The Straits Times, 11 November 1946

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    21 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY El CHIT PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1946. PRICE 10 CEN'IS.
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    MORE RICE FROM S.E. ASIA POOL
    399 1 Siam Able To Increase Her Contribution AN unexpected increase in rice distribution from the rt South-East Alia pool will be possible following increased exports from Siam and Burma. The rice >il nation, however, remains precarious. The monthly meeting of liaison officers in Singapore yesterday
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    France's General Election
    238 1 PARIS. Sunday. FRANCE and the French Empire cast ballot-; today will decide the make-up new National Assembly of the Fourth Republic, which il planned to run France fo: the next five years. Six hundred deputies are tc be from 3,200 candidates. In :iis mornin? voters begat) trickling
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    A President Found Hanged
    314 1 A President Found Hanged PAH IS Su:-. Nguyen Van Thinh. President o f the provi.xioral Government of CiA-hin-Chiria. was found hanged by a ltnuth of copper wire in his bedroom Krench news agency d<scnl>< s the death as suicide. Y.sw-rd'iy evening, according to ihe Agency report, the President attended the
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    GIG RISE IN EXPORTS OF RUBBER
    122 1 GIG RISE IN EXPORTS OF RUBBER MALAYAN rubber exports i" October showed a considerable increase over total Singapore and Malayan Union September exports. The exports of rubber from Singapore and the Malayan Union totalled 73.383 long tons, compared with 57.579 tons in September A break-UD of these exports shows that
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    Atomic Power In Peace
    63 1 WASHINGTON. Sun. Plans for a US $20,000,000 laboratory for research into atomic paver for peace-time uses were announced here last night by the United States War Department. The War Department has contracted with the General Electric Company of Shenectady New York State, for the establishment of
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    NEW UNO MEMBERS
    220 1 NEW YORK, Sunday. rE United Nations Assembly yesterday unanimously approved the admission cl Sweden, Iceland and Afghanistan to membership of the United Nations after a com promise move by Denmark had averted a threatened fight by Russia over the wording of c resolution proposing their ad mission.
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    Eros On A Bed Of Sacks
    63 1 Lying: on a bed of sacks dumped on a mattress in a disused room at County Hall, Westminster. is Eroi, the famous statue from Piccadilly Circus. Eros was evacuated to the country during the war. Now the London County Council cannot find the labour
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    Little Hope Of End Of Strike Today
    533 1 m THE Singapore Harbour Board strike is expected to continue today unless the strikers make a lastminute change in their demands before 9 a.m. this morning. Yesterday they decided to resume work this morning if the Board would grant a 15 per cent,
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    MISTAKE THEORY IN MURDER
    96 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Sun.— Scotland Yard is now convinced that {-he murderer of Mrs. Olive Nixon, widow of a Malayan planter, who was killed by a man who sprang on her in Gloucester Gate, Regent's Park, London, on Wednesday night, mistook her in the
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    TRUMAN WIPES OUT WAGE AND PRICE CONTROLS
    323 1 TRUMAN WIPES OUT WAGE AND PRICE CONTROLS WASHINGTON, Sunday. DRESIDENT Truman has abolished all wage controls and all the remaining price ceilings except those on rents, sugar and rice, and indicated that tb eon rents may be raised. In restoring national economy just four days alter the election, President Truman
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    46 Killed In Religious Fair Riot
    188 1 46 Killed In Religious Fair Riot NEW DELHI, Sunday. FOOPS have been sent to five districts adjoining trie village of Garmukhleswai-, United Provinces, where 46 people were killed and 39 injured at a Hindu religious fail on Wednesday, an official statement said here yesterday With the dispersal of the crowd
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    ATTLEE CRITICISES UNO METHODS
    756 2 Will Fail If Used As A Forum" LONDON, Sunday. CPEAKING at the Lord Mayor's banquet last night, Mr. Attlee, the Prime Minister, declared that "obstruction" and "propaganda attacks" had marked the proceedings of the United Nations and predicted that the United Nations would fail if it
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    CHERIBON TALKS OPEN TODAY
    176 2 CHERIBON TALKS OPEN TODAY BATAVIA, Sunday. BRITISH, Dutch and Indo nesian delegations wer^ piepared to leave by sea, ai: and land respectively yesterday for Cheribon for the plenary session fixed for tomorrow as reports from Jogjakarta indicated that the Indonesians would ask for certain modiii ciations in the present Dutch
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    CHRISTMAS SHIP ON THE ROCKS
    158 2 PORT ELIZABETH. Sun.— The C'ty of Lincoln, loadcl with U.S. $8,000,000 worth of Christmas cargo, piled up on treacherous r:*:s 10D miles soutl-west of here yesterday, and was abandoned as the vessei began to sink. Capt. H. Spencer, making his last v-jyage befora retiring, ordered
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    RUBBER MERGER
    55 2 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Sunday. The Treasury has sanctioned the merger of the Straits Rubber Co. with Batak Rabit. Treasury sanction is requested for the merger of the Bagan Serai, Glenshiel and Merchiston rubber estates All five companies have identical boards under the chairmanship of Mr. F.
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    U.S. Plan For Pacts With 18 Countries
    385 2 WASHINGTON, Sunday. THE United States Government's intention to con- duct concerted trade agreement negotiations with 18 other countries to make fully effective the proposals to reduce world trade barriers was announced today by the Acting Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson. The negotiations
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    U.S. Buying Of Rubber To Continue
    144 2 U.S. Buying Of Rubber To Continue WASHINGTON. Sunday. 7TNITED States Government 0 buying of natural rubb^i* will not be abandoned "in the near future," stated the Re conversion Director, Mr. Johr Steelman. after a meeting ol the Rubber Industry Advisory Committee of the Civilian Production Administration yesterday. This is taken
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    ITALIANS GO TO THE POLLS
    79 2 ITALIANS GO TO THE POLLS ROME, Sur. Italy's capital and 142 oth:r cities are picking the municipal governments today in elections in which local issues are largely overshadowed by the question of Trieste and the increasingly sharp national difference between Italian leftists and those farther to the right. In Rome
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    FIERCE CHINA FIGHTING
    223 2 PEKING, Sunday. CHINESE Government armies are smashing furiously at the Communists on Shantung peninsula and elsewhere in an all-out bid for victory befoi' the cease-fire deadlin? at nooi tomorrow. The Communists, fighting back stubbornly, have increased their diversion^ ry attacks on Government positions, mainly at the neck
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      229 2 I L 111 1 5 i >;v-. certain xlandi have Jg dri»-il up irut yt*u jfm ■<t Tired, Rundown Drprcmcd. herd Y y mtt revive ihcm "ii Ijvc discovered <<■' wjv hack to new health IH^^^^^l •nd *ner(tv ■>ma/mR glandular it«Kriitrjte aui in two JhMMga«MB way*. Ii feeds ..nd tune*
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      760 2 NOTICE. A Registry of persons missing as a result of enemy action Ls maintained in the Office of the Secretory for Social Welfare, Old Supreme Court and applications should be made to thi< Office for Certificates of Death. T. P. F. MCNEICE. Secretary for Social Weirure. Singapore. Dated Bth November,
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      694 2 NOTICI. TRADE MARK NOTICE is hereby i,iven thai ib Trade Mark depi?ted above is the c elusive property of Long Brother A< rated Water Co. of No. 318-:;. jong Katong Road. Singapore, and i used by tliem in it inert of Aerat i Wattis aivl Cordials manufactun or sold by
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    SHORTAGE OF TEXTILES IN EAST INDIES
    382 3 Dutch Government 's Advice To Trade From Our Own Correspondent BATAVIA, Saturday. OFFICIAL reports and statements by the Dutch Government have from time to time emphasised the crying need of the local population for wearing apparel and the importance of allocating as much of
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    BRICKS MEET DEMAND IN SINGAPORE
    344 3 ALTHOUGH Singapore is pro- clucing only 40 per cent, of the bricks which were made before the war, the supply still meets the demand. This means that, despite the acute housing shortage in the Colony, building is goinc on at half-speed only, in comparison with
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    Annual Week Of Prayer
    97 3 THE annual week of prayer and world fellowship arranged by the World Committees of the y.W.C.A. and V.M.C.A. is being observed this week under the title "One Lord for One World." Christian groups and communities are invited to co-operate with the associatioi i; by offering prayers
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    ARMED THEFT
    52 3 Shortly after 10 p.m. on Saturday six persons including four Chinese and tw<^ Malays entered house in langlin area and robbed an Indian of 1,160 rupees, i $397 in Straits currency and one wrist watch. All the men were arried with pistols. Later, three Chinese and one Malay
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    DEATH
    46 3 MR H B. NAYAOAM, founder of Elates Supply Co., and r of Now Malaya Trading Co. I MTSJ ji: ;<i\ fully at .1.45 p.m loth., at Qanenl Hospital. PUlKra] will take >1;» tOi Minain-: will leave No. 10, En;: K:ituug at '100 p.m. for Bldadarl
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    New Inquiry Into King's Death
    113 3 BANGKOK, Sat. niSSATISFIED with the report of the commission of inquiry into King Ananda's death after five months' intensive investigation, the Siamese Cabinet today opened what amounts to its own investigation of the mysterious royal death. A seven-man subcommittee ol the Cabinet went to the
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    How Taxes Have Been Raised In Spore
    410 3 Straits Times Reporter WHETHER it is a dog or a car, a rubber factory or a handcart you own, it will cost you more in taxes to have it next year, and the increase will be anything from 50 per cent, (for taking
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    GREGG WRITERS
    45 3 It is proposed to hold a dinner sometime during the Christmas season when the opportunity will be taken of discussing the reformation of the Gregg Short hand Writers' Association. Singapore. Particulars can be obtained from the convenor, E. Albuquerque, 158 Waterloo Street, Singapore.
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    Threatening Note Leads To Gaol Term
    96 3 Threatening Note Leads To Gaol Term From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Sunday. A THREATENING note demanding $20,000 from a local merchant led to a Chinese, Yap Boon Van, being sentenced to six years' rigorous imprisonment and six strokes of the rotan by Mr. Justice Carey in the Assizes Court. Penang,
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    PIRACY CASE FOR ASSIZES
    128 3 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. THE story of how a junk sprang a leak after having been pirated in Pulau Rimau waters and the predicament in which the crew found themselves was told at a preliminary inquiry held on Friday into the charges oi committing
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    YOUTH LEAGUE
    49 3 The Singapore Democrat! Youth League yesterday observed the anniversary of the founding of the World Federation of Democratic Youth. This year's celebration was the first anniversary of the Federation, which now has affiliated organisations with a membership totalling over 45 million young people from 60 different countries.
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    R.A.F. SPOTS MINES FOR NAVY
    400 3 R.A.F. SPOTS MINES FOR NA VY yri'lH the last of many minestrings laid by the Japanese in South East Asiatic waters during the early days of the war now being cleared by the 37th. Flotilla of the Royal Indian Navy, the R.A.F. was called in recently to check on the
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      696 3 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATOR, MALAYAN UNION. AppttcaUoM ;irr invited for vacant! [Mpecton of Chinese Malayan Union. 2. Tin- -alary scale is as follows: S2OO-15A-350 Efficiency Bar/--1 5 A-500 per mensem. C.m hilatrs with special qualifications iy be brought on to betae at a higher stage than the nlary 3 Th.- minimum
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      414 3 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT TENDER NOTICE. Tenders will bt received at the Office of the Director. Medical Services. 2nd Floor. Fullerton Building, up to the 14th November, 1946, for the supply of furniture to the Social Hygiene Department. 2. Forms cf tenders can be obtained from the office of the Director, Medical
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      242 3 BRITISH STORES DISPOSAL BOARD (SINGAPORE) TENDER NOTICE. BY ORDER OF THE I) IKK lOR OF DISPOSALS, FAR BABTBBM AKKA (M.0.5.) 1. The British Stores Disposal Board (Singapore) is authorised to receive Tenders for the following items: Unserviceable Dinghies Harbour Launches Scrap Rope Exploders, dynamo, and electric-. al equipment Scrap Wireless
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    ENGAGEMENTS.
    99 4 EN GAG EMENTS. TAN HOAHINO. The engagement t uniioiineed between Mr. William Tan Chla Kee of the A L.F SE A eldest k/.ii of the late Tan Chin Kheng and ..f Mr Tan Chin Alk. and Miss Hoahlng (Ho Geok Man) third daughter of the lat* Mr Mrs. Dr. i<l
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Nov. 11, 1946. We Want The Best
    1019 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Nov. 11, 1946. We Want The Best Plans have been drafted in various parts of the Commonwealth for Uv? reception of large numbers of immigrants from Britan. South Africa, Australia and Southern Rhodes'a in particular are bidding for substant al additions to their wh tc
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    NOV. 19 BY-ELECTION
    44 4 Rotherhithe (Kent) Sat. Three candidates were nominated in the by-election at Rotherhithe caused by the resignation of Sir Ben Smith. (La-< bour). The candidates axe R.J. Mellish (Labour). F, A. Burden, (Conservative) and F. Martell (Liberal). Polling «pn Nov. 19. Reuter.
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      Grateful Patient Suggests Fund For Junior Nurses
      487 4 I MAKE this short reply to Junior Nurse and in it I do not dispute the loyalty of anyone. I believe there are times when one should speak without fear. I unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, have had a few spells in civil hospitals
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      Treatment Of Nurses
      128 4 ONE could not have lived in this city for more than 50 years without knowing that there was something wrong with the way our Government has treated our local medical ?ervice, both before and after the Japanese regime. But when a "Junior Nvrs? h^s been impelled to
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      Lest We Forget!
      142 4 IN our remembrance and homage to the men and women of the Services who have died that we may live and civilisation may endure let us not forget those of the Services who still remain with us Most of them have endured the hardships and dangers of
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      Dirt Track Races
      306 4 rE recklessness and the utter disregard with which motor vehicles are being driven is proving to be a serious source of danger to the general public. What are pre sumably dirt track racers, have sprung up like mush rooms, and they seem to be having a ripping
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      The Fire Watchers
      118 4 AS you have so correctly observed, there are many anomalies in connection with back pay for ex-internees. A friend of mine was called up under the Man-Power Ordinance and was allocated to firewatching. He attended lectures, spin: whole nights on duty, and lost his car into the
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      People's Restaurant
      88 4 IN most parts of Singapore there are peoples restaurants and these provide cheap meals for a population badly in need of such measures At the R.E.M.E. depot in Balestier Road a few hundred labourers both skilled and unskilled are employed. These people are forced to pay more for
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      Geylang Congestion
      102 4 rHE traffic at the corner of Geylang Serai and Joo Chiat Road early in the morning and late in the evening ii °xceedingly heavy. Between 5 and 6 p.m.. this area Ls congested by taxis, omnibuses, military, trucks, private cars and trishaws. I suggest that a n.w taxi
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      I Pray For You.....
      114 4 I Pray For You..... Tht following words wrrr sun* at the recent reunion luncheon of members of the Balmoral and Goodwood House Medical Auxiliary Services who served in the battle of Singapore. They were written during the early part of the Japanese occupation and dedicated to the P.O.W. in internment.)
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      Gangsters & 'Bad Eggs'
      25 4 Gangsters 'Bad Egg s' TANGSTERS are hardly a U class who read the Gov ernment Gazette and may noi be aware that maxi' *urn pen
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      Prophecy In The Post-Bag
      461 4 (Superstitiou.siy inclined readers may he interested in the following two items which arrived in the StraitTimes post-bag.). Old Moore Optimistic WITH reference to the headed "Labour's Voice." and the writer's brt that "ll.e Tories will not regain power m this or any succeeding century," it may
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      Hard To Remember
      72 4 THE Singapore P' ~s and radio recently announced that if we want to g?t quick contact wit'i the Police Radio Cgntrol Room we should ring No. 3777 rr 3778. These numbers are difhorlt vo remember in an emergency The Telephone Company us to dial 'O' in cas-
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      40 4 R.V. MEYER OPTICIAN FvLvm ot t.-. Insc, Op;i:h:;..i.ic OpUeteM (1 Feilcw oX the Wonhipful Company of Spec Makers 'Eng>. Freeman ol the City of London. OPTICIAN BY APPOINTMENT TO H. M. FORCES SOUTH EAST ASIA. 6 RAFFLES PLACE (OFF. UXTiM
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    OVERSEAS P A YFOR DOCTORS DISPUTED
    523 5 OVERSEAS P A YFOR DOCTORS DISPUTED DR. VICKERS ON THE NEW DEAL Straits Times Reporter THE "Medical Charter" announced by Dr. W. J. Vickers, Director of Medical Services, Singapore, at the recent Alumni Association dinner, is based on the scheme which was offered Asiatic doctors earlier in the year and
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    Smallpox Spreads In Penang
    111 5 Tr«nn Our Own < orrespondent PENANG. Sunday. FKO.M Ihe centre of the town «f QmplMM, Penan*, smallpox is now "movinif up" to the countryside <<>ilay, two new cases, beht veil to have emanated from ih Krdah area, were disiov--1 r. (I at Aver Ham Road, about
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    Wedding Of Penang Footballer
    105 5 Wedding Of Penang Footballer I mm Our O*n Correspondent PENANG, Bund) y SHIPBOARD romance 1 .st ul a happy rulmina- iiit> Fitzmraid Memorial Church yesterdaj afternoon. Ml W. F. Thomson tho ■•at. Penang Rugby lootbiller, was married to Miss PatDor Liston. »Ideal Mr. and M/s C. P Pang. ■ang. bride,
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    CHE KAMARUDDIN
    58 5 CHE KA MARUDD IN UK KAMARUDDIN BIN IDKIP, M.C.S.. who has held the post <M State Public Relations Officer. 6elangor, ?in< c the Department Public Relations was formed, has proceeded on transfer to North Tr^necanu. as Dismwr. Hh duties will be n ried out by irTin bin B"v-ng, Public Relations
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    REMEMBRANCE DAY IN IPOH
    87 5 From Our Own Correspjndent IPOH, Sun. D EMEivIBRANCE Day was comaiemorated by a simple and impressive ceremony held at the Ipoh Cenotaph this morning in the presence of a large gathering including Mr. A. V. Aston, the Resident Commissioner, and leading members of all com munitics.
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    FATAL END OF AN ARGUMENT
    106 5 POLLOWING an argument on politics between two Indians, which resulted in 0:1? of them beinp stabbed fatally, with a knife, Mariappan was produced before Mr. Justice Jobling on a charge of murder at the Singapore Assizes on Friday. Mr. M. Buttrose. outlining the case for
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    Governor Visrts "Lost Legion"
    57 5 The Governor of the Malayan Ui.ion. Sir Edward G^t :u<ompanicd by Mr. T. P. I' Mc.Neicc, Secretary of the Social Welfare Department, visited th« members of Malaya's "Lost Legion at Nee Soon on Saturday. This Straits Times picture shous Sir Edward talking to two Malay women
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    NO PAY INCREASE FOR JUNIOR NURSES
    471 5 SINGAPORE nurses who read or heard the speech made by Dr. W. J. Vickers, Director of Medical Services, at the recent Singapore Medical College Alumni Association meeting, and who anticipated far-reaching changes in the conditions of service, salaries and promotion, are to be disappointed.
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    5-YEAR-OLD DONATION
    78 5 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. A DONATION of $1348, repre- senting the collections irom a Poppy Day concert giv^n fit* >ears ago. has now been handed to the Penan?? Poppy Day mitteeMr. E. M. Nolan, the organiser of the Poppy Day, in acknowledging the gift, stated that
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    DISNEY TEACHES HEALTH IN S'PORE
    538 5 DISNEY TEACHES HEALTH IN S'PORE A new type of film was shown 1 to a specialist audience in Singapore, last week. Walt pisney. who has succ "ded in making the world happy, nad turned his hand to making the world healthy. The Inter-American Co-ordina-tion Committee is a body established to
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    Ex-servicemen's Part In Malaya's Future
    375 5 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. AT no time in Malaya has the quality of stoullnew, n on which the British character is based, been more valuable than now, declared Sir Edward (ient. the Governor of the Malayan Union, at the Armistirr banquet of
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    GOV. GEN. IN PENANG CEREMONY
    200 5 From Our Own Crinyuuent PFNANG, Sun AT the base of a llagpole pui up where the Cenotaph usca ,0 stand, before it was bombed v the Japs the Governor-c. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. this morning, placed the first in an impressive 15-minute ceremony which marked
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    REMEMBRANCE DAY
    29 5 The Rrmembrai'c" Day oration "t Changi A'rs»terday in when fiOO R.A.F and W.A.A F. porsorr.ol were to hay« participated wr\s cance'.W pause <'f f he r°' n
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      143 5 New Shipment— ARRIVING THIS MONTH ROOK YOUR REOVIREMENTS NOW 85 PER CENT FORMIC ICW MADE IN I'.S.V 140 LB. JARS GALVD. PLAIN SHEETS X' v x ti PAUGI GALVD CORR. SHEETS X' x GAUGE 7' 8' x >4 GADGB BRITISH COAL TAR 44 GALLON JABS PORTLAND CEMENT 112 LB. BAGB
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    SHANGHAI IN GRIP OF STRIKE
    184 6 iabour Demands Better Conditions, More Wages SHANGHAI, (By Air MaU). CHANGHAI, after enjoying comparative peace on the labour front for some weeks, is once again in the grip of a serious 6trike wave following a further rise in the cost of living. Carpenters and masons,
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    EMPIRE DIVISION HEAD TOURING MALAYA
    207 6 From Oar Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Sat. SIR ANGUS GILLAN K.8.E.. riead of the Britio l Empire division of the British Council, at present or. a tour of Malaya, in a press interview here said that the object of his visit was to make B: tain
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    L.C.C. Examinations
    96 6 THE spr.ng examinations of the London Chamber of Commerce will tKg-n in May 1947, and application for re qu sttio n forms and fees must be sent to the local education offices not later than January 15.1947. says a Public Relations Department announcement from Kuala Lumpur. Regulations and
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    HOARDER FINED IN BUTTER WORTH
    147 6 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG. Saturday. THARGED with hoarding 75 bags of rice and six bags of white sugar a Chinese shopkeeper. Ooi It Seong. was convicted in the Butterworth District Court and sentenced by the District Judge, Mr. B. J. Jennings, to a fine
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    K.L. Housing Situation Getting Bad
    122 6 K.L. Housing Situation Getting Bad From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. rHE housing situation in Kuala Lumpur is likely to be aggravated when several hundred Chinese families residing on state land are compelled to leave in the very near future and seek other accommodation. This action has been brought
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    A.D.O. Entertained
    76 6 From Oar Own Correspondent KLANG. Sat. MEARLY 100 members of the Selangor Coast Club, Klang. (attended a Malay dinner held at ithe Club in honour of M. Raia Ayoub bin Raja Haji Bot, A.D.0., Klang. who has been transferred to Kuala Lumpur as First "Magistrate. Raja Ayoub is
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    According to Culbertson
    335 6 Close attention to spot cards was the key to success n today's deal. South, dealer Norib-South vulnerable NORTH ♦Q 9 8 V 8 6 2 ♦QJ 8 5 ♦A K 6 V% EST EAST ♦16 3? K Q 9 j i 8 Hi it 9 n *QlO
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    MALAYAN SHARE MARKETS HAVE A GOOD WEEK
    885 7 By A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Saturday. [\ESPITE the serious position arising from the whart strike at the Singapore Harbour Board, Malayan share markets had a good week. The total oi transactions, if not of value of turnover, was the highest for many months
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    81 7 Rubber Export Income-Tax From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Sunday. THE Economist considers that reduction in the Malayan rubber export tax will probably necessitate a substantial compensatory income tax. "The difficulty is, that a lax like the rubber export tax is easy to collect, whereas in-come-tax is collectable only after delay
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    CHINESE WIN THREE-ONE Malays Out Of Victory Cup
    327 8 CHINESE WIN THREE-ONE Malays Out Of Victory Cup S.C.F.A 3 MJF.A 2 BEFORE an unprecedentedly large crowd at the Jalan Besax Stadium yesterday, the S.C.F.A. eliminated the Malays from the Victory Cup competition to qualify for the semi-final, by winning three-two. I Although the Chinese scored two goals In the
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    Pancho Loses In Melbourne
    175 8 By Merv Williams, Sporting Globe. MELBOIRNE. Saturday. I^ID PANCHO (MM! fail- to maintain his early lead against IXernie Grant ■s' 1 1 and was outpointed over 12 two-minute rounds at Melbourne stadium tonight. Pancho was tired from the 6th round. His punches lost st^am and direction
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    HOME RUGBY RESULTS
    261 8 LONDON. Sat. Rugby Union remits: Guy's Hospital 10. Blrkenhead Park 26; London Welsh 28, Upper Clapton 0; Old Cranleighans 5. Wasps 20; Richmond 0. Harlequins 8; Rosslyn Park 3. Old Merchant Taylors 8; St. M:\rv s Hospital 10. Old Blues 5; Aberavon 14. Bridgend 3; Aldershot Services
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    81 8 MELBOURNE. Sat. TWO of the keenest spectators in the Melbourne cricket ground for the Marleyboners' match with the Australian XI today were Mr. B. K. Nehru and Professor B. P. Adakar who had waited years to see Don Bradman. They ar^ members of the official Inuian
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    171 8 NEW YORK. Sun. THE Army and Ndtre Dame battled to a scoreless tie in their lootball game. Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard. the Army's tornadic touch-down twins oi a M-gSM winning streak, were held in check as Cadet Arnold Tucker shared the limelight with Notre Dame's Johnny Lujack
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    77 8 From Our Own Correspondnet PENANG. Sat. 'I .RAVELLING down to mainland, the Penanff" Football Association beat Province Wollesley by six goals to one In a Poppy Day charity match at Bukit Mertajam this evenIng. ll.' Penang centre forward Timins. displayed dashing form to score four of the
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    56 8 WEMBLEY, Sat. UROBLEMS facing the committee ising the 1948 Olympic games range from housing 5.003 competitors and officials to securing hundreds of flags that will fly all round Wembl-y Stcd'um. The outcome will probably be two Olympic "villages within fairly easy reach of the stadium. Floral Air Force
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    947 8 LONDON, Saturday. TENSEST struggles are taking place for the leadership of 1 various leagues, today's matches maintaining the Keen nature of the battles with the possible exception of Northern third division. Doncaster's win there enabled them to keep in front a*id actually increase tnc.i margin to
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