The Straits Times, 24 August 1947

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    20 1 FSNAL EDITION THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NETT SALE IN MALAYA No. 630 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 1947. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    6,000 WHARF MEN JOIN STRIKE
    559 1 6,000 WHARF MEN JOIN STRIKE 'All harbour labour idle 9 Sunday Times Staff Reporter 4,000 Singapore Chinese and 2,000 Malay wharf labourers yesterday decided to join in the strike of Singapore Harbour Board labourers, which began on Thursday following the fatal shooting of an Indian road worker by a police
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    44 1 MISS JANE SUN, daughter of a Singapore business man. is leaving' for the United States this week-end to take up a .s< holarship at the University of Nebraska. She studied architecture at St. John's University, Shanghai, and proposes to specialise in interior decorative arts.
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    28 1 INDIAN labourers in Singapore yesterday painting red crosses on some of the packages containing medical supplies for the Indonesian Red Cross, which will be flown to Jogjakarta tomorrow.
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    MDU WILL SUPPORT INCOME TAX
    363 1 the M.D.U. rejec^ the recommendation that incomes beginning from $250 per month should be taxed, as this would mean imposing a heavy burden on persons who are ill-qualified to bear it, particularly as the higher income groups will, in the opinion of the M.D.U., be
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    MAY GO INTO ACTION
    51 1 SINGAPORE, Saturday. According to an Antara broadcast from Jogjakarta, monitored here today, a meeting has been held '"somewhere in Java" to discuss the throwing into action of the so-called "International Brigade." which was organised recently to "fight side by side with the Republicans against Dutch ageression."
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    MORRISON HITS BACK AT CiIURCHiLL
    185 1 MORRISON HITS BACK AT CiIURCHiLL LONDON. Saturday. MR. HERBERT MORRISON tonight rf.iected Mr. Winston Churchill's pica fpr a return to" private enterprise and accused him of damaging Britain's cause in the midst of her worsening economic crisis. Speaking over the 8.8.C., he said: "The Government is not going back to
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    U.S. MAY RECAST RUBBER POLICY
    132 1 Sunday Times London Correspondent. LONDON Saturday. THE draft of the International Trade Organisation Charter, approved at Geneva yesterday, is believed to have cut right across the present United States policy regarding synthetic rubber. Reports from Geneva leave little doubt that the Charter recommendations bar control
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    ARRESTS IN PALESTINE
    34 1 JERUSALEM, Saturday.— Police announced today that a "number of persons" had been arrested In connection with the abduction and hanging last month of British Sergeants Clifford Martin and Mervyn Paice. A.P.
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    AVIATION EXPERT KILLED
    38 1 LONDON, Saturday— Roy Chadwick, chief designer and director of the Avro Company, was reported killed today in a crash during the test flight of a new Tudor II commercial aircraft at Woodford aerodrome. Cheshire. U.P.
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    SOFT. HIGH HILL POPS OUT IN BORNEO SEA
    251 1 Sunday Times Correspondent BEAUFORT, North Borneo, Saturday. ANE night last June Osman bin v Salleh, who lives on the West Coast of the Klias Peninsula, North Borneo, noticed nothing unusual before going to sleep and heard nothing durlrj the night. Yet when
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    Three War Secrets Now Revealed
    295 1 LONDON, Saturday. •TODAY, 28 months after V-E day, captured German docu--1 merit- were released by the British Admiralty which give the enemy versions of three naval secrets of World War 11. On c of these papers, called "The Fuehrer's Conferences," relates the dramatic decision by
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    B.O.A.C. FLYING BOAT CRASHES
    56 1 BAHREIN, PERSIAN GULF. Sat. A British Overseas Airways fly-ing-boat, on the "Dragon" service from Hongkong to Britain, crashed into the sea, when alighting at Bahrein, early today. An agency report says that four persons were drowned. The plane carried between 16 and 22 passengers and a
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    RED CROSS PLANE FOR JOGJAKARTA
    265 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter |V\KOTA, VP9OS, piloted by Wing Commander Sheidev V Singh, Commanding Officer, No. 12 Royal Indian Air Force Squadron, will be granted safe -conduct passage (o proceed to Jogjakarta with medical supplies under the auspices and control of the International Committee of
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    TROOPS AND POLICE ENFORCE CURFEW
    92 1 QUETTA, Saturday. Troops and police were today maintaining patrols to enforce the curfew from 3 p.m. to 6 a.m. imposed here to quell the rioting which started last Wednesday night over the attempted hoisting of a "Pathanistan" flag over a mosque. Last night's estimate said
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    19 DIE IN NEW MINE DISASTER
    83 1 ANNF"E T D PI AN Du.ham. Saturday. NINETEEN minus were Kuj -d five seriously injuied today in Britain's second mine disaster within a week in north England. The explosion, of unknown origin, blasted Morrison North Mine here, 80 miles east of Whitehaven, where 104
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    SPOTLIGHT on MALA VANS
    1121 2 SPOTLIGHT on MALA VANS Clifford Peer Turns His MALAYA'S grow more food campaign has a staunch advocate in the YANG DI-PERTUAN BESAR OF NEGRI SEMBILAN, who celebrates his 52nd birthday today, for where ever he goes he drives home to his people the urgency of not depending on imported supplies
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    UNION MOVE FOR WAGES COUNCILS
    354 3 UNION MOVE FOR WAGES COUNCILS Bill aims to regulate pay Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, SaturdayDROVIDING the means of wage regulation in those industries in which no effective collective bargaining machinery exists, an ordinance establishing Wages Council in the Malayan Union will be introduced at the Advisory Council on
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    123 3 M.:. Georse U. Cruicksbank -nd Mrs. Criijckshank after thMr marrkiT? yesterday at the Pr? hyterian Church, Orchard Ra id, Singapore. Ihe bride was formeriy Miss Christine WatMß Kcid, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reid, oi Uddinfston, Glasgow. Mr. C'r.iirk shank, a banker, is the son of Mr.
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    PORK PRICES DOWN
    62 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUH, Saturday. Kuala Lumpur is also to benefit from reductions in the prices ot pork, following a conference between the Selangor Butchers Association and the Price Controller last week. New prices for lea/i pork, lean and fat pork are $2.60. $1.90 and
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    AMATEUR PLAY PARTY REVIVED
    138 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter ONE of the most popular Straits Chinese amateur theatrical companies, the Oleh Oleh Party, is to stage two shows towards the end of September to collect funds for the Singapore Anti.T.B. Fund. Produced in Malay, the shows will consist of a variety
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    'MANY TOUTS' ROUND TRAFFIC OFFICE
    162 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter ¥>EFERENCE to touts hanging IV round the Singapore Traffic Department was made in the Second Police Court, yesterday, when a 41-year-old Malay broker, Omar bin Petut of 396. Pasir Panjang Road, pleaded not guilty to corruptly accepting a reward of $90
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    SPORE Y.W.C.A. SALE
    89 3 GIFTS of articles of dress, provisions and Little things for the lucky dip tub will be greatly appreciated by the Y.W.C.A. Hostel ir. Fort Canning, Singapore, which is holding a jumble sale next Saturday to raise funds for Y.W.C.A. welfare work and rehabilitation. Donations ir. cash too
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    17TH BUDDHIST SERMON
    69 3 The Buddhist leader, Venerable Lokanatha, has been extremely busy during his short stay in Singapore, having delieverd no fewer than sixteen sermons in two weeks. This evening at 5.30 he will deliver his last sermon at the Nan Hua Girl's School, Sophia Road, on "Self-conquest by means
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    TRISHAWMEN CHARGED
    65 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. Charged with the theft on Friday of a large case of Flag cigarettes, valued at $212.10, the property of the Shell Company, Ltd.. from ft' storage vessel, two young trishaw riders. Chla Ah Chai and Tan Chin Chuan. appeared In Singapore Fourth Police Court
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    71 3 Todays map, ninth of a series showing you where to register for a vote in the Singapore elections, is of Mukims 18, 22 and 24. If you live in any of these mukims, you should register with one of the following: Mukim 18, Mr. Loh Khoon Chua. 4, Lim Twa
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    SPORE BANK STARTS NIGHT SAFE SERVICE
    199 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter HONG KONG and Shanghai Banking Corporation is making available to its clients in Singapore a night safe service. This service will enable cinema proprietors, coffee-shop owners and such other clients of the Bank to deposit their day's collection, after business
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    'OSCAR' WINNER
    35 3 'OSCAR' W INNER OLIVIA DE 11 W 11. 1. AM), who is seen in "To Each His Own" at the Pavilion, Singapore, this week, with the 1946 Oscar she won for her playing in this
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    One Doctor To Every 11,000 Malayans
    242 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MALAYA has only on c doctor to 11,000 of the population, taking Singapore and the Malayan Union, including Sarawak and North Borneo, as one territory. This shortage of doctors is not so apparent in Singapore where the ratio is about
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    CSE BROADCAST TODAY
    39 3 KUALA LUMFUR. Saturday. "AT your service," musical A revue presented by Combined Services Entertainment, will be broadcast over Radio Malaya tomorrow at 4.15 p.m. It will be a 30-minute broadcast, packed with songs, music and humour.
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    PAKISTAN OFFICERS HOLD CELEBRATION
    172 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. IN commemoration of the inauguration of the Dominion of Pakistan, more than 400 guests were entertained last night at the Pegasus Club, -Singapore, by officers of the Pakistan Army. Among those present were Lord and Lady Killearn, Tengku Mahkoia, the Commander-in-Chief, General
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    EXPLOSIVES LEFT ABOUT ON RANGE
    211 3 INQUEST STORY Sunday Times Staff Reporter rEN a thirteen-year-old Chinese boy met his death as the result of an abandoned ammunition explosion on Uukit Timah Rifle Range on Aug. 10, there was a quantity of extremely dangerous ammunition, with the fuse caps removed, lying about
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    EGYPTIAN MUSLIMS BATTLE POLICE
    71 3 CAIRO, Saturday.— More than 2,000 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, shouting "down with the United States!," fought a bloody battle, with shotguns firing and staves swinging, with Egyptian mounted p«lice In the heart of Cairo. A spokesman for the Brotherhood said that aL least 100 members
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    KUCHING TO AID FLOOD VICTIMS
    100 3 Sunday Times Correspondent. KUCHING, Saturday. THE Chinese Chamber of Com- merce has sponsored a meeting attended by the various Chinese associations and organisations in Kuching in which the subject of raising funds in aid of the flood victims in China was discussed. An application has
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    PLANS FOR EMPIRE
    943 4  -  808 GILMORE The Australian Scene by MELBOURNE, Aug. 13. CINCE decrying in New York the sins of Dutch imperialism, Australia's External Territories Minister Eddie Ward has been boasting about what Australia is going to do with her tropical empire. Under the anti-planter edicts of Mr. Ward's department,
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    PENICILLIN WORKS THIS WAY
    200 4 PENICILLIN WORKS THIS WAY A BRITISH Biochemist has disclosed the exact way penicillin works to check bacteria that cause most boils and abscesses. The discovery was announced by Dr. Ernest F. Gale, of Cambridge University, in a paper read before the eleventh international congress of pure and applied chemistry in
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    JEEVES REAPPEARS
    660 4 IN these days of perturbation and consternations, atom bombo. abortive international conferences and wars that are not wars, it is like a breath of fresh air to find ourselves once again in the' dream world of Mr. P. G. Wodehouse. Here there is still plenty of b. and
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    The Bride Was Unwilling
    615 4 l ONG ago marriage was the one goal that a Chinese girl coul-J look forward to; it was the one thing she was taught by her parents to aim at, for what she wanted herself mattered little. A man in China did not marry so much
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    Malay Gang Kill Chinese, Fire House
    114 5 Malay Gang Kill Chinese, Fire House Sunday Times Staff Reporter PENANG, Saturday. I ?ang of Malay robbers set tire to a house in Kampong Kli.iii. Kill i m. after holding up and seriously wounding the three occupants in the early hours of Wednesday morning. One of the victims escaped but
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    PERAK PLAY GROUND
    80 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. A IPOH. Saturday. BLOWPIPE competition for the Sakais will be among the attractions at the opening by the Sultan of Perak of the Childrens Playground afGrik. Upper P 3^£, expect T, ed to teke P lace next Saturday. Programme for the occasion Includes
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    LATEX EXPORTS REACH NEW HIGH
    297 5 Companies put in new plant Sunday Times Staff Reporter J^ATEX production, with the world demand for latex greatly exceeding supply, is today one of Malaya's most flourishing industries. While the price of sheet rubber has dropped to a worryingly low figure, the price of latex
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    JOHORE STOCK FARM REVIVED
    351 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Saturday. JOHORE has the distinction of having one of the biggest Government stock farms in the Empire. Started in 1940 to supply livestock for cultivation and farming generally, the farm, which has about 5,000 acres on the Klunng-Ayer Hi lam
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    RUBBER
    56 5 The Sii.g_ptie Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's prices at noon ytMRMf vere: Buyers Sellers Cts. Cts. No. 1 R.S.S. S PM lbloose MH M% No. 1 R.S.S. fob in bales Sept. .29 29 No. 2 R.S.S. fob in bales Sept. 28% 39 No. 3 R.S.S. fob in bales Sept.
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    ACTIN6 RESIDENT, PAHANG
    52 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. MR. J. A. Harvey, formerly Chief Social Welfare Officer, Malayan Union, has gone to Pahang to act as Resident Commissioner during the absence on leave of Mr. A. Sleep. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Harvey was temporarily Commissioner of Lands,
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    EXPECTED BACK PAY, SO USED "WIDOWS' MONEY
    216 5 EXPECTED BACK PAY, SO USED "WIDOWS' MONEY Sunday Times Staff Reporter. PARIT BUNTAR, Saturday. SUBMISSION that her client had misappropriated money due to constables' widow because he had anticipated receiving his back paj was put forward by counsel for the oefence in a case heard here. Lim T&ng Kooi, former
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    27 5 AT an informal meeting of missionary leaders at the Outram Road Buddhist Temple, last week Bishop Wilson of Singapore met the Yen. Lokanatha, the Italian Buddhist monk.
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    $50,000 GRANT TO CHINESE SCHOOLS
    89 5 Sunday limes Correspondent. KUCHINO, Saturday. THE Acting Director of Educa--1 tion to the Committees of Management of various Chinese schools has announced that a sum of $50,000 has recently been made available by the Government to cover the payment of exgratia grants to Chinese aidedschools
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    INTIMIDATORS TAKEN
    67 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. PENAN a, Saturday. ELEVEN alleged intimidators have been arrested by the Kulim Police in connection with the present strike by about 40 rubber tappers in one division of the Dublin estate. The arrested men, it is understood, tried to stop five nonstriking tappers from
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    BOOK DISPLAY FOR KUALA LUMPUR, IPOH AND PENANG
    163 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE display of British books, which has been on show in Singapore Victoria Hall last week is being transferred to Kuala Lumpur where it will open in the Chir.ese Assembly Hall on September 1. Afterwards it will b
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    THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE, August 24, 1947. BITE THE PEBBLE
    686 6 THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE, August 24, 1947. BITE THE PEBBLE OPPOSITION to the proposals for income tax to be levied in the Malayan Union and Singapore, as set out in the Heasman Report, centres round two points, apart from factious attacks on Mr. Heasman himself and certain of his remarks
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    JAP FIFTH COLUMN IN MALAYA WAS SMALL
    1636 6  -  ALLINGTON KENNARD BY JAPAN'S plan to mobilise the Muslim world to fight for the "new order in Asia" is still an untold story. It is likely to remain largely untold, for to tell all would mean naming still illustrious names. In Malaya, the
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    INDIA CELEBRATES
    1029 6  -  JOHN EDE BY I HAVE just returned to Singapore after a visit to Bombay and Calcutta during the memorable days when India gained her independence, feeling enriched by a wonderful experience. One's first impression, shared by others, was that India had passed through too much stress and strain
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      169 6 Prize Winners' List No. 3 TIGER RHYMING COMPETITION .^P/'wi^\ BH«w is the third list of pr»e- > V '\v*— winner*. Further successful entries ■r-A* wW be published twice weekly in ft^^Scg£ f fvtarc watch the newspapers. The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled He
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    Slum homes neighboured welfare HQ
    317 7 Slum homes neighboured welfare HQ Sunday Times Staff Reporter WHILE deletes to the International Social Welfare Conference in Singapore last week discussed means of improving the way of life of the people of South-East Asia, their near neighbours five hundred yards from the conference room were the slum dwellers of
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    UNION CALL FOR A SPENDING INQUIRY
    330 7 a meeting on Aug. 27 in Ipoh and will probably appoint a committee to consider the report. The All Malayan Chinese Mining Association will also hold a meeting in Ipoh on the same day The Malayan Association holds a council meeting on Sept. 3
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    SPORE DELEGATES FOR UNESCO
    61 7 Mr J B. Neilson, Director of Education, and Mr. E. C. S. Adkins, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, will represent Singapore at the forthcoming Regional Study Conference on Fundamental Education to be held at Nanking. The Conference has been organised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and
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    PIANO RECITAL
    32 7 THE Officer Administering the Government, Singapore. Mr. P. A. B. McKcrron will attend the pianoforte recital given by, Mr Clifford Huntsman in the Victoria Hall. Singapore, tonight at 9 p.m.
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    MU WAR CLAIMS IN SINGAPORE
    148 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. WAR risks insurance claims tor Singapore amounts to $142,000,000 whereas for the Malayan Union the amount Is only $53,000,000. Mr. J. St. L. Carson, the Commission for War Damage Claims explained yest«rday at a press conference Uiat Singapore iiad topped the
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    TISBURY-LE MERCIER WEDDING IN KATONG
    80 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. The wedding took place yesterday between Mr. Jack Blaney Tisbury and Miss Charles Isabel Le Mercier at the Church of the Holy Family. Katong. The service, which was choral, I was taken by the Rev. Father Girard. The bride was given
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    SOCIAL AFFAIRS SCOPE DEFINED AT TALK
    391 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter rHE International Social Welfare Conference meeting in Singapore yesterday agreed that social affairs should be yne of the functions of the Government and also defined the scope of a department of social affairs in relation to voluntary efforts, government departments
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    Green Dragon Youths Still At Large
    119 7 Green Dragon Youths Still At Large Sunday Times Staff Reporter. KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. A SEARCH for Cham Tham lim, the Green Dragon Mountain Society youth who escaped with Wong Loi from the Selangor Boys' Home last Sunday, has extended to the Siamese border. A special look out is being maintained
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    SEAMEN ASK GUILTY PLEA WITHDRAWAL
    148 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. APPLICATION on behalf of A three Chinese seamen to have their plea of guilty withdrawn to a charge of loitering on the beach at Pasir Panjang, with intent to commit opium smuggling, was made in the Fourth Police Court, Singapore yesterday
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    DOCTOR DUPED BY STRANGE GIRL
    126 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. RECENTLY a Chinese girl confidence trickster managed to obtain <S3O from a local doctor by a simple ruse. She called herself Annie Wee and said that she was the grand-daughter of the weU I known Captain Bachee. She
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    WOMAN WEEPS AT INQUEST ON SONS
    113 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. A WEEPING mother told the Singapore Coroner yesterday of the futile search she made for her two sons, Cheong Soh Hung, 13, and Cheong Sen Nang, 11, whom she had sent to fetch water from a water-pipe near a river
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    MALAYAN TROPHIES FOUND IN JAVA
    259 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. ABOUT 100 silver trophies looted from Malayan clubs and homes have come back to this country after having been collected throughout Java by a Dutch searcher organisation, "Conic." The silverware includes golf, tennis, turf club and motor racing
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      566 8 QNE of the first things the wouldbe bridge player learns is how to signal. In no time at all, he Is taught the use of encouraging and discouraging discards, and from then on signals with gay abandon. Just as in many other phases of cor tract, the good player learns
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      859 8 THIS WEEK FOR YOU —What the Stars Forefell— VIRGO (Aur. 24-Sept. 22).— SAGITTARIUS (Nov v Z3 PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21),— GEMINI (May 22-June 22).— Handle business and employ- Dec. 22).— There may be a Matters at home or in the office Pleasure and romance should ment problems with astute fine,
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      552 8 ON YOUR MARK THIS is a quiz tn which you can easily make a mark, for all you have to do is to cud., gel your brains io find out what all the various marks are. All set for a good mark? 1. What archer's mark was an apple on
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    NEW FASHIONS STILL A SECRET
    754 9  -  Mary Heathcott 4 WOMAN LOOKS AT BRITAIN By LONDON, Aug. 6. LONDONERS may Ikj busy patrolling Downing Street spotting worried Cabinet Ministers, but in Paris the first of the dress shows is the biggest news. London s dress shows have just finished, but designers, neither
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    Mulching naves watering
    422 9 tm /W Jrl i c-? fl MULCHING is the term to the spread ing of partially decayed vegetable matter on t ne surface of the soil. It seives the double purpose of conserving moisture in the soil and helping to keep the roots cool in the dry
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    COOL DRINKS & COCKTAILS
    344 9 COOL DRINKS COCKTAILS WHO does not rejoice to see attractive cool drinks or delicious fruit cocktails? Here are some ideas for festive occasions. Iced Cider Cup ONE pint of cider, 2 lemons, i pint water, 4 lb. sugar and i gill sherry. Soda water as required. METHOD. Dissolve the sugar
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    CROSSWORD SOLUTION
    88 9 Across: 1. Mist; 6. Span; 9.. Telescope; 10. Open; 12. Rate; 14. Repent; 16. United; 17. Taint; 19. Pensive; 20. Level; 21. Lease; 23. Gross; 25. Rumpled; 27. Issue; 28. Strand; 30. Tracts; 33. Peon; 34. Lost; 35. \cclaimed; 36. Time; 37. Deny. Down: 1. Moor; 2. Step;
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    Ann Temple's Casebook
    241 9 Speaking as a bachelor, I am astounded at the sheer reckless stupidity my friends have shown in choosine their wives. The girls were charming enough, but as wives Phew I foretold all the small private hells my friends are now going through. Can't you give these marrying
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    BOXING BOARD
    114 10 Sunday Times Staff Reporter IPOH, Sat. AS a preliminary step to forming a Pan-Malayan boxing board of control, the president of the Perak Boxing Board of Control, Mr. H. W. Sanders, has invited representatives of the Penang and Selangor boards to a meeting here in the first week-end
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    THE CHINESE DUBBED HIM LOCOMOTIVE
    781 10 THE CHINESE DUBBED HIM LOCOMOTIVE Malayan Soccer Stars: Choy Khun Onn' Singapore 's Great 'Little Winger 9 CHOY Khun Onn, Singapore s former right-winger and a goal-gettex of no mean ability, was, at the height of his career, dubbed 'Fire Locomotive' (Fo Chia Tou) by Chinese Press critics because of
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    OWNER-TRAINER WON FOUR GOLD CUPS
    401 10 Turf Personalities ...No 7 Sunday Times Racing Reporter QTARTING with a very small share in a Klang griffin as long 0 ago as 1909, Mr. T. H. Menzies became one of the most successful owner-trainers in the history of the Malayan lurf, winning four Gold
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    RECS WIND UP LEAGUE GAMES WITH 2-0 WIN
    505 10 S.B.C 2 S.C.C t THE Singapore Cricket Club went down fighting to the S.R.C. oy two goals to nil in a keenly-contested S.A.F.A. league game at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. It was the Rocs' last game in 'he league and they now
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    S.R.C. HOCKEY
    49 10 rZ Singapore Recreation Club will run a seven-a-side hockey tournament this season All members who wish to play in this tournament and for cluo sides this season should obtain entry forms from the secretary-trea-surer. Mr. Raymond Minjoot. or .rom the club boy. Entries close on Sept. 4.
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    TOURNAMENT PLAY REVEALS FAULTS
    528 10 Sunday Times Badminton Correspondent r! men's and women s singles ties in the Singapore badminton cham- pionships are suspended for a time so that the early stsges of the men's and veterans 1 doubles ties can be not out of the way a Matches played so
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    INVEST SETSNEW RECORD
    2510 11 Big Surprise By Sheffield Plate Sunday Times Racing Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. I FADING from start to finish, Invest, ridden by Spencci L smashed the Kuala Lumpur course record for the sij furlongs and equalled the Malayan record of 1 ruin. 12 1/5 sec today, the first
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    DIVIDENDS AT A GLANCE
    109 11 Race I.— SHEFFIELD PLATE SlO6 and Peggy's Choice $7, Skipper $11. Race 2.— DEMOCRAT $39 and $11, Apollo $10, Sylvan Lass $17. Race 3.— CHRISTMAS $18 and $8, Flying Fortress $9, El Alamein $11. Rare 4— BRONZE FLASH $39 and $7. Red Hackle $6. Radiant Rhythm
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    MILLION FANS SEE START OF FOOTBALL
    530 12 MILLION FANS SEE START OF FOOTBALL LONDON, Saturday. MORE than a million sweltering football fans attended the "big kick off" in 44 English League matches up and down the country today. The last football season ended ten weeks ago in a heat wave, and after the shortest close period on
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    SEL v SPORE ATHLETICS
    108 12 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. SELANGOR'S State Championships next weekend will be the start of an interesting programme of athletics which is likely to make this a memorable season. Plans are already afoot for holding a match between Selangor and Negri Sembilan with Perak
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    SING TAO LOSE FIRST UK GAME
    36 12 LONDON, Saturday. IN their first game in England, the Sing Tao Sports Club of Hongkong were defeated by the Lordon amateur club, Dulwich Hamlet by five goals to two. KPUter.
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    BADMINTON RESULTS
    116 12 Till-, results of ties in the Singapore Badminton Associations' veterans' singles and men's junior doubles p'a.ved at the Clerical Union Hall yesterduv are: Veterans' Singles: Charlie Chua (Devonshire) beat Chin Tham Swee (Useful) 15—2; 15—1; B. C. Mah (Morrytime) beat Henu Mvi Thiam (U.P.) 9—15; 15—7; 15—13; Charlie
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    BOON WINS IN S.A.
    27 12 Erich Boon, former British lightweight champion, defeated Maurice Ouezman (France) on points in a ten-round contest at Pretoria (South Africa) last night.— Reuter.
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    RUGBY LEAGUE
    64 12 J^UGBY League results were:Barrow 13, Halifax 5; Batley 14 Kingston Rovers 11; Bramley 29, Bellevue Rangers 8; Featherstone 22, Keighley 15; Hull 27, Castleford 15; Hunslet 6, Salford 13; Oldham 14, Warrington 3; Swinton 5, Leigh 16; Wakefleld 0,, Bradford Northern 5; Widnes 9, St. Helens 8; Wigan
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    All-Malayan Indians Beat Penang
    239 12 All-Malayan Indians Beat Penang Sunday Times Staff Correspondent T_ PENANG. Sat. HE All-Malayan Indians sprang a big surprise on the Penan* State aI by trouncing them five-one in a soccer match played at the International Club ground today. The Indians came into the picture after Penang had scored first through
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    COUNTY CRICKET
    68 12 LONDON, Saturday, j rjLOSE of play scores in today's county cricket matches were:- At Eastbourne. Sussex vs. Lanes. Sussex 221 (Parks not-out 119). Lanes. 33 for 0. At Northampton, Northants vs. Yorks., Yorks. 280 (Lester 126. B. Clarke, 7 for 120). Northants. 131 for 8. (Barron, r.ot-out 159).
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    CABLEMEN AVENGE DEFEAT
    145 12 CABLE an« Wireless Cricket XI avenged the defeat they reI ceived last weekend against St. Andrew's School when they beat them by 55 runs in their return encounter at Woodsville yesterday. The Cablemen batted first and scored 89. Ben Halge played good innings, scoring all round the
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    COMPTON JUST SHORT OF JACK HOBBS' RECORD
    302 12 A GRAND tribute to England and Middlesex crioketer De. nis Compton has come from Douglas Wright, the England and Kent legbreak bowler. Wright, who is considered to ft England's best bowler, whilo watching Compton score his fourth century ag^nst the South African in
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    SRC 80 Runs Behind With 4 Wickets
    298 12 THE Singapore Recreation Culb were 80 runs in arrears with only four wickets in hand when stumps were drawn yesterday in their two-day cricket game against the S.C.C. on the S.C.C. ground S.R.C. own the toss and chose to field. Batting steadily, the
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    SIX-WKT-WIN FOR SCC 'A' XI
    256 12 SIXWKT-WIN FOR SCC A' XI THE S.C.C. (B team) beat the S.R.C. (B team) by six wickets in a game of cricket played at the S.R.C. Padang. yesterday Batting first the S.R.C. were all out for 92 runs, Whittington taking four for 15, Thome two for 17 and Busb/idge three
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    Low Scoring At Hong Lim Green
    217 12 AS a change from the usual, there was low-scoring at the small Hong Lim Green trlcket field yesterday when the Naval Dockyard beat the Singapore Chinese Recreation Club by 61 runs. Scores were: NAVAL DOCKYARD E. Rundle not out 6fl. H. Beeson c Chew
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    INJURED WRESTLER GOES TO HOSPITAL
    160 12 Sunday Times Staff Reporter JJARRY Cushway, aged 24, a professional wrestler from the Royal Army Service Corps, Singapore, suffera complete dislocation of the shoulder in a bout with Jim Corbett, another R.A.S.C. wrestler, at the Great World Stadium last night. Cushway and Corbett, both evenlymatched
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      54 12 Today's Sports Cricket: S.C.C. v S.R.C, 2nd day, S.C.C, 11 a.m.; Ceylon Sports Club v Segamat Cricket Club, Thomson Road, 10.30 a.m.; HQ. Sinfaplre District v Indian Assn.. Fort Canning, U a.m. 15. id Minion: S.B.A. Junior and veterans' championships C.U. Hall, 10 a.m. Hoekry: Meeting of hockey section of
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