The Straits Times, 19 September 1948

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  • 20 1 FINAL EDITION THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NETT SALE IN MALAYA No. 6!,6. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1948. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 353 1 DUTCH SEEK $2 MILLION ARMS CACHE Buried on gun runners 9 isle Suiu'^y Times Staff Reporter HUTCH security forces are searching Airabu v Island 200 miles north-west t»f Singapore, where police made a spectacular seizure of smuggled arms earlier this week for a buried cache of arms and ammunition belifved
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    38 1 F'.^T^R"** .in-sound jet the DH 108-^akins: off for a ''emonstration flight at Furnborough, Hampshire. Two days before this flight before 100.000 visitors to the British Aircraft Constructors' display, the plane piloted by Mr. John Derry beat sonic speed.
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  • 108 1 BATAVIA. Saturday. I"*HE provisional Indonesian Federal Government has ordered 30 prominem Indonesian Republicans. Including l Dr. Leimena. chairman of the Republican delegation negotiating with the Dutch, to leave Batavia within 14 days, a Dutch communique announced here today. Diiii'h and Indonesian forces :.re fighting a major
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  • 50 1 SHANGHAI. Sat. 'Tiger hunter' Chianz Chinu Kuo's office ordered the closure of four Chinese commercial banks for all?Ked violation of banking laws. The office revealed that 13 merchants were arrested on Friday on charges of blackmarket foreign exchange deals involving "underground remittances" to Hong Kong. U.P.
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  • 39 1 B A T A V I A. Sat —Dutch authorities continue to refuse to release the names of the Britons, Americans and Filipino arrested in connection with arms smuggling by flying boat Into Malaya and Indonesia.—A.P.
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    53 1 THIS is one of the fascinating photographs appearing in Straits Times Pictures 1948 on sale early in November. Straits Times pictures 1948 contains nearly 100 studies and is in colour. -Be sure of your copy by ordering now. Prices are 52.75 (sent to any address in the world). $2.50 from
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  • 122 1 TEL AVIV. Saturday. ISRAEL Government forces were today ordered to roundup all Stern Gang members, with Instructions to shoot If necessary, following the assassination of Count Bernadotte. according to unofficial reports here. Foreign consuls In Israel today reported receiving a notice signed by a so-called
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  • 118 1 SECUNDERABAD, Sat. MAJ.-G«m El Edroos, commander of the Hyderabad State forces, formally sur- rendered to Maj.-Gen. Chaud- hury. commander of the Indian First Armour Division at 4.30 p.m. local time today. Maj.-Gen. Chaudhury was appointed Military Governor for the whole of Hyderabad State all of which has been
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  • 24 1 CALCUTTA. Sat. Mrs. Richarda Morrow-Talt, 24--year-old British airwoman flying round the world, Is still held up here today with engine trouble. Reuter.
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  • 133 1 Sunday Times Correspondent KEMAMAN, Saturday. MRS. Mellior-Smith, wife of the Inspector of Mines at Kemaman, Pahang, was injured by a Chinese who entered her bungalow and attacked her with a spear yesterday evening. The assailant, who had wrested from Mrs. Mellior-Smith an unloaded carbine with which
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  • 40 1 THE biggest seizure of opium sinre 1945 was made in Singapore yesterday. Customs men boarding the S.S. Halvdan from Bangkok found 1,106 pounds of opium cleverly concealed underneath the coal bunkers. No arrest has yet been made.
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  • 76 1 DETROIT. Saturday.—Major r.ichard L. Johnson has set a new world speed record of 670.98 miles per hour In an F-86 jet fighter, U.S. Air Secretary, Mr. W. Stuart Symington, announced today. In speed runs over an official course at Muroc. California, last Wednesday the 30-year-old
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  • 200 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. pm: Registrar of Trade Unions, Federation of Malaya, has cancelled the certificates of 61 trade unions on the grounds that they had "wilfully, and after notice from the Registrar, contravened a provision of the Trade Union Enactment." No explanation
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  • 75 1 RANGOON. Sat.— An unknown assailant tried to murder U Tin Tut. former Burmese Foreign Minister, by throwing a grenade Into his car this morning. The attempt was made as U Tin Tin's rvc was passing down one of Rangoon's main streets near the
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  • 29 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat.— Arrests in the Federation during the past twenty-four hours numbered 27— four in Selangor, 11 in Pahang 11 in Kedah and one in Penang.
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  • 42 1 NEW YORK, Sat. TWO ocean-going tugs were expected to reach today the abandoned British freighter, Leicester, wallowing in the hur-ricane-swept Atlantic 650 miles east of New York. Two freighters took off 39 crew from the Leicester on Thursday.—Reuter.
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  • 32 1 MOSCOW, Sat.— The threa Western envoys met Mr. Molotov at the Kremlin this afternoon. They met for 30 minutes at the British Embassy before driving to the Kremlin.— U.P.
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  • 52 1 RANGOON, Saturday. BURMESE President Sao Shwe Thaike today announced a "state of emergency" throughout the Union of Burma In view of disturbed conditions. Tonight's Government communique said troops had been rushed to the defence of the small town of Bogale, in the delta area, which was surrounded
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  • 34 1 PEIPINO, Sat.— Authorities in Peiping have instructed Universities and colleges not to enrol any student who refuses to sign pledges to refrain from movements tending to disturb peace and order—A P.
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  • 62 1 DENANG'S District Judge, Mr. Fletcher Rogers, heard a 1 new version of the fisherman's story yesterday. Before him were two fishermen, Noordin and Ibrahim, charged with having 29 katties of ganja in (wo sacks in their sampan. "We got It from the sea" they pleaded— in vain.
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  • 70 1 LONDON, Sat.— A new palnkilllng drug which does not appear to Be habit formIng was reported today in the British Medical Journal. The Grug known as C.8.-ll j may be injected Into the veins or muscles or taken by mouth. The report which stressed the tests constituted "preliminary
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  • 101 1 Sunday Times Corresp LONDON. Satuiday MRS. «WKS SIAN LIM. Vii*n year-old social well re worker from Singapore who has been studying social welfare at London U:.iveiMiy during the past year, is paving a visit to Dundee, wh< re she has spent much ot tier time in the
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  • 254 1 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. riNE special constable was killed and two others w were wounded in a gun battle with about 100 terrorists who early today attacked Sapuloh Estate in the Paloh area of Kluang, Johore, and set fire to the smokehouse
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  • 36 1 Mr. Paul Hoffman, Marshall Plan Administrator, gave a broad hint last night that he is opposed at the present time to Britain going ahead with the nationalisation of the steel Industry.— Reuter.
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  • 249 1 Longer gaol sentences for 'silent' men Sunday Times Staff Reporter IPOH, Saturday. HOLDING that the offence of failure to report the presence of armed men was an offence against society, Mr. Justice Paul Storr yesterday increased the sentence of three Chinese, Tang Sin a?ed <>8, Wongr Cheong aged 60, and
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  • 843 2 OLD TIMER RECALLS HIS DAYS ANE of the ghosts of my past, a man I have known for forty years, came to visit me the other day. First thing he asked me was if I remenbered the day we pinched the boat on the
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  • 552 2 HAVE had a letter 1 from a reader who asks why it is that with pineapples so plentiful here, so little use is made of them in mixed drinks. His complaint is directed against hosts, as well as our fashionable hotels, and seems fairly reasonable t^ me. One
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  • 669 2  -  K. T. JOSEPH, by hon. sec, Malacca ROUND a crocodile shaped stone standing midstream in the River Tampoi about seven miles from Malacca Town has grown a legend of happenings in the Settlement's early history. The legend has aroused current interest, and members of the Historical Society.
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  • 124 3 YOUTH LEADER ANSWERS RED THREAT A BANG Mohamed Kasskn Tana, grandson of the late Datu Patlnggi of Sarawak and President of the Sarawak Malay Youth Movement, has arrived in Singapore on a brief visit. Referring to the Press report that the Communists sought to use nationalist movements In their "drive
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  • 79 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter T^HE Singapore Government A last week started building 137 temporary houses at the Junction of Cantonment and Nell roads for married police constables. The houses, on a site known as Duxton Plain, will cost $353,850. Each will have two rooms, kitchen, an
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  • 56 3 TAMIL classes for women and 1 girls and boys under 12 are to be held at No. 8 Race Course Lane on Mondays and Thursdays at 4.30 p.m. starting on Monday, October 4 Mrs. Muthusamy will be the teacher and the classes are under the auspices
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  • 393 3 Clifford Pier subway plan Sunday Times Staff Reporter TN about ten days' time, Singapore have a new gyratory traffic system, which will operate around the children's playground in the Dhoby Ghaut. Under the new scheme, traffic going down Dhoby Ghaut in the direction of Selegie Road
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  • 86 3 SINGAPORE rice retailers are dissatisflfled. They say the quality of Government rice issued to them is inferior. The Rice Retailers Association in a statement last night said the present Government ration was made up of two parts Rangoon and one part broken rice, both inferior in quality.
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  • 39 3 Sunday Times Reporter PARIT BUNTAR, Sat. Muslims met at Sungei Bakap to pray for the soul of Mr. Jinnah, the meeting being conducted by Tuan Haji Shafle of the Aldiniah Religious 'School. The poor were fed.
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  • 35 3 New appointments in the Government service in Ma- laya include the following: Mr. R. M. C. Codner and Mr. R. F. Whitby, Administrative Officers; Mr. D. L. Hobbs, as- i- art Immigration Officer.
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    53 3 Y'diC. and Mrs. Lav Keow Yong who%ere married by the Ivi Chinese Consul General, Dr. Wu Paak Shins, at the Victoria! Memorial Hall yesterday. The bride was the former Mm Mcc Yin, daughter of Mr. I,lm Soo Ban. The gro->m is the son of Mr. Lav Pak Khuan of Ipoh.
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  • 61 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. KUALA LUMPUR, Sat.— Six cases of smallpox, an Increase of five on the previous week, were reported In the Federation during the week ended Sept. 11. Three of the cases were in Malacca, three in Johore. No deaths were reported Two cases of
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  • 18 3 Sir.gapore Fire Brigade attended to two lallang flres— at Upper Serangoon and Bukit Tiraah, yesterday afternoon.
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  • 207 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE Queen Street Boys Club of Singapore, opened in April 1946 by Mr. P. A. B. McKerron with 80 members, now boasts a membership nearly 300. At first the Club was intended for boys between the ages of 12 and 18, including many
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  • 165 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter 4 CTIVITIES of Singapore produce merchants and brokers again centre round Prince Street, for at last the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange, where they operated before the war, has returned to its old use. When the war ended the Exchange could not immediately
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    21 3 BASTION HOUSE, Dunlop's newly completed office building in Malacca. The old Bastion House was known widely as "The Plant ers' Arms".
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  • 61 3 MR. G. Maganlal, one of the Independent candidates In the Rural West by-election for the Singapore Legislative Council, appealed for votes at the meeting held yesterday at Seletar. Mr. Maganlal said that his appeal was not based on communal or racial grounds. He pledged to serve the needs
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  • 46 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. Mr. K. R. Menon, secretary of Singapore Regional Indian Congress yesterday sent the following message to the Prime Minister of India (Pandit Nehru): "Singapore Regional Indian Congress appreciates action of Hyderabad. Accept congratulations for the successful termination of hostilities."
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  • 530 3 Sunday Times Woman Reportei A JASMINE and mirrors wedding with a Persian man she had never seen; a hundred sarecs; and a beauty the Japanese took to be that of a goddess that is the romantic story of one of Singapore's loveliest women, Taj Namazie. It
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  • 27 3 An Indian who was knocked down by a car at Anson Road last night was admitted to hospital with Injuries in the head and legs.
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  • 617 4 LABOUR'S TRUE VOICE ON MALAYA 808 GILMORE" back home hears MELBOURNE, Sept. 12. TF Malayans are still in any doubt as to the true attitude of the Australian Labour Government to the Malayan "troubles/* they should buy a copy of The Standard of Sept. 10. The Standard (Sydney-pub-lished) is the
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  • 1187 4 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS Reviewed by H. R. CHEESEMAN C.M.G., Director of Education, Federation of Malaya. IN the preface to A SHORT HISTORY OF THE EDUCATIONAL POLICY OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS FROM 1800-1925 (CIRCA), Dr. D. D. Chelliah tells us that he was spurred to special effort
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  • 507 4 130 many American "epics" have appeared in recent years, nearly all of them constructed on the simple plan of fifty per cent sex and fifty per cent, history, that the appearance of a new one, bearing the words "Truly representative of American history an epic" on its
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  • 364 5 Only 45 members Sunday Times Staff Reporter OLDEST Chinese club in Singapore, the Chui Hua< Lim Club, built over a hundred years ago in Kheng Lee Road, now has an exclusive membership of forty-five. To become a member, it Is necessary to be a landed property owner,
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  • 154 5 Petrol cans are in great demand Sunday Times Staff Reporter LATEST commodity to experience a sharp rise in price is the "jerrican", the übiquitous military petrol container, which are now selling at about forty cents each. Army authorities recently ploughed thousands of them Into the ground as scrap, but shrewd
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  • 71 5 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Associations noon prices yesterday (Sept. 18) were- 1 In cents, per Ib. Buyers seUer* No. 1 R£B Spo loose nominal 43% 43% F.o.b. In bales Oct. No. 1 R.S.B. 43 Hi 43 NO. 2 R.SS. 41 74 42 No. 3 R S3. 40%
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  • 55 5 H|RS. Saroja Goho, who is visiting Singapore, has given $200 to the women's section of the Singapore Regional Indian Congress in memory of her husband, the late Mr. S. C. Goho. The gift will be used as prizes for an essay competition in connection
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  • 328 5 Sunday Times Financial Correspondent MARKETS on the whole have had a disappointing week. Uneasiness and uncertainty caused by political developments in Europe made prices sag: locally and in London, and the market closed yesterday with prices fractionally lower. London interest in tin shares was meagre and less
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  • 76 5 Sunday limes Staff Hevrter. CITHAMBARAM. a 20-year-v old Tamil who yesterday appeared before the Second District Court, Singapore, on a charge of extortion was acquitted. Chief- Inspector Mohamad Sidio said that he had received instructions to withdraw the charge because the complainant could not be traced. The
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    • 349 5 9.45 BBC Brmphony •"The 11.00 Australian News: 11.15 HAU.U MALAX A iS t a>Oßßj sleeping Beauty 1 (Tchaikwsky). Talk: 11.30 Band^and. 11.45 > y a.m. Boston Promenade; 9.30 symphony No. t in F minor Close. Richard Tauber; 10.00 Tin Pan (Tchaikovsky), "La Damnation RADIO haA. Alley; 10.15 Hit Parade; 11.00
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  • 40 6 LIEW WENG CHEE passed away on Saturday 18th September. 1948 at 11.36 a.m. Date of flint ml to be announced later. MRS JOSEPHINE de 3ouza, aped 52. wife of J. M. de Si>:r:a passed away suddenly on l'th Soul.
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  • 30 6 MR MRS ALEC Gan Scow Lin thank all relatives and friends for their valuable present* and kind attendance on the occasion of their marriage on the 11th. Sept 1948
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  • 577 6 THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE, SEPT. 19, 1948. A LOST CHANCE FR apostles of the gospel of non-violence, the Indian Government tackled its dispute with Hyderabad in a curiously violent way— a way which shows that Hitler did not live in vain, for the whole approach to the successful invasion of
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  • 1425 6  -  HARRY MILLER LOVE songs drifting in the silvery dusk, the most beautiful women in Malaya, palm trees, quiet waves caressing snow-white sand, toil- ing fishermen, the ronggengiall these join to make up Kelantan's by MOONLIGHT upon tropic Waters, xi. rT^rovinn- a«H the waves waxing ana waning
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  • 1137 6 MALA YA NEED NOT FEAR VOLCANOES IS there any cnance 1 of Malaya suffering from volcanic outbursts? A number of people have been asking this question after reading of the catastrophe at Mount Hibokhibok in the Philippine Islands. Although no one can accurately forecast when volcanoes will explode, there are
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  • 362 7 REGISTRATION WILL BEGIN ON OCT. 15 Problem of photography Sunday Times Staff Reporter MATIONAL registration will begin in Singa- pore and the Federation except in Penang, where it has already started— on Oct. 15, and is expected to be completed before the end of the year. Representatives from all States
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    75 7 ON Friday night last Chinese in Singapore oaH *hr!.- annual homage to the Moon Goddess who gives "good sons and rich harvests". One of the most colourful of Chinese festivals, it is marked by the giving of moon -cakes to friends and relatives, and a children's lantern procession. These pictures
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    29 7 rDUNTESS DE LA GRAN- DEVILLE, wife of the French diplomat stationed at Bangkok, photographed in Singapore while passing through with her husband on their way from Australia to Bangkok.
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  • 84 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Sat. THREE Seaforth Highlanders today appeared before Mr. Justice Lavllle charged with armed robbery of a shopkeeper Raman. One soldier was discharged and the hearing against the two others adjourned. Mr. McCall, prosecuting said on July 13 Raman was awakened by soldiers
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  • 71 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat MR. LIEW WENO CHEE. prominent banker, property owner and philanthropist, died at his home here this morning aged 65 years. A Justice of the Peace, his name is perpetuated by scolarships at the King Edward VII College of Medicine In Singapore and the
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  • 102 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SUM of more than $250,000 was mentioned in three counts of cheating brought against a 32-year-old Hokklon, Quek Tiam Song, of Rochore Canal Road at the Seventh Police Court yesterday. He is alleged to have cheated the East Asiatic Co., by inducing
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  • 207 7 FRUIT COSTS AN INCH Sunday Times Staff Reporter AN exotic South American creeper, which has white flowers as big as soup plates and bears luscious fruit about a foot long selling in Australia at a dollar an mch is growing in the Chua Chu Kang Road, Bukit Tmah, garden of
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  • 293 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter AN old river wall, possibly more than a hundred years old, has been uncovered during the excavations for the foundations of the new Chartered Bank building in Battery Road, Singapore. The present river wall, along the Singapore River at Boat Quay,
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  • 27 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. IPOH, Sat.— There were 88 road accidents In Perak last month. Fo< people were killed, 42 adults and seven children injured.
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  • 46 7 P. R. FILM SHOWS Sunday Times Correspondent Public Relations film unit shows will be given next week as follows: Monday. Jurong Village 10 m.s; Tuesday. Buklt Timah 7m.s; Wednesday. Tempenls 12y 2 m.s; Thursday. Singapore Hospital Assistants' Union; Friday Yeung Cheng School; Saturday. Y.W.C.A. Finlayson Green.
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  • 146 7 Sunday Times Stan* Reporter pERTIFICATES of proflV/ clency In English were yesterday presented to three I members of the L.E P. (Local Enlisted Personnel) who are on the staff of the Alexandra Military Hospital. Before 53 of their colleagues who are also on the staff or
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  • 132 7 SINGAPORE schoolgirls are more artistically minded than the boys if the number of visitors to the Seventh Inter-School Art Exhibition is any guide. More girls than boys have seen the exhibition which moved from the British Council Hall at Stamford Road to Chungking Hall at Great
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  • 122 7 500-f t. a minute lifts for S'pore Sunday 'ii.nes Staff r THE Singapore firm of ar--1 chltects, Palmer and Turner, Is puzzled, but amused, at a story going the rounds that someone had forgotten to design a lift shaft In the new j Hone Kong and Shanghai Bank in Orchard
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  • 402 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter T*HE finding of a 3-ton motor vehicle in the Great 1 World amusement park with its number plates blacked out, which he claimed was the property of the Royal Air Force, Singapore, was described by Sgt. Albert C. Wilson, of the R.A.F.
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  • 58 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. MEMBERS Of the public who take an Interest In the health problems of the State are Invited to attend a public meeting In the Royal Johore International Club at 9.30 a.m on Friday when the quesMon of
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  • 196 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter Kf ALA LUMPUR, Saturday. riR. Ong Chong Keng, the Federal Executive and f Legislative Councillor, was assassinated as the result of a conspiracy between the Malayan Communist Party and the powerful Ang Bin Hoay secret society in Penang. Disclosing this today, a
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  • 36 7 The Singapore Association will hold a public meeting on Tuesday at 5.15 p.m. at the Singapore Chamber of Commerce. Fullerton Building, to discuss War Damage proposals and what action should be taken on them.
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  • 27 7 PARIT BUNTAR, Sat.— See Ooh and Hng Sim Bee were bound over by the District I Judge (Mr. A. M. Webb) for possessing chandu.
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  • 82 7 T EE CHOON HEE and Lee Cheok Chua were alleged. at the First District Court yesterday, to have bribed Lance-Corporal N. \V. Marfleet to issue blankets to them. Tan is alleged to have corruptly given Marfleet $643 between June and July while i Lee is alleged
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    • 630 8 JUST Imagine yourself on be on the way from— to —^^J— i— JHL_ I a world cruise, remem- n There are no glau- H* I ber all those litile uits that hou^ a t which to throw _^PH_J L__flH^H_have stuck from your geo- s t O nes In Btomehenge, in—?
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  • 753 9 MARY HEATHCOTT recalls LONDON, Sept. 6. WRITING the date a couple of days ago I hesitated. Surely there was something about it Sept. 3 something memorable, and then, of course, I remembered Nine years ago, and Mr. Chamberlain's sad voice, and the first air raid alarm and
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    35 9 TABLE SET designed by Maruet, one of the leading napery makers in Paris. The napkins are embroidered over a fine transparent organdi, and ar« seen on a table in green marble designed by Jean Patcaud.
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  • 137 9 Linen suits can be new I HAVE often heard women say to their tailor: "Oh, just a little linen suit, please,' and there it is the same old jacket, the same inverted pleats back and front on the skirt. Linen suits are In a rut but they ?OULD have a
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  • 181 9 NOVELTIES IN JEWELS NEW earrings are in the form of fish —in j J plastic and china brightly j coloured and gambolling j like dolphins. There are j fish clips to match. J Gold hearts pierced o> a j lone arrow and n graved J with a motto make <n
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  • 352 9 am giving a co^kiuu party and am bothered about the invitation*. How does one address th* envelope when inviting, a man and his wife? I have my own idea, but am told, it is not correct and should like corroboration. QM. CTRICT ruling: address 3 to wife only.
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  • 329 9 WHEN the mercury stands high in the I thermometer, even after the sun has gon^ lown, it is good to thinK of a l deliciously cool sweet, I all ready to serve from your refrigerator. j Apricot cream M 1 AXE a puree from apricots,
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  • 128 9 DEOPLE are talking about 1 Princess Margaret's pretty clothes for her visit to Holland for Queen Juliana's celebrations British dress designers are reputed to have said she has the best dress sense of any member of the Royal Family but is always choosing clothes which her family consider
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  • 108 9 Across: 1. Expert. 5. Spasms. 9 Looters. 10, Slot. 11. Rest. 13, Ado IS, Denim. 17. Ape. 10. Reds 21, Manicure. 23- Plane. 25, Satin 26. Asp 27, Per. 28. Avert. 31. Debts 34, Realised. 37. Seem. 38, Err. 39. Motor. 41. Are. 42, Stab. 44. Woad 46.
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  • 225 10 VETERAN players figured in the best match at the 'Singapore badminton cham- pionships continued at the I Clerical Union hall yesterday. ji the veterans' doubles, Seah I Eng Liat and Ng Ngoh Tee of the 1 Mayflower B.P. qualified for the final by beating
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  • 483 10 LONDON, Saturday. THE fift unbeaten teams in the English football leagues were all playing away from home today, but despite this oaly Bury in the second division failed to maintain their ie^ord. Unbeaten Portsmouth div well to draw at Manchester City after being a
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    40 10 THE girls' hurdles event at the annual Chinese interschool sports meet at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. As many as 350 girls, representing Chinese girls' schools took part. 55 boys and girls schools were represented by a total of 960 competitors.
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  • 159 10 Hai .equine 3. Saint Mary s H piial 5. Ba.h 0, Swansea 14; B \lford 39. Old Merchant Taylors 8; Camborne 5, Falmouth 3; Chelt;cham 18, Rugby 3; Cross Keyi 13, Birmingham 3; Exeter 5. D^vonport Services 13; Olouccst?r 9. Moseley 9; Leicester 19, Plymouth Albion 0; L'.ar.-
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  • 62 10 j A last-minute goal scored by Selby enabled the Customs Sports Club to share points with the R.A.S.C. Training School r.hctfi they met in an S.A.F.A. Third Division League rncounter at McNair Road yesterday. The game ended n a one-all draw. Both goals were scored
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  • 63 10 DA.RA Singh knocked out Bill Verna In the sixth round In the main event of the wrestling programme at the Happy World Stadium last night. Results of the other bouts: Bosca Boa and Labrlola drew over ten rounds; Booth Singh beat Greenwood by two falls
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  • 79 10 Australian Tour: Huddorsfleld 22. Australians jO. League game: Bat ley 18, Rochdale Hornets 9: Bradford Northern 9. Wi?an 16; Bramley 16; Liverpool Stanley 8; Belle Vue Raneers 31, Dewsbury 5; Castleford 7. Widnes 3: Hull 17. Wakefield Trinity 5; Hunalet 19. Sal ford 0: Keighley 16. York 3:
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  • 256 10 A PENALTY goal by inside-right Watson two minutes befort half-time gave the Royal Navy a narrow 1-0 victory over the Army In an Inter- Services Soccer Cup match at Tanglln yesterday. Big stars of the match were, without a doubt, the respective goalkeepers. Time and time
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  • 663 10 rpHE seventh annual Chinese inter-school sports meet, which was concluded at Jalan Besar stadium, saw winners in 48 events improve on 1947 records. The pre-war records nine of the 1947 records w Highlights of the meet were the two invitation relay events— St. Joseph's Institution winning
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    21 10 MR Wee Kheng Watt leads la Jo!d Caste (Harper) winner of the Liberatio n Cup at Bukit Timah yesterday.—Straits Times picture.
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  • 63 10 GOOD weather favoaied the Naval Base Sailing Club race held yesterday for the silver cup presented by the Sultan of Johore to commemorate his 75th olrthday. There were 15 entries for the race. Winner was Cdr. W. B. Axford. who finished nine seconds
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  • 430 10 Badminton Notes By FEATHER g NOLAN D is one of the oldest badminton playing nations in the world. Unfortunately her present standard is on the decline as she has to depend more on old timers than on youngsters Even the most optimistic badminton supporters In England
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  • 1361 11 MANNIE SEAMON SAYS Benny Leonard a great boxer IF anyone thought I was kidding when 1 menA tioned that I was often consulted on fight matters by Abe Greene, President of the National Boxing Association of America, here's something else for them
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    23 11 ST. LEGER WINNER: Black Tarquin (E. Britt up) winning: the St. Leger for America at Doncaster from Alycldon by one-and-a-half lengths. Reuter photo.
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  • 290 11  -  SCREW BALL By THE finals of the open men's singles, men's junior singles, open men's doubles, men's junior doubles and the women's open singles, will bring to an end the three-month-old All-Singapore Table Tennis championships for 1948. at 8 p.m. tonight at the Great World.
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  • 197 11 THE Straits Racing Association's schedule of race meetings for next year provides for 20 meetings, compared with 23 for this year. Except for eight fortnight Intervals, there will racing evfry week from Jan. 22. As usual there will be racing on New Year's Day. the
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  • 95 11 S'pore Chinese beaten Sunday Times Sereraban Sports Correspondent NEGRI Sembilan entered the final of the Malayan Chinese Football competition for the Yeap Hock Hoe Cup by defeating Singapore two goals to one yesterday evning. The winning goal was scored by Negri's veteran soccer star and skipper, Kwan Soon Teck with
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  • 130 11 A. 5. SAMUEL OUT OF TOURNAMENT Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. AS. Samuel, Malaya's veteran badminton player vas defeated today in the preliminary round of the Selangor Badminton championships held at che Pudu English School hall. His opponent. Lee Yew tieng, had little difficulty in beating aiir. in
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  • 91 11 NEW YORK, Saturday. BECAUSE of a broken toe, Gus Lesnevich has been forced to withdraw from a scheduled fight with Jersey Joe Walcott at Jersey City on Tuesday night. The 15-round bout was to have been a supporting semifinal to the middleweight title fight between Tony
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  • 117 11 FOREST HILLS, Saturday. fJICHARD "Pancho" Qonxales of Los Angeles turned in the major upset of the tennis year when he routed Frankle Parker in the quarter finals of the national 'ennis championship B—6,8 6, 2 6> 7—5, 6—3. That gave him the right to face
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  • 67 11 THE Singapore Cricket Club and Singapore Recreation Club drew in an 'A team cricket match on the padang yesterday. The B.C.C. were all out for 120 runs in the first innings. The S.R.C. replied with 108 for ten wickets. H. B. Noon was the
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  • 54 11 ■J'HERE will be two water polo matches at the Singapore Swimming Club this morning. The first will be against a Navy team, starting at 10.30 a.m. This will be followed by a match a gains', the Army at 11 a.m. These matches will be preceded
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  • 2810 12  -  EPSOM JEEP Amusement pay s $197 for a win By BRILLIANTLY ridden by Ted Harper, Gold Caste n beat Gold Medallist by a neck to win the big sprint prize the Liberation Cup— at Bukit Timah yesterday, the third day of the Singapore Turf
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  • 195 12  -  EPSOM JEEP Turf Personalifies....No. 26 By WITHOUT being spectacularly brilliant, Edward! CyrU Harper has been consistently landing good and usually long-priced winners on the Malayan tmi since 1938. Born in Sydney, Ted Harper was apprenticed at an early age to Jim Abes, a leading Randwlck
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