klang. This was an error. Haji Mohd. Tahir is an interpreter employed m the RAJ
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  • 249 5 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. AS a result of the rigid control of imports by the local customs, several rubber firms are arranging to transfer their packing godowns to Butterworth. If this is continued, Penang would eventually lose its importance to Province Wellesley. This
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  • 56 5 KARACHI, Wednesday.—Pakistan will shortly lod«»e a complaint against India before t**» United Nations, an official spokesman announced yesterday. The spokesman also confirmed that Pakistan had appealed to the British Dominions through Britain for material aid m her distress arising from communal riots. bu' said that no military
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  • 112 5 from Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. The Municipal budget estimates for 1948 will include a provision of $70,000 for the purchase of meters and other water expenditure. This decision m committee was confirmed by the Municipal Commissioners at their ordinary meeting yesterday afternoon. The Commissioners
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  • 220 5 PENANG, Wednesday. THE Penang Municipal Com1 missioners have decided to support the interim report of the Joint Wages Commission. The decision was reached at a meeting m committee following a lengthy discussion. The Commissioners agreed, however, to point out to the Government that if
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  • 163 5 DECISION ON BACK PAY DISAPPOINTING P.£NANG, Wednesday. Government and municipal employees m Penang are disappointed m the decision by the Secretary of State for the Colonies that ttheer c will be no back pay grant beyond the terms of thp recent award. The president of the Penang and Province Wellesley
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  • 267 5 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON (By Air Mail). A COMPLETELY new addition to Malaya's agricultural activities seems likely to arise out of the decision of the Colonial Office to send an expert out to Malaya to advise on cocoa growing. There is an over-all
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  • 50 6 The Mother, brothers 8c sisters of the late Chan Ah Soo tender their heartfelt thanks to friends, relatives. Directors and Staffs of the Straits Times Press Ltd. for their night visits. 4t attendance at the funeral all those Who sent wreaths, letters of condolences etc., m their sad bereavement.
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  • 1112 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thursday, Oct. 2, 1947. THE UNOFFICIAL AUDIT It is over a month since Sir Edward Gent announced that an unofficial committee would be appointed to inquire into Malayan Union finances, as part of the compromise reached after a majority of the unofficial members of the Union
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  • MAN-IN-THE-STREET
    • 783 6 MY wile, who is expecting a baby, is about to be admitted to the Bungsar Maternity Hospital m Kuala Lumpur. Recently, I had cause to telephone to this institution; since my wife was m some pain. I was abruptly answered and told
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    • 364 6 RUBBER TRIAL IN SOUTH BRIDGE ROAD SALES Manager" has referred to thre c stretches of rubber road surfaces m London, two of which are made of rubber blocks, and the third made by the Dussek process, laid m Deptford, regarding which I should like further details. I can endorse '-Sales
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    • 336 6 'pHANK you for your leader 1 on petrol rationing. Your leaders and my morning pisang inspire me with the urge to get through a weary day's work. This morning you incite m e to this, for the benefit of the Competent Authority, by which I mean
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    • 498 6 YOUR correspondent "One of the Proletariat" who claims to be a friend of some of the committee members of the Progressive Party is obviously a member or supporter of the M.D.U. mi n disguise He has deliberately glossed over the work done by certain members of the Progressive
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    • 143 6 APPLICATIONS were invit- ed by the Singapore Municipality for the post of Woman Assistant Welfare Officer with an initial salary, of $250 per month with transport and cost of living allowances. Fluency m Tamil and Malay are two important qualifications for the post. Being an Indian
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    • 133 6 THE Singapore Municipality is appealing to the public to economise on electricity. As far as lighting is concerned, the less we use the less we pay, and, of course, we all know it is no joke to pay 161 cents per unit. I want to complain
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    • 163 6 THE Anglican Church m Malaya may be the next to be given up by the British. That the Bishop has made up his mind on it is evident from his deliberate and repeated flouting of the Church's principles. He has been receiving Communion at Methodist and
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    • 829 6 CLASSIFIED ADS LONGLAND At Bungsar hospital Kuala Lumpur on 29th September to Nestor (Babs). wife of Mr. D. F. Longland, a daughter. THE ENGAGEMENT Is announced on 88-9-47 between Mr. Scow Tiong Soo (George) and Miss Tan Lee Neo '(Nellie). Both of Singapore. PERSONAL. THE GRAND HOTEL Katonir fully licenced
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    • 43 6 NOTHING CAN TAKE THE place or EYESIGHT, your most precious gift of God. once ruined is never recovered. Eyesight Conservation Is by means of having ycur eyes examined periodically by a quailfled specialist C. S. CHONG. 0. D. Fully equipped with latest instruments.
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    • 119 6 ♦o accept -i~ yy-j-^v^rlv—H^ Trade-in FIRST to receive shipments of Radios after the re-occupaOwi FIRST to accept trade-In radios as part-payment for new models such Is the enterprise of S. P. Shot am 8c Co.. so*c agents for Malaya of the famous British-made MURPHY Radios. This trade-in offer is only
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  • 830 7 OVER PRODUCTION OF TIN WARNING Executive Criticises Govt. Policy From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. fRITICISM of Government's heavy taxation of tin and the need to safeguard against over production of this commodity in Malaya were two points stressed here yesterday by Mr. W. M. Warren, the head of
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  • 494 7 Local Indi ans To Hold 2 Gandhi Meetings TWO rival meetings will be held m Singapore this evening to celebrate the- 79th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. The meetings will be held simultaneously at 5 p.m. at the Waterloo Street padang, m front of St. Joseph's Institution, and at the Jalan
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  • 70 7 COMPETITIONS FOR GANDHI'S BIRTHDAY From Our Own Correspondent. TELUK ANSON. Wednesday.— The Lower Perak Indian Association, under the chairmanship of Sree R. M. V. Natesa Pillay, will celebrate Gandhi's 79th birthday tomorrow with competitive lectures by students m the Great World Amusement Park. Prizes will be distributed to winners of
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  • 87 7 The Representative of the Government of India m Malaya, Mr J. A. Thivy has been informed by the India Government that the head of the Ahmadiyya community m India is safe, that he met the Prime Minister of India when he visited Lahore some days back, and
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  • 119 7 'Squatters' Accept New Land SQUATTERS m Ayer Rajah Road, off Alexandra Road, who have been asked to quit since April this year, have been offered alternative sites m Woodlancfc approximating about 400 acres. More than half of the 200 families m Ayer Rajah Road have already received notices to quit.
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  • 96 7 The Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter, yesterday returned an open verdict at an inquiry into the death of 42-year-old Toh Bah Bee, who died of a gunshot wound m the head. Toh's body was found lying m a boat by the side of
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  • 82 7 A sequel to the strike at toe Heap Hoe Rubber factory m Thomson Road was provided m the Second Police Court yesterday whem a 23 year old Chinese was charged with threatening labourers working m the factory with intent to cause alarm on Tuesday. The charge
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  • 70 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KLALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. —A State enactment passed m the Selangor State Council on December 9, 1941, is published "for general information" m yesterday's Government Gazette. It incorporates m the State enactments the constitution and management of the Ahthieeswaran Temple, Slvan Temple built
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  • Malayan Round Up
    • 137 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE office of the Superintending Electrical Engineer, Malayan Union, said m a note today that the Electricity Department was perturbed at the large number of instances of consumers stealing electrical energy and tampering with meters on their premises.
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    • 57 7 IPOH, Wednesday— A card of commendation has been awarded to Lim Kean Hooi, a teacher m St. Michael's Institution here, for the good work he did In the medical auxiliary services during the Malayan campaign. The Resident Commissioner of Perak, Mr. A. C. Jomaron, wiU make the
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    • 94 7 TOHORE BAHRU, Wednesday.— «l a bicycle chase through the streets of Sedenak, Johore, resulted m the committal of Chong Teck Chew yesterday to the Assizes on a charge of possession of ammunition. It was stated at the Inquiry that a detective, posing as a buyer from Singapore, contacted
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    • 83 7 PNANO, Wednesday.— A young king cobra which paid a visit to the Survey Office, Kulim, was trapped by an amateur taxidermist member of the staff, yesterday. The man who caught the cobra Is Mr. Llm Thean Soo. He traced it to a cabinet and trapped it. Mr.
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    • 75 7 MALACCA, Wednesday.—Malacca's Resident Commissioner, Mr. E. V. G. Day, m a broadcast talk last night on the occasion of the installation of the Malacca Station of Radio Malaya fen its new premises at the former Malay Volunteer Headquarters building, said that Radio Malaya was doing much towards educating
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    • 93 7 A Chinese passenger on the Kuala Lumpur-Penang day mail died yesterday from injuries received when he fell from the train on Monday night. Th e train was passing Bukit Merah station when the accident occurred. The man; who was on the permanent way between the platform and
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    • 93 7 THE editor of Young Malayans magazine published by the Malayan Union Education Depart, ment m the latest issue invites schoolboys and schoolgirls to con. tribute constructive criticism of their curriculi for a new series of articles. He says teaohers are not satisfled that the Department is work,
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  • 390 7 TODAY: Y.W.C.A. dressmaking class, 8, Fort Canning Road. 10 a.m., and 5.5 p.m. Y.W.C.A. Wayfarers meeting, the Guide Hut. Clemenceaux Avenup. 4 p.m. •lass meeting m celebration of Gandhi's birthday, called by Regional Indian Confess. Waterloo Street Padang, 5.30 p.m. Union Jack Club. North Bridge Road: ballroom dancing
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  • 181 7 THE front portions of two tw6-storey shop-houses were wrecked and another slightly damaged when an Army jeep, crashed into the five-foot way opposite Bukit Timah police station, along the Singapore-Johore main road at 8.25 a.m. yesterday. Nobody was hurt. Falling beams, concrete, sign- boards, almeirahs, and dressingtables
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  • 143 7 Trade Fair Plan Well Received rE proposed Malayan trade and industries exhibition, to be held next Easter on Balestier Plain, has met with good response from local and overseas traders. The organisers, Messrs. Che?ii Kirn Bee Co., are planning th« exhibition. Latest achievements m motoi and electrical engineering will provide
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  • 147 7 The trift of a 28-year old Chinese, Cheong Peng Heng, on a charge of carrying arms at Arab Street on the afternoon of 10? opened before Mr. Justice Jobline at th« Singapore Assize Court yesterday. It was alleged by the prosecution that Cheong was a member
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  • 101 7 Twenty_nine passengers left Singapore on Tuesday for South Africa by the X.P.M. ship Ruys. They are: Mr. and Mrs. H.D. Mundell, Mr. and Mrs. W.G. Griffiths, Mr. B.M. P. O'Hea, Mr. L.J. Fry, Mr. AM Stevenson, Mrs. P.M. MacDougall and child, Miss O.M. Smithson, Major and Mrs.
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    • 59 7 use PHOENIX FOR BREAKFAST CEREALS PHOENIX BRITISH MADE OVEN TABLE GLASSWARE Plfttes Each $1.50 V Soup Plates Each $1.90 Souffle Dishes Each $2.60 Deep Casseroles Each from $4.50 to $5.25 [I Chicken Casseroles Each $6.50 II Pudding Basins Each $1.75 Fluted Ramekins Each $0.50 Elsie Mary 2nd Floor 13, Battery
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  • Straits Times Thursday Magazine
    • 887 8 IT was with pleasure *and perhaps a little longing, that I read your recent London Letters on "Cornwall that Malaya Ruined." I was particularly happy that it was of this particular area that your correspondent had chosen to write. This is the Cornwall
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    • 1589 8  -  LORD LAYTON By /PfoT the full story but only the headlines of a continent's agony are given m this article from The News Chronicle, London. Most people do not yet realise the facts of the position todays and today is far worse than
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    • 164 8 ffWIUIM IS MILK agjj ALL WILL ENJOY j says ELSIE, THE BORDEN COW m« **n) |^y Ir-.rTTi.uon.: Ccpr. BwnM. Cot*. 1(1] BolMOl. Agents: GETZ BROS. A CO., Singapore. JKB^! Busy Days jry***^ are <^W^ QuaterDays START THE DAY WITH QUAKER OATS FOR EXTRA STAMINA MORE ENERGY FOR YOU AND YOUR
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    • 193 8 MIRZAPORE CARPETS "with that walking-on-air feeling" Wellknown all over the world these carpets have turne-! many a house into a home 3' x 6' 31.50 4' x 7' 49.00 6' x 9* 94.50 8' x 10' $140.00 9' x 9» $141.75 9' x 12' 5189.00 PERSIAN CARPETS and COIR MATTINGS
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  • 940 9 BOOK OF THE WEEK OF DEATH BUT ONCE, by Hoy Bulcock. London, Melbourne: F. W. Cheshire Pty, Ltd THE archives recesses, and niches of the Australian War Museum contain samples from a vast range of implements of death used by mankind m the
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  • 502 9 A CURTAIN OF GREEN by Eudora Welty Penguin Series; DELTA WEDDING by Eudora Welty. Bodley Head. SO many books are coming into Singapore now that we can afford to pick and choose, and it is worth choosing one of the new Welty books. They are both
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  • 248 9 TEA ON SERVICE (THE TEA 10s. d. "f>IVE them hot char and go anywhere," said my commanding officer once m India, speaking of the men he was leading against the Jap. The enormous part tea Dlayed m active service surprised many a war-time officer brought up
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  • 86 9 From Life In Russia, by John Lawrence London: Allen and Unwin. "The Russians are great tea drinkers but they drink it without milk, out of a glass, and they call it 'chai.' You will find that wherever tea is called 'chai' for instance, m the Levant and Middle
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    • 238 9 'gxcuse c! f f& Jfr First thing m the morning yes, even before your y?^ bath, think of Inner Cleanliness. There's nothing so lApa*\ refreshing and invigorating at glass of sparkling /'fag t 1 Andrews nothing that wili to surety give youx I X f** 1 1 system that deep-down,
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    • 262 9 I |<v>> 11 HBBHBBI mm is here! and AVO is something to get excited about: meadow-sweet, creamy-rich milk by the bottle. A new process makes this delicious milk safe without boiling. If kept refrigerated AVO milk will stay fresh for a week after the bottle has been opened. Keeps fresh
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    • 631 9 Stv es of biiiine have changed for Soath's horrible 0D:ninj bid is a the bet'-er— with the years. Now- tVDe that was prevalent in duplicate adays. few Rood players would think games not many years ago. This idea of makirjj the sort of bid. even at > of making shut-out
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  • 502 10 Attenborough Heads For Stardom REDGRAVE FOUND "THE MAN WITHIN" WITHOUT I ON DON. Snubnosed Richard Attenborough lately has been stealing all the choice character roles from more experienced British actors. H e has an engaging grin, his eyes are bright and expressive, but he isn't handsome. Attenborough has been described
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  • 113 10 HOLLYWOOD.— RKO imported 18 "lovelies" by plane into Acapulco from Mexico City last week as "mermaids" for Johnny Weissmuller who is making Tarzan and the Mermaids at the Mexican seaport-resort. Taxis rushed the "mermaids" to the wardrobe department where they were hurriedly "poured" into tight-fitting. sarong-type,
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  • 40 10 HOLLYWOOD'S Jack Oakie shows how the well-dressed American will look tomorrow. The new women's fashion is longer skirts. Oakie believes that if men cut their trous.ss to midthigh women will "again show a leg m self-defence."
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  • 230 10 ERIC PORTMAN has sinned another contract requiring him to make six films for magnate Rank m three years. That will keep at least one top-line British star away from Hollywood. LEGS, arms, shoulders, eyes, torso, hands, lips, haireight outstanding features, one of each was provided by a beautiful model
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  • 58 10 r*A& BERK A .—Federal GovV/ eminent has proposed to American film representatives that their companies should invest 30 per cent, of local earnings, amounting; to U.S. 5,000,000 a year, m developing the motion picture industry of Australia. The Government intends to impose a 30 per
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    • 340 10 AIRCOOLED l i— 11 imojt i c |7 %n DIAL I CCC BARBARA STANWYCK )lr>!) f HK-^*—«.— BARRY FITZGERALD I r> poromovnt pictwm In Technicolor! 1 SPECIAL! The St. Lcger: Calcutta Riots; SATURDAY THE GRANDEST ROMANCE EVER FILMED! AT MIDNIGHT ■.UWL ronald colman Ronald Colman M| RunA Al^ <^H v
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    • 372 10 SKYWAYS (Ma*) LTD. (Incorporated Id Hongkong) DIRECT LANCASTRIAN PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SEP VICE BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND HONGKONG IN 7 HOURS NEXI DEPARTURES Friday 3rd October Tuesday 7th Oc tober Friday 10th October Enao'rT- h THE BORHEO COMPANY LIMITED. Uncorpwaiea m Snglaiid) General Armt* Telephone: Singapore 3876. Penan); 7. K. Lumpur
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    • 244 10 Singapore P* A<« V*P* «.4|liiuM; !*<«• OaaBert H»r* MNt UOKt K»B»U KesulE; 4.00 Transatlantic,- itequeste; 11.00 Violinist; 1^5 Sin1 d m Radio Orch 1 40 Vlctir 4 30 Band <* the Week: 5 00 gers; 4 p.m. Music; 5.20 Hits of the •siivpstj.T 8 20 Hofinita's- 9 00 Cmm to
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  • 165 11 LONDON, Tuesday. Quiet conditions prevailed today, says Reuter's financial correspondent. Other than industrials, slight irregularity developed m the closing stages. Among today's price changes were: LOANS Consols 2'-j% 83% Fund 4% 1960-90 Ill War3' 103-3 16 +1/16 SAILS Can Pac. 17* BANKS Hongkong ($125) 113% +1 INDUSTRIALS, ETC.
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  • 85 11 NEW YORK, Wednesday—Activity slackened yesterday afternnoon as traders watched the gyrations of the leading commodities and awaited Washington developments. Prices eased from th? best •evtls but fairly widespread fractional gains were still evident. Some financial quarters consider that while the rebound this week came at a fairly
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  • 240 11 M. rE decision of the authorities to abolish the control over the movement of rice m Singapore as from the begin, ning of this month has resulted m a further price fall. Yesterday's prices were: Rice: No. 1 $110; No. 2 $108. Glutinous Rice: No 1 $78:
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  • 64 11 The Singapore ChamDer ol Commerce Rubber Association's orlces at noon yesterday were: Buvers Sellers eta ma. oer lb. er Ib No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose nominal 32 V A 32' a No 1 R.S.S fob In bales Oct. 33 33 V4 No 2 R.S.S fob In bales Oct. 32%
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  • 170 11 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE: Wednesday. DESPITE the rise m the price of rubber the snares m the rubber section of the local market continued neglected again to-day. Business was again confined mainly to industrials and tins, a few small Rains being recorded among tin issues. Changes m
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    • 616 11 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. (Incorporated m Singapore) BLUE FUNNEL LINE SAILINGS rKOM IK AND U.S.A. 'Tvdeus' From UK G. 13 ■Antilochns" Due from U.K Oct. 11 •Maron" Due from U.K Oct. 17 "l.vraon" Due trom U.K Oct. 19 ''Diome'l" Due from U.K Oct. 19 < FILINGS FOX LIVERPOOL GLASGOW ANP ('ONT»X*'NTM
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    • 406 11 PRESIDENT LINE SAILINGS TO NEW ¥ORR AND BOSTON via INDIA EGYPT MEDITERRANEAN PORTS Freight Only MOUNT DAVIS Singapore Gd. 33/34 sis. Oct. 8 MOUNT ROGERS Singapore Ait. Oct. 2 Penang Ait. Oct. It AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD. ONION BI.OG TH.S R9t »*T ti~" P^'SrOE 4»49 ~LYKES ORIENT LINE LYKES BROS.
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    • 427 11 Shippers and other* interested m Shipping Intelligence are referred to advertisements In Col. 6 and 7 opposite page P. O. AND B. I. P O HOMEWARDS "TREWIDDEN" ...for Genoa and London late Oct. "TREVEAN for Genoa and London 11 Nov. "CANTON" for London Sails Nov. 30 due London 22 Dec.
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    • 609 11 ELLERMAN KLAVENESS LINE B U C X N A L (Incorporated with Linmed re iV\ I Tt\ Llabllltv lr, Norway) S. 5. CO., LTD. LOS ANGELESt (Incorooiated m England) SAN FRANCISCO, LONDON. ANTWERP VANCOUVER CITT OF CARLISLE Dn« 7 Nov. oae: LONDON "GR\NVILLE" Due 3 Oct. ■^TVS 2SST McALISTER CO.,
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  • 609 12 INDIAN VISIT PRELIMINARY TO U.K. TOUR A ustra Ha Expect Little Opposition By ALEX C. GROWDER THE Indian cricket tour of Australia will open m about three weeks' time, but it is obvious that Australians generally regard this series as the preliminary rounds of the 1948 tour of England by
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  • 168 12 ftEW DELHI (By Air Mail). •ARRANGEMENTS are now J\ almost complete to fly the 16 members of the Indian cricket team and its manager from Calcutta to Sydney before Oct. 4. The team is expected to pass through Singapore on or about Oct. 8. Vijay
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  • 42 12 THE HAGUE. Wednesday.— T*i e ADO. Soccer Club of The Hague beat the Chinese touring team, Tsing Tao Sports Club of Hongkong, by five goals to three here yesterday. The Dutch side led 4—o4 0 at halt time.— Reuter.
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  • 177 12 S.T. Racing Service: A Tribute To Sports Editor, Straits Times. MAY I, as a reader, pay a 1 tribute to your racing correspondent, "Epsom Jeep", for his services m providing accurate racing news, training notes, comments, selections, etc., and to "Alleynian" for his very interesting Malayan Turf topics. All these
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  • 180 12 BY EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR. Wednesday. •yESTERDAY'S rainstorm took X some "sting" out of the Kuala Lumpur track. The going had threatened to become hard at one stage, but with yesterday's rain it has improved immensely and was slightly yielding this morning, when horses were taken
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  • 150 12 PLAYING their first game m six 1 years the V.M.C.A. defeated Singapore Cricket Club by a solitary goal m a game of hockey played on the padang yesterday. The winning goal was scored m the first half, which was very keenly contested. The V's had a
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  • 349 12  - Reactions To Bukit Timah Programme Epsom Jeep By KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday •TOAINERS and owners are 1 hoping that the threatened general strike m the Malayan Union will not come off and cause the postpone- ment of the first race meeting m Singapore after the liberation. With the high stakes and
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  • 130 12 Yankees' Old Tactics Succeed NEW YORK, Wednesday. THE New York Yankees de1 feated the Brooklyn Dodgers 5—35 3 mi n the opening game of the world series of baseball matches, scoring all their runs m the fifth innings. A world series record crowd of 73,365, which paid $325,828 watched the
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  • 67 12 IN the Singapore Recreation Club hockey trial on the padang yesterday, the Whites defeated the Colours by three goals to two. Scorers were: V. Vanderput 2 and H. Boudewyn for Whites, and A. Clake 2 for Colours. The Board of Control (Games) of the Singapore Olympics
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  • 36 12 Ted Schroeder (left) beat John Bromwich m the opening angles m the Davis Cup tennis final. The trophy, which was retained by the United States, is seen m this picture.— A.P. photo.
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  • 264 12 r PLAYING better speed and combination, the R.A.F. Seletar "A" trounced the Singapore Cricket Club "A" XV mi n a rugger match played on th e padang yesterday, the margin being 24 points (three goals, two tries and a penalty goal) to nothing. The Airmen's victory
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  • 430 12 M.F.A. (I) 0 G.H.Q. Signals 0 TN a game which was characterised by missed scoring 1 opportunities for both sets of forwards and m which the only redeeming feature was th c fast pace set throughout, the Malay Seniors drew with G.H.Q. Signals mi
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  • 279 12 Chinese Just Able To Beat Services At Water Polo Combined Services: Whitmore; Ogden, Burton; Fowler; Morrand, March amd Hearne. IN a fast and thrilling game of water polo played at the Singapore Chinese Swimming Club po:>l yesterday, the home team just managed to beat the Combined Services, the score being
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  • 46 12 OWING to the delayed arrival of the Shanghai footballers, the programme of their matches m Singapore has been rearranged as follows: Wednesday. Oct. 8: vs. S.A.F.A. Sunday, Oct. 12: vs. S.C.F.A. Wednesday, Oct. 15: vs. Combined servtces. Sunday, Oct. 19: vs. SinoMalays.
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  • 47 12 From Our Staff Correspondent. JOHORE BAHRU, Wednesday, The Johore Cricket Club have taken the initiative m the formation of a State cricket association. They have written to the cricket clubs m Muar, Kluang and Sfcgamat asking for their views on the proposal.
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  • 37 12 The Nelson Sports Club, Singapore, defeated the s.s. Talthybius by two goals to one In a friendly game of soccer played at Kampong Bahru yesterday. All the goals were scored m the second half.
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  • 24 12 LONDON, Wednesday. Accrington, playing at home, beat New Brighton five three m a third division (North) English Football League game yesterday. Reuter.
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 650 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. (Continued from Dace 6) VEHICLES FOR SALE 1947 EXPRESS DELIVERY 15cwt. Pick -up Trucks. Ideal for light delivery vans Sstate use. Phone 6577, Transport Storage. Ltd. 1947 SUNBEAM-TALBOT. 10 H.P. Tourer, crev. available end of November. $5,150. Apply Minns, c/o C.1.D.. Singapore. HUPMOBILE 29.3 H.P. 1940 model for
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    • 27 12 hardest wearing tyres are branded4«X/10' f— m td -J —jk Fa 1 > AvailaWe now a selection of f fr^ modern ladies watches, including some waterproof models. Fa
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