The Straits Times, 11 November 1949

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 IWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1949. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    SINGAPORE BAN ON FOREIGN FLAGS
    389 1 Action Under Emergency Regulations THE Singapore Government last night issued an Emergency Regulation prohibiting the public display of national emblems, including flags and photographs of leaders living or dead. The Regulation exempts the national emblems of the United Kingdom and those of Singapore and the
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    2 WILL DECIDE ON SIAM LOAN
    55 1 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Thurs. Two officials of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Mr. Richard Brenner and Mr. Beltboth Scenner, arrived in Bangkok by special plane today. They will decide whether Siam should receive a loan from the World Bank
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    67 1 FLAWLESS CRYSTAL: Mrs. Elizabeth Choy stands beside a bronze figure for which she acted as model for the former Singapore sculptress. Dora Gordine. The figure, called "Flawless Crystal." is now on exhibition the Leicester Galleries. London. Mrs. Choy, whose ■UN is Soo Moi. (Peerless Blossom), is now living in London.
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    Riot Threat As Quirino Leads
    131 1 MANILA, Thursday. (GOVERNMENT forces have been alerted to meet 1 a reported attack on Manila by Hukbalahap forces in protest against the lead being maintained by President Quirino in the Presidential election vote counting. With more than half of the votes counted, the Philippine presidential
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    STRAITS TIMES PICTURES, 1949, OUT TOMORROW
    104 1 THE 1949 issue of Strain Times Pictures, with 19 full colour platej, will be on «ale throughout Malaya tomorrow. All copict already ordered foi despatch overseas have been posted. Further orders for despatch to the United Kingdom, which reach the Straits Tinmes, Singapore or
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    Rubber Burns For 16 Hours
    112 1 LIVERPOOL, Thurs. IX)UR hundred firemen, after F an 18-hour battle, today brought under control a fire at a great Merseyslde warehouse at the Gladstone dock here. In its trial the fire left a sea of molten rubber in the dock area. The warehouse, one of
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    'ANTI-WAR DAY' BOMB
    54 1 'ANTI-WAR DAY' BOMB CALCUTTA, Thurs. Twenty-seven people, including six women, were arrested here this afternoon following the explosion of a bomb at an "Anti-wax Day" meeting organised by the Communistdominated Students Federation. The police ordered the crowd to disperse whereupon the bomb exploded. The bomb thrower was not identified. No
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    AIR FARES
    36 1 LOS ANGELES. Thurs.— A proposal for a new worldwide airline fare and rate structure, based on devalued currencies, will be made at the International Air Transport Association conference in Mexico City this week. Reuter.
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    TRAIN HITS BOMB
    28 1 BATAVIA. Thurs. Three passengers were killed and seven injured when a train hit a bomb on the rail track between Madiun and Modjo kerto.— U.P.
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    NEW SWEDISH JET
    24 1 STOCKHOLM. Th v r s.Sweden has begun regular production of a new arrowshaped Jet fighter capable of more than 650 m.p.h.—A.P.
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    SIAM TO COLLECT PLANES AT S'PORE
    129 1 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Thurs. OIAMESE Air Force authorl- ties intend sending about 30 pilots and technicians to Singapore early next month in connection with the contemplated purchase of one squadron of Spitfires. Some of the Siamese airmen will fly the Spitfires to
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    64 1 AIR CHIEF MARSHAL Sir John Slessor, Inspecting the guard of honour mounted by 95 Squadron of the Royal Air Force in honour of his arrival at Tengah yesterday. With him is the guard commander, Sq.-Ldr. H. Dean. Sir John Slessor, who becomes Chief of Air Staff on Jan. 1. was
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    Hong Kong Sets Guards Over Its Aircraft
    284 1 HONG KONG, Thursday. /CHINA'S two Chinese airlines, 11 of whose planes deserted to the Communists on Wednesday, have suspended services from Hong Kong to the Nation-alist-held mainland. Guards were mounted over an estimated 68 planes belonging to the two companies at Hong Kong.
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    UNION MEN TO VISIT LONDON
    240 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. EE union leaders from the Federation are to nd the preparatory conference of the Free Labour Confederation in London later this month as observers. When they return to this country, a second Malayan trade union delegates' conference will
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    37 1 THE winner of the professional florist's bouquet contest at the recent National Garden Show in England, Miss Hope Dulihanty. of New Zealand, who arrived in Singapore last night on her way home after six months in Europe.
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    MENZIES ON ASIAN ALIENS
    107 1 MELBOURNE, Thurs.— The Australian Opposition leader, Mr. R. O. Menzies, said today that "stupid and provocative" decisions by the Australian Labour Government had harmed her "White Australia" policy and her relations with Asian countries. •'We (the Opposition) will continue to maintain the White Australia policy, which
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    BOGOTA SIEGE
    43 1 BOGOTA, (Colombia), Thurs.— The President has declared a state of siege in Colombia and troops Immediately marched mto Bogota to maintain order. He dissolved the National Congress after a congressional commission told him It would explore means of Impeaching him.— UP.
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    REFUGEE PLANS
    21 1 NEW YORK. Thur«.— Plana have been made to fly 600 Chinese refugees a month to Latin America. A J.
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    CANBERRA TALKS ON S.-E. ASIA
    149 1 CANBERRA, Thurs. BRITISH, New Zealand and Australian officials. In conference here today, discussed "the extension of friendly relations as the best bulwaiK against any extremist or disruptive developments In South-East Asian countries." An official statement said the discussions were based on the accepted understanding that
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    6- Year Plan To A Better Malaya
    592 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. r»HAPTER One of the six-year plan for social and economic development the blueprint for a better Malaya was published today. Three more chapters are being prepared. The Federal Government has not yet discussed the sixyear plan
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    IRATE NEHRU GLARES AT HOSTILE STUDENTS
    297 3 lui^uuin, inursday. THE Indian Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, encountered a hostile demonstration by Indian students at Swaraj House, outside the London University building, when he addressed the London branch of the India League yesterday. The demonstrators patrolled outside the University building in a car
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    U.S. Bid To Sell Grain In Malaya
    182 3 WASHINGTON. Thurs. '|"llh U.S. Government an nounced yesterday that will send throe grain exlto the Federation of Malaya and Singapore to •> rch for new markets for whoat and wheat products. The trip will be financed b the U.S. Agriculture De-j'-ftment and the
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    FOR MOSCOW
    25 3 SHUAIB QI'RESHI who has been appointed Pakistan's first Ambassador to Kirvsia. He is expected to take up duty in Moscow soon. A.P. picture.
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    'Britain Feels Loss Of India'
    70 3 LONDON, Thurs. l ORD Strabolffi, Labour o .P. P eer> said toda y that Britain was feeling the loss of India. "Perhaps a little later when this unfortunate Kashmir business is settled, we can persuade India and Pakistan to undertake some of the responsibilities which
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    U.N. BACKING FOR LIBYA
    47 3 LAKE SUCCESS. Thurs. The United Nations Political Committee today decided to recommend that Libya comprising the territories of Cyrenaica. Tripolitania and the Fezzan. shall be constituted an independent and sovereign state The vote was 51 in favour, none against and seven abstentions.— Reuter
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    BEAUTY ON ICE
    48 3 hUv J JU ff t J ie lee at the Xm P ire Pf Wenibley, where skaters from a number of countries are practising for the World Championships next year. SittLnH °m- fen are Elly Staerck. Austrian champion, and Maureen Johnson of Birmingham— Reuter picture.
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    CREECH JONES ON POLICE INQUIRY
    233 3 FiLLOWiKr *k LONDON, Thursday. JLLUWING the announcement naming the mission to investigate Police organisation and administration in Malaya, a statement was.made in the House of Commons by the Secretary for the Colonies. Mr. Arthur Creech Jones. Arrangements for the hear- i ing of evidence, whether
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    BULLDOG 'WITNESS'
    76 3 MANILA. Thurs.— A bulldog was a silent, docile witness yesterday at the trial of Esther Murray, who is charged with murdering her husband George Murray. Defence Attorney Mariano De Joya said he brought the dog into the court to refute a statement by prosecution witness that the animal
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    TEA PRICE
    40 3 LONDON Thurs. Tea prices to the British Ministry of Food will be only slightly increased by devaluation. Dr. Edith Summerskill said in the House of Commons that the only tea affected would be a little from Pakistan.— Reuter.
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    U.S. Envoy Will Miss Red China
    44 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs. The U.S. Ambassador-at-large, Mr. Phillip C. Jessup. is to visit Japan. China, and other Oriental countries. He is expected to avoid Communist China, but no decision has been made whether he will go to India.— A.P.
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    TRYING TO PLEASE TWO MASTERS
    70 3 LONDON, Thurs. BRITAIN'S Trade Inion Congress General Council, after striving for seven weeks to evolve a yostdevaluation policy acceptable both to the Labour Government and 8,000,000 trade unionists, decided yesterday to refer their decisions to members of the Cabinet Their recommendations will be the subject
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      Afghan King Liked Turkey Drumsticks
      255 3 KANDAHAR (Afghanistan) Thursday. "VICE fellow, that King, and a good eater/ said an American cook after the King of Afghanistan had visited a construction camp at Kandahar. I The table looked strange to Afghan eyes roast turkey American style, and pie with a flaky crust
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    Indies Sovereignty Transfer On Dec. 27—Hatta
    254 3 Indies Sovereignty Transfer On Dec. 27—Hatta rrwir t a CAIRO, Thursday. XHL Indonesian Premier, Dr. Mohamed Hatta, said in Cairo yesterday that the transfer of s tn7h!T^ H ve l ft! Ea e Indies from Hollan d Xc^on De tted 270e c d 270r te 22 8 8 f Irtd
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    U.S. NAVAL CHIEF
    21 3 VICE-ADMIRAL Forrest P. Sherman who has succeeded Admiral Louis Denfield as U.S. Chief of Naval Staff. A.P. picture.
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    UK BLAMES REDS FOR A-THREAT
    164 3 LAKE SUCCESS, Thurs. gIR Alexander Cadogan, British delegate to the United Nations Organisation, said yesterday that Russia was holding an intolerable threat of atomic war over the E:h he and the U.S. deleMr. John D. Hickerson, tant Secretary of State, -_jed the Soviet Union of
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    'WELL DONE' SAYS BEVIN
    117 4 THE Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, expressed, thanks to the Liaison Officers in a message to the confer«?n c which reads: 0 "The friendly atmosphere in which you have helped each other out of difficulties and ensured the smooth flow of food supplies at a time
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    X'mas Cheer Appeal
    98 4 From Oar Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. URS. L. F. Knight, wife of M1 the Chief Police Officer, Johore, is again appealing to the people of Johore and Singapore to send donations towards a fund for providing small Christmas comforts to the troops who have been operating
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    Chettiar Gift To University
    75 4 From Our SUB Correspondent PENANG, Thurs.— The Nattukkottai Chettiar community of Penang has donated $20,232 to the University of Malaya Endowment Fund. A cheque for this amount has been sent to the Resident Commissioner, Mr. A. V. Aston, who is chairman of the Penang University Appeal
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    ARMS TRIAL
    50 4 From Oar Own Correspondent TELUK ANSON, Thurs.— Hajl Ismail bin Haji Alias was charged at Teluk Anson with possession of a shot-gun and five rounds of 12-bore cartridges at Sungei Manik, without a licence under the Emergency Regulations. Haji Ismail was remanded I In custody till Nov. 14.
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    They Saved Asia From Famine
    383 4 LAST MEETING OF THE LIAISON OFFICERS COUTH-EAST Asia liaison officers began their 29th and final meeting in Singapore yesterday. They were congratulated by the CommissionerGeneral, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, for the immense amount of work they had done for the comfort and welfare of the
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    MALAYA SAYS "THANK YOU"
    170 4 VfALAYA'S appreciation of the efforts of the rice- producing countries to supply her and other needy areas of Asia with rice was expressed at the monthly meeting of South-East Asia Liaison Officers which opened at Phoenix Park yesterday. Speaking on behalf of the Governments of Singapore
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    MALACCA DEBATE ON 'BLUEPRINT'
    46 4 MALACCA. Thurs. --The Malacca branch of UMNO will hold a debate on the acceptance of the Communities Liaison Committee's "BlueDrint for Malaya" at Temple ,'treet on Saturday. Malay associations in the Settlement have been asked to send their representative to the meeting.
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    NEW SAND HOPPER
    50 4 THIS TRIPOD-shaped piecec c of mechanism erected at Singapore's one-time popu lar seafront, "Brighton," in the Teluk Ayer Basin is the Singapore Glass Manufacturers' new sand hopper. It will shortly be used for unloading sand from lighters Into trucks for the making of glass. Straits Times picture.
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    Big Drop In Burma Rice Cultivation
    183 4 DISTURBED conditions in the rice areas of Burma were making it -impossible to cultivate as much land as in the previous year, the Secretary of the Burmese Ministry of Agriculture, U Aung Soe. told the last meeting of South-East Asia Liaison Officers whlcti opened
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    POLICE TRANSFER
    35 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— Inche Harun, A.SJ., Officer Superintending the Police Circle, Muar, has been transferred to Johore Bahru to relieve Dato Musa, ASP., who has gone on long leave.
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    TAX MEN ON TRACK OF TOURIST TEAM
    105 4 THE Singapore Income Tax authorities have written to Mr. N. R. Murthy, comanager of the touring Indian football team, requesting a statement on the returns of the six games played in the Colony. Mr. Murthy is Indignant at I he move. He said;
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    ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON PRICES URGED FOR COLONY
    439 5 ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON PRICES URGED FOR COLONY THE Singapore Government has been asked by a nominated unofficial member of the Legislative Council, Mr. Thio Chan Bee, to appoint an advisory committee composed of businessmen and consumers, to study prevailing price levels and make recommendations to reduce the high cost of
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    BIGGER FISHERY INSTITUTE PLAN
    173 5 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Thursday. rO provide more space for fisheries research, a further 600 acres is to be reclaimed from mangrove swamps at Penang. the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. D. Rees-Williams, told an all-communities tea party this evening. 1 In Malaya,
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    Tram Derailed At Alor Star
    81 5 From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR, Thurs. THE regular passenger train from Prai to Padang Besar ran off the rails yesterday at Tokai, live miles from Alor Star. The train was approaching Tokai station shortly after 11 a.m. when the accident occurred. The driver applied
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    SLESSOR ARRIVES
    43 5 THE REPRESFNTATIVF of the Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, Fit. Lt. J. N. Howard-Williams, welcomes Ah < h Sir John Slessor at Tench airport yesterday. The A.O.C. Malaya, Air Vice Marshal F. J. V is in the background.— Straits Times picture^
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    COUNCIL FOR GOVT. DISPUTES
    122 5 l i. in Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. lUNIOR officers in GovernJ ment service ln the Federation are to have Whitley Council machinery for negotiating with the Government on staff matters. A working party consisting of official and staff representatives has been formed to draft
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    GIRL DRIVER ESCAPES
    72 5 1 rum Our Staft Correspondent PENANG, Thurs.— A Federal Councillor's daughter, Miss Helen Lee, escaped unhurt yesterday when the car she wns driving was in collis'on with a motor cycle near the Northam Road Arratoon Road junction in Penang. The motor cyclist, a Malay, was thrown off
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    2 FRENCH SHIPS LEAVE S'PORE
    55 5 Two ships or the French Pacific Fleet left Singapore on Wednesday night after a ihree days' stay. They were the sloop Savorgnan de Brazza, which is returning to Toulon and the L.S.T. Chellif, which is going to Los Angelrs to collect a cargo of armament
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    RAUB LAND SALE
    21 5 of land for the recovery of arrears of rent, ln Raub District has been fixed for Dec. is
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    Will Rubber Price Benefit Continue?
    132 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. THE effect of sterling devaluation has been to put up the price of rubber, but not to the full extent by which the pound was depreciated, said Mr. B. J. P. Joaquim, addressing the shareholders of Minicoy Ltd.
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    NO LICENCE
    23 5 KLUANG. Thurs.— Li Si was fined $10 or five days' simple imprisonment in the Kluang Court tor hawking without a licence.
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    Demand for elections
    78 5 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Than. THE Malay Students Union of Great Britain has passed a resolution urging elections to be held in all Malay States and Settlements in the Federation of Malaya. Copies of the resolution will be sent to the Colonial Office, British political parties,
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    18 BILLS FOR COUNCIL
    79 5 At next Tuesday's meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council, the report of the select committee on the 1950 budget will be tabled. The Financial Secretary, Mr. J. D. M Smith, will move that the report and the revised estimates be adopted. Eighteen bills will come before
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    S'PORE BAN ON SLAUGHTERING
    62 5 The Singapore Rural Board has decided to continue the pre-war policy of forbidding the use of and the licensing of private slaughter houses in the rural area. Arrangements have been made with the Municipal Commissioners to allow slaughter of pigs, goats and sheep from the rural
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    Singapore Diary
    121 5 V i .A.. 5, Raffles Quay, Malay beginners class, 9.15 a.m. and 5.30 p.m., Mandarin class, GRAMOPHONE RECITAL. British Council Hall, Stamford Road, 5.30 p.m. NINTH COMPANY OIH GUIDES, first anniversary campfire, Nanyang Olrls' High School, WESLEY METHODIST YOUTH FELLOWSHIP, Mr. Birch Moor on "We Would Be Builders,"
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    2 BANDITS, BOR DIE IN BATTLE
    143 5 2 BANDITS, BOR DIE IN BATTLE From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. A MILITARY patrol clashed with a party of bandits yesterday ln the Kulim area of Kedah. Two bandits were shot dead. Blood trails of two others are now being followed. One British soldier was killed during the
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    Cambridge Series On Malaya
    388 5 »THE Cambridge University I Press has begun publication of a new series of booklets entitled "Malayan Questions," edited by Dr. E. H. O. Dobby. Professor of Geography in the University of Malaya The first two booklets in this series have been published and are now on
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Fri., Nov. 11, 1949. The Federal Finances
    825 6 The difficult financial position of the Federation, brought about by the heavy cost of (our years of rehabilitation and burdensome expenditure entailed by the emergency, is reflected in the Draft Estimates for 1950 and other statements which are to
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    AN INDO-MALAYAN VIEWPOINT
    327 6 I TAKE my hat off to Ashby of Kedah and A True Malayan of Malacca whose replies to Nik Mahmood, of Kota Bahru. appeared in the Saturday Forum of Nov. 5 -for their broad outlook on Malayan politics. I, too, believe there are people who are confused
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    A SINGAPORE LESSON FOR THE WORLD
    1398 6 A SINGAPORE LESSON FOR THE WORLD "One of the most interesting and successful experiment in post-war international co-operation...." THE announcement that the SouthEast Asia Liaison Officers held the last of their regular meetings yesterday in Phoenix Park, Singapore headquarters of the CommissionerGeneral, marks the ending of one of the most
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      373 6 IN the Straits Times of last Saturday it was rei ported that the conI solidated rate for 1950 in the Singapore Municipality is to be raised from 20 to 25 per cent, so that after allowing for the Improvement Rate and the Education Rate
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      Adventurous youth to middle age
      444 6 TN your editorial of last 1 Saturday on Singapore traffic ("Twelve Thousand Motor-cars") you wrote: "There was an even more remarkable increase in the number of motor-cycles. The number of young men who were indulging in this hair-raising sport (at the end of 1948) was
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      119 6 RICHARD DENMAN Our weekly economic newsletter from London i* published in Page Ten today. ffI*^OPTICIBH Fellow Institute Ophthalmic Optician* (Eng Fellow Worshipful Co of Spectdde-Makers (Eng Freeman of the City of London By Appointment to H. M Forces, South East Asia 6 Raffles Place Singapore Phone ***** gE( OCTOBER ISSUE
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    ADVICE TALKS TO DETAINEES
    290 7 To 'Wean Them From Their Ways Of Error 9 A BOARD composed of community leaden and some members of the Legislative Council, is to five periodic lectures to detainees held on St John's Island under the Emergency Regulations "to wean them from their ways of error."
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    ACQUITTED
    26 7 An old Chinese labourer. Lau Teck Hee. vu acquitted yesterday without his defence being called on a charge of theft of 60 katis of rice.
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    51 7 1 uitu: ROYAL Pakistan Air Force officers arrived In Singapore last night on their way to Australia to look over the possibility of purchasing air force material and equipment. The missi on includes Air Commodore R C. Bowditch (left) and Air Vice-Marshal R. L. R. Atcherley, C.-in-C. Royal Pakistan Air
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    THE A.O.C. MAKES A SURPRISE CALL
    236 7 PROMISE of better times ahead for the Malayan Air Training Corps was given by the Air Officer Commanding, Air Vice Marshal Mellersh, in a talk to A.T.C. Cadets at Raffles. Institution. Singapore, last night. The A.O.C. in company with Wing Commander J. Thomson, who
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    Rejected Suitor Drank Acid, Died
    141 7 Rejected Suitor Drank Acid, Died A SINGAPORE radio mechanic, 33-year-old Khuo Kang Yuen, told the police a few hours before he died that he had drunk poison because m woman had refused his proposal of marriage. At the Inquest yesterday Miss Nancy Laycock of Still Road told the Coroner. Mr.
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    SOCIAL WELFARE
    16 7 Mr. G. V. Santhou has been appointed member of the Singapore Social Welfare Council.
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    RECORD BREAKING CONSTELLATION ARRIVES IN S'PORE
    223 7 RECORD BREAKING CONSTELLATION ARRIVES IN S'PORE He'll Be A No-Stomach Man Soon cfTAYING overnight In Sin o gapore was a BOAC passenger. Mr. Andrew Wild of the British merchant marine, who Is on his waj to London to lose the second half of his stomach. Then he hopes to marry
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    3 Schools At Last Night's Concert
    667 7 I AST night's orchestral and pianoforte concert lJ was intended to be the last of the great series which we have been privileged to hear in Singapore. Mr. Baarspul began the series on Sunday night with the best of the great classicists, and M.
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    FESTIVAL'S LAST NIGHT
    87 7 A NUMBER of rood seats is still available for tonight's final concert in the Singapore Festival of Music, sponsored by the Straits Times and Music Circle, in association with Radio Malaya. The S3 seats have.however, been fully booked. Seats which have been booked should be paid for
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    ESTATE MANAGER BURIED
    125 7 From Oar SUIT Correspondent JOHORE. BAHRU. Thurs. I PHE Rev. B. W. Eales, ul Singapore, conducted the funeral lervice at the Protestant Cemetery this morning when the remains of Mr. Prank Bertn manager, George Lee Rubber Estate, Gejrlang Patak. were laid W> rest. The late Mr. Bevln
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    Stage Club Picks Up A Few Points
    193 7 Stage Club Picks Up A Few Points MEMBERS of the Singapore Stage Club now rehearsing for their fourth anniversary production, "The Winslow Boy," recently attended a private showing of .the film of the same name to pick up some of the finer points of inflection and characterisation. This unusual example
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    TOOK ANOTHER MAN'S WAGES
    58 7 From Oar Staff Correspondent JOHORE. BAHRU. Thurs.— Awang bin Yusoff was convicted In the Police Court today on a charge of cheating by impersonation, and was fined $100. in default two months' imprisonment. He was a P.W.D. employee and on pay day. answered to another person's
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    FIRST OFFENCE
    40 7 Twenty-two-year old Ng Shun Kwong, an apprentice fitter, was treated as a first offender and fined ISO In the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday, for theft of a fountain pen in an amusement park. Nc denied the theft
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    Planter's Widow Gets News At Sea
    312 7 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Thursday. A RADIO telegram received by the liner Carthage told Mrs. F. Duncan Hutton that her planter husband had been killed in the bandit ambush on the Taiping-Selama Road yesterday morning. Mrs. Duncan Hutton and her baby daughter, Carol,
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    $50 FINE
    25 7 Charged with the fraudulent possession of a jerry can containing four gallons of petrol, Koh Tlan Thoon was fined $50 in Singapore yesterday.
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    He Knocked Down Girl
    45 7 For knocking down a Malay girl with his bicycle Chuah Kee Yearn was yesterday fined $30 by the Singapore Eighth Magistrate, Mr. P. Clague. Chuah carried a drum on his bicycle which caused him to lose control, resulting in the accident.
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    TALK ON POETRY
    54 7 At a meeting of the University of Malaya Literary Circle held last night in the library of the Students Union, Mr. Beda Lim spoke on the poetry of T. S. Eliot Topics the Circle plans to discuss in future are the philosophy of Hardy; metaphysical poetry; and
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    SOCIAL RESEARCH
    31 7 Mr. Maurice Freedman, whc is doing research In Singapore Tor the Colonial Social Science Research Council, will talk on Social Research in Malaya at 8 tonight ovei Radio Malaya.
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    MAT NOOR TOOK HIS SHIRT OFF TO SAVE A GIRL
    232 7 MAT NOOR TOOK HIS SHIRT OFF TO SA VE A GIRL JWENTY-five-year old Mat Noor, an Indonesian trisha rider was fast asleep in his trisha at Connaught Drive on Wednesday night when he was awakened by a girl's scream. Looking towards the sea, he saw a struggling Qgure in the
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    Deputy Chief Of Police
    55 7 Singapore's Deputy Commissioner of Police. Mr. G R. Ltvett. goes on six months' leave to the Dnited Kiik.i: at the end of this month. His place will be taken by Mr. J. Parks, former Commandant of the Thorns- n Road Police Training Sch>>.i). who will shortly
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    ARMY DRIVERS IN COURT
    49 7 Five military truck di iv< i a j who were involved in <■■ II lisions with cars and taxj^ m Singapore streets appeal nl on negligent driving char^e^ yesterday before the Sin- pore Eighth Magistrate, Mr. P. Claque. All claimed trial and tlirir cases were postponed.
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    FAREWELL PARTY
    35 7 The New Zealand Insuraner Company held a dinner last night at the Southern Hot« 1, Singapore, on the occasion <>f Mr. N. M. Levlen's retirerm nt from the Eastern staff of He Company.
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    S'PORE WEDDING
    22 7 MR. REGGIE PERRY AND MISS EVELYN DE SOUSA after their wedding at the Church of St. Joseph, Singapore, on Tuesday.
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    GAOL FOR WOMAN
    42 8 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— A Malay woman, Wok blnte Abdullah, who was charged under the Mohammedan law at Mersing with living with a Malay who was not her husband, was sentenced to two weeks' simple Imprisonment.
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    47 RAILWAY RAIDS NO-ONE HURT
    185 8 From Our Staff Correspondent K. LUMPUR, Thurs. attacked trains, stations and attempted sabotage 47 times last year —without causing death or serious injury to a single railway passenger. Two bridges were damaged by explosives and on 10 occasions the track was damaged by removal of
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    GIRLS AT DRILL
    36 8 PUPILS of the Muar Convent, Johore, who gave a display of mass drill during the ceremonial opening of the school last week by the British Adviser, Johore. Mr. J. Falconer. Lim Studio picture.
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    MALAYA MEN 'NOT FULLY TRAINED'
    174 8 MALA YA MEN 'NOT FULLY TRAINED' LONDON, Thursday. pEERS said yesterday in a House of Lords debate that young: officers and men were being: sent to Malaya "without adequate training:." Lord Reading: said he was apprehensive that such young men should go out to "that most arduous and exactingform of
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    CASE WITHDRAWN
    34 8 Forty four year old Teo Liew Hin, of Prinsep Street, who was charged In the Singapore Second Police Court with theft of $9,100, was acquitted yesterday when the prosecution withdrew the charge.
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    Girl Has To Serve 7 Yrs.
    104 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. TTHE Federation Court of 1 Appeal today upheld a seven-year prison sentence passed on an 18-year-old Chinese girl, Liew Kon Klow. who was convicted recently on a charge of consorting with the bandit chief, Llm Wei Yin alias Tal Kwee "Big
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    S'pore Poultry Boom Expected
    58 8 PRODUCTION in Malaya 1 of a vaccine against ranikhet, the poultry killing disease, hold* hope of a boom for Singapore's $20.000.000 poultry-farm industry. The Colony's farms are now in a position to produce one hundred million eggs and up to two million eating fowls each year.
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    $66,000 Aid To T.B. Victims
    246 8 $66,000 Aid To T.B. Victims T<HE biggest amount of x cash relief ($17,822-46) for tuberculosis sufferers in the Colony was paid out last month. To date, since the scheme was started in April last, the total amount given to T.B. victims is $66,003.91. Relief has risen steadily from $2,141 In
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    Theft Of Tiles Alleged
    88 8 In the Singapore Elgh-h Magistrate's Court yesterday Lim Kim Slang claimed trial before Mr. P. Clague on a charge of theft of 2,130 floor tiles, alternatively of retaining stolen property. Lee Yeo Liang, an employee of Ideal Homes, a building firm, identified the tiles as the
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    BROKE CURFEW
    17 8 From Our Own Correspondent KAJANG, Thurs.—Ammayappan was fined $20 for breaking the curfew at Kajang.
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    COLONY FIRM'S CLAIM
    248 8 /GIVING evidence In his case against the Overseas Corporation of Australia. Mr I. F. Ferguson, a former cmi ployee of the firm, said in the i Singapore Supreme Court 1 yesterday that on joining the firm he "made it perfectly clear" to Mr. Eric Stump, the Singapore
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    New Radio Station For Perak Outpost Town
    104 8 GRIK Thursday. r FHE Upper Perak outpost town of Grik Is to havi an additional radio station for rapid communication with other centres. Grik is one of the few areas in the Federation not connected to the Malayan telephone network. The new station
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    'MIRROR' MAN
    39 8 MR. G. H. HAWKES. of the Sydney Mirror, who passed through Singapore last night. Mr. Hawkes is flying to London by Qantas-BOAC Constellation where he will work in the London office of the Mirror. Straits Times picture.
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    MAN FREED, WIFE FINED
    64 8 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— Husband and wife appeared before the Sessions Court today on a charge of theft of latex from Kulai Besar Estate. Kulal. The husband was discharged, but his wife, Chong Chiang, was convicted and sentenced to one day's simple Imprisonment
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    SESSIONS TRIAL FOR MAGISTRATE
    88 8 Fr<>!ii Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. IV'HIiN the case against Nasir bin Abubakar. a Jobore f T Bahru magistrate, who is charged with accepting an illegal gratification of $50. was mentioned in the Police Court this morning, Mr. S. W. B. Good, Legal Adviser, applied
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      297 8 Ike March of Sciencei ence GLANDS AMD VITAMINS COMBINED IN OKASA REVITALISE YOUR ENTIRE SYSTEM WITH THE MEW VITAMINISED OKASA WORLD'S BEST TONIC The well-Known Ui»na preparation OKASA accuiu.nw; to the formula of Or. Lahusen M.D. (Berlin), U now prepared with the addition of Important VITAMINS necessary for maintaining normal
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      Boys in the back studio
      366 9 Boys in the back studio WITH the Rank Empire facing a major crisis, << it seems likely that Bri- << tish film production will yt be drastically reduced >> before long. Many peo- << pie even though enjoy- ing American nims, will be sorry to see a Holly- wood monopoly
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      REMEMBER THIS GIRL?
      165 9 nnAKE a quick look round at the girls you knew 12 years ago. This is a picture of one of them. Then try to fill In the story behind this picture. At 14 she was a world-wide succesa. At 17 a celebrity— and she counted her salary
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      OLD TIME WEEK
      926 9 News and views on ci nema and theatre NEXT week is old-time week in Singapore. They're digging up Cardinal Richelieu at the Pavilion, one of Red Skelton's earliest comedies. Ship Ahoy, is being de-iced at the Cathay, and Henry Fonda ana Claudette Colbert are taking us still
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      CAN IT BE?
      29 9 The same girl (as the one above) when you were younger, DEANNA DURBIN as she was at the time of "Three Smart Girls," hi t 1938.
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      100 9 m «**tfr^M9 W 9 Their Dances t TODAY! Yung Hwa's y tAvW n Dm "THE SINS OF OUR FATHERS" in Mandarin With KnsHsb Sub-Titles ■gifflha I ■j 111 1 PHONE kr^}^mly3t? 4042 OH BROTHER! *fi£k STUMPED WITH YOUR i «H "CURVES" "FIGURES"? f^Ef? JJ Ww \%4qFj\^^^Zumiim titsm uikih 2q> J
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      256 9 g||^r DO YOU KNOW? y^Sx^^L that schemes were asked for and submitted from the "^L^j^ ol^ world's foremost architects *V^^(^ for the creation of the <X FAR EAST'S MOST LUXURIOUS XgJ~. BALLROOM RESTAURANTS k Now PftS?! J_ t uHivtusnnmrmATioNAi ncruM Nfftifa* H* e wildest spree jfivL^R of GHOULISH GLEE i
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      263 9 cmrAPiiaK a Clow; 6.00 Station Opening; Burmese; 8.45 English; 9^0 MuMnbAfWtu 6ja Thft nMi\ o Orchestra; 6.40 sic; 10.00 Radio News Beel; 10.18 1009 News from Kuala Uun- Dance Music; 7.10 Share Market "London Dances To....; 10.45 The pur; 10.05 CUfce; 1100 Programmes Report; 7 JO Music ot Percy Faith;
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    The Future Of Sterling In Europe
    1145 10  - The Future Of Sterling In Europe RICHARD DENMAN By of- The Economist LONDON, Nov. 1. 'J'HE emphasis in all the discussions which have taken place in the last few days between representatives of countries participating in the Marshall Plan has been rightly placed on the problem of the economic integration
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      129 10 I TRAOE^g^MARK vS/HOMC BISCUIT CONFECTIONERY FACTORY 191 Alexandra Road Singapore 1 Phone 6300 Cables "Lionmark" Manufacturers and suppliers of foody easi Biscuits in connection with the Child Feeding Scheme throughout the Federation of Malaya S/r ■-.K'iiig the mixture going W&H^, /"^^^■■■■II^^^^^^^^^BR nt'i itnf of the "TV»v. Thf I a mmmm
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      553 10 guy A <y^/^/>^ j I j T* JB ifi^S tHBTTj I jar* t i ej^aTi^b The defence In today's deal actually led the diamond queen suffered from too much signalling! The king won and trumps were South, dealer quickly drawn. On the second East -West vulnerabl# round East seized the
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      London Stocks
      342 11 1 LONDON, Thurs. DRITISH Government funds encountered a fresh bout of nervous selling yesterday, i with prices hitting new levels of losses up to three-quarter per cent. Profit-taking by bears produced a small rally but the close was weak and the undertone soft. r Following were the closing
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      TIN PROFITS ARE CUT BY HIGHER COSTS
      137 11 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Thursday. VISCOUNT Elibank, chairman of Malaysiam Tin T Ltd., in his circulated annual statement to shareholders, says that, in spite of increased revenue from mining operations, the profit had fallen during the past year from £6,623 to £6,087,
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      MALAYAN SHARE MARKET
      204 11 MALAYAN SHARE MARKET From Our Market Correspondent WITH continued uneasiness In London, the Malayan 1 share market remained stagnant yesterday. Industrial shares, however, were quietly steady. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association were: Buyers Sellers Alex. Bricks Ord. 2.05 2.16 B.B. Petrol 35/e 36/6 O.E. Life 40.00 41.00
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      Dow Jones Averages
      20 11 NOV. 7. No*. 9. Industrials 190.89 190.6U Railroads 49.24 48.05 Domestic Bonds 99.49 99.50 Utilities 39.16 33.19
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      NEW YORK STOCKS
      87 11 NEW YORK, ThUM. NEW YORK stock market took in its stride a brlfjht.er labour picture yesterday morning. New pacts with two major producers is hastening the end of the steel strike while John Lewis has ordered all striking softcoal workers to return to work immediately but set
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      TIN SHIPMENTS
      101 11 MALAYAN tin shipments last month amounted to 5,261 tons, according to figures supplied by the Straits Trading Company Limited. Of this. 2,683 tons were from Penang and 2,568 tons from Singapore. During October, Singapore shipped 2.050 tons of tin to the United States and 450 tons to Europe.
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      RISE IN RUBBER PRICES
      230 11 RISE IN RUBBER PRICES THE price of rubber In Sin1 gapore Is now the highest since the market settled down after the devaluation. Prices Improved by $4 cent per lb. yesterday to 45% cents per lb for buyers of No. 1 RJB.S. spot loose and f.o.b. grades. On some trade
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      PRODUCE MARKET UNCHANGED
      43 11 From Our Market Correspondent rC SINGAPORE produce market wu quiet throughout yesterday at prices unchanged from the previous day. There was little activity in all sections of the market. Copra, coconut oil and pepper remained quietly steady at Tuesday's levels.
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      SHIPPING AT S'PORE WHARVES
      85 11 QHIPS alongside the SingaDorp Harhni.r nnarH wharvP' V.IL," fJzSSc wnarvei yesterday (godowns in brackets) were: Ml- Wlutrf: Stanvac Djirak (31-32), Steel Seafarer (33-34), Noreverett (35-36), Sentanl (4041>- West Wharf: Ozarda (1-2), Adrastus (6-7), Shirala (11). Masui a (i3-i4), Rajula (15-18). nn *£S&?£si)3££i SKB: Sheer. Wharf: Tankhaven
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      943 11 McALISTER CO., LTD. (Incorporated in Singapore) Telephone He. 5906 ELLERMAH BUCRNALI KLAVENESS LIKE 'ws^v^ssssi^ «iu»?»"ff ass® Hamburg e> copenhacfn Acceptmg cargo (or Central South American Port*. CITT Of CHISTtR 80UCAINVILLI Spore P. S"ham Penan. n *'«*>'• P Srv-n Penang 14/19 Ne*. la Port/13 Nev. il/22 Nov. JO N«v./4 Pee. 5
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    SOM PONG GETS HIS BIGGEST CHANCE TONIGHT
    633 12 Orient Title— Retirement SINGAPORE professional boxing gets its biggest night since the liberation at the Happy World Stadium to-night when three overseas boxers, U.S. Negro Boy Brooks, welter, middle and light-heavy-weight champion of the Orient, Harry Campbell, another U.S. Negro, and Sam Langford,
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    57 12 LOOKING forward to the Empire Games In New Zealand next February are Dorothy Mauley (Essex) left, and women's hurdles champion Jean Desforges (Essex). Both are among the six athletes who will form the British women's team at the Games. Dorothy was runner-up to Fanny Blank ers-Koen in the 100 metres
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    Economies At S.C.C.
    159 12 THE annual report of tne Singapore Cricket Club for the period ending Sept. 26. 1949. which will be tabled at the Club's annual general meeting on Nov. 25 at 5.30 p.m., shows that the gross turnover during the year continued to fall, the actual drop being some
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    BODCA Stay In Cup With 2-1 Victory
    209 12 IX>R their opportunism, F better understanding and more forceful display, the Base Ordnance Depot Civilian Association fully deserved their two-one victory, over the Chinese Casuals in yesterday's Singapore A.F.A. cup-tie game at Jalan Besar Stadium. The 8.0J3. started the game convincingly, and scored
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    Actor And Oakfel Impress On Track
    718 12  - Actor And Oakf el Impress On Track EPSOM JEEP By OLUE EYES (Jones), revelling on a wet track, 13 galloped 3f. in 39 seconds fastest workout at Bukit Timah yesterday morning when most of the horses engaged tomorrow were given their winding up gallops but two who impressed me most
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    R.A.F. Seletar Defeat Terror 13-3
    257 12 D.A.F. Seletar beat H.MS. Terror by 13 points (two goals and a penalty goal) to three (a try) in a hardfought game of rugger between the first teams played at Seletar on Wednesday. Terror scored ln the <eond minute with a try right near the
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    FREE PRESS RACE SPECIAL
    45 12 TODAY the Free Press will publish a four-page Race-Form Special for thr opening of Singapore Turf Club's Autumn Meeting. There will be two pages of racing form notes, special features and a full page of pictures—Behind the Scenes at Bukit Timah.
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    Rain May Stop Ecliptic Again
    565 12  -  EPSOM JEEP By RAIN, which robbed Ecliptic of two Singapore Gold Cups, has again come in time to dim his prospects in the seven-furlong handicap for top class horses at Bukit Timah tomorrow, the opening day of the Singapore Turf Club's Winter meeting. There is
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    C'wealth v. India Test XI's Picked
    137 12 C 'wealth v. India Test XI's Picked NEW DELHI Thurs. THE Commonwealth cricket tourists team to meet India ln» the first unofficial Test begitfning here tomorrow, will be selected from the following 12 players: L. Livingstone (captain), Norman Oldfleld, Fred Freer, Jack Hold, Frank Worrell, BUI Alley, Jack Ptttiford. Cecil
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    Rajas v.C.A. In Cup Today
    94 12 rO fancied teams In the Singapore A.F.A. Cup competition, Kota Raja and Chinese Athletes, meet at Jalan Besar Stadium today In the second round of the competition. While Rajas are the holders of the Cup, they failed to win thla year's Senior League, which Athletes
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    CEYLONESE XI's
    86 12 C.S.C. team to play the Rafflei Institution at hockey >n the school ground on Saturday will be: Ariyara tnam Thiagarajah. Thamblrajah: A. Joseph, Balalcrishnan, yogarajah; Sinnathamby, Balasineham, J. Rajah, W. Ponnampalam, Sellathurai. Umpire: Mr. A. Vijiaratnam. Team to play the R.A.F. (Malay») at Farrer Park on Monday will
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    Penalty Goal In Tourists' 2-1 Win
    435 12 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Thursday. 'THE INDIAN touring soccer team opened their 1 Federation tour today by defeating the Negri State side by two goals to one in a fast and thrilling encounter before a large crowd estimated to be well over 8,000.
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    Sports Diary
    32 12 SOCCER: Koto Raja Chinese Athletes (2nd round cup tie), J. Besar Stadium HOCKEY: S.C.C. v Shell S.C., padang: S.R.C. A.C.S. Old Boys, padang; Varsity Medical Facility v V.M.C.A.. Sepoy Lines.
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    32 Teams For K.O. Hockey: Round 1 Draw
    181 12 The Singapore Hockey Association's knock-out competition will be contested among 32 teams and is scheduled to start next week. The draw for the ties was made last night. The University of Malaya have been unlucky to draw the strongest of the S.R.C.
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    S.C.C. HOCKEY XI's
    53 12 The following are Singapore Cricket Club hockey teams: Today v. Shell S.C. on the padang: Margrave; Theunissen, Dennis; Macßae, Yarrow, Lowe; Collings, shepherd, Jamieson, Hagon, Sykes. Umpire: Mr. J. Smith. Tomorrow v Customs on the padang at 4.45 p.m.:- Margrave: Dennis, Tresling; Macßae, Brands, Cornish: Shepherd, Eerrill,
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    Monaveen Is Beaten
    48 12 LIVERPOOL, Thurs.—Princess Elizabeth, accompanied by Princess Margaret, saw her Grand National candidate, Monaveen, beaten by eight lengths ln the £1.250 Grand Sefton Handicap chase here today. The winner over two miles seven-and-a-half furlongs of th» Orand National course was Freebooter, owned by Mrs. L. Brotherton.—Ruter.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    34 12 MR. V. E. DUMONT of the C.R.E. South-West, and children thank their friends and relatives who attended the funeral of Mrs. Oubagaramarle Dumont and who sent kind expressions of sympathy and floral tributes.
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