The Straits Times, 17 August 1947

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    20 1 FINAL EDITION THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NETT SALE IN MALAYA No. 629 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1947. PRICE 1U CENTS
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    UNO RICE INQURY IN MALAYA MALAYA
    386 1 UNO RICE I NQURY IN MALAYA MALAYA Dr. Purcell on special mission Sunday Times Staff Reporter. MALAYA'S shortages and spe ial needs are to be placed before the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East at its meeting in the Philippines at the end of November. The Commission, which
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    55 1 WING Commander and Mrs. K. R. S. Slater, who were married in the Roman Catholic chapel at the R.A.F. Station. Chanfi, >rsterday. The bride was formerly Miss Alannah Mary Sanderson, daughter of the A.0..V, Air Command. Far East. Air Vice-Marshal A. C. Sanderson and Mrs. Sanderson. The Key. Group Captain
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    RUSSIAN PLANS FOR JAP PEACE ARE REJECTED
    199 1 WASHINGTON, Saturday. THE United States has rejected the Soviet proposals for drafting the Jap:.;. *c peace »eaty and has made a veiled threat to go ahead with its own plans if the Soviet failed to co-operate. The Soviets had demanded that the preliminary
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    AUSTRALIA TO NATIONALISE BANKING
    109 1 AUSTRALIA TO NATIONALISE BANKING CANBERRA, Saturday. Mr. Joseph Chifley, Australia's Prime Minister, announced here today that the Government was moving to nationalise Australian banking. Mr. Chifley announced today: •The Cabinet has authorised Dr. Herbert Evatt and myself to prepare legislation and submit it to the Federal Parliamentary Labour P-uty for
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    KRUPPS DIRECTORS FACE 3 CHARGES
    64 1 krupps directors face 3 charges NUREMBERG, Saturday. Krupps, Germany's gunmakers for 133 ye^rs, were ipdicted as war criminals today, when American prosecutors presented to m all-American court a 50-rage bill charging the firm with wn ing aggressive war, plundering p> ace ul c mntrtes and exploiting ok'.ve labour to an
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    3 SURVIVORS COME FROM DEATH PIT
    97 1 WHITEHAVEN. Saturday. THREE survivors from the Whitehaven undersea pit disaster were brought out of th i mine this afternoon. One of them tried to go back to help rescue his comrades still missing. Forty-one of the 111 miners who were caught in the explosion
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    TERRORtSTS KILL 11
    43 1 JERUSALEM. Saturday.—Government announced today the t 11 fcod'es. including those of tour children, had been recovered from the shtmbl s of ar. A. b home, blown up before dawn, by Haganah at Pe ?.h Tlqvari northeast of Tel Aviv.— U.P.
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    BILLITON STRIKE ENDS
    61 1 BATAVIA, Saturday. THE strike of workers in Billiton tin mines has ended after more than four months. The miners went on strike last May because they considered ,thelr living conditions and wages unsatisfactory. Discussions had been going on betwen the companies' management and Chinese and Indonesian workers
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    ALL-MALAYAN SPORTS STADIUM IS PLANNED
    213 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. MALAYA will have a spor.s stadium emulating London's White City if a project to organise greyhound racing in Malaya, put forward by a syndicate of British and Chinese businessmen representing interests in Selangor and Singapore, meets with Government
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    FOUR DIE IN TRAIN SMASH
    100 1 HONG KONG, Saturday. FOUR persons were killed and 26 injured when 12 freight cars broke los," and collided with a passenger train 20 miles north of ti;e border station of Shumrhun this afternoon. Kail authorities blamed the strike for the death toll, claim, ing that
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    HERE FOR INQUIRY
    6 1 OR. V. PURCELL
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    GALES KILL 19 IN CEYLON
    131 1 COLOMBO. Saturday. NINETEEN people are feared to have lost their lives so far in the 50-mile-an-hour gales and unusually wet monsoon weather in Ceylon which have washed away railway lin« and roads, cut com-" munications. and threatened the island with record floods. Nine persons were
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    AUSTRALIA INVITES MILLION YANKS
    30 1 NEW YORK, Saturday. THE Australian Minister for Immigration and Information, Mr. Arthur Calwell, in New York yesterday, invited one million Americans to migrate to his country.
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    NAZI CHIEF FOR TRIAL
    65 1 BERLIN, Saturday.— Otto Skorzeny, former Nazi spy chief and the man who rescued Mussolini after he had been captured by the Allies on Italy's capitulation, will be tried at Dachau, in the United States zone, on Monday. The charges allege that he and nine others violated
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    SEVEN CLASHES IN N.E.I. IN 24 HOURS
    228 1 BATAVIA. Saturday. THE Dutch communique today gives the Netherlands casual. tics since the cessation of hostilities in Indonesia on Aug. 4 as 29 killed, 91 wounded, and one missing. It reports another seven clashes with Republicans in the past 24 hours. No special
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    Tax report: discussion by public urged
    556 1 Tax report: discussion by public urged Sunday Times I KU, TWENTY-EIGHT representati\ A Union and Singapore deck income tax by Mr. R. Heasir associations and public bodies i reports should be discussed at a The Sunday Times unders port vill b e published in the on Wednesday. The Pcn-Mi-.a'j an
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    BRITISH OCCUPATION FORCE CUT HINTED
    29 1 LONDON, Saturday. A Foreign Oilice spokesman 'olay said that the British occupai.n troops in Germany wero >eing "redistributed," hinting at a retfu lon. U.P.
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    SPOTLIGHT on MALA VANS
    1194 2 SPOTLIGHT on MALA VANS CLIFFORD PEER TURNS HIS THERE are few Eu- ropean women in Malaya who have seen as much of the country v.Miss ANN GENT, elder (l- lighter of the Goveinor of the Malayan Union, Sir Edward Gent. She has had, of course, unrivalled oppo rtunities, having accompanied
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    INCOME TAX NEED IS NOT PROVED'
    566 3 INCOME TAX NEED IS NOT PROVED' Shearn hits at 'extravagance Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. XHE President of the Malayan Association and former Federal Councillor, Mr. E. D. Shearn, declared today that Government had not shown that the present enhanced taxation was not sufficient to pay for the
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    34 3 (<I,IKI-'OKD Huntsman, who has returned from a visit to lions Kong will Riv; concert at tl> Victoria Monorial Hall. Singapore, next Sunday at 9 p.m. Ho wiU play works by Debussy, Chopin and Schumann.
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    YESTERDAY'S SINGAPORE WEDDING
    48 3 YESTERDAY'S SINGAPORE WEDDING MR. ar?4 Mrs. Henry Pereira after their wedding at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes yesterday. The bride was the former Miss Victoria Pereira, niece of Messrs. J. and L. D. Miranda. The Rev. Father Aloysius officiated. The best man was Mr. Joseph Pereira.
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    $15,000 BAIL GRANTED
    62 3 Sunday Times Stan Reporter L^il of $15,000 was allowed when Ong Eng Soo. a 25-year-old Hokkien, was charged in the Fourth Police Court yesterday with voluntarily assisting in the disposal of 146 bags of stolen sugar, valued at $11,031, the property of Messrs. Guthrie Co., Ltd., to
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    TOUCHY' FIND IN IPOH BRIDGE
    94 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter IPOH. Saturday. AP.W.D. labour tang repairing Brews tor Road Bridge in the heart of town today ca-ne across a number of wires. They were found to be attached to metal objects so the labour gang downed tools and reported to the
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    SERANG RACKET ALLEGED
    230 3 Sunday mes Staff Reporter. TWO Me iy b(.u; serangs, Karim l n Saleh and Ahmad bin Osman. alias Mat Banduar., appeared in the Second Police Court at Singapore yesterday on corruption charges in connection with the hiring of sailors. Mr. P. 5. Gordon. A.S.P., said that the
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    SCHOLARSHIP WINNER GOES TO ENGLAND
    84 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. SEREMBAN, Saturday. ONE of the two successful candidates in the Malayan Union to be awarded a Colonel WelTi^e Scholarship is Che Mokhtar bin Yassin. Malay Welfare Investigator attached to the N.S. Social Welfare Dept. Che Mokhtar bin Yissin left for England
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    EXPERT TO PROBE MALAYAN FISHERIES
    234 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter rHE state of the Malayan fisheries industry and how it can be improved, and the welfare of Malayan fishermen, will be among the questions which will be examined by the fisheries exppert, Mr. Q. L. Kesteven, who has arrived in Singapore.
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    Union men say funds embezzled
    261 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A NUMBER of committees of Trade Union organisations in Singapore are alleged to be ignorant of the responsibilities they owe to their members and the law with regard to the proper auditing of their accounts. Extra time till Aug. 31 is
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    NEW DESIGNATION FOR SURVEYORS
    87 3 THE King has made an Order Order in Council giving formal approval to the change In tit'e ol the Chartered Surveyors' Ins.kuticn to Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the consequential alterations in the professional designations. The Order in Council provides that a Fellow of the
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    UN RICE INQUIRY
    131 3 (Continued from page 1) government have no* received sought Information on almost every need, fron food, raw materials, industrial equipment and agricultural rehabilitation down to facilities fcr technical training, said Dr. Purcell. After expert examination of all requirements, reports would be drawn up by the United Nations
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    WOMEN TO HELP JUVENILE CASES
    358 3 Sunday limes man i*e|*>rier KITALA LUMPUB, Saturday. A BILL setting up special juvenile courts in the Malayan Union is to be introduced into the Malayan Union Advisory Council meeting on Aug. 25. Such courts will consist of a District Judge as isted by two advisers,
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    BUDDHIST LECTURES
    56 3 The Yen. Lokanatha will deliver a sermon tonight at eight o'clock at the Teluk Aycr Chinese Buddhist Temple, Singapore. His subject will be "Buddhism: the Religion of Scientic Reason." Tomorrow at 1 p.m. the Buddhist leader will speak at the Sinhalese Buddhist temple at 96, Outra-n Road, on
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    BUSINESSMAN FACES 'TEA MONEY' CHARGE
    135 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. "This is one of those toa money cases," said Mr. P. S. Gordon, A.S.P. in charge of ih.? Anti-Corrup:ion Branch, in the Second Police Court yesterday, when a Chinese businessman, Chan 833 Koon, alias M. K. Chan, of 98, Market Srcet,
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    NEW POSTAL TITLE
    38 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter kuala lumpur, Friday. Under the recently nu i Post Office Orairance fox the Malayan Union, the title of the head of the Postal Service Department. Malaya. r.o\v becomes Postmaster General. Malaya.
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      482 3 SEWING AMAHS ARE POPULAR IN SPORE Sunday Times Staff Reporter IN these days of high dressmaking charges, <he sewing am ih who will come to the house to work is becoming increa- singly popular among Singapore housewives, who find they can cut their expenses by two-thirds or threequarters in this
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    Fantasy on a table-top
    517 4 PHOTO NOTES ONE of the finest things about a camera is its capacity for sheer fantasy. One irinute it can be serving you in a strictly realiotic way recording that trip you took up to the Cameron Highlands— and the next moment it can be picturing
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    RACIAL PREJUDICE
    683 4 DR. E. J. DINGWELL'S "RACIAL PRIDE AND PREJUDICE" is an excellent study of what its author describes as "ona «f the most important questions that will have to be faced in th'j post-war years". The first five chapttrs are devoted to sicctching in the background, and to pointing
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    AUSTRALIA IS IN THE BIG MONEY,
    844 4  -  Bob Gilmore flic Australian Seene— by WHILE England TT heads for what may be her toughest winter yet, Australia heads for a lush, comfortable spring. In the Sydney papers (seasonably a month ahead of Melbourne) fleshy but lissom lasses model for spring fashions. In
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      201 4 The MASTA PIPE i no! ea bo sweetly, so coolly; and keeps moisture from entering the in; nil. o Smoke il hon you like never suggestion of nicotine in lhe month A "WASTA" PIECE OF PIPECRAFT! No matter angle yon hold !he "Masta" pipe not the slightest drop of moisture
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      242 4 PARKER PENS Retail Prices Established for Singapore, Malayan Union, British North Borneo and Sarawak. PEN PENCIL "51" Gold Cap $35.00 $16.00 "51" Lustraloy Cap 30.00 12.00 VS Gold Cap 24.00 i:.00 VS Lustraloy Cap 21.00 10.00 Major Vacumatic 21.00 10.00 Debutante Vacumatic 21.00 10.00 Junior Vacumatic H.OO 9.00 Sub-Debutante Vacumatic
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    MALAYANS U.K.-BOUND
    194 5 Sunday Timos Staff, Reporter PENANG, Saturday. ONE of the largest batches of students for Britain will be leaving Penang tonight by the Blue Funnel liner Sarpedon. The group included Miss Nancy Yeap, a grand-daughter of the prominent millionaire banker. Mr. Yeap Chor Ee. Miss Yeap is the second
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    PENANG BANS PILLION RIDING
    160 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PENAKG. Saturday.— A total ban on pillion riding in Penang is among a series of "don'ts" for cyclists published today by the '.rafhc police. Pillion riding was introduced during the Japanese regime and was allowed on the reoccuoation. The ban was first
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    MALAYA EXPECTS GLUT OF CARS
    344 5 MALAYA EXPECTS GLUT OF CARS Priorities may be lifted Sunday Times Staff Reporter. IMPORTS of motor cars into Malaya are increasing at such a rate that dealers expect Government control of the buying of cars will soon be lifted both in the Mai an Union and in Singapore. They believe
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    S pore Cares For Greek Migrants
    264 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter QINGAPORE Social Welfare Department has accommodated O 30 Greek migrants on their way to Australia in the "Department's York Hill home. This help has been given because the Greeks have insufficient funds to pay for Singapore hotel accommodation while waiting
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    MALAY COLLEGE BOARD NAMED
    127 5 Sunday Times .-uull Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday The following have been appointed members of the Malay College (Kuala Kangsar) Board of Governors: the Resident Commissioner, Perak < chairman), the Resident Commissioner for Selangor, the Resident Commissioner Panang, the Resident Commissioner. Negri Sembilan the Director of Education,
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    INDIANS PRAISED
    99 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter IPOH, Saturday. HIS Highness the Sultan of Perak proposing the toast of Free India at a dinner celebrating the Independence of India last night said that there may be a few difficult complexities and, perhaps, a few i hurdles to clear but he had
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    SEREMBAN GIRL WEDS IN SPORE
    102 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A PRETTY wedding was solemnised at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd yesterday morning when Mr. Lawrence R. C. Nadar was married to Miss Mr.rjorie M. M. Schelkis, the Rev. Father Bonamy officiating. The bride, who is the daughter of the
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    SHOT SPORE MAN DIES
    74 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A 41 -year old Singapore Hokkien was found with his body riddled with bullets in a lonely path leading to his house in Ah Hood Road at 1.30 yesterday morning. The discover" was made by the man's son, who saw him moaning
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    RUBBER
    62 5 The Stagapor! Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's prices at noon yesterday i*ere: Buyers Sellers Cts. Cts. per Ib. per lb. No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose 28^, M% No. 1 R.S.S. fob In bales Sept 38% 29% No. 2 R.S.S. fob in bales Sept 28% 26^ No. 3 R.S.S. fob
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    NEGRI HELPS THE NEEDY
    179 5 Sunday Times Correspondent SEREMBAN, Saturday. RELIEF work In Negri Serabilan cost $9,625 in July. Miss Joan Vickers, Welfare Officer for Negri Sembilan, Malacca an<i Johore, told the Sunday Times today. This includes relief given to widows, orphans, the blind, aged and infirm, casual relief, and aid
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    IN MEMORIAM
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      HISTORY IS MADE
      635 6 HISTORY iS MADE INDEPENDENCE for India was I Ist 15 to th>> mixed accompaniment of bells and rifle shots. The bells were jubilantly celebrating freedom: the rifle shots were prut 01 the process of trying to stop the fighting in the Punjab een Hindu. S'.kh and Muslim. The world has
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    MYSTERIOUS THREAD STRANGLED MALAYA
    1531 6  - MYSTERIOUS THREAD STRANGLED MALAYA ALLINGTON KENNARD By THE SUNDAY TIMES today publishes the first of three articles revealing for the first time the way in which the Japanese spy ring so permeated Malaya and other Far Eastern countries, that at one time it even had a wireless transmitter working inside
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    MOON OF HUNGRY GHOSTS
    818 6  -  CHIA KAY SEE By HANDLES by the thouv sand lighting up tho five-foot ways of Chinese houses last night heralded the start of the festival of the seventh moon Ulfl moon of the hungry ghos.s. According to Chinese belief, millions of starving are let out each
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    STOLEN SHEET IRON GLUTS
    366 7 Importers face heavy losses Sunday Times Staff Reporter. SUCH a large quantity of corrugated iron sheeting has been stolen from Army and R.A.F. dumps, or i in transit between the docks and dumps, during recon* I months that legitimate importers of sheeting find the mar id
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    12 7 the .The club i ol is f :>r "A Soldier l"<r Christmas".
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    MALAY FASHION SHOW PLANNED
    51 7 Sunday Tiin-?s Sta-T Reporter. FOR the first t:. the reDrciS Fashion Pa: be held at the Happy World! :\nd on Tucsrill mod^l latest irong and tune he tradi- .i n, In v. 'hides y screen and rs. Ismail and by f he will tg the i
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    CANDIDATES SOUGHT FOR TWO CHAIRS
    166 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE two Bockfeller Fund chairs in bacteriology and biochemistry at the King Edward VII College of Medicuu, Singapore, are at present vacant, and efforts axe being made to find candidates to fili the two posts. Professor W. J. Young, who waa
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    NEW A.D.C. A
    134 7 Sunday Times Siaff Reporter. KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. CAPT. REX WALKER, the new A.D.C. to the Governor, who Is from the second Battalion the West Yorkshire Regiment, is an Australian and an all-round sponsman playing football, tennis and cricket. He is also Interested in amateur theatrical* Some months
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    5 NEW N.S. DEPUTY GAME WARDENS
    81 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. THREE estate managers, a Government engineer and th head of a Kuala Lumpur motor firm, have been appointed deputy game wardens for Negri SembMan. They are Mr. S. F. Owen, Executive Engineer, P.W.D.: Mr. H. F. de
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    MALAYA TO GET AUSTRALIA RICE
    98 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter kuala lumpur. Saturday. ins of rice nan in Australia «i at will be sent to lons'in the Pacific area. meing this, the Secretary if the Rice Marketing Board said hat most of the 3.000 tins retaind in Australia would be used
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    K.L. POLICE HOLDING 'LITTLE MOUSE'
    66 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter, KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday.— Lav See Chai alias "The Little Mouse,' who was arrested in Singapore on Wednesday in connection with two murders he is alleged to have committed at Sungei Besi on Nov. 5 last year, was brought to Kuala Lumpur
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    CONGRESS DISCLAIMER
    46 7 The Johore Bahru Indian Congress Committee informs 'he Sur^ay Times that it was not officially represented at a meeting in Johore Bahru on August 10 at which the Sultar. of JohDre was criticised. The Committee dissociates Itself from the resolutions passed at the meeting.
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    97 7 Above is the fourth .n a series of maps showing: where to register for a vote in the Singapore elections. The first three were published in the Straits Times last week. Today's map shows Division 12. If you live in this division, you should register at No. 4G7, North Bridge
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    MOTHER COURT FOR SINGAPORE FOR SINSAPORE
    119 7 MOTHER COURT FOR SINGAPORE FOR SINSAPORE Sunday Times Staff Reporter no help deal with the hundreds L of cases awaiting hearing in tie Singapore Police Couns, a new ourt is to open, on Aug. 25, to c known as the Fifth District 'our. i ourt, ov«.r which Mr. J. L.
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    GREETINGS TO INDIA
    37 7 I TO INDIA THE C.-!n-C., F,>RELF, Con. Sir Neil Ritchie, and the 0.A.G., Mr. McKerron, snapped at the cocktail party given by tin- 7 Ist. Punjah Regiment on Indian Independence Day. Army PR photo.
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    Laboratory tests aid crime detection
    189 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. BUSINESS men, government officials, detectives and d cfc n are among the "clients" of a new Government department hich is doing highly scientific work and is playing an imiortant role in the rehabilita- ion of Malaya. It is
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    CLERKS CARRY ON CAMPAIGN ON CAMPAIGN
    127 7 CLERKS CARRY ON CAMPAIGN ON CAMPAIGN Sunday Times Staff Reporter. KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. "/VUR struggle for better salaries \J and conditions of service has not ended," said Mr. Wong Pak Choy, president of the General Clerical Service Association, at the annual meeting of the Association today, when presenting a voluminous
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    INDONESIAN ART EXHIBITION ART EXHIBITION
    65 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter rE first art exhibition of the works of Indonesian artists opens this morning in the offices of Antara News Agency. 3-C Rattles Place, Singapore. More than 80 paintings in water colour ard oils will be on display. The exhibition, which is
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    VOTE CAMPAIGN IS PUT ON Wir
    150 7 VOTE CAMPAIGN IS PUT ON Wir Sunday Times Sfr.flf Reporter TO stir up voting consciousness among the p< Singapore, the Public relations Department h:< launched ;m island-wide "no voting without registration" campaign. The Singapore Government's c f<»r elections io the Legislative Council is the first quarter of 1918. Regis rep
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    MALACCA TOASTS' THREE FLAGS
    104 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A TOAST to the throo flags— the Dominions of India. and the Union J at the Indl I cc Day Dinner at tho Rest Hou Night Mr. S. Shunm o£ tht Indian As Indians to work in i tnony with other the
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    DEATH IN J. BAHRU
    29 7 Sunday Times St?(T Reporter JOiIORE BAHRU. Satur /pHE death occ A In- i bin wife of Che Ahmat bin Jo i Drainage and Irrlgatl ment.
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      287 8 ANGLO CHINESE SCHOOL, KLANG, ANNUAL ATHLETIC SPORTS The Annual Athletic Sports of the School will be held on the school grounds on Saturday the 13th Sept., 1947. at 3.30 p.m. The Old Boys' Dinner following the Srx rts will be held in the School Hall at 7 p.m. the same
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    SUGAR CUT LAST BLOW
    891 9  -  MARY HEATHCOTT Looking at Britain By LONDON, by Air Mail THE miltenium is not here yet. With August Bank Holiday week-end comes news of ration cuts, but economic crisis or not, crowds arc pouring out of London by rail, road and air, and the banks have
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    Points About Potting -On
    413 9 ONE is sometimes inclined to ask when .should plants be repotted. The proper time should be determined by the progress of the plants and the condition of the soil and roots rather than by any fixed seasons. Generally speaking, the best time Is when the plants
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    Coconut Sweets To Try
    318 9 Coconut Sweets To Try SINCE coconuts are so plentiful it is a pity not to use them more often. You may like to try them in unusual ways. COCONUT SAUCE Is delicious with baked custard or boiled pudding, and is easy to make. Put a heap r d teaspoonful of
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    GLOVES
    99 9 RECENTLY a new spirit has been at work in Britain's glove making industry and the English makers have set out to dispel the idea that Britain could only make the heavier types of glove. Where once would have been seen merely tan, brown and grey, showrooms are enlivened with
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    429 9 V.c are iuk.iis into our home a little Ctrl of ten who has had a terribly bad start. Her parents were Utterly Mlflrii and neglected her shamefully. She has had no nice clothes. She was unkempt, even dirty, and was "odd girl out" among her schoolfellows. But she
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    YOUNG COMPANIONS
    77 10 The team to represent the Young Companion Athletic Association in a :-occer friendly match against the Joyful Juniors Ist. XI at Jalan Besar Stadium today will be selected from the following: Poh Swee Wing, Soh Pui Sang, Loh Kwong Sang, Kok Kum Cheong, Kok Wing Chew. Lum Ah
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    FIFTEEN YEARS IN THE FOREFRONT
    903 10 MALAYAN SOCCER STARS Abdul Rahman's Fine Record By Sunday Times, Staff Reporter AMONG Malayan football stars, few have played in competitive games continuously for more than 15 years and stood the distance as well as Abdul Rahman bin Haji AH. Since 1933 he has been
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    FROM ELEPHANTS & TIGERS TO HORSES
    499 10 FROM ELEPHANTS TIGERS TO HORSES Turf Personalities No. 6 Sunday Times Racing Correspondent THE most successful trainer on the Malayan Turf before the 1 war and after began his career by training tigers and elephants for menageries and zoos and breaking in horses for buggies and hacking. He is Marinus
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    MARSHALL B.P.
    62 10 MARSHALL 3P. The following will represent the Marshall Badminton Party, Singapore, against the Social Ba 'minton Party In a return badminton match to be played at 1778, Haig Road today at 3.30 p.m.: S?ah Kirn Hock, Goh Kirn Puay, Seah Hens Lee, Yeo Kian Eng, Yeo Kiam Yam. Hoon Tai
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    E.J. VASS DELIGHTS BADMINTON CROWD
    516 10 Sunday Times Badminton Correspondent pi. J. Vass provided the crowd last Sunday with a fine display of badminton i n the veterans' sinpks of the junior and veterans championships of Singapore. Playing scientifically, he had his opponent running all over th* court while he himself,
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    HORSE OWNERS TO ASK FOR HIGHER STAKES
    364 11 Sunday Times Racing Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. WHEN the committee of the Malayan Racehorse Owners' Association meet in Kuala Lumpur on Aug. 23, they will discUM, among other things, the question of applying to the various Turf Chios for an increase in stake
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    23 11 Gan Kee Tian and I.au Hock Chye open the S.C.R.C. innings against the SX'.C. at Hong Lim G reen yesterday. Sunday Times picture.
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    NON-BENDERS MEET ON X.L PADANG
    202 11 NON-BENDERS MEET ON X.L PADANG KUALA LUMPUR. Sat;. QNLY one and a half hours' play possible In ihe animal twoday Non-Benders' cricket fixture on the Padang this afternoon, the name havinsi to be .-.topped owing to heavy rain. The match is between A.H. Howerdews team versus Dr. Strachan s team
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    EI^ASIANS WIN SHIELD TIE
    119 11 Sunday Times Stiff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Saturd-v. THE Eurasians ber.t the V.M.C.A. by nine wickets in a Stonor Shield Ticket fixture played on the Railway te trround today. At the close of play on Aug. 3, the Eurasians had 66 for one wicket nnd only required
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    KATOMG EURASIAN SPORTS CLUB
    105 11 The Katoog Bnrarian Sports Club win play a Kteear match between Possibles and Probables tomorrow at o p.m. on the St. Patrick's School ground. The learnt will be: Possibles XI: Joe de Souza; H. Ho»--<>n. J. PHors: C. Noronha, A. de Silva. B. Noronha. D. Rozario.
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    SCRC SCORE 201 FOR 7 VERSUS SCC
    360 11 AT the end of jresterday'i play, the Singapore Chinese Recreation Club had scored ""01 tor seven ar.d declared j in their t.v .v cricket mach the Si: --et Cub at Hong I Lim Green, while the SCC. had scored IT withe tt loss.
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    PERAK LEAD IN INDOCEYLONESE SPORTS
    345 11 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KAULA LUMPUR. Sat. A splendid win in the inter-team re- lay gave Pcrak the lead In the inter-State ehamploa'-hip at the end cf today's events In the All-Ma'ayan Indo-Ccylorese Athletic sports. Hoavy rain interrupted the sp'-rts for nearly an hem find
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    Rosewe Its Boy Wins Track Test
    391 11 Sunday Times Racing Corresjxmdenl KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. rS morning workouts here gave a fairly good pointer to the respective eh— CM of Marland's three class one cracks, Rosewell's Boy, Win The Peace and Goats' Skin, in the big race next Saturday. Rosewoil's Boy ;ind
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    SCHOOLBOYS BEAT CABLEMEN
    189 11 IN a game In whLh lusty hitting predominated St. Andrews defeated the Cible and 1 Cricket XI by 35 '::ns at Woodsrille. The schoolboys batted first and, unshaken by the last bowling of Pansy and Mendes of the Cable and Wireless, began to hit all round the
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    BALASIS WINS AGAIN
    110 11 FOLLOWING the comfortable victory of Con Balasis, the Greek-born Australian light heavy-weight wrestler, over Son of Konff at the Singapore Great World Stadium last night, the promoters who have hired Bnlasis for six weekly engagements in Singapore rrhing for a suitable local champion to meet him next
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    ENGLAND HAS TO FIGHT HARD FOR RUNS
    256 12 ENGLAND HAS TO FIGHT HARD FOR RUNS Score: 311 For Six Wickets LONDON, Saturday. AFTER a bad start in the final Test against the South Africans at the Oval today, England staged a recovery and, thanks first to some bright batting by Hutton and Compton, followed by one of Yardley's
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    61 12 The Merrydalc B.P. of Kuala Lumpur met the Merrydales of Singapore over the August holidays, the matcfe ending in a draw. This group photo of the teams show: Standing (L-R) Poh Lim, Kee Foil?,-. Cheng Wah. Chow Kwai, Kirn Wee, Gonzaga, Yeak Khern and Kirn Fatt; Front-row Messrs. Poh Hye,
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    SPORE CUP VETERANS FORM CLUB
    274 12 SPORE CUP VETERANS FORM CLUB At an Inaugural leneral meeting ot former "Malaya Cup" players hc'l ipore yesterday, it was decided lo form a Singapore "Malaya Cup" Veteran*;' Football Club. Mr. Notl Hay who presided at the .siid th:it he hoped other Ftntcs in the Malayan Union would form to
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    BADMINTON TEAM
    66 12 A TEAM ■?>( four singles' and one doubles will be s i lected from the following players to represent the En•,he Treasurers' I f the Singapore Municipal n In ;i return friendly badminton match on Sunday, starling at C.30 a.m. II in Choy Ng Tens Khianc;, K. Lnzaroo,
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    R.A.F. Win 3-0 in Last Legue Game
    506 12 Last Lea gue Came R.A.F 3; THE Boyal Air Force wound u[ mentg with a three-nil vie lion at Jalan Besar Stadium y Their final figures are 16 p five lost for 21 points and a go against. They now stand B6COI points
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    Today's Sports Events
    67 12 Cricket: CMMmI CfcMgl Colleges, Changi, 11 a.m. Ke<.ond dayj S .R.C. v S.C.C. Hong Lim Green, II a.m., (scrond dayi; Ceylon Snorts :cb v 223 BOD. AWnMflVm. H a.m.: RAF. Scktar v SR.C; 11 a.m., Si-lrt#. lioxine: leo BeHMf v Baby Baltazar. and Iban?x v Kid i'ancho.
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    BALTAZAR FIGHTS HEANEY TONIGHT
    99 12 »AEV BaHitzur. lightweight champion i I the Orient, will probably get j tba hardest fight of his career whe!> he n-^ets the young, hard-punchln? AMslrallan Leo Heaney over ten three rmmite rour.c's kt the New World toni rht. Baltazar lar.t week beat Leo'a brottMi.l Hi rry,
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    MAYFLOWER B.P.
    53 12 A team from the following v.-11l rciresent the Mayflower B.P. asalnst the A.A.U. at the C.U. Hall at 7 p.m. i Wednesday: Chan Chim Llm. Goh I *rviw, Kang Soon Teck, Lee Ben? I -•t, r.au Teng Siah, Lav Teng Chuan, rrienard Lee and Tan Guan Hong and
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    SCOREBOARD
    71 12 ENGLAND Ist INNINGS Hutton b .Mann 83 Washbrook Jbw Mann 32 Robertson c Mitchell b Smith 4 f'ompton c Tuckett b Rowan 53 Yardley b Mann 59 Cranston st. Fullerton b Rowan 45 Howorth not out 17 Evans not out 10 Extras 8 Total (for 6 wkts.) 311 Bowling:—
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    M'SEX LEAD GLOUCESTER
    186 12 LONDON. Saturday. T O less than 21 wickets fell in the first days play in the vital county championship match between Middlesex and Gloucester at Cheltenham today. Middlesex made certain of first ir.nir.es points by leading by 36 runs, although their batting broke down badly against the
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    FOURTH-WKT STAND SAVES COLLEGES
    299 12 FOURTH-WKT STAND SAVES COLLEGES THE Comi. Ed Colleges were all out for 193 ins in their first innings when they met the Combined R.A.F. XI at Changi yester.by. In reply, the RAF. had scored 97 for four when stumps were drawn. Playing without S.D. Williams, the Combined Colleges looked as
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    U.K. FOOTBALL
    118 12 LONDON, Saturday. Today"s football results were: SCOTTISH I! -AGUE -A- DIVISION Aberdeen 2 Mothcrwell 0 Queen of South 8 St. Mirren 1 Morton 1 Falkirk 2 Partick 3 Queens Park 1 Celtic 1 Dundee Third Lanark 1 Rangers Alrdrieonlans 3 Hearts 2 5 ClyOe 1 ■U" DIVISION ..iui..ko:i
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    ROCKLITES & RECS DRAW
    268 12 ROCKLITES RECS DRAW The Rocklitcs and the Singapore Recreation CIuW drew in a game of cricket played oti the S.R.C. padamyesterday. The Hocklites who batted first were all out for 131 runs In reply to which the S.R.C. had Vored 109 for eight wickets when stumps were drawn. Scores ROCKLITES
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    CRICKET CLUB ALL OUT 30
    233 12 (JPLEMDID bOWllBt by B;ig;.y who O tcok four for 11 and Creed (five for 17) was responsible for 2nd Echelon Headquarters dismis-ing the -SC.C for 30 runs in the cricket match played at the S.C.C. yesterday. The 2nd Echelon, batting first, declared with 141 for
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    SPORE BADMINTON RESULTS
    120 12 THE results of ties in the Singapore Badminton Association's men's junior singles and women's junior singles championships, played at the Clerical Union Hall, yesterday, ire: Men's Junior Singles: One 30n.: Soo (Merrytime) beat Lav Teng Chuan (Mayflower) 15-10, 9-15. 15-9; C!hou Sip King (U.P.) beat Ngin Eng
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    TODAY'S BADMINTON
    53 12 THE following wiil represent the Treasurer's Dept. branch of the Singapore Municipal Services Union against the Engineer's Dept. at 8.30 a.m. today: Tan Huat Kenpt, H. Hoeden. Lim Lian Seng, Heng Mul Thlam, Llm Soo Guan, Tan Chwee Yong, Tan Cheng Yong, Pans Choon Jin, P. Neubronner, and
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