The Straits Times, 29 June 1947

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    20 1 FINAL EDITIOM THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NETT SALE IN MALAYA No. 622. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    UPAM: RUBBER BAN MUST GO
    481 1 UPAM: RUBBER BAN MUST GO Urges London pressure on US Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE United Planting Association of Malaya has 1 telegraphed the Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Edward Gent, pressing him to cable the Briti Government immediately to urge aw application to the United
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    41 1 Ti IBS Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Field Marshal Viscount 1 Montgomery, entering the Victoria Memorial Hall. Singapore, i day. to address assembled Army officer^. Viscount Montgomery dined last night with the Governor-General, Mr. Mac Donald, and Mrs. Mac Donald.
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    one point remains in cinema dispute
    366 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter K S.F.T.U. is arbitrating, in conjunction with the Singa 1 pore Labour Department, in fhe dispute between Singapore cinema workers and their employees. After a meeting on Friday only one point at dispute remained unsettled the question of the cost
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    CHINESE AND WIFE MURDERED
    45 1 Sunday Times Correspondent. TELUK ANSON, Saturday. A brutal murder of a Chinese shopkeeper amd his wife is reported from Parit Bahru, near the village of Sungei Ayer Tawar, close to the mouth of the Bernam River. Both had received bullets wounds.
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    AWARDED M.B.E.
    29 1 AWARDED M.B.E. MOHD. ZIN BIN HCSSAIN, formerly of the R N V.lt who has been awarded the M.B.E. for distinguished services behind the Japanese lines in Malaya in 1945.
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    US offers money help if N.E.I. keeps peace
    281 1 BATAVIA, Saturday. rD United States State Department requested the Republic of Indonesia today to "co-operate without delay in the immediate formation" of an interim Federal Government, and promised financial aid w' en that Government is established. There is conclusive evidence, writes Leif
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    COMFORT FOR MONTY
    86 1 ARMY officers in Singapore have borrowed a theatre seat to mount on the deck of an Army launch in which Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery will cruise in Singapore Harbour today. Lord Montgomery will attend a church service this morning and will leave Jardine Steps at 11 a.m.
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    FOUR KILLED IN INDIA RIOTS
    123 1 CALCUTTA, Saturday. Four people were killed and 12 injured here today in new disturbances between Hindus and Muslims, mostly in the central area of Calcutta, in which bombs were thrown and rifles and other weapons fired. The disturbances occurred in spite of curfews covering a
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    OVERSEAS POSTS CANCELLED
    26 1 LONDON, Saturday. Pending the division of India into Hindustan and Pakistan, all overseas appointments have been cancelled by the Government of India. Reuter.
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    NEW, BETTER ATOM BOMBS
    51 1 CHICAGO, Saturday. Tne United States now has stocks of "new and improved atom bombs large enough, according to usually conservative sources, to destroy every large city on earth," according to Dr. Robert Hutchins, Chancellor of Chicago University, where the first atom bomb experiments were carried out.
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    DAKOTAS TO'MAKE RAIN'
    38 1 MELBOURNE, Saturday. "Rain-making" by spraying clouds with a secret liquid from a Dakota plane is to be tried soon by the Royal Australian Air Force in collaboration with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
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    RIGHTIST COUP IN KOREA IS FOILED
    227 1 TOKIO, Saturday. A right-wing attempt to take over the Government of Korea was thwarted recently by the United States Military Government, General Mac Arthur announced late tonight. Reporting on activities on the American occupation zone of Korea for March, General MacArthur said the forme
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    GOV-GEN SAYS BRUNEI WON'T BE ANNEXED
    394 1 GOV-GEN SAYS BRUNEI WON'T BE ANNEXED AN emphatic denial that the British Government intended to annexe the Sultanate of Brunei, in North iiorneo, was made by the Governor General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, to the Sunday Times, last night. Mr. Mac Donald made the denial a few hours after Mr.
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    U.S. EXPECTING RENEWAL OF GANG rIGHTS
    171 1 NEW YORK. Saturday. TNITED STATES police investig\J ating the murder of a gangster, Benjamin (Bugsy) Seigel in Beverley Hills, California, believe his death may be the sign for renewed gang warfare on a scale unprecedented since Al Capone became king of the underground in
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    LORRIES IN HEAD-ON CRASH IN JOHORE
    73 1 Sunday Times Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Saturday. TWO Chinese were injured this morning when a naval lorry coming to Johore Bahru from Scudai was in head-on collision with a civilian lorry conveying Chinese liquor. Both drivers were unhurt. The injured Chinese were seated on top
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    POLICE BAND TO PLAY TODAY
    29 1 The Singapore Police Band, conductel by Mr J. C. Hitch, will play at the Happy World Stadium from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. today.
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    ATTACK VICTIM DES
    59 1 LONDON. Saturday.— Miss Ingrid Peterson. 21-year-old Danish girl who had been unconscious in hospital since June 18. when she was attacked by a person who also stole £150 worth of property from her. died in hospital today. Since the attack, intensive inquiries have been made by the
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    POLICE SEIZE DOLLARS
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    SPOTLIGHT on MALAYANS
    1162 2 SPOTLIGHT on MALA YANS Clifford Peer Turns His FOR Inche MAAROF BIN HAJI ZAOHARIAH, Se 1 a ngor lawyer and retired magistrate, Malaya's first Malay National Bunk is a dream come true. He dreamed of it more than twenty years ago when, as a student preparing at the Malay College,
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    COOP SPORTS GOOD RESULTS
    152 3 Sunday Timer Staff Reporter. 1 help more efficient managent Cf the Singapore Co.. t ..l:vc Society, 25 amendments d to tighten the society's b- law* were n.issed at the first half-yearly meeting yesterday. meeting, which was held hi society'! shop premises in North R-ad. clu-led a
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    44 3 ..i iea cauiam who was 1>;. :.:>: .1 HO times in 21 days during the United States landin t at Levte is in Singaoore. -Ie is 51-.vc-:ir-old Cant. 11. E. Ruy tenschildt, master of the s.iip tCadja, who -commanded a trooper on the Pacific campaign.
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    MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AT STAKE
    612 3 Ship's race to heat cargo ban Sunday Times Staff Reporter MILLIONS of dollars depend on the arrival of the SJ3. Ozarda in Singapore Harbour before midnight tomorrow. She was originally expected to arrive yesterday, but on her trip from Japan she was caught in the
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    49 3 THE wedding took place last Wednesday at the Presbyterian Church. Singapore, between Mr. W. C. Bainbridge, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bainbridge of Rotlmfy, Isle of Bute and Miss Margaret Wright, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Wright of .Glasgow. The honeymoon is being spent in Fraser's Hill.
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    2,090 SAGO MEN MAY STRIKE
    67 3 Sunday Times Correspondent Penanc, Saturday. A proposal by vi-> mills to cut down wages by 50 per cent may lead to a strike by 2.000 sato workers in North Malaya. The mills gave notice of the proposed reduction two weeks ago. but negotiations have so
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    $1,000,000 SHOW AT HAPPY WORLD PARK
    78 3 ly Ti^?! StaT Reporter POODS worth over $1,000,000 U nre to be displayed in the Trade Exhibition at t*e Singa- 1 prre I^appy World, which will: take pbee from Aug. 1 to 17. The goods will range from, motor cars, bicycles, furniture and radios
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    B.O. R. GETS 6 MONTHS ON CIGARETTES CHARGE
    104 3 -j-.i-j./ li.aea Staff Reporter Rustage, a 8.0. R. of V/ No. 61 Coy. G.T.. R.A.S.C. was sentenced to six months' rigorous imprisonment in the Singapore District Court yesterday when he wps convict*.^ on a charge of criminal breach of trust of 58
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    2 out of 4 pass medical final
    1192 3 2 out of 4 pass medical final Sunday Times Staff Reporter FWO of four students who sat for their graduating medical 1 i ami nation at the King Edward VII College of Medicine, Singapore, were successful and will be awarded their diploma in medicine and surgery qualifying them to practise.
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    BENNY COURT-MARTIAL IS CONCLUDED
    167 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. THF trial by a Singapore court martial of. Warrant Officer Class 1 (Conductor) C. W. Binny, an Anglo-Burmese soldier attached to the R.A.O.C. on a charge of theft of £60 barrack blankets 500 bush shirts and 500 pairs of trousers, concluded at
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    NEW FEATURE FOR RADIO MALAYA
    401 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter RADIO MALAYA next Saturday night will launch a ne* feature which the Director of Broadcasting, Mr. John Dumeresque, says will be the most ambitious yet." It will be called Radio Roundabout, and will incorporate musical and dramatical items designed for all
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    EX-MALAYA CUP PLAYER & WIFE DIE IN CRASH
    178 3 EX-MALAYA CUP PLAYER WIFE DIE IN CRASH Sunday Times Staff Correspondent. JOHORE BAHRU, Saturday. CHE Yahaya bin Kechut, former Johore Malaya Cup soccer player, and his wife, Khatijah binte Mahmod, were knocked down by a truck belonging to the Field Security Service and killed outright last night while walking along
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    OPIUM EQUIPMENT IS SEDED IN RAID
    101 3 OPIUM EQUIPMENT IS SEDED IN RAID Sunday limes Staff Reporter There was a huge collection of opium-smoking equipment in the Singapore First District Court yesterday when 10 Chinese pleaded guilty tc possessing the equipment and were fined amounts ranging from $60 to $2,000. Tho nms totalled $7,000. An assortment of
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    FAIR SHARE CRY NOW
    976 4 The Australian Scene by Bob Gilmore MELBOURNE, June 18. fENERAL MacArthur could not have thought of any more effective way of making touchy Australia eager to trade with Japan than discriminating (probably only feigning to discriminate) against Australia in allotting buyers' entry permits. Thre2 months ago,
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    INDIAN LOVE IDYLL
    641 4 ihiitl^dWtTJ THE WIND CANNOT READ" is a remarkably sensitive piece of writing and a most charming novel. The story is quite simple. A young officer (the "I" of the story) is learning Japanese in India in preparation for work in Burma. One of the instructors is a
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    SCHOOL FOR CUTTLEFISH
    552 4  -  J.Z. Young By Prof. Of London University INTEREST has been 1 aroused by my proposal to make a special study of the learning power of the octopus. It may seem ridiculous to try to teach anything to such strange creatures, but the ideas is part of a
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    SLAVE TRADE
    78 4 THE long dormant slave trade from Africa across the Red Sea into Arabia has taken a fresh lease on life Reporting that the revived traffic in young Negro men and women was due to a relaxing of British naval patrols in the Red Sea. a Swiss newspaper says
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    RAIL THIEVES NOW TRY SABOTAGE
    521 5 RAIL THIEVES NOW TRY SABOTAGE Police steps cut losses Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. TAMPERING with lines and signalling apparatus along the Malayan Railway system is believed to be the latest stage in the attempted assaults on goods trains by looters who have not had good pickings in
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    S'pore puzzle
    189 5 A 12 -FOOT rust-coated anchor, weighing two to three tons, which wi° "picked up" in the channel belv.«tu Pulau Brani aid Blakan Mati several years ago, is puzzling Museum authorities in Singapore. It has been lying in a small shed behind Raffles Museum since May, 1940, and has
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    BUSINESSMAN HELD AFTER OPIUM RAID
    84 5 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANO, Saturday. A prominent Sungel Patani businessman was detained by customs officers yesterday, following a big chandu raid In which more than 600 tubes of opium were seized. Led by the Assistant Superintendent of Customs, the raiding party conducted two-hour search on
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    CHANCED JOBS
    44 5 Sunday lime s Correspondent KUANTAN, Saf— Raja Mahmud. of the Department of Agriculture, Seremban, has assumed the duties of Agricultural Officer, Pahang East, in place of Mr. D. Gord ,n- Jones, who has gone to Seremban as State Agricultural Officer. Negri Scmbilan.
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    LORRY DRIVERS MAKE PROTEST
    120 5 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. MORE than 160 lorry drivers plying along the Penang water front have appealed against the rejection of their vehicles as "decrepit and unsuitable for the public roads." Of 30 vehicles only two passed a recant teit. and the drivers through their
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    RAT CATCHING SAVES LIVES
    333 5 RATS are trapped in Singapore nearly every day and put to a painless death in a gas chamber but not for the purpose of making rat's soup or otherwise to be served up as minnvrl rahhit or chicken, as some Chinatown stalls are suspected of doing.
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    Ipoh makes limbs for legless
    307 5 Ipoh makes limbs for legless Sunday Times Staff Correspondent. IPOH, Saturday. AN artificial limb, light in weight, and suitable in every other way, made locally from materials readily available, has now reached the stage of production as the result of experiments carried out by the staff of the District Hospital,
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    ST.ANDREWS SOCIETY
    113 5 At the annual general meeting of Singapore St. Andrew's Society held recently, the following office bearers were elected for the current year: Chieftain: Mr. C F. Smith, vicechieftain: Mr. A. A. Ewing, Committee M.muei^: Mr. A. R. c'nmeron.Mr.A. M. Dick, Mr. G. Edmond, Revd. R. M. Greer, Mr.
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    SCHOOL EXHIBITION
    82 5 Sunday Times Correspondent KUANTAN, Saturday. MODELS of Malay houses, sailing boats, and aeroplanes as well as embroidery and bamboo fish traps were among the exhibits at the annual handiwork exhibition of the Combined Malay School, Kuantan, last Saturday. Boys exhibits were Judged by Mr. de Crespigny and Mr.
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    RUBBER
    59 5 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's prices at noon yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Cls. Cta. per lb. per lb. No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose 25% 25% No. 1 .R.S.S. fob In bales July 264 26 No. 2 RS.S.S. fob In bales July 25% 25 No. 3 R.S.B. fob
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    MALACCA WILL SOON BE UNVEILED
    251 5 Sunday Times Correspondent MALACCA. Saturday. A $13,000 memorial which bears the engraving of four characters of dedication written by President Chiang Kai-shek himself, will shortly be unveiled In Malacca In honour of over 600 Chinese victims of Japanese massacre In the settlement. Construction of the
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    THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE, JUNE 29, 1947. A PART TRUTH
    681 6 THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE, JUNE 29, 1947. A PART TRUTH NEWCOMERS to Malaya always have it dinned into them on arrival that they have reached a country with no artistic soul, where money-grubbing is the only thought and wordly success the only topic of conversation except among women, who talk
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    Weather men back at work in Malaya
    1166 6  - Weather men back at work in Malaya J.M. TAYLOR by k GROUP of skilled men in a room on the top floor of the Fullerlon Building, Singapore, is working on the preparation of a publication which will be a milestone in the story cf the post-war reconstruction of Malaya. The
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    ATOM-SECRET ON MOUNTAIN-TOP
    693 6  -  JOHN FROM time to time recently Nature has published letters from Briii?h scientists accompanied by photographs that look like a few scratches on a dirty window pane. Now the correspondence' columns of Nature are the place where first hints of great discoveries have often appeared, so you
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      20 6 Each month will bring increased supplies. Producers Son Plantations Ltd Distributors Harper Gilfillan Co.. Ltd. Kuala Lumpur Branches throughout Malaya.
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    PROPOSED RENT INCREASE WONT DO'
    331 7 PROPOSED RENT INCREASE WON T DO' Spore landlord explains why Sunday Times Staff Reporter CINGAPORE landlords are* just as dissatisfied with the proposed 20 per cent, increase in rentals as the man-in-the-street. Mr. S. M. Alkafif, a leading landlord in Singapore, told the Sunday Times that landlords in general would
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    ROUND THE TABLE
    94 7 The Governors of British territories in South-east Asia in conference in Singapore. This Public Relations picture, taken at Fridays meeting, shows (left to right): the Governor of British North Borneo, Mr. E. F. Twining; the Governor of Sarawak, Sir Charles Arden Clarke; the acting Secretary General to
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    Malaya has first air hostess
    318 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter rE distinction of being Malaya's first air hostess has fallen to a Singapore Eurasian girl. She is young, attractive Eileen Rodrigues who will shortly look after the cdmfort of all air passengers travelling by Malayan Airways planes. Miss Rodrigues' appointment marks
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    1947 QUEEN'S SCHOLARSHIPS
    137 7 Sunday Times Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. APPLICATIONS for the 1947 n awards of Malayan Union Queen's Scholarships and the Fellowship must reach the Director of Education, P.O. Box 444 Kuala Lumpur, not later than July 7 on special application forms which are obtainable from all local Education
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    SLIGHT RISE IN RUBBER PRICE
    92 7 Rubber prices showed a slight' increase at close of business yesterday, wher No. 1 ribbed smoked sheet f.o.b. was reported steady ai 26 V 2 cents pc»- lb., buyers and 26 3 4 cents, sellers. Tht spot loose prices were buyers, 25 2 cents and
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    JAP WORK ON SPORE PIER TO BE MOVED
    271 7 CLIFFORD PIER, Singapore, is to be rid of the wooden 1/ landing built by the Japanese i n 1944. To clear away the 300 feet by 30 feet of the temporary structure, which is constituting a danger to the boats using the
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    LUCKY TO SURVIVE'
    238 7 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent. KNAMG, Saturday. DESCRIBED as a "rare medical case." an 11-year-old Chinese girl who had started to walk only when sh? was seven was brought in a wheelchair before a meeting yesterday evening of the Northern Division of the British Medical Association of Malaya.
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    CHILD'S FATAL FALL INTO OPEN PIT
    125 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. THE theory that two-year-old Heather Gay Lees, daughter of Squadron Leader and Mrs. W. G. Lees, of Pasir Panjang Hill, Singapore,*slipptd and fell into an open pit in the compound of an adjoining house was put forward by the investigating
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    LEGAL EXAMS IN MALAYA
    93 7 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPbrt, Saturday. THE Michaelmas Bar Examination will again be held at Kuala Lumpur only from Sept. 22 to Sept. 26. Candidates who wish to enter for these examinations chould write immediately by air mail to the Secretary, Council of Lesal Education,
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    NEW J.P's AS GUESTS OF HONOUR
    84 7 Sunday Times Correspondent. PENANG, Saturday. Four of Penasg's new Justices of the Peace were guests of honour at two functions hdd last evening. At the Anglo-Chinese School Union a tea party was held in honour of three members, Tan Hock Aun, Kee Hup Kirn
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    ROBBED OF $2,100 AFTER BANK VISIT
    289 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. TWO armed Chinese robbed a Chinese visitor from the Malayan Union of $2,100 at Moulm*ii Road, Singapore, on Friday afternoon a few hours after he had drawn the money from a bank. Ttje robbers boarded the same '.axi as the
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    MAJOR ADVANCE IN LABOUR RELATIONS
    274 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PIE advent of the works committee in Singapore is hailed! in Government and responsible union circles as a major progressive development in the post-war field of labourmanagement relations. A works committee is a standing body of representatives of an employer and
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    MDU CONDEMNS CITY COUNCIL'S BAN ON PRESS
    147 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. pRITICISM of the majority de- cision on Friday of Si^apore Municpal Commissioners to debate in private the future constitution of the Municipal Commission was expressed by the Malayan Democratic Union to the Sunday Times yesterday. Th 3 Secretary of
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    ROBBERY BID ALLEGED
    37 7 Tan Tim Kow, appeared in the] Singapore Second Police Court; yesterday on a charge of attempted robbery of $lou zt Clyde Terrace on Friday. The case mtm postponed to July 7 lor mention, i
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    WINNING CONTRAT BRIDGE
    392 8  - WINNING CONTRAT BRIDGE The Joker mn ONE of the oldest and most abused of bridge maxims is "Lead through strength and up to weakness". Not that this adage Is wrong; it Is Just terribly overworked by unimaginative players who show little or no discrimination. Sticking stubbornly to the theory, "Lead
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    PRISONER ESCAPED
    80 8 1 PRISONER was in a durgeon sixty feet above ground. HYiends managed to smi ggle him a rope, but when he first attempted to use it, he found it was only 30 feet long. So he divided it In half, tied the two ends together, and- let hin-setf
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    THISLL SHAKE YOU
    30 8 TEN Pa'.agouians met in PuraTuay and shook hands with each other. Therefore, how many handshakings were there in this effusive exchange of greetings? ■»aij-.lljjoj oj3a aoaiu, :j»asuv
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    What the Stars Foretell
    571 8  -  STELLA THIS WEEK FOR YOU 6Y CANCER (June 23- July 23).— Don't let disputes disrupt your calm at home or at the office. Stick close to routine and all should then move calmly. Make this a week of spiritual inspiration and relaxation. A new contact or
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      382 8 POPULAR PIANO ALRUMS John M. Williams Very Ist Piano Book $2.10 John M. Williams Ist Grade Piano Book 2.40 John M Williams 2nd Grade Piano Book 3.00 Chopin Polo naisir 1.80 Waltzes 1.80 Preludes 1.50 Nocturnes 2.40 Album of 27 pieces 3.40 Liss* Llebestraume T SO Rhapsodic Homrroise No. 2
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      393 8 Sunday Times Crossword across 7~~ ~7~ 'T""TbWM 6 I 7 I 8 9~" k>™ IT™" 1. Emblematic tree l__ "™~~~~B^ (5). 6. Bear wit- 12 ™"h3 ness (6K 12. Blun- L_^ Originated (5). 15. l^ Pleasant (4). 17. ~~n^T"Bps~ ~~R^~~"^^^M trances (5). 28 a ~~THI IO^I Adorned (9). 31. |b«^
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      431 8 Wvfij) O SMALL ADDS As usual, you start wltii a four-letter word which answers the first clue, and add one letter each time and rearrange in order to answer the subsequent clues. (a) Average. (4 letters.) (b) American State. (5 letters.) (c) Credulous and amphibious warrior. (6 letters (d) This
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    FASHION SECRET IS TO ADAPT
    678 9  -  JEAN GAYE By UOW do the changing fashions of Europe affect us in Singapore and Malaya? That we are interested there is no doubt .Vogue and Harper's sell as soon as they arrive in the shops and last Saturday I watched three Chinese girls thumbing
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    Technique of tree planting
    307 9 LAST week I suggested that some care should be exercised when transplanting, both from pots and trom nursery beds. I had in mind herbaceous plants *>r srrall shrubs for beds and borders, but after mentioning plants from nursery beds, I rather neglected them and confined my
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    Three Onion Dishes
    432 9 ONIONS are so useful as flavourings and in stews that one tends to forget how appetising onion dishes can be. Here are some recipes you will find popular for supper. CREAMED ONIONS Boil 3 or 4 big onions in salted water. Dry them. Put one ounce of
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    Ann Temple
    431 9 What are the thing? that girls dislike most in young men? UK AS a quick shot I should say: (1) Boasting. (2) Carelessness (and worse) about appearance. (3) Conceit— the sort that makes them think every girl is running after them. (4) Stinginess. (5) Being late or casual
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    CROSSWORD SOLUTION
    120 9 Across: 1, Maple. 6, Attest. 12. Error, 13 Pirate. 14. Arose. 15, Senator. 16, Nice. 17. Bed, 18. Pens. 19, Eve. 20, Pip. 22. Nee. 23, Reed. 25, Gates. 28, Decorated. 31. Natal. 32, Tips. 35. Ire. 38 Tea. 39, Lap. 40, Team. 42, Yes. 43. Fare. 44,
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    PRECIOUS STREAM PAYS $54
    2444 10 King Arthur Wins Sunday Times Racing Correspondent IPOH, Saturday. TRAINER van Breukelen had a good day at Ipoh 1 today, the first day of the Perak Turf Club's June-July meeting, saddling four winners Virtuoso, Double Nine, Precious Stream and King Arthur. Heavy rain fell after the
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    107 10 RACE 1 VIRTUOSO »1 A |7. Siickness |9. Bitter Sweet $I*. RACE 1 SIR FRESCO 99 A $7, The Raven $14. Harvest Moon $8. RACE 3 DOUBLE NINE $31 $1. Spring Fever $7. Blank Spec $10. RACE 4 AIR GEE $61 $14, Heroden $10. Tretes *8.
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      347 10 OVERSEAS LEAGUE OLD MEMBERS Please register your names etc PROSPECTIVE MEMBERS Write in for forms and particulars SOCIAL ACTIVITIES Offers and Suggestions Welcomed I ORGANISING SECRETARY, Singapore Branch, Overseas League, Sea View Hotel. BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, j 'None The Wofie For Wear../ Not quite so smar' to look at after nearly
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      273 10 Use MACLEANS and note the difference I Macleans Tooth Paste does supremely well, all that a good tooth paste should do. It cleans teeth thoroughly polishing them .to a natural white brilliance. Start using it to-day the difference will amaxe and delight you TO THE TEETH I Recommend these Wonderful
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    MALAYA CUP VETERANS
    527 11 To Meet Perak XI At Ipoh Today Sunday Times Staff Correspondent O iron. Saturday. STILL active on the football field, Perak "Malaya" Cup veterans recently threw out an open challenge to the best eleven the present-day players can field and, as a result, the Diehards Club has
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    BIG PENANG AQUATIC MEET TODAY
    352 11 BIG PENANG AQUATIC MEET TODAY Sunday Times Staff Correspondent PENANG. Saturday. r»HTKF intcresi in spans this weekv end will be centred on to-day's rvcr.U in the Chinese Swimming Club's first post-war annual swimming chamI onships which are being held at Tanjor.g Bungah. Fong Secw Yckc's brilliant performance in establishing a
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    All Blacks Had 165Ibs Of Steak For One Meal
    119 11 SYDNEY. Sat ST. George Rugby Union Club entertained the All Blacks Rugby Union team with a barbecue at Carie Beach south of Sydney last week. Here is the menu: 165 lb of steak. 300 dozen oysters; SO loaves of bread, and
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    K.L. TO HAVE 3 NEW SWIM POOLS
    673 11 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. PWIMMING will soon be the big sport in Kuala Lumpur if »J architects' plans, submitted for approval, are eventually converted into concrete and piping. No less than three proposed swimming pools, additional to those Kuala Lumpur
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    4-WICKET WIN FOR PL RAF
    181 11 R.A.F. (Paya Lebar) beat the Southeast Asia Secretariat by four wickets !in a cricket match played at Paya L<?bar yesterday. Scorers. S.E.A.S. Whitley run cut 0. Flint c Hill b i Wright 13. Robsf-n c Gray b Hill 10. JHcllier b Hasler 9. Atkinson b
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    51. ANDREW'S WIN BY 128 RUNS
    222 11 fiT. fi*. <•-. J Anthrny's B.ys School by 128 .uiu Ui m v,-- v. i a IV.. J~ :>;i\i fei.uad ThssOf D. Sullivan and R. Vay skittled cut St. Anthony's between them. I Cullivan taking seven wickets for 16 i runs and Tay capturing
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    Malayan Soccer Personalities
    92 11 roM.;»V\ IV.; tbe article in the Sunr day Times last week on Singapore's socrer giants of the past with particular reference to the career of the former Singapore captain, Koh Hor Khoon, there have been numerous requests frrm readers for more articles on Ma'ayan soccsr personalities. Beginning
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    BADMINTON CROWN MAY GO TO NEW PLAYER
    520 11 BADMINTON CROWN MAY GO TO NEW PLAYER By Our Badminton Correspondent. rj'HK stage is all set for the forth--1 coming Singapore badminton championships of 1947 for the men's iuniOi singles and doubles, veteran's ingles and doubles and wemen's singles and doubles. The draw takes place on July 5 and preliminaries
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    CHINESE MEET AT CRICKET
    22 12 The Singapore C'.R.C. and Selangor C.R.C. teams taking part in the annual cricket match at Hun' Lim Green.
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    MEDICOS BEAT DRESSERS
    117 12 THE Medical Collf ge Union defeated the Hospital Assistants' and Dressers' Association by 79 runs in cricket match played on the Medical College grounds yesterday. The Medicos batted first and scored 155, K. S. Remain contributing 19, Oh Cheng Seng 14. Harchan Singh 24, and Kuldip Singh
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    CABLE AND WIRELESS BEAT C.Y.M.A.
    78 12 Cable :i:jti Wir >«s beat the CV.M.A. by 41 runs in a game of cricket playeU at St. George's gi^und yesterday. Cable and Wiieless batted first for 112 runs. F. Noronha being highest scorer with a bright 44. The CV.M.A. replied with 71. G. Wocdfcrd
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    NAVY UP TO 2nd PLACE IN LEAGUE
    295 12 NAVY UP TO 2nd PLACE IN LEAGUE 2-1 v S.C.C. Royal Navy 2 S.C.C 1 THE Royal Navy are very much in the running for the S.A.F.A. League premiership as a result of beating the Singapore Cricket Club two-one at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Sixth in the table before the
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    COUNTY CRICKET
    77 12 LONDON. Saturday. Close of play scores were At Tonbridge Wells: Kent vs. Sussex. Kent 149, Sussex 105 for Islx. At Bath, Somerset vs. Worcestershire. Worcestershire 131 and 4 for 0. Somerset 113. At Birmingham; Warwicks vs. Northa. s. Northants. 80 and 49 1 for 2. \rwicks 123. j
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    BROMWICH IS BEATEN
    82 12 LONDON. Saturday. BUDGE PATTY of Los Angeles scored the biggest Ajpset of the Wimbledon tennis championships today by eliminating John Bromwich, second-seeded Australian veteran 6—4; o—6:0 6: 6 4: 6—4; I—6; 6—4. He will meet Drobny (Czechoslovakia) in the st^mi-nnals. Jack Kramer. 'United States) beat Johanssen of
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    DISTRICT DAWNS
    64 12 The following have been selected to represent the District Dawns in a friendly game of soccer against the Haikowyu Sports Club on the Fort Canning Ground today, kick-off at 5 p.m. Bewas, Lee Ah Chio, Wari, Isthrim, Talb, Riae, L. Mawi. Yap Kirn Kang fCapt.), Foong Weng Kee,
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    TODAY'S J.B. SOCCER
    22 12 rpHE Jollilads Athletic AssociaX tion will meet tjie Johore Bahru District Football Association at the Istana Padang this evening.
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    Good Scores By Chinese Batsmen
    377 12 A KINK fifth wicket partnership between Khoo Bin Keng and Loh Ah Lam which realised 105 runs put the Selangor Chinese Recreation Club in a strong position at the end of the first day in the cricket match against the Singapore Chinese Recreation Club at
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    S'PORE WEIGHT-LIFTING C'SHP RESULTS
    126 12 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A CROWD of 2.000 gathered to watch the first Annual Weight-Lifting Championship 1947 at the New World Arena Singapore, last night. Boey Chee Choon. a veteran weight lifter and holder of four British records staged a come- back in the Flyweight Class
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    JOHORE BEAT N.S. IN FOONG SEONG UP
    103 12 Sunday Times Correspondent SEREMBAN, Saturday. JOHORE defeated Negri Sembilan by four games to one in the semi-final of the Foong Seong Cup competition held this afternoon at the King George V School. Results: Ismail bin Marjan beat Wong Yew Chong 15 9, 15
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    BENDEMEER WIN 5-1
    39 12 The Bendemeer Athletic Club beat the HQ. No. 4 Central Statirtic's XI by five goals to nil in a game of soccer played on Wednesday. Scorers were: Yip Choon Kan (4) <St Low T^ook Kuan (1).
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    RETURN BASKETBALL GAME ARRANGED FOR JULY 11
    269 12 A TURN match between the Chinese Basketball and the Combined Singa- Chinese team had been provisionally arranged for July 11 at he Happy World Stadium. This match will be the biggest basketball "draw" in Singapore ever since the game was adopted here. A
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    MOSS SCORES 56, TAKES SIX FOR 41
    289 12 fOOD batting and bowling by Moss U helped the Singapore Cricket Club to beat the R.A.F. "A" (Cnangl) by two wickete on the Padang yesterday. Moss was unbeaten with 56 runs and took six Changl wickets for 41 runs. The S.C.C. declared their
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    DUCLOS, HOPE SKiTTLE OUT A.M.D.G.W.
    249 12 DUCLOS, HOPE SKiTTLE OUT A.M.D.G.W. SPLENDID bowiing by Duclos (five ■3 for 15) and Hope (four for 16) was mainly rcsnonsible for the S.R.C. beatinsr the Air Ministry Directorate of Works by 95 runs on the Padang yesterday. Batting first, the S.R.C. declared their innings closed at 166 for eight
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    BRITISH 100 YARDS RECORD EQUALLED
    85 12 LONDON. Saturday. MACDONALD BAILEY, the West Indian sprinter from Trinidad who holds the British hundred yards and furlong titles, beat the British hundred yards record when winning the Southern Counties championship in 9.6 seconds at Hotspur Park this afternoon. His time equals that registered by
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