The Straits Times, 3 October 1948

Microfilm: NL5338
Total Pages: 12
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    20 1 FINAL EftITWN THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NETT SALE IN MALAYA No. 688. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1948. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    JAVA REDS FACE QUICK DEFEAT
    479 1 JAVA REDS FACE QUICK DEFEAT Russia called for revolt [BY HARRIS JACKSON, OF A.P., ONLY FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT IN REPUBLICAN JAVA OR SUMATRA.] JOGJAKARTA, Saturday. T EADERS of the Indonesian Republic hope to wipe out the scattered remnants of the organised Communist revolt in the next few weeks, but they admit
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    77 1 EIGHTEEN men on a gun Vj one of the three Changi giants destined for the scrap heap and being sent from Singapore to the United Kingdom to be melted down and put to other uses. This picture shows a 15-lnch gun. weighing 300 tons, and the second of its kind
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    Stowaway Jose seeks adventure
    242 1 Stowaway Jose seeks adventure ■•ndaj Times Staff Repon<r WEEPING 15-year-old Fill-, pino Jose Brul -a stovBway QO board the Steel Artisan, which arrived in Singapore yesterday— told the Sun- di\ Times: I I wanted to be a sailor. I love adventure." Singapore Immigration authorities, who took custody of Jok. have
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    RAF WANTS MEN
    34 1 LONDON. Sat. Britain alms to recruit 1.000 regular airmen a week, Mr. Arthur Henderson. Secretary of State for Air. stated today j when he opened the Royal Air Force recruiting campaign.—Reuter.
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    GUARDS HERE TOMORROW
    136 1 I>WO battalions of the Second Guards Brigade, and the advance party of a third, will arrive in Singapore aboard the Empire Trooper tomorrow morning. They are the Second Battalions of the Coldstream and Scots Guards and the; advance party of the third battalion of the Grenadiers. Some
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    LABOUR WINS U.K. BY-ELECTION
    64 1 GLASGOW, Sat —The Labour Party yesterday held its seat in the Gorbals Parliamentary by-election. Communists polled more than one- .vth of the votes. Mrs. Alice Cullen, Labour, received 13,706 votes; Willis Roxburgh. Conservative, 7,181; Patrick Kerrigan, Communist 4,233 There was no Communist in the 1945 general
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    U.S.is using more N.E.I. rubber
    87 1 WASHINGTON, Sat. IMPORTS of rubber from the N.E.I, into the United States in August totalled 14.95 ft tons, largest shipments in any post-war month from that area, reports the U.S. Commeiv-e Department. 81am sent 8.316 tons. During August the United States consumed 92.236 tons of
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    NEW RUSSIAN ATOM MOVE IN PARIS
    110 1 NEW RUSSIAN ATOM MOVE IN PARIS PARIS. Saturday. RUSSIA today offered the deadlocked United Nations a compromise calling for simultaneous outlawing of atomic weapons and the setting up of an effective international control body. Mr. Vyshinsky withdrew the long-standing Soviet demand that atomic weapons must be destroyed and banned before
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    U.S. PLANS MORE 'COLD RUBBER'
    59 1 WASHINGTON, Sat. The U.S. Reconstruction Finance I Corporation said yesterday i that it had approved plans for an increase of more than i 800 per cent, in the production of the new synthetic "cold rubber." The RFC said this rubber, made at near-freezing temperature, lasted
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    NO STRENGTH THROUGH JOY
    59 1 SHANGHAI, Sat. MaJ. Gen. Chiang Ching Kuo. n«w economic chief of the lower Yangtze Valley, today Issued six "don't" for members of his Youth Corps. He urged them not to attend social functions, visit amusement centres, accept gifts, work less than 10 hours a day. take
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    IPOH BOMBING: 200 SCREENED
    113 1 Sunday Times Statt Reporter IPOH. Saturday. POLICE visited every hotel and lodging-house in Ipoh this morning In their search for *he grenade-throwers In I last night's newspaper outrage in which 30-year-old Lim Say Teong. a reporter was killed. Mr. Lim's wife gave birth to their fourth
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    SHANGHAI STOPS CAR LICENCES
    46 1 SHANGHAI, Sat. THE Shanghai Municipal Government has ceased issuing licences for cars on an order from the Executive i Yuan. The order also calls for reduction of the number of licensed cars in the city by one-third by October 19.— I A.P.
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    The other woman
    111 1 The other woman SHANGHAI. Sat. THE WIDOW of a gar son officer executed f corruption Is advertising for "the other woman." Colonel Chanr Yah-min, who was executed on Sept. 21, left his possessions to be divided between his wife and the other woman so his wife said in her advertisement:
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    Radar catches smugglers
    134 1 BATAVIA, Saturday. DUTCH naval patrols, using planes overhead by day and radar by nieht. are conflscatlne an average of $300,000 (Straits) a month from smugglers operating between Malaya and Sumatra, the Dutch new agency Aneta reports today. The agency said the Dutch naval patrols seize an aver-
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    3 RED SHIPS TO FETCH RUBBER
    123 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter RUSSIA is sending three more ships to Malaya this month to take rubber to her ports. Leading exporters told the Sunday Times today that the October shipments possibly totalling 20.000 tonswould probably be the last. J "We do not expect
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    U.N. STAMPS PUN
    25 1 PARIS. Sat. The United Nations Budget Committee today approved a plan for the United Nations to issue Its own postage stamps. -UP.
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    It couldn't happen here
    70 1 SHANGHAI. Sat— There is a housing famine in Shanghai, too. One man today had an idea for lliidinhimself a home. He put this advertisement in a morning paper: "In lieu of key money, a graduate civil engineer. !":,>reUner with experience, offers to st:hmit complete l»!;ins and
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    RED PLANES FIRE NEAR BERLIN
    72 1 BERLIN, Saturday. RUSSIAN war planes will hold aerial combat ftrli.g practice today west of Berlin in the vicinity of the International air corridors, using live ammunition, Soviet authorities advised the Tour Power Air Safety Centre. The Russians said the practice would be going on through
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    FREE THAI' FORCE ATTEMPTS REVOLT
    172 1 Sunday Times Correspondent BANGKOK, Saturday. lit ORE than 57 arrest* have been made in the last 24 hours in connection with a plot to overthrow the government of Field Marshal Phibun Songgram. The plot was discovered early this morning when the wartime Pfee Thai Force
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    Burma may have Soviet embassy
    244 1 Burma may have Soviet embassy Sunday Times Staff Reporter A PPROACHES have been made to a section of the Burmese Governmefft for the establishment of a Russian Embassy in Rangoon, an Englishman who is in close touch with Government circles there and who has just arrived in Singapore, told the
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    POLIO EPIDEMIC HITS N.Z.
    74 1 r| AUCKLAND. Sat. An in- fantlle paralysis epidemic has 1 hit most parts of the North Island of New Zealand in the s past 11 months. f Most seriously affected area r recently has been Wellington. Here 40 cases were reported In i two weeks. I
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    RUSSIANS DENY MOVE IN SIAM
    77 1 MOSCOW, Sat. TASS. the official Soviet news agency, today quoted a I Siamese Government state- ment that there were only 59 Soviet citizens in Bangkok and that none of them had been involved in any illegal activities The agency said that it had issued the
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    Early Days in Katong and Bedok
    1102 2  - Early Days in Katong and Bedok OLD TIMER by J OFTEN see young people out on their bicycles, just as I used to go out exploring in my younger days. Even then, very few people knew it was possible to cycle along the path beside the huge pipe-line from the
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    THE MINT JULEP
    762 2 rf has struck me that the series of drinks known as Juleps they have as their base any good spirit, plus ice, fresh leaves of mint and powdered svgar have far too long been neglected. I will reiterate that those robust Kentucky colonels do not. make Mint
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    War idea helps to see through rock
    357 2 THE sniperscope and x snooperscope, used by both the Allies and the Germans late in World War II to "see in the dark", have now been adapted to penetrate slices of opaque minerals and allow study of 500,000,000- -year-old fossils embedded in rock.
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  • Letter to Editor
    • Letter
      MALAYS AND THE HIGHER EDUCATION
      184 3 MAY I be permitted to point out an inaccuracy in the article "Malays and the Higher Education" appearing in your issue of September 26th. "In the article it is stated that 'Cases are found in Kedah where even Grade 111 Certificate holders had to be
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    9,000 LITTERERS PAY $123,000
    325 3 2, 500 are still waiting Sunday Times Staff Reporter rWER 9,000 litter-spreaders have been charged by the Singapore Town Cleansing Department so far this year, and fines totalling $123,409 have been imposed. Another 2,500 people are awaiting their turn to appear in court. Hawkers head the
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    White slaver was banished
    202 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter rVKHV month more than a thousand women and J girl immigrants entering Singapore, and the people sponsoring their entry, are "screened" by the Department of Social Welfare; and each month over forty are detained for further inquiries. The Department has powers to
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    HONORARY A.D.C.
    19 3 Lieut. J. W. B. Annesley, M.R.N.V.R., has been appointed an honorary A.D.C. to the Governor of Singapore.
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    FLAG DAY RAISES OVER $5,500
    46 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter I*HE Ladies Committee of the Queen Street Boy*' Club raised yesterday $5,500, in -aid of the Club's Funds, by selling flags in Singapore. More money is expected as all sections have not yet turned in their collections.
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    RAJA MUDA INSPECTS
    38 3 Ttluk Anson, Sat. The Raja Muda of Perak accompanied by ihe Raja Kechil Sulong the Da to Laxmana and the Mulri of Perak, has arrived here on an extensive tour of the Lower Perak Dis-
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    TAXI ROBBERY CHARGE
    102 3 Su.idav Times Staff Reporter rd Ong of $5.10 at Thomson A. Nicholson, a British soldier, pleaded not guilty In the First District Court yesterday to charges of robbery and attempted robbery. Mr. A. H. Frew, ASP., who p/osecuted, said that Nicholson engaged Ong Choon Peow's taxi at
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    HOW NOT TO TREAT BOOKS
    310 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter fYS every table in Raffles Library, Singapore, is a terse but well- worded notice: "Members of the public are requested NOT to cut out advertisements or otherwise mutilate the Library magazines and newspapers." It is the only way the Librarian has
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    RAF THEFTS CASE: POLICE EVIDENCE
    73 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter ITNDER c "oss-examination yesterday in the Ninth Police Court Inspector Ec Sin Mong of the Criminal Investigation Department, Singapore said that he began Investigations into theft of generators and motor vehicles from the R.A.P. after he had received a report from
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    Malaya's first printed book
    155 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter HIRST book ever printed in Malaya— J. H. Moor's 1 "Notices of the Indian Archipelago," printed in Singapore in 1837 will be among the exhibits loaned by Raffles Library to the second annual book exhibition which opens in the Victoria Hall on
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    FIVE LALLANG FIRES IN SINGAPORE
    70 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THERE were five lallang fires in Singapore yesterday. In the morning at 11 and again at 5 p.m. fire broke out among the lallang at 223 8.0.D. Keat Hong. Army Fire Service put out the fires. Two acres of lallang fire
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    'Rusted Yerey is firearm': Court
    453 3 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. FHE appeal of l.im Eng Kooi against conviction and sentence of eight years rigorous imprisonment for possessing a Verey signal pistol, was today dismissed by the Federation Court of Appeal in Kuala Lumpur. The court held that, on
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    OLDEST SHIP IN THE HARBOUR
    129 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A BRITISH freighter with an old-fashioned hull and a tall smokestack, reminiscent of the ships built half a century ago. has arrived in Singapore to load more than 3,000 sleepers for Mombasa. She is the 33-year-old 4.364--ton Bank Line ship Cabarita
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    31 3 MISS V V FRIE COLESTON, daughter of Mr. E. C. Coleston, of Warranbool. Victoria, was married to Mr. Joe O'Byrne, of Sydney, at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd. Singapore, yesterday.
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    ADMITTED TO BAR
    29 3 ADMITTED TO 3AR JOHORE BAHRU. Sat. Mr. L. A J. Smith wrs admitted to the Bar of the Federation of Malaya today by Mr. Justice Lavillr.
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    LABOUR IS ACCUSED
    922 4 808 GILMORE looks at Australia MELBOURNE, Sept. 24. THE Liberal Party's young Joe Gullett, M.C. (son of Sir Henry, who was killed in a wartime air crash), put his finger on something in Parliament this week when he accused the Labour Party of closing its eyes to
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    11 4 DARBARA MURRAY, young Arthur Rank star, wishes beside a wishing well.
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    TB: man's disease
    255 4 TB: man 's disease TUBERCULOSIS Is becoming a man's disease. The death rate from the white plague in the United States is now nearly twice as great for men as for women. This curious trer.d is shown In tuberculosis for the past 37 years Just compiled by the U.S. Public
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    THE CONCERTO AMONG THE NEW BOOKS
    571 4 THE CONCERTO AMONG THE NEW BOOKS I HAVE a feeling that when Mr. Abraham Veinus originally conceived the idea of his book, THE CONCERTO, he had in mind a much shorter work than the one that has now been published. For Mr. Veinus is primarily a scholar, and a very
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    26 4 I-.OMA DRAKI, Universal- International star, looks \ery lonely on her own private little beach of sand, made to order for this picture, but very attractive nevertheless.
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    RUBBER
    17 5 Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's noon price yesterday (Oct. 2) were. In cents per lb.
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    $305,000 ARMY LOOT GOT BACK
    251 5 644 arrests in nine months Sunday Times Correspondent TN the first nine months of this year, the Special Investigation Branch of the Royal Military Police has recovered stolen Army pro' perty to the value of $305,878.25 (Malayan currency). The recoveries were made in Singapore, the
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    Buying interest in markets
    424 5 Sunday Times Financial Correspondent THE local share market has become accustomed to A dull conditions and the past week was no exception. Prices were again easier, but renewed buying interest toward the week-end brought about some business, mainly in certain industrials. London also continued quiet and
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    IPOH AIRPORT BUILDING OPEN
    240 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter IPOH, Saturday. TPOH has at last got an airport building more in 1 keeping with Perak's chief aerodrome, and work has been started by the Public Works Department on the laying of an asphalt hard standing for aircraft opposite the new building.
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    C.G.'s talk postponed
    30 5 rl Commissioner-Gene-ral, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, has postponed his broadcast from tomorrow to Wednesday at 9.45 p.m. over both the Red and Blue networks of Radio Ma) t.
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    C.O.D. PARCELS FOR PAKISTAN
    55 5 THE Postmaster-Ger.eral. Malaya, announces that with effect from Oct 1, cash-on-dellvery parcels for Pakistan will be accepted at all post offices in Malaya. The maximum amount of the trade charge per parcel will be Rupees 30 (Malayan ($2O) The cash-on-delivery parcel post service from Pakistan to
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    COLLECTION CHARGE
    48 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PARIT BUNTAR, Sat. Kang Kian Gin and Ang Hock Thye pleaded not guilty in the magistrate Court, Nibong Tebal, to a charge of having made a public collection from door to door without a licence. The case was postponed to Oct. 15.
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
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      138 5 RAr-~ MALAYA SINGAPORE "■'o lu-v 4.96 or 7 2 mc/s.) 9 a.m. Popular Classics; 9.30 South America. Take It Away; 10.00 Charlie Kunz; 10.15 Hit Parade; 11.00 ITMA; 11.30 Music; 12.00 Close, l p.m. Jullen Foorman; 1.30 News; 1.45 Keyboard; 2.00 Relax; 2.45 Jan Octette; 3.00 Concert Hour; 4.00 Post;
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      126 5 QFERS (SPORE) (6 77 21.73 15 48 or 69 me/a.) > 4.45 p.m. English: Headlines; 4.55 Film Music; 5.30 Weekly Letter (BBC); 5.45 Bandstand; 6.15 Man from Hatton Garden (1); 6.30 News (BBC); 6.45 Indonesian: i News Programme; 7.15 English: News Commentary; Talk (BBC): 7.45 Dance Music; 8.00 Siamese; 8.30
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      142 5 D (Beethove 11.00 Prom The Children's Hour; 11.30 News St Analysis; 11.45 New Social Service Acts. Talk by Rajkumarl Indira of Kapurthala; 12.00 Sunday Service; 12.30 a.m. Close. RADIO AUSTRALIA Alternative Stations 9.30 a.m. Frankle Carle; 9.45 Dance Tempo; 10.00 Forces' Mall; 10.05 Singers; 10.20 Bandstand; 10.30 Australian News; 10.40
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    THE SUNDAY TIMES MAILED FIST
    634 6 THE SUNDAY TIMES MAILED FIST SINGAPORE, OCT. 3. 1948 WHEN the General Assembly of the United Nations first met in San Francisco, the eyes of all the world turned there, sparkling with hopes of peace by international accord. Today the eyes of the world turn on Paris, where the Assembly
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    When the sea left Malaya
    1826 6  -  Dr. E.H.G. DOBBY by- South-East Asia geographer CINGAPORE IS- LAND -is getting probed to its core. What with foundations for new buildings and the snags at Changi even the depths of the Island will not for long be secret. Last week a headline announced that
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    KITE FLYING IN HISTORY
    669 6  -  N.K. Haldar By ITITE-FLYING, one of the oldest arts in the world, is said to have been invented by Archytas of Tarentum four centuries before the Christian era, but kites have been in use among Asian peoples from time immemorial. In Eastern Asia the cult of
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    POLICE SMASH UP TERRORIST GANG
    304 7 POLICE SMASH UP TERRORIST GANG 7 men killed, guns taken Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. DOLICE operating in the Sungei Buloh area, north of Kuala Lumpur, during the past four days completely eliminated a terrorist gang and captured all its arms, ammunition and grenades. The operation was capped
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    77 7 MISS WENDY INGLIS, daughter of Air Vi?eMir h.il and Mrs. F. F. Inglis, Air Command Far East, was mirried at St. Andrew's Cathedral. Singapore, yesterday to Sqdn.Leader Peter Helmore, D.F.C.. son of Air Commodore and Mrs. W. Helmore, of Coombe Hill, Surrey. Miss Inglis was attended by six bridesmaid*. Misses
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    PROGRESS IN YMCA DRIVE
    95 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A TOTAL of 744 new mem- bers had been added to tht membership roll of the Chinese V.M.C.A. at the end of the first week of the campaign for 10,000 more members. The campaign has also brought an addition to the Chinese
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    Terror hits padi crop
    115 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Satur. TERRORISM is affecting X the planting: of padi in parts of the Federation. The August report of the Department Of Agriculture says that in the southern States and settlements, an appreciable fall in the acreage planted is expected in some districts. This is
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    "DEATH FALL AT 3
    47 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A three-year-old girl, Annie Tan, fell to her death from the fifth floor of the Improve- ment Trust Building ln Chay Van Street, when she found herself locked-ln alor.e in her flat on Sept. 25. Inquest verdict yesterday: misadventure.
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    L. E. P. RECRUITING IN JOHORE BAHRU
    97 7 j A NEW recruiting office for j^*- locally enlisted personnel has been opened ln Johore Bahru, in the Government Labour Exchange, Government Offices. The recruiting officer at Fort Canning states that there are not as many people as he would like to see
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    3 YEARS YET TO MEND NAVAL BASE
    316 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter IF the money is forthcoming in the United Kingdom, the rehabilitation of Singapore Naval Base should be completed in about three years' time, Mr. \V. J. Haver, Civil Secretary at the Base, told the Sunday Times yesterday. "Much work
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    BID TO SMUGGLE MATCHES
    51 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. Chan Yok Khlan was yesterday fined $180 for trying to evade customs duty on 200 packets of matches. On arrival at Johore Bahru from Singapore, he made a declaration for 1,200 packets but it was found he had 1,400
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    MY HOPE, BY LADY CURNEY
    180 7 From MARY HEATHCOTT LONDON, Saturday. \DV GURNEY, wife of the new High lj Commissioner for the Federation, is looking forward to living In Malaya. She told me this before flying from England. This will be her first visit to the Far East. Lady Gurney, well-groom-ed,
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    COUPLE GIVE ART SHOW
    101 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. PAINTINGS and calligraphy by two visiting Chinese artists who are on their way to Europe, Mr. and Mrs. Ling Nan-Lung, are displayed at an exhibition at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Hill Street, Singapore. Mr. Ling graduated from the Chinese High School,
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    Local airmen to learn in U.K.
    226 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter T»WO local air traffic control officers who were In operations against the Germans during the war are to leave Malaya this month for a civil aviation training course at leading civil and R.A.F. airfields in England. These two men are
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    REGISTRATION H. Q. SET UP IN S'PORE
    177 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MR. M. F. Garling. the Singapore Commissioner for Registration, has established his headquarters at the Volu'.teer Force Offices, Beach Road. Inquiries should be addressed to this office, but it is not a registration office. The list of registration centres
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    More aliens are turning British
    168 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter IN increasing: number of aliens are becoming IX naturalised m Singapore, where official figures show that since the liberation 49 people have acquired British citizenship. From one case of naturalisation in 1946, the figure rose to 11 the following year and
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    'STOLE PETROL' CHARGE
    58 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Sat.— All bin Mohd. Noor, 17-year-old Malay, was charged today with stealing petrol from, a car belonging to Capt. Brown which was perked near the Broadway Cinema. He was remanded ln custody for further investigation which, it was said, would have
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    THEFT OF LORRY PARTS ALLEGED
    92 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter TWO Chinese and a Malay yesterday appeared before the Singapore Seventh Police Court Magistrate (Mr. R. J. C. Wait) on a charge of theft. Tan Ah Soo, Koay Mong Chuan and Wusope bin Ahmat were alleged to have stolen seven tyres,
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    FINED FOR ESTATE TRESPASS
    77 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter JQHORE Bahru, Sat.— Charged with trespassing on Sungei Tekong Estate on Sept. 14. Ang Sit Chuan told the magistrate yesterday that he went to the estate at the request of a tapper in order to castrate pigs. He had attended to two
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    KALLANG STEN GUN
    26 7 Police found a Sten gun magazine and 15 rounds of ammunition on a grass verge near the main entrance of Kallang Airport yesterday.
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    She buys for 1,800 mouths
    220 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter VERY few European women can claim to order supplies for feeding 1,800 people, but, fewer still if any can say as well that the provisions man calls only twice a year. This is the task facing Mrs. Rose Clunies-Ross, the sole
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    CHINESE MUSK
    58 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter The popular 15-plece New Moon Orchestra of Radio Malaya will broadcast over the Red Network today at 12 p.m. A good selection of Chinese music, arranged by Mr. Domingo, a well known Singapore composer, has been arranged The Singapore Chinese singer, Miss Lim Lee,
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    NONE SERIOUS
    22 7 Fifteen accidents were reported in Singapore yesterday. None was serious enough for the victim to be removed to the hospital.
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    COURTS OF APPEAL
    43 7 The Court of Criminal Appeal will sit in the Supreme Court Building, Singapore, on Monday. Oct. LI at 10.30 a.m. and the Court of Appeal (Civil > will sit in the same building on Thursday. Oct. 14 I at 10.30 a.m
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      530 8 MowtnucUfoy&tihtw? or cur B.M A. stamps that were either obsolete or costly. What were their Values and colours? 12. When were our new Singapore stamps Issued? ANSWERS 81-61 I Idas 'SI paJ prro i»*i3 St 'UUjjdJSAO Jpm) auiJUtußJajn juao-st 'anjq mao -ji 'ajjB iuao-8 'u.v.ojq iujj-q 'tl "BuiiJajS '0T •?uonBJ°;JWI
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      207 8 Sunday Times Crossword 35^i™^^^ ACROSS I)OW.« 1. Exhibiting the feelings 1. Deprive of weapons (6) 2. strongly (13) 11. Foolish (5) 12. Gate (5) S. Demand for a cornBurdened (5) 13. Pompous walk modlty 4. Obligation (4) 5. (5) 15. Salt-wat«r (5) 16. Vessels Snare (3) 6. Garment (3) 7.
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    SAVOURY & MEAT DISHES
    139 9 SAVOURY MEAT DISHES THE lucky people who own pressure cookers will not need to use these methods of making an unpromising cut of meat tender and appetising. Stuffed Steak YOU need:- 1 pound of beefsteak, 1 onion, a little dripping or margarine, pepper and salt, a cupful of stock, two
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    37 9 QULCIE CRAY, »h« Malaya born British film star, with her husband, Michael Dcnnison, as they appear in The Class Mountain", mad* by Victoria Films, an independent British producing company. It will be released in England next month.
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    People Talk About...
    210 9 PRINCESS MAKGARtT, who has gone to Molyneux, for the clothes for th* Australian Royal tour She has chosen no tight skirts, all lull long ones main colours, pink, blue, yellow A* CHEERFUL Sir Stafford Cripps. After bedevilling him for being such a miserable fellow, the Tories are
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    OUR ELEGANCE IS GROWN-UP'
    992 9 MARY HEATHCOTT on fashion LONDON, Sept. 21. AT a dress show this week I met Virginia Lee Hardesty, American business girl, who entered a competition run by the New York magazine Glamour and in 500 words wrote what she considered good taste in clothes for girls
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    ANN TEMPLE
    444 9 I'm not as good a aancei as she is and she seemed a bit bored with me.— Now her family have invited me to their icek-end tennis party My tennis is not up to hers either. Would I spoil my chances with her if I accepted? Or should
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      114 9 CROSSWORD SOLUTION Across: 1. Demonstrative. 11. Inane. 12. Laden. 13. Strut. 15 Brine. 16, Arks. 17, Cat. 19, Tour. 20, Rye. 21, Liner. 23, Teg. 34, Twit. 26. Sea*. 28. ElMtic. 30, Dead. 31. Ants. 34, Ice. 36, Cents. 38, Are. 40. Raft. 42. Lie. 43. Slat. 44, Abeam. 46,
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    NEGRI SEMBILAN WIN CUP FINAL 2-1
    784 10 Soon Teck hero of the match Sunday Times Kuala Lumpur Sports Reporter vicim won the Malaya Cup replay on the Victoria Institution ground, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday, beating Selangor by two goals to one and demonstrating fully that, on the day, they were the better,
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    Portsmouth keep in winning vein
    78 10 Portsmouth keep in winning vein LONDON, Saturday. I ¥>ORTSMOUTH strengthen--1 ed their lead in the First I Division when a second half >goal from Phillips allowed them to retain their unbeaten 1 sequence and incidentally broKe Newcastle's unbeaten record In away games. GREGORY, the West Ham goalkeeper, diving to save
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    Chye Hee wins sprint events
    381 10 THE Central Provisions and Disposals Office of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, won the FARELF championship shield at the first athletic snort* meeting held at St. George's Road yesterday P The Singapore soccer i star, Tan Chye Hee did well to win the 100 yards
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    A.A.A. CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY
    53 10 'rH£ Amicable Athletic Asso- elation celebrated Its 20th anniversary last night with a programme of Teochew singing, dinner and a ronggeng last night. The celebrations will be ;cntinued today from 1 p.m. to midnight. Members are reminded of the group photograph which will be token this evening
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    MALAYAN CAPTAIN IS CONFIDENT
    488 10 Thomas Cup By COURTCRAFT THHE duty of the seven players selected to represent x Malaya in the Thomas Cup tournament is to show the rest of the world that in badminton, at least, Malaya reigns supreme. The manager and non-playing captain of Malaya's Thomas Cup team,
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    Seletar "A" XV win 15-3 at Johore
    170 10 Sund*> Times Johore Bahm Corretponden t The first Rugby match to be played in Johore Bahru this season took place on the English College ground when the R.A.F. Seletar *'A" team beat 221 Vehicle Coy by 15 points to three. Although :t was
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    SON OF KONG WINS
    59 10 CON of Kong battt Bill Verna at Happy World la»t night by two falls to one. Coutinho and Basropan were both counted out in the sixth round while they were still at grips outside the ring. Ho Wah Peng knocked cut William Smith and Kok Chqng
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    KING KONG WINS
    65 10 King Ko:ig beat Kid Masque on a technical knock out at Great World last night in the first round Joginder beat Ali Riza Bey by two falls to one. Other result*; were: Curly Connors beat George Zbisko by two falls to one. Tony Ramano beat Gorilla Wong
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    SCC RUGBY TEAMS NEXT WEEK
    107 10 »pHE following w 11 represent th.Singapore Cricket Club agairst Marine Department Sports Club at rugger on the Padang at 5.15 p.m. tomorrow: B. T. North: J. P. Burnett. C. Mlton Captain >. P. McQueen, K. Rengsegger; J. M. Evans, P. de C. Bennett; D. A.
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    Peng Soon loses set, then races to victory
    428 10 Peng Soon loses set, then races to victory MORE than 600 badminton fan.i at the Clerical Union Hall yesterday cheered Malaya's Thomas Cup representative, Wong Peng Soon, as he entered the singles semi-flrTal of the Singapore badminton championships, but their sympathies were with nig gallant opponeirt. Cheong Hock Leng of
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    Champions cannot be glamour boys
    1221 11 MANNIE SEAMON SA YS Bright lights and work don 't mix TF you want to be a champion boxer, you can't be a glamour boy as well. It has been tried, and ft doesn't work. First of all, the bright lights and proper training don't
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    AIRMEN BEAT ARMY 3-0
    93 11 THE Royal Air Force had little i difficulty In beating the Army three-nil in an lnter-servlces Cup match at Alexander yesterday. For the most part the RAF dictated the pace In a game which never reached a high standard. Thomson gave the R.A.P. the lead In
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    Season's main fixtures
    220 11 J^JAIN fixtures for the Rugby season for Singapore sides areOct. 27. Jalan Besar. Army v. Singapore United; Oct. 30. Padang. S.C.C. v Royal Navy Not. 6, Jalan Besar. R.N. v Singapore United: Nov. 10. Naval Base. R.N. v. R A.F.: Nov 34 Jalan Besar. R N. v.
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    Singapore to have new XV
    426 11 RUGBY PROSPECTS Sunday Times Rugby Reporter HIGHLIGHT of the approaching season's rugger in Singapore is the formation for the first time of a Singapore United XV, including the best talent from all civilian clubs (with the exception of the S.C.C.) and the pending visit in
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    S. MUTHIAH CHAMPION ATHLETE
    482 11 S. MUTHIAH CHAMPION ATHLETE THE Inter Hospital Challenge Championship Shield, presented by Miss I D. Brown, was won by the General Hospital yesterday In the first annual athletic sports meet of the Singapore Hospital Assistants Union. The individual champion of the meet was S. Muthiah of the Tan Tock Seng
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    S.C.C. SOCCER
    50 11 T<HE following will represent the Singapore Cricket Club vs. Chinese Athletic In the 6econd round of the Singapore Cup at Jalan Besar Stadium at 5.15 p.m. tomorrow: Aitken; Hamilton, Verral; Baininidge. C. McCulloch, Mitchell; Ten Duis. Fletcher, T. B. McCulloch, Geeks. Hill. Reserves: Mathot, Van Ouden A Her.
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    14-YEAR-OLD HORSE WINS INPENANG
    2815 12  -  EPSOM JEEP Doc' Rodgers Gentles score -I From FOURTEEN- YEAR-OLD The Pathan, oldest horse in training in Malaya, scored a fine win at Penang yesterday, the first day of the Penang Turf Club Autumn meeting. The Pathan was one of trainer "Doc" Rodgers' three winners on
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    S.T.T.A. PLANS TO SEND TEAM TO AUSTRALIA
    262 12 S.T.T.A. PLANS TO SEND TEAM TO AUSTRALIA By "SCREW BALL" SINGAPORE Table Tennis Association has sent a letter to the Australian Table Tennis Association to arrange for a Malayan representative side to tour Australia. The Australian standard l s said to be very high, and if the tour comes off
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    SCC WIN 32-5
    435 12 S.C.C 32 pt« HMS Terror London 5 v I Striking top form in the second hal\ the Singapore Cricket Club chalked up their first win of the rugger season, beating the sailors from HMS. Terror and London by a very wide margin. i The Club left the
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