The Straits Times, 19 February 1948

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1 845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1948 PRICE TEN CENTS
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    RULERS' CONFERENCE IS OPENED IN K.L.
    1375 1 Sultans Pledge To Work For The Common Good From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE nine Malay Rulers made two pledges at the opening of their historic Rulers' Conference m Kuala Lumpur today: To work for the welfare and interests of the peoples
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    Firecrackers Tragedy
    78 1 COLOMBO, Wednesdi? At least 13 people were killed ir an explosion m a fireworks factory m Galle, about 80 miles from Colombo, yesterday. Ninety men. women and children were working m the factory at the time of the explosion, but only 28 were immediately rescued from the wreckage.
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    Palestine Mission Secrecy
    227 1 JERUSALEM, Wednesday ■FHE Palestine press cen1 sor has banned, on "security grounds," the publication of photographs of the United Nations I Palestine Commission Secretariat, some of whom are expected here soon. The staff of the Commission will live and work m the strongly-guarded King Davna Hotel, At
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    Deportees On Way To Kure
    110 1 From Our Staff Correspondent MELBOURNE, Wednesday THE troopship Kanimbla left Sydney today for Kure, Japan, with all the listed Malay deportees aboard. The police stated today that tne overnight detention of nine Malays in prison cells without charges being preferred against them was within the
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    35 1 TEHERAN, Wednesday. The bill for the purchase of $10,000,000 worth of arms and ammunition from the United States was approved by the Majlis (Parliament) last night by 75 votes to 6 with four abstentions. AP.
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    24 Killed In Train Crash
    102 1 LILLE, Wednesday. AT least 24 people were killed and 30 injured i when a freight train crash•d into a passenger train yesterday near Thumeries, a small station 15 miles from here on the LilleDonai line. After four hours rescue workers had recovered 24 bodies from
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    Chilean President Defies Britain
    318 1 SANTIAGO, CHILE, Wednesday. THE Chilean President, Mr. Gabriel Gonzalez Videla, has issued a warning that any attempt by a foreign power to take territory claimed by Chile m the Antarcic will be considered as an "aggression against all the nations of the Americas." Mr. Videla made
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    Yesterday's Race Results
    120 1 THp following are the results of yesterday's SinJ.j.«e races: Race 1: DONNELL ABU $14 and $6; Foretold $8; Princess Prints $9. Race 2: HONEY COMB SI 13 and $21; Prattle On $8; Smiling Through $7. Race 3: SILVER JUPITER $23 and $11; Hunter's Call $10; Yutoi $56.
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    WILD RIOTING IN TRIPOLI
    75 1 CAIRO, Wednesday. It was officially announced today that w^d rioting had broken out m Tripoli, capital of Libya, with three civilians killed and 78 wounded. Eight British soldiers were also wounded. An official communique said the dead and wounded included only those casualties up to 4
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    Korea: U.S. Is Silent
    189 1 Korea U.S. Is Silent WASHINGTON, Wed. •THE United States State 1 Department refrained from commenting yesterday on the reported declaration of an independent republic m the Russian zone of Korea They said they were awaiting clarification of the situation there. President Yong Jeung Kirn. of the Korean Affairs Institute, m
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    NEW AIR SERVICE TO CEYLON
    47 1 LONDON, Wednesday. The British Overseas Airways Corporation announced yesterday that It would start a new service tomorrow across the Indian Ocean connecting Singapore and Ceylon. Lancastrian planes carrying 13 passengers will be used on i the weekly service of 1,777 miles.— A.P.
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    Service Chiefs For N.Z.
    155 1 Service Chiefs For N.Z. •THE Army and Air Force 1 Commiinders-kn-Chief m the For East and the Flag Officer, Malaya, are due to leave Singapore by plane on Sunday for defence talks m New Zealand. These three officers are Gen. Sir Neil Ritchie. Com-mander-in-Chief. Fa- Eastern Land Forces; Air Marshal
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    PRINCESS IN ACCIDENT
    43 1 LONDON. Wednebdiiy. The cai m which Princv beth and the Duke of I burgh were riding lision with a taxi n Park Corner, Loo morning. The Royal couple wen hurt and their car damage. The taxi was slightly maged.— Reuter.
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    JAP REPARATIONS FOR BURMA
    61 1 JAP REPARATIONS FOR BURMA LONDON. Wednesday sixth of the 30 per cent of the Japanese Industrial b available for reparations vis been allocated to Britain for immediate relief m Burma and the British Far Eastern colonies. Announcing this m House of Commons the Chancellor of the Fquer (Sir Stafford Cripnsi
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    KINSTLER GETS FIVE YEARS
    44 1 PERTH. Western Austral: i. Thursday.— lsrael Hertz Kinstler. 43-year-old engineer, formerly of Singapiv day sentences to fiv s j hard labour by a Perth criminal court. The court found him guilty of engaging m ill c.: ports of gold. R>m:
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    U.S. Navy Awaits Marines Taken By Chinese Reds
    373 2 U. S. Na vy A wa its Marines Taken By Chinese Reds TSINGTAO, Wednesday. A DMIRAL Charles M. Cooke, commander of the United States naval forces m the West Pacific, said yesterday that United States Navy ships were lying off Haiyang, on the east coast of Shantung Peninsula, awaiting new
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    63 2 Twelve -year *ld BerctH Varella Cid playing a Beethoven concerto at the Cambridge Theatre, London, on Feb. 8. He is a son of the Portuguese pianist Lourenco Varella Cid, a godson of Moiseiwitsch. a fluent speaker of Portuguese, French, Spanish and English and a student of German and Russian. He
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    RED DEPUTY ARRESTED
    111 2 BRUSSELS, Wednesday. I The police arrested Mile. Su1 zanne Gregolre Cloes, a Comi munist deputy for Brussels, as I she led a group of Communists distributing strike leaflets to I workers entering a Brussels power station yesterday. She was later released. Gas and electricity workers who have
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    GLOUCESTERS TAKE LEAVE
    82 2 COLOMBO, Wednesday.— The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester left Ceylon by air for Britain yesterday. The Governor-General of Ceylon, Sir Henry Moore, the Prime Minister, Mr. D. S. Senanayake, and almost the entire Cabinet saw the Royal guests off at Negambo airport. The Duke, in a farewell
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    SEVERE FLOODS IN ANATOLIA
    42 2 ANKARA, Wednesday.— A heavy loss of life was feared yesterday m severe floods which seriously damaged property and communications m Southern Anatolia. Rivers have burst their banks, flooding wide districts, including several towns and than 100 vilages. Rev-
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    BOUND FOR DELHI
    47 2 BRUSSELS, Wednesday. The first Belgian woman to be sent out of Europe to fill such a post, Mile. Giselle Levie, attachee with the Political Directorate of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign AfTars, has been appointed attachee to the Belgian Embassy at New Delhi.— Reuter.
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      1,300 Immigrants Allowed Into Britain Weekly
      106 2 LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday. BRITAIN told the United Nations yesterday that 1,300 persons were being admitted into the United Kingdom weekly. Britain reported alsc I that she was placing 1,000 ex-members of the Polish Army m civilian employment weekly. •The Parliamentary Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs,
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      Indecent Captivity
      70 2 KARACHI, Wednesday. The Pakistan Government last night officially announced 45,118 Muslim girls had been abducted m East Punjab. The statement said this "should open the eyes of Interested parties who issue misleading statements to hid* 1 the correct position of the total number of abducted Sirls who are
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      Michael For U.S.
      46 2 LAUSANNE. Wednesday. Former King Michael of Rumania, his mother ex-Queen H» len and Princess Anne of Bourbon Parma, will probably visit the United States shortly. A member of the former King's staff said yesterday the visit we uld be a temporary on<\ A.P.
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      Taken In Tientsin
      57 2 TIENTSIN. Wednesday. Eighty-three Chinese, includ!ng several women, allegedly belonging to the so-called Communist underground orgarisation m Tientsin, were arrested during the New Year holidays m a densely populated part of the city. The Communist-appointed "Mayor" Yu Ta-sheng. as well -<s executive members of the Communist Party Tientsin
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      Prison Plaint
      76 2 SHANGHAI. Wednesday. Six people yesterday said Shanghai's Ward Road Gaol har reverted, under its Chlnest warden, to conditions even more deplorable than under the Japanese. The Japanese used the nrltm as torture chamber for Allied internees during the wa r The six men, m a letter to the
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      Slav Conference
      31 2 Sovici o.neral Gundotuv, past president of the AllSlav Committee, addressing a Bulgarian open-air audience daring the Fatherland Front Congress on Feb. 4, at tfie Bulgarian capital, Sofia.— A.P. picture.
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      Cholera
      43 2 ALLAHABAD. Wednesday. —Indian authorities have reDorted about 100 cholera deaths m an area where Mahatma Gandhi's ashes wero committed to sacred waters. The victims included several whi had come to take part m the ceremonies. One hundred others were reported 111.— U.P.
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      First Time
      62 2 WASHINGTON, Wednesday —Two NegTO reporters wiU be among the group of 28 correspondents which will accompany President Truman on his Caribbean trip next week. This will be the first time that Negro reporters have covered a Presidential trip of this* nature. The two correspondents are P. Bernard Young,
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      Bound For Japan
      67 2 SHANGHAI. Wednesday. A farewell reception will be eiven this afternoon m honour of 40 Chinese gendarmes assigned to guard duties at the Chinese mission m Japan. The group will leave for Japan on Feb. 21. These Chinese military policemen, the first to be sent to a foreign
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      Germans For U.K.
      63 2 LONDON. Wednesday.— One hundred German men and women teachers from the British zor.e will shortly arrive m Britain to take part m courses arranged by the British Council. The course will be held m Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Cardiff and Bristol. They will give a general picture of life
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      Starving Children
      32 2 GENEVA, Wednesday. Delegates from 14 European nations met m Geneva yesterday to plan a United Nations campaign to save 460.000.00 ft of the world's children from •tarvation and malnutrition —Reuter.
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      De-Coyed
      76 2 DETROIT, Wednesday.— Several years ago three Bish sisters, Neaoni, Orena, and Audrey married three Coy Brothers, Claude. Robert and Vernon. Last October, Neaoni was granted a divorce from Claude. Recently, Andrey Aled a divorce suit, now pending against Vernon, and Orena was granted a divorce from Robert. The judge
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      Anti-Betting
      66 2 MADRAS. Wednesday. The Government of Madras has circularised to the Madras Legislative Assembly a draft bill prohibiting wagering and betting on horse races even within race enclosure*. The bill, to be introduced m the present session of the Assembly, also prohibits the printing, publication or sale of news of
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      Sir Hubert,
      76 2 LL O N D O N. Wednesday—The King yesterday invested Maj-Gen. Sir Hubert Ranee, the last British Governor <>f Burma, with the Grand Cross of St. Michael and st. George after Sir Hu bert and Lady Ranee had lunched with the King and Queen. Sir Hubert succeeded Sir
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      HRH Goes To Court
      38 2 LONDON, Wednesday. Princess Elizabeth, accompanied by a lady In waiting, attended Tower Bridge Juvenile Court yesterday and listened to complaints against wayward boys a^d girls. She went unrecognised for more than an hour. A.P.
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      Railway Banditry
      47 2 PARIS, Wednesday. Tu-nls-Sfax (North Africa) diesel car was derailed on Monday night after 60 metres of track had been unbolted. The passengers were then fired on with automatic weapons. No casualties were reported. The Agency France Presse blamed local bandits for thp incident.— A P.
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      Greasing Wheels
      43 2 HAMBURG. WednesdayThe police at Wittenberg, on the main railway line from Berlin to Hamburg, have ar- rested several people alleged !to have greased the railway i tracks with wax and fats The alleged intention was to stop and rr-b trains.— Reuter
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      Hanged
      26 2 HONG KONG. Wednesday. Col. Aaao Kar.azawa, former Kempeitai office m Homer Kong, was hanged yesterday at 3'^anjey Pri/Bon. for ill-treatment of prisoners and residents.— A.P.
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    Malaya-Jap Trade Proposal
    192 2 MalayaJap Trade Proposal WASHINGTON, Wed. IF a pian tubmitu d the U.S. Annv n Japan is adopted, Jap will barter her textile* tc rubber and tin produc ng countries m exchange i«» these strategic raw materials A committee <>: textile experts who recently vitited Japan ha\e reroinmended that Jap^n be
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    BIRMINGHAM AIDS KASHMIR
    52 2 BIRMINGHAM. Wedn> The Muslim Kashmir Society w three days aeo m Bin. ham. with memben rai from business people small shopkeepers to factory workers and pedlars. It has already raised for the Government I Fund m Kashmir. It hopes to make the total £1.000 m hree I
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    UNHAPPY LANDING
    47 2 MILAN Italian military authoi yesterday investigating land four-ei plane on Bergamo ai Northern Italy. The pilot, a Dutch stated to have laid had lost his beariu he said he had Intended to load a cargo of arms a; cia. 50 mil' s easi ol —Reuter.
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      618 2 NOTICES BINOCULARS LOANED TO AiR OBSERVER CORPS in 1941. Tli- Custodian of Property, Court. Singapore. Invites < la'ms In writing from Members Public regarding Binoculars |< a'vd to Air Observer Corps, j re in 1941. i!s of make, number, (if uid nrnearance etc should j arrompanv claim. R BLAIKIE. 1
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      690 2 NO I ICES IMPORT OF JAPANESE COTTON PIECEGOODS Applications on A.P. forms can now be submitted to Registrar, Imports Exports. Singapore for the import of limited quantities of Japanese cotton Diecegoods through commercial channels, übject to a price limi'a tion of 65 Malayan cents per square yard c.i.f. FRASER NEAVE,
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    MORE POWER FOR U.N. IN N.E.I.?
    573 3 Security Council Hears Debate LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday. THE main question emerging in the Security Council debate on Indonesia yesterday was whether or not the Good Offices Committee should be granted more authority, now that a "delicate truce" had been achieved, to establish political peace
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    Shanghai Is Sinking
    68 3 SHANGHAI, Wednesday. Shanghai is sinking into the mud on which it was built, the Bureau of Public Works said yesterday. The city has sunk more than seven inches m the last seven years, the P.W.D. siiid. and it is not likely to stop. The Bureau optimistically, said,
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    U.S. May Slash Oil Exports
    113 3 WASHINGTON, Wed. THE United States Com1 merce Department is! expected to announce to- j day a new slash m oil ex.- port quotas to save fuel lor American households. The Department cancelled at the last moment an order halting the issuance of all patrol fuel
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    73 3 Because British cars are highly valued in Czechoslovakia, racing drivers Zdenek Treybal and Frantisek Dobry went to London to collect a new 2-litre Bristol to take back, lather than trust it to rail transport. The two men are partners in Prague's biggest British car agency, which handles Bristols, Atlas, Singers
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    N.E.I. Rubber Will Not Affect Price
    348 3 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON Wednesday. THE belief in some quarters that any large increase 1 in N.E.I, rubber output would adversely affect the natural rubber price was described as ill-founded by Mr. J. C. Bennett in the chairman's address to the Rubber Trade
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    Mac Arthur Warns Of Blood-Bath
    157 3 Mac Arthur Warns Of Blood-Bath WASHINGTON, Wed. GEN. Mac Arthur, m a letter read m the Senate today, warned that a "blood bath of revolutionary violence" mighf occur m Japan unless concentrations of economic power m that country were completely broker up. Declaring his full 6upport of United States State
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    U.S. Rubber Bill Ready
    108 3 WASHINGTON, Wed. •THE House of Represent1 atives Armed Services Committee yesterday approved a bill to keep the production and use ol synthetic rubber under Government control. The measure, replacing a wartime law expiring on March 31. requires the Government to keep plant capacity at 675,000 tons
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    88 3 W::ii th- aid of breadcrumbs, margarine and parsley, Mrs. Doreen Waskett plans a new recipe. Mrs. Waskett is the mind behind the recipes published m the press and m pamphlet form by the Ministry of Food for housewives who have not sufficient rations to experiment w th new dishes. The
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    NO WAR DANGER YET, SAYS SOVIET
    51 3 MOSCOW, Wednesday. Red Star, organ of the Russian Ministry of Defence, stated categorically yesterday that there was no danger of war at present. In a front-page editorial Red Star declared, however, that "one should not engender a feeling of complacency m the armed forces."
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    70 4 British f< exp >rls pictured at a meet ig cf t.ip Australiai Itural Council at Canh;r. They went to Australia to ariange for greater production of food for British consumption. At the meeting, they conferred with the Commonwealth Ministers and the Minister for Agriculture from each of the six States.
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    NEW FILM CENSOR APPOINTED
    339 4 MR. Jack Evans, Films Officer of the Public Relations Departments of Singapore and the Malayan Federation has been appointed Film Censor for Malaya. Mr. Evans is expected to take up his duties in Singapore on March 1. The two Governments have taken several months to select
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    CHINESE ON ARMS CHARGE
    73 4 Chan Kirn See, a Chinese, appeared m the Seventh Police Court yesterday on a charge of carrying arms. It was alleged that he carried a .38 automatic' pistol on Feb. 17 at 2.35 p.m. at Jalan Pisang. He is also alleged to have been m possession
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    41 4 Explaining details of the Kuala Lumpur Mulberry Harbour exhibition to the Acting Governor-General (Sir Edward Gent) is Major N. C. Marshal. RL, who took part m the actual operation of assembling the invas'on harbour at Aroraancbes oa the French soast.-F.RJ). picture.
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    Help The Schools, Says Cheeseman
    152 4 Help The Schools, Says Cheeseman From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. THE hope that in Malaya there would be liberal private benefactions to university education was expressed today by the i Director of Education. j (Mr. H. R. Chee.seman). Mr. Cheeseman was addressing Kuala Lumpur rotarians on "Scholarships and
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    Women Lend A Hand
    137 4 A TEAM of women volunteers from the Indian com- munity has been raised by Mr. J. A. Thivy, the Singapore representatdve of the Govern- ment of India, to work on the preparation of the exhibits of the Indian Exhibition, which opens at the Great World amusement
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    Answer To Bus Strikers
    172 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. PROMPT organisation of an emergency transport service by rural bus companies, acting under the instructions of the I Commissioner for Road Transport, saved Kuala Lumpur residents from the paralysing effects of a strike called this morning by General Transport
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    MEMORIAL SERVICE
    110 4 A memorial service to the I late Air Marshal Sir Arthur i Cunningham, X.C.8., K.8.E.. D.5.0., M.C., D.F.C., A.F.C.. will be held at St. Andrew's (Cathedral, Singapore, at 8.30 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 20. Sir Arthur was one of the passengers on the air liner, Star Tiger, which
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    ARMS CHARGE
    58 4 Ong Lye Huat, alias Ong Ah Chun, a 24-year-ol<i Chinese, was produced in the Seventh Police Court yesterday on a charge of having carried a revolver on Feb. 5, at Lorong 3, Geylang, and having caused hurt to detective Swi Ah Tee The charge was explained to Ong
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    New Drug To Combat Leprosy
    241 4 New Drug To Combat Leprosy ANEW British drug, sulphetrone, will soon be used to help m the fight against leprosy m Singapore. The Medical Officer In charge of the Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Dr. R. J. GroveWhite, announced this when he spoke at the Singapore Rotary Club yesterday. Dr. Grove-White
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    NEW LIBRARY BOOKS
    228 4 The following new books will b? added to Raffles Library, Singapore, within the next few days: Agate (James) Those were the Nights: Cox (Trenchard) David Cox; Curie (Eve) Journey among Warriors; De Lacombe (Jean) A Compendium of the East. (Ref Freud (Anna) others. The Psychoanalytic Study of
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    52 4 A decree nisi, to be made absolute m three months, was granted to Mrs. Jane Miriam Clumeck by the Chief Justice. Singapore (Mr. Justice Mur-ray-Aynsley) at the High Court yesterday, when she petitioned for a divorce from her husband. Mr. Nathaniel Clumeck, on the ground of his adultery. The petitiou
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      399 4 UfouU UOtt kill SAT. AT MIDNIGHT I REX ARE YOU A MOM THE OTHERS? Then T«f This' After a meal those with goo<l digestion have t feeling of contentment, but there are thousands of others who endure discomfort and pain: whose enjoyment of food is overshadowed by fear cf the
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    CALL FOR "EMPIRE COUNCIL"
    604 5 Supreme Body On Lines Of U.N. LONDON, Wednesday. A SUPREME consultative body of the British Commonwealth and Empire to be known as "the Council of the British Nations" was advocated by Viscount Bruce of Melbourne m the House of Lords yesterday. It would be composed of
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    56 5 Little Julie ("Butch") Mills, daughter of film actor John Mills, had a peep at the shoes Patricia Roc wore when, along with other British film stars, Patricia went to the Odeon Theatve, Leicester Square. London, to r enact some of the great scenes from last y< ar*s films for the
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    Opposed To Taking Over Industries
    193 5 Opposed To Taking Over Industries NEW DELHI, Wednesday. PANDIT Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India yesterday rejected immediate nationalisation cf India's key industries. Production was an essential thing now, he said. Pandit Nehru opposed, m the Dominion Parliament a rrpolution recommending that the Government should imnvdiately adopt a principle of
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    "OUTLOOK IS BRIGHTER"
    91 5 FRANKFURT, Wednesday. The economic outlook for western Germany is brighter, said Mr. W. John Logan, U.S. Director-General of AngloAmerican Export-Import agency, today. During January, contracts were signed for more than US S5?, 000,000 worth of exports, compared with two million In contracts m January last year. Logan
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    No "Outlawing" Of Reds
    93 5 LONDON, Wednesday. •THE British Prime Minister (Mr. Clement Attlee) has declined a suggestion that the Communists m Britain should be outlawed and their funds confiscated. The proposal came from Sir Wolrtrcn Smithers, Coiirbervative M P., I Replying through his Parliamein*ary Secretary, Mr. Attlee emphasised that the
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    171 Entries For Penang Races
    983 5 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. A TOTAL of 171 entries have been received for the Penang Turf Club's three-day Leap Year Meeting to be held on Feb. 28, March 3 and 6. Of the 171 entries, 78 are class three horses, 86 are class
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    Kedah Oath Of Loyalty Protest
    171 5 Kedah Oath Of Loyalty Protest Malay Newt From Abdul Aziz bin Lshak ALL sections of the Malay population of Kedab are opposed to the demand made by the authorities that Malays in Government service should take a formal oath of allegiance and loyalty to the Sultan ol Kedah. The religious
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    Bao Dai For Far East
    171 5 PARIS, Wednesday. T>AO DAI, ex-Emperor of O Annam, is expected tc leave Cannes m two days time and proceed to Geneva on his w3y to the East, a French spokesman announced today. Bao Dai last week had concapital early last week after his projected discussion
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    $65,000,000 IS MISSING
    105 5 WASHINGTON. Wednesday. Tre Government is still hunting for an estimated US$65.OOu.ooo worth of hidden Japanese and German property m the United States. Max S Eisenb?rg, Attorney for the Alien Property Custodian said U*****,000,000 worth of property has been seized since the war started. He estimated that U5515,000,000
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    PENANG RACE SCHEDULE
    161 5 THE following is the racing schedule for the Penang Turf Club Leap Year Meeting: Vint Day (Feb. 28) Horses class three, the Northern Handicap, 7 furs.) the All Aged Handicap, three divisions, 1, 2 and 3, all over six furlongs, and the Stewards i Handicap, divisions one
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    DEATH
    18 6 KUMMER— Leo Vincent. 22c Hill St. Interment today, 4.15 p.m dial of Good Shepherd tl.ence Bidadari Cementery.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs., Feb. 19, 1948 BIG MONEY
    946 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs., Feb. 19, 1948 BIG MONEY The Government of Singapore and, to a greater extent, the Government of the Federation of Malaya are losing thousands of dollars a week m uncollected tax and they appear to be doing very little about it We refer to the
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    The Singapore Elections And The Malays
    1505 6  - The Singapore Elections And The Malays ABDUL RAHIM IBRAHIM By THE Malays have 1 reacted to the Singapore General Elections with mixed feelings. For one thing it is something entirely new to them, which accounts for the small number of Malays who registered as voters. But there are other reasons
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    Penang's First Woman Federal Councillor
    596 6 By OUR PENANG CORRESPONDENT DENANG'S first woman Federal Councillor, Mrs. B. H. Oon, has the distinction of beinc: the first Chinese woman to be called to the English Bar. Mrs. Onn and her brother, Mr. Lim Khye Seng, created English legal history when, m 1926,
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      Taxation Surgery For Inflation
      290 6 T REFER to Dr. E. Van 1 Hofmannstal's contri- j button m your columns ot Feb. 5, entitled "HIGH TAXATION ISN'T A CURE FOR INFLATION.' While I do not possess any distinguished qualifications. I wish to ask two questions on Dr. Hofmannstal's statement. Is Dr. Hofmannstal
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      WOMEN CALLED TO THE BAR
      157 6 IN your issue of Feb. 12 it was stated that Mrs. B. H. Oon, one of the two women members ol the Federal Legislative Council, was the first woman to be called to the English Bar. is incorrect, as the first woman to be so
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      BANANA SCALE
      91 6 IN your editorial of Feb. 11 you have pointed out that the sliding scale given m the schedule for the value of the Japanese currency has been calculated as precisely a? is possible. I wish to draw your attention and that of the drafters of the Bill to
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      797 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. PETTITT. At Batu Gajah on February 13th 1948 to Joan, wife of C. T. Pettitt, a daughter. SUTHERLAND— on 17th Februa:v at Johore Bahru. to Ann. wife of W. B. Sutherland, a son. McPHAIL on Feb. 14 th to MaiUn. wife of John McPhail. j Kuala Mayang Estate,
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    "COLOSSAL RENTS" ALLEGATION
    446 7 Attack On Ordinance From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE Government's recent ordinance lifting rent controls from non-dwelling houses had given landlords their opportunity to raise rents to a "colossal 1 figure, Mr. R. Ramani protested to the Kuala Lumpur Town Board today. Cyclostyled notices were
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    64 7 Mr. M. A. Majfi, president (ii the Indian Seamen's I --it.il or Malaya. Indian Muslim Welfare Association. and the Marit'me I'nion of Malaya, who is the only independent candidate for the Municipal South- West constitvency of Singapore, lie is in favour of income t.i\. suspension of immigration into the Colony
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    'K.L. Lottery Undesirable'
    126 7 Fmm Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. THE Government has informed the Kuala Lumpur Town Board that it considers "undesirable on moral grounds" a proposal, made at the Board meeting last month, for a raffle to be held m aid ol funds to aid anti-T. B pork.
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    T.B. FUND GOAL IN SIGHT
    94 7 Singapore Rotary Club Is only another $10,000 to reach its Tuberculosis Fund Announcing this at the y Club luncheon meetin,' yesterday, the president of the club 'Mr. S. S. Franklin > said $90,027 had been contributed to the fund. Mr. Franklin also announced that next
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    WRESTLERS GIVE BLOOD
    56 7 Four Singapore wrestlers Kong, Curly Connors, Ali Riza Bey and George Zbyn s< nted themselves at the Blood Bank at the General Hospital yesterday to donate their blood. King Kong was the first to po m for donation, but owing to a recent attack of malaria the
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    USE OF KNUCKLE DUSTER ALLEGED
    70 7 Charles Dias, a 27-year-old Eurasian, who was charged m the Second Police Court yesterday, with voluntarily causing grievous hurt to Peter Rudoll Oscar Mamangkey, with a knuckle duster, was remanded 48 hours m police custody. The Magistrate (Mr. L. C. Goh) allowed him bail of
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    '$14,864 Deficit'
    391 7 A DEFICIT of $14,864 was shown in the Silver Jubilee Fund Account, now the Emergency Relief Account No. 2, on Dec. 1, 1946, said Mr. E. R. Middleditch, Assistant Secretary of the Social Welfare Department, at the Seventh Police Court yesterday. Mr. Mutaleditch was giving evidence at the
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    18 7 The Governor of Sarawak Sir Charles Arden Clarke, photographed at a recent buffet party given m bis honour.
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    61 7 The British two-man trade union mission to Malaya, Mr. F. W. Dalley and Mr. S. S. Awbery, are here seen with members of the Singapore Federation of Trade Unions, yesterday. They are Mr. P. Veerasenan, president, Mr. Lee Chee Chong, treasurer, Mr. Byzar) Ahmad, vice-president, Mr. Raja Gopal, secretary, Mr.
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    Had $20,000 Opium Hoarc
    169 7 SIM Chwee Low, aged, 40, a boatman, was sentenced to 18 months rigorous imprisonment m the District Court yesterday for possession of about 37 pounds of opium I worth between $20,000 and $25,000. It was stated that, acting. on information received, a party of revenue officers
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    Future Of Trade With N.E.I.
    397 7 rPHE internal economic recovery of the Netherlands J- East Indies would play an important part m the restoration of normal trade between the N.E.I, and Malaya, said the senior adviser to the Department of Economic Affairs, Batavia (Dr. A. P. Ursone), yesterday m Singapore. Dr.
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    Court Visits Scene Of Alleged Murder
    340 7 WHEN the preliminary inquiry into a charge of murder brought against a 14-year-old Chinese girl was resumed yesterday, the Eighth Police Court Magistrate (Mr. R. W. P. Rule), and members of the court adjourned to visit the scene of the incident. It had been
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    New Home For NAAFI In March
    276 7 New Home For NAAFI In March BEFORE the end of next month the Mountbatten Club will be moved from Raffles Place to the Rex Hotel, in Bras Basah Road. With it will go the Officers 1 shop and the NAAFI provision store, all of which are now situated in the
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      13,000 Tons Of Rice For Penang
      97 7 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. FOOD supplies m the northern area will he F augmented within the next six weeks by two sh.pments of rice from Burma. The Assistant Food Controller (Mr. E. D. Ingram) said today that he expected a total of
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      Remembrance
      53 7 TAIPING, Wednesday. Tai1 ping residents of all nationalities gathered at All Saints' School, Taiping, for a sfcrvice of remembrance to Mr. V. Subramaniam who died here on Jan. 29. The latp Mr. Subramaniam had been attached to Kamunimg Estate for 40 years. Several poems by the Taipine; poet, P.
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      Night Noises
      99 7 *THE Automobile Association of Malaya, last April, distributed a circular printed m English. Malay and Chinese to members of the association, as well as to all hire car and taxi associations, an the subject of horn sounding at night. Owing to complaints by Singapore residents regarding the sounding
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      Transferred
      81 7 KUALA KANGSAR, Wednesday.—Mr. K. D. Luke, Principal of the Clifford School, Kuala Kangsar, has left on transfer to Kuala Lumpur to take up duties as Secretary of the Examinations Board, Education Department, Federation of Malaya. Mr. F. H. Jones, of the Victoria Institution. Kuala Lumpur, has succeeded him. Mr.
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      Priority For Poor
      54 7 If UALA LUMPUR. WVdnes- day.— The Kuala LuJ Town Board decided tod ask the Government to pive priority to housing scheme! for the poor. The Board thought that "In view of additional re von pected from income tax.' Government should earmark $700,000 for completion of tne scheme
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      Police Tattoo
      51 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Wednesday. A Malayan tattoo, featuring a colourful precision-drill display wormy 01 the finest British ments, will be staved h re tonight to celebrate tne inauguration of the Malayan Federation. The nine Malay rulers, here for the oreniner of their historic conference of rulers, will witness the
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      "Great Changes"
      62 7 CEREMBAN. W- dnesday. J The Yang Di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan. addressing the first meeting of the State Executive Council today, said members would be able to see m detail great chansres m the State administration as a result of the State Constitution's promulgation. The Vans; Di-Pertuan Besar
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    Singapore Diary
    111 7 TODAY Singapore Lodge Theosophlcn Society, "Advar Day' celebratim, 8 Cairahill Road. 6.30 p.m. Friends are welcome. Broadway Musical Party, fcrorchong practice. 5-3. Palomb:u;< Road. 7.30 p.m. Union Jack Club. North I Road, dancing lessons, by appointment, 2 p.m.. amateur night. 1. r everyone interested m thr 8 p.m.
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      News From Nowhere
      436 8 Pnrio, KelaWt Pla- I have received to mail, memoranda, Xmaa cards or newspapers for 2' months, and don't look like ing any for various unreasonable reasons I live m blissful unawareness itside importance. liere is local, nute. wal ns and leeches, this note rethat remotcn. n here
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      An Old World Chinese Village
      1136 8 An Old World Chinese Village By A Correspondent In The Manchester Guardian THE first time I saw Fangkiu was m midwinter, when the snow lay inches thick on the ground. We were coaxing a jeep, much the worse for wear, along an ancient dike that followed the bank of the
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      Co-ops Helping China
      460 8  -  PETER TOWNSEND By THE Industrial Cooperative is one of the few good things that have come out of China's long years of war, and one of the reasons why the people themselves have been able to survive. Started ten years ago by a group m Shanghai that
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      The adventure of wandering
      550 8  -  K.S. CHIA By NO more pleasant way to spend a vacation has been thought of than that by a group of Penang art teachers when they spent their holidays recently, capturing the scenic beauty ot the island's fishing villages on their cavas and drawing paper. For
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      Co-operative Work And The Community
      811 9 Co-operative Work And The Community OPERATIVE OMMUNITTES AT WORK by Hcnrik F. Infield (Kegan Paul, 15e.) CO OPERATION is fashionable. It has even come to be thought of as the cure for all social evils. We are familiar with coonerative trading societies m the manner of the Singapore Cooperative Store.
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      LITERARY MARCH OF TIME
      757 9 LITERARY MARCH OF TIME A WORLD TO WIN by Upton Sinclair, (London: T. Werner Laurie, Ltd.). VUITH quiet, and legitimate, pride Upton Sinclair announces that "up to the year 1938 there had been issued m European countries a total of 690 titles of the books of Upton Sinclair, and m
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      SCRAPBOOK
      60 9 "Shall one expect that a great artist is also a great person? I know artists with lousy characters It is strange that the gift Is given sometimes to a shell that is not worthy of it. nicht?" l.ofte Lehmann. "To have known the bes:. and to have known it
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      Fishing For The Layman
      443 9 HALCYON, OR AN ANGLER'S MEMORIES, by George Brennand (A. C. Black, London, 16s). I SUPPOSE that most people have at some time read the piscatorial bible of Izaak Walton and I am certain that not all those who have so done have understood what the master
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      "GREATNESS"
      29 9 "You may deny everything to Greatness, and spit m his face to make it sure; but that will not prevent his going to your funeral." Richard Le Gallienne.
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      170 9 THRILL ONCE AGAIN TO THE IMMORTAL SONGS SUNG BY THE YOUNG LYRIC TENOR!— BOBBY BREEN m "RAINBOW ON THE RIVER" Songs Ir. elude fIU. jfnSL <old Folks at Home JwMSF "Camptown Races" ASk. jJ& "Rairoow on the River" "Buy my Flowers" _*jj V und More. JP* SAT. AT MIDNIGHT )**M
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      662 9 i There were two excellent ways to action without any honour In the make the contract in today's deal. clu P, suit J but the dearer was not very judl- cious in his discarding! club shlft u East could get on South, dealer. lead quickly, put up the diamond North-South
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    Vivien Leigh: Needed a Clark Gable
    265 10  -  DICK KISCH. PREVIEW OF 'ANNA KARENINA" from T ONDON, Wed. —The proper name for Sir k Alexander Korda's sprawling new super-film (it cost some £600,000) should be "Vivien Karenina," instead of "Anna Karenina." With the lovely, kittenish Vivien Leigh m the title role Tolstoy's
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    The Screen's Best Tale!
    60 10 Here U a sccue ir^m "Miranda, one oj tvoo mermaid pictures in the making. Betty Box it producing "Miranda" at. Islington Studios, London. The actress above is Glynis Johns, the "merbaby" the son of an electrician working on the film. There are no advance pictures yet
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    STUDIO NOTES
    452 10 Offer: PRODUCES Adrian Scott 1 and director Edward Dmytryk will make a film m England. Korda cabled them an offer. Scott and Dmytryk refused to state their political beliefs to the recent Congressional inquiry into un American activities. RKO sacked them after they had been indicted for contempt
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    Four "A" Films Every Year
    173 10  -  DICK KISCH. from LONDON, Wed.—Ealing will make four films a year m Australia at a cost of £800,000. The studio's managing director, Major Baker, announced this on 1-eavkn? for Australia by sea. Completion of "Eureka Stockade" will now certain- ly be followed by further pictures,
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    70 10 RASCALS LOOSE IN CASABLANCA: Harpo, Groucho (astride the camel), and Chico Marx m a scene from theirs and Archie Mayo's 'A Night m Casablanca coming comedy for the Malayan screen. It is the Marx Brothers' first film m four years. Groucho lined up Hollywood's "body brigade" to select 28 pins
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      332 10 RAnm haiiva c DnD llsh: News Rubber P"ces; 10.00 Crossword: 9.30 BBC RdaJo Newskauio MALAIA 8 PORK Feature Programme; 10.30 Classi- reel; 9.45 Men Books; 10.00 10.55 a.m. to 12 noon Schools' NeWS Analysis; 11.45 University SEAC Theatre; 11.00 Radio Br^dLt; 1 doTrc^ra 3 ~> u ff 00 *£"<£. D
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    LONDON STOCKS
    349 11 LONDON. Wednesday. D VI'IIKK better feeling was displayed at the opening of yesterday's London stock markets, but it was left to the Kaffir section to provide the major upward movements, says Heuter's financial correspondent. Tin shares rose sharply while Rubber were unchanged to lower. Following were the closing
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    Tins Remain Firm
    129 11 From Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Wednesday. rE Tin section on the local share market continued firm but a smaller volume of business was transacted than of late. Industrials were a steady market. Buyer I. B. Petrol 45/V. Hammer 44.75 Steamship 26.00 MINING impat Tin 7/3 .yer Weng
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    5/8-Ct. Drop In Rubber
    145 11 nUBBER lost flve-elghths of a cent on the local market yesterday. The price has new eased by 14 cents since the market re-opened after the Chinese New Year. There was a moderate amount of business yesterday. The price opened about a cent below Tuesdays close. Later,
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    PRODUCE MARKET
    214 11 From A Market Correspondent SAGO flour continued m demand, but there was no improvement m price. Other section of the Singapore produce market were unchanged. Yesterday's prices were Rice Unclassified: No. 1 $80; 2. $74; 3. $70. Glutinous Rice: No. 1 $77; No. 2 $75. Sugar Java White
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      340 11 Shippers and others interested m Shipping Intelligence are referred to advertisements m Col. 7 and 8 opposite page and to Shipping Notices on Page 2 B. I. APCAR LINE M.S. "SANGOLA" DECK PASSENGERS AND CARGO FOR HONG KONG and AMOY Sails about Ist MARCH Agents: ISLAY KERR CO., LTD. SINGAPORE
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    EVEREST UPSETS IN CUP RACE
    3193 12 Three Dividends Of Over $100 By EPSOM JEEP DRILLIANTLY ridden by Jeff Turner, Everest, D an Australian chestnut gelding belonging to "Wingate Stable," sprang a surprise m the Valentine Cup, premier event at yesterday's races at Bukit Timah. Everest, by The Maine out of Provena,
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    'Trespasser' The Best
    98 12 rr\HE Straits Times tipster I "Trespasser" was the most successful tipster in Singapore for yesterday's Bukit Timah races. In a day of upsets he gave two straight winners Donnell Abu ($14) and Silver Jupiter ($33)— and II places. Some Class, which he rave for a place, also
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    S.C.C. WIN BY 15 POINTS TO 3
    247 12 THE S.C.C. proved too strong for the R.E. and had no difficulty m winning by fifteen points (5 tries) to 3 (a try) m their rugby match on the Padang yesterday. There was no score during the first twenty five minutes, but the
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    Sports Diary
    23 12 TODAY Meeting of S.A.F.A. Council, .SBC, 5.30 p.m. HOCKEY: S.H.A. Tourney —223 8.0.D. t. Cable ft Wireless Thomson Road, 5 p.m.
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    PENANG RACE ENTRIES
    26 12 ENTRIES for the Penang Turf Club's Leap Year Meeting: on Feb. 28, March 3 and 6 are published m page five. i 1
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    Mills Batters Spanish Rival, Retains Title
    168 12 LONDON, Wednesday. FREDDIE MILLS, British light heavyweig-ht chamf pion, retained his European title here last nijjm. taking only two rounds to batter Spanish champ on Paco Bueno into submission m their scheduled 15- round contest. The Spaniard was subjected to terrific punishment in what
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    Ipoh Easter Meeting
    44 12 THE Perak Turf lub will cater for horses classes 1 and 2, Instead of claws 1 and 3 as previously advised, at the Easter Meetmtj. The race days will be Easter Saturday, March 11. Easter Monday. March >.«, and Saturday, April 3.
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    S.C.C BILLIARDS
    105 12 The ties In the S.C.C. Billiard Tournament will be played as follows: Mon. Feb. 23. J. Pooler v. J.A. Dean; Tues. Feb. 24. R. 8. Hunter v. J.W. Wright: Wed. Feb. 25. P. Homer v. W.H. Palgrave; Thurs. Feb. 26. EG. Staunton v. H.V. Thome; Fri. Feb. 27.
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