The Straits Times, 3 April 1948

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAY AS LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1X45 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1948 PRICE TEN CEM>
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    LAND BLOCKADE OF BERLIN
    686 1 All Military Rail Traffic At A Halt BERLIN, Friday. THE four deputy Allied commandants of Berlin met today as this semi-isolated city hung on the brink of the most portentous crisis in its 32 months of Allied occupation. Even more stringent measures were foreseen after a
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    45 1 DISCUSSION IN THE CORNER: Left to right, Mr. Tsaldaris (Greece), Mr. Sadac (Turkey), Mr. Ernest Bevin (Great Britain) and M. Been (Luxembourg) carry on an informal discussion after a dinner m honour of the visiting delegates at the Qua! d'Orsay, Paris. Sport and General picture.
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    "Good Time Coming"
    103 1 IN Singapore for the first time for 30 years, the United States Ambassador to Australia (Mr. Robert Butler) told the Straits Times yesterday that there was "a good time coming for South-East Asia." '"To quote the words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt 'We have nothing to fear but
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    QUEENSLAND STRIKE ENDS
    70 1 BRISBANE Friday.-Strik-ing Queensland railwaymtn voted today to end their two-month-old walk-out. Their wage i\ orease demands w re not met. Only a few of the 3.000 men who met in Brisbane and Ipswich voted to continue the strike, which has crippled tra: sport and caused bitter leeling
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    MR. TRUMAN MAY VETO TAX BILL
    23 1 WASHINGTON. Friday. President Truman is expected to veto the Republican-sup-ported $4,800,000,000 tax-re-duction bill passed by Congrpss.— Reuter.
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    CHURCHILL MEMOIRS
    131 1 rE most important book to be published since the war's end will be the Memoirs of Mr. Winston Churchill. Britain's wartime leader and the man who did more than anyone else to ensure victory for the Allies dn their fight against Fascism. Mr. Churchill nas now completed the
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    Newspaper Map Creates Trouble
    195 1 GENEVA, Friday. A NEWS map printed in Paris newspapers was described as an invention of war-mongers yesterday at tr-e United Nations Conference on Freedom of Infonnat'on. The map, reproduced in Wednesday's European editl n. of the New York HeraldTribune and the British>wrpd Contin^n li Da'ly Mail,
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    Special U.N. Session To Reconsider Palestine
    359 1 Special U.N. Session To Reconsider Palestine LAKE SUCCESS, Friday. THE United Nations Security Council last night 1 decided to call a special session of the United Nations General Assembly on April 16 to reconsider the Palestine problem. This will be the second special session in the General Assembly's history. The
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    Slant Police Move South
    72 1 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Friday.— Strong police reinforcements will leave Bangkok for Southern Siam within the next few days ia a renewed campaign to stamp out banditry m the SiaraMalaya border area. The reinforcements, under the command of Major Kwanff Eohitarana. will join Siamese police
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    Suicide Attempt By U Saw
    120 1 RANGOON, Friday. rE former Premier, U Saw, was reported today to have tried to commit suicide during the night in the death cell of Insein prison. U Saw and eight confederates are to be executed on April 9 for abetting the machine-gun murder of U
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    80 ESCAPE IN GAOL BREAK
    73 1 ZAMBOANGA, Philippines. Friday.— AH the inmates of The San Ramon penal colony. 1 numbering 80, broke gaol at 9.30 a.m. today after disarming and overpowering the prison guards The prisoners were reported i to have been led by an exarmy officer facing charges cf treason.
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    CO. Hurt In Camp Riot
    95 1 A RIOT took place last night at Woodlands Camp, where Ceylonese troops are stationed. Troops burned down tents ar.-i buildings and attacked the Commanding Officer, who was injured. The rioters then attacked a police car and an Army truck which arrived on the scene. They
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    CZECH SWIMS TO FREEDOM
    71 1 PRAGUE. Friday.— Dr. Michael Zibrin, a Slovak Democratic Party deputy, who had been deprived of Parliamentary immunity to be prosecuted for 'anti-state activities" has escaped abroad by swimming a frontier river, it was oflicially announced today. Six people who helped him to oross the fronti?r have
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    SHELL MAKES CUT IN PRICES
    65 1 NEW YORK. Friday.— Shell Oil Company yesterday announced a cut in price* *n. line with the decreases outlined by Standard Oil earl er this week. Petrol prices were not cut by either firm. Under .ae net schedule prices will be reduced on tractor fuei, *.ttle'.;
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    Drive Against Bombay Reds
    278 1 BOMBAY, Friday. THE Bombay police today arrested over a dozen top-ranking Communist leaders before noon m what appeared to be a "--"'erted f*nve throughout the province against (V They were known to be looking for four more key Party men, against whom warrants for arr. st
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    Princess Elizabeth For Paris
    212 1 LONDON Friday. DRINCESS ELIZABETH I and the Duke of Edinburgh will visit Paris on May 14, it was announced from Buckingham Palace last night. The Royal couple will make their visit at the invitation of the French President <M. Vincent-AurioD. They will stay at the British
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      Rabies Epidemic On Isle Of Crete
      78 2 ATHENS, Friday. MORE than ZOO people are suffering from rabies on the island of Crete. There are grave fears that a large-scale epidemic may spread. Large numbers of horses, donkeys and cowfsl were recently bitten by mad dogs and it is feared that this
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      Monopoly Inquiry
      44 2 LONDON, Friday.— The British Government yesterday published a bill providing for a commission to investigate monopolies. Sanctions in the bill include the power to prohibit the maklne or carrying out of agreements and to prohibit boycotts, confidential sales and preferential treatment. AP.
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      Food Export Ban
      46 2 RIO DE JANEIRO, Friday. President Dutra yesterday halted export from Brazil of all foodstuffs except coffee. The Finance Ministry, which controls foreign trade! said the esport ban on foods would continue until internal distributors lowered prices Tie action is effective Immediately.— A. P.
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      Jamaica Charges
      78 2 KINGSTON, Jamaica, Fridaj. S edition charges against a Kingston City Councillor, Mr. Thosey Kelly, and charges of unlawful assembly against Mr. T. H. Glasspole, a member of the Jamaican House of Repre:intatlves, Mr. Ken Hill, another City Councillor, and certain officers of the Trade Union Council have been
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      Crash Survivors
      73 2 SYDNEY. Friday.— Five survivors of an aircraft believed to have crashed two months ago are safe on Narage Island in the Vitu group about 190 miles West of Rabaul, it was reported yesterday. The plane is believed to have been Dutch. The news came in a letter from
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      Loan Extension
      65 2 LONDON, Friday.— Present arrangements for financing Imports into the United Kingdom from Canada have been extended to Apr. 14, the British Treasury announced last night. This is an extension of last December's agreement which expired yesterday under which Britain was allowed to draw $15,000,000 from her Canadian loan
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      China Reparations
      49 2 SHANGHAI. PYiday. A Chinese steamer arrived here yesterday afternoon with a cargo of 545 cases of Japanese reparations machinery from Yokosuka. Unloading is at present busily proceeding, while many Chinese private firms are filing claims to the Central Government to cover losses suffered during the war Reuter.
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      War Court Ends
      57 2 HONGKONG. Friday.— The British War Crimes Court is disbanding after completing its last case against Japanese accused of war crimes, it was disclosed yesterday. Of ttie 129 accused tried since March, 1946, the court ser.tened 21 to death and 85 to prison for pertjpde up to 20
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      Feelings Hurt
      62 2 NANKING. Friday.— Feeling slighted because hitherto it had not been officially informed of the abandonment of the Amne expedition, the China committee of the expedition is reported to have ended its agreement with the American committee, headed by millionaire ball-pen maker Milton Reynolds, and Bradford Washburn. The China
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      Appeal Admitted
      60 2 RANGOON. Friday.— A Sessions judge at Insein yesterday admitted an appeal by Major C. H. Young, former officer commanding the Burma Electrical and Mechanical Engineering unit nere. against the recently imposed sentence of two years' rigorous imprisonment and fixed April 5 for arguments by counsel Young has oeen
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      Berlin Reds Meet
      45 2 OTTO GROTEWOHL, cochairman of the Russian sponsored Socialist Unity Party, speaking at the People's Congress m Berlin recently. Made up of Communists and their sympathisers, the Congress elected a 'Teople's Council," m reality a Communist "shadow Government" for Berlin.— Planet News picture.
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      "Soak The Rich"
      76 2 SHANGHAI. Friday.— Two new rulings in Nations' list China's "Soak the Rich" campaign were enacted by the Executive Yuan last niffht. Donations to the "Special Relief Fund"— to which the rich are supposed to donate under vague threats of public pressure can now be made In substitutes
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      April Fool
      87 2 CHANGIIAI. Thursday. •J Press reporter Huang Chin wrote his own suicide obituary as an April Fools Day feature last night. When his girl friend, Miss He Chi Chlnf, read the paper this morning, she took poison in her hotel room, but was rushed to a hospital by the
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      717 2 NOTICES BRITISH STORES DISPOSAL BOARD V ORDER OF THE DIRECTOR OF DISPOSALS, FAR EASTERN XXI 1M.0.5.) The following Tenders have been circulated to Registered Contractors during the past l\«.\rOßE AREA:— Terd*r 32G. CloMnjj date 2nd. Anril. 1948. for Electrical Eriuipm?nt Tools: AsbesMillboard: Misc Engine Parts etr Machine Grindin? Pewint?: Winches:
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      521 2 NOTICES ARTISTS' RIFLES WILL any former member of The Artiste' Rifles please communicate with F. O. Livingstone, 4th Floor. Meyei Chambers, Raffles Place. Singapore. SUGAR TRANSHIPMENTS Anyone intending to tranship sugar from any territory must submit documents m evidence of such intention to the R.1.E., Singapore, prior to the sugar
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      703 2 NOTICES SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY. MOUNT EMILY SWIMMING POOL. The Public is hereby notified that the Pool will be closed from Friday. 2 April 1948, for about four days, for the purpose of cleaning. By Order MUNICIPALITY OF SINGAPORE Tenders are invited for renting the Refreshment Stall at Mount Emily Swimming Pool,
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      573 2 NOTICES TOILET SOAP FROM U.K. A small quota of Toilet Baop Is available for Impotation from the United Kingdom. Applications for licence, with evidence of firm offer and export licence number issued to a manufacturer In the U.K., will be considered by the R. 7.8 Singapore, if submitted before lith
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      85 2 CHARITY FOOTBALL ROTARY CLUB FUND. For a Holiday Camp at Morib for poor children and the aged on a site made available by kind generosity of Mrs. Amarasefcara. Kianff. S. C. R. C. vs. N.S.C.R.C. and Malacca C.R.C. Admission Tickets $1, $2, $S. T.P.C.A. Ground 4th April at 5 15
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    AID WILL FLOW AT ONCE
    336 3 Truman May Sign Measure Tonight WASHINGTON, Friday. THE Senate and House conferees today reached agreement on the European Relief Bill amounting to U. 5.56,098,000,000, including aid for China, after earlier deleting Spain from any consideration m the programme. The action cleared the way for final
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    U.K. MAY GET BASIC BACK
    68 3 LONDON, Friday. Used car prices have increased by as much as 50 per cent, m recent weeks m anticipation that petrol will be increased to the private motorist, trade informants said yesterday. Prices dropped last autumn when the Government banned the sale of petrol for
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    Goebbels Planned New Reich
    185 3 Goebbels Planned New Reich LONDON, Friday. THE former Nazi Propa1 ganda Minister (Dr. Josef Goebbels) planned a post-war German Reich including Switzerland and northern Italy. This is recorded la his personal diaries, a selection fro which was published joday. Goebbels urged Hitler on to the total extermination of the Jews
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    C.I.G.S. SEES BELGIANS
    83 3 BRUSSELS, Friday. Belgian infantry training methods were thoroughly Inspected by Tleld-Marshal Montgomery (Chief of the Imperial General Staff) yesterday when he visited the principal N.C.O. training centre at Beverloo, north-east of Brussels. The tumultuous welcome the C.I.GJS. had on Wednesday was repeated yesterday. Practially the whole town
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    BIG ITEM IN SIAM BUDGET
    82 3 BIG ITEM IN SIAM BUDGET BANGKOK, Friday.— A defence estimate of 188,000,000 ticals (£4,700,000 at official exchange) is reported to be the largest item m Siam's national budget for 1948-49 to be presented to Parliament next week. The budget was balanced with a small surplus, revenue and ordinary expenditure being
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    Frontiers To Be Revised
    125 3 PARIS, Friday. VTEGOTIATIONS are in 1 1 progress between France and Italy for a sweeji'ng revision in Italy's favour of the 1946 frontier settlement, it was reported here yesterday. An agreement is expected to be signed before the end of the week, returning to Italy certain
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    67 3 YOUTH TAKES A LEAD: Margaret Tortora, of Clerkenwell, London, who is only 14, leads 150 children m Britain's youngest food -growing organisation the Great Sutton -street Garden Society. They all grow food for their homes. A few days ago she spoke to members of the Metropolitan Public Gardens' Association. Margaret
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    Aid For Europe First —Marshall
    238 3 BOGOTA, Colombia, Friday. THE United States Secretary of State (Mr. George 1 Marshall) said yesterday that the European Recovery Programme must take precedence over Latin American requests Cor United States aid. He told the Pan-Ameri-can Conference here that the United States was prepared to increase
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    Persia Replies To Soviet Note
    168 3 TEHERAN, Friday. THE Persian Premier, (Mr. Ibrahim Hakimi), yester1 day presented to the Soviet Embassy here the Persian Government's reply to a Soviet note protesting against alleged United States interference in Persian internal affairs. I The Persian reply, although politely worded, insisted that the assertion
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    Finns In Moscow Recalled
    175 3 Finns In Moscow Recalled HELSINKI, Friday. npWO members of the Finnish delegation discussing a mutual aid pact with Russia in Moscow were last night urgently summoned by President Paasikivi to return to Helsinki for consultations with the Cabinet tomorrow. The summons came after a hitch in the negotiations, said to
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    Hunger Strike In Calcutta
    98 3 CALCUTTA, Friday. T'HE Federation of CenA tral Government Employees' Unions, a trade union body of Indian civil servants, announced today that Calcutta civil servants began a hunger strike this morning. About 50 people were arrested m Calcutta. Heavy police guards were mounted hi Government offices affected
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      209 3 I SOBRANIE VIRGINIA No. 40 The smoking of Virginia cigarettes is usually mere habit. Sobranie Virginia I No. 40 have been specially made for those smokers who honestly prefer Virginia leaf to any other. Only the finest tobacco from the Golden Belt of old Virginia has been used and the
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      250 3 a, 4artoLu>Lek take your pick at any of the spick-and-span Creameries Milk Bars where everything's as fresh as the proverbial daisy There's an appetising variety of fillings, too all served m double-quick time. And ask for Magnolia Ices extra sm-00-th and rich. Take home a brick (a dessert for 6
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    'WASTAGE' IN MALAYA
    308 4 Young Planters And Temptations From Our staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. rG "terrible wastage of the youth of our home lands" in Malaya is referred to in a letter to The Planter, official organ of the Incorporated Society of Planters. The writer is Mr. C. R. Harrison,
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    21 4 NEW ARRIVAL: Mrs. Catherine Miller, wife of Singapore s new U.S. Military Liaison Officer, Lieut-Col. Verle D. Miller. Straits Times picture.
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    U.S. Rubber Legislation Unfortunate
    125 4 U.S. Rubber Legislation Unfortunate *R. G. D. A. FLETCHER, .VI of Harrisons and Crosfleld, said yesterday that it was unfortunate that the UJS. had decided to extend Government control of the synthetic rubDer industry before the Kubber Study Group had a chance to express its views. The Group is to
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    RUBBER FIRMER
    140 4 NO. 1 Sheet f.o.b. buyers sained five-eighths of a cent at the close of the Singapore Robber market yesterday. Other clo6ing prices were: No. 1 Sheet f.o.b. sellers. 41% cents Spot Loose buyers 41 Vi cents, sellers 41% cents. The market became firmer yesterday with American buying. Sellers
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    13 APPEALS IN SELANGOR
    118 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday.— Sentenced to eight years' rigorous imprisonment at the Selangor Assizes in November, last year, a 16-year-old Chinese, will appear before the Federation of Malaya Court c! Appeal, on Monday, to appeal against sentence. The Chinese was convicted, on his own plea of violating
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    PAY REPORT DEBATED
    105 4 From Our Stall 'Jorrespondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. THE Selangor State Council at an emergency meeting today unanimously passed a resolution giving its approval to resolutions on the Trusted recommendations passed at Tuesday's meeting of the Federal Legislative Council. Before the State Council's resolution was put to the
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    RIBBONS FOR 16,000
    94 4 Over 16,000 Defence Medal ribbons are being issued to members of Singapore's Passive Defence and Essential Services who functioned before and during the Japanese invasion of Malaya. They are being sent by post to the addresses of the members. The ribbon is green with a large red
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    CLERKONTWO CHARGES
    117 4 Robert Seng, a 33 -year-old Chinese clerk attached to Thomas Cook and Sons Ltd., who yesterday pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal breach of trust in respect of $1,385.40 was. .sentenced to six months' rigorous imprisonment and fined $500, in default another six months' rigorous imj>rk>onment. by
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    SINGAPORE CHURCH SERVICES
    358 4 r -MORROW'S services in Singapore churches are as follows: Church of England: St Andrew's Cathedral 7 a.m. 8 a.m.. 10.30 a.m.. 11.15 a.m. and 5.30 p m.; St. George's Garrison Church (Tanglln) (cpen to civilians) 7 15 a m.. 9 a.m., 9.45 a.m., 0.30 p.m.; Christ Church
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    CONCERT FOR RAILWAYMEN
    63 4 The Bright Star Sports Club will stage a concert for Singapore railway workers on Saturday, April 10. at 7 p.m. The concert will be held in the open air In front of the Selangor Flats, Kampong Bahru Road. The secretary of the Bright Star Sports Club (Mr.
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    Singapore Diary
    107 4 TODAY The Old Victorians' Association, annual general meeting, Victoria School Hall, 2.30 p.m. Singapore Co-operative Stores Society. Ltd. third annual general meeting, 331, North Bridge Road, 3 p.m. Tea party, in honour of Major B. Bevan of the Royal Signals, held by the Portress Signals Civilians, Airport Hotel,
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    New Look And Old Frocks
    240 4 By Our Woman Correspondent MRS. Catherine Miller, wife of Singapore's new United States Military Liaison Officer, Lt. Col. Verle D. Miller, spends the greater part of her day learning Malay. The Malay, she says, will come m useful when she has a house and domestic
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    Tin: 'Malaya Must Fight Very Hard'
    211 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. THE new price for Malayan tin was criticised today by Mr. H. S. Lee, president of the AllMalaya Chinese Miners' Association, who leaves Kuala Lumpur tonight on the first stage of his journey to Washington to attend
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    Vegetables Up, Fish Down
    362 5 From A Market Notebook THE week saw some notable increases in Singapore in the price of vegetables, especially of tomatoes, long beans, chye sim and brihjals. A slightly less than usual quantity of these were brought into Singapore from the mainland this week. However, fish was
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    71 5 In Malaya today we hear much of the European woman's shopping problem. But what of the Malay woman's shoppint problem m a white man's country? Che Halimah binte Othman (above, centre) is studying: such a problem m Melbourne's Victoria Market with Helen Williams and Shirley Wilson, two-fellow students at the
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    Shall we let the cook go marketing?
    1068 5  - Shall we let the cook go marketing? "FEMINA IN THE FEDERAL CAPITAL By WOMEN here who, before they came back to Malaya, stood for hours uncomplainingly for the weekly rations at Home, now find that their greatest curse and headache is the daily marketing. They have become so "queue" conscious
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    RAINBOW SPONGE
    188 5 fOUR eggs, pinch salt, ~.i cup castor sugar, 1 cap Plain floor, H teaspoon cream of tartar, M teaspoon bicarbonate soda, 1 tablespoons milk, 1 teaspoon batter, 1 scant dessertspoon cocoa blended smoothly with 1 extra tablespoon wanned milk, cochineal.3 tablespoons mock cream, warm icing, grated chocolate to
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    55 6 Mrs. Tan Swan Khiang and family, thank all relatives, friends and business associates who sent telegrams and letters of condolences wreaths St scrolls and all who oaid night visits as well as all who presented loss sticks and papers and also those who attended the funeral of her late
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Sat., April 3, 1948 FROM A WOMAN DOCTOR
    1062 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Sat., April 3, 1948 FROM A WOMAN DOCTOR The need for birth control in Malaya, and the racial and religious objections to it, were debated from time to time before the war, and gave rise to a considerable amount of correspondence in our own column* and
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    A BLOOD DONOR'S APPRECIATION
    103 6 AT sundry times I have made use of your columns to lament the elusiveness of the Singapore Blood Transfusion Service. In fairness, I must add, having finally caught up with them, that I was very much impressed by their unique combination of clinical efficiency and real
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    FEATHERS LIKE PETALS
    1309 6 i 4 Malayan Countryman's Diary npODAY I think I saw a Raffles Sunbird tor a brief moment in my "forestry" on the estate. Of this bird, Robinson writes: "It is hardly known away from the sea on Penang Island it ascends the Hill to a considerable height."
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    CASSOWARY
    850 6 SOME days ago a friend pointed out to me that Munshi Abdullah, in his Hikayat, mentions a "Burong Kasuari" among the birds and beasts kept by Colonel Farquhar in Malacca somewliere about 1795-1800, and he added that the Shorter Oxford Dictionary, in its description of the Cassowary, says that
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      Indonesians Held On Arms Charge
      134 7 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Friday. DURING arms raids m Kedah early yesterday, two police parties arrested nine Indonesians alleged to have attempted to export from Malaya 154 Japanese rifles and 3.000 rounds of ammunition. Police believe that the arms were intended for Indonesia. The
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      Food Control
      72 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday.— Prosecutions in court for infringements of food control proclamations in the Federation for February totalled 218, of which 126 obtained convictions. Fines imposed amounted to $11,693.50. Convictions obtained Included 81 cases for transportation without authorisation, 22 for failure to comply with food control proclamations, one
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      On Pilgrimage
      94 7 DENANG. Friday.— The first batch of Malayan pilgrims for Mecca this year is expected to sail from Penang early in June. Although the actual Haji ceremony is scheduled to take place only in October, many pilgrims are leaving four months earlier so that they can undertake the required
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      Baby Show
      78 7 THE Singapore Women's Federation will hold a baby show tomorrow at 41, Seah Street. Babies between the ages of four and 36 months are eligible for entry. The judges will be Drs. C. T. Poh, Gladys Hu and Helen Wadak. Mrs. T. P. P. McNiece will give away
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      School Concert
      36 7 BATU PAHAT, Friday.— The annual concert of the Temensrfcomg Ibrahim Girls' School yesterday evening was well attended and the standard of the performances was high. The headmistress (Miss M. van Someran) thanked the audience.
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      To Washington
      49 7 SEREMBAN, Friday.— Mr. D. Farquharson, J.P., was re-elected chairman of the Negri Sembilan Planters' Association on Wednesday. He leaves Seremban for Singapore on Saturday on his way to Washington to attend the International Rubber Study Group meeting as one of Malaya's, representatives along with the British delegation.
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    FIVE ARRESTS IN GUN CASE
    153 7 Singapore police have ar1 rested five Chinese and recovered more of the 11 revolvers and two Sten guns allegedly stolen from the gari rison armoury on Pulau Branl island earlier this week. The Singapore C.I.D. Chief (Mr. J. C. Barry) said yesterday that a police
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    FLYING CLUB PLANS EXPANSION
    344 7 Six Aircraft In Use By August A BIG expansion of the Royal Singapore Flying Club was forecast by the vice-president (Mr. J. C. Cooke) at the annual general meeting of the Club on Thursday night. Mr. Cooke told members that by August the Club should have
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    Million More Rice Acres
    275 7 Million More Rice Acres MALAYA has another 1,000,000 acres of new land available for rice production. The Agricultural Adviser to the Special Commissioner (Dr. H. W. Jack) said yesterday that at the recent Food and Agriculture Organisation Conference at Baguio it was estimated that 25,000.000 acres of new land were
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    43 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Friday The Malay Regiment are holding a re-union dinner In their mess at Port Dickson tomorrow night. The guests of honour will be the High Commissioner (Sir Edward Gent) and the Com-mander-ln-Chief FARELF cG^n Sir Neil Ritchie).
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    BREACH OF TRUST APPEAL FAILS
    63 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. —An appeal by Hashim bin Che Wan, a Malay bus conductor, of the Gereral Transport Company (FMS.) Ltd.. against a conviction and sentence of three months' rigorous imprisonment on a charge of criminal breach of trust of $39.86 belonging to the company,
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    45 7 The Governor (Sir Franklin Gimson) pinning th e ribbon of the Defence Medal on the dress of Miss Chan Shu May, formerly of the Medical Auxiliary Service, daring a presentation of decorations and medal ribbons at Government House, Singapore, on Thursday afternoon. Straits Times picture.
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    37 7 Hu-t.i. .«.-nU: iwo Malays pay homage before the flag-draped coffin of Sultan Abdul Aziz at Kuala Kangsar on Wednesday. In front of the coffin are the insignia of decorations awarded to the late Sultan.— Straits Times photo.
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    CHOKED TO DEATH
    82 7 A five-man jury yesterday returned a finding of death by misadventure at a Singapore Inquest on a Chinese who choked to death while eating. The Chinese was Ng Chow Wang, aged 22, who was a patient at the Leper Settlement In Yeo Chu Kang Road. It was
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    Big Colony Building Deal
    124 7 FE South British Insurance Co., Ltd. have purchased the United Engineers building m Battery Road for a sum understood to be m t»e vicinity of $280,000. This is one of vhe biggest real estate deals io the city area of Singapore since the liberation. South British
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    "Malay Seamen Taking It Easy"
    193 7 r[E 30 Malay seamen recently repatriated from Australia to Singapore are "taking it easy," the president of the Malay Seamen's Union of Singapore (Mr. S. Adams) told the Straits Times yesterday. One of the seamen had gone to Malaya to live there permanently, he added,
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    Basic Petrol Ration Is Unchanged
    176 7 Basic Petrol Ration Is Unchanged "THE basic petrol ration in 1 Singapore for the current quarter is the same as the basic ration for the previous quarter which ended on March 31. The Controller of Vehicles, Singapore (Mr. W. A. M. Watts), said yesterday that the supplementary rations for Singapore
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    TRADINGWITH REPUBLIC
    61 7 The Indonesian Information office has issued a statement on the trade agreement between Britain and the N.E.I. Government. The statement gives a reminder of Republican Regulations in Java and Sumatra. The only vessels which will be admitted to trade with Republican ports will be those provided with permits
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    MR. JUMABHOY
    172 7 Mr. R. Jumabhoy, who tooK his seat for the first time on Thursday as the elected representative of the Indian Chamber of Commerce in the Singapore Legislative Council, asks us to correct the statement in a recent Straits Times report that he had given an assurance that he
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    Mercy Plea For Sick Mother
    173 7 "I\ON T scare my sick mother, whatever you do," a V Chinese woman pleaded with three robbers who robbed her of $3,000 m cash and jewellery m her house m Craig Road m broad daylight yesterday The robbers, two of whom were masked and carried
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    Colony Road Toll Rises
    92 7 FRAFFIC accidents in Singapore during March took 16 lives compareu with 12 in February and six in January. This was stated in the Coroner's report for the first quarter of the year. There was a total of 93 deaths last month against 72 in February and
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    OUTPUT OF TIN
    29 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday— A total of 67,239 piculs of tin ore concentrates, equivalent to 4,001 long tons, was produced m the Federation of Malaya m February.
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    Big Day For Chinese Children
    223 7 Big Day For Chinese Children FIFTY thousand Singapore Chinese boys and girls up to 16 years old will celebrate Chinese Children's Day in g:tla fashion tomorrow. *.hey will stage concerts, feast on cakes and light drinks, attend the cineira and receive parcels of food, toys amd books all free of
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    MECHANISED PADI PROSPECTS DIM
    540 8 No Immediate Results Likely From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. I ITTLE immediate increase in home-grown padi production can be expected from mechanical cultivation methods, says the Federation Agricultural Officer (Mr. E. J. H. Berwick.) Giving his reasons for this statement, Mr. Berwick says, in
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    37 8 SULTAN*S FUNERAL: Carried on the shoulders of over 30 Malays, the decorated bier containing the coffin of Sultan Sir Abdul Azii of Perak is borne to the Wial ground on Wednesday »t Kuala Kangsar. Straits Times picture.
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    Gent Visits Malacca On Monday
    190 8 Gent Visits Malacca On Monday Iiom Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Friday. rE High Commissionpr (Sir Edward Gent) will pay his second official visit to Malacca this year on Monday. Sir Edward will preside at the first meeting of the Settlement Council in the afternoon. In the morning. Sir Edward will
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    ACQUITTED OF HOLD UP
    105 8 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Friday.— Chin Kim Fook. a Hakka. age 24, was acquitted and discharged by Mr. Justice L. V. J. Laville, in the Assize Court yesterday on a charge oi staging an armed hold-uo of a business van on the Johore Bahru-Pontian
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    Skyscrapers And Parking Problem
    233 8 Skyscrapers And Parking Problem •THE Singapore Traffic I Advisory Committee says that the building of "skyscrapers" in Singapore should not be allowed unless the owners are required to make adequate provision for parking. In a protest to Government, the Committee says that the passing of plans for multlstoreyed buildings without
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    TRAIN HOLD UP SEQUEL
    144 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday— The Siamese police hare made an arrest in connection with the train hold-up on March 12. As a result of tlie arrest they have recovered a brown Parker 51 fountain pen with the name A. G. Shaikh engraved on
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    RISE IN TAPPING
    152 8 rS Federation of Malaya rubber statistics reveal a total of 1,573,351 acres tapped during the month. This is an increase of nearly 50,000 acres on January's figures. Johore estates headed the list with 389,623 acres tapped Large quantities were also tapped in Selangor and Perak. The total
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    DIES IN ESCAPE BID
    138 8 SINGAPORE Marine Police on Thursday recovered from the sea off Beach Road the body of a Chinese gunman who disappeared after he had jumped from a motor vessel the previous afternoon to avoid arrest. The man was shot at twice by a detective during his escape
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    Drunk Act To Hold Up Van Is Alleged
    263 8 IT was alleged m the Seventh Police Court yesterday that an Indian feigning drunkenness forced a van carrying money to the bank to pull up while two other men robbed it. R. Ramasamy, living at 597 Bukit Timah Road, appeared on a
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    Scout Rally Next Week
    268 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. npO observe the 40th. an1 niversary of the founding of the Boy Scout Movement by Lord Baden Powell, over 1,200 Rover Scouts arid Cubs will stage a grand rally at Castle Camp, Rifle Range Road in Kuala Lumpur on
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    'NIGGARDLY ATTITUDE'
    92 8 From Oar Own Correspondent LONDON. Friday. Commenting on the official attitude to wax damage compensation, The Times says that the United Kingdom Government still shows what might well be regarded as a niggardly attitude. The Times says that the slow progress in the re-equip-ment and re-planting of Malayan
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    NEW PORT CHIEF
    20 8 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Friday.— Mr. H. J. Shailes has been appointed Port Manager, Fort 9wettertttta.
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  • Straits Tims SATURDAY FORUM
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      The Nurse's Plight, By A European Sister
      526 9 Y"\NE reads very frequently in the columns of the local Press, not only of the scarcity of new recruits for the nursing profession, but also of the increasing number of resignations of existing members. Whilst the reasons for this are sufficiently obvious to
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      SUMMONS FOR TAX PAYMENT
      301 9 I WONDER whether you are aware that Singapore motor car owners nave been treated as criminals by the Registrar Df Vehicles. During the last few days hundreds of summons with trie heading "SUMMONS TO AN ACCUSED PERSON" under the Penal Code have been Issued to motorists
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      75 9 I TAKE ihe liberty ol en- me a better arrangement closing a sketch showing than the trial with drams, a solution of the traffic It should be noted that problem »t Orchard Road without strict supervision circus. by Traffic Control Officers It is not possible to say If f ta
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      SO LITTLE FOR HOW MANY?
      176 9 SO LITTLE FOR HOW MANY? IIJITH reference to your, editorial "A LITTLE ON ACCOUNT" in the Straits Times recently, may I point out that on reading the circular authorising the mucn publicised advance of four-fifths of a month's salary, I found that lesd than five per cent of those drawing
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      SEASON TICKETS SUGGESTED
      300 9 THERE is one easy remedy for the Singapore Traction Company ticket problem. If the company issues season tickets, m four forms, a stop will be put to conductors fleecing the public My suggestion is for four types of season tickets. 1. School childrenChildren travelling to school are
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      Work For The Army At YMCA
      233 9 f QUOTE a news report which appeared m the Shanghai NorthChina Daily News of March 5. Singapore. Mar. 4 Reuter— The Y.M.C.A. here began today a campaign for funds to remove tile last trim traces of Japanese occupation when the Kempeitai set. ud headquarters
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      TB LESSONS
      87 9 rOSE who were present at the Harbour Board Boys' Club to see a film on tuberculosis recently cer-i tainly gained some knowledge about tuberculosis. The number of spectators present at the screening of the film was evidence of the publics desire to know something about this terrible malady.
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      TIME FOR A SHOWDOWN
      252 9 TIME FOR A SHOWDOWN TN my previous letter headed "HAWKERS AND 1 CITY FATHERS" I asked certain questions on the present "deadlock" which exists between the Municipality and the Singapore Hawkers Association. Looking up the minutes of Municipal meetings held last year I find the following revealing facts: At a
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      RATIONED PULOT: A REVOLT
      173 9 RATIONED PULOT: A REVOLT r HAVE been told by my ration dealer that he las been issued with pulot rice for a whole nonth. In spite of what dieticians and chemists might say, my stomach simply refuses to digest such a fare. As one of the unfortunate wage-earners with a
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      253 9 t SOUTH AMERICAN TUNES Ilis piasters RFrORT>S BARRETO'S ORCHESTRA. Adios Panama Conga BD 5709 Cuatro Vidas Rumba Chiquita Rose— Rumba BD 5738 Weekend m Havana Brazil Samba BD 5812 Yo ta Namora Afro Cubano. Chia Chiu Corrido Mexlcano BD 5870 Tumbando Cana Rumba London Conga BD 5776 Red Lips Rumba
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      693 9 Players who insist en holding partners' bids open, If only to conceal their own weakness, have no grounds for complaint if they meet the fate that North met in the following deal: South, dealer. North-South vulnerable. NORTH 9 4 2 VIII Q i «L» 8 WEST EAST K 8 5
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    LONDON STOCKS
    387 10 LONDON, Thursday. THERE was an optimistic tendency during the early stares of trading on the London Stock Exchange today, says Renter's financial correspondent. Most of the leading Industrial shares were on the upgrade, with Breweries and Textiles singled out for buying attention. Rubbers and Tins advanced. This upward
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    N.Y. FUTURES
    42 10 NEW YORK, Friday.—Crude Rubber closed five points lower to ten points higher yesterday. Sales totalled 116 contracts. Offers were: May 21.40 cents (U.S.) Md; July 20.95 bid; Sept. 20.60 bid: Dec. 20.55, No. 1 ribbed smoked sheets 23 cents bid.—A-P.
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    Singapore Share Market
    847 10 From Oar Market Correspondent. SINGAPORE, Friday. FOLLOWING slightly better enquiries for Tins from London, Singapore share market r showed a firmer tendency m this section today, though the volume of business was limited. Rubbers again had selective bnyem with an increasing turnover. Industrials showed gains fa I
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    Interest In New York
    81 10 SINGAPORE, Friday. MEW York has at last shown some real Interest and has taken moderate quantities from this market, says Lewis Peat's weekly report. Highest and Lowest prices during- the week endmg 2nd. April, 1948 are: Spot 41* RMA 1 FOB April 41% RMA 2 FOB
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    Copra Market Eases
    224 10 From a Market Correspondent. CONDITIONS on the copra market were easier yesterday v although quotations were unchanged. Sago flour quotations became firm after the normal volume of business was transacted on the Singapore produce markets. Other sections were quiet. Yesterday's prices were: Rice Unclassified: No. 1 $67;
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    DOW JONES AVERAGES
    70 10 NEW YORK, Friday. There was largescale profit cashing of rising stocks yesterday after the sharpest month's recovery in two years. Mary leaders came through successfully and gains generally were fractionally higher. Buying again was attributed mainly to inflationary implications of Government spending for rearmament and European relief.
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    U.K. GOVT. STOCK
    31 10 LONDON, Friday.— The Treasury announced yesterday that shareholders m nationalized electric utilities will be paid off In three per cent Government stock maturing In 1968 and 1973. A.P.
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      1920 11 Hong Kong Cricket Team May Come By Straits Times Sports Reporters A VISIT from a Hong Kong cricket team is likely about the middle of this year. It is understood that a letter from Hong Kong has been received in Singapore suggesting that they would be willing to visit here
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      120 11 RADIO MALAYA Sa»Oft£ 1 p.m. Radio Orchestra; 1.30 p.m. News; 1.45 Artie Shaw Music; 2.00 Light Orchestral; 2.30 Cowboy Songs; 3.00 Merry-Oo-Round Melodies; 3.30 Music of the Peoples; 4.00 My 8ong For You; 4.15 Tea Dance; 5.00 Sports Hour; 6.00 Close. 8.15 News Announcements; 8.20 Sports Round-Up; 8.30 Remember These?
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      107 11 Constant KamberV EuglMn Uu- 1 son by Radio: 7.45 French; 8.00 Siamese; 8.30 Indonesian; 8.45 Dutch; 9.00 Kuoyu; 9.90 Burmese; 9.45 English: News Rubber Prices; 10.00 Film Transcription "Bedelia"; 10.30 Women's Magazine; 11.00 See Radio Malaya; 11.30 News and News Analysis; 11.45 Dance Music: 12.00 Clora. BBC 8.30 News; 8.40
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      135 11 -tfee Uo.ji: 9.15 hHiaie for Millions; 10.00 Variety Bandbox: 10.10 Request*; 10.30 Australian News; 10.40 Andre Kostelanetz Orch.; 10.45 Sonjjs Irom the Shows; 11.00 Concerto Half Hour— Mozart; 11.30 Close. 4.00 p.m. Australian Sporting Roundup; 4.30 Australian New*; 4.40 Music Lovers' Hour; 4.40 Services' Concert Hall; 5.15 Australian Topics; 6.20
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    3 TOPWEIGHTS TIPPED TO WIN
    838 12 Minstrel Boy For CL 1 9 Div. 1 Sprint From EPSOM JEEP IPOH, Friday. THREE topweights Renoir, Minstrel Boy and No Regrets are very safe bets at Ipoh tomorrow, the last day of the Perak Turf Club Easter Meeting. Unbeaten in his last four outings,
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    Today's Race Card
    826 12 DELOW are the acceptances for today's Ipoh races. The Double Totes will be on races three and four, and races six and seven. The Big Sweep will be drawn on race eight. Race 1—2.30: Horses Class 2— Div. 3 5 Furs. Str. 000 Vml'a Pick (Roberta) 9.00
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    WEEK-END FIXTURES
    215 12 TODAY SOCCER: S.A.F.A. League, Div. Ill Customs S.C. t. Unicorns' Club, McNair Road. 5.15 p.m.; Mansfield XI. v. Chinese Hurricanes 2nd. XI., Lor. J., Telok Kurau, 4 p.m. CRICKET: S.C.C. T. T.M.C.A., padang, 2 p.m.; Colonials C.C. v. Changi Prison at Changi; 2p.m.; S. C. It C. t.
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    Penang Swimmers Here
    202 12 rE Penang Chinese swmmers selected loi j the final Olympic trials' arrived in Singapore by train yesterday. They include Fong Seow Tote, winner of the 100 metres free-style and backstroke at the Penang Easter aquatic meet, and three win- ners of the women's events *'< -"<? Tan
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    BALASIS vs. KING KONG
    102 12 /^ON BALASIS, who has re\j turned to Singapore for another series of fights, will provide a stiff test for the Hungarian wrestler, King Kong when they meet tonight at the Great World. Since he was. here last year, Balasis has made a successful tour of South
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    CHAMPIONS HELD TO A DRAW
    72 12 JOHORE BAHRU. Thursday.— In an exciting League soccer match the Prisons XI. the League champions, and the 221 Vehicle Park Company drew two-all on the 1st ana padang yesterday. Lee Sze Tat netted for the Pri ons XI In the first half. In the second
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    B.0.D.C.A. XI
    54 12 Base Ordnance Depot Curlia Association will entertain 2£1 Vehicle Coy of Johore to an all-day cricket match commencing 11 a.m. tomorrow. The following have been invued to play for B.O.D.C.A.: Van Rooyen (ci»pt.); Wdjeweera; A. N. Other: Guptra; Collins. Razak: C. C. Chiang; Rani Singh: John Smith: Kanesan:
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    170 12 Straits Times Selections "EPSOM JEEP" TRESPASSER" -POINTER" "EPSOK JEEP* RACE 1 1. LITTLE BEAU LITTLE BEAU SILVER STAR 2. Silver Star Silver Star Little Beau 3. Bow Legs Prattle On Bow Legs RACE 2 1. SMILING THROUGH 2. Lucky Ace 3. Truflne HUNTER'S CALL FINE STREAM Brownsbay Smiling Through Smiling
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    R.A.F. CAPTURE INDIA CUP
    289 12 THE ILA.F. won the India Cup in the inter-Services 1 boxing tournament which concluded at the Happy World stadium last night. The R.A.F. and the Navy tied with three points each, but the trophy was awarded to the R.A.F. for their victory in the welterweight division.
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    England Beaten In 4th. Test
    301 12 KINGSTON, Jamaica, Fri. •THE West Indies staged 1 a whirlwind finish to beat England by ten wickets in the fourth and final Test yesterday. After fighting bravely. England went down thoroughly beaten, and so the West Indies by winning the last two Tests after two
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    PAKISTAN FOR OLYMPIC S
    68 12 LONDON, Friday.—Pakistan, who expects to send a contingent of 50 competitors and officials who will come "as ambassadors of goodwill to join the brotherhood of world athletes" is among the latest countries to accept invitations to compete in the Olympic Games in London this summer. Of
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    BIG PLANS FOR ROSEHILL
    84 12 SYDNEY, Friday.— Introduction of left-hand running, installation of a new totalizator with a sub. station, at a cost of more than £100,000. and erection of a new members' stand are among the plans of the Sydney Turl Club fur the Rosehill course The work Is expected
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    Gift Goal Decisive
    162 12 A goal accidenta.ly d>flected into the net t>/ R. de Souza, the boma team's right full-bacrf, gave victory to the Shell Sports Club in their friendly soccer match against the Singapore Recreation Club "A" XI on the padang yesterday. The SRC. had the better of the exchanges
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    Spectacular Goal By Boon Leong
    331 12 MALAYA'S Olympic contender, Chia Boon Leon*?, scored the most spectacular goal this season in an S.A.F.A. First Division League game at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday, in which the Rovers' Sports Club beat the R.A.F. Seletar by two-nil. I Accepting a pass from the left winger,
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    Final Hints
    45 12 CINAL hints for today's races from the Straits T mes racing correspondent., "Epsom Jeep," will appear in today's Sin;??ore Free Press. "Epiom Jeep" will indicate the latest state of tfco go ng and the hoss most fanci d on the course this morning.
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