Singapore Standard, 20 March 1954

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    16 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD m Vol. IV. No. 261. SINGAPORE,* SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1954 TWELVE PAGES 10 CENTS.
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    Price Of Tin Goes Up $15⅛
    126 1 c of tin m Singes terday spiralled ds by Sis 4 to >i 52 icul on a steady shortage of tin j r "ac ng end La believed I i .t v responsible ior rp rise m r>r:ee yes- c of the v:e>.v '.hit
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    PLANES POUND REBELS
    30 1 'Lir 19 Bmi P lay, fc> v IPC I>ne »>' t i rrounded c r t Rs teT bomb- c >moking r b i I f 2 Q
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    MENUHIN ON TOUR
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    MOVE TO EASE STERLING?
    61 1 LONDON, Mar, 19: (Renter) Bankers htie believe that j ;oni4h; ar tomorrow the Bank ~>( England wi I unify all the rarioua I pcs ol sterling he.d > pc >pl< ivinj oui >:de the Jo lar and eas. This maj a free- >: tort of full
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    Polio: No Need To Get Malayan Students Back
    368 1 \L THOUGH more than 200 cases of poliomyelitis :.le paralysis) have been reported m Western ~;.3, the epidemic is not serious enough to warI Malayans, studying m Perth, to return home to N :iie danger of infection. i Deputy Director of Medical
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    Taylor's 'Stay Put' Assurance Hailed
    555 1 MALAYANS yesterday < tatement by *pi id i I -he SingaP■: C i r.Lt C of Com- Mr. AF. Taylor ai Bi il sh commerci il c lunity will stay put m Singapore what- lypc Government was m p r< 3 el ropeana felt as
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    JUDGE FOR CRASH PROBE
    38 1 THE Officer Administering the Government of Singapore. Mr. W. A. C. Goode. lus appointed Mr. Justice C. Knight, Commissioner of the Public Inquiry into the crash of the Constellation Aircraft GAL AM, last Saturday.
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    GEN. LOEWEN
    36 1 BANGKOK. -Mar, 19 (AFP) —General Sir Charted H, Loewen, Brirish C-in-C m South-East Asia, is expected to arrive m Bangkok early next week to attend Thui A.-ny manoeuvres m Thaiu ui'i no nil-eastern aiea
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    RED COURIERS TEMPTED
    382 1  -  K.C ARUN 3,000,000 LEAFLETS ON JUNGLE Govt. Offers Big Money For Secrets By Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, FA— The Federation Government is offering Communist couriers m the jungle a special cash reward "for vital documents" they turn over to the authorities, while m transit between their
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    Rating Has A 'Ducking'
    117 1  -  p. p Toh Hong Boon. hotos A YOUNG American Naval rating last night defied two of his mates and jumped into the sea off Queen Elizabeth Walk "to swim across to the other side. Half way through, he got into difficulties. One mate called for the
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    POPE SEEN BY PUBLIC
    64 1 VATICAN CITY. Mar. 19,: (Reuter). Pope Pius XII wms seen by the public today lor the first lime since he fell ill with a severe stomach complaint two months ayo. Two hundred thousand people cheered iYenziediy as the i frail white figure of the 78- year-old
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    Trust Plans To Sell Homes, Too
    66 1 Trust Plans To Sell Homes, Too THE Singapore Improvement Trust is considering: a scheme of buildins houses for sale to the public on hire-purchase terms, the Trust chairman. Mr. T.P.F McNeice, told The Standard yesterday. Mr. McNeice added that the Trust was looking for a suitable site On which to
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    Britain To Spend More In Colonies
    116 1 Britain To Spend More In Colonies LONDON", Mar. 19 (Renter) Britain is to spend £15.000.000 more m her colonial territories m the year ending March. 1955, than m 1953-54, mainly m fighting terrorists m Malaya and Kenya, according to government estimates published today. The Federation of Malaya is to get
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    22 ASKED FOR MORE RENT OR..
    194 1 j Standard Staff Reporter THE Singapore ImproveI ment Trust has sent an "ultimatum"' to 22 prewar Trust shops m Seng Poh Road. Tiong Bahru. demanding a 100-percent increase m rent from SlOO to $200 "or get out on May 1." The only reason given
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    Communism A Crime
    59 1 WASHIXGTOX. Mar. 19. (AP) A House Judiciary Sub-committee set out yesterday to make Communism a crime m the United States. "We're "determined to put an all-comprehensive bill through this session of Congress." Chairman Louis Graham announced as his group began hearings on 11 bills to outlaw the
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    Barnes For UK Talks On Rendei Report
    127 1 Barnes For UK Talks On Rendei Report Standard Staff Reporter THE Attorney-General. Mr. E.J. Davies, will leave Singapore by air for Britain on Monday to discuss the implications of the Rendel Constitutional Commissions H*port with the le^al aidv'sers of the Colonial Office. Mr. Davies will be m London «o« or
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    Egyptians Kill Briton, Wound Another
    173 1 Egyptians Kill Briton, Wound Another CAIRO. Mar. 19 (Reuter).— Egyptian terrorist- shot and killed one British Army officer m the Sue/. Canal zone today and wounded another. British military authorities said a party of three Egyptian men and a small Egyptian boy fired on the two officers, both of the
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    5 DUTCHMEN HELD
    32 1 THE Indonesian Police announced m Jakarta yesterday the arrest of five Dutch citizens, apparently m connection with a continuing round-up of people suspected ol aiding rebel terrorist organisations. A.P.
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    Stewardess Died In Crash
    60 1 Stewardess Died In Crash THE late Miss Josephine Butler. St. air hostess m the 8.0.AC. Constellation which crashed at Kallani; Airport on March 13. Miss Butler WBs pulled clear of the plane and rushed to hospital where she died the following: morning. Her fiance. Engineer Officer K.G. Carter. wa s
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    95 2 AIR MARSHAL Sir Clifford Sj.r.rtersoa. Com-mander-in-chief. FEAF. congratulated the officers and airmen of No. 7 Squadron, when he paid them an informal visit at Teiysa.li yesterday. for their exemplary manner km which the squadron attacked terrorist targets m >lalaya. In the picture. he is seen shaking hands with Flight Sersjeant
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    NO DISTRUST AT ALL AMONG US'
    696 2 Leaders Hit At Bartlett MALAYANS indignantly condemned yesterday the "disparaging and misleading" statements made by Mr. Vernon Bartlett, a British journalist m a -ecent 8.8.C. broadcast, relayed over Ratio Malaya on Thursday night. In the course of his radio address, Mr. Bartlett said it
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    KLUANG MEETING
    31 2 TWO thousand Indians m Kluang will hoki an inaugural meeting to form the Johore State Nationals (Indians) Association at the Government English School on April 2 at 5 p.m.
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    CANAL RESCUE
    26 2 TENG. TAI ENG. 62-year-old trisha rider, was rescued from S M^apore's Rochore Canal yesterday afternoon by a passer-by. He was admitted to General Hospital
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    Rubber: Hopeful Signs Ahead
    135 2 Rubber: Hopeful Signs Ahead THE London Financial Time? yesterday saw some hopeful signs for the rubber industry, Reuter reports. There is a stirring of interest m the rubber share market, the newspaper declared. "The belief is growing that the industry has seen the worst and hopes of better times ahead
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    FAILED TO PAY WAGES
    49 2 I A SINGAPORE glas 3 merchant. Lav Pak Fook. was fined I $300 m the Singapore Fiith Police Court yesterday for tailing to pay wages, amounting to $240. due to his em- p'.oyee. Chan Guan. The Assistant Commissioner for Labour. Mr. V. G. Bennett prosecuted.
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    COUNCIL TO CHECK DISEASE
    106 2 BUKIT MERTA.IAM. Fri. After having been told m 3 written reply that eotlee shop t keepers are required to provicU sterilizers m their shops as one of the conditions for renewal of kkenees this year, Mr. Tar Chen? Bee at yesterday's meetin? of the Town Council
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    BODY OF VICTIM FLOWN TO R.I.
    42 2 THJE remains of th e late Mr. R. fiintang Soedibbio. one of the most prominent businessmen m post-war Indonesia and a victim of Saturday's Constellation crash m Singapore wa? fltown back by B.Q.A.C. yesterday tc Jakarta,
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    R.A.F. CHIEF DUE
    37 2 THE Director-General of En- gineering. Air Ministry Air Vice Marshal R.G. Hart, is arriving at Changi today from the United Kingdom on a tech- j nieal Liaison visit to the Far! East Air Force.
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    Airways' Application Is Turned Down
    153 2 Airways' Application Is Turned Down standard Staff Reporter THE Air Transport Licensing Authority yesterday turned down an ap-~ plication by Xanyang Airways Limited to operate an air service between Singapore, Penang and Sandakan. The Authority save the i following reasons for its decision: It was not satisfied that there i
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    Seeking A Spook They Find Treasure o> Guano In Cave
    283 2 Seeking A Spook They Find Treasure o> Guano In Cave KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. A Radio Malaya party went recently to Pulau Tuba, m the Langkawi group of islands to record an interview with a "spook" guarding a hunted cave, but discovered instead a supply of bat guano fertiliser for the
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    Marital Disputes Are On The Increase
    251 2 Marital Disputes Are On The Increase PENANG. Fri. The Social Welfare Officer, Penang. Mr. Goon Sem Sye, m a broadcast talk m the series "Penang And How It Is Run over Radio Malaya. Penang. this evening disclosed that matrimonial disputes, especially among the Chinese, were steadily on the increase. Ac-cording
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    COMMODITY PRICES
    110 2 CLOSING rnbbe p (cents per Ib m Mdpore yesterday were Buyers M No 1 KS S Spot Loose No 1 R.S.S. 551 No. 2 R.S.S. 55 No. 3 R.S.S. f>4 A Tone: St«*ad> TIN PKICt The prices of ti« fta -rday was S'.U»t (U# S per pk-ul. LOXIK)N
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    FIVE MORE REDS ARE WIPED OUT
    213 2 rIVE more Communist terrorists have Deen killed and two others wsunded by Security Forces m the Federation. A terrorist has surrendered. A patrol of 91 Squadron. RAF Regiment killed one terrorist and seriously wounded two others m the Kuala Langat forest reserve yesterday. The
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    CHARGED FOR ENTICEMENT
    51 2 SING ARAM was charged m the Singapore Sixth Police Court yesterday with- having enticed V. PappammaJ, from her husband T. Krishnasamy. The offence was aiieged to have taken place on Feb 1. Bail of S2.<K)O ia'one surety was oilered and the ease postponed to March 26. for
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    NEITHER HOME NOR A JOB
    68 2 PAVADAI SAMY s o Kuppusamy. who was charged with having no place of abode, told the Singapore Sixth Police Court Magistrate, Mr. D. H. Chapman, yesterday, that he had come all the way from t&e Batu Arang Coalfields m Sdaogor. as he had been retrenched,
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      60 2 The Happy Cabaret (The City's most enchanting night To-nigh* pm Extension to 1 4. MDon't miss THE FIRST AMATEUR IALLROOM CH\L WEST AUSTRALIA vs. SINGAPORE for the F.A.T.D. Challenge Tr Organised by the F. A.T.D. Au^ New Zealand, Malayan lem be held on Wednesday, 31 S Thursday, 1 4. 34
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    PORT STRIKE LOOMS: DECISION BY 600 TODAY
    284 3 SINGAPORE may witness its first post-war maritime strike, if more than 600 Malay seamen of the Straits Steamship Company's vessels, operating between Malayan ports and Thailand, Sumatra, British North Borneo, Indo-China, stage a simultaneous strike today. A 14-day strike notice of the Indo-Malay
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    Taxi Stand Markings Very Bad'
    200 3 Taxi Stand Markings Very Bad' THE City Police Magistrate acquitted A.J, Esert for parking his car on the taxi stand at Clifford pier as he was "a creature of circumstances." "I've said again and again that the markings of taxi stands are very bad,** the Magistrate told the prosecutor and
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    Services' Members Help Out
    176 3 MEMBERS of th e Services stationed m the Colony are assisting Boys' Clubs, it was rev (Sorted m February's progress summary of the Social Welfare Department. Through Mr. Leslie Davies of the Colonial Secretary's Office i tew young men. who have had experience of Boys' Clubs
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    $2M. Technical Schools Scheme
    188 3 $2M. Technical Schools Scheme TWO Junior Technical Trade Schools costing about >2. 000, 000 will be opened m Singapore early next year one at Haig Road and the other m Queens Town m the Alexandra district. Both schools will accommodate tioi) students who are to be trained m various technical
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    Police Told Of Serious Trafficking
    101 3 THERE was a very serious rase it trafficking involving a I irge sum of money during the month of February, according I Social Welfare Departtneal report, released yesteri.iv. The rase has been referred to the Polire for action. During the month. 20t5 youn? female immigrants
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    CHARITY SHOW BY VARSITY
    69 3 THE Student Christian Movement of the University of Malaya will produce a variety concert on Apr. 3 at 8.30 p.m. »t the A.C.S. Auditorium. Barker Road. Singapore. Proceeds of the concert will !je utilised for Student Christ:tn Movement work m Malaya. Amateur artists like Dorothy Amitha,
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    RECEIVING ORDERS
    49 3 RECEIVING and adjudicating orders were made m the Singapore High Court yesterday against Koh Peck Eng. a married woman, and her business partner. Tan Buck Lim both of whom incurred liabilities totalling $18,900 as a result of their business transactions with Chop Tong Kee, the petitioning creditor.
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    Donations For SATA Total $875
    195 3 Donations For SATA Total $875 THE Singapore Anti-Tuber-cuiwii-; Association wishes to acknowledge with thanks the following donations, totalling $375. received m memory of the late Mr. F.G. Lundon: Tong Nam Contractors Ltd.. and Cable Wireless Ltd.. $50 each: Mr. W. McGregor Watt and McAlister Co. Ltd.. $40 each; C.V. Boswell
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    OPENING OF BIRELEY'S PLANT
    57 3 PENANG. Fri. The Board of Directors of Birel c y s (Malaya) Ltd., has sent out invitations to celebrate the opening of the Bireley's bottling plant at No. 1-3-A, Sungei Pinang Road from 3.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. tomorrow. It is anticipated that there will be
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    New Union For Seamen
    84 3 PAKISTANI seamen m the Colony will have a new union to represent them. The Union is the National Pakistani Seamen's Union, which has been registered. Members of the new Union met yesterday and elected Mr. Abdul Barikhan as president. Mr. Rashid Ullah vice- president and Mr.
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    Textile Firm Loses Suit For Damages
    503 3 PENANG, Fri.— Ban Bee and Co Ltd., a well-known textile firm, lost its claims against Messrs. Henry Waugh and Co. Ltd., m the High Court today, when Mr. Justice Spenser-Wilkinson granted judgment for the defendants with costs. Ban Bee had claimed damages for bleach
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    HALF THE THEFTS CAN BE AVOIDED MORRIS
    296 4 HALF THE THEFTS CAN BE AVOIDED MORRIS Standard Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S Commissioner of Police, Mr. Nigel Morris, lost nigkt appealed over Radio Malaya to members of the public to write to him if they want advice on the prevention of "unnecessary crimes." Speaking on "Crime Prevention," Mr. Morris said: "I
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    100 4 THREE ancient Chinese bronzes. Libation Cup (ku> Shang Dynasty (1766-1123 B. C.) loaned by Mr. John Laycock. Steaming Vessel (hsi) Chou Dynasty (1122-236 8.C.) found at Loyang, Honan, and loaned by Mrs. Helen lAmg, and Ladle (shao) Chow Dynasty, loaned by Mr. Lok Wan Tho. will be exhibited at Raffles
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    'Dare-devil' Monkeys Show Off
    79 4 A PAIR of monkeys are on (he loose m the heart of Singapore's Chinatown. They live mi n a patch of green foliage on a hill off Maxwell Road. Their playground is a huge City Council gas tank. Groups of schoolboys are daily thrilled by acrobatic
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    FarmWorkers Appeal To Labour MPs
    152 4 THE Singapore Dairy Farm Labour Union will seek the help of certain prominent Labour members of the British Parliament to "persuade" the Colonial Office m London to investigate into "ai'eged" Police interference m its one weekold strike. A Union official told The Standard that the
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    Views Differ On Govt. Policy
    255 4 Arbitration Inquiry KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Public opinion m the Federation was today sharply divided over the decision of the British and the Malayan Governments' view that a commission to investigate the country's arbitration procedure and industrial relations machinery was not at present necessary. Labour circles
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    TO STUDY RELIGION
    61 4 THE Malayan Christian Council has awarded a Trinity College student Mr. Lim HoChih. an Ecumenical Scholarship for one year's study m the Pacific School of Religions at Berkeley. California. Meanwhile youth delegates representing various Protestant Churches from the Federation and Singapore will attend the Christian Youth Leaders'
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    Exchange Of Photographs
    90 4 AN exchange of photographs between Singapore and Indonesian shutter-bugs is being. arranged, the Singapore Camera Club bulletin .states. It says that the British Council representative m Indonesia ha> written about the exchange. He is -expected m the Colony shortly for discussions when he would bring with him
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    HK EXCHANGE
    37 4 HOXGKOXG. Mar. 19— Special Standard Service: Closing p'"ices of t'.ie Hongkong Exchange today were $15.70 to £1 Sterling; $5.8325 to US$l; $1,822 to Malayan $1; 50.211 to one Indonesian Ruppiah. Gold $249.25 to 1 tael.
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    SCALED WALL
    42 4 A THIEF entered a hotel m Bencoolen Street by scaling a back wall on Thursday night and sto!e a pen arid $2. from a n Australian. From another room he took a pe n and $60 belonging to a Chinese.
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    Firm Lost $80,541 In 7 Months
    171 4 Firm Lost $80,541 In 7 Months I CHNG Chin Lam and his father. Chng Hoe Teng. business partners of the firm. Gim Hoe Co.. said at a public examination m the Singapore High Court yesterday that they lost $80,541 m seven months because of failures m their business dealings. Chng
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    YOUNG THIEF IS JAILED
    45 4 SEAH LEE KHOY. a 19-year-old student who used a pair of nail clippers to remove a gold chain from a 2£-year-old girl m Clive Street on Mar. 4. was jailed for three months by the Singapore Sixth Police Court l yesterday.
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    Magistrate Turns Witness In Court
    149 4 A SINGAPORE Traffic Magistrate, Mr. Howe Yoon Chong, yesterday turned witness m the First Traffic Court when Goh Teck Seng was charged with negligent driving. Mr. Howe testified before District Judge, Mr. F.A. Chua. that he was driving along Havelock Road on Nov. 9 last
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    CONDOLENCE MEET
    32 4 THE Singapore Arya Samai will hold a condolence meeting at 42, Rowell Road, for the late Mr. Ami Chandra and other victims of the recent air* crash at KaJlang airport
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    Victim's Name Is Withheld
    102 4 Victim's Name Is Withheld TWO youths. Tan Jok Pok (18) ;md Sulam bin Haji Anifl (23) were charged m the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday with extortion of $5,000 from a Mr. a Chinese, on Mar. 16. Chief Inspector Rahman, prosecuting, told ihe Magistrate. Mr. J.B. Jeyaretnam. tha< the name
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    HOLIDAY CAMP TO OPEN SOON
    98 4 A YOUTH Holiday Camp Bl rlira Chu Kang will Boon 1 opened by the Federation c. Boys' Club, the February pro- gress summary of the SiugsI pore Social Welfare Department, stated. The site .formerly occupied by a Police Station, is an txcellent spot for camping.
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    MISSED DOG BUT HIT TWO PEOPLE
    62 4 A MOTORIST who Hied v avoid hitting a dog. while driving along Yeo Chu Kang Road knocked into a cyclist tnri pedestrian instead th c Si:ip;.pore Second Traffic Court \va i told yesterday. F/Lt. Harold Peier Stapleford, was fined $50 for m;.-.;--gent driving. The
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    SPEED FINE
    30 4 FOR driving a car at an excessive speed Goh Beng Huat of Thomson Road, was fined $25 by the Singapore Second Traffic Magistrate, Mr. Howe Yoon Chong. yesterday.
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    RUBBER, TIN CLOSING PRICES
    59 4 Standard London Correspondent LONDON RUBBER LONDON UN Y Of 16 i d S P°* 10$. per ton Apr, /June 16Jd. buyer,, £750 sellers July/Septemker \6U. Three months £702 10s. October/ December 16* d. buyers, £705 seller*. Jan. Mar. 17 d. Settlement price: £750 April c.i.f. U|d.
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      86 4 Weather Report Minimam Temperature: from 7.30 p.m. on Mar. 18 to 7..10 a.m. on Mar. 19 Singapore (74F), Penang <73F>. Kota Bahru (74F), Kuala I umpur (73F), Ipoh (72F), Kuantan (72F). Maximum Temperature: from 7.30 a.m. to 7.30 pm. on Mar. 19. Singapore .85F), Penang (87F). Kota Kahru (85F). Kuala
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    POLITICIANS CHALLENGE RENDEL
    781 5 'Hypocrites' Charge Is Attacked As Insincere' SEVERAL Singapore politicians yesterday challenged Sir George Rendel, Chairman of the Constitutional Commission, to name the Colony's political hypocrites Sir George's remarks were termed "surprising," "uncharitable and unwarranted,"- and most "insincere." They urged that m the interests of the people of
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    Mrs. Bingham Lays Foundation Stone
    94 5 MRS K. P. BINGHAM. wife of the Resident CommissMaer. Peaanss. laid the foundation stone of the S7OO ODD buildup of the Sisters of the Poor Home for the V;rj m Batu lain hans Lane. Penan? on Wednesday II).- »ite of the Home was secured by
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    Cyclist And Owner Are Disqualified
    44 5 Cyclist And Owner Are Disqualified iat who 'a k Cj:.^i'. Road I irket Roa Ik a c. Sooo ol X ng Hi <?:> •>. Magistr I vithoul a been 1 trcd by k 1 Bacd > > foa abettin g ..a ified I 3 a ti «m 1-
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    Everest Man To Talk Here
    39 5 Everest Man To Talk Here ...r .v i I the su >i Even Expc c a ec! >re to camera enits > ngaoi re shortly ie Singap >r« Camera Chih 15 arrangemeni I 1 be h< d ia April or
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    Fed. Appeal Court Upholds Sentence
    284 5 KI/ALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The Federation Court of Appeal today upheld the conviction and sentence of Neven years' imprisonment on Suppan, a Town Board labourer, tor culpable homicide not amounting to murder at the Perak Assizes last month. tocktenUi y, this appeal is f ftrsi c
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    DREW KNIFE IN CAR PARK
    53 5 AX Indian who terrorised a group of drivers m Clifford Pier Car Park with a six-inch dagger, yesterday was detained by a detective. It wns just after lunch when the man staggered towards the drivers sitting around a tree, unsheahed a dagger and waved it
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    These Lovelies Are Set To Entertain Us
    118 5 NINE beautiful Chinese dancers and singers (picture below) who recently arrived la Singapore after a successful three-month tour of Indonesia, will open a season m the Happy World tonight. The girls, belonging to the Globe Follies of Hongkong, visited the Colony last year.
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    Journalists' Luncheon
    75 5 THE Commissioner General Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, will be among the guests at the Singapore Union of Journalists' luncheon on Monday, Mar. 22. when Tungku Abdul Rahman, president of UMNO, will talk on "The Future of Malaya." The luncheon will be held m the Blue Room of the
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    Religious Payments Queried
    119 5 Religious Payments Queried LONDON, Mar. 19. (Neuter). Mr. Stan Awbery. Labour, asked m the House of Commons yesterday if the Colonial Secretary knew that the annual voluntary religious contributions of the Mohammedans m the state of Perlis. Malaya, had now been made compulsory with fines and imprisonment for non-payment. He
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    SEAMAN FINED
    27 5 ONG AIK YEE. 57-year-old seaman. was fined Silo, m default five weeks' imprison- rnent. on two charges ot pos- sessing dutiable liquor and I tobacco.
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    Bigamy Charje Is Amended
    252 5 MR. A. J. BRAGA, counsel for Edward Percival McCarthy Heyzer, asked the Singapore Fifth Police Court yesterday to acquit his client on a charge of bigamy, allegedly committed m February 1947. He made this request after r being told that the charge against Heyzer had been
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    BOOKLET ON STATE POLLS
    64 5 IN PREPARATION for the introduction of election to the Jo ho re State Legislature, thousands of booklets bearing the State flag and the facsimile of the Government offices has been distributed. The booklet tells you when and where you must register as a voter and contains
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    FREE TRIP TO POLICE SHOW
    64 5 TWO buses will be provided today by Singapore Police to convey people residing m the rural areas to visit the Crime Exhibition at the Happy World. The buses will leave from Holland Road Police Station at 2 p.m. Two more buses will also be available
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    British Refugees?
    823 6 y BELLIGERENT Irishman, the worse for drink, walked into a bar and glowered at the peaceful and cheerful crowd inside. Anybody want a Hghi challenged the Irishman. No-one answered. I said dues anybody want a fight! repeated the Irishman, angrier than ever. I will take on any one
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      JOSEY ACCEPTS A CHALLENGE
      208 6 JOSE Y ACCEPTS A CHALLENGE Sir; I accept Mr. Rao's challenge, which appeared m Thursday's Standard, to substantiate my charge that the American film industry dominates Malaya's cinemas largely because of unfair trading practices. I need do no more than quote the following extract irom the Parkinson Committee Report: "Representatives
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      FERGUSON STRIKES AGAIN
      453 6 Sir; It is amusing to note that Dr. Ismail and Inche Aziz bin Ishak should require that my Lord Jeffreys should come out to Asia m order to qualify himself to make statements concerning literacy and civilisation therein, while omitting to suggest that a few responsible Asians
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    Review of Views
    208 6  - Review of Views Ritso Debate ■WE DO NOT KNOW whether? the public will he disgusted? ii the Ritson nay talks con-j tinue or whether they will^ be disgusted now that the? Government pay proposals? mean an extra burden on j their pockets," Utusanj Melayu says, commenting on^ the debate m
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    The Fight Against Diamond
    512 6  -  JOHN WORRALL By CAPE TOWN, (\\E of the toughest missions he has ever been given faces Sir Percy Sillitoe, former head of Britain's Secret Service, who has come out of retirement to try to curb the world-wide smuggling of diamonds. He was m South Africa a
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    This War Has To Be Fought With The Hearts Of The People
    1139 6  - This War Has To Be Fought With The Hearts Of The People RAWLE KNOX By who was recently m Saigon Indo-Chlna Notebook TN Vientiane, the Laotian National Assembly, whose Government resigned en bloc recently owing to personal differences between ministers, was discussing the military situation. The members, all twentynine who
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    MacARTHUR AND IKE REVIEW SITUATION IN I-C
    292 7 MacARTHUR AND IKE REVIEW SITUATION IN I-C WASHINGTON, Mar. 19, (UP)— President Eisenhower yesterday reviewed the tense situation m Indo-China with Gen, Douglas Mac Arthur. Mac Arthur, fired as Supreme Far Eastern Commander by former President Truman m 1951, went to the White House at the invitation of the President.
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    CHINESE TO BE USED AT TALKS
    133 7 CHINESE TO BE USED AT TALKS >\ Mai 19 .RevI tc S y r Union thai Chinese the tout is iag< the U ren< c on Korea eg on A;);-:: 26, Department said pokesnuu > -a:d that S a s vweie this request ai furl ler exchange nrou d be
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    80 7 A recent study of Anna Maria Moneta Caglio. star witness m the "scandal" trial against Italian editor Silvano Muto. Anna Maria. VI. openly admitted to have been the lover of one of the people i-ited by Muto. and also claimed that numerous important political and industrial personalities had been involved
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    Wildeblood Denies Act
    36 7 ONDON. VFP a od B eu of acts oi 3 two men ie R a Foi <.■, daj agai -t ith C Edward McIS tgainst "be i id< ecu im- u:iH any sexua ■t-
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    TENSING GETS MEDAL AWARD
    18 7 DARJEELJNG Wesi Beng h tork >.■ 1: th« Hul N^ »eograS S A :< M: 9
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    RKO ACCEPTS
    10 7 THI ders I RKO najority m ma AP
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    51 DOCTORS CONSIDERED ARMY RISKS
    139 7 WASHINGTON, Mar. 19— (L'P) Defence Secretary Charles E. Wilson said yesterday the armed services have 51 drafted physicians labelled security risks who must be commissioned or discharged. Wilson told the Senate Armed Services Committee the Defence Department is "determined to eliminate" any proven Communists. He
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    Britain Can Supply Reds With Ships
    116 7 Britain Can Supply Reds With Ships LONDON. Mar. 19, (Renter) —Britain can. supply Russia with 10.000-ton cargo ships "within certain security limits," Mr. JtP.L. Thomas. First Lord of the Admiralty, said yesterday. He told a questioner m the House of Commons: 4 The Admiralty has the final decision on security
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    GRANDPA AGAIN
    31 7 EMPEROR Haile Selassie became a grandfather for the eighth time yesterday with the birth of a boy to the wife of his second son. the Duke of Harar.— UP.
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    Hydrogen Bomb Probe is Urged
    134 7 Hydrogen Bomb Probe is Urged WASHINGTON. Alar 19, (Renter)— Air. Melvin Price, a Democratic member of the House of Representatives from Illinois and Mr. James Van Zandt a Republican member from Pennsylvania, called yesterda3 r for a Congressional investigation to learn why nearly 30(1 "outsiders" were permitted close enough to
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    POLICE GRAB 4 SMUGGLERS
    58 7 SAIGON. Mar. 19 (AFP) Customs and Police yesterday seized tour gold and penicillin smugglers who arrived m Haiphong aboard a regular Cathay Pacific plane from Hongkong. The smugglers were three men and a woman, all Chinese and the total weight of gold seized m their luggage
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    JET TRAINING FLIGHTS BAN
    39 7 COPENHAGEN. Mar. 1!). (AFP)— General C.J. Foersley. Head of the Danish Air Force, has ordered all training flights On jet planes be stopped as from tomorrow, until further notice, as a result of recent accidents.
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    She Smokes, But NOT Cigars
    67 7 LONDON Mar IS 1 1 P> Biukinuhani Palace sources it- im-d >e^terday that Princ»'s> Margaret >mokes ii«ars. Thr >«>uiies said "anyone who knows the princess knows she does not smoke cheroots."' The pretty Princess does smoke cigaretles. Hut the sources denied a London newspaper report
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    East, West Urged To Meet Regularly
    127 7 LONDON. Mar. 19, (Reuter)— Mr. Dag Hammarskjoeld. Secretary-General of the United Nations, said here last nis»ht that the Western world and the Communist worM must meet regularly around the conference table T:\i- v...- inhomil i:i the Unit* Mat ma approach, he i dimm of
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    CRASH OF A METEOR
    73 7 PARIS. Mar. 19 (AFP): A Radio Moscow broadcast last night stated thai a meteor had crashed to the ground on Mar. X m the vicinity of a village about M) miles from Moscow. The radio said this was the first time since 1812 that a meteor
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    LIFE OF A HOUSEWIFE
    61 7 MELBOURNE. Mar. 19, (Renter) The average Australian housewife, with a family of tour, spends .-even years of her married life cooking meals and waiks about :{.OOO miles the distance between Perth and Brisbane— in going about her daily chores. These are .some of the conclusions of
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    MOSLEM PARTY DEFEATED
    65 7 DACCA. East Pakistan. Alar. 19, (Reuter)— The Moslem League. East Pakistan's ruling party, has been defeated m the general elections. With only half the results announced the United Front of opposition Moslem inn-tics pledged to scrap the constitution and demand more provincial autonomy has 119 of the
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    SHIPPING RUN
    85 7 photo. A NEW shipping service between Australia and Thailand was announced yesterday by the Dutch Royal Interocean Lines. The service will run from Melbourne and Sydney to Bangkok via Dutch New Guinea and Sandakan. Reuter. pncno. SENATOR Joe McCarthy. Republican Wisconsin, laughs as he reaches back of som-bre-looking
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    Double Charges in Korea
    136 7 PANMUNJOM. Mar 19. (AP)— The U.N. Command and the Communists yesterday j traded charges of violating the! Korean truce by slipping cum-: bat material into Korea. Rear Admiral Jarrell. repre- senting the U.N. declared at a meeting of the Military Armistice Commission that the Communists were
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    Death In A Pyramid
    64 7 Lrtmu. Alar. ih. (Keuter) One Egyptian worker was killed and two injured when the roof caved m yesterday m a subterranean passage m the newly discovered pyramid at i Sakkara. The pyramid, about 16 miles' 'south of Cairo m the "indent i burial place of kings,
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    'UN CANNOT DEAL WITH AGGRESSION'
    218 7 LONDON, Mar. 19, (AP) Sir Gladwyn Jebb declared last night that the U.N. Security Council "is useless a s an instrument of dealing with any serious aggression." Britain's Permanent United Nations delegate for the past four years, said he believed it to be capable of
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    WILSON SUPPORTS REPORT ON 'JOE'
    193 7 WASHINGTON, Mar. 19, (Reuter)— The Secretary of Defence, Mr. Charles Wilson, said yesterday that he regarded as truthful the army report accusing Senator Joseph McCarthy and Mr. Roy Cohn his chief counsel of putting pressure for special treatment for David Schine, former McCarthy aide. Mr.
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    LODGE TO VETO RED CHINA ENTRY
    194 7 NEW YORK, Mar. 19, (Reuter)— Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge, the U.S. delegate, told a press conference yesterday that he "would no{ shrink'" from using the veto, if necessary, to prevent Communist China from taking a seat m the United Nations Security Council. He was
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    51 7 FIREMEN working m the thick smoke to reach a blaze which broke out m the hold of the 9.000-ton British freighter. Orestes m Sydney's Walsh Bay on Mar. 9. The freighter, owned by the Blue Funnel Lines, operates between Australia and Malaya She was carrying a. cargo of rope fibre.-
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    Three Beers For A Duck
    60 7 MELBOIRNt. Mar. 19. (Reuter) Donald a brown duek walked into the bar of a < itv hotel yesterday and drank three glasses of beer. His ow ner. Koy Cluiuv a brewery worker, said lie buys Donald three beere at lunch -time every day. And he
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    EDITOR TO PAY US$2,200 IN DAMAGES
    117 7 EDITOR TO PAY US$2,200 IN DAMAGES BOMBAY. Mii 19. CAP) Mr. R. K. Karan La, i \i\ :he anti-Ameri< an nows-maga/i:..- B it/ ordered by the Bombay H Court ye.-te: *y 1. pay rupees lab- I 552.200) mages to Mr. Devadas C. m editor of the Hindustan 1 the New
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    Cocktails On Board
    63 8 photo. MR and Mrs. B. De Graan, two of the many guests present at the cocktail party held on board the new Swedish freighter-passenger ship Sudan m Singapore, last week, are seen conversing with the vessel's master. Captain Johan Jonsson. The party was held to celebrate the
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    WARSHIP WILL NOT BE 'DRY'
    51 8 LONDON. Mar. 19. (Reuter) The British Admiralty is trying to find a way to stow enough beer m a warship to supply a whole ship's company. "The real answer is dehydrated or concentrated beer," Commander Alan Noble, Financial Secretary, told the House of Commons last
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      1180 8 Tcl mtm BLUE FUNNEL LINE Te12 (>« unes> MANSFIELD CO., LTD. VlSf DeptIncorporated m Singapore Carriers option to proceed via other ports to load and discharge cargo SAILINGS to* LIVERPOOL. GLASGOW. LONDON CONTINENTAL PORTS. Due Sails P. Sham Penang Calihas for Havre. Liverpool, Avonmouth Swansea Mar 19/20 .Mar 22 Automedon
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    RFC ORDERS CUT IN SYNTHETIC OUTPUT
    393 9 WASHINGTON, Mar. 19, (Reuter) The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) yesterday announced it had ordered production of United States synthetic rubber reduced by almost 7,000 long tons m the second quarter of this year. The reduction was ordered "m view of the reduced sales trend."
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    East-West Trade To Be Expanded
    135 9 GENEVA, Mar. 19, Renter Lord Reading. British Minister of State and Mr. Pavel Kumykin, Soviet Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade, got together here yesterday to stress the "great importance" of expand- ing East -west trade. A joint resolution tabled by the two delegates was approved
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    LINER REFLOATED
    36 9 THE 12,000-tdn French liner, Tahiikin. which ran aground at the entrance to Pa pee v Harbour m Tahiti, was refloated by tugs at high tide and has sailed with /t<)o passengers for France. A.P.
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    SHARES
    187 9 MALAYAN tin shaves m the Singapore market experienced a general marking up m consequence of the further sub-, stantial rise m the tin metal price yesterday. Inc'.i-Tr:;: shares wer c quietly steady, while rubbers attracted some j interest. Changed prices were: IN Of STRI\LS Buyers Seller? Fed. Disp. 3.02
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    PRODUCE
    83 9 THE produce maiket m Singapore remained quiet m all sections yesterday with Oli <>" small business passing. Copra for April shipment was quoted around $33 per picul buyers with sellers at $331. Coconut oil remained dull at $53j per picul sellers with no buyers. Singapore produce price? (per' picul)
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    AUSTIN BUILDS AMERICAN CAR
    65 9 BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND. Mar. 19, (Reuter)— The Austin Motor Company today ;<■•;- nooneed here details of the first British-built "American o;;r" j the Nash "Metropolitan." The "Metropolitan" a small family two-seater built lei American design by the Ausi n Company and the B: itish roarhbuilding firm of
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    GEELONG REFINERY
    54 9 I DESIGNED to be one of tin- largest ;-.nd most modem of the Australian refineries now being erected by the oil iai dustiy. Shell's Geelong plant was opened on Mar. 18 bj Field Marshal Sir William Slim. Governor-Genera* of Australia. It is the first of these new refineries
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    MARKETS
    211 9 iHE r »er market S gapore yesterday ciuse.i ■> es ly at 55$ n ..is per lb For I grade rubber for An* I dripmoni. During (I T had Ed I j cents per lb. Buying* by the Unite h.-ui betii Use main oonti tartar, othei countri v I
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    UK'S 3rd BEST WOOL BUYER
    83 9 TOKYO. Mar. 18, <\P Re& Chi'.i;. today is Britaii I d best customer Cor ooir becaust rombing China are < rating v peduoed ficienci i h wool .-a said y v. Edgai rep ;g one o; sa d w■■ ght IMM (30 t il Briti
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    INI'L RUBBER STUDY CONFAB
    77 9 INI 'L RUBBER STUDY CONFAB COLOMBO, Mar. 18 J —The tat< ..>.' nal r Study Group will el -n iitii.^i ence En May 2 following the invitation Ceylon made at last year*! dm* lerenoe La Copenhagen Twenty countries wi Mtti ad tht meting including Aist.aiia. Burma. Canada. Fraooe, Germany. Indihesia.
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      274 9 -rr- s rx" AiCOR^/r Wf4IJFFO'c p f because ccxjld M 1^: r w I__ Alley Pop ByV. 7. Ha^Un J HACN T |P TVfIS F^END PtRMAFS WE'D V^- I \^>|j hanCX E H H£LP B€M^' OUT OF 7HDR V BOTH A AbShtSoS? -^^9 The Heart Of Juliet Jones By Sfon
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      570 9 *%i%S!Si S A i X I »i MA sag _r I ft tSSI S&S&BKp BBHHb it Bref i, fit* ~_WK: '-...^nnminTrniiHnurm 'iTTTpntrrniTrmr, r-rr, iiiiiffli(iiii B imiiillliiiiniii(llliiiilllMiTinlll^rt^i^ i t p mfci o niw* B^rfM ADH m:! MALACCA j r~~ IL^Vv-^U »J lIIVJ M r IV CJ§ AriKII.: Ti. v Toon C;.rlco.-.>
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    LOCAL PIANIST TO MAKE DEBUT
    740 10  - LOCAL PIANIST TO MAKE DEBUT Anacrusis Music Notes By \TISS Lav Biau Chin, a local girl who returned to Singapore last year after six years' study abroad. Is to make her Singapore debut m a piano recital m the Victoria Memorial Hall, on Friday. April 2. Miss Lav's sojourn overseas
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    OF MEN SAND MUSIC
    740 10  -  BUI Webb Jones By CTAN FREBERG, that mis- chievous artist, has followed up his delightful burlesque of Les Paul and Mary Ford ("The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise," Capitol CL *****) by perpetrating another leg-pull, thi.s time at the expense of the composer of "Dra«net"
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    STAGEDOOR
    707 10 'TWERE is t« attitude which is too prevalent among amateur actors and even among some m Singapore. Too many of them appear to have the idea that if they themselves have enjoyed the fun and the work of putting on a play, then the audience should be duly rrateful
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    311 10 IT'S tou»h at tlie top. they say i .s!i:iu business. Yft. :ilm»>>t effortlessty. it seems, Vera Lynn has been there for around fourteen years. H »w d tes she do [f! Slie basa*l a wonderful voire. she isn't ai! that beautiful, but she appeals
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    CHOONG ONLY MALAYAN IN LAST 4
    749 11 Poh Lim Loses To Paul Holm LONDON, Morch 18 Two Danes the s aiayon holder and a Canadian entered the stTji finals of the men's singles at the Allinland badminton championships here today. c Choong (Malaya), the holder, downed DenP Gianlund. 15-9. 8-15. 15-12
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    PENG SOON IS UNFIT: TRIP TO US OFF
    292 11 THE OLD THOMAS CUP INJURY HAS RETURNED TO OUR CHAMPION By FRANCIS BOEY WONG PENG SOON, who has been declared 'medically unfit' will not compete m the American badminton championships at Niagara Falls m April. The only Malayan world champion last night
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    Rovers Beat Bintang Bulan
    149 11 TAMPENIS Rovers made it |ii u »trji^ht uuis ulji'ii thf> beat Biiit.ms Bul.in hv three Coals to nil m a SAFA Division MS lea uc matrb at Farrer Park ye^terdav Mid.vjv m tbm flrst half. GtMMI opened Rovers' score rben he placed '^le ball OJt of
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    25 11 MALACCA. Fri.— Malacca Indian Association drew pneail with the Li«n Hua m a Craven "A" soccex league game at the Recianwtiun ground yesterday.
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    RAF Seletar Superior
    147 11 RAF. Seletar beat St John's Sports Club m a keenly contested S.A.F.A. Division MB League match at Farcer Park yesterday. Thjg is the Airmen's second win In two outings. m the 1 6i h minute. Ed ware opened the score for the airmen when he headed the
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    Big Win For Traction U.
    74 11 TRACTION Union Sports Club whipped Netaji Memorial Sports Club 5-1 m a SAFA Div. 3B league soccer match on the Clerical Union ground yesterday. Scorers were: Wai Siew 2; Sim Tian Soon 2 and AH one. Suppiah scored for Netaji. In a A Div. 3C
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    One Way For The Soccerites
    622 11 Omar Scores 'Hattrick' STAR SOCCERITES showed skill and scoring ability m calling a halt to police S.A's first s—l success, while they helped themselves to their second successive victory of the season with a s—o margin m yesterday's SAFA Division One League game at Jalan
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    Rangers Are Outclassed
    180 11 TUOROIGHLY ouklassed. Town RangtTN were no mutch fur Customs Spurts Club m a SAFA Div. LC league match. at St. Grorges Road yesterday. The Customs whipped them 4 oil. Cu>io:ns opened the score In the I3tfa minute. Ranger's H:p r* 1 handled the ba'ii m the box
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    INDIANS HOLD CORINTHIANS
    35 11 INDIAN* Recreation Club drew.' two-a!! with Singapore Corinthians m a friendly football match at Fairer Park yesterday. Omar and Salahudin scored I for I.R.C. and Wing Sun and Bakar scored for Caiiiil^-grt^r
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    TODAY'S Sport
    57 11 TODAY'S Sport SOCCER: Friendly—Dfoisioc 2 21 D Division 3 XI I'icroria School at Jalan Besar stadium 4 p.m.; Div. 2 Anton AC v Rovers A at Fun-er Park: BODCA v Wwiderlads SP at Farrer Pa rk. CRICKET: Friendlies SRC v Braddell CC «t SRC; 1A v Police at 1A; C\
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    FAS Match To Aid Referee's Family
    145 11 '■'«s*iM*i*,»',fl"'«'*»«Vv 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A charity match, proceeds of which will go to the dependents of the late Inche Syed Ali bin Othman Yahya, the Selangor soccer referee who died while officiating at a match, is being planned by the Football Association of
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    I'll KO Olson — Gavilan
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