The Straits Times, 3 May 1951

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, MAT 3, 1951. if PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    SAVINGS TO FIGHT INFLATION
    208 1 You buy bond and get prize all tax free SINGAPORE Government's plan to issue $50,000,000 worth of premium bonds soon to help beat inflation in the Colony will go before the Legislative Council this month. The acting Financial Secretary, Mr. W. C.j Taylor, told the Straits
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    49 1 A SIGHT LONDON has not seen for 94 years: The Lord Mayor cruises up river with an escort of watermen and swan uppers (in oared craft) from London* Bridge to Charing Cross to open the Thames Festival river bus services. The Lord Mayor's barge leads the flotilla. Reuter picture.
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    M.P. URGES: STOP RUBBER FOR REDS
    171 1 LONDON, Wednesday. rtISCLOSIRE of big rubber shipments from Briiish Colonies to China started a row in the House of Commons tonight. Figures given by the Colonial Office showed that Malaya s?nt the Chinese 120.000 tons of rubber In the nine months ending in March.
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    REBELS KILLED
    37 1 RANGOON. Wed. Ten K inn rebels were killed and 15 wounded today in a flvehour battle with Government forces. 50 mibs south of Rangoon. Government li>. c ses were trie dead and two wounded. A.°
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    'Lucky Billy' wins big race
    55 1 LONDON, Wed. LEY On, who owns a Chinese restaurant in Piccadiliy,.'r>pn L 7t.e z.OQO Guineas at Newmarket today with his Irish-bred r olt Ki-Mlng. Ley On, known to thousands of Malayans who have visited London, as Lucky Billy" was once d character actor in films.
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    'Rights for women'
    36 1 LAKE SUCECSS. Wed.— The 15-nation all-woman U.N. Commission on the Status of Women yesterday voted 11 to 0 in favour of drafting an international treaty ensuring equal political rights for all women.— A.P.
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    No change in Scots voting
    101 1 No change in Scots voting GLASGOW, Wed. yOTING in the Scottish Municipal elections showed a slighr trend to the right Conservatives in Glasgow increased their majority over Labour on the local council <rom one seat to five. In Dundee they seized two seats from Labour. The Labour Party over the
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    MacA CAN KEEP HIS AIRPLANE
    30 1 WASHINGTON Wed.— The U.S. Air Force said today that General Mac Arthur can keep his Constellation transport plane "Bataan" as long as he wants.— U.P.
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    A mother wants to end this pact
    113 1 LONDON, Wednesday. ILTHEN the Korean war broke out, the Kinne family in Leeds, Yorkshire, had three sons in the British Army. The brothers made a pact: Each would volunteer to take the place of any one of them who might be killed in
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    GOLD CLAIM
    34 1 WASHINGTON, Wed—Britain, the United States and France have asked the International Court to appoint an arbitrator to determine the" ownership of U52,900,000 worth of gold, claimed by both Italy and Albania.— AP.
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    NOT TOLD YET
    35 1 NEW DELHI, Wed.— lndia has not yet received official notice from the United Nations Security Council of the appointment of Mr. Frank Graham a» Kashmir mediator, an official spokesman said today.— AP.
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    'Flight Reds' appeal
    83 1 HONG KONG, Wed. rE Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Alexander Grantham. today called for resistance against Communism "in defence of the principle of toleration of thought, of talk and of worship." He -said it is for the defence of this principle that "we shed our blood to
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    Police break up march
    75 1 WELLINGTON, Wed. POLICE used batons to 1 break up a march on Parliament by 1.000 striking seamen here this morning, The marchers set out from the Trades Hall, but had only covered half a mile before they were dispersed by a police cordon thrown across the
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    INDONESIA AND NORWAY PACT
    42 1 LONDON, Wed. Norway and Indonesia have signed their first direct trade agreement. Until January 1952, Norway will send Indonesia cod liver oil. paper, cardboard, and electrical equipment. Indonesia will supply palm oil, copra, tobacco and other goods.— Reuter.
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    BIG TYRE SHIPMENT FOR K.L.
    172 1 BIG TYRE SHIPMENT FOR K.L. From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Wed TYRE dealers in Kuala Lum1 pur expect the present shortage to improve within the next two months when American tyres begin to arrive in the country. Orders have been placed and deliveries are expected soon. While the American
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    NO TALKS YET ON PINES FOR U.K.
    145 1 J^[ALAYA has not yet cotn- menced negotiations with the U.K. Ministry of Food for the current years contract to supply canned pineapples to Britain, Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, chairman of the Malayan Board of Pineapple Packers, said yesterday. The main reason were that
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    HEADS' FOR POLICE SCHOOL
    49 1 MR. S. G. TAYLOR, (top) formerly Inspector-General of Police, Bengal, who has been named Commandant of the Police Higher Training School at Kuala Kubu and Mr. P. LethbridgeFarmer. late of the Punjab Police, who has been appointed Chief Instructor of the school. Straits Times pictures.
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    New G.O.C. was junior with Dunlop
    159 1 New G.O.C. was junior with Dunlop TWO General&ferho «net a s junior officers at the x Royal Army Equitation School, Weedon, Northamptonshire, England 31 years ago and have not met since, will have a re-union in Singapore on Saturdajb^hen Major General Anthony Gerald O'Carrernfcott arrives In the Chusan to take
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    'Terror' body lives again
    57 1 CAIRO, Wed. 'TWO thousand steel-helmet-ed police stood by in Cairo today when the two-and-a-half-year ban on the Muslim Brotherhood was lifted. Large police forces were posted outside mosques where prayers were said for the revival of the brotherhood, but everything went off quietly. The Brotherhood was
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    LAPRENSA-OR'AS YOU LIKE IT'
    23 1 BUENOS AIRBB, Wed.— President Peron announced yesterday that the independent newspaper La Prensa will be handed to workers orggnlaaUon^^beproducev
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    U. N. GENERAL CALLS IT 'GREAT VICTORY'
    143 1 U. N. GENERAL CALLS IT 'GREAT VICTORY' TOKYO, Wednesday. LT.-GENERAL James A. Van Fleet, United Nations ground commander, said today that the first phase of the Communist spring offensive had ended in a great victory for the United Nations. He made this comment after a visit to 10th Corps advance
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    1,074 BRITISH CASUALTIES
    65 1 LONDON, Wed. British casualties in the recent operations in Korea were 1,074 up to noon today, the Defence Minister. Mr. Shinwell. told the House of Commons today. They Included 48 killed. 223 wounded and 803 missing. American casualties in Korea reached 62,799 today. an increase of 1,055
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    'HERO' GENERAL EXECUTED
    50 1 TAIPEH. Wed.— The China News Weekly said today ChinWe Red* nave executed a Nationalist civil war hero who later defected to them and was appointed to a high post. He was General Chen Mlngjen, renowned for the bloody defeat he inflicted on the Reds at Szepingkai Man-
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    BAN IS OFF
    20 1 WASHINGTON. Wed.— The UiJ. State Department Hast night lifted the ban on travel to Communist Hungary.— A.P
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    Mac Donald flies to see Bao Dai
    109 1 Mac Donald flies to see Bao Dai SAIGON, Wed. MR. Malcolm Mac Donald, Commissioner-General in South-East Asia, today flew to Dalat, Southern Annam, to meet Bao Dai, head of the Vietnamese State. Vietnamese sources said they expected them to discuss Indo-China's inclusion in a Pacific Pact This was the first
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    NOW ASURNEY OF RABBITS
    71 1 MELBOURNE, Wed.— There are millions of rabbits in Australia, but nobody has any idea of their exact numbers. Officers of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation intend to conduct a survey to find out. The job is expected to take years. The survey will also
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    Biggest French sweep frees 200,000 people
    177 2 1,200 KDS KMED, 5,000 Offlji SAIGON, Wed. |?RENCH forces have r killed 1,200 Vietminh troops and taken 5,000 prisoners in a 12-day combined land, air and river operation in the Tonking delta bridgehead. It was the biggest battle against the Vietminh so far and
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    THEY ARE ALL FOR MacA
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    Stand 'saved Indo-China'
    76 2 WASHINGTON, Wed. (TNDER-Secretary of the Army. Mr. Archibald S. Alexander, said last night that the United States' stand in Korea has"probably saved" Japan, Formosa and Indo-China from 1 Communist conquest. Speaking to 2.000 delegates at the annual meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce, he said
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    B.B.C. IS ACCUSED: 'INVENTS NEWS'
    178 2 B.B.C. IS ACCUSED: 'INVENTS NEWS' MADRID, Wednesday. fENERAL Franco last night attacked the British Broadcasting Corporation and other world radio organisations. He said they were controlled by a "modern demoniacal spirit, by Freemasonry and by materialist enemies of the true Church." In a speech to the Executive Council of Catholic
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    'Cowardly and foolish...'
    119 2 'Cowardly and foolish MELBOURNE. -Wed. AUSTRALIANS would be IX cowardly and foolish if they did not accept Germans as migrants, the Immigration Minister, Mr. Harold Holt, said in an address te> Melbourne University students. Be said Australia was unable to fet as many British migrants A she wanted and it
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      'Atomic' designs for Festival halls
      214 2 "ATOMIC #esigns» will be on show for the first in London this summer. The designs are based on the "maps" used by scientists to record the arrangement of atoms in <1 fferent substances. They will be usedktQ decorate Festival of BrWHn exhibition halls and restaurants
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    PEACE IN P.I.
    29 2 MANILA, Wed.— Except for a few sporadic clashes between Government forces and Communist Hukbalahaps in Central Luzon, May Day celebrations in the Philippines were observed peacefully.—Reuter.
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    13 votes keep the Labour Govt. in
    184 2 13 votes keep the Labour Govt. in LONDON. Wed ]yjR. Churchill's bid to unseat the Government by splitting the Labour Party over the raw material shortage failed last night by 13 votes. His motion, defeated in the House of Commons by 305 to 292, sought to drive a wedge between
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    New UK-Jap payments talks
    139 2 LONDON, Wed. TALKS on a new payments agreement between the Sterling area and Japan will be resumed shortly Jn Tokyo, it was, learned in London tern**On the British side the talks will be led by Mr. H. H. i|^^^reg|||^Brt^| Mr. J. D. Loyness. of the Bank
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    EGYPT TALKS BREAKING DOWN FEAR
    291 3 Deputies demand 'national fight 9 CAIRO, Wednesday. ANGLO-EGYPTIAN negotiations were believed near breaking point today, with Egypt ready to launch a new struggle to force British troops from the Suez Canal zone. The Foreign Minister, Salah el din Bey, yesterday told the Egyptian Chamber of
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    FREE SHOW
    47 3 FKEE SHOW FOR WOKKURS: The girls were rehea^m* for the cabaret "Inter" •Honal Follies." at the New Lyceum, London and the workers were renairinr the theatre which has now -become a dance hall. The men gathered round to watch the dancers during the luncheon interval.
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    Soviet jets 'equal ours,' U.S. told
    95 3 Soviet jets 'equal ours,' U.S. told WASHINGTON, Wed. MR. Eugene M. Zuckert, United States Assistant Air Secretary, said here that the use of Russian-made jet engines in the Korean war should be a warning that the Soviets had high quality fighting equipment. The Russian Jets were equal to any produced
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    Support me, says Peron
    74 3 BUENOS AIRES, Wed. PRESIDENT Peron told the Argentine Congress yesterday that Argentina expected all American nations to support her claims to the Falkland Islands, which are claimed by both Britain and Argentina. Just as Argentina had promised solidarity to all American nations against "colonialism" she expected
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    BETTY GRABLE'S PAY STOPPED
    38 3 HOLLYWOOD, Wed. Darryl Zanuck stopped Betty Grable's fabulous $8,000 a week yesterday because she refused to star In "The Girl Next Door". Miss Grable said 20th Century Fox was working her too hard.— U.P.
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    MR. TRYGVE LIE
    35 3 LONDON, Wed.— Mr. Trygve Lie, United Nations Secretary General, flew into London last night on a two-day visit before returning to New York from his recent European and Middle Eastern tour.— Reuter.
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    20 EXECUTED
    33 3 HONG KONG, Wed.— More than 20 people were executed In Konpmoon on April 20. It Is believed most of them wore landlords and the publisher of a former Chinese newspaper.— Reuter-AAP.
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    'SUBS' OFF JAPAN
    46 3 WASHINGTON, An American naval officer said here that submarines had been operating off the north coast of Japan. Captain J. M. Carson, of the aircraft carrier Valley Forge, who attended a Defence Department briefing yesterday said this in reply to a question.— Reuter.
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    STATE VISIT
    28 3 OSLO, Wed.— King Haakon of Norway will travel to England in the royal yacht, Norge, for a state visit from June 5 to June 7. A.P.
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    NO ACTION ON RED RUBBER'
    114 3 LONDON. Wed. THE rubber conference in Rome took no steps to prevent the export of rubber to Russia and her associated States, Mr. A. G. Bottomley, Secretary for Overseas Trade, said in a written reply in the Commons. "The conference reached the conclusion that while
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    MINISTERS' WIVES NEED SACKCLOTH'
    78 3 LONDON. Wed. THE President of the Board 1 of Trade, Sir Hartley Shawcross, believes "no woman in Britain should have so many clothes that she can ask her husband: 'What shall I wear tonight?" Sir Hartley told overseas buyers at a British Industries Fair dinner: "All
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    FIRST CALL
    19 3 TOKYO, Wed. Emperor Hirohito today visited General Ridgway. It was his first call on the General.— Reuter.
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    Customs men seize drugs in airliner
    133 3 MANILA, Wednesday. PENICILLIN— 396 boxes of it— and other drugs and 2,4001 b of silver bullion, $5,000 in U.S. currency and cheques were seized by customs men aboard a Philippines Airlines aircraft as it was about to leave for Hong Kong today. Boxes containing
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    U.S. MOB. CHIEF IN LONDON
    39 3 LONDON. Wed. Mr. Charles E. Wilson, U.S. Defence Mobilisation Director, arrived here yesterday from Paris. He has been conferring in Paris with General D. Eisenhower on coordination of American and European defence production. —Reuter.
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    We'll pay up for oil, says Persia
    131 3 TEHERAN, Wednesday. THE Persian Government will pay Britain when it takes over the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, a Foreign Office spokesman said here today. Persia had no intention of outright appropriation, he said. The nationalisation plans have been signed by the Shah and have
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    H.K. force to be 'Royal'
    87 3 LONDON, Wed. THE Hong Kong Defence Force will in future have the title "Royal". The London Gazette said last night that the King had approved the changing of the force's title. The force was reconstituted after the war from the colony's former volunteer forces and
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    150,000 lose their homes
    68 3 HONG KONG, Wed. CHINESE press reports from Canton say that Yingtak and Tslngyuen, territories north-west of Canton, are flooded in the North River area. The floods are said to be the worst since 1914. More than 135,000 people are homeless in Tsingyuen, while in Yingtak crops
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    DAY OFF
    24 3 PARIS, Wed. The Big Four deputies forgot their deadlock on arrangements for a Foreign Ministers' conference for the May Day holiday. -U.P.
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    CALCUTTA DEAD
    27 3 CALCUTTA. Wed.—Calcutta's death roll last week In the present epidemics was 118 killed by smallpox and 100 by cholera, it was officially announced today. Reuter
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    MR. WU HAS AN AMBITION
    40 3 Hong Kong's "ginger king." Mr. Wu Tat-chee. pictured in his London hotel, is in Europe looking; for enough orders to raise him from a "millionaire in Chinese currency" to one in pounds shillings and pence.
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    RED STRIKE IN SPAIN
    42 3 BARCELONA, Wed. Despite an overwhelming display of force, approximately 12,000 workers celebrated May Day here by staying away from their jobs. May Day holidays are banned in Spain. Armed Guards patrolled the streets to stop possible demonstrations. A.P.
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    'COLONIES A DUTY'-DR. FISHER
    168 3 LONDON. Wed. r\R. Fisher, Archbishop of *J Canterbury, last night told his leading churchmen that Britain must as a nation give a great deal as an essential part of her relationship with Colonial territories. The Archbishop told a rally of the Church's Missionary Society that only
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    We will defend HK says Minister
    209 3 We will defend HK says Minister LONDON, Wed. rpHE British Colonial Secretary, Mr. James Griffiths, today assured Hong Kong that Britain had "every intention of discharging her responsibilities as regards defence and the welfare of the population". Speaking at a lunch In London to the Hong Kong delegation attending the
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    British CO. killed
    92 3 LONDON, Wed. T lEUTENANT Colonel KingLi sley Osbern Nugent Foster, commanding officer of the First Battalion Royal Northumberland Fusiliers was killed in action in Korea last Wednesday, it was announced in London yesterday. Two officers of the Gloucester Regiment killed in the recent severe fighting were Major
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    ARMS STRIKE SPREADS
    48 3 LONDON, Wed— The men who forge the guns at Woolwich arsenal, London's big armaments centre, today joined in the unofficial eightday strike of skilled engineers. Cartridge factory mechanics also stopped work. The strikers are demanding that a non-union inspector should be transferred somewhere else. Reuter.
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    No U.K. decision to bomb Manchuria
    140 3 LONDON, Wednesday. DRITAIN has not yet taken any final decision to bomb Manchurian air bases if the Communists use heavy air power against United Nations forces in Korea, it was understood in London today Press reports that the British Government had already informally indicated
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    NEW MACHINE GUN FOR THE ARMY
    71 3 LONDON, Wed.— A new British army weapon is to replace the Bren light machine and the Vickers .303 machine sun, Mr. Michael Stewart, Financial Secretary to the War Office, said today. He told the House of Commons that the new weapon would lire ammunition
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    FIRE ENGINES GREET DANNY
    58 3 LONDON. Wed. Danny Kaye arrived in London last night and was greeted by fire engines. London airport staged an emergency standby because i the Pan-American Airways airliner in which he travelled i had to fly from Shannon with a wheel down. The plane made a safe
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    Sakais see first white men on 102 day mission
    252 4 13 anti-bandit men in unmapped jungle From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. TWELVE British soldiers and their troop leader, 22-year-old Lieut. D. T. Man son, today returned to the jungle afte*- a week's leave in town leave they got after
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    BRANDY STILL SELLS WELL
    87 4 DRANDY manufacturers fear no drop in the sales of their producte in the Far East, despite the increasing popularity of Scotch whisky, M. Germain Robin. General manager of Jules Robin and Co.. said in Singapore yesterday. Sales of cognac brandy in the East still totalled about
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    'WORLD IS DECAYING' WRANGLE
    172 4 'WORLD IS DECAYING' WRANGLE CJCHOOL children debated 3 the merits and demerits of the atomic bomb, and man's degrading morals at an '.nter-school debate at Victoria School RingaDre. last night. The teams, divided into Govern-ment-aided and Government schools, debated the motion that •Civilisation has been decaying in 'h? 20th century
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    MURDER REWARD
    53 4 From Our SUIT Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The Perak Government announced today that a reward of $2,000 is offered for information leading to the arrest of three Chinese responsible for the murder and robbery of a Chinese mine overseer, Yong Hiong on Feb. 20 at the Lee Shin
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    Police changes at Johore Bahru
    65 4 From Our O^W* C*i J ftSpGßdcnt. JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. A. S. P. Yusof. 0.C.P.D.. Johore Bahru. has been transferred to the C.1.D., Johore. as A. S. P. Crime, in place of Mr. R. Higgins. who has gone on leave. Court Inspector Dahadi has gone to
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    RETAILER FINED $501
    98 4 Chan Tung Lam, aged 30, a retailer, was fined $500 in the First District Court yesterday for moving six bags of Government-imported rice from his shop without permission from the Assistant Food Controller. On a second charge of disposing or attempting to dispose of the r»ce, Chan
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    Teachers' unions plan world body
    116 4 STEPS to form an international organisation ot teachers' unions to protect professional interests have been taken in Brussels. This was announced yesterday by Mr. Dhyan Mungat, chief of the Asian centre of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Teachers' delegates at the ICFTO World
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    THEY'RE DOWN, NOT OUT
    57 4 THEY'RE DOWN, NOT OUT THESE happy youngsters, (TOP) who are crippled, gave a cheery welcome to visitors to St. Andrew's Ortho- paedic Hospital, Stfflftp, Singapore, yesterday when they staged an exhibition and concert as part of the Educa tion Week programme. A crippled Scoot, Ltm Tee Peng, (BELOW) gives a
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    RED COMMANDER SHOT AT PUSING
    134 4 From Oar Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wednesday. A PLATOON commander of the MR. LA. and the chairman of the Pusing committee were among six bandits killed in operations which began yesterday near Pusing town. The platoon commander carried a $6,000 reward and the chairman $5,000. The
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    OFFERED BRIBE
    36 4 From Our Own Correspondent. KLUANO, Wed. Wong Hock of Sungei Sayang Resettlement Camp, charged with offering a bribe of $6 to Hashim bin Afeang, a lance corporal, was fined $100 or one month gaol.
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    RATTAN MEN GET PAY RISE
    95 4 Thirty employers of the rattan trade in Singapore have signed an agreement with the 120-strong Singapore Cantonese Rat Can Worker^ Benevolent Union, raising the workers' wages and recognising the union's right to represent them in future Industrial disputes. The terms of the agreement, effective from
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    Marriages, adoptions —new law
    97 4 Marriages, adoptions new law A BILL to legalise certain forms of customary marriages and adoptions so that wives and children to whom it is applicable might be eligible for Federal citizenship and State nationality is being considered by the Federal Government. The Jotaore States Nationality BUI, to be Introduced won
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    WE WANT HIGHER PAY NOW, SAY 1,800
    238 4 WE WANT HIGHER PAY NOW, SAY 1,800 riE Singapore Government and Municipal Labour Union, with more than 1.800 members, will petition the Government and Municipal Commission for an immediate wage increase for dailypaid workers. The union is to call a meeting ol all Singapore unions to discuss Government's decision not
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    More purges forecast
    149 4 rpHE present purge la China JL by the Mao Tie-tung regime is a forerunner of more intensified parses »t a later date. Mr. Blot Watrous forecast In a talk, H TU» Is Communism" over Radio Malaya last night. The terror in China ha* a special importance for
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    DEPUTY A.D.O. DIES
    43 4 From Oar Staff Correspondent. IPOH. Wed. Raja ZahM bin Raja WaUd, aged 42, Deputy A.D.0., Batu Gajah. for the last three years, died this morning at the Batu Gajah Hospital. He leaves behind his wife. three sons and two daughters.
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    HELPED BANDITS: EIGHT YEARS
    102 4 From Oar Own Correspou*ent. RAUB. Wed. LIEW Onn Fan, a bandit agent, was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment by Mr Justice Grant at thr Raiib Assizes fur possession of terrorist documents. Liew was arrested on Feb. 25, this year from an ambush «et by the police
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    BISHOP DENIES REPORTS ON MISSIONS
    411 5 No 'starvation salaries DISHOP Raymond L. Archer, head of the Methodist Mission in Malaya, yesterday denied allegations in the Press that the various Christian missions in this country are managing private schools for the purpose of "making as much profit in the shortest time possible."
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    Blackout ban tor security
    88 5 FOR security reasons, it it not advisable to warn the public in advance of areas to be affected by blackouts, the Municipal Electrical Engineer has told the Singapore Ratepayers' Association. There were 89 vacant premises in Singapore at the end of February, in~ eluding 36 flats
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    Taxi-men ask for 20,000 'co-op' shares
    141 5 Taxi-men ask for 20,000 'co-op' shares WITHIN a few days of deciding to start a cooperative undertaking to deal in motor spare parts, fuel and motor insurance. Singapore taxi owners have applied to take out more than 20.000 shares. The decision to start the business was taken at the annual
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    BAIL OF $10,000
    31 5 Bail of $10,000 until May 21 was granted in Singapore yesterday to Fong Shark Koon, who claimed trial to a charge of having 19i lb. ot raw opium.
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    Q.E.A. CHAIRMAN HERE FROM H.K.
    47 5 Mr. W. Hudson Fysh. chairman and managing director of Qantas Empire Airways, arrived in Singapore last night by air from Hong Kong. Mr. Fysh. who was met by Qantas' manager in Singapore Cap. L. R. Ambrose, will leave for Sydney on Friday.
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    THESEUS DUE TO CALL
    130 5 THESEUS DUE TO CALL rE aircraft carrier H.M.S. Theseus will arrive in the Singapore Naval Base on Friday morning on her way to Britain from operations off Korea. She will be met by ViceAdmiral Sir Guy H. E. Russell, Commander -in Chief. Far Eastern Station, and will be welcomed by
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    THE TAPPER WITH THE WATCHES
    46 5 From Oar Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. Zainal Abdin bin Md. Shariff. a rubber tapper, of Teluk Anson. was fined $250 at Johore Bahru for fraudulent evasion of $32 Customs duty on six wrist watches worth 5216. The watches were confiscated.
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    UMNO's 'open door' vital to peace
    243 5 ITMNO's step to open its doors to non-Malays is vital and most beneficial to the peace, progress and security of Malaya, says Suara UMNO, official organ of the United Malays National Organisation, >in its May issue. Suara UMNO said there was no place for
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    Good careers in R.A.F. (Malaya)
    180 5 DLAXS about to be adopted will make the RAF (Malaya) and the RAF. Regiment (Malaya) as good a career for local men as any that industry can provide, Air Vice-Marshal H. L. Patch said at a parade at Changi airfield yesterday. The Air Vice-Marshal, wbo
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    PLANTER CLEARED
    39 5 Edward Martin Stewart, a Johore planter, was acquitted by the Singapore First District Judge, Mr, H. E. Kingdon, yesterday, on a charge of refusing to produce his Identity card to a police officer at Dunearn Road, Singapore.
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    C.W.G. FOR SULTAN
    42 5 THE SULTAN OF BRUNEI who has been made an Honorary Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. The 33-year-old Sultan succeeded his brother as Sultan last June and is due to be crowned later this month.
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    IMMIGRATION MAN CLEARED
    58 5 A Singapore Immigration officer. Teoh Khoon Inn. who was sentenced to six months' imprisonment on two charges of corruption, won his appeal in the High Court yesterday. The D.P.P., Mr. E. P. Shanks, told the Acting Chief Justice. Mr. Justice Brown, that he would not support the
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    Johore Bill to 'build nation'
    276 5 From Our Own Correspondent. JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. THE Government of Johore has gazetted a Bill designed to give State nationality to subjects of the Sultan. "This Bill is one more step forward in the task of building into one nation all persons who regard this
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    WOMAN GOES ON WAITING IN GAOL
    87 5 From Our Own Correspondent. JOHORE BAHRU, Wed When the case against Wong Ha, a woman, who Is charged with returning to Malaya after having been deported under the Emergency Regulations, wa.s mentioned ln at Johore Bahru today another postponement was asked for by the
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    LOTTERY: GIRL, 16 FINED $50
    61 5 Tay Ah Char, a girl, aged 16, and Poon Wing Kow. aged 18, were each fined $50 in Singapore yesterday for helping to manage a chap-Jl-kee lottery at Lorong Lalat. One- third of the fines would go .to the informer and $14 seized in the
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    $2,000 FOR SATA
    15 5 The Singapore Anti-Tuber-culosis Association has received $2,000 from the General Electric Company.
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    HAWKER DISPUTE GOES ON AND ON
    149 5 TT is six months since the Singapore Hawkers' 1 Inquiry Commission released its findings, but the Colony Government and the Municipality have stttl not agreed on hawker policy. Government has said that the nature of conrtol to be exercised over hawkers is a matter
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    DOCKS WELL RUN, SAYS VISITOR
    162 5 F'E Singapore Harbour Board i B well run in snite Hoard is wen run in spue of the natural disadvantages or the dock area Dr N S Ginsburg. who 'is touring South East Asia studying the geographic pattern of trade and shipping since the war.
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    The STraits Times Singapore, Thur., May 3, 1951. Return To Malaya
    612 6 A wise concession to Chines üblic opinion has been mad< y the Malayan Government 1 their joint anncuncemen lis week that persons holdinj ertificates of admission wh< >ft this country for visit; > China before the regulatioi squiring a
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    The Nooks and Crevices
    439 6 I The Colonial Secretary's iteraent yesterday on the curtailment of the Education Department's building programme is a welcome change in spirit from the somewhat uncompromising tone of his speech in the Legislative Council. Mr. Blythe was quite fairly reported He said that the Government had decided
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    MacA refuted
    61 6 The chief U.S delegate to the United Nations denied in a speech yesterday General Mac Arthur's charge that United Nations forces are fighting in a "political vacuum." Mr. Warren Austin insisted that United Nations policy is "clear, positive and consistent." He warned the tree world against being panicked
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      397 6 'SPREAD THE TRUTH' "PLANTER'S Wife," writing in last Saturday'a Forum, la right we do practically nothing to spread and explain the troth of what la being none In Malaya by the Communist bandits. On Saturday evening two announcers took it to turn to utter milk-and-watery sentences to ftiglish over the
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      Sheltered youths
      222 6 J READ with interest that, at last Thursday's meeting: of the Legislative Council in Kuala Lumpur, an assurance was sought that youths directed for service under the Manpower Regulations would not be directed to active combat duties. A reference was made to the sheltered lives led by the
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      A STATE LOTTERY FOR SCHOOLS?
      138 6 A STATE LOTTERY FOR SCHOOLS? gINCE the Government cf Singapore is Incapable of proceeding with Its housing and educational plans, I beliere tne time is ripe for it to seek financial aid from the nubile by introducing a State lottery. I sincerely hope that Mr. Mallal will again table a
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      Inflation cycles and bicycles
      246 6 Inflation cycles and bicycles A RESPONSIBLE Gov- ernment officer apparently feels satisfied, in answering his critics, ;hat the increased import duties on bicycles will lessen the purchasing power of the public and curb inflation. As a student of economics I am afraid his view i« not quite correct. The Increase
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      REQUEST TO THE PROGRESSIVES
      101 6 *HE Progressive Party mm I In the Legislative Counc 0 reduce the Councillor llowance by half Is greatl elcomed by taxpayers 1 Tjuld be greatly appreciate y the people of Singapore tie Progressive Councilloi ould consent to serve a onorary members of ou eglslative Council. Th
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    768 6 AFTER reading a A Straits Times editorial comment last Saturday that the gratuity scheme for labourers on retirement from the Municipal service was "none too satisfactory", I made inquiries to find out what was wrong. What I have found is going to shock a good many
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    463 6 Wa' Dollah's House TODAY I would like to toll you more about my Sunday with Tuan DJek. When I arrived at the Dusun I found that there was one thing which Tuan Djelc' wanted to show me partic-, ularly, and that was the fine, large house which
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    SCHOOL PLAN IS NOT OFF-BLYTHE
    666 7 Wo intention to use vote for squaring Budget fHE Five-Year Singapore Education Plan had not been abandoned, declared the Officer Administering the Government, Mr. W. L. Blythe, when he opened the 10th Inter-School Art Exhibition at the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday. Mr. Blythe said that
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    68 7 'JU lOK NKRAI. D. DUNLOP. G.0.C., Singapore District, inspects thr Guard of Honour, mostly Malays, on his arrival to lay the foundation stone of new barracks for the Singapore District Signals Regiment. The officer in charge, accompanying the General, is Lieut. IT.l T Ryan. .RIGHT: With a silver trowel, presented
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    CHECKERS SELECTED
    177 7 CHECKERS SELEC TED J^ Z3 YEAR OLD woman is the first -deputy registering officer to be selected to carry oat a house to house check to bring the Singapore ejeetoral registers for the Legislative and Municipal elections up to date. She is Miss Juliana Leong, a clerk in the Foreign
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    'fear sack over union'
    154 7 SINGAPORE shop assistants will this month form a committee which will make arrangements for a shop assistants' union. Mr Pete; M. Williams, the organiser told the Straits Times yesterday that the delay in the formation of the union was due to empQoyers. who formed a stumbling
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    BARRACKS STONE LAID BY DUNLOP
    220 7 ACQUITTED ]tf AJ.-GEN. D. Dunlop, G.O.C-, Singapore District, yesterday laid the foundation stone of new barracks for the Singapore District Signals Regiment at Pasir Panjang. Toon Kan Yam was acquitted in Singapore yesterday on a charge of causing hurt to Tan Tai Chua, with an
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    Yale Prof, arrives
    95 7 MR. Karl S. Pelzer, Professor of Geography at Yale University, who advised the Philippine Government on the problems of 'and settlement, is now in Singapore on a brief visit which will Include the Federation. He told the Straits Times last night that he would not be seeing
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    Ration card stocks 'out'
    44 7 FE Singapore Food Control Department has Issued about 200,000 new ration cards to rice retailers as replacements. The supply of new cards has run out and the Department is waiting for^more to b P printed to send out to retailers.
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    HIT LAMP POST
    24 7 SEGAMAT. Wed—A Chinese van driver, 30-jear-old Lam bock Seng, was fined $40 at Segamat for negligent driving. He was alleged to
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    39 S.I.T. TENANTS SEND PETITION
    84 7 rIRTY-MNE tenants of S.I.T. flats have sent in a Joint petition to the chairman of the S.I.T. asking for a reason for the quit notices sent to them by the Trust this week. Their petition states: "We have received from the Estates Officer notices to
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    K.L. EXPECTS FEW VOTERS
    79 7 fhw Or SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The Kuala Lumpur Municipal electoral roll is expected to be very small compared with those of Penang, Malacca and Singapore due to the citizenship qualification for voters. Considerably fewer than 5,000 people in Kuala Lumpur have taken out certificates
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    HER BOYS WON V.C. AND G.M.
    272 7 MR. and Mrs. Edwin Gunter, of Twickenham, England, adopted two baby boys. One grew up to win a V.C. The other is a Malayan police lieutenant who was recently awarded the George Medal. He is Police Lieutenant Geoffrey Oliver Hartley, of Pekan, Pahang. One
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    JOHORE COUNCILLOR DIES AT KLUANG
    197 7 I\ATO Teoh Siew Khor, member of the Johore 17 State Council, died this afternoon at Kluang following a short illness. A philanthropist, landowner and contractor the late Mr. Teoh Siew Khor was the first Chinese' in Klnans to be honoured with the title of Dafco
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    MR. DELILKAN WILL NOW CABLE
    118 7 jtfß. Alwyn E. Delilkan. former textUes examination officer employed by the Economic Affairs Department in Singapore, who put through a long-distance call to the Secretary Of State 'or the earty last month will send a cable to Mr. Griffiths on Saturday because he has had
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    4 Waved Jap sword, 40 rioters fled'
    207 7 THE secretary of the Tanglin Club, Mr. A. H. D. Willis, said in Singapore Assizes yesterday that by brandishing a Japanese sword he dispersed 40 rioters who attacked him in Dunearn Road. A telegraph messenger, Abdul Waned bin Kudus, was charged with rioting
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    CUSTOMS RAID CAR BRINGS 53,650
    33 7 SINGAPORE police yesterday auctioned an unclaimed ear for $3,650 at Beach Road ponce station. The car was seized during a Customs opium haul Id Moantbatten Road la«t year.
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    OBSTRUCTION-$35
    24 7 From Our Own erreapondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.--For causing an obstruction with a lorry, Lim Eng Soon, was fined $35 at Johore Bahiu today.
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    Straits Chinese voters drive
    133 7 Straits Chinese voters drive CINGAPORES Super. viser of Elections, Mr/ O. G. Thomson, who is also Public Relations Secretary, has offered to help the Straits Chinese British Association to register more voters Mr. Thomson will most members of the nine subcommittees which the Association plans for each of the electoral
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    Round-trip fares cut
    85 7 DAN American World Airways and the American Presi-, dent Lines announced last night that they had aarrrd to slice all round-trip combination air and sea fares by 10 per cent. The new fare* will become effective en May 15. Previously, a passenger travelling both by Pan-America and
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    POAS RAISES FARES
    48 7 Pacific Overseas Airlines (Siam) announced In Singapore yesterday that It was raising its fares and freight rates by nearly 15 per cent. The single fare to Bangkok, previously $160, will now be $185, and the fare to Hone Kong, which was $300, will be $320.
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    100 RIOT CLAIMS APPROVED
    38 7 Nearly 100 claims for compensation arising out of the Singapore December riots havft been approved. Payments so far exceed $60,000. The compensation tribunal Is nearing the end of Its work of examining 200 claims.
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    more join price Fight
    268 8 Traders promise help to S 'pore consumers THE Chambers of Commerce, wholesale dealers, retail shops and market stallholders, have agreed to help the Singapore Consumers' Association in its fight against rising prices, the chairman of the Tanglin branch, Mrs. Robert Eu, said yesterday. How this aid
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    LEISUR CRUISE
    139 8 rIRTY-ONE men and a dor are doing what is probably the most leisurely cruise in modern times from France to Saigon, existing- mainly on biscuits and canned food. To try tbeir diet, the men caich fish from their oceangoing; tug. the Ebene (pictured above) which arrived in Singapore
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    BIBLE LECTURES
    26 8 A Singapore-born preacher, Mr. F. W. Detamore, will give a series of lectures on Bible prophecy at Victoria Memorial Hall. Singapore, beginning ner* Sunday.
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    M.B. visits squatter camp
    213 8 From Our Staff Correspondent. IPOH, Wed. THE Mentrt Besar of Perak, Dato Panglima Bukit Oantang paid his first visit to one of the Federation's biggest, resettlement camps— Sungel Durian, about 25 miles from Ipohn. Accompanied by the Chief Police Officer. Perak, Mr. T. Q. Gaffikin, Mr.
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    LINCOLNS, JETS HIT BANDITS
    205 8 NIGHT air operations against the bandits were increased by the R.A.F. during April, and eight raids upon terrorist objectives were made by Lincoln bombers during the hours of darkness. A review of April air operations in Malaya issued last night said that the day effort was
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    FALSE CLAIMS FOR OVERTIME
    47 8 Lim Kirn Thong, aged 20. pleaded guilty in Singapore yesterday to three charges of cheating Mr. A. R. Lancaster, of Borneo Co., of $199.71, by having him approve false claims for overtime. Sentence was postponed to May 9. Bail of $500 was fixed.
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    TRAP. HE SAYS
    54 8 From Our Own Correspondent. JOHORE BAHRU, WedWorrg Kee. a motor mechanic, of Kulai, convicted at Johore Bahru of carrying a passenger for hire in a private car. said: "I did not know it was a trap". The passenger was a special constable. Wong Kee was fined $150
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    Singapore Diary
    142 8 EDUCATION WEEK: Free film ifcow for schoolchildren. Cathay Cinema. 8.30 a.m.. combined schools art and crafts exhibition; Victoria Memorial Hall. 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., radio talk on "Science and Education", 7.12 p.m. Y.W.C.A.. Raffles Quay, dressmaking, 10 ajn., advanced Malayclass, 5.30 p.m., French class. 5.30 P BRITISH
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    SUICIDE AFTER ROW WITH WOMAN
    67 8 TWO days after he was involved in a fight with a woman. barber, who left his home, wife and five children, was picked out of the sea off Clifford Pier br marine police. This was revealed at an inquest in the Singapore Coroner's Court yesterday
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    Students urged: Do fair share
    81 8 MR. R. G. Scott MacOregor. Professor of Physiology at the University of Malaya, last night said he hoped that University graduates would do their fair share by becoming tutors in the departments after graduation. He was lecturing on physiology at the Faculty of Medicin* Professor
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    HIGHER PAY FOR STORE DYERS
    39 8 Daily-paid employees in nine dyeing houses In Singapore have been given a 15 per cent. Increase, effective from May 1. Cloth-glazing workers have got a 12 per cent, increase, effective from the same date
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    OFFICE MOVES
    25 8 JOHORB BAHRU, Wed. The Immigration Office, Johore Bahru, has been moved from the Central police station to the Government offices on Bukit Timbalam.
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    PRISON VICTIM
    25 8 A 19-year-old Singapore schoolboy, Tan Hong Chiang, was admitted to the General Hospital yesterday sufferine from poisoning. He is in a serious condition.
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    Schools list their odd corners
    58 8 Schools list their odd corners TEN Singapore schools hate already sent to the Education Department details of space in their buildings where more children can be given a schooling. Mr. A. W. Frisby, Director of Education, said yesterday: "We expect all schools to send in returns by the end of
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    MAY TOUR MALAYA
    72 8 Mr S. Karayalal, a member of the Madras Legislative Council, Mr. S. Ramasamy Naldu, former Mayor of Madras, and Mr. T. S. Sockalingam, editor of the Madras daily, Dinasari, are expected to arrive in Singapore by air today from Colombo on their way to Jakarta. The trio
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    SERGEANT GETS SIX MONTHS
    46 8 Sergeant Nairn bin Fardi. of 61 Company, R.A.S.C, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in Singapore yesterday after pleading guilty to stealing five gallons oi petrol from an R.A.S.C. lorry. Neo Yar Keng, who abetted him, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment.
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    CLAIMS TRIAL
    45 8 From Our Own Correspondent. JOHORE BAHRU Wed. Charged at Johore Bahru today with inconsiderate driving at Kulai and grazing a bus. Koh Teng Watt, of Muar. claimed trial. He denied falling to stop after an accident. The hearing was fixed for June 10.
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    21 8 Questions about the Manpower Ordinance will be answered in a broadcast over Radio Malaya at 7.12 p.m. tomorrow.
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    BOY DROWNS
    24 8 While playing near a well in Kampong Potong Pasir, Singapore, yesterday, a four-year-old boy, Ngew Kia Chan. fell inside and was drowned.
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    UNIONS REACH THE BARGAINING STAGE
    83 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. MALAYA'S trade union movement has reached the stage of exercising its real function of building up collective bargaining machinery, said Mr. R. P. H. Caddlck, acting trade union adviser, Malaya, tat his re- 1951. "The tempo of the
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    34 9 BASED on the style of «n 1851 bonnet is this natural baku straw hat designed by Jeff, and shown in London. It is trimmed with a full blown rose and pink and black crinoline.
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    370 9 j -1 Asian Cookery j ESTHER CHAN'S IJERE are some more popular ways ,ol cooking those favourites of the Chinese gourmet, prawns, and a delicious way of frying chicken. Fried Prawn* 1 lb fresh prawns 3 tb-sp cooking fat or oil 1 tb-sp sherry 3
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    His Knowing Look May Be A Fluke
    546 9  -  CHAPMAN PINCHER By THOUGH most mothers will deny it, 1 the new-born child has no personality. Psychologists have watched babies from birth, and have recorded every detail of their behaviour They could recognise nothing distinctive about the Infant personalities during the first four
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    Figures will stay the samc.
    212 9  -  Dorothy Roe By IVARS may come and wars may go, but the great American figure will remain under control. Such Is the prediction of Max Kops, President of one of the nation's leading foundation garment manufacturing firms and chairman of the Committee of the Essentiality
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    222 9 PINK and black dotted net covers halt of the halter top of this dinner gown of smooth black crepe. The net pulls through the opposite side of the halter at the waist and cascades with s large loop to the hemline. The dress was designed by
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    118 9 MAGGIE WINS HER BATTLE OF FLOWERS POR 35 years since she was 14— Mrs. Maggie Fielder has sold flowers on a bank .corner at Terminus Road, Eastbourne. One day recently she was there as usual with her basket of flowers when a policeman told her: I don't know what we
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    The King Opens It Today
    301 10 TODAY at noon the A King will stand on the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral and announce the opening of the Festival of Britain. Bells will peal in a thousand, belfries of the United Kingdom, and from that moment to October 1, Britain is expected
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    BACKGROUND TO THE NEW PACIFIC PACT
    975 10  -  Scrutator r By 1 THE defence pact A agreed in principle between the United States, Australia and New Zealand is obviously a development of considerable importance. It is not a Pacific Treaty analogous to the North Atlantic Treaty; it is more the equivalent of
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      114 10 IVAJNfHOE DRAWN RY PF.TF.R lAI KSl>\ rALM WITNESS MMMST KtKCC* NO* CAMC I SAX Mt» fVt Of? I 1 TH[II( HAS lUN L t I i f **V* HAVt WlTNtiitO tOAINST Ml fomamo if I tmc »uu*tt or II tNoum cmocncc ,iL|li/NftV «c iMPossntt. ah. > mavc done lS J
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      282 10 Today's Radio SiHGApORB 10 ajn. News Prom K.L.; 10.10 Close; 1 p.m. Light Music; 1.30 News; 1.45 Duke Ellington Orch.; 2 Close; 6.15 -Festival of Britain"; fi.30 The King opens the Festival; 6.45 Local "FeVval of Britain" celebration: speech by C.-O. etc.; 7 12 Radio Scientist: 7.20 Augmented Radio Orch.;
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    LONDON STOCKS
    315 11 LONDON. Wed. rpHE new account of the X London Stock Exchange started with the markets displaying a quietly confident tendency. Industrials again took the lead aided by some pleasing overnight dividends though business was largely confined to the leading issues. Shipping shares were supported from the provinces and
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    H.K. EXCHANGE RATES
    36 11 HONO KONO Wed. pREE market currency exchange 1 for Hong Kong dollars was quoted at the close today as follows: US$l HKS6.I3 (cash). HK16.17 (T); £1 HK515.65; one tahtl of gold HK»3I9V4— U.P.
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    RUBBER MARKET
    205 11 Turk-over good; close very steady POOD trading featured in the Singapore rubber market yesterday, especially in lower grades, whicb changed hands at G.S.A. prices. The turnover for first-grade, May shipment, was also fair, with business passing at around $1.84 and $1.85 a lb The market closed very steady
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    CANADIAN DOLLAR
    37 11 rpHE Malayan Exchange Banks T Association announced yesterday that control direct rates for Canadian dollars were: Buying T.T. 35 3/16, Airmail (0.D.) 35 5/16, (90 days) 35 9 16; Selling T.T. D.D. ready 34 13/16.
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    TIN $580 A PICUL
    38 11 SINGAPORE, Wed., May 2 —1580 (down $11). £1,140 a ton in London LONDON, Mmy, 2.—Cash Buyers £1,140, Sellers £1,145; Forward Bayers £1,125. Sellers £1,130; Settlement £1,145 (down £30). Turnovers: a.m. 100 tons, p.m. 70.
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    DIVS.: JARDINE MATHESON
    68 11 HONO KONO, Wed. TARDINE Matheson and Company, general managers (or the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, announce that net profit far 1950 totalled £287,495. The directors recommend a dividend of six per «ent on the £1 Cumulative Preferred Ordinary shares, a dividend of 10 per cent on the
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    Takuappa Valley Tin
    26 11 rpAKUAPA Valley Tin Dredging x In April using two dredges, covered 230,000 cubic yards in 1,214 hours to produce 444 piculs of ore.
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    Malayan shares
    207 11 General easing THE Malayan share market .was slightly easier in all sections yesterday. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: INDUSTRIALS 88. PrtroJ. 47 48/6 cbl cd Oammoni 3 15 3.35 cbl Straits Traders IB 25 19 15 cd Union In* 395 00 406.00 cd United
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    Shipping in the Roads and alongside
    194 11 OHIPPS in the Singapore Roads and alongside the Singapore Harbour Board godowns at 4 p.m. yesterday were: Oatrr Roads: Hai Hsuan, Salte 53. Salte 52, Taronga. Loksang, Eastern Queen, Benvenue, Kansai Maru. Aeneas. Abene, Bokor. Clydebank, Mui Ann. Orobaai, Steel Artisan, Sinabang. Malika. TJimenteng.
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    210 11 HPHE Singapore copra market was uncertain yesterday with sellers opening at $52 V* a picul, later coming down to $51 HBuyers held off at $51 and later, when they dropped bids to $50%. sellers lowered prices to $51 i. The market closed quiet Coconut OU quiet and
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    COLONY'S INCLUSION IN CUP HEILPED
    311 12 North fixtures to be suspended From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. OELANGOR Football officials and players today *3 welcomed Singapore's last-minute entry into the Malaya Cup competition and expressed the opinion that "it was a very good thing for soccer".. Singapore's inclusion in the
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    6 Worcester wickets fall to tourists cheaply
    214 12 6 Worcester wickets fall to tourists cheaply LONDON, Wed. rE South African cricket team began their first class programme today at Worcester on a rain-softened pitch and at close had dls missed six of the county batsmen for only 135 runs. Melle t©sk the first wicket of the tour when
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    AMPON AMONG THE LAST FOUR
    75 12 BOURNEMOUTH. Wed.—Felidsimo Ampon, Filipino champion, reached the men's singles semifinal in the British hard courts championship here today. He was leading Vladimir Cernik 6-3 7-5 in the fourth round when the' exiled Ctech player retired. In the doubles yesterday Ong Chew Bee. Malayan champion ano>
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    TRUNA B.P. WIN
    32 12 From Our Own Correspondent. JOHORE BAHRU. Wed.— The Truna Badminton Party of Johore Bahru. beat the Nanyang Badminton Party of Singapore by seven matches to nil at Slneapore yesterday.
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    'Good show' say Colony's Cup veterans
    219 12 a good show" was the unanl- mous opinion of Singapore Malaya Cup veterans at the news that Singapore would almost certinly play in the Cup competition centre-half and Singapore's first non-European captain in 1924. said "I am glad to hear that Singapore will be
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    Tiger S.C. go down to SCC
    184 12 A GOAL scored seven minutes before time gave the Singapore Cricket Club a three-two win over Tiger Sports Club in a friendly soccer match played on the padang yesterday. Tigers, despite scoring both their goals within the first 10 minutes of play found it
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    G.S.C. WIN 16-11
    30 12 A Girls Sports Club team beat a WRAF Changi team by 16 goals to 11 in a game of net ball played on the S.R.C. padang yesterday.
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    MARINE DEPT'S 7 WINS IN ROW
    210 12 MARINE DEPT'S 7 WINS IN ROW jyjARINE Department scored their seventh win in as many matches in the S.A.F.A. Div. 3A League yesterday when they swamped Aston A.C. by eight-one at C.V.M.A. ground. After an uncertain start. Marines se'tled down to score their first goal in the 10th minute through
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    New bid to match sprint champions
    310 12 From EPSOM JEEP PENANG, Wednesday. fHAMPION sprinters Bright Eyes and No Regrets may clash at last in an officially-sponsored match in the very near future. Details of the proposed match will be announced as soon as both stables give the go-ahead signal to the
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    Beaty takes SCRC title
    102 12 From Onr Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. S. C. BEATY, All-India tennis international and winner of the Malayan singles title in 1948 beat Leong Hoe Yeng 6-0, 6-0 in the singles final of the Selangor Chinese R.C. open invitation tournament at Pudu Road this evening. In
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    Rocklites hold off Police attacks
    291 12 DOCKLiTEs scored a welldeserved victory of three goals to two over the Police XI in a Div. 2 soccer fixture at Geylang Stadium yesterday. Rocklltes" forward line combined with perfect understanding, the ball going from one forward lo another with clockwork precision. It was after
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    CHALLENGE TO SANDY SADDLER
    47 12 LONDON, Wed.— London promoters Braitman and Kara, who have >n option on th* services of the new British Empire featherweight champion Roy Ankarah, have cabled Sandy Saddler, US., asking for his terms to defend his world title against Ankarah In London this summer.
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    Kentucky Derby trial
    41 12 LOUISVILLE, Wed— Calumet Farm's Kentucky Derby candidate, Fanfare, won the U5513,875 "Derby Trial" yesterday in a field of 14 three-year-old Derby eliglbles. Bernwood was second, King Clover third. Fanfare's time for the mile was lmln. 36.3/5 sec.— AJ.
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    Sport Diary
    59 12 SOCCBR! Dlv. 1: Chinese Casuals v A.A.A. at Stadium; Dlv. 3 B: 8.0.D.C.A. 'A' v R.N. Barracks at 8.0.D.C.A.; Kat. Sajarab 'A' v HQ. 32 Coy B.A.M.C. at Oeylamjr,- BUSINESS USE. hQM. B: N.T.9. Dundop S.C. at YJI.C..V; Gutbrie S.C. v Ford B.C. at Pans* Park; Victoria School,
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    Piccadilly's Ley On wins the 2000 Guineas
    319 12 NEWMASKET, Wei. If I MING, owned by "Lacks" xv Billy" Ley On, a Chinese restaurant owner in London's West End. won the 2.Ht Guineas today In a Held of 27. Ley On, who 16 months ago struck a bet of £21,0*0 to £22
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    Worcester depend on their veterans
    425 12  -  JIM CHAMBERS English cricket prospects.,.4 Bv LUNUUIN, weanesaay. WORCESTERSHIRE, not one of the fashionable counties, will once again set rolling a tour by an k overseas team when they open their programme against the South Africans today. Every winter the lovely ground on the banks
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    MALAY SIDE v. ALL-INDONESIA
    58 12 A team from the following 18 players will be picked to represent Singapore Malays In the opening fame against the AllIndonesia tonrUU on Saturday: Ostman AngulMa, Arshad Jaafar, Johan, Salleh Bujang, Haji Garhan, Mohd. Yassim, Ads, Ismail Bujang, Harith, Ibrahim Yusoff, Awang Bakar, Ahmat Yusoff, Shariff
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    Referee saves game for Utd. Services XI
    425 12 Refere e saves game for Utd. Services XI A TOO-LITERAL interpretation by the referee of the off-side rule cost Singapore Business Houses XI the goal which would have given them victory over United Services in a game of football played at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. As it was the final
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    Winner with 3 mins left
    129 12 T)OWN one-nil at half-time, Rotterdam S.C. recovered well after resumption to beat Malayan Airways two-one In a Business House League "B" soccer game played at the Police Depot ground yesterday. Airways had much the better of the exchanges in the first half and would have
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    VISITORS' BIG WIN
    34 12 Nearly 1,000 people saw the Manila Black and White basketball team score an easy victory over Singpore Combined Chinese Schools by 67 ponts to 44 at the Happy World last night.
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    SPOTTING THE WINNERS
    431 12 From EPSOM JEEP Jiff V ten best horses to follow at the Penang Turf Club's Summer meeting are: Pegasus: Has made rapid improvement this season, winning twice In four starts. Outpaced Recovery II over 5%-f. and ran Counsel 111 to a length over 6-f. at Penang in
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    Late penalty decides
    66 12 A penalty goal scored five minutes before the end brought a one-nil win to Indian Recreation Club 'A' In their S.AJ.A. Second Division tie against Indonesians 'A' at Farrer Park yesterday. Just when a draw seemed likely Indians were awarded a penalty. Balakrlshnan took the kick. A
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