The Straits Times, 9 October 1947

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  • 22 1 9 OCT 1947 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 184S j TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • 723 1 APPROVED Hopes Of A Clear Policy On Future LONDON, Wednesday. THE changes m the Government announced by the A Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, yesterday have been favourably received m Britain and most newspapers commend Mr. Attlee for giving a chance to the younger men. Both the
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  • 231 1 A 28-year-old Chinese gu«man, Leong Seng Chai, who ]fired a revolver at a detective m Carpenter Street on the afternoon of January 20 was yesterday sentenced to death m the Singapore Assize Court for carrying arms. 3e«ore sentence was passed,) Leong said to Mr. Justice Brown:
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  • 115 1 Reacting to the fall m price m New York, rubber lost 3/4 of a cent on the Singapore market yesterday. The market opened at J a cent lower than the previous night's close, but fair business was done at the lesser price. At midday the
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  • 27 1 CAIRO, Wednesday. The Ministry of Publlo Health announced last night that 36 persons died of cholera m the last 24 hours. On« death occurred m Cairo.— U.P.
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  • 352 1 r>PLE mi n certain districts of Siam were dying m hundreds from lack of rice, said a member of the Royal Siamese Air Force Mission, which arrived m Singapore yesterday. "You may find it difficult to believe," said Wing Commander Chamrat Winakup. chief of the
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  • 227 1 EUROPEAN OFFICER SAYS From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. 1 EUROPEAN police officer, Mr. D. A. Weir described m the n Coroner's Court today how, while participating m a raid on a suspected gangster hideout on September 18, he had killed
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  • 138 1 Spies Want Secrets Of Royal Gown LONDON, Wednesday. WATCH is being kept on Norman Hartnell's dress salon m West London for two men who tried to bribe a guard last night to steal secrets of Princess Elizabeth's wedding gown. The guard was one of 80 employed by the security corps
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  • 40 1 KARACHI, Wednesday. The Government of Pakistan Is not accepting 40,000 tons of coal from the South African Government which was reported to be ready for shipment to Karachi, it was officially ocnflrmed here today. Reuter.
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  • 286 1 Planters May Send Wives Out Of Johore From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wednesday. THE chairman of the Johore Planters' Association* Mr. A. G. Boyd, said yesterday the planting community m Johore were seriously considering evacuating their wives and children from Johore until security conditions improved. He was referring to
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  • 57 1 HONO KONG, Wednesday. H.M.S. Gambia, the 8,000-ton cruiser which fired the last shot agair.st the Japanese mainland will leave Hongkong for Singapore on October 28. Commissioned m 1942, the Gambia was highly successful during her war service and finally distinguished herself at Kaimaishi when she
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  • 112 1 Race I.— FRIAR'S LAST $38 $8. Lena Dear SB. Bitter Sweet S7. Race 2.— KANDA $17 and $7. Gay Selection $7. Wonder Bird $7. Race 3.— LUCKY ACE S9 and $6. Pathfinder $13. Donnell Abu $14. Race 4.— BRONZE FLASM $13 and $6. Euiogism $6. Bohrah $13.
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  • 194 1 ALLEGED WOMAN AMOK INJURES INFANTS A 30-YEAR-OLD Singapore Chinese woman is alleged to have run amok, and severely injured two Chinese boys, aged three and four, with a vegetable chopper m Geylang Road on Tuesday morning. The woman was later arrested and was charged m Singapore Seventh Police Court with
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  • 609 2 PAKISTAN DEFENDS JUNAGADH'S ACCESSION 'No Interference*' Report To India KARACHI, Wednesday. THE Pakistan Government said last night that the small state of Junagadh had acceded to Pakistan voluntarily and the Government would not recognise anybody's right to interfere with its freedom. Pakistan was replying to the Indian Government's announcement that
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    • 140 2 LEEDS, Wednesday. "TT seems that the only way I can get my baby back fas to 1 go to America and do as my husband did kidnap the baby", said Mrs. Madge Vincent today. She made the statement in reply to a letter she had
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    • 84 2 STOCKHOLM, Wednesday. Mysterious cigar-shaped missiles wer e seen flying at a great height over the city o f MudiksvaU, In northern Sweden, at noon yesterday, th<» newspaper, Aftonbladest, reported. The flyine objects are reported to have emitted a sound lik e that of a motor engine and there
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    • 76 2 SCARBOROUGH, Wednesday— The London cargo steamer, Betty Hlndley, struck a mine two miles off th* English coast, near Scarborough, yesterday, causing an explosion ttoat killed one of the crew and Injured several others. Three of the injured were taken to hospital and seven others received treatment for
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    • 80 2 MONTREAL. Wednesday. Polish art treasures from the Royal Castle of Cracow, which were sent to Canada for safekeeping during the war, are safe in a monastery in Quebec City, it was learned from reliable sources here Poland has protested to the S?!f, lan Government about the retention of
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    • 75 2 LONDON. Wednesday. The Duke of Windsor visited his I brother, King George VI at Buckingham Palace yesterday and then went on to Marlborough House for a stay of several days with his mother. Queen Mary. The Duke came to Britain last week from his Reviera villa and
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    • 77 2 LONDON, Wednesday.— A London taxi driver known in his resktoruial area a« "the Jolly Cabby," was shot to deatih early on Tuesday by a mysterious assailant who riddled his back witn four bullets. Police think the slaying of "the jolly cabby", 44-yeur-old Joseph Thomas Desmond, was planned by
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    • 69 2 LONDON, Wdenesday Thlrty-slx-year-oki Fnench artist, Yves Georges Harent is alleged to have told the London police that Mile Mirhele Paulette Lecourte, 26-year-old French mannequin, whom he is accused of shooting was his wife. Mile Lecomte, Who was shot in| full view of hundreds of people in the West
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    • 32 2 LONDON. Wednesday. Carl Philip Plomeren. the Sfl-year-old chief officer of the Swedish shin Ingeborg. who had been missinu since Saturday, was found dead in a Millwall dock, in London yesterday.—AJ»
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    • 113 2 OXFORD, Wedtaesday. Aged 80, James Ferguson, who gained third place In the Grand National m 1886, stood to the dock at Oxford and heard himself described *s "the doyen of the housebreai*ag profession.'* The prosecution said tfcat Ferguson, alias Gray, had a most remarkable police record— for ttoe
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    • 64 2 Crawford Casebolt, 13, convicted of armed robbery m Pikeville. Kentucky, USA, on September 23, was sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars. He had no previous criminal record, but m Kentucky life is the minimum sentence for armed robbery. Casebolt and two youths were
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    • 41 2 CHELMSPORD, Wednesday.— Nineteen people were hurt when a light engine ran into the rear of the "Businessman's Special" at Oheknsford station. Six were taken to hospital, but only one was detained. Some 500 passengers were m tiie train.— Reuter.
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    • 37 2 LONDON, Wednesday. Two British privates who captured a group of Jews during the Acre prison break m Palestine, m May last, were awarded the British Empire Medals for gallantry, the London Gazette announced yesterday. A.P.
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    • 45 2 LONDON; Wednesday— A 10-year-old school boy was arraigned m a juvenile court yesterday on the charge of pointing a waterpisiol at a 9-year-old girl cyclist and stealing seven candy ration's coupons from her shopping basket. Tht^ young highwa>man was released ori LiU. *».x-
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    • 107 2 HONG KONG, Wednesday. Police here axe investigating the possibility that a gang is selling "protection" to local shopkeepers. Twctnty shops and Individuals, including a well-kiaowm doctor m the Yaumati district, have received mail "requests" for loans of HKsl,ooo and HK$2,OOO to a fictitious "Kowloan Special Services Detectives Association."
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  • 376 2 Africa Rejects UN Authority NEW YORK, Wednesday. SOUTH Africa yesterday sternly rejected the right of the United Nations to deal m its internal affairs as .the General Assembly's Trusteeship Comrrntte c resumed the debate on South-West Africa with consideration of. two resolutions submitted by India and Denmark. Mr. H. O.
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    • 810 2 NOTICES The engagement between Mr. Goh Him Boh and Miss Koh Yam Swee was on the 6th day of October. 1947 dissolved by mutual consent. Bated this 6th day of October. 1947. BRADDEL BROTHERS Mever Chambers. Raffles Place. Singapore Solicitors for Miss KOH YAM SWEE. THE PENANG TURF CLUB In
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    • 574 2 j NOTICES TOWN BOARD NOTICE TENDERS ARE INVITED FOR THE FOLLOWING CONTRACTS FOR THE YEAR 1948 1. Lease for Pie Slaughter House and Detention Shed. Johore Bahru. 2 Lease for Sheep and Goat Slaughter House and Detention Shed. Johore Bahru. 3. Lease for Cattle Slaughter House and Detention Shed. Johore
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    • 91 2 AFRESH ARRIVAL OF SMILES aH t < ***^^^ssl#^ Here she comes with her cargo of Health and Happiness Cow Gate, the most famous of all Infants' Foods. And what a relief! For there is everything that Baby needs m a tin of Cow Gate to build firm flesh, strong bones,
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  • 253 3 "Force Must Be Met With Force" CAIRO, Wednesday. TEN thousand young men are ready to fight to save Palestine as soon as they receive orders, the supreme guide of the Association of Muslim Brothers, Sheikh Hassan El Banna, cabler 1 the Secretary-General of
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  • Article, Illustration
    45 3 General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny places the Cravate of Commander of Honour on M. Michel Clemenceau, son of France's World War 1 leader during a ceremony in the Cour des Invalides, Paris, September 29. Clemenceau is a member of France's National Assembly. A.P. Picture.
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  • 261 3 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. niSSATISFACTION with the manner mi n which Asiatic mining interests were "practically ignored" m the proposed submission of war damage claims to the Siamese Government was expressed today by a prominent Penang Chinese miner. He was commenting on a
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  • 56 3 Professor G. G. Hough of Raffles College will give a course of six lectures to members of the Singapore Teachers' Union. The lectures will be on "Background to Modern Literature and they will be delivered at the Union's office at 331, North Bridge Road at 5.30 p.m.
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  • 195 3 From Our Own Correspondent j JOHORE BAHRU. Wednesday.! Following negotiations between striking busmen and representatives of the South Johore Bus Co., 16 of the company's 22 buses have resumed operations and the rest will be on the road again as soon as new staff can be
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  • 91 3 A large shipment of Australian fruit will arrive m Singapore today by the Blue Funnel ship Cfiiaron from Fremantle. Civilian cargo includes 4,000 cases of apples, 2,000 cases of citrus fruits, 1,000 cases of tomatoes, 130 tons of frozen beef, 400 tens of flour, 30
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  • 351 3 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. CELEBRATIONS for th e 50th birthday of Kelantan's sportsv man Sultan, Tengku Ibrahim, will begin tomorrow and last three days. H is a keen tennis player and motorist. His Highness, second son of Almarhom Sulta n Mohamed the
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  • 172 3 ROTARY TB FUND NOW AT $68,199 T"HE President of the Singapore Rotary Club, Mr. S. Franklin, 1 announced at yesterday's luncheon meeting that the Rotary T. B. Fund has reached a total of $68,199. Recent contributions to the r •fund included $17,000 from the entertainment organised by the Rotary Club
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  • 105 3 SHIPS alongside the Singapore wharves yesterday (godowns m brackets) were: Main Wharf: Dilwara (31-32), Mount Rogers (33-34), Alphamool (36-37), Pangkor (38-39), Samos (40-41), Silversandal (42-43). West Wharf: Empire Wye (1-2), Senai (3), Benledl (4-5), Utrecht (6-7), Benlawers (8-9), Empire Colne (10-11). Tydeus (13), Trevean (15-16). East Wharf: Rajula
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  • 220 3 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wednesday. HPHE resource of an Ipoh 1 shopkeeper, who got a neighbour to trail a party of extortioners, resulted m two Chinese being sentenced to three years' rigorous imprisonment each at the Assize Court, Ipoh, today. After tht extortioners had been trailed
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  • 83 3 Four Chinese was yesterday fined $100 or four weeks' simple imprisonment m connection with the sale of medicines purporting to be remedies for venereal disease. A fifth Chinese was fined $150 or six weeks. Mr. E. J. Linsell, prosecuting, told the Third Court ti\\t the summonses
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  • 50 3 Sentence of three years' rigorous imprisonment was imposed upon a 19-year old Malay, Sujak bin Yusof at the Assize Court yesterday when he pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a bicycle at Cavanagh Bridge on July 7. Yusof admitted on P previous conviction m 1946 for theft.
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  • 476 4 TUMULT IN TWO UNO COMMITTEES Yugoslavia 's Delegate Shouts At Chairman LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday. TN what was easily the most tumultous day's debate m United Nations history, delegates shouted m open defiance yesterday at two committee chairmen caught m the cross-fire of words between the Soviet Union and western powers.
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  • 158 4 S.C. NG TO REPRESENT CHINESE From Oar Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. 'THS Chinese Chamber of 1 Commerce will be represented by its vice-president, Mr. Ng Sui Cam, at the informal trade conference called by th c Governor, Sir Edward Gent, for Friday, October 10. Mr. Ng is the Chamber's nominee
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  • 83 4 From Our Staff Correspondent MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Because of the large amount of Australian capital Investment In Malaya, the Government should make a decision on the, question of rehabilitation charges and war damage, the chairman of Hume Pipe (Far East), Ltd.. Mr. A. J. McLachlan, said at the annual
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  • 114 4 Rotan And Gaol For Robber From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Wednesday. A MALAY who admitted six previous convictions was sentenced to eight years' rigorous imprisonment and ten strokes of the rotan for robbery at the Seremban Assizes yesterday. The Malay, Omar bin Mat, was charged with robbing a Chinese shopkeeper,
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  • 64 4 BATAVIA, Wednesday. Japanese Vice-Admiral Tasashiga has been sentenced to death by a temporary court martial at Pontianak. West Borneo, for ordering the beheading of more than 1,500 West Borneo men, women and children, without trial, m 1944, the Netherlands news agency reported here today. His
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  • 135 4 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN. Wednesday. A YOUTHFUL Chinese, Foo Moon Chiat, alias Foo Moon Lim, pleaded guilty before Mr. Justice E. O. Pretheroe at Negri Sembilan Assizes yesterday to a charge that he pointed two revolvers at a man and demanded money. Evidence
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  • 44 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. TiLe v.-ed<iing took place at the office of t3ie Seremban Registrar of Marriages on Saturday, of Mr. Desmond Alfred Bates and Miss Gwendoline Jasmin Pinto. The bride was given away by her rnncle, Mr S.P. Skelchy, of Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 192 4 From Our Staff Correspond* i.t KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. MRS. Sybil Kathigasu, wife of Dr. A. C. Kathigasu, of Brewster Road Ipoh, is writing a book describing her terrible experiences as a prisoner of the Japanese. From its proceeds she hopes to build a church
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  • 58 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednes- day.— The Governor, Sir Edward j Gent, and Ledy Grant are on a i tour of Kelamtan. Today Sir Edward will make trip to the Siamese frontier station while Lady Gent will trav\el to Kuala Krai to open the j Sports Club. They
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    • 142 4 OPENING TO-DAY! 3 SnOWS: 3, «.I5 A 9. IS P M. A Swing? S'ngy Sensation! TAHITI NIGHTS starring JINX FAI.KENBKRQ The Saron<-T«-si "HIT V musical hit of the year! QUEENS THEATRE Both Bark By Request To-day at 3.00 p.m. show "ALI BABA THE 40 THIEVES" (Brand New Tech. Print) At
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  • 416 5 WORLD FAMINE NOW ON ITS WAY 'Will Kill More Than War Did'-Boyd Orr NEW YORK, Wednesday. THE number of people m Europe and Asia who will die from the direct or indirect effects of food shortage m the next 12 months will be greater than the number who were killed
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  • 129 5 Verdict Of Suicide On Soldier A VERDICT of suicide was returned yesterday by th c Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter on Pte. Albert George Jaycock, who was found shot mi n his room at 223 Base Ordnance Depot, Alexandra, on Sept. 26. Jaycock's room-mate, Pte. S. Q. Kellow described
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  • 86 5 A nnding of suicide was returned on a young Chinese #oman, 24-year-old Lim Wee Chin, who was stated to have jumped from the second floor of her house m Beach Road to fhe road 31 feet below. The incident occurred on Oct. 1 about ten months after
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  • 91 5 Caught between the track and the running board of a tractor when trying to board the machine, Pte. Anthony lanetta of the Motor Transport Section, R.E.M.E. at Balestier Road, received fatal injuries. The accident ocourrtd on Sept. 25, when the tractor was being tested. The driver, K. Brown,
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  • 41 5 P. 0. SERVICE RE-OPENING LONDON, Wednesday The 16 000-ton passenger iiner Canton will re-open the P O BritainFar East passenger service on October 17, when she leaves Southampton for Port Said, Suez, Aden, Bombay, Colombo, Penang, Singapore and Hong Kong. Reuter.
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  • 21 5 H.E. The Governor- General, Mr. Malcolm McDonald, left Singapore for a week's tour of Sarawak yesterday morning.
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  • 373 5 LAURA," Vera Caspary's psychological thriller, should prove a very popular Stage Club production m that it satisfies what seems to be a growing Singapore demand for the occasional "strong play" as a variant to the type of comedy that attempts nothing more than light entertainment.
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  • 337 5 WHAT YOU SHOULD PAY FOR FOOD THE Deputy Price Controller yesterday issued the following official list of retail and wholesale prices of fish and vegetables m Singapore. a FISH Hum Bawal, retail $2 20, wholesale (2.00, Chlncharu. retail 70 cte.. wholesale 45 eta., Ikan Kurau, retail $1.80. wholesale $1.24, Ikan
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  • 79 5 The Third Officer of the Tydeus, now m Singapore, described m the First District Court yesterday how he saw a pair of feet hanging out of a deck cabin porthole and pushed them inside the cabin. With assistance he later detained a Chinsee. The Chinese, Toh
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  • 85 5 A thousand guests attended the opening of the Lido at the Haw Par Swimming pool, Pasir Pan. Jang, last night. There were cocktail bars and dancing. Major-Goneral L. H. Cox, G.0.C., Singapore Distriot, cut the tape which opened the cabaret and swimming pool The band
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  • 261 5 Malayan Postmen To Appeal To London From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. MALAYAN postal workers hope to raise the question of their right to strike m Parliament. The Chairman of the Joint Committee of Postal Uniformed Staffs Unions, Mr. Osman Siru, said today that further meetings would be held m
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  • 36 6 Mr. and Mrs. Georee Gan Scow Knoon tender their many thanks to those friends and relatives for their valuable presents and kind attendance at their wedding reception at the Atomic Club on Saturday. 4th.. 1947.
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  • 45 6 MADAM ANNA HEE. aged 63. beloved mother of Mary. Rosalind and Anna Wong. passed away peacefully at her residence. 1161-1 Vaughan Road on 7.10.47. Funeral on Thursday 9.10.47 at 3 p.m. for the Church of Sacred Heart. Tank Road then to Bidadari for interment.
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  • 1087 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thursday, Oct. 9, 1947. A BIGGER SHARE FOR LABOUR Paragraph 29 of the Joint Wages Commission's report figured prominently m the negotiations between ihe Pan-Malayan Council of Government Workers and the Malayan Union Government which ended m the PMCGW recommending a general strike of its 40,000
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  • 142 6 IAM a full-blooded Malay. My great-grandparents, grandparents and parents wer c all born and brought up m this country and so was I. Allow me to express to the whole of Malaya my feelings about the present state of the country m the following lines:
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  • 323 6 THE following is Paragraph 29 of the report of the Joint Wages Commission, which is the subject of today's leading article: "It is plainly desirable that the redistribution of the country's resources m favour of labour which has already taken place
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  • 635 6 A 'DOUBLE TENTH' MESSAGE By N. K. Lee, Chinese Consul In Penang TOMORROW Chinese his own practice— and sold 1 all over the world will lpolltic&l id€9s to his cu9tcm celebrate, m their own ways, this year's Double Tenth, the 36th anniversary of the historic founding of
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  • Man In The Street
    • 241 6 rTH reference to the Malayan Association sub-com-mittee's recommendations to replace income tax, I think I voic c the opinion of the working and the labouring classes whe n I say that if there is a choice between income tax on the one hand and purchase
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    • 399 6 MR TAN CHENG LOCK ON THE MALACCA HARTAL MR. Robert E. Lee m his letter under the heading "Intimidation and Hartals" alleges that Malacca on its hartal day was the scene of the greatest mass intimidation the country has known since the days of the M.C.P. dictates of January and
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    • 227 6 IpAN nothing be done to rouse public opinion to prevent the wanton spending of public and privately subscribed money on senseless forms of celebration for Princess Elizabeth's wedding? This country, and this colony m particular, is reportedly experiencing the greatest difficulty m finding funds to balance
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    • 841 6 CLASSIFIED AD* MARTIN. At Singapore on 7th October, a son to Mr. and Mrs. E R Martin (nee Miss Lam Shoon Nvuki daughter of Rev. Lam Thou Onn Mother and son doing well. The engagement of Mr. P. Fernandez Mi'ntakab. Pahang. to Miss Elizabeth. Pallithurai. is announced and the -rarriage
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    • 255 6 ."V.-. '-.-"-r/J^;. y iS^K => '•+JL**^\ JewelsJ ewels are chemical products. The natural stone is the product of Nature's laboratory, fused into a thing of beauty as the result of centuries of mineral alchemy. But the chemist can now make gems of the same chemical composition, colour, and lustre. As
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  • 537 7 $2 MILLION GARDEN CITY PLANNED Tenants Couldßuy Their Own Homes From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday, f ONSTRUCTION work on a privately-built $2 million garden city for Kuala Lumpur will begin this year, if the promoters of the scheme, a private company, and the Malayan Union Town Planner can
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  • Malayan Round-up
    • 220 7 SEREMBAN, Wednesday. A CHINESE detective told the Seremban Assize Court yesterday that, after two Chinese had told him they intended to steal a car and offered him 30 per cent, of the proceeds of its sale, he helped them push the car from its
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    • 63 7 MORE man 1.200 students from South East Asia enrolled with the Australian branch of the British Institute of Engineering Techrolcgy m the 12 months cr.ded June. 1947. Mr. S. H. Tan of Marden and Co.. who is the Consulting Representative of the Institute for the Far East, said
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    • 71 7 SINGAPORE Police yesterday recovered three unused Sten cuns with 24 magazines packed m an unopened case lying m a backlane joining Robinson Road and Raffles Quay. Malay chauffeur, Md. Aseh bin Kassim. saw the case m the back-lane, and made a report at 11.35 a.m. to the
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    • Article, Illustration
      48 7 Mr. and Mrs. Tap Tiong Seng after their marriage on Sunday. The bridegroom is on the staff of the Cable Wireless Ltd., and is the son of Mr. Mrs. Yap Gim Teck of Singapore. The bride is the only daughter of Mr. Mrs. Ooi Thean Seok of Penang.
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    • 83 7 npHE Singapore Clerical and AdJL ministrative Workers' Union has written to the Government urging that wage.earners be represented on the Rent Conciliation Board, according to the general secretary of the union, Mr. Lim Yew Hock. Members of the Union who are faced with problems as a result
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    • 38 7 f OHORE BAHRU. Wednesday.— J An Indian bread vendor, Sherif, was killed here yesterday when the bicycle he was riding collided with a lorry at the junction of Jalan Yahaya Awal and Jalan Yusof Tala.
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  • 30 7 Mr. A. D. Farrell of the Colonial Legal Service has been appointed a District Judge In the Third District Court m plac* of Che Ahmad bin Ibrahim.
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  • 250 7 MR. Seymour R. Mayer, an American film executive, yesterday held a swift, painless press conference for Singapore newspaper reporters. He offered them chairs m his office, gave each a cup of tea, and told his story m 14 minutes exactly. He then invited questions By
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  • 363 7 59 Schools Closed: No Premises rTY-NINE schools, a number of them private ones, have been declared closed by the Singapore Government as from Sept. 19. An Education Department official said yesterday that the schools had been given two full years within which to re-open, but they had not done so.
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  • Article, Illustration
    71 7 The Canadian freighter Lake Chilco's new 5&-ton tail shaft (shown above) will be fitted to the ship m the King's Dock, Keppel Harbour, tomorrow. Singapore Harbour Boad engineers expect the vessel to be afloat and ready for sailing on Saturday. The broken propeller shaft has already been removed from the
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  • 71 7 rwo Javai&tse weie charged m the Seventh Polioe Court yesterday with illegal possession of revolvers on Tuesday. They were Ahmad bin Haji .5who was alleged to have beer m possession of a Colt revolver m Pc/tte-rson Roau, and Bakri bin Hassan, who was alleged to
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  • 280 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday T-HE Malay Girls' College, 1 the first Government boarding school for Malay girls m the Peninsula, is to be opened by Lady Gent, wife of the Governor of the Malayan Union, on Nov. 1. Miss W J. Key is
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  • 279 7 rO big processions— one of lanterns at night and another of decorated vehicles m the day will highlight the Double Tenth celebrations m Singapore tomorrow, 36th anniversary of the birth of the Chinese Republic. These processions are part of a programme jointly planned by
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  • 141 7 TODAY: Army safety week exhibition. Victoria Memorial Hall, 9 a.m. to noon and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Open to the public Preview of Art Exhibition, sponsored by Society of Chinese Artists, Chinese Chamber of Commerce, 47. Hill Street. 4 p.m. Embroidery lessons and play reading, Y.W.C.A. Wayrarers,
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 57 7 rßinr R in MODEL 5900 Convert /our Radio to a Radiogram by attaching one of these new Record Players to your receiver. Recorded music Is electrically reproduced as clearly .as realistically as the original performance. SIIO.OO EACH SOLE MALAYAN DISTRIBUTORS LAMINATED WALNUT PANELS fOR FURNITURE INTERIOR DECORATION 3'o'x6'o'x£ STOCKS AVAILABLE
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    • 109 7 I The Perfectly Simple N way of making I Simfrly Perfect Coffee If Making coffee m the MELIOR a aimpliclty H f] itself (as easy as maklntr tea} ard connoisseurs agree that no more Derfect coffee was 11 Droduced with all the rites and ceremonies of more leisured times. If.
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  • Straits Times Thursday Magazine
    • 710 8 |p and dow n Britain the V people, harried by rationing and shortages of this and that, the prices of cigarettes and the threat of no more American talkies, get a morale boost every day from th c newspaper cartoons of Carl Giles, a
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    • 203 8 LONDON. (By Airmail) WHEN plans for rebuilding blitzed Bristol are complete there will be one street untouched t?y sweeping new designs. It is King Street, one of tho oldest streets In Bristol and one 'full of nistory. At the top of the street are the 17th century almshouses
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    • 276 8 NEW YORK, By Airmail. —Crazy birth announcement cards are having a wide vogue. One takes the heading of a leading racing sheet, Daily Form. Them follows the announcement m this style: "The Jacobs stable presents a wiirnner: Roberta Sue Jacobs, weighing m at five pouinds eight
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    • 696 8 Jap Film On The Folly Of War By RICHARD HUGHES TOKIO, (By Airmail) "War And Peace," Japan's first ambitious Occupation film, has been rightly hailed here as an admirable propaganda piece. But there seems to be an extraordinary delusion m some Occupation circles that it is propaganda against the horror
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    • 161 8 GREYHOUND racing is toll day England's most popular sport. There aie 190 racing tracks throughout the country, 15 m Metropolitan London alone, and they tie up a labour force of 25.000 people. AJI kinds of rackets— big and little— are worked on the dogs, including, of course, the
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    • 873 8 From JOHN POTTER after an investigation of the British Zone of Germany. Britain plans to cut her overseas expenditure, including costs of her occupation m Germany, by £100,000,000 next year. This is a report on her costly administration m Germany. "THE German comedian 1 strolled
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 159 8 7%e /foesf/v//6 (i&^> says ELSIE, tht BORDtN COW £Ui«: Your money can buy no better milk for him than Klim. It is the finest cow's milk m powdered form, and it never varies m quality. It is tested many times for purity, safety and made easy to digest through the
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    • 97 8 MODERNISE YOUR BATHROOM with a JEYES' TOILET CONTAINER SOLE AGENTS SANDILANDS. BUTTERY ft CO, LTD. SINGAPORE AND PENANO FOURSQUARE TO THE j^. <JL PRECISA mM$S$ ADDING MACHINE W' Made In Switzerland. v^^ i^r Four Things to remember about the Preclsa 1. Its Value has been proved by Usage. 2. Its
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  • FROM A SINGAPORE BOOKSHELF
    • 417 9 BOOK OF THE WEEK AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by Neville Cardus. London: Collins. JJEVILLE CARDUS' autobiography left me with three outstanding impressions: Admiration and respect for a mji wiv> from the humbiest beginnings has made himself a great musical critic. Astonishment that a man who can write
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    • 471 9 CHINA MOULDED BY CONFUCIUS by Cheng Tien-Hsi Pub. Institute of World Affairs, London. DR. Cheng, the new Chinese Ambassador m London, is very much the philosopher and he writes with th c weighed and sententious words of a man whose legal training has*
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    • 161 9 [Lout sentence of Crow Field, by Margaret Currier Boylen] As the Northern Lights flicker upward from the horizon, m ravening shafts towards the zenith, their broad white wings beating soundlessly on the black vault of the world, their portals, red and green and the hurrying white, clashing
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    • 115 9 Anew monthly. The Settler In Southern Africa, has been produced m Cape Town for the benefit of the many people who are now turning their eyes towards the possibility of emigration to South Africa or the adjoining British territories. The paper, which is non-poli-tical and
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    • 540 9 OFF THE BEETON TRACK by Peter Pirhright Binnacle Books Series Golden Gallery Press. r! can forgive him the pun, for it's a neat way of saying that this is one of the modern-style cookery books not so much an encyclopaedia of old-favou-rite recipes,
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 344 9 BOA f announce commencement DIRECT SERVICE Singapore-Hongkong with FOUR-ENGINED PLYMOUTH FLYING BOATS Commencing October 14th Equipped with Smoking Compartment. Bar, and Steward Service. Full details and bookings from Manf'etd C»., Ltd., Singapore, K. Lumpur Penwig. TKCHL AB RADIO ELECTRIC COMPONENTS Goodman P.M. Speakers 12 and 15 mch Fhilco energised Speaker
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    • 498 9 Enough to eat yet undernourished! Prop** nouri»hmen» (or growing /^r^V^\ children v not nacvuarilr MCur*d '^feL \jJ± manly by ensuring that they have at* *^C) •nough to eat Doctors point out IHK\— -v that th* nature of our food is more mßs V *5 j important than quantity B^ .^J""^
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 699 9 A player who has made one doubtful attack, delivered all thirteen iricks to free b.d cannot be expected to carry the declarer the weight of the bidding thereafter. Since a small slam was there for Observe today's deal. North-South against any defense, it is North, dealer. obvious that the actual
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  • 301 10 Should Women Hide Their Legs? THE HOLLYWOOj) V. PARIS "BATTLE OF SKIRTS" HOLLYWOOD. The Hollywood versus Paris battle of skirts continues heatedly with several top studio designers coming out flatly against long skirts. Paramount designer Edith Head indignantly says: "The average woman is too attractive to want to hide her
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  • 109 10 f ONDON. Sir Alexander Korda hired 100 workmen for 60 days to build an exact replica of London's Hyde Park Corner for his film of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband. The workmen converted 29,000 square yards of waste ground at Shepperton to an 1895 Hyde
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  • 53 10 /"iANUr:UKA.— Australia may\j make a film of the Antarctic. Federal Minister for Information Calwell told the House of Representatives last week that if there is room aboard the Wyat Earp which leaves m December with an expedition to explore the polar mainland, a film unit
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  • 306 10 JOHN WAYNE had to walk five miles for help when his car stalled on the desert while enroute to a location for RKO's Tycoon. He looked so disreputable with a week's growth of whiskers grown for the picture that passing motorists were afiaid to pick him up. REX
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  • Article, Illustration
    110 10 ENGLISHMAN John Loder and Austrian wife Hedy Lamarr appear m their first film together m United Artists' Dishonoured Lady, now showing m Singapore. Hedy, who made her American debut pre-war with Charles Boyer m Algiers is a frustrated career girl m Dishonoured Lady. Hedy was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler,
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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    • 206 10 SKYWAYS (far east) LTD. (Incorporated to Hongkong) DIRECT LANCASTRIAN PASSENGER AND FTIEIOHT BHRVIOB BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND HONGKOUG IN 7 HOURS NEXT DEPARTURES Friday 10th October Tuesday 14th October Friday 17th October Enquiries v THE BORNEO COMPANY LIMITED. (incorporated m England) GtiMril A rents Telephone: Singapore 3876. Penan* 7 K. LWRipur
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 222 10 KAU1O MALAYA (STORE) Football Results; 4.00 Transatlantic, Requests; 11.00 Alfredo Campoll; 11.15 1 p.m. Radio Orchestra; 1.40 Victor |4.30 Band of the Week; 5.00 In the Singers; 4 p.m. Music; 5.15 Music; Silvester. 8.20 Hospitals; 9.00 Crazy Interval; 5.30 Critique; 6.00 Thirty to 5.20 Dance Hits; 5.30 Forces' Requests; Gang;
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  • 336 11 LONDON, Tuesday. THE continued quietness of the London Stock Exchange today could again be traced to the political atmosphere, the tendency on the part of operators being to await the announcement of the prospective Cabinet changes, says Renter's financial correspondent. Following are today? closing middle prices of selected
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  • 271 11 Produce Market By A Market Correspondent rE arrival of about 500 tons of Java white suear m the last two days has deepened the shadow over the local sugar market. The Dutch authorities, it is reported, will take an active interest soon m the export
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  • 145 11 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Wednesday. TIN shares were subjected to some profit-taking and orices eased fractionally. Industrials were reported quiet and steady. Rubbers had a very small inquiry. Changes In quotations given by the Malayan Sharebrokerr Association were as follows: Bayers Eraser Neave Sellers Ord. 3.62V4 jammon
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  • 61 11 The Singapore Chamber ot Commerce Rubber Association's orlces at noon yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Cts. Ota. Der lb. »er lb. No. 1 R. 8.8. Spot loose nominal 33% 32* No. 1 RSJ3 fob In bales Oct. 33V6 33% No. 3 R.S.B. fob m bales Oct. 32% 32% No S
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 635 11 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. (Incorporated m Singapore; BLUE FUNNEL LINE SAILINGS FROM U.K. AND U.S.A. •Tydeus" From UK G. 13 "Antilochu*" Due from U.K Oct. 12 "Maron" Due from U.K. Oct. 18 "Lycaon" Due from U.K Oct. 19 "Dlorned" Due from U.K Oct. 19 FAILINGS FOR LIVERPOOL. GLASGOW AND CONTINENTAL PORTS
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    • 336 11 PRESIDENT LINE Passenger A Freight PRES. POLK Singapore Arr. oct I* Fenang c MOUNT ROGERS Singapore Gd. 33/34 Sb. Oct. 10 Penang Arr. Oct. 11 MARINE LEOPARD Singapore P. Swettenbam Oct. 28 Penang Oct. 86 AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD. ONION BLDG. TELS: 6228 FRT. 6"3- PASSAGE 4949 LYKES ORIENT UNE~
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    • 335 11 Shippers and others Interested m Shipping Intelligence are referred ♦o advertisements m Col. 6 and 7 opposite page P&O M/V TREWIDDEN GENOA LONDON HAMBURG •nd CONTINENTAL PORTS ria LONDON Port Swettenham Oct. 24th— 26th. Singapore Oct. 27th Nov. 6th. Penang Nov. 8th 11th AGENTS: ISLAY KERR CO. LTD. SINGAPORE and
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    • 630 11 E Rn E r R M M A N i KIAVENESS LINE DUIIxNALL (incorporated with Limited C C fA Ijn UablUtv m Norway) ancorporateo'il England) ">S ANGELES, LONDON. ANTWERP §AN FRANCISCO, dJS 1 F i CA n R ov LISLB VANCOUVER. LONDON •.a. CITY OP LUCKNOV? "SOMERVILLE" Due 17 Nov.
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  • 2512 12  -  EPSOM JEEP Genonian First In Trophy Event By KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. l EADING from start to finish, Genonian (Morsillo) beat the hot favourite, Spear Mirth, m the trophy race for class two stayers at Kuala Lumpur today, the second day of the Selangor Turf Club
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  • 150 12 npHE question of whether 1 the Singapore Amateur Football Association are to have half control of the proposed stadium at Geylang m view of their loan towards the erection of the stdium was brought up at a council meeting of the Singapore Olympic Sports Council
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  • 28 12 Colours and Whites drew one-all m the Singapore Recreation Club hockey trial played on the padang yesterday. Watts scored for Colours, and Hoeden for Whites.
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  • 144 12 From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Wed." ImHE Straits Racing Association A stipendiary steward's report j on today's racing is as follows RACE TWO: Sweet Memory and Tin Pocket were checked out at the four furlongs, when squeezed i by horses on the outside. The occurrence was
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  • 193 12 KEEN rugger was seen* on the padang yesterday, i when the Singapore Cricket Club "A" XV beat the Royal Signals by five points (a goal) to nil. T. D'Brian' (full-back), Roper (right-wing three) and Potter right centre three) were outstanding m the club team. The winning
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  • 515 12 Shanghai Chinese 3 Army 0 YESTERDAY'S game at the Jalan Besar Stadium, m which the Shanghai Chinese defeated the Army 3—o,3 0, was characterised by a poor display on the part of the military; team. The game was colourless and its only redeeming feature was
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  • 37 12 The filial of the Singapore Cricket Club's Progressive Pairs (handicap) lawn bowls tournament will be played this evening at five o'clock. Gild and Mitchell (scr.) will meet Staunton and Hill (plus 1).
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  • 27 12 The R.E. Rugger Club, Singapore, beat the Nee Soon and 2nd. Echelon at rugger yesterday by 32 points (four goals and four tries) to 3 (a try).
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  • 28 12 The Medical College Union beat the Royal Naval Police, an allSikh team at hockey by 2-0 at Seletar yesterday. Chong Seng and G. N. Oorloff were the scorers.
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  • 105 12 SAMUEL kon leong for India From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. rO top ranking players, A. S. Samuel and Chan Kon Leong of Kuala Lumpur, will be leaving for Madras on Nov. 9 to compete m the allIndia badminton championships. They will board ship from Penang. An official cf the
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  • 139 12 INDIAN TEST MEN IN PENANG From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. The Indian Test cricket team, captained by L. Amarnath, landed at Bayan Lepas aerodrome m a special plane this evening on their way to Australia. Travelling with the team as Reuter's special correspondent Is the former Test cricketer, K.
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  • 70 12 S.H.B. POLICE S.C.C. DRAW THE Singapore Cricket Club and Singapore Harbour Board Auxiliary Police drew one-all m their hockey match on the padang yesterday. Both sides missed many scoring chances. The club lost the services of their left winger, Saunders, who retired with a cut over the eye just before
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  • 44 12 The Singapore Police scored a narrow victory over the R.A.F. Seletar m a game of rugby played at the Thomson Road Police Training School ground yesterday, the score being six points (a try and a penalty goal) to five (a goal).
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 576 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. (Continued from aaee 6) BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES. WIDELY extierienced (business man) leaving soon for India. Willing to represent firms desirous of Dromotine import and export trade with India Write to Box No. A651. S.T. VEHICLES FOR SALE MORRIS 8 as new. bought a few months ago. done less than
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    • 67 12 Spares For Repairs Climatic conditions m this 5H j^^ country make watch repairing most difficult and unprofitable. Bu t watches, like motors and cars, need expert attention from time Bl^P*^||\ to time. Now, we are equipped to I lill^iv^^^^fe' render P™ l^ service for all watcn€s stocked by us. Provided
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