The Straits Times, 27 March 1950

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  • 19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 fm;ht pages SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1950. if PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • 279 1 Patrol Kills 5 Bandits In Attack By 250 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. J.N an ambush yesterday in the Gua Musang area of Ulu Kelantan, 17 men of the 3rd Bn., the Malay Regiment and four policemen were killed, while four soldiers were
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  • 182 1 I.OWINt* an explosion i n the interior of an R.A.F. Sunderland flying-boat 1 -n the Straits of Johor^ yesterday afternoon, two' men were reported missing, and nine were injured, three seriously. The flying-boat, at its moorings near Seletar heeled over on to its starboard
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  • 88 1 iiJNG KONG. Sun. G.\ ..iAI.ISSlMO Chiang Kai-shek, in a speech •I laipch yesterday, said Ike miin task of the Natiitn ilist armed forces was t t li; lit their way bark to t't (him mainland. ■»\e cannot forgive ourwl'.M for the non-fulfil-m.-a: ol Sun Yat-sen's be»!i
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  • 94 1 PHILADELPHIA. Sun. THREE Philadelphia surgeons have successfully operated on a human heart through the neck— not the chest with a new and still unnamed stainless steel instrument. The Episcopal Hospital here, where the operation was performed on a 26-year-old rheumatic fever victim last Thursday, claimed it
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  • 124 1 LYONS, Sun. THIRTEEN men and sevfcn women are In jail awaitinj trial here on charges of Interfering with the movement of war material. Ttioy will be dealt with b ore a military court, the first to be held under the recent anti-sabotage laws aime.i at the
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  • 87 1 MARSEILLES, Sun. GEN. Charles de Gaulle, leader of the R.P.F. (French People's Rally) said In a speech here today that France, while not hostile to the United States, "does not want to pass into the pocket of the Americans." France, he said, was between the Russian mass
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  • 21 1 TAIPEH. Sun.— The Bank of Taiwan today announced that It would hold monthly state lotteries starting next month. A.P.
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  • 33 1 BAGDAD. Sun.— The Iraqi Government has approved the draft terms of an economic treaty with India, official quarters here confirmed today. The treaty provides for an exchange of surplu s foodstuffs.—Reuter.
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  • 27 1 PARIS, Sun.— Ten Vietnamese and one Frenchman were injured when guerillas of the Vietminh flung 13 grenades in various parts of Saigon last nighf
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  • 24 1 TEHERAN, Sun.— Mohamed Zaher Shah, King of Afghanistan, arrived here today by air from Bagdad for a fourday visit to Persia Reuter.
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  • 121 1 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHKI Sunday. T»HE court inquiring into the death from runshot x wounds of three detainees at the Ma jeedie Detention Camp in Jonore today recorded a verdict of "justifiable homicide". The Johore Magistrate who conducted the Inquiry Ungku Ismail Abdul
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    53 1 ONE OF the 50 competitors 1b the R.A.S.C. motor cycle trial held m Singapore yesterday was Capt. Clark, seen here rlimbing "G" hill, with the assistance of a number of helpers. This obstacle proved to be the undoing of more than a score of riders. Fortunately none was seriously Injured.
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  • 68 1 BELGRADE, Sun. yOTINO opened briskly in Belgrade today as Yugoslavia went to the polls to elect Its second Parliament since the war, with the certainty that Marshal Tito's 8,000,000 strong People* Front was going to win. The Yugoslav exiles radio station in Bulgaria, quoted by Moscow Radio today,
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  • 16 1 SEOUL, Sun. President 8yngmann Rhee of Korea celebrated hi* 75th. birthday today.— AP.
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  • 123 1 GUNS OUT IN ESCAPE PLANES WIESBADEN, Sun. THK president of the Czech Airlines was one of the 85 p-is3t»ngers and crew of three Cfeech planes which made "unauthorised and unscheduled" landings near Munich on Friday, United States Air Force Headquarters announced yesterday, Seven anti Communist crewmen are reported to hare
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  • 72 1 TOK7O, Sun. PVE wartfiips, including three battleships which were once the pride and backbone of the Japanese Navy, were recently sold lor scrap for a total of «3,735 000 yen (about £937,000). The sale included the 26,955-ton battleship Ise, the 28,558-ton Hyuga and the 25,738-ton Haruna. The
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  • 63 1 NEW YORK. Sun.—Americans are worrying unduly over the danger of a hydrogen bomb being dropped because "there is no means of transporting one by air." says John M. Hancook. who helped to write the Baruch report on atomic energy. He said the mechanism required to set
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  • 28 1 TOKYO, Sun. Twentyeight fishermen were drowned and five missing after their fishing vessel overturned last night off Oshima Island at the entrance to Sagaml Bay.— UP.
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  • 163 1 HONO KONG. Sun. "riGHTH Sister" Wang, sometimes called "Twogun Sister Wang," has joined the Nationalist guerrillas. "Eighth Sister" Wang became famous for her exploits around Shanghai under Japanese rule. Some considered her nothing much more than a sort ol junk plratess around the Yangtze mouth. Lately
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  • 188 1 SAIGON, Sunday. "THREE members of the Vietnamese Government 1 the Minister of National Defence and the Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs and for Sport and Youth resigned yesterday. Reports In usually well-in-I formed Vietnamese circles J 6aid further resignations would soon follow, and forI
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  • 51 1 HONG KONG, Sun. (ZEN Maurice Carpentier, Commander -in-Chief of the French forces in IndoChina, will arrive in Hong Kong on Friday for a fourday visit. An official source said he would discuss "matters of mutual interest" with the military authorities and inspect British units. Reuter-
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  • 345 1 'Australians A nxious About Malaya' Australians regard Malaya's bandit trouble as being rather more serious than it appears to be on the surface. SiKeith Murdoch, the Australian newspaper magnate, told the Straits Times on his arrival in Singapore yesterday. He said there was a fear that banditry was having a
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  • 270 2 NAIROBI, Sunday. INDIANS in Kenya are to co-operate with Africans in opposing the stand of unofficial European communities against proposals for constitutional changes in neighbouring Tanganyika. The nature of the proposals 1 have not been disclosed, but European settlers have became alarmed over reports
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  • 39 2 WARSAW Sun.— The Polish trade delegation has returned from Communist China after concluding various individual contracts. China will export soya beans, tobacco, wolfram and fats and Poland will send textiles, metal products, technical equipment and chemicals.— Reuter.
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    33 2 LANA TURNER, who temporarily retired from th« screen when she married millionaire Bob Topping two years ago, seen havinga hair-do m preparation for her return to the screen. A.P. picture.
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    • 180 2 TOKYO, Sunday. AN 18-year-old Japanese shopgirl who committed suicide by taking cyanide left a note that her lover would die at the same time at the other side of the town. They were too busy to meet to die together. Police
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  • 115 2 LONDON, Sun. A PIECE of ice fell from a descending: aircraft and smashed the windscreen of a car the Minister of Pensions, ,Mr. Hilary Marquand, was driving past Nortbolt airport, London, today. He was unhurt. Reuter. northern Luzon when their truck plunged into a deep ravine.— A.P. KIKE
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  • 320 3 Optimism About P./., Japan, U.S.L From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Sunday. THE U.S. Government has realised that the problem of keeping the outer rim of Asia— from Korea to Afghanistan— out of Communist ontrol is "even more difficult than it had imagined" and that
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  • 216 3 'Bring 'Em Back Alive' Buck Dies HOUSTON, Texas, Sun. FKANK Buck, famous Ame- rlcan "3rins; 'Fm Back Alive" wild game hunter, died in bed here today. The man who had roamed the earth since he was 18, living' of hr>i breathe escapes, dird in hospital, aged 66. Only last July
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  • 56 3 RANGOON. Sun An ofn<U»l communique yesterday Mid that Burmese troops, r^akinp a renewed northward •s >rinz in Central Burma, rerntured the CommunistrHen town of Thawatti 44 miles above the Junction city of Tnungoo Thawatti, which stands on thf. Rangoon-Mandalay trunk road is 15 miles south of
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  • 110 3 MELBOURNE. Sun rpOWNPEOPLE at NarrandeJ. ra. 60 miles flown the swollen Murrumbiduee river irom flooded Wagga N»*w South Wales, yesterday worked feverishly on sandbank barricades to save their town from inundation. Many of the barricades they were building were not expected to hold back the floodwaters
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  • 43 3 PERTH. Western Australia. Sun. Early counting of votes in yesterday's Western Australian State elections indicated no significant swing against the Liberal-Country Party Coalition Government. It was thought likely that as in the last Parliament two Independents would hold '.he balance.— Reuter.
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  • 27 3 HONK KONG, Sun. The Canton police announced yesterday that 23 men, suspected to be members of a secret Nationalist assassination gang, have been arrested ReuCer-AAP.
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  • 43 3 WASHINGTON, Sun. United States Air Force officials disclosed yesterday that plans to re-equip the B-36 bomber with swept back wJags, and new supersonic propellers, should increase 1 its speed to about 505 m.p.h. without altering its present I combat range. —UP.
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  • 295 3 THE Singapore Government has to date declared about 14,700 members of the Volunteer Forces and Passive Defence Services eligible for medals awarded for service durin* the war. The medals, fall under three categories the 1939m Star, the 1939-45 Pacific j Star, and the 1939-45 War Medal.
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  • 24 3 T.W.CJC, 5. Raffles Quay. Conversational English class, 3 p.m., dressmaking, 5 p.m. ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS, annual general meeting. 11, Raffles Quay, p.m.
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  • 82 3 MINNEAPOLIS Sun. DR. Jean Picard, who has plumbed the ocean depths and explored the stratosphere 14 miles above the earth, thinks he may be responsible for some of the flying saucer reports. He says there are three kinds of flying sancer. For the first there
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  • 178 3 ROMULO'S CALL TO ATOM MEN LAKE SUCCESS, Sun. PENERAL Carlos Romulo. President of the United; Nations General Assembly last session, today called for a j conference of scientists on the atomic control deadlock 'to follow the special Security 'Council session proposed by Mr. Trygve Lie. The scientists, he said, should
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  • 121 3 BELGIAN CRISIS: NEW MOVE BRUSSELS, Sun. BELGIAN Prince Regent Charles tonight invited M Albert Deveze Liberal Defence Minister in the last Qovernment, to form a new Cabinet. M. Deveze agreed to try to form a Cabinet. Belgium, In the throes of a crisis over Leopold's return, has been without a
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  • 54 3 LONDON, Sun. Bulgaria has protested to Yugoslavia against -repeated violations" of the Bulgarian frontier, Radio Sofia reported today. A Bulgarian Note said the violations were part of a "deliberately hostile and aggressive policy towards Bulgaria" and said Yugoslavia had arrested innocent Bulgarians, frequently attacked Bulgarian patrols, and sent
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  • 41 3 LAFARGE, (Wisconsin), Sun. —An F-80 jet lighter crashed and exploded near here late yesterday, killing the pilot. The County Traffic Officer said that the plane fell from formation, plummetted and burst Into flames as It reached the earth.— UJ*.
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  • 29 3 CAIRO. Sun. Delegates of the seven-nation Arab League began a Council meeting yesterday which was expected to produce heated debates on several vital Middle East problems. Reuter.
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  • 134 3 KARACHI, Sunday. PAKISTAN Prime Minister liaquat All Khan told his Parliament yesterday the Dominion's defences were "at least 100 times stronger than at the time of the establishment of Pakistan." Referring to the "natural concern" of some members about the defences' of East Pakistan (province
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  • 29 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The annual session of the Malayan Indian. Congress at Kuala Lumpur has been postponed *roui April 7 .it.d 8 to April 29 and 30.
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  • 97 3 VATICAN CITY, Sun pOPS Pius XII today led Roman Catholics throughout the world in prayers for Cardinal Mlndszenty and other persecuted churchmen most of them In Communist hands. He called In an encyclical two weeks ago to all Catholic bishops for a Passion Sunday crusade of
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  • 72 3 .WASHINGTON, Sunday AN "imperative" call for action to stem the rising tide of unemployment in the United States has been made by the American Federation of Labour. The Federation said in a monthly -survey that 2,000,000 more workers were jobless today than in the first three months
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  • 226 3 From Our Own' Correspondent MELBOURNE, Sun. 'THE first chronicled ar1 rival of a Malayan rubber planter to take up tobacco planting in North Queensland coincides with a glowing survey of the industry by the Brisbane CourierMail The planter Is Mr. C. A. Hunter, of
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    29 3 THE NAINGANDAW THAMADAGADAW, wife of the President of Burma (fourth from left) photographed at Willingdon airfield at New Delhi on arrival for a state visit.— O.l.l.S. photo.
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  • 51 3 WASHINGTON. Sun.—Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Republican Foreign Affairs leader, has proposed a nonpartisan "commission to study the possibility of setting up a successor to the Marshall Plan after 1952." The Michigan Senator indicated that he wants such a study made on a world-wide basis, including the Far East.
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  • 34 3 PARIS. Sun.— More than 1.000 guests went to a reception at the Indian Embassy in Paris for the Indian dancer Uday Shankar. who recently attended the French premiere of his film "Kalpana."—Reuter.
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    • 374 3 SINGAPORE 9/30 News; 9.45 Pipes of Scot- t Piano Intermission; 8.16 Thai: land; 10 Dance Music (Griffin 8.45 Dutch 9 Kuoyu; 9 JO Bur9 35 a.m. Schools; 9.55 Wber- inn); 10. JO Beauty that Endnres: mese; 9.45 Interlude; 10 Radio in I- 10 News from K.L.; 10.05 U Close. New«
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  • 977 4  -  NOEL BUCKLEY CALCUTTA. JENGAL today threatens to be- come an even more serious trouble spot than Kashmir in the worsening of relations between India and Pakistan. While the spotlight •f the world is turned on the dispute over the north-western Province's future, and the United Nations Security
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  • 353 4 Om the Margin Scrangoou I AM indebted to Mr R J. Farrei for another explanation of the name of Serangoon. which he puts forward as a ival to the theory that this is derived from the Malay name '<r a local species of heron (Burong Ranggong.) Mr. Farrer '.el's 'ne
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  • 616 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Mar. 27, 1950. Famine In Red China large areas in the south. It is an open secret in Canton that in most parts of Kwangsi province, for instance, Communist troops dare not venture outside the cities they garrison. Nationalist Chinese claims of effective large scale
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  • 501 4 Although the British Ministry of Food appears to have a reasonable answer to the complaint that it has been unfair to Malayan tea producers, there are wider aspects to 'the price question which apparently was the obstacle to a bulk sale of Malayan tea to the Ministry
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    • 291 4 THE International Religion Organisation in Singapore is indebted to Archdeacon Gregory for his comments on the society (published in the Straits Times last Friday). Criticisms favourable or hostile are equally necessary, for fame, like a shuttlecock, must be attacked from both sides of the net
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    • 88 4 F really baffles me to understand the Water Department's current practice of imposing a water rate at 40 cents per 1,000 gallons In respect of domestic usage cf water in shophouses and at 55 cents per 1,000 gallons for water consumed for domestic purposes in
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    • 371 4 WE have heard pleas from eminent sympathisers of the Family Planning Association, and even of religious organisations, for the advocacy of birth control methods and practice among the local people. The fact that some ■enlightened" people are guilty of a practice which prior to our time
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    • 202 4 IN the issue of Mar. 24, there is a reply to Mr. R. H. Onraefs (former Inspector-General of Police S.S.) letter to the Manchester Guardian, extracts of which were published in your paper. A s one directly interested in rubber estates in this country. I would
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    • 108 4 THE Malayan East Coast Railway runs passenger and goods services through a jungle area without the protection of a pilot train. If It. had been running a pilot train (in the same way as is done at present on the main line Penang-Singapore) the
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  • 402 5 Lincoln Bombers To Go Into Action 'Soon From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. rE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN MALAYA TODAY POSSESSES THE GREATEST STRIKING FORCE IN THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY, AND IT IS ALL TO BE USED AGAINST THE BANDITS IN A
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    52 5 DATO ONN bin Ja'affar, President of the United Malays National Organisation, opening the Malayan Trades Union delegates' conference a t Kuala Lumpur on Saturday On Dato Onn's right is Mr. P. P. Narayanan, the Federal Councillor, who was elected first president of the newly constituted Malayan Trades Union Council. Straita
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    39 5 AUSTRALIAN newspaper magnate, Sir Keith Murdoch, who arrived m Singapore by air yesterday en route for Europe. Sir Keith and Lady Murdoch and their son Rupert are staying at Bukit Serene as guests of the CommissionerGeneral. Straits Times picture.
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  • 188 5 ELECTION FOR PENANG IN 1951 1 rom Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sun. pENANU will hold its Tii st Municipal Elections in the first week of December 1951. if the recommendations submitted in the Elections Cornmi* tee are adopted by Government. The rompMttre. in it s trio the Resident Commisr hai
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  • 34 5 lr<im Our Own Correspondent KUALA KANGSAR. Sun.— A .iouse at Padang Rengas be- inn to Inche Mat Som. Kiiaia Kangsar Assistant Colleclor of Land Revenue, has been destroyed by tire. Po- investigating.
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  • 28 5 FRANCINA ELIZABETH FS'JYNS. age 66, passed away 1' iceiully at 5. Mersawa Road on S!-3-50. Coriene will leave Katong Church for B.dadari cemetery lov.\ »t 5 p.m.
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  • 192 5 BOYS vs GIRLS IN DEBATE THERE will be a debate between a team of six girls, representing the com- bined Singapore girls' i schools, and a team of six < boys representing the combined Singapore boys' schools on Friday at 3 p.m. in the Victoria School Hall. The girls will
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  • 73 5 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. RB. Swamy. a lawyer's clerk, was fined $350 in the Johore Bahru Sessions Court, before Mr W. B. Sutherland, on a charge of criminal breach of trust of $150, in default three months' imprisonment. Swamy had nine previous convictions, eight
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  • 296 5 A STRONG appeal to Sin-; gapore Malays and Muslims to work towards better i racial harmony and unity, was made by Inche Sar- i don bin Haji Jubir. when he I presided at the annual general meeting of the Malay I Union yesterday. "Although we do
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  • 316 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LI'MPUR, Sunday. JYjR. P. P. Narayanan, Federal Councillor and a iTI trade unionist representing plantation workers in Negri Sembilan, was elected first president of the newly-constituted Malayan Trades Union Council today. 1 For vice-president, the conTerence elected a woman delegate. Che
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  • 152 5 Resolutions Referred To Committee From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun AFTER two days of continuous discussion and debate, tired delegates a: the Malayan Trades Union Conference late this evening reached a stalemate on today's main business resolutions tabled for discussion. After successfully adopting the constitution recommended for the Trade
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  • 64 5 Officials of the women s section of the Malay Union. Singapore, for j 1950 are as follows: President, Che Fatimah binti Haji Harun; vice-presidents, Che A'lshah Aibel and Che Chlk binti Karim; secretary. Che Sa diah Sardon; assistant treasurer. Che Kamaliah, auditors, Che Amiiiah Hussein and Che
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  • 213 5 "can no longer be called a cultural desert" as there has been a rapid development in the understanding and appreciation of the "fine arts" since the war, said the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya, Dr. G. V. Allen yesterday when i he opened
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  • 89 5 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. STOPPED by a detective on the road and searched, Tee Pay Hoh, 68. was found to have a packet of chandu on him. Charged in the Sessions Court today, Tee said that he wa& a pre-war licensed smoker. He was
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  • 51 5 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. Wearing some of the clothes he stole. V. Chelliah, an 18-year-old railway labourer of Kempas pleaded guilty in the Sessions Court today to a charge of theft of clothing and rice belonging to fellow labourer*. Chelliah was allowed bail
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  • 45 5 From Onr SUIT Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. A meeting of old boys of the English College will be held at the Johore Bahru District Antl T. B. Association v<\ Jnlan Tangga Duke at 5.1^ o on Tuesday to revive the Old
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  • 156 5 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. JNDIAN Chambers of Commerce In the Federation are to protest against the proposed income tax bill requiring all businesses to keep accounts and books in either English or Romanised Malay. This was told the Straits Times today by
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  • 307 5 Chinese In Police From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Sunday. "M R R Onraet presumably thinks it better to treat all Chinese as aliens and with suspicion", says the publicity officer of the Malayan Chinese Association, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, replying to a former Inspector-General of the
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  • 156 5 BANDIT ACTION NEAR K.L. From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. THE sentry oi a bamiit camp about 5j miUs outside KUALA LUMPUR i n thp road to Kajang was killed, and several other occupants were wounded, wl-un three jungle squads attacked it yesterday This was a continuation of the
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  • 38 5 More than 2,000 peopie attended a gymnastic display ;it the Happy World stadium on Saturday night by pupils of the Singapore Chinese HUh School. The display was staged to I mark the 31st anniversary of the school.
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  • 34 5 i rom onr Man correspondent I JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. Ng Ah Kwai was acquitted in the Sessions Court today when the prosecution withdrew a charge of theft of 29 eggs against him.
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  • 768 6 From A Market Correspondent fkNLY a moderate volume of business was written despite the good prices obtaining for Tin and Robber; nevertheless, practically all share price changes recorded over the week were upward. Doubtless the increased tempo of terrorist reaction to Bandit Month operations has
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  • 136 6 OINOAPOM Chamber of Com- merce Rubber AsaocUUoo. noon prices on Saturday (Mar. 25) were cenU per lb.: London Rubber Mar. 24. Spot. 16>4d. May 18 1/IM. June 16 15/IM. JulySept.. 15% d. Oct.-Dec. 15 6/IM. Jan-March 15 1/IM. April May cJ.f. 16% d. Market: Steady. New York Rubber
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  • 108 6 NEW YORK, Sun. APART from further buying of Industrials which reached a new high level for 1950 Interest on Wall Street yesterday, reflected the usual weekend hesitancy. Support in most other sections was held In check by moderate weekend profit- taking. The market displayed Irregularly higher tendencies
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  • 137 6 Bat u Selangor Dredging: $140 750 In 1949 From A Market Correspondent JJATI Selangor Tin Dredging made $140,759 (19 per cent.) In the year to Sept. 30, 1949. Net liquid assets in balance sheet, at $424,626, equal 30.3 cents per share. No dividend is proposed on account of the yefir,
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  • 335 6 LONDON, Sun. WITH the completion of the morning routine business on Friday, the London Stock Exchange became Idle with barely a vestige of interest being shown in any section. Price movements were small but generally to higher levels. Some buying of British Oovernment nationalisation stocks helped prices in
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    • 400 6 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS TO NEW YORK AND BOSTON VIA CEYLON INDIA ECYPT AND MEDITFRRANEAN PORTS S'Dorc P Sham Penang Mount MansfieM 30 Mar./ 2 Apr. 1 Apr. 4/C Apr. Pres Monroe 13/17 Apr 18/20 Apr. Pr.s Buchanan 25/29 Apr 30 Apr./I May 2/4 May Pres. Harding 9/13 May 14/15 May
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    • 443 6 EAST ASIATIC LINE SAILINCS TO CONTINENT/ SAILINCS FROM SCANDINAVIA 'U.K./ SCANDINAVIA CONTINENT Loading at Singapoie. Port Swettenham m/s "Nordfarer" Codewns 23/24 o Penan. m/s "Renla" du.abt Mar 31 m/s "Mor.lia" Codewns 29/30 fo> Bangkok. for Colombo. Aden Port Said. Beyrouth Cenoa. Antwerp, Rotm/s "Kamoodia" dee ebt. Apr. 4 terdam Hamburg.
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    • 1053 6 McALISTER <Sc CO., LTD. 1 1 vorporaiecl m Singapore) TtUphont No. 5*O* KLAVENE8S LUfB MM Ot BUCKNALL LO j amCIUS. SAN FRANCISCO. LONDON, HAVR1, ANTWERP. PORTLAND SEATTLE VANCOUVER. ROTTIRDAM t> HAMBURC. Accepting cargo for Central South CITT O» POONA American Port*. .?>,%.. 2.^. ■oucAimriui CITT W CHESTER lit. May. Jo
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  • 600 7 First Appearance Was In 1914 LONDON, Sunday. I IVERFOOL, with a clear-cut two-nil victory Xj yesterday over their neighbours. Everton, joined Arsenal in the Cup final which takes place at Wembley Stadium on April 29. Thus two redshirted teams have reached the final and, for
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  • 61 7 HONGKONG. Sun—Tsui Waipui and Tsui Yun-pui (brothers;, who have been the reigning grass court tennis doubles champions since 1941. were dethroned yesterday when they were beaten in the finals by Ip Koon-hung and Edwin Tsai. The scores were 9-11, 6-1, 4-6, 8-3. 6-3. The previous day, Ip
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  • 59 7 The following players will represent the Guthrie Sports Club in a friendly game of soccer against the F.-.RELP Guard Dog Unit XI at the Farrer Park today:—Ho Fook Seng. Llm Teck Kirn, Abdul Latif. Malik, Chan Ah Wing. Tan Peng Kee, Ho Fook Kee, P. Dowling. R. Gasman
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    55 7 RIVER MOON (Ayres), winner of the fifth mcc at Biil.it Timah on Saturday, shows the way Into the home straight, maintaining a I*M which he look at thf start ?"d never lost. Little Ned came in a length behind the I i winner with Kuuiasi and Blue f rint iM'"'*
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  • 243 7 Pulau Brani Unlucky Not To Win PULAU Brani Utd. were robbed of victory by a goal which Rovers S. C. apI peared to have scored from an off-side position in their senior league match played j at Jalan Besar yesterday. The match was drawn at one- all. Rovers were unfortunate
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  • 121 7 WACO. TEXAS, Sun:— Former world heavyweight champion Joe i Louis announced here he would definitely not return to the ring Instead he has signed a contract to tour Canada for a circus, starting on May 24. Before that 1 he will make an exhibition tttttr of
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  • 249 7 LONDON. Sun. "YESTERDAY S Rugby League and I Rugby Union results were:— Rt'GBY INION i Rugby Union results wer»: Inter-services tournament: Army 11. Royal Air Force 3. 1 Club matches: Harlequins 31, Sale 3; London Irish 8, London Hospital 0- London Welsh 6. Neath 12; O.M.T. 3.
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  • 375 7 T\ A. T. CARSON won the Island Club golf title MJm yesterday at the 17th by two and one after s i fighting second and final round yesterday against his opposing finalist, S. I. M. Ibrahim, holder of th< I Singapore title. There was
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  • 225 7 rpHIRTY-THREE year old, C. S A M. Owen of the 75 Coy R.A.S.C. "A"* team who droppec only 13 points, won the lirs Royal Army Service Corps motor cycle trial held in Singapore since the liberation. The trial was held just off Clementi Road, over a
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  • 152 7 tLTHOUGH the Mental Itosp. H R.C. dominated play lor m i""«» mice i|uiu«!i 01 iue game, poor combination and in* I accurate shooting robbed them of a win when they met the Customs Sports Club in a Junior Al league i fixture at Geylang Stadium resi
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  • 320 8 EURASIANS CEYLONESE WIN OUTRIGHT Thiam SiewDoes Match 'Double YESTERDAY'S opening of the Singapore Cricket Association's senior tournament saw Singapore Recreation Club and Ceylon S.C. fain outright decisions while Singapore Chinese Recreation Club and Indian Association took first-innings points. The outstanding individual effort of the day was easily Cheonjj Thiam Slew's
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    37 8 MR. KHEW AH BAH leads m Tricolour (Tulloh). winner of the sixth race at Bukit Timah on Saturday. After a great run Tricolour beat the beavily-backed Persian Lord to pay $42 for a win. Straits Times picture.
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    33 8 YOUNG LUCIUS (Ellery) In full gallop 100 yards from the finish of the eighth race at Bukit Timah on Saturday. Young Lucius scored his fourth successive win to pay $42. Straits Times picture.
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  • 123 8 LAHORE, Sun. PAKISTAN resumed their flrst innings today in the unotflclal four-day test against Ceylon and by lunch were all out for 362. Rain caused abandonment or play for the day when Ceylon were 57 for one. Scores. PAKISTAN— lit. Inns. Narar Mohammed st Navaratne
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  • 53 8 The following are 8.C.C. soccer teams: v. Fraser Neavp on padaiig today:— Lloyd: Sykes, Brown, Twist <Capt.i, Davids. McVicar: Jorische, Kuiper. Wright, Murray. G. Verrall. Reserves: Roberts, Hooton. Hagon. v. Junior Dynamos S.C. ->n padang on Wednesday:— Rooeris, Hamilton. Chatwin: McCuUoch. Hooton. Tuck; Whyatt. Bromham, Boer, Taylor.
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  • 22 8 TODAY: 3.00 a.m. (7ft. 6in..» and 5.40 p.m. (sft. 6im. TOMORROW: 3.55 am. yTA. lln.) and 8 35 put. (6ft.).
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  • 91 8 GEOFF. Brown. Australian Wimbledon finalist in 1946. will play in exhibition matches against local tennis stars on the S.C.C. courts on Wednesday at 5 p.m Admission, at $2 per head, will be by ticket, which will be on sale at the entrances. The matches, arranged
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  • 263 8 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. A NATIONAL Olympic Council is to be formed in Malaya to apply for affiliation to the Asian Games Federation after which it will be decided whether a Malayan team should be sent to the Asian Games in
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  • 22 8 SOCCER: Snr. lfe: It At' SeleUr Royal Navy at JaUn Beaar; Jar. B2: lainwirfiii "B" r Stir S*eeeritcs at GeylBBg.
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  • 1235 8 Seletar v SRC SRC. kea< RA.K HMgtaWl aln* wickets si Seletar. •R.A.I. SELETAR— 1ST INNS. .James b Co.iing Winter 0 Pennefather 0 Heywood c <St b Colliug S Lee e Le Mercier b Coltiaf 0 toward bw Col. Ing 20 Davis b Colling Wood b Barker 1
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  • 1408 8 JUNIOR CRICKET RESULTS A LL YESTERDAY'S five S.C'.A. junior tournament matches ended in outright decisions Y.M.C.A., Sinhalese Assn. and Indian Assn. 'A' obtaining innings victories, while Shell S.C. and Registrar of Vehicles Cluhr had to bat twice to win. An individual hundred was registered
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  • 36 8 The Island Club < ladies section. March Monthly Medal. (SUbleford) was won by Mrs. Quentln, with 35 4 points. Next best scores were Mrs. Oldrldge Sl% Mrs. Meyer and Mrs. Llm 30 V».
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  • 32 8 A team of the m.s. Morellla beat the s.s. Nordearer in a friendly game of soccer by five goals to two at the Singapore Harbour Board Empire Dock, yard, yesterday.
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  • 210 8 JOHORE BAHRD, Cun. A WEAK Johore team was defeated at cricket today oy the Royal Navy on HMS Terror ground at the Neval Base. JOHORE C.C.: O. P. IUca c Taylor b Doubledar A Ohanl c Grant b Doubleday 1. A. Bartheot it Aldrrtoo b J»ckjoL
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  • 326 8  -  EPSOM JEEP By SADDLING eight more winners at Bukit Timah on Saturday, final day of the Singapore Turf Club s March meeting, Trainer Yon* Thau Yin is now favourably placed to make a strong bid for the title of champion trainer for the 1950
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  • 169 8 Young Lucius In Line For 5-Win Record By EPSOM JEEP DADLY drawn on the ouf- side and forced to race wide out for the first three furlongs. Young Lucius put up what was his best ever performance at Bukit Tlmaii 'cm Saturday when he beat a. smart Class 3. Dlv.
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    • 139 8 SONG QUEEC: The engat;--ment was announced on Sa. irday between Mr. Song Toh >Jte, adopted son of Mr. and Mrs Song, Bent Cnye. and Miss Qui-k Keng Neo, flftl daughter ot Mr and Mrs. Quek Cheng San. oo'li of Singapore. t^s^sr Note Times? 1.0*; 3.15; 7.00 and 9.15 p.m. s
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