Malaya Tribune, 21 March 1950

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    63 1 MALAYA Tribune BY 7ffi ff PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Tefc Triune" Spore LARGER SALES THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALAYA Phone 5811/3 Nine Lines Published simultaneously Ol 3 mgapore, Kuala tmmm* tpoh and f*znang. LIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MARCH, 21, 1950 TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE uUHIhjN SChit'KbiatiNTA.TlVa B oiuunce
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    RED STRIKE PLOT BARED
    374 1 STRONG ARMED GANGS URGED TO USE FORCE Tribune Staff Reporter THE arrest of three Chinese members of the Malayan Communist Party during the week-end revealed a plot by the Communists to once more gain control ol Labour in Singapore, through »n underground Union called the Singapore
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    POLICE FIND BOMB
    37 1 JOHORE BAHRU. Today.— The police discovered a booby trap near the town H wa.< a home made bomb hidden under a coconut shell. The wire led from the battery 100 yards into the undergrowth.
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    RED REQUEST
    59 1 Reuter-AAP. HONGKONG, Mon. Mr. Aw Boon Haw, the "Tiger Balm K. naa been asked by the Cantou authorities, tc Mbscribe to lt>o,WhJ units of Victory Bonds, according to reports from Canto.i. At value this would amount to HKS RIO 000. The request la -'aid to have the Provincial
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    STILL AGROUND
    17 1 A.P. .'ILA. Mon.—The Greek freight.: Kehrea, is still aground on a reef in Leyte Gulf.—A.P.
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    Fed. Army Chief Named
    55 1 A.P. LONDON. Mon.—The War Office announced today the appointment of Brigadier R. C. O. Hcdley to be Commander of the Malaya District and the 17th Gurkha Infantry Division. Hedley will take over in October, relieving Major-General R. E. Urquart. who has been named Commander of British
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    S.O.S. CONTACTED
    30 1 U.P TAIPEI, Mon. A Chinese Nationalist rescue ship re ported -today that it had contacted a distressed vessel identifying itself as the Miranda, 45 miles off Formosa. —U.P.
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    WORKERS TOLD TO 'BREAK THE LAW'
    323 1 THE following are translated extracts from the Chinese pamphlets issued by the newly discovered underground Singapore All-Races, All-Trades General Labour Union. "Workers throughout Singapore are fully aware of the fact that the Sin* gapore All-Races All-Tradesv General Labour Union was in the pre-war period
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    ALL QUIET
    25 1 A.P. NEW DELHI. Mon—New Delhi was reported quiet this morning after yesterday's communal rioting in which two persons were killed and 19 injured.—A.P.
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    The Himalayan State of Sikkim will become an Indian protectorate It was announced todlv India sold that it has r,ached a provisional agreement with Sikkim leaders h will handle the State's defence, communications and foreign relations. Fdcture tb? two Maharajkumaris pho-*,- graphe? on aVrival at Wilungdon aerodrome recently On the right ts Mr. V. Rama-Eat Deputy Chief of Protocol, E. A. Ministry. A.P. Photo.
    65 1 The Himalayan State of Sikkim will become an Indian protectorate It was announced todlv India sold that it has r,ached a provisional agreement with Sikkim leaders h will handle the State's defence, communications and foreign relations. Fdcture tb two Maharajkumaris pho-*,-graphe? on aVrival at Wilungdon aerodrome recently On the right
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    Seretse Cancels Air Passage: Awaits White Paper
    233 1 A.P. and U.P. LONDON. Mori. Serf tse Khama today canoe led his air passage back ie Africa to await the Government's White Paper explaining wn> he was exiled from his tribe for five yeras. iXN BHzoclat «aid Me Xlr.can leatl'.-r. to a white
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    TONY BROOKE CITES KHAMA AS PRECEDENT
    75 1 Reuter. LONDON, -Mon. Mr. Anthony Brooke. Rajah Muda of Sarawak, today wrote to the Colonial Under-Secretary, Mr. T. F. Cook, asking on what conditions he. might return to Sarawak to proceed with a libel action. v He said the British Government had created a
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    RUMOUR SCOTCHED
    35 1 U.P. KEY^ T EST FLORIDA. Mon.—The White House today denied as a "complete fabrication" recent reports that Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Fred Vinson might replace Secretary of State Dean Acheson. —U.P.
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    FOUR CHINESE ROB INDIAN OF $235
    81 1 Two robberies occurred in the early hours cf yesterday morning. Four Chinese armed with a pistol and a knife roobed an Indian. Mohd. Hanlffa. cf goods worth $235 in a tongkang lying in the Kallang River. According to Haniffa all the men were dressed
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    SIAM KING LEAVES S'PORE
    70 1 RING PHUMIPHON ADULDET of Siam, his fiancee prints Siriktt Kitiy > sth and the rest of his party left o.ngupore tnis morning on the Se'andia Last night, the King and his party was entertained to a Chinese dinner at the Katong home of Luang Ratanadib the
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    POLICE SEEK INFORMATION
    206 1 Tribune Staff Reporter SINGAPORE police are stepping up their search for the Chinese terrorist who carried three wafers of human skin in his- cheap wallet. Yesterday. Mr. D. K. Broadhurst. of the Singapore C.1.D.. appealed for information about the "man with the skin in his wallet." As
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    Malaya: Gravest Problem In The Far East—Strachey
    601 1 Reuter. LONDON, Mon. Mr. Oliver Lytteilon. member of the Conservative "Shadow Cabinet', challenged War Minister John Strachey ir. the Commons to-day and declared that widespread anxiety had been caused in Malaya by the Colonial Secretary's statement on troop re-in'oree-nents. "We want an assurance,
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    CHINESE REDS HAVE FIGHTER AIRCRAFT NOW
    68 1 TAIPEI, Mon. Air Force headquarters revealed today that the Chinese Communist-; have fighter planes in the skies over Shanghai of a type never possessed \ry the Nationalist Government. Nationalist plants on a teconnaissance flight over Luufchwa airfield in Shanghai thi* morning encountered thro, fighters
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    STOP PRESS Night Mail Attacked!: 4 Wounded
    77 1 JOHORE BAHRU. Today. —Four men were wounded when the Singapore-Kuala Lumpur night mail was ambushed last night at the Senai Estate level crossing. The wounded were a Chinese civilian, two BORs and a Gurkha. Following a brief exchange of shots, the train speeded
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    CONFUSION IN JAVA MARKETS
    142 2 U.P. JAKARTA, Monday. rONFUSION prevailed in Jakarta's markets and trade centres thi3 morning L as a consequence of the 50 per cent currency devaluation announced toy the government over the week-end, according to t"e Dutch news agency, Aneta. The news agency reportea that most business houses
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    'Japan Not Affected'
    84 2 Reuter-AAP. TOKIO. Mon.—Commenting on the devaluation or the Indonesian guilder. Japanese International Trade and Industry Ministry official today expressed the view that the action would not affect Japan's trade with the United States of Indonesia. They point out that Japan's trade with Indonesia is conducted on the
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    Tin Price
    16 2 Tin price in Singapore yesterday was $298-25 cents per picul ex-smelter. Tp $0-75 cents.
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    RUBBER DOWN 1/2 CENT
    83 2 ON reports of the new currency reforms in Indonesia, tho local rubber commodity market eased off yesterday by 1/2 cent from Saturday's prices. The market was awaiting in general for overseas reaction. Closing prices in cents per pound were Buyers Sellers No. 1 RSS f.o.b. Apr.
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    U.S. Seeks Coconut Oil From Ceylon
    146 2 U.P. COLOMBO, Sunday. THE United States Government n as asked the 1 Ceylon Government for terms and conditions on which to buy Ceylon's entire exportable surplus coconut ofl up to June 30. next year. The inquiry, transmitted through Ceylon's Ambassador in Washington, Indicated that
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    Japan Given Big Order For Gunnies
    116 2 Reuter. TOKIO, Mon. Japan's gunnybag manufacturers are now debating whether or not to accept a contract calling for the processing of Indo-China jute into gunnybags. The proposal, entailing the manufacture of 600.000 gunnybags from jute to be shipped to Japan, was made to the
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    GRAIN OUTPUT
    40 2 WASHINGTON. Mon. Asia produced 1.475.000 busheis of bread grains in 1949. the U.S. Department og Agriculture announced. The Asian production for 1948 was 1.498.000,000 bushels and foor 1947 it was 1,526.000.000 bushels. The pre-war average was 1,498--000,000 bushels.
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    110 2 The cloves market has chopped since Saturday last from $9<7 per picu! to $90. The new Indonesian foreign exchange and currency regulations are believed to have caused the fall. The coffee market was very dull yesterday with no business done and no quotations made. Sago flour was
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    Steady, Quiet
    30 2 SINGAPORE, Mar. 20 The share market opened the week quietly though all sections were steady. Some more tin eompanv dividends have beep declared and this has been encouraging.
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    U.S. Rubber Needs This Year
    61 2 The following estimate ofj U.S.A. total consumption of i natural and synthetic rubber for 1950 has been received by he U.P.A.M. from the Natural Rubber Bureau, Washington. Natural Rubber 660,000 tons GR-S from U.S. Government sources 220,000 tons GR-2 imported and private... 20,000 tons Neoprene
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    JUTE IN PAPUA
    48 2 Reuter-AAP. MELBOURNE. Mon.—Australia has had some very encouraging results from attempts to grow Jute on a commercial scale in Papua and New Guinea. Mr. Percy Spender. Minister for External Territories, announceo. Experimental planting had been in progress in tbe country for some time, he said.—Reuter-AAP.
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    Share Quotations
    853 2 Singapore, Mar. 20. Buyer* Sellers INDUSTRIALS Atlas Ice 1190 12.25 xb. t xd Alex. Brick* Pref 2.40 3.50 bYd 2.17% 2.25 B B. Petrol 34/6 35/6 B.M. Trustees 7 -50 8 Con. Tin Smelt nn /0 Pref. 21/3 22/3 cd Ord. 15/8 lfl/ E. Utd. Assur. 38.75 39.75
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    10 MORE REDS SURRENDER
    347 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. TEN more Chinese bandits surrendered to tbe police in the Jerantut area of Pahang on Friday last. This brings the total number of bandits surrendered to 356, it was officially announced last night. me rest of the bandit news: SELANGOR K.L. RURAL: Yesterday,
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    Mr. R. P. Bingham. Labour Commissioner for Sinsuporand Mrs. Bingham, who leave for Penang toda>. >]r Bingham will be the Acting Resident Commissioner there
    24 2 Mr. R. P. Bingham. Labour Commissioner for Sinsuporand Mrs. Bingham, who leave for Penang toda>. >] r Bingham will be the Acting Resident Commissioner there
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    Along The Godowns
    64 2 Pemba—4s; Iluinam—ES. Ade; Emp. Tesbury—Sheers; Tarifa 42/3; Kota Nica—4l; Gewang 40; Fricsland -38 9; Star Betclgcus, —3<3; Alcinous —33 4; Maron—3l 2; Wosang 17/18 W. Wall; Beftfgarong and Rantau—2l 2. E. Wall; Maria L Malim—23 4; Anking 23 6; Islander—27; Kustbns 23; Euryhat'-.---29/30; Orestes 15 16: Khyber—
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    STRANDED SEAMEN'S CASE GOES TO MR. GRIFFITHS
    362 3 BRITAIN'S National Union of Seamen and the In- ternational Transport Workers' Federation have taken to Mr. James Griffiths, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the case of sixteen British seamen, who were stranded in Singapore after they walked off the Tower Grange
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    BUKIT TIMAH HILL-A $ EARNER.
    545 3 BUKIT TIMAH HILL-A EARNER. GRANITE QUARRY THE Bukit Timah Hill—highest in the Colony and one of its three remaining natural reserves will be a subject of debate at today's meeting of the Legislative Council when Mr. C. C. Tan (Prog. South-West) makes a bid to have all granite quarrying on
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    'GOD' MADE HIM THROW HIS CARD
    121 3 WIZENED grey-haired Tan Liv, sporting a W dishevelled grey beard and looking very disreputable in old clothes, claimed in the First District Court yesterday that "the influence of a god, made him "throw away" his identity card. "I did not need a card Tan
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    FAREWELL PARTY
    37 3 The staff of Qantas Empire Airways' Motor Transport Office gave a farewell dinner to Mr. E. Ettershank. their Transport Officer. The dinner, held at the New World, was attended by about a hundred people. oy
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    REGENT NAMED FOR PERAK STATE
    67 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Yam Raia Abdul Rashid ibni Sultan Idris, C.8.E., the Raja Bendahara of Perak, has been appointed Regent during'the absence of the Sultan of Peri'f.. The State Secretary. Inche Mustapha Albaftri bin Haji Hassan,. 0.8. E., read the proclamation today in the State
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    COUNCIL ON AIR
    23 3 X report on the Legislative Council Meeting in Singapore will be given by a Radio Malaya observer tonight at 9.45.
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      488 3 I VEHS. FOR SALE i FOR sale Vauxhall 14 model 1938. Price $950/-. 240, Lavender Stieet. Singapore. (D.70). "1947 Ford VI Deluxe as new. taxed, insured June 1950. Brit offer over $3,000 accepted. T'iione 4087 or *****" (D.69). BSA Twin 1948 500 c.c cxc ellent condition. Price $800/- or nobrest.
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    RUTH AND SERETSE
    614 4 RUTH amid the alien corn was not a more lonely figure than Ruth Williams, the London typist who married an African prince, and now awaits his child among the Bamangwato people of Bechuanaland. They have accepted her as their queen and the quarrel which the marriage caused
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    WHY DO COMMUNISTS CONFESS?
    1135 4  -  by A Correspondent BUDAPEST, A "People's Democracy," developed in Southeastern Europe under Soviet tutelage, is very unlike any other, particularly western, democracy. It therefore is not surprising to discover that a People's Court. favourite instrument of higher justice in the Soviet countries, is very unlike any
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    PREMIER PHIBUN IS JUST PRO-SONGKRAM
    1186 4  -  by MILTON MARMOR A.P. BANGKOK, THE man who went out on the l'mb to take a firm stand against Communism in behr.lf of a Thailand precariously located in taz centre of the Far East s cold war te the same Prime Minister who took his
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    STARTING YOUR CAR ENGINE AT 40 BELOW ZERO
    107 4 A.P. DETROIT. Remember when the approved way of starting a cold automobile engine was to pour a kettle of hot water on the intake manifo'd? Now comes a capsule to be fed to the engine and provide heat from the inside. Ten-second
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    MAN WHO LIKES TO PAY TAXES
    980 4  -  JOHN KERIGAN NEW YORK. IN millions of households, Americans were figuring out what they owe the Federal Government in taxes on their 1949 incomes. Radio comedians found humour in the last-minute subtraction and addition, but many Americans could recall the words of the late
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    FOUR CITY FATHERS WILL ALLOT S.I.T. HOUSES IN FUTURE
    273 5 T "menf T^ C °T ittee f 0,6 Si -'-g*P°™ Improvement Trust—Messrs. A. P Raiah (Pro* > P-t (Lab >,and E. Gallistaf Norn 4h the C&an "wSf PreSid t > Mr T P MeNeiceas WTw£? 80 tnkfc over th job of
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    INDIAN PRESS OFFICER ARRIVES IN SINGAPORE
    112 5 rrHE rv v Information Dffi- lie Representative v rnment of Ini Mr. D. M. is arrived in Sinand will take over from Mr S. D. Kalelkar. h0 leaves for India on March 23. has worked m F> -jT ss and News in London, a
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    SASSOON APPEAL PUT OFF
    80 5 THE appeal of D. J. B. Sass on. under sentence of six months' imprisoni series. *of charges travelling Finance •as agajn adjourn d in the Court of ippeal ytsterday. Xi al Is on a question of lav App! a postponeWee Chong Tin iaid that he had
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    PAY PROTEST PROBE BEGINS
    116 5 SPECIAL Appeals Committee of four Municipal Commissioners started work yesterday investigating the protests of more than 200 employees against their initial salaries on conversion from the old to the new pay c ode. The four Commissioners rs. G. H. Kiat <Incipr. East). E. V. Davies Lab.
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    GAOL FOR MEN WHO HAD DOPE
    54 5 iged Gam Yong 0« vas gaoled lor a year bj Second District t-rday after he having 15 tahils of opium. 35 tahils of chandu and one tahil of chandu dross. Gam was also fined $100, in default a further one month's gaol. tor having
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    WOMEN HELP
    26 5 KIT ALA LUMPUR, Mon.— More than 1,500 women attended an 'Anti-Bandit Month' meeting: at the Pasir Puteh Ma'ay Girls School in Kelantan last night.
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    UNION CHARGES FATHERS WITH BREACH OF FAITH
    285 5 THE Singapore Municipal Services Union is considering the establishment of a Standing Committee to deal with questions of salaries and conditions of service of monthly-paid officers, when the Salaries Revision Committee and Appeals Board end their terms of reference. The Union wants any
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    Scouts Will Try To Earn Money
    152 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Men. Scouters, Rovers and cubs are going to try ana earn a sui.. iii ..ion.. j tmCU during the scout week which will begin on the day of the Council met :ing here. The money they earn will he fo r a
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    HUSBAND GETS DIVORCE
    54 5 A decree nisi pronounced on December 8 last dissolving the marriage of Mr. William Hutchinson (Jnr. i with Mrs. Helen Olga Hutchinson, was made absolute by the Chief Justice. Mr. Murray-Aynsley. in the Singapore High Court yesterday. Mr. A. J. Braga appeared on behalf of the petitioner,
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    DISPENSARY ON WHEELS
    41 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— For the first time since the war, the Keiantan Medical L'epartment is operating a travelling dispensary service for the districts of Pasir Mas and Tumpat. A jeep belonging to s the Department will be used.
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    A-B ROOM WILL CLOSE NIGHTLY
    66 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— The Information Room here (Tel. Nos. K.L. 2226 and 2227) will be cosed from 5.30 p.m. nightly in future. But it will be open during ordinary office hours in the day. The Anti-Bandit Assembly Centre in Batu Road is open day and
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    INFANTRY CHIEF COMPLETES TOUR
    79 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Major General C. M. Barber, CB., DSO.. Director oi lin Mti i'Jf Office left Kuaia Lumpur by air" today after having completed a six-day tour of Malaya. He has seen British, Gurkha and Malay Regiment uauauous. ne nas leavened by Malayan Airways. Dakotas.
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    SCHOOL FILMS BY COLUMBIA
    323 5 BOYS and girls in Singapore schools will find their history and geography much lore interesting if Columbia Pictures International have some of their educational tims passed by the local authorities. Mr. Nonce Sen, manager of the Columbia Films of Malaya Ltd., and president of the Kinematograph
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    S'PORE NEEDS CLASSES FOR ENGINEERING
    106 5 Singapore is an urgent need of evening classes teaching all aspects of engineering. It is through evening classes, a report cf the Association of Engineers, Sineapore. pointed out that a potential engineer can learn both the practical ami theoretical sides of engineering. The report says:
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    BULLET FOUND
    24 5 A Chinese man. Tan Mong Heng, found three rusty .303 bullets in a rubbish boap outside no. 25. Marine Parade." yesterday morning.
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    Cashier Described As Master-mind
    215 5 PENANG, MON. DESCRIBED by the prose cution as a "mastermind." Yeap Bean Hong, a cashier of a Chinese firm, was charged today with three others in the Sessions Court with conspiracy to cheat the Bank of China of $72,000. The other accused were Lim Kirn Chen,
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    RELIGIOUS HEADS MEET THURSDAY
    74 5 The Inter-Religious Organisation will hold a oubLjc meeting on Thursday, at 5 p.m. in Raffles Institution Hall to discuss the subject of "Religion in our Daily Lives lh n P*»eaV<;r* 11 be Rabbi Jacob Shababo of the Jewish Synagogue, Mrs. H. B. Moorhead of the Theosophical
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    BOMBS FOUND IN SCHOOL
    40 5 Two more rusty hand grenades were found on the playgrcund of the Geylang English School on Sunday afternoon. The school recently had a scare when one of the boy* found a grenade in the school grounds.
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    SRA WANT CUT IN CITY RATES
    114 5 THE Singapore Rate Payers' Association are to press for a reduction in Municipal Assessment "as soon as it may be opportune." They have written to the Colonial Secretary protesting against the proposed increase in assessment. It was pointed out that the assessment in Hongkong
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    GUNS BOOM A ROYAL SALUTE
    431 5 STRICTEST security measures permitted only a 3 handful of VlP's to meet King Phumiphon Aduldet of Siam as he came off the Danish ship. Selandia, in Singapore yesterday. Apart from the military Guard of Honour, the band, the press and police officers, other spectators were
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    ARMED ROBBER LOSES APPEAL
    67 5 THE Colony Court of Criminal Appeal, yesterday confirmed the sentence of five years' imprisonment imposed on Lum Poh Seng at the last Assizes for armed robbery. Lum was found guilty of armed robbery of cash and jewellery at the house oi a Chines 2 in Kampong
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    BARRIER POSITIONS WILL BE IMPORTANT
    1555 6  -  BEST BETS ARE MAN. O' WAR AND PORT O'GOLD BY ALBERT SPENCER The Man with 2,000 Winners Marbles will play an important pait in tomorrow's races, the second day of the f 'Oie Turf Club March mealing, when punters will find spotting th~ winner a
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    FAST WORK ON BUKIT TIMAH TRACK
    101 6  -  By ALBERT SPENCER The Man with 2,000 Winners, With the track drying up a lot workouts were fairly fast this morning the best gallop being by Young Lucius (Riding Boy) who ran three furlongs in 38 3/ft sees. One-fifth of a second more was
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    7-0 DEFEAT
    39 6 In a Junior B—2 League match on the 8.0.D. ground yesterday the Katong Sajarah Sports Club beat the Indonesian "E" by •even clear goals, the scorer* being Jalil (3). Aswan (J), Ibra hlnj and Awl one each.
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    To Compete In Britain
    58 6 A.P. LX)MM)N. »lon.—iiermany wdl enter competitive sports in England next month for the first time since the war. Officials of the European roller figure skating championships announced today that We*' 4 n Germany would be on" of six countries in the competition which runs three 'a\s,
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    PLANS FOR THOMPSON ABANDONED
    142 6 The proposal to bring Billy Thompson. the British hghtweight champion to Singapore is definitely abanJoned. Instead (ieorge Sands, brother of Have and Alfie Sands, will be ounlns;. These decisions were reached after careful consideration by the promoters on Sunday. The Billy Thompson project was examined frees
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    Y.M.C.A. TENNIS GETS STARTED
    102 6 After being held up by lara last week, the V.M.C.A. lii«t postwar invitation tennis tournament benan yesieuia with fir following results. H. K. Yadi l.eat 11. J. Waser 6--0. 6—i. b. Tan beat Yaik Kwai (i 1, ti— 2. U. Pakir beat D. N. Urquteiri t>-
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    GRDEROD OFF THE FIELD
    93 6 Mohamed Zain. <enirc hnlf of the P. T. team WSS ordered off the held fur "violent conduct" by Referee Capt. U Roberts seven minutes before the interval in the Junior A—2 soccer match against R.A.F. Tengah at Geylang stadium, yesterday. Tengah, who were leading by 3—l
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    INJURIES IN SENIOR SOCCER TIE
    329 6 A broken tooth and a damaged shin were the legacies of the Senior League soccer match at Jalan Besar yesterday between the Indian Recreation Club and the Singapore Engineer Regiment. Rough play marred what promised to be an interesting game. Tins display of bad .--portsmanship,
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    JOLLILADS XI BEAT KRANJI WIRELESS 2-1
    99 6 JolKlads Athletic Union socei i team defeated Kianji Wireless Station by two goals to ore at Kianji on Sunday. The tirst half ended 1. Zstman netted for Jollilads and Hendei sun ifor the Kianji Soon after resumption Krsnji tried hard to score but Failed
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    FORM GUIDE FOR TOMORROW
    6692 7 Second Day Of Spore Races Class I Div. 1-6 Furs. 5 Yards. PIRAEUS 9.00 New Horse i ord nilOTl 9.00 MNTH 1 2-50 S pore 4-2-50 7 Yds. (Ellery) Div. Wo n b) I'amary 1 niin. 18 4/5 Coins Heavy. «ECONP: 18 2-50 K.L. 8.06 6
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    1259 7 JHE following is the card for tomorrow's races— Second Day of the Singapore Turf Club March meeting: ■OSSKS, t 1. L |>IV. PIRAEUS 9 00 LORD DHOTI Ml MATA HARI HI;; MAN O'WAR (lali Heralds «10 I-LYING ARROW II 808 HACK FAN KO7 ARABIAN KNIGHT (late Exaggeration) 8.07
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY
    329 8 GENERAL LEGISLATIVE COI'NCIL, or.li nary meeting, Victoria Memorial Hall, 10 a.m. Y.W.C.A.: 5 Raffles Quay, dressmaking, 10 a.m., Mnnua/in, 11 *.m.. ruaMtfUung, 1 p.m., First Aid lecture, 4 p.m. chokai m)( ikty, nhe* r sal. Raffle* institution Hall. 5 p.m. T*A PARTY, in honour of Mr. S.
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    TOKYO POLICE CLASH WITH KOREANS
    135 8 Reuter. TOKYO, Mon. -One hundred and nineteen Tokyo police and more than 200 Koreans were injured in a clash at dawn today in Tokyo's "Coney Island" suburb of Asakusa. Two thousand police reserves were alerted by midday as police headquarters received warnings that Koreans from
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    ROYAL LUNOHEON
    31 8 LONDON, Mon.—The King, who had been suffering from a chill since Friday, was sufficiently well today to entertain the Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia Su Godfrey Huggins at lunch.—
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    TOUNGOO RETAKEN
    17 8 RANGOON. Mon. The Burmese 1 Government forces have recaptured Toungoo. it was disclosed here today.—
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    RED POSTER
    17 8 A Communist poaiii was found posted outside a shop in Lorong 15, Geylang Road, yesterday.
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    Dave Sands Beats Olson
    196 8 A.P. Reuter. SYDNEY. MoncUv. DAVE Sands, Australian holder of the British Empire middleweight title, outpointed Carl Olson of Hawaii over 12 rounds here today. Sands, who also holds the Australian li/ht-heavvweisht and middleweight titles won a close decision, but Olson put up a good fight It
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    TIN: MARKET VERY FIRM
    69 8 U.P. LONDON, Mon. The Un market was very firm today. Spct closed 7s. od. higher at £099% and rose 10s. to £599%. The closing pr'ces at Uie afternoon session were: Spo\ buyers and £600 sell ers with no business. Three months— £599% buyers and £600 sellers
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    REDS TO LEAVE S.CHINA: MAO'S DECISION?
    339 8 CHIANC'S GUERILLAS INCREASE ACTIVITIES ##U.P,. A.P., and Reuter. HONGKONG. Monday. 'ILHILE increased anti-Communist guerilla activities are reported on Red-held South China, the pro-Nationalist newspaper Kung Siieung Evening News stales that the Peking Government has decided to withdraw from the South gradually. The paper, which
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    CHINESE REDS HALT MASS EVACUATION
    84 8 ##Rev- ter. WASHINGTON, Mon.—The State Lepartment said today the Chinese Communists hao. blocked a mass evacuation of Americans and other foreigners irom China by a last minute refusal to let two landing ciaft reach Shanghai. American representatives on the scene have been instructed to press
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    LONDON SHADES
    189 8 Reuter. LONDON Mon. K,-v»iir- Kl we» 1< end press comments brought in buyers of rubber shares on tlw London Stock 'Exchange today. Most i; Mies added the firmness h 'own the close last week a'lh. u'h k-a ns were mostly small. Sh re havers were undetarred by Rossi
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    SEVENTY-FIVE B-29 TAKE OFF FOR BRITAIN
    112 8 Reuter WASHINGTON. Mon. The first batch of about "5 American B-29s rakes off for Britain today under the U551,000,000,000 arms nin programme to strengthen Western Europe's defences Four of the reconditionco bombers, manned by American crews,> leave nearby Ano rews Field this afternoon bound
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    USI Warns Traders: 'We Will Use Troops'
    444 8 THE HALVED CURRENCY PANIC JAKARTA. Monday. THE Indonesian Gcvernn cnt today threatened to use troops and police, if necessary, to force acceptance of its new devalued currency. More than two-thirds of Jakarta's retail shops most of them Ciunese-owned failed to open today. Finance
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    FRENCH OFFICER STABBED IN SAIGON RIOTS
    195 8 U.P. SAIGON, Monday A FRENCH Command2r was stabbed thre: A and his condition is n ttorted serious dmin! yesterday's police clash with 3,000 student 1,000 woikers. dm Martial law vat fecfaM in the riot areas. S about $25.000 worth order was restori d Huu
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    FOUR LINCOLNS ARRIVE
    57 8 Four Lincoln Bombei? of the 57 Squadron and one fork carrying servicing pc:sor.ru: arrived yesterday at Tengah from Negombo. The Aircraft were met by Air Vice Marshal. F. J. W. Mellersh and by Station Commander Wing Cmdi. D. H. Burnside. The remaining aircrew of the Squadron will
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    WHERE IS THE EMPIRE DIRK?
    83 8 Reuter AAP. HONGKONG, Mon.—While Nationalist warships and aircraft are still hunting vainly for the British ship Empire Dirk, which left the Co'ony last week carrying more than U553,000,000 worth of aeroplane spare parts and engines tor the Peking Government, another British ship left last night
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    Top Atom Scientists Disappear From UK
    155 8 U.P., A.P. LONDON, Monday. THE Daily Graphic said today that "two top level United States-born atcui scientists have disappeared suddenly from Eiitain." It said, "They are believed to have gone to the United States and Federal Bureau ol Investigation has been asked to find
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    SOEKARNO'S VISIT
    18 8 AAP JAKARTA. Mon.—Well-in-fcrmprt sources told Aneta today President SoeKarno would visit East Indonesia in May Reute-.-AAP
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