The Straits Times, 3 September 1949

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1949. TWELVE PAGES PRICE TEN CENT&
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  • 295 1 'SUE CAL WELL'- SYDNEY CHINESE £20,000 Libel Suit Decision This Week-End From Our Own Correspondent SIDNEY, Friday. gYDNEY'S Chinese community leaders have called a meeting for Sunday to consider suing the Australian Immigration Minister, Mr. Arthur Calwell, for A£20,000 for alleged libel against Chinese seamen who were to be deported
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    33 1 THE DIRECTOR of Medical Services, Singapore, Dr. W. J. Vickers speaking at yesterday's ceremony when he opened the new S.A.T.A. treatment centre at Ho Chiang Road. Report in Paje 7. Straits Times picture.
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    36 1 REMAINS of a zinc shed leading to the Singapore First District Judge's Chamber yesterday. Cause of the collapse was the Army truck colliding with one of the main beams. No one was hart. Straits Times picture.
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  • 155 1 Govt Will Back AAA, Says Gurney From Our Staff Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. FULL Go\ eminent support for athletic coaching and training in Malaya was promised by Sir Henry Gurney, the High Commissioner, when he opened the Malayan AmaAthletic Association CiKimpionships on the Padang h>*re this evening. Speaking irom
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  • 54 1 LUCKNOW. Fri -The Untie 1 Provinces Government is pi. inning to utilise flsh for fighting the malaria epidemic, it is learned here. Under its scheme, mosqul-to-breeding ponds and pools in the province will be filled with five varieties of fish that feed voraciously on the eggs
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  • 29 1 TOKYO. Fri.— The Soviet Union today asked S.C.A.P. to supply repatriation shipping for 18.000 Japanese war prisoners who are to be returned to Japan thU month.— A.P.
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  • 99 1 TOKYO, Fri. MR. Malcolm Mac Donald, Commissioner General in South East Asia, will arrive in Tokyo's Haneda airport early tomorrow morning, it was announced by the Pan-Ameri-can World Airways today. An airlines official said that General Mac Arthur is expected to go to the
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  • 197 1 NAVY, R.A.F. IN H.K. 'AIR RAID 9 HONG KONG, Friday. HONG KONG residents will experience their first post-war "air raid" tomorrow when the Colony's air defences will be tested. j Royal Navy Seafire aircraft Iwill fly off the deck of the aircraft carrier Triumph as she approaches Hong Kong to
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  • 62 1 LONDON, Fri. British trade union leaders meeting at Bridlington, have decided to fight a government decision that there can be no immediate consideration of pensions for workers in nationalised industries. The government view is that the nationalised indus1 tries cannot be expected. In i the present economic
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  • 68 1 ELEPHANTS A WELCOME AND.... KOBE, Fri.— An elephant "Miss Kacha," a gift from Slam was greeted by thousands of children when it arrived here by sea. UP. ....A FAREWELL MADISON, (Wisconsin,) Fri.— Madison children have lost their second pet elephant in less than a year. i Annette, diminutive thr^e- year-old
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  • 34 1 TOKYO, Fri. Seventy thousand tons of rice will be Imported Into Japan from Burma under a contract concluded this week with the Burmese Government, according to Japanese newspapers this morning.— Reuter.
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  • 32 1 NEW YORK, Fri. Tw< pilots crash-landed at higispeed today in qualifying trials at Cleveland for the national air races this weekend but both walked away from their burning planes unhurt.—U.P.
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  • 66 1 S\VER $1,550,000 worth of big sweep tickets have been sold to date for the five-day Singapore Turf Club Autumn (Gold Cup) Meeting. This figure beats the previous record mark for a five-day meeting by nearly $100,000. "There's no hope of touching the $2,000,000 mark although
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  • 70 1 SYDNEY. Fri. MR. John. A. Beasley, Australian High Commissioner in London, died here to-night. Mr. Beasley left London in May for consultations with his government. It was his first official visit to the Commonwealth since hls-appointment in January, 1947. His health was not good and his
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    116 1 Mr. Beasley, who was 54, was one of the strongest personalities in Australian politics and during the Second World War, when he was Minister of Supply and Shipping, was looked upon as the right-hand man of the then Premier, Mr. John Curtin. He served as a member
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  • 25 1 BATAVIA, Fri.— A cease-fire agreement in principle has been reached between the Indonesians and the Dutch in South Borneo, it was announced today.— U.P.
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  • 31 1 MOSCOW, Fri.— The Ministry of Light Industry today offered prizes of about 50.000 rubles in a contest for the best model of ladies' handbag and the best handbag lock.— U.P.
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  • 169 1 TOKYO, Fri. I I ANDSLIDES, floods and tor- Li rential rain have come as the aftermath to Japan's typhoon disaster. Swollen rivers near the tops of their weakened banks are threatening new flood disasters. Four inches of rain drenched the Kanto plain, shedding Into the Tokyo-
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  • 351 1 HONG KONG, Friday. /CHINESE Communists reported to be in firm control of the historic East River, invasion route to Canton, today closed in on the last two Nationalist seaports on the South East rhina coast outside of Canton itself Martial law was Imposed In
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  • 96 1 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Fri. 'JIHREE Siamese have been L arrested by security police as Communist agents in the north-eastern province of Udorn, bordering Indo-China. They were alleged to be responsible for disseminating Communist propaganda and helping in recruiting Siamese and Chinese youths In the north-east
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  • 56 1 WELLINGTON, (New Zealand), Fri.— Mr. H. Barnes and Mr. T. jjlll, president and secretary respectively of the New Zealand Waterside Workers Union, have been dismissed from the waterfront industry authority for misconduct, the Minister of Labour announced today. The action follows a long period of unrest and
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  • 213 1 Japan Will Pay— Yoshida TOKYO, Fri. rpHE Japanese Prime 1 Minister, Shigeru Yoshida, broadcasting tonight in reply to Gen. Mac Arthur's statement marking the fourth anniversary of the surrender of Japan, pledged his country to liquidate all pre-war foreign loans and repay the money received from United States aid funds.
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  • 46 1 LONDON, Fri.— Buying of i Japanese bonds and a subsej quent rise in values provided a feature in the London Stock Exchange today. Hopes of early peace treaty dibcussions put a spotlight on outstanding Japanese liabilities and encouraged a good demand for bonds.
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  • 382 2 BANDJERMASIN, South Borneo, Fri. A GENERAL strike has brought the economic life of the town of BandJermasin, capital of the rich rubber and rice country of Southern Borneo, to a complete standstill. The strike, which climaxes a long chain of incidents, was proclaimed a few
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  • 15 2 THE Kelantan Police Band inarches past behind its drum -major.
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  • 32 2 RAUB, Fri. Mr. Chew Chon? Hya Chief Clerk, Land Office. Kuantan, has been transferred to the Veterinary Office, Raub. and has been replaced by Mr. S. Murukesu from thf Pahang Secretariat.
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  • 70 2 A YOUNG Javanese named Noadiran armed only with a knife, killed a tiger single—handed after an hour-lone fight near the hamlet of Demen. north of the Progro River, near Jogjakarta. The tiger attacked a man, who saved himself by jumping into the river, screaming an alarm
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  • 116 2 118 DEAD, MISSING IN JAPAN TOKIO, Fri. RAIN fell heavily in the Toklo -Yokohama area today, to add to the misery cf the homeless from Wednesday's typhoon which claimed 78 lives and injured 364 people. The list of missing was reduced to 40 in the morning tabulation of the National
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  • 136 2 HAMBURG, Fri.— A former I German army order quoted by the prosecution in the War Crimes trial here of former German Field MarI shal Von Man stein said: "In order to spare German blood, only Russian prisoners will be used for detecting and clearing mines." A further
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    • 280 2 COLOMBO, Friday. FIVE large cobras and one fat python will be transferred at Singapore from a ship to a plane bound for the United States. At the Colombo Zoo expert snake-handlers carefully inserted each vicious reptile Into a separate Jute-hessian bag and placed
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  • 33 2 MR S. K. NAIR of Guthrie Co.. Kuala Lumpur, and Hiss K. Jannama, niece of Mr. K. P. G. Pillay of Muar, »ere married at Muar recently. Straits Times picture.
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  • 108 2 LONDON, Friday. CIR Adrian Boult, permanent conductor of the British Broadcasting Corporation's Symphony Orchestra, will retire next June. The noted musician reached the BBC's retirement age of 60 in April this year but was asked to stay on. The BBC, announcing that Sir Adrian would
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  • 195 2 LONDON, Friday ITING ABDULLAH of Hashemite Jordan has announced that he "believes Britain will increase the financial aid it is giving to his country,"- though he had not discussed th juestion during: his 10-day visit to the U.K. He stale! that Britain owed a
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  • 248 2 TRUMAN AND ATTLEE PLEA ON KASHMIR LAKE SUCCESS, Friday. PRESIDENT TRUMAN and Mr. Attlee have appealed to India and Pakistan to accept Admiral Chester Nimitz as "neutral arbitrator* in the Kashmir dispute which has baffled the United Nations for nearly a year. Both the United States' President and the British
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  • 191 2 Tito Faces Up To War Of Nerves BELGRADE, Friday. MARSHAL TITO has r Juried to Belgrade and takrn over the direction of Yugoslav strategy against the Russian war of nerves, according to official Yugoslav sources. They said Tito returned to the capital "sometime within the past 36 hours" from his
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  • 34 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. The unveiiing of the foundation stone of the $60,000 Yuh San mission school off Pudu Road, Kuala Lumpur will be performed by Mr. Cheong Yok Choy tomorrow at 5 p.m.
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    30 2 Mr." and bit*. Gan cnoy gave a Tango demons ration at the Bukit Bintang Dance Hall on Wednesday night in aid of Welfare Week.— C. F. Larm picture.
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  • 31 2 From Our Staff Correspondent RAUB, Fri.— The Raub Australian Gold Mine's dance at Bukit Koman in aid of the Raub District Welfare Week raised more than $150. I
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    • 659 2 NOTICES NOTICE*" As and from the list August. 1949. Mr. Loh Ban Swl of 17 Cluirch Street, Malacca, is retiring from the service of this Company and In his place we have annotated Mr. Tan Kirn Seng of 30 Riverside. Malacca as our accredited Sale* Representative In the Mnlarra district.
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    • 469 2 NOTICES KLAVENESS LINE Messrs. Anglo-French Bendtxsens Ltd., have been appointed Agents at Malacca and Port Swettenham as from Ist September. 1949. McALISTER As CO.. LTD.. GENERAL AGENTS. BERJUNTAI TIN DREDGING LIMITED (Incorporated In the Federation of Malaya) Notice la hereby given that at the Ordinary General Meeting of the Company
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    • 135 2 P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE Tenders will be received at the Office of the State Engineer, P.W.D.. Johore. up to noon of 19th September. 1949. for the Construction of a Reinforced Concrete Bridge 80-0" Span No. 1/61 at Mile 60/17 Route 1. All particulars may be obtained p.t the Office of the
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    • 152 2 AUCTION SALE OP SINGAPORE PROPERTIES to be held in our Sale-room* Nos. 4 A 4-1, Collyer Quay, Singapore, on TUESDAY 6th SEPTEMBER. 1949. AT 2.30 p.m. ESTATE OF JOSEPH TAN CHEW SENG DECEASED. 1. 999 years leasehold land and Shophouses Nos. 35 North Boat Quay and 7 River Valley Road,
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    • 108 2 SP.H.P. TABLETS provide a sale treatment to regain lost health and energy. After taking treatment with Special H.P. Tablets energy, memory, freshness, elasticity and Interest in one's work b brought about in a natural manner SP.H.P. Is an effective compound In the list of the BRITISH GLANDULAR PRODUCTS LTD., LONDON.
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    • 122 2 WHY DENTISTS THEMSELVES CLEAN THEIR TEETH THIS CORRECT WAY -^BHtS^L^ TTNENIISTS know how important it is to dean teeth the /^J^^gPSKKg^^pgS Wisdom's straight-line tufts reach awkward corners, J»»,^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^|gi^^^^^^ nvi nu TnnTUDDiicu a^wJm^iii^^>^^^^ NiLun lUUinDnuon jK^ul))B//f"jfrS»l JF&L .-4_£l HOW TO CLEAN OUTSIDE UPPER FRONT TEETH IV^X>LP^^VV>HD| £B^^m«9 ..wafa I Place iht
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  • 224 3 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A N assault trooper of the 4th Hussars who, when all the crew of an armoured vehicle had been wounded, fought a single-handed battle with bandits, routed them, and brought his comrades to safety, has been given an
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    27 3 MISS JEAN BROWN SAUNDERS. familiar to Penan* radio listeners as J. 8.5.". who is leaving Malaya next week after 18 months with Radio Malaya. Straits Times picture.
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  • 102 3 LONDON, Fri. LORD Derby has announced with pleasure that his family seat is now a going concern. The 31-year-old peer said he has taken in £5,500 in public admission fees to rambling Knowlsey Hall this summer. A total of 40,000 persons paid half a crown each
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  • 33 3 CAIRO, Fri.— The venue of the World Health Organisation Eastern Mediterranean conference may be transferred from Alexandria to stanbul "to avoid the era- '-mssment of having Israeli representatives on ;jo territory."— Reuter.
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  • 138 3 RANGOON, Friday. A FOOD shortage, which may become serious, faces the Karen-held Shan capital, Taungyyi. British and American Embassies have evacuated theirnationals, but other foreigners are still there. Twenty-eight Britons have been taken to Kalaw, less than 40 miles west of Taungyyi, where
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  • 80 3 HELSINKI, Fri.— With free soup queues lengthening in Helsinki, more workers broke away today from the Com-munist-led strikes against the Social Democrat Government's pegged wages policy. Only dockers and metal workers were still on 3trike except a handful %f building workers in isolated parts of the country.
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  • 142 3 LONDON, Friday. PRINCE Viwatchai Chaiyant, Finance Minister of Siam, who is on an eight-day visit to Britain, is to see the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, tomorrow, an authoritative source stated tonight. According to a Siamese Embassy official, Prince Viwatchal will leave on Sept. 8
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  • 85 3 AS an expression of the Royal Navy's pride in in- deeds of H.M.S. Amethyst, th* Devonport Com- j mar.d have made a suggestion that the ensign, which I the Devonport manned frigate flew during her es- cape dowD the Yangtsr, shoula bf reserved in a I
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  • 95 3 LONDON, Fri.— Dr. fam Boffa, Maltese Prime Minis- j ter, told correspondents tonight that his mission to London to seek economic aid for Malta had not been successful. He indicated that the question of his resignation as Prime Minister would come before a special midnight meeting of
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  • 220 3 FORCED TO JOIN LEGION —U.S. SEAMAN WASHINGTON, Fri. SEAMAN Patrick James Ryan, aged 23, an alleged deserter, told a Navy court marital that he was shanghaied by the French Foreign Legion and spent 20 months of abuse and privation before he could escape. The sailor, whose story was first told
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  • 45 3 THIS CHINESE-STYLE decorative perambulator, said to be over 100 years old, was recently presented to the Malacca Historical Society by Kutty Brothers, antique dealers. The carriage which could hold more than one baby was palled by manpower. Simpang Lima picture.
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  • 54 3 ATHENS, Fri. REGULAR Albanian troops killed 14 Greek soldiers and wounded 201 in a clash on Greek soil, the Greek General Staff claimed yesterday. The action, it said, took place south of Kroustaiopivi when the Greek 9th Division tried to shut off the escape route of
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  • 29 3 LONDON, Fri.— Mr. Churchill appearing fully recovered from the cold which kept him in bed for several days, returned today to England from a Riviera holiday.— U.P.
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  • 308 3 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Friday. ANE bandit was killed and another wounded by a v police patrol operating in the Sitiawan district yesterday. The patrol, who were operating in two sections, saw two bandits in uniform running out of a hut. They did not
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  • 68 3 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Fri. The E.C.A.F.E. sub-committee on iron and steel, now meeting in Bangkok, reported today that a survey by Swedish experts estimated the "assured" ore deposits in Siam as 700,000 tons and "probable" ore as 800,000 tons. The discussions centred on measures to
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  • 149 3 LA PAZ, Bolivia, Fri. REBEL planes bombed La Paz twice today in the first of such attacks of the six-day-old revolution. In the first attack a rebel plane dropped bombs near the State Radio and Telegraph offices. Five hours later three bombs fell near the
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  • 426 4 'Untold Harm 9 If Branch Opens THE President of the Progressive Party, Mr. C. C. Tan, said yesterday: "The entry of the Malayan Chinese Association into Singapore political life will do incalculable harm and provide a further obstacle against those trying to lead the people
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    35 4 Miss Rosa Sum. one of (iO of Singapore's most attractive young women of all nationalities who will act as dance partners at the Poppy Day Ball at Raffles Hotel on Oct. 1.
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  • 112 4 7 Welfare Officers Off To U.K. From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Frl. SIX Social Welfare officers and a helper from the Blind Welfare Centre are lcivini, tne Federation tomorrow oil their way to the United Kingdom for training. Two of them, Mohamed Sopie bir Shaik Ibrahim end Muhamirac bin
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  • 31 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri.~ To relieve congestion especially when children are leaving school a footpath is being made at a cost of $1,500 between Jalan Mahmoodiah and Jalan Yahaya Awal.
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  • 35 4 •VIKS. A. W. PINNICK, Chief Girl Guides Commissioner, on arrival at Taiping where she went to direct the camp for more than 100 guides from Penang and Perak. Loke Ho Thong picture.
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  • 163 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Frl. MR. Justice Callow. In the Kuala Lumpur Supreme CourJ today, granted a Eurasi u» woman, Mrs. Evelyn Vyner, an application to presume the death of her husband Mr L. C. Vyner, who hns bee:; missing since Feb 18.
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  • 155 4 3, 000, 000 FEDERAL CITIZENS NOW From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. rpHREE million out of the five million people in the Federation are already Federal citizens, or will be automatically on reaching the age of 15. This was stated in a Federa 1 Government statement this afternoon which
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  • 35 4 The Singapore Legislative Council is holding an emergency meeting next Wednesday in the Municipal Council Chamber. The Council will discuss the latest War Damage compensation offer from the Bri1 tish Government.
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  • 130 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. nUBBER powder from Java, in the proportion of one part of rubber to 20 of asphalt, will be used in a test strip to be laid in Klang Road on Wednes- aay. Two strips, each 50
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  • 103 4 A YOUTH, Gian Tee, of Jiak Kirn Street, appeared in the Fourth Police Court yesterday on two charges of having stabbed two people with a knife, and a third charge of theft of an identity card from a woman. In the first two charges, he was
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  • 33 4 A man with two previous convictions, Neo Chwee Lai, of Havelock Road, was fined $3,000 in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday for assisting in running a chap jl kl lottery.
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  • 25 4 MAJ.-GEN. ANIS AHMED KHAN, the first Indian Muslim to be appointed a major-general in the Indian Army. G. 1.1.5. picture.
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  • 186 4 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Frl. AT the end of his re-lrial in the Assize Court today, a C6-year-olvi professional beggar. Chong Siew Haw, was convicted ol killing a woman, Ho Siew Guat, at Laxamana Road. Teluk Anson, and seni ttneed to death. Ho
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  • 130 4 OFFICIAL OPENING of ne.. y.M.C.A. sports pavilion and ground, Balestier Road, by Mr. Jonn Forrester-Paton, President ox World's Alliance of Y.M.C.A's, 4.4 b p.m. CHESS CLUB, V.M.C.A.. Orchard Road, 3 p.m. TAN TOCK SENG divisional thcraphy unit will hold Its 9iis sale at Robinsons, 9 a.m. LITTLE THEATRE
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    • 102 4 /FORD MOTOR COMPANY LTD ENGLAND approve 7 TK! M»JTf**t?Cf W, OtlS y CAHWM TO YOIR M\iKKT Within a hundred miles ot Tuwei BnJge lives almost half the population of the British Isles. That's why the Port of London's foreign trade tops £500,000,000 per year. That's why demands for raw materials
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  • 282 5 THE Municipal Electrical Department last year made a gross profit of $3,853,888, which became $1,401,848 net, after making allowances for loan charges, rate fund contributions and depreciation. The Electrical Engineer, Mr. C. C. Payne, in his report, says that constant demands from consumers for
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  • 262 5 BOOST IN TAP TRADE LIKELY MALAYAN traders have hopes that exports to Japan will be stepped up considerably this month. SCAP authorities are expected to resume on September 15 allotment of the necessary foreign exchange to buy from the sterling area a large range of raw materials. Rubber, sago and
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  • 162 5 THE possibility of devaluation is still the predominating factor in the market, says Lewis and Peat's weekly 1 rubber review, but profit taking and forward selling are at present preventing thp market breaking 'h'bugh this level. New York is showing a tendency to improve, but their prices are
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  • 76 5 The Army in Singapore will commemorate Liberation Day on Sept. 12 by flying the Union Jack from all military buildings and at all military units. The military band and pipes and drums of the 1st battalion Seaforth Highlanders will beat the retreat on the Padang at 6.15
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  • 66 5 The two widows and children of Sgt. Musa bin Idris of the Malay Regiment who was reported to have been lost overboard from the Tung Song off Malacca last month, have been sent to the Malay Regiment headquarters at Port Dickson by the Singapore military authorities.
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  • 84 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Frt. MR. F. L. Shaw, or the Malayan Educational Department, who is retiring, was entertained to a farewell dinner by several of his former pupils last night at Johore Bahru. Mr. Shaw recalled that when he joined the staff of the English College it occupied the
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  • 54 5 Three French delegates to the International Labour Office conference in Singapore will arrive here by air from Paris on Sept. 11. They are the Inspector General of Labour, M. Chaille, the Inspector of Labour. In-do-China, M. Colona d' Istria, and the Assistant to the Inspector General of
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  • 215 5 QWNERS of 23 shops built of attap and wood on v Municipal land along North Bridge Road beside Elgin Bridge, will face an estimated loss of $6,000 to $7,000 each when the Municipality demolishes their premises. r- The Commissioners decided to demolish the shops after
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    30 5 TWENTY FIVE YEAICOLD Mohd. Sophiee bin Shaik Ibrahim, a teacher of St. Xavier's Institution Penan?, who will be leaving today on a Social Welfare scholarship to London. Straits Times picture.
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  • 315 5 PRELIMINARY surveys will begin shortly for a site 1 for a huge sewerage works which will bring modern sanitation to the Pasir Panjang and Alexandra areas of Singapore, where considerable developments are being planned. I Mr. E. R. L. OToale. Chief Sewerage Engineer, told the
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  • 85 5 From Oar Staff Correspondent PENANG, Thurs. A CABARET hostess and an Indonesian housewife dead-heated In a "photo finish" at last night's "Kebaya Queen" contest held at the New World Park in connection with Welfare Week in Penan*. The judges were unanimous in their choice and lots had to
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  • 116 5 NOT many girls under 18 years old are to be found en th" streets earning a living thtough prostitution, states the women's and girls' section of the Singapore Social Welfare Department. Ir recft;t weeks the activities t'r* police have been directe. against street walkers ;.nd
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  • 100 5 The Easy Way Out, But pLANS for a "considerable 1 extension" of community listening both in Singapore and the Federation, where conditions favour it, are under consideration, says an article in Corona, the Colonial Office publication. The article says an easy way out of the financial problem would be to
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  • 160 5 MALAY novels do not have j an adverse effect on i morals, a Singapore Malay j author and publisher, Inche A. H. Indroos, said yesterday. Inche Idroos said he had an interview with Inche Sar- don bin Haji Jublr, a Singapore Legislative Councillor, who had suggested
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  • 1101 6 SThe Straits form* Singapore, Sat., Sept 3, 1949. One School Per Week "No Government can hope to compete with such a rapidly growing population," said the Resident Councillor of Penang, Mr. A. V. Aston, in the Settlement Council last Tuesday. He was replying to Dr. N. K. Menon, who had
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  • 102 6 T MOST heartily endorse Singapore frenchman's protest against the distortion of history in the film "Reign Of Terror." In this respect the film Is by no means unique, and I know that such films are frequently a source of embarrassrrert to teachers and parents when children dispute
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  • 1668 6 "Pajak" in the Dusun— Durians and mangosteens together Mangrove snakes in the bathing pool— Big money from pepper The District Club on new basis. SUNDAY, Aug. 28. INHERE has been more rain this last week, but always in the afternoon; and on the estate we harvested a good
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  • 431 6 Fifty Years Ago Check on 'Esplanade racetrack' (The following is taken from the daily column entitled O n The Verandah" in the. Straits Times of Sept 2, 1899.) SOME efforts have at last been made to put a stop to the furious driving in Singapore, and two drivers have, during
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 819 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. BIRTHS WISHART: To Betsy, wife at Noel Wtshart. at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, on September Ist, a tlaiißhter. HILL: To Joy, wife of Austin Hill, at Kandamt Kerbau Hospital, on Ist Sept., a daughter, Pamela. Both well. PEARCY: On Sept. 2nd, 1»49, m Kandang Kerbau Hospital, spore, to Esme.
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    • 62 6 SIGNALS for EYE-EXAMINATION:-1. Not seeing well at distance or near. 3. Frequent headaches, S. Byes feel tired or uneasy. 4. Can't read or write comfortably. In extreme cases, dizziness and nausea, loss of appetite vomiting. Cur technique ana procedure In visual analysis with the most complete equipment are entirely different
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  • 393 7 "Now Is The Time To Do A Fine Thing" "y)W is the time to do a fine thing and with energy and goodwill is the way to do it," said Sir Roland Braddell, president of the Friends of Singapore, at the society's annual general meeting yesterday,
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  • 196 7 Leslie Buck Thow Urn made his first donaif $5 towards Boys' Town, be suggested that boys and girls should ice one of the enkos they generally have with their morning coffee, tind with the money buy bricks for Boys' Town. bought ten
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  • 413 7 SINGAPORE Government is spending over $1,000,000 this year In its fight against tuberculosis and this expenditure constitutes a new record. This was announced by the Director of Medical Services, Singapore, Dr. W. J. Vickers when he opened the new S.A.T.A. treatment centre in Hoe
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  • 72 7 FKfct places win oe provided in four Government English schools from January next year for a number of boys in Chinese schools under 12 years, and who have passed fourth year lower prim- J y. The schools are: Telok Kurau English School, Monks Hill English School,
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  • 17 7 The S.H.B. Staff Association, has forwarded a cheque for $1,000 to the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association
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  • 33 7 'NOT GUILTY' PLEA Bail of $2,000 was granted I 26-year-old Teo Thian Sek, j who yesterday pleaded not guilty to a charge of criminal breach of trust of $1,236 belonging to his employer.
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  • 24 7 Mr. H. L. Ward has been 1 nppolnted to act as Chief Surveyor, Singapore, in place if Mr. A. Graham, who is
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  • 257 7 THE Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Glmson, in an address to the Friends of Singapore, read by Mr. H. W. Nightingale, said that his references in earlier speeches to a culture "which is definitely emerging in the life of Singapore" was no fanciful one. He
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  • 37 7 Goh Han Seng, a Singapore businessman, who was charged with having used a forged AP (authority to purchase) form, and with hav'ng made a false declaiation, was yesterday given a discharge not amounting to an acoulttal.
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  • 101 7 THE Chief Justice, Mr. Jus- tice Murray-Aynsley, put In a word for a bankrupt with three wives in the Singapore Bankruptcy Court yesterday. The bankrupt, A. 8. Sultan Abdul Kader, a former tongkang owner, said his salary was $300 a month and it cost him all
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  • 441 7 Midnight Row Told In Court II'HKN residents in Tiverton Lane shouted to a young motorist to stop sounding his horn at midnight, he was alleged to have: Told a woman "to go back to sleep"; Fought with a schoolboy and then threatened to "bring his gun and
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  • 215 7 A PLEA fur a cultural centre for Singapore was made by Sir Roland Braddell, president of the Friends of Singapore, at the annual general meeting yesterday. He said that what Singapore needed urgently was a specially designed and constructed building for concerts, exhibitions, lectures
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    54 7 MRS. >IOIRA NICHOLS who has just arrived in Singapore with her husband, Mr. Lawrence van B. Nichols, the new Deputy Director, United States Information Service. drs. Nichols, who flew to Singapore via Britain, told tl c Straits Times: "I am already fascinated with Singapore It seems like a land
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  • 43 7 More than 150 guests last night heard the President of the World's Alliance of Y.M.C.A.S, Mr. John Forres-ter-Paton speak at a V.M.C.A. dinner in Singapore. It was 20 years ago since the last World V's President, Dr. John Mott, visited Singapore.
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  • 21 7 Mr. H. I. Wetherell, Operations Officer, Department of Civil Aviation, has been appointed to act as Chief Operations Officer
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  • 69 7 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Friday. CU Tin Poh has a haulage permit to carry pigs and pig fodder. A policeman stopped him and asked: "What are all those other things in your lorry?" "Just a few things for my children" said Eu. The
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  • 27 7 SINGAPORE CHRISTENING: Alexander, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Otremsky, seen with his parents after he was christened at St. Andrew's Cathedral recently.
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  • 88 7 THE building of a $97,000 mansion was given as the chief reason for his insolvency by a Singapore building contractor, Anthony Edmund Chelvan, In his public examination In bankruptcy In the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday. Chelvan said that although his liabilities were about $140,000,
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  • 18 7 The Society of License&AiTcraft Engineers held a grand ball at St. Andrew's School Hall last night.
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  • 132 7 No Bars -But Boys Will Have To Wait ALL the bars at the Bukit Timah Boys' Home will be removed ultimately, but this will not be done in a hurry--at least, not until the boys have learnt a new way of life and acquired a spirit of trust in themselves.
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  • 65 7 A man with ten children Ismail bin Abu Bakar, asked Mr. Justice Murray-Avnsley the Chief Justice, to make him a bankrupt In the Singapore BankruDtcy Court yesterday Ismail was already an undischarged bankrupt, paying $10 a month towards debts Incurred in his previous bankruDtcy. The Chief Justice
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  • 43 7 Twenty-year-old J-jughin Brown, a naval rating, appeared in the First District Court yesterday on a charge of theft of motor car at Market Street. He pleaded not guilty and was granted bail of $5,000. The case was adjourned to Sept. 12.
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  • 68 7 MRS. CHOO CHIN HIN, nee Madam Yap Kirn Hiok. aged 72. passed away at 737-O Poh Huat Rd., off Upper Serangoon. She leaves behind Teck Hong and 5 other sons, one daughter. 4 daughters-in-law, one son-in-law, 12 erand-children and 3 great-ijrand-children. Relatives and friends are requested not to send
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 145 7 DERMATITIS Employers Employees Output Miflera as soon us you ha\e ona case of dermatiUs. Workers los« confidence and wah reason. Don't wait ur.'il oils have started oil rash or other skin troubles among your operatives. G;.e them :he protection of Rozalex. the barrier-cream of proved efficiency. Rozalex U May 'o
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    • 27 7 FRONT SANK SUIT FOR TODAY fi AND TOMORROW Cool Tussore Sharkskin Dinner ets Tropical Dress Trouser* 4,- a !^i 555 ffiJjjP BESPOKE TAILORING SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR PENANG
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  • 576 8 I WAS a very interested spectator at the recent Singapore Air Day display at Kallang, and between the events there was ample time to study the large crowds, both sheltering from the rain and strolling in the enclosure afterwards. I was very impressed with the
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  • 351 8 Bidding is not a cut and dried > affair, to be based purely on the values or lack of values in one's oxn hand. The question of part- ner's bidding proclivities is often of paramount importance. Let's i discuss a case that occurred In a prominent New
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  • 381 8  -  SUSAN DEACON Woman to woman By A FTER a year In the fashion news tartan is as popular as ever. Paris and London show even more tartans, authentic and pseudo, in their recent collections. And now the tartan craze has spread to the home. Shops are
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 359 8 HYGEIA 1 MODERN SANITATION Installed In Your Home For $250/(lnclusive of all charges! ILIMINATE NAUSEOUS CLOSET PANS WITH THEIR DISCOMFORTS AND DANCERS PROVIDES THE SAME COMFORT AND SAFETY AS A SEPTIC TANK. jj RUNS CONTINUOUSLY WITHOUT IMPTYINC. •NO WATER SUPPLY REQUIRED. FULLY CUARANTEED. APPROVED BY HEALTH AUTHORITIES. SQUAT TYPE ALSO
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    • 341 8 (Left) the ragamuffin cut, for thick hair with strong natural cuff, and, (right) the plait used on growing hair and colled like flat shells over the cars. Hair problems I ONQ hair is coming back. The present ragamuffin style, rough-cut and the opposite of sleek, will have a brief life.
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    • 266 8 STOCK CLEARING z***^ ENABLES YOU to select at /our convenience and with the greatest of plaasurc— Th* CARPET and the FUR COAT FROM OUR ENTIRE STOCK and not from unwanted ttock at prices which will not ba offered to you again. Call to-day and buy with th« Real Saving of
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 184 8 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD «c«o». a Conscientious ottiertlsni CROSSWORD No. 194 I. Morblo esatemept v <noi very weUM; D <8> imjl .mi. U!U m hearty ton wa> «8> v Dtaarsmi -xpresslni iU HHl 7 iH s Hl* H' H 9 Vmonar» hopet <«>. mathemtUcal formula «6» Hi HI HI HI i|
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  • SATURDAY FORUM
    • 271 9 PRACTISING WHAT THEY PREACH? THERE have recently boon many announce- menu, through the Press, hv various heads of Industries and commercial firms in Malaya to the effect that, owing to the lack of suitable candifrom local people. they an- forced to recruit as personnel. Whllsi this may be true in
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    • 295 9 TIIK issue of your paper dated Aug. 27 contained several letters on the subject of the importation of American cars into the Colony. Your statement that only those cars which were ordered before the ban was imposed are now being imported answered the queries
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    • 217 9 AN ECHO OF THE NOON GUN CAN you please state who is the competent authority j in Singapore to give one the correct time? Is it the Tele- j phone Exchange or Radio Malaya? When Radio Malaya says "7 i p.m. Malayan Time," does it mean that the time is
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    • 225 9 YOU have been taken to task for publishing the confessions of John Haigh. It is not my Intention to Join the controversy, although, incidentally, I do not think, there was cause for censure. But I wish to associate myself with the tribute, that the Sunday
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    • 36 9 PLEASE pass on the enclosed one-dollar note to the University of Malaya Endowment Fund. I hope there will be more contributions from students. ABDLL BIN HAJI MAHMUD. Ismail English School, Kota Bahru, Kelantan.
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    • 380 9 A MALACCA VIEW OF THE HAGUE rrHE fate of 70 million souls hangs in the balance at the roundtable conference between the Dutch and the Indonesians that is now being held at The Hague. If the two parties come to a complete understanding and a United State of Indonesia comes
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    • 72 9 fPHE Commissioner of A Road Transport, Federation of Malaya, openly states that the "problem of "pirate taxis" still remains. I should have thought the remedy was obvious license them! It Is refreshing to read the Commissioner's open admission that "Enforcement Officers have not yet attained
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    • 256 9 YOUR crorespondent, Income Tax Payer (whose letter was published in this page last Saturday) has certainly "got something" when he suggests that Government should soak the luxury industry of horse-racing even more than it does at the moment. There is every reason for this when
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    • 83 9 I am beginning to wonder whether we, the passen- gers, are to be blamed for our j negligence: or the other party I —the driver- -for his reckVss t driving. I am referring to the S.T.C. buses. Accidents in Singapore are i alarmingly high. No doubt they are
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    • 180 9 MOULMEIN RD. TO KEPPEL HARBOUR HPHE widely advertised new S.T.C. omnibuses, which are on the No. 1 service (from Moulmein Road to Keppel Harbour), are far from satisfactory from a ventilation point of view. The half -glass 1 shutters, which are fixed on the windows, do not permit free passage
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    • 124 9 THREE KIN DS TODAY'S NAP WHEN I went to the retail rice shop to draw my two weeks' rations, I was surprised when the assistant told there were three kinds of rice. The indent hanging inside the shop told me the same story. I went home very disappointed. I was
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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    • 256 9 HOUSEHOLD |||]|j| A L A NtES The CONTROLLED HEAT IRON Model No S AC or AC DC $22.00 The I'PRGHT TOASTER The BFNTINCK KETTU AC DC $24.00 AC DC $36.00 Obtainable from all good stores, Including JOHN LITTLE CO LlD. —U.ililes TUce. Singapore. NANG IIENG CO., 309 Chnlto Street, Tenang.
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  • 874 10 From Our Market Correspondent d\S an easier tone from London, prices in the Malayan share market drifted to lower levels yesterday. Industrials remained a steady market while small inquiries continued for rubber shares. Tel 5991-2-3 ayan Sharebrokers' Association were INDUSTRIALS Buyer* Sellers AUM IB SO
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  • 199 10 RUBBER MARKET FIRM ON better advices from New York, the Singapore rubber market opened firm again yesterday. Profit-taking and estate selling continued to check rises in price. The market was quiet later in the day Closing prices yesterday were: No 1 sheet f.o.b. buyers 36} cents, sellers 37| cents spot
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  • 108 10 MALAYA manufactured 36,- J 959 cwt s of soap in July, of which 11,314 cwts were manufactured in the Federation, according to official statistics. Sales during th c month were 19,694 cwts in Malaya, including 8,758 cwts in the Federation, while stocks at the end of July
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  • 39 10 Since the liberation of Indonesia, 100,000 tons of palm oil have been shipped from the east coast of Sumatra. Production for 1949 is estimated at 120,000 tons against an average of 220,000 before the war.
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  • 34 10 The Federation of Malaya imported $338,889 worth of tea in July and exported $246,889 worth of tea. Imports for the first seven months of the year were worth $1,907,041, and exports $1,131,924.
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  • 363 10 LONDON, Frl. MR. Ernest Bevin's warning that no quick solution should be expected from the Washington talks restricted any Incentive to take active interest in the London Stock Exchange yesterday. Price movements were irregulai with only a small volume ol business passing. Following were the closing mid die
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 1115 10 MANSFIELD dt CO., LTD. (Incorporated m Singapore) BLOB FUNNEL LINE STRAITS STEAMSHIP CO., Carrier's .pNon to proceed via ether LTD. pm t. and dlscharg. car.. SAILINCS FROM UK b USA. Vasael for Muar Weakly Vassal for Malacca Twice Weekly PrrrhM from X Wpj VMf#l fol Por Qickson Weekly A.ne*. from
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    • 339 10 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS TO NEW YORK AND BOSTON VIA CEYLON INDIA EGYPT AND MEDITERRANEAN PORTS Spore P yham Penang Pres. Harding 6 Sept. 7/8 Sept 9/12 Sept. Pres. Van Buren 15/19 Sept. 20/21 Sept. 22/25 Sept. Prei. lefferson 28 Sept./4 Oct. 3/6 Oct 7/10 Oct. Willamette Victory 12/18 Oct. 19/20
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    • 365 10 EAST ASIATIC LINE SAILINGS FROM SCANDINAVIA/U X./ SAILINCS TO CONTINENT/ CONTINENT SCAND.NAV.A m.s "Morefia due abt. Sept tor Manila. H'Konß. Kobe Yokohama Loading at Singapore, Port Swettenham mi "Selandia dueabtSeptlS Penang. for Saigon Bangkok mt m-^-MoM^;?):co,om Mo M^; :co,o d m u^ bt 8 0-m p f < £k- r
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    • 950 10 McALISTER 6. CO., LTD. (Incorpocatad in Singapore) telepnon. No. 5906 ELLERMAN ek BUCKNALL KLAVENESS LINE "r^roamTha^u^"' 1 ROTTERDAM ft HAMBURC Accepting cargo ttr Central South CITt O> IVANSVILLE S x&ru i&lfe *&««3 ra« CITY OF POON A 2nd naif October J *«P'-/4 Oct. 5 Oct Oef. iP. S-h.m: HarrlKM,, ft
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  • 576 11 Sidique Merican Hero Of Day From LARRY CARROLL KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. rpHE Kelantan sprinter, Sidique Merican, was the -L star performer in today's events in the Malayan Athletic Championships. Time and again he won his heats, beating Malaya's best for the day's fastest times. One
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  • 642 11 100 yds. heat one: 1. Sidique I Merican <Kel>; 2. Sivarajan (Pah); 3. Leong Siew Hon <Sel). Time 10.2 sees. Heat two: 1. Lim Hong Hai (Spore); 2. Levlseur (Spore); 3. Ganeson (Pk) Tune 10.4 sees. Heat three: 1. Lee Moi Ngean (Pk>; 2. Yeo Choon Bee
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  • 127 11 LONDON. Fri. RESULTS of County matches which ended yesterday were: At Folkestone, Kent beat Lancashire by 118 runs. Kent 344 and 202 for six dccl. Lancashire 144 and 284 (Wharton n.o. 62, Wright six for 81). At Worcester, Combined Services beat Worcestershire by 44 runs. Comb. Services 188
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  • 69 11 The following are the results of ties played yesterday ir> the Tanglln Club tennis tournament: Men's h'cap doubles (Semi-fi-nals): Fay and Capt. J. L. Whitmore (-30) beat Johnson and Guest (+4) 6-0, 6-1; Maj. Dawe and Maj. Greenwood (-4) beat Mathieson and Grace (+l5) 6-2; 6-1, TODAY'S TIE
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  • 241 11 Pulau Brani United 2; S.C.C 0 TTRNING out for Pulau Brani United in a SingaA pore A.F.A. Senior League game against the S.C.C. at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday, veteran Mat Noor scored the opening goal and paved the way for the second with a
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  • 93 11 RACING: Third Day. Spore T.C. Gold Cap meeting. CRICKET: S.C.C. v. P.W.D. at BaJestier; Colonials v. 223 8.0.D., 8.0.D. ground; S.C.C. t. Indians, Gandhi Memorial match on Padang. SOCCER: Malayan Airways T. Hotspurs, Geylanc Stadium. BOXING: Boys' Clubs at St Joseph's lust. SUNDAY CRICKET: Non-Benden t. Johorr Civil
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  • 403 11 »I*HE following are week-end 1 cricket teams: SATURDAY S.C.C. t P.W.D. at Balestier at 2.15 p.m.:— S.C.C K. Gould, G. L. R. Margrave, R. J. WhlUington, F. R. N. H. Massey. G. P. Darie. K. Graham. K. I. G. Stewart. J. C. Reeves, L. Holllday, D. I.
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  • 43 11 KOUVOLA, Finland, Frl— Vlljo Helno, the Finnish runner, yesterday bettered the worW 10,000 metres record with a time of 29 rains. 27.2 seconds here. This was one second better than the mark set In June by the Czech, Emll Zatopek. Reuter.
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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    • 231 11 WONE^|P/ 5159 TODAY! 11 1.4>. 4.00, 6.30 9.30 p.m. Special Morning Shows At 9 a.m. TODAY: "HELLO, FRISCO, HELLO" Technicolor TOMORROW: "ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD" Technicolor Admission: Upstairs $1; Downstairs 50 cts. TONIGHT AT M'NITET" ?ir?T ■ir*7Mmr~"ir" X frwt Awiq^kow* w**t ©f oiti >rgjg j^ilaLafrffi jjfcyiK* ...on* town wen rh«
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 296 11 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: 9.01 ajn. (7 ft 5 In.) and 7.18 pjn. (8 ft.) TOMORROW: 10 ajn. (8 ft) and 8.42 p.m. (8 ft. 4 In.) SINGAPORE As Singapore (English Programme 9.30 Burmese; 9.45 English; 10.00 on 249 metres); 2.00 Malay pro- Radio News Reel; 10.15 Light 10 News from
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  • 599 12  -  And Level Scores With Bright Eyes By EPSOM JEEP DRIGHT EYES and Croydon have clashed thrice this season with the score two to one in favour of Bright Eyes and their fourth meeting In the valuable Liberation Cup race over f and 5 Yds.
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  • 142 12 EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER RACE 1 15 TOTLAND Fairlyn Precious Stream HUNTER'S CALL Fairlyn Totland FAIRLYN Totland Hunter's Call RACE > t 45 STYMIE Uncle Willie Lord Frederick STYMIE Lord Frederick Dobra STYMIE Toboggan Dobra KNIGHT GALLANT Last Double Pam Green FAM GREEN LAST DOUBLE RACE
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  • 872 12 BELOW is the card for Bukit Timan toaay, me imra day of the Singapore Turf Club Autumn (Gold* Cup) Meeting. The Double Tote will be on Races 5 and 8 and the Big Sweep on Race 7. Tiber has been scratched for all engagements. Race 1—2.15: Class
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  • 243 12 PRST Singapore Gold Cup prospect to break the lull and begin serious training was Fortune's Favourite. r With Arthur Ayres astride, she broke from the mile post after trotting round once and went a full gallop yesterday, clocking 1 mm. 5 for sf. 52 for 4f. and
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  • 90 12 DEST fast-timers on the track engaged today are: Kaiserine and Cabaret 3f. in 36 2/5 sec. Fine Feathers, Shawford and Stymie 4f. in 49 4/5 sec. and 3f. in 36 4/5 sec. Last Double and Trousers 3f. in 36 3/5 sec. Desert Queen 3f in 36
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  • 28 12 for MORSILLO is riding with success in Calcutta. In his first couple of weeks there he landed several good winners for the Riley stable.
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  • KAISERINE TODAY'S NAL
    • 222 12 and at Ipoh In June he beat Grand Day (conceding 6lb) by a head over 6f. Tricolour, now under Heddle, has been striding out splendidly on the training track. Summary of the prospects In other races are: RACE ONE Totland was regarded as a good thing at ttye Penang August
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    • 259 12 Jimmy all command respect on recent form and there is the muchtalked of Happy Quadrant. Kanda beat Jimmy (receiving 4 lbs.) by a head over six at Penang in July. Eddy Fraser never had a chance In the race on a heavy track. At Ipoh in June, Skystreak ran Kanda
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  • 504 12 rpHE Fox stable on their home ground at Bukit Timah can be really formidable they have already won four races and may take both the 9-furlong handicaps for Class 3 horses today with Stymie (Race 2) and Fine Feathers (Race 4). Stymie has a fairly
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  • 246 12 7 New English Horses Landed By EPSOM JEEP SEVEN English horses, costing about $85,000, were landed in Singapore on Thursday by the "Alcinous". All took the long sea Journey well and one who attracted most attention was Plunder, a three-year-old bay gelding by the 2,000 Guineas and Derby winner, Blue
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  • 52 12 jyjß. C. R. Skene, acting official Judge of the Straits Racing Association, will be flying to England immediately after the Singapore Turf Club (Gold Cup) Meeting. Mr. Skene, a word-ranking polo star, has been invited to play for Britain in an International polo tournament in Argentina
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  • 49 12 rE charity dance organised by the Malayan Jockeys Association to raise funds for the Little Sisters of the Poor and the Redemptorist Fathers at the Raffles Hotel on Monday night will be held under the patronage of th* Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, himself a keen turfite.
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  • 27 12 Colin Tulloh, one of the loading jockeys In West Australia viil be coming out hc-rp shortly to ride for Trainer Jimmy Martin.
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 576 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. (Contiriued from page 6) FOR SALE El SIE MARY, tod. Floor. Battery Rd. Sale Now On! Fre.'h ins every day. DUNCAN'S. Morning and afternoon dresses. Nothing over $25 Fresh stork each week. 11, 1) Almeida Street (off Raffles Bq.) On~n all day Saturday. HOUSE-DECORATION. PurnishFnforics for quality— Design.
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    • 45 12 M.A.A.A. MEET OTHER SPORT P 11 ROSS BINOCULARS The Symbol of Quality Ideal for Racegoers Lighter in weight and possessing: 50% increase in light A wide field of view Perfect definition always Full particulars from NEW CHINA OPTICAL CO. 71, High Street Singapore. Phone: 2586.
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