The Straits Times, 17 April 1949

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  • 29 1 LAB6S«T NETT SALES IN MA'AYA THE SUNDAY TIMES Sunday Edition Of lII* Strait* Times 6. Singapore i ree Pr«s* No. 716. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 499 1 SULTAN HAILED AS GUNS BOOM Gurney sees installation Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA KANCSAR, Saturday. yj^T 1 1 .5 this morning, in an impressive ritual against a background of colour and dignity, His Highness Paduka Sultan, Sir Yu. of Ixzudin Shah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul jalil, X.C.M.C. 0.8. E., was
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    25 1 THE Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald and the 1 Australian Prime Minister, Mr. 9. ChifWy, at tea in Mr. Chifley room at Raffles Hotel yesterday.
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  • 155 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA KANCSAR. Saturd y. *^HE Sultan's installation was perhaps the most dramatic of the century. Because of the Emergency, there were intense security precautions. Thete was no thronging of the rolling green sward in the palace grounds by gaily dressed subjects. Apart
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  • 37 1 RUSSIA RED CROSS BERNE. Sat— Russia will attend the Red Cross conference meeting in Geneva on Apr. 21 to draft a new convention to protect civilians in the event of atomic war. It was announced here today.
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  • 94 1 BATAVIA. Sat. THREE leading members of the Indonesian Republican delegation flew to Bunka today after a second meeting of the Dutch-Republican conference under the auspices of the United Nations Commission in Indonesia. The three members were Dr. Mohammed Roem. former Republican Minister of Home Affairs, Dr.
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  • 276 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter -|-HI Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. J. B Chifley, and the New Zealand Premier, Mr. Peter Fraser, arrived in Singapore yesterday afternoon en route for the Dominion Prime Ministers' Conference in London aboard a Qantas Constellation which had completed the last
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  • 31 1 BATAVIA Sat— Tl Dofeh Army casualty list for the period Mar. 27 to Apr. 2 includes 21 of the Dutch Army and 11 of the Indonesian army killed —Reuter.
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  • 163 1 Sunday Times Staf. Reporter C INCAPORE traffic police are to take a complete census of the city's traffic in the near future. Mr. A. R. Anderson, chief of the Traffic Branch, told the Sunday Times that it was essential to take the census before any
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  • 91 1 RANGOON. Saturday. A FORMER Malayan planter. Mr. Harry Hill, 35- >ear-old British manager ol r.he Chaungkdat Rubber Estate, near Moulmein, was shot dead by armed dacoits during an attempted robbery of the estate's payroll, according to a report received here today. The bandits, who carried automatic weapons,
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  • 87 1 BOMBAY, StU. THE. Commonwealth Prime Ministers' meeting in L-mdcn next week will "mii v dtocil Burma, the Burmese Prime Mi:itster Thakin Nu, said yesterday. Thakln Nu. who left fori Rjngoon by air here added thai tha Prime Ministers of J India and Pakistan had a^p>pd
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  • 72 1 SHANGHAI. Sat. f|WO Chinese language pa--1 pers stopped publishing ir Shanghai today -victims .)l the soaring Chinese InflaM>n One, the afternoon Diily Tribune, published for mlj 59 days. It wa s estallshed >n Mar. 8 by the Morning Daily Tribune, an English 1 utg'.iafli paper.
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  • 95 1 Militia} IIMI < i< ndriii KUALA LVMPUR. Sat. DOLICE ambushed a gang of four bandits who were travelling on the Sungel Rasau In the Dungun area of Trengganu yesterday and killed three of them. The fourth bandit was badly wounded but escaped. When the police
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  • 47 1 DUBLIN. Sat. Eire be- i t:ome s the Free Republic of Ireland on Easter Monday. I Tue Republic will be pro- 1 claimed before the General!: Post Office In O'Connell Streaf where, 33 year« ago, me i bloody "Easter Week Rebel- lion' flared.— A.P.
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  • 65 1 I.OS VEQAS (Nevada). Sat. Actress Martha Vickers, 23 said today she is here to get a divorce so she can marry Mickey Rooney in June. Rooney, 28, Is here too and last night he and Miss Vickers toured the night .spots. His divorce from Betty Jan
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  • 102 1 FORT WoRTH JIXAS. Sat. (WNVAIK'S Riant XC99 transport, largest plane in the j world, took otT from Carswel! air base today with a 100,000 lit. (44 tons) load— the heaviest ever lifted by 'a plan. Comparty officials said the flight was part of the regular testing programme
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  • 46 1 SAN FRANCISCO. Sat. A 22-year-old stuntman, Robert L. Niles. has parachuted from the 700-feet high O: lden Gate Bridge here and survived. He was uninjured wht n picked up from the swift mrrents that sweep through tin' entrance to San Francisco Bay.— Reuter.
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  • 74 1 Sunday Times Correspondent SYDNEY, Sat. 'MICE people in Singapore n shun Australians be- cause of Caluell. a Singaporean on holiday here, Mrs. Rada Shierlaw, told the Sydney Sun. "Calwell ought to let coloured people In to do a little work for us. They are generally wonderful workers.
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  • 81 1 BUITENZORG. Sat. jroUR policemen were tilled, I" one seriously injured and three health department emI Dloyees were kidnapped when about 150 terrorists attacked their car near Buitenzcrg West Java i on Thursday, it was revealed today. The health department em- Dloyees had been vaccinating the
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  • 73 1 I Sunday 'limes Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. BANDITS threw a hand grenade at the camp of the 1 2/7 Gurkhas near Wardiedurn j Estate, seven miles from Kuala Lumpur, early last night. The grenade exploded but no one was hurt. Gurkhas at once searched the
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  • 43 1 Benigno Aquino, a villager I in Pampanga province. Philippines sold his horse and cart for $300 and lost it all betting on a cock fight the same day. Then he threw himself in front of a train and was killed
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  • 33 1 BERLIN. Sat— American and British airlift pilots set a new record by flying almost i 11.000 tons of food and conl jinto blockaded Berlin within the last 24 hours.— U.P.
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  • 225 1 Baby slept through air drama Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE new 8.0.A.C. Solent flying boat which left Singapore yesterday for Hong Kong immediately developed engine trouble, and had to fly around Singapore Island in s rain storm for 2} hours before it could land again at Kallang. During the flight
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  • 90 1 Wallace" Beery dies at 65 HOLLYWOOD. Bat. WALLACE Beery, veteran fllm actor, died nere last nlKht. from a heart, diBorn in Kansas City In 18H4. Beery ran away from home at 16 because he Bated school, and joined a drew js an assistant to an eleohant trainer. He later tour.-d
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  • 60 1 Sunday Times Stan K'-porl". PEOPLE in Malaya who ai in possession of any relics connected with MahaUna Gandhi are requested to tend them to Acharya Kaka Kaleikar at the Gandhi Memorial Miuseim, Town Hull. Bombay. The museum la to be established with the Ganuui National Memorial
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  • 45 1 NEW DELHI. Sat I 1 troops In Kashmir opened fire with light mMhlße-gana and rifles un Indian teoopa patrolling at Chor Kunjlan village, five miles .south-east of Tlthwal on Thursday morning, arcordhig tD a front line despatch received here 1 today.— Reuter.
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  • 1014 2  - C-in-C OF AN ESTATE ARMY ERIC MITCHELL By MANAGERS of rubber estates are having a tough time of it these days. Quite apart from the attentions of the terrorists, their duties and responsibilities^ myriad even in nor mal times, now include those of mi li tary strategist, company commander and
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  • 604 2 SINGAPORE i s more youth conscious today than ever before. This is evidenced by the number of youth organisations that have been formed during the last two years. No less than 15 youth organisations with a total membership of more than 7,500 are members of the
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  • 201 3 Mercy plane takes nurse Sunday Times Staff Reporter A MALAYAN Airways Dakota, hurriedly equipped as an air ambulance, took off from Kallang Airport yesterday for Labuan, British North Borneo, to fly back a seaman seriously injured in *n accident aboard the motor vessel Stentor.
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    50 3 MISS Tan Kirn Liew of Penang (left) who won the 100 Metre* Breast Stroke (women) at yesterday's Inter-Chinese Swimming Club Easter Aquatic Meet between Singapore and Penang, in Singapore. Centre is Miss Chung Yoke Ying, also of Penang. who was second. Third was Miss Wong M«i Lin, of Singapore bright).
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    2 3 GORDON JACKSON
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  • 120 3 Sunday Timaa Staff Reporter TLASOOW-BORN film actor U Gordon Jackson, who left Singapore yesterday on his way to Australia, does not want to become a star. He told the Sunday Times: "I want to go on playing featured i^oles of the kind I
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  • 155 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PEOPLE who have not yet got their tickets for the Singapore Junior Symphony Orchestra concert to *>c held in the Victoria Memot. Hall tonight can still obtain hem, from the St. Andrews Mis-, sion Hospital in Tanjong' Pagar Road The orga-user? ol the
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  • 70 3 'FIIE Singapore Swimming I Club Is holding two invitation races at the club's pooi tomorrow morning. At 10.45 there is a 200 mi Lift men's relay team race, followed by a ladies" 50 metr <\, free-style race. Teams frjm the SSC. SCRC. and the Penang Chinese Swinnuing Clubs
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  • 69 3 Sunday Times Correspondent PARIT BUNTAR, Sat. The Nibong Tebal District Boy Scou's' Association held a successful inaugural campfire at the Nibong Tebal Recreation Club padang last week. Among the guests were the Settlement Commissioner: Yen. S. M. Collier; Rev. E. H. Scott; Scouters and officials from the
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  • 30 3 Sunday Times orrespondrm KUANTAN. Sat.— Miss N. Parameswarl, sister of N. S. Manlam. Health Inspector, Kuantan, was married to Mr. V. Navaratnam, of the Federal Secretariat, Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 74 3 Sunday Times Correspondent. KUANTAN. Sat. A TIGRESS, measuring just under 8 feet, caught in a cage in Telok Sesih, was shot dead by Mr. R F H. Orak* Brockman, rite District Officer. This was the third animal trapped in the cage, which is built near the iungle.
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  • 138 3 Sunday Times Correspondent. SECAMAT, Saturday. A NOTORIOUS bandit leader high-up on the police wanted list, with a $5,000 reward on his head, was shot dead by a security patrol of Police and Seaforth Highlanders. He was Chong Meng, labour leader in North Johore, who disappeared
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  • 32 3 Sunday Times Correspondent The Medical Officer at the District Hospital, Kuantan Dr. J. A. Dana.samy has re- urned from Malacca where he was on a special T.B training course.
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  • 76 3 Sunday Times Correspondent A HUGE python vieasurivg ?3 feet and weighing 120 katies captured alive by a Malay at Sungei Soh. near K'tuntan will be killed today at Kuantan. A party of labourers from Kuantan paid the python's captors $20 for their catch artd brought it home.
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  • 163 3 Sunday Time* st.uT Reporter A TOTAL of 2,795 lost ldenMt" cards have been reported since registration came into force in Singapore. An official of the Registrant. Centre told the Sunday Times yesterday that it takes from ten kn 14 days ffff a new card to
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  • 200 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE interim secretary of the newly formed Union of 1 Singapore Rubber Workers, Mr. S. P. Sararhy told the Sunday Times yesterday that he expected 2,000 members for the union. The union will take the place of the former Singapore
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  • 122 3 LK)U members of the crew f of f. B steamer Kustbris ap- peared in the Fourth Police I Court yesterday in connec- tion with a Customs seizure of 152 pounds of opium on the ship on Apr. 14. The four,— Yang David, 33, Shu
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  • 20 3 Muar Indians and Ceylonese entertained Mr. D. Suppaian to dinner on the eve of his departure to Ceylon.
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  • 276 3 United S'pore' call by C-G Sunday Times Staff Reporter A CALL for "one community of citizens ot Singapore" is made by the Com-missioner-General, Mr Malcolm Mac Donald, in an appeal on behalf of the Island Club. The appeal alms at nWng $400,000 for the building of a new Clubhouse for
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  • 125 3 Sunday Time* Man* Reporter rhelp meet the shortage of trained kindergarten teachers in Singapore and Malaya. Trinity College is to •open a model kindergarten as part of its training school schenu on May 2. The kindergarten will be opened at the premises of the Straus Chi- nese Presbyterian
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  • 665 4 BIGGER THAN THE RUSH FOR GOLD 808 GILMORE reports on Australia MELBOURNE, Apr 10. NOT even at the height of tiie gold rush were so many thousands heading for Australia. This week, 25 migrant ships are at sea, carrying more than 25.000 European settlers to Australia. Twelve British ships are
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  • 124 4 PLEASE let me enlighten "Old Timer" on the n-eanlng which hf sought of the Malay word 'Bidadari." It means a hoari or J-.curls waiting In Paradise to reward the faithful Malay (Muslim) very libera- y. with tneir feminine attentions. It Is not of Arabic on din,
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  • 431 4 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS MR Anthony Hill, author of "Diversion in Malaya", is a member of the Malayan Education Service. He came here In 1937. fought in the brief and tragic campaign against the in<rader. and escaped in a Yacht Club dinghy on a dark fire-illu-mined night
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  • 633 4 By Sunday Times Staff Reporter ALTHOUGH Bing A Crosby still outstrips Toscanini at the sales counter, the demand for classical music records in Singapore is rapidly growing. Compositions by Brahms, Beethoven and other masters have a stronger and steadier -ai c in sheet music than
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  • 283 4 THIS beautifully controlled p tormance of the No. 1 Concerto in C Minor OP. 26. by Max Bruch is played by a brilliant young violinist, Ida Hacndel. Born in Poland in 1924, she developed her great natural gift under the tuition of Professor Michaelowicx. At the
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  • 88 5 PROFIT FOR STRAITS TRADING CO. rpHE Straits Trading Co., Ltd., X reports a net profit of $337,993 for th« year 1948. This figure is arrived at after writing-off undisclosed amounts for depreciation, and making provision for amortisation of Pulau Branl leases, bad and doubtful debts and Income tax for 1949.
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  • 27 5 A Tamil, Kumarasamy, aged 25, was fined $10 by the Kluang magistrate, Ungku Mohd Salleh bin Isr.ail for riding his bicycle without getting it registered.
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  • 312 5 Recruiting is held up Sunday Times Staff Reporter ■yHE provision of suitable shore establishments for the Malayan Naval Force, it is estimated, will cost Singapore about $5,000,000 over a period of five years, the senior officer commanding the Force, Comdr. H. E. H. Nicholls, told
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    22 5 Part of the huge throng, carrying lighted candles, gathered for a procession in St. Joseph t Church. Singapore, on Good Friday night..
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  • 58 5 GANG STEAL $4,260 TfcOl TPF ura invootioatinn a m^w v IXI v \robl£sl lilllL a I $4,260 gang robbery at the village of Sungei Burong in Tanjong Piandang. Four masked Malays are reported to have broken into the house of a wealthy 70--year-old Malay, Ahmad bin Haji Arshad. The robbers,
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  • 162 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter yHE Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce, which has purchased a $65,000 three-storey building in Market Street for its premises is at present housed in a modest room at Raffles Quay. As soon as vacant possession is obtained the new premises will be renovated
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  • 73 5 Sunday Times Correspondent TAPAH, Sat.— Hew Ah Ying. 25-year old woman of Tapah Road, was charged; yesterday morning before Che Anuar, the Circuit Magistrate, Tapah, with possession of an illegal still for manufacturing I sam.su and also for possession j of a quantity of samsu
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  • 33 5 A Chinese medicine man, 62-year-old Lav Pang Soi, was fined $12 50 at Segamat yesterday for selling medicines without a licence and for obstructing the five-foot way with his bottles.
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  • 34 5 An eating stall in the Kota Pal v v Amusement %Park known as the "Paradise was broken into and property belonging to the proprietor anrt the waitresses worth $578.50 wa 8 stolen.
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  • 275 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU. Saturday. JOHORE is still the most backward State in the matter of rice production, but it is becoming more "padi minded" and with suitable encouragement a padi tradition may develop, states an official report. The total area of wet padi
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  • 65 5 Sunday Time* Staff Reporter ANEW village— Pekan Nanas has sprung up at the 27th mile, Johore Bahru-Pontian road, close to the site of the South Malaya Pineapple Growers' 3,000-acre plantation. The site has been cleared and planting la almost completed. It is hoped that the first harvest will
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  • 90 5 Sunday Times Correspondent MALACCA, Saturday. TWO squatters, 45-year-old Wong Sin and 51-year-ohd Chan Heng, were each fined $600 or 4 months hard labour by Malacca Magistrate Tengku Hussein, for not having identity cards. Inspector Sudarshan Singh, who prosecuted, pressed for a heavy sentence. Both were
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  • 76 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter From next Saturday. rfO.AC; will inaugurate a "business man's" flying-boat service to Bangkok and Rangoon each Saturday. The service will leave Singapore on Saturdays and the return flight will be made on Sundays. The flying boats will leave Kallang at 7.30
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  • 38 5 Sunday Times Correspondent Scouts and Cubs of Islah School, Kota Bahru, held a camp fire concert on the school ground on Thursday to celebrate the 7th Anniversary of the school. Scouts from other schools also attended.
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  • 132 5 Sunday Times Correspondent WEGRI Sembilan's first postwar road speed trial is planned to take place In June this year, Mr. J. Wishart. chairman of the N. S. and Malacca, Branch of the Automobile Association of Malaya, told t ho .Sunday Times. "Motorists are rather 'ban-dit-conscious'
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  • 38 6 CHUA BOON QUAY: At 4, Weld Lane, K.L., on 16th April, 1949, aged 84, leaving four sons, Chua Chwee Lwee, Bock Lwee, Toh Lwee and Hock Lwee, two daughters-in-law, fifteen grandchildren, and one great-grand-child. Funeral 16th Instant.
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  • 578 6 SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 1949. A CHALLENGE TO MALAYA THE creation of the Communities Liaison Committee was a bold and courageous move which placed In the broad light of public attention that vital need for unity without which Malaya cannot hope to progress toward peaceful and prosperous self-govern-ment. The members of
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  • 418 6 TT was finished. Three figures hung limply on three dark crosses on a hill overlooking the ancient city of Jerusalem. The crowd began to stream back to the city; the Roman soldiers, their grim work finished, waited for a word from the centurion
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  • 801 6 part of it was that, outwardly, it was like any other night. Overhead shone a brilliant moon and beyond were the stars, exactly as they had sparkled the night before. The city life, which that da> had been so cruel and heartless, flowed back into Its
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  • 1299 6  -  DR. E.H.G. DOBBY THEY TRAVELLED TO MALAYA— IV by "AND you, Mr. Osborne, will take command of the gunboat Emerald. Thank you, gentlemen." Captain Warren of the warship Hyacinth stood up and hi s officers left with a rattle of swords. Midshipman Sherard Osborne walked out
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    18 6 A CHINESE junk snrh v was preyed on by the -wild _M*im» nir«t»v" rtZTorl h^i hv Mldshinman Osborne
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  • 335 7 BANDITS HOLDING UP NEW INDUSTRY Rubber seed oil plans Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. A RUBBER seed oil industry in Malaya was a strong possibility, but essential field work was held up because of the Emergency, the Chief Research Officer of the Department of Agriculture Dr. T. A.
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    21 7 •r'OH Sri Nara di-Raja whispen I the Ancestral Message to the Suitan of Perak during the installation ceremonies at Kuala Kangtar.
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  • 83 7 Sunday Time s Staff Reporter mHIRTY-YEAR-OLD Scan 1 Eng Meng appeared in the Fourth Police Court yesterday on a charge of murder. He was alleged to have caused the death of a nine-year-old girl Yap Kui Yin. in a hut in Kampong Llm Tua
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  • 34 7 Stnday Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. DR. Hamzah bin Talb. preslu<'nt of the Lembaga Kes£.utuan Melayu, Johore, is a patient in the General Hospital, where r> underwent a successful operation.
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  • 28 7 Sunday Times SUIT Reporter The Malayan Exchange Banks Association, the Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association and the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association will be closed tomorrow.
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  • 68 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. THE Johore Civil Service Association is canvassing opinion from member bodies as to the desirability of asking Government to consider t.ie payment of salaries of Government employees fortnightly. Instead of monthly as at present. One reason advanced in favour
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  • 258 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE chief reason why Singapore's blood bank found it difficult to meet the demands made on it was the general anaemic condition of a large portion of Hie Colony's population, the Lady Medical Officer in charge of the Blood Transfusion Service,
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  • 157 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter £IGARETTE cards and stamps used to be the rage for schoolboy collectors but since the liberation they have found another hobby collecting cinema programmes. The programmes, usually printed in the U.S., give coloured pictures from the film, the cast and a
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  • 91 7 SEGAMAT, Sat. TIM. 11l ,BINTE SALLEH, 43-year-old Malay woman, charged in the Segamat Court with assaulting a public servant, said: woman searcher challenged me to hit her; I accepted the challenge .ml struck her with my umbrella." It was alleged that accused was stopped at a road
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  • 25 7 A Tairil, K. Muniandy, aged 21, ch&iged with having 17 gallons of toddy without a licence, was granted ball in $500.
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  • 140 7 Continued from page 1 the State Sword, which invested him with the rights and privileges of the high office of Sultan. A'ter the solemn moment wnen the ancestral message had been conveyed to him, the Sultan changed his spectacles, stood before the microphone and took his oath
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  • 210 7 A HEADLINE in the Sunday Times last week reads, "Thomas is now Labour 'boss." The inverted commas imply that the word Boss is to be given a meaning and significance different from Its accepted usage. As the text of the report gave no clue as
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  • 62 7 PENANG, Saturday. EIGHT local men are at present holding senior posts in the Penang Municipality, the Acting Municipal Treasurer and Secretary, Mr. J. Walsh, told the Sunday Times today. He was referring to a recent speech by the Eurasian Commissioner, Mr. A. C. Reutens urging
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  • 143 7 Sunday Times Stall Reporter A COMBINED prize-giving and farewell function was held at the Island Club, Singapore, yesterday. The prises were for winners of the Island Club golf competition, and the farewell was for Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hodek'nson, who were •turning to Fng'and on
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    33 7 MR. and Mrs. K. Thambydurai of Bendong, who were married in Kuala Lumpur recently. The bride was formerly Miss N. Neelavathy daughter of the late Dr. S. Nagalingam, and Mrs. Nagalingam, of Singapore.
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  • 178 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter BECAUSE of the success of the film "The Sorrows of the Forbidden City," many more Chinese films are being sent to Malaya, some of them specially written with a Malayan theme. The films are being produced by the Yung Hwa studios of
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  • 36 7 IPOH, Sat.— On the occasion of their first official visit here since the installation o 1 the Sultan of Perak and the Raja Perempuan, the Chinese Community will hold a reception on Apr. 30.
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  • 29 7 An Indian driver. 30-year-old Muniandy, "was fined $50 at Segamat with the option of four weeks' gaol for dangerous driving and for driving while drunk and incapable.
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  • 352 7 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. THE part played by Rotary in stimulating the development of a social conscience in Malaya was stressed by the 80th District Governor. Mr. R. E. Holt rum. when he addressed the Easter Rotary conference which opened today at
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  • 264 7 The Herald orders the Sultan obeys Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA KANGSAK, Saturday. QNLY one man in Perak can give an order to his S. !f in and this freedom is permitted on only one occasion. The man is the Chief Court Herald, 60 ye? r old Toh Sri Nara
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    • 442 8 WHENEVER a player make* a bid In a situation where. If he passed, partner would still get another chance, It U a fret bid. A free bid ahows substantial value* In all situations except two The first Is when you bid over a double or a redouble— as previously discussed.
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  • 764 9 MARY HEATHCOTT sees...; LONDON, Apr. 8. THE night the lights went up in London again, it poured with rain. The streets were jammed with people and Piccadilly Circus had an air of New Year's Eve. The Crowds were happy despite the drizzle and cheered as each
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  • 99 9 U KKI-.XT fashion notes V from Australia have i lightly old-world flavour. because many women are fallowing that gracious fashion for draped shawls and fluttering fans, so popular in grandmothers' day. To cater for the demand a group of Sydney artists is working bard in a small factory,
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    18 9 MOIK. A LISTER, a J. Arthur Rank starlet, poses In flowered bathing suit on Greystone beach near Doblin.
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  • 407 9 ALL parts of a head of celery can be used, from the crisp, sweet heart to the tough outer sticks and the dark green leaves. The tenderest parts .are best eaten raw and those a little less tender can be cooked In soup, stew or made
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  • 242 9 IF your skin is neglected no make-up, however cleverl} applied, will be effective. There are thre« types of skin— the normal, the dry, and the greasy one. Each needs different treatment. If yon have a normal skin, take off your make-up with cleansing cream at night
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  • 667 9 The husband of a friend of mine ha s brought to his horn; a woman with whom he has been associating. Can he force the wife to leave? Does the law protect the wife? 1 know the law grants separation allowance, but this is no recompense for the
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  • 644 10  -  KEN fALLEH By Pamadasa Cup badminton SINGAPORE and Johore qualified for the final of the Pamadasa Cup quadrangular tournament when they defeated Negri Sembilan and Malacca respectively by five games to nil at the Clerical Union hall, Singapore, yesterday. Though the standard of play
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    23 10 EWAITZER RAF ducks vicious right by Sgt. Bulat in the Singapore amateur welterweight boxing final on Friday night. Waitcer was given the decision.
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  • 83 10 Sunday 1 im,. Johore Bahrti Sport* Correspondent r'. Johore Rovers did well in their league soccer match yesterday when they held the strong Casuals team to a draw of two-all. The Casual* played a forcing game from the start and Masanan netted twice for his
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  • 71 10 pAPT SLATER )96 and Major Martin (63t were mainly responsible for the victory which O.H.Q. gained at Tanglin yesterday over Johore C.C. by 75 runs. O.H.Q. totalled 192 (Moore five for 46. J. Singham three for 48 1. Johore C.C scored 117 <Barrhelot 36. W.
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  • 82 10 DBSULTS of the third round o: the Singapore Chess Leagiu were: chess Club I beat Combined Colleges n s—l;5 1; Combined Col leges I beat Swimming Club 3J 2 1 combined Colleges 111 be.)t V.M.C.A. 414— la! A.C.B. beat C.V.M.A. 6 o. Johore E.C. v. Chess club II:
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  • 30 10 THE cricket match between Singapore Recreation Club and R E.M.E. Base Workshops on the Pad?ng yesterday was cancelled. The S.R.C. will play Medical Coll"ge on the Padang today.
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  • 443 10 LONDON. Saturday. THE nd of th« second phase of the Easter holiday matches saw Portsmouth in an almost unassailable position at the head of the English premier soccer league. They inflicted a crushing s—o5 0 defeat on the r.A. Cup final favourites, Wolverhampton Wanderers, and
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  • 135 10 S'p ore army beat H.K. SINGAPORE Army soccer team beat Hong Konj by eight foals to three yesterday at Hong Kong. Singapore led by five goals to two at the interval. The Singapore Army scorers were: Wilson (one), Todd (one). Huffb.es (Honff Kong) put through bis own goal (one). Shea
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  • 71 10 ALL t-ams taking part in the forthcoming Juvenile League soccer competition are to send two representatives each to a meeting at 95. Cross Street, Singapore, tomorrow at 10 a.m. MISS TAN KIM LIEW. Penang swimming star who represented Malaya at the China Olympics, after the had wen the
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  • 73 10 LONDON, Sat. Bat ley 18. Hunslet, 12; Ca -tieford 35. Hull Kingston 15; Huddersfleld 34, St. Helens 0; Hull 24, Kelghley 7; L eds 27. Teatherstone R. 13; Leigh 30. Whit-haven 5; Liverpool Stanley 2. Belle Vue R. 10; Oldham 13. Rochdtle Hornets 8; Swinton 5. Salford 34
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  • 412 10 (from JACK DAVIS) THE acc< nt is on youth and sped for the cricket season which op"ns on April 30. when the New Zealanders also o en their tour with a match against Yorkshire. Most counties have been handicapped by the lack of hostile bowl
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  • 330 11 Stevenage hits 64 for S.E.A. Sunday Time* Kuala Lumpur Sports Correspondent A splendid knock of 64 by H. O. Stevenage was the main feature of the two-day inter-club cricket match between the Selansor Eurasian Associatlc i and the Penang Recreation Club which began at Taylor Road, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. St-jvenage
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  • 602 11 Aquatic meet in Singapore pENANC were leading by 24 points to Singapore's 18 in the inter-Chinese Swimming Club Easter aquatic meet at the end of yesterday, when five of the 10 competitive events had been contested at the S.C.S.C pool in fine weather and before
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  • 69 11 PROBABLE line up and jockeys for the two Cup races are: EASTER CUP Consistory (Bagby) King Midas Donnelly) Silver Spear (Woods) Longchamps II (E- Donnelly' Happy Traveller (Dawton) Friar's Last (Laycock) Mac Scotf (Tait) SPRINTERS' CUP Princess Guinevere (LawUr) Kinder Cold (|on«s) Cold Medallist (Laycock)
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  • 314 11 Sunday Times Kuala Lumpur Sports Reporter rr\HE All-Malayan IndoX Ceylonese tennis championship at Kuala Lumpur entered the quarter Anal stage yesterday, with Selangor. Penang, Negri Sembllan ard Singapore players winning their second-round matches. Following were the results of games played yesterday MEN'S OPEN SINGLES: O. Madhavan (Sel.)
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  • 466 11 From IPSOM JEEP, IPOH, Saturday. I/INDER Cold and Princess Guinevere, probable joint favourites for the Sprinters' Cup at Ipoh on Easter Monday, wound up their preparation with a trial run over the five-and-a-half furlong straight course this morning. Looking a picture of fitness, Kinder Cold
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  • 380 11 M.G.A. MAY AMEND CHAMPIONSHIP CONDITIONS Sunday Tiny i Kuala Lumpur Sports on-espondent rE Malayan Golf Association will consider a proposal to amend the conditions of the Malayan golf championship, It was decided at the. annual meeting of the Association at the Selangor Golf dub on Friday night. The proposal, which
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  • 486 12 R. JACKSON LEADS 8 GOLF QUALIFIERS Lauriston only one stroke behind Sunday Times Kuala Lumpur Sports Correspondent ■DEFENDING title-holder, R. B. Lauriston (Selangor) had a good day, returning the second best card (163) in the qualifying rounds of the Malayan Coif Championship played on the Selangor Coif Club course yesterday.
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    35 12 SCOTLAND'S THIRD COAL: W. Houliston, Scotland's centre-forward, heads the third and final goal, for his nd- in the International match at Wembley last Saturday in which Scotland beat England by three goals to one. Reuterphote.
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  • 120 12 Sunday Times Ipoh SporU Correspondent THE state cricket match between Perak and Penang at Ipoh will be played today (Sunday* and tomorrow, not on Saturday and today. The game starts at 10.30 a.m. on each day f.nd the following I are the teams: PERAK: A. H.
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  • 79 12 Rain Mars inter-state cricket THIRE was no pUy in the inter-State cricket match between Singapore and Selangor which was scheduled to start on the Singapore Cricket Club padang at 1 1 a.m. yesterday owing to heavy rain earlier in the morning. The umpires want out at 3 p.m. to inspect
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  • 353 12 S.A.F.A 5 Royal Navy 0 DOYAL Navy went down five nil to Singapore civilians at |alan Betar Stadium yestsrd. in a friendly game of soccer. A crowd of about 6.0 C saw the Civilian forwards miss numerous openings. Four goals went to Khamid's credit,
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  • 124 12 Sunday Times Muar Sports Correspondent r'XCELLENT goalkeeping by I Fj Urn Kah Cheong was the highlight of the soccer trial on the Muar Club Fadang on Friday when th« Johore probables beat Muar XI by three goals to one. The game, which served as fir
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  • 40 12 Sunday Time* Raub SporU Correspondent THK Paring Cricket Association has announced that the inter-State Cricket match against Selangor has been postponed to May 14 and 15. The first state trial will be held on May 1 at Raub.
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  • 44 12 IN a friendly game of soccer soccer played at Farrar Park, the F. N. Sports Club soccer XI beat the Borneo Co. XI by six goals to nil. Scorers: Chong Kirn San (1), Azl7 (1), Tallb (2), C. B. Bromham d>.
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  • 107 12 Sunday Times Kuala Lumpur Sports Reporter Singapore Colonials C.C. held a lead of 50 run* ovtr Selangor Colonials C.C. at the end of the first innings In their cricket match at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Singapore knocked up 124. A. Perera being the highest scorer with 31
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  • 407 12 ODVENTY competitors represent--13 ing the Royal Navy. Ar;ny. Royal Air Force. Singapore Volunteer Corps and the Auxiliary Territorial Services, took part in the Singapore Rifle Association Easter meeting held at the Seletar rifle range yesterday. F. A. Bickerdike. with a score of 175 out
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  • 393 12 Sunday Times Kuala Lumpur Sports Correspondent CILANCOR, with 39 points, gained an easy victory in the first post-war All-Malayan Public Works Department sports held here yesterday. Runners-up were Negri Sembilan with 15 points and third were lohore with 1 3 points. Highlight of the day was
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  • 211 12 USING his powerful overhead smashes to advantage, the rising. j young Singapore player, Teoh Peng I Hooi, surprised the former Malayan and Selangor doubles champion. Lee Yew Seng, to beat him In straight sets when the Mayflower Badminton Party met the Yoong Yoong Club of Kuala Lumpur
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  • 138 12 Sunday Times Kuala Lumpur Sports Reporter SINGAPORE had ten points. Selangor four and Penang nil at the end of the first day's events In the T.W.C.A. triangular sports tournament which began In Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Results were: HOCKEY— KuaIa Lumpur de- feated Penang (four goals
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  • 124 12 Sel. Eurasians win soccer Sunday Times Kuala Lumpur SporU Correspondent PROVING themselves superior In attack and defence, th* Selangor Eurasian Association yesterday beat the Penang Recreation Club by three goals to one In a friendly soccer fixture played at Taylor Road. The local side .scored two goals through F. Vuillemuir
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  • 44 12 Sunday Times Kluang Sports Correspondent |N a knockout soccer fixture for 1 the Duk> Shield on Friday, the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers beat the Engineering Training C«ntre 'D' Team by two goals to 11. The R.E.M.E. wer« superior In all departments.
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