The Straits Times, 11 March 1950

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 if PRICE TEN CENTS. TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE. SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1950.
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    BAO DAI MAY MEET HO CHI MINH
    506 1 Appeal To U.N. If Vietnam Is Threatened LONDON, Friday. JJAO DAI, Chief of State of Vietnam, indicated yesterday that he is willing to reach an understanding with Ho Chi Minh, Moscowtrained leader of the rebel Vietminh forces. In an interview with Mr. Norman
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    WOMEN MAY SOON SERVE IN S.V.C.
    216 1 II U.MF.N may soon serve as members of the hinga- pore Volunteer Corps under a scheme which is now being considered by the Government. They would be attached to the heavy anti-aircraft battery of the Singapore Royal Artillery (Volunteer). It Is proposed that they
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    Some Police Probe Points Acted On
    115 1 Some Police Probe Points Acted On I'roir. Our Sl*«T Correspondent ALA LUMPUR Fri. a 'HE report of the Police! •in from the United i :i has not yet been In the Federation, but i' is understood that; CummenU on certain aspects! cf police work made before the mission left are
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    UK REPLY TO JAP £ BAN
    97 1 UK REPLY TO JAP BAN TOKYO, Fri. BRITAIN and her colonies are not obliged to keep their purchases from Japan at the same level as Japanese sterling purchases, provided trade is balanced by June 30, the Brilish Treasury representative in the Far East. Mr. H. Smith, said today. The Japanese
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    TEA FOR DUKE
    27 1 SAN REMO. Fri.— The Duke of Edinburgh was among those entertained to a tea party today for ofßcprs of the British fleet here.— A.P
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    FILM ACTOR ILL
    29 1 LYWOOD. Fri.—British I i ir Stewart Granger was in il today with an attack! t>: pleurisy contracted while! movie local lon in Death' V 'li-y. UP.
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    'Monty' For Norway
    15 1 -)-;lo. m—Field Marshal! iit Montgomery .s to' Norway next week.- A P.I
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    Britain Will Press Jap Banks Protest
    161 1 TOKYO, Friday. yHE British Commonwealth Allied Council repreA sentative, Mr. William Hodgson, has filed the matter of Zaibatsu banks o n the Council agenda before the submission deadline closed today. Diplomatic circles In Tokyo believed Mr. Hodgson delayed placing of the question on the
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    FIRE IN LINER AT PENANG
    65 1 From Our SUIT Correspondent PENANG. Fri. -The Penang fire brigade today helped to put out a fire tn the second hatch of the 10,000-ton Glen liner. Glenorchy. The fire, it is believed, started early yesterday when smoke was seen coming from the hatch after the
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    Missing Americans
    26 1 WASHINGTON, Trl. The U. 3. State Department is starting a new search for 23 Americans now believed to be '.a Soviet bloc countries.— AT,
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    UK Hope Of Stalin Talks
    85 1 LONDON, Fri. OFFICIAL quarters said yes- .terday that Mr. Attlee and i Mr. Churchill may agree on a I bipartisan approach to M. Stalin in an attempt to settle international problems. The quarters said Mr Attlee might reconsider the rejection of the Churchill suggestion that
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    SHERIFF HELPED KU KLUX KLAN
    40 1 ROME. GEORGIA. Fri.— A Georgia Jury last night convicted a sheriff and his deputy of depriving seven negroes of their 'civil rights by turning them over to a Ku Klux Klan mob for flogging. A.P.
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    King & Queen To Visit Paris, Says Schuman
    153 1 King Queen To Visit Paris, Says Schuman A VISIT to Paris by Xii Elizabeth is definitely i crete has yet been arran Minister, M. Robert Schuti The French Foreign Minister was speaking on board the French steamer Arromanches, which took the French President, M. Vincent Aurlol. and Madame Auriol back
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    Armed Guard On S'pore Newspaper
    298 1 AN armed police guard was mounted yesterday outside and Inside the offices of Chun? Shing Jit Poh, the pro-Chiang Kal Shek Singapore Chinese newspaper office in Robinson Road, target of a hand-grenade on Tuesday, after a warning letter received on Thursday. The letter said: "We
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    ROMAN TRIBUTE TO MOSLEY
    68 1 ROME. Fri. SIR Oswald Moslry. former leader of the British Union of Fascists, who arI rived (n Rome last night see a few frfends." apa p-.ued in a picture upside down in the Communist newspaper I'nita today. The paper said be was "an admirer in all
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    U.S. RELAXES RUBBER LAW
    75 1 WASHINGTON. Fri. FurI ther revisions of U.S. rubber controls paving the way for greater consumption of natural rubber were announced today by the Commerce Department. The department removed controls requiring the use of synthetic rubber in the manufacture of small-size camel- back— material used tor retreading
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    Short Of Experts
    40 1 WASHINGTON, Fri. America is faced with a shortage of home-born scientists and Is reported to have the nam< s of four Britons on a shori list of men qualified to carry through her hydrogen bomb programme. A.P
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    DUTCH MINISTERS FOR JAKARTA
    135 1 THE HAGUE. Fri. rpHE Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs, Df. J. R. M. Van Den Brink, and the Minister without portfolio. Mr. L. Goetzen. will leave for Jakarta on Mar. 18 for the conference of ministers of the Netherlands-Indone-sian Union there on Mar. 25. It was
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    SHOTS AT SYRIAN PREMIER
    92 1 SHOTS AT SYRIAN PREMIER BEIRUT, Fri. THHE Lebanese Premier, Rlad El Solh, escaped unhurt tonight after three shots had been fired at him. His assailant was identified as a young Syrian Populist, Youssif Hamdan. His bullets killed thr?e children and wounded a man who was saluting the arrival of the
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    ACTORS WORRIED
    37 1 HOLLYWOOD, Fri. The Screen Actors Guild of America says television is arfecting (Urns and that guild members are faced with a pressing problem of unemployment because of a decreased production of films in Hollywood.— A.P.
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    WIDOWS' PLEDGE
    28 1 TOKYO, Fri. Japanese widows, in a two-day national convention, pledged themselves to fight for peace because "we widows know how cruel and evil war is."— U.P.
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    Blythe Is New Colonial Secretary
    251 1 Blythe Is New Colonial Secretary MR. W. L. Blythe, President of the Singapore Municipal Commission, has been appointed Singapore Colonial Secretary, it was officially announced in London early today. Mr". Blythe, who has been In Malaya since 1921, is aft present in Britain on lonij leave. Sir Patrick McKenoti, present
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    NORTH ATLANTIC
    28 1 LONDON. Fri.— The military committees of th? Norid Atlantic Treaty power-; will meet at The Hague on Man-ii 27 to review the progrtia jf defence measures.
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    TAXI-GIRLS
    9 1 BUDAPEST, Fri.— Hungary now has women taxi-drivera. -U.P.
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    UK To Spend Millions More On Modern Navy
    201 2 UK To Spend Millions More On Modern Navy LONDON, Frl BRITAIN will spend *~>iiHons 9 sterling in the coming year to modernise her naval fighting equipment and develop counter-mea-sures against high speed attack by Jet aircraft, missiles and submarines. Naval estimates published yesterday showed promotion and research would cost nearly
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    HELICOPTER PORT OPENS
    37 2 HELICOPTER PORT OPENS THE WEST U.S.A.'s first public helicopter landing: area was opened at San Francisco recently. One helicopter hovers over the dock as it transfers a person from a small craft in the bay.— A.P. Picture.
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    NEW DICTIONARY
    29 2 MOSCOW, Frl.— An EskimoRussian dictionary has been compiled In Moscow. It is based on work done during scientific expeditions to the coast of the Bering Sea.— AP,
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    Girl Twins May Be Inseparable
    196 2 HOBART, Friday. THE mother of Siamese twin girls born six days ago said today that she would treasure them always, even it they had to go through life with their heads joined and their t pointing in opr^-'e directions. Their father, Mr. Erskine Smith, a
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    REFUSED ASYLUM —SUICIDE
    124 2 LONDON, Friday. BRITAIN'S Home Secretary. Mr. Chuter Ede. said yesterday that the Yugoslav who leaped to his death from a plane over France last Saturday had been refused asylum in Britain bei-ause he would not say why he was afraid to return to his own country. Mr.
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    U.K'S NEWS SECRET JET CAR DOES 90
    199 2 U.K'S NEWS SECRET JET CAR DOES 90 TOWCESTER, Fri. THE British car industry's biggest post-war secret— a sleek, jet-pro-pelled car— was given its first public demonstration here yesterday. Propelled by twin, keroseen fed jet turbines, the car— a gray sports coupe whipped over a concrete landing strip near Towcester at
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    SHAH HONORED
    46 2 KARACHI. Frl.— The Shah of Persia has received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at the University of the Punjab. He also took the salute at the greatest military parade in Pakistan a history, when 25,000 troops and ten military bands paraded. Reuter.
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    GOVT. WINS FIRST CONFIDENCE VOTE
    409 3 Amendment On Steel Defeated By 14 Votes LONDON, Friday. THE Government won a confidence vote on steel nationalisation in the House of Commons last night. Voting figures were: Government 310, Opposition 296. This first searching test of Labour's narrow majority— seven in the whole House—
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    NEHRU PLAYS
    37 3 Premier Jawaharlal Nehru of India (left) forgot his state cares for a while to enjoy a ride on a merry-go-round for children at a flower show which he opened recently in New Delhi: A.P. Picture.
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    NEHRU TO VISIT BENGAL AGAIN
    186 3 NEW DELHI, Friday. rrilL Prime Minister of India, Pandit Nehru, arrived i in New Delhi last night from Calcutta after completing a four-day study of the situation arising out of disturbances in East Bengal and of their repercussions in the neighbouring Indian province of B"Jore
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    Harsh Treatment In Soviet Camp
    238 3 BERLIN, Friday. 4 FORMER German Staff Colonel who returned recently from a Russian prison camp after a fiveyears' imprisonment said, that prisoners live under exceedingly harsh conditions and in fear of constant execution. "I want to make known my experiences to assist In awakening the
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    BRITISH U.N. PROTEST
    63 3 GENEVA. Fri. -Mr John Fletcher-Cooke yesterday formally protested before the United Nations Trusteeship j Council at accusations that "•puppet" chiefs are picked to rule in the British Cameroons. He was replying to the Philippine representative. Mr. Victorio Carpio. who said it was the policy of trre British
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    AFGHAN REVOLT
    42 3 LONDON. M.— The Zadran j tribe in the Khost Province' i»" Afghanistan U reported by Pakistan radij 'o have revolted against *he Government. The tribe protested against I res rictiona imposed on their: trade with Pakis'an. Reu- 1 tcr. I
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    WEREWOLF IS 'STILL ALIVE'
    96 3 FRANKFIRT, Fri. (GERMANY'S underground werewolf organisation showed itself again yesterday. It distributed leaflets saying: "Americans, English. French and Russians, we warn you." The pamphlets said the werewolf still was alive and growing stronger day by day. Composed of young German diehards, the werewolf sprang into prominence
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    Gunmen Rob New York Bank
    155 3 Gunmen Rob New York Bank NEW YORK. Fri. VJOTORIOUS bank robber il Willie Sutton and four of his henchmen held up the Long Island city branch of the Manufacturers" Trust Company today and made a clear escape with U5563,933 in cash. The gunmen, not bothering to wear masks and working
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    JAP MISSION
    26 3 TEHERAN. Fri.— A fivemember Japanese trade mission has arrived here-- for discussions with the Ministry of i National Economy and leading 1 merchants.— Reuter.
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    PREMIERSAYS NO DEATH PENALTY
    60 3 LONDON, Fri. The Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, last night refused to Introduce the death penalty as a punishment for certain iafrigements of the British Official Secrets Acts. Earlier trie Home Secretary, Mr. Chuter Ede, told Parliament that in spite of the Fuchs' case. Britain did
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    PAKISTAN ENVOY TO U.S.I.
    53 3 PAKIST AN ENVOY TO U.S.I. KARACHI. Fri.— Dr. Omar Hayat Malik- Vice Chancellor of the Punjab University at Lahore, has been appointed Pakistan's first Ambassador to the United States of Indonesia, It was announced yesterday. Dr Malik, who is 55, has held high university posts In India, am. since partition.
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    COLD SHOULDER FOR CRIPPS?
    38 3 WHEN SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS, Chancellor of the Exchequer, walked to speak to Mr. Attlee, the Prime Minister, recently, the crowd watching unintentionally cold-shouldered him because, at that moment, their attention was diverted w—AP. Picture.
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    TORIES WIN MOSS SIDE SEAT
    99 3 MANCHESTER, Fri. ABOI :R'S slender overall majority in the House of Commons dropped to six last night when the Conservative candidate won the postponed general election poll in the Moss Side Division of Manchester. Results of last night's poll were: Miss Florence Horsbrugh (Cons.) 25,347;
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    Red Spy Gets 15 Years But Is Set Free
    85 3 NEW YORK, Fri. VALENTIN Gubitchev, 30-year-old engineer and former member of ihe United Nations Secretarial. was sentenced to 15 jvars on es- i pionage charges in New York yesterday. He was ordered to be deported to Russia within a fortnight. Judith
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    JEWS NEGLIGENT ON COUNT'S MURDER'
    124 3 STOCKHOLM, Frl. ISRAEL authorities are accused in a Swedish report of astonishing negligence in their search for the assfessins of Count Folke Bernadotte, the United Nations mediator, in Sept. 1948. The report, ordered by the Crown, charges Israel officials with having given directly misleading information
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    RUSSIA BUILDS BATTLESHIPS
    90 3 NEW YORK Frl. Russia may be building battleships for use as "mobile guided missile platforms," Admiral William H. P. Blandy, formerly of the U.S. Navy said yesterday. He said the mere fact chat Russia is at present building three battleships "need net upset us provided we retain
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    Call For Synthetic Stockpiling In U.S.
    176 3 Call For Synthetic Stockpiling In U.S. WASHINGTON, Friday. DEOPENING of a 60,000-ton production unit of the Government-owned Port Neches, Texas, synthe- tic rubber plant was regarded yesterday as a pos- sibility. U.S. Senator Lyndo.i B. Johnson. Texas Democrat who is chairman of a Senate Armed Services Rubber subcommittee, told the
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    Seretse Wants To Go To Ruth
    234 3 LONDON, Friday. SEKETSE KHAMA, exiled Oxford-educated Bamangwato chieftain, yesterday applied to the Commonwealth Relations Office for permission to return to his tribal territory despite the British Government's decision to exile him for five years following his marriage to a London typist, Ruth Williams. Seretse
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    Doctor Not Guilty
    74 3 MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, Fri. J)R- Hermann Sunder, 41, a country doctor was accjuitted here last night after trial for the ."mercy killing" of a woman cancer patient An all-male jury found him not guilty of first degree murder. The two weeks old "mercy death" trial had centred
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    USI Joins Up Five More States
    179 3 USI Joins Up Five More States JAKARTA, Frl. PRESIDENT Soekarno of the United States of Indonesia, acting under an emergency law, signed a decree yesterday joining five Indonesian territories to the Indonesian Republic alrPHdy trip largest U.S.I. Stat- This move Is part of rha plan to consolidate tha smaller of
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    INFLATION FEAR IN KOREA
    68 3 WASHINGTON. Fri. Dr. Arthur Bunce chief of th« Economic Co-operation Administration Mission to Korea, told the House of Representatives Foreign Affiire Committee today ihat a joinS Korean-American Committee was "vigorously dealing with the threat of Inflation in lh« year-old Republic. Dr. Bunce testified in support of
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    CHINESE SCHOOLS' PLEDGE
    142 4 From Out Staff orres|;ondent SEREMBAN, Fri I BOUT 340 presidents, committee members, headmasters, and teachers .of Chinese schools in Negri Sombilan, at. the conclusion of a meeting held in Seremban yesterday, passed a re* solution "to co-opera'e steadfastly and at all times with the forces of law
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    TEACHER. NURSE MARRIED IN N.S.
    64 4 TEACH ER. NURSE MARRIED IN N.S. from Oui SUI' Correspondent SEREMBAN, Fri. —The wedding took place at St. Mark* Church Seremban at the weekend of Mr. Leonard Jansz, a teacher of the King George V School, and Miss Celia Owen, nurse at the Scremban General Hospital. The Rev. K. Nicholson
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    Trespass Charge
    38 4 From Ov Own Correspondent MUAR, Fri. Claiming trial at Muar on a charge of trespass, Tio Kon was allotted bail of $100. He is alleged to have entered the compound of Rasiman bin Manga at Tingkak.
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    URANIUM FROM TIN MINES
    291 4 Marketing A Possibility From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPFR, Friday. QEPOSITS of radioactive minerals, from which atomic energy is produced, are in sufficient quantities in Malaya to warrant the ore and concentrates being: mined and marketed from the Federation, says the Director of Geological Survey, Mr.
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    COMPASS NOT TRUE 3 MLS. UP
    154 4 From :tnr Staff <;*rrrspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. PILOTS of aircraft flying at 15.000 feet over the Benom range in Pahang are stated to have reported that their compasses have' behaved strangely at thi* altitude. The anomalies are saia to be more marked on the
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    EASTERN PAHANG HILLS CHARTED
    78 4 From Oat Staff Corrrsooudenl KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. J^y unrecorded small troop of limestone hills between llu Sungei Luit and Liv Sungei Lepar, in Eastern Pahaug, has now been charted, says the Director of the Geological Survey Department, Mr. F. T. Ingham, to his annual report for
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    Countess' 'Hullo9 In Mandarin
    104 4 Countess 'Hullo 9 In Mandarin From Our Staff Carredpunticnt KUALA LUMPUR, Prl. WHEN Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Lady Superintendent of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, entered a school-room during class this afternoon at the Serendah Boys' Home in Selangor. she greeted them in perfect Mandarin with the words; "ni how
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    SIKH ROBBED ON KULIM ROAD
    53 4 Prom Oar Stall Correspondent PENANG, Pri.— Three Chinese last night stopped a Sikh on the Kulim-Tassek Road in Province Wellesley and relieved him of his identity card, a fountain pen and a watch. The robbers were not armed. Police later found the identity card discarded
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    ENROLMENT SERVICE
    34 4 ENROLMENT SERVICE CANON R.K.S. ADAMS inspecting members of the Seventh Singapore Company of the Boys Brigade at the company's annual enrolme nt service at St. Andrew's Cathedral on Sunday— Stu dio de Luxe picture.
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    Russia Buys More Malayan Rubber
    171 4 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Friday. DECAUSE they are prepared to pay not only the 11 prevailing Malayan rubber price, but also a premium on all their purchases, Russian buyers a re finding more sellers in Malaya than the United States, according to Mr. Heah
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    Man With Gun Was Detective
    62 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Fri. H PARTY of some of the 68,000 Johore AntiBandit Month Volunteers now on doty in the State found a Chinese carrying a revolver without a permit Subsequent inquiries disclosed the man was a detec, ive. Women volunteers are
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    ACQUITTED
    35 4 From Onr Staff Correspondent MUAR, Fri.—A woman. Urn Hong Lang, aged 42. was acquitted by the Muar Sessions Court of causing grievous hurt to a girl, Chua Seam Ngoh, at Simpang Lima. Bukit Gamblr.
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    NOTHING WRONG
    53 4 From Oar Own Correspond i.t SEGAMAT, Fri. -"I can see nothing wrong with his card and it appears to me .hat he has been taking sufficient care of it," said the Segamat Circuit Magistrate. Inche Abdul Rauf. when he discharged 24-year-old Chellapan, brought before him charged with defacing
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    'British Prestige In LThe East Fell With Pound9
    346 4 'British Prestige In LThe East Fell With Pound 9 HONG KONG, Friday. DEVALUATION of the pound sterling has achieved no permanent cure for the Un trd Kingdom's financial problems and failed to restore confidence overseas, said Sir Arfh'ir Morse, Chairman and chief manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at
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    'BOARD'S POWERS TOO WIDE'
    143 4 'BOARD'S POWERS TOO WIDE' ■^pHE Singapore Municipal Engineer, Architect, Health Officer, and Assessor consider that the powers to be given to the proposed Singapore Development Board are too wide." They think thai the provisions of the Development BUI creating the Board wuuid reduce the Municipal Commissioners io vhe status of
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    INSPECTOR, 18 YEARS IN FORCE, GETS PRISON TERM
    738 5 FOUND guilty on a charge of having received a bribe of $88, Chief Police Inspector Mohamed Sidin was sentenced yesterday to one year's rigorous imprisonment and a fine of $500 by the Singapore First District Judge, Mr. H. E. Kingdon. On two
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    Passing-Out Parade
    56 5 GENERAL SIR JOHN HARDING, Commander-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces, is pictured addressing the passing-out Parade at the RASC School. Far East, Nee Soon yesterday. On his right is the Officer Commanding the R.A.S.C. School, Lt. Col. H. M Jensen and. on his left, is interpreter R. S. M.
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    Casino Below The Stage
    76 5 I rum Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Fri. WHILE people were crowdIng the padang opposite th« Johore Bahru Railway Station to watch the wayangi. Tan Thian Quan and Tan Chia Tye. of Singapore, crept under the stage and ran a sort cf casino. They pleaded guilty
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    9 MILES OF ROAD CLEARED
    171 5 Month' Men At Work ALOR START, Fri. WITH strong Gurkha troops and police patrolling the highway, 1,700 Kedah 'Month' volunteers this week began work along both embankments of the natorious Krnh-Klian Intan Road. In one day, the volunteers cleared six out of nine miles of
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    Quiet Week In Rubber
    159 5 rpHE rubber market has been much quieter this week, the accumulating stocks in Indonesia still overshadowing the situation and dampening what would otherwise be a bullish market. There is some expectation, says Lewis Peat's weekly market report, that there will be further Economic Co-operation Administration buying
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    UNLICENSED
    24 5 RAUB, Fri. Hassan bin Musti, was fined $25 or 10 days' rigorous imprisonment for using a motor car which had not been licensed.
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    PRAISE FROM NEWG.O.C.
    127 5 PRAISE FROM NEWG.O.C. From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN Fri. THE new GOC. Malaya District. Major-General R. E. Urquhart told a Gurkha bandit killer today: "Jolly good work. I congratulate you on your excellent performance." He was Gurkha Captain Jal Bahadur Limbu. of l/7th Gurkha Rifles, who received the MB E.
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    Countess Asks About F.P.A.
    70 5 Countess Mountbatten had a talk with Mrs. S. M. Barnwell, chairman of the Family Planning Association, when they met at a lunch given by Lady McKerron at Government House. The Countess, who had visited some of the Children's Social Centres during the morning, showed great interest
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    16 Alsatian Dogs To Trail Bandits
    115 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. SIXTEEN Alsatian dogs will trail bandits in the jungles in the next few days. Ten dogs will work from Kuala Lumpur, four from Ipoh, and two will work in Johore. "All they are waiting for is to
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    C-G's Guest
    39 5 Dr. P. Subbaroyan, Indian Ambassador to the United States of Indonesia, will arrive In Singapore this morning by X.L.M. Constellation. Ho will stay here for three d\ys as the guest of C< nrmls-sioner-Qeneral, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald.
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    ASST. SECRETARY FOR DEFENCE
    34 5 LT.-COL. E. L\ E. DAVIES, late of the Royal Artillery, who is now Asst. Secretary for Defence, Singapore. Lt.-Col. Davies served at Fort Canning before the war. P. R. picture.
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    SINGAPORE WEEK-END DIARY
    167 5 Y.WC.A., 5 Raffles Quay, Chinese literature class, 11 a.m. ADMIRALTY LOCAL STAFF UNION, annual general meeting, 1, Farrer Park, 2 p.m. SINGAPORE BADMINTON ASSOCIATION, annual general meeting, Clerical Union Hall, Rangoon Road, 2.30 p.m. Y.W.C.A.. Orchard Road, chess tournament, 3 p.m., movie circle show, 8 p.m. EXHIBITION
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    Bandits Raze Estate Houses
    165 5 Bandits Raze Estate Houses From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. OANDITS numbering D between 150 and 200 attacked Hong Huat Sam Estate in Triang, Pahang, last night and killed the Chinese estate manager and a contractor and burned 12 houses, two factories, three smokehouses, three store houses, two lorries,
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    Railway Has Had 100 Attacks
    205 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Friday. TN a broadcast tonight describing Malayan Rail- way's efforts to maintain an efficient service despite the emergency, the General Manager, Mr. J. O. Sanders, revealed that since June 1948 the railway had been attacked more than 100 times.
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    Squad Kills $2,000 Man
    72 5 From Our SUB Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Frl. POLICE said today that a police jungle squad operating in the Alor Gajah area of Malacca on March 4 shot dead a leader of the Machap gang and recovered a pistol and 41 rounds of ammunition. The dead bandit
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    Poultry In Johore
    19 5 SEGAMAT, Fri.— To develop poultry in Johoroe, the Veterinary Department is to >nend $6,500 this year.
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      The Timber Trade
      645 6 A significant event in the ommercial life of Singapore ast week was the arrival of a j epresentative of one of the argest firms of timber imHjrters in the United Kindom 0 do business here. The timber trade is a branch 1 the export trade of this
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      Malayanisation Moves On
      384 6 A welcome sign of the times is the news that three technical assistants of the Survey Department will be leaving for Australia on Monday to take a four-year course for a degree in surveying at the University of Queensland. It is also noteworthy that of this trio
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      TAMIL BOOKS IN TAIPING
      67 6 TAIPING, Frl.— St. George's Institution, Taiping, hai opened a library containing 700 Tamil books. The library is open to all Tamil students In Taiping and each member pays only 10 cents a month. The library was made possible by the enterprise of the Rev. Brother Director
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    Roosevelt warns envoy of 'hell fire'
    1952 6  - Roosevelt warns envoy of 'hell fire' WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Srand Alliance— War Comes To America By QJs my return to the White House Jfrom Ottawa at the end of December, 1941] all was ready for the signature of the United Nations Pact Many telegrams had passed between Washington, London and
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    On the Margin
    375 6 Koxinga APROPOS the Straiis TlOMt leader yesterday < n Chiang Kai-shek's bombii.g raids from Formosa, nobit-y has yet pointed out the curious way in whicli Chin >c history is repeating itself «>n Formosa. When the Ming dyna^iy was overthrown by the M:i:>chus at the beginning of the
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    KALLANG TESTS SUCCESS
    313 7 All Civil Planes To Use Airport From NextMon th JTALLANG Airport, subject to final Government approval, will become Singapore's only civil airport on April 3, when QANTAS-BOAC plan to operate their Constellation services from Kallang. After a month's survey P.W.I}, experts have reported that the Kallang runway,
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    FLOWER SHOW 1950 MAY TOP ALL
    250 7 FLOWER SHOW 1950 MAY TOP ALL rpHE Singapore Garden- ing Society, which last year raised $2,500 for charity, will hold its 1950 flower show at the Happy World covered stadium at the end of the month. Hopes that this year's flower rtto* would be on a scale sur- passing anything
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    DID NOT NOTIFY NEW ADDRESS
    69 7 From Oar SUff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Fri— P. Vtllasamy, houseboy to a forim r manager of Linden Est- I ate. Kulai. was fined $5 in the Police Court yesterday forj failing to notify his change I (idress and having his Identity card endorsed accorHe told
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    Mannequins' .Weight: The Right Guess
    173 7 THE first prize for guessing the combined weight of the mannequins who took part in the Festival of Fashion has been awarded to Mr. Tan Chin Tuan. The i correct total weight is given as 1.822 lb. The second prize went to j Mr. P.
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    Boat Had No Name
    96 7 FINES totalling $600 were Imposed on Neo Han Slew. the talkong of a motor vessel. a the First District Court yesterday on four charges of contravening the shipping regulations. Neo did not have the name of the vessel marked on each side of the bow: failed
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    $200 FINE ON ARMY DRIVER
    233 7 $200 FINE ON ARMY DRIVER V. R. Foxhall, a service driver attached to the GHQ Signals Regiment. FARELF. was fined $200 in the Singapore First Traffic Court yesterday for driving his station waggon in a dangerous manner on Dec. 16 in East Coast Ror.ci. Insp. J. Matthews, who prosecuted, said
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    REP' PLAY CHANCED
    70 7 BECAUSE Miss Dorothy Morrell has been forbidden by her doctor to act again until after she has returned from leave the Singapore Repertory have had to postpone their performance of "They Walk Alone." They are to present, instead. "Murder without Crime," another psychological thriller, for which the
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    Union Funds Frozen
    96 7 From Oh SUff Corrwp«nde«t KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. NEARLY $8,000 belonging to unions which had been Communist-dominated before the declaration of the Emergency were frozen by the Federation Government last year. Revealing this in nis report for 1949. the Registrar of Trade Unions. Mr. J. B. Prentis, adds
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    MRNVR ON PARADE
    51 7 THE FLAG OFFICER. Malaya Area. Rear Admiral Faulkner (top) inspecting: men of the Malayan R.N.V.R. at a parade at Telok Aver Basin yesterday. ABOVE: Rear Admiral Faulkner (right) being greeted by the acting Commander of the Malayan R.N.V.R.. Commander H. G. Ricbes. on his arrival. Straits Times
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    'BOY' ROBBED
    25 7 A Hainanese "boy" was robbed on Thursday night in Meyer Road by two men, who took his $25-wiist watch and $1.60 In cash.
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    PLAN FOR FREE LEGAL AID
    212 7 PROPOSALS to extend free legal aid for the poor who cannot afford to enter into litigation for redress of grievances are being considered by the Singapore Government. An average of 100 people apply every month to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for free
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    HOLIDAYS: Your Views Sought
    111 7 TPHE Singapore Government yesterday invited i x written representations from the public on the question of the number of Bank and Public Holidays in the Colony. Such representations should be addressed to the Clerk of Councils Select Committee on the Holidays Ordinance. Colonial Secretariat. Government Offices.
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    On Way Home
    47 7 Mrs. Isabel A. Maurer, one of the highest ranking women j in the U.S. State Department, I left Singapore yesterday morning for Saigon on the first lap of a journey back to Washington after visiting U.S. Information Service offices In Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.
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    So Crime Went Up
    109 7 So Crime Went Up AS expected by Singapore police, there was an increase of robberies last month —the month of the Chinese New Year festivities. Robberies nearly doubled there being 23 armed and simple robberies, compared with 12 in January. Singapore, however, was "crime-free" during the first three or four
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    The Schoolgirls Had A Pleasant Surprise
    157 7 pilE older girls in Fairfield Girls' School had a A treat yesterday morning. Instead of their everyday school classes, they were shown "Ruth" a religious film based on the old Testament story. The Rev. W. S. Reinoehl, the pastor of the Wesley Method- ist
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    SCHOOL EXAM RESULTS 'STANDARD MAINTAINED'
    222 7 SCHOOL EXAM RESUL TS 'STANDARD MAINTAINED A SPOKESMAN of the Singapore Education Department yesterday said that any detailed observation on the Cambridge examinations before the full results arrived was premature. W an inspection of the general results showed that the standard had been maintained. He said that the percentages in
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    Flag Officer Impressed
    124 7 rpHE new Flag Officer, Ma- laya Area, Rear Admiral H. W. Faulkner, yesterday witnessed the training of nearly 250 ratings of the Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and the Singapore Sea Cadets at their headquarters at Teluk Ayer Basin and left greatly impressed. Accompanied by Commander H.
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    Mr. Kalelkar For India
    93 7 MR. S. D. Kalelkar. Information Officer of the Government of India in Malaya. has been appointed Research Officer 'n the Ministry of External Affairs at New Delhi. Mr Kalelkar wi'l leave Singapore on Mar. 23 by s.s. Canton. Mr. Kalelkar came to Malaya two years ago
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    $1,630 Fines On 33 Bus Drivers
    124 7 $1,630 Fines On 33 Bus Drivers A SURPRISE chcik by the Singapore Traffic autl)t>rities on public service vthicles on Singapore s roatil resulted in the conviction of 33 drivers in thu First mid Second Traffic Courts yesurday, when a total of $1 t) in fines was imposed <n the drivers.
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    2 Boys For America
    59 7 From Our Staff Cun-e-pondrnl IPOH. Fri. TWO Perak boys are leaving for America next wetk with scholarships to read medicine at Baker University in Kansas. They are 20-yeat-okl S. Puvirajasinfcham and 19-year-old Leong Scow Khong, both old boys of the AnrloChinese School, Ipoh. Their scholarships will
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    Three surprises in French fashions
    258 8 EILEEN ASCROFT writes about— n«*. ac1 < m is u\ the neckline m fash- > ionable cir- cles iti Lonition today. v 7' h e s c picz; lures of pervtuna lities, taken a few days ago reveal the trend towards biguer and better ornaments.
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    Flying Panel
    92 8 SURPRISES include the return of the Flying Panel, from waist and yoke for morning, afternoon and evening the return of the tunic frock and the "pantajupes" (pantaloons) for evening wear under short frocks. There has been a big welcome for the picture hat. No brim is too large
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    Very Short
    104 8 THE short evening dress is well established, and if you haven't yet fallen for one you soon will. When you do it will be very short (about 16in. from the ground) and either a heavily embroidered sheath or a full billowing skirt of organdie or tulle. It is
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    New Colour
    119 8 IT will be a hard summer on the soap ration in Britain with all these crisp white accessories. Men will love them for the way they look, women will hate them for jthe work they make. The new colour launched by many of the houses, is tangerine. The
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    THE MIND OF A WOMAN
    383 8 Daphne dv BMaurier tells fVhy u?e surprise men "WOMEN of genius arm rare." So said Pierre Curie, who, with Madam* C, discovered radium. This view takes "an unconscionable time a dying. Why? What do today s "rarities" say about iti Reported by JAMES LEASOR JUST
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    Historian
    256 8 DARKNESS moves in on the city. Street lamps flare like stars; the cars move on as the traffic lights change through amber to green. For working London, another busy day is done. But not for handsome, husky-voiced Cicely Veronica Wedgwood. She stays on in her Bloomsbury office She has
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    Specialist
    143 8 THREE floors up in a blue building in Whitfteldstreet. W. Dr. Marie Carmichael Stopes runs her f amoui birth-control clinic from a room marked Museum. Greyhaired, kindly, she weirs her hat in her room shrugs In her fur-trimmed black costume. "Why are people surprised at brilliant, successful women? Ignorance,
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    Lawyer
    162 8 npHUMB through the Law M. Lists and mark this name: Miss Rose Heilbron, one of England's two women K.C.s. She Is a keen feminist, has publicly stated that women have not yet been long enough in the professions for people to be used to them being successful. "Look at
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    Patience
    45 8 SO there they are— the "rarities" who have borne their dreams and their ambitions like burning torches across the hilltops of the years. They are all over 30, all have their faith. And as George Meredith remarked: "The principal part of faith is —patience."
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    A warning to 'guilty mothers'
    370 8  -  ANNE EDWARDS By T*HE broken love stories of two girls are to be used in Britain to warn parents of the potential dangers of not telling young people "the facts of life." They have been made into a film which has been backed by the
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      167 8 |S) A compliment is m implied |X 3k In keeping with the natural modesty T l\\ of true craftsmen. Rothmans are re- luctant to claim that they alone have I attained the pinnacle of blending per- lI I L Ii <| fection, but, that ao ever-increasing ////i Ijj] number of
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      233 8 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD It. Serve dip (iiur) tti. rROKSWORn Ka 1 2 fTT «rmon Una,.) (8). 11. C.ckU, Uk. __7. 8. Parenli get separated In M. I cut Alan («ni*»; (I). i| 3 K|| 3 |Ss§ 4 5 7 Central America 24 Goliath waa (8» M MS Eg*} co n
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    "A EUROPEAN ALREADY IN THE SERVICE"
    508 9 "A EUROPEAN ALREADY IN THE SERVICE" THOUGH Mr. M. P. D. Nair'c letter published in your issue of Mar. 6 under the heading "Politics and puMic services" was written in his personal capacity, and not in his official capacity as secretary of the Singapore Labour Party, any sensible reader could
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    VACANCY FILLED'
    69 9 I HAVE often noticed that the majority of commercial firms, when advertising in your newspaper for applicants for employment, inform the applicants neither individually nor through the Press when the advertised vacancies have been filled. It would be a kindness on the part of the firms concerned if
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  • SATURDAY FORUM
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      Mr. Pat Johnson' s Attitude
      274 9 MR. Pat Johnson is to be admired for his guts in saying what he believes is right in the Singapore Municipal Commission, and for not being influenced by the "madding crowd." Yet I venture to say that, as human beings are not infallible, the firmest
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      Ragging: 'strange to Oriental youth'
      252 9 [HAVE read with sympathy a Penang parent's letter, published on Mar. 9, protesting against the ragging of his "very fat" student son, who has been reduced to the bone as a result of the ragging. This custom of ragging may have started as a harmless
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      A RURAL BOARD VILLAGE
      120 9 DESPITE the number of appeals made by the residents of Jalan Kembangan village to the Singapore Rural [Board, Kembangan Road (off Changi Road still remains rough and neglected. Those miserable villagers who are office workers with jobs in town find it an extreme trial to travel
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      LISTENERS' CHOICE—
      250 9 Radio Views RADIO Malaya's programmes Listeners' Choice or Calling All Hospitals Singapore and Mallbag (Kuala Lumpur) go on the air at approximately 6.15 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday. It is a heart-rending business to have these two popular sessions coinciding with each other on both days, leaving one
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      PERAK ADVICE TO SINGAPORE LOCAL-BORN
      314 9 PERAK ADVICE TO SINGAPORE LOCAL-BORN a LETTER headed "Water in the Jap nes" which appeared in the Straits Tiir- of Mar. 3 interested me as it contained some remarks concerning the appointment of local-born Asians to senior posts in Government and Municipal Departments'. Your correspondent "Impartial" says: "Being localborn myself,
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      "JUST ONE PINT OF BLOOD "
      223 9 "JUST ONE PINT OF BLOOD I SHALL be very grateful If you will print tins letter so that the puDllc may know that I have tnrown good human blood away on several occasions, and will continue to throw more in future, unless the Singapore Blood Transfusion Service is willing to
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    ANTI-BANDIT ROSTER IN KEDAH
    367 9 ANTI-BANDIT ROSTER IN KEDAH T AM one of the Government servants who volun1 teered for Anti-Bandit Month in Kedah. In the Police Auxiliary Form I signed for a part-time job, giving the days and periods that I offered to serve. But, to my surprise, I have been given a fulltime
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    One Half-Day A Week
    130 9 One Half-Day A Week «r)OCTOR'S Wife" (whose "letter was published in the Straits Times on Thursday) has given a very true and admirable account of a medical practitioner's life. Might I add that I have been a rural practitioner for over 15 years, and I get one half-holiday a week
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    'ABUSE OF U.S.' FROM MALAYA
    113 9 IS Mr. Tan Kah Kee to be allowed to continue making use of the Press of this country to disseminate proCommunist propaganda and to affront our friends the Americans? If so, it seems a high price to pay tor whatever advantage may accrue from Britain's
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    COOL HEADS IN COUNCIL
    232 9 IN the -On The Margin" comments headed "Men Not Dummies," your columnist said that Mr. John Laycock was overcome with patriotic wrath when he used this expression in the Singapore Legislative Council. Such a man will do the country no igood. We want a Councillor to
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    LONDON STOCKS
    318 10 LONDON, *ri. J^EWS of the Japanese Qovernment ban on nearly all allocations for sterling area imports resulted m heavy marking down of Japanese Bonds on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. Closing middle prices of selected stocks, v supplied to the Straits Time* by special arrangement with The Financial
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    EASTERN BANK
    40 10 DIRECTORS of the ahatan Bank recommend pavm.>nt of a final divldned of 3s. 6d. per I share lew tax, transfer of I £30.000 to PremisM fund and of £50.000 to Contingencies and a rarry- forward of £88 434
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    Fair Demand For Industrials
    572 10 From Our Market Correspondent I ONDON again showed small improvements In some Tin share issues yesterday. Locally. Tins remained quiet and fairly steady though some dividends were again announced. Industrials continued in fair demand, while Rubbers also had some in- quiries. Prices quoted by the Malayan
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    TIN PRICES
    455 10 SINGAPORE, Frl., Mar. 10 —$291.87?-* (up $«.37Vi.) LONDON. Fri. Mar. 10. Spot: £5981 —£599. Forward: £591?— £59ii Settlement: £598}. Turnover: Morning 85 tons, afternoon 50 tons. Sunset Bidor 28 V Sungei Way 1M Sutinel Kinia 14/9 Ialping Conaoll 2.15 Taniong Tiu 7/7» Thabawleik 21 6 Takuapa Valley 16>3
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    Kesang Tin Tribute
    14 10 TTESANO Tin tribute figures for February are: 63.44 pleuls, $1,395 tribute.
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    SINGAPORE RUBBER
    195 10 TBI Singapore rubber market was steadier yesterday, with moderate trade interest. However, sellers were reserved. The market closed very steady. Closing priced yesterday were No. 1 R S.S. spot loose Duyers 53 t k cents, sellers 54 I*,1 centa; .No. 1 R.S.S. f.o.b. in bales, buyers 53 7»
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    97 10 From A Market Correspondent rr-HE coffee market yesterday remained very quiet at about the same quotations as those prevailing on Thursday. Copra was slightly ateadier at $38 per pic-ul buyers and »38-.> sellers, while coconut oil remained nominal at $61 V 2 Per plcul. VSsterday's DHo ik*i
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    CHARTERED BANK DIVIDEND
    67 10 DIRECTORS of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China will recommend, to the stockholders' meeting on Apr. 4. a final dividend of six per cent subject to tax imaking 12 per cent, for the year>: addition of £100.000 to the Pension Fund and £15.000 to the
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    Hitam Tin Output
    12 10 HITAM Tin !n Febrnary produced 66 plculs of tin-ore.
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    MITCHELL OUTPOINTS HUGGINS
    423 11 Disappoin ting H'weight Final PHE HOLDER and favourite for the heavyweight x title, Sgt. Huggins of the Coldstream Guards (Malaya), took his first beating from the much smaller Capt. W. D. Mitchell of 58 Med. Regiment (Hong Kong) in a most disappointing final in the heavyweiglfV division
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    C'wealth Team Well Positioned
    41 11 BOMBAY, Fri— The Governor's Side were dismissed for 228 and by close of play Commonwealth had scored 205 for three in the Commonwealth's last cricket fixture of their tour— l2-a-side three-day match starting In Bombay today.— Reuter.
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    Sports Diary
    177 11 TODAY SOCCER: Sino Malay* y Comb. Services at Jalan Besar (for SCBA fends) Jnr. A.l Lge: Police S.A. v GHQ Royal Sigs at Ue Jiang Stadium; Friendly: Coronation Rangers v HMS Unicorn at Race Course ground. CRICKET: S.C.B.C. v Customs, Honr Lim Green; Indians YMCA, Balestier Road; SJI.C.
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    SUFFOLKS WIN ARMY TOURNEY
    239 11 SUFFOLKS WIN ARMY TOURNEY THE Far East Land Forces Inter-unit hockey championship was continued yesterday at the Naval Base ground, Seletar, when First Suffolks, Malaya District's champion unit, beat the Hong Kong Defence Force by two goals to nil. Suffolks have therefore won both their ties, having on Wednesday beaten
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    Lifeguards For 5 Singapore Beaches
    326 11 WIVE major Singapore beaches, Bedok Marine Parade, Changl Paslr Panjang and Ponggol. will soon be closely supervised by fully trained lifesavers of the newly formed Singapore Life Guard Corps. On each beach a 15-foot lifeguard tower will be built equipped with a boat house, life
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    Today's Radio Programmes
    216 11 SINGAPORE 10 am. News from K.L.; 10.05 Close; 12 Malay; l p m. Dance Music; 1.30 News, Share Market; 1.50 interlude; 2 Album of Harmony; 2.30 Swing Time; 2.45 London Studio Melodies: 3.15 Song Time 330 Tea Dance; 4 Play: "She Stoops to Conquer 5 Intel ude;
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    Islanders Win 2-1 In Dull Game
    247 11 By Our SOCCER REPORTER AT THE END of a rather dreary soccer match in a r% Singapore Amateur F.A. Senior League fame at Jalan Besar yesterday, the score was two goals for Pulau Brani United and one for the Singapore Cricket Club. i- It
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    SELETAR AIRMEN BEAT CHANGI
    30 11 IN a Singapore Amateur Football Association Senior Division league soccer match played at Seletar yesterday, R.A.F. Base Seletar beat RAF. Changi by two goals to one.
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    Motor Club Speed Trials On Apr. 9
    255 11 Motor Club Speed Trials On Apr. 9 THE Singapore Motor Club will open their 1950 racing season with two speed time trial events on Sunday, April 9. Both events will be held on Lim Chu Kang Road, off 10th mile Buk.it Timah Road. A feature of the meet will be
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    PENG SOON'S EASY WIN
    188 11 ABERDEEN, Scotland, FrL Wong Peng Soon, Singapore's winner of the All-England badminton championship last week, was in action in the Scottish championships here today. He won his second round match against T. H. Boyle of Ireland by 15-5. 15-2, never being extended. There was little doubt
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    ALABAMA, GRECIAN PRINCE TO WIN AGAIN
    390 12  -  Lobau Lady Should Improve On Ist Run By EPSOM JEEP PENANG, Friday. ALABAMA gained a convincing victory last Saturday and, with a decided weight advantage, I think he will beat Ramillies and Power Chief in the six-furlong event for Class 4, Div. 1, at
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    Race One
    98 12 'THERE are only two in It liere Mad -in*; and Baroness. Madang's third to Miss Linor over 6f on TVednesday was his best effort for long long time, indicating that he has regained a glimpse of his old form. Madang was never much of a (galloper but at
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    Race Two
    111 12 OHEFFIELD PLATE won with 0 such effortless ease over 6f. i on Wednesday that a 10-lb. penalty is not likeiy to trouble him. He appears to b-? much too ?nod for any Class 5 field. Aipiia. with a stone pull for a four-length beating, will be a threat.
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    Race Four
    149 12 RAINBOW looks a good tning here on his second to Miss Linor. This Frederick John gelding wa-s always haudy and rhased hi? srable mat* all the way to the finishing line on Wednesday. Bam II never had a chance on Wednesday. Drawn right on tht outside he had
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    Race Five
    111 12 pRACIOUS l ADY and Miss Linor. both winners on Wednesday, meet in this field, and it is hard to separate them. Both have useful speed. But one to outsmart them may be Jaunty. This speedy little bay van a surprisingly good race with 19.11 9.1 on his back
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    Race Six
    188 12 I OTAYING rorm Is pretty poor lv here. Spear Mirth came on with a rush to finish fourth to All Boloney over 7f. last Saturday ana on that showing she must have a winning change here. Spear Mirth was second to Briany over B 'if. at Ipoh in
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    Race Seven
    42 12 GRECIAN Prince trotted in last Saturday witr. 9.0. Taken wide out all the way he was •never bustled at any stage and cut down the leaders in the run-in to via d. a wing away. Grecian Prince can stay. He
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    Race Eight
    211 12 ALABAMA'S clear-cut victory last Saturday was so impressive I that I think he will be s pretty > hard horse to beat in any Class 4 field. Drawn right on the outside he raced wide out for a furlong or so before Lansdown settled him nicely behind the
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    Engineers & Engineers & BODCA Draw
    121 12 Engineers Engineers BODCA Draw fHINESE Engineering Asso- v elation held BOD. Civi- Han Association to a two-all I draw in a Junior A2 league soccer match at St. George's Road yesterday. Soon after the start Kriihnasamy, trapping a pass from the left, scored a fine goal. The sides changed ends
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    Straits Times Selections
    153 12 EPSOM JEEP CALI BOY POINTER ace 1: 2.3« MADANG Baroness Eastern Girl BARONESS Eastern Gold Madang EASTERN GOLD Madang Baroneaa SHEFFIELD PLATE Alpha tauntain Lady DESERT KINO ALPHA mm t: 3.00 Alpha Fountain Lady Fountain Lady Sheffield Plat* NEW ERA LADY OF KENT GRACEFUL SPEAK Royal Kag
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    Today's House Card
    817 12 BELOW is the card for today, third and last day of the Penan* Turf Club Spring meeting. The Big Sweep will be drawn on race eight. Race 1—2.30: Cl. 5. Div 2—7 Furs. 000 Eastern Gold Poshni 9.03 000 EaUein Girl Flannery 8.11 204 Baroness Bagby 8.06
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    Race Three
    94 12 HERE is a real teaser. There is absolutely no form to go on Md i m selecting New Era as the likely winner on the assumption that he ha* been improved by his run on Wednesday. Ir war his first outing after a five-moiuh lay oft and 'he
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    21 12 TODAY: 2.45 a.m. Bft. Gin.) and 4.19 p.m. (7ft). TOMORROW: 330 am Bft 2in.) and 6.23 p.m. < 6ft. Ma.).
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    SELANGOR FORMS A MOTOR CLUB
    233 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Pri. ANEW Motor Club catering particularly for car and motor cycle owners who want to compete In sporting events has been formed here. Membership will be also open to outstatlon enthusiasts at a reduced subscription. The Club was formed
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    MALA VAN SOCCER SIDE TO TOUR THIS SEASON
    298 12 AN All-Malayan team, sponsored by the Football rV Association of Malaya, may visit Hong Kong and other Far Eastern cities in October or November this year. This was announced yesterday by Mr. Kok Chong Fook, chairman of the newly-appointed P.A.M. committee to
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    EMPIRE GAMES FILM ON MAR. 16
    84 12 EAGLE-LION Distributors Ltd. announce ths simultaneous release in Singapore and Penani? on March 16 of a full-length feature on the British Empire Games of 1950 held last month in Auckland, New Zealand. The 9.000-ft. feature from its first reel, depicting the arrival of athlete*
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    UNICORN TEAM
    49 12 r pHE following will reprc.vnii H.M.S. Unicorn cricket 'miv againsi the Singapore Recreatiju Club on Ir.e Padang today, bttrU ing at 2. 1S p.m. Lt.-Commdr. Harris. Lt. Toti>n', Mid-Shipman Salt-oner, CKA Siepp. REM WUson. LSAM Pi!chett, ERA Franklin, Joiner Davy. AA Stuchbury. ERA Mich.vi >l CEA Williams.
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