The Straits Times, 30 August 1947

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURIMY, AUGUST 30, 1947 "RICE TEN CENTS
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    GENT APPOINTS TAX COMMITTEE
    360 1 GENT APPOINTS TAX COMMITTEE Report To Be Ready By Mid-October From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. THE composition of the Malayan Union, Government committee, which will make up a joint-committee with one from the Singapore Government to report on the Heasman income tax proposals, was announced today. At the
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    SEVERE PRESS CRITICISM ON CRISIS PLANS
    544 1 LONDON, Friday. WHILE the British Government yesterday faced n a barrage of press criticism over its dollar crisis cuts on imports, the powerful Federation of British Industries urged it to make import cuts more severe and, if necessary, to impose higher taxation to curb
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    17 KILLED IN TRAIN COLLISION
    21 1 CALCUTTA. Friday. Sevennprsons were killed and 116 tM on VdnlsS night in a Calcutta. —A. P
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    RUBBER INDUSTRY PROTESTS
    167 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Friday. PLEA for greater official encouragement for the mhhor inriinTtrv in vipw of its rubber industry, in view 01 its potential as a dollar earner, was made by the chairman of the Gordon Malaya Rubber ivfo^V «Tr *Von/.; a Vmilpq Estate, Sir
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    DELEGATES TO UNESCO
    106 1 NANKING, Friday. Educaational experts from all parts or the East and the South Pacific were beginning to assemble in Nanking yesterday for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation's regional conference on fundamental education, due to open on Sept. 1. The Chinese delegates who have arrived
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    Germany To Double Steel Production
    252 1 BERLIN, Friday. THE British and United States military governments today announced an industrial plan for their zones in Germany to produce up to 10,700,000 tons of steel yearly— n-arly double the figure for all Germany set by the Foux&t&er agreement. Tne new pian is a
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    LIGHTNING SETS TREE ON FIRE
    173 1 LIGHTNING SETS TREE ON FIRE SIX army and civil fire engines rushed to Tanglin Barracks last night when lightning struck a tree and sparks from burning branches threatened the married officers' quarters. Many people who saw a blaze telephoned the brigades, thinking the quarters were on fire. An officer 15
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    POPE'S ENVOY ARRESTED
    71 1 BELGRADE, Friday. —It was announced today that Mgr. Ukmar, the Pope's personal emissary, who was wounded in Sunday's attack on Lanisohle rectory, in which a priest was beheaded, had been arrested on a charge ol provoking rioters and would be tried, along with Father Celt, by the
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    LISTOWEL GOING TO BURMA
    59 1 LONDON. Friday.— The Earl of Listowel, Secretary of State for Burma, left by plane yesterday fc r Rangoon for two weeks of conferences with Burmese leaders Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade, was originally destined to make the trip but cancelled it because
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    Punjab Carnage: Mountbatten Flies To Lahore
    350 1 Punja b Carnage: Mountbatten Flies To Lahore NEW DELHI, Friday. TWO weeks of ferocious bloodshed in the Punjab have produced a quarter of a million casualties, one million homeless and peril to eight more million people still living in the area. The Governor-General of India, Viscount Mountbattcn. yesterday left for
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    RUBBER FALLS 3/8 OF CENT
    60 1 RUBBER FALLS 3/8 OF CENT Rubber lost of a cent yesterday on the local market, which was reported as very quiet. No. 1 sheet f.o.b closed last night at 27| cents per lb. buyers, as against Thursday night's close of 28 Va cents, with sellers at 26 cents. Spot loose
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    AIR CHIEF DUE IN SINGAPORE SOON
    76 1 Air Marsha! Sir George Pirie, Air Commander-in-chief, Far East, who has been attending staff talks In London, is expected to arrive back in Singapore ok Sept 2 While in England Sir George also took part in "Operation Thunderbolt" the conference of Commanders-in-Ohief of the
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    'STRIP JAPAN OF POWER TO MAKE MORE WAR'
    643 2 8 Empire Nations State Demands CANBERRA, Friday. fHE complete disarmament and demilitarisation of Japan were demanded yesterday at the conference of eight British Commonwealth countries which is being held here. The official report said "complete prohibition" of naval construction was favoured, and
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    2 KILLED IN DAKOTA CRASH
    136 2 MANSTON, Kent, Friday. Both occupants pilot and navigator of a Royal Air Force Command Dakota were killed yesterday when their plane circling to land at Manston Royal Air Force station crashed i| a field at Woodchuriih nearby. According to eye-witnesses, the aircraft fuel tanks appeared
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    CUSTOMS UNION TO BE FORMED
    124 2 PARIS. Thursday. The European Customs Union moved a stage nearer establishment tonigbt when the 16-nations attending the Marshall European A« v Conference reached virtual afereemerl for getting up a special committee to explore the possibilities. This agreement, a spokesman said, was implied in the decision
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    RECORD 'CHUTE JUMP?
    64 2 MOSCOW, Friday.— Newspapers claimed yesterday that a new world's record in parachute jumps has been set by Lt.-Col. Vasili Romanyuk by a leap of 13,400 metres. Reports said that the temperature at the jumping altitude was minus 72 degrees and his fur clothes were immediately covered with
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    SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY
    47 2 Surplus plant and materials are for sale by tender. Tender forms .and particulars are obtainable from the Municipal Engineer's Office (Room 218). Deposit $50 (refundable). Tenders, which close at noon on 16 September. 1947. should be deposited in the Tender Box (Boom 235) Municipal Secretariat.
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    AUTHOR MAKES HIS FORTUNE IN GAOL
    111 2 From Our Own Correspondent bad aheques. KT«*W vrYßir 'UYiria.v NEW -iORK, Friday. A 30-year-old convict has mo, nnn ...¥V,nmade £11,000 as an author during two years' imprisonment in an American gaol. He Is Edwin J. Backer, wtoo in 1945 was sentenced to from 12
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      Pilot Jettisons 10,420 lbs. Of Banknotes To Avoid Crash
      140 2 nrvTDAi r» 1 A SHANGHAI, Friday. CENTRAL Bank representatives and local Kwangsi officials are combine the mountains near Liuchow— former 14th Air Force air base— searching for 10,420 lbs. of banknotes which were jettisoned on Monday to save a C.N.R.R.A. air
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      Profitable Pests
      61 2 CANBERRA, Friday.— While far. mers are introducing more affective methods to rid properties of rabbits (bulldozers exterminate rabbits at one quarter of pre war costs) the export trade in rabbits and rabbit skins is proving highly profitable. Rabbit skins alone exported in 1945-46 realised £12,500,00. No other so
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      Legacy Out Of Blue
      124 2 KANSAS CITY, Friday. Stephen Haynes, a retired rail- road man, has received an $18,000 j legacy because o. the help he ex1 tended a young woman immi- grant from Austria 30 years ago. Mrs. Katy Grisnik, who once 1 operated a restaurant here, died ion Tuesday
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      Wrinkleproof Cloth
      45 2 NEW YORK, Friday. A new chemical process which makes cotton fabrics as wrinkleproof as woollens was announced yesterday by the Dan River Mill. George Harris, the company's president, said the process was developed through four years of research at the company's laboratories. U.P.
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      'Bus Crash'
      38 2 LIVERPOOL. Friday. Eighteen people, the majority of whom were young women, were injured yesterday when a double-decker bus bound for Liverpool, crashed into a tram queue at Dovecot. Six injured queue-standers were detained in hospital.— Reuter.
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      35 Mystery Deaths
      97 2 HONOLULU, Friday. Medical men are baffler by a strinsre malady that has taken the lives of 35 apparent.y heaitny Filipinos within five years seven deaths occurring this year. All victims are men between the ages of 32 and 38 who succumbed between midnight and 5 am. after
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      Nazi Magicians
      83 2 NUREMBERG, Friday. The chief U.S. prosecutor, Brig. -Gen. Telford Taylor, accused 24 top officials of Farben Industries of major responsibility for visiting upon mankind "the most scaring and catastrophic war in human history because of their desire to conquer the world. He bold the American tribunal at the
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      New Planet
      56 2 HAMILTON, California, Friday. Lick Observatory has announced the discovery of a tiny new planet, less than 10 miles in diameter, between Jupiter and Mars. The planet is faint but visible with a 15-inch telescope at the closest approach to earth. It Is one of some 2.500 known or
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      Alleged Killer
      107 2 CHICAGO, Friday. A 60-year-old Chicago housewife, Mrs. Anna Sosnowski, is alleged to have told the police here that she killed her husband, a former mental patient, with a hammer, hackee his body apart with a saw and threw the pieces into the river after a quarrel in their
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      Dunlop Chief Dies
      42 2 LONDON. Friday.— Sir Harold Kenward, Director of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., and past president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, died suddenly yesterday on board the Queen Elizabeth on his way to the United States.— Reuter.
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      Warship Sold
      48 2 LONDON, Friday. The famous 30,000-ton battleship Warspite which was wrecked in Mounts Bay, Cornwall, and has been holiday attraction number one for people touring Cornwall this summer, has been sold to Messrs. Bennets, a Bristol iron and steel merchants firm, for a price not disclosed. Reuter.
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      942 2 NOTICES SINGAPORE TURF CLUB. As from Ist September. 1947. the Singapore Turf Club Town Office will be situated at Singapore Cricket 1 Buildini Entrance: St. Andrews Road. P.W.D. NOTICE. FOR SALE Two Army Type Dodge Lorries. For Particulars Apply Mechanical Engineer. Johore Bahru. (O. MORGAN) State Engineer. P.W.D.. Johore TALAM
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      509 2 NOTICES CEYLON FLOOD RELIEF MEETING An Informal meeting will be held at the premises of the Mercantile Institution on Sunday 31st August at 10.90 a.m. All Ceylonese and sympathisers are cordially welcome. P. E. Perera, Convenor. NOTICE Notice is hereby given that I. the undersigned. Chong Thutt P1&, of No.
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      102 2 NOTfCE LOH AH MING, NO. 21. JOO CHI AT ROAD. SINGAPORE NOTICE is hereby Riven that Mr. Lob Ah Ming has applied to the Board of Licensing Justices, Singapore, for a Ist. Class Public House Licence (Beer and Stout) at No. 31. Joo Chlat Road and that his application will
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    POPE, TRUMAN EXCHANGE PLEDGES
    604 3 'Moral Forces Must Join 9 Says Truman VATICAN CITY, Friday. DOPE Pius and United States President Truman, in an exchange of letters, today pledged the joining of resources for a moral world order and the rebuilding of peace on Christian principles.** President Truman's letter, delivered to
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    80 3 Mikel Utsi, a Lapp from Raresuando, north of .Sweden, w-oaa-casting in the British Broadcasting Corporation s Overseas Service during his recent visit to England. Mikel Utsi is well known for his work during the war. He helped hundreds of thousands of Norwegians to cross the Swedish border during Norway s
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    DUTCH CONSULATE CLOSED MONDAY
    27 3 The Dutch Consulate will t closed on Monday, September 1, 1 celebration of the 67th birthday < Queen Wllhelmina, which falls c August 3L
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    Contact With U.K. Prolongs Moratorium
    282 3 Contact With U.K. Prolongs Moratorium A LEADING banker in the "JJ Far East said in Singa- th pore yesterday that the lift- te ing of the moratorium in Hong Kong and Malaya could have been expedited by the local governments acting on pj their own without protracted W) contact with
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    CHURCH SERVICES
    229 3 JO-MORROWS service* In Singapore 1 cnurcbes are as follows:Church of England: St. Andrew's Cathedral 7 a.m., 8 a.m., 10.30 a.m., 11.15 a.m. and 5.30 p.m.; St. George's Garrison Church (Tanglin) 7.15 a.m., 9 a.m., 9.45 a.m., 6.30 p.m.; Christ Church (Dorset Road) 8 a.m., 10.30 a.m., 5 p.m.
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    Heroine's Dramatic Cry InFace Of Death
    352 3 From Our <Hwi Correspondent IPOH, Friday. rf T tell them, Mummie. Jesus wiH help us through," cried a seven-year-old girl about to be burnt alive by the Japanese during the occupation. The Japanese were trying to force the girl'3 mother to confess her connection
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    Dutch Accept Mediation
    323 3 Dutch Accept Mediation THE HAGUE, Friday. HTHE Dutch Cabinet last 1 night decided to accept the good offices of the United Nations Organisation Security Council in Holland's dispute with the Indonesian Republic well-informed circles said today, according to the Netherlands Press Agency. A Labour informant said that two Cabinet sessions
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    GREECE HAS A NEW CABINET
    60 3 c ATHENS, Friday.— lt was an- nounced yesterday that M. Demetrios Maxlmos had been chosen Prime Minister of Greece. M. Maximos is 72. a financier and Premier of the Cabinet which resigned last Saturday. M. Maxtmos succeeded in forming a new Cabinet last night with
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    SMOKES SOLD ABOVE PRICE
    116 4 SEREMBAN, Friday.— The proprietor of a Seremban coffee shop. Wong Yor.g Kah, appealed uni successfully before Mr. Justice E. D. Pretheroe, at the Supreme Court, yesterday, against the fine yf $250, imposed on him in July, by the Seremban District Judge, on a summons charge of
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    "Let Natural Rubber Into U.S."
    488 4 "Let Natural Rubber Into U.S." From Our Own Correspondent (By Airmail.) LONDON, Aug. 18. rLISE for the conclusions arrived at by the recent Rubber Study Group in Paris, doubt whether they could be put into practice speedily, and the opinion thai American man v f a cturers should be allowed
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    58 4 The late Mr. Lim Keone Lay, J.P., M.C.H. well-known Penang resident, who died «n Thursday. Mr. Lim was former president n( the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and the Singapore Chinese British Association, and was the only non-European elyted Chairman of the Straits Settlements (Penanc) Association. Last year he accepted the
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    Singapore Shipping
    86 4 CHIPS alongside the Singapore v wharves yesterday (godowns in brackets) were: Main wharf: Marine Flier f3l32), Fooch:w (33-34), Menelaus < 36-37), Myrmidon (38-39), Ben. tong (41), Prometheus (42-43) West Wharf: Ikauna (1-2), Gamaria (4-5), Marella (6-7), Glenbeg (12-13), Relau (15). Empire Dock: Bennevis (1718), Karoa (23-24), Trevaylor (25-26),
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    BUSES BACK TO NORMAL
    89 4 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Friday. rPH 21 buses back on the road today, transport services run by th c Central Province Bus Company hay now been restored to normal. More workers who went on strike on Monday have returned to work, while new hands have
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    HAD DUTIABLE TOBACCO
    88 4 HAD DUTIABLE TOBACCO A Eleven cartons of lUg cigarette*, which are for exclusive sale in the Netherlands East Indies, were discovered at houso in Pasir Par.jang Road in a raid carried out by the police and the Food Control Department on Thursday. This was told in the Third Police Court
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    MALAY CLASSES AT Y.M.C.A.
    60 4 The YM.C.A. course of 10 lessons in conversational Malay will commence at 5.45 p.m. on T esday, Sept. 2, in the musia room on the first door of the Y.Ju.C.A., Orchard Road. Members and Services are informed that there are a few vacancies in the class
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    FOUND WITH DAGGER
    122 4 For possession of a six-inch dagger without a licence, Ismail bin Jadi, 23, was sentsnced in the Second Police Court yesterday to two months' rigorous imprisonment. The accused was arrested at Albert Street on July 22. It was stated in evidence that the police were informed that
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    Sultan To Open Conference
    289 4 Sultan To Open Conference From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Friday. THE Sultan of Johore, Sir 1 Ibrahim, G.C.M.G.. D.X.. S.P.M.J., K.8.E., G.8.E., is now on his way from Engiand specially to open the seventh' general assembly of the Lnit-. Ed Malays National Organisation, Johore Bahru. m. September 2, 3,
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    Floggings And Gaol For Three Kidnappers
    338 4 From Our Staff Correspondent i KUALA LUMPUR, Friday, t THREE Chinese were sentenced to floggings, as well as imprisonment, after they had been found guilty at the Selangor Assizes today of extorting $15,000 from a Chinese rubber dealer whom they had abducted and held
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    MALACCA HOLIDAY
    25 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday —V-J Day, September 12, has been declared a holiday tor Malacca The holiday has been gazetted as "Victory Day". »«*WS«-^
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    WOMEN OF FASHION:
    109 5 17V ER since the corset was invented about GOO years ago the fashionable female figure has been phony. This year women will ba falser than ever if they foliow fashion's edict of full hips, wasp waists, emphasised bosoms, and braided hair. To get the curving, opulent 6ilhouetts
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    The Wretches Are Falser Than Ever
    550 5 By MOLLIE DYE ding below the waist. In short, never before have women needed so many artificial aids to be glamorous. They already use shoes with" platform soles for added height, cheaters for uplift, corsets for figure control, false eyelashes for bigger eyes, artificial
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    Fashion Fantasy
    548 5  -  PHILIPPA DAY By NEW YORK (By Airmail) ALICE in Wonderland has +v.;n» nothing on me now. She's never seen a queen, wearing one million dollars' worth of diamonds, flirting with a sea-lion—but I have. She never looked into a crystal ball to see her future and saw Instead
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    GLAMOUR CORNER
    251 5 ALMOST everyone can hav c beautiful nails if they are nail-conscious. But you must concentrate on the problem and remember to protect your nails as much as possible. For instance, don't pry open things with your nails. Use something stronger and less precious. And try to use the
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    Men of Fashion
    117 5 And this is what could happen if our fashion-conscious males took the advice of women fashion i writers too literally. j The smart dressers will strive to get that buttle effect* Lotest in hats is that close bcmnety look. Smart evening wear] dears the ankle bj\ at
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    Charity Night For T.B. Fund
    94 5 Three dance teams from the Singapore Association of Teachers of Dancing will give an exhibition tonight at a Grand Charity Night at Raffles Hotel in aid of the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis As-, sociation. The S.A.T.D. organised the Charity Night, which will be attended by the Officer
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    Miss Precious Minutes Says:
    48 5 HERE S one way of removing scratches on woodwork and floors: Rub with a little lard and remove it with a clean cloth. DID you know that if you keep stirring the water while cooklng hard-boiled eggs the yolks will keep in the centre?
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      354 5 *"7m ilk Thanks to the new AVO Process you can NOW give > \\j) your children all the milk they need to stay healthy and grow strong. Pour it to them out of those big AVO gallon jugs. They will come back for more, 1 because it's creamy-rich, homogenized, real
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    DEATH
    32 6 GRIFFITH-JONES. On Thursday, 28th August, at 5 p.m. at Bungsar Hospital Kuala Lumpur. Michael Paul Griffith-Jones infant son of Pat and Eric Griffith- Jones. He had only lived a few hours.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Sat,. August 30, 1947. THE MALAYAN SCHOLAR
    1148 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Sat,. August 30, 1947. THE MALAYAN SCHOLAR An event which has passed unnoticed outside a very small circle in Malaya but which means a great deal in the cultural life of this country is the reappearance of that old-established publication which used to be known before
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    AUSTRALIA WANTS 10 MILLION BRITONS
    101 6 OTTAWA. Friday. Australia's Immigration and Information Minister, Mr. A. Calwell, said here yesterday that Britain must part with 10,000,000 surplus people to prevent "starvation and suffocation." "Britain can never starve herself back to security and prosperity since her economy can only support 35,000,000," he told
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    U.NO. BUDGET CUT
    40 6 LAKE SUCCESS, Friday. A United Nations budgetary committee recommended yesterday Uiat U554,108,198 be cut from a suggested 1948 budget for the United Nations of $39,43,792. Proposed economies Included a $3,000,000 reduction in the appropriation lor staff expenses.—AJ\
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    THE OLD-STYLE PLANTER'S BUNGALOW
    1395 6 THE OLD-STYLE PLANTER'S BUNGALOW A Malayan Countryman's Diary COME recollections of the development of housing in the Ulu, as I have seen it, may interest readers. These observations apply only to the Kota Tinggi district, but they go back tc 1906. Rubber was then really beginning to attract planters, who
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      Malaya Watch Bell Ceremony At K.L.
      187 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. •THE watch bell of H.M.S. MaJeya, which arrived in Singapore 1 on the Scythia, is to be formally presented to the country in general, and Victoria Institution in particular, in a formal ceremony on Victory »g. Rear-Admiral
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      Royal Wedding
      67 7 might be held in Singapore on the occasion of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth, said the president, Mr. L. Rayman, at a meeting yesterday. The Government had not yet decided, as far as he was aware. whether there should be a public holiday. If there was one, the
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      StudentS In Britain
      111 7 Ipnw Pririiv A students in BriTa"n F commiUee wnose'"unction among other things, is to keep in touch with educational institutions in Britain, and furnish those Malayan Students de,rous of prosecuting higber siudi?s there with advice and information, has been formed he-**. A meeting of students who hay?
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      Mass For War Dead
      95 7 P Friday A three day tot Penang victims o sc atrocities began a r It nm Tempi? today. ip coincided with i inrance ot the -Phor T^r-r A o: the S' .cnth Moon, if festival is based on th ief that during this of the yea;
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      Threat Alleged
      57 7 OEGAMATi Thursday.—Charged J^ with threatening to assault two of eiT colleagues if they failed stop work, two Chinese Lim l^ poon and Kee Jee. of Kebun Bahru, Jementah, appeared In the Segramat Court yesterday. Th c case was postponed and they were offered $300 bail each with one
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    SINGAPORE DIARY
    264 7 TOD AT: Annual general meeting, Portal and Telecommunications Oo operative Thrift and Loan Society. Ltd-. General Post Office, 12.30 p.m. St. Andrew's Old Boys Association lunch party and debate on "Should Income tax be Imposed?*" Cecil's Restaurant, 1 p. m. Soccer referees' examination, under the auspices of Amateur
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    Singapore To Have New Park, Pool
    202 7 SINGAPORE will have a new park and swimming pool ay |O Monk's Hill, off Bukit Timah Road, and a provision of $350 000 in next year's Municipal budget for carrying out the work has been made. The existing Mount Emily swimming pool will be
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    "THEY PRESSED FORWARD — I FIRED"
    745 7 "THEY PRESSED FORWARD I FIRED" P.C's Story Of S.H.B. Shooting TWO Punjabi policemen in the Singapore Coroner's Court yesterday told how they had been set on by a crowd of coolies armed with iron bars, sticks and stones. The policemen were testifying at the inquest. on a 22-year-old Tamil, Vengadasamy.
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    GAOL FOR CLERK
    95 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. CHEE Ba n Fong, clerk of Messrs Whiteaway and Laidlaw and Co,. Ltd., was this morning sentenced to a total of two and a half years' rigorous imprisonment by the District Judge, Mr. B. Q. Smith, on two charges of
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    INCREASED CO.L. ALLOWANCE ASKED
    53 7 Members of the Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association have sent a petition to the acting Chairman of the Harbour Board, Mr. P. A. T. Chrimes, asking for an increase in the cost of living allowance. They also ask for three months' ex-gratla payment which they say
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    Strike Threat By 10,000 Trishawmen
    521 7 THE Singapore Rick and Trishaw Workers Union has threatened a one-day protest strike on Sept. 1 by 10,000 trishaw riders against the law requiring them to wear arm j- i This was indicated in a letter to the Officer Administerme the Government, Mr. PAR MrKprron
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    ARMED ROBBERY
    36 7 Three Chinese,. one armed, 5,^,^ m to a house in liorong Tai Segi ofr Paya Lebar Road at 3 yesterday, and robbed a Chineae family of jewellery worth $i 75 16 cas h. 1
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    WEEKLY RUBBER REPORT
    179 7 AGAIN this week fluctuations i I have bee, small, but the, triarket has tended to sag, says report. Occasionally It looked Hif a definite movement to lower levels might be seen, but each time trade support was given and offerings were wen absorbed. The better sentiment in
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    Employers Propose Wage Increases
    197 7 Employers Propose Wage Increases From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. THE Malayan Mining Employers' Association las decided to recommend increases in the wages of mining employees as from September 1. The association, in a statement, says the European section of the association has decided because of "the continued delay
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    HID LIQUOR IN CYCLE TUBES
    90 7 A 65-year-old woman, Lim Ah Muay, who used bicycle tubes to conceal liquor, was fined $300, in default six months' simple imprisonment, in the Third Police Court yesterday. At dusk on Aug. 21, revenue officers saw the woman leave a rubber estate at the 13
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    WAGES COMMISSION
    36 7 The interim report of the Joint Wages Commission, to be published on Monday, will apply to labourers in evert Municipal department, the Singapore Municipal president, Mr. L. Rayman, told Commissioners at a meeting yesterday.
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    56 7 ln Chief Kathi of Singapore, Tuan Haji Mohamed Ali bin Ha.ii Mohd. Said Salleh, seen signing tlie register as voter at the Sultan Mosque regfatration office yeserday. After registering, the Chief Kathi asked the crowd of 1,000 which attended the Mosqne to register without delay and told them to "wnt
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      Crime films harmful to children
      140 8 this time, when juvenile crime is so rampant, in spite of the fact that the Government is doing its best, in many ways, to make good citizens out of those youths led astray, there is one factor which the Government has failed to realise. 1
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      A Perak Malay a Trade On Unions
      206 8 A Perak Malay a Trade On Unions I AM strongly against Trade Unions, as it is my beiie that they ar c more mischievous than beneficial, particularly i n this country, where Indian and Chine.-c .workmen are mostly uneducated and ar c at the mercy of their educators A man
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      Eligible, but not taken
      113 8 RECENTLY, there were several vacancies for' assistant traffic supervisors in the Singapore Harbour Board, with a commencing salary of $250 for Asiatics and $3<ft) for Europeans. The S.H.B. Staff Association was informed that its members were eligible to apply. The result was that applications began pouring
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      Malacca's Trishawmen
      83 8 Malacca's Trishawmen [AM sure all motorists and others would welcome lome form of strict control >eing exercised over trishaws n Malacca town. Nine times out of ten, these ehicles are either in the centre r on the wrong side of the road. Also, they are disinclined to love over to
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      'You're also
      163 8 wage-earner' T WAS involved in the incident -"-related below on the morning of Aug. 19. It being a wet morning (otherwise I would have cycled), I was compelled to to to office by bus. The bus was neighbouring High Street when the conductor came to the man next
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      COWBOY SONGS
      64 8 t SUGGEST a half-hour pro 1 gramme weekly of cowQn rec J ords# I)ke those which the SEAC station relays daily for ten minutes r'v. v v Vp°?*** songs ar* Just as £Sen£l ZL™*' m S^™ 6"1^ akJL cowboys, like Gen* Au£ ry- Ro V Rogers, Jimmy Roger*
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      Penang people still revere old folks
      146 8 Penang people still revere old folks More of Babas and Nonyas on the subject of Nonyas and Babas, would it not be too harsh to despise them? After all, they are the remaining links with our ancestors who came to Malaya and adopted it as their own land. People in
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      Many lawyers and doctors among Babas
      119 8 Many lawyers and doctors among Babas MR. T. Y. Yeo was rather severe in his criticism oi the Babas and Nonyas. His reference to them as hay- ing attained an educational qualification not beyond the eighth standard clearly shows that he is not well versed In Malayan matters. If he
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      His reward for civility
      243 8 I READ with interest the article by A. W. about a damsel's plight in a bus, in which he deplored the attitude of "certain bu^es ot suitable age!" Has he tried to find out why those young men refused to offer their seats to one of
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      Still waiting
      90 8 lAM an ex-serviceman. I was demobbed on Jan. 9 last, when I was paid $450 a« back pay. Since tihen I have been hunting for a job, applying to several government departments. I received many letters, which stated there was no vacancy then. I worked under the Japs
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      Hardships Of Enumerators
      143 8 lAM on c of the enumerators selected in connection with the 1947 Census. We enumerators are expected to be courteous and helpful to householders in the execution of our duties. It would be appreciated if the householders reciprocate to the same degree. I write this in disgust
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      Chinese In Salatiga: The Facts
      253 8 Chinese In Salatiga: The Facts A NEWS item published in the Straits Times of July 29 stated: "Chinese civilians who fired on Indonesian troops when Dutch forces attacked Salatiga on July 22 had to be protected from the vengeance of the local population when Indonesian troops repulsed the attack after
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      604 8 coEl t%L- h H nC f l°\ Wi Jff M^« s P ade tlick aEd therefore had iouS?S"^ ITS*."""" 1 10 East Both aides v<:'r>"->-v. Admittedly, there was something lor South to think about in the play ot this deal, because after he won with NORTH e s P ade
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    Beauties Of Penang
    398 9 DICTURESQUE Penang fs the subject of this week's picture page, photographs for which were taken by K. F. Wong specially for the Straits Times. More than 100 years old, Pe. nang is a beautiful Island and perhaps the most beautiful spot In Malaya. By means of the
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      80 9 SOi f A 4 If H. A. 0 CONNOR I CO. VICTORIA THEATRE THE STAGE CLUB, SINGAPORE PRESENTS "A SOLDIER FOR CHRISTMAS" A COMEDY BY REGINALL BECKWITH TONIGHT AT 8.45 P.M. Very Amusing <M. Tribune) Thoroughly Enjoyed (F. Press) TICKETS OBTAINABLE FROM ROBINSONS, RAFFLES PLACE (TEL. 5 894 EXT. 4)
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      107 9 > G/teattk Strenatn veautu s t vu^ithout perfect health a baby C cannot be truly beautiful. Give your j < baby then, a chance to be beautiful and |C f build up a sound, healthy body The first A nine months of a child's life are the most -J fj-—
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    LONDON STOCKS
    404 10 LONDON, Thursday. AFTER the early marking down which followed the latest Government action to combat the dollar crisis, the stock markets settled down today to pursue a course similar to that of other days this week, —they were very quiet and generally steady, says Reuters financial correspondent. Motors,
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    U.S. FUTURES'
    42 10 NEW YORK, Friday. Crude rubber yesterday closed two points higher to 18 points lower. Seles totalled 17 contracts. September 15.05 cents (U.S.); December 14.72; March 14.72 nominal; May 14.72; July 14.60. Number one ribbed smoked sheet 15.00 nominal.—A. P. I
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    Singapore Share Prices
    720 10 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Friday. rplN shares yesterda y continued to show a slight improvement on the local market. The A Industrial section, however, was still quiet. Rubbers again were neglected. Price quotations given to- 1 7 aay by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were as follows:
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    PEPPER EXPORTS LIFT PRICES
    337 10 Produce Market By A Market Correspondent. VTESTERDAY'S general improvement in the pepper market X was largely the result of heavy purchases by local dealers exporting to Hong Kong. Soviet agents in Hong Kong have been actively buying op pepper. Java white sugar lost a further $4.50
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    SANDYCROFT RUBBER CROP
    129 10 A crop of 253,753 lbs. was harvested by the Sandycroft Rubber Company Limited during the period March 1946 to January this year, it was stated at the annual meeting of the company in Kuala Lumpur. The directors' report also showed the estate was now in lull production
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    RUBBER
    60 10 rhe Singapore Chamber ol Commerce Rubber Association's prices at noon yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Cto. Ots. per ib. per U>. No. 1 R.S.B. Spot loose (nominal) 27 37tt No R. 8.8 cob in bales Sept. 27* 28 No 2 R.S.S fob in bales Sept. 27V4 27% No. 3 R.S.B.
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    INFLATION PUTS S'HAI PRICES UP
    58 10 SHANGHAI, Friday.—All local Shanghai markets have climbed after a three-month lull, the black market rate of United States dollars reaching CN. $48,000. The rice market, which is the best barometer of the inflationary trend, rose yesterday from CN. $400,000 per picul of 110 pounds to
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    INVEST WAS UNDER-RATED
    559 11 Malayan Sporting Topics By The Sports Editor J MUST confess that I was nn +v.^,« m v, v, a one of those who had harbotured the impression that Invest had been an overrated horse. The manner in which he smashed thn Mala wnicn ne smasnea tn e
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    Australia's New "Wonder Horse"
    101 11 Australia's New "Wonder Horse" This Is £hannor', n<tw Australia's No. 1 rac'hors2. being paraded before being aacti ned in Sydn?y earlier this month for the record price of £27,3 M. The new owner is Mr. W. J. Smith, who is said to have bought the horse for the American film
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    ROVERS TO PLAY IN MUAR
    87 11 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Friday.—The Johore Chinese Football Association will meet the Singapore Rovers in a soccer match at the Muar Club padang on Sunday. The team will Ibe selected from the following Tan Seng Twee. Ng Buck Heng Teng Joo Long, Yeo Koon
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    FOONG SEONG CUP FINAL POSTPONED?
    92 11 .irom Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Friday I Penang were to have met Johore In the final of the Foonjj Seonß Cup competition on August U bu: Jli l earned that Johore aye asked for a postponement «n view 2£i d ft te>s beinK to
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    SENANG HATI
    62 11 B.P. t Following are the office-bearers of toe Senang Hati Badminton Party. Singapore, for the current year: presidentMr. P.M. Mohamed Tg«»ii- vicepresident, Mr. Wee Tnlsun Bock; hoa. secretary, Mr Eddie ChU; hon treasurer. Mr. Wan Mohamed; hon sports captain, Mr. All b. Mohamed auditcr, Mr. Abdul Samat b
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    How To Swim The Crawl
    407 11 fHE American crawl is an excellent stroke with which to learn to swim. It is generally regarded by people who do not swim the crawl as a very "fancy" stroke, and only to be attempted by proficient swimmers who wish to increase their speed for
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    CRICKET TEAMS
    107 11 The Singapore Chinese Recreation Club's cricket team against FARELP at Hong Lim Greea tomorrow at 11 a. m. will be: Cheong Thiam S-ew, Dr. Ong 6wee Unr. Chee Chwee Chiang. Chua Boon Unn, Yap Chcon Lim. Evan Wong. Ong Chew Bee Alex Tan, Lav Hock Chye, Chong Kow
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    S.C.R.C.-I.A. CRICKET
    103 11 The following will represent Singapore Chinese Recreation Ciub In a cricket match against Indian Association at Hong Lim Green to-day at 2 pjn. cheong Thiam Siew. Dr. Ong Swee Law, Cheah Kirn Swee, Chua Boon Unn, Ong Beng Be, R. Tay. Chee Chwee Chiang. Low Kee Pow, Ong
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    3 HORSES LIKELY TO SCORE AGAINTODAY
    869 12 Invest, Wings For Cracks Races From Our Racing Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. fHE Kuala Lumpur racecourse was drying nicely this afternoon under a hot sun, and if the weather stays fine the going tomorrow will only be slightly yielding and not too soft for
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    Final K.L. Selections
    105 12 Race 1: PATHFINDER, Sans Ame. Race 2: CHRISTMAS, Red Hackle. Race 3: LAST DOUBLE, Flying Fortress. Race 4: NORTHWELL, Kendova. Race 5: PARAMOUNT, Spear Mirth. Race 6: INVEST, Goat's Skin. Race 7: WINGS, Mardi Gras. Race 8: KASHMIRI SONG, Blackpool. Race 9: SOME CLASS, Edmond Dantes. By
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    Championship Goes South
    34 12 Championship Goes South LONDON, Friday. Middlesex by beating Northamptonshire by 355 runs at Lord's, yesterday won the county cricket championship. BUI Edrich, Middlesex and England batsman, completed his 3,000 runs in this match. Reuter.
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    S.C.C. vs. S.R.C. TROPHY SOCCER
    59 12 The Singapore padang clubs clash at soccer today at 5.15 p.m. for the Clarke Padang Shield. The S.C.C. team will be: J. Aitfcen; G. Verrall and V. R. Burton; H. Twist, F. Hutchinson and R. Smith; E. Ten Duis, R. Fletcher, C. F. Clifton, C.
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    U.S. HORSE WINS GIMCRACK STAKES
    75 12 LONDON. Friday.— For the first time in its 100-year history, an American owner. William Woodward, won the Oimcrack Stakes with his two-year-old colt Black Tarquin. over six furlongs at the York race-track. Black Tarquin, ridden by Kins George's jockey, Harry Carr, starting at 3-1, beat
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    S.C.C TO HOLD TENNIS TOURNEY
    39 12 The Singapore Cricket Club proposes to hold a tennis tournament (mixed doubles and men's doubles) in September, provided sufficient entries are received. Entries will close on Wednesday. The tournament will .start on Sept. 8.
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    Fields For K.L.
    1099 12 gELO W is the card for today's races in Kuala Lumpur. The double totes are on races four and five, and races eight and nine. The big sweep is on race nine. Race One 2.15 Horses Class 2, Div. 4—6 Furs. Value $1,600 44 0 HARLEQUIN a
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    S.A.F.A. PRESIDENT TO TRY AGAIN
    396 12 PRESIDED 1 of the- SmgaI pore Amateur Football Association Mr L C HutchAssociation, Mr. v v "Uicnings, told the Straits Times yesterday that he would make on c more attempt to secure a renewal of the lease of the Anson Road Stadium. He pointed out.
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      596 12 SingTaoXI Again Lose LONDON, Friday. r>O\LKEEPER Yue Yiu Tai was U the sUr of tbe Sine Tao temm hih tost 1-5 to the Athenian eapuc at Enfleld yesterday. Quirk tackling spoilt toe tourists' «..<anres of scoring. Half-time score I was one-all. West scoring and Chn Wing Kennc equalising. Phiops (3)
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      302 12 Wuunlop TENNIS BALLS attainable from leading Sports Dealers THE DUHLOP RUBBER COMPANY (MALAYA) LTD. 142, Robinson Road Singapore flSB^ THE FIGHTING AUSSIE JT^ REDEEM HIMSELF f^JM !J|? X NEW WORLD boxing Bfej^i TO-MORROW AT 8.30 P.M PPJV Sjjjfa Kow Kirn Lin Presents il^r l f ■^HlS' Sensational Return Contest ■yf^UL^
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