The Straits Times, 13 March 1952

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAY AS NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED 1845 SIXTEEN PAGES SINGAPORE. THURSDAY. MARCH 13. 1952 PRICE fiftfclSN CENTS
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    'GOOD HOPES' AFTER BUDGET
    435 1 Britain gets ready to pay her way again mv LONDON, Wednesday. X»K first Budget of Mr. R. A. Butler, Chan cellor of the Exchequer, today made domestic shares slump, but prices recovered about half the losses as Stock Exchange operators saw in the proposals good hopes
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    Five vehicles in crash
    95 1 FlVfc VEHICLES— two cars, a bus, a trisha and a bicycle—were involved in an accident yesterday afternoon at the junction of Middle Road and Bencoolen Street. Singapore Thirty-five-year-old Chuang Sai Tan. who wa s thrown rrom his bicycle. wa s the worst casualty. H e was
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    Profits tax worse than they thought
    205 1 Profits tax worse than they thought LONDON.Wed. T*Hfc excess profits tax anA nounced last nicht by Mr. Richard Butler, Chancellor »l the Exchequer was much more severe than had been rxper-tcd. It plans to skim <»n from companies' profits WK.f1.000.000 a year. Mif tax which Mr. Butler will call a
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    EXPECT MORE INFLATION, SAYS LABOUR
    365 1 EXPECT MORE INFLATION, SA YS LABOUR {LONDON, Wednesday ugh Gaitskell. former Labour Chancellor the Exchequer, today said Britain's new loTsedJusTy 11^ 6 inflati nd endan ning the Opposition attack on the Budget ouse of Commonss. Mr. Gaitskell pinned his tack on the Budget's big cuts in subsides rt"Lf *h d
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    OCPD dies in attack on bandits
    190 1 M^- H Fran *s, OCPD 1 iTlKulim, was killed yesterday while leading an attack on a bandit camp in the Sungei Ala area, eight miles from Kulim. Three bandits are believed to have been hit in the ensuing engagement. One police constable is missing.
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    IN TURKEY TOO
    24 1 ANKARA. Wed.— The Tur- I kish Government will impose ■trtct travel restrictions on > Soviet and satellites' diplo- mats in Turkey. U.P
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    Ancient tomb unearthed
    37 1 HONG KONG, Wed A tomb dating back to 31' AD 1 has been unearthed near Canton, according to a re- port reaching Hong Kong from Kwangtung. Nine porcelain vase^ were found near it.— Reuter.
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    Elephant kills 27 persons
    46 1 KARACHI. Wed.-A vicious one-tusk elephant, on ramgage in the Jungles ol East Pakistan, killed 27 persons, a local news agency reported The rogue elephant charged w«'th y) lla B e s. crushed victims with Its trunk and :rampled hem to death —UP
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    DEADLINE SET
    19 1 WASHINGTON. Wed.-The United States Government h nn u nces that mid-April l 2 the deadline for accepting
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    Five Egyptians sent to prison
    191 1 BLACK SATURDAY' TRIAL JiHE Egyptian Supreme Military Corrt'toSf tenced five Egyptians to from eight to 12 years' The Egyptians had been tSiS? WUh SCtting fire t0 a •rV« Si o th man was acquitted apmanding -the maximum exemP "y PunWimPnt." said the accused stabbed the
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    VIETNAM GIVEN MORE PLANES
    42 1 SAIGON. Wed.-The United States yesterday turned over to the French and Vietnamese navies tfiree more Onimman amphibious airllrwed maklne S0 far de A U.S. naval training unit has also arrived to Instruct French pilots and maintenance crews.— A.P
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    Humiliated, he says
    59 1 SYDNEY, Wed TK)NY KHOO, secretary of x Sydney University Chlneso Students Society today complained of racial discrimination by Australian landladies against Asian students Mr. Khoo said that many students were humiliated by landladies who advertised accommodation and then refused it "as soon as they see us." *t%L
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    Running man shot dead
    37 1 A rubber tapper arrested for breaking th e curfew in the Kluang area of Johore yesterday attempted to escape. As he ran a sentry challenged him three times and then shot him dead.
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    Talks on bases
    36 1 WASHINGTON, Wed —The United States Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson announced today that formal negotiations with th e Spanish Government would begin soon for the use of military bases in Spain.— Reuter
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    GARDEN PARTIES
    29 1 LONDON, Wed.-The Queen will hold the traditional annual Royal garden parties at Buckingham Palac e o n July 10 and July 17. It wa° announced today.— A.P
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    $1 MIL. OF OPIUM SEIZED
    60 1 ABOUT $1,000,000 worth of ophim was seized by the Singapore Marine Police when they raided a lighter which was moored alongside the freighter Beluru In the Outer Roads yesterday. The opium was found In seven large tins and one large sack Four Chinese have been
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    MR. LYTTELTON ASKED ABOUT MR. JOSEY
    108 1 MR. L YTTELTON ASKED ABOUT MR. JOSEY T HE^t a t' h Se H Cretary W ~n aawy wa S appointment as head of the radio Snm Malaya Mr Lyttelton told his questioner, Lord Malcolm DouglasS,*. m n < Conservative that Mr Josey had had experience of journalism and broadcasting
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    ONLY 8,000
    20 1 JAKARTA. Wed—The Minister of Justice has decided that 8,000 foreigners will be admitted to Indonesia during 1952— Reuter.
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    Rubber controls 'to be eased'
    26 1 OORECASTI^KaUon l?™^* 1.. I** N tur. a? Rub- of.^^eTs a oro-resslv Sputh-Eas" Asia b^cW-l JSUT^ a"d f°rCefUl* tr%S -if o**"0**"*1.-^*1 that
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    Beer to cost 20 cents more
    142 1 Beer to cost 20 cents more YOUR bottle of beer A will cost 20 cents more, jthe Singapore Governj ment announced last nisjht. But the new price, caused I by increased duty, should not take effect for several days until old stocks are exhausted, a big firm of liquor im-
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    Mother & 5 die in fire
    78 1 Mother 5 die in fire NEW YORK. Wed A WOMAN and five of her fl nine children were burnt fpn»os th K ln aya v, flre Which deS troyed .their hom c at Walker Valley here to-day. The father. Harry Polhamus, and .three other children were taken to hospital suffering
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    Siam may ban arms sale
    49 1 BANGKOK. Wed. Th« Siamese Ministry of the Interior has proposed to the Government that the sale of firearms and ammunition be banned in the southern provinces boraering Malaya The move was suggested to help prevent the smuggling pi arms to terrorists i 8 Malaya.
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      833 2 PUPLIC APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS are wvited irrm Pederal Citiieifc for the part of Senior Av.ntant fteglstrar of *h« Supreme Conn. IXWation of Malaya on a salary Kkte $380x30-7 '.0 760x30-100(1 P«-r ■KKltH plu* ecm of living hiIowi.nce a* eamal ratet Consideration lo ptvriam t-xperience *v:il hf Riven r-ckoninij ml-ial sa!nr\ -til
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      567 2 NOTICES IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE COLONY OF SINGAPORE ISLAND OF SINGAPORE Originating Summons) No. 44 of 1952 In the Matter of the Statutory Mortgare dated the 31.il day of July. 1899 made between Inch! Semboh bint* Mohmtn and R. M p C. Chlnayah Chltty ißeeintered In Volume CXXIX
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      707 2 NOTICES ANNOUNCEMENT Due to unforeseen circumstances, our annual dinner to be held at The Cathay Restaurant on MUi March 1952. has unavoidably been postponed until the 21st March 1952. Will those who have already received Invitation cards arrange Ito attend on the new date, and accept our apologies (or the
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      622 2 NOTICES NATURALISATION Notice is hereby given that MB TAN BENO OUAN of No. 39 WILKINSON ROAD. SINU*.PORE. is applying to the Oi..err.or for naturalisation, and thU ir,y person who knows any reawn why naturalisation should not cc granted should send a wiltten Kignfd statement of the (net* 'o the. Colonial
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      271 2 NOTICES NOTICE THE AUBTBAI4AN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY after one month Intend* to Issue Special Policies In lieu of Policies No« *****9 and SO 1758 on the l.'c of Stanley Longstaff Moore de■!ared to have been stolen. H. N. HIRST. Mtmager for South Australia NATURALISATION Notice is hereby given that PUkJY
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      147 2 NOTICES S.S. GOVERNMENT 2<< LOAN 1962/72 NOTICE is hereby ftivrn that the transfer books of the abovementioned loan wMI be <ie f'-om Ist. to 14th April 19.V2. bo:h onvs inclusive, for the prrp: raMtin ii interest warmnts By Order of The Chnrtered B.ink of I. A. Ar China. Sinjsaport. TENDER
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      99 2 NOTICES SEIANGOR CLUB THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will oe held in lh» Curd Room on WEDNESDAY, 9tk APRIL IfSJ at 7.00 p in AUCTION SALE OF A quantity of Household fin pitine, gla"R"'sre etc., compi'i"int Bed. Silting St Dining Room -n. Wrtttng tabln. New Baby B.ii.i.ft Stove. Carpet Dishes. Jim.-
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    DEFENCE WILL COST £1,548 MILLION
    393 3 Budget of things good, bad and indifferent Attlee BY FAR the biggest site* of Britain's 1952-53 Badget ex- penditnre will be oa defence preparations, totalling This takes more than one third of Mr. Richard Batter's total Badget of 1 4.1M,«N,tt*~a flgarc resulting from his cuts
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    DANGER OF WORLD WAR IS DECREASING, SAYS TITO
    305 3 DANGER OF WORLD WAR IS DECREASING, SAYS TITO 'Threat lessens as West arms' BELGRADE, Wednesday. ]y|ARSHAL Tito believes the danger of world war is decreasing daily as Western rearmament progresses, according to what he told a group of visiting America* editors here. There would be elements of a possible war
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    'Luxuries' from W. Europe are banned
    131 3 'Luxuries' from W. Europe are banned LONDON. Wed. ]»RiTAIN is banning imports of textile yarns, onrationed cheese, flower bulbs, hardwood timbers and many luxury goods from Western Europe until further notice, the Board of Trade announced yesterday. The ban, giving effect to the 100,000,000 cut in imports announced in the
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    SIAMESE ALERT ON FRONTIER
    50 3 BANGKOK, Wed. The Siamese Ministry of the Interior has declared a special alert In certain areas along '.h< Indo-China frontier because of the millary situation in Vietnam and Laos. The Ministry had heard that guerillas had gathered in Laos, near the Thai porvince of Nonßkhai Reuter.
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    Shakespeare library for $1,000,000
    161 3 NEW YORK. Wed. npHE fabulous 73-volume L Shakespearean library of Mr. A. W. Rosenbach bad been sold to a Swiss banker for more than $1,000,000. The sale of the rare books, including the most superb copy of .the first folio in existence, to Dr. Martin Bodmer.
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    Burma to send delegation
    52 3 RANGOON, Wed. Burma will send an official delegation to the Colombo Plan consultative committee meeting in Karachi this month it was authoritatively stated here. Burma decided to join the Colombo Plan for economic South-East Asia two months ago. So far she has been represented only by
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    RED CHINA TRADE
    34 3 MOSCOW. Wed The Soviet trade union newspaper Trud said yesterday that Russia's own economic assistance programme to Communist China was cancelling out the United States 1 boycob! of China.— A P
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    IKE BEATS TAFT FOR REPUBLICAN TICKET
    137 3 CONCORD, New Hampshire, Wednesday. rjEN. Dwight Eisenhower has beaten his main rival, Senator Robert Taft, in the vital New Hampshire primary election for choosing a Repub lican candidate for the presidency. I Mr. F. E. Johnston, president of the State Taft Club, said today:
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    Siam wants to borrow
    48 3 BANGKOK. Wed. Ma-jor-General Prayoon Pramon Mentri. Deputy Minister of Finance, announced today that Siam would seek loans of 1,000.000,000 tlcals (about £22.000,000) from the International Bank. He said the money would be used for hydro-electric schemes, -cold storage, weaving and gunny-bag factory projects.— Reuter.
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    STRIKE ILLEGAL
    27 3 CLEVELAND, Wed. A Federal Judge today ordered three railway unions to end their strike affecting 21,000 menund to keep the stoppage from spreading to other
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    SHE WILL CLIMB HIMALAYAS WITH FIVE MEN
    52 3 SHE WILL CLIMB HIMALAYAS WITH FIVE MEN JENNIFER BOIKOILLON 22-year-old wife of Everest mountaineer Tom Bourdillo n, who is going with her husband (above) and four other members of the 1952 Himalaya Expedition. She is the first woman to accompany British nioun taine ers to the heart of the Himalayas.
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    U.S. may reject Germany plan
    268 3 RESERVE ON SOVIET NOTE WASHINGTON, Wednesday. OFFICIALS of the U.S. State Department said today that the Russian proposals for an early Big Four conference to work out a peace treaty for the whole of Germany were under 1 careful consideration. Advance expectations are mat the
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    BRITAIN TIGHTENS SECURITY
    79 3 LONDON, Wed. BRITAIN today tightened up security regulations to guard against Communists or Fascists being employed on exceptionally secret government work, especially atomic energy. Everyone holding or applying for a job under this heading will have to say whether they are, or ever have been, connected with
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    RED SPIES HELD
    14 3 PUSAN. Wed.— The Bouth Korean National Police yesterday announced the arrest
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    Truce talks make no headway
    84 3 Truce talks make no headway TOKYO, Wed. THE armistice talks at Panmunjom remained deadlocked today, with the Communists urging the United Nations to abandon its principle of voluntary repatriation of prisoners. The chief UJN negotiator, Rear Admiral Llbby told correspondents he was sticking to two principles: That all prisoners of
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    Gold drain may go on
    73 3 NEW YORK, Wed. AN English economic writer, Paul Bareau, predicted here today that Britain may continue to lose gold for at least six more months. He told a meeting of the British Commonwealth Chamber of Commerce that the short-term measures adopted by the sterling area
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    BIG VATICAN CEREMONY
    65 3 VATICAN City, Wed.— Pope Pius XII will celebrate the 13th anniversary of his coronation tomorrow. Hundreds of guests, including diplomats and high Catholic prelates, will attend a high pontifical mass and Catholics In churches throughout the world will sing a special hymn. Intimate details of the Pontiff's
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    $1,000,000 for research
    59 3 WASHINGTON, Wed -A Bill to provide federal 'aid in development of an Inexpensive method for making fresh water out of salt water was approved by the House Interior Committee yesterday. The bill provides US$l,OOO,000 for research work over a five-year period. The results of successful experimentation would
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    Kurusu 'de-purged'
    26 3 TOKYO. Wed.— Saburo Kurusu. Japan's special envoy to Washington at th* time of Pearl Harbour, was officially "de-purged" yesterday by 'the Japanese Government— A.P
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    U.S. tanks?-Why they're pansy,' says the colonel
    154 3 U.S. tanks?- Why they're pansy,' says the colonel LEEDS. Wed. k BRITISH colonel said here yesterday that American ;Uaks fn Korea were "too pans* and made for Hollywood, not for fighting." Col. Sir William Guy Lowther. Commanding Officer of the, Bth Royal Hussars (Armoured Regiment) told 3,000 workers making British
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    St. Joseph's Has A Centenary
    882 4 f\N May 1 this year Joseph's Institution in Bras Basah Road, Singapore, will bf 100-years-old. Behind this fact is a record oi devoted service in the field of education by members of one of the most famous Roman Catholic teaching orders in the world the
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      257 4 1848 1952 ufjj tnt Ikflßßsifla^fflCl the /iiß sß\ IN CONvm ESCENCI "Serravallo's Tonic" is most willingly taken by all patients on account of its pleasant taste and it is easily digested. After a course of this preparation the general system is braced up, the blood greatly improved and the amount
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    37 HELD FROM 'MURDER VILLAGE'
    305 5 Govt. will free 2,000 detained at Tras KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. QNLY 37 of the 2,156 inhabitants of Tras, described as "the village which bred, harboured and helped the murderers of Sir Henry Gurney" will be detained by the Government for the duration of the Emergency.
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    Survey on sickness benefits in Singapore
    158 5 Survey on sickness benefits in Singapore rE Singapore Social Welfare Department is to make survey on medical care and sickness benefits, and will soon set up a social research section, Mr. R. W. I. Band, the secretary, said yesterday. At a Press conference, Mr. Band said the survey would be
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    BUS LINE FOR FLAT DWELLERS
    119 5 A BUS service will operate between Tiong Bahru flats aid Pickering Street in Singapore from tomorrow The charge will be 10 cents. Although approved by the City Council a few months ago. the service had to wait for the construction of signs to "canalise" the
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    Singapore Diary
    156 5 YWCA, Raffles Quay: Dressmaking, 10 a.m.; French Class. 10 ajn. YMCA. Orchard Rotd: Cricket, net practice at Balestier, 5 p.m.: Tennis at Bras Basah Rd.. 5 p.m: French and Commercial Classes. 5.30 p.m.; Judo (beginners), 6 p.m; Lenten Devotions— Speaker Rev. Theodore Runyan on "The Faith We Live
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    New classes for adults
    101 5 rTHE Singapore Council for Adult Education la starting three new classes film and music appreciation, and the theory of pure economics. The film appreciation class will be conducted by Mr. J. Evans (Film Censor's Office Maxwell Road) at 5.30 p.m. on Wednesdays. Mr. p. Abisheganaden (Monkg
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    Selangor Sultan's sister weds
    177 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. MARRIAGE vows were exchanged last night between Tungku Khaladiah a sister of the Sultan of Selangor, and Raja Mohamed Redzuan. a Malayan Administrative Bervtce Officer, attached to the Selangor State Secretariat. At the new Istana in Taylor Road yesterday afternoon, a special ceremony
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    NO LONGER A TOWN BOARD
    64 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— Bukit Changgang, in south Selangor, has had its status as a town board revoked by the Sultan. The people of Bukit Changgang, who were In a resettlement area in the town, were moved late last year because they could not be protected
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    SATA centre gets new physician
    151 5 TYR. Mary Mostyn, whose aim is to cure tubercular 17 children, has arrived in Singapore to be physician at the S.A.T.A. centre in Tanjong Pagar Road. She worked at the Queen Mary's Hospital. Hong Kong, From 1949 till 1951, Dr. Mostyn worked at the West
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    —And the truants need new excuse
    173 5 HOLIDAYS ARE COMING SINGAPORE schoolchildren who have been playing truant by saying that they were delayed in the queues for new identity cards have lost an excuse. An official said: "They can come during holiday periods". i Mr. A. E. Norris, Singapore Assistant Secretary
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    CABARET GIRLS TO MEET IN TEMPLE
    51 5 PENANG, Wed. Penang dance hostesses will hold a vegetarian luncheon party at the Kek Lok Si Temple in Ayer Itam on Saturday. "For a change, we have planned to gee together among religious surroundings," said Miss Ivy Khoo, president of the local Cabaret Girls'
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    DECISION OF JOHORE MCA
    61 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— The working committee of the i Johore State MCA have deiided to support the minority j report on the Immigration i Control Ordinance. They said the majority re- port was not In the Interests of the country. The decision has been sent 1
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    HAWKERS, UNION HAVE ROW
    112 5 HAWKERS, UNION HAVE ROW OEVERAL hawkers, on the Singapore Esplanade, whose activities are now confined to a restricted area, have fallen out with their union over the allocation of pitches. A group of 12 of them have submitted a petition to the City Council claiming that they had been left
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    Blackouts schedule
    193 5 §ÜB-STATIONS liable to load shedding today are: DAY Albert St.. Short St.. New Ice Works, Fire Stone, Mackenzie Kd., Bukit Timah pumps, Balectier Rd., Jalan Ampas, 8.M.8.C, Mcßitchie, Braddell Rise, Island Golf Club, Seletar pumps. Nee Soon, Seletar Wireless, Mental Hospital, Trafalgar Estate, New World, Bendemeer Rd., Ban
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    A.S.P. stopped a black car
    195 5 MR. KOH LIAN WAH. acting A.S.P. said in the Singapore First Police Court yesterday that when he stopped a black car at Kampong Tiong Bahru on Jan 23, he found an unserviceable revolver, a knife, and an ivory cigarette holder. He wag giving evidence at
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    LOVE PACT IN BLOOD AND MILK ENDED IN DEATH
    472 6 'She ignored me," says confession COURT IS TOLD KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE Kuala Lumpur Supreme Court was told today of a love pact, pledged in a woman's blood mixed with- milk, which ended in the murder of the woman-. A confession,
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    Government to boost padi yield
    128 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. EVERY effort was being made by the Federation Government to increase padi production, the Director of Agriculture, Mr. O. S. Voelcker, told Kuala Lumpur Rotarians today. Experiments with high yielding padi were now being carried out and this could not be rushed
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    143 broke food laws
    96 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. ANE hundred and forty three convictions were recorded in a total of 421 prosecutions for infringement of the Food Proclamation and Price Control Ordinance in the Federation last month. Of these, 61 were for dealIng without a price control licence, 26 for not
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    Commando is fined
    89 6 IPOH, Wed. CAUGHT by a detective scaling the back gate of the eastern hotel at 2 a.m. on Feb. 29. Marine Commando C. Hardman. of 45 Commando. Royai Marines, was today sentenced to a day's Imprisonment and a fine of $100, or one month's rigorous Imprisonment, by
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    $400 fine not excessive
    77 6 PEMARKING that a fine of $400 was not excessive. the Chief Justice. Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, in Singapore High Court yesterday, dismissed an appeal by Tan Geok Kwee (a woman) and Ho Huay Buck against a fine of $400 Imposed on each of them for possession of
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    NO PERMIT: FINED
    30 6 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Tan Pua was fined $5 for moving two tins of condensed milk from the Sulong re-set-tlement area without a permit. The milk was confiscated.
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    SCRUB TYPHUS
    18 6 IPOH, Wed.— One case of scrub typhus was reported in the Kuala Kangsar district last week.
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    TREASURY BILLS
    39 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— Tenders for Federation Treasury Bills were acoepted by the Accountant General to the extent of $9,000,000. Tenders at three-quarter per cent tier annum were allotted In full. The bills will be issued on Saturday.
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    Back from leave
    35 6 TAIPING, Wed. Mr. P. Roberts, of the Kintr Edward VII School, is back from leave Mr. Stowe, of the same school, has been tranferred to the Sultan Abdul Hamld College. Alor Star.
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    DATO ONN REFUTES REPORT
    123 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. DATO Onn bin Ja'afar, Member for Home Affairs, today denied a statement attributed to him in a Kuala Lumpur Chinese paper that Malay members of the Federal Legislative Council should support Chinese members in opposing the majority report of the Select Committee on
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    Granny was too late
    79 6 KEPALA BATAS, Wed. A WOMAN jumped into a well and took out her B-year-old grand-daughter yesterday evening near their house at Kampong Datoh. Kepala Baas But It was too late. The girl. Lee Tlew Kirn, was dead. Lee had just finished her dinner with her grandmother
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    SECOND WIFE DRANK POISON
    61 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed —A beating by her husband's first wife had caused her to attempt suicide, a young Chinese woman told the Kuala Lumpur Second Magistrate today. The first wife said 23-year-old Leong Hau Peck was her sister. Leong was bound over for six months in
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    Three Had Toddy
    25 6 TELUK ANSON. Wed.-For unlawful possession of toddy. Ramasamy, Thungavello and Krishnan were each fined $100 or six weeks' imprisonment at Teluk Anson
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    He Couldn't Stop
    29 6 KUANTAN. Wed. For driving a car wk,h defective brakes, and colliding with a stationary lorry. Ne Ron* Guan was fined $30 In the Kuan- an court
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    S'pore diocese to expand
    98 6 THE Church of England in Indo-Chlna Is to be ineluded soon w'.thln the JurisSSJR Sy?5j?SSSr& <S; Sal'Sthlv XKnYof St. Andrew's Cathedral. S'neaoore The Bishop, the Ffc. Rer i Henry W Balnes. has already paid a visit to Saigon to survey his new area of responSl^ ty
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    ELLERTON CLUB OFFICIALS
    78 6 KUALA KANGSAR. Wed Ellerton Club office bearers for the year are:- President, the District Officer. Kuala Kangsar (ex officio); vicepresident, Mr. V. Nadascn; secretary. Inche Abdul Wahab bin Maxwell; treasurer, Mr. Lee Boon Beng; sports secretary, .'nclie Ihrnhlm (Clifford Scnool); Committee, Mr. S. Vallipuram, Mr. Karam Singh,
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    Govt. waives tax on 'queen'show
    201 6 Go vt. waives tax on 'queen' show THE Government has granted an entertainment tax waiver to Singapore Rotarians on the sale of tickets for their two-day fun fair at the Great World on Friday Mar. 28 and Saturday Mar. 29, at which it is hoped to raise $50,000 for the
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    Look beyond the crisis, union told
    197 6 PENANG, Wednesday. "TIMES are difficult in Malaya but we must look beyond the immediate crisis", states Mr. Harold C. Shearman, the London University's academic adviser for tutorial classes, in a message to the Red Tape, official organ of the Penang Government Administrative and Clerical
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    Bandits get a pay-off from vast thefts of rubber
    342 7 PLANTERS SAY: ITS HARD TO STOP KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. gALES of a "vast" amount of stolen rubber give the bandits a steady income, says the Malayan Rubber Council. If the thefts could be stopped 'no easy task' it would be a
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    600 women to meet Mrs. Roosevelt
    91 7 600 women to meet Mrs. Roosevelt HEADS of women's clubs and societies in Singapore have planned a reception for Mrs. Eleanor Roosevtlt when she passes through Singapore on March 27 on her way to Manila. As Mrs. Roosevelt will be In Singapore only a few hours It ha« been decided
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    By air they go-by oxygen they live
    220 7 EVERY FISH A FLIER MALAYAN aquarium fish 250 of them will live iTI on pure oxygen for three days in the Qantas-8.0.A.C. Airlines plane which set off with them as "passengers" from Singapore last evening. The flsh are being sent to Em in
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    3rd branch planned
    78 7 rifiiarfip Pharmaceutical Association, with a Northern branch in Penang and a Soutnern branch in Singapore, plans to start a Central branch In Kuala Lumpur. This was announced last night by the president of the association, Mr. A. F. Caldwell. at thg annual dinner at Sea View Hotel,
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    SIKH UNION OFFICIALS
    95 7 The following have been elected office-bearers of the Selangor Sikh Union for this year: President, Mr. Kernail Singh GUI; Vice President, Mr. AJlt Singh; Hon. Secretary, Mr. Joginder Singh; Hon. A?st, Secretary, Mr. E. Per tab Singh; Hon. Treasurer, Mr. Jit Singh; Committee members: Mr. UJagar Singh.
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    'Empress' brings replacements
    39 7 The troopship Empress of Australia arrived in Singapore yesterday evening with 80 Servicemen as replacements for Malaya and a few families. Shore leave was granted to the troops who are on their way to Hong Kong.
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    RESCUED JAPS GO HOME
    59 7 Six Japanese men and one woman, rescued from the drifting freighter Masani Maru, by the crew of the British freighter, B.encleuch, and brought to Singapore almost five weeks ago. left for home yesterday In the Mitsushima. Since their arrival In the Colony on Jan. 2, they
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    Shell chief here
    25 7 Mr. T. S. Powell, chief of the public relations department of the Shell Company In London, arrived in Singapore by air yesterday.
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    STORM BLAMED FOR SHED'S COLLAPSE
    106 7 qt™™ W B I J™RWORTH, Wednesday. A STORM which broke out during a wayani and caused the audience to move to one side of a shed was blamed yesterday for the collapse of the At an inquest on a 12-year-old boy, Sim Eng Seng, who
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    HEALTH OFFICE RUSH EASES
    59 7 A Singapore shipping agency has put up a notice in Tamil stating that no more tickets for deck-class passengers to India are being gold until Mar. 26. These tickets will be for the Rajula. which will sal] from Singapore on Apr. 14. Yesterday there were fewer
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    Captain found shot in drain
    261 7 Captain found shot in drain AS two key witnesses were away in Hong Kong, the Singapore Coroner, Mr. Choor Singh, adjourned the inquest Into the death of Capt. S. J. Huntley, aged 30, who was found shot In a drain near dementi Road on the morning of Jan. 27. Major
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    BLIND EXPERT FOR MALAYA
    68 7 Sir Clutha Mackenzie. UNESCO consultant on Blind Welfare, will arrive in Singapore by air from New Zealand on Apr. 19. During his two weeks' stay, he will advise the Singapore and Federation Governments on the development of blind welfare work Sir Clutha Is on his wav
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    CHANGED PLEA: REMANDED
    50 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— Lee Ong Kirn who was brought up for judgment In the Sessions Court, having been previously charged with falling to report the presence of bandits at the 16th mile, Pontlan Road, today retracted bi s Plea of guilty. He said he was beaten by
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    MALAYA NEEDS BETTER, NOT MORE, POLICE'
    265 7 MALAYA NEEDS BETTER, NOT MORE, POLICE' KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE need of the Federation Police Force was not for more men but for better policemen, "who are absolutely reliable, command confidence and whom people respect", says the latest Issue of Police, published today. Colonel Young, the new Commissioner of Police,
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    FINEST T. B. CENTRE' WILL TREAT 5,000 A DAY
    145 7 FINEST T. B. CENTRE' WILL TREAT 5,000 A DAY WHEN the Singapore AntiTuberculosis Association's new $800,000 air conditioned clinic at Prince Edward Road the finest anti-T.B. centre in the Far East is ready in July, 5,000 patients will be treated daily instead of 600, as now, said the director, Dr.
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    Sarawak currency is being withdrawn
    50 7 CARAWAK notes and coins •J are being withdrawn from circulation and will be replaced by Malayan currency, a Government statement yesterday said. mltting it direct to the Ac-countant-General, Kuching, Sarawak, for Malayan currency at face value. Sarawak turrency will cease to be legal tenrip> at.
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    IN MEMORIAL
    22 8 SHIM: In lo»lng memory of I Paul Shim p*«ed away Hth March. 194«. Gone but not forgotten. Grannie and Jessica.
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    ANNOUNCEMENT
    32 8 WILL driver of green four-door Uoc; which took two male and one female Indians to Lock Lock Hotel. Oeylang about 11 30 a.m. on the 14th December 1951 please telephone *****.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Thur. Mar. 13, 1952 The Armour Mystery
    704 8 The Straits Times Singapore, Thur. Mar. 13, 1952 The Armour Mystery What priority is Malaya going to get for supplies of armour and armoured cars A. spokesman on the staff of the Director of Operations who was asked to reply to planters' criticism of the continued delay in the delivery
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    Britain cuts the Subsidies
    423 8 The atiacK si, the nrsi servatiyfe' "post-war budget will come from two directions. There is the obvious line which Labour will take. The cut in the food subsidies 'is startling. Subsidies which jcost the Treasury £410 million last year are reduced in the estimates to £250
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    THE STING IN THE ARMY'S TAIL
    226 8 THE STING IN THE ARMY'S TAIL From a Special Correspondent BRITAIN now has 502 mobile columns of effective flighting men In readiness against paratroops. They have been formed from the 249,000 Army officers and men in home depots and training schools; from the cooks and butchers, the clerks. and instructors.
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    THE FACTS BEHIND THE WORLD RICE SHORTAGE
    1072 8 From The Financial Times Commodity Market Editor BY now most commodity prices have suffered a substantial setback from their post-Korean peak. The outstanding exception, is rice. Most of the world's rice is consumed in the countries which produce It, but many of these
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    'Peace-time' British Army spans the world
    717 8  - 'Peace-time British Army spans the world JAMES DOW By IN zerc vreather and razor winds in Korea, 13,000 British troops are holding a sector of the United Nations front with the Commonwealth Division. Battling Communist bandits in Malaya are a further 17.000. In Hong Kong, holding the only free-world fort
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    On the Margin
    348 8 Study in finance niSCUSSION about the value of the pound sterling. which is one •< the potn.s that Mr. Butler's Budget raises again, Is the sort of discussion in which w# do not shine. There was a time, many years ago, when we bent our Intellectual energies
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    CALL-UP EXODUS PANIC SPREADS
    445 9 Labourers on estates get ready to leave KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. RESPITE denials by Indian leaders that men preparing to leave Malaya were trying to ivoid conscription, there were indications in he Federation today that the exodus panic was >eginning to spread. Managers of two rubber estates
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    National Service 'unethical'
    141 9 National Service 'unethical' UNTIL a common nationality is introduced in Malaya, the National Service Bill will "not only remain a misnomer but is unconstitutional and unethical," stated Mr. S. S. Manyam, secretary of the Independent Labour Party of Malaya, yesterday. He deplored the "apathy" of Government in not set- ting
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    BRIDGE TEAM BRAVES THE CROCODILES
    201 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. WORKMEN re-launching the Madras Bailey bridge at Klanf are in danger of attack b> crocodiles, Mr. D. W. Grehan, Senior Executive Engineer for Klanf, said yesterday. The work, Just started, was the biggest and most complicated undertaken by Selangor Public Works Department
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    Theatre and hall rent may be revised
    214 9 Theatre and hall rent may be revised REVISED hire charges for Singapore's Victoria Theatre and Memorial Hall, recommended by a special committee of the City Council, may encourage more amateur theatricals and performances. Instead of five per cent of the box office takings for the theatre, the Committee recommends a
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    THE TALE OF AN AMOROUS SERVANT
    237 9 THE TALE OF AN AMOROUS SERVANT KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. fHE young and handsome M. servant thought it was the thing to do. For it was twilight and there alone on the lawn at Taylor House, an Army mess, sat the wife of an officer. So. the First Magistrate was told
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    TAPPER KILLED
    13 9 Bandits murdered a rubber tapper near Port Dickson. Negrl Sembllan yesterday.
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    IRISH BRIDE
    27 9 Sgt Green, a M.A AS instructor in Penang. and Miss Maureen McCormack who arrived recently from Cromlin. Northern Ireland, were married at Butterworth Catholic Church
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    69 9 LADY GIMSON receives a bouquet at a farewell tea party given bj the Red Cross. Singapore branch, at the home of Lady Russell. The presentations was made by Chang Woon Ens a polio victim, still in splints. Lady Gimson took an active interest in crippled children when she was the
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    General for Karachi
    57 9 Maj-Gen L. E Beavis. the new Australian High Commissioner in Pakistan, passed through Singapore by QantasBOAC yesterday on his way to Karachi. Gen. Beavis was met at ihe airport by Mr. H. N. Truscott of the Australian Commissioner's office in Singapore, and Mr. Mizra Hamid Anwar All
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    REMANDED
    32 9 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed Man mood bin Paseh was remanded in custody after he had been provisionally charged at Johore Bahru wt h using a document which he knew to be forged
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    'Freedom' car must be labelled
    224 9 'Freedom car must be labelled CARS of people invited to tomorrow to the City Hall where the Freedom of the City is to be conferred on the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, must have windscreen labels. Cars with BLUE LABELS will park at St. Andrew's Cathedral compound via Connaught Drive after
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    JURY CLEARS BROKER OF THREAT CHARGE
    147 9 A LAND broker, Son Keng Kwee, who was alleged to have threatened Goei Kirn Lian, a merchant, with death, was acquitted in the Singa Dore Assize Court yesterday The Jury returned a majority verdict of not guilty on a charge of criminal Intimidation It
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    Mr. MacD will be in procession
    160 9 TOMORROW'S CEREMONY THE Commissioner General for South-East Asia, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, will be one of the 65 people in a colourful procession from the Victoria Memorial Hall to the City Hall tomorrow evening when the Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Charles Gimson. will
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    Driver gets nine months
    51 9 Tan Cher Neo. of North Canal Road, was sentenced In Singapore yesterday to nine months' imprisonment for driving a car in a negligent manner and causing the death of a 63-year-old woman, Sim Ah 800, at Lorong Tai Seng on Nov. 6 Notice of appeal was
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    THEY WILL BACK MINORITY REPORT
    39 9 KOTA BAHRU Wed- Representatives of Chinese organisations and schools in Kelantan met in Kota Bahru recently to discuss the proposed Immigration (Control' Ordinance. They unanimously decided to support the recommendations in thp Minority Report
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    63 9 MR. C H. KING, chairman of the London Daily Mirror (right), with Mr. W O'Neill, Far East manager of Reuters, when he arrived i n Singapore by Qantas-BOAC yesterday on bis way back to London. Mr. King, who is accompanied byb v the Daily Mirror New York correspondent, Mr John
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    NINE GET AWARDS
    95 9 NINE GET AWARDS VINE member* of Bata Shoe Company in Singapore, whose total service is 100 years, were last nfa?ht presented with long-service awards at a dinner given by the firm at the Great World. They were Messrs. Gan Kee Siang and Kwee Thiam Teck (15 years each); Messrs. D
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    APPEAL FAILS
    36 9 A boatman, Ang Tian Guan, under a lower court fine of $1,500 for possession of 46 lbs of dutiable c'garettes in his boat, failed in his appeal against sentence In Singapore High Court ve'terfl.vy
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    OFFICER'S WIFE FOUND DEAD
    68 9 URS. Jean Harding Calf, m aged 31. wife of a Royal Navy lieutenant-command-er In Singapore, was found dead in a motor-car In toe garage of her house In the Kranjl Wireless Station late on Tuesday. Royal Naval police are investigating, but no foul play Is suspected*.
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    Mentri Besar joins club
    77 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Dato Syed Abdul Kadir bin Muhammad, the Mentri Besar. of Johore, and Inche Ibrahim Abdul Rahman, the State Secretary, were welcomed as members of the South Johore Rotary Club at a tea party in Johore Bahru yesterday. Mr. Henry Isaac told the party
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    LORRY BURNT
    25 9 Bandits set fire to a bus in the Kluang area of Johore and a lorry in the Gemas area of Negri Sembllan yesterday
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    FORCES HOLD 6
    27 9 Security forces arrested six suspected bandit helpers and seized 500 katis of rice and some sugar in the Kuala Langat district of Selangor yesterday.
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    Shortage of doctors may be worse unless....
    201 9 Shortage of doctors may be worse unless.... UNLESS the Government improves the salaries and condition* of service of Government doctors. Inert- ia liable to be a serious shortage in the Colony's medical services in the next few years, private and Government doctors toM the Straits Times yesterday The v were
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    Car theft charge
    71 9 r'C Norwegian seamen, Harry Hensin and Omensen, both aged 19, charged with stealing a car belonging to H. Miller at Coleman Street on Mar. 11, claimed trial in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday. Hensln pleaded guilty to driving without a licence and an insurance certificate. The
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    U.S. rubber price policy has hit the smallholder
    303 10 U.S. rubber price policy has hit the smallholder UNIONISTS PROTEST TO AMERICA KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. RUBBER smallholders in Malaya are being very hard hit by a reduction in the purchase of certain lower grades of rubber by America, the Malayan Trade Union Council, has told the American Government. In a
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    39 10 MISS ALISON ATTLEE. 21-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clement Attlet. arriving with her lather at the church of St. Peter and St. Paul at Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, for her weddinr to Mr. Richard Lionel Lane« Davis, aged 24-
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    TAXIMAN MUST NOT DRIVE
    106 10 TAXIMAN MUST NOT DRIVE for 12 months LOO Tian Seng, a taxi driver, who had 14 convictions for traffic offences, asked Singapore High Court yesterday to quash an order of 12 months' disqualification for negligent driving. But Sir Charles MurrayAynsley, the Chief Justice, tolc him the period of disqualification was
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    MINE WORKERS' ASK MORE PAY
    68 10 IPOH. Wed.— The Perak Mine Workers' Union has asked the Malayan Mining Employers Association for an all-round wage increase of $1 ver day and an increase In the cost of living allowance ejual to that given to Government staff. It is understood that the M.M.E.A.
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    Woman Charged
    32 10 KUANTAN. Wed.— A woman. Wong See Mol, aged 45. was charged before the Kuantan magistrate with consorting with armed persons st Wong Sam Estate. Gambang Siie was remanded in cusrodv.
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    Farewell to the gallant '45's'
    237 10 BAIT GAJAH, Wednesday. MEN of 45 Commando Royal Marines said farewell to Perak today. They are leaving for Malta, after two years of bandit fighting in which they have killed 86 bandits and have had 70 others surrender to them Speaking to the men at
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    Woman loses appeal
    37 10 LEE Ah Ping, who appealed against a conviction and sentence of four months' imprisonment for living on the immoral earnings of a prostitute, had her conviction and sentence confirmed In Singapore High Court yesterday.
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    Goatherd fined
    22 10 KUANTAN. Wed.— X. Karrupan wag fined %5 at Kuantan for allowing his goats to stray in the police station compound.
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    'Small men' attracting the labour
    274 10 rpHE general shortage of L labour caused by the "very attractive earnings" offered to estate workers by smallholders seeking to benefit from high rubber prices was a reason advanced by Mr. Lionel Smith-Gordon, chairman of Broome Rubber Plantations Limited, for a fall in output. In
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    Mirror chief in S'pore
    83 10 UR. C. H. KING, chairman m of the London Daily Mirror, arrived In Singapore by Qantas-BOAC yesterday on his way back to London after a tour of Australia. Mr. King, who is accompanied by the Daily Mirror's New York correspondent, John Walters, will lunch with the
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    BROKER FINED
    27 10 KUANTAN. Wed. Fong Seng Poh, a pawn-broker, was fined $25 In the Kuantan court for falling to make correct entries of particulars of a deal
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    1,600 A MONTH GET FREE MILK
    68 10 T*HE Government Health Department distributed 23,184 pounds of free milk among poor children and mothers In the rural areas of Singapore during 1951. An average or 1.600 children benefited every month. An average of 10,600 children a month attended the rural welfare clinics for
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    WOMAN CUT HER OWN THROAT
    36 10 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— At the end of <the Inquest on Won« Ah Thye. found with her throat cut at her home, the Coroner, Inche Yusof Kadir returned a verdict of suicide
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    'DETECTIVE TOLD ME WHO TO PICK OUT
    634 10 witness tells court A PROSECUTION witness at the continued hearing of the $400,000 opium robbery case said in the Singapore First Police Court yesterday that a detective told him who to pick out at an identification parade at the C.I.D. He was Lim
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    Water repairs in Johore Bahru
    37 10 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed.— The Johore Bahru town's water supply will be greatly reduced tomorrow, because of work on the pumping plane The supply will be on again at full capacity on Friday.
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      72 10 SINGAPORE 9.35-9.55 ajn. Schools; 10 Emergency News from KL.; 10.05 "Music While You Work"; 10.45ia Schools; 1 pa. Light Music; 130 News; 1.45 David Le Winter and his Orch.; 3-9 Schools; 6.15 "Calling All Hospitals"; 6.55 Announcements; 7 News; 7.19 "Radio actentist"; 7.30 Augmented P*dlo Orch.; 8 -Calling AS Forces";
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      80 10 KUALA LUMPUR 9.35-10.45 As Singapore; 1 p.m. Dance Music; 1.303 As 8'pore; 6.15 "Happy Anniversary"; 6.55-7.30 As S'pore; 7.30 "Hit Parade of America"; 8 "The Adventures of P.C. 49"; 8.30 "Thursday Symphony"; 9.30 News; 9.45 "Dixieland Jazz"; 10 Variety Bandbox"; 10.30-11 Dance Music. PENANG 9.38 am. 2 p.m. Ax S'pore;
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      77 10 Music"; 10.30 "Take your Partners". BBC GOS 6.15 p.m. "Sports Round-up; 6 JO News News Analysis; 6.45 "Dally Quotation"; 6.50 "Prom the Editorials"; 7.00 "Sporting Record"; 7.15 "Land and Liverstcck"; 7.45 "Barn Dance"; 8.15 "Innocent or Guilty"; 8.30 News and Home News; 8.45 "Nlghst at the Opera"; 9.30 "Radio New.sreel";
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    FASHIONS PREDICT A PEACEFUL WORLD
    381 11  - FASHIONS PREDICT A PEACEFUL WORLD VIRGINIA By IAMES Layer, the great fashion expert, once said that womens' fashions have an odd way of reflecting the political as well as the moral upheavals of the country. Fashions have not changed to any great extent since World War 11. They have wavered
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    THE UNCROWNED KING OF PARIS DESIGNERS
    526 11 THE UNCROWNED KING OF PARIS DESIGNERS NADEANE WALKER tells you some of the secrets of A GAIN Christian Dior has successfully defended his title as king of women's fashions. "Dior's collection was best" buyers and fashion editors who saw all the new spring shows are saying. Perhaps to all but
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    New Fabrics Are Magic
    145 11 QNCE upon a time if you bought a suit it was made of wool, and if you invested in a dress you had a choice of silk or cotton. But now there are tweeds that look like silk, cottons that look like satin and synthetic fibres
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    The Sun Brings Special Beauty Problems
    635 11  - The Sun Brings Special Beauty Problems Magda Dunin By WHEW it s getting hot again! Already we spend longer hours by the side of the pool: we go on island picnics, we go sailing in the scorching sun and soon we will have a new crop of beauty problems! Prepare
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    ROCKET RANGE POSES PROBLEM
    558 12  -  MASSEY STANLEY By Will the first of Britain atom bombs cause a rift with Indonesia FURTHER reports of the likely nature of the atomic bomb tests to be made in Australia have given rise to many speculations, including one as to whether the tests may involve
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    Darul Islam On The Run In Central Java
    477 12  -  BOB KROON By TERRORIST gangs of 1 the Darul Islam and similar organisations continue to spread misery in West and Central Javanese villages. Recent reports from Central Java say the hard-hit DI groups have gone halfberserk under the relentless pursuing-actions of the
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    8 12 TO RAISE THE WIND -BUT NOT THE WHIRLWIND
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    Operation Can Cure Mental Illness
    345 12 Operation Can Cure Mental Illness r>UR specialists in mental disease have described a new brain operation which cured some mental patients and improved others. Its scientific name J* ctngulectomy. partial removal of that part of the brain which controls the emotions Area 24, they call it. in the front of
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      289 12 Straits Times Crossword I I |2 I I U I j F|S I |6 II 1§ 20 I j 21™ 22 ACROSS B >" tb** col n not s* 1111 i. What going to b«d involve* bet In ponies here? for moat of u> a. 1). l 8 7 8.
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      NATIONAL SERVICE AND CITIZENSHIP
      389 13 T*HE proposed enactment of the National Service Bills in Malaya in one way serves as a means whereby we can ascertain the loyalty of those who are demanding equal citizenship rights. Each and every person who claims to be a loyal and devoted citizen should undoubtedly
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      Fair share in defence
      192 13 rpHE National Service Bill, 1 according to the General Secretary of th e Labour Party, should be opposed. The question is, by whom? Singaporeans are at last getting to know the intentions behind this type or statement. We should oppose every Bill the Government would like
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    STORE TRAFFIC CHIEF SEEKS OWN POLICE CORPS IN 1953
    259 13 Colony 'years behind* on road aids ]y|R. W. R. M. Haxworth, Singapore's Traffic Police chief, told Singapore Rotarians yesterday that he had suggested the formation of an independent specially-trained Traffic Corps next year to deal with the Colony's increasing and complicated
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    50 13 DATO ONN BIN J A AFAR, (left), Member for Home Affairs, the Sultan of Seisin gor and Mr. A. N. Ross, (right). British Adviser, Sejanfor, at the wedding of Eaja Redman bin Raja Vm c ob and Tenfku Kh«Udiah binti Almarham Sultan Sulaiman Shah, sister of the Sattasv-Stralts Time, pkture
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    His wish—to be a dictator for a year
    112 13 His wish— to be a dictator for a year SINGAPORE'S Traffic Police Chief, Mr. W. R. M Haxworth, yesterday told Rotarians that he would like to be a "dictator" for a year so that be could sort out mil the traffic problem* in the Colony and "sort you out too."
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    SPEEDING: FINED
    26 13 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed Ahmad bin Sidik and Chee Chun Ngiap. lorry drivers, were each fined $30 in the police court for speeding in town.
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    BEAT RETREAT
    23 13 KUALA KANGSAR, Wed The Malayan Police Band will beat Retreat on Friday, at 5 pjn. at the town padang, Kuala Kangsar.
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    11-year-old girl kills herself
    63 13 KULIM, Wed.— An 11-year-old girl, Angilvay, hanged herself because her parents did not approve her romance with a special constable, it was stated in the Kulim Coroner's court today. The girl's father, Salambaram, said he found her hanging in their house at March Estate, Kulim, on
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    A house in which to rest
    308 13 A house in which to rest THE conditions Paula Fitzgerald complains of are representative of Rest House accommodation throughout Malaya with few exceptions. The fault appears to lie firstly with the Colonial Office in making promises that cannot be fulfilled, but the root of the trouble is that the Government
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    No increase in import duties
    112 13 FEDERATION NOT AFFECTED KUALA LUMPUR. Wednesday. rpHE Federation Government will not Increase 1 import duties, a Government spokesman said today. Yesterday's announcement of increases by the Singapore Government did not affect the Federation, he said. In April last year, the Federation Government, as part of
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    Be precise, he urges
    109 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. MR. D. W. Stewart. State Emergency Information Service Officer for Selangor. today asked the public to be more specific when they gave information concerning bandits. He said that a lot of the information received had proved to be vague and Incomplete. Some did
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    He asks M.Ps to debate Malaya
    200 13 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Wed. A DEBATE in the House Aof Commons on Malaya has been asked for by Labour M.P.. Mr Stan Awberry. Mr. Awberry has based his request on the "interest In Malaya, the recent appointments, there and the resignations of
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    The camp at Kota Tinggi
    206 13 The camp at Kota Tinggi THE Government has been 1 very unfair and inconsiderate in choosing the new site for the Resettlement Camp at Kota Tinggi. The present site calls for the cutting down of rubber trees, making new roads, levelling the site, barbed wire fencing, S.Cs' barracks, etc. If
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    Unspeakable habits of the brutish British
    428 13 MR. Arthur Helllwell is to be congratulated on nls article in bringing to the notice of the Western world the disgusting culinary habits of the Chinese whose dinners we enjoy so very much. m all fairness to the Chinese it is only right and
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    LONDON STOCKS
    293 14 LONDON, Wed. r}EALKR8 in the Stock KxU change today were of the opinion that although the Immediate effect* of the budget were bearish, the small op« speculative position within the market and the btBef that th* Government policy has constructive possibilities would aid the Immediate outlook. Closing middle
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    Australian Share Market
    154 14 From Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE. Wed THE sharp forward movement In 1 the Share Market was checked suddenly today when P/ofi 1 took advantage of yesterdays big rlS Few issues held all their galni Rises balanced falta at the close of trading. Car shares, which will be
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    RUBBER MARKET EASES ON REPORTS OF CONTROL IN U.S.
    183 14 RUBBER MARKET EASES ON REPORTS OF CONTROL IN U.S. vA-cent fall at close THE Singapore Rubber Market opened steady 1 yesterday, but news of the United States government's intention to control the use of rubber fer the next two years brought an easier tendency yesterday and prices went below Tuesday
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    U.K. RUBBER
    41 14 LONDON, Mar. 12.— Spot 32% d., Apr 32 5 d.. May 31 id., June 30*1 d Apr-June 31% d.. July-Sept. 29% d. Oct.-Dec. 28% d., Mar. c.li. 31* d. Apr: c.i.f. 30% d.. May c.li. 30Vid. Market: Quietly steady.
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    U.S. Rubber Control
    25 14 WASHINGTON, Wedv The House Armed Services Committee yesterday approved a bill to extend Government controls on rubber for another two years. AP.
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    SVOC REFINERY
    24 14 NEW YORK, Weds. The Standard-Vacuum OH Company has announced plans to spend 30mlllion to expand the Altona refinery near Melbourne, Australia -AJ
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    Malayan Shares
    70 14 Little business •THE British Budget report 1 was reoeiTed favourably by local interest*, but In the absence of any definite lead from London prices in the Malayan Share Market were substantially unchanged in all sections yesterday and business continued to be oil small scale. Ywt«rd»y's price changes by
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    TIN: $481¾ A PICUL
    11 14 SINGAPORE, Wed. M»r. 12.— 5481% (done $214).
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    72 14 Fkhe absence of foreign entook another deep Plunge by »30 ft plcul In the anjapore Prodace Market yesterday When Muntok was quoted at $660 a plcul and Sarawak at $655 a plcul. Lampong (black) was offered at $555. Copra was ag«W Q^et with sellers at $28 a
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    London Price
    24 14 LONDON, Mar. 12.— Cash Bayers £976; Sellers £*****; Forward Bayers £976; Sellers £9784; Settlement £977 (down £5). Turnover: a.m. IN p.m. 40.
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    EXCHANGE TO MERCHANTS
    111 14 HPHE Malayan exchange Bank* 1 Association announced agreed rates of exchange to merchants yesterday as follows: BUYING LONDON Air Hall O/D or 3 d/«t 7 d/st 2/4 5/16 15 d/St 2/4 11/32 30 d/St 2/41 5* d/st 2/4 11/32 9««/«t or Jin/st. 2/4 17/35 120 d/st or
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING
    202 14 CHIPS along the Singapore Har0 bour Board godowns or expected there by 7 am. today are. 1-2 Sir John Franklin, 4-5 Benattow. Coal Plant Slesvig. 6-7 Steel King 8-9 Bentong. 12 Kajang, 13MGlenearn 15-16 Chunsang 18 Benvannoch. 19-20 Hoech Trader. N.W.5 Serdang, VM-tßaui^mg. 21-22 Rajah Brooke 23-24 Straat
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    MULLEY WILL TAKE LONG HOLIDAY AFTER BUKIT TIMAH
    414 15  - MULLEY WILL TAKE LONG HOLIDA Y AFTER BUKIT TIMAH EPSOM JEEP By JOCKEY Athol Mulley will leave for Australia with his family for an extended holiday after the Singapore Turf Club's Spring Meeting at Bukit Timah. A top-flight Jockey in Australia, Mulley (of Bernborough fame) came as stable jockey to
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    SPORTING THE WINNERS
    396 15 SPORTING THE WINNERS jyj i t t.i. j.isi noises to iollow at the Spring Meeting at Bukit Tiunah on Mar. 15. IV and 22 are: The Boson: A champion in the making Won four races at B. Timah last season in great style: lakes the going as he find* it
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    Cambridge worried after boat trial
    100 15 LONDON, Wed Cambridge University, favourites in the annual University boat race on Mar. 29. against Oxford rowed their flrat full course trial from Putney to Mortlske on the River rn-.mes. Rowing under ideal conditions, they covered the four and a quarter miles in 20 minutes
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    MCC SELECTORS
    48 15 LONDON. Wed— England's cricket selectors this Summer were appointed yesterday at a meeting of the Board of Control at Lords. They will be the same as for last season —N. W. D. Yardley (Chairman). F. R Brown. R. E. S Wyatt and L. B. Ames. Reuter
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    POSTPONED
    24 15 The S.A.F.A. Div Won 3B fixture between P.&T. and S.V.S.C. at O«ylang atattlum was. postponed yc«ter6«y as the ground was unfit for play.
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    J'avance is coaxed into a good start
    188 15 J'avance is coaxed into a good start lAVANCE, ridden by train1 er Phil Tankard, passed a barrier test with flying colours at Bukit Timah yesterday morning. The grey wa 8 still a bit troublesome but Phil Tankard managed to coax him to line up with Coraxon ?McPhersont. Cardinal Puff (Lansdown),
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    Members' total a record
    210 15 Members' total a record PERAK TC PAID COVT. Z. 4 MIL. IPOH, Wed. 11HE Perak Turf Club paid $2,426,339 to Government in various forms of taxation last year, states the committee's annual report for 1951 to be presented at the general meeting on Thursday, Mar. 20. Membership ot me club
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    Ulster Rifles arrive
    140 15 FIRST BATTALION. Royal Okter Rifles of Hong Kong, have arrived in Singapore for theii semi-final match against R EM E Base Workshops (Singapore District) in the Farelf inter-unit boxing championships at Tanglin Gymnasium on Friday. Mar. 21. The winners of this match will travel to Kuala Lumpur
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    KOTA RAJA 'A' XI
    31 15 Sports secretaries of S.A.F.A. Second Division clubs are asked to note that Kota Raja "A" have submitted registrations of new players and will fulfill all their fixtures.
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    81 HORSES SENT DOWN A CLASS
    428 15 IN the biggest reshuffle o have been re-classifle Straits Racing Association Forty-nine horses have been transferred from Class 3 to Clauss 4 while 32 horses °o down from Class 4 to 5. Constellation and Tail Light, recent Class 5 winners at Penang. are now
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    17 15 Today: 11.51 (9.3). 0542 <2.1> 1802 (1.2). Topjorrow: 0014 «■»> 0601 <I.C), 12.24 49.3), 18.27 (1.6).
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    Boater raced with Supreme Court, led for mile
    422 15 FIVE NEW HORSES FOR YOUR NOTE BOOK BOATER, Cavalier, Fair Anita, Roman Oalley and Lyon Queen are all newcomers scheduled to make their bow at the Singapore Spring meeting at Bukit Timah. All five are stayers of promise who should be able
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    Turpin – Basora Bout Proposed
    49 15 Turpin Basora Bout Proposed NEW YORK, Wed— A fight between former world middleweight champion Randy Turpin and veteran Jose Basora of Puerto Rica Is In the making, it was revealed today. Lew Burston has proposed the bout to British promoter Jack Solomon and a now awaiting his offer. O.P.
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    CLYDE WIN
    20 15 LONDON. Wed.— Football result: Scottish League Division B— Clyde 3, Dundee Utd. 0. (Postponed on Feb. 2). Reuter.
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    Try-again chance for Olympic aspirants
    326 16 ATHLETES, swimmers and weightlifters who fail to reach the World Olympics qualifying marks set by the Singapore Olympic and; Sports Council will be given another chance even two chances on the recommendation of the association concerned. This was decided upon at the monthly meeting af
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    STRICKLAND Will BE MANAGER
    138 16 rPHE Management Committee of the Singapore Olympic and Sports Council which met at the YJtf.CA. yesterday unanimously elected Mr. E. Strickland, the hon. secretary, as manager of the Singapore team to the World Olympics at Helsinki In July. It was also decided to ask Mr. Goh
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    SOSC meeting tomorrow
    64 16 The Singapore Olympic Sports Council will hold an extraordinary meeting at the V.M.C.A. tomorrow at 5.30 p.m. Two important decisions which will be reached at this meeting are that all sports bodies affiliated to the S.OjS.C. will be represented on the committee. And that at the annual
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    M.F.A. NAME 16 PLAYERS
    68 16 The Malaya F.A. XI to meet Singapore "A" at Jalan Besar stadium on Sunday will be chosen just before the match from the following Osman Angullia. Jaafar Ridzwan. Hassan, All Samijan, Salleh Bujang. Haji Garhan. Ismail Bujang. Harith. Abdul Rahman. Sharif Madon, Khalid. Abu Bakar. Awang
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    Idros Albar tried Saints' patience
    211 16 Idros Albar tried Saints' patience OINGAPORE'P champion school team, St. Andrews, won their S.A.F.A. youth tournament match at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday but they bad to struggle bard to overcome Young Mens Muslim Association by a single goal ten minutes from the end. The Saints wee slightly superior throughout, chiefly
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    Hat-trick by Wai Keen
    107 16 SEREMBAN. Wed. SEVENTEEN players have been selected to prepare themselves :or the charity soccer match on Saturday at Seremban between R A.F. Singapore and Negri Sembilan In aid of the Seremban Public Library fund. The selection was made following the first State trial held yesterday evening
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    FASTNET ROCK SCRATCHED
    53 16 LONDON. Wed. —Fastnet Rock and Donore, two of trainer Jack Jarrts' four entries far the Lincolnshire Handicap, were officially scratched from the race this morn- mg. Fastnet Rock was quoted at 20-1 at Monday's Victoria Club callover while Donore. who had been offered at 40-1 previously, was
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    Schoolboys' dash won the day
    358 16 Combined Schools 5; University i. IjiNERGETIC, put-all-you-have-into-it football the keynote of yesterday's Singapore Combined Schools clash with the University at Sepoy Lines Rain fell shortly before the game started, damped the ground, the ball and all else but the spirits of the players. It was
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    Fathul Karib must do better than this
    418 16 By Our Soccer Reporter Fathul Karib 4; Katong Sajarah k. FATHUL Karib collected their first S.A.F.A. First Division points at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday, and they found it easy enough. But they will have to sharpen up their attack, and cut out the
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    Sports Diary
    56 16 SOCCEK: Div. 1. SRC C.A.— J. Besar. Div. 3 'A' IBS v YCAA Geylang; Blue Hovers v CYMA <PM)— CYMA; Wt. 3 'B: BODCA A f v BTBC— BODf'A; Business Houses: Stanvac v MPH —Farrer Park; East Asiatic V Bousicads Clerical Union. FRIENDI.IES: St. Andrew's v. St. Josephs—
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    GAME STOPPED AT INTERVAL
    70 16 R.N. Kranji and Katong Sajarah "A" were 1-1 at the interval in their Singapore A.F.A. Div. 2 league game at St. George's Road yesterday when referee Fl/Sgt. Brlggs called off the game because of the bad condition of the ground. Rahim had scored for Katong Sajarah
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    GUTHRIES WIN9-GOAL GAME
    251 16 GUTHRIES WIN9-GOAL GAME SBHFA ROUNDUP ("<UTHRIE Sports Club deputed 1 Rotterdam Trading SO. by nix goals to three tn a S.B.H.F.A. Div. 2 match at Farrer Park yesI terday. Ciuthrles seised every opportunity that came their way They swarmed Rotterdam* goal and took the lead In tl-.e flftti minute when
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    BANNISTER AND WIN! SAY 'NO'
    143 16 BANNISTER AND WIN! SAY 'NO' LONDON Wed BRITAIN'S ace mller. Rogei Bannister, and Arthur Wint, the Olympic 400-metres champion, have declined an offer to run ln the Coliseum relay meet Ing In Los Angeles on May 16. Bannister does not want to run outside Britain before the Helsinki Olympic Games,
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    RAIN MARS K.L. SOCCER
    77 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. TJEAVY rain throughout thin afternoon washed out all but one of the five opening matches in the Selangor F.A. league scheduled for today. In the only came played, i Forward Ordnance Depot mid Sentul Works Sports Club drevf three-all in D)v. 3 (North>.
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    Russian XI for Olympics
    54 16 ROME. Wed. RUSSIA will send a soccer team to the Olympic Game* in Helsinki, a Soviet official said yesterday The statement was made by Ergei Savin, Soviet representative and one of the vice-presidents i.l the International Football Association Federation. Savin has been attending tha meetings of
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    Johnny Williams is new champ
    238 16 LONDON. Wed. JOHNNY Williams wrested the British and British Empire heavyweight titles from Jack Gardner at Earls Court Stadium here last nlgm by defeating him on points in a 15 rounds championship bout. A crowd of 18,000 crammea i the arena to watch the nght.
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