The Straits Budget, 3 July 1947

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    30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES \ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] Series No. 48. Singapore, Thursday, July 3rd. 1947 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or I ah.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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      62 1 The SINGAPORE FREE PRESS has the largest nett sale of any afternoon newspaper published in Malaya The Singapore Free Press is the oldest established newspaper in Singapore. It recommenced publication in May last and its smart presentation of news has made an immediate appeal to the reading public. For advertising
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  • The Straits Budget
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      One Bomb Will Finish Us
      1060 2 —Straits Times, June 26. Singapore will be honoured today by the presence of the brilliant genera who is known to the whole Biitish nation as “Monty.” The name of Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery will ever be associated with the victory of Alamein. D-day on the Normandy
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      “Synthetic Be Damned”
      939 2 —Straits Times, June 27. One of those admirable fulllength studies of American business and industry in which Fortune magazine specialises was devoted in a recent issue to the present position of synthetic in relation to natural rubber, and a condensation of that article has been published in
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      $12-A-Month Houses
      887 2 —Straits Times. Wf The only town in Malaya where Government is actually building nouses is Kuala Lumpur. Two hundred pre-fabricated houses of a temporary type have been built a site in Sungei Besi Road which is the first Government housing estate in the country. Two hundred houses is
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      Demos At The Key-hole
      679 2 —Straits Times, June 30. In the col n JL reac democratic r f f0 i0 J a Bil the stage of provide for th( r^tsla members of tne pU bli Council having he m ui this month. But u paUty of f inga^ re no sign
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      Embargo On Rubber
      1113 3 —Straits Times, July 1. It was peculiarly appropriate that the telegram which the United Planting Association of Malaya sent to the Governor of the Malayan Union last week-end should have reached His Excellency while he was visiting Johore, the largest rubber-growing State in the Malay Peninsula and
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      Saving Dollars On Bread
      1086 3 —Straits Times, July 2. It must have come as a surprise to most people to read ln their newspapers yesterday that the cost of subsidies on rice, flour and sugar to the Malayan Union and Singapore Governments during the first five months of this year was
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    LEGAL EXAMS IN MALAYA
    94 3 From Our Own Corresooadont KUALA LUMPUR, Juno 28. THE Michaelmas Bar Examination will again be held at Kualu Lumpur only from Sept. 22 to Sept. 26. Candidates who wish to enter for these examinations chould write immediately by air mail to the Secretary, Council of Legal
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    CHANGED JOBS
    43 3 From Our Own Correspondent. KUANTAN, Sat.—Raja Mahmud, of the Department of Agriculture, Seremban, has assumed the* duties of Agricultural Officer, Pahang East, in place of Mr. D. Gord n Junes, who has gone to Seremban as State Agricultural Officer. Negri Sembllan.
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      38 3 PANCHERI—On Thursday 26th June, at Bungsar Hospital. Kuala Lumpur, to Mary, wife of P. J. Gibbs Pancheri. a son. MITCHELL. To Cora, wife of A. W Mitchell, at Bungsar Hospital. K. Lumpur, on June 29th, a son.
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      246 3 The engagement Is announced between Mr. D. S. Kannangara of Passler Panjong, Singapore, and Miss Mabel Perera the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. Perera of Johcre Bahru. Capt HJF MACKRELL RA S/COMD JM LIDDLE ATS. The engagement is announced between HARRY JOHN FULLARD only aon of
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      MARRIAGES
      108 3 MARTIN—STANTON. June 23rd at St. James Church. Bydney by Rev. Davidson, Beryl daughter of the late Mr. A Mrs. Richard Stanton of Sydney, Australia, to Edward Cecil Martin of Sime, Darby A Co.. Ltd., Penang, Malaya, youngest son of Mrs. Edith Martin and the late Mr. F. W. Martin
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    77 3 DEATHS BROWNING. On 20th June. 1947, at the Westminster Hospital. London. Douglas Browning. Manager of Sungei Tukong Estate. ’South Johore. Mr. Cheong Yok Chong nassed away at his residence. No. 1. Galloway Road, Kuala Lumpur, on June 25. IN MEMO RI AM NIBBET. In ever precious memory of mv darling
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    PLEA TO BUILD ON OLD CEMETERIES
    364 4 SINGAPORE, July 2. AN immediate building programme, making use of idle timber, and the acquisition of disused cemeteries and lands, leases for which will shortly expire, are among the suggestions made by Dr. K.-K. Palhy, a former Singapore Municipal Commissioner, in a memorandum which
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    BUS CONDUCTOR ACQUITTED
    171 4 SINGAPORE, July 1. A Singapore Traction Company conductor, Sim Lian Hock, was acquitted on a charge of attempted robbery and causing hurt to Mohamed Amir, at the Assize Court yesterday. It was stated Dy the prosecution that Amir, went to the New World on the night of
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    Singapore Weddings
    302 4 SINGAPORE. July 2. ST. Andrew’s Cathedral was the scene of a charming wedding yesterday wher. Miss Jean tte Jacobs was married Flt.-Lt. H Smith of the R.A.F.V.R of Embarkation Headquarters. The bride, who wore a blue afternoon gown with white shoes and gloves, was given away by Major
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    Death Of Prominent Engineer
    116 4 Prom Our Staff Corresponded KUALA LUMPUR, July 1. AS a mark of respect for the late chief construction engineer of the Malayan Rail jvay, Mr. John Mahony, whose funeral took place yesterday at Cheras Road cemetery railway head offices closed luring the afternoon. Mr Mah.ny died
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    FATE OF 500 TONS OF OIL
    151 4 SINGAPORE. July 2. In the .second Police Court yesterday. Dr. C. H. Withers-Payne asked the Magistrate, Mr. Gon. for information about $500,000 worth of coconut oi mentioned in a case before the court on Monday. He said he believed the Secretary for Economic Affairs
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    Raffles Institution
    97 4 A HISTORY Of Raffles Institution” is the title of a 24-page pamphlet just published in Singapore It r(produces articles contributed to “The Rafflesian” from 1927 to 1929 by Mr. J. B. Neilson, now’ Director of Education. Singapore. Many interesting details of early days in Singapore are given in
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    SILENT MAN SPEAKS AT LAST
    173 4 SINGAPORE, June 27. A MAN who was known to the police and mental hospital staff as the unknown Chinese” because he would not give his name appeared in the Second Police Court yesterday on two charges of murder and attempted murder. His case is to
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    ALLEGED TO HAVE CHANGED RECEIPTS
    85 4 SINGAPORE, July 2. An English-speaking Malay, Webster Noordin, was charged on three counts at the Assizes yesterday before Mr* Justice Brown with falsifying a receipt book while employed by the Tavern, Singapore, in July and September last year. Mr. Chee Soon Keng, managing partner of
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    Gent Thanks Army
    64 4 KUALA LUMPUR. June 27.—A telegram has been despatched by the Governor. Sir Edward Gent, to the G.0.C., Malaya Command, expressing thanks for the help given by Army officers and men in the recent railway disaster in Johore. Another message has been forwarded to the Director of Medical
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    ROBBED OF $2,100 AFTER BANK VISIT
    288 4 T SINGAPORE, June 29. WO armed Chinese robbed a Chinese visitor from the Malayan Union of $2,100 at Moulin''ii Road, Singapore, on Friday afternoon a few hours after he had drawn the money from q bank. The robbers boarded the same taxi as the
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    Two More Alleged Bribery A bettor
    363 4 ALLEGED by the police to n between,” a Food Inspector Mas chav ?1 Singapore Second Police Court ting a prominent Chinese businessman tL in giving a bribe of $14,000 to a Chief v,, 1 T¥ A m T I Police. P(c l e Was
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    OFFICER WEDDING
    28 4 XAIPING, Juni 2<) Licit I* Tomlin, station, s Taiping. and J'|«>■ ATS 1EFI'. S‘ atl0 ”M jM were married u. P I Maj. .1 H ingra"!
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    DECONTROL OF TYRES
    94 4 KUALA LU> pU J oto r jl Decontrol seCon d fl sparCS u-hich came into® motor cars. tod® in the Mala>*JJJ t *s flrs V® to be Govei no ceSS of speeding UP be P ide the S® V was J Controls art t o tra defc®
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
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      “Eviction Bill” For The Landlords
      262 5 Ik rather strange that Bill which is > nt^® SB, landlords so mucn ■Lto increase rents and K tenants snould be t he Control of Rent ■should it not he rightly Hj •.The Increase of Kent KJon of Tenants Bill?” w r e plentiful, such
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      Words From Tenant
      302 5 u Singapore Government proposes to introduce a 0 ena ble the landlords to a twenty per cent inse in rent. are unable to J2 rhyme or reason for the Srn^ Cr se exce Pt that ls on the side of moneyed class. iblf> e n roposed incr
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      Right To Turn Out A Tenant
      229 5 PERMIT me to express ap predation of your editorial on the Rent Control Bill which provides for a twenty per cent increase in rents and gives the property owner new rights (under Clause Six) to turn out a tenant. This latter clause, if passed
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      New Cars & Abuses
      195 5 New Cars Abuses IF the Car Allocation Priority 1 Board were to decide to relieve themselves of their most irritating and distasteful duty, it would be much better for all concerned. Certain officials and other prii P? rson s. have found no difficulty in buying new cars and selling them
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      Our Rice News
      85 5 FROM time to time there appear in your papers references to the rice situation, and one reads such headlines as “Rice Situation Serious,” “Rice Situation May be Easier, “Siam May Export More Rice,” “Siam May Not Export More Rice,” etc. etc. All this is somewhat puzzling. Is
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      Some home truths from a ship’s captain
      352 5 AS members of a shipping community, the citizens of Singapore will no doubt be interested in the following recital of facts. This ship, of which I am the master, lay in the roads for a week awaiting a berth alongside to commence discharge.
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      ‘The protest of a few’
      196 5 STATE lotteries are NOT immoral if they are run for the benefit of humanity. We know that euthanasia—the medical term for easy death—is practised in the medical profession, though the fact is often concealed. This is illegal, but a doctor is sometimes willing to risk
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      80 Cents A Day
      253 5 I LIVE at Rumah Miskin. About a week ago I returned from K.L. and was surprised to learn that I had to pay 20 cents now for a ride to town. As I have to go home for my mid-day meals, my transport bill is 80
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      ‘Synthetic Be Damned:’ warning on rubber
      557 5 rERE are several comments in your leader of June 27 entitled “Synthetic Be Damned” which I feel I cannot allow to pass unchallenged. (1.) I cannot accept your remark that comments made by American rubber men and in American periodicals can be regarded as
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      Landlords’ Turn
      78 5 Landlords Turn rNANTS who may be asked to pay an extra 20 per cent, rent are already crying about it, but it is high time landlords got some protit. Many “tenants” are making nice profits sub-letting houses, reaping high rentals and considerable tea money. And the rent has not been
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    Water-cress: A Good Salad Vegetable
    541 6  -  Grow Your Own Vegetables By J. N. MILSUM and J.R.P. SOPER of the Department oj Agriculture, Malaya AMONG the several garden crops which may be grown for salads on the lowlands watercress should be a gene ral favourite, especially small gardens. It is a perennial
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    Health Officer On S’pore Conditions
    587 6 JF any scheme for the treatment of tuberculosis is brought into force, poor results can only be expected, unless it takes into consideration the question of provision of healthy, non-overcrowded bo”-*- accommodation and suitable employment for “cured” cases, declares the Singapore Municipal Health Officer, Hr.
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    2,000 SAGO MEN MAY STRIKE
    68 6 From Our Own Correspondent Penang, June 29.—A proposal by sago mills to cut down wages by 50 per cent may lead to a strike by 2,000 sago workers in North Malaya. The mills gave notice of the proposed reduction two weeks ago, but negotiations have
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    NOT GUILTY
    43 6 SINGAPORE, June 28. Four Sikhs who were charged with robbery and causing hurt to another Sikh, Bian Sir.gh, w p re discharged by Mr. Justice B. Brown at the Singapore Assize Court yesterday. A common jury unanimously found them not guilty.
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    BLUE FLASH IN THE SUN
    1004 6 A Malayan Countryman ’s Diary 'l l' AN DJ ON the estate a few days ago, I thought I had found another Fairy Blue Bird’s nest. A bird crossed my path, at face level, which looked to me very blue in colour. Its flight was
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    LORRIES IN HEAD-CRASH IN JOHORE
    80 6 Sundav T,n < H RU. Jun JOHOR E r 7injurf| Two a naval morning "j gahrj coming to ,l h j. a d-on c0 !l Scudai was 1 i,*rry c ,n with a civilian Chinese lKU l, r r< > unhur Both v .-re injured
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    TWO WAYS OF PROPAGATING PLANTS, TREES IN MALAYA
    1405 7  -  Tfip Malayan Gardener By R. E. HOLTTUM Director of The Botanic Gardens Singapore ■temperate countries ■there is a ft g time to piopa plants because of ■.Ling weather conSome plants reft propagating in the fte (usually soft K plants), but hard Kts
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    Pole-climbing Is An Art
    453 7 Planter’s Wife A SPORT requiring a great deal of practise is pole climbing and we are trying to revive it on the estate. There was a very interesting exhibition of it recently in the territory by some Indian troops. For superb control of muscle there cannot
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    Landlord Attacks Rent Bill
    323 7 SINGAPORE, July 1. THE Rent Control Bill, which will be introduced in the Singapore Advisory Council, should provide that no subtenant can, without the written permission of the owner, sub let the premises or any part let to him, a prominent Singapore property owner, Mr. S.
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    Pilot Says Dutch Fired On Him
    685 8 SINGAPORE, June 28. AN Australian pilot of an Avro-Anson civil aircralt has alleged to diplomatic and immigration officials in Singapore that Dutch troops fired on his aircraft as he took off without permission from Banka Island airfield last week. Last night he told the
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    CHINESE GO HOME
    145 8 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, June 27. A REPATRIATION ship sent by the Chinese Government is expected at Penang shortly to take 500 Chinese irom Penang and Province Wellesley back to their native villages. The Chinese Consul, Mr. N. K. Lee, announcing this today, said the repatriates
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    Arrest At Scene Of Train Crash
    344 8 0™ SINGAPORE, June 28. NE of five men found on Thursday night walking along the railway line at the scene of the derailment of the Kuala The tindal in charge of the guards said he heard two shots fired during the chase. The man
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    POSSESSED STOLEN LIQUOR
    243 8 SINGAPORE, Juno 28. STATING that there were discrepancies in the prosecution evidence, the District Judge, Mr. E. P. Shanks, yes terday acquitted Ahmad bin Toromo, Said bin Hamid, Gieo bin Tokoromo and Arthur Vatsaloo on charges of dishonestly retaining 82 cases of wine and 27 bags of
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    PRICE OFFENCE
    60 8 SEGAMAT, June 26.—A shapkeepei of Batu Anam, Lim Ah Chong, was fined $125 in the District Crurt on Tuesday for overcharging 45 cents on a tin of butter and dealing in butter without the necessary licence. Lim said he did not know the price of butter was controlled.
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    M.A.H.A. Exhibition
    37 8 KUALA LUMPUR, June 27.—The Coronation Park, close to the Victoria Institution, will be the venue of the Malayan Agri-Horticultural Association exhibition which will be held during the August holidays. from August 2 to August 4
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    Keener Interest In Food Crops
    251 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, June 27. THE Department of Agriculture, in its general report on all districts for May, states that, in Perak central, it is estimated that approximately 1,200 acres are under vegetables, maize, groundnut, soya bean, sweet potato and ragi. These
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    LADY DENTIST GETS SURGERY
    66 8 From Our Staff Correspondent. PENANG, June 26.—A woman dentist and midwife tyho said she wanted the ground floor of her residence as a dental surgery was yesterday granted permission to eject her subtenants from the premises. The applicant, Teh Cheng Siew told the Rent Board that
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    Australian Bride
    69 8 MELBOURNE, June 25. Lieut. Col. Geoffrey Mander-Jones. Yorks and Lancs., here on leave from Singapore, was married ihis afternoon at Toorak Presbyterian Church, Melbourne. His bride was Miss Daisy Balfour, well-known in social circles. He met her in Adelaide. She is the daughter of the late Mr. J.M.
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    Ceylon Military Police For Malaya
    259 8 THAT a military corps hitherto uJu n J ne J 1 country will serve in Singapore and I# 1 Union in the future is revealed in an t, he ,a l lease received by the Straits Times la«t m> L pres The release states: es
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    LADY GENT PAYS TRIBUTE
    205 8 From Our Own Corre^Don® Johore Bahru. June 27.* Gent paid tribute, yesterday| reception given in her hon* the good work being done Johore Women's Service Lea* The Johore branch is they* est member of the organ* which is now established a* Malaya. M There are seven
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    Ipoh Wedding
    59 8 Ipon -M IPOH, June Mu nJ 1 of Major D Jj n ders.to| the Cameron High»J place! H. M. E. Leigh ndrew's yesterday at St. white I The bride wo* e d* wedding d,es, a rU ssels v 5hJ lines, and a bv the l0 f* was given
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    PENANG CUTS ROAD LIGHTING
    232 9 [’null Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, June 25. Penang Municipal Commissioners have decided use less powerful street lamps in Penang in to save electricity and keep within the budget. he street lamps are at present of 100 watts each a result of this decision they will be
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    Venus Was Broken Hearted
    142 9 BnGAPORE. June 26. Brv 26-year-old Venus Bn?, whom Court Ins- Yeo Hm Chiat desI as "broken hearted ■esolate." drank a cup Kstic soda and was Bin agony by her lover ■r servant on Saturday Bdman Road. She was to hospital where she Bed. B w ho
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    am Drive In Cost Of Living
    124 9 Ur 0wn C "^respondent Bangkok, June 25. K'f c rnment is t0 mm measures to Wb* the high cost of EL- Pans increased r^‘ n and a t^htenljnP nations against u, i» fther, recently he Mekon S Into ind-, pm rlCe smu s* inao
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    WORLD NEEDS FRIENDSHIP
    154 9 SINGAPORE, June 26. Rotary International held its installation meeting with a dinner at the Adelphl Hotel last night when the retiring President, Mr. S. H. Peek, handed over to Mr. S. S. Franklin. Mr. Peek said: “In these troubled days, It Is friendliness and nelghbourliness that the
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    Film Shows In Teachers’ ‘Refresher’
    205 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, June 25. PE Chinese school teachers who are attending the refresher course for Chinese teachers at the Davidson Road Chinese school, Kuala Lumpur, this week will see special educational films screened for them by the De partment of Public
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    Consul’s Party
    40 9 PENANG, June 25, The opening of the new Siamese Consulate in Penang was marked yesterday evening by a cocktail party given by the Consul, Mr. C Suwannathat. The Resident Commissoner and members of the Consular Corps were present.
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    Home For Aged
    105 9 Ipoh, Wednesday.—The Ipoh Welfare Committee decided at it* monthly meeting yesterday that the home for the aged at Lung Thau Ngam, on the Chemor Road, shall again become the responsibility of the Chinese community as it was before the war. Since its re-establishment the home has been
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    Well-Known Horse Owner Dies
    168 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, June 25. Mr. Cheong Yok Chong, Kuala lurnpur, planter, miner, banker and racehorse owner, died at his house in Galloway Road this morning after two weeks illness. He was 63. He was the brother of Mr. Cheong Yok Choy, O.B.E.,
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    Mixed Reception For Rent Bill
    827 9 SINGAPORE, June 26. JJNANIMOUS opposition from the employee and tenant classes greeted the proposed Rent Control Bill, which will empower landlords to raise rents, according to representative views given to the Straits Times yesterday. On the other hand, opinion from a number of prominent Singapore
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    MYSTERY OF PRIEST’S DEATH
    142 9 SINGAPORE, June 26. THE chief kathi (Malay priest) of Batu Pahat Haji Masood bin H. Zainal Abeedeen, had been murdered by a person or persons unknown in Muscat Street, Singapore, on June 5, the Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter, found at an inquiry yesterday into
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    JOHORE TRAIN WRECK WAS DUE TO SABOTAGE
    1979 10 Singapore, June 26 A senior Malayan Railway official said that he suspected that saboteurs in Johort on Tuesday night caused the derailment ot a mail train that killed three people and injured 16 others. The official is the Senior Assistant Traffic Superintendent, Singapore,
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    Malaya Like British Film
    31 10 He instanced th P Singapore of “tu SUe 9 Glory “i n *«...,Jeirj f and “The \Vay h »h J*'* 1 liked best H Patra." followed^,..*" 1
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    GOVERNOR’S SYMPATHY
    64 10 From Our Own Correspond* KUALA LUMPUR, June The following telegram has sent by the Governor. Sir« Gent, to the General Mai Malayan Railway. “I am distressed to near < accident in Johore to tn mail train from Singapore at loss of life and injuries have been incurred. “Please
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    BOR Stole 118 Case Of ‘Smokes’-Gaoled
    177 10 SINGAPORE. June IOHN THOMAS WELLS, a B.O.R. of No. 6* ■J' M R.A.S.C. was convicted and s n e 2i ir ,t Dist months’ rigorous imprisonment in the ri bre Court, yesterday, on a charge of cnn rty of trust of 118 cases of
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    Johore Royalty Among Injured
    496 11 *y nm Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, June 26. pr mcmlH' rs of the royal house of Johore were ihe victims of the mail train crash on jnong 11,1 arc lying injured in the general hospital w e Bahru but are recovering. One of them K
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    Inquiry On Disaster
    249 11 V Our Staff ('on espondent LUMPUR, June 26. official inquiry is to be pld into the cause of the Py d saster wh'ch occur|t Bukit Tengah station, f ee Wellesley, o n May 21, u people wore killed. 0 !!rI S r cr u Uiry has ordered
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    SAMSU CHARGE
    45 11 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, June 26.—8 ail in $l,OOO with two sureties was offered Tan Lai. a 23-year-old Chinese woman of Kampong Java, charged before Che Hamid bln Mustapha in the District Court with possession of a large quantity of illicit samsu.
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    POLICE PRAISE FOR CITIZENS
    220 11 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, June 26. A CHINESE who came ail the way fiom South Siam to give information about certain piracy suspects was praised by the Chief Folice Officer in a statement issued today. The man made the trip at his own expense, the
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    SOCIAL WELFARE CONFERENCE
    92 11 SINGAPORE. June 27. Speaking at the East-West Society. last night. Mr. T. E. Hughes. Deputy Secretary of the Social Welfare Department, disclosed that a social welfare conference was being planned to be held in Singaoore by Lord Kilearn in August this year to which all countries in
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    Court Quashes Nine Death Sentences
    284 11 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, June 26. EIGHTEEN elderly Chinese under sentence d ath for their part in the “Bekor massacre” of Malays in March last year, today heard the Chie us f lc *jVtH. C. Willan, quash the sentence on nine of their number.
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    GUN FELL DURING FIGHT
    131 11 SINGAPORE, June 26. SENTENCE of seven years’ rigorous imprisonment was imposed on Tan Joon Teck by Mr. Justice Brown at the Assize Court yesterday. Tan was found guilty on two charges of carrying a Japanese pistol and being in unlawful possession of four rounds of ammunition.
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    LOST WATCH, LUCKY FIND
    164 11 SINGAPORE, June 26. A few hours after he had been robbed of his watch. Goh Teck Kee walked into the Havelock Road police station to find the thief and another man wearing his watch in the custody of the police. In the Third Police Court yesterday,
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    MALAY GAMES
    67 11 TAIPING, June 25.—The Sultan of Perak has continued his endeavour to revive Malay games by sponsoring a sepak raga competition at Kuala Kangsar. Eighteen teams from all over the state took part and the Sultan distributed the prizes to the Leggong, Ipoh and Kuala Kangsar teams, who were
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    MAN DIES IN 60-FT. FALL
    58 11 PENANG, June 25. Dropping from a height, of about 60 feet, a 20 year old Chinese patient fell to his death from the second floor of the new block of the general hospital last night The man was picked up in a dying condition and
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    S’pore Merchants Accept Offer
    369 11 SINGAPORE, June 27. SINGAPORE Chinese merchants had accepted the offer of Glds. 500,000 made by the Netherlands Indies Government as compensation for the seizure of six cargo ships, the chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Lee Kong Chian, said yesterday. This acceptance of the
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    HAJI GETS GAOL
    146 11 SEGAMAT, June 26.—A 70-year-old Malay Hajl was sent to prison for ten weeks in the Segamat District Court on Tuesday for extortion from a widow of 50. The man, Haji Lawang, alias Haji Abdul Rahim, first induced the woman, Aminah binte Abu Bakar, to leave her home
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    Hawkers Rounded Up
    52 11 SEREMBAN, June 26. -Six Chinese men and two women were fined $lO each by the Seremban magistrate yesterday on admitting they were unlicenced street hawkers. A total of four piculs oi rice was confiscated. They were arrested in a surprise mid-day raid by police on hawkers in
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    Four Women Watch Japanese Hang
    446 12 SINGAPORE, June 27. FO Chinese women who saw three Japanese war criminals hanged at Changi Gaol yesterday said that they doubted if the Japanese were really dead. The women were Miss Li Poay Keng, 29, chairman of the Singapore Women’s Mutual Aid Victims Association, and
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    STUDENT RETURNS
    45 12 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, June 26—Che Joharl bin Mohamed Daud, Kedah student who just returned from England, is leaving shortly for Kuala Lumpur to Join the Veterinary Department Che J 2 harl went to England in Edlnbui^h tUdled at OlasKoW and
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    INCOME TAX TALKS
    156 12 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, June 29. LEADING Chinese associations in Penang will dis cuss income tax at a meeting which will be held shortly. The meeting will be called by the Penang Chinese Chamber of Commerce and a sub-committee has been appointed to arrange it The
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    LORRY DRIVERS MAKE PROTEST
    118 12 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, June 28MORE than 160 lorry drivers plying along thg Penang waterfront have appealed against the rejection of their vehicles as “decrepit and unsuitable for the public roads Of 30 vehicles only two passed a recent test, and the drivers through their
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    BACK AT WORK FOUNDRY STRIKERS
    38 12 IPOH, Thursday. More than 100 foundry workers who have been on strike for nearly a month returned to work yesterday. The men will get increases ranging from 30 to 90 cents per day.
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    ARRIVED IN S’PORE
    247 12 SINGAPORE, June 27. SEVENTY-FIVE passengers disembarked in Singapore yesterday by the Blue Funnel ship Charon from Fremantle. Mrs. L. Ardagh, Mrs. M. Arnold. Mr. P T. Balias. Mrs. K. C. Burns and child. Mrs. N. A. Bulford. the Rev 1. E. Currie and Mrs. Currie, Miss I.
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    TODDY SHOPS
    39 12 SEGAMAT, June 26. The closing down of all Government toddy shops in the District was discussed at a meeting of the Segamat Licensing B:ard and it was decided to take up the matter again within three months
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    Soldiers Fight Over Ronggeng Girl
    298 12 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, June 26. FUR locally recruited members of the Royal Army Service Corps, Glugor, heard their commanding officer testify on their behalf in a case in which they were convicted of fighting together over a ronggeng girl. The commanding officer, Major
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    ‘Social Parasite’ Gaoled
    61 12 PENANG, June 28.—For stealing $lB from a Malay outside the Windsor Cinema. Wong Chee, of Ipoh, has been fined $5OO and sent to prison for six months. This will be followed by one year’s police supervision. In passing sentence, the Third Magistrate, Mr. J.P. Blackledge. told Wong,
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    PEACEFUL NEGRI SEMBILAN
    251 12 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, June 26. THE Resident Commissioner of Negri Sembilan, Mr. W. A. Gordon-Hall, yesterday described Negri Sembilan as perhaps the most peaceful and contented state in Malaya.” He was giving a farewell message before his departure on five months’ home leave. Since the
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    WELFARE WEEK IN NEGRI
    237 12 Fr m P" r 0w CoriKrJ seremban A PROGHAMMEo^J f* and social activiSfl been arranged t 0 funds in connection I Negri Sembilan’j "J Week, which will te vim July 6 to July IS ektU The sum of $60,000 is ,,M for the purpose 0 f
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    “CLOSED SHOP” AIM
    120 12 SINGAPORE, June M STRIKE leaders at a Sifl pore factory are tryifl introduce a “closed sfl They want any new erapi® 10 be approved by them. B The factory is the HoBfl Oil Mills, one of the bigfl manufacturers of coconut oil* ducts in Malaya, where 140
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    BIG GROWTH IN TAPPED AREA!
    126 12 From Our S.alT KUALA LUMPUR. J M Latest statistics issu d incr efl Malayan Union show J® rl fl in the area of tapp l7 amounting to nea-l acres, be:ween January end of Mr.y. ted a cr* Of the total esti Estates of W of
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    K.L. ARREST OF TWO ESCAPEES
    281 13 From Our Staff Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR, JUNE 29. I rc of the nine Chinese who broke out of Itlam Road Gaol, Singapore, on June 16 were Ed in Kuala Lumpur this evening in a carefully El Vi Ee men are Lam Wa Sang, a
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    MEMORIAL TO GREAT TEACHER
    234 13 I!T Own Correspondent 1P0H, June 29. ORIAL tablet to th* Mr. William Har *a$ unveiled in the all of the Malay Colala Kangsar, yester he end of the school’s twar athletic sports, iighnesses the Sultans Selangor. Negri SemPahang. who are old \e college, were present, iident
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    “MISS SINGAPORE” FOR 2ND TIME
    66 13 I HofeoRE, j un e 30. Hiss sf n T h was elected «me if?u 0re x f °r the beautiful hc New World ’’•"'Petition hwel«ht-lift- Ho held last night. 1 "on the title In d%’3j. by the u P/esented last Chinese J'Mr.w?iV M rs.
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    Eurasian Unity
    133 13 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, June 29. SPEAKING at the annua. meeting of the Selangor Eurasian Association today, the President, Dr. J. S. Goonting warned Eurasians tha* only i n unity would they have the answer to the problems facing them in a new political Malaya. “You
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    H’Quarters Coming To Penang
    137 13 -Reuter. LONDON, June 29. rE headquarters of the India and South-East Asia district of the Imperial War Graves commission, now in Delhi, will shortly be moved to Penang. The commission are now undertaking the task of contruction and maintenance of more than 30 new military cemeteries
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    BRUNEI DENIAL BROOKE REPLY
    172 13 SINGAPORE, June 30. An emphatic denial that the British Government intended to annexe the Sultanate of Brunei, in North Borneo, was made by the Governor-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, on Saturday night. He made the denial after the ex-Rajah Muda of Sarawak, Mr. Anthony Brooke, had stated
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    CHINESE AND WIFE MURDERED
    46 13 From Our Own Correspondent TELUK ANSON, Saturday. A brutal murder of a Chinese shopkeeper and his wife is reported from Parit Bahru, near the village of Sungei Ayer Tawar, close to the mcuth of the Beriftm River. Both had received bullets wounds.
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    WARNING TO SCHOOL TEACHERS
    234 13 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, June 29. rACHERS in Government schools in the Malayan Union have been reminded that the teaching of sectiona 1 or party politics or the exhibition of pictures or slogans in support of such politics are not allowed within schools. Applications
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    CHINESE WOMAN TO HANG
    100 13 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, June 29. A CHINESE woman whose appeal against a death sentence failed in Ipoh yesterday will, it is believed, be the first woman in Malaya to be hanged. She is Liau Kow Kiew. She was sentenced to death for the murder
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    CHILD’S FATAL FALL INTO PIT
    124 13 SINGAPORE, June 29. THE theory that two-year-old Heather Gay Lees, daughter of Squadron Leader and Mrs. W. G. Lees, of Pasir Panjang Hill, Singapore, slipped and fell into an open pit in the compound of an adjoining house was put forward by the investigating officer,
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    Used Car Sales To Be Freed
    107 13 From Our Staff Correspondent) KUALA LUMPUR, June 29. IT &b understood that control on the sale and distribution, within the Malayan Union, of second hand motor cars and. motor cycles, which have been in use for 12 months or more, will be lifted from
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    QUESTIONED ON PILLIONS
    132 13 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, June 29. The hardships that would attend* the poor and middle class by the enforcement of the new traffic rule forbidding pillion carrying were pointed out to Mr. A. V. Aston at his press conference yesterday. He replied that he would consult
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    More Snake Serum For Malaya
    403 13 From Our Staff Correspondent CUALA LUMPUR, June 29. STOCKS of snake poison serum were available in Malaya and more were expected from pre-war sources of supply, an official of the Medical Department said today. The serum, he said, was the poly—valent type made from tho
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    City Council Bars Press From Debate
    608 14 SINGAPORE, June 28. RESPITE the protest of some members, the Sing-; apore Municipal Commissioners decided by a majority to hold their debate on the future constitution of the Commission behind closed doors yesterday. The Press was requested to leave in the middle of the
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    Two Dead In Motor Accident
    105 14 From Our Own Correspondent PARIT BUNTAR, June 27. Fyo members of the Krian police were killed last night in a motor-cycle accident, near Semanggol. Lance Corporal Hamid bin Jonat was riding a motor cycle with Ko Meng on the pillion. They left Parit Buntar at
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    QUESTION ON MR. GARRETT
    145 14 —Reuter. LONDON, June 27.—The resignation of the Trade Union Adviser In Singapore was raised by Mr. James Henderson Stewart (Lib. Nat.) In the House of Commons today. He asked for the reason, and if the Colonial Secretary. Mr. Creech Jones, would furnish a report on the
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    Clements: Verdict Of Murder
    88 14 Straits Times Copyright From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, June of felo de se and murder were returned today at the Southport inquest on Dr. Robert Clements, a former Malayan, and his fourth wife. Dr. Clements was found dead after the police had stopped the funeral of
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    Plea For 100 Social Workers
    278 14 SINGAPORE, June 28. THE existence of unwashed, uncared for and undernourished children in the streets of Singapore was a thing which no government should permit, said the Secretary for Social Welfare, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, at a press conference yesterday. Mr. McNeioe appealed for
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    75-Year-Old Man On Gang Charge
    221 14 From Our Own Correspondent pE Malay owner of a looted tongkaKld' u A Abdullah in the macristrate’e r»nnr+ Sheikh could identify 75-year-old One- Piah yesterday that he robbed him by a black mole on*the bridge of h* 1 men Who The comnlainant Sudin hi™ lc
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    Free Sugar Flow Into Singapore
    203 14 Free Sugar F low Into Singapore INCREASING imports of 28 1 1 sugar, from Java, are forcing t?!* 1 commodity, in Singapore steadily downwa f l Yesterday, the price of best qualitv I was quoted by importers at between S65 hi ‘e J which represents a drop of about $30
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    Singapore Chinese For Trial
    200 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, June 27. THAN KENG NGOJC and Kong Moon, two Singapore Chinese were today committed by Raja Ayoub, First Magis trate, to stand trial at the next assizes on two charges of robbery and unlawful possession of firearms. The accused, who
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    TEXTILE IMPORTS
    60 14 -Reuter. LONDON, June 27. THE Malayan Union had re1 ceived 4,130,000 yards of Japanese textiles, the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Arthur Creech Jones said in the House of Commons yesterday. 0 s J n 8apore, he said, had import•,126.93 7, yards of Japanese textiles, North Borneo (including Sfnnrtn 78
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    Flood Of Cigarette At Penang
    129 14 rom Our Staff CorresJ r PENANG, jZI O ships have bro J Penang 4,000 cad cigarettes, the biggested ment to leach herg jjjd liberation, "d Local dealers have not J ceived any official inforl about the new prices whn may charge to meet the iid
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    S’PORE CLAIM OF 1942
    127 14 Reuter. LONDON, June 27.-CipJ mans (Conservative) askefl Minister of Defence. Mr.I Alexander, in the House oil mons today if he was awarl claims against the ArmyJ Navy and Royal Air FoJ Messrs. Paskoe Ltd. of Sinl had now been outstanding! than i year. J He asked
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    MALAY GIRL AS TYPISTS
    114 14 From Our Mush in f Ma jn A suggestion that A should study to shorthand-typists M ers was made b> a M fro fl speaker in a radi di0 Singapore station of on Thursday. pe fo* There was much sc m qualified persons in ornD ment
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    Rail Thieves Now Try Sabotage
    497 15 I c.in/lav Times Staff Correspondent I Su KUALA LUMPUR, JUNE 28. I n g with lines and signalling apparatus K ihe Malayan Railway system is believed to r? ee in the attempted assaults on goods ■looters who have not had good pickings in l b)
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    JOHORE-MALAYA CUP MAYER & WIFE DIE IN CRASH
    137 15 JOHORE-MALAYA CUP MAYER WIFE DIE IN CRASH Our Own Correspondent ■DHORE BAHRU. Saturday. jBahava oin Kechut. iormer Malaya Cup soccer and his wife. Khatijan BBMahmod. were knocked By a track belonging to the Service and killed last night while walking toad near their home. truck, alter knocking ■down went on
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    THE TARDE SHOW IN SINGAPORE
    52 15 m to*hl th nver 51,000,000 Exhibit in« Splayed *n the ■app y w n i Singawhich wil1 «°o«te 1 to 17. cars hir,. ran Re from B r aciio s t furniture m an cl can V, fl wers and liter F"te»ttas W pected in
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    BUSINESSMAN HELD
    84 15 AFTER OPIUM RAID From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, June 28A prominent Sungei Patani businessman was detained oy customs officers yesterday, following a big chandu raid in which more than 600 tubes of opium were seized. Led by the Assistant Superintendent of Customs, the raiding party conducted two-hour search
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    IPOH MAKES LIMBS FOR LEGLESS
    309 15 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Jun e 2b. AN artificial limb, light in weight, and suitable in every other way, made locally irom materials readily available, has now reached the stage of production as the result of experiments carried out by the staff of the
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    ST.ANDREW’S SOCIETY
    109 15 A- the annual general meeting of Singapore St. Andrew’s Society held recently, the following office bearers were elected for the current year:— Chieftain: Mr. C- F. Smith, vicechieftain: Mr. A. A. Ewing, Committee MemDers: Mr. A. R. Cameron, Mr. A. M. Dick, Mr. O. Edmond Revd. R. M.
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    Malacca Memorial Will Soon Be Unveiled
    240 15 From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA. June 28. A $13,000 memorial which bears the engraving of four characters of dedication written by sident Chiang will shortly be unveiled in Malac ca in honour of over 600 Chinese victims of Japanese massacre in the settlement. tvinmnri;i
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    Ex-Rajah’s Sarawak Message
    491 15 SINGAPORE, July 1. THIS is the greatest opportunity of progress which Sarawak ever had,” said the former Rajah of Sarawak, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, in a message to the people of Sarawak on the occasion of the first annivery of the cession of the territory to the
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    Malaya Has First Air Hostess
    304 15 SINGAPORE, June 29. THE distinction of being Malaya’s first air hostess has fallen to a Singapore Eurasian girl. She is young, attractive Eileen Rodrigues who will shortly look after the comfort of all air passengers travelling by Malayan Airways planes. Miss Rodrigues’ appointment marks a
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    GAOLED FOR CHEATING
    132 15 SINGAPORE, July 1. A Chinese, Lim Kong Wah, was sentenced to five months’ rigorous imprisonment in the Second Police Court yesterday on a charge of cheating. According to the prosecution, when the proprietor of a shop in Tan Quee Lam Street did not accept the order cheque
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    ‘RELY UPON ME’ —BROOKE
    153 15 To mark July 1, the first anniversary of the cession of Sarawak to the Brtish Crown, the ex-Raiah Muda of Sarawak, Mr. Anthony Brooke, has sent the following message to the Malay National Union, Sarawak, and the Sara al< Dayak Association, for distribution to all 16
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    MUNICIPAL MEN DISSATISFIED
    890 16 SINGAPORE, July 1. MUNICIPAL labourers are dissatisfied with conces- s ions granted by the Municipal Commissioners on the recommendations of the special inquiry committee published a month ago. The committee was set up after the four-week strike of more than 6,000 labourers early this year to determine
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    Dearer Flour And Sugar
    168 16 SINGAPORE, July 1. THE controlled price of flour and sugar in the Malayan Union and Singapore will be increased from tomorrow from 16 cents to 25 cents per kati, of flour and from 20 cents to 32 cents per kati of sugar. An official statement today
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    Prominent Chinese On Bribe Charge
    372 16 SINGAPORE, July L TAN Kok Kheng, son of a leader of the Singapore Chinese community, was charged yesterday morning in the second police court with giving a bribe of $14,000 to a police chief inspector. The magistrate. Mr. L.C. Goh, allowed bail in the sum
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    Chinese Shot Dead
    112 16 SINGAPORE, July 1. AN unidentified Chinese was shot dead by an I.O.R. sentry at the 223 Base Ordnance Depot, Kranji, in the early hours of June 21. Yesterday, the I.O.R. Shadhas Tapps, told the Coroner. Mr. W G Porter, at an enquiry, that after two shots had
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    FIVE ROBBERS ATTACK SHOP
    275 16 SINGAPORE, July 1. FIVE Chinese robbers who forced their way into a Chinese shopkeeper’s premises on Saturday night kicked the shopkeeper and his son, threatened them with death fired several rounds of shots wounding the son, and finally escaped after stealing $7. The shopkeeper’s 22-year-old son,
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    Home Leave
    77 16 SEREMBAN, June 39.-H1C Resident Commissioner. Negri Sembilan. Mr. W. A. Gordon-Hall, left the state yesterday and will be away on five months home leave which he expects to spend on Jersey, in the Channel Isles. During his absence, Mr. E. E. Pengilley, who has been Deputy Resident Commissioner.
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    MILLIONS FOR S’PORE FACTORY
    173 16 SINGAPORE, Juiv 1. 'THE American manufactu--1 rers of Eveready batteries ar e investing several million Straits Dollars on a Singapore factory which is proposed to serve the company’s markets in Malay a and Rurma. Its new subsidiary, National Carbon (Eastern) Ltd., will mainly produce dry cell
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    COMMISSIONERS ‘FEAR CRITICISM’
    474 16 COMMISSIONERS FEAR CRITICISM’ SINGAPORE i i I THE chairman of the Singapore Munirinl/i B tution Committee, Mr. John Lavcnei,, 0 “a large number of Municipal Commissi,,? B ‘diehards who are opposed to elections” •nent to the Straits Times yesterday. a fl Commenting o n the Commissioners' I holding a debate
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    S’pore Chinese Win By 2 Wickets
    549 18 SINGAPORE, June 30. THE Singapore Chinese Recreation Club beat the Selangor Chinese Recreation Club by two wickets in their two-day cricket match which ended at Hong Lini green yesterday. Highlight of the game was the brilliant second innings score of 83 by Cheong Thiam
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    JOCKEY FINED AT IPOH
    87 18 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, June 29.—Tankard, rider of Bitter Sweet in the first race at yesterday’s meeting, has been fined $25 for looking round near the winning post during the race. This Information is continued in a report issued by the S R.A. stipendary steward,
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    Charity Game Ends In Draw
    98 18 SINGAPORE, June 30. The chr.rity football game at Jalan Bosar Stadium yesterday between the Singapore Rangers and the Chinese Athletic, for the benefit of five Singapore footballers suffering from tuberculosis. ended in a one-all draw. Fifteen hundred watched the game, and gross gate takings were
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    COLLEGE TEAM BEATEN
    95 18 JOHORE BAHRU, June 26. The English College were defeated by the Persatuan Melayu XI at cricket by 14 runs in a one Innings match played today. Batting first, the College were dismissed for 99, of which R. Jayasingam contributed 44, his score including 7 fours. The only
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    EQUALS SELANGOR 100 YDS. RECORD
    77 18 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sunday.—Running in the Old Boys 100 yards sprint at St. John’s Institution School sports yesterday, Mathew Danker clocked 10.2 seconds, to equal the Selangor record. The sports were the first held by the school since 1940. There was keen
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    K. Graham Scores 51, Retires
    278 18 SINGAPORE, June 30. Best batting performance in the cricket match between the Singapore Cricket Club and Rengam District on the S. padang yesterday was that of Ken Graham. The Club easily beat the Rangam side. The S.C.C. scored 207 lor eight, while the Rengam total
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    Penang IRC In Cup Final
    76 18 Fro n Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Friday. THE Indian Recreation Club “A” entered the final of the Victory Cup knock-out soccer competition yesterday, defeating the Police Sports Club by six goals to one in the semi-final. The Indians, who showed allround superiority, would have piled
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    PENANG’S SWIM FIND BEATEN
    205 18 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, June 29. setting a fast pace and leading by four lengths at the 100 metres mark, Penang’s new swimming find, Fong Seow Yoke, was today beaten into third place in the Chinese Swimming Club’s 400 metres freestyle championship for the Lim
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    73 By Homer For S.C.C.
    265 18 SINGAPORE, July 1. IN a cricket {patch played at Changi on Sunday, the Singapore Cricket Club drew with R.A.F. (Changi) Combined. Owing to rain, no play was possible in the morning. Homer knocked up a valuable 73 in 50 minutes at the wicket for the
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    ROYAL S’PORE GOLF CLUB
    83 18 Entries are invited for the Royal Singapore Golf Club championship, the qualifying rounds for which will be played on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning July 12 and 13. The competition is open to members with handicaps of 10 and under. The qualifying rounds will be over
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    SHIELD FOR Y.M.C.A. COMPETITION
    125 18 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, June 27. —'To commemorate the name of the late Mr. O. H. Foenander. a staunch supporter of the Y.M.C.A. for more than 30 years, who died in 1944 at the hands of the Kempeitai, the Kuala Lumpur and Ipoh Y.MC.A.
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    ISLAND CLUB GOLF
    30 18 SINGAPORE, June 30. The Island Club championship was yesterday won by A. Tooke, who beat Yang Loon Chong five up and four to play over 36 holes.
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    Move To Revive Inter State Soccer
    172 18 From Our Staff Correspond*.* I KUALA LUMPUR L.J THE Selangor Amateur Football Assort,!? *1 1 decided to take the lead in reviving in**! soccer, and invitations have been issued to th«■ in the Malayan Union for suggestions as t Jj dates. op< *l No
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    Island Club Golf Final
    121 18 SINGAPORE, June! The final of the Island I golf championship between I Loon Chong and H. Took® 36 holes, will be played next! day. I Eight players qualified for® championships and results m the final round were: 1st round: YongLoon® beat Dr. T. Y. Chia 4
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    R.A.F.SELETAR WIN CRICKET
    170 18 RAF Seletar scored 1# in littie over an how to beat H.M.S wickets at Seletar on 5®" Scores were: oUSC0W Bishop c Buswell b H«» Horlick b Ktrshau Homer 7; Macdonald c b Buswell 2; Day c P b j well 21; 5. gmi 0; Mullens b
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    WIN BY 6 WKTS
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    Petrol And Bread Prices Increased
    394 19 I SINGAPORE, July 2. in the prices of bread and petrol were LuincM 1 in the Ma,a y an Union an d Singapore aV Petrol goes up from 97 cents to $1.30 a Ivihile the retail price of bread is increased by Its a pound
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    BROOKE FAMILY PAPERS
    201 19 ■jjTHONV BROOKE has for salt- throughout gB privately printed bookHed "The Facts About V' which purports to give summary of the events ■p to the cession of SaraB. British Crown. B the moso interesting Kbie feature of the books' extensive appendix con- official and dcmi-official Bdence between
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    PLANE NOT FIRED ON
    93 19 July 2. fc.MrVLTvS^' la Sutau" 1 yesterday I" offloia Sn f a Cable had Ian to S ngapore Du tch E on an o wr ong conf Ska IslaJJS m reported t"t r an U A n t re,e d to a |R Board U K
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    INDIAN DRIVER ACQUITTED
    69 19 SINGAPORE, July 2. AN Indian driver attached to the R.I.A.S.C. Sepoy Abdul Rahman, was acquitted by the Fourth District Judge Mr. H.A. Forrer yesterday, on a charge of causing the death of a Chinese boy by a rash act. It was alleged by the prosecution that Abduj
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    2,000 MEN ON STRIKE IN NORTH
    171 19 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, July 1. IN two big strikes today among Penang lorry drivers and sago factory workers of north Malaya, more than 2,000 men stopped work. The sago factory workers strike involves 32 factories in Kedah, Perils. Perak and Province Wellesley.
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    PAY PROBE EVIDENCE
    93 19 SINGAPORE, July 2. The Public Services Salaries Commission will begin its session in Singapore tomorrow at the Secretarial when evidence will be heard. The Commission received written representations from 371 associations. unions and individuals Government Officers on monthly pay in the Malayan Union, and has now recorded
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    Robbed In Market
    58 19 VOHORE BAHRU, July 1 J The first armed robbery for several months took place in the heart of Johore Bahru this morning when three Chinese with revolvers took S103 from another Chinese. The victim had just returned to Johore Bahru from Singapore and was robbed when he
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    CEYLON MEN FOR DUTIES IN MALAYA
    126 19 It is officially announced from Headquarters, Ceylon Garrieon, that a military labour force is being recruited in Ceylon for duty in Malaya and Singapore. Ten thousand men are required, both skilled and unskilled, to be formed into a pioneer group of two companies, officered
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    New Rubber Handling Rates Proposed
    181 19 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, June 25. IN view of the ‘‘new circum- stances created by the drop in the price of rubber,” the Penang Rubber Exchange, in conjunction with the Rubber Committee of the Penang Chamber of Commerce, has presented a revised scale of
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    LOANS FOR REHABILITATION
    193 19 Froiji Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, July 1. THE industrial Rehabilitation Finance Board has been set up to consider appli cations for loans for industrial rehabilitation. Loans are granted for the purpose of rehabilitating industrial undertakings within the Malayan Union. The expression “industrial undertaking’' includes, in addition
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    UPAM:“RUBBER BAN MUST GO”
    475 19 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE United Planting Association of Malaya has telegraphed the Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Edward Gent, pressing him to cable the Briti' Government immediately to urge an application to the United States Government for the removal of the
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    NEW J.P.’s AS GUESTS OF HONOUR
    86 19 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. Four of Penang’s new Justices of the Peace were guest s of honour at two functions held last evening. At the Anglo-Chinese School Union a tea party was held in honour of three members, Tan Hock Aun, Kee
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    Trading Shrinks As Rubber Falls
    588 20 Weekly Share Market Review By A Market Correspondent MALAYAN share markets have been completely overshadowed by the further heavy fall in the price of crude rubber, which closed on Friday at cents f.0.b., representing a fall of 4% cents over the week. Trading in all
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    Co-op Reports Good Results
    150 20 SINGAPORE, June 30. npo help more efficient manage- m< nt cf the Singapore Cooperative Society, 25 amendments designed to tighten the society’* by-laws were passed at the first half-yearly meeting yesterday. The meeting, which was held at society’s shop premises in North Bridge R ad, elected
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    RUBBER REPORT
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    DISCUSSION ON RUBBER PROTEST
    130 20 LONDON, July 1. THE Malayan Union ana A Singapore Governments' protest on the United States rubber consumption policy will be fully discussed at the International Rubber Study Group meeting, which opens in Paris today, Reuter under stands from authoritative circles in London. The Study Group has
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    Thousands Tree To Padi Land
    308 20 Thousands T ree To Padi Land From Our Own Correspond THOUSANDS of new settlers have ,u I 1 Karang, on the Selangor coast, to I, the biggest food production drives in V? tltl M‘b, the many Grow More Food schemes in L Cftul V ment of Agriculture is giving top
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