Singapore Standard, 15 April 1953

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    14 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD ft Ht JN 281 \ni SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1953 TWELVE PU.ES
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    UK'S ECONOMY BETTER
    560 1 We Must Keep Up Progress, Says Butler LONDON, April 14:— Mr. R. A. Butler, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented his ■953 budget today to a House of Commons so packed that many members could not find seats. Members of the public and foreign ambassadors filled the
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    PEACE: WAIT AND SEE – ADLAI
    95 1 PEACE: WAIT AND SEE ADLAI I R, Tues. Miwnson, ratic ran.United told newsIval here oped the ;enuine' i peace overand c of l of grica the about "I lances well ting < to j daily. > .f thc <tabi- I !*flr. this topic h the i avers I he then
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    MIST DELAYS TWO PLANES
    22 1 -B ■ausel mist a town south j s pas- over "ne. round could from m, an unpur ngers
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    Allied Jets Guard Red Convoy's Route
    225 1 MUNSAN, April 14. American Shooting Star jets circled m the blue skies over North Korea today, watching the Communist convoy bringing the tirst hatch of 600 United Nations prisoners south to Panmunjom. and freedom. The planes were on a friendly mission —to make Wire
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    The Floods Are Back
    86 1 AMSTERDAM. April 14 i AP) North Se a waters, whipped h> storms, again have swept over the island of Schoiiwen-l)ui\ eland, one of the hardest hit areas m the costly February floods. Inhabitants fled to attics on Sunday as onr of the main dikes collapsed under
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    Carlsen Due In HK
    48 1 CAPTAIN Kurt Carlsen, the Danish skipper who re! used tv leave his doomed Flying Enterprise until she plunged downward into the English Channel m January 105 a heduled to arrive m Hongkong on April 16 aboard his new ship —Fly inn Bnterprhia Ai- AP
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    One More Post Falls To Reds
    264 1 FRENCH BLAST REBELS HANOI. April 14.— French air force fighters and bombers took off today to blast the Vietminh rebel tones moving towards Sam Neva, a town 130 miles west of Hanoi which was occupied by the Communists yesterday. Two Vietminh battalions yesterday captured
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    Eden 'Progressing'
    27 1 MR. ANTHONY EDEN, the British Foreign Secretary, who had a serious operation on Sunday. continues to make satisfactory progress, the Foreign (Mica said yesterday. Reuter
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    Teheran Uproar Quelled
    165 1 Teheran Uproar Quelled TEHERAN. April 14. Troops blockaded the enir.. to the Majlis today and fira.. shots m the air to disperse unru.y members of the proCommunist Tudeh Parly demanding passage of a motion curtailing the Shah's powers. Troops with bayonets broke Communist groups m various parts of Teheran and
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    22 RESCUED
    40 1 THE 1.898-ton Panamanian cargo ship Taboga sank after hitting rocks four miles oft Brest, Brittany, on Monday. The crew of 22 were rescued by two French tugs. The Taboga was on her way to Rotterdam from Spain Reuter.
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    Australia To Open The Door Wider...
    132 1 Australia To Open The Door Wider BRISBANE. April 14, Reuter- A AP).— Australia's migration policy will be reviewed m the light of improved conditions Mr. Robert Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, announced tonight. Mr. Menzies. opening the Senate election campaign here, said it was the governments firm belief that to
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    Rita To Sue Aly For US $48,000
    42 1 RENO, Nevada. April 14, (UP) Attorney William Woodburn disclosed today that actress Rita Hayworth will shortly file a petition m district court seeking US$4B,OOO yearly support from Piince Aly Khan for his daughter, Princess Yasmin.
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    Mystery Pamphlet In Ipoh
    171 1 IPOH, Tues. A pamphlet published by an organisation styling itself the "Russi i Revolutionary Forces" has been found circulating m this own. II calls on Western powers and free nations to openly declare itself that tbe next war which it terms as "unavoidable" will be a
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    COMET BEATS THE CLOCK
    57 1 LONDON, April 14, (Reuter) The second British Comet jet liner to fly the 20.500 miles fo and from Tokyo arrived back at London airport today within two minutes of schedule. The return flight takes about 92 hours including a stop of 18 hrs. at Tokyo and
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    Col. Young In 'Frisco
    98 1 SAN FRANCISCO, April 14. (AP)— Colonel A.E. Young. Commissioner of Police for London, returning from Malaya whert he reorganized the police forces, said today that the Communist guerillas there are "very much on the defensive." tm Enroute to Londen to help to prepare the London force
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    Protest Over Visit Of 'Witch Hunters'
    174 1 LONDON. April 14: (Reuter) A parliamentary agitation is threatened over the proposed visit to Britain of Senator Joseph McCarthy's two special investigators Mr. Roy Cohn and Mr. David Schine now engaged m whirlwind tour of Europe. A Labour Member will attempt today to raise
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    House Collapses
    150 1 TEN ESCAPE OCCUPANTS of s bou i Everton Road bad .1 miraculous escape when it> lop Roof and .1 si le ill col lap I it 10.30 p. in. ycstenl.i. Four amahi an i nil year-old boy were in the house at the time Four others, all cabaret
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    33 1 OCCTPANTS of a house m Fverton Road had a miraculous escape when its top floor and side wall collapsed last night. Standard picture shows the debris and a pillar supporting tbe next house.
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    PERAK MAN STILL IN THE LEAD
    195 1 Tour Contest PERAK'S A 1 Tl nathan retain i hi i lee I m the Stan lard *"Alfri Coronation Contest. He has nearly 50,000 vol with v i nanding 1* id over hi> j. rival, schoolma Tan Eng Yoon <»t Singapore, whose total now
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    Maimunah Meets The Mentri Besar
    102 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Maimunah binte Ma'nmud. the 14-year-old Malay girl with a new fa»e after a successful plastic surgical operation m Australia, met Johore's Merrri Besar and the State Secretary, yesterday. Mis s Enid Fernandes. Johore S*..*e Wa fare Officer, who was responsible for Maimunah's
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    Hospital Reservists
    90 2 AT the first of a series of 12 civil defence lectures to be held at the Singapore General Hospital training centre, 18 mm and a woman enrolled for the classes yes te relay. The course is to train the volunteers for the Hospital Reserve under thr (iovernment's civil
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    COLONY VOTERS REGISTER TODAY
    192 2 (Standard Staff Reporter) REGISTRATION of voters for both the Singapore Legislative Council and City Council elections wiU start today. Nine centres wiD be opened m the nine electoral districts m the Island, ln addition, political parties and other organisations may register voters. Automatic registration may start
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    LONDON'S THANKS
    24 2 THE Lord Mayor of London has expressed thanks for Singapore's second contribution of $136.'>71 to tbe National Flood and Tempest Distress Fund.
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    TUC's MAY DAY PLANS
    38 2 THE seven-man committee of the Singapore Trade Union Congress is making arrangements to celebrate May Day. The celebrations on May 1 may include a mass rally and a procession, if Police permission is granted.
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    Car Tax Revision Is Urged
    140 2 THE Automobile Association of Singapore has asked the City Council to revise the present system of car tax. It suggests that the basis of the tax should be cubic capacity and not horse power. A)\ car owners should be taxed equitably and m conformity with
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    Philippines May Have Rice For S-EA
    246 2 THE Philippines will be m o position to help South-East Asia with her rice surplus if she maintains her present volume of production, Mr. V. R. Concepcion, Filipino delegate to the rice conference which opens m Singapore today, told The Standard yesterday. Mr Concepcion,
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    2 UNIONS TO MEET GOVT.
    91 2 SINGAPORE Government will meet representatives of two employees' unions tomorrow and on April 20. Tomorrow's meeting will be with the representatives of the Medical Workers' Union, and the meeting on April 20 will be with the Mental Hospital I niformed Staff Union. The Medical Workers*
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    U.N. Command Honours Lambe
    53 2 TOKYO. April 14, (AP).— Vica-Admiral Sir Charles Lambe. C-in-C. British Far East Station, received a salute from the United Nations Command today with a guard of honour here. Accompanying Lambe was Ceneral Mark Clark. U.N. commander. Lambe was making his first visit to military installations of
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    3-D In S'pore? — Visiting Film Men Are Surprised
    146 2 3-D In S'pore? Visiting Film Men Are Surprised A TAMIL film producer from Madras and a theatre-owner from Colombo were surprised to hear m Singapore yesterday that three-dimensional films were being shown here. They derided to see these films at the very first opportunity. They were Mr. A. V. Meiyappan.
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    Fear Of Arrest Kept Him Silent
    383 2 FATAL CRASH SEQUEL ACCUSED DRIVER TELLS COURT A SINGAPORE businessman testified m the First Traffic Court yesterday that he did not realise he had knocked down a person until he read about it the following morning m the newspapers. Asked why he did not
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    DOLLARS FOR SATA
    165 2 THE Singapore Anti-Ti rulosi! Ass ni has reeived the following d tions: Mrs Loke Vow. (Motor Car to Cli.'i!< i (S.3#o. Kwan 1 Thong Hood Cho Temp'e. Building Fund. ftIJOS, Mr. Victor Lim, Donation to Clinic, $400, Malayan Breweries Ltd.. $250. Guthrfa ft Co.. Ltd., $215. fraser
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    Leaders To Meet Adlai On Rubber
    126 2 Standard Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Chinese leaders, including Sir Cheng-lock Tan and Mr. Lee Kone Chian, will meet Mr. Adlai Stevenson en Friday on his return from the Federation to discuss the all-important question to Malaya, the price ef rubber. The Standard was told that
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    House Curfew
    30 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A house «urfew will be imposed from a.m. tomorrow, to 6 a.m. on Thursday, throughout the whole of the Jelebu police distrirt of Negri Sembilan.
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    Rubber Estate Wins Claim
    145 2 I A CLAIM for the performance of an agreement to buy 3,000 acres of rubber land was upheld by Mr. Justice Brown m the Singapore High Court yesterday. The claim was alternatively for damages. Thi plaintiffs. Mount Austin (Johore) Rubber Estates Ltd.. were said to have
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      87 2 Weather Report MINIMUM Temperature: from 7.30 p.m on Apr. 13 >o 7.30 a.m. on Apr. 14. Singapore (TV), Penang (75F) Kota Bihru <74F.. Kuala l.umpur i7.*h>, Ipoh (72F). Kuantan I U9F i Vaximum Temperature: from 7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on Apr. 14. Singapore <89F). Penang «91F). Kota Bahru (90F).
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    3-D Will Oust 2-D, He Says
    30 3 1 I I od, The v had ■h- m Van r ie real j B h will i- ie v. ne.*' hnivlr. *c he
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    Varsity Chess Match On Sat.
    17 3 Malaya fl it Lines. the Vice c of the mem» come will
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    'S'pore Girls Know Their Make-Up'
    154 3 'S'pore Girls Know Their Make-Up' SINCAPORE girls seem to know how to use makeup, observed Mr. Michael Harris, vice president of Max. 1- actor's. Hollywood, when be arrived in Singapore yesterdav. Mr. Harris said (hat women were definitely becoming more make-uD conscious than before the war. particularly in small towns
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    HE WILL QUERY LACK OF NURSES
    60 3 MR. H..T.C. KULASINGHA (Prog..— Bukit Timah) will tah'e question with regard to the "serious shortage of nur^i at the next meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council, on Tuesday. He wants to know whether Government has explored the possibility of recruiting nurses into the medical
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    Suicide Deaths On The Increase
    176 3 Standard Staff Reporter MORE people committed suicide m Singapore last year than m 1951, according to the annual report of the Coroner's department pub lished yesterday. 105 In 1051. The commonest method of suicide was poisoning, which accounted for 50 cases. Other methods* hangmg and
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    S.I.T. FLATS'
    60 3 A PARTY of Singapore City Councillors inspected the new Improvement Trust flats m Alexandra Road to see what it was like to have eight-foot ceilings. Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, chairman of the Trust, is seen hoisting Mr. Lee Choon Eng up to demonstrate the adequate headroom available,
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    INCIDENCE OF CANCER HIGHER AMONG SMOKERS
    218 3 *~PROF. RANSOME TESTS have shown that the incidence of cancer is hit; her among smokers than non-smokers. Professor G. A. Kansome. Professor of Medicine at the University of Malaya, told The Standard vesterdav. He was commenting on a report that British doctors j have
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    Survey Of TB In Fed. Ended
    100 3 THE Department of Social Medicine and Public Health, University of Malaya, has completed its analysis of tuberculosis exposure and rate of infection for eight of the Federation States surveyed. Professor J. H. Strahan told The Standard yesterday. Professor Strahan said the department had made
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    Ratepayers Meet April 23
    52 3 THE Singapore Ratepayers Association will hold its annual general meeting ot Adeiphi Hotel on April 23 at 3.15 p.m. A president, two vice-presid-ents and a committee will be elected at the meeting. The committee will be representative of the European. Jewish. Chinese. Arab, Indian. Eurasian and
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    Supervisee Jailed
    29 3 A POLICE SUPERVISEE. Abdul Mutalip, was sentenced m the Johore Bahru Police Court yesterday to 60 days' imprisonment for giving the Police false information about his whereabouts.
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    Two Branch Libraries To Open Soon
    134 3 THE lack of trained staff which held up the opening of two branch libraries m the Siglap and Serangoon areas of Singapore has been overcome and the libraries wi; be opened shortly, Mr. M.W.F. Tweedie, Director of the Raffles Museum and Library, told The
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    Bukit Timah Congress
    70 3 AT THE annual general meeting of the Bukit Timah Local Indian Congress, Singapore the following were elected oflice bearers: President, V. Roberts; Vice-President, A. Sandana Samy; Secretary. K. Veloo; Treasurer, Janardhanan Piilni. Committee: Sogha Ram, Brig. Bukan Rai. P. K. I.akmmanan M. A. Kharim. A. L. Sundaram.
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    'Finest Dayak School' Opened
    51 3 KUCHING, April 14 (ReuterA_P) Governor Anthony Abell today opened what he described as the --finest Dayak school building" at Engkilili. This Iban school was built entirely by local people's efforts. Most of the money and materials were given by Dayaks whose children are now attending the
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    THE FIRE BRIGADE
    30 3 MR. A. PLATT il acting Superintendent of the Singapore Fire Brigade. Mr. J Angus is Brigade Engineer and not acting Superintendent, as stated m a report yesterday.
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    Cancer Research In Varsity
    62 3 SMALL cancer research unit will be established In the Tniversity of Malaya soon, The Standard understands. A cancer expert is due to leave Britain for Singapore Hter th-Hear and will act as the head of the unit. The unit will m the first instance specialise m,
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    LOWER CEILINGS APPROVED 3 TO 1
    363 3 Councillor Lee Said No AFTER a thorough inspection of the new blocks of Singapore Improvement Trust flats m Alexandra Road yesterday, three out of four City Councillors admitted they were pleasantly surprised to find that the loss of six inches headroom m the new
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    Power Rationing Ends Next Month
    203 3 AS SOON as the second generator of Singapore's Pasir Panjang power station comes into operation m May, all the street lamps will be lit, rationing of new consumers will be removed, and the 500 applicants on the waiting list for electrical appliances may be i
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    275 To Be Interviewed For TTC
    115 3 MORE than 275 applicants will be interviewed within the next two or three days at the Singapore Education Department for posts as student teacher! m the Teachers' Training College. A spokesman told The Standard yesterday there would be a further recruitment after the j
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    Devan Nair Protests Conditions
    126 3 Devan Nair Protests Conditions MR C.V Derai rerun/ |he S i wefcera I *mm*m mho mmt recently from en trgency >i I Hai sent pmvst" I the position of coiulifii on ordir. Ju a letter to Die I ntal Secretary, Afr .\<> Mid *'*c vatitre <>• g eonditiomi mmmm »f
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    Photographers' Model
    38 4 photo. MISS KAM WAI. a Kuala Lumpur singer takes time off to act as a model for Selangor cameramen when some 130 members of tbe Selangor Phetographic Society held a picnic st Port Dickson recently.- Standard
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    Hunger Forces 4 Reds To Give Up
    209 4 KUANTAN, Tues.— Hunger forced lour Chinese bandits to surrender at Gambang, police here disclosed today. Two of the bandits had been m the jungle for about four years and the other two ior one year each. They are all young the eldest beinji
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    24 Apply To Light Up For Coronation
    80 4 THK Singapore City Council received 24 applications I from consumers requiring more than 5-kflowatts of electricity Kht-up* for the Coronation. These building? are along, the procession route. Applications were a-kecl for* by '.he City Council irom all! >o~e who intended to use] more
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    POLICE SEIZE $14,000 DOPE
    99 4 A PARTY of .detectives under Mr. E. J. Linsell, O.C. Singapore Narcotics SubBranch, raided a wooden hut m Tampenis Road yesterday morning and seized 150 pounds of ganja (Indian hi mp) and eight and a half pounds vi raw opium, worth a total of H 4.000.
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    PAY STATEMENT
    60 4 THE following joint press statement by the Singapore Government and the -even negotiating unions was issued yesterday **The report In a Singapore newspaper yesterday that a decision of Government was disclosed to representatives of certain Government unions at a meeting to increase the emoluments of its lower-paid workers
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    Girl (17) Is Remanded
    95 4 A SINGAPORE girl. Goh Ah Choo <17). who was lnuiiu guilty m the Third Police Court yesterday of stealing three gold rings worth $69, was remanded for a week pending a report from the Probation Officer. Inspector K. B. One. prosecuting, said Goh often visited a
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    US Office To Close
    54 4 REAR Admiral Paul L. Mather, U.S. Navy (retired), who has headed the regional oilice of the United States Defence Materia is Procurement Agency since it was opened m Singapore six months ago leaves for Washington today. Regional operations of the agency would be discontinued on May
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    More Unity Call In Rubber Trade
    251 4 PENANG. Tues. A note of warning was sounded by the president of the Rubber Trade Association of Penang, Mr. Heah Joo Seang. at their annual general meeting today "that unless there is greater unity amongst the rubber trade, they cannot hope to protect the
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    50,000 CAN VOTE BUT ONLY ***** ON ROLL: RC
    275 4 50 ,000 CAN VOTE BUT ONLY ***** ON ROLL: RC PENANG, Tues.— Fifty thousand people m George Town Penong ore eligible to rote m the Munfclpol Elections, but only 17,500 ore on the Sectoral roll, the Resident Mm* JJR. Bingham said over Radio Malaya this <Ve M! ,9 Bingham said
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    MCA Plans Training Centres For Malays
    121 4 MEMO SENT TO TEMPLE* Standard Staff Reporter SIR CHENG-LOCK TAN. president of the Malayan Chinese Association, has suggested to the Federation High Commissioner. Sir Gerald Templer. the setting up ef centres throughout Malaya to train Malay youths as artisans, m la a memorandum to
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    INCREASE IN S.V.C. RECRUITING
    196 4 INCREASE IN S.V.C. RECRUITING THIS year has been a steady increase In the strength of the Singapore Volunteer Corps, chiefly due to a recru.Tinji campaign m February and March last year, states the Corps annual report published yesterday. At the end of the year the strength of the corps showed
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    Keep-Fit Doctors Won't Give Blood
    261 4 SINGAPORE private practitioners told Thc Standard yesterday they did not donate blood because they had to remain 106 per cent fit to deal with patients. They were replying :o Dr. M. ML H. Gibson Hill, head of the B'ood Transfusion Service. mtm said that doctors
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    PC In Jail Break Case Dismissed
    134 4 PENANG. Tues.— A Malay i police constable. Ahmad bin j Simon, who had been detained i by the police regarding trie 1 escape of Toh Hock Hai and Tan Hee Pheow. from the i Simpang Anam police station, has been released from services as
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    85% Voted At Sungei Ringgit
    67 4 KOTA TINGGI. Tues.— Eighty-five per cent, of the Ml registered voters of Sun sci Ringgit took part m the "tillage Council elections held on Sunday. The elected members are: President: Tan Puay WodB; Vice-President: Lim Chor See; Committee: Mohamed bin Kattam. Ismail bin Abu Bakar.
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    JACOONS TAKEN ON CITY TOUR
    37 4 A PARTY of aborigines tbe Jacoons of Kampong Panti Kota Tinggi, was taken by the Social Welfare Department to visit places of importance m Johore Bahru and Singapore during the week end.
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    41 4 A NOTOKIOIS Communist terrorist leader. Cbaag Sai. alias Wang Chee Siew. alias Ah Im*. tf year old Hakka. Branch t'emmittee member of < limn*. Perak) was killed m a raid an a tapioca factor** opposite Kuala Kaang new tillage on April It.
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    Govt. To Be Quizzed On Unemployed
    105 4 Govt. To Be Quizzed On Unemployed MR THIO CHAN BfcLE wil 1 ask the Singapore Government at Tuesday's matting of the Legislative C ouncll whether unemployment has increased or is likely to increase He inquires what steps the Government has taken to provide useful alternative employment forthon arho cannot be
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    'We Won't Pay Extra', SIT Tenants Threaten
    299 4 RESIDENTS of SIT flats m three estates have jointly sent a protest letter to the Chairman of the Singapore Improvement Trust against increase of rent. The protest i 4 against the withdrawal of the 15 per cent, rental allowance granted to them since
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    Good Scope for Indian Studies Dept. -Prof. Sastry
    113 5 Good Scope for Indian Studies Dept. -Prof. Sastry I nX m,. Tues.— There 1 s00 pc for a departIndian studies at f "University of Malaya, with the Malay departure heing set r K. A. Neelairv, eminent Inrian and arehaeorhe Standard t the three a vast continent to the f Malaya
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    For The Coronation
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    Paul Hoffman
    31 5 PAUL Hoffman, former FCA chief and head of the Ford Foundation, passed through Hongkong yesterday from Tokyo on his way to India for consultations with the Indian Government. AFP
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    CITY WORKERS OPPOSE THE 1-WAY EXTENSION
    449 5 CITY WORKERS OPPOSE THE 1-WAY EXTENSION A Singapore City Councillor, as well as several shopkeepers and office workers yesterday strongly opposed any move to extend the existing one-way traffic scheme as "another attempt" at inconveniencing the public. The Councillor, Mr. Sim Beng Song (Rochore Ward) said the Traftic Police was
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    Piano Flop Marred Good Music Recital
    455 5 KENTNER APOLOGISES LOUIS KENTNER, with the Musical Society's orchestra under Gordon yan Hien. gave two intensely personal performances Beethoven's C. Minor and Schumann's A minor concertos m the Victoria Memorial Hall last night. The tone of the piano had. m the course of the
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    JEWELLERY HAUL
    29 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Thieves broke into a house In Batu Road during the early hours of yesterday morning and stole wrist watches and jewellery valued at $153.
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    Malay Regt. Corporal To Serve 5 Yrs.
    157 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tuo.— Remarking that there was no doubt he was In the car vhen the other three pefSOOS com- 1 mitted a series of robberies, j the Chief .Tustice. Mr. Charles j Mathew. who presided at the j Federation Court of Appeal.!
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    Religious Training For Sakais
    125 5 Religious Training For Sakais IPOH. Tues Tlie Perak Religious Depart menl is holding a religious training course for four Sakais here his week. This course is believed to be the first of ltl kind m the country. Three ot the Sakais. attending the two-week course condue', ed by the Mufti.
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    RUBBER, TIN CLOSING PRICES
    69 5 Standard London Correspondent LONDON, Apr. 14. The following are the closing prices of rubber and tin on the London market LONDON RUBBER Spot 1914. July /Sept. 19Jd. Oct /Dec. I9ld. Jon. /Mor. 19id. April c.i.f.. 19fd. Market: Quiet. LONDON TIN Spot £700 per ton buyers, £705
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    Death Penalty On Eight Men To Stay
    239 5 KUALA I.IMPLR, Tues.— The Federation Court »f Appeal today dismissed the appeals of eight menfour Malays, an Indian and three Chinese who had been sentenced to death. Thi» Malays srers given death sentence-; for murder. The others were convicted under the Emergency Regulations
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    These Need No Licences
    50 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A Federal Government Gazette notification states that fanners and others who take their produce and locally made articles for sale to the public at weekly fairs throughout the country have been exempted from the provisions of the Registration and Licensing of Business Ordinance
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    Miniature 'Farrer Park' Planned
    191 5 Standard SUIT Reporter SINGAPORE City Counc.L has set aside $135,000 to develop Hong Lim Green, now occupied by the Chinese Recreation Club as a miniature Farrer Park. The Council's Estate and Fire Brigade Committee recommends that the Club be asked to quit the Green by the
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    728 6 "AN ASSOCIATION like ours is more suitable jar the nursing profession. A trade union will not serve cur purpose. A trade union will not give the right tone to the nursing profession.'' Mitt .R. K. Applebee, sister tutor of the Regional Xurses' Training School. North, and
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    Indonesia Swarms With German Experts
    962 6  - Indonesia Swarms With German Experts B. TESSELIN By (Agence France Presse} A This is the first of three articles on Indonesia by a French journalist with a "^T knowledge of the politics and personaUtfes of this stfU young Asian Republic i ardele Mr. Tesselin maintains that distrust of Western col
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      883 6 Sir: A front-page article under the heading **A\e Urged m Rubber"' m a Singapore paper of April 11, purporting to b e a report of an interview I £aye its reporter, contains a gravely distorted and sensationalised version of my remarks. I did not say
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      91 6 NANYANG SIANG PAU says' that while the United Kingdom's rearmament programme cannot be curtailed, stept should be taken to increase the production of daily commodities for her peoples. Rearmament is not of her own choice, the daily says. But it is alarming to note that civilian production has lagged
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      Communal Unity
      89 6 SIN CHEW JIT POH stresses that communal unity and cooperation m Malaya lies with the people of this country more so than with its leaders. This can be brought about by equal opportunity and privileges for all tmd without restrictions on fhe cultures of any group. The daily
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      Vietminh Offensive
      84 6 CHUNG SITING JIT PAO opines that the Vietminh offensive In Indo-China has been haslily mounted m view of the rainy season which is due shortly. Unless the French forces are caught flat-footed, it is probable that the Communist offen.sive will not amount to much. It is evident that
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    The Congress Of Feudal Die-Hards
    840 6 By Pro UMNO I \|R JOSEY'S article would I have been a good one had he given himself time to f make a survey of the politi- <*a] situation m this country, > arid had he given the matter I a httle thought before allow
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    C'wealth Div. Back in Line
    97 7 C'wealth Div. Back in Line xU v April 14 0 1 Ihe ComE!!£m« o********* .out „f Jannary, is release s_. Irst o«cial casual f ,m several weeks LSd be" jresterJay. **S_riW reported one k.iml .md two men uadersteed that imv>" n wliu-li had l hHii the Klireser-e for 10 52,
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    South Africa Goes To The Polls Today
    89 7 Apr. 14. (Renanagers of Nationalist *oday issu•l the tense lorrow's geneMany expect it i course t a een the of Dr. Prime Minf apartheid 1 and the f i 'me of the under Jacob sti are openly the one and a t'ectorate will
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    STUDENTS SHOT
    15 7 yesterday on a ereity students demonstrating government of geneio Batista. m dad.* UP
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    Churchill Plans Settlement For Postwar Korea
    300 7 Churchill Plans Settlement For Postwar Korea LONDON, April 14 M'P. m Churchill is giving t „p* li„ r fc P m? Minister Winston settlement of the Korean Sion SH' 0 a he conclusion of an armistice reiuw Ch WOU,d fol,ow today. reliable sources reported Co. t-fl, which w Jo^^'iyS't readme
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    Jap Oil Tanker Leaves
    138 7 Jap Oil Tanker Leaves TEHERAN. April, 14. (AP)Th e .lapanes c tanker Nissho Maru left Abadan the Iranian oil port. last night loaded with 18.000 tons of gasoline and fuel oil The tanker^ Pax, owned' b y the Epim Company. of Italy sailed at noon Monday from Bandar Maashur, where
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    ILA Chief Held For Larceny
    98 7 NEW YORK, April 14. (UP) Joseph Ryan, president of the International Longshoremen's Association of the American Federation of Labour, was arrested yesterday on a 30eounl indictment charging him with grand larceny of U5511,390 m union funds. District Attorney Frank Hogan said the indictment covers the
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    UN Trust Mission
    83 7 SYDNEY, Apr. 14. (ReuterAAP) Four members of a United Nations mission on a regular three-yearly inspection tour of Pacific trust territories arrived here by air from Rabaul last night on their way to Canberra for talks with Federal ministers and high Government officials. The mission which comprises
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    VIVIEN LEIGH TO RETURN TO STAGE
    66 7 LONDON. April 14 (AP) British actress Vivien Leigh is recovering her health and now plans to return to the stage here next July, it was announced last night. The •'••9-year-old Oscar-win-ning stage and screen star was flown hom c from Hollywood last month by
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    41 7 photo. SIR Alexander Fleming. 71, discoverer of penicillin, whose first wife died in 1049, married Mrs. Amalia Coutsouris, 40 at Chelsea Registry OlHce. on April Mrs. Coutsouris, a Greek bacteriologist, assisted him in research work at St. Mary's Hospital. London AP
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    IKE GREETS ADENAUER
    55 7 photo. President Eisenhower greets West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (right) at the White House, during the latter*s U.S. tour, recently. With them are, left to right: James B. Conant, I S. High Commissioner to Germany; U.S. State Secretary John Foster Dulles, and West German Secretary for Foreign
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    Nehru Hails Red Peace Overtures
    115 7 NEW DELHI. April 14. (UP) Premier Nehru yesterday welcomed the recent peace overtures by Russia and Red China and emphasized the similarity of th e Peking oiler to the Indian-sponsored United Nations resolution on Korea. Speaking at a meeting commemorating Martyr's Day. Nehru said his
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    Canadian Inquiry
    35 7 BROOKE CLAXTON, Defence Minister told the Canadian House of Commons yesterday that Canada had made inquiries about a Pacific security conference m Honolulu but did not seek to send a Canadian representative. Reuter
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    New UK Envoy
    19 7 A. J. GARDENER yesterday was appointed British Ambassador to Damascus. He succeeds W. H. Montagu-Pollock. AP
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    PAK. TO RESTORE JAP PROPERTY
    50 7 KARACHI. Apr. 14. (API Pakistan will restore Japanese property confiscated during World War 11. it was officially announced yesterday. This property, which is valued at several million dollars, includes four cotton-ginning factories and large areas of landed property m al) important towns of the country.
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    UK Editor Dies
    25 7 ARTHUR G. If. Hesilrge. editor of Debrett s Peerage, authoritative work on British nobility and Nighthoori, died Monday. He was 89 AP
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    AURIOL TO RETIRE
    36 7 PRESIDENT Vincent Aurio) plans to withdraw from active political life at the end of his seven year term as President of the republic, next January, usually reliable sources said m Paris yesterday. Reuter
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    Coronation Service
    46 7 THE FORM and order of the Coronation service m Westminster Abbey on June 2 will be published on April 20, ihe Government announced m London last night. The text of the service, with the music, will also be published on Ihe same day. Reuter
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    WHITE POLICY
    31 7 AUSTRALIAN Bishop G Young last night called for revision of ihe white Australia policy. He said he believe*. there should be a quota system even if purely nominal. UP
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      Surrealism In A Bull Ring
      54 7 SALVADOR DALI is at it again. Spain's stormy petrel of surrealism is planning lion-dollar surrealistic bullfight m Barcelona, m August. The tips of his lengthy moustaches twitching with emotion. Dali succeeded m persuading Pedro Bawana to make available Barcelona's arena for the event, which should
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      35 7 THE United Stales Supreme Court yesterday decided to postpone its decision regarding Ihe Rosenberg case until April 27 at the earliest. Julius and Fthel Rosenberg are under death sentence on charges ol atomic espionage. A.F.P.
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      28 7 INDIA'S trade with Commu-nist-occupied Sinklang Province has been at a stand-till since the Red takeover en September. 1949. Minister of Slate lor Commerce D P. Kar-ttiti'-iuj* xepgtlf.; A.P.
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      22 7 The U.S. Snwe Department announced yesterday It had apK roved outgoing United States linister m Luxembourg, Mrs. Pearl Mesta'? Soviet Vnion.- A.F.P.
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      28 7 AN ESTIMATED 18.000 gunless hunters, stalked s leeryeved. but deadly rattlesnakes m the hills around Waynoka Oklahoma. yesierday and brought back over a thousand wiggling reptiles alive.- A.P.
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      30 7 CROWN Prinre Ikihito anc* 3 OOii Japanese Canadians yesterday stood ..i silent tribute before Vancouver's memorial for Japanese killed while serving udli tbe Canadian Army during World War L- Reuter
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      28 7 TWO men of a company of the Kings African Rifles yesterday captured a Mau Mau gane of 11 including a woman m the Nairobi Fort Hall district.- Reuter
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      31 7 U.S. NAVY forres Here preparing yesterday for I'auiu coast «naneouvres based on Ihe assumption that the first atomic world war is tn progress and the l'.S. bombed and invaded.- A .P.
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      25 7 FOUR mm were arretted m a Waco. Texas, residence early yesterday m what a detective called a raid on a "statewide convention of homosexuals." A.P.
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      29 7 DR. Dl h*T MrCall. president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. said feftterday thr use of drugs by American troops m ihe I'ar last was reaching strioua" oreportions. Reuter
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    Iran Army Officers Threaten To Mutiny
    346 7 Iran Army Officers Threaten To Mutiny TEHERAN, April 14, A group of ormy officers on active duty, issued on announcement last night saying that with the enlisted mmn, they would stoge an armed mutiny if Premier Mossadeq and his associates do not stop their "impertinent activities." The statement declared its
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    SOCIALISTS URGE ARMED VIGILANCE
    169 7 PARIS, April 14. The Socialist International Executive Committee yesterday called upon the Western democracies to remain "armed and vigilant" ln the lace of Russia's peace olTensive, pending real collective security and disarmament. In a joint resolution ending a three-day meeting m suburban Puteaux, the Committee urged
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    Red Cross Men See Sick PoWs
    92 7 PUSAN, Apr. 14, (UP)—lnternational Red Cross representatives yesterday interviewed sick and wounded Chinese prisoners-of-war who will be transferred next week to Panmunjom for repatriation. Two Swiss doctors of the Red toured Enclosure No. 5 m the UN prisoner camp No. 2 at Pusan. The
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    Burma To Press Complaint
    105 7 UNITED NATIONS. April 14 Burma told the 14 nation African-Asian group yesterday she was going to press her complaint against Nationalist China mi n the United Nations. U. Kyin, the Burmese delegate, told ti>, group that rumours that Burma had withdrawn her case were un true.
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    Pleven Gives Optimistic I-C Report
    138 7 Washington, a p i m. (Reuter)— The French Defj Minister. M. Rene Woven ftm* terday gave the Amerl ate Foreign Relation-* I tee here a "not at a'l i >■ tic" report on the Ind I war. Senator Alexander Win, chairman, said. Pleven had a
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    EX-ARMY MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO SPY CHARGE
    104 7 WASHINGTON. 14 (Reuter) Otto Vi an Austrian-born foruu 1 B Army intelligem ottr. >, pleaded guilty yetterdai conspiring to spy on Any can defence WCieta foi H sia. Verber. 31. mad r the itt before District Judge i ander Holtzotl who mU would
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    TWO WILL SAIL A JUNK 15,000 MILES TO FRANCE
    324 8 HONGKONG, April 14 (AFP)— A petite, attractive Parisienne grinned and announced m her uncertain English that she was looking forward to sailing 15.000 miles to France m a 30-foot junk, looking forward to cooking three meals a day for a year
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    JAPS TO MAKE LOCKHEED PLANES
    62 8 NEW YORK. Apr 14. (Reuter) Baron Rishickiro Okura 71- year-oid .'apane>e industrialist, said here he had completed arrangements with the Lockheed Aircraft Company io California |0 manufacture Lockheed planes m .lapan. He tola reporters this before sailing for Britain aboard the) liner I'm ted State*
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    HK MAN FOR UK
    37 8 THF effec' of embargoes and restrictions on shipment.* to China wi!! he discussed m Washington by Mr. D.A. Clinton. Hongkong*! Deputy Director of Industry gnd C nmmerce who !eft by air on Saturday.
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    Queen Names Royal Yacht Tomorrow
    172 8 LONDON. Apr.i 14. (UP)— A 413-foot yacht, costing mote than £1.800.000 and the If* to be built for the Royal Family since IMT, arill be christened bp Queen Elizabeth on Thuraday al Claa Bigger than m.»>t destroy*!-*, the 4.000-ton ya' arill have ornate state ipai
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    To Collect Scrap Iron For Japan
    67 8 KI'TARD.IA. Apr 14. (LP» i The Harbour Service of Sabang was given permission |to accumulate 500. Mi tons of i srrap iron a« attered over j Sabang Island off Sumatra's I most northern coa»\ i* was 1 learned here. The service had already accumulated
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    Rubber Down 3/4c.; Closes Steady
    137 9 RUBBER prices m Singapore dropped g cent to 67 cents per lb. for April* shipment but closed steady at the price. Few overseas orders were m 'he market and with local speculative liquidation, quotations declined to lower levels. During the day prices fluctuated between 66
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    Produce Mart Quiet
    95 9 THE produce market m Singapore continued to be quiet with negligible business passing. Copra was easier at $42 per picul buyers and $42* sellers for April shipment. Coconut oil was a dull market at $61 buyers and S6:> sellers. Pepper remained at about the same quotations as
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    17 NATIONS SIGN NEW WHEAT PACT
    202 9 WASHINGTON, April 14.— Representatives of 17 nations- including the United States and Canada but not Britain, yesterday signed a new wheat agreement to stabilise world wheat transactions and prices for the next three years. Most of the 46 member nations of the expiring International
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    SUGAR CONGRESS
    51 9 THE eighth congress of the International Society of Sugarcane Techaologists of the British West Indies opened m Kingston yesterday with 200 delegates on hand from many of the world's cane producing countries. The group will go to Barbados on April 19 for a second week of technical discussions.-
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    52 9 photo. German glider constructor Heini Dittmar of Aushurg. Bavaria, has developed thU glider (the Moeve HD 53). It has a wingspan of 34. feet and a length of 19 feet. A two-seater, it costs about US$952. The glider can easily be converted into a powered craft by fixing a 30/60--horsepower
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    KUWAIT OIL WELL
    39 9 THE Wafra No. 4 oft well, m Kuwait owned by the Facile Western Oil and American Independent Oil Company, was yesterday reported pr> d icing 2.500 barrels a day m a swrie* o£ teH flows*.- AP
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    WORLD OUTPUT OF TIN INCREASE
    412 9 Malaya (4,998 Tons) In Jan. THE HAGUE, April 14.— World mine production of tin m concentrotes m Jonuory, 1953. wos 13,300 fong tons os compored with 13,200 tons m December, 1952. Moloyo produced 4,998 tons m Jonuory ond Indonesio 2,544 tons. The Bolivian figure remained
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    Tins Weak, Industrials Are Steady
    147 9 SINGAPORE, Tues. The Malayan *-hare market was weak In the tin section today but quotations m tins steadier! slightly on the improvement m the commodity price. Industrial _>hares were quietly steady while rubbers continued neglected. Changed Prices were: Gammoni 2 85 2 95cd W. Hanrne:-5
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    70 9 LISTENERS to "the British Broadcasting Corporation'- commentaries along the route of the Coronation procession on June 2 will hear, among others, the voice of Raymond Baxter (above) who ha s made a name for himself m broadcasting. He has covered every type of broadcast from the take-off of the Comet
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    Jap Experts For Pak.
    35 9 PAKISTAN'S Prime Minister Kwo.ia Na2immudin. said yesterday his government was obtaining the service- of Japrmcse technicians to help make the best use of fertiliser m increasing the country's rice output.- Reuter
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    HK EXCHANGE
    37 9 HONGKONG. Apr 14 —Special Standard Service: Closing prices on the Hongkong Exchange today were 515.81 to £1 sterling; $3.***** to US$l: $1,834 to Malayan $1; $0.1930 to one Indo-M-rian Ruppiah. Gold $268,129 to one tael.
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    'A-Power To Light Up Homes In 5 Years'
    170 9 LOS ANGELES, April 14. (AP) power will be competing with coal and hydro-electric power within three years, a member of Vne Illuminating Engineering Society predicted. Theodore C. Sargent, engineer of Sylvania Electric Products Corp. of Salem, Mass., said In an interview: "Within
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    West Imports Less From E. Europe
    141 9 GENEVA. April 14 1 Renter!. Western F.uiopean imports from Eastern Europe m the second h;i!f of last year fell by £li..4(m.»H*n sterling compared with the first half, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (E.C.K.i disclosed yesteeday The drop m importg was concentrated mainly
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    NO JAP TEXTILES
    35 9 NO bepoi t •k < for Japanese textile* will' Im> last. i>v any East African tcr: »ries th war I- goods other than textiles there will !>e some relaxation ot existing reetricti Bouti
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    All-Electric Sports Car Wins Award
    231 9 NEW YORK, April 14 <AP) An electrically powered automobile which its sponsors say can "accelerate like a jet" has been named the winner of the "most unique and advanced engineering" award at the International Motor Sports Show here. Manufactured m Saginaw. Michigan, the iar derives
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    Fed. Men For Tokyo Talks
    64 9 KUALA i 'v.l'lJß. i At th. i onferei i<i ne he n Toh 0 from Ai.- 2f to 30, Mr. H.irold s« Director of Geological 8 Mr. Lan I. Patti --son i'h ef In "f Mim \Tr. H S Lee ••^errihe*' I < nit ii.
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    COMMODITY PRICES
    115 9 COMMODITY PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (rents aer lb ia Singapore oo Thunda* were: 80 -ers SellerNo. I RSS. Spot Loon- «7 No. 1 RSS «7 No, 2 B S.S. 631 *4 No. 3 RSS. Ctf tl Tone: Steady. SINCiAPORE, Tne- The price of tin today wai 1319 per pit ul
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    TIN RETURNS BY OSBORNE, CHAPPEL
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    CORONATION FASHIONS HAVE THAT ELIZABETHAN TOUCH
    261 10 < Beach wear worn by Australian rasnion ijiouei rum Koas, consists of tv I with white cap sleeves and a pie frill collar at the neck, with blue slashed ***mm the jacket is a strapless bra. O This is part of a beach ensemble
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    KEEPING COOLER
    144 10  -  GAYNOR MADDOX By of the best cooler** v/ for the heat is a tall tinkling glass of strong ked coffee. For bang-up success with your iced coffee, follow thesr expert suggestions. The> will produce wonderful .r suits —if you start uith good hot coffee. Pre-t ooled Method I—Make1
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    SECOND BABY'S ARRIVAL
    587 10  -  Margaret Scott By ALTHOUGH "bringing home the baby" is usually a day to be remembered and treasured when the baby is the first In the family, it's quite a different proposition when the second baby arrives. ■•-gin with the novelty h .v. m oil peak b it.
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    TRY THESE
    49 10 A SMALL first-aid kit which can be purchased from a drugstore is a travelling necessity. Such a kit should always be carried m an automobile and on camping^or hiking expeditions. a TVRT ond rain spots can usually be removed from fabric shoes by applying soap and water.
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    TYPISTS MAKE BETTER WIVES
    308 10 BI'RBANK, Calif. Stenographers make the best wives, believes actress Donna Reed, who used to be a stenographer and is now a wife. Donna, whose latest movie assignment is a costarring role opposite John Wayne m Warner Bros.' "Trouble Along the Way," thinks pounding a typewriter and
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    Don't Worry About Her Height
    496 10 \|Y girlfriend is a head LfJ shorter than me m height. This does not worry me because we love each other. But she worries because she thinks that we look funny together. I have told her to wear high heels but she has no t
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      58 10 THfc COl PON OKDKK \iiik PATIKKV VSM musl em h»si tluee trO ceat stamp* tf >U m unit >oirr patter ii cut It I don i tet the stamps you don t set the pattern A iiiiinher of orders have come to me without the stamps These won't be cut
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      139 10 Star Contest No. II— Can You Name This Actor? Lniries t„r Hij s contest Mill J^uWL. (lu »«"*l I'mr-da* And tht 1^1llg5Ilf&& pn inn f r s names will t t Jf Ms correspondence will he J star contest NO^ir* on the lop left band corner nod ■v^- 6S55... "ftS
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    Sports Briefs
    133 11 P -7 Island 18-hole com:lws: p.Mfion-Wuiner: Mrs. O. 9: iBr;y. Runner-up i 94—15 =79 ta >.. son on the *<■•■ Division rmer: Miss W t? 96—31=65, Runncr--104—36 68. tfON'DERI-*- us s sortsP orts Party I name m a B league i dim: Tong h Asaociation 4-2 j i
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      303 11 ACKNOWLEDGMENT who attended the fSSeraJ^^B Tence^ and mcMtt s 'con'do? TUITION gSSHS^ Ma g n l d l a S r?n School of Art aid toramJ D l A Change Alley (off gaggfajg) DALLROOM L^ZX^I P. nean Dancing. Beginn^ and Intermediate classesttßSfl is7. s^his?BSl d of Da,lcin O^k^o? F Ut
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      410 11 SI I UA I lONS VACANT" Singapore 0m S^ rc *J«i Industry. Plus COL »»nrl ZaTf* P-~ ances Tot^i S J n KaP°*-e ahow Present ranee Ifr1 frn emolu ment« at 51«5.75 pra «S m n initial of ments to $534 i, h r- annual mcr a housing' SlJJi Edition
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      238 11 1* Bankruptcy (W.K.A.0.) Johore Bahru No. 6 of 1940 Re Abdul Rahman bin Sulong ot Telecoms. Dept., Mersing, Telephone Operator. is hereby given that a First and Final Dividend is intended to be declared m the above matter. AU creditors must prove their claims on or before the Ilth day
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      278 11 The Bankruptcy Ordinance (CHAPTER 45) In the High Court of the Colony of Siagapore Wand of Singapore. JN BANKRUPTCY. Wage H.rJ; arn T er,S o Administration pf ?°v 312 «E M. j. BENOIT, of 15. Municipal Electrical More s Quarters, Jalan Besar. Singapore; Store m-JEKA Municipality. tK^° TI S? IS
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      435 11 NOHCES TENDER NOTICE KUALA LUMPUR MUNICIPALITY SEWERAGE DEPARTMENT RENDERS are Invited for the construction of the foul drainage system of 120 houses at the Ayer Panas Housing Site. Hot Springs m the Setapak area of the Municipality. The Drawi.igs may be inspected at. and the Tender Documents collected from, the
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      1210 11 STATE OF PERAK TECHNICAL APPRENTICE*. APPLICATIONS are m Mod toff appo|ntment Technic.i; Apprentices In a< cordar. c with *he S< h<m Service for Tochdlcal Appi entices of the Government uf fhe Federation of Malaya Qur.'ifications: (i) Age over 18 and go r on the lst .July IPS f. (ii) School
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      269 11 XprzLmi 1 Rh: SBHFA^ p. Sime Jntan Besar; Dir. Z— Chartered l-F&N; Airways a 0. STC. Z' y 'park; NTS v. U—BODCA; to Motors, Borneo 0"' KPM Div UI—F. c i f Darby B' r. •B\ Dir. Ill Hongkong UI-CYMA; f Div. HI— Bank -V v. ll t. OTEC. Div.
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    TOUCAN LOOKS A WINER
    1610 12  -  WINDSOR LAD Has Improved Since Ipoh Run By asdf TOUCAN, a four-year-old chestnut gelding by The Pelican, is fancied to win the main sprint event (race 6) today. A very fit customer Toucan has shown vast improvement since his effort at Ipoh. He did a convincing
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    166 12 Windsor Lad Gay Reveller Goodwood MISS MALAYA MISSMALWA Mls> vi iTT^" 1 Unities* Royal Hunt c <»n\f>ntion it Royal Hunt Uucheng Knyai lim P. DXI KiHT P. I)H K.llf ~\lM*O|| Z Sappoh The Mln\ I h<- Minx Loveset Canoe Itad.iloni SMi;i)IT\TION MKIHTATION >IK IK\N< is sir Francis sir
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    BAD LUCK BEATS SOUTH KOREANS
    360 12 SOUTH Koreans had their worst expericinc m Singapore yesterday at Jalan Besar Stadium. Th«-\ played and lost to the Combined Services by 1 not because of the superiority of their opponents but because of factors beyond their control. The first I sgalnst them came m
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    50-MILE RACE
    27 12 THF Singapore Cvele Racing Association will hold a r >o mile road race on April 2fi at 119 i" Changi. Entriea close on Apr. 20.
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    19 12 Cheng Wah Win Thrilling Ipoh Soccer •II I w I hi. I < I I I I r..ii. i i
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      21 12 The Going DESPITE strong sunshine yesterday the going for today's races will still be yielding as heavy rain fell on Monday.
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      286 12 t orOafaUf fioss Tour tAtntvst [JLADEKS of the Singapore Standard will choose the LX Most Popular Sportsman or Sportsuoman of Malava who will be honoured as an Inofficial Representative or this land to attend the Coronation Ceremonies in London during May and June this year. The Contest which will last
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