The Straits Times, 16 June 1951

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  • 19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TV/ELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1951. if PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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  • 352 1 AMERICAN LECTURER TOLD: QUIT SPORE TiR. Norton Ginsburg, an tJ American lecturer on trade and shipping was ordered out of Singapore this week after American authorities had called for his passport. He arrived In London by air yesterday. Dr. Ginsburg left the Cole my o.i instructions started by the American
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  • 37 1 HONG KONG. Fri—Revenue officers here yesterday seized about 4,000 taels of gold valued at more than $1,200,000 aboard the vessel Eastern Queen. Tm Eastern -Queen is due to sail for Singapore this afternoon. Reuter-AAP.
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  • 577 1 All larders to be guarded m new bid to end emergency From Our Staff Correspondent )lAl)ri) mv o KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. (jPLKATION Starvation", part two of the Briggs plan to rid MHaya of its bandit menace, starts tomorrow. Today, sweeping new regulations to control food
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  • 35 1 NO FRONTIERS BERNE, Fri.—M. Max Petit- pierre, chief of the Swiss Political Department said today that Switzerland, despite her traditional policy of neutrality, could not remain indifferent to any effort aimed at creating European solidarity.—Reuter.
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  • 266 1 —GENERAL P^GGS Fr««i Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. npH£ Director of Operations, Lt.-Gen. Sir Harold A Briggs. told the people of the Federation tonight: "The Communists are already hard pressed. By this food control and with your help we can and shall finish
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  • 52 1 rr^HE restricted articles an- nounced m a Government Gazette are: Padi. rice, rice products, tinned goods, flour and flour products, tapioca, cooking oil, cooked food, sugar, salt and concentrated foods. Dried fish, papers, any material or instruments used for printing, typewritine or duplicating, drugs, medicines and other
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  • 177 1 AN R.A.F. Brigand light bomber crashed into the Kranji river about two miles from Tengah, Singapore, yesterday while returning from a training flight. The navigator is missing. The other two crewmen, who escaped from the overturned aircraft as it lay in low water, were picked
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  • 76 1 TOKYO, Fri. tank patrols advanced six miles on the westcentral Korean front today, meeting little opposition. But m the east. Communist forces fought back fiercely. Armoured cole-Tins found the "iron triangle" practically dessr.^d. American trcops at dawn today under a heavy artillery barrage begun an assault on two
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  • 118 1 Committee for rubber pay-out A SIX-MAN committee has been nominated by the Singapore Government to consider compensation for rubber constracts of sale to China, stopped by the ban on shipments imposed on May 22. The chairman will be Singapore's Solicitor-General, Mr. C. H. Butterfle'.d. while the Federation representative will be
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  • 38 1 LONDON, Fri— Mr. Christopher Mayhew, a former Under-Secretarjr m the Foreign Office, yesterday retained for the Labour Party the Parliamentary seat vacated by the death of the former Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin. Reuter.
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  • 143 1 TEHERAN, Friday. PERSIA is to advertise "oil for sale" for any currency. The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company delegation was today considering Persia's ultimatum: "Give us 75 per cent of the oil revenue or we cannot negotiate." i But Taher Zial. Consultant to the Nationalisation Group,
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  • 84 1 LONDON, Fri. A GOVERNMENT officia, has been ordered to answer a charge against him under the Official Secrets Act, 1911, it was disclosed today. He will appear at Bow Street Police Court on July 11. His name has not been disclosed. The summons alleged that he
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  • 325 1 Missing girls: teachers freed A CHINESE schoolr% mistress, her husband, a former teacher, and another schoolmistress, detained by the Singapore Special Branch on Wednesday and Thursday m connection with the missing Chinese g rl students, were released yesterday. Six of the girls were taken off the Dutch ship Tjiwangi by
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  • 327 2 'Violent row over Formosa, Jap Peace treaty' WASffINGTON, Friday. MR. Louis Johnson, former U.S. Secretary of Defence, yesterday told Senators inquiring into Gen. Mac Arthur's dismissal that he and Mr. Dean Acnesnn. Secretary of State, had a "really violent irauim.iit over the strategic importance of Formo<; i and on terms
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  • 23 2 MANILA, Fri. One hundred and seventy-seven PhiliDpine veterans of th? Korean war pot a rousine welcome home this morninf n Manila. UP.
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  • 51 2 M::. ROBERT A. Vogeler, the American business man who was freed after 17 months m a Budapest prison, m a speech at the Press Club. Washington, repudiates as rubbish the "confession" of sabotage and spying which Hungarian secret police forced from him during his detention. A.P.
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  • 213 2 NEW YORK, Friday. MR. David E. Lilienthal, former Atomic Energy Commissioner, m a magazine article, said that the democratic world was on the voyage of losing the support of India and that if that happened "all h<r?« fr»r us on the continent of Asia
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  • 56 2 HONG KONG, Fri. Canton police are earryinß out a campaign to wipe out gambling houses and opium divans. according to a Chinese report. More than 300 police raided establishments m the suburbs of Canton on June 2. They arrested about 40 men for gambling and
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  • 73 2 COLOMBO. Fri. RUBBER dealers here, with orders for Communist China, are trying to charter a Pakistani ship to carry their goods to Red ports. Denied the British and Australian vessels they once used because of the embargo on rubber shipments to China, they contacted agents
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  • 92 2 LONDON, Fri ALBANIA nas protesieo against frontier violations by Yugoslavia, Italy and Greece, Moscow radio said yesterday. Yugoslavia Is charged with nine violations of Albanian 'and, sea and air frontiers. Italy with six and Greece witn 24. Moscow radio said that on*' Yugoslav was killed and another
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  • 147 2 NEW DELHI, Pri. lINLESS Communist China is represented m the peace settlement with Japan there will be no solution to the Far Eastern problem. Indian officials said today when asked about India's views on the current negotiations between the United States and
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  • 67 3 TtVO THOUSAND members of the Girls' Training Corps, the Women's Junior Air Corps and the Girls' Nautical Training Corps held their first Joint national parade on Hor.se Guards Parade. London, on June 10. St.' John Ambulance men here carry off two of the 80 that fainted. A
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  • 314 3 JAKARTA, Friday. JJKSI'ITE the tense political atmosphere m Indonesia following the resignation of the Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Yamin, yesterday, the seven-week-old Government of the Prime Minister, Dr. Soekiman, today won a vote of confidence by 119 against 30 votes. Seventy-two Parliament Members
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  • 49 3 PARIS, Fri.— France yesterday protested against the interference by Russian controlled radio stations m Eastern Euror>e m the French general elections due on Sunday A Foreign Ministry spokesman said that Moscow Prague, Warsaw and Budapest radios have been working hard for the Communist*. A. P.
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  • 39 3 nr/iQinxxwiujN, n President Truman said yesterday that only the hardest, toughest kind of controls would Keep prices front going through the roof. He wants the existing contiol law, which expires m itoJKSlap* extended for
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  • 75 3 HONG KONG. Fri. A GOVERNMENT order pubJ\ lished today prohibited access to the area situated immediately south of the Sino-British border to all civilians. This measure is aimed at preventing smuggling and at helping police control criminals. Only people with special passes can enter the area
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  • 68 3 MANILA, Fri. THE newly appointed Philippines Consul to Singapore, Mr. Yusup Abubaker m a speech last night, said he will "protect" Philippines interests m Malaya as well as m Brunei, Sarawak and British Borneo. President Quirino, after a trip through Southern Philippines recently during which he stopped
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  • 82 3 West asks for Big 4 talks PARIS, Frl. THE Western Powers today proposed to Russia a meeting of the Big Four Foreign Ministers without any further discussions on the agenda bftween the Ministers' deputies. Thp proposal was contained m note handed to Mr. Andrei Gromyko at today's n*eting of the
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  • 57 3 LONDON. Fri. Jhe Big Three Western powers have aereed to offer Yugoslavia an •ntrisht grant of about US 5 150.000.000 to bolster MarBha] Tito m his fight with the C "i inform. Tho United States wili supp1"p 1 phout two-thirds of the total Britain about
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  • 65 3 ROME. Fri. —Police intervened early today to disperse an angry crowd booing actress, Ingjid Bergman, and her husband, Roberto Rosselli:ii. at a restaurant. Miss Bergman was wearing a low-cut dress, and was recognised by passersby, who gi f hered on the pavement wi;h comments. Rossellini got angry
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  • 41 3 WASHINGTON. Frl rue US. Navy yesterday said 26 men were killed and seven wounded aboard the destroyer Walke as a result of an underwater explosion presumabr. a floating mine, off the c i. eottt of Korea on TuesU.P
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  • 73 3 LONDON, Fri. JOAN Fontaine said yesterday that she is not having romance with Prince Aly Khan nor is he even her favourite escort. "In this case," said the blonde Hollywood actress, "you have got to accentuate the negative. 1 have not been a close friend of
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  • 116 3 NICOSIA. Fri. A X.L.M. Airways Skymaster carrying a full load of zoo animals including birds and monkeys landed here from Karachi yesterday on its way to Amsterdam. Some birds died during the journey owing to heat. The animals came from Bangkok and are on their
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  • 211 3 LONDON Friday DRITAIN devoted over £1,000,000 last year to developing agriculture, research, education and welfare m her colonies, the Government announced today. In South-East Asia, the biggest single item of expenditure, was f325,000 on expansion of the geological survey department Another major Item was
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  • 121 3 NEW YORK, Fri. RUSSIA lost another bid yesterday to undermine Nationalist China's United Nations membership and Britain again showed its policy is hardening against the Chinese Reds by voting with the majority. The issue came up when the chairman of the Trusteeship Council, Britain's Sir Alan
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  • 27 3 BUENOS AIRES. Fri.— The Argentine government yesterday ordered the newspapers La Naclon and La Prensa to pay customs duties on newsprint imported since 1939.—
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  • 134 3 LONDON, Friday. OIR Hartley Shawcross, Board of Trade President warned British firms today against trying to get round controls forbidding export of heavy duty (truck) tyres to the Far East. All tyres of a nominal cross section of seven inches or more need a licence
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  • 66 3 MANILA, Fri.— The purchase of large estates for resale to tenants has been halted by the Government's financial difficulties, President Quirino said last night. He disclosed this while greeting a group of tenant farmers from Pampanga, who went to Malacanan Palace to complain that landlords are insisting
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  • 63 3 SAN FRANCISCO,. Fri. lIS. District Judge, Mr. Ed- ward P. Murphy, yesterday issued warrants of detention against 1,000 bottles of penicillin mailed to Hong Kong by five New York Chinese. The shipment was sent m violation of the export control laws, which Assistant U.S. Attorney, Mr.
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  • 39 3 WASHINGTON, Fri— The American Junior Red Cross is sending $160,000 worth of clothing, toilet articles and school supplies to the thousands of Tukish refugee children forced to return to their homeland from Bulgaria.— U.P.
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  • 226 3 Allies hope to get Russia in pact LONDON, Fri. HPHE Foreign Office an- nounced yesterday that Britain and the United States have reached full agreement m talks on a draft peace treaty for Japan. Both hoped that Russia would sign the proposed treaty. The announcement came shortly after President Truman's
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  • 86 3 CALCUTTA, Fri. A BOUT 8,000 people were made homeless m northeast Assam when four rivers overflowed, submerging more than 60 villages, it was learned today. On the north bank of the Dehing River, which meets the Brahmaputra, 30 miles below the town of Dibragarsh, 40 square miles
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  • 108 3 HONG KONG, Fri. 'pHREE armed men walked into a jewellery shop yesterday, held up the salesman and left with $50,000 worth of jewellery. The shop was m the heart of the city. A fourth man 'stood guard at the entrance. The salesman reported to the police that
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  • 36 3 LONDON, Fri. The Home Secretary, Mr. Chuter Ede, disclosed m a statement to the House of Commons that two Czechs. Karl Strauss and Antonin Raidl, were deprived of British citizenship yesterday ordered the newspapers.
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  • 35 3 WASHINGTON, Fri.—President Truman said yesterday that he hopes to go back to the farm yard sonic day but, contrary to the desires of some political opponents, he is m no hurry. U.P.
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  • 120 3 CANBERRA, Fri. AUSTRALIA is to send India A £4,200,000 (£3,360,000 sterling) worth of grain, mainly wheat, the External Affairs Minister, Mr. Richard Cpf^v. announced today. The grain will be part of Australia's contribution under the Colombo Plan for aid to South and South-East Asia
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  • 72 3 GROTON. Connecticut. Friday. THE U.S.S. Trigger, a submarine which, it is claimed, will travel faster under water than on the surface, was launched here today. The ship is named after the submarine Trigger which was lost m the Pacific m March, 1945, while on
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  • 183 4 A FRENCH corporal on his way to Korea with a special volunteer contingent of former Maqriyesterday spent his flve hours shore leave m Singapore from the liner Fe'ix Roussel looking: for a Bri tish "Tommy" pal. Six months ago, while returning to France from Indo China,
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  • 364 4 Planters support the industry in protest against Govt. plan From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. PLANTERS have added their voices to the rubber industry's protest against the Government's plan to form a stabilisation fund for rubber as a means of combating inflation. The Incorporated Society of Planters has written
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  • 141 4 Malayans become air engineers THE first Malayans to pass 1 out as fully qualified aircraft maintenance engineers received their licences yesterday from the Chief Engineer of the Department of Civil Aviation, Mr. A. F. W. Andren, at Kallang airport. All seven of them are attached to Malayan airways, S'ngapore and
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  • 72 4 SQUADRON Leader George Charles Winton was acquitted on a charge of corruption In Singapore yesterday when the prosecution withdrew the charge. He was ch?rged with corruptly obtaining air passages, worth $315. from Singapore to Penang for his wife, his two children, and ami<h. The passages were
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  • 99 4 Chong Choon Tin, 27, of St. Michaei's Road, was sentenced to two weeks' imprisonment m Singapore yesterday for cheating Syed Salim bin Mohameri on March 23. It was stated that on May 17, Chong told Syed Salim that he couid get a job for Syed
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  • 30 4 From Our Own Correspondent. JOHORE BAHRU. Fli Four Malay boys' School and one Malay girls' school, m Batu Pahat district, have begun to teach English from Standard Three.
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  • 198 4 TODAY FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN EXHIBITION, U.E. Building. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. film show at 3.30 p.m. V.M.C.A. Orchard Road. Singapore Chess Club, 3 p.m.; Movie Circle 8 p.m. CHINESE YJU.f.A. Selegie Road, body building 4 p.m., music, 4 pjn. basket ball 5 p.m. badminton 5.30 p.m.; Chinese
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  • 42 4 Thirteen Chinese families, made homeless by fire at Upper Chin Chew Street, Singapore, last week, have applied for relief at the Social Welfare Department Many have reported that they had lost belongings identity cards and rice ration cards.
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  • 33 4 Fronr Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. Ungku Hassan bin Omar, who has been .ill m the Johorr Bahru General Hospital for several weeks has resumed duties as District Officer Kluang.
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  • 133 4 A SPECIALLY -chartered Malayan Airways air- craft will leave Singapore today to fly two-and-a-half tons of Singapore Cold Storage supplies to Kota Bahru The genera? manager Singapore Cold Storage, Mr. J. R. McDougall, said it was the first time the firm had chartered a
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  • 57 4 PENANG, Frl. "Penang Chinese barbers have agreed to observe Sunday as a holiday although the Weekly Holiday Ordinance has not yet been enforced In the Settlement. For the first time last Sunday, all Chinese barber shops were closed following the circulation of a notice by the
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  • 14 4 MUAR, Fri.— Abdul Ghanl, 58. was acquitted cf dishonestly retaining a stolen bicycle.
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  • 203 4 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Friday. DATO Onn's announcement on Wednesday that he would break away from UMNO to form the Independence of Malaya Party has caused a serious split m the ranks of Penang UMNO. I "'The majority of members still have faith and
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  • 54 4 LAST year, 19,033 man days were lost by strikes on tstates m the Federation, says the Malayan Planting Industries Employers' Association annual report. Many days also were lost, especially towards the end of the year, by int'rniiaUon by bindits. There was .a si o t.\se of
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  • 50 4 A sum of 510.69. seized In r. rambling raid on a house m Temple Street, was awarded to the Police Reward Fund by the Singapore First Polirp Court Magistrate. Mr. R. G. S. Bell, yesterday. Eleven Chinese arrested m the raid were fined $15 each.
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  • 21 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Frl. Mr. V. L. Smith, Supplies Offlw, Resettlement Scheme. Johore. has gone on long leave
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    20 4 MR. AND MRS. S Somasun 4«rsai who iv-« married recently m Singapore. The brir!? waj ."bo X rr.::v.athi of Rengani.
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  • 96 4 \IR France's last A DakQta has left Kallang for Saigon and tb^ French airline's link with Malaya is brokenthrough bad trade. At Kallang, before the uLcraft left for ealgon, tr. Singapore offlcs t¥-<-'t -<-' «md fati crew i.rat-^s^ Uieit? names on the fuselage as
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  • 189 4 FHE Singapore Overseas 1 Chinese Importers' and Exporters' Association yesterday decided to take legal action against local shipping companies over loss of goods sent to Indonesia. The association will collect evidence from members who have complained of losses. Members said yesterday that local negotiations with
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  • 214 4 THE market has been very quiet during the past week and at times, dull and featureless, says Lewis and Peat's market report, issued yesterday. Good enquiries were received from U.K./Continent for offgrades but the G.S.A. prices have remained unchanged since last week with no transactions recorded. However,
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  • 110 4 gINGAPORE Hindus will meet m the Victoria Memorial Hall m the first week of July, to explore methods to promote Hindu culture m the Colony. The meeting will be organised by the Singapore Hindu Association. The meeting will also discuss .a proposed request to the Colony Government
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  • 31 4 Mr. G. W. Dayis, Singapore's Commissioner for Labour, leaves for Britain today on long leave. Mr. C. W. Lyle. Deputy Commissioner for Labour, will act for Mr. Davis.
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  • 25 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. Abdul Rahman bin Samad accused of voluntarily causing hurt to Kassim bin Puteb with fire, was allowed bail v $100.
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  • 21 4 TELUK ANSON, Frl. Fines ranging from $75 to $250 we:? impqjM on nine lorry drivers ror carryin:: excess weight
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  • 201 5 Riots: first death verdict A PARTNER In a Muslim restaurant, A, K. S. Othman Ghani, was yesterday sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Spenser Wilkinson, m the Singapore Assizes, for murdering Corporal Hugh Peter Bell of the R.A.F., during the December riots. A unanimous verdict was given by a jury
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  • 57 5 From Ok Staff C«rresp«a4eat. MALACCA, Fri. —Mr 3. Shunmugatn was elected Chairman Mr M. P. Gopa! Rajah, secretary and Mr. C. F. Gomes, treasurer of the newly formed Malacca Progressive Party. Messrs. S. Shunmugam. C.F Gomes. Ec Yew Kirn, A. Acton end P.CM.G. Mahindasa were empowered to draft
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  • 254 5 Urgent meeting will try to stop blackouts PA YNEBACK-TO A CUT J'HE special electricity committee of Singapore Municipal Commissioners will meet to-day or Monday to decide on urgent measures to alleviate blackouts m the Colony. The Labour Party Commissioner, Mr. M P. D. Nair (South Ward), who has called the
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    38 5 The French Consul General m Singapore, Monsieur A. Gulbaut. was on board the French liner Felix Roussell, to welcome his wife and five-year old son Daniel, on their return from France. With them is their French speaking amah.
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  • 132 5 Hurry— say teachers •J^HE Singapore Teachers Union will hold an extraordinary general meeting soon to discuss the Colony Government's delay m implementing the proposed unified scheme for teachers. A spokesman of the union told the Straits Times yesterday that the delay is causing anxiety to Singapore teachers m general. He
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  • 185 5 Blackout areas T*HE sub-statioM UaMe to load 1 shedding during dayliftit today are: Nanson Road, lam Soon Oil Mill, Guan Hln Oil Mill, United Engineers Network, Killiney Road, River Valley Road, Armenian Street Static, Capitol, Albert Street, New Ice Works, Chartered Bank, George Street Static, Upper Cross Street, Pagoda Street,
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  • 133 5 A detective, Tay Soon Huat, said m the Singapore Assizes yesterday that he removed four rounds of pistol ammunition from a "suspicious 1 character" after struggling with him, m Upper Serangoon. In the dock charged with unlawful possession of the ammunition was a young Chinese, Neo
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  • 31 5 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Fri.— The Yen Bikhu Narada Thero will give lectures on Buddhism at the Cheng Hoon Teng Temple tomorrow and Sunday at 8 p.m.
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  • 93 5 U.S. FREES CARBON BLACK From Our Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A CRITICAL supply position which would have halted local manufacture of jungle boots, dredge lines, general rubber products and the retreading of motorcar tyres has been relieved. Last December the United States restricted the export of strategic materials— in
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  • 26 5 TAIPINO, Fri. Pleading guilty to carrying a small boy on the petrol tank of his motorcycle, Tang Ec was fined $20 In Taiping.
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  • 413 5 T AST year had been a year of "unprecedented trade expansion" for Malaya, said Mr. Lee Ko Chian, chairman of the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Ltd., at its 14th annual meeting on Thursday. He stated that total exports Increased from $1,677 million for 1949 to $3,956 million for
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  • 165 5 'Mushroom dealers' will be hit 'J'HE Singapore Government's new control of supplies and distribution of scarce building materials will definitely wipe out unscrupulous hoarders and "mushroom dealers" who have been creating artificial shortages and raising prices. This was the opinion of leading civil engineers and contractors when commenting on the
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  • 31 5 Teo Seng Tin aged 28, was fined $40 m Singapore yesterday for offering a $1 bribe to a police constable and $5 for failing to produce his. identity card.
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  • 52 5 From Oar Staff Corespondent. PENANG, Fri. To help check inflation, the Penang branch of the Bank of China has launched a savft,i< campaign. A special deposit account can be opened In tiie bank with an initial deposit of $50 I n t erest will be two
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  • 38 5 Prom Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Fri.-^Segamat District has been declared a prohibited area for the movement of food. No foodstuffs may be transported outside the town board area by lorry unless escorted by police or military.
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  • 246 5 Woman appointed protest sought A SECTION of the members of the Singapore Municipal Employees Thrift and Loan Society is trying to call an extraordinary general meeting to protest against the recent appointment of Miss Margaret Baker as secretary of the Society's com- mittee of management. Miss Baker, aged 27. Municipal
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    • 137 5 29. An officer shoulders thia wi <7>. 30. Process of recovery after nets (13>DOWN. 2- Pops ode <anaB) <7> 3- "T^*l strain it had dying ("Twelfth Night.') 4. An angel gets upset In Asia "inwmm. S. As 2 to this (4). 7. American marsupial (7) 8. A speechless 7 seaman
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  • 64 6 MR. MRS. JOSEPH CHEN thinks nil relatives and -friend? •for their kind assistance, good wishes and valuable present* extend) d to them on the occasion cf IhHr wedding. THE CHILDREN of the late Mrs. Vonp Swee Sung (nee Ng Toh Kali) wish to thank all friir.ds and relatives for
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  • 32 6 IN M EMORI AM CONSTANT AND TREASURED memory of A. E. Walker. (WaUJ> Klphll Estate Bungei Siput Per^k Also remembered J. M. AllUcn »nd I. Christian Phin Soon Estate Buri^ei Siput. 16.6.48.
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  • 20 6 PJ.EASE will photographer who look pictures at Dutch Club on <Juerns Birthday on 30th April, contact Mr Nooy, X.P.M.
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  • 11 6 LOST MONDAY two dre»es. Beremban. Please return Paul. Cold S'orage.
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  • 919 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Sat., June 16, 1951. The Malay Chair Although the Malay race m most parts of the Malay Peninsula today is faced with the grim and direct challenge of an alien enemy, and is also preoccupied with peaceful but nonetheless disturbing problems of political give-and take, it
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    69 6 The Klang River, with t).t dam m Hie foreground vyhich It adjacent to Tie «reat new power sa.icn new being built fcr the Central Electricity Board ot the Federate with a loan t.om the Colonel Development Corporation. Thit dam' is necessary m order to lay Hie foundations of a building
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  • 191 6 Fifty years AgoTHE SENSITIVE PLANT (From the Straits Times of June 9-15, 1901.) rE Raja of Sarawak has issued the following notification to the inhabitants of. his capital: "Owners and occupiers of land m Kuching are requested to keep as far as they are able to do so the Sensitive
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    • 493 6 Swettenham Klang Strait I WOULD refer to your 1 leader of June 7 ("Swettenham's Future") and would wish to express my strong igreement with ths conclusion reached by Mr. Allen, that, before proceeding with the Klang Strait proposal, every effort should be made to improve the existing port. The area
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    • 419 6 THERE is one part of the I Allen Report as regards Malacca which has not, I feel, had the attention it deserves though maybe this is because those most affected by it have not yet had time to make their replies. This is where the report refers
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    • 218 6 S.H.B.: Private Enterprise TN paragraph 28 of the 'Report on the Major Ports of Malaya" Mr. D.F. Alien states that the successful development of the Singapore Harbour Board has been 'due entirely to the enterprise of a nationalised corporation". He repeated this statement m his broadcast over Radio Malaya on
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  • 862 6 URS. Cecil Street and 1 often pass along Neil Road on the well-trodden path to the office, but one late afternoon this week, m that part of Neil Road which slopes down-hill to the Kreta Ayer police station, we saw something which we had never seen m that locality
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    • 608 6 JACKSON: On June l\th. at K.K. Hospital, to RuUi, wife of T B. Jackson, a «on, Michael. TO JEAN, wife of Dr. A. B. O Laing. Kuala Kangaar, adaughter, at Batu Oajah. 13th KING: To Irene, wife of A. A King (Sandy), at Kfndang Kerbs, u Hospital. 14*b June, a
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    • 94 6 Flo youjcHW... V The tiger tt a cr«atur« of Ht« mountain and forest rather than of Hie open land. Thii seem strange for it's black stripe* on a yellow background camouflage Hie tiger excellently In the tall grass of the open. TIGER mcdCeCtiU ptrtbets ENG AUN TONG tiger medical h&u
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  • 239 7 4 bandits go for water three killed From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. THE Singapore-Kuala Lumpur train was again derailed the second time m a week early today at Kluang, Johore. The line was cleared tonight and the service will be resumed tomorrow. Security
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  • 147 7 Emergency talks on Ultimatum CHS executive council of the S ngapore Army Civil Service Union will hold an emer-t.n-y meeting today to take a "momentous decision" on I futon of the Army's 15.030 civilian workers. The meeting will consider a draft memorandum to the Secretary of State for War t,
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  • 262 7 THE majority of the 78 Anglo-Chinese Secondary schoolboys who refused B.C.G. inoculations on Thursday said yesterday that it was all because of school examinations. I Several of the boys had told their teachers that they would be inoculated on the B.C.G. team's next visit next month. They
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  • 63 7 Kalah Lokuge Martin, aged 24, and Lindon bin Sulaiman, aged 21, were yesterday tentatively charged m the Singapore Third Police Court with armed robbery m Tiong Pon Road on June 4. They were alleged to have robbed Low Bee Chang of a watch, valued at
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  • 77 7 J^ total of 28,719 persons put themselves on the Singapore Legislative Council and Municipal electoral rolls as registration closed yesterday evening. Of this figure 16,855 were for the Legislative Council elections. Registration began on April 15. Yesterday about 9,000 application forms were received from people
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  • 26 7 Nearly 100 people attended a dinner given by the Jollilads Athletic Association at the Islamic Restaurant last night to commemorate their th'rd anniversary.
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  • 21 7 Ng Chung Seng, aged 58, was cautioned and discharged m Singapore yesterday for faii;->g to produce his identity c
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  • 238 7 NINETEEN people— l 6 adults and three school children lost their lives m 15 road accidents last month. Out of a total of 824 accidents during the month, 224 people were injured, 62 seriously. Among those injured were 45 adult cyclists. 41 adult pedestrians,
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  • 139 7 He thought fall was gun salute WHEN Pang Ec Pang, a 24-year-old Hainanese, fell from the ninth floor of the Cathay Building on the King's birthday, Mr. J. N. Haye thought it was a shot from the 21-gun royal salute. This was told m the Singapore Coroner's Court yesterday at
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  • 230 7 A LTHOUGH Singapore's fresh meat supply has A fallen since 1939 by 10 per cent., demand is appreciably stronger. Prices of fresh meat are nearly six times those m 1939 and are unlikely to fall until more supplies come m. This is stated
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  • 110 7 Six vehicles collide— no-one hurt ANE lorry and five cars were involved m an accident at the junction of Middle Road and Queen Street, Singapore, yesterday afternoon. A car, driven by Mr. Huang Heng Chih, of Kuala Lumpur, and a lorry collided at the junction of Queen Street and Middle
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  • 215 7 THE deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. N. G. A Morris, said yesterday that police would attend the women's wrestling match at the Great World stadium tonight and if anything occurred that was likely to cause trouble they would stop the show immediately. The police, he
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  • 59 7 From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR, Fri. TWO dead bandits proved a big draw at Sungei Patani police station today. Killed last night at Palain Estate, Baling, their bodies wearing jungle creen and puttees were brought to the police station compound and attracted crowds today. The
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  • 70 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. LOONG KEN. a furniture dealer, was fined $180 m the police court for attempting to evade $27.75 Customs duty on a wrist watch. The watch, valued at $185. was confiscated. When tendering four tins of chocolate to
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  • 94 7 PROFESSOR V.B. GreenArmytage, vice-president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, yesterday urged birth control to fight overpopulation. He said that m every 24 hours 60,000 babies were being born m the world and "m our grandchildren's time the earth will be too crowded."
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  • 79 7 Journalists from Hong Kong, the Federation of Malaya, Singapore and Mauritius are now back m London after a tour which took them as far as Aberdeen. Their return to London was marked by a visit to the Houses of Parliament. The party then went on to
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  • 143 7 'p.-.1-; in-, t ship to be built for the P O by the world famous ship builders, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Clydebank, the 9,000 ton cargo-liner Singapore, arrived la the Colony port She is the fifth of the well-known "S" class, trading: between Britain and the Far
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  • 34 7 FORMER FRENCH SABOTEURS and underground fighters of the Maquis, now volunteers for the French battalion m Korea, pictured aboard the Felix Roussell after their arrival m Singapore yesterday. Straits Times picture.
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  • 97 7 MALAYA'S exports to the United States m April reached the $100,000,000 mark as compared with $63,000,000 m April, 1950. The biggest increase was m rubber, to the extent of $73,000,000 and the biggest drop m tin over $28,000,000. Imports from the U.S. .showed an all-round
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  • 64 7 Onjj Tian Hoon of Bajirai Lane, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment m Singapore yesterday for breaking open a case of liquor on a ship m the Singapore Harbour Board on May 12. He was also sentenced to one month's Imprisonment foi catfsing hurt
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  • 173 7 These 100 want to fight again /\NE hundred former saboteurs, Maquis underground fight vis and members of the O.S.S. who parachuted into German-occupied France, passed through Singapore yesterday In a special volunteer contingent of reinforcements for the French Battalion fighting m Korea. Tired of civilian life and eager for a
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  • 84 7 ANE hundred per cent supV port to Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, Nominated Singapore Municipal Commissioner, m his efforts to call a public inquiry into the eviction procedures against 77 Improvement Trust tenants, was sured last night by a spokesman for the tenants. He described as "thoroughly
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  • 34 7 A misadventure verdict was recorded at a Singapore Inquest yesterday on Samsi bin Abdullah, aged 80. a Javanese, who was knocked down by a military lorry m River Valley Road on May 31
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  • 26 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Fri. Ahmat bin Mohd. Zin, accused of lurking house trespass, was acquitted on the prosecution withdrawing the charge.
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  • 26 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Fri.— Ang Hung Tong, found out of doors at Hang Yang Estate during curfew hours, was fined $50.
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  • 1778 8  - This is the Man- who stole the secret of the atom bomb for Soviet Russia. He is THE SIXTH MAN CHAPMAN PINCHER THIS series has been compiled by A TERSE two-page document now being privately circulated by the British security authorities announces that certain information about the mechanism of atomic
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    • 14 8 t\9J AJlf\kir\A\f Kremlin fingers reached right Ufl m UNUA J lnh> the ator* laboratory
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  • 182 9 T\ATO Onn's variations of opinion are truly Protean. Proceeding from a rather narrow stand of Malaya for the Malays, he has gradually extended the limitations on his original policy to embrace an entity and a whole which is claimed to be more representative. This may
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  • 145 9 \ytULE most Malays are now fasting, they have plenty of food for thought. They are asking what will happen If their leader. Dato Onn. leaves UMNO to build the Independence of Malaya Party. Why should the captain of UMNO himself be first to abandon ship? Among the post-war
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  • 151 9 J'NGKU Abdullah bin Omar wrote a letter, published en June 11, against Dato Onn's proposal of an Independence of Malaya Party I am not surprised that such titter opposition has come from a man of royal blood. I should be happy if Un?ku Abdullah
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  • 58 9 MALAYA, instead of facing a graver calamity than Palestine <as predicted by Unsku Abdullah bin Omar) H Dato Onn forms the Independence of Malaya Party, will brcomp more prosperous and peaceful. For proof take the case of Indonesia, which is progressing step by step, day by day, towards
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  • 120 9 £)ATO Onn's seven-year pian for the complete independence of Malaya may have the whole-hearted support of lh th er communities, but the Malays' support is doubtThis is only natural, for it *1 L rO w the Ma lays of their rights but add a hundredfold
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  • 95 9 - IN his lj-column screed about the Radio Weekly on June 4, Mr. Dasaratha Raj has failed to disclose the one thing that the public Is really interested hi that Is what is the nature of Mr. Rajs interest m the firm which railed to get the contract
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  • 75 9 'TLYNDWR," writing of v IMP on Thursday, alleged that Britain is giving freedom to Malaya, and security and happiness to the great masses of people. We who sit m our powerless homes, watching the temperature and the cost of living rise, faced with a water shortage
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    7 9 B£W6 FOUR TO ONE ONH
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  • 320 9 Electricity, water, Gilbert and Sullivan THURSDAY morning's newspapers make wonderful reading as far as our Singapore Municipality is concerned. The Electricity Department cannot provide us with sufficient current for all needs People who have sweated all day without tans or lifts naturally feel like a cold bath when they arrive
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  • 266 9 tit completely beyond the brains of the Singapore government. Municipality and Power Station engineers to devise a system of blacking out individual areas for a period not exceeding one hour at a time? Or is there nothing more m their brains than complete lack of. interest
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  • 229 9 The traffic shooting match WHILE agreeing with TT the principle of checking road offences on the spot expounded by Mr. D. Robertson m his letter of Tuesday, I find his suggested method more than a little difficult to digest. Jeep patrols would only result m more vehicles joining the all-too-frequent
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  • 163 9 TN a report headed "Safety Week Has No Effect," m the Free Press of June 12, the public were given to understand that Mr. Haxworth, the Singapore Traffic Police Chief, thinks that heavier fines and automatic suspension or cancellation of the licences of drivers having two or more
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  • 92 9 T DESIRE to express my very deep gratitude to the European lady and gentleman who rendered first aid and attended to me on Thursday, June 7 (King's Birthday), when I met with a motorcycle accident at Sennett I Road, May God bless them always for the kindness.
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  • 116 9 BRITON" writing m last Saturday's Forum, does not appear to like my use of the word "Britishers" In my letter m the previous Saturday's Forum. I had always understood that Britons were an ancient race who at one time occupied part of what we now know as the
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  • 362 9 EDUCATION AND CHINESE CULTURE iUHAT is this strange commodity called "our culture" that local Chinese pundits are so careful to preserve whenever a major educational reform looms over the Malayan horizon? When Drs. Fenn and Wu were here a short while ago these same pundits were loud m their proclamations
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  • 365 9 MEN, WOMEN, POLYGAMY ALL THAT over the wcild, more females than males are born every year. The male mortality rate is always h iKh er What is to happen to all the surplus women? Are they to be deprived of a full life? Are they to suffer because there are
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  • 246 9 i?»ANON Adams's letter, V published In th e Straits Times on June 12 under the fielding "Integrity", said tnlt with the help of some leaders of business and administration, he had come to the conclusion tHat thirty per cent only of the office workers m Singapore
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  • 314 10 LONDON, Frl. ffffiE London Stock Exchange 1 ended the week on dull note. British Government stocks continued their recent downtrend and this adversely affected sentiment In industrial groups. Small sales ahead of the week-end had undue effect on price* and sharp losses were recorded by market lea ders such
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  • 66 10 CHIPS alongside the Singapore Harbour Board godowns mt 4 p.m. yesterday were: 44 Gorgon, 42-43 Felix Roussel. 40-41 Kola. 38-39 Talthybius, 36-37 Santhia. 33-34 Tawali. 31-32 Steel Rover. 29-30 Benalbannach, 23-24 Benattow. 19-20 Hal Lee. 15-16 Pyrrhus. 13-14 Antllochus. 11-12 C'.ytoneus, 8-9 Glengarry, 6-7 President van Buren. 4-5
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  • 903 10 HIGHER prices attracted sellers m tne industrial section of the Malayan share market yesterday, and the market closed easier. With another sharp fall m the metal price, Tin shares continued to decline Selected Rubbers still enjoyed quiet buying interest. Quotations announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were:
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  • 38 10 SINGAPORE, Fri., June 15—5452.50 (down $2t.) £920 a tow m London LONDON. Jane 14.—Cash Bayers £92«» Sellers £93t, Forward Buyers £SS2i, Sellers £BSS Settlement £92t. (down £M). TurnOTer: ajn. 135, sun. 95 tons.
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  • 171 10 yERY limited business was reported yesterday m the Singapore rubber market, which continued dull and featureless. Lower bids failed to interest sellers. The market closed dull with buyers for first-grade, July shipment at $1.44 a lb. Closing prices yesterday were, per lb.: No. 1 R.S.B. Spot loose buyer*
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  • 62 10 TIN RUBBER CO. INTERIMS m. O-r SUIT I NTKRIM dividends have been de1 dared by the boards ol these 95 ?iJ 3i 101 l payable together July 7. 1951. to sharehoWers rt- >■»«■> Rubber Estate% per cent for the year o lune 30 1951, payable on July 1* ?o shaVeholdersT^istered
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  • 74 10 MUNTOK while pepper seller* pushed up their price to $1000 a plcul In the Singapore produce market yesterday. In spite of continued foreign Inquiries for the commodity, no business was reported. The selling price of Sarawak was quoted at $985 a plcul while Lampong black remained mt $700.
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  • 326 11 Tempest may be closest rival His first win m the country was over s'*f. at Penang Then at Bukit Timah m April he revealed unsuspected quality when he came from a long way back to beat Brunice and Stage Show over 7f. A week later he nearly won his first
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  • 838 11 IPOH, Friday. r<HANTILL¥ (late "Ard Up) showed good form last Saturday when he failed by two lengths to concede 10 lb. to vastly -improved Merry-Go-Round Tiiere was certainly no dis<rrrce m that defeat. Ch'ntiily was always going well but Merry Go Round found that little bit
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  • 152 11 Corazon to score double IPOH, Pri. PORAZON won m such brilliant style over 7f. last Saturday that it Is difficult to look beyond him m the Class 3. Div. 1. s'4f. straight event (Race Six). This impressive-looking four-year-old by Mlrza II may not be top class but In his present
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  • 23 11 Epsom Jeep reports tbat the weather m Ipoh continues to be hot and sunny. The going today should be very fast.
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  • 139 11 EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER Race 1 2.30 JAUNTY Fair Court Epsom Downs JAUNTY Fair Court Craigmount JAUNTY Craigmount Epsom Downs Race 2 3.05 DEEP FIELDS Fountain Lady John FOUNTAIN LAD1 Sanlana Deep Fields JOHN Deep Fields Ross Road Kace 3 3.40 NOBLE LIGHT Mr. 8. A.
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  • 1028 11 ACCEPTORS and probable jockeys for the Ipoh races today are: Race 1—2.30:1 2.30: Class 5, Div. 3—63 6 Furs. 1 000 Sheffield Plate Charles 8.07 Mrs. R N. Hobbs Hobbs 2 240 Jaunty J. Donnelly 8.06 Mr. Y. L. Nglau Sullivan 3 004 Fair Court Garrard 8.05
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  • 48 11 From Oar Own Correspondent. X L U A n O, Friday— Johore Indians, who were to have met Singapore Indians at soccer at Kluanjj tomorrow In a Bardhan Cup fixture, have been Informed of a postponement of this mntrh. This tie win take place next wttk.
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    • 92 11 Today 9 Radio SINGAPORE Children; 6.40 Fred Waring his Pennsylvanlans; 7 News; 7.15 a.m. r im K.L.; 10.10 "Police and the People"; 7.20 e; 1 p.iu lay Ballroom"; "Listeners' Choice"; 7.50 "Spotl.v0 News; I* lantation Music; light on the Emergency"; 8 "Hook, 2 "Album of Harmony"; 2.30 Line and Sinker";
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  • 255 12 Pates outlines programme rpHE FIRST step m the 50-year Pates Plan for "more grounds, central headquarters, floodlit games and higher standard" for Colony soccer is materialising m the shape of a seven-acre ground at Tanjong Rhu. Government yesterday morning informed Singapore Amateur Football Association of the grant of
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  • 84 12 NORTHAMPTON, Frl. A FIGHTING innings of 202 not out by opening bat Eric Rowan helped the South African touring team to draw with Northamptonshire today. The South Africans, with all their second Innings wicket m hand, resumed today needing 119 to avoid an innings
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  • 95 12 N.rthmnt.— l»t Ion«: 4tt for dee*. S. African*— lit Ion,: US. S. AFRICANS—tnd INNS. Rowan not oat MrGlew c Fiddling b Llddell F.ndran c and b Trie* Fullerton ran out *J McLean t Barrirk b Brown «8 Van Rtneveld b Broderlck 14 Muml b Barrirk tl T.yneW not o.t
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  • 188 12 LONDON. Fri. JANCASHIRE, Joint County cricket champions last year, today beat current leaders Warwickshire by nine wickets at Manchester. four points. Warwick! now hsve 64 points from nine games Yorks 64 from nine. Lancashire 56 from eight and Hants 56 from eight Results today: WORCS.
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  • 53 12 SCARBOROUGH. Fri.— Sweden, winning the doubles today, knocked Britain out of the Davis Cup competition. Sweden yesterday had won both the singles m this third round European zone tie. In today's doubles L. Bergelin and S. Davidsson beat T. Mottram and G Paish 2-6, 6-3,
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  • 50 12 BOURNEMOUTH, Frl.— British Ryder Cup player Arthur Lees today won the £3,000 professional Penfold golf tournament with an aggregate 278. Sam King was second with 280 and Tom Haliburton third with 281. Norman von Nida had a bad last round and endrd up with 293.
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  • 34 12 ASCOT.. Frl. The six-furlong Wokingham Stakes was won here this afternoon by Sir Humphrey De Trafford's Donore. Mrs. V. Gilmour's Spartan Sacrifice was second and Mr. R. White's Byiand third.— Reuter.
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  • 29 12 TODAY: 7.48 am (7.3). 7.45 pm 8.1); 1.22 am (3.2;, 1.29 pm (4.1). TOMORROW: 9.07 am (7.6). 831 pm (8 5); 2.28 am (2.4), 2.31 pm (4.4).
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  • 216 12 riINGAPORE Chinese FA. »3 entered the second round of the Malayan Chinese F.A. Cup competition by eliminating Johore Chinese two-nil at Jalan Besar yesterday. Singapore, who were favourites, were expected to win by a much wider margin, but a dogged Johore defence, m which centre-half Cheng
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  • 238 12 Penang Gold Cup worth $7,000 stakes From Our SUB Correspondent PENANG. Fri. U*IVE trophy racei will be fea- tured at the Penang Turf Club's four-day Gold Cup Meeting, to be run during the '>" rst Bank holidays Aug. 4, 6. 8 -md 11. The Gold Cup, for CUSS 1, Div.
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  • 37 12 The following have been chosen to represent Jollilads against Malayan Railway Institute XI at soccer on the Railway ground tomorrow Narayana. Rasak. Eddie, Ghani, Rodgers. Sintha, Rahman, Tuck Choo, Salahudin, Kemmddy, Govinda, Ebrahim, Wong, Sundram.
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  • 146 12 TODAY CRICKET: Singapore v Malacca (Ist day) at S.C.C. 11 a.m.: Singapore C.A. XI v Comb. Schools (Ist day) at S.R.C. 2 p.m. SOCCER: COMM. LGE.: Singaport Dist. (Army) v Europeans at Cadium; DIV. 2: S.H.B. v S. Dist. Signals at Geylant; FRIENDLIER: Malayan Airways v P ft
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  • 98 12 MELBOURNE. Frt. The West Indies cricket tour of Australia next Summer has been insured for AE6.400 "against loss arising from war." This step by the Australian Board of Control, said P. J. MlUard. the Melbourne Herald cricket writer, "Is an Innovation In Test finance m Australia."
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  • 35 12 Tiong Bahru Rangers beat C.V.M.A. by three goals to nil In a S.A.F.A. Division 3B League match at St. George's Road yesterday. Scorers were: Ah Chong. Wing Kee and Tian Teck.
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  • 265 12 D.N.A.S. Sembawang found th» iv Netajl Memorial Football Club easy meat yesterday at Geyiang stadium and had no difficulty m winning by 10 goals to one m a S.AP.A. Division 3A League game. Navy started the goal-rush In the 15th minute when Edlngton turned m
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  • 393 12 A S.P. Harry Taylor (Police) and Lloyd Valberg (S.R.C.) Singapore representatives m the Asian Games, each won three events to share the individual honours at the Triangular Athletic meet held on the Singapore Recreation Club ground yesterday. i Yesterday's meet was the third triangular arranged by
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  • 70 12 The 28th annual athletic sports cf St. Anthony's Boys' School. Singapore, will be held on Saturday, June 23, at 2.00 p.m. on St. Joseph's field. Two events for old boys are lnduded m the programme. They are 100 yards and 880 yards. Those wishing to compete are
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    38 12 Yeo Ah Hoe, S.C.F.A. centre -forward (No. 9) beaten by Cheng Kok of Johore (No. 5 m a duel of "heads" m yesterday's MX FA. Cup tie M Jalan Besar stadium. Singapore Chinese won two-nil. Straits Times picture.
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  • 564 12 UT. JOSEPH'S Institution set up a new record when they clocked 46 sec. m the 440 yards inter-school relay at Victoria School's annual athletic sports yesterday. St. Joseph's clipped .Bsec. off their own time for the event m 1949. Victoria School's Omar Dawood, champion athlete
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  • 52 12 THE application of the Singapore BadmintoAssociation for a two-acre sit? at Guillemard Road on which to build the proposed $300,000 badminton hall has now been approved by Government, the Straits Times understands. The S.B.A. will now seek permission for exemption from the ban on
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