The Straits Times, 5 April 1952

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYAN NATIONAL NKWSPAPER ESTABLISHED 1#45 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, APRIL S, 1958. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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  • 310 1 Sprays from planes to destroy jungle crops KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. £HEMICAL warfare from the air is to be launched against Communist bandit foodgrowing areas in the depths of the Malayan jungle. Auster planes flying low over these jungle clearings are to spray large areas with n
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  • 283 1 'Vital that Chinese join fight' R LONDON, Fri. ECENT outrages in Malaya had pointed only too sn pljr w the reservation with which the Secretary of State for the Colonies Mr Oliver Lyttelton, ves|«rday qualified his optimism about future prospects there, the Daily Telegraph said In an editorial today. "The
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  • 41 1 TEHERAN. Frl.— The Premier. Dr. Mossadeq. yesterday countermanded an order by the military governor to suspend two leading Teheran newspapers which published a notice that the terrorist organisation Fidaiyan Islam would hold a meeting despite a Government ban.— UP.
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  • 58 1 SOUTHAMPTON, Frl Canada plans to build a big new atomic pile at the Canadian Chalk River atomic plant, said Sir John Cockroft director of Britain's atomic energy programme on bis arrival aboard the Queen Elizabeth from New York. He said: "Canada has $30.000.000 to spend and
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  • 201 1 Military honours for inspector A MALAY police inspector, Zainal Rashid, who was killed in yesterday's ambush at Kuala Krai. Ulu Kelantan vas burled today at Langgar cemetery, Kota Bharu. with lull military honours. Five Malay constables were also killed In the ambush. The men were part of a jungle squad
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  • 88 1 DHONO KONG. Fri. R. YING TSAI-PEI and his wife Dr. Helen Pel. of Chengtu University. took poison together In a suicide pact, according ho reports received here from the Chinese mainland. The couple could not stand the pressure put on them, the report said. Dr. Ying
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  • 44 1 MANILA. Frl.— The strike against the National City Bank of New York and the Philippine Trust Company threatened to spread to other banks here yesterday. President Elipidio warned he would use emergency powers initiated by banking and government circles.— AFP.
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  • 148 1 LONDON, Frl. BRITISH exports of rubber to Russia direct from Malaya, or through Britain, In the first two months of the current year amount to 2,000 tons, the President of the Board of Trade, Mr Peter Thorneycroft, said in a Parliamentary reply I I
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    74 1 LIKE tier forefathers in China more than 2,0*0 years ago, this little Chinese girl of the Lee clan kneels in prayers to pay respects to her dead relatives at the Pek San Tens Cantonese Cemetery at Thomson Road, Singapore, during; "Cheng- Ben*" or the Chinese All Souls Day." Today is
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  • 134 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Frl. BANDITS attacked a mine post in force in the Kampar area of Perak last night, overpowered the guards and set fire to the post and the engine shed. Thirty bandits took part in the attack. In the Kuala Kangsar area of Perak, a
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  • 74 1 BERLIN, Fri.— East German convicts will be allowed to volunteer for civilian work and will be paid the rate for the job. the Cabinet has decided. The convicts can get bonuses for good work Two days' work will count as three days of their sentence and
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  • 80 1 MR. F. W. DALLEY, a former assistant general secretary of the British Railway Clerks' Association, arrived in Singapore by Qantas-BOAC yesterday to give a series of lecture^ to Malayan trade unionists. Mr. Dalley, who has visited Malaya twice before. Is here at the invitation of the
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  • 161 1 labour gain county seats *o^t» LONDON, Friday. I ABOUK gained sweeping victories In the county < council elections in Britain. They gained 27 seats a pfn a t h f cc H onser vatives lost 26 in London alone. final London results were: i Labour
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  • 67 1 TOKYO. Frl. The flag of the Rising Sun will soon be making its appearance on the high seas for the first time since the end of war. Supreme Allied Headquarters today gave the Japanese Government written authority to replace the Supreme Command Allied Powers flag, which
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  • 23 1 Radio Malaya will relay a 8.8.C. commentary on the Grand National at Alntree, England, at 10.30 o'clock (Malayan time) this evening.
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  • 157 1 I Dollar drain is slowed t LONDON, Frl. I ]\/|R. R. A Butler, the Chan- 1T1 cellor of the Exchequer, i announced today that, for the first time in nine months i of financial crisis, the drain on the sterling area's gold and dollar reserves had been almost halted. He
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  • 53 1 NEW YORK Fri. The United Nations disarmament commission has set up two committees, one to study a proposed census of arms and armed forces and the other to study the elimination of atomic and other mass destruction weapons and the limitation of all other arms I and armed
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  • 35 1 LIVERPOOL, Frl.— Mr. Uuy Vandervell's Granl won the Liverpool Spring Cup run over 10 furlongs here this afternoon. Mr. G. Glenton's Reverse Charge was second and and Mr. Phil Bull's Anamnestes third.— Reuter.
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  • 22 1 MOSCOW. Fri.— The Soviet Foreign Minister. Mr. Vlshinsky, gave a lunch yesterday in honour of the departing Indian Ambassador.— A.F.P.
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  • 24 1 WASHINGTON, Fri.— The 1 Senate Foreign Relations i Committee finished hearings today on President Truman's $7,900,000,000 foreign aid pro- A gramme.— U.P
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  • 216 1 LONDON, Friday. ORITAIN'S Air Minister, Lord De L'lsle and "Dudley, warned the country last night against under-estimating Soviet air power. The Soviet Union was developing a "powerful long-range bomber force" and producing large numbers of high performance interceptor fighters to contend with any strategic
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  • 37 1 PARIS. Fri.— General Eisen. hower was reliably reported today to be drafting his letter of resignation as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and to be making plans to leave soon for the United States— U.P.
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  • 57 1 LONDON, Fri.— The fligm of a British Canberra bomber from London to 'ripoli In two hours 4* minutes and 49.5 second* was yesterday confirmed as an official record for the dif lance. The Canberra made the journey on Fei 18 at an averaec speed oi
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  • 148 1 CLEAN-UP DRIVE NEAR END HANOI, Fri. tTOENCH forces last night appeared to be putting the finishing touches to one of the biggest clean-up drives ever launched against the Communist-led V 1 etm i n h troops in the vital Red River delta of Northern IndoChina. The eight-day push, called Operation
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  • 35 1 RIO DE JANEIRO, Fri Quintuplets born to a Brazilian woman in a remote village died because it wa s impossible to give them proper medical aid. They lived a day. Reuter.
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  • 21 1 WASHINGTON, Fri. GEN. J. Lawton Collins yesterday told a Congressional group that the nation's atomic weapons picture has Improved.— A.P
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    • 986 2 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS Applications are invited for appointment as Resettlement Supervisors in the service of the Federation of Malaya Government. The saiary scale for Resettlement Supervisors is $500 x 25 $750 a month. In addition, cost of living at the present Government rates will be payable. These rates are at the
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    • 358 2 NOTICES SELANGOR TURF CLUB APRIL MEETING ltSX 1st DAY— SATURDAY— 19th April. 1952 2nd DAY— WEDNESDAY— 23rd April. 1953 3rd DAY— SATURDAY— 26th April, 1952 ENTRIES close at 11 a.m. on Wednesday. 9th April, 1952. MEMBERSHIP: No applications for membership will be entertained after 4 00 p m on the
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  • 299 3 But will not haggle for long witH Russia, says Mr. Eden WEST WILL LISTEN TO PLAN TO FUSE GERMANY LONDON, Friday. THE British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, yesterday said that the West would not enter into prolonged haggling with the Soviet Union that would delay integration of Western Germany
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  • 87 3 MANILA, Frt. THE Communist outlook on sex, justifying promiscuous relations due to emotional hunger and biological necessity, has been confirmed by the capture of a pamphlet. It cited a case where a "nar-row-minded husband" was executed by a Huk soldier because he objected to the
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  • 93 3 LONDON, Fri MR. Aneurin Bevan accused the United States today of driving the world to ruin by overarming and monopolisms the world's resources. He warned in a new book "In Place of Fear," which was published today, that the result of United States policy
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  • 40 3 HONG KONG, Fri— The Panamanian Consul General in Hong Kong warned owners of vessels flying the Panamanian flag that they were liable to a fine up to HK$lO,000 if found guilty of trading with the Chinese mainland. Reuter.
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  • 141 3 NEW YORK, Fri. FIELD Marshal Sir William Slim, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, told reporters on arrival here today that Britain will "never become" part of a European army." Sir William Slim, who is here for a fortnight's tour during which he will lecture
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  • 27 3 HAVANA, Fri.— Russia today severed diplomatic relations with Cuba because Cuban customs authorities refused to let two Russian coirlers bring in luggage without inspection. U.P.
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  • 86 3 WASHINGTON. Fri. THE Army and Air Force hav e issued new regulations forbidding attaches in foreign posts to keep diaries. The regulations grew out of a disclosure last month that a Communist agent had stolen and photographed a secret diary of Major General Robert Grow
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  • 63 3 FRANKFURT, Fri.— A German major who deserted from the Russian zone yesterday said that the equipment and training of the Soviet army in East Germany was at the peak of efficiency and it was ready to fight at any time. But, he said, if war broke
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  • 151 3 BANGKOK, Friday. rHARGES OF HITLERISM and militarism were made against the new Government of Marshal Songgram by a minority group of independent members in the National Assembly yesterday. They were referring to constit<-Mona' ch^Tee duced since the coup d'etat last November ui.aer .~n Siam reverted
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  • 19 3 COLOMBO. Fri— The Ceylon Indian Congress Is to op*»n memb«?r.shlD to all com- n cevlon— Hpiitpr
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    40 3 nil. SWEDISH radio system. Radio Tiaenst. broadcast the birth of son, Krister, to Mrs. Reuter-swaerd-Naesstroem to help the movement whjch wants fathers to be present at the birth of their children. So. with his first cry, Krister became a broadcaster.
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  • 25 3 PRALINE" wears ornamental clubs and hearts on her finger nails and a club on her check at a fashion parade in Paris.
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  • 91 3 Woman M.P. urges: 'Gaol mean men' LONDON, Fri. DR. Edith Summerskill, one of Britain's 17 women M.P's, today demanded prison sentences- for husbands who refuse to give their wives enough housekeeping money. She put the demand in a Bill presented in the House of Commons today. Under it a wife
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  • 17 3 SYDNEY, Fri.— An airport will be built at Salisbury, near Adelaide, for A £1.260,000.— U.P.
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  • 26 3 MOSCOW, Fri. The Belgian 'Ambassador to Russia. M. Arthur Wauters, aged 61. was taken ill yesterday after presenting his credentials to the Kremlin.— A.P.
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  • 148 3 PARIS. Fri. THE SCANDAL which broke out after the death of a Deputy, M. Ducreux. > has rocked France, and police are expected to check identities of all people In public office. M. Ducreux. was killed in a car smash. M. Edouard Harriot, President
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  • 179 3 'No war," says Adenauer BONN, Friday. 'THE Chancellor, Herr Konrad Adenauer, told the West German Parliament yesterday he believed there would be no hot war because "the West has already become so strong that the Soviet Union does not dare to start one." Herr Adenauer said
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  • 101 3 'CONTINUE AID' US IS URGED WASHINGTON, Fri. QUEEN Juliana told a joint session of Congress today that American foreign aid must continue if the free world is to win the "cold war for peace." The Queen appeared before Congress to extend personal thanks for the help i Americans have given
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  • 60 3 VIENNA, Fri. DEPUTIES punched each other for s everal minutes before the president could restore order in the Lower Austrian Provincial Parliament yesterday! The fight began when a Communist Deputy punched a Right-wing delegate behind the ear and drew blood. Communists shouted at the majority
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  • 60 3 ROME. Fri The Italian Premier. Slgnor d e Gasperi, yesterday said that Italians In the Yugoslav zone of Trieste were being persecuted. Italy had decided to defend their rights. H e told th e Senate that Italy and Yugoslavia had had direct diplomatic contacts on the Trieste
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  • 28 3 WASHINGTON. Fri.—lnternal telegraphic services in the United States were hit yesterday when 31,000 workers of the Western Union Telegraph Company struck for higher wages.— Reuter.
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  • 58 3 THE Chinese delegation to the world etuioiii conference in Moscow yesterday said they had authority to make trade contracts with other nations. They held a two-hour trade discussion with British representatives, whom they told that China's, need for consumer goods was vast because of the policy
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  • 18 3 CANBERRA, Fri— The Australian Government yesterday appointed Mr. Bertrand C. Ballard as Ambassador to Siam— A.F.P.
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  • 21 3 MADRID. Fri. The Spanish Government today said it had moved troops to Tangier to maintain order if necessary. Reuter.
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  • 39 3 BONN, Fri. The British High Commission will hand back to the West German authorities, "as an act of grace," all sporting guns and rifles of German or Austrian manufacture confiscated at the end of the war. Reuter.
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  • 27 3 LONDON. Fri.— Financial experts from Commonwealth countries will hold a conference in London next month to examine problems arising out of the sterling situation. —AFP.
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  • 247 4 'BRICKS AND MORTAR' PLAN FOR NEW COLONY THE survey team, under the direction of Sir George Pepler, has ended a trial survey of the City area, the team's chief planning officer, Mr. D. H. Komlosy, told the Straits Times yesterday. A start has also been made on important items of
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  • 192 4 Fund for local rail men move KUALA LUMPUR. Fri A BILL to provide for a provident fund for non-expatriate employees of the Malayan Railway Is to be introduced in the Federal Legisla tive Council. The FM.S Railways Provident Fund will be merged Into the new found. It is proposed that
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  • 81 4 The new general council of the Labour Party of Singapore today will discuss ways and means to implement the decision of the party annual conference to oppose the National Service Bill. The Council will elect a parliamentary committee to instruct Party memoers on the City Council
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  • 59 4 KULIM. Fri. A Kuala Nau squatter Tan Kooi, has asked the South Kedah branch of the MCA to investigate the circumstances of the death of his 28-year-old son. Tan Kuan Sim. Kuan Sim was reported to have been shot dead by a Baling home guard
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  • 109 4 KUALA LUMPUR Fri. riEDERATION smallholders F had over 67,000 acres of land under cultivation last year. Tapioca was grown on over 27,000 acres, sweet potatoes 11.000 acres, vegetables 10,000 acres and sago 6.000 acres Other crops grown were sugar cane, maize, groundnuts, yams, co:ucasia, ragi. soya bean
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  • 39 4 KLUANG. Fri.— A fine of $50 or 10 days' simple Imprisonment was imposed on Tey Heng, a 55-year-old woman, by Inche Ibrahim bin Haji Salam, the Circuit Magistrate, for felling rubber trees on Paloh Estate.
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  • 161 4 Govt. delay 'hits the squatters KULIM. Frl. HTHE South Kedah branch -1- of the Malayan Chinese Association has asked th« State Government to expedite allocations of land promised three rrionths aaro to 250 former detainee squatters now resettled at Kuala Nau in the Kulim area "The squatters cannot start work
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  • 76 4 TAIPING Fri. The Gospel Hall, in Taiping will hold special services during Easter. On Good Friday there will be morning service from 10-12 noon, and an afternoon service from 3-4.30 p.m. The speakers will be Mr. Bromley and Mr Brewerton from Ipoh and Dr Samuel, from Kampar.
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  • 31 4 KUANTAN, Fri. Abdullan School will hold its annual prize distribution this year at the Sultana Theatre on next Tuesday. It will be preceded by a concert by the pupils.
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    79 4 MRS. P. M. Jameson, wife of a director of Master's Limited, the Singapore advertising firm, with a bouquet of flowers, which was presented to her at last night's staff dinner by Inche Ismail bin Main at the Tai Thonx restaurant. Happy World. The dinner was given in honour of Mr.
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  • 198 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. THE Malayan Chinese Association, Selangor branch, yesterday sent membe/s of its welfare committee to investigate the burning of two squatter houses by the Government at Bukit Bintang Road. Kuala Lumpur. Mr. Leung Cheun Ling, one of the members, told the Straits
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  • 160 4 KCJALA LUMPUR. Fri rlE Bukit Bintang Girls School. Kuala Lumpur, has started a drive for funds to build an additional wing at a cost of about $80,000 On the completion of the new wing the school will start its domestic science classes The wing
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  • 258 4 "THE foMowinc area* will be liable to blaekonte today: DAY Jalan Prkan. Sumbawa X*., Br.ddHl Height*. Arthur tM., Ta «j»n» KaUn*. Broadrirk Rd., TeMt Kuraa. Be4«fc, h»n f i 9>-i ■tile, Changi PrU«n. Tanah Merah Beaar. Happy World. AaU Rubber L»ront 3. Sim's Avenue Sawmill, Shrll Co.. Lee
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  • 128 4 ST. ANDREW'S SCHOOL, Singapore, may be able to admit 600 additional pupils when the construction of a third floor to the present building at Woods ville is completed by the end of the year. The extra floor will have 13 class rooms, a
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  • 59 4 KULIM, Frl. Three Chinese families dependants of victims killed by Malays in a communal attack at Selarang Panjang. South Kedah. last month. hav e received ex-gratia payments of $500 each Altogether, seven Chinese died when Malays burnt down four squatter huts in retaliation for the
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  • 42 4 BEGAMAT. Pri. The former Masonic Lodge at Jalan Buloh Kasap has been converted Into a hostel for outstation students of the Segamat English School. Repairs and alterations were completed and the hostel will be opened next term.
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  • 106 4 A WAITRESS Pek Sie Gek, cried bitterly when brought before the Singapore Fourth Police Magistrate. Mr. D. H. Chapman, yesterday to face a charge of attempting suicide bv jumping into the sea at the esplanade on Apr. 3 at mia night. Pek said she
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  • 229 4 rpHE question of whether 1 Madam Yeo Slew Neo who claims a share in the estate of the late Mr. Lee Slew Kow. a Singapore rubber dealer, was his secondary wife, was raised in the Singapore High Court yesterday when application was made
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  • 196 5 Island-wide, sea search for I lost trader DIVERS, MOTOR BOATS JOIN IN HUNT PENANG, Fri. r|IVERS and motor boats Joined in an island-wide- search today for a missing merchant. Mr. Tan Chong See, whose car was found abandoned at the 12th mile, Batu Ferringhi. yesterday. The search, extending to the
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  • 124 5 $150,000 rubber lost in sea PENANG, Fri. FFTY tons of rubber, valued at $150,000, which were washed away from a sinking lighter in yesterday's sale in Penang harbour have not yet been recovered. The storm was so fierce that the crew of one tighter had to throw 400 bags of
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  • 123 5 SINGAPORE Rent Conciliation Board yesterday raised the monthly rent of Nos. 104 and 106 Robinson Road, ocenpied by Roneo Ltd.. frqm $437 50 to $900. beglnnine from March 1 this year. The landlady, Mis* Rebecca Meyer, had asked that the rent be raised from $437.50 to
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  • 81 5 An increase in the fees lor rubber dealers' licences is announced in an amendment to the Rubber Dealers Ordinance, which will be placed before the next meeting of Singapore Legislative Council. The fee for a licence to purchase rubber is proposed to be increased from $250
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  • 149 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Frl. 4 DRIVE to get more names on the Kuala Lumpur Municipal Electoral Register' which will reopen for revision for six weeks from Apr. 15, is being organised by the ward committees of the Independence of Malaya Party. Four new councillors will be
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    34 5 MR. ONG SENG IAM. former student and teacher at Penane Chant: Ling High School, who has graduatfd with honours from Furman University. South Carolina. H e is taking post-graduate studies hi business and finance.
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  • 124 5 Malacca god to exorcise Penang evils PENANG. Fri. A MALACCA deity "Kirn Soon Tee Ho o On* Yah Keanf" is now in Penang to "help rid the island of all evils." The sod was accompanied in a car by its medhuß. The deity will conduct a series of exorcism ceremonies
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  • 207 5 A GOVERNMENT loan of $200,000 to the Singapore Government Officers' Co-operative Housing Society at 3± per cent, interest to build houses for Junior officers has been lying idle in the treasury for more than a year. Mr. N. A. Kularajah, secretary of the
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  • 65 5 One hundred and thirtynve labourers employed by Babcock and Willcox, contractors of Singapore's new power station at Pasir Panjang, have threatened a strike to get six dismissed labourers reinstated. The men do not belong to any union. They allege that the six labourers were ciismissed
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  • 29 5 JOHORE BAHRU flri. Khoo Yin Wan. was fined $25 by the Johoe Bahru Police Court Magistrate for using a car without paying the. road tax.
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  • 173 5 PENANG, Friday. r PO provide funds for members and .protect them from the "padi-kuchaf" borrowing system (borrowing on the security of their crops), several rural co-operative societies in North Malaya padi areas have now formed banking unions of their own. Inche Abdul Majid,
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  • 77 5 Mr. Justice Rogers reserved judgment at the Singapore High Court yesterday in a claim by three men for more than $7,000 damages each for permanent injuries received in a accident at Padr Panjang Road on Sept. 28, 1950. The claimants were Lini Quah Chwee, Lim Ann Koon
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  • 145 5 V.M.C.A.. Orchard Road: Singapore Chess Club. 3 p.m.; Malay Class, i p.m CHINESE V.M.C.A.. Selegle Road: Music. 2 p.m Games from 5 30 p.tn Educational Film I.JO p m.: Photographic Exhibition, i p.m. BRITISH RED CROSS. Handicapped Children's Club: Outing at Katong Park. 10 am SLNGAPUKE DISTRICT M.Y.F..
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  • 98 5 PENANG, Friday. -NINE Doys, recruited for the Penang 1 Free School unit of the Malayan Air Training Corps, have started training, the headmaster, Mr J. Tod. told the Straits Times today. Altogether, 75 boys are needed. Another 50 will be recruited in the middle
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  • 72 5 MR. H. G. GREGORYSMITH, Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands, passed through Singapore by Qantas-BOAC on his way back to Britain on retirement after 23 years in the Colonial Civil Service. Mr Gregory-Smith was a close friend of the late Sir Henry Gurney. High Commissioner. They
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  • 210 5 THE ARMY NEEDS THIS MAN TTROOPER Ronald Thomas -I Heyes, aged 23, of the Special Air Service Regiment, described as "a soldier the Army would not like to lose," was fined $200 yesterday by Singapore Second Traffic Magistrate, Mr. J. B. Jayaretnam, for dangerous driving. He knocked down a Malay
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  • 78 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri JUDGMENT In favour of the plaintiffs, the Malajian American Plantations Ltd was given by Mr. Justice Stor r in the Johore Bahru Supreme Court yesterday when he awarded the company $5 867 damages and costs. The defendants were the General Electric Company, whose lorry
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  • 39 5 Deaths In the city area of Singapore for the weekended Mar. 29 totalled 200, compared with 176 the previous week. The chief causes of death were pneumonia (32 deaths), enteritis (21) and tuberculosis (18).
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  • 57 5 A finding of accidental death was returned by the Singapore Coroner, Mr. Chooi Singh yesterday on a woman mental patient who died following an operation to remove a swallowed bone. The woman, Bebi, aged 30, was admitted to the Singapore General Hospital on Feb. 11 after
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  • 19 5 JOHORE BAHKfifXI A branch of the Youftt Bectfon of UMNO will be forme* at Sungel Kapal. Penggeranc
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  • 19 6 IN M EMORIAM IN LOVING nwmory of Madam Tan Peck Chan (Mrs. Voo Pook Kuni. Died sth April, 1951.
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  • 761 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Sat., Apr. 5, 1952. Feeding The Colony It is nearly 14 months since the Steering Committee formed to advise the Singapore Government on food problems and commodity and price control produced its excellent report. It is eight months since a Government spokesman claimed that positive action
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  • 325 6 The Federal Government's building plans have been so haphazard a business that the report which the Colonial building liaison officer is now to make will be the first real attempt even to get down the magnitude of the problem. It is estimated that a total of
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  • 1238 6  -  Cynictis by T'WO unsolved mystei- ies remain to plague the owners of the eight armoured cars that were found in the Singapore Harbour Board premises. The batteries of some of the cars were missing, and so were the spares. It is unlikely that they were stolen
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  • 864 6 UNUSUAL trade in Sin- gapore Is the troca shell business. Like pearl trading, it has a South-Sea flavour about it; and like carving Images, It is limited In scope but lucrative to those in on the ground floor. Its limitations are not In finding buyers. In, spite of plastics
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    • 806 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. GELADE: At Kandang Kerbau Hospital, on 2nd April, to Mr. Mm 8. Oelade. a daughter. ChMiUl THE Engagement is announced bftwren Archibald John Christopher Martin Bookless. M.C. cnlv son of Mr. and Mrs J Booklea* of Aboync Aberdeen* ithlre and Catherine Teresa Mar; rider daughter of the late
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    • 24 6 GERMAN PEN New Piston Filling System and Transparent Large Quantity Ink Holding Reservoir. PRICES: $6.50 $7.50 EVERBRIGHT OPTICAL CO.. 19, CHULIA STREET, SINGAPQPE i
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    • 110 6 THt BULLOO& ANT -Vf^^ Suspended by iN feat an '5^AuttralUn Bulldog Ant can h«M ,y^*-*-~ in it» fact! a glovi more than a thousand timei iti own weight. l.A.r. 4 Comparatively, tor a human feat, a trapes* ■mm "ti«t would have to grip an 80 ton >taam-roll*r with his teeth
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  • 193 7 Councillor gets letters about dept. 'CORRUPTION IS WIDESPREAD 9 A SINGAPORE Legislative Councillor who, in the past few days, has received two anonymous letters and a signed one alleging widespread corruption in a Government department, is to consult the C.I.D. The councilloi told
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  • 250 7 GOVERNMENT has ap- proved extra allowances for men of the Singapore Riot Unit, a police officer said yesterday. Recruitment for the unit, which had been held up for several months pending this apDroval, will start next week. The police plan initially to
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  • 35 7 KLUANG Fri.— Goh Oh Soo. of Ayer Hltam, who had 47 leaf packets of chandu, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment by Inche Talb bin Hajl Andak. President of the Sessions Court.
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  • 86 7 2 Jap envoys arrive in Singapore MR. Ryutaro Nemoto, a special representative of the Japanese Prime Minister arrived in Singapore by air yesterday for a two-day stay. Mr. Nemoto is on a tour of South-East Asia discussing Japanese trade possibilities and problems with various governments. He met the CommissionerGeneral, Mr.
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  • 51 7 Udik bin Yusof. aged 26, alleged to have kidnapped a 15-year-old girl, Tan Ah Nee, from her parents on Dec. 25, was acquitted in the Third District Court on Thursday The Judge, Mr. H. A. Forrer, said that the age of the girl had not been
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  • 36 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri Musa bin Ibrahim, a trisha rider, was allowed $400 bail in the Police Court today, pending trial on a charge of theft of a motor cycle, belonging to Eng Kiat.
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  • 87 7 THE newly formed first mixed detachment of the Singapore British Red Cross Society paraded before the society's president, Lady Russell, in the sitting room of Admiralty House. Grange Road. Singapore, yesterday. After inspecting them. Lady Russell presented members of the 20-strong detachment with first aid and
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  • 71 7 th La k f man a Tang Tuah," Malay pl ay staged renyn'y b? the Raffles Society will Unlve ««y of Malaya will be presented in Englfcsh School B Th Lahra m ■"SS SFfi a^lT BahrU on ni^ to to popularise a other communities the
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  • 65 7 w°h?k Snl&SsS nl &S5n of U£ M increased from Mail 14 $llso a montn on Si 600 W ll mc reased to 51,600 by Singapore Rent Conciliation Bolrd yesterday The variation wa/ made i trre request o f the landlady ?nd the tenant. According to mnnJn,"*
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  • 82 7 The Singapore Wesley Church has olanned a series OAO A f pr H °7 ly to W A e P l S i erVICe fr m Speakers for the services are. on Monday, the Rev. Tracey K. Jones: Tuesday Mr Andrew Lee; Wednesday the Rev. Gordon Perkins;
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  • 101 7 DLANS to build 150 houses at Kolam Ayer. Singapore, for flre victims of Kampong Bugls will be confirmed at today's extraordinary general meeting of the working committee of the Singapore Join' Relief Organisation. The houses will be of the artisan type adopted by tne sss,
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  • 130 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday DISCUSSIONS on Australian help for the Feder ation's new villages were held at King! H ou Je" Australian Ml nlstM or fctenJßEfc ffi? R^ A n official statement' Issued after the talks said that among the subjects discussed was the possibility of Australian
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  • 35 7 EIGHTEEN hawkers who tampered with their dachmgs to make them inaccurate were fined a total of $1,095 in Singapore yesterday. Their weights were four tahils in their favour in every katl.
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  • 140 7 Tried to rob Mary Voon allegation i N ATTEMPT to rob Police Inspector Mary Voon of a handbag containing $3 and her identity card at 5.45 a m on Thursday in River Valley Road was alleged in Singapore Second Police Court yesterday. Tan Chin Guan aged 22 appeared on two
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  • 188 7 PROBABLY one of the world's oldest working diplomats, Senor A. J de Souza, nearly 90 years' old who says he is "becoming aged", left Singapore yesterday on board the Boissevain after spending one week in the Colony. He is returning to the Argentine
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  • 350 7 riOLLOWING a centuries' old JF tradition, hundieds of "Singapore Chinese families will, from early this morning, go on their annual Cheng Beng pilgrimage to cemeteries all over the island to pay their respects to th e dead Cheng Beng or "All Souls Day" was started byb
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  • 90 7 Police inspector, Tan Ching Wooi, broke into a room at the City Council quarters In French Road and found the decomposed body of 40-year-old Muthu Arunasalam, the Singapore Coroner, Mr. E. Ebert, was told yesterday. Police was summoned by Ramasamy Rengasamy whose suspicions were aroused by
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  • 21 7 SEGAMAT, Frt— Bail of $200 wai offered Ibrahim bin Abdul Rahman. 18, charged at Sqgamat with theft of cash.
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  • 348 7 GO VT MOVE TO PROTECT THE COUNCILLORS I, KUALA LUMPUR, Fii'day. A ?i L to establish the privileges of the Legslative Council and to give it certain power including the immunity of members from civil and criminal proceedings for anyth ng done or said m i the Legislatve Council, is
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  • 22 7 The Singapore Sinhalese Association will hold its annual general meeting at the Ramakrishna Mission, Norris Road, at 3 pjn. today.
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  • 116 7 KUALA I.IMI'IK. Fri. VINE-YEAR-OLO Annie 11 Y<"it was back home in Kuala Lumpur last night after being missing for four days. She was hungry, but she was unharmed and in rood spirits. Annie told the Straits Times that she had been kept in
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  • 32 7 IPOH. Fri.— A 12-year-old Ldm Seng Moy, a pupil of the Yuk Choy School, was taken to hospital thi s morning with a stab wound. Lim's condition Is not serious.
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  • 307 8 Police will train more men to cope with accidents SCHOOL FOR TRAFFIC COPS TO BE OPENED A MOBILE SQUAD SCHOOL, to train men to cope with the ever increasing number of traffic and road accidents in the Colony, will be set up next month, the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr.
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  • 176 8 Rubber Market OFFTAKE BY TRADE LOWER rE rubber market has tended to sag this week and the offtake by the trade has been on the low side, says Lewis and Peat's weekly report. In view of the lack of support, the market 1« holdIng well and thi s is attributed
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  • 130 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri. rpHE Town Board, has apA pointed a sub-committee to deal with the proposal to build a new market in Johore Bahru. The members of the subcommittee are the State Executive Engineer, the Health Officer, Johore South, Mr. Yap Kirn Hock and the
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  • 25 8 TELUK ANSON, Fri.— The body of 18-year-old Halimah binti Khalid, who was reported missing while bathing in the Perak River has been found.
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  • 25 8 The postponed annual meeting of the Serangoon Local Indian Congress will be held at 6, Race Course Lane, Singapore, at 6 p.m. today.
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  • 52 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— K Omandan. a special constable, claimed trial in the Kuala Lumpur First Magistrate's Court today to absenting himself from duty without leave and behaving in a disorderly manner while carrying a rifle at Efflngham Estate Damansara. on March 11. The case was postponed to
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  • 26 8 Ten schoolchildren from Cameron Highlands returned to Singapore in a chartered Malayan Airways Dakota yesterday to spend their sixweek Easter vacation with their parents.
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  • 142 8 THE American film "An Ace in the Hole", which was banned by the Pan-Malayan Film Censor. Mr. Jack Evans, has been passed for general showing by the Singapore Film Appeal Board As the Federation Film Ap- peal Board has upheld Mr Evan's
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  • 497 8 BRIGADIER L. H. O. PUGH, Commanding Officer of the 26th Gurkha Infantry Brigade and Commander of the Johore Area, who holds the D.S.O. and two bars, has been appointed a Commander of the British Empire by the Queen Brigadier Pugh fought in Burma during the war
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  • 92 8 PENA N G, Fri.— Customs Officer Osman bin Hussein told the Sessions Court today that a "boarding party stopped a motor junk near Pulau Petong off the south cost of Penang and found 50 large bales of unprepared tobacco hidden in the vessel. He was testifying at the
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  • 40 8 MALACCA. Fri. Dr. W. Qlyn-Evans, Messrs. X T. Joseph, H B. Ball. Wee Soon Bee and J Forsyth. will represent Malacca Rotary Club at the Rotary district conference to be held in Kuala Lumpur during the Barter holidays.
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 288 8 Straits Times Crossword 1 2 3 4 5 5 7 |8 17 IB I|| 19 20 21 22 B§s! 23 2* 5T W ACROSS 8. Never, or otlen (.3, 4) 1 Injunction nelders wrestle 14. Frightfully ijark horse (9). with (5. 2, 5. 3). 16. Early result of tree-plant-9 "In
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  • 337 9 DESPITE the fact that we have three blackouts a week in the area where I live. I still find that my light bill is Just the same as it was a year ago, when blackouts were the exception rather than th e
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  • 49 9 What m the rwme of crass stuDidity Prompted this corny bid for pub'icity On the part ot grown women who should have known better. Who followed HelliweM's words to the letter? Lapborne dogs with painted toes. "Orchids To You." What next? Who knows? T.M.H. S>n(jporc
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  • 168 9 IHAVE read with interest Mr. A.R. Lazarous's letter of April 1. Unfortunately Mr. Lazarous did not mention whether it was the attitude of the Labour Department officials of Singapore or of the Federation that was the object of his criticism. The fact that Mr. Lazarous Is
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  • 71 9 i OF the High School. Klang. pupils who took the Senior Cambridge examina- j tion last year, nine were unsuccessful. Six of these were refused readmission. Since the war. under European headmasters, there has been no trouble of this sort: failures have been given a second chance. This
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  • 58 9 |N his recent letter. "Assisting One's Fellow Human." It appears that "Asian Youth quite forgot what course, of action to take when confronted with an accident. Perhaps the shock of witnessIng thp bloody affair was too much for him: anyway he seems to have decided to turn reporter instead
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  • 118 9 MY father-in-law, who died on the morning of Sunday. March 31, had been totally ignored by ten doctors whom I called for consultation. My father-in-law, who lingered in agony, died without medical attention. The doctors whom I called refused to come to him. They gave all sorts
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  • 74 9 I OFFER my sincere thanks and congratulations to the Musical Society's Symphony Orchestra, their conductor Gordon van Hien Cor Rljf. Ooh Soen Tio* and above all. Ja n Smeterlin for an unforgettable evening at the Vie Mem. Orchids to all for two hours of sheer
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  • 127 9 IMPORT controls are s>up■l posed to be for the benefit of Malaya and the sterling area. Yet the following articles, which could for the most part have been im- ported from soft currency I areas, have all been recently imported from the U.SA. j direcU-powdered milk,
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  • 141 9 SEEING a Singapore Traction Company bus with the number 18 ki front, I climbed on to go to school. I paid my fare and received a ten-cent ticket. After reaching the New Worjd the bus turned into Rangoon Road. This was not where it was
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  • 66 9 I INVITE your correspondent Y.C.H. to re-exam-ine the first sentence and j the last paragraph of my j letter, on which he commented. If the inspector concerned had been altruistic, and had I actually stood on the steps as imagined by Y.C.H., there would have
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  • SATURDAY FORUM
    • 153 9 ELECTIONS WITHOUT DEL AY UMNO has decided in favour of elections for the Councils without delay. This overdue reform cannot in justice be withheld from the people any further in spite of the Emergency. In fact the High Commissioner himself has said that the Emergency must be fought on several
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    • 126 9 K.H.L." of Singapore states that the sentence imposed on the villagers of Tanjong Malim is inhuman. I certainly disagree with him. There is no other town in the Federation like Tanjong Malim possessing such a shameful and bad record. Only on three occasions have the people come forward
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    • 102 9 rHELP stop tax evasion all business names, irrespective of whether the annual valuation of the rent of the place occupied is less than (360 or not, should be registered. No business should be allowed to run without a cer- 1 tificate from the Registrar of Businesses. Then
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    • 213 9 BEFORE the negotiations on the State Clerical Service clerks (Higher Division) salary scales, between the Government and the Clerical Service Union. clerk# who were appointed after Aug. 1, 1949. under th e Trusted Scheme but before the introduction of the Scheme of Service 1950 (i.e. in
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    • 153 9  -  prior consent) (by I WAS amused to read in Tuesday's Straits Times that certain members of our new and selfconscious City Council are complaining that the control of Singapore's traffic is being changed under their offended noses without their prior consent. They admit, generously, that it is
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    • 289 9 Points at issue THE announcement that the Singapore Government is going to undertake the replacement of all present identity cards with plastic ones means that everyone in Singapore must re-regis-ter. There is therefore a golden opportunity for Government at tbe same time to organise compulso r y registration for voters,
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    • 125 9 Action not words AS a member of the public, I am glad that Mr. Haxworth has taken the necessary action to cope with the serious traffic problem in Singapore. Had he waited for the City Council to consider the new schemes they would have suffered the same fate as the
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    • 334 9 AVERAGE Malayan", in your issue o: March 27, stresses that Indians fought in the late war. I agree with him. They fought in World War I also and having been very much with them in both instances I readily admit that the great majority of them dia an
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  • 272 9 UAVING discussed with my fren' on Saturday night, in our favourite pub, the first class job being done by Mr. Haxworth, we encountered, on the way home, an apparition which if they are not warned about it is liable to cause people to beetle of
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    • 106 9 L^ pSfRSL WIN" DECEMBER HANDICAP MEETING, LANGA LANGA CIRCUIT, NAIROBI, KENYA— 3Oth DECEMBER 1951 Motor Cycles up to 150 c.c. Ist 2nd 3rd |v Motor Cycles from 126 c.c. to 350 c.c. Ist 2nd 3rd X Motor Cycles 351 c.c. to 500 c.c. Ist 2nd 3rd Motor Cycles 351 c.c.
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    • 105 9 THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF <7Ae fffoMJ In a world of competing claims Lon&ines can state these simple undeniable facts: Best result for timing EVER achieved by wrist- watch at NEUCHATEL Observatory. LONGINES watch No. *****75, 5 POINTS. Standard of absolute precision 0 Best result for timing EVER achieved by a wrist-
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  • 277 10 LONDON, Frl. rpHE London Slock Exchange be- came brighter today following publication of the Sterling area's gold and dollar reserve statement which disclosed a sharply reduced rate of deficit for March. Oovernment securities showed gains of up to five-sixteenths of a point. Closing middle prices of selected stocks
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  • 76 10 INTEREST agdln sagged In the pepper section of the Singapore Produce Market yesterday when sellers reduced quotations to $615 a picul for Muntok (white>. $610 for Sarawak and $500 for Lampong (black) Copra was easier, with bid* quoted at $'26 i a picul. and sellers reducing fo
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  • 460 10 From A Market Correspondent WITH the fall In the commodity price, interest in the Malayan Share Market slackened in all sections yesterday, with the exception of Tin leaders which came in for fair buying support at quotations v^uoua lions anuuuncea ay the Malayan Share Brokers' Association yesterday were:
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  • 13 10 SINGAPORE, Fri April 4 $4784 a picul (up $1).
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  • 457 10 LONDON, April 4.— Cash Buyers £965; Sellers £9651; Forward Buyers £968; Sellers £968); Settlement t964J; (up £21). Turnover; a.m. 25; p.m. 15 tons. Southern Kinta 14/ 14/9 a Malayan 23/6 24/6 8 Tronoh 17/- 18/- xd gungei Best 12/- 13/- id Sungei Bidor 54/- 55/- xd Sunget Wav
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  • 180 10 If cts. drop at quiet close By A Market C«rre»poiideiit WITH the commodity price quotations slightly lower in New York, the Singapore Rubber Market opened yesterday •on an easier note. With better interest later, the tone steadied, and a moderate volume of business resulted. Sellers were more in
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  • 32 10 LONDON. April 4.— Spot 32d., May 31Vid.. June 31V4d.. July-Sept. 30d., Oct.-Dec. 28% d., Jan.-Mar. 27% d. (nom.), Apr. ci.f. 30% d., May eJX 31d., June c.l.f. 30Vid Market: Easier.
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  • 79 10 SHIPS alongside the Singapore Harbour Board godowns, or expected there at 7 ajn. today, are: 1-2 Empire Orwell; 4-5 Ferngjde- Coal Plant: Komel Maru: 6-7 Benavon; 8-9 Steel Designer. 11 Bangor Bay;' 13-14 Clytoneus; 15-16 Rottl; West Side, Emp. Dock Entrance: Darvel; 18 President Taft; 19-20 Maetsuycker; N.W
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  • 33 10 HONO KONO. Frt. UREE marKet currency exchange for Hong Kong dollars was quoted at the close today as follows: US$l HK56.455 (casn): HKJ6.485 (T.T.V. HK515.85. One tael of gold HKS3O2 00.
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  • 755 11 Narrow points win to Radrodro CTEVE BRIAN (156-lb.), conceding 13-lb. to Fijian lijfht-heavyweiffht champion Isimeli Radrodro (169-lb), put up the pluckiest performance seen in a Singapore ring for a long time to lose narrowly on points over 10 rounds in. promoter Nene's main event at
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  • 27 11 rplfE annual cricket match 1 between Singapore Civilians and the Combined Services on the S.C.C. Padang this weekend brgins at 11 o'clock thi« morning.
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  • 277 11 KLUANG Frl. HPHE Johcre Kng)t»h schools, having just completed their Inter-school soccer tournament, which was won by Kluang OES, will combine against Singapore's Combined Schools XI here tomorrow. This 1* the fourth game of the series which was Inaugurated in 1949. Johore won the first
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  • 164 11 SINGAPORE S.AKA. Dhr 1: Katonf Sajarah 3. IRC 2. BUSINESS HOUSES, Div. 1: F N 6, M.P.H. 1. SERVICES LEAGUE: Snr Div 1 *GHQ Sirs v RAF (Ma); HMS Terror 2, Ser I. Jnr. Dlt., RAPC 1, 443 BAD 0; R.A.F. (MU) 2. Flyinr Boat Wine
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  • 239 11 THE draw for the eolf match. Changi Golf Club v Keppel Club, at Chang! tomorrow s (Changi players mentioned first >: 8.30 Sq L Cooper 6. Sgt Watkins 5 v R. M. Parker 13. R. J. Fennie 7: 8.35 F/Sgt. Furse 11. G.'Cpt. Vickers 16
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  • 99 11 IPOH. Fri— Lee Fau Leong. oue ot Badminton Association of Malaya for the final Thomas Cup trials, has had his application for leave refused and he may not be considered for Una) election Lee is a health Inspector His application for two months' leave, sent
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  • 184 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Prl T»HE First Battalion Royal 1 Ulster Rifles beat First Bn. the Manchester Regiment by 10 boms to one In the finals of the FARELF Inter-Unit team boxing championships held at the Chinese Assembly Hall here tonight. Although there was only
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  • 179 11 It was Khamis v F N jPRASER Neave S.C. beat Malaya Publishing House S.C. 6-1 in the Singapore BHFA Div. 1. match played at River Valley Road yesierday. M.P H. wer e outclassed in all departments except in goal where Khamis played a courageous game to save his s'de from
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  • 68 11 In a Singapore United- Services Senior Division League soccer match played at H.M.S. Terror ground yesterday. H.M.S. Terror beat Singapore Engineer Regiment by 2-1. Scorers for Terror were CghIx and Carnelly. Henderson scored for Engineers. The results of the Services League (Junior Division) played yesterday were:
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  • 71 11 Combined Schools XI to meet YMCA at cricket at 215 pm today on the YMCA ground Is: A. DeUlkaV iSJI. capt.) Verity GUI .R.l.i. Sithawalla and Abdul Kadlr >A C.S.I. Lai Lv and Eng Hoe (Victoria) Vincent Nathan iR.I.i P Martens. James Quek and E Wickramasinghe IS
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  • 17 11 Geylang Stadium and v' V.M.A. ground will not be fit Tor soccer today and tomorrow.
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  • 37 11 johore bahr; Prl.— The Monthly Medal (Stroke i Golf competition of the Royal Johore International Club will be played on April 10 and the qualifying round of the Wavfoong Cut) rnmoe'.ition on Apr 12.
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  • 154 11 TODAY SOCCER: DIV. 1: Rovers S.C. V. Pulau Branl at Jalan Beaar. BUS. HSE. UiE.i Straits Times Cold Storage "A" at Police rround. FRIENDLY: Haikowyu v HMS Thames, Naval Base. CRICKET: Civilians v Services, Padang 11 a.m. (first day). YMCA v Comb. Schools at YMCA, 2.15 p.m. TOMORROW
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  • 345 11 I/ATONG Sajarah registered their third win in IV the S.A.F.A. Senior Division League at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday, but it was an unimpressive 3-2 victory over the Indian Recreation Club. Katong Sajarah, combining better, had a slight edge over their opponents throughout the game but poor
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  • 82 11 GLASGOW, Fri. A great tussle between two evenly matched toams is expected when Scotland and England clash at Hampden Park here tomorrow in the last international soccer match of the season To add to the tense atmosphere and frightening 'Hampden roar" from 140.000 throats, the top
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  • 1314 12 A CCEPTORS and probable jockeys at Ipoh today, first ■<■* day of the PTC. Derby meeting, are riven below. Horses scratched from a« enragements are: Tiberias, Abbeystead, Honolulu, Body belt, Lady Luck II and Full Till. There will be no double tote. The Big Sweep will be
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  • 382 12 THE BOSUN ONLY THREAT TO THE VAN B STRING By EPSOM JEEP IPOH, Friday. fHE Derby Trial over 9f at Ipoh tomorrow, opening day of the Perak Turf Club Easter Meeting, brings together some of the brightest Derby hopes; and we expect it will
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  • 1032 12 IPOH, Friday. WISE BIRD has come right after a nice let-up. TT His track form has been really outstanding. Morning after morning he held his own against some of the best in the van Breukelen stable and he has just to reproduce this form to
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  • 76 12 THE AMATEUR TIPSTER T»HE Amateur Tipster, spurning— for the present, at least the pin an ardent admirer has sent him to help pick winners, says his choice today Is: BELLA MARIE (Race Seven) Why? The A.T. says: I'm an unchivalrous character, and this race looks to me like a fight
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  • 169 12 KPSOM JEEP ('AIL BOY POINTER RACE 1 2.15 SUNNY WAY Friendship Ra-LI THE MONARCH Sunny Way Lucifer RA-LI Sunny Wmy Friendship RACE t 2.45 FULL STOP Peruus Asslie MARVEL OF PERU Adonis Opera FULL STOP Park As Ue FULL STOP Tajurrah Park STAGE SHOW STAGE SHOW RACE 3 5.15 Audtola
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  • 253 12 IPOH, Friday. STRAIGHT ON's career on the Malayan Turf has been short but brilliant three wins in six attempts. This Straight Deal gelding has certainly done enough to show that he is a stayer with great possibilities and with 8.4 I take him as one
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  • 23 12 FOLLOWING rainy weather for a fortnight, the going for today's races will be yielding at best, reports Epsom Jeep from Ipoh.
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