The Straits Times, 8 December 1948

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1948. if PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    MALAYA-SIAM MILITARY LINK
    216 1 Bangkok Calls Reservists For Training BANGKOK, Tuesday. THE Siamese Army headquarters revealed today plans for calling up thousands of reservists for three months training in modern weapons and in Command tactics. It was also revealed that Siamese officers will confer at Singapore, about Dec. 20, with Major
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    39 1 KOIAL TRAVELLER: Prince Axel of Denmark, luiirman and managing director of the East Asiatic Company. A cousin i»f Kriiß Frederick of Denmark, be is now m Singapore on a tour of the company's Far Eastrrn oflicrs. Straits Times picture.
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    STUDENT A POLIO SUSPECT
    112 1 4 23-YEAR-OLDsecond-A year undergraduate of Rallies College, Miss Daisy Vaithilingam is now a suspected polio patient at the Middleton Hospital, Singapore. The College has cancelled a terminal progress test for more than a score of women undergraduates, who were rnhosteuen with Mi>s Vaithillnrun Sent Home They
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    BRITAIN ASKS FOR GRAIN
    49 1 LONDON, Tues.— Britain is Mking Russia for 2.000.000 tons of gran in the trade negotiations now going on bttween British and Soviet Government representatives lr London. Russia supplied Britain with 750.000 tons of coarse gran under the previous Anglo-Soviet commercial Rgreement signed last DecemR outer.
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    RED MOVE TOWARDS PEKING
    254 1 RED MOVE TOWARDS PEKING PEKING, Tues. A RED drive m the direction of Peking down the railway from Jehol was announced by General Fu Tso-yis North China headquarters which admitted the Nationalists forces with- 1 drew from Miyun, on the Peking Jehol railway, 40 miles north-east of Peking, and abandoned
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    American Aid ForChinaSoon
    78 1 LOS ANGELES. Tuts. AMERICAN aid to China will start leaving ««ae Pacific coast within 45 days, Gen Yang Chi-tseng Ordnance chiei of t*i«» CfckMSe Nationalist *rmi slid Hpre yesterday. Gen. Yang ar.<v?u from Washington en route 'o Nanking. rl t i s liea.i of the Chinese mission
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    Off To The Jamboree
    65 1 MALAYAN Scouts left Singapore yesterday for the South-West Pacific Jamboree m Australia. The Colonial Secretary (Mr. P. A. B. McKerron) deputising for the Governor of Singapore inspected the contingent and is seen (above) talking to Scoutmaster Goh Sooi Beng of Ipoh. In Jamboree mood is (below)
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    Rich Uranium Find In U.S.
    51 1 NEW YORK. Tues.—Discovery of a rich vein of pitchblende in an old mine in Colorado has assured the United States of enough high grade uranium for all its atomic bomb requirements. Until now, the U.S. has had to import uranium from Canada and the Belgian
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    DOCK WORKERS STRIKE
    24 1 BOMBAY, Tues. Fifteen thousand Bombay dockworkers went on lightning strike today because eight of their union leaders had been arrested. Reuter.
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    U.S.COURT TO HEAR JAP APPEALS
    205 1 WASHINGTON, Tues. THE U.S. Supreme Court has agreed by a 5-4 vote t-. review the cases of two waitime Japanese leaders sentenced to die as war criminals and of five other Japanese given prison sentences. Appeals were lodged on the grounds of illegality of the
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    "ROBIN HOOD" TO SEETHE SHERIFF
    49 1 NEW YORK, Tups— Errol Flynn, 38-year-old film star was arrested today after ho allegedly kicked a patrolman on the shins m an argument m a police sta'ion. Flynn was charged with first degree assault and released on bail pending ap- pearance m court.— A.P.
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    Ex-Premier Arrested
    52 1 TOKYO, Tues. HITOSHI Ashida, former Japanese Premier, was at the Procurators office this morning to answer questions concerning his connection? with the Showa Denko bribery scandal. Two Diet members Keitaro Kitaura. a Democrat, and Toyo Kawahashl, a Liberal were also summoned today, as suspects connected with the Showa
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    Pope's Broadcast
    23 1 VATICAN CITY, TuesThe Pope will broadcast o the world at 1000 GMT jn Christmas Eve over Vatican City shortwave stations. A.P.
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    "PROOF IN MALAYA"
    208 1 LONDON. Tues. rPHE Defence Minister (Mr. -I A. V. Alexander) was the target for bitter criticism m Parliament to-day. Mr. Richard Crossman, leading Socialist critic of Government policy, said it was "grossly misleading to the House and to the country" for Mr. Alexander "to suggest that the
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    THE HUNTING OF THE RATION
    67 1 London, Mon. THE peopl< of Pocklington, Yorkshire, housewives included, tore off m pursuit when eight fat steers the local meat ration for the week jumped a slaughterhouse fence and headed for the moors. They caught them all the last one three villages, 10 miles and
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    The King Improving
    168 1 LONDON, Tues. A bulletin from the Buckingham Palace today said there has been a "further small but encouraging improvement" in the condition of the King. He is suffering from a serious arterial ailment of the legs which has affected the circulation of blood to his feet. The
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    WILL CRUSH ALL STOOGES
    42 1 RANGOON. Tues. Sinwa Haung. Burma's Minister for Kachin Affairs. announced to-day that Us government is determined to crush all "stooges of imperialists" engaged m the "unholy mission 7 of disrupting the stability of the Union of Burma.— Reuter.
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    MEASURES MUST BE APPROVED
    33 1 BERLIN, Tues.— The American Military Government V>day forbade the German State Government of Hesse to carry out socialisation measures unless they were first approved by the Military Government. Reuter.
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    22,000 TON FALL
    36 1 LONDON, Tues.— Two men were killed at a chalk pit »t Shoreham today when 22,000 tons of chalk flaked off a 100 feet working face, burying them under 40 feet of stone. -U.P.
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    CONTROLS OFF FROM JAPAN'S WORLD TRADE
    321 1 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. THE 11-Nation Allied Far Eastern Commission disclosed yesterday that it had decided to permit Japan's world trade to return virtually to a peace-time footing. The Commission announced that it had unanimously approved a new trade policy for Japan under which some occupation
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    Father And Son Killed At Meal
    154 1 Father And Son Killed At Meal From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tur.s BANDITS today shot dead Mr. Song Keng Shu. fiT year-old housing clerk of Malayan Collieries, and his 22-year-old son, Mr. Song Wai Leng. They were murdered m their home at Kamp"nSimpah, near Batu Aran miles from Kuala
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      "Worry Made Me Take Up Painting," Says Churchill
      206 2 LONDON, Tuesday. jtf R. Winston Churchill's paintings some of them good enough to be hung 171 m the Royal Academy's annual exhibition of outstanding new work were done as an outlet for worry, the war-time Prune Minister says m his new book,
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      40 Pits To Close
      89 2 EDINBURGH Tues Mr. Abe Moffatt. president of the Scottish Nuuonal Union of Mlneworkers, announces that 11 collieries will be closed in the flrst six months of next yeai as tht first of three stages in a "concentration plan' for the closure of 40 Scottish collieries which
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      Women Accuse U.S
      67 2 BUDAPEST. Tues.— The second World Congress of the International Federation of Democratic Women last night i passed a resolution condemning "the American imperil! .st policy of remilitarising Japan" as "a great menace to the peace of the world ana ssoeclally the people of Asia." The resolution demanded
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      Mosquito Crash
      51 2 LONDON, Tues.— After a night-long search of the Yorkshire moori for a Royal Air Force Mosquito aircraft, the Air Ministry announced today that it had been found crashed at a farm four miles from its base at Driffleld. The plane's pilot and navi- v gator were killed— Reuter.
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      Headgear
      27 2 ONE OF THE NEWEST creations of a well-known London milliners Is this youthful-looking fitting coronet m black with striking front bows and black veiling. Reuter picture.
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      Philosopher's 'Yes'
      49 2 LONDON, Tues— Professor S. N. Das Gupta, the Indian philosopher, has accepted the newly-established Chair of Philosophy offered to him by the University of Ceylon. It was learned here yesterday. His wife. Dr. 8. Das Gupta. has accepted the Chair of Sanskrit at the same University. Reuter
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      Smallpox Move
      19 2 MANILA. Tues— The Secretary of Health (Sr. Antonia Vlllarama) has ordered a Philippines-wide smallDox vaccination campaign A.P.
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      Irrevocable
      47 2 LONDON, Tues,— Britain's decision to demolish Germany's war-time torpedo research station at Eckernfoerde on the Baltic near Kiel is irrevocable, a British Foreign Office spokesman said today Demolition, due to start tomorrow, would not be influenced by any projected boycott of German labour, he added.— Reuter
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      U.S. Evacuees
      30 2 MANILA. lues. A second group of 40 Unite J States Slate Department -vac i n es from China including 22 youngsters, arrived yesterday frorr. Shanghai by ulane AP
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      Their "Mine" Was A Coconut
      50 2 LONDON, Tues. AROUND, dark object floating off-shore at Hastings was reported to the police as a mine. Patrol cars rushed to the spot. When the "mine" was washed close enough a policeman bravely grabbed it. It was the outer husk of a large coconut. Reuter.
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      685 2 NOTICES SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY Tenderers for the supply of 200 tons of 80/100 Penetration Bitumen and 300 tooa of Quick Emulsified Bitumen I -e Informed that the closing dace for sub1 mission of tenders has been extended to nooii on Wednesday 15th Dec. 1948. SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY WATEE DEPARTMENT Tenders are invited
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    STANLEY DENIES BAN
    643 3 Emphatic "No" Toßribe Question LONDON, Tuesday. CIDNEY STANLEY, key figure m the London inquiry into alleged corruption m Government circles, burst into laughter today at a suggestion that he had been barred from entering a big London department store. Counsel for Francis Cecil Price, managing director of
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    ADMIRAL ON P.I. MISSION
    29 3 MANILA. Tues. Admiral William Wright (retired) is m Manila on a special mission to co-ordinate work of United States federal agencies m the Philippines.— Reuter.
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    Asians Uneasy At United Nations, Says Indian
    142 3 PARIS, Tuesday. "PEOPLE m Asia are very uneasy at the way the United Nations is functioning," India's chief delegate to the U.N. (Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit) told Reuter after her last appearance at the General "After experiencing the failure of Western diplomacy twice
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    INDIA COMPLAI "A NUISANCE"
    61 3 PARIS, Tues. THE Indian Government's request for consideration of the treatment of Indians in South Africa was described to the United Nations today by Mr. Eric Louw (South Africa) as having "a certain nuisance value." "It is not an important issue," he said. "We are inclined
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    56 3 THEY FIGHT FOB FRENCH: Vietnamese troops who have deserted the ranks of President Ho Chi Minn's forces are now helping French soldiers m the war m Indo- China. Here some of them are seen during a training exercise. The field of tall grass portrayed above Is typical of other fields
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    ECAFE Debates State Trading
    247 3 LAPSTONE, (New South Wales), Tuesday. CEYLON, supported by India, Burma, and the Philippines, today successfully opposed a recommendation to the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East that "state trading should be avoided m international agreements." The Trade and Finance Committeee agreed without a I
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    U.S. AND TIN PACT SCHEME
    291 3 U.S. AND TIN PACT SCHEME From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Tues. DISCUSSING the possibility of an interna1 tional tin agreement, the i monthly bulletin Tin says obviously everything depends upon what the United States has m mind regarding the size of her projected stockpile and the rate at which she
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    Sugar Threat
    29 3 MANILA, Tues.— The Philippine Government today threatened to confiscate sugar stocks m Manila to end an artificial scarcity said to have been begun by Chinese wholesalers. AP.
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    GREEKS FAILED,SAYS U.S.
    144 3 WASHINGTON, Tues. PRESIDENT Truman, in a report to Congress today, said the Greek .army failed to make a "determined effort" after a series of victories during the summer. An encouraging prospect for defeating the rebels had th'Us failed to materialise, despite the delivery of more than $170,000,000
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    GOVERNMENT WORKERS WANI THEIR OWN FEDERATION
    404 4 GOVERNMENT WORKERS WANI THEIR OWN FEDE RATION From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Tuesday. TRADE unions and associations of monthly-paid Government employees agreed at Kuala Lumpur during the week-end to form a Government Services Joint Council (Staff) Federation of Malaya. It is proposed that the association will co-ordi-nate Whitley Council activities,
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    43 4 TOURED EUROPE: Miss Quek Ai Lin, a Malacca girl, who ha» just returned to Malaya after a tour of Europe. Miss Quek studied m Canada and the U.S. and spent some time m Europe before returning to her home. (Story m page 9).
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    NO SIAMU.K. ARMS ACCORD
    137 4 NO SIAMU.K. ARMS ACCORD LONDON, Tues. r! Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affaiin (Mr. Christopher Mayhew) stated In the House of Commons yesterday that the British Government had not come to any agreement with the Government ol Siam on re-equipping the Siamese army. He was replying to a question by
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    AUSTRALIANS AID BILLY LOH
    105 4 Gifts from Australia of food and clothing for Billy Lob and his family have been re- ceived by th.3 Australian Com- > missioner (Mr. Claude Mas- 1 sey> Billy Loh, Straits-born Chin- se who won the grati-j tude of Australian prisoners] at Caldtc ott Hill camp
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    Gernan Beer Cargo
    32 4 BREMEN. Tues. Oeifirst direct post-war trade of cargo for the Far East, 2,i'00 rases of Bre:nen beer for the East Ind'. v left m the British .<h:p Breckonshire. Heater.
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    CALL FOR NEW DEAL IN ASIA
    149 4 CALL FOR NEW DEAL IN ASIA PARIS. Tues. rE standard of living m India, Burma, Ceylon, China. Slam, Indo-China, Indonesia, Korea and Japan was "deplorably low," said Dr. S. Chandrasekhar, demographic expert of the United Nations Educational. Scientific and Cultural Organisation, m Paris yesterday. He said a quick and effective
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    Siam Rice: U.K. Sticks By I.E.F.C.
    158 4 Siam Rice: U.K. Sticks By I.E.F.C. LONDON, Turs. MR. Leonard Gammans (Cons, Hornsey) m Com- mons yesterday asked whet- htr, m view of the virtual breakdown of government m Burma, and the improbability of South-East Asia being able to get all the rice it hoped to get, the British Govern-
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    COFFEE SHOP APPEALS
    69 4 The Singapore Hainan Coffee Shop Association has senta petition to the Municipal authorities for relaxation of the eating shop regulations. Many coffee shops complain that the expenditure on renovating their premises to form with the sanl'ary standards required la too heavy them. The Fcochow Coffee Shop Association
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    THEY WATCHED HIM FIGHT ALONE
    38 4 "Nobody came to my help" complained a Kartmoen Island Chinese trader who unsuccessfully resisted three Chinese robbers who attacked him In Market Street yesterday. The trader had Just collected $200 from a shop.
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    Squadron Crest To Be Presented
    162 4 THE passing out parade of 93 Squadron of the R.A.F. 1 Regiment (Malaya) will take place at R.A.F. Station Scmbawang next Friday, when the salute will be taken by the A.O.C. (Air Vice Marshal A. C Sanderson) The Air Vice Marshal will present to the
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    28 4 FOR JAMBOREE: lower Perak's only representative at the Pan-Pacific .Scout Jamboree In Australia is Patrol Leader Abdul Sam at! bin Mohammed Yaacob, of the Ist. Teluk Anson Troop.
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    COURT FREES A RARE BIRD
    54 4 From Our Own Correspondent PARIT BUNTAR. Tues.— The court has ordered the [release of a pied nutmeg pigeon—the sole survivor of 18 I captured by a Malay, Awang bin Lebai Munik. Earlier, the court had fined Awang $10 for Illegal possession of the birds— the
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    U.S. Carrier For Singapore
    77 4 PEARL HARBOUR, THE U.S. aircraft-carrier Tarawa will make goodwill visits to Singapore and Hong Kong this month. Pacific Fleet hcadquar- terms has announced that the Tarawa will be at Hong Kong on Dec. 9-14 and will arrive at Singapore on Dec. IX. She will be ac-i-ompanied
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    Senator Criticises U.S. Synthetic Rubber Policy
    247 5 Senator Criticises U.S. Synthetic Rubber Policy '<THE United States Gov- ernment should not restrict the consumption of natural rubber as an encouragement to the production of synthetic rubber m the U.S." This was stated by Senator George Malone. Chairman of the U.S. Senate National Resources Economic Committee, m Singapore yesterday
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    61 5 SKETCH PLAN of the Ramakrishna Mission Orphanage dormitory, the foundation stone of which is to be laid by Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, the Commissioner-General m South-East Asia, on Friday at 5 p.m. at 179 Hartley Road, Singapore. The dormitory is a two-storeyed building estimated to cost about $100,000 and has
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    $1.50 A KATI BID FOR ANT-EATER
    110 5 $1 .50 A KATI BID FOR ANT-EATER MR. X, Singapore bachelor, who Is keeping an ant-eater as a pet in his office, has received several offers from people who want to bay it. One man has a lot of ants in his garden. Among other offers is that of a
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    Scholarship Offers
    124 5 TTHE annual report of the Eurasian Association, Singapore, gives details of scholarships open to Eurasians. The Hockstadt scholarship tenable for three years and valued at $300 a year, awarded every fourth year for one of the following trades: Marine engineering, motor engineering, eVectrical engineering, carpentry, Utters and joiners,
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    NO MORE NEW TAXIS
    92 5 No new taxi licences are i to be granted in Singapore. This decision of the Controller of Road Transport, Mr W. L. Blythe, was made public yesterday by the Registrar of Vehicles, Mr. W. A M. Watts. This ban does not apply to the renewal of
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    WAR RELICS
    32 5 Thirty-one live and two dud cannon shells, relics of the war were recovered from the sea opposite Godown No. 7 during dredging operations m the Singapore Harbour Board area yesterday.
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    CURFEW MEANS NO FISHING AT NIGHT
    219 5 INCHE Sardon bin Haji Jubir (Rural East), at the Dec. 21 Singapore Legislative Council meeting, will put a case for "poorer fisherfolk" m certain areas who are prevented from fishing by the 6 p.m. 6 a.m. curfew. t He will bring the Government's attention
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    THREE CHINESE DISCHARGED
    45 5 A Chinese, Lee Kam Chuan, and two women, Kan Ho and Thong Ah Teng, were discharged by the Singapore Seventh Police Court Magistrate (Mr. R. J. C. Walt), yesterday. They were charged with possessing forged Indonesian 50 and 25 rupee currency notes.
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    IDENTITY CARD STOLEN
    53 5 An Indian Municipal labourer has made a report to the Singapore police that two Chinese early yesterday morning pulled him Into a dark back lane off Jalan Besar and robbed him of his identity card and $2. This is the third report of theft of identity cards
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    Teacher Retires After 31 Years
    284 5 By Our Woman Correspondent THE Old Boys' Association of St. Andrew's School x presented Mrs. H. Nicklen Jones with a /ade and gold ncoklet on her retirement from the teaching staff at St. Andrew's after 31 years' service. Teachers of the school ?ave her a
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    39 5 The Lady Superior of St. Anthony's Convent and her group of helpers, wish to thanJc all those who helped to make the! Convent's annual exhlbtiom and sale such a success and who contrlbuted towards it cash donations or goods.
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    Malay News SIAM GOVT ATTACKED AGAIN
    355 5 Malay News SIAM GO VT ATTACKED AGAIN From A Malay Correspondent THE Kuala Lumpur Malay newspaper, Majlis, on Sunday came out with a re- newed attack on the Siamese Government for its reported 111-treatment of Muslims m Southern Siam. The criticism is mads In an editorial commenting on a report
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    ARMY BLOWS UP DUMP
    66 5 The Royal Army Ordnance Corps blew up a ctumo of gelignite at the 9J mile, Buklt Timah Road, at 2 p.m. yesterday. The dump is said to have been there for about three years, and was in a dangerous condition. A police spokesman said last night
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    Ceylon-Malaya Air Link Under Australian Plan
    95 5 AUSTRALIAN National Air- i ways are to operate Air Ceylon under agreement vith the Ceylon Government for 10 years from next January. It is intended to extend Air Ceylon's service to Northern India, Malaya and Britain, and possibly to Australia, via Cocos Island and
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Wed., Dec. 8, 1948. SELF-HELP AT A DISCOUNT
    901 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed., Dec. 8, 1948. SELF-HELP AT A DISCOUNT Malaya appears to have an unhappy habit of coming off second best m practically all international deals involving American dollars and the disposal of her tin and rubber Certainly, there seems to be little room for doubt that
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    Fifty Years Ago.
    270 6 From the Straits Times o] Dec. 8, 1898 Not only is the world's] supply of tin Retting very scanty but there I* to an Australian geologist an actual scarcity of the mineral. i This authority points out that. i while the known gold-fields of the world cover
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    LONG-TERM EMPIRE PLAN
    1332 6  -  By RICHARD DENMAN Of The Economist LONDON, Dec 1. THE Organisation for European Economic Co-operation m Paris has been receiving the long-term plans of the nineteen European countries participating m the Marshall Aid programme. Soon there will be the task of integrating these programmes into a single
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    Career Girl: Old Chinese Style
    571 6 CHINESE girls who today have become career women would have shocked their grandparents if, at their "year-old career choosing ceremony" they had indicated by their choice of a clinical thermometer, a law book or a typewriter, that they yearned to become doctors. lawyers or secretaries
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      China And The Will To Fight
      349 6 THE New York Times stated the other day that, "It is not want of arms which accounts for Nationalist failures, it is lack of the will to fight. That should be kept m mind no matter how skilfully Madame Chiang tries to instil into
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      Lorries Without Mudguards
      143 6 itfANY moons ago, I iTI seem to remember, there was a notice m your paper to the effect that lorries without mudguards were now illegal and that all vehicles thereafter were to be provided with effective guards to all wheels. Travelling down Clemenceau Avenue yesterday In my
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      98 6 (Ifounsukk) BING CROSBY sings 4 Beautiful Arias from the film: "Emperor Walts" 8908 Emperor Walts, I kiss your hand. Madame. 3932 The Kiss In your eye*. Friendly Mountains. Other new Numbers:— Bin* Crosby and Jascha Heitfes (Violin) 3938 Lullaby from "Jocelyn". Where my caravan has rested. The Andrews Sisters 3935
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    SCOUTS LEAVE FOR THE JAMBOREE
    635 7 Cheers And Tears As Ship Leaves \INETY-five Scouts, described on the docks by 1 the Colonial Secretary (Mr. P. A. B. McKer- ron) as "young ambassadors from Malaya," sailed yesterday m the Maetsuycker to attend the South-West Pacific Jamboree m Australia. They were given a
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    SPECIALS BEAT BANDITS
    202 7 SPECIALS BEAT BANDITS I imii Our Staff Corrcspondeiut KuALA LUMPUR, Tues. SPECIAL Constables on Kapar Bahru Estate, near Rawang, about 18 miles north of Kuala Lumpur, repulsed a bandit attack early today. It v as the second attack m 1 u> Rawang area during the past few days. On Saturday
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    TEACHERS TO SEE FILMS
    95 7 From Our .Staff Correspondent j IPOH Tues. THi. Teachers' Union of 1 Ferak will hold a ont-day educational-social meeting m Ipoh on Saturday- -the day following the closing of Perak scnools for the December vacation. The programme ulenned includes hockey matches, a lecture, a cine-ma shew
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    EIGHT ON FORGERY CHARGE
    199 7 EIGHT ON FORGERY CHARGE SIX Chinese appeared before the Singapore Seventh Police Court I Magistrate (Mr. R. J. C. Wait) yesterday on a charge of having possessed instruments and materials for forging 50cent Malayan Currency notes, at 48 Upper Cross Street. They were Choo Cheong Han, Ng Boon Chiong, Ooh
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    No Parking Here
    26 7 Visitors to Katong Park are not allowed to drive their vehicles into the park. Offenders are liable to a penalty not exceeding $25.
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    GENERATORS:"AIR TRIP" EVIDENCE
    548 7 CJVIDENCE about the visit of Inspector Mong of Singapore C.I.D. to the Federation was given at the Assizes yesterday m the second day's hearing of the R.A.F. generators case. According to a witness the Inspector went to the Federation because he thought it would be "very nice
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    VAMPIRE OFF TO BANGKOK
    96 7 Flt.-Lt. George ("Kiwi") Francis, AFC, will fly Singapore's Jet Vampire to Bangkok tomorrow, to give demonstrations to the Siamese Air Force and the Bangkok public. First hop In the flight will end at Butterworth tomorrow morning when the Vampire will refuel The plane will touch down
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    M.I.C MEN FOR INDIA
    67 7 The Malayan Indian Congress will send a delegation to the bniHia* session of the Indian National Conßress, which is scheduled to be held m Jaipur on Dec. \b and 19. Mi Budo Slng'i president of the M.1.0 will lead the delegation. Mr Budh Singn will irrive
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    Terror Shuts 20 Schools In Perak
    137 7 Terror Shuts 20 Schools In Perak From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Tues. AT least 20 knov.-n Chinese schools in Perak have ceased to function since the emergency, an official of the Education "Department told the Straits Times today. All, except two, were unregistered schools and a majority of them were
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    SECURITY CHECKS TO INCREASE
    106 7 DOLICE -die "Stepping up security cbecka m the Coloriv to ascertain if we hay strangers and undesirables m our midst" iaid th'i Jineaoore C.I.D Chief X V. Fowler) yeswrdav Those who have last identity cards jhonlri report the matter to the police and then, after perhaps
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    Indian Congress To Put Up Candidates
    283 7 "OINGAPORE Regional Indian Congress has every intention of carrying out the directive of the Malayan Indian Congress to fight Municipal elections and will soon call a meeting to prescribe the procedure for nominating our official candidates," said the President of the S.R.I.C. (Mr. A.
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    Labour Party Is Planning Big Membership Drive
    515 7 Labour Party Is Planning Big Membership Drive THE first executive meeting of the newlyformed Labour Party of Singapore, being held today, will discuss plans for a gigantic membeiship drive. The meeting will also talk about a suitable answer to the Governments rejection of certain amendments m the Municipal Elections Ordinance.
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    RADIO PROGRAMME CHANGES
    483 8 Listeners To Get What They Want CXTENSIVE programme changes by Radio Malaya designed to give listeners of the various communities the programme they want at the right time, will come into operation on Jan. 1. To enable the changes to be implemented, technicians at the Jurong transmitters
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    CLUB FOR YOUNG FARMERS
    193 8 CLUB FOR YOUNG FARMERS A SCHEME has been inihated to found a Young Farmers' Club m connection with the Malay Settlement Boys' Club, which already has a membership of 200. This is slated m the November report or the Sil Department of Social Welfnrf. points from the re-.i-e: Of the
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    GRADUATION DAY
    29 8 The Chinese National ill hold a graduation day concert and at the Straits Chinese Methodist Church at KamKapnr at 3 p.m. on Dec. I the students, frdlalnd.
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    The Changes
    68 8 RED Network (Asian programmes) Monday to Friday: Broadcasting begins one hoar earlier at 5 p.m. instead of 6 p.m. Changes are as follows: Five to 7 p.m. Tamil, 7 to 9— Malay, 9 to 11— Chinese. Blue Network. Monday to Friday: Five to 6 p.m.— Chinese. Six to
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    "Is It Too Late?" Asks Inche Sardon
    182 8 WHEN unofficial members of the Singapore Legislative Council hold their usual informal meeting with officials next week. Inche Sardon bin Haji Zubir (Rural East) will ask if it is too late to amend the Municipal Elections Ordinance so that would-be voters without property
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    Dyaks Fly Home With 'New Look'
    131 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. T OADED with Malayan sou- Lj veniri— chiefly clothes— 23 Dyaks left lor Borneo today by air from Kuala Lumpur. Tney were members of the original contingent of trackers who were flown here at the outset of
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    Sarawak Prepares To Meet Crisis
    185 8 Sarawak Prepares To Meet Crisis From Our Own Correspondent KUCHING, Tuesday. SARAWAK is taking steps to ensure that it will hay« a police force strong enough to meet any emergency. At a recent meeting of the Council Negri, a bill providing for the formation of a reserve force of Special
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    Officers CAN Bail Out Other Ranks
    139 8 'THE Army yesterday denied a report which has gained currency m Singapore that an Army officer, In future, may not ball out an Other Rank accused of a selzable offence. The matter first arose m the i Fourth Police Court, on Bat- I urday,
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    PRIEST'S SILVER JUBILEE
    85 8 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. Rev. Father Joseph Lee. Parish Priest of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, j Johore Bahru, celebrate 6 .he j sliver sacredotal Jubilee uf his crdinatlon tomorrow when a i Thanksgiving High Mas* *1U i b( sung. Bishop Ukemor.dy md
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    Secession Committee Formed
    240 8 Secession Committee Formed From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. TIN MEMBERS of the Penang and Province Wellosley Settlement Counc:l and 'he Settlement representatives '»o the Federal Legislative Council met at the Penang Turf Club this evening to discuss the question of the secession or the Settlement from the Federation. The meeting
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    Four Charged With Murder
    110 8 IN the Singapore Seventh Police Court on Monday two Malays and iwo Eurasians, Bahari bin Mohamed Arahlm (23), Karlm bin Ghanl (24), Stephen Froys (21) and his brother Oranville Froys (24; were charged with murder. It was alleged that at about 5.10 p.m. on May 7
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    IN HONOUR OF TAMIL SAINT
    38 8 Thiruvempa Pooja, Singing 1 of 21 holy hymns In memory of a Tamil Saint, Manlcka- vasagar, will be celebrated at Sree Senpaga Vlnayagar Temple, Ceylon Road. Katong for ten dayi starting from today.
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    AMERICA WANTS TIN PRICE KEPT UNDER CONTROL
    417 9 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Tuesday. A ME RICA would like to maintain the present price and control system of tin since otherwise she would have to pay more for her strategic supplies. This is the opinion of a correspondent m The Financial
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    Johore Weekly Letter
    227 9 Johore Weekly Letter From Our SUIT Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU Tues. rE Johore Bahru zoo In the Botanical Gardens, which > was a popular pre-war resort J tor Singapore visitors, Is being re-established by the Tungku Mahkota of Johore. > The entire collection of the 1 native and Imported fauna was
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    Singapore Diary
    191 9 TODAT Housing and Town Planning Exhibition, British Council Centre. 10 a.m. to 0 p.m. Admission free. Singapore Urban Co-operative Uriion. extra-ordinary general meeting office of the co-operative societies dept., Pullerton Building, 6.15 p.m. I Medical College Alumni Association, symposium on "Dental Conditions of Interest to Medical Practitioner." Mr.
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    40 9 LOCKERS FOR AIRMEN L.A.C. Walker (left) and A.C. Eden of the R.A.F. Maintenance Base (Far East), Seletar, assembling wooden lockers for airmen stationed In the Far East. Iwo hundred nf these lockers are to be produced weekly. Straits Times picture.
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    Asia Insurance: 18 Storeys Soon
    242 9 rpHE Asia Insurance Company's plans for erection of 1 a new 18-storey building m Finlayson Green, Singapore, have been approved. As soon as vacant possession is obtained the present building on the site will be demolished. In their report the directors say the company continued
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    PROMISE TO INDIAN DETAINEES
    144 9 MR. J. A Thivy, representative of the Government of India m Malaya, assured yesterday 35 Indians, held under the Emergency Regulations m Outram Road Gaol, that he, m co-operation with the local government, would do everything m his power to help them. Mr. Thivy. accompanied by
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      369 9 r Cooling as the whispering vt&Jdfl&ld wind that gently plucks the petals from the roses m an English t dawn. So immediate m its appeal ilflh V 10 lasting m its freshness true Mi A English lavender is still the happiest I". fragrance for all daytime hours. kjH 'And nowhere
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      580 9 In todays deal West was d«- ing South two tricks in the su.t term.ned to keep the declarer Apparently deeding that an>for making an extra trick in a thing was better than that, west certain suit, but his stubbornness shifted to the nine of clubs was mlsd.rectedl Declarer won with
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    Rubber Export Years Record
    55 10 SHIPMENTS of rubber from the Federation and Singapore during November, totalling 94,508 tons, were the highest since November last year. In October, 1948, 80,181 tons were shipped. The total exports for the first 11 months of this year were 913.506 tons compared with 874,877 tons for
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    Singapore Rubber
    207 10 AN 3hort covering, the Slnv gapore rubber market steadied throughout the day yesterday, Improving by about three-quarters of a cent per lb. on the day. The market was firm at the close. Closing prices yesterday were: No. 1 sheet fo.b. buyers 35 cents, sellers 35 M cents; spot
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    SHIPPING IN PORT
    67 10 SHIFS m port alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns In brackets) were: Main Wharf: Taksang (35-36), Benarty (40-41), Kutsang (42-43). West Wharf i Tiipondok (1-2), Islander (3), Polyphemus (13-14), Benares (15-10). Empire Dock: River Mitta 0920), Trevaylor (24-25), Marelia (25-26). East Wharf: Maetsuycker (45). Sheen
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    Dow Jones Averages
    23 10 Dec. 3. Dec. 6. Stocks 04.63 64.34 Industrials 170.2$ 176.26 Rails 53. 7« 53. 78 L'tillttea 32.95 32. 9S A.P.
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    MALAYAN SHARES: BUSINESS MEAGRE
    707 10 From Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Tuesday. rpHE Malayan share Market today was dull and quiet. Business continued to be on a meagre scale. Prices quoted by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association today were: INDUSTRIALS Bayer 8ell« AUa» IM 14.00 18.00 Alex Bricks Pref. 3.85 3.93K Ord. 1.00
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    The Singapore Produce Market
    153 10 From A Market Correspondent gINOAPORB pepp«r prices rose again yesterday on the pro- j duce markets, but no business was reported. Except for a small volume of business m Slak sago flour, all other market sections were ouiet and unchanged. Yesterday's quotations Included: Rica Unelaavlfled: No
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    London Stocks
    403 10 LONDON, Tues. APART from Brazilian Railways and Leopoldina Debentures, which showed sharp rises, the London Stock Exchange was quiet yesterday with few noteworthy alterations, says Reuter's financial correspondent. Rubbers were unchanged to lower. Tins were irregular to lower. Good buying of Brazilian Railways was prompted by take-ovT hopes.
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    KUCHAI TIN-ORE
    12 10 KTJCHAI TlrTs dredge produced 300 piculs of tin-ore In November.
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    SPENCER SHOULD GAIN DOUBLE
    954 11 Jack 9 s Darling Best Today By EPSOM JEEP IPOH,* Tuesday. JACK'S Darling and Eastern Picture, both by J Winterhalter, should land a double for trainer Jack Spencer at Ipoh tomorrow, the second day of the Perak Turf Club's December Meeting. Two splendid performances at Bukit
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    Straits Times Selections
    139 11 EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER EASTERN PICTURE Eddy Fraaar RACE 1 2.15 EASTERN PICTURE Eddy FraMr EDDY FRASER EMtern Picture RACE 2 2. 45 FIREMASTER Singing Bird II Fair Week SINGING BIRD II SllckncM FiremAster FIREMASTER Fair Week Singing Bird II RACE 3 3.19 MARTINI Lovely Bore
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    Women's Hockey Assn. Meeting
    71 11 Women' s Hockey Assn. Meeting IT has been suggested by the leading women's hockey clubs m Singapore that the Singapore Women's Hockey Association, which was established In October 1939, revive Its activities. A meeting will be held on Frldry, Dec. 10 at the Singapore Criocet Club for this purpose. All
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    R.J.I.C. Meet
    76 11 Fr*m Our Own Correspondem. JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. rE Royal Johore Internalona) Club's monthly medal golf competition, <stroke play), will be competed for on Dec. 9. 10,. 11 and 12. A Flag competition starting at 9 a.m has been arrannad for Boxing Day, Dec. 26. The compel'don is over
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    S.C.R.C HOCKEY XI
    65 11 The S.C.R.C. hockey team to met the Singapore Recreation Club on the Padang today will be: Lee Ah Cbio; Oan Kee Siang, Cheong Thiam Slew; Lav Hock Chye, Goh Chlng Chye, Cheah Kirn Swee; Swee Lim Swang, Chal Hon Yam, Khoo Ong Lee, Wong Kirn Fong, Low
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    S.C.C. WOMEN'S XI
    57 11 The following will represent the S.C.C. women's hockey team m a match against the Changl Larti s 1 Hockey Club on the padang thh evening: D. Yetton- Mary HolUday. E. Shedden; E. McMullan, C. Wright, E. Pearcy; D. Still, Margaret Holliday. P. Sewcll. W. Pairhurst, S Still.
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    Today's Race Card
    893 11 OK LOW are the acceptances for today's races at 13 Ipoh. The Double Totes will be on races three and four, six and seven. The Big Sweep will be drawn on race seven. Race 1—2.15: Cl. 2, Div. 2 (Maidens)— Furs. 000 LoKgchamps II Spencer 9.00 Mr.
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    COLT GETS HIGHEST BID
    176 11 NEWMARKET. Tuesday. MANY oversea* buyers were IYI present at the first day of! the flve-dey Newmarket bloodstock sales which began here today The aggregate today was 76. 970 guineas for 142 k>U, including three private sales, an average price of M 2 guineas. The Asa Khan
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      124 11 FSTm i'iki *7±1 *J M UAU1O MALAYA SINGAPORE 1 Radio Orchestra; 1 30 News; 1.45 Dixieland Stars; 2 Close; 8.15 News; 8.20 Interlude; 8.30 Listeners' Post; 9.30 News; 9.45 Bandstand; 10.13 Chief Inspector French's Cases; 10.30 Dance music broadcast from th« Cathay Restaurant; 11 News, Close. KUALA LUMPUR 1 As
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      136 11 Xuoyu; 9.30 Burmese: 9.45 EnlClish; 10 London Forum; 10.30 Radio News Reel; 10.45 Light Music; 11 Books to Read; 11.19 Dance Music; 11.30 News; 11.43 Balance of Europe; 12 Close. SBC OVERSEAS 5.30 Report from Britain; 0 Music While You Work; 0 30 The News; 7.45 Bands Within Bands; ,8
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    THOMAS CUP TEAM GLAD LIM WILL GO
    492 12 Exhibitions In Colombo From LEE SIEW YEE, Straits Times Staff Reporter with Thomas Cup team aboard Carthag*. COLOMBO, Tuesday. WORRYING about hotel bills and worrying about badminton strokes don't mix, so it is good news that Mr. Lim Chuan Geok, captainmanager of the
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    Services XV Selected
    89 12 J"HK All-Malayan Services U*m to meet the Malayan Civilian* m the annual Rugby rame to b» played at Kuala f.umpur on Saturday lias been ■elected m follows: W i n f Cmdr. Richmond (R.A.F.); (apt. Sanderson (Airoy). 9q. Ldr. Waterkyn (8.A.F.), Lt. Meanly (R.N.). V/o. Levlseur (R.A.F.);
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    SHB Police Recover Too Late
    232 12 SHB Police Recover Too Late S.R.C 3 S.H.B.A.P. 2 J*HREE goals m arrears, the Singapore Harbour Board Auxiliary Police staged a brilliant recovery In the second half only to lose by the odd goal m five to the Singapore Recreation Club m a hockey match on the Padang yesterday. Superior
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    T. BURNS K.O.'d.
    81 12 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. Tues. Pay Famechon of Fiance. leatherweight champion ol Europe, knocked out Tommy Burns of England m the. seventh round of a scheduled ton-round bout ben last night. Fameclion downed Burns for a count of seven m the fourth round, but the bell ended it before he
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    S.C.C. Beat Airmen By Only Goal
    413 12 AN only goal scored m the second half by Moolenburg: enabled the Singapore Cricket Club to beat the Royal Air Force by one goal to nil m a game of hockey on the padang yesterday. The game, which was fast and exciting throughout, was
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    Oxford Win
    29 12 LONDON, Tues. OXFORD beat Cambridge by 14 points to eight m the annual Varsity j Rugby match played today. Oxford were leading j 11-nil at half-time. Reuter.
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    EN TONGSENG CUP DRAW
    82 12 EN TONG SENG CUP DRAW 'THE DRAW and starting tim«s for the first round of the Euj Tong Sen Cup golf competition at; the Island Club on Saturday af. or noon are: 3 p.m.: chua Boon Yew (16) vJohn Day (17). 305 p.m.: H, T, Winterborne (12) v. Russell-Bishop (7).
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    TIGER S.C. WIN
    52 12 In a return watt-r polo match olayed at the Tiger Pool, Pasir Panjang, on Monday, the Tiger Swimming Club's "A" team beat the H M.S. Birmingham's "A" team by five goals to one. In anoth°r game between the "B" teams of both sides, t^.e Tigris won I
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    Customs Rugby XV
    43 12 The following will represent the Customs Sports Club m a rugger j match against Nee Soon Garrison R.F.C. at Nee Soon tomorrow: Hong Leong; Chen Kee, Ramll, Leach, Cressall; Rodlck, Yusof; Siew Lian, Iksan, Bat.-s Ohon', Stlby. Phillips, Maby, Aziz.
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    Sports Diary
    92 12 TODAY HOCKEY: S.C.C. Women's XI v. (hand Ladies' H.C. S.C.C: S.R.C. v. S.C.R.C.— S.R.C.; G.H.Q. Sir. Reft. v. 221 Veb. Coy Johore Bahru; G.H.Q. FARELF v. Vpon- Colts Tanglin; Khalsa Assn. v. Medical College St. George's Rd. RUGBY: R.A.F. Sembauang v. R.A.F. Seletar Sembawang; 111 8.0.D. v. Nee
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    "Woodcock Has Lost His Chance"
    952 12 LONDON, Tuesday. DRUCE WOODCOCK, the heavyweight champion of Britain, Europe and the British Empire, who beat American Lee Savold on a disqualification m the fourth round at Harringay yesterday, received a bad press this morning. The majority of the boxing writers, commenting on the alleged
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    Sunday's Inter-Club Golf Match
    635 12 STARTING times for the inter-club golf match between the Royal Singapore Golf Club and the Island Club on Sunday morning are given below. The first match will start from the first tee and the secoud mat^h from the tenth tee. R.B.G.C. oairs arc mentioned first. 8.15
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    No Return Says Daly
    85 12 LONDON, Tues. LEE Savold's manager, Bill Daly, said today: "As far as we are concerned. Woodcock was knocked out last night and we are not Interested m a return. "If we stay m Britain it will be for a fight with Freddie Mills, the world's cruiserweight
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    Bradman Out For 10: Game Ends In A Tie
    283 12 MELBOURNE, Tuesday. rtON BRADMAN said farewell to first-class cricket today with one of his less glorious efforts— he was out for ten m his testimonial mateh but he had already left his mark with a century m the first innings and
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    Race Review In Page Eleven
    197 12 Race Review In Page Eleven by Saggers, off Bill Johnaton'a bowling. In 336 Innings (43 times not out) Bradman has scored 27,984 runs or an average of 95.5. He hit 117 centuries, including 37 double hundreds. Where Bradman left off, hb p nbable successor as Australia's res'. captain, the young
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    SINGAPORE HOCKEY TRIAL
    97 12 rE Singapore hockey team will play a trial match agairtst the Whites on the S.R.C. padai.g tomorrow The team to represent Singapore against Malacca and Negri Sembilarf on Dec. 18 and 19 rospeei tively, will be selected after the trial. The teams are: Colours: Mathot: R. H.
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    Dates For N.Z. v. England Tests
    53 12 LONDON. Tuesday.—Dait.i uid venues for the four Test cricket matches b-tween England a»id New I Zealand next summer wt-i nounced today as follows: Leeds 'June 11 to 14; Lords, London, June 25 to 28; Old Trafford, Manch.ht r, July 23 to 26; Oval, London,
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    30 12 soccer team or association wishing to play friendly games with the Tlong Bahru i Rangers next seaso.i should c I the Sports Secretary, Hum Chun iHoong. co Guthri* Co.. I'd.
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