The Straits Times, 18 April 1949

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    15 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1949
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    M.I.C. REQUEST TO WHITEHALL
    495 1 "Help Malaya To SelfGovernment" From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. THE Malayan Indian Congress is to send a message to the "Secretary of Stat« for the Colonies requesting the British Government to announce a political, economic and educational programme designed to help Malaya to achieve
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    40 1 WCKSTKAL MESSAGE: Toh Bentara Sri Nara di-Raja, the principal court herald, whispers the ancestral message to the Sultan of Prrak during the installation ceremony at Kuala Kangsar on Saturday. Story and other Straits 1 imes pictures are m Pace Five.
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    CHINA: ACHESON IS ACCUSED
    308 1 WASHINGTON. Sunday. a^HE I.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, has been attacked by several Republican Senators for his flat refusal to send any big scale aid to Nationalist i tuna. •or Styles Bridges <Rep hcan) ha s called for an ie .stigation of the State
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    LI & HO REPLY TO REDS
    133 1 LI HO REPLY TO REDS NANKING, Sun. VTATIONALJST leaders were il today draftings reply to new Communist demands that the Red armies be granted bridgeheads on the south bank of the Yangtse river as a guarantee that the Government would fulfil the eight Communist conditions for a peace settlement. The
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    Bulgarian Premier "Gives Up Control"
    202 1 LONDON, Sunday. ryHb. visit of the Bulgarian Premier, M. Georgi j x Dimitrov, to Moscow for "reasons of health" raised speculation in the West that another hole may have been punched in the iron curtain. There were three conflict ins; lines of speculation: Has M.
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    Oxygen For Man After Air Dash
    286 1 4 "LIFE or death" emergency flight by a Malayan Airways Dakota in a race against time to save th e life of a British seaman seriously injured in Labuan, ended yesterday when th e aircraft reached Kallang;. Less than a minute after I the
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    M.I.C. REVISES INSTITUTION
    104 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— The constitution of the Malayan Indian Congress is to be revised "to bring it In line with the declared policies of the Congress" It was decided at the meeting of the Congress Working Committee In I Kuala Lumpur yesterday. In
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    CEYLON'S P.M.
    36 1 COLOMBO, Sun —The Ceylon Prime Minister, Don Stephen Senanayake. left Colombo by air for Karachi '.oday on the first leg of his journey to London for the Commonwealth conference vhlth opens on Thursday.— Reuter.
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    37 1 MISS LUCY EU, daughter of the late Singapore millionaire Mr. Eu Tong Sen, with her daschund Gilda. Miss Eu has returned to Singapore after six yean in the United States. Story in Page 5. Straits Times picture.
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    War Conduct Conference
    90 1 GENEVA, Sun. FIFTY one nations, including the Soviet Union, Hungary and Albania will take j part In the International conference opening in Berne on April 21 to revise the Geneva war conventions. It was aui thorltatively learned yesterday. The conference ls being convened by the Swiss Government
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    CRIPPS GOING TO ITALY
    76 1 LONDON, Sun.— The Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir Stafford Cripps, is going to pay a formal visit to Italy. While there he hopes to take a short holiday, too. The Treasury announced. hla plans on Saturday. "The Chancellor, on the wish repeatedly expressed by the Italian
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    HOLIDAY MAKERS DRENCHED
    134 1 riASTER Sunday holiday makers thousands of them and many wearing new clothes were drenched In the torrential downpour which hit many parts of Singapore yesterday morning. In two hours nearly two Inches of rain fell. For five minutes before che rain started a hurricane lashed the city
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    CHIFLEY GOES ON TOUR OF CHINATOWN
    265 1 CHIFLEY GOES ON TOUR OF CHINATOWN FRASER SEES THE PLANTERS TWO Prime Ministers, Mr. J. B. Chilley »l Australia and Mr. Peter Fraser of New Zealand, who arrived in Singapore on Saturday en route for the Commonwealth Premiers' Conference, were delayed 24 hours and will leave this morning. While Mr.
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    ENVOY HOME IN AMBULANCE
    55 1 LONDON, Sun.— Mr. Lewis Douglas, U.S. Ambassador in London, was carried In a chair from an ambulance Into his London home today on his return from South- ampton Eye Hospital, where he had been a patient since April 4, following an injury to his left eye
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    "Troops In Malaya For Ten Years"
    123 1 LONDON. Lun A SINGAPORE message la today's Conservative Sunday Times said that Brlilsh troops may be protecting Malaya and Singapore for another 10 years. "In the light of the present serious position in Malaya and strong Communist pressure in northern Siam <md Indo-Chlna. the
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    MOTORISTS GO ABROAD
    65 1 LONDON Sui\ British motorists are going to Europe on holiday this spring In almost unprecedented numbers. The Royal Automobile Club says 1,000 cars are bein° shipped to Fiance. "Alreadj this year we have mass shipping arran^t meals for between 11.000 and 12,000 cars against about 800 in
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    'Lend Money for Malaya's Welfare'
    258 2 WOODROW WYATT MP. TELLS BRITAIN LONDON, Sunday. MR. Woodrow Wyatt, the Labour M.P. who recently returned from a tour of South-East Asia says that Britain "must lend enough money to Malaya to enable her to meet the reasonable demands of the people in social welfare
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    DOCKERS MAY STRIKE AGAIN
    71 2 LONDON, Sun. Under threat of a Government acitlon London dock workers I ended a strike yesterday that had taken 15,000 men off work and held vital food and export cargoes in port since Monday. Leaders of the Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers Union say they may strike
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    NEW DUTCH SHIP
    87 2 ANOTHER new motor vessel, the Mataram, has been added to the Royal Rotterdam Llyod Fleet. It is one of five new ships built In Holland for the comPa Two of them, the Garoet and the Slamat, were commissioned some time ago and have already called at SlngaThe
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    66 2 "I PREFER to be treated as an ordinary air passenger," said the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. J. B. Chifley, as he stepped from a Constellation at Tengah, Singapore, on Saturday afternoon. Straits Times picture. THE NEW ZEALAND Prime Minister, Mr. Peter Fraser, steps down from the Constellation. The two Premiers
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      Reds Give Germans Food For Thought
      277 2 BERLIN, Sunday. r[ERE were pork chops for dinner yesterday in Soviet sector of Berlin but only for th e "recognised intelligentsia." The more lowly folk— lorry drivers, gardeners and others whom the Russians consider to be unworthy of the honour had to wait. Tne
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    LITERARY LAPSES
    52 2 T f>\DON, Sun. A READING Municipal bran;..., Mr. Stanley ocks, has two grouses. He reveals them in an article called "Enemies of Books" published in the "Municipal Journal" A book borrower who keeps his place with a rasher of bacon and another whose bookmarker is a kippered 1
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    TROOPS ON GUARD IN JERUSALEM
    290 3 TROOPS ON GUARD IN JERUSALEM Make Holy City International —THE POPE VATICAN CITY, Sunday. WHILE troops were guarding; the way to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Arabwiupied old Jerusalem this Easter, the Pope renewed his demand for making the Holy City an international zone. Special arrangements were made
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    26 3 \II.ACF BKKRY. who kM died in Hollywood after 36 >rars acting in the films. He was B^ry started life as assistant elephant trainer in a circus.
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    S. AFRICA REPUBLIC URGED
    188 3 S. AFRICA REPUBLIC URGED JOHANNESBURG. Sun. THE Transvaal's Nationalist leader today demanded a i-.implete bieak with the C mimonwealth to .safeguard South Africa s whit* supreinivy policy H* Is Mr. J. G. Strydom and he told a Nationalist Party vi story rally at Mooresburg, that an out-and-out repubH was the
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    PLANTATIONS RUBBER SALES
    66 3 Kuala Oeh Plantations' accounts for the year to July 31. 1948 (the first year of trading >, show rubber fales (Including stock at realised prices i, interest, etc. £42.548. To estat*" exiwnditure 136,458 (including £1.198 rehabilitation London administration £1,490, renewals 1:400. replantln? 0.000. profits tax £240. income
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    Cables To Saigon
    23 3 The Saigon administration will accept telegrams in Chinese four-figure code for 'French Indo-China. They will be charged at full rate.
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    Sergeant Falsified Marriage Report
    179 3 MOKCSANTOWN, (W. Virginia), Sunday. SERGEANT Blair Robinett, a survivor of the Rataan "Death March," was placed on two years probation yesterday after pleading guilty to an irriictmrnt "charging him with false swearing in an niort to obtain an annulment of his marriage to a Filipino girl.
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    MR. FREEBOROUGH
    139 3 IN i repon in the Strata Times on .>n 1- «m 'I thai ■•becaii'e nn arms trial In irMctl he «;>>■ 10 h.iv- been a witn*.-,s wa p<> t|>on-d Mi. Eric Fv-cwrougli. OS. PC. Batu Piliat, walked into a bandit umb'i.sh whic'i tesul'ed In his i <i b
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    Bishop Wilson
    20 3 Bishop Wilson, kneels before the Bishop of Manchester at his installation as Dean of Manchester. Manchester Guardian picture.
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    Ex-P.o.W.s Were At Installation
    298 3 \i nr..> me hi. nev. j. 1.. nuson, since i»*i msnop of Singapore, was recently installed Dean of Manchester, among the packed cathedral congregation were men of the Manchester Regiment whose ordeal as prisoners of war he had shared. They heard the Bishop of Manchester, Dr.
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    Free Class In Mandarin
    87 3 THE Singapore Chinese V.M.C.A. is launching a rree beginners' Mandarin class for its members.. There will be two other classes for non-members. The classes will be for junior and higher grade students. They will be held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays between 6 and 9 p.m.
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    RUBBER CROP
    24 3 The rubber crop for the United Malacca Rubber Estates. Ltd. for March was 113 040 lbs. Total for 11 months. 1.142,044 lbs.
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    MALAY COCONUT ESTATES
    50 3 Malay Coconut Estates' net profit for 1948, was £28,546. after £559 for depreciation and £36,511 for a tax, with final dividend of 25 I per cent, making 32 per cent, for the year against 20 per cent, for the previous year. 'Meeting in London on May 24).
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    "Protect Us" Appeal By Jap Women
    140 3 TOKYO. Sun. JAPANESE WOMB taking part In the 'Black Night F'itival" at Okuni Tama shrine on May 5 today asked foe American and Japanese pr'H motion against molestation from Japanese rowdies. On this night, all women tn the darkened temple grounds at Fuchu are
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    Mission's Big Target
    355 3 PLANS are now taking shape for St. Andrew's Mission Hospital Week from May 2 to May 9, during which it is hoped to raise $60,000 to pay for the re-equipment of the hospital and help with its running expenses. In a message to the organisers the Governor
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    New Airlift Record
    112 3 BERLIN, Sun. ALLIED fliers broke all Berlin airlift records yesterday. In doing so, airmen said, they proved combat divisions could be supplied by air alone. American and British airmen set out to learn Just how many planes could be landed In Berlin in 24 hours. The result
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    Investors' Reactions To Malaya Pledge
    763 3 COMMERCIAL NEWS From A Market Correspondent THE assurance by the British Prime Minister on the political future oi Malaya aroused wide interest in Malayan commercial circles but it was felt in several quarters that Mr. Attlee's statement was a distinctly parliamentary utterance and that a
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    Straits Traders Not To Pay Dividend
    398 3 FHE Straits Trading Co. Ltd., earned a net profit L of $337,993 in the year 1948, after providing indisclosed amounts for depreciation, amortisation >f Pulau Brani leases, bad and doubtful debts and ncome tax. claims Is a matter of considerable Shareholders, however, will moment
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Apr. 18, 1949. RICE AND THE PRICE
    756 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Apr. 18, 1949. RICE AND THE PRICE 1948, the Siamese exported just over 800,000 tons of rice, for which they received approximately £32 million, almost twice the value of Siam's entire pre-war trade. The Siamese Government is the &ole buyer, and the export price is
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    Chinese Stalemate
    415 4 If illustration were needed of the difficulty of penetrating the screen which hides events in China it is provided by the admission of a Nationalist Government spokesman who now says that reports last week of the delivery of a new j Communist ultimatum were false. The reports were
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    11 4 i.iaU.V UtNKV WOLFE BAI.VfcS, Bishop Designate of Singapore. A. P. photograph.
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    STILL THE WORLD'S BEST
    607 4  - STILL THE WORLD'S BEST Earl Winterton J HAVE been a Member of Parliament continuously since 1904; I was the "Baby of the House" when first elected I am now its "Father." There is a tendency for people who have spent a lifetime in any profession, or institution, to contrast its
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    Held His Services In Coventry Pub
    768 4  -  ARTHUR WHITE Singapore's New B s^p By CINGAPORE'S next bishop, handsome, hardworking 44-year-old Canon Henry Wolfe Baines, is a fabulous figure in the scarred and bombbattered city of Coventry. He's the man who refused to go out of business in 1940 when a German
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    SWETTENHAM ON MALAYS
    136 4 APROPOS the contro- versy which has arisen concerning Dato Onn's speech in the Federation Legislative Council on the £5,000.000 gift from the Britisii Government may I recall the words of that great administrator, Sir Frank Swettenham, on this subject: Wnile I v- High Commissioner an American, named
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      Lord Mancroft And Socialism
      398 4 AFTER having studied Lord Mancroft's article in the "Tory Challenge" headed "THE PRICE OF SOCIALISM IN MALAYA," I was interested, to read the excellent views expressed in your leading article of; March 26. Lord Mancroft has made some very sweeping statements and in this connection I
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      ARMY AND CIVILIANS
      112 4 f\NE facet of the letter of your correspondent "Wife Of A Serving Officer" on the £5,000,000 Gift requires amplification, and it is as well that this should come from a civilian. It is correct that officers and wives of the Services are In many cases being housed
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    CHILDREN GREET THEIR SULTAN
    702 5 Waves, Cheers For Raja Perempuan From Our Special Correspondent KUALA KAKGSAR, Sunday. HUNDREDS of schoolchildren assembled on the lawn in front of the Astana Iskandariah this morning to greet their Sultan and his wife, Raja Ta'iah binte AJmarhum Raja Abdul Hamid who, in a brief but
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    Cordial Relations Are 'Impressive'
    211 5 rIE cordial friendship existing among the British and Chinese peoples in this part of the world is impressive and encouraging said the general: manager of the London Express Syndicate, Mr. W. T. Aitken, who has just arrived in Singapore on a wor id tour. A nephew
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    HE DIDN'T KNOW
    42 5 TAIPING, Sun. Pleading guilty to having no identity card. Samlnathan told the Taiping Magistrate that he did not know it was necessary to have a card until he wat arrested. He was fined $50. or one month's hard labour.
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    Back After Six Years
    152 5 By Our Woman Correspondent MISS Lucy, "Eu, daughter of the late Singapore mili lionalre, Mr. Eu Tong Sen, has returned to Singapore after six years in the United States where she took a degree in arts and chemistry and also a course in biochemistry. She now
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    CHOIR OF 300 IN CONCERT
    99 5 The Singapore Junior Sympnony Orchestra and Combined Schools' Choir captured the hearts of the Colony's music lovers last night when they staged a very successful Easter concert at the Victoria Memorial Hall. The concert was In aid of St. Andrew's Mission Hospital. The ages of
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    AIR CHALLENGE IS REJECTED
    179 5 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sun. THE Penang Flying Club has received a challenge from the Royal Singapore Flying Club to complete for the Dane Cup on Singapore's Air Day this year but, according to one official, the club prefers to hold *he contest on "home
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    Barter Trade Setback Ties Up Dollars
    100 5 THE cessation of barter trade with Sumatra has tied up hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of textiles, hardware and general merchandise in the hands of Singapore merchants. These goods cannot now De imported into Sumatra because of the very narrow "Inducement" margin of
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    Pay Protest By Govt. Clerks
    146 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. GOVERNMENT clerks in the Federation are to join Singapore Government clerks in protesting against the latest salary and service proposals recommended by Mr. J. V. Cowgill, the Joint Salaries Commission officer. A spokesman of th e General Clerical
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    Jap Textiles Held Up
    102 5 VfEGOTIATIONS between li Singapore and Federation Governments over their share of Japanese textiles imports is understood to have held up allocation to Malayan traders of a $7,000,000 textiles Import quota. These negotiations have been going on for some time, but no decision can be reached because
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    New Move For Trade Talks
    83 5 The Indonesian Republican representative in Singapore, Dr. R. Oetoyo, said the Republic would ask for discussions on the trade and Industrialisation of countries such as Indonesia, to be Included In the agenda of the ECAFE conference to be held In Singapore. The discussions would centre
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    TRANSFERRED
    19 5 SEGAMAT, Sun. Dicky Hu Wee Hsien, Johore's State hockey goalkeeper, has left, Segamat on transfer to Johore Bahru.
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    LAND FOR CATTLE URGED
    141 5 i LAND should be reserved ex* clusively for animal breedI Ing In Kelantan and Trengganu, said Mr. Cheah Phe« Phay, President of the Mala-* yan Veterinary Association on Saturday night. He was speaking at the dinner of-the Malayan Veterinary Association, which held ita three-day conference In
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    WHAT'S ON IN KUALA LUMPUR
    121 5 WHAT'S ON IN KUALA LUMPUR PAVILION: Dumb Wifp (Mandarin); ODEON Easter Parade: REX: Adventures of Don Junn; COLISEI'M: Son of Zorro (whole serial): EMPIRE: King Knnc, MADRAS: The Man from Coilorado; HINDUSTAN: Pomeo and Juliet. PENAN*; REX: The Loves of Carman (midnight* rra'inee Nnor Umara): CATHAY: Trader Horn; 'TamlO; LIDO:
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    PRINCESS GUINEVERE FOR SPRINI
    246 6 Well Suited ByStraight Run By EPSOM JEEP IPOH, Sunday. pRINCESS Guinevere, perhaps the finest all- rounder in training on the Malayan Turf, has s bright chance of adding another victory to hei long list of successes by taking the Sprinters' Cup at I poh tomorrow, the
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    BERNBROOK WINS DONCASTER H'CAP
    134 6 SYDNEY. Bun— Bernbrook, by Midstream out of Idle Words, yesterday won for Mr. A. O. Romano! the Doncaster Handicap, worth A£6.000 which Is the first leg of I the big Easter racing double at Randwkk race course. The Sydney Cup event takes place tomorrow. Bernbrook 8
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    Stirling To Ride Happy Traveller
    199 6  - Stirling To Ride Happy Traveller EPSOM JEEP By irvn, sunaay /"•AREFULLY nursed, Happy V* Traveller b fresh and ready and I regard h«r at a good thing i In the Perak Turf Club's Easter Cup race over a mile and q-iarter tomorrow. Her connections are very keen on her chances
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    PRINCE BERTRAND WINS £4,000 RACE
    62 6 JOHANNESBURG, Sun. rE £4,000 autumn handicap run over one-and-a-quarter mile* yesterday was won by the thre«-year-old colt. Prince Bertrand starting at six to one. In a thrilling finish Prince Bertrand beat Nile Delta by a shorthead with Andrea, four length* away, third. The favourite. Son
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    ASTIVEL IS BEST BET FOR TODAY
    302 6 By EPSOM JEEP IPOH, Sunday. i>KST bet on the card at Ipoh tomorrow is Astivel. His third to Tricolour over th c straight course on Saturday after a lengthy spell was, I thought, a splendid effort, and that run should have improved him almost
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    RANGERS, SCHOOL SHARE HONOURS
    58 6 TIONG Bahru Rangers oeat St. Patrick's School by three goals to nil in a friendly football match played at the school ground on Saturday. The Rangers' second team were beaten three goals to two by the school earlier in the afternoon. Today the Rangers first and
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    Straits Times Selections
    147 6 EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER RACE 1 SO NORTHWELL MarcheU III Radiant Rhythm EUREKA SLIPSTREAM Slipstream Northwell Northwell Victory March RACE t S »S RACE S SAIDAN Everbrlght Hambrion EVERBRIGHT CHRISTMAS KNIGHT Tollana Everbrlght Christmas Knight Saidtn ALI.WORTH ASTIVEL Astivrl Sunbeam II Eastern Picture Eastern Picture ASTIVEL
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    Today's Race Card
    805 6 rpHE card of events at Ipoh today, final day of the Perak Turf Club's Easter meeting, is given below. Double totes will be on races three and four and six and seven, and the big sweep will be drawn on race eight. Race 1—2.30: Cl. 2, Div.
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    Singapore Chinese XI Beaten At Muar
    151 6 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Sunday. GOOD teamwork and a sound defence enabled Cheng Hwa Club, last year's Muar league champions, to beat Singapore Chinese Engineering Association by the convincing margin of five goals to one in a friendly football match yesterday. One of
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    Mrs. SMITH AND MAVOR WIN
    103 6 rE winners of the Island Club April mixed foursomes competition were Mrs. D. Perrier Smith Mr. M. P. Mayor with a score of 8&— 18'/4 69>*. I The following were some of the I best scores: Mrs. D. Ferrier Smith A Mr. ;M. P. Mayor
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    POMPEY STEP NEARER TO SHIELD
    734 7 Depleted Wolves Team Trounced LONDON, Sunday. SPLENDID teamwork which has been the feature of Portsmouth's success this season yesterday, carried them a step nearer towards winning the League championship. They trounced F.A. Cup finalists, Wolverhampton Wanderers, by five goals to nothing before a capacity home
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    S. SUMMERS KEEPS TITLE
    161 7 JOHANNESBURG, Sun. MRS. Sheila Summers, blonde South African lawn tennis champion, successfully defended her title yesterday beating Mrs T. Long, of Australia, 6-1. 6-1 in the final here. Mrs Summers, at the peak of her form, attacked from the start and never allowed Mrs. Long to
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    PENANG P.W.D. SOCCER TEAM
    66 7 THE following have been selected to represent the Penang P.W.D. Athletic Union In the soccer final against Johore to br played at Kuala Lumpur today: Osman b. Musa, A. C. David. A. Slvasamy, Santiago, Che Din b. Hajl Deranl, Cheah Boh Eye V. Doraisamy, Tan Swee
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    Results
    287 7 FIRST DIVISION Uiri.inr.ham O. 1 Blackpool 1 Buralejr Maackcstcr V. I Charlton A. AiUn V. I Chelae. Derby C. Everion a Arxenal Manchester C. 1 Sundcrland 1 Mlddlribroor.. Liverpool 1 NeweiuUe I. 1 Boltoo. W. 1 Furtunoeth S Walverhaj-plon Pre»U« N B. t H.ddersfleld Stcki- C. SheOeld V. 1
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    Charity Hill Climb On May 8
    203 7 SISTERS. and nurses from Tan Tock Seng Hospital will be selling programmes at a hill climb organised by the Singapore Motor Club on May 8. Motor enthusiasts who are nonClub members will be given an opportunity of participating In the events. The hill climb
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    Olympic Events May Be Cut
    74 7 NEW YORK, Sun. BEFORE Mr Avery Brundage, President of the American Olympic Committee, sailed from New York for Rome where the International Olympic Committee will try to reduce the programme for the 1962 Games at Helsinki. Mr. Brundage is convinced that a deep cut must
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    Barbarians Defeat Cardiff
    436 7 LUrtDOU, buniay. A crowd of 40,000 spectators, who saw the star-studded Bar- .ians inflict upon Cardiff at o-xoifl Arms Park their second reverse pf the season, received iv.l value for their money. At on time Cardiff, though »itfcout two Welsh lnternatiouals in Haydn Tanner and Jack Matthews
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    WOLVES MAY TOUR TURKEY
    100 7 LONDON. Sun. Wolverhampton Wanderers. English league First Division football team, are being asked to reconsider their decision not to tour Turkey during May. Turkish football officiate approached the "Wolves" management during the evening game against Char! ton Athletic last week. Wolverhampton, who are to play Leicrstor
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    EE YONG HITS 83, MARTINZ TAKES 8-19
    501 8 EE YONG HITS 83, MARTINZ TAKES 8-19 Perak In Strong Position vPenang From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Sunday. DERAK took all the honours on the first day of the Perak Penan; State cricket match which started here today. Perak, batting first scored 173, and then dismissed Penang for a paltry
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    16 8 THE Singapore and Selangor cricket teams photographed at the Singapore Cricket Club yesterday.— Straits Times picture.
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    Water-polo Decides Aquatic Meet
    643 8 SINGAPORE, scoring 47 points to Fenang's 42, narrowly won the two-day Inter-Chinese Swimming Club Easter Aquatic Meet, which concluded at the S.C.S.C. Pool yesterday. With the water polo the last of the 10-event programme to be contested, Penang were leading by 12-32. Singapore, as anticipated, won
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    S.E.A. WIN HOCKEY
    30 8 From Our SUtl Curretpoudenl KUAI.A LUMPUR, Sun: The Selangor Eurasian Association b~at the Peoang Recitation Club r>*. hockey by solitary goal at T:i\lor Ro«d today. M. Webber
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    P.W.D.North Fare Badly
    118 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. THE P.W.D. North were skittled 1 out for 34 runs against the P.W.D. South today in thoir twoday cricket fixture played at the Victoria Institution ground. Chua Huat Seng and T. EC. Sukumaren did most of the damage, taking five
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    Colony Schools' Soccer Team
    134 8 THE following have been selected to play for the Combined Singapore English Schools against the Combined Johore English Schools on Thursday on Victoria School ground, kick-off S p.m.: Singapore: Kwan Chin Weng (St. Anthony's); M. de Morney St. Anthony's i, Smahon (R.1.); Mm Seng Chiang <St
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    CHANGI SOCCER ABANDONED
    43 8 HEAVY rain at Changl yesterday caused cancellation of a I Combined R.A.P. vs. Singapore 1 Eurasians friendly soccer match. The decision to abandon the game was reached at 3.30 p.m. I when R.A.P. officials found the pitch water-logged In part.
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    ABANDONED
    21 8 rHE cricket match between Singapore Recreation Club and Medical College on the Padang yesterday was abandoned because of the rain.
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    Awthar Singh Wins, Breaks Own Record
    114 8 A wthar Singh Wins, Breaks Own Record I t.im Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. 4 WTHAR Singh, Kuala Lumpur's star cyclist, eclipsed all opposition in the State 25 miles road cham pionship, winning half a mile ahead of the second man in a time which handsomely beat the previous
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    S. Augustin Hero Of P.R.C. Win
    329 8 Kroin Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. STANLEY Augustlns brilliant batting and bowling enabled the Penang Recreation Club to b.at the Selangor Eurasian Association by Hire 1 wickets in a two-day match which concluded today. Augustin captured s-ven wlcketo for 21 runs In the
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    Selangor Lose 5 For 54
    267 8 Selangor Lose 5 For 54 OWING to heavy rain, only an hour's play was possible yesterday, the second day, In the inter-State match on the S.C.C. Padang between Singapore and Selangor. During this time Selangor had scored 54 for five wickets on a difficult wicket. There had been no play
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    JACKSON, GIBB IN GOLF FINAL
    203 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. pHE defeat of the reigning champion, R. B. Lauris- ton, by his SeHngor Golf Club team mate, R. R. Jackson, in the quarter-finals was the sensation of today's play in the Malayan golf championship. Jackson won six and
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    49 8 MR. F. A. BICKERDIKE, who won the Inniskillings Challenge Cup for the Grand Aggregate S. R. (b) with a score of 17* oat of a possible 200. with the trophy and other prizes he won at the S.R.A. Easter Shoot held at Seletar Range on Saturday. Straits Times picture.
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    RAMUAND SUPPIAH IN FINAL
    216 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. M. Parathasarathy. partnering a, Q. B. Packlr, the IMT hard:ourt champion of Singapore, won this year's men's open doubles of ;he All-Malayan Indo-Ceylonase tennis tournament played here toiay. In th« singles p. Suppiah, who held the title for six
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    Sports Diary
    145 8 Sl.Nli.AKUKfc CRICKET: Singapore T. Selangor, 3rd day, Padang, 11 a.m. BADMINTON: Marigold t. Yoong Yoong Club of Selangor. Clerical Union. 10 a.m. SWIMMING: Singapore Swimming Clnb v. Chinese Swimming Cluba of Singapore and Penang, S.S.C., IMS am. LEAGUE SOCCER: Jnr. A. Grp. 2. 8.H.B. Auz. Police v. H.
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    FREEMAN AND MALAYANS IN SEMI-FINALS
    400 8 FREEMAN AND MALAYANS IN SEMI-FINALS COPENHAGEN, Sunday. F|R. David Freeman, of the United States, beat 17 Teoh Seng Khoon, of Malaya, 15 I, 15 5 in th» quarter-final s of the men's singles in the Danish Badminton championships here last night. Th« Malayan appeared helpless against the American'! courtwork and
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    Singapore Colonials Win
    95 8 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. rE Singapore^ Colonials beat the Kuala Lumpur Colonials by 67 runs In a two-day cricket match which ended today on the Railway Ground. Batting flxst, the Singapore Colonials scored 124 to which the local side replied with 74. At close
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    COMBINED RAF v. EUROPEANS
    64 8 SINGAPORE Europeans, wno were to have played R.A.P. Changi at Ohangl at soccer today, I have agreed Instead at the request of R.A.P. selectors to meet a combined R.A.P. side drawn from Seletar. Changl and Tengah at the same time and place. The R.A.P. team will
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    Pamadasa Cup To Singapore
    407 8 Pamadasa Cup To Singapore i CINGAPORE won the taiMM »5 Cup for the second year and Johore all the applause for a fighting display— in the final of the quadrangular tournament played at the Clerical Union hall in Singapore yesterday. Singapore beat Johore by three games to two winning the
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    JOLLILADS WIN
    51 8 rl Jollilads Athletic Union defeated the Far East DeI fence Secretariat by two goal* to one in a game of soccer played at the Railway Institution ground I yesterday. Tobing and Salahudln scored for the Jollilads while McCawlay I scored for th« Army. ay w. anas uwwsy tOToon.
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