The Straits Times, 30 November 1949

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  • 21 1 The Straits Times The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAdES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1949. PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • 816 1 If Passed, U.K. Will Refuse To Comply FROM ALLINGTON KENNARD, Straits Times Special Correspondent LAKE SUCCESS Tuesday. gY the end of this week the United Nations Organisation will have made itself direct guardian of all colonial territories. Three nations are expected to vote against
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    71 1 ISAAC ALLAL, 12-year-old sole survivor of the Dutch Dakota plane crash at Drammen. Norway, in which 27 children and five adults were killed. Isaac was found, almost unhurt, amid the wreckage of the plane 39 miles from its destination. A Reuter message from The Hague \<sti rday says Aero Holland
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  • 189 1 LONDON, Tuesday. WHILE the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Arthur Creech Jones, was telling the Commons that the Nigerian rioting was under control, two influential Nigerian political leaders were preparing to leave London for Prague and Moscow to enlist sympathy for their independence movement.
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  • 45 1 LONDON, Tues. Tin prices today were spot, £622 buyers; CG2S sellers, with business done at £630 and £625; three months £579 buyers; sellers, with business done at €580 and £579. Settlement, £625. The market was quiet and the turnover was 45 tons. IT.P.
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  • 82 1 GENEVA, rues. MORE agricultural producti- vity in Asia is a "fundamental necessity" for the improvement of the earnings of agricultural workers there, the International Labour Organizatom said today. In a report prepared for Its regional conference in Ceylon in January, the ILO said increased productivity
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  • 24 1 LONDON, Tues.— The Syrian Minister of Defence, Gen. Abdullah Atfe, will pay a week's visit to Britain beginning next Friday.— Reuter.
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  • 98 1 WASHINGTON, Tues. THE Food and Agricultural Organisation annual conference today selected Rome as its permanent headquarters after a session which lasted well into the early morning. Italy defeated the United States by 30 votes to 28 In the fifth aad final ballot, when the conference
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  • 133 1 Cominform "New War" Warning MOSCOW, Tuea. TOP Communist leaders from eight countries held a secret Comlnform meeting in Hungary recently to warn Communists against underestimating the danger of a new war, it was disclosed today. The Comlnform, at the same time, reaffirmed It* hatred against the "Tito clique, which has
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  • 156 1 DALLAS, Tuesday. AN* American Airlines DC -6 plane crashed at Love Field, north of Dallas, before dawn today and 29 persons were killed. Fourteen survivors are in hospital. The plane carried 40 passengers and a crew of five. The big four-englned plane struck a
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  • 72 1 r MORROW, the Free Press will publish the first of its five 16-page Christmas Shop Window supplements which will be additional to the normal eight pages of Malayan and foreign news and views coverage. The 16 pages are full of Christmas reading for every member
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  • 41 1 BOGOTA, Tues. The wreckage of the missing Colombian airliner has been sighted on a 12,000 foot mountain and the 12 people aboard are feared killed. The plane was carrying a statue of "the Virgin of Fatinrv' to Ceuta. A.P.
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  • 26 1 BUITENZORQ. Tuei.— One person was killed and another wounded when an Army Air Force plane crashed near here today during a practice flight.— U.P.
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    64 1 AN AERIAL VIEW of the train disaster which occurred at Watcrval Boven, Trans vaal, in which the European engine driver and 60 Africans were killed, and more than 100 Africans were injured. The wrecked locomotives and coaches are seen sprawled across the track and down the steep incline to the
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  • 249 1 CHUNGKING AIRFIELD SHELLED HONG KONG, Tuesday. PASSENGERS who arrived here by air this after- (»on from Chungking, threatened Chinese Nationalist capital, said their aircraft was under Communist fire when it left Kiulungpo airport, some five miles from the city. Some Communist forces were across the
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  • 62 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. NOW that the U.S. Congress has re-voted E.C.A. appropriations, it can be assumed that purchases of essential materials for stockpiling will be resumed. It is understood from a reliable source that bilateral negotiations between the United States and
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  • 71 1 LONDON, Tues.—Communist Peking Radio broadcasts have confirmed the creation of a Far Eastern Comlnform to support Communist movements and stir up a revolution in southern Asia, British official sources said today. Liv Shao-chi, Communist China's spokesman at a Peking union conference, was reported to have
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  • 33 1 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The Malayan Communities Liaison Committee's recommendations on citizenship will be debated by the Kuala Lumpur division of the United Malays National Organisation next Sunday.
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  • 106 1 BANDIT HAD JAP SWORD KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A BANDIT leader, carrying a Japanese sword, was killed by polfce and Gurkhas in the Segamat area of Johore yesterday afternoon. Another bandit was also killed by a different section of police and Gurkhas in the same area. A bandit who fled from
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  • 32 1 HONG KONG. Tues. -A report from Canton today said Communist authorities had banned the Boy Scout movement throughout China because it "serves the Interests of Fascism and imperialism." -UJ».
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  • 168 1 2,000 Die In Burning Mine BERLIN, Tues. DUSSIAN secret police 1V have cordoned off the uranium mining area around Johann Georgen Stad, where between 2,300 and 2,500 German miners are reported killed in an explosion after an accident last Thursday, the newspaper Telegraf reported today The paper said German mining
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  • 52 1 1 HONOLULU, Tues.— A Gilbert Islander was charged yesterday with assaulting a pretty airline stewardess Gloria Siddell on Wake Island on Thanksgiving Day. The alleged attack occurred in the stewardess' quarters, where Miss Siddell was airviß. A warrant for the man's arrest is on the way to
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  • 236 3 12Na tions Decide Their War Roles PARIS, Tuesday. CONTINENTAL Europe's biggest military planning conference since the war was opened here today to decide the military role of each of the 12 Atlantic Pact nations. Delegates are the Chiefs of Staffs of Britain, Canada, United States, France, Belgium,
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  • 187 3 'HANDS OFF CHINA' MOTION LAKE SUCCESS, Tues THE U.S. Ambassador-at-large, Dr. Philip C. Jessup, said yesterday that there Is evidence of another Russian attempt to dismember China. He called on the Soviet Union and all countries everyi where to keep their hands off China and let the Chinese settle their
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  • 57 3 WASHINGTON, Tues. President Truman reported to Congress yesterday that the Greek government, with American military help, had "substantially eliminated" the Communist guerrilla threat to Greece. The President warned in a report, however, that 'persistent vigilance and patience" will be required to prevent the Communiat-led rebels from again
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  • 62 3 OSAKA, Tues.— The allmale taxi dance cabaret in Osaka is not doing too well. Within three days of the place opening two dancers have been dismissed and a third, "responding to vigorous opposition from his relatives," has turned in his dancing pumps. The remaining 32
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  • 51 3 MELBOURNE, Tues.—Australia's new security service, which uncovers spying and subversive activities, Is to station special investigators at Port Darwin. A spokesman said today that Darwin was "wide open for espionage" because airline arrivals do not even gel a detailed customs check until they reach Sydney.
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  • 51 3 LONDON, Tues. Pianist Harriet Cohen, whose right hand was crippled in an accident, has played again for the first time in two years. With her left hand only, the Daily Mirror reported, she tried a new concerto written for her good hand by Sir Arnold Bax.
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  • 62 3 SAIGON. Tues. AN anti-French broadcast in Indo-Chlna said that no attacks would be made against the French between noon on Christmas Ere and noon on Christmas Day. This was followed by a French announcement that General Carpentier had ordered a 24-hour Christmas truce In the
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  • 88 3 BIRMINGHAM, Tues A CHURCH of England bishop yesterday urged Bri- tain to sterilise the unfit by law and make birth control a national policy. Dr. CD. Barnes, the Bishop of Birmingham, said that unless this was done, the British Isles 'the paupers of the English-speaking world"
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  • 39 3 WASHINGTON, Tues. The World Bank will Drobably complete action on loans totalling more than $60,000,000 to India, Uruguay and El Salvador this year India wants about $23,000,000 for development at Bokara in the Damodar Valley.- Reuter
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    • 216 3 LONDON, Tuesday. DOLICE set a pack of bloodhounds on the trail of jewel thieves, who made a £50,000 haul from the home of Colonel lan Anderson, a wealthy company director. The house in Surrey Is surrounded by a moat. The robbery occurred during a
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  • 66 3 LAKE SUCCESS, Tues. THE President of the United Nations Assembly, Brig. Gen. Carlos P. Komulo, is reported to be heading a list of candidates under consideration for the new UN. post of High Commissioner of Libya. The position Is worth U5534,000 a year. In
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    47 3 MRS. ROBERT VOGELER, wife of a U.S. national and an executive of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company, looks at a picture of her husband who disappeared from his Budapest office on Nov. 18 and is stated to hare been arrested by Hungarian frontier police. A.P. picture.
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  • 179 3 LAKE SUCCESS, Tuesday. OOUTH Africa yesterday announced its withdrawal from all future meetings of the Trusteeship Committee during the remainder of the present session of the United Nations General Assembly. The decision of the Union Government to take no further part In the Committee's
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  • 112 3 Surrender Leaflets On Batangas MANILA. Tues. FIVE thousand leaflets promising amnesty to Batangas political rebels If they surrender with their arms will be dropped by planes on the dissidents' mountain redoubts 12 miles southeast of Batangas town tomorrow. This may be the final effort to restore peace in Batangas without
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  • 38 3 KARACHI. Tues. The tribunal headed by a Swedish Supreme Court judge will begin its task of flxine the boundaries between Pakistan's isolated province of East Bengal and adjoining Indian territory In Calcutta on Dec s.— Reuter.
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  • 36 3 LONDON, Tues. American forces In Germany are ."In excellent condition and ready for any emergency which might be thrust upon them." the United States Defence Secretary, Mr. Louis A. Johnson, said yesterday.— U.P.
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  • 286 4 Move To Rebuild Siamese Trade From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Tuesday. PHINESE traders in Penang want the foreign J exchange control regulations partially relaxed for trade with Siam. Because Penang is Siam's "foster mother", Siam would turn to Penang as soon as the control Is relaxed,
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  • 148 4 12 SEIZED LN P.I. ARMS RAID MANILA, Tues. A third American was sought for questioning today after police and Philippines Constabulary detained 12 people and seized about 50 weapons in a series of raids last night. Some of the weapons have been identified as surplus United States war arms which
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  • 125 4 SIX pictures, costing over $1,500, were bought by the Tungku Mahkota of Johore and the Dutch Consul General, Mr. A. M. L. Winkelman. within the first half hour of the opening of the exhibition of paintings by the Indonesian artist. Saptohoedojo, at John Little in Singapore
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  • 74 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. At a parade at the Police Depot, Kuala Lumpur, today 95 recruits were inspected by the Commissioner of Police, Mr. W. N. Gray, on the completion of their training. Mr. Gray presented a silver headed cane to Ismail bin
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  • 45 4 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Tues.— Because she quarrelled with her sister about cooking, Sellamah, a 29-year-old Tamil, attempting to commit suicide by taking arsenic. Pleading guilty at Seremban, she was bound over for three months on a bond of $50.
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  • 55 4 WIND WAVES PLEA FAILS From Our Staff Correspondent MUAR, Tues. When charged with defacing his identity card in the Muar Magistrate's Court. Lee Kia gave the excuse that he was a fisherman and that he was subject to rain and waves. He was fined $10 and advised by the Magistrate
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  • 132 4 THE Ceylon Government has bought 28,000 tons of Egyptian limed rice from the Singapore and Federation Governments to build up a reserve stock. Limed rice is unpopular in Malaya. Ceylon is understood to have paid the price Malaya asked for. This means that
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  • 49 4 From Oar Staff Corn -pondeni KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Nine case; of scrub typhus were reported in the Federation for the week ending Nov. 19, out there were no deaths. During the previous week, there were seven cares. There were no cases of poliomyelitis reported during the week.
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  • Article, Illustration
    40 4 MR J. G. FESQ, of Kampong Kuantan Estate, Kuala Selangor. and Miss Margaret Cowe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Cowe, of Kanasan Estate, Kuala Selangor. who were married at St. John's Church, Kuala Lumpur, recently. Wong Studio picture.
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  • 149 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. MEMBERS of the public associations and "others interested" can make representations to the Police Mission which has arrived in Kuala Lumpur to investigate the present and long-term problems of the Federation Police Force. The mission is headed by
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  • 30 4 THE All Malaya Nattukkotai Chettiars' Chamber of Commerce has made a donation of $15,000 to the University of Malaya Endowment Fund, which now totals $1,809,629.
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  • 112 4 NEWS WAS FATAL TO MOTHER From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Tues. NEWS of the shooting by bandits of Low Kee Yean near his Province Wellesley home on Sunday proved fatal to his ailing 71-year-old mother. Madam Maria Ann Cnoo died after learning of her son's fate and mother and son
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  • 76 4 From Our Staff Correspondent SEGAMAT, Tues. AN 18-year-old girl, Tan Sua, summoned at Segamat for causing mischief, said that a railway caterer threw the first stone and then dodged. "He pushed me out of the train for selling fruit at Labis she said "and then threw a
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  • 94 4 THE Singapore Chinese Importers and Exporters Association has asked the Secretary for Economic Affair? to press the Indonesian authorities for settlement of credit balances totalling about $1,900,000 from barter with Sumatran ports. The memorandum says that it la several months since the Netherlands Trade Commissioner
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  • 92 4 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Tues. A RESOLUTION that pupil midwives be trained at Government expense in Negri Sembilan will be moved by Dr. A. Bearblock, Negri Sembilan State Medical and Health Officer, at Saturday's meeting of the Negri Sembilan Council of State. Dr. Bearblock's
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  • 85 4 From Our Own Correspondent KOTA BAHRU, Tues. Tungku Sri Maharaja, Kelantan State Secretary, opened a new road in the Daerah of Labok which will provide a new route for food supplies for the kampong. which two years ago was near starvation through lack of rice. The new
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  • 53 4 The Singapore Buddhist Association has decided to hold a remembrance day annually every first Sunday of December for the dead. This year first Sunday falls on Dec. 4. The offering of merits will take place at 4 p.m., at the Buddhist Burial ground at Bldadarl. All Buddhists are
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  • 341 5 CHURCH TO PRESS FOR QUOTA SYSTEM FOR AUSTRALIA Amendment To Immigration Bill Proposed AN amendment to the section of the Australian Immigration Bill is being drawn up by the National Missionary Council of Australia, encouraging a quota system of immigration, stated the Moderator-General of the Presbyterian Churches of Australia, the
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  • 162 5 NO decision has yet been reached on the apportionment between the Malayan territories of the allocation of $42 million worth of Japanese Imports under the 1949-50 Japan-sterlin? area trade agreement. This was stated yesterday by the Singapore Deputy Secretary for Economic Affairs, Mr. T. van
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  • 110 5 SENTENCE of six months' rigorous imprisonment was imposed on a boatman Tan Seng Ton, in the Singapore Second District Court I yesterday, for theft of $17,605 worth of rice from the Government pool in the Empire docks on July 28. Two other boatmen. Lim Seng Chian and
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  • 125 5 SINGAPORE MUNICIPAL COMMISSION, meeting, Municipal Council Chamber, 2.30 pjn. Y.V/.CA.. r 5, Raffles Quay, Christmas social sub-committee meeting. 3.15 p.m. YOUTH LEADERS' TRAINING COURSE, Messrs C. E. MacCormack and F. J. M. Brlggs on "Community Development." Social Welfare Department. 5.15 p.m. MALAYAN VEGETARIAN SOCIETY, public meeting, 8, Cairnhill
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  • 165 5 SIGNALLER James Conway, one of the seven survivors of the R.A.F. Sunderland fly-ing-boat which was wrecked off Seletar base on Nov. 20. said yesterday that the aircraft crashed as soon a* It had left the sea runway. Ccnway was giving evidence at the Coroner's inquiry
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  • 79 5 i I rora Oar Malay Correspondent CINGAPORE Muslim religious teachers have decided by .77 votes to 69 that there is no oh/fection to broadcasts of Koran recordings. Utusan Melayu says that final decision was left to the All Malaya Muslim Missionary Society and the Majlis Ulemas
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  • 221 5 DROPOSALS to increase electricity charges in Singapore by one and a half cents a unit for light consumption, and one cent for power consumption, will come up for approval by the Municipal Commissioners at their monthly meeting today. If confirmed, these increases will apply
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  • 56 5 I rom Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Tues. A SWARM of bees which attacked three peopletwo Chinese and an Indian —in Butterworth yesterday afternoon brought oat the local flre brigade and the police. The bees stung the victims severely. They rolled on the ground in agony
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    35 5 MR. NG CHONG BIN and Miss Goh Kirn Eng, who were married in Singapore on Sunday. Mr. Ng Is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Ng Chiang Tee.— Picture by by T. C. Lee.
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  • 271 5 From Our Own Correspondent GEMAS, Tuesday. FHE story o f how a hand grenade killed three A policemen inside Gema s Police Station was told by a survivor at the inquest today. Constable Osman bin Karlm. who escaped from the explosion with minor injuries on
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  • 35 5 From Omt Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— Yeo Kee, who waa convicted of possession of a packet of opium, was bound over for 12 months at $100 In the Johore Bahru Sessions Court.
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  • 102 5 A SINGAPORE rural night study class of Chinese boys and their patron— a Chinese sundry goods shopkeeper at the 12th mile, Tempenis Road— were held up on Monday night by three Chinese, two of whom were armed- with pistols. Two Chinese came into the shop,
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  • 140 6 ACKNOWLEDGMEN TS MR. MRS. ADRIAN ESPECKERMAN thank all whe attended their wedding on 26.11.49 and sent gifts and greetings. MR. MRS. G. WESTERHOUT thank all who assisted, ;cnt messages of condolence, floral t* i butf«; <te attended the funeral of their beloved daughter E?rna<lette Martha. US ELIZABETH CI.ASSBOFOW thanks all
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  • 911 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed., Nov. 30, 1949. War Damage Today The Malayan man-in-the-street who does not hear the gossip in the antechambers of Government must have been puzzled lately by the mysterious disappearance of War Damage Compensation from the arena of public controversy. Not long ago the air resounded
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  • 164 6 I DO not wish to enter into a controversy regarding the letter printed in your issue of Nov. 21, signed by a committee of Segamat civilians who have launched a surrender appeal to the local bandits, but I still think that the most important of the questions I
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  • 1164 6  - FOURTEEN YEARS OF LABOUR GOVERNMENT LESLIE VERRY, Election Day Dispatch From New Zealand By Reuter's Correspondent WELLINGTON: YEW Zealanders go to 11 the polls today to choosp their Government for the next three years. Issues uppermost in their minds are housing, social security, import and price controls, industrial relations and
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    • 381 6 TT is significant that Mr. V. J. Mendis has seen fit, on the eve of the Municipal elections, to release for publication the Labour Party's condemnation* of birth control which the Press has aptly' described as "the biggest surprise of the Municipal elections
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    • 199 6 TEN BABIES, NINE HATS AM glad to know that 1 the Labour Party is the only party contesting the Municipal elections which dares to condemn birth control. I fully agree with Mr. Francis Thomas that birth control is no solution to the over-population of Singapore (if any). This reminds me
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    • 78 6 I HAVE carefully read both Dr. Kiramathipathy on "Science and fallen man's reason" and the Rev. Goh Hood Keng on "God's will," but what I feel is that contraception should not mean either violation of Grd's will or disregard for Nature's harmony. Man is endowed with intelligence
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    • 328 6 IMMORALITY? WHY A WIFE IS DYING A LOT of talk by our A moralists on the subject of birth control has recently cropped up in your paper. From what I've observed around me, I feel fully convinced that an incalculable amount of injustice is being done to womankind by these
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  • 515 7 Harbour Board Denies Liability For Goods Lost JJECAUSE of the principle involved, the action brought by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company against the Singapore Harbour Board "is being watched with the deepest interest by the mercantile and shipping communities/' it was stared by the Harbour
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  • 185 7 NO PROOF, SAY POLICE Europeans With Bandits From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. THERE has been no conclusive proof so far that Europeans are operating as members of bandit gangs, in spite of such reports from different parts of the Federate a police spokesman snM today. The spokesman told
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  • 66 7 C R. Fenwick was convictfd on his own plea of guilty ti inconsiderate driving on Ihe night of May 28 and fined $50 by the Fifth Police Magistrate, Mr. A. G. Shears yesterday. The charge had been reduced from one of dangerous driving. S A second charge
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  • 160 7 THERE was something for everybody at the Victoria Theatre last night when more than 100 pupils of the Taylor Dance Studio gave a dance recital in aid of the Poppy Day Fund— even if little Ian Anthlniss got stage fright midway through a tap
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  • 214 7 'La Conga Started Joget Riot-Court Is Told QF the 21 M.O.R.'s who were arrested last month on a charge of rioting In the New World Amusement Park only four stood in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday. They pleaded not guilty. SixsfncVdied* bCen dlschar ed and one ha <i In
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  • 33 7 HEAVY MACHINERY from Japan, part of the Japanese reparations materials for Malaya, lying on the decks of the freighter Renwyvis which arrired in Singapore yesterday from Japan.— Straits Times oicturt.
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  • 139 7 T'HE final shipment of more than 300 tons of Japanese reparations material mainly machinery— for Malaya, Is being handled from the freighter Benwyvis at the Singapore Harbour Board wharves. A further 200 tons of Japanese textiles for Siam is being unloaded from the ship for
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  • 70 7 SHOUT COST! HIM $5 Because he shouted at a po- lice Inspector while the officer was arresting a friend of his, 26-year-old Lee Liong Guan was fined $5 in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday. He was charged with "behaving in a disorderly manner." Pleading guilty, Lee told the court
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  • 21 7 The Government of Singapore will invite tenders on .Dec. 10 for an issue of treasury bills amounting to $13,000,000.
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  • 36 7 THE British film star Gordon Jackson was in Singapore last night on hit way back to the United Kingdom after making a film in Australia with Chips Rafferty and Tommy Trinder.
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  • 16 7 A passlng-out parade of Malayan Other Ranks will be held at Blakang Matl on Friday.
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  • 170 7 UO Loo Thiam, Colony ai.d China Olympic swimmer on re-trial in the Singapore Second Police Court on a charge of having assaulted his wife, said yesterday that among the Chinese, quarrels between a husband and wife are usual occurrences. The quarrels are "small matters." he
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  • 49 7 HAVE you sent Straits Times Pictures 1949 to your friends abroad? Orders reaching our Singapore office by tomorrow can now be accepted for despatch by the Willem Buys. The books should arrive In Europe at Christmas-time. Price $2.50—25 cents postage to anywhere in the world.
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  • 183 7 SEVERAL scores of illegal hand-printed leaflets in Chinese were found by the school staff in the premises of the Yock Eng School, one of the biggest Colony Chinese schools, at daybreak yesterday. The foolscap-sized leaflets printed by hand-duplicator were issued by a body calling itself
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  • 259 7 Johnson Repents Then Attacks The Progressives BIRTH CONTROL: 'Sorry I Voted Fo* It' SINGAPORE Government clerk took time off to heckle the Labour Party Municipal Commissioner, Mr. Pat Johnson, speaking against birth control at Dalhousie Square yesterday afternoon. Mr. Johnson, who was speaking at the Labour Party's lunch hour election
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  • 196 7 A STATE of confusea thinking exists amongst the Labour Party leaders at present, said Mrs. Robert Eu, Progressive Party candiate for the West Ward, broadcasting her election address last night. She added that the anxiety of the Labour Party leaders to enlist the voters' support for
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  • 69 7 Air Ceylon, which operates Skymaster services between Singapore and Ceylon, with connections through to London, will use Kallang Airport as its terminal from Tuesday next. Since opening up in Singapore, Air Ceylon planes have been using Tengah airport. "Use of Kallang will be a great
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  • 78 7 rE Malayan Air Training Corps Cadets had a pleasant surprise last night when instead of their usual beribboned R.A.F. lecturer, a pretty W.R.A.F. Flight Officer, Beatrice Williams, turned up and held their attention for an hour in an informal talk on the history
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  • 37 7 The 200 Provost Company and 91 Section 5.1.8. Royal Military Police, Singapore, will hold a charity dance at Raffles Hotel on Thursday, Dec. 1, at 8.30 p.m. in aid of their benevolent fund.
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  • 22 7 Mr. Pat Johnson, the Labour Party member on the Singapore Municipal Commission, will make an election broadcast at 7.12 tonight.
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  • 19 7 Mr. George Eugene Verrall has been granted a commission as acting sub-lieutenant, Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
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  • 20 7 The Rev. R. M. Greer of the Presbyterian Church, Singapore, returned from leave in Scotland yesterday.
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  • 95 7 THE Singapore Improvement Trust is seeking Government approval to increase rents of Trust houses to cover the higher cost of electricity. water and conservancy services, it was officially stated yesterday. Many of the Trust properties are let out at rents which include a monthly service charge.
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  • 128 7 IfEEP tlie Pressmen out the polling stations, tie Presiding Officers for the Singapore Municipal elections on Saturday were instructed yesterday by a representative of the Supervisor of Elections. He was giving final instructions to Presiding Officers and their clerks at a polling station demonstration
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  • 44 7 Sir Roland Braddell, president of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, will talk about the Society at 10 tonight over Radio Malaya. Sir Roland has just been mad? a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society in London
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 115 7 ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES M SATURDAY DEC. 3rd FIRST COMMERCIAL LANDING OF A CONSTELLATION AT KALLANG AIRPORT As from Saturday, December 3rd, X.L.M. (■onstcllations will land once weekly, westbound, oil Saturdays and once weekly, eastbound, on Tuesdays at Kallang Airport. These services will be additional to those already operating from Tengah
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    • 81 7 I Toys Y^ for Boys J&/[ f ag6S MECCANO SETS: I/ n From No. 1 U UA ats4 40 U \X No. 8 %L idtoi, at $51.00 HORNBY TRAIN SETS: M. O. Goods or Passenger sets from $7.65 101. Goods or Passenger sets from $18.75 Large selection of Rolling Stock.
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  • 322 8 Austerity 1950 Budget Passed From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Tuesday. THE Penauif Municipal Commissioners, at a special meeting this afternoon, approved an austerity 1950 budget in which a total deficit of $380,000 shown in the draft estimates has been turned into a small estimated surplus.
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  • 154 8 Johore Public Services: $24,000,000 From Our Own Carrcspoadeat SEGAMAT, Tues. JOHORE proposes to charge a little over $34,000,000 upon the revenues and other funds of the State for public services next year. This Is contained in a bill to be placed before the State Council on Bee 20. Biggest Item
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  • 54 8 Muthiah Ramasamy, a taxi-driver, was convicted on a charge of dangerous driving and fined. $300, and had his licence endorsed by the Fifth Police Magistrate, Mr. A. O. Shears, yesterday. Muthiah collided with a cyclist in McPherson Road on Aug. 24 and the cycMst died the
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  • 255 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. A MALAY music party, Irama Kalbu, walked out ol the studios of Radio Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, last Saturday afternoon, half-way through their broadThey protested against a recording being made of their broadcast. A member of the band
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  • 23 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The Kuala Lumnur Methodist Tamil Church will hold Us golden Jnbll?e dinner next Saturday at IT Malacca Street.
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    35 8 MX. B. QUIXLEY, 0.C., Special Branch, Malacca Police, donating a pint of his Meod at the Malacca Bl«od Bank last Saturday. Looking: on arc Dr. Gordon Smith and Sister S. M. Grant— Ymng Hear picture.
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  • 266 8 S.C. ON MURDER CHARGE SAYS- From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. AN 18-year-old special constable, Mohamed bin iA Osman, charged with murdering a 17-year-old Chinese jpirl. Ha Kit Mm, today told Mr. Justice Taylor at the Selangor Assizes that he had used the
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  • 21 8 From Oar Own Correspondent PARTT BUNTAR, Tues— The Krian area has raised r $1,305 for the Perafc welfare fund.
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  • 77 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. MALAYAN blind workerswill shortly print and publish braille text books in English and Malay for Malaya's schools for the blind. They will use a special braille printing: press presented to the Social Welfare Department by the Central Welfare Counril.
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  • 192 8 Boucher Gray In Talk With Planters From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. MR. W. N. Gray, the Commissioner of Police, and Major-General C. H. Boucher, the General Officer Commanding, Malaya District, met the Council of the United Planting Association of Malaya today and answered questions on the emergency Jn
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  • 85 8 From Out Own Correspondent RAUB, Tues.— Tan Ah Chin, a chandu addict, was sentenced to one month's simple Imprisonment, by Mr. J. R. Whlmster President of the Sessions Court, Raub, for smoking chandu. Cheah Chin was fined $100 or In default two months' simple Imprisonment
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 188 8 BATTERY BANDMASTER Model 485 V horn PHILIPS 1950 Rouge (four multi function valvts) low current consumption from ne 6V accumulator [car battery) $270 Lets lO°fc for Cash philips rni^L Spanish Golden Almeria Grapes Stocks will be available in time for the Christmas period. In boxes of 34 lbs. and in
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    • 233 8 Milk fa 41/ to Enjoy fi foil 11 u ml Milk fresh, pasteurised milk ao good, •o desirable for many a household need, daily in your home. NESPRAY is fine fresh cow's milk prepared in powder form #*aimi6B© MILK till, mtmtlW** Z,MSL~Ji. FULL CRIM* r /w-jypZtok Paris, How York and
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  • 1517 9 CHRISTMAS CHEER— AT A PRICE From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, November, 21." Christmas is still five weeks away, London's shopwindows are already colourful willi the traditional red-robed Father Christmases, cotton wool snow, and silver or gill tinsel Stars of Bethlehem. Street traders offer mistletoe and Christmas toys
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  • 339 9 THE NEW LOOK FOR NURSES AT a conference at the Royal College of Nursing (nurses in > Malaya may like to know), hospital matrons were urged not to "try to mould all entrants into copies of Florence Nightingale," to remem- > ber that "it is better for I a nurse
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 74 9 Karr i c r I r"- ,T. CK3 132" b.Jy»»"" lie bb d an on. i lH^^^b B 1 *ttk ■■■>>;':■.-- x|flft«| TUC Ql /~>/"\r\ DAKI 1/ t2 9 2 gggMMK^H Iml DLUUU DAlNr\ L^PV" BM^^^^H I BE A BLOOO DONOR mw UNk W CENEKAL HOSPITAL TfLIPHONI MIMtXT. 171 ;JM
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    • 312 9 You can fly by Clipper' ROUND THE WORLD from Singapore BANGKOK MANILA BRUSSELS HONOLULU LONDON LOS ANGELES NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO You fly westward to New York via Bangkok; Calcutta, Istanbul, Brussels and London. Eastward to San Francisco or Los Angeles via Manila and Honolulu. Whichever route you go, you
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 81 9 SINGAPORE 10.00 News from Kuala Lumpur; 10.05 Close; 10.59 For the Schools; 12.00 Programmes In Malay; 1.00 Dance Music; 1.30 News (also at 7 and 9.30); 2.00 Close; 6.00 Programme Summary; 6.02 Children's Programme; 6.20 The Radio Orchestra; 7.30 Rhythm Parade: 8.00 Radio Doctor; 8.10 Classical Music Shop; 8.30 Much-Binding-In-The-Marsh
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    • 90 9 Progranune; 1.00-12.00 Engl.sh Programme; 2.00 Close. 6.00 8tation Opening; 6.02 Children's Corner; 6.20 The Radio Orchestra; 7.15 The Scottish Dance Orchestra; 7.30 "Singing for You;" 7.45 American Jazz; 8.00 Wednesday Playhouse; 8.30 Light Music; 9.00 The Spice of Life; 9.45 Negro Spirituals; 10.00 Movie Magazine; 10.30 Music for your Dancing;
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    • 78 9 9.45 English; 9.50 Interlude; 10.00 Radio News Reel; 10.15 Symphony Concert; 11.15 'Colonial Commentary;' 11.30 News* 11.45 'Evening Serenade;' 12.00 Close. AUSTRALIA 5.30 p.m. Forces' Favourites; 6.00 Concerto Half Hour; 6.30 Overseas and Australian News (also at 8.30, 10 and 11); 7.00 Melody on the Move; 8.00 On the March;
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  • 925 10 *The* Australian Scene... By BOB -•GILMORE*- MELBOURNE, Nov. 25. TASTING a Fleet Street eye over Australia's coming federal election, the London Daily Mirror's Melbourne Argus this week declared the election campaign to be a "phoney war." The Argus found: "The differences between the parties are concerned
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  • 469 10 PALERMO, (By Air Mail). Giuliano, Sicily's bandit king, may be a romantic Robin Hood to thousands of peasants but he is just another hard-to-catch gangster to Italy's police. Giuliano has defied the law for more than six years —since Sept. 3, 1943, when .ie shot down
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 136 10 on JT'mZJHnfc* You'll know ilj^^. REAL FEAR *^M when you follow Taylor's U B Tortured Footsteps! V I wtSt jh ~'Z %i I A I CHARIESUtJ6HTON VfNC£MT PRICE JOHNHODMfG "THE BRIBE This Is The ONE Show In Town YOU MUST SEE! GRAND OPENING TODAY! 11 a.m. 1.45. 4.15 G. 45
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    • 252 10 16 DAYS MORE MOVIE BALL DEC 6th Buy your tickets at Robinsons now $15 DOUBLE $10 SINCLi OPENING TODAY FIVE SHOWS II o.m. 1.45 4.00 6.30 C 9.30 p.m. HYPNOTIZES BRIDE BURIES HER ALIVE! I .j^bkl w .^b^E b^bh ***V*' 5 B^DajTcfcil K^L B^B^ TJ^/^^H b^B^^^^^bbb^bh i^fcr }flJjlijK'f IJjIijK' I
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 410 10 T'HE game contract in today's deal was lost at the very first trick, although the declarer's play seemsd quite "natural." North, dealer Neither side vulnerable ■p o J 10 I -4- a m. ;2l09gtt 3 0 The bidding: North East South West I diamond 2 clubs Z hearts Paw 3
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    • 197 10 West cashed the queen and ace of trumps and knocked out dummy's last trump. South could not ruff even one spade in dummy, and since be could discard only one, on the high club, he had to acknowledge defeat. To repeat, it was "natural" enough for South to cover Wejfs
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  • 29 11 SINGAPORE, Tuesday. Not. 29. $297.23 a plenl (down LONDON, Not. U. Spot: £635 (Down 12). Three months (buying) £5*5 (down £15). Three months (afternoon) £582 (down £18).
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  • 215 11 IN spite of a certain amount 1 of take-off by London, there was little change in the Singapore rubber market yesterday. New York, which was again disappointing, showed a decline. Prices locally were much the same as those on Monday. Closing prices yesterday were: No. 1 sheet
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  • 97 11 CHIPS alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (eodowns In brackets) were: Main Wharf: Charon (33-34). INleuw Holland (35-36), Maetsuycker (40-41), KustbrU (42). West Wharf: Corfu (l-2>. Breconshire (4-5). New Chwang (8-9). Tarn (11). Cyclops (1314). Glengyle (15-16) Empire Dock: Tairea (17-18), Shlrala (19-20), Frederick Clover (21-22),
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  • 842 11 From Our Market Correspondent VUITH little encouragement from either London or TT locally to stimulate investors, the Malayan tin share market was inclined to ease yesterday. Industrial shares were quietly steady. Prices quoted by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers AUM lee II M
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  • 358 11 LONDON, Pri. gMALL routine orders plus some investment support from institutions gave the gilt-edged section of the London Stock Exchange a firm tone yesterday. Gains of a quarter pec. cent were widespread. Most other sections were under the influence of the approach of the end of account, and
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 1135 11 MANSFIELD 6c CO., LTD. (Incorporafacl m Singapore) BLUB rUMNBL LINE Car-.et'< eption le proceed via .t»vtr parti re W*4 Mt4 eUefcirao ui|fc iAIUNCi t. LIVERPOOL CLASCOW CONTINENTAL PORTS Oi* Sa.i p Sham Pananf C«cl*i» n» <r>ioa M te'iles ninapi Clasgow C 13/14 Bn. 4 On. Dm T/l It out >o>
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    • 284 11 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS TO NEW YORK AND BOSTON VIA CEYLON. INDIA, ECYPT AND MEDITERRANEAN PORTS S core P Sham Penang Mount Mansfield 30 Nov./ 1 Dee. 2/5 Dee Prei Menroe 10/14 Ok 15/16 Dec. 17/19 Dec «>r»« (tartan** 21 2? Dec 28/29 Dec. 30 Dec. /2 |on Prea Herding 4/10
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    • 449 11 EAST ASIATIC LINE SA.L.NCS r ROM NT SCAND,NAV,A/U.K./ j yv.Qgjgg^, < s/s Tranqucbar" due abt Dec 12 for Bangkok, Manna H'Kooe Loading at S.ngapore. Port iwettenrwn 6 Penang ,m/>, m/> i^iSgr; B 3 n gk or abt 21 ss m X 1 15-"I 5 B for Co.ombo. Aden. Port Said.
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    • 984 11 McAUSTER CO.. LTD. (Incorporated in Smgjpete) TtUpbMt No 5906 tLLSRMAM BUCKNAM. L»B LOS AMCfLES, SAN FRANCISCO iamoam m«i autu/.d. PORTLAND SEATTL. VANCOUVER ■o'nrtkoAM MAmSm? *«■«>»"* cargo tOf Centre, b South ■vi lIX DAM HAMBURC. American Port* ,«-Ar,«. BOUGAINVILLE 9.£?* OlTtT Spo'« P. Sham Penarg H/HTL. fe. ai^TTJi. """'^unny'v^e 6 C
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  • ANNUAL SCOTS-REST RUGBY TODAY
    • 335 12 Another Stern Contest Assured SOME of the finest and most thrilling rugger of the season should be seen on the Singapore Cricket Club padang this evening when two powerful teams representing Scotland and the Rest meet in their annual fixture. This game has a well-established tradition for stem contests and,
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    • 84 12 I'HK following will represent Johore In a second round H.M.B. Malaya Rugby competition game against Singapore Civilians at Johore Bahru on Saturday: J. L. C. Dillon (capt.); D. Darroch, D. J. Dompsey, R. V. McVeigh, N. Sanderson; Barnett, J. A. S. Edlngton; Payne, F. J. Jones.
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    • 73 12 BLOEMFONTEIN, Tues.— The Australian touring cricket team today beat Orange Free State and Basutoland by an innings and 139 runs, dismissing their opponents for 131 in their second Innings. Scores in brief: Australians Ist. inns., 408 for three dccl. (N. Harvey n.o. 145, L. Hassett 96,
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    • 31 12 rpHE Customs Sports Club beat A Shell Sports club In a friendly game of hockey by two goals to nil at the Shell ground at Paya Lebar yesterday.
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  • 63 12 ROBERT VILLEMAIN of France dives headlon? to the canvas in the sixth round of his fight with Tony de Micco of the U.S. at New York on Nov. IS. It was not a knock-down. Villemain rushed, lost his balance and went down. He was
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  • 145 12 SINGAPORE golf enthusiasts should see some of the best golf ever played here when the Australian golfers, Norman von Nida and Peter Thomson, and the American, Dick Metz. give an exhibition at the Island Club at 4 p.m. today. Tickets, at $5, have been selling
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    66 12 MRS. SUTTON, hon. secretary of the Singapore Women's Hockey Association, receives from Mr. W. C. McKean, a member of Fraser and Neave S.C., a trophy for the seven-a-side knockout competition which ends today. Within a few hours of the publication of an appeal by Mrs. Sutton for a cup, Mr.
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  • 151 12 THE Singapore Hockey Associa1 tlon's knock-out competition has not been put out by the exceptionally bad weather lately. The first round ties, scheduled to finish on Monday, have only one more* game despite severa? postponements due to rain. The only first round tie to be played
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  • 49 12 GOLF: Exhibition at Island Club by von Nida, etc. 4 p.m. HOCKEY TOURNEY: Cnln«w v 223 8.0.D., St. Georges Road. HOCKEY FRIENDLY: R.A.F. Seleter r Varsity, Bk. Tlmah Rd. RUGGER: Scotland v Rest, padanr; R.A.F. Tenfah v SeleUr ai Seletar; Police v Spore Engineer Reft. Thomson Road.,
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  • 717 12  -  KEN JALLEH MALAYAN TEAM TO EMPIRE GAMES By WHEN the Singapore Olympic and Sports Council elected its indefatigable honorary secretary, Mr. E. Strickland, to lead, as manager, the Malayan contingent to the British Empire Games, the Council paid a gracious compliment to one who had
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  • 95 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. THE Selangor Eurasian Association Rugby XV held the Selangor Club to a six-all draw on the padang this evening, scoring a penalty and a try against two dropped goals. The Club were three points down three minutes before the and after the
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  • 45 12 The Island club's women's monthly medal (bogey) was won by Mrs. Mayor. with a score of 4 down. Mrs. Percy Hardman was second with a score of S down. The L.G.U. Competition wu won by Mrr. Mayor with a score of 94-
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  • 209 12 I NEW club swimming lnstruc- tress at the Singapore Swimming Club assumes duty tomorrow, Dec. 1, on the departure from the Colony of Mrs. Molra Dadswell, who leaves with her l.usband, Wing Commander L. D. Dadswell on the completion of his tour of duty in Singapore.
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  • 46 12 PERTH, Tues. Victoria today beat Western Australia by 22 runs In their Sheffield Shleid match here. Western Australia, 154 In their first innings, were all out today for 389 In their second knock, In reply to Victoria's 259 and 306.— Reuter.-A.A.P.
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  • 336 12 rpHE first and second teams of the Women's Royal 1 Air Force Changi, and the first teams of the Singapore Cricket Club Women and the Girls Sports Club will meet on the Padang today to decide the winners of the Singapore Women's Hockey Association's seven
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  • 351 12 THE Malayan Chinese Football Association's proposed visit to Hong Kong to revive the annua inter-port trophy soccer match against the Honj Kong Chinese may be postponed until March nex year. The M.C.PA. were originally scheduled to leave in October and in addition to
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  • 121 12 THE Island Club's November Medial (bogey) competition resulted as follows: "A" Division: winner, A. M. Crawley-Boevey (6) 1 up. Next best returns: W. Ferrler Mayor (1) 2 down; F. Jones (4) 2 down; J. Semmes (6) 2 down; E. A. Healy (8) 2 down; R.
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  • 53 12 S.C.R .C. WIN 2-0 THE Singapore Chinese Recreation Club beat the Singapore Cricket Club two-nil in a friendly game of hockey on the padang yesterday The Chinese scored in the drst half through soccer star Boon Leong off a centre from Tin Swang. After the Interval they went further ahead
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  • 276 12 Women 's Teams Included Hockey Carnival A WOMEN'S state hockey team from Malacca who will meet the Singapore women will be an added attraction at the triangular hockey meet to be held in Singapore on Dec. 16. 17 and 18. This match will be the first of Its kind In
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 692 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. Continued from page 6) SITUATION WANTED ACCOUNTS CLERK: Manager recommends experienced clerk capable entire charge books small estate. Available shortly. Bos No A8265. S.I. ACCOMMODATION VACANT •COSMOS": 17 Scotts Road, available large double-room, full bonrd TO LET. New bungalows, all modern conveniences. Apply S. 0 AlsagofT 9A. Chulla
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    • 151 12 IN AID OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA FUND (under the auspices of the Island Club and H the American Association.) EXHIBITION ROUND BY TOP- RANKING PROFESSIONALS. fl AT ISLAND CLUB N. VON NIDA DICK MET 7 J Australia. USA and VERSUS and PETER THOMSON DOUGLAS Me EWAS Australia. Singapore ADMISSION
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