The Straits Times, 18 November 1949

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1949. PRICE TEN CENTS
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    U.K. GIVES ANOTHER £3,000,000
    371 1 Over Half Estimated Emergency Costs In 1950 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. BRITAIN'S contribution to the cost of the Federation's defence and security for next year will be £3,000,000. The Financial Secretary, Mr. W. D. Godsall, announced this amid applause at the Federal Legislative
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    KOREA AIR FORCE
    31 1 SEOUL, Thurs.—Maj. Gen. Russel Randall, former United States Air Attache to Moscow, stated today that South Korea should have a modern air force with reconnaissance and defensive units.—Reuter.
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    ATLANTIC SEARCH FOR U.S. PLANE
    174 1 ATL ANTIC SEARCH FOR U.S. PLANE HAMILTON, (Bermuda), Thursday. i UNITED States Air Force B-29 Superfortress, with 20 men aboard, went down in the Atlantic off Bermuda today and radar-equipped planes ranged the sea throughout the night in a search for survivors. The search was described by n :tarv officials
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    FINANCE EXPERT TO ADVISE JAPS
    43 1 TOKYO, Thurs— Mr. John Snyder, American Secretary of the Treasury. arrived here today by air for talks with Gen. Mac Arthur. Mr. Snyder told reporters he would advise on largescale measures for th« streamlining ol Japanese economy.- Reuter.
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    Planes Flee From Path Of Typhoon
    100 1 TOKIO, Thurs. WINDS of almost 145 miles an hour lashed the island of Guam this afternoon. Buildings on the American outpost were levelled. Communications with the Island have been cut all afternoon, though the weather wing here said it managed to get one "freak
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    Ships For Germans
    33 1 Ships LONDON. Thurs. The three-power Allied agreement to permit immediate construction of a German oceangoing merchant fleet with a limited number of fast cargo ships was signed in London today.—Reuter.
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    45 1 PRINCE CHARLES and bis mother. Princess Elizabeth photographed few days before his first birthday on Nov. 14. The Prince now weighs 2441 b., has cut six heeih. and can walk a few steps by holding on to the sides of his play pen. A.P. picture.
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    MALAVAN TIN MARKET OPENS AT $325 5/8
    187 1 MALA VAN TIN MARKET OPENS AT $325 5/8 From A Market Correspondent T*HE Singapore and Penang tin markets yesterday declared the first price for about eight years $325g a picul. It is understood that a comparatively small amount of metal changed hands On the London Metal Exchange yesterday the price
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    Hundreds Killed By Java Gang
    194 1 BATAVIA, Thursday. rHE Batavia daily Javabod* printed today a story from its Cheribon cor****-; nojfnt saying that the Darul Islam massacred hundreds of peasants west of Cheribon on Sunday nip Jit The paper says the massacre was a reprisal because 'he population, driven to desperation
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    38 1 WING COMMANDER D. H. Burnside, who succeeds Group Captain R. Grice as officer commanding RAF station Tengah. Singapore. Group Capt. Grice is returning to the United Kingdom on expiration of his overseas tour of duty. Straits Times picture.
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    34 1 THE FIRST Consul-General for the Philippines to be appointed to Batavia, Mr. V. 1,. Pastrana, is at present in Singapore. Mr. Pastrana will leave for Katavia in the next few days. Straits Times pictare.
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    JAP SALES UP
    20 1 TOKYO, Thurs. Sales abroad of Japanese textiles during September showed a 30 per cent. Jump over August.—A.P.
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    $50,000 GIFT TO VARSITY FUND
    30 1 HARRISONS and Crosfield (Malaya) Ltd., and associated companies hare donated $50,000 to the University of Malaya Endowment Fund. This contribution brings the total to $1,742,056.
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    GRENADE OUTRAGE AT PENANG
    114 1 From Our SUIT Correspondent PENANG, Thurs. TWO people, one a schoolboy, were wounded in a grenade outrage during a rainstorm in Penang tonight. The Incident took place In a Noordln Street shop soon after the occupants had flnl- shed their dinner. The schoolboy, 15-year-ola Cheah Beng
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    'BOMB ALL SHIPS IN FORMOSA STRAIT'
    159 1 'BOMB ALL SHIPS IN FORMOSA STRAIT' TOKYO, Thurs. THE Chinese Nationalists were reported today to have put the entire Strait of Formosa under aerial blockade. The United States' harbour master at Kobe said he had received this message, which originated with the American consul at Taipeh, Formosa: "The Chinese Air
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    Bevin For Ceylon
    73 1 LONDON, Thurs. •THE Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevln, plans to go to Ceylon for the forthcoming Commonwealth Foreign Ministers' conference, informed quarters said in London last night. Political quarters expect the conference to open early In January and to last for a week. They think it likely
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    AUSTRALIA AND SIAM
    56 1 CANBERRA, Thurs.—Australia will not exchange ministers with Siam until Siam meets claims for war damage by the United Kingdom, Australia, and other Empire countries. Canberra appointed a consular representative to Slam three years ago, but Siam will not send a consular representative because of "the Australian refusal
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    DINNER TO THE SHAH
    64 1 WASHINGTON, Thurs.— President Truman said last night that if Persia had not given the United States the opportunity to assist the Russians, the whole burden of the second world war would have eventually fallen on the United States. He was speaking at a dinner in honour
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    POLICE MISSION DUE NEXT WEEK
    46 1 LONDON. Thurs. The Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Creech Jones, told the House of Commons that the mission which is to investigate the organisation and administration of the Malayan police force Is expected to reach Malaya next week.— Reuter.
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    Colonial Plans Too Ambitious -Sir A. Ritchie
    528 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Thursday. THE view that Colonial Office schemes for the political development and social benefit of the people in eastern colonies are too ambitious and economically unsound is expressed by Sir Adam Ritchie, chairman of the Borneo Company. Sir
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    STRAITS TIMES PICTURES 1949
    88 1 HAVE you sent copies of Straits Times Pictures 1949 to your friends abroad? If orders are placed before the end of this month they can be despatched by the Willem Ruys and the books should arrive in Europe at Christmas-time. The publication is spllinsc out fast,
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    PRIEST SLAIN
    30 1 MANILA, Thurs.— A press report from Ilagan says that Father Jose Mides, 60-year-old Spanish chaplain ot the San Antonio tobacco farm, was murdered and robbed last night.— U.P.
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      594 2 NOTICE SINHALESE ASSOCIATION OF SINGAPORE A Orneral Meeting of the Sinhalese Association will be held t Victoria School, .Jalan Be^ar, it 10 a.m. (sharp) on the 20th Sunday. 1949, for ihc purpose of reorganising and electing of OfflceBcaren. All Sinhitlete are i-ordlally i.mied. Body Vigour Quickly Restored jk? Ik) row
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      353 2 NOTICES NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR HAULAGE PERMIT IN THE FEDERATION OF MALAYA 1, HO CHOON FATT. proprietor of TONO POH CO.. No 4 North Bridge Road Singapore. occupation merchant, do hereby give notice of intention to apply for a Haulage Permit to use a motor van 12 H.P. (BEDFORD loading
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      221 2 NOTICES DIESEL ENGINES FOR SALE FOR SALE Two 10-Cylinder Diesel Engines complete with spar" pumps, all tools, spare parts, oil filters and air reservoirs, as and where lying at H.M. Naval Base, Singapore. Offers to purchase should be made to: Messrs. LOUIS DREYFUS CO. LIMITED, NO. 3 DE SOUZA ST..
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    36 3 INDIAN DRESSES were exhibited at the Imperial Institute, London, recently. More than 100 models were shown. They belonged to the collection of Mrs. Nilima Barua, descendant of a princely family with estates in Assam. Reuter picture.
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    BEVIN TOLD: THINK OF MALAYA
    442 3 BEVIN TOLD: THINK OF MALAYA Effect Of Mao Recognition LONDON, Thursday. jy}R. Ernest Kevin, the Foreign Secretary, did not reply in the House of Commons yesterday when Mr. Leonard Gam mans (Cons.) suggested that, before there was any question of recognising the Chinese Communist Government without guarantees, he should "appreciate
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      Reluctant Bride Was Whisked From Altar
      381 3 MACLOS, (Philippines), Thursday. A YOUNG bride-to-be fainted before the altar of a Philippines church after telling the priest she would not marry an aged widower, choice of her parents. At the height of the resulting confusion, a jeep roared up, a smartly uniformed Philippines
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      CHURCHILL CALLS FOR POLL DATE
      134 3 LONDON, Thurs. WINSTON CHURCHILL yesterday invited the Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, to set a date for a test of the Government's socialist policies in a general election. The wartime Prime Minister and Conservative leader accepted the Government plan to delay nationalisation of the steel industry
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    $37 1/2 MILLION E.C.A. GRANT TO INDIES
    105 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs. THE Economic Co-operation Administration yesterday approved U5537,500,000 in new Marshall plan aid to Indonesia. Marshall plan aid to Indonesia was stopped last December after the Dutch launched their "police action" against the Republic of Indonesia. Last week, after the Dutch agreed
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    MALAYA "MUST MAKE THE BEST OF IT"
    278 3 LONDON, Thursday. ■'THE Manchester Guardian said in an editorial today that Malaya would "probably do better" by making the most of the present system of colonial representation on international bodies. The paper was discussing "an important question about the relation of Britain and
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    JAP BLIZZARD
    22 3 TOKYO. Thurs. 5—5 Fbui» Japanese coastal boats were reported sunk and 40 aft missing in winter's first blizzard off Hokkaido.—UP.
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    Mr. V. IS TOLD 'GO BACK AND TELL TRUTH'
    225 3 Mr. V. IS TOLD 'GO BACK AND TELL TRUTH' LAKE SUCCESS, Thurs. MR. Hector McNeil, British Minister of State, yesterday told Mr. Andrei Vyshinsky to return to Russia and explain to the Politburo why, in the worst days of Hitlerism, there never was such a world coalition of opinion ranged
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    ALL GROUNDED
    26 3 JOHANNESBURG, Thurs All South African air services, except between Bulawayo and Johannesburg and Capetown and Johannesburg, were at a standstill today through heavy rains.—Reuter.
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    TWO FEARS STOP HALF THE BANDITS FROM GIVING IN
    371 4 TWO FEARS STOP HALF THE BANDITS FROM GIVING IN Surrendered Man Tells Covt. From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. 22-YEAR-OLD surrendered bandit has told the police that half the men in the jungle want to surrender, but they are afraid of two things their leaders and the possibility that
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    31 4 THE THREE MEN who were captured by the police and leaders of a small kampong near the Pahang; River after the ketna kampong had set a trap for them. Pit. picture.
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    Man Kills Bandit And Saves Mine
    198 4 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Thursday. A CHINESE kepala (headman) who pretetided that he had been hit by bandit bullets not only saved the engine shed of a mine from being burned down but shot dead one of the bandits who attacked it I
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    A LITTLE COLOUR IN THEIR LIVES
    66 4 A COLOUR scheme for Singapore prisoners' clothes is put forward by the Prison Inquiry Commission. To give clearer differentiation between the various grades of offenders, it suggests that grade one prisoners should wear white shirts and vrhite trousers, grade two prisoners should have white
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    Java Talks On S'pore Trading
    113 4 Java Talks On S'pore Trading THE Deputy Representative of the Indonesian Republic in Singapore, Dr. Zain, will leave for Java next week, where he expects to discuss trade policy with his Government, with particular reference to Singapore's traditional position as the entrepot of this region. Meanwhile. Indonesian merchants in Singapore
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    Troops Slay 4 Gunmen In Pahang
    123 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. TURKHAS and Hussars *> killed four bandits, captured one and wounded one in Pahang yesterday. The Gurkhas killed a Malay, a Chinese and a Chinese woman and wounded another bandit who managed to get away when they
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    SARAWAK TRIP SUCCESSFUL
    58 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.Mr. J. Da vie, Johore State Veterinary Surgeon, has returned to Johore Bahru from a trip to Sarawak undertaken at the request of the Commissioner General, South-East Asia to investigate a suspected attack of glanders among ponies in Sarawak. His investigations
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    DEBTS: PLEA TO GOVT.
    78 4 From O_r SUIT Correspondent IPOH, Thurs. Following many letters on hardships as a result of the Debtors and Creditors Occupation Period Ordinance (Clause 4), the Perak Chinese Chamber of Commerce held a special meeting and decided to ask the Government for an amendment in respect of
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    PLEADS GUILTY
    49 4 From Our Own Correspondent TELUK ANSON, Thurs.— Kanniah was offered ball ot $150 in the Teluk Anson Magistrate's Court when he pleaded guilty to two charges of trespassing on Ratanui Estate on Nov. 11 and falling to produce his identity card. Sentence was postponed to Nov. 3.
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    TRAINING FOR PRISONERS
    68 4 A PLAN to extend Singapore prison industries so ihat prisoners can be trained in trade* to a standard acceptable to employers on release is outlined in the report of the Prison Inquiry Commission, issued on Wednesday. Saying that warders now in charge of workshops are in no
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    'S'PORE PEOPLE HATE US'-A JAP WOMAN
    89 4 TOKYO. Thurs. •pHE people of Singapore still have a feeling of deep hatred towards Japan, according to Mrs. Tomlko Kora, woman member of the Japanese Upper House, who recently passed through the Colony. In a letter to the Mulnichl newspaper Mrs. Kora said that
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    HAD NO PERMIT
    60 4 From Oar Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.— Ahmat bin Kassan, of Chu Chu Kang, Singapore, was fined $50 in the Johore Bahru Police Court for having no haulage permit for his lorry, which was found to be carrying 1,500 rubber plants from Singapore to Johore. He was
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    WHAT THE SVC HAS COST
    77 4 It is estimated that by the end of this year, the Singapore Volunteer Corps will have spent $165,656 on staff, equipment, clothing, weapons and ammunition since its revival last June. Special expenditure on the revival of the corps will amount to $90,000. This Is made
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    ADULTERATED
    22 4 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— For selling adulterated milk. S. Veerappen was fined $75 in the police court today.
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    Bevin Raps Wyatt For 'Puppet' Talk
    167 4 LONDON, Thursday. TN the House of Commons yesterday, the Foreign 1 Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, rebuked Mr. Woodrott Wyatt (Labour), for calling French policy in IndoChina reactionary. Mr. Wyatt asked what representations Mr. Bevin had received from the French Government requesting recognition by the
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    AGAIN ABSENT
    69 4 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs After being convicted two weeks ago on thrt- traffic charges, Ng Tiau Low, a lorry driver, failed to appear for the second time in the Johore Bahru Police Court to answer three other traffic charges. A further postponement was granted, the
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    'DISTASTEFUL LEGISLATION' Debate On Civil Liabilities Bill Is Postponed
    826 5 'DISTASTEFUL LEGISLATION' Debate On Civil Liabilities Bill Is Postponed From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. debate on the Civil Liabilities (Termination) Bill described by the Chief Secretary, Sir Alec Newboult, as "distasteful" legislation was today in the Federal Legislative Counci deferred until Nov. 28. The Bill seeks to put
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    'Too Much Rushing' In Council
    133 5 'Too Much Rushing' In Council From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. ADOPTION of the report of the select committee on the Control of Rent Bill was deferred until Nov. 28 by the Federal Legislative Council this morning. Tlie Attorney-General. Mr. S Foster Sutton, said he would not object to
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    'Keep Money In Colony'
    130 5 THE policy of the Singapore Rural Board in making Eurchases of rubber nightsoil uckets from a Kinta firm Instead of making use of locally manufactured ones was criticised yesterday at the Board's monthly meeting. The Board had decided to use $6,000, Intended to purchase three lorries
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    Singapore Diary
    62 5 YOI'TH LEADERS' TRAINING (OIRSK. Mr. K. H. Tan on "The Adolescent and Bk Needs," Social Welfare Department, 5.15 p.m. rOCWO PEOPLES PRAYER MEETING. Bethesda, Bras Basah T.M p.m. UIIK OK PRAYER AND WOKLD I niiHVSHII' OR. I\<;. V.M.C.A.. Orchard Road, 8 j«.n«. \.\V.(.\.. I. Raffles Quay, Malay nka,
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    OFFICIAL DACHINGS FOR MARKETS
    74 5 rpHE Singapore Rural Board decided yesterday to instil official dachings in rural nv.irlcets and wrote the decision into the Rural Board Market Bye-laws. The Board accepted Mr E. G.tlistun's suggestion for the dachings. to enable people making purchases from stall holders to check purchase weights. "It
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    NEW MILLIONDOLLAR FLATS
    90 5 A $1,500,000 block of flats Cnbove, an artist's impression) being built by the Netherlands Trading Service at Queen Astrid Park, is expected to be ready for occupation early next year. The building will have four floors two flats on a floor. Each flat will have a lounge,
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    BOARD IS ACCUSED OF SPITE
    155 5 THE Singapore Health Office was accused of being "spiteful and unmitlgating" towards rural itinerant hawkers by Mr. H. J. C. Kulasingha at yesterday's Rural Board meeting. He said that the Pasir Panjang Rural District Committee, of which was chairman, had received several complaints against the
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    WAITING FOR MASTER PLAN
    48 5 The Singapore Rural Board is waiting for a master plan to develop rural villages before new applications for the building of shophouses is considered. The Board turned down applications for the erection of shophouses outside existing villages In Muklm 28, 10th mile, Changl Road.
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    'Air Travel's No. Need Is Comfort'
    145 5 T<HE new Director of Civil Aviation in Malaya, Mr. x A. W. Savage, said yesterday that he did not think that Colonial ah- development needed speed. "It needs comfort and travel within the means of every man's pocket," he said. "Singapore is a key
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    ACQUITTED
    49 5 Sim Sal Chin, of Cheng Cheok Street. Singapore, who was charged with having assisted in the running of a chap-Ji-kl lottery was acquitted without her defence being called when the case was heard in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday. Mr. P. F. de Souza appeared for Sim.
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    HELD OVER
    35 5 The appeal of a Mai.iyalee, P. K. Nair, against a conviction on a charge of abetment of theft as a servant, was postponed until the next session of the Court of Criminal Appeal.
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    RURAL WATER TO COST MORE
    214 5 RURAL WATER TO COST MORE WATER rates for the Singapore Rural area are to be doubled next year, the Rural Board chairman, Mr. J. A. Harvey, announced at the Board's monthly meeting yesterday. Other rates will remain unchanged. The present water rat* is 2 per cent, of the general assessment,
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    Cadets Fly In Lancasters
    88 5 CADETS of the Malayan Air Training Corps have taken part in a number of flights by the squadron of Lancaster bombers which arrived in Singapore on Nov. 5 from England. The squadron has been on familiarisation training, including short flights over Singapore and the Federation. Shipping
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    NO ISLAND ABATTOIRS
    56 5 The Singapore Rural Board decided at its monthly meetIng yesterday that no licences would be issued for private slaughter-houses on outlyinp islands forming part of the Colony. Dr. O. H. Lowe, Chic' Health Officer, said no proper control of slaughtering pigcould be operated on the islands. The
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    Regiment Gets 750 New Men
    69 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Seven hundred and fifty recruits of the Malay Regiment will take part in a passing out parade at the Malay Regiment parade ground at Port Dickson on Sunday. The High Commissioner, Sir Henry Gurney, will take the salute.
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    BLOCKADE BLOW TO IMPORTERS
    76 5 Malayan trade with China has dropped by $2,000,000 because of the Nationalist blockade of Chinese ports, a leading Singapore importer told the Straits Times. Malayan merchants fear that stocks of some Chinese goods may not last another two months. Australian goods are being imported to replace
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    CARELESS: $15
    45 5 Warrant-Officer D. William pleaded guilty in the Singapore Traffic Court yesterday to careless driving and was fined $15. He said rhat although he misjudged the distance between himself and a bus with which he collided he "could have been further on the left."
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    DEATHS
    55 6 SUDDENLY on November 12th, r>n his return from Java, H. J. Ariamfl. late Nllal and Soebang, tvloved brother of Bertram William nnd Sir Ernest Adams, C.B.E. CAPE-ERIC L., suddenly at Salisbury. Wiltshire, on the 7th. Not., 1»49. Formerly of The Kiratts Trading Co., Singapore. Dearly loved brother of Isabel
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Fri. Nov. 18, 1949. Axe Plus Tax?
    977 6 ''The Organisation and Methods Officer is now at work, and as a result of his recommendations considerable savings will be effected," said the High Commissioner, in his annual address to the Federal Legislative Council on Tuesday. The Ch'ef Secretary
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    A PHILOSOPHER GOES TO MOSCOW
    1090 6  -  VINCENT SHEEAN By NEW YORK. AN appointment of rare interest has been made by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to the Indian Embassy in Moscow. Nehru has named, and Stalin accepted, Professor S. Radhakrishnan to be ambassador. The event will confront a leading idealist philosopher of the
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      REVIEW BOARD
      149 6 pOR the purpose of hearing appeals in income tax matters. Section 74 (1) of the Income Tax Ordinance, 1947, provides that there shall be a Board of Review. This Board is to consist of not more than 30 members who will be appointed from time to time by
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      A "neutral observer" on a Penang dispute
      379 6 AS a neutral observer, I have been following with great interest in your paper the present dispute between the Penang Municipal Commissioners and their junior employees on the question of housing allowances, and the period for which chese should be paid. Perhaps I
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      "BEATING OF RETREAT"
      142 6 QOME time ago an official reply was given that, owing to certain commitments, the "Beating of Retreat" was not possible. Tet, strangely enough, at the first day of the Singapore Races last Saturday, the Band of the Seaforths SO strong was present for the WHOLE afternoon. Leaving
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      SOME QUERIES ON THE NEW DRY DOCK
      143 6 SOME QUERIES ON THE NEW DRY DOCK fPHE information given in Mr. H. K. Rodgers' letter (which was pub-! jlished on Nov. 15) is an jye-opener to me. It is obvious that the Pani Malayan Committee which dealt with the allocation of j the grant from the ColoI nial Development
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      PROGRESSIVE OR LABOUR?
      91 6 MR. PAT JOHNSON (Labour) wants to know why Mr. D. Robertson (Progressive), who organised a trade union 20 years' ago and whose sympathies are with labour, has not left his party to join the Labour Party. Mr. Johnson seems to be under a misapprehension that the Labour
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    Religious Liberty In Asia
    337 6 GENEVA (By Air Mail):— The problem of safeguarding religious liberty in the countries of Asia and the challenge of Communism to evangelism will be among the major themes to be discussed at the forthcoming con ference of the En«>t Asian Churches. r O be held in
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    Phase One Of $7,000,000 Plan Starts In 1950 $1,476,000 FOR EXTRA SCHOOLS
    273 7 Phase One Of $7,000,000 Plan Starts In 1950 $1,476,000 FOR EXTRA SCHOOLS Step To Educate 50,000 More JHE Singapore Government will begin work next year on the first phase of a $7,380,000 Supplementary Education Plan, designed tc provide education for 50,000 school-age children who have no school to go to
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    GREAT DEMAND FOR ENTRY
    189 7 GREAT DEMAND FOR ENTRY SINGAPORE Government and Government-aided English boys' and girls' schools can admit about 2,300 pupils for next year—but the demand has been so great that almost all these places have already been filled. An official of the Education Department said yesterday that selection for the schools Depended
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    NEGLIGENCE
    54 7 "Fortunately for you the police constable was not serJously injured," said the Singapore Traffic Magistrate, Mr. P. Claque, yesterday, when he fined David bin Bedol $35 for negligent driving. Bedol admitted to knocking <iown a constable on duty in Mountbatten Road on the night of Sept 26. He had
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    FLYING BISHOP IN S'PORE
    149 7 FLYING BISHOP IN S'PORE THE Bishop of Chichester, the Rt. Rev. G. K. A. Bell, chairman of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, arrived in Singapore yesterday by Qantas Constellation. The Bishop said in an interview with the Straits Times last night that the World Council of
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    Boy Stole Mirror
    103 7 CENTENCE of six months' rigorous Imprisonment was passed in the Singapore First District Court yesterday on Chua Seah How aged 19, for stealing a mirror from a barber on the Str c"f t° Ot" Way ta Carpenter Low' Tee Eng, told the Court that when he went
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    MOROS IN S'PORE
    43 7 More than 350 Moro pilgrims arrived in Singapore yesterday in the Sandviken on their way back to the Philippines after completing their pilgrimage to Mecca Another pilgrim ship, the Chungching, Is expected on Sunday with 1.740 returning Moros from Jeddah
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    SPECIAL RULES-FOR JUST A FEW HOURS
    126 7 JO relieve congestion and facilitate traffic in Empress Place at the installation of Mr P. A. B. McKerron as Officer Administering the Government of Singapore on Monday, special traffic regulations will be enforced. Parking in Empress Place will not be allowed, and no vehicles
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    ARMS FINDS
    35 7 A Malay policeman found a rusty .38 automatic pistol at Johore Road. Singapore, yesterday afternoon. A European found a hand-grenade and five rounds of rifle ammunition at Bonna Vista Road in the mor
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    Luxury Planes For S'pore-Ceylon Run
    166 7 YEW Argonaut luxury passenger planes will be 11 used in the BOAC service between Singapore and Ceylon, flying once a week in each direction. A BOAC announcement from London says this service will be flown in conjunction with the Argonaut flights from the U.K. and
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    GUNNY SACKS CHARGE
    46 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. —Arrested yesterday as they were trying to export 220 gunny sacks by sampan at Sungel Dangar, Lai Sze Kiong and Tay Sze Chuan, were charged in the police court today with exporting prohibited goods. They pleaded guilty. Sentence was postponed.
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    To Stay In Prison
    95 7 THE Singapore Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday dismissed the appeal of Tahir bin Wok. an elderly Malay, who had been sentenced to three years' rigorous imprisonment for trafficking in and possession of counterfeit Java Bank currency notes. Tahir, who appeared in person, said that he had
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    WOMAN, 67, ON $1,000 BAIL
    54 7 A 67-year-old woman, Ang Ah Thin, of Joo Chiat Road was charged In the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday with having allowed her house to be used for immoral purposes. Ang, who pleaded not guilty was allowed ball of $1,000. The case was postponed to
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    M.R.N.V.R. Officers
    34 7 Commissions in the Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve have been granted to D. S. E. Evans as lieutenant, and S. Castles, I. N. M. Campbell and Abdul Hamld bin Sulalman as sub-lieuten-ants.
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    Gas Projects In S'pore
    75 7 rmeet the increased demands for gas in certain residential areas in Singapore, the Municipal Gas Department proposes to Introduce bigger mains In some places and extend the mains in others. This will involve an amendment of the approved 1949 main laying programme of the Department and
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    SLOW MAIL COMPLAINT
    72 7 At yesterday's Singapore Rural Board monthly meeting, Mr. H. J. C. Kulasingha complained against the postal delivery delay In rural areas. "Letters addressed to me sometimes reached me two or three days later' and there have been other cases when they don't reach us at all," he
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    The Man-With-The-Speech Was There Again
    142 7 The Man- With-The-Speech Was There Again 'FHE man-with-the-prepar- ed-speech was there again last night at the Geylang English School where the Labour Party was holding heir election meeting. len Mr. Llm Yew Hock, the •halrman, Invited speeches rom the audience, Mr. Ramachandra (the man-wlth-the-speech) stood up ma started to read
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    S'pore's Newest Church
    115 7 RATONG'S newest church, St. Hilda's, built at a cost oj $50,000 was consecrated by the Bishop of Singapore, the Right Rev. H. W. Baines, yesterday. The church, which has a seating accommodation for 200 and a choir of 40, was packed to capacity, among those present being
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    A Promise In 3 Languages
    187 7 A CANDIDATE for the Singapore Municipal elec- tions addressed his constituency yesterday ir three languages English, Chinese and Hindustani He was Mr. Mak Pakj Shee, "the Labour candidate for East Ward, who spoke at a meeting In the Oeylang English School. In three languages, he
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    ACQUISITION OF LAND
    63 7 TWO Singapore Municipal committees, dealing with the registration of vehicles and with finance, have agreed to apply to the Governor to make an order for the compulsory acquisition of a site In Bencoolen Street. The two committees have agreed that this site is required for extending the
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    IN BRIEFWoman Claims Stolen Brooch
    258 7 A FEW hours after the picture appeared in yesterday s Straits Times, a European woman got back her diamond brooch which was stolen from her in a Singapore Hotel. Police found the brooch a few days ago. and when no claim was made, allowed Straits
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    PROBATION PLAN FOR SINGAPORE
    70 8 SINGAPORE'S acting Secretary for Social Welfare. Mr. T. Eames Hughes, said yesterday that it was hoped to introduce a probation service, covering both adults and young offenders, into the police courts next year. Introduction of the system, he said, was dependent on enactment of the ordinance
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    NO MORE BAD RICE -GOVT.
    122 8 NO MORE BAD RICE -GOVT. KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. RICE merchants will be permitted to reject rice which they consider unfit for Issue or mixed with other kinds of rice, husks or bran. A joint announcement by the presidents of the Selangor Rice Merchants, the Selangor Teochew Sundry Dealers, and the
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    'TWO-HOUR FIGHT ABOUT RADIO'
    243 8 fXN retrial on a charge of assaulting his 21-year-old wife, Ho Loo Thiam. Colony and China Olympic swimmer, yesterday told the Singapore Second Police Court how the two of them had struggled for two hours switching the radio on and off. His wife, Marie Elizabeth I
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    OFF TO INDIA
    41 8 MR. VAN KEE LEONG of Seremban who has been invited to attend the first World Pacifist Conference to be held at the Santaniketan (Tagore University) at Calcutta this month. He leaves Penan* for India today. Straits* Times picture.
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    KNOCKED SIGNAL COST $55
    85 8 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Thurs —Because he drove his lorry in a negligent manner and knocked -iff cart of a traffic signal. See Pob Lye was fined $15 by the Muar Magistrate. In addition he had to pay another $40 for the damage. See said
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    $13,000,000 ON THE RIGHT SIDE
    29 8 WASHINGTON, Thurs. The United States in September imported from Malaya U5515,500,000 and exported to Malaya U552,600,000 worth of ■?oods. the Commerce Department reported yesterday.—
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    "SHOCK" FOR SCOTS GUARDS
    71 8 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Thurs. rE Second Battalion Scots Guards has been told there is little hope It will return from Malaya until April, 1951, according to Viscount Dalrymple, Commanding the Itegiment. Speaking at Perth, Lord Dalrymple said the news came as a shock, because
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    C.-G. TALKS TO BAO DAT
    70 8 PARIS, Thurs.— A personal message from the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, was handed to exEmperor Bao Dal, by Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, Com-missioner-General for SoulhEast Asia, yesterday, according to an Agence France Press report. Mr. Mac Donald, who Is touring Indo-China with M.
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    HOSPITAL BOARD
    34 8 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT. Thurs.— Mrs. F. Logan has been appointed a member of the Segamat Hospital Board in place of Mrs. D. P. J. Spillane who has left the district.
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    X-Rays Showed One In Ten Had Active T.B.
    250 8 r f HE Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association detected 1,500 active tuberculosis cases by X-rays during its first year of work at the Tanjong Pagar clinic, the Association announced yesterday. The active cases comprised ten per cent of the 15,000 people, drawn from every
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    ICE-CREAM FINE
    22 8 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Thurs.— For selling ice-cream without a licence. Lee Ah Moi was fined $5 at Muar.
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    FOOD SHOPS' PLEA TO MUNICIPALITY
    47 8 CINGAPORE eating-house, restaurant, bakery, and coffeeshop owners have decided to petition the Municipal authorities to relax enforcement of health regulations so that those found violating them twice or more may not be subject to such "severe punishment" as having their licences cancelled.
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    U.K. GIRL FLIES TO WOUNDED SOLDIER
    350 8 U.K. GIRL FLIES TO WOUNDED SOLDIER INLYING from England L to Singapore to be at the bedside of her wounded soldier-brother Is a Burton-on-Trent pottery worker. Miss Rosa Banton. Her brother. Lance Corporal Ed'vard Banton of "C" Company. Ist Devons. is dangerously ill In hospital with wounds received in a
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    Kota Tinggi Residents Honoured
    153 8 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. HHHE presentations of decox rations awarded to Kota Tinggi residents in the Johore Birthday Honours this year were made this afternoon by the Regent at a ceremony on the padang opposite the Government Offices, Kota Tinggi. The Regent was
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      151 8 V!f3/HONG BISCUIT CONFECTIONERY FACTORY 191 Alexandra Road Singapore Phone 6300 Cables "Lionmark" Manufacturers and suppliers of FOOD-YEAST Biscuits in connection with the Child Feeding Scheme throughout the Federation of Malaya ShrKchid f'v Joutih hi course I j^^ j _____L-—_^_— of /'"l'fHmitio'i p/iui to cutting wtl^m JM n^ j *f^**H^^ 0»J
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      BOARDS BEGIN TO CREAK
      311 9 BOARDS BEGIN TO CREAK Theatre notes THE stage Is coming to life in Singapore. Within the next month, major works of two of Britain's most famous living dramatists will be acted by some of the Colony's best amateur performers. Starting next Wednesday at the Victoria Memorial Theatre is Terence Rattigan's
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      45 9 JIMMY DURANTE, who startled mink and ermine crowd by appearing at the Los Angeles, California. Opera, gazes in amazement (left) as the curtain is raised, complains he doesn't understand a word they're saying (centre) and finally closes his eyes (right) to sum up his Impression.
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      Cinema news and reviews GRIM AND GAY
      991 9 Cinema news and reviews GRIM AND GAY PLENTY to choose from this week, film goers, with two particularly outstanding pictures you should not miss Task Force at the Capitol and The Perfect Woman at the Pavilion. One is grim, the other gay, but they both pack a powerful wallop be
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      W.C. FIELDS MAY HAVE A HIDDEN FORTUNE
      282 9 WC. Fields, the American film and stage comedian, died In 1945 and left $800,000. Now his friends believe another fortune of his lies scattered in banks all over the worid under different names. He had a great fear of poverty throughout his life.
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      117 9 <%Fes DO YOU KISOWI Tftai tft« mixing machine in the l&zfc' FA* EAST'S MOST LUXURIOUS J<\ m BALLROOM RESTAURANTS r^\i-" can teat in fire minutes encrigh /trmw whites of eggs to produce a souffle vW|"^ as big (is the dame floor. at the i^^^^^^V* ONLY 18 DAYS MORE MOVIE BALL
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      234 9 SINGAPORE jvptHHig; I u2 l'iie Radio Or- mese; 9.45 English; 9.50 Music; chestra; 6.40 Dance Music; 10.00 Radio News Reel; 10.15 10.00 News from Kuala -..an- 7.15 Tempo Time with Silvester; 'London Dances To 10 45 pur; 10.05 Close; 12.00 i'ro- 7.30 The Music of Howard Bar- -Soviet Nationalities Policy';
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    NEW FOOD SCHEME
    1217 10 ■HEflnH m LONDON, Nov. 8 J)1 T RI\G Hie last war, blueprints were pie pared for the economic organisation of the post-war world and a large place was reserved for projects aimed at the stabilisation of commodity prices. In this work, in which the late Lord Keynes
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      London Stocks
      370 11 LONDON, Thura. THE small investor was buyer 1 of British Government securities yesterday. A firm trend was shown throughout the section which closed with gains up to one per cent. Following were the closing middle prices of selected stocks as supplied to the Straits Times by special arrangement
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      SHARES REACT TO NEW TIN PRICE
      129 11 From Our Market Correspondent rpHE Malayan market for tin shares showed' A a slight improvement yesterday on the declara- A tion of the local tin price at $325.62 J per picul. Small London interest was shown in tin shares yesterday, but industrials remained mainly
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      PRODUCE MARKET
      102 11 From A Market Correspondent THERE was some activity In sago flour in the Singapore produce market yesterday. Small transactions were transacted at slightly Improved prices. Pepper prices eased by $10 and only little business passed. Yesterday's prices (per plcul) (Wednesdays prices in brackets) were: Gambler $260 (round). $50
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      S'PORE RUBBER MARKET
      204 11 S'PORE RUBBER MARKET THE lower prices of rubber 1 in the last two days attracted attention in New York where prices were marked up yesterday. Prices locally were hlghar yesterday morning, in consequence, j Sellers, however, were reserved. Closing prices yesterday were: No. 1 sheet f.o.b. buyers 45% cents, seUers
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      Dow Jones Averages
      22 11 industrials lallroads Xxnestlc Bonds Jtllitles Nov. IS. 187.98 47.47 99.78 38.93 No». 16 < 189.37 48.03 1 99.781 39. 111!
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      RUBBER CROPS
      99 11 RUBBER output* for the month of October of the following companies are: Brunei United Plantations Ltd. 34.000 lb.. The Changkat Serdang Estates Ltd. 31,600 lbs., Chermang Development Ltd. 143,000 lbs., Haytor Rubber Estates Ltd. 12,500 lgs., Indragiri Rubber Ltd. 61.000 lbs.. Lunas Rubber Estates Ltd. 58.900 lbs.. The
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      CURRENCY RATES IN FORCE
      190 11 CURRENCY RATES IN FORCE /CURRENCY rates now in Vj force are aa follows: I Free market earreBeta: Best T.T./O.D. selling rates quoted by memben of the Malayan Exchange Bank* Aon. are: London 2/3 15/16; India, Ceylon and Burma 155 '6; Pakistan 107%; Hong Kong, 53%; Australia, a/10 27/33; New Zealand,
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      NEW YORK STOCKS
      101 11 NEW YORK, Thurs. EMERGING from a period of profit-taking which had depressed the industrials average about five points, the New York stock market yes1 terday morning recovered modestly in fair activity. The threatened shipping strike was postponed for one month on Government intervention and belief was growing
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      SHIPPING AT S'PORE WHARVES
      125 11 SHIPS alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday fgodowns i in brackets* were Main Wharf: Mount Davis (33!34), Bentong (37 1. Palopo (40), Sitsen (41). I West Wharf: Sangola (1-2). Nieuw Holland (4-1), City of Chester iB-9>. Herefordshire (11). Orestes H5-16K Empire Dock: HeruJand (17-18), Admiral
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    FORTUNE'S FAVOURITE GETS 3lbs. MORE
    577 12 FORTUNE'S FAVOURITE GETS 3lbs. MORE Heads List But Should Win pORTUNE'S Favourite, on her third over 7f. last Saturday at Bukit Timah in her first start after a spell, has earned a 3 lb. penalty which instals her at the top of the handicap for Class 1, Div. 1 horses
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    INDIA BADMINTON ChoonKeng & Teik Lim Will Not Compete
    101 12 INDIA BADMINTON ChoonKeng Teik Lim Will Not Compete From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Thurs. BECAUSE the dates fixed for play do not coincide with their leave, Chee Choon Keng, a pre-war holder cf the All-India singles title, and Tan Telk Lira, another senior Penang player, will definitely be unable to
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    RUGGER WIN FOR RAFFLES
    86 12 Raffles Institution beat a scratch University XV by Rix points to nil (two penalty goals) in a friendly game of rugger played on the R.I. ground yesterday. Watched by a large crowd of enthusiastic schoolboy* and undergraduates, the School played Rrand game in spite of being
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    $10,000 PRIZES FOR CLASS 3 RACES
    142 12 T<HE OWNERS' added money pool at Bukit Timah tomorrow is likely to be the biggest ever in Malayan Turf history and even a Class 8 race will carry at least $10,000 in stakes and added money. The winners of the two Class 1, Div.
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    Man o' War May Not Accept
    291 12 Man o' War May Not Accept MAN O'WAR, a smart two-year-old English gelding who showed great promise when he scored first start In the country at Bukit Tlmah last Saturday, may not accept in the Class 3, Div. 1 6furlong handicap tomorrow, final day of the Singapore Winter meeting. He
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    Dark Brocade Up 161bs For Easy Win
    273 12 II'HKTHER or not Dark Brocade goes on to victory with 9.2 an increase of 16 lbs. after Wednesday's four-length win— in the Class 1, Div. 1 sprint at Buklt Timah tomorrow, final day of the Singapore Winter race meeting, there can be no
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    England Had Field Day
    97 12 MANCHESTER. Thurs ENGLAND won a place in the finals of the World Cup soccer tournament in Brazil next year by swamping Ireland by nine goals to two here yesterday. England and Scotland will meet next on April 15 at Hampden Park. Glasgow, to settle the British
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    Sports Diary
    39 12 SOCCER; Boys' Clubs' Cup Final, Katong B.C. v. Singapoir Harbour Bd. 8.C., padang 5 p.m. HOCKEY TOURNAMENT: ColU v. 223 BOD •B,' Police ground. HOCKEY FRIENDLY: S.C.C. v. Cable Wireless; R.A.F. Seletar t. G.H.Q. FARELF, at Seletar.
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    MRS. SAMUEL IS CHAMPION
    64 12 From Our SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. 'THE Selangor women's singles -badminton title this year was wen by Mrs. Cecilia Samuel, who defeated Mias Chia Plk Sim last night 11-1. 11-2. In the veterans' doubles final Tal Llm Sang and Llm Chooi Leong. Lan year's winners,
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    SCC HOCKEY XI's
    56 12 Singapore Cricket Club weekend hockey teams are:Today v. Cable and Wireleio 'A on the padang:- Mathot; Lloyds. Tresling: Macßae, Karelse. Lowe; JamiPion. Keelan, Shepherd, Smith, Bell. Umpire: Mr. V. Margrave. Tomorrow v. Teachers Union ojj the padang:- Margrave; Theunls-r-en. Dennis; Macßae, Brands. Skes; Collings. Jamleson. Shepherd. A.
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    VARSITY XV
    57 12 The University of Malaya Rugby XV will travel to Johore Bahru for a fixture against the Johore English College this evening. The following will represent the University: Francis Morslgh- Yeo Beng Poh. R. McCoy, Toh Teong Gee. Ong Sheng Hooi; Hussein, Pong Sze Fook: de Bruyne, Majid. All.
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    Sunday's Cycling
    40 12 The 30-mile Novices' cycle race will be held on Sunday on Mm Chu Kang Road, off the 10th mile. Buklt Timah Road. The race will start at T. 30 a.m.. 400 yards from the R.A.F. Tengah main gat*.
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    Tomorrow's Weights
    276 12 WEIGHTS for the Class 1. Div. 1, 6f. and 19 yds. and Class 1, Div. 1, 9f. and 36 yds. races at Bukit Timah tomorrow are published in cols two and four respectively. Weights for the six other races tomorrow are: Cl. I— Div. 2— 6 F. 4
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    WEIGHTLIFTING
    43 12 All delegates to the Singapore Amateur Welghtlifting Federation are requested to attend the organisation's annual general meeting at 208, Queen Street at 2.30 p.m. tomorrow. Among the subjects to he discussed is the adoption of the sub-committee's revision of the Federation's bye-laws.
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    ST. ANDREW'S BOXING RESULTS
    226 12 FOR the first times since 1932. the year St. Andrew's School's inter-house boxing tournament was started, Gomes House, with 72 points, won the Yap Kang Hoe shield In this year's competition which was held at Woodsvllle on Tuesday and Wednesday. Hose House, last year's champions, scored
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    Hockey Tourney Starts Today
    311 12 By Our Hockey Reporter HPHE Singapore Hockey Association's knockout x tournament will begin today with a game between the Colts and 223 8.0.D. "B" team. In the other game scheduled for this afternoon. Singapore Recreation Club Whites have received a walkover from V.M.C.A. Spartans. Thirty-two teams
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    UMPIRE WALKS OFF
    81 12 TELUK ANSON, Thurs. AN unusual incident occurred in a hockey league fixture in Teluk Anson, when the umpire at one end of the field walked off in the first half in protest against the interference of his fellow umpire from the other end of the field. This
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    Miss McCaw Scores 3
    222 12 OLAYING without four of their first team players, the Girls' Sports Club went down to the Singapore Cricket Club women 'A' by four goals to nil in a game of hockey played on the S.R.C. ground yesterday. Two of the goalj were scored in the first
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    POLICE WIN BY ONLY GOAL
    71 12 TAKING things easy and yet proving superior throughout, the Police Sports Club beat the Singapore Chinese R.C. one-nil In a game of hockey played at Hong Llm Green yesterday. Colony half-back Percy Pennefather, playing inside right for a change, scored the only goal which came
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    45 12 AN EXCITING goalmouth tussle in the International soccer match at Hampden Park, Glasgow, last wrrk in which Scotland beat Wales 2—o. Above, the Welsh goalkeeper Keith Jones takes the ball from Reilly. Scotland's outside-left with Barnes and Burgess, Welsh right-back and left-half, covering. A.P. photo.
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    2-0 Win Puts BOD Civilians In Final
    286 12 BOD Civilians 2; RAF (Changi) 8. TREATING R.A.F. (Changi) two-nil at Jalan Besar 13 Stadium yesterday, B.O.D. Civilians, this year's Junior "A'' chapmions, have qualified for the Singapore A.F.A. Cup final. They will now meet the holders, Kota Raja, on Nov. 26. Yesterday's
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