The Straits Times, 6 November 1946

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    20 1 The Straits Times. MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY FIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1946. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    HARBOUR STRIKE MAY END TODAY
    474 1 Committee To Discuss Port Programme Straits Times Reporter THERE is every indication that the strike of Singapore Harbour Hoard labourers, which enters its thirteenth day this morning, will end today. Mr. S. P. Garrett, Trade Union Adviser, Singapore, told the Straits Times last night that,
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    Malaya's Grave Rice Shortage
    275 1 Malaya's Grave Rice Shortage LONDON, Tuesday. VISCOUNT Elibank. Conservative, referred in the HoUM of Lords today to th< "very grave shortage* 1 of rici in Malaya. irtaf that there was a irplus of rice, estimated at id-half million tons, in the adjacent country of Siam, which could be purchased and
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    JOINT PROTEST ON SARAWAK
    97 1 LONDON. TttM. The Colonial Oilier today received an ofnciai notification of the Sarawak Dyak Association and Malay National Union's joint protest against the ol Sarawak to Britain as a crown colony and their appeal to the King to revoke the cession. aid if was confirmed thai
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    RUBBER STATEMENT WELCOMED
    178 1 By Our Market Correspondent THE Singapore rubber share market yesterday reacted favourably to the announcement of a free London rubber market from Nov. 18. Cheap lines were taken up during the day's business at prices b:tween five and ten per cent, above the recent low level. Malayan
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    STOPFORD PROMOTED TO GENERAL
    267 1 STOPFORD PROMOTED TO GENERAL I IT is officially announced from 1 headquarters, ALFSEA, that the Acting Supreme Allied Commander, South-East Asia, Lt.-Gen. Sir Montagu Stopford, KBE, CB, DSO, MC, has been promoted to the substantive rank of General with effect from Oct. 30. Gen. Stopford, who is 54, was commissioned
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    Gandhi To Fast
    47 1 PATNA. Tues— Mahatma Gandhi has resolved to undertake a fast unto death if the communal rioting in Bihar does not stop within 24 hours. This was announced by Dr Rajendra Prasad. a Government of Incite food member and a Bihar lesder, here today Reuter.
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    AMERICAN WARSHIP VISITS LONDON
    37 1 The first American warship to visit London the anti-aircraft cruiser SpoV -\no, seen as she arrived at Creenwich. She was open for public inspection on U.S. Navy Day, when the vessel was dressed.
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    Franco Case Passed To UNO Assembly
    369 1 NEW YORK, Tuesday. THE Franco regime in Spain moved one step closer last night to consideration and discussion before the General Assembly of the United Nations, as the United States Security Council, by unanimous vote, struck the Spanish case from its agenda in a
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    Truman Faces Defeat In Elections
    191 1 Truman Faces Defeat In Elections NEW YORK, Tuesday. A THREAT to use explosives in today's United Stately lection fight was alleged to have been made by an unidentified leader of the "Veterans' Good Government League" at Little Benton, Tennessee, as 35,000,000 Americans went to the polls. Shortages and strikes have
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    JEWISH LEADERS TO BE FREED
    89 1 LONDON, Tues.— The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Arthur Creech Jones, announced in the House of Commons today that the Government had decided to autrorLse the High Commissioner of Palestine to release the detained Jewish leaders. The release had also been approved of certain Palestinian Arabs who
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    $13,000 STOLEN IN HOLD-UP AT CATHAY CINEMA
    366 1 $13,000 STOLEN IN HOLD-UP AT CATHAY CINEMA Straits Times Reporter MORE than $13,000 cash was stolen in broad day- light from the Cathay Cinema foyer yesterday morning, when two Chinese held up at pistol point two cashiers who were carrying box-office takings to the National City Bank of New York.
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    No White Paper On India
    122 1 No White Paper On India LONDON. Tues— Lord Pc thickLawrence, Secretary for India, stated in the House of Lords today that nothing which passed in correspondence between th? Viceroy and thj Indian party leaders involved any departure from the previous intentions ol the British Government as to th-j constitutional position
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    23 1 SOUTHAMPTON. Tues. Duke and Duchess of Windsor will sail in the Queen El'zabrtii for New York tomorrow, it w. > oflicialy announced today.— A.P,
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    EAST BENGAL RIOTS STATEMENT
    589 2 Looters Helped By Villagers 9 Flight LONDON, Monday. IN Indian communal riots between July 1 and Oct. 1 30, 5,018 people were killed and 13,320 were injured, said Mr. Arthur Henderson, Under-Secretary for India, in the House of Commons to-day, when he gave a full statement
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    NO SOVIET REPLY ON WORKERS
    101 2 FRAN X*' URT, Mon Gene ral Lucius Clay, deputy Military Governor of the United States /.one in Germany, said today that information on the removal of German workers to Russia, reuiested from the Soviet authorities, had not yet been received. The All ed Control Council's
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    Evidence Of U. S. Efforts To Stop Incidents
    206 2 TOKIO, Tuesday. rITED States efforts to assure the safety of Ame ricans in China and the protection of their property rights by a series of. protests through diplomatic channel? against actions of Japanese soldiers were placed before the International Military I Tribunal
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    TERRORISTS IN CELEBES
    76 2 Batavia, Mon.— Reports fr^m Maccassar indicate that Indonesian terrorists are still active in south Celebes, according to the Aneta News. Service tonight. While two fires in Macassar were reported in the last fortnight, the Nethei lands Army Information Service today reported a night attack on a. kampong
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    Refugees Return
    54 2 SOURABAYA, Mon.- A batch of 740 Chinese refugees, part of the 12.000 Chinese from Sourabaya who evacuated to Republican territory during the fighting in Souraoaya last December and whos3 repatriation iormed the subject of repeated Chinese representation to allied and Indonesian authorities, arrived here from Cher: boa by
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    SHOT COUPLE IN GERMAN WOOD
    80 2 BERLIN, Mon.- The uodies of a British officer and «i young German girl, each with two bullet wounds were found in Burnewald Woods or. rhe outskirts of Berlin on Sunday rhe names will not be disclosed until the next-of-kin have been informed but the officer
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    Persian Elections
    43 2 Teheran, Mon.— lt was announced officially today that Ghavam es-Sultaneh, Persian Prime Minister, has ordered the elections for the Fiftieth Majlis (Parliament) to begin on Dec. 7 and end on Dec. 21. The actual voting will last for five days.— Reuter.
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    CHINA DEADLOCK CONTINUES
    285 2 NANKING, Tuesday. WITH only a week left before the opening of the National Assembly, the Government and Third Parties are still deadlocked on the third party proposal that the Government reorganize the Executive Yuan, which is similar to a cabinet, before they submit their lists of National
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    VON PAPEN LEAVES GAOL
    40 2 Franz von Papen leaving Nuremberg gaol after his acquittal, accompanied by his son. He drove under American escort to a house in the town, where he is staying with the chief of the Nuremberg criminal police.
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    Commons Question On Escorts For Nehru
    215 2 LONDON. Monday. ASKING what British troops or other British perjsonnel were employed in escorting Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on the Northwest Frontier. Major Legge Bourke, Conservative, suggested in (he House of Commons today that instructions should be issued that in no circumstances "shall the lives
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    Surplus Goods For Sale To The Japanese
    153 2 Surplus Goods For Sale To The Japanese TOKIO, Tuesday. THE United States Government has authorized th sale to the Japanese Govern ment of surplus civilian typ of military supplies now it? Japan. The amount of mon^y involved was not disclosed "inasmuch os not all property expect* d to be sold
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    Choice of Writer
    77 2 LONDON, Mon: Ihe si Ct on of Compton Mackenzie to write a short popular history of the Indian war effort was criticised in th? House of Commons today by a Labour member, Mr. Robert Chamberlain, on the ground that iit would have been more propir to have
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      458 2 SALE BY TENDER. The Custodian of Property, Slnga pore. Invites tenders for the purchase of the following: Earth cutting trailer, boilers, Ru> too Lincoln Gas Engine. Nation. i Gas Engine, flywheels, trailer, st.ce 1 plates, extension shafts, boiler tanks portable forge, steam water and ster' pipes, steel ladders, railway carriage
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      203 2 TOH-ALLANG CHINESE TIN LTD. (Incorporated in Uie Malayan Hnion) NOTICE. re Share Register The Share Register of the Company has been lost or destroyed and has r>ot been recovered. In connection with its reconstruct tlon, the only record te from the return filed with the Registrar of Companies at 16th.
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    MOBILE POLICE TO ENSURE CURFEW
    419 3 COMMISSIONER TO ISSUE PERMITS Straits Times Reporter SPECIAL roati patrols organised by the civilian police will enforce Singapore's "lorry curfew" which comes into effect on Nov. 15. From that date all goods carrying vehicles, both military and civilian, will not be allowed on certain roads
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    Singapore's Pin-Up Girls
    44 3 An enterprising advertising manager yesterday recruited two Singapore elephants to publicise a current attraction at a Singapore cinema. The elephantine "sandwich men walked through a section of the town and then lolled lazily at the esplanade where they attracted considerable attention.
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    WHY THE CARTHAGE WAS EMPTY
    199 3 WHY THE CARTHAGE WAS EMPTY LONDON. Mon. THE question why the 15,000--ton steamship Carthage arrived at Singapore on Oct. 11 with empty passenger and cargo accommodation was asked in the House of Commons today. Sir W ..dion Smithers. (Conservative Orpington. Kent) asked if > Mil Lster or Transport. Mr. A.f-ed
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    OUT CHINA' PETITION PRESENTED
    206 3 OUT CHINA' PETITION PRESENTED A DEPUTATION oi six, including one woman, headed by Mr. Ng Aik Huan. from the Singapore Chinese Federation for Peace and Democracy in China, this morning called on the American Consul General, Mr. Paul Josselyn, and handed him the letter of appeal for withdrawal of American
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    SWIMMING CLUB BOYS' CHARGED
    71 3 A charge of cheating Mr. George Holt, Secretary of the Singapore Swimming Club, by selling a cash coupon which had already been sold to a member of the club, Capt. McAuley, was preferred against two Chinese, Foo Tai^Shan and Tan Jee Oh in the Second Police
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    Charge Of Abetment Of Pepper Theft
    101 3 THREE Chinese, Sim Bah Bee, 1 Lenß Kai Tee and Ang Ah Eng. a woman, had the charge explained to them in the Fourth Police Court yesterday of abetting the offence of housebreaklng into a godown at Havelock Road on Oct. 27 to commit
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    Chinese From China Return To Malaya
    224 3 OVER 1,000 ex-Malayan Chinese nationals, who had been taken to China for forced labour during the Japanese occupation, arrived in Singapore on the Anhui, on Monday. They were met at the dock by officials from the Social Welfare Department, Singapoie, and the Immigration Officers
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    GAOLED FOR CHEATING
    175 3 TONVICTED on two charges of cheating J. I. Cohen of a total sum of $3,572, Au Ming Sang, aged 33. was sentenced by the Singapo: c Police Magistrate. Mr. L. C. Gon, to six months' imprisonment on each rha-ge. The sentences are to run concurrently. According to
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    3 CHINESE ON BRIBE CHARGES
    221 3 3 CHINESE ON BRIBE CHARGES AN alleged scheme to remove textiles from a Base Ordnar. :e Store by three Chinese, Lim Cheng Hoe, Kan Kee For.g alias Stephen Kan and Low Kwaxi. who face charge of being concerned in corruptly paying $1,000 and $100 to two Army captains and $50
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    SHOOTING WAS JUSTIFIED
    84 3 pONCLUDING the inquiry Into the deaths of two persons, Teo Chia Thiam, a Chinese, and Krishnan, an Indian, who were both shot by Indian army guards at Nee Soon Japanese hospital on Oct. 9, the Coroner, Mr. W. O. Porter, returned a finding of Justifiable homicide. He
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    SAILING ARRANGEMENTS FOR INDIANS
    343 3 SAILING ARRANGEMENTS FOR INDIANS AUTHORISATION permits for Indian repatriates who are likely to travel on the special repatriation ship chartered by the Government of India, will now be issued by the Representative of the Government of India. Once a travel or authorisation permit is issued to a repatriate all that
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      576 3 NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given that Mr. Le<lc Soon Chye ol N0. 29 Fraser Street hns nri|.lied to the Board of Singapore, for a iss Pubilr House Licence re- of Beer Ale. S'out rtat vMck he proposes to hold ■at of tl-t premises known as No H29 Gard i Happy
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      744 3 GOVERNMENT TRADE SCHOOL, SINGAPORL An Assistant Instructor is required in the Radio Section of the Tra.lc School, Singapore. Applicants should ho.ye the following qualifications: (a) Three years technical training. (b) First Class in City Si Guilds Examination In Radio Communication, grade I or II or equivalcfi t (c) Some ttchnical
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      415 3 GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. Tenders will be received at the Office of the Director of Public Works. Singapore, up to noon of the Bth November, 1946. for the following:— Sale of approximately 1.20 C tono cement lying in the P.W.D. Slcres, Singapore. 2. Tenderers will be shewn round the. No. 1 2
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    The Straits Times. Singapore, Wed., Nov. 6, 1946. Anti-Social Strikes
    1029 4 The Straits Times. Singapore, Wed., Nov. 6, 1946. Anti-Social Strikes During early stages of the latest of many dispute? between the Singapore Harbour Board and its employees it was an nounc?d officially that, as the strike had held up the unloading of ships, there would be no distribution of cigarettes
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      Their Wives Might Have Drawn Officers' Pay
      344 4 YOUR leader entitled Unpleasant Pill" failed to take into account a fundamental fact concerning claims by Malayan Volunteers for Civil Liability awards. It is doubtless true to s&y that "had mcrst of the men concerned be^r in the U.K. instead of Malaya they
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      Lowering The Bar
      312 4 IT gladdens my old heart to see that at last the Sinjfu pore Municipality has at its helm a President who believes in action. There has been a surfeit of talk and hedging about racial discrimination. I only hope that the President's actions will be as forceful
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      Communists In The "Quit China" Week
      334 4 IREAD with considerable in terest, but deep concern, your leading article. The Chinese Say 'Quit China.' While I do not wish to dispute the fact that 30,000 persons signed the petition denouncing American Intervention In China. I should like to point out the method
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      Still Waiting
      157 4 MAY 1 inquire what stage has the vexed question of j back pay to the subordinate ■staff of the Government and 'Municipality reached? We know all about the senior services, and nobody grudges the grant authorized by the then Secretary of State for the Colonies, who. however, had
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      25 4 Letters signed with a nom-de-piumt are not published unless the write.'; name and addres& are communicated to the Editor as a guarantee of c>od faith
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      Ramasamy Likes A Drink Too
      374 4 From A Planting Correspondent. FROM time to time you publish letters advocating the non-issue of licences for estate toddy shops, and as tht\<e usually reveal some ignorance on the subject it may interest your readers, and help th«>in to form an opinion on tl)e question,
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      Malayan Sinhalese
      217 4 AS a Malaya-born Sinha.. Be. I heartily endorse the ni.-nu expressed by Mr. S. Markandu in the headed Straits-Born Indian.' If our fathers hailed from India or Timbuctoo, why should those who are born or, domiciled in this country bother about the affairs 01 those lands? Let's do
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      847 4 BIRTHS. I Mr and Mrs M W. P. Tweedir, Kandang Krrbau Hospital, on 4th .1 daughter. -;AY on 2nd November at IvnanK to Sin lla» wife of H. R. Mnrkßy, a daughter. DE PAM. P. A. van der Poel ge< tl n, <t bllidsrhap konnls van der voor--1 ixio.!ipr K
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    RECOMMENDATIONS FOR S'PORE POLICEMEN
    415 5 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR S'PORE POLICEMEN REPORT TO GO TO GOVT. TODAY Straits Times Reporter THE recommendations of the Singapore committee which has been drafting new conditions of service for the Singapore Police Force go forward to the Government today. The suggestions which have been collected and put forward by the committee
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    More 10-Cent Breakfasts
    85 5 More 10 -Cent Breakfasts •ihN-(>nl 1.r.-ak as Is art l.*-.u* served as from today in the I*. >p|r\ K \staii rants at Teluk lytf, Out ram Road and Queen Mff ri !htsi brrakfasts which cun'isl of lea or roffee with mi'k and sucar and bread and .fa sandwiches wrrc introduced
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    SINGAPORE GUNMAN TO HANG
    150 5 SINGAPORE GUNMAN TO HANG YOUNG mill Ml. Kwek Chin Choi, was sentenced to death I u'lnn by Mr. Justice Joblay iit the Singapore Kwek had Dtrn con- teted i»f armed robbery and i rrylng a revolver under the Public Order and Safety Proclamation by the remmon jury I Friday ".io
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    VICTORY SAVINGS CERTIFICATES
    99 5 THE Vi> Lory Savings Certificates ,i be available in Singapore irom Armistice Day, Nov. 11. As niis is a public holiday they will, however, be on sale in the Post Office* only from Nov. 12. The first Victory Savings Cer'ilicate of each series on sale in Singapore
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    LOST LEGION ARRIVES TOMORROW
    148 5 LOST LEGION ARRIVES TOMORROW ALL arrangem-snts have been completed in Singapore to receive 280 members of Malaya's "Lost Legion" who arrive by the Rotterdam Lloyd liner Bloemfonteln from Batavla tomorrow morning at daylight. The vessel will draw alongside Qodowns 33-34 of the Singapore Harbour Board wharves shortly alter 7.30 a.m.
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    SOLDIER CHARGED
    51 5 Alleged to have robbed a Malay of $35 in a taxi in Geylang Road, on Sunday, a British soldier, R. J. Metcalfe, aged 22, had the charge explained to him in the Second Police Court yesterday. Bail of $500 was ottered #nd the case postponed a week for
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    $16,000 OPIUM CHARGES
    95 5 CHARGED w.th importing 20 pounds of opium estimated o be worth $16,000, from the s. s. Kepong on Nov. 2, Hoey Fook Loon, aged 35, a chip's carpenter, appeared in the PTr^i Distr ct Court yesterday before Mr. Paul Storr. Hoey claimed trial, and was offered bail
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    70- YEAR-OLD SKIPPER
    160 5 THE distinction o: being master of the same ship for more than 15 years goes to 70-year-old Capt. Alec Donaldson, master of the Marella which arrived, in Singapore from Australian ports yesterday. And if a prize was awarded for the master with the most years" service in
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    TODAY'S MENU
    33 5 Today's menus at People's Restaurant* in Singapore will be: THIRTY-FIVE CENTS: noodles in chicken or rabbit stew or curry; assorted vegetables: garnishment. FIFTEEN CENTS: noodles: bean coke: kamrkong; bean sprouts: carry.
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    STOLE FROM POLICEMEN: MAN GAOLED
    190 5 PLEADING guiky to stealing various articles from police constables in Sngapore poiice barracks a 20 year-old Malay. Ismail bin Kantin, was produced in the Second Police Court yesterday, before Mr. L. C. Goh, who sentenced him to nine months' rigorous imprisonment in all on three
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    Strike Holds Up 5,000 Food Cargo
    301 5 A FOOD cargo of 5,000 tons, including a refrigerated cargo of 360 tons of meat, butter, fruit and vegetables, which arrived in Singapore yesterday by the Burns Philp liner Marella could not be unloaded at the wharves becauf* of the Harbour Board dockyard strike.
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    MALAYANS FROM AUSTRALIA
    576 5 ONE hundred and fifty -six passeng- ers will disembark from the Burns. Phllp liner Marella which arrives In Singapore today from Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle. The following is the list of passengers Lady Taylor. Mr. A. Dent. Mrs. C. Massey. Miss. L. Massey. Mr. and Mrs R.
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    COMMISSIONER'S FAMILY HERE
    44 5 then, Claude Massey, wife of the Australian Government Commissioner in Singapore arrived by the Marella yesterday accompanied by her two daiifters and son. (Left to right) Miss Dalcea Massey, Mr. Douglas Massey. Mrs. Massey, and Miss Lorn* Maesey. Straits Tlm-s ri<-tniv>.
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    MARELLA MYSTERY PROBE IN SINGAPORE
    240 5 MARELLA MYSTERY PROBE IN SINGAPORE PXTENSIVE nu\ suctions It are being carried out by, Singapore's Marine Police into tne circumstances iurrounding the death of a Singapore bound Chinese wonutn passenger on board the Burns Philp liner Marella, whose body was di.- covered in Uio waters around Fremantlft shortly after the
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    MODEL TROOPER
    63 5 described us Britain'! -mo* ;rooper, the 27.000-ton ard WMte Star liner G arr.vcs in Singapore at d..y •omorrow from th- United Kin dr.m v a Bombay vrh "^6 c! lian pu.-^engers and 90 A.mv De sonni 1 on board The Giorgic will draw aivj. \>t3ide Godowns 3. 4
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      119 5 New Stocks at Robinsons MEN'S SHIRTS Striped Poplin Tunic Shirts with 2 soft Collar^ Fine textile poplin good quality Mid finish Siies— l4' 2 to 16< 2 neck— Price &5.M White Poplin Office Shirts No Collars Sizes 15 2 to 16' 2 neck. Price NSJt Van Heus&n Semi Stiff Collars
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    K.L. Women's Meeting
    157 6 K.L. Women's Meeting Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday. J^T a meeting of the Interim committee of the Women's Service L?ague it was unanimously decided that each community should hold Its own meeting to elect a member to serve on the Selangor Women's Servioe League Committee The names of the women who have
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    Remembrance Day In Taiping
    145 6 From Our Own Correspondent Taiping, Monday. DEMEMBRANCE Day will be observed in Taiping on Nov. ;o. The programme will begin at 8.30 a.m. with a service at the Roman Catholic Church. At 10 ajn. there will be a Church of England service at the All Saints'
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    Safety First In Air Campaign f
    199 6 Safety First In Air Campaign f GOVT. TO ANNOUNCE NEW PLANS SHORTLY By J. STUBBS WALKER LONDON, (By Air Mail). rOVERNMENT plans for greater safety for air passengers, aimed at getting more people into the air, will be announced in Parliament shortly. Official view is that widespread development of civil
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    WELFARE WORK STEPPED UP
    161 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. MISS P. I. Bigwood, recent y appo nted Stat e Rural Welfare Worker for Penang and Province Wellesley, has greatly stepped up welfare work in that area during her short stay there. Welfare visits have been made to Butterworth, Bukit Mertajam, Sungei Bakap
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    NEED FOR BOYS' HOME IN IPOH
    225 6 NEED FOR BOYS' HOME IN IPOH IPOH, Tuesday. rVENILE delinquents in Ipoh are worrying the authorities, and without any proper reformatory or boys' home in the State at the moment, the Ipoh Magistrates are compelled to send them to serve their terms of imprisonment with hardened criminals in the Batu
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      473 6 WAR PRISONERS (SINGAPORE.) ASSOCIATION. Krmf mbr.im c Day Service Will all memU'i.i desirous of atteniK< nit-iiiuiance Day Service at the Cenotaph please gather betw.-fii the Cricket Club and the Suprcr.i' Court at 8 a.m. or November, 11th. U S. MARHHAM.. Hon. Secret*: y. REWARD. A suitable rt-j,ard will be paid
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      159 6 SALE OF ARMY SURPLUS FOODSTUFFS. 1. TENDERS are Invited for the purchase of the following quantities of Army Foodstuffs: Tinned Vegetables 6 000 tons. Tinned Cheese ISO Tons. X These foodstuffs are lying in various conditions at "A" Sub Depot S"pore BSD Berlayer Creek. Pasir Panjang Rd.. "B" Sub Depot
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      675 6 The opening lead gave the de- iy "skinny," and even w.th so clarer in today's deal a bad start, few high cards to work with in but he overcame this disadvan- dummy, South would have had tage. an easy time of it if West had North, dealer made any other
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    Less Likelihood Of Rubber Strike
    72 7 NEW YORK, Tuesday —There le less likelihood of a strike in the American rubber industry than appeared during the sum iner. Firestone already has reached agreement with its union workers. Goodrich, Goodyear and UjS. Rubber may soon conclude agreements. Under the contracts signed thus far
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    Rubber Shares React To Free Sales News
    397 7 Around The Markets By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Tuesday. DUBBER shares were considerably more active this morning than they have been for some ti.ne, owing mainly to the news that free dealing will be allowed in rubber from Nov. 18. The possible reduction
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    55 7 The New York Commodity Exchange I-.«-r,rTw-ated, which has been closed since June 1942. hopes to reopen by Dec. 31. it *a& stated yesterday after information that free rubber trading would be resumed in London. The Exchange was a market for rubber, hides silk, metals and trading in futures before the
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    Produce Prices
    221 7 SUGAK and coffee markets were active yesterday but there was little variation in prices Yesterday 'b produce prices were: KICE 111*— PITLOH RICK: Siamese 192.5* Kedah $82.50. RICE NOODLES: Siamese $75 Kedah $60. Indo-China $58. local No. 1 $75, No. 2 $65. COPRA: Sundried No. 1 $15. No.
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    FISHERIES STUDY IN CEYLON
    102 7 COLOMBO, Mon.- Twenty Indian fisheries students, who are to study Ceylon's fisheries development and the fish marketing scheme, have arrived in Colombo. This is the second batch of 3uch trainees chosen from various states and provinces in India to come to Ceylon for this particular study.
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    U.S. Price Controls
    74 7 LONDON, Sat.— Mr. Eric Johnson predicted that the removal of price controls in the United States would lead to business recession but not to a "deep depression of any serious nature." He said the great backlog for all classes of goods would preclude any repetition of the
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    Rubber Stocks In Britain
    110 7 LONDON, Monday. THE British Government held 138,958 tons of natural rubber (including latex) and 2,485 tons of synthetic rubber on Sept. 27, Professor Hilary Marquand, Secretary of Overseas Trade, announced in the House of Commons today. He added that rubber manufacturers also held on that date
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    Black Market In Jute In Bengal
    74 7 NEW DELHI, Tuesday.— Mr. H. 8. Suhrawardy, Chief Minister of Bengal province, biggest Jutegrowing area of the world, reports a widespread black market in jute is developing because the official price of Rs.B2 per 400 pounds for Jute is much lower than the world
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    35 7 TEHERAN Sat. The Persian Government has asked the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for a credit of $250,000,000. it was officially announced here today. The request was made through the Persian National Bank Reuter
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    175 7 Direct exchange raKs as fixed oy the Control are: READY RATES SELLING T.T./O.D New York 47 18 Canada 47-lilb Switzerland 204-1 4 Holland Guilders 125-1.0 N.E.I. 125-18 Swedish Kroner 169-1 2 Belgium 2068-1,4 French Francs 5C21-112 Hesos *4-78 Danish Kroner 226-14 BUYING Air Mai) New York T.I. 47-12
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    Along The Singapore Waterfront
    191 7 SHIPS" position? in Singapore yeruiday were: MAIN M'HAKt Godown 34: Fort Pitt. Oodown 42-43: Samlamu. WESV uihki Godown 1-2: Denbighshire Godown 6-7: Marell.i. Godown 9-10: Glenapp. Godown 11-12- Matine I^eopard. EAST WHARF Godown 44: Cnaion. Godown 45: Kajan? EMPIRE DOCK Godown 23-24: Fort N&shwaalc Godown 25-2€:
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      355 7 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: High Water; 850 a.m. 8 f t 8.35 p.m. 8 ft 1 in. TOMORROW: High Water: 9.18 a.m. 8 ft 4 in.; 9.25 p.m. 8 ft 7 in. RADIO MALAYA 00 pm Closr L>OVn: '15 pm P m Interlude; 8.45 p.m. Home surv.v l£\ gramme sumn'.ary; 8.18
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    S.C.C. PLAY THIRD DRAW One Try Each On Padang
    383 8 rE S.C.C. played their third successive draw when they met the St. Andrew's Old Boys rugby side yesterday, ahard game ending in each side scoring a try. St. Andrew's won most of the scrums, Velge'» hooking being responsible.. But after that
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    25 8 Sir Willoushby Norris, Governor of South Australia, talking wall Walter Hammond, captain uf. the English Test Team, at an official reception at Government House, Adelaide.
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    S.R.C. Hockey Team To Play Army
    141 8 S.R.C. Hockey Team To Play Army OPENING with a slow and rather amateurish pace, the first hockey trial game played between two teams from the S.R.C., soon developed into a fast and interesting match, at the S.R.C. padang yesterday. The teams were distinguished by Colours ver&us Whites and composed l
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    LEAGUE SOCCER IN KELANTAN
    370 8 From Our Own Correspondent Kota Bahru, Fn I^ELANTAN soccer fans and en- thusiasts will regret to leain that the 111 Sikh Regiment will shortly go on transfer to Aioi Star. They will be replaced bj the 3 '5 Gurkha Rifles With the soccer league only one
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    JOLLILADS A.U.
    83 8 TN a friendly soccer match play--1 ed at Pulau Brani on Sunday the Water Transport Unit, R.A.S.C., beat the Jollilaas Athletic Union by three goals to two The following have been selected to play football for the J. A. Union against the 2nd Battalon Bun's Regiment HQ. Company
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    ARMY MATCH DRAWN
    45 8 61 Co R A S.C rirevv one-all with 71 M. E. Platoon, R.E. 111 a soccer match played at Bidadari ground yesterday. The 56 W.T.U. iR.AS.C.i lost by one goal to nil to the E.S.B-D. (R.E.) at soccer at Pulau Brani yesterday
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    14 8 LONDON, Nov. 4 Home Rugby Union match resulted Guy's Hospital 3. Neath 28— TVitrr
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    Swedish Team Win 5—2
    78 8 SHEFFIELD. Mo;\ THE Swedish champions Norr--1 keeping, easily beat Sheffield United nve goals to two tcday after leading three-one at half time. Pearsen opened the scoring. Liedhelm adding two before Forbe 0 scored for Sheffield. Brook further reduced the Sheffield arrears in the secondhalf but G.
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    Y.M.M.A. SOCCER
    97 8 The Young Men Muslim Association will have friendly soccer matches as follows: On Friday Nov. 8 against the Haikauyu XI at McNair Road ground at 5.00 p.m. On Saturday Nov. 9, against the Kints>. Rangers at Farrer Park ground at 5.00 p.m. On Wednesday Nov. 13, against the
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    RUGBY MEETING
    84 8 A meeting of rugby representatives of clubs and unit teams has been convened for Friday at 5.15 p.m. at the S.C.C. The meeting will be in two parts. Firstly a General meeting; secondly, future meeting to follow immediately after the general meeting. All clubs and units are invited
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    S.R.C HOCKEY
    23 8 S.R.C. seven-a-side hockey tcday will be Dlayed between Team 3, captained by P Neubronner. and Team 4, captainco ly A. Clarke.
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    Russia Wins Melbourne Cup
    185 8 MELBOURNE, iues. DUSSIA won the Melbourne Cup at Flemir.gton race course here, today, with On Target second and Carey third. Russia won in the easiest possible manner by nve ienßth.«, although carrying topweight Jf 9 st. Russia who started at 16-. also equalled the record for
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    Victorian Win Should Benefit M.C.C. Team
    338 8 From Norman Preston MELBOURNE, Mon. THE M.C.C. 's win by the wide margin of 244 runs over Victoria stands out as the most encouraging performance of the tour. The players wanted a tonic of this kind and they should approach future engagements fully confident
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    Aust. Needs Opening Test Batsman
    171 8 Aust. Needs Opening Test Batsman Sydney, Nov. 5. WRITING in the Sydney Herald, today, W. O'Reilly, former Australian bowler, says: "The England and Victoria match has shown that Australian selectors must continue to search for the opening Test batsmen as neither Meuleman nor Tamblyn revealed anything like Test form. In
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    PERHIMPONAN WIN 4—2
    254 8 PERHIMPONAN WIN 4 2 Badminton In a friendly return badminton match between the Perhlmponan B.P. and the Kampoi.i? Gelam 8.P., played on the latter s court on Sunday, the Perhimponan B.P. defeated the Kampong Gelam B.P. by four games to two. rht last game (doubles) was abandoned cwlng to bad
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    Table Tennis Champion ships
    280 8 Table Tennis Champion ships THE finals in the Singapore table tennis championships of 1946 have been fixed for Nov 9 and 10 at the Great World tab.c tennis arent. The admission charge for both nights will go towards the Singapore Table Tennis Association rehabilitation fund. The inter-club league championship between
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      576 8 NOTICE NOTICK to iMrebr given that Mr. Urn Chwee Cluan I No 35 Boat Quay. Singapore, -S applied to the Board of Licensing Justices. Singapore, for a First Class Public House restricted to the sale of Beer. Ale. Stout and Porter which be proposes to hold in respect of the
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