The Straits Times, 7 October 1951

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  • 30 1 LARGEST NETT SALES IN MALAYA THE SUNDAY TIMES Sunday Bditloa off The Strait* Tlmea Singapore Ww— P r «n No. 844. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1951. if. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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  • 1428 1 Murdered on road to Fraser's Hill LADY GURNEY UNHURT KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday morning. THE HIGH COMMISSIONER, SIR HENRY LOVELL COLDSWORTHY CURNEY, WAS KILLED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON WHEN BANDITS AMBUSHED HIS CAR AND OPENED FIRE AT POINT BLANK RANGE AS HE WAS DRIVING TO
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  • 531 1 S'pore mourns 'a vigilant supporter of the democratic cause' MEWS of the murder of Sir Henry Gurney by Communist bandits shocked the Colony yesterday. The Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson in a message over Radio Malaya i.nt night »*id: 'The cause of freedom has lost one of the most
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  • 103 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. THE first news of the arrangements for the funeral came tonight from the Vicar of Selangor, the Rev. B. J. Gurney Fox. who told the Sunday Times that the ceremony had been fixed for 10.30 a.m. on Monday morninf. It Is expected that the
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  • 24 1 TOKYO, Sat. President Truman will soon publish a special statement on ratification of the Japanese peace treaty, the Malnichl. said todax— AJ>.
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  • 27 1 HONG KONG, Sat.— The manager of a Chinese school, Ming Tak, In Kowloon yesterday was fined HK$2OO by Magistrate Horace Lo for overcharging school fees.
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  • 81 1 THI five leading Singapore cinemas will be closed all day today m a mark of respect to Sir Henry. They are the Cathay, Capitol, Rex, AlKambra and Pavilion. The amusement parks will alee be abut today. All theatres in Kuala Lumpur will be closed today. During
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  • 795 1 We have lost a friend say Fed. leaders THE news of the murder of Sir Henry Gurney by the Communist bandits shocked all Malayans. In trie Federation and in Singapore, community leaders and the average citizen alike felt all had lost a friend who had -ome to Malaya with the
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  • 218 1 MESSAGE FROM THE KING J^ message has been sent :o Lady Gurney from Buckingham Palace: •The King and Queen hay» heard with great distress the news of the death of Sir Henry Gurney. Ther Majesties extend* to you their deep sympathy in the loss you have sustained. The Prime Minister
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  • 1710 2  - THE LADY OF THE RESIDENCY AND A DEBT SLAVE RJ. FARRER. By C.M.G. MOW to end my official connection with Kc!mtan, it behoves me to try to do justice to the last of my towers of strength, my wife Margarcr, known throughout the State as "Mem." Though all that 1
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  • 819 2 SUNDAY, Sept. 30. rpHE Tuan does his A utmost to suppress his annual birthday, but his young Singapore friends always remind him of it. Despite his protests, they insist upon bringing gifts, including a cake, but no candles, as the bundle is too bulky for transport by motor-bike.
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  • 309 3 CJR Henry Curney'i s«ns« of duty was almost J frightening" said Mr. Alex josey, Chief News Editor of Radio Malaya, in tribute to Sir Henry, whom h* had served with for five years in Palestine and Malaya, last night. He never believed in
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  • 169 3 LANDS, TO LEARN OF WIFE'S DEATH MRS. Ann Wilkinson, wife of a Malayan airways radio engineer. wa 8 killed In a motor accident on Dunearn Road. Singapore, early yesterday morning. She, and three other employees of Anglo-Saxon Petroleum (Eastern) Ltd were returning from a party at the Dutch Club when
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  • 104 3 THE first news of the death in ambush of Sir Henry Gurney was announced over Radio Malaya by 34--year-old Inche Abu Bakar bin Ahmad at 6 P<m. in the Malay programme. Inche Abu Bakar, who has been announcing since January of this year and comes from
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  • 79 3 A watchman, Gura Singh was committed after a preliminary inquiry i n the Singapore Third Court for trial at the next Assizes on a charge of murdering Jagat Singh, a watheman. at the Hock Tong Rubber Factory in Juronjt Road on th P night of Aug 14
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  • 41 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat.— Ghulam Mohamed, a lorry driver of Kluang, was fined $50 in the police court for failing to attend court to answer a charge under the traffic regulations. He was also fined $70 for speeding.
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  • 19 3 KUALA LUMUPR, Sat— ln the Kajang District of Selangor. a security force man was drowned while on patrol
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  • 71 3 Mr. C. R. Dasaratha Raj Labour member for Rochote ward of the Singapore Legislative Council, has submitted the following question for the Council's next meeting on Oct. 16. Can ships leave Singapore port, at all hours of the day and night; If not (a) what are
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  • 39 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. Wong Hong Kee, a photographer from Seremban, was today fined $950 for duty evasion on a new camera and exposure meter, valued at $395. The camera and exposure meter were confiscated.
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  • 39 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. The annual conference of teachers in Malay schools in the Federation will be held at Johore Bahru on Monday. The conference is likely to discuss the Barnes Report and ask for its early implementation.
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  • 107 3 ■pHE names of five Progressive Party candidates to contest the Singapore City Council elections In December were officially announced yesterday following a meeting of the Party's Elections Sub-committee. The candidates are: Mr. C.F.J. Ess for West Ward; Mr. Seah Peng Chuan for Rochore Ward;
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  • 69 3 After the allegations of theft had been given by the prosecution in the Singapore Third District Court yesterday. Kok Hing withdrew his Plea of guilty and claimed trial. Kok Hing will be tried on Nov. 20 on the charge of stealing a purse, containing 513 and
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  • 55 3 The Boys' Town Council and the Drive for Funds Committee of the Kiwi Members' League will organise a fun fair at tht C.V.M.A. grounds on Nov. 4. Fifty per cent of the proceeds will be donated to Boys' Town, the remainder to renovate the league's
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  • 117 3 THIRTY-EIGHT Chinese businessmen, the first batch of a 74-strong Chines* trade mission of the Hong Kong Chinese Manufacturers Union on a tour of SouthEast Asia, arrived in Singapore yesterday in a chartered BOAC Argonaut Led by China's "ginger king," Mr. U Tat Chee, the
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  • 142 3 U7ILLIS KOONO, a 30-year- old woman of Paslr PanJang Road, was charged before the Singapore Second Police Magistrate, Mr R. 8.1 Pates, with cheating another woman, Song Kirn Llan. or $300 on Sept. 18. She was said to have falsely induced Song to believe that she
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  • 112 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. CEVEN bandits were killed by members of the security forces in the Federation yesterday. Surrounded twice by a gang of about 40 bandits In the Lenggong area of Perak, yesterday, a small security forces patrol fought Its way out killing four of
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  • 126 3 THE foundation stone for x the new $500,000 SATA clinic in Anson Road is to be laid by the Governor. Sir Franklin Gimson, on Thursday. Oct. 25. Said to be "the most modern tuberculosis centre In Asia", the clinic will have a staff of 40
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  • 929 4 Last Saturday, a Singapore bank paid tribute to one o/ its staff iU "compradore" who had served 47 years. This man's grandfather, father and brother, had also been compradores in the same bank before him. In this article, JAMES WICKENDEN tells you
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  • 841 4 THE LAW AND YOU j By a lawyer I T»HIS week's queries, i I sent to me by I readers. Include the j following: CAN A FATHER MAKE f I A WILL LEAVING i i NOTHING TO HIS EXDEST SON? IF HE DOES SO CAN THE j MATTER BE CONTEST-
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    • 244 4 NEW CROSSWORD ACROSS DOWN 1 Drunk on ozone? (8) 5 1 Head of 2or heart of 27 Torsos, worn lower down (6) g^ft, 3°Uk g e c i S U lt f 1 S y t 9 He was always growing old, steeds It should keep to the and that
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  • 320 5 IJALF the number of Singapore Chinese schoolgirls who sat for their annual middle (secondary) schools' examination at one of the examination centres, #ere so ignorant that they could not answer a single question of a very simple paper, the Deputy Director of Education, Chinese section,
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  • 353 5 But he stays in Malaya SEREMBAN, Saturday. |F only he had succumbed to "temptation", Mr. M.S. ff Sheppard who, a week ago, took over as British Adviser, Negri Sembilan hit first appointment in Negri after 24 years in the Malayan Civil Service would today
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  • 52 5 •THE death occurred at Tan Tock Seng hospital, Singapore, yesterday of Mr. G. R. Mendis, wellknown local Buddhist after a long illness. Mr. Mendls was 65. The cortege leaves the Tan Tock Seng Hospital and the funeral takes place at 4.30 p.m. today at the Buddhist
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  • 31 5 MUAR. Sat.— For overcharging and for failing to display current price lists at Bukit Gambir, Eng Chin Oi was fined a total of $110 at Muar
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  • 222 5 'I depend en the workers' vote'-Netto Tllß. P. A. NETTO, chairman of the Ayer Rajah branch of the Army Civil Service Union, who Is standing as an Independent Labour candidate in the December city elections, yesterday replied to Mr. P. M. Williams, the secretary of the Singapore Labour Party, who
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  • 291 5 SEREMBAN. Sat. A SHIELD, presented by the Plantation Workers' Union of Malaya, will be handed over personally some time next, week to Ungku Abdul Aziz of the University of Malaya at his Johore residence "in appreciation of his work done on the Second Arbitration
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  • 269 5 THIS it the story of twelve distress rockets that will never light the Perak jungle sky with their signal for help because of Governmental red t.ipe A Singapore merchant recently received an order for a dozen Schemulli flare rockets, urgently needed by a tin mine
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  • 45 5 A bag of sußar was confiscated in the Singapor* Second District Court yesterday when Lew Yin Kuan, who pleaded guilty to acquiring the ba-i without a permit from the Fcod Controller, was fined $450 or four months' rigorous imprison men 1.
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  • 29 5 STOKE READY TFLOK ANSON Sat work on the Lower Perak Co-op Store in T?!uk Anson has b?e n completed. It will (>e opened for business dur'r\7 ;he week-end. I
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  • 1223 6  -  Noni Wright By QOWN at Paroi, near Seremban, sits the finest bunch •f pure-bred cattle this tide of India. On these two herds, *orth nearly $70,000 Nst high hopes for the ■nprovement of dairy and Mef cattle up and down the country in kampong,
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  • 766 6  -  BILLY BUDD By ''PHE 17 -year-old Felix Mendelssohn, Joyfully writing his incidental music to "A Midsummer Night's Dream", would have been amazed if some divine power have given him even an inkling of the effect his work was to have on future countless generations. Especially if
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  • 449 6  - Mother St. Adele, of Penang TAN KIAN LIAT B Y FIFTY years ago, a young French girl took her first religious for Aneurin he will oe vows in Paris. Today, living In quiet retirement in Penang, the Rev. Mother St. Adele can look back with satisfaction on a halfcentury of
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  • 771 7 IttUfrmy^Jtiaa Britain > most popular romantic novelist in the second article of a new series specially written for the Sunday Times. I OFTEN wond.r what is 1 ths story behind H whtn I an announcement In ths ntwspapsri that "ths marriage arranged between Mr.
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  • 996 7 JANE LEE'S HUMAN CASEBOOK Jane Lee answer* readers* problemi vi this page everj week but cannol undertake to reply to queries by post. UAS a bridegroom to give the bride a trousseau, and if so is she supposed to give him something in return? Is the
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    • 379 7 J j^aiassssal L^asssaV aVTdt C _JL 7 Bam. V^^KovK irror wiH toll you ifjyour* teeth are I yrrAjwL j Ns,* 00 lo <* r<ui -^r Smile at yourself in the mirror! Look SZUfi: "C carefully at your teeth. Do they sparkle Q~s~ and shine as they should The answer 1
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  • 129 8 Facts of life, by the CO. FOREIGN girls intending to marry British soldiers are to be lectured on the realities of life in Britain by their nance's commanding officer, on orders from the War Office. The briefing will have to 'Tke place with the husband- i-o-be there— before Army permission
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  • 393 8 Fashion news from France by SUSAN DEACON THE smartest women in the South of France are wearing —An all-white dress, with coffee-coloured accessories: Backless highheeled shoes like bedroom mules; Tan coloured shantung for evenings, worn with a gold kid belt; Pockets filled with real
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  • 237 8  -  Anne Edwards RETURN OP BARBARA GOALEN....I by this week peeping from the hood of tulle that crowns another Paris triumph in 'out-of-this-world'-ness pOR the Return of Barbara Coal en No 3 this week is a dress designed by the man who is known the world over for
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  • 378 8 Cookery corner MAKING a small batch of biscuits at home is a far more economical proposition than buying a tin of manufactured ones whose contents once the tin is opened, will deteriorate rapidly. The climate of Malaya is anti-bis-cuit to a degree. Biscuits made from the
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  • 373 9 RUSSIANS ARRIVE -TOO TIRED TO SPEAK More delegates here for bis. talks fHREE mor« Russians arrived in Singapore yesterday by Qantat-BOAC Constellation for the ECAPC trade promotion conference which opens on Tuesday. But they were "too tired to speak to the Press*' and refused to pose for a photograph. They
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  • 296 9 They may steal the limelight I HAVE no idea what the I Russian delegation will do at this conference, but it Is possible that they will steal the limelight again," said Mr William Tanzer. Information Officer. ECAFE, when he arrived from Bangkok yesterday morning. Mr. Tanzer was one of a
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  • 218 9 (SPECULATIVE buying again featured the Singapore rubber market yesterday and prices Improved appreciably during the day's moderate business. The tone quietened, however, after a steady opening when transactions subsided omewhat. Buyers closed for the weekend at $1.54* a lb., for flrstgrade, October shipment, two cents above Friday's
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  • 23 9 TELUK ANSON. Sat. Charged with possessing a defaced identity card Bldin bl n Lebar was fined $25 or me month's Imprisonment.
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  • 244 9 I birth, 6 deaths on ship IN THEIR EXCITEMENT at returning to Malaya, 776 new "hajls" who disembarked at the Singapore Harbour Board yesterday from the pilgrim ship Tyndareus, could not tell the Sunday Time* whether the only child bora on board ship during the voyage
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  • 114 9 BUHILK watching the Cttfl Day procession, a woman. Tan Mong Chee, saw her gold locket feeing snatched by Mohamed All bin Kasslm. who then pushed his way through the milling crowds. On hearing Tan's alarm, a nearby constable arrested Mohamed, who was then running towards
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  • 160 9 ALOR STAR, Sat of Malay reservation land to nonMalays during the Japanese occupation will be recognised by the Kedah Government provided the salts wire genuine and no tfiwat or dureAl .had beefi uMd. But such lftnds would automatically revert to MRlay reservations rf apa
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  • 389 9 BENTONC, Saturday. YAW WAH LONG, a 32-year-old Kwangsai rubber 1 tapper, was fined $100 by the West Pahang Circuit Magistrate, Inche Ismail Jamil, in rke Bentong Court and ordered to pay compensation of $50, for an assault on his wife, which a medical officer described as
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  • 86 9 ■JR. W. Q. Alcock, the Sinm gapore First District Judge, told Ho Wan Swee that he believed Ho was an oplumtrafflcker, before sentencing him yesterday to nine months' Imprisonment and a fine of $1,000 for possession of two pounds of opium. Notice of appeal was given
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  • 103 10 MH G. R. MENDIS pa-ssed away peacefully at Tan Took Seng Hospital yesterday. Funr/al at Bldadari Buddhist cemetery at 4.30 p.m. today MRS. LIM TEOW CHUAN (nee Madam Tan Hup Neo). age 92 passed away peacefully at No. 5, Tanglm Road, on Cth October. 1961. leaving behind her two
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  • 427 10 THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE, OCT., 7, 1951. Sir Henry Gurney THE Communists have struck a tremendous blow. While travelling on the Kij.ala KubuFrasers Hill Road in Pahang yesterday, the High Commissioner, Sir Henry Gurney, was killed by the men he hated most the bandits. This is the most dastardly crime
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  • 1268 10  -  HARRY MILLER TUAN GOVERNOR' KEPT THE FLAG FLYING IN THE FACE OF DANGER By THE Federation flag always fluttered from the bonnet of Sir Henry Curney's car whenever he used it in the Federation. That was typical of the High Commissioner for
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    • 178 10 WE read repeated criticisms In the press about letters sent to the Registrar General of Births and Deaths, and to which replies are never received. I had previously never doubted the efficiency of this department, but today I can quote a glaring example from personal experience. On Aug.
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    • 245 10 r'The Law And You" in your Issue of Sunday last, was complaint by a father whose child has been sold by his wife for $400. The lawyer in reply stated that the law did not recognise contract* for the safe of children and so advised the father to go
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    • 246 10 WHEN the I.M.P. was being formed. Tengku Abdul Rahman. president of UMNO, was reported to have commented: "Can you form a nation with such flimsy materials? If you build a house of flimsy materials it will never withstand the test of time or the force of a storm." He
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    • 56 10 Quaint— 1 HERE'S a quaint child's remark Many years ago. when we were in Malacca, quite a heated argument was taking place as to whether or not the Electric Current in Malacca was A.C. or D.C. A little voice chipped in (from a young lady of five): "Daddy, it's W.C."
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    • 27 10 MY small son —age nearly 4 years—when taken to see the Water Dragon in daylight remarked: "What a lot of tummies he's got!" E. L. Singapore.
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    • 55 10 WITH reference to your article, "We can Learn A Lot at Helsinki," In last week's Sunday Times: I have been Instructed by the committee of the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association to inform you that they have not yet appointed an official coach for their swimmers TAN SIN WBATT.
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  • 452 11 CINGAPORE born and people domiciled in the Colony for a number of years will be the only persons to be entitled to Singapore Improvement Trust houses in future. This was announced to the Press by the Singapore City Council President, Mr. T. P.
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  • 170 11 \MR. WINSTON CHUR--1 CHILL has completed the fifth series of his War Memoirs the mightiest literary event of our time. The first instalment of this latest series, "Closing the Ring" will begin in tlir SUNDAY TIMES next week. Thereafter, it will appear daily in the STRAITS TIMES. "Closing
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  • 47 11 LONDON. Sat. T*HE following bulletin was M. issued from Buckingham Palace today: "The King gains strength daily. The post-operative period ha R passed without complication. In view of the seriousness of th» operation, progress towards the convalescent stage must necessarßy be slow and gradual."—
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  • 256 11 SIR Henry Gurney stepped out from his car to face the danger which confronted him and thereby drew away the fire which might otherwise have killed those who were with him. In these words did Mr. Michael Hogan, Officer Administering the Government In the Federation,
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  • 364 11 THE Malayan Breweries will step up its export trade as soon as a $5,000,000 extension programme to its brewhouses and storage cellars is completed. During the past year, says Mr. T. Aiken, the chairman of the company, the Breweries had to refuse substantial orders from many
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    • 213 12 ITS GARY'S BEST SINCE 'MR. DEEDS' LAST year Gary Cooper nude a picture called "U.S.S. Teakettle, and for tome strange reason it flopped. So 20th Century-Fox renamed it "You're In The Navy Now" and it's oeen packing out c:n?max all ow the States ever since "You're In The Navy Now"
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      142 12 DACK to a tougher nut f after last week's easy 1 i puzzle. Can you spot the i star this week? Entries I i should be sent to "Spot i The Star," Sunday I Times, Singapore, to I reach this office not I j later tban Thursday
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    • 198 12 NO SHOWS TODAY The Cathay Theatre and aff the Theatres in the Cathay Organisation throughout the Federation of Malaya win be closed today as a mark of respect to Mr Henry Curney. MEW-AtHA'UdBRA NO SHOWS TODAY The New Alhambra Theatre and all the Theatres im the Cathay Organisation ihrou?/.out the
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    • 110 12 NO SHOWS TODAY AH the Theatres in Shaw Bros. Organisation throughout the Federation of Malaya will be closed today as a mark of respect to Sir Henry Curney. j NO SHOWS TODAY The Pavilion Theatre will be closed today as a mark •f respect to Sir Henry Curney. NO SHOWS
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    235 13 THROUGH THE EYE OF THE AMATEUR CAMERA Th« Sunday Times camera competition has proved so popular rhat this page is to be devoted to it every week. Each of the five photographs published here wins a prize of five dollars, but each will ako b« considered for
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    • 347 13 YoU,too,may be one of the MILLIONS who suffer from VITAMIN&MINERALi/^/^/ That is why you feel Worn out. Nervous, Irritable, Have headcaches, Lose Weight, Worry" M/> Proved Way Back to Health i Happiness Whrn \ou'rc irueolic, feel oen'OUt, tuv< teaplaM from deef dov>m n ike Psaft mi spells no encrgv for
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    • 214 13 Ll L Lsj U^ Ls Lnl c^pp K'K T 3 "^TT "WOULPA BIN OUTA VSOVO' M RK3HT.T-WE. Z' PSSTf-DOVT TELL HER I I THAR AN' NOW, WE KIN SET <;fIrWSY.V-coMEB*CKr its cave awreadv an' \c«uc*i-mr- tossed in A /rr has bappv "£tuss£d she SI AN''^crv ourselfs.'.^- < DO&PATCH "IT" IS
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  • 681 14  -  NAT GUBBINS By THE newspaper! may A onr "Glory, glory, hallelujah about the coming general election. But not your Uncle Nat During the next four weeks ha will be forced to hear non-stop discussions about the cost of living, wage-freeslng, and bulk- buying, read of insults
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  • 10 14 Policeman takes a bow —STRAITS TIMES.
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  • 377 14 VONC POH KAH, 12--year-old Kuala Lumpur schoolboy, is popular with his school friends st the moment for saving their pocket money He Is just finishing his third full-length book of "comics", written, drawn and created by himself, and ha lends them out free to his
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    • 770 14 ANNOUNCEMENT of Prize Winners! F N TORCH SWEETS COLOURING CONTEST IST PRIZE OF $150/- We* Chwee Benf 14 yrs. 2M, Rangoon Road Singapore 2ND PRIZE OF $100/- Teo Teck Llm I, Lorong S4, Geylanf Singapore,. 3RD PRIZE OF 50/- Arthur Onf II jrs. 8, Bullet Road Singapore. 4TH PRIZE OF
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  • 1671 15 UHOftT BUSTERS Cf Down in the deep Sussex countryside is a 200-year-old farmhouse in which no one will live. Its previous occupiers want to return but believe it to be haunted. So they called in the Sussex Ghost Hunters— a group of men
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    • 163 15 Purchase a home for yourself. Arrangements can be tf| K^mWdaVUml^Vl kOw^^ "^bW r /tiade to buy It on easy terms spread over fifteen years. This Sennett Estate is not just another Building Estate. wW^L^L%^^^^^T3^ V Vv k*t It U the first "Neighbourhood Unit 1 to be built in Malaya. JStt
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  • 709 16 BACK in 1752 Benjamin Franklin, Amtrlcan statesman and Inventor, devised a simple method to prove the theory that lightning Is a visible display of electricity. During a thunderstorm, he sent up a kite with a metal key attached and succeeded ln drawing electricity from the sky to
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    • 352 16 _t y^* r You've dreamed el lovelier curves and the beautiful lift ol maidenffirm} MaidenetU irtung figures get a wonderful lift from Maidcnform'a Mali. enette! Dainty yet so curvo controlling, Msidenetta* gives superb support and figurt sop. aration. Come choose your* today! In your favorite fabric*. Cenuine Maidenform bras* alerts
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    • 457 16 End Rheumatism While You Sleep If 70a suffer shar« stabbing pains, 8 fJUuHfii Joints axs swollsa. firi iTitW shows your blood r '-^Ji lia polsonsd tbrouca rtv; <°oaaaa7 f alt y kidney action. j\s'T''W& Other symptoms of **Vfc'. t .<J?W Kidney Disorders tre Bsoksohs, Aehlna Joints and Limbs, Boistloa, Nsurltls.
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    • 216 16 I P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE TENDERS will be received at th« Office of the State ""y* v Johore, up to NOON of tha 15th October. 1951, for (a) th« supply and delivery of Granite Metal from Buklt Mor Quarry, Muar. for period from 20 10.il to 19.4.1952. (b) the supply and
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    • 306 16 There's nev£»' been a soap fito T*» 'Action' toap which givtt yom m buoyancy in your bath, and m tabling freihntss that stays witk ym mil day long v t»* a Wright^W COAL TAR §oap WMGHT'SISMGHTFOKEvtRTON A iO ■dEAI FOR TOILET. BATH. AND NUKSERT SINGAPORE rS foot s-sa teoTiti- i
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  • 210 17 iThe High Commissioner believed in Immediately after signing his Document of Office as High Commissioner in Kuala Lumpur on October 6, )948 (top picture). Sir Henry Curney got down to his job. He believed In seeing things for himself and In the past three years f-.e
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 240 17 I and feeas you^^____j Silvikrin Lotion viithOil is a complete hair treatment in itself. It supplies the natural oils which dry hair lacks; it acts as a dressing as well as a health giving lotion; it contains pure Silvikrin, the hair's natural food. A few minutes* daily massage with f~~^~~-^4(^{
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    • 356 17 SMJHm HASM7 JHMK/M6 MM P/tOGXiSS Lu^^Ut^^^^LJ^JTMClMMy. PLEASE MAY I STAY^ DOT SAMMY. YOU HAD Wt&* BH AT HOME TOOAV. IOOW'T AHOUOAYYESTCRDAY.k f~~nh\ TTtl TIT I Ir&fl LW fl rE f- LIKE GOIVGTOSCHOOIJ YOUMEVEP. WAMTEPTO hyjl lllf 7 J.| fvou wwow. DARLINC.A I THE DOCTOR FROM SA\WY HAS DEEM i^, y
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    • 122 17 POPULAR CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1. Defunct. 7, Fifth. 11. Ices. 12, lodine. 13. Threads. 14. Funds. 16. Cord. 17, Essences. 19. Fret. 20. Defy 21. Enter. 24 Sofa. 26. Sister. 38. Potent. 31 Heel. 33 Refer. 34. Apse. 36 Lock. 38. Betrayal. 40. Taps. 42 Brier. 43. Novices. 44. Lathes. 45,
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  • 863 18 OLYMPIC SPIRIT HAS SURVIVED IN KOREA KOREA would likt to compete in th« 1952 Helsinki Olympic Camos. Behind that statement lies one of the greatest struggles against adversity ever known in international sport. Korean Olympic $«cr«tary, Won Soon Lee, in a letter from Seoul to the president of the International
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    942 18  -  MANNING BLACKWOOD MOTORING IN MALAYA By II ST why the price of J petrol went down last week, in the midst of all this Persian trouble is a mystery to me. Nevertheless, it is a pleasant surprise that the cost of ANYTHING connected with motoring should go
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  • 193 18  - Did this player see red? FRED DAVIS ■a IJNUSUAL projitm crop- ped up recently when the Billiards Association and Control Council were asked whether a colour-blind player was entitled to ask the referee the colours of the snooker balls during a frame It had been held that the referee would
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  • 906 19 IJEO Chwee Kok, of the Chinese Swimming Club, has practically assured himself of a place in the Singapore contingent to the Olympic Games next year when he returned recordbreaking times in the 100, 200 and 400 metres free style events at the annual Singapore Amateur
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  • 143 19 by JIM CHAMBERS. 'J'OMMY Farr. veteran Welsh heavyweight who "keeps rolling along," wants to fight Hem Ten Hoff, German holder of the European heavyweight title. Tommy thinks he can whip the big German and by doing so get a crack at -the British heavyweight crown
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  • 49 19 ADELAIDE. Sat. Beau Cavalier, an odds on favourite ridden by 52-year-old Jockey A. Medhurst, today won the £1.200 South Australian Derby at Morphettville. Beau Cavalier beat Remover (1 1-8) by two lengths. Duramlnt (14-1) was a fur .her four lengths away third of five starters. Reuter.
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  • 33 19 IPOH. Sat. Playing a better game throughout the Sturrock Club created an upset In Ipob league hockey by beating the much fancied Police f.rst team by four goals to one.
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  • 398 19 QNCK again the Singapore Cricv ket Club nad to rely on the cure and steady boot of their iullback, Max Parker, to pull them through to an unsatisfactory and not very convincing nine point* (a try and two penalties) to six (two penalties) win over
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  • 318 19 Combined Services 3; Singapore Civilians Z. lyiTH a last-minute goal by Suleiman, Combined Services wrested the Tay Li/n Teck Shield from Singapore Civilians' three-year grip by three goals to two at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. A crowd or about 3, sou turned up for the Poppy
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  • 282 19 UK. soccer results \;^terday were: ENGLISH LEAGUE— DIV. I Bolton 1 Kandrrland 1 Burnlry 2 Blackpool Charlton 2 Liverpool tulham 2 Portsmouth 3 Manchester r. 2 Derby Co. 1 Middlesbrough 0 Chelsea Newcastle 3 Wolvo Preston 2 Arsenal o Stoke 4 Aston Villa 1 Tottenham 1 Manchester
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  • 62 19 JOHORE BAHRU. Sat.— Displaying all-round superiority, the Naval Base XV today defeated South Johore Rugby Football Club by 30 points (three goals. one penalty goal, four tries) to nine (two penalty goals and one try). The Naval Base XV always got the ball in
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  • 18 19 Indian Recreation Club and RAi 1 Changi meet in a soccer friendly at Changi today.
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  • 200 19 by JIM CHAMBERS. ENGLAND'S Inept soccer show against France at Arsenal Stadium on Wednesday, when the French held the home team to a 2-2 draw and went very close to being the first foreign team to beat England onh eer own territory, was as big
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    • 374 19 No Need To Pit Up With RHEUMATIC PAIN including B ill Rheumatism Start nilng Laatigen "C for loyful rtliwf. NeOntlS Ln£Z sJfh Sciatica 2£.° iL L«™bago burning pa.n RbrO*itls in joints and muscles, who spend sleep-^^^^^ leas nights tossing and turning to get relief, this Bittsre.. -»Vk. Bfecli« Scienufic evidence
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    • 329 19 the Range with tomorrow's features! lloffat Debutante Once again Moffat leads the way with an entirely new concept in range design combined with tbe latest automatic feature* for your cooking convenience. Examine this beautiful yet eminently practical and etf icienl Moffat Debutante Range in our store. See how tbe automatic
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  • 2824 20  -  EPSOM JEEP From Tara Street noses out Privateer IPOH, Saturday. "DEST Bet (late Viewfinder), a game and genuine three-year-old by Panorama out of Paravane, snatched a dramatic short-head victory from the heavily backed Pink Gin in the $25,000 Perak Gold Vase
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  • 47 20 Total Pool $536,200 First: No. *****1 ($155,860) Second: No. 171*13 ($77,930) Third: No. *****1 ($38,965) Starters ($3,896 each): Nos. *****0. *****7, *****1, *****9. *****1. *****4. *****1, *****3. *****8 *****5. CONSOLATION PRIZES (SI. OOO each): Nos. *****1. *****8. *****2. *****7 *****5. *****9, *****8 *****7. *****4. *****3.
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  • 76 20 Singapore Engineer Regiment, winners of the Parker Cup for toccer and runners-up for the Army Cup, yesterday added another trophy to their collection when they beat Netajl Memorial P.C. by 6-I. to win the) Jal Hind Cup donated by Mr. A. J. Nathan. The cup
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  • 76 20 RAFFLES Institution won both their rugby matches against Johore English College on the R.I. ground yesterday. Th* Ist XV woo by 12 points (two tries and two penalty goals) to nil. Rajasinghe and Syed Abdul Rahman scored the tries. Sidek bin Ismail converted both
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  • 45 20 RASC 'A' beat RMP by six points to three In a rugger match at Nee Soon yesterday Scorers for RASC were: CSMI. Robblns who scored a penalty and an unonverted try by Sgt. Miles. L/Opl. Davles scored a penalty for R.M.P.
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  • 32 20 A soccer friendly will be played on the Depot Gate ground at the Naval Base at 5.15 p m today between Western Depot Malaya XI and Kota Raja "A."
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  • 31 20 The SRC beat RAP. Seletar 6-0 In a First Division S.H.A. 'fixture on the Padang yesterday. The scorers were: A. Clark (2), B. Coutts and B. Marks.
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  • 257 20 gIQGK3T donation thU wet to the Slngapor* Badminton Mall Fund was 91,000 from T. T. Mitchell Co. LUI. President of the Slngapor* Badminton Association, Mr. Llm Chuaa Geok, told the Sunday Times yesterday that now that building has started on th* hall and an
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