The Straits Times, 9 March 1950

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 SIXTEEN PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, MARCH 1950 it PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • 1068 1 5 Dead, 12 Wounded When Gang Shoots Into Cinema From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. QHAN Sam Yin, 30-year-old deputy commander of the Bth battalion of the Malayan Peoples' Anti-British Army, in north Selangor, on whose head there was a $20,000 reward, was
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  • 47 1 (HAN s\M YIN. drpun '••mmander of the Sth hal.ilion at thp Mala>an feiiple's Anti-British Army, who wa.s killed by a auxi-l->rv policeman's bullet as h- lied after shooting into a f-nted cinema at Kepon?. r ir Ku.ila Lumpur, on Tuesday night
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  • 207 1 PARIS, Wednesday. I'HE French Governments Anti-Sabotage bill, designed to protect FreTicn u and imported American war material from Communist sabotage, was passed by the Assembly today by 393 votes to 186 after a stormy passage me uovernment naa made the bill an issue of confidence when a
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  • 82 1 I.AGOS Wed. NIGERIA'S Supr-:i> Court has sentenced the 24i!d general .secretary of Sikul Home Rule) "lent. Mukwugo Oknye. t i 33 months' ga for being ion d! publication! h 'd to be seditious. Oknye handed the judjje a I political statement when use was heard
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  • 25 1 TOKYO Wed. The Jap- l I1I 1 <" Antarctic whaling fleet i t> --'urninu with 1 S4l whales. the biggest catch "vor— Reu- ter
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  • 258 1 LONDON, Wednesday. DRITAIN'S jet fighter strength will be doubled, faster new types introduced and her first jet bomber brought into service in a build-up of air defences in the coming year. iri's was announced by the Air Minister. Mr. Arthur Henderson, today in a memorandum explaining
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  • 63 1 LONDON. Wed. Mr. Patrick Gordon Walker, i Commonwealth Relations Minister. announced in Parliament today that the Government had banned Seretse Khama. who married a white girl, as chief of the* Bamangwato tribe in Bechuanaland in Africa. He said recognition of Seretse as chief would j endanger the unity
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  • 54 1 Jap War Criminals Go Home TOKYO Wed. rORTY Japanese war cri- mlnals who have completed their prison sentences arrived In Kobe today by the 8,000-ton British ship Sirdhana. They were imprisoned in Singapore, Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Formosa and Hongkong. The repatriates include former Commander of the Imperial Navy 10th Fleet,
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  • 34 1 ROME Wed.— Walter Kurt 10-year-old Vienna-bom British subject who was a representative of a British firm vas found dead in his flat in Rome last night. His wrists iad been slashed— A.P.
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  • 73 1 SAIGON Wed. WHE U.S. Economic Misx sion for South-East Asia is scheduled to arrive in Singapore on A'arch 16. Headed by Mr. Alan Griffin, a Californian newspaper publisher, the Mission will go to Singapore direct from Saigon. Thereafter the Mission ivill visit Bangkok,
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  • 125 1 LAKE SUCCESS, Wed THE Executive Board of the UN International Children's Emergency Fund pester day approved projects designed to Improve child haalih and nutrition in Malaya and other Asian countries through expansion of feeding programmea and the estahll«h- I It also approved project* I for
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  • 150 1 GERMAN PLANTS BLASTED Watenstedt-Salzgitter. (British Zone) Wed. A DEMOLITION squad today carried out further I blasting In the coke-produc-j ing plant of the former Hermann Goering iron and steel works, while groups of wurkers watched in silence. Earlier, the workers, who yesterday and on Monday demonstrated and obstructed dismantling in
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  • 16 1 Full Singapore results of the Cambridge Examinations will be found In Page SIX.
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  • 193 1 JAKARTA, Wednesday. I)KESIDENT Soekarno today signed an emergency 1 law which will allow the 16 states of the United States of Indonesia to amalgamate into fewer but I larger states. Dr. Mohamed Hatta's cabinet originally put the Bill before Parliament, but then withdrew it and announced
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  • 1175 1 'TURK 9 GAOLED FOR ILLEGAL STORE ENTRY fURKO WESTERLING pleaded guilty in the Singapore District Court before Mr. H. E. Kingdom yesterday to a charge of illegal entry into the Colony, and was sentenced to a month's simple imprisonment. He also pleaded guilty, and apologized for his conduct, to a
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  • 107 1 RANGOON. V. THE rope-trussed body i j Father Jules Penin. 4;>lyear old Burma Catholic missionary in the delta centre of Bas.sein. ha.s been recovered from a shu > creek. He had gunshot wounds In i his face and one leg and i knife slash
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  • 22 1 ADDIS ABABA Wed India's first Minister to Abyssinia Sardar Sant Singh today presented his credent iaij to Emperor Haile SelassieRenter.
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  • 16 1 TOKYO. Wed. -Six Japanese committed suicide wiru Japan's police Americanissued revolvers in February. —Reuter.
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  • 119 2 Ha wa ii 's Statehood Bill One Stage Further WASHINGTON, Wed. THE House of Representatives with only a few dissentients yesterday passed a Bill to make Hawaii, the 50th state of the United States. The 49th would be Alaska, for which the House passed a Bill last Friday. Both Bills
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  • 121 2 MANILA, Wed. pp T !ILIP^ er vience" to the United States in its foreign polirv instead of adherence to the United Nations, was attacked in the Philippine Congress as the date for ref<ewal of the five-year Philip-pines-United States mutual defence pact nears. The pact does not
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    26 2 KING PHUMIPHON ADULDET, King of Slam, with his fiancee, Princess Sirikit Kitiynkara. leaving Lausanne, Switzerland, for Slam, where they are to marry.— A.P. picture.
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  • 306 2 MANILA, Wednesday. ANOTHER Manila judge has turned moralist. Before fining Leonardo Serrano $100 for peddling pornographic articles Judge A. 1 Panlilio ruled that pictures of naked women purposely hidden in key chains are repugnant and offensive to morals. He averred that magazine pictures portraying nude wo-
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  • 208 2 RUTH WILL NOT LEAVE TRIBE IN AFRICA SEROWE, Wed. RUTH Kliama, vvintc "Queen" of the African Bamangwato tribe, says she will not leave Bev-n-uanaland because she believes that her husband Seretse will not be allowed to return from London. In London where he went for consultations with the Government on
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  • 46 2 HUNG KONG, Wed. The Philippine Consulate lure yesterday suspended all vi.- is for Chinese Nationalists \>. hing to visit the Philippine islands. Mi Jose Rodriguez, Con-sul-General in Hong Kon% took this action following allegations that the Consulate had been issuing unauthorised permits. Reuter
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  • 60 2 PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday. DAILY newspaper circulat on in the United States has reached an all-time hig.i of 52,271,000. Since the average copy of an American newspaper is read by more than one person, the figures indicate that more than two people out of every three in the
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    • 747 2 NOTICES NOTICE Notice Is hereby given that Goel Kirn Uan of No. 9, Buckley Road. Singapore, is applying to the Governor for naturalisation, and that any person who knows any reason why naturalisation should not be granted should send a written signed statement of the facts to the Colonial Secretary,
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    • 346 2 NOTICE Applications are invited to fill vacancies in the scheme for Eleotrical Chargemen (Monthly Paid) The salary scale is $140xA10-5220 per month plus current cost of living allowance. 2. Candidates must possess English educational qualifications not lower than Standard VI together with sufficient knowledge and experience to be capable of
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  • 413 3 Government Will Meet Challenge By Churchill LONDON, Wednesday. J 1 HL tiny Liberal bloc of nine seats indicated yesterday that it will support the Labour dovernment in the first test vofe of the new Parliament on the nationalisation of iron and steel. The Conservative
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  • 94 3 TAIPEI, Wednesday. V ATIONAI.IST China was heartened today by two victories— repulse of a small-scale invasion utii-mpt trains! Hainan Island and recapture of Kanfttng, capital of the far western province of Sikang. Loyal troops on Hainan beat iown an attempt on Monday jy 900 mainland Communists
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  • 138 3 LONDON, Wed DX, TAINS new War aflnlv iier. Mr John Strachey ■aid yesterday he was much p'fonraged Ov the adaptabi' i:>. keenness and military ca- \> i f revealed by young solespecially national serI en both in Hong Kong Malaya, in raining ar,a Talior.
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  • 30 3 CHAMBER CUT ERRA. Wed The Han Prim-. Minister RooiTt Menxiei bu ■-lied the Government 1 men< „f Information Mt up a News and initlon Bureau "to ellect tin economies R^uter-
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  • 48 3 NEW YORK. Wed. Val- enlin Gubitchev, Soviet en-gin-er and ex-United States Government employee. Judith 1 Copion, ■acre round guilty yesterday of conspiracy and attempted espionage. A Federal court iury ruled that they had met secretiy in New York and plotted to spy for Russia.— A.P.
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  • 28 3 LONDON. Wed. George ;Formby. the comedian, has been admitted to hospital with suspected appendicitis. He collapsed while appearing at a Leeds theatre last month— Renter.
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  • 113 3 Malayan Problem 'Intolerable' LONDON, Wed. nURING the debate in the v House of Lords yesterday on the Kings speech outlining the Government's legislative programme. Lord Mancrott. Conservative, hoped the Government would bend all effoits to solve the intolerable problem in Malaya, which had dragged on for ;hree weary, bloody and
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  • 91 3 Give Self-Govt. In Colonies' LONDON, Wed. }IR Fenner Brockicay. La- J bour member of Parliament, last night urged the Government to make the West Indies, the Gold Coast and Nigeria self-gov-erning areas within the Bri- i tish Empire. Granting political tree- dom to India, Pakistan and Ceylon was the 'greatest
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  • 145 3 nuunm* v LONDON, Wednesday. PnJ^ Vl lc j' nt Aurio °f France, state guest "1 M. Auriol was replying to an address by the Lord Mayo? hi" A glVen in his honour .DJ the Corporation of LonPresldent Auriol conferred With memoers of the diplomatic corps
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  • 55 3 TOKYO. Wed. Japanese gangsters who collected "protection money" from Tokyo's main shopping street, the Glnza kept a private '"police' force with thejr own criminal investigation department. legal department, and 200 1 "sergeants' 1 and "constables." Tokyo police today arrested IS of the leaders, who called" their
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    40 3 DORIS DUKE American tobacco heiress and reputed "richest girl in the world" seen watching her ex-husband. Porflrio Kubirosa, playing polo for Argentina. She says they are just good friends. The couple are frequently seen together. She denies romance.
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  • 115 3 UK MAY LEND BURMA £500,000 FOR RICE LONDON. Wed DRITAIN, India, Pakistan and Ceylon are considering an advance of funds to Burma to finance rice purchases, supplementary estimates of British Government expenditure for the financial year 1949-50 announced today. Britain's share of this loan would be £500,000 bearing interest at
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  • 219 3 EUROPEAN BRITISH TO GET AID A WJNDON, Wed I SSISTANCE Tor European T ri l! s^ subjects leaving India, Pakistan and Ceylon and premature retirement concessions of officers of the civil services of the fcrmc-r j Central and Provincial gov- ernments of India are includled m British Government supplementary estimates
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  • 77 3 *.r uu PARIS, Wednesday. JVJK. Robert Allen Griflin, head of the American Economic Mission now visiting Indo-China official th Mgh French and Vietnamese mTnl if 3 v der f roun d leaflets threatened punishSiUhe PVp'Sh 0 a d a general to drive d&
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  • 89 3 sh^ C^e EE d STER A NeW HHH Ha PathologTs^Dr-RfchaSyS ian ce d aca cr mg a 0|;0 Dr Herm v^iJISJ at hls murder trial ffon of-n"" Said that the ln *c have Ll?^i\ Ofaircould n°r Abbio Borr'oto 15 PaUent Mrs kSinr S fh nder to
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  • 25 3 ROME. Wed. The French and Italian Governments tonight signed accords taking the first concrete steps towards economic integration of the two countries. Reuter.
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    41 3 WENDY RUSSELL, New York model wears these seam-in-the-front stockings shown at Gotham's Spring and Summer fashion show in New York. The cobwebby nylons have a delicate black line bisecting the full length from top to toe. A.P. picture.
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  • 225 3 SOUTH-EAST ASIA PROBLEM LONDON. Wednesday. HPHE whole subject of the cold war in Indo -China x and in other parts of South-Es.st Asia, including Malaya, is likely to be discussed at the highest level both in London and in Paris la a few days when
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  • 69 3 HONG KONG, Wed. OFFICIALS of General Claire C'hennault's Civil Air Transport last night requested their solicitors to tile an appeal against the Supreme Court's decision, which turned "I CNAC and CATA aircraft and assets in Hong Kong over to the Peking Government. General Chennault made it
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  • 384 3 Pakistan War Feared LONDON, Wed. YIR. Leonard Gammans, iTA one of the Conservative Party experts on Far Eastern affairs, asked in the House of Commons I last night if the Government had given up all hope of preventing war between Indip and Pakistan. "They cannot go much further before war
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  • 296 4 THE Senior Officers' Association of the Singapore Municipality has protested to the Municipal Commissioners on statements made at the recent debate on the proposed appointment of Mr. P. C. Lim, Assistant Water Engineer, to the lost of Deputy Water Engineer and has suggested that
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  • 146 4 MR. C. L. Edwards, Manager of the Hongkong and, Shanghai Banking CorporaMob in Malaya, has been elected chairman of the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association. Mr. Edwards occupied the position for the greater parti of last year before going on j leave. Other SAT A officials for this year
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    37 4 G.O.C. Malaya District, Ma jor-General Sir Charles and Lady Boucher photographe d in the train as they left Kuala Lumpur on Sunday n if ht for Singapore. They leave for England tomorrow.—Straitso w.— Straits Times picture.
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  • 207 4 AT Batu Pah at there is a Javanese who claims to be 150 years old and to possess a religious tract which he bought in Singapore in 1836 17 years after the establishment of British rule. This is stated by Inche Abu Bakar
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  • 70 4 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Wed.— A uniformed Chinese bandit, captured by a party of military and auxiliary police in the Buklt Serempanß area of Muar district was produced before the Muar Magistrate and charged yesterday. The Chinese. 25-year-old Wong. Pan. a Cantonese, was charged
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  • 79 4 From Oar Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— Only women were found to have forgotten identity cards when passengers in a bus from Pontian were checked at a road block yesterday I near Scudai. Four of the women were Indian labourers of Kulal Besar Estate. The other, a
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  • 32 4 SINGAPORE police were yesterday still making; an intensive search for the "shaggy-haired" young Chinese who yesterday threw a hand grenade into a Chinese newspaper office in Robinson Road.
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  • 249 4 THIRTY-TWO British seamen, stranded in Singapore, have approached the Master Attendant of Singapore several times for repatriation but were told he had no authority over the matter in view of certain Board of Trade regulations. iney are living m uic Marine Hostel at Anson
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  • 39 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed Lok Weng qheng and Kok Teng Kee, of Singapore, were fined $6 each in the police court today when convicted on a charge of gaming on the five-foot-way of a shop in Johore Bahru.
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  • 245 4 ASSISTED POLICEREDUCED SENTENCE From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. MR. Justice Taylor today .told a man in the j Kuala Lumpur Supreme Court that the offence Ij to which he had pleaded guilty was punishable with death, but since he had helped the police, he would be sentenced to
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  • 66 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. WATER meters in Johore Bahru are to be replaced as they have been found to be under-register-ing, resulting in loss of revenue These meters have been in use for the past eight or nine years and are now unserviceable.
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  • 93 4 THE first Philippine envoy to the United States of Indonesia. Dr. Emmanuel Oallego, arrived at Singapore yesterday on his way to Jakarta. He said that his Government was seeking i stronger cultural ties with the new Republic. "Preparations lor a SouthEast Asia union of countries are
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  • 404 5 TOURIST DRIVE SUGGESTED U.S.Consul On How Malaya Can Attract Visitors jyjALAYA and Singapore would earn more American dollars if a tourist bureau were organised to cater for the entertainment of Amcncan tourists, Mr. A. Bland Calder, American Consui in charge of economic affairs in Singapore, said in a broadcast last
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  • 214 5 PRISONERS IN PERAK HELPED From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wed. THE Prisoners' Aid Society of Perak last year interviewed 323 prisoners in gaols, found work for 32 of them and assisted 68 of their families. Many prisoners were assisted financially with small sums for their travelling expenses to return home
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  • 67 5 I n.ni Our staff Correspondent ALOR STAR, Wed. A former secretary to two Kedah Sultans, Tuan Mat Zain Ariffin. who died at his Nebong Kapal home durine the wek-end. was burled in the Alor Star Malay cemetery. He represented Kxlah in inter-state ru^by 25 years ago.
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  • 50 5 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Wed. Fuund with 70 ibs. of latex and 40 lbs of scrap rubber on Sungei Bekok Estate suspected to have been stolen, 17-year -.-.ld Leow Yong was fined SI S with the option of 10 d<«ys' 'nl by the Segamat Mayis-
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  • 178 5 WANTS TO BE ALONE -IN GAOL From Our Staff Correspondent SEGAMAT, Wed. A FORMER auxiliary policeman at Batu Anam, 22-year-old Wong See Piaw, was sentenced to two years' hard labour at Segamat for extorting $800 by putting a Chinese tapping contractor of Paya Lang Estate in fear of arrest. Wong
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  • 45 5 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING Wed. Taiping has remitted to the Malayan Chinese Association, Bitiawan, the following for the relief of victims of the Simpang Tlga outrage: Rubber Dealers' Association, $600; the Cantonese Association, $100; the M.C.A. Talplng branch. $660
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  • 31 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed The Selangor Indian Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual meeting on Sunday at 10.30 a.m. at its premises in Batu Road.
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  • 118 5 pORIRAIIb of Chinese, Indian, and Malay estate people painted by Madame Monique knecht wfeofa French planter on Labis Estate, Johore, will he on exhibition at John Little's Singapore! until Mar-'h 20. Madame Knecht came tc Malaya just over two years ago and this is
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  • 34 5 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR. Wed. A Malay driver, Omar bin Baba. who used a private car for hire at Paya Mas in Tangkak. was fined $40 by the Muar Magistrate.
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    48 5 THE PHILIPPINE Ambassador to the United States of Indonesia. Dr. Emmanuel Gallego, arrived in Singapore yesterday on his way to Jakarta Picture shows Capt. Hesslop, who represented the 0.A.G., Singapore, being introduced to Dr. Gallego by Mr. P. G. Peralta of the Public Relations Offices.— Straits Times picture
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  • 184 5 A FRKE-FOR-ALL in a Havelock Road coffee shop, following a Tamil ear-boring ceremony, led to the appearance yesterday in the Singapore Assize Court, charged with attempted murder, of an Indian namod Umani Vasudevan. Vasudevan was alleged to have stabbed two Tamils, K. Arumugam and
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  • 94 5 From Our Own Correspondent SEQAMAT, Wed. -The old photograph was tro old and dirty looking so I removed it and put In a new one,"' was the explanation given by 45-year-old Yong Tens in Segamat Circuit Court yesterday when charged with replacing the photograph on his
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  • 68 5 From Our staff Correspondent IPOH, Wed. ANOTHER lot of 1004)00 i\ tickets for the second M.C.A. public lottery has been received by the Perak branch of the M.C.A. They are being distributed to the various district branches throughout the State. An M.C.A. official said that already
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  • 89 5 SURREALIST paintings by Roy Morrell, Graham Hough and Carl Gibson-Hill, all three members of the staff of the University of Malaya, will be among 156 exhibits at the first annual exhibition of the Singapore Art Society from Mar. 12 to Mar 19. Sir Patrick McKerron
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  • 35 5 From Our staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Wed.— Three Tamils, Renggasamy, Karuppiah and Allagasu, were fined $10 each, in default five days' imprisonment, for gambling near the Lemon Street toddy shop at Seremban.
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  • 123 5 YMIVERNrtCNT maternity and child welfare linics ln North Borneo attended to more than 40,000 women and children last year. TheTe are centres at »ess»iton, Sandakan and Keningau, and sub-centres in eieht smaller towns. Besides providing transport and equipment, the Government of North Borneo
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  • 31 5 From Our Own Correspondent MUAtt, Wed. For obstructing the public road with bin goods, Ng Tong Kee was iinei •10 or five days' simple imprisonment by the Muar Magistrate.
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  • 64 5 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. ALLEGATIONS that he grossly undervalued a chant of Jalan Trus, today in the Magistrate's Court, when he was charged with being knowingly concerned in a fraudulent attempt at eva- that on Dec. 13 Ahmad Din came to him with a
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  • 196 5 $3 MILLION ROAD PLAN IN PAHANG From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. JJOAD builders in the Federation and Singapore are being offered the job of constructing the $3,240,000 road from Temerloh to Maran in Pahang. This road, when constructed, will help considerably in the development of the State on
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  • 100 5 YWCA Plans To Renovate Buildings "pHE Singapore Y.W.C.A, plans to renovate its buildings with money collected in a campaign which ran from Feb. 22 till yeeterday. Miss D. C. Greene, the secretary, said that of the target of $30,000, so far more thaa $9,000 had been received. "It seems a
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    35 6 MR. ROBERT FRIEDER, Director of Frieder Films, who arrived in Singapore yesterday on his way to Jakarta where he will join other film executives in a survey of the territory. Straits Times picture.
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  • 124 6 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. A MOVEMENT of the rural population into Johore Bahru during the occupation and later because of the Emergency has caused severe overcrowding in the town. Town official said today. Contributory factors, he said, were the destruction of houses
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  • 104 6 Representatives of the Ministry of Education, and J the Education Directorate in I the War Office are now visiting the Far East. Their tour, which wil cover Service establishments in Singapore, the Federation and Hongj Kong, will include visits to education centres and child- I i ren's
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    • 302 6 I 9628 Chua, D. (Poh Luan), I 9629 Kwik Poh Lian. II 9630 Lim Joo Quee, I 9631 Scow Kirn Chwee, II »632 Siong Siew Oon. II 9633 Tan, G. (Swee Choo), I 9634 T;:n Kirn Pal, 111 9635 Tan Jiak Chee. II 9636 Wong Yoke Lin.
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    • 98 6 111 9704 Chang Ging Sieng, I 9705 Chen Mong Hock, II 9706 Chen Pin Tie, II 9707 Chua, Mabel. I 9708 Ding Slew along. II 9709 Gen Slew Bee, I 9710 Ha Ken Yin, U 9711 Lee, Muriel, 111 9712 Lee. Grace Slat Moy. II 9755 Ng Chwee
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    • 216 6 n 9713 Leembruggen, Peggy, II 9714 Liau Gim Kee, II 9715 Liew Nyuk Fung, 111 9716 Urn Bek Neo. II 9717 Lim Han Neo, I 9719 Lim Oon Geok, II 9720 Lim Puay Lung, II 9721 Lim Quee Lim. I 9722 Lim Syn Neo, I 9723 Low
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    • 241 6 I 9T67 Chee Kirn Lian, 1 9768 Cheng Shao Pin. 11l 9769 Cheng i Wei Liang, II 9770 Cheong Keon? Hin II 9771 Chew Kirn Siew, I I 9772 Chia:i« Buay Tair, II 9775 Fong Kum Yee, U 9776 Gan Aileen. I 9777 Goh Eng Neo, II
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    • 75 6 n 9610 Boon. A.. II 9611 Vlossi. Bruna. II 9612 Chia. Ah Kirn. I 9613 Choy, Poh Sang. I 9615 Man. Puay Kok. II 9616 Ng. Tieh Oio. I 9617 Paul. Sarojini. 11l 9618 Quek Lucy. II 9620 Suppiah. Go\ind. II 9621 Tay Gek Neo. n 9622
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    • 683 6 11l 8044 Abdul Latiff bin Abdul Samat. 11l 8045 Abraham Jacob 111 8046 Ang Chiew Choon. II 8047 Ang Chin Soon. 11l 8050 Balwan Singh. II 8052 Chan Chun Wah. I 8053 Chan Xi Mun. II 8054 Chan Kok Keen. n 8055 Chan Kwai Peng. II 8056 Chan
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    • 269 6 111 8219 Abraham, Gnanasundram DanaraJ. ni 8220 Abraham Thomas. I 8222 Anthonisz, Matthew Wilfred. I 8225 Chan Kirn Yong. II 8227 Chang Wing Chee lIT 8229 Cheng Poh Phul. 11l 8231 Chia Chung Hwee. II 8232 Chia Meng Ann. II 8233 Chia Sin Bin. ni 8238 Chua
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    • 146 6 II 8307 Candiah. Siva Dasan. 11l 8310 Chan Wing Kee. 11l 8315 Chung Chong Sang. 11l 8316 De Silva. Ronald John. II 8320 Goh Kow Chai. in 8323 Hasnal bin Abdul Hadi 111 8328 Kwah Kheng Seong. 8330 Lee Chong Mun Arithmetic— Credit. II 8332 I*e Mul Kirn.
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    • 393 6 I 8481 Ang. A.. I 8485 Balder Raj. Sethi. I 8486 Bonn. Hup Kee. I 8488 Chan, H. II 8490 Chew Chin Nam. II 8491 Chew Kirn Boon, m 8493 Chia Cheng Poh. n 8494 Chia Thian Joo. 11l 8495 Chinag. Hln Choy. I 8497 Ch'ng. Beng Han.
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    • 152 6 II 8592 Aeria. 1.J.. HI 8594 Boey Huo Chuan, 111 8595 Boey Hou Foo, 111 8596 Chai M I 8597 Choo Eng Sun. II 8598 Chua A., II 8600 D'Almelda JR.. II 8601 Delilkan J.. n 8602 De Soura R.H.. I 8603 Foo Chee Chow. A., II
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    • 127 6 II 8631 Chee Ah Fatt. J. m 8632 Chee Soon Hee. L.. II 8633 Chelllah Tiruchittampalam. 11l 8634 Ching Koe Soon. G.. II 8635 Chua Eng Wah, S., I 8636 De Silva A A II 8637 Galistan. R.C.. I 8638 Gay Swee Beng. II 8639 Hvder, G.A..
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    • 160 6 II 8661 Aviet. I. 8663 Chan Hon Chee English Language —Pass.. II 8664 Cheam Toon Liang. I 8665 Chene Tong Fad II 8666 Chew Moh Koon. 11l 8667 De Cruz. A. 11l 8668 De Cruz J. II 8671 Fons, Septson. II 8672 Foo Seek Tong. in 8673
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    • 137 6 111 8696 Ang Chin Lee. II 8697 Chang Kwang Seh. I 8700 Cheong Seng Hock. 11l 8702 Chong Poh i Yew. 11l 8703 Chua Hoed Sens i 111 8704 Fernandez Michael. I 1 I 8705 Goh Cheng Piak, II 8706 Gunarsthnam Arumugam. II 8709 Lav Liat Cheovr II
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    • 660 6 8735 Ang Kali Huat (Eng. Lang. Pass), 1 Hist, of Brit. Emp. Credit i, 8736 Anwar Bey (.Eng. Lang. Pass, Hist. Brit. Emp. Credit. Shorthand Credit), 8737 Balakrishnan Gopalasamy Deenathayalu (Eng. Lang. Pass, Tamil Credit 1. 9738 Boey Hou Meng (Eng. Lang. Passi. 8740 Chan Peng Mun (Eng.
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    • 170 6 BLI ELL Enamels* Varnishea, I Coloui Dis> YA tempers, etc Primers P$ I Aluminium Paint iQ Industrial Paints T I and Varnishes. I? Agents; THE EAST ASIATIC CO.. LTD. Blundell's Paints timiSH PAINTS FOR ALL PURPOSES OVERNIGHT TRANSPORI OF PARCELS BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND KUALA LUMPUR BY MALAYAN RAILWAY l^B ll
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  • 412 7 A PARTY given to three police officers lasting nearly five hours, at which whisky and champagne were served, was described in the Singapore First District Court yesterday. It was also stated that women were present at the party. The court was hearing
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    24 7 i <m»*. mm MISS QWIN PKRREIRA, daughter of Mr. H. L. Peireira of Singapore, who leaves Malaya soon to study in Australia.
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  • 99 7 MALAYS TO BUILD OWN SCHOOL MALAYS in Ipoh have taken steps to build their first English school. The move was launched at a meeting oi Malays at the Cator Avenue Malay Girls' School. A committee was elected to draw up plans for a fund drrve among the Malay community throughout
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    39 7 THE TENTED CINEMA in Kepong Village, Selangor, which was attacked by bandits on Tuesday night. A total of 17 people were either killed or wounded. Picture shows a youth pointing to a bullet hole.— Straits Times picture.
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  • 114 7 ACQUIRED MISTRESS, DEBTS From Our staff Correspondent MALACCA, Wed. /"•HAN Yew Tiam, a young clerk, was sentenced by the President of the Sessions Court yesterday to three months' hard labour when he pleaded guilty to two charges involving two cheques of the firm In which he was working. Chan's counsel,
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  • 51 7 THE flag day held last Saturday in Singapore in aid of the Good Shepherd Convent Girls Home realised $8,161.41. The Rev. Mother Superior of the Convent and members of the committee of the building fund wish to thank all those who gave donations and support in the
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  • 83 7 from Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. A DEAD man lying on a camp bed near a roadside dustbin attracted a croud in Tek Soon Street, 'enang this morning. An elderly Chinese, he had died suddenly in a mall temple where he was a sub-tenant and
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  • 234 7 tJ'N«» \POKh trade circles said yesterday that importers have decided to hold back substantial orders for Japanese goods for the present because of over -stocking in Malaya, and because Japanese prices are rot is competitive as they were once. Japanese gooas quotas under the Japan-Sterling
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  • 44 7 Sixteen Chinese pleaded guilty in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to a charge of gambling In a common gaming house in Neil Road on Mar. 7, and were fined $20 each. A third of the fine was awarded to the informer.
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  • 41 7 Mr. Tan Chin Tuan, Managing Director of the Overseas Chinese Bank, and the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce's representative on the Legislative Council, will be leaving for several months on a tour of the United Kingdom next week.
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  • 62 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. TAN Keng Chuan, a schoolboy, summoned another schoolboy, Chua Chwe Han by name to the Police Court today, for assaulting him on Feb. 20 at the Attendants' Quarters at the General Hospital, Johore Bahru. Learning that the boys
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  • 212 7 'Christian A id In squatter Area' Bishop THE Bishop of Singapore, \he Rt. Rev. H. W. Baines, suggests in the latest issue of the Cathedral Courier that good work could be done if a group of Christians lived in a squatter resettlement area and ran a dispensary and school. Such
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  • 41 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed:— Lochuman Singh, of Kluang. and Saraju Khan, of Johore Bahru, were convicted in the Police Court on a charge halting their lorries within 20 feet of an uncontrolled road junction, and were 1 each fined $8.
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  • 175 7 'THE movement of a taxi in the early hours of A Jan. 17 at the junction of Bukit Timah Road and Kranji Road aroused the suspicion of a constable in charge of a road-block, who stopped the taxi and found a European driving it. The
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  • 122 7 RURAL Board, monthly meeting, Land Office, 10 a.m. Y.W.C.A., 5, Raffles Quay, dressmaking, 10 ajn., embroidery class, 3 p.m., Bible study, 5 p.m. ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE, demonstration and parade, Jalan Besar Stadium, 5.15 p.m. Countess Mountbatten will inspect the parade. YJM.C.A., Orchard Road, French class, 5.30 p.m.,
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  • 48 7 111 8941 Han Chin Hua, 111 8942 Kesavan, Suseelan, HI 8944 Khoo 800 Hoon, 111 8945 Krlshnayah, Nigiah, 111 8950 Ong Kirn Yeow, m 8952 Quah, R., 11l 8953 Sankaran. Narayanan, II 8954 Seah, V., ni 8955 Sim Yeong Hak, II 8956 Tan Thye Peng.
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  • 79 7 111 8959 Ang Yong Kia. V., 11l 8961 Chan Tong Ser. P.. 11l 8962 Chia Hong Check, 111 8963 Chla Yeck Chlan, 8., 11l 8964 Chla Yeck Thye, H., 11l 8965 Chua Kee Tong, J., 11l 8966 Goh Lye Heng, P., II 8967 Heng 800 Yong, M,
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  • 94 7 II 8975 Chung Keng Chee. 11l 8976 Koh Yew Lay. II 8977 Lav Liat Phengr, 111 8978 Lee Hock Huat. 11l 8979 Liew Kee Lam, I J9BO Lye Chuen Yuen, I 8981 Oh. O II 8982 See Chan Bock, 111 8984 Tan Chuan Seng, II 8985
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 82 7 1" f^^H^i fyaateto Ut fine ALL the fine qualities associated fruits of ten years* wartime and post- with the Rover name ara notice- wai progress. The new coachwork •ble in this new Rover Seventy-Five and improved suspension system pro- silence of unning, quality of vide extreme smoothness of riding for
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    • 211 7 SALE LAST 3 DAYS HALF PRICE BARGAINS AND FINAL REDUCTIONS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS HYGEIA DESSOLVENATOR MODERN SANITATION Installed In Your Home For $275/(lnclusive of all charges In Singapore Only) ELIMINATE NAUSEOUS CLOSET PANS WITH THEIR DISCOMFORTS AND DANCERS PROVIDES THE SAME COMFORT AND SAFETY AS A SEPTIC TANK. RUNS CONTINUOUSLY
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  • 19 8 VBB .1.1 up. »c wear ash;on»ble :.d our cars too are In the f;,v|non With FIRESTONE whk- \res
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  • 998 8 The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs. Mar. 9, 1950. The Bandit Offensive A counter-offensive by the >andits during Anti-Bandit tfonth was expected, and there jas been evidence enough luring the last few days that hat expectation was well ounded. The Bukit Kepong lisaster. the Cameron Highands ambush, the ambush on Kldred
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  • 126 8 THE University of 1 Malaya has riad« headway, but I regret that the discipline of the "senior 1 students is below expectations. Inconsiderate "ragging. stripping, the forcible administering of castor-oil and salted fish have been the sore portion of the first-year ;tudents My very fat son has now
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  • RENTS: PROS AND CONS
    • 489 8 THE freezing of rents at or a little above the 1939 level has made it impossible to maintain property in a reasonable state of repair, and at the same time derive income therefrom, owing to the very disproportionate rise In the cost of repairs. Even If it is admi/ed
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    • 590 8 I IT is accepted in England and was roughly correct here before the war that house rent would absorb one-seventh of a family's income. The lower income groups, excluding the clerical classes and skilled artisans, lived before the war in cubicles or sub-let rooms, and paid $2 or more
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    • 620 8 AS a doctor s wife who has to answer all sons of unnecessary phone calls at all hours of the night, I cannot resist replying to "DisillusionedV letter, published in the Saturday Forum under the heading "Chinese New Year Emergency." He
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    • 302 8 r ETTERS have appeared in the Press criticising Mr. Pat Johnson for a recent speech of his in the Singapore Municipal Commission. Everyone will agree it!, Mr. Tan Soon Kirn that the Commission is meant for serious business, but if Mr. Johnson wa s vehement in his
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  • 383 8 Wiwt.Ml Watet IN idea that must havt ccurred to many Sin esidents from overseas wai oiced in this page on Tv; >•- ay by a correspondent sked why people do not c lect rainwater from the r»« is if their dwellings, Instead > f laving to queu,?
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 747 8 CLASSIFIED ADS. MtNF.ICE On 9th March, al Kundarg Kuban Hospital. to pin*, niff ol T. P. P. MrNeice •IXJYE: On 7th February, to Finnic and Pat, at Kandang Knb.ui Hospital, a' fon Bradle> WtlHua. Bl Mil tVM At the Bungsar X 1. or, 7;h March. JPM). to EliEMbeth, wife of
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    • 10 8 BEE (HOW (Q MCHUUAST.PHONt6S3S y SIN6APOR* combined with i NEVERPISAPPOML
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    • 298 8 (OLD STEEL r i jr i Ji^ y M^T y/ /j§M M MM >ieel is ihe skclcion which supports the siruciure of modern mttr 'aiion. Great Britain was the pioneer and is still pre-eminent in ih« production of saeel witness the world-wide fame of the >.im# Sheffield, and such modern
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  • 499 9 Would Review Organisation of Department From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. PERMANENT "Organisation and Methods" Branch may be established in the Federal Secretariat to make recommendations for maintaining a high standard of efficiency and to eliminate waste in Government departments. This action is expected
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  • 175 9 MRS. YEO OFF ON AIR TOUR LEAVING Singapore today on a round-the-world flight -tour Ij Mr*. Selina Yeo t^an Twee, a voluntary worker wnh the Singapore Social V.'i ifare Department. On the first lap of her tonr. Mrs Yio will visit the United States. While in the X ates. she
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  • 43 9 A fine of $200. or one month's rigorous Imprisonnut nt. was imposed on a porkir ier. Koh Kirn Seng. In the S-ngapore Fourth Police Court j'Sterday when he was found Jilty of offering a bribe of $5 Ifl a police sergeant.
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  • 74 9 SINGAPORE traffic police are making special ar rangements to deal with the heavy traffic along Kheam Hock Road and within Buklt Brown Chinese Cemetery during the annual Chinese Festival. Cheng Meng, which falls on April 5. One-way traffic notice boards saying "keep left and moving." will be
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  • 71 9 The first part of the concert in aid of the Building Fund of the Katong Boys' Club at St. Andrew's School Hall last night consisted of Mozart's sinfonia concertante for the Violin, played by Mr Qoh Soon Tlo. Mr. Tan Slew Loon played the viola and
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  • 40 9 Early yesterday a 40-year-old Chinese woman was found poisoned by caustic soda in a house at Foch Road. She died on admission to hospital. Her husband was treated for caustic soda burns on the lip s and mouth.
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    68 9 COUNTESS FETED ACCOMPANIED by Dr. D. A. B. Hopkin. the Commissioner of the St. John Am bu lance Brigade. Countess .Mountbatten of Burma (top) inspects the Brigade of Honour at the Brigade Headquarters before unveiling the plaque yesterday afternoon. Top. right: Oountess Mountbatten speaking to the women of the Malay
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  • 123 9 A CCIDENTS have been reduced since the enforcemerit of a 30 m.p.h. speed limit in Singapore. In February there were 605 accidents: 53 fewer than the previous month. Of these eight were fatal. The total number of perX injured were 227 84 of seriously, ong
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  • 62 9 ¥7<OR sleeping while on duty, j FaF a constable Ismail bin Abdul Rahman was sentenced yesterday in the Singapore Second Police Court to seven days' rigorous Imprisonment. Ismail was found at 3.30 yesterday morning "fast asleep" by a sergeant, while guarding a rice store in Jelllcoe
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  • 37 9 A short circuit in the switchboard at a lawyers office at Malacca Street. Singapore, yesterday brought a fire engine from the Central Fire Station to the scene. No serious damage was caused by the fire.
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  • 52 9 From Our SUff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Wed: The case against Campbell Holt, a Singapore European, charged with failing to stop and report an accident in Jalan Segget and another at Jalan Schal. was postponed because Holt wrote informing the Court that it was not possible for him to
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  • 24 9 A discussion on "Vernacular and English Education" will be held by the East- West Society in the British Council Hall at 8.30 tonight.
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  • 35 9 Sco Ah Kow, 26, pleaded guilty in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to the theft of 1,038 inhalers valued at $311 from tne Harbour Board. Sentence was postponed for one week.
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  • 58 9 William R. Rasiah was fined a total of $50 in the Singapore Second Traffic Court yesterday, for driving i along Kallang Road with only one front light, failing to display the letter "L" being the holder or a provisional licence, not being accompanied by a llcpnspd driver and
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  • 418 9 fH)I NTESS Mountbatten urged 500 members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade to "get more divisions going, to keep the flag flying and to form more units." Lady Mountbatten, who is the Super intendent-in-Chief of the Brigade, was speaking at a tea party given in
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  • 43 9 Ten appeals lor magistrate courts down *or hearing in the Supreme Court yesterday were postponed because Deputy Public Prosecutor, Mr. A. V. Winslow, was engaged in a corruption case in the District Court and Mr. A. H Simpson was at the assizes.
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  • 31 9 Twenty-two-year old Yang Chuan Choon of Singapore who fell from a S.T.C. Bus at South Canal Road yesterday, died in the ambulance n n fhe way to hospital
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  • 338 9 Injured Gurkhas Beat Off Bandits From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. r PHE gallant .story of A how five Qurkhaa four of them wounded beat off a bandit attack in Negri Sembilan uftei their train hurt been It railed and ambush d. killed one bandit and wounded another and
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 94 9 The CHAPPELL Model "C" Upright Piano The tonal quality is superb and the touch will satisfy the most exacting pianist. A special type of damper is fitted which entirely eliminates overtones. Liberal discount for cash Hire Purchase Terms arranged. MvAVMrmMr s M °ti T> ir co. malata ltq ~/*rrj* r/MylJf/
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    • 60 9 SMART Morning Dresses llf *m{ r ~'ir :<: < A T A varied collection of smart morning dr«fMf in materials by Tootal, t-nico and Fergubon has just been received in a wide range of up-to-date styles and colours. Individuality is the keynote of theee dresses. Call today! Sizes from 36
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  • 2133 10  -  WINSTON S. CHURCHILL THE GRAND ALLIANCE-WAR COMES TO AMERICA By JT had been intended that we should steam up the Potomac and motor to the White House, but we were all impatient after nearly 10 days at sea to end our
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    • 57 10 /If /fvu^ h' V» 1 i l J M @>r one -fettek/ Obui c at all leading store* Cor ray Ltd 107 New Bond Street London Wl England Jar krroihnutn. mviiou o» 1 mm. the «.mo civatetl to teep you —~*~>~**s att>\ and elegant all through the daj YARDLEY /^^/lavender
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    • 281 10 NEsavF^^f So fast so easy and so goodl /Jm For the most delicious cup of 1/ y ml coffee you ever tasted, )ust put a i Jim teaspoonful of NESCAFE* In a cup Jmml and add hot water. There's no f£ waste, no messy grounds to j^J^^J dispose of or
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  • 947 11  -  BOB GILMORE By AUSTRALIAN I SCENE I MEI^BOURNE, Mar. 1. JN four dnvs' sampling by radio of the new and Nineteenth Parliament, Australia lias heard the old voices but in a new way. Barring double dissolution, Australia's rough house of the air seems to have dosed
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    670 11 QWhen Coleus, Beoonia semperfiorens, Crossandra. Plumbago etc. are grown in pott in ilia full sun. 1 find that in spite of early morning watering, they tend to droop badly around about noon, recover when given water directly into the pot and need further watering at 5 p.m.
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  • 137 11 Australian worn n n DOI favour lac short skirts decn ci by aa the I itesi rasuion trend r«j- 1950. Of 10 l.t.siuon-con.M i. women recently interview id in Syiim-y only two favoured a return to short, tight s: Most said they conftider. 1 them 100 revealing,
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  • 309 11 HE sets up his temporary stall at the entrance to >> a coffee-shop. For less than two months I>um- ness is brisk. Then the durian season finishes, and SS the great prehistoric fruits vanish from the Singa- pore street scene. With them goes
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 79 11 The Austin A. 70 -a i^-j s^ HUkSBH I The AUSTIN A. 70 Hampshire Saloon it really a beautiful car! So powerful and modern ie every detail. The A.70 has just about everything you could wish for in a modern car. Come along to Borneo Motors, Orchard Road, and see
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    • 150 11 INDUSTRIAL jjljll v r^? &o BY i|3 BB^^\ Lighting schemes planned by G.E.C. engineers include Osram mercury lamp installations recognised the world over for tne r eWitiency in lighting exterior workplaces. MADE IN ENGLAND ADVT. OF THE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO LTD OF tNGLAMD SINGAPOfti MALACCA MUAIA tUMru* ftNf 1 pf
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  • 1645 12 RICE AND REFORMS: ONLY ANTIDOTES TO COMMUNISM iNorman Cliff discusses the political situation in India and declares that everything depends on the peasant and worker. TnYYO months, :im> in Moscow, M;io Tse Tung reported to Stalin "Mission :u%comptished.** For ;ill practical purposes the largest country in the world was irrevocably
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    • 277 12 CHAMPION OBTAINS TfTl£ I 9 ™tVb?oi?j^ fOfiGET TtIERE'U BE V Q~L ).M MATTER WITH M 8... TOUCH OPPOSITION IN WJm&f^&ffi]??- ff^^)v FEEiSO FRI6HTFUUY NEXT MoN ™^jßff^ f >JwL2}*™ THESE PAYS J I '^XF mmmmmm^ mm^ THE POCTOR 4DI//seD..wL 1 r YOU HAVEN T B«N^ !1 9^!^^^^-——^ *JLf A SIS OO'JoB
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    • 304 12 WHICUAILMENii DO YOU SUFFER Your doctor will cell you that often these ira warning »ljrw of MINERAL ft VITAMIN DEFICIENCY "—warnings that your* net jettlni enough Minerals and Vitamins which Nature demands you to have. Tht cooked-out foods you eat aren't living you enough for your needs Heed these warnings
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 156 12 SINGAPORE 9 45 Evening Star; 10 Take It B. F E B 9. 10 a.m. News from K.L.; 10.05 S° m )n< H n e: r ii2.' 3 MUSlC 445 "**<»* t*»e London EditoClose; 10.50 Schools; 12 Malay; s Uus 5^ 1TWD1ID "Balance of Europe' 5.30 1 p.m. Radio Orch.
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  • 681 13 Reviewed by Helen MacLennan A GAY romantic feeling prevailed throughout the Festival of Chinese Fashion at Raffles Hotel on Saturday, very different to the tense expectancy of the Parisienne collections. No professional secrecy here, the Chinese Ladies Association were preparing to show Singapore that the Malayan Chinese
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    909 13 By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT AT Jalan Besar Sta dium, Singapore, this afternoon more than 500 men and women in the uniform of St. John Ambulance Brigade will march past a very remarkable woman. One whose clear vision and consistent optimism proved of immeasurable help to her husband
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  • 331 13 rTHE Y.W.C.A. is an ln- ternational group with young girls and women hailing from China, Malaya, India, Russia, Burma the Philippines, Europe, and America. Its motto is "By Love Serve One Another" and one of its aims is to promote national and international understanding and peace
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  • 339 13 r)ECi arers hold-up play In today's deal was extremely ill-advised! South, dealer Both sides vulnerable O 56^ SB O«J6 48 ust UK) 9(10 (wioti *m. 0 4 O 10 8 S The bidding: south West North East 1 dab Pass t clubs Pass S no-trump Pass Pass
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 160 13 All oiilnf vutun IM »hcrltui« lb« com- I'fl *Kk -iikw, for k- K&J Jk. >upci .iMtxiit. Tea j I** vt lowi, aa^a^Bi«ih)..k^, cn.w,k U Ho« lint lh« i l«ik /T\ 4 l a^a^-^L^-W. fti ft/ wSi^ X XatßPlaW^a^L^l H|fc>v. ftf 1 I1 1 I Jr~ s!h J" fe Siw.compacc capactom.
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    • 90 13 /BLACK 8 WHITE^ i<rjf, pay I <ri/? C 77. nlf JWi/fh c?mde J/wcmui Wtqwdlu \//y 4 II t yfwaae in < wnaumd 'I I < Jvw c/lomh: V L S/HGAPOHt tfUAIA LUMPUK /POM P£MA/fi I k Don' t take our word for It If you «uff«r from rbauoatlo paina la
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  • 361 14 LONDON vAcd. ■TRADING in all sections oi the London StocK Exchange was on a small sea!? j yesterday, but most prices were maintained at previous closing levels. British Government funds responded with fractional gains to scattered support. Leading In- dustrlals were without major movement. Commodity shares were maintained
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  • 163 14 From Our Market Correspondent ALTHOUGH the tin metal price continued to advance yesterday, local investors in Tin shares were still taking comparatively little interest. London appeared to be keen mainly on the Tronoh group and Hongki^f Tin. Industrials remained nni*»t.l\7 stPßriv i in u o i Ruver
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  • 55 14 PAHANG Consolidated in Feb.' treated 10,000 tons and prod Ed 175 tons of tin concentrates. IPOH Tin Dredging (No. 3 dredge, Puchong Section) produced 373 piculs of ore in February. SUNGEI Kinta Tin Dredging In i the same month produced 247 piculs. T»AI.AM Mines last month pro-
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  • 75 14 t«EBRUARY rubber crops an- nounced. in lbs., are: Alor Pongsu Amal. Est. 109.942 Bedong Malaya i 70 328 Parit Perak Est. 39 000 Suloh Est. (Jan.) 28.440 Sungei Tukang 54.600 Temerloh Est. 44.700 i Troniz Est. 27.300 1 Bukit KB. 8.600 (12 800 In Jan.) Kempas 383.000
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  • 29 14 SINGAPORE, Wed. Mar. S —$291.25 (up $1.25.). LONDON. Wed.. Mar. 9. Spot: £599* £5»9J. Forward: £589}— £590. Settlement: £599}. Turnover: Morning: 53 I tons, afternoon 50 tons.
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  • 83 14 STOCKS of Malayan tin metal and tln-ln-ore in January were 19.532 tons, against 10.864 tons In the corresponding month of 1949. according to official statistics. Malayan tin metal and tin-in-ore stocks In December, 1949. amounted to 20,265 tons. Malayan production of tin-ln-ore in January was 5,180
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  • 90 14 CTRAITS Traders announce the following February shipments of tin, in ions: From Singapore to U.K. 400 (15 optional Continent i. U.S.A. 1.245 Continent 217. Canada 95. Pacific onf-quarter. India 14. Middle East one-quarter; total 1 971-... From Penang to U.K. 70, U.S.A. 1.120. Continent 410. Canada 85.
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  • 13 14 ITAMRA Tin Dredging In February produced 348 Dtruls i of tin-ore.
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  • 107 14 SHIPS alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday tgodowns In brackets) vere. Main Wharf: Anchises<.3l-32t, Medon 1 35-36 1, Benvenue 1 38-39). Seroei (40). Sansapor (41). West Wharf: Canton (l-2>, Orestes i4-si, Machson i4-7>. Rondo (11), Maetsuycker (13-14). Empire Dock: Chinese Prince (17-18', Charon (19-20.
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  • 205 14 PRICES in the Singapore rubber market were inclined to sag yesterday. The market opened dull owing to poor support. Noon quotations were about threeeighths of a cent below the previous day's levels. Closing prices yesterday %ere No. 1 R.S.S. spot loose buyers 53 cents, sellers 53 S cents;
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  • 112 14 From A Market Correspondent RIO 5 coffee was quoted at $135 per picul sellers on a weaker market yesterday, with Rio 3 $2 higher and Rio 7 $132. Copra was quietly steady at $37 per picul buyers and $38 sellers for March-April. March sellers were quoting 38
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  • 16 14 SUNGEI Bidor Tin Dredging s tin-ore output in February amounted to 737 piculs.
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  • 430 15 Hit 88 Against The Australians A STYLISH right-hand batsman who represented Ceylon against the passing Australian Test team in 1938 and scored 88 runs in the match is the outstanding figure of a reputedly strong cricket team which the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers will field
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  • 413 15 The Week's Badminton Results rE following are the results of ties played off during the week in the Singapore Malay Badminton Assn. championships: Junior Singles: Sulong Jaafar beat Raja Ahmad 12-15, 18-14. 15-10; Ahmad A. Rahman beat Sarmin Mokhtar 6-15, 15-11, 15-14; Mawi Samadi beat A. Wahab 2-15,
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  • 98 15 One of St. Anthony's School players had to receive attention In hospital yesterday when the school met St. Andrew's School at soccer on St. Joseph's Institution ground. This was the result of a leg Injury sustained in the fifth minute. With ten men for the rest
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  • 100 15 Youngest member of the Singapore Combined Schools Cricket XI, which leaves for Perth in the Charon this afternoon, is 16-year-old Alexius E. Delilkan. Captain of the St. Joseph's Institution cricket team this year, Alexius is the youngest son of Mr. Alwyn E. Delilkan, President of
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  • 407 15 TUGER SPORTS ASSOCIATION outclassed Royal 1 Engineers to the tune of five goals to nil at Jalan Besar yesterday in a Singapore A.F.A. Senior League fixture that rarely rose above the commonplace. With a little more luck and better workmanship, Tigers could have made
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  • 156 15 Changi Golf Meet This Weekend Spring meeting of the RAP Changi Golf Club will be held on Saturday and Sunday when a field of more than 70 competitors is expected. The main event of the meeting Is for the Founders Challenge Cup presented by Air Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd. It
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  • 43 15 LONDON, Wed.— Middlesex and St. Thomas Hospital drew five points each In a semi-final of the Hospitals Cup yesterday and will replay next Tuesday. The winners meet either St. Marys or London Hospital on March 29 in the final. KB.
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  • 121 15 At the 12th annual general meetIng of Rovers Sports Club held recently, the following were elected officials for the year: Patrons: Messrs. K. L. Lim, 8. A. Dawood, H. Alkafl and Yeo Hock Seng. President: Mr. Ang Soon Hoe; Vice-Presldents: Messrs. Ong Say Yeo, Francis Loh, Kally
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  • 34 15 The Cy. ;.iiana Sports Team will meet OHQ Signal Regiment on Friday and HQ Spore Dlst. 2nd (X T on Sunday in friendly soccer gaaics. Both game-i will be played on
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    • 212 15 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD *.tPari cf round ci on! CROSSWORD No. 10 L Only part of tbU houi* b Acure <4>. let (6). «a trjMU torehej (UU-) 21 I 7I 7 I I" 8. Curve formed by IHc) ijuul r^n Ljuu L.jlJ I I IntenecUon of eon* ttT Mexlcan flowe? <6)
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    31 16 DAI REES. three times winner of the British professional golf championship, who passed through Singapore yesterday on his way to Australia. Straits Times picture. (*ee story in cols, six and seven).
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  • 67 16 SINGAPORE Medical W.U. and 4th Supply Res. Depo 1 .1. 1 (RASC* drew one all In the Junior B 2 kasgat soccer game ftl j Geylaii^ Stadium yesterday. AfMr a scoreless first half. RASC '-xik. the lead when a Medical defender miskicked into I his own
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  • 51 16 •pHE Btrtttl Times Cricket Ciub "iici like to arrange fixtures thi-i MBMB, The etaik at present has no j around of its own. Secretaries of h vacant dates (Satuv-! days or.ly> are requested to wrt"e '0: The Secretary. Straits Times 1 CrtCkn C!';b. Straits Times, Cecil Street.
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  • 995 16 /VNE HI NDRED and ninety-five horses have been w entered for the Singapore Turf Club's March Meeting which will be held on Mar. 18, 22 and 25. These comprise 87 horses in Class 2 and 108 in Class 3. The Committee has arrang- j ed
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  • 1569 16  - RAVEN BEATS BROOKING IN DAY'S BEST FINISH EPSOM JEEP By Gracious Lady 9 s $55 The Highest Dividend t ENANG, Wednesday. THE RAVEN (Lawler) defeated Brooking (Lansdown) by a nose in one of the closest finishes recorded by the oameragraph on the Penang racecourse today, second day of the Penan;
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    39 16 VIJIARETNAM (Rovers) leaps for a header but sends it over the bar in Tuesday's Senior League soccer in Singapore. Rovers, favourites in the League this year, were upset by the Indian Recreation Club who won one-nil. Straits Times picture.
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  • 21 16 TODAY: 1.36 a.m. f9ft. lln.) and 2.14 p.m. 18ft. 9im. TOMOKROW: 2.08 a.m. (Bft 9in.) and 3.08 p.m. (Bft).
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  • 216 16 (JOLDEN BOY. light and welterweight champion if the Federation, will be in iction again tomorrow when i<> meets a Filipino \.<»ltertveight, Johnny Cinlo a\. '.he Bukit Bintang Park in Kufla Lumpur. This Is Golden Boy's Arst bout since he lost to the Orient title- >:■!.•!
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  • 401 16 Does 1 -Above-Par WithßorrowedKit DAI REES AT ISLAND CLUB rHK British professional golf champion, Dai Rees, A will give an exhibition match at the Royal Singapore Golf Club on Apr. 6 on his way back from Australia. He passed through Singapore yesterday on his way to Australia for the McWilliams
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  • 25 16 SOCCER: Jnr B. 1: C.V M.A v. 61 Coy. BASC, CYMA ground; Jnr. A. 2: Joll'lads v. R X. Keppel Barracks at Geylanr.
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  • 227 16 qpHREE PLAYERS, two from Victoria School and 1 one from Raffles Institution, were sent off the field in the last 15 minutes of play by referee C. B. Tan, for adopting rough tactics, when the schools met at soccer on the R.I. ground yesterday. Raffles
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  • 109 16 WHAT promises to be the best soccer game so far this season will be played at Jalan Besar this Saturday when Sino-Malays meet Combined Services. Jointly sponsored by the Singapore Amateur Football Association and the Straits British Chinese Association, the game i.s being held in aid
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  • 153 16 Sot. huggins (Coktetmun Guardst. heavyweigtu, champion of Malaya District, technically knocked out Cp.\ Freeman < REME. Singapore in the semi-flnaLs ot the FARELF boxing championships at Tanglin gymnasium last night. All the other bouts ended In points decisions. Trie finals will be held at the Happy
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  • 75 16 LOS ANGELES Wed. Kan .'I Ortiz, world bantamweight champion. won on a split points decUl >i over Harold Dade of Chicago m j ten rounds non-title bout here. The referee made Dade the ner. but both judges voted Ortiz after a hectic battle in which the contestants stood
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  • 81 16 The Royal Navy Air Bervtoa heid the Royal Al nj Oia Corps to a tcoreless dr yesterdttv in i> ''n-> p n sion League match on the CY"VT grouno It was a game of nn.ssed chan owing to extremely erratic ahon";lng on fr.e purt of
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