The Straits Times, 7 April 1952

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1952. <£- PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    SECRETS SENT TO SIR GERALD
    390 1 'Personal notes come from Tanjong Malim homes KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. RANDIT secrets in one thousand envelopes came to King's House, Kuala Lumpur, home of the High Commissioner, Sir Gerald Templer, at noon today, from the curfew town of Tanjong Malim. The bandit secrets were contained
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    Onn appeals for India's support
    129 1 Onn appeals for India 's support NEW DELHI. Sun. rpHE Malayan leader, Dato On ii bin Ja'afar last night appealed for India's moral support in the fight of the 5.000.(100 tipple in the Federation against the terrorism of a "handful of guerillas." Dato Onn said at a Press conference it
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    Stalin sees Indian envoy
    93 1 MOSCOW. Sun. THE Indian Ambassador to Russia. Mr. S. Radhakrishnan. th P first ambassador to see Marshal Stalin in more than two years, today declined to disclose details of their discussion yesterday which ranged over Indian. Asian and international problems. But lt Is understood that Mr.
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    Quit Tunisia crowd shout
    59 1 BOMBAY. Sun INDIAN Socialists paraded three miles in procession today from their headquarters to the home of the French consul in Bombay M Pierre Royere, shouting anM-French slogans The demonstrators, who carried placards calling on the French to "Quit Tunisia" were stopped by a truckload of
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    Gurkhas return
    18 1 One hundred Gurkhas and \2 families returned to Singapore yesterday after an eipht-month holiday in Nepal.
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    Disease victims
    34 1 TOKYO. Sun.— The United Nations Radio said yesterday *hat there is Increasing evidence that epidemics sweepIng across China have claimed 50.000 lives and caused suffering to a.<s many as 400.000 people.— A.P.
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    New Cabinet formed in Tunisia
    120 1 New Cabinet formed in Tunisia TUNIS, Sun. DREMIER Sarah Eddine Baccouche ha s succeeded in forming a new Tunisian Cabinet after over a week's consultations, French sources said. He was asked by the Bey of Tunis to form a Cabinet after that of M. Mohammed Chenik, the Neo-Destour Nationalist leader,
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    RED LITERATURE FOUND IN 2 SHIPS
    133 1 RED LITER A TURE FOUND IN 2 SHIPS I ARGE quantities of Communist literature, printed in Chinese, were found in two sister ships, La Capirena and La Colorada, which arrived in Singapore from the Sumatran port of Belawan, over the weeK-ena. When La Capirena entered the quarantine anchorage on Saturday
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    Trains to stop for 10 mins
    62 1 ROME, Sun.— All Italian trains will be stopped for ten minutes next Wednesday in a strike by workers of Stateowned railways for higher pay. Workers in Italy's rubber factories also called brief pay strikes for the same day and gas workers in privatelyowned' plants
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    TRUCKS ATTACKED, PROTEST REDS
    106 1 TOKYO, Sun. pOMMUNIST truce negotiators today made a "furious protest" at Panmunjom charging that two United Nations planes had attacked Red delegation supply vehicles on Saturday. Col. Chang Chun San, senior Communist liaison officer, handed the protest to Col. Andrew Kinney, United Nations senior liaison officer,
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    'People' says story was true
    256 1 MONKEY BRAINS From Our Own Correspondent. LONDON, Sun. IJELLIWELL was right IT. after all," says the Sunday newspaper, The People. On the front page was the following statement: "Five weeks ago. People columnist Arthur Helliwell went r.o Malaya and sent a dispatch from there that,
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    More US aid for Asia
    49 1 WASHINGTON. Sun. THE Mutual Security Agency is putting an additional U*****,000 into the aid Dro- grammes for Asia as the second year of the agency*operations there come to a close. The additional amountsare: China US$B9,OOO; Burma U5574,000; Indo-China U*****,000; Philippines US$l3B.OO: Siam USs9«.ooO.— A.P
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    DEAD GO HOME
    25 1 TOKYO, Sun.— Twenty -one bodies of French militar/ veterans who were killed in action in Korea left Yokohama for France today.— A.P
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    Rally washed out
    18 1 HONG KONG. Sun.— Rain washed out a Communist mass anti-corruption rally In Canton this afternoon.—Reuter
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    Queen better
    24 1 LONDON Sun. Queen Mary was stated today to be a little better from a slight chill she ha.s suffered since Friday. Reuter.
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    44 1 THE HIGH COMMISSIONER. Sir Gerald Aempler. opens the first of the eight boxes containing bandit secrets from Tanjong Malim. Six representatives of the town are watching. Left: Men of the Royal West Kents carry the boxes into King's House, Kuala Lumpur. Straits Times pictures.
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    'Iron Curtain can be split'
    89 1 MOSCOW, Sun. LORD BOYD ORR, one of the eight Britons attending the Moscow Economic Conference, urged delegates to "let humanity burst the Iron Curtain" by exchanging goods between East and West. "We may not burst the Curtain but we can make a split that might
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    Ship aground —floats again
    36 1 Ship aground floats again HONG KONG. Sun The Dutch steamer Tjiduwal (8,630 tons) of the Royal Inter-Ocean Lines, ran aground on the sandbar near Mascassar in the Celebes Islands, but wss refloated yesterday with little damage.—
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    War danger less in Europe—Eden
    124 1 War danger less in Europe— Eden LONDON, Sunday. T<HE British. Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, R said in a broadcast last night that the danger of war in Europe had receded and that recent Soviet moves on Germany was a sign that tension might be lowered. He gave the increasing
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    Meeting banned
    42 1 NAIROBI. Sun.— Police banned a mass meeting in Nairobi today by the Kenya African Union and the East African Indian National Congress to coincide with South Africa's Van Riebeeck celebration marking 300 years of white settlement in the Colony. Reuter.
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    7 hurt in lorrytaxi collision
    179 1 SEVEN people wer e injured when a taxi, carrying a picnic party of four, collided head-on with a lorry at a road bend at the 1\ mile Changi, Singapore, yesterday morning. The taxi driver, Llm Yok Song, who was removed to the General Hospital, was
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    Gurkha officer honoured
    60 1 LONDON, Sun.— The Queen has awarded the Military Cross to Lt. Jaharman Sunwar, of the 7th Gurkha Rifles, for outstanding courage and leadership during 18 months jungle operations in Malaya The citation said the lieutenant had displayed exceptional courage, initiative and tenacity. His platoon had killed 13
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    3 M.I.Gs DOWNED
    23 1 TOKYO Sun. American Sabre lets shot down three MIG-15s. probably destroyed another and damaged five over north-west Korea today. AP.
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    Formosa has a balance
    75 1 TAIPEI, Sun. rE Finance Minister. Mr. C. K. Yen. yesterday told a meeting of Government officials that Nationalist China's budget was close to being balanced. H e ascrib d this both to American aid and what he termed Free China's efforts at self help. It was
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    Envoy recalled
    19 1 CAIRO, Sun.— The Polish Minister to Cairo has been recalled to Warsaw. No reason Is given.— A.P.
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    Germs: Red angers U.S.
    262 1 Germs: Red angers U.S. NEW YORK, Sun. THE American delegate to the UfN., Mr. Warren Austin, today accused M. F. JoliotCurie, French Communist atom scientist, of prostituting science by lending his name to Soviet charges that the United States was waging germ warfare in Korea. "If you want anybody to
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    On way to Saigon
    30 1 TOKYO, Sun.— Two French soldiers, accused of robbing a bank of US$B,OOO on Feb. 8, sailed today aboard the La Marseillaise, for trial in Saigon. AP.
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    Truman turns a deaf ear to the Stalin 'plan'
    213 2 Truman turns a deaf ear to the Stalin 'plan' Action, not words, wanted WASHINGTON, Sunday. PRESIDENT Truman has turned a deaf ear to Stalin's new bid for a top level meeting "of heads of the great Powers." Mr. Truman was said to believe instead that the United States and the
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    Indians to visit China
    55 2 NEW DELHI, Sun. Tl^tßS. PANDIT, Indian Am■"l bassador to Washington until last November, will lead a cultural delegation which the Indian Government is sending to China. The delegation will leave New D"elhi by air on April 27, arriving at Canton the next day, and will spend
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    TOO SALTY
    38 2 NEW YORK. Sun. Mrs. Elizabeth Norm, aged 43. was granted a divorce after telling the judge that her physician husband punched and kicked her because the ham casserole sht cooked for him was "too salty." U.P.
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    Smugglers held
    28 2 NAPLES, Sun. Italian police and American FBI agents have smashed a ring smuggling dope to the United States from Italy and have arrested four Italians. U.P.
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    18 2 METHANE (marsh gas) which has been escaping from underground at Bardolano. in Cremona. Italy, recently burst into flames.
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    Women—over 30— 'no temptation'
    95 2 Women over 30— 'no temptation' CAIRO, Sun. ABDEL RAHMAN AZZAM Pasha, secretary-general of the Arab League, said today that after "sctme reflection" he decided it would be all right for Egyptian women to vote and even sit in Parliament. He discounted suggestions by opponents of the proposed women's suffrage law
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    Stalin meeting
    20 2 MOSCOW, Sun. Stalin today received Mr. S. Radhakrishnan, the Indian Ambassador, who leaves for India on Monday.— Reuter.
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    OIL TALKS STILL WANTED
    122 2 OIL TALKS STILL WANTED TEHERAN, Sun. 'THE Persian Govern- ment reaffirmed that j it is willing to negotiate on ways of compensating Britain for Persia's seizure of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company installu- tions. This was disclosed in an exchange of notes between the two countries leading up to hearings on
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    GANG TERROR IN SAIGON
    40 2 SAIGON, Sun.— French military police in Saigon have arrested about 20 Vietnamese Army soldiers suspected of terrorising Saigon's Chinatown by night. Police say gangs have committed burglaries and armed hold-ups in the past two months.— Reuter.
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    A MILLION IN BAD MONEY SEIZED
    43 2 WASHINGTON, Sun. TTOE impressive balance -i- sheet for American Secret Service activities during 1951 has just been published here. Items include 247 forgers arrested, 2,304 chequefalsifiers apprehended and over a million dollars in counterfeit money seized. —AFP.
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    Weather base
    27 2 BUENOS AIRES, Sun. Argentina has established a new permanent base for meteorological research in the Antarctic on land claimed by both Argentina and Britain. Reuter.
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    U.S. CALLS FOR WORLD ARMS CENSUS BUT RUSSIA REJECTS IT
    296 3 NEW YORK, Sunday. THE United States today put before the United Nations Disarmament Committee a five-stage plan for a worldwide census of armaments, armed forces and military installations, including atomic and possible germ-carrying weapons. The American delegate, Mr. Benjamin Cohen,
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    BEAUTY PRIZE WINNER WEDS
    64 3 MISS PHYLLIS GORDON STEWART, who won the •Miss Wellington of New Zealand" Beauty Competition, used ihe last £100 of thrr prise to study music in It itain. While on a visit to Fsntainbleau. she met fSemical engineer, Pierre Trnkovlev. and was marriYd to him on March
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    4 KILLED IN CRASH LANDING
    84 3 HONG KONG. Sun. p^OUR Chinese Air Force ground crew were killed at Taipei airport yesterday morning when a P-51 Mustang ran out of control just after landing. Bystanders at the airport said that th P fighter swerved off the runway on landing and" crashed into
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    Admiral dead
    26 3 LONDON, Sun. Admiral Sir Arthur Duff, who commanded the first ship to sink a German submarine in the 1914-18 war has died aged 77.
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    Massage revived 'dead' man
    128 3 Massage revived 'dead' man ROME, Sun. A PATIENT in a Rome hospital "died" yesterday during an operation, but a heart massage restored him 15 minutes after his heart stopped. Doctors said it was the first known case here when a patient was restored after such a long period. They said
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    Rita trying to forget
    48 3 MEXICO CITY. Sun. ACTRESS Rita Hayworth said that she wants to forget her romantic difficulties with her estranged husband, Aly Khan. Rita said she has "no intention of meeting Aly either here, in Mexico or anywhere else" despite rumoufs of a possible reconciliation. U.P.
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    Moving again
    27 3 BERLIN, Sun— The Russians last night eased traffic controls at the Berlin checkpoint and began clearing some 200 West-bound trucks backlogged through traffic controls. UP.
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    Darwin says: 'No jobs for Japs'
    97 3 DARWIN, Sunday. I OCAL feeling has been aroused following the Immigration Minister's announcement on Friday that 35 Japanese divers would be admitted for pearling in Broome, Western Australia. The people of Darwin fear now that the precedent established at Broome may allow Japanese to
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    STRIKE THREAT
    32 3 NEW YORK, Sun.— Federal wage chief Nathan Feinsinger conferred separately with industry and union officials yesterday in a last-ditch attempt to avert a strike of 700,000 steel workers on Wednesday.
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    PILOT MISSING
    36 3 FIFTH AIR FORCE, Korea. Sun. The Fifth Air Force announced last night that First Lieutenant Jame« A. Van Fleet, Jr., son of the Bth. Army Commander, Gen. James Van Fleet, was missing in action.
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    47 3 BALLERINA SONIA ABOVA invited children from Roxbonrne Junior School, who saw her dance at a London matinee to her dressing room to share a cake which wa s sent to her by admirers in Holland. In the picture Sonia is seen cutting the cake.— Paul Popper photo.
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    Swedes stay out of NATO
    34 3 CHICAGO, Sun. The Swedish Premier, Tage Elizabeth Norris, aged 43, and democratic parties in Sweden supported his Government's stand against its entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.— U.P.
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    DEATH FROM SKY IN CITY STREET
    118 3 DEA TH FROM SKY IN CITY STREET Five killed in homes NEW YORK, Sunday. ANOTHER "death from the sky" disaster struck today when a two-engined cargo plane crashed into a crowded residential section of New York city, killing five persons and injuring 20. It wag tne fourth plane to crash
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    A-BOMB PLANES FOR EUROPE
    69 3 WASHINGTON, Sun. TEN more wings of United States light and fighter bombers will be sent to Europe to provide tactical support for Allied defence forces. They will make a total of 15 wings of technical combat planes to support ground troops being built up in Western
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    Living again
    36 3 ATHENS, Sun.— Two thousand people now under sentence of death from military courts will have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment under the terms of a "pacification" Bill adopted by the Greek Parliament. Reuter.
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    DEGREE FOR A VICE-CONSUL
    41 3 VIENNA, Sun. -Mr. K. V. Ramaswamy, Indian ViceConsul in Vienna, has received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. Mr. Ramaswamy started studying geography, psychology and English in 1949 at the university.— UP.
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    Juliana to visit Mrs. Roosevelt
    95 3 Juliana to visit Mrs. Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Sun. QUEEN Juliana left here by plane yesterday on a roundabout trip for a weekend visit to Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt. The Queen and her party went first to Philadelphia. The flight is the first leg of a nation-wide tour following a three-day visit to
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    TEN VOTES
    31 3 PARIS, sun.— me fxencn Premier, M. Antoine Pinay, had asked for ten votes of confidence on his "save the franc" budget when the National Assembly adjourned early today. —Reuter.
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    TRADE PROGRESS AT MOSCOW CONFERENCE
    92 3 MOSCOW. Sun. AT the end of a meeting A between the British and Chinese delegations today, during ;he Economic Conference here. Mr. Harold Davies. a member of ih< Brillsh Parliament, who «v present, said progress, had i/o:n made towards a con- crete business deal. Mr.
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    England fight hard to beat Scots 2-1
    448 4 England fight hard to beat Scots 2-1 PEARSON'S GOALS BRING VICTORY GLASGOW, Sunday. WITH a hard-fought 2—l win over Scotland yesterday, England completed a post-war hat trick of triumphs at Hampden Park which left them sharing the season's international soccer championship with Wales. Both England's goals were scored in tl\e
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    34 4 OLYMPIC HOPE: Daphne V ilkinson, «0-year-«ild Birmingham swimmer, who v II take part m Ihe Olympic trials m June at Blackpool. By that time. Daphne viuld have swum more than 300 miles m training.
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    Eddie wins, David beaten
    90 4 COPENHAGEN, Sun. IJIjDIE Choong, of Malaya, won his first r.und men's singles m-tch in th- Danish internat Mai badminton tournament, wh-ch s'wrtrd here yesterday but bi brother E. L. (David) Choong *„<- defeated. Eddi? b?at Jorgen Barfoed (Denmark) 15-0. 15-4. David was n 14-18. 18-17. 15-10
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    BIRD TO LEAD WORCESTER
    48 4 WORCESTER Sun —RE. Bird, vice-captain for the last twj years was elected captain of Worcestershire County Cricket Club at the annual general meeting here. He was prelerred by 98 votes to 79. to R. T. D. Perks, the senior professional. Parks will be vicecaptain.
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    44 4 HOLMES (Blackburn) No. 9, jumps high in between McMichael (left) and Bren nan, both of Newcastle when the two teams met in their F.A. Cup semi-final at Hillsborough on March 30. The result was a scoreless draw. Newcastle won the replay 2-I.— Popper picture.
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    DELTA MAKES IT 7 IN A ROW
    94 4 SYDNEY. Sun.— Delta, Australian champion racehorse, won his seventh race In succession yesterday when he easily beat the champion three-year-old, Hydrogen. l n the Chipping Norton Stakes at Randwick. Delta, 7-4. on favourite, ridden by Neville Se'lwood, beat Hydrogen by IVi lengths with
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    SHIRLEY LOSES TO UNKNOWN'
    50 4 JOANNESBURG. Sun. U.S. tennis star Shirley Fry- was sensationally beaten 3-6, 5-7 in the singles quarter-finals of the South African tennis championships yesterday by 27-year-old Mrs Ruth Stevens, South Africa's No. 3. Doris Hart, Wimbledon champion, entered the semi-finals, beating Mrs. J. Toogh, 6-3, 6-2.— AP.
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    Chelsea deserved to beat Arsenal
    416 4 LONDON, Sunday. ARSENAL and Chelsea fought a to draw in their A F.A. Cup semi-final clash at Tottenham yesterday, and will replay on the same ground on Monday, but Chelsea deserved to win this all-London clash. ~T77~ JJ: They played much better football and their
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    MANCHESTER UTD LEAD ON GOAL AVERAGE
    1090 4 LONDON, Sunday. MANCHESTER United keep their position, on goal average, at the top of Division lin the Football League despite their only goal defeat by Portsmouth (in third position) on Saturday. Arsenal, who were engaged in their F.A Cup semi-final against Chelsea yesterday, have
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    Don Cockell gives up title
    55 4 LONDON, Sun. DON COCKELL. British lightheavyweight champion, has relinquished his European title. His manager has written to the British Board of Control informing them of Cockell's decision. Cockell won the title from Albert Mcl (France) in March 1951 and was due to defend it against
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    Four up, four down move welcomed
    192 4 Four up, four down move welcomed LONDON. Sun. THE measure of support given at a meeting of the Football League to a proposal that, promotion and relegation should b« changed to four up and four down next season has given fresh hope to third division clubs. The southern section mannaement
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    He forgot his pants
    44 4 DANISH heavyweight Carl Emil Jensen startled a 5,000 crowd by appearing in the ring without trunks during the France-Den-mark amateur boxing international in Copenhagen. The forgetful fighter hastily redonned his dressinggown while a messenger fetched the trunks from the dressing-rooms.
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    England XV win in Paris after 23 yrs.
    481 4 PARIS, Sun. ENGLAND beat France by two penalty goals (six points) to a try (three points) in the Rugby Union international at Colombs Stadium here yesterday to record their first win in Paris since 1929. The "victory gave England second place in
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    SINGAPORE TRADERS FEAR SLUMP IS NEAR
    300 5 SINGAPORE TRADERS FEAR SLUMP IS NEAR Big drop in trade with Indonesia SINGAPORE merchants fear that a trade slump will hit Malaya, mpre particularly Singapore, if there is further deterioration \n the entrepot trfcde with Indonesia. They said that in the last six months, there had been a big drop
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    36 5 THE SINGAPORE Battalion of th e Boys' Brigade marching through Tiong Bahru after their Colours had been blessed by the Rev Sia Kah Hui at the Jubilee Presbyterian Church in Outram Road yesterday. Straits Time* picture.
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    Plans for May Day
    96 5 rpHE governing council of the 1 50,000-strong Singapore Trade Union Congress yesterday decided to celebrate May Day (May X) with a largescale procession and mass meeting. The council appointed a five-man committee to draw up the programme Tor the celebration. The president of the Congress. Mr.
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    STC plans more 'express' buses
    59 5 The Singapore Traction Company plans to increase the number of buses now operating a "limited stop" service between the City, Katong and Serangoon. The service, introduced last year has proved a success, it spokesman of the company said yesterday. Details of the Increase in the
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    Singapore Diary
    86 5 YMCA. Orchard Road: Exhibition of paintings by JohnnieaJohnson. 10 a.m.; games from 6. p.m.; Malay literacy class. 8 p.m. Chinese V.M.C.A. Selegie Road. Staff meeting 9 a.m.; games from S JO p.m.; Chinese chess tournament. 8 p.m.; Board of Directors' meeting. 5.30 p.m. Wesley Methodist Church: Rev. Tracey
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    PRETTY GIRLS TO HELP AT BALL
    113 5 SCORES of pretty girls have offered to help as receptionists and hostesses at the International Press Ball Singapore's biggest social event for many years. One of the first to volunteer, Miss Winnie Seah, of Qantas Empire Airways, i s pictured above. A free air
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    TOWN PLANNING INSTITUTE
    62 5 A Malayan branch of the Town Planning Institute of Britain has been formed. The following have been elected to office: Chairman. Mr. J. M. Frazer; vice-chairman. Mr. F. E. A. B. Sewell and Mr. T. A. I*. Concannon; secretary, Mr. C. O. Barnett; treasurer. Mr. T. H.
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    Clerk gives clock to his old school
    151 5 A CHIEF CLERK in the rubber department of a Singapore firm has given $7,000 to the AngloChinese School for a tower clock for its new building in Barker Road. He is Mr. Tan Cheng Miang, an old- boy of the A.C.S. whose gift
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    PLANE LANDED AT THIRD TRY
    80 5 PENANG, Sun. THE Penang airport fire brigade, together with an ambulance from the General Hospital, steed by yesterday as a Bang-kok-bound Malayan Airways Dakota from Singapore made three attempts to land on the Bayan Lepas aerodrome. It succeeded on the third try. The plane's undercarriage
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    NEW COMMITTEE
    52 5 This is the new committee of management of the Sri Senpaga Vinayagar Temple, Ceylon Road, Singapore: President, Dr. P. Thillalnathan secretary, Mr. P. ValuppiUai; treasurer, Mr. P. Nadarajah; committee. Messrs. EL Vyravanathar, X Veiluppillal. V. Slnnathamby T. Rajaratnam, S. Rasanayagam, S. C Somasundram, M. Namasivayam, A. Rajah and
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    Union will draft pay scale
    59 5 The Inter-Service Industrial Council of the Singapore Federation of Services Union, after a four-hour discussion yesterday will draw up a salary scale for all industrial employees of the three Services in the Colony. These recommendations will be forwarded to the five member unions of the
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    Today's Radio SINGAPORE
    75 5 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 10 a.m. News: 10.05 •Turies From Yesterday and Today*T 10.45 "Continental Touch"; 11— 11.30 BBC Midland Light Orch.; 1 p.m. Monday Matinee"; 1.30 News: 1.45 2 "Home On Th« Range"; 6.15 Children; 6.35 "The New Road": 6.55 Announcements; 7—7.15 News; 7.30 "Spot The Favourites": 8 World Affairs.
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    TRAINING SHIPS FOR SEA SCOUTS
    127 5 THE lifeboat Sea Shell end the dinghy Sea Rover will be presented to the First Singapore Trafalgar > Sea Scouts at a ceremony at the Tanjong Pagar dock in Singapore on Wednesday at 5 pin. Mrs. J. M. Davidson, wije of the manager of the
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    Consorted with bandits: Gaoled
    143 5 SEREMBAN, Saturday. jl/IR. Justice Abbot, at Seremban High Court today, iTI sentenced Krishnan, an 18-year-old rubber tapper to ten years' imprisonment when he pleaded guilty to consorting with armed bandits in the Kuala Pijah district on Jan. 11 last year Mr. Yong &zn Lim, counsel assigned
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    A soldier's life in Malaya
    103 5 /CORPORAL James Wood, aged 31. of the Gordon Highlanders, who was captured by the Japanese in Singapore in 1942. returned in the troopship Empire Orwell on Saturday to fight the bandits. "I volunteered to return because Malaya is an active service station. Life for a
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    S.A.T.A. GETS $1,000 GIFT
    131 5 Recent donations to the Singapore Anti- Tuberculosis Association Fund Include $1,000 from Mr. Tak Slang. Other donations were: Mr. Teo Kirn Eng, $500. (sum of money saved from the expenses of his eldest son's wedding) Island Club, professional golf competition, *232; Malay staff of Oriental Telephone
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    Blackout schedule
    254 5 gUBSTATIONS liable to loud shedding today are: DAY Singapore Swimming Club, Tanjong Rhu, I.E. Shipyard, Rod Cross, Nanyang Iceworks, B.M.8.C.. Macßitchie, Braddell Rise, Seletar Pomps, Seletar Wireless, Nee Soon, Mental Hospital, Trafalgar Estate, New World, Jutland Kd.. Bendemere Rd., Ban Hock Leong, Milne Rd., Jalan Prkan, Jalan Yassin,
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    23 6 AT SANGUVELY. Ceylon. Mr. X V. Nadarajah on 4.4.52 (cable received by his brother-in-law) L M. Arunasalam 1912 Pasar Road. Kuala Lumpur.
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    (The Straits gimrs Singapore, Mon., Apr. 7, 1952. Tg.Malim Has Its Chance
    586 6 (The Straits gimrs Singapore, Mon., Apr. 7, 1952. Tg.Malim Has Its Chance Tanjong Malim has been given its chance. On its replies to the questionnaire which the High Commissioner has addressed to the head of each household in the town and district will depend the severity of its punishment. The
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    Britain's Swing To The Left
    491 6 Britain's Swing To The Left It is easily possible to attach too great an importance to the swing to the left in Britain's little general election, but the Conservative Government is not likely to regard it other than with the utmost gravity. In London in particular the election was fought
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    Ex-envoy dead
    25 6 LONDON, Sun. Sir John TiHey, former Ambassador to Brazil and afterwards to Japan, died today at his home In Suffolk aged 83. Renter.
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    JAPANESE REARMAMENT IS ROUND THE CORNER
    704 6  -  RAY FALK By TOKYO. JAPANESE rearm- ament is no longer an academic question. Almost weekly, ambitious admirals and generals publish their tables of organisation for a Japanese Department pf Defence. Outstanding among these is ex-Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, Ambassador to Washington at the time of
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      452 6 DEFERRING to critics of Kirkby, "Another Edul* 1 cationist" asked if it was not a case of sour grapes. Not being a teacher myself, I feel I stand on safe ground with regard to this charge. But whether it is a case of
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      Terrorists' Weapons
      150 6 A RECENT copy of the Readers' Digest contained an article on Hong Kong by a former American official. He wrote that that island's Government had recognised Communist China to be on the good side of Mao and that British agent s had been selling arms and ammunition over
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      FOOTPATHS?
      43 6 MORE electric road lights are rtlll going up all over CM island, many of them in areas hardly to be called built-up. W^uld it not save electricity and help pedestrians even more if footpaths were to be built Instead? HAPPY FOX. Singapore.
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    Malaya needs doctors
    630 6 A London) LOC LONDON, Sun. QNE interpretation of the remarks which Mr. FJ.F. Nicoll, the new Governor of Singapore, made to Malayan students when he met them for the first tim e at Malaya Hall is that there will be room for many of them in the
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    On the Margin
    414 6 The good life rE week-end news that many Malayans are glad to .find that they can lead a normal, healthy life by living on a vegetarian diet will not, of course, bp news to a considerable numbor of people in India, Ceylon. Malaya itself and elsewhere. Some
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    LEGAL FORCE TO BACK PARKING BANS
    318 7 Non-stop Raffles Place f)THERROADSPm ON THE TEST AN all-day parking ban is to be imposed in Raffles Place roadway, Fullerton Road. Fullerton Square roadway, Collyer Quay and Chulia Street. Mr. D. Robertson, chairman of the City Council Public Passenger Transport Committee, told the Straits
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    SEASIDE HAWKERS: 21 STALLS
    134 7 CINGAPORE City Councilors when they meet at the end of this month will be asked to decide the policy for allocating food stalls in the refreshment area which the Council is building on the Esplanade. The refreshment stalls are expected to be ready in July. The
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    No leave for them until...
    114 7 Because of staff shortage, two senior officers of the Singapore Vehicles Department, Mr. B. C. J. Buckeridge. Deputy Registrar, and Mr. Ong Soon Ann, assistant Registrar, will not get their long leave for which they are due shortly. A special meeting: of the City's Vehicles
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    2,000 AT FAIR
    27 7 SEREMBAN, Sun. More than 2,000 people attended the fun fair at King George V School grounds yesterday in aid of the school's building fund.
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    Swimmer loses his clothes
    71 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. AFTER a swim this morns* ing, Mr. A. L. Beckett, of the Naval Base, Seletar, found his clothes stolen from his car at the 3rd mile Scudai Road. He also lost his wallet containing $80. his identity card, passes to the Naval Base,
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    Squatters are 'Govt. liability'
    140 7 Squatters are 'Govt. liability' OINGAPORE Government has w been asked by the Colony's Social Welfare Council to accept responsibility for all future dealings with an estimated 200,000 squatters on the island. In a report to Government, the Council deplores the attitude of squatters who try to prolong eviction notices by
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    Gaoled for rash act
    83 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. LONG Kok Yeong, a lorry driver, was sentenced by the Kota Tinggi Police Court Magistrate yesterday to one" month's imprisonment and fined $200, in default two weeks' imprisonment for causing death by a rash act. The trailer of his lorry collided with a
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    Service will be in 3 languages
    89 7 Protestant churches in Singapore will take part in a special three-language Good Friday service planned by the Singapore Christian Council and the Singapore Christian Youth Council at St. Andrew's Cathedral grounds on Apr. 11 at 5.30 p.m. The service will be in English, and
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    DONATIONS TO VARSITY FUND
    31 7 Donations to the University of Malaya Endowment Fund during the last week of March totalled $2,***** At the end of last month the fund stood at $4,790,630.20.
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    Election fever in Johore Bahru
    128 7 Election fever in Johore Bahru JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. "THERE is great keenness in 1 Johore Bahru about the elections to the Johore Bahru Town Council, says Inche Ismi, the Supervisor of Elections. The Register of Voters will be opened on Apr. 15. The three electoral wards have been divided into
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    Delegates to decide
    93 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. AN emergency meeting of the Johore Medical Workers Union's executive committee was held yesterday to consider the case of two hospital attendants who had been dismissed from the service. Th e committee decided to call a meeting of delegates from the Union's branches all
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    38 7 SOME of the W.R.A.F. who arrived i n Singapore on Saturday on board the troopship, Empire Orwell. Most of them said: "We're clad to be here. Singapore seems to b« one of the best stations." Straits Times picture.
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    Whitley Council talks for workers
    203 7 SINGAPORE City Council labourers, who have threatened to strike if their demands for better service conditions are not met, will soon have the chance of discussing their problems with their employers in a Whitley Council. The City President. Mr. T. P. P. McNeice, told the
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    His 'hullo' lasted two days
    148 7 His 'hullo' lasted two days rr r O Japanese envoys, Mr. Ryutaro Nemoto and Mr. Olshi Sakee, who stopped in Singapore for two days "just to say hullo" to the Commissioner-General, Mr Malcolm Mac Donald. left yesterday by plane for Bangkok on their way back to Tokyo. Mr. Nemoto's 10-mlnute
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    TRANSFERRED
    28 7 KUALA KANGSAR Sun. Mr. J. Santa Singh of the Land Office, Kuala Kangsar, has been transferred to the office of the Registrar of Titles. Perak. at Talping.
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    Johore bandit killed by 'tip'
    57 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Two more bandits have been killed and a third believed drowned in the Federation. One was shot dead by a Tiger patrol of Special Constables in the Batu Pahat district of Johore this morning as a result of information received from the
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    HEAVY PROGRAMME FOR ROTARY
    137 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun 4 HEAVY programme has been prepared for the two-day district conference of Rotary International, starting on Saturday in Kuala Lumpur. There will be seven 30minute addresses by six meiiibers of Rotary clybs In Malaya and one Rotarian from Kuching. The sae3ker s wiil
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    The people who CAN help —they suffer most
    364 7 The people who CAN help they suffer most TANJONG MALIM, Sunday. V[O ONE in Tanjong Malim, after ten days on half rations and a 22-hour curfew, is either starved or even facing starvation, but many people are beginning to feel the pangs of hunger and the loss in trade. So
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    Lecturer dies
    71 7 MR. Ernest S. Dix, who died in the Middleton Hospital on Saturday night after a short illness, will be buried this morning at Bidadari Cemetery. An American scholar from Clark University, Massachussetts, Mr. Dix was invited as a visiting lecturer to the Department of Geography in the University
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    C.G. will visit Institute
    92 7 Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald will visit the All-Malaya Methodist Youth Fellowship Institute which will be held at Anglo-Chinese School, Barker Road, Singapore, from Apr. 15 to Apr. 23. Mr. Mac Donald has sent a special message which will be read along with greetings' and messages from
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    Girl, 14, killed
    64 7 A schoolgirl aged 14 fell from a bus at the corner of Thomson Road and Norfolk Road, Singapore, on Saturday morning and was killed. The bus, owned by Tay Koh Vat company, was on its way to Beach Road and the time was 8.25 a.m. Anyone who
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    THE LAST TALK
    29 7 Rev. Patrick Joy will give the last talk in the series on The Redemption, at the Cathedral of the Oood Shepheard, Singapore, tomorrow at 7 p.m.
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    HORNETS ATTACK CHENG BENG PARTY
    70 7 A CHINESE family of three which went to the Lee Kee Swa cemetery, Tiong Bahru, early yesterday to observe the festival of Cheng Beng, wa s badly stung by a swarm of hornets. Prayers were stopped and the family wa s rushed to General Hospital
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    Learn a trade, boys told
    216 7 Learn a trade, boys told KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. UAR too many youngr sters seem to look tor nothing better than to push a pen or tap a typewriter, Mr. D. C. MacGillivray, the Deputy High Commissioner, told the Technical Association of Malaya at the Hotel Majestic, Kuala Lumpur, last night.
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    BLOOD BANK HAD A GOOD MONTH
    59 7 March was a very successful month for the Singapore Blood Transfusion Service with a record of 421 volunteer donors. Position at the bank from I Mar. 29 to Apr. 4 was: Blood received 4 4 Given 41 Flasks 24 25 34 24 s 3
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      A Work Of Stress & Storm
      287 8 A Work Of Stress Storm By WALTER WARWICK ONCE every three or four years a first book stamps its writer as a major novelist, the book itself a work of stress and storm, filled with hard beauty and bitterness. In an acknowledgement on the last page of "From Here to
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      Preventing The Misuse Of Authority
      649 8  - Preventing The Misuse Of Authority HOWARD WICKLOW By THE PROBLEM OF POWER. By Lord Radcliffe. (Seeker and Warburg, Bs. 6d.) rvo listen to the dis- course of an eminent judge is one of the rarest pleasures of life provided one is not standing in the dock. When the judge is
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      EISENHOWER UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
      376 8  -  LIEUT-GENERAL SIR BRIAN HORROCKS By T<HE latest victims ol the Gunther microscope have been Mac Arthur and Eisenhower, and what an ex traordinary contrast they form. Here we have two of the greatest commanders of recent years; and yet they share hardly a thought in common.
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      CHANGING WORLD
      162 8 NIW HOPES FOR A CHANCING WORLD. By Bernard Rmsell. (Allen and Unwin. 9t. 6d.) HPHis w a rechauffe of -I- Bertrand Russell's broadcast lectures on "Living in an Atomic Age." The author surveys the three problems with which modern man is struggling, his conflicts with the physical world,
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      199 8 SOBRANIE VIRGINIA No. 40 The mass produced Virginia cigarette has cheapened the reputation of a noble heritage. The leaf of the Golden Belt of old Virginia needs no apologies and asks for neither Improvements nor additions. That Is Why Sobranie Virginia No. 40 use nothing more and nothing less. They
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    RESETTLEMENT AREA BECOMES A TOWN
    647 9  -  NONI WRIGHT By WITHIN two months, Jinjang, six miles from Kuala Lumpur, will have a Town Board. This will set the seal on the progress of a resettlement area from a new village to a town the first in the country. It has grown up:
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    CANCERS GROW ON SPONGES
    219 9  -  JAMES ORD To Aid Research By HUMAN cancers are being grown on sponges, like those used for washing a car. A fine-mesh cellulost sponge acts as a skeleton for bits of cancers to take, root and grow. This gives science an important new tool. The effect
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    How Many Singapore Drivers Are Blind?
    708 9  -  MANNING BLACKWOOD By IN Britain a day or two ago, the Association of Optical Practitioners came out with the pronouncement that bad sight is one of the main contributory causes of road accidents. Tney say that medical tests in Britain are not nearly so
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      382 9 I 24 No figure quoted tor p'ne Straits lim^s Crossword CUTd l8) jiidiia i imfc?:> v.iv»»w«jiw 25 A blbllcal mount (6) iii 26 He sometimes figures at §^§Ti E§8$3 2 RSSTi ESSSJ* I |5 I 6 7 V bar (8). HI HI HI HI DOWN (I §|r Pagan or an
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    Company dividends
    309 10 ]tf ALAYAN Tin Dredging Ltd. has declared a second interim dividend of 6d.. per share, less Income Tax at 9. «d in the in respect of the year to June 30. 1952, payable on April 30 to all shareholders on the Register on March 26. 1952. This dividend
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    Australian Share Market
    196 10 From Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE. Sat. T'HE inves;nient market in Mel- bourne and Sydney dipped fairly sharply yesterday. 'Downward price movements became more numerous and steeper. A', the close cf trading, they outnumbered rises five to one. Depressing factors were the uncertainty of the economic outlcok and
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    MALAYAN MARKETS HAVE DULL WEEK
    279 10 Volume of transactions smallest for the year From A Market Correspondent F|ULL conditions prevailed in Malayan markets during the week and the volume of transactions was the smallest to date this year. The slight easing in demand for both Rubber and Tin and reports of
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    Business done
    192 10 BUSINESS done in the Malayan Share Market last week included Industrials: Borneo Co. 23/9; Fraaer 6c Neave $3.70; Gammon $2.82 V. Hammer $42.00: Jackson &Co $2.50 and $2.25; Malayan Breweries $4.ttS and $4.95: Malayan Cement 90 cents; Paterson Simons 12/6; Robinson Ordinary $3.82 'a to $3.87 s Singapore
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    WORLD ROUGH RICE OUTPUT
    71 10 ■^TORLD production O f -o:i;?h rice in 1951-52 was estimated at 336.000.0r0.000 pounds by th© U.S. Agriculture Department. Th s compares with 339 533.000.0"0 pounds produced in 1950-51; 337,276.000/00 in *****0; and 335.696.000.C00 avfraije during the prewar years 1935-38. "Us year's rice crop in Asia was
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    Profit of over$2-m.
    150 10 UFNRY Waugh and Co.. Ltd. report their most successful year wtwn, on a record volume of business, a profit oi $2,161,877 was earned for 1951 which Is equivalent to H. 7 per cent. Final dividend at 15 per cent makes 25 pepr cent for the year on
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    Bukit Kepong Rubber Estates
    110 10 DUKIT Kepong Rubber Estates Ltd. sold its remaining mature rubber In 1850 and, in I*sl. confined its activities to the development of 282 acres of young rubber planted with selected material. War Damage Compensation brought $50,466 during the year and $3,826 since, representing 50 per cent
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    EXCHANGE TO MERCHANTS
    69 10 'TPHE Malayan Exchange Banks Association yesterday announced the following changes tn the agreed rates of exchange to merchants BUYING Air Mail T.T. O.n. SO d/st. N. York 33 33% 33' i Canada 33\ 32U Z2K Trade Bills N. York 33 5/li SELLING T.T./0.D./Ready New York 32% Canada
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    RAJ MAHAL'S SPEED UPSET VAN B STRING
    738 11 RAJ MAHAL'S SPEED UPSET VAN B STRING Derby outlook now changes From EPSOM JEEP, IPOH, Sunday. gIGGEST shock of the Derby Trial over 9f. here yesterday was the total eclipse of the van Breukelen stable's formidable Derby trio Curlew, Chantilly and Colonel Daly who failed to cope with the speed
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    26 11 Trainer J. R. Rodgers leads in Raj Mahal (McCloud) winner of the sixth race (Class 1 Div. I— 9F.) at Ipoh on Saturday. Straits Times picture.
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    22 11 MARVEL OF PERI (l.ansdown) being led m by trainer Tjoa after winning the third race at Ipoh on Saturday. Strata Times picture.
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    Kota Tinggi Bowmen took the honours
    199 11 If OTA Tinggi Bowmen took chief honours at the annual championships of the Archery Association of Singapore and Malaya at the Noval Base yesterday Winner of the Winston challenge cup for a double Western round was Mr. A. P. Rice (Kota Tinggi Bowmen) with
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    S.I.F.A. OFFICIALS
    85 11 More than 150 Indian football enthusiasts were present at the Tamil Brotherhood Assoclat:on club house at Farrer Park yesterday for the first annual general meeting of the Singapore Indian Football Association. Officials elected for the year: President: Mr. A. R. Lasarus: Hon. Sec.: Mr. N. Mohan; Asst. Hon.
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    PTC WEIGHTS FOR WEDNESDAY
    392 11 VV EIGHT S 'or all nine races at Ipoh on Wednesday (second day) are: CL. 1, Div. I— 6F. I Uninsured 9.02 Good Gamble 9.01 Arlington 8.11 No Regrets 8.10 Scotch Express 8.09 Majestic Scholar 8.07 Cherry Ling 8.01 Springbok 8.03 River Patrol 8.01 Zanzibar 8.00
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    Sports Diary
    42 11 SOCCER DIV. 1 S.R.C. t. Casuals, Jalan Besar; SCC v. BODCA, Padang. BUSINESS BOUSES LGE.: Shell v. Borneo Motors, at Shell; N.T.S. v. Bata, Farrer Park; Stanvac v. M.P.H., River Valley Road. FRIENDLY: V.M.C.A. v. Tuan Mong 0.8.A., Balestiar Plain.
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    Minesweepers win
    23 11 In a friendly soccer match played at Naval Base yesterday Nc. 6 Mims>weeping Squadron beat Jollilads by three goals to two.
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    Good gallop by Ladies Flame
    257 11 IPOH. Sun. LADIES FLAME (Lansdown) put up a splendid performance when she skipped over 3f. in 38 3/5 on the sand track here this morning. This speedy daughter of Flamenco is back at her best and on horn ground I confidently expect her to put
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    Eng Kim star in Ipoh win
    227 11 Eng Kim star in I poh win IPOH. Sun. GRAND display by Ipoh League XI enabled them to eliminate Kuala Kangsar District League s—l5 1 In £he first round of tne Perak tnter-district knockout soccer competition for the Cheng Wah Cup on the Chinese Assembly Hall ground today. It was
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    SULLIMAN WINS 50-m. CYCLING
    57 11 Breaking away 200 yards from the finish, 21-year-old Sulllman Awang (Cosmopolitan Cycling Club) beat youthful Mansoor bin Sawi (Malay Cycling Union) and Raymond Jenkins (Changi c.C) by two and three lengths respectively to win the Singapore Cycle Racing Association's 60 miles masMd-start road race held at
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    Police led—then lost by odd goal
    271 11 Police led then lost by odd goal Medical Workers Union 2 Police 1. l\/f EDICAL Workers defeated the Police by the odd iW goal in three in a fast and keenly contested same in their S.A.F.A. Second Division clash on the Police ground yesterday. Police had the better of the
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    Plucky boxer Steve wants to ride in speed trials
    384 11 Plucky boxer Steve wants to ride in speed trials By Our Boxing Reporter A HOSPITAL bed Is not the best place to spend a 2lst birthday, but smiling Steve Brian was making the best of it when I visited him in the General Hospital on Saturday eveni/.g— lust as hp
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    Konno is U.S. swim star
    164 11 NEW HEAVEN. Connecticut, Sun. JIAWAIIAN-bom Ford Konno established himself as United States' brightest hope for th» Olympic sv.immlnß events when he completed a "treble" in the Amateur Athletic Union swimming championships here last night. Konno won the 440 yards fre« style in 4min. 34.55ec. He
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    Civilians play for draw and succeed
    379 12 DA VENPORT AND REYNOLDS SHINE By Our Cricket Reporter SINGAPORE Civilians just managed to save their annual cricket match against Combined Services yesterday, for at close of their second innings they set Services the near-impossible task of making 30 runs in 10 minutes to
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    CHEOW TEIK 84
    59 12 PENANG, Sun— State player Eu Cheow Telk was in cop form today, scoring 84 runs for Chinese Recreation Club gainst P.WX). Sports Club in a game of cricket on Victoria Green. The match ended in c r rrc totalled 150 and P.WJ3. had replied with 135 runs
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    COAST CLUB WIN
    60 12 KOALA LUMPUR. Sun.— Selangor Coast Club Klang. beat Ducques Sports Club. Kuala Lumpur by five wickets at Klang today Ducques made 92 (A Borge SO: Otorge Laßrooy Bye for SI. J Bulner three for 23) Coast dub passed their opponents total with five wickets tn hand. They
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    Scoreboard
    229 12 CIVILIANS— 1ST. INNS.: 51 SKBVICES— 1ST. INNS. Capt. Reynold* not out F/Lt. Wood Ibw Sundram a Utat. Fisher b Sundram s«t. Ueeremani e Deradas Sundram a L£B Chaplin Ibw Sudram IS Capt. Dlplock e Heard b Thiam Slew IS MaJ. Bennett c Ede b Thiam Stow > I. dr.
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    La Faber hits 48 v. Techs
    63 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. RONNIE La Faber, former Selangor State cricketer, knocked up a bright 48 for Selangor Eurasian Association yes erday against Technical College Union at Brickfields. The match ended in a draw. Eurasians scored 89 and Techs had replied with 84 for nine
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    TIME ROBS YMCA OF VICTORY
    357 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. RICHARD BENJAMIN, the Selangor State footballer and F.A.S. hon secretary, again showed his prowess at cricket when he scored an unbeaten 71 at the rate of one-run a minute for P.W.D. Sports Club in their Stonor Shield game against V.M.C.A at Brickfields
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    SLAUGHTER TAKES 9 FOR 11
    374 12 JUNIOR CRICKET IN the only matches In the SCA Junior tournament in which an outright decision was In the balance, Dockyard Just failed to beat Sinhalese, who survived the last over of the day, and Teachers nearly won outright against seletar I. It was a
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    SAMSUDDIN 6-10 FOR DEW R.C.
    70 12 TELUK ANSON, Sun.— Oood bowling and batting by Samsuddln who took six wickets for 10 runs and scored 32 before retiring, enabled Dew Recreation Club to beat St. Anthony's School by 126 runs In a cricket league match today. Dew RC. scored 155 (Koenitz 31,
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    COMMANDOS WIN
    21 12 TAIPTNO, Sun.— ln aid of the Army Welfare Pund, 40 Commando yesterday played delightful soccer to beat Taiplng i-f>.
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    Two lifters qualify for Helsinki
    157 12 TWO of the six Sir.rapore weif hUlftert who attempted to equal or better the qcalifyinc mark set by the Singapore Olympic Sports Council were successful at their trial held at the Happy World Stadium last nlfht. They were Sl-year-old Lon bin Mohammed Noor (bantamweight) and
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    Colling takes 5 wkts. for 9
    247 12 SINGAPORE Recreation Club beat University of Malaya, by 74 runs In a game of cricket played on the- padang yestefuay. Recs. who started with a 54-run stand by J. Marters and W. Hay, scored 123 ar.a then dismissed University for 49 (Colling five for
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    Cooke hits bright 48
    199 12 po^iufc. opuris Club beat Indian Association by 91 runs In a cricket friendly played on the Police ground yesterday. police s.c. Cheah Kirn Swee c Ssndram b Madari If B. R*» 0 AngullU 1 X Delilkan c sundram b Anjulll* 4? X >.»nduNham b Gupte 17
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    Absent Mat Noor upset Johore
    328 12  -  CONRAD NG By HPHE SHADOWS lengthened A across the Kluang padang The referee glanced at his watch, lifted his whistle and blew; the game was over Singapore Combined Schools had won. So Johore combined Schools two-week-old "blue print for victory" came to a fruitless end
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    Sixth wicket stand brings 'Dog' win
    311 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. A SIXTH WICKET partnership of 59 runs by Harry Bennett (43) and Lt.-Col. D. Haig (30 not out) pulled Selangor Club out of a tight spot and enabled them to win by four wickets when they met Selangor Eurasian Association in
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    7-GOAL STORM HITS UNBEATEN KOTA RAJA
    294 12 Fathul Karib 7; Kota Raja 1. 'THESE young Rajas some of them still schoolboys A *tried desperately, eventually despairingly, right until the end, as their 59th minute goal testifies. But they were outclassed by a bigger and better team at Jalair Besar Stadium yesterday.
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    k.L. Chinese miss Catches
    113 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. GOOD batting by LakhblrSngh, Leslie Row and S. Dorai, coupled with some accurate bowling by T. R. Amln, helprd Selangor Indian Association to beat Selangor Chinese R.C. by 77 runs in a Stonor Shield cricket league fixture on the Taylor Road ground today.
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    LEE BROTHERS GET THE RUNS
    84 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. THE Lee 'brothers. Soon We» and Soon Lim, topscored for Selangor Chinese R.C. In their cricket match against Postal Union Athletic Club at Pudu Road yesterday. The game was drawn. Soon Llm made 42 and Soon Wee 30. SCRC totalled 120 (Saudagar
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    QUEEN ST. B.C. IN SHIELD FINAL
    75 12 Queen Street Boys Club beat Harbour Board Boys Club by 7-2 yesterday to enter the final of the Rayner Shield soccer competition. Scorers for Queen Street Boys Club were: Han Meng Guan (3), Krishnasamy (3) and Chandran for Harbour Board Boys Club Siak Khoo
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