The Straits Times, 9 September 1948

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  • 17 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1948. I'KKt TEN CENTS.
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  • 430 1 Paying For War Damage Scheme MALAYA'S taxes will have to rise substan tially if the six-year $475,000,000 Wai Damage Compensation Scheme is to be met. The Claims Commission Chairman (Mr. J J. St. L. Carson) said this at a Press conference yesterday. Mr. Carson said that
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  • 199 1 HER AIM -TO SEE MR. RANK WISH to see the Bri1 tish film business at first hand, and I also wish to see Mr. J. Arthur Rank," said pretty Miss Lily Lee, famous Chinese film actress, who arrived m Singapore yesterday m the Carthage from Shanghai on her way to
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  • 55 1 BERLIN, Wed. Rhur steel production, now at Its highest Since the war, will be boosted another 2.000,000 tons m the next two years, the American Military Government reports. To support this increase, arrangements already have been made to import from Sweden 3.400,000 tons of Iron ore
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  • 90 1 SIX Chinese seamen of a motor tongkang who had been adrift for six days off the coast of northern Malaya, were rescued by the Straits Steamship vessel Empire Passmore which arrived m Singapore yesterday from Bangkok. The tongkang was en .oute to Singapore with a shipment of
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  • 28 1 NEW YORK, Wed.— Mr. Billy Butlin. British holiday camp king, announces that he will open a new camp at Bermuda on Feb. 1, 1949.
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  • 71 1 WASHINGTON, Wed. OFFICIAL U.S. sources sharply denied charges reported from Singapore that United States policy toward Indonesia was contributing towards the upsurge of Communism there. The allegations were made by Mr. John Coast, an English advisor to the Indonesian Republic. "Indonesian-Dutch negotiations have been resumed under the
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  • 212 1 THREAT TO BERLIN AIRLIFT BERLIN, Wed. RUSSIA today threat, ened the Berlin airlift with new large-scale Soviet air manoeuvres as the battle of the Berlin City Hall ended m the arrest of 19 more West jector German police. The Western German police left the hall with Russian promises of safe
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  • 149 1 Man They Can 't Stop TOKIO, Wed. PANK LLOYD WEAVER who was returned to Australia from the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces early this year made his third appearanec In Kure, Southern Honshu, last night, where he was arrested by Australian military police. As m the case of his former appearances,
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  • 85 1 Dr. H. Van Mook, Lieute-nant-Governor-General of the Netherlands East Indies, passed through Singapore yesterday on his way to Holland. He wa s met at Tengah by the Colonial Secretary (Mr. P. A. B. MacKerron) and the Secretary for Economic Affairs (Mr. Andrew Gilmour). An Associated
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  • 69 1 At dawn yesterday police and detectives raided the Bth mile Ponggol road, Singapore. Fifty-two Chinese and one Javanese were screened, and one Chinese was detained for further interrogation. No arm a were found. Six persons including three Chinese, two Indians and one Malay were arrested under
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  • 217 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. YOUNG Malays belonging: to the Berlsan Pemuda Melayu (UMNO's youth movement) m the Man tin district have formed their own jungle i search party to look for two compatriots who were kidnapped by terrorists last week and are
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  • Article, Illustration
    69 1 TWO STUDENTS from Shanghai, Miss Edith Riggs, aged 18, on the left, and Miss Barbara Meyer, aged 19, seen on board the Danish ship Malacca, In Singapore yesterday. They are both on their way to Switzerland to continue their studies. Barbara, a German, met Edith, an American, two years ago
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  • 135 1 WARSAW, Wed. POLAND'S President Boleslaw Bierut, newlyappointed secretary-general of the Communist Party, was yesterday offered the leadership of the combined SocialistCommunist Workers' Party, expected to be formed within the next few weeks. A delegation called on the President to announce his nomination to the
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  • 22 1 New York, Wed. -The six-day-old strike of ***** lorry driven here has caused a cut i In food supplies.—-A.P.
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  • 230 1 LONDON, Wed. WILLIAM John Hellard who escaped from prison m Singapore m June last year was sentenced m Swansea today to three years' penal servitude for breaking and entering and larceny. The defending counsel told the Swansea Quarter Sessions that Hellard Hkd committed the crime
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  • 1473 1 WAR DAMAGE PA YMENTS 'A BETRAYAL' From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. MINE leaders of the tin mining industry will tomorrow launch a vigorous attack on the British Government for its "betrayal of Malaya" over war damage compensation. Their charges, which are I contained In a long memorandum, will be
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  • 83 1 LONDON, Wed. THE claim that Cornwall's tin output could be increased to between 6.000 and 7,000 tons annually is made by the newly-formed Cornish Mining Development Association. Such an increase would make more Malayan tin available for the American market to a value estimated at over 16.000.000
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  • 116 1 UK Move On Italian Colonies LONDON, Wed. BRITAIN has notified Russia that she is ready to open four-power talks on the future of Italy s pre-war colonies before Sept. 15, the British Foreign Oilice announced today. The Government disclosed Its decision m reply to a Russian request for such talks,
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  • 66 1 NEW YORK, Wed. A group of American atomic scientists claims that smear methods of the U.S. House of Representatives UNAmerican Activities Committee are harming Government atomic research. They claimed that many scientists have left because "they have found It increasingly difficult to reconcile themselves to
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    • 417 2 SYDNEY, Wednesday. AFTER seven months' experience of the 40-hour week nearly seven out of every 10 Australians think it was premature, according to a Gallup Poll. Harbour, Labrador, after an 8,000-mile trip.— UJ. Yes No MADRAS, Wed.— The Indian Parliament has agreed to
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    • 66 2 OTTAWA, Wed— A reporter asked Eire's Premier (Mr. John Coctello) yesterday if there was any likelihood of Mr. George Bernard Shaw who is St returning under the Dublin Government's policy of encouraging Irish emigrants to go back home. "Not the slightest," Mr. Costello replied. "He would
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  • 262 3 Chifley Warns Of Inflation CANBERRA, Wednesday. MR. Chifley (the Australian Prime Minister) presenting a record budget of A£511,000,000 to the House of Representatives today warned that the supply of many important commodities was failing to keep pace with the demand and inflationary pressure was exceedingly strong. "We must
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  • 123 3 HANDS OFF STEEL DECISION LONDON, Wed. fFHE Trades Union Con- gress, backbone of the Labour Government, decisively defeated m Margate today a resolution calling for immediate nationalisation of Britain's iron and steel industry. Instead, delegates to the Congress approved an amendment recognising "the need for the care exercised by the
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  • 210 3 M. Oueuille Asked To Form Govt. PARIS, Wed. PRESIDENT Vincent Auriol today asked M. Henry Oueuille, the Radical Socialist Party leader to form a new Government. An earlier request to M. Edward Herriot had been turned down. The President wa_ reported to be determined at all costs to stave off
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  • 56 3 BELFAST. Wed.— The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (Sir Basil Brooke) last night reaffirmed Ulster's loyalty to Britain in nply to the Eireann Prime Minister Mr. 'John Costello) who said tn Ottawa that his Government was preparing to repfal the External Relations Act— thus severing the last
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  • 84 3 LONDON, Wed.— With British support the Ln'.ted States planned yesterday to delay action on the future of the former Italian coueiial empire until after the Novemb?r elections despite Russian demands for an immediate settlement of the issue. Russia has -ailed for actios by the Big Pour Foreign
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  • 38 3 K.L.M.'s Singapore office said yesterday that the gold worth $40,000 reported missing from one of their planes In Bangkok had been found m Cairo. The gold had been loaded at Amsterdam for delivery m Saigon.
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  • 171 3 NEW DELHI, Wednesday. INDIAN troops entered Hyderabad yesterday and fought a 10-minute battle with Hyderabad forces in which tanks, armoured cars and automatic i weapons were used, it was announced officially last night. The Indian troops later withdrew. The Incident was the worst so far in
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  • 121 3 LOS ANGELES, Wed. •FHE pastor of a Los A Angeles church complained today that he had been forced to leave his Californian home on threat of arrest because he had contracted leprosy. The Rev. G. E. Olmstead said a county health officer told him he would have
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  • Article, Illustration
    22 3 FAST BROKEN: Bal Prabhakunver Gandhi, a Singapore widow, broke her 30-day pari flcation fast yesterday. Story m Page 7.— Straits Times picture.
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  • 91 3 RANGOON, Wednesday. [NSURGENTS besieged in Prome, 140 miles northl west of Rangoon, are in a "desperate state," last night's Government communique stated. Government troops, striking towards Prome, were well established in the Tharrajvaddy area, about 40 miles to the south. It added. The communique reported that more
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  • 140 3 Precautions At Funeral Of Benes PRAGUE, Wed. STATE funeral services 3 for former President Sduard Benes were held inder close police surveillance today. Strict security precautions ?ere taken throughout Prague ollowing Interior Ministry rewrts that attempts would be nadp to "desecrate" the 'uneral. Sokol. conservative cultural md gymnastic organisation, was
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  • 37 3 JERUSALEM, Wed.— Arab attacks on Jewish positions m Jerusalem's suburbs yesterday Injured 529 Jews, said an official Israeli communique. It added that 25-pounders and three-inch mortars were used during the attack— AJ.
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  • 26 3 CHICAGO, Wed. Labour Day holiday accidents caused nearly 500 deaths. More than ***** 300 died on the road and 62 from drowning. U.P.
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  • 105 3 SHANGHAI, Wed. TU Wei- ping, sen of one of Shanghai's financial chiefs, is today sharing a prison cell with a criminal and eating only rice and vegetables. He sleeps on the concrete floor. His family is allowed t0 visit him only twice a W tu-^ under
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  • 327 4 GENEVA, Wednesday. THE General Assembly of the United Nations 1 will this month be asked to draft a new international code to beat the world drug: traffic All countries will be required to ratify it by the end of the year.
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  • 70 4 CANBERRA. Wed. rE Australian Premier (Mr. J. B. Chifley). told the House of Representatives that the Australian Civil Aviation Department was investigating operations of an airline company following allegations that the airline was nainjc a Catallna aircraft for opium smuggling. A few weeks ago a representative
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  • 108 4 MALAYA CAN JOIN W.H.O. VfALAYA can make her iW own decision whether to Join the United Nations World Health Organisation, said Dr. P. M. Kaul, the W.H.O. representative m Singapore. At present Malaya's Interests are being looked after by the British delegation. "Although Malaya has been provisionally Included m the
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  • 51 4 Sohaini bin Haji Slrat. a special constable. was sentenced to two months' simple Imprisonment and a $25 fine by the Second Police Magistrate (Mr. L. C. Goh) yesterday for absenting Urnself from duty without authority on Sept. 4 and for falling to return the police kit Issued to
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  • 183 4 THE acting Chief Justice x (Mr. Justice GordonSmith) yesterday reserved Judgment m the Supreme Court m an appeal by a Chinese named Ong Ah Kirn who had been sentenced to nine months' rigorous imprisonment on two charges of possession of a pound of opium and offering
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  • 245 4 FLED FOR LIFE TO SINGAPORE From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A YOUNG man told the Assizes today that to save himself from being butchered by a league he fled to Singapore and disguised himself. He was Low Hoi alias Tong San Chal whom Mr. Justice Brlggs acquitted and
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  • 183 4 TODAY St. Andrews Oid Boys' Association, monthly committee meeting Woodsvllle, 5.15 p.m. Young People's meeting. Dr. B. Chew on "The Judgment Seat of Ct-riaV Bethe;sda HaU. Bras Basab Road, 6 p.m. V.M.C.A. Movie Circle, inaugural meeting 6 p.m. Liberty Musical and Dramatic Association, music practice 36 Duxton Hill.
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  • 203 4 Vf ANY air mail letters posted in* Singapore were iTI subsequently found m a suit case at 273, Tanjong Pagar Road, the District Judge (Mr. E. F. Shanks) was told yesterdav^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Vincent, one! the of I the said theß case to J.
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  • 253 5 i\ N extensive programme of improvements m education, health, roads, I and building supervision is referred to m the manifesto of Mr. Cheong Hock Chye, Progressive Party candidate for the Rural West division on the Singapore Legislative Council, "I am one of you, a rural
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  • Article, Illustration
    32 5 FILM *4ACk; This hat of stiffened net trimmed with frnit and flowers was included m a Chelsea (London) exhibition. It was worn m the film •Trotty True" starring Jean Kent. A.P. picture.
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  • 411 5 From Our Woman Uorrespondent TWO hundred pupils of the Good Shepherd Con1 vent School and Catholic welfare workers from the various Singapore parishes are combining in two drives to raise money for a new Convent and Girls Home. The pupils, ranging from three-and-a-half
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  • 135 5 IN its first post-war issue, the Malayan Kennel Review, organ of the Malayan Kennel Association, states that its Asian membership is very small and "we would like to see this extended." The association was incorporated m 1939 to promote the purr breeding of dogs and is
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  • 95 5 Fines of $200 and $150 were imposed yesterday by the Second Police Magistrate (Mr. L. C. Ooh) on two men. who were found m possession of 17 unlicensed wireless transmitting, and receiving sets Six sets were recovered from Chop Bin Seng at. B*. Jelico Road. The
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  • 455 5 By Our Malay Correspondent OIR Henry Gurney's appointment as High Commissioner for the Federation of Malaya has formed the subject of editorial comment by the Malay Press since the announcement made last of MalayM on the matter is givenß Utusan Melayu published^ Singapore WartaH
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  • 34 6 Dr. and Mrs. C. J. Paglar thank all their relatives and friends for their kind attendance, wishes and also their valuable gifts on the occasion of the Birthday of Dr. C. J. Paglar.
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  • The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs., Sept. 9,1948 DOES MALAYA WANT UNO?
    • 989 6 Do we want UNO m Malaya? This question is posed for the people of this country by the meeting of the Colonial Committee of the United Nations which opened at Geneva last Monday. The basic issue which is being debated is whether the United Nations shall have authority to supervise
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  • 126 6 rrom tne Straus Times of Sept. 9, 1898. The Malacca pier, the grand redeeming feature of the place, and almost the only spot where the public can reinvigorate themselves by breathing the fresh sea air, has, for some time past, been evincing all the symptoms of decay.
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  • 1046 6 ALICE IN WONDERLAND: K.L. VERSION A LTHOUGH the Council Chamber m Kuala Lumpur has often witnessed a display of high-level statesmanship," writes the contributor of this parody, "the proceedings of the last meeting, taken m conjunction with the debates on the introduction of income tax, read like a modern version
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  • MAN-IN-THE-STREET
    • 769 6 A Singapore Merchant Writes ToMr.CC.Tan Itfß. Tan has described iT1 the War Damage Compensation scheme as a "COLOSSAL SWINDLE about to be perpetrated on the taxpayers of the country for the benefit of industrial capitalists and owners of valuable properties." My dictionary defines a "swindle" as a "fraudulent scheme," and
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  • 624 6 11/lANY rich voices, from the ranks of those who would benefit under the scheme, have com-! mented loudly on the proposed War Damage Compensation Scheme. Some have even asked for more, on the Change! Alley principle that there J is nothing to be lost buti
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 819 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. MATHIESON.— At the Penang Maternity Hospital, on Sept. 8, IJ4B. to Muriel Alice, wife of William Murphy Mathieson daughter. The engagement has been announced on 4.9.48 between Sim Sek Chuan, eldest son of Mr. S.m Choon Ghee and the late Mrs Sim Choon Ghee of Kuala Pilah and
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    • 126 6 ONE PAIR OF EYES one oau oi ey?» tv tMt nretime. you can chew with false teeth, walk with wooden leg, but nevei can you we* with a blind eye nils does not mean that we are lo danger of going blind but a warning that w_ should not n"
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    • 194 6 FLEAS AND BUGS IVlan is the recognised meat of blood-suckers like fleas, bugs and lice, and hTs property and the crumbs that fall from his table feed an army of insect pests. History shows plainly how parasitic insects have, for example, by spreading typhus and plague fr,m rat to human
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  • 230 7 Estate Guarded By Floodlights MEW methods of fighting terrorists were adA vocated by an ex-Commando, 24 -year-old Mr. H. V. J. Hancock, who returned to Singapore yesterday from Johore, where he and 24 Malays had been guarding a big European-ov. Ned rubber estate for three-and-a-half months. Mr.
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  • 258 7 Sentence Cut On Appeal TWO Chinese, Choon Kee Chun and Lee Soo Choon, who were sentenced to two months' rigorous imprisonment and fined $500 for entering the Colony without a passport, had their sentences reduced to a fine of $50 on appeal to the Supreme Court yesterday. The acting Chief
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  • 35 7 The new director of education. Mr. A. W. Frisby has been appointed to be a member of the Committee of the Raffles Museum and Library In place of Mr. J. B. Neilson. who has resigned.
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  • 474 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. AHAKKA towkay, the proprietor of Kong Lee Estate at the 22nd mile Pontlan Road, Johore, was kidnapped by five armed Chinese yesterday afternoon. Investigations are being made. Yong Peng, m central Johore, was attacked by a large party of
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  • 60 7 Wee Sian Kee. the manager of Naafi grocery shop at British Transit Camp, Nee Soon, pleaded guilty m the Third Police Court yesterday to criminal breach of trust of $1,660 on Sept. 7. The Magistrate (Mr. F. B. Oehlers) allowed him bail of: $2,000 m one
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  • 277 7 SULTAN OF KELANTAN'S BIRTHDAY From Our Special Correspondent KOTA BHARI Wednesday. 'fFHE Communists have not succeeded yet m breaking up harmony between races m this State and m Malaya," declared the Sultan of Kelantan today replying to 19 addresses of congratulations on his 51st. birthday. The
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  • Article, Illustration
    66 7 The Colonial Secretary at the Malay Settlement Boys' Club yesterday. On the left of Mr. McKerron Is the Chairman of the Bedok Village Committee (Mr. Ang Chye Liak) and on the right is the Secretary (Inche Abdullah bin Masood). Others m the picture are Inche Yaeoh Eunos, Mr. Cheong Hock
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  • 124 7 "THERE is no work m Singapore more urgent than the rehabilitation of our youths who have been brought up during their most impressionable years m an atmosphere of war and violence." The Rotary Club of Singapore should support youth welfare work said Mr. Yap Pheng Geek
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  • 178 7 Sapper Pays $5O Bail For Sweeper ARTHUR William Gill, a Sapper attached to 237 Works Section, Royal Engineers, yesterday volunteered to stand surety of $50 for a 55-year-old Chinese sweeper who was charged m the Ninth Police Court with possession of a practice hand-grenade. The sweeper, Sin Mock Slew, was
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  • 43 7 Samad bin Fadil, 23-year-old Malay, of Oxley Road was yesterday In the Seventh Police Court committed for trial at the next Assizes. He was charged with possession of a .32 Browning automatic pistol and 12 rounds of ammunition on Mar. 23.
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  • 184 7 THE Colonial Secretary x (Mr. P. A. B. McKerron) and other Government officials were entertained to tea by the Bedok and Changi Village Committees yesterday. The visit of Mr. McKerron would do a great deal to show the villagers that the Government was really Interested m their
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  • 37 7 The following aliens have been granted certificate of naturalisation by the Governor with the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies Leilo Delianocr, Berko Wajsmel, Low Tan Chang, Constance Marlon Wlnckel William Hutchinson, Junior.
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  • 115 7 AT a quiet ceremony m England last week, Miss Nellie, Chen, daughter of Dr. Chen Ah Poh, of Singapore, was married to the Rev. Colin King, formerly of the Malayan Education Service. Miss Chen returned to Singapore from the United Kingdom recently, but left again a
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  • 241 7 "I^EELING very peaceful but very weak," Bai r Prabhakunver Gandhi, 46-year old widow of a Singapore merchant, broke her 30-day purification fast at her home in Telok Kurau yesterday. After two Jain priests had chanted hymns from the Jain scriptures and blessed her at noon
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  • Malayan Round-up
    • 581 7 months' gaol and fined *5u i-r a further month's gaol. SINGAPORE ON 753 kc/s. QN Sunday morning the 229 metre transmitter of the Red Network of Radio Malaya, Singapore will be replaced by a 400-metre transmitter with a frtquency of 753 kc/s. SHOO
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    • 66 7 At the first meeting uf the newly elected committee of management of the Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association held last month the revised salary scheme the delay m acquiring the clubhouse and the appointment of a personnel and welfare manager were discussed. The meeting decided to ask
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  • Straits Times Thursday Magazine
    • 584 8 WHEN Indians first came to Malaya they brought with them monuments of their art, religion and civilisation. The story of their early colonisation is told m the numerous Hindu temples built m South Indian style and dotted all over the country's towns and The majority
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    • 670 8 From The Malayan Forester THE small state of Brunei, wedged m between Sarawak and North Borneo and split into two parts by the "Sarawak Corridor," appears from a cursory glance at a topographical ma}) to be entirely swamp. Even when the traveller had landed
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    • 704 8 T HAD sailedß over to Ba-B lingian to set-B tie some Jelu-B cases dB whilst thereß the north-eastß monsoon sud-B denly cam em down ear-| When gotß down to thel Kuala on my wayß home the bar wasH Just one seeth-B ing mass of foamH and
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  • 898 9 MR. ATTLEE by Roy Jenkins (Heineman $7^o). AN interim biogran phy of Mr. Attlee which has iust come from Roy Jenkins helps us to picture the little-kiiown man who cantered into the highest political office of Britain m 1945. He is neither a demagogue nor a mascot.
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  • 152 9 GANDHI: The Master by K. M. Munshi (Rajkamal Publications Ltd., Delhi. Rs. 4-8-0). T^HIS is a collection of A Mr. Munshi's recent articles on various aspects of Mahatma Gandhi's life. Mr. Munshi Is the present Agent-General of India m Hyderabad. It is Interesting at this time when
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  • 390 9 THE following new books will be added to Raffles Library, Singapore, within the next few days Butterfly Miracles and Mysteries (Bernard Acworth), Robert (Gordon Anthony), tflbdiee of the Sadler's Wells .Ballet Company (Gordon Anthony), British Drawings (Michael Ayrton). Ballet Design (Cyril W. Beaumont). English Cities
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    • 372 9 Order from your bookseller NOW i THE STORY OF THE ARAB LEGION j ty GLUBB PASHA 25/I "The ultimate interpretation of Arabia and the Arabs by I a man who loves them and is almost one ot them." Published by HODDER STOUGHTOH LTD. Far Eastern Representative: DONALD MOORE, 22, Orchard
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    • 683 9 Mi ta^S? t^'f^ ?it hre^ at;ence eivin the »ituation due bought, L^iTh 5 s Wbcre »»»ey BMt continued with diamonds may be. rather than to pound even though dummy and declarer ST^-n" <**»?* impregna- were both now out n£ da«>, T.S a CSt in 8outh realised wh h might day
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  • 473 10 Malay Protest At Damages Plan DftOTEST at the payment of taxpayers' money under the War Damage Compensation Scheme where there is no legal liability is made by the Utusan Melayu, Singapore's only Malay vernacular newspaper. The leading article says: "We do not intend to dwell on the
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  • 247 10 OUT of 114 third year student teachers who sat for normal class examinations In the Federation 104 passed. Two hundred and fifty seven out of 303 first year students were successful. In addition one candidate m the third year and six m the first year will
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  • 135 10 ROYAL Air Force Sunderlands, Yorks, Dakotas, Harvards, Spitfires. Mosquitoes and a Vampire will take part m the fly-past to commemorate the Battle of Britain next vVfdnesday at Singapore. Spitfires will be flown by famous Battle of Britain oilots led by Wing Commander Stamford-Tuck, D.5.0., D.F.C. and
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  • 26 10 BELFAST, Wed.—A detachment of 157 officers and men will leave today to Join the First Battalion. Royal Innis- killing Fusiliers m Malaya A.P.
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  • 11 10 Underalong the of roads m has been as emergerrv
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  • Article, Illustration
    58 10 TWO MALAY STUDENTS at National Central University m Nanking met other Muslims at a religious festival recently. They are (left to right): Othman-Wu, head of the Middle East Department of the Chinese Foreign Office; Shan Ko-hsin. head of the Nanking Muslim Association's cultural department; Raja Nongchik and Abdul Majid Othman
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  • 130 10 Greetings and farewells mingled at a tea party at the Social Welfare Department yesterday. Welcome was for four staff members who recently arrived from England and farewells for two members who are sailing today to study m England. The honorary magistrate of the Juvenile Court, (Mr. Paul
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    • 283 10 "A Pictn- For The Intelligent And The Connoisseur. The Singing, The Orchestra And Chorus Of The Royal Opera House, Rome, Are Beyond Reproach." (EXPRESS). IIMWII lHlli Opens Today Four Shows ia, iWaW 9 _al3 wHa 2 415 6 30 93 p- m PHONF fi9o3 k\ fr JK "OPERA LOVOS MAY
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    • 266 10 APITOL IIAM-2PM4.IS-67i0-9 15 WT "NEVER-BEFORE" m' mk. Tarzan Diving From A 500 ft. Fjk Mountain Ledge and His Fight nk WM\ With A Giant Octopus Underw_l m Si' j* water laM NEVER-BEFORE" A l?p% V jL Scores of Aqua-Queens m R.K.O. \.if'li Vl Daring Picture X*kj? Water ____P*t__k Starring ffl_H_|__k
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    • 407 10 T- 1 *»Hlb«nnanl« gteBiaim.: jn.15 Won^en'i Newsiettei; 10.30 RADIO i» teges" <Alan Rawsthorne;. Sym- p ro Arte String Orchestra; 10.45 i p.tn Music; 1.30 News; 1.4a phony No. 101. In D minor 'The Music- 11 News; 11.15 TalkCxraldo; 2.00 Close. 8.15 News Clock") (Haydn). Muscl for Or- I n i
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    • 682 11 Decision On Sept. 30 MALACCA Electric Lighting directors have called ITI a meeting to consider winding up the company. This was Malaya's first electric supply company, started over 36 years ago, and the last to be taken over by the Gk>vernmen^^_^^^^^^^ The company'! licenneH
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    • 108 11 From Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Wed. rE Malayan share market today was practically unchanged from yesterday, with a small volume of business passing. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association INDUSTRIALS Buyw _Mt!oF E. Utd. Assur. 40.60 41. M M. Breweries -5.00 15.23 Oversea Chinese Bank 85.50
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    • 199 11 LONDON. Wed. SENTIMENT on the London Stock Exchange yesterday changed for the worse, probably as a result of East-West tension from the previous day's Berlin incident*. Dullness was general, with very little activity, says Reuters financial correspondent. Industrials generally were inclined to dullnea. Domestic Issues also tended
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    • 86 11 CHIPS m port alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharvesi yesterday (godowns In brackets) were. __n Main Wharf: Glaucus (33-84) Scudai (33), Gujarat (40-41). Wee. Wharf: Carthage (1-2), Asphalion (11-12), Achilles (15Empire Dock: B©nggarang (1718), Charles McLeod (21-22). Hemland (25-26), Malacca (29- 30). W_^L Tw__Kll }anl L (41V
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    • 151 11 Tin Output During The Emergency From Oar Star? Correspondent PENANG. Wed. riVEN adequate protection, Malayan dredges and other units should be able to continue tin production and benefit from the high price despite the emergency, says the Eastern manager of Eastern Smelting (Mr. D. A. Mackay.) Commenting on an article
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    • 192 11 YESTERDAY'S Singapore rubber market was dull and easier, with little or no Interest from London or New York. Business m No. 1 sheet f.o.b. September passed at between 44 14 and 41 cents per lb. Closing prices yesterday were: No. 1 sheet f.o.b. buyers 44V. cents, sellers 44
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    • 181 11 From Oar Own Correspondent. LONDON, Wednesday. THE full accounts of the London Tin Corporation show that earnings have been vastly higher than the figure In the preliminary statement, says the Daily Telegraph. I They show also that the format of the consolidated balance sheet la
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    • 60 11 From A Market Correspondent gIAK sago flour came m for fair demand m Singapore yesterday, improving sllgtly In price. Copra quotation rose a little wifh Inquiry from India. The pepper market continued slack. Yesterday's changes included: Pepper: Murrtok white $194; Sarawak white $193; Lampong black $179. Copra: Sun-dried
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    • 1339 11 MANSFIELD c* CO., LTD. I (Incorporated In Singapore) BLUB FUNNEL UK* ETBAITS STEAMSHIP CO., SAILINOi tROM U.K ft UAJk LTD. •Achilles from IfK CIS WIST COAST MALAYA "Maron" from U.S.A C. 27 "Sogamat" for P. Sham, T. "Breconshire" due from U.K. Sept. 9 Anson Penang Sopt. II •Titan" due from
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    • 240 11 PRESIDENT LINES General Passenger Agent tor Northwest Amine* SAILINCS TO Nfw rORK AND BOSTON -la INDIA ECVPT MEDITERRANEAN PORTS Louis Meh Howe P Sham Sept. S I President Polk Spore Sept IS Penang Sept 9' Penang tept 21 SAILINCS TO SAN e RANCIM.«. ANl> kU. ANGtLIS THINCI NEW YORK BALTIMORE.
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    • 281 11 EAST ASIATIC LINE SAILINCS FROM SCANOINAVIA/UK./ CONTINENT m.» "Nordfarer' tor Saigon ft Bangkok Duo abt Oct 1 ma Kambodie for Manila, Hong Kong, Shanghai. Kobe Yokohama Dae abt. Oct. 9 ma "Selandia' tor Saigon ft Bangkok Due abt Oct IS m_ "Korea- for Manila. H'Kong ft Shanghai Ova abt Nov
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    • 1101 11 McALISTER CO., LTD. (Incorporated m Smgapoie) ELLBRMAN th BUCKNALL KLAVENESS LINE HAVRE, LONDON HAMBURG PACIFIC PORTS Accepting cargo fot US North Atlantic Accepting cargo foi Central South Port* ft Canada via Colombo American Ports. CIT> OF YOKOHAMA flMlia I IB Spote P Sham Penang FRANCISVILLI 20 Oct. 27 Oct. SO
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  • 469 12 Cycling Carnival In Singapore P. M. La Porte of the Dunlop Island Ramblers cycling team made a magnificent spurt m the last lap to win the 10 miles event at the second day's races of the Singapore cycling carnival held on the Padang yesterday. La
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  • Article, Illustration
    31 12 Sgt. Scott deft) and Cpl. Sim ms going out to open the W.A.A.F. innings against the A.T.S. m the women's cricket match played at Tang lin Barracks yesterday. Straits Times picture.
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  • 262 12 GOOD bowling enabled the A.TJ3. to defeat the W.A.A.F. 's by 33 runs m a game of cricket played at Tanglln Barracks yesterday. The WAAF's batted first and were all out for 83. Sgt. Nuttal, the captain, was the highest scorer with 32. Murray and Walton for
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  • 76 12 DONCASTER, Wednesday. MAJOR Mac Donald Buchanan's Aberrant won the Champagne Stakes here this afternoon. Mr. A. Glenlster's Nimbus was second and Mr. R. Conwell's Dato third. Only three ran. The betting was 0 to 2 on (favourite> Abernant; 6 to 3 against Nimbus and 50 to
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  • 103 12 At the second annual genera! meeting of the Haikowyu Sports Club the following were elected office bearers for 1948-1949: Patrons Messrs. Loh Ah Fong, Yap Leong Chong and Chng Keng Seng. President. Mr. Mab Quae Leong; vice-president Mr. Barry Algoo; Hon. secretary Mr. K. R. Chandra; Hon. treasurer
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  • 42 12 THE Malayan Chinese Football Association Cup fixture between Malacca and Singapore, which was scheduled to be played at Singapore on Saturday, Sept. 11, has been postponed Indefinitely owing to the Malacca side being unable to make the trip.
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  • 307 12 PiLAYING brilliantly m the first half, the R.A.F. Seletar avenged their first-round defeat when they beat the Amicable Athletic Association by the odd goal m five m a First Division League game played at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. Durdon, the Airmen's centre-forward, was m great form, and
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  • 46 12 THE basketball match between TJ.S.S. Toledo and the Singapore Chinese at the Happy World Stadium on Tuesday night netted $1,268, which has been turned over to the UNAC (United Nations Appeal for Children) funds. The Singapore Chinese won by 56 points to 40.
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  • 30 12 In a friendly soccer match played at Pasir Panjang yes»erday. the Ktppcl Bus company beat the s.s. Malacca s—o.5 —0. Scorers were Taib (2), Muthu and Dollah (2).
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    20 12 The W.A.A.F. and A.T.S. teams photographed before their cricket match yesterday. The A.T.S. won by S3 rung. Straits Times picture.
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  • 38 12 TODAY SOCCER: S.A.F.A. Div. I: M.F.A. v. Nayy JaUn Besar Stadium. Div. HI: La ialle S.C. v. Customs S.C— McNair Road; C.A. v. R.A.S.C. Training School Geylang Stadium: M.F.A. v. S.C.S.A.— C.Y.M.A. ground, St. George's Road.'
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  • 66 12 THE Postal and Telecoms beat the Serangoon Association by two goals to nil In a Third Division league soccer match played at the Geylang Stadium yesterday. The first goal was scored by Sharlff, the centre-forward, off a pass from M. Ismail, the leftwinger. A few minutes later Ismail
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  • 333 12 WEIGHTS for Wednesday, Sept. 15, the second day of the Singapore Turf Club's Autumn (Gold Cup) Class 1, Dlv. B—l Mile. i^Hili^i^i^i^i^HHi^i^i^i^H Grand Friar's Prix n 9.04 Last 8.C3 D. R. B. 8.13 Electro Lynchburg 8.13 plat* 8.01 Predomin- Silver ance 8 12 Spear
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  • 242 12 THE Three-year-olds' Free Handicap will be revived at the Singapore Turf Club's November Meeting (Nov. 13, 17 and 20). The race was inaugurated m 1934 and was a feature of every November meeting at Bukit Timah. Ballymun was the last winner of the Free Handicap. The
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  • 102 12 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed OWINO to the present emergency, the Johore Rugby Football Club have not been able to call a meeting to draw up the programme for the coming season. It Is unlikely that much rugger will be played m Johore this year.
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  • 160 12 SCARBOROUGH, Wednesday. RAIN stopped play when H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI had made 94 runs for two wickets against the Australians here today. Hutton, England's^ wasH by for al This the tourists' lastH m game they wiilH for for thelrß i^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H Rain delayed the
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  • 30 12 LEVESON GOWER'S Xl— let Inns. Hutton b Lind wall Flahlock not out 38 Edrich b Bill Johnston 19 Donnelly not out 39 Extras Total (for 2 wkta.)' 94 —Reuter.
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  • 41 12 London, Wednesday YESTERDAY'S U.K. Football League results were: Third Division (Southern) Southend U 0 Nosthamptun T. 1. Third Division (Nnrilitrn) Barrow 1 Wrexham 1. Rochdale 1 Carlislo U. 0. Glasgow Cop Semi Final Third Lanark 4 Rangers 1. Reuter.
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  • 54 12 Entries are invited for the Singapore lnter-club, inter-school and in'er-Commercial House badminton tournaments. Entry forms may be obtained from the honorary secretary of the Singapore Badminton Association, Mr. Wee Kirn Wee. c/o United Press, Electra House, or at the Clerical Union Hall on Saturdays and Sundays. The closing
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