The Straits Times, 29 May 1950

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    23 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 H(iHT PAGHS 2 d MAY 1950 SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MAY 29, 1950. if PRICE TEN CENTS.
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  • Article
    RAIN SOAKS BERLIN MARCHERS
    470 1 Police Of Both Zones Keep' Order BERLIN, Sunday. "JHE long-heralded "march on Berlin" by half a million Communist-led young Germans from the Soviet Zone took place peacefully today but a torrential downpour of rain soaked the demonstrators soon after the march began. The weather was mild,
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    KAMPONG VISIT
    46 1 THE SECRETARY of State for the Colonies, Mr. James (Griffiths, accompanied by the Yang di-Pertuan Besar of N.;;ri Sembilait, inspecting a group of 500 Malay Kampong guards at Kampon? Chengau soon after making his first public statement on policy in Malaya. Straits Times picture.
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    STAMPS 'GIFT' TO PAHANG RULER
    219 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Sunday. Sultan of Pahang celebrates his birthday tomorrow with a luncheon party at Selsdon Park Hotel at Sanderstead, Surrey, where he has b?-n staying since his arrival in Britain. i-i the evening, he will be h at a cocktail party
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    U.S.-Czech Breach
    22 1 PRAGUE. Sun.— The United Btfttel today asked Czechoslovakia to close within two weeks her last remaining consulate in America. Reuter.
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    PANDIT NEHRU TO VISIT PENANG NEXT MONTH
    79 1 PANDIT NEHRU TO VISIT PENANG NEXT MONTH DANDIT NEHRU, Prime 1 Minister of India, will visit Penang as well as Singapore when he visits Malaya next month on his way home from his Indonesian tour. After his 10-day stay in Indonesia, Pandit Nehru will leave for Singapore on June 17
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    UK Whitsun Rush For 'Free' Petrol
    130 1 UK Whitsun Rush For 'Free' Petrol LONDON, Sun. TARS in thousands, with their first supplies of derationed petrol, streamed yesterday along Britain's Whitsun holiday highways. It was the first week-end in 11 years that Britain's motorists could storm the petrol pumps and fill their tanks. Most important results of Britain's
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    S. Africa Report On Race Problem
    190 1 CAPE TOWN Sunday T^LJ Oi ?fV CO m^ teei L a P^ ointed to investigate South Africa's "Asiatic" problem declared in a Joint report published here that there wa s \l doubt the best solution woul d b e repatriation". The committees appointed from
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    BURMA REDS TO ASK MAO FOR AID
    60 1 RANGOON. Sun.— Two highranking Burmese Communists have gone to China "to try and interest Mao Tse-tung's Government in the cause of Burma's Communist Party says a report from Pegu. The two emissaries are Thakin Tin Pc, founder-mem-ber, with his cousin Thakin Than Tun.
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    GOING TO AUSTRALIA IN JULY
    140 1 GOING TO AUSTRALIA IN JULY From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sun rUR Gulders from ohore, have been selected to go to Australia in July for *n advanced training course ut Swanbourne. They are Assistant District .Commissioner, Inche Siti Ndrani. Patrdl Leader Mary Chan, of Muar, Ranger Ellen Oh Hong
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    HANDSHAKE ENDS 250-YEAR FEUD
    49 1 HANDSHAKE ENDS 250- YEAR FEUD LONDON, Sun.— The Duke of Argyll, chief of the Scottish clan Campbell, ended a 250-year-old feud yesterday by shaking hands with 73-year-old John Mac Donald, of the Mac Donalds of Glencoe. The Duke and John MacDonald met at a reunion of war veterans.— A.P.
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    FROM SINGAPORE TO ECUADOR
    33 1 Mr. John Hamlin. American Consul at Singapore, at present on leave, has been appointed First Secretary and Consul at Quito, Ecuador. He has been in Singapore since December, 1947.
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    H.K. PETITION
    34 1 HONG KONG, Sun— The Chinese General Chamber of Commerce yesterday petitioned the Hong Kong Government to lift restrictions against the free movement of Chinese into the colony from across the border— A.P.
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    Griffiths Tours Pahang Area
    596 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LIMPUR, Sunday. TTOE Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. James Griffiths, had another full day in the Federation today. Accompanied by his private secretary, Mr. Watson, be arrived by Auster plane at Temerloh airstrip this morning. He was met at
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    Thivy For Mauritius Report
    80 1 Thivy For Mauritius Report THE Representative of the Government of India in Singapore, Mr. J. A. Thivy, was unable yesterday to confirm or deny a report appearing in a Singapore Indian vernacular newspaper, that he will soon be transfered to Mauritius. Mr. Thlvy told the Straits Times he had no
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    LADY GIMSON BACK IN MALAYA
    144 1 From Our SUB Correspondent PENANO. Sun. THE Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, boarded the Canton In Penang this morning to greet his wife Lady Gimson on her return to Malaya. "I have had a most pleasant trip and am happy to be back," Lady
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    Petrol Lorry Destroyed By Fire At K.L.
    117 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. A PETROL lorry used for refuelling aircraft with 800 gallons of aviation spirit was destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon at the airfield in Kuala Lumpur. The lorry is one lent to the Shell Comiby the RAF.
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    REDS SEIZED
    17 1 TAIPEI, Sun.— The Nationalist Defence Ministry announced today the arrest of 64 alleged Communist.— A.P.
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    Russian Key Men Leave Japan
    304 1 Russian Key Men Leave Japan TOKYO. Sun. I r.-GEN. Kuzma Derevyanko and 48 other Key members of the Soviet mission to Japan left suddenly for Moscow today. Some sources .sav thi.s mlghl herald a stronger Russian drive against South-Easfc Asia. Hen. MacArthur's Headquarters was informed la advance of the departure
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    Acheson "Encouraged" By Cold War Talks In London
    374 2 Acheson "Encouraged" By Cold War Talks In London WASHINGTON, Sunday. T"HE U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, whs returned yesterday from cold war .strategy talks in London, said he was "encouraged by the progress made in the North Atlantic treaty organisation and by the talks I hate had with
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    EASIER TRADE IN EUROPE
    224 2 EASIER TRADE IN EUROPE PARIS, Sun. A MERICAN and European A officials agreed yesterday that they had struck a major blow on the economic front in the cold war, when they approved the creation of the European Payments Union. They said that the union was the biggest step towards recovery
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    NEW ROCKET PLANE TESTS
    119 2 WASHINGTON, Sun.— The U.S. Air Force plans flight tests next year for a small rocket plane designed for a ton speed of 1,700 miles per hour at 15 miles above the earth. The plane is XlA— a successor to XI, which officially exceeded the speed of
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    ALL AIR FARES UP 7 PER CENT
    73 2 MADRID, Sun. Til International Air Transport Association announced yesterday that there will be a seven per i cent, increase in all ir fares. The increase will I come into effect in September. I.A.T.A. said that the in- crease' was to offset part of
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    MAHARANI AT PARIS PARTY
    29 2 THE MAHARANI ef Kapurthala fiances with Col. K. S. B Ahluwalia at a party held in Paris to celebrate her husband's 57th. birthday.— A.P. picture.
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    US Chief Wants Aids To Resign Posts
    97 2 WASHINGTON, Sun. US. Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Charles Sawyer, yesterday called for the resignation of two high-ranking aids whose loyalty has been questioned in Congress. They are William W. Remington, accused of being a Communist, and Mlcheal J. Lee, chief of the department's
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    McNEIL SAYS COLD WAR WILL BE LONG
    162 2 EDINBURGH, Sunday. ]l|R. Hector McNeil, former deputy to the Foreign ITI Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevia and now Secretary for Scotland, asserted today there could be no expectation of any early end to the "cold war". He was commenting on a I statement by
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    FUTILE, SAYS DELEGATE
    111 2 NEW YORK, Sun.— lt wasj "futile" to work on the draft covenant adopted by the Human Rights Commission, Mrs. Hansa Mehta, India's delegate on that United Nations body, said on the ere of her departure for India. During one of the longest sessions of the Commission Mrs.
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    A FLOWER FOR AURIOL
    31 2 PRESIDENT VINCENT Auriol of France buys a flower from seller Mkbele Bar jo n at the annual Press Ball at the Palais de Challoi, Paris.— A.P. picture.
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      Doctor, Nurse Die In Blazing Hospital
      262 2 LONDON, Sunday. A DOCTOR and a nurse were burned to death yesterday when they were trapped in the blazing operating theatre of a Chelsea (London) chest hospital. Women knelt in the streets and prayed as nurses and firemen carried more than 100 patients to
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    PORTSMOUTH VISIT
    28 2 WEARING the uniform of Commodore of Sea Rangers, Princess Magaret photographed at Waterloo Station, London, on her way to Portsmouth to visit the Foudroyant. A.P. picture.
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    UK REPLY ON COAL AWAITED
    173 2 LONDON, Sun. BRITAIN is expected to reply during the weekend to France's Note asking her to approve in principle the basic proposals of the Schuman plan for coal and steel integration in Europe, according to a usually wellinformed source here. The latest British Note is
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    Free Unions On Plan
    65 2 BRUSSELS, Sun. A RESOLUTION passed by the Executive Board of the International Confederation of Free "Trade Unions, whose meeting ended here last night, declared that "the Free Trade Unions are vitally Interested in a national organisation of the heavy industries of Western Europe." The resolution Insisted
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      698 2 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS TECHNICAL APPRENTICES PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, STATE OP PAHANG Applications are invited from Federal Citizens for the follow- < Ing appointments: (I) One Technical Apprentice (Civil Engineering) (II) One Technical Apprentice (Architectural) In the Public Works Department, Pahang. 2. Applicants should bold a < School Certificate Grade I or
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      703 2 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS JOHORE GOVERNMENT NOTICE Applications will be received by the Johore Establishment Oflicer, Johore Bahru, up to aooa 6th June, 1950, from Federal citizens or persons eligible for Federal citizenship for appointment as Technical Apprentices (Civil Architectural and Mechanical! La the P.W.D.. Johore. Applicants must have passed the age
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    CAUTIOUS APPROACH AT SEVEN POWER CONFERENCE
    379 3 Haguio, Sunday. OEVEN South-East Asian and West Pacific nations represented at the conference here are proceeding cautiously toward any definite commitments, despite the unanimous assurances of co-operation to solve their common problems. The resolutions thty will adopt before the parley ends on Tuesday are
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    BOY THROWN FROM PILLION, DIES
    47 3 HONG KONG, Sun. -Forbes Eastman, aged 17, «v killed instantly last night when he was thrown from a motor- cycle pillion seat against an iron post. The motor cyclist. P. Thomson, aged 20. was sent to hospital nith shock and abrasions— A.P.
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    ROYAL TANGLE
    60 3 THE DISOWNMENT and Impoverishment of Egypt's Princess Fathia (far right) by her brother, King Farouk, for her civil marriage to Riad Ghali (left), a commoner, was blamed by her mother, Queen Mother Nazil (centre) on court intrigue. Another sister. Princess Faika (left, large picture) who recently married a
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    'U.S. Tour In Service Of Pakistan'
    168 3 'U.S. Tour In Service Of Pakistan BOSTON. Sun. MR Liaquat Ali Khan. Premier of Pakistan, in a broadcast, said last night that his experiences during h:s 23 days' coast-to-coast air tour of the United States wm'ld enable him to use them In the service of Pakistan and Jts people He
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    GIVE US ISLANDS BACK—JAPANESE
    75 3 GIVE US ISLANDS BACK JAPANESE TOKYO, Sun. Governor Scichiro Yasui, of Tokyo Metropolis, and Governor Ibuni T.i'naka. of Hokkaido, repreIng all Prefect ural Governors of Japan, yesterday submitted to Gen. MacArihur's headquarters a petition for the return of the Kuiile Islands and Nansei Aivhipelago, reports the aiernoon paper Tokyo Shinbun
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    Singapore Diary
    90 3 MATTHEW'S (HIRCH i in aid of Parish Hall and lid School Bulldln? Fund. 184, lie.) Road. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. ,1. I i;n- WORKING Guide Hut. Clemenceau a 10 a.m. 'o noon. Mi (I si. John ace HQ. Stamford Road, 5 N'GAPOU IST SOCIETY, I w, Briusli
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    'Great Future For Natural In U.S.'
    200 3 NEW YORK, Sunday. TWO Malayan rubber industry leaders, Tuan 1 Sheikh Ahmad and Dato E. E. C. Thuraisingham, who left here yesterday by air for London, declared that natural rubber still had "a great future" in America despite the post-war development of synthetic. They
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    FRENCH CAPITAL FOR INDIA
    65 3 PARIS: Sun.— lndian In- 1 dustrialist. \H. Ramnath A. Pondar. now on a business trip here, said yesterday: "I am sure that business relations between France and India will develop considerably to tit nv 1 "'I pivantage.' He said sevt-rai French businessmen would visit India in
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    YOUNGEST GENERAL
    30 3 A NEW PICTURE of Gen. Hoyt Vandenburg, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff. He is 51, the youngest man of his rank in the Am°riran forces. Reuter picture.
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    "BRITAIN MAY QUIT EGYPT'
    61 3 CAIRO, Sun. BRITAIN has accepted an Egyptian proposal to evacuate British troo p s from Egypt provided a military alliance is concluded between the two countries, sources close to the Egyptian Wafdist Government said yesterday. The sources said the proposal was envisaged in the British reply
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    4 MORE MEMBERS FOR W.H.O.
    59 3 GENEVA, Sun. INDONESIA, Vietnam. Cam- bndia and Laos were admitted to the World Health Organisation at its third annual session which ended yesterday. Southern Rhodesia was granted associate membership on Britain's request. The establishment of a Western Pacific regional office was agreed. The 60-nation organisation
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    Plane Takes Nine Tons To Winnipeg
    180 3 WINNIPIG, Sunday. T*HE British stratocruisei Caledonia, carrying nine tons of relief supplies for the Red River flood victims, louche! down at Stevenson Field here yesterday in bright sunshine and amid the cheers of a I large crowd. The giant British Overseas Airways airliner, stripped
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    LIE RETURNS FROM MOSCOW
    31 3 M TRYGVE LIX. Secretary-General of the United Nations, photographed on his arrival in Paris from Moscow, where he had an interview with Marshal Stalin. A P. picture
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    Dionne Quins 16 Years Old
    83 3 CALLENDER. Ontario, Sun. THE Dionnc Quintuplets celebrated their 16th birthday here yesterday. They now weigh about 130 lbs. each. Father de Dioune has so far kept a watchful eye on his daughters "As far as their mother and I are con- he said, "we just
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    JAPAN GETS BACK GROUNDED SHIPS
    62 3 TOKYO. Sun.-Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters has returned to the Japanese Government 46 former Japanese warships, including the battleship Mutsu, the Jijl news agency said yesterday. All the vessels were sunk during the war and are at prpsent grounded In Japanese waters The Finance Minister will place
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    Debate On U.S.I. Helps Dutch Govt.
    286 3 Debate On U.S.I. Helps Dutch Govt. THE HAGUE, Sun. FHE Dutch ParliamenA tary debate on Indonesia, with the Government's victory by 52 to 31 votes on the censure motion, makes the position of the Premier, Mr. Willem Drees, and his colleagues on Indonesian policy stronger than it has been for
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    REDS NOW CONTROL LADRONES
    181 3 REDS NOW CONTROL LADRONES HONG K.ONG, Sun. pENERAL Lin Piao's 4th \J Field Army troops have taken over the control of the entire island group of the Ladrones in the Pearl River estuary. Nationalist warships which were still shelling the island at 1.00 a.m. yesterday have now been withdrawn. Passengers
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    ITALY & LEBANON SIGN TRADE PACT
    29 3 ITALY LEBANON SIGN TRADE PACT ROME Sun.— Italy and Lebanon yesterday signed a one-year commercial agreement, which provides for the exchange of goods worth about three thousand million lira.-U.P.
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    CIGARETTE KILLS 9, WOUNDS 11
    44 3 BOGOTA, Sun. Nine people were killed and 11 wounded when a co nmercial explosive depot blew up in the Central Square of Neiva, Columbia, yestei lay The explosion was believed to have been caused by a cigarette end.— Reuter.
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    VIETNAMESE TROOPS JOIN GARRISON
    244 3 SAliiOiV Sunday. THE small French garrison on the Paracel Islands, 240 miles off the coast of Central Vietnam, has been reinforced this week by a company of Vietnamese troops, accorhig to an official Vietnamese source. Sent from Hue, near tne Fast coast of Indo-China the troops
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    500 TROOPS LEAVE H.K. FOR PENANG
    129 3 HONG o .3. Sun. -rnvv hnnrtrprt inprs and piVE hundred o^icers ana •I men or the 45 Commando left for Penang yesterday aboard the Empire Trooper They were being sent to Malaya to bolster Brit--- forces already there. An advance party of 45 Commando
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    Progress In Sarawak
    516 4 Sarawak's Council Negri, which meets twice a year, heard last week an encouraging report of progress in <hij infant colony. Governor's speeches do not as a rule expose the sins of administration, and Mr. A. F. Abell's address was no exception. But although members of the Council
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    MINES IDLE
    42 4 JAKARTA, Sun. Tin mines of the Billiton Company on Billiton Island have been idle since Thursday, according to Aneta news agency. The office of the Billiton Company said the walk-out was due to the stoppage of certain rationed goods. Reuter.
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    The Kreta Ayer Shooting And Its Lessons
    1226 4  -  R. ONRAET COMMUNIST BEGINNINGS IN SINGAPORE-I MILITANT Communism in Malaya is 23 years old this year 23 years ago ihe first casualties of the Communist war (wrongly called the anti-bandit campaign) were counted in Singapore three killed und five wounded by the rifle-fire
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      Britain In Malaya: Sir R. Braddell
      573 4 LIKE Dr Withers-Payne, president of the Singapore Association, and probably everybody else, I was under the impression that the British Government had made no unequivocal statement of its intention to remain in Singapore. A few days ago, however, ♦he Governor drew my attention to
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      THE COLONIAL ATTITUDE
      219 4 DOUBTFUL", in his letter of May 26 headed "Self-Govern-ment? Colony Queries", wonders if self-govern-ment will bring better conditions to Malaya. This attitude, and the attitude of men of a similar mind, can be explained only by stating that they have succumbed to propaganda, from vested interests in
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    On the Margin
    449 4 More Gunplay JOEING 01. c of those deplorable people who enjoy watching shapely girls duncing more 'Jian flims which call for intellectual exertion, 1 1 repaired to the Cathay cinema on Saturday afternoon at the extraordinary hour of one-forty-flve to see a musical in technicolor. During the
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    APPEAL FOR EXTRA-MURAL STUDIES
    321 5 New Department Suggested For The University From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sunday. THE establishment of a department of extramural studies in the University of Malaya was urged by Mr. D. W. Le Mare, Director of Fisheries, Federation and Singapore, in a talk today to Penang student
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    GARDEN PARTY
    63 5 THE RULERS AND REGENTS of the nine Malay States gave a garden party at Istana Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, on Friday in honour of the visiting Ministers, Mr. James Griffiths and Mr. John Strachey. Picture shows (from left to right) Lady Gurney, the Sultan of Kedah, Mr. Griffiths, Mr.
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    PERLIS PLEA ON SCHOLARSHIPS
    226 5 From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR, Sunday. THERE should be equal opportunity to gain State scholarships; I should not like to see them roinjc to hijfh officials, or their sons and relatives" lnche Salleh (Malay Unofficial dsclar?d at today's Perlis State Council meeting. i He W&fl
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    DIVER INJURED
    21 5 A Chinese man was taken to hospital yesterday afternoon after a diving accident at the Mount Emily Swimming Pool.
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    Pythons Sail For Zurich
    83 5 l Our S.ia foi i f-.p:iud? nl PENANG. Sun. I JOST interesting pas- engers" on board the 7.700-ton Meerkerk noir in Pcnang are six large pythons bound for Zurich. Swit:erland. The smallest is 16 }eet lor.ri and the largest over 23 'feet. Travelling with them are
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    MOTOR-CYCLE MESSENGERS
    71 5 ngi rs of the Singapore Municipality— the men who convey minute papers and other documents from Municipal offices to the offices and homes of Commissioners rruiy be provided with motorcycles. This scheme for speeding up Municipal work is being studied by a Municipal Committee. Under the present system
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    "Run Sweep To Build Hall" Plan
    207 5 "Run Sweep To Build Hall" Plan From Our Staff Corrt-pondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. FE Selangor Badminton Association today tentatively approved a proposal to run a sweepstake among its members and other affiliated bodies of the Association to raise funds for the construction of an $80,000 badminton hall at Birch Road.
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    Lorry Driver Blamed
    104 5 From Our S'.aft Mm i>jnd?nt JOHORE BAHRU. Sat. A verdict of death due to the negligence of Gan Tong Peng, a lorry driver, was recorded by the Magistrate, Batu Pahat, yesterday after an inquiry into the death of Jah binte Baka. a 60-year-old woman from Lubok Senera,
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    FIRE IN FLAT
    43 5 A fire in the servants quarters of a flat on the third floor of Meyer Mansion's was quickly put out on the arrival of firemen last night .The cause of the fire was believed to have been a short circuit.
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    2 IN HOSPITAL
    27 5 A motor-cyclist and a Chinese woman pedestrian were taken unconscious to the Singapore General Hospital after an accident in South Bridge Road yesterday afternoon.
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    MAN POISONED
    30 5 A Chinese man was rushed to hospital in a serious condition late last night, suffering from caustic soda poisoning. He was found in a house in Victoria Street.
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    Anti-T.B. Meeting
    36 5 The first annual general meeting of the Johore Association of the Prevention of Tuberculosis will be held at the Johore Civil Service Club, Sungei Chat, Johore Bahru, on Friday, June 9, at 10 a.m.
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    S'PORE AID TO CANTERBURY
    62 5 A concert in aid of the Canterbury Cathedral renovation funds will be staged by the members of the St. Andrew's Cathedral. Singapore, at the V.M.C.A. Hall on June 9 at 8.30 p.m. Arrangements are now being made for special matinee for school children on June 8,
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    Mr. P. Saravanamuthu
    44 5 Mr. P. Saravanamuthu i brother of the High Com- missioner for Ceylon in MaI laya, Mr. M. Saravanamuthu. jdied yesterday in Co'.ombo at the age of 58. He was forj merly Ceylon's Tea and RubI ber Commissioner. He retired in 1947.
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    K.L. School Held Up For Lack Of Funds
    194 5 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. ONE of the biggest new school building projects undertaken in Kuala Lumnui since the war has now been held up because there are insufficient funds to finance the scheme. The project is *he new $500,000
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    Joy Rides At Flying Club
    95 5 TO POPULARISE flying in Singapore, joy rides were Riven by the Royal Singapore Flying Club yesterday. Flying was interrupted in the morning by heavy rain, but schedules were maintained in the afternoon despite grey clouds that threatened to wash out the whole day's programme. The
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    PAHANG AWARDS FOR HIGHER STUDIES
    116 5 From Our Staff < 'orre^poiident KUALA LUMPUR. Sun SCHOLARSHIPS are awarded by the State of Pahang to enable students to take courses of higher studies at the University of Malaya or universities overseas or other aporoved educational institutions. Candidates for selection must be over the
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    RED FLAG FOUND IN SINGAPORE
    44 5 A Police radio car yesterday discovered two Communist posters on a wall near the General Hospital quarters in Tiong Bahru Road. Another police patrol found a Communist flag under a coconut tree close to thje bridge at Kampong Bahru.
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    Delay In Mail To Borneo
    300 5 OECAUSE of irregularity in the arrivals of second class se a mail in North Borneo, thought to be incurred during handling in Singapore, the North Borneo Chamber of Commerce is writing to the Singapore Postmaster-General. Mr. D. Smith, asking if anything can be done to
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    COMMITTEE ON RAGGING
    77 5 AX .uGING Supervisory Committee to implement resolutions on ragging was appointed at the first meeting of the New Students' Council of the University of Malaya Students' Union on Saturday. The president, Mr. K. Kanagaratnam, called an emergency meeting to be held five minutes after the meeting ended.
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    S'pore Air Arrivals
    124 5 THE following passengers were among those who disembarked at Kallang Airport, Singapore yesterday. KXJW. From Jakarta Messrs. Ami] Ranjan Dutta, Fan Tjok Sin, Kwee Sloe Sang, Lee Keng Choon, Lo Pang Soo, Saly Cornelius Moet, D K. Nag, Lachmandas Doulatram Nanwanl, Tan TJong Po, Tan Geok Koon,
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    Municipal Mediation Scheme
    147 5 Municipal Mediation Scheme FE formation of a standing committee to deal with all Municipal labour problems and act as a negotiating body between the Commissioners and their labour force, has been shelved for consideration at a future date. The intention is to have a permanent body which could act as
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    Workers Urged To Fight Terror
    234 5 Workers Urged To Fight Terror From Our Staff < y UMtal IPOH, Sun. UARLY "djinocratis-'-i ation" of the country, with all possible safeguards- against abuses, would go a long way to ease the present situation said Mr. K. R. R. Ch.judhary president of the Estates Staff Union, Kuala Kangsar District,
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    FOUND FATHER HANCING
    44 5 Pushing open her b^-room door, an 13-year-old Chinese girl. Low Wee Sang, found her 43-year-old father ham Ing frccn a hook in the ceilin<:. in Craig Road yesterday af.^rnoon. Low. a trishaw rider, was rushed to hospital in a critical condition.
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      INVESTORS' CASE FOR THE TWO MINISTERS
      354 6 INVESTORS' CASE FOR THE TWO MINISTERS Front A Market Correspondent PARTICULAR attention was paid in the share 1 market last week to any utterances from the visiting: Ministers. Mr. Griffiths and Mr. Strachey, which might be calculated to restore confidence in the future of Malaya. But it remained to a
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      MALAYAN SHARES
      393 6 MALA YAN SHARES Turn-Over Was Moderate From A Market Correspondent BUMPER prices— B4i cents per lb. for rubber, $304 per picul for tin failed to induce activity in Malayan shares, and last week's turnover was only moderate. Industrials In general showed an easing tendency, an exception being Straits Traders, which
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      Companies Report
      206 6 From A Market Correspondent QjTRAITS Trading Company's report, published last week, will afford great encouragement to the holder who has patiently waited (or the restoration of this leading Industrial counter to the dividend list. The board and management are to be congratulated on reproducing, indeed bettering, the figures
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      WEEK-END RUBBER PRIES
      80 6 London Rubber London. May 26.— Spot 'in'-^ii. July. 25*£d. Aug. 25M,d. Sept. 2AKA. Oct.-Dec.. 23d. Jan.Mar. 2 1 s i d June-July c.1 1. 24%d. Market Strong. The London rubber commodity market will be closed today. Monr'av. May 29. New York Rubber In U.S. cents per Ib,
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      London Stocks
      288 6 LONDON, Sun. TNTENSE excitement in the 1 London Stock Exchange followed the week-end news of petrol de-rationing in Britain. Closing middle prices of selected stocks, as supplied to the Straits Times by special arrangement with The Financial Times, follow. LOANS Consols 70Vi Funding 4% 1960-90 107 War 3
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    GALCADOR AMAZED HIS OWN RIDER
    1108 7 Derby Goes To France Again urauin iniivno, aunuaj. A USTRALIAN jockey Rae Johnstone, winning rider A- of the French colt, Galcador, in the richest Derby hi history yesterday said of his mount after Ihe race: "It is quite remarkable that he has won today as
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    Scotland Beat France 1-Nil
    35 7 PARIS. Sun.— A goal In the 69th minute by inside-right Alan Brown of East Fife gave Scotland a one-nil win over France in the international soccer match at Colombes Stadium yesterday.
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    Tourists Dismiss Glamorgan For 123
    321 7 CARDIFF. Sun. RAIN brought an early close to the match at Cardiff where Glamorgan were dismissed for 123 by the West Indies cricket tourists before tea yesterday. The tourists had replied with 27 for one when rain stopped play for the day. The Glamorgan batting
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    Outschoorn Makes Unbeaten Century
    555 7 LONDON, Sunday. FORMER Singapore Recreation Club and Colony all-rounder, Laddie Outschoorn, scored an undefeated century for his county, Worcestershire, against Essex yesterday hi the opening day's play of the present county championship series. Outschoorn, who is a Ceylcfnese, played a curious innings which brought some barracking
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    STRANAHAN WINS TITLE FOR 2nd YEAR
    143 7 ST. ANUi;tuS, San. FRANK Stranahan, 27-year-old Mm of millionaire, yesterday won the British amateur golf championship for th« second time In three years. In the all-American final he beat Dick Chapman, 39-year-old former United States amateur champion, by eight and aix over 36 holes.
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      102 7 SINGAPORE 9 a.m. Whit Monday Melodies; 9.30 "These Were Hits" 10 News from K. L.; 10.05 Around the Bandstand; 10.15 Charlie Kunz; 10.30 "Broadway Parade", 11 Malay 1 p.m. Duke Ellington Jerl Sullivan; 1.30 News; 1.45 Cowboy Songs; 2 Qala Variety Bandbox"; 3 "The Singing Strings"; 3.30 Phil Guard John
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      114 7 K. LUMPUR 10 a.m. Emergency News; 10.10 Close; 12 Malay; 1—7.12 p m. As S'pore; 7.12 Tango and Samba Time; 7.30 Jay Wilbur Strings: 8 As S'pore; 8.15 Julai Tan and Tony Valerio; 8.30 "Songs from the Shows;" 9 "No Other Tiger;" J.30 News; 9.45 Austral Singers; 10 Dance Music
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      116 7 Listeners Calling; 7.00. As S'pore; 7 .30 London Studio Melodies; 8 As S'pore; 8 15 Piano Recital; 8 30 Much-Blndlng-ln-the-Marsh; 9 "I Like What I Know;" 9.45 Stars of the Opera; 10 Short Story; 10.15 Floor-Show; 10.40 Dance Music; 11 Close. B. F. B. B. S 4.45 p.m. From the
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    SING TAO SCORE SECOND VICTORY
    615 8 Colony Chinese Outplayed PLAYING clever football, the touring Sine Tao Football Club side not only trampled all over a fairly representative Singapore Chinese Football Association team by three goals to nil at Jalap Besar Stadium yesterday but also showed that they are past masters in
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    Junior Cricket SINHALESE S.C. WIN BY 1 RUN
    555 8 Junior Cricket SINHALESE S.C. WIN BY 1 RUN SINHALESE S.C. beat R.A.F. Tengah by one run o:i the first innings of a Singapore Cricket Association Junior tournament game yesterday. In another fixture R.A.F. beat C.V.M.A. by 71 runs, on the first innings. Scores: Tengah v SSC SINHALESE Sports Club be»t
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    Non-Benders Beaten
    135 8 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. pLAYED on a rain-soaked ground today, the cricket match between Johore Cricket Club and the Singapore Non-Benders ended in a win for Johore by five wickets after Non-Benders, had declared. The match was played on the Johore Cricket Club's ground and
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    LOSES ALL 3 TITLES
    117 8 I- rum Our Null Correspondent IPOH. Sun HPHE Perak badminton championships which were concluded tonight saw the champion. Tan Jin Eong. lose all hit three titles, while Miss Valentine Chan won the triple crown. Tan, who lost to Teoh Seng Khoon on Friday In the singles
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    SING TAO MEET MALAYS TODAY
    31 8 SING TAO Football Club will play the third game of their tour today when they meet Singapore Malays at Jalan Besar Stadium, kick-off at 5.15 p.m.
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    Penang 83, 79-5 Saved By Rain
    235 8 Penang 83, 79-5 Saved By Rain From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. RAIN THIS afternoon saved Fenang from defeat in their inter-State match against Selangor here over the week-end. In reply to Selangor's first innings score of 290, Penane were dismissed for 83 and in the follow-on they were
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    7 States For MCSF Meet
    118 8 CEVEN BRANCHES of the Malayan Chinese Sports Federation have informed MCSF headquarters in Singapore that they will be ready in July to participate in the Fifth Malaya AllChinese Athletic Meet sponsored by the Federation. Mr. Aw Kow, MCSF president, announced this yesterday. The branches ready
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    Four o'Clock's Cup Win Worth $11,500
    415 8 -"THERE was a dramatic finish to the Governor's J- Cup race at Bukit Timah on Saturday, final day of the Singapore Turf Club's Summer meet. It was such a close thing that the judge asked for a photo-chart of the finish which showed that
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    Perak, Kedah Out Of Cup
    244 8 AS A RESULT of Saturday's Malaya Cup match between Perak and Kedah which ended in as coreless draw at Ipoh, the issue in the northern section now rests between Penang and Selangor, unless Pahang beat both these states In forthcoming games. Perak and Kedah have
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    Sports Diary
    51 8 SOCCER: Sine Tao v MaUvs at Jalan Besar. CRICKET: Europeans v K -st, 8.C.C.; RAF Chanjri v RAF Tengah at Tengah; Indian Assu. t S.C.C. at Khalsa Assn. Ceylon B.C. Commissioner'* XI t President's XI at C.S.C. SHOOTING Singapore Gun Club Shoot, Nee Soon. POLO: Polo Ground, 9
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    S.B.A. Men's Junior Singles Draw
    753 8 rE draw for the men's singles in the Singapore Badminton Association's Junior championships held at the Clerical Union hall yesterday resulted as follows: First Quarter: Wong Yeok Ycc-fc (AAU) v Tan Geok Chay (Wembley); Tan Chye Toon (Jacques) v Francis Lim (Maxfli); Cheong Eng Leong
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    JOCKEYING FOR POSITIONS
    76 8 CUP DAY AT BUKIT TIMAH: Above, Your Highness races into the lead from Princess Guinevere after a furlong in the Governor's Cup race on Saturday. Indian Heather is third on the rails, with Longchamps fourth, while Four o' Clock (the winner), is fifth and Milwall (second) is
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    Rest Score 139 For 8: Ratnayake's Quick 53
    501 8 Rest Score 139 For 8: Ratnayake's Quick 53 QN a thoroughly rainsoaked wicket the Rest side scored 139 for eight wickets in 180 minutes' batting yesterday in the annual match against Europeans on the S.C.C padang. There was only an over's play when the match started on Saturday and yesterday
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    WADSWORTH WAS 'TRAINER OF MEET'
    283 8 IT was Colin Tulloh s day at Bukit Timah on Saturday. Aiding superbly he landed four winners in a row. Including the Governor's Cup winner, Four O Clock 11. Tulloh easily headed the jockeys' table for the meeting with six winning mounts with Vincent Dunwoodie
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