Indian Daily Mail, 19 March 1954

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  • 17 1 Indian Daily Mail OL. X. No. 36. SINGAPORE, FRIDA V, MARCH 19, 1954 FOUR PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 725 1 dfsdf Declaration Of 'White Area' Enables Unrestricted Transport Of Food Despite a slight drizzle a large crowd of people turned up at the Alor Gajah padang yesterday to hear announcement by the District Officer, Mr. G. W. Gould, that another 95 square miles of
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  • 213 1 CAIRO. Mar. 18. Egypt's suffragette leader pretty Madame Doria Shafik on hunger strike with eight of her followers sent a sympathiser, an American woman journalist to President Neeuib with a formal petition for seats for women in the Constituent Assembly. The women decided
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  • 66 1 From Our Own Correspondent NEW DELHI, Mar. 18. Home Minister Dr. Katju announced m the House of People that a new High Court for And lira State would be constituted with effect from July It was however, for the Governor of Andhra to issue an order
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  • 119 1 Kallang Crash: Public Inquiry Ordered The Officer Administering the Government ha* deciuetl tiiat it is expedient to nunl a Public inquiry under Kejruiauon il vi nic .^,u». tion tiint^iiKa.iu,, oi Acmn'iitx) itegiiiaiwns, 1953 into the causes ami circiuu-biuiu-t-H of me accident 10 constellation Aircraft <i-AL.-VM on Saturday last Thu Ooiumissluncr
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  • 22 1 KARACHI, Mar. 18.—Sixteen Soviet entertainers including balle <.ancers have arrived here from India for a week's visit. Reuter
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  • 220 1 LONDON, Mar. 18— Britain alerted troops of her Suez Canal Zone garrison to be ready to race to the explosive rfudan in case new trouble flares in the Anglo-Egyptian territory, informed officials said here. Elements of a full Uivls.od
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  • 96 1 CHICAGO, Mar. 18 Senator Joseph MacCarthy said Uut night a Communist pamphlet printc<i last fali instructed party members to promote fights between the Eisenhower Administration •md himself. Sen. MacCarthy arrived here for a St. Patrick's Diy dinner .speech, leaving: behind in Washington a boiling controversy over
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  • 152 1 LONDON. Mar. 18— Irish Prime Minister J^amoji De Valera said last night the British and Irish should bury the past and remove remaining causes of friction because "We are two neighbouring islands here off the coast of Europe. In the end we shall nave a
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  • 54 1 Photo. Vice President Richard Nixon (right), accepts the Philadelphia Guild of Advertising Men award from George Morrison, guild awards chairman, in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, in recognition of Nixon's "successful completion of one of the most difficult diplomatic missions ever attempted. his Far Eatvt Tour." It was the guild's
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  • 177 1 IKE INVITES GEN. MacARTHUR SPECULATION WASHINGTON, Mar. 18. General Douglas Mac Arthur will confer with Mr. Eisenhower tomorrow and be the guest of honour at a White House luncheon the presidential press secretary Mr. James C, Hagerty announced today. He said Mr. Eisenhower asked Mac Arthur to come for the
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  • 54 1 From Our Own Correspondent MADRAS, Mar. 18—Members of Madras Legislative Assembly expressed concern in the House yesterday about Chief Minister Rajajis health The Finance Minister Subramanlam said Rajaji was now recovering from brief illness. His temperature was normal but he was still weak and would attend Assembly in
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  • 141 1 KARACHI. Mar. 18.— Police arrested a Pakistan lawyer and a retired general and seized arms and ammunition in surprise dawn raids here on the day King Faisal of Iraq arrived in Karachi on a state visit, it was disclosed here. The King arrived on Mar. 12, to
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  • 40 1 An Exhibition of Architecture in Singapore will be opened Friday, Mar. 26 at 5.30 p.m. by Mr, T. P. F. McNeice at the British Council Hall. The exhibition is organised under the auspices of the Singapore Art Society.
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  • 306 1 CONGRESS WARNS P. S. P. From Our Own Correspondent MADRAS, Mar. 18. Three more Ministers were sworn in by the Rajpramukh of Travancore-Cochin State on Wednesday. They are Mr. A. Achuthan, Mr. P. S. Nataraja Pillai, Mr. P. K. Kunju, all members of nineteen strong PS.P.
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  • 162 1 MOSCOW, Mar. 18.— The So. vlet Government announced its agreement that the Geneva conference on the Far East should be opened in the Palaise Dcs Nations former headquarters of the League of Nations on April 26 as arranged. Mr. John Foster Dulles, American Secretary of State
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  • 287 1 To give people all tover the world an opportunity to visit United Nations Headquarters in New York, and other centres throughout the world, the United Nations is organising an Essay Competition open to men and women aged between 20 and 35 who are keenly in. terested
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  • 93 1 Commonwealth Has Failed PAK. PREMIER LAHORE, Mar. 18 Pakistan Prime Minister Mohammed AH said the British Comcomwealth is failing to help member nations settle disputes. Ali told the Commonwealth relat.ons conference here: "Unresolved disputes between member nations are bound to affect the prestige and authority of the Commonwealth within and
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  • 508 2 Indian Daily Mail S'pore, Fri, Mar. 19, 1954 Red Herrings In Kallang Inquiry gO far we have not dis- cussed anything as to the cause or causes of the Kallang Air Crash. Indeed, it would be presumptuous on the part of laymen, like ourselves, to pass judgment in this respect,
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  • 42 2 LONDON, Mar. 18 A Pakistan businessmen Syed Zulfequar QuJi was remanded in custody and seven others Including a Dutchman were released on bail en charges regarding the export of copper a strategic m*t*r:fti— ln Communist countri** Reuter
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  • 473 2 Woman Member Pooh-Poohs "Religion In Danger" Cry NEW DELHI: The Council of States had an inconclusive debate on Thursday last on the Law Minister's motion to refer the Hindu Marriage and Divorce Bill to a joint select committee. The only attack on the Bill,
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  • 109 2 NEW DELHI The Government of India have de. cided that the monetary allowances attached to the forfeited decorations or medals won for gallantry by the former INA personnel would he restored to them with retrospective effect from August 15, 1947. The Government have, however not
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  • 99 2 NEW DELHI: A Constitution bench of the Supreme Court last week granted an ad interim stay of further proceedings in pursuance of a summons issued by the Special Sessions Judge of Delhi ageinst Mr. S. A. Venkataraman, for. mer Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce
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  • 76 2 NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court set aside the order confiscating gold worth about Rs. 3 lakhs belonging to Soulcman lssa and directed the Bombay Government to restore it to the appellant, The judgment wes delivered on an appeal from the decision of the Bombay High
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  • 59 2 AMBALA An aircraft of the Indian Air Force Station at Ambala crashed near Model Town, a suburb of the city, on Friday last. The pilot, the only occupant of the plane, was killed. The plane caught fire and it took the fire brigade
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  • 218 2 Shortened M.B.B.S Course Stopped Last April MADRAS: In the Legislative Council Sri A. B. Shetty, Health Minister, told Dr. V. K. John that the shortened M.8.8.5. course in Madras University was stopped in April, 1953. The Medical Council in India passed a resolution that the period during which licen_ tiates
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    58 2 photo. TH£ SULTAN of Morocco. Sidl MouJay Ben Arafa, dark glasses covering: the wound he received i n an attempt on his life at Berrina Mosque, Marrakech, a few clays ago, is helped up the steps of Rabat Railway Station by French General Außiistin GuiUaume, on his return to the
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  • 154 2 NEW DELHI: Mr. Bhagat Parliamentary Secretary to the Finance Minister, said in the House of the People in reply to Prof. H. N. Mukerjee that the Income Tax Investigation Commission had recently reported on certain cases referred to them of persons assess, ed in West
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  • 29 2 NEW DELHI: The House of the People passed a private member, Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi's Muslim Wakfs Bill providing tor the better administration and sunervision FOC
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  • 136 2 PONNUR "I believe in Prohibition. As such, I personally hope that Swarai Sitaram would succeed in his mission but this does not mean that I agree with his methods." said Mr. S. B, P. Pattabharama Rao, Andhra Minister for Prohibition, in a statement to the Press. Asked
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  • 80 2 NO NEGOTIATIONS WITH GHAFFAR KHAN KARACHI: A Press Note issued by the Pakistan Ministry of Interior says that there had been no negotiations of a political nature between Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and the Minister for the Interior. Such a report had appeared in the Karachi Dawn from its Lrahore
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  • 54 2 BOMBAY: Dr. Syed Mahmood former Minister of Bihar, and Dr. Shauketulla Ansari left Bombay by air for Aden en route to Saudi Arabia on a goodwill mission. They will convey the gree. tings of the Indian Government to tbe new King of Say A
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  • 248 2 NEHRU'S VISIT TO T.-C. STATE WAS "UNOFFICIAL" NEW DELJii: The Union Ministers' visit to TravancoreCochin in the last two months was the subject of a question in the House of the People. The issue was raised by Sri Gandilingana Gowd. Sri B. N. Datar, Deputy Home Minister, said the Prime
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  • 123 2 BOMBAY: Mr. N. M. Buch, Director-General of snipping, government of India, died recently of a heart atcacK at his resilience here, tie was 40 years of age. Mr. Buch is survived by his w.dow ana uiree sons. Mr. Buch graduated from the London Scnool
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  • 367 2 Retention of English: Movement gaining Ground MADRAS: Raja Sir M. A. Muthiah Cfcettiar of Chettinaci asKed trainees of the Teachers' College to be propagandists for the retention of the study of .English. Sir M. A. Muthiah Chettiar was presiding at the College Oay celebrations, Sri T. P. Santhanakrishna Naidu, the
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  • 85 2 Photo. The entrance of a newly-discovered step pyramid «>t Snkkara, near the worid-fanied pyramid of Zoser, was openedl la*t week but excavators found a- 60-yard corridor leading to the funerary chamber* blocked halfway. This led arcbeoiogist« to believe the .4,500 year-old pyramid must have been plundered in
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  • 416 2 BOMBAY Twenty members of the crew of the Indian cargo vessel, "Janaki", (800 tons) are missing after the ship capsized on Saturday morning off Kaneheri Island, about three miles off Bombay harbour. Eighteen others were res'-ued by the s.s. "Jagabindu" another cargo
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  • 143 2 NEW DELHI: Sri Q. V. Aiagesan, Union Deputy Minister for Transport said last week a Tokyobound cargo ship 'Asha." owned by en Indian concern, was to be towed to Japan from Singapore, and would be sold as scrap. The steamer left Bombay on
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  • 86 2 ANDSAUR: Mr. Nehru laid the foundation stone of the Chambal Dam at GandhLsagar recently amidst shouts of "Jai Chambal" by about 3,000 people, mostly villagers, including about 500 women. Mr. Nehru appealed to the people to work hard and make the country strong
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  • 247 2 CALCUTTA; About 400 refugees men. women and children who had been squatting at the High Court tram terminus, in front of the Assembly House and near the Relief and Rehabilitation Officer, were arrested last week, while they were asleep. Besides, there were over 100 babies in
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  • 991 3 T.-C. CABINET ISSUE: Dr. Lohia On P.S.P's Attitude To Congress Communists MLADRAS: "Capitalism and Communism today g.ne that Socialism and Communism could Smbtae in order to defeat capitalism. The point" £™c™ was whether Socialism could ever become S^ni enough in this country to give
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  • 1493 3 TRIVANDRUM: Sri M. N. Govindan Nayar, Secretary of the State Communist Party, told a. Press conference here that "Sri Pattom Thanu Pillai is no longer the leader of the people's Party in the State Legislature." The Communist Party, he said, would oppose a
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    40 3 photo. n Ja f arl downs "wioiwtratorH tfurlnff dashes which occurred in Tehna. polling j^ y ta Majlis elections. Police flrert Into the air to disperse the demonstrators. During the disturbances IS people were In hired and 18 arrested. AP
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  • 101 3 LONDON, Mar. 18. A letter threatening death to the Queen if she sets foot in Gibraltar has been received by CJevent Days, Parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party. The British Press Association said it has been informed a similtr letter ha? been received by Clement Attlee,
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  • 282 3 COLOMBO: The Indian High Commissioner in Ceylon. Mr. C. c Desai has takpn thp first step in implementing the Indo-Ceylon Pact He his opened an Indian National Register at his office. Mr. Desai said that any person of Indian origin who wished to
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  • 166 3 The annual Singapore Flower Show will be held this year at the Happy world Stadium between April 2-4. The President of the City Council, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, will open the show which promises to be the biggest yet held in the Colony. The show is under
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  • 289 3 The International Low-Cost Housing Exhibition recently sponsored by India's Ministry of Works, Housing and Supply studied plans for alieviating the bad housing situation in Asia by providing low-income groups with the ways and means of building their own home. The U.N. Miss on on Tropical Housing has
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  • 54 3 NEW DELHI, March IS The Japanese method of paddy cultivation in India is to be extended to 2,000,000 acres, it was officially announced ifl New Delhi, An Agricultural Ministry spokesman said that by adop. ting the Japanese method a normal yield of seven pounds per acre had raise*
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  • 610 4 Ceylon Parliament Upholds Nehru Kotelawala Pact CEYLON NEWS: LET US BE FRIENDS WITH INDIA. PLEADS PREMIER COLOMBO: Ceylon's House of Representatives last week rejected an Opposition motion seeking to withhold the assent of the House to the recent IndoCeylon agreement on citizenship. The voting was 54 to 17. The motion
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  • 94 4 JAFFNA: The Jaffna Munivipai Council at a special general meeting presided over by Mr. Sam A. Sabapathy, the Mayor considered papers re* gard.ng the laying of the foundation stones of the New Central Library Building. After discussion it was decided to have the foundation atones laid by the
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  • 92 4 PASSARA: A section of the road from Ruhuna to Vijita Pura, reported to have been used by King Dutugemunu on his way to give battle to Elara, has been opened by the P.W.D. The length of this section of the road between Passara and Buttala s 11 miles,
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  • 110 4 COLOMBO: The Ceylon Government will shortly bring in measures to restrict employment of non-nationals In commercial firms, it was authoritatively learned. The restriction will In the firslt Instance, apply to Colombo but will be gradually c— tended to the rest of the island. The ruling United,
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  • 581 4 Premier Explains Implications COLOMBO Broadcasting to the nation over Radio Ceylon on the Delhi Agreement on Indo-Ceylon problem, the Ceylon Premier said that the problem was one to be settled in an atmosphere of mutual understanding and goodwill and his first endeavour was to establish that atmosphere. "I am glad
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  • 34 4 I CU 3/ A: The lev «l of I h^_ Hooghly rose to 18 ft i I when a bore came up the river I about noon on Sunday w«. mage waa reported,- FOC
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  • 615 4 COLOMBO: The Government Parliamentary Groups Constitution Amendment Sub-Committee dwcidted las* week by a majority vote to recommend the abolition of the Senate. The recommendations of the sub-Committee will be incorporated in the form of a report and signed by its memheix on March 31 after which
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    54 4 Four Pakistani social welfare worker are attending: a three months' social welfare group GhSlamali aSI Mr. Imamdtao Allahdino Jafferi. In a Melbourne offlceo he Jej^J of Social SerSces, the four Pakistani officer* examine their area* of "P^/*^*^ left: Mfesi Shireen Ohulamali, Mrs, Hamida Izzuddtai Ahmed, Mr. Imamdino AUahdlno Jafft- ri
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  • 123 4 UONL.ON. Mar. 18 Five scientists from Britain's Natural History Museum will leave Britain on Saturday to spend seven months in unexplored regions of Central Nepal. For most of the time they will live in tents, end rely on local porters to carry their equipment. The expedition,
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  • 181 4 At its committee meeting held on Mar. 13. the Ai r Ministry Local Staff Union decided to accept the recommendations of the Singapore Federation, of Services Unions on the new consolidated salaries nnd wages scheme for Serv; ces employees. The recommendations madp by S.F.S.U. are thoso
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  • 71 4 L.EEDS (England). March. 18 George Atkinson £'»t so mad at his wife during an argument °ver money that ho threatened to boil hu?r alive. A judge yesterday accepted Mrs. Frances Atkinson's story that her husband locked her in a room for 90 minutes while he up
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  • 39 4 East-West Trade U. N. Resolution GENEVA, Mer.lB. The United Nations Economic Commision for Europe (ECE) today approved by 16 votes to nil a joint resolution submitted by Britain and Russia on the "great importance" of expanding East-West trade. Reuter
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  • 223 4 To Condole The Death Of Ami Chandra A condolence meeting will on held under the auspices of the Singapore Arya Samaj on Saturday. Mar. 20 at 3 p.m. at 42, Rowell ltoad, to pray for ivtr. Ami Chanora and other unfortunate victims of the recent air crash. AH arc requested
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  • 128 4 NEW DELHI. Mar. 18 India has sent a "strong" note to Portugal protestins the "repression" of the people of Goa, a government spokesman said yesterday. The spokesman said the note stressed the people ri Goa, Portuguese settlement on the west coast of India, "were In no
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