The Straits Times, 8 June 1947

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    22 1 FINAL EDITION THE STARITS TIMES LARGEST NETT SALE IN MALAYA I NO. 619 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 1947. PRICE 10 CENTS. 'i
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    GIANT PLANE LANDS AT
    324 1 after permit was refused Sunday Times Staff Reporter TAPTAIN K. D. Parmentier, Dutch civil air ace, yes- terday broke the Royal Air Force ban on Constellation aircraft landing on Tengah airfield, Singapore Island, by landing there after signalling an hour's warning of his arrival. Capt. Parmentier
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    SPORE CHINESE
    240 1 Clashes in Indonesia Sunday Times Reporter AN officer of the British Merchant Marine, Mr. A. R. Martin, said in Singapore yesterday that the "underground" trade operated by Chinese companies that chartered ships between Singapore and Republican Indonesia, had contributed to the bloodshed between the Dutch and the Indonesians.
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    UK ASKS UNO TO STOP JEWISH IMMIGRATION
    47 1 ::EW YORK, Saturday. The United Nations SecretaryGeneral Mr. V. Trygve Lie, acting on the request of Britain has :>.sked all United Nations members to help stop illegal Jewish immigration into Palestine pending the United Nations decision <>n the problem.— U.P.
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    FRENCH RAILS AT STANDSTILL
    96 1 PARIS, Saturday. THE French capital was today cut off fr^m rail comniuni- j cation with t» rest cf Europe,' after all lci-g- stance an^ au- burbar. passenger traflic in and out of Paris came to a standstill this morning when the railway workers stflike still technically
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    CLOTH FOR AUSSIES
    28 1 The Australian Government lias entered into a contract for the purchase ct approximately 12.000,000 yards of Japanese cotton textiles to meet essential Australian requirements.— Reuter.
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    SPORE CO-OP. WON'T PAY TEA-MONEY
    245 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE Singapore Co operative Stores Society, Ltd.. will not, and cannot, afford to pay tea-money to salesmen, the secretary of the Society, Mr. Lim Kean Chye, told the Sun day Times yesterday. He explained that for this reason the Co-op, shop
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    RECORD GRAIN EXPORT BY U.S.
    100 1 WASHINGTON, Saturday. rE United States Department of Agriculture estimated that a record of 1,704,000 long toiu of United States grain and grain products were exported In May. May exports raised the total for the eleven months, from July 1946 to May 1947, to 126,699,000 long
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    INDONESIA RECOGNISED
    21 1 The Singapore office of the Indonesian News Agency Antara rapOCt the Egyptian Government 'as formally recognised the Indonesian Republic
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    GOODS TRAIN DERAILED NEAR JOHORE BAHRU
    149 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Saturday. A SPECIAL goods train which left Singapore this afternoon and passed through Johore 3ahru at 4 p.m. was de-ailed between Sedenak and Layang Layang. Four wagons are reported to have left the lines. A special police detail
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    Two-headed babies are out
    96 1 SCIENTISTS studying the effects of the atom bomb on genetics at Hiroshima do not expect any "two-headed babies or babies born with polka dots", bitf the bomb will effect births for years to come, it was announced in Tokio yesterday. Captain S. Warren, U.S. Navy scientist,
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    OPENS NEW SERVICE
    70 1 The X.L.M. Constellation Nijmegan on Tengah airfield bein? refuelled after she touched down yesterday afternoon on her way from Bangkok to Batavia. The plane was on a pioneer flight on the new Amsterdam Batavia service. RAF and Dutch consular and airline officials reached the airfield after the
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    New bid to end societies law
    256 1 Sunday Times Reporter ELEVEN bodies in Singapore, which consider themselves political associations but are not included in the official list of eight political associations 'excluded' under the Societies Ordinance, will hold a meeting at the premises of the Malayan Democratic Union this morning to
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    TO SUPPORT MALAYS
    146 1 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. AN opposition front embrac- j ing all races, and support for progressive Malay elements, would be the stand of the Mala- j yan Indian Congress in Malayan' politics, said Mr. John Thivy in his presidential address at the I opening
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    Big drop in major crime reported in
    210 1 Big drop in major crime reported in Sunday Times Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S CID, Chief, Mr. R. C. B. Wiltshire, In a review of crime during May, reports a decline in the number of housebreakings by day, extortion and gang robberies. There was a slight Increase <>f robbery with and without
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    SPOTLIGHT on MALA VANS
    1030 2 SPOTLIGHT on MALA VANS Clifford Peer Turns His TENNIS enthusiasts A in Perak and all over Malaya too got something of a surprise when an "unknown" in MR. S. C. BEATY wen the men's singles in the Perak Chinese Recreation Club's open tournament, which is virtually the PeraK championship. It
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      308 2 You don't look a day over 30 they said on my Aird birthday r IwfiA H■ "Imagine how delighted 1 3h and it was true, too. Vet keeping young-looking has been so simple. I realised i a long time ago that make-up fjfjp^.-ffw BlS! was a waste lune n 'V
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      426 2 SINGAPORE 1969 metr e» 15.24 megacycles; VLA9 Grand Hotel Orchestra: 9.00. The 13.89 metres 21.60 mej?acyclcs (Sat. music of Edward Oieig; 930 The Inor. m a»I» o rt- u and Sun Only) London PhUharmonlc Orchestra con--1 n P 1 1 Ch D e^ a: SUNDAY ducted b y sir Thomas
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    RUBBER SEEDS ARE FLOWN TO CEYLON
    467 3 RUBBER SEEDS ARE FLOWN TO CEYLON Aid for estate rehabilitation Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. SEVERAL million clonal seeds from Malaya are being sent to Ceylon in aircraft owned by the Ceylon Government to rehabilitate the rubber industry in the island. This follows the recent visit of the
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    31 3 THE VERNON SISTERS, who will be appearing in the C. S. E. variety show Over to You to be Dresented at the Victoria Theatre at 8.45 o.m. on Monday, June 9.
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    ALIBI DEFENCE IN SINGAPORE MURDER TRIAL
    172 3 Sunday Times Correspondent Tan Ming Heng, who is charged with the murder of a Malay, Mohamed Ismail, pleaded an alibi when he made his defence before Mr. Justice Brown at the Assize Court on Friday. The prosecution alleged that the accused was one of
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    ACCUSED OF P.C. MURrtR
    88 3 ACCUSED OF P.C. MURDER A CCUSED of the murder of a i\ marine constable, Atan bin Haji Shirat. at sea off Tanjong Rhu, at 10.45 p.m. on June 4, a 48-year-old Hokkien, Koh Kai Tor, appeared in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday before Mr. H. W. Nightingale. The constable,
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    KILLED BY GENERATOR
    39 3 Verdict of misadventure was recorded at the Singapore inqu* z on a Japanese prisoner of war, Inaba Hikojo, who was (riled instantaneously when a 15-i:wt. generator fell on him at the R.A.S.C. barrack store in Singapore.
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    MALAYA HAS A UNIQUE SCHOOL
    186 3 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. rNEY contributed by well wishers mainly in the United Kingdom, is being used for a unique school in Selangor, where orphans of three nationalities are being looked after, .taught their own languages as well as English, and, at the
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    MAKING SURE
    35 3 This eager young kite flyer has just bought a new kite and is examining it carefully for flaws before he ventures Sft to set it soaring in competition with those of his playmates.
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    MALAY REGIMENT TO H®LD PASSING-OUTPARADE
    305 3 MALAY REGIMENT TO HOLD PASSING-OUTPARADE Sunday limes staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. NO plans have been made just yet for the establishment of a third battalion of the Malay Regiment, which at Port Dlckson tomorrow In full ceremonial splendour, will hold the passing out parade of five hundred recruits after
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    Kite doptight' season is on
    427 3 Sunday Times Reporter SINGAPORE'S kite-flying season is now in full swing all O over the island, and it will continue nntil the end o! August when the change of mon«oon brines on the rainy weather. t For a 3 little as ten cents you can
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    LABOUR DEARTH HITS CHILDREN
    405 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter (INLY the shortage of labour and skilled directing V staff is holding up the re-habilitation of Singapore's little parks and children's playgrounds, Mr. D. C. Rae, th*' Municipal Architect and Building Surveyor, told the Sunday Times yesterday. Strong efforts too were being
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    BRUTON-JOHNSON WEDDING IN SPORE
    106 3 Tt.3 v;c^ding took place at he Presbyterian Church yesterday between Col. Herbert ("Wallaby") Bruton, 0.8.E.. R.A.S.C.. son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bruton of Melbourne, and Miss Margaret Johnson, daughter of the late Col. A. M. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson of Bury, Lancashire. The
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    BANDITS ATTACK POLICE PATROL
    53 3 Suiiuiv limes Correspondent ALOR STAR. Saturday.—Although details are lacking, news has Just reached Alor Star that a gang of bandits this morning attacked a police patrol on the highway between Kroh and Klian In tan. The patrol was led by Mr. Andrew, a police officer recently
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      488 3 Be Proud of Your English Are you content with the w;iy you speak and write? Mastery"-the prospectus of th« Are you sire that you are not making" m^akes that cause £S«. ?*£^*SrSZ J)eople to Underrate you? English is indispensable to those Never has the importance of effective speech and who
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    AUSTRALIA RIDES THE SHEEP
    877 4  - AUSTRALIA RIDES THE SHEEP Bob Gilmore says MELBOURNE, May 28. TO remind legislators how Australia rides on the sheep's back, the floor of the House of Representatives in Canberra is covered wall-to-wall with a half-ton carpet of Australian wool, hand-woven in Scotland. Nobody should need reminding that one-sixth of the
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    News from other worlds
    622 4 ONE of the oddest experiences I know of it to read, in the Listener, the text of a talk given over th? radio, and to see how dull and prosaic the words have become without a voice to give them life and colour. Sir Max Beerbohm
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    114 4 FOR quite a lonz time Anne Jeffreys, the blonde. bh?eeyed beauty sitting on the table, did very little in Hollywood but gaze soulfully at the heroes of small Western dramas in between intervals of posinz for the magazines in bathing eoitume or very much as you see her here. But
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    Uranium builds new city
    232 4 Uranium builds new city ITRAKIUM, key element of the atomic age, has transformed sloepy little E izabe'.hvil!e in the Belgian Congo into a bustling city of 20,000 peope, wi-h modern pavement cafes, the newest cars and films. The uranium deposits near Elizabeth vill?. together with those in Canada, are the
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    SPORE POLICE FIGHT GAMBLING
    426 5 SPORE POLICE FIGHT GAMBLING Special squad makes arrests Sunday Times Staff Reporter CINGAPORE police have declared war on the city's illegal chap-ji-ki lottery operators, the chief of the Singapore Criminal Investigation Department, Mr. R. C. B. Wiltshire, told the Sunday Times yesterday. Mr. Wiltshire said that two Chinese recently convicted
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    74 5 A-r T'Jns.iDore Police Headquarters Is an interesting collection of gambling apparatus, seised in the many raids carried out over recent months. Here they are displayed. Spread on the table is a "chap-ki-ji panjang", and qn the cloth are various forms of gambling chiDs, as well as cards, dominoes, and methods
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    OLD MALAYAN COMES HOME ON VISIT
    153 5 OLD MALAYAN COMES HOME ON VISIT Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. CHE Wan Baharuddin. son of Che Mohamed Khairudln, Government pensioner, pi Kmla Lumpur, will be among the passengers for Malaya on cuid .c s.s. Otranto, which is <>•• In 8mI gapore on June 15. An old boy
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    GRENADES, PISTOLS RECOVERED
    66 5 The Sin^apjie Police recovered 61 hand-grenades and four pistols on Friday. Inspector Rajaratnam, acting on information, led a search party to Bukit Timah and found in an open patch of ground the grenades all assembled in a tin box. The four pistols, all serviceable. were found in
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    QUIET CAFE IS TRADING HQ
    315 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter IN v long narrow cafe in the heart of Singapore, deals in the produce of the Indies totalling thousands of dollars daily take place over a cup of coffee and a couple of cakes. Here in Malacca Street, Chinese and Indian
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    SUICIDE BID FAILS
    110 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SCOLDED by her emplo..ir who accused her of theft, 17--year-old Liew Choo tried to take her own life by drinkinr caustic soda. Hanging her head, she pleaded guilty in the Fourth Police Court yesterday to attempted suicide at a house in Yeo Cha
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    GROUNDED SHIP REFLOATED
    71 5 Sunday limes Staff Reporter. AFTER being aground in Kidjang Straits, some 70 miles east of Singapore, for five days, the 7.176-ton United States Liberty ship Katherine B. Sherwood was refloated yesterday morning by the Singapore Harbour Board tug Griper. The Katherine B. Sherwood has suffered no damage
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    RUBBER
    64 5 The 0. ...;_,.>„: o C.-.anioar of Comnerce Rubber Association's rubber irlces at noon yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Cts. CU. Der lb. per lb. fo. 1 R.S.S. Spot 32* 32% 10. 1 R.S.S. fob ir. bales June 33 V* 33% fo. 2 R.S.S. fob In bales June 32 M 32%
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    ROBBED OF TAKMS
    31 5 A faim?r in Changl Road, Singapore, who had sold his piiS f:r $1,000 on Friday, was the same night robbed by four armed Chinese of all his takings.
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    Anchorage Is Cleared Of Wrecks
    254 5 Anchorage Is Cleared Of Wrecks Sunday Times Staff Reporter rmake Telok Ayer Basin, the Singapore anchorage for native craft recently reopened for use again, safe for the boats to enter, a Singapore salvage nim has cleared away about 30 wrecks. The Job took 30 men two months to complete. Several
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    BIG OPIUM HAUL
    35 5 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG. Saturday rpHIRTY-EIGHT pounds cf JL opium burled in three feet of coal were seized by Penang Customs officials when they boarded the *j. "Khosrou" at Swettenham Pier yesterday.
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    Planters' fund to be modified
    266 5 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday UODIFIC TIONS in the ordinance governing the Malayan "1 Planters Provident Fund to meet certain contingencies resulting from the Japanese occupation, are contained in a bill which will be introduced at Monday's meeting o f the Malayan Union
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    ACCUSED OF RAPE
    33 5 Two British O.R.s LC G. MtCulloch, 20, ar.d Pte C H well, 22, who are accused of rape, were remanded in custody in the Eounn £jl-cq Court »«3 r >rday.
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    COUNCIL SPEECHES
    49 5 Sunday Time.4 Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. SPEECHES on the Malacca Price Control inspectorate, income tax, the lifting of the control on the sales of motor-cars, and tuberculosis and children are to be made at Monday's meeting of the Malayan Union Advisory i Council, it is understood.
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    SPORE SHIPS RENAMED
    190 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MALAY names have been chosen for every one of the Straits Steamship Company's fleet of "Empire" vessels, bought by the company a year ago In keen competition with other colonial firms, especially those operating In the Mediterranean. Z.JC. H. J. H. K. Toms,
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    SINGAPORE. JUNE 8, 1947. LET THEM PLAY
    688 6 SINGAPORE. JUNE 8, 1947. LET THEM PLAY FIRST essential in any drive against tuberculosis is proper housing and the provision of adequate playing fields or grounds where children can exercise healthily to strengthen their bodies and keep germs of the dread disease away. It Is therefore welcome news that the
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    Chinese artists must be poets too
    877 6  - Chinese artists must be poets too CHAN PENG YIN A3 is generally known, painting in China is cloyojy associated with calligraphy the art of beautiful writing and the brush is used in both. It is one of the essentials of a Chinese artist that he be learned in literature, with
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    HE STEALS FOOD GERMS
    713 6 HE STEALS FOOD GERMS WE are all familiar with such number-labels as 606 for Salvarsan and 693 for "M and B" or sulphapyridine, and we understand that before these successful drugs were finally discovered 605 and 692 unsuccessful shots in the dark had to be made. The chemists who were
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    RADAR ON MAP
    242 6 nADAR has found its official place on the mariners' charts of the world. It is lo be represented by the symbol 'Rr' and it is thus distinguished from radio, the symbol for which is 'R. This is one of the many details of vital importance to mariners
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    A FAILURE
    387 7 Tractors often bogged down Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. DULLDOZERS and tractors have proved useless in recent experiments to mechanise wet padi cultivation in Malaya, states a Malayan Union Agricultural Department report. Even when they were used in level, shallow areas the heavy machines invariably bogged
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    THESE 3 HAVE QUEER JOBS
    263 7 Sunday Times Reporter \LONG the corridors of the General Post Office, Singapore, sit three men at tin> desks surrounded by dozens of people with forms in their hands. The trio, known as public writers, have one of the queerest jobs in town. For 20 cents
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    EXCUSE FOR CHANDU
    73 7 The excuse that ne suffered from stomach trouble and bought chandu from a friend was given by Tang Keng Cheok, 45, who p'.eaded guilty in the Singapore First District Court y?sterda.. to possession of 79 leaf packets and four tahils of the drug. The chandu was found
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    KILLEARN STAFF GO TO NEW HOMES
    273 7 By Sunday Times Reporter MORE than one-fourth of the staff of the Special Commissioner for South East Asia in Singapore last week moved into "Braddell Rise", the new houses at Braddell Road, erected and furnished recently at a cost of $500,000. These semi-permanent buildings
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    KILLED BY A TRE!
    45 7 IELOK ANSON. Saturday. A young Malay at Sungei Tuk^r.g Sidn wn j citing a tree o^ June 4 when it fell on him and pinned him down in a pool cf water nearby. The man died before he could be extricated.
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    THE KING'S BIRTHDAY
    115 7 Sanday Times Staff Reporter SINGAPORE will cclcoraic tne Kings birthday with a parade on the padans on Thursday morning. At .> p. n. the Officer Administering the Government. Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, and Mrs. McKerron. will give a garden party at Government House. Special traffic arrangements
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    TELECOMS JOBS FOR MALAYAN TEEN-AGERS
    159 7 TELECOMS JOBS FOR MALAYAN TEEN-AGERS Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. MALAYAN ycutiis from the age of 1" upwards and girls rrom 16 upwards r.re to be ofj .ervd work In the Telecommuni- cations Department which is in- creating 'ts staff to cope with ex--1 pension <. work. The
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    APPROVED SCHOOLS FOR MALAYAN UNION
    176 7 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. TWO approved schools for juvenile delinquents are to be 1 established in the Malayan Union one. a senior school at Taiping, and the other a junior school at Butterworth. The senior school will be for boys between 12
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    MALAYAN MAY TIN SHIPMENTS
    81 7 A TOTAL or 1,700 ton.s cf tin. 1,275 tons from Singapore and 425 from Penang, was shipped in May. Nine hundred tons went t:> the continent, and 400 each to Canada and IndiaThe latest shipments bring the total shipped to date this year to 8,807 tons.
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    TRADE UNION FIELD OFFICERS ARE NAMED
    308 7 TRADE UNION FIELD OFFICERS ARE NAMED Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. CIGNALLINQ an expansion of the Trada Unions Department, four field officers have been appointed and branches of the mair. office are to be set up in Malacca. Seremban, Ipoh and Pe:»ang. The four field officers are locally-
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    KEEN CONTESTS AT GYMKHANA
    384 7 1 of the Ist. Bn. The Seaforth c. At the conclusion of the tonald. wife of the GovernorAustin and Snr/Cmdr Eocrlie, 2. Capt. Ycung and Master Richards, 3. Maj. Mr len Moss and Maj. Salmrn. Musical Posls: 1. Mrs. ClerkBrown 2. Mrs Selway, 3. Capt. Austin.
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    LANCiNG DINNER AT JOHORE BAH&J
    79 7 LANCiNG DINNER AT JOHORE BAHRU A Lancins dinner will l held en Saturday, Juro 28, nr th*> Istar i Eesar. Johor? Bahiu. !.y permission of the Tungku Mu'.ikota of Johore. The chairman v.i'.l be Gen. Sir Neil Ritrhie, and the guest of honcur Mr. Claude Masscy. The Governor of Borneo,
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      608 8 DRAWING even two rounds of trumps to see how they break may be too many. Recently I watched a fair player mishandle a six club contract. Here are the cards. Dummy: S AKQt; H Axx; D— AX; C— QJlOx Declarer: S x; H— lOxxx; D JlOxx; C— AK9x. A Spade
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      885 8 THIS WEEK FOR YOU BY STELLA I What the Stars Foretell i GEMINI (May. 22-June 22). VIKGO (Auj. 23-Sept 22).— A SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 25.-Dec PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21).— —Plan the week well or there we€k of mlxed blessings, *ood 22) —Avoid snaD iudrment and Caution in business detail is may
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      488 8 by NEIL MUNRO OVER THERE See how much you know about American literature. 1. Which hollow did Washington Irving write about? 2. Who wrote "The Prince and the Pauper 3. What do you Know of: (a) Charles Hamilton? (b> Frank Kennedy? (c) Rhet Butler? 4. In which book is Mrs
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    A LITTLE LIKE MALAYA
    615 9  - A LITTLE LIKE MALAYA MARY HEATHCOTT Closer View Of The Swiss BY SWITZERLAND. by Air Mail. THE SWISS wrap everything up in paper the smallest purchase in a twist of tissue the largest in a great wasteful paper bag. In every restaurant an excess of paper napkins nutter like butterflies
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    Propagate your own plants
    579 9 THE expense cf establishing a garden in Malaya is very considerable, if all the plants are to be purchased. To help keep your expenditure within reasonable bounds, I would suggest y:u purchase a few well established plants irom a nurseryman and take your own cuttings from
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    Ann Temple's Casebook
    627 9 What personality (raits in a woman do men admire? I know they are attracted first by beauty, but it doesn't always hold them. There are women who have little beauty, but they attract and hold men's interest and love. L.C.C. EVERY man has his own idea of
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    SEA-HORSE B.P.
    90 10 THE following have been selected to represent the Sea-Horse BP 3*a.nst the Tiong Bahru Rangers BP' today at the latters court Tiong Bahru at 3.00 pjn. In a friendly badminton match. t«-' SL E Leon Benedict Tay. O^ B. Soo. Chia Eng Hin, Yeo Lai Cnor. Sim Swee
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    MALAYA "B" WINS RAF. GAMES
    643 10 Bowen (Malaya A), 2. Cpl. Barton (Malaya B), 3. P.O. Alford (Burma) Distance: 95 ft. 1 In. 120 yards Hurdles: I. P.O. Dorwood (Hong Kong), 2. F.O. Pendlebury (Malaya B), 3. A.C. Larblc (Ceylon). Time: 18 3/5 sec. Putting the Shot: 1. Sgt. Suttou (Malaya
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    53 10 George FU-nung (Gre*t Britain), winner ot the Anvio-Freneh Paris-to-London cycle race when competitors completed the rrnetUn( course of ik rly 250 miles with a circnlt of the Home llt II ryete track. London Fleming's riding time was 10 hr. 14 mm*. 51 sec. Photo shows: Flemin* with trophy and bouqort
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    DRAWN GAME AT THOMSON RGAD
    188 10 THE cricket match between the Police and t>-e Ceylon Sports Club played at Thor.jon Road yesterday ended in a draw. Scores were: POLICB J. Jeans c Plllai b Senevaretne 0. J. Le Cain hit wkt b Rassip 0. Chia Kirn Swee c Balas,:ngham b Seneraretne
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    BADMINTON DISPUTE IS SETTLED
    668 10 states. "However Morgan «as *ithin his rights in giving his personal opinion. We in Malaya believe very strongly in freedom of the Press and every one is entitled to his or her own opinion "It so happened that Morgan touched off a controveisy wliich some Malayans
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    HAIKOWYU XI
    67 10 THE Haikowyu Ist XI to play a friendly game of soccer against the Johore Bahru XI at Johore Bahru at 5 p.m. today Is: Wai Mun, Mansor Khan. Chin Aik, Eksan, Chwee Leng, Chandra, Hoi Meng, Krishnasamy. Zamzam, Eng Slang, Chye Hee (capt.), Wing Kee. Aziz Sheriff, Ronnie
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    YZELMAN TAKES 9 FOR 25
    244 10 IN spite of good bowling by P. Yzelman. who took nine wicket* for 25. S. R. C. "B" were beaten by St. Jofph's Institution in a low-scoring cricket match on the Padang yesterday. Against tfce Club's 43 tuns, the S.J. I. scored 54. J. Delilkan
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    S.C.C. HOLD MALAYSTO 2-2 DRAW
    347 10 S.C.C Malayi nLAYING with their usual doggedI ness, the S.C.C. held the Malays to a draw at Jalan Beaar Stadium yesterday in the second round of the S.A.F.A. League. Kach side tcored twice, the Club opening accounts midway In the first half, and again taking
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    SCC WIN BY 21 RONS
    227 10 THE Singapore Cricket Club beat the Indian 'Association by 21 runs in a cricket match on the Pachmg yesterday. The Club scored 108 for eight wickets and declared. The Indians were all out for 87 runs. sec. N.A. Coleman c and b S. Singh 28:
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    BKIGHI STAR B.P.
    87 10 *T the BaawaJ meeting of the newly formed Bright Star Badminton farty held at the residence of the president 37. Lorong 16. the following were elected office-bearers for 1947. President, Mr Lee Yong Mm; vicepresidents, Messrs Hoe Joon Shion;,'. Chia Teow Kiong A Francis De Silva; hon.
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    JACQUES B.P.
    70 10 rYE.tS to reprint the Jacqius against the Useful B.P. today a' No. 227-J, Upper Serangoon Road, be selected from the following: James Cheng, M. T. Weng, Lee Hock San. S. Sankaran, Tco Thuang Kiat, Ng Heng Kwang. Chua Poh Koon, Koh Thiam Hock, Lim Ah Huan, John Loh.
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    ASCOT VALE PAYS $151 AT X.L RACES
    2451 11 ASCOT VALE PAYS $151 AT X.L RACES Sunday Times Racing Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. JOCKEY Flannery made an auspicious return to the Malayan Turf on the first day of the Selangor Turf Club s June meeting in Kuala Lumur today when he brought home Ascot Vale, who won first time
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    100 11 KACE 1: FIRST IN ($2l «nd Democrat (97) BACK 1: Wonder BW <«• $6). The* WeM (W) KACE 3: H«ron (fts and 99) Victory ($l5). Go***" Gats ($47). KACE 4: Mont Blot ($2O end $11), Sir Fresco ($l2). Harvest Moon ($l4) RACE 5: Trousers ($32 and
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    Union Plans For Sports Councils
    566 11 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. •THE latest development in the proposed Pan-Malayan Sports 1 Federation is that Public Rslafons officers in Penang and Ferak have been instructed to discu s the question tf amateur sports federatiors in those slate-, and fa oth r
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    SEKSAPORE A. A. A. TRAINS SCHOOLBOYS
    86 11 THE Singapore A.A.A., which Is organising a training scheme for local athletes and schoolboys, held its first practice at Jalan Besar Stadium on Friday evening and was attended by more than !50 schoolboys and other athletes. It is understood that practices will be held
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    SiMBANS OUT FOR 14 RUNS
    207 11 THE RAF Paya Lebar had an easy victory over HMS Slmbang In a cricket match played In Paya Lebar yesterday. Good bowling by Doherty, who took three wickets for three runs and Balmc, five for eight runs, was responsible for the Paya Lebar dismissing HMS
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    220 YARDS WINNER
    32 12 J220 YARDS WINNER lh» finish of the 220 yards f in the IMF Far East Athletic < liampionslups at Seletar yesterday. Picture shows (pi. Sowell (U.K.) winning from Set. Sutton (Malayan B." Seletar).
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    SCOTLAND WIN WOMEN'S GOiF
    96 12 SCOTLAND WIN WOMEN'S GOiF LANE. Scotland, Sat. SCOTLAND won the Women's International Golf Championship when it defeated England at Gullane today by seven games to two. The championship, always held as a prelude to the British Women's Open Championship (which starts on Monday) is di cided by the singles among
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    RUGBY LEAGUE
    64 12 LONDON, Saturday. THE Rugby League championship semi-finals, played today, resulted in Dewsbury beating Widnes by five points to two, i:nd in Wigan beating Leeds by 21 points to eleven. Other results were Bradford Northern 27, York 7; St. Helens 26. Rochdalj Hornets 4; Svrinton 12, Halifax 2; Wakej
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    PEARL DIVER WINS DERBY WITH EASE
    419 12 PEARL DIVER WINS DERBY WITH EASE Favourite is unplaced EPSOM, Saturday. PEARL DIVER, owned by the Frenchman, Baron G. de Waldner and bred in France, won the Derby at Epsom today by four lengths from the Aga Khan's Migoli, with Sayajirao, owned by the Maharajah of Baroda, third threequarters of
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    LOW SCORES AT LORD'S
    229 12 County cricket LONDON, Saturday. COUNTY cricket close of play scroes today were: At Oxford, Oxford University vs. Combined Services; Combined Services Ist innings: 84 (Sutton 4 for 2, Kardar 3 for 7). Oxford University Ist innings: 131 for 6. At Cambridge, Cambridge University vs. Free Foresters;
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    MAXFLI B.P. MEETING
    72 12 THE Fourth Committee Meeting of the Maxfii Badminton Party will be held tomorrow at No. 729-A, Upper Serangoon Road at 7.00 to frame up the rules governing the Party's 4:h. Annual Badminton Tournament. All committee 1 members are invited to attend. The fourth committee meeting of the
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    FOOTBALL RESULTS
    143 12 LONDON. Saturday. A HAT trick of penalty goals all scored in the secondhalf by George Mllburn, Chesterfields fullback, against Sheffield Wednesday was the outstanding incident in the dying soccer season, today. Drawing at Miilwall. Burnley completed their programme with a remarkable defensive record. In conceding only 29 League
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    TWO CENTURIES FOR SOUTH AFRICA
    573 12 NOTTINGHAM, Saturday. I\IsMAL weather conditions with heavy clouds and drizzling rain which followed plenty of rain during the past few days prevailed for the first Test between England and South Africa at Trent Bridge today. Melville won the toss for South Africa and choose first
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    ROCKLITES
    60 12 THE team to NftHHH the Rocltlites Sports Party in a friendly scccer against the District Dawns XI today at Fort Canning will be selected from I the following: C. Humphries (Capt), Anthony Yong, jM. Swyny, Heck Guan, A. K. Pillai, C. Rodrigucs. N. Kanagasabai, Charlie Tay, D. Dragon. O.
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    R.E. CRICKET XI
    60 12 R.E. CRICKET X The Royal Engineers XI to play the Naval Dockyard in a cricket match tomorrow at 11 a.m. at the Dockyard will be:— O. W. A. Kite (capt), J. D. Gwynne, O. C. Sim, D. Blake. J. C. Hurst, C. W. Batchelor, W. J. Reed. T. Pearson. R.
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    TABLE TENNIS
    48 12 The following will represent the Chinese Swimming Club at table tennis against the Pulau Bukom Sports Club today at 2 p.m. at the CSC. premises: Ng Yew Wing, Lee Tong Keng. Llm Choo Ann, Chio Eng Quee, Tan Koon Jim, Tan Lam Suan, Scow Kong Ho.
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    INDONESIANS TAKE REPLY TO THE DUKh
    217 12 JOGJAKARTA, Saturday. INDONESIAN Republican Vicepresident, Dr. Mohammed Hucta and Minister of Economic* A. K. Gani are scheduled to leav« by special train tonight lor Batavia oarrylng Indonesian count-er-proposals to the Netherlands "final demand" for implementation of the Cheribon Agreement. They will be delivered to
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