The Straits Times, 4 May 1948

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED IS4S TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1948 PRICE TEN CF.NI>
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    BRITISH TANKS ON THE WAY
    433 1 48-Hour Truce In Jerusalem JERUSALEM, Monday. A DDITIONAL British reinforcements includ- ing heavy tanks were reported on the way to Palestine today as both Jews and Arabs observed a 48-hour truce in Jerusalem. While the fighting subsided in the Holy City, Jews insisted--despite denials that
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    Kashmir Plan Attacked
    253 1 Kashmir Plan Attacked Rom Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Monday, j 'THE plan recommended j 1 by the Security Council for the Kashmir dispute by means of a plebiscite has been badly received m; India and Pakistan, says The Times. In both Dominions public op n ion condemns the plan j
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    SIAM PEACE MOVE
    57 1 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Monday.— The Siamese Governm3nt today announced the appointment of a five-man d legation for the pacification of the four Malay -speaking provinces. The commission, head d by Phya Amraridh Dhamrong, has been given full powers to deal with the situation and redress
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    JEW-ARAB OFFER TO AUSTRALIANS
    52 1 CANBERRA, Monday. "Australians who go to Palestine to assist either Arab or Jewish combatants can expect no consideration from us," the Australian Prime Minister AMr. Chiller) said today. He was commenting on reports that bis money had been offered to Australians to train Arab and Jewish
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    New R.C. In Penang
    132 1 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Monday. The new Resident Commissioner Mr. A. V. Aston who returned home from leave yesterday assumed office today. He took over from the acting Resident Commissioner .Mr a v. r. Wisdom), who now reverts to his post as deputy Commissioner. Prortnce
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    RED COMMITTEES IN U.K. SHIPS
    43 1 LONDON. Monday.—Communists are making a determined bid to infiltrate th? I British shipping Industry, says the Mercantile Marine Service Association. Th? Association, made up of ship's officers, says Com- munist committees are already aboard some ships. AJP. I
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    Chiang Makes A Pledge
    182 1 NANKING, Monday. IN a voce broken with emotion Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek told a thousand Kuomintang delegates at a secret meeting: "Even if I am bowed by heavy burdens. I will exert every ounce of my strength In ohi* great cause "I will not deceive you. I
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    BUYING BRITISH DOLLARS
    57 1 CANBERRA, Monday. Australia had made no approach to the United States nor to the International Monetary Fund for a dollar loan, the Australian Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) said today. Australia's dollar deficit this year would be financed on the assumption that sufficient dollars could be purchased m
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    Colony Vessels Machine Gunned, Union Alleges
    292 1 HTHE Singapore Fishing Motor Vessels Owners' Union has alleged, m a written statement to the-t oinnial Secretary, that a Dutch naval patrol machine-gunned two of its vessels, confiscated catches and arrested the crews. The statement says the incident occurred 60 miles off Billiton Island.
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    Polio Warning In Federation
    473 1 "THE infantile paralysis epidemic m Singapore will spread, probably on a small scale, up-country, warns the Federation Director of Medical Services (Dr. R. B. McGregor). With three new cases (one European adult and two Chinese children) reported yesterday, the I total number of cases m Singapore
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    Bomb Intended For Roy Farran Kills Brother
    360 1 WOLVERHAMPTON, Staffordshire, Monday. DEX Farran, 26-year-old brother of Capt. uoy Farran, who was acquitted by a Palestine court-martial last October on a charge of killing a Jewish youth in Palestine, was killed today when a postal package he was opening exploded at his
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    PHIBUN IS RECOGNISED
    43 1 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Monday.— The Phibun Government has been recognised by the United States following the action of Britain, China and Ir.dla. The Russian Minister Is expected to present his credentials to the Siamese Regency Council this week.
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    Hunt For "The Digger Station"
    144 1 Hunt For "The Digger Station" LONDON, Monday. /THE Australian Post- master-General today began an inquiry into the operation of an illegal radio station at Melbourne last night, Australia Radio reported. A Melbourne commercial station's evening programme was Interrupted by a voice which asked listeners to alter their tunings slightly to
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    U.S. SOLDIERS MISSING
    100 1 BERLIN, Monday. Thre? American soldiers were reported "missing or absent without leave" today after disappearing into the Russian sector of Berlin. According to a German giri. the three soldiers completed guard duty at Tempelhof airdrome shortly after midnight on Saturday, and entered the Soviet zone to visit
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      153lbs.Of Opium,Two Dead Chinese Found On Ship
      600 2 SHANGHAI, Monday. PUSTOMS officials confiscated 153 pounds of opium, valued at $(U.S.) 60,000 from the tanker Charles F. Meyer when the vessel arrived here on Saturday after a dramatic voyage from the Persian Gulf. Two Chinese, believed to have smuggled the opium on
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      726 2 NOTICES REMOVAL New Shanghai Co. Drycleaning and Dying office has removed to No. 35 from No. 37 Orchard Road from 1st. May, 1948. ORDER BY NEW SHANGHAI CO NOTICE The offices of the Comptroller General and the Comptroller of Income Tax for the Federation of Malaya are now Suleiman Building,
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      622 2 NOTICES AUCTION SALE of FREEHOLD SINGAPORE PROPERTIES to be held at Nos. 4 A 4-1, Collyer Quay. Spore ON TUESDAY 11TR MAY, 1948. at 2.30 p.m. 1 ft 2. Freehold vacant lands situate at Lewis Road (3tt nu. Buklt Timah Road). Respectlye areas approximately 25,474 sq. feet and 24,487 sq.
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    'Chicken Feed Purge'
    242 3 'Chicken Feed Purge' GLASGOW, Monday. THE British War 1 Minister and Labour Party executive chairman (Mr. Emanuel Shinwell) said yesterday a "purge' 1 m the British Labour Party would be chicken feed alongside the kind of purge that would happen m Russia "if they had a Platts-Mills who violated a
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    BACKING FOR BEVAN
    98 3 LONDON. Monday.— A resolution promising full support to Health Minister Aneurin Bevan and his controversial Health Service Act, which comes into operation on July 5. was unanimously carried here by the Socialist Medical Association. Following the rejection of the scheme by members of the British Medical Association
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    BODY RETURNED TO BRITISH
    65 3 VIENNA. Monday. The body of a British officer, John Edmund Burke was handed over to the British authorities by Yugoslavia yesterday—exactly one week after he was shot by a Yugoslav frontier guard. This action follow. ti a Joint British-Yugoslav inquiry into th^ incident. Men of the
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    BIG BRITISH INVENTION
    487 3 New Gas Engine Leads World LONDON, Monday. DRITAIN has produced the world's first automobile gas turbine engine. It will revolutionise transport and industry. News of its existence, which gives Britain a big lead m the international race to get such an engine on the patent lists, came
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    State Funeral
    25 3 ATHENS. Monday.—A state funeral for Christes Ladas, Greek Minister of Justice, who died of wounds from an exploding bomb was held today. —A.P.
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    12,441 US Warplanes -Aim Of New Bill
    175 3 WASHINGTON, Monday. A THOROUGHLY modernised United States air force, with 12,441 operational aircraft and 502,000 men, is tfre aim of a bill expected to go through Congress this week. The bill alms to enlarge the air force m two years from the present
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    Arrested Senator Will Fight U.S. Race Law
    233 3 BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Monday. OENATOR Glen H. Taylor, American "third party" *3 Vice-Presidential candidate, yesterday left the Alabama town of Birmingham with a promise to fight the city's race segregation law m the highest courts. 1 He left by air a few hours after
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    New Atomic Energy Uses
    133 3 WASHINGTON, Monday. PRESIDENT Truman said I last night that great discoveries m the peacetime use of atomic energy were imminent. He was addressing the National Health Congress here. Mr. Truman added that, to some extent, the late Henry I Ford's prophecy that research benefits from a
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    FILIPINO PLEDGE TO SUPPORT U.S.
    56 3 NEW YORK, Monday.—The Philippine Ambassador to the United States said yesterday that "the Filipino people would be arrived on the side of America m any struggle over the principles to which both countries subscribed." The Ambassador (Mr. Joaquin M. Elizalde) was speaking at a memorial
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    Jews Attacked
    18 3 CASABLANCA. Monday.— Police and troops guarded Jewish quarters of Moroccan cities following attacks by Nationalist Arabs.—A.P.
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    Reds Must Keep Name
    139 3 BERLIN, Monday. BRITISH authorities yes-| terday refused tc allow Ruhr Communists j to change the name of i their party from the "Communst Pariy of Germany" to "Socialist' Peoples Party of Ger- > many." Communists of all three western zones decided on the change at a
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    FREEING OF EXPORTS
    263 4 Colony Oil Millers Are Confident THE Secretary for Economic Affairs, Singapore 1 (Mr. Andrew Gilmour) said yesterday that only efficient oil mills would, m the long run, benefit. Mr. Gilmour was commenting on the Government announcement which freed coconut oil exports and lifted restrictions on the re-ex-port
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    Vice-Consul's Wife Is Psychologist
    209 4 Vice-Consul's Wife Is Psychologist By Our Woman Correspondent MRS. Robert C. Hoffman, wife of the new American vice-Consul to Singapore, is a psychologist and a mathematician. She studied these too sub- jects at the University of Michigan and graduated wit& a B.Sc. degree. Her training m psychology served her m
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    RATION CARD CHEATING
    36 4 TAIPING, Monday. "You have tried to defeat the whole object of rationing," said the District Judge (Mr. A. M. Webb) sentencing an eiderly Tamil, Joseph, to four months' imprisonment for ration card cheating.
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    NEW WATER CHARGES
    111 4 From July this year, new water charges m Singapore, based on that month's readIngs, will come into operation. They are Premises where water Is used m the manufacture of saleable goods, such as breweries, distilleries, manufacturers of ice, sauce, vinegar and syrup $1.75 per 1,000 gallons; Premises
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    Singapore Diary
    115 4 TODAY Chinese Rubber Estate Owners' Association, second anr.ua! general meeting. Chinese Chamber of Commerce, 4 p.m. y.W.CA.., Sports Club meeting, 8, Fort Canning Road. 5.30 p.m. T.M.C.A., Orchard Road, commercial class. 5.30 p.m., keep fit class. 6.30 p.m., Malay class, 7.15 p.m. TOMORROW: Rotary, Mr. D. H. Tudor
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    Over 30,000 Visited Trade Fair
    460 4 equipment m Singapore since the re-occupation. Recordings were made on the spot. Several of the customers at this stall made recordings of messages to their, families and friends abroad. Messrs. Shaw Bros, displayed some of the latest sound and cinematograph equipment for theatres. Also on
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    Funeral Of Fr. Cardon
    288 4 OVER 30 priests attended the funeral of the Rev. Father Rene Edouard Cardon at Bidadari Cemetery yesterday. Requiem High Mass celebrated at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, preceded the burial. The celebrant was the Bishop of Malacca, (the Right. Rev. M. Olcomendy) assisted by the
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    Court Sits Until Dark
    161 4 r THE Singapore Seventh 1 Police Court, where preliminary inquiries are held into charges of a serious nature, dealt with 31 cases last month. Mr. A. G. Shears, the Seventh Police Court Magistrate, told the Straits Times yesterday that this number was a record for his
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    War Fear Grows: Soviet Envoy's Secret Visit To Churchill
    2190 5  -  THE SECOND WORLD WAR—16 ON the afternoon of bepu B, 1938, I received a message from the Soviet Ambassador that he would like to come down to Chartwell and see me at once upon a matter of urgency. I had for
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    To Head Malaya I.C.I.
    234 5 TTHE Hod. Mr. Ronald A Dare Gillespie, director of Imperial Chemical Industries in China, has left Hong Kong for Singapore by the steamer Yochow to take charge of the ICI in Malaya. Fifty-eight rears old. he was born in Canada and educated in Scotland. Serving as
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    17 6 Mr. and Mrs. Suttnian Hamld of No. 21 Siul^nt? Darat, Johore thank guests for their presents.
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    ®k State Simes Singapore Tues., May 4, 1948. THE MALAYAN COLLEGES
    1128 6 ®k State Simes Singapore Tues., May 4, 1948. THE MALAYAN COLLEGES The hope that the University of Malaya will be brought into j being on the first of October this year is expressed by the Carr-Saunders Commission m its report. It has perhaps been forgotten that the original instructions to
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    FIFTY INJURED IN PARIS CRASH
    36 6 PARIS. Blunter -Fifty peo- pie were injureo today m a collision between a passenger' train' and a roods train at Penleres. on the northwest outskirts of Paris, the police Reuter. j
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    Singapore Studies—5
    10 6 —Photograph by C. A. Gibson-Hill, THE RAFFLES STATUE
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    UNIVERSITY TOWN
    4182 6 [We give today extracts from the chapter of the Carr-Saun-ders Report which considers the question of the site of the future University of Malaya. The claims of Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, Penang and Malacca are considered, and the Commission finally explains why its choice fell on Johore Bahru.l
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    MAN IN THE STREET Tax Issue: Reply To Mr. Tudor
    262 6 MAN IN THE STREET Tax Issue: Reply To Mr. Tudor T THANK Mr. Tudor lor the courtesy of ins reply to my letter. My request to him to clarity the issue, however, does i not appear to have borne fruit. I am m compleu agreement I with Mr. Tudor's view
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    ANTI-POLIO
    85 6 MAY I make a suggestion m this anxious time for mothers, especially for mo- thers who are obliged to live m hotels, boarding houses or rest houses, where it is impossible for them to carry out the precautions necessary against infantile paralysis Strict orders should oe issued by the
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    THE STARS
    19 6 Mr. J. C. Cooke's article on the night sky m May baa ben held over until Thursday.
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    SINGAPORE TOTE TICKETS CASE
    549 7 Secretary Tells Of Suspicions CTATED to be a former mandore (head labourer) employed by the Singapore Turf Club, M. Vadevellu, pleaded not guilty yesterday at the Second Police Court to a charge of theft of 100 place tote tickets worth $3,000 on Not. 22 last, the
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    'Dangerous Grenades'
    147 7 TWO hand grenades, 1 alleged to have been found m the possession oi Palanisamy and Sabapathy, tw 0 Singapore Harbour Board labourers, at Breeze Plain coolie lines on May 2, were stated m Court yesterday to have been m a highly dangerou? condition. Caot. Harrison of Ordnance H
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    'Mucking Up' The Town
    127 7 "TF people will persist m 'mucking up' the town, they have only themselves to blame for higher rates assessment," said the Singapore Municipal Secretary, (Mr. W. W. Duncan), yesterday. He was commenting on the Municipal Commissioners' decision to seek power from the Government to levy a
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    SHIP'S CAPTAIN FINED $6300
    91 7 CAPT. J. Eiols, the Norwegian captain of the Kwok Pong, was lined $6,340, or nine months' rigorous imprisonment m default, ir. the Singapore Eighth Police Court yesterday for bringing 21 stowaways to Singapore m bis ship. The Kwok Peng arrived m Singapore on April 30 from
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    Waterfront Workers' Unions Protest
    327 7 FIVE Singapore water-front workers' Unions, rallied by the Singapore Federation Trade In ions, yesterday protested against the Singapore Harbour Boards new labour registration move. The unions represent 5,000 coal workers, ricecarrying labourers, Hong Kong and Swatow goods handlers, stevedores, ship hands and godown workers. They said
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      Piracy Sentences Total 34 Years
      321 7 From Our Owi Correspondent MALACCA, Monday. •TWO Sumatra Chinese, Cfceah Cheng Kirn and Song 1 Chin Pak were each sentenced to ten years' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice G. Callow m the Malacca Supreme Court today. They had pleaded guilty to a charge of armed
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      COUNTESS ARRIVES
      55 7 The Countess of Kenmare arrived hi Singapore by ah* last night after a six months' holiday m Australia. She will tour Malaya for 10 days before leaving for France. The Countess was born m Sydney. Her husband, the late Earl of Kenmare, was famous as a newspaper columnist
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    Dog Show Attracts 76 Entries
    171 7 Dog Show Attracts 76 Entries FEVENTY-SIX dogs rang•3 ing from St. Bernards, Great Danes and Alsatians to Irish Setters, Collies and Pekinese, have been entered for a Singapore Dog Show to be held at the Happy World on Friday. The number of entries constitutes a record for Singapore, as the
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    50 Cases At Assizes
    129 7 PTY cases have been listed for hearing at the Singapore Assizes which began at the Supreme Court yesterday. Mr. Justice Brown sentenced Choo Thlam Soon to five years' rigorous imprisonment for carrying a pistol and being In unlawful possession of ammunition. Tan Ah Hoo, alias Lim
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    MORE SMELTER MEN BACK
    58 7 Sixcy-five of 350 workers, who have been on strike at the Straits Trading Company's smelting w.V.ts on Pulau Brani since April 14, reported for work yesterday morning. The first batch of 35 men, including clerks and electrical foremen on "direct pay" had returned to work during
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    'Free Ride' To Australia
    187 7 A FORMER R.A.F.j bomber pilot touched down at Kallang airport yesterday m a Percivalj Proctor V aircraft en route from England to Austalia; where he will deliver the plane to Australia's 'flying doctor" (Dr. G. L.j Young), of Forbes, New South Waies. He was 28- year
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    "National Unity League" Plan
    520 7 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Monday. rpHE chairman of the All-Malaya Council of A Joint Action (Mr. Tan Cheng Lock) has proposed the creation of a "National Unity League," to embrace all races, parties and classes. The object, he said today, would be to link individuals
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    ACCUSED OF SERGEANT'S MURDER
    480 8 'Kill Or Free Me' Cry From Dock I From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. 'VILL me or set me free," cried a Banjarese, Utoh (alias Mat Taram bin Saal) from the dock of the Selangor Assize Court this morning when he was charged with the
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    Adviser To Enter Own Business
    123 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. MR. F.S. MacFadzean, acting Economic Adviser, Federation of Malaya, is leaving the Federation Government serv cc to enter business m Malaya. His contract with the Government ends m a few weeks. Since his arrival m Malaya with the
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    34 8 MUAR. Monday.— Mrs. C. E. Milne, head mistress of the Government English Preparatory School celebrated the 20th anniversary, at her home on Saturday of her arrival at Muar and her :erm with the school.
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    Johore Weekly Letter
    239 8 Johore Weekly Letter JOHORE BAHRU. Monday. rE Drainage and Irrigation Department is confronted with the dual task of rehabilitating Johore's river channels and re-establishing thf systemafc maintenance of rivers. During the Japanese occupation, the rivers became silted up and choked with snags and vegetation owing to the excessive soil erosion
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    Gent Names Port Court Of Inquiry
    267 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. rpHE High Commissioner (Sir Edward Gent) has x appointed a Court of Inquiry to investigate the strike of stevedores at Port Swettenham which since last Wednesday has paralysed all work on the wharves. The announcement today follows
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    Meeting On Mufti
    342 8 I Muslim Motes From Our Muslim Correspondent THE action of the Johore Government m asking Tuan Haji Hassan to re-j sign from his position as! Mufti of Johore and the; appointment of Tuan Syed J Alwie Alhadad m his place j has caused a storm oi criticism
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    Singapore Shipping
    244 8 gHIPS m port and ships alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns m brackets) were: RUin Wharf: Charles Dickens (31-32), loading; Steel Architect 1 (33-35), loading; Eastern Saga (35-36), discharging; Thalatta (37-38), loading; Tjipondok (4041), discharging; Korea (42-43). loading. We«t Wharf: Irisbank (1-2), loading; Benarty (4-5), loading;
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      537 8 therefore led the heart Jack a choice which cannot be highly commended. East, of course, ducked and South won with the queen. A moment's study told declarer that he would have to be extremely lucky to avoid the loss of a spade and a heart trick, but after a few
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      "Mahatma's Name Being Exploited"
      471 9 pERHAPS, within living I memory no departed saint has so much occupied men's hearts as that of Mahatma Gandhi, nor was so much enthusiasm displayed for erecting monuments. Malay* is taking oo small part m this worthy project. Preservation of the memory of great men when
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      MOTHERCRAFT
      10 9 Nurse Elizabeth's Mothercraft In Malaya article will appear tomorrow.
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      98 9 y—~ I U 1 I pR/\ \Km amf demand the unquestionable I I *P^\ jfiF best. Where cigarettes are It U I \U\ m concerned the man of taste tins of 20 jd/L feja^i- no o j $0.70 jdfm fe| Old Bond btreet, London jjtfmS&llk From this famous address S*A
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    Our London Letter
    1389 10 Our London Letter tells of backyard tobacco plots, a clean-up of restaurants, the "motherless" children of factory workers, the suspension of Communists, and quotes a report that men should not retire till 70. By Airmail THE general news is mostly about ordinary but important little things that make up our
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      235 10 TfKc MOM W THE NIGMf THE VoiCt Of AAN6C* :¥fe j ERROR And Terrific Tension In A Mansion Of Mystery i 1K.., tDtD BY LATEST NEWS. n^Msh F.A. Tup Final." "--Starts Today---II ii. pm 4.r> n. n 6.30 and 9.15 p.m. .-CAPITOL ffil^m. THE HOUSE OF COMFORr^^S^I Performances 11 a.m..
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      366 10 AMERICAN MAIL LINE FAST SERVICE To Los Angeles, San Francisco. Portland Seattle A Vancouver Also accepting cargo for Central »nd S. American ports ISLAND' MAIL loads 25th May EVERETT ORIENT LINE 0 Sa-ls For Madras. Colombo. Bombay Karachi m/s Rebeverett sth May For Penang, Rangoon s/s Prosper sth May For
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      86 10 RADIO MALAYA SPOHl 1 p.m. Radio Orchestra: 1.30 News: 1.40 Rhythm Parade with Sidney Bechet; 3.00 Close. 8.15 News, Talk A Announcements: 8.30 Show Business: t.00 "Beau Geste:' 9.30 News; ».45 Talk ty Dr. J. W. Vlckers on "Singapore Medic* 1 Problems:'* 1C.O0 Lj.'teners 1 Po«(: 11.00 Npws Clos: RADtO
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      92 10 BBC 8.30 p.m. Neva; 8.40 How News From Britain; 8.45 Music in Miniature; 9.15 British Farmer; 9.30 Radio Newsreel: 9.45 Variety Bandbox; 11.00 Book of Verse; 11.30 News: 11.40 News Analysis: 11.45 British Political Commentary: 12.00 Leicestershire t. Australia; 12.15 a.m. Sandv Macphcrscn at Theatre Organ: 12.30 a.m. Close. RADIO
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      104 10 4.40 Services' Concert Hall; 5.0Q Band of Coldstream Guards; 5.00 On the March; 5.15 Australia Day by Day; 5.25 Everyman's Music; 5.30 Forces' Requests: 5.30 Music for Millions; 5.50 Canberra Report: 8.00 Tuesday at 8.30; 6.30 News: 6.45 Spotlight Bands— Ray Noble; 7.00 Orchestral Half Hour: 7.30 Australian Topics; 7.35
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    MALAYAN SHARES
    128 11 From Our Market Correspondent rpHE week opened quietly fat JL the Singapore share market, with a small volume of business. Tins aad Industrials were irregular. Price changes »t»ny«tiw»*H by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers B B, Petrol «/3 Gammon CM CU Goodwood Park 1.60 I.M
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    "No Research"
    73 11 LONDON. Monday.— ln th« House of Commons, the Secretary for the Colonies was asked what contributions m men or money the British Government was contributing to international scientific inquiries into tropical, cocoa, and rubber diseases which were being undertaken. Mr. Mayhew (who replied In the absence of Mr.
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    Investment Hopes In Sumatra
    327 11 rB time may be approach in* when rubber investors should look elsewhere than Malaya— to Sumatra, for instance, where the Dutch are reasonably hopeful of the ouUook— Mrs -Lex" m the t Fmaneial Times. Most Malayan plantations. he says, should be earning reasonable profits; more and
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    Price Rises In Produce
    76 11 From A Market Correspondent OPECULATIVE rises m KJ f.o.b. quotations for coconnt oil and copra took place on the Singapore produce markets yesterday as a result of the Government announcement freeinr the commodities' export restrictions. Conditions on the pepper market were fairly active with good increases.
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    STJNGEI PCNTAB ESTATE
    36 11 Pront to September 30 £3,743 (£581), plus recovery Eastern assets £20 (£819). making £3,763 (£1,400). To 2 per cent, premium on debentures £337 (nil), tax £941 (nil), depreciation mi (£2,510), forward £3.118 (£634).
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    SINGAPORE RUBBER
    130 11 FE Singapore rubber market opened the week firm yesterday. At the close, sellers were Inclined to meet demand. The market closed slightly off best, with more sellers and buyers dropping out dosing prices were: Ho. 1 sheet f.o.b. buyer* 42i cento, gellers 42| cenU; spot -loose buyen 42
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    NEI Sugar Estates
    100 11 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Monday. Progress m the reoccupatlon of the sugar estates m the N.EJ. is reported on by Messrs C. Czarnlkow, the London sugar brokers, who state that, according to reports recently received from the Trade Commissioner for Indonesia, peaceful conditions have returned to
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      742 11 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. (Incorporated id Singapore) BLUE FUNNEL LINE SAILINGS FROM OK. AND U.S.A. -Anchises'* From UK I« ••Telemachas" ....From Holland aad C.X Fort •Myrmidon" Das from VX. May 11 "Talthyblus" Due from U.S. A May IV •Tydeun" Dus from UK May XX FAILINGS rOfc LIVERPOOL GLASGOW AND CONTINENTAI PORTS
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      324 11 PRESIDENT LINE SAILINGS TO NEW YORK AND BOSTON rta INDIA EGYPT MEDITERRANEAN PORTS PRES. MONROE Singapore Aw. h fwt Penang May t LOUIS MCH HOWE Singapore May S P. STiam May M Penng May IS AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD. UNION BLOG. ThX. 2821 Psaang Agent: Ska* Darky A ©a. P4.
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    KEITH MILLER HITS DOUBLE CENTURY
    486 12 Leicester All Out For 130 LEICESTER, Monday. THE Australians continued their first innings against Leicestershire here today in fine but cold weather on an easy wicket. Even with a formidable score of 407 for 8 wickets on the board on Saturday Don Bradman did not
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    Scoreboard
    251 12 AUSTRALIANS— Ist. Inns. Brown b Johnson 26 Barnes Ibw Sperry 78 AUUcr not out 202 Bradman c Carroll b Etherington n Harvey Ibw Walsh 1* Hamence st. Carrol b Watt Loxten Ibw Jackson I. Johnson c Lester b Jackson Sa«ers c Lester b Jackson 6 Ring run out W.
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    Kota Raja Too Strong For Kranji
    205 12 SCORING four goals m the first half, the Kota' Raja Malays registered an easy win over the Kranji Wireless Team m the S.A.F.A. Second Division League fixture played at Geylang Stadium yesterday. The Malays forwards were CUt and tricky, while their j defence was
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    Torch-Bearers Race To S'hai
    56 12 SHANGHAI. Monday. JORCH-bearing Chinese runners today were racing from Nanking to Shanghai with a message from Gene- ralissimo Chiang Kai-shek j for the opening on Wednesday of the Seventh China rational athletic meet. Seventy athletes are running 380 kilometres m relays. The runners are all students
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    Sports Diary
    76 12 TODAY SOCCER: S.A.F.A. League, Dir. I— Tiger S.A. v. B.A.F Changi, Jalan Beaar Radium: Dlv II Singapore Dfctrict Sicnals t. 19 Air Formation Signals, Fort Canning; Tiger, S.A. v. R.A F. Tengah, padan*; Dir. in— P. T. T. R.A S.C. Training School, MeNah- Road; La SaUe SC. t
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    France Lose Two Singles
    194 12 LONDON, Monday. pUMANIA surprised by winning the first two singles against France m their Davis Cup tennte tie yesterday. George Visriru overwhelmed Bernard Destrerriau 6-1. 6-2, j 7-5. while Kascfte Caradulisl beat Marcel Bernard 3-6, 6-4,' 6-3. 6-2. Sweden's Lennart Bcrgelin and Torsten Johansson won from
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    Handicaps For Tomorrow
    670 12 WEIGHTS for all eight races tomorrow, the fourth day of the Singapore Turf Club Summer Meet- ing, are given below. Hones CImb 2, Dtv. 2— AM. «F. Hambnon 9.00 Wyoming 8 05 Desert Val's Pick 8.04 Quee.i 8.12 Cetewayo 8.04 Lady TruOno 8.03 Hampton 8 12 Little
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    Army-R.A.F. Cricket
    201 12 j [THE Army and the R.A.F. 1 1 will meet at cricket on the S.C.C. padang tomorrow and on Thfursday. Play starts at 11 a.m. on both days, but stumps will be drawn tomorrow at 5 pjn. to j enable a football match to be played at that
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    Navy And Indians Share Points
    312 12 A GOAL scored by the Navy two minutes from the end resulted m their forcing a two-all draw against the Indians m tiheir First Division League soccer match at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. The Indians should have won on the run of play, but they
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    Poor Display By Eurasians
    145 12 T*HE Katong Eurasians 1 had themselves to blame for conceding both points to the Naval Dockyard XI m their Second Division soccer encounter on the Padang yesterday evening. They had at least two excellent scoring chances, but did not follow up. On one occasion the Dockyard
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    C.A. WIN 3-1
    70 12 riE Chinese Athletic beat the 223 BOD. by three goals to one In an S.A.F.A. League Dlv. 2 game played on the Alexandra ground yesterday. The 8.0.D. began promisingly and drew first blood through Tongue m the fifth minute. C.A. equalised through Jimmy Tan and before halftime
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    Some Class A Doubtful Starter In Cup Race
    530 12 Some Class A Doubtful Starter In Cup Race By EPSOM JEEP IN addition to Grand Prix 11, Some Class i s a doubtful starter for the Governor's Cup race, over a mile and a quarter, to be run at Bukit Timah on the last day of the current Singapore Turf
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