The Straits Times, 4 May 1950

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA* NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 184S SIXTEEN PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY MAY 4, 1950. <£ PRICE TEN CENTS
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    WAR MINISTER TO VISIT MALAYA
    456 1 Strachey, Griffiths Due To Arrive In S'pore On May 24 THE Secretory for War, Mr. John Strachey, is to visit Malaya to sec 1 for himself the army's operations against the Communist terrorists. He will arrive in Singapore about May 24, accompanying the Secretary of
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    Panther Ran Amok
    123 1 BANGKOK. Wed. t black panther broke from its cage aboard a ship in Bangkok harbour yesterday, clawed a New York woman, a wild game col- lector, and two oiher persons and terrorised the crew for fair hours bo! ore it was killed. I },nt>vieve Cuprys. a New
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    ETONIAN AND EX-MINER
    338 1 ETONIAN AND EX-MINER HERE are pen picture* of the two ministers who rtll be arriving In Singapore shortly ETON <Sc OXFORD MR. JOHN EVELYN ST. LOK Minister for War, Is lot of characteristic Labour mould, ["he son of a famous editor of The Spectator," he was edu:ated at Eton and
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    LAB. LOSES GLASGOW
    69 1 GLASGOW. WecL— The Labour Party has lost control of Glasgow, Britain's second biggest city, for ttye first time, since 1933. Tn a Municipal Council election here yesterday, the Progressives (Conservatives) captured two seats from Labour to get a three vote majority In the City Council. The line-up
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    U.S. DELEGATE TO ECAFE
    42 1 WASHINGTON, Wed.— Mr. Merrill C. Gay has been appointed by President Truman as deputy U.S. representative to the sixth session of the U.N. Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East. The session will be held in Bangkok.—AP.
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    LIE'S BID TO END THE 'COLD WAR'
    134 1 PARIS, Wednesday. f TOTTED Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Trygvc Lie, announced plans today to go to Moscow next week to try to end the cold war which, he said, "sooner or later" will lead to a third world war.** "I expect to be in
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    "FOREIGNER SQUEEZED OUT"
    173 1 HONG KONG, Wed. •PHE General Gordon, her I decks lined with Shang- hai evacuees, steamed into Hong Kong harbour this afternoon completing the first j leg of the biggest single evacuation trip. The American President Lines said a total of 946 were aboard of whom 180 were
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    "DEAR MOM, JUST TO TELL YOU...."
    46 1 fc we have been in Singapore and 1«1 Tin t mo *r^l, One the crew of the U.S.S. Boxer picked a quiet and cool spot under the shade of a torpedo bomber yesterday afteri noonteirrite a letter home.-Straits Times picture.
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    Too Little U.S. Strength Here, Says Admiral
    496 1 AMERICA has not enough naval units in the Western Pacific,^ut h M J^ A that can be allotted to this area at present, out of our total naval strength". Rear Admiral Walter F. Boone, commanding the U.S. Seventh Fleet 8 said at press
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    Miners Will Fight Bill
    85 1 SYDNEY, Wed. T»he powerful Communistx led Miners Federation's Federal Council has called nationwide pit meetings for tomorrow to discuss the Prime Minister's proposed bill to outlaw the Communist Party. It asked the Labour Party Opposition in the Australian Parliament to oppose the legislation. Meanwhile, Churchmen have
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    EMERGENCY POWERS IN HONG KONG
    237 1 HONG KONG, Wednesday. THE Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Alexander Grantham, today invoked emergency regulations to fight hand grenade terrorism, suspected to be Communist-inspired, which hit the colony recently. The emergency regulations giving policy sweeping powers to check sedition and sabotage were Invoked after six
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    NEW ARK ROYAL
    22 1 BIRKENHEAD, Wed.— Queen Elizabeth today launched the biggest aircraft carrier ever built by Britain— the new Ark RoyaL— AJ\
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    DEAN IS BARRED PERMANENTLY
    69 1 WASHINGTON. Wed. rpHE U.S. State Depart1 ment said yesterday that Dr. Hewlett Johnson, the Dean of Canterbury, is barred permanently from entering the United States under a recent Department of Justice ruling: A spokesman said that Dr. Johnson is barred now. whereas be was not a
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    Westerling Extradition Request
    66 1 Westerling Extradition Request INDONESIA yejlerday applied to the Singapore Government for the extracitlon of Raymond Paul Pierre (Turko) Westerling. The USI Representative in Singapore, Dr. R. Oetoyo, said that he had submitted the formal application to the Singapore Government. Westerling was arrested .n Singapore in Febiuary and later sentenced to
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    U.S. Embassies Will Dismiss Local Workers PLEA TO OUTLAW i ATOMIC WEAPONS
    261 2 U.S. Embassies Will Dismiss Local Workers PLEA TO OUTLAW i ATOMIC WEAPONS WASHINGTON, Wed. IT S. Embassies and v* legations behind the iron curtain have begun to dismiss native employees. The object is to protect the locally-hired workers from the "vengeance" of their Communist Rovernments. The dismissals were started quietly
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    NEW TELESCOPE
    49 2 GENEVA, Wed A worldwide appeal to outlaw atomic weapons was formally launched yesterday by the International Red Cross Comj mlttee. It asked the govern[ments 'to take step* to reach an agreement on the prohibition of atomic weapons and in a general way of all non-directed missiles"— AP.
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    50 2 ystinaBMttA, wed.—American astronomers will soon set up a telescope at Mount Stromlo, eight miles outside Canberra, the nation's astronomical research centre. Australian astronomers claim that, when completed, Stromlo's telescope will make the Australian research outpost the biggest in the Southern Hemisphere and displace the one at Johannesburg, South Africa.— UP
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    MIDGET SUB
    49 2 MIDGET SUB THE ROYAL NAVY'S latest midget submarine photorraphed during: recent trials m Scotland. The Admiralty has announced that the submarine will join the U.S. Navy this summer for exercises and demonstrations following the policy of exchanging technical and operational Information between the U.S. and British navies.— A.P. picture.
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    90 Years Young, To Wed For Sixth Time
    278 2 ADELAIDE, Wednesday Y|K. Albert Ernest Edwards at 90 is taking the iTI matrimonial plunge for the sixth time. He still likes to dance and play the accordion, and reads without glasses. Straight-backed, clear-eyed, he says: "I have been batching too long. I
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    HUNGARIAN CHIEF
    18 2 SANDOR RONAI, who will succeed former President Szakasits as chairman of Hungary's Presidential Council. A.P. picture.
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    1 SHEET OF BUDDHISM ENOUGH FOR LIFE
    205 2 LONDON, Wednesday. THE well-known British lawyer and Buddhist x convert, Mr. Christmas Humphreys, said in London last night that but fo r its many different schools and sects, Buddhism could be a dominant "factor in world peace. Mr. Humphreys, who founded the British
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    51 2 I>K. BI'XI A DODD. of New York, a former high official of the U.S. Communist Party, testifying during a session of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Sab-Com-mittee that she never knew Prof. Owen Lattimore as a Communist, a fellow traveller "or even as a friend of the Party."— A.P. picture.
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    Pakistan Chairman
    28 2 LAKE SUCCESS, Wed.— The United Nations ten-member council to advise the Commissioner In Libya has elected Colonel Abdul Rahim Khan of Pakistan as first chairman. —U.F.
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    Italy Abandoned For Tito'
    57 2 ROME, Wednesday. gIGNOR VITTORIO ORLANDO, Italy's aged First World War Premier, complains that Britain has become Italy's "first enemy." Only survivor of the Versailles' Treaty's "Big Four," he told the Senate that Britain, the UJS. and France are no longer Italy's friends. He accused them of
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    TRUMAN CALLED 'WORST EVER'
    173 2 TRUMAN CALLED 'WORST EVER' NEW YORK, Wed. MR. Truman is the ITX cleverest politician and the worst President ever to occupy the White House, Mr. Harold Stassen said last night. He described Mr. Truman as "a post-graduate of the most effective political school in America the Pendergast School of Kansas
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    SENTRY'S HFAD BLOWN OFF
    69 2 DACCA. Wed.— A joint inquiry was ordered by the Government of East Bengal and West Bengal yesterday into a recent Incident when, according to reriorts, a Tang of men dress°d in khaki crossed from West Bengal and attacked the Chunduria police out Dost in the Khulna
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    RUSSIA PLANS 332 EXPEDITIONS
    42 2 MOSCOW, Wed.— The U.S.S.R.'s Academy of Sciences plans to conduct 332 expeditions in 1950. Announcing this, A. V. Torpchiev. Academy Secretary-in-Chief of the Academy's Presidium, said 173 of these would be expeditions by the branches of the. Academy.—
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    BIRTH TAX
    39 2 NEW DELHI. Wed.— Short j of revenue, the board of commissioners of Karnool district asked for permission to levy a 30 cent birth tax on babies. The board said the tax might I also encourage birth control.
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    55 3 TfTE FRENCH PRESIDENT. M. Vincent Auriol, seen with girls In traditional Breton costume during his recent visit to the French Atlantic port of Lorienl. The girls performed folk dances. Th e President laid the foundation stone of a new building being erected as part o the reconstruction scheme for the
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    BRITAIN WILL NOT OUTLAW REDS
    311 3 But S. Africa Prepares For Clamp Down LONDON, Wednesday. THE British Government announced yesterday that it did not intend to introduce a Bill to outlaw the Communist Party. South Africa, however, is to introduce on Friday a "strong and wide" Bill designed to dissolve the
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    RESISTANCE IN HAINAN ENDS
    176 3 TAIPEH. Wednesday. NATIONALIST China yesterday officially announced that Hainan island, last major air and sea blockade base outside Formosa itself, was completely in Communist hands. It said that the last Nationalist ship left Yulln with troops which had destroyed the harbour defences and Sanya airfield. The
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    HUK ROUNDUP NEAR MANILA
    56 3 MANILA Wed.—Seventeen.uspected Hukbalahaps have been rounded up in a surprise dawn raid by the intelligence agents of the Manila police department. Meanwhile unconfirmed re- ports from San Fernando in i Pimpanga Province stated I that at least 30 Huks were killed in a clash with conF'.abulary
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    500 PAPERS
    26 3 NEW DELHI, Wed.—Nearly 500 daily and weekly newspapers and periodicals are published in Delhi. The -number has increased fivefold since partition of India. AP.
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    1,217 British Subjects In Bangkok
    118 3 1,217 British Subjects In Bangkok BANGKOK. Wed. THE Indian and British communities head the list of foreign communities, other than Chinese, living in the Siamese capital, the Bangkok Municipality announced. There are 1,438 Indians and l.2i'i British subjects. It said that, of 4,351 aliens in Bangkok. 2,056 were European including
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    President's Denial
    24 3 MANILA, Wed.— President 1 Quirino today denied he has offered the post of foreign j minister to General Carlos P. Romulo. A.P.
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    FIGHTER ATTACKS U.N.PLANE
    119 3 FIGHTER ATTACKS U.N.PLANE TEL AVIV. Wed. AN Israeli fighter plane -ea a warning burst at a United Nations plane yesterday, forcing it to land at Lydda airport. A Government spokesman said the U.N. plane had violated air rules by flying outside a prescribed air corridor over Israel. Reports rrom Lake
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    EUROPEAN IN JEEP AMBUSH
    51 3 BANDOENG. Wed.—A gang of between 20 and 30 men kiHed a European employee of Bajabang Rubber Estate near Tjikalonwetan in West Java's Tjiandjur District yesterday. The estate employee was driving by jeep through the gardens when he was suddenly attacked by the gang who shot him
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    RED CELL
    28 3 TOKYO, Wed.—Police today arrested two leaders of the Communist cell at Tohoku University in Sendai, Northern Honshu, on charges of obstructing official duties of occupation personnel.—Reuter.
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    Malan Launches Segregation Bill
    164 3 CAPETOWN. Wednesday. A BILL which would divide all of South Africa into separate group areas for each race of people will soon be introduced to the South African Parliament by the Malan Government. The Minister of the Interior. Dr. T. E. Donees, is to introduce the
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    INDIAN PREMIER WANTS UNITY
    48 3 HAZARIBAGH, India, Wed. —Prime Minister Nehru said here yesterday that he wanted to spend "the last few years' of his life in achieving unity and communal harmony in India." He said he thereby was following in the footsteps of hU leader, Mahatma Gandhi. AP.
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    VILLAGE BURNT
    38 3 TOKYO, Wed. Seventythree of the 75 houses in a village in Fukushima Prefecture were wiped out by flre yesterday. The cause of the flre was believed to be due to a six-year-old child playing with fire.—Reuter.
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    BING IN PARIS
    31 3 BING CROSBY, the singer I and screen actor, photoI graphed on the St. Cloud golf links, near Paris, practising for the coming British Amateur Ch*mI pionshlp.— A.P. picture.
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    CENSORSHIP OF PRESS DEPLORED
    98 3 LONDON, Wed. 17ISCOUNT Kemsley, head v of Kemsley Newspapers Ltd., said yesterday he deplored a "distressing development towards Press censorship" in the world since the war. "In countries which have achieved a status since the war, such as Egypt and Israel," he said, "one of the
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    RUSSIAN WALKOUT -No. 22
    105 3 LAKE SUCCESS, Wed. RUSSIA yesterday staged her 22nd. walkout from the United Nations when her representative on the seven-nation Committee of Statistical Classification left in protest against continued recognition of the Chinese Nationalist representative. He said before leaving that the Soviet Union would not recognise any
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    Envoy Was Immune
    93 3 NEW YORK, Wed. /COLONEL Abdur Rahim \j Khan, former Pakistani Minister to the United Nations, was granted diplomatic Immunity by the U.S. Supreme Court in a case In which Col. Rahim was. sued for damages to a house which he rented. The landlord, Mr. Warren D. Brewster,
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    SOVIET OFFER TO TALK
    70 3 LONDON, Wed.— The Soviet Ambassador, Mr. Q. Zarubin, made an unexpected request on Tuesday that the Big Four Deputy Foreign Ministers should resume session on an Austrian treaty. The other delegates agreed. The four deputies have held 250 meetings In more than three years, but the
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    RADIO BATTLE OVER KASHMIR
    179 3 SRINAQAR, Kashmir, Wed. WHE Indo-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir has become a war of words with the representatives of each nation electioneering for a United Nations plebiscite. Radio Kashmir In Indianoccupied Srlnagar and the "free" Kashmir Radio at Pak-istan-controlled Murree blast each other twice dally with "news
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    RODEO CRASH
    50 3 HEADING FOR A CRASH: Rodeo rider Jim Fanning of Lawton, Oklahoma, U.S., winces hi anticipation of the impending crash as his bucking bronco heads lor a steel fence during a festival in Oklahoma City recently. The horse hit the fence and died of a broken neck— A.P. picture.
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    Showdown Soon On Indo-China
    204 3 PARIS, Wednesday. rnHE French Government Is preparing for a frank 1 showdown with the American and British Governments over Indo-China at the conference of the three Foreign Ministers in London next week It is believed that a French memorandum will stress that France can no longer
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    'Very Bad Situation'
    75 3 'Very Bad Situation WASHINGTON, Wed. GENERAL Omar N. Bradley, w Chairman of the UJ3. Joint Chlef-of-Staff. yesterday told the House Armed Services Committee that recent world events add up to "a very bad situation." He made a new plea for an extension of the Draft Act, (conscription) due to expire
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    Gen.MacArthur Gets A Russian Protest
    133 3 Gen. MacA rthu r Gets A Russian Protest TOKYO, Wect. T lEUT. General Kuzma Derevyanko, Russian member of the Allied Council for Japan, today sent a letter to Gen. Mac Arthur protesting against the reconstruction and modernisation of former naval and air bases in Japan. Gen. Derevyanko quoted reports from
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    GERMAN PLAN FOR STEEL WORKS
    60 3 BONN, Wed. Gen. Sir Brian Robertson, British High Commissioner, announced yesterday that he would accept, with some exceptions, the German plan for converting the giant Hermann Goering steel works at Water-nsted-Salzgitter to peaceful production. Dismantling and demolition will be stopped immediately on 15 of the
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    HELICOPTERS FOR INDO-CHINA
    36 3 SAIGON. Wed.— Helicopters are to be used in Indo-China for rescuing and transporting wounded French and Vietnamese troops from the deep impenetrable mountainous regions of fighting. Three have already arrived for service. Reuter.
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    Wrecked' If Russia Left Out
    78 3 LAKE SUCCESS, Wed A DMIRAL Chester Nimitz told a group of wounded war A veterans yesterday that Mr. Herbert Hoover't plan to exclude the Russians from the United Nations would toreck the world organisation. Admiral Nimitz leaves on Saturday for San Francisco on temporary leave
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    ASIAN, PACIFIC STATES TO HAVE 5 DAY TALKS
    262 4 MANILA, Wednesday. fHL Philippines President, Mr. Elpidio Quirino, today said that it was "substantially correct" to say that India. Pakistan, Australia, Indonesia and Siam would be among the countries attending the conference of Asian and Pacific States at Baguio, beginning May 26.
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    CYCLIST FINED
    33 4 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Wed.—Tay Siew was fined $5 by the Muar Maplstrate for failing to have an efficient control over his bicycle which knocked into a car at Tangkak.
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    GUTTED AT SEA
    41 4 WRECKED BT AN EXPLOSION and gutted by flames, me Norwegian Passenger-cargo ship, Bosphorus, recently sank in the Marmara Sea, near Istanbul, Turkey. Two persons were badly burned, while all the other 14 passengers and crew escaped. A.P. picture.
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    U.K. Ship Freed: Now At U.K.
    247 4 U.K. Ship Freed Now At U.K. HONG KONG, Wed. THE British vessel Inchar1 ran returned to Hong Kong yesterday after being intercepted by the Nationalists five miles off Macao las; Monday. She v/as taken to the Nationalist base of Lap Sap Mei, in the Pearl River estuary. When aouut five
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    2 SIAMESE SHIPS IN ONE WEEK
    97 4 2 SIAMESE SHIPS IN ONE WEEK the past week, two fully loaded freighters registered In Siam have arrived at Singapore. The first was the Chanthra 9. operated by Chip Huap of Bangkok, followed by the Chart! Fhlbul The latter brought 100 tons of broken rice from Bangkok and 600 tons
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    SIAM TO ADMIT REDS TO ECAFE MEET
    67 4 A...., BANGKOK, Wednesday. SIAM Foreign Office spokesman said that the Government had not been officially informed of Communist China's intention to send delegates to the meeting of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, in Bangkok on May 16. It Is
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    SI AM CROWNING, FIRST IN 25 YRS.
    234 4 SI AM CRO WNING, FIRST IN 25 YRS. From Our Own Correspondent nani BANGKOK, Wednesday. WHILE Slam is preparing foi the first coronation in 25 years, the trial continues of th e men charged with plotting the assassination of the former Kin* in 1946. He was not crowned The coronation
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    ALLEGED THEFT OF CASH CLOTHES
    51 4 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Wed.—A Javanese, Besar bin Hajl i'assln, aged 20, was charged before the Muar Magistrate, with theft of a trunk containing cash and clothing belonging to Balkar bin Kartawl at South Mano-a Estate, Kota Tinggi The case was transferred to Kota
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    Singapore Diary
    163 4 Y.W.C.A., 5, Raffles Quay, dressmaking, 10 ajn.. Bible class, 5 pjn. Malay class, 6.15 pjn. RED CROSS OLD PEOPLE'S CLUB, Wesley Hall, Port Cunning. 4.30 p.m to 8 pjn. CHINESE Y.M.C.A., 3e.egto Road, chess club. 5 pjn.. weightlifting, 5.30 p.m.. basketball. 5.3ff pjn. POLICE BAND. Parrer Park. 5
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    Sacrifices Could 'Stop War'
    146 4 Sacrifices Could 'Stop War' WASHINGTON, Wed. ADMIRAL Forrest Sherman n said last night that another war could be prevented if Americans were willing to make "necessary sacrifices" to maintain domestic prosperity and bolster the nation's military strength. "We must maintain our national economy and our industrial potential" the US. Chief
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    RAFFLES LIBRARY JOB STILL VACANT
    96 4 WO applications from qualified librarians have been received for the vacancy at Raffles Library, Singapore, which was advertised In the VK. and. In Malaya about two months ago, Mrs M. Shelly told the Straits Times yesterday. Mrs. Shelly, the present Librarian, will be leaving for
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    NEW MAGISTRATE
    60 4 Fr °w Onr Own Correspondent SITIAWAN, Wed Incha Abdullah bin Mohamed whS was until recently^si'stTmt f^etary <A) in .he Johore 8tate Secretariat, has been seconded to the Judicial Department and i 3 now statlonMaglSraS"^" M ClrcuIt He has taken over from Raja Suleiman bin Raja Ha™ who has
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    Ignored Road
    33 4 from Our Own Correspondent SEOAMAT, Wed. Failure to observe a traffic sign tfhile driving a van cost 26-year-old Lool Check Hong, manager of a rubber firm, a $10 nne at fiegataiat.
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    Lower Rubber Price Wanted By U.S.
    276 4 Lower Rubber Price Wanted By U.S. BRUSSELS. Wx* 'THE United States will x press for a lowering of the price of natural rubber at the International Rubbei Study Group, which opened its seventh annual conference yesterday An American delegate said yesterday that among the first point* the U.S. delegation will
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    ABSENT WITNESS WAS AMBUSHED
    75 4 From Oui Own Correspondent PARIT BUNTAR, Wed. QREGORY, the driver of s train which was involved In a- fatal accident near Bagan Serai Railway Station on Feb. 5, wax stated to be in hospital with gunshot wounds received in a recent train ambush, and unable to
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    Samba Makes Her 'Shudder In Horror'
    96 4 BURMESE girls f avouriTwXn' sKn^ aacr c Ma Ma Gyi vice-president of the All-Burma Women's League, who believe.? western dancing "tends to lower the morals." Announcing a one-woman campaign against her bebopping sisters drifting from the Burmese way of life" she snorted. "For Burmese
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    24 4 MRS. ATTLEE, wife of the British Premier, opening the River Thames WaterBus Service recently at a ceremony at Charing Cross Pier, London. A.P. picture.
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    PIRACY OF $15,000 CARGOOFF PENANG
    134 5 PIRACY OF $15,000 CARGOOFF PENANG From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. Wed. ARMED pirates in the Straits of Malacca struck for the second Lime this year when they stripped a Junk of a $15,000 rubber cargo 30 miles south-west of Penang. The Junk arrived at Penang yesterday from Indonesia empty. The
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    FINED $30 IN ALL
    57 5 Wtmm Our Own Correspondent MUAR. Wed. An Indian ■ntor cyclist. Chand, aged 45. was fined a total of $30 by tho Muar Magistrate on charges of neßliqent riding and being without a drivine lifpnre. it was stated that Chand's machine dashed against som« bicycles at a
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    Had Chandu: Gaoled
    51 5 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR. Wed. For molein!' chandu and having foui packets of chandu anc rhanriu dross. 51-v«*ar-old N't Tek Shing was sentenced tc 10 weeks' simple imprison mont on each charge by th< President of the Muar Sei sions Court. The sentences are to rur
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    Goat Strayed
    29 5 I mm Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT. Wed. -For lettin? his tjoat stray in fronl ot the Batu Anam police station, 41-year-old Pokkar ia lined $3 at Segamat.
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    DANCE or the GYPSIES
    12 5 DANCE or the GYPSIES T*MIL CHILDREN perform Gypsy Dance at a con-
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    Malnutrition Is Less Prevalent
    186 5 MAJOR siens of malnutrition among children M^ vending the child feeding centres 1. 1 Si nf ap«re have shown a gradual reduction, says the Colonial Secretary Sir Patrick McKerro n in his annual report for 1949. But, the report warns, there is no P" i ground
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    Took Rents: Gaoled
    51 5 I From Our SUB Correspondent MALACCA, Wed. LAM Kirn Chong was sentenced to six aiomhs' hard labour when he pleaded guilty at Malacca to criminal breach of trust of $2,871 while a rent-collector for Chi Sun Cheng Co. The firm were agents for the Cheng Hoon Teng
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    ACCQUTTED
    24 5 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR. Wed. Chlk bin Othman. alleged to have used a private car for hire, was acauitted by Muar rr.agUIftMfta
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    Municipal Welfare Extends Family Planning Advice Clinics
    178 5 Municipal Welfare Extends Family Planning Advice Clinics MORE SINGAPORE MOTHERS SEEK AID THE demand for advice on family planning has increased to such an extent that the Singapore Municipal Infant Welfare Clinics have extended their family planning service to two sub-clinics at Tiong Bahru and Balestier. The service is given
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    9 PENANG REDS ARRESTED
    127 5 9 PENANG REDS ARRESTED From Our SUIT Correspondent PENANG. Wed. PENANG police arrested nine Chinese on May Day eve and May Day In connection with Communistic activities, a C.I.D. spokesman said today. The arrest of one man at McNair Street led to two others being picked up later by the
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    NAAFI BUYS UP GARAGE
    66 5 NAAFI in Singapore have brought Brinkmans' motor premises in Grange Road. They are to build new offices, warehouses and flats for their officials in that area. NAAFI hopes to have Us new premises developed In a year's time. The plans for its development are not yet
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    NEW OFFICIALS
    66 5 Officials of Singapore Government Servants' Co-opera-tive Thrift and Loan Society for the year are: president, Mr. D. X Daniels; vice-presid-ents. Mr. L. C. Goh and Mr. Tan Ah Tah: chairman. Mr. H. M. Danker: secretary. Mr. N. A. Kularajah; treasurers. Mr. R S. Sithamparam committee members, Messrs. Loke
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    Rubber Sheet Charge
    35 5 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING. Wed.— Yusuf bin Mat was charged at Taiplng with having six sheets of rubber valued at $11.28 reasonably suspected to be stolen. Bail of $100 was allowed.
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    WEDDING BELLS IN MALACCA
    36 5 MR. AND MRS. ALFRED WILSON cutting their wedding cake after their marriage at Christ Church, Malacca, over the week-end. Mr. Wilson is Shipping Manager, Slme, Darby and Co., Malacca. Yong Heng picture.
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    CHEAPER POULTRY FOR COLONY
    288 5 SINGAPORE will have a cheaper and more plentiful supply of local-bred poultry in the years to come, says the Colonial Secretary, Sir Patrick McKerron, in his annual report on Singapore. The present thriving pigrearing industry in the Colony, ne says, is due to the availability of
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    $5 DOG FINES
    22 5 TAIPING. Wed.—Eight aoe owners were charged before the TAlplng Magistrate tor not mußllng their pets. Each was fined $5.
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    KILLED BULL FOR DAUGHTER: FINED
    57 5 From Our Own Correspondent QEMAS, Wed— A 40-year-old Malay, Ahmad bin Dayong, of Kampong Ayer Rawa, Gemencheh, who slaughtered a young bull for his daughter's marriage, was fined $20, in default 10 days' rigorous imprisonment, by the Tampin Circuit Magistrate. He did not have a
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    GOVT. BACK PAY
    62 5 From Oar SUfl Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Wed.— Staff unions and associations will meet at the Chinese Assembly Hall, Kuala Lumpur, on May 12 to consider protesting against the Government's refusal to consider a final settlement on arrears of non-interned Government servants. The meeting will auo consider a
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    He Loves Australia So Very Much...
    182 5 MR. Felix Jansen, Belgium's new Minister to Australia, said in Singapore yesterday: "I am returning to Australia, where I was Consul for nine years, because I love it. I love it so much I made a special application to be appointed again." Mr. and
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    T.B. Victims Transferred
    110 5 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Weci. DETWEEN 30 and 40 tuberculosis patients who had been undergoing treatment at the General Hospital, Johore Bahru and who are now considered to be on the road to recovery will be transferred to a sanatorium at Tampoi, five miles from
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    SCOUT CHANGE
    34 5 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA KANGSAR Wed.—A separate District Boy Scouts Association for the Sub-Dis-trict of Parlt has been formed and approved by the Executive Committee of the Perak State Scout Association.
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    STRAY COWS: FINED
    27 5 From Our Own Correspondent OEMAS. Wed.— Because his two cows strayed on the public road. Marlmuthu was fined $10 by the Tampln Circuit Magistrate.
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    No Driving Licence
    28 5 From Our Own Correspondent SEQAMAT, Wed.— Because he drove his car without a licence at Bekok, 23-year-old Tey Kheng Hoo was fined $10 at Segamat.
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    Snags Hit Probation System
    186 5 T ANQUAGE difficulties, overcrowding, unsatisfactory home conditions and illiteracy, which are prevalent In Singapore, are among the factors which cut down the number of Juvenile delinquents considered suitable for probation. The latest official report says that last year only 70 new cases were put on probation
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    EXPANSION PLAN URGED FOR MALAYAN FILM UNIT
    274 6 EXPANSION PLAN URGED FOR MALAYAN FILM UNIT From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. RECOMMENDATIONS that the Malayan Film Unit be expanded and its functions modified to concentrate mainly on the production of films for Asian audiences, have, it is understood, been made by Mr. Stanley Hawes, producer-in-chief of the
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    FLYING VISIT
    31 6 CADET FLIGHT SERC.KANT Elton Ord. of Northumberland, a member of 4ke British Air Training Corps. who flew to Singapore for a two-day visit. He left today —Straits Times picture.
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    R.A.F. IS THE LIFE FOR HIM
    131 6 AN 8.000 miies free trip by RAF Transport CommanG from England to Singapore lias convinced 17-year-o!ci Civet Flt.-SgL. Elton Old of Noilhumberiund, now a laboalory assistant, that the RAF is the life for him. He loid tiie Straits Times yesterday that it was hi:;
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    SPECIALS GAOLED FOR RAPE
    158 6 SPECIALS GAOLED FOR RAPE From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. jJ^ARUPPIAH and Munianriy. two Indian special constables attached to Mary Estate, Batang Berjuntai, were convicted at the Selangor Assizes, before Mr. Justice Taylor today on a charge of raDing a 16-year-old Chinese girl and were each sentenced to five
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    $10 TODDY FINE
    58 6 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— i Vadivelu. a weeder on Han Yang Estate. Masai, was fined $10 at'Johore Bahru for havlx>e one gallon and two bottles of toddy on which duty had not been paid. Hearing was deferred on a charge of offering a bribe
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    WITNESS IS ILL, CASE PUT OFF
    87 6 SEGAMAT. Wed.— "lf your witness is going; to be absent for another three months it does not follow that these poor people have to wait that long for their trial." Inche Abdul Hamid, President of Segamat Sessions Court, told police yesterday when told that
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    CHARGED WITH SHOOTING SPECIAL
    60 6 From Our Staff Correspondenl A IPOH, Wednesday. LLLOED to have shot and killed a Malay Special, Abdullah bin Teop Abdul Samad. at the village of Kopisan last Friday night. 21-year-old Chin Kirn Fatt was charged m the Magistrates Court this morning with murder. The ca>/ was
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    BRIGGS TALKS TO PLANTERS
    48 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. rpHE Director of OperaX tions, Lieut-Gen. Sir Haroid Briggs, today talked to representatives of the planting industries at the offices of the United Planting Association of Malaya. A planter who was present said: "General Briggs answered questions and listened to suggestions."
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    PARTY TO MANAGER
    70 6 PARTY TO MANAGER E ?2lfe «SJfr *iS th f e v Ha Py Wsrl.W 5 rl d Sin f»P«'e. on Monday m hour of Mr.. K. short'eav? uiFi^n- d Anglo-Swiss Milk Company, who is going on Khoo 800 K,n, ,M.r d Sunda 7- t shows Mr. Itnrie (standing riyht) and
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    Two Extra Air Services Each Week Between K.L. And S'pore
    239 6 B m*, US °i, the inc «asing traffic between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Saturday W yS WiU put On tWo extra air services a ek either way from The extra services will be on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The new plan
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    Broadcasting And Film Chiefs To Keep Responsibility
    190 6 Broadcasting And Film Chiefs To Keep Responsibility From Our Staff Correspondent rr.u r i. KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. fHL heads of the Broadcasting Department and of the Malayan Film Unit will remain solely responsible for the policy of their own departments, says an official statement today on the new status of
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    "FORGOT DATE OF SUMMONS"
    54 6 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed For failing to renew his road tax licence for a motor-cycle for 1950, Ang Choon Pin was fined $8 in Johore Bahru Police Court today. When asked why he did not answer the summons the previous week, Ang said
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    2 Charged In Grenade Incident
    113 6 2 Charged In Grenade Incident From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. TWO Chinese, who were arrested after a hand grenade throwing incident at the International Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, on April 26 today appeared m the First Magistrate's Court and were charged under the Emergency Regulations. The two men were
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    Police Co-op. Clerk Takes $981 Cheque
    126 6 From Our Staff Correspondent OYED MnJSSirf w'n l«rt S ?u *i ohamed bln ss yed w Abu Bakar. a 27-year-old clerk of the Malacca Police Co-operative Society, yesterday pleaded guilty at Malacca to criminal breach of trust of S9Bl. Sentence will be imposed on
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    WAR DAMAGE POOL: ANOTHER $10,000,000
    240 7 WAR DAMAGE POOL: ANOTHER $10,000,000 Unclaimed Assets Sales In Spore J£EFORE the end of next month the Singapore Government will transfer to the Malayan War Damage Fund more than $10,000,000, realised through trie sale of non-enemy assets held by the Custodian of Property. These assets represent property that have not
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    QUIZ FOR WAR DAMAGE CLAIM
    54 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. rIE War Damage Commission is sending claimants questionnaires for which answers are required before proceeding with the assessment of claims. No further progress can be made or payments authorised until the questionnaire has been returned to the commission,
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    Husband Shot, She Is Gaoled
    172 7 From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR, Wed. AMIDDLE-aged Chinese woman, Tng Ah Yong, today was sentenced to five years' hard labour by the Kedah Assiae Judge, Mr. Justice T. T. Russell, for consorting with bandits. Tried with her, a male squatter, I«ong Nam. was sentenced
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    Admits Negligence
    48 7 From Oar Own Correspondent TAIPINO, Wed— Pleading guilty to a charge of negligent driving. Tin Kok Tan was fined *50 by the Taiping Magistrate. Inspector Balwant Singh said Tans lorry collided with an oncoming bus containing 32 passengers near a bridge. The bus suffered sl'ght damage.
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    ATOM INGREDIENT TOO COSTLY
    72 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Wednesday. MALAYAN mines recovered /mall quantities of Monazice ore containing thorium last year, but no attempt was made to separate the atom bomb ingredient. The reason for this, state the Federation Chief Inspector of Mines, Mr. A. II C retch
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    K.L. EXHIBITION OF BOOKS
    52 7 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed The British Council is arranging an exhibition of books at St. John's Institution, Bukit Nanas, Kuala Lumpur, from May 8 to 11 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mr. M. P.. Holgate, Director of Education. Federation of Malaya, will
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    VARSITY STUDENTS TO ACT AS TEACHERS
    218 7 From Our Woman Correspondent STUDENTS from the University of Malaya have voluntereed to help the Peoples Education Association in its fight against illiteracy in this Colony. Mr. J. Paul, the secretary of the association told the Straits Times yesterday. They will ha^e a chance
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    $150 Illegal Toddy Fine
    62 7 TAIPING. Wed— For having three gallons of fermented toddy. Tan Sooi Teong was fined $150 or three months' rienrous imprisonment at TaiDing. Mr. Mong Khye Chong of the Customs Department stated thaf Tan had a similar conviction last year. He was selling the toddy to labourers
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    ONE DAY'S GAOL
    50 7 from Our Staff ('orrrspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Wed Yam binte Abdul Rahman was sentenced to one day's simple imprisonment at Johore Bahru for failing to obtain an identity card. It was stated the woman was mentally unbalanced and hei family did not know that she needed a card
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    OBSTRUCTION: $14
    28 7 MUAR. Wed— Two flsh sellers. Lim Meng Huat and Low Cheng Kia who obstructed passage* m the market with flsh, were each fined $7 at Muar.
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    BUDDHIST FLAG
    28 7 MR. KHOO SOO JIN (left) vice-presidente sident of the Penang Buddhist Institute, hoists the Buddhist flag at the Wesak celebrations m Penang recently. Straits Times picture.
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    TEA PARTY FOR PLANTER
    101 7 From Our Own Correspondent SITIAWAN. Wed.— A teaparty was held at Sitiawan Recreation Club in honour of Mr. Q. D. Sansom who is retiring from the planting industry after 39 years and Mrs Sansom. Mr. Sansom. a keen sports supporter, has promised to buy a billiard
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    PAKISTAN NAVY OFFICERS FETED IN S'PORE
    88 7 TO COMMEMORATE the visit of ship* of the Royal Pakistan Nary to Singapore, the Overseas Pakistan League gave a tea party yesterday at the Cathay Restaurant to Rear-Admiral J. W. Jefford 0.8.E.. Ccmmander-in-Chief of the Royal Pakistan Navy and the officers of the Jhelum,
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    SULTAN BREAKS WITH TRADITION
    87 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUiI, Wed. rR the first time in the history of the State, the Sultan of Selangor's birthday celebrations this year will not be at the Royal seat in Klang. They will be held in Kuala Lumpur. The Sultan will be 53
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    3 Police Hurt In Pahang Trap
    181 7 From Omr Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. T*HREE policemen travelling: in a convoy were A wounded in a bandit ambush yesterday afternoon at the 87th milestone Karak-Mcntakab Road in the Bentong area of Pahang. The bandits were on a high bank along the road
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    Ceylonese Wedding At Ipoh
    166 7 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH. Wed. rO well-known Ceylone»e familes of Singapore and Ipoh were united in marriage today when Mr. Anton Marshall, only son of Mrs. A. Marshall of Singapore, was married to Angela Joseph, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Joseph, of Ipoh.
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    ISTANA CEREMONY
    29 7 ISTANA CEREMONY THE ISTANA SELANGOR, Kuala Lumpur, on Tuesday when the Sultan of Selangor promulgated the second part of the Laws of the Constitution of Selangor. Straits Times picture.
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    BAUXITE HUNT IN MALA YA
    105 7 From Our SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. WALAYA-WIDE prospecting for the alumnlum ore bauxite, wnich will be possible when the Emergency ends may result In the discovery of payable deposits, says the Chief Inspector of Mines. Federation, of Malaya, Mr. A H. Cretch, in his
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    CARDS WRONG $30 FINES
    47 7 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Wed.— For not notifying change of addresses In their identity cards, Kwai Chye Seng and Lee Boon Chuan were fined $30 each at Taiping. They were working at Kuala Trong, but addresses on the cards were Jelutong, Penang.
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    MINING OUTPUT RISE CONTINUES
    149 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. /CONTINUING steady recovery since the liberation, the Federation's mining industry increased output in all its sections last year, states the Federation's Chief Inspector of Mines, Mr. A. H. Cretch in a departmental report. Production of tin ore concentrates was
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    APRIL AIR STRIKES A RECORD
    126 7 THE tempo and strength of air strikes against the bandits increased m April, revealed an official statement Issued yesterday. Lincolns, Sunderlands, Brigands, Tempests and Spitfires—the aircraft of the RA.r. baaed m the FederaSlngnrv>rc- 46 times with a record number of 560 sorties, an average of
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    19 Health And Strength Assn. Members Cleared
    333 7 19 Health And Strength Assn. Members Cleared THE way in which the police carried out their raid on the Selangor Health and Strength Association's premises in Kobinson Road was .deplored by the Singapore Fourth Magistrate, Mr. P. C. Claque. when he yesterday acquitted 19 members of the organisation of assisting
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    Squadron Leaving
    48 7 No. 92 Squadron. RAF Regiment Malaya will leave Singapore on May 30 for Hong Kong to relieve No. 91 Squadron. No. 91 Squadron, which has been in Hong Kong for over a year, is expected in Singapore on June 15. It will be stationed at Changi.
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    Assault Charge
    31 7 Charge SEGAMAT. Wed. Alleged to have used a stick to injure a compatriot, 41-year-old K. Thaver of Claire division of Johore Labis Estate was I offered bail of $100
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    ACCUSED OF B.O.R. MURDERS
    194 7 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. Wed. YAP YIN, a 23 year-old Hakka, was yesterday committed for trial charged with the murder of three 8.0.R.'s who were killed in an ambush on the Kuala Pilah Pass on Dec. 21 last year. The three soldiers, Bombardier Chapman, Gunner
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    BROKE CURFEW, IMPRISONED
    56 7 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH. Wed -Found by ;i police patrol in the buneel Pinji area behind the Tiger Lane Dairy during curfew hours, Leong Nam was sentenced to a aionth'a rigorous imprisonment in Tr>oh today. Leon b agec! 23. pleaded guilty, but couid give no reason
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    THe Straits Times Singapore, Thurs., May 4, 1950. The Price of Rubber
    715 8 THe Straits Times Singapore, Thurs., May 4, 1950. The Price of Rubber No-one interested m the I rubber industry's future will dispute the contention of the American delegation to the International Rubber Study Group that the price of natural rubber is now too high. It is I too high for
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    THE RULER OF JAPAN
    183 8 I SEE m the Straits j l Times of Apr. 28 that Members of the House of I Commons have asked their Government "to remind General Mac Arthur that Britain played her full part m the Pacific war and that the British interests m Japan should
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    WHITE BONES AND WHITE EYES
    199 8 DEFERRING to "A ,1 Political Dialogue," which appeared m the Straits Times leader page on May I, I think it was rathei unfortunate that "A.8.5." should have closed his letter with the Malay proverb, "Biar puteh tulang jangan puteh mata." Mr. E. S. Hose, C.M.G.,
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    RUBBER SHARE APATHY
    242 8 RUBBER SHARE APATHY A CORRESPONDENT recently pointed out that it was indeed strange that, despite the greatly improved prospects of rubber plantation companies, no corresponding response had yet been registered in the share market. While this could at one time have been justified for many reasons, the same could hardly
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    TAILING THE DEAN
    181 8 I YOUR May 2 news report x (headed "Special ■Branch 'Tails' The Dean") of how C.I.D. officers met Dr. Hewlett Johnson at Kallang Air1 port and followed him into Raffles Hotel echoes j the words of Sir Maurice I Peterson, Britain's exAmbassador to the U.S.S.R. Sir Maurice,
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    45 8 WOT NOTHING FOR CARRYING THE BABY "The Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, told Parliament that planters, miners and other civilians in Malaya were excluded from the award of the General Service Medal because it was not granted for part-time service."— Strai ts Times, April 26.
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    A Legal Warning
    261 8 IT seems to me that the directors of the Nan Chiau Jit Pao may be in danger of forgetting the law of this Colony with regard to alien friends, i.e. aliens whose sovereign or state is not at war with His Majesty the King. Our law upon
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    THE BRAHMINS
    237 8 jtfUSING despondently after a heavy curry tiffin 1 on the fancied tendency of the Secretariat to crystallise into a caste of Brahmin oligarchy as opposed to the mere Kshatriyas or even Pariahs of the ordinary Administration, my mind took me back to memories of "H.M.S. Pinafore" and the
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    THE COURAGEOUS TAXI DRIVER
    95 8 rE startling domestic events of the past few days have, naturally, overshadowed the fact that an act of great courage was performed in our midst in the best traditions of good citizenship. I refer to the Chinese taxi driver who, with a gun in his ribs,
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    A POLITICAL SOLUTION?
    244 8 IT Is not more severe Dunishments, more information or more troops that are likely to liquidate the Communists and their associates in Malaya, but bold political reforms. Severe punishments and a big force of secret police could not halt the tide of Communism In Tsarist Russia, nor
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    ROUND THE COURTS
    107 8 WONDER if you are aware of what goes on I round the Singapore Police Courts? If you pay a visit to the coffee-stalls in the courts' compound, you will be horrified at all the evil to be seen there. The petition writers, surrounded by ignorant men and
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    On The Margin
    415 8 On The Margin The Pink Room QNE of the features of the admirable public library which was opened by the United States Information Service in Raffles Place on Tuesday is the Newsroom, in which Press conferences will be held. For this room the decorator has chosen a colour scheme in
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    GOVT. CLERKS TO SEE GRIFFITHS
    469 9 Meeting Flays Benham Pay Proposals THE Singapore Government Administrative and Clerical Services Union plans to appeal direct to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. James Griffiths, on the subject of the Benham salaries report, when the Minister visits Singapore this month. But, before
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    342 9 ....With All Planes On Her Deck Straits Times Shipping Reporter TOWERING above the Admiral's barge and 1 the Captain's gig, the U.S.S. Boxer, aircraft carrier of the Seventh Fleet, looked like a giant monster yesterday afternoon And so she Is. For the carrier is carrying her full load of war
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    BOMB IN GARDEN
    26 9 A live hand grenade was recovered from the vegetable garden at Changi Prison. Singapore, yesterday morning. It was found by a prison warder.
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    BOMB IN CAMP
    24 9 BOMB IN CAMP An Indian soldier found an unserviceable hand grenade at the Nepal Camp, off Alexandra Road, on Monday morning.
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    MPsWERE OUT OF DATE
    135 9 MPsWERE OUT OF DATE Says Mr. Tan SOME of the speakers in the recent Commons debate on Malaya revealed they did not know enough about present •onditions in Malaya, Mr. Tan Chin Tuan, Singapore Legislative Councillor, said yesterday on his ai rival in the Colony fr.tm Britain. He added: "They
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    Holidays Protest
    73 9 gINGAPORE fish operators are protesting against the warning by the Fisheries Department that the practice of obtaining port clearances for fishing vessels heading for rpstricted areas on Sundays and holidays should be discontinued. Mr. T. W. Burdon, Fisheries Officer, said that with the existing staff, his department rould
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    'Chained Up Girl' Charge Dismissed
    199 9 'Chained Up Girl' Charge Dismissed A34-year-oid step-mother, Wan Nan Lee. *ho vas alleged to have chained a 10-year-old girl to a door with a dog chain and to have beaten her several times with a thick cane, was acquitted yesterday in the Slnl gapore Relief Court on a charge of
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    Teachers To
    71 9 Meet fPHE Singapore Teachers Union will hold an I emergency general meeting at 2 p.m- on Saturday in the Raffles Institution hall to finalise their memorandum on the Benham Committee recommendations. The meeting will also discuss any other action the members may wish to take. The president of
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    'BEATING RETREAT IN SINGAPORE
    53 9 The pipes, drums and military band of the Ist Battalion the -Cameronians (Scottish Rifles*, and the combined pipes and drums of the 2nd Battalion of the 6th Gurkha Rifles and the 10th Gurkha Rifles (Princess Mary's Own) will beat trie Retreat on the Padang, Singapore at
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    LAUNCHING
    41 9 A launch built for Singapore Fisheries Department by Messrs Merton Brown will be launched from their slipways at 12.30 p.m. today. The launch will be used by the Department in Its investigations of the scope for development of Singapore fish-
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    'THANKS' SAYS THE U.S. NAVY
    115 9 'THANKS' SAYS THE U.S. NAVY THE Commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, Rear Admiral Walter F. Boone, yesterday said "thank you" to the people of Singapore "for the truly royal reception you have given us during the past week." "Singaporeans in every walk of life, from the highest to the
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    'TEA MONEY' CAN BE LEGAL, IF....
    214 9 rpHE law of the Colony as it stands does not A prohibit a landlord from accepting a premium "tea money" concerning a house built after Sept. 8, 1947, it was held in an unsuccessful action for recovery of $4,750 in the Singapore Supreme Court
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    HOW COCOA CAME TO MALAYA
    43 9 Mr. Aldworth Thompson, senior plant pathologist. Department of Agriculture, Federation of Malaya, will tell the story of the introduction of the Cocoa Seed from West Africa into Malaya and Borneo territories over Radio Malaya at 8 p.m. tomorrow.
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    STREET HOLD-UP
    29 9 An Indian walking along Enggor Street yesterday morning was robbed of a lighter licence and $4.40 by another Indian. Police detained a mrjn a few hours later.
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    CO-OP. OFFICERS
    61 9 Officials of the Singapore Harbour Board Employees' Co-opera-tive Thrift and Loan Society for the year are: President, Mr. P. W. Burton: vice-presidents, Messrs. J. F. Stein I. D. Peek, Chan Peng Sim; chairman, Mr. K. A. Raman; treasurer Mr. Tan Hock Soon; comznitte< members, Messrs. Lee Kirn Chye
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    GOING HOME AFTER 27 YEARS
    63 9 MR. MRS. NAKATANI SA ICHIIU* who passed through Singapore yesterday on thei r way home to Japan. This will be their first visit to th eir homeland for 27 years. They were not allowed to land in Singapore. They asked a Straits Times report er:
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    5 COLONY APPEALS DISMISSED
    184 9 FVE appeals against convictions and sentences imposed by Singapore magistrates' courts were dismissed by the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Murray-Aynsley, in the Supreme Court, yesterday. Sudln bin Kasslm and Abdullah bin Osman. cooks in the pilgrim ship Tyndareous, appealed against prison sentences of one week each
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    REDS' THREAT TO CHILDREN: C.I.D. ALERT
    203 9 REDS' THREAT TO CHILDREN: C.I.D. ALERT SINGAPORE police will take full precautions to prevent Communist activity aimed at wrecking Education Week. The Communists are trying to intimidate children and parents from attending rallies, cinemas and other functions of the Week. A large number of threatening: pamphlets in Chinese have been
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    Schooling: The New Way
    91 9 CINEMA goers at the Capitol Theatre were yesterday Riven an idea of what the 10-year and supplementary education plan will mean to the Colony. Documentary films produced by Shaw Brothers portray the new outdoor advances that will be introduced with these plans. The film makes an
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    P.I. Envoy In S'pore
    115 9 THHE Philippines' first AmX bassador to the Republic of Indonesia. Mr. Manuel V. Gallego, arrived in Singapore yesterday by Par American Clipper from Manila on his way to Jakarta. He was the guest of the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, at lunch. Mr. Gallego was formerly the
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    On Mission To Forces In Far East
    83 9 PROFESSOR J. N. Wright, a member of the Advisory Committee on Education to the War Office and of the Central Council of Education for the Forces, is due in Singapore this week on a mission to the forces in the Far East. Prof.
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    1885 10  - LIAQUAT ALI CANNOT ESCAPE TWO SHADOWS By ANDREW ROTH KARACHI: ALTII 0 U G H Liaquat AH Khan, paunchy Prime Minister of Pakistan, is rearing to the height of his international prestige with his forthcoming trip to <he U.S.A. and Canada and his anticipated trip to the U.S.S.R., he cannot
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    500 10  - The Cheerful Lang-teng-tang Man By HARRY TAN pHILOSOPHER, sage, rough or fake-^all him what you like. Among the Chinese, there is no more likeable character than the Lang teng-tang man— that happy serenader of the night and cheerful teller of things to tome. He reads the future, and predicts "good
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    Fighting India's mass killers
    325 10 Fighting India's mass killers NEW DELHI: T«HE Indian Govx ernment has launched an "all-out war" on the health front. Over 6,000,000 people die i n India every year from various diseases. Malaria and tuberculosis account for 2,400,000 and 500,000 deaths respectively. Mr. O. Berkar, Director of Public Relations, Joint Health
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    'ORANG SELETAR' of Johore
    395 10 BTf A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT JOHORE BAHRU: A BAND of sea gypsies came to town the other day and had a great time. Chief item of interest for them was a visit to to a circus which happened to be performing in Johore Bahru at the time.
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    THESE WILL NOT BE MEAT FOR MAN
    646 11  - THESE WILL NOT BE MEAT FOR MAN S. SIVADAS by gAVED from the soup bowls of Singapore's Chinatown, scores of chickins and ducks live in pence in a rubber estate at Thomson Road. They will never be meal for man. These birds are in the Liberation Garden of a Buddhist
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    Saucers Again
    150 11 NEW YORK: AMERICANS know now that there are such things as flying saucers. The Defence Department, which has hitherto denied their existence, now says they are conventional aircraft. '•The objects." &ay the experts, 'are not from another planet or even from another country. You will learn about them
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    Short Evening Dresses Are Bad—Says David
    322 11 Short Evening Dresses Are Bad Says David JP'lt is true that women dress to please men, then It behoves men to take an interest in their efforts and express some satisfaction at the results achieved. By nature, I am not a person who "writes letters to the papers"— the first
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    IN YOUR GARDEN
    669 11  -  KEBUN by f\ I have just moved x into a new house. The garden is quite large and reasonably well kept, but I am afraid the grass tennis court has been very neglected. I wish to rehabilitate this and bring it back into a playable condition. The
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      250 11 Imported from r^9b/ London, England /^fr Htv CAWRIRAS ISO YEARS' REPUTATIOM FOW QUAIITY LAMPS OSKAM on an electric limp Is more than a trad* marM. It signifies the product of th« bett methods •f electric lamp manufacture, it the Hall Mark of OSRAM. in a word, is the epitome of
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    He said rubber could be grown in Malaya
    1591 12  - He said rubber could be grown in Malaya RONALD BOXALL THEY CALLED HIM MAD.... by LONDON: 'PHI-: award of the Linncan Medal to 9 4 -year-old Mr. Henry Nicholas Ridley for his outstanding services to the science of botany serves as a timely reminder of what Malaya and, through it,
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    LONG Distance at TELUK ANSON
    339 12 LONG Distance at TELUK ANSON From A Reader HOW absolutely right someone was In a letter to the Straits Times recently about the delightful fun and games that people have on the Teluk Anson Telephone exchange. Personally I think that the greatest fun of all is when someone is trying
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    If you FEEL you want more sleep —you really do NEED it
    397 12 If you FEEL you want more sleep you really do NEED it By CHAPMAN PINCHER TF you always need *an alarm clock to wake you in the mornins: you are not getting enough sleep to keep you really healthy. Normal people getting all the sleep they need wake naturally. London
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      212 12 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD -gs*--~ i-u'uTn7jrijLri chaiirter (3) another country <S> _B&1— I9L— BBL— la Get do bird for thl» Kent Tl tooti coini <st. I f I SSSTo" I It- With torn cod oot th* »*wi* liftM"™""MMir^* 1 SH"^~ 5H"""™T8M~~ll^H™"""lHH~™ 11 A*^Wih tpot Us bird Uf« p*o'£'} r ii fifi
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    Plan your decorations in advance
    1208 13  - Plan your decorations in advance "GARDENIA" MALAYAN FLOWERS IN MALAYAN HOMES_I by |£i way 01 miro during these hint: on the preparatior I and use of cut flower? in Malaya I would like to say that, with the exception of the pink and white lotuses which need deep water in
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    37 13 rhh E k B «i ARl receI E d n n x P«cted impetus recently In Hyde Park, London when British film actress Moira Lister wore this surrealist hat of burnt straw and swe«olnj feathers.— Renter photo.
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    Chefs of Singapore—4
    402 13 Chefs of Singapore 4 SIDES of frozen beef on a freezing morning at Smithfleld Market, London. And T-bone steaks acclaimed by the U.S. Navy In Singapore this week. Mr.' Roy Wilfred Cornell of Orchard Road's Pavilion Grillroom, has a meaty story to tell. Roy Cornell has learned to cook the
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    Furniture Pedlar
    172 13 VLTE have satay sellers and fruit hawkers, but have you seen the furniture vendors who peddle their heavy wares in the streets? They are mainly Malay carpenters, who make a scanty living working on local wood like meranti, poonah or serayah. Working independently In their kampongs they take
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    Dying confessions of Voodoo' murders
    859 13  -  ESTHER CHAPMAN By JAMAICA: \yOMEN worshippers lying unconscious for three weeks and death-bed confessions of ritual murders of adults and children are common among the strange religious sects of the West Indies island of Jamaica. Leaders of these sects are usually men who drift from
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    Strange Star Is Near The Sun
    293 13 Strange Star Is Near The Sun A STRANGE star which appears to be the sun's second closest neighbour in space has just been found In the southen sky. It Is not much more than 80,000,000,000,000 miles away and may be as close as 50.000,000.000.000 miles. It Is a double star—
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    Reds Squeeze Too
    71 13 HONG KONG: RED China has her "ten percenters," too. The time-honoured habit of "squeeze" seems to have wormed its way into the ranks of even the wellindoctrinated Chinese Communists. Reports from Shanghai indicate that not only have new China's Communist officials been unable to wipe out government
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      83 13 SINGAPORE 10 a.m. Newi from K.L.; 10.05 Close; 12. Malay; 1. pjn. Light Music; 1.30 News; 1.45 Dance Music; 2. Close; 6. Children; 6 JO Calling All Hospitals; 7. News, Share Market; 7.12 "This Is Communism"; 7.20 Interlude; 7:30 Hit Parade; 8. Forum of the Air; 8 JO David QrenvlUe
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      80 13 12-2 p.m As Spore; 6 Mall Bag; 7. As Spore; 7.25 Hawaiian Interlude. 7.30 London Studio Melodies; 8. Forum of the Air; 8.30 Thursday Symphony; 9.30 News; 945 Mark Warnow Orcn.: 10. Happy Anniversary"; 11. Close. PKNANC 1-2 p.m. As Spore; 6. Children; 6.30 Movie Magailne; 7. As S'pore; 7.30
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      76 13 B. V. E. B. S. 4.45 pjn. Prom the London Editorials: 4.56 Rlmsky-Korsakov; 8.15 "Balance of Europe": 5.30 "Adventures of P.C. 40"; 6. Indonesian; 6.30 Cantonese; 6.43 London Studio Melodies; 7.15 French; 7.30 English Half-Hour; 8. "Strictly Vocal"; 8.15 Thai; 8.45 Dutch; 8. Kuoyu; 9.30 Burmese: 9.45 Interlude: 10. Radio
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      London Stocks
      280 14 LONDON, Wed. RUBBERS remained firm on iV the London Btock Exchange yesterday. Tina again showed the occasional falling off. Cl<*ing middle prices of selectee stocks, a* supplied to the Strait* Times by special arrangement with The Financial Times, foUow. Unless otherwise stated shares are of £1 denomination. LOANS
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      RUBBERS REMAIN AN ATTRACTION
      183 14 From Our Market Correspondent CONTINUED lack of support for Industrials m the Malayan share market yesterday inclined this section to lower levels. Tins were also slightly easier. Small interest, however, was maintained m Rubber shares. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharcbrokers' Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS
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      BURMA-MALAY TIN
      39 14 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. BURMA-MALAY Tin announces the following tin-ore outputs for April: Katu Dredging—l2l,ooo cubic yards dredged, 349 plculs of ore won. Renong ConsoL Dredging— 315,000 cubic yards dredged. «19 plculs of ore.
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      KOMBOK RUBBER
      44 14 Tf OMBOK (F.MJS.) RubbaT Company's directors recommend a dividend of 2% per cent,, less tax. In respect of last year, payable on June 29. Net profit before tax was £14,880; the carry-forward recommended, subject to audit and the usual adjustments, la £13,4X4.
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      TIN PRICES
      28 14 SINGAPORE, Wed., May 3— $S9H5« (up 53J85.) LONDON, Wed., Ma> 3.— Spot: <£593i— £594. Forwards: £594*— £59«. Settlement: £594. Turnover morning:. 186 tons; afternoon. 60 tons.
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      LABU: 12 1/2% DIVIDEND
      205 14 T ABU (F.M.S.) Rubber Company last year made a profit, after charging estate expenditure, depreciation, London expenses and annual replanting provision, ol £65.401 Less British and Malayan taxation and plus the balance brought forward and surplus on Insurance claim, there was a total available of £99,213.
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      Singapore Rubber
      194 14 THE Singapore rubber mar- ket was hesitant and stagnant throughout yesterday. Practically no transactions took place until the close, when business passed for first and off grades. Closing prices yesterday were, per Ib.: No 1 R. 8.8 •pot loose buyers 74% cents, sellers 74% cents; Mo. 1 R.S.B.
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      PRODUCE MARKET
      103 14 From A Market Correspondent r«OPKA was quiet but slightly steadier In toe Singapore produce market yesterday. There were buyers at $38% and sellers at $39%. Coconut oil prices remained unchanged from Tuesday night. Cloves were steady, business In Zanzibar being done at »94% buyen at the opening but
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      RUBBER MARKET FREED IN JAPAN
      117 14 TOKYO. Wed. FR*the first time in 10 years, rubber has become a free market commodity in Japan, according to a SCAP announcement. Price and distribution controls have been removed because of "the advent of free trade and the discontinuance or rubber allocations." The Import of
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    894 15  -  EDWIN LEONG Pan Yap Player Of Greata t Prom ise By INURING the last Malayan badminton season, we read much of rising Federation players like A. Piruz and Ko n Kong Mm of Selangor, Tan Jin Eong who recently became Perak's Number One singles player,
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    79 15 ETON v. HARROW T«HE fourth of June, Important m the Eton calendar, will be observed In Kuala Lumpur by a cricket match between old "boys of Eton and Harrow. The Eton Ramblers will meet the Selangor Club on June 3, and the Harrow Wanderers on June 4. Both matches will
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    World Title Fight
    32 15 NEW YORK. Wed. -Middleweight champion Jack Lamotta agreed yesterday to defend nis title at the Yankee stadium on May 14 against an opponent who will be named shortly.— A.P.
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    70 15 THE MALACCA XI who •prang a surprise last Saturday when they defeated Johore one-nil hi a Malaya Cup match at Muar. Left to right— (back row) D. HendrofT, R. E. Dunkley, and Yam Fook Ton*; (Middle Row) Mahabod, Wee Tiam Tye and Hassan Shanan; (front row) Salleh Jamudin, G. Doral
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    Selangor Must Use All Their Chances
    441 15  -  LARRY CARROLL SELANGOR v PERAK SOCCER ON SAT. By KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. ttELANGOR'S runaway six-one win over the Seru vices last Saturday was an encouraging start for the State's W5O Malaya Cup team. This Saturday Selangor meet stift*e r opposition in Perak in their
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    182 15 I NEW YORK. Wed. T»HE Red Sox defeated Cleve1 land Indians six to one in an American League baseball match yesterday. Boston left hander Maurice McDermott pitched six consecutive hitless and eight straight runless innings. Mci Dermott struck out eight and walked five. The matches
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    48 15 th« Inn«? «a c hes the tape with a great burst to wln the Old Soldiers' race at w^ V J nee t of GHQ S! n Regiment held at Tanglin on Saturday. Second to Captain HarrU is S. S. M. Hornby and third Brigadier F. P. L.Gray.
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    Weekend Cricket XI's
    320 15 r! following are cricket teams for the weekend: SINGAPORE CRICKET CLUB Sunday v. R.A.F. Chanji on the padang (snr. tourney):— R. Lynch (capt.), R. Nelson, J. Pearson. K. Gould, V. Margrave, Henchley. F. Homer. J. Smith. O. Heard, J. Ewart, T. Potts. INDIAN ASSOCIATION Saturday v. Non-Benders
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    103 15 LONDON, Wed.— Aldershot and Southern! United drew one-all In a Dlv. 3 (Southern) fixture In the English Football League yesterday. Notts County beat Clyde two-nil In a friendly.— Reuter. AP. MABRION In the act of scoring the first goal for Hong Kong Army against Singapore District at Jalan
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    543 16 HONG KONG SERVICEMEN GIVEN HARD GAME Two-One Victory Over District Hong Kong Army 2; Spore District 1. WITH a fine fighting rally m tha second half, after being outplayed m the first session, Singapore District went down to th e strong Hong Kong Army eleven by the odd goal m
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    257 16  - SPORTING THE WINNERS EPSOM JEEP B> PENANO, Wed. My ten horses to follow at the Penang Turf Club's Sum mer meeting ar«: Tara Str««t: In great shape. Trotted in over 6f at Ipoh on heavy track. Will definitely g" B*«^. H*s been a model of consistency. Won hte last start
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    54 16 SOCCEE: Sn. lge: Navy v Casuals at Jalan Besar; Bus. Hse. comp: Malayan Airways v Borneo Motors at Geylang: Jnr. B 2: CYMA (P.M.) v Spore Med. Workers V. at CYMA. G.S.C. WIN 17-7 Girls sports club beat WRAP (Changi) by 17 points to 7 at net ball
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    Combined Singapore XI Picked
    147 16 rpHE Combined Sin- gapore eleven to meet Hong Kong Combined Services at Jalan Besar stadium this Sunday will be without the services of Singapore and R.A.P. players as both teams are engaged in Malaya Cup nxtures in the Federation, on Saturday. The chosen team Is: Rowe
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    U.K. CRICKET SCORES
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    TIONG BAHRU v. OWEN YOUNGSTERS
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    R.A.F. MALAYA XI v MALACCA
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    17 16 TODAY: 12.59 a.m. (Bft. 7in.) and 11.65 p.m. (»ft. Mn.). TOMORROW: 1.24 p.m. (Bft. 21n.).
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    BRIGHT EYES IS BACK IN TRAINING
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    Manila Girls Play Tonight
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