The Straits Times, 25 June 1947

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    17 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS
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    NEW U.S. LAW CAUSES 35 STRIKES
    466 1 NEW U.S. LAW CAUSES 35 STRIKES "Dangerous Legislation" Says Truman WASHINGTON, Tuesday. WITHIN a few hours of the announcement yesterday that the Senate had passed despite President Truman's veto and last-minute appeal the bitterly contested "anti-strike" bill, 19,000 coal miners m four states walked out on strike, closing 35 mines.
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    45 1 The Straits Steamship vessel Kepong received a large, tapir*? hole m her portside No. 3 hold m collision with the 8,000-ton Trevaylor at the Singapore wiiarves on Monday. She was yesterday towed to the KepDe! tiaiuour dry dock. Straits Times picture. (Story m Page 5).
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    Killearn's Duties Explained
    190 1 Killearn's Duties Explained LONDON, Tuesday. LORD Killearn's functions as Special Commissioner for, South-East Asia were queried and explained m the House of Commons yesterday. Mr. Walter Fletcher (Conservative. Bury,) had asked if the Special Commissioner's post was to be made permanent '"m view of its inevitable overlapping with the functions
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    FLOW OF RICE FROM SIAM
    191 1 LONDON, Tuesday.— New measures tc increase shipments of rice from 3iam are being discussed with the S am se Govcrnm at. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food, Dr. Edith Summerskill. said this in reply to a question in the House of Commons yesterday.
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    30,000-FRANC TYRES
    55 1 PARIS, Tuesday.— Tyre stealing m Paris has now become so prevalent that many motorists carry their spare tyres inside their cars. The incentive for stealing tyres is clear: a new tyre, on the black market, brings 30,000 francs and often more. Five tyres are worth as much as
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    Shahrir Agrees To Dutch Proposal
    224 1 THE HAGUE, Tuesday. THE Indonesian Premier, Sutan Shahrir, has accepted the Dutch proposal for the establishment of a directorate of internal security under the authority of the proposed interim Government, it was announced here today. In his latest letter to the Dutch Commission-General, published today,
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    READ RUNYAN TOMORROW
    97 1 NEAT Strip," the Damon I Runyan short story in tomorrow's Straits Times magazine section, tells the story of Rose Viola I As Runyan describes her, Rose' Viola has "big blue eyes and hair the colour of sunup ...she has a smile that starts slow and easy on
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    Ex-Malayan Doctor Inquest Opens
    231 1 SOUTHPORT, Tuesday. A STATEMENT to the police by an unnamed person began a train of inquiries that led to a triple inquest Irere today on two doctors and the fourth wife of one of them. The funeral of the wife, Mrs. Amy Victoria Clements, aged 47,
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    DOCTOR LIVED IN SQUALOR
    94 1 From Out Own Correspondent LONDON, Tuesday— lt was revealed today that Dr. Clements and his fourth wife, though financially comfortable, lived In the utmost squalor and miserliness. Their flat was found to be full of hoarded rubbish, besides a great quantity of tinned and other foods.
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    NEXT DELEGATE FOR INDIA?
    67 1 It Is reliably understood that Mr. J. A. Thivy, President of the Malayan Indian Congress, will shortly be appointed Representative of the India Government In Malaya in succession to Mr. S. K. Chettur, according to a message received last night from New Delhi. Mr. Chettur told
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    BURMA PLEBISCITE?
    73 1 RANGOON, Tuesday.— A plebiscite may be held in the Bhamo and Myitkyina areas of Upper Burma to decide whether the areas, now under direct British administration, will be incorporated in ministerial Burma or become part of an autonomous Kachin state within the proposed union of Burma. Negotiations on
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    STOP PRESS
    46 1 LONDON. Tuesday: Test Match close of play. South Africa 2nd inns Melville b Edrich 8: Mitchell not out 47; Viljoea b Edrich 6; Nourse not out 58: Extras 1: Total (2 wkts.) 120. Edricb has taken two wickets for 16 m five overs. Reuter.
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    Rubber Price At Lowest Level For Eight Years
    305 1 Rubber Price At Lowest Level For Eight Years DUBBER prices yesterday fell to their lowest levcis since early 1939 when at the close of business broke- quoted No. 1 ribbed smoked sheet spot loose at 26 cents per lb. buyers and 26 !4 cents per lb. sellers. This represented a
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    "Russia's Atom Plant Blew Up"
    190 1 "Russia's Atom Plant Blew Up" CHICAGO, Tuesday. fIATHER Bernard Hubbard, the famous "Glacier Priest", says that Russia had an atomic energy plant a year ago, but it blew up. In an exclusive interview m the Chicago Record, the well-known world traveller said the blast resulted from "lack of knowledge" and
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    FIXING TRANSFER DATE FOR INDIA
    518 2 Bill Being Speeded Up LONDON, Tuesday. THE date of the British transfer of power m India to the two Dominions of Hindustan and Pakistan expected here to be August 15 will be decided finally by Indian political leader* the British Cabinet and the Viceroy acting
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    NEW JAPANESE FINANCE MINISTER
    69 2 TOICIO, Tuesday— The Governor of the Industrial Bank of Japan, Mr. Takeo Gurusu. has been appointed Finance Minister, replacing Shotaro Yano, who is ill. Mr. Kurusu's entire career has been spent in the banking business but he has been greatly Interested in politics, was originally a
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    India's Partition Plans
    389 2 India's Partition Plans Hie Times Correspondent DELHI, Tuesday. CONTRARY to expectations, v Bengal has taken the partition of India quietly, but conditions in the Punjab are different. Rioting flared up in Lahore at the week-end and sporadic i'?sturbances continue in /'mritsar City and the Gurgaon district. It is difficult to
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      Youth Used Child As Shield In Gun Battle
      249 2 Youth Used Child As Shield In Gun Battle BOSTON, Tuesday. USING another boy as a shield and armed with a pistol, 15-year-old Edward Bancroft held 27 policemen at bay for quarter of an hour yesterday. After wildly emptying his own pistol and being hit on the head by a policeman's
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      Powdered Air
      82 2 BOSTON, Tu?sday.— Mcnsanto Chemical C:mnarv exo:rts declared that powdered air would be nomrmnplaca In relrisjerators by 1950. They said that after a decade jf work p'.wdsred air, an msulant so fell of microscopic holes thai it was "94 per cent nothing," had been perfected and mad* re^dy [or
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      94 2 lue Hunjarkui ex-Premier M. Fereae Nuty on :i r:.~: a. New York by air on June 14. He is holding his uve-year-oid son Laudislaus. On the left is his daughter Juliet, on the right bis wife. M. Nagy's son Ferenc is already at school m America. M. Navy's resignation from
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      Nepal Diplomat
      87 2 LONDON, Tuesday.— The Nepalesa Minister to Britain Gen. Sir Kaiser Shum Shere, arrived in Londn yesterday with his wife, two-and-a-half -year-old daughter and his staff. He was welcomed at the station by Foreign Office and India Office official and a large number cf friends. Th s Is his
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      Fast And Loose
      36 2 WASHINGTON, Tu-sday.— The marriage and d.vorce rates reached an all-time peak m the United States last year. The Public Health Service reported there had been more than 2,300.000 marriages and 620.000 divorcis. U.P.
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      Trade Bloc
      77 2 LONDON. Tuesday. The British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Bevin. is considering what actions will be taken about the Government of Iraq's refusal to allow goods to pass in transit through Iraq to Palestine The Under -Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Mayhew, said this yesterday in a parliamentary reply to
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      Congress On Culture
      129 2 LONDON. Tuesday.— At the 14th. Congress of the Intemati.nal Comederation of Authors and Composers attended by 150 delegates from 20 countries in London yesterday, the president of the Board of Trade, Sir Stafford Cripps, urged that there should be a greater interchange of culture between the nati:ns.
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      Mine Explosion
      69 2 SANTIAGO, Chile, Tuesday.— Mine officials at Lota. 21 miles south of Conception, reported yesterday that nine men were killed and six were missing, believed dead, m the coal mine explosion here which trapped 68 men. Til* remaining 53 men caught. In the blast were saved by a new
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      Cotton Shipment
      62 2 LONDON. Tuesday. A first shipment of 32,000,000 yards of grey cotton cloth, made m Japan, arrived at Manchester docks yesterday. Altogether 64,000,000 yards will be sent which is the largest single shipment ever imported into England. The Japanese cloth equals the volume of production which Lancashire lost m
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      Peace Treaties
      30 2 LONDON. Tuesday.— The British and United States Governments were now ready to deposit their ratification of the peace treaty with Rumania, the Under-Secre-tary for Foreign Affairs. Mr. May-
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    BRITAIN PROTESTS AGAINST JAP WHALERS
    301 2 BRITAIN PROTESTS AGAINST JAP WHALERS LONDON Tuesday. DRTTAIN has protested to the United States against the American authorisation of a new Japanese whaling expedition to the Antarctic according to a statement to day by a British Foreign Office spokesman. Britain 'eared, the spokesman said, that the Jap whaling fleet "might
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      714 2 NOTICES AIR FREIGHT Aircraft, four engined. departing for Australia next few days has freight epace available for general cargo direct for Sydney or transhipment other ports. Attractive freight rates. All cnaulries to Mardrn Company, 82 Orchard Road, Singapore Phono No. JZ5Z Cablegram: "Mai-den". ROAD NOTICE The Seremban-Port Dickson Road v.ill
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      751 2 NOTICES NOTICE Will the following Ex Royal Malay Maval ratings please report to the Malay Navy Records Office. Union Buildings. Singapore, bringing their Service Certificates. 1. Sheik Hussain bin Sheik All. Ex Leading Seaman R.M N. 865. 2. En dud bin Mohd. Isa. Ex Able Seaman R.M.N. 1438. 3. Abdullah
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    ATTLEE RECEIVES CLAYTON
    302 3 ATTLEE RECEIVES CLAYTON Anglo-U.S. Talks On Marshall Plan LONDON, Tuesday. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, today received the United States Under-Secretary of State, Mr. William Clayton, at No. 10 Downing Street for the first of a series of Anglo-American talks concerning the Marshall Plan and other economic issues. The Chancellor
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    Sergeant Is Found Dead
    63 3 AN inquest is to be held into the death of Sst. R. C.Marriott who was found dead m Nee Soon Transit Camp yesterday shortly after 4 p.m. A bottle containing poison was found near the body. Marriott, who had recently served a prison sentence of nine
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    Jap Money As Bait
    460 3 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. KUALA LUMPUR detectives, posing as intermediaries used $20,000 in Japanese cur rency to trap an alleged extortioner, it was stated in court today. Cheng Kiow was appearing at a preliminary inquiry before the First Magistrate, Raja Ayoub, on a
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    Palestine Warning To UNO
    253 3 Palestine Warning To UNO JERUSALEM, Tuesday. ""THE Chief Secretary of the 1 Palestine Government, SL Henry Gurney, yesterday informed the United Nations Committee on Palestine tha: "it is necessary to avoid pub lie comment" on the death sentences passed on June 16 on three terrorists convicted of taking part in
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    Gwennie Isaac's Death An Accident
    326 3 Gwennie Isaac's Death An Accident HOLDING that the death of 14-year-old Gwennie Isaac, daughter of Chief Police Inspector T. Isaac, was accidenal, the Singapore Coroner Mr. W. G. Porter, yesterday stated that the administration }f local anaesthetics on the child was carried out in the usual manner and with due
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    AUSTERITY PLAN FOR ASSEMBLY
    177 3 PARIS, Tuesday. r[E finance commission of the French National Assembly last night adopted the government's austerity plan designed to relieve the cour. iry's critical financial position. The finance commission thus reverses its previous decision. The National Assembly began debating the plan last night. Demonstrations marked the
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    DULLNESS ON SHARE MARKET
    291 3 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Tuesday. EXTREMELY dull conditions were reported from all the! Malayan share markets due to 1 the further fall m the price of rubber. Buyers were reluctant to inorecs-? their commitments until the position of the commodity was clarified. Among industrials, Fraser
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      248 3 Continuing the weighty volume of opinion on "THE JOLSON STORY" from distinguished local citizens, already published yesterday, here are additional comments: The Vea'ble Archdeacon David Rosen thai: A film well produced, combining lovely technicolour, music and fine acting to provide really good entertainment. R«v. Canon R. K. S. Adams: A
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
    27 4 SOT. MRS. E. DIXON wishes to thank all relatives A friends for their useful Rifts Kiven on the occasion of their wedding on 21st June 1947.
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    IN MEMORIAM
    37 4 In loving memory of Mary Pillal. the beloved wife of Mr. A. P. Ponnuthural. Timber Inspector. Forest Dept.. Singapore who passed away at Singapore on 25th June, 1946. Inserted by her beloved husband and children.
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    The Straits Times Singapore.wed.june 25.1947 twenty per cent On Rents
    1123 4 A twenty per cent increase m rents is the unpalatable and contentious proposal that awaits the Singapore Advisory Council at its n?xt meeting, that being the main point m the Rent Control Bill that was gazetted at the we?t-end. No
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    SULTAN ASKED TO LOOK FOR MAIL
    96 4 KURE. Monday.— British officials have asked the Sultan of Halmahera to forward any mail he might find m the jungles of Halmahera Island. An Australian courier plane was forced to jettison 298 pounds of mail m 18 bags while ove.- Halmahera recently, officials said.
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    Cheap Rubber Could Kill U.S. Plants
    1147 4 Cheap Rubber Could Kill U.S. Plants THE AMERICAN VIEW OF SYNTHETIC— I THE manufacturers of synthetic rubber are confident that one day they will produce a product that will result m a better than pre-war natural tyre, but, says Fortune magazine m a recent survey, crude rubber, at the price
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  • Man In The Street
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      Straits Settlements Legal Service
      532 4 THE acting Colonial Secretary's answers to the questions raised by Mr. C. C. Tan m the Advisory Council have, as Mr. Tan Chin Tuan S3ys indicated a very unsatisfactory state of affairs. Mr. Bryson says that the appointment of suitably qualified officers of the Straits Settlements
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      What Is The Use Of Outram Road?
      98 4 ANOTHER escape from Outram Road, within a few days of the escape of nine suspects! This time it is a dangerous a.id convicted criminal who is let loos* among us. If the prison authorities arc incapable of keeping suspects and criminals safely locked
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      West Yorks Thanked
      78 4 pLEASE allow me to express I my thanks and gratitude to the Band of the 2nd. Bn the West Yorks Regt. for the excellent concert of first-class music last Sunday at the Happy World Stadium. The audience was small, but appreciative. I hope that this band concert
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    OUTRAM GAOL "OLD AND INSECURE"
    369 5 OUTRAM GAOL "OLD AND INSECURE" Demand To Allay Public Fear k SINGAPORE Justice of the Peace who has free access to Outraro Road gaol said yesterday that the public would remain "very frightened* until the authorities provided more security m the imprisonment of dangerous criminals at the gaol. The Justice
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    28 5 The 40-ton gaff-rigsed ketch Elinor, which was recently pwtfeasrd for £3.090 by a Singapore businessman. She will be used as a pleasure-cruiser alon? the Malayan coasts by holidaymakers.
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    Luxury Sea Trips At $100 A Day
    191 5 QINGAPORE holidaymakers will soon be able to make trips J ma 60-foot luxury yacht to Malaya's east and west coast ports at a cost of $100 per day. Cruises ranging from a period of a fortnight or more may be arranged at short
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    MEAT RATION FOR WORKING CATS
    52 5 AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Tuesday. "Working cats" m New Zealand are entitled to a meat ration. Some butchers recently invoked a little-known regulation m force here which allots a "working cat" 2s. worth of meat every four •weeks. This is slightly less than the amount allowed
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    PORTUGUESE SHIPS TO CALL AT SINGAPORE
    143 5 One of the oldest Portuguese sniping companies m the world, the Companhia Nacional De Navegacao of Lisbon has extended its services from Portugal to Singapore and the Far East. The first ship Inaugurating the new service —the 6.200-ton passen-ger-cargo vessel Lourenco Marques will arrive
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    13 MORE DEATHS FROM SMALL POX
    61 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday.— Smallpox accounted for 13 deaths m 35 cases reported m the Malayan Union during the week ended June 14. The previous figures were seven deaths m 30 cases. Perak had the highest figures, with Selangor next, cases reported m the two
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    Holed Ship Towed To Dry Dock
    124 5 rHE 1,874-ton Straits Steam ship vessel Kepong was towed to No. 1 Keppel Harbour dry dock by two Harbour Board tugs shortly before noon yesterc'ay, badly damaged on the port side loUowing a col lision with the 8,000-ton Tre vaylor on Monday. The Kepong
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    $4,000 ROBBERY
    29 5 Two Chinese, .one .of .them armed, broke into a house m Buk.it Timah Road. Singapore at 1 pjn. yesterday and robbed a Chinese family of $4,000 cash.
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    Raffles College Diploma Results
    700 5 THE 1947 Raffles College Diploma Examination awards have been made. The diplomas awarded are m Arts ar.d Science They areArts:— Class 1 Miss Kwa Geok Choo Miss K. Fung, Lim Ewe Hock. Toh Chor Keat. Class 2 E. W. Barker, D. R. Danial, Hew Kiang Main,
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    SIAM RICE STOCKS
    205 5 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Tuesday. A WARNING that the Gov eminent might be compel led to commandeer rice stocks m order to fulfil tho monthly rice deliveries to which Siam is committed has been given by the Prime Minister, Tham rong Nav/asawat. Despite pressure from the
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      Sold Liquor To Aid Spore Stage Club
      265 5 l IQUOR transactions on behalf of the Singapore Stage Club L to help them pay their way were described m the Third Police Court yesterday when a British officer, Capt. Noel Edgar Jonathan Bell, was fined $192 for selling dutiable liquor to Mrs.
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      Bomb Explodes
      91 5 VUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday.— An Indian labourer on Klanang Estate, Banting had an arm severed and two others received serious injuries yesterday afternoon when a mortar bemb they found near an abandoned airstrip on the estate blew up. The bomb, it is stated, was me of several left behind
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      Regent Entertains
      135 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Tuesday. The Regent of Johore and Ungku Aminah entertained the Governor-General and Mrs. MacDonald to lunch at the Astana Stulang yesterday. Among the guests were the C-in-C. Pacific Fleet. Admiral Sir Arthur Palliser. and Lady Palllser, C-in-C, East Indies Station, Vice Admiral Sir Dennys Bruce, Rear-Admiral
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      Ace To Give Display
      53 5 MEMBERS of the Air Cadet Corps, the Police and a number of school boys will see a demonstration by Wing Commander H. Bird Wilson. D.5.0., D.F.C.. A.F.C., In a Gloster Meteor jetpropelled aircrait at Kallang Airpore today. The aircraft will be on view at Kallang Airport
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      Thanks From King
      96 5 THE Secretary of State for the Colonies. Mr. Creech Jones, has sent a telegram to the Singapore Officer Administering the Government. Mr. P. A. B. McKerron. acknowledging the birthday greetings sent on behalf of the Government and the people m Singapore to the King on June 12.
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      Girl's School Function
      91 5 PUPILS of the only Singapore Chinese girls' high school, the Nan Wah Girls' School in Adis Road, were yesterday told by the Singapore Chinese ConsulGeneral. Dr. Wu Paak Shing: "Study hard for the sake of your motherland." Dr. Wu was addressing the pupils during the 30th anniversary
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      Grave-Side Ceremony
      73 5 A MEMORIAL headstone presented by Chinese friends has now been erected on the grave at Bidadari Cemetery of Mr. George C. Meredith, rormer Registrar of Vehicles, Singapore, who died during Internment. The Reverend R. K. S. Adams will officiate at a short dedication ceremony to be held at
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      Death Of AC. Rainnie
      100 5 MEWS has been received from London of the recent death of former Malayan resident Mr. A. C. Rainnie. Mr. Rainnie opened the office of Crosfleld Lamprrd and Co. in Kuala Lumpur in 1907. He remained in Kuala Lumpur until 1916 when he was transferred to the
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      Three Years' Gaol
      50 5 COR having knowledge cf the possession of a .32 revolver, which he failed to report to the police, Tay Kim Kay, was sentenced to three years' rigorous imprisonment at the Assize Court yesterday. Tay was arrested by detectives at Newton Road on the morning of January 6.
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    Three Big Meetings At Spore And J.B.
    410 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. THE Governor of the Malayan 1 Union, Sir Edward Gent, will leave Kuala Lumpur tomorrow night. He goes to attend the Governors' Conference at Johore Eahru and :o Singapore on Thursday, the Governor-General's Conft-nnce in Singapore
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    SOCIAL WELFARE TALK
    39 5 nEPUTY Secretary, Social Wei- fare Department, Mr. T. Eames Hughes, will address tha East-West Society tomorrow night at 8.30 m th? V.M.C.A., Orchard Road. His subject will be: "SOCIAJ Welfare as a functior of Government.' 1
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    FORCED INTO GANG 'FROM FEAR'
    191 6 FORCED INTO GANG 'FROM FEAR' From Our Staff Correspondent PE.NANG, Tuesday. THE Appeal Court Judge, Mr. Justice Carey, yes terday held that a sampan man had joined a secret society "through fear" and set aside a sentence of six months. The sampan man, who was said to be suffering from
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    3,000 Fowls Vaccinated
    70 6 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Tuesday, mil REE thousand fowls have X been vaccinated during the last two months m Kedah and Perlis against a fatal disease called Newcastle disease. The vaccine was introduced by the Veterinary Department m April and has proved extremely effective. In
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    Estate Strike In S. Kedah
    102 6 From Our Own Correspondent Alor Star, Tuesday. MORE than 300 Indian labourers of Chong Seng estate in Serdang, south Kedah, went on strike yesterday morning In protest against the recent decision by the United Planting Association of Malaya to recommend a 20 per cent cut
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    NEW LIBRARY BOOKS
    154 6 The fclloving newly added non-fiction and fiction books will be ready from Rafflles Library for issue on Saturday. CottreU (Leonard) All Men are Neighbours. (Mus), Meynell (Esther) Sussex (Illus.), Storrs (Sir Ronald) Dunlop in War and Peace. (Illus. >. and White (Gilbert) The Natural History of Selborne.
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    DEBTS TO JAPS WIPED OUT
    125 6 From Our Staff CorresDondent PENANG: Tuesday.— Debts due 1 to the Japanese in respect of "voluntary contributions" made to the Japanese forces daring the occupation will not be taken over by the Custodian of Enemy Property. This is stated in an announcement that title deeds
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    Singapore Shipping
    79 6 Ships alongside the Singapore wharves yesterday (godowns in brackets) were: Main Wharf: Lorentz (31-32), Malacca (34 j, Thalatta (36-37), Empire Pacific (41 j, Samcleve (42-43). West Wharf: Agamemnon <.l-2), Empire Mayport (3), Telemachus (4-5), Sommelsdijk (6-7), M-idon (8-9), Simon Stevin (12-13), Pentong (15). Empire Dock: Helmund (19-^0), James
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    GOVT. APPEAL UPHELD
    172 6 IPOH, Monday. The Governor of the Malayan Union had power to review judgments passed by the Superior Court of the British Military Administration, the Criminal Appeal Court. held '.oday. The Court upheld the appeal of the Attorney-General, Mr. K. O'Connor, against the decision of a Civil High
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    Cigarettes Seized At Malacca
    101 6 Cigarettes Seized At Malacca MALACCA, Tuesday. MALACCA price control in- spectors yesterday seized a lorry load of cigarettes al leged to have been smuggled into the settlement from Muar The inspectors posted them selves at Kadang, a few mil';? out of the town, and trailed the lorry to Egerton Road
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    Singapore Airmail
    177 6 Airmail closing times at the O.P.O., Singapore, are as follow: AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND: noon Tues.^ Thurs., Sat.; CEYLON: 6 p.m. Tucs., Wed., Thurs., Sat., Sun CHINA, HONG KONG MACAO: 4 p.m. Mon., Thurs., Fri.; INDOCHINA: 6 p.m. Wed., Sat.; BURMA. EGYPT, ARABIA, EAST A SOUTH AFRICA: 4 p.m.—
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    BROOKE CALLS FOR PATIENCE
    215 6 The ex-Rajah Muda of Sarawak, Mr. Anthony Brooke, has sent the following telegram to the Malay National Union of Sarawak, the Sarawak Dayak Association, and the United Sarawak National Association of Singapore: "I shall be glad if you will convey to members of indeper-dence movements in
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    SHARE PRICES
    705 7 SINGAPORE, June 24. CINGAPORL shar e quotations today, as given Dy the Malayan Shareholders' Association, were as follows: INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seller Alex. Brick (O) 2.30 2.40 Alex. Brick (P) 3.50 3.85 B M. Trustee 8.3S 0.00 Consolidated Tto Smelters (O) 21/6 22/6 do (P) 26/- 27/9 Eastern United
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    70 7 NEW YORK, Tuesday.— Buying volume expanded somewhat yesterday afternoon resulting in fairly widespread gains to one pcint or more led by tobaccos, rails, minings, motors, steels, rubbers, aviations and wctstocks, with the last named aided by cessation of wheat control as rf July 1. Profit-taking In final
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    MONEY FUND ON GOLD SALES
    71 7 WASHINGTON. Tuesday— Th; World Monetary Fund has asked its 44-member countries to try to prevent international transactions in sold at prices above the parity rate, US *S5/- an ounce, it was disclosed day. The fund said it was malting a statement on above-parity gold transaction.-;
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    RUBBER
    60 7 The Singapore Chamber Oi Commerce Rubtoer Associations prices at r.oon yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Cts. Cts. per lb. per lb. No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose 26»4 27 No. 1 R.S.S. tob In bales July 21% 1& No. 2 R.S.S. fob in bales July 27 27"; No. 3 R.S.S. fob
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    General Fall In Produce Prices
    373 7 From a market correspondent ALL commodities m the Singapore produce market have reacted to the general depression brought by the slump m the rubber price. In the r'ce market. Siam superior quality "free" rice was asked for at between $102 and $105> but there were
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    LONDON STOCKS
    417 7 LONDON STOCKS J)ULL condiUons prermMed during the greater part of the daj ownig to weekend mtataterial coal warnings but the closing stages the fact that little selling developed combined with Ru««la's dedsion to attend the American aid for Europe conference writes Reuter's financial correspondent. OUs made the best showing wlUi
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    chatster Ran In Good Company
    402 8 FORM OF NEW IMPORTATIONS II From Our Racing Correspondent fU ATSTEK, one of 24 new importations entered for the v Ipoh races, is one of the biggest racehorses to have come out to this country. He stands 16.2 m his stall. Owned by "Levee Kongsi"
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    Spore Team For S'hai
    92 8 The Singapore Chinese Amateur Athletic Federation has accepted an invitation from the China Amateur Athletic Federation to i play a series of basketball games in Shanghai. The president of the S.C.A.A.F.. Mr. Goh Chye Hin. told the Straits Times last night that a representative Singapore Chinese
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    DEPOT BEAT PERMUDA
    149 8 From Our Own Correspondent. JOHORE BAHRU. Tuesday. Playing with a goalkeeper who| was far from fit, Permuda were beaten 4—24 2 m their League match yesterday against the Police Depot, a team they had beaten 4—l4 1 m the first round of the com- 1 petition. After
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    S.R.C. Wins Dull Game Four-Two
    257 8 BEATING the Army 4—24 2 at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday, the Singapore Recreation Club moved up to third place m the S.A.F.A. League tables, with a total of 14 points from 10 games. I The Army are still ahead with 16 points, but both the
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    JOHANSSEN WINS EASILY
    89 8 WIMBLEDON, Tuesday.—Powerful Torsten Johanssen trounced Pierre Gelhand of Belgium, 6—o, 6—o It was the second successive day the Scandinavian won m love sets. Morea beat McKenzie, 2—6,2 6, 5_3 f 6—4 6—3. Seeded United States star Tom Brown, who arrived m England Sunday, easily defeated Frenchman O.
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    sporting fixtures And Result
    239 8 Friendly Soccer The following will represent the P Se N Soccer XI against St. Joseph Institution at their ground today at 5.00 p.m. Willie Soh. O. McCully, Awang Kechil, Ahmatzah. Sim Im Peng, Llm Som Quee, J. Nonis, Kassim, Talib, W. C. McKean and AH bin
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    FAST WORK AT IPOH Kandy KID DOES BEST GALLOP
    531 8 From Our Racing Correspondent IPOH, Tuc lay. I^ANDY Kid (Woods) clocked 37 3/5 H >ndo for three furlongs, the best time this mm-jJng, v ~n fast work was given to horses m trainin for the Ipoh races which start next Saturday.
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    26 8 A recent picture of MRSGLADYS LOKE CHUA, Selangor women's t -nnus singles champion this year who won the title last week by defeating Mrs. R. Darby.
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    Foong Seong Cup Team
    116 8 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Tuesday. NEGRI will meet Johore m the semi-final of the Foong Seong Cup badminton competition at the Kin* George V School hall next Saturday at 2.30 p.m. This match will decide which State will represent the southern section m the final
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    COUNTY CRICKET RESULTS
    136 8 LONDON. Tuesday— Results in toHpv' 1 eotmt<r cricket are:— At the Oval, Surrey beat Glamorgan by an innings and 80 runs; Surrey 560 for 8 declared, Glamorgan 248 and 132 (Gover, right-arm fast 4 for 26). At Bristol. Gloucestershire beat Kent by an innings and 37 runs;
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    HAMPSHIRE WIN BY INNINGS
    334 8 HAMPSHIRE WIN BY INNINGS LONDON, Tuesday HAMPSHIRE beat Sussex by an innings and 33 runs in the County championship yesterday, two days sufficing for victory. Close of play scores in all games were: At Chlchester. Hampshire beat Sussex by an innings and 33 runs. Hampshire 279. Sussex 90 and 156
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    Tourists Routed* Forced To Follow On
    333 8 Tourists Routed* Forced To Follow On LONDON, Monday. SOUTH Africa collapsed after lunch m the Second Test at Lord's today when they lost the last si\ wickets for 61 runs, and were all out 327. After tea had been taken at the end of the innings, South Africa were forced
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    Scoreboard
    207 8 England Ist Inns— ss4 for 8 dccl. SOUTH AFRICA— Ist Innings Melville c Bcdser b Hollies 117 Mitchell st. Evans b Compton 48 Viljoen b Wright 1 Nourse lbw b Wright 61 Dawson c Barnett b Hollies 36 Harris st Evans b Compton... 30 Rowan b Wright 8 Tuckett
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