The Straits Times, 23 November 1947

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    20 1 FINAL EDITION THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NETT SALE IN MALAYA No. 643 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1947 PRKfc 10 CENTS.
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    UNION TO SEEK $200 MILLION
    357 1 Official flying to London Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KCJALA LUMPUR, Saturday. MR. \V. D. Godsall, the Financial Secretary, Malayan Union, will be flying to England towards the end of December to consult the British Government on the possibilities of raising a loan of $200 millions.
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    40 1 SOME of the magnificent jewellery giren to Princess Elizabeth by the King and Queen and Queen Mary as a wedding present on Thursday. Seen here are a diamond and ruby necklace, diamond drop ear-ringi, and a diamond tiara and bracelet.
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    39 1 Jk.\N SIM..IONS, the British film star, will arrive in Singapore next Saturday by air from London on her way to the Fiji Islands, where she is to play the lead in a technicolor production of "The Blue La toon."
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    Bukit Timah Race Results
    91 1 Race I:— SILVER JUPITER $22 and $7; Flying Fortress $6, Paramount $7. Race 2:— BLACKPOOL $30 and $12; Minstrel Boy $9, Everest S3O. Race 3:— DOUBLE ARIES $17 and $6; Mardi Gras $7, Double Five $7. Race 4:— HERODEN $44 and $14; Eureka $9, Phar Gay
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    U.K. IMPORTS HEAVILY
    26 1 LONDON. Saturday. Britain imported £215,400,000 more of goods during July, August and September than she exported, the Board of Trade reported yesterday A.P.
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    SPAIN SENDS VERBAL NOTE TO MR. BEVIN
    79 1 MADKID. Saturday.— Spain has sent a verbal note to Britain in reply to Mr. Bevin's "stiff" answer to a recent Spanish protest against the activities of exiles in Britain. The Spanish Charge d 'Affaires in London, the Marques de Santa Crux, complained last
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    GAOL CAVE IN KILLS 4
    37 1 SHANGHAI. Saturday.— Reports from Kaifeng. Honan Province said today four prisoners were killed, six seriously wounded and 15 less seriously injured when a recently built gaol collapsed The roof caved in.— U.P.
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    COLUMNIST HITS AT AUSTRALIAN IRON CURTAIN'
    135 1 COLUMNIST HITS AT AUSTRALIAN IRON CURTAIN' Sunday Times Correspondent MELBOURNE. Saturday. TN the Melbourne Herald today, 1 columnist C >c Turnbull comments on the c. Tortatfcm of fourteen Malay seaiuen from Australia: "The Australian iron curtain is being clamped down against all persons not of fair skin with a resounding
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    NEHRU GIVES ASSURANCE
    107 1 NEW DELHI, Saturday. rw\HE Premier of India, Pandit A Nehru, said yesterday that to I achieve complete nationalisation of the armed forces of India in the shortest possible time, the help of experienced British officers would be of utmost assistance. His statement was made In a message
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    BIG FOUR' DEPUTIES MAKE PROGRESS
    83 1 LONDON, Saturday. IN their most successful session so far the Big Four Foreign Ministers' deputies. Inquiring into the future of the Italian colonies agreed today that the Four Power Commission touring the foxmer Italian possessions should hear the views of Italian expatriates from these areas.
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    RAIN FAILS TO MAR RACING
    280 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter I7INTER clothing was the order of the day yesterday at Bukit Timah for the final day's racing of the Singapore Turf Club's re-opening meeting. Women wore heavy tweed overcoats and sailors from United States navy ships in harJx'iir wore their warm
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    SCHUMAN NEW FRENCH P.M.
    131 1 PARIS, Saturday. ROBERT SCHUMAN, Popular Republican leader, has accepted an urgent Presidential request to accept the premiership in the Fourth Republic's worst crisis, and try win the acceptance of the National Assembly, which already had rejected Leon Blum. Schuman, Finance Minister In Ramadier's recent government and
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    LOST PIN MAY HAVE CAUSED ACCIDENT
    295 1 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. A SMALL connecting pin. which through no human interference fell out of the points mechanism and upset the signalling system, is believed to have been the first cause of the Buk.it Tengah railway accident of May 21
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    CO-OPS WANT INCOME TAX EXEMPTION
    247 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE Singapore co-operative movement has taken steps to 1 obtain exemption from the provisions of the proposed income tax bill, under which undistributed profits of co-ope-ratives are liable to tax. In a letter to the Colonial Secretary, Singapore, yesterday the Co-operative
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    TAX DEBATE IS POSTPONED
    101 1 T the request of the Unofficial members the Singapore Advisory Council, who have been engaged continuously for the past few days in Select Committee examining the draft estimates of the Colony Xor 1948, the Governor. Sir Frankin Gimson. has agreed to postpone the debate on the
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    TAUGHT BY EXPERIENCE
    37 1 NANKING, Saturday.— The British Embassy confirmed that John Hutt, Assistant Secretary to the British Food Ministry, has been invited by the Chinese Government to China, to help institute the nationwide food rationing system.— U.P.
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    Malaya's Rubber Exports Hit Peak
    290 1 Malaya's Rubber Exports Hit Peak Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. MALAYAN Union rubber exports, which in September were the lowest for the year at 51,330 tons, shot up to nearly 78,000 tons last month the highest figure since the re-occupation of Malaya. The previous best figure was 70,846
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    TURKEY RACKETEERS
    30 1 LONDON, Saturday.— Racketeers started their Christmas preparations today. They stole $10,000 worth of turkeys from Smlthfield market while a lorry driver wat having a cup of tea. U.P.
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    SPOTLIGHT, on MALA VANS
    1363 2 SPOTLIGHT, on MALA YANS 1 Clifford Peer Turns His WHEN he published his book "The Economic Front" in 1940, Mr. GOH KENG SWEE, not very long out of Raffles College, took a lead in economic matters during the early war years before the Japs overran the country, and today again
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      365 2 Kiun malaya Ivpnast 9°° Orchestral. 9.30 English: Radio MAI.AXA (ft fOHE) Newsree i 10 (x, Radto Theatre— .010 AUSTRALIA 1 p.m. Julien Foorman Orch.; beth (Part x >: "J". o 11 1.40 Music. 5.03 Children's Com*—. J l News; Prom Todays Papers; Tmo stations— 9.3o Operettas; 945 5.30 Musical; 6.00
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    GANGSTER CHIEF PEEPED -AND DIED
    510 3 GANGSTER CHIEF PEEPED AND DIED CPO describes Lee Loy 's end Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. lEE LOY, the gangster chief of the "Malayan L People's Self -Defence Secret Society," was shot in the face as he peeped over a parapet while in the act of throwing a
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    51 3 A FTER lying for more than r\. two years in the Singapore larbour, the s.s. Empire Ham- >!■■ was found to have sprung a eak. A Scottish salvage expert was flown out from Edinburgh mil succeeded in saving the ship. She is now in the Singapore Harbour Board's Albert Dock
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    3 MALAYS RECEIVE PROMOTION
    130 3 3 MALAYS RECEIVE PROMOTION Sunday Times Staff Corresp3ndent KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. THREE Malay members of State Civil Services in the Malayan Union have been appointed to the Colonial Legal Service. Tlv>y are Che Abdul Harnid bin Mustapha of the Johore Civil Service. Sycd Sheh bin Syed Hassan Barakhbah of the
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    MALACCA GETS NEW WELFARE OFFICER
    81 3 Stnnl.iy Times Staff Reporter. MALACCA, Saturday. AFTER nearly a years s?rvice as the State Rural Welfare Offlc. r. Malacca. Mrs. A. H. W. Lilly has resignad before going to New Z^filind on leave next month. Mrs. Lilly, who has lived in Malaya for nearly 22
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    GET DOWN TO T.B. PLEADS PENANG DOCTOR
    144 3 get down to T.B.' pleads penang doctor Sunday Times Staff Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. rpHE Chief Medical Officer. 1 Penang. Dr. Glyn Evans, asked a large gathering of medical practitioners at the General Hospital to "get down to business immediately" in the anti-tuberculosis campaign. He recommended formation of an organisation which
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    STORM DAMAGE REPAIRED
    120 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MALACCA, Saturday. WORK on the repair of .he portion of the Malacca Welfare Working Centre at Kubu, which collapsed in a storm is r -0w n earing completion. P.W.D. contractors estimate repairs will cost $800 and the Central Welfare Council has beer, approached
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    GIRL GUIDES START ACAIN IN MALACCA
    121 3 GIRL GUIDES START AGAIN IN MALACCA Sunday Times Reporter. MALACCA, Saturday. THROUGH the efforts of the District Commissioner, Miss van Royan, the Malacca Girl Guides' Association will be revived at a meeting in the Methodist Girls' School, Tran- querah, on Saturday, Nov. 29. The meeting will be attended by the
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    V.M.C.A. ART EXHIBITION
    33 3 Y.M.C.A. ART EXHIBITION An exhibition of pictures by the V.M.C.A Art Club will be held in the Y.M.C.A.'s large hall. Orchard Road. Singapore, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Dec. 4, 5 and 6.
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    POLICEMAN DISTURBS YOUNG ROBBERS
    64 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. SINGAPORE Marine police constable on point duty at Teluk Aycr Basin on Friday night arrested a Chinese youth, who with three other youtJhs had climbed into a tongkaiiig and were trying to steal. The youths ran away when the taikGng of the
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    HELP FOR PAKISTAN
    48 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. The president of the Overseas Pakistani League (Singapore Branch) says the need for warm clothing in Pakistan is very great and asks that contributions to the Qaid-e-^zam Relief Fund should be sent by telegraphic transfer to 243, Staff Lines. Karachi, India.
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    MALAY BOYS START CLUB
    162 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter ORGANISED by Mr. Abdullah bin Abdul Ghani, members of the Malay settlement in Jalan Eunos, Geylang, have formed a Malay Boys' Club. Started recently with 40 boys" in it, it now has more than 100 members. Th c Commissioner of Lands granted
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    SINGAPORE SHEDS HER WAR-FAINF
    159 3 SINGAPORE SHEDS HER 'WAR-PAINT' Sunday Times Staff Reporter. THE Singapore Improvement Trust has taken the load among the Colony's public bodies in removing camouflage paint used during the war. In the Tlong Bahru area gangs of workmen, perched precariously >n roof-tops and parapets, are •rubbing the last traces of "warpaint"
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    PAINTED BY A LADY
    50 3 PINE spears form the subject of this scroll, after the style of Chen Pai Yang, which is among the exhibition of paintings by Miss Lo Kit-ling, opened in the Singapore Chamber of Commerce building yesterday by Mr* Wu Paak-shing. wife of the Chinese Consul-general in Singapore.
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    SPORE ART-LOVERS SEE CHINESE WORKS
    134 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter QINGAPORE art-lovers, Chinese and European, visited the w Chinese Chamber of Commerce yesterday to see paintings by Miss Lo Kit-ling, a young Chinese woman, whose exhibition of 120 works was declared open by Mrs. Wu Paak-shing, wife of the Chinese Consul-GeneraL
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    11 PENANG MEN COMMENDED
    134 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. rE Governor of the Malayan Union has awarded cards of commendation to the following people in Penang Dr. Ong Huck Leong. 56, Prangin Lane; Dr. Yeo Choon Hooi. 41, Anson Road; Mr Looi Pah Weng. 32A, Ayer Itam, Mukim
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    PENANG "GAMBLES ON A BIG SCALE"
    133 3 PENANG "GAMBLES ON A BIG SCALE Sunday Times Staff Correspondent PENANG. Saturday. DISMISSING an appeal in the Supreme Court yesterday, Mr. Justice Carey said gambling was being carried on "on a big scale" in Penang and Province Wellesley. The appellant before him was Ng Choon Kirn. Ng had been sentenced
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    HARBOURED ESCAPED JAPANESE PoW
    71 3 Sunday Times Correspondent. BATU PAHAT, Saturday. LEONG FATT, a Chinese living at Sri Gadeng, was today sentenced to nine months' rigorous imprisonment by the District Judge, Batu Pahat, for harbouring an escaped Japanese P.O.W. Last week the Japanese, Yamamoto, was fined $150 with the option of
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    SINGAPORE NEEDS MORE SCHOOLS
    323 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter HUNDREDS of children will be unable to find room in schools in Singapore and the Malayan Union when 'he new school term begins and will have to defer beginning their education for at least one more year. .and even then they may
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    BOYS' CLUBS ANNIVERSARY
    88 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. THE Singapore Colonial Secretary. Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, last night attended a variety concert celebrating the Queen Street Boys' Club's second anniversary. Mr. McKerron. the chairman of the club council, Mr. R. C. H. Lim, the acting secretary of the Social Weliare
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    CLOTHING MADE FOR OVER 300
    89 3 Sunday Times Correspondent. SEREMBAN, Saturday. rE Negri Sembilan Women's Service League has taken great pains in preparing clothing for the inmates of the Seremban Relief Camp, using material supplied by the Welfare Department, said the camp superintendent, Mr. T. P. Dorairaj. in his report. The
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    SCHOOL ENROLMENT
    50 3 MUAR. Saturday.— The Government Englbh School, Muar. will increase its enrolment by 50 per cent next year, when it takes in about 200 new boys By race the present pupils are 66 per cent Malay. 20 per cent Chinese, 13 per cent Indian and one per cent others.
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    Common faults to be avoided
    536 4 PHOTO NOTES NOT long ago a survey Of picture takets' mistakes revealed a number of interesting points. First, i l was soon found out that the mistake most picture takers made is wrong exposure. The second most prevalent error is camera movement. Perhaps you have
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      FROM RED CHINA
      151 4 npo Pressmen in Chung- king it all appeared rather queer. Here was China struggling hard against Japan, and yet m the North were nearly a mil nn of her best troops doing nothing but blockade their own people, the Chinese Communists. Then, one day, a Government spokesman
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      168 4 \T Sian, Gtneral Lo Tzekai not only admitted the cxis Lance ol the blockade but attempted to justify it on the grounds that the Communists were contributing nothing to the war effort, making no attempt to fight the Japanese, but merely trying to expand the area under their control. This
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      224 4 -VTOUNG JEMMY" start* X poorly, but improves ra- pidly and is on the whole, an excellent piece of work. Like Mr. Forman, Miss Elizabeth d'Oyley is in love with her hero, in her case the ill-fated Duke of Monmouth, and, again like Mr. Forman, she overdoes her case. All the
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    AUSTRALIA IS STRETCHING
    928 4 808 GILMORE Comments- MELBOURNE, Nov. 14 (by Air Mail). WHILE Australia— by obstructing traders and planters lets the only moneymaking part of her really far-flung "Empire," New Guinea, revert to jungle, she is preparing to settle Australians at the tropical and Antarctic limits of her &*»<*»**, By
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    MALAYAN V'TEER AWARDS
    675 5 Full list just published Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. A FULL list of awards by the King to members of Malayan Volunteer Forces in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Malayan operations is published in the Malayan Union Government Gazette. The list is:
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    'Lions' laid away till New Year
    321 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PUB Singapore Chi.iese guilds, which gave the traditional "lion" displays in Thursday's Princess Elizabeth wedding celebrations, were at work yer terday storing away their "Kon" and other equipment for future use. To prepare the "lions" for the celebrations, each guild
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    ELEPHANTS SHOT
    86 5 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUANTAN, Saturday. rpHREE elephants which have X been destroying fruit orchards and rubber fees in the neighbourhood have been shot near Gambang by the Game Warden. The three had been breaking down fences, uprooting trees and had destroyed some shrines set up in plantations.
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    SELAMGOR TURF CLUB SWEEP
    151 5 SELANGOR TURF CLUB SWEEP Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. VALUE of the Selangor Turf Club's $1 unlimited sweep on the Manchester November Handicap is $66,510, out of which Is deducted Gvernment tax of ten per cent and 20 per cent, to the Selangor Polo Club. The first prize
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    MALACCA TIDIES UP AFTER REJOICINGS
    88 5 Sunday Times Correspondent. MALACCA, Saturday. MALACCA'S town cleaners I n a busy day yesterday clearing up the vast quantity of refuse and litter scattered by the thousands who took part in Princess Elizabeth* wedding celebrations the previous day. Nearly seven pjculs of rice were distributed
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    RUBBER
    62 5 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's prices at noon yesterday were: Buyers Sellers per lb. per Ib. Ote. Cts No. 1 R.S.S. Spoi loose nominal 42'; 42% No. 1 R SS. fob in bales Dec. 42% 43 No. 2 R.S.S. fob in bales Dec. 42'- 42% No. 3
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    RECRUITS TO MALAYA
    197 5 Sunday Times Correspondent LONDON, Saturday. A LIST of recent appointments, promotions, and transfers In the Colonial Services, issued by the Colonial Office, includes a number for Malaya. Colonial Administrative Service: Maj. P. H. Meadows. Administrative Officer. North Borneo. Agricultural Service: Mr. R Henderson, Agricultural Officer. Chemical Service:
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    IN MEMORIAM
    70 5 In loving memory of our darling Dad. who Dassed away at Madras. 23rd November, 1944. Sweet are tba memories that never fade. Of oae we loved most but could not save. A beautiful life that came to an end He has gone, but not forgotun In memory, a
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  • SINGAPORE, NOV. 23, 1947. BUCKLING TO
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      BUCKLING TO
      763 6 DAYS of sartorial freedom for the tuan in Malaya are passing. No longer will he be able to go to business in an old khaki shirt, a pair of jungle green shorts and chaplies, for certain tuan besars have decreed that they cannot do business with a man
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    IS RACE RELEVANT?
    1931 6 Peoples of Southeast Asia: No. -6 Dr. E.H.G.. DOBBY asks in the last of his series of articles CEVERAL readers have commented that my articles do not mention the word "race," even though the plurality of peoples in Southeast Asia seems to need it. I deliberately avoided
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    Science could prevent smashes
    585 6 Science could prevent smashes •yWO years ago there ■*was a railway accident at Bourne End in England. The railway companies were asked to make an investigation to see how the problem of fog could best be tackled. Their report has not yet reached the Government, though it is "hoped for
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    G.G. FORESEES A GREATER SINGAPORE I
    444 7 G.G. FORESEES A GREATER SINGAPORE All races in partnership Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE Governor- General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, yesterday said that he believed the virile cosmopolitan peoples of Singapore Chinese, British, Malays, Indians and Eurasians would work together in partnership to make the future of the city greater
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    TO ORGANISE SCHOOL BROADCASTS
    142 7 TO ORGANISE SCHOOL BROADCASTS Sunday Times Correspondent MUAR, Saturday. T>ROADCASTING will have a iJnew personality when Che Mohammed Hashim bin Mat Piah takes up the position of Malay Schools Programme Organiser at the Singapore station of the Malayan Broadcasting Corporation. Che Hashim, who belongs to a well-known Perak family, has
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    REPUBLIC RECOGNISED
    32 7 The Republic of Indonesia has been recognised by King Ibn Saud (if Saudi Arabia as an independent, sovereign state, says an Antara report from Cairo, quoting the Indonesian representative there.
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    N.S. TENNIS ACE ON GAMBLING CHARGE
    94 7 N.S. TENNIS ACE ON GAMBLING CHARGE Sunday Times Correspondent. SIKIMB AN. Saturday. riIKW Ton Seng, well-known Negri Sembilan tennis player and State Doubles champion, was today charged in the Seremban Magistrate's Court with assisting in the management of a public lottery, Chee Fah. The prosecution alleged he had done so
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    TAIPING HOLDS FAIR
    48 7 TAIPING. Saturday.— ln aid of the All Saimts Church Organ Fund, the Church Workers' Association today held a fair at which home-made goods found ready customer*. There were raffles and a lucky dip. The All Saints pipe organ was badly damaged during the Japanese occupation.
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    HOME-COMING PARTY
    40 7 MX. and Mrs. O. S. Kannangara, who were married in Johore Bahru last week, were welcomed on their return to Singapore yesterday at a party given by their cousins. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Joseph at Pasir Panjang.
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    P.R. CINEMA SHOWS
    61 7 Sunday Times Correspondent VEGRI Sgg^nSa- tlons Cinema Unit will give X«"p«t ln t ema ShOWS at tne People s Park tomorrow and at the Negri Sembilan Club Padang «n r3°op a m Bothsho^^illbe|ina" The films will b e three documentary sane I one Walt Disney SKSi Heir
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    SPORE MALAYS TO FIGHT EXPULSIONS
    197 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. SINGAPORE Malay and Muslim Associations have formed a five-man committee to investigate into the threatened expulsion of 14 Malay seamen by the Australian Government and "to take necessary steps to counter such action." This decision, announced yesterday, was unanimously agreed upon
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    Sr.IAL SERVICES SHOULD WAIT'
    91 7 Sr I AL SERVICES SHOULD WAIT' PENANG, Saturday. THE view that no schemes for social services should be considered until full rehabilitation of the country had been completed and every possible economy effected in the rehabilitation was expressed at a committee meeting of the Settlement of Penang Association yesterday.. The
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    AMERICAN NAVY MEN COME ON SHORE
    209 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter OFFICERS and ratings of the United States Naval Forces in the Western Pacific, now on a frur-day routine visit to Singapore, are being 'shown around' during their stay. They ai:?ved in Sngapore on Friday in the U.SS. Estes. flag ship
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    POPULAR WINNER
    58 7 Aliu: 1. MAWI raises bis whip in acknowledgment of the cheers as Mrs. Tan Yam Chua leads in Grand Prix II after winning the Celebration Cud at Bukit Timah. Grand Prix II scored a popular win. Well back early on he came through with a brilliant run in
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    'Phone extensions are held up
    210 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter BECAUSE the trustees of the Khee Fatt Chinese School have not as yet decided to accept an offer made to them by the Singapore Government for property in Hill Street, work on an extension scheme to the Telephone Company's exchange is
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    PUBLIC TALKS ON WELFARE
    110 7 rpHE Singapore Social Welfare J. Department "school" will meet tomorrow in the Juvenile Court Room at 4.15 p.m. It will discuss social assistance and insurance. The three main speakers will be Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, the supervisor of the Department's Relief Section Mr. M. Sundram. and
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    V.M.C.A. MALAY COURSE
    47 7 Y.M.C.A. MALAY COURSE The V.M.C.A., Orchard Road Singapore, will receive admissions up to 10 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 29 for a oeginners' Malay course. Starting at 7.15 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 2, it will consist of 10 graded lessons. The cost for the whole course is $10
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    Death rail repayment
    281 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. A GREAT proportion of th c £656,400 which the Government of Malaya will receive from Siam as part of the* sale proceeds from the notorious "railway of death" will be used by the Malayan Railway to offset expenditure already incurred
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    ROVER CREW FORMED IN TAIPING
    56 7 Sunday Times Correspondent. TAIPING, Saturday. THE newly- formed Taipinf Rover Crew, the youngest in Malaya, did their first public service during the Royal wedding celebrations by performing steward duties. Comprising 36 members, including one Army officer, the Rovers are a keen lot. They are planning
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    3 ways with tinned salmon
    311 9 TINNED salmon is not always very appetising when served direct from the tin, but it needs only a little ingenuity to contrive something different. These ideas shou'd prove tempting and original. Salmon Puffs YOU need: one medium tin salmon, two eggs, two tablespoonsful margarine, one
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    NEW PERFUMES FOR MALAYA
    848 9 MARY HEATHCOTT SCENTS IN 'ADVANCE fHRISTMAS gift problems will soon be with us and you may be interested in a special series of perfume presents which will be available this year in Singapore and Malaya. They are already on their way out to you. When giving
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    Pink...
    37 9 TgOTTICELLi I I iJ beauties are I the inspiration i behind ifewj [tones for make- l up. Pink is the* I colour pink I nail varnish, 'pink cheeks, land pink lip-j stick on pursed Botticellil mouths.
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    Low Shrubs For The Border
    427 9 rvfi 'r«in jl phi LAST week I suggested a few herbaceous perennials as useful for making a bright display throughout the year in be is and borders. There are also i several small bushy shrubs which ar c useful for patting i among the herbaceous
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    Ann. Temple's Casebook
    198 9 How does one deal with the 'limy, two-faced type who, apparently charming, is at the same time spreading dangerous gossip and unhue stories abmtt one? I am in that difficult position deserted by my husband ana living with my children in the home of my parents. 1
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    ARSENAL KEEP ON WINNING
    418 10 LONDON, Saturday. ANOTHER win keeps Arsenal as headline news with their unbeaten record but they did not have as easy a task as expected before a 50,000 crowd at Arsenal's ground. The first goal was a little lucky as Logic kicked towards goal and the ball
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    R.U. INTERNATIONAL
    18 10 Australia beat Scotland by 16 points to 7 at Muirayfleld in the Rugby Union international yesterday.—Reuter.
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    POLICE SUSTAIN FIRST DEFEAT
    222 10 'THE Singapore Police suffered their first rugby defeat this season at the hands of G.H.Q. FARELF in a I scrappy game played at the Police (Training School yesterday, the Army side winning by 25 points (3 goals, a drop goal and 2 tries) to nothing. Major
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    C.S.C. HOCKEY TEAM
    56 10 •pHE Singapore Ceylon Sports Club's "A" hockey team to olay the H.M. Naval Dockyard at St. Georges Road tomorrow at 5.15 p.m. will be: 8. Arivaratnam; K. Muttukumaru (capt.), Lt. Abayasinhe: Retnatunga, A. C. Shagaran. Lt. Dole: S. Nagaiah: S. Yogarajah. A. Vijavasingham. V. Ramalingam. M. K.
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    POSTPONEMENTS DELAY TOURNAMENTS
    458 10 By Our Badminton Correspondent T'A'-'ING into account the fact that 1 1 the Singapore Badminton has a rather fall programme to go through every year, postponements are unnecess arily delaying its ability to get the job done on time. The tournaments every year arc the men's and
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    OVER 20 YEARS IN THE SADDLE
    301 10  -  Epsom Jeep Turf Personalities... No- 14 By f|N«. 01 tne most senior jockeys on the Malayan turf, Teddy Dan-son has been in the saddle for more than 20 years, for be first rode in Sydney as an apprentice when he was only fourteen, under
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    SAMUEL BEATS INDIAN PRO'
    187 10 BOMBAY. Saturday. 'THE Malayan badminton visitors are quickly getting into their paces and adapting themselves to new conditions in India. 3. A. Durai, their tall, hardhitting singles star, however, is momentarily a casualty since he pulled a shculder muscle in a practice game. The team's leader,
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    SEEDED PLAYER KNOCKED OUT
    205 10 "THERE was another upset in the •I Singapore open badminton chani- pionships at the Clerical Union hall yesterday. Yap Chin Tee, a seeded player, was eliminated in the men's singles by his clubmate, Ismail bin Marjan in a three- set duel. In a fast and gruelling
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    MEDICALS ROUT COLLEGE RIVALS
    152 10 THE Medical College Union beat the Raffles College Union by nine games to nil in the first Singapore inter-college table-tennis match played at Harrower Hall, Medical College, yesterday. Resul'S were (M.D.U. players mentioned first) Single): Lee Ek Chong beat Bion Dury, 21-17, 18-21, 21-19; 21-18; Chee
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    TELECOMMS TEAM
    55 10 The following players wi'l represent the Postal and Telecommunications at hockey against the R.A.F. Seletar on Wednesday at Seletar: C. B. Humphries; B. Scheerder, 8. Rajaretriam; P. Rajoo, M. Toledo, T. C. Chong; All Ahmad, Q. Carnegie, W. Ponniah, M. Wright and D. M. Peters. Reserves: I. A.
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    AMARNATH HITS A CENTURY
    348 11 From Arthur Mai Icy Exclusive to the Sunday Times BRISBANE, Saturday. QUEENSLAND, resuming their X batting today in the cricket match against India, took their overnight total of 289 for seven to 341 before they were all out. The Indiar.s had scored 249 for five (Amarnath
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    JOHORE FIELD SIX RESERVES
    266 11 Hold Spore to 16-6 margin Sunday Times Staff Correspondent RENGAM, Saturday. ILTHOUGH playing with six reserves, the Johore rugger n side put up an excellent display against th c Singapore Civilians in their H.M.S. Malaya fixture here this evening. Rallying after being behind 13 3 at
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    16 11 BLACKPOOL (J. Donnelly up) coming in after winning the second race at Bukit Timah yesterday afternoon.
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    ROXY S.P. WIN 5-2
    114 11 THE Roxy S.P. S-igapore defeated the Oriental S.P. by five games to two in a friendly badminton match (Roxv players mentioned first): Singles: Koh Beng Swee beat Tan Guan Honß. 15—8. 12—15. 15—3: Bob Quek lost to Vincent One 5 15. 15 6. 4 15: Robert
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    COMING TITLE FIGHT
    34 11 MANILA. Saturday It was announct'd today that the Philippines bantamweight champion, Tirso del Rosario, will meet the world bantam champion, Manuel Ortiz, over 15 rounds here on Dec. 20. U. P.
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    MORE INTER-STATE HOCKEY FOR JOHORE
    333 11 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE J hoie State Hockey Association is to be congratulated on 'le enterprise it has shown since its formation. Within a week of starting work the Association staged two inter-state matches, the results of which have encouraged them to go ahead
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    R.E. Depot Lose To Seletar Airmen
    249 11 THE RAF Base, Seletar, beat the Royal Engineers' Depot ia a good and i clean game of rugby by nine points .2 tries and 1 penalty goal) to nil, at Seletar yesterday. Mcst of the game was played in a drizzle. The teams pressed
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    REGRET TAKES NOV. HANDICAP
    101 11 MANCESTER. Saturday Regret won the November Handicap, with Star of Autumn second and Boltonian third. Thirty-four ran. Regret won by threequarters of a length, with two lengths between second and third. The winner started at 66-1, Star of Autumn at 28-1. Boltonian 25-1 Visibility in the
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    NEW BALL FETISH MAY DEFEAT INDIANS
    458 11 From Arthur Mailry BRISBANE, Saturday. THIS new ball fetish, which allows the fielding captain to take the new Ml after 40 overs, may have disastrous effects on the Indians. Mankad, Sarwate. Nayudu and Elahi— lndia's matchwinning bowlers, cannot use the new ball; consequently, their
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    CELEBRATION CUP WON BY FAVOURITE
    2902 12  -  EPSOM JEEP By Easy race for Grand Prix II STIPE' REPORTS ON DAY'S RACING TTIIE Celebration Cup, over nine furlongs, for class 1 stayers 1 was won by the favourite, Grand Prix 11 (by FairchanceRecompense) in a thrilling race at Bukit Timah yesterday, the third
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    ST. Tipsters Again Best
    130 12 STRAITS TIMES tipsters were again the most successful at the final day's races of the Singapore Turf Club Re-open-ing Meeting at Bukit Timah yesterday afternoon. Both "Epsom Jeep" and "Trespasser" tipped three straight winners. "Epsom Jeep" gave Silver Jupiter, Grand Prix II and Renoir, and "Trespasser"
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    LIEN HWA KEEP ON WINNING
    132 12 SHANGHAI, Saturday. THE Malayan soccer team main- tamed their unbeaten recortf before a large crowd hero tfaift afternoon when they tromjeed the White Eagles Club of Shanghai by four goals to nil. After scoring all four goais in the first half, the visitors took things
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    INTER-PARTY MATCH
    107 12 THE Pemuiiu cCauipong Glam Badminton Party defeated the Sereden« Badminton Party by 6 2. Results (Pemuda Kampong Olam players mentioned first 1 Singles: Mohd Fattah lost to Ithnln 2—15. S— ls: Dol A. Rahman beat Buane 15 10. 15 3: Musa lost to Bahari B—ls. 15—9. 9—15: M.
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