The Straits Times, 6 January 1948

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    16 1 The Straits Times The Straits Times I'WKI.Vfc PACiKS SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1948 PRIC'F TEN CENTS
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    HOTEL BLOWN UP BY JEWS
    447 1 Consul Among The Killed JERUSALEM, Monday. THE Spanish Consul, Count Manuel de Salazar, was among those killed when members of the Jewish underground blew up the Semiramis Hotel m Jerusalem early today. Tonight three bodies had been recovered from under tons of masonry, and 16
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    Frenchman Honoured
    97 1 FRANCE has honoured a leading French citizen of Singapore with the Croix de la Resistance for bravery while under Japanese torture m Singapore and Indo-China during the war. He is M. Paul Clerc. managing director of Optorg (Malaya) Ltd. M. Clerc has worked for French business concerns m
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    DEADLOCK ON TRIESTE
    150 1 ROME, Monday.— ltaly and tfugoslavia appeared to have reached a deadlock today over the choice of a Governor for Trieste and it seemed most unlikely that any agreement would be reached by midnight tonight— the time limit set by the U:ii**>d Nations Security Council. The talks requested
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    Twenty Die In Smash
    25 1 NAGOYA. Monday— Twenty were killed instantly and 30 injured when a capacity-loaded electric car overturned at a sharo turn. I —UP.
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    TOJO ON PEARL HARBOUR
    320 1 THE Japanese war-time Prime Minister, ex-General Hideki Tojo, told the LJZ\ c h Mihtar Tribunal today under cross-examination that he or «££d SIZ! f? "?t ll f T ve 4 been an atta <* on Pearl Harbour if the Japanese KSKd! 5Sm? IJmtedJt^ on Nov. 7
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    SLEIGH HIT: 10 CHILDREN DIE
    49 1 ARCHBOLD. Ohio. Monday. —Ten children were killed when a speeding New York Central train crashed into a sleighing party at a level crossing here. The train struck the sleigh, killing ten outright and injuring two others. No railway passengers were hurt. U.P. and Reuter.
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    Reds Cross The Yangtse River
    341 1 NANKING, Monday. JJEPORTS that large Communist forces had crossed the upper reaches of the Yangtse River near Shasi, 125 miles west of Hankow, and -4hat Communist shipping had been concentrating m that area, led to the belief here today that they might try U» enter
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    Hopes Rise Of Free Tin Market
    158 1 Hopes Rise Of Free Tin Market From Our Own Correspondent LONDOK, Monday. r'O developments m the tin situation have recently encouraged a few market people to wonder whether there is not now some hope of the reopening of their section at least of the London Metal Market, says the Daily
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    C.-G. Leaves Tomorrow
    103 1 C.-G. Leaves Tomorrow The Governor General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, will leave Singapore by air from Kalian? Airport tomorrow. He will travel to the United Kingdom by flying boat. Mr. MacDonald will take part in routine talks at the Colonial Office. He will also, however, have talks at the Foreign Office
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    MICHAEL IN SWITZERLAND
    292 1 GENEVA. Monday. <TiHE exile train of ex-King 1 Michael of Rumania arrived at Buchs. on the Swiss frontier, today, but tire fevmer monarch remained behind drawn curtains and refused to descend even to accept a telephone call from Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma, whom he plans to marry.
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    24 1 General view of one of Japan's largest coal mines near Muroran, Hokkaido, where the Allies have stepped up production by nearly 100 per cent.
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    Federation Of Indonesia Within Year?
    339 1 Federation Of Indonesia Within Year? BATAVIA, Monday. •JHE Dutch Premier, Dr. Louis Reel, today expressed the hope that a Government for a Federated United States of Indonesia could be formed by Jan. 1, 1 *)!?>. Dr. Beel told a news conference that he was encouraged by the action of representatives
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    Rubber Touches 45 Cents
    157 1 Rubber Touches 45 Cents RUBBER reached 45 cents per lb for No. 1 sheet buyers f.o.b. on the Singapore Market yesterday. This was the highest level reached since the removal of the controls and the re-open-ing of the free market in the early spring of last year. It was achieved
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    CONSTITUTION FOR SIAM
    72 1 BANGKOK. Monday.— A 40man constituent assembly will draw up a permanent Siamese constitution, according to a decision taken by the Parliamentary Committee recently set up for devising means towards the purpose. Half the Assembly membership will be from the present Parliament, while the other half will be
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    BACK IN FILMS
    59 1 HOLLYWOOD, Monday. Marlene Dietrich has returned from France to resume her Hollywood career with one of three starring roles m the picture "A Foreign Affair." Producer Charles Brackett and Director Billy Wilder will film it at Paramount studios. Miss Dietrich will portray an Amer ~an Congress woman
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      New Tunnel Is Open Sesame To Space
      71 2 BERKELEY, California, Monday. THE world's first supersonic wind tunnel to duplicate high altitude conditions above 250,000 tcet was demonstrated here for the first time yesterday. The new low pressure tunnel will enable scientists to explore the "no man's land" m the upper atmosphere,
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      Trapped By Floods
      37 2 DIJON, Prance. Monday. Jean Baptiste Aragnet, aged 70. was burned to death at Aurorre, when his house caught fire. Rescuers were unable to reach him because the house was surrounded by flood waters.— A.P.
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      Made Admiral
      49 2 LONDON, Monday. Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Mile*, Flag Officer Commanding the Indian Navy, has been proi to trie rank of Admiral. He was Flag Captain on the battleship Nelson when the struck m e of the first magnetic mines m the early part of the war.— Beuter.
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      Fight Customers
      47 2 NANKING. Monday.— With faces badly srratchM and bruised, newsboys here deli1 Saturday papers latp yesterday afternoon. English paper m wsbovs have been on strike for lncreas > m wages. Yesterday, they fuught with subscribers who attempted to collect their own copies from the dlsn centre.— Renter.
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      Dancing Ban
      43 2 SHANGHAI. Monday. Commercial dance halls and cabarets here will all close down by the end of v ber. The banning to commercialised dancrng m Shanghai. which has long been approved by the central authorities, is now being put into force. R*-uur.
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      Finds Peace
      40 2 COLOMBO. Monday. "Coming to Ceylon was like beine transferred to a retrion of peace.' So said Mr. Herbert Bryant, former Rotary International secretary for the Middle East and South East Asia, who is to settle down m Kandy.
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      tell Into Gorge
      43 2 MANILA. Monday. One man was killed and three seriously injured after the snaDpinc of a support. ng cable of an aerial ropeway across the San Juan River m Batanea Province. They fell 300 feet into a rocky gorge.— A. P.
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      Actors Charged
      44 2 PARIS. Monday. Police charged a crowd of several thousand filir. actors and technicians who blocked trafIflc In the De La Reoublique here yesterday. The crowd was demonstrat- I i ing against the Francoj American film importation agreement sismed last June. 1 Rev:>
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      'Question Of Hour'
      40 2 VATICAN CITY. Monday.— Pope Plus addressed 3.000 Catholic youths here yesterday urgine them to co-oper-ate m solving "the burnine question of the hour". He defined this aa the achievment of a new social order of justice.— A.P.
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      Snooping lour
      34 2 WASHINGTON, Monday. Chairman August H. Andersen of the Special House Committee Investigating market trading, left here yesterday on a mission. He is to investigate alleged gambling In grain by Government employees. U.P.
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      Unmarketable Rice
      55 2 MANILA, Monday. Nine thousand and three hundred tons of rice are beine loaded aboard the S.S. Velerius here for the Netherlands Indies. Shipment is beine made by the Nationl Rice and Corn Corporation, which has already sent many tons of ricel to Malaya as it is unmarket- J
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      Huge Deficit
      37 2 SHANGHAI, Monday. The figure of CNC $1,216,726 million was quoted by CMnrse Customs sources as the foreign trade deficit .for China for October. October's exports wore estimated at one third of the import total. U.P.
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      Churchill "Well"
      19 2 MARRAKESH, Monday.— Mr. Winston Churchill was reported "very well" yesterday. He is n covr ring from bronchitis.—A.P.
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      Burma's Rice
      95 2 NEW YORK. Monday. A New York Times leading article says that prosperity In Burma would greatly aid the success of the Marshall Plan. The article adds that Burma has become the world's chief rice exporter and her production might be raised In large enough quantities to feed all
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      "Arms From Aid"
      48 2 PHILADELPHIA. Monday.— Machinery sent to bombedout European factories by the US. is being used by the Russians to make firearms. This allegation was made m a speech yesterday by Representative Franklin S. Maloney, of Pennsylvania, who has iust returned from a tour of Europe. A.P.
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      Fire Kills Seven
      31 2 MANILA, Monday. Seven persons were killed and three others seriously injured, m a fire yesterday. It destr ved five houses on the main avenue of Quezon city.— U.P.
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      Science Mission
      58 2 SYDNEY. Monday Five Australian scientists have left Sydney for Calcutta by Qantas flying-boat on a twomonth goodwill mission to Tndfa. The misflon will spend a week at the Indian Science Congress at Patna before visiting main Indian research centres. The Indian Government h;is invited the mission to rt
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      Cannot Accept
      59 2 BATAVIA, Monday. The Dutch Premier, Doctor I-ouis Beel, announced today that he was unable to accept the invitation of the Australian Government to visit Canberra because he had already overstayed his present visit to Indonesia. He is returnmg to Holland with Oversea Territories Minister, Mr. Jan Jontonan I
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      Stamp Prizes
      93 2 NEW DELHI. Monday. A total of 7,500 rupees (£511) m prizes is bein? offered b Government of Indisigns for India's new Swaraj" (.freedom) stamps to te issued m 1948. The new designs will be used for the denominations (if three pics, half-anna, nine pics, one anna, li annas,
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      Occupation Force
      55 2 CANBERRA, Monday.— The Australian Government has abandoned plans to recall its Army component m Japan by next June because of expected delays m con^ludinf the Jap peace 'rea'y. ing to Radio Australia The time wtthin which families of service men msy Join tJiem m Japan te ex- tended
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    De Gaulle Calls For Power
    176 2 De Gaulle Calls For Power ST. ETIENNE, Monday. /"•ENERAL do Gaulle to*J day attacked those "who seek to ruin France in order to establish dictatorship for conquerors of the East." In this his first major speech since his party polled a majority in the October municipal eliv.tioiis. General o> Gaulle
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    REDS ROUTED NEAR PEKING
    89 2 PEKING, Monday. Two Communist regiments w< re routed by Nationalise cultes a daylong clash on Sata near Ishie, 60 miles sout:-:-wes f of Peking. General Fu Tso-Yi's north Cliirm neadquarters announced icitTd*y. It said fled reinforce n: trying to reach the scene of the engagCTnTit were
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      943 2 NOTICES NOTICE. SINGAPORE TUtF CLUB. Election has been re-opened for a limited number of Pre-War Members only. No new Members or Lady Guest '^eribors will be elected. C. A. NIVEN. Secretary. S.T.O. NOTICES NOTICE The Public is hereby notified that Mr. Soh Chwt-e Oheow is no more m our employ
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    GANDHI "AMAZED" AT PAKISTAN
    381 3 Denials about Kashmir "Cut No Ice' i seriously depleted by the Balkan, Korean and Palestine Commissions. They believe, however, that i it would be difficult to ar- rive at an objective opinion i merely by hearing charges and counter-charges around a table. UNO Commission As both
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    Russia To Loycott Assembly
    150 3 Russia To Loycott Assembly JAKE SUCCESS, Monday.; A SOVIET spokesman said •H. yesterday that Russia vas leady to carry out her threatened boycott of the United Nations' "Little! Assembly." which begins its year-around sittings hi- iv tomorrow. Russia is expected to be joined m the boycott by the five other
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    Radio Permits To Malaya
    176 3 Radio Permits To Malaya WASHINGTON, Monday. THE Federal Communications Commission has entered a final order re-distributing service permits for British Commonwealth and other j Overseas points among] American Radio Telegraph Companies. The Commission dismissed, "without prejudice" to a renewal, the applications of RCA and MacKay for direct service to Ceylon.
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    2,000 TONS OF RUBBER BURN
    49 3 SAIGON, Monday.— A fire, believed to have been started by saboteurs, destroyed 2,000 tans of rubber valued at £375.000 m a dockoide warehouse here today. The fire, which started shortly after coolies had left the dockyard, covered the harbour area with dense smoke. Reuter.
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    MURDER CHARGE
    60 3 The 15-year-old Chinese girl accused of murder was yesterday sent to the Mental ilospital for observation. She appeared at Singapore Juvenile Court yesterday morning, and, at the request tne police prosecutor, the magistrate Mr. Paul Sammy, made the order. It is alleged that she murdered another girl on
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    Secret Big-Three Pact On Japan?
    377 3 WASHINGTON, Monday CENATOR William F. Knowland, Republican, of California, demanded yesterday that the State Department should disclose whether there was any secret Big Three agreement promising Russia a substantial portion of dismantled Japanese industrial plants. Ir. a letter to the Under-Secretary of State, Mr. Robert
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    BAO DAI LANDS IN SWITZERLAND
    65 3 GENEVA, Monday. Bao j 1 Dai, ex-Emperor of Annam, arrived here today from London. He was greeted at the i station by the French Con- I sul-General, M. Xavier de I Gaulle, brother of Gen. de Gaulle. M. Emile Bollaert, French High Commissioner for Indo-China,
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    SPAIN'S CLAIM TO EUROPE AID
    78 3 MADRID. Monday.— Spain j claimed last night that she could play a useful part m the re-construction of Europe under the Marshall plan. The Foreign Minister, Don Alberto Artaja. said that, if the great powers desired to put into play effectively all the forces for
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    Shakespeare Talks To A Critic
    99 3 Shakespeare Talks To A Critic LONDON, Monday. •THE dramatic critic, 1 Percy Al'en, said today that he had talked with William Shakespeare, the Earl of Oxford and Sir Francis Bacon m the spirit world and had asked them bluntly the question: "Who wrote the plays attributed to William Shakespeare?" Mr.
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    "Automatic Writer"
    127 3 For the past century. In Britain and other countries, groups of critics have backed various Elizabethean noblemen and writers as the actual authors or part authors of Shakespeare's plays and poems. These groups contend that Shakespeare himself was just an unlearned country bumpkin who became a passable actor
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    "NO PATIENT IN MOSCOW"
    143 3 STOCKHOLM, Monday.— Professor Ella Berven. Sweden's leading cancer specialist, on his way to Moscow, said today on his arrival m Helsinki: 1 have not been called to Moscow to treat a prominent cancer patient." He added that he was "only returning a visit which some Russian
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    "BEATEN UP" BY U.S. M.P.s
    103 3 WARSAW, Monday. The Polish Government has protested against a "brutal attack" by American military police on Mrs. Maria .Berikowicz. a Polish diplomatic courier. A note was handed to the American Embassy m Warsaw. It alleges that while Mrs. Berkowicz was passing i through Karlsruhe, m
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    41 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. —The Department of Public Works states that the Kota Tinggi-Johore Bahru Road, at the 7th and 24th mile, is flooded to two feet, and the Kluang-Jemaluang Road, at the 83rd and 87th mile, is flooded to three feet.
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    WIVES OPPOSE "SLAVERY" LAW
    290 3 LONDON, Monday. THE ultra-feminist Married Women's Association of Britain is launching a campaign to abolish the divorce court procedure of placing a monetary value on unfaithful wives. This procedure ha^ .ong been deprecated by women, who resent being still regarded m the eyes of the law
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    59 3 Model of England's new House of Commons, designed by Sir Giles Gibbert Scott. The speaker's chair is being placed m position. The skeleton of ihe new house is complete and it is expected that members will be able to leave their present quarters m the House of Lords and move
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    BURMA-BRITAIN PACT
    292 4 First Act Of Independence RANGOON, Monday. THE Burmese Parliament today over-rode Communist opposition and ratified a treaty with Britain. The ratification was Parliament's first act as a sovereign assembly. The treaty gives Britain permission to maintain military missions m Burma. It also provides for the transfer of 37
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    34 4 So thick was the snow m New York on December 27 that this Eskimo family, from Wales, Alaska, felt that Park Avenne where they exercised their dog team was just like home. A.P. photo.
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    Christian Influence In China
    275 4 SHANGHAI, Monday. "r-HRISTIANITY today V/ i3 playing a greater role in China's national life than it has ever played before," said Dr. Hollington Tong, Director of the Chinese Government's Information Office, in a radio address to China's Christians over the Christian broadcasting station here last night.
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    GREEK QUEEN SEES TROOPS
    92 4 ATHENS, Monday. Queen Frederika stopped m loannina today and delivered to Greek soldiers and townspeople the good wishes of her ailing husband, King Paul. She <s en route to Konitsa, the war-battered town near the Albanian frontier. She visited the headquarters of the elgnth division, whose
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    BATTLE LINES DRAWN IN U.S.
    99 4 WASHINGTON. Monday. Battle lines were drawn yesterday between President Truman and the Republicancontrolled Congress on three towering issues around which the fortunes of the major political parties could flourish or fade m this presidential election year. Streaming back into Washington for the re-convening of the
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    Dean's New Book On Russia
    306 4 Dean s New Book On Russia LONDON, Monday. COVIET planners are counting on Russia's J population growing to 300,000,000 people during the next 40 years, the Dean of Canterbury, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, declares m his new book, "Soviet Russia since the War," published by Boni and Gaer. The
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    INDIAN BANK
    47 4 A brarxn of the Indian OwßtseM Bank. Ltd, was opened at Bangkok by Mr Bhagwat Djia!. Charge d'Affaires of the Indian. Legation Mr. A. Subbiah, general manager, welcomed 300 represenitatives of communities and banks m Siam and stressed the commercial importance of the new venture.
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    Korean Elections: Puzzle For U.N.
    234 4 SAN FRANCISCO, Monday. A UNITED Nations Commission assigned the task of holding: elections m all of Korea has no definite plan of how it will conduct the election m I the Russian-occupied northern zone. A spokesman for two U.N. delegates and 27 members of the
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    Red Leader's Threat To Italy
    214 4 MILAN, Monday. THE Italian Communist 1 leader, Palmiro Togliati, yesterday warned the nations "reactionary forces" to remember that 'his party had behind themj "tens of thousands of youths wh 0 learned to use arms as partisans and were ready to use them again if necessary."
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    GOVT. FAVOURS MISSION SCHOOLS
    684 5 Plans For 1948 Outlined EXTENSIVE and generous plans tor the development of Mission School education m Singapore were outlined by the Director of Education, Mr. J. B. Neilson, yesterday The decision that parents should have the right to choose for their children an English or vernacular
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    Haiis On Murder Charge
    125 5 lic-n Our Staff Correspondent PARIT BUNTAR, Monday TWO young Banjarese Hajis were committed for trial yesterday. Evidence was given that, while they were m company with a gang wriich robbed a house on February 14. 1947, five people had been shot, two of whom had died.
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    32 5 lac Director of the C.1.D., Malayan Union. Mr. B. M. B. O'C'onnel, who this month takes up the appointment of Deputy Commissioner to the Commissioner of Police. Singapore, Mr. R. E. Foulger.
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    SINGAPORE DIARY
    271 5 TODAY: Y. M. C. A., Orchard Road, horthand and typewriting class, o 30 p.m., keep fit class, 6 30 p.m., Malay class, 7.15 p.m. Children's tea party, Redemptorist Monastry, Thomson Road 3.30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Methodist Mission annual coniiTtnce Malaya Conference season, Wesley Church, 4, Fort Canning
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    Govt. Dept. Has No Accountant
    234 5 Govt. Dept. Has No Accountant From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday /GOVERNMENT replies to VJ Mr. A. W. Wallich m the Malayan Union Advisory Council today showed that the Union's Supplies Department has never had a full-time, professionally qualified accountant. This Department deals annually with more than $200,000,000 worth
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    STUDENTS IN HYGIENE
    201 5 Twenty-two public health and sanitary inspectors of Singapore and the Malayan I Union yesterday started the first lecture course on public health and hygiene since 1941 m Singapore. The course will last six months. It will include instruction on anti-malaria education. The pre-war length of the course
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    New Educational Planning Body
    249 5 A PLANNING committee will be set up m 1948 to work out details of the new educational policy for Malaya. The Director of Education, Malayan Union, Mr. H. R. Cheeseman, made this announcement when he spoke at the Methodist Conference m Singapore yesterday. Mr. Cheeseman said
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    Awards To Scouters
    197 5 AWARDS to Malayan Scouters have been announced by* the Chief Scout for the British Commonwealth and Empire. The awards are: Silver Acorn: E. C. Hicks, D. C, Peralc. Medal of Merit Rev. Canon R.K.S. Adams, DC, Singapore, Abdul Rahman bin Hajl Md. Said. D.S.M., Singapore, Ahmad bin
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING
    83 5 Ships alongside the Singa- pore wharves (eodowns m brackets) are: Main Wharf: Steel Fabricator (31-32). Scott E. Land, Bredero (33-34), Narbada (36), Socotra (38-39), Don-y-Bryn (40-41), Trevose (42-43). Gorgon (44). Seremban (45). West Wharf. Empire Niger, Georgic (1-2), City of Lucknow (4-5), Melampus (6-7). Trevethoe (8-9). Sumatra (1011).
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    Jungle Pipeline
    185 5 THE pipeline for Singapore's $27,000,000 scheme to 1 tap the Johore River for drinking water will run through jungle which has not yet been entirely cleared of booby traps laid during the Japanese occupation. The scheme one of the i Municipal projects to be! financed by the new
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    UNION PLANS NEW RENT BILL
    205 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday THE Malayan Union Gov1 eminent will shortly publish a bill similar to the Singapore Control of Rent Ordinance to permit landlords to charge graduated increases of rents. The Attorney General, Mr. K. K. O'Connor, announced this at the
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    60 5 The s.s. Kelantan, of the Straits Steamship Company line, leaves Singapore today for Palembang on her first run for the company since she was derequisitioned by the Navy. The refitting of the ship after her war service took nine months. The Kelantan was built m 1921. She has accommodation for
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    DEATH
    33 6 ON 2nd January 1948 at covenIry. Conrad Laurence de S uza *;h son of the late Mrs. C. C. D? S uza of No. 7 Akyab Ifci. EintraDore. Java Dar>ers nlease codv.
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
    25 6 THE children nf Mr. Thomas Rrtrrt Allen thank all who attenac ti the funeral, sent wreaths. *nri ~'S of condolences in their sad bfreaviment.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., Jan. 6, 1948. SISTER AND NURSES
    1103 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., Jan. 6, 1948. SISTER AND NURSES With the nursing staffs of Singapore hospitals almost one third below the establishment, it is not surprising that the need for more recruits and the improvements that are being made m the Government nursing service should have been stressed
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    SURMA'S RICE
    124 6 The Special Commissioner m South-East Asia, Lord Killearn, said m a special broadcast on Sunday that the people of Asia looked to Burma to continue the flow of rice 'to her less fortunate neighbours." He was broadcasting from Radio Malaya on the occasion of Burmese Independence. "As one
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    WHITE CROSSES AT KRANJI
    615 6  -  LT. COL. R.W.R. OLIVER By A SINGAPORE WAR CEMETER V THERE have been references m the Press recently which suggest that the Military Cemetery at Kranji is neglected and does not compare with war cemeteries m other parts of the world. It is not necessary to
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      "Hello Boys"-Essential But Forgotten
      246 6 DURING the war m Malaya, Telecommunication Department telephone operators who were Volunteers, were exempted from military service and ordered to resign from the Volunteers as their duties j as telephone operators were regarded as more essential for the defence of the country. When civilians and Government
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      MORE PEOPLE LESS MONEY?
      157 6 rCRE is nothing m Mr. Jee Ah Chian's article "1947 or 1948 Income?", which is not already common knowledge to the public. Every reasonable point has already been raised and thoroughly thrashed out. Some of Mr. Jee's arguments are far from sound, especially the one concerning
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      RAILWAYS ARE TOO EXPENSIVE
      327 6 RAILWAYS ARE TOO EXPENSIVE A CORRESPONDENT j has recently written to the Straits Times praising the Malayan Rajlways. I maintain, however, that railway travel is too expensive at present, even for the rich. Take the case of a Government or private employee receiving, say, $50 a month, and having a
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      $320 FOR ANIMALS -$180 FOR MEN
      115 6 I AGREE entirely with "Untrusting" m his! letter to the Straits Times j that it is not at all profitable to send boys and girls' to Raffles College m; future. It would be far better to send the boys for a Veterinary diploma *n
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      COMET WITH A TALE
      225 6 T^HE photograph of the 1 comet (Honda's) seen at Melbourne, and published m a recent issue of the Straits Times, is the first I have seen, although j I read reports of Timmer's comet observed from Rome m 1946, and other comets j observed from Bloemfontein
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      TRADE UNION TEACHERS
      204 6 WE trade unionists are loosely charged with being anti-European, yet I gather that the Malayan Teachers' Union is pressing for the raising of the starting salary to $380 for the Grade I (Trusted) Officers, and also for their full service to be reckoned instead of on the
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      72 6 V FOR BAgi32 Yes, keep up the good work Baby has done so well on Cow Gate Milk Fc xd and now here's another Cow Gate product for him. Needless to say he loves it the delicate malted flavour of Cerex appeals to his eager little palate and che finely
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    'TIN PRICE CAN BE RECONSIDERED'
    657 7 Creech Jones Assurance To Governor From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. THE Secretary of State for the Colonies has given the Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Edward Gent, an assurance that, if the new tin price of £500 is insufficient to secure expansion
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    Malayan Methodists' Delegate
    157 7 Malayan Methodists' Delegate THE Reverend M. D. Dods- worth is to represent Malaya at the Methodist General Conference to be held in Boston Massachusetts in April. This was decided at the annual Malayan Conference of the Methodist Church held yesterday at Wesley Church, Fort Canning. Mr. Dodsworth is superintendent of
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    6 YEARS' R.I. FOR ROBBERY
    109 7 Two middle-aged Chinese, Yip Fook Pooy and Tang Wee Kong, were each sentenced to j six years' rigorous imprisonment and eight strokes of the rotan by Mr. Justice Jobling at the opening of the 1948 Assizes yesterday. Tne accused pleaded guilty to a charge of
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    42 7 Mr. Justice Jobling, robed m red, inspecting a police guard of honour outside the Supreme Court, Singapore, yesterday morning. The occasion was the ceremonial opening of the 1948 Assixes. Mr. W. A. P. Grose, A.S.P., is escorting the Judge.— Straits Times picture.
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    Many Inquire About Loan
    143 7 MANY inquiries for Singapore Municipality's new $25,000,000 3»/i per' cent Debenture stock issue were reported yesterday. Subscription began on Saturday. The Municipal Treasurer Mr. J. R. Hill said that the inquiries were both for the conversion of holdings of! Municipal five per cent Debenton Stock 1928
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    GUNMEN ROB CHINESE BAR
    95 7 Singapore gunmen, robbed a Chinese bar m Anson Road early yesterday morning. They drilled open the locks of three doors to enter the house The three masked Chinese awoke two employees of the bar at 2.30 am and $50 and a founSin pe"n from the bar's
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    Praise For Police
    249 7 AN assistant-Superinten-dent of Police attached to the Singapore C.1.D., Mr. G.C. Ripley, was complimented by the Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter, yesterday at an inquiry into the death of a Chinese gunman. Mr. Ripley had a narrow escape from death during a police ambush when he
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    FALSE PAPER CHARGE
    124 7 Tan Khai Hong, aged 22 and Tan Toh Tong, aged 20. were charged before the Second Police Court magistrate, Mr. E. de Banzie, yesterday with trying to enter Singapore with forged papers. Both pleaded not guilty were ordered to be remanded m custody till Jan. 12 V
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    'Teachers Gnash At Salaries'
    507 7 'Teachers Gnash At Salaries From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. JHE salary scales proposed by the Trusted Salaries Commission for locally-recruited teachers were severely criticised by several speakers at today's meeting: of the Advisory i Council. Replying, Mr. A. T. Newboult, the Chief Secretary, said the salaries report had
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    Protected From Tax
    97 7 "pO-OPERATOR," the maV gazine of the co-oper-ative movement m Malaya and Singapore, congratulates Government for protecting undistributed profits of co-operative societies from income tax. The January issue of the magazine says, m a leading article, that co-operative societies are really savings societies and iheir "profits" are rebates
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    16 CHINESE FINED
    56 7 1 Seventeen Chinese were charged at th* Eighth Police I Cr vith playing UK.-kow) a i imon garni ng 1 > re on J .mary 3. Sixteen f them were each nne^ m default, two weefc> i^jjous imprisonment The case agftl&it 28-year-old Chan Man Cheong, who pleaded
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    18 7 An Indian shop-keeper m Johore Bahru, V. Andippan. was fined $1,000 yesterday fori having possession of dutiable tobacco.
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      Temple Elephant Kills Keeper
      133 7 From Our Staff Correspondent A^™*.. PENANG, Mondiy. KbDAII police party is on the trail of an eleplnnt which escaped into the jungle after attacking Ua Siamese keeper. j The keeper, Endin Din- yat, died of his injuries. The elephant is said to be 100 years o'd.
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      Teachers' Outings
      91 7 DENANG, Monday— .To en- courage members in outdoor sketching, P e n a r. g Teachers' Union has organised a series of holiday excursions to the countryside. These classes were started during the Christmas, vacation and have proved very Poplar- The next excursion will be held tomorrow when
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      Girl Killed
      60 7 A GIRL aged about 11 was -wi1"11? 1 by a landslide while she was playing near a tin mine m Pengkalen Lahat I on Saturday. I Four other girls who were playing with her were fourd sobbing by a foreman shortly after the landslide. He ordered labourers to
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      Took Canvas
      79 7 pADGHT with 3i yards of V canvas wound round his waist on Dec. 27. Tan Chee Chan. 20. offered $2 to his faPt 01". A. P. O. Mac Donald. to let him off. Yesterday he pleaded guilty m the Singapore Third Polia Court to stealing the canvas from
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      Shipping Offences
      75 7 TEE Lam, master of ,h~ vessel Hai Leor.g, was fined $500 m the Sine Sixth Police Court yesterday, under the Merchant Shipp'ng Ordinance. He was convicted for failing to fly a pennant on arrival at Singapore Harbour, to show his vessel carried aliens failing to provide the Immigration
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      Mission Show
      40 7 A VARIETY entertainment m aid of the Ramakrlshna Mission Orphanage, Singapore, will be held on Jan. 16 and 17 at the Victoria Memorial Theatre. The programme will include popular Indian dances, orchestra recitals, and sketches from Hindu history.
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      Monastery Party
      29 7 rE Redemptorist Fathers will hold a party for children at the monastery m Thomson Road, Singapore, from 3.30 p.m. to 7 p.m. today. Entrance is by invitation.
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      Acquitted
      85 7 KUALA Lumpur, Monday— An accountant, Law Sau Choon, was acquitted and discharged by Mr. B. G. Smith, the District Judge, today on tiwo summons charges. The charges related to selI ling two lorries to the Foh Hup Omnibus Company without a licence from an authorised officer of the Road
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    OPENING OF FIRST ASSIZES
    274 7 COR the first time since, the re-occupation of Singapore, the ceremonial service marking the open-j ing of the first Assizes of the year was held at St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday morning. Judges of the High Court of Singapore Mr. Justice' Jobling and Mr. JusUce Brown attended
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    36 8 Pretty Rosemary Preston, a new British starlet is wearing something unusual and attractive m the way of headgear The designer studied miners wearing their helmets and produced this novel feminine adaption, complete with "lamp" m front.
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    Methods Of Correcting A Baby's Bad Behaviour
    1282 8  - Methods Of Correcting A Baby's Bad Behaviour Nurse Elizabeth MOTHERCRAFT IN MALAYA By Nurse Elizabeth is qualified in the care of babies and young children. If you have any problems and need her help, write to Nurse Elizabeth, c/o Straits Times, Cecil Street, Singapore. Please give a pseudonym under which
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    HOME-MADE SUPER-PRAM
    164 8 AFTER years In an Army workshop repairing some of the world's largest tanks, ex-Sergeant Ernest Blackall. of Middlesex, England, came home to find that his wife wanted a pram for their baby son. The Sergeant considered the price of a new pram was far too high, so he
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    THE CAT WHICH LOVES TO BE BATHED
    827 8 THE CAT WHICH LOVES TO BE BATHED .|T is commonly said that cats do not like water, particularly on their feet. Certainly they never (as far as I know) go swimming willingly though they are quite good swimmers when put to it. But it is quite certain that water fascinates
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    TYPES OF GRASS FOR LAWNS IN MALAYA
    1161 9  -  R.E. Holttum Notes' On Gardens By Director Of The Botanic Gardens Singapore IN most parts of 1 Malaya ordinary garden lawns do not need watering. There is enough rain to keep them green throughout the" year, except m spells of unusually severe dry
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    35 9 Women competed successfully m a Country Conies To Town exhibition held on th« sands at Blackpool recently. Mrs. Nellie Baxter, a housewife of Sheffield won the women's ploughing section with 15 points out of 20.
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    DECORATIVE PALMS
    852 9 THE Royal Palm, (Or- eodoxa regia), is undoubtedly the best singlestemmed palm for formal planting. Its smooth shapely trunk and graceful crown give it a most dignified character when well grown: but poor spacements are often deplorable. Generous retreatment is essential for good growth. The closely allied cabbage
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    40 9 Next week Mr. Holttum will discuss Foliage Pot Plants In his series of gardening notes. He will deal mainly with plants grown m pots such as the various types of potted ferns, palms, begonias, aroids, dracaenas and other foliage plants.
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      631 9 According to Culbertson East to ruff. A diamond was then returned, but declarer had salvaged the important trick the club king had been preserved against a ruff. At one table, however, West did not make the superficially inviting return of the dob ace and a low club. This West stopped
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    1525 10  - Our London Letter Airmail By says Britons expect a better New Year m jvhich they will follow coal figures "more eagerly than football or cricket results 9 tells of the Communist "war" against the Labour Party... of sawing a Christmas log from the oak tree. TT was a black-skied, snow-threatened,
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    75 10 British artist. Charles Thrale. at the opening m London of an exhibition of pictures he painted while a prisoner-of-war m Burma. He used brushes made from his own hair and made his own paints by boiling down the coloured backs of old books. Some of his pictures are painted on
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      265 10 Today's Radio Programmes RADIO MALAYA SPORE 7-45 Music. 8 00 Indonesian: Star; 9.00 Here We Are Again; 1 p.m. Radio Orch.; 1.40 f£f.£ A J^P'\ 8 05 o^ ic J. 8 30 8 45 *»lm Theatre Music; Rhythm. 8.15 News. Topical 5"* h .^*^?vi M Kuoyu: 1015 Music Xor Sally;
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    LOSS OF $32,434
    137 11 A LOSS of $32,434 for the year was reported at the annual meetinc of Linrvl Tin Ltd., held m Singapore. After deducting this loss there was a balance at the credit of the profit and loss account of $251,282. which It was agreed to carry forward. In
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    METAL RECORD
    198 11 CLEVELAND (Ohio), Monday.—The metal working industry last year set a peacetime record of XJSJfM,000,000,000 m dollar volume of total production, the magazine "Steel" said yesterday. The magazine forecast that the 1948 output would be about the same m physical volume with a I slight increase In dollar volume
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    Week Begins Quietly, Dealers Cautious
    238 11 Produce Market From A Market Correspondent MARKETS wen exceedingly quiet yesterday. Certain quotations eased, bat sellers were en the whole re•erred, awaiting better advices. Yesterday's prices were: Rie*: No. 1 $140; No. 2 $125; other Qualities: 1 $96; 2 $78; 3 $«7. GhttMU Bice: No.
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    RUBBER
    59 11 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's prices at noon yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Cts. Cts per lb. per lb. No. 1 RAS. Spot loose nominal 44% 45% No. 1 R.S.S. fob m bales Jan. 45% 15% No. 2 R.S.S fob m bates Jan. 44% 44% No. 3 RS.B.
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    Sungei Bidor Output
    15 11 Sungel Bidor Tin Dredging Ltd., output for December, 1947 was 502 piculs.
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    Chairman Criticises Whitehall Control
    256 11 j UNCERTAINTY and dilatoriness U by the authorities m assisting rehabilitation was claimed by the chairman, Mr. J.A. Elias when be spoke to the annual meeting of The Jesseltoo Ice Power Co. Ltd. In Singapore on New Year's Eve. Mr. Bias said that every effort was
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    S'PORE SHARES
    271 11 (By Our Market Correspondent) SINGAPORE, Monday. THE foeal share market again opened the week very firm in both Tins and Industrials and in many cases prices were marked up. la spite of the rise in the price of the commodity rubber shares still remained unmoved and failed to
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    INDIANS SKITTLED OUT FOR 125
    432 12 INDIANS SKITTLED OUT FOR 125 Australia 2 Up In Test Series MELBOURNE, Monday. TRAPPED on a sticky wicket for the third successive match in the series, India were skittled out in the second innings for 125 under two hours, Australia thus winning the third cricket Test by 233 runs. Bradman
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    No Luck For Tourists
    119 12 Bf ARTHUR MAILEY MELBOURNE, Monday. HEAVY rain last night beat India, although, had fine weather prevailed, an India victory would have been almost impossible, so dominating a lead had Australia obtained. India really lost their chance of winning at midday. Saturday, when the tail-enders were deprived,
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    Moroney's Claim To Selection
    162 12 Moroney' s Claim To Selection SYDNEY, Monday. JMORONEY, top scorer with 81 for New South Wales against Queensland m the drawn Sheffield j Shield match today, is staking his claim to a place m Australia's team to tour England this year. Moroney has been batting consistently well this season and
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    HEADLEY IS ADAMANT
    95 12 KINGSTON (Jamaica, Mon. —The West Indies cricket star, George Headley. will not play m the Test match against the Marylebone tourists m British Guiana starting on March 3. This was made known yesterday and is a further chapter In the story which began when Headley said he
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    S.C.R.C. TEAM
    101 12 THE Singapore Recreat on Club's hockey tram to play the Ceylon Sports Club m their league fixture ■on the Police Training School ground m Thomson Road today will be chosen from the following: Patrick Yee, Dr. Ong Swee Law, Lav Hock Chye, Oan Kee Swng, Low Kee Pow.
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    JOLLILADS A.U.
    100 12 The team to play football for the Jollilads Athletic Union's first team against the CM. P. XI team at Gilman Barracks to- j morrow at 5.15 p.m. will be chosen from the following: Sit- 1 hambram. Rasak, Muthu. Ghani, j Haniff, Kayambu. K. R. Muthiah, S.ilahudin. Murugasu Munivandi,
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    BREAKS HIS LEG
    36 12 ST. MORITZ. Monday. While engaged m a practice on the Rti run ben last Right, Eddie Rominger.' o"e of Switzerland's prinrirwl competitors for the Olympic Winter Games, broke his leg. XI 'Ut< r.
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    TOURISTS BEATEN
    28 12 TOULOUSE. Monday.— New Z' 'nnd's Ru'iby League touring side 'o«;t to tlie Pyresiees-Banguedoc j I :nb iwtion here yesterday by 15 J '■oints to zero. Reuter.
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    Scoreboard
    127 12 Australia first innings 394 India first innings 291 for nine declared. Anstralia second innings 255 for four declared. INDIA—2ND. INNINGS Mankad b Bill Johnston..; 13 Sarwate b Bill Johnston... 1 j Gulmahomed c Morris b lan Johnson 28 1 Hazare c Barnes b Miller... 10 Amarnath b Lindwall 8
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    PRESENTATIONS BY AMARNATH
    55 12 MELBOURNE, Monday.— At a dinner tendered by the Australian Board and Indian Test teams. Amarnath presented the president, the secretary and Don Bradman with Indian Dlazers, crests ar.d scarfs. The Indian captain also presented to the Australian Board a flag with the crest of the Indian Board
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    K.L. CYCLIST WINS IN INDIA
    67 12 Kuala Lumpur, Mor.aay. A. R. Omar, of Selangor, won the 100-mile open chamship at the Bombay Provincial Olympics, according to a telegraphic communication received m Kuala Lumpur today. Awathar Singh, who won the all-Malayan 100-mile open championship last month by beating Omar, punctured a tyre
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    POLO ENCOUNTER
    32 12 San Mateo (California), Monday Captain Jack Austin's Green Point polo teai.i from Australia wore defeated eight to zero yesterday by a side led by San Francisco's Eric Pedley. A. P.
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    2 CHANGES IN ENGLAND XV
    88 12 LONDON, Monday. pNGLAND'S rugby selectors have lEi made two changes m the side Ito meet Wales at Twickenham on Jan. 17 compared with that defeated by Australia on Saturday. j The alterations are both In the pack, where Kelly and Lusa replace Evans and My
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    9 HAD FOOD POISONING
    82 12 LONDON, Monday. NINE of the 15 Australian rugby players who defeated England at Twickenham on Saturday had mild food poisoning. They reported sick on Friday night after arriving from Eastbourne Stomach powders were ordered. Just before the match they took more powders. Ninety- five minutes later,
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    Sports Diary
    68 12 TODAY HOCKEY: S.H.A. League: S.C.R.C. vs. CSC, PWice Depot. Thomson Road, 5 p.m G.H.Q. FARELF vs. V.M V, Tanglin, 5.15 p.m.; TABLE-TENNIS: S.M.S.U. vs. Chinese Youth Service, 27. Tyrwhitt Road, 7 30 p m TOMORROW HOCKEY: S.C.R.C. vs. S.R.C, S.B.C. padang, 5.15 p.m.. RUGBY: S.C.C. "A" n. 11l
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    Chinese Is Idol Of New York Crowds
    231 12 NEW YORK, Monday. •THE first Chinese player m the history of profes1 sional ice hockey m North America is due for promotion from his amateur status, according to observers here. He is 24-year-old Larry Kwong, Canadian-born Chinese, who is one of the top-scoring
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    S'pore Tennis Revival
    169 12 S'pore Tennis Revival WITH the holding of the first S.L.T.A. indoor championship tournament next month and the rej opening of the Y.M.C.A. grass courts in the near future, tennis in Singapore is in for a full-scale revival thifc year. The presence in the Colony of several players of interiational class
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    Kane's "Comeback"
    252 12 LONDON, Monday. WHATEVER Britain's position may be m the heavier weights of boxing, there is no disputing they have star performers m lower weights notably m fly, feather and bantam and what is more, men who are not afraid to fight more than once yearly. Taking Peter Kane
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    HOGAN LEADS IN U.S. GOLF
    153 12 LOS ANGELES, Monday. •PHE defending champion, Ben Ho- I 1 gan. out to regain the role of golfdom's No. 1 professional, returned one under par 70 today to hold a three-stroke lead over fttafl rest of the field with a total of I 208 for
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    A Tangle Of Arms & Begs
    56 12 A Tangle Of Arms Begs Joel Kaufman (white shirt), of New York University, and Ben Bidwell, of the University of Missouri, are a tangle of arms and legs as they tussle for the ball m the basketball match at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 27. New York University won by
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    YOONG YOONG TEAM DUE
    171 12 The Yoong Yoong Club's table tennis team, 1947 I Selangor champions, are visiting Singapore this week and will play against local teams. On Thursday they meet the Chin Woo Athletic Association, last year's interclub runners-up m Singapore On Friday they play the Singapore champions, Tiger Sporting
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    KELLY'S EASY WIN
    48 12 WEST PALM BEACH (PLOFRIDA), Monday.— The American and Canadian sculling champion and winner of the Diamond Sculls at Benley last summer. Jack Kelly easily won a 2.000-metre singles sculls event on Lake Worth when competing for Pensylv»nia University m the annual contests with Yale University.—Reuter.
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    H.M.S. Malaya Rugby Final To Be Broadcast
    246 12 H.M.S. Malaya Rugby Final To Be Broadcast MALAYAN rugger fans are looking forward to I*l2 H.M.S. Malaya Anal, which will be played m Kua a Lumpur on Saturday and will be broadcast by Radtu Malaya. 1 Although no trophy is now being competed for, rivalry is just as keen as
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    PESTANA MAY NOT PLAY
    119 12 From Oar st;.ir Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. THOUGH he has been nam- ed a member of the team, it is doubtful if Maurice Pestana, Penang's brilliant scrum-half, will be able to turn out for Saturday's H.M.S. Malaya final between Penang and the Singapore Services. Pestana cracked
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    ITALIAN BOXER DETAINED
    101 12 NEW YORK. Monday. Enrico Bertola, 25-year-old Italian heavyweight champion, arrived at La Guardia airfield yesterday headPd for Chicago for a series of fights, but found himself detained and headed for Ellis Island instead. It appeared that Enrico i.ad nobody to meet him. and ro contract, return ticket
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    Races Again In Alor Star?
    92 12 From Our Stan t on cy 0.1-ent PENANG, Wonuay. THE possibility of reviving amateur racing m Alor Star early this year is to be discussed at a general meeting of the Kedah Gymkhana Club next week. The question was considered at an informal meeting of
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    UK SOCCER FIXTURES
    193 12 LONDON, Monday. PRST and second divi sion league teams an participating in the third round of the F. A. Cup on Saturday. League fixtures for the dr<y are: THIRD DIVISION SOUTHERN I.Mdershot v Ipswich T. j Brighton H. v Southend U. Crystal Pal. v Bristol C. Northampton
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    FOOTBALLER FOUND DEAD
    53 12 LA PLATA. Monaay Aloerto Cerioni, one of the oest football players, was found dead yesterday. Cerioni, who was a professional footballer, returned from Italy eight months ago and had been living m La Plata since. No foul play is suspected. Cerioni was reported to have been involved
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    Soccer Fixture
    26 12 The Seletar Football Club *iti meet the Kranji Rangers m a i on the ground at the 15*h. mil., Seletar, tomorrow at 5.15 p
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