The Straits Times, 29 August 1947

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 184S LIGHT PAGES 'RICE TEN CENTS SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1947
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    200,000 BELIEVED DEAD IN PUNJAB RIOTING
    109 1 LAHORE, Thursday. OFFICIALS of the Pakistan uovernment estimate that 100,000 Muslims have been killed in east Punjab since rioting began ten days ago. The Sikh and Hindu dead in west Punjab are put at about the same figure. The Governor-General, Mr. Jinnah, is expected
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    Drastic New Cuts In British Rations
    490 1 LONDON, Thursday. ARASTIC new cuts in food, foreign travel, petrol and other items, estimated to slash a total of £228,000,000 from imports as the first step to bridging the £600,000,000 gap in Britain's balance of payments, were announced in a statement issued from No.
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    35 DIE IN NORWAY AIR CRASH
    81 1 35 DIE IN NORWAY AIR CRASH OSLO, Thursday. •THIRTY five passengers and 1 crew were killed when a Norwegian Sandringham fiyingboat crashed into a moun-tain-top on a n island off Norway's northwest coast in a fog at 9 o'clock this morning. Twenty-seven of the dead were passengers. The names of
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    JUMPED 43,963 FT.
    24 1 MOSCOW. Thursday.—lzvestia said yesterday that Lieut-Colonel Romanyuk Vastly had established a new world record with a parachute jump of 43,963 feet.—AJ.
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    Press Disappointed
    139 1 LONDON, Thursday. NEARLY all sections of the press today express disappointment with the latest steps announced by the Government to deal with the financial crisis. The Times declares that j^T" j^" a m^try "the time, has arrived for a short f t protest again* the Labour tations on
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    TWO FINANCE COMMITTEES IN UNION
    336 1 Council Vote On Income Tax Overridden From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. FOLLOWING discussions at King's House this morning two committees are to be formed by the Government one to work jointly with the Singapore committee to consider the income-tax recommendations of Mr. R.
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    Indonesia Recalls Foreign Minister
    201 1 Indonesia Recalls Foreign Minister BATAVIA, TiiuKday. HADJI Agues Salim, Foreign* Minister of the Indonesian Republican Government, is to be recalled from Lake Success to report to the cabinet on the Security Council's debate on Indonesia, according to reports from the Indonesian capital Jokjakarta. The decision was made late last night
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    WAGES REPORT ON SEPT. 1
    51 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday.— The report of the Wages Commission on remuneration of daily-paid employees of the Governments and municipalities will be Dublished on Sept. 1. It is believed general increases have been recommended by the Commission's joint Malayan Union and Singapore
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    HOLLAND GETS BACK DIAMONDS
    58 1 FRANKFURT, Thursday.—Diamonds weighing 17,000 carats., and worth more than U5582,500,000 which were looted from Amsterdam's diamond merchants by the Nazis are to be returned to Holland under heavy armed guard in time for Queen Wilhelmina's birthday on Sunday.. The diamonds were found by the Americans in
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    "MONTY" FETED
    51 1 PARIS, Thursday.—Reid-Mar-shal Viscount Montgomery was given a tumultuous welcome yesterday by thousands of Parisians. They broke through a police cordon to crowd around his car after he had placed a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier He was acclaimed on his arrival at the airport.— U.
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    "Risk War With Russia'"
    96 1 "Risk War With Russia'" PV YORK, Thursday.— The nor-General of Canada, Marshal Viscount Alexant!« in rrl that America should send aid to Greece "even if it meant war with Russia," when he landed at La Guard i a airport, New York, to address the American Legion Convention yesterday. Lord Alexander
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    LOST GRA VE FOUND
    120 1 SHANGHAI, Thursday. It is believd Faktor was rescued GRAVES registration officers *f* r out and later dled have found the remains of Uo ln^™ identified by a S3BtS Tikio F r££' l T C gofd^rS.^^ve^n^brac'elet Dooltttle Tokio raiders to be ac- d a Bcrump8 crumpl ed
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    99 1 Two charming Chinese air-hostesses, Alice Dang, 22 (left), and Elizabeth Lan, 21, who arrived in Singapore yesterday in a C.N.A.C. Skymaster which is on a survey flight between Shanghai and Batavia for a proposed new air service between China and Java. They are two of 30 Chinese air hostesses now
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    PUBLIC SERVICE STRIKE THREAT
    217 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. MALAYAN Union public services, including the hospitals and railways, may be strike-bound next week if an ultimatum accompanying a wage revision demand issued today by the Government Employees' Union is carried into effect. Th c union which is representative
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    SHOT GIRL-WIFE, BROTHER, PARENTS
    60 1 SHELBYVILLE. Illinois, Thursday. A 22-year-old, war veteran, Donald Helton, fatally shot his wife and her younger brother and then drove to his parents' home where he killed his father and wounded his mother. He had been estranged from his 16-year-old wife for several weeks but authorities
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      Fever Outbreak On Dutch Troop Ship
      94 2 THE HAGUE, Thursday. •TWO thousand Dutch troops on board the Dutch ship, 1 Volendam, which is expected to reach Batavia tomorrow will be sent into quarantine because of an outbreak of mild paratyphoid on th e ship during the voyage One hundred of the
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      Arms Dumping
      95 2 LONDON. Thursday. The largest ammunition dumping operation ever to take place in Europe is in progress off the Danish Baltic island of Bomholm, Stockholm radio reported last night. The ammunition includes 200.000 tons of mustard gas bombs, some of which are drifting ashore on the island. Stockholm radio
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      London Rape Trial
      119 2 LONDON, Thursday. Police s took extra precautions yesterday I when John Henry Cole was brought into court, charged with i a bizarre series of sadistic attacks on women including a charge of rape, because it is just before full > moon the period in which most of
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      Ship Delayed
      89 2 GLASGOW, Thursday.— Sailing of the Anchor Line ship, Cameronia (16,000 tons), from Glasgow to Bombay with passengers, including Indian ship crews returning home, and with British troops bound for units in the Middle East, has heen cancelled owing to boiler trouble. The Cameronia was due to sail last
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      How We Sleep
      81 2 LONDON, Thursday. Sla'ip was caused by an excretion from glands in the spinal cord column reaching the brain, Profesjor Anna Tonkih told a Congress of Scientists in Moscow yesterday. In what Radio Moscow described as a "highlight" speech of *he congress, she said mM^s in the spinal
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      Loss Of Memory
      91 2 LONDON, Thursday. Lord Strathspey, one of the oldest Scottish chieftains, was found in a dazed condition and suffering from loss of memory yesterday after he had been missing for 24 hours. Police found him at Western Avenue, Acton. He could- not say how he got there. He
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      Italy's Loan Appeal
      58 2 WASHINGTON. Thursday. Italian Ambassador Tarchiani visited President McCloy of the International Bank yesterday to present Italy's request for $250,000,000 loan. Tarchiani is expected to point 0., ft due to British stoppage of convertibility on sterling, Italy has $80,000,000 less than was expected. Part of this sum would
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      Chinese Funeral
      65 2 SAN FRANCISCO, Thursday. Bands played funeral dirges as San Francisco's Chinatown observed the final rites for Lee Quan, 61 -year-old philanthropist importer and merchant. It was one of the largest Chinese funerals seen in San Fracisco and was attended by hundreds of people from all over the United
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      Appeal For Life
      44 2 LONDON, Thursday. Bri;ain may appeal to Bulgarian Prasident Vassily Kolarov, in a final effort to save Bulgarian Opposition leader. Nikola Petkov, from execution. A spokesman for the Biztish Foreign Office indicated that london and Washington were d'^casstng further action.— U. P.
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      Newspaper Strike
      72 2 NANKING. Thursday— Ten of Nanking's 12 newspapers failed to appear today when printers struck, following a rejection fc? the managements of a request for a wage increase for this morning and a higher pay scale basis for September. Only two Government-subsi-dized papers, the Central Daily and the Peace
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      1312 2 NOTICES THE SINGAPORE AUCTIONEERS FOR SALE "AT AUCTION PRICES" Of a collection of Sterling silver and plated tableware, cut-crystalware, cutlery, old brass gongs, world-famous i German-made cameras. Alfa Cine- j cameras ETC. On view at No. 64 Chulia Street THE SINGAPORE AUCTIONEERS At the Ho Ah Kow Slipway Tanionp Rhu.
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      715 2 NOTICES TALAM MINES, LIMITED. A Second Interim Dividend of 10% has been declared payable on 22nd September. 1947, In respect of the year ending 31st December, 1947. and the Share Transfer Register will be closed from 15th to 22nd September. IM7. EVATT CO.. Secretaries. Ipoh, 26th August. 1947. NOTICE KUALA
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      863 2 NOTICES NOTICE Mr. Chua Cheng Kang the former Manager of Yang Chiang Fishery Co. of 109-A. Beach Road. Singapore has resigned from this Company as from date hereof, and has now no authority to represent this Company In all transactions. YANG CHIANG FISHERY COMPANY. NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
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      362 2 TENDERS EX-SPECIAL TECHNICAL CORPS, ASSOCIATION. Members are reminded that application forms of campaign stars must be returned to the Association. 7 Brooke Road. Singapore by Sept. 3. 1947. No claims will be entertained after that date. By Order, SECRETARY. ESTATES OF Ho Siak Kuan also known as Ho Lok Yu
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    'Purely Arbitrary' Price Of Tin
    440 3 'Purely Arbitrary' Price Of Tin From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Thursday. TTHE comment that the pre1 sent tin price was purely arbitrary and fixed without consultation with th c majo1 rity of the principal producing interests was made by r Mr. Ernest Pearce, the chair- man, at the annual meeting
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    London's Rubber Optimism
    344 3 London's Rubber Optimism From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Thursday. CENTIMENT in the rubbei «J market has taken a definite turn for the better. Brokers say the feeling is such that a sharp upward price movement could follow anj good news. Even the most inveterate pessimists admit now that a furthei
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    V.M.N.MENON MARRIED
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    FULL MOON DAY
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    Indians Favour Income Tax
    233 3 Indians Favour Income Tax From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. THE Malayan Indian Con1 gress stand on the in come tax question was given today by the president, Mr. Budh Singh. "I maintain that income tax must come, and come immediately," he said. The Congress would not favour a
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    CABLES TO JAPAN ARE BACK
    150 3 CABLES TO JAPAN ARE BACK I pRIVATE and non-trans-e I actional business telegrams s may now be accepted to and I from Singapore and Japan. Languages admitted are English, French, Japanese.. 1 Korean, Portuguese, Russian s and Spanish. Code Is acceptable only on the understanding that the receiver has the
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      93 3 THIS IS WHERE YOU REGISTER T.S; XXIX JF Today's map, tenth ol a series showing where to register for a vote in the Singapore elections, is of divisions XXVIII and XXIX. II you live in either of these divisions, you should register with one of the following: Divn. XXVIII: Mr.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Friday, Aug. 29, 1947. WHAT'S WRONG IN BRITAIN?
    1289 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Friday, Aug. 29, 1947. WHAT'S WRONG IN BRITAIN? The question which we ask today is certainly in the mind of ■every newspaper reader in Malaya, European or Asiatic, in his reflections on the most distressing list of further cuts in food, petrol and travel published yesterday.
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    Government-In-Exile
    37 4 PARIS. Thursday— D c Alvaro Albornoz said last night that he had formed a new Spanish government i n exile solely from the National Republican parties. He succeeded Rodolfo Llopis resigned as premier on August 7.
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      "Not Interested In Politics"
      106 4 IT is indeed surprise hear individuals who occupy important positions in this country saying that they are "not interested in politics." Most ot these people have in mind the fact that recognised associations have always refrained frjm taking part in politics. They also think of politics
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      'Army Of Tax Collectors'
      1375 4 A Singapore Business Man Looks For Local Alternatives [Dato Roland Braddell, in an article published in thia page yesterday, asked for a full public inquiry by merchants, bankers and others into "all the possible sources of revenue," among other aspects of Malaya's financial position. In the
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      A Chinese Churchman
      494 4 On Throwing Away Voting Rights IWISH to enlist the aid of to have our representatives, it your nan.-r in making an will be impossible to find anybody <,™ Y W makin 4 an not taking part in politics, appeal to all Christian minis- Again if "not interested
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      Anglo-Malayan Journalism
      237 4 IT takes a very bold man to give fair and impartial comment on Mr. R. B. Hoasman's report on income tax in view of the great indignation and heart-burning it has aroused among opponents of such a tax, who, without exception, are those who have the means and
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      790 4 CLASSIFIED ADS. TO ALL MTJAR friends, Our Salams. A. Sinnr Tamby St family. 8. Scvthla. p. D.c. REILLY. VniU. wife of Terence Callcott Reilly. on 26th. August at Bunssa; Hospital. A son. Patrick. FITH-JONES On Thursday, 28Ui August, at Bunssar Hospital, Kunla Lumpur, to Pat, wife of Eric Griffith-Jones, one
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      115 4 In the Film: "CARNEGIE HALL' 9 ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN says "Give him Bach, and Bacb, and Bach if you want him to be a Pianist." So choose your "Bach" from the list melow: Schirmer Edition: Bach Album of 21 pieces $2.25 Bach 2 -part Inventions 2.25 Bach 3-part Inventions 2.25 Bach
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      118 4 Black dress bows, loose and made-up $3.00 Van Heusen collars, shape 11 and 99 $0.90 Morley grey leather beMs $1.50 Fine cotton socks, mercer'- d $1.20 length socks, 100 per cent. British wo^ 1 rt> HARVEY CO. 8 Raffles Quay (beyond Finlayson Green) Singapore. ffl*^ DPTICIHN Fellow of tiw. Inst.
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    Planters Deny Strike Was General
    300 5 From Our Staff Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday AN official of the United Planting Association of Malaya told th c Straits Times today that Monday's token «trike of rubber workers affected less than 70 per cent of the total number of U.P. A.M. estates in
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      Burglars Got Wet, Stole Dry Clothes
      90 5 FIVE masked Chinese broke int at 3.30 yesterday morning, their departure till the ram sto changed their soaked clothing the store. Two of the men were armed. They tied up with wire four male assistants sleeping on the ground floor and shut them in
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      Blames Drugs
      118 5 A 45-year-old Chinese denied in the Fourth Police Court yesterday that he fried to commit suicide in a house in Kampooff Silat Road on Wednesday by hitting himself on the head with two mallets in turn, a small chair and a block of wood. He said he was
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      Body Not Claimed
      112 5 LEE Wee Song, who had apparently been knocked down by a vehicle when he was found unconscious in River Valley Road on June 14, and who gave a false address to the police, was not visited by anyone during the two months he was in hospital, neither
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      30 R.A.F. Recruits
      56 5 RECRUITING for the Royal Air J\ Force Regiment, Malaya, began in Singapore yesterday, at the Victoria Memorial Hall. Although about 250 Malay youths presented themselves, only 30 were cftosen. Kuala Lumpur wHI be the depot and Headquarters of the Regiment. The R.A.F. Regiment (Malaya) wHI be commanded
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      Grievous Hurt
      117 5 lOHORE BAHRU. Thursday A quarrel over a house, 4n which Ong Poh died after having his skull fractured, resulted ir. sentences of rigorous imprisonment for three men at the Johore Assizes. It was stated in evidence that before Ong Poh could shift into a house he had bought
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    SINGAPORE DIARY
    249 5 TODAY: Y.W.C.A. Malay Classes, 8 Port Canning Road, 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. and 11 Leonie Hill Road. 5.30 p.m. Municipal Commissioners' meeting, Board Room, Municipality, 2.15 p.m. Extraordinary general meeting, Ceylonese Association, 11 Handy Road, 5 p.m. Members' Conference. Co-operative Stores Society Ltd., 331 North Bridge Road,
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    THREAT CHARGE
    41 5 Charged with the criminal intimidation of Sinapa Ramu by threatening to shoot him with a pistol in Serangoon Road, on Aug. 27. S. Marimuthu was remanded on bail of $400 in the Second Police Court yesterday till Sept. 11.
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    CHINESE SURVEY PLANE ARRIVES
    426 5 New Service May Take In Singapore THE first Chinese civil air line pilot to touch down in Singapore is Capt. Harold T. Chirm, who flew the China National Aviation Corporation Skymaster XTTO4 from Bangkok yesterday on a survey flight from Shanghai to Batavia. The flight will
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    Yellow Rice For Welcome
    155 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. According to a telegram received today by Mr. Anthony Brooke from his wife, who is at present touring Sarawak, European observers on the spot estimated that a crowd of over 2,000 were assembled on the wharf to welcome her
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    31 5 Siput Sarawak in one af the scenes ot" the Malay picture "Singapura Diwaktu Malam" production of which has just been completed at the Shaw Brothers St udios at Ja Jan Ampas.
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    Spore Yachtsmen Hold Celebration
    284 5 HUNDREDS of members, guests, wives and women friends packed the Royal Singapore Yacht Club last night fox a gala makan kechil to celebrate the opening of the re conditioned clubhouse. Signal flags flew from the halyard- of a floodlit flagstaff on the Trafalgar Street breakwater. Treasured
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    YEN. LOKANATHA
    22 5 Yen. Lokanatha, the Italian Buddhist missionary chief, will be leaving on Sept. 3, by the Empress of Scotland for Hongkong.
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    SUICIDE WITH CHOPPER
    164 5 SUICIDE WITH CHOPPER A CHINESE woman told he Singapore Coroner yes-« terday that she did not believe that her mother, Ah Choi, found with a cut throat on Aug. 15, had killed herself. Sh c said when she saw net! mother dead there was al-o a wound in the breast,
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    OPIUM CURE PLEA
    62 5 Five Chinese, a rotan and chick shop employee, a hospital toti. a squatter and two vegetable gardeners, who all pleaded guilty in the First District Court yesterday to the possession of opiumsmoking apparatus, on Wednesday, said they needed the opium to relieve ailments. The District Judge, Mr.
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    BIG CUSTOMS HAUL
    294 5 From Our Stall Correspondent, KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. INT raid* carried out duiine 1 N lams idiuua out^uuimt,. the past week, Kuala Lum-; uur custom's officers discover*A a Ihvp-p nuAntitv of nnhim' ed a laige quantity ol opium and mol'o ihan 1,000 gallons of illicit liquor. 1 The
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    Acquitted Of Causing Death
    217 5 Acquitted Of Causing Death WITHOUT being called upon t 0 make his defence, Sher Mohammad, driver of a military lorry which overturned at the Hth milestone, Woodlands Road, resulting in the deaths of five 8.0.R.s and injury to 23 others, was acquitted yesterday on a charge of causing death, not
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    RUBBER CLOSES 1/8-CENT DOWN
    90 5 RUBBER CLOSES 1/8-CENT DOWN Rubber fell by about i of a cen', last night after the market had opened steadily in the morning at around 28i cents. The closing price for N. 1 sheet f.o.b. was 284 cents per lb. for buyers, and 282 cents per lb for sellers. Spot
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    THEFT OF PENS
    94 5 THEFT OF PENS Two 30-year-old Indians, S. Gopal and S. Sinnasamy, who pleaded guilty to stealing two fountain pens each valued at $3, from the Kelso Victory on Wednesday night, were defendants in the Third Police Court, yesterday. Gopal was fined $25 or a week in prison
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    France To Announce olicy
    178 6 France To Announce olicy PARIS, Thursday. r VHE war in Indo-China be1 tween the French and the Vietnam forces would continue "until more favourable circumstances" for negotiations were encountered, the French Minister for Sports and Youth, M. Pierre Bourdan, announced yesterday following a full French Cabinet meeting. M. Bourdan said
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    Capable Cast In New Stage Play
    335 6 •PHE Reginald Beckwith 1 comedy "A For Christinas," which the Singapore Stage Club is presenting at the Victoria Theatre, is well performed by a capable cast. Production of the play by James Belchamber is good and the lighting ana decor were excellent. The chief
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    Death Of Mr.Lim Keong Lay
    243 6 Death Of Mr.Lim Keong Lay From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Thursday. ONE of the most prominent leaders of the Chinese community, Mr. Lim Keong Lay, J.P., M.C.H., died at the Pcnang Sanatorium early this morning. The late Mr. Lim, who was 65, had been in failing health tor some time.
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    SAYS DETECTIVE WOUNDED HIM
    198 6 Yusoff bin Bakar, a 16-year-old Malay, alleged in the Fourth Police Court yesterday that he wa shot by a detective when he was arrested. He appeared in court with his left arm In plaster and a sling. Yusoff pleaded guilty to escaping from police custody at
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    MALAY GIRL AT WOKING MOSQUE
    84 6 From Our Correspondent LONDON, August 18.— For the first time, two Malay girls have entered the Shah Jehan Mosque at Woking, Surrey— the first Mosque of England. The occasion was the celebration of the Muslim festival of Id-ul-Fitr, when there was a large attendance at
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    Assassination Rumour
    130 6 A report from Saigon says that Nguyen Van Sam, diplomatic representative of the National Union Front Political Party, suggested to the Vietnam resistance committee yesterday that "to realise the complete solidarity of the Vietnamese people," the National Union Front and the Vietnam Government should join forces. In his
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    ADMITS THEFT OF CHAIRS
    134 6 That he had borrowed four folding chairs and a wooden bench for Hari Raya Puasa and had retained them because he wanted them for a musical party "which might be attended by European officers'* was the plea put forward by an RAF. Malay constable, AJimad bin
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    CASE WITHDRAWN AGAINST WOMAN
    98 6 The Fourth Police Court Magistrate, Mr. H. W. Nightingale, yesterday, released a 22-year-old Tamil woman Uthiri who was charged with the theft of jewellery, valued at $60, the property of Chinatihamhy, at Johore Bahru, on July 3. Mr. Nightingale said he would make no order under
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    SONG PARADE AT CAPITOL
    216 6 M-G-M's TiU The Clouds Roll j By has about as representative an array of popular American songsters as it is possible to get, the whole dazzling spectrum of i Hollywood's colour cameras and I a one-song ration from Frank Sinatra. This prodigious two-and-a- j quarter hour
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    LONDON STOCKS
    275 7 LONDON, Wednesday. rr has been a very quiet day all found the stock markets and the few fluctuations that have taken place have been minor ones, says Reuter's financial correspondent. British Funds closed unchanged sifter a short period of dullness. Industrials were generally slightly easier except for Breweries,
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    U.S. FUTURES
    146 7 NEW YORK, Thursday.— Crude rubber futures yesterday closed unchanged to six points higher. Sales totalled 18 contracts. September 15.05 cents (U.S); December 14.90 cents; May 14.70 cents bid, July 14.70 cents nominal. Number one ribbed smoked sheets 15>4 nominal.— A. P. Utd. Sua Betong 40/ —11% Sedenak 16/
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    Eastern United Assurance
    299 7 A FINAL dividend of five per cent and a cash bonus of two and a half per cent were approved at the annual meeting in Singapore of the Eastern United Assurance Corporation Limited. It was announced that the final dividend would absorb $37,500 and the cash bonus
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    SHANGHAI BLACK MARKET MONEY
    63 7 SHANGHAI, Thursday -The black market foreign exchange rate in Shanghai, after remaining steady for nearly two months, spiralled to a new high yesterday. Black market money dealers in the morning quoted 46,000 Chinese dollars for one American *?"fr- The rate had been CN539,000 to US$l earlier
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    SPORE SHARES
    41 7 By A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Thursday. THE tone of tbe local share market was very quiet and irregular throughout. All sections were reported featureless. Changes In price quotations given today by Uie Main in Sharebrokers' Association were as follows
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    RUBBER
    63 7 rhe Singapore Chamber 01 Commerce Rubber Association's prices at noon yesterday were: Buyer* Sellers Cts. Cts. per ib per ib. No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose (nominal) 27 J 28 Nc i R. 8.8 roc in bales Sept. 281 281 No 2 R.S.S rot in bales Sept. 28 281 No
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    DULL DAY FOR RICE, SUGAR AND COFFEE
    264 7 Produce Market By A Market Correspondent THE rice market yesterday 1 was quiet. Recent price increases have reflected dwindling stocks rather than growing demand. Sugar was also uninteresting. Java white dropped $1.50 the plcul. Copra dropped 50 cents the picul. Coflee was dull.
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    MORE UPSETS TOMORROW? Rain Holds Up Final Gallops
    289 8 MORE UPSETS TOMORROW? Rain Holds Up Final Gallops From Our Racing Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. WITH the change in weather, punters will find winners hard to pick on Saturday, the last day of the Selangor Turf Club August meeting. Upsets are likely. Heavy rain fell this morning, and did not
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    Foreign Sports Flashes
    302 8 LONDON, Thursday— A novel suggestion that Channel swimming ba included in next year's Olympic ?f. m s u has been made b y Fahmy Attallah, Egyptian swimmer, who ii now training at Dover for his second attempt to swim the English Channel Rputor. Attempt Postponed Bonneville Salt
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    South China Team To Play In S'pore
    130 8 HONGKONG'S famous South China football team are expected in Singapore on Sept. 3 and during their stay in the Colony will play three matches. The dates of these games are Sept. 6, 10 and 13, and the venue will be the Jalan Besar
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    Early XX. Selections
    91 8 H., Cl. I, Div. 1, 9 F.— WINGS, Mardi Gras. H., Cl. 1. Div. 1, 5} F.— INVEST, Goat's Skin. H.. Cl. 1. Div. 2, 5} P.— SOME CLASS, Edmond Dantes. H Cl. 2, Div. 1, 9 F.— PARAMOUNT, Spear Mirth. H.. Cl. 2, Div. 2. 9
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    QUICK SCORING
    87 8 No. 1 British Transit Camp were victors by 116 runs in a game against H.M.S. Simbang played at Sombawang, Singapore, on Wednesday. Batting first, the Transit Camp declared at 179 for 1 scored in two hours, thanks to a sparkling 54 (in 25 minutes) by Young, 36 not
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    ISLAND CLUB'S GOLF TOURNEY
    121 8 A mixed four^uiaes competition will be neld at the Island Club on Wednesday, Sept. 3, at 5 p.m. over the first nine holes. As this is the first mixed foursomes competition to be held at the club since the liberation, it is hoped that all women
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    S.C.C. Players Set For Big Partnership
    85 8 THE two opening batsmen for the bachelors in tomorrow's Singapore Cricket Club match against the married men, both scraped into the side with only I a few days to spare. The players are Norm Coieman and Percy Pearson, both of whom have represented Singapore
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    ARMY TEAM vs. R.A.F. CHOSEN
    72 8 The Army team to meet the RAF. at cricket at SMetar this week-pnd has been chesen as follow?: The Rev. J. W. J. Steele (capt), Lt.-Col. A. Clerke-Brown, Lt.-Col. I. A. Robertson, Maj. J. C. Frazer. Maj. J. Smith, Maj. R. C. H. Armitatead. Maj.
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    JOCKEY SUSPENDED
    54 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday.— Ted ly D&wson has been suspended for the rest of {he current Kuala Lumpur meeting following an inquiry by the racing stewards on his riding on Perambulator, favourite in the third race yesterday. He was alleged to have crossed between the
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    HOCKEY MEETING
    39 8 The annual general meeting of the Singapore Hockey Association will be held on Monday, Sept. 8. at 5.30 p. m. at the Singapore Recreation Club. Members' of all affiliated clubs, hockey teams and Interested bodies aro irvited.
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    24 8 Entries for the Singapore Amateur Athletic Union's table I tennis tournaments (men's open and "B" singles and women's singles) will close on Sept. 14.
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    LEO HEANEY vs. BALTAZAR AGAIN
    156 8 Australian welterweight Leo Heaney will be given a Ghance to clear all doubts about himself when he meets the lightweight champion of the Orient, Baby Baltazar. over ten rounds at the New World arena or. Sunday. Heaney lost a decision to Baltazar two weeks ago,
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    Keep Your Eye 0n...
    256 8 YVU«GS: Won like a champion first time out last Saturday, beating the field with a devastating last-turlong spurt after trailing for the first two furlongs. A natural stayer, as a three-year-old won the Burwood Handicap, over a mile, in 1 mm. 38»/ 4 sees. and ran
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    K.L. Race Programme
    1095 8 BELOW are the fields, subject to seratrhings, j for the third and last day's races at Selangor Turf Club August meeting tomorrow. The order of running will be published tomorrow. Horses Class 1, Div. I—91 —9 Furs. Value $2,000 2 13 ROSEWELL'S BOY 5 9.07 Mr. Llm
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    WADSWORTH HURT
    45 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday.— y Jockey Wadsworth was injured .f*"!™ *3" c Stream buS*** ar.d fell with the Jockey. h^7°^ TlJh?^ hosPital with ji_split lip. Bradford Northern beat Leeds by 20 I points to Bat rugger on Wednesday, reports Reuter.
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