The Straits Times, 17 November 1946

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    18 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NETT SALE IN MALAYA No. 590 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1946. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    FEATHER BONNET
    46 1 FEATHER BONNET i > ir to .south F.-!<t A-u i i i uniform c»n. w>re this hit with s* -i in? birj oi paradise hri >n t the St. Marjari't's. Westmins■l^ M> ri Wi-rnh-r PJlightT of Ur i Uirnher. to Majcr DavH Ruitcr of the Scots Guard
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    Sound waves kill germs
    68 1 CHICAGO. S. ioiatinp so fait that they cannot l je hcarJ are being used as dea'h <ill food germs and permit tinned goods to be processed •Ttth■>:ing. it was announ.>rd D. Von Jenef acr. said fflnpf the wave machine M up vast unexotored r rv and
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    SULTANS STUDY FEDERAL SCHEME
    419 1 "Happy and optimistic f% Sunday Times Special Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saiuiday. MI.NX Malay Rulers in the Council Chamber here today had their first look at the draft document which is likely to be the basis of a new federal constitution for the Peninsula. The Rulers met
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    Govt. likely to demand confidence vote
    123 1 Govt. likely to demand confidence vote LONDON. Sat. THE Eiitish Gcveryrrrnt is now almost certain to demand a vote cf confidence on its fcre-.gn policy from Parliament on Monday, if the rebel grup of nearly 60 Labour members persists in debating its critical amendment To the King's speech forecasting Government
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    GIANT LINERS GET MINE WARNING
    83 1 LONDON Sat. IpGENT radio warnings that mtnes may lie in their course I nive been sent to the liners Queen Elizabeth and America. now on their way to Southampton. On Thursday a trawler I was blown up off Cork wuh heavy casualties. Commodore Sir James
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    DUTCH URGE CONTROL FOR RUBBER
    207 1 DUTCH URGE CONTROL FOR RUBBER AMSTERDAM, Sat. THE et> of a new ln- terna onal rubber control scheme in which importing countries are represented was urged today by the Deputy Director of the Netherlands Indies Department of Economic Affairs Such a system was the only solution to the problem of
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    WAAF OFFICER ON BUS CHARGE
    72 1 LONDON, Sat THE London Passenger Transport Board will prosecute in the first case of its kind at a West London court next Thursday a WAAF officer who is alleged to have refused to alight from a bus when requested to do so. The proceedings are
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    MR. MACDONALD TO BROADCAST
    40 1 THE Governor-General. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. win broadcast to the peoples of lalaya from the Blue Network of Radio Malaya at 9.45 p.m. on Tuesday The talk will be relayed from Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Malacca
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    INDIES TO BECOME SOVEREIGN STATE'
    271 1 THE HAGUE. Sat THE agreement which the Du:<:h Commission-General initiated in Batavia yesterday provides that the "United S'atcs of Indonesia" shall, within two years timo. be a "sovereign state" wiln clearly implied ability to d-ssoive the Netherlands-Indonesian Union |at will as well as having unilitenal
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    SECRET ARMY
    51 1 Among many illegal military orgaimat ops in Palestine today is the Arab Futuwa, which has sworn loyalty to the Mufti of Jerusalem, and trains and holds parades in the villages and countryside round Jerusalem. The picture shows Kamel Areikat, the commander of Futuwa, raising the flag at a
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    Big Highlands camp planned
    332 1 bunday limes Special Correspondent CAMERON HIGHLANDS, Sat. k GREAT permanent inter-Services leave centre for probably 2,000 officers, men and women will arise at Cameron Highlands within the next two years, with a 150-bed depot for convalescents and those with skin diseases, if present plans are approved
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    $200,000 IN BIG SWEEP
    92 1 FOR the first time in the history of turf riub bis sweeps in Malaya, the total pool amounted to more than $300,000. This happened at Kuala Lumpur yesterday, the iinal day of the Selangor Turf Club's Golden Jubilee meeting, and the actual figure, $303,703 is almost
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    NEW GOLD STRIKE IN AUSTRALIA
    66 1 KALGOORLIE (Australia*, Sat THE most sensational gold stri.ie in recent years came early today with the discovery of a mine from which six tons of stone were taken, containing gold worth approximately £245.--000. Gold seams an inch thick could be seen in stone taken out
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    Big – Five agree to talks on the Veto
    166 1 Big Five agree to talks on the Veto New York, Sal. rIE Big-Five have agreed •<» begin consultation*, probably on Monday, on a plan lor softening the use of the veto m the United Nations Security Council. This became possible when M. Molotov, the Soviet Foreign Minister, agreed to the
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    TROOPS SENT TO U.P. TOWNS
    116 1 Bomoay. DEINFORCEMENIS of BritUli troops have bet-n sent Iruu Lucknow to sevt-ral places i:> the Uni'rd provinces "to ease trie tension and create confldencr among the community the pro vircial ftoverrmert today Towns to which the tfOQfM have gone include Murvtadabad Agra and Cawrpore. Spora^Krio'ing
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    TEST REPORTERS LOSE SUITS
    85 1 SYDNEY. Sat TWO London journalists wh < werr> travelling with the EnfiI'ond Test team Charles Bray <>; I 'he Daily Herald and Victor L ":w.: of the Daily Graphic had clothes and property valued at i:3O'J stolen from a room in their hotel here today. Returning
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    IRAQ GOVERNMENT RESIGNS
    44 1 BAGDAD. Sat rE Iraq Government led *i» Arshad Al Umari rescued today. In'irmed quarto: s np .r t that Dr. Abdul Hambi al Pacha chi, former Prime Ministt Minister of Social Affairs in the present Cabinet will form th«next government. Reuter
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    SPOTLIGHT On MALAYA AND MALAYANS
    1496 2 SPOTLIGHT On MALA YA AND MALAYANS CLIFFORD PEER TURNS HIS DE VISITING Malayan waters agsia fti .an live years* most of which were spent in some of the v. nan concentration DR. KARL SPERBER. Czechoslovak WiffW on a KHmerchant ship, who al days last k doing voluntary the outpatients' artment
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      116 2 RADIO MALAYA Singapore BED NH WUKK hinrsr Indian itt metres; also 12 pm to 2 p.m 1 *i: mera<-yclea per second '61 metre band) »nd 7.4S p.m to 9.3* p m I.T.i mrj;. eyrk-» per wcond id metre land BMK NETWORK: (Malay tat list- 10* metres; also 12 p m
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      132 2 musit; 7.00 p. a. Malay programme; 8 15 p.m. Programme summary: 8 18 p.m. On the air this week; 8.30 p m. News, h-v-dJlnes; 8.32 pm. Music lor even body; 9.30 p.m. Music; 9.45 pm. Musical memories; 10.00 p.m. Radio theatre presents the "Master Builder." HOC p.m. News headlines and
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      129 2 .00 p.m. Calling all s'orUmen; 9.30 pm. Music parade, 10 15 pjn. Volet of the violin; 10 30 p.m. Radio new. reel; 10.45 p.m. London calling; 10. '> p.m. The inseparable fact of East,-: 10 55 pm. Interlude; 11.00 p.m. Jac.: Amlot; 11.30 pm. News; 11.40 nm Pron) todays papers.
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    MANAGER MARRIED
    65 3 Ar and Mrs John DredT. Nt r th< ir wedding at St. Andrew's Cathedra! yesterday Mr. Dr.-dre is Sin-rapore manager of 1 -on< I td. Kiat their weddinjr on Nov. 3. Mr Ng is the eldest son of •c NvO and the ■>!«• V.r \t g. while th»
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    POLICE BREAKING UP GUN GANGS
    277 3 POLICE BREAKING UP GUN GANGS Leaders shot Sunday Times Reporter CINCE the death of the two-gun gangster in the re- cent fight in Katong with a Police patrol the man has been identified as "Two-gun Swee" and of two other gunmen, armed robberies in Singapore are definitely showing a downward
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    Two Cathedral Weddings
    366 3 r. John Henry James Dredjre. who k Smgaporv manager n: Josoph Travers and Sons Ltd.. was married at St. Andrew's Cathedral •relay to MKs Betty McGrejror. Mr. Dredge is the son of Mrs. L D. Dredge, of Boscombe and the late Capt. J A Dredge, IMS, v.hile
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    Big Army Plan For Highlands
    313 3 (Continued From Paje 1) S&t the Army to quit the Highlands hot-el, whi:h is a hostel for 45 officers, by Dec. 1, thus allowi:ig civilians who are now restric'cci to the Green Cow Tavern and Smokehouse Inn, apart from unrequlsitioned private homes, to have .r.n
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    THIRTY SMALLPOX DEATHS IN UNION
    45 3 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. TOTAL of 107 cases of smalln pox and 30 deaths is reported from North Malaya during the week ending Nov. 9, according to a Malayan Union health intelligence report issued at Kuala Lumpur today.
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    130 Internees Still Receive Govt. Aid
    154 3 130 Internees Still Receive Govt. Aid Sunday Times Reporter OINGAPORE'S Social Welfare Department is still taking care of 130 people who were formerly interned by the Japanese in the Sime Road camp They are living at York Hill House and they range from young women with children to old men.
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    FLEET C.-in-C.
    28 3 Aciin.rai s»ir incviUc syire*., Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet, who recently conducted the first bis fleet exercises since the war from his flagship King George V.
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    BLACKPOOL LOSE THEIR LEAGUE LEADERSHIP
    485 3 Home Football LONDON, Sat. DLACKPOOL lost their unbeaten home record and the premier soccer League leadership when beaten by Grimsby today. Leading by an odd goal at the interval, Blackpool looked like record- ing their eighth successive home win sine* tihe start of the season,
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    RUGBY LEAGUE
    69 3 Barrow 8. Hudderslield 7; Bellevue Rangers 10, St. Helens 10; Dewsbury 14, York 0; Featherstone Rovers 10, Bradford Norilern 12; Halifax 5, Salford 3; Hull 24, Bramley 7; Leeds 13. Hull Kingston Rovers 15; Oldham 8. Castleford 5; Rochdale Hornets 10, Wakefleld Trinity 12: Swinton 10, Liverpool Stanley
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    ENGLAND WINS
    29 3 Swansea, SatEngland beat Wales by 19 points to five in a Rugby Leaguo international match at Saint Helen's ground here today after leading 14-5 at hall time.--Reuter.
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    ROAD REPAIR PLAN FOR CITY
    338 3 Sunday Times Reporter WHILE no new roads are to be built in the. Munin cipality's new financial year, there is to be an allout drive to improve those which are in poor state of repair, and in 1948 it is hoped to complete the new
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    Harbour Men May Strike In Penang
    195 3 Harbour Men May Strike In Penang Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Sat. ANE thousand seven hundred harbour labourers may go on strike on Monday if a meeting of th e men, scheduled for tonight, rejects the latest offer of payments by the Penang Chamber of Commerce. The meeting, however, may vote
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    EVERYTHING STOPS FOR MELBOURNE CUP
    924 4  - EVERYTHING STOPS FOR MELBOURNE CUP Bob Gilmore 7 he Australian Scene Air mail letter from MELBOURNE, Nov. 6. A FEDERAL Cabinet meeting was suspended yesterday while Ministers listened to the Melbourne Cup radio relay. In schools lessons were halted while the race broadcast was put through public address systems. So
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    Youth "as fine as ever"
    56 4 all th« to Ik of hnrenllc delinquency," FLnriques. chaizman of To juvenile ccurt, in London said the nat on's j not degenerate 'They are absolutely magnJas fine as thc-y have ..•■en." b«> *aid. "The boys who s are full cl th-> spirit oi the Spitfire,
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    "Railroad of death" -a new picture
    807 4 "Railroad of death" -a new picture FOR MALAYAN BOOKSHFF, VES rE great merit of John Coast's "Railroad of Death" is that it presents a plain unvarnished account of P.O.W. life in Singapore and Siam, and that although the horrors are never stressed and Japanese brutality and neglect are never dwelled
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    Electronic brain is born
    509 4 MOW that the electronic 11 brain and the memory machine are upon us it seems that we are really facing a new revolution; this time, not an industrial one, but a revolution of the mind. And in this revolution the responsibilities facing scientists to-day are formidable
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      468 4 EVERYTHINGSHEATE TURNED TO ACID Now Food No Longer Upsets He» A 4 with many another stomach ■uCcrcr. it «v e\r. m mM that lay at the root of this woman's complaint. Onoe she had found out how vo neu-tral-w this acid, her troubles were MM In her letter she tells
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    NEW BUS FOR R.A.F.
    49 5 Ihis r bus. which the KAr are importing Several buses are m fart in ships in Singapore ur, and are being unloaded. Passengers seated at the ha< i -not for i hut to provide a bit luggage space in the rear. (1 through double doorv
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    'Hit wife with revolver' says witness
    133 5 'Hit wife with revolver' says witness Sunday Times Correspondent MALACCA Sat. ENRAGED that his wife was not k me on his return, a Mumat bin Jar.tan. is alleged to have drawn a revolver ruck hi 3 wife on the head I times with it and then •ied »o shoot all
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    NEW MALAYAN DIRECTORY
    52 5 \Y,*ORK on a new directory which will give a comprehensive guide to Malaya is expected to be completed before the end of the year. About 4.000 firms have giver, particulars to the directory which will have about 600 pages. The publishers are Cheah Kirn Bee Co.. Cecil
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    REAR ADM. BRIDGE
    50 5 REAR Admiral Bridge, iRA. Air, British Pacific Fleet arrives in Singapore for a short visit in the Glory tomorrow. The Fla^ Officer, Malaya, and Mrs. Egerton are flying back to Singapore from Penang, where they have been staytnf with the Governor General. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, since Friday.
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    3,000 GET FREE SCHOOLING
    281 5 Children who lost parents Minday limes Keporter MORE than 3,000 children who lost parents during the war or whose parents are poor are now receiving free schooling up to leaving standard under the scheme for remission of school fees in Government and Government-aided English Schools. The
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    LIGHTER CREW CHARGED
    92 5 DOITR Indians were produced before Mr. K. M. Byrne in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday and charted with criminal breach of trust of a lighter, valued at 514.000, and 357 cases of cigarettes valued at $186,000. They Were Ibrahim (31), Abas (18), Jamaludin (17) and Yusop
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    XMAS GIFTS FOR POOR CHILDREN
    133 5 XMAS GIFTS FOR POOR CHILDREN Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. SIX thousand destitute children in Selangor will be provided with gifts during Christmas in a drive sponsored by the Social Welfare Department. They will be given toys, and parties have been arranged. It is estimated that the cost Oi
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    Many Malayan Questions For Commons
    176 5 Many Malayan Questions For Commons Sunday Times Correspondent LONDON, Sat. "VfALAYAN questions are proy minent among the 496 set down for the next session of Parliament. I understand questions are pending regarding the high cost and irregularities of LondonSingapore air mails. Mr. L. D. Gammans <Cons., Hornseyt is asking if
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    NEW LIGHT ON NOONE PAPERS
    348 5 Sunday Times Correspondent TAIPING, Sat. LOOTERS rather than the Japanese took the manuscripts of the Malayan ethnologist, Mr. H. D. Noone, according to Mr. V. D. Kuppusamy. formerly officer-in-charge of the Perak Museum who told me that hooligans from Taiping and Batu Kurau looted the
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    MEMORIAL TO VOLUNTEERS
    90 5 Sunday Times Correspondent MALACCA, Sat. A memorial to Malacca Chinese Volunteers and Chinese members of th c A.R.P. and L.D.C.. who died in the last war, will be erected shortly. The memorial will be built at the Chinese Voluntee r Headquarters in Kubu Road. It is also
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    SAVINGS BONDS SALES GO UP
    83 5 THE sale of $14,000 worn of Victory Savings Certtlicates at the Singapore General Post Office yesterday morning was a big improvement on Fridays slump when only $3,000 worth were sold. Sales at the G P.O. during the first three days of the Say ings campaign
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    FINEDFORCARRYING KNIFE IN PUBLIC
    52 5 Remarking that it was dangerous to carry knif c in public, Mr. Paul Storr fined a 21-year-old Indian. Kunjoo, $100, in default three months' rigorous imprisonment, at the First District Court yesterday for carrying a knife in public during a recent Singapore Hindu-Muslim clash— without a
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    BLIND CHILDREN DOING GOOD WORK
    446 5 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Sat. IN the only home of its kind in 1 Malaya dedicated to tVir welfare and education, sonu 40 blind children in Penang, to whom the Governor-Gen?ral, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, earlier' this week had promised a Christmas party, are now
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    THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE, NOV. 17, 1946. Medical Service Reforms
    575 6 THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE, NOV. 17, 1946. Medical Service Reforms rERE hi the greatest public interest in the plans which are now before the Malayan rnments for the unification and reorganization of the medical service, not only because one of the av«,wtd aims is to remove all grounds fur charges
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    The Men who Speak for Indonesia
    1422 6 The Men who Speak for Indonesia -By A Special Correspondent who has recently returned from Java, where he met the leading Indonesians Sockamo, Sjharir, Hatt a, Sjarifuddin and Gani— who last week reached agreement with the Dutch Commission-General on a plan for the future const itut ion of Indonesia and
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    Those chromosomes
    754 6  -  John LangdonDavies By IT has just been announced that a Nobol Prize has been awarded to the American biologist. Dr. H J Muller. Twenty years ago Muller made a truly remarkable discovery which was seized on by optimists H. G. Wells) as the key to the production of
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    Sultan To Lead Tennis Team
    80 7 Sunday Ti n« s Correspondent Ktiali Lumpur. SI. Till Sultan <>f I", r.ik. wh« n kbrmlcd his 60th birthday on Friday, is to captain a I tram from Kuala Kan; fear and «tner parts of the state in a match with an Ipoh l>.im led
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    MR. S.P. FOENANDER
    33 7 kr. sports of the Ceylon Ot, I I in Singapore yesterday by the Andre Lebon on ta to cover the Lr.gIr.nd- Australia Tests He leaves Finuapore today by air for
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    RENTS IN SPORE MAY GO UP
    400 7 Suggestion to Government Sunday Times Reporter Cl.Nd \POKK Municipal Commissioners will reionimend to Government that the 25 per cent, surcharge on assessment, which is estimated to add another million dollars to the Municipal coffers, should be borne by the tenant and not the landlord.
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    ANDRE LEBON CALLSATS'PORE
    180 7 MAKING her first peace-time voyage, the Messagcries Maritimes liner, Andre Lebon, arrived from Marseilles yesterday with 36 passengers for Singapore. Thirty of the passengers were from Colombo. Anchoring in the outer Roads, the vessel had 896 transit passengers for Saigon, Hong Kong and Shanghai— the majority of
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    ADM. BOYD IN PENANG
    100 7 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANO. Sat. PYINu Urn flag of the C.-in C. British Pacific Fleet Vice Admiral Sir Denis Boyd. ihe cruiser Belfas f which had the honour of firing the first .shot in the Allied invasion on D-Day, arrived at Peiuing this morning from Shanghai
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    Arms Charges: New Ruling In Penang Case
    253 7 Arms Charges: New Ruling In Penang Case Sunday Times Correspondent Penang. Sat. rE view that the carrying of arms and the use of arms are distinct offences and "ought to form a distinct charge upon which the verdict of the Jury or assessors should be obtained," was expressed by Mr.
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    PENANG MUSEUM SUGGESTED
    78 7 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Sat. A suggestion that a museum should be opened In Penang was made to Sir Angus Gillan, head of the Emp're Division of the British Council, when he met representatives of the various communities at a meeting held in the Penang Library yesterday
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    GIFT OF TWO TONS OF BOOKS
    76 7 rVVO tons of school books donated by schools in Victoria. Australia, h?ve arrived in Singapore to help relieve an acute shortage. They were packed and despatched by the Australian Red Cross. The donation was suggested to Victoria by Capt. C. J White, who was
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    802 ON BOARD BRITANNIC
    112 7 THERE were 674 Service per--1 sonnel and 128 civilians on board the Britannic which arrived In Singapore f rom the United Kingdom via Bombay yesterday. Major General J. B. Churcher. D.5.0., who is taking over command of the British Second Division, at Johore Bahru, was among
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    FILM ON RADAR'S PART IN WAR
    70 7 Sunday Times Reporter CINGAPOREANS will know very little more about radio-location and, enjoy a good comedy if they see 'School for Secrets', a film emphasising the great part played by radar in winning World War n. The film has Just been flown out. to
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    SPORE MAKES XMAS TOYS
    385 7 Sunday Times Reporter CCORES of get-rich-quick toymakers, operating unregistered businesses In godowns, empty garages and back-3treet hutments, are turning out large quantities of crude and expensive toys to sell In the shops for Christmas, and offering them at exorbitant prices to strike-affect-ed shopkeepers with empty shelves.
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    OPIUMPLANTTO BECOME STORE
    226 7 Sunday Times Reporter THE million dollar Government opium packing plant at Pasir Panjang will be used as a bonded store for liquor and tobacco until the acute space shortage improves. The buildings and plant will eventually be either sold or leased to private firms. The plant which
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    3 MEN FACE ARMS CHARGES
    74 7 In the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday. Sukder Singri and Kaham Singh were charged with being found in possession of 10 revolvers in River Valley Road The case was postponed a week for mention. In the same court, a Chinese. Chr.g Boon Swee. was also
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    Sugar Prices Fall In Penang
    112 7 Sugar Prices Fall In Penang Sunday Times urrcsjiui d m PENANG. IN anticipation of the arrival of a sugar ship. Sam Pep. tomorrow mornirg the pr sugar for the first time in many months have touched the dollar lovel in Penang. Brown su-^ar today is available at only 70 cent*
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    FATAL FALL
    26 7 While repairing telep! o win in Coliyer Quay yesterday meming, an Indian fell Irom a he.eht of about 20 feet and wa. ;?talv injured.
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    FLYING-BOAT ON LAST TRIP
    53 7 The BOAC flying-boat Canopus Is seen making her last trip engineless and in tow from Hythe to March wood to be broken up. It was boats of the Canopus class which inaugurated the U.K.-Sing-apore flyinf boat service in 1938, and she was regular caller here before
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      232 7 During The Past Week We have receded from India A FWE SELECTION OF MIRZIPORE CARPETS These are all in plain pastel shades of Whito, G: White, Cream. Biege, Green, Blue. Pink. OoU Sizes are approximately Oft. x 12 ft. up >o 12 ft. xl 5 ft. These are not cheap
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      391 8 PECIAL FREE GIFT K»M iii mn Bnok for Singing A Playing *iU it' KTTE Will be Given Away nuoc or chakoi iMrchaeer of The Americi* -.ular MunK-al Instrument tonettlK Selling »t SPECIAL price M rt» extra ii-i.li NU.-M Suifipoir. Till LEADING WHOLKSAI r v RETAIL DBUGGUTC At Ynur Service Again
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      521 8 HEN the opening hidd.r holds three four-card suits and a singleton, there is simple rule to help him select the opening bid. The ruie is to bid that suit that ranks below the singleton. Some examples (a) 8. AJ x z H. x DAJn < K I XX Here the
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      600 8 THIS WEEK FOR YOU What the Stars Foretell SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 2*) Make the best and fuUest use of your personal talents at this time. If you are to be as successful as you hoped. A promotion is due. Stand up for your rights and ask for it now and
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      266 8 TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)— A week when you will discover that advertising your talents or a product actually pays good dividends. Plan your work ahead and contact all those who can be useful to you in the future. Act now. GEMINI (May 22-June 22) If you are looking for work,
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      614 8 BY STELLA LEO (July 24 -Aug. 23) A possible change in residence and an accent on the social side of life are indicated for you at this time. If you are working with the public, some new idea should catch on and help you toward eventual recognition and success. VIRGO
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    Y.M.C.A. MAKING PROGRESS
    849 9  - Y.M.C.A. MAKING PROGRESS Jean Gaye I urA\MN'5 NOTEBOOK -By is ix ng made with the rehab'li- th.« V.M.C.A. build I id. but •.ruvid«" the ban? building .nization. $37,644 $25,000 is reoot and relay th» fjivund. of Ifet best grass In Singapore were lent when the ground was allowed to rur;
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    Qun Temple
    515 9 It u< unposMhle to persuade or force my 15-year-old son to work harder for his School Certificate. He seems sincere in wanting to do better, but says he can't eet down to it, that he has "a grasshopper mind.'' His conscription service should decide for him whether he
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    27 9 This dr.iiKd evening gown in cyclamen moss crepe is embroidered with violet beads and sequins. An interesting note is tn<bare shoulder and arm with one violet glove
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    New fabrics from feathers
    501 9 DRESSES made of ciucKen feathers and wool- like suits made of peanuts cr corn appear feasible from experiments now being reported by chemists of the regional research laboratories of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Gowns spun from whites ot ■:%■> seem well within ttia range of
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      233 9 CATHERINE i to remind her clients that pressure of work makes it necessary that they order before the end of the month, dre««*« required to be made for X'mas and New Year. CATHERINE, P.iris MUUfc Winchester House Phone «18 ollycr Qun\ NOW...you too can have a Jk fWB^K^L. Hist Here
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      391 9 I (4/*" PARIS I Mr' MM F. ZUELLIG LID. hobinson road, m v m% Mart wmVrWZ^?ZS&rs^W4fTjß\s&r&X--—--^ >^> FOOD PARCELS FOR e-Smi) BRITAIN Arrangements have been made in f* _^?|Srnßl Australia for the prompt despatch of fF?-**^ EhOT FOOD Parcels to Britain. Orders are 1,' j'.'Ji: IjffJP sent AIR MAIL to
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    CLUB WIN HARD GAME v SULTAN
    456 10 Sultan Team > < < 9 Sultan 5 MEMORABLE chiefly for a hist ten minutes of excitement ii std»- strove hard to score when the S.C.C. were ending b> the narrow margin of one point, the Rugby match < -i the Club and H.M.S.
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    Penang Asiatic XV Hold Yorks
    582 10 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. PFNANG'S Garrison Commander, Lieut. Col. G. Taylor, who is the possessor of 15 Lancashire caps and has played rugger for the Army, was seen in the role of a referee at a keenly-contested rugger match between his regiment, the West'
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    ROCKLITES
    81 10 The 'Rocklites' Sports Party team to play soccer against the 2nd Buffs Rcgt.. at Glllman Barracks today will be selected from Wee Girn Soo, Chow Hin. C. Humphries. N. K. Sabai. Teo Chwee Eng. Charlie Tay. Le« Keng Lent;, Chan Swee Lee. D. C. Swyny, Chee Kirn Cheng, W.
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    Florida Negro In Line For Tilt At Louis
    133 10 Florida Negro In Line For Tilt At Louis New York, Fri. ELMER "Violent" Ray, Florida Negro who once wrestled alligators for a living, became the Number One heavyweight challenger for Joe Louis' heavyweight boxing crown tonight by winning a split 10--round point decision over favourite Jersey Joe Walcott before 12,090
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    Malacca Builds A Rugby xv
    283 10 Malacca Builds A Rugby xv Sunday Times Reporter MALACCA Sat. MORE than 20 players turned out for a rugger practice last week organised by M.B. Bra^h. the well-known lawyer, and A.S. Khoo. Nearly all those who were playing rugger here some years ago have now dropped out of the game
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    FRONT-PAGE SOBS FOR BERNBOROUGH
    262 10 Sunday Times Correspondent MELBOURNE, Nov. 6. WHEN Bernborough, Australia's greatest racehorse since Phar Lap, endec* his racing career on Saturday by •tapping the sesamold bone in his near f;rc fetlock at Flemlngton Course, radio programmes were halted, newspaper editions were repeated and all other news went
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    COURTENAY WINS BIG RACE AT K.L
    661 10 COURTENAY WINS BIG RACE AT K.L Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPI X, Sat. pOURTENAY, Mr. S. C Wong and Madame Chan's" bay v Australian gelding, won the Jubilee Bowl, valued at £1(M), presented by the Selangor Turf Club for class one division one, horses to-day, the final day of the
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    NEW LIFE B. P.
    171 10 OLAYLNG at the Sphinx Badminton Party's Court on Sunday last, the New Life Badminton Party defeated the Sphinx Badminton Pary by four games to three. Results (New Life B.P. players mentioned first) are as follows: Sinclrs: Koh Benir Sw<e txat Aloysius De Souza 15-8 15-3: Charlie
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    MALAYAN BOXERS RETURNING
    529 10 MALAYAN BOXERS RETURNING From Merv Williams MELBOURNE, Nov. 10. THIS has been black week for Singapore boxers in Australia. Last night Kid Pancho (9-0 >/ 2 failed to reinstate himself in Melbourne becau&e he ran out of gas and was outpointed by Beraie Grant 8- lit, a rising local, ever
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    MERRY TIME B. P.
    32 10 T^HE monthly committee meeting of the Merrytime Badminton Party will take place at Mr. Saleh Ahmad's residence. No. 340-C. Changi Road, (opposite Lorong Marzuki), at 10.30 a.m. to-day
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      261 10 MERTON BROWN A MIN. A. A M.I.MECH E. A.M. I. MAR E CHARTERED MECHANICAL ENGINEER MAXIM < <)\SI 1 lAN I LAUNCHES. YACHTS, LIGHT CRAFT BUILDING SUPERVISION SURVEYS UNDERTAKEN J5 Yemrt l<mil ggptritmct in design (i nd construction MERTON BROWN «c CO. 35. Robinson Rd. (3rd Floor Singapore Phone 6«77
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    Tengah Beat C.S.A. 4-1
    224 11 R.A F. (Vengah) CSA 1 4 FTER a promising start the Chi- nes? St*>rts Association faded out of the picture and were beaten by the RAF. (Tengar.) by four goals to one in a friendly football match on the I Padam? yesterday. A fine bout of
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    SOCCER OFF
    24 11 IME soccer match betwren RAF. A (ChanßH and R.N.A S. <Sembav. hich was to have been played at Changi yesterday, was cancelled.
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    RAIN HITS UNDERWORKED M.C.C. TEAM
    471 11  -  Bill Bowes From SYDNEY, -Sat. RAIN which began yesterday afternoon and continued all night made play an impossibility in the M.C.C. fixture against New South Wales at Sydney to-day. Like the Old TraJlord, the Sydney Cricket Ground possesses every known device to take the water
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    Woodcock To Fight Swede
    104 11 LONDON, Sat. BRUCE Woodcock, British heavyweight chanpion. plans to fight Oile Tuidberg. Swedish title bolder, before he meet* Joe Bakai In London in the New Tear. Tom Harst, his manager, said today that the fight with Tandberg waa almost a certainty, bat he did not know
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    Davis Cup Team 'Leaves By Clipper 'Malaya'
    165 11 Davis Cup Team 'Leaves By Clipper 'Malaya' SAN FRANCISCO. Sat. THE United States Duvio Cup I tennis team took oil at 10 05 p.m. San Francisco time, yester- day, on the Pan-American cl'pper Malaya' lor Australia. where they play the Aussios 1:1 ihe challenge round on Dec 26 Dec. 27
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    GENTLE B. P.
    64 11 THE following will represent the Gentle Badminton Party "B" team p gainst the Perhlmponan Badminton Party, in a friendly badminton match of four Singles and three Doubles at the former's court at 3 p.m. to-day. Ashu-1. A. Rani, A. Rahim Latlff, Bujal. Senin Sarpan. Boslam, A. Wahab.
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    R.A.S.C. WIN 4-1
    38 11 No. 35« Platoon. R.A.8.C.. beat the Dockyard Asian Sports Club fourone in a soccer match played at Woodhinds Petrol Depot yesterday. Bttt. Camberly. scoring twic? for the winners gave the best performance of the mutch
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    BASE HQ HAD NO SCORER
    280 11 BASE HQ HAD NO SCORER RJL.F. (Changi) RAF. Base Hq. t. n»RILLIANT goalkeeping by Su- *> livan was one of the < utstanding features of the footoa.i match between R.AP. Base Headquarters and R.A.F. (Seletar) at Changi yesterday The game ended in a goalless draw. Although the Base were decidedly
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    Negri v Selangor Hockey Nov. 23
    147 11 Sunday Times Reporter Seremban, Sat, WHILE hockey and rugger continue to dominate Negri sport, some soccer, badminton, tennis and basket-ball games continue to be played. A programme of inter -state hock?y games has been drawn up and the first trials have already been h
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    37 11 NEW YO.KSC. Sat. World light-heavy weight champion. Ous Lesnevlch, will mak? his first United States defence of his crown in Hve years on Feb. 28 against Billy Fox of Philadelphia in the Madison Square Oardrn— A. P.
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    Perak Win 18-5 v Selangor
    273 11 Perak Win 18-5 v Selangor Sunday Tinea Correspondent IPOH, Sat. DKRAK beat SeUngor by 18 points (three goals and one try) to five (one goal) in a gruelling game today before a record crowd. A cracking pace was s?t up from the start and during the first 15 minutes, Selangor
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    Hard Tussle In Taiping Rugger
    207 11 Sunday lime* Correspondent TAIPING, Sat. 'I HE Royal Devon Yeomanry ranger team irom Ipoh fought a graiid tussle w.th a Taiping Combined XV. the match eriding in a draw, six points 'two tries) to six points (two tries). The match was played in rain a-.J
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    VICTORIA LEAD S. AUSTRALIA
    87 11 ADELAIDE Sat EORGE Tamblyn, scoring 75 runs, T ard Ken Meuleman, 87 runs addpd 158 for the second wicket when Victoria scored 285 for three wickets In reply to South Australia's first innings total of 274 in the second day's play of the Sheffield Shield match
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    PETERDALE B. P.
    63 11 IN a friendly baamlnton match of five singles and two doubles the Peterdale Badminton Party will meet the Mount Faber Badminton Club at the former's court at 3.30 D.m. today. Peterdale B.P.: Swee Siang. Swee Chee, Swee Hee Swee Kiat, Swee Hock. Thiam Hock, Robert H. W.
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    214 11 By •Terry* I'HK preliminaries of the R.A.F. Individual boxing championships, Malaya Command, took place at the opii air boxing arena at Changi on Friday. A very large crowd of spectators enthusiastically applauded some excellent and spirited boxing. The high lights of the show were the
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    139 12 The White Ensisn flown bjr the aircraft-carrier Indefatigable when she entered Tokio Bay last year for the surrender of the Japanese to the Allies has b?en presented to Holborn by the company of the Borough's adopted ship. Supt Rowlrrson. of fUy\. sr-.Mi. m-eiving it on behalf
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