The Straits Times, 25 September 1947

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • 73 1 MANILA, Wednesday. A FILIPINO victim of Japanese 1\ torture today threw a Japanese suspect. Captain Nagano, from the window of the courtroom here where he is on trial. The man, a former mayor of Dasinarjiias Cavite, was reprimanded by the court. He later described how Nagano
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  • 190 1 TIN SHARES RISE ON EXCHANGE From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. ARISE in tin shares was registered on the Stock! Exchange yesterday due to piiviing companies' reports of modest improvement in the flow of machinery and equipment to the East. The Daily Telegraph says that there has not been an
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  • 37 1 WASHINGTON WednesdayGordon Gray. 38, who volunteered as nn Army private in 1942 and xose to the rank of Captain, was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Army by President Trmiin yesterday A.P.
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  • 39 1 (The Straits Time* receives ita continuous cabled reports of world Hews from the following sources: Reuter A. A. P.. Associated Press, United Press, The Times and Special Correspondents ln London. Paris, New York, Washington, Tokio, Sydney, Caufeerra and Melbourne
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  • 163 1 MASSACRE Cabinet Calls Special Meeting LAHORE, Wednesday. THE Pakistan cabinet of West Punjab is holding a special meeting today following reports of the worst massacre of refugees which has yet taken place. A high official says a refugee train from Delhi, carrying many Pakistan government personnel, was attacked near Amritsar
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  • 175 1 COLOMBO, Wednesday. THE Governor of Ceylon, Sir Henry Monck-Maso n Moore, today commissioned the leader of the Ceylon majority United National Party, Mr. D. S. Senanayake, to form Ceylon's first cabinet under j the self-governing constitution granted to Ceylon in 1946. This move towards carrying
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  • 87 1 GREAT YARMOUTH. Wednesday. The bodies of six Royal Adr Force men have been recovered from the burned-out wreckage of a four-engined Lincoln bomber which crashed on a farmland at Maltby. Norfolk, early today. The wreckage was flung over an area of 500 yards. Lifeboats have put
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  • 33 1 WASHINGTON. Wednesday. The World Bank will be willing to raise funds to supply Europe with $3,000,000,000 worth of capital equipment. The Bank's Vice-President 1 made this statement today.— A.P.
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  • 60 1 Siamese Ships For War On Smugglers BANGKOK, Wednesday. CIAMESE naval vesseli are «3 to operate against smugglers in southern coastal waters, following requests from Singapore for Siamese help. It is understood that the vessels may also be used for carrying cargo to Malaya. Slam has several recentlyacquired war surplus ships
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  • 170 1 DURING the 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. electricity emergency period last night numerous display bulbs burned in the closed shop of an Orchard Road electrical dealer. In the Newton and Geylan r Road areas, people were without light a-id power for an hour. In crowded
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  • 64 1 RANGOON, Wednesday. The former Burmese Prime Minister, U Saw, and nine other Burmans were formally charged before a special tribunal here today with the murder of U Aung San, De. puty Chairman of the Burma Executive Counoil, and six other members of the Council on July
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  • 72 1 CANBERRA, Wednesday. The Commerce Minister. Mr. Reginald Pollard, said yesterday Australia's expected bumper crop would be reflected in appreciably larger food shipments to Britain. He said probably 250,000 tons of meat would be shipped to Britain, compared with 243,000 tons last year; 52.000,000 dozen eggs, compared
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  • Article, Illustration
    51 1 Cameraman George Haley, a round-the-world passenger on the President Monroe, taking a candid camera shot of his wife in a trishaw. Haley owns a photographic business in Memphis, Tennessee, and has already taken hundreds of pictures of war-torn cities of the world. Other Straits Times picture and story in P»«e
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  • 128 1 Singapore Aircraft Forced Down On Football Pitch fIOOTBALL posts had to be moved to allow a Singa- pore plane a clear field to take off from a Malacca playground on which it made a forced landing at 4 p.m. yesterday. The plane, which was aj Howard used by th c
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  • 243 1 CENSUS enumerators on Wednesday night found 5,000 people living on the harbour and rivers and 1,000 homeless on the streets of Singapore. Some of the squad doing the water census were still clambering aboard junks, sampans and prahus at 5 a.m. Notwithstanding early faults Ln a
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  • 118 1 RUBBER gained an \'n a cent yesterday when Tuesday's rise in prce continued but the market was irregular. Business was done as high as 31} cents at the opening yesterday but later in the morning slipped away to 31} cents. Later It recovered again to 312
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  • 35 1 LONDON. Wednesday. Lord Killearn. Special Commissioner ln South-East Asia. Is expected to be Britain's chief representative at the coming Allied peace conference on Japan. Foreign Office sources indicated yesterday.
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  • 155 1 Singapore Meeting On Indonesia Probable CANBERRA, Wednesday. AN early meeting in Singapore of the three-nation committee set up by the United Nations to assist m settling the Dutch-Indonesian dispute was predicted today by the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Joseph Chifley. Mr. Chifley announced that Mr. Justice Kirby. of the Commonwealth
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  • 94 1 LONhOtf. \\< Brazilian rubber manufacturers wili be guaranteed a mlnHram pr;:"> of 45 rents a pound \vr their produce, until December 31. 1950. rode* a lv*- s^^ei '•pr^en-lv by the President, according to reports reaflvng L:n>! This follows the ex^irv on June "*0 f RtotM's a 1
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  • 135 1 THE Singapore station of Radio Malaya l.roadcast an SOS. just before it closed at 11 o'clock last night asking anybody who knew the whereabouts of Mrs. Bryant and Mrs. Goadal! to contact the Young Women's Christian Association. The appeal was made at the request
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  • 339 2 Arabs Will Act To Stop Partition NEW YORK, Wednesday. THE Arab countries yesterday threatened countermeasures against the United States after Syria had predicted a complete rupture of relations with any member supporting the plan now before the United Nations General Assembly fo/ the partition of Palestine. A spokesman said the
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  • 220 2 Call On Irish To 'Show Resentment' BEIrfFAST, Wednesday. THE Anti-Partition League of Ireland, which claims to control 100 seats in the Ulster Parliament, broke with the British Labour Government last night. It accuses British Labour of an ultra-Tory policy on the partition of Ireland.
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    • 148 2 HONOLULU, Wednesday. A MARSHALL Islander who found a glass ball containing A note in the water near Kwajalein arrived here yesterday on his way to Hollywood where he will receive $1,000 from the sponsors of a radio programme. The native, Klenre, who is 21
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    • 85 2 BIRKENHEAD, Wednesday. Eating a plum, a small boy who«/e name and age were not given walked into a courtroom here today to face a charge of murdering a nine-month-old baby girL It was alkged that the boy took the baby from her pram outside her parents' home yesterday
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    • 111 2 NEW YORK. Wednesday.— As a royal wedding goodwill /esture nlm star Douglas Fairbanks Jr. yesterday announced v\: ns 'or the distribution of American cafe packages tc needy British families as giftsBritls 1 welfare groups will submit names of faml lies to the Pi incess and under the supervision
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    • 89 2 LONDON, Wednesday.—Britain's High Court yesterday granted leave to the British Government to begin a prosecution against James Gaunt, a provincial newspaper editor, on charges of seditious libel in an allegedly antiSemitic article in his paper, the "Morecambe and Heybhain Vlslto." The article was published on Aug. 6 at
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    • 127 2 PROVIDENCE, Wednesday. George Coffey, 59-year-old tool company machinist has invented a typewriter that can talk back. He demonstrated his machine today, and said that he had obtained a patent on it. Coffey said he believes the machine will be of value to the blind who are learning to
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    • 89 2 SAN FRANCISCO, Wednesday.-* A carabao which President Roxas of the Philippines sent as a gift to Mayor Roger Lapham of San Francisco is to be sent back to the islands for 60-day quarantine against hoof and motf disease. The Federal Department of Agriculture denied entry to the water
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    • 79 2 MIAMI Florida Wednt^day Six live Japanese mines were washed up on the shore near Vero Beach, the 7th Coast Guard District reported yesterday. Coast Guard officers said the mines; presumably laid by a Japanese submarine; apparently rose to the surface of the water during the recent hurricane.
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    • 40 2 MANILA Wednesday—Ambassador O'Neal and his family were feted at a glittering reception and ball at Malacanan Palace last night; attended by more than 1,000 members of the consular and diplomatic corps Manila's foreign colonies and society.— A tr
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    • 67 2 COPENHAGEN. Wednesday Rozce C. Bailey, 20, a cook on the liberty ship William J. Worth, died yesterday, following gun wounds received in a cafe altercation on September 18. with a negro sailor. Marion Leslie Levine. 23 of New Orleans. Bailey. 20. of Kirbyville. Texas, quarrelled over a
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    • 42 2 STOCKHOLM. Wednesday— A Swedish- built jet-fighter plane exploded in the air. while on a test flight in Southern Sweden, according to reports. Experts were yesterday tryine to decide whether engine trouble or the "sound wall" caused the accident.— U.P.
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    • 816 2 NOTICES SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY WATER DEPARTMENT I i Tenders closing noon Tuesday. 21 t October. 1947. are Invited for the "Purchase of damaged Steel Plates." t Deposit $50. Tender form obtainable from Municipal Secretariat. TENDERS Tenders will be received at the Office of the State Engineer, P.W.D., Johore up to noon
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    • 340 2 TENDERS Tenders are lnvHed for the purchase of 200 forty four gallon oil drums 10 sixty five gallon oH drums The drums may be Inspected upon I application to the Bupt. Central Stores, Bungsar. during normal working hours. The tender should be marked "Ten--5 der for Empty Drums" and should
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  • 672 3 'WAR' WARNING TO ASSEMBLY BY TRYGVE LIE Suspicion, Disunity 'Will Wreck UNO 9 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. A PLEA by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Trygve Lie, for the great powers to show willingness to bury their differences was coldly received by the delegates to the General Assembly yesterday. Mr.
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  • 261 3 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. UtflTH a deep bow, a Chinese walked rapidly from the dock of the Malayan Court of Appeal today. He had just heard the Court quash the death sentence passed on him at the Selangor
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  • 137 3 10 Guineas To View Royal Bridal Drive LONDON, Wednesday. fTUCKET agents disclosed last 1 night that all window space buildings along the route of the Royal Wedding procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey, had been sold, with the average seat price ranging from seven to ten guineas. One agent
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  • 70 3 NAPLES. Wednesday. One thousand Jews embarked on Monday at Csllole, near Salerno, presumably for Palestine. Police authorities said they regarded the use of small boats with auxiliary motors by the refugees, as a new underground strategy against th British blockade of Palestine waters. The Jews
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  • 78 3 NEW YORK, Wednesday.— The Board of Missions and the church extension of the Methodist Church announced yesterday that Gener- alissimo and Madame Chiang KaiRhek had presented to the Church their Chungking estate for use as a school and home for homeless children. The estate Is more
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  • 57 3 BRATISLAVIA. Czechoslovakia. Wednesday.— Officials announced on Monday that a new conspiracy to overthrow the Czechoslovak government had been discovered in Slovakia. It was described as more serious and dangerous than the one uncovered last week in which 106 persons have been formally j charged. No further details
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    68 3 Two Jewish mayors Mr. Krinitzi of Ramat Gan (left) and Mr. Rokach, of Tel Aviv congratulating each other on their release from prison in Tel Aviv this month after they had been detained for 38 days by the British under an emergency regulation empowering the authorities to arrest any persons
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  • 206 3 BATAVIA, Wednesday. '•WITHOUT nelp from Singapore, Australia and India, the Republicans would have been in a bad way," said Dr. P. Nirula, head of the Indian Red Cross medical mission to Indonesia when he left for Calcutta today. The mission took seven tons of medical supplies
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  • 446 3 Official Reply To Workers' Demands From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday THE Pan-Malayan Council of Government Workers this evening received a reply from the Chief Secretary, Malayan Union, Mr. J. InnesMiller, to their "final" letter sent yesterday. "In all the factors which must influence the wage structure," says Mr.
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  • 890 4 Advantages Of Natural Rubber Shown INDUSTRY HELPS IN SCIENTIFIC ADVANCE From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, By Air Mail. QOME notable advances in engineering practice were seen at this year's Engineering and Marine Exhibition, states the Robber Development Board in the latest issue of their journal. It was the first exhibition
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  • 280 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday THE Assessment Committee f of the K.L. Town Board has recommended that the 1948 assessment rates should g be increased from 1.57 per i cent, to 2 per cent. The committee considers that the increase Js necessary to assist
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  • 44 4 A sub-committee of 11 has been I appointed by the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce to take charge of arrangements to celebra'-^ ihe wedding of Princess Elizabeth. _>ragon and lion processions will be included as part of the celebrations^
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  • 27 4 The Chinese Consul General,! Dr. Wu Paak-shing, will hold a cocktail party at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce as part of the Double Tenth celebrations.
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  • 104 4 CHIPS alongside the Singapore wharves yesterday (eodowns in brackets) were: Main wharf: Limbure (31-32), President Monroe (36-37), ARapenor (38). Dunera (42-43). West Wharf: Zeeland (1-2). Sedenak <3), Senai (6), Templar (10-11). Glenartney (12-13), Empire Palace (14-15), Empire Colne (16i. Empire Dock: Lak WinniDee (29-30' Sheers Wharf: Van der
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  • 441 4 EIGHT Chinese who were alleged to have teen -conu cerned in illegally bringing 23,318 katties of Siamese rice from the Malayan Union into Singapore were summoned before the Singapore Second District Judge, Mr. J. P. Merson, yesterday. The prosecution officer, Mr. D. R. Cowie of
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    • 223 4 ALL -MALAYAN PREMIERE! Simultaneous Run Tomorrow at Both Theatres Pri day. 26th. Sept. EL>va jb: Sals I GRAND OPENING OF THE ALHAMBRA and MARLBOROUGH (Controlled By Singapore Amusements Syndicate.) K. pg^^^^^^DAYS WHEN EVERY BOY AND GIRL NEEDS EXTRA ENERGY... EXTRA STAMINA... BETTER NOURISHMENT See that your children get the extra
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    • 360 4 •jmß OPENING TO-UAV. I U S SHOWS— J. CIS 9.15 p.M. WF\ THE JOT-FILM OF YOUR HK*RT I MEtT ME IN ST. LOUIS Jk 1 itafTtnff JUDY OAKLAND I Margaret O'RHen Tom Drake In TrrhnJcdor STECIAI ROMANCE— COMEDY— MELOOY *HOMNGTON WESTON" B B SFiut™ 0 QUEENS THEATRE NANG HWA PIANO
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  • 313 5 INTER-STATE CRISIS THREAT IN INDIA SEEN By The Times Correspondent Kathiawar Prince Issues Protest BOMBAY Wednesday. DEVELOPMENTS over the accession to Pakistan of Junagadh State, in Kathiawar, have taken a new turn as a result of a statement by the Jam Sahib of Nawanagar. The Jam Sahib said Junagadh's accession
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  • 268 5 Home Govt. Policy Attacked From Our <7wn Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. rHE policy of the Home Government with regard to tin and rubber was most difficult to understand, said the Chairman of the Penang Chamber of Commerce, Mr. D. A. Mackay, at the halfyearly general meeting of the Chambe yesterday. Emphasising
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  • 45 5 SEGAMAT. Wednesday. The Scgamat India-Ceylon Association is holding an essay competition for children in the district as part of the Gandhi birthday celebrations. ssay can be in any langu- i w.ll be classified under two gronpi for civiiirm under 1 for sejiiurs above that age.
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  • 282 5 NEW DLLHI, Wednesday A suggestion that India and Pakistan should make a joint request to the United Nations for the dispatch ox neutral observers to study conditions in the troubled areas was made yesteday by the Pakistan Government spokesman, who expressed grave anxiety over the continued
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  • 47 5 Grave concern over the Punjab riots was expressed by a deputation of 15 representatives from the Ahmadiyya community in the Malayan Union ar.d Singapore when they met the Representative of the Government of India, Mr. J.A. Thivy. yesterday. The deputation sought his as-
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  • 74 5 NEW YORK, Wednesday.- Mrs. Pandit, Indian Ambassador to Moscow and leader of the Indian delegation to the United Nations, said yesterday that India would soon drop her new status as a British Dominion and emerge as "the Independent Socialist Republic of India." Mrs. Pandit was bioadjaatlng for
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  • 275 5 Brilliance Of "Black Narcissus" "nLACK Narcissus," an «5 Archers film shown in a Singapore preview this week, is one of the most beautiful, dramatic, convincing andi technically brilliant films ever produced by a British company. The theme Is that of a band of j sisters, members of an AngloCatholic order,
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  • 52 5 pendent Socialist Republic, she I said. "But ev«n today and for the next year or two, as a Dominion of the British Commonwealth, India will strive with all her influence to see that the area over which imperialism has hitherto I exercised unqualified control is reduced as rapidly as possible."—
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  • 232 5 From Our Stan Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. TRADING restrictions i» j 1 Malaya were a "humbug", which must be swept away,; Mr. J. P. Souter declared at j the half-yearly meeting of the Penang Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Urging the abolition of AP. (Approved Permit)
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  • 278 5 By Our Muslim Correspondent ANE of the most popular features of Singapore Radio's Malay broadcasts is that entitled "Pilehan Sendiri" ("Personal Choice"). In this programme, listeners are given the opportunity to visit the studio, choose their own records and play them. Five of six records are usually
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  • 79 5 $27,000 FOR WELFARE WORK From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Wednesday. NEGRI Sembilan Welfare Week drive has realised $27,468 profit. This money will be used for badly-needed social services. Th acting Resident Commissioner, Mr. E. E. Pengilley. giving this information yesterday at his press conference, said the original figure aimed at
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  • 44 5 PARIT BUNTAR Wednesday— Krian's water restriction has been lifted. This has been made possible by the heavy rain which has been fallirie sine* Monday night. Water economy is, however, still urged, although a full supply Is now available for all needs
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  • 466 5 Straits Times Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. fTHE U.S. Government will again be in the market for rubber for their stockpile programme this week, says the Daily Telegraph, which understands that the U.S. intention is to raise its stockpile from 230,000 tons to approximately 500.000 tons over
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  • 27 5 LONDON, Wednesday. With pipes and parts of organs from blitzed churches all over London, the Reverend P. McKenzie has built an organ in his home at Dulwich.
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  • 35 6 Tin maragement of the Convent of The Holy Infant Jesus. Singapore, wish to thank Mr. and Mrs. Sect Juay Klat. for the gilt of a flve valve Pilot Radio, kindly presented to the Convent.
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  • 1292 6 The Straits Times AFTER SIXTEEN YEARS Singapore, Thurs., Sept., 25, 1947. Yesterday was the first Census Day that Malaya has known for sixteen years. The first counting of heads in the Straits Settlements and F.M.S. took place in 1901 and was repeated in 1911, but the first complete census for
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  • 1093 6 By A Chinese Correspondent I HAVE the head of a tiger but the tail of a mouse yet, I want to be a gangster. When the Japs were masters of Malaya, I had no such desire. To tell you the truth, I
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  • 161 6 THE Singapore Government and Municipal Servants at a meeting recently decided, on the question of the Singapore elections, to refer back to their respective committees the following resolution "This meeting considers that the Singapore Legislative Elections Ordinance does not urovide satisfactory safeguard^ for the
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  • 143 6 'm reply to you leader en titled News troin a Dutch point of view," which appeared in the Straits Times oi Sept. 16, 1 wish to point out that, following ihe attack; uukde by your reporter on tne Netherlands Navy in an earlier issue, I made enquiries from
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  • 375 6 Where Are The Chinese Women For Public Work? CHINESE business and professional men of Singapore cooperate well in a>l things which benefit their people. But what is the matter with their wives? The women below middle age pride themselves on their "mod rnity," as their clothes and cars testify. Although
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  • 293 6 IT'HE jonore Government is 1 to select four candidate* ior direct appointment hi t Malay Officers. Judging from past experience, such direct 'selection has b.en far Horn satisfactory as ki evidenced from some of the misfits there are in the present Malay Officers' Scheme. Nothing
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  • 49 6 W-HEN can the authorities settle this back pay busiof the demobbed personnel of the R.E.. R.A., R.A.S.C., and R.A.M.C.? I am one of them, and I have been waiting patiently for the last two years. Still there is no news of back-pay. ALI (EX-R.ASI k Kin<apore.
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  • 402 7 Penang's "Poor Bargain" From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. PENANG'S incorporation into the Malayan Union was described as "a poor bargain" by the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. D. A. Mackay, at the halfyearly general meeting of the Chamber yesterday. Mr. Mackay said Penang must be careful to
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  • 108 7 A former member of the R.A.M.C Wong Chong Kam, was sentenced to eight years' rigorous Imprisonment and 12 strokes of the rattan by Mr. Justice Jobling at the Assize Court yesterday for armed robbery of $7,000 in cash and jewellery from a Chinese family at Race Course Road
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  • Malayan Round up
    • 113 7 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wednesday. TWO Chinese robbers, dressed in black, last night entered an upstairs room of the Residency in Gopeng Road and stole two watches, a fountain pen and a pair of spectacles belonging to the Resident Commissioner of Perak, Mr. A.
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    • 66 7 PROFESSOR W. A. Young, former Profes^jor of Bacteriology at the Medical College. Singapore, was the guest of honour at a tea-party held at the G. H. Cafe yesterday. Professor Young, who has retired from his post at the Mediral College, and Mrs. Young, will leave Singapore to-morrow. More
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    • 123 7 EIGHT Malayan organisations at a recent meeting in Singapore passed a resolution expressing sympathy for the Spanish people, who were "completely denied democratic rights' by their Fascist Government. The resolution, forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Mr. Creech Jones, urged the British Government to ask
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    • 41 7 A CONCERT to raise funds fur the relief of Chinese refugees in Indonesia will be held In the Victoria Hall tonight at 7 p.m. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce invited Mr. Jameson Huang and Mr. Ma Sze Hung to
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    • 83 7 PENANG. Wednesday—Extensive floods have caused a breakdown in water supplies to the town of Sungei Patant in South Kedah. Heavy rain, which fell continuously in Penang and South Kedah from five o'clock yesterday afternoon, resulted in floods on the Island and on the mainland. Bedong bridge, which
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  • 116 7 mHE 8.1. Apcac Line services 1 from India via the Straits to Hong Kong and China will recommence next month with the arrival in Singapore of the new motor 9,000-ton passenger vessel Sangola. The Sangola was recently launched on the Clyde amd will shortly be Joined by
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  • 332 7 man. Che' Zainal has never been to EngLar.d. His wife and family will join him if and when he can find accommodation for them. Last night in Singapore, Malay journalists gave him one of .several farewell tea-parties. His hosts were the directors, publisher ar.d
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  • 498 7 Due To Leave For Batavia Today A FORMER Singapore boy and a former Ipoh boy are among a four-man Chinese military team, which arrived in Singapore yesterday in a Chinese Army 824 Liberator on its way to Batavia. The team is to assist in investigating whether
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  • 437 7 Million -Mile Globe Travellers In S'pore f OL. Jameson Carr, veteran of two world wars and Mru. Carr, who arrived in Singapore yesterday by the President Monroe, have each travelled over a million miles. They are among 23 Ameri-' can round-the-world tourists wh 0 will spend the next four lays
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  • 63 7 Organisers of the screening of the film Thunder Rock at the Rex Theatre tonight in aid of the Good Shepherd Convent Building Fund ask those attending to be early if possible. The band of ohe Northumberland Fusiliers begins its programme of music at 8 30
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  • 302 7 OARAWAK rubber producers are pressing the Government 0 to come to a decision regarding the reduction of the present export duties on rubber. Typical of the existing dissatisfaction is a letter signed j "Smallholder" which appeared in the Sarawak Tribune las*'week. The writer said
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    • 45 7 I DRINTED 11 "RAYONS" U NOW AVAILABLE f^^M^k°^^ U I] LATEST DESIGNS tS^P^«H^ H I ladies'* 4 MSm H CHILDRENS fc I DRESSES f \iSWk 1] 1 CA PtR AT 9 3O V YARD SINGAPORE ELECTORAL REGISTRATION ONLY TWO MORE DAYS TO REGISTER TODAY 'TOMORROW
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 169 7 1 TODAY: V.W.C.A. Wayfarers' meeting, toy making and talk 00 Beauty Culture, Guide Hut, Buyong Road, 4 p.m. Eighteen year o!d girls are welcome. Delegates of Government and Municipal Services Unions to meet at Singapore Teachers' Union Office, 331. North Bridge, 5.30 p.m. Board of directors meeting. Vs Men's Club,
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    • 530 8 NEW YORK, By Airmail.— Inquiries inlo policebookmaker graft have uncovered the boldest Brooklyn (New York City) racket since the law cracked down on Murder Incorporated n years ago. It is the discovery of a "pro:al rap-takers' association." Its members are men* bribed or forced by threat of
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    • 116 8 New York Round-Up JJEW YORK, (By Airmail) A stunt thought up by local street urchins is making night hideous in "The Village" (New York's Bohemia). About every second family living in an apartment in this area keeps a dog as often as not, in a bedroom. The urchins
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    • 77 8 OVE me, love my dog." has Lj acquired a new meaning In The Town. It's now rather. "Love me, feed my dog." Pet shops are selling gift packages of dog food to go with the orchids sent to the mistresses of pooches. Leading dancer Carolyn Ayres receives orchids
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    • 97 8 /CUSTOMERS of a new antlV; stick-up bank In Garden City, Long Island, see the teller only with mirrors. The teller is installed above the grille in a sort of balcony. A periscopic arrangement of mirrors carries his image down to the customer, and the customer's image to
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    • 126 8 PIG No. 311. who became internationally famous by his big swim after the Bikini bomb test, really started something. fNo. 311 was picked up. swimming strongly, about a quarter of a mile from whore the bomb sank a cruiser. 1 The pig swimming race which he inspired
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    • 69 8 VfIAMI Baseball Park has seven-foot-high model "Mommer" Goose running on a railing along the top of the Scoreboard which lays eggshaped noughts whenever a team repistrrs a scoreless Innings. Occasionally "Mommer" makes an error and lays an egg In the wrong place. Then Baby Goose (30 inches high),
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    • 214 8 Singapore Worse Of f Than Shanghai As Other? See Us (This article on Singapore is written by Woo Kyatang, Post executive editor of the American paper, the Evening Post, Shanghai who recently returned to Shanghai from a CNAC survey flight of South East Asia area.) CHANGHAI residents who wail over
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    • 249 8 The high cost of living, the general demoralizing effects left by the Japanese occupation and the failure of the British to establish an efficient administrative mechanism have all conspired to bring about quite an extensive state of corruption in the colonial government. Residents say that "squeeze" is common
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    • 283 8 In contrast, however, workers in Singapore are Rettine a slightly better deal. Labour unions have i^ruiij? up mushroom fashion aft>r c war and Singapore residents report that then are to c«• some 270 unions in a city of seme 950,000 people. The entire labour movement in S
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    • 146 8 Apart from the drop in rubber prices, the flghtimr in the Dutch East Indies has also killed a large part of Singapore's once prosperous transshipment trade. From the NEI. Singapore U6ed to get a large amount of rubber, sugar and rice and in exchange it has fed the
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    • 388 8 The Communists, known as the "Malayan Communist Party" operates openly in every section of the peninsula and Its Singapore headquarters Is headed by a Chinese The Malayan Communists, said to operate under direct orders from Moscow, are said to be responsible for all Red activities in all
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 295 8 SAf£, />(/*£ M/ISCrTHAT «E¥ER, NEVER (|p@/g) CHANGES IN QUALITY hj^A says ELSIE, rt* BOftOCM COW Elsie: This is Klira! It i« pure, powdered whole milk. Only fine miik from healthy cows is made into Klim. And it is kept safe and pure through our special packing process. Klim quality never
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    • 226 8 f --^^bb^^bbß aaßfe^B^HMaßtt, I A" The importance of Inner Cleanliness ra a oasic factor in the maintenance of everyday good health is now widely appreciated. Jndeed, Inner Cleanliness with a regular glass- of sparkling Andrews has become the first rule of health in countless thousands of homes, where men, women
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  • 624 9 Expedition Into South Arabia BOOK OF THE WEEK ADEN to the Hadhramaut, a Journey in South Arabia, by D. van der Meulen (John Murray. 18 s.) THAT part of the hin- terland of Southern [Arabia known as the Hadhramaut, north-east of Aden, is of particular interest in this part of
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  • 442 9 Contemporary Chinese Povtry. Edited with an introduction by Robei t Payne. Routledge. London 10 C net. ryo do full justice to this exquisite collection of Chinese verse and poetry would require the pen of a Sinologist. The present writer must in this review be content to indicate
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  • 544 9 Mystery Of The Week THE HOLLOW by Agatha Christie, London: The Crime Clnb. ANLY a few weeks ago, v I issued a solemn pronunciamento on the dangers of attending a week-end party in a English country-home. Hot on the heels of my warning, comes
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 182 9 don't you guess 07 fib UseLISTERINE' ifU^ ...it's the best/ Whv"^ J Now the lincst Listeruie room Tr^J Paste ever!.. Over 14 selected In- t^^l^r^ ?redlents. olcnded In accordance Uti^rfN^.' with the Improved American for- BbJO mala. The red seal "Guaranteed WjEgSSC Improved American Formula" or. WnßSetßlM s^l every package
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    • 461 9 Undernourishment not in my family! a ffi tftf**^?- **i ust l> cau c h ere is enoußh lood In £>'*' r^ =^rA your house does not mean that your Jr '~*> k lamily i* properly nourished. Doctors Wi* ?Vl "V^» will teM you that quality is even more 1 ZaV
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 624 9 (be di finders can plan an tack and, instead of opening partners intelligent defense, they must count suit, led the deuce of diamonds, not only their own tricks, but those Dummy played the Jack and East's that will cleany and incvitcbiy go u> king held the trick. East then made
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  • 350 10 Hollywood's 50 Pictures— For USA Badger better superlatives will lure America* j UOLLY WOOD.— Eight major producers here have scheduled more than 50 films for production in September despite the panicky reception of Britain's 75 per cent, tax on imported films. Studio activity reached the lowest level of the year
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  • 72 10 HOLLYWOOD.— Walt Disney, the cartoon film producer has engaged a man to write the screenplay for The Little People, a fanciful movie about the leprochauns of Ireland. Disney has announced that the Irish Folk-lore Commission's thousands of legends about leprochauns will be made available to
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  • 88 10 HOLLYWOOD Designer II Ray Driscoll made many a Hollywood dandy smart when he announced his list of filmdom's worstdros.scd man. Adolphe Mcnjou, once considered our be.rc-dreassd beau, heads D rise oil's list. Oarps the critic: "Menjou dresses in the silent mod* instead of in modem strfciMined
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 271 10 C A SPECIAL k oM'ESSION! ALL MEMBERS OF TII4) RK.V CHILDREN'S CLUB PWILL BE ADMITTED T ANY SEAT AT $1 FLAT TO THE 11 A.M. SHOW ONLY. DURING THE I.NTIRK SEASON. I i T AIR-CONDITIONED PHONE 5159 VvA DAILY 5 SHOWS v #»9 OH A.M.— 2 P.M.— ll. P.M. V
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    • 376 10 SKYWAYS ton) LTD. (Incorporateo in HongKung) DIRECT LANCASTRIAN PASSENGER AND PREIOHT SERVICE BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND HONGKONG IN 7 HOURS NEXI DEPARTURES Friday 26th September Tuesday 30th September Friday 3rd October rnniilrle* Ir THE BORNEO COMPANY LIMITED. ♦Incorporated in gnglaiid) Genn-ml Arentt Tdeohone Singapore 3876. Penin; 7. K. Lumpur 3303 Bookings
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 258 10 RADIO MALAYA J n u wu* Ridl l! Wn the Canyon; 12.00 BBC HIGHLIGHT Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh. 1 p m. Radi^ Orch 1 40 Victor I f***™***'* RADIO AUSTRALIA Silvester; ».20 Hospital*; 9.00 Stand Mid-We«k Concert (t.M Easy- 945 Confound The Experts < Inc Mozart's Concerto In A Major. 9.30 a.m. Benny
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  • 180 11 LONDON. Tuesday. ON the London Stock Exchange today, dealers experienced one of their quietest days, says Renter's financial correspondent. Today's closing middle price changes, as supplied to the Straits Times by special arrangement with the Financial Times included LOANS 1960-90 111% RAILS Can. Pac. 17% BANKS Jbartereo (£l2
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  • 262 11 Dried rfcimt: No. 1 $60: Mo. 2 $35 npHE appearance of Sot let sugar In the market yesterday 1 produced a farther drop in t»>-* commodity. Serer&l deals in Java white were closed at $67. This represented a reduction of nearly $5 per plcul since the previous
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  • 63 11 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's orlces at noon yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Cts. rts. dct Bb. t ibNo. 1 RSB. Spot loose nominal 30% 31 Vi No. 1 R£ 8. fob In bales Oct. 31tt Sl\ No. 2 R S3. fob in bales Oct. 31 31)4 No.
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  • 69 11 HEW YORK, Wednesday.— A brief but effective wave of liquidation swamped the market yesterday and brought losses to three points on a broad front, with the ticker tape occasionally falling behind. Persistent selling in Oils, notably Standard Oil of New Jersey and Standard Oil of California and
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  • 20 11 Sent. 23. Sept 23. Stocks 63.67 62.98 Industrial* 175.02 176.04 Rails 48.25 47.54 Utilities 35.18 35.02 A.P.
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  • 176 11 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Wednesday. rthe Industrial section of the local share market prices again hardened on moderate inquiry. Tin shares also came in for some support at slightly higher levels. Robinsons Orda. which have continued to rise since the publication of the company's accounts earlier ir.
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 622 11 MANSFIELD C 0. f LTD. iln cor Dora tea to Singapore) BLUE FUNNEL LINE SAILINGS FROM U.K. AND U.S.A. "Llmburg" From 11.5.A G. 31 TaUhvMw*" Due fr»m DJt Bep*- 8 -St Clrad VleUry" Dw (rosa U S.A Sef*. M "T^deun" Due from UK Sept »7 -Antllochns" Doe from U.K Oct.
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    • 380 11 PRESIDENT LINE SAILINGS TO NEW YOKR AND BOSTON via INDIA EGYPT MEDITERRANEAN PORTS Passenger Freight PRES. MONROE Singapore Gd S«^7 Sb. Sept. M Perang Sept. M Sis. Oct. 1 Freight Only MOUNT DAVIS Singapore Arr. Sept. 28 Penang Arr. Oet 6 MOUNT ROGERS Singapore °et. t Penan* Oct. 1« AMERICAN
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    • 351 11 Shlppeni and others Interested «n Shipnfasg Intelligence are referrec I. avert ferments a Cut. 6 and 7 opposite page P&O s. s. CANTON From Singapore Nov. 30th due London Dec 22nd Feb. 29th March 23rd Passage Rates Singapore London FIRST CLASS from £122 to £152 TOURIST CLASS from £84 to
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    • 580 11 ELLERMAN j KLAVENESS LINE R II C K N A L (Incorporated with Limited «T C rA I Til Liability in Norway) 5. 5. CO., LTD. LOS ANGELES> (Incorporated In England) SAN FRANCISCO, HAVRE, LONDON VANrOT'VFR LONDON, ANTWERP Tfl«tUl*tß. >.fl. CITY OF CARLISLE l>uf D °?-itv ftp ViirKVOW -CRANVILLE- ...Ow9
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  • 764 12 158 ENTRIES FOR K.L. RACES Many New Horses To Make Debut From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. A TOTAL of 158 horses have been entered for the n Selangor Turf Club's October meeting, to be held on Oct. 4, 8 and 11. Several newcomers will be making their initial
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    31 12 Outstanding horses at the recent Ipoh races were Counsel II (Harper up), winner of the Perak Cop, seen above, and High Port (Morsillo), winner of the Victory Cup (right).
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  • 288 12 Greyhound Racing Approved From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday AFTER a short discussion this morning, the Town Board members unanimously approved a project to introduce greyhound racing in Kuala Lumpur. The subject had been referred to the Board last month by the Government, following an application by a syndicate
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  • 60 12 The following have been selected to represent the Red Rocket B.P. against St. Patrick's School badminton team on Sunday at 9.30 a.m. at the St. Patrick's School hall: Jimmy Ooh, Cheong Thiam Gee, Anthony Bracken, Low Hung Ngiap, Sim Klang Chiang, J. B. Pestana (capt). Sim Seng
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  • 68 12 From Our London Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. rE Senior Golfers' Society of Malaya held their annual golf and social meeting at Cooden Beach G.C.. Bexhlll, on Monday and Tuesday. N.B. Fraser won the bogey competition two up, and the Stableford competition with 36 points Mr. Justice Gordon
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  • 88 12 London, Wednesday.—Workington Town beat Oldham by 13 points to 3 in the second round of the Rugby League Lancashire Cup competition. In the Yorkshire Cup (second round) Huddersfleld beat Halifax 18— 7.— Router. MELBOURNE. Wednesday Sol Green, well-known Australian sportsman and philanthropist, yesterday donated £42.000 to four
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  • 223 12 LETTER TO SPORTS EDITOR TN view of the plan to send f an all-Malayan Chinese football team on a tour abroad, permit me, as a keen Chinese soccer fan, to offer some suggestions to the selection committee. As the players selected will represent the Malayan
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  • 235 12 THREE teams the Chinese Sports Association, the Tiger 1 Sports Association and the August Badminton Party are the main contenders for honours in the Singapore table tennis inter-team championship, now in progress at the Great World. The C.S.A., who won the championship last year,
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  • 21 12 Today: High water, 6.46 p.m. <7. 4 ft.). Tomorrow: High water, 9-30 a.m. (7.3 ft.), 8.09 p.m. (7.7 ft.).
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  • 135 12 All-Malayan Chinese Soccer Tour Amumber of enterprising sportsmen of Kuala Lumpur. Seremban and Singapore are organising an allMalayan Chinese football team to play in Bangkok, Manila, Hongkong and, probably, Shan, ghal. The touring side, wh:«h will consist of 18 players, will be chosen after trial matches in Kuala Lumpur, Seremban
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  • 233 12 St. Joseph's Swimming Carnival KEEN competition was seen at the Singapore Chinese Swimming Club pool yesterday, when St. Joseph's Institution held its first annual swimming carnival. St. Joseph's is the first school to have held a swimming carnival since the liberation. The highlight of yesterday's carnival was the plunging event,
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  • 65 12 F N. SPORTS CLUB The following players have been selected to represent the P. N. Sports Club in badminton against the Municipal Services Union on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Singapore Clerical Union Hall, Rangoon Rpad: Ong Poh Lim, Yeo Hong Chuan, Poh Kirn Yam, Teo Heok Kwang, Chou
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  • 431 12 G.H.Q. FARELF 2; R.A.F. TENGAH 0 FIELDING a better balanced and faster side, GHQ FARELF i scored a two-nil victory over RAF Tengah in a Singapore Amateur Football Association Cup fixture at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. The R.A.F., although good triers, wer c
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  • 110 12 MELBOURNE. Wednesday.. AIIORSK called Stn.plaus disdainfully scooted pa.st tho Australian sprinter. A. C. Martin, at the half-way mark and went on to win in a cantter by ten yards, when the two were pitted against earn other over 100 yards of a r ainsodden
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  • 33 12 LONDON. Wednesday. The New Zealand Rugby League team, with a model kiwi bird as a mascot, arrived in Britain yesterday for a 32-match tour, including five games in France.— A.P.
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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