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Title Section20 1948-05-16 1 FIHAL EfllTiOa THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NETT SALE IN MALAYA No. 668 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, MAY 16, 1948 PRICE HI CENTS20 words
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Article, Illustration504 1948-05-16 1 TEL AVIV DIVE BOMBED AT DAWN Fighting on all borders TEL AVIV, Saturday. T)IVE bombing attacks by six Spitfires of unknown nationality on Tel Aviv, marked dawn of the first day tf the newly born Jewish state of Israel. The Jews claimed one was shot down and its Egyptian pilotReuter; AP; UP - 504 words
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Article138 1948-05-16 1 PARIS, Saturday. pRINCESS Elizabeth named Zizette by Parisians and the Duke of Edinbiiigh today vbited the historic Palace of Versailles, home of French kings, after an enthusiastic welcome by large crowds. I The people of Versailles clustered on the tops of houses, can., md trees roundReuter - 138 words
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Article37 1948-05-16 1 COLOMBO, Saturday—Sir Patrick Abercrombie, Joint author of the 1943 Abercrombie Plan to rebuild the County of London, has discussed the re-planning of Colombo at a meeting with the Mayor, Mr. A. P. S. De Mel—Reuter.37 words
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Article74 1948-05-16 1 CANBERRA. Saturday. THE Australian birth rate of 24 per thousand population In 1947 was the highest since 1922. when it was 24.27 per hundred. Births totalled 182 386 last year. The demobilisation of Servicemen and the return of women from industry were contributing factors toReuter-AAP - 74 words
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Article94 1948-05-16 1 BANGKOK, Saturday. POLICE investigating- the $2,000,000 hold-up of a gold shipment here on Wednesday arrested 19 persons Including an army captain, a sergeant of the infantry, three men commissioned officers of the tank corps and two goldsmiths. About 1.200 ounces of a total 43,000 ouncesUP - 94 words
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Article55 1948-05-16 1 Sunday Times °taff Reporter. KUALA X.UMPUR. Saturday.—Mr. Forrest Chivers. American Consul at Kuala Lumpur since October, left today for the United States on leave prior to transfer to another post. He is being succeeded by Mr. William L. Blue, who comes from Naples, wlrre he has been55 words
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Article294 1948-05-16 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. POLICE are to »Und by at ?«rt Swettenhaw morrow with the Gurkhas ready fit Ktuu^ Lumpur in case of emergency wfcen Malay labour will be taken straight into tn« docks in the morning to unload 650 tons of294 words
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152 1948-05-16 1 5th MYSTERY BLAZE ON B.I. STEAMER Sunday Times Correspondent MELBOURNE. Saturday. EUREMEN took five hours to f quell a fire in the 7.000--ton British India steamer Pemba berthed in the port of Melbourne today— the vessels fifth mystery nre since it arrived in Australian waters nine weeks ago. The Pemba152 words
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Article53 1948-05-16 1 BANGKOK. Saturday. I rREE new Siamese-Muslim incident* ere reported today from Tanjong Mas.' Naradhivas and Plukasamoh: (Patanl). in South Slam. Police broke up the gather- I ings. No details are available Officials in Bangkok fear that agitators are organising risings among Muslim villagers inUP - 53 words
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Article27 1948-05-16 1 TOKIO. Satu. day .—Thieves this week stole more than half a mile of the submarine telephone cable connecting Osaka with Awaji isand. of? Kobe—Reuter.27 words
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Article22 1948-05-16 1 TEHERAN. Saturday.—Five I- ussians were killed today in a skirmish with Persian frontier guards on the Azerbaijan border.—Reuter.Reuter - 22 words
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Article63 1948-05-16 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter, i TWO Chinese men last night held up Mr. Lam Weng. 32, Balister Road, in Connaught Drive near the Singapore Cricket Club ground. robbed him of $25 in cash and a wrist watch worth $20 and dashed away. One of the63 words
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Article24 1948-05-16 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. The Dayang Muda of Sarawak, Mrs. Bert' .m Brooke, sails for Sarawak this morn- ing for a holiday.24 words
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Article65 1948-05-16 1 BECAUSE her husband is a vegetarian, a Stockholm woman filed suit for divorce. The woman testified in court that her husband forbade her to smoke and forced her and the children to eat only his kind of food "I'm all fed up with grass." she explained,65 words
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Article168 1948-05-16 1 TOKIO, Saturday. OF the 26 nations which were engaged in government to government trade with Japan in January and February this year, Hong Kong topped the list as buyer of Japanese goods. Singapore was second. During that period 304 export contracts were concluded on a168 words
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Article36 1948-05-16 1 BANGKOK, Sat.— The Chinese Charge d'Affaires, Ou Yang, said here today the Chinese Government would lodge a formal protest against the Siamese Government's action in closing down Chinese schools in the country. —Reuter.Reuter - 36 words
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Article141 1948-05-16 1 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR, Saturday. INCHE Abdullah bin Wan Puteh, a Muslim member of the Siamese cabinet, is in Kelantan for talks with Inche Mahmood Mahyiideen on the Muslim unrest in Siam's four southern provinces. Reports reaching here from Kota Bharu say that Inche141 words
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Article107 1948-05-16 1 RESULTS of yesterday's Kuala Lumpur races are: RACE 1: MARTINI SSI and $9: Doris Pet $36; Devon $8. RACE 2: CHASTITY $26 and $10: Any Idea $1*; Shubel $17. RACE 3: SIR LANCELOT $18 and $10: Patban $13. RACE 4: NORTON $93 and $19; The Magic I107 words
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Article31 1948-05-16 1 TOKIO. Sat—Two persons have died and another 200 have been stricken in Utsunomiya City, north of Toklo. by an epidemic of unknown origin, the Japanese press reported today.—Reuter AAP.Reuter; Reuter-AAP - 31 words
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Article56 1948-05-16 1 ATHENS. Saturday -M. Michael Ailianos, Greek Minister of Information, today denied that there had been any executions for political crimes or that anyone was detained in prison for political crimes Executions, he sa-d. Nad been carried out on "criminals who had been sentenced to I death for crimesReuter - 56 words
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Article256 1948-05-16 1 Federation cuts padi subsidy Sunday Times Utaff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. TTHE Federal ion Government is to reduce the prk-v 1 it pays for padi from local producers because it can no longer afford the heavy subsidy. An official announcement today also states that when fullMeiails of the I.E.F.C. allocations256 words
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Article58 1948-05-16 1 LONDON. Saturday. THE Ministry of Food yesterday announced unrestricted sale of milk. for three weeks beginning tomorrow. It will be the first time in nearly 10 years of rationing for milk to go on the free list. The Food Ministry said that high milk yieldsAP - 58 words
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Article1681 1948-05-16 2 Stalin breaks the bank S^ if m f"I m k KISIS1 IL^JMPIj M^jltL^imm "CTOP that man!" yells the coachdriver. But two bombs sail through the sunny air towards the coach. Crump, crump. And fragments fly. Two more follow. Their blast cuts short a man's scream. A couple of policemen and1,681 words
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Article528 1948-05-16 2 AND now for a very i\ delicate topic indet hangovers. LM me make it clear at <>rre thai in the case of perienced drinker a bangover must be regarded as neither more nor less than the outcome of an rrror in Judgment. That is, if you drink in528 words
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Article, Illustration224 1948-05-16 2 Spotlight on Malayans f\NE of the most en-| LTthusiastic horsemen in Malaya is Penang's new Chief Police Officer MR. VfJLC. HAINES, who, though he has little time for riding these days is an active member of the Penang Pole Club. Mr. Halnes. who was ActIng Police Commissioner in the Malayan224 words
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Article363 1948-05-16 3 Captured in gun battle Sunday Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Saturday. CENTENCE of death was passed in the Assize Court today on four Chinese youths who were captured by police aided by an army platoon after a gun duel at Niyor last September. The youths,363 words
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Article118 1948-05-16 3 ONE fresh case of infantile paralysis was notified in Singapore yesterday bringing the total number of cases in the present epidemic up to 67. Yesterdays victim was a European man. No further deaths have been reported. Thirteen cases of Infantile paralysis, with one death, were reported118 words
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Article, Illustration267 1948-05-16 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter ONE of the three 15-inch guns that guarded Ihe Straits of Johore, and were destroyed by British engineers in 1942, is in the way of the new Changi airstrip, and must be moved. Army authorities believe that the flooded magazines adjacent267 words
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Article42 1948-05-16 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter Three Chinese wearing masks and armed with pistols robbed the occupants of a house in Middle Road of $770 in cash and valuables early yesterday morning. The robbers also took away 40 tins of cigarettes42 words
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Article211 1948-05-16 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter /CARDINAL Spellman, CardiVj nal Archbishop of New York, will arrive in Singapore from Australia at 12.30 p.m. next Friday by a specially chartered plane and during the two days of his stay will be entertained at Government House by the Governor, Sir211 words
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Article76 1948-05-16 3 Sunday a lines Staff Reporter SUNGEI PATANI. Saturday. A 200-YEAR-OLD robe was worn this week by Arthur George Denaro, seven-week-old baby of the Commanding Oincer of the Malay Regiment. Lt.-Col. G. T. Denaro. and Mrs. Denaro. The Rev. Father D. Vendargon officiated at the ceremony,76 words
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Article63 1948-05-16 3 Sunday Times Maff Reporter A FILM on teeth care call- ed "The- White Guard' will be among the Public Relations Films for this week. The film will be shown in a boy's club and a Chinese school. The week's fixtures are: Katong Boy's Club, Tuesday, Joo Chiat63 words
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Article46 1948-05-16 3 f^OOp crowds attendei last "T night's concert staged by the Malay Rover Scouts of th" 4th and 6th groups at Tanglin. The audience was entertained to numerous items of songs and sketches in Malay. A repeat performance will be staged tonight at 7.30.46 words
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Article221 1948-05-16 3 COMPLETION of the work of rehabilitation at the Wesley Church, Fort Canning, will be celebrated today at a Service of Dedication at 5.30 p.u The Rev.'W. S. Reinoehl, Minister of the Church, will be assisted by Dr. H. B. Amstutz, Principal of Trinity College, Singapore, and221 words
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Article28 1948-05-16 3 During their visit to Singapore members of Dcwan Rhio were entertained to a teaparty at 328, Joo Chiat Road, by the Persuatuan Mcleyau Rhio Sejati.28 words
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Article205 1948-05-16 3 Sunday I unt s Staff Reporter m*R. J. L. Keith, the Director of Colonial Scholars, who has bpen m a one month visit to Malaya and Hong Kong, says that Malayan would-be students in British universities must be sure of their academic qualifications before they even205 words
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Article163 1948-05-16 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter FIRST venture of its kind in the Singapore Diocese, a holiday camp for Anglican Sunday School teachers and Youth Fellowship members is to be held at Malacca in August Its chief aim as envisaged by the organiser, the Diocesan Worker for Religious163 words
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Article390 1948-05-16 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A GENERAL meeting of the Singapore Medical Labour Union today will decide whether its 961 members should go on strike on Tuesday. There will be no strike if the meeting is satisfied with replies which the union yesterday received from the Director390 words
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Article147 1948-05-16 3 WHEN Mrs. Sen Gupta was proposed for the Advisory Committee of the Singapore Ramakrishna Mission yesterday, the president, Swami Vamadevananda, ruled that women could not be elected. This incident occurred at the annual general meeting of members of the Mission at 9, Norris Road. Many147 words
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Advertisement385 1948-05-16 3 Undernourishment not in my family! 1 _^V'^ lust because there is enough food in your house does not mean that your -->^ family is properly nourished. Doctor* i t will tell you that quality is even more />-,Vt ')b hi important than quantity, and that < *'*V 'J nowada >385 words
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Advertisement185 1948-05-16 3 Love and Conquest jtißL j^"^> .a A in the Heart of the JM South American Andes! M B^ jMk'fj W JOHN WAYNE LARAINE DAY, < I TYCOON I |i |[j m COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR £*tite& Sl CEDRIC HARDWICKE JUDITH ANDERSON \ltijf JAMES GLEASON ANTHONY QUINN jAg CAPITOL NEXT CHANCE! gr185 words
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Article512 1948-05-16 4 "THE crisis in rice 1 production in the Far East has had unexpected repercussions or. the manufacture of beauty products. Most of the face-powders used before the war were made from rice starch, which is much finer than wheat starch and therefore sticks better to the skin.512 words
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Article, Illustration40 1948-05-16 4 SHELLEY WINTERS, is not quite so (Umoroas as this when she plays the unfortunate waitress who is murdered hi "A Double life," the Ronald Colman film which rained for him an Oscar. The film conies to Sinrapoce Cathay next week.40 words
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Article138 1948-05-16 4 DLASTICS are used lav- ishly in the modern nursery. Curtains can be transparent or opaque plastic printed with all sorts of gay designs. Hygienic washable chairs are upholstered in quilted plastic, white and brue polka dots, say, trimmed with blue plastic braid. Cot anu pram mattresses are also138 words
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Article793 1948-05-16 4 Bob Gilmore - Bob Gilmore by- Melbourne, May 6. THE whole Bea- verbrook press is plugging Australia's R. G. Casey as "the Empire's man of destiny". They must have been chewing him over for some time, as it is six weeks since Mr. Casey quit London. According to Mr. Casey's793 words
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Article557 1948-05-16 4 IF you like a miscellany, you will like "TURNSTILE ONE," a selection from work published in the New Statesman and Nation, made by V.S. Pritchett. Clive Bell's contribution might well be taken as the motto of this excellent collection: Why, then, how blest are we on earth Who557 words
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Article323 1948-05-16 5 But Majid stays NANKING, Saturday. ABDUL Majid bin Othman, 22-year-old Malay student from Penang Free School who arrived here recently to study on a Chinese Government scholarship, finds everything a problem for him and finds himself a problem to the National Central University to which he323 words
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129 1948-05-16 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter seremban, Saturday. IN spite of the wet weather last month, he estimated export of vegetables from Negri Sembilan increased to 2,410 piculs 680 piculs more than in March. This is revealed in the State Agriculture Officer's monthly report, released today.129 words
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Article275 1948-05-16 5 Sunday Times Financial Correspondent QHARE markets i: Malaya experienced a quieter O week and in all s -tions prices were lower, but yesterday morning there was an all-round improvement following the New York up surge. London was also dull and, with few exceptions, prices for275 words
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Article68 1948-05-16 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PENANG, Saturday. rfiHE Third Magistrate (Mr. 1 J. P. Blackledge) today ordered that a vagrant, Lee Ah Kok, be given "a square meal." Lee appeared before the court on a charge of trespassing into the Glugor Cantonment. He pleaded that68 words
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Article76 1948-05-16 5 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's noon prices yesterday (May 15) were in cents per lb.: Buyer* Sellers I No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose nominal 43i 43! ■ft 1 R.S.S. fob in bales May 43, 43* No. 2 R.S S fob in bales May 421 42} No. 376 words
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Article, Illustration445 1948-05-16 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter fI^HE Hong Kong portrait of Sir Cecil Clementi by A Mr. Anatole Shister, from which Mr. Shister was to have made a copy to hang in Singapore s Victoria Hall, has arrived in such bad condition that work on the new portrait445 words
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Miscellaneous476 1948-05-16 5 IPI 9 I fm H**- .smßw^^^B BH tW Ittll 4k Sh KbH jA^ fg AT«S I lAflt i aL^ RADIO MALAYA S'PORB) i Commentary 7.45 French; 8 00 > Drama 8.00 Men 6c Their Mu- v«^w |Biamese; 8.30 Indonesian; 8.45 sic; 8.15 This Week in Australia 1 p.m. Music; 1.30476 words
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637 1948-05-16 6 THE SUNDAY TIMES SUNDAY, MAY 16, 1948. WEST TO EAST NOW that the false hopes and fears engendered by the premature reports of talk* between the United States and Russia on the points at dispute between them have died down, it is opportune to glance quickly at the internatlonel situation637 words
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Article, Illustration946 1948-05-16 6 G.T.BOON ] - G.T.BOON] mmmmmmmm JyV mmmmmmmm U m7 TEASELESS 24- a day toil by a 17-man gang to keep afloat the 21 fast deteriorating wooden pontoons of the Prai! River bridge at Permatang Pauh in Province Wellesley weakest link in the Malayan trunk road will soon be946 words
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Article, Illustration513 1948-05-16 6 HUGH SAVAGE - HUGH SAVAGE' by CINGAPORE "jobbers' O or members of the Singapore Rubber Import and Export Labourers Union, as they call themselves, are perhaps the most highly paid group of labourers in the Fai East. The average monthly earnings of a Singapore jobber range from $600 to $800513 words
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Article520 1948-05-16 6 Manning Blackwood flinches at IT'S happened at last. The worms have begun to turn. After nearly a century of creeping about in dun, drab, conventional clothes, men have been seen wearing "shaggy, mustard yellow trilby hats." This wonderful apparition was seen in London, according to our Mary Heathcott.520 words
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Advertisement402 1948-05-16 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. BIRTH POWElXr—on the 14th May, 1948, at Batu Gajah. to Joan, wife of L. A. Powell a daughter (Diana Audrryi. FOR SALE YACHT. Bermudan rigged "Baka" conversion 18" x 5V4': New sails. Sound Construction. Plus complete cruising gear. Suitable for weekends. Apply Box A 119. Sun. T. •SWISS402 words
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Advertisement15 1948-05-16 6 Tiger Testimonials Mr. Percy Cholmondeley Beauchamp awaiting his remittance, said "Boy! Where's my TIGER T"15 words
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Article, Illustration480 1948-05-16 7 HANDS OFF UNIVERSITY PLAN SILCOCK Warns against indecision Sunday Times Staff Reporter "HON'T drown its voice by barracking," apu pealed Professor T. H. Silcock of Raffles College yesterday when he called for acceptance in full of the Carr-Saunders Report on university education in Malaya. "The curse of Malaya," he said,480 words
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Article181 1948-05-16 7 Lessons in spite of polio Sunday Times Correspondent EMERGENCY broadcasts have been arranged for School Certificate boys and girls who are unable to attend schools because of the infantile paralysis outbreak in Singapore. These broadcasts will continue as long as English schools remained closed. This action was announced yesterday after181 words
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Article97 1948-05-16 7 KUALA TRENGGANU, Sat. THE High Commissioner, Sir Edward Gent, with Lady' Gent, arrived by air this I morning, landing in their! Miles Gemini on the golf course at Padang Negara, hi Kuala Trengganu. Sir Edward officially called on the Sultan at the Istana Badariah. and97 words
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Article184 1948-05-16 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S wave of stealing soap, nail-brushes and hairbrushes from club cloakrooms on the Island is dying down, but combs are still very difficult to keep. A year ago the Sunday Times learnt that nothing lasted for much more than a day184 words
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Article111 1948-05-16 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter CINGAPORE has been a little bewiMered by the varying colours of the licenoe-plates on the town's taxis, but soon the plates will all be blue. The fact that some taxis have white plates, some yellow, and some sky-blue, has no especial signiflcar.ee, the111 words
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Article214 1948-05-16 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter •T»HE formation of a Singapore Roads Board to x direct and administer cargo handling in the Roads was proposed at a meeting of shipping and Chambers of Commerce representatives with the Secretary for Economic Affairs, Mr. A. Gilmour. The Roads Board, it is214 words
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Article39 1948-05-16 7 Sunday Times staff Reporter After nearly 24 hours' delay at Tengah owing to a minor engine defect, a Belgian-own-ed Stirling aircraft, carrying Italian and Greek emigrants. is due to leave Singapore to- day for Australia.39 words
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Article19 1948-05-16 7 Mr. E. C. E. Edlin has been appointed to be a Junior Assistant Controller of Supplles, Singapore.19 words
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Article150 1948-05-16 7 174-MILLIONTO BUY PASSAGE Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE time is fast approaching in China where the currency will literally be more valuable as paper than money. This is the view of a well known Singapore business man who has just returned from a trip to Shanghai. "It is virtually impossible150 words
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Article68 1948-05-16 7 PARIT BUNTAR, Sat. MAN bin Sa'ad, a 17-year-old Malay, was bound over for one year in the District Court when he pleaded guilty to a charge of having caused hurt to Abdul Ma] Id bin Abdul Rashid on grave and sudden provocation. Majid, it was stated,68 words
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Article121 1948-05-16 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PENANG, Saturday. WATER is to be rationed in Bukit Mertajam, Province WelUsley, from Monday. Owing to the abnormal spell of dry weather, supplies will be cut from 9 to 11 in the mornlng, 2 to 4 in the afternoon ard from 10121 words
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Article219 1948-05-16 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter D o^,™ ar l lmals 1 cannot be carriers of the in- f antile paralysis virus, and pet lovers need have parS^fs. f r Won 7 CVen if *"> P* showligni aV oi The Municipal Veterinary Officer, Mr. D. H. Witherington, told219 words
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Article76 1948-05-16 7 Sunday Times SUIT Reporter w^NTENCE of six months 1 rigorous imprisonment loilowed by 12 months' police supervision was imposed by the Singapore Third Police Court Magistrate, Mr. F. B. Oehlers, yesterday on lim Eng Hok, a police supervisee, for failing to report to the police. lim76 words
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Article162 1948-05-16 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. CEVERAL documents were v produced in the First Singapore District Court yesterday in the case in which two former members of the Siamese police are required by the Siamese Government to be extradited in connection with a murder charge. The two men.162 words
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Article, Illustration214 1948-05-16 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A WOODEN replica of the three-masted schooner rt Ayesha in which the first "King of the Cocos," John Clunies-Ross, sailed to the islands in 1825, was brought back to Singapore by the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, after his recent visit214 words
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Article279 1948-05-16 7 Sunday limes Staff Reporter TTHE joint Malayan Committee on War Damage 1 claims, which is representative of rubber, mining and commercial interest in Malaya, ha;-, m;ide representations to the Governors of the Federation and Singapore calling for payment, this yoar, of (he first instalment of £6,000,000279 words
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Article80 1948-05-16 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Saturday. WHEN a bus turned turtl near the Johore Civil Service Club at Lalang Sungei Chat on Thursday, Boy Scouts helped to extricate passengers, who included children, trapped inside. The driver of the bus, Chua Theng Kow, was charged80 words
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Article342 1948-05-16 8 THIS WEEK FOR YOU TAURUS \im 21-May Sl).— Difficulties should disappear this week and very definite gains should be made on some important project. But you must be energetic. GEMINI (May 22-June 22). Matters connected with shipping appear to be in better shap? than some others.342 words
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Article434 1948-05-16 8 1. A Staie many travel far to be in Is s;e? 2. And where would you look to see a Parsee? 3. Of what lovely lass did Burns write: "To see her is to love her. And love but her forever." 4 Where would you434 words
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Article447 1948-05-16 8 m - m CUE bids have one outstanding advantage over the Blackwood or Culbertson four -five notrump slam conventions. Whereas the latter automatically get the contract to the five level, one or more cue bids usually can be made below the game leve A cue bid consists of a447 words
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Advertisement293 1948-05-16 8 GOOD MOW SIXES and all aaes My Mother's friend and mine Mrs. N. speaks to you is one woman to I another. She knows full well the unj ceasing, wearying backache which it often a mother's lot. Her own mother advised her to take DE WITT'S Pill* and, in the293 words
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Advertisement331 1948-05-16 8 THANKS TO 4 XEPLER* There's more goodness to the spoonful in \^fc Kepler the world-fartious Cod Liver \^M ig Oil with Malt Extract. One fluid ounce of '|n| iLjt^ 'Krplcr' provides not Irss than (.vx> -fj^ C^tf International Uniu of Vitamin A— the «cv protective Vitamin and 500 Inter- i331 words
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Miscellaneous223 1948-05-16 8 Sunday Times Crossword iv I IHLw 1 slilM 1 I 1 I j JJ ACROSS DOWN I. Coin (4). 5. Thinly (8). I I. Apply habitually (6). 2. 10. Performs (4). 11. Cricket Substantive (4). 3. Poverty (4). club (3). 12. Debts (4). 13. 4. Helped (8). 0. Not a223 words
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Article, Illustration1012 1948-05-16 9 MARY HEATHCOTT reports LONDON, May 1. L ONDONERS *Mearly love a procession and we had a whale of a procession this week in honour of the Silver Wedding of the King and Queen. The sun shone and the crowds turned out in their thousands to see the Royal1,012 words
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Article, Illustration57 1948-05-16 9 fHE pert young x thing in a special party dress, wanted that 'Alice In Wonderland" j 'ook. She has her hair scraped back, tied in a butterfly bow, leaving a 'joispy fringe in front. Her dress, in white muslin, has scalloped yoke and hemline, is tied57 words
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Article259 1948-05-16 9 Call it self-pity or self-righteousne-t or what you will the fact remains that husbands and children take the wife and mother very much for granted a person who should not say anything, must not express an opinion, must not argue in fact, a non-entity. Do any of these259 words
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Article41 1948-05-16 9 Chicken duck with fruit rare all used to the serving of apple sauce with pork or roast duck, red currant jelly with mutton or rabbit, but here are suggestions for serving bananas with chicken, and orange salad with roast wild duck.41 words
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Article120 1948-05-16 9 Chicken banana Rechauffe PR each person you need a leg or wing of chicken, two rashers of bacon, one banana, two tablespocnfuls of butter or margarine, salt and pepper. Make a few deep gashes hi the meat with a sharp knife and then season well Into the cuts. Fry briskly120 words
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124 1948-05-16 9 |X)R the salad take a few small crisp lettuce leaves, two oranges cut into slices crosswise and french dressing. Arrange the salad prettily on v dish and serve separately with: One wild duck, one large crouton of fried bread, and brown gravy to which124 words
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Article83 1948-05-16 9 AFTER trimming the steak neatly, beat it on both sides, brush with oil or melted dripping, and rub In some salt. Leave to stand for half an hour. Now fry rapidly for five to seven minutes altogether, and keep hot. Prepare the bananas as for83 words
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Article307 1948-05-16 9 fXN November 30th. \J 1906 a little princess was born in a country famous for the beauty of its women, its countryside and its ancient history. Twentyfive years later she was to meet in another land, for whose way of life she had always had admiration and307 words
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Advertisement226 1948-05-16 9 YOURVrffl W FACE l&W IS NOT MADE OF HKONZE V you do not take care of it 'nine w:ll quickly make ll bde Protect tt with rational and active treatment using regularly Creme Simon c.c different skinlood usea different way. CREME SIMON And It* natural complement the perfect powder base.226 words
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Advertisement284 1948-05-16 9 This Precious Used together night and morning will give your skin that flower fresh look... they are the first necessities in your programme of loveliness. Ardena Cleansing Cream and Skin Tonic willl cleanse and tone up your •kin, giving it a new glowing beauty. SOLE AGENTS FOR SINGAPORE MAYNARD CO.,284 words
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Miscellaneous102 1948-05-16 9 CROSSWORD SOLUTION Across: 1. Anna. 5. Sparsely. 10. Does. 11. Bat. 12. Dues. 13. Dispel. 15. Indigo. 17. Cite. 18. Sateen. 19. Fee. 21. Tesiy. 23. Setter. 25. Ass. 26. Shadow. 29. Crush. 31. Mob. 32. Pastor. 34. Emir. 36. Agenda. 39. Tinder. 40. Neat. 41. Tee. 42. Tare. 43.102 words
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Article, Illustration849 1948-05-16 10 PENANG LEAD ON FIRST INNINGS Sunday Times Kuala Lumpur Sports Correspondent ORIGHT batting was a feature of the inter-State match between Selangor and Penang which began at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Winning the toss and batting first, Penang scored 155 runs and had a six run advantage over Selangor at the849 words
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545 1948-05-16 10 BY ROY ESSOYAN SHANGHAI, Saturday. MALAYA'S shuttle stars, nimble and unhurried, ran circles around the opposition to win all five badminton games last night on the China N.A.M The only team the Malayans could not dazzle was Kwangtung the Kwangtung boys for some unexplained reasonUP - 545 words
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Article39 1948-05-16 10 THE soccer team of sj. Maron beat the Keppel Bus XI 2—l at soccer on Friday. Gibney and Raftell scored for the winners. The Maron XI meet the Seaside Rangers XI today at Pasir Panjang.39 words
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Article30 1948-05-16 10 Along with other cinemas, the Cathay Theatre will Rive fre3 admission to their shows to members of the China Olympic soccer team during their visit to Singapore.30 words
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Article19 1948-05-16 10 The Amicable Badminton Party will hold their prize giving at. Uieir cement court at 3.30 p.m.. today.19 words
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Article171 1948-05-16 10 pERMISSION has been obtained I from the Officer-in Charge, Traffic Police Department, Singapore, to hold a massed-start 150--mile bicycle road race on July 4. The race is being organised ty the Cosmopolitan Cycling Club of Singapore The course will be the eight-mile stretch of Chua Chu171 words
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Article221 1948-05-16 10 JOHORE BAHRU, Saturday. DECLARING at 191 for four wxkets, Johore C.C. dismissed Kluang C.C. for 64 runs yesterday to win by 127 runs. Bart helot, the Johore C.C. skipper, top-scored with 60 Nadason took five wi-iea for 29 runs, but Lazaroo had the better average221 words
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Article77 1948-05-16 10 CABLE WIRELESS SCORE 116 RAIN stopped yesterday s cricket match between Cable and Wlreles? Limited and Clarke Rangers when Rangers had five wickets down for 24 in reply to Cab'e and Wireless's 116. Davenport, with an unbsaten 33. and B. Halge, who was run out when 42. were in fine77 words
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Article266 1948-05-16 10 rS rain saved the Singapore Recreation Club from possible defeat when they met the Singapore Colts yesterday in a came of cricket on the pad? rig. Against the five bowling of M. Pereira, who took six Rees wickets for 36 runs, the Club were I skittled266 words
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Article405 1948-05-16 10 . FEATHER - .FEATHER Badminton Notes... By JN Urn forthcoming junioi tournaments for men and women's singles and doubles, there are a lot of faults competitors should mafco it a point tc master. It is no exaggeration to saj I that the ties right up to the auarter405 words
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Article284 1948-05-16 10 PENANG— Ist INNS. |A J. Williams b Bin Ken* 23 Khoo Boon Choo st Brooke b Ingleton D. La Brooy lbw Gorbex Singh K En Cheow Teik b Eng Chrns 19 J. Pearson c LaJl Singh b Eng Cheng 0 Wee Chong Ghee bL.de Silva 31 Cheah Boh Eye284 words
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Article169 1948-05-16 10 ST. ANDREW'S WIN EASILY ST. Andrew's School beat the R. A. Signals by seven wickets in a game of cricket played at Woodsvllle yesterday. Desmond Keyt took five wickets for 9 runs for the school. R.A. SIGNALS Muir c Menon b Ross 13. Homkiel c Koon Poh b Ross 3.169 words
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Advertisement352 1948-05-16 10 "II til il. sse> alone improve your Kwieht?" NO Frulfii.^..- sn vices ano iecrin 'it -tKilit nrf tlie essential aia» w "oui "seema abllltv vo'ir vtsuai comfort ana efficient 1; is toi 'Meat serv.ce* and Mtiiis— noi toi 2ias.-,e* alone thui you oav foi voui tee *i. tn Proit.ssirnm advice352 words
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Advertisement156 1948-05-16 10 nvtA Uo diva The cnuinc Glbb tlrtii U\s old I ts Dentifrice is now in new coloured tins, either red of getting the or blue Its the same J O O high quality dentitnce that aoyitiiviP keeps teeth clean and iZiL't MALl l>\* sound. Ask tor these new coloured tins,156 words
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Article, Illustration678 1948-05-16 11 Colling takes 7 wkts for 10 A BRILLIANT bowling performance by the young Oylonese player, C. Colling, was responsible for the Europeans being dismissed for 66 runs hi their annual Clarke Cup cricket match against the Rest on the S.C.C. Padang yesterday. Colling took seven678 words
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Article141 1948-05-16 11 EUROPEANS— Ist Inns B. Harding b Collin* It J. B. Leckie b Collin* M L. A. Robertson c Williams b Kailasapa thy D. Lloyd b Kaila.sapa.Uiy 1 J. W. J. Steele lbw CoUinr H Syrett b Kailasapathy 0 K A. Murray b tolling 1 F. T. Homes b Colling141 words
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Article343 1948-05-16 11 S. Yogarajah scored 66 runs in a drawn match between the v M.c.A and the Police on the Thomson Road ground yesterday. Scores. T. M.C.A. 8. Yogarajah c Neville b Benton 66. I Sugatta c b Baba 33, R. Delikan b Robinson 27, P. Swyny c bUP - 343 words
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Article114 1948-05-16 11 Johore Sports Sunday Times LTHOUGH Johore's next A Malaya Cup match, against Negrl Sembilan. is to be played on Saturday, the probable State side has not had a trial in preparation because bad weather has made the local ground unfit for Play. It had been hoped114 words
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Article402 1948-05-16 11 the sprightly comeback of R. 1 W. V. Robins, who helped the County champions, Middlesex, to register their second successive championship win. has prompted .speculation as to whether Robins.' s colleagues on the England selection committee woold try to persuade him to skipper the Test teamReuter - 402 words
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Article247 1948-05-16 11 rtISAPPOINTMENT and a drenching met a big U section of ihe $700 "gate" at Jalan Besar Stadium for yesterday's Malaya Cup soccer match between the combined Army-Navy team and the R.A.F. With the Army and Navy leading one goal to nil the match was abandoned247 words
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Article205 1948-05-16 11 AUSTRALIA SCORES 721 v. ESSEX SOUTHEND, Saturday. FUR Australians scored centuries in their mammoth one-day score of 721 all out against Essex t,oday. They were Bradman 187, Brown 153, Loxton 120 and Seggars, who was included at the last minute. 104 not out. Bradman was in sparkling form hitting Vigar205 words
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Article189 1948-05-16 11 LONDON. Saturday. CLOSE of play scores in the eight county cricket championship matches which started today were: At Lords: Middlesex v. Sussex, Middlesex 392 for five declared (Robertson 147, W. J. Edrich not out 128). Sussex 22 for one. At Leeds: Yorkshire v. Lancashire. Lancashire 331 for four189 words
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Advertisement182 1948-05-16 11 The James Boys Ride Again! STARTS n *Ncy»*°* P iiY TODAY! **HN h2fi°* ifh 11 a.m.; I; 4.15; 6.30 9.15 p.m. g£ tUry Preceded by latest British Paramount News: BRITISH INDUSTRIAL FAIR OPENS— Prince Bira in GENEVA GRAND PRIX for small cars. LAST D AY Ht i 45 9is pjn182 words
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Advertisement236 1948-05-16 11 Performances 11 a.m.. 1.45, 4.1">. i; \r, anl f)..iO p.m. Daily NOW SHOWING! A GAY LIGHT HEARTED TALE SET TO MUSIC FULL OF FUN CATCHY SONGS. —^"""^^^mjtioM 1 Ijt A »> v Ktn I n(AMN& «^fcb^£/i? way? 4 UNivl&SAl iNUONMKWAI PICIURI In view of the present Poiio precautions our cinema236 words
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Article, Illustration2312 1948-05-16 12 Norton, Jaunty pay best From EPSOM JEEP T.-COL. T. L. Fox had a field day at Kuala Lumpur yesterday, first day of the Selangor Turf Club May Meeting, saddling- five winners in a card of eight races. Jockey Bill Lawler was in great rid.np: form2,312 words
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188 1948-05-16 12 England meet Italy at soccer today ENGLAND are slight favourites to beat Italy In Turin today in what— as far as the Continent is concerned must be termed "the match of the century." Soccer fans are paying as much as £20 for seats. More than 409.000 applications were made forReuter - 188 words
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Article458 1948-05-16 12 THE Singapore Chinese Recreation Club drew with the Indian Association in a cricket match played at the Hong Llm Oretm yesterday. To the 118 runs scored by the I Indians, who batted first the S.C.R.C. replied with 45 runs for five wickets, when the game was458 words
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Article262 1948-05-16 12 I ONDON youngsters who aspire to become boxing "giant" have an excellent chance to lay the ground work early in the new boxing "nursery" school started by Jack Solomons, the London 'promoter. All youths, it wik announced before the first session, were welcome, and enthusiasm forReuter - 262 words
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