The Straits Times, 28 May 1947

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED IH4S. EIGHT PAGM SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1947. PRICE TEN CENTS
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    RUBBER PRICE RISES 3 3/4 CENTS
    417 1 RUBBER PRICE RISES 3 3/4 CENTS Producers And Dealers Meet m Spore Today DUBBER prices advanced sharply m the Singapore market yesterday and at the close business was reported m fair quantity at 33 V* cents f.o.b. This was a rise of 3% cents on Saturday's dosing-. When the market
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    57 1 Presid -ut of the United States, Mr. Truman, leaning over to take a kiss from his mother before departing from Grandvicw, Missouri, for Washington m 1945. Mrs. Truman has been ill for several weeks and has been gett ng weaker for the last ten days, but latest reports state that
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    Federal Plan For Indonesia
    171 1 ATA VIA, Tuesday. pROFOSALS that may lead I to the setting up of a federal interim government for Indonesia are reliably understood to have been handed to Indonesian Republican representatives at a meeting with the Dutch Indies authorities today. An Indonesian decision to accept or reject
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    17 DEAD IN THE LILI MARLENE
    172 1 DANSALAN, T" PHLLI^P^ES, Tuesday. IT was reported at Dansalan airport, m I.anao province m Mindanao, that the search for the survivors of the crash of the plane Lili Marlene ended la'e today when a party which reached the scene reported that they had found
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    JAPS HANG AT CHANGI TODAY
    124 1 Tw j Japanese war criminals are being hanged m Changi Gaol at 9 am. today. They are Lt.-Gen. Harada Kuirakichi and Sgt. Major Jotani Kltaichl. Lt. Gen. Harada was found guilty of authorising the illegal execution of three Australian airmen m Batavia during February, 45.
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    More Troops For Punjab
    29 1 NEW DELHI, Tuesday. Ten thousand additional troops were preparing for duty m the Punjab today to quell renewed disorders which have killed at least 24
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    Terms Of Tax Inquiry
    196 1 fHE work of drafting Income Tax legislation is included m the terms of reference given to Malaya's Income Tax "sur-j veyor," Mr. R. B. Heasman. His full report, when completed, will be made to the Governors of the Malayan Union and Singapore. His terms of reference
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    Biggest Plane In The World
    54 1 Tiic v.oild's largest plane, the riant Hughe* flyin* boat, lying m its craving d ck at Terminal bland, California. Major construction on the plane has been completed and after ground tests it will undergo extensive water-taxi tests. It was designed and built by the American,
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    Wide Powers For Mountbatten
    450 1 LONDON, Tuesday. ARMED with a mandate gWing him wider powers than eve/*i>cioie accorded to a British Viceroy, Viscount Motmtbaiten will return to New Delhi this week Hi time to meet the Indian political leaders at the power transfer procedure conference opening on June 2. Political quarters
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    STOP PRESS
    119 1 LONDON, Tuesday. CMcJnI results: At Cardiff, South Africans brat Glamorgan by an innings and 131 runs. South Africans 479 for 8 dccl.; Glamorgan 128 and 220. At Nottingham, Nottinghamshire drew with Surrey. Nottinghamshire 401 and 2*l for 4; Surrey 706 for four declared (Fletcher 194, Squires 154. Parker
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    Two Honoured
    297 1 REWARD FOR WAR SERVICE From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. TWO Malayans have been 1 honoured by His Majesty the King for the part th y played m the war m Malaya. Mr. J. K. Creer, of the Malayan Civil Service, has been awarded the 0.8. E.
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    Railway Station Blown Up
    96 1 Railway Station Blown Up JERUSALEM, Tuesday. AN official announcement today reported that the ra i way station at Ramleh, 22 miles north-west of Jerusalem, was blown up today by bombs planted by four men disguise J m police uniforms. The announcement said the disguisod man dissmbarkid from the passengsr train
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      36 1 IN OTHER PAGES Attlee's Defence of Bevin 2 5,000 Dead to be Rebaried 3 Editorial 4 Two Labour Conferences m Selangor 5 "Omnibus" Foreign Relief BUI 6 Share Prices 7 oorwll Moves on Stadium Proposal 8
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    ATTLEE'S DEFENCE OF BEVIN
    303 2 ATTLEE'S DEFENCE OF BEVIN 'Building Harmony On World Basis" MARGATE, Tuesday. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, today defended the policy of the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Bevin, and declared that Britain was seeking honestly to build up world peace. Addressing the annual Labour Party conference, the Prime Minister said: "We are
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    LOST MONEY: SUICIDE
    152 2 WORRIED over losses m business estimated at more than $100,000, the proprietor of an engineering workshop m Kallang Road, 32-year-old Fong Fook Kye, committsd suicide by drinking poison at an hotel m Burma Road. At the Singapore Coroner's inquiry yesterday into Fong's death, Dr. T. Balasingam, of
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    PATIALA FIRE CHECKED
    112 2 CHAIL, PATIALA, Tuesday.— Thousands,oi villagers, led by the Maharajah of Patiala, today broueht under partial control a forest fire which for 60 hours had swept towards Chail, summer capital cf the State. Practically the entire male population had joined m the battle against the flames. The Maharajah,
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    REVISED MILK PRICES
    178 2 The revised price control of sweetened condensed and evapo- rated milk has been due to short supplies from Australia. The bulk of future shipments will come from the U.S.A. Revised prices are as follows: Sweetened Condensed Milk, 14 oz tin, all brands other than Farm. Milkmaid, Highlander,
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    SHANGHAI RICE
    75 2 SHANGHAI. Monday The price of rice was quoted today at 440,000 Chinese dollars per picul on the open market. It was predicted the price would be stabilised briefly there because a large shipment of the cereal from the interior was due to arrive m a few days. The
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    INDIAN FOOD CRISIS
    473 2 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. IN the face of an impending world food crisis, upon which emphasis was laid by Mr.. D. A. Fitzgerald, Secretary of the International Emergency Food Council yesterday, the Indian delegate, Mr. N. G. Abhyankar, m an appeal to the lEFC, warned that India faced the
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    JAPAN'S NEW PREMIER
    218 2 The Times Correspondent TOKIO, Tuesday. THE Emperor today formally invested with office Japan's new Prime Minister, Mr. Tetsu Katayama. After the ceremony Mr. Katayama had half-an-hour's conference with Gen. Mac Arthur. Later he broadcast an appeal to the Japanese people for their help m the task of
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      Russia Abolishes The Death Sentence
      96 2 LONDON, Tuesday. ]I|OSCOW Radio said last night that the Supreme Soviet ITI had issued a decree abolishing the death sentence m the Soviet Union during peacetime. For crimes which hitherto had resulted m capital punishment the sentence would now De 25 years' hard labour. The
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      Disappearing Act
      52 2 LONDON, Tuesday— Magician, Howard de Courcy, will tomorrow marry his stage partner. Doris Morris. In de Courcy's act, he causes Doris to disappear nightly after she climbs into a wicker basket but he said today he vi s not going to reveal his secret to henpecked husbands.— l
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      Ex-Officer Charged
      113 2 LOS ANGELES. Tuesday.— The arrest of William Kenrick Evans. aged 36, former U.S. Army Lieut. Colonel, on charges of appropriating and selling for about $100,000 (U.S.) a supply of gold coins confiscated from the Japanese in Formosa, was announced today by United States Attorney James M. Carter. Mr.
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      Boy Chained
      71 2 KINGWOOD. WEST VIRGINIA. Tuesday —Deputy Sheriff Charles Kisner reported yesterday he had found a i>ine-vear-old boy, diriy, ragged and suffering from hunger, chained and padlocked to a tree m the wood* nearby. He said the boy's stepfather and his wife had been summoned to appear m court en
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      Scared To Death
      156 2 NEW YORK. Tuesday— 'i mvrl derer whose execution had tv-m fixed died two hours after he hud been placed m the Chiccvgo Gaol death cell. 25 feet from the electee chair He was Julius C'Dclly") Weisberg a cnicago gambler, .-"on* c think he was literally scared 10
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      Bigamy In Austria
      106 2 MUNICH, Tuesday— Til? rir>t Military District at Bad Tui^ yesterday, reported that Dr Ei > JFivicn of Bradford, Massa<;'nu.setts, formerly an Eauca'i > 1 Branch official a f the Bava i-vi Military government headquarters here, has bsen ssntenced to j two years m gaol and fined Sl.ooo
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      India-Japan Trade
      54 2 BOMBAY, Tuesday.— An Indian Government trade delegation is expected to fly to Tokio early m June to arrange to sell raw cotton to Japan. The delegation also plans to buy cotton cloth, cotton yarn, rayon yarn, silk and rayon fabrics and raw silk and such capital goods as
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      Gallows For 49
      57 2 MUNICH. Tuesday.— For two days, beginning today 49 convicted operators of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp will be led to the gallows. A U.S. War Crimes Court condemned them for the murder o£ thousands of Mauthausen inmates. A year ago 28 functionaries oC the Dachau Concentration Camp were
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      No Kite-Flying
      52 2 BENARES, U.P., Tuesday. Kite-flying was recently declared illegal m Benares for a period ot fifteen days. At this time of the year, kiteflyers of all communities are attracted to maidans (parks) and house-tops and In the past this has generally ended m quarrels, fights and falls from house-
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      Bill On Poles
      56 2 WASHINGTON. Tuesday Mr. George Mackinnon, Representative of Minnesota, introduced a Bill yesterday which would allow former soldiers of the Poli:n Army who served with the Allies to enter the United States as n -quota immigran' Such Polss. now m Italy and Britain, would be eligible if Congress
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      Eight Years For M.O.
      127 2 HONG KONG. Tuesday.- Hoicn-; Sato, medical officer m charge ol Stanley Prison Hospital during the Japanese occupation of Hen? Kong, has been sentenced to c\ght years' imprisonment by i British War Crimes Court. He was found guilty of contributing to the ill-treatment of patients m the
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      British Legion
      95 2 DOUGLAS, Tuesday— rue British Legion conference at Dovglas carried a resolution expressing dissatisfaction with the training and employment of ex-service tien and women. A resolution was carried urging that the basic rates of pensions for 100 per cent disablement should be raised from i!2.5a to £4. 105, with
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      777 2 NOTICES /.NGLO-CHINESE EVENING SCHOOL (Coleman Street. Sinrapore) New Classes will commence on 2 6.47. SHORTHAND CLASS Tor rb«olut« beetnners everv Mon. Wed. Frl. at 5.30 p.m. ENGLISH CLASSES for Standard Two to Eljtht three times a week. FEES: -$10 t>er subject for June/ Auirirt. PLEASE ENROL EARLY LENA HOMSEY otherwise
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      466 2 NOTICES. NOTICE The annual general meeting of the Straits Chinese British Association, originally fixed for Wednesday the 28th May. 1947, at 5 p.m. at the Garden Club. China Building. Chulia Street. Is postponed to Wednesday, the 4th June. 1947. at 5 p.m. LIM CHUAN GEOK. Hon. Secretary. PAHANG REGISTERS OF
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      328 2 NOTICE Notice is hereby given that I. Quek Koh Chan, of No. 24 Ophir Road. Singapore, have applied to the Board of Licensing Justices. Singapore, for a Third Class Public Bouse License restricted to the sale of ale. beer, porter and stout m respect of the ground floor of No.
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    5,000 DEAD TO BE REBURIED
    221 3 Negri Chinese Set Up Committee From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Tuesday. rHINESE m Negri Sembilan organised a committee of 29 yesterday to deal with the work of exhuming and re-interring an estimated 5,000 men, women and children killed by the Japanese during the occupation. Most
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    Behrmann Seizure 'A Put-Up Job'
    158 3 Behrmann Seizure 'A Put-Up Job' From Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE, Tuesday. HTHE Melbourne Communist 1 paper the Gfiardian carries a story from Singapore alleging that the Martin Behrmann incident was a put up job between the Dutch and the Americans. The story appears under the heading "Dutch hijack $10,000,000 cargo:
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    ACQUITTED OF TYRE THEFT
    102 3 ACQUITTED OF TYRE THEFT From Our Own Correspondent 1 JOHORE BARHU. Tuesday.— j After four prosecution witnesses had given evidence at the Assizes yesterday against three Chinese charged with tyre theft, the Judge. Mr. Justice Bostock Hill, acquitted and discharged the accused. The men were Tan Yee Wah, 1 Kirn
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    U.S. Police Spies Won Reds' Trust
    337 3 Prom Our Own Correspondent NEW YORK, Tuesday. TWENTY-EIGHT detectives and policewomen were planted m the Communist Party m New York m 1939, according to a high police official here. The agents kept the United States Security Services abreast of every Communist move. The police
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    INCOME-TAX TALKS
    39 3 PENANG, Tuesday.— The m- i come-tax adviser, Mr. R. B. Heasman, will visit Penang on Thursday. He will stay for three i days and will hold informal dis- i cufsions with representatives of various bodies and organisations.
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    MILITARY DRIVER BLAMED
    181 3 MILITARY DRIVER BLAMED M-r *l~ J »r~-"M~ rE Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter, yesterday recommended that a military lorry driver, Sepoy Nek Alam, be charged for negligent driving. Mr. Porter was inquiring into the death of a Japanese P.0.W., Iwai Yoshitake, who sustained fatal injuries as the result of
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    BANISHMENT PREFERRED TO GAOL
    185 3 BANISHMENT PREFERRED TO GAOL I REQUEST that he be ft banished instead of servng a term of imprisonment, was made by Low Tong Lam ,o Mr. Justice Jobling at the Assize Court yesterday. Low and another Chinese, Chan Wee Cheng, were sentenced to sight years' rigorous imprisonment and 12 strokes
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    GANDHI URGES WISDOM
    220 3 NEW DELHI. Tuesday.— "lt is lot the British function to change ;he map of India." said Mr. Uandhi, m a statement read at his weekly prayer meeting yesterday. "It is not for them to give us iberty," he said. "For keeping it md giving It shape we
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    FAREWELL TO DOCTOR
    114 3 Dr. W. a. BaliiecC-et, flist jost-war President of the 3ingipore Recreation Club, and a wpular member of the Eurasian :ommunity, sails for England or. iOng leave at the end of tnis nonth. He will be accompanied ay his wife and family. An officer of the Government Medical
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    DROWNED IN POND
    94 3 A finding of misadventure was recorded Dy the Singapore Coroner, Mr. W.G. Porter, yesterday, it ari inquiry into the death of a Malay, Suleiman bin Mohd. Yusoff, who was found drowned m i fishing pond m front of his aunt's house, m Manggis Road, Potong Pasir, Singapore,
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    GaoL And Rotan For Armed Robber
    116 3 of eight years 3 rigorous imprisonment and 12 strokes of the rotan was imposed on a young Chinese, Wong On, at the Assize i Court yesterday. Wong was found guilty of having committed armed robbery with three other Chinese of cash and Jrwei'ery valued
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    DEATH
    40 4 CHUA KENG CHUAN. agKl 50, 25.5.47 at 50, Eng Hoon Street, leaving behind his wife, 1 son, 1 daughters. 4 sons-in-law and 4 snnl -children. Funeral en Sunday 1.6.47 at 10 a.m. to new burial ground at Whitley Road.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    37 4 Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Pereira and family are grateful to the Reverend Brothers and pupils of St. Patrick, ail relatives and friends who intended the funeral of Gregory and all those who sent floral tributes.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Wed., May 28, 1947. Save Your Money
    1008 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed., May 28, 1947. Save Your Money This month's fall m the price of rubber has caused many to settle back to try to take a wider and more general view of world trends m an attempt to discover if. as many vociferously proclaim, rubber's fall
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    Red Threat To Jamaica
    253 4 The Times Correspondent KINGSTON, Jamaica, Tuesday THE Governor of Jamaica, 1 Mr. Higgins, has proclaimed a ban on all public meetings and marches except those allowed by police permit. His action was taken m the political temperature rose, with socialists preparing demonstrations throughout the island tcdr.y
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      Pawnbrokers and Pre-War Pledged Goods
      310 4 IAM sure there must be many thousands to-day m Malaya who would like to know what] ihas become of the articles pledged by them with pawnshops against loans, just prior to the war. It i 3 a well-known fact that i pawnshops invariably made yeiy
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      No Foresight
      247 4 IT will not be long now before we hear the pathetic appeals of rubber planters to the Government to do something to alleviate the unfortunate position m which their industry now finds itself. The rubber planter has never been characterised by much foresight or economic strise and the
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      Ipoh Rally
      276 4 WITH reference to the Ipoh Rally condemning the i Federation Proposal (Straits Times, May 20), it must be understood that the young me n and girls from the surrounding villages did not go to the Rally of their own choice. A large number of lorries were used as
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      Why The Fee?
      102 4 1 SHALL be obliged if you, or the Singapore Education Department, will kindly explain to parents why children m an English School at Katong have to pay a certain amount as fees for listening-in to radios m their daily studies. It is really ridiculous that thus fee
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      This 'Socialism'
      123 4 IT is not an uncommon sight nowadays to see young girls going out hand m hand or arm m arm, hugging and kissing along the streets and lanes of Malaya. I do not blame the men for this. If these girls want to practice this sort of "socialism"
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      Mass Murder Trial
      107 4 THE authorities are really sympathetic towards the attitude of the local Chinese m the Mass Massacre Trial. It Is true that evidence for the prosecution has been quite meagre, due to the fact that all the Jap officers and men were unknown to us. We had not
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    Dutch Are Not Good Publicists
    441 4 JT is seldom, if ever, that tha Dutch Government makes a serious effort to justify its actions or defend itself against imputations and insinuations expressed m public, at meet" ings or by means of the Press, Occasionally, when these imputations contain too great ia:sehoods, some
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    TWO LABOUR CONFERENCES IN SELANGOR
    242 5 TWO LABOUR CONFERENCES IN SELANGOR To Study Estate And Mine Problems From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. TWO round-table conferences are to be held during the next few days at which problems concerning estate and mine employers and employees will be discussed. Tomorrow, estate employers and representatives of estate
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    Active In All Sections
    298 5 Produce Market rum A Market Correspondent JTHE slight revival. in rubber 1 market yesterday brought a little sunshine to local produce market, and there was activity m all sections. Tone cf ths market, however, remained quiet, with all prices declining a few dollars. In the food
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    SIX CHINESE CHARGED
    122 5 j^LLEGED to have communiM cated with the Van Heutsz a ship carrying aliens, without the Immigration Officer's perm\< ian, m Singapore Harbour, on May 26, six Chinese appeared m the Fourth Police Court. :day. They were further charged with abetting an alien to disembark from the Van
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    O.A.G's STAFF
    77 5 The Officer Administering the Gov:rnment of Singapore, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron has appointed M\ W. H. Walker to act as his rrivat? secretary and Capt. W. J. M. Speirs. Royal Signals, to be his Aid?-ae-G'amp. 1 Tlv following have been api minted Honora y Aid s-de-Camp to
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    CHINESE ACQUITTED
    52 5 Claiming that he had no knowledge of the contents of a canvas bag he was carrvina. a Chinese boat builder, Taa Ah Sai, wu acquitted by the District Judge, Mr. E. P. Shanks, yesterday. of possession of 19 pounds of opium alleged to have been found 1 m
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    Australian Fruit For Singapore
    157 5 ONE of the largest shipments of Australian fruit m several months has arrived m Singapore by the Blue Funnel ship Asphalion from Adelaide and Fremantle. The fruit will be on sale m Singapore this week. The shipment includes 23,013 cases of apples, 11.126 cases of grapes,
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    TROOPERS IN SINGAPORE
    127 5 The hired transport Empire Helford wMch arrive m Singapore yesterday frcm Madrrs and Rangoon, disembarked 412 Service personnel and 11 civilians. She will embark 350 Indian j other ranks and 65 civ.liars when she leaves for Ringcor. and Mcdras tomorrow afternoon. The Nevassa which arrives lr. Singapore
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    POSON FESTIVAL IN SINGAPORE
    61 5 The Poson full moon day, which falls on Monday will be celebrated at the Sinhalese Buddhist Temple, 96. Outr?m Roar. Singapore. The day commemorates the introduction of Buddhism to Ceylon. After the ususl offerings to the Buddha, the Yen. M. Dhammissara Thera will preach at 7.30
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    Stage Club's Pygmalion Success
    369 5 Stage Club's Pygmalion Success BERN.rf.xtD Shaw's Edwardian var.ation of the ever popular Cinderella theme was enthusiastically received by a big first night audience, who appeared to enjoy as much as ever the metamorphosis of. flower-girl into potential duchess. Eliza Dolittles sanguinary bricks dropped m the drawing rooms of what used
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    Amahs' Dawn Gossip
    51 5 Chinese amahs caring for European children m the Tanglin district meet every morning at Rochalie Drive and chatter from near dawn to breakfast time, when they return to the homes m which they work. This is a Straits Times photographer's picture of yesterday morning's meeting of the
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    VISIT OF UNITED STATES WARSHIP
    535 5 rpHE 13,600-ton United States heavy cruiser I'.S.S. Toledo will visit Singapore on Saturday. Elaborate preparations for the reception of the Commanding Officer, Capt. A. J. Detzer, officers and men have been made m Singapore. The Toledo is expected to anchor m the man-of-war anchorage, outside
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    Two Men Who Wanted To Die
    393 5 A conversation between a man submerged' to the neck m a Singapore swamp and a detective on the bank was described m the Fourth Police Court yesterday when a 35-year-old Chinese, Lim Kee Kuang, was charged with attempting suicide on May 26. The Detective,
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    Malayan Adviser For, UNO Talks
    84 5 TTCE Economic Adviser to the 1 Governor-General, Mr. Fre, deric Benham, leaves Singapore next week to attend the i United Nations Economic Com* mission conference m Shan* ghai. The conference opens on June 16. The United Kingdom delegate whom Mr. Benham will assist is Sir
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    COMMISSIONERS TO MEET ON FRIDAY
    54 5 The Singapore Municipal Commissioners will hold an ordinary meeting and a special meeting on Friday. Two newly-appointed Commissioners, Mr. L. Crcssun and Mr. D. Robertson, will a Vncj their first meeting. The special meeting which will follow the ordinary meeting will deal with the Municipal
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    GOATS FOR FOOD
    59 5 THE first shipment of 503 gcats from Australia has arrived m Sinsapor- by the Blu Fun. el Ship Ajphalion. Two kids were born durirg the voyage from Geraldton to Singapore. The goats have ben imported by the Malayan Livestock Co., L'd., ard J. Evans and Co.. Singapore,
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    ROTARY MEETING
    34 5 The sneaker at today's mee'ingof the Singapore Rotary Club at the Adelphi Hotel will be Mr. G. G. Thomson. Head of the Public Relations Department, and his subject will be: 'Interpreting Government."
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    "OMNIBUS" FOREIGN RELIEF BILL
    381 6 June Hearings The Times Correspondent WASHINGTON, Tuesday. [T is announced that all sums for foreign assistance and relief will be incorporated m one bill to become the subject of hearings m the first week m June. This is a sharp reminder that "authorisations" by Congress may
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    UNDERVALUED
    45 6 From Our Own Correspondent. JOHORE BAHRU, Tuesday.— Fam Teck Siang, of Kluajig, told the District Judge yesterday that lip. undervalued foods he was importing because customs officials always overvalued them. Hf> was fined $200 for declaring viluo of poods at $398 irstead 01 $.'65.
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    Siam Asks For British Sympathy
    197 6 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Tuesday. QIAM can only hope for sym»3 pathetic consideration from Britain m regard to her rice deliveries declared the Premier, Thamrong Nawasawat, commenting on the British Food Ministers' statement that the British Government was putting "very strong pressure" on the
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    TAMIL LECTURE
    36 6 Swarai Satyananda, Maiayan delegate to the Inter-Asian ReLatiors Conferenc?, will deliver a lecture m Tamil on his impressions of the lARC and his tour m India tomorrow at the Vivekananda Ashrama Hall, Kuala Lumpur.
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      532 6 SINGAPORE WEDNESDAY 1.00 p.m. Radio Orchestra: 130 News: 1 40 Dizzy Fingers; 2.00 Close 8 15 Dm. News headlines and programme summary: 8.20 Listeners Post- 8 30 London Radio Orchestra; 9 00 Dance Music relayed from the Mountbatten Club: 9.30 News; 9. 45 Pencils Please; 10.00 Mid-Week Concert; 10.30 Appointment
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      488 6 In order to select the best line of play from alternative lines, it Is necessary to know the relative probabilities in suit breaks. Let's look at a deal in which this is the only real problem South, dealer. Both sides vulnerable NORTH QJ? V1065 A643 *KQ4 WEST EAST 1054 tAQ9
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      284 6 clubs in the hope of running the entire suit, we will go down a trick If the clubs do not break 3-3. It Is well to know that when we are missing six cards, as in the club suit here, the probability against the necessary 3-3 break is 16 to
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    LONDON STOCKS
    467 7 LONDON, Friday. It was an exceptionally quiet but steady day. Slight glltedged changes were only technical adjustments while the only real movement m Foreigners was for Japanese which rallied further, states Reuter, In its London Stock Exchange report. Industrials showed few signs of life. Breweries and mo6t building
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    SHARE PRICES
    727 7 SINGAPORE, May 27. PINGAPORE shar c quotations tod day, as given oy the Malayan Shareholders' Association, were as follows: INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seller Alex. Brick (O) 2.35 2.50 Alex. Brick (P) 3.40 3.60 B M. trustee 8.25 900 Consolidated Tin Smelters (O) 22/- 23/do <P> 26/6 28/Eastern United Assurance
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    NEW YORK STOCKS
    65 7 NEW YORK. Tuesday Hesitancy characterised early deals yesterday m one of the dullest sessions this year with many issues unchanged or untraded Price changes were mostly fractional with losses barely predominating. Although trading remained slow, stocks later showed declined covering a~ point or so. There was no
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    SHANGHAI RICE RATIONING
    77 7 SHANGHAI. Tuesday.— The price of rice was quoted yesterday at 440.000 Chinese dollars per picul on the open market. It was predicted the price would be stabilised briefly there because a large shipment of the cereal from the interior was due to arrive m a few days.
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    Share Market Brighter
    301 7 Share Market Brighter SINGAPORE, Tuesday. fHE local share market I opened quiet but steady after the week end and the Increase In the price of rubber today had an immediate rffect, particularly m indusrlals and tins. Business was reported m Fraser and Neaves at $3. 55 and United Engineers at
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    REPORT ON RUHR COAL
    81 7 LONDON, Tuesday. Lord Pakenham, Chief of the Department for German and Austrian Control Commission Affairs, w"-;o returned to Britain by air yerterday from a weekend visit to the British zone of Germany, will take an early opportunity of reporting to Mr. Ernest Bevin. He is expected
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    PHILIPPINES AIR ROUTES
    77 7 MANILA. Tuesday. Hearing: will be held tomorrow by the Bureau of Aeronautics on an application by the Philippine Airlines. Inc., to be exclusive operator of all principal air routes m the Philippines. In an application dated May 10. but not made public until yesterday, P.A.L. said It
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    COUNCIL MOVES ON STADIUM PROPOSAL
    416 8 'Building Should Pay For Itself A $250,000 stadium m Singapore should be able to pay for itself within a few years, said Singapore Amateur Football Association President, Mr. L. C. Hutchings, last night. Mr. Hutchkigs was presiding at the foundation meeting of the Singapore Olympics
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    Should We Forget The Olympics For 3 Months?
    360 8 SPORT EDITORIAL AT yesterday's foundation meeting of the Singapore Olympics and Sport Council, a surprising statement was made. Public Relations Officer Mr. G. G. Thomson said that the matter of Malaya's partcipation in the 1948 Olympic Games should be tie ferred for
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    Army Side Defeats S.C.C. 4—1
    208 8 Army S i de Defeats S.C.C. 4—1 I ARMY drew a step nearer to the premiership when they beat the S.C.C. 4—1 in a! second round League fixture I at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. With 14 points from nine matches and the best goal average of all. Army are in
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    Big Aquatic Meet Today
    69 8 Singapore's first inter-sevices swimming carnival since the war I will take place at 3 p.m. at the j Singapore Swimming Club. The programme will consist of Individual and team swimming, < diving events and a water polo match between the R.A.F and the Army. Swimming and
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    Glamorgan In Serious Position
    425 8 Glamorgan In Serious Position CARDIFF, Tuesday. fLAMORGAN finished yesterday's play m the match U against South Africa, needing 272 runs to avert an innings defeat, with five wickets m hand. After making their first innings total 479 for eight, the South Africans dismissed Glamorgan m less than two and a
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    Negri Prepares For Interstate Game
    228 8 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Tuesday. A FINE batting and bowling performance by Edmonds who scored 38 runs and took 2—22 2 was a feature of Negri's second State cricket trial held here m preparation for Negri's forthcoming match against Singapore. Scores were: CHAPMAN'S XI.
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    Sporting Fixtures And Results
    615 8 Badminton Entries for the Singapore Badminton Vsociation Junior and veterans' cham- unships for 1947 are now invited. The closing time of entries will be at noon on Saturday, and all entry forms together with entry fees, should reach the hon. secretary Yeo Kian Hoe, c/o The
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    Sets British Record
    105 8 LONDON. Tuesday. Viljo Heino. the 32-year-old modern "Flying Finn," chalked up a new British record for six miles at* the British Games at the White City stadium on Moidav afternoon. Coached by Paavo Nurmi, Heino clipped 14 seconds off Nut-mis own British record, returning 29 minutes 22.1
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    YARDLEY A FATHER
    26 8 ROYSTON, YORKSHIRE. Tuesday. —Mrs. Antonln Yardley, wife of Norman Yardley, England's Test captain, has given birth to a daughter at Royston. Reuter i
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    Big Crowds At Cricket
    218 8 LONDON, Tuesday. pLORIOUS sunshine and U crowds estimated at nearly 100,000 marked the second day uf the Whitsun holiday cricket programme of ten first-class matches. Close of play scores were. At Birmingham, Derbyshire beat Warwickshire by 100 runs Derbyshire 237 and 125 (Grove, rightarm fast medium,
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    Results Of British Soccer Football Matches
    154 8 LONDON, Tuesday. Yesterday's English soccer matches resulted. Villa ilackburn irentford 'helsea Iverton ['field lanchester V. reston us'cke City 1 Charlton 0 Arsenal 0 Portsmouth 4 Leeds Utd. 0 Wolves 6 Sheffield U. 1 Derby 1 0 1 3 1 1 2 1 FIRST DIVISION
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