The Straits Times, 27 June 1947

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 184$. KKiHT PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1947 PRICE TEN LINTS
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    FOUR WOMEN WATCH HANGINGS Request To See Faces
    561 1 FOUR WOMEN WATCH HANGINGS Request To See Faces TWO Chinese women who saw three Japanese war criminals hanged at Changi Gaol yesterday said that they doubted if ihe Japanese were really dead. The women were Miss Li Poay Keng, 29, chairman of the Singapore Women's Mutual Aid Victims' Association, and
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    Leftist Threat To Shahrir Cabinet
    338 1 BATAVIA, Thursday. j HE Indonesian left-wing group of political parties has rejected Satan Shahrir's concessions to the Dutch to end the political cri>is over the federal Interim ''Joverninent proposals for implementation of the linggadjati agreement The left-wing group is iha prii c pal supporter of
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    DUTCH PATROL ATTACKED
    55 1 BATAVIA. Thursday.— A Dutch patrol was attacked on the .-lands side of the demarcation line m the Tjlandjoer area, Bandung, on May 16, said •norlands Army Information today. After the clash one Dutch medical orderly was found missing. His heavily mutilau-d body was returned by the Republican
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    SIND FOR PAKISTAN
    162 1 NEW DELHI, Thurs. j THE Sind Legislative Assem- 1 1 bly, m a special sitting at Karachi today, passed a resolution by 33 votes to 20 that the province of Sind should juin the new Pakistan Constituent Assembly. Congress members opposed the resolution and two Nationalists remained
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    GIRL FIRST TO GREET MONTY IN SINGAPORE
    525 1 THL Chid of the Imperial GcnenJ Staff, Field-Mar&ial Viscount Montgomery, yesterday atierno a I nded at I; mgi airfield from Ceylon on a four-day visit to Singapore. Lord Montgomery t< morrow* will at. end a meeting of the South-East Asia Defei.ce Committee and
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    STOP PRESS
    25 1 LONDON. Thursday— The J. Arthur Rank organisation announced today that it had ac1 quired an interest m 53 cinemas 1 m Ceylon.— A.P,
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    RUBBER PRICE FALL CONTINUES
    130 1 RUBBER PRICE FALL CONTINUES TiK' cbw.iw, rd irend m rubber prices continued yesterday, ai^d a fall of t' roe quateis of a cent wa> reroided. At the close of an Irregular day No. 1 ribbed smoked sheet f.o.b. was 25| cents per lb., buyers, and 25J cents sellers with spot
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    BURMA MEETING
    33 1 LO.MiI.ON, 'ihursday.— lhe BriI tish Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee. had a fourth meeting today wun the Burmese political delegation led by Thakin Nu, President of the 'Burmese Constituent Assembly.— i Reuter
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    Molotov Arrives For Talks
    201 1 Molotov Arrives For Talks rAli^, mil THE Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. V. M. Mo'olov. arrived iv Diane today for tomorrow's conference wi'.h the British and French Foreign Ministers on the Marshall aid-to-Europe plan. Mr. Molotov drove straight to the Soviet Embassy, where iie will stay during the conference. Stringent security
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    NIGHT PLANE MASSING
    64 1 M anil A. Thursday. Tfte United Slates 13th Air Force announced tonight that a C-45 'small twin-engined transport. with six Army officers aboard, had been missing for 24 hours on a local night flight out of N rhoN Field. The plane left on a f.ve-hour nie:ht flight
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    EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH FOR LOST AIRMEN
    45 1 SAIM' ju.i:\d. N^Ai.iundland, Thursday.— A search party is travelling through the Labrador wilds, near Lake Maronville. trying to find the crew of a United States Army Norseman plane missing since June 13. which had been soottod from the air yesterday.—Reuter.
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      121 1 IN OTHER PAGES Truman Ren -ws Pledge To I.N. i Singapore Merchants Accept Offov E d 1 t o r i a I—"Synthetic1 "Synthetic be Dair.nci'' I Johore Royal. y Among Crash Victims s Soldier Accused of Theft 6 Produce Market Sport 8 j I TICE* BEER FULL STRENCTH TICER
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    TRUMAN RENEWS PLEDGE TO BACK U.N.
    515 2 Leaders' Charter Day Broadcasts I LAKE SUCCESS, Thursday. DRESIDENT Truman reassured the United Nations today on its second anniversary that the United States would back the United Nations Charter to the utmost, despite "temporary setbacks and delays." Joining the chiefs of states of Britain,
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    GERMANS FLEE FROM RED ZONE
    192 2 GERMANS FLEE FROM RED ZONE FRANKFURT, Thurs. AMERICAN officials m Frankfurt said today that "thousands of Russian-zone Germans" are fleeing to the Am r: can zone to escape forced labour m the Sovietoperated uranium mines and the order for a new registration of German veterans. "They are coming by the
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      Newfoundland In Grip Of Fire
      766 2 ST. JOHN'S Newfoundland, Thursday. FIRE FIGHTERS are battlirg against what are believed (o be Newfoundland's worst forest fires. In the For tune Bay area, they extend over a 150 square miJe region. People last night looked hopefully skywards for signs that the drizzle which be^an
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    She Never Wears The Same Dress Twice
    116 2 LONDON. Thursday. Senora Peron, 27-year-old actresswife of the Argentine i-residcnt (seen above seated beside Gen. Franco m Madrid) is reported not to have worn the same drc s twice sine?: her arrival m Spain about three weeks aeo on a European tour. She
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    U.S. Miners' Leader Slated For Stoppages
    392 2 U.S. Miners' Leader Slated For Stoppages WASHINGTON, Thursday. HEPRESENTATIVE Fred IV Hartley today called John L. Lewis "a rebellious and mutinous citizen," and declared that the new Taft-Hartley labour law would be strengthened to deal with him and a coal strike if nocessarv. Mr. Hartley, a New Jersey Republican, is
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    DEATH AND INJURY IN CALCUTTA
    84 2 BOMBAY, Thursd len people were killed and 30 injured m communal incidents m Calcutta vestorday. Tension In ed m the city after Friday's vote for the partition of Bengal. A 48-hour curfew was In m some areas of Calcutta and general precautions were ti ed
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    FAQIR OF IPI'S BROTHER DIES
    85 2 NEW DELHI, Tnursday.- Sr-en Zaman, brother aiid rlgli man of the Faqir of Ipi, "Firebrand of the Frontier," has died m Gurverht. near the Afghan border, repor's reaching here stated tocb.y. Storting life as a teacher m Ipi village m North Wazirlstan. which forms a
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    Predicts World Rice Shortage
    146 2 TRIVANDRUM, Thursday. A world rice shortage of 3,000,000 tons m seven years was forecast today m a report adopted by tt« plenary session of the Rce Study Group of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation here. The report said that Burma would have a surplus
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      682 2 NOTICES NOTICE Notice is hereby given that CARL MEIER HUGO ENGEL of No. 13 Battery Read, Singapore, is applying to the Governor for Naturalization and that any person who knows any reason why naturalization should not be granted should send a written and signed statement of the facts to the
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      728 2 NOTICES MALAYAN EXCHANGE BANKS ASSOCIATION All members of the above Association will be closed for business on Monday, the 30th. June. 1947. whlcn has been declared a "Bank Holiday." NOTICE THE HONGKONG SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION have pleasure In announcing the opening of a branch office at TANAH RATA, m the
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      258 2 TENDERS "xfiNDERS are Invited for the purchase and removal from the Office of the Straitt Times. Cecil Street of ONE CAST IRON SriRAL STAIRWAY 26 x 8118 11 STEPS. ADJUSTABLE SINGLE SUPPORT. Tenders close at noon 27th June. The Highest tender will not necessarily be accepted. Interested parties may view
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    S'PORE MERCHANTS ACCEPT OFFER
    367 3 Goods Seized By N.E.I. Government SINGAPORE Chinese merchants had accepted the offer of Glds. 500,000 made by the Netherlands Indies Government as compensation for the seizure of six cargo ships, the chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Lee Kong Chian, said yesterday. This acceptance
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    Mr. Kevin's Regrets On Hungary
    432 3 Mr. Kevin's Regrets On Hungary LONDON, Thursday. THE Foreign Secretary, Mr. Bevin, said today that he "profoundly regretted" Rus sia's refusal to give information about events n Hungary. Mr. Bevin was speaking m the House of Commons, during a discussion on Hungary. He said that the British Government were drawing
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    U.S. ISSUES DOLLAR CRISIS WARNING
    158 3 WASHINGTON, Thursday. Ti:e United States Department of < tnmerce yesterday forecast a ■-lble dollar crisis before the end of this year. Hi.herto official and expert predictions have been that any acute shortage of mo.'.ey needed to purchase United States food and supplies would no, develop
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    "CLOSED SHOP" AIM
    125 3 STRIKE leaders at a Si.:; ar factory are trying to int:<;duce s '"c < .sed shop." They want any new empoyee .o be approved by them. The factory is the Ho Hong Oil Mills, one o: the biggest manuiacturers of coconut oil products m Malaya, where 140
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    LADY DENTIST GETS SURGERY
    66 3 From Our Staff Correspondent. PENANG, Thursday.— A woman dentist and midwife who said she wanted the ground floor of her residence as a dental surgery was yesterday granted permission to eject her subtenants from the premises. The applicant. Teh Cheng Siew told the Rent Board that
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    POLICE PRAISE FOR CITIZENS
    229 3 POLICE PRAISE FOR CITIZENS From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Thursday. A CHINESE who came all the way from South Siam to give information about certa-n piracy suspect-; was praised by the Chief Folice Officer m a statement issued today. The man made the trip at his own expense, the statement
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    ARRIVED IN STORE
    243 3 OL .£3 TY-i iVE passengers O disembarked m Singapore yesterday by the Biu e Funnel ship Charorj l'rom Fremantle. Mrs. L. Ard:-. b M: M. Arnold, Mr r T. BaiUs. Mrs. K. C. Burns and cliilc!. Mrs. N\ A Bu:ford. the Rev. 1. E. Currio and M-s.
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    S'PORE STRIKERS' SECOND RETURN
    59 3 Forty-two workers at the Kong Guan Biscuit Factory, who have staged two strikes within the last fortnight, are reported to have returned to work. T\ men struck work on the 12th, retained to work two days later, worked for five days and I struck again on
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    PEACEFUL NEGRI SEMBILAN
    260 3 From Our Own Correspondml SEREMBAN, Thursday. THE Resident Commissioner of Negri Sembilan, Mr. W. A. Gordon-Hall, yesterd iy described Negri Sembilan as "perhaps the most peaceful and con en ed state m Malaya." He was giving a farewell mes-j gfge before h's departure on five months' home
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
    65 4 The 0.C., members of No. 8 (Chin?se> Platoon. B Coy., Ist. (Pk) 80, FMSVF.. and bsreaved families t.«>nk all those who attended, rendered assistance at, sent wreaths, messages oi condolence lent cars for the military luneial of Lt. A. Crosbie-Hill, Cpl. Chan Kam Weng, Cpl. Ong Kirn Sai, tag
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Friday, June 27. 1947. "Synthetic Be Damned"
    965 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Friday, June 27. 1947. "Synthetic Be Damned" One of those admirable fulllength studies of American busiI n:ss and industry m which Fortune magazine specia.Lses was i devoted m a recent issue to the present position of synthetic m relation to natural ruDber, and i a condensation
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    DIVISION BILL IN JULY
    220 4 LONDON, Thursday. rpHE British Government will present the bill which is to create the Dominions of Hindustan and Pakistan to Parliament on Monday, July 7. This date Is subject to last-minute alteration, but on the assumption that plans go according to schedule, it Is probable that
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    Field-Marshal Montgomery
    1268 4  -  SIR JAMES GRIGG By TIE RIGHT HON. (Secretary of State for War, 1942—45) CIELD-Marshal Montgomery arrived in Singapore 1 yesterday afternoon. The most outstanding of British Generals in the last War, and now Chief of the rtzr.perial Genera] Staff, he is the man who earned one of the
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  • MAN IN THE STREET
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      "Eviction Bill" For The Landlords
      511 4 IT seem* rusher suange thai a Bill which is intend. ci to give landlords so much power to increase rents and| to evict tenants should be: known as Conlrol of Renl i 8.11. Should it not be rightly! termed "The Increa-e of Rent and Eviction
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      Right To Tarn Out A Tenant
      39 4 HERMIT me to express ap-j I preciat'on of your eiito-| lial on the Rent Control Bill; which provides for a twenty! per cent increase m rents and' gives the property owner new 1
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      Two Chinese Women Shock Womanhood
      146 4 AS a woman, I cannot help but be deeply shocked by the sentiment expressed by two of my Chinese sisters m going to see with their own eyes vengeance dona to those who are, perhaps indirectly responsible for 'the killing of their menfolk. I fully
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    JOHORE ROYALTY AMONG INJURED
    569 5 JOHORE ROYALTY AMONG INJURED Police Working On New Theories From Our Ovrn Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thursday. THREE members of the royal house of Johore were «f among the victims of the mail train crash on Tuesday night. All three are lying injured in the general hospital at Johore Bahru but
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    57 5 The Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery, meets an Army officer on his arrival at Changi airport. Singapore, yesterday. On the left of the picture is the Commaader-in-Chief, Sonth-East Asia Land Forces. Gen. Sir Neil RKchie. Lord Montgomery will be ILs guest of Gen. Ritchie during his
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    Court Quashes Nine Death Sentences
    300 5 From Our Own Corresi*)ndent IPOH, Thursday. EIGHTEEN elderly Chinese under sentence of death 1 for their part m the "Bekor massacre" of Malays m March last year, today heard the Chief Justice, Sir H. C. Willan, quash the sentence on nine of their number. The
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    SOCIAL WELFARE CONFERENCE
    91 5 Speaking at the East-West Society, last night, Mr. T. E. Hughes D?puty Secretary of the Social" Welfare Department, disclosed that a social welfare conference was being planned to be held m Singapore by Lord KilJ).rn In August this year to which all countries m South-East Asia would
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    GENT DUE IN S'PORE TODAY
    223 5 GENT DUE IN S'PORE TODAY i From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. rtE Governor of the Malayan Union, accompanied by iLady Gent, Miss Ann G.^nt, i Mr. J. Innes Miller, acting Chief Secretary, Malayan Union, and Mrs. Miller, Mr. R. B. Heasman, Income Tax Investigator, Mr. Goode, Private Secretary
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    CIGARETTE PRICE SCHEME
    186 5 CIGARETTE PRICE SCHEME From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, ThUTS. MALAYAN Union cigarette I'l importers have put forward for the consideration of the Price Controller a schedule of new cigarette prices which will not come into effect, however, until formally ga?e:ted. The increased suggested is five c^tts on every packet
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    Inquiry On Disaster
    227 5 t'rom Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. »N official inquiry ia to te held into the cause of the railway d saster wh eh tccurlei at Bukit Tengah station, Province Wer.esley, o n May 21, when 11 pe*bp!e were killed. The Chief Secretary has ordered this inquiry
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      S'pore Filipinos To Celebrate
      899 5 PLIPINOS in Singapore are looking forward to celebrating on a frrand scale, the first anniversary of the Republic of the Philippines, which will fall on Friday, July 4. The programme will be: A thanksgiving higih mass to b? held at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd
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    SILENT MAN SPEAKS AT LAST
    174 5 A MAN who was known to the police and mental hospital .staff as the unknown, Chinese" because he would not give his name appeared m the Seccnd Police Court yesterday on two charges of murder and attempted murder. His case is to go before the
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    Bashings In Gaol Alleged
    260 5 TWO young rubber workers 1 who allegedly helped to batter a workmate to d >ath las. we.k cjmplained to the magistrate m the Fourth Singapore Pol cc Court yesterday that gangster cell-irnUs were bashing them m gftoL Tlia younger of the two, 20-year-cld Siu Yue Ming,
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    Singapore Shipping
    93 5 SHIPS alonjside the Sinsapare wharves yesterday (god owns m brackets) were: MAIN WHARF: Lorentz (31-32;, Gleniffer (33-34), Radja (36), Stentor (38-39), Sumpitan (40). Rimau (41). Samclevs (42-43). WEST WHARF: Agamemnon (1-2). Telemachus (4 J 5). Sommelsdij*£ (3-7), Simon Steven (12-13), Bruas (15), Bentong (16). EMPIRE DOCKS: James McCosh
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    STUDENT RETURNS
    45 5 From Cnr Own Correspondent Alor Star. Thursday.— Che Johari bin Mohamed Daud. Kedafc student who just returned from England, is leaving shortly for Kuala Lumpur to join the Veterinary Department Che Johari went to England m 1938 and studied at Glasgow and Edinbrj^h.
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      52 5 Displayed on First Floor CARPETS Indian Mirzapur Bokhara all sizes from 3' x 6* to 12* x 15' Floor Rugs all sizes. Bath Mats Sheepskin Rugs. LINOLEUM Nairns Cork Lino Greenwich Lino Plain Brown Jasper Parquet Designs. COIR MATTING Fancy Plain 36" Wide. Price*- of all goods plainly marked I
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    SOLDIER ACCUSED OF THEFT
    346 6 SOLDIER ACCUSED OF THEFT A SOLDIER told a Singapore court martial yesterday that he overheard a conversation which sounded suspicious to him. He was Sgt. R. Fishwick, R A 0.C., who was giving evidence m a case m which an Anglo-Bur-mese soldier, W. 0.1. (Conductor) CW. Blnny, R. A. O.
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    M.P.'s QUERY ON S'PORE HOUSING
    126 6 M.P.'s QUERY ON S'PORE HOUSING LONDON, .Thursday. REFERRING to the housing shortage m Singapore hi tli Commons yesterday, Mr Walter Fle'.cher, Conservative asked when the Cathay and other buildings occupied by Spe;ial Commissioner for South-Eas Asia, Lord K:l learn, and his staff were like- j ly t3 be released to
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    TODDY SHOPS
    42 6 Fr:m Our Ov.n Correspondent. SFGAMAT* Thursday. The. closing down of all Government toddy shops m the District was discussed at a meeting of the Segamat Licensing B:ard and it was decided to take up the matter again within thioe months.
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    50 6 A bi? gathering of Sinsaoo citizens attended a preview of the technicolor film "The Jolson Story" at the Capitol last week. In this group are (left to risht) Mr. P. S. Chia (Shaw Bros.). Mr. Nonce Sen, Mr. Runme Shaw, a guest, and Mrs. Runme Shaw.— a. Straits Tim?s picture.
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    Soldiers Fight Over Ronggeng Girl
    232 6 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Thursday. POUR locally recruited members of the Royal Army Service 1 Corps, Glugor, heard their commanding officer testify en their behalf in a case in which they were convicted of fighting together over a rongjjeng girl. The commanding officer, Major
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    WELFARE WEEK IN NEGRI
    237 6 WELFARE WEEK IN NEGRI From Our Own Cone=pondent SEREMBAN, Thursday. A PROGRAMME of sporting and social activities has lx n i-rranged to help ra;s. 1 lunds m connection with Negri Sembilan's Welfare Week, which will te held from July 6 to July 18. The sum of $60,000 is aimed at
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    SAMSU CHARGE
    44 6 Frcir Our Ov.n Correspondent SEGAMAT, Thursday.— Bail m C.1.000 with two sureties was oifered Tan Lai. a 23-year-old Chircce woman of Kamoong Java, charged before Che Hamid bn Mustapha m the District Court with possession cf a large quantity of illicit samsu.
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      680 6 RADIO MALAYA tMaSSL? *tSST RADIO SEAC Favourites. 9.15 News in Tamil; 9.30 nlomlm SinfiraDOre Hindustani Songs; 9.45 Tamil Film OUlgdpure i lO()o T ]k <worid Affairs (Bands: Bto 11.30 am.-19 &49 [Bands: Blue and Red Networks: 10.15 Malayalam Film Hits' 10.30 metr<i ll so t0 noon 1» metre; noon Noon
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    LONDON STOCKS
    485 7 LONDON, Wednesday. OB the London Stock Exchange today oils again provided a feature on an otherwise quiet and dull session, writes Router's financial correspondent. The tumorer m oils was quite considerable with AngloIranians and Burmans again featured and further evidence switching from Shells Into those issues. The fuel
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    Sago Flour Up By 25 Cents
    391 7 Produce Market From A Market Correspondent KEEN buying from Bombay sent up the price of sago floor m the Singapore produce market yesterday by 25 cents a picul. Prices rose on the news that a ship expected to carry the commodity would leave Singapore
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    RUBBER
    62 7 The Singapore Chamber ol Commerce Rubber Associations prices at noon yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Cts. Ctc. per lb. per lb. No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose 24 24 K Ho. 1 R.S.S. fob In bales July 24% 25 Vi No. 2 R.S.6. fob in bales July 24% M% No. 3
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    NEW YORK STOCKS
    45 7 NEW YORK, Thursday.—lnitial depression was soon overwhelmed by a rally which broupht gains to one point. Advances were well maintained, despite slackening of buying, and profittaking m some Issues towards the close did not affect the general tone, which was firm. Reuter.
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    MEXICO STOPS GOLD SALES
    120 7 MEXICO CITY. Thursday.— Mexico a member of the International Monetary Fund, crorr.ptlv suspended gold coin sales on Tuesday when officials asked for such action to halt gold and money speculation, especially m Asia. The Ban!: of Mexico continued shipments of (fold to the PortuKU?se and Argentine
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    U.S. FUTURES
    41 7 NEW YORK. ThursdayCrude rubber future, yesterday closed unchanged to 29 poirts lower. Sales totalled 87 contracts. September 13.50 cents OJ.S.) December 13.35 cents (U.S i and March 13.20 certs (U.S.) No. 1 ribbed smoked sheets 14 nominal, j A.P
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    CHEMICAL MARKET
    48 7 NEW VC- I -sair Sulphur b.r once *lc today but i s:tn? j reports of incrc_ in- quiries for dvestufT were available much under c;j :~i ns a fco- m Tilths apo. Sulphur brack \;::ich one brought USSI.7S to $1.85 recently trade et $45.60 a pound.
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    Small-Scale Turnover
    277 7 Share Market By Our Market Correspondent Singapore, Thursday. •pHK share market continued lifeless with turnover on an extremely small scale. Among industrials Fraser and Neave had buyers at $3.50, sellers asking $3.60. Gammons were $5.80-55.90 and Henry Waughs $19.25-$19.50, while Breweries were wanted at 523. Malayan Collieries were
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    AID PLEDGE BY WORLD BANK
    87 7 QUEBEC, Thursday— Mr. J. McCloy, president of the World Bank, had pledged the bank's 'full co-operation m any plan for economic revival that European countries may draft m response to Secretary of State Gen. Gearge C. Marshall's suggestion. Mr. McCloy said cne bank "is vitally
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    JAPAN TRADE DISAGREEMENT
    110 7 WASHINGTON. Thursday.— The number of traders which various nations will be permitted to send to Japan under the Auk. 15 decision Is unexpectedly proving a source of sharp disagreement among Pacific Allies. The Inter-Allied Trade Board. m a further lensrthv session, failed I to reach the anticipated
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    PRINCESS GUINEVERE FOR BIG RACE
    728 8 PRINCESS GUINEVERE FOR BIG RACE Track Pointers From Ipoh From Our Racing Correspondent IPOH, Thursday. TRAINER van Breukelen's horses are in splendid shape, the most impressive this morning being Princess Guinevere, Virtuoso, Double Five, Lynchburg, Prince Avon and King Arthur. The fastest gallop today was done by Pathfinder, who clocked
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    Eearly Ipoh Selections
    96 8 I!.. CL 1. Div. I, 6 F.— Princess Guinevere. Win The Peace. 11.. CL 1, Div. 2. 6 F.—Lynchhur;. Kin;; Arthur. 11.. CL 1. Div. 3, 6 F.— Grand Pri 11. Lenient. H.. (1. 1, Div. 4. 6 F.— Gay A:^ie. Swrinj Fever. H.. CL 2, Div.
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    FONG TO MAKE NEW BID
    127 8 I ::i Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Thursday. P Bang's new swimming star, i Yok'-', will sw:m his race on Sunday when he mx :thsr Chinese Swim- Club cra< ks over th? 400 yle. will be Pong's first race ov r this distance. Fong clock?i 25
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    KUALA PAYA WIN
    59 8 Imm Our Own C'orre^pondrnt SEOAMAT, Thursday —Kuala Paya ■nod Gemns to win 7-1 in the Pegeera'an soccer knock-out competition for the Abdul Ra'iman Shield on the Town P.idantc yesterday. The match m a replay, the two teams having drawn one-all in tlvir first match despite extra t*ne.
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    33 8 TAiIMNG. Thursday.— Th' Anderson School. Ipoh. and Kins Edward 7th School, Tr.ipiiiK. the best cricketing In Perak, will ch.sh here on Sunday. Both schools liave scored excellent victories over club and district Icams
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    Tomorrow's Card
    1240 8 UIELDS for tomorrow's races at Ipoh are set out below: HORSES— CLASS I— DIV. I—6 FURS. 1 2 3 D.R.B. 10.05 Capt. Lindsay Vtars van Breukelen 113 WIN THE PEACE 9.11 "Lucky Syndicate" Marland 0 0 1 COURTENAY 9. 08 Mr. S C. Wong and "Madam Chen" van
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    COLLEGE TEAM BEATEN
    96 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Thursday. The English College were defeated by the Persatuan Melayu XI at cricket by 14 runs m a Ine innings match played today. Batting first, the College were dismissed for 99, of which R. Jay Isingam contributed 44, his score including 7 fours. The only
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    Keep Your Eye On.....
    185 8 Keep Your Eye On..... PRINCESS GriNEVERR— Ran good second to Win The Peace over five and a half m Kuala Lumpur. Coming on. WIN THE PEACE— Won easily! over five and a half and just failed over the distance with a killing weight m Kuala Lumpur. In top condition. KING
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    Sporting Details
    409 8 Cricket Tomorrow The following are invited to play cricket for the Hospital As- sitants' and Dressers' Association c^ainit Medical College on Medical College ground at 2 p.m. tomorrow. Ram Sinui: R.V.S. Sundram, K. Vythilingam. Sebastian John, A. Shegaran, Swee Lim Swang. A. Mallique, Sim Teng Pheng, I. Nadarajah.
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    SAYAJIRAO WINS IRISH DERBY
    54 8 CURRAGH. Thursday.— The Gaekwar of Baroda's Sayajlrao. third m the English Derby, won the Irish EVrby yesterday Grand Weather was second a length and half behind and the French horse, Esprit de Franre, was third. The time for a mile and hall was two minutes 41
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    SEGAMAT CRICKET
    58 8 SEGAMAT. Thursday.— The following is the Segamat Cricket Club team to meet the Malacca Hilarians on the Seeamat town padang on Sunday at 11 a.m.: P. Nagcsu (capt.). H.R.J. Lockhart. C.S.K. Bovell, V. G. Mabin, W. Fox, W. D Costa, J. M. Singh, Othman Kadir, Hashim Tahir, Wan
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    28 8 INTO THE BASKET— An exciting moment in the Manila Chinese-Penan? Chinese basketball match at the Happy World. Singapore, on Wednesday night The tourists won 51-38— Straits Times Photo.
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    Air Force Side Beats Chinese
    343 8 THE Royal Air Force very nearly dujiiicaicd their first round victory over the Chinese Sen'ors when they beat them 6—l6 1 at Ja!an Besar Stadium yesterday m the second match. While the Chinese were unfortunate m that thsy hud to play with three injured men
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    Petra Beats Indian
    147 8 WKvIELEDON. In the t^ira 1 rtind cf the mens s;::gle.s. Yvon Petra, Fren.-rt hcld^r cf th lltlo, ci- l.ated Diiivj Boo.; o: India 6—3.6 3. 6—4, 6—3.6 3. Dilip Bose put up a dean cn.sp gams against the vi-» six-inch French loider of the title and the
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