The Straits Times, 16 November 1949

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1949. PRICE TEN CENTS
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    103 GIVE IN: GANGS 'RAGGED & SICK'
    1152 1 103 GIVE IN: GANGS 'RAGGED SICK' Emergency Could Be Lifted In Many Areas, Says Gurney From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. £INCE the offer of surrender terms, 61 bandits and 42 of their supporters a total of 103 have given themselves up. The High Commislioner, Sir Henry Gurney, said
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    FIRST TIN DEALINGS AT £715
    207 1 FIRST TIN DEALINGS AT £715 LONDON. Tues. IMRST dealings in tin on the r London metal exchange •> morning when It reopened for the first time since 1911 were at £715 for Immediate delivery and £680 for d I very in three months. I" ie Malayan tin share mark >pens
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    COUNCIL NEWS INSIDE
    55 1 Fage Rent Control Bill 4 Flags Ban 4 Council Approves Budget 5 No Rise in Taxation Housing Board 5 Petrol. <j.uvt. Explains Feeding Schemes May End 5 "I Wa* Spied On" 7 Tributes to Gimson 7 -Joint Talks on War Damage 7 Cut in Rice Price Urged
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    Wavell Says,' Watch Pakistan'
    106 1 Wavell Says, Watch Pakistan' OTTAWA, Tues. FELD Marshal Lord Wavell yesterday urged the people of the Western world to "pay more attention to Pakistan." He told reporters: "India tends to get all the limelight —perhaps because she has more outstanding representation abroad. But people should not ignore Pakistan. She Is
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    TIN COMMITTEE
    38 1 WASHINGTON. Tues— The Combined Tin Committee representing the United S»ates, Britain. Holland, Belgium, France. Canada. India and China yesterday decided to recommend its own clisbandment. It has been responsible for tin allocations gince November. 1945.— Rev-
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    SIAM BAN OF OPIUM
    99 1 BANGKOK. Tues. SIAMESE Premier. Marshal Luang Pibul Songkram. said in an interview today that the Government was sponsoring a drive for the elimination of opium smoking throughout the country within one year. Excise Department squads will survey North SianVs poppy growing area and study all aspects
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    SUCCESSOR TO ERSKINE
    52 1 lunixjn. Tues.— colonel C. I. H Dunbar, D.5.0., Is to take command of the Second Guards Brigade in Malaya, the War Office announced last night. He succeeds Brigadier M. D. Erskine, D.S.O who Is missing following the disappearance of his aircraft on a flight from Mentakab to
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    The Princess Wore Black
    68 1 LONDON. Tues.— Princess Margaret broke another royal custom today, appearing in public dressed entirely in black. At a special preview oi spring hat styles, especially for her. Princess Margaret wore a black dress and blackdraped fez. trimmed with white ermine tails. Although black Is considered the
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    Another 2 Ships In Nationalist 'Net'
    170 1 HONG KONG, Tuesday. TWO ships were today reported to have joined the 1 two already caught in the Nationalist blockade at the mouth of the Yangtse. They are the Norwegian ship I'nita (3,586 tons) and the U.S vessel Flying Cloud (6,214 tons) The Norwegian
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    ON RATION
    28 1 MELBOURNE. Tues.— Petrol rationing came into force again In all Australian states today except Tasmania, where Its re-introduction had been rejected by the State Parliament.— Reuter.
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    £5 MILLION IMPORTS FROM JAPAN
    96 1 MALAYA. North Borneo and Sarawak have been allocated £5.004.000 for direct Imports from Japan, under the recently concluded trade agreement covering trade between the sterling area and ■wcupied Japan from July 1, 1949. to June 30. 1950. An official statement Issued simultaneously in Singapore and
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    SYRIA POLLS
    35 1 DAMASCUS, Tues.— Syrians were going to the polls today, women amon* them for the first time, to elect a constitutional assembly with the task of restoring constitutional government after two military dictatorships.— Reuter.
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    Inquiry On Secret Service "Spy" Charge
    582 1 SINGAPORE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL rFHE Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, 1 told the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday that inquiries would be instituted at once into allegations by Mr. C. T. Tan (Municipality SouthWest) that the Colony's secret service had been spying on his
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    51 1 THE SULTANA of Jobore, Lady Marcel la Ibrahim, celebrated her 34th birthday with a dinner party at Grosvenor House, London, on Not. 7. In the picture above, the Sultana (right) is seen with the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. A. Creech Jones (centre) and the* Sultan, Major-Gen. Sir
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    Council Cheers Flag Ban Bill
    524 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. ■THERE was warm applause from all members of 1 the Federal Legislative Council today when it was announced that a Bill is to be introduced to ban the flying of foreign flags thus placing the prohibition on a
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    Back To Lords For Third Time
    114 1 LONDON, Tues. THE House of Commons, by 340 votes to 187, last night passed the Parliament bill which curtails the delaying powers of the House of Lords. By so doing, it brought a step nearer the nationalisation of the Iron and steel Industry, the
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    SIAM'S ROYAL WEDDING
    65 1 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Tues The Siamese King, Phumiphon Adundet. and his fiancee. Princess Sirltket Kitayakorn, daughter of the Siamese Ambassador In London, will leave England by boat in February to return to Siam. The cremation of King Ananda Mahidol will take placr in April and
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    SHAH FLIES TO U.S.
    55 1 SHAH FLIES TO U.S. TEHERAN. Tues. Iran's ruler. Reza Shah Pahlavl. left this morning aboard President Truman's personal plane for the United States. The Shah Is reported to be going to Washington to ask President Truman for arms aid for his country, situated on Russia's southern border. He Is expected
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    TEN BALE OUT
    29 1 SALT LAKE CITY. Tues.— Ten men baled out of an air force 8.29 high over the Western Utah salt flats tonight, when a motor caught flre.-U.P.
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      334 2 {MALAYAN RAILWAY VACANCY FOR CAPTAIN Applications are invited for the post of Captain I In the Marine Service of the Malayan Railway. Candidates must possess the certificate of a Master of a Local Trade Ship under 76 tons. Present salary scale of the appointment Is S130-A10-I180 per mensem plus ccst
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    ASIA NOW VITAL AREA FOR U.K.
    319 3 ASIA NOW VITAL AREA FOR U.K. 4 Problems For Ceylon Talks LONDON, Tuesday. *J"HE focus of British diplomacy has moved from Europe to Asia with the announcement of a projected meeting of Commonwealth Ministers in Ceylon. The biggest questions include: 1 Recognition of Communist China, expected withx# in a matter
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    32 3 THE HIGH COMMISSIONER of the Federation. Sir Henry Gurnry, crossing the bridge built by Chung I.ing High School Scouts at the Scout rally held at the Botanical Gardens, Penang, recently. P.R. picture.
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    West Plan For World Peace
    324 3 LAKE SUCCESS, Tuesday. THE United States and the Western Powers called upon the Soviet Union yesterday to stop its "campaign of hate" and co-operate in a 12-point programme for peace. Mr. Warren R. Austin, chief U.S. delegate, put before the 59-nation Political Committee of the
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    DEATH OFFORMER JAP ENVOY
    44 3 TOKYO, Tues.— Mr. Tsuneo Matsudaira, Speaker of the Japanese House of Councillors, died of heart failure yesterday. He was former Ambassador to the United States and Great Britain and was father of Princess Chichibu, wife of Emperor Hirohito's brother Reuter.
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    TOM-TOMS TELL THE NEWS
    167 3 TOM-TOMS TELL THE NEWS BECHU AN ALAND, Tues. MATIVK drums were throbbing in the windy sunbaked village of Serowe yesterday,'telling the Bamangwato tribesmen of the closing stagts of Seretse Khama'a battle for the chieftainship and the future of his white, Queen, the former London typist, Ruth Williams. The Commission of
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    Malayan Tin Markets Will Re-open Today
    262 3 From A Market Correspondent TODAY the Singapore and Penang tin markets 1 will re-open after having been closed for about nine years. Merchants are ready for the opening, but will not receive final instructions from their principals overseas until this morning after digesting the
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    GIGOLOS WILL BE 'HOSTS'
    60 3 OSAKA, Tues. Japan's first gigolo dance hall will open in Osaka next week with a staff 40 malt taxi dancers Instead of the usual women hostesses. Candidates must be good looking, have a sound moral character and must present a certificate by a previous employer attesting
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      Prince's Present From Father Sent By Air
      307 3 LONDON, Tuesday. pRINCE Charles celebrated his first birthday 1 yesterday. People outside Clarence House waved and shouted "Happy Birthday" to the blonde little boy as he drove to see his great-grandmother. Queen Mary. The baby waved back. The Prince also had some small
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    GODSE'S BURIAL REQUEST
    138 3 GODSE'S BURIAL REQUEST INDUS IMMERSION AMBALA, Tues. BEFORE he was hanged today for the assassination of Mahatma Oandhl, N. V Godse directed his brothers and sisters who visited him in gaol that part of his bones and ashes be preserved for immersion in the sacred Indus River when divided India
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    RENT CONTROL: PLAN TO REMOVE TWO ABUSES
    266 4 AMENDMENTS to the Control of Rent Ordinance to remove "two serious abuses" are recommended by the committee appointed by the Singapore Legislative Council to suggest revisions of the Ordinance. The committee's report was tabled at the meeting of the Council yesterday. These abuses
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    FLAGS 'A THREAT TO PEACE'
    218 4 FLAGS 'A THREAT TO PEACE' SINGAPORE'S Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, moving that the regulation banning the public display of foreign flags and embems should continue until the end of the emergency, told the Legislative Council yesterday. "Information came into the possession of the Government early In November
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    BRITONS REPORT ON RED RUBBER
    58 4 MOSCOW, Tuesday. yWO British rubber experts, Messrs A. Walsh and C. P. J. Belangerile, are returning to London after seven momhs at Odessa, where they have been inspecting cargoes of rubber arriving from Malaya and South-East Asia. The two said they will present information they
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    ART SHOW
    50 4 MRS. P. T. LAING, a Chinese artist who studied art in the United States, with one of her paintings which she is exhibiting in Penang in aid of the University of Malaya Endowment Fu nd. The exhibition which opened on Monday will last one week.— Straits Times picture.
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    TAN SHELVES HIS IMMIGRANT BILL
    198 4 Plea For 'Comprehensive Ordinance' T<HE Singapore Progressive Party's Immigration x Bill, which came up for second reading in the Council meeting yesterday, was withdrawn by its mover, Mr. C. C. Tan (Municipality South-West) because of a Singapore Government request to consolidate all immigration laws under
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    9,614 Hawkers Arrested
    42 4 Singapore police arrested 9,614 hawkers between J .j anrt September this year, it was stated in the Legislative Council yesterday Fines' totalling $133,366 w( imposed $131,086 was paid and 206 people were sent to gaol for defaulting PJ, ont.
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    TO SERVE IN RED CHINA
    83 4 A former Chinese Consular official in London, Mr. S. Y. Wang, Is now In Singapore on his way to China to serve in the Communistoccupied territories. Mr Wang, who arrived in the Corfu yesterday from England, is accompanied by Mr C. C. Ho. the Chinese
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    COMMISSIONED
    28 4 Mr. Thong Sing Ching .Mr. Raymond James Minjoot, and Mr. Raymond Harold Skinner have been granted commissions as Lieut er.ant in the Singapore Volunteer Corps (Liaison Reginment).
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    FAREWELL TALK
    35 4 Mr. Claude Massey, Australian Commissioner for Malaya will give his farewell talk to the East-West Society tomorrow night at the British Council Hall at 8.30 p.m. His subject will be Sidelights on Singapore.
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    CHILD HEALTH SPECIALIST
    72 4 LONDON, Tues.— The Colonial Office has appointed a woman doctor as a child health specialist in Malaya. She is Dr. Constance Field, a graduate of University College, London. Her medical appointments have included house physician at University College Hospital: casualty officer and house surgeon at Birmingham General
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    LABOUR OFFICER
    13 4 Mr. Chang Chuan Fu has been appointed a Singapore Labour Officer.
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    Councillors To Take $500
    285 4 Councillors To Take $500 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. pEOERAL Legislative r Councillors today confirmed that they should be paid an allowance of $500 a month, restropective to Feb. 1 this year, in spite of one member telling them that if they did so they should drop the
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    2 Gurkha Officers Get Military Cross
    150 4 TPWO Gurkha officers, Subedar Lalitbahadur Kai and 1 Jamedar Dhanbahadur Gurung, of the 2/7 Gurkha Rifles, have been awarded the Military Cross for gallantry m anti-bandit operations in Malaya. In charge of a jungle pat- rol of 14 men. Jemedar Dhan- bahadur, suddenly came
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    S'pore Social Welfare Plan
    86 4 S' pore Social Welfare Plan POUR principal welfare projects proposed by the Singapore Social Welfare Department have been given a block vote of $750,000. The projects are Girls' home at Kranji; junior approved school at Buklt Tim ah; Rural Settlement at Bukit Tim ah, and Boys' Hostel at Prince Edward
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    Red Posters Found In Penang
    68 4 From Oar Staff Correspondent PENANG Tuesuay. POLICE last night tore down two Communist pamph lets pasted on a house in MacAlis.er Road near thr junction of Lorong Susu. The pamphlets were written in Chinese. This is x\\e second time hi eight days that such posters
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    LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL APPROVES 1950 BUDGET
    247 5 THE Singapore Legislative Council yesterday passed the 1950 budget estimates showing an expenditure of $104,423,300 and revenue of $102,810,944— a deficit of $1,612, 356. The Financial Secretary, Mr. J. D. M. Smith, said there would be an estimated additional expenditure on loan account of $18,100,661.
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    AXE MAY FALL ON FEEDING SCHEMES
    84 5 THE Singapore Legislative Council decided yesterday to provide funds for only the first six months of the year for child feeding schemes. A special committee would, meanwhile, decide whether the schemes should continue, and in what form. The Council also decided that a special
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    NO RISE IN S'PORE TAXES
    163 5 NO RISE IN S'PORE TAXES TtHERE is no need to raise A additional revenue for next year or to Increase taxation, according to the committee which has examined Singapore Government's estimates of revenue and spending. But the committee recommends that administrative revenue and stamp duties should be reviewed by the
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    PERLIS STATE SECRETARY
    54 5 KAJANG, Tues. Inche Ahmad bin Haji Hussein, formerly District Officer at Ulu Langat, left yesterday for Perils to become State Secretary. Three hundred people of all nationalities were at Kajang railway station to bid him farewell. He is being succeeded by Tuan Haji Abdul Aziz previously Assistant
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    PETROL PRICE: GOVT. EXPLAINS
    145 5 TWE Singapore Government considers the recent increase in the prices of petrol and kerosene "inevitable and justifiable." Replying to written questions by Mr. Thio Chan Bee (nominated unofficial) yesterday, the Government said Singapore obtained its supplies from both dollar and sterling areas. The prices had risen
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    'New Job For Expatriate'
    140 5 'New Job For Expatriate SIX Singapore unofficial Legislative Councillors have criticised the creation of the post of a valuer and assessor carrying a salary of $930 a month, rising to $960 and $1,000 They "consider that the creation of the post designated requiring specialist qualifications for a valuer and assessor
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    CAR BLAZE INQUEST
    80 5 From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR, Tues.— A verdict of death by misadventure was returned by the Baling Coroner at an inquest into the death of Koman Nalr who was trapped inside a blazing car at Sungei Tawai Estate on Aug. 29. Five other passengers in the
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    SOLDIERS BOUND OVER
    39 5 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Tues.— Two soldiers, Corporal Idiculas and Private Benjamin, were summoned at Taiping for assaulting a clerk, Mr. J. Mathews. who said two of hia teeth were loosened. Both were bound over.
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    BAIL OF $250
    37 5 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Tues.— Bail in $250 was offered 64-year-old Low Hoon of Kampong Pogoh charged in the Segamat Court with alleged possession of three bottles of Illicit samsu and a still.
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    Singapore Diary
    83 5 CHINESE IJMXaVa 107 Selegie Read, staff meeting, 9 a.m. RAFFLES GIRLS' School, annual exhibition of art and handwork, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Y.W.C.A.; 5 Raffles Quay, World Week of Prayer, combined youth meeting, 3 pjn. YOUTH LEADERS' Training course, social welfare Department, 5.15 pjn. TECHNICAL ASSOCIATION of
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    18 Bills In Council
    151 5 OF the 18 bills which came before the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday, six were adopted, five were referred to select committees, two were postponed, four were taken through first reading, and one was withdrawn. Bills passed: The Trading with the Enemy (Amendment) Bill; the Bankers' Books
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    LEPROSY BOARD for COLONY
    175 5 LEPROSY BOARD for COLONY THE Singapore Legislative 1 Council meeting yesterday adopted the Leprosy Bill which its mover, Dr. W. J. Vickers, Director of Medical Services, said was in memory of the late Mr. E. R. Koek, Legislative Councillor, who was instrumental in bringing the matter forward. The Bill is
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    New Housing Board Plan
    157 5 rE select committee appointed by the Singapore Legislative Council to examine and report on the Housing Board Bill has recommended that a new development board should be established in the Colony. The committee has Also recommended that legislation should be prepared to include provisions to enable
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    S'PORE GOVT. PLEDGE: LOWER C.O.L.
    160 5 S 'PORE GO VT. PLEDGE: LOWER C.O.L. •pHE Singapore Government. in a statement on the rice proposals yesterday, promised to do everything possible to lower the cost of living in the Colony. "There Is no intention to use Government control of the trade in rice to secure cash surpluses for
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    37 5 MRS. SIM KWANG TECK of Sarawak, who is receiving training in Social Welfare work at the Singapol? Social Welfare Department in view of the possibility of a Social Welfare Department being established in Sarawak. Straits Times picture.
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    Inquiry On Hawker Problem
    154 5 A joint committee of inquiry would be set up to investigate the hawker problem In Singapore, said the Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, In the Legislative Council yesterday. Replying to a suggestion by Mr. Tan Chin Tuan (Chinese Chamber of Commerce) that such a
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    DEATH
    44 6 1TX): Mr. Teo Bah Tan aged 70. pn<.srd away peacefully on is 11 40, at his residence No. r Killiney Road.- The cortege v.:ll leave his house for l'oprr Scrangoon Road Teochew omeUrv 41 milestone «t 10.30 n.m. on Thursday. 17th Nov.. J940
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    27 6 THE FAMILY of the late Mrs. Khoo Boo Yeow of 26A Lorong 34. fVvbnc. thank all those who fttlenripd her funeral, sent wreaths and rendered assistance.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Wed. Nov. 16, 1949. Rationed Rice
    1135 6 A report on the basic food of Malaya was not the least important of the many matters which came before both the Legislative Councils yesterday. This was the report of the Rice Investigation Committee, which was appointed last September, following
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    MALACCA TALK
    41 6 From Oat Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Tues. Commissioner W. B. Davey of the Salvation Army will speak at the Methodist Girls' School Hall, Malacca, on Nov. 23. After his present tour of Malaya, the Commissioner will visit Indonesia and Ceylon.
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    COALITION POLITICS IN RED CHINA
    1383 6  - COALITION POLITICS IN RED CHINA ANDREW ROTH By fHE recent news that Marshal Li Chi -sen has been named a vice-chairman of the new Communist-led Chinese People's Republic recalled a warm interview in Hong Kong and a cold telephone conversation in Peking. The two together cast much light on contemporary
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      Support for new Malay political party
      453 6 I WAS very much impressed by a report in the Straits Times, dated Oct. 27, which revealed that Hashim Ghani is to organise a new political party which will be a purely Malay organisation. I appreciate this step wholeheartedly and shall be one of
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      GOVT. JOBS & CITIZENSHIP
      142 6 GOVT. JOBS CITIZENSHIP IT has been observed In the Press that whenever a certain Government Department requires candidates to fill vacancies, one of the compulsory clauses Is that* the applicants must be Federal citizens. I think the time is now ripe for the Federation and Singapore Governments to issue a
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      INCOME TAX LOGIC IN THE FEDERATION
      234 6 INCOME TAX LOGIC IN THE FEDERATION 'THIS letter on the working and logic of the Income Tax Department in the Federation should interest business men and taxpayers. In one case of a partnership business, where a trusted clerk was in sole charge of the accounts, which had never been audited,
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    'I WAS SPIED ON'— COUNCILLOR
    458 7 Govt Told Of 'Clumsy 9 Secret Service Methods: Special Branch Warned THE president of the Progressive Party and Unofficial member for the Municipality South- West in the Singapore Legislative Council, Mr. C. C. Tan, told the Council at its meeting yesterday that the Colony's secret
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    SUGAR PRICE STATEMENT
    63 7 The Singapore Government stated yesterday. In reply to questions by Mr. Thio Chan Bee (Nominated Unofficial) that it had been found possible to reduce the price of sugar by four cents a kati as the trading results and the current stocks were such as to justify the
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    PUBLIC SERVANTS 'Stop This Bullying,' Says Tan
    116 7 PUBLIC SERVANTS 'Stop This Bullying,' Says Tan MR. C C. Tan (Municipal South West) told the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday there had recently been "many complaints of public servants behaving dlsrnurteoutly to the public and .•iflopting the attitude of dictator! "1 would remind these public servants that their duty X
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    Loans For Housing
    101 7 TWO oi the five Singapore Govern men L officers who applied for loans to build their own homes have betn iplused assistance, and derision on the remaining liree applies lions is pending. Makin| this statement in printed replies to qufstions by Mr. Lim Yew Hock, tabled a!
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    MR.J.E. PEPPER
    26 7 Mr. J. E. Pepper. Deputy Se netary. Singapore, has been appointed to act as Financial Br'-'tvy in place of Mr. J. D M Smith.
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    AND THESE WERE THE QUESTIONS...
    134 7 AND THESE WERE THE QUESTIONS... THE "clumsy method" of the secret service referred to by Mr. C. C. Tan took the form of a Special Branch employee calling on his sepior clerk, he said. These are the questions Mr. Tan alleges the clerk was asked: What was the name of
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    JOINT TALKS ON WAR DAMAGE
    95 7 THE War Damage Kill, which came up for first reading in the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday, was referred to a Select Committee, empowered to deliberate jointly with a similar committee appointed by th» Federal Council. The Bill provides for the establishment of a War Damage
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    FEWER SGTS.
    54 7 rrum uur nun KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The number of European sergeants in the Federation Police Force has been reduced from 500 to 454 and recruitment in the United Kingdom has been stopped said the High Commissioner. Sir Henry Gurney. in his address at the budget meeting of the
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    'Trade Has Bucked Up'
    70 7 REPRESENTATIVE of the Indian Chamber of Commerce, Mr. R. Jumabhoy, said in the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday, that after the devaluation of the pound "business has bucked up" and would be "much better" In coming: months. In view of this, he said there should be a
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    MAN IN FRONT ROW IS BOOED
    438 7 A MEMBER of the audience was booed and later warned that he would be "thrown out", at yesterday's Progressive Party election meeting to introduce Miss Amy Laycock to voters of the Municipal East Ward. The meeting was held at the Geylang Engl'sn School and
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    Protest On Alien Musicians
    174 7 Protest On Alien Musicians WITH 70 unemployed musicians in Singapore, the i Government should not permit the entry of an American band reported to have been engaged for a Singapore restaurant, Mr. Lim Yew Hock (Nominated). suggested in the Legislative Council yesterday. Mr. Lim said the Musicians Union had requested
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    ANNIVERSARY
    24 7 The Silat Funeral Association will be celebrating its 24th anniversary on Nov. ?6 and 27 at its clubhouse. 62 A Joo Chlat Place.
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    'More Public Spirit In U.K. Than In S'pore'
    210 7 'More Public Spirit In U.K. Than In S'pore THE people in England are far more public spirited 1 than the people in Singapore, said Mr. Cheah Tenjr Cheok, Assistant Superintendent of Police, who returned to Singapore yesterday in the Carthage, after completing six months' course in police work in the
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    EMERGENCY IS EXTENDED
    32 7 Tin' Legislative Council yesterday extended for a further three months the proclamation of a state ol emergency In the Colony. The Emergency has already existed for nearly 18 months.
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    ....AND SO ESAH (40) ALTERED HER AGE
    94 7 WHEN Esah binte Emati, a Malay woman, was stopped at a roadblock recently the police told her that she looked more like a woman of 24 than 40, which was the age given on her Identity card. Taking them at their word, she
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    Bill To Protect Schoolchildren
    330 7 /GOVERNMENT must hold itself responsible that the immaturity of schoolchildren is not abused by "unscrupulous political agencies, selfish, profitseeking squeers and spurious and unqualified teachers", the Director of Education, Mr. A. W. Frisby, speaking on the Registration of Schools Bill, told the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday.
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    BOY WITH LONG HAIR
    74 7 The Singapore police are looking for the parents or relatives of a 3i-year-old boy who was handed to Ihe Beach Road Police Station yesterday afternoon by a man. The boy has long hair if three feet in height, and was wearing a green shirt and short
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    GIMSON GOING TO BRITAIN ON LEAVE NEXT MONDAY
    148 7 THE Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Glmson. will go on leave to the United Kingdom next Monday. He will leave Singapore on Sunday for Penan? and next day win sail in the Glenearn. Mr. P. A. B. McKerron will be the Officer
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    HIGH TRIBUTES TO GOVERNOR
    147 7 A COMPARISON of present conditions with those of three or four years ago showed that Singapore had advanced politically, economically and educationally under the wise leadership of the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, said Mr. Thio Chan Bee In the Legislative Council yesterday. Sir Franklin is due
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    PLANTER IS CHARGED
    81 7 L. C. Lincoln, a rubber planter, pleaded not guilty in the Singapore First District Court yesterday to a charge of housebreaking. He told the court that he had booked several dances with a cabaret girl, but she had "walked out" on him. He went to her house
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    SPECIAL DUTY
    26 7 Mr. W. N. Cartwright, Executive Engineer, Malayan Public Works Service, has been seconded for service on special duty in the Federal Secretariat, Kuala Lumpur.
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    BUSMEN ON 49 CHARGES
    176 7 BUSMEN ON 49 CHARGES EIGHTEEN Sin a ton I uction Companv b'.is i ductors who wore arrested on Monday night claimti) trial to a total of 49 ;hargra of criminal breach of tn«fc when produced in the Thud Police Court yesterday 8i t\ were offered bail of $500 i b
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    Asst. Controller
    21 7 Mr. J. R. Foley of \tm Foreign Exchange Control Branch. Singapore, has bttn appointed Assistant Contutter of Foreign Exchange.
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    Cut 2 Cents A Eati Off Price Of Rice,' Malaya Govts. Told
    470 8 PLAN TO SLASH DISTRIBUTION COSTS CUT in the price of rationed rice by two cents to 26 cents a kati is recommended by the Rice Investigation Committee set up by the Governments of the Federation and Singapore. Other
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    58 8 TWENTY-SIX-year-old, Mr. P. P. Narayanan, a Union leader and Federal Councillor, speaking at a dinner given in his honour by Ma lacca Trade Union leaders J? U ?h ara y anan *s one of the three unionists from the Federation nominated to attend the Free World Labour Confederation to be
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    3-CENTS-A KATI GOVT PROFITS
    207 8 THE two Governments, says the Rice Investigation Committee's 'report, made an estimated profit of more than $6,000,000 on sales of rice, equal to about three cents a katl. in the period Jan. 1 to April 30 this year. During these four months, the Federation profited by
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    DIDN'T REPORT
    25 8 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— For falling to report the birth of a child. Tan Soo Keok was fined $20 today.
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    INTIMIDATION IS 'DEPLORED'
    72 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The Government has given an assurance that they deplore, and will not support, any action by employers who attempt to take any advantage of the emergency to intimidate trade union officials carrying out their legitimate activities. This assurance was given
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    —BUT SIAM MAY PUT UP PRICE OF RICE
    136 8 BUT SIAM MA Y PUT UP PRICE OF RICE From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK. Tues. SIAM is expected to keep the export price of rice unchanged for the Arst quarter at next year but Intends an increase of 15 to 25 per cent afterwards, authorlta tlve sources said today. It
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    2 Dead, 4 Missing In River Ambush
    242 8 From Our Staff Correspondent M *i v o KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. A MALAY Regiment officer and his Malay boatman were killed and a Malay police inspector a European police sergeant, a wireless operator and a boatman are missing following a river ambush in
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    Four Kill Tiger With Parangs
    172 8 Four Kill Tiger With Parangs From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAf. Tuesday. pOUR Malays, one of them r so badly mauled that he later died, hacked a maneating tiger to death with parangs after the beast had killed an old woman, the Segamat police have been Informed. The fight took place
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    DROVE INTO FOOD STALL
    92 8 DROVE INTO FOOD STALL L. C. Lincoln, pleaded guilty to a charge of driving his motor car negligently in Bugis Street at midnight on Nov. 9. by knocking down a food stall on the side of the road, before the Fifth Police Magistrate. Mr. A. C. Shears, and was fined
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    NO LICENCE
    31 8 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Tues. Two shopkeepers, Ee Boon Koon and Mohd. Kassim were each fined $25 by the Muar Magistrate for selling: controlled goods without a licence.
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    LONDON LETTER Good send off for Mr. Guy Fawkes
    1488 9 LONDON LETTER Good send off for Mr. Guy Fawkes From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 6. 'PHE raw damp darkness of a foggy November evening was torn and split for hours last night by incessant flashes of blinding silver light, or of v:\id apple green or strontium scarlet. Scudding clouds
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    People In The News
    559 9 THE things which people are talking about just now are not matters of national importance as much as those of more simple human interest. I hear many people discussing, for instance, the case of the Plymouth carpenter who has, while out of work, been drawing £7-45.-6
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    GOVT. IS OBESE, SAYS WARING
    836 10 'Now Time To Cut Spending 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. criticisms by Unofficial members, the Federal Legislative Council today approved the estimates of expenditure for 1950 amounting to $280,873,987. The heaviest attack came from Mr. D. T. Waring who said that had
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    Johore Planters
    25 10 The Johore Planters' Association will hold their halfyearly general meeting at 10 a.m. on Nov. 25 at the Civil Service Club, Johore Bahru.
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    45 10 THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF Designate of the Far East Air Force, Air Marshal F. J. Fogarty. shaking hands with Air Commodore W. A. Opie, Senior Technical Staff Officer, Headquarters, FEAF, at the Singapore wharves yesterday, soon after his arrival in the Corfu from England. Straits Times picture.
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    Malays Can Now Enter Sandhurst
    100 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A RRANGEMENTS have been J\ completed for Malays to enter the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, the High Commissioner, Sir Henry Qurney. revealed in his annual review at the budget meeting of the Federal Legislative Council today. During this
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    MAGISTRATE'S TRIAL DATES
    59 10 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— Nasir bin Abubakar. a Johore Bahru magistrate, will be tried in the Sessions Court on a charge of having accepted an Illegal gratification of $50, on Dec. 3, 4 and 5. These dates were fixed today. The trial magistrate will
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    MR. C.H. JACKSON
    26 10 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues.— Mr. C. H. Jackson has relinquished his appointment of Executive Engineer, P.W.D., Johore, and has rejoined the Survey Department, Taiping.
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    TRADE CONTROL 'A NECESSITY'
    106 10 THE control of imports and exports was a necessary part of protecting the currency, the acting Secretary for Economic Affairs. Mr. H. W. Nightingale, said in the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday, when he moved reference of the Control of Imports and Exports Bill to a select
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    AIR CHIEF DESIGNATE ARRIVES IN S'PORE
    218 10 A FEW minutes after disembarking from the Corfu at the Singapore wharves yesterday, the Commander-in-Chief Designate of the Far East Air Force, Air Marshal F. J. Fogarty, had the opportunity of inspecting a guard of honour formed by No. 92 Squadron of the R.A.F.
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    Public Service Commission
    73 10 The Colonial Secretary Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, said in the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday that he was expecting to make a definite announcement on the setting up of the Public Services Commission at the December meeting of the Council. Preliminary plans were m hand, but certain
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    DROP IN RUBBER PRICES
    212 11 DROP IN RUBBER PRICES THE Singapore rubber mar- ket showed a fairly severe reaction and quotations yesterday were marked down by about half a cent per lb. below the previous day's levels. Trade Interest was particularly poor. At the same time there was an absence of selling pressure. Closing prices
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    SHIPPING IN PORT
    126 11 SHIPS alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns In brackets) were: Main Wharf: Scudai '36-37), Glenearn (42-43). West Wharf: Carthage (1-2), Ozarda (4-5), Adrattus (6-7), City of Chester (8-9). Herefordshire (11), Power Grange (13-14). Korea (15-16). Empire Dock: Hem Und (17-18). Admiral A. T. Fairfleld (18-20),
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    BEAUFORT RUBBER
    36 11 r THE directors of Beaufort Borneo Rubber Company Limited have recommended a dividend of 24 per cent, less tax, payable on Dec. 22 in respect of the financial year ending April 30 this year.
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    TIN SHARES ARE FIRMER
    773 11 From Our Market Correspondent A SLIGHTLY firmer tendency developed in tins in the Malayan share market yesterday morning, but most operators preferred to await the opening of the tin metal market. Industrials were hesitant, but steady, while rubber shares had small business within quotations. Prlcea quoted
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    349 11 LONDON, Tues. VIGOROUS movements in the gilt-edged section of the London Stock Exchange left prices practically unchanged on balance yesterday. Bear covering rushed values up in Initial dealings but resultant gains of around two points had been lost when the market closed. Once again the section had demonstrated
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    NO REGRETS TO WIN ON FAST TRACK
    1539 12 NO REGRETS TO WIN ON FAST TRACK Ra-Li Stands Out In 7-f Event By EPSOM JEEP NO REGRETS' clear-cut victory at Ipoh in September has so impressed me that I am inclined to think that he is smarter than Bright Eyes, at least on a fast track. Their meeting in
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    145 12 EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER RACE 1 S.15 THE RAVEN Ballymar Wonder Bird BAILYMAR The Raven Klmberley BALLYMAR Garnfalr The Raven RACE I t.45 STYMIE OAKFEL Spear of Sarawak II STYMIE SolUra Soltara CORONATION LADY Sylvan Lass So Blaek MY BACHELOR DARNOK RACE S 3.15 Coronation Lady
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    VON NIDA WILL PLAY HERE- FOR A FEE
    151 12 THE Australian golfers, Norman von Nida and Peter Thomson, are prepared to play for the benefit of a Singapore audience on their way back from the "World Championships" at Manila if they are paid (Aust) £100 each. Von Nida and Thomson arrived
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    All Blues & Varsity Draw
    184 12 All Blues Varsity Draw 17IELDING their stronger possible torn in the hope of avenging their 3-11 defeat two weeks ago, Singapore All Blues only managed to hold the University team to an 8-8 draw in a rugger match played on the Bukit Timah grounds yesterday. All Blues were the first
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    ST. ANDREW'S BOXING TODAY
    211 12 The finals of St. Andrew's School's inter-House Boxing tournament will take place today at 4.30 pjn. The championship will be decided between Hose House (holders) who have so far scored 41 points and Gomes House (47 points). The finalists are: "Light": Wee Soon Hock U34, G)
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    33 12 RUGBY: S.C.C. 'A 1 t. Nee Soon Garrison, padang; Army Trial Matrh, Tanglin; R.A.F. Tengah v. G.H.Q. Signals, Ten***. HOCKEY: S.C.C. women v D.C.R.E. (mm), padang; S.R.C. v. Medical Family, padang
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    INDIAN TOURISTS' MATCH POSTPONED
    41 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. UEAVY rain which fell this afternoon flooded the T.P.C.A. ground forcing the postponement of the soccer match between the Indian Tourists and the Selangor Combined Civilians and Services. The match will be played tomorrow.
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    One More S'pore Game For Tourists
    277 12 T«E Indian Tourists will get one more game in x Singapore against Singapore Civilians in a match in aid of the University of Malaya Endowment Fund. i This was decided after a heated 90-minute discussion by Council members of the Singapore Amateur Football Association
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    Today's Race Card
    1002 12 BELOW are the acceptances for today, the second day of the Singapore Turf Club Winter Meeting. The Double Tote will be on races five and eight. The Big Sweep will be drawn on race seven. Race 1—2.15: Cl. 3, Div. 5— Abt. 6 Furs. 004 The Raven
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    Kota Raja Enter SAFA Cup Final
    273 12 Kota Raja 2; Rovers Sports Club 0. IZOTA RAJA, holders of the Singapore A.F.A. Cup, qualified for this season's final when they beat Rovers Sports Club by two goals to nil before a fair crowd at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Rajas have now to
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    RSGC Deficit Reduced
    161 12 rpHE net financial position of the x Royal Singapore Golf Club, says the annual report, has improved during the year and should improve still further during tho coming year. The deficit of $39,390, shown at the beginning of the financial year, has been reduced to $24,28.». A
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    C'WEALTH WIN BY 9 WKTS
    48 12 NEW DELHI. Tues— The Commonwealth Cricket XI beat Indi* by nine wickets in the first unofficial five-day Test match which ended here today. Commonwealth: 608 for 8 dec!. and 11 for one. India 291 and 327 (Hazare 140. Adhikari 44 not out).— Reuter.
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