The Straits Times, 19 August 1947

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED lUS. TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1947. PRICE TEN CENTS
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    DIPLOMAT LOST IN PLANE DISASTER
    544 1 Smiled As B-l 7 Plunged In Sea HONOLULU, Monday. THE chairman of the Allied Control Council for Japan, Mr. George C. Atcheson, Jr., is one of five people missing from a converted U.S. Army bomber which with 13 aboard, ran out of fuel and crashed
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    America's Attitude To Loan Mission
    263 1 America's Attitude To Loan Mission By The Times Correspondent WASHINGTON, Monday. t THE British delegation which 1 arrived here yesterday for talkb on the Anglo-American Loan Agreement will find the atmosphere one of apprehensive sympathy. The sympathy springs from the knowledge that some at least of Britain's troubles are caused
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    MONETARY EXPERT FOR PARIS
    73 1 PARIS Monday. Monsieur Camille Gutt, President of the International Monetary Fund, arrived here from New York vestorday. He has come to Paris on che Invitation of Sir Oliver Franks, leader of the British delegation to the Marshall plan conference, and chairman of the 16-nation committee for
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    Ceylonese Flood Disaster
    171 1 Ceylonese Flood Disaster COLOMBO, Monday. OVER four tons of food and' medical supplies were air-dropped today to Ceylonese isolated by the Kelani River's flood-waters. Thousands have been rendered homeless by I flooding. It was reported from Matale, 100 miles east of Colombo, tnat over 40 peoples were killed by rock
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    Situation Worse In The Punjab
    242 1 By The Times Correspondent NEW DELHI, Monday. AFTER two days of celebrations, a reaction has set in and the "morning after" sees Ind-'a confronted with some grim consequences of partition. Although Bengai continues quiet, the situation in the Punjab has deteriorated, and rioting during the
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    PRINCESS CHOOSES A WEDDING DRESS
    61 1 LONDON, Monday. Princess Elizabeth has chosen the dress she will wear for her wedding to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey on Nov. 20. The Princess' choice was made from several designs submitted bj* the London dressmaker Norman Hartnel, but details of the bridal gown
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    PAKISTAN GETS LAHORE: INDIA HAS CALCUTTA
    397 1 PAKISTAN GETS LAHORE: INDIA HAS CALCUTTA Boundary Awards NEW DELHI, Monday. DpUNDARIES of the two Indian "partition" states, the Punjab and Bengal, announced last night as communal tension was mounting in the Lahore area of the Punjab, show that, as expected, the key cities of Lahore and Calcutta go respectively
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    CENTRAL HOKKAIDO INUNDATIONS
    37 1 SAPPORO. Monday.— At least 15 persons have been killed by floods in central Hokkaido, as the result of heavy rains on Friday and Saturday. Seventy houses were washed away and 4,300 houses were inundated.—U.P.
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    THE NEWS IN OTHER PAGES
    170 1 AN EMERGENCY MEETING OF the British Cabinet is believed in London to have discussed the kind of relief that Britain will ask of America. The meeting teas attended by all members of the cabinet who were not abroad. Page two. BRITAIN AND AMERICA HAVE jointly
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    INDOCHINA POLICY
    41 1 PARIS, Monday.— The French Premier, M. Paul Ramadier, returned to Paris today from the French Socialist Party Congress in Lyons and immediately called together a number of Cabinet ministers for further discussio?) of French foreign policy in IndoChina.— Reuter.
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    STOP PRESS
    61 1 LONDON, Monday.— At Cheltenham. Middlesex beat Gloucestershire by 68 runs, Middlesex 180 and 141 (Goddard, right-arm slow spin 8 for 86); Gloucestershire 153 and 100 (Young, left arm slow spin. 5 for 27).— Reuter. LONDON, Monday. Test close of play today: South Africa 204 for 4 {Mitchell not
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    MACMAHON BALL CRITICISED JAP POLICIES
    209 1 MACMAHON BALL CRITICISED JAP POLICIES By The Times Correspondent TOKIO, Monday. MR. MacMAHON BALL, who has resigned from* his posts as British Cominonwealth member of the Allied Council for Japan and head of the Australian Liaison Mission, expects to return to Australia in early September to make a personal report
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    SPECIAL CRISIS MEETING OF THE CABINET
    739 2 Prime Minister Breaks His Holiday LONDON, Monday. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee broke his holiday and drove to London from North Wales yesterday to preside over a meeting of the Cabinet which, despite authoritative disclaimers, bore all the appearances of an emergency session. Coming
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      Seven Men Re-arrested For Attempted Lynching
      52 2 OPV JACKSON, NORTH CAROLINA, Monday. gEVEN men who were exonerated by a grand jury last week in the attempted lynching of a Negro have been re-arrested on the order of the state Governor. duty VV te executive termed the B rancl jury's action a
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      Mine Disaster
      90 2 WHITEHAVEN, Monday. rO serious new falls of coal yesterday in the wrecked William pit delayed the search for the bodies of 19 miners which have still not been recovered since the disaster occurred on Friday. Eighty-five bodies have so far been brought hp the 800-*oot shaft to the
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      Pilot Killed
      58 2 MANILA, Monday. A flight mechanic was killed and a young pilot injured when a privately o-^ned Piper Cub training plane crashed into a sugarcane field on the fringe of a airstrip at Plandel Bulecan, late yesterday. The victim was Nicasio tnakay 30-year old licensed Filipino flight mechanic of
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      Prince Dies
      64 2 STOCKHOLM Monday— Pnnc e Eupen 82, youngest brother of King Gustaf the fifth, of Sweden and known as the "painter prince." died on Sunday. King Gustaf was deeply moved by the news of his bachelor brother's death. Prince Eupen s condition had been considered serious for some time.
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      No Hangman Trainees
      83 2 MANILA, Monday— The National War Crimes Office, which this month took over the responsibility of prosecuting Japanese war criminal suspects, called for young Philippines army officers to train as hangmen. The Judge Advocate-General. Major Fred Ruiz Castro, said. "We may have to draft officers. We tried to
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      Appeal For Food
      52 2 WASHINGTON, Monday.— The Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. Willard Thorp, has called upon the American people to make whatever sacrifices that are necessary to export more food overseas. Thorp spoke with particular reference to .Germany, whose food production, he said, was lagging far behind the nations around
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      Jap Vessel Explodes
      48 2 SHANGHAI, Monday. A Japanese vessel, Asia Maru, sank after an explosion which occurred on the way from Fusan, Korea, to Russia. One survivor was picked up near Tsingtao by an UNRRA fisheries motor vessel. The number of casualties and other details were not available U.P.
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      Train Blown Up
      91 2 j TIENTSIN. Monday -A northbound freight train was blown u» |wnile crossing a bridge in Soutn Tangshan on the Tientsin Mukden line today. Railway officials have said the train struck two landmines as it pounded on to the bridge about 69 miles northeast of Tientsin. Reports failed
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      Drugs Lost
      53 2 MANILA, Monday The Manila Post reported today that a committee had been despatched to Guiuan Sanfra. Tacloban and other former U.S. military depots to inquire into the loss of over $100,000 (U.S.) worth of morphine and opium derivatives from the Tacloban surplus base and large quantities from other
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      German Refugees
      68 2 BERLIN, Monday.— Arno Scholz. editor of the British-licenced newspaper, "Telegraf," yesterday attacked the American military government for returning German velugees to the Russian zone of occupation, where "dan-'.ous persecution" awaited them. Scholz, who estimated that (from 6.000 to 10.000 Geimans fled 'from the Russian to the A,iuncan zone
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      Newspaper Ban
      57 2 TEHERAN. Monday Th, Iranian Fopaiijn Ministry today ordered all foreign embassies and legations in Teheran to cease publishing magazines and newsI papers. The action followed the recent attack in the Soviet embassy "bulletin" against "United States exploitation of the Balkans and Iran Newspapers published by the Greek and
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      Prince On Trial
      99 2 BERLIN, Monday.— Prince Ferdinand, key figure in the two-million-dollar German crown jewels mystery, will be tried bei fore a British military government court today on a charge of concealing his Nazi party membership. Military government officials are expected to confront the prince with his hand-written questionnaire in
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    Negroes Protest At Australia Policy
    239 2 NEW YORK, Monday. AMERICAN Negroes have protested against the Australian policy of restricting immigration to white Europeans. The leading Negro organisation, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has sent a letter to Secretary of State, Mr. Marshall calling his attention to a
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      871 2 NOTItES SINGAPORE "MUNICIPALITY" All app leant* for the poet of Chief lriaper:lr>r MM* Dept ire than«od. ItM candidate* have or+n Interviewed THE SANDYCROFT RUBBER COMPANY, LIMITED. Incorporated In Singapore NO'J ICK is heiciby ifiven ant tnc Tlilr y-Ninth Aru.u;il fleneml Meeting [HI VA.JUYCKOrT HUiJHtK any I IMIJED, w»ll be hsid
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      727 2 NOTICES PRINCES RESTAURANT CLIZNTB are Informed that Mr*. Sptcer has left the service of the Com- pany and no longer ha* authority to act on its behalf IHF MANAGEMENT. SELANGOR CLUB. THE HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING will be held on W.-UncMiuy. 17th Sept. 1947, at 7.00 P.M. in the Long Bar.
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      421 2 NOTICES LIQUORS LICENSING REVENUE RULES TAKE NOTICE that Mr. J. H. Rothschild of Nos. 24. 25 and 26. Karikal Mahal Road. Singapore, has applied to the Board of Licensing Justices in the Colony of Singapore for the transfer of his First Class Public House Licence held in respect of the
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    BRITAIN ACCUSES HUNGARY
    586 3 3 Opposition Voters Disqualified j LONDON, Monday. BRITAIN and the United States yesterday accused the Communist-dominated Hungarian Government of attempting to control the Aug. 31 elections by disqualifying a million opposition voters, and initiated direct action to obtain a free election. British and American representatives m Budapest
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    SERVICES, JAPS WILL BE COUNTED
    122 3 garding the above-mentioned reP °"Tne two representatives are to Doint out to the Prime Minister that under Article Two of the peace treaty which the Hungarian Government has signed the Government agreed to ensure to all Dersons under Hungarian jurisdiction enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedom, ln»ludine the freedom
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    CHRYSLER CAR COSTS MORE
    175 3 NOT only the civilians *n Singapore but also the services are being counted in the forthcoming census for which the preliminary enumeration begins on August 25. The Navy has agreed to enumerate everyone within the dockyaid area while the Army Ind the R.A.P. have undertaken to count all their service
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    Nazis Get Vote And Right To Office
    119 3 Singapore Shipping CHIPS alongside the Singapore S wharves yesterday (godowns in brackets) were: Main wharf: Cambodia (31—32) Marfne Snappe r (33-34, GBnartnev (36 37) Mentor (38— .J»J Mawai (40). Thalatta <«-«>•_. West wharf: Euryades (I—2). Empire Colne (3). Gorgon (*—?>• SaVVa (6-7). Asphalllon (£-9). p and T Explorer (10— 11).
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    35 3 ANNUAL MEETING The annual general meeting vi the Indo-Malayan Association will be held at the Ramakrishna Hall, 9 Norris Road, at 5 p.m. tomorrow. Office-bearers and committee members for the ensuing year will be elected.
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    ANNUAL MEETING
    100 3 FRENCH "ATTLEE" PROGRAMME PARIS, Monday. t THE French Socialist Party, 1 in a conference at Lyons early this morning passed a left-wing motion calling for the Party's support of Llie Ramadier Government in exchange for fundamental changes in Government policy. The resolution demanded: More state control In economic affaire, more
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    FRENCH "ATTLEE" PROGRAMME
    457 3 DETROIT. .Monday.. Starting today Chrysler motor cars will cSt as much as $270 (Straits currercy) more. The Chrysler Corporation have armour ced price increases rangX? from $45 to $135 (U.S.) on passenger cars and trucks The firm followed the lead of General Motors. Packard Hudson Kaiser-Fraser and NashKelvinator. who have
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      203 3 MATTER Of SPLIT SECONDS > ill IS NO ESTIMATE of the amount of I time being saved every day in this ali-ouL, «u_yuus- Jll to-pet -it-done, world. Am statistician thinking of tackling trw U~> oiav "save himself the trouble of looking for split seconds at 13 Old Bond Street. For
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      123 3 55 r aiwai€ SCANDALE days are here again once more it is possible to enjoy exquisite control with a well-made elastic net foundation belt. SCANDALE Belts and Corselettes are as gentle as a second skin but trim you. I mould you, hold you as you w?=h. BELTS $42.50 to $55.00
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    Condemned Woman Will Not Die
    281 4 Condemned Woman Will Not Die From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Monday. LIAU KON KIAU, 33, who is believed in Malay States legal history to be the second woman to have received the death sentence, has been reprieved by the Governor, Sir Edward Gent, and will now serve seven years' imprisonment.
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    THIS IS WHERE YOU REGISTER
    137 4 Today's map is the sixth of a series designed to show you where to register for a vote in the Singapore elections. If you live in any of the three divisions included in the map, you should register with one of the following: Divn. s—Mr.5
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    NOTICES AT OFFICES
    95 4 DEGISTRATION offices in A Singapore can be identified by a large cardboard notice printed in black with the legend "Electoral Registration Office." They may be situated in a shop, or office, or private house, though it has not always been possible to get as prominently placed a
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    EVICTIONS EXPLAINED
    156 4 Army Public Relations have issued the following statement:— Several reports have appeared in the local Press on the subject of the action which military authorities are taking to evict trespassers from War Department land in the Alexandra Barracks area. The policy of the military authorities in Singapore is
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    BIG CROP OF THEFTS, HOLD-UPS
    176 4 Week-end Crime ALONE Chinese gunman, armed with a pistol, took 29 wrist watches and 30 fountain pens, valued at $1,300 from a shop in North Bridge Road on Sunday. Five Chinese, one with a pistol, robDed a Chinese family at the 6- 4 Mile point,
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    Malay Walking Sticks Gift To Britain
    175 4 From Our Staff Correspondent, PENANG, Monday. A MALAY penghulu, of ■^Ginting, Balik Pulau. has offered a gift of six walking sticks for the use of cripples in England. This was announced at a of Penghulus held in Balik Pulau under the chairmanship of the
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    Malayans To Study In England
    181 4 Malayans To Study In England From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. MALAYA'S Queen Scholarship winner, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, has announced his intention of taking an honours degree in geography at Cambridge to enable him later to carry out research in the geography of Malaya and South East Asia.
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    DELEGATES OF 20 NATIONS DISCUSS WORLD GOVT.
    144 4 I- i,m *v MONTREUX, Switzerland, Monday. /GERMAN and Japanese representatives were among the 400 VJ delegates from 240 organisations, of 20 nations, who attended the opening of the world convention for a world federal government in Montreux yesterday. British federalists were represented by
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    Railway Japs Tore Up Being Re-laid
    276 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. DAILWAY engineering units at Mentakab in Pahang started It work this morning on the four-year task of re-laying a 270-mile length of the East Coast railway line which the Japanese tore up for their Burma-Siam death railway
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      281 4 'Take Vitamins DURING THE WAR MILLIONS OF THE FIGHTING FORCES AND I CIVILIANS WERE GIVEN HEALTH AND STRENGTH BY VITAMINS you need Vitamins now more than ever out of 10 people who suffer today are 'Vitamin starved" even though they («at well. The rich vitamins Nature puts In raw food
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      23 4 HobinHood QUICK COOKING MADE IN CANADA a 1 White Label 1 F| nest Scotch w«isk>J| ■obnDewar&Sonstl SIME. DARBY CO., LTD., s mice upon
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      601 4 LOOK AFTER THE HEALTH OF YOUR KIDNEYS. I As* sufferers ■know only too aWv .traced to weak '^JE^),' kidneys which f^m)\%PW- are failing to do w*W\m& their work of BWWjH expelling the poisonous waste 1 matters from S Lfp-SH* the system Hk, t Neglect in the r early stages can
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      394 4 LAST 3 SHOWS: 3. 8.15 9.15 p m. The bullri-riddled story of the D-mhrr-w Gang-! "RENEGADES- In Technicolor i Opening To-morrow "A GAME OF DEATH" QUEENS THEATRE To-day: 1.15. 3.15, 6.30 A 9.15 p.m. Salleh Ghany BachtUr Effendi in "SERUAN MERDEKA" First Malay Film Produced after The Liberation Picturizinic Malaya's
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    VAN MOOK WANTS INDIES WAR RENEWED
    313 5 VAN MOOK WANTS INDIES WAR RENEWED Dutch Cabinet Crisis Looms THE HAGUE, Monday. LIEUTENANT Governor-General Dr. Hubertus van Mook was reported last night to have asked the Dutch Government for authority to renew military action against the Indonesians until the whole of Java and Sumatra have been subdued. It was
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    RUSSIA PREPARING COUP IN NORTHERN GREECE?
    520 5 NEW YORK, Monday. THERE is an ominous ring in Moscow Radio's hint that Russia may sever diplomatic relations witn Greece following the Soviet allegation that Greek authorities have been "arresting and even subjecting to torture" persons employed by the Soviet Embassy in Athens, says
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    FRENCH INDIA 'FREE CITIES'
    97 5 LYONS, Monday.-* The French Colonial Minister. M. Marius Moutet, announced yesterday that French India, the 196 square miles on the east coast with a population of 324,000, would become an establishment of five free cities within the French Union. "The decrees already have been signed," the
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    CAPITAL SAID SURROUNDED
    68 5 BUENOS, AIRES, Monday.— The Paraguayan rebel radios Voice of Victory, claimed yesterday that the insurgents had finally encircled Asuncion trapping Dictator President General Higlhio Morinige's forces within the capital. The broadcast, heard at the Brazilian border town of Ponto Pora, said the rebels had cut the Paraguay
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    Diplomat Lost In Plane Crash
    330 5 (Continued from page one). possibly taking some bodies with it, even though the crash was a partly-controlled operation. The passenger list announced on August 15 when the plane took off from Tokio included: Col. Carl A. Russell, assistant Chief-of-Staff, at Allied Headquarters: Col. David Larr,
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    VEN. LOKANATHA
    40 5 Members of the Singapore Buddhist Mission, in Geylang Road, yesterday welcomed the Yen. Lokanatha at the Sinhalese Buddhist temple. The Yen. Lokanatha was presented with an address and with a garland of flowers. He made a suitable reply.
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    Beheaded 2,500, Now For Trial
    297 5 MUNICH, Monday. lOHANN Reichart, 55-year-oW Nazi executioner, is to be J tried in a Munich hospital today as a class 1 Nazi. Johann, who said he had executed 2,500 criminals in his 22 years as a beheader, worked in the same capacity for the Americans
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      106 5 Mi "IjU JJ Yes, there you are old boy and what luck! Now I can make that pudding for tonight and perhaps an Icecream to follow. I could do with half-a-dozen of you If I could get them, but really you seem so popular now-a-days—! However, come along. It is
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      285 5 VVHAT man can foresee his own length of days or the hazards in store for his loved ones? Yet there is available to him a beam of light into the economic future life insurance. It dispels the shadows of financial disaster and is a sure protection for those who depend
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    DEATH
    38 6 Mr. Chong Fook Loy Manager and Proprietor of The United Pharmacy Ltd., 305 North Bridge Road, Singapore, passed away peacefully on the 17th August at 2.50 a.m. 1947, at his residence after a short illness. Age 64.
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    AKNOWLEDGMENT
    33 6 Mrs. Chong Fook Loy and family and r ..iU.es thank friends for their kind ru tendances at the Funeral of the Late Mr. Chong Fook Loy and also for their floral tributes.
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    Singapore, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 1947. MORE TALK AT THE CATHAY
    1122 6 Singapore, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 1947. MORE TALK AT THE CATHAY Singapore today has the distinction of being the scene of the first international Social Welfare Conference ever held In Asia. Similar conferences have been held in the West Indies and South Africa since the war, and now the Killearn Mission
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    U.K. DELEGATION IN WASHINGTON
    92 6 WASHINGTON, Monday. A British financial delegation arrived here yesterday by air to begin talks today with American Treasury officials on casing the terms of the British loan Si. Wilfried Eady. Joint Second Secretary to the Treahuqy and chief of the delegation, said at La Guardia Field,
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    NO CASUALTIES IN MINE-SWEEPING
    67 6 LONDON, Monday— Although thousands of mines have been cleared around Britain in the past two years, not on c casualty has bee n suffered. The last sweep is now being carried out by a flotilla off the butt of Lewis, in th e Hebrides. The total
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      A Middle-Class View Of Luxuries And New Taxation
      722 6 A Middle-Class View Of Luxuries And New Taxation r[E sorry story of Singa pore's financial plight ii overshadowed by the still sor rier story of Britain's financia plight, and we are now fa.cc with two problems: How tc help Britain conserve hei American dollars, and how tc raise money to
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      EVEN AN ELEPHANT STATUE NEVER FORGETS
      305 6 EVEN AN ELEPHANT STATUE NEVER FORGETS rE letter signed by Mr. Chia Poh Thik was oolh curious and interesting to r,ie. Firstly, for the reason that a monument can never be out of date, and secondly, for the reason that he has brougl'f to my attention the fact that it
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      An Indian Gift To Britain
      252 6 WITH reference to advertise- ments by Singapore department stores offering to send food parcels to Britain. I would like to suggest that a fund be started to enable tinned food to be bought md exported to Britain in bulk. I am enclosing herewith a cheque
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      A FAREWELL GIFT
      150 6 IN the course of the past 18 months I have had the opportunity to observe Singapore as it has been recovering from the effects of war-time occupation. Progress has baen particularly noticeable during th c latter half of that period, and a high standard now appears to
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      A WORD TO THE GRIFFIN
      167 6 IN accordance wuh post-wor 1 recruiting needs, and to replace many Europeans both m the Government service and in mercantile firms who have retired, new recruits have been brought from Home. Let me give them a piece of advice on how they are being deceived,
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      SELLING UP THE SMALL-HOLDER
      128 6 I GLANCED at the Govern1 ment Gazette recently and was surprised to find a long list of properties to be auctioned for default i n payment of Quit Rents. Nearly a il «<f them were %Malay owned pr > peities. Surely there is something wrong somewhere.
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      STRAITS CHINESE "BIGAMY"
      692 6 As A Lawyer Sees It EVERY local lawyer must haVe been interested to see i n the Straits Time 3 a report of the prosecution of a Chinese for bigamy at the Singapore Assizes. The accused was acquitted, and so I conceive nothing that I write Can
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      700 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. HAINES— On August 8, 1947 at Radcliffe Maternity Home, Oxford, to Winifred Dorothy (nee Deason), wife of C. J. A. Haines, of Singapore and WesUrate-on-Sea. a daughter, stillborn. CHEW-LEONG. The engagement Is announred between Mr. William Chew Chenp Tee of Spore and Miss K;iihcrine Leong Slew Ping of
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    Today's Welfare Conference
    252 7 Today's Welfare Conference THE South-East Asia Social Welfare Conference, which will be attended by representatives of some 20 nations and 12 international organisations, opens at the Cathay Building at 10 a.m. today. The delegates will be welcomed at the opening plenary session by Lord Killearn, Special Commissioner in South-East Asia,
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    MEDALS PRESENTED
    51 7 UCHING, Monday.— Mr. Chan Ah Chong who had been awarded the M.B.E in the recent honours list, having died yesterday, his son received the ureoration today from the Govnor at public ceremony. OthoT recipients were: Mr J s Archer. C.M.G.. Da to Bandar OB.E.. Mr. Ong Tian Swee."
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    SINGAPORE DIARY
    179 7 TODAY Indonesian Art Exhibition, 3-C Raffles Place, 9.30 a.m.. to 4 p.m. British Books Exhibition, Victoria Memorial Hall, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tea Party, Natural Rubber Manufacturing Company, 34 Market Street. 10 a.m. Y.W.C.A.: Malay Class for beginners, 11 Leonle Hill Road, 5.30 p.m. Inter-School Art Exhibition,
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    HUNT FOR 'GREEN DRAGON' BOY
    404 7 Rewards For Escapees 9 Arrest From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. pORMER Green Dragon Society haunts in Salak South and Pudu were raided by Kuala Lumpur detectives last night and today in a state-wide search for Chan Tham Lin, 16-year-old member of the gang.
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    DUTCH ARREST OF CHINESE
    248 7 THE chairman of the Singapore branch of the China Democratic League, Mr. Hu Yui Tsu, said yesterday he had protested vigorously to the Netherlands Consul-Gene-ral in Singapore, Mr. A. M. L. Winkelman, against the arrest by Dutch authorities in i Sumatra of Mr. Wang Je n
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    Preliminary Step ToL iftMora toriu in
    271 7 A<3 a preliminary to the total lifting of the moratorium in A Malaya, a scale of valuation of the Japanese scrip during various periods of the occupation was provisiona'ly •decided on at a meeting in Singapore yesterday. The meeting comprised members of a committee
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    Colourful Hari Raya Scenes In S'pore
    188 7 Sultan Mosque, in Nonh Bridge Road, was packed to capacity and Muslim women, for the first time in Singapore attended, after the men, for prayers at the Malay Settlement mosque and at the Arabic Religious School. All government offices as well as many business
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    NO BELIEF IN WORLD PEACE
    134 7 WASHINGTON, Monday.—Writ- ing in the Rotarian, the magazine of Rotary International, M.\ Trygve Lie, Secretary-General of the United Nations Organisation, says that wars come because people prepare for them rather than for peace. He declares that they do this because they don't really believe that
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    370 8 quiet it 0 w<>.-> on w. i all of us get •.bout and :stly superior :an be qu at I moon in nd the c ilI we were like 0. rkiiig urbed th ace. On the i peo- (art. v ten 1 in
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    Baby's Play World Is So Small And Yet So Big
    1697 8  -  Nurse Elizabeth MOTHERCRAFT IR MALAYA By Nurse Elizabeth is qualified in the care of babies and young: children. If you have any problems and need her helD. write to: Nurse Elizabeth, c/o Straits Times, Cecil Street, Singapore. Please give a
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    151 8 'Miss Precious Minutes 9 says SEE that your mirrors are never placed where the sun shines on them. Spots and blemishe3 often seen on glass can be caused by the sun's action. PREASE spots on wallpaper look most unattractive, but a lump of cold-water starch will absorb every trace of
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    Onion Crops Will Grow In Malaya
    608 9  -  J.N. MILSUM and J.R.P. SOPER Grow Your Own Vegetables By of the Department of Agriculture, Malaya THOUGH many gardener?' 1 have failed 'o grow o'iionsjn this country it is by no means an impossib'e crop if the right types are selee ed. Tne large-bulbed
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    Colourful Shrubs For Any Garden
    966 9  -  R.E. HOLTTUM, The Malayan Gardener By Director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore (Mr. Holttum this week concludes his notes on small to medium size bedding plants. Next week he will begin a series on larger shrubs and climbers.; flUDBECKIA. (Black-eyed Susan). Herbaceous perennial, treated as
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      719 9 Match-point duplicate, by putting trick when East returned the spade such a high premium on overtricks, I t en gives the defenders opportunities for some neat trap plays. Consider to- South now collected four heart day's deal. tricks, discarding a spade from dummy, North dealer. ahile East let go the
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    1573 10 TONDON, Aug. 6— You know the kind of scene that Durns itself Into your mind lor ever. You watch, you realise this is history you can never forget. a journalist sees many such: I see now George V and Queen Mary, brilliantly royal, driving past Malaya House amidst
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      382 10 RADIO MALAYA PURPLE NETWORK-7 pm. See **Uy IPto), Jean Cerclij SINGAPORE SSSs^tT'' kSST'YS f^^-^^tSSJ^ fare K SrklkS^SteJate Brltlsh Broadcasting Corporation; 9.45 Talk; 10.15 Composer of the Week io^ne Conference: 8 30 Concen Hall: I™*?- to 12 30 Bm Ona^ 1^"?* V"*?' n 9.00 Variety Half-Hour: 9.45 Talk; Networ "05 Richard
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    HIGHER PRICE FOR STEEL?
    470 11 NEW YORK, Monday. HARD on the heels of the recent steel price increases, the industry is already hearing report*? that a further increase may be forthcoming by the end of the year. The American Iron and Steel Institute said steelmaking production costs had increased more than
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    PRICE OF RICE FORCED UP
    329 11 Produce Market By A Market Correspondent. rE virtual stoppage of supplies of the 1% "free" rice from Siam and the tightening up of control over the movement of rice in Singapore have steadily forced up the price until No. 1 has reached the new peak
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    Army Lengthen League Lead
    469 12 ARMY 5 NAVY 0 THE Army strengthened their claim to the S.A.F.A. League championship, when they scored an easy win over the Navy at the Stadium yesterday. By their victory, the Army have now got 23 points from 15 games, and their last game in the
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    GIRL'S BID FOR TRIPLE CROWN
    214 12 PENANG, Monday. Miss Amy Choong, the Codrington Party's hope for triple honours, annexed two titles in the Penang Junior Badminton Championships yesterday. Miss Choong won the mixed doubles final with Choong Ewe Leong, men's favourite for the triple crown. The Choongs beat their party mates,
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    A Racehorse Has A Nieht Out
    120 12 A Racehorse Has A Nieht Out i From Our Racing Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Monday.— Norton, a four-year-old Australian gelding handicapped in class two, division five for the first day of the Selangor Races, had a night out last night when hf loft his stall and went round Kuala Lumpur town,
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    Chinese Score 3-2 Victory
    436 12 Chinese Score 3-2 Victory THE Chinese Football Associations of four States were engaged in two charity soccer games on Sunday, one at Ipoh in aid of the Maiayan Welfare Fund and the other at Muar in aid of the South China Flood Relief Fund. At Muar, the Singapore Chinese Just
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    MALAYA CUP, NORTH vs. SOUTH NEXT YEAR
    392 12 MALAYA CUP, NORTH vs. SOUTH NEXT YEAR Delegates Vote To Revive M.F.A. At K.L. Meeting From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. FOURTEEN delegates from Malayan State football associations at a meeting here today unanimously decided to resuscitate the Football Association of Malaya, and for their first post-war president elected
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    TENNIS TITLES
    85 12 TORQUAY, Mon. DILIP Bose, Indian Davis Cup player, and Mrs. H. R. Phillips of Great Britain, won the mixed doubles final in the Torquay lawn tennis championships today, beating Miss Joan Curry and A. G. Roberts of Great B:itain 6-2, 6-2. Bose, partnered by W. H. Michelmore, Great
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    K.L. TRACK WORK
    64 12 From Our Racing Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. Most of the horses were merely trotted round on the third &nd fourth tracks this morning. Trainer Van Breukelen's team are expected tomorrow while the Penang horses should be here in time for the final work-outs on Thursday morning. The
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    RECS LOSE BY 11 RUNS
    210 12 THE Johore Cricket Club; beat the Singapore Recreation Club in a cricket match played at the padaug yesterday, by 11 runs. For the visitors. Stiven and Norris scored 88 and 66 respectively. For the S.R.C. Jansen scored 45 runs. J.C.C. Stiven b D'Almeida 88 Atkinson
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    Scoreboard
    128 12 ENGLAND IST. INNS. Hutton b Mann 83 Washbrook lbw b Mann 32 Roh-rts. n c Mitchell b Smith 1 Compton c Tuckett b Rowan 53' Yardley b Mann 59 Cranston st. Fullerton b Rowan 45 Howorth c Fullerton b Rowan 23 Evans run out 45 Gladwin not cut 51
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    TRANSIT CAMP WIN CRICKET
    201 12 No. 1 British Transit Camp beaO the Singapore Harbour Board Police by two wickets at Nee Soon on Sunday. The S.H.B. Police batted first and were all out for 122. In reply No. 1 B.T.C. scored 148 for the loss of 8 wickets. The Transit Camp
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    BANNED FOR LIFE
    49 12 HELSINKI, Monday.— The Finnish Athletic Association has disqualified the famous Finnish ong distance runner Voljo Hcino for life. Members of the Association re- fused to comment but Heino Giid: "The association secretary toid me i that I am forbidden to comaete i any more." U.P. i
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    i JOHORE C.C. XI PLAY DRAW
    218 12 The Johore Cricket Club drew with the Colonials C.C. of Singapore at cricket at Johore Bahru on Sunday. Johore C.C. made 210, L K. Cheah topscoring with 78 not out. and the Colonials were seven wickets down for 187 when stumps were drawn. Highest
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    JOYFUL JUNIORS
    72 12 The Joyful Juniors Sports Club has been exempted from registration under the Societies Ordinance. The following officebearers have been elected for the half-year ending Dec. 31, 1947. President, Mr. Chan Wah Kee, Hon. Secretary. Mr. Chua Seng Kirn, Hon. Treasurer, Mr: Tan Kirn Kee, Hon. Auditor, Mr. Loo
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    Peimng C.S.C. Opens Swim Pool Fund
    107 12 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Monday. THE Penang Chinese Swimming Club has opened a fund I for the acquisition of a buVlding and a swimming p*ol i for members. This decision was announced by the club's president, Dr. C. A. Yeang, at a meeting
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    $1,000,000 IN BIG SWEEPS?
    44 12 From Our Racing Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. SWEEPS for the three-day Kuala Lumpur August Race Meeting are selling exceptionally well, and are likely to touch the 81,000,000 mark. The total pool, for the three days has reached $700,000 to date.
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    ENGLAND OUT FOR 427 RUNS
    212 12 LONDON, Monday. PNGLAND'S last four wickets added a brisk 116 in 85 u minutes and carried the total to 427 when the final Test continued at Kennington Oval today. South Africa replied with 19 for no wickets in 25 minutes before lunch. At tea, the
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    SEL. BADMINTON
    80 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. Two doubles and two singles In the semi-finals of the Selangor Junior Badminton Championships matches will be played on Sunday at the Pudu Girls' Schools at 10 a.m. The fixtures are: Doubles: Leong Slew Kong andj Cheong Pak Yin vs. Khong Chew Kong and Lim
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    BIG SOCCER WIN
    37 12 Displaying all-round superiority over their opponents, the Joyful Juniors Second XI trounced the Young Companion Athletic Second XI by six goals to nil in a football match played at Jalan Besar Stadium on Sunday.
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    LEGLESS STAR MAY BECOME TRAINER
    320 12 LONDON, Monday. TT appears that there is nothing in the world that can keep former Tottenham and England star Willie Hal] away from soccer. Hall, who had both legs amputated through thrombosis, is now considering an offer to become trainer-coach to the Athenian League club.
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