The Straits Times, 23 November 1950

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1950 PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    COUNCIL WINS TAX SYSTEM BATTLE
    895 1 Changes To Be Recommended From Our Special Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. •JHE Federal Legislative Council this morning won its battle for a revision of the tax system. The Officer Administering the Government, Mr. S. W, P. Foster Sutton, told the Council that he will recommend
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    Expenditure Approved
    86 1 r TI'K estimates for expenditure for 1951 were annrored by the Council when it met at 9 o'clock i. Bight. Before the Council gave its approval, the Officer Administering the Government. Mr S. W. P. Foster Sutton. announced that after consulting the Executive Council, he had decided to
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    Man Shot In Blaze
    82 1 ALOR STAR. Wed. ONE Chinese shopkeeper was shot dead during a big fir.- when broke out at midnight last night and complete'y gutted two rows of over 30 shophouses. The (ire occurred in the curfew village of Bukit Silemban. 60 mile* from Sungei Patanl Over 100
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    MAO MAY ABANDON KOREA
    189 1 MAO MAY ABANDON KOREA TAIPEH, Wed. £HINESE Nationalists quoted "mainland reports" today that Peking Government had ordered Communist General Lin Piao to pull back his troops across the Manchurian-Korean border to prepared positions. Nationalists said this was ordered because the relentless bombings and superior lire power of the United Nations
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    79 1 J i* f. Commissioner General's Office, welcoming Mr. William Fos- r« f h ief -c** Kallanf a L f P« r t y«sterday afternoon. Mr. W. R. Langdon, Ameri- t Singa r^ Is *>tween them. RIGHT: Mrs. Bland Calder wife of the SrftTFr ll^- Si 8 re r and Mrs
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    AID FOR CO-OPS
    42 1 GENEVA, Wed.— Means of helping millions of small producers and consumers in Asia to develop co-operatives will be discussed at the International Labour Organisation's first Asian technical conference on co-operation at Karachi from Dec. 26 to Jan 2.— Reuter.
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    PILOT ESCAPES
    31 1 HONG KONG, Wed— A fighter plane of the Royal Navy aircraft-carrier Theseus today bounced off the cement sea-wall and plunged into Kowloon Bay, but the pilot escaped unhurt. A.P.
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    Royal Visit
    47 1 QUEEN JULIANA of the Netherlands and Prince Bern hard who are on a State visit to England. The King has invested the Dutch Queen with the rare Royal Victorian Chain, and her husband with the insignia of Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order.
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    $4,000 THEFT
    16 1 Textiles valued at $4,000 were stolen from a godown in Colombo Court, Singapore, yesterday.
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    Bandits Kill Johore Estate Manager
    208 1 MR. Edward Leggatt, manager of Coronation Estate in the Kluang district of North, Johore, was ambushed and killed by bandits yesterday morning as he was visiting a replanted area. A Malay special constable was also killed, and an Indian conductor, who had accompanied Mr. Leggatt,
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    RUBBER EXPORT DUTY TALKS BREAK DOWN
    316 1 Federal Councillors Sit Till One a.m. From Our Special Correspondent vc KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. fALKS between the rubber industry's representatives and the Government concerning the new rubber export duty have broken down At a meeting of unofficial of the Legislative Council late last night,
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    'BEGIN STRUGGLE' CALL TO SIAM
    65 1 LONDON. Wed. RADIO Moscow today rePorted that Siam's Communist Party has urged the people to "begin the struggle for national independence and democracy." Quoting a Communist statement in a dispatch from Peking Radio, it said: "The people of Siam must unite with other people in
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    STRIKERS KILLED
    27 1 TUNIS, Wed.— Four strikers were killed and 12 Injured in a clash between police and 500 striking farm workers today. Four police were hurt.— Reuter.
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    RAPED & SLAIN
    26 1 RAPED SLAIN The raped and murdered body of a Teochew woman was found at the 18th mile Jurong Road, Singapore, Just before midnight last night, i
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    GOODWILL MISSION
    19 1 KARACHI, Wed— A Pakistani goodwill mission will visit Malaya and Indonesia in the third week in December.—A.P.
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    MURDER IN PENANG STREET
    49 1 PENANG, Wednesday. AN unknown gunman today shot dead Chan Boon Pen*, a 20-year-old cake-seller and former seaman, as he was talking to friends in Presgrave Street in Penan*. The killer, who escaped on m bicycle, was described as a tall man wearing a white »hirt.
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    Conference Of Empire Premiers
    139 1 Conference Of Empire Premiers LONDON, Tues. COMMONWEALTH PRIME Ministers will meet in London at the beginning of January to discuss the international situation, the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, told the House of Commons today. All Prime Ministers will attend the conference personally except Dr. Daniel Malan of South Africa,
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    TANKER BLAZE
    26 1 CAIRO, Wed.— The British tanker Eastern Mediterranean, 1,782 tons, caught fire in Suez harbour early this morning and was burning fiercely after midday. A.P.
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    PLOT ALLEGED
    25 1 LISBON, Wed— The trial has opened here of 12 men charged with Communist plotting to overthrow the Portuguese government by force. A P.
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    RUSSIA WAS THERE
    23 1 TOKYO, Wed.— Russia today attended the meeting of the Allied Council for Japan— her second appearance after six months' boy-cott.—Reuter-A.AI>.
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    S'pore Studies Plan For Call-up Of Manpower
    155 1 S'pore Studies Plan For Call-up Of Manpower pLANS and machinery for mobilising Colony manpower in an international emergency are being studied by the Singapore Government. The Government is also considering the curtailment of leave of expatriate officers during the emergency. The Officer Administering the Federation Government, i Mr. S. W.
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    Xmas 'Gift' From Govt
    79 1 gINGAPORE Government pensioners will get a Christmas gift from the Colony Treasury In the form of payment of their revised cost of living allowances. In reply to Mr. Lim Yew Hock during the budget debate In the Singapore Legislative Council on Tuesday, the Financial Secretary, Mr
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    FIVE ARRESTED
    30 1 CARACAS, VENEZUELA, Wed. Venezuela's government has announced the arrest of five persons accused of complicity in the slaying of provisional president Carlos Delgado Chalbaud last week. A P
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    Red Attack 15 Miles From Saigon
    151 1 Red Attack 15 Miles From Saigon SAIGON. Wed. VIETMINH forces have been in action only 15 miles from Saigon, the capital of Vietnam, a French military spokesman disclosed today. The attack took place on Monday at Thudaumot on a French outpost. It failed North-west of Bencat. 28 miles north of
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    Millions For U.S. Arms
    54 1 WASHINGTON, Wed. •pHS American Defence De partment today announced $8,092,000,000" had been earmarked in the last four months for supplies and equipment. Funds for aircraft accounted for $4,357,000,000. Amunition and guided missiles cost $755,000,000, tanks and other vehicles $906,000,000, weapons $309,000,000 and other equipment and supplies
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    MEN BEAT UP WIFE, 65, OF MILLIONAIRE
    357 2 MEN BEAT UP WIFE, 65, OF MILLIONAIRE FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, Wednesday. POLICE broadcast a general alarm yesterday for the arrest of two men wanted for questioning over the beating up of a 65-year-old Norwalk woman after a real estate deal. Mrs Idonah Slade Perkins told police she was beaten on Sunday
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    Answer To World Chaos
    97 2 KARACHI, Wed. THE Pakistan Premier, Lia- -quat All Khan, addressing Parliament yesterday said: "It is my belief that in this world of chaos of today, Islamic principles alone can bring peace and prosperity to humanity. "These principles will enable Muslims all over the world to live
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    'TWO-TON TESSIE'
    33 2 VAUDEVILLE actress 'twoTon' Tessie O'Shea may not be as svelte as a mannequin, but sees no reason why she should not be as fashionable on h«r South African tour. Reuter picture.
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    MONK AT U.N.
    37 2 LAKE SUCCESS, Wed.— The first Buddhist monk to visit the United Nations yesterday presented an address to Mr. Trygve Lie, the Secretary General. He was the Rev. Dr. Ariya Dhamma Thera, of Burma.— Reuter.
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    A-ROCKET BRAIN
    26 2 PRINCETON, New Jersey, Wed.— The American Navy yesterday got an electronic brain, designed to help develop guided missiles, such as a rocket-atom bomb.— Router.
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      Prisoner Phones: 'Lock Me In'
      184 2 I THE telephone rang at the home of Legrande Hess, sheriff of Davis County, Utah. Said a voice: "Please come and lock the jail door". Hurrying to the jail, Hess found that one of the three prisoners had picked the door lock and escaped. So
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      £5,000 For Servant
      122 2 LONDON, Wed. PH3YPTIAN-BORN Khalfa All Fadel ls richer by £5,000 because he kept a promise he made thirty-lour years ago to Miss Millicent Morse when she was travelling in Egypt. Her servants had left her. When she hired Khalfa, he said: "I am 17 and a good
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    TOO FEW WOMEN IN U.S. CHINATOWN
    70 2 HONG KONG, Wed. THE Chinese Reds accused the United States Government of interfering with the sex life of Chinese males. Peking Radio said: "In the so-called Chinatown of New York the proportion of men to women is 40 to one. Yet the American government
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      648 2 NATURALISATION NOTICE ls hereby given that lAW PO OUAN Of NO. 701, [avelock Road, Singapore, Trader i applying to the Governor for aturalisaticn, and that any perBn who knows any reason why laturalisation should not be ranted should send a written Igned statement of the' facts to he Colonial Secretary,
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    REGRETAT GENEVA FAILURE
    247 3 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Wed. fHE Financial Times in a leader on the collapse of the United Nations conference on the proposed international tin agreement today so id that the Americans ed to have overlooked wider responsibilities in thp Far East. It said: "Sufficient news I
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    'REJECT U.N. INVITE'
    97 3 JOHANNESBURG. Wed. c rpHE SUir Sou;h Africa's biggest (teDjr newspaper, said yesterday J Hint South Africa should not ac- ccpt the United Nations Political c < eel recommendation lor .ng with India and Pakis- t r.eusp.ipei commentea at the conditions attached recommendation especially the proposed suspension of
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    EMERGENCY PROCLAIMED IN CAIRO
    235 3 Tension Over Suez Statement CAIRO, Wednesday. pOLICE declared a state of emergency in Cairo today as thousands of students massed to protest at Britain's refusal to evacuate troops from the Suez Canal zone. Seven thousand students converged in the large courtyard of Fuad el Awal University
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    FIRED BY ROCKETS
    107 3 AiicmcN !> SAFETY harness is being tested for the U.S. lr f ,E orce by Ma J° r Stapp. Rockets shoot the sled up to 177 m.p.ta. In five seconds when the brakes cut speed to 150 and 70 m.p.h. in a split second and then to
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    DEFEAT FOR LABOUR
    62 3 LONDON. Wed.— Britain's Labour Government was defeated tonight by 65 votes to 32 in the House of Lords where the Conservatives, with their large number of hereditary Peers, have a big majority. The defeat does not affect the Government's position as it was on a private member's
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    FIVE TO DIE
    72 3 BERLIN, Wed.— A Soviet military tribunal in Germany sentenced five Germans to death by shooting for spying for the Americans, the Eas'. Berlin news agency |ADN disclosed tonight. j A sixth defendant was sentencjed to 25 years imprisonment and two women, one of whom was said to
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    'REVIVE WARTIME RUBBER'
    115 3 WASHINGTON, Wed. RE-ESTABLISHMENT of the wartime guayule rubber programme has been recommended by the U.S. Senate Armed Services Preparedness Committee. In Its second report on defence preparation, the Committee said that large reserve stocks of seed should be accumulated immediately for wide-scale planting in case of an
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    TYPHOON IN P.I.
    40 3 MANILA, Wed. At least four people were killed, 500 homes destroyed, and crops devastated in a typhoon which lashed the Visayan Islands in the central Philippines and northern part of Mindanao during the past two days. U.P.
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    France Urges UK To Join Schuman Plan
    208 3 France Urges UK To Join Sc human Plan STRASBOURG. Wednesday HPHE former French Premier, M. Paul Reynaud 1 passionately appealed to Socialist Britain yesterday to reconsider its rejection of the Schuman Plan for pooling Europe's steel and coal industries. M. Reynaud, reporting on the Schuman Plan negotiations which are nearly
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    Anti-Terrorism Talks Opened
    201 3 BRIGGS: 'PLANS DECIDED 9 LONDON, Wednesday. T^HE British Government's talks on Intensifying x the drive against terrorists in Malaya opened here today. Lieut-General Sir Harold Briggs, Director of Operations in Malaya, summoned here for the talks, began consultations today with Colonial Office officials and Sir Henry Gurney,
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    GOLD SWORD FOR CHIANG
    37 3 CHINESE IN SUMATRA recently sent a representative to Chiang Kai-shek, (left) to present him with a small fold sword in testimony of their support of the Nationalist regime on Formosa. A. P. picture.
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    'GO BACK' ORDER DENIED
    155 3 'GO BACK' ORDER DENIED JAKARTA, Wed. AIRPORT officials in Jakarta today denied that any International airliner was prevented from landing on Sunday "on threat of being impounded." Earlier, the Qantas Australian Airline representative, Mr. W. M. Colvill, protested to the Indonesian authorities against "endangering passengers' lives by ordering a Qantas
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    CHIEF WIRES PROTEST
    65 3 ACCRA, Gold Coast, Wed.— The paramount chief of Ahlo, a state in the Eastern Province, has cabled a protest to the Secretary of State for the Colonies against the police firing on "a crowd of defenceless men, women and children" after a dispute at a village here.
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    'WE'LL FIGHT SPLIT THREAT'
    103 3 BLOEMFONTEIN, Wed. fRE National Congress of the United Party, South Africa's Opposition, formerly led by Gen. Smuts, today declared that It Vould fight the Nationalist (Government) a republic and thus divide the people." In a resolution, the United Party pledged itself to maintain the present relationship
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    MURDER CHARGES
    49 3 MANILA, Wed. Murder charges were yesterday filed with the City Flscals Office against the confessed gunman and three others In connection with Monday night's waterfront shooting incident which resulted In the death of the bodyguard of a labour union pj-esldent and wounding of a union labour member.—Reuter.
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    NOT THIS ONE
    64 3 LAKE SUCCESS. Wed— The United Nations General Assembly's social committee tonight rejected by 25 votes to 14 against with ten abstentions a United States proposal to shelve for another year the drafting of a convention on '^f'Mi of Information. Britain and Russia opposed the proposal. The committee
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    Britain Ready To Talk On Crisis
    174 3 Britain Ready To Talk On Crisis LAKE SUCCESS, Wed. ORITAIN today appear- ed ready Lo take the initiative in negotiating a settlement of the Far Eastern crisis when the Chinese Communist Government delegation arrives at the United Nations. Britain split publicly with America in the United Nations main Political Committee
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    End Of Red Congress
    133 3 1 WARSAW, Wed. THE Communist-b a c k c d World Peace Congress was due to end here today amid a reverberation of pledges for peace and anti-aggression and resounding appeals to all the world's "men of goodwill." After five days and one whole night of
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    INDIAN AID
    15 3 TOKYO, Wed.— A field ambulance unit from India has arrived in Korea.— A.P.
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    18 Killed In Troop Train Collision
    138 3 EDMONTON, (ALBERTA), Wed. EIGHTEEN people were killed and 53 injured in the head-on collision of a troop train and a passenger express on a Rocky Mountain curve last night. The bodies of 12 soldiers have been recovered. Two soldiers and four trainmen are believed
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    RUBBER PROFITEERING CHARGE IS REFUTED
    690 4 RUBBER PROFITEERING CHARGE IS REFUTED 'No Evidence Of Withholding Supplies' ACCUSATIONS by a U.S. Senate Military Sub-Committee on Tuesday that "nationals of other countries are profiting unmercifully in the prices they charge the United States for raw rubber" were strenuously denied yesterday by Mr. A. F. Taylor, general manager of
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    S'PORE FISHERIES OFFICIAL
    113 4 S'PORE FISHERIES OFFICIAL pOR the first time, the Sinapore Government is to have a Deputy Director of Fisheries. A Government spokesman told the Straits Times: "It has been found that the 1 fisheries problems of Singa- < pore are so vital and com- j plicated that a senior official fa
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    GIRL, 17, MISSING
    32 4 A 17-yea:-o!d pupil of Fairfie'd Girls' School, Ong Kirn Choo, has been mLs-sin? from home for nine days. She was staying with her sister in Yong Saik Street. 1
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    Crafts Exhibition In Hospital
    140 4 .a. 'POYS, knitting, basketry and sowing; handwork A were displayed in a ward at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, yesterday when the Hospital Diversional Therapy I'nit held its second annual meeting and exhibition of crafts made by patients. Mrs. H. G. Shaw, Unit chairman, who opened
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    OPIUM CHARGE
    35 4 When Ho Kit Swee pleaded not guilty to possessing three I'hLs of opium at Duxton Road, Singapore, he was given bail of $200 in the Singapore Second District Court yesterday, until Nov. 30.
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    MUSLIM COUNCIL
    51 4 THE REGENT OF JOHORE declaring open the Johore Council of Religion yesterday at the Dewan. Johore Bahru. UNGKU ISMAIL bin Abdul Rahman, president of the Johore Counril of Religion, speaking at tbe Dewan yesterday when he asked the Regent of Johore to open the inaugural meeting. Straits Times
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    ABSENT FROM DUTY CHARGE
    64 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Yusuf bin Haji, a Special Constable on Rimau Estate, Kota Tinggi, charged with being absent from duty claimed trial. Hearing was adjourned, bail of $100 being allowed. He said that he went to his kampong on 10 days' leave. I He became HI
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    U.S. SUSPENDS STOCKPILING
    179 4 rpHE United States Government had temporarily suspended! buying natural rubber for stockpile, Mr. Warren Lockwood, President of the Natural Rubber Bureau said on Tuesday in Washington. •The current »ack of government buying," he said, would indicate that the stockpile position up to the end of March is
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    'THE BEST PATIENT OFWARD 5'
    144 4 'THE BEST PATIENT OF WARD 5' MADAM Tan Yum Pee, who lost her whole family husband and six children— in the fire which killed 11 people at Beach' Road, Singapore. on Sunday, yesterday said that although she had no money she was not going to approach the people who owed
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    GAOL FOR $31,000 FRAUD
    150 4 From Our Staft Correspondent PENANG, Wed. PRESCRIBED by his counsel as "one of those people who join In the swim and indulge In luxuries," Quah Kirn Keng, former salesman ;or Henry Waugh and Co.. was today sentenced to 15 nonths' imprisonment on two counts of criminal
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    $20,000 Road Safety Drive
    102 4 A BIG road saitty campaign for this yea-:, publicity for which will cost over $20,000. is being launched by Singapore's Safety First Committee. Forty thousand coloured booklets in four languages and 4,000 posters are being printed, and Government has agreed to extra expenditure for booklets on
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    $10,000 BAIL
    37 4 Lim Teet. aged 69. yesterday claimed trial In the Singapore Second District Court to possessing 10 lb. of opium In Kampong Bahru. Ball was fixed at $10,000 and the case was postponed until Nov. 28.
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    New Law 'Hits At Basic Rights'
    278 4 New Law 'Hits At Basic Rights rpHE-implications of the proposed immigration (Control) Ordinance, 1950. virtually make British nationality as such "worthless from the point of view of travel to or through the Colony", states a protest by the Singapore Association to the Singapore Government. The Singapore Association, in its letter
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    60 Teachers Meet Cox
    48 4 KOTA BHARU, Wed. CIXTY teachers, represent0 ing English. Malay and Chinese schools, met Sir Christopher Cox, education adviser to the Secretary for the Colonies, in Kota Bahru today. They had informal discussions "on educational matters. The meeting was sponsored by the Kelantan Teachers' Union.
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    U.S. GENERAL IN COLONY
    91 4 Major-General Harry E. J. Maloney. of the United States Maritime Committee, arrived in Singapore yesterday by Pan American Airways Clipper from Manila. He wag accompanied by Commander B. L. E. Talman, of the United States Nflvv Gen'. Maloney told reporters that during hu two-day stay in
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    BOUND OVER
    31 4 Teo Ah Pan, 57-year-old seaman, who pleaded guilty In the Singapore Second District Court yesterday to possessing two packets of chandu. was bound over In $300 for a year.
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    TALKS ON RICE
    36 5 Tin: commissioner GENERAL, Mr Malcolm Mar!)onald addressing the first meeting of the consultative committee on rice attended by representatives of 18 countries and int«*rn.ttionil organisations at Phoenix Park. Singapore vistprdav. Straits Times pirturr.
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    T.B. 'WAR' TO OPEN IN JOHORE
    168 5 (lvi Ov.ii ('orrr»pniidfnt IRE BAHRU. Thurs. Uj \k against tuberculosis In the Federation la to i DM. 1. The base *iil br Johoie Bahru and ihe campaign will be pushed 1 until the whole of 1 h Fed< ration has been < co-operating he
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    'BAD CHARACTER' SENT TO GAOL
    70 5 Described by the prosecuti >i, m a ba:i character and m mber of secret society. Oang !'.(> an Indian -seaman. Saho] Eiamld bin Kadir. was sentenced in the Si^^apore First District Court yesterday to 14 (iays" imprisonment for fighting in Cecil Street. Sahol. who admitted
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    DRIVERS FINED
    37 5 1 run Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Wed— P. j Ayprkannu and Ng Ah Leong, Singapore taxi drivers, were each fined $7 in the Police Court today, for failing to observe a traffic sign. I
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    MILITARY TRAINING IN MALAYA IS URGED
    322 5 MILITARY TRAINING IN MALA YA IS URGED From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. pOMPULSORY military training for an youths in the Federation was advocated by Mr. R. Ramani, speaking during the debate on the draft estimates in the Federal Legislative Council this morning. Mr. Ramani said that if youths
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    Fed. Raises British Far East Income
    112 5 LONDON, Wed. NET receipts of Britain's Far Eastern territories from trade with the dollar area are estimated at US$llO.000.000 during the first half of 1950. Mr. John Edwards, Economic Secretary to the Treasury said yesterday in i London This was chiefly due to the
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    MR. G.W. DAVIS
    30 5 Mr. G. W. Davis wh has re- i signed membership of the Singapore Legislative Council is the Commissioner for Labour and not the AttorneyGeneral, as stated yesterday.
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    FOR TALKS
    36 5 The Secretary-General of! the Indonesian Ministry of Defence, Dr. Ali Boediardjo, passed through Singapore yesterday by KLM Constellation from Jakarta en route to Amsterdam to attend the Indonesian Netherlands Union second conference of Ministers.
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    ALLEGED INSULT
    33 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed— An action brought by Tan Yak Hoon who alleged that she was called a "loose woman" by Cheah Ger Cheng, was dismissed by the Johore Bahru Magistrate today.
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    Govt. Shops Plan Gets Approval
    309 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. CEVERAL member? of the Federal Legislative Council fought hard but unsuccessfully today to persuade the council to reject a recommendation urging the setting up, at an early date, of Government and co-operative shops for the sale of rationed and price controlled commodities.
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    On Business Tour
    66 5 A DIRECTOR of Shroff's. carpet dealers, Mr. Madal Lai Shroff, arrived in Singapore yesterday afternoon by QEA/BOAC Constellation from London after a tour of all European branches of his company. Mr. Shroff was accompanied by his heavily veiled 18-vear-oid wife who comes from Uttar Prashed, Northern India.
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    PROTECTED PLACE
    21 5 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. Wed.-Bahau railway station has been declared a protected area under the Emergency Regu- lations. <
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    DRUNK: $10 FINE
    17 5 KAJANO, Wed— Mohamad Abdullah, a Malay, was fined $10 at Kajanjr for being drunk.
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    TODAY'S SINGAPORE DIARY
    128 5 Y.W.< A. Advanced Mandarin,. 10.30 a.m., Wayfarer's Sewing Party 3 p.m., advanced Malay class. 3.15 p.m. at Raffles Quay. V.M.C.A. L.C.C. examinations. 2 p.m., tennis tournament 5 p.m.. commercial classes, 5.30 p.m., Singapore Olympic and Sports Council meeting. 5.15 p.m., Gym- uastlo leaden' iheory class 6 p.m.
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    FED. BUDGET SPLIT INTO TWO
    944 5 Revenue Estimates Sent Back For New Scrutiny From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. fHE Federal Budget today again occupied the Legislative Council's attention all morning, the debate being resumed at a special meeting tonight, after the Council had approved an amendment which sends the
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    Two Found Not Guilty
    104 5 TJTHARAPATRI arid Ramiah, two of four Indies charged at the Singapore Assizes with f h» murder of ano.rer Indian. Baskaran. yesterday were found guilty of iranslaugher. Utharapathl na? sentenced to five years' imprisonm?rr. and Ramiah to seven years' imprisonment. Suppiah and Krishnan, the other two men
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    Che Zaharah Takes Debate Challenge
    173 5 T»HE president of the Singapore Malay Women's Welfare Association, Che Zaharah binte Noor Mohammed, opponent of child marriage and advocate of the Laycock (Marriage Age) Bill Is sending a reply to the Singapore Malay writer "Idrus", accepting his challenge to a public debate on the
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    She Straits Times Singapore, Thur. Nov. 23, 1950. More Powers For War
    931 6 She Straits Times Singapore, Thur. Nov. 23, 1950. More Powers For War the purpose of Mwttlefnent schemes, for road-buifding Bud other essential work in eonnettion with the Emergency. It wants both brains and brawn, ind it wants them from all sections of the community. Probably the Government will find it
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    DEATH
    16 6 EDWARD LEOGATT murd.Tcd by baniits In Johore on Nov. 22na while carrying out estate duties.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    89 6 THE FAMILY of the la'e Mr. Tan Mian* Chiang thank relatives and friends who paid night visits. wnt wren hs. attended funeral etc. durinK their recent bereavement THE FAMILY of the late Mr Khno Wee Tong thank all re.aUtt frlrnds who paid night viM's sen* wreaths, scrolls, etc., tfwtaf
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    SERANGOON EGRETS
    126 6 rE white egrets of which Mr. G. Lambert wrote in the Straits Times on Tuesday have been in residence around Serangoon for at least a year or two. During 1949 1 often saw an evening flight of up to a dozen crossing from Potong Pasir to the river,
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    KAJANG'S ANSWER
    106 6 'THE Federation Education Department spokesman who has stated that all available ground space In schools Is being used must be unaware of the position in the Kajang High School. At least five more classes can be accommodated in this school. The big hall which Is now empty and
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    We sail with German prisoners
    1799 6  - We sail with German prisoners By WINSTON S. CHURCHILL WE left London f for the third Washington Conference] on the night of May 4, 1943, and went aboard the Queen Mary in the Clyde on the following day. The ship had been admirably fitted up to meet all our needs
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    In the Municipal lobbies
    488 6  -  -By- CIVITAS A CTIVE campaigning for the Municipal elections on Dec. 2 has started. From the walls of buildings throughout the Municipality the faces of the various candidates who are fighting the elections peer at us from their multicoloured posters. Rallies and open-air public meetings are
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      An Estate Rebuff
      242 6 IT was only lately that I read in the Press that the Malayan Trades Union Council had been affiliated -vith the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. This, of course, is encouraging and a good sign of the progress the, trade unions have made in these "cold
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    On the Margin
    438 6 On the Margin Cawing In Tamil A FTER reading the note on this column o" the Malay same for the crow. Burong 3agak, an Indian reader in Johore Bahru has written to iell me that the name for this bird In South India Is 'Kakka"— which is obviously in onomatopoeic
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    'COURT CANNOT NULLIFY MARRIAGE,' SAYS COUNSEL
    2666 7 'COURT CANNOT NULLIFY MARRIAGE,' SAYS COUNSEL Defence Claim In Hertogh Case I *J*HIS Court has no jurisdiction to entertain a suit for the declaration of nullity of the marriage," Mr. John Eber, counsel for Inche Mansoor Adabi, told Mr. Justice Brown yesterday when the hearing was resumed in the claim
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    55 7 SKYWAY TO ORIENT: The famous China Clipper shown soaring over the Gold»n &Vp.°rmr a !F UU p d f°lf °I a^ d the Phi »PP in on the first airmail Sight ovVr the Pacific. It was Pan Amer.can Airways' inauguration of commercial flying serv^e to the Orient on Nov. 22,
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    CHIEF OF ECA TO TALK WITH C-G
    223 7 MR. William C. Foster, chief of the Economic Cooperation Administration, and Mr. R. Allen Gi iftin. E. C. A. Chief in South-East Asia, will have talks with the Commissioner-General. Mr. Malcolm nald, at Bukit Serene. Johore. today. Mr. Foster and Mr. Griffin, accompanied
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    500 Troops Go Home
    41 7 A 'out 500 troops, accomimiiM by SO families r leave, left Singapore > •■•vrrinv to r home in thi t lp Empire Ken. Most, drawn from various nts and including Naval and R.A.F. personnel rom the Singapore dlaI
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    CUSTOMS OFFENCE
    40 7 '-> R.V-. \;ir:i. :^cd 21 i I RUlltj in the Sln-ra-nor Third Police C\,iir; yesllnon oor. r 19.'i Pr Of duinble tcbacco and 1 !b of chempls a: CleI Xi v. 13. and v.us fined f3.Q01. ii default isonment
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    New Betting Law Hits Sweeps
    92 7 'piIF new Betting and Sweepstakes Duties Ordinance 1950 became law on Tuesday and affected all sweepstakes at Bukit Timah yesterday, the second day of the Singapore Tuif Club Winter meeting. Government duty on sweepstakes is increased from 15 per »2nt to 20 per cent. Tax
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    Johore Regent Opens Religion Council
    116 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. THE inaugural meeting of 1 the Johore Council of Religion was opened by the Regent at the Dewan, Johore Bahru, today. Ungku Ismail bin Abdul Rahaman. president of the council said that th#» prewar council functioned for a
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    New Premises Problem
    49 7 The management commit- I tee of the Singapore Cooperative' Stores Society will hold its 63rd meeting on Nov. 27 to discuss the question of new premises for the I stores. The society has been given notio* to vacate its present premises ia North «r«rf»»i Road. _^^fl|
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    Music Treat For 500 Before School Exam
    189 7 piVE hundred boys and girls from Raffles Institution and Raffles Girls' School will hear Miss Joyce Scharenguivel, herself an old girl of Raffles Girls' School, give a piano recital in Raffles Institution hall tomorrow morninr at 10 30 it is almost the eve
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    C-G ISSUES WARNING ON EMPTY RICE BOWL
    398 7 \b rice fails then everything else in this part of the world will fail This is what the Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, told the first meeting of the Consultative Committee on Rice held at Phoenix rark yesterday. He told the representatives of
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    61 7 MR. JOHN M. GOODYEAR. who is to be the political specialist in the United States Consulate in Singapore, pictured on his arrival at Kallang airport on Friday— by X.L.M. Constellation. Mr. Goodyear was formerly attached to the American Consulate in Zurich and he was with the American Consulate in Tangier
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    Anniversary Cakes For PAA Clippers
    106 7 Anniversary Cakes For PAA Clippers 'J'HE fifteenth anniversary of Pan-American World Airways' first commercial air flight across the Pacific was observed yesterday. In 1939, four years after the inauguration of this Trans-Pacific air service to Manila, the route was extended to Singapore. Since the end of the Japanese war, Pan-American
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    Kedah A.P. Killed
    57 7 From Ov Stajf Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. A N Auxiliary Policeman and a Chinese were shot dead in KEDAH last night. In JAHanc yesterday, bandits fired on a security forces vehicle killing one police constable and wounding another. In JOHORE yesterday, a security forces patrol shot and
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    SEAMEN FLY TO SHIPS
    48 7 Forty Malay and Chinese seamen left Singapore yesterday morning by air for Aden to sail two ships back to thi* Colony. They spent the previous night at the Seamen's Hostel i in Singapore. The Superintendent of the Hostel points out thsdiCjiM not the firsL^MJ
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    Gamblers Warned
    28 7 him Joo Hock, Ong Kwang and Chua Chin Hal were cautioned and discharged in the Singapore—Second Police Co r t yesterday for playing chl-kee" for money.
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    S'PORE HAWKER INQUIRY REPORT
    248 7 rpHE prosecution of those x who buy from hawkerg in areas or streets prohibited for hawking is ona of several recommendations made by the Singapore Hawkers' InquiryCommission in Its report released by Government! last night. While the Commission recommends that all hawkers should be licenced, provided
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    Director Is Cleared
    50 7 QUEK Thiam Song, former company director, was acquitted at Singapore Assizes yesterday of charges of fraudulently concealing that his company was insolvent. The prosecution offered no evidence on charges which alleged that Quek received rubber on credit and that the money was not paid by Quek's company.
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    ALLEGED RAPE IN BATHROOM
    49 7 Goh Lim Kwui. apied 25, vm tentatively charged in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday with rape in a bathroom at "Sam Wane Hoo" Chinese Temple off Thomson Road, on Nov. 16. Bail was oppoed and th« case was postponed until Not. 29 for mention
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      68 7 Parcel Christmas fare for Ibome THERE'S STILL TIME TO SEND CHRISTMAS PARCELS WE have glocks in ENGLAND of WINES (i'iiullalcia excellent Ports Sherries) PERFUMES, BEAUTY PREPARATIONS, PIPES, LIGHTERS and all the GOOD THINGS Listed on Pages 1 to 5 in our CHRISTMAS BOOKLET. Through our LONDON OFFICE any of these
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    Singapore Re-Visited
    459 8  - Singapore Re-Visited MARY HEATHCOTT I HAVE called to pay my respects," said Mrs. Elizabeth Choy to the young Tamil who answered the door to her knock at a house In Niven Road the other afternoon "I am the Independent candidate for this ward in the Municipal elections and I want
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    VISIT TO VICTIMS
    40 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— The Sultan of Selangor and the Tungku Ampuan yesterday met victims of the bombing accident which occurred at Uian Simpan Estate. Selangor, when they visited the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital.
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    BANDITS RAZE 46 SQUATTER HUTS IN PERAK
    309 8 BANDITS RAZE 46 SQUATTER HUTS IN PERAK From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wednesday. pORTY-SIX squatter homes were razed to the ground on Monday night at Kampong Bcngkong, near Siputeh, 13 miles south-west of Ipoh, when bandits, frustrated in their attempts to defeat Government's plan to resettle the squatters in that
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    'Get Sample To Convict Spitter'
    147 8 'Get Sample To Convict Spitter' From Oar SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. 'THE Kuala Lumpur Municix pality is seeking a simple system to enforce the law against spitting. The president, Mr. H. T. W. Oswell, told Commissioners today that a policeman who saw a person spitting could take him to
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    May Have To Return To Give Evidence
    274 8 May Have To Return To Give Evidence THREE hours before he is due to sail to the U.K. on six months' home cave, H. C. Tinsley, a Singapore Improvement Trust official, will have I to appear in the Singapore Second District Court this morning when the question of whether he
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      In reply to yours
      434 9 In reply to yours SnCLHA Shatam (by (he way. I hope I have thi.s name right. but think in fuiure it would be better if you printed your names in capital letters) asks me if I will nive two puzzles a week in future, one for Juniors and one for
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      OUR FREE CINEMA SHOW
      366 9 Dear Children. Several of you have a'ready sent me the first Children's Corner Club coupon asking me to > enrol you in our club As I ex- pfained idst week, I want you > to save ten coupons, from those appearing each day in the Straits
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      I WAS CHASED BY A SNAKE!
      313 9 I HAVE been having a few days holiday by the sea this week, children The firsday we all went down to me oeach and had a lov?ly s wim The water was beautifully cool, and I was sitting in the s hallows, nea r
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      68 9 Case of budserigar-meets-bov resulting in a close and unusual friendship has occurred in London, where Billy, a six-months-old bird, is now the inseparable companion of four-and-a-half-year-old Graham Sawyer. The budgerigar, bought for Graham by his father. Mr. W. Nawyor. has become the complete playmate. He will hunt lor a hidden
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      WHY DOES THE KEY MOVE?
      125 9 'INHERE may be a scientific answer to the Key Mystery, but if there is I don't know It. Just try this: Tie a length of string to a small key. and hold the end of the string with your right hand as st'll as you
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      302 9 "Just a few drops" keeps hair in place all day Checks loose dandruff and dry scalp Makes your hair manageable after shampoo A few drops go further than other hair tonics Go fvt l^e/u<ef//aCt 7onic 7oc(<ty (contain! no Alcohol or drying ingrvdimfi) More bottles sold today than any other hair
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      108 9 Before long. All had reached this time." "Th»f* what 1 Rukiah's side. "Come on he thought." replied AH in a whored fierce*. "Let, hurry." EStLTRl? Clutching (he precious powder The passage certainly seembox Ihe children turned and ed much darker than before, rroped their way along the and they halted
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      LONDON STOCKS
      304 10 LONDON. Wed. INTEREST in the London Stock Exchange today was small and produced some [regularity With Giltedged long-dated stocks fl/mer and ndustrial groups mixed. A feature of the Industrial jectlon was the bustle of activity at the start of dealIngs in Dunlop rubber new shares nil paid. In
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      RUBBER MARKET
      255 10 Fluctuations End In A One-Cent Rise trESTERDAY was another day of lluctuating prices in the Singapore rubber market Sellers svere again predominant, but reasonable trade demands soon absorbed offerings. Business opened at around ruesday's closing levels and i certain amount of trading was recorded, steadying the market somewhat.
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      TIN: $543 7/8 A PICUL
      38 10 SINGAPORE, Wed., Not. 22— $543.87 Y 2 (up $10.3754.) £1,070 a ton in London LONDON. Wed.. Nov. 22.— Spot £1,065— £1,075; Forward £990— £995; a.m. settlement £1,080. Turnovers: a.m. 60, p.m. 75 tons.
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      The Produce Market
      137 10 From A Market Correspondent rE tone in the copra section of the Singapore produce market vas steady yesterday. Sellers opened at. around $46 a plcul, with buyers' bids at $45. Later in the afternoon, sellers dropped to 845^4. but buyers withdrew. The coconut oil section remained unchanged
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      H.K. EXCHANGE
      31 10 HONG KONG. Wed. FREE market currency exchange lot Hong Kong dollars was quoted toda? as follows: US$l HK56.45 (cash). HK56.49 (T); £1 HKSI6.IO. one taei ol gold HKs3o3'i U.P.
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      Shipping In The Roads And Alongside
      154 10 MM *~s SHIPS in the Singapore Roids and alongside Singapore Harbour Board godowns yesterday were. Outer Roads: Hr) Hsu*n, Milnebaai, Foo Hsiang. Esang, Choy Sang. Stan Ogan Glentlnlae, Fred. Clover. Bradeverett. Rijinkerk, Marudu. Flying Clipper. Nordvtst. Inner Ro»ds: Raja Brooke, Hong ■rvinntr T.am Hai.
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      Malayan Shares
      217 10 Rubbers Easier From A Market Correspondent TIN shares locally were slightly steadier in some cases yesterday, but Rubbers were inclined to ease in sympathy with the commodity. Industrials continued firm. Price changes announced yesterday by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buyer* W. Hammer 37.50 H'kong S'hal Bank
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      NEW S. AFRICAN IMPORT RULES
      131 10 FULLER and fairer international competition In supplying South Africa's internal needs will be the result of new import regulations to come into force early next year. Up till now "universal permits have been issued only for priority goods like gold mining equipment, petrol and Government
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    PROBABLE XV SCRAPE THROUGH
    551 11 PROBABLE XV SCRAPE THROUGH Pen net I, Taylor Team Up Well Probables 8; Possibles Nil. YIELDING what was practically the entire Singapore Combined Civilians side, with two exceptions, Probables won their match against Possibles on the Padang yesterday by eight points (a goal and a try) to nil in the
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    33 11 Mr. H. B. Clarke leads m Black Velvet (McPherson) winner of Race two at Buki t Timah yesterday. It was the three-year-old's second win m five outings. Straits Times picture. (See Pa?e 12)
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    Civilian XV Chosen
    54 11 AT the end of yesterday's Civilian Rugby Trial match on the Padang. the following players were selected to represent Singapore in their return H.M.S. Malaya Competition game against Johore on Saturday: Parker; Roper. Penned, Taylor, Evans; Rees. Dowling; Fox. Wyatt. Chalmers, Arnold. Coulson Gilmer, McCully. Roualle. Jameson.
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    R.A.S.C. Beat G.H.Q. With Late Score
    98 11 R.A.S.C. Beat G.H.Q. With Late Score A LAST MINUTE try by Luckraft, which was converted by Nasle, gave R.A.S.C. an eight-three victory over G.H.Q. FARELF in a rugger game played at Nee Soon yesterday. It was a hard-fought game from start to finish. R.A.S.C. ODened the score with a penalty
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    DIXIE LEE LEAVES
    44 11 Off to the UK to be demobbed was well-known RAF. Seletar centre forward. Capl "Dixie" Lee. ~ho Ipft Singapore yesterday ou the troopship Empire Ken. CplLee who is returning to Worthing 2. S-jssex. regularly represented RAF Combined and the Combined Services.
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    Sheikh Mustapha Leads Negri Again
    178 11 From Oar Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. Wed. SHEIKH Mustapha. Negri's veteran hockey player who has played for the South on many occasions will lead the attack in Negri's inter-state hockey matches against Malacca and Pahang this week-end Negrl will meet Malacca at Seremban on Saturday and
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    Good Fields For Ipoh Dec. Races
    876 11 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wednesday. A TOTAL of 179 entries has been received for the P era Turf Clubs December meeting which will be held here on December 2, 6 and 9 for Class Two and Four horses. There will be eight races
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      260 11 Here *t last we have a polished British comedy that has pace and wit and style this amusing little story has found in the screen its happiest medium. j^^ij^^^^^__^__^"The Observer." J m L AwA w l^tyo^ 1 FAf? f ASf PREMIERE TODAY FOUR PERORMAHCES 2 -4.15 6.30- 930 TOGETHER AT
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      214 11 FOR LOVE OF DANGER ADVENTURE..' Men braved the Cariboo Trail Guarded by 10,000 Savages beating the drums of War whetting the arrow for the kill TODAY V/C7OR JORY V and I 20th CENTURY FOX influx LAST 5 SHOWS L^^V** 11 a.m.— 1.45— 4.15— 6.45 9.30 p.m. Pywu"t P-ctmt staffs TOMORROW!
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      371 11 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 10 am. News. Emergency News from K L.; 10 10 Close; 10 50 Schools: 12 Malay; 1 p.m. Radio Orch.; 1.30 News; 1.45 Dance Music: 2 Close; b Children; 6.20 "Calling All Hospitals"; 7 News. Share Market 7 12 Radio Scientist": 7.20 Interlude: 7.30 "Hit Parade"; 8
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    RICHMOND ROMPS HOME BY SIX LENGHTS
    2325 12 Ondine And Grey Bloom Were Hopelessly Left By EPSOM JEEP IT WAS Richmond first and the rest nowhere In the $3,000 Singapore Stakes, la six-furlong handicap for Class 1, Div. 1 horses at Buk it Timah yesterday, second day of the Singapore Turf Club
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    McCoy Nets Two In Medicals' Win
    232 12 TWENTY-YEAR-OLD Ronnie McCoy proved a good opportunist when he netted two of the three Medicals' goals in their annual University Inter-faculty hockey game against Arts-Science played at Sepoy Lines yesterday. The score was it _:i tnree-nu. McCoy's goals were his first in University hockey
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    Aussies Pleased With Test Side
    247 12 SYDNEY, Wednesday. A USTRALI ANS seemed happy today with the team selected to meet England in the first Test at Brisbane^on Dec. 1. The team announced by the Board ot Control is: Lindsay Hassett, Neil Harvey, Jack lverson, lan Johnson, Bill Johnston, Sam Loxton, Arthur
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    SIDWELL IN GOOD DISPLAY
    92 12 SYDNEY, Wed.— Australian Bill Sidwell beat American Dick Savltt 3-6. 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 In play for the New South Wales tennis title today. The match was a quarterfinal. Sidwell played his best tennis for severa 1 seasons and gained the mastery by rushing the net at
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    40 12 HOCKEY: S.H.A. knockout tourney— S.R.C. Whites v V.M.C.A. and S.R.C. Reds v Ceylonese, both games at Padang; 8.0.D.C.A. v Singapore Veterans, St. George's Road; Shell S.C. v- Posts and Tels., Seranfoon Road. TENNIS: V.M.C.A. Tournament, Bras Basah Road.
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    England Lead 2-0 But Draw
    351 12 England Lead 2-0 But Draw LONDON. Wed. ENGLAND'S national lootball team were held to a two-all draw by Yugoslavia at Highbury Stadium, London, today, and kept their unbeaten record against Continental teams on home soil. The smart Yugoslav team saved the game as centreforward Divanovlc scored with only nine minutes
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      32 12 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: 9.50 a.m. (9ft.) and 10.55 p.m. (8.7); 4.06 a.m. (3.7; and 4.27 p.m. (1.4). TOMORROW: 10.17 a.m. (9.2) and 11.30 p.m. (8.7): 4.35 a.m. < 4ft.) and 4.59 p.m. (4.2).
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