The Straits Times, 28 August 1947

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 PRICE TEN CENTS TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1947
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    'Won't Last Long,' Says Striking Councillor
    72 1 'Won't Last Long,' Says Striking Councillor rE Malayan Union Advisjry Council member, Mr. P. Rajagopal, is one of the stri kers. He told the Straits Times he did not think the strike would last long because the Wages Commission had already submitted its findings to Government, with recommendations. Mr. Rajagopal
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    FLOOD THREAT TO RICE CROP
    66 1 RANGOON, Wednesday. The rice crop in Burma may be "seriously affected" by devastating floods now sweeping several districts of the rich rice growing central plain and the Irrawaddy delta, officials who had just returned from the area said today. Department or Agriculture officials pointed out
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    CHINA DELEGATES TO UNO ASSEMBLY
    110 1 NANKING, Wednesday. The Chinese Foreign Minister, Dr. Wang Shih-chieh, will lead China's delegation to the United Nations General Assembly opening in New York on Sept. IC. He will be" supplied by Dr Wellington Koo, Ambassador to Ihe United States, Dr. Tsiang rrine-fu, ohief delegate to
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    AMERICANS SEE TRAIN KILLINGS
    65 1 LAHORE. Wednesday.— Two United States State Department employees said today a Sikh mob held up the train on which they were riding, killed 15 Muslim passengers and twice attempted to torce a way into the Americans' compartment. No train schedules are maintained and arrival times are
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    3,500 ON STRIKE AT SENTUL WORKSHOPS Demand For Report On Pay Revision
    391 1 3,500 ON STRIKE AT SENTUL WORKSHOPS Demand For Report On Pay Revision From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THREE thousand five hundred daily-paid employees at Sentul workshops the main repair and machine shop centre of the Malayan railway downed tools this morning, their reason being the non-publication of wage
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    THE NEWS IN OTHER PAGES
    197 1 THIRTY-THREE PEOPLE HAVE been arrested in Istrta foUoteing the decapitation of a Catholic priest and serious injury to another, international food experts in Washington and Geneva say Europe will face this winter the grimmest crisis since the end of the war and there is little
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    Funeral Holds Up Traffic
    254 1 Funeral Holds Up Traffic FN thousand Singapore Communists, trades unionists, arid members of leltwing political parties yesterday disrupi*<WJrigapore Uaific for vhrefc When thuy marched i n a two-mile-long procession following the iunaral of the Singapore Communist leader, Lin Ah Liang. It was one of the longest funeral processions ever held
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    PAKISTAN JOINS FAO
    29 1 GENEVA, Wednesdy. Pakistan's application for* membership of the Food and Agricultural Organisation was unanimously aci cepted by the conference here! I today in a secret ballot.—Reuter.
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    FREE HOSPITAL FOR ALL
    79 1 BELFAST, Wed\esaay. Free -lospital and medical service for everyone is planned by the government of Northern Ireland in its health services bill, published last night. The scheme will embrace hospitals, the family doctor, the dentist and the chemist. A general health service board will be made
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    LORD LISTOWEL TO VISIT BURMA
    107 1 LONDON, Wednesday. Lord Listowel, who was Secretary for both India and Burma until the recent formation of the Dominions of India and Pakistan terminated the functions of the Indian Secretary, has been invited by the Burmese Government to discuss matters connected with the approaching transfer
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    STOP PRESS
    37 1 CANBERRA, Wednesday. A communique issued today by the Empire Conference said it was generally agreed that Japan must be deprived of her military, naval and air power and control of her essential raw materials. U.P.
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    UNO CRIES HALT AGAIN IN NEI
    261 1 LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday? THE UNO Security Council 1 yesterday for the second time ordered the Netherlands and th e Indonesian Republic to cease fire in the East Indies and to clear the way for settlement of their dispute. Russia and America stood together in
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    British Officer Held In Burma
    136 1 .RANGOON, Wednesday. A BRITISH officer attached to a Burma electrical and mechanical engi-^-ing unit has been arrested at Instin it is officially announced. The arrest of the officer, Major C. H. Young, was canied out under the Public Order (Preservation) Act. In reporting Major Young's
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    Dilatory Brides Now Pay Fares
    79 1 LONDON, Wednesday. BRIDES of American soldiers who have turned down free passage to America will not be offered any alternative date and will now have to arrange passage at their own expense. This was announced last night by the American Embassy in London. Officials checking
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    Empire Call For Early Jap Peace
    240 1 CANBERRA, (Wednesday. THE majority of the delf« I gates at the British Com* monwealth preliminary conference in Canberra on t.ia forthcoming Japanese peace treaty hav e indicated that the final treaty conference should meet befora December. They see no reason for delaying final settlement
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    JAPS' BIG-SCALE TOURIST PLAN
    77 1 TOKIO, Wednesday. According to estimates made by the Japan Touris* League, about 75,000 tourists will visit Japan annually within three years, states the "Jiji" Press. The league has formulated a three-year tourist programme, which has already been submitted to the Ministry of Transportation. Twenty one Western
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    Europe Faces Her Worst Food Crisis
    395 3 Europe Faces Her Worst Food Crisis ASIA'S OUTLOOK GLOOMY LONDON, Wednesday. EUROPEAN countries this winter will face the worst food crisis since the end of the war while there is little hope for substantial improvement in Asia, according to grim predictions from international food experts in Washington and Geneva today.
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      33 Arrests Follow Killing Of Priest
      165 3 33 Arrests Follow Killing Of Priest ROME, Wednesday. THIRTY-THREE persons are 1 reported to have Deen arrested following mob violence against Catholic clergymen in Istria, in which one priest was decapitated and another seriously wounded. The Yugoslav-controlled A. T.I. News Agency said today that the persons would be tried by
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      Bare Facts Given
      85 3 FRANKFURT, Wednesday. Allegations that he had been a member of a nudist club were denied at a meeting of the Munich City Council today W the Lord Mayor, Dr. Karl Scnarnagl. He said he had only once bathed in the nude after inspecting a swimming pool, Dena,
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      Killed'ln Good Faith'
      100 3 Killed 'ln Good Faith' HAMBURG, Wednesday. A plea that the 18 Gestapo and S.S. men accused here of the murder of 50 Allied Air Force officers who attempted a mass escape from Stalag Luft 3, Silesia, in March, 1944, acted "on good faith in the legality of Hitler's order" was
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      Franco-Spanish Border
      61 3 PARIS. Wednesday.— The Qua! d'Orsay announced yesterday thai i after Sept. 1, restrictions on crossj ing the Franco-Spanish bordei j would be relaxed. The action was seen as the firsi step toward the re-opening of the border, In response to complaints of many French businessmen that they were
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      Mystery Plane Crash
      96 3 STOCKPORT, Wednesday. A survivor of the crash last Saturday or the Tudor Two, Britain's gigantic luxury plane, could throw no light on the cause of the disaster at an inquest here yesterday into the deaths of the four victims He is the chief designer. Stuart Davtes. The
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    Flying Discs Now Shriek
    50 3 LISBON, Wednesday.—Portugal's first "flyine saucer" yesterday brought traffic in the northern town of Villareal to a standstill while everyone gazed skywards. A golden disc was seen flying to the north. It left luminous traces and made a shrieking noise until it disappeared out at sight Reuter.
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    Drank Soda In Suicide Attempt
    110 3 Drank Soda In Suicide Attempt A YOUNG Chinese wife who had drunk washing sorJa because her husband could not give her enough mon^y to spend, sat on her chair and waited for death. The husband, who returned home an hour later, found her In agony, He rushed her to hospital.
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    Singapore Shipping
    100 3 i CHIPS alongside the Singapore w wharves yesterday (godowns in brackets) were: Main wharl-. Marine Flier (311 32), Menelaus (36-37), Myrmidon (38-39), Senggarang (40). Ben- tong (41). Prometheus (42-43). West Wharf: Ikauna (1-2). Gamaria (4-5), Marella (6-7) Scythia (8-9). Agamemnon (10-11), Glenbeg (12-13). Relau (15). Empire Dock: Marchen
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    DEATH OFP.C. WAS ACCIDENT
    200 3 A verdict of death by misadventure was given at an inquiry yesterday into the death of a policeman, Hassan bin Derus who received fatal injuries when he fell off the footboard of a trolley bus en which he was travelling on Aug. 12 The accident occurred,
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    T.B. FUND AT BALFWAY MARK
    93 3 T.B. FUND AT BALF WAY MARK The president of the Singapore Rotary Club, Mr. S. S. Franklin, announced at the weekly luncheon yesterday, that the Rotary T. B. Fund had reached $40,786.46, which, he said, was just over the halfway mark. Mr. Richard L. Dines, on "Toe H Defined" was
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      1196 3 TENDERS SALE BY TENDER The Custodian of Enemy Property, Malayan Union, will dispose of engines and machinery m specified In the schedule hereunder by public tender 3. Permits to view and official :?nder forms giving particulars of the property for ale and conditions of sale may be Obtained at the
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    TIN HELD DOWN BY CONTROLS
    752 4 'Free Sa le Wo uld Bring Dollars From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. TEE economic crisis resulting from the shortage of dollars has focussed attention on what is considered to be the abnormally low price of tin at a time when, it is contended, a
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    Armed Police On Province Buses
    141 4 Armed Police On Province Buses From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. AS a precaution against picketing by striking bus company employees, armed police were posted on 15 buses which resumed service on iour main Province Weilesloy routes today. These buses belong to a fleet of 25 owned by Ihe Central
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    FLAGS FLY FOR CONFUCIUS
    87 4 The Chinese National Flag was flown from all Chinese Schools, Institutions and Chinese homes in Singapore yesterday, the anniversary of the birthday of Confucius. The Chinese Consul-General, Dr. Wu Paak Shing, on Tuesday asked that all Chinese in Singa. pore commemorate the day. All Chinese schools
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    GOHO CASE: JUDGMENT RESERVED
    196 4 GOHO CASE: JUDGMENT RESERVED JUDGMENT was reserved by Mr. Justice Brown at the Singapore High Court yesterday in th e case in which the president of the Rent Asseo--ment Board, Mr. H. E. K«nfcdon, made an application for leave to issue a writ of attachment against Mr. S. C. Gohx
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    NEW BOOKS AT LIBRARY
    202 4 The undernoted newly added nonfiction and fiction works will be ready for issue from Raffles Library on Saturday. Benedict (Ruth) "Wie Chrysanthemum and the Sword; Bolitho (Hector; The Romance of Windsor Castle Illus; Cuthbertson (D.C.) Autumn in Kyle and the Charm of Cunninghame. Illus; Grigson (Geoffrey)
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    DHOBY WHO TOOK "SPARE" SHIRT
    76 4 A young Malay dhoby who took a sergeant's shirt from a bundle because he thought "there was one to spare," appeared in the Fourth Police Court yesterday. He was 23 year-old, Mahmood bin Yacob, and after he had admitted taking th.. shirt, valued at $5,
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    NEW SHIP AGENT FOR SINGAPORE
    70 4 YOKOHAMA, Wednesday. After 20 years as shipping representative in Japan, Mr. J. M. Conway of St. Louis, Missouri, port representative for the United States Maritime Commission, is departing for Singapore to resume his job as division passenger agent for the American President Lines. He will
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    BIG COSTS OF REPLACEMENT
    77 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Wednesday— A leading member of the Malayan tin industry, discussing the irice question with me today, said "We are all agreed as producers that the tin price has not advanced in the same ratio as working costs." "It is difficult
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    HOTEL MANAGER'S FINE REDUCED BT $1398
    217 4 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. Wednesday. MR. Robert Gerber. manager of the E and O Hotel, had his total fine of $2,000 reduced to $602 in the Penang Appeal Court yesterday. The fines were imposed after. Mr. Gerber had been found guilty on two
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    34 5 The first High Commissioner for Pakistan in London, Hahib Ibrahim Rahimtoala photographed on arrival at London Airport. He is wearing a floral horseshoe presented to him by the London secretary of the Muslim League.
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    Refugees Invade Delhi: City 'Can Hold No More'
    287 5 Refugees Invade Delhi: City 'Can Hold No More' NEW DELHI, Wednesday. MORE than 120,000 Hindu, Sikh and Muslim refugees seeking escape from the bloody Punjab rioting, have poured into Delhi by foot, train and cart, and according to the City District Commissioner, the city "can hold no more." Although most
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    U.S. Fears Over Greek Crisis
    256 5 WASHINGTON, Wednesday THE chairman of the LS.| Foreign Affairs Committee, Mr. Charles Eaton, described the present tense political crisis in Greece as "the powder keg that might explode into World War 111. Bubh sides in Greece he added, had declared their inter ti on to
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    PERAK UNION PROPOSED
    90 5 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, Wednesday.— Perak teachers are meeting here on Monday to discuss the question ol forming themselves into a union under the Trade Union Enactment. The vice-president and the honorary general secretary of the Singapore Teachers' Union are expected to address the meeting on
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    CAR PRICES RAISED
    90 5 DETROIT, Wednesday. The Ford Motor Company, which, on Sunday, announced price increases cm its standard Ford models, yesterday raised list prices on its Mercury and Lincoln models and its so-called luxury models. Increases on Mercuries range fxom $86 to $226, on LLncolns from $148 to $200 and
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    American Defence Zone To Inclu de Canada
    285 5 PETROPOLIS, BRAZIL, Wednesday. 1 14-NATION sub-committee of the Inter-American Conrt ference approved yesterday a United States proposal for a defence w>ne stretching from the Arctic to the Autaictic and guarded by the guns of all the American republics. The plan provides for immediate
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    COUNCIL TO DISCUSS VETO
    193 5 COUNCIL TO DISCUSS VETO LAKE SUCCESS, Wed. •THE United Nations Secuiity 1 Council is expected to hold a special meeting tomorrow to discuss the whole question of tbe use of the veto by the big powers, it was learned here. The Security Council discussion, it is understood, will centre on
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    U.S. EFFORTS TO SAVE PETROV
    149 5 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. Xhe United States, despite a Russian rebuff, plans further action on behalf of Nikola Petrov, topranking Bulgarian anti-Com-munist, who i£ under sentence of death on charges of plotting against the Government. The State Department made this clear yesterday in publishing both the text
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    Egyptians In Chamber Scene
    299 5 Egyptians In Chamber Scene LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday. rO Egyptians created a scene in the Security council yesterday while tae Council yesterday while the Egyptian case against Britain. Th ft two men Ahmed Koth and Mustapa Momen sneaked Into the chamber and began shouting slogans such as: "Dow n with Imperialism,"
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    TEACHERS' FEDERATION PLANNED
    160 5 TEACHERS' FEDERATION PLANNED From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Wednesday. |\ELEGATES from the Sin- gapore, Selangor and Negri Sembilan teachers' unions, at a meeting at Port Dickson yesterday, unanimously resolved that the Mala^n Teachers' Union, a federal body of teachers' unions in Malaya, should be established early next month. The ultimate
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    KING'S INDIAN ORDERLIES
    64 5 LONDON, Wednesday.— Official circles in London yesterday "hoped and believed" that Indian Army orderlies would- be reappointed to personal attendance on the King, an arrangement started by King Edward VTI in 1903, and suspended with the outbreak of war in 1939. If this were done, it would
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    PENANG ENDORSES TAX ACTION
    275 5 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. 'THE Penang Association, 1 a meeting held yesterday, passed a resolution "noting with satisfaction the action taken by Mr. S. B. Palmer, and 12 unofficial members of the Malayan Union Advisory Council regarding the "premature appointment" of a joint committee
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Thursday, Aug-. 28, 1947. OVER-GOVERNED ISLAND
    1213 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thursday, Aug-. 28, 1947. OVER-GOVERNED ISLAND Mr. E. M. F. Fergusson spo*e not only for the Singapore Chamber of Commerce, whose representative he is, but for a very large body of European and Asiatic opinion in this city when he gave notice in the Advisory Council
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    JEWISH SHIPS DOCK UNDER GUNS
    85 6 GIBRALTAR, Wednesday. Three British ships, carrying 4,400 Jews to Germany after they had refused for weeks to disembark in Prance, docked at Gibraltar under the muzzle of machine guns today to take on coal and provisions. The Jews, balked in their efforts to enter Palestine
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    Old And New Roads Tn Singapore
    1230 6 Old And New Roads Tn Singapore AN INCOME TAX OPPONENT STATES HIS POSITION THE public of Singapore 1 islfeow faced with a choice of two roads. Either it must continue along the old road of indirect taxation or it must move up the new one of direct taxation. If it
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      "Double Taxation" Conundrum
      181 6 IT has 'been suggested that Britain should pay part of the cost of rehabilitating Malaya including War Damage compensation and that in such case, income tax may be unnecessary. It has been stated that the taxpayer in Britain has had a thin time during the war years
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      Will Income Tax Hit Entrepot?
      270 6 IT seems likely that Singa- j pore, this commercial j and financial bastion of the sterling area by virtue of its large earnings of foreign currency derived from entrepot trade, will see that vitally important rol e dimmed and largely swept away in coarse of
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      MALAYA AND WASHINGTON
      220 6 I AM afraid anyone reading the account of my speech on rice in the Malayan Union Advisory Council on Monday, and of His Excellency the Governor's reply, might have got a wrong impression of what I intended. When I suggested separate presentation of Malaya's case at Washington
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      Facing Facts In The Union
      242 6 IN view of the figures recently published by Government and I have no reason to doubt them, unless it be prejudice there is obviously urgent need to find fair means of augmenting Malayan Union revenue in order to meet the estimated deficit for 1948. Who
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      884 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. GREGG. Elsie, wife of Major Tresham Dames Gregg, R.T.R.. on 22nd August, at British Military Hospital, a son, Tresham Dames. GIVEN-WILSON. To Beatrice (nee Goodman), wife of Patrick Given Wilson, on the 26th. August at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, a son. Antony Patrick. HAN. At Kandang Kerbau Maternity Hospital,
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      195 6 FLEAS AND BUGS IVlan is the recognised meat of blood-suckers like fleas, bugs and lice, and his property "and the crumbs that fall from his table feed an army of insect pests. History shows plainly how parasitic insects have, for example, by spreading typhus and plague from rat to human
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    VOTE CALL TO GOVT. SERVANTS
    193 7 'THE Singapore Civil Service 1 Association is calling on every member to "demonstrate his civic consciousness by registering as a voter early." "The Committee of the Association feels that the opportunity to cast a vote now, open to Govrrnment servants, must not be lost by
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    MINING INTEREST IN INCOME TAX
    41 7 ir OH, Wednesday.— The monthlv meeting of til F.V.S. Chamber of Mines Council this afternoon appointed h sub-committee t consider the quest'on of income tax in all its aspects pertaini ig to the tin mining industry.
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    MALAYA STUDENTS VISIT CONTINENT
    201 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday COME of the Malayan stu-j fc dents of the London; School of Economics arc pending their vacations i» Norway, Sweden, Denmark itnd various parts of Engiai.d doing vacation work which is included in their courses. Those who passad the
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      Mother, Daughter Hang Together
      81 7 SITIAWAN, Wednesday. A MIDDLE-AGED Chinese woman and 'her 10-year-old daughter were found hanging from the same branch ot a tree in a Pundut plantation, three miles from Sitiawan on the way to Lumut. Both were dead. The w> man is believed to have hanged her daughter
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      Dogs Dwindle
      131 7 KEMAMAN, Wednesday.—A male tiger, his mate and two cubs have been dining on the dog colony belonging to a few vegetable gardeners at Sungei Teleja, near Bukit Kuang ferry. Ten nights ago, one of the tigers pushed open a hut door and carried off a dog. Thinking from
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      Widow-Mother Robbed
      163 7 KEMAMAN, Wednesday.—Three men, masked. face blackened and armed with parangs entered a hut at Jr/ore Tengah about 3.30 &.m. The occupant, a Chinese woman staying there with her five children, was asked in Malay to hand over her money. She said she had none. The Intruders threatened her
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      Ceylon-Bound
      65 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.—At a meeting of the committee of th# Ceylon Federation of Malaya held on August 24, Mr. A. Gunasekara, the vice-president, was appointed to act as president of the federation during the absence of Mr. E. E. C. Thuraisingiham who is going shortly to Ceylon for a
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      Motor Trishas
      61 7 PENANG, Wednesday.—At their meeting yeserday the Municipal Commissioners rejected a proposal to introduce motor trishas in Penang. This decision was reached earlier by the General Purposes Committee. It was sfereed that the Commissioners should reply to the Registrar and Inspector of Motor Vehicles, Penang that for a number
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    SINGAPORE DIARY
    235 7 TODAY: Y.W.CA. Wayfarers meeting, "The Hut," corner of Buyong Road and Clemenceaux Avenue, 4 p. m. Chinese Recreation Club extraordinary general meeting to consider new rules. Hong Lim Green, 5.19 p. m. Cocktail party to meet Col. C. Y. Siu, managing director of China National Aviation Corporation, given
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    TWO ROBBERIES
    60 7 Two robberies in Singapore yesterday involved $27 and |20 cash and were reported to have taken jlace in the outskirts of the city. One was at 3 a.m. in Ulu Bedoh, 5% and the other at 10 a.m. in Yeo Chu Kang Road. In both cases, the robbers
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    THEFT OF $10,000 OIL ALLEGED
    128 7 Thirteen Chinese pleaded not guilty in the First District Court yesterday to stealing 70 drums of lubricating oil valued at $10,000 from the Army petrol depot at Woodlands or. April 5. The District Judge, Mr. E. P. 6hanks. left the bencn to look out of
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    Union Padi Target "Easily Reached"
    117 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE Malayan Union's food production target of 50,000 acres 1 of new padi land is expected to be easily reached, states an Agricultural Department report. The forecast is based on ins* rapidity of work now being! carried out.
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    MALAYANS FOR UNESCO TALKS
    128 7 From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. An unofficial member of the Advisory Council and a Government official will represent the Malayan Union at the Regional Study Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, to be held at Nanking from Sept. 1 to
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    INDIAN CONCERN
    55 7 Hindus and Sikhs from the Punjab Province living in SJngapore, yesterday, sent telegrams to the Governor-Generals of India and Pakistan, and members of the Government of India, voicing their concern over the happenings in West Punjab. They asked the Governments concerned "to do their utmost to protect the
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    KOTA BHARU RAID PLANNED IN 1940
    231 7 KOTA BHARU RAID PLANNED IN 1940 TOKIO, Wednesday. rS Japanese Navy began to make its "peace-time offensive plans" against the British Commonwealth in November 1940, with an aerial photographic survey of Kota Bharu, in Kelantan, Malaya, a Japanese witness admitted under cross-examination bcfooe the International Military Tribunal for the Far
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    GENT MAY DECREE INCOME TAX IN UNION
    184 7 Official Statement Expected Today From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. AN announcement is expected from King's House tomorrow disclosing what "appropriate action" the Governor, Sir Edward Gent, intends taking on Malayan income tax. There is a very strong feeling here that, despite
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    ALLEGED THEFTS FROM GODOWNS
    110 7 Cloth and cigarettes valued at nearly $4,000, alleged to have been stolen from S.H.B. godowns on Tuesday resulted in a Chinese and three Indians appearing in the Third Police Court, yesterday. Chew Ah Chon, 19 was charged with stealing two rolls of loth, valued at $76,
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    46 7 Seen from left: Marion Law, Diana Farker and W. Hynd-Arthur, in a scene from "A Soldier for Christmas" which opened at the Victoria Theatre last night. This comedy enjoyed a very successful run in England and has been produced in Singapore by the Singapore Stage Club.
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    Accused Of Causing Deaths Of 5 8.0.R.'s
    382 7 THE driver of a military lorry, Sher Mohamed, was charged in the Singapore Third District Court yesterday with causing the deaths of five B.O.R's by negligent driving on June 13, the charge not amounting to one of culpable homicide. The case was a
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    ½-CENT DROP IN RUBBER
    114 7 Reacting in sympathy with the easier prices in. London and New York, rubber on the local market yesterday fell by half a cent. For the past few days the price of No. 1 sheet f.o.b. had been steady around 29 cents and just below, but last
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      You Wouldn't Like Another 100 Years
      969 8 Nathaniel Gubbins, famous English humorist, says: WIIKX scientists are not planning to kill us by the million in a thousand horrible ways, they are planning something even worse to keep us alive long after our allotted span and long after we have reduced ourselves
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      A SWEATED WORKER
      394 8 New York Round-Up rV YORK, (By Airmail) Eugene Belner sweats for a living. He doesn't work and sweat he just sweats all day. He sits in a little room heated to 125 degrees in the depths of New York's Grand Central Palace building and perspires ceaselessly on
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      TACTLESS LADY ASTOR
      511 8 By DR. EMERY BARCS THE trouble with 68-year-old "Nancy" Astor of Cliveden fame is that she always blurts out aloud what her more discreet Tory friends think but keep to themselves. Her latest indiscretion is to tell Americans that she doesn't care how many Jews are killed
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      "The Jap Criminals Who Cares?"
      779 8 TOKIO, (By Airmail). JJX-PREMIER Hedeki Tojo looks years older. Little hunched Doihara has developed a nervous tic in his jaw muscle. The proud handlebar moustaches of once-explosive Gen. Araki have begun to droop ever so slightly. Sullen Kingoro Hashimoto rests his head on both hands.
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    Thrashing Won't Cure 'Bad' Boys
    962 9 THE SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST by F. S. Livie-Noble. London: Duckworth. WHAT 1 like about this sort of book is the mystery stories in it. The scientific talk on most pages is hard for ordinary folk to follow; but the mystery stories are for everyone to read.
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    According to Culbertson
    367 9 Today's declarer brought heme hts contract by means of a shrewd unblocking play and Just a little help from the enemy. South, dealer. BoUi sides vulnerable. NORTH *6 3 2 VA 9 S *8 4 S *65 4 S WEST EAST J974 ♦QlO 8 •JlO 87 VK62
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    WHERE IS THE ART?
    351 9 Mystery Of The Week SUITABLE FOR FRAMING, by Marion Holbrook. London: Cassell. "IS to old women," growlA ed de Quincey, "they are pleased enough with anything, provided it is bloody enough. But «he mind of fusibility requires something more." The something more," he explained, Is design,
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    11 9 *Altcayn something. Few years ago ux> couldn't (/tt coat -hangers, remember?"
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    One .American Who Is Not Brash
    775 9 NOVEL OF THE WEEK. VAGABOND PATH, by James Gray. London: Macdonald. THIS novel is as different from what we have come to regard as typical American serious fiction as a Corot is from an ancient rock drawing. For a whole genera -xon now, U.S.
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    The Vodka Made An Impression
    189 9 The Vodka Made An Impression Homecoming, by Joseph Wechsber? (Michael Joseph). Mr. Joseph Wechsberg, a Czech jew who took up American citizenship before "the war, Joined the United States Army and found himself near the Czech border at the time of the liberation. He managed to get through the Russian
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      329 9 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD u K°!T 22. Act. tube, or match (4). CROSSWORD No. 156 7. He was butchered to make 25 He takes a chance to a Roman holiday (9) improve (C). i :|S 2 |H 4 |H ||5 8. Drink the end of 19. in a 26. Intensify (8).
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    British Stars Lose American Goodwill
    170 10 HOLLYWOOD "BITTER" ABOUT FILM TAX NEW YORK— British actors and actresses in Hollywood are "on the outer" with American b 1 m stars, producers, and directors. Reason: ttie film colony's reaction to the British Government's decision to put a 75 per cent, tax on UJS.
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    Aussie film industry heads for boom
    111 10 SYDNEY.— The Australian film industry is about to enter a boom period which may last many j-ears according to Ealing Film Productions representative in Australia, Mr. Eric Williams. Mr. Williams, who has returned from England after conferences on the future of Australian films, said
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    Ginger Rogers went so far and no more
    96 10 JJOLLYWOOD. Ginger Rogers accepted delivery of ttve most elaborate portable dressing room in Hollywood while shooting Columbia's. It Had to Be You, in which she co-stars with Cornel Wilder A 35.009-cubic-foot trailer capable of sleeping 10 people was parked on the lot.
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    THE FIGURE
    42 10 Hollywood's LINDA CHRISTIAN is on the rocks with her back to the sea. Right: Swooner-crooner FRANK SINATRA is holding forth with "Ole Man Rive?" in M-G-M's musicale of the life of Jerome Kern, Till The Clouds Roll By (Capitol. Singapore).
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    "THE VOICE"
    32 10 Left: Young English star JEAN SIMMONS will be seen again in Malaya soon in Black Narcissus. She plays an Indian orphan girl who elopes with Sabu, as an Indian prince.
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    37 10 This scene from Two. Cities' Odd Man Out (Cathay, Singapore) shows Britain's top-flight actor JAMES MASON lying "mortally wounded" in a street of Belfast A fugitive from the police, he rebuffs everybody who offers to help him.
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    STUDIO SIDELIGHTS
    317 10 STUDIO SIDELIGHTS Tne largest outdoor movie set ever undertaken by Columbia Studios is being built near Hollywood for the film Royal Mail— the story of the British Postal Services. The set is a replica otf an English village of the 19th century. Thirteen buildings in the six-block area will include
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      283 10 RJSniO MAT AVA tanl Scn S^'- 9 45 N.u.aswaram Instru- n.30 News Prom Today's Papers sivMi.ftiV mental; 10.00 "TiruWcurar by M. International Scene (Harold Nlchol™rncn i n m n.^i n rh-^K«.»~. Chidambaram Chettiar; 10.15 Songs by son). 12.00 Light Music. 1 W CaUbSTAn P k^Di^ta 8^S^S VS Mohamed Ibrahta NETWORK-7
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    LONDON STOCKS
    229 11 LONDON, Tuesday. FE Gilt-edged section of the stock markets has today seen drying op of buy in/. Late selling left prices little changed on the day. The hulk of business was con. centrated in this section. Elsewhere, idle conditions predominated, says Renter's fin. ancial correspondent. Following are todays
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    U.S. FUTURES
    33 11 NEW YORK. Wednesday—Crude rubber futures closed 15 points lower yesterday: Sates totalled 14 contracts. December 14.85 (U.S.) cents per lb. bid; March 14.80. Number One ribbed smoked sheets 15 1/4 nominal.—A.P.
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    Steady Rise In Siam Rice
    441 11 Produce Market By A Market Correspondent SIAM white rice continue to climb steadily in price. Since July 1, when new control regulations regarding rice movement in Singapore came into force, the price has risen by about $34. Recent transactions have involved only small quantities of
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    SPORE SHARES
    138 11 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Wednesday. SINGAPORE share market was reported quietly steady. There was again an improvement in sterling tin shares and today dollar issues, including Kuchais. Hong Fatts, Rahman Hydraulics and Batif Selangors. were also marked up. The industrial scetion continued quiet and rubber shares were
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    RUBBER
    64 11 rhe Singapore Chamber at Commerce Rubber Associations prices at noon yesterday were: Buyer* Sellers Cta. Cts. per tt>. per lb. No. 1 R.8.8. Spot loose (nominal) 27i 28 No I R.88 too in bales Sept. 28 i 28 j No. 3 R.S.S fob in bales Sept. 27J Mi No
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    DOUBLE TOTE TICKET PAYS $1,022 AT K.L. RACES
    2300 12 Jackpot Ist. Home In 9-Fur long Event From Our Racing Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. pUNTERS did not do well at the races in Kuala Lumpur today, the second day of the Selangor Turf Club August Meeting. Only one favourite, Sheffield Plate, obliged
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    Dividends At A Glance
    105 12 Race I.— SHEFFIELD PLATE,'] $11 and $7, First In $12, Peggy's Choice $10. Race 2.— SKITTALS $32 and $10, Democrat $7, Sylvan Lass $10. Race 3.— GOLDEN GROVE $28 and $10, New Era $9, Jimmy Boy $12. Race 4. TIN POCKET $42 and $10, Gay Selection
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    Middlesex Heading For Cha mpionship
    192 12 LONDON, Wednesday. MIDDLESEX, with 224 points against 204 for Gloucestershire, are practically assured of the county cricket championship. Both Middlesex and Gloucester have two mor e games to complete their programmes and, with Middlesex 20 points ahead, all they have to do is to win
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    Observations By "Stipe"
    98 12 Observations By "Stipe" From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. •THE S.R.A. Stipendiary Ste1 ward's report for today's racing is as follows: Race 1: Coolborough suffered a slight squeeze at the 4y 2 and had to be checked. 'Jeffers, rider of Greendale, was reprimanded for not allowing Coolborough sufficient galloping
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    Not Cricket
    137 12 BATAVIA, Wednesday. Dutch military personnel would not be permitted to participate in the Queen Wilhelmina birthday weekend cricket match between the Dutch and British teams, the Batavia newspaper Het Dagrblad said today. The decision follows an announcement yesterday that Lt.Gen. S. H. Spoor, Dutch General Officer Commanding the
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    AJAX SOLD TO U.S. OWNER
    54 12 SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Charles Howard. American racehorse owner and breeder, has bought former Australian champion racehorse AJax from W. J. Smith of Sydney. The price has not been disclosed. AJax, winner of £40,275 before being retired to the stud, was purchased only last month by Smith
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    Sing Tao Men At Chelsea
    51 12 Sing Tao forwards practise dribbing on the Stamford Bridge ground at Chelsea, London. Left to right: Cho Wing Keung, (outside right), Lai Shiu Wing (inside right),' Fung King Cheung (captain and centre forward), Chow Man Chin (inside left) and Ho Ying Fun (outside left). A.P.
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    No More Soccer At Anson Road Stadium
    341 12 THE application by the Singapore Amateur Football Association for a renewal of their lease of Anson Road Stadium lias been turned down by the Land Office. This was revealed by the, President of the Association, Mr. L. C. Hutchings, at a Council meeting
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