The Straits Times, 18 May 1950

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 SIXTEEN PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1950 if PRICE TEN CENTS
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    EADLOCK AT SYDNEY TALKS RESOLVED
    450 1 EADLOCK AT SYDNEY TALKS RESOLVED 'Stop Reds' Plan Agreed SYDNEY, Wednesday. rpHE threatened deadlock at the Sydney Commonwealth Conference over Australia's plan for a short term aid fund as part of an overall "stop Communism" drive was resolved today. Lord Macdonald, leader of the British delegation, and Mr. Percy Spender,
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    34 1 -I itVKK iN .MEMORY of Commonwealth serviceir«n who died in the Burma campaign was held recently in Westminster Abbey. London. Picture shows the Fnme Minister of Barm*, Thakin Nu, arriving for the s« rvice.
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    PRIDI ANNOYED KING ANANDA
    213 1 PRIDI ANNOYED KING AN AND A BANGKOK, Wednesday. EVIDENCE given by King Phumiphon on the death of his brother, Ananda. described "differences" which had occurred between Ananda and the Premier, Pridi. Pridi and four others are charged with plotting the assassination of June 9, 1946. Pridl and his secretary are
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    Liaquat Ali Khan To Visit S'pore Soon
    61 1 Liaquat Ali Khan To Visit S' pore Soon THE Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Liaquat All Khan, is expected to visit Singapore soon. The date of his arrival and period of his stay are not yet known. It is understood that the date for the opening ot the Pakistan Trade
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    Dato Onn Retires After 20 Years
    183 1 rvATO Onn bin Ja'afar retires today after more than 20 years in the Johore Government service. Last night he told the Straits Times: "I now hope to devote all my energy to the I'nited Malays National Organisation," of which he has been President since
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    New Post For Malaya District
    85 1 New Post For Malaya District From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. ANEW appointment has been created at Headquarters. Malaya District, Kuala Lumpur, where the former Brigadier, General Staff, has been raised to that of Chief of Staff. The first holder of the new appointment is Brig. R. C. Cottrell-Hill.
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    U.K. LESSONS IN WHAT TO DRINK
    34 1 LONDON, Wed— Britain's Wine and Spirit Association has launched an appeal for 100,000 sterling from the trade to be used in educating people to appreciate good wines. Reuter.
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    93,000 PEOPLE FLEE FLOODS
    48 1 OTTAWA, Wed. About 93.000 people have evacuated Winnipeg, threatened by floods, but there is as yet no change in the flood situation. The Red River has not risen since yesterday, but dykes have weakened and army engineers are working frantically to strengthen them.— Reuter.
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    Armed Robbery
    31 1 Low Heng of Idris Road, Singapore, was held up by two gunmen at Kirn Keat Road at 11.30 p.m. yesterday and robbed of a wrist watch worth about $30
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    Ministers Prepare For Monday's Malaya Flight
    127 1 LONDON, Wednesday. ORITAIN'S Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. James Griffiths, and the Wai Minister, Mr. John Strachey, were today completing preparations to fly to Singapore on Monday to study the situation in Malaya for themselves, i They are due to arrive on
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    27 1 THE AGENT FOR MALAYA in London. Mr. W. A. Ward, shows the King a test tube ofpatchouli oil at the Malayan stand of the British Industries Fair
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    NEW JAP TREATY MOVE Delegates Study C'wealth Plan
    448 1 NEW JAP TREATY MOVE Delegates Study C'wealth Plan LONDON, Wednesday. THE Commonwealth Secretary, Mr. Patrick Gordon 1 Walker, presided at a meeting of Commonwealth High Commissioners today to study an "agreed report" on a Japanese peace treaty, compiled by the Consultative Committee which has been meeting since Mar l. It
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    THE WINDSOR MEMOIRS
    119 1 THE memoirs of the Duke of Windsor, who gave up the throne of England for a woman's love that is the fascinating, frank and moving story The Sunday Times now brings to its readers, beginning this week. Here is a brilliant, unrestrained picture of the gay days
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    Agus Salim On Malaya
    83 1 JAKARTA, Wed. rnHE Indonesian Foreign JL Ministry official spokesman, Haji Agus Salim, urged United Nations intervention in the Malayan campaign at a press conference here today. "Thousands of lives are being lost, Including young Englishmen, without the world taking interest in the affairs," he said. Agus
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    ECAFE CHAIRMAN
    25 1 BANGKOK, Wed. The ECAFE session this morning selected Siam's Phya Srlvlsam Vacha chairman and Burma's U Kyin vice-chairman of the sixth session. U.P.
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    NO CIVILIAN ARMS
    149 1 LONDON, Wed. rE Colonial Secretary, Mr. James Griffiths, today turned down the Idea of arming civilians in Malaya to deal with guerilla attacks. "An unduly wide distribution of arms to civilians would provide the terrorists with a target which, if successfully attacked, would supply them with much
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    INQUIRY ON COLONY RADIO COSTS URGED
    317 1 THE Singapore Association wants the Government to hold an inquiry into the costs of! broadcasting in the Colony. This follows the report of a sub committee of the Association which states that the average broadcasting cost per licensed listener in the Colony is $53.83,
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    'POSITIVE' MOSCOW TALKS
    143 1 'POSITIVE' MOSCOW TALKS LAKE SUCCESS, Wed. MR. TRYGVE LIE, United Nations Secretary-Gen-eral, stated in Moscow today that he had no reason to be dissatisfied with his talks witn Generalissimo Josef Stalin and other Soviet leaders. According to a press releass here of his press conference in Moscow today. Mr. Lie
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    BOUND BODY IN RIVER
    41 1 The body of a young Chinese, with wrists tied together, was found in the Singapore River, near Robertson Quay, yesterday morning: He was identified as Guuti Chwee Poh. a boatman, of 170. Cecil Street, missing sine* Monday.
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    South- West African Case Before Court
    185 2 South- West African Case Before Court THE HAGUE, Wed. rpHE Union of South A Africa went before the International Court of Justice yesterday claiming the right to annex South-West Africa, the former German colony ruled by the Union by a League of Nations mandate since 1919. The South African claim
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    REQUEST FROM INDIA, PAKISTAN
    95 2 CAPETOWN, Wed. South Africa's Prime Minister, Dr. Daniel Malan, told the House of Assembly here yesterday that Pakistan and India had asked South Africa to postpone her Group Areas Bill, laying down certain districts for the different races, until after a proposed round-table conference between the
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    'C.R.' CABINET
    46 2 'C.R CABINET NEW DELHI, Wed.— lndia's former Governor General, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, and the Assam Governor Sri Prakasa. have been appointed to the Indian Cabinet. Jairamdas Daulatram, until recently the Food and Agriculture Minister in the Indian Cabinet, will succeed Sri Prakasa as Governor of Assam.— Reuter.
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    POLICE RATION
    44 2 TENDERS will be received by the Colonial Secretary, Singapore, before 12 noon, 2nd June, 1950 for the supply of uncooked rations for the Slngaporee Police Force for 3 months, commencing from Ist July, 1950. Further details from Police HQ.. South Bridge Road.
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    HANDBAG RADIO
    43 2 THIS NEAT LITTLE radio receiver, packed In a hand-bag-size leather case with zip fastener cover, was shown recently at the Hanover Technical Fair. The radio weighs only one and a half pounds and is said to receive 20 stations. A.P. picture.
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      Seretse Says Baby Girl Is Not Pretty
      242 2 SEROWE, Bechuanaland, Wednesday. 3ERETSE KHAMA, exiled chief-designate of the Bamangwato tribe, whose white wife has given birth to a daughter, remarked cheerfully that she was not a pretty baby. I Tribal elders will probably meet soon to discuss how the daughter stands in
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    "MIGRANTS FROM EUROPE NEEDED"
    68 2 CANBERRA, Wed. The Immigration Minister, Mr. Harold Holt, yesterday told reporters that Australia will be obliged to !>?ek other European migrants to maintain Immigration quotas when the displaced person scheme ceased next year. Mr. Holt, commenting on London reports that Australia would be asked to take
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    ANTI-RED BILL
    20 2 CANBERRA, Wed. The Communist Party Dissolution Bill last night passed its second reading in the Australian Parliament. A.P.
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    STRING & PENKNIFE OPERATION
    65 2 STRING PENKNIFE OPERATION MOMBASA, Wednesday. jiff VVAKIA Maganga, an African who ren vr d another African's tonsils by tying a piece of string round them and catting them off with a penknife, plead d guilty at Mombasa to committing a "reckless and negligent art liable to endanger life." He was
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    LIAQUAT ALI ON ROLE OF U.S. YOUTH
    221 2 LIAQUAT ALI ON ROLE OF U.S. YOUTH BERKELEY. (Call.). Wed. T»HE Pakistan Prime ■■Minister, Mr. Liaquat All Khan, yesterday urged American youth to steer the United* States on a course of "enlightened internationalism Addressing 2,500 students at the University of Ca;ifornia's open air Greek theatre, he said that American history
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    SOVIET DECISION "MEANINGLESS"
    54 2 LONDON, Wed. A British Foreign Office spokesman yesterday described as "'completely meaningless" a Soviet decision to cut reparations from Eastern Germany by 50 per cent. The spokesman pointed out that, as no total of reparations due to Russia from Germany had ever been fixed, the Soviet decision
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      1030 2 NOTICES PROBATE ADMINISTRATION JOHN DONLEVY DECEASED. (late Surveyor, Gammon (Malaya) O»m Ltd.. Singapore) !l I ALL PERSONS having claim* ng-unst the estate of the abovenamed deceased who died at Civilian Internment Camp, Sumatra, on 23rd March 1945, are required to submit their clalmc In writing to the under- «lgned not
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      715 2 NOTICES SINGAPORE M'-NICIPAUTY It Is Hereby Notified that from the 22 May until 26 May, 1950, traffic on the Rochore :anal will te permitted to pass under Victoria Bridge only between the hours of 7 p.m. and 6.30 a.m., so as to enable repair work on ;he Gas Mains unde?
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      278 2 TENDER NOTICE TENDERS will be received at the Office of the Chairman, Rural Board, Singapore, up to noon, 30th May, 1950, for the supply and delivery of stone from the Government Quarry at Buklt Timah to the Rural Board Crushing Plant. Further particulars may be obtained, at the Office of
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    NATIONALISTS GIVE UP THE CHUSANS
    276 3 Withdrawal To 'Concentrate On Taiwan 9 TAIPEH, Wednesday. THE Chinese Nationalists last night announced they had abandoned the Chusan Islands, thereby giving up without firing a shot the blockade base from which they hoped to paralyse Communist Shanghai. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek explained in a broadcast
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    36 3 MONSEIUR GEORGES TAILLEUR, the last French Adn inLstraior of the French settlement of Chandernagore, India (seated left) and Mr. B. K. Bannerjee, the new Administrator (seated right) at the transfer ceremony at Calcutta recently.— A.P. picture
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    'My Views Right,' Says Lattimore
    133 3 'My Views Right,' Says Lattimore BALTIMORE. Wed. MR. Owen Lattimore said last night that If some of his tdoas had been accepted, China might not now be in Communist hands, and the American position in Asia might not have become "so d ur.! 1 musly exposed." Stnator McCarthy. In an
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    U.N. MAN QUITS SPY STATE
    143 3 LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday. /CZECHOSLOVAKIA'S chief United Nations dele- J gate, protesting against Russian interference which made his country "no longer independent", last night quit his post and refused an order to return home. He has appealed to President Truman for asylum. The delegate Dr. Vladimir
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    Prince Insulted Me,' Says Nurse
    45 3 BOMBAY. Wed. A NURSE. Miss Enid Thomson, yesterday accused Prince Moazzam Jah, younger son of the Nizam of Hyderabad, of having "insulted and assaulted her, causing hurt" when she asked him to pay her for attending his wife's confinement. Reuter.
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    Rubber Merger Plan For Kedah, Perak
    108 3 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. DLANS to amalgamate ten rubber plantation com1 panics in Kedah and Perak are being formulated in London. At a meeting of the Ridsdel group of companies yesterday a resolution was passed that the boards of the companies concerned
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    TWO ETHIOPIAN LEADERS KILLED
    64 3 ASMARA, Eritrea, Wed.— A strong band of Shifta (proEthiopian terrorists) killed Azmatch Berne Gherekidan, vice-president of the Eritrean Liberal Progressive Party, and his brother-in-law, in an attack on the political leader's home yesterday. The gang, believed to be led by the notorious Asberesel Embrle, attacked the
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    HINDI IN MADRAS
    20 3 MADRAS, Wed.— Hindi will be a compulsory subject in all Anglo-Indian schools, the Madras Government lias decided.—A.P.
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    Ice On Envoy Case For Trial
    152 3 Ice On Envoy Case For Trial NEW DELHI. Wed. A FORMER British army major today denied "assaulting" the Argentine Ambassador with a lug of Ice water in a night club brawl here recently. The Magistrate's Court, where bearded John Kenneth Edwards, 27. of London, appeared briefly, fixed his trial for
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      CHIANG PROMISES: "NO MORE RETREAT"
      109 3 1-AIPEH, Wednesday PKESIDENI Chiang Kai-shek pledged yesterday to perish in Taiwan if he cannot beat back the Communist tide that has swallowed all the mainland of China. He said, "Now we have retreated to Taiwan, the last stronghold of the Kuomintanp, and I cannot retreat
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      H.K. SAYS CHIANG READY TO RUN
      93 3 HONG KONG, Wednesday. u:\ERALISSIMO Chiang Kai-shek and his \J close associates plan to flee abroad when Chinese Communist forces attack their last citadel, the island of Taiwan, British and American observers here believed today. They suggested the Communist attack might come as early as
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    OPIUM SEIZURE
    22 3 BERLIN, Wed.— West Berlin police yesterday seized four pounds of opium in the home of a German business man. A.P.
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    MALAYAN STUDENTS WATCHED IN TAIWAN
    229 3 MALAYAN STUDENTS WA TCHED IN TAIWAN MALAYAN students in th e National Taipeh University on Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek's island fortress of Taiwan are kept under surveillance by the authorities who are on constant watch fo r any underground student movement. TTils was stated by Tnrha Abdul Majld bin Othman.
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    QUEBEC FIRE
    48 3 THE CENTRE OF THE CANADIAN town of Rimouskl, Quebec, after the recent fire which made more than a thousand people homeless and destroyed 800 homes and business premises. The blaze, believed to have been due to an electrical fault, started in a lumber yard.— A.P. picture.
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    Fathia Told To Leave Husband
    207 3 CAIRO, Wednesday. KING FAROUK yesterday ordered his sister, Princess Fathia, to leave her commoner husband and directed temporary seizure of his own mother's property for sanctioning Fathia s marriage. The King approved the decisions made by his Crown Council earlier yesterday and ordered Fathia to
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    RUSSIANS ARE ALWAYS AFRAID'
    102 3 ANTWERP, Wed. BRITAIN'S First Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Frazer, said at Antwerp that the submarines of the Atlantic Pact nations are superior to those of Russia. "The Russians were never great sailors," he said. "The Russians are people who have always been afraid.
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    GIRLS NOT SLAVES
    33 3 NEW DELHI, Wed.— The Maharajah ol Jodhpur said yesterday that his sister took 47 maids when she married recently, but he denied the girls were slaves presented by him. -A.P.
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    STUDENT UPROAR
    33 3 TOKYO, Wed.— Students of the Hokkaido University in Sapporo prevented General Mac Arthur's education adviser, Dr. W. C. Eells, from lecturing by occupying the the speaker's platform after an uproar. Reuter-AAP.
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    Unified Atlantic Defence Scheme
    254 3 LONDON Wed. T»HE 12 Atlantic Pact A Foreign Ministers nave agreed to set up a "little Security Council" for the Atlantic community and are now looking for a "high-powered" American civilian to be its chairman. This overall super-civilian defence chief, with a staff of advisers, would
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    Schuman Plan Favoured
    71 3 LONDON, wea. jyiiJ. Winston Churchill as chairman of the United Europe Movement yesterday warmly irclcomed the Schuman flan for merging European coal and steel industries A statement issued by the Movement, on Mr Churchill's authority redled on the British Government to announce immediately that it is prepared
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    Greater Synthetic Production Urged By U.S. Manufacturers
    249 4 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. MR. John L. Collyer, President of the American B. F. Goodrich Rubber Manufacturing Company, yesterday called on the United States Government to step up production of synthetic rubber to avert a "possible new rubber crisis.'* Mr. Goodrich
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    STORY OF GIRL A SECRET
    127 4 STORY OF GIRL A SECRET BERCiEN-OP-ZOOM, Wed. r |U!E parents of 13-year-old X Bertha de Hartogh the Diitrh girl who has lived as v Malay child near Kemaman since her parents were intcrnrd by the Japanese in 1942— said in Bergen-Op-Zoom yesterday that they had known Bertha was In Malaya
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    CARAVAN FOR TWO
    46 4 IRIS MARSH, a recent bride, helps her husband to build a caravan, which is converted from part of a Horsa glider. When the caravan is completed, Iris and her husband plan to take to the road on a delayed honeymoon. Reuter plctur c.
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    "MORE RED AID TO VIETMINH"
    221 4 NEW £ORK, Wednesday. fOMMUNIST China has stepped up the tempo of land and sea supplies to Indo-China's Nationalist insurgent Vietminh Government, according to authoritative reports in Canton quoted here yesterday. The New York Times correspondent in Hong Kong said these reports led to conjecture about
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    'PAY UP' CALL TO SMALLHOLDERS
    54 4 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. MANY Malay smallholders and kampong dwellers in arrears with their rent are in dangei of losing their land. Unless arrears are paid, about 250 lots of land in the Teluk Anson area will be sold by pubic auction
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    SHIPS FIRED ON
    30 4 SEOUL, Wed.— South Korean naval authorities said yesterday that Korean patrol craft flred on two Russian ships last Sunday, driving them from South Korean territorial waters. AP.
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    SMOKING BANNED
    21 4 JAIPUR, Wed.— Smoking by persons under 16 will be an offence in Raj as than from June 2.— A.P.
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    Girl 'Harassed' By Steward
    223 4 BOMBAY, Wednesday. pLISA LOOMIS, an American girl who died on board the Norwegian motor ship Vinstar on May 7, poisoned herself because she was "harassed" by the chief steward. This was stated by a coroner's Jury here yesterday. Loomis and her friend, MarJorie Tyree, also American,
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    REVISED PLAN TO LEAVE JAPAN
    44 4 TOKYO, Wed. Commanding officers in the British Commonwealth Occupation Force met last Jvcefe to revise their plans for withdrawal from Japan. Their conference was held near Hiroshima .a a 'routine" freshening of plans prepared over a year ago.— Rev-
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    RUSSIA WALKS OUT OF ECAFE TALKS AGAIN
    317 4 BANGKOK, Wednesday. DUSSIA walked out of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East yesterday for the second time when it failed to have Nationalist China banned from the meeting. During a four-hour debate at the second session of the sixth ECAFE
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    BYELO-RUSSIA IS EXPELLED
    64 4 GENEVA, Wed.— The United Nations World Health Organisation yesterday voted to expel Byelo-Russla from the 18-nation Executive Board. The term of office of ByeloRussla, one of the constituent Republics of the U.S.S.R., had one more year to run, but she had not attended Board meetings since she,
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    U.K. AIRCRAFT
    24 4 LONDON. Wed. Britain exported aircraft, parts and accessories worth almost U5525,000,000 in the first quarter of 1950. March exports were U559,603,936. AP.
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    JEWISH REFUGEE
    27 4 TYPICAL refugee irom Kordlstan, this man is a shoemaker. An estimated 2,500 Jews have fled from Persian Kurdistan in the past few weeks.— A.P. picture.
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    SECOND BID FOR UTOPIA FAILS
    77 4 HALIFAX. Wed. BRITAIN'S Smith brothers, Colin and Stanley, left Nova Scotia yesterday admitting they have failed in two attempts to establish an Utopia In Canada. Th« two former RAF glider terest in the world government movement In Canada caused .them to abandon plans for a
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    17th CENTURY
    42 4 FOR inspiration for this wig hat, the designer went back to the 17 th century. Cut in black felt, the hat follows the form of old court wigs, complete to the bow on the pigtail In the rear.— A.P. picture.
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    Fertility Clinics For U.K. Urged
    124 4 LONDON, Wed COMMITTEE of scientists urged Britain to set up "fertility clinics" to help childless couples to have babies The Biological and Medical Committee of the Royal Commission on Population says that examinations in fertility clinics indicate the British male is probably as good a
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    JAPS SAY THREE BABIES ENOUGH
    57 4 TOKYO, Wed.— Ninety-eight per cent, of Japanese realise that their country is overpopulated and believe that some should emigrate, according to a public opinion survey. Half declared that three children were the desirable number. The Chief Cabinet Secretary said that emigration "is a dangerous idea
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    SIAM ULEMAS TO VISIT MALAYA
    56 4 SI AM ULEMAS TO VISIT MALAYA A delegation of Muslim ulemas (learned men) from Bangkok will visit Malaya soon on a goodwill tour, the Kuala Lumpur dally Majlis reports. Th 6 leader is a well known Muslim leader in Bangkok. The delegation will visit the Federation and later go to
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    NO OBJECTIONS
    29 4 PARIS, Wed.— The French Government s»ays It will approve any request for the opening of a Japanese Consular and Commercial office with Limited functions in Paris.— A.P.
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    MCA MEMBERS INCREASING EVERY DAY
    176 5 MC A MEMBERS INCREASING EVERY DAY A ttraction Is Lotteries From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE membership ,of the Malayan Chinese Association is increasing daily. The figure at present is about 145,000. This increase is said to t>e due in part to the fact that membership permits participation
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    FOR AIR TALKS
    45 5 MB. C. O. TURNER, assistant manager. Qtntas Kmp!rr Airways, who arrived at KiHin; Airport. Singapore, I), air from Sydney yesterd in. 110 is on his way to London and .Montreal, wliore he will attend the lurnationil Civil Aviation Conference.— Straits Times picture
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    Scholarship Fund Gift
    80 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed Ti; Railway Co-operative j Tiinf i and Lou i Society I. i., decided at the annual ng at Kuala Lumpur to contribute $1,838 to the Sir I. ..rue 1 Maxwell Memorial Coative Scholarship F-md for creating ;i perpetual scholarship for higher studies ai the
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    K.L. REQUIEM MASS
    90 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Several hundred poople attended a .solemn requiem mass sung yesterday for the late Rev. Father D. Perrlsnud Vicar of St John's Church for 20 years. Father Perrisoud died last Monday in Singapore, aged 71. The requiem muss was conducted by
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    POLICE INFORMER GAOLED
    158 5 POLICE INFORMER GAOLED From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. THEONG Wah Tew, a 22- year-old police informer, today, at Kuala Lumpur, pleaded guilty *,o two charges of attempted extortion and was sentenced to eight months' rigorous imprisonment on each charge, to run consecutively. Chief Inspector Raja Abbas said, at
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    DEARER DRINKS
    41 5 MALACCA. Wed —Malacca I coffee shops have now increased their charge for a cup of plain coffee or tea from 10 j cents to 12 cents. A cup of coffee or tea with milk now i costs 17 cents.
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    NO BAN IN H.K.
    48 5 "ALL THE KING'S MEN," the Oscar Award picture which has been banned in Singapore, was recently shown in Hong Kong, and among those attending the premiere were the Governor of the Colony, Sir Alexander Grantham, and Lady Grantham, seen above arriving for the show.
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    Estate Manager, Special Slain
    181 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. AN Indian estate manager, who was riding a motor- cycle, and his pillion passenger, a Malay special constable of the estate, wer c killed by bandits last night at 27th Mile Kampar Tapah Road, Perak. The manager was Mr.
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    ALL-NATION SHOW
    37 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Scotland, Ireland, England and America will be featured in the programme at the Malayan Film .Society meeting at the BrMsii Council Centre, Young Road. Kuala Lumpur tomorrow night.
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    NEW MAGISTRATE
    31 5 From Our Own Correspondent TAPAH, Wed.— The Regent of Perak has appointed Inche Mohamed Zan bin Daud, Assistant Collector of Land Revenue, Tapah, to be a. Second Class Magistrate.
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    'REP' PLAYERS IN PENANG
    37 5 THE SINGAPORE Repertor y Company photographed on arrival at Penan* where they will stage Lonsdale's "On Approval." In the picture are Derek West, Phil Guard, Vivifiine Busbridge, Dorina Brown and John Forbes SempiU.
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    Secretary Of UPAM Going On Leave
    81 5 Secretary Of UP AM Going On Leave From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. THE Secretary of the Unhed Planting Association cf Malaya, Mr. H. K. Dimoline, Is leaving Kuala Lumpur tomorrow for six months' leave In England. Mr. H. Munro Scott, of Peat. Marwlck, Mitchell Co.. accountants will act
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    Mr. Smith's Pledge To Govt. Unions
    119 5 Mr. Smith's Pledge To Govt. Unions SINGAPORE'S acting O1O 1 Colonial Secretary, Mr. J. D M. Smith, yesterday told a 12-man delegation of the Singapore Federation of Government Employees Unions that Government would consider Its protest over the Benham Report. Mr. Smith saw the delegation in the Council Chamber of
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    Poison On Rice —Kedah Moves
    196 5 Poison On Rice —Kedah Moves From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH. Wed. IN order to prevent acci- dental rice poisoning by sodium arsenite, the Food Control Department have ordered that all motor lorries Or railway coaches which have been used for the transport of this poisonous chemical to be thoroughly washed
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    POLICE TOLD: USE TAPE
    69 5 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed Because the constable took the measurement by stepping it out, the Johore Bahru police magistrate today discharged Ahmad Shah on a charge of having parked his car within 20 feet of an uncontrolled road junction. The magistrate told the
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    GUIDES HOLD FUN FAIR AT TAPAH
    58 5 frrom Our Own Correspondent TAPAH, Wed. The Ist. Girl Guide Company of the Government English Schooi, Tapah, held a fun fair In the school grounds. The Guides ran four canteens. Children's dresses and toys made by the Guides were on sale. The Scouts of
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    16 Houses Going Up For Municipal Men
    104 5 CJIXTEEN bungalows costing more than $600,000 are •3 expected to be ready for occupation by Singapore Municipal senior officers within the next six months. Two will be reserved for Water Department and two for Electrical Department staff. These houses will permit each married
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    COCONUTS THEFT ALLEGED
    57 5 From" Our Own Correspondent TELUK ANSON, Wed —Bail of $100 each was granted Teoh Chin Law, Chin Liew Nal (a woman) and Llew Pek Yul, charged at Teluk Anson with theft of 137 coconuts, valued at $20.55, at Strathmashie Estate, Bagan Datoh on May 12. The case
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    NEW OFFICERS
    71 5 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Wed.— New officers of the Malacca Chinese Benevolent Society are: President, Mr. Ec Yew Kirn; vice-president, Mr. Lee Ewe Aik; secretary-treasurer, Major Tan Cheng Chye; committee, Messrs. Chan Soo Ann, Chan Cheng Kiat, Chan Lian Wan, Lee Chin Lin, Ong Kirn Seng and
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    GOING TO CEYLON
    29 6 JMK B I. P. VITTHISSM;\. «t the Sakya Muni V -:!rlha (iaya Temple, Singapore, who in leaving: Fhortlj Tor Ceylon to attend the World Buddhist Conference.
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    5 APPEALS DISMISSED
    67 6 I rum < >vi Own Correspondent KOTA BAHRU. Wed.— The Court ot Appeal, which sat on Monday at Kota Bahru, dismissed five appeals. There were two appeals against death sentences under the Emergency Regulations from Kelantan. one against sentence of imprisonment for pang robbery from Kelantan. one
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    PIRATES STEAL $3,000 SARONGS
    75 6 from Out SlafT oiiopondcnt PENANG. Wed. SEVEN pirates boarded an Indonesian junk off the Acheen Street ghaut jelly on Monday evening and stole more than $3,000 worth of batik sarongs. Three pirates wore masks. the police told the Straits Times today. The vessel was anchored twenty
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    BENHAM PLAN 'SLAMS DOOR' Teacher Says Proposals 'Retrograde'
    514 6 BENHAM PLAN 'SLAMS DOOR' Teacher Says Proposals 'Retrograde From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. THE Benham Report, if adopted, would slam the door on unification of the teaching services, a spokesman of the Penang Teachers' Union said today. The Cowgill Commission, tie told the Straits rimes, took a step towards
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    DYAKS IN K.L.
    32 6 DTAKS. WITH "GAYANG" RAISED, line up at Kuala Lumpur airport on Tuesday after their arrival by air from Sarawak for six months operations against the bandits. Straits Times picture.
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    PARENT IS 'SORRY' FOR PUSH
    134 6 From Our SUB Correspondent PENANG. Wed. SUMMONED by his son's teacher for causing hurt, Abu Bakar apologised In court today to the teacher Inche Ismail bin Hashim of the Kampong Bahru Malay School. "1 asked Inche Ismail why he had beaten my son and was
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    FOR JAMBOREE
    34 6 KAJANG. Wed.— The first Kajang Malay Girl Guides' Company have chosen Che Zainab binte Markaya. of the Kajang Malay Girls' School, to attend the Girl Guides' Jamboree at Perth. Australia. In August.
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    AMMO EXPLODES IN BLAZING CAR
    136 6 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. TWO grenades and some Sten gun ammunition 1 exploded in a car belonging to Mr. L. W. Litkie, a Pahang planter, when it was completely burnt at Circular Road, Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Firemen, who were eager to try
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    HAWKER FINED
    23 6 MUAR, Wed. -Lim Tan Seng, who hawked ice cream at Tangkak without a licence, was fined $10 by the Muar Magistrate.
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    DID NOT STOP
    39 6 KUALA KANGSAR. Thury. —Lee Yean Ming, who failed to comply with r .he Stop, Look, Go" notice at the 1 unction of Crichton Road and Taiping Road. Kuala Kanssar, was fined $3 in the Magistrate's Court.
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    P. R. Chinese Paper For Squatters
    145 6 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. A NEWSPAPER in Chinese which will bring the farmers in closer touch with the authorities made its first appearance last Sunday. With a circulation of 20.000, the Noong Man Siu Poh or the Farmers' a four- page
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    TWO ASIANS FOR STAFF OF VARSITY
    219 6 TWO Asians are among fiw fiew appointments to the University of Malaya. They are Dr. You Poh Seng of Medan who becomes lecturer in statistics and Dr. K. S. Chang from China as lecturer in anatomy. £)r. You had his early education in Medan.
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    Knife Hurt Charge
    35 6 From Oar Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. S. Amasi, a tapper on Kelan Estate, Kulal, was charged at Johore Bahru with hurting Gurusamy with a knife. He was granted bail of $100
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    Detainees May Be Held For 3 Years
    97 6 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. DETAINEES held under the Emergency Regulations may now be held for Jhrre years instead of two years by an amendment made to tinEmergency Regulations by the High Commissioner. It is effective tomorrow An official statement says
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    HIRED CAR: $90
    34 6 From Our Own Corrcsixuulrni MUAR, Wed. Summoned before the Muar Magistrate for using a private car for hire at Jalan Bentaya'i Lee Chai was fined $90 or 4f> days' hard labour.
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    U. N. O. President Visits Colony
    27 7 GENERAL CARLOS P. ROMIIO and Mrs. Romulo with the Governor, Sir FrankHn G at Oaiet— wt Howa yesterday. Straits Times Hctvre.
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    REBUKED —PARANG ATTACK
    130 7 REBUKED —PARANG ATTACK A young labourer, Tuy Boon C'iioo who attacked a f i lend, Tun Peng Choi, berausc of a roo tst over the v iung of dJtbet. w.is yest•■ i > j>en'encei In the Singapore Second Poli c c Court to one month* rigorous imprisonment foe causing hurt.
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    WRONG CAR
    52 7 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, WedWhin Tan Yin Kwang of Mount Austin Estate was charge J at Johore Bahru with driving a car without lights. he el limed that his car was nit the one stated in the charge. The prosecution with<r -.v the charge and Tan
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    In Singapore—A Very Busy Day
    193 7 In Singapore A Very Busy Day t.NEat U Cartes P. Romule, President of the United Nations General Assembly and the Philippines new Foreign Secretary, had a busy day yesterday the day he visited Singapore. At 2 a.m. he was at a party in Jakarta given in his honour by the
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    VARSITY FUND NOW $2,721,000
    52 7 rpitE University of Malaya J. Endowment Fund now totals $2,721,129.57. Donations received between May 6 and May 13 totalled $4,800.70: Singapore Banks. $420.38; Kelantan Banks. $1,711.86; Pahang Banks. $122; Penan? Banks, $249; Perak Banks, $117.91; Selangor Banks, 586.30; Kedah Banks. $71.80: Malacca Banks, $76; Negri Semhilan
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    MALAY BAZAAR OPENS MAY 22
    61 7 Frtnn Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE EAHRU. Wed.— The new Malay bazaar, proposed some time ago at Parlt Raja. Batu Pahat. will be formally opened on May 22 by Inche Seth bin Mohd. Said. District Officer, Batu Pahat. The bazaar cost $6,000. It is expected tbat
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    ASIA TALKS NOT ANTI-RED MOVE, SAYS GEN. ROMULO
    363 7 ASIA TALKS NOT ANTI-RED MOVE, SAYS GEN. ROMULO fENERAL Carlos P. Romulo, the Philippines v Foreign Secretary and President of the United Nations General Assembly, said in Singapore yesterday that the conference of Asian nations beginning at Bag uio on May 26 is not an anti-Communist move. However, he declined
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    10 YEARS AGO.... 'S'pore CID Almost Held Me'
    165 7 10 YEARS AGO.... 'S'pore CID Almost Held Me' riENERAL Carlos P. Romulo, President of the United Nations General Assembly, at a tea party given by the Singapore Filipino Association yesterday, recalled his visit to Singapore 10 years ago when he was almost arrested because he was thought to be a
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    Admission To New Schools
    92 7 I AST day to apply for ad- misßion to the eight new regional schools, which will open in Singapore next month, will be May 27 morning. Applications should be made to the principals of the schools, who will be present from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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    ST. JOSEPH'S SPORTS PAVILION SUGGESTED
    180 7 rpHE question of building a sports pavilion at the St. 1 Joseph's Institution ground was raised by the Rev. Brother Paul, Director of the Institution, at the annual general meeting: of the Christian Brothers' Old Boys' Association yesterday. Old boys, he said, should make full
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    TRENGGANU MOVE FOR BETTER MEAT
    58 7 Fram Oar SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. rE Trengganu Government will auction 50 head of oxen for breeding purposes in order t* improve meat supplies in the Federation. The auction will be held at Bukit Payong, Kuala Trengganu, on May 31 at 9.30 a.m. Health
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    2 IN EXCESS: $15
    24 7 SEGAMAT. Wed. For carrying two excess pacsengers. 27-year -old driver Cheng Hock Chong was fined $15 by the Segamat Magistrate.
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    Today's S'pore Diary
    229 7 INTKK-SCHOOL AST TION. British CouncU H*U. Stamford Road, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. BUBAL BO Alt D, monthly meeting. Land Office, 10 a.m. PBOFESSOK DB. ING N. A. HALBKKTBMA, lecture on "History of the Philip* Concern.'* Capitol Blue Room, 10 jj».. lecture en ••Woreacence and IU AppUcaUoo*,"
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    Identity Card Clerk Charged
    191 7 Identity Card Clerk Charged FH Siew Kian was yesterday charged in the Singapore Second District Court with having corruptly accepted $30 from Tan Cheng Woon In order to replace a lost 1 identity card. Tan said that he had lost his identity card and had gone to a police station
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    HOTEL PROBE 'Public Not Helping'
    131 7 HOTEL PROBE 'Public Not Helping' committee inquir- ing into Singapore's hotels and lodginghouses is disappointed at the lack of public .response to its appeal for views or complaints on the problem. All information will be treated confidentially. Mr. E. C. S. Adkins, Secretary for Chinese Affairs and chairman of the
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    ON TRANSFER
    34 7 From Oar Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed Mr. T. M. Duncan, Works Assistant. PWD-, Johore. has left on transfer to Seremban. Mr. C. W. Russell has been appointed Mechanical Engineer, Johore Bahru.
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    ASST. LECTURER IN HISTORY
    31 7 MR. I. A. MarGRfCr.OR. who has arrived in atn i pore to become the nc.v Assistant Lecturer in H•tory at the University cf Malaya. Straits Time: picture.
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    Empire Day Broadcast
    64 7 A special programme for English school will be broadcast over Radio Maiaya ut 9.30 a.m. on May 24. Empir Day. The programme will include a recorded speech by tn King on opening of Colonial Month in London. Speeches by the Governor f Sin;;apon\ Sir Franklin Gin son,
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    DEATH
    55 8 MR TAN JIAK CHONG aged 75. passed away peacefully at his residence. No. 147. Halg Road, Spore. 16.5 '50, at 10.30 a.m leaving his beloved wife. 2 daughters. 1 son-in-law. Mr. Ang Peng Tin A many grand A great prandrhildren to mourn his loas. Funeral on Saturday. 20.5/50. at
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs. May 18, 1950. Such A Nice Nanny!
    981 8 The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs. May 18, 1950. Such A Nice Nanny! Popularity is not to be looked for in any job in which it is sometimes necessary to say No as well as Yes, and the Film Censor in Singapore, Mr. Jack Evans, will no doubt regard his unpopularity
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    AN EX-INTERNEE
    193 8 rpHE following obituary 1 notice of the late Mr. C. J Church appeared in The Times, London, on May 10:— Mr. Charles JoceJyn Church, news of whose death in Hong Kong has just been received, was born at Clifton on January 22, 1881. He was educated at Lynam's
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      GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL
      343 8 How About The Auxiliary Police? A LTHOUGH some little time has elapsed since publication of the news concerning the issue of the General Service Medal, relatively little criticism has appeared in the Press over the fact that the medal is not being granted to members of the
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      FACES OF NIGHT
      265 8  -  Wang Gung Wu By Quavers quiver along the violin strings And fingers grasp the whale-skin threads, Trace the image of hallowed things. Hark the bass dum-dum Followed by the swish-swish feet; And the talking jerky with the swinging beat. Saxon cut and Mongol shape Dravidian red Flows
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      THE TEACHER'S SIESTA
      334 8 HAVE been reluctant so far to Join in the corres- pondence on teachers and promote yet another outburst from them. It is, however, too much when a responsible writer like "Cecil Street" says, as he does on May 15, that very few employees, other than the teachers,
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      THE B.B.C. TIP TO THE BANDITS
      98 8 YOUR leader of May 12. "A Timely Tip For The Enemy," is indeed a timely one and Is much appreciated. I would, however, like to point out that the very same "tip" which your contemporary "streamered" was also broadcast by the 8.8.C. in its
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      USIS LESSON IN FREE LIBRARIES
      80 8 T HAVE read your leader enx titled "USIS and Raffles" in the Straits Times of May 16. Why don't we take a leaf out of the Americans' book? While a special committee is deliberating and studying the subject of library facilities in Singapore, our American
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      PADI IN THE RICE BOWL
      117 8 nnHE public must have no1 tlced lately that in certain brands of rice, possibly In locally-milled rice, a high percentage of padl is to be found. it you have a wife, she may take the trouble to pick out the padl, then boll the rice
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      A PEN FRIEND
      40 8 I SEEK pen-friends. I am interested in stamp collecting, I like sport and i would be glad to exchange knowledge of geography and wild life. My S«e is eleven. PETER MOSS. 111, Kurrala Road, Neotral Bay, Sydney,
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      A Blind Spot In Traffic
      240 8 A Blind Spot In Traffic I VERY much appreciate the fact that the Traffic Department of the police force is making real efforts to improve traffic conditions in the streets of Singapore, but I find it difficult to understand why they are so incredibly slow in making needed reforms. For
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      A Commercial Clerk On The Teachers
      117 8 npHE mental picture of a A Government clerk being harassed by moneylenders Is bad enough, but must our teachers also be made to suffer the same indignity? The present writer is a clerk in a commercial firm, anj he would have to pay higher
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    On The Margin
    408 8 On The Margin A Siglap Slory JNCHE Daud bin Mohamed Shah, who knew the Malay fisher folk of Singapore'! East Coast bclonlwu born, and who is still living there, questions the statement In this column that the Swordflsh is not known to the 1 Maleys. He writes: I venture to
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    ACSU CONDEMNS STRACHEY
    233 9 "Completely Dissa tisfied At Wage Move THE Singapore Army Civil Service Union yesterday protested against the War Minister's "irreconcilable stand" regarding its proposals for salary-increases for civilian workers of the War Department. The Union's protest followed a London report quoting the Minister, Mr. John Strachey, as saying
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    'Not A Criminal' Says Counsel
    226 9 'Not A Criminal' Says Counsel 1 MAINTAIN that the evidence of the prosecution proves nothing more than that the accused was perhaps an unfaithful servant, but not a criminal," said Mr. D K. Walters when he argued an appeal, In the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday on behalf of Mohamed bin
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    SENTENCE TO STAND
    58 9 An Indian. Thirumany, who appealed against a fine of $500, or three months' imprisonment, passed on him for possession of dutiable tobacco and cigars, had his appeal dismissed by the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice MurrayAynsley, in the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday. His Lordship had reserved Judgment at
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    First Mufti For Negri Sembilan
    39 9 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. Wed. r PHE Yang di-Pertuan Besar and the Jour ruling chiefs of Negri Sembilan havt appointed Tuan Hajl Ahmad bin Mohamad Said of Seremban as the first State Mufti.
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    Admiralty Men Join Protest
    113 9 Admiralty Men Join Protest THE Singapore Admiralty 1 Local Staff Union yesterday joined the service unions in plans for a Joint protest meeting against delay in meeting their two-year old demand for housing allowance as an alternative to free housing facilities. SALSU announced its decision to join the proposed mass
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    $10,000 Charge: Remanded
    61 9 Forty-five-year-old V c o Siong Llm claimed trial in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to a charge of criminal breach of trust of $10,669 The money was alleged to have been the proceeds of the sale of rice, sugar, flour and cigarettes belonging to Bulim Estate,
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    Took Time Off To Swim: Drowned
    168 9 AFTER delivering a consignment of shoes to a A Changi store, van driver Tan Van Hoe, 20, and salesman Gan Eng Huat decided to take a dip at I Changi Point. With two friends, they hired a sampan, which they rowed to an old
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    RUBBER SHOES SELL WELL
    68 9 MALAYAN MADE rubber shoes and sandals are selling well in Australia according to official figures issued last night. Exports last year of rubber footwear from Malaya to Australia were 23.823 dozen pairs valued at $362,330. Exports included 4.081 dozen pairs of women's boots and shoes valued
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    $2 Million S'pore Bill
    64 9 A FURTHER sum of $2,202,093.50 Is to be charged upon the revenues and other funds of the Colony for Public Services for 1948. A Bill for this purpose is to be introdaced Into the Legislative Council. The Bill provMes authority for a certain excess over the
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    Forced Police Jeep Off Road
    84 9 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— Charged in the )ohore Bahru Police Court today with forcing a Jeep to collide with a milestone. Chai Kirn Chung suggested that the driver of the >eep was inexperienced and might not have bad a driving licence. The
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    THEY'LL BE AT THE JAMBOREE
    61 9 CHE MARHAMAH binte Mohd. Zain (above) and Ten k v Jamilah binte Tengku A. Kadir (below), the two Malay Girl Guides who have been selected from Singapore to attend a Jamborfee in' Australia. Che Marhama (21) is a teacher, and Tengku Jamilah (17) is a
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    POLICE CAME IN -BY THE WINDOW
    159 9 A POLICE raiding party A nad to crawl along a three- foot ledge and then climb through a window to get into a locked room in a Jalan Besar house, it was stated in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday when 26 mid-dle-aged women
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    POLICE BAND
    14 9 The Singapore police band will perform at Katong Park at 8.15 tonight.
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    Heat Wave Hits Reservoirs
    123 9 SINGAPORE'S heat wave over the past two weeks has raised the Colony's water consumption by 3,000,000 gallons a day from the normal daily peak of 31,000,000 gallons. But the city's Water Engineer, Mr. F. a. Hiil told the Straits Times there was no immediate cause for
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    IDENTITY CARDS: WARNING
    83 9 IDENTITY CARDS: WARNING A WARNING to the public not to surrender or show their identity cards to anyone except the police, was made yesterday by Mr. D. K. Broadhurst, Assistant Commissioner at Police. Mr. Broadhurst said that plain clothes officers asking for identity cards should be asked to prove their
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    FALSE TIP, $200 FINE
    82 9 from Oui Stall Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. Sun Si. of Galan Patah, was today convicted in the Johore Bahru Police Court on a charge of giving the Police false information find was fined $200, in default two months' Imprisonment. The prosecution said when his mistress died
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    AWARDS FOR VOLUNTEERS
    63 9 The following awards have been authorised to members ol the Singapore Volunteer Force: Efficiency Decoration: Major Fain Foong Hee, Captain T. M. Winsley. Efficiency Medal, Captain P. W. Holt, Lieutenant R. J. Minjoot. Lieutenant J. B. Stoddart. Efficiency Medal and one clasp: Lance-Corporal N. A. Pestana, C.Q.M.S.
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    ILLEGAL ENTRY
    48 9 Seman bin Ibrahim and Hamld bin Maidl were each sentenced to one month's rigorous Imprisonment in the Singapore First District Court on a charge of Illegal entry into Singapore without a permit. Both men were arrested on May 16 on Pulau Tertukor, off St. John's Island.
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    Rotary Plays Host To Bandit Fighters
    232 9 Rotary Plays Host To Bandit Fighters rpEN young men in kilts 1 who are in Singapore for a rest spell after bandit nghtlng duty in the Federation were the guests of honour at yesterday's luncheon meeting of the Singapore Rotary Club in the Capitol Blue Room. The young men are
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    Hush Hush Meeting
    63 9 THE Singapore Labour Party Executive met behind closed aoors for six hours yesterday, and agreed on certain resolutions which are to be moved at the annual conference. The meeting decided that no Press statement should be Issued until the annual conference. Mr. Pat Johnson, a leader of
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    EDUCATION WEEK
    33 9 Singapore's Education Week will be reviewed over Radio Malaya at 8 p.m. tomorrow. The programme will Include eye-witness accounts of exhibitions and recordings made at the Youth Rally on the Padang.
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    NO CARD: GAOL
    33 9 Tan Ah Boon was sentenced to one month's rigorous imprisonment in the Singapore First District Court yesterday after pleading guilty to a charge of failing to produce his identity card.
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    OFF TO SEE A DUKE....
    46 9 A "FLYING ZOO'— lour kangaroos a dog, a bandicoot, several birds und lizards arrived at Kallanq Airport, Singapore, by air from Sydney yesterday Picture shores one of four kangaroos tchich are being sent to the Diike of Bedford Straits Times picture.
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    THEFT CHARGE
    39 9 Twenty-six-year-old Arthur Clement Edema, of Kumpoug Bahru was charged In the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday with the theft of $31 to Suilaman bin Baba. The case was oostpone.l to May 24, ball In $200 bs-mg allowed.
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    $700,000 Property Cost $138,000 -COURT TOLD
    336 9 $700,000 Property Cost $138,000 -COURT TOLD 'A PROPERTY bought A for $138,500 has become in four and a half years, worth over $1,500,000— 0ne cannot help but Judge with great care any evidence the owner can give as to the value of this property,' sairi Dr C H WithersPivoe in
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    This is how your camphor-wood chest is made
    1079 10  - This is how your camphor-wood chest is made ROY FERROA by no camphor-wood trees really v\\s\ ami docs the wood go into tlu> linking of oi namental boxes :<>i<l lion- chests? I sot out to tind the answers to these questions and discovered that camphor wood trees do exist, and
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    Chefs of S'pore
    321 10 AT Kallanr the night is like black velvet— and I don't mean stout and champagne frappe. The only bright lights are in the immediate circle of the airport, with its control tower, hangars and hotel. The terrace outside the dining-room is a pool of illumination. It's so
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    Paying a visit to the Camerons
    638 10  - Paying a visit to the Camerons BYB V ELIZABETH CAMMELL "YOU must not miss 1 a visit to the Cameron Highlands while you are here; it is the loveliest spot in all Malaya and the drive! from the plains would' make the visit worth while" and as I looked at
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    Following The Old Masters
    309 10 Following The Old Masters WORKING unobtrusiveTT ly in a dingy shop in che heart of Singapore's Chinatown is a Chinese artist, a follower of the old masters who created those exotic scrolls seen in art exhibitions. Although Mr. Chang is iu> famed calligraphist or painter yet his works are owned
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    A Scaly Ant-eater
    122 11 THIS strange-looking animal is the Scaly Ant-eater. It is common in Malaya, and may be seen as close to civilisation as the Lake Gardens in Kuoia Lumpur. Nevertheless, very few people have >een it because its habits are nocturnal. It lives in holes in ground and comes
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    BATU ROAD IS FULL OF LIFE
    824 11  - BATU ROAD IS FULL OF LIFE By SAM LEE KUALA LUMPUR: gATU Road is synonymous with noise, bustle and intense activity. The motto here, is apparently, "every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost", and it is usually some unfortunate human devil, a little more careless, a little
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    Containers & Gadgets
    666 11  - Containers Gadgets Malayan Flowers in Malayan Homes— 3 by GARDENIA IN my iirst article I remarked that even after many years of "doing the flowers" I am still astonished at the length of time it takes iO mobilise one's Mowers. It s quite true, too, 1 am! But as with
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    AH KOW WANTS TO LEARN TO READ
    437 11 BY OUR WOMAN CORRESPONDENT TWELVE-YEAR-1 OLD Ah Kow lias never seen the light Blind from his birth, he does not know the meaning of colours, he has no conception of the hind scape, the size of buildings, ships, aeroplanes or trees. Like all
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    Chicken is so popular
    463 12  -  by GOH TEIK BOON trai popularity of the 1 dainty chicken served up in various forms on the table is never in doubt, but the average Singaporean finds great delight in eating a lunch of this bird as the main item of his meal which probably
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    There – Chinese speak fluent French
    1285 12  - There Chinese speak fluent French by DEREK DRABBLE TWO young Chinese were speaking to each other on the second-class after deck of the big Dutch liner Nothing strange in that, you say. Mai oui. I answer, it was surprising because they were speaking fluently the most accurate French. Scores of
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      126 12 TOUAY'S RADIO 10 a.m. News from k.l.. :u.o& Close: 10.50 Schools; 12 Malay; 1 p.m. Light Music; 1.30 News; 1.45 Cy Coleman; pianist; 2 Close; 6 Children; 6.20 Calling All Hospitals; 7 News. Share Market; T.12 "Tnta Is Communism;" 7.10 Interlude: 7.30 lilt Parade; 8 Forum of the Air; 8.30
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      126 12 PENANU 10.50 a.m. 2 p.m. As STpore6 Children; 6.30 Movie Magazlne 7 As S'proe; 7. SO "If You Ask Me;" 8 Forum of the Air; 8.30 Musci of Mark Warnow; 9 Short 3tory; >.15 j azt Album; 9.30 News; 9.45 Concerto; 10.30 Dance Music; 11 Close. B B. B. 4.45
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    Daisy keeps the cars on the move
    479 13 Daisy keeps the cars on the move BY OUR WOMAN CORRESPONDENT £VERY evening, Daisy puts on one of her best dresses, brushes out bei gleaming hair and ties a broad ribbon round her head. Then she starts on her makeup. Neatly plucked eyebrows, slightly pink cheeks and carmined lips complete
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    Pahang's prison was a sanctuary
    613 13  -  by MARK FOENANDER JHE old Pekan gaol in Pahang has the somewhat dubious double distinction of being the first prison in the Malay States to accommodate Europeans and the first prison to which a European woman was sent The European woman who was the first
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    She Took The First "A"
    367 13  -  By LIAU NYUK OI "THE first woman to 1 get an "A" Flying Licence after the war was Mrs. Kathleen Anderson. She and her husband, who got his licence Just before her, are both keen fliers. They are planning to have their cvn plane but
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    IN YOUR GARDEN
    599 13  -  by KEBUN Q. have a low wall and would like to plant something on the top, so that it will hang over and give me a show of colour. Could you please suggest any plants for this purpose and what sort of mixture I should plant them
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    New Gown
    35 13 DRESSED in a rainbow gown designed by Honoria Plesch Is show girl Patricia Dare, pictured here at the dress review of the Cecil Landeau review, "Sauce Piquante," showing at the Cambridge Theatre, London.
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      314 14 LONDON, Wed. SMALL public and Institutional support brought many rises In British Government funds on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. There were again small losses in Rubbers. Closing rxUddu] prices of •elected, stock*, v supplied to the Strait* Time* by special arrangemeet with The Financial limes, follow. Unless
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      MALAYAN SHARE MARKET STEADY
      208 14 From Our Market Correspondent T»HE Malayan share market generally remained x steady yesterday, with Industrials maintaining a firm tone. Small buying of some Tin shares continued. Rubbers had a slightly easier undertone. Price changes announced by J the Malayan Sharebrokers' I Association yesterday -were: INDUSTRIALS Bayer
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      UTD. SUA BETONG
      68 14 TTNITED Sua Betong Rubber Estates' directors, in their annual report, state that the planted acreage of the company's tea properties in Selangor to ~'led 1,914 acres at Dec. 31, 1949. Of this, 220 acres was lmma'ure. A further 25 acres is In course of planting. Output of
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      SIAMESE RUBBER
      53 14 rE Government of Slam has taken the first steps towards Improving the quality of rubber exports from the country. It Is building three "model «f*Tk_P In the rubber district of Trang, In South Slam, whose output will serve as examples for smallholders 1h processing of sheet rubber, says
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      TIN PRICES
      27 14 SINGAPORE, Wed., May 17—1298.75 (down WJES.) LONDON. Wed., May 17.— Spot: £5951— £595}; Forward, £596}— £597; Settlement, £5951. Turnover: morning, 30 tons; afternoon, 35 tons.
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      P. & O. Fleet Additions
      214 14 P. O. Fleet Additions P&. O Steam Navigation Company passenger business was well maintained throughout the year to last Sept. 30, according to the annual report. There are, however, already signs of a return to the position which existed before the war, when demand for passages was seasorotl. Cargo business
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      Singapore Rubber
      156 14 WITH both London and New York showing a better tone, the Singapore rubber market opened steadier yesterday, quotations being about a cent per lb. above Tuesday's levels. Except for minor fluctuations the market remained fairly steady throughout the day and closed very steady. Closing prices yesterday wore, per
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      London Rubber
      27 14 London. May 17. Spot 23 7 ;d. June 23% d. July-Sept.. 23% d. Oct. -Dec. 20^d. Jan. -Mar. 19'kd. May-June, Bit. 23'<, d. Market: Firm.
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      New York Rubber
      22 14 Id US cents per lb closing: May 15. May 16. 1 R.S.S. (May) 27 bid 27.35 nom. Market: Irregular.
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      PRODUCE MARKET
      86 14 From A MHffeat C urrespondeut COPRA In the Singapore produce market was quoted at slightly lower prices yesterday, with buyers Indicating $38 i and sellers 63R :t Coconut oil had sellers at 662 but there were no buyers. Cloves were slightly steadier, buyers opening at $99 Zanzibar and
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      SHIPPING ALONGSIDE AND IN THE ROADS
      132 14 CHIPS In the Singapore Outer and Inner Roads and alongside S.H.B. wharves yesterday were: Onter Roads: Hal Hsuan. Ulysses, Hoi Wong, Kwelyang, Chip Lam, Slblgo, Rottl, Islander. Inner Roads: Taluel, Tg. Plnang. Matang, Darvel, Sumpltan. Hong Thong, Belaga, Seroel, P. Kldjang. Batoebahra, Mer- 1
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    STEERS IS SELETAR'S CHAMPION
    710 15 CommandRecord By Roweswell UfITH 27 points to his tredit, F/Lt. Steers of Tech- nical Wing, won the individual athletic championship of the Royal Air Force Maintenance Base (Far East), Seletar, held yesterday on the Seletar sports ground. Steers won first places m the pole vault, 100yards
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    30 15 AMERICAN LEE SAVOLD shown at training in his quarters at York, England, for his big fight against Britain's heavyweight Bruce Woodcock. The fight takes place in London on June 6.
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    G.H.Q. Farelf Hold Annual Sports Meet
    245 15 G.H.Q. Farelf Hold Annual Sports Meet MORE than 1,000 people attended the annual athletic championship of G.H.Q FARELF held on the Tanglin Sports Ground yesterday. Following are the results: 880 yds.: 1. Capt. Hut chins, 2. MaJ. Clark, 3. Pte. Hopkins. 100 yds.: 1. MaJ. Anderson, 2. Sgt. Wheeler, 3.
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    BLUE FLASH B.P.
    60 15 The following v.ill represent Blue Flash B.P. m a friendly match against the Iloxy B.P, at the latter's court. Lorong 27A at 7 p.m. on Friday: Poh Choo Sam. Song 800 Lat, Steven Lim. Quek Kok Chua. Kar Goon Lim. Ang Ann Beng. Lee Kirn Seng. Koh
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    G.S.C. WIN 18-11
    30 15 Girls Sports Club "B" defeated Womens Royal Air Force (Changi) by 18 goals to 11 in a friendly game of netball played on the S.R.C. padang yesterday.
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    Warning Given To Ipoh Soccer Crowds
    271 15 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wed. JTOLLOWTNG a meeting by the Ipoh and District j League Committee held to discuss the recent instances of crowd misbehaviour at league matches on the Ipoh padang, the President of the League, Mr. W. B. Tucker has issued
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    Warwickshire Lead In County Cricket
    363 15 Warwickshire Lead In County Cricket LONDON. Wed. WARWICKSHIRE, although having no County match, remained at the head of the championship table with 24 points after the series which ended yesterday. Northamptonshire, beaten by Derbyshire, gained four points for first Innings lead to bring them level with Surrey, who did not
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    Rex Badminton Tourney Finals
    94 15 The finals of the party's tournament were held at Everitt Court on Saturday. The results were: Open Singles: Low Poh Hye beat Cheong'Eng Leong 15-5, 15-4. "A" Class Singles: Tok Choo Kirn beat J. Enriquez 15-3, 7-15, 15-4. "B" Class: J. Enrique* beat Johnny Thung 15-4,
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    Selangor's Great Need Of C-forward
    595 15 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. could beat Penang in this week-end's Malaya Cup soccer tie with a fancy score but only if their centre-forward problem is solved. The fact is there is probably no team in the northern section this season that has
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    470 16 SING TAO DELAYED: REQUEST FOR NEW DATES Cannot Arrive Before May 24 fHE Sing Tao Football Club ot Hong Kong, delayed 1 in Manila owing to a breakdown in their air transport arrangements, have cabled the Singapore Amateur Football Association requesting a revised schedule of fixtures. Sing Tao, who were
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    49 16 DOUBLE ECLIPSE, pictured here with W. H. Carr in the saddle, is stable companion and rival —to Derby favourite Prince Simon. He is owned by Lady Zla Wernher and trained by Captain Boy d Roc h ford. Besides the Derby, Double Eclipse Is also entered for the St. Leger.
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    183 16 Cambridge Hit 507-3 v W. Indies LONDON, Wed. rllL West Indian attack was treated with scant res pert in their match against Cambridge University, start ing at Cambridge today At tea. the Varsity nad collared the bowling to such an extent that they were 301 without loss, the openers Oewes
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    64 16 H.K. SERVICES I.R.C. DRAW Indian Recreation Club nei< Hong Kong Army tourists to a two-all draw in a friendly soccer match at Farrer Park yesterday. Indians led one-nil in the firs' half, when M. I. Osman scored. The tourists got two goals a. quick succession in the seconc half through
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    134 16 The Malay Sports Association's tennis tournament starts on Sunday. The draw is as follows: A' CLASS H'C'AP SINGLES I. A. Alsagoff 1—40.3) v Zain Abedeen iscr.i; Abdullah b. H. Ahmad (—15.3) v Abu Bakar (—IS); Yacob (scr.) v Abu Nairn (—15.3); Seth All (-15) v Said Sulaiman
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    SPORTING THE WINNERS
    377 16  - SPORTING THE WINNERS EPSOM JEEP Bt My ten horse* to follow at the Summer Meeting at Bukit Tlm*h are: Reve de Gloire: There U no denying the fact that this French-bred gelding is Trainer van Breukelen's brightest prospect for the Governor's Cup; a well-balanced chestnut with an abundance of stamina
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    GRAZIANO WINS
    38 16 BUFFALO. Wed. ■DOCKY GRAZIANO apparently clinched another shot at the world middleweight title yesterday when he knocked out Heniy Brimm of Chicago in two minutes 14 seconds of the fourth round of their scheduled tfn-round bout.
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    NEW FRENCH COLT ONE TO NOTE
    566 16 RECORDS OF THE NEW HORSES gAt-H MEETING brings out its quota of new horses iL ne batch of three-year-olds has entered for the Summer Meeting at Bukit Timah anS Tud.ing S.mt P cress °n training track, a good S? r ?V h m a
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    3 Batsmen Hit Centuries
    168 16 LONDON. Wed. pOUNTY matches starting today saw three Individual not out hundreds being scored at the tea interval. At Oxford. George Edrk-h was In form to be 93 not out for Lancasshire who are playing the Jniverslty. The three batsmen jndeieated with centuries at tea 'od:.y
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    SHB Police Win 3-Nil
    95 16 PLAYING fine football, S.H.B. Auxiliary Police defeated R.N. Keppel Barracks by three goals to nil in a Singapore A.F.A. Junior A-2 league game on the C.V.M.A. ground yesterday. Police showed their superiority from the kick-off but all the scoring was done in the second half. Inglis
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    KOTA RAJA 'A' BEAT COSMOS
    132 16 KOTA RAJA "A" defeated the Cosmos Sports Club by three goals to one in a Singapore junior league soccer fixture at Geylang stadium yesterday. The winners gave Cosmos a lesson In correct positional play. Kota Raja opened the game Impressively to score through Jar Tar
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    ECLAT WINS
    35 16 YORK, Wed. THE AGA KHAN'S Derby candidate Eclat today won the Hambleton three-year-old stakes over one mile here, but with only, a head to spare over Strom boll in a field of six.
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    NO RESPONSE YET TO PERAK MOVE
    502 16  -  Epsom Jeep 'TWERE is absolutely no indication yet that the Singapore, Penang and Selangor Turf Clubs will fall in line with the Perak Turf Club's "revolutionary" scheme of doing away with the added money system and grading stakes according to the various classes. Turf
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