The Straits Times, 27 November 1947

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 1 WfcLVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1947 PRICE rEN CENTS
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    LORD CROFT ATTACKS POLICY ON RUBBER
    216 1 'Could Close Gap By £50 Millions' LONDON, Wednesday. THE chairman of the Empire Industries Association, Lord Croft, said in a speech today that Britain could close her dollar gap by at least £50,000,000 if British rubber were allowed a fair market. Lord Croft said
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    Now On Sale
    83 1 This picture of Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur is one of the excellent photographic studies in STRAITS TIMES PICTURES, 1947. Have you sent in the list of names of friends abroad to whom you wish to send copies of this magnificent publication? STRAITS TIMES PICTURES contains a unique
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    Chifley Says Malays Must Leave
    112 1 Chifley Says Malays Must Leave CANBERRA, Wednesday. fHE Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Joseph Chifley, said m the House of Representatives today, that he saw no reason to review his Government's decision to repatriate the 14 Malay seamen who had settled m the country and married Australian girls. Mr. Chifley said
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    SHAIIRIR DUE HERE ON SUNDAY
    40 1 Sutan Shaiirir. former Indonesian Prime Minister, who presented the Indonesian case before the Security Council m America, will arrive by air m Singapore on Sunday. He will leave for Australia by Lancastrian on Thursday next.
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    G.-G. Going To U.K. In January?
    106 1 G.-G. Going To U.K. In January? TpHE Straits Times corres1 pondent in London cabled yesterday that it was reported in London that Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, the Gover-nor-General of Malaya, would be returning to London in January on the grounds of ill-health. A Government spokesman in Singapore last night told
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    MRS. KATHIGESU AT MALAYA HOUSE
    78 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. Mrs. Kathigesu, wearing the George Medal, received congratulations at a gathering of Malayans at Malaya House yesterday, when the Malayan Agent, Sir George Cator and Lady Cator, entertained 50 guests at an At Home. The guests included Lord and
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    FRIENDSHIP PACT
    32 1 SOFIA. Wednesday. A Treaty of collaboration, friendship and mutual aid between Bulgaria and Jugo-Slavia will be signed at Varna, Bulgaria, tomorrow, it was stated m an official announcement today. Reuter.
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    GERMAN PoW SWIMS BACK TO BRITAIN.
    45 1 SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday.— Police and RAF aircraft are watching for a German prisoner of war reputed to have jumped overboard from the hospital ship El Nil, outward bound from Southampton to Hamburg with repatriated German PoWs, including 18 Generals. —Reuter.
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    Smelters' Pact To Avoid Tin Tax?
    187 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. AN authoritative informant says that m order to avoid payment of export tax on tin ore, the Straits Trading Company has arranged for the Eastern Smelting Company to smelt its ore while the former's works at Butterworth are
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    RUBBER DROPS 3/4 TO 42 CENTS
    83 1 From Our Market Correspondent RUBBER yesterday dropped the three-quarters of a cent. It had gained the previous day. It has lost and gained this amount on the lb. alternately for some days. No. 1 sheet f.o.b. buyers closed last night at 42 cents the
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    Poppy Day Total
    24 1 Poppy Day collections m Singapore this year totalled $51,230. Last year's total was $30,444.73; m 1941 the sum realised was 537.251.88
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    61 1 The General Officer Commanding Malaya District, Major-Gen. D. A. L. Wade, pauses to speak to a Sikh soldier of 623 Corps Engineer Group m a parade of 600 men of the group at the Bukit Timah Racecourse yesterday morning. Gen. Wade congratulated the men m a speech m Urdu. They
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    MUSLIM LEAGUE MAY DISBAND
    240 1 LAHORE, Wednesday. THE All-India Muslim League, which according to its president, Mr. Mohammed Ali Jinnah, represents 90,000,000 Muslims, may be dissolved, it was reported here yesterday. The Pakistan Prime Minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, and the League's general secretary announced that the League's Council would meet on
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    STOP PRESS
    56 1 JERUSALEM. Wednesday. The British Military Court today sentenced to life imprisonment two young; Jews found guilty of blowing; up a troop train near Lydia on Aug. 9. Both of them were captured near the scene of the wreck which killed the engineer of the train. They refused to
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    Crew Of 51 Drown In Wreck
    151 1 KATCHIKAN, ALASKA, Wednesday. THE entire crew of 51, of the U.S. Army freighter Clarksdale Victory, are presumed to have drawned when the vessel broke m two after going aground off Hippa Island, about 140 miles south-west of here, on Monday night. A radio report
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    CENSUS SHOWS POPULATIONS UP 25 PER CENT
    444 1 CENSUS SHOWS POPULATIONS UP 25 PER CENT From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE populations of Penang and Malacca have increased by 86,571, or 24.08 per cent, compared with 1931, and 52,189, or 26 per cent, respectively. Greatest increases are in the Chinese populations of both Settlements. The first-count
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    Bus Breaks Cordon Of Bandits
    255 1 Bus Breaks Cordon Of Bandits From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wednesda3 TTHE quick command of a 1 Malay police sergeant travelling m a bus m Johore yesterday caused the bus driver to drive on through the fire of an ambush cordon of six Chinese bandits who tried to held
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      'Uncle Mac' Sues Wheat Food Firm
      203 2 LONDON, Wednesday. ITNCLE Mac of the children's hour Derek Ivor U McCulloch of Banstead, Surrey asked in the Chancery Division for an injunction to restrain Lewis A. May (Produce Distributors) Limited, of Cornhill, from selling or advertising puffed wheat in such a way as
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      Firm Fined
      71 2 LONDON, Wednesday— A nne of £25,000. with 1.000 guineas costs, was imposed at tne Old Baijey on a London firm of fruit importers. J. and J. Lyons (import and export) merchants of Spitalflelds. The company entered a plea of guilty to eight charges of conspiracy to sell onions
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      Besiegers Surrender
      106 2 WAUPUN, WISCONSIN, Wednesday. Sixty-nine convicts surrendered to the authorities here today after a 15-hour siege by over 150 heavily-armed officers and warders of the second floor of the laundry in the State prison. The convicts, who held four warders as hostages, discarded home-made weapons and came peacefully away
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      Christmas Liberty
      53 2 LONDON. Wednesday. The War Secretary. Mr. Emmanuel Shinwell, in a reply to a House of Commons question, said that he was relaxing restrictions on Dri-spners-of-war so far as Christmas &ye and Christmas Day were concerned. The five miles' limit would be extended to 100 miles and there were
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      U.S.Strike
      26 2 NEW YORK Wednesday.— The American Federation of Labour yesterday ordered a country-wide strike of Western Union Cable Company employees because wage negotiations had collapsed.— Reuter.
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      198 2 PAR SYNDEC ENAMEL PAINT PACKED IN IMPERIAL GALLON TINS MANUFACTURERS? r P.A.R. MALAYAN PAINT WORKS LTD. 1 a* SOLE AGENTS: SIME, DARBY CO., LTD. /4& Meant y 'i tV I* not looks uISBg jfceen if she were nol loveiy-tevt I J^V fJook-at,BhowouW!«till be beautiful/ Eor eho has that something which?
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    TIN PRICE POLICY ATTACKED
    719 3 "Malaya Sacrificed Without Reason" From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. :t JT is earnestly hoped that the Malayan Government and the tin mining and tin smelting industries will be given the fullest consideration by the British Government before agreeing to the concession in the form of
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    49 3 CHE ZAINAL bin MOHAMED, Acting District Officer. Pontian, speaking at the opening of tbe Agricultural show held m Pontian last week m honour of the Royal wedding. The show was opened by the Resident Commissioner, Jonore, Mr. E. E. F. Pretty, who is seen m the picture (m white).
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    MALAY CHARGED
    67 3 Police bail of $100 was extended to Hassan D Wan Idrls, a 30-year-old Malay who was produced before the Second Police Court Magistrate, Mr. A. G. Shears, yes-'c-rday charged with committing theft of dresses valued at $46, the property of a Malay woman. He was alternatively charged with
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    SINGAPORE DIARY
    225 3 TODAY: Y.W.C.A., dressmaking class, 10 a.m. and 5.5 p.m., 'Wayfarers' meeting. 4 p.m., li, Leonle Hill Road. V.M.C.A., Orchard Road. V's Men's Club, Directors' meeting, 5.15 p.m., keep fit class, 6.30 p.m. East-West Society, Dr. Balasingham On "Alcoholism and Crime," V.M.C.A., Orchard Road, 8.30 p.m. Toe H, Mr.
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    BOMB OUTRAGES IN SAIGON
    64 3 SAIGON, Wednesday.— A fresh outbreak of terrorism is feared here following a fire bomb outrage on the steps of the Central Security offices an<j the explosion oi two bombs in a cafe in the centre of the town which seriously wounded several Europeans. Security precautions have
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    RESTAURANT FINED $50
    133 3 Princes Restaurant, Ltd., Orchard Road, was yesterday fined $50 at the Third Police Court on a charge of storing dutiable liquor at a place other than a licensed and bonded ware bouse. Cheah Hong Kang, Secretary of the Prince's Restaurant, Ltd.. answered the charge as the licancee
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    INDIAN GAOLED FOR BREACH OF TRUST
    99 3 An Indian named Bhagwati was sentenced to three months' rigorous imprisonment and fined $500, m default a further three months, by the First District Judge, Mr. E. P. Merson, yesterday for criminal breach of trust m respect of $620. Another Indian, Inna. entrusted Bhagwati
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    U.K.-SOVIET CLASH ON ECAFE MEMBERSHIP
    222 3 BAGUIO, Wednesday. npHE Russian and British A delegates clashed repeatedly yesterday as the United Nations ECAFE (Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East) considered admission of associate members. ECAFE admitted Singapore, the Malayan Union, Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo as a single associate member
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    U.S. AID TRIMMED IN COMMITTEE
    336 4 U.S. AID TRIMMED IN COMMITTEE Stop-Gap Measure Includes China WASHINGTON, Wednesday. THE United States House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday voted to trim emergency foreign aid to U*****,000,000, and to include in that figure help to China as well as to France, Italy and Austria. The decision finished the committee's work
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    Ex-M.C.S. Officers Seek Higher Pensions
    270 4 Ex-M.C.S. Officers Seek Higher Pensions From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, (By Air Mail). THE possibility of increased pensions for retired officers of the Colonial Service formed the subject of a recent statement in the House of Commons by the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Asked if he proposed to
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    BAGAN DATOH PLANTER WEDS
    72 4 TELOK AN6ON, Wednesday.— T' ■c first European wedding In Telok Amson since the liberation took place during the week-end at St. Luke's Church, when Mr. N. J. Cowie was married to Miss D. Ferguson. The bridegroom is the manager of MelJntang Estate, Bagan Datoh. The bride
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    BOATMAN ON SPEED CHANGE
    74 4 In the Marine Court yesterday before Commander L. P Lane, Lomeng bin Bujong, the driver J of a motor-boat, was charged with navigating his ciaft lan. in Kallang River at a speed exceeding five knots. It is alleged that Lomemg caused a nearby sampan to capsize,
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    Jap Cannot Become Australian
    80 4 Jap Cannot Become Australian SYDNEY, Wednesday. A Japanese who has resided m New South Wales for 53 years has been refused naturalisation. He made a similar application 30 years ago. The Japanese claims to be a good Australian, because he has lived m Australia most of his life, and he
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    Coroner Gives Open Verdict
    185 4 Coroner Gives Open Verdict rE Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter, yesterday recorded an open verdict at the inquiry into the death of Goh Teow Yong, a worker employed at the Aik Hoe Rubber Factory, in Kirn Chuan Road, Singapore, who sustained fatal injuries at the factory on June 18.
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    $500,000 Needed For T.B. Clinic
    336 4 rpHE Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association could A establish its fully-equipped first tuberculosis clinic within three or four months, and maintain it for three years, if half a million dollars were raised quickly, declared Mr. S. H. Peek, chairman of the Association, at a statutory meeting held
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    'INSIST THAT JAPS PAY IN FULL'
    379 5 'INSIST THAT JAPS PAY IN FULL' Reparations Call To Government From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. THE chairman of Kulim Rubber Plantations, Mr. A. H. Doherty, yesterday called for Governmental insistence on full payment of Malaya's claims against the Japanese for reparations. He was speaking to the annual meeting of
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    Position of Burmans In Malaya
    373 5 Position of Burmans In Malaya From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, (Air Mail). •THE position of Burmans 1 resident in Malaya and other Empire countries when the Burma Independence Bill comes into effect next year was discussed in the House of Commons in committee. Mr. Manningham Buller said it was clear
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    CARGO OF FOOD FOR SINGAPORE
    91 5 A large consignment of Australian vegetables is expected- to arrive in Singapore by the Blue Funnel ship Gorgon op Dec. 2, from Fremantle. Civilians will it-ceivc 3 000 cases of tomatoes, 2.850 crates of vegetables, 300 tons potatoes 65 tons rolled oats, 85 tons chaff,
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    CHINESE ART SHOW CLOSES
    133 5 Twenty-six scrolls and two fan pieces out of a total of 120 Chinese paintings by Miss Lo Kitling were sold during the fourday exhibition held at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce which ended on Tuesday. Four scrolls were bought by Europeans. The most expensive piece
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    FULL MOON DAY
    39 5 Full moon day, which falls today, will be celebrated at the Sinhalese Buddhist Temple, 96, Outram Road, by Mr. A. G. De Alwis. All are invited. 6.00 p.m., illumination; 7.00 p.m., Buddha puja; 7.30 p.m., sermon.
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    Tinned Fish For Malay Fishermen
    375 5 Malay News From Abdul Aziz bin I&hak •TINNED sardines were 1 among a truckload of foodstuffs sent by the Malayan Union Welfare Department to Malay fishermen living in the district of Pasir Puteh, Kelantan, to help feed them during the monsoon season. Other items sent
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    End Of "Moharram Moulud" Feast
    254 5 From Our Muslim Co-respondent THE ten days' "Moharram Moulud" recitation and feast held at the Onan Road Mosque, Singapore, m commemoration of the martyrdom of Seyedina Hussain, one of the sons of Seyedina Ali, the fourth Caliph of Islam, and the grandson of the Holy
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    DEATHS
    84 6 MR. WEE SOON CHUAN, aeed 74 years. 36 Duxton Hill on 25th November 1947. He leaves behind him his beloved wife 4 sons. Wi Lee. Bee Lee. Thian Lee. Swee Lee. 4 daughters, son-in-law Tan Kve Guan 2 daughters-ln-law 7 grandchildren to mourn his loss. Funeral today at 10.00
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    IN MEMORIUM
    20 6 JAMES CAMPBELL PATERSON. P.M S.V.R. (Selangor). Killed at Tamarkan PO W. Camp Siam 27th Nov.. 1944. Jean Robbie.
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  • The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs., Nov. 27, 1947. RICE RATION PROSPECTS
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      746 6 From a smaller I.E.F.C. allocation of rice, the Malayan Union and Singapore may get in the new year a larger ration. The paradox is explained, of course, by the fact that in the past what has been allocated has not always been received. Malaya was allocated for the first six
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      Cheques For War Damage
      400 6 Since not a single dollar has yet been paid out for war damage in Malaya, many people in this country must have felt envious when they read in the Straits Times of Nov. 11 that on the previous day cheques totalling £100,000,000 were paid out for
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      HOLLYWOOD HAS AN ANTI-RED PURGE
      96 6 NEW YORK, WednesdayOver 20 leading film executives and producers announced today that they had agreed "to discharge or suspend, without compensation" certain employees until they had been acquitted or had purged themselves of contempt of Congress and had declared under oath that they were not
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      THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES
      358 6 A Modern Malay Woman In A Man's World THE members of the Malay 1 Women's Welfare Association under the leadership of its president, Che Zahara binte Noor Mohamed, arranged to celebrate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth on a grand scale. The most important item was
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      A MALAY MAN IS PUZZLED
      311 6 pHE Straits Times last week 1 published that a procession organised by the Malay Women's Welfare Association would start from its headquarters at 49, Desker Road, at 6 p.m. and reach Government House, at 7.45 p.m. But to my disappointment the procession did not take
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      Pulau Brani: A Bright Idea
      124 6 \TOUR editorial "More Malice X In Blunderland" appeared to overlook the fact that Pulau Brani is not a Dart of Singapore Island. The objection to the inclusion of Singapore m the Malayan Union for the purpose of the special export duty is that for all
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      THE FUTURE OF CHANGI AND SINGAPORE
      343 6 THE FUTURE OF CHANGI AND SINGAPORE PUBLIC attention has again been directed to expenditure on the development of Changi airport which was recently described as a totally unproduc tive investment which would, in addition, involve Singapore, in loss. While I have no desire to question the accuracy of this contention
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      MRNEWBOULT'S CONFIDENCE
      130 6 TN the Sunday Times recent1 ly, the Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, is reported to have said: "Government had not taken any steps to recruit staff or collect equipment with the idea of setting up an Income Tax Department before the draft bill had been passed in
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      WILL EURASIANS GIVE UP THEIR BIRTHRIGHT?
      591 6 WILL EURASIANS GIVE UP THEIR BIRTHRIGHT? T*HE announcement in the 1 Straits Times under the heading "Emergency dieting of UMNO" is the first information I have had that the "possibility of accepting Eurasians living in the Malayan Union as subjects of the Sultans" is to be discussed. I must confess
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      $9,400 A YEAR FOR 200 GIRLS AND STAFF!
      155 6 $9,400 A YEAR FOR 200 GIRLS AND STAFF! IJAVING recently arrived in Singapore from the U.K. and having stuffed myself with food and drink in this land of plenty I was ashamed and appalled to read your article "The Canossa Convent In Geylang." That such conditions should exist is a
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      WHY MALAYS WENT TO AUSTRALIA
      178 6 FkURING the interview with the Australian Commissioner, Mr. Claude Massey, at which Mr. Lee Kong Chian, Mr. Mark Morrison and Mr. Saadon Zubir were present with me, Mr. Massey explained that those 14 Malay seamen are not to be deported but to be repatriated. During
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    EURASIANS' PETITION TO MALAY RULERS
    399 7 EURASIANS' PETITION TO MALAY RULERS Ask Status Of Non Subjects From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. MALA YAN UNION Eurasians have taken their first major political step in anticipation of forthcoming constitutional changes and have petitioned the rulers of the Malay States to accept Eurasians as their "nonMuslim subjects"
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    77 7 Cham Tham Lin. notorious 16-year-old Chinese gangster, photographed after his arrest on Sunday m a jungle hut m Salak South (near Kuala Lumpur), (ham was sentenced to eight years gaol on Tuesday for having broken his bond to be of good behaviour. In August he made his escape from Selangor
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    CRUELTY TO FOWLS
    40 7 For carrying three fowls by their legs and causing unnecessary pain, Low Kong Soy, a 45-year-old Chinese was fined $5, m default one week's simple imprisonment, by the Second Police Court Magistrate, Mr. A. G Shears, yesterday
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    HOPE OF MORE RICE NEXT YEAR
    298 7 A HIGHER rice ration for Malaya next year was forecast yesterday by a spokesman of the Special Commissioner's Office in a comment on the new rice allocations announced in Washington on Tuesday. The new Malayan allocation of 205,000 tons, shows an Increase of sixty
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      5 Years For Soldier With 17 Guns
      135 7 A YOUNG Indian soldier, Karim Mullah, was sentenced to five years' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice Jobling at the Singapore Assize Court, yesterday when he was found guilty of being m unlawful possession of 17 sten guns. Karim has been arrested by two
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      Whitehall Adviser
      94 7 SEREMBAN. Wednesday.— Mr. E. W. Tarltrop, Labour Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, met and spoke to representatives of the planting industry In Negri Sembilan in the course of his two-day visit to the State. During his visit to Kirby Estate, Labu, Mr. Tarltrop had
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      Ordered To Return
      95 7 A Malacca resident, K. P. Sinathambi, aUeged to the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday that a man held by the police on a warrant from Malacca, had used his narai to borrow $400, had taker jewellery from his house and had then run away wit his wife.
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      Treat For Children
      47 7 MALACCA, Wednesday. Through the courtesy of the local cinema managers, some 2 100 school children from English and vernacular schools were shown special films of Princess Elizabeth yesterday morning. The films, supported by Walt Disney's "Saludos Amlgos," were supplied by the Public Relations Department.
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      To Be Honoured
      117 7 TAJPING, Wednesday.— A Taiping Chinese who gave food and shelter to two I\ dirm soldiers during the wax, is to be present cci with the British Empire Medal i Civil Division) at a ceremony to be held at King".House, Kualj Lumpur, to morrow. He is Mr. Ooi
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      Convent Exhibition
      51 7 TAIPING, Wednesday.— ln aid of their orphanage building fund, the Taiping Convent will hold an exhibition and sale of handiwork on December 2. The Convent here is doing excellent welfare work m connection with orphans and has been complimented by many distinguished visitors, including Sir Edward and Lady
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      Scout Rally
      49 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Wednesday.— Major General Sir Ibrahim, Sultan of johore, will leave here for Batu Pahat tomorrow afternoon for the All-Johore Scout Rally which will be attended by scouts from all over the State. His Highness will be accompanied by the Mentrl Besar, Tato Onn bin Jaffar.
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      Labourers See R.C.
      95 7 PENANO, Wednesday. Two representatives of the Penang Harbour Labour Association whose rubbers workers are now on strike, had an hour's interview with the Resident Commissioner, Mr. S. N. King, yesterday. The two men, Mr. S. Appadurai and Mr. See Geok Phang, gave the Resident Commissioner an account
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      Wife-Beater Gaoled
      78 7 JOHORE BHARU, Wednesday. For causing grievous hurt to his wife, an estate labourer, Arjunan, was yesterday sentenced by Mr. Justice Laville to two years' rigorous imprisonment. It was stated in evidence that ihe couple separated following a quarrel. The wife, however, returned later to the accused. There was
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      Re-Union
      40 7 The Singapore Social Athletic Party will be holding a re-union dinner In Bedok on Saturday night. This will be preceded by a friendly soccer match between the Party's veterans and the Diethelm Sports Club at the Jalan Besar stadium.
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    Malay Appeals For 'Fair Play'
    201 7 From Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE, Wed. ONE of the Malays threatened with deportation, Mr. J. B. Abdullah, has a loner letter m the correspondence columns of the Sydney Mornins Herald today, appealing "to those Aus111 1 alians who have a sense of fair 1 play
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    CHRISTMAS TREAT FOR 5,500
    306 7 T!H£ Salvation Army and the Rotary Club are completing arrangements to give a bumper Christmas this year to about 5,500 children m Singapore. The Salvation Army's programme for the 500 children ur.dcr their care will include a visit to the different homes by "Father Christmas," a
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    'GOVT. BACK-PAY INCREASED PENANG RATES'
    261 7 'GOVT. BACK-PAY INCREASED PENANG RATES' From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. MR. Lim Eow Thoon told the Penang Municipal Commissioners yesterday it was quite clear the Settlement's financial troubles were the result of the Government's action m granting back-pay to its interned employees. "Such action," he said, "naturally justifies the
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    30 7 A boom defence vessel, with divers will be working off Godown 44, Keppel Harbour, from today. The Singapore Master Attendant advises that this vessel should be given a wide berth
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    8 Years For Armed Robbery
    120 7 8 Years For Armed Robbery QENTENCE of eight years' •D rigorous imprisonment and 12 strokes of the rotan, was imposed on a Chinese, Wong On, at the Singapore Assizes yesterday, when he was found guilty of committing armed robbery, with three other Chinese, of $13,600 worth of jewellery from a
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    CHARGES AGAINST 2 NAVAL BASE POLICE
    67 7 In the Singapore Fourth Pollica Court yesterday, Adit Ral (40), a member of the Naval Bass Police Force, was charged with having used criminal force on Inspector Tan Choon Guan at 8.40 p.m. on Nov. 25 at Seng Poh Road. Bhawani Rai, another member
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      As It Looks From Over The Channel
      964 8  -  SAVILLE R. DAVIS PERSPECTIVE ON BRITAIN By m the Christian THE best perspective on Britain today is from die other side of the English Channel. It is a healthy and bracing experience to leave this atmosphere of &taie shortage, cross to the mainland,
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      Byrnes' Book In S'pore Soon
      116 8 James F. Byrnes'' book, "Frankly Speaking," which has received world-wide press publicity. Is expected to be on sale in Singapore before Christmas. Byrnes, the former United States Secretary of State relates in detail his behind-the-scenes disputes wih the Soviet Foreign Minister. Mr. Molotov, n this
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      Popular Books
      64 8 AMONG the new Dooks most in demand at London libraries are "People of < Quality," by Collie Knox; "White Cooile." by Ronald Has- tain: 'A Case To Answer." by Edgar Lustgarten: and "The Foxes of Harrow," by Frank Yerby. "People of Quality" is a collection of short and
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      10 8 Straits Times study of a typical Malay and bis child.
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      The Gods Descend For An Inspection
      763 8 WHEN the inhabitants of this world awoke last Thursday, their deeds or misdeeds were subject to the scrutiny of four celestial envoys,commonly known as the Four Diamonrl Gods, if erprlpnce w***» griven to Cheese mvfhfl and leAccording to the roster kept in Heaven, the
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      'UMBRELLAS'THE SPIRITS FORGOT
      524 8  - 'UMBRELLAS' THE SPIRITS FORGOT K. S. CHIA Malaya's Mushrooms By TUAN DJEK'S article on mushrooms reminds me of the years wnen we hunted for these mushrooms in the rambutan estate we lived in, during the Japanese occupation. In our experience, the mushrooms Tuan Djek described usually bloom during Cheng Beng
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    A JOURNEY INTO ASIA'S BACKYARD
    335 9 A JOURNEY INTO ASIA 'S BA CK YARD TIBETAN VENTURE. By Andre Guihint (Murray. IG/-) THE French have honoured Singapore. They have sent as their Consul-General Andre Guibaut, an explorer of Inner Asia whose sensitive hook on his Tibetan travels has just appeared in an English translation. Guibaut's first rrfss!on
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    83 9 Portrait For House TEORGE HARCOURT, the v Royal Academician, who lives in Hertfordshire. England, offered to paint the portrait of anyone giving him information that will lead to his tenancy of an ui) furnished house within a 10-mile radius of his present home. Yet estate agents, at any rate in
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    Twp Authors Write About Malaya
    722 9 Twp Authors Write About Malaya FROM A SINGAPORE BOOKSHELF WHITE COOLIE. By Ronald Has tain. (II odder and S toughton, 10/5) NOT EXACTLY GHOSTS. By Sir Andrew Caldecott. (Arnold, 7/6) TWOof the new books are both by men who came to Malaya and then went away. You can hardly imagine
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    The White And The Black
    575 9 The White And The Black JIM CROW, by Walton Fairbank. London: Victor Gollancz. JUDGING by the atJ tention it is getting from U. S. writers the Negro problem is being forced more and more to the attention of literate Americans. This novel is the first I have struck for a
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      608 9 y' mad bold, South ruffed and. apparently with psychic bid, but even when it was the idea that he could lead high successful and staved off the lead he clubs without great danger laid feared. South failed to follow up his down the ace, king and queen getting str&Ugy in
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    Lord Byron's Private Life Embarrasses Vicar
    340 10 Lord Byron 's Private Life Embarrasses Vicar From Our London Film Reporter CILM prouueer Sydney Box has struck "ancestor trouble" making a film of the celebrated English poet Lord Byron. The film's title is "The Bad Lord Byron." Eighty-six-year-old Lord Byron of Thrumpton Hall, Nottingham, grandson of a first cousin
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    71 10 SCENE from RKO's "Mourning Becomes Electro" which was released m the United States last week at "advanced prices." The studio claims the film, which is based on Eugene O'Neilfs famous play about the American Civil War and stars Britisher Michael Redgrave and Rosalind Russell (above), is the best American picture
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    Sidelights Of The Studios
    531 10 A WIDESPREAD search took place for a youngster to play the title part in "Oliver Twist" before director David Lean found John Howard Davis, son of a journalist and nephew of Betty (not Bette) Davis, the actress. Fragile- looking John was chosen from 1,500 candidates. He
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    MELBA FILM ABANDONED
    84 10 LONDON. Sydney Box has abandoned his plan to make a film of the life of Dame Nellie Melba, famous Australian singer who died m 1931. Grace Moore had been selected for the role. Her death began a new search m which singers from all over Britain, America
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      300 10 RADIO MALAYA (SPORE) MT/^WT TPUTC I Gr h Louis Ker.tner; 11 .30 Close 77.*. rlUjMLIGHTS Down. 4p.m. New Queens HallLight 8.30 P Ca™ing M An C k«p"u° a s.^ BBC Orch. with Mischa Levitski 4.45Swing 9.45 PUm Review; 10.00 Melodies from 9 45 v m Halle Orchestra Music; 5.20 British
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    LONDON STOCKS
    212 11 LONDON, Tuesday. WITH today the last of the account, markets have been again irregular. A weak feature was provided by Giltedged stocks, which at tne close showed losses upto one and a half points, says Reuters financial correspondent. Following are todays closing middle prices of selected stocks as
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    Coconut Oil Over $60 The Picul
    363 11 From A Market Correspondent r£ "unofficial" f.o.b. price of coconut oil is now over $60 the picul. Thfa is almost 80 per cent, more than the controlled fob. price. Yesterday's prices were: Rice: NO. 1 $120; No. 2 115 Glutinous Rice: No. 1 $80;
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    Dow Jones Averages
    24 11 Stocks Industrials Rails Utilities VW. 24 Nov. 25 64.05 63. 90 181.96 181.35 48.09 48 25 33. 64 33.41 —A. P.
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    RUBBER
    52 11 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's prices at noon yesterday were: per Ib Cts. per lb. per lb. "fciSSftuS"" 41% i^aL R &c SfOb 42% 42% NO. 2 R.S.S. fob At In bales Dec. 41% 41% No. 3 R.S.S. fob In bales Dec. 41 41% Maricet tone: Steady
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    SINGAPORE SHARES
    113 11 SINGAPORE, Wednesday. FAIR bosineM w«fl transacted in Industrials and Tins. Tins on the whole were a shade easier. Cold Storage, Wauiths, Fraser Neare, Hammers. Steamships were wanted Quotations eiven to-day by tfte Malayan Sharebrokers" Association wpre: INDUSTRIALS Bayer Seller Fraser and Neave (O) Stk. 3.85 Goodwood Park 1-75
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    222 ENTRIES FOR PERAK RACE MEET A RECORD
    1269 12 222 ENTRIES FOR PERAK RACE MEET A RECORD Committee Decide On Four Days From EPSOM JEEP IPOH, Wednesday. 5 THE Perak Turf Club December Meeting has been i L extended to four days because of the record 1 entries received. A total of 222 horses were entered, 119 m Class
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    India Team Popular In Australia
    197 12 India Team Popular In Australia From K. S. Duleepsinhji BRISBANE, Wednesday. •THE Indians have come I through the first part of their tour better than expected, and they have gained the popularity of the Australian public with their fre e style of play. Taxi-drivers, tram-drivers and i shop assistants in
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    HURTS JAW AT RUGBY
    257 12 AE. BIRD, the Singapore Police right wing threequarter, sustained a serious injury to his jaw early in the rugger match between the Police and R.A.F. Changi at Thomson Road yesterday. He was taken to hospital. The accident occurred when Bird made a dash on the right
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    LIEN HWA HELD IN HONG KONG
    113 12 HONG KONG, Wednesday. The Malayan Chinese footballers today drew with the Combined Services in tiie first half of their return matches with Hong Kong teams after their recent visit to Shanghai, each side scoring three goals. Owing to injury the Malayans did not field
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    IPOH SCHEDULE OF RACING
    153 12 The schedule of rac'ng for the Perak Turf Club four-day meeting follows: First Day, Dec. 6.— Horses, Class 2, Divs. 1, 2, 3 and 4—64 6 Furs. Horses, Ciass 3, Divs. 1, 2, 3, anl 4—54 5 Fura. Straight. Total eight races. Second Day, Dec. 9.
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    Singapore Malays In Cup Final
    273 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. rE Singapore Malays had an easy passage into the final of the Sultans' Gold Cup soccer competition today when they beat the Selangor Malays by five goals to one at Princes Road. The visitors outplayed their opponents m
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    RAFFLFS TEAM FOR CUP RUGGER
    73 12 The Raffles Coll««? Rut;by XV to i meet the Mediaal Cerflesre to-day at Bufclt Tlmah fan- the Galloway Cup will be selected from the following: B. K. Sen. Dand bin. Hashim. Hussein. Saad b. Marzukl. O. M. Thomasz. Saad b. Walad. J. E. Henry. Thonjr
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    R.S.G.C. ASSOCIATES
    65 12 The annual general meeting of associates of the Royal Singapore Golf Club was held In the Club House or. Monday, Nov. 24, and the following were elected office-bearers for *****948: Captain, Mrs. E. A. Elder; vicecaptain, Mrs. A. T. Aird; hon. secretary, Miss M. Hadley, Committee, Mrs. O.
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    Great Run By Vanderput
    269 12 A SPECTACULAR run by Vanderput to score for the S.R.C. was the outstanding feature of the hockey game on the Padang yesterday m which the S.C.C. were beaten by four goals" to nothing. A mishap occurred five minutes after the start, Piercey of the S.C.C. leaving
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    57 12 Joe Louis, who defends his world championship for the 24th time when he meets Joe Walcott at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 5, said yesterday that he was m better shape than when he met Billy Conn and Tami Mauriello, says Reuter. This A.P. photo shows Louis and Walcott shaking
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    FUSILIERS DEFEAT S.C.C. 2nd XV
    30 12 The Royal Welch Fusiliers beat the S.C.C. second XV by eight points (a goal and a try) to five (a goal) on the Padang yesterday.
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    Mills Rejects World Title Fight Offer
    248 12 LONDON, Wednesday. FREDDIE Mills, European and British lightheavyweight champion, has rejected a cabled offer of a world title fight with Gus Lesnevich m America. Instead, it is his ambition to fight Bruce Woodcock for the British heavyweight championship m the new year. f Mills's
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    RAF WELL BEATEN AT HOCKEY
    65 12 A Postal and Telecomms side b3at a R.A?. side by sUe goals to one m a hockey match at Seletar yesterday. Carnegie scored two goals for Postal and Telecomms m the first half when the R.A.F. was unable to reply. On resumption of play, Wright
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    Sports Diary
    57 12 TO-DAY KUGBY: Raffles College v*. Hedical College, Raffles groand, 5.15 p.m. HOCKEY: S.C.R.C. vs. Postal Hockey XI at S.C.R.C. ground. 5.15 p.m.; Ceylon S.C. vs. Johor* C.C. at Police Depot, 5.15 p.m. TO-MORROW HOCKEY: S.C.R.C. vs. 221 8.0.D. at S.C.R.C. ground, 5.18 p.m.; Normal Class Teachers vs. Cable
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      741 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. (Continued trom Pace 6) VEHICLES FOR SALE FOR SALE Austin 10 sedan 1940 mod(\ Phone 2736. 1938 HILLMAN Minx Saloon. Rec<ntlv imported from U.K. new b:itt rv taxed md insured. Owner buylne bidder car. Apply Borneo Motors. 'P'fi Model Humber Hawk Saloon— 14 HP for Sale. Mileage approxiinatrlv
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