The Straits Times, 25 January 1948

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  • 20 1 FINAL EDITION THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST JSIETT SALE /iV MALAYA No. 652 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 1948 PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 409 1 12 strikers ejected Sunday Times Staff Reportei C ING A PORE police riot squads went into action yesterday, when outside elements invaded the Geylang Road factory of Firestone Tyre Rubber Co. Ltd., where rubber packers had been on strike since last Tuesday. Police rounded up
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    47 1 FLAMES lick the windows of the British Consulate- General in Canton (above) on the afternoon of Jan. 16, when a mob of demonstrators set fire to the building after an anti-British parade. Picture below shows the burned-out shell of the building after the flre had died down.
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    27 1 AiiJ'oiiUU examines cartridges which wpre seized by New York police and customs mm in a New York warehouse together with crates addressed to an iddress in Palestine.
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  • 201 1 LONDON, Saturday. AN outstanding issue in present-day Malaya is whether the three main racial groups Malays, Chinese and Indians can be welded into some sort of unity, the Singapore correspondent of the Times reported in today's issue. The situation was still in its early stages, but
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  • 37 1 SAIGON. Saturday. Air Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd, Commander-in-Chief British Air Forces in the Far East, has arrived here at the invitation of the French Air Force command and will stay until Sunday.— Reuter.
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  • 104 1 By The Times Correspondent SYDNEY, Saturday. FE Communist Party headquarters in Australia are expected to announce shortly the formation of the PanPacific Secretariat of Wharf and Shipping workers. The authorities, who are watching this development, believe that this Secretariat w!!l be used to mask the
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  • 135 1 BATAVIA, Saturday. DR. Mohammed Hatta, who has been instructed by the Indonesian Republican President, I. R. Soekarno, to form a new Cabinet to succeed Dr. Amir Sjarifuddin's administration, may also have to resign "under present circumstances," Antera, the Republican news agency, reported today. The Agency,
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  • 72 1 NEW YORK. Saturday. THE Jewish Agency for Palestine announced yesterday it had called on the United Nations to take immediate steps toward settling a Jewish militia of 30,000 to 25.000 men in Palestine. The Zionist memorandum suggested the Security Coun- ell call on al 1
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  • 110 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter IVESERTER from three armies in the last three years, 1/ Roumanian Herbeanx Gabriel is now a prisoner of the Singapore military authorities. Local immigration authorities took Gabriel off the S.S. Marosa in Singapore after he had stowed away in Saigon. On apprehension
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  • 112 1 TjiOLLOWING are yesterr day's Kuala Lumpur race results: Race 1: SI I VI $20 and $7; Happy Lass $7, Tin Plate $8. Race 2: CHRISTMAS $29 and $10: Atlantas $11, Lady Hampton $25. Race 3: BRONZE FLASH $57 and $9; Lucky Three $6. Dagobert $7. Race 4:
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  • 133 1 NEW YORK. Saturday. THE Argentine delegate declared today that formation of a three-nation mediation team for the India and Pakistan dispute "was invalid legally," in a new attack on the Big Five veto power. M. Jose Arce based his charge on the fact that only
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  • 33 1 COLOMBO, Sat. Eight countries so far have accepted Ceylon's invitation to her independence celebrations, beginning on Feb. 8. They are Britain, France, Chile. India, Pakistan. Burma. Nepal and Liberia. Reuter.
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  • 31 1 FRANKFURT. Saturday. The 24 hour "We Want Food" strike of an estimated 1.500.--000 workers in the United States-occupied Bavaria area ended at one minute after midnight today.— UP.
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  • 74 1 SHANGHAI. Saturday. Shanghai police have sent a note to the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation reminding them that a lot of slogans written in oil and ink were at their main entrance and requesting them to "please have them washed away or chipped off promptly In order
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  • 46 1 PONDICHERRY, Sat.— Final settlement of the future of French territories In India is expected to be made early next month when M. Daniel Levi, French Ambassador to India, returns to New Delhi from Paris, where he had important talks with the French Government. Reuter.
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  • 68 1 MOTOR car cushions eaten through by white ants led to the arrest of three men at Pandan village. Johore. who were charged yesterday with retaining cushions and wheels allegedly stolen from a car. A policeman, it was stated, noticed the cushions, which were meant for a
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  • 250 1 WASHINGTON, Saturday. UNITED States Munitions Board, which is responsible for the stockpiling of strategic raw materials, has announced a plan for buying over a Sve-year period materials worth U552,750,000,000. Much of the required material will have to come from countries in the Far
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  • 286 1 ONN TELLS MALAYS Sunday Times Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAIIRU. Saturday. IN a brief speech at the opening of a two-day session of the general assembly of the United Malays National Organisation, the President, Dato Onn bin Jaafar, called on all Malays to put their shoulders
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  • 23 1 RANGOON. Saturday.— The Burmese Government announced yesterdax that 1.600,--000 tons of rice would be available for export this year. A.P.
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  • 94 1 MOSCOW. Saturday. One hundred and twenty-four words without comment occupied the space given in the Soviet press today to Thursday's speech in the House of Commons by Mr. Ernest Bevin, British Foreign Secretary, in which he attacked Communism and advocated a Western European "consolidation".
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  • 33 1 MANILA. Saturday —Judge Conrado Sanchez today denied the petition of 23 Chinese vendors in the public markets for a temporary order allowing them to continue occupying the stalls.— U.P
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  • 561 3 HIGH-SPEED PIRATES ELUDE POLICE RAF boats used in raids Sunday Tunes Staff Reporter IPOH, Saturday. A PIRATE gang of 60 led by a secret society chief of "phenomenal power** is using three high-speed R.A.F. rescue launches in operations off the Perak Coast, and police need improved radio equipment and fast
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  • 155 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PENANG, Saturday. KOAY IT TAI, the Penang hermit, who recently declared he was claiming $300,000 compensation from the Government, told me today that if his claim was recognised he would send a donation of $100,000 to China. I This sum
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  • 119 3 CHAMBER TO DECIDE ON TUESDAY Sunday Times Stall Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. PENANG Chinese Chamber of Commerce will decide on Tuesday whether or not to nominate a representative for the new Legislative Council. An officer of the Chamber said today that if the meeting voted in favour of it, nomination would
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  • 219 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter FIFTY-ONE American round-the-world tourists— the biggest influx of sightseers to visit these shores since the end of the war will arrive in Singapore by the American President Lines ship President Polk on Feb. 5. This is an indication that the
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  • 85 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A MALAY youth. Abdul Wahab bin Mohamed, was charged in the Fourth Singapore Police Court yesterday with two offences of housebreaking and with theft. Abdul was alleged to have broken into houses Nos. 43 and 143 at Kampong Woodlands on the
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  • 49 3 The programme of shows arranged in Singapore by the Public Relations Film Unit for the coming week is as follows: Tuesday. Pasir Panjang 91 m.s. Malay fishing village; Wednesday, Paya Lebar police station compound; Thursday, Singapore Harbour Board Boys' Club; Friday, Yeung Ching School, Club Street.
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  • 51 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A baby girl was born to Mrs. J. A. Thivy, wife of the (Representative of the Government of India in Malaya, on Jan. 23, at her residence at 9, Chatswood Park, Singapore. This is their third daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Thivy have one
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  • 28 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter Two Chinese on bicycles stopped another Chinese cyclist in Cavenagh Road last night and robbed him of $5.80 and a fountain-pen.
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  • 93 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter rE Governor of Singapore (Sir Franklin Gimson) and the Colonial Secretary (Mr. P. A. B. McKerron) will oe present at an official Australia Day function at the Australian Commissioner's office in Singapore tomorrow morning at 11.30 a.m. Mr. Claude Massey (Australian Commissioner for
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  • 73 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A 55-year-old Indian. Shaik Mydin. pleaded guilty in the Fourth Singapore Police Court yesterday to a charge of having abetted the receipt of an illegal gratification by a detective. Mydin said he had given $10 because the detective said
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  • 133 3 Sunday Tim.* Staff Reporter •THE Singapore Municipality will, this year, spend nearly $1,000,000 on the construction of quarters for labourers more money than any slngl? vote allocated for building quarters either for the Junior or senior service. For the junior service, a sum of $600,000 will
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  • 111 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SEVENTY-THREE boys from a Singapore Chinese school became full-fledged scouts at a ceremony held at the Catholic High School, Queen Street, yesterday. They formed the Second Chinese scout troop in the Colony, the first being the Chinese High School troops.
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  • 57 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. MISS Rajkumarl Sahal. eldest daughter of Mr. B. G. Sahai, formerly Usher in the Marine Court, Singapore, and now of the Malayan Establishment Office. Kuala Lumpur, and Mrs. Sahal, was married on Monday to Mr. J. S. Sodhy.
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  • 205 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A SINGAPORE Chinese, Mr. Quay Teow Yong, gave up his job on a Chinese newspaper some time ago and started to catch prawns instead. He is now one of the biggest catchers of local prawns, an industry which became popular during the
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  • 80 3 PENANG, Saturday. TIIE Governor, Sir Edward 1 Gent, will discuss with the local authorities the question of port expansion in P.. _«ng. Sir Edward arrived by plane today. He is expected to discuss the Sungei Pinanfc dredging scheme and the reclamation of Weld Quay. One
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  • 222 3 Muslim feast in S'pore Sunday Times Stifl K«-i>oi-trr MORE than 10.000 Malay, Indian and Arab fcfusllmi of all ages in Singapore were given fret helpings of nasl briyani and curry at ths "Moulud Sheriff" on Prriphet Mohammed's birlhdiv celebrations organised by the Singapore branch of the AllMalaya Musiim M'fsionrvy Society
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  • 50 3 T7WDUR returns officers have f been appointed by the Singapore Government for the Klectorial Districts. They are: Mr. G. W. Webb (Municipal Area. South-west), Mr. W. W. Duncan (Municipal Area. North-east>, Mr. J. B. Nellson (Rural Board, East), Mr. C. W. A. Sennett (Rural Board, West).
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    42 3 SQUADRON LEADER JOHN KNOX McCABE and Mrs. McCabe after their wedding at Trinity Church. Changi, yesterday. Mrs. McCabe was formerly Flight Lieutenant Elizabeth Mary Isabella Milne, daughter of Mr. Andrew Milne of Scotland. The bridegroom is a medical officer stationed at Changi.
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  • 908 4 Australian Newsletter Says Bob Gilmore MELBOURNE, Jan. 14 (by Air Mail) AS, by this second week of the New Year, no Australian journal or radio station has nominated an Australian "Man of the Year", it looks as though no Australian in 1947 Ptood notably above
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  • 189 4 FIRST Malay to hold the appom Unuiit of Superintv...j:nt, Goveminen't Prtotii. Dou: tment. Jchore, Ls Incfoe MAUKOM bin HAJI SAID. He has achieved this distinction after fourteen years' service. Just now fie is engaged on two soeclal lobs, ordered by the Sultan of Johore— th-e printiiur of
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  • 1018 4  -  D.H. de T. Reade by Major M rVER open eyes"— i that may well be the unofficial motto of the Royal Corps of Military Police, who, like their civilian counterparts, are always on duty. Id StoKapore. the R.M.P. have a difficult duty to perronn: possibly the me r,
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  • 130 5 USNA OPPOSED TO CESSION OF SARAWAK rpHE president of the United X Sarawak National Association, Inche Sirat bin Ibrahim, has issued a statement supporting the telegram which 15 anti-cession associations in Sarawak sent to Mr. Anthony Brooke, former Rajah Muda. concerning statements made to the Press by Inche Mohamad Klpli
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  • 256 5 Coins go out of circulation Sunday Times Staff Reporter |)ESPITE the fact that nearly $29,000,000 in silver and copper coins have been released to the Singapore public since the liberation, coins continue to be a rarity and are seldom, if ever, found in actual circulation. The
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    38 5 SPUING fever, with the promise of a flowering world, seems to be the mood of these "lucky posters" on sale in a Singapore street. The one which the boy is holding speaks of flowers opening to the sun.
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  • 83 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter rRTY-SEVEN Chinese couples will wed at noon today at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Singapore, in the biggest mass marriage ceremony so far organised by the Mayfair Musical and Dramatic Association. The Chinese Consul-Gen- i eral, Dr. Wu Paak-shing. will officiate at
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  • 175 5 Sunday Time* Staff Reporter THREE days after the Singapore Social Welfare 1 Department had rescued a 53-year-old Chinese beggar from the mud and squalor of his Chinatown shanty, the one-time ricksha puller died in the Department's camp in Bushey Park. The man, Lim Ah
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  • 31 5 SINGAPORE'S Princess Elizabeth Wedding Celebration Fund has now reached $987,292.96. Latest contributors are Fraser and Neave, Malayan Breweries and Archipelago Breweries Co. Ltd., who each gave $5,000.
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  • 182 5 Sunday Times Correspondent TAJPING, Saturday. A VERDICT of murder by some person or persons unknown was returned by the Talplng Coroner, at tiie k:quest held on a 25-year-old Chinese, Lim Ah Kooi, alias LJm Tet Hool. whose bull triddled body was found at the Sli
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  • 61 5 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's prices at noon yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Cts. Cls. per lb. per Ib. No. 1 RS S Spot loose nominal 40*4 41 No. 1 R.S.S. fob in bales Peb. 40 K 41 No. 2 R.S.S. fob in bales Peb. 40\ 40tt No.
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  • 40 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter BATU PAHAT, Saturday.— Under the auspices of the Malayan Indian Congress, Batu Pahat, a mass meeting at 500 Indians was held at the Chettiars' Hall here to celebrate the 51st birthday of Netaji Bose.
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  • 40 5 Sunday Times Correspondent KUANTAN, Saturday.— The District Forest Officer, Mr. E. S. Barker, is going on transfer to Brunei on Jan. 27 to become State Forest Officer there. His successor in Kuantan is Mr. P. H. Burghes.
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  • 86 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A SINGAPORE agent is to import 100,000 young fish fry from Hong Kong by air as a result of experiments by the Fisheries Department last year. The fish are usually imported by sea, which takes about ten days and results in the loss
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  • 167 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday BRIGADIER B. B. WALTON, of Malaya District Headquarters, who has been in charge of army administration in the Malayan Union since November 1946 leaves Kuala Lumpur next week with his wife and daughter for England. He first arrived in Malaya
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  • 22 5 TAIPING, Saturday. The Sultan of Perak attended the celebrations held here yesterday on the occasion of Prophet Mohamed's birthday.
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  • 184 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Chinese will not be able to get silver coins from the Treasury to put into "Ang Pau" (red paper) packets during the Chinese New Year season, which is only two weeks ahead. The Currency Officer, Singapore, told the Sunday
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  • 43 5 MR. P. J. Steel, Registrar of Trade Unions, Singapore, has been ordered, abroad for health reasons. Any trade union communication should be addressed to Registrar of Trade Unions and in no circumstances should be addressed to Mr. P. J. Steel.
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  • 21 6 Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Sodhy thank all relatives, friends, for valuable presents, congratulatory messages, on occasion of their wedding.
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  • 631 6 SINGAPORE, JAN. 25. IMS. CONTACT POINTS rWERSHADOWING all curvF rent disputes in the world and there are plenty from the Kashmir aflair to the opposition to Malaya's new Federation is the steadily mounting tempo of the recriminations hurled at each other by Russia and the Western democracies. It is not
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  • 643 6  - THE MALAY BUILDING TRADITION IS DYING SIMPANG LIMA by brick and reinforced concrete structures springing up even in the ulu, the old style Malay houses, built entirely of plank, more or less ornamented and thatched with attap, are becoming a rarity. Ordinary wooden houses with plank or bamboo walls and
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  • 610 6 TWO of the 1947 1 Nobel Prize recipient were Britons. The Physics prize was awarded to Sir Edward Appleton, whose work was chiefly concerned with layers of ionized atmosphere, familiarly known as the Appleton and Heaviside layers. These layers, reflecting back radio waves to earth, account for successful
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  • 711 6  - L UCK FOR SALE C.S. Wong by IF, at any time until the Chinese New Year, you take a stroll in the Chinese quarters ol any town in Malaya you will see on the road side or on the five-foot ways Chinese calligraphists sitting at their desks with brushes, Chinese
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  • 456 7 THREE MEN PICK SONS FROM STREETS Policemen a civilian Sunday Times Staff Reporter THREE boys a Malay, a Chinese and an Indian who have lived in filth and without friends in the streets of Singapore, have been adopted by two Singapore policemen and an Indian civilian. Two of the boys,
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  • 210 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter ASH APORE man who locks himself in a room and then swallows razor blades and needles has just been made an honorary member of the Edinburgh Magic Circle. He is Mr. Bek Swee Hoon, an interpreter in the Registrar of Vehicles' Court.
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  • 52 7 Sunday limes Staff Reporter An elderly deaf and dumb Chinese was charged in the Second Police Court, Singapore, yesterday with vagrancy. The case was postponed to Tue.^ay to enable the police to find out ,'i ther the Social Welfare Department would admit the man to its home
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  • 157 7 DEATH ROLL IN FIRE RISES TO 6 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE death roll in the fire which raged in a threestorey house in Lavender Street. Singapore, on Friday afternoon rose to six last night. The dead are four girls, a woman and a man all Chinese. Latest victim is
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  • 119 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday THE Sultan of Selangor's Astana Mahkota at Klang, Royal residence of Selangor ™te rs since it was built :n 1903, Is to be demolished, it is unsafe because of the ravages of white ants and is considered unsuitable as
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  • 72 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A 55-year-old woman, Chan Ec Nco, told the Singapore Second Police Court Magistrate yesterday that she would have to s;ek the permission of her two sons who were in the Salvation Army Boys' Home, before she could go to the Social
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  • 236 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter WORK in Singapore hospitals has increased to a great extent and there are not enough nurse? to deal with it, the Chief Medical officer at the General Hospital, Dr. T. F. Strar-g, told the Sunday Times yesterday. Expressing grave concern over the
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  • 87 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter IPOH, Saturday. HIS Highness the Sultan of Perak, Sir Abdul Aziz, will perform the ceremonial opening of the State Council at 10 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 2. when the Federation and State Agreements signed by the Malay Rulers and the Governor last Thursday
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  • 79 7 Sunday Tiroes Skiff kepc... THE Sinhalese Association Singapore, stnt a cabl; yesterday to the Secretary of the Prime Minister of Ceylon asking for the date of celebration of Ceylonese Independence Day. They ar; not sure whether the day is Feb. 4 or Feb. 10. At a
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  • 216 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A jury of two Indians, four Chinese and a Eurasian at the Singapore Assize Court, yesterday unanimously found seven Chinese not guilty of resisting the arrest ot Tan Scow Kirn, who was detained on a murder charge, on June 18 last
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  • 128 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter OESTRICTIONS on the import of American goods 1\ from Hong Kong into Singapore have now been 11 ted. Importation of American goods direct from the United States is still regulated. Conservation of United States dollars Is not affected with
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  • 30 7 All stations of Radio Malaya's Blue Network will broadcast today at 1.40 p.m. a recording of a recent 8.8.C. talk by the Secretary for Colonies. Mr. Creech Jones.
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  • 90 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter TWO labourers employed at the Singapore Harbour Board were arrested with cloth tied to their legs. The men. Hal Ah Seng and Cheah Yew, pleaded guilty to fraudulent possession of cloth and were each fined $50, in default one
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  • 39 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter Three unarmed Chinese held up the occupants of a room in a boarding house in Chin Cheok Street, Singapore, yesterday morning, and took a gold bracelet worth $160 from a Chinese woman.
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  • 97 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter rpHE Representative of the M. Government of India in lalaya, Mr. J. A. Thivy, will leaving Singapore this i 4. 'ng by car on a tour of <> a Lumpur and Negri 3em~ilan. Alter attending a meeting at Kuala Lumpur this
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  • 35 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A large gathering of members and friends attended a dinner party at the Happy World Restaurant last night to celebrate the 16th anniversary of he Mayfair Badminton Party, Singapore.
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  • 26 7 BATU PAHAT. Saturday.— More tham 3,000 Muslims, including schoolchildren, took part in this morning's procession round the town in honour of the Prophet's birthday.
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  • 402 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. "T WILL never believe that my husband committed 1 suicide. I think someone killed him," said Che Kamseah biiiti Mohamed Ali, widow of the late Inchc Maarof bin Ilaji Zakariah, the Kuala Lumpur bank director. Che Kamseah was
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  • 274 7 S'pore blood bank almost exhausted Sunday Times Staff Reporter ONLY six pints of blood— barely sufficient for sf:i v patients remain in Singapore's blood bank, a representative of the General Hospital's Blood Transfusion Service told the Sunday Times yesterday. Unless more donors came forward immediately, he said, there was a
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  • 32 7 Mr. Cecil Hobb6. reference librarian for South East A.sia in the Division of Orientalia of the Library of Congress at Washington will broadcast from Radio Malaya tomorrow at 8.18 p.m.
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    • 90 8 PILES tw your p»ui ux) i.ivt st w.ih ManZaa U\e remedy mite especially lo> pile*. Man Zaa tooche* the unuuon. relieve* tht pun and tones op the swollen, cootested pans Mas Zan is clean and easy to usc-thankt to Ihc hygienic muile. ■•luch applies the antuepuc medicament direct to the
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    • 377 8 cOMMit 3 PEN a for me too TV SI MMIT |.m 1. ihc j SUMMIT PCM LTO loaooa tivf ofooi MAYTAIKORrENTAL CO. D-J Rodnry Hae Battery Rd. S'por«> Tel H7« SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS&. 4fetfßl JbssHbssssssHKs*^Jb^LJ MAKE MEALS TASTIER trrrm mmn»iMt nunrsr savcm D.P. goe* prrfrrtly wilb widr ■■hl| of di»BM »ad II
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    • 1047 8 THIS WEEK FOR YOU -What the Stars ForetellAQUARIUS (Jan. 21- TAURUS. (Apr. 21-May LEO (July 24-Au». 2s).— SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. Feb 19) —AH lejal and 21). A new undertaking, it Guard against extrava- 22).— A Journey, possibly to bankine matters appear in carefully planned, can be ranee or over-indulfenee farther
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    • 323 8 I JhiH 1 *1 iTSn^fflpHßiViH rpHERE la one phase of bidding that U very confusing to many players. When to bid over a redouble and what type of hand it shows. As an illustration, first hand bids a diamond, your partner doubles and the third hand r«doubles. If you now
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    • 406 8 IT any of the other three players is bidding unsoundly, you may have something. The opening bid may be psychic, your partner's double may be shaded, or the redouble may be a bluff. In any of these event*. you might have a fairly good hand. You can show this either
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  • 769 9 PEARLS ARE IN FAVOUR Mary Heathcott Surveys New Fashions IT is probably true to say that pearls never go out of fashion. There is always some woman somewhere who thinks a good English country suit or a knitted twin set is not complete unless worn with a string of pearls,
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  • 383 9 17EAL can be bought In the h >ps just naw. ?o that these two different ways of cookiu£ it srtould be welcome. Both are unusual and you ar t sure to enjoy them. YOU need: One pound of veal, th'ec quarters of an ounce of dripping,
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  • 410 9 Can two adult people 28 and 30 risk marriage if there is little chance of their having a home of their own? They are in love, they are grand companions, they have plenty of interests. Which would win love or the present-day marriagebreaking conditions? INTERESTED. IN this case
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  • 534 9 Nylon- clad legs need care THERE is magic 1 about nylon stockings, paradoxical wisps that suggest you are wearing no stockings at all, that makes them a desirable accessory to women all over the world. Generally. I imagine, we adore nylon stockings mainly for their beautiful sheerness, and because they
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  • 79 9 SEQUINS are still very much in favour with those determined to have glitter in their clothes. Brightly -coloured thick woollen cloves even have sequins embroidered on the backs. Woollen sweaters have sequin necklaces or sequin posies dotted over them. Recently I also saw sequins used in interior decoration.
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  • 54 9 DUSINESS firms w the v United States spend between £4,000,000 and £5,000,000 a year findinj out what the customer wants to buy and at what sort of price. As a result of a market survey, manufacturers have renamed the ordinary wooden non-safety match the "strike-everywhere" match It
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    • 112 9 CROSSWORD SOLUTION Across: 1. Hapse. 6, Swerve. 11, Retentive. 12. Barter. 14, KlecU. 16, Ore. 17, Wired. 1»; To*. 30. Btar. 22. Ear. 23. Toll. 24, Siren. 24, Hlros. 27, Punched. 2«. Glean. 30, Macaw. 33, Levy. 34. Set. 36, Lone. 37, Ire. 3b Optic. 40, Ace. 41, Dynamo. 43,
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  • 147 10 INTERNATIONAL MATCH: Scotland 9, France 8. CLUB MATCHES:.. Blackheatn 6. Royal Navy 8: Harlequins 3, Cambridge v. 8: London Scottish 3. London Welsh 6; Old Millhillans 6, Birkenluad Park 12; St. Barts 3. OMT 16; St. Mary 0, Rugby 0; Wasps 8, United Services (Portsmouth) 0; Aldershot Services
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  • 65 10 Bradford N. 47, Yoric 8; Bramlpy 6, Batley 0; Bellevue R. 3, Liverpool S. 0; Castleford 21, Hunslet 8: Dewsbury 5, FeatherFtone R. 0; Halifax 11. Leigh 3; Hull 13. Barrow 0; Keighley 0. Huddersneld 28; Leeds 26. Oldham 5- Salford 16, Workington 3; St. Helens 8. Rochdale
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  • 42 10 Sunday Times Correspondent. THE Kuala Lumpur Garrison won the Selangor Rugby Football Union seven-a-side tournament last evening, beating the Selangor United by a goal, a penalty and a try to nil Summers, Maclaughlin, and Reed scored for the garrison.
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  • 454 10 LONDON, Saturday. ONE spectator collapsed and died during the exciting closing minutes of the Fourth round Cup game in which the Essex non-League club, Colchester, defeated Bradford, conquerors of Arsenal in the previous round. With three minutes left for play, and Colchester leading 3 2, Bradford
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    46 10 Coach Mr. Tom Donnett checks the positions for a startin? dive by Auckland (NZ) champion Peter Bomfleld and Australia. champion John Marshall during training at the Richmond Baths, Melbourne, recently. The two swimmers are preparing for the Australian championships to be held in Sydney during February.
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  • 72 10 QEORGE ZBISKO, the Polish heavyweight wrestler, held All Riza Bey, the Turkish heavyweight champion, to a draw ai the Great World Arena last night. Zbisko was pinned in the third round while Bey conceded a fall In the ninth. Other results were: Curly
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  • 37 10 BRIDGETOWN. Barbados Saturday. At lunch on the fourth day of the first Test between England and the West Indies to-day the home side had made 233 for five wickete in their second innings. Reuter.
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  • 26 10 BELFAST. Saturday— Jackie Paterson, world flyweight champion, has signed to defend his title against Rinty Monaghan of Belfast at Belfast on Mar. 29.— Reuter.
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  • 33 10 J. B. BADMINTON LOSS f pHE Companion Badminton Party of Johore Bahru has lost one of its most popular patrons by the transfer of Mr. K. M. Chelliah, of the P.W.D.. to Kluang.
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  • 386 10 223 8.0.D 2 KJ.aba Assn 1 'THE Khalsa Association hockey XI was eliminated 1 from the Singapore Hockey Association knockout tournament when they went down to the 223 8.0.D. hockey XI by the odd goal in three on the SRC. ground yesterday. The 8.0.D.
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  • 147 10 LAMBONG DARA SINGH VICTORS Two knockouts were seen in the double main-event wrestling promotion at the Happy World arena. Singapore, last night. In the big fight of the evening, the giant Sikh. Dara Singh, made short work of "Black Butcher" Mukle of the British At my, who was knocked out
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  • 440 10 Badminton Notes by SHUTTLE •pilE official Singapore badminton season will dose on Saturday when the Marrieds, captained by Wong Peng Soon, meet the Singles, captained by Ong Poh Llm. This match will consist of two men s singles, one men's doubles, one women's singles and
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  • 125 10 Negri Await Return v Singapore Sunday Times Netxi Sports Correspondent IN important ln^er-state hockey fixture which Negri sports enthusiasts are eagerly looking forward to is the match against Singapore to be played at Seremban on Saturday. (Jan. 31). Last season Negri made a sporting gesture by sending a scratch eleven
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  • 90 10 MELBOURNE. Sat.— Mrs. Nancy Wynne Bolton. holder of the title, today won the Australian women's singles lawn tennis championship for the sixth tune since 1937, when she beat Miss M. Twomey 6 3, 6 l in the final here. John Bromwich and Adrian Qulst won the
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  • 106 10 MELBOURNE. Saturday. JOHN TRELOAR, one of Australia's main Olympic hopes, won the 100-yard title at the Australian amateur athletic championships here to-day. In a thrilling finish with J. Bartram. of Victoria, Treloar got home by inches in 9.8 seconds, with McKenley of Jamaica a yard and
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  • 76 10 JN two other games in the S.H.A. knockout tournament yesterday, the Harlequins XI defeated the S.C.R.C. six goals to nil, at Tanglin while, at Thomson Road, the Singapore Harbour Board Police Hockey XI beat the Hospital Assistants' Union beating them by six goals to one. Morrisey
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  • 323 10 Sunday Times Johore Sports Correspondent JOHORE Football AssociaJ tion is taking steps to make sure there will be some sort of uniformity throughout the State over the soccer season and has asked all district associations to make a start with their league matches
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  • 37 10 EX -CHAMPION WINS CHICAGO, Saturday. The world's former lightweight champion. Beau Jack, scored a technical knockout in the eighth round of his fight against Johnny Bratton here last night. It is feared Bratton bat ItacUued bis iaw.A.P.
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  • 2495 11  -  EPSOM JEEP favourites By KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. HARRY Sleigh, doyen of Malayan trainers, saddled four winners today, the last day of the Selangor Turf Club January Meeting. They were Bronze Flash, Christmas Knight, Phar Gay and Kanda. Wally Bagby brought home three winners and was
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  • 101 11 T)UE to the fact that the Singapore Amateur Lawn Tennis Association's first poet-war indoor tournament has had to be postponed until March 1, the Hon. Secretary, Mr. C. K. Pang wishes to confirm entries in all events. Intending competitors are asked to confirm their entries either verbally
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  • 35 11 The annual general meeting of the Colonials Cricket Club. Singapore, will be held next Sunday, at 10.30 a.m.. at the Universal Restaurant, North Bridge Road. All members are kindly requested Is be present.
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  • 967 12 SOUTH WIN RUGBY TEST 18-9 North fail after early lead RESPITE the North scoring a snap try only six V minutes after the start of the game, the South eventually proved victorious by 18 points (three goals and a try) to 9 (three tries), in their annual rugger match at
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  • 611 12  -  ARTHUR MAILEY By Exclusive To The Sunday Times ADELAIDE, Saturday. HESUMING with their overnight score of 370 .for tv three on a perfect wicket, Australia put on the huge score of 674 today, the second day of their Fourth Test against India. The Australian score is
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  • 75 12 J OLLILADS A.U. 'pilE following will play football for the Jolliiads' first team against the s/s Fort Brunswick football team at 515 p.m on the Oo\-!rnment Printing Office ground today: Sithainbanim, Rasak, Muthu. Olian'.. Murugasu, Nadarajn 1 Sinthn. K. R. Muthiah, Kayai rhii"i\allu. Osman Munlynndi. 1 Hanifl, M. Krishnan, (cap*"
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  • 134 12 Sunday Times Staff Reporter IPOH. Saturday. "pRAINING for the Ipoh meeting j officially opened today, when half-pace workouts came under i observation. No Regrets and The Raven, j both winners at Penang, showed j that they are retaining their I form. Track conditions were excellent. The
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  • 91 12 TN a S.CJF.A. inter-district lea- 1 gue soccer match played at the Geylang Stadium yesterday. Telok Blangah beat Lorong 17 Geylang by three goals to nil. Leong Ctaong Chee. the Telok Blangah centre-forward, scored all three goals in the first half of the game. There was
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  • 105 12 IN an effort to revive interest in boxing which has been neglected during the past months, the Great World Amusement Park will present a five-bout card at 9 p.m. to-day. Two well-known welterweights, Jabbar bin Jaffar and Barban Singh, top the bill in an eightround
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  • 130 12 Sunday Times Johore Bahra Correspondent a MEETTING of delegates from A Johore Bahni. Kluang, Muar and Segamat on Friday at Kluang unanimously decided to form the Johore Cricket Association. Major P.O.M. Lee presided and the delegates who attended were Capt. A.E. Oxley (Military Units). S M.
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  • 306 12 Sunday Times Penang Sports Correspondent PENANG. Saturday. FNANG were deserving winners In their return Inter-state hockey match against Perak this evening. Penang won by two goals to nil. In the previous match played at Ipoh last month, the team drew two-all Two players were Injured
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  • 58 12 rpHE following have been L selected to represent the Harmony Musical Association in a tabl€-tem<nis match of five singles against the Yew Chee Sia ait tihe latter's premises in Telok Ayer Street ay 7.30 p.m. today: Ng Yew Wing (captain), Wang Wah Soo. Wong Kirn Hong, Leans Hoi
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  • 108 12 Following are the office-bearer* of the Singapore Indian Association for 1948: President, Mr. S. L. Perumal; vice-presidents: Messrs. AX. Issac. D. T. Patel and R. Sitharam, bon. general secretary, Mr. D. Dharmaraj; hon. treasurer, Mr. D. K. Samy. social secretary, Mr. R. 5. Nadarajah; cricket secretary, Mr. D.
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