The Straits Times, 9 November 1949

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYAS LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1H45 TWELVE »»AGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1949. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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  • 771 1 Re-education Camp Opens Next Week From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. TAIPING Yuen— "Academy of Peace and Tranquility" will begin work next week. It is the first rehabilitation camp to re-educate detainees who have come under Communist influence. This lirst camp at Taiping has
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  • 188 1 MR. E. M. Hanlon. Queensland's Labour Premier, arrived in Singapore last night on his way to London for the Commonwealth sugar ("inference. In an exclusive interview with the* Straits Times soon alter he descended from the Qantas Constellation, from Sydney, Mr. Hanlon told the Straits Times
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  • 162 1 19 DIE IN POLLING DAY RIOTS MANILA. Tues. SPORADIC violence and bloodshed over widelyseparated areas marked the first presidential election today of the independent Philippines. By the time the polls closed. 19 were dead and 16 Injured. Forty municipalities were placed under constabulary control, but In gplte of precautions shootings
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  • 44 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. THREE bandits were killed in the Tenang area of Johore late yesterday. In the Mentakab area of Pahang. Gurkhas attacked a guarded bandit camp and destroyed it A large stoc'.. of equipment was recovered (Story in Page 8.)
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  • 65 1 SYDNEY, Tues. Dave' Sands, Australian triple boxIng champion, who is to fight In Singapore in February, suffered no injury except bruises at the base of the spine in his car accident yesterday. Tom Maguire. his manager, said Sands would have a month in which to recover
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  • 24 1 SOURABAYA, Tues. Six members of the guard of Tulangan sugar mill, with their weapons, were kidnapped by a gang last Saturday night.
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  • 280 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. SECURITY forces today began distribution of an appeal to North Johore terrorists, signed by 17 surrendered bandits, urging them to surrender and guaranteeing their safety and employment. One of the bandits who could not write put his
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  • Article, Illustration
    46 1 DR. HIDEKI YUKAMA, 42 year old Japanese scientist, who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for his contributions to atomic physics. It was the first time the prize had been awarded to a Japanese. He is now teaching at Columbia University, New York.— A. P. picture.
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  • 76 1 LONDON, Tues. fpilE King received a 21-gun X salute from the United States cruiser Columbus today when he visited the 958 offl- j cers and men of the flagship j of the United States Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Fleets at Portsmouth. The King inspected the ship,
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  • 39 1 LONDON. Tues.—Colomboborn Mr. H. T. Montague Bell, former Editor of the North China Dally News, founder of the China Year Book, and war correspondent for The Times in South Africa. has died at Reading, aged 75.— Reuter.
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  • 130 1 LONDON. Tues. Withlo an liour of his arPANDIT Jawaharlal Nehru t rival In London. Pandit Nehru arrived In London today was busy havlng a long talk In President Truman's plane. wltn nls Amb assador. Mr. V. The Indian Prime Minister K. Krishna Menon. has spent
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  • 15 1 HONG KONG. Tues.—Mahjong has been banned In Canton by the Red authorities.— Reuter.
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  • 111 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. THE question of a further contribution by the British Government towards helping the Federation in its present financial difficulties is now being discussed, it was stated in reply to a question at the Press conference given at
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  • 101 1 ALL persons, except holders of British passports, now require visas to enter Hong Kong, says a Singapore Government statement yesterday. The grant of a visa Is subject to the applicant satisfying the Passport Officer that accommodation has been arranged for him in Hong Kong. The statement adds
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  • 219 1 HONG KONG, Tuesday. A CHINESE Nationalist warship today cut across the bows of a second British merchantman and lav off the Yangtse River mouth barring the two ships' way to Hong Kong. Five miles away, outside territorial waters, the Britishjtrigate Alacrity kept watch.
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  • 284 1 MINISTERS TO TALK PEACE AT CANBERRA CANBERRA, Tuesday. A USTRALIA has invited Britain and New Zealand to confer in Canberra this week on South-Fast Asia and the possibility of "pushing on with a r> acttreaty for Japan." Announcing this today, Dr. Herbert Evatt, Australian Minister for External Affairs, said Britain
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  • 78 1 ABOUT 51.400 worth of tickets for Friday's sixth concert in the Singapore Festival of Mn%'c were booked at Ro'*i -> Vn yesterday. The Batavia Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, whose visit is sponsored by Straits Times and !\l'i» e Circle, in association with Radio Malaya, is to play
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  • 106 1 SEVERAL Singapore playc s had to scale the fences to enter Jalan Besar Stadium for yesterday's soccer match with the Indian tourists, because officials closed the gates to prevent a huge crowd from gate-crashing. Among the Singapore pliyers who almost missed the match were Boon Leong
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  • 233 2 NEW DELHI, Tuesday. SPECIAL watchmen, armed with rifles and spears are keeping a nightly vigil around the Indian town of Barabanki, where packs of killer hyenas have terrorised the area and eaten nearly 100 human babies in the last five months. The hyenas have become
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  • 60 2 NEW YORK, Tues.— Russia has completely drained Austria of its domestic gasoline production for sale to Australia, a National Broadcasting Company correspondent reported from Vienna yesterday. He said the Soviets are concentrating over 30,000 tons of gasoline at the German Baltic port of Stettin. It will be
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    • 191 2 LONDON, Tuesday. OEVEN London men have made a midnight date with Constantia, a woman so beautiful that once she was locked up to keep her beauty from men's eyes. Whether she will appear is doubtful. She leapt to death at Bruce Castle, Tottenham 300
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    • 609 2 NOTICES APPOINTMENT APPLICATIONS are Invited for H'liolntment as Assistant Overt if Mines in the Mines De*I 'ment, Federation of Malaya. candidates should be Federal l < </rns or eligible for Federal j hilt and between the agea i 18 and 23 years. The mini- Tii'im qualification necessary Is <":i'n bridge
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    • 397 2 NOTICES GOVERNMENT OF THE COLONY OF SINGAPORE The office of the Organizing Secretary for the United Nations Conferences has moved to the Colonial Secretariat and all relevant correspondence should be addressed accordingly J. A. H. GAUNLETT, Organizing Secretary For The United Nations Conferences MUNICIPALITY OF SINGAPORE Appointment of Committee Clerks
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    • 415 2 NOTICES H M. DOCKYARD, SINGAPORE Sal«- By Tender No 1S4/W. Tenders will be received »t tbe Office of the Superintending Naval Store Officer up to noon on Friday, 18th November. 1949, for the purchase of 34 lots of Machinery Item* comprising Petrol Driven Air Compressors, Petrol Engines, 230 volt Petrol
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    • 330 2 NOTICES CENTRAL ELECTRICITY BOARD Applications are invited for registration as contractors to U°.e Central Electricity Board, Federation of Malaya for civil works. 3. Contractors previously registered with the Electricity Department for civil w.ork are required to re-register with the Central I51ectr!city Board. S. Application forms and full particulars can be
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  • 317 3 'Big 393 9 Meeting In Paris WASHINGTON, Tuesday. WITH a personal send-off from President Truman, the UJS. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, left by plane last night for a meeting of the "big-three" Western Foreign Ministers in Paris. He will discuss with Mr. Ernest
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  • 66 3 ucnuin, lues. §OVIET fleet units on manoeuvres torpedoed and sank a German freighter in the Baltic Sea, according to the Americanlicensed newspaper, Der Abend. Eleven of the freighter's 15-man crew and two Russian officers perished, the newspaper said. The paper said that despite the presence of
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  • 168 3 RUBBER EXCHANGE STEADY From Om Own Correspondent LONDON, Tues. IMPROVED eastern advices and 1 lack of sellers caused a very steady undertone In the London Rubber Exchange yesterday. A prominent firm ">t dealers and shippers in Its review ascribes the definitely optimistic tone of the market to the following factors:
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  • 99 3 CALCUTTA, Tues.- -A puolic meeting of Pathans from the north-west frontier province of Pakistan yesterday passed a resolution drawing the jotice of the United Nations to "Inhuman behaviour and torture" Inflicted upon Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Dr. Khan Sahib. Ghaffar Khan, popularly known as the "frontier
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  • 49 3 NEW YORK, Tues.— Mr. Roy Henderson. United States Ambassador to India, will leave for India on Friday and will visit Manila, Saigon. Singapore and Bangkok on the way. He will meet the American diplomatic missions and consuls and reach India by Dec. I.— Reuter
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  • 27 3 TOKYO. Tues.— Japan Is to be represented at the fifth session of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation In Washington on Nov 21.— Reuter.
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  • 23 3 PARIS. Tues.—Eight people were killed and 45 injured when a lorry crashed Into an embankment near Pnom Penh, Cambodia.— Reuter.
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  • 196 3 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. f AKSHALL aid will be resumed immediately to Indonesia, the Economic Cooperation Administration announced yesterday. This results from "the successful conclusion of the round-table conference of the Netherlands and Indonesian delegations at The Hague." Recovery assistance to Indonesia was halted last December
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  • 25 3 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Tues.— Among •ecently appointed administrative cadets for service In Malaya Is Mr. K. W. J. Topley of Putney.
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  • 186 3 ROME, Tues. DOPE Pius XII, in an appa- rent blow against Com-munist-controlled courts has sternly warned that Catholic judges must never recognise unjust laws. He ruled that Catholic Judges bear grave responsibility for the application of laws contrary to Christian concepts. He also ruled that
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    37 3 AMETHYST RETURNS: LJeot Commander J. S. Kerans, DSO, who lead the 140-mile dash of th c British frigate Amethyst down the Tangtse under heavy fire, reunited with his wife after his ship sailed into Plymouth. AJP. picture.
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  • 111 3 JERUSALEM, Tues. 'J'HE United Nations economic survey group is now working on long range plans for economic development of the Middle East. Short term plans for relief work for Arab refugees was submitted this week to the Palestine Conciliation Commission at Lake Success and the
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    33 3 LOUIS ARMSTRONG, famous American jazz musician, is welcomed to Milan by the 'Roman New Orleans' Band. Armstrong is touring Europe with an American group of exponents of swing. AJ. picture.
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  • 297 3 LONDON, Tuesday. ORITAIN is planning to give full recognition to "the Chinese Communist regime "within a matter of weeks," diplomatic officials said in London yesterday. The Singapore conference of British representatives In South-East Asia unanimously supported a Foreign Office proposal to recognise the Mao Tse-tung government,
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  • 106 3 LONDON, Tues.— The Appeal Court in London yesterday dismissed -an application by Capt. Thomas Henderson for discharge from the prison to which he was sent on June 22 after the Indian Government had applied for his extradition to face fraud charges. At a previous hearing
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  • 68 3 NEW DELHI. Tues.— N. V. Oodse and H. D. Apte will not be granted clemency but will be hanged on Nov. 15 for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, a Home Ministry official said yesterday. He added that Godse's request that he be hanged at Poona. his
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  • 180 4 LAND DEALS: GOVERNMENT WILL WATCH CLOSELY THE Federation Government will watch the operation of the Dealings in Land (Occupation Period) Ordinance so that particular cases of hardship may be examined. The Ordinance, passed in August in Singapore and the Federation, recognises land transactions during the Japanese occupation as valid. The
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  • 147 4 PADRES ON DUTY IN JUNGLE From Our SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. BRITISH Army padres serving with the forces follow the troops Into the Jungle on operations, said the Deputy Assistant Chap-lain-General, for Malaya District, the Rev. Kenneth J Till In a Radio Malaya broadcast tonight. Sometimes they went Into
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  • 73 4 I nun Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. OVER 100 boys are learning a trade in the Junior Technical (Trade) school at Johore Bahru. Subjects taught include carpentry, bricklaying, tailoring, and motor mechanics which includes a certain amount of machine work, welding, tinsmith and blacksmith
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  • 43 4 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Tues. Three Malays Ali, Nordin, and Othman, who ■tole 70 coconuts were each fined $40 or 25 days' hard labour. The sum of $2.10 from the sale of the nuts was returned to the complainant.
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  • 102 4 Perlis Leads Wet Padi Cultivation From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. MALAYA'S wet padi cultivators have completed planting on 73 per cent of the total area available for this season's crop. Perlis cultivators lead with 99.5 per cent of their ne-lds planted up, while Negrl Sembllan padi planters come
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  • 14 4 The Singapore Y.W.C.A.'s Wednesday Morning Club will not meet this week.
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  • 40 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— Charged in the police court today with having been found at Plentong in possession of three bottles of dutiable samsu, Cheng Ah Huat was fined $52, in default three weeks' Imprisonment.
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  • 149 4 From Oar Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. rvONATIONS to the Unlver- slty of Malaya Fund have taken a definite upward surge here in the past week. Biggest donation of the week comes from Kluang where a Chinese who wishes to remain anonymous has made a gift
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  • 132 4 From Oar Malay Correspondent A YOUNG Malay clerk In the Singapore Government, Inche Abdul Rahman bin Hassan, has devised a Malay shorthand based on the Gregg system. A promotion campaign to publicise the system will be launched in January when a book on It is to
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  • 27 4 Thirty seven year old Karupaya of Buklt Timah Road was fined $5 In the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday for being drunk and disorderly.
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  • 141 4 ■TEN Communist flags and a few seditious docuL meats have been found in various parts of Singapore during the last fortnight, the C.I.D. Chief, Mr. D. K. Broadhurst, told the Straits Times yesterday. He believed the flags had been flown by some local people
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  • 12 4 Singapore C.I.D. yesterday arrested 10 Chinese alleged secret society members
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  • 71 4 HTHE first rehabilitation camp for detainees will be established at Taiping Race Course next week. The camp is nearing completion and will be named "Taiping Yuen" "Academy of Peace and Tranquility Picture shows Mr. Toh Eng Hoe, chairman of the Taiping Branch of the Malayan Chinese Association
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  • 81 4 rt only Australians In Malaya who will be allowed a vote In the Commonwealth elections on polling day, Dec. 10, will be those normally resident in Australia who are on the electoral roll. The people concerned will b» business men or tourists In Malaya at
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  • 329 4 'TIME GOVT. MAKES A NEW APPROACH' MALAYA'S TRADING PROBLEMS I T was time that there was a now approach to trading and industrial problems in Malaya and Borneo, Mr. H. K. Rodgers, who was a member of the Singapore delegation to the ECAFE Committee on Trade and Industry at the
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  • 108 4 *pHE Blue Funnel ship Gorgon, which Is on the Singapore Fremantle run, will be out of commissiou until early next yean because of a mechanical defect. As a result 70 children from the eastern States of Australia will not be able to get) a sea passage
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  • 70 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. /CONVICTED on a charge of \j kidnapping a girl under the age of 16 from the guardianship of her aunt, Samy was bound over in the sum of $400 to be of good behaviour for a year. The girl,
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  • 433 5 'Like Highway Hold-up' President Tells Commissioners Municipal Union's Strike Threat From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Tuesday. THE Penang Deputy Municipal President, Mr. H. G. Hammett, today described as tantamount to the highwayman's "Stand and deliver", the resolution on housing allowances passed last Saturday night by the Penang Municipal Services Union.
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  • 84 5 Fran Os» SUf Oarraspaadeat KUALA LUMTUII, Tues. -i FASCINATING expeAriment" was k»w the Undr r-SecreUry of State for the Colonies, Mr D. R. ReesWllliams, described the fishery scheme ia Penanc which he will inspect morrow.Mr. Rees-WilHams, who is chairman of the Colonial Research Council, said
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  • 134 5 Boat Crew Stole Tin Ingots AT the Singapore Assizes, Llm Guan Cheah, Ng Ek Choon. Ng Teng Van and Png Tlan Kar. crew members of a large motor-sampan, were convicted of theft of 58 tin ingots, valued at about $100,000, belonging to the Straits Trading Co. Sentence was postponed pending
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  • 116 5 Singapore police were today Investigating the death of 35-year-old Lee Kirn Teng, said to be from Penang, who was found unconscious and severely injured In a five-foot way in Singapore. Mr. Lee died in the General Hospital on Sunday evening without regaining consciousness after hovering between
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  • 174 5 VO farther quotas for export of jute goods from India will be issued for shipments to Singapore, the Federation of Malaya and Hong Kong. This was announced by the Trade Commissioner for the Government of India in Singapore, Mr. Jogindra Singh. The reason is
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  • 33 5 MALACCA, Tues. A subcommittee of the Malacca Welfare Committee headed by Captain All bin Maidln has been formed to study condltions in the slum area of Malacca, particularly the town area.
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  • 114 5 THE Singapore Municipal Commissioners are to spend $50,000 to provide proper roads and drainage for the squatter area behind the General Hospital known as Kampong Silat. Although there are many areas where sanitary ■»ndltlons are as bad as at Kampong Silat, which is entirely without drainage
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  • 61 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— One death through cerebrospinaJ fever was reported in the Federation during the week ending Oct. 29. Three cases of poliomyelitis and two cases of smallpox were also reported. There has been a decrease in the number of cases of scrub
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  • 100 5 V.M.C.A., Orchard Road, staff meeting, 9 ajn., art club, life model, 6 p.m., educational film show, 8 p.m. T.W.CJI, 5. Raffles Quay, Mandarin class, 9.30 ajn English conversational class, 330 pjn. T.W.CJV, Katong Seniors' monthly Uisine* meeting, St. HOda's School, 4 p.m. YOUTH LEADERS' TRAINING COIRSE, Social Welfare
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  • 38 5 THE ORGANISERS of the s ocial and dance head at the Selanger Chinese Recreation Club last Saturday. From left: Mr. Bok Hooi, Mrs. Gladys Loke Chua and Mr. Eu Enr Hock.— C.F. Larm picture.
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  • 98 5 From Our staff correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tue*. No Kirn spn.r ur«« »nt,.n G Kam beng was sentenced to six months' rlgorous imprisonment in the Kuala Lumpur First MagisJtrate'? Court today for con- travening an exclusion order j Pleading guilty to the issued against him under charge, Kg
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    52 5 MR. KENNETH BOSWELL and Miss Birnda Morirr after their marriage at the Church of the Holy Family, Katong, Singapore, recently. Mr. Boswell is the son of Mrs. L. J. Boswell and the late Mr. F. Y. Boswell and his bride Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Morier
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  • 137 5 from Ow StaaT Corresponateat PENANQ, Tues. DEFICIT of about $142,000 at the end of next year was indicated by the Deputy Municipal President, Mr. H. O. Hammett, today when he presented to the Commissioners "a gloomy picture" of Penang's municipal budget for 1950. "When we remember
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  • 26 6 THE FAMILY of tl"e late Mrs. Alexandria RosaUna Wilson of 2fi Oxford Road thank all those vitio attended her funeral, sent wreaths and gave masses.
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  • 64 6 A REQUIEM MASS will be run* at the Church of St. Joseph for the reno?e of the soul of Mrs. Aiernr^rlna Rosaltna Wilson on Friday, 11th November at 6 n 0 am A REQUIEM HIGH MASS for t»-e lnte Mr. W. F. D'Sousa will be held on Thursday,
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  • 21 6 SEARSON. To the memory 01 MomM i.Tlmmy) Searson murdered by bandits on Rasa Estate on OtY. November, 1948. A.S.T.
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  • 1016 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed., Nov. 9, 1949. Singapore Parties Another election campaign opened in Singapore yesterday, when 13 candidates were nominated for the six Municipal seats which will be filled by means of the democratic ballot-box on December 3. There are 27 Municipal Commissioners in this city, of whom
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  • 101 6 EVERY good act is a source of happiness, and Mr. C. F. J. Ess became a champion when he started his noble effort to improve the living conditions of the tenants in the S.I.T. houses at Kim Keat Road by asking that water and light be
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  • 2193 6  - U.K. ELECTION PROSPECTS AS I SEE THEM GEORGE BERNARD SHAW By \yHEN a Genera] Election approaches, all platform speeches, party programmes, leading articles, and letters from Prime Ministers to candidates may be written off as baits for vote fishing. We are so uneducated politically that, when we go to the
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    • 335 6 THE initiative and generosity of a group of music lovers in Singapore, with whom the Straits Times associated itself, has made possible the visit of the Batavia Radio Philharmonic Orchestra for the delight of the inhabitants of Singapore. Alas! Radio Malaya has shown
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    • 148 6 I HAVE read the article in the Nov. 5 edition of your paper, under the heading "Here's Richness," I can only say I wish we could have more like it, if not on music then on any one of the fine arts. However, there is
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    • 225 6 I HOPE your readers will not be misled by Mr. Duncan Robertson's quite good example of majority political party tactics in yesterday's Straits Times. He follows the usual Progressive line that Labour is ignorant and only capable of publicity stunts. He blames Mr. Pat Johnson
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  • 266 7 LAST NIGHT'S CONCERT BIG question at the third night of Singapore's Music Festival— to allow oneself to be carried away by the brilliant playing of Jacques Genty or to be carried out suffering from acute cramp. Jacques G~nty won. but only by sheer physical enduran<v on the part of the
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  • 450 7 NEARLY 4,000 boys and girls from Singapore's schools were introduced yesterday afternoon by the Director of Education, Mr. W. A. Frisby to Yvon Baarspul, "a most important man," and the musicians of the Radio Batavia Philharmonic Orchestra. Phe result: A big cross section of the
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  • 67 7 The Labour Party of Singapore will hold an election meeting at 5.30 p.m. today at the Railway Institute, Spooner Road. At this meeting, the Party's president, Mr. Francis Thomas, will introduce Mr. M. P. D. Nair, the Labour candidate for South Ward, to the voters in the district.
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  • 57 7 C. P. Michael, Attache to the Indian Government Representative's office, was fined $10 yesterday by the Singapore Police Magistrate, Mr. A. G. Shears, for obstructing an ambulance at the junction of Victoria Street and Middle Road. He was cautioned and discharged on an additional charge of using abusive
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  • 97 7 Krum Our Staff Corrcspondei.i KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. THE composition of the commission to investigate the set-up of the Malayan Police will be announced in the next two days. At the. last Federal Legislative Council matting, the High Commissioner, Sir Henry Gurney, announced that the
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  • 236 7 "THE unrequited love of a foolish youth, as the 1 Singapore Second Magistrate described him, and his pursuit of a New World waitress to Penang was related yesterday when Qua Keng Lian pleaded guilty to criminal breach of trust of $5,000. Mr.
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  • 62 7 THE Rotary Club of Singapore will give a Christmas party for 5,000 poor children at the New World Amusement Park on Dec. 16. To raise part of the expenses a children's cinema show will be riven at the Rex cinema on Dec. S at 9.30
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  • 31 7 Mr. H. 11. Beamish, of iladlo Malaya, will address the East-West Society and others on "The Art of Public Speaking" at the British Council Hall tomorrow at 8.30 p.m.
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  • 130 7 WALKING WILL BE EASIER THE Singapore Municipality is drawing up a tenyear programme for improving pavements throughout the Municipal area. The programme will be in two parts, one dealing with the centre of the city, and the other with the remaining: areas. In the business area, where there is more
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  • 103 7 Two members of the Singapore Stamp Club have been appointed to serve on a committee appointed by Government to adrise on the stamps of this Colony, Prof. D. E. C. Mekie. told the club's annual general meeting at the Capitol Restaurant yesterday. He commended the club
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  • 76 7 Ball of $1,000 was granted 37-year-old Fun Ming Chong of Lorong 3, Geylang Road in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday when he pleaded not guilty to a charge of assisting in the running of chap-ji-ki lottery It was alleged that Fung was found in
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  • 23 7 NAVAL BARRACKS The Governor, Sir Franklin Glmson, will open the Malayan Naval Force barracks at the Naval Base next Wednesdy at 11 a.m.
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  • 302 7 Police Plan For Intensified War On Terror From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. rpHE Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. David Rees-Williams, said at King's House today that he was far more optimistic about the emergency now that he had seen police plans than when he
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  • 69 7 The mobile rationing unit 01 the Singapore Government, which has been visiting Ulu Pandan, Holland Road, Padang Tebakar and Jalan Eunos in the last iwo days, fill visit Lim Chu Kang and Bukit Panjang today. Tomorrow the unit will visit Ponggol and Lorong Tal Seng. Villagers, who nr.«->d
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  • 263 7 Boy's Foot Crushed By Bus A 13-YEAR-OLD Mul.iy Doy, Awang bin Salamln, had his foot crushed when it was run over by a Traction Company bus at Bukit Tlmah Road yesterday. This was one of three accidents In Singapore yesterday. The other two involved a Chinese .voman who
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  • 319 8 Fram Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A GURKHA success in the bandit-infested Mentakab area of Pahang was reported today. Bandits put up a stiff fight when Gurkhas attacked their camp, but they were driven out with casualties, and the Gurkhas destroyed the camp.
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  • 27 8 From Our Own Correspondent KAJANG, Tues. The proDrietor of Chop Sang Lee Co. of Kajang. was fined $15 for blocking the flve-foot-way of his shop premises.
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  • 41 8 UNION STARTS A SCHOOL THE SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT Printing Office Employees Union has started a school for its members. The subjects taught are English, arithmetic, printing, and singing. Pupils include compositors, proof-readers, book-binders, peons, watch men and even labourers. Straits Times picture.
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  • 497 8 "SECRET PROFITS" ALLEGED A CLAIM for an account of alleged secret profits made by a salaries employee of a Singapore firm and a counter-claim by the employee for $6,100 as salary was heard in the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday. The plaintiffs are the Singapore branch
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  • 102 8 LONDON, Tuesday. THE Prime Minister, Mr. AtUee, said yesterday that "farther awards are contemplated (or gallantry and food service of police and armed forces fight in? the Malayan bandits. He was replying to a question from Mr. Walter Fletcher (Cons.) in the Honse of Commons. Mr.
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  • 128 8 Students Hostel: Call For Gifts AN appeal hag been made to clubs, Institutions and Individuals in Malaya to contribute towards a fund for the purchase of amenities for the Malayan Students' Hostel at 44, Bryanton Square, London. A Federal Government Press notice yesterday says that the Hostel has been opened
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  • 202 8 Fran Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK. Tues. SMUGGLERS in the South Slam province of Trans, ob the west coast, are sending an average of 500 tons of rice a month across the border Into Malaya. Describing these illegal trafflckings, a report by the Siamese Naval anti-smuggling authorities
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  • 22 8 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Tues. The Segamat Circuit Magistrate, Inche Abdul Rauf, dealt with 46 cases on Sunday.
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  • 1481 9 LONDON LETTER A THICK, THICK FOG IN LONDON From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 1. MOST citizens hereabouts have been puzzled 1 nl)out the way home the last two nights. This difficulty has had nothing to do with liquor. It has been precipitated by frost and a dead calm following
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  • 514 9 TIJ ANY interesting in- dividuals have been claiming our attention lately. Miss Beatrice Chase, the novelist, has started a personal purity campaign, with pamphlets entitled "Calling All Ladies," saying "I am ashamed of my sex. We are responsible for the state of affairs now." The Derby
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  • 559 10  -  CHARLES CROOT NO RED TAPE OR ROUTE MARCHES IN THIS ARMY By COPENHAGEN, (By Air Mail): army in which there are very few route marches, very little parade ground work and a minimum of red tape is being formed in Denmark. The civilian chief of
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  • 228 10 exhibits. Orders indicate a food overseas demand for the British mass produced family car of low horsepower, and a decided, if limited, market for high performance British sports cars. Frustrated as they are by a three year waiting list and the burden of Purchase Tax, it
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    • 221 10 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD AcaoM ji it, surrender was pelnted CROSSWORD Vo P^f> L-When lovetr woman by Rembnndt (5). 1 (Goldsmith) (6.J. 5). 23. Vocal nourish (7). 1 9. Deprive of courage (7). 24. Facade (7). > £—3 10. I can pot this li ordered 23. The largest portion (J, S.
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  • 362 11 LONDON, Tues. AFRESH fall in British Government stocks checked activity in other domestic issues in the London Stock Exchange yesterday. Following were the closias middle prices of selected stocks aa supplied to the Straits Times by special arrangement with tfce Financial Tim 1-5. (Unless otherwise marked hares are
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  • 795 11 By Our Market Correspondent Ijt/ITH London apparently not prepared to advance on recent bids for Un shares, the Malayan share market remained quietly steady yesterday. Industrials showed little changes though the undertone was Steady. Iper^kai.^ o/l in/3 Prices quoted by the Malty a Sbarebrokers' Association
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  • 198 11 RUBBER MARKET EASIER AFTER opening steadier yesterday morning, the Singapore rubber market eased during the afternoon on some profit-taking. Buyers were rather inclined to hold off. yesterday being a holiday in New York. Closing prices yesterday were: No. 1 sheet f .o.b. buyers 45% cents sellers 45 H cento: spot
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  • 188 11 From Our Market Cor. pOPRA in the Singapore v produce remained firm and steady on Continental inquiries yesterday. Continued strong demand kept the copra market active. The feeling that Indonesian pepper would not be available as the United States would be buying direct in future steadied the
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  • 913 12 TOURISTS BEAT COLONY BY ONLY GOAL 18,000 Watch Thrilling Game Indian Tourists 1; All-Singapore 0. SCORING an only goal in the 13th minute of the 3 second half, the Indian football tourists beat All Singapore at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday before i crowd of nearly 18,000 who managed to gain
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  • 199 12 LONDON. Tues. rpHERE are visible signs that Oxford University Rugby XV will bear comparison with the extremely successful combination of three seasons ago. In their first four matches this season none of the opposing teams managed to cross the Oxford line. They were strong opponents
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  • 59 12 RUGBY: S.C.C. v. G.H.Q., at Tanglin; R.A.F. Seletar v. 11. M.5. Terror, Seletar; R.4.F. Tengah v. Singapore Engineer*. Tengrah: Police v. Nee Soon, Thomson Road. HOCKEY: S.C.C. Women t. Comb. Services Women (Poppy Day Fund), padang; Ceylonese v. S.R.C.. padanf: Khalsa v. Indians, Khalsa ground. BADMINTON: Siamese players
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  • 242 12 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Tuesday. T«E Penang All Blue s Rugby team, which arrived in Bangkok on Sunday, bowed to defeat in their first game yesterday at the hands of the youthful Siamese University of Agriculture XV, winners of this year's Varsity League,
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  • 222 12 Victoria School To Make Tour SINGAPORE'S strongest hockey team, Victoria School, are making arrangements for a hockey tour of the Federation next month. Vicaorla School have an unbeaten record of inter-school matches. The hockey master. Mr. Thambyah. told the Straits Times yesterday that the boys are prepared to meet a
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  • 262 12 LONDON, Tues. £IX changes, one of them positional, have been made in England's team to play Ireland in the World Cup soccer international on Manchester City's ground on Nov. 16. A. Watson, Sunderland wing half and Yorkshire cricketer, comes in at righthalf for Wright, who
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  • 1173 12  -  EPSOM JEEP By FEW horses worked better than Ra-Li at Bukit Timah yesterday morning and, if the track turns up fast on Wednesday next, second day of the Singapore Autumn race meet which starts on Saturday, he looks a certain winner in the
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  • 279 12 DOY Brooks, triple champion of the Orient, told the Straits Times last night that he was "happy and thrilled" that Dave Sands, British Empire middleweight champion, is planning to fight him in Singapore next February. Brooks, who will be defending his middleweight crown against Som
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  • 104 12 HPHE first of the intra-Unlverstty 1 of Malaya matches was played yesterday at the Sepoy Lines when the North students (Penang. Perak and Kedah) beat the South by 14 points (a goal, two tries and a penalty goal) to three points (a try). Scores were a try
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  • 234 12 WORLD CUP Wales' Last Chance v. Scots Today GLASGOW, Tues. WALES, who meet Scotland at Hampden Park tomorrow, must win to have any cnance in the international soccer championship and a prospect of a trip to Brazil for the World Cup finals. Their hopes are not bright following the workmanlike
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  • 49 12 SKREMBAN, Tues. A RRANQEMENTS are complete for Thursday's matrh at the Seremban Station Fa^ana between the Indian Touring Tsani and the N.S. State XI while a p;o;ramme of entertainment lias been mapped out by the N.S. Indian community during the team's one-and-a-half days' stay here.
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