The Straits Times, 1 June 1947

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    20 1 FINAL EDITION THE STRAITS TIMES LARGEST NETT SALE IN MALAYA NO. 618 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1947. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    GOVT ATTACKED ON PRICE CONTROL
    394 1 GOVT ATTACKED ON PRICE CONTROL Ruthless action demanded Sunday Times Staff Reporter CRITICISM of the complete failure of the Singapore Government to effect any appreciable reduction in the cost of living is made by the Special Inquiry Co nmittee, appointed by the Municipal Commissioners, whose recommendations were announced yesterday. "Urgent
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    68 1 An artist's impression of the Singapore Cenotaph showing the two urns for the Uuknown Soldier and Unknown Civilian who died in the Battle of Singapore. The Singapore Government has «pproved a proposal to establish a public park on the reclaimed ground on both sides of the Cenotaph. Hi» War Memorial
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    LARGER RICE YIELD EXPECTED IK 1948
    181 1 WASHINGTON, Saturday. A UNITED States Department of Agriculture survey, published today, says that the prospects for 1947-1948 point to an increase of rice production. "If weather conditions are favourable," says the report, "larger crops should be harvested during the 1947-1948 season both in Asia
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    THIEVES BREAK INTO BANK BASEMENT
    109 1 THIEVES BREAK INTO BANK BASEMENT Sunday Times Rcorter ■THIEVES in the earl> hours of yesterday morning broke into a basement of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation's building at the corner of Collyer Ouay and Battery Road, and stole four rolls of cloth. Regular police patrols around the bank disturbed
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    COLOMBIA AIR CRASH
    32 1 Twelve members of the Colombian Army Air Force were injured on Friday when their transport plane was forced >0 make a crash landing after colliding with a buzzard.— AP.
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    37 ARRESTED IN S'HAI ROUND-UP
    138 1 SHANGHAI, Saturday. /GOVERNMENT troops and \J police today continued rounding up persons silspected of being Communist agents in Shanghai in an attempt to avert a general uprising on June 2. The latest unofficial figures gave 11 agents and 26 students In custody. No violence was
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    GARRETT LEAVES
    42 1 The former Singapore Trade Union Advisor, Mr. S. P. Uarrett, will leave Singapore t .morrow for the United Kingdom. Pending the appointment of Mr. Garrett's successor, the Commissioner for Labour. Mr. R. P. Bingham, will take l^sponsibllity for his office.
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    JAPS SETTING UP COALITION GOVT.
    70 1 TOKIO. Sat. nnETSU Katayama, Japanese SoX clai Democrat Prime Minister, who was invested in office on May 27, was expected to form a coalition government today, after receiving an assurance of support from the Democrat Party. The Liberal Party, headed by the former Prime Minister
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    TWO U.S. AIRLINER CRASHES KILL 92
    162 1 NEW YORK, Saturday. THE two worst air disasters in the history of United States commercial aviation killed 92 people withi n 24 hours, and four other plane crashes round the globe in Japan, Iceland, the Netherlands and Alaska increased the total dead to at
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    CRICKET WRITER
    46 1 Mr. Neville Cardus, the famous |English cricket commentator and music critic, will leave Singapore by air today for London. Mr. Cardus is returning from a stay in Australia during which he reported for United Kingdom and Dominion newspapers the last Test matches in Australia.
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    VKKERS VIKINC ON THE WAY HOME
    96 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter The Vickers Viking aircraft which left England on April 16 and passed through Singapore on Its way for a demonstration tour of Australia and New Zealand, will leave Singapore this morning on its return trip. The Viking has travelled 32.000
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    Spore smuggler caught
    89 1 SOIRABAYA, Saturday. A DETERMINED smuggler w ho lost 20,900 guilders worth of watches when customs officers seized them from him on his arrival in Sourabava from Singapore and wlfo tried to get them back, has been arrested after trvin- to escape to Manila on his brother's passport.
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    TO LEAD POUR PARTY
    54 1 Group Capt. S- A. C. Campbell who has been appointed leader of the Australian expedition to Antarctica in the Summer of 1947-1948. He was ofneer-in-charge of Flying Operations on the British-Australian Antarctic expedition under Sir Doutlas Mawson. and was with the Royal Australian Air Force from
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    Prisoner rescued by armed mob
    261 1 Sunday Times Correspondent IPOH, Saturday. QEVERAL hundred Malays, many of them armed with hJ krises and parangs, rioted in Kuala Kangsar yesterday. While five of their compatiiots were being tried in the District Court for possessing illegal weapons, the armed mob suddenly appeared and took
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    SPORE ELECTION REPORT
    62 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE Singapore Legislative Coun- ell Elections Drafting Committee has published its report. The Draft Bill, which differs in certain minor details from the report, will be published early this week. The Bill will not be put bef.re the Advisory Council for at least
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    Gangsters rob Spore Dr., staff & patients
    264 1 Gangsters rob Spore Dr., staff patients Sunday Times Staff Reporter THREE masked Chinese bandits, armed respectively with a grenade, a pistol, and a kni/e. yesterday robbed a doctor, his staff, and his patients in a clinic at Hill Street, Singapore. The doctor is Dr. A. M. D'Cotta. The bandits collected
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    TAX CHANCES -EXPERT'SVIEW
    96 1 Sunday Times Correspondent. PENANG. Saturday. THE possibility that as soon as income tax is introduced the rubber duty and other taxes may be lifted was indicated by Mr. It. B. Ileasman, income tax adviser to the Malayan Governments, when h? m?t leadin members of Penanj's commercial community
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    SPOTLIGHT on MALA VANS
    1073 2 SPOTLIGHT on MALA VANS Clifford Peer Turns His MANY stories of heroism and selfless devotion during the last few days before the fall of Singapore, when bombs rained down from the skies, are now coming to light, and the brave men and women are receiving awards for their courage. And
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    BANDITS ATTACK POLICE OUTPOST
    317 3 BANDITS ATTACK POLICE OUTPOST Troops rushed to the rescue Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. PIAMESE troops, rushed to the assistance of seven conO stables defending a police station, be.U off a surprse attack by about 30 bandits on Kampong Jaroma in Betone district. Armed with Sten guns and pistols, the
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    69 3 >1 n of the crew of the United States cruiser Tuled > are seen crowding the rail of the versel yesterday to take their first pictures of (he Singapore water-frcnt. Sunday Times photographer ah .ml the v s-cl took this photograph a few minutes before the first of the crew
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    Yanks warned of Slpore gangsters
    268 3 Yanks warned of S l pore gangsters introduction to the Tanglin Club. Indian money changers at Collyer Quay refused to change the thousands of dollars offered to them by crew members. The money changers referred the sailors to the banks, which were already shut. The cruiser has visited Ginraltar, Bari,
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    SHIP'S CALL CANCELLED
    50 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. Owing to unavoidable circumstances the call by the s.s. Khosrou at Port Swettenham is now cancelled. Passengers who have already received letters concerning bookings by this sailing will be given priority by the next sailing of the Rajula on June 20. states an announcement.
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    UNION WARDS SCHOLARSHIPS
    107 3 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. rE following* awards of Mala yan Union Queen's Scholarships and Fellowships fur 1946 have been m^de by the Selection Board: Queen's Scholarship Chin «*ung Kee, a Raffles College gradua c and nrtw with hf igh School, Bukit Mertajam. Queen's Scholarship (resolved
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    HANDCUFFED TO BED, CHINESE ESCAPES
    97 3 OINGriPORE Police are searching J for a young Chinese who escaped from the General Hospital in the early hours of yesterday. The man was arrested on Friday following a scuffle with two detectives in Geylang. He was injured in the head during the struggle, which
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    PENANG MOVE TO GIVE WOMEN EQUAL RIGHTS
    106 3 PENANG MOVE TO GIVE WOMEN EQUAL RIGHTS Sunday Times Correspondent. PENANG, Saturday. FURASIAN women may shortly enjoy the same voting rights as men and may represent their community on public councils and other bodies. This possibility is envisaged in a move to be taken to'Ticrrow when the Penang Eurasian Association
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    Consecration of Malacca Bishop today
    176 3 Consecration of Malacca Bishop today IONSIGNOR Michael Olwill be consecrated •'L h>p of Malacca at the .u.nedral of the Good Shepherd, Singapore, at 8 a.m. today. Mgr. Olcomendy has been Vicar General and concurrently Vicar Capitular o? the Diocese of Malacca. Thousands of CaUioLca from all parts of Malaya and,
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    ATTACK ON GOVEitNmENT
    157 3 ATTACK ON GOVERNMENT Continued from page 1 two reams for all families of more than five persons should be allowed. The Committee further suggests that immediate action be taken to repair and colour wash all labouM? quarters T.ie Committees rt >nin. i adatiur. on rent allowance for unhoused labourers is
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    IN THE NEWS
    39 3 Monsignor Jean Baptiste Maximilian Chaballiere, Vicar Apostolic of Cambodia, who will assist at the episcopal consecration of Monsignor Michael Olcomendy as Bishop of Malacca, at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, Singapore, at 8 a.m. today.
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    SPORE MAY GET PLENTY OF TYRES SHORTLY
    285 3 Snuday Times Stan* Kenorter iTHE present scarcity of motor 1 tyres in Singapore may be remedied in three to five 1 months, representatives of tyre j firms in the city said yesterday. ]To make this possible, however, I English, Australian and Indian j
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    UNIONS TO DISCUSS TAPPING WAGE CUT
    342 3 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE general impression in rubber circles in Kuala Lumpur 1 following the news that contract tapping rates are to b« cut by 20 per cent., affecting mostly Chinese estate labour, is that this reduction will be accepted
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    WAN CONGAS TO MEET AT K.K.
    50 3 npHE aiiiiua.l c. .erence ci the X Malay Indian Congress will be held next Saturday and Sunday at the Chettiars' Hall at Kuala Lumpur. Visitors are required to pay ft fee of $10 and applications should be made through the res-» pective area Congresses.
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    JOHORE PLANTERS MAKE WAGE CUTS
    53 3 I JOHORE BAHRU, Saturday. i Some Asiatic planters in Johor;? I have notified their labourers tha i their wages will be reduced owing to the fall in the price oi> rubber. A few Asiatic rubber estate o-xners have already effected a cut of $5 a
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    TANGLIN WARNS WHISKY RATION OFFENDERS
    130 3 TANGLIN WARNS WHISKY RATION OFFENDERS Sunday Times Reporter rpHE committee of the Singapore Tanglin Club will call for the resignation of members who I break the whisky rationing rules. The committee, in a circular states that some members, after the bar "boys" had been Instructed to serve single "stengaV whiskies
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    UK INVADES AMERICA
    526 4 THE challenge of Britain's J. Arthur Rank to the international moving picture industry has started a worldwide competition that promises to bring better cinema entertainment lo the puDlic. In Hollywood, a spokesman for one movie producer said: "The battle is on. Henceforth, it is up to England
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    5 TRAGIC CHILDREN
    604 4 PHILDREN OF VIENNA is a magnificent book, a terrible story written with very great skill so that it reads like a calm methodical, statement of fact. Nowhere does the author obtrude either by commenting or by hightening his ktyle to drive a point home. "This" Robert Neumann
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    'RED' WITCH-HUNT DIES DOWN
    831 4  -  Bob Gihnore The Australian Scent -by MELBOURNE, May 22. fOMMUNIST predominance in the so far tenuous relations between Australia and the Republic of Indonesia a predominance underlined this week in the House of Representatives allegations about a Communist plot to monopolise trade with Indonesia—derives from three
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    S'PORE WEDDING
    53 5 I SPORE WEDDING Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Orchard after their wedding at St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday. Mrs Orchard was formerly Miss Wong Ling Mai, daughter of the late Mr. Wong Ah Chua of Penan*. The Rev. David Rosenthall officiated, and a reception was held at 3? Tpper Perak Road.
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    $500,000 school for Kuala Lumpur
    317 5 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. WORK will start in August on a new $500,000 school for Kuala Lumpur, designed for 1,000 pupils and sited on a hill overlooking Victory Avenue. It is the new Methodist Girls' School and wiH replace the 30-year-old building
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    MALAYAN RUBBER AHEAD OF CEYLON
    541 5 MALAYAN RUBBER AHEAD OF CEYLON Commissioner pays tribute rE. W. WiII TELAVV, Ceylon Rubber Commissioner, who recently made a tour of Malaya paid glowing tributes on his return to Ceylon to the work done in the rehabilitation of the rubber industry by Malayan planters. Mr. Whitelaw stated in an interview
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    ELDERLY PEOPLE GET CHANCE TO EARN LIVING
    180 5 ELDERLY PEOPLE GET CHANCE TO EARN LIVING Sunday Times Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Friday. A WORKING centre to enable elderly people to earn a living has been established at the top floor of the Negri Sembllan Club under the auspices of the N.S. Welfare Department. Their work consists in making such
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    BUILDING LOANS IN PENANG
    72 5 PENANG, Saturday.— To enable land owners to build houses in the suburbs of Penang, the Government Is prepared to grant loans of up to $10,000, announced Mr. V. E. Dawson, chairman of the Penang Rural Board at a meeting of the Board yesterday afternoon. Such loans,
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    TIGRESS SCARED JAP SOLDIERS
    370 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MR. ABDUL HAMID, the first Malayan to become a wild beast trainer, will never forget a Malayan circus tigress called Princess. During a circus performa "c at Seletar in 1943 Princess escaped from her cage and -indered about terrorising the Japanese troops.
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    TONS OF FOOD SENT IN PARCELS TO U.K.
    79 5 ELEVEN tons of food parcels were despatched to the United Kingdom from Singapore during May. This figure .naintains the average as recorded by the Imports and Exports Department for the previous two months when 23 tons of parcels were scut to Britain."
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    MALAY REGT. PAY
    53 5 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE pay for recruits to the Malay Regiment will be at the rate, of $41.30 per month, rising to $44.30 per month, after six months' service, says an official announcement referring to the drive for 700 men which is to
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    INFANT DEATHS DECREASE
    153 5 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KU \LA LUMPUR, Saturday rE total number of births in the Malayan Union registered for 1946 was 183.960, slightly lower than the number for 1940 which was 186,028. There were 79,155 Chinese 83,522 Malays, 20,350 Indians and 933 other races born last year.
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    SINGAPORE, JUNE 1, 1947. The Ordinary Man
    616 6 SINGAPORE, JUNE 1, 1947. The Ordinary Man IMONQ the written representa- tions considered by the Committee on the re-modelling of Singapore's Legislative Council was one from the Anson Road United Farmers' Association. It was short, reasonable and went straight to the point. It read: 'Hair the Legislative Council members should
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    'Staying' guests worry Hong Kong
    796 6 'Staying* guests worry Hong Kong BY TRAIN, STEAMER AND JUNK By The Titnes Correspondent in Hong Kong CINCE Hong Kong was reoccupied the dominant factor in all its major problems (political, economic, financial, educational, and public health) has been that of unrestricted Chinese immigration. The estimated population of the colony
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    WIDOWS DANCE FOR A HUSBAND
    121 6 A TYPICAL old-fashioned Berlin custom is the holding of widows' dances in the springtime to give young and old widows a chance to find a husband. At these "merry widow' dances women, if they choose, ask mn to dance. Males under twenty are not accepted.
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    THE GOLDEN EGG MYSTERY
    778 6  -  eKstmSBXJmK^uKKUBmmmKBmaM OINCE it costs 525. 6d., few lovers of mystery stories are likely to buy Dav.es' "Trematoda," the magnificent treatise on parasite worms recently published. But I challenge anyone to beat his story of Bucephalus polymorphus for sheer, surprising insolubility. We first meet Bucephalus laying golden
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      20 6 Each month will bring increased supplies. Producers Bon Plantations Ltd Distributors Harpir Gilfillu Co., Ltd. Kuala Lumpur Branches throughout Malaya.
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      13 6 Macham Tadi! TIME FOR A TIGER FULL STRENGTH Look for the Tiger Labe/
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    'Spores oysters annoy Australia
    285 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter i independent woman Member of the Australian Federal Parliament. Mrs. M. Blackburn, has attacked the shipgof Australian oysters to Singapore. She said in the ise of Representatives that luxury foods should not t "to satisfy the appetites of persons in comfortable -umstancec"
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    WARSHIPS UP FOR SALE IN SPORE
    380 7 WARSHIPS UP FOR SALE IN SPORE Can be altered for commerce Sunday Times Staff Reporter rO British shallow-draught river gunboats that can take short cute across flooded padifields are being sold by the Navy in Singapore. They are the 625 ton sister ships H.M.S. Aphis and H.M.S. Cockchafer with careers
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    34 7 .RIVING at °Chan§i by air this afternoon is Lt.-Col. W- Oliver, Assistant Directoi Iii Mir Relations, G.H.Q., ith East Asia Land Forces. o has been on lsng leave in tain Army P. R. picture.
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    TRAVEL AGENTS SEEK ROOMS
    130 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter ACCOMMODATION for transit passengers in Singapore is so difficult that travel agencies are trying to find private individuals who will take paying guests for ■one or two nights. Hotel accommodation is taxed Ito the utmost at present, mainly with residents in permanent
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    INNER WHEEL SOCIAL
    50 7 THE women of the Singapore Inner Wheel are planning a social gathering at the Adelphi Roof Garden on Thursday at 5.15 p.m. Mrs. H. D. Mundell wyi give a talk on vocal concert and opera music with demonstrations accompanied by Mrs. R. L. Eber at the piano.
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    SINGAPORE RECRUITS TO APPLY AGAIN TOMORROW
    90 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter CO many would-be recruits for the British Army in Malaya went to the Rrorulting Centre at the Old Engllsn Schorl. Oldham Lane, Singapore, on May 26, that they could not all be enlisted there and then, and they were told
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    17,000 TRISHAW MEN STILL HOLD OUT
    305 7 Sunday limes Staff Reporter A BOLT 1,000 of Singapore's estimated 18,000 trishaw riders had applied for registration u~p to yesterday. The registration law comes into effect today. The Singapore Registrar of Vehicles, Mr. W. A. M. Watts, said yesterday that those who have applied
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    SHOT FIRED AT TAXI
    98 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU. Saturday. iym:\ a Chinese taxi-driver wst going yesterday with three passengers from Scudai to Pontian, he came across a lo; placed across the road at the nth "lilestone. Beside the log was standing a Chinese who signalled to the driver
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    SPORE COURT ROBBERS GET PRISON TERMS
    173 7 THREE Chinese youths. Tan Ah Kow. Lee Wee Loo and Yam Kong Loon, who committed robbery in the Singapore Police Courts lock-up on May 6 were j sent to prison by the District Judge, Mr. E. P. Shanks, yesterday. Tan was sentenced to two
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    STEAMER FOR EAST
    44 7 A Mississippi steam boat named the Southland has been bought In England by a Chinese firm which will use her for Far East trade. The Southland came to Europe for war service and suffered gale damage at Falmauth last March.— Reuter.
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    SINGAPORE SOCIETY DEADLINE IS TODAY
    175 7 DOLICE in Singapore can after today arrest many criminals as members of unlawful societies without having to prove extortion a 1 other crimes. The Chief of the Singapore Criminal Investigation Department, Mr. R. H. B. Wiltshire, said yesterday that from thi? week his men would
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    STILL ON THE ROAD
    78 7 This b one o! the last of Singapore's rkkshaw-pullfrs. photographed yesterday by the Sunday Times photographer it he trotted a'enx North Bridge Road. Rickshaws were officially banned from Slngapn-e streeto a month aco. Aoihorities have stated unofficial? tint they have prefer to remove the rickshaw men
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    ECHO OF MASSACRE IN JOHORE
    63 7 j^HORE B«.4RU, Sat. TAPT. Nakamura Kikuo, of the Japanese Imperial Army, wanted in connection with the Ulu Tiram massacre of March 1942. has been located in Japan and an application has been made for his transfer to J:hore for trial. This massacre resulted in several
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    RUBBER
    62 7 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's prices at noon yesterday were: Buyers Sellers CU. Cts. per lb. per Ib. No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose 30j 301 No. 1 R.S.S. fob in bales June 31| 31} No. 2 R.S.S. fob In bales June 301 301 No. 3 R.S.S. fob
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    MUNICIPAL UNIONS TO DISCUSS REPORT
    233 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter 1 MEETING of all Singapore Municipal Labour Unions is to be called sometime this week to record the reactions of Singapore's 7,000 Municipal labourers to the findings of the special Municipal Inquiry Committee, the Secretary of the Federation of Municipal Labour
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    MALAYA MAY get more ma FROM AUST.
    141 7 MALAYA MAY get more ma FROM AUST. M\LAYA may soon be receiving tore rice from Australia, if for increasing output there ure successful. The rice irrigation area In the Riverlna of New South \Vaies Is to be more thickly settled, and preference settlers will be eivea to ex-Servicemen, sons of
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    SAVINGS CERTIFICATES
    23 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. CALES of Vict:ry savings certiJ ficates up to may 28 nmounted to $529,584.. Ner>,
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      1431 8 THIS WEEK FOR YOU BY STELIm What the Stars Foretell GEMINI (May 22- Jane 22).— your plans are well made, then the rewards should be fnllv *r»- m»an r»ai nmflt in th*. An active week for everything to you may anticipate excellent re- Sytaf Your own persoT^l f u?ure iournlv
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      498 8 by NEIt MUNRO THEIR OTHER NAMES Can you recognise from their Christian names these five quite celebrated authors? 1. Richard Brinsley: 2. George Louis Palmella Busson: 3. Walter Savage; 4. Oliver Wendell. 5. William Schwenk. NATIONALITIES These five names are well enough known to you. and you are prcbaoly w
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    THEY WILL TALK ENGLISH
    977 9  - THEY WILL TALK ENGLISH MARY HEATHCOTT Malayan looks at the Swiss BY SWITZERLAND, by Air Mail. UERE in the tiny village of Crans-sur-Serre, overlooking the Rhone Valley, I am holidaying one of the vanguard of 600,000 Britons who have declared they are going to have a real summer holiday this
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    Biscuits and scones
    404 9 Biscuits and scones IF your flpur ration Is large enough to make your own biscuits and scones, you might like to try the following recipes. POWDER BISCUITS Mix together and sieve Vfe lb Dlain flour, 3 level teaspoonful baking powder and y 2 teaspoonful salt. Add 1 oz. margarine, and
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    FASHION NOTE FROM BRITAIN
    117 9 ATTRACTIVE cer-ch-wear is being seen in Britain. One suit includes short trousars with a top all suggestive of a boiler suit, except th?t that the trousers have elegant turn-uns add a "stitched" crer.se to give them line nv\^ chic. With this goes a neat little skirt
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    Ann Temple's Casebook
    635 9 Hew do I set about becoming (a) A good conversationalist; (b) A good public speaker? Do you consider the correct use of simile and metaphor the most important means of illustration. J.M. TWO different arts. The good conversationalist takes no set subject, gives half his mind to
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    Chua Brothers Help Chinese To Beat Y' s
    297 10 Chua Brothers Help Chinese To Beat V s Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. TWO fine batting performances by the Chua Brothers who played for the S.C.R.C. enabled the Chinese to beat the V.M.C.A. by six wickets this evening The V's batted first and scored 84, M. Danker being
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    DISTRICT DAWNS
    49 10 THE following will represent the District Dawns in a friendly soccer match against the Bendermeer A.C. at Port Canning today: Johari. Wari, Taib. Rahman. Ahmat. Lee Ah Chio. Heng Seng Cherg (Capt). Yap Kirn Kan£. Poong Wer.z Kee, Suppiah Victor Khoo. Rr? ****c Kok Tim and Dollah.
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    RAF. FAR EAST QAi&ES ON JUNE 7
    253 10 Big Seletar Meet THE Air Command, Far East, Athletic Championships will 1 be held at K.A.F. Base, Seletar on Saturday, starting at 3 p.m. The competition will embrace the whole of the R.A.F. in the Far East, and teams have been entered from
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    21 10 Leo H ;me>, the Australian boxer, who will fight for Promoter Kow Kirn Lin at tb« New World Arena next month.
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    Chinese Seconds Win Five-Two
    534 10 Chinese II 5 Royal Navy 2 COLLECTING full points from the Royal Navy at Jalan V/. Besar Stadium yesterday, the Chinese second seniors selection strengthened their position in the S.A.F.A. League competition, and have now a total of 14 points from 10 matches. The Army who
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    JOSEPH! ANS WIN BY SIX RUNS
    237 10 JOSEPH! ANS WIN BY SIX KuilS ST. Joseph's Institution beat St. Andrew's School by six runs in a cricket match played at Woodsville on Friday J. D' Almeida, scored 19 runs for the St. Joseph's and took wickets for 19 runs. Scores were: ST. JOSEPH'S J. Martens b A. Wilson
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    BATU PAHAT TENNIS
    51 10 JOHORE BAHRU, Saturday IN the Junior Singles competition of the Batu Pahat District Tennis Tournament Peng Choon has qualified for the final having defeated Mentol In the semi-finals 6 o, 6 o. He now meets Edln, who defeated Yeow Chong 3— fl. 6—o 6-0 in the other
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    TAtfLE TENNIS TE4M
    67 10 11 TEAM to represent the Currency Commissioners at table tennis against the Raffles Institution in seven singles at Raffles Institution 5.00 p.m ♦omorrow will be selected from the following (Players and supporters please board the Pava Lebar van): Koh Chek Tuan. Llm Yew Wee. Chunder Da«s. s.
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    Strong North Challenge To Middlesex
    432 10 Strong North Challenge To Middlesex LONDON, Saturday. MIDDLESEX, at the head of the county champ'onship cricket table, are having their position challenged by the northern sides, Yorkshire and Lancashire, ann an exciting North versus South duel for readership is likely to be seen next week. For the past three days
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    MARINO INVITES 40 WOUNDED SERVICEMEN
    86 10 «_> Bwrfmr, sat. DADO Marino will have 40 wounded British service men as his ringside e'jests when he meets rha-"T>n J.'dci'? Paterscn for the world's flyweight title on June 11. The Honolulu Pilrorno ms' 1 friend* with them on a visit on Ws J i~div
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    SOCCER AT TENG4H
    40 10 A soccer match, starting at 5.15 p.m., will be played between R.A.P. and Jollllads at Tcn^ah today. THE game of cricket between the I Ceylon Sports Club and the Jurong XI. fixed foi today, has been cancell^
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    Today's Sports Events
    45 10 Soccer: GHQ Signal K «t. v. Seaforths, Victoria School, 5 p.m.; R.E. v RAF (Station) Changi, Thomson Road, 5.30 p.m Cricket: S.R.C. t. Ceylonese. SR.C, 11 a.m.; S.C.C. v. Kranji Wireless Station, 11 a.m., padang; S.C.C. R.A.F. S«letar, Seletar, 11 a m
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    JOHORE BAHRU W*N T.RST iNTi^-DISTKICT GAME
    392 10 JOHORE BAHRU WIN F IRST INTER-DISTRICT GAME mndav Time* 'Correspondent Juhors Bahru. Sat. Tut, Jonore league soccer season has reached the half-way stage and there remains a couple of matches i in the Johore Bahru District Football League competition to be played before the first half of the competition programme
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    TRAINERS' STRINGS MAY BE CUT TO 40
    381 11 S.R.A. Considers Proposal Sunday Times Racing Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday TP HE Straits Racing Association, the ruling body in Malaya, is understood to be considering a proposal that no Malayan racehorse trainer be allowed to have more than 40 horses in his stable?
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    DERBY HOPE
    29 11 A new picture of Tudor Minstrel" 1 (Gordon Richards up), the favourite for the Derby to be run at Epsom on June Richards will ride the 'Minstrel.'
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    S.C.C. SOCCER TEAM
    53 11 FE S.C.C. soccer team to meet M T. Section of R.A.P. Chanel on the padang at 5.15 tomorrow: J. C. Reeves: R. M. McLeish: A. Glanville: A. V. de Franc*. C. J. R. Bembroke. W. C. Balnbridge: E. Ten Duis. S. G. Donaldson. R. Smith. P. Hill.
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    HUNTER SCORES 42 NOT OUT
    105 11 Sunday Times Staff Corresp indent THE cricket match on the padang between the Selangor Club and the Command Supply Depot was played today In spite of intermittent showers and ended In a draw. The duo. who batted first, declared after scoring 106 runs for the
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    NINE RACES ON Ist DAY ATK.L
    466 11 NINE RACES ON Ist DAY ATK.L Sunday Times SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. •THERE will be nine races for the 1 drst day of the Selangor Turf Club June meeting next Saturday and 13 bones are handicapped In three separate races the biggest fields ever since the rvumptio:i of racing
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    Turley's Horses Coming On Well
    795 11 K.L. TRAINING STARTS I Forever Amber easily had the better of Gn.--nd.ile In a half-pace gallop over three, while Duke Royal paced well with Golden Sub. Both Duke Royal and Golden Sub won this season In Australia H. Sleigh's horses were given easy 1 pace
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    MERRYDALE B.P.
    138 11 THE Merrydale Badminton Party of I Kuala Lumpur defeated the Yoorur Yoong Club by four games to three at the Survey Hall last Sunday: Results Merrydale Dlayers mentioned first Singles: Uew Choo Wah lost to I Khoo Khee Huat 15—18. walk over Bachelor lost to Boey Hean San*
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    SPECTATOR STONES PLAYER m ipoh soccer
    384 11 SPECTATOR STONES PLAYER m ipoh soccer I From Our Own Correspouuent IPOH, Saturday. 1 T iE first defeat of the Kinta Indians in a first division gue game occurred on Wednesday at the hands of Headquarters Cameron Highlanders. By this defeat, the Indians now take second place to the Flood
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    MALAY F.A. MEETING ON JUNE.I 4
    79 11 MALAY F.A. MEETING ON JUNE. I 4 THE first council meeting of the Malay 1 Football Association. Malaya, v discuss anc* to pass the draft bye-laws and rules of the Association and the draft reflations of the Gold Cud Competition, to elect sub-committees and to draw up fixtures of the
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    GORDON I WINS I
    46 12 GORDON RICHARDS, Britain's champion jockey, winning the Blue Riband Trial Stakes at Epsom on Combat, on the left, from Sayajirao, for which the Maharajah of Baroda paid 28 000 guineas. Sayajirao is brother to Dante, winner of the Derby two years ago.
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    TRIBUTE TO THE MALAY RECT.
    139 12 LONDON, Saturday. A TRIBUTE to the Malay Regiment which provided two full battalions against the Japanese invasion is paid by Major-General A. E. Percival, officer commanding Malaya during 1941 and 1942 in a report on the Regiment released here. Major-General percival commenting on men of
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    LIVERPOOL STILL LEADING IN DIV. 1
    481 12 LIVERPOOL STILL LEADING IN DIV. 1 Championship Not Decided LONDON, Saturday. THE destination on the Football League championship remains in abeyance until June 14 tin final day of the extended season as a result of Livsipool's victory over Wolverhampton. The Wolves after carrying all before them for mout of the
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    YORKSHIRE OUT-123
    183 12 County Cricket LONDON, Saturday. TOUNTY cricket close of play V scores are as follows: At Gillingham. Kent vs Warwickshire: Warwickshire 185 (Pritdhard 53) Kent 166 for four (Ames 82). At Cambridge, Cambridge University vs Worcestershire: Worcestershire 267 (Kenyon 64, Jenkins 51). Cambridge University seven for one. At Bristol.
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    BIG SCORE BY S. AFRICANS
    161 12 LONDON, Saturday. WITH Bruce Mitchell scoring his fourth century in six successive innings and Ken Viljoen making his third century of the tour, the South African cricketers made a good start by scoring 424 In the first innings against Middlesex at Lord's today. Mitchell batting
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    ORTIZ RETAINS HIS TITLE
    121 12 HONOLULU, Saturday:—Manuel tJrtiy retained the world bantamweight title here last night outpointing David Kui Kong You i is:, the Hawaiianborn Chinese, over 15 rounds. As the bell rang ending the 13th round, the champion claimed he could not continue as he had been fouled by Young
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    Turnesa Wins British Golf Championship
    176 12 Turnesa Wins British Golf Championship CARNOUSTIE, Saturday. riGHTING back strongly after being five down in a memorable first all-American final in the history of British amateur golf championship, Willie Turnesa of Whiteplains, New York, defeated Richard Chapman of Pinehurst, North Carolina, by three and two over 36 holes. When play
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    RUGBY LEAGUE
    56 12 LONDON, Saturday. Rugby League matches resulted as follows: Bramley 27, York 17; Dewsbury 32, Keighley 9; Featherstone Rovers 5, Warrington 23; Halifax 9, Swinton 9; Hull 22, WaJcefield Trinity 27; Hunslet 22, Leeds 30; Liverpool Stanley 16, Leigh 10; Saint Helens 36, Barrow 7; Wigan 23, Rochdale Hornets
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    BENDEMEER A.C.
    76 12 A FRIENDLY game of soccer will i" be played between the Bendemeer Athletic Club and the District Dawns XI at Fort Canning tomorrow. The follow! g will represent the B.A.C.:— Pok Sic We:.g, Soh Puay San/, Lye Kock Kuen, Kok Ah Choong, Lim Tiang Chye, Loh Food Te..g,
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    12,000 CEYLON GOVT. CLERKS STRIKE
    247 12 COLOMBO, Saturday. A TOTAL strike of all Ceylon Government clerical start was called today after the interdiction of 17 clerks who convened a public meeting to express their g r ievances. A Union spokesman estimated that 12,000 employees' would be affected by the strike today
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      224 12 ECLaPSE BADMINTON PARTY WIN AGAIN |)LAYitfG before a large gathering of I badminton enthusiasts in a return game on Thursday night at the Eclipse court, the Eclipse B.P. again defeated the Dapat B.P. iJohore) by five games tj two. Results (Eclipse players mentioned first): Siaglrs: Cheong Hock Leng lest to
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