The Straits Times, 13 April 1947

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  • 20 1 FINAL EDITION THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NETT SALE IN MALAYA No. 611 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 1947. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 85 1 WORLD'S BIGGEST AIRLINER The world's biggest landatame. the 126 ton Brabazon, which Is sc:n here nearing complefim in the Bristol Aeroplan* (ni\pany's workshop at Fulton, Bristol, is expected to be r.ady for assembly and test flights next month or in June. Capable of accommodating 100 passrngers 'sin-pin,') or 120 seated,
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  • 107 1 NEW YORK, Saturday. PREPARATIONS for a special Palestine session of the Un.ted Nations General Assem- bly are now being made and officials agree tha: the meeting w 11 probably open in New York on April. 28. The UNO secretariat has already be<jun to make
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  • 28 1 BATAVIA. Saturday. A regular Republican air service between Java and Sumatra will be opened in the near future, according to the Antara News Agency.— UP.
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  • 413 1 TAINTED SHARE SCRIP WARNING 'Banana 9 deals uncertainty Sunday Times Staff Reporter IJUNDREDS of thousands of dollars worth of "tainted" scrip in dollar, sterling and Australian companies operating in this country is in circulation in Malayan share markets and some may even now be in London and Sydney. The scrip
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  • 61 1 HAMBURG. Saturday. A total of 3,656 persons were arrested in S.r in dur ng a 24-hour clea'iin'-up operation, organised bi- °ur .■.uuraUo.. Powers to roct cut deserters, crinunUßi TyncK BHKWtn <»fY3' other wanted persons, the Britisacontrolled German news serv cc reported t~day A large quantity
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  • 24 1 BANGKOK, Saturday. rO thousand buses today ceased operation in protest against the rising price of petrol, which has doubled recently.— UP.
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  • 125 1 GENEVA, Saturday. IN a statement reviewing the 1 world food situation, Sir John Boyd Orr, head of the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), announces trk.t, despite the poor European outlook, it is "possible to hope for some improvements in the wo.st areas and the building
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  • 19 1 Mahatma Gandhi had a twohour interview yesterday with the Viceroy, Rear- Admiral Viscount Mcuntbatten, says Reuter.
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  • 37 1 BUSMAN'S £61,000 SMILE :i.r Edward Cross, an Aberdeen bus-driver, gives a happy smile on receiving a cheque in London for £61,000 for an all-correct entry in a penny football pool. It was the largest dividend ever paid.
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  • 188 1 LONDON, Saturday. rE age of buildings and the lack of facilities in London's barracks were condemned by Field-Marshal Montgomery when he completed his tour of military establishments in the London District. He said the new National SeiTice man was first-class material and deserved firstclass accommodation comparable
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  • 124 1 G.G. DISCUSSES CONSTITUTION WITH GOVERNOR Sunday Tim.-s Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE Govemcr-General and Mrs. Malcolm Mac Donald arrived in Kuala Lumpur today on their way through to Penang. Mr. MacDonaid had talks with the Governor of tha Malayan Union, Sir Edward Gent, and the Chief Secretary, Mr. A. T.
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  • 88 1 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Saturaay IN view of the emergency caused by the lack of notice on the part of the Perak RiverHydro Electric Employees' Union of their intention to instruct their members to go on strike at midnight, the Malayan Union Government ahnounces
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  • 190 1 NEW DELHI, Saturday. THE possibility of India be--1 coming once again a military, naval and air base in the event of a third world war is stated in political circles here to have been raised by the new Viceroy, Admiral Viscount Mountbatten,
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  • 138 1 GLASGOW, Saturday. DEACE moves to end the 20- day-old strike of 3,500 deckers collapsed touay when the Ministry of Labour said that the [redundancy cut of 500 men— the cause of the dispute was an accomplished fact. The collapse of peace moves may have repercussions
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  • 213 1 WASHINGTON, Saturday. DEPUBLICAN Raymond E. Baldwin proposed that the Senate label President Truman's "quarantine Communism programme" as a national security measure and divert 10 per cent, of the 1948 army and navy budget (which is set at $11,500,000,000) to a "security fund" to finance
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  • 51 1 BATAVIA, Saturday. IN* order that th« lessons learned in uhe rehabilitation of Malaya can be applied In Indonesia. Dr P Honlg, general advisor of tru Netherlands East Indies Department of Economic Affairs and other highranking officials win tomorrow begin a week's lour of Malaya. AJ»
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  • 55 1 LONDON. Saturd >.y. rIVE administrators and postal v. frcm Maars i^Tfi £a:a..u>' have an ved n v r 5T r to Britain under the aospiefs of the British Council to study matters of prof ess oval inreiVat. After a stay in L:ndcn, they are
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  • 175 1 Siam ship looted by pirates after chase Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. PURSUED by four pirates in a fast motorboat firing their pistols, a Siamese coaster was overtaken, boarded and looted of $24,000 worth oi cargo off Pulau Bunting, in Kedah waters, it is learned today. The veosel, carryu g
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  • 105 1 CATLRDAY was anot:. r Mg day for rp^rt in Br.tj. B fc:e a Ciowd of 95,030 at Wembley, England and StfotUn-j drew 1-1 in the match w.i h gives England the tatenMtVnal sccixr championship tor th lirst time since Id'iiBy beating Liverpool by one coal
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  • 1124 2 SPOTLIGHT on MALA YA Clifford Peer Turns His APINION is likely to remain sharply divided on the merits of SIR CECIL CLEMENTI— who died last week— as a Malayan administrator. On the one hand there are those who regard him as the prophet of the united Malaya on which almost
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 363 2 review of programme; 5.00 As Slnga- 9.00 8.8.C. Theatre Orchestra; 9.j0 RADIO MALAYA pore; B. SO News headlines; 8. 35 Sunday Programme announcements; 9.35 Pot CJUt- annop Prom; 9.30 A* Singapore; 11. 00 News Luck; 9.45 Shipmates ashore; 10.15 SIfIViArUHL summary, and close down. Light music; 10.30 News and From
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  • 402 3 EXTORTION GANGS TAKE BiG SUMS hi Police plea for public's aid Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. TEAR of extortioners, intimidators and kidnappers is so prevalent among Chinese towkays, shopkeepers and miners in Kedah, Penang, Perak and Selangor, that the Criminal Investigation Branch Headquarters here is making a special
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  • Article, Illustration
    79 3 The bishop of Sincapore, the Kcv. Dr. J. L. Wilson, <left) handin? over a cheque for S 2,5*6, to the Chinese Consul, Mr. A. C. T. Kweag, at a reception in honour of the Bishop at St. Andrew's S( ■hool, S-ngapore, yesterday cv ening. The cheque was half the proceeds
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  • 109 3 rHE first flying visit to Bangkok s'nee the Tberation to be made by a Malayan Chinese sports team, will be mado by the Chung Hwa Football Club and Sin Hwa Athletic Club, of Singapore, on Apr. 17. A Dakota has been specially cl
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  • 18 3 An examination Ir. Malay ;cr Government Officers will be held in Singapore, starting from June 23.
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  • 487 3 PIE Committee appointed by Government to consider what, if any, relief from legal obligations should be given to pre-occupation lessees and tenants who were deprived of their premises by the Japanese occupation, has recommended that such tenants should have the right to bring an action
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  • 77 3 Sunday Times Correspondent THE Sultan oi Perak. at a reli- gious school meeting i n the Bagan Serai mosque, strongly urged that Malays should play an active part in the politics of the country. The Sultan, pointing out that he himself had to
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  • 76 3 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. THE Province Wellesley police have detained a man in connection with the disappearance of a Sungei Bakap towkay four months ago. The Chinese towkay was taken from his house at Sungei Bakap and has not been seen .since and it
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  • 189 3 Sunday Times Correspondent. PENANG, Saturday. OEVEN former Naval mine- sweepers, bought from the Admiralty for £100.000. are at present in Penang Haiibour to j Join a new shipping company which is to be formed in Malaya 'shortly. The company, it is understood, will f stablish its
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  • 21 3 Dr. C. Z. Smith, former Assistant Medical Officer, Grade 1, has been promoted to Medical Officer, Malayan Medical Service.
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  • 105 3 *LLEGAIIONS made recently by the Indonesian Minister of Economics, Mr. A. K. Gani, that Singapore was one of two Centres concerned in large-scale production of counterfeit currency notes, are :.ot supported in official circles in Singapore and the Police disclaim all knowledge of counterfeit ire;
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    43 3 TRADE AGENT MR. 1.. F. JOUBERT, who has armed in Singapore to become Trade Commissioner for the Union of South Africa in Malaya. Mr. Joub?rt was head of the Department of Trade and Industry for the Malay Peninsula during the British Military Administration.
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  • 130 3 MALAYA now has a full-, time Film Censor in Mr. A. C. Curningham-Perdriau. former personal assistant to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, who has iv.st succeeded the Director of Broadcasting. Mr. J. S. Dumeres--1 que. Mr Duineresque. who has b^en I responsible for film
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  • 251 3 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. THH report ot the Commission on Higher Education should he ready sometime before October this year. Indicating this at a Prass conference this afternoon, the Chairman of the Commission. Sir Alexander Carr-Saurders. said it was "very urgent" for Malaya to
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  • 307 3 Sunday Times Correspondent IPOH, Saturday. PHINESE miners in Perak, almost all of whom are depenv dent on electrical power supplied by the Perak Hydro. Electric Power Company's undertakings at Malim Nawar, are confident that the Company will be able to keep up it.-*
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  • 66 3 MORE than 2,000 lives were lost in Singapore last week when the Victoria Theatre was turned into a gas chamber, ventilation points sealed oft and poison gas released. The victims were birds, the house martins which during the past months had made their home in the theatre,
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  • 63 3 1 TEA party, in honour of the Roy Bro. Alban. was given yesterday at the school hall of St. Jospph's Institution, Singapore, by the boys of the Sanior and Standard Eight classes. Rev Bro. Alban, who hails from Malacca, has just been appointed Director of St.
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  • 125 3 IFTER a three-hour moeung, the Singapore J.C.S.A. yesterday appointed a sub-commit-tee to go into the question of salaries, and tc make representI atiors subseauentlv to th<? Salaries Commission, as requested by the Co-on»al S-Ci.tary. Mr. H. M. Danker (Ciiairman>, Mr. P. R. Krishnan
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  • 32 3 MR. TAN TOON HOR, son of TAW. 800 LIAT. passed away peacefully at 3 o.tt. yesterday. Burial will takat place toi'i? at 4 p.m. from 37 TivertodT Lane, off KHiinc;* Road.
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    • 169 3 for my son's 1 That may sound Incredible. mio tne tissues ami v-e> uicm But I've been lucky with my all the nourishment they need, figure. And as for my face. Every woman knows that well> Well I've been wise enough nourished tissues keep thr -tkio to use Tokalon Vanishing
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  • 161 4 Chinese girl wins college distinction THEN HUI of Peking, China, the daughter of Ohen Chin-men, a member at the Chinese Ministry of Communications, is the first person outside the white race ever elected president of a student class at Barnard College the woman's college of Columbia University. She has just
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    13 4 The gill wear'ng this snappy showgirl <•<.-.■ me is JAMS PAGE, pretty Hollywood starlet.
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  • 359 4 All in one lesson— HERE is how to make an atomic bomb, according to Prof. F. JoliotCurie, French High Commissioner for Atomic Energy. Take 601 b. of uranium 235; shape it into a hemisphere. Take the same amount again and shape it into a second
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  • 705 4 i tttf**BEffiS^ v *3Blfr *iij(f ft j"^y^fflfWWPHp^WM| 1 THERE are, douatless, many people who do not like the poetry of the Sitwells Osbert. Sacheverell. and Edith. Similarly, then will be many who did not like Leit Hand. Right Hard." the first volume of Sir Osbert's
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  • 893 4  -  Bob Gilmore The Australian Seene by MELBOURNE, Apr. .2 IN spite of harrying A from the Opposition, which cites recent British, American and Canadian precedent, Australia's Labour Government (overall less Left even than Britain's) refuses to call a witch hunt and purge the civil
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  • 215 5 SINGAPORE WEDDING de Vries-de Souza JV.'O well-known Singapore EuH§ rasian families were united when Miss Marjorie de j ;»Vries, daughter or Mrs. E. de [Vries and the lat e Mr. E. L. de Vries. and Mr. Benedict de Souza. ion of Mrs. A. de Souza and the late Mr. J.
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  • 197 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MORE severe penalties for motorists who drive their cars while under the influence of liquor are proposed in the new Traffic Ordinance which is expected to be brought into force in the near future. Under existing conditions a car driver who
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  • 109 5 Sunday Times Reporter ERRING motorists who are summoned to appear in the new Traffic Courts for minor offences will soon be saved time and expense involved in attending court personally. Once new legislation is passed they will be able to "appear by letter," if they
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  • 24 5 THE Singapore Buddhist Asso- ciation is today holding a special celebration on Sankranti r-iv at the Sinhalese Buddhist Temple, 96, Outram Road.
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  • 601 5 NEW COUNCILLOR GETS $3.20 a DAY Rail worker Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE new Advisory Councillor, Mr. Parthasarathy Rajagopal, appointed by Sir Edward Gent, besides being the youngest in Malayan history, is a daily-paid worker receiving $3.20 a day with a cost of living allowance of 30
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  • 73 5 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. AS far as the Malayan Union isj concerned the extra seven i cents a gallon tor petrol repre- j sents a levelling out of prices. On th*» East Coast", between Kota Bahru in the north and Pekan in
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  • 184 5 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANQ, Saturday. IN convicting four members of a Malay youth league said to be affiliated to UMNO, on a charge of assaulting the secretary of another association, the Police Magistrate, Mr. J. P. Blackledge, yesterday emphasised tna.t the conviction did
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  • 72 5 Sunday Times Reporter IJOURTEEN Chinese couplies have registered so far for a group wedding ceremony being sponsored by the Singapore Mayfair Musical and Dramatic Association on Apr. 20 at the Association. Mr. A. C. T. Kwong, Singapore 1 Chinese Consul, will perform the marriage ceremony.
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  • 99 5 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. A MAN who built up a completely new Government department whose work now envelopss the whole of the Malayan Union leaves Malaya en leave next week. He is Mr. M. C. ff Sheppard, Direotor of the country's first
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  • 60 5 FE Singapore Improvement Trust Is to go ahead in the building of the Owen Road block of shop houses, tenders for which have been accepted. The buildsng, which is the first of the building projects of the S.I.T. since the Japanese occupation, will be two-storeyed and will
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  • 60 5 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's Prices at noon yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Cta. CU per 10. prr in No. 1 U.S.S. Spot loose *S% 43% No. 1 R.S.S. rob in bale* AprU 41 No. 2 US' fob in bales April 42 4294 No. 3 R.S.S. fob
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  • 247 5 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. IMPORTS into Malayan ports I which were controlled in order to avoid congestion, by the iouth-East Asia Freight Movement Committee, will from nov; un lv> able to move freely following the disbanding of the VMghi Committee, but it
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous

  • 601 6 SINGAPORE, APRIL 13, 1947. Rice The Key Problem OF all the many plans for the future which have been presented to the people of this country since the liotration, by far the most vital are those concerning the development of Malayan rice lands and it is imperative that, in the
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  • 918 6  - WHY TURKEY SAYS 'NO' TO SOVIET UNION CONSTANTINE BROWN, by THE remarkable thing about Tuikey, in the eyes of the visitor, is the lack of f eai of the Soviet Union. Turkey is an overwhelmingly peasant country which has few natural sources and depends almost exclusively on the United States
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  • 900 6  - SCIENCE STUDIES INCENTIVES JOHN LANGDONDAVIES by I SHOULD get no brickbats this week from these of my readers who have complained in the past that my articles frighten them. For I have been looking through a series of psychological experiments with rats and found three that made me laugh. Now
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  • 623 6 TWO men are busy plan--1 ning China's first national election at the end of the year. They are scholarly Dr. Wang Chu ig-Hui, former judge of the Court of International Justice, and dapper, active Hung Lanyu, who, as secretary-gen-eral, whipped last year's constitutional assembly through its
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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    • 21 6 Each month will bring increased a applies. Producers Bob Plantations Ltd. Distributors Harper Gilfilian Co., Ltd. Kuala Lumpur Branches throughout Malaya.
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  • 321 7 Special staff for control Sunday Times Staff Reporter ERESII steps are being taken in Singapore to check the traffic in women and girls and a new branch of the Department of Social Welfare is to be formed to deal with this and kindred problems.
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  • 236 7 Union chiefs acquitted on mischief charge THREE Singapore Labour 1 union leaders, M. Sundararaju, M. A. Ham id and K. M. Ramu, were acquitted, without their defence being called by the District Judge, Mr. Paul Storr, yesterday on a charge of entering the headquarters of the Government and Municipal Labour
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  • 81 7 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. Jl DECISION to repay all preA war loans voluntarily was unanimously approved at the annual general meeting held yesterday of the Per.ang Medical Department Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society. The following were elected to the Committee of management for the
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  • 74 7 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. DLACK market operators have cornered considerable stocks iof condensed milk in Penang and there is at present a shortage of milk in the market. Those who need milk badly are now forced to pay $1 for a tin. Powdered and
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  • 61 7 AFTER a stay of a year, the Assistant Chaplain-in-Chief of Air Command, Far East, Group Captain the Rev. L. Wright, has left to assume the appointment of Assistant Chaplain in Chief, H.Q., Middle East. He will be succeeded by Group Captain the Rev. F. E. H.
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  • 33 7 The Sinhalese Association of Singapore will celebrate their National Day tomorrow. There will be a tea party and a Sinhalese drama for the entertainment of children) at the Victoria Memorial Hall.
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  • 347 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A WARNING to Singapore commercial concerns with large numbers of employees to vary the time and method of paying their employees was issued yesterday by Mr. R.C.B. Wiltshire, Singapore's Criminal Investigation Department Chief, following the theft of the $8,500 payroll of
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  • 109 7 Sunday Times Reporter UNDERCUTTING Sing-pore's *J high labour costs, Mother Nature recently undertook a demolition task for Urited Engineers Limited and overnight laid flat some brick godowns b3kmgta)f*to them in River Valley Road. The old gcdowns, which were kn vn to be unsafe, had
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  • 64 7 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. IN a statement Issued today the Pan-Malayan Federation of Trade Unions explains that the delay in its registration is due to the necessity of translating into several languages Government's direction regarding registration. Another reason given for the delay is
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  • 81 7 THE Straits Times next Tuesday will publish an exclusive Pacific battle story of an action between a Japanese amphibious column and a small group of Allied scouts in enemyoccupied terr:t:ry of N?w Guin?a. The story is written by J. M. Taylor, who formerly served in special
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  • 65 7 Sunday Times Correspondent SEGAMAT, Saturday. lOHORE has begun ever ing J classes in mathematics, elementary English, shorthand and book- keeping ar.d economics in various districts in the state. The courses are of 40 weeks' duration with two hours' tuition per week and though the enrolment is
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  • 39 7 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE Governor of the Malayan Union has approved the observance throughout the Malayan Union of Monday, April 14, as a public holiday, on the occasion of the Hindu New Year.
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  • 289 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter DLANS to produce chemicals *from petrol at a new plant to be constructed by the Shell Company in Britain are expected to have a considerable effect upon Malayan agriculture through providing abundant and cheap supplies of insecticides, fungicides and other
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  • 274 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter ELECTRICITY consumers who have tampered with their meters so that current consumption fails to register properly are robbing the Singapore Municipality of thousands of dollars every month, according to a Municipal spokesman. To stop this "power piracy" the Electricity Department
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  • 42 7 A frend of the jaga, Madora Rai, who was wounded in the United Engineers' hold- up on Friday, indicates the bullet marks made on the concrete vrfien the armed Chinese fir?d at the Company's accountant, Mr. C. W- Black.
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  • 127 7 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Saturday TWENTY Penang boys" ia search of work and adventure have left for Borneo to join the oilfields there. They are on a three-year contract to serve as clerks in a land which none «6 them has visited before.
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 591 8 l>gl [SSI 1 I HAVE recently had queries from several readers on the problem of opening with a suit or with no-trumps. This, I consider, depends on the number of honour tricks in tne hand Consider the following cases: S An H. AOz D. Axx C. Axxx This hand, containing
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    • 621 8 THIS WEEK FOR YOU BY STELLA the Stars Foretell—, ARIES (Mar. 22— Apr. 20)— CANCER (June 23— July 23) ment matters are involved. Don't let wishful thinking in- Although external conditions favoured. terfere with the practical appli- are stimulating there may b« LIBRA (Sept. 23— Oct. 23)— 1 tation of
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    • 737 8 CAPRICORN (Dec. 23— Jan. 20) Guard against extravagance right now, even if your income is increased for the present. Save Instead of spending. A good week for tying up loose ends. Take care of correspondence; make new contacts; renew old ones also. AQUARIUS (Jan. 21— Feb. 19) Your personal affairs
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  • 140 9 TAEBAGE roses bloom on hats on frocks: A French evening dress is close-fitting, strapless, in faille, caught up below the knee in stiff drapery, pinned with five cabbbage roses. For the evening: A ribbon headdress of green velvet with a pink cameiiia above each temple matched by a
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  • 635 9  - London Chinese cafes still serve 'rice' Mary Heathcott by LONDON, March 31. RICE is one article we never see on our tables and will not see for some considerable time, I guess, until the rice situation in your part of the world is much easier. The Chinese restaurants in London
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  • 437 9 IN YOUR GARDEN I SOME. 'MES wonder what to do with some of our smaller plants such as portulaca, verbena or the dwarf yellow zinnia. These plants are rather lost when planted in pots and become frequently washed out if planted ir beds. What they really
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  • 308 9 I'm tall and thin and my lack of weight gives me no punching power. So lam afraid of fisticuffs. My colleagues bully me because I've got brains. Their on 1 interest is sport and girls. I am not aggressive, bat wish I were. If only I had a
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  • 96 9 ACROSS: 1. Resent; 5. Sailor; 9. Elder; 10. Coated; 12. Crisis; 14. Pedestals; 16. Sills: 18. Sleet; 30. Smee; 21. Let; 23. Errs; 24. Mooring; 25. Ague; 27. Pit; 28 Alps: 31. Bents; 33. Plate: 34. Leasehold; 37. Swerve; 38. Asylum; 39. Earns; 40. Desist; 41. Deaden. DOWN:
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  • 440 10 Crowd of 95,000 at Wembley LONDON, Saturday. DEFORE a crowd of 95,000, England and Scotland drew I—l1 1 in the soccer international at Wembley Stadium today, England's draw assuring her of winning the international championship for the first time since 1932. Scotland were worthy holders
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  • 124 10 Sunday Times Correspondent BATU PAHAT. Sat. PIXTEEN teams have sent in their »J names for the Batu Pahat leasue soccer competition for the "Tan Swee Hoe Shield," which will start next week It is understood that the 2nd Battalion. The Dorsetshire Regiment, now
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  • 95 10 LONDON, Saturday. DUGBY Leagu2 matches resu.ted as follows: Barrow 8, Wigan 7; Batley 13, Wai 'ngton 7; Bradford Northern 39. Foat^rstone R^vrr s 12: l?y 6. Salford 10; Ballevue Rangers 2, vVorkmgUn i-wn Castleford 18. Hull 5; Halifax 0. Dewsbury 19 (match abandoned ten minutes before time); Huddursfleld
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  • 317 10 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. A COMMUNICATION from the International Badminton Federation has been received in Malaya intimating that Malaya's request for an eastern zone for the International Thomas Cup competition has been agreed to. This will mean that Malaya will now be
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  • 120 10 IN invitation to Singapore Chinese to send representatives to compete in the China Olympics to be held on Oct. 10 this year was extended by Dr. Wu Paak-shing, the Chines-? Oon-sul-General at a dinner held last night at the Singa.po.-e Chinese Chamber of
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  • 56 10 CRICKET: S R.C. v V.M.D.G ,\V SIM 11 a.m.; ColomaU t Indian Assn., Police ground, 11 a.m.; S.C.C. t. Royal Engineers, S.C.C., 11 a.m.; Combined Chmngt t. S.C.R.C., Changl, 11 a.m. SOCCER: Chinese Athletic Association v RAF Base Hq. 2nd team at 4 p m Ist team
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  • 261 10 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUB, Saturday. A S. SAMUEL, doyen of Malay n badminton champions, in an in. tervlew on the recent Easter championships, said that he felt that, while the postwar standard of p'.iy has risen, the standard of umpiring hM fallen.
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  • 527 10 LONDON, Saturday. THE English Football Association Cup Final at Wembley on Apr. 22 will be between Charllon Athletic and the Second Division side Burnley, as a result of today's replayed semi-final be '-ween Burnley and Liverpool at Manchester. Seventy-two thousand spectators saw centreforward
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  • 255 10 Steeplechasing CHELTENHAM, Saturday. 1 RECORD crowd, attracted by one of the finest single days programmes in the history >t English steeplechasing, thronged the sun-batihed enclo.ures here this afternoon when two main events— the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Champion Hurdle were VKU, The three-tind-a-quarter miles
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  • 167 10 LONDON, Saturday. Rugby Union results were as follows: Inter Services Tournament, playea at Twickenham Royal Navy 11 Army 19 County championsnip Final played at Lundell Sands: Lancashire 8 Gloucester 8 Blaciuieath 9, London Welsh 0; London Scottish 14, Richmond 14; Old Merchant Taylors 6, London Welsh
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  • 73 10 Sunday Times Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday DRESIDINQ at the annual 1 general meeting of the Selangor Chinese Recreation Club today Mr. Yong Shook Lin disclosed that the playing field and temporary buildings of the club had been derequisitioned by the Military and that a 6um
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  • 71 10 BAKSI WOODCOCK FIT AND READY LONDON, Saturday. JOE BAKSI and Bruce Woodcock today reoDrt^d thorns lv. •> fit and ready for their ten-round heavyweight fight at Harringay arena on Tuesday. Woodcock finished his heavy training at Doncaster yesterday. He said he had never felt more fit and expect to enter
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  • 46 10 SEMI-FINALS in the Malayan light-heavyweight wrestling contest, held in the Great World arena last night, resulted as follows: Dara Singh beat King Zombie; Stan Garside beat Jim Corbett: Bosca Boa beat "Chic" Kenny; Flash Hammond beat Wild Ot Hassan; Red Devil beat Jack Moye.
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  • 627 11 CHINESE II 4 S.C.C 2 SCORING two goals in the last few minutes of the game, the Chinese second selection were just able to walk off with a points victory in a League match against the S.C.C. at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. The Cricket Club
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  • 26 11 Just a few of the trophies woo by the Welsh boys in the Army Cadet boxing championships held recently at the Albert Hall.
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  • 710 11 Sunday Times Correspondent IPOH, Saturday. pORAL Sea, D.R.8., Zargun, Gee String and Diplomat v. caught the eye at the Ipoh track this morning when official training for the three-day Perak Turf Club April meeting began on a heavy track. Some really fine gallops were seen
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  • 177 11 Sunday Times Correspondent. TELUK ANSON, Saturday. •THE Queen's Own Cameron Highland--1 en "A" team and the Thunderbolts, drew one-all in a league soccer fixture here yesterday. On the run of play the Highlanders deserved to win, but studies* boote on a slippery pitch were a
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  • 221 11 j I FTKB a promising start the Naafl/Efl A were beaten by ten goals to one by the Infantry (Seaforths and Queens), three of whose forwards each scored a hat-trick, in the first round of the Army-Parker Challeng Cup Soccer Competition at the Police
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  • 58 11 »r SEOAMAT, Sat. ALL efforts to get the Segamat Dis. Wet FoottxOl leap* goicg have failed to produce results and there is little chance of the district getting any sort of a soccer competition going this season. The snag, of course, is the lack of sufficient playing teams
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  • 22 11 THE same of cricket between the C.S.C. and R.C U which was to have been played today, has been cancelled
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  • 229 11 S.C.C.C. OUT FOR 36 ON PADANG THE Singapore Cricket Club, 1 scoring 84 runs, bundled out the Special Commissioners C.C. for 36 runs to score an easy victory on the padang yesterday. For the S.C.C. Pearson was highest scorer with 26, while Growder to>k seven wickets for 12 runs. sec
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  • 250 11 Sunday Tim« Correspondent Malacca. Saturday. AFTER maintaining continuous pressure for 30 minutes from the start and with promise of good soccer, the City Park faded out to lose to the Malays by the large margin of five goals to one in a Craven "A"
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  • 131 11 Sunday Times Correspondent. SEREMBAN, Saturday. npHE Negrl Sembilan Food Control Dell partment beat the Selangor Food Control Department by three goals to nil in a football match played here today. The Negeri team were good in all departments of the game while the Selangor forwards
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  • 25 11 rE Chinese Athletes first and second teams will meet R.A.F. Base HQ sides at soccer at Jalan Besar Stadium today at 4 p.m.
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  • 243 11 IN a game of cricket played on the padang yesterday afternoon, the Ceylon Sports Club second XI defeated the Singapore Recreation Club second XI by three wickets. T. Leijssius turned out the best performance of the day, scoring 43 and taking seven
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