The Straits Times, 15 June 1947

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    20 1 FINAL EDITION THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NET! SALE IM MALAYA No. 620 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    $50,000,000 HOUSING PLAN
    509 1 Committee sees sites today Sunday Times Staff Reporter TODAY members of the Singapore Housing Com mittee will make an inspection of possible site* for their '$50,000,000 plan to re-house 50,000 of the Colony's poorer working classes. They will also visit some of the overcrowded sectors of the
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    73 1 SEVEN "ace" Navy "frogmen", headed by Lieut. Lan Fraser, who gained the V.C. for his feat in fastening a mine to the bottom of a Japanese battlcshiD in the Johore airaits after he had pierced the defences in a midget submarine, have formed a company to undertake commercial divins. To
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    COURT MARTIALLED FOR PHOTOGRAPH
    227 1 HAMBURG, Saturday. I PRErn young Danish blonde faced a British military L court of cne brigadier and four colonels in Hamburg on Friday and told tliein: "I never knew there was a military law forbidding a girl to take off her clothes in the presence of
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    BEVN FOR PARIS
    39 1 PARIS, Sat. The British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, will arrive in Paris on Tuesday to discuss with the French Government the United States proposal fcr aiding Europe's reconstruction, it was announced here on Saturday.— A.P.
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    PACIFIC C-in-C. 70 HOIST BELFAST FLAG
    127 1 PACIFIC C-in-C. 70 HOIST BELFAST FLAG Su:iii.iv Tiii.es v i.veiDondent PENANG, Saturday. Til.; British warship which fired the opening shot in the Normandy landing is to have her flai hoisted by the Commander--" hief. British Pacific Meet. A-Jm:ral Sir Denis Boyd. at Singapore next «?*urdaj. 6»hB Li the 14.000-tou cruiser.
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    PLANE CRASHES ON PEAK: NO HOPE FOR 50
    195 1 LEESBURG (Virginia), Sat. A SEARCH plane today sighted n the wreckage of a Skymaster missing since last night with 50 people, including a baby, on board, on the summit of Blue Riuge mountains about 15 miles northwest of Leeburg. Mr. James Franklin,
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    CONGRESS LEADERS ARE ARRESTED
    47 1 TRIVANDRUM (Travancore), Saturday CEVL'N members of Travancore J State Congress, including seme of its leaders, were arrested in Trivandrum (capital of Travan".orc > and other chief centres today for defying the ba n on meetIngs and processions imposed by the State authorities yesterday. Reuter.
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    RICE LOAN TO NEI APPROVED
    112 1 IT the eighth meeting of the International Emergciic/ Food Council's Sub-Committee oh Rice for South East Asia, held at the Special Commissioner's Office, Singapore, yesterday morning, the loan of the Philippines July rice entitlement to the N.E.1., arranged at the Liaison Officers' Conference, was approved.
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    CRASHES IN JAPAN
    39 1 KURE. Sat.— Two officers of the Fourth Royal Indian Air Force Squadron stationed at Besho were killed when their Spitfire planes crashed within a short time in a wooded country 60 miles northwest of Okayama.— A.P.
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    ATTLEE PESSIMISTIC OVER ATOM CONTROL
    328 1 LONDON, Saturday MR. CLEMENT ATTLEE, the British Prime Minister, xegards as "optimistic" the view vhat pronouncements by the Big "Tiree Powers on the issue of international control of atomic energy do not disclose any necessarily insoluble differences cf principle. In correspondence, released today, between the
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    CHIEF JUSTICE MADE A KNIGHT
    27 1 CHIEF JUSTICE MADE A KNIGHT The Chief Justice of the Malayan Union, Mr. Justice U. C. WILLAN. who received a knighthood in the King's Birthday honours list.
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    Plant ordered tor Changi extension
    329 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PIE Air Ministry has instructed Gammon (Malaya) Limited, to proceed with the purchase of some of the more urgently-needed plant for the construction of the new Changi Airport, the chairman of the company, Mr. J. C Gammon, .announces in the directors'
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    U.S. makes big produce deal with Indonesia
    236 1 U.S. makes big produce deal with Indonesia A CARGO giving the Indonesian Republic its first legal United States dollar exchange $300,000 worth will soon be en route to the United States, officials of the Isthmian Steamship I ties at Singapore told Asf-oc'ated Press yesterday. They said the cargo, loaded at
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    MOVE TO DAR SPEECH BY MR. WALLACE
    93 1 MOVE TO DAR SPEECH BY MR. WALLACE WASHINGTON, Saturday. rpHE Federal District Court was 1 asked yesterday to bar Mr. Henry Wallace, leading opponent' of the United States foreign policy and former Vice-President of the United States, from using the outdoor amphitheatre in Washington for his speech on Monday night.
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    SURRENDERED AT LAST
    31 1 BIAK Dutch Now V Nearly two years after Japan's surrender, five Japanese scldif rs have come out of New Guinea Jungles and surrendered tj Australian authorities at Mad^ng..
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    SPOTLIGHT on MALA VANS
    1115 2 SPOTLIGHT on MALA VANS Clifford Peer Turns His THE story of Mr. C. 1 LAWSON-REECE is a negation of the idea, so popular in the minds of complaining letterwriters to the British Press, that the brains that direct the British Broadcasting Corpora tion are out of touch with the public
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      250 2 RADIO MALAYA Singapore (Noon to 2 p.m. 485 m. in medium wave band and 7.20mc/s in 41m. band; 6 to 11 p.m. 185 m. and 4.825mc/s iv 61m. band except from 7.45 to p in ENGLISH PROGRAMME 1 p.m. Albert Sandier Orchestra; 1.30 News; 1.40 Theatre Music; 2 p.m. Close
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      253 2 I Mandarin Chorals; 8.45 News in Can- tonese and Amoy; 9 p.m. Announcement in Tamil and Tune; 9.01 Summary and Tune; 9.02 Christian Religious Songs; 9.15 News in Tamil; 9.30 Karratlc Songs; 9.45 Tamil Songs: 10 p.m. Domestic Talk in Tamil by Mrs. Char.dra Muttaiya; 10.10 Film Hits: 10.30 Veena
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      218 2 s'le Al BolUngton; 8.15 Singers of Renown Feodor Chaliapin (Bass), Shemeld Choir and Elizabeth Schumann (Soprano): 8.30 Australian News; 8.45 Muzlc from Operettas played by Blue Hungarian Band and Albert Sandier and Orr'.iestra: 9 p.m. Famous Concertos The music of Johannes Brahms; 9.30 Great Music —Played by The Budapest Strincr
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    GOING ON TRANSFER
    40 3 Sunday Times orresoondent MALACCA, Saturday The Chief Price Control Inspector, Malacca Price Control Dec-u.-ment. Mr. Ang Lai Seig, has been transferred to Kuala Lumpur. It is understood that ue tuu cc m transferred at his o.vn request.
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    NEW S. PATANI PLAYGROUND
    124 3 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. A DECISION to build a new children s playground in Sungei Patani and to invite the public to contribute towards it was reached at a meeting of the Kuala Muda Town Board held in the Sungei Patani District Court. The
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    ARMED FARE ROBS TRISHAWMAN
    73 3 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent PENANG. Saturday.— A Burterworth Malay trishaw man was i robbed by his passenger on a lone- ly r^ad near Kubor Bagan Jermal, Province Wellesley. I The pedaller. Ali bin Abdul, was i hired by an unknown Chinese who, after a short ride,
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    RADIOPHONE TO SERVE ALL
    308 3 Army equipment taken over Sunday Times Special Correspondent DADIO-TELEPHONE links covering the whole of Malaya are included in the plans of the Malayan Governments for developing tele-communications. These would augment the present line telephone system by bringing into use a network of very high frequency stations.
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    SINGAPORE WEDDING
    95 3 UR aid Mrs. L> uj s Graham, j rii'. r >ng their weddins-ca'se j after (heir wvd.iing at St. Andrei's Cathedial, Singapore, yesterday. Mrs. Graham was formerly Miss Joy Perry Shaw, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Shaw, Bessacair, Uun.u ier, Yorkshire. Mr. Graham is in the
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    FAR FROM JUNGLE
    35 3 ALL the way from Siam has come this leopard skin to re.e.ve the finishing touches from the curer's hands before it is sold for a rue or to be made into handbags.
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    TO CONSIDER STAVE SWEEPS FOR WELFARE
    159 3 Sunday Times Correspondent IPOH. Saturday. THE Government would certainly consider the question of running a State lottery or lotteries as a means of raising funds for public and welfare work, stated the Resident Commission- er Perak, Mr. A. V. Astcn. today. Answering questions at
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    JAPS ROUNDED UP SAKAIS
    125 3 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. rpilE War Crimes Investigation X Team in Taipinr wants information regarding an incident that occurred early in 1944 in the valleys in the Sungei Siput and f **<Tyn areas in Perak. Approximates IMMT hundred prisoners, mainly Chinese and a
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    Tiger skin trade is hard hit
    295 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter BUSINESS in tiger and leopard skins, which before Ihe war was one of Singapore's smaller and more picturesque industries, is at the moment hard hit by the uncertainty both of supply and demand, although a small local demand still continues.
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    PROFITEERS WARNED
    27 3 MALACCA. Sat.— FiiMnjf eUht cigarette sell rs for selling aV've controlled prices, Mr. E. A. Bvrton. Distict Judge, today warned that fines might be increased.
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    GEN. DEMPSEY HEADS ARMY POLICE CORPS
    122 3 GEN. Sir Miles C. Dempsey. C.-in-C. in chief. Middle East Land Forces, and former C.-i" 1 SEAC, has been appointed by The King to b? C". >aei uommaiidaiK nf the Co^-n-, of Royal Military Police. Gen. Sir it-ii^ Deaipsey sends -he following message to
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    GENT STARTS TOUR OF KEDAH, PERLIS
    267 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE Governor, Sir Edward Gent, and Lady Gent, and Miss Ann Gent, left Kuala Lumpur by air this morning foi Butterworth, from where they will begin a tour of Ke-'ah and Peilis, which will last until Wednesday.
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    ABOLISH LOCAL PREJUDICE
    243 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE President of the Stamford Club, Mr. Lee Siow Mong, said at a reunion of Raffles College graduates and undergraduates in Sin-japore last night that they should "get together to abolish the prejudices that have militated against local boys in I every v/alk
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    'MEN ADRIFT' TURNED OUT TOSE GULLS
    309 3 'MEN ADRIFT' TURNED OUT TOSE GULLS Sunday Times Staff Correspondent PENANO. Saturday. T^HE 14-000-ton British crui--1 ser, Belfast, which left Penang suddenly to search for a raft and two persons reported to have been sighted 140 miles north of Penanpr, found instead "a large log with two sea gulls." "We
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    TEACHES MEET
    51 3 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent MALACCA. Sa*. :i\ iy. -Malac a teachers left the Settlement ttv.s afternoon for Soremban where they will ■peed the week-end playing soccer tennis and badminton against N^n Scmbilan teachers They will ai: o s.age a concert They are ernectcd v revurn to Malacca on
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    NONYAS ARE CHANGING
    448 4 By T.J. LIM A DECADE ago old folks frowned upon premarital love among young Chinese. Today, after the Syonan interlude, noth'ng makes them frown. The seclusion of Chinese woman is a thing of the past and from bound feet they have progressed to the twopiece swim-suit. Yet
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    35 4 JUST off for Hong Kong, Joanne Findlay has been playing m J many C.S.E. shows in dilTerent parts of Singapore Island and Malaya. But even with her many shows she still found time for bathp
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    AN EPIC OF THE SEA
    611 4 1 BOOK by someone who lives in Singapore is an event. A good bcok, even more than an event. And Robert TrumbuTs "THE RAFT" is certainly a good book. I have chosen my words carefully when saying •'someone who lives In Singapore." since Mr. Trumbull
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    THE SAHIBS FIND A REFUGE
    968 4  -  BOBGILMORE The Australian Scene By MELBOURNE, June 4. AUSTRALIA'S dcci- sion to help pay the fares of American ex-servicemen who wish to settle here (a Los Angeles veteran phoned by radio to Immigration Minister Calwell to make sure it was true) is a fitting gesture
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    MILLIONS FOR RICE IN MALAYA
    436 5 MILLIONS FOR RICE IN MALAYA Part of a vast empire scheme WEW schemes for rice, coal, cocoa and tobacco in the Malayan Union, Borneo and Sarawak are contemplated in the colonial expansion plan, the details of which will be made known in London shortly. They will be part of the
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    NEW AND SHINY
    17 5 riiiitt new one-and-a-quarter litre M.G. saloon photographed 1 outside the Supreme Court, Singapore, yesterday.
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    Post-war sports car in Malaya
    295 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter FIRST entirely new car to be produced by the Xuffk-ld Organisation in England since the war has arrived in Malaya. It is the one-Bnd-a-quarter litre M.Ci. saloon, and it is of unusual interest, because, unlike other Nuffield cars on the market
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    SWEEP TICKETS: POLICE CHIEF GIVES WARNING
    127 5 SWEEP TICKETS: POLICE CHIEF GIVES WARNING Sunday Times Staff Reporter CWEEP tickets— lrish, Calcutta and Australian are once again appearing in Singapore. Singapore Police are all out to suppress the circulation of these tickets. "Under the existing laws of the Colony, the possession of these tickets is illegal. Anyone holding
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    NOW THEY ARE SIX
    100 5 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. A MALAY sane of seven men, possessing just one shot gun and one pistol, are believed to be behind the piratical attacks on Malayan tongkangs and other vessels off the northeast coast of Malaya. This number, however, was reduced
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    BANDITS KIDNAP MERCHANT
    92 5 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent PENANG, Saturday.— A Chinese merchant of Baling, Kedah, It is reported, was abducted by 25 armed bandits when they held v a bus on the highway between kroh and and Klian Intan in the Malayan-Siamese border area last week. The merchant was a
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    Headmaster is changed, boys strike
    405 5 Headmaster is changed, boys strike Sunday Times Staff Correspondent PENANG. Saturday. DECAUSE all the boys and D teachers have gone on strike, one Chinese school in Klang may not be taking part in the AllMalayan Chinese Inter-school sports to be held in Penang on June 20, 21 and 22. The
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    EROSION IS TACKLED AT TELUK ANSON
    101 5 Sunday Times Correspondent TELUK ANSON. Saturday. THE future development of Teluk Anson will almost certainly be outside the Tanjong area, said Mr. A. V. Aston, Resident Commissioner, at a conference today. Erosion at Teluk Anson had been a matter for consideration for many years,
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    RUBBER
    59 5 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's prices at neon yesterday were Buyers Sellers Cta. Cts. pe lb. per lb. No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose 304 30* No. 1 R.S.S. fob in bales June 31Vt 31 No. 2 R.S.S. fob In bales June 30% 30% No. 3 R.S.S. fob
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    FIRST SINGAPORE STRIKES FOR SEVEN WEEKS
    188 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. THREE strikes are now in progress in Singapore, but two of them are inconsiderable as the number of men involved is very small. Soon after 140 employees walked out dl the Ho Hong Oil Mills, one of the biggest manufacturers
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      463 5 CUP THIS FOR REFERENCE NEW BOOKS AT THE CITY BOOK STORE The Raft— Robert Trumbull 7.50 Silversldea 7 50 (These two best sellers Book of the Month Club Selections are by the New York Times Far Eastern Correspondent.) Thunder Out of China Jacoby White 9.00 The Importance of Living— Lin
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    THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE. JUNE 15, 1947. PULL YOUR WEIGHT
    632 6 THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE. JUNE 15, 1947. PULL YOUR WEIGHT jTROUGHOUT the Malay Peninsula and Singapore Island the growth of a political spirit is daily more apparent. But the most careful observer will find it difficult to detect the growth of a civic spirit. The whole atmosphere today is charged
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    Tuberculosis: how germ first infected man
    1588 6  - Tuberculosis: how germ first infected man Dr J.N.Dee' By COMEBODY asked me the other day how did the first person who ever suffered from tuberculosis become infected. One can only reply that it is impossible to say with any certainty or accuracy. If we believe that the evolution of Jiving
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    REVOLUTION IN RADIO SETS
    675 6  - REVOLUTION IN RADIO SETS JOHN LANGDONDAVIES rpHERE is taking place what looks like a complete revolution in the methods of making wireless receivers, a revolution which brings mass production and automatic controls to the electronic industry. Among all the new initials that the post-war world has produced an exciting place
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      446 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. LEEI—NEO. The engagement is Announced today June 15th 1947 between Mr. Lee Choo Slew, only son of Madam Cheo Lerig Neo and the late Mr. Lee Chenq Poh, also grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Lee Teow Kee to Miss Annie Neo lliok Kirn. second daughter of
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      20 6 Each month will bring increased supplies. Producers Sob Plantations Ltd. Distributors Harper Gilfillan Co., Ltl. Kuala Lumpur Branches throughout Malaya.
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      14 6 Macfiam Tadi TIME FOR A TIGER A&BgZ\F ULL STRENGTH Look for the Tiffer Labef
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    MALAYA HAS OVER 3,000 BANKRUPTS
    475 7 MALAYA HAS OVER 3,000 BANKRUPTS Penang heads list with 309 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. TTHE Malayan Union's first post-war list of undischarged 1 bankrupts and undischarged wage-earners, which the official assignee is bound by law to publish once a year, reveals a total of 3,039 names, of
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    MALAYANS IN LONDON
    55 7 These three Mala, an Union Wei fare scholars take time off from studies to watch the Royal procession from Malaya Uouse to Trafalgar Square, London. The Royal Family had just returned from their South African tour. Picture shows (left to right;: Che Fatimah, Mr. F. Arulanandan an
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    SAILORS BREAK TRADITION
    219 7 BUGIS trailers and sailors from Celebes, who arrived in their twenty prahus in Singapore last week, broke a tradition. They did not bring with them their wives and children as they did before the war when Bugis womenfolk accompanied their husbands everywhere, cooking for them and tending
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    KEDAH MURDERERS ARE HANGED
    111 7 KEDAH MURDERERS ARE HANGED Sunday Times Correspondent ALOR STAR, Saturday.— Three Siamese, Din Mooi. Din Chong and Din Prom, convicted of the murder of a compatriot named Din Poom. chief of Toksiat village, were hanged in Alor Star gaol last week. They had been sentenced to death by Mr. Justice
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    FATAL ROAD ACCIDENT
    51 7 Sunday Times Correspondent. TAIPING. Saturday.— A fatal road accident occurred at the third mile. Simpang, yesterday resulting in the death of a cyclist, Lim Chew Hock. A lorry driver named Chuah Yew Cheng was produced in court today on a charge of culpable homicide not amounting to
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    PINEAPPLE INDUSTRY IS OPTIMISTIC
    281 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MALAYA may expect to export 150,000 cases of canned pineapples before the end of this year, the Chairman of the Central Board of Pineapple Packers, Malaya, Mr. Yap Phenp Geek told the Sunday Times yesterday. About 80,000 cases of canned pineapple were
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    DETERMINED TO DIE: 2 SUICIDE BIDS IN WEEK
    226 7 DETERMINED TO DIE: 2 SUICIDE BIDS IN WEEK Sunday Times Staff Reporter. THE story of a man who would not give up trying to end his life until he succeeded was related in the Singapore C:roner's Court yesterday. Unsuccessful at the first attempt when he pierced his throat with a
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    SAIGON IS DECLARED INFECTED PORT
    51 7 SHANGHAI, Saturday. The Ministry cf Health today declared Saigon a bubonio plagii'.nfected port and announced that vessels and planes arriving from this Indo-China city are to be subject to quarantine Inspection and all crew and passengers must prcduce valid anti-plague inoclution certificates before land, ing—
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    MODERN YOUTH: A WARNING
    85 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. Mr. j. M. Taylor, a mtmber of the editorial staff of uv Straits Times, yesterday addrtssed the fortnightly luncheon of the '"V's Men's Club" in Singapore yesterday. He spoke on "Juvenile in the Modern World". He told the audience not to bafilc
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    MENON QUITS K. L CONGRESS
    350 7 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. MR. V. M. N. Menon, Malayan Union Advisory Councillor, this afternoon answered the Selangor Regional Indian Congress inquiry into his action in not supporting the "total abolition of toddy" amendment a* the recent Advisory Council meeting with a
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    SAILORS COMPLAIN AGAINST SQUEEZE
    403 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter OEAMEN'S unions in Singapore yesterday alleged that a rJ local crew contractor and his runners were collecting in tea -money, 80 per cent, of a seaman's advance in addition to 10 per cent, of the advance as commission for finding him a
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    GOV.-GEN. TO OPEN ART EXHIBITION
    86 7 THE Goverrcr-Gcnera!, Mr. Malcolm McDonald, wll open an exhibition oi po.,'u., unit paintings by Judith Hco>d-V/hitr> on Tuesday, June 17, at I p.m. at Robinson Company, Ltd.. Kaflics Place. Singapore. The subjects of the pictures arc Chinese, i''.'Jay.s cl tndrans done by M:s. Hcard-Whitc isnee
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      620 8 THE old saying "When in doubt, lead trumps," dates from the game of whist. In whist the trump suit was named arbitrarily; there was no bidding to guide the opening leader and in many cases the choice of opening lead was a pure guess. So when the leader held several
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      763 8 THIS WEEK FOR YOU What the Stars Foretell GEMINI (May 22-June 22). this week, so be prepared to active week, but trj to jet some PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21).— A *o»d week for your efforts. P |ay our D art efficiently. rest, alone. One of your strong weeks, esesDeclall? on
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    IT'S NICE TO GET BACK TO
    895 9  -  MARY HEATHCOTT BY LONDON, by Air Mail. A HOLIDAY out of England these days is an invaluablebenefit. To spend only three weeks away from queues and the rest of the struggle for existence gives one the feeting of having been suspended somewhere in a
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    589 9 I have often seen a distinct halo about the heads of people I have met. It happened mostly when I was a child, but recently I have seen them asain. There's nothinx unusual about me. I'm a practical housewife and mother. I have never mentioned this peculiarity to
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    661 9 Why not 'marcof a friend 's tree? rafe^Trr3r<*YTrren AST WEEK I suggested that gardeners could reduce the cost of establishing a garden if they bought a few well-established plants from a nurseryman and reproduced these plants by taking cuttings. There are various other methods of reproducing plants vegetatively; that is
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    COURTENAYWINS BIG RACE
    2301 10 From Our Racing Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday, f OURTENAY upset all expectations in the big i«*ce today, final day of the Kuala Lumpur races, to pay $66. Another outsider, Red Plane, was second and the hot favourite, Win The Peace, was third. Favourites -generally obliged in the
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    30 10 THE Straits Times tipped four 1 consecutive winners at yes-t«»ri»->v's Kun',l f '"nonr rare* Norton, Rosewell Boy, Donnell Abu aMi Mort' Rl sntl two seconds. Gold Chain and Eulogisnv
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    BOOKIES' APPEAL FABLS
    75 10 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent PENANO, Saturday.— Two bookmakers, Ooi Yeow Teng and Ho Chooi Soon, failed in their appeal In the Penang High Court yesday. Mr. Justice C. W. V. Carey, in dismissing the appeal, said that the trial magistrate had exercised great care in comparing the
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    TABLE TENNIS
    84 10 The Queen Street Boy's Club table tennie team beat the Dawnlight Musical Party in a friendly match on Wednesday: Results (Q.S.C. players mentioned first): Chan Kok Fay beat Chew Sin Chor S— l: Cheng Heng Kuan Oeat Kong Siew Meng 3—2: L. D Lim beat Chong Kong 3—o:
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    CHUNG HWA R.P.
    21 10 IN a friendly badminton match against the District Dawns on i Thursday. Ouni? Hwi Badminton Party wen six-three-
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    S.C.F.A. HOLD SING TAO
    957 11 Keng Hock Starts Great Rally Sing Tao Sports Club 3 Spore Chinese Football Assn. 3 rE Singapore Chinese Football Association struck a strrag blow for the prestige of local soccer when they held the Sing Tao Sports Club to a three-all draw before a c<md of
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    SERVICE MEET SING TAO VODAY
    130 11 •TODAY'S interport soccer between 1 Sing Tao and the Combined Services, the second of a series of four matches arranged for the visitors who are on their way to Kngland. should attract another capacity crowd at Jalan Besar Stadium. While the Services will not be
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    67 11 THE following will represent the Serangoon Association at soccer ajrainst the Trafalgar Youngsters at the Mental Hospital ground to-day-Lim Cheng Heng. Charlie Kang Ong Tong Chlat. Koh Ten* Geok Harry Tan. Cheng Sul He:.g, Yeo Hock Leng Z\ US? Hprn Lee Hon Slew And Kirn Thye, Teo Chee
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    SPORE IN WINNING POSITION v NEGRI
    389 11 Yogorajah Scores 63 SINGAPORE were in a strong position yesterday, at the end of the first day of their State cricket game against Negri Sembilan on the Padang, having scored 132 for six wickets in reply to 61 by the visitors. Growder and Kailasapathy
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    CEYLONESE SCORE 303 AT TENGAH
    63 11 The Ceylon Sports Club scored 303 runs for nine wickets and declared in a cricket match against R.A.F. (Tengah) at Tengah on Thursday. They won by 229 runs. The Club's highest scorers were S. Retnam (72), S. Kulaisingam (fin, C. Seneviratne (45) and S.K. Sundram
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    CRICKET CANCELLED
    23 11 FE cricket match be.ween Non-Benders and Second Battalion, Seafarths, which was to have been played at Gillman Barracks yesterday, was cancelled.
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    PERFECT POLICE CONTROL AT THE STADIUM
    252 11 »TH3 perfect control of the vest crowd 1 had much to do with the success of yesterday's match between Sing Tao and the airgapore Chinese Football Association at Jalan Besar Stadium. Filing into the stadium in a continuous stream from 3 p.m., the stadium
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    Today's Sports Events
    61 11 SOCCER: Combined Serrices t Sinj Tao. Jalan Besar Stadium, 5 p.m. CRICKET: Singapore v Negri SembiUn, 2nd day, S.C.C. Padanf. 11 a.m.; R.E. v 1. A.. G*p. 11 a.m.; < V M T 1. A., St. George's Rd., 1.30 p.m.; RAF. Changi v Colonials, Changi, 11 a.m.
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    SELANGOR SCORE 328 FOR FIVE
    380 11 SELANGOR SCORE 328 FOR FIVE Sunday Tiiues Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. IFTER winning the toss from 11 Perak and electing io bat I first in the State cricket match which bega n in Kuala Lumpur this morning, Selangar stayed 240 minutes and scoied 328 for five before declaring at
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    SULTAN YOUNGSTERS
    47 11 THE following have been selected to represent the Sultan Youngsters against Tasek Utara in a friendly soccer match, at Farrer Pnrk today, kickoff at 5.15 p.m. Md. Noer, Sldek, Jumari. Latif. Puteh, Arsad. Ahmad Moh, Ibrahim, H. Hassan, Osman. Reserves: Md. Fol, ißukar, Hassan Mawi.
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    FOOTBALL VISITORS
    44 12 The Si..g Tao Spirts Club and the Singapore Chinese F.A. photograph together with the referee. Rev. (Capt.) G. lohnson, before the start of yesterday's game at Jalan Bes.-r Stadium which en cd in a three-all draw.— (Full rep. rt in Page 11).
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    CEYLONESE 2nd XI WIN EASELY
    213 12 Tiih Ceylon Sports Club b;ui the Singapore Recreation Clin by eight w;ckets in a second team criclcet match on the Paciang yester...iy. The scores were: SU.C. 2ND XI J. i.. jaat b Itaiicooria 0: M. Aeria Poetm b r.eir.-v:n 10: M. Wilson lb-.y Rctnam 10;
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    BADMINTON ASSN
    51 12 A i I .:-g oi -.ho Sin .-.p^rc 3.\dmir.. :i AaodaUcn will b; held on Monday. June 16 at 5.15 p.m. at No. 40-J. Szn dal Tong Bank BuiU'ing. 3rd Floor. Si'.-.g.ipore. Tli. main subject cf th? meeting will be tlie forthcoming Junior and Veteran's champ: mshipi 1
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    LIVERPOOL ARE FIRST DIV. WINNERS
    328 12 LIVERPOOL ARE FIRST DIV. WINNERS Stoke City Fail In Last Game LONDON, Saturday. COR the fifth time in their history, Liverpool have won the Football League championship. Surprisingly knocked out of the Cup semi-final by Burnley they enjoyed a magnificent run until May '61 when their League programme finished, but
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    FOOTBALL RESULTS
    70 12 English League FIRST DIVISION Sheffield Utd 2 Stoke City 1 1 SECOND DIVISION' MUlwall 1 Fulham 1 j Notts Forest 4 Bradford 0 I Manchester C. 5 Newport 1 THIRD DIVISION* NORTH Bradford City 3 Lincoln C. 0 New Brighton 1 Rotherham 0 Wrexham 0 Tranmere 0 THIRD
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    RAIN WASHES OUT ENGLISH CRICKET
    672 12 LONDON, Saturday. POLLOWING mid-week sunshine rain caused the season's l most widespread hold-up of cricket today, every one of the ten first-class matches being affected. In fact it was a day ominously reminiscent of the "black" 1946 season when rain-ruined ganrjs spoiled prosper* s of
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    NEW WORLD DISCUS THROWING RECORD
    72 12 LOS 'ANGELES, Saturday.— Bob Fitch, iormer University of Minnes:ta star, with a toss of 177 feet 9 '/a inrho.s bettered the accepted world discus-throwing record of 174 feet 10 3/4 incnes s?t in 1941 by Adolfo Ccnsolini of Italy. Fitch competed in the Southern Pacific
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    RUGBY LEAGUE
    20 12 Bradford Northern beat Workington by 16 points to 12 in a friendly match on the Workington ground —Reuter.
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    BASKETBALL TOURISTS PLAY TODAY
    224 12 BASKETBALL TOURISTS PLAY TODAY THE Happy World Covered Stadium, with a seating ;apai city of 7,000, should be crowded tonight when the Manila Chinese Basketball Team make their Singapore debut against The Rest. This is the first of a series of seven matches sponsored by the Singapore Chinese Amateur Avhletic
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    CHANGI BEAT GHQ SEALF
    175 12 CHANGI beat G.H.Q. SEALF by four wickets in a game ef Cricket played at fanglin on Thursday, scores being: G.H.Q. SEALF Harland b Smith 22, Frazer b Wignall 42. Salmon b Smith 1. Martin c Leggett b Riley 2, Hunter c Squires b Mason 21, Steele
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    431 12 LEEDS, Saturday. THE President of the Board of Trade, Sir Stafford Cripps, told members of the Labour Party today that if Britain did not export some of the goods critically needed for herself, the country would soon become bankrupt. Explaining the shortage of certain goods, he
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