The Straits Times, 13 March 1950

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 KIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MARCH IJ, 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS
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    83 IN CRASHED GIANT PLANE
    245 1 Avro Tudor Disaster In South Wales CARDIFF, Sunday. ]y|ANY lives are feared lost when an Avro Tudor air Jiner carrying: 83 -passengers mostly rugby football fans crashed in South Wales this afternoon. The plane was returning from Dublin to Cardiff on a charter flight when
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    BOMB HURLED THROUGH THIS WINDOW.
    22 1 BOMB HURLED THROUGH THIS WINDOW. THE ADELPHI HOTEL in Singapore (above) scene, of a bomb outrage on Saturday night. Straits Times picture.
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    YOUTH'S 100-FOOT FALL TO DEATH
    267 1 YOUTH'S 100-FOOT FALL TO DEATH Al5-Y E A R-O L D Chinese youth, Yang Yau Luan. fell 100 feet to Ms death from a window on the fourth floor of the Air View Hotel in Peck S-.ih Street. Singapore j»bMit noon yesterday. Yang went into the restaurant on the fourth
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    Jap Suicide Record
    63 1 TOKYO. Sun. TOKYO police today reported that suicides, i', mole suicides, family suicides and unsuccessful attempts at suicides reached pott-war February peak In s year. Fi lice estimated that a'iout 400 people attempted I omtuii suicide and failed during February. SixU -one suicides were ■ur.'ttsful. auses of
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    Atonement
    33 1 AKAsHIMA. Kyushu. Sun.— IvenioQ Yoshlmura, head of the local high school, hangpi himself to a' one for the embezzlement by one of his teachers of 30.0u0 yen (about |70i from students.— UP.
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    CEYLON ATTACK OVER SERETSE
    165 1 COLOMBO, Sunday. BRITAIN'S handling of the Seretse Khama case is to be challenged in the Ceylon Parliament in a severely worded request to the Prime Minister, Mr. D. S. Senanayake, by a government party member, Mr. Freddie jayawardane. The Premier will be asked to convey to
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    War Risks Up
    38 1 HONG KONG. Sun. The war risk insurance rate for shipments to Mac o 40 miles away, has been increased from .15 per cent, to J per cent, because of Nationalist interference with Chineseowned vessels. Reuter.
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    MOSCOW INVITES USI ENVOY
    89 1 MOSCOW INVITES USI ENVOY JAKARTA, Sun. f\R. L. If. Palar, chief Indonesian representative to the United Nations, will soon head a mission to arrange for the opening of diplomatic relations wi'h the Soviet Union. The Premier Dr. Mohamed Hatia, said today that the mission waa going at the invitation of
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    LATEST
    15 1 Only two survivors have been found. The plane carried 78 passengers and five creic.
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    Pope Urges Prayers
    54 1 VATICAN CITY Sun.— The Pope today urged world-wide prayers on Passion Sunday, March 26. for "opportune remedies for the present evils" of an unsettled peace and the armaments race. In an encyclical to Roman Catholic bishops, the Pontiff said the armament race leaves "the soula of all
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    Rice Exchange Rate Problem Solved
    119 1 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Sunday. rHE Siamese and United Kingdom Governments have agreed to base the purchase price of rice throughout this year on the present rate of exchange of 35 ticals to the pound sterling, regardless of any possible future currency revaluation, it
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    Armed Guards At Adelphi
    255 1 SINGAPORE hotels are taking additional security precautions following the throwing of a bomb into the dining room of the Adelphi Hotel on Saturday night. Yesterday armed police sentries were on duty outside the entrance to the Adelphi and other police patrolled the frontage. Extra watchmen are
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    Beating The Blockade
    82 1 HONG KONG. Sun. THE first Communist goods ;rain ever to travel be:wefc* .Shanghai and Hong Kong anived here today with a cargo of bristle, rapeseed oil and feathers for export abroad. The train, which left Shanghai on Feb. 25 and travelled about 1.200 miles, had been expected
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    Two Hurt In Speed Trial
    58 1 A SINGAPORE racing enthusiast. Mr. Lim Huang Khiam. driving in the Ipoh Speed Trial yesterday, went off the road and hit two men and a boy. Fortunately no one sutf ered severe injury, the men being treated for bruises on the spot while the boy
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    Fire Wave
    42 1 TOKYO, Sun.— In a wave of fires last night, 110 fire cars and Tokyo's total brigade strength were marshalled from dusk to dawn. Over 50 houses were destroyed in seven minor blazes, and nine citizens and flremen were injured.— Reuter.
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    Then There Were Five
    71 1 STRASBOURG, Sun. rr<HE next meeting of the Foreign Ministers' Committee of the Council of Europe will take place at Strasbourg on March 30. Mr. Ernest Bevin, who will be out of Britain for several days at the meeting, will be the first Minister to leave the
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    Demand Met
    34 1 WASHINGTON, Sun— The United States will recall three military officers f«»om the U.S. Legation in Budapest, in compliance with a demand of Hungary's Communist government, a State Department spokesman said yesterday. A.P.
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    Cat Kills Baby
    24 1 TOKYO, Sun.— A Japanese household cat yesterday suffocated a three-month-old baby by sitting on his face. it was reported today.— Reuter.
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    No U.S. Fliers
    27 1 WASHINGTON, Sun. The U.S. State Department yesterday formally denied that American fliers are engaged in Nationalist Chinese air attacks on Communist Chinese cities. U.P.
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    Vatican Recognises
    25 1 PARIS. Sun.— The Vatican ha* recognised the three associated states of Indo-China —Vietnam. Laos and Cambodia, the French Foreign Ministry announced today. Reuter.
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    BULLETS, BOMBS IN BRUSSELS
    152 1 BRUSSELS Sun. QANOSTER-like raids, with bullets, home made bombs and flaming arrows, flared up in Brussels less ,than 24 hours before the Belgian nation voted today on whether to restore King Leopold to the throne Four attacks were made on the headquarters of the Socialist Party—
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    RUSSIANS GO TO THE POLLS
    94 1 RUSSIANS GO TO THE POLLS MOSCOW, Sun MILLIONS of Soviet citizens went to the polls today to elect 1.302 members of the Supreme Soviet, their twohouse Parliament. The election campaign was wound up tonight by Marshal Stalin, the Prime Minister, in an address to voters in the Stalin district of
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    Moscow Silence
    24 1 LONDON, Sun. Moscow censors have not yet permitted any mention of the speech Generalissimo Stalin was expected to make last night. —A.P.
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    P.I. Envoy To U.S.I.
    19 1 JAKARTA, Sun. -The first; Philippine Ambsasador to Indonesia, Mr. Manuel Gallego, has arrived from Singa-pore.—-Rrater.
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    Bigger Trade With USI Forecast
    212 1 Bigger Trade With USI Forecast 'THE new Indonesian. Government scheme for export inducement, which comes into force today, is expected in business circles in Jakarta and Singapore to result in an early Increase In short-term trading with Malaya An increase in exports will make a greater volume of foreign exchange
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    Last Act
    24 1 HONG KONG, Bun.— ThS police, spurred by Chinese press complaints, have begun a drive to clean up Iha colony's strip-tease shows. A.P.
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    WASHINGTON SPLIT ON JAP PEACE TREATY
    198 2 WASHINGTON, Sunday. AFFICIALS in Washington say a difference has arisen between the U.S. State Department and U.S. defence departments over the completion of a Japanese peace treaty. President Truman's diplomatic advisers insist that a peace treaty with Japan is essential- to American Far East
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    FIRST NIGHT
    27 2 MISS DAGMAR WYNTTR from. Rhodesia wore a cameo brooch and pearl sun-flower ear-rings to a recent first night at the Arts Theatre Club in London.
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    U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIER MOVE
    88 2 WASHINGTON. Sun.— U.S. Carrier Division V of the Pacific Fleet is being split in two, providing the framework for further expansion of Pacific carrier strength. If and when It may be ordered. Two separate divisions— V and III— will result. Since last June, there has been
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    SHALL WATCHES WAR GAMES
    66 2 PESHAWAR, Sun. The Shah of Persia, on a tour of Pakistan, today watched Pakistani tanks ana fighter aircraft carry out a realistic attack on "enemy" positions at Nowshera 27 miles from here. This afternoon 238 tribal leaders of the Pathan tribesmen from the mountainous frontier areas
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    P.I. PRIEST SHOT
    38 2 .MANILA. Sun. Father Manuel Manoz. 45-year-old priest of the Dominican Order. was shot and killed about 45- miles south of Manila. His assailants are unknown, but it to believed that robbery was the motive.— U.P.
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    Burma Regret At Murder Of U.S. Nurse
    106 2 Burma Regret At Murder Of U.S. Nurse WASHINGTON. Sun. THE United States State Department has .received an apology from the Government of Burma for the recent bandit kidnapping and killIng of an American Baptist nurse, 67-year-old Miss Martha Maxwell. She was kidnapped by a bandit gang near Moulmein, and held
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      Vicar Urges Fasting To End H-Bomb Fear
      364 2 LONDON, Sunday. -THREATENING to "scare" the British Government with a nationwide stoppage of work and general fasting, the Anglican vicar at Bexhill, Surrey, has called on "all Christians" to take quick action to secure agreement with Russia on control of the hydrogen bomb.
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      TWO ELEPHANTS GREW TOO FAST
      93 2 WASHINGTON, Sun. THEY say that an elephant 1 never forgets a man, but some men here wish that they could forget elephants. "The problem jet* bigger every minute," said a U.S. State Department official. The problem started when Pandit Nehru decided that, in recognition of
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      692 2 NOTICES SINGAPORE TURF CLUB MARCH MUTING ISM SATURDAY lmi. WEDNESDAY WND A SATURDAY MTH MARCH 1955. ENTRIES CLOSE at 12 noon on WEDNESDAY «TH MARCH 1960. LADY GUES'I MEMBERB— No Lady Guest Members' Badges will be issued. RESERVED ENCLOSURE— A Reserved Enclosure for a maximum of 2M Members will be
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    S.E.-ASIA CHINESE TO BE 'RELLIED'
    381 3 LVs Plan To Aid China Guerillas NEW YORK, Sunday. TH1NKSE in South-East Asia and "liberal and democratic forces within China" are to be hv the deposed acting Nationalist President, General Li Tsung-jen, to overthrow both the Communists and the regime of Chiang Kaishek. "There are
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    GEN. LI IN N.Y.
    38 3 GEN. LI TSUNG-JEN and his wife photographed last week in New York where the general has been under medical treatment. This Associated Press picture caught Mine Li kicking at a Iraf on the pathway.
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    39 3 INDONESIAN dancer. Adjrn.i puts lilac blossom in li<*r gold and silver hearidres> before performing at tVvndhain's Theatre in Londuit. She is a member of thf troupe of Raden Mas I tonm which danced at SinK.i^nre last ve.ir. A.P. picture.
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    INDIANS INCOVER SPY-PING
    143 3 BOMBAY. Sun. Fv;..BAY police announced > m night tht-v had un- <! a 'Pakistan secret j tps" operating in India The polios- fiin not disclose ol tins alleged spy f.v.i but added they had been ne In collaboration with "certain aerate" in this c■■ 'ry Mohamed Asharuddin,
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    Acheson Attacked For Offer To Spy
    200 3 WASHINGTON, Sunday. v. o Republican congressmen have accused the 1 T.S. S-f Mary of State. Mr I)?a n Acheson, of uufitness" for his post for recommending that V:>.!'?itin A. Clubitchev be Minted instead of being 1» -r^ouprl as a spy. S nutor Wherry and
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    STILL COUNTING
    53 3 ATHENS Sun. -Mr John Theotokis. the Premier of the Greek caretaker government, said yesterday that the leadIng parties in last week's election should postpone any attempt to form a government until the votes of the armed forces have been counted. He said that the counting may take another
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    MINISTER DIES
    42 3 LONDON. Sun.— The Israei Minister to London, Dr. Mor-d-'c'ml Ellash was found dead or. the floor or the sitting r<>om of a house near his home in north-west London last night. Death was belie .-nd to be ilt»? to throm-bu.-is.—ReuU-r.
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    U.S. ATOM ATTACK WARNING
    189 3 SANBERNARDINO Sun. /GENERAL Hoyt S. Vandenll berg said last night that Russia soon will be able to launch an intercontinental atomic attack In considerable strength. In a speech at Air Headquarters, the United States Air Force Chief of Staff added' "The grave question now facing us
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    THIEVES TAKE PHONE CABLE
    54 3 FRANKFURT. Sun. Thieves cut off all direct communication between Germany France. Italy and Switzerland when they stole 16 yards of a telephone-telegraph cable. German authorities said the thieves entered the underground cable channel through a bombed-out house shortly after midnight and removed 16 yards of cable
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    U.S.-JAP TREATY
    24 3 TOKYO, Sun— An international arbitration commission to settle claims between American and Japanese business firms will be inaugurated on Mar. 14. Reuter-AAP.
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    CHARGED WITH HUSBAND'S MURDER
    38 3 HALF r AINTING, 23-year-old Mrs. Tvette Madsen of New York is led from a U.S. Court in Frankfurt during her trial on a charge of murdering her U.S. .11l Force hus band.— A.P. picture.
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    R.A.A.F. SURVEY
    35 3 SYDNEY, Sun.-The Royal Australian Air Force Is to make an aerial survey of a million square miles of northern Australia, partly for defence purposes and partly to assist development of the are- nter-AAP.
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    AURIOL FOR U.S.?
    36 3 WASHINGTON. Sun.— The U.S State Department has announced that it has been "hoping for some thne that the President of France could visit the U.S., but nothing definite has been worked out."— AP.
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    U.K. Trusteeship Attacked By P.I.
    242 3 GENEVA, Sunday. \|K. John Fletcher-Cooke. British delegate to the L United Nations Trusteeship Council, answering attacks on British trust administration in the Cameroons. accused the Philippines delegates of "making political publicity." This West African territory formerly belonged to Germany. The Filipino, Serior Carpio declared: "The
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    CHAINS FOR RED STRIKERS
    131 3 CHAINS FOR RED STRIKERS PARIS. Sun. THE Council of the French Upper House has approved the bill providing prison terms for Communist strike agitators who oppose American arms shipments to France. Approval was voted quickly to check the wave of strikes that has already hit Marseilles and Bordeaux, and threatens
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    Girl Killed By Cyclone
    94 3 BRISBANE, Sun. IMGHT hundred Queenslanj ders fled in terror from the small sugar cane town of Garmila. as a 100-miles-an-hour cyclone wrecked buildings and uprooted trees. An 18-year-old girl was crushed to death by a falling tree as she ran from her crumbling home. Only the
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    FLOOD THREAT
    20 3 CAIRO. Sun.— lraq's ancient capital. Baghdad, is threatened with floods by the rising of the River Tigris.— A.P.
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    'BAN SIAMESE TWINS FILMS'
    68 3 SYDNEY, Sun.— Mr. John Hunter, secretary of the British Medical Association's Australian Federal Council, has described as "a shocking example of morbid curiosity" pictures and newsreels of Tasmanian Siamese twins. Two Sydney papers have already published photographs and Mr. Hunter has now endorsed an appeal by
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    REDS IN TIBET
    36 3 JAMMU, KASHMIR Sun. —A force of 900 Chinese Communist soldiers from Sinkiang recently occupied the Tibetan village of Kakhajar. according to Qulam Kadir Oanderwali, the Kashmir Government's chief administrative officer in Ladakh.— Reuter.
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    Singapore Diary
    37 3 EXHIBITION of works of local artists, British Council Hall. Stamford Road. 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. T.W.C.A., Mandarin and dressmaking classes, S, Raffles Quay, 10 a.m.. sports club meeting, 8, Fort Canning Road, 5.30 p.m.
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    West Germans Angered By Saar Decision
    237 3 BONN, Sun. rHERE was a riotous session of the West German Parliament yesterday, when the Premier, Dr. Conrad Adenauer, demanded international control of the rich mining area of the Saar. Dr. Adenauer blasted the French Government in a speech lasting an hour. He complained
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      318 3 SINGAPORE Dance Music (Qriffln Inn); 10.30 interlude 10 Radio News R-el; Beauty that Endure*; 11 Close. 10.18 "Having a Wonderlul 9.3o a.m. Schools; 9.5a Inter- rvim«"- in ah nf« in Britain lude; 10 News from K.L.; 10.05 PRMANO U l£nce M«lc"ll l? c£££o£6Dv S irlk 5 6 C a 0G«a
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    ACKNOWLEDMENT
    31 4 m CHBOK WAH and family t' >w;k relations and frlrndx rho pn:d n'ght visits, font la, cars and le'.ti'is ot con- the death cf hl> irother, Anna Chan Ah Teng.
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    IN MEMORIAM
    22 4 In loving mrmcry ot Paul Shim 1 nway 13'h March 1948. Gent 1 but not Forgotten nnv Az ,'p tea
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Mar. 13, 1950. The Past and the Future
    823 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Mar. 13, 1950. The Past and the Future By the unanimous decision of Its shareholders, the Straits Times Press Ltd., is to become a public company. For fifty years the ownership of the Straits Times and latterly of the Singapore Free Press, tht Sunday Times,
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    "KOXINGA"
    280 4 CECIL Street" gave us an interesting little account of "Koxinga" last Saturday, and drew p historical narallel. I would like to supplement his account and correct the misnomers of "Koxinga". and particularly "pirate." "Koxinea is a mis-pronoun-ciatlon of the Chinese words KUO (country or national i SIN (surname) YEA
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    Flight home came near to tragedy
    2406 4  - Flight home came near to tragedy WINSTON S. CHURCHILL GRAND ALLIANCE— WAR COMES TO AMERICA Final instalment in this series by \yHEN I got back to the White House [from a rest in Florida] on Jan. 11, 1942, I found that great progress had been made by the Combined Chiefs
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      'Abuse of U.S. from Malaya:' Another viewpoint
      284 4 "COMMONWEALTH", in a letter published in the Straits Times on Saturday, objected to what he considered to be "abuse of the U.S.A. from Malaya", as voiced by Mr. Tan Kah Kee in his important speech at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce recently.
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      THE KEPONG REPORT
      166 4 I VENTURE to suggest that your action In disclosing the names, addresses and histories of men who perform courageous acts against the bandits can only place these men in more danger than they are in at present, particularly if they live in small remote villages. While wishing
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    On The Margin
    333 4 Fast Work I WHOLESOME respect for the police speed traps la already noticeable in Singapore. A motorist on Buklt Timah Road the other day 'passed a police constable who took his number: a little farther on ha passed another one; and in what seemed a matter of
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      31 4 Mr. L. F. writes from Tapah: -My Gammeter Automatic works wonderfully well and has been keeping excellent time for over a year now." Watches from 20.— t« 400.— js<o u*y a/tuKxi
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    LAYCOCK WANTS EARLY SPLIT
    246 5 Double-Member Constituencies Move At Next Council Meeting AT next week's of the Singapore Legislative Co'uncil, Mr. John Laycock, (Prog. Municipal North-East), will press for the splitting of the present city area doublemember constituencies into single-member electorates for future Council elections. Mr. Laycock will ask why, in
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    84th Bandit Hanged
    42 5 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. CJHAI KO CHA, hanged at Taiping yesterday, was the 84th bandit executed under the Emergency Regulations. He was arrested at Kampar on Sept. 7 and convicted of possession of a hani grenade.
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    Festival Of Fashion
    71 5 THE Chinese Festival of Fashion, presented by the Chinese Ladies' Association of Singapore, is to be staged again at Raffles Hotel on Saturday. At its first presentation on Mar. 4, prizes were given for a number of guessing competitions The name of Mrs Faulkner, wife of Rear-Admi-ral
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    The Perfect Air Girl
    48 5 THE "PERFECT AIR GIRL." 24-year-old Doreen Pennell from Birmingham. England, sern at the Malayan Air Training Corps Headquarters on Saturday. unit commander of the WftMM'i Junior Air Corps fh. tteat entrants from all over Britain in a "Flight to Australia" competition. Straits Times picture.
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    Concert To Aid 2 Funds
    93 5 PUPILS of the Singapore Institute of Science are gtagine a variety concert at Raffles School on Mar. 17 and 18 to swell the funds of the University of Malaya and th- BH ~»-r Bni-Tu-berculosis Association. 1 be p ic eds will i c equally dis
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    ASST. REGISTRAR
    22 5 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Sun.— lnche Abdullah bin Ali has been appointed Asst. Registrar of Federal Citizens for Kluang
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    Detainees Charged After Raid
    139 5 Detainees Charged After Raid From Our SUB C'orre«ponaent JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. SEVEN Chinese detainees, from the Majedee Detention Camp were produced in the Police Court this morning and separately charged with being In possession of documents of a seditious nature. The case was a sequel to a raid carried out
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    FOR JAKARTA
    29 5 DR. P. SVBBAROYAN, new Indian ambassador to the United States, of Indonesia who arrived in Singapore by air yesterday on his way to Jakarta. Straits Times picture.
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    Indians Told To Form A United Body
    192 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. T<HE Indian community in Malaya should forget their petty squabbles and rally round an organisation which could speak for them as a whole, said the retiring president of the Selangor Indian Chamber of Commerce, Mr. A.
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    To Visit Ceylon
    35 5 The Commander-ln-Chlef. Far East Air Force. Air Marshal F. J. Fogarty will leave Singapore by al r on Wednesday for a seven days' visit to Ceylon. He will return on March 23.
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    S'pore Art Show A Big Success
    574 5 By A Special Correspondent L^KOM any point of view the first annual exhibition of the Singapore Art Society, opened at the British Council Hall on Saturday, must be rated a success. Fifty-nine artist* are represented, many by a single exhibit, others by up to
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    ON SYDNEYLONDON RUN
    76 5 The first Qantas-BOAC Constellation on the SydneyLondon, via Colombo route, passed through Tengah airport in Singapore yesterday. Carrying two passengers from Sydney, the Constellation picked 11 passengers from Singapore for Colombo before it left this morning. This is the first service run in accordance with recent agreements
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    BANDIT MOTHER HELD
    150 5 BANDIT MOTHER HELD Fran Our Staff Cm-respondent IPOH. Sun. ARMED squads of AntiBandit Month volunteers at dawn today raided the mining village of Lahat near Ipoh, known to harbour many Communists, and arrested a woman Identified as an active Communist. She carried a baby. As soon as it was light,
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    Land To Be Acquired
    87 5 rite first step to implement a $2,442,000 scheme to provide quarters for the medical staff, the Singapore Government is taking action to acquire land in the Tanglin area. The land now to be acquired is only 98.000 square feet and represents only a small proportion of
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    Prison For Seaman
    71 5 From Our SUIT Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. Sentence of eigtit months' Imprisonment and a fine of $1,000. in default a further six months', was passed on Tay Boon Chian. when he was convicted in the Sessions Court todav on a charge of lmportine 602 packets of chandu.
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    37 5 Fr«aii Ow Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sun.— Mr. E. S. Erskine District Forest Officer, Kluang has resigned from the Malayan Forest Department, and has left for Kenya where he and Mrs. Erskine Intend to settle down.
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    DRIVER FINED
    42 5 MUAR, Sun.— Abdullah bin Kaus aged 36. who drove his car without due consideration for the safety of other users of the road, was fined $10 by the Muar Magistrate. It was stated that Abdullah's car collided with another vehicle.
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    BANDITS ROB FOOD LORRIES
    231 5 Froto Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. I1ANDITS have held up four food lorries In the past 24 hours and stolen a total of $15,292 worth of provisions. Three of the lorries were stopped at the 20th mile Kuala Lumpur-Bentonjj road and the other In the
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    COMMITTEE TO HELP BLIND FOR COLONY
    383 5 'pHE Singapore Government has set up a committee to advise on welfare work among the blind. Blindness is only one of the many forms of handicap with which the Department of Social Welfare has to deal, Mr. T. Eames Hughes, acting Secretary for Son:
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    Air Cadets To Give Blood Give. Blood
    79 5 FIFTY offiiers. N 1 O.s and cadets of Ibf .M--layan Air Training Co ps will (fire .heir t :l lo j Singapore Blood r nk on Tuesday when the Transfusion Serv cp will hold its first la c right session. The Blood Bank
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    Jury Work For Women In Singapore
    121 5 A BILL to introduce wonit-n jurors in Singapore wUI be moved by Mr. John La' cock. Municipal North Bast, at the next meeting ol thi Singapore Lp^is'.ative ConnHi on Ma»\ 11 Mr. Laycock told the S.i: s Times yesterday that hJ could not see
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      345 6 THE London Stock Exchange ended the week on a quiet note. Trading wu too small to produce a marked trend and prices were Inclined a drift lower In neglected market*. Closing middle pric«* d selected stocks as supplied to the Straits Times by special arrangement with 11)« Financial
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      WEEKLY MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
      632 6 From A Market Correspondent RUBBER remained firm above 53 cents per lb. throughout and the local Tin price rose $21 per picul during the week, but the share market was devoid of any special feature. Nevertheless, an increased volume of business was tran- I sacted,
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      134 6 Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's noon prices on Saturday (Mar. 11) were cents per lb.: Bayer Seller No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose nominal 53 53 'i F. 0.8. in bales Apr. No. 1 RS.B. 52 l ,i M% No. 2 R.S.B. 51% 51% No. 3 R.S.B. 50%
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      79 6 NEW YORK. Sun. WALL Street, followed a rautious policy on Friday with business moderate owing to week-end considerations. Absence of any further selling pressure helped steadier tendencies and covering and replacement buying brought a predominance of mostly fractional a ins. The market started cautiously but buyers derived
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      178 6 LONGBEACH. Calif.. Sun. REPUTEDLY the largest salvage payment of its kind recorded on the Pacific coast -US$250 000 -has been settled on the Ill-fated Isthman Lines' freighter Steel Chemist. The 12.500-ton ship, with a million dollar raw rubber cargo from the Far East i bound for
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    MANCHESTER U. FORGE AHEAD
    418 7 2 Upsets In Scottish Cup LONDON, Sunday. i/I ANCH ESTER United, making a determined bid iTI for English league championship honours, staged a thrilling rally at Middlesbrough yesterday to win by three-two after being two down just after the interval. In a storming finish United scored
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    46 7 THE COMMISSIONER-GENERAL, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, presents CSM (I) Jones (ATPC, Malaya Dist) with his prise after he won the welterweight title at the FARFI.F boxing championships on Friday night. Jones beat Sgt. Charlton (58 Med. Rejjt. R.A. Land Forces Btng Kong) on points.— Straits Times picture
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    1062 7 LONDON, Sue. Football League standings alter yesterday's matches were: P W D LFApts Manchester C 32 17 10 9 01 31 44 Blackpool 31 IS 10 6 40 33 40 Liverpool 32 14 12 6 54 39 40 Sunderland 32 16 8 63 48 40 Portsmouth 33
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    Gussie Wins Egypt Title
    39 7 CAIRO. Sun.— Miss Gertrude ("Gassie"). Moran of the United States won the women's singles title in. the Euyptlau lawn tennis cham- '> onships yesterday, beating Mrs. Maria Weiss of Argentina «-2. e-S In the final— Benter.
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    CHESHIRE WINS CHAMPIONSHIP
    493 7 COUNTY RUGBY UK'iON LONDON, Sunday. /CHESHIRE, for the first time in their 75 years' history as a Rugby county, won the Rugby Union county championship yesterday, defeating East Midlands by a goal (5 points) to nil in the final. Cheshire's defence which had been the principal reason
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    FOUR BATSMEN SCORE FIFTIES
    1327 8 Bright Cricket As Snr. Clubs Begin Season THE new Singapore Cricket season got into full stride over the weekend, and in yesterday's games four batsmen two of them Singapore State players batted enterprisingly to get half centuries. The State players were C. Thuraisingam (Ceylon Sports Club)
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    WALES WIN RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP
    117 8 BELFAST, Sun. WALES made certain of winning; the international Rujby Union championship for the season when they beat Ireland here yesterday by six points to three. This was iheir third victory, of the season and by beating all three home countries they won th« "triple crown"
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    J.P. Caroline Wins Motor Club Rally
    200 8 J.P. Caroline Wins Motor Club Rally [)ROPPING only 40 points over a 40-mile course, P. J. Caroline driving a Citroen, won this year's first Singapore Motor Club rally and two silver beer mugs when he made less mistakes than the 17 other drivers yesterday over the tricky course which covered
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    JACKSON WINS S.G.C. TITLE
    133 8 Kinm Our Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. RR. JACKSON won the Selangor Golf Club championship today when he beat R B. Lauriston, the 1948 Malayan champion. ;hree and two on the club course Jackwi is champion for the second rime. He won ihe title lust in
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    3 LATE GOALS IN TIGERS' 4-1 WIN
    388 8 Tiger S. A 4; Casuals 1 j r rHKKE goals in as many minutes in the closing stages gave Tiger Sporting Association a goodlooking four-one victory over Chinese Casuals in a S.A.F.A. Senior league match played at Jalan Besar I stadium yesterday. T.tkiug
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    Ayres Holds 4-Win Lead Over Flannery
    223 8  - Ayres Holds 4- Win Lead Over Flannery EPSOM JEEP By PEARLY indications are that u 1950 will be Jockey Arthur Ayres' season. This fine lightweight from West Australia kept up his riding form at the Penang Turf Club Spring Meeting when he piloted home four winners to share honours with
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    Watch New Horses At Bukit Timah
    519 8 RACING TOPICS By EPSOM JEEP OF THE 195 horses entered 'or the Singapore Turf Club's March Meeting a record for a three-day meeting at Bukit Timah 75 are "post-ban" importations horses imported to Malaya after the Straits Racing Association relaxed its ban on registration
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    WAITED FOR ONE RIDE-AND WON
    393 8 F)OUG McPherson stayed over in Penang to ride 17 one horse on Saturday— Pilgrim's Way— and sat through seven races before he donned his riding breecnes. His patience was rewarded. Pilgrim's Way scored in fine style, running the 6f. In 1 mm. 14 4/s— almost
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    WONG PENG SOON TAKES 2 NORTH SCOTLAND TITLES
    434 8 LONDON, Sunday. SINGAPORE'S Won* Peng Soon and Denmark's Mrs. Toni Ahm, winners of their respective singles events in the recent All-England Badminton championships, took the honours yesterday at the con-, elusion of the North of Scotland Badminton chant' pionships. Peng 'Soon won
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    Sgt. Mounsey Wins Changi Trophy Golf
    197 8 THE first anniversary Spring 1 meeting of the RAF Chang'l Golf Club, held yesterday and on Saturday, attracted a field of 77 competitors In favourable golfing weather. The main event the Fdunder's Cup presented by Air Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd —was won by Sgt.
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    J.C.C. Prospects Are Good
    139 8 From Oar SUff '.'or respondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. JOHORE Cricket Club made a star; today with the new cricket season's programme with a home-and-home match on Die Club's padang. There was a good turnout which enabled 12 to play on each side. Many of the newcomers
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    C.Y.M.A.'s EASY CRICKET WIN
    86 8 The C.YM.A. iSt. Theresa i scored an easy victory over the Sinhalese Association by 90 runs on the BODCA ground yesterday. The C.Y.M.A. batted first and scored 159 the highest scorer being Maurice Nunis with 63. S. Olivelro was the next with 39 runs. The Sinhalese
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    41 8 SOCCER: Snr. Lge: ,< o :i S.C. v Spoir B.C. at .lila n BeMr; Jnr. B 1: Ist Spore K««t. R.A. t Tuanf Mong 0.8.A. at BODCA ground; Jnr. A Kota Raja 'A' v Indonesian 'A 1 at Oeylan( stadium.
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