Singapore Standard, 24 February 1951

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    Masthead
    19 1 Singapore Standard *SI J& %l JL vol. I NO- 239 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1951 12 PAGES— 10 CENTS
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    Shots Outside Court Ignited Riot- Wiltshire
    434 1 Shots Outside Court Ignited Riot Wilt shire •Man-lard Staff Reporter G. B. Wiltshire, Acting Commissioner of lime of the December riots nave his conmmm cr rlav rcg_Mrui_g the Police Force as a hnppenetl during the riot.*. He told the Comm.: ssion of Enquiry that the ruts were caused by the
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    Chinese To Celebrate Chiang Day
    50 1 lfl Reporter K rtang rati the I Generalis- ;::1 I China on i exhibit. on wing the arious h a the bias i the K M T, e C J WJ pits. whi h tinned by the amen! 1 ad in Ph: 'J. i.e. Ind-
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    Dr. B .J. Ess Of Singapore Dies
    38 1 Dr. B .J. Ess Of Singapore Dies Repartet v r* dest others aa I luati i JO:: 1' Toe-: Se i I F s beer i rtitione e. 1 vI I J i a Frank sw at 4
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    Duke Of Edinburgh Entertained
    58 1 Photo The Duke of Edinburgh (right) is shown here shaking hands with Prince Rainier of Monaco after the reception given for the Duke at the palace about a week ago. H.M.S. Magpie of which the Duke is commander, was paying a five-day visit to Monte Carlo
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    Parties Favour Half-Day Off On April 10
    195 1 Standard Staff Reporter EOTH the Labour and Progressive Parties ot" Singapore yesterday expressed themselves in tavour of the Government declaring a half day holiday on April 10, the new date set for the Legislative Council elections. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, President of the
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    Chinese Guilds Told Of SIT Applications
    141 1 Chinese Guilds Told Of SIT Applications Standard >taif Reporter HUNDREDS of Chinese i oromunity guilds in Singapore I i e been asked to register i L pble applications for Singapore Improvement Crust ae- ndations. and to hand them to the Singapore Chinese Chamber uf Commerce within 10 davs. The' community
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    Admiralty's Decision To Benefit Many
    153 1 Standard Staff Reporter THE majority of 10,000 industrial employees of the Admiralty, Singapore, will be benefitted 1 by the Admiralty derision to include the Japanese Occupation period tor the purpose of reckoning service gratuities to pre-war employees, who have had seven years'! service. I The
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    First Genuine Air-Raid Alarm Heard In Taipei
    112 1 First Genuine Ai r-Raid Alarm Heard In Taipei TAIPEI, Feb. 23: (APV- This Chinese Nationalist capital had a flurry of excitement this morning when an air-raid alarm said to be genuine was sounded. It was the first real such alarm i given here and followed less than 24 hours after
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    Tories Gain First Win Over Labour
    312 1 LONDON, Feb. 24 (AP 1 Conservatives beat Britain's Labour government on Friday by winning parliamentary ap- j proval of a bill to give small private truck line operators a share of the business now done! by state-owned truck lines. The vote in favour of
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    Peace Move To Peking Made
    80 1 LAKE SUCCESS, Feb. 24: (AP'— The United Nations Good Offices Committee was reported on Friday to have made its first approach to Communist China to see if Peking will reconsider and discuss Korean peace terms with it. Diplomatic sources said the three-member committee had made
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    Young Chinese Detective In Penang Slain
    108 1 Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG, Fri. A joung Chinese detective, Lee Chin Kim. 22. was shot dead from behind by an unknown gunman while he was riding a bicycle along Argyll Road about 100 yards from Lutton Lane Police Station at about 7.45 tonight. Two
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    Helicopter Makes Its 34th Rescue
    61 1 THE Helicopter Casualty Eva- cuation Flight of Far Fast Air i Force completed its .14th rescue yesterday when a hover-plane returned to Changi after an airlift in Pahang. Guided and assisted by Army Auster spotting planes, the helicopter picked up a patient trom the jungle
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    UK Press Angry As American Admiral Named To Head Atlantic Pact Navy
    417 1 LON DOX. Feb. 23 CAP)— Britain's press waved the nag vigorously and defiantly sang "Rule Britannia" today over th nomination of an American admiral to head the Atlantic Pact navy. F.ven more forcefully than rid Winston Churchill in
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    UN Forces Push Up 7 Miles On Central Front
    287 1 UN Forces Push Up 7 Miles On Central Front TOKYO, Feb. 23. (LP) United Nations force* rammed seven miles deeper into Communist territory in east-eenlral Korea touav and reported the Communists were fleeing in a IlllMM stream" from their new "Killer" offensive. Spearheading American troops seized Pyongchan on the eastern
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    Ivan Koniev Confident Of Soviet Power
    85 1 MOSCOW, Feb. 23: Rueteri Soviet Marshal Ivan Koniev forecast today the 'liquidation of the entire system of world imperialism" if a new war was unleashed. Marshal Koniev. Commander-in-Chief of Soviet Armv ground forces, writing in the Communist Party newspaper Pravda, said the Soviet armed
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    Truman Will Not Seek Another Term
    164 1 Truman W ill Not Seek Another Term WASHINGTON, Feb. 23: (Reuter) Mr. Truman will QOl seek ano' her term KS Pre-! sident when his present eightyear run expires on Jan 20, 1953, according to unofficial Congressional sources here todav. Friends of the OG-year-old President said he was seriously ransidering running
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    Nobel Peace Prize
    39 1 OSLO. Feb. 23 UP It was disclosed today United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie. Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and President Robert Hutchins of Chicago University wree among 28 individuals nominated for this year's Nobel Prize
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    180 Riot Claims Received
    244 1 180 Riot Claims Received Standard Staff Reporter APPBOXIMAI KI.V iHo i .aims againsl the Gov. -rumen' in COt*j nection with the December riot* had been Bled bo far. spokesIman of the Claim.- Office said yesterdaj Most claims were for los- and damage to cars and othei motor ehiC.os. Others inc
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    Health Dept. Probes 2 Smallpox Cases
    96 1 Standard Staff Reporter THE Singapore Municipal Health Department is tai every precaution to check up on j the two cases ot bhi pox w ruch were in transit tl ough Smga- pore on Feb 11. 12 I i 13 rhis was stated bv Di
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    Police Could Not Restore Order—-Wiltshire
    553 2 Police Could Not Restore Order— -Wiltshire Spends In Box Standard Staff Reporter MK. R. C. B. WILSHIRE, Acting Commissioner of Police when the riots broke out in the Colony on Dec. 11 last, told the Commission of Inquiry yesterday I that he did not consider the situation serious until 643
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    250 MORE TEACHERS JOIN UP
    184 2 mdard Staff Reporter ANOTHER 250 trainee will report for duty on lfl r 1 under the Five- 1 ear S ipplementary Education Plan, bringing the enrolment of the Teachers 1 Training College to well over 1,000. i d J iseph: Principal of t v c
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    Five Involved In Rubber Charge
    64 2 REE. Tan En: Hai. Tay C and I.ee Chwee were charged in the Sin- 1 ird District Court yeseceh g $300 worth en rui ber sheets ging Rui > appear;:.:.. wil I. Pillai and M. P irge r ung into t i of a lighter
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    Alleged To Have Stabbed Labourer
    55 2 Alleged To Have Stabbed Labourer V LA B RE r. D i eged in the Singa r irth C irt yes- his to hia compatriot K michG it a birthday I K whipped fe and stabbed him. ;s;imy was givii preliminai luiry in K i chsamy thr rv. K --rr
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    Learning How To Speak —
    110 2 Lear ning How To Speak Standard Woman Corre. pendent NERVOUS students of the Teachers T.-.n.ng College. Singapore, walked into the portals of Moutrie's Recording Department, Baffles Place, yesterday and came out smiling. Escorted by Mrs Hilda Simpson, of the College, they had been to h e their speech recorded. I
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    English – The Right Way
    100 2 English The Right Way It is hoped that all pupils wi'l undertake to have their \oices recorded annually, during training, to note improvements. the girls appeared more composed than did their male counterparts but relieved when it was over. I .< h pupil had written otit his own talk, the
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    MORE BABIES
    29 2 THE Pv IPULATION i Si iga I e 15 >th< big increase over the week ending Feb 17 when 728 births were recorded lg inst 189 death-;.
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    BIRTHDAY PARTY
    29 2 VN CHING Ih::.; and his rs gave party at resi in Fl >wer Road in honour of their mother's f>2nd birthday. About 150 guests i e present
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    Thio Criticises Govt. For Slow Progress
    233 2 Thio Criticises Govt. For Slow Progress SQUATTER PROBLEM Standard Staff Reporter MR. THIO (lian Ber, Singapore Legislative Councillor (Nominated), who raised the Colony squatter problem in Council last year, yesterday criticised the Government for the slow progress it has made *m "j tackling the problem. He was eon. ment ing
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    Mr. Ong Will Continue To Dig Sand In Pulau Tekong
    288 2 Standard Staff Reporter A SINGAPORE Chinese businessman, Mr. Ong Kali Lock., will continue to dig sand and elay from Pulau Tekong Kechil an island abont 220 aeres, 2A miles from Changi Point although his lease of the island has been
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    Mrs. Menon To Look Into Needs Of Seletar Women
    180 2 Mrs. Menon To Look Into Needs Of Seletar Women Standard s; iff k. porter MRS. VMLASINI Menon, only woman candidate standing for the Singapore Legislative Council elections from Tne Seletar constituency, told The S a;. oar-: yesterday that the provision of ma t« rnity child welfare facilities fcr ihe women
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    HID OPIUM IN VAN, DRIVER GETS 3 YEARS
    169 2 A MALAY driver of a newspaper van plying between Malacca and Singapore told the Singapore First District Judge yesterday that he was shocked when the customs discovered two packages of opium hidden in the panel of his right door. Pointing out that
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    4 Detainees Testify For Rioter
    84 2 AFTER four detainees hari given evidence on his behalf. Mohamed bin Abdul Samad. an English sp< Malay, was sentenced months' imprisonment in tin Singapore Rein! District Court yesterday. s imad was found guilty rioting in ront of -he Kandang Kerbau Police Station .si December. District
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    Baby's Death: Insufficient Evidence
    256 2 THE SINGAPORE Coroner. Mr. Choor Singh, held at an inquest yesterday that "there was insufficient evidence" to charge any one with the death of an infant whose 18-year-old mother. Ong Saw Theow. was said to have been forced by her lover to take some "powder" after
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    Routed Bandits Vent Their Anger On Civilians, Children
    354 3 Standard Staff Correspondent \l.\ Ll MIM H. 1 ri. Terrorists in the Federation appear to wreak ice on civilians as they find the) are unable to deal with \n example to this was illustrated in Ipoh yesterdav %hi!a\ bandits entered a house,
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    Negri To Hold Anti TB Week
    31 3 Negri To Hold Anti TB Week M._ 3 Correspond at I Jegri lnti-1 told is to make i inI 15. I) S Mr. Mr. V EL Dai 1 lis an B
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    Kept Lt.'s Shirts, Fined
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    37 3 Inspector Mohamed Yusof Khan who was injured »n an ambos-k near Snagei Siput. Perak. last Saturday. He is scheduled to leav:' with four other .\>ian police inspectors for United Kingdom on Mar. ■> lm a police training coarse.
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    SENTENCE QUASHED
    56 3 \:.A LUMPUR, Fri.— A b O S wa ned to six hard r for having seven Df raw opium, was succ< appeal I I efore Mr. v E. N. Taylor, in the ri Tiie ;ed that I in the po "ket of a nan- of 1 ng in
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    Failed To Register
    15 3 Faile d To R egi ster K F Old I V -T i days n
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    STATION MASTER WINS APPEAL
    111 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. king hi.s firs4 appearance in court this morning, Mr. S. A. Lingam, who was admitted to the Bar a few days ago, was successful in his hrs! case before Mr. Justice Taylor. He was appearing for S Muthu Xaidu, station
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    LEAVING SERVICE
    32 3 Dr. D. K. Fraser, Surgeon at the Kota Bahru Ho pita!, will be leaving the service soon. Dr. '1 er Abdoolcader of the Genera! Hi jpital, Penang, is taking over.
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    Scouts Award Thanks Badge To Helpers
    158 3 Standard Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Fri. When the fourth annual general meeting of the Kuala Pilah Boy Scouts Association was held i recently the recommendation of the District Commissioner to award thanks badges of the Association to Mr. R.l Muthu-Ramalingam J. P. and Mr. Lee
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    55 3 picture. r: ';d I'll shows thc building of the Malay bazaar which will l) opened «>n April 1 at Seremban by the Dato Mentri Besar <»f Negri Sembilan. Tins bazaar was erected by the Seremban division of UMNO at a cost of nearly $11,966. Allotment of stalls will be by
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    44 3 THREE members of the Kent Tin Ltd., Kuala Lumpur, Messrs L. Mortimer. G. M. Kidd and W. 11. Nattrass (from left to right) were entertained by their staff to dinner at K. L. on Tuesday prior to their sailing on the Canton for England.
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    RIDA Office In Negri Set Up
    95 3 Standard Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Fri. -The Rural ami Industrial Development I Board ha.s started to function I in Negri Sembilan. The office has been established in the Co-operative Office building and Inche Khalid bin Inriut has been appointed as Development Officer. The members of
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    Seeks Banishment But Gels Death Sentence
    151 3 Standard Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, I ri. A plea ihai he be banished lo China or lu* given a prison term was made l>> Lee Soo In the High Court here yesterday after he was found guilty of carrying a handgrenade and a detonator al
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    PASSES EXAM.
    32 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri. Air. A. Nallusamy of tho Public W.»rks Department, Johore Bahru. lias passed the intermediate examination of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, London, held in Singapore last December.
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    Camp Sites For Scouts In NS Granted
    167 3 Camp Sites For Scouts In NS Granted Standard St; ir Corre pondent SEREMBAN, Fri.— That boy camp .sites are in the course of preparation and that lands have been made available is mentioned in the annual report of the Negri Sembilan Boy Scour. s Association which will hold its annual
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    Deserter Jailed
    47 3 Standard Staff Correspondent IPOH, Fsn. Pleading gui to a charge ol' desertion, 19--jrear-old Special Constable Choy K<»\v, told Magistrate Che Bahaudin yesterday that ho was not getting sufficient food. He was ill. He left his post to get medical treatment. Choy received two months' jail.
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    RAF Officer Cleared Of Assault Charge
    249 3 Standard Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Judgment was reserved today by First Magistrate, Mr. A. P. Jaek. in the ease against Flt.d.i. R. B. Leighton. of the Royal Air Force, on a charge of unlawfully detaining a Chinese estate manager, Mr. Tan (ree Kim,
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    Build Houses With Provident Funds, Call To Fed. Govt.
    305 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA 11 MPI R. Fri. Trade I nion* ami xariou* other bodies, inchidiiii: the Chinese Chamher!- oi Commerce and the Malayan Chinese Association, will be putting forward a request to Coveri-Hieiil that tmWaWMW collected under the new compulsory
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    Home Guards C'ttee
    24 3 Standard Stall Cm -e po dent SEREMBAX. Thurs. advisory committee for the ion of Ih»n Seremban has been I a i
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    Resumes Duty
    25 3 ALOR STAR, Fri. 1 Haji Mohd. Sheriff C C.B.E. has returned fj and i. Mentri B. Tungku Ismail bin Tunku Yar.. B S
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    Foreman Wins Case On Appeal
    213 3 Standard Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Fri. "The Court will enforce laws strictly when a charge against an officer of reputation is n and where the case is I the punishment will be impo ed, but in this I I i the prosecution h. faiied :<
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    POLICE SURPRISE FUSING PEOPLE
    264 4 Dawn Check Carried Out Standard Staff Correspondent IPOH, Fri. A surprise check carried out by a combined police and military force in the unhappy town of Fusing shortly after daylight this morning caught many unsuspecting male adults who had been evading their share of the $40,000
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    Dato Onn In Penang Today
    84 4 Standard Stall Correspondent PENANG, Fri.- Dato Onn Vui Ja'afar, president of the UMNO and. chairman of the Rural Industrial Development! Authority is expected in Penanf tomorrow. On Sunday morning, he will R Iress a mass assembly at the fram is Light School ground. He will
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    Four Japs To Stay In Ship
    88 4 PENANG, Fri -For the first time smce the surrender of .Japan, four Japanese nationals arrived here today by tIK S S Sumatra on their way Rotterdam. Thev are Sato Shoji. 3.. Raiki Senkuro, 31, Shimoda _fake2 13 and. 1 1 i Naoshi, 31 v.
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    Decree Nisi Made Absolute
    95 4 Standard Staff Correspondent KANG Fri.— The decree was made absolute by Mr. tice Jobling in the Supreme f lay in the suil tor divor e filed by Mr. J, R. E. Pawa m, manager of a ftnn in Penang, against Annie Wallace Pawa a. I -he
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    Revised Fees
    48 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri From Mar. I the revised tees for the transmission ol second lass correspondence by airmail to certain commonwealth countries, are as follows Ceylon and Hongkong 10 cents, Australia, India and New Zealand 20, Pakistan 25 and Great Brita and Northern Ireland 30 cents.
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    Bus Suspension Will Affect 80 Employees
    126 4 Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG, Fri. Daily-paid employees of lhe Lim Seng Seiii; Bus Co., number ini*. 80, will be out of work for two months when the suspension of their bus service bv the Road Transport Department, Kuala .Lumpur, tomes into effect. Mr. Cheah
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    ALLEGED BANDIT CHIEF CAPTURED, FACES CHARGE
    139 4 Standard Staff Correspondent IPOH, Friday About a dozen fully armed policemen stood guard outside the magistrate court here this morning, when an alleged bandit leader, Chia Kee Koo. 24, was produced before Magistrate Che Arshad. *T After the charge of Illegal I possession of
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    Bus Service For Trengganu
    74 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Introduction of internal bus service to cover all main thoroughfares here is proposed by Government. It is considered tha* bus service is cheaper and more convenient to the public. There are at present no other public transport facilities except trishas. It is understood
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    Schools Told: Hold Mock Elections
    61 4 PENANG. Fri. Heads of English schools here have been invited by the Education- Department to consider holding mock elections as has been done by some of the schools in Kuala Lumpur. The Senior Inspector of Srhools. Mr. G. L. Bayliss told The Standard today that
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    Kedah Tribute To TU Adviser
    264 4 yesterday nieture. Standard Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR. Fri. ""Mr. Brazier is a white man: but be is unlike other white men. He teaches us to be democratic while other white men stare hard at itiooc who participate in trade unionism. said Che Yahya Rashid at
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    1946 Police Force Corrupt
    386 4 "During that period thev acquired a number of bad habits under the Japanese, a rotten code of life," said Mr. Wiltshire. By bad habits, he meant "moral code. Integrity, general standard of conduct". When the British Military Administration came in with the reoccupation, the new police
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    No Reason For Trouble
    250 4 He Considered the number of Gazetted officers In the force (69) inadequate. At presenl 40 more "could be employed quite easily". This deficiency had been brought to the notice of government by his predecessors. The deficiency had to some extent been got over by the introduction
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    PCs' Request Refused
    389 4 PCs' Request Refused He was also Informed that on Dec. 10 (Sunday) the advisers of girl's foster mother (Che Aminah') had organised a march to the Convent in which the girl was staying. No permit was applied for the procession and there was no reason to believe that they had
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    'Phone Calls Awaited Me'
    579 4 On reaching home, he found several telephone calls g for hint One was from the Private Secretary to the Cover] tr; another from Mrs. Blythe, wife Ol the Colonial Secretary ard an >th< r from Mr. M< V president of the Municipality. Thej left tneir numbers
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    38 4 Choral conductor. Miss Margaret Bond from Worcestershire, who passed through Singapore yesterday by BOAC Constellation for a four month stay in Australia. She will lecture there on the work of the Baptist Mission in the U.K. Standard photo.
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    Riots Caused By Shooting
    292 5 Riots Caused By Shooting At 2.43 he ordered 50 men to rep irl I > Beach Road Station. At 3 pjn. the Control Room had received reports ol five cases ol assault. There were do details as to how serious they we e The next significant information received was when
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    Refers To '47 Disturbance
    485 5 Mr. Li volt might have resumed "full duty" on the morning of i H iluntarily" though he was stiil authorised to perform only light duties according to the ical certificate. ■.V he telephoned you at that time he told you that he had been stoned. Were
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    Situation Getting Worse
    309 5 Chairman: What orders did you give at or about this tunc J to deal with those scattered J bands of rioters who were l stoning, burning cars and as- i saulting Europeans? Every time it was reported action was i taken. My o.licers had assured me that
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    'Military Still Not Required'
    398 5 He thought Colonel Crocker. had of his own initiative, called i in this battalion tt) stand by. However, he still considered l that military assistance was not tired as his information at that time was that about five to eleven people had beta, injured and that
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    Troops Arrive At 7.48 p.m.
    603 5 Troops Arrive At 7.48 p.m. N Mr Wiltshire related tl time when the Military show d up. A company of Malay troops the Headquarters. Internal Security Battalion West was stationed at the Rochore Road Station, one at Jot) Chiat Station d I tf a platoon at Government Hi They started
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    240 5 the police cars and the detective i looked as if thev were of one crowd. They were all in a small a rex .Mr. Wiltshire said the appieciation of the situation at 5 o clock was 11 cases of persons being assaulted. There were no details.
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    693 5 He was then informed that a j crowd was throwing bottles m Geylang area. He ordered a message to be passed ft) the Joo Chiat Division to investigate and take appropriate action. Next Mr. Minns, Officer in I charge of Marine Police informed him that
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    773 6 The ■THE secret huddle is over. The delegates to the Nine-Power Rubber Conference in London will steal away in the manner thev assembled on their toes and fingers pressed to their lips. The orhcial communique released at the end of the conference is about as tantalizing as
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    1187 6  -  J. BURGESS T HAVE read a letter from Wage Earner/' which appeared in your paper of February 21 with considerable interest. Arty effort to improve the facilities available for house purchase are commendable, and I do not in anyway wish to criticise the opinion expressed by Wage Earner,
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    12 6 Would you hove guessed that this is the Happy World Stadium?
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    401 6 It's The Talk Of The Town The Popular 'Candidates' THREE candidates for the Singapore Legislative Council have taken tiie Government to task for postponing tiie elections from April 7 to April 10 because the former date happens to be a race day. One of the candidates says that by doing
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      311 6 Sii We are ery pie ised to note that you have be< n renominated as a member of the Federal Legislative Council. Pl< <■ accept our heartiest c■■ gratulations Although you are very modest and una Un ing. we have greal faith in
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      397 6 WOMEN S In answer to the article 'Women are such, liars in L I should like all men to remember that women are what men make them. For cer." .ries women have di me the r ut to please and pamper the whims and pleasures of the
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    132 6 LONDON. 4 SOUTHGATE, south east 'V Suburban audience ot women was told recently by one of their number- "Spend all your housekeeping money: or it you do save any. hide it away somewhere.** Mrs. P. Earengey, President of the Nationa] Council of Women, explained that
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    153 6 FIRE STATION GIVES THE TODDLERS A PEEP-HOLE < I?EYV children can resist a peep at J pass a fire station th*v must Ufa Z polished red monsters in.side—be< a ,,v. t\ < engine is a thrilling sight But for the children of Birkenlx -_,ci station was a disappointment The mim
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    345 7 HONGKONG, Fib. 23 \P} <__„..__ -.ti i 11.4 I V Loilllll «nist Chian has rung up lhe green li*h for what, by their own indications, mav be come one ol the greatest wholesale purges in modern history. ik. 7 2 cm, «T
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    Human Toe In Sausage
    71 7 BOGOTA, COLOMBIA. Fel 83 (AP) The newspapet KI Tiempo said on Thursday that a woman i und a human toe in a nasage she was eating sunday at a picnic staad in the town of tintibon. near Bogota. It added the mayor seised the remaining sausafM
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    West Move To Halt War Goods To Reds
    130 7 L»MK>\. Feb. 83 (IP)- Britain and the United ire makim? parallel representations to neutral n and Switzerland to stop the flow of strategic matela Russia and her satellites, a British Foreign Office -man said. I tn said disci the two neutral continuing
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    Postponement Of Burma Polls Seen
    106 7 RANGOON, Feb. 23: (Renter) District election commissioners and heads of police today gave evidence before th Supervisory Election Commission presided over by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on the feasibility of holding elections in their respective areas. Findings of the commission will be
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    310 7 Special To The Standard RANGOON, Feb. 23. Following recent reports that the Burmese Communist leader Thakin Than Tun has concluded a pact of assistance with the Peking Government, fresh details have now come to light of the terms of the agreement. It appears
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      35 7 Britain's new ambassador to rhailand, Su- John Hall Mago.v in, is expected to assume his post m the middle of March. g 57, ts a career diplo- md recently served as envoj to Venezuela. A.P.
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      112 7 a w A former Indian camel driver who mig] ated I I Western Ausralia in 1898 with a string ot rack camels, left a fortune 01 \£31,050 when he died last month, aged 75. Sultan Mahmood of Como, as he was called, born in the Punjab. India, spent 51 years
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      46 7 Police raiaea s nouse in me Bangkapi sector a::d seized 4. ue0. 000 in forged 100- baht banknotes. Three men were arrested. AP. Thr late Herbert F. Dunhill. retired British tobacco magnate oi Boulevard de Beigique, Monaco, left an estate m England worth £270,620. A. P.
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      58 7 The Italian Government has appointed Signer Leopoldo Tar giani, of Milan, a leading industrialist and electrical engineer, to the Defence Production Board of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. His duties will be to assist the work of the Board in expanding and accelerating defence production in North Atlantic Treaty countries
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      29 7 Prime Minister Robert Menzies said that Australia will contribute appropriately with Canada and New Zealand to subsidize a resumption ot the trans-Pacific Australian Canadian shipping service bv AorangL U.P.
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      39 7 Senator Robert Taft, Republic- i. Ohio, said that the Unitcd States may end up sending a ■million boys to Europe" unless Congress limits the American c .ntribution ta General Eisenh > vci s unified Atlantic Pact del ence force.— U.P.
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    69 7 INDIAN WOMAN BEATS CALCULATING MACHINES Shakuntala Devi, Indian woman with a gift for mathematics, gave a demonstration at the Institute of Physiology, Rome University, last week. Professor Pietro Silvio Rivetta of the University set problems which had baffled calculating machines, and before a packed audience Madame Devi gave correct solutions
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    72 7 photo. GROUND POWER OF RED AND ANTI-RED BLOC— This map, bused on U.S. intelligence reports, shows how the manpower in foot soldiers of the Western Powers has climbed close to that ol Soviet Russia and her satellite Communistic nations. If the ground manpower of other anti-Red nations not included in
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    207 7 BOXX, Feb. 23— (UP) Ludwig Erhard, West German Economics .Minister, and one of the nation's leading antiSocialists, announced today that his government will take oyer control of the national economy to make it produce for tiie Westerri defence. The man. who has been the
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    75 7 LONDON, Feb. 23 (Reuter) The Italian Prime Minister Singor De Gasperi is to visit London from Pi-larch 12 to 15 at tlie invitation of ihe Briti >h Government. Ho wiii be accompanied by his Foreign Minister. An official announcement from the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement
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    267 7 CAIRO. Feb. 23 (Reuter) Mr. George McGhee, United Stales Assistant Secretary of State for Near East and African Affairs, told a press conference here: No one in the free world will make war. The decision lies in the hands of the other party." "But
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    120 7 PARIS. Feb. 23 (AP) Germany today threw her support behind France's plan to build a single European army opposing Communist attack. The German delegation to the five-nation European army conference here made no counter-proposals. as some sources had expected. Instead, the German delegation asked
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    379 7 LONDON, Feb. 23 (Al») Lord I>ma>. form* r general who Mas Prime Minister <_hure!*i_i"« wartime Chief of Staff, MQCrted toda\ thai Western mobilisation or defence is weakened hy lack of rlear-eut direr! ion ;i| the top. "A lot of committees
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    312 7 LONDON, Feb .Re ittel I '—The Congress of Peoples against Imperialism >n l< I meetings in Loodon this Bveek v uii an announcement today lij Mr. Fennei B■ i lew member of Parliament, that third force was arising in the world which wwm
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    59 8 Produce Mart Is Steady S .a :r;l St ll I il 'P -TUT ►DUCI t h ste idy in a I Pep] :es kept soai ai<; u\ high evi ne ii t $1,200 per picu n a Scarcity o sto^k locally restricts i bu also i lead >ortec picul an
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    50 8 WASHINGTON, Feb 23 Reu ter) At least one millio Indians will die e an starvation if the US Congr. s to app. ive i I >• 19 „000.00 grain, Mr. J J Singl President of the India I.< igue i America told the House Foreig Affairs
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    39 8 DK ("liss) J. Ruinen (left), of Trenb Laboratories, Bogar, and Mrs. Ir. L. N. S. De Haan Homans, who were the only two women delegates to the latex experts' conference held at the Rubber Research Institute at Kuala Lumpur.
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    Govt. May Introduce Price-Tagging In All Singapore Shops
    304 8 FAILURE TO publicise prices voluntarily may compel Singapore iovernment to enforce price tagging in all Colony shops and retail stores, including market stalls. Price-tagging is one of the weapons to assist the public in their light against profiteering in essential commodities. f
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    299 8 Standard Start Reporter •iFTER OPERATING for only about iwo months, Singapore's new liger Press *»f Una Teck lvim Road, u subsidiary of The Singapore Standard, lm^ found it necessary to order new marhinrrv and eauiomenl to cope with rapid expansion^ M -'or
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    More Rubber For China From Penang
    98 8 More Rubber For China From Penang PENANG, Feb. 23. < AP)— Rid China is due to receive sot n one ot the biggest single shipments of rubber from Malaya consigned from Penang. Ihe freighter Empire Mountain, which arrived here last week, left Penang waters earlv today witli 2,000 tons of
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    661 8 'Chinese Shoemakers Best In WorfaT Standard Stall Reporter SINGAPORE'S rapidly-increasing population, and the restricted number of jobs available in industries thai cater solely !<>r the Limited home market, highlight the need for new industrial enterprises in the ('<>!■. m that >> i
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    235 8 Standard Staff Reporter SINGAPORE, Fri. Lo don c intinued to give suppo t to the Malayan tin share market to. lay. but pr-> it lo ally checked somswha! the rising te id ney i'' f u sh*?re Quotations. Rubber and industrial shan* v. a
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    42 8 h: oxg. Feb. 22--sh--cial Standard Service Closing p-i?L.s on the Hongkong Exchanie today were HK$15.58 to £1 stj rlin r. HKS6.12 to US$1: HK$1.830 t i Malayan $1: HX"u.: J ,0 to one Indonesian Rupiah; G->id HK$328.75 to one taeL
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    Holiday To Attend Rome Rubber Talks In April
    185 8 Standard Stall Reporter MR. F. C. HOLIDAY, Chairman of Director! of Lewii and Peat, Singapore Ltd., rubber and produce brokers, will, daring bis m« month Long leave attend the annual rubber study conference which will be In I<l ill Koine i;i tbe
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    Big Scope Here For Factories
    131 8 Big Scope Here For Factories Standard Stan Reporter THERE is big scope in Singapore for businessmen of foresight and initiative in the esdixnent of factories here for manufacture of many lines of goods now being imp ri This wuuld free e any of avy dependence on other countries. This view
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    To Represent Chinese Tin Miners Assn.
    49 8 To Represent Chinese Tin Miners Assn. standard stair Correspondent iron. Fri. Mr ii S Lee of Kuala Lumpur, president of the All-Malaya Chinese Tm Miners Association, has been elected to represent thr Association at the world tm conic:. I in W The meeting is to la* held next month.
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    296 8 Keeping Prises Down Standard "*iafl Reporter OMV THE STRICTEST supervi-rioa of li-.ril..ih*.:i and elimination ol hoarding uoul<l help in the rarrenl campaign in Singapore to <*ut the price* of foodstuffti and other essential commodities Imported Into th Colony, according to soin** l<*iitl iim importer*
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    Indonesia And Thailand Now Under cut Malaya
    128 8 Rubber Sales To America i i Standard Mart K<|„..-i. INDONESIA and Thailand l.;ne h, to th*- I nited Stater, at prfaea wefl below ih, l( in the Singapore market. a<< online I <V -,U uigapore rubber brokers, m their port i^ind yesterday. There
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    682 9 Full Programme For Passengers Standard Shipping Correspondent CRUISE passengers aboard the round-the-world Cunard, White Star luxury liner, Caronia have a full shore programme of entertainment already planned for them during the 34,000-tou ship's one-day stay in Singapore, Mr. B. J. Bevan, manager of Thos. Cook and
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    286 9 Standard Shipping Reporter WHEN the East Asiatic Company's 9,991-ton passenger-freighter Kina sailed from Singapore yesterday for Copenhagen via Madras, she took with her three married couples who, except for a woman, were confined to the ship during her six-day stay here- They had
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    141 9 ent Standard Staff Correspondent A SPOKESMAN of the Public Relations Office. Singapore, said yesterday that due to pressure oi other work, a booklet guide to the Colony being prepared by the department, would not be published in time to be distributed to visiting world
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    FED. PORTS HANDLED MORE CARGO IN 1950
    192 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The i month for Port Swettenham growth in importance of Fed- i when 80,654 tons were handled. eration ports is revealed in December proved tne best for f Penang. Malacca and Port Dickoffieial statistics issued te U Teluk Anson U)Uched
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    109 10 New Red Probe In Hollywood JHINGTON, F< b 23 (AP) T the House R< pres I itives Un-American Activitii on Thui Hollywood indi< iti ewed purge of the film indu I be immini i I C omittee sources said the In** > stigators w ere i med with subpoenas and
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    27 10 YORK, Feb 23 OAP) P( A' 'l Or i>., 19--year-old Hh<: actress a d Richard Herbert //.;>,, i'i, !('!cr;vf)ii i'.;vcui:rc. loere married here on -Thursday
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    418 10 l-TOLLYWOOD. Feb. 23. Betty Grable says she feels sartorially lost in her new picture. No bustles. No pantaloons. Not even a single corselet. Making her first modern musical since she can't remember when, the combustible blonde reports that in 20th Century-Fox's "My Blue
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      597 10 RADIO FARE RADIO MALAYA SINGAPORE ENGLISH PROCiRAMME i isi Metres and 4i.:;s Metres) 10 a.m. \e»>: I p.,„. Pro K rammp summary; IM Salurda? Ballroom 1. .11 News; 1. 56 Plantation Mi:xi« pm. Baeing Commentaries lrom the Singapore lurf t tub; ti p..m Prorramm<* summary: 6.02 Krnturkv Minstrels' 6.13 Children's
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    Radio Malaya Gives Fewer Classical 'Chestnuts'
    640 11  -  ANACRUSIS MUSIC NOTES By J lI E popular Monday I evening radio pro- stume. "At Your Request." h.i, i-ertainiy been on the pradc during recent iths, and I feel that the idual increase in the is cal value of the expts p! ived is
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    ON THE AIR
    236 11 SINGAPORE (IX4 tn. 62 m.) Sun. Feb. 25 (8 p.m.)—Tchaikovsky 6th Symphony (Pathetique); (10.20 p.m.) Beethoven String Quartet in F minor, Op. 95 No. 2 Mon. Feb. 26 (X.15 p.m.) Classical music "At Your Request." Wed. Feb. 28 (10 p.m.)— New Classical records. Fri. Mar. 2 (X.'.O
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    MAKES A NOTE OF
    71 11 TONIGHT (9M p.m.)— Oei Tio..y Ham Hall Concert bu I ty o; Malaya Musical Society's Orchestra and Choir. Luton Anc/ (soprano). Paterson Hutton (baritone). Conductor, Paul Abisheganaden. S.AT MAR. 27 (8.45 p.m.) -Concert by Junior Symphony Orchestra and reachers' Choral Society. Mimi Lim (piano). Conductor, Glan
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    FOR THE DISCOPHILE
    694 11 I'M \\\<..i Symphony in t I'hi'harmnnia Orchestra t. anabia LXM«4fi 31. BB I r th<- aflttpfcca rf the bara i »f Mi-,ir.'< Mm iiml N DIM Marie la B BHia eg i rth rcI Nichoiaa v nserva- tei burs and Ife cw hd rj N m- .:>..;>
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    ALLEGATIONS AGAINST ARMY DEPOT INSPECTOR
    248 11 FOLLOWING the publication in a recent issue of The Standard of the demand of members of the Army Depot Police for housing allowance as paid to other Armv civilian workers in Singapore, one of the Inspectors in one Depot has started making enquiries f on
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    No Income For 3 Years
    101 11 THAT he had been unemploved for the past three years and had incurred liabilities to the extent of $3,000, was disclosed by M. A. Rahim Khan during his public examination in the Singapore Bankruptcy Court yesterday. Rahim said he had a wife and three children.
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    Sewer Labourers Want Light, Pay
    85 11 Standard Staff Reporter A REQUEST for lights on the five-foot ways at the Alexandra Disposals Section labourers' quarters is made in a resolution passed at a recent meeting of the Executive Committee of the Singapore Municipal Sewerage Labour Union. Another resolution urges the Commissioners to
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    BENEFIT SOCCER FOR TUCK CHOON
    124 11 CHINESE goalkeeper Tang Tuck Choon, who was shot up by bandits on his way to a match in the Federation will have another benefit match to-morrow when the SAFA team meets the Combined Services at Jalan Besar Stadium. His Asian and European soccer friends and
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    Sports Equipment For Boys Clubs
    189 11 GOVERNMENT'S grant of 51 3,000 to ihe Singapore Federation of Boys Clubs will be spent on the purchase of sports equipment for the nine Boys Clubs in lhe Colony. Mr C. F. (ie Souza, secretary of the Federation, who told this to Tiie Standard yesterday,
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    Special Entries For Singapore Dog Show
    143 11 Standard Staff Reporter FOR THE first time, two English Alsatian Champions, specially imported trom England, will compete at the Singapore Dog Show to be held on Saturdav. Mar. 10. at ihe Happy World Stadium. This was disclosed yesterday bv Mr. E. V. Smith, Chairman
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    THEFT CHARGE
    55 11 A CHARGE of stealing $5, ji singlet, and a belt worth $1 20 belonging to Koh Teng Hwee on Feb 22 in the Police Court lockup was explained to Quah Siew Song, Lim Yew Hock. Goh Chin Juay and Chan See Lek yesterday in the Singapore Second Police
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    20 Gamblers Arrested
    111 11 Standard Staff Reporter TWENTY gamblers. six women, wore arrested in two separate raids in Temple Street and Chin Check Street l last night. In Temple Street, three of the eight Chinese arrested ma.de a bold bid to escape but j were brought down by detectives before they
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    SMALLHOLDERS NOW ENJOYING VITAL FREEDOM
    161 11 SMALLHOLDERS NOW ENJOYING VITAL FREEDOM Standard Staff Reporter MALAYA did right in resisting the U.S. more to lower her rubber price, said Mr. K. Jagatheesan, Independent Commissioner for the City Ward yesterday. Hi was commenting on the nine power rubber conference which has just adjourned in London. "We have houses
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    GANG ROBBERY
    59 11 A GANG of six Chinese some of whom* were armed with pistols robbed two Chinese families of jewelleries worth $450 on midnight of Feb. 21 at the 13$ m.s. Ulu Sembawang. The 18th annual general meeting of the C.Y.M.A. (Church of Our Ladv of Lourdes) Singapore. will be
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    'Athletes Will Leave On Sunday With Full Contingent'—Kiat
    263 11 'Athletes Will Leave On Sunday With Full Contingent'— Kiat THE seven athletes in the Singapore Contingent for the Asian Games will definitely leave this Sunday without the formality of undergoing final trials. Mr. G. H. Kiat, vice president ot the Singapore Olympic and Sports Council, said yesterday. He was speaking
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    2 ARMED ROBBERIES REPORTED
    109 11 2 ARMED ROBBERIES REPORTED Standard Staff Reporter TWO armed robberies were reported to the Police yesterday morning. The first occurred shortly after midnight in Seletar Road where three Chinese, two armed with pistols, robbed a woman ol $2,890 worth of cash and jewels. About the same time at Sembawang Road,
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    500 Animal Lovers Meet
    70 11 THERE was a big response from members to attend the first annual general meeting of the Animal Lovers' League held at Victoria School yesterday. Five hundred boys and girls crammed the hall to capacity to re-elect three of their officebearers, Mrs. MarjQrie demons (president), .Mr. Sundrum
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    S'pore Riot Hero Walked lnto CID
    103 11 FOLLOWING an appeal by th? Singapore ro.j s a civi'an w.i'ked into *he C! D. headquarters yesterday morning a. id disclosed that he was the man who saved tbe lives of two European women and a child during the December riots at the junction
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      347 11 Still $3,000 Short.... AVTHOCC I the SOSC F i'i is st'll 5..000 s*iort of 1. r-.?t of ..000— all ir." "nberg of the con' ngent will leave on Sunday. Mr. G. 11. Kiat, chair man of the SOSC Fund. said that the committer considered the amount they had in hand
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    Richmond For The Spring Cup Today
    832 12  -  OLLIE DAVIES Ay GIVEN the same weight as he did when he finished strongly to run third place to Cambridge and Uninsured over The six furlongs on Wednesday, tbe^hrre year old Owen Tudor gelding Richmond who will be better suited by the extra furlongs
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    Skipper F. Brown Plays Hero's Game
    427 12 MELBOURNE- Feb. 23 (Reuter- A AP) England did well lo restrict Australia's scoring to 200 today when the Fifth and final Teal match Opened here and, in Ihe process, thev claimed eiiiht wickets. To Freddie Brown, their captain who was limping as a roult
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    Scoreboard
    108 12 AI STRALIA Ist. Inns. B ke c Tattersall b Bed 11 11 Brown s<> c HuttOD b Brown 92 v c Evans b Brown l er c and b Brown 1 Hole b Bedser 13 lan Johnson ibw Bedser 1 LindwaO not out 18 Tallon c Hutton b Bedser
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    EXTRAVAGANCE CHARGES AT PENANG FA MEET
    226 12 PENANG, Fri.— The Penang FA. last night spent a considerable part of its annual general meeting debating charges and denials of extravagance in connection with the state soccer side. Mr. J. E. Miller wanted to know if the association was running a "soccer side
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    No Welcome From The Weather
    117 12 i THK ENGLISH weather i did not have a too kind i a welcome for the Malayi an and Singapore doubles 1 champions. Ong Poh Lim 1 and Ismail bin Mar jan, 1 when they arrived in Lon--1 do-, on Th'irsdav evening. 1 In a
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    Indians Win Perak Hockey Championship
    109 12 Fr:. Kinta Indians t r sec nd hockey honours 3 i n when they a m toe it competition this even-,-t./.-.r.- looh Police bj a g -al. The tame marked end of the 1930 31 season here The winners a better team hut their incessant
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    Standard's Selections
    167 12 OUie Unties Cay Reveller 'Minorou* Time Test Raccl: ClassgDlv.UgF) WONDga LAD^ Kff ""iKJSffu* "ftHlSr Race 2: Class 1 Dlv. 2.(6F> SPRggBOK T sStoi&S ""'in" Arthur i Rnvvir PRINCE KEFX ROSE HAYDKE <k'\DR\\T Races: Class 1 Dlr. 1(1M) Bonnie Prince Bonnie Prtpee spltSid Race*: CU«sl D.v.2,.M) B^ VIND "jgiSL
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    RUGBY REFEREES PLAN MALAYAN SOCIETY
    135 12 THE Singapore Society of Rugby Union Referees, which, according to the president Air Vice-Marshal Sir Francis Fogarty, was formed to get the game played in the best spirit and in the highest standard, may now branch out into a pan-Malayan society. ti This was mentioned
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      55 12 ItEggji HIGH TIDES Bl QIC principal res< arta n Ma TODAY: AM. p.m. Singapore 1 2.31 12.17 Malacca 9.29 9 4*i Tort Dickson 8.10 8.27 Port 6 hara 7.22 IM Penang 2.04 2.37 Sl NDAY FLB. 25: Singapore 12.54 12.54 Malacca 9.5G 10.17 Port Dickson 8.37 8.58 Tort S'ham 7.47
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