The Straits Times, 4 November 1949

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1949. PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • 360 1 Laburnum To Refit As H.Q. Vessel THE Singapore Government has voted $308,000 to refit H.M.S. Laburnum of the Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a headquarters vessel. The officer commanding the M.R.N.V.R., Commander F. E. W. Lammert, D.S.C., told the Straits Times that after refitting the
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  • 163 1 TIN AGREEMENT DRAFT DRA WN UP LONDON, Thursday. THE Working Party of the Tin Study Group concluded its meeting here yesterday after drawing up a draft tin control agreement and a statement on the position and prospects of the tin industry. The statement Is to serve as the basis for
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  • 105 1 KING OF SIAM TO GO HOME BANGKOK, Thurs.— Siam's 21 -year-old King, Phumipol Aduldej, will return to Bangkok from Lausanne at the end of next month for* his coronation, a senior Thai cabinei source said today. King Phumipol also has instructed the Government build an ancient style Buddhist ceremonial funeral
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  • 49 1 CAIRO, Thurs.— The Premier, Hussein Sirry Pasha, and his coalition Government, resigned today over proposed changes in Egypt's electoral system. The Government controlled radio said King Farouk had accepted the reslftnatlons and ordered Sirry Pasha to form new cabinet composed entirely of Independents.— U.P.
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  • 40 1 NEW YORK, Thurs— The New York Herald Tribune's Washington correspondent said today that the United States and Britain had agreed to control the sale of aviation oils and high grade petrol to Communist China.— Reuter.
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  • 24 1 TOKYO, Thurs. Thirty houses in downtown Nagasaki were destroyed last night by a flre which caused damage estimated at 60.onn.non yen.— Reuter.
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  • 102 1 rDAY is Poppy Day. and about 300 Singapore women will be out this morning selling the emblems in various parts of Singapore and districts. Crosses may be bought at the Cenotaph for the Garden of Remembrance where the wife of the Bishop. Mrs. Baines. will be in
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  • 138 1 THE Singapore Government has asked the War Office to provide the equipment (or the proposed heavy anti-air-craft battery of the Singapore Volunteer Corps (Liaison), and It is hoped that this will be made available in the near future. Under the five-year plan for the
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  • 69 1 "JAPS WILL FIGHT FOR U.S." CLEVELAND, Thurs. Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, Occupation Force Command-, er In Japan, said today that 85,000,000 Japanese would be on our side" in the event of an American war with the Soviet Union. "The Japanese soldiers would be a commander's dream. They are the
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  • 17 1 AMSTERDAM, Thurs. Queen Juliana today received the Indonesian Republican Premier, Dr. Mohammed Hatta— U.P.
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  • 130 1 SALES of tickets for the Singapore Festival of Music, sponsored by the Straits Times and Music Circle in association with Radio Malaya, are approaching the $19,000mark, and the steady demand continued yesterday. There are, however, plenty ol seats still available for thf gala concert on
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  • 67 1 QUEBEC. Thurs. Economic uplift of the world Is the answer to Communism and to the threat of a third world war. Mr. PhlliD Noel-Baker. British Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, told a Canadian audience. A breeding ground of Communism existed among 1,000,000,000 people who suffered from
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  • 159 1 AUSTRALIANS resident in Malaya will be able to vote at the elections which will be held in Australia in the first half of next month. Radio Australia announced on Wednesday night that overseas Australians could apply to their Government representatives for voting forms.
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  • 74 1 the Tree Press will herald next week's Singapore Festival of Music with a five-pare supplement filled with musical items and articles. They include newt on all the major works to be played by the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, short biographies of the orchestra's conductor, Yvon Baarspul, its
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  • 35 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Thurs.— Good investment demand for Colonial Government stocks yesterday caused a general advance of quarter to one. Larger movement occurred in Malayan three per cents to 89.
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  • 838 1 SINGAPORE LIBEL SUIT APPLICATION >i DGMENT was reserved by the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Murray-Aynsley, in the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday in the interlocutory application in which Sir Roland Braddell, counsel for the London Daily Mail, asked for an order to stay an action for libel Instituted
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  • 302 1 CHUNGKING, Thursday. areas controlled by the Chinese Nationalists were today proclaimed war zones and placed under martial law. This sweeping action, was proclaimed by the Executive Yuan (Cabinet). It came as Chinese Communist troops drove deeper into Kwangsi province. Gen. Lin Piao with
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  • 75 1 COL<jm3O. Thurs.— A Lon-don-S igapore once-a-week service which will take just over 49 hours Is expected to start on Nov. 16. The planes will be Argonauts. The British Overseas Airways Corporation plan to run the service by which passengers leaving London at 8 am. on Wednesdays would
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  • 166 1 LONDON. Thurs. A FOREIGN OJice spokesman says that Britain "has not seriously c ■•>s;<irred" recognising the regime of Emperor Bao Dal in IndoChtna. Britain so far has not received a formal request for recognition, and is unlikely to get one until the French Parliament
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  • 17 1 WASHINGTON, Thurs. Mr. Solomon R. Guggenheim, multi-millionaire mining magnate, died here last night, aged 88.— Reuter.
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  • 163 2 LONDON, Thursday. "J.\ the most emphatic and unequivocal terms, the Lord Chancellor on Tuesday reaffirmed that the judiciary in the British Colonies are in every respect as independent of the executive as they are in this country,*' states the Daily Telegraph, in
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  • 102 2 CHESTER, Thurs. A BRITISH bishop says girls should tell sex temptations to "go to hell." The Rt. Rev. Walter Carey, preaching to women's moral welfare workers in Chester Cathedral said: "We seem to have talked about sex until it has become a common and
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  • 33 2 HONG KONG, Thurs. Mr. W. V. Pennell. editor of the Peking and Tientsin Times until the Japanese took over in 1941, has been appointed managing editor of the Chin? MaiL— Reuter.
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    27 2 A STRAPLESS gown in turquois brocade covered in black Venetian lace, suitable for cocktj.il or evening wear. It is railed. "Remembrance of Venice." A P. picture
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  • 106 2 FAO VOTE FOR ASIA CO-OPS NEW DELHI, Thiirs. JHE Food and Agriculture Organisation conf ore ict at Lucknow has closed after the almost unanimous adoption of resolutions designed to speed the growth of coc rativ( i throughout Asia. Mr. R. B. Surrldge for the United Kingdom abstained on four of
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  • 46 2 CONSCRIPTION— OF EDUCATED— IN INDIA MADRAS. Thursday. INDIA plans to conscript all educated persons for a 1 perid of six months to be served in teaching the illiterate to read. India's Education Minister. Maiilana Ahul Kalam Azad. told UNESCO's session on Rural M"H Muration yesterday A.P.
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    • 269 2 COPENHAGEN, Thursday. A DANISH expedition is expected to set out next year on a two-year world cruise to probe hitherto unexplored ocean depths in a search for sea monsters and other creatures unknown to man. It will employ special fish hi apparatus going down to
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    • 427 2 SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY TENDERS (tor particulars tee Tender Room, Ground Floor, Municipal Office) HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Supply of <a) AnU-Malarlal Mixture and (b) Sub-Soil Pipes foi 19S0 Particulars from Municipal H.'.'lth Office: Tenders In sealed covers marked as in (a) and <b> and addressed to the Municipal Secretary, should be deposited in
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    • 936 2 LONDON TIN CORPORATION LIMITED CHAIKM A VS SPEECH The Twenty-third Annual General Meeting of London Tin Corporation. Ltd., was held on October 31, at Hie Chartered Insurance Institute, Aldermanbury, London. E.C.3. MR. J. IVAN SPENS. Chairman of the corporation, who presided, said: The accounts for the year ended April SO.
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  • 778 3 Dutch Minister Says: "A Beautiful Future For Two People*" No Doubt About Ratification BATAVIA, Thursday. ENTHUSIASM tempered with caution was Republican reaction today to the agreement reached yesterday at The Hague round-table conference for a new sovereign United States of Indonesia. Indonesian Republican circles were enthu-'
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  • 93 3 BATAVIA, Than. CILENT group* last night fathered around radios in every club, cafe and hotel in Batavia listening to The Hague broadcast on Indonesia's independence. In a few kerbside cafes in the working class quarters, small groups of students sang the Indonesian national anthem and shouted
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  • 133 3 New Plans For Europe Discussed PARIS, Thurs. /■'RITICAL issues upon which the whole conception of United Europe may depend. nrp due to come up for decision when the Council of E'uroi>e's Committee of Ministers meets The most Important outstanding question is that of Western Germany's admisBlon to the Council of
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  • 43 3 RUNAWAY: This electric train ran up a short flight of steps In Brussels' Qnartier Leopold station after hitting the buffers and knocking over a high tension pylon. Ten people were injured and the station was badly damaged. A.P. picture.
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  • 208 3 MANILA, Thursday. THE toll of known dead in the All Saints Day typhoon hi the Central Philippines mounted to 57 tonight. The previous death toll was 26, of whom 10 were on the western portion of Negros Island and 15 on Cebu. Charges have been
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  • 106 3 Dr. LAUREL SAYS HE NEEDS GUN MANILA. Thurs. REPORTS from Bagulo today said Dr. Jose P. Laurel has refused to surrender to Constabulary officers a Thompson sub-machine gun he is said to be carrying on his campaign tour. Dr. Laurel was asked to surrender the weapon In accordance with President
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  • 55 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs. fhe Civil Aeronatlcs Board has appointed a panel of aviation experts to fix the blame for the worst airliner crash In history. Eric Rios Bidoux. Bolivian pilot involved in the crash, suffered a serious setback about 10 p-m. last night and for a time doctors
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    54 3 VIOLINIST GINKTTK NEV EU (left), her brother J. P.' Nerem, and Marcel Cerdan seen In the Orly Airfield bar hi Paris, before the three boarded an Air France airliner which crashed a few hours later while preparing to i»i»d hi the Axores. All three were amonjr the 48 ptmtnttn and
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  • 244 3 UNDERSTANDING TO END GAP From Oar On Cm imp ■■<>■! LONDON, Thurs. THE Financial Times today comments on the speech by Sir John Hay In which he pointed out that whereas before the wai 90,000 tons of rubber were exchanged for *****0 bales of American cotton, now the same quantity
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  • 176 3 Mao Reds May Join Jap Peace Talks LONDON, Thurs. BRITAIN favours inviting the Soviet Union and the new Chinese Communist Government —when it is recognised— to participate in writing a peace treaty for Japan, British Informants said yesterday. However, Britain Is ready to go on with a peace conference without
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  • 59 3 NEW DELHI, Thurs. The Indian Parliament will consider, at its winter session this month, a bill to permit redistribution of the Invest- ments of insurance companies on a "more liberal basis." To safeguard the Interests of policy holders, however, the scope of Investment out- 1 side
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  • 66 3 TOKYO, Thurs. The proceeds from a book written by children who survived the atom bomb explosion at Nagasaki have been used to erect a monument to children who were victims of the atom bomb at Nagasaki. The unveiling ceremony was held this morning. The book.
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  • 107 3 LONDON, Thursday. 'THE sterling area and Japan are near agreement 1 on terms of a one-year trade pact worth about £35,000,000. Official sources said last night that they expect signature of the agreement "within days."One of Its most important provisions was said to be the elimination
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  • 144 3 LONDON. Than. AaUtansnt on whether Malaya la to have lte own representative on the International Robber Study Group la to be made in the Federal Legislate Council on Nov. 15, Mr. Arthur Creech Jones told Parliament. Mr. Kenneth Plckthorn, Conservative, had asked the Secretary of State
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  • 42 3 VATICAN CIT? ThUTS. Cardinal Pranoesco Marniaggj, 73-year-old Prefect of the Congregational Council, died today reducing ttie number of cardinals to 54. The Pope Is aipected next month to restore the College of Cardinals to its full strength or 70. R«uter.
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  • 275 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. OEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD Syed Adam E. Hogan-Shaidali, son of Syed and Mrs. Shaidali of Ipoh, has been selected as Malaya's student "ambassador" to the New York Herald-Tribune Forum due to be held in the United States
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  • 75 4 From Our Malay Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. THE management of a Joget modern company in Kuala Lumpur's Bukit Bintang Park has banned children below 11 years of ace from dancing nche Maidin Shah, the in inager. said that in view of the popularity of Joget
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  • 136 4 I 10m Our Malay Correspondent PARENTS who cannot provide a living allowance of at least $70 a montn should not consider sending their sons to Egypt to study Raja Haji Nordin, Negri Sembilan Inspector of Malay Schools, told Utusan Melayu. He has just returned from a
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  • 51 4 The Eighth Police Magistrate. Mr. P. Claque, yesterday fined Teo Kirn Hlong. a trisha rider, $15 for riding his trisha In a disorderly and careless manner. The prosecution said that Teo Just missed the tall of a car and swerved Into a motor cyclist behind the
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  • 74 4 SUPERSTITIOUS fear that bead-hunters are stalking O their prey in Singapore is keeping many Malay women indoors, says the newspaper. Utusan Melayn. Existence of the rumour Is confirmed by the C.I.D. Deputy -Commissioner, Mr. D. K. Broadhurst. The innocent exp' nation of the grisly rumour is to
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  • 181 4 JHE kampong folk In Kelantan who are contributing their few odd cents to the University of Malaya Endowment Fund "look on the Univer?L y t s a/\a ln surance *°r their own children," said the Mentri Besar, Dato Nik Ahmad Kamil, in an interview over Radio
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  • 19 4 RAUB, Thurs.— Mr. Khoo Kirn Pak, Raub Assistant Inspector of Chinese Schools, has been transferred to Kuan tan.
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  • 147 4 From Oar Staff Correspondent PENANO, Thurs. INDIAN leaders are as sound as any leading statesmen In the world and Indians In Malaya should have "all confidence In them," the Executive Secretary of the ECAFE. Dr. P. S. Lokanathan, told members of the Indian Association m Penang last
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  • 77 4 SIX Royal Air Force Lancaster bombers of No. 210 Squadron are due In Singapore tomorrow afternoon. They are on a trainIng flight, which will take six weeks and will cover a total of 15,000 miles. It Is the squadron's first overseas exercise and the longest undertaken
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  • 66 4 Motor traffic along Connaught Drive was held up for about 15 minutes yesterday morning because of a rehearsal for Sunday's Remembrance Day service at the Singapore Cenotaph. As the rehearsal was only to last for 15 minutes the Police did not consider it necessary to notify
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  • 203 4 'Honesty Is NOT The Best Policy' SEAH Yee Cheng looked at the time, and Lily Tan rang the bell— so many times that many an impassioned and eloquent speech by their schoolmates los* the sting of their arguments in the annual debate of Si Andrew's School and St. Margaret's (C.
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  • 65 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.For driving a car without a licence and without a certificate of insurance. 31-year-old Low Kok Tal was today fined $100 or six weeks" Imprisonment In the Kuala Lumpur Second Magistrate's Court. He was also disqualified from driving for one year.
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  • 32 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KOTA BAHRU. Thurs.— A dance at the Residency in aid or university funds was attended by the Sultan, the Tungku Mahkota, and other State officials.
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  • 147 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday TiHE 52 families of Chinese squatters who are to be resettled in an area on the outskirts of Seremban executed bonds in Kluang detention camp today. The families are among those who were detained after security forces had
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    33 4 MR L. V. D'SOUZA, of the District Commandant, Royal Engineers Office. Ipoh, and Miss Zoe Elizabeth Merrells, who were married at St. John's Church, in Ipoh last Saturday. Modern Day picture.
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  • 52 4 Twenty-year-old Arumugam Selvaganapathv a peon employed at the Singapore General Hospital was yesterday sentenced In the Third Police Court to thrve months' rigorous Imprisonment for theft of $90. The money was stolen from a safe In the nurses' quarters, on Oct. 24. Selvaganapathy admitted one
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  • 173 5 As the troopship Orduna sailed into Singapore harbour yesterday, four young and excited girls leaned on the rails, eagerly looking at the green Island which will b€ their home for the next two yean or so. None of them had visited Singapore before. They had come
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  • 170 5 Egg Whites To Plaster Cathedral TAKe whites of an unlimited quantity of eggs, coarse sugar, and shell lime, -nix with water in which has brcn steeped husks of coconuts. Bp jfi the mixture on the inside walls and pillars of a tropical cathedral. After 90 years the plaster will still
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  • 263 5 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Thursday. A CHINESE engine driver on a mine was cycling In rx the village of Ampang on the outskirts of Ipoh \rsterday evening, when he met two Chinese in khaki. One of the men pulled out a revolver
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  • 126 5 MISSING SPECIALS FOUND cycle and ran without be From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. THREE special constables missing after Tuesday's ambush of special constables end labourers on their way to Chong Heng tin mine in the Bentong area of Pahang, have now turned up. One was found without his
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  • 86 5 Among the passengers who sailed for the United Kingdom In the liner Carthage yesterday la Mr. Andrew Gllmour, Singapore's Secretary for Economic Affairs. Mr. Ollmour Is going on six months' overseas leave, which he intends to spend In England. He will Join Mrs. OUmour, who is
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  • 47 5 Fran Our StaJf orrcsponAent 1POH. Thurs.— The Sultar. of Perak, attended by his ADO, Raja Amtr, today jtelU rd H.M.S. Xlert at Lumtit and had lunch" with the Flag OfF.eer, Malw»» Bear. Admlz&i C. Caalon. A salute of 17 gun* wai flrod by Alort
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  • 37 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs For evading customs duty on 21 wrist watches amounting to $94.50. Ouan Ah Sum was fined $700 today in the Police Court. The watches, valued at $630, were ordered to be confiscated
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  • 188 5 APPOINTMENT OF CEYLON AGENT BEING INVESTIGATED QUESTIONS concerning the establishment in Malaya of an official Ceylon Agent, and other matters relating to the citizenship rights of Ceylonese, have been investigated here by Mr. N. L. Jansz, Assistant-Secretary of the Ceylon Ministry of Defence and External Affairs during a two-day visit
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  • 52 5 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs. rV bandits ambushed five police constables who were on their way to inspect the reservoir at the 32nd mile, SegamaUMnar Road, Johorc, on Wednesday. One police constable was seriously injured. Eight suspects have been arrested by security forces In
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  • 23 5 KLUANQ. Thurs.— A cyclist. Chew Pun Xl was fined $3 In the Kluang Court for enterIng a street marked "No Entry*
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  • 95 5 T.W.C.A., 5. Raffle* Quay. Mabxy class for beginners, 9.15 ajn. and 5.15 pm* embroidery class. 3 p.m. OVERSEAS LEAGUE (Par East Branch), extraordinary general meeting, Adelphl Roof Garden. 5.15 p.m. GRAMOPHONE RECITAL, British Council gall, Stamford Road, 5.30 p.m. The programme will include Bach's Brandenbury Concertos, Vaughan Williams'
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  • 96 5 "1 MAN who treats bis employees like that b simply asking for trouble," said the Singapore Fourth Police Codfc magistrate, Mr. D. A. Fyfe, when he sentenced Ho Ah Chin to two weeks' imprisonment yesterday for criminal breach of trust involving 20 cups and 8 cans of
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  • 128 5 FISHERMEN BUILD 3MILE ROAD From Ov Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. piSHERMEN of three KeF lantan kampongs have built a road so that they can get their catches to market at Kota Bahru In 30 minutes Instead of three hours. The new road and a pontoon bridge acruss a river
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  • 63 5 From Our Staff Correspond.. lit KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Malayan-Chinese artist Mr. Mun Sen is to exhibit 100 paintings of Malayan scenes at an exhibition to be held in the Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall, Kuala Lumpur, on Monday and Tuesday next. This will be the third of a
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  • 63 5 DOLLS dressed In different M alay costumes are on exhfbln»t.)he 2 1 CoancU building Lumpur, where Siw e it are Ex u °P »*ta 8 held. The dolls were dressed th^?!t r t S de .2:J ri c of th General Manager of the Malayan Railway,
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  • 22 6 FFRENCH BEYTAUti: »uadenly on 26th October, in Dublin, Lionel Arthur late Commodore. 8.1.5. N. Co. LTD.. recently of Bombay ariJ Singapore.
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  • 61 6 THE WIDOW AND FAMILY cf the late Mr. Walter Felix de Souza of M. S. Ally Co., thank all those who attended his funeral and sent wreaths. Federation papers please copy. MR MRS. Chew Chin Hong thank all relatives, friends and well wishers for mesrages, valuable presents, assistance, and
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  • 901 6 Singapore, Fri., Nov. 4, 1949. Mr. Nehru In America Not only the Indian com- j munity but all sections of the c Malayan newspaper public have been following Mr. f Nehru's visit to the United f States with keen interest. M c is indeed an event which has t great
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  • 273 6 Under the heading 'The Rift In The Lute" our contemporary the Malaya Tribune yesterday published a leading article of unusual length, concocted according to a very simple recipe. A number of extracts from leading articles of the Straits Times and the Singapore Free Press were
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  • 1193 6  -  RICHARD DENMAN By of The Economist* LONDON, Oct. 25. QNE striking commentary on the "consequential measures" by Mr. Attlee to under-pin the devaluation of sterling is that they were preceded by a spending spree and followed by a Stock Exchange boom. In anticipation and Immediate
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  • 98 6 DATO Nanlng Abdullah, the Malay chief of Taboh Nanlng, In Malacca, was kidnapped by bandits on June 28. The Federation Police are offerine; a reward of $5,000 for information which might lead to the arrest of the caDtors. but this reward Is still unpaid up to now. The
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    • 685 6 A JUNIOR CLERK IT is gratifying to note that Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, our Colonial Secretary, is of the opinion that "every wageearner should be enabled to take a few days off each year and "spend them in Malayan hill resorts," and that "he
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  • 202 7 Revenue: $36,951,000— Expenditure: $38,890,000 Commissioners To Hold Special Session Today A SPECIAL meeting of the Singapore Municipal Commissioners to consider the budget for 1950 will be held this afternoon. The draft estimates give expenditure as $38,890,000 and revenue as $36,951,000— a deficit of $1,939,000. In the
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  • 185 7 DEATH FALL IN POLICE RAID A CHINESE fell to his death from the top floor .if a Pagoda Street house late last night while a police party was making a gambling raid. Twenty-six people, including seven women and a former police Inspector, were arrested by the police in the raid.
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  • 105 7 A $144,000 extension of water mains within the Singapore Rural Board area will be carried out In Jurong Road, Boon Lay Road. Buona Vista Road, Paya Lebar Crescent and Chua Chu Kang Road. The work has been approved by the Municipal Commissioners, subject to the Rural Board
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  • 23 7 The Director of Audit, Malaya has been appointed to audit the accounts of the Trustees of the Silver Jubilee Fund. Singapore.
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  • 67 7 Expenditure Salaries and wages M.MC.2M Cost of liTlng allowances $2,556,458 Expatriation allowances f *****39 Annual recurrent expenditure $*****,009 Special services $6,156,720 Special senlceis rrhabiHUUon 289.097 $38,890,377 Revenue From water, electricity and gas $19,552,000 From rates, taxes, fees. etc. $17,399,000 $36,951,000 The expenditure of $6,156,720 on
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  • 114 7 MALAYAN PINES FOR CANADA CANADA has agreed to allow the import of Malayan pineapples packed in slices In 16 ounce tins, thus opening an "Inexhaustible market" to the Malayan pineapple industry. Mr. Yap Pheng Oeck, chairman of the Malayan Pineapple Packers' Board, told the Straits Times yesterday that the Canadian
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  • 54 7 A 43-year-old Tamil, Sickander, pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of disorderly conduct, and was fined $1 for sleeping on the road at the junction of Scotts Road and Newton Circle. "I lost my way and feeling tired I just sat down and went to sleep,"
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  • 21 7 The Singapore Court of Criminal Appeal will sit in the Supreme Court Building at 10-30 a.m. on Nov. 17.
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  • 272 7 PVIDENCE on the character of 41 -year-old Bulchand Duhllanomal Vaswanl of Colombo Court, who is charged In the Second District Court with possession or alternatively, with Importing 15 pounds 91 opium, was yesterday given by Mr. Dwarkadas Topandas Assomull, president of the Singapore Sindhi Merchants
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  • 51 7 Three candidates have passed in the final examinations of the University of London held in Singapore in June this year. They are- N A. Vanniaslngam, B.A. Honours in English (third class)Hon Yung Sen, B.Sc. Special in Physics (second class); and Llm Chin Kuan, B.Sc. Special in Chemistry (second
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  • 200 7 DOWERS of search, seizure and destruction of 1 subversive documents are given to police officers above the rank of sub-inspectors by an amendment to the Emergency Regulations published by the Singapore Government yesterday. Under the amendment, any police officer of or above the rank of
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  • 60 7 FT was a ghost who drove 1 me," a 27-year-old woman. Chan Hen; Wan of Beach Road, told the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday, in pleading not guilty to a charge of attempted suicide. It was stated that Chan took eight tablets of morphia. Bail was
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  • 63 7 THE Australian and New Zealand Association In Singapore will send a Singapore Malay to Australia for three or four months on a vocational training course next year. Canon R. K. S. Adams, president of the association, said yesterday, "We have a definite man in view but details
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  • 66 7 The full moon day celebration will be held at the Sinhala Buddhist Temple. 263, Outram Road, Singapore on Saturday by Mr. Gilbert Alwls In memory of Mr. Jeeris Alwls. All are Invited. 6 a.m. Holfctlng the Buddhist Flag; 6.30 Observing the Eight Precepts 7 Buddha Puja; 11
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  • 33 7 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— Convicted on a charge of dealing In second-hand gunny sacks without a licence, Tan Lian, of Kulal, was today fined $70 in the Police Court.
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  • 18 7 Family remittances to China in October were $47,223.43 from Singapore and $73,331.49 from the Federation.
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  • 197 7 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs. T\ATO Onn bin Ja'afar today confirmed his decision to resign from his post as Mentrl Besar and devote his tlm« to the United Malays National Organisation. Dato Onn was speaking at a rally at the Pontlan branch ■f UMNO,
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  • 370 7 UNREASONABLENESS TOPS THE LIST THE faults and failings of men "unreasonableness" is at the top of the list were the subject of a sparkling 20-minute talk by Mrs. H. B. Amstutz at an Inner Wheel luncheon in Singapore yesterday. Mrs. Amstutz
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  • 79 7 HPHERE are fewer people X seeking jobs through the Singapore Labour Department's Employment Exchange now than there were in August or September. From August when 1.661 men. women and children registered for work, the total has dropped to 1,555 in September and to 1,332 last month.
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  • 41 7 The second formation of Tempests of the No. 33 Squadron, which left Changl yesterday morning on a training flight to Hong Kong, arrived at Saigon at 3 p.m. local time yesterday after a break at Butterworth for refuelling.
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  • 37 7 A man who allegedly stole two bicycles valued at $205 from the compound of the V.M.C.A. In 1947 was charged with theft In the Third Police Court yesterday. The case was postponed to Nov. 23.
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  • 35 7 A Chinese Communist was detained In SingaDore last night under the Emergency Regulations. He had about 600 copies of Commun'st Damphlets in his possess/ p when he was taken In by the police.
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  • 28 7 Dato Onn bin Ja'afar will broadcast the second of his two talks on "How the Ped'-ral Constitution Works," from Radio Malaya at 8 p.m. to night.
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    51 7 fONTINGENTS of the v R.A.F., the Royal Navy and the W.R.A.C. (Women's Royal Army Corps) arrived in Singapore yesterday from England, aboard the troooship. Orunda. Also aboard the ship were a handful of civilians, wives and children of Service personnel. Picture shows some of the W.R.A.C.'s on their arrival.—Straits Times
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  • 80 7 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. DEFORE Ungku Ismail in the Police Court today, Nasir bin Hajl Abubakar was charged that he, "being a public servant, namely, magistrate. Johore Bahru," acceDted a bribe of $50. On claiming trial, Naslr was allowed bail in $1,000 pending trial. Later,
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  • 244 7 Poppies On The Streets Today ABOUT 300 women were due to leave their homes early this morning to sell poppies in aid of the Earl Haig Fund. This voluntary work will take them to all districts of Singapore. Voluntary workers will be busy all day today and again tomorrow morning
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  • 53 7 A POSTPONEMENT— IF IT POURS REMEMBRANCE Day Service at the Cenotaph on IV Sunday morning may be postponed a week if heavy rain falls, it was officially announced yesterday. The ceremony is scheduled to be held at 7.30 a.m. on Sunday. It will not be postponed if there is only
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  • 246 8 EIGHTEEN polling booths have been set up ready for the elections to the six Singapore Municipal seats due to fall vacant next month. The Public Relations Department has designed 24 new voting symbols. Some of these are: A lion, a teapot, a radio
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  • 348 8 VARSITY SCHOLARS NAMED Fionr, Out Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Thur*. riERAL Scholarship holdera for Raffles College (University of Malaya) and Bursary holders for the King Edward VII College of Medicine have been announced in Kuala Lumpur. Federal scholarships have been awarded to the following: I P. Subramaniam, Ipob A114I0Chinese School
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  • 22 8 From Our Own Correspondent RAUB, Thurs.— The next Pahang Supreme Court Assizes will be held in Rcub on Nov. 14.
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  • 35 8 From Our Own Correspondent TELUK ANSON, Thurs.— A middle-aged Chinese woman cyclist was knocked down in Batak Rablt Road, hi a collision with a Town Board lorry She died later In the hospital.
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  • 246 8 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Thursday. SEVERAL hundred members of the Negri Sembllan Plantation Workers' Union have complained that their rates per pound of latex brought In have been reduced since May this year and have not been restored. This, they say, is despite the
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  • 103 8 rpHE last two parts of the 1 Royal Asiatic Society Journal for 1949 are now being distributed. Part Three Ls devoted to Trengganu and Includes a history of the State by Mr. M- C. ff Sheppard. an account of the weaving Industry by Mr. A. H. Hill,
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    51 8 P AN- AMERICAN Airways rtrea cocktail party hi Singapore, on Wednesday night to mark the re-entry Into the Colony of a reralar F.A.A. service. Seen here are American air hostess Miss Peggy Gillespie and Mr. Joe Salerno, a flight engineer member of the DC/4 "Clipper" crew. —Straits Times
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  • 141 8 npHE Singapore Municipal Services Union has pro1 posed to the Municipal Commissioners that in staff examinations, length of service should be considered. I The union asks that "due consideration" should be given to officers aged 35 and over and who were in Municipal service before
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  • 197 8 U.N.O. 's 'VITAL STAKE' mm Oar Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Thuw. THE United Nations hu a vital stake in the perpetuation of democracy because a government based on the will of the people will find it difficult to go to war, Mr. Tan Slew Sin, Publicity Chief of the Malayan Chinese
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  • 221 8 Rice Prospects Good, If Weather Holds From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Thurs. pAUTIOUSLY optimistic reports on Malaya's rice crop are made by Federal Agricultural Department field officers who add, however, that the promising results indicated can only be obtained with continued good weather. Last year drought* in the main
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  • 71 8 From Our Own Correspondent TELUK ANSON, Thurs. Partial figures for the Lower Perak University Week collections have Just been released. Sales of Brier Coupons through the Lady Superior of the Teluk Anson Convent School brought in ttie .sum of $372. The other figures Included: Fancy Dress Hockey
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  • 61 8 A RECORD shipment of 20,000 parcels In 3,485 bags left Singapore yesterday for the United Kingdom on the Carthage. This brings the total num- her of Christmas bags dispatched to Britain In the past fortnight to 4.485 Last year's total was 3,000
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  • 51 8 From Oar Owk Correspondent SEGAMAT, Thurs.— For an offence alleged to have been committed over four months ago, car driver Tan Ng Neong was summoned before the Segamat Magistrate yesterday on a charge of having used his private car as a taxL Hearing was adjourned for two
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  • 34 8 From Oar Own CtT«a«a<eßt MALACCA, Thurs.— Mr. J. L. Chambers Is now chairman of the Malacca Central District Boy Scouts' Association In place of Mr. R. Gibson, who has left on transfer.
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  • 64 8 From Our SUIT Carretpondemt PENANG. Than. r control large crowds, Sw. en ham Pier police were on guard in the Penan? harbour area today when the Rajula arrived with 1,604 passengers from India. A total of 1,25* disembarked In Penan*, while the others are bound for
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  • 31 8 From Oar Own Correspondent 8EGAMAT, Thurs.— Caught selling ice-cream at Labis without a Town Board licence, 46-year-old Tan Moh Gee was fined $8 by the Segamat Circuit Magistrate.
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    • 94 8 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD ijmKmt? CROSSWORD No. 229 m tte tvuk a w§! 'miwi** n n n 9 r 20. Kli«««totk«l iteipt CD. I K*^?* •*JJ^3.*^» B8I M BS '^1 Ji Sway wliAabOttCth. t«it t Bub«5rpS3it«d tt» on. ol ffl^LJ W BB LJ 1 LJ mtm^« J» mm**'*^ «t lugjitocj or«»tuf«
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  • 881 9  -  HUGH LAMING Here are some remarkable facts from a Reuter correspondent in Batavia on how ancient beliefs and fears are preventing women from winning their rightful places in the world. By BATAVIA, (By Air Mail). chant occult incantations to weaken women's education and emancipation
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  • 756 9  -  By J.K. GWINNELL, president of the Ex-Service Association, ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep though poppies grow In Flanders' fields." npHAT was the origin of the first Poppy Day, which was held on November 11, 1921, and rafsed £106,000. The late Field-Marshal
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  • 365 9 South "bid his head off" In today's d al, but the opponents were very kind to him I West dealer. Both sides vulnerable. HORTH tin f w», *"s" s *ffr »<JIO 111 a 3 CUIt •A• 1 9 tit ti East-West 60 on score. The bidding: W«t
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  • 303 10 Joe Young —by The Times MR. Joseph Young of Africa, whose green eyes winked a u Singapore only a few weeks ago, has now arrived in London's West End and has changed his description en route. For Singapore his name and address alone sufficed. Londoners are being Invited to see
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  • 123 10 Hollywood, (By Air Mail) ACTING in cowboy parts In n rugged desert and mountain locations is Just about the most hazardous role a cinema player can undertake. They often suffer broken bones, and occasionally a life is lost. Here is an example: Houseley Stevenson was
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  • 393 10 I WAS sitting entranced by "La Traviata" the other day when, to my horror, a man in front began whistling the tune being sung on the screen. His girl friend was obviously terribly impressed that he knew some opera, and even more impressed when I told him to
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  • 695 10 HERE'S a mystery for you. The mystery of a film hailed in other parts of the world as a Walt Disney masterpiece, and yet which lasted in Singapore for precisely two days. So Dear To My Heart, described as lovely, enduring, and even great by
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  • 263 10 Fox hunters hold up new film LONDON, Thurs. qtwo film producers A charged this week that British fox hunters will not let them complete a fox hunting picture because they think it is anti-fox hunting. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, leading British film producers, said they were unable to rent,
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    • 88 10 SINGAPORE 10.00 News from Kuala Lumpur; 10.05 Close; 11 JO Radio Orchestra; 12.00 Programmes In Malay; 1.00 Half hour of music; 1.30 Time Signal News (also at 7 9.30); 2.00 Close; 8.00 Programme Summary; 0.02 Light music; 6.40 New Dance Music Recordings; 7.10 Singapore Share Market Report: 7.30 Round-up on
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    • 100 10 English Programme (As S'pore); 2.00 Close 6.00 Station Opening; 6.02 The Radio Orchestra; 0.40 Dance "Music; 7.10 Colonial Secretary, Singapore talks on the Music Festival; 7.15 Share Market Report; 7.17 Tempo Time; Report; 7.30 The Music of Percy Faith: 8.00 How the Constitution Works; 8.30 The Malayan Police Band; 9.00
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    • 93 10 Lignt Music; 8.15 Thai; 8.45 Dutch; 9.00 Kuoyu; 9 JO Burmese: t.45 English; 9.50 Mttsic; 10.00 Radio News Reel; 10.15 "London Dances to...."; 10.45 "Timer"' by Jolin Galsworthy; 11.10 Music; 11.15 "World Affairs"; 11.30 Ne*s; 11.45 Light Music; 12.00 Close. AUSTRALIA 6.00 BBC Light Entertainment Show; 6.30 Australian Overseas News
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    • 178 11 Currency Rates In Force /CURRENCY rates now In 1/ force are as follows: Fre« market: currencies: Best TT/OX>. telling rates quoted by members of tbe M*Uy*n Kxch ange Banks Aasn. are: liondoo a/3, 7/8, IndJa. Ceylon and Burma 154%; Pakistan 107 H: Hong Kong. S4; Australia. 2/WK; New Zealand. Belt
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    • 68 11 BANGKOK, Thurs. The Siamese Premier. Field Marshal Phitaun Songkhram told the Siamese Senate yesterday that Britain would not be prepared to grant a loan to Slam until 1951. He added that the exFinance Minister, Prince Vivadhanachaiyan, when in Washington recently, found the World Bank
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    • 19 11 T^HE tin ore output of Kinta x Kellas Tin Dredging Co. Ltd. for October was 250.74 plculs.
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    • 127 11 By A Market Correspondent THE share market yesterday saw an easing up in the industrials section. The tin share market, though dull, was a little steadier in spots. INDUSTRIALS Bayer* geileri Fraser Neeve Ord. 3.45 3.52' 2 Gammon 3 40 2 45 W. Hammer 37.50 38.00
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    • 121 11 NEW YORK, Thurs. THE New York stock market found new strenK'h yesterday as optimism continued to be expressed over the chances of an early peace un the labour front. Prices went to liberally distributed Rains ranging to a dollar or so during the morning, with activity on
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    • 208 11 WASHINGTON, Thurs. UNITED States manufacturers used 75,503 long tons of new rubber In September compared with 79,716 tons In August, according to a preliminary report by the Commerce Department. The September total was 18.9 percent below the 90,842 tons consumed in September 1948. The drop
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    • 80 11 THE Rubber Study Group's advance information discloses tbe September world produr tion of natural rubber at 130,000 long tons, compared with 130,0<M in August, consumption was 115,000 compared with 110,000. Stocks at the end of September were 740,006, compared with 710,000 in August comprising producing areas 220,000,
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    • 201 11 THE rubber market was again steady yesterday, with prices showing slight advances on those prevailing the previous day. Gains were noticeable in the lower divisions. Closing prices yesterday were: No. 1 sheet f.o.b. buyers 44% cents, sellers 45 cents; spot loose, buyers 44% cents, sellers 45 cents
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    • 324 11 LONDON, Thins. A scattered firmness marked the start of the new account In the London Stock Exchange yesterday. Small buying of British Government stocks produced gains of up to three-eighths per cent. Following were the closing middle prices of selected stocks supplied to the Straits Tunes by special
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  • 558 12 DAVE SANDS MAY FIGHT HERE IN FEB. Last Night's Spore Talks Favourable Straits Times Staff Reporter jQAVE Sands, newly-crowned middleweight champion of the British Empire will be available for a fight in Singapore next February, against the triple champion of the Orient, Boy Brooks. Sands won the title after knocking
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  • 187 12 Singapore Teams To Meet The Tourists CINGAPORE Civilians have two soccer engagements for the week-end— which may well be their last important fixtures of the season. Tomorrow they oppose the touring Indian team at Jalan Besar. and on the following day they will meet Singapore's Combined Services In a match
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  • 84 12 In a friendly soccer natch between two Norwegian ships, the MS Castervill teat S S Hopevllle by cevrn goaU to one at Oeylang Stad'um on Wednesday. The winners' goals were srored by K. K. Sanne (2), D. Dniesen (2), Molan, Knut Hansen, and Berg. Yesterday at Parrer
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  • 67 12 NEW DELHI. Thurs: Twelve hockey players will -arrive by parachute" to commence a festival match, organised for the Intercommand sports Meet In New Delhi. Commencing Nov. 18, the 10-day meet will Include an elaborate programme of sports and athletic events, a RIAF Dakota will drop
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    26 12 GAMMEL, the Combined Team's goalkeeper, safely fields a high attempt by a Tourist forward in yesterday's match at Jalan Besar (see report below) Straits Times picture.
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  • 209 12 IPOH, Thurs. IN preparation for the selection of a Malayan weightllftlng team to participate In the Empire Games at New Zealand in February next year, a Pan-Malayan Trial will be held In Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, November 19. Entries are invited from all amateur athletes
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  • 462 12 i^Jian jurists 3; Combined XI 1 JHE Indian football tourists, excusably, took time on* from serious soccer when they met a Combined European Eurasian and Indian team of Singapore at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday and won by three goals to one. The Combined Singapore
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  • 56 12 ALEXANDRA Officers' TenaU Club will play Royal Army Education Corps at tennis tomorrow (Saturday) at 4.30 p.m Teams will be: Alexandra Tennis Club: Lt.Col. Pryce, Majors Greenwood, Rogers. Arnold and Howard, Captains Russell Smith, Prior and Lt. Colin g H.A.E.C.: Maj. Williams, Maj. Swell. Captains Roscoe, Matthias and
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  • 21 12 TODAY: 10.00 a.m. (Bft. 7im and 10.32 p.m. (Bft. 91n). TOMORROW: 10.25 a.m. (9ft) and 11.05 pjn. (Bft. 9in).
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    58 12 \V. SPOWART, 20-year-old West Australian jockey, who arrived m Singapore recently. Spowart is attached to trainer Jack Spencer's stable and will ride at the Singapore winter meeting which starts on Saturday, Not. 12. Among his many riding successes, Spowart's most recent was m the Champion Filly Stakes m Perth. Spowart's
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  • 50 12 Singapore Police proved far too good for the 8.0.D. Civilian Association in their friendly hockey match played at Thomson Road yesterday, swamping their opponents by 10 goals without reply. Three of the Police players, S. K. Sundram. Bovells and Hickman each scored three goals. Meta scored one.
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  • 33 12 LONDON, Thurs.— The Indian middleweight Mac Joachim scored a second-round knockout victory over Johnny Morgan of Wales in an eight-round bout at Caledonian Road Baths Hall, London last night.— Reuter.
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  • 235 12 WEST INDIAN STARS AND EMPIRE GAMES NEW ZEALAND, ThUTS. THE Empire Games organising committee is Investigating the possibility of bringing the brilliant West Indies athletes, Arthur Wint, Herb McKinley, Lps Laing and E. MacDonald Bailey to the Games here next February. The countries of these ath letes will not be
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  • 464 12 University 11; Asians "A" a CjHOWING more initiative amongst the threw and a better combination in the pack than in their last outing against St. Andrews, the University Rugby side deserved their 11—3 victory over Singapore Asians when they met at the Bukit Timah ground yesterday.
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  • 678 12  -  EPSOM JEEP By DA-LI and Game Law, two Class One "cracks" who have been out of the winning lists for some time, showed up very well in pace work at Bukit Timah yesterday morning when several of the 87 horses entered from Singapore stables
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  • 465 12 JE College Win A Hard Tussle SCHOOL RUGGER l OHORE English College J and St. Andrews School, Singapore, two of the strongest schoolboy rugger teams in the country, met at Woodsville yesterday. The Johore boys avenged their defeat last season, winning by six points (a try and a penalty) to
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  • 78 12 SOCCER: Navy y. K.IK Chang! (SAFA Cup 2nd round), J. Besar; T. Bahru Rangers y. RAF (Sel) Sgts.. Geylang Stadium; Indian R.C. v. P. PanJang Ltd.. Farrer Park. HOCKEY: S.C.C. 'A' v. REME Base Vi shops, padang; S.R.C. t. St. Andrew's School, padang: V.M.C.A. v. RAF SeleUr, YMCA
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