The Straits Times, 19 October 1947

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    20 1 FINAL EDITION THE STRAITS TIMES LARGEST NETT SALE IN MALAYA No. 638 SINGAPORE SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    WORKERS TERRIFIED OF HARTAL THUGS
    865 1 Police give assurance Sunday Times Staff Reporter CEAR of intimidation and fear of injury to person or property will cause ma. y businesses throughout Malaya to be closed tomorrow hartal day and many workers to stay away from their jobs against wishes. Police authorities in
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    HOUSEBOY GROOM IS G.-G.'s HOST
    168 1 HOUSEBOY GROOM IS G.-G.'s HOST THE GOVERNOR GENERAL. Mr. Malcolm Macdonald. and Mrs. Macdonald yesterday attendpd as guests of honour the wedding of their house-boy, Wang Poh Kee. Wang, a 28-year-old Hainanese, was married to Miss Loi Sue. a 17--year-old Hainanese. in an upstairs room of a Chinese schoolhouse in
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    JAPS HID IN BURMA FOR OVER 2 YEARS
    60 1 RANGOON, Saturday. BURMESE police have arrested two Japanese soldiers who had been hiding for over two years In a village in Thaton district of Southern Burma, scene ot the last Japanese stand against the Allies in 1945. The men had married Karen
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    ADMIRAL SHOT AT DAWN
    20 1 Japanese Vice-Admiral Kamada Michiakl was executed by a firing squad at Pontianak yesterday morning, reports U.P.
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    6 DEAD IN RAIL CRASH
    42 1 BRISBANE, Saturday. Six people were killed and 12 injured when two long-distance mails collided near Gympie, about 100 miles north of Brisbane today. One of the trains was standing in the siding when the accident occurred. Reuter.
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    MILLION EVACUATED
    45 1 An Indian military spokesman announced in New Delhi on Friday night that more than a million Muslims were evacuated to Puiostan uo4 more than 663,000 Sikhs and Hindus were brought in from the Muslisp region durin<* tiie week eruVc' Oct. 11, says A.P
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    CITY HONOURS SLIM
    41 1 BIRMINGHAM, Sat—General Sir William Slim, famous wartime commander of the British forces in Burma, now commandant of the Imperial Defence College, today received the freedom of the City of Birmingham together with Prime Minister Mr. Clement Atlee —Reuter.
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    41 FEARED LOST IN AIR CRASH
    209 1 PARIS, Saturday. FRTYONE people are feared to have lost their lives in a two-engined plane which was forced to "ditch" in the Mediterranean off Cartagena, Spain, two days ago. Earlier reports had stated that all the 43 occupants had been picked up by a
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    RUBBER RISES OVER A CENT
    112 1 dosing price 37| OVER a cent rise took place In the price of rubber yesterday i and No. 1 sheet f.o.b. closed at I 37 3.8 cents per lb. buyers. The rise was aided by the New York advances the previous day when spot there
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    UTAH WANTS A UTOPIA
    100 1 WENDOVER, (Utah), Saturday. THE U.S. Congress tonight was asked to establish an 'autonomous district of Shangrila" out of tne 21,000 square miles of Utah so that its people can "live and act as they want" and be relieved of Utah's "oppre. sive conditions If created, the
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    BID TO BREAK SIAM RICE RING
    105 1 BANGKOK. Saturday. SQUADS of Siamese police sent into Bangkok business district today rounded up a group of merchants allegedly Involved with Government officials in a r.cesmuggling ring as part of trie G^vfrnments drive to eliminate Sr Al?fidy suspended are the governors of 12 provinces
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    STRONGEST NAVY FOR AUSTRALIA BY 1952
    119 1 SYDNEY. Saturday. A USTRALIA will have the A strongest peace-time navy in its history by June 30, 1952, the Minister for the Navy (Mr. Riordan) told an audience in Brisbane. He said that in the next five years the Federal Government would spend £24,000,000
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    NEGROES ALLOWED TO COMPETE
    52 1 WASHINGTON, Saturday. THE Board of Managers of the District of Columbia Amateur Athletic Union agreed today to allow negroes to compete with white athletes in track and field meets and in amateur boxing here. The Board reversed the long AAU policy by a 12 to four
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    CEYLON'S Rs. 15,000 GIFT
    44 1 COLOMBO. Saturciay.— Ceylon's newly formed Cabinet at its first meeting has sanctioned R5.15,000 for a wedding gift to Princess Elizabeth. The Cabinet is understood to have asked Mr. Charles Collins, the retiring chief secretary to select a suitable gift. —Reuter.
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    MASKED MEN SHOOT CONTRACTOR
    146 1 Sunday Times Correspondent SEREMBAN, Saturday NEGRI SEMBILAN police are looking for two Chinese, one of whom shot a Chinese contractor, Lai Wah, In his house at Tanah Merah in Port Dlckson last night. The injured man was taken to Seremban Hospital. It Is stated that nis
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    'HARTAL'DAY THREATS TO NEWSVENDORS
    238 1 'HARTAL' DAY THREATS TO NEWSVENDORS The Straits Times Is Free Tomorrow SINGAPORE newsvendors of Hie Straits Times have been threatened with violence and mutilation not only if they violate tomorrow's "hartal" by working during "hartal" hours, but also if they even so much as attempt to distribute the Straits Times
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    AGREEMENT IN U.K.-U.S. TARIFF TALKS
    222 1 AGREEMENT IN U.K.U.S. TARIFF TALKS FULL HARTAL STORY TOMORROW The Times Correspondent GENEVA, Saturday. IT is officially announced that agreement has been reached between th e United States and the United Kingdom on major points of difference in tariff and preference talks. A number of matters are still outstanding o
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    SULTANAH DUE OCT 26
    84 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Saturday. LADY MARCELLA. the wife of Sir Ibrahim, the Sultan of Johore, left England early this month to come to Malaya. She is exp?cted to arrive in Singa. pore on October 26. Due to her return the Sultan has cancelled
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    TO CO-OPERATE WITH DUTCH
    103 1 BANDOENG. Saturday. Around-table conference of 50 Indonesians representing religious." political and commercial groups in Dutch-occupied Western Java today decided to co-operate forthwith with the Netherlands East Ind .es Government in the rehabilitation of the country. They came Irom districts most of which the Dutch occupied after
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    SPOTLIGHT, on MALA VANS
    1347 2 SPOTLIGHT, on MALA VANS CLIFFORD PEER TURNS HIS TT may just have been coincidence that the Selangor Club's misfortunes in the second division of the Selaiigor League ended iMiM! the Rev. SYDNEY S. T. EVANS, the new Presbyterian minister in Kuala Lumpur, began playing for them, for with him in
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      363 2 RADIe MALAYA (S'POBE) 9.30-12.30 English: 9.30 News; 9.43 Voices In Harmony; 10.00 Radio Cl- nw£ i,/ U en J doorman: !•«> Musle His Excellency the Governor General: nema; 11.00 Evening Song; 1 a.m 5.03 Children s Corner (Alice in Won- 10.15 Play: "Thine Inheritance" by U.K. Transmission derlnnd); 5.30 St.
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    TIGER TAMER'GANG HEADS
    365 3 TIGER TAMER' GANG HEADS Named by man before suicide Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. TWO Chinese who were shot dead by detectives on a footpath leading to a tin mine at the Bth mile, Selayanjr, were stated at an inquest today to have been the leaders of the
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    64 3 MR AM) MRS. GAN HOCK iiVK. photographed after their marriage in Singapore yesterday. The bridegroom is the son of Madame Gan Tian Kwec Uld the late Mr. Gan. His bride, formerly Miss Jenny Lim. iaaghter of Mr. and Mrs. 1 mi Chora M*ek, is the private secrotary to the Secretary
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    FlNED $500 FOR SOLING CIGS
    169 3 FltiSD $500 FOR SOLING CfGS Sunday Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU. Saturday. WnhTHER a transaction in cigarettes was a wholesale one or not was discussed when Yeng Kok Wee. of Tong Ah Cold Storage, was charged here yesterday at the instance of the Price Controller with selling Abdullah Cigarettes above
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    BLOOD BANK IS URGED
    325 3 MAL/.CCA. Saturday —The immediate setting up of a blood bank In Malacca to be used in times o: emergency was advocat;ed by Dr A. L. Shield, recentlyappointed head of the Malacca General (Tuberculosis) Hospital, addr?ssi.ng Rotarians at a luncheon me-jting yesterday. Dr. Shield asked Malacca Rotarians
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    Spore Muslims form Welfare Association
    70 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MORE than a hundred guests attended a tea party to mark the official opening of the Singapore Indian Muslims Welfare Association, held in the Victoria Memorial Hall last The President of the Association, Mr. A. M. Majeed, told the gathering that
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    MALACCA BIDS ITS R.C. FAREWELL
    114 3 Sunday Timss Staff Reporter MALACCA, Saturday. AT a luincheon at t«he Malacca Rest House, Malacca Rotar:a.ns bade farewell to their Resident Commissioner Mr. E. V. G. Day and Mrs. Day. They will be leavin.. for Kedah on transfer next year. Rotariam Presid&nl Tan Slew Sin
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    DRUNK: FINED $10
    34 3 FOR being drunk and disorderly in a coffee shop in Serangoon Road, Lim Ah Meng, 35, Hockchew, was fined $10 yesterday by S— gapore Second Police Magistrate, Mr. L. C. Goh.
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    MARKET WILL BE OPEN
    29 3 eiNOAPORE Municipal Commis- sioners announce that they will not close any of the city's markets tomorrow, as this would interfere with free sale of food.
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    100,000 MALAYAN FRUIT TREES A YEAR
    183 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. A commercial fruit nursery, probably the first of its kind in Malaya, is to be opened shortly in Kuala Lumpur. Behind the venture is Mr. Mah Hon Yew, a graduate of the School (now College) of Agriculture in 1939. Mr. Mah,
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    BOTTLEMAN
    24 3 GOH JWEE, caretaker at the home of Mr. H. P. Bryson, Singapore's acting Colonial Secretary, with some of the "empties" he has collected.
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    Empties Help Fill T.B. Clinic Fund
    196 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter EMPTY wine and beer bottles have helped to swell the Rotary Tuberculosis Clinic Fund. Last week, 62 year-old Goh Jwee, caretaker at the residence of the Acting Coloniai Secretary, Mr. H. P. Bryson, collected more tha n 30 of his
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    HAPPY DAY FOR CONVENT TOTS
    191 3 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent PENANG. Saturday. rNY tots, only three or four years old, sane French son?s and assured a large gathering oi prominent citizens yesterday evening that "we are happy children all the day." The occasion was the official opening of the Penang Convent's
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    MALAYAN FIRM'S PROFITS
    49 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. advice has been receiv\j ed from London that the profit of Harrisons and Crosfleld, Ltd., for the year ended June 30, 1947, was £399,500 against £342,000 last year with a declaration of a final dividend of 20 per cent.
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    BRAZIL-RUSSIA RIFT
    44 3 Brazil will break diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia as a result of Moscow's failure to apologise for an attack in the Moscow newspaper Izvestia against President Enrico Oaspar Dutra of Brazil, said a high government source in Rio de Janeiro. A. P.
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    SPORE MAN FINED FOR HITTING WIFE
    541 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter IMMEDIATELY after conviction in Singapore First District 1 Court yesterday on on c of the two charges of causing hurt to his wife a sanitary engineer. George Gauron* apologised, through his counsel, to the court and his wife's counsel for
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    CHINESE VIOLINIST TO PLAY TONIGHT
    133 3 Sunday limes Staff Reporter THE well-known Chinese violinist, Mr. Goh Soon Tioe, will give a concert at the Victoria Theatre tonight in aid of the Chung Cheng High School building fund. He will b e accompanied by Mr. Shi York Gay at the piano. Mr.
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    MISSION IN STORE IS PRAISED
    846 4  - MISSION IN STORE IS PRAISED Bob Gil more The Australian Scene by MELBOURNE, Oct. 10, (by Air Mail). ANLY Australian diplomatic and commercial missions abroad to escape harsh comment in this week's foreign affairs debate were those in London, the other British Dominions, Singapore and the United States. Opposition speakers
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    FOREIGNERS ARE FUNNY '
    754 4 FOREIGNERS ARE FUNNY ALLA GRIGORIEVA, newly arrived from Europe and Shanghai, lightly points out. YOU arrive in Singapore. You wipe your face, curse the sun, declare your baggage at the Customs, take it to your hotel and there you are: a future Melayu. But not quite so if, like myself,
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    PRISONER OF THE JAPS
    646 4 WHITE COOLIE" is a good deal better than its catchpenny title might lead one to expect. In many ways, indeed, it is probably the most interesting account of life as a piisoner of war under the Japanese yet to be published. For one thing, its author,
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    ITALIAN CARS IN SPORE
    374 5 Find ready market Sunday Times Staff Reporter MALAYA is sending Italy twice as much in exports as she is receiving in imports from that country, and the United Kingdom is benefiting from the resulting favourable trade balance. Import and Expor t Offic c statistics show that
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    WITNESSES' ABSENCE HOLDS UP CASE
    125 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE abstnee of two principal witnesses in the Seventh Police Court yesterday caused Che preliminary Inquiry into an attempted murder charge against Lee Kirn Seng, 24, Hokkien, to be held over another week. The prosecutor, Mr. A. T. Rajaa, told the
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    WANTED MAN CAUGHT IN KLUANG: DETAINED
    105 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PARIT BUNTAR, Saturday. WANTED in connection with a gang robbery case which took place at the third mile on the Changkat Lobak-Bukit Morah road on the night of Dec. 14 last, year, when an alleged murder was committed, Haji Ahmad
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    HOMELESS BOYS ARE CARED FOR
    459 5 SuiuLay Times Staff Reporter IN an old-style bungalow in Thomson Road, Singapore, are 136 boys of the Salvation Army Boys' Industrial Home. In age between five and fifteen, most of them were homeless lads brought by people who found them; others have been brought by
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    PENANG MEN TO GET AWARDS
    147 5 Sunday Times Correspondent *>ENANG, Saturday. TWO Penan t ioctors, two lawyers and sevei. other members of the Passive Deience Services will be officially presented with cards of commendation at a parade to be held at the police headquarters next Friday. The awards are made in
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    BISHOP TO CONFIRM 500 CHILDREN
    135 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MALACCA, Saturday. MORE than 500 children will be confirmed by the Bishop of Malacca, Rev. Monsigneur Olcomendy, when he visits the Settlement on Oct. 26, 27 and 28. Next Sunday at 8 a.m.. there will be a pontifical High Mass at
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    SMALLPOX REPORTED
    49 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PENANG, Saturday. TWO cases of smallpox were reported in Province Wellesley last month At the Province Rural Board meeting held last week the Health Officer stated that in addition to one case (since recovered) a fresh case had been discovered at Tanjong Brembang.
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    RUBBER
    59 5 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's prices at noon yesterday were: Cts. Cts. per lb per lb. to. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose nominal 36 >i 37 10. 1 R.S.S. fob in bales Nov. 37'; 37^4 to. 2 R.S.S. fob in bales Nov. 36X 37 [o. 3 R.S.S. fob
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    MALAYAN STUDENTS DO WELL IN BRITAIN
    288 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. A NEWSLETTER from Mr. O. T. Dussek, liason officer for Malayan students in Britain, reports that Mr. T. P Loke. of Kuala Lumpur, has qualified for the degree of M.R.C.P. (London) Dr. T. P Loke MB.. M.R.C.P.. is now back in
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    SINGAPORE, OCT. 19, 1947. FADING AWAY
    714 6 SINGAPORE, OCT. 19, 1947. FADING AWAY SEVENTY-FIVE per cent of the journalists covering meetings of the United Nations in New York have, according to a poll taken by an American magazine, doubts whether the Organisation can survive. These men are members of the public closest in touch with what goes
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    The Peoples of S.E. Asia
    28 6 The Peoples of S.E. Asia pIRST of a series of articles on the way in which Malaya and the countries round it have been built up and developed.
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    East From India
    1607 6  -  E.H.G. DOBBY By DR. TO talk of current affairs in Southeast Asia only in terms of nationalism, prestige and raw materials is to talk of leaves when it's the trees that matter. The social and human patten of this part of the world has deep roots and
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    SEA GOD GOES HOME
    848 6 SINCE last Tuesday, devout followers of Kew Leong Yean, a Chinese god of the sea, have been fasting, eating only rice and vegetable food and abstaining from all flesh and meat. The fast, from the first to the ninth day of the Chinese ninth moon, will
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    BIG WELCOME FOX Mrs BROOKE
    177 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MR. BOLHASSAN bin Metasip, assistant general secretary ol Malay National Union of Sarawak, told the Sunday Times yesterday tfcat the tremendous welcome given to Mrs. Anthony Brooke on her arrival at Kuching showed that the people were not reconciled to the
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    LOWER SYNTHETIC PRICE
    370 7 LOWER SY NT HETIC PRICE Call for U.S. rubber t>olicy AKRON, Ohio, Saturday. THE chairman of the Goodyear Tyre Rubber Company, urging the establishment of a United States rubber policy for national security, today recommended continued Government ownership of synthetic plants of a minimum capacity of 600,000 long tons of
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    25 7 MRS. HELEN LONG, who last week-end won the wxnen's tingles and dnuMes tides in the IVrak badminton championships. She was triple junior champion in 1940.
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    IPOH TO TAKE TB FIGHT TO HOMES
    127 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. IPOH, Saturday. PRIVATE medical practitioners, sanitary inspectors and hospital and welfare authorities will take part in a campaign which has been planned here to carry the nght against tuberculosis to the home. The organiser is Dr. A. B. Byrne,
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    CYCLE PLATES WARNING
    105 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE Singapore Registrar of Vehicles. Mr. W. A. M. Watts, said yesterday that his department would replace the number plates of bicycles which had become damaged because of wear ir.d tear. The Registrar was commenting on a letter to the Straits Times in
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    BIG SOCIAL PROBLEM TO BE DISCUSSED
    71 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE next meeting of members of the Singapore Social Welfare Departments Training School will be held in the Juvenile Court tomorrow evening at 4.15. Subject to be discussed will be: "The problem of Women and Girls in Singapore" from the
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    SHOT MANS 7-DAY TREK
    148 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SEREMBAN, Saturday. WITH a wound in the left side of his chest caused by a rifle bullet fired by a compatriot, a Sakai named aksin Bin Hatit walked seven days through the jungle to make a report to the police. Yaksin Bin
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    NEW VESSEL ON FOk EAST RUN
    183 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. jTHE flist new British India vessel to operate on the Calcutta-Far East service since the war, has arrived in Singapore oa her maiden voyage to Shanghai. She is the 9.000-ton Sangola, commanded by Capt. R. H. A. Bond, 0.8. E.
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    POLICE TO AUCTION MOTOR SAMPANS
    56 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter CEVEN motor sampans formerly w used by Singapore Marine Police on antl-rice-smuggling work will be auctioned next Tues. in the compound of the Marine Police Station, Cavanagh Bridge. Police now have less need for the sampans because they are securing fast
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    RAISINS STOLEN OUT OF TONGKANG
    58 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter |CIVE Chinese robbed a Malay 1 tongkang man. Mohd Said t bin Ketolah of 10 cases of raisins stored aboard his tongkang off Clifford Pier shortly after noon yesterday. Two Chinese robbed another Chinese in Sungei Road at 4 p.m. yesterday
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    SPORE NEEDS MORE SCOUT LEADERS'
    193 7 Sunday Timees Staff Reporter THE Scout Movement in Singa--1 pore was desperately short of leaders said the Rev. R. K. S. Adams, Singapore District Scout Commissioner, when he addressed a V's Men's lunch meeting yesterday. There were 2,000 Scouts in Singapore, he said, but he
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    BALI I PICTURE I
    38 7 BALI I PICTURE I DATO and Datin Roland Braddell are here seen holdin? a painting of a Balinese actress which Datin Braddell bought at yesterday's exhibition of Bali paintings and drawings by the Russian artist, Mr. Anatole Shister.
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    'SINGAPORE NEEDS AN , ART GALLERY'
    259 7 'SINGAPORE NEEDS AN ART GALLERY' Sunday Times Staff Reporter •THE urgent necessity for an art gallery in Singapore, was 1 stressed by Dato Roland Braddell when he opened an exhibition of Bali paintings and drawings by the Russian artist, Mr. Anatole Shister, at Robinson's yesterday. Mr Shister realised more than
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    TOYED WITH GUN LIKE A COWBOY'
    185 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter /GIVING evidence in the Seventh Vf Magistrates court, Singapore, yesterday, Mohd. Yacob b. Darus, a lorry attendant, said that he saw a Chinese, Lim Hai Seng, toying with a revolver "like a cowboy" in a room in Kee Seng Road
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    POSTER EXHIBITION DRAWS BIG CROWD
    86 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE British Poster Exhibition which opener in the Chungking Hall, Great World Amusement Park, Singapore, last night attracted 3,000 visitors who showed keen interest in the posters concerning industrial life and roa<i safety. The Exhibi. tion will continue until Oct. 24
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    MALAY WOMEN TO FIGHT DESERTION
    286 7 Sunday Times Skiff Reporter MORE than 100 Singapore Malay women yesterday unanC mously agreed to protect their womenfolk from unscrupulous husbands who deserted them after a few months of married life. This decision was reached at th c inaugural meeting of the Malay Women's Welfare
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    SEGAMAT TO HOLD A WELFARE WEEK
    45 7 SEGAMAT, Saturday. IN an all out drive to conect more funds; the Johore Welfare committee is holding a 'Welfare Week' at Segamat from Oct. 21 to Oct. 26 and has appealed to the general public to support the campaign.
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    INDIAN PUBLICATION
    33 7 "Sajigham," a periodical devov ed to news of the Dominions of of India and Pakistan, has been published in Singapore. The first issue includes an article on the Indian Test cricketers.
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      325 8 PAINS IN THE JOINTS? Swollen, in-flamt-d. painful f*rm [olnts aro \fi ™A symptoms of IfJ^TT*' Kidney trouble '> which should I lK /> Sot be Ignored Killi^P-'i r neglected. W^W§t c De Witt's Kih- I 0( W.il Hey Bladder HHHM Pills are a well I K^-ll known remedy which will
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      640 8 IN u.der thoroughly to understand when a double is for take-out purposes wp have Msled three conditions, all of which must obtain: 1. Partner has made no bid othsr than a pass; 2. The double is made at the first opportunity: 3. The range of bidding is from one up
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      675 8 THIS WEEK FOR YOU r-What the Stars Foretell AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19). Intuitions may prove valid. Follow them for the best results. Partnership matters, especially those pertaining to the home front, gain in importance right now. Anticipate domestic happiness. This is a highly idealistic week in which it is possible
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      347 8 LEO (July 24-Aug. 23). An ambitious outlook lies ahead: but concentrate on getting the ordinary day's activities completed if you want the best results. Contact those who are previously known to yOuv O u in making plans to extend business interests. Make sure you turn events in the right direction.
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    LONG SKIRTS & TINY WAISTS
    784 9 LONG SKIRTS TINY WAISTS MARY HEATHCOTT DESCRIBES NEW FASHIONS LONDON, Sept. 30, (by Air Mail). WINTER fashion collections are being shown in London. It is too soon to give any overall picture, but it seems certain that moderately long skirts, tiny waists and sloping shoulders are here to stay. Despite
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    Making Biscuits Can Be Fun
    373 9 MAKING biscuits is a fascinating occupation and you will find that the family will much ap* predate your efforts. When you have a biscuit-making session it is well to remember the following points: The mixture should be as stiff as for pastry. Roll it out
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    TAKE CARE IN CUTTING TREES
    387 9 WnruN a large brancn is removed fiom a tree there is a i ways a certain amount of danger to the U'te, for a large wounu, whic takes a long time to heal o.er, is inflicted on it. So long as the wound remaius it
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    Ann Temple's Casebook
    294 9 Are men more to be believed when talking to men than when talking to women? 1 ask because my sister has warned me off my boy friend. Her husband told her he liked to boast about his conquests to other men and that fee gave himself a
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    S.C.C. DEFEATED BY JOHORE C.C.
    96 10 THE Johore Cricket Club defeated the Singapore Cricket Club in a game of hockey on the Fadang on Friday by three goals to nil. The Johore C.C. maintained a steady superiority in the first half, but in the second half the S.C.C. rallied strongly. In
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    S.C.C. "B" FIFTEEN
    93 10 The Singapore Cricket Clubs "B" XV against the Blakan Mat! "B" tomorrow at 5.15 p.m. on the padang will be: J.V.H. Geeks: G.R. Hargreaves. J.N. Hacking, N. McKechnie, V.R. Burton: D. Redman (capt.), J. Oatcs; P. Gilmour, H.J. Storrs, H.T. Grieves, t. Frost. P.G.M. Lee. G.E. Verrall,
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    INJURY ENDED READER'S CAREER
    577 10 INJURY ENDED READER'S CAREER Malayan Soccer Personalities Captained Spore In 1 931 Final Sunday Times Staff Reporter FEW footballers, or sportsmen for that matter, retire from the game because they want to. Many are forced to hung up tiieir boots because of age, ill-health or pressure of work. In May,
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    SINGAPORE TENNIS STARS FOR KLUANC
    149 10 •THREE Singapore Chinese tennis I stars are to visit Kluang, Johore next week-end to compete against leading players of the State in singles and doubles games to mark the opening of the two new tennis courts of the Kluang International Club. The Singapore team will
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    BADMINTON ENTRIES
    24 10 The closing date for entries In the women's doubles event of the Singapore Badminton Association championships has been extended to Oct. 31.
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    PERAK CUP FINAL
    32 10 IPOH. Saturday— The Taiping Foot[ball League this evening won the Llm Song Fcok cup- beatin? the Cameron Highlanders 4— m the final. The winning g was scored during extra-time.
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    HE PLAYS NURSEMAID TO 400 HORSES
    263 10 Turf Personalities.... No. 12 Sunday Times Racing Correspondent SELDOM in the racing limelight is the Official Veterinary Surgeon to the Straits Racing Association, but he has one of the toughest jobs on the Malayan turf, for h e plays nursemaid to every horse in
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    DIEHARD PLAYER ANNEXES JUNIOR SINGLES TITLE
    300 10 DIEHARD PLAYER ANNEXES JUNIOR SINGLES TITLE DLAYING confidently, Quek Keng 1 Chuan of the Diehard B.P. won. the men's junior singles championship of Singapore when he defeated Seah Yearf Khern of the Marigold B.P. in two straight sets at the Clerical Union yesterday. Yeak Khern began well and in the
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    HOCKEY RESULTS
    66 10 THE Singapore Celts Hockey Club "A" team beat thr R.A.P. Tengah by jtwo gcals to one at hockey at Tengr.h yesterday. Dass and Lelah scored for the Colts, while Cross netted for th<> Airmen. The Singapore Police second eleven Ibeat the Hongkong Shanghai Bank by lone goal to
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    DRAW FOR SPORE BADMINTON TOURNEY
    476 10 THE draw of the Singapore open badminton championships, which took place at the Clerical Union hall yesterday, resulted as follows MEN'S OPEN SINGLES Top Section: Tan Chong Teck (bye) vs. Low Seah Chuan (bye); Ng Liang Chua- (bye); Wee Eng Siang vs. Koh Keng Siang;
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    NEWCOMERS DO WELL IN TRAINING
    835 11  - NEWCOMERS DO WELL IN TRAI NING Epsom Jeep By PENANG, Saturday. KING Sion (three in 38 2/5 sec.), Tarabah (39 1/5 on the bit), Mac Scott and Kimberley (39 3/5), Commander (39 2/5), Warspite (39 4/5), Gay Chief (two in 26 4/5, hard held) all newcomers— and Counsel II (39
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    NEW RE CORD SET UP AT AQUATIC MEET
    513 11 ANEW record for the 50 metres medley relay was set up by the Chinese Swimming Club trio when they clocked 1 mm. 40.4 sec. at the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association's fourth swimming championship meet held at the Singapore Swimming Club pool, yesterday.
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    Selangor XV Beat Negri
    351 11 Sunday Times Correspondent. SEREMBAN. Saturday. SELANGOR had little difficulty In beating Negri Sembilan at rugby today by 24 points (three goals, two tries and a penalty goal) to six points (two penalty goals). Negri lost because of poor tacklin" and disinclination among the fox irds to
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    PARIT BUNTAR HOCKEY
    41 11 Parit Bun tar, Saturday. f»HE Krian Malays' hockey team scored a fine two-one victory over Kok Chiang's XI in a friendly match. The game was evenly contested and Kok Chaing opened the scoring midway through the first half.
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    MATCH CALLED OFF
    30 11 TAIPING, Saturday.— The in-ter-district ***** fixture between Taiping and the Penang Sports Club, scheduled for today, has beer, cancelled as the Penang team are unable to come.
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    STRAUSS GIVEN 10.03 FOR CLASS I SPRINT
    470 11 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. PENANG, Saturday. Strauss has been set a herculean task for the class one six-furlor-g sprint race In Penang on Saturday, the opening day of the Penang Turf Club autumn meeting. Following are the weights for the nine races on
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    ARSENAL LUCKY: KEEP RECORD
    499 12 ARSENAL LUCKY: KEEP RECORD Two Hat-Tricks In One Match LONDON, Saturday. DESPITE the fine weather generally, the aggregate of those watching football dropped to below 1,000,000, but the leading matches attracted the usual large crowds. Fifty-five thousand, equalling the crowd at Cardiff's international match, saw Arsenal once again luckily survive
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    R.A.F. XV SCORE RUNAWAY WIN
    511 12 COMBINED R.A.F. 40 p4s. NON EUROPEANS Nil. DISPLAYING irresistible form and playing brilliantly throughout, the Combined R.A.F. scored a runaway rugger victory over the Non-Europeans at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday, the margin being 40 points (five goals, a penalty goal and four tries) to
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    NEW ZEALAND BEAT WALES 28-20
    85 12 SWANSEA. Saturday. J^EW ZEALAND were good value for their 28 noints to 20 points win over Wales in the Rugby League international here to-day. Apart from a bad Deriod in the first half they were superior in defence and faster In attack. For New Zealand
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    MEDICAL COLLEGE XI BEAT JOHORE C.C
    71 12 The Medical College Union defeated the Johore Cricket Club at hockey by four goals to one yesterday on the Trade School ground, Johore Bahru. The Medicos took the lead in the first minute through F.A.C. Oehlers. The club, however, equalised in the fifteenth minute.
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    CABLEMEN AVENGE HOCKEY DEFEAT
    83 12 THE Cable and Wireless hockey team avenged their recent defeat when they met the Katong Eurasians in an evenly contested match yesterday. The Cablemen won by the odd goal in three. They drew first blood through R. Barth following a short corner, but shortly afterwards O.
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    ENGLAND BEAT WALES BY 3 GOOD GOALS
    175 12 CARDIFF, Saturday. npHREE shattering blows in the J. first 15 minutes paved the way for England's first win in a full International soccer match at Ninian Park for 13 years. The Welsh defenders, five of whom were tried and trusted First Division exponents,
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    RUGBY UNION
    148 12 Cumberland and Yorkshire 0, Australians 25; Guys Hospital 9, Bedford 3; London Scottish 10, Blackhealth 19; London Welsh 3, Llanelly 12; Old Cranleghans 11, Exeter 17; Old Merchant Taylors 0, Oxford University 21; Wasps 0. Gloucester 17; Bradford 6 Birkenhead Park 14; Bristol 26. Bath 0; Cambridge University
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    RUGBY LEAGUE
    61 12 Barrow 6. Wigan 14; Bradford Northern 29, Batley 7; Castleford 7, Oldham 5: Feathcrstone Rovers 5, Liverpool Stanley 7; Halifax 21, Bellevue Rangers 5; Hull Kingston Rovers 10, Huddersfield 15; Kelghley 2, Swinton 15; Leigh 11, Hull 5; Rochdale Hornets 29, York 0; Salford 10, Wakefleld Trinity 9;
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    AMICABLE BADMINTON PARTY OFFICIALS
    120 12 the eighth general meeting of the Amicable Badminton Party the following were elected office bearers tor the ensuing year: Patron. Mr. Yeo Khee Song; president, Mr. Sim Yong Mok; vice-presi-dents. Messrs Ng Ailc Koon, Song Siak Guan, Soong Yong Choy, Jimmy Neo Chay Bee hon. secretary,
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    S.C.C. OVERWHELM GHQ FARELF AT RUGBY
    434 12 5.C.C.... 34; GHQ. FARELF... 3. |N a one-side but nontheless exciting game the Singapore Crickek Club's rugger XV overwhelmed the GHQ, FARELF on the Padang yesterday, the margin being 34 points (five goals, two tries and a penalty goal) to 3 points (a try).
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