The Straits Times, 8 May 1948

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1545 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1948 Jf PRICE TEN CrAls
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    CRUSADE TO SMASH TYRANNY Churchill's Call For Federation
    769 1 CRUSADE TO SMASH TYRANNY Churchill's Call For Federation THE HAGUE, Friday. MR. CHURCHILL speaking here today called for a crusade to make Europe one country to achieve strength to smash Communism and any other form of tyranny. Addressing the non-official European Congress of 800 delegates from 23 countries he isked
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    67 1 MRS. INGE BURKE (centre foreground), the 25-year-old widow of Lieutenant Edmun d Borke, shot by YugoslaT guards after straying across the border from Carinthia, was brought to the Loibl Pass by Yugoslav military and handed over to Brigadier Churchill, Commander of the British zone m Austria. Also with her was
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    Five New Polio Cases
    129 1 FIVE more cases of infantile paralysis were reported in Singapore yesterday, bringing the totai to 47. One of the Teen cases was a Ceylonese Pioneer Corps soldier. The others were a Chinese child and three Chinese adults. A Chinese child whose case had already been notified
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    U.S. STRIKE THREATS
    94 1 WASHINGTON, Friday. The United States is threatened by a nation-wide rail 6trike. But President Truman has declared: "All avalable legal resources are being used to avert the strike. "I am doing everyth ng possible under the spec'al law governing ra Iway labour disputes". Several companies are refusing
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    US BIGGEST TIN BUYER
    61 1 The United States was the biggest customer for Malayan tin, buying 11,000 tons out of the 16.270 tons exported from Singapore and Penang during the period January-April. Singapore and Penang exported 7.345 tons and 8.925 tons respectively for the period. April exports from Penang and Singapore
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    Call To Mac Arthur
    44 1 NEW YORK, Friday.—Gen eral Jonathan Wainwrigh hero or Bataan cabled Gene I ral Mar Arthur m Toklo urg ing him to return to th United States soon to "i spit i renewed hope and unity 1 I our peopl ."—AP.
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    Suzuki Is Released
    148 1 Trvw-TO i >r TOKI°- *TiaayT TiWELVE Japanese, InA eluding the commander of Japan's, r i wartime Burma Indep- I endence Army, have i- been cleared of suspicion released from prison, ic SCAP's legal section an- i re nounced today. to 1 Former Col. Mlnami Suzuki was seat
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    Armed Gang Mortared
    76 1 HONGKONG, Friday. /OFFICERS and men of j \J the Inniskillings wentj into action with trenchmortars today m HongKong's biggest pursuit ot armed bandits. Aiding about 200 police, the Inniskillings fired mortars hi an efforts to drive the men into open country. The police were given a clue
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    JAPS FLY TO NEW YORK
    58 1 TOKIO, Friday.—Two JapaI nese left by air last night for New York to survey textile trends and reaction m American markets to Japanese silk and rayon. They are Hideo lijima. chitf lof the rayon textiles depart- ment of the Textile Trade Association, and Hiroshi Shiga
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    CHINESE DOLLARS
    48 1 SHANGHAI. Friday.—Negotiations for effective control I of Chinese dollars circulating 1 In Hong Kong, with a view to stopping the flight of capital from Shanghai and other Chinese cities, are at present under way between the Na- tlonal Government and Hong Kong Government representatives m Nanking.—Reuter.
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    Looted Car Returned
    91 1 A MOTOR, car which was looted by the Japanese in Singapore during the occupation and shipped to Japan, has been returned to its Singapore own rs after six years. The car arrived by the Kutsang ytsterday from Japan for the Eastern Auto Co. Ltd., Orchard Road. The
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    Palestine Hopes Are Fading
    229 1 JERUSALEM, Friday. A FULL-SCALE Jew-Arab war now seems certain to begin a week from to-morrow. As negotiations for a Palestine truce failed, and Britain again refused to stay m the country after May 15, posters appeared m Jerusalem telling Jews what to do m Arab air
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    Communists Shot In Greece
    123 1 pREEK firing squads Ll yesterday executed another 45 Communists andj others, including two wo- men. They were: 13 in Athens sentenced by civil courts: 13 guerrillas, two of them girls, sentenced by military courts also executed in Athens; 19 Communists sentenced for taking part in the
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    U SAW HANGS AT DAWN
    75 1 RANGOON, Friday.— U Saw, former premier of Burma, and nve other condemned men will hang at dawn tomorrow. "I did it and I must pay." U Saw was quoted by the vernacular press as having said today. A last-minute commutation of the death sentence to
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    'INDONESIANS ATTACK'
    50 1 BATAVIA, Friday.— Military sources said today that 1.000 Indonesians armed with bamboo spears attacked Dutch military posts In the truce zone south of Cheribon. An official Dutch source said casualties were very high. Another source said 200 were killed. It was understood that there were no Dutch casualties.—UP.
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    "Useless Now To Continue A torn Con trol "
    412 1 "Useless Now To Continue A torn Con trol LAKE SUCCESS, Friaay. THE United Nations Atomic Energy Commis- sion, after 22 months of work on the international control of atomic energy, today reported to the Security Council that it was useless to continue their labours until the Soviet Union agrees to
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    CHINA GETS MACHINERY
    82 1 CHINA GETS MACHINERY Npw YORK- Friday Th« flr?tE^rJp°m R enls Fn of y fll7m T en: i-yon machinery have been -mpany 2? C*K£ Sn ultimately wIU produce milhons of pounds of filament rayon annually. The machinery was shipped by Os^ar Ko^ Tn ,and, Company, Ltc. The Aloud plant is expend
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      Reports Of Huge Monster Eating Trees In Himalayas
      157 2 m CALCUTTA, Friday. A 90-foot long and 20-foot high specimen of the long extinct dinotherium A —apparently an outsize version of an elephant— was reported yesterday to be roaming the Himalayas happily munching the tops of huge ancient trees." A report m
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      Amendment
      46 2 LONDON, Friday. The British Medical Association stated this evening that members of their council were going to the Health Ministry tomorrow afternoon to discuss an amending bill to the National Health Service Bill m response to an invitation by the Health Minister (Mr. Bevan).— Reuter.
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      "Keystone" Law
      73 2 WASHINGTON. Friday.— The U.S. Secretary of State (Mr. George Marshall) yesterday described as the "keystone of our foreign policy" the reciprocal trade law permitting American reduction of tariffs m agreement with other nations. Appealing for a three-year extension of ttie 14-year-old law, due to end on June 12,
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      Bridge Explodes
      48 2 FRANKFURT, Friday. A part of the former emergency bridge over the Rhine River between Mannheim and Ludwigshafen exploded yesterday, killing two people and wounding two others. It Is believed that ammunition hidden under the bridge during the last phases of the war caused the explosion. U.P.
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      Belgian General
      54 2 Gen. Bae.o §T the Belgian Army on his arrival m London on April 30 to participate m defence talks with the Defence Ministers and military advisers of Britain, France, Holland and Luxembourg. Object of the talks is to prepare plans and strategy for the defence and security of
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      Killed By Train
      60 2 LONDON, Friday—Henry C. Kldiwell, mechanic, aged 25, waa fwW yesterday on a oharpe of killing a complete stranger by pushing him under a tube train. Trie victim was RairJh Usher, retired banker of Trope Bay. Police who arrested Kidwell told tJhe Old Street magistrate that a doctor
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      "Exercise Dawn"
      68 2 LONDON, Friday. A lowlevel attack by fighter planes against a destroyer force will be one of the highlights of next week's combined British air and sea manoeuvres off the Eastern and North* m coasts of Scotland. The general aim of "Exercise Dawn"—the biggest of its kind since 1839
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      Commons Recess
      22 2 LONDON, Friday—The House of Commons will adjourn for Whitsuntide recess on May 14, and will re-cenvene on May 25. —UP.
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      Chelsea Murder
      55 2 LONDON, Friday— Scotland Yard stated that 26-year-old Miss Winifred Mulholland, found dead m the front aroa of a house m Minborough Road, Chelsea, yesterday, had been murdered. A man was detained at Chelsea police station today for questioning. The woman was understood to be planning to go to
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      'Westward-Ho' Plan
      45 2 'Westward-Ho Plan VIENNA, Friday. —Five hundred and sixty displaced persons from Austrian camos left this week for Britain under the "Westward Ho" ReSettlement Scheme, the Austrian mission of the I.R.o. announced. Sixty-nine others left for Canada, 72 for Argentina and 46 for Brazil.— U. P.
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      Turned To Stone
      94 2 BANGKOK, Friday— A Buddhist monk's corpse has turned into stone at the Siamese town of Bandon. Thousands of Siamese Buddhist devotees are making pilgrimages to Bandon this month to pay homage to the "miracle corpse.'' According to the Bangkok newspapers he died m July 1942 while m
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      1202 2 NOTICES BRITISH STORES DISPOSAL BOARD (SINGAPORE) BY ORDER OF THE DIRECTOR OF DISPOSALS FAR EASTERN AREA (M.O.S) The following Tenders haw been circulated, to Registered Contractors during the past week:— SINGAPORE AREA: Tender 381. Closing date 12/5/ 48 for Engineers' Tools St Files. Spanners: Welding Wires Miscellaneous Radio St Electrical
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      749 2 NOTICES > NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given that our Cashier Tftn Oak Ann is no more m our employ and is theraI fore not authorised to collect any money on our behalf. KXAN OWAN (M) LTD. NOTICE CUSTODIAN OF PROPERTY PROCLAMATION NO. 14 OF 1945 Claims are now invited by
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      676 2 NOTICES NOTICE Notice It hereby given that Long Yoke Nun of the Singapore Airport Hotel Ltd. has applied to the Board of Licensing Justices in the Colony of Singapore for a first class Public House Licence In respect of the premises at the Tengah Airfield, Singapore, and that the said
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      518 2 TENDERS TENDERS will be received at the Office of the Director of Public Works, Singapore, on noon 19th. May, 1948, for the Construction of Additional Lockups at District and Police Courts, South Bridge Road. Singapore. Full particulars from Office of the Senior Executive Engineer, Central, P.W.D., Singapore. Sd. E. T.
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    "RUSSIAN ATOM BOMB"
    196 3 Likely In Next Few Years WASHINGTON, Friday. THE U.S. Senate yesterday approved— by 74 votes to 2 the bill to build a 70-group air force. The scheme will cost $U.S. 3,233,200,000. Present strength of the U.S. Air Force is 55 groups. One of the two Senators who
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    JAPANESE TO TRY KOREANS
    62 3 TOKIO, Friday.— Japanes? and American authorities will try 159 persons, mostly Koreans, for responsibility m recent Kobe riots. The riots took place over the Korean school closure issue. So far, 1,288 have been arrested and 159 retained m custody. The Korean crime rate m Osaka, another
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    She Started Her Art Studies At 12
    514 3 By Our Woman Correspondent \f RS. M. A. Bateman, well-known Singapore artist A?1 and resident who is holding an exhibition at Robinson's m Raffles Place, began taking art seriously at the age of 12. Later she joined the Chelsea Art School where she
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    POOLING AIRLINES PLAN
    86 3 WASHINGTON, Friday. Pooling of resources by West European civil airlines m conformity with the general "Wester Union" principle is being discussed privately by officials here and m Europe, it was learned last night. The proposal is looked on with favour by the United States Government who consider
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    PIPE POSTPONED
    32 3 WASHINGTON, Friday The House of Representatives Armed Services Committee yesterday recommended a postponement of the U.S. Saudi Arabian pipeline project urging instead that the steel be used for tankers,— A.P.
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    Singapore Diary
    237 3 TODAY Exhibition of paintings by Mrs. Batem&n, Robinsons, j a.m. to 1 p.m. Rotary Fellowship Dinner, Phoenix Roof Garden 7.30 p.m. Wesley Methodist Youth Fellowship, Cabinet meeting. 4, Fort Canning Road, 3 p.m. 1 At Home, for Lady Justices of I the Peace, given by Mrs. A. M.
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    Series Of Red Wins In China
    186 3 SHANGHAI, Friday. pOMMUNISTS marked \s up one victory after another this week as they massed their forces for ani all-out summer offensive. I The Government Air Force went into action with moder- j ate success. Its planes blasted determined Reds besieging the walled city
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    Rebuild Japan, Says Blarney
    231 3 From Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE, Friday. ALL newspapers here gave prominence this evening to General Sir Thomas Blarney's call to rebuild Japan as a barrier against Russian expansionism. In an interview in Adelaide the former C-in-C of Australian Military Forces chicled Australian? for being "still blinded
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    NO THREAT FROM JAP COASTGUARD
    94 3 Washington, Friday.— The United States yesterday rejected as baseless British Commonwealth fears that the creation of a Japanese coastguard might mean the beginning of a reyiTal of the Japanese Navy. Referring to reports that the British Commonwealth representative on the Allied Control Council m Tokio
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    U.S. CANADIAN DEFENCES
    63 3 U.S. CANADIAN DEFENCES OTTAWA Friday. The US Defence Minister (Mr. James Porrestal) will visit Ottawa today for talks on joint United States-Cana-dian Arctic defence measures. It Ls understood Mr. Forrestal will present the United States view on Arctic defence, Canada has no defence had training there. M^ter KaurdcerBtc2d fe wi
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    Ceylon Buying Radio SEAC
    160 3 COLOMBO, Friday. A DRAFT agreement for "Ceylon's purchase of Radio SEAC (the British forces broadcasting station here) has been concluded. This was disclosed last night by the Minister of Transport and Works (Mr. J. li. Kotelawala). who has just returned from talks m London. The Minister
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    Phibun's 'No' To S. Siam Muslim Demands
    347 4 Phibun 's 'No To S. Siam Muslim Demands From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Friday. THE Phibun Government m Siam has decided 1 to reject renewed demands for wider administrative rights for the Muslim population m the four South Siam Malay-speaking Provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwart and Setul. Although the situation
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    BOMBERS COMING
    100 4 LINCOLN aircraft taking part m exercise "Ked Lion" will arrive at Tengah airfield tomorrow afternoon from Ceylon. The object of the exercise is to test the practicability of providing at short notice a Far East striking force, a RAF announcement said yesterday. Before the Lincolns arrive a mock
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    Firmness In Rubber
    210 4 SUBJECT only to minor fluctuations, the firmness of the rubber market has persisted throughout the week. Prices have advanced nearly two cents during the week, says Lewis and Peat's weekly market report. Demand is still mainly for near shipment. Discount on forwards has widened slightly. Lower fpedes
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    MORE SMELTER MEN BACK
    63 4 Twenty more strikers returned to work at the Straits Trading Smelting Works on Pulau Brani yesterday morning m addition to 140 who reported tor work on Thursday. Strfaite Tradtng C\>mspany officials coul<} not say when smelting woud resume on Pulau Brani. Steps have been taken to
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    MODEL RULES FOR SOCIETIES
    94 4 The Registrar of Societies Office, Singapore, has drafted a set of model rules for the guidance of new societies m course of formation and of old societies wishing to bring their rules up to date. An official statement emphasises that hese rules are not intended to
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    ROTAN FOR PICKPOCKET
    65 4 A 20-year-old Chinese Wong Yaw Pook of Bukit Bendahara, Johore Bahru was sentenced yesterday by the Singapore Fourth Police Court Magistrate (Mr R. J. C. Wait) to six weeks'" rigorous imprisonment and ten strokes of the rotan, for piokpocketing. J Wong admitted two previous convictions of theft
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    A Play That Amuses And Moves Fast
    271 4 A Play That Amuses And Moves Fast BY puitting on West End 1 and cinema successes, our Stage Club courts comparisons it is wiser to avoid. But its production by Vernon Margrave of Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit" at the Victoria Theatre, Singapore this week amuses and moves fast when once
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    Singapore Shipping
    253 4 SHIPS m port and ships alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns m brackets) were: Main Wharf: Bali (31-32), discharging; Steel Architect (33-34), loading; Olaucus (35-36). discharging; Nikobar (37-38), discharging; Aletta (41), loading, Korea (42-43), loading. West Wharf: Anchises (1-2). discharging; President Monroe (4-5), loading; Polydorus (6-7),
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    SINGAPORE CHURCH SERVICES
    365 4 •TO-MORROW'B services m din1 gapore churches are aa 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 (Tanglin) (open to civilians) 7.15 a.m., 9 a.m., 9.45 a.m.. 6.30 p.m.; Christ Church (Dorset Road) t
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    Churchill's Reliance On Maginot Line
    2090 5  -  Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill THE SECOND WORLD WAR— 2O By The From August 15, 1939, at the invitation of Gen. Gametin, Mr. Churchill and Gen. Spears spent 10 days inspecting the French positions on the Rhine. DEGINNING at the| angle of the Rhine, near Lauterbourg,
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    The Straits Times Singapore Sat., May 8, 1948. THE CREEPER'S GHOST
    1268 6 The Straits Times Singapore Sat., May 8, 1948. THE CREEPER'S GHOST A figure of bygone Malaya whom the post-war generation has never even heard of, and j who has been forgotten by all except the oldest residents, has reappeared m the pages of The Planter. We refer to "the creeper."
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    DEATH
    50 6 Soh View Geok. aged 51. passed away peacefully at 45 Onan Rd. on Friday 7th inst., leaving; a beloved widow. 1 son, 1 daughter A son-in-law (Mr. Wee Kin Hock) and 1 grand daughter to mourn their loss. Funeral on Sunday 9th inst. at 4 p.m. to Bidadari Cemetery.
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    HAWK OF THE MOUNTAINS
    2009 6 A Malayan Countryman's Diary COME time ago we recorded m the Diary the shooting of a bird of prey, sitting. The cook ate it, saying that it was tough but otherwise palatable. The bill, •laws and large feathers were kept and sent to Dr. C.A. Gibson-Hill,
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    'SIMILAR' UNIONS MAY BE FEDERATED
    481 7 New Bill Before Council In K.L. From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. A NEW bill to be put before the Federal Legislative Council deals' with the question of j federations of trade unions. The bill lays down the condition that only j registered trade
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    Hundred Goldsmiths Return
    193 7 Hundred Goldsmiths Return ONF hundred of 300 Singapore gold and silver smiths, on strike since May 3, returned to ;vork yesterday. The strike occurred when proprietors of 27 jewellery shops in Singapore had asked their men for a ***** contribution to the cost of three meals a day supplied to
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    Gunman Shakes Fist As He Leaves Dock
    309 7 A LAST-MINUTE attempt by Tan Chiang Yck, a Singapore gunman, to save his accomplice, Loh Lian Chew, failed m the Singapore Assize Court yesterday. Sentenced to seven years' rigorous imprisonment and 12 strokes of the rotan by Mr. Justice Brown, Tan looked at
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    TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA
    74 7 Singapore's imports from Australia m February this year amounted to £A.706,000, according to an Australian Government statement. Goods imported into Australia from Singapore were valued at £A137,000. Foodstuffs continued to be the main item of Australian exports to Malaya. Among Singapore's principal Australian imports were nearly $28,000,000
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    28 7 Lieutenant Commander H. G. Riches is acting as Officer Commanding the Malayan R.N.V.R. m place of Commander F. F. Lammert who is on leave m the Cameron Highlands.
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    21 7 The Singapore Stamp Club will hold its next social meeting at the Capitol Restaurant on Tuesday, May 11, a,, 5.15 p.m.
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    Show Dogs' Manners "Appalling"
    136 7 Show Dogs' Manners "Appalling" T»HE ring manners of A Singapore show dogs are appalling, according to Mrs. R. V. Darge, of Perak, one of the judges at a dog show held last night. She had travelled from upcountry especially to Judge four classes In the show. Held at the Happy
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    Warning To Bathers
    121 7 BATHERS at Singapore Swimming Club have been warned, as a precautionary measure, about returning from the sea to the pool without using showers and footbaths. Weekly tests of sea water oft* the Club reveal that It 1* polluted. But, there are still some children— and adults, too
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    DUTY WILL BE $14,000
    83 7 Thirty-five bales of tobacco leaves, each weighing about 100 lbs. were sold by auction yesterday at H.M. Customs' premises. Maxwell Road, Singapore. The purchaser, Mr. Chop Foh Mee. of New Bridge Rqad, paid $350. Duty to be paid on the tobacco, however is in the re-
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    MOTOR CYCLIST BADLY HURT
    43 7 A Chinese motor cyclist was seriously injured In a collision with a motor car at the junction of Orchard Road and Angullla Park on Thursday evening. A police guard stood by the wreckage until photographs and measurements were taken.
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    WATCH OUT FOR STRANGERS
    45 7 Singapore householders are advised by the chief of the Singapore C.I.D. (Mr. J. C. Barry) to check up on strangers hanging around their servants' quarters. "These vagrants are potential housebreakers and we have started a drive against them" added Mr. Barry.
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    Back From Pilgrimage
    117 7 FAMOUS wartime Ausi tralian commander m Gallipoli. Tobruk, New Guinea and Borneo, Lieut.-General Sir Leslie Morshead arrived m Singapore by air yesterday afternoon. Sir Leslie is on his way back to Australia after a three weeks' pilgrimage to the battlefields of North Africa for Anzac Day services.
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    SAW POLICE WORK IN AUSTRALIA
    86 7 The Assistant Commissioner of Police, Singapore, (Mr. E. V. Fowler) returned yesterday by the Blue Funnel ship Gorgon with his wife and daughter after a six j months' lioliday m Australia. While m Australia, Mr. Fowler had the opportunity of visiting almost every police headquarters
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      TB Clinic Opens In Johore Bahru
      145 7 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Friday. THE State Medical Department has opened a Tuber1 culosis Advisory Clinic m Johore Bahru Where advice is freely given to sufferers. Three private practitioners, Drs Ismail, Cheah and Mootalamby and the Medical Superintendent at the Johore General
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      Three Accidents
      83 7 THREE Chinese was seriously injured in three separate accidents yesterday in Singapore and taken to hospital. There were a cyclist, a bus passenger and a youthful pedestrian. The cyclist was involved in a collision with a lorry opposite the Victoria Memorial Hall at 10.25 a.m. The bus passenger
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      Muar Dance
      41 7 OHORE BAHRU, Friday.— J A dance will be held at the Civil Service Club, Muar, on Saturday, in aid of Girl Guide funds. The organisers hope that the general public will support their efforts by attending iri large numbers.
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      Art Show Tour
      109 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Friday The loan collection of 82 pictures by 23 English artists is now touring the State for exhibition. The tour opened at Muar on May 4 and today It will be at Batu Pahat from where It will proceed to Kluang. The next stop will
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    Mrs. M. A. Bateman's Exhibition
    579 7 ■THOSE who take a serioug 1 and critical interest! in art in Singapore should not miss the exhibition of water colours and sketches by Mrs. M. A. Bateman which opens in Robinson and Co.'s gallery today. Some of the amateur work which has been presented
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    48 7 ENGLAND'S DAT: When tfce Singapore branch of the Royal Society of St. George held a festival banquet at Raffles Hotel the traditional roast beef was brought m by a Guard of Honour of the Ist Devon Regiment (above). Left: Ready to carve the roast beef. Straits Times photographs.
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    Telephone Men Work Overtime
    273 7 Telephone Men Work Overtime 'TELEPHONE labourers 1 of the Oriental Telephone Company, Singa« pore, worked till late yesterday to put several scores of telephones in order. Three hundred and fifty telephone linesmen and technicians, who had come back from one-month strike, will curtail their we?k-end holiday tomorrow in order to
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    Kuala Lumpur is city of bonny babies
    1261 8  - Kuala Lumpur is city of bonny babies "FEMINA" IN THE FEDERAL CAPITAL By KUALA LUMPUR seems to be developing into a model "Baby Town." Wherever one goes tiv\*e days one sees scores of fat happy round babies, who give the lie completely to the theory expounded occasionally that you cannot
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    Improved Meat Position
    285 8 From A Market Notebook THE meat position m Singapore markets was very much improved this week. More than 100 head 'of sheep and cattle were slaughtered daily, with the result that authorised prices were maintained m every market. Vegetable prices were on the firm side. Australian potatoes
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    ALL YOU NEED DO IS BREATHE
    543 8 A LL you have to do m New York these days is get born. Special services will take over for you at that point. It begins with special diaper services, nursery school serriceu, babysitting services. £j the time you are old enough to be
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    20 9 This fine twilight scene of Mersing fishing boats returning on the evening tide was sent m by a Singapore reader.
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  • Straits Times SATURDAY FORUM
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      'Birth Control Only Answer To World Rabbit Warren'
      551 9 'Birth Control Only Answer To World Rabbit Warren' THE point about your recent correspondence on the subject of birth control is the inescapable fact that unless there is some form of control over the increase m population of the world voluntary or otherwise the next hundred or two years will
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      SIMPLICITY NEEDED
      160 9 THE income tax statement* which axe usually pubMshed In the local papers are far too difficult for we s*odente to understand. The big hard words make most of us blink, and we have to pour into our dictionaries to find their meanings. The result is that tbe I
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      "Local Boys Not Given Chance To Make Good"
      272 9 WE are toJd that the policy of the local Government is to employ local born and locally educated boys m the Government services so that they would be prepared to take part m the shaping of the country for self -government. But
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      CULTURE ON THE AIR
      161 9 'THERE has recently x been correspondence m your paper on the subject of culture m Malaya. I consider that Radio Malaya's "Forum Of The Air" programme is a distinct asset m this direction. Ah a regular listener, I have been pleasantly surprised at the high standard
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      MUSIC BEFORE YOU WORK?
      66 9 I HAVE found my mornings rather gloomy because Radio Seac has stopped its popular morning programmes. What about Radio Malaya taking it up? Recorded dance music from 7 a.m. till 8.30 a.m. would shake us up a bit and, as most offices m Singapore start at
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      ODE TO 1948
      206 9 ODE TO 1948 "J\EAR Sir, \j Unless The words have got me down; Yet can you guess How they pursue me all around the town? "Ah yes", they mew, "This »maU account of yours "Ft overdue. "Were you fr» credit U would help, of coursel" Of course. The Bank Are
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      SPOILATION IN COLONY
      212 9 I HAVE before me a picture is the Sunday Times which makes me feel incredulous and sad. It shows an old-fashioned type of bungalow with a lovely garden in which a new house it being built on the lawn. Shades of Hashimoto 1 Alas! Nakamura! Where are
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      You Women! A Reply To 'Femina'
      212 9 MY soul also soars, and pretty highly, in protest over "Femina's' remarks in her article concerning the dullness of the K. L. men to their female companions. I had occasion, recently, to be in K.L. for trn davs and believe me. during that ten
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      POORLY PAID NURSES
      229 9 POORLY PAID NURSES pOMMEHTS ana critiv/ cisms concerned nurses have led to nowhere and the authorities concerned have put deaf eaid to the grievances and lamentations of the laaki in white who volunteer their services ungrudgingly without any care for themselves. Day and night they hav to perform their duties,
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      186 9 M •••you do feGi A^^t^^ I BRIGHTER Yf^' \J>ath...4sP«| B^ im V 'f/ The b»th it part of our livet. It make* us ftel brighter, more alive, and helps to maintain our health. But, however clean we may feel, Inner Cleanliness is the first essential to physical fitness. We can
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      559 9 South'* psychic coup In today's shut to. continued with the ac« deal would not have meant much and another heart. at rubber bridge, but It was a real At the fourth trick South laid "killer" at match-point duplicate down the spade ace. prepared of South, dealer course to follow up
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    LONDON STOCKS
    356 10 LONDON, Friday. ANTICIPATED reinvestment J\ of money, made available by the Argentine railway payout, made for quietly firm conditions in London's stockmarkets yesterday, says Beater's financial correspondent. Small investment buying of British Government securities imparted sains of an eighth in the Gilt-edged section. Dealers in these stocks look
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    Malayan Share Market
    392 10 From Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Friday. TOE week dosed with Malayan share market* generally easier. Today saw falling off i, the volom, of iHssinessdVme. Prices quoted by the Malayan Sharebrokers* Association were: Atlas toe u!ST 14.60 Aim. Brick Ord. 1.80 1.70 Pwf. 3.00 3.15 B. B. Petrol
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    SINGAPORE RUBBER
    584 10 THE Singapore rubber mar- ket opened firm again yesterday, chiefly owing: to the demand Mr May shipment. Business in f.o.b. was done op to 44 cents in the morning, to ease off slightly later and close 41% cents buyers. This price was mree-elghths of a cent above Thursday's
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    COCONUT OIL DEALS
    232 10 From A Market Correspondent i/K)CONUT oil saw Singapore dealers meet at the high level yesterday for the first time fince cocmnt ofl ex- ports were freed. The copra market maintained a finning tendency on the produce markets. Conditions on the sago market were quieter. Pepper quotations continued
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    Kuchai Tin Output
    14 10 Kuchai Tin Limited'.! dredge produced 330 piculs of tin-ore last month.
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      583 10 BUCKNALL WAVIMSS HAVRE, LONDON, PACIFIC PORTS ANTWERP CASTLEV1LLE "CUT OF CUUIU" 8Wre ps am ,fsc vsrn? gas wr tt May 2« May 28 May M ft a—^i w Arena): McAUSTER&CO.,LTL>, (Incorporates in aingnoore) PHONE 5986 BOUSTEAD CO., lTO. LLOYDS AGENTS Agent* for Malaya Railway* GLEN LINE •alcn-s&auukm unv SSSS RrtiSi
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      Pre-war Malayan 'Classic' Is Revived
      871 11 Pre-war Malayan 'Classic' Is Revived NO one knows for certain when the first Governor's Cup race was run. It was not until 1834 that the race was instituted as one of the annual "classics" of the Malayan Turf. Biggest event on the Malayan Turf at the turn of the century
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      Tote Tickets Sold Out
      154 11 THE Singapore Turf CluD 1 official who made the statement to the Sltrai.ts Times thai there was nc limit to the number oi totalisator tickets to be sold on each horse must' have been unaware of the actual state of affairs. On the third day many
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      UNUSUAL FEAT FOR GENTLES
      92 11 By EPSOM JEEP JOCKEY Harry Gentles might cot have realised it, but he has made a fortune of a quarter-million dollars for some lucky members of the Singapore Turf Club. Gentles has had the extraordinary luck of riding the winner*? of three "Big Sweep" races—Bright Eye-
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      RAUB CRICKET
      65 11 From Our Own Correspondent RAUB, Friday.—The lolloping have been selected to represent Raub m the Samuel Shield fixture against Kuala Llpis on Sunday: J. H. M. Burton (capD, H. T. StiTeti. David Samuel, S. Nadarajah. D. P. Maher, P. J. Gough, Tan Chor Seng, Saw Sim Hock, Gurmukh
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      Thumbnail Sketches
      413 11 By EPSOM JEEP BELOW are thumbnail sketches of today's Governor's Cup candidates. With the three topweights —Grand Prix 11, Some Class and Rosewell's Boy —not accepting, there are only seven starters. GAME LAW 8 09—5 era by Landiaw Woodhen: One of the finest stayers m training. Form figures
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      KLANG SPORTS
      29 11 From Oar Own Correspondent KLANG, Friday.—The Klang district Tamil inler-schooJ athletic sport« will be held towards the end of June, for the first time since the reoccupation.
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      More U.K. Horses Due In Malaya
      366 11  -  ALLEYNIAN By THE spectacular and profitable successes achieved 1 by Grand Prix 11, Kashmiri Song, Minstrel Boy and others have further enhanced the world-wide reputation of English and Irish bred horses, and owners who recognise the merits of these horses have been encouraged to
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      235 11 RADIO MALAYA SPORE News; 11 40 New, rruuys*- 11. 41 Services Concert Hall- 5 30 Aus-1.55-6.30 appro* Cmmer.tary on i w^ J^T^iL* 1 piaao; 5 5° Singapore Races from Buki* Tl- RADIO AUSTRALIA LnLff -^f**, l5 Monrent man; 8.15 Programme summary Musicale; 6.30 News; 8 45 RoNews Summary, an* Announce-
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    GAME LAW TO WIN CUP
    634 12  -  EPSOM JEEP By Will Be Hot Favourite pAME LAW will go to the post a raging ho' vl favourite for the first post-war Governor's Cup (woith about $5,600 to the winner) at Bukit Timah today, the final day of the Singapore Turf Club Summer Meeting.
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    Today's Race Card
    1164 12 I BELOW is the full card for today's races at Bukit Timah. The double tote will be on Races 6 and 8 and the Big Sweep on Race 8. Race 1—2.00 p.m. Cl. 3, Div. 2 Abt. 5'/ 2 F. Value $1,700 I 1 0 Inspiration (Turner)
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    SUMMER CUP PROSPECTS
    641 12 SUMMER CU P PROSPECTS IN an evenly matched field for the Summer Cup my selection Is Kashmiri Song. I regard the scratching >f Minstrel Boy as a strong pointer to Kashmiri Song's chances. Frank Flannery wi'l take the mount today. Her failure over the 5V4f. on the third day cannot
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    MALAYANS DO WELL
    306 12 MALAYANS DO WELL SHANGHAI. Friday. MALAYA kept the overseas Chinese banners flying today with a series of smashing triumphs in the Chinese National Olympic Meet. In football, the Malayans 'outclassed Nanking completely They won 5 goals to one after leading all the way. Malaya's Koh Eng-tong. of I Selangor. with
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    WEEK-END TEAMS
    631 12 rpEAMS for this week-end's A cricket are given below: Non-Benders Cricket Club XI v. Singapore Chinese Recreation Club at Hong Lim Green at 11 a.m. tomorrow: A. Gllmour i (Captain), T. J. Leijssius. H. 'B. Noon, Evan Wong, A. R. Bromley Davenport, A. W. Nicholson. H. N. Balhetchet,
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    Spin Bowlers For Tests
    192 12 LONDON. Friday. I The success of Peter Jack-1 son. Worcestershire offspin bowler who started his benefit season by taking five of the first Australian wickets to fall m the tour serves to emphaslse the increasing lmportance of bowlers of this' type m present day cricket It
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    Straits Times Selections
    180 12 POI 1. ROCHDALE ROCHDALE ROCHDALE RACE 1 2. Whispering Hope Land Act Gjrpsy Boy t. Gypsy Boy Gypsy Boy Whispering Hope 1. HONEY COMB HONEY COMB HONEY COMB RACE 2 2. Rnr*fca 3. Radiant Lucky Ace Radiant Rhythm Rhythm May Prince Brownsbay 1. SILVER MAC SCOTT FORTUNE'S
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    China XI Due Max 19
    147 12 China XI Due Max 19 CHINA'S soccer team tor tlr* World Olympics corroostri of 18 players and two officials. Dr. C. C. Yung (Manager) and Mr. Lee Wai (Oaeli will arrive m Singapore on May 19 from Salmon. The team will play four games m Singapore. The first two games
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    Air Force Win 3 Goals To One
    299 12 R.A.F. Seletar 3 S.R.C 1 fr BARRAGE of sizzling first-timers, three of which shot into the goal, gave the R.A.F. Seleitar a >plendid 3—l3—1 victory over the Singapore Recreaton 21ub m the first division S.A.F.A. scccer at Jalan Besar yesterday. The Recs were
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