The Straits Times, 30 April 1949

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  • 20 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 IWI I YE PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, APRIL SO, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS.
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  • 161 1 May Day Meeting rtx-ih. 4.000-Mn>njj (Joveru1 iii'-nt and Mimic: pal Ltb'Mrr Union of Singapoie ye>-t.-rday changed It* mJnd tt<>ut letting all lt s members id a May Day meeting ■rrow. "bccau.se there WU vsibility ot an overflowing idance" at Its small ghot}le headquarter s in No
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  • 68 1 JOHANNESBURG. Fii. Three 1 electric 'rains, ail travelling In the same dlrec- rashed Into oiie anon a hi»h *»mbank- near Johannesburg .*>■ killing 74 ppoplf Ii wa.-> the worst railway r In South African More than 90 p -..pit wore injure'i. Passengers and nieces of
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  • 76 1 DUBLIN. Fri. The Prime Minister of Ceylon. Mr. SenHiiayake. said: "I think vware quite happy as we are" when reporters here ask»ii him today if Ceylon were like i to lollow India's example. He said he was very glad that ;> way was beine found
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  • 30 1 LONDON. Fri. Pandit Mehro, Prime Minister of India, and Liaquat All Khan, Premier of Pakistan, were received in audience by the King at Buckingham Palace today. Reuter.
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  • 320 1 IK. Tan Chin Tuan. President of Singapore Ratepayers' Association, suggested at the association's annual meeting yesterday that the Government should provide the amenities for the suburbs which at present kept people in the centre of the town. Congestion in ihe city would be relieved
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  • 96 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. THE Sultan of Selangor has contributed $10,000 'towards the University of! I Malaya appeal fund The Selangor appeal will ,be officially opened at a public meeting at Victoria i Institution, Kuala Lumpur, 'at 11 a.m on Sunday when j i speakers will
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  • 87 1 BEIRUT. Fri. i 'Thousands of Syrian 1 troops have arrived at Deraa on the Syria-Transjor-dan border and are throwing up extensive fortifications. The Lebanese Premier has been trying to smooth the j tense relations between Syria I on the one side and Transjordan and Iraq on the
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  • 58 1 The Commissioner-Gene/a; and Mrs Mac Donald returned j yesterday from Hong Kong where they were the guests of the Governor and Lady Grantham for six days. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald had discussions with Govern- I ment, civil and service offic- ers, and members of the
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  • 31 1 HAMBURG, Fri. A grandson of the late Kaiser Wilhelm is salesman for a folding bed at the Wiesbaden Trade Fair. He is Alexander Ferdinand, 27-year-old "Prince of Prussia."— U.P.
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  • 676 1 Commission Debate On Housing TOTAL of 300 people are living; in 60 cubic le-1 into which one "i air-sized bungalow" has,] been divided and for which the principal tenant pays a rent of $150 a month. This first-hand information on the acuK overcrowding prevailing in
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    39 1 THE SULTAN OF PERAK, Sir Yui~. Ixzudin Shah, salutes as the Federation of Malaya Police Band plays the Perak National Anthem when he arrived by boat atPaulin Street Jetty, Teluk Anson, from Kuala Kangsar, on Thursday. Straits Times picture.
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  • 206 1 MALAYAN OR "LOCAL BORN" IF Malaya hoped to be a nation, It should not divide locai-born people Into classes Singapore born, Johoreborn and so on— said Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, at the Singapore Municipal Commissioners' meeting yesterday. Mr. Jfap was criticising (three) suggested principles for the .employment of officers in
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  • 109 1 rpOMORROWS 16-page 1 Sunday Times will begin serial publication of "The Wooden Horse," a book that ia thrilling all Britain and which has been described as the finest story to come out of the last war. and the greatest escape story of all time. The Sunday
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  • 156 1 RANGOON. Fri. r |MIE Burma Army radio toJ. day claimed the recapture by Government troops of Amarapura, important rail town on the Irrawaddy four mtlps south of Mandalay. The radio said the Govern ment troops had "complete command" of the Ava Bridge -biggest in Burma
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  • 278 1 SHANGHAI, Friday. THE Chinese Communists, continuing their advance south of the Yangtse River have temporarily by-passed Shanghai, according to military observers in Shanghai today. They were officially stated to have entered Witching, 45 miles north of pivot of the new Nationalist defence line in Chekiang Province. The
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  • 71 1 CAPETOWN, Fri.— Marriage between white and coloitfLd persons would be prohibited by a law introduced in ttaf House of Assembly today. The bill would also djd such marriages even when one party did not reside in South Africa. A provision in the bill slates that a person
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  • 40 1 LONDON, Fri. PKMKK Queen Rambhai Barni of Siam will take the ashes of her husband, ex-King Prajadhipok, to Siam when she returns to her homeland on Sunday after 14-y»ars of exile. King Prajadhipok died in 1941.
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  • 272 1 "Sands of Banditry Running Out" -U.P.A.M. CHIEF From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. "T»HE sands of banditry A are running out, but none knew better tnan the planters that there were no grounds for complacency, said sir Sydney Palmer, in his presidential address to the United Planting Association of
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    • 405 2 AN Australian, Mr. P. Pinney, and a Londoner, Mr. Marchand, veteran hitch-hikers, have arrived in Calcutta and are soon leaving for Singapore by on "overland route." Pihnry left London 14 months ago with £9. Up to now he has travelled through Europe, Greece,
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      27 2 MR. K. NALLIAII, of t:.e Malayan Medical Service, who has retired after 35 years' service. lie sails from Penan; for Ceylon on May 3. Straits Times picture.
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  • 180 3 BATAVIA, Fri. DEADLOCKED Dutch and V Indonesian Republican negotiators placed in United Nations' hands today the task of drawing up a basic plan to restore peace in Indonesia. Neither side committed itself, however, to accept the plan when completed. The United Nations Security Council
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  • 103 3 NAIROBI, Frl. TWO native African political parties, the Bataka Party and the African Farmers' Union, were yesterday declared Illegal by the Government of Uganda. The Bataka Party, alleged to have been behind most political trouble in Uganda for several years, is said to have Communist links
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  • 385 3 OPTIMISTIC Berlin Blockade May End Soon WASHINGTON, Friday. DRES1DENT Truman in Washington and the British Foreign Office in London are both optimistic about the possible lifting of the Russian blockade of Berlin. Mr. Truman yesterday said he believed the Russians were acting in good faith in their
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  • 51 3 CAPRI, Fri.— Ever since she landed in Naples on Wednesday, Princess Margaret has been seen wearing only the same light grey suit, with white high-heeled shoes. The Princess dined last night in her private apartment In the Morgan! Tiberio Hotel, Capri, with Edwin Cerio, well-known writer.
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    45 3 CUB LEADERS attending a course at the Boy Scouts' Association Castle Camp site, Kuala Lumpur, prepare a meal. Twenty-four leaders are in camp, including two Gurkha officers who are to start Wolf Cub packs for Gurkha children in Kuala Lumpur and Seremban. Straits Times picture.
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  • 184 3 MANILA, Friday. TWE Philippine Army and constabulary today began 1 a campaign "without quarter" against the organised, well-armed outlaws who murdered Mrs. Aurora Quezon, "Mother of the Republic," and 11 others 100 miles north of Manila yesterday. Funeral masses were said in Manila today for the
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  • 127 3 BAO DAI IS HOME AGAIN DALAT, Indo-China, Frl. EX-EMPEROR Bao Dai of Annam arrived In Dalat today on his first visit to his homeland in four years. The former emperor came from Singapore to head a regime sponsored by the French. The French-sponsored Vietnam is opposed to the Viet Minh
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  • 193 3 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Friday. AS full security measures were enforced in Bangkok early today, police routed revolutionary forces about 60 miles from the city. This action followed reports that fugitive revolutionary leaders responsible for the disturbances last month had reorganised their forces for another
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  • 33 3 LONDON FH.—Antl-UOm-munlst Labour leaders will meet In Geneva on June 1 8 to start a new world trade union federation which will Include a possible 30 to 40 million workers.
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  • 80 3 ROME, Frl. WOMEN wept and Fascist salutes were given at a memorial mass held on the fourth anniversary of Benito Mussolini's death in Southern Bari yesterday. Mass was said for the exDuce in churches throughout Rome. Meanwhile, a request was made in Italy's Chamber of Deputies
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  • 78 3 SIX WILL CONTROL RUHR LONDON. Fri SIX Western Powers yesterday signed an agreement setting up an international authority to control Germany's industrially rich Ruhr valley. The agreement sentenced the Ruhr to strict international control, barring it from war production and ordering it to produce for peace. It was reached last
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  • 66 3 TOKYO. Frl.— Rivalry has developed between the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki over the amount of damage they suffered from the atomic bombs. Leading citizens of Nagasaki are dissatisfied with the Government's plans to build a "peace memorial" in Hiroshima, to the exclusion of Nagasaki. Complaints from
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  • 133 4 Colony Quiz For Air Travellers CINGAPORE is making a w civil aviation survey, to help air travellers during their stop-over. Printed questionnaires are handed to arriving passengers. Air travellers are asked to hand in their answers to the airlines or to post them to the Secretary for Economic Affairs. The
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  • 63 4 SYDNEY, Fri. AN AIR hostess for every passenger was one man's suggestion to Australian airline operators. There were thousands of other ideas during the past year, including: Glass floors so that passengers could see where they were going; flowers on both sides of the doors 'eading
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  • 384 4 3 SAVED FROM BLAZING BOAT ADRIFT 5 DA YS WITHOUTFOOD THREE Indonesian seamen, survivors of a 65ton motor vessel which caught fire and sank during a voyage from Sumatra, were picked up in a water-logged sampan by the Panamanian freighter Algonquin and landed in Singapore yesterday. The men had been
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  • 40 4 Ballot papers and counterfoils used In the Rural West by-election to the Singapore Legislative Council in October last year were destroyed by burning yesterday in the garden of the residence^ of the Elections Supervisor, Mrs. Gerald Hawkins.
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  • 313 4 AN application to have set aside a divorce petition brought by Vivie Gladys Gauron against her husband, George Gauron, on the ground that in the interests of justice it should not be proceeded with in Singapore, was made by Mr. A. F. Thorne in
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  • 28 4 Mr. Yap Pheng Geek was at yesterday's meeting of the Singapore Municipal Commissioners appointed to serve as a member of the Court of the University of Malaya.
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  • 174 4 MALAYAN exports last month dropped by $26,000,000 from $155,815,551 in February to $129,678,998 in March. Imports during the same period increased by $42,000,000 from $137,123,945 in February to $179,467,473 in March. In March, the valance of trade f- was against Malaya by $50,000,000, but the
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  • 35 4 A 16-year-old Chinese labourer was fatally wounded yesterday in a factory at the 4>4 mile Serangoon. The shot, from a revolver, was alleged to have been fired by a Singapore Chinese Special Constable.
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  • 29 4 NO CARD $20 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri.— M. Kannasamy, a labour of Tebrau, was fined $20, in default one month's Imprisonment, for failing to register and obtain an identity card.
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  • 130 4 WARNING ON PLANT PLAGUE MALAYA would be one of the worst countries to suffer In South-East Asia if a plague of plant diseases were to spread here, said an American plant and soil expert, Dr. R. D. Rands, who is in Singapore after attending a phyto-sanitary conference. He said that
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  • 88 4 THE decontrol of rice In Malaya, as advocated by certain commercial bodies recently, was described by a Federal Legislative Councillor, Mr. S. O. K. Übaldulla, as "Inopportune and inadvisable." Mr. Übaidulla, who is also President of the N.S. Indian Chamber of Commerce said that while he
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  • 114 4 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, FrL GAME rangers from Segamat and Kluang recently bagged two large man-eating tigers on Sungel Papan Estate, In the Kota Tinggi District. After a complaint from thcestate management last month, members of the Johore Game Department killed an old man-eater
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  • 345 5 Singapore Aids Poor Parents By Our Woman Correspondent f ÜBERCULAR school children, whose parents cannot afford to give them any nourishing foods, are being given free rations of eggs, milk, vitamised margarine, vegetables and fruit under a new health scheme introduced by the Government on the
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  • 102 5 THERE were 25 deaths from I tuberculosis in the Singapore Municipal area during the week ending April 23, compared with 33 in the previous week. The number of fresh cases of tuberculosis reported during the last week was 44, compared with 98 in the previous
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  • 97 5 MR. Pat Johnson yesterday referred to a recommendation before the Singapore Municipal Commissioners deciding to give $50 to the secretariat typist, Mr. Cheah TLve Bee, for his spare time wcrk in typing minutes for the Salaries Revision Committee, as "niggardly." He thought $100 or $150 should at
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  • 98 5 THE Singapore Headmasters' Conference is examining details of a scheme for standardising the method of accepting enrolments for 1951, and until a satisfactory decision has been reached, schools will be asked not to open admission lists for that year. Hitherto, fixed dates for enrolment of
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  • 265 5 Governor Opens T.B. Clinic npHE Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, in a speech after he had declared open A the Singapore Rotary Club anti-tuberculosis clinic at Tan Tock Seng Hospital yesterday, announced that there was a possibility of BCG immunisation being undertaken in Singapore. This was
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  • 166 5 rE gift of UJB. $20,000 to SL Andrew's Mission Hospital, Singapore from the Church World Service Incorporated of America was referred to yesterday by the Yen. Archdeacon Maxwell Gregory addressing the annual meeting of the Mission Hospital. One half of the money Is to be spent In
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  • 566 5 Disorderly When Armed— s3so Fine From Our Staff Correspondent JOHOKE BAHKU, Friday. /^AKL Atherton Hunter, manager of Tai Tak y Estate, was in the Kota Tingg i Police Court today fined $350, In default four months' Imprisonment, for being disorderly when carrying arms. The caw arose titan an argument between
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  • 294 5 LOWER prices early lc the week attracted New York buyers who took a certain amount from this market. This, says Lewis A Peafs rubber market review, resulted In a temporary Improvement. Demand, however, slackened away again and a sagging tendency has again developed. Production for March
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  • 157 5 TODAY Teh and Ng combined picnic to Bedok, transport leaves Coleman Street at 8 a.m. arrd Recreation Road at 1. 35 a.m. Singapore Chess Club Championship, fourth round, YMCA, Orchard Road, 3 p.m. Outram Church Youth Fellowship, English folk dancing and community singing, 43Outram Road, 7.30 p.m. Clerical
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  • 15 6 MY GRATEFUL thanks to Rev. Sister Alphonsa (future Satnt of India), for favours granted.
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  • 685 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Sat., April 30, 1949. BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA Partly it was by yielding to the Opposition's demand for a debate on relations with China that Mr. Attlee found safe passage through the Parliamentary storm raised by the Amethyst incident. This debate, it was announced yesterday, will
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  • 16 6 Federation Studies 31 Photograph by C. A. Gibson-HiU THE MOUTH OF THE DINDINGS RIVER, SOUTH PERAK
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  • 1752 6  -  TUAN DJEK By OUNDAY, April 24.— We have had normal South Johore weather this last week, and the rubber crop has suffered accordingly. When It is possible to tap we get a better yield than we did a few weeks ago. Last Wednesday we had the first
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  • 339 6 ATOM MINERS AT WORK TNTO the headquarters lof the Mineral Resources Bureau at the Imperial Institute, Kensington, London, a queer assortment of "valuable" rocks is delivered almost dally from prospectors and miners in the colonies. Some samples are wrapped in old shirts or worn car tyres whatever was available at
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  • 139 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KI'ALA LUMPUR, Fri. AN emergency survey of the unmapped third of Malaya is being carried out by the Federation Survey Department, said the SurveyorGeneral, Mr. P. H. Bonnet, today. He is leaving Malaya on retirement next month after serving in the department
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  • 41 7 FOONG Yoke Cheong, a former Kuala Lumpur detective, appeared in the First District Court yesterday on a charge of having made a false declaration before a police magistrate. Foong was ordered to be remanded until today for further inquiries.
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  • 1082 7 Ex-Magistrate Tells Of Events In Night Club LKhiihKHh iiernard ueniers, iormer uoion; magistrate, was in the witness stand fo three hours yesterday when he made his defene in the case in which he stood charged witl having caused the wrongful arrest and prosecu tion of
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    68 7 MA. TAN KAH KEE, Singapore Chinese leader, seen second from left, was the guest of honour at a farewell dinner party riven by the Hokkien Hoay Kuan and Ec Hoe Hean Club on Thursday night. In the group are, left to right: Mr. Lee Chin Tian, Mr. Tan, Mr. Lee
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  • 241 7 Sayt Rajah WHERE a person delibe- rately flouted the law by opening unauthorised coffee shops, the Singapore Municipal Commissioners were powerless to do anything until the offender was brought to court, said Mr. A. P. Rajah (Prog.) at yesterday's meeting of the Commissioners. It might
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  • 25 7 Mr. A. E. O. Blades, Superintendent of Police, Singapore, has been appointed Assistant Commissioner of Police In place of Mr. N. O. Morris.
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  • 319 7 4 GOVERNMENT clerk, at a meeting yesterday called by the Government Clerical Services Union to protest against the wage recommendations of the Cowgill Report, suggested a protest march of members of the service from Empress Place to Government House to place their case before the
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  • 251 7 rpHE right of the Singapore Municipal Cominis1 sioners' Establishment Board to satisfy itself whether an employee should be reinstated when released by the Police after detention under the Emergency Regulations, was questioned Dy Mr. Pat Johnson at yesterday's meeting. He was referring to a minute
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  • 40 7 Mr. A. A. Ewlng, general manager of the Singapore Traction Company, was entertained to a dinner last night before his departure or long leave. The dinner was given by Mr. Sean Pen? Chuan, comprodore of the S.T.C.
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  • 103 7 $10.000— Dead Or Alive From Our Staff Correspondent SEGAMAT, Fri. A POLICE reward of $10,000 is out for the capture, dead or alive, of 28-year-old ex-school teacher Lim Yu Swee, alias Lee Wei alias Slow Yit, a Hainanese, believed to be the political officer of the bandit organisation of North
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  • 335 7 POLICE, TROOPS HOLD 26 THERE were 26 arrests in the Federation during the last 24 hours ending yesterday afternoon 12 in Perak, two in Kedah and Perils, three in Selangor, eight in Malacca and one in Penang. In the Kampar area of Perak. one Chinese was .shot dead by Police
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  • 18 7 Mr. D. H. Tudor, of Singapore, has been promoted to )e Senior Treasury Accounant. Federation of Malaya.
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  • 191 7 rE Establishment Board of the Singapore Municipal Commissioners without Mr. A. P. Rajah (Prog.) would be like Shakespeare's Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark, said Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, speaking at the Commissioners meeting yesterday. He was urging Mr. Rajah to reconsider his decision to resign
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  • 348 7 Battle For Longer Term T*HE Progressive Party won the first round of the battle to lengthen the term of an elected Municipal Commissioner by one year, after a debate in the new Commission yesterday. Opposition to the Progressives came from Labour, Independent and Nominated members
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  • 170 7 SALESMAN ON $10,953 CHARGE TAN TENG MOH, 42, pleaded guilty in the First District Court, Singapore, yesterday to having misappropriated $10,953 belonging to the Federal Dispensary. Tan was employed as ft salesman and the money represented advance payments made to him by customers on orders for cosmetics. Tan told the
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  • 24 7 Singapore Buddhists hope to persuade the Government to declare the Buddhist feast of Wesak a public holiday as in the Federation.
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  • 1458 8 U.P.A.M. President's Review Appeal For War Claims Tax Cut From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. THE tide was turning against the bandits and the security forces had undoubtedly regained the initiative in the campaign against lawlessness, said Sir Sydney Palmer, reviewing the situation in his
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  • 681 8 REFERRING to the labour situation, Sir Sydney Palmer said that during the first three months of last year there were 81 strikes on estates, but since the emergency started and many of the so-called trade union officials disappeared to join the ranks of the terrorists, labour
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  • 496 8 SMALLER OUTPUT EXPECTED HEALING with rubbe* v output in 1948, Si* Sydney Palmer said thai It was the highest eve* produced in Malaya. Per> sonally he expected to see a small decrease in the output for the current year, as up to date flush yields had been obtained following the
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  • 252 8 Tea, Coconut Oil Palms INCREASED outputs by the oil palm, coconut and tea Industries were referred to by Sir Sydney during the course of his speech. Oil Pates: Exports had igaln risen and totalled 47.943 cor* for the year against 43.334 tons 1* 1947. The total acreage in production at
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    • 144 8 53 MORE AMERICAN RECORDS CQpturßO by 11,850 miles in 7 days.' The new British-built AUSTIN A. 90, a drop-head coupe, set 53 new distance and speed records at the world-famous Indianapolis (U.S.A.) "track last week. This AUSTIN A. 90, over a period of 7 days, covered 11,850 miles at an
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  • Straits Times SATURDAY FORUM
    • 276 9 POLITICS 'AND THE NEW PAY A NOTED thinker has said that the British have a peculiar knack of creating problems and then trying to solve them. The general discontent now prevailing among Government servants over the salary question is one such problem. rhc whole allair was viewed by the Government
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    • 716 9 JUST how much longer has the racket of "amahs" to be tolerated in this country? One would think that after 3$ years of civilized Government and reasonably normal conditions of this country, most of the false lvalues and crazy impulses blamed upon the 'occupation might
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    • 208 9 IT in gratifying: to read that a Butterworth Magistrate 1 recently fined a trishaw rider for "loitering for hire," but surely the most pressing problem of this nature is that of taxis, touting for hire, in Raffle* Place In particular. I have never read of any such prosecution
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    • 75 9 AS the Americans are such excellent showmen, could they not pro-, duce a better programme! than the present "America Takes The Air" which is broadcast over Radio Malaya? The Idea of an American half hour on the radio Is pleasant, but in its present form I
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    • 383 9 IT woujd be extremely interesting to know i Just how the members of Singapore's Legislative Council have reacted to your leader "PROBLEMS OF COMMERCE." If past «xp«rience ii anything to go on. their reaction will be completely negative. There are other kinds of problems, too, on which they might
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    • 150 9 X 4 T the Legislative Council meeting on March IT.. V >S t\ Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir asked:— [> 1. For whom were the flats at Tiong Bahru built? >> 2. How many of the "slum dwellers" are now V >> occupying the Tiong Bahru
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    • 208 9 IT must surprise the average newcomer lo Malaya to see the large number of educated people who go to Churches with their heads uncovered, in other words without hats or veils. The excuse offered is, sanctuary witn her head vn perhaps, "Well, other Eastern races go
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    • 68 9 DECENTLY, on the instiga- tlon of Its President, the Indian Association altered its constitution to make it a representative political, social and sports organisation. Now there is a cry for a new political body for Indians Why"* All Indians in Singapore should work to make the Association which
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    • 259 9 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD tmm.'SS, M ST CROSSWORD No 127 end »7). 25. Read (bout disturbed fj^ j 4 s§| 5 8 t- Red bags (anag > <7>. Uland. fully understood 9 r^JSiwi a teas-cwa in hale i Ulnem I cbj. to be! (6) 3^ '0 10 Department ot Western 2f.
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  • 344 10 LONDON, Fit A LTHOUOH trading was A down to the bare minimum in the London Stock Exchange yesterday, prices generally remained stead;/, says Reuters financial correspondent. Among Home Issues, Cable A Wireless Ordinary stock was ac active market. At around SSI the prise showed a gain of several
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  • 131 10 Fran A Market Correspondent T l'l'l'Lat busir.esa was written In the Singapore product; market* yesterday. Conditions in most sections continued quiet. There were, however, a number of price changea. Yesterday's prices were Rice: No L $39; 2. $37; 8. $35- 4. $30; 5. $29; glutinous $24. Coffee:
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  • 765 10 From Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Friday. I ONDON continued to look for bargains in the Malayan share market today, with some improvement in bids. Locally, little interest was evinced. The market was dull but steady. Prices quoted bjr M* Mala- yan Sharebrokers' Association were: INDUSTRIALS
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  • 189 10 WITH New York easier yesterday morning, the Singapore rubber market opened lower with sellers disinclined to meet the market. The latter was very quiet throughout the day. Closlrrg prices yesterday were: No. 1 sheet f.o.b. buyers 3b% cents, sellers 35 'a cents; spot loose buyers 35 Vi cens.
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  • 23 10 Apr. 27. Apr. 28. Industrials J74.56 173.89 Rails 47.61 47.27 Domestic Bonds 98.47 98.40 Utilities 33.42 39.31 Strait* Times Service.
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  • 121 10 SHIPS in port alongside Urn Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns In brackets) were: Main Wharf: SunuyvlUe (33-34), Heel£um (36), Beniedl (38-39), Tarakan (42-43). West Wharf: Planclus (1-2), Bldor (3), Kampar (10), Orestes (10-11), Mongola (15-16). Empire Dock: Islander (21-22), Marudu (23), Kvernaas (25-26). Longview Victory (27-38),
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  • 62 10 COUTKERN :%:4layan Tin Dred- ing in me t "ter to. Mar' 3l, 1949, produced 7,397 pi -uls of tinore. Five dredge* are v< .king. No. 3 dredge started trial -uns on Mar. I and is ng ?atiafactorily. 1 fj Tyt ALA7 I rireiging proIT± duce^ li piculß of
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  • 23 10 "THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association announces that the control direct rate for the French franc \s new 13.813 (selling. T.T./0.D., rjady).
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    • 279 10 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS TO NEW VOPK ANO BOSTON VIA CIYLON. INDIA ECYPI ANO MEDITERRANEAN PORTS S'oofe P Sham renanaj Pro. Hardmg Apr 30/ May 2 May i/4 A*** ,J.i\ Pr« Van Bur.n May 11/1$ May 16/17 May 11/21 Pre, l.fterton May 2J/28 M "^?a MM Y ''iTTiy ItartM Snapper Jena
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    • 327 10 EAST ASIATIC LIKE MfiHlSi r >OM > t ANU,r,»y,A U«y fAIL N gANO.NAV.A NINT/ CONTININI L<Mdir« at Singapore. Port bweitanham m "Korea d« abt May IS S Penang ror Bangkoa.. Manila. H'Kong. ShanihalKobe 6 Yoko- mm. "Meoaia" Codowns 12/11 hame <?» Colombo Aden. Port Said. Genoa Antwerp. Rotterdam. s> Sorampor.
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  • 331 11 Deficit Will Be Wiped Out— Lim From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Thurs. ALTHOUGH the Malayar Agent in London, Mr. W A. Ward, has been authorised by the Singapore Governmcnl to puy the return passages oi the Malayan Thomas Cup team and Its manager, I urn assured that there was no
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  • 104 11 T»HE Customs beat the Naval I Stores four-one in a Junior L ague soccer fixture played at Geylang stadium yesterday Customs' left-inside Mahirood opemd accounts after ten minutes of play. Five minutes lat>r Ibrahim scored the second, and got the third, too. with a powerful drive
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  • 61 11 lIOTSKURS beat R.A.F. iSem- t II bawang) by three goals to 1 on" in a friendly football match 1 pay d at Victoria School ground yesterday. The winners led by two goals to l one at the Interval. G. Philip l Layman and Aziz scored for the winners
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  • 368 11  -  Tommy Lawton By nn I K« nds fa o us match- winning centre-forward, Secret 'o^VcSo? JO PUyers deals h c^iiiZTi 'AtZToS fi£ mediocre results Of the many ways of bringing a ball under control the most popular and widely used is the trap underfoot. To
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  • 77 11 •THE 35th annual sports of the Anglo-Chinrse School will be d °n Saturday. May 4, at the Jalan B<*ar Stadium, beginning at '.jo p.m. mn" 16 cv i n V or Old Boys wUi be 100 yards handicap, 220 yards handicap and the Inter-OBA 440 yards relay
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  • 239 11 From Our Staff Correspondent CFiAvrnß-c KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. gELANGOR'S match against Pahanr here at tom h orr o 1 ff coul cl once have been regarded as an Though they beat the Ser- vices four-one last week, Selangor did not demonstrate that all round excellence
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    56 11 HORSES and riders put everything they have into the thrilling finish of the Ruth Wood three-year-old Stakes at Kempton Park. Fighting it out are: Mr. E. Cooper Band's Squall (right), the winner, ridden by W. Rickaby, Lord Derby's Arousal (centre), second, with D. Smith up, and the Statellite (left), third,
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  • 242 11 R.A.F. (Changi) 3; S.C.C 2. O A.F. (Changi) beat Singapore Cricket Club by AK three goals to two in a first division S.A.F.A. league soccer match at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. SCC made determined attempts from the kick off, and were all over their
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  • 252 11  - 'Malayans Can Teach Danes More AAGE GRAUBALLE By COPENHAGEN. Fri. rjANISH badminton players j Lfcan learn more from the Malayans than from America's Dave Freeman, said the newspaper Berlingske Afte- navis, commenting on the J recent international badrrrin1 ton tournament In Copenha- gen. "Freeman and the Malayans demonstrated that the
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  • 69 11 MRS B. I. Brooks won the April L. G. U. Competition at the Island Club on Apr. 17 with a score of 106— 36-^7O. Next best result was Miss Christina Lee 107— April' MedaJ: The stroke competition played on Thursday was won by Mrs. Hea'.y with a
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  • 54 11 THE Khalsa Association encket team to meet G.H.Q. Tanglln at Tanglinr tomorrow wii: beSulakhan Singh (Capt.) MB Singh, Mahinder Singh. Goirdial Singh, seva Singh, Bahvant l. nB X' OB"O B S Soin Thanam Singh, S. Nair. M. S. Gill Gosain. Reserves: Darshan Singh. MaKkhar? Singh. Scorer, Bhagwant
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  • 57 11 THE following will represent the ,s, s cc A against the NonBenders at cricket on the S C C padang today: A Baker (capt), Rev. Browne, A. W. Hayes, S/Ldr. Winton, N. Bradbury, J. Mills. K. Gou'd C E. Mustard. K. I. Q. Stewart' G Darke, J.
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  • 36 11 All old boys of St. Patricks School interested in football are asked to attend a meeting at St. Patrick's tomorrow at 10 %.m to discuss the formation of an un Boys' XI.
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    • 177 11 PAY DAY RACE DAY A DAY OF THRILLS! fOUR SUPREME THRILL, OF COURSE, IS AT THE ■Wi mm j! 7T^ TO-DAY 11a.m. 1.45, 4. 6.30 6 9.30 COLUMBIA'S MASTERPIECE with SABU, GAIL RUSSELL TURHAN BEY i- v*- v I THRILLS PILED UPON THRILLS IN A MAGNIFICENT CRESCENDO OF BRILLIANT MUSIC
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    • 251 11 SINGAPORE ijramiiiet on 296 49 metre band). 9.45 English; 1000 Radio News 4.00 Chinese Programme (on 296 Reel; 10.15 "Light Music 10 3d 1.00 Programme Summary; i.oz 49 metre bflnd): 5.00 Malay* The Man from Hatton Garden Dance Music; 1.30 News (also V CuD Scceer; 6.15 Dance Music: 10.45 'Rhythm
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  • 1459 12  -  EPSOM JEEP By OPPOSITION Improved Ra-Li To Win Sprint NATURAL, hero of two Cup races this season, is in such brilliant form at th e moment that I fancy he will outpace Princess Guinevere and th e rest in the seven-furlong handicap for top class horses at
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  • 160 12 EPSOM JEEP TALL BY POINTER^ K\(l 1 DIRBAR < RISPIAN DURBAR li -Irmail Durbar Diamond Eple Diamond X.pic Prince Colin Airmail KUK I AMUSEMENT H \RIMAN HARIMAN I 4!S trivantace Amnxnnent Advantage Krntacky Derby l.lbrrtv lAXmttf RA<r 3 EMNM ROSK PHARMINDA EMPIRE ROSK J 15 Bro»n*h»y Empire
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  • 913 12 BELOW is the card ol events for to-day's races at Bukit Timah. The double tote will be drawn on races five and eight and the big sweep on race eight. Race 1: 2.15— C1. 1, Div. 3—6 Furs. 5 Yds. 340 Diamond Epic lav.ler 812 -Shaw Stable'
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  • 347 12 B> A Special Correspondent LONDON, Fri. BRITISH tocccr'i top showman, lanky Frank Swift. England and Manchester City ftoalkreper has quit the <{ame to devote all his tim; to being manager of a catering firm. Bwtft moves out while he is tffll lu»t about the best goalkeeper
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  • 149 12 TODAY RACING: Ist Day. S.T.C. Mtng.— Bukit Tlinali 2.15 p.m. LEAGUE SOCCER: Jnr. A. Grp 8, R.A.S.C v.Kotj Raja— Gey long. CRICKET: S.C.C "A" t. Non-Benders— B C.C.; S.C.R.C. t R.A.F Ch»nji— S.C.R.C; I.A. t. V.M.C.A Khalsm urnd.; St. Andrew* School v. SJ.I. S.J.I. frnd.; Raffles Inst. v.
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  • 147 12 ROME. Fri. rpHE International Olympic X Committee yesterday awarded the 1956 Summer Olympic games to Melbourne. Australia, moving the Olympics to the southern hemisphere for the first time in history. So overwhelming was the sentiment for small nations and the southern hemisphere exhibited by the 30-natlpn
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  • 147 12 LONDON, Fri. SPARKLING, aggressive batting by left-hander W. E. Jones was the feature of yesterday's cricket in Cardiff, where Glamorgan, the County champions, drew their twoday game against an England XI He and Alan Watkins put on 107 for the fourth wicke* in 80 minutes and
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  • 98 12 NEWMARKET, Fri,— Lone challenger from the North country. Mr. N. P. Donaldson's Musidora won the 1,000 Guineas classic for three-year-old flllie-\ run over on" mile today. Musidora, ridden by Australian Edgar Britt, beat D. H. Wills' Unknown Quantity by one and a half lengths. Peter Beatty's
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  • 52 12 THE Police beat Poitali and Telecomms by Uiree goals to one in a Junior A. Group 2. league soccer match played at the Police Depot yesterday. Police scorers were Kirn Scang (2) through a free-kick and a penalty and Oopsl SharifT opened the score for Postals with a
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  • 59 12 LONDON. Fri. WOLVERHAMPTON Wanderers and Leicester City have chosen their teams for tomorrow's Football Association Cup final at Wembley as follows: Wolverhampton Wande•ers: Williams; Pritchard, i Spring thrope; W. Crook, Shorthouse. Wright; Han- cocks, Smythe, Pye, Dunn, I Mullen. Leicester City: Bradley; Jelly. Scott; W. Harrison,
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  • 534 12 Army Navy Will Be Hard To Beat THE combined Army-Royal Navy team to meet Singapore in Sunday's Malaya Cup match ut Jalan Besar was announced yesterday evening after a Probables v. Possibles match at Nee Soon Ground. The selectors reached their decision after seeing 23 players show their paces. The
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  • 68 12 SIONG 800 AA. beat I tin V.M.C.A. by four games lo oir in a fiiendly billiards mati-li at the Siong 800 on Tuesday. Results (Siong 800 mentioned first) were: K. L. Voon lost to <J llf:W Chuan Seng: Cliua Boon Lay beat Ec Thlan Han;
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