The Straits Times, 22 June 1947

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    22 1 FINAL EDITION THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NE'n SALE IN MALAYA k T o. 621 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    CIVILIANS GET ARMY
    499 1 Big collection offered for sale Sunday Times Staff Reporter CUNDREDS of ex-Army vehicles mainly lorries and trucks but including odd things like the amphibian Weasel are to be offered each month for some months to come to buyers in Malaya and Singapore by the British Stores Disposal
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    AUSTRALIA SEES NEW JAPANESE MENACE
    207 1 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent THE Australian Minister lor Immigration and Information, Mr. Arthur Calwell, said in Singapore yesterday that 'within 15 or 20 years of the Allied occupation forces leaving Japan, the Japanese militarists will probably begin forging weapons more terrible than those which they
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    CANADIAN TRADE
    42 1 Cana Ja'j first International I Trade/ Fair will be held in the Exhibition Grounds. Toronto. May SI to Jane 12. 1943. The Space Committee will allocate p titlonj to the various exhibitors after July 15, the closing dat" lor applications.
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    WOMAN CAUGHT IN GUN DUEL
    104 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter AN eiderly Chinese woman of the labouring class was wounded by a stray bullet when rival gangsters fought a gun uuel in the Rochore district of Singapore shortly after four o'clock yesterday aiternoon. The gun duel, which was over in a
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    16 KILLED IN RIOTS
    43 1 LAHORE. Saturday. Widespread rioting in which at least 16 person.? were killed and 60 others w:unded up to mid-after-noon broke out in Lahore t:day on the eve ct the Legislative voting expected to partition the Province of Punjab. A.P.
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    Indonesia settlement prospects improve
    262 1 BATAVIA, Saturday. A REPUBLICAN Information Ministry spokesman has confirmed that Shahrir has received a letter from the Netherlands Commission-General expressing the view that his conciliatory note yesterday may open the way to settling the political crisis in Indonesia. The Commission's letter is believed in Republican circles
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    SHORE-SHIP N.E.I. FIGHT
    119 1 BATAVIA. Saturday. A GUN duel between a Dutch cruiser and an Indonesian shore battery near Muntjar south of Bandjuwagi on Java's east coast, was reported in a Republican Army communique issued in Jogjakarta today, says Antara, the Inc'cneMan news j agency. The duel was reported to have
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    37 1 HONG KONG, Saturday The Hong Kong Government has added raw rubber to the Export Control Order, under which wood, oil and tin may be exported to the United States, Canada and the Philippines, under licence only. U.P.
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    CONGRESS EXPELS MR. V.M.N. MENON
    340 1 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE Malayan Indian Congress has decided to expel Mr. V. M. N. Menon, Malayan Union Advisory Councillor, who resigned last week from the Congress. Mr. Menon's resignation followed Congress criticism of his non-support of a resolution for total
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    MARRIAGES IN OCCUPATION TIME QUERIED
    345 1 MARRIAGES IN OCCUPATION TIME QUERIED Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE legality of a marriage recorded by a Japanese appointed Registrar of Christian Marriages was argued before Sir Harold Willan, Chief Justice of the Malayan Union, when an action for divorce was mentioned in the Supreme Court today.
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    IN SAFE KEEPING
    111 1 IN SAFE KEEPING A WOMAN officer of the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Ltd., photographed holding a diamond solitaire ring in a safe deposit box in an underground strongroom of the bank's Singapore head office. Thousands of clients of the Oversea-Chinese hank have applied for rental of the new safe-deposit boxes which
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    SOVIET DENIES I S. REPORT
    37 1 MOSCOW, Sat.— Tass the official Soviet news agency, today denied a United States press report that the Soviet Union was planning and leading the operations of the Chinese Communists in Manchuria.— Reuter.
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    ATTLEE HITS AT TRAVESTY OF DEMOCRACY'
    237 1 BARN3LEY. Yorkshire, Sat. BRITAIN'S Prime Minister. Mr Clement Attlee, condemned Communist-dominated countries of Eastern Europe when he addressed a traditional mons>er rnlly of Yorkshire miners in Brrnsley .today. Declaring that personal freedom was the right of all. Mr. Attlee said. ''I have no doubt
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    Clifford Peer Turns His
    941 2 SPOTLIGHT on MALA VANS IOOKING forward to a holiday in the snow is Mr. S. N. KING, Penang's Resident Commissioner since May, 1946. Mr. King, who will be going on leave at the end of this year, is a keen ski-er and hopes to go to
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    MALAYA HAS 100 MILLION TONS COAL
    420 3 MALAYA HAS 100 MILLION TONS COAL Inquiry into resources Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. DLANS for investigating Malaya's mineral resources are, at present, being considered, it is understood, and research teams are to be sent to North Borneo and Sarawak to investigate the existence of large coal deposits
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    95 3 THi u..dd.ng tock plate f.titwday at the Church of the Holy Family, Katon?. of Sgl. F.dward Dixon, R.A.F., son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Dixin of Murton Colliery, Durham, and Miss Isabel Gwendoline Branson, ddst daughter of Mr. and Mrs- I. A. Branson of S'nfjapore. Th° brde was given away
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    OLDEST IN TRADE
    20 3 HAJI ALI BIN MOHAMED HASSAN, who has b?«n selling satay in Singapore tor thr last 50 years.
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    COLLECTED PAYMENTS FOR HIMSELF
    83 3 Sunday Times Correspondent. LABSIM Bin Lassim, an employee 0l the newsnaper 'Utusan Melayu" who misappropriated payment on bills collected from customers, was sent to three months' rigorous imprisonment in the Second Police Court yesterday. Lassim pleaded guilty to crimiHal breach of trust. Inspector Yeo said that
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    NEGLIGENT DRIVER IGNORED SIGNALS
    162 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A FINE of $200. in default four Dnths' rigorous imprison- was imposed on a Sepoy, .-ihmad Ali. a number of the RIASC., by Mr. H. A. Forrer in the Singapore Fourth District Court yesterday. Ahmad was found guilty of causing grievous hurt
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    Big Singapore demand for Bali carvings
    327 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter BECAUSE people in Singapore and Malaya have lime to think about their homes once again, the decorative Bali heads, carved out of wood by Balinese craftsmen are now in great demand, though supplies are not nearly so large as before
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    CUSTODSAN HAS SOLD 1,779 SPORE CARS
    120 3 CUSTODSAN HAS SOLD 1,779 SPORE CARS Sunday Times Staff Reporter SINCE the liberation, the Singapore Custcdian of Property has ioid 1.779 motor-cars not claimed by their owners. During the past five months, the Cusi'-dian collected $200,000 from the sale of unclaimed cars. The practice is for the Custodian to offer
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    9 MONTHS OR $2,000
    67 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. Nine months rigorous imprisonment or a fine of $2,000 was imposed on an elderly woman, N? Quee, in the Singapore Ihird Police Court on Friday after she had pleaded guilty to possessing dutiable liqucr on June 12. Two of her employees, Yea
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    GOING HOME ON LEAVE
    50 3 Sunday Times Correspondent. MUAR, Saturday.— The Senior Executive Engineer, Muar. Mr. M. B. Hember, was entertained to a dinner at the Muar Club oy the staff of the Public Works Department on the occasion of his departure from Muar. Mr. Hember goes to England on leave.
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    TO COUNT ABORIGINES
    28 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Capt. E. G. Edney-Hayter, Protector of Aborigines, Malayan Union, haj been appointed Deputy Superintendent of Census for the enumeration of nomadic aborigines.
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    BAND CONCERT TODAY
    32 3 The band of 2nd Bn. W. Yorks Regiment (Prince of Wales Own) conducted by Bandmaster B B White, will play ln the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, at 5 p.m. to''ay.
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    CRASH LORRY lAD FAULTY BRAKES
    122 3 A cyclist was run over and his head crushed by a motor lorry in Rochore Canal Road, Singapore, on April 4 when the brakes of the vehicle failed, the lorry driver told tr>" Singapore Coroner on Friday. The lorry, driver, ChiaLeong Guan, said that when
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    TRADE UNIONS REGISTRAR GOING TO U.K.
    159 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. THE R:e^ter or Trade Unions, Singapore, Mr. W. Adams, is going to London for a six months' course on colonial administration. His office will be transferred from Empress Place to the Labour Department in Havelock Road next week and it
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    SPENT SO YRS SELLING SATAY
    353 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter QINGAPORE'S oldest satayman has just completed his half century selling satay in the city, and he says he is still good for another thirty years at least on the job. He is 73-year-old Haji A!i bin Mohamed Hassan, and for the
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    4-STOREY BUILDING PLAN FOR YWCA
    289 3 4-STOREY BUILDING PLAN FOR YWCA Sunday Times Staff Correspondent rpHE Singapore Y.W.C.A. committee has adopted a plan to work towards a fund for building a three or four storey building on the site of its present hostel at Fort Canning. Miss Gertrude Owen, acting general Secretary of the Y.W.C.A., told
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    FILM APPEAL BODY IS APPOINTED
    66 3 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. FILM Appeal Committee for Perak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan and Pahang has been appointed by the Governor. The members are: Mr. T. P. M. Lewis (Education Department), who is chairman; Dato Hamzah bin Abdullah of Klang; Mr. Cheah Ghim
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    ATE STICK AS WELL
    118 3 Sunday Tunes stair Reporter THIS story is on record and it happened in Singapore in 1949 when members of the Australian Imperial Forces were stationed here. A Malay land-owner treated a group of Diggers to a satay feed at his residence one Sunday afternoon. Everything wen:
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    I.S.P. NOW A TRADE UNION
    42 3 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. The incorporated Society of Planters has been struck oc the register of companies. This is a formality only, however, now that; the organisation has been registered as a trade union.
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    DRAGON BOAT FEAST
    643 4  -  K.S. CHIA By U/ITH their traditional love of festivals the Chinese in Shanghai will probably find a way of defeating the Shanghai Police Bureau's ban on the age-old Drago n Boat racing on June 23 (.Chinese sth day of the sth Moon) even if it is only
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    FURY, FANTASY, FUN
    690 4 '"TOP SECRET" had already received a large amount of notoriety before it was published in England. This was mainly due to the American reviews of the book, that made great play with Mr. Ingersoll's attacks on Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery and his alleged disclosures about the subtlety of
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    SINGAPORE GIVES A JOLT
    848 4  -  BOB GILMORE The Australian Scene by MELBOURNE, June 11. TO understand why the Australian press has labelled recer.t Sydney defence decisions with such headlines as Sydney to Replace Singapore as Empire Keypoint," it is necessary to recall that the fall of Singapore gave this generation of
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    CARVING A GODDESS
    62 5 r|HViiNTY-YtAK-Of-D Ng Yew Kian is seen patiently earring an imasc < f a Chinese goddess in a shou in Singapore Chinatown. He is 'teing trained in th" art of wool carvinj by his father Nr Lim Swee who has had the trade handed down to him through
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    PILL STEALING CHARGE
    79 5 Sunday Times bta r ftfepwrtct Twelve bottles o.' pUs and seven small and :our \%iit tubes of Vitamin B pills worth were alleged to have i een ttolec from a West Coast Road Military Store, on Thursday by three Chinese who appeared in Singapore Fourth Police Court
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    ACTING NORWEGIAN CONSUL IN SPORE
    38 5 Sunday limes Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Mr. R. W. Hooper has been recognised as acting Consul for Norway in Singapore, with jurisdiction including Penang, Malacca, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Johore, Kelantan and Trensjganu.
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    SEARCH FOR ALUMINIUM IS STARTED
    313 5 SEARCH FOR ALUMINIUM IS STARTED Prospecting in Johore Bahru Sunday Times Staff Reporter DROSPECTING for bauxite— the ore from which aluminium is obtained has begun at Pengarrang Headland on the Johore Bahru side of the Johore Straits, just opposite Changi, following the renewal of permits for Aluminium Laboratories Limited, a
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    Idol carvers have rush of business
    218 5 Sunday limes Staff Reporter THREE men in Singapore Chinatown a father and his two sons have between them the business of supplying "Wooden images of Chinese gods and goddesses to temples and homes in Malaya. Proprietor of the shop, sixty-three-year-old Ng Lim Swee, who
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    MALAY QUITS GOVT. SERVICE FOR U.M.N.O.
    111 5 Sunday Times Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Saturday. CAPT. Hussein bin Da to Onn or the Crown Counsel's Department has informed the Deputy Chief Secretary, Maliyan Union, f his intention to devote his serces to the United Malay National .-'.ganisation and has therefore :ndered his resignation
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    FISH GET ICE PRIORITY
    134 5 Sunday Times Correspondent KUANTAN, Saturday. SO many fishing t>:ats catching fish off the East Coast for taking to Singapore have been putting .nto Kuantan recently for ice in which to pack their catches that local people are finding it very difficult to get ice for their
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    RUBBER
    63 5 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's prices at noon yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Ots. Cts. per ID. per id to. 1 R.S S. Spot Loose 23*» 29 to. 1 R.S.S. fob in bales July 29^ 30 ro. 2 R.S.S. fob in bales July 28 29 10. 3 R.S.S.
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    Poison bait tested on wild pigs
    271 5 Sunday Times Correspondent SEREMBAN, Saturday. IN the course of investigations and 1 and experiments in destroying wild pigs by poison, because of the difficulty of shooting them, the Negri Sembilan State Agricultural Department has started a campaign to catch wild pigs alive in the
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    PILGRIMS SEND MILLION AHEAD TO MECCA
    152 5 PILGRIMS SEND MILLION AHEAD TO MECCA Sunday Times Correspondent. PENANG, Saturday. Penang pilgrims t'oing to Mecca this year have remitted to date nearly $1,000,000 for personal expenditure during the period of their pilgrimage. Each pilgrim is allowed to remit $SCO to Jeddah. This is done through the Collector of Land
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    HONG KONG REPORTS FAST RECOVERY
    90 5 AMAZING recovery and progress achieved in the Colony of Hong Kong since the liberation in August 1945 in spite of wholesale damage done by the Japanese are revealed in tue annual report on Hong Kong for 1946. By the end of the year the population
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    SCENT MAKERS SEEKING OILS FROM SINGAPORE
    197 5 Sunday Times Correspondent. QINGAPORE merchants are now clamouring in the market for -atchouli oil, to meet the large orders they have received from manufacturers of perfumes in Europe and America. Brisk buying by the 10 principal exporters of this oil, has increased prices to
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    THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE. JUNE 22, 1947. Spread It Alidad
    689 6 THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE. JUNE 22, 1947. Spread It Alidad RECEIVING foreign mail these days is something of an adventure. It is blazoned with stamps that take the eye and move the spirit to wander in new lands. Even more important they have something to say about their country of
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    Tuberculosis: its treatment today
    1686 6  -  'Dr J.N.DEE' I By THERE are two distinct 1 types of tuberculosis, one of which appears to be from infected milk and known as bovine infection, and the other coming from active lung tubercular patients which is the human type. As the bovine is transmitted through
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    SCIENCE AND THE SLUM
    597 6  - SCIENCE AND THE SLUM JOHAN LANGDONDAVIES DO the slums make the slum people, or do the slum people make the slums? That question is of vital importance because according to the way in which we answer it we shall treat the problems of crime, mental deficiency, dirt, and disease in
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      21 6 Each month will bring increased supplies. Producers 3»ti Plantations Ltd. Distributors Harper Gilffillan Co., Ltd. Kuala Lumpur fir Brunches throughout Malaya.
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    $6,500,000 PAID FOR OLD BUILDINGS
    288 7 $6,500,000 PAID FOR OLD BUILDINGS New materials, la hour too costly Sunday Times Staff Reporter UIGH cost of building materials and labour have caused investors in Singapore to turn to existing buildings rather than put up new ones. Recently, Singapore firms and individuals have invested more than $6,500,000 on premises
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    62 7 THIS tine specimen of ChiOCM art in the Ming Dynasty, by the famous artist Lok Pau San, is reputed to be 500 years rid. Kntitled "Peace and Prosperity.'' the piece measures 15 feet by 4'i feet, and is believed one of the largest Chinese paintings in existence. Photo shows the
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    OPENING WAY TO NEW LIFE
    34 7 MR P A. B. MCKERRON cots the red tape across the entrance to the grounds of th«* new Singapore Social Welfare Boys Home which he declared opeii y esterday.
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    JAP WALKED TO Kb DEATH
    139 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A FI'ER a celebration to mark A. his impending transfer to another prisoner-of-war camp, a surrendered Japanese, 30-year-old Nakamura Hidesabura, walked into the path of a Royal Navy lorry at Bukit Timah Road, on June 6 and was killed. Chief Petty
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    TEACHERS' CONCERT
    40 7 Sunday Times Correspondent. MALACCA. Saturday. The Malacca Teachers' Choir will give a short concert of vocal music by Bach Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, ri;ar and others at the Bandar Hilir English School on Thursday, June 26. at 6.30 p.m.
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    ROTARY CLUB IS INTERNATIONAL
    235 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE Singapore Rotary Clubs weekly luncheon meeting 1 at the Adelphi Hotel is like an international round-table, because at the tables sit men of 15 nationalities. In the friendly atmostphere of the discussions at these luncheon meetings one gets to know the
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    Ceylonese must join as Indians
    104 7 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. PEYLONESE are to be accepted as members of the Malayan v Indian Conprn-s, but at the sacrifice of their Ceylonese individuality. This statement was made today by the president of the Malayan Indian Congress, Mr. John Thivy. in
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    NEW TRANSPORT ADVISERS
    53 7 Sunday Times Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. Mr. A. W. Wallich has been appointed a member ot the Joint Transport Advisory Board in place of M W. G. C. Blunn, who has gone on leave. The secretary for Economic Affairs, Singapore, has also been appointed a member of
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    BLACK PEPPER TRADE CENTRES ON SPORE
    382 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SINCE the war ended Singapore has become one of the chief centres of the black pepper trade, which previously was in Dutch hands as the bulk of the world s supply was grown in the Lampong area of Sumatra. The
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    SIAM LIFTS TIN BAN
    114 7 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent. PENANG, Saturday. SIAMESE tin may in future be exported to Malaya under an important agreement reported to have b:en reached between the British Ministry of Sullies and the United States and Siamese Governments. Ihe agreement, it is understood, provides for the "demarcation"
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    FLOUR CONFISCATED
    47 7 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent. MUAR. Saturday.— Ng Boon, who moved 112 katties of wheat flour without a movement permit from the Assistant Food Controller, was fined $25, in default two weeks' rigorous imprisonment, by the District Judge, Che Hamld bin Mustapha. The flour was confiscated.
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    WOMEN TO SEE HANGING OF JAP OFFICERS
    155 7 WOMEN TO SEE HANGING OF JAP OFFICERS Sun Jay UaMi Staff Ke.K>rter TWO Singapore women, Li Poay Keng and Once Goh Kcc. will witness the hanging of Lt. Gen. Kawamura arrl Lt. Col. Oishi, who were convicted of cempiicily in the massacre of over 5,000 Chinese after the f?ll in
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    BROADCAST 0 ORDER OF ST. JOHN
    87 7 Sunday Tiaies Staff rteporier A TALK on the Order o f St. John with special reference to the destruction of the Grand Priory Church and plans for ics eventual rebuilding will be broadcast from the 8.8.C. on Tuesday. The St. John's Ambulance Association states
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    EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY IN ROAD ACCIDENTS
    254 7 MANY Singapore employers, who transport their employees to and from work, without being covered by a third party Insurance, do not realise that in the ovent of the death or injury of their employees, through a road accident, they face unlimited liability at common law.
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    McKERRON OPENS NEW BOYS'HOME
    349 7 McKERRON OPENS NEW BOYS' HOME Sunday Times Staff Reporter rE Officer Administering the Singapore Government, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron yesterday cut a red tape across the entrance to the main buildings and declared open Singapore's first Social Welfare Home for Boys. The ceremony took place before a gathering of
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      519 8 IN post-mortems av>und the bridge table, the conversation frequently goes something like this: "If you had opened a diamond we would have set the contract." To which the reply invariably is: "But I couldn't lead from my king." These players may be surprised to learn that it is not a
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      858 8 THIS WEEK FOR YOU BY —What the Stars Foretell— CANCER (June 23-July 23).— LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).— CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20).— A week with fine prospects for You can cause a muddle this 20).— A good week or catching Partnership dealings in business all your aims and
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    THEN MEMS WERE NAMELESS
    829 9  -  JEAN GAYE By MEMS used to be Ladies in the early days of Singapore they didn't even get the courtesy of •'Mrs. So-and-So." On April 7th., 1836 the Singapore Free Press solemnly recorded the arrival of Rev'd A Reed and Lady and the Rev'd T. C.
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    Transplan ting Isn't Just Luck
    433 9 SOME people seem to be lucky when transplanting; everything se.ms to take root and grow immediately. Others appear to be not so lucky. But is this just a matter of luck or is it that the apparently unlucky oi.es are failing to take a lew
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    A good tea punch
    313 9 A good tea punch JHERE is a recipe Tor a tea punch which makes a refreshing drink, particularly these wanner days, and Is simple to make. You need: 1 tablespoonful tea. Juice of one lemon. 1 pint boiling water, 12 oz. castor sugar. Juice of 1 orange. 1 quart aerated
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    Own Temple
    461 9 We have been ideally happy in our marriage, working together, building un a successful business from scratch. Two years ago my husband took on a woman (unmarried) assistant She a good worker and gradually has worked un ii beinjj a partner in the business. She is no glamour
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      108 9 CROSSWORD SOLUTION Across: 1, Shambles. 8, Spit. 12, Pole. 13, Encroach. 14, Elongate. 15, Tree. 16, Deed. 17. Send. 18, Inert. 20, Dint. 23, Ace. 24, Visor. 25, Atlas. 27, Ovate. 28, Ruins. 30, Ten. 31, Abet. 32, Miser. 35, Hale. 36. Scar. 39, Oral. 42, Verbiage. 43, Noticing. 44,
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    R. SUNDRAM SCORES 98
    864 10 GooJ Scores In Club Cricket YESTERDAY'S club cricket matches in Singapore produced a crop of unusually good performances by State players with pride of place going to R. V. S. Sundram who scored 98 and took five wickets for four runs when the Hospital Assistants and
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    Navy Beat Chinese Juniors Two-Nil
    241 10 Royul Navy 2 Chinese Juniors 0 AFTER a scoreless first half, two quick goals scored in the latter stages gave the Royal Navy a well-deserved victory over the Chinese Juniors at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday in a second round S.A.F.A. League fixture. The Navy also
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    Weekend Sports Events
    113 10 SOCCCK: Sing Tao S.f. v MaUyau Chinese, Jalan Besar Stadium. 5 p.m.: R..VF. Faya Lebir v Jollilads, MacPhmon Rd., 5.15 p.m.: IHJ Signal Ro t f REME Base W snap. Daintier Road. 5. 13 p.m. CRICKET S.CC. v S.R.C S.C.C 11 a.m.; S.C.R.C. Married* v Singles, S.C.R.C.,
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    KAMPONG MELAYU SOCCER XI
    42 10 THE following v, ill represent Kampong Melayu against the Batu Pahat Malay Teachers XI at soccer at Batu I Pahat today. Haron. Sallch. Ahmad. Abd Rahim. i Hi: Kadir. A. Jabar, Hamid Yasin, Endot. A. Fatah and Samad.
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    R.E. CRICKET TEAM
    63 10 The fo:iowing will represent the Royal Engineers against the RAF. at cricket at Changi at 11 a. m. today: Maj. O. W. A. Kite (Ccpti, Capt G. C. Sim. 2 Lieut. J. C. Hurst. Capt W. J. Reed. Lieut C. W. Batchelor. Maj. D. E. Ingram. Maj.
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    ST. GEORGE'S XI
    65 10 THE St. George.s XI will b 3 selected from the following to play a friendly soccer match against the Bl.'kan Mati Ist Eleven today. Transport will leave St. George's Road at 4.00 p.m. r-harp. M. Ganagaivn, Leornaid, Rahim Sattar, S. Velio, Md. Din Bin Sulong. Puteh. Appavoo.
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    DAWNLIGHT ASSK.
    78 10 THE Dav.nlgin Association beat the Union Jack Cub in a friendly tabl? tennis match by six games to one last Wednesday. Rr;ults, the D3wnlight Association players mentioned first: Soon? Hin Mun beat Crook, 3-0; Chu Chi Wai beat Shoesmith 3-1; Chou Yee Woon beat Taylor 3-0; I .rung
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    StadiumReady For Record Crowd Today
    740 10 JALAN Besar Stadium officials are fully prepared to cope with a record crowd this afternoon when the Slang Tao Sports Club meet the Malayan Chinese in the fourth and final match of the touring team's present visit to Singapore. All gaps in the outer fencing
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    RECORD SWIM WAS MADE UNDER BAD CONDITIONS'
    552 10 RECORD SWIM WAS MADE UNDER BAD CONDITIONS' APU.iAku iVfi-iunmg enthusiast who watched Fong Ssow Yoke record sui:n at the Penang Chinese Swimming Club it>st Sunday has written a letter to the Sunday Times which he hopes will "dispel all speculation" as to hew this controversial swim was made. He "rites:
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    SOCCER'S GIANTS ARE PASSING
    1123 11 SOCCER'S GIANTS ARE PASSING Koh Hor Khoon Latest To Retire By The Sports Editor SLOWLY, remorsely, Singapore's soccer giants of the past are going down with the sun. Players who were in their prime before the war broke out are now old-timers after their three-and-a-half years' lay-off during the occupation.
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    HOE YENG NEW SGOR TENNIS CHAMPION
    189 11 Sunday Timrs Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. LEONG HOE YENG, runner-up in 1941, became the new S^langor tennis champion today, and Mrs. GUdys Loke Chua won the women's sir. Its title when the finals of the SeUngcr Lawn Tennis Association championships were played today.
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    COMMAND SIGNALS BEAT T P C A "B"
    72 11 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. JLf ALAYA Command Signals beat the T. P. C. A. "B by one wicket at Prince's Road today. Scores were: T. P. C. A: 114 for seven declared (Vcravagoo 33 and Thambyrajah 33)., Malaya Command
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    SELANGOR CLUB, RAILWAY DRAW
    92 11 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. PACING against time, the Selangor Club failed to beat the Sentul Railways in a cricket match on the padang this evening, the game ending in a draw with the Club short by 21 runs with two wickets in hand.
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    BIG IMPOST FOR DRB AT IPOH RACES
    655 11 Sunday TisMe Baelnf Reporter IPOH, Sat. A FiEtX) of 15 horses has been handicapped to the class two, divison one race, on the first day of the Perak Turf Club's June-July meeting on Saturday. June 28. There will be a card for nine
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    NUNIS SCORES 64 FOR POSTALS
    86 11 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. FSTAL Union batsmen Were in form today when they met their Electrical associates of the Kilat Club and were able to declare at 149, but time saved their rivals from defeat as the Kilat Club scored 100 for
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    GOOD GALLOP BY LENIENT
    527 11 Sunday 1 imse Uociuf Correspondent ii'Oii, Saturday. BACK in sericus training after a two-month spell, Capt. Lindsay V cars' champion DTLB cud a good gallop this morning on the Ipoh racetrack wlicn he beat Zargun in a three furlong trial, clocking 39 sees, dead on tight
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    EDRICH AND COMPTON IN FORM
    804 12 EDRICH AND COMPTON IN FORM England 312 For Two A FTER losing their opening pair for under 100 the two lX Middlesex batsmen Bill Edrich and Denis Compton took England's score to 207 for two by tea interval in the second Test against South Africa. Edrich had scored 64 not
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    NEGRO LIGHTWEIGHT WINS BY K.O.
    137 12 NSW YORK. Saturday. IKE WiiXIAMS. no^ro snarer of the world lightweight championship, knocked out veteran Tippy Larkin, holder of the junior welterweight title in the fourth round in a non-title bout before a crowd of 9.000 at Madison Square Garden in New York last night
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    Bromwich & Pails Win
    35 12 Bromwich Pails Win LONDON, Saturday. IN the men's doubles final of the Queen's Club tournament the Australians John Bromwich and Dinny Pails beat the Americans J. Kramer and R. Falkenburg 6—B, B—6, B— 6.— Reuter.
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    OLYMPICS C'MITTEE DEFINE AMATEUR
    331 12 STOCKHOLM, Saturday. THK Committee set up to go into the question of "broken 1 time" and amateurism in athletics has defined an amateur as: "One to when sport is nothing more than recreation without material- .gain of any kind, direct or indirect.*' This definition was approved
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    AMERICANS WIN TENNIS TITLE
    68 12 B LONDON, Saturday. OTH men's and women's singles titles were v.on by Americans in the London grass courts lawn tennis championships at Queen's Club, London, today. Robert Falkenburg, of America, beat Colin Long, of Australia, by 6 4, 7—5 in the men's singles; and Miss Louise
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    TABLE TENNIS
    48 12 THE following win represent Uie C.V.M.A Portuguese Mission in a friendly game of table tennis against tin Church of the Sacred Heart at the Portuguese Mission, premisesc at 7 p.m. on Tuesday: W. Hendroff, Michael Hendroff. Lawrence Rodrigues. A. de Sa, Edmund Tay 8i Teng Kwee.
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    HOME CRICKET
    263 12 Home Cricket close of play scores yesterday were: At Sheffield. Yorkshire vs. Nottinghamshire, Nottinghamshire Ist. innings W0 (Keeton 73, Smailes, rightarm fast medium, 4 for 42). Yorkshire Ist. innings 56 for 2. At Colchester, Essex vs. Middlesex, Essex Ist. innings 256 for 6 (Avery 96. Vigar 66, Ray
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    100 YDS RECORD IS EQUALLED
    83 12 SALT LAKE CITY (Utah). Sat. MEL PATTON. the University of Southern California sprinter, equalled the world's record of 9.4 seconds for the 100 yards when he won his heat in the preliminaries of the United States National Collegiate Athletic meet in Salt Lake City yesterday.
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    CHINESE TO HOLD
    63 12 AQUATIC MEET 1 SINGAPORE Chinese aquatic meot n will be held at the Chinese Swimming Club on July 12. Diving finals will b e at the Tiger Swimming Pool on July 5 at 3.30 p.m. All intending competitors should send their names by 5 p.m. on June
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    C.S.A. WIN FIVE-NIL
    28 12 CHINESE Sporte Assn. of Singapore beat Batu Pahat Chinese Recreation Club by five games to nil at table tennis at the Great World last night.
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    Von Nida Wins £ 1,500 Golf Tournament
    151 12 Von Nida Wins 1,500 Golf Tournament LONDON, Saturday. Norman Von Nida, Australia, beat Flory Van Donck. Belgium, by 6 and 5 in the 36 holes final of the "Star" £1,500 professional golf tournament on Westworth Course, Surrey, today. This was the Australian's third success of the British season in s<;ven
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