The Straits Times, 14 May 1952

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYAN NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    IT'S 'WALK TO OFFICE' TODAY
    518 1 City busmen defy 'don't strike 9 warnings SINGAPORE will have only a skeleton bus service today. Busmen of the Traction Company last night voted to take a "day off" today, despite warnings that such action would t>e considered an illegal strike by the Government. And
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    KAMPONG MEN ROUT TERROR GANG, KILL 4
    207 1 r KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. IGNORING CALLS to surrender, Malays in a remote North Perak kampong today fought a fierce, half-hour battle with a strong bandit force and killed four of them. Two villagers were killed and the bandits captured the ketua and five
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    JOHORE BUSES 'GO SLOW
    78 1 JOHORE BUSES 'GO SLOW JOHORE BAHRU. Tues EMPLOYEES of the South Johore Bus Service adopted a go-slow policy yesterday as a protest against the company's delay in meeting their demands for better terms of service. Buses, which normally took one hour to reach Kulal from Johore Bahru. did the Journey
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    BAD MEMORY STRANDS 40
    41 1 GENEVA, Tues. Forty passengers In a British chartered plane were stranded here today when airport officials discovered the Spanish police had forgotten to return their passports, at Madrid. The documents are being rushed here by air.— U.P
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    Gas ends strike
    28 1 LOUISANA, Tues.— An am monia gas attack on 120 con victs ended a four-day hunger strike at a camp In the state penitentiary here yesterday—Reuter.
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    Gaol for aiding illegal strike
    59 1 KHARTOUM Tues.— Eleven executives of the Sudan Workers' Federation were today sentenced to two years imprisonment each for abettine an illegal strike. The strike was called on Apr 28 after the government had refused the unconditional release of the Federation's president and vice-president, gaoled for
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    The secrets are in
    66 1 THREE VILLAGE HEADMEN watch the High Commissioner, General Sir GeraM Tern pier opening the boxes of "bandit secrets" from their village one of the live-villages chosen for Operation Qwest ion Headmen from the villages travelled with their boxes to King's House so that they could be
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    Crowds queue for mail as union orders: No trouble
    482 1 THE WELL-BEHAVED STRIKERS THOUSANDS of people queued at Singapore post offices yesterday to collect 1 their mail. And 500 striking postmen and telegraph messengers were told: "The strike must be orderly. There must be no violence." The instruction was obeyed. There
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    Arbitration board urged by S'pore T.U.C.
    68 1 Arbitration board urged by S'pore T.U.C. SINGAPORE Trade Union Congress, at an emergency meeting last nigbt at the Clerical Services' Union, decided to ask Government immediately to appoint an arbitration board to end the postal strike. The governing council of the TIC. also discussed the Singapore Battery Workers' Union strike
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    THOMAS CUP SOUVENIR
    60 1 rE STRAITS TIMKS THOMAS CUP SOUVENIR which will be on sale all over Malaya next Wednesday, contains a full surrey of the world's leading badminton players. The 34-page Souvenir, which is in magazine form, has an attractive four- < 010u r cover. Every Malayan fan will want
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    Talks on oil dispute
    63 1 DENVER. Tues. WORKERS and employers will meet the Governments Wage Stabilisation Board later today to discuss the oil strike which has cut aviation petrol supplies in the United States and Eurooe Hopes for a solution of the dispute were raised yesterday by an agreement between Standard
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    Village burnt
    29 1 SEMARANO. Tues— A large number of village houses in Sirampek village in Central Java were set on fire by a gang of the Rebel Battalion 426— Reuter.
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    Premier's tour
    29 1 CANBERRA, Tues The Prime Minister. Mr Robert O. Meniles will leav e Canberra tomorrow on the first stage of his six-week visit to America and England.— ReuterA/.P.
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    Queen Mother sees troops
    44 1 ST. ANDREWS, Scotland. Tues.— The Queen Mother, in her first public engagement since the death of her husband. King George VI, today bade God-speed to men of the Black Watch Regiment on the eve of their departure for Korea. Reuter.
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    Man detained after stabbing
    31 1 Singapore police detained a Chinese following the stabbing of a Malay. Hamld bin Abdullah, in Fort Canning Road last night. Hamid's cqpdltlon was stated to be serious.
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    Trawler seized
    21 1 LONDON, Tues. Russian vessels have arrested the British fishing trawler Valda Bay oJ the north coast of Russia.— Reuter.
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    British paper mill in U.S.
    40 1 SOUTHAMPTON, Tues —A ne.v $55,000,000 newsprint mill of Britain's Bowater Paper Corporation will be in production at Charleston. Tennesse. by the end of March, 1954, the Corporation's chairman Sir Eric Bowater. said here today.— Reuter.
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    THE ODD MAN OUT
    59 1 SALAMAT BIN AHMAD, with 17 years service, was the only postman who reported for duty at the Singapore Post Office yesterday. "1 am not a member of the union he said. But Balamat was not asked o deliver the malls. He spent the day In the
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    Moscow gets note today
    39 1 LONDON, Tues. BRITAIN, France and the United States have approved their reply to the latest Russian note on Germany. It will be handed over In Moscow today, a usually reliable source said in London.. —Reuter.
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    PIRATES MURDER 500 ON ISLE OFF BORNEO
    92 1 MANILA, Tuesday. rpHE massacre ot more than 500 natives of the L island of Dalawan, off the British North Borneo coast, by Filipino Muslim pirates was reported today. Philippine National Defence authorities immediately began investigating the report from a detachment commander at Sitangkal
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    Reds block road
    27 1 BERLIN, Tues. The Russians today bottled up both ends of the Berlin -Helmstedt Autobahn and prevented Allied patrol cars from entering either way.— AP.
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    NOTE ON TRIESTE
    18 1 BELORADE. Tues. Yugoslavia today handed Brltal and the United States a not on Trieste —Renter.
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    Sir Gerald, the Yogi& the Crisis
    115 1 Sir Gerald, the Yogi- the Crisis KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. 'THE HIGH COMMISSIONER, Gen. Sir Gerald Templer, today met Yogi Sri Shuddhananda Bharati and asked him what could be done to end the Emergency. "You can do it only by educating the children and their parents," the Yogi said. Sir Gerald:
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    Australian beef for Singapore
    60 1 CANBERRA, Tues. The Australian Commerce Minister, Mr. John McEwen said today he did not believe Australia would be able to export beef to Britain this year because of a drought in the Northern Territory. He added Britain had agreed that Australia should supply Hong Kong and
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    Rubber goes up another 1 3/4 cts.
    222 1 Rubber goes up another 1 3/4 cts. 7FHE price of rubber conA tinued to rise on the Singapore market yesterday and May first grade closed at 871 cents— a gain of 1] cents over Monday's close. The market was a good deal healthier, dealers said yesterday and there wa s
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    Turn homes into schools plea
    45 1 LONDON. Tues— A plan to turn some of England's stately homes, which their owners can no longer afford to maintain. Into schools for Commonwealth students as a memorial to the King has been proposed by a New Zealand businessban. Reuter.
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    Hunger march
    34 1 NEW DELHI. Tues— Police with lathis rushed to Parliament House today as 3,000 Communist- led demonstrators staged a hunger march to coincide With the flxst meeting of the new elected House. —Reuter.
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      1235 2 "notice With reference to the Strike of the Postal A Telecommunications Uniformed Btaff Union, the Director of Teleconrmunicattons, Singapore, advises that the follor Ing telegrams are available for collection at the Telegram Delivery Section. Ground Floor, Pullerton Building, opposite Messrs. Whlteaway Laidlaw. 2. Telegram addressees should apply In person with
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    KOJE CAMP CHIEF LOSES POST
    396 3 KO JE CAMP CHIEF LOSES POST Note gave false impressions PRISONERS WERE NEVER ARMED TOKYO, Tuesday. DRIG.-GEN. Charles Colson was today relieved of hi« command of Koje prison camp after submitting to Communist demands to gain the release of the former commander, Brig.-Gen. Francis T. Dodd. Gen. James Van Fleet,
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    Nuncio will stay at post
    117 3 MANILA, Tues. rK Department of Justice has opposed a petition from a labour organisation for the deportation of the ?apal Nuncio to the Philippines, Monsignor Egidio VagnozzJ (above) and an American Jesuit priest, Father Walter H»gan. The petition was based on alleged meddling by the
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    Steel for beans
    29 3 TOKYO. Tues Japanese traders have opened negotiations with Chinese Communist firms to try to arrange a barter of Japanese steel goods for Chinese soya beans. Reuter.
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    CEYLON RUBBER FOR REDS
    125 3 CEYLON RUBBER FOR REDS COLOMBO. Tues. rE Polish freighter Kilinskl is expected to leave here later this week with a shipment of Ceylon rubber for Taku Bar. port for Tientsin. The freighter arrived in Colombo two weeks ago and has so far taken 14.500 tonof rubber. This is Ceylon's "sixth,
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    Hunger march in Delhi
    47 3 NEW DELHI, Tues —Police with lathis rushed to Parliament House today as 33,000 CommunLst-led demonstrators staged a hunger march to coincide with the first meeting of the new elected House. The Communists carried a banner of the Prime Minister. Mr. Nehru, labelled "imperialist/]—Reuter.
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    LAND ON EASY TERMS
    38 3 TEHERAN, Tues. The Persian Government ha* decided to take steps to distribute government lands among peasants in a move to offset the influence of Communism Peasants will pay in instalments over 20 years. U.P.
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    Ships held up
    33 3 KARACHI. Toes- Nineteen ships were held ud here today b y a strike of 4.000 docker,s ioi mare money, shorter hours bonuses and a registration scheme for casual workers.— Reuter
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    HALF THE WORLD IS DISEASED SAYS UN
    86 3 NEW YORK, Tues. i\NE half af the world i popnlation is still Illfed, iH-h»used, illiterate and riddled with disease aeevWHag to United Nations world aaeial report the first of Us kind— published here today But, it added, the growiag "social conscience of nations
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    S.A. courts bill 'a fraud '—Strauss
    168 3 CAPETOWN, Tuesday. VfR. J (J. N. Strauss, leader of the United Party iU Opposition, told the House of Assembly yesterday that his party will now "completely wash its The United Party, he said, will have nothing to do with the bill. The bill gives
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    RAF units for defence of Europe
    153 3 PARIS. Tues. BRITISH air squadrons in Germany will be detached to serve with the European Army as part of a ulan to boast the striking power of the six-nation defence force in its early stages, diplomatic sources said yesterday. Field Marshal Viscount Alexander. British
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    Pact ratified
    19 3 MANILA Tues —The Sen- ,"«vwterr«'v ratified ibr United States-Philipoiaes'; mutual defence pact by 28 to G.-M P.
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    GREEK ROYAL COUPLE AT BALL
    41 3 kING PALL AND QUEEN FKEDERIKA of Greece join in the Greek national dance at a ball given in the Parnassus Literary dob in Athens recently. Proceeds will help poor nifht school rtu dents.— A J. picture.
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    Supreme Court hears arguments
    238 3 U.S. STEEL SEIZURE WASHINGTON, Tuesday. PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S seiiure of the U.S. steel industry was attacked in the Supreme Court yesterday as an "usurpation" of power impelled by no necessity, and defended as an act vital to i _.~__i«.. national security. Presenting the divergent arguments to the
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    Saucers again
    17 3 OUJDA (French Morocco). Tuea.— Tv#o "flying saucers" were today reported flying across French Morocco. Renter
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    Asia has new standards
    66 3 NEW YORK, Tues. A UNITED Nations world social report, issued today said "tremendous" obstacles economic, social and psychological still stand in the way of social development In South and SouthEast Asia. "It would be foolish to minimise the treoMDdoaa obstacles economic, social and psychological that stand
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    DEMAND FOR WESTERLING
    36 3 THE HAGUE. Tues.-Indo-nesia asked Holland today to torn Raymond "Turko" Westerllng. Officials declined to reveal on what grounds the request was made.— P.P. Japs expel Koreans TOKYO, Twes^fapan yesterday deported 406 Koreans AP.
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    PURCHASE TAX ON TEXTILES CUT
    68 3 LONDON Taeatoy. 111. EICHAJtD BTTLER, Chancellor of the Eache^tjer. Jl last ■Ight ihimiil S £17JMJM a year r.t la teSlle ««4««tTy r whic* ha. IMAM •jntwatoyed. This means thai the BrMa* P^fte wfll par lew fw ctetbes, fMtvev. ftovca. ctoth and ha«irt>pld tcs•l h«aw thai
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    LONDON STOCKS
    320 3 Markets dull LONDON, fftH. DISAPPOINTING trade flgurea for April, tad account tnflii;nces and the distillers' Issue all :ombined to bring about renewei iullneas In the Btock Markrti Hie only relief was provided by imall bear covering In the minus sections. OUMftds continued to fall iway In quiet dealings,
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    London Tin Price
    26 3 LONDON. Ma v 13 Cash Buyer* £M*4; Sellers €961 Forward Buyers £9S»; Sellers £Mti; Settlesaeat tW3; (down £1)). Turnover: a.m. M; p.m. 6t.
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    U.K. RUBBER
    32 3 LONDON, May 13— Spot 3«d., June 25%»d.. July-Sept. 25' 4 d., Oct-Dec. 24' d, Jan.-Mar. 23% d. May all SS'-d, June c.l.f. 25 .d, July ci.f. 23d. 4 Mnrfcet: Quiet
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    U.S.told: Send missionaries to help, in new villages
    355 4 U.S. told: Send missionaries to help, in new villages METHODIST TOUR OF MALAYA ENDS IPOH, Tuesday. AMERICA has been asked for more missionaries to help in the new villages in the Fede ration. This is one result of the survey made by a committee of the Methodist Mission of Malaya.
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    Hid oats in bucket
    86 4 SEREMBAN. Tues. A RUBBER tapper. Chin Ah Choon. aged 25. was sentenced by the Seremban Magistrate to flvp months' imprisonment for hiding five tins of oats In a latex bucket which was covered with cloth Chin left Parei resettlement camp U. tap rubber on a nearby
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    PIRATE TAXI' MAN FINED
    53 4 ICLUANG, Tues. Ponnu«amy, charged at Kluang with carrying passenger* for hire without a permit and without an insurance policy, wad fined $50, or 10 days' gaol on each charge. He was disqualified from driving, for 12 months. The sum of $1 40 he received as hire
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    THREE JUNGLE WOMEN ARE TOLD: LEAVE YOUR LEADERS
    204 4 THREE JUNGLE WOMEN ARE TOLD: LEAVE YOUR LEADERS ALOR STAR. Tues. rfW'ENTY THOUSAND leaf--1 lets will be dropped in tbe Kedah jungles in the next few days calling on nine bandits, including three women, to "leave the dark and come back again into brightness." The leaflets are signed by a
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    SIR CHENGLOCK IN KL TALKS
    123 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. SIR CHENG-LOCK TAN. president of the Malayan Chinese Association, held a two-hour conference with Mr. H. S. Lee, president of the association's Selangor branch, and Mr. P. H. Tan. of Negri Sembllan. in Kuala Lumpur today. The MCA "'superman", Mr. Yap Mau
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    UMNO branch to meet
    42 4 The Singapore branch of the United Malays National Organisation will hold its annual meeting at 2 p.m. on Sunday. The meeting will discuss the Singapore elections, party programmes, and plans to observe the sixth anniversary of the UMNO.
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    Blackout
    89 4 SUB-STATIONS liable U lomd shedding today are: Sal Union Building, Malayan Brewery, A. B.C. Brewery, Diethelm Co.,' Tanglln Rd., Phoenix Park, St. Jamrs. Mirl Rd., Silat Rd.. Bukit Pasoh, 8.A.T., Trafalgar St., Anton Rd., Ttong Bahru. BagO St., Ramah St., People s Park, Nanson Rd., Lam Soon Oil Mills,
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    WOMAN CHARGED
    43 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. A woman, Krishnamal. was charged in the Johore Bahru General Hospital today with attempting to commit suicide by throwing herself from the third floor of the hospital. She will be tried after she has recovered frotn her Injuries.
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    DIED AFTER ROW OVER RADIO, COURT TOLD
    111 4 BUTTERWORTH, Tuesday. a QUARREL between two brothers, Krishnan and A Manikam, over their father's radio set, resulted in the death of Krishnan, an RAF labourer. This was related in the Butterworth Court today when Manlkam was tentatively charged with th« murder of Krishnan
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    schedule
    107 4 I SulUn. Beach Kd.. Alhambra, Baffles Hotel, Satnbawa Kd., Boon Tat St., Aljunid Kd., Sims Avenue, Paya Lebar Pumps. Joo Chiat Place, Jalan Yasin, Jalan r uno« R»njoon Kd., 1 owner Kd.. Srran toon Rd.. Sennett Estate, Kolam I Ayer, McPhenon Rd.. Kirn (hnan Rd., Boundary Rd., Florence Rd.,
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    Labour to form a national council
    127 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. A NATIONAL COUNCIL of Malayan Labour Parties is to be formed shortly. Mr. K. C. Chia, chairman of the Selangor Labour Party, today told the Straits Times that this was a preliminary step towards the formation of a Malayan Labour Party.
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    Youth rally for Queen's birthday
    110 4 Youth rally for Queen s birthday IPOH. Tues. rpHE QUEEN'S birthday celeA brat ions on Thursday, June 5. will be marked by a grand youth rally to be held on the town padang when about 1.000 boys and girls* will stage a march-past. Organised by the Perak Youth Council, the
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    Ammo in hospital
    31 4 JOHORE BAHRU, TUfS. A hospital attendant today found four rounds of ammunition in the compound of the General Hospital. The ammunition has- been handed oter to the police.
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    MOTHER, SON SLASHED
    127 4 MOTHER, SON SLASHED MALACCA, Tues. MRS, J. R. VAZ, an Indian housewife aged 28. was I slashed with a parang several j times by a man in her house today. Her sen, seven-year- j old Francis, who pleaded with i the man not to attack his I mother, was also
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    Frisby praises these pupils
    215 4 Frisby praises these pupils SINGAPORE'S retiring Director of Education, Mr. A. W. Frisby. in a i tarewell broadcast last night paid a triDute lo tne type of pupils in the school certificate and post-school certificate classes "They seem to have an allroundness that wax lacking m tbe earnest seekers after
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    Smugglers fined $7,850
    90 4 PENANO, Tues. AN early morning raid on the motor vessel Hal Hin led to five members of the crew, described by the prosecution as "smugglers," being fined a total of $7,850 in the First Magistrate's Court nere this afternoon. The five accused, Chan I Yong Kirn. Tan
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    Fell from house
    41 4 i A labourer Chan Kow 56, was seriously Injured yestt rday when he fel. from the i second storey of a house being built at Somerville Estate, off Holland Road, Singapore. He was admitted to the General Hospital
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    Squatters fined
    41 4 KLUANO. Tues.— For occupying State '-and without a licence, chin Teck, Lee Yong, Lee Boon, Ong Tai Soo, Yang Ah Yin. Wong Mok. Low Shan. Loh Kue Yeng. Yoo Sang and Ne Sen K Wah were fined $25 each
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    THE FIRST-DAY CRISIS POST WENT SMOOTHLY, SAYS GOVT.
    263 5 Difficulties beaten— but collect your mail daily CjPECIAL postal arrangements which came into effect yesterday in Singapore because of the postmen's strike worked smoothly. Government stated last night. Uoexpectedly, few people called to collect mail at the General Post Office. People are
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    75 5 WELFARE OFFICERS are scouring the Federation and Singapore for Mr. K P. Gopalakrishnan (above) who walked oat or his home in Trmvancore In India in 1947 and has not been heard of since November the following year in Kuala Lumpur. The missing man worked as a clerk in the Kuala
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    Revival meetings
    110 5 SINGAPORE Christian Youth Council will sponsor a series of inter-denominational youth revival meetings in the Colony from May 26 to May 29 with the Rev. Joe Kennedy, delegate from the United States to the recent AllMalaya Methodist Youth Fellowship Institute, as speaker. Mr. Eric Wee Sian Be.ng of
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    Tell people about army, 164 urged
    164 5 DRIGADIER E. J. MONTGOMERY, head Of Ad- ministration, Headquarters, Singapore Base District, told 164 soldiers at their passing out parade yesterday to go to their kampongs and tell the people about the Army. "Tell them about the training you have received and the skills
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    REVIVAL MEETING
    23 5 Singapore Christian Youth Council is sponsoring a series of Interdenominational youth revival meetings In Singapore from May 26 to May 29.
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    He made false declaration
    54 5 KOTA BAHRU, Tues.— For falsely declaring before a Commissioner of Oaths that he had never been convicted on a criminal charge, DerLs bin Said was sentenced to two months' imprisonment by the Circuit Magistrate. Inche Wan Mustapha. Deris had a conviction for theft and had served
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    LICENCE BOARD
    30 5 PORT DICKSON, Tues The second half-yearly session of the Port Dickson Licensing Board will be held the District Office, Port lckson, on Thursday June il at 3 p.m.
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    Sultan has a quiet birthday
    131 5 Sultan has a quiet birthday KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. rpHE SULTAN of Selangor i 1 spent his 54th rirthday In the quietness of his palace at Taylor Road, Kuala Lum pur. For most part of the day he was alcne with thz Tengku Ampuan Nearly all his palace staff including his
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    Red propaganda reappears
    52 5 Red propaganda reappears PENANO. Tues. -After ft iull of several months, a Communist pamphlet reappeared in Penan* today The document was found in Maxwell Road. it had been thrown on the ground in (ropt °f tl Chung Hwa Middle School. P«ice described the Damphlets as seditious, but would not disclose
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    Hospital fund got $18,218
    56 5 Hospital fund got $18,218 Three special efforts by the ladles' committee of the St Andrews Cathedral War Memorial Fund last month raised $18,218 The fun fair and dance at the Bea View Hotel brought in $8,306, the bridge and mahjong party at Chatsworth House $2,141 and the car raffle run
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    THEY WILL BE JUDGES AT MOTOR SHOW
    121 5 rE acting Commissioner of Police. Mr. Nigel Morris, the British Adviser to Johore Mr. J Falconer, and the Singapore Traffic Police chief. Mr W R. M. Haxworth. will act as Indies on Sunday week at the Concours d"Elei?ance which the Singapore Automobile Association
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    Exams cause corruption, say students
    134 5 Exams cause corruption, say students EXAMINATIONS give rise to Hi corruption. Records show that teachers have been convicted of selling testpapers to candidates This wa s one of the arguments given at a debate at St. Andrew's School, Singapore, yesterday, in support of the motion, "Examinations, being obsolete, must be
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    PAIN LED HER TO TAKE CAUSTIC SODA
    87 5 PAIN LED HER TO TAKE CA USTIC SODA A MIDDLE-AGED woman, Tan Lek Khim. told the Singapore Coroner. Mr. E. Ebert yesterday that on the evening of Apr. 6 her mother-in-law. Yeo Ah Kee, rushed up to riei. crying and shouting, and holding a cup containing caustic .soda She said
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    2,000 sail for Mecca today
    167 5 2,000 sail for Mecca today YEARLY 2,000 Muslims from all over Malaya will sail today in the Tyndareus on her first pilgrim voyage to Mecca this year. The ship has been repainted and refurbished— at a cost of nearly $50,000 -specially for the SlngaporeJeddah run. A Singapore firm completed the
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    SHE SPAT: $20
    32 5 Lim Bee Choo, a 17-year-old girl, was yesterday fined $20 or four days' imprisonment by Singapore Third Police Court Magistrate, Mr. H. B. Livingstone for spittlng in the court.
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    Mr. G. A. Machado
    27 5 TAIPINQ. Tues.— Mr. O. A. Machado. of King Edward VII School is going to Tapah as headmaster of the Government English School there.
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      87 5 V.M.f.A.. chess club, 5 pm Malay class 5.30 p.m.; Judo, bodybuilding and gymnastics 5.30 p.m; Art Club 0 pm; literacy class, 8 p.m.: educational film show. 8 p.m T.W.C.A., Katong group meeting St Hildas School. 4 p.m. R..V0.8. Grand Council's Pride Of The Bast Lodge, weekly meetIng. 44-C. Raffles Quay,
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    DEATHS
    114 6 MRS. MARY JOBEPHINE (nee Lily Pereira. widow of the late Martin Pereira. passed away peacefully at the General Hospital Singapore, on 13.5.52. The cortege I will leave 11, Pulasan Road, at 4 30 p.m. on 14.5.52, for the. Church of St. Joseph and thence to Bidadari. ON 12th May.
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      Postmen On Strike
      601 6 The manner in which 'the I Singapore postmen's diispute i was allowed to reach the strike stage reflects no credit on either the union or the Government negotiators. The last minute offers made by the Government could have been made weeks ago, when they might have done
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      The Federation's Power
      503 6 There are passages in the annual report of the Central Electricity Board which will be read with some concern by those in the Federation whose businesses depend upon an adequate supply of power. The report emphasises the j deterioration of the fuel position in the Federation, and
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    THE GUIDED MISSILE'S FUTURE IN WARFARE
    1013 6 Dr. W. R. Dornberger Former Major-General in the German Army, in charge of the military and technical V 2 rocket programme in the last war, describes the difficulties NEW YORK. iy HEN, in the summer of 1944, the German VI started its bombardment of
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      THE POSTAL STRIKE
      189 6 BESIDES announcing restrictions and suspensions of postal services in the event of a strike, can the Singapore Government tell us whether the uniformed staff of the Postal and Telegraphs Department are paid a living wage? Or are their requests unreasonable? We must know. Otherwise how can the
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      MUCH TALK OF CORRUPTION
      141 6 rl* to be deplored that there should be so much talk of police corruption; It does not make for public confidence. How mucn Is true and how much conjecture, possibly malicious conjecture to undermine public confidence, only those in authority can know. In your Issue of
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      'Minimum wages' in the Colony
      729 6 I READ with great interest Dato Paglar's criticisms of the present waxes situation in this Colony (Straits Times. May 9.i I atsrte entirely with the Dato's remarks and I could I clarify still more what he i 1 said by adding some rather unpleasant details
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    On the Margin
    415 6 On the Margin Ilot spot* THE trouble Is that If you keep the office window shut you wilt and die, gently, like a parched flower; and if you open the window, as often as not, a playful breeze of about Force Eight on the Beaufort* Scale comes dancing In, papers
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    Malayan Airways to cut all flights overseas
    253 7 Malayan Airways to cut all flights overseas OIL STRIKE IN U.S. HITS TRAVEL HERE MALAYAN Airways will cancel flights to Bangkok, Mergui, Rangoon and Saigon from Monday because of the strike of oil refinery workers in America. Supplies of high octane aviation petrol for Malaya will be cut by nearly
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    65 7 AWAITING their turn to collect their mall, this group were early callers at the special delivery counter at Singapore General Fort Office yesterday. Straits Times picture. SECTION of the crowd which called at the special counter of the Singapore General l£t Office yesterday to collect their mail. Below, wome n
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    Doctor returns
    28 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues,— Dr. P. S. Raman has returned from leave in India. He is now attached to the General Hospital, Johore Bahru, as acting Pathologist.
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    Mail issue schedule
    135 7 A LARGE number of people are not following the delivery arrangements for callers at the Singapore General Post Office for addresses in Postal District Nos. 1. 2 and 7. said a Government statement last night. The public have not been callIng for their mail at the stipulated
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    Dance display tonight
    74 7 A dance programme will be given in the Victoria Theatre Singapore at 8 p.m today by 15-year-old Miss Prasanna Balan, who is leaving the Colony shortly to study classical dancing and music In India. Miss Leina Mahavan Miss Rosip Lav, Miss June Merton. Miss Molly Risdaie and
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    Nicoll orders probe into leak
    112 7 THE Governor of Singapore, Mr. J. F. Nicoll, has started an inquiry into unauthorised and premature dissemination of information about preparations for the Queen's birthday on June S. Mr. Nicoll ha« objected to a report in a local English language newspaper that there will be
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    Indian traders throw a party
    60 7 A COMMITTEE of 20 Singapore Indian merchants last night gave a dinner to say farewell to the retiring Indian Trade Commissioner, In Malaya Sardar Jogindra Singh, and to welcome his successor Mr J Coelho. Sardar Jogindra Singh Is leaving on the Carthage to become Under-Secretary
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    Gods angry over being asked for 'sure thing'
    185 7 r PENANG, Tues. E GODS are angry. A leaflet distributed by the Chooi Bee Kiong Temple reprimands Penang house wives for playing the "It* characters" game and forgetting their everyday affairs. fhe temple says that one deity entered a mediums body last
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    Bandit gives up
    11 7 Another terrorist surrendered to the police on Monday.
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    UNUSUAL SAYS MR EVANS
    86 7 UNUSUAL SAYS MR EVANS rpHE humorous French film JL Clochemerle, which deals with the uproar caused in a small village by the building of a public convenience, is to be submitted to a special committee for comments before the pan-Malayan film censor, Mr. Jack Evans, makes an v further decision.
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    Girls charge: Woman cleared
    89 7 I 46-year-old woman, Yong Lav, of Tiong Poh Road, Tiong Bahru, was acquitted in Singapore First Police Coart yesterday on a charge' of trying to persuade two young girls to be prostitutes. Yong was alleged to have asked Au Ngau Lai and Au Swee Bum. both
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    FATHER FINDS A BRIDE FOR HIS DEAD SON
    212 7 FATHER FINDS A BRIDE FOR HIS DEAD SON PENANG, Tuesday. ANE of the world's strangest marriages has taken place in Penan g where a Chinese tailor held a nuptial ceremony for his dead son. The bride and bridegroom both dead were represented by effigies. The tailor had been ill for
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    Gurkhas kill two bandits, wound two
    84 7 KUALA LUMPUR Tues. A PLATOON of the 1/7 Gurkhas killed two terrorists and wounded two others near Bcremban, in Negrl Sembilan. yesterday The Gurkhas spotted four terrorists and a civilian and opened fire. One terrorist was killed, and the other three, who were wounded,
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    Tired of looking at himself
    51 7 Urn Keng Chwee. 43, who said he was tired of looking at an old photograph of himself in his Identity card, was fined $50 in Singapore yesterday for fixing an unauthorised new photograph on his card. LJm who pleaded guilty, was arrested at a road
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    Strike hits Federation
    77 7 KI'ALA LUMPUR, Tuts. SECOND class mail parcels, cash on delivery and express delivery services from the Federation to Singapore have been suspended due to the postal strike in the Colony. Such mail to Singapore will not be accepted until the str>ke is over. Second class mail includes
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    Mr. MacG visits Seremban
    43 7 SEREMBAN Tues. rPHE Deputy High CommlsA sioner, Mr. D. C. MacOillivray, accompalned by Mrs. MacGillivray. paid his first visit to Seremban today. Soon after his arrival, Mr. MacOillivray called on the Yang di-Pertuan Besar at his home in Seremban.
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    LORRIES' BURNT
    25 7 Lorries were set on fire by t terrorist* in th e Johore Bahru area of Johore and the Sungel Patani area of Kedah.
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    Traffic plan for the races
    185 7 Traffic plan for the races IOINGAPORE1 OINGAPORE TRAFFIC Police, as an experiment, are going to route all traffic for Saturday* race meeting through the Singapore Turf Club members' entrance, to try to ease the congestion. If the plan does not work, Ufey will revert to the old system for the
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    Had no time
    51 7 CHAN KONG GEE, a clerk, who told the Singapore Third Police Court that he could not afford to waste time to have the correct particulars of his identity card endorsed, was fined $20 yesterday. He pleaded guilty to charge of falling to give correct particulars in his
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    Schoolgirl's fall from bus
    45 7 The Singapore Coroner. Mr. E. Ebert. found yesterday that Fong Tuck Ying. a 14--year-old schoolgirl of the Ken* Cheng School, had met her death when she accidentally fell from a bus travelling along Thomson Road at 8.15 a.m. on Apr. 5.
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    SERGEANT ATTACKED SUPERIOR
    190 8 AN Army Depot police ser- geant was severely re- j i primanded by a Singapore court martial at Bullev Camp, off Alexandra Road, yesteri day for assaulting Staff Quarter-Master Sergeant W. i C. Gridnrod during a social at 223 8.0.D. Sergeants' Mess l on Mar. 20 this
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    'BRING RENT LAW INTO LINE WITH ACTS IN ENGLAND'
    587 8 'BRING RENT LA W INTO LINE WITH ACTS IN ENGLAND' Legislature has remedy, says fudge \|R. JUSTICE ROGERS, commenting in Singapore High Court yesterday on the application of the "greater hardship section" of the Control of Rent Ordinance to business premises, suggested the advisability of bringing the local Ordinance into
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    Today's Radio SINGAPORE
    163 8 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 10 am. News: 10.05 Rendeavou* with the Stars; 10.45-12 .Schools; 100pm Ethel Smith at the Hammoud Organ: 1.30 News; 1.43 Lunchtime Prom; 2-3.20 Schools: 617 Hobbies; 640 Radio String Ensemble; 7 News; 7.15 ThU i» I Communism; 7.25 Interlude: 7.50 I Rhythm Club; 8.00 Jack Smith Show:
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    STRIKE: GOVT. TO BE QUESTIONED
    146 8 THE Government's failure to set up a representative negotiating machinery to hear the grievances of its employees will be raised in Tuesday's meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council by Mr. C. R. DasaratharaJ (Laboi"-— R^hnno The Colonial Secretary, Mr. i W. L. Blythe, told th«-
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    Girl charged with theft
    75 8 PENANO. Tues. A 19- year-old girl. Fong Slew Hung, today claimed trial to i stealing $140 worth of cloth- ing belonging to Major Chandler at the Minder; Barracks, Olugor, on May 6, or alternatively dishonestly retaining the stolen property. The property concerned consisted of two pairs
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    Marine charged with robbery
    301 8 JUDGE TRANSFERS CASE ANG AH KIM, a waitress employed at a coffee stall in the New World, Singapore, alleged in the Singapore First District Court yesterday that after she had had intimacy with a Marine Commando on Apr. 20, he stole her purse containing $56 and
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    12 Queen's Scouts to get awards
    155 8 12 Queen 's Scouts to get awards rELVE Queen's Scouts in the Colony wtt receive their Royal Certificate from Mr John F. Nicoll. Governor and Chief Scout of Singapore, at the annual general meetlne of the Council of the Boy 3?outs' Association. Singapore, at Sands' House in Armenian Street, on
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    Full attendance at Rotary tea
    37 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— There was a full attendance at the Johore Rotary Clubs tea meeting today. Dato Haji Eusoff, District Rotary Governor, addressed the members on the scope and functions of Rotary.
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    MURDERED
    12 8 Terrorists murdered a ciYllian In the Kulal area of Johore ye&terday.
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    WOMAN FINED
    31 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Charlotte Oranville was fined $25 in the Johotfe Bahru Police Court today for not obtaining an identity card. She arrived in Malaya about two months ago.
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    BANDIT KILLED
    24 8 A patrol of the Ist Kings African Rifles killed one terrorist and woundtd another in the Bentong area of Pahang on Monday.
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      324 8 27. Produce a style of c©»Straits Times Crossword .>. —>^____ < i DOWN I Is I 4 I i I Id I L Those wno are put to It I die, of course (5).. tlid b^i 2 Altered aim fit to be li^H fcJgH I^l 3. Some men are born
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      DELIA DOVE RUNS INTO PLENTY OF TROUBLE
      903 9 "lIAVE you heard the n news?" asked Padlo the Pigeon. "Downright disgraceful, I call it. "No, what news?" enquired his friend, Paddy. "What's happening?" "Why I've just heard that the dove cote is going to set up in business taking messages," said Padlo.
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      Make A Picture From This Map
      275 9 Make A Picture From This Map I want you to trace it on a sheet of paper leaving out the word "Malaya", and turning it any way you wish make it into something etse Our own artist thought that it looked like the side view of a funny old man
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      Your Queries Answered
      406 9 A reader who does not give his name asks: "Who invented the gun and when?' MOST people agree that a German monk named Schwaitz invented the first nrearrrt sometime in the 14th ce.itury. The weapons used at this time were simple afTairs consisting of a brass or
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      Talking Of Stamps
      310 9  -  Uncle Bill By Norway has just msuea a stamp to commemorate the 250 th anniversary of the birth of Ludvig Holberg, a man who started life as a student of divinity and ended as a distinguished playright. Holberg was born at Bergen, Horway, when that country was
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      22 9 DLEASE enrol me as a member of Hie Children Corner Wise Owls Club, and send me badge. NAME ADDRESS DATE OF BIRTH
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      12 9 C.C.C. Collect six of these coupons to join the Children's Comer Club.
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    Australian Stock Exchange
    156 10 Australian Stock Exchange Froni Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE, Tues. /COMMONWEALTH bonds suffered further selling pressure on the Stock Exchange toeday and 13 Issues weakened after brisk trading. Largest move was a fall at £1 in the 3'« per cent 1960 Lean. Investments continued to tag on light dealings. Pew moves
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    WOOL SALES
    38 10 From Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE, Tues. U>ARLY price* at the Adelaide wool sates, «hrrh opend today, shrwed a definite rise on previous Adelaide values and were in line with Urn recent PerU» sales. Bidding was general.
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    H.K. EXCHANGE
    34 10 HONG KONG. TuM. ■p»REE market currency exchange of Hong Kong ejollars was quoted at the eJ«s* today as follows: US$l HKMNS irasri' HK56.575 (T.T.); HKJIS 95 One taei of gold $300 25.
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    New York Rubber
    21 10 1 S.S. Sept. 1952 (in U.S. ly cents):— Friday's Monday's closing closing 29.25 and zx.lu traded 29.3S tradrd
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    JOSEPH TRAVERS AND SONS
    29 10 JOSEPH TRAVERS AND SONS 'produce merchants) Ordln- ary dividend 1« per cent, on increased capital fi*. per cent. assuming same capital) to January 28. 1952.
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING
    218 10 CHTFB a'.ontside the Siocaporc Harboar Board godownm. or rzpectnl there *t 7 m today. UK 1/2 CirUitfr; 4/5 BinUnj. Co*! Plant kltrudu' 4 7 Free. aUnisoa: t/% Br»«lo>r. 11 Mapta: 11/14 DenM«t> ahtre: IS/ .6 Steel ArtUaii: 18 PrM Oarflelfl: 19/10 Pemb»; NH Srraai pant NWI Tuoc Sons:
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    RUBBER GAINS 13/4 CTS ON FIRMER MARKET
    201 10 RUBBER GAINS 1 3/4 CTS ON FIRMER MARKET 87 1/4 cts. at steady close By Our Market Correspondent WITH a moderate turnover yesterday, rubber gain ed 1| cents on the Singapore market and May first grade closed at 87i cents per lb. The tone of the martcet 1 i was
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    TIN: $481 A PICUL
    12 10 SINGAPORE. Tues. Hay 13 $481 a plcul (down
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    London Prices
    22 10 London Stock Market chahget and latest prices in TJX. for tin ana rubber will appear on Page 3 in future.
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    April tin imports
    97 10 JLf ALAYA imported 590 tons of x Un concentrates In April— 136 tons below the total for March. Import* for the first four months of this year were 2,515 tons, 1.065 tons less "h in for the same period last year. Last month*, imports of tin metal
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    Malayan Shares
    184 10 Rubbers down RUBBER shares were marked down to more realistic 'levels on the Malayan Sharp Market yesterday. Buyers continued to be reserved in this section. Tins and Industrials were barely steady. Yes erday's price changes announced by the Malayan Share Brokers' Association were: Hear? Waugh Mi 2.2S Ililaon
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    Straits Trading Co's $1,939,766 profit
    134 10 A DIVIDEND or tl.sv per $1 share, less income tax. la recommended by the Strait* Trading Company In thetr aim-jal repart. Ttia nraflt for tbe year la shown aa 11.939. 768. after depreciation and making provision for Income tax. A sum of $?,146,687 is available
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    83 10 'T»RANSACTIONB amounting to 61 bicuLs ot Vfuniok pepper were reported In Urn Singapore Produce Market fest«rday. filers lncreajad Lbetr offer* by $20 to tADO a pkul for Muntok and SS9S for Sarawak: while Lampong (black), which ni uletly stemdy was onchmnged at tS4O. Ooprm wm --try dull,
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    GAMBAR MELAYU CAN WIN-WITH PADEK UP
    613 11 GAMBAR MELAYU CAN WIN-WITH PADEK UP By CALL BOY QAMBAR MELAYU, four-length winner in his last start, the Singapore Spring Cup (lm. 27yd.) on Mar. 22, did the best trial at Bukit Timah yesterday morning, when fast work was done by most of the horses entered for the Singapore Turf
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    26 11 -f^LETCHER, Surrey opening batsman, is caught af t,,«; A wicket by the Indian tourists' wicketkeeper, Mantin,. of tbe bowling of Shinde at The Oral. Popper picture.
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    Thunderheadmay miss the Derby
    81 11 PARIS. Tues. Thunderhead II winner ol the 2.000 Guineas •t Newmarket, may not run in the Derby, for which he Is favourite, if he dees not prove his staying power in a training test Etienne Pallet, trainer of the colt, said today it was not certain
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    Hilton for MCC
    44 11 LONDON. Tues— Malcolm Hilton, Lancashire slow left-arm bowler, replaces Roland Jenkins in the MCC side to meet India In the match beginning at Lords on Saturday Yesterday It was announced that Worcestershire were unable to release Jenkins for the match. --Reuter.
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    36th K.O. win for Rocky Marciano
    67 11 NEW YORK. Tues. "Whit* hop?" Rocky Marciano knocked out Bernie Reynolds in the third round last night- In the Rhode Island Auditorium in a scheduled ten -round bout. Srorlns hi* 36th knock out In 40 professional fiehrs. Marciano brought an abrupt end to the
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    FAIRYTALE HARD TO BEAT
    317 11 FAIRYTALE HARD TO BEAT FAIRY TALE (Spencer i showed his appreciation of a good track when he clocked 37sec for 3f In a gallop with Lucifer (Woods) and Barrow Boy at Bukit Timah yesterday.. Fairy Tale ran Uo good races in his first kneeling af Bukit Timah In March, then
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    THE MONARCH'S TURN IS DUE
    295 11 HONOLULU and Entertainment, running 3f in 38 sec, were among the most impressive of Wednesday's runners who did fast work at Bukit Timah yesterday The Monarch (Russell) and Self timer late Corazon <Strak«» took 37 2/5 sec. for their 3f rial. The Monarch apPf.- J
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    Penang Cricket Assn. dance
    54 11 PENANG. Tuea.— Th« Penang Cricket Aaan will hold a dance at the E. and O. Hotel on Saturday to raise funds "so that we can stand on our own." The dance will be from 9 p.m. to lam Numerous prises will be offered for spot dances
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    Win for Carruthers
    25 11 SYDNEY. Tues. Australian bantamweight champion Jimmy Carruthers outpointed an American. Johnny O'Brien, In a 13--round bout at Sydney s'auium last night— Reuter
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    White Carnation is a 'flyer'
    414 11 By IPSOM JEEP DESCRIBED aj a brlllianUv speedy colt. White Carnation (late Wet Sail) a four-year-old chestnut by Pull Bloom out of Spring Lady by Mr Jinks, Is one of the very few English horses to come out to Malaya with a recordbreaking no to
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    Woodcote Inn has Zanzibar to beat
    472 11 WOODCOTE INN, who was the only horse to crack 37 sec. for 3 f. in Saturday's track trials at Bukit Timah, was one of the best workers again yesterday morning when he moved stylishly over 3f at three quarter pace. WoodcoUr -lan, who finished
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    Mai. tennis begin today
    118 11 lift, Iv^jf* MALACCA, Tues. port tpej flrst time in Malacca tennis, the women's singles event will be Included In the I local championships beginning j tomorrow at the Malacca Club j courts. Among the eight entries for this event is Mrs. Helen Dew. the 1950 champi-
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    5 Helsinki 'hopefuls' win last chance
    521 12 5 Helsinki 'hopefuls' win last chance RE LA V S WIM MEN FAIL BY 1 SEC. FIVE ambitious young Singapore swimmers who, 1 with an eye on the Olympic Games, have not spared any effort to earn a ticket to Helsinki as a 800 m. freestyle relay team, may yet
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    44 12 UOY BROOKS bores in (or an attack to the body with Stere Brian on the ropes during their fight at the Happy World stadium on Monday night. The flght was stopped in the third round when Brian's eye was c badly cajt»*Btraltg Times, pietare.
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    ATHENIANS JUST MANAGE TO HOLD COMB. CHINESE
    131 12 ATHENIANS JUST MANAGE TO HOLD COMB. CHINESE Mitel HONG KONG, Tues. THE Athenian League ended their soccer tour of llonr. Kong this afternoon by drawing with the Combined Chinese one-all after a scoreless first half. For the greater part of the rame the, Chinese dominated and it watj no surprise
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    INGLIS NETS TWO FOR S.H.B. POLICE
    47 12 In a SAFA Dlv. 3B League soccer match played at Oeylang Stadium yesterday, Singapore Harbour Board Police beat Singapore Fire Brigade 3-1. Scorers fcr SHB Police were Inglls (2) and Patrick Phang. SPB scared their only goal through Teo Van Shin.
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    POINTS SHARED
    38 12 Balestler Community Centre held Blue Rovers to 1-1 In a BAPA Dlv. 3A game at BODCA ground yesterday. Scorer for Blue Roy i was Sunny Choo (penalty), ie Urn Hong Chin equalised or the Balestler team.
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    80 12 I.i. lit .cMiuntt -jskeibali team, a Manila Chinese rombiiuuion, arrived ai KslU Airport yesterdi) morning b> PAA Clipper from Manila for a series of fames, against the Colony's best. The Mmila Chinese will meet Teng Kong on Friday at >.2t p.m. at the Happy World Stadium, Kong Song on Sunday.
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    Williamson and Grivosti 3 "each
    223 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. [N a fame which contained plenty of goals but very little constructive football, 18 Infantry Brigade Irew 4-4 with Supply Depot (RASC) in a Garrison "»«*»h th- no Malaya ground today. Star of the game was the Brigade's iriside left and captain,
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    HARD FIGHT FOR COSMOS
    58 12 Cosmos S C. had to fight very hard for their 2-1 win over Seletar F.C. In a SAPA Dlv. SB played at CYMA ground yesterday. Cosmos opened scoring through Alwl but near the interval Yussot equalised. Just before the end Asls scored got winning goal for
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    U.K. cricket results
    225 12 n LONDON, Tues. £OUNTY cricket resulU were: At Here. Sussex drew with Warwickshire Warwickshire 138 and 116. Sussex 123 and 131 (Orove. 6 for 49) At ChrJmaford. Bssex beat Derbyshire by nine wickets. Derbyshire 233 and 127 (Kelly S3. Ray Smith S for 33) Essex 230 and
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    LEICESTERSHIRE, INDIA DRAW
    59 12 LEICESTER. Turs.— The mitch b»t»ren the Indian cricket tourists and ■rlcrst«rshlrt was drawn hrrr today Aftvr a riry wet spell the weather fine today when India rraumed Mttlng and scored tta for and de.ared In reply to the cenintv't Brit ntilngs total of 111 Leicester with four
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    QUEEN'S TRIUMPHS
    64 12 NEW MARKET, i Suffolk i Tuea Queen Elizabeth gained her ftrst bone rarlog success since she cam* to the throne her three-year-old colt Choir Boy von the Wllburton Handicap here today. Choir Boy by Derby winner Hyperion, ridden by Harry Carr and trained by Capt. C. Boyd Rochfort.
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    TAN ENG YOON GOES BACK TO SPRINTING
    532 12 By our Athletics Reporter. EK>R ONCE. the Doubling Thomases were right. Olympic "hopeful" Tan Bng Yoon Is net a hurdler. And he has brea advised, I am told, to give It up and go back to his light game— sprinting. Ens V x>n
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    SRC BROKE DOWN UNDER SECOND HALF ONSLAUGHT
    508 12 SRC BROKE DOWN UNDER SECOND HALF ONSLAUGHT Pulau Brani 4; S.R.C 0 AN INSPIRED spell during the early moments of the second half enabled a ten-man Pulau Brani United to score three goals in as many minutes and then *et a fourth in the 53rd to beat a demoralised Singapore
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    M.P.H. beat Borneos -one
    119 12 M.P.H. beat Borneos -one BUAgor M P H aid* 4-1 In a Ram* rOn fcSRC. pfcH»B^7e.slerday BMBP Motors opened scoring In tlflßilrd minute when George Chua look advantage of a misunderstanding between the M.P.H. goalkeeper and a full back, to snap the ball Into the net. M PH. fought back
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    UTD. SERVICES RESULTS
    83 12 1 OESULTS of Singapore United Services Senior Division League matches played yesterday were: RAF (MU.) beat RAF. Seletar 3—2: RAP Lodger Unit beat H.M.S. Terror 4—2. Scorers for RAF (L) were Isherwood <2) and Hamilton (2). H.M.S. Terror scored through Green and Coates. i ResulU In Junior
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    NOT A RECORD
    38 12 NEW YORK, Tues.-Walter Davis high Jumped 6ft. llHin. on Saturday, but after a careful checking oiHclals said a technicality would reduce the Jump to 6ft. loin, which U half an Inch under the world record
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