The Straits Times, 19 January 1950

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 184S TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1950. PRK E TEN CENTS
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    5-HOUR BOMBING OF CANTON
    295 1 Air Attacks On Mainland Stepped Up TAIPEI, Wednesday. THE Nationalist Air Force today stepped up its operations against the Communist mainland and subjected Canton to air attacks lasting five hours. Shanghai city and groups of invasion craft were also attacked. The attack on Canton is described
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    CHURCHILL: GREAT NEW WAR SERIES
    111 1 THE War Memoirs of Winston Churchill— "The Man of the Half-Century" will be resumed in The Straits Times from next Thursday. In this new section of his j;r it work. Mr. Churchill takes the story of the conflict in Europe up to the German invasion
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    Property Seized 'By Consent'
    131 1 Property Seized 'By Consent' TOKYO. Wed. /CHINA'S Communists said \Vj tonight "military necessity" prompted their seizure of American. French and Dutch "barracks and other b-'i'dinn-s" In Peking. They added the governments concerned had "consented to the seizures." These Red statements were made tonight in a Chinese language broadcast from Peking.
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    ITALIAN WARSHIP GOES TO U.S.S.R.
    41 1 GENOA. Wed.— The Italian Navy torpedo-boat Fuciliere left La Spezla in Northern Italy last night for the Black Sea port of Odessa, where she will be taken over by the Russian authorities as war reparations. —Reuter.
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    Mao Thought To Be Resisting Stalin
    188 1 LONDON Wednesday. TiHERE are increasing sign s that Mao Tse-tung, th e Chinese Communist leader, is in no hurry to com c to terms with Russia. So say official observers of Far Eastern affairs in London. They say there Is reason to believe that,
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    AIMS OF ASIAN LABOUR
    125 1 AIMS OF ASIAN LABOUR NUWARA ELIYA, Wed. rE n e w 1 y-inaugurated Asian Federation of Labour which held its plenary session here today, passed a resolution "congratulating the workers of Asia for having rejected the Moscow-sponsored conference at Peking." The new all-Asian Labour Organisation also resolved to affiliate itself
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    JUTE FOR JAPAN
    17 1 WASHINGTON, Wed.—Pakistan plans to allow Japan 5.000 long tons of Jute during 1950.— A.P.
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    S'pore Ship Ablaze
    68 1 HONG KONG, Wed. I^LEVEN Chinese crewmen jumped overboard today when fire broke out aboard the 800-ton" Singapore registered freighter Leong Bee. The fire chief, Mr. W. J. Gorman, said the vessel was carrying a highly explosive cargo of gasolene, dlesel oil and potassium chlorate, but the flames
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    SIAM PROFIT TAX
    26 1 SI AM PROFIT TAX EANKOK, Wed. The Siamese Cabinet has approved a 15 per cent, tax on company profits estimated to produce 30.000.000 baht a year.Reuter.
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    BURMA RICE CROP
    34 1 WASHINGHTON. Wed. Burma's rice exports for 1950 are expected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to total about 1,900.080,000 ibs. This is only 29 per cent of the pre-war average.— A.P.
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    NO "RED TAPE" STRANGLING
    58 1 MELBOURNE Wed. —An Australian Commerce Department spokesman said today that reports from Tokyo of British "red tape" strangling trade between Japan and the sterling area were "very wide of the mark" as far as Australia was concerned. "We are supplying wool to Japan and Japan is
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    DIVERS WAIT NEAR TRUCULENT
    86 1 LONDON, Wed. DIVERS aboard the boom defence ship Barndale were waiting in the Thames Estuary today fof better weather, to continue their inspection of the submarine Truculent, sunk last Thursday after a collision with the Swedish motor vessel Divina. The Divina, which has been discharging: cargo
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    SIAM POLICE CHIEF'S VISIT
    75 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Director-General of Siamese Police. Lt.-Oeneral Luang Chartrikarkosol, arrived in Penang this evening to tour the Federation and Singapore. He was accompanied by two police officers. Lt.-Col. Unyen Phryapawat and Major Krasien Saruthanan and the first Secretary (Malayan Affairs)
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    ORANGE MASK RAID: MEN GET $1,000,000
    102 1 BOSTON Wed. Seven bandits, wearing orange and black halloween masks, staged one of the largest holdups in the United States last night and escaped with more than $1,000,000 They took the money from the vaults of Brinks Incorporated, a firm which speciallses in carrying
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    US Tyres Take More Natural Rubber
    121 1 WASHLNGTON, Wednesday. T'HE proportion of natural rubber used by American manufacturers in transportation items reached a post-war record of 68.7 per cent in November, the U.S. Commerce Department reported today. In such items, natural rubber usage In November totalled 34.470 long tons. 2.091 tons
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    76 1 COMMANDER ROBIN KILROY'S 16-ton Singapore -built junk-yacht Boleh sailed from the Colony yesterday bound for Britain by the Cape of Good Hope a 15,000 mile Journey which the crew hope to complete In six months. Above: Boleh's sails fill as she gets under way. Below: Chang Hai Kun, only Chinese
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    Bangkok Talks On Rice Begin
    276 1 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Wednesday. NEGOTIATIONS are scheduled to begin immedjt&ely for the purchase of a large quantity of Siamese rice with the arrival in Bangkok today of three British experts from the Federation of Malaya, Singa 1 -•< and Hong Kong to discuss
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    50 Arrested In Accra
    47 1 ACCRA, Wed. riFTY curfew breakers were arrested here during the night after yesterday's incidents in which two policemen were stabbed to death in a clash with demonstrators. The city, capital of the Gold Coast, was almost normal today with all offices open. Reuter.
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    U.S. Wants To Know
    33 1 WASHINGTON, Wed sAs part of general preparations the Government is collectinR information of how Great Britain, Germany and Japan met the problem of shelter for thousands whose homes were
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    FLOOD THREAT
    32 1 CHICAGO, Wed. Eight thousand people fled from their homes in southeast Missouri today as the Ohio. Mississippi and tributary rivers rose in the greatest flood threat in 13 years. AP.
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    UK IN MALAYA TO PREPARE FORSELF-RULE'
    239 1 UK IN MALAYA TO PREPARE FORSELF-RULE' NEW DELHI, Wednesday. whether Malaya would be raised to independent status ;n; n the Commonwealth, the British Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Mr. Philin Noel-Baker, said: "We have declared that the purpose of our presence in Malaya is to prepare the way for
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    54 1 THE COMMISSIONER GENERAL, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. pictured last night at Tengah airfield on his arrival back from Colombo after attending the Foreign Ministers Conference. He told the Straits Times that he invited the British Foreign Secretary. Mr. Ernest Bevin. to visit Malaya, but because of the general elections he
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    EXHIBITION SHIP FROM U.S.A.
    66 1 Exhibition Ships. Inc of New York City, plans to send a liner the former President Taft, to Malayan ports, amontf others, on a year-lorn* rnunrl-the-world tour beginning probably early this year The ship to be renamed the American Representative, will hive 100.000 sanare feet of exhibition
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    CUSTOM SAID 'THEY MUST DIE'
    132 2 MANILA, Wed TRIBAL customs played a part ln the -tilling of two Americans, Professors Robert Conklin and Marvin Pittman, in the wilds of the Philippines mountains last month. The professors were killed on Dec. 26 after they had spent a night at Calaban. The tribal
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    MISSOURI ON THE MUD
    75 2 NORFOLK. Wed. The 45,000-ton U.S. battleship Missouri (Captain Wilheim Brown I ran firmly aground yesterday on a Hampton Roads mudbank. She was beginning her first cruise under Capt. Brown. "Big MoU was undamaged, according To the Navy. Her 71 officers and 1,400 men were unhurt. But
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    SIAM RIVER MAY BE DREDGED
    41 2 BANGKOK, Wed. The Siamese Cabinet is reported to be considering the renting or a United States Navy dredger to deepen the Chao Phye River bar. which now prevents big vessels going up the river to Bangkok.Reuter.
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      Saxon Capital Discovered
      314 2 ROMSLEY, (Worcs.), Wednesday. LOCAL archaeologists claimed today to have discovered the capital of a Saxon boy king, who, historians say, never^ existed. The King Is known* to folklore as Venelm, and his seat as Kenelmstowe. Legend has it that he ruled in the 8th century over the
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    SIMPLICITY
    130 2 LONG LOCK: For 70 N< w Years, Mr. John Henry Clarke h carefully read the British Honouss List, looking for his name among the knights. Mr. Clarke, now ho, says that Queen Victoria kniahud him with a walking stick when e was a boy of 10.~Reuter. EXPLOSIONS: A series
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    P.I. PRESIDENT DOING WELL
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      664 2 NOTICES THE MALAYAN FILM UNIT TENDER FO« THE BUPFLY OF METAL FILM CANS. Tenders are invited for the supply of 1000 film cans in the first Instance, for containing 1000' roll of film. Samples can be inspected "at toe office of the Malayan Film Unit, Bungsar Road, Kuala Lumpur or
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    LABOUR'S ELECTION POLICY
    264 3 Jobs For All, More Exports, Nationalisation LONDON, Wednesday. THE Labour Party yesterday issued a 6,000word manifesto faying down its policy for the General Election on Feb. 23. The Conservative election manifesto is expected within a week. The Labour Party promised these things: "Wise development" of its health
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    ATOMIC PACT OR NEW BOMB
    121 3 ATOMIC PACT OR NEW BOMB NEW YORK, Wed. rrHE New York Times said yesterday that President Truman is being strongly urged by Government officials to make another attempt to reach an atomic agreement with Russia before he decides whether to produce a hydrogen atomic bomb. The hydrogen bomb is estimated
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    EXPELLED
    31 3 The Pui'iiamentary Parly of the Muslim League, Pakistan s major political organisation, has expelled two members of Parliament from Us ranks for cciiicising ihe Government in recent Parliamentary debates— Reuter.
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    Marriage Had False Start
    46 3 BERLIN, Wed. A YOUNG Berliner filed a suit for divorce the day after he married and accused his wife of "disgracefully deceiving'' him with "false pretences and non -existing facts." 'a Berlin nrwspaper said yesterday. The bridegroom discovered she wore falsies. U.P.
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    Future Of Indo-China
    97 3 NUV.'ARA ELIYA. Wed. pEPRESENTATIVES of Vietlv nam. Cambodia and Laos attending the International Labour Organisation conference, today expressed four different views on Indo-China, regarded as the open door for Communist penetration in South-East Asia. Phan Ngoc But. Minister of Labour. Agriculture and Social Welfare in Vietnam, said
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    "BONNIE BANKS" UP FOR SALE
    55 3 EDINBURGH, Wed. You may buy the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond, if you have got 1 the cash An Edinburgh real estate firm has been commissioned to make a private deal for the sale of 13 miles of the banks of the famous Scottish lake,
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    U.S. Rubber Policy 'Not Acceptable'
    183 3 From Oar Own Correspondent LONDON, Wed. DRESIDENT Truman's mes- sage to Congress, indicating the policy he wishes pursued on the expiration of the Schufer Act on June 30, provided the basis for a modest rise in the price of ruober, but, says the Daily Telegraph,
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    U.S. COAL STRIKE HITS PLANTS
    87 3 PITTSBURGH Wed.— Three hundred big industrial plants in Pittsburgh may have lo shut down because of the coal shortage due to the strike of more than 81.000 soft coal miners in six states. The strike, in defiance of the return-to-work orders by the Miners* Union
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    COMMUNIST THREAT TO INDO-CHINA
    85 3 LONDON, Wednesday. THE Chinese Communists threatened yesterday to intervene against French "violence and persecution of Chinese" in Indo-China. The Soviet news agency. Tass. quoted the Shanghai newspaper. Sin Jem Joh Po as saying: "The Chinese People's Government has clearly stated that it will defend the rightful
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    UNDER THE INFLUENCE
    47 3 SCARAB BEY. a fakir well-known in France, claims that he can make hens lay by hypnotism. Bere he demonstrates his art in Paris and although the chicken seems to have succumbed to the influence there is .still no sign of the egg.— A.P. picture.
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    AMERICA SEIZES A RUSSIAN BUILDING
    151 3 BERLIN, Wed. TWO American army officers and 50 West Berlin police tonight seized a United States sector building formerly used as operating headquarters for the Soviet zone railway. Russian authorities immediately protested. United States officials said they took over the structure because it contained 600
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    U.S.I. Troops Claim Victory
    92 3 BATAVIA, Wed. MILITARY sources report 111 that Republican troops successfully fought a threeday battle with unidentified irregular rebel bands near Bandjermasin, on the south Borneo coast. Reports said the. troops smashed the rebel bands and are chasing the survivors into the hills. They said that operating
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    WEDDING OF A HABSBURG
    67 3 BRUSSELS, Wed —Archduke Charles of Habsburg, son of the late Emperor Charles of Austria, yesterday married 26-year-old Princess Yolande de Ligne, of Belgium, in civil and religious ceremonies at Beloeil. The bridegroom's mother, who once reigned over one of Europe's largest Empires as the Empress Rita
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    Moderates Lead In Finnish Election
    153 3 wO£vi HELSINKI, Wednesday. CURST incomplete results last night, at the end of Finland's two-day presidential election, showed a victory for the moderate parties supporting the re-election of 79-year-oM President Juho Paasikivi Meanwhile, Finland's So cial Democrat Government yesterday replied to a Moscow demand tor extradition
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    VISIT TO INDIA
    53 3 KHOJA ISMAILI children greet their spiritual chief, the Aga Khan and the Begum at the world headquarters of the Muslim sect at Hasbahad, Bombay, during a recent reception. The Aga Khan is visiting: India to attend the inauguration of the Indian Republic at New Delhi on Jan.
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    F. I. C. SECRETS CASE INQUIRY
    180 3 PARIS, Wednesday. r FHE French Premier, M. Georges Bidault, yester1 day agreed to Communist demands for a formal inquiry into "the affair of the Generals", in which a man who served two years in prison before the war and received the Legion of Honour
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    Reds Stage A Third Walk-Out From Allied Council
    168 3 Reds Stage A Third Walk-Out From Allied Council TOKYO, Wednesday. fHE Russian delegation walked out of the Allied Council for Japan for the third time, today refusing to discuss the repatriation of Japanese war prisoners from the Soviet Union. The Russians announced their position at the outset of the meeting
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    CHINESE RETAINS U.N. POST
    111 3 CHINESE RETAINS U.N. POST LAKE SUCCESS, Wed. l THE Security Council ejected yesterday a Yugoslav demand for Nationalist China's chief delegate, Dr. T. F. Tsiang. to give up the Council presidency Immediately The vote was six to on^ against Yugoslavia Th« Yugoslav Deputy Foreign Minister, Mr. Ales Bebler. voted for
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    COMMITTEE TO WATCH KL MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
    269 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. TOLD b> the President, Mr. H. T. W. Oswell, lhat delays were likely in Kuala Lumpur's plan for Municipal elections, Kuala Lumpur Municipal Commissioners today set up a special committee "to keep constant watch over the question."
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    Direct Sago Dealing Resumed
    144 4 THE Qrs( sago deal direct between British starch conMimi'is and Singapore exBortcra since the Ministry of Fi.od became sole importers of Mfo In Hie U.K. was reported .may In the Singapore market. Official sources, however. Were not able to say whether this meant that the Ministry
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    Inaugural Meeting
    35 4 I ram Our Own Correspondent .JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. ["he civil employees of 221 't hide Battalion held an ini^ural meeting yesterday in nnnection with the Co-opera-Ive Stores Society they will be ptning soon
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    GAOL FOR THEFT OF SARONGS, RICE
    43 4 From Our Own Correspondent TELUK ANSON. Wed. A 19-year-old Banjarese, Ramli bin Dasik, who stole 19 sarongs and two gantangs of rice, was sentenced to 12 months' rigorous imprisonment, to be followed by two years' police supervision.
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    Detainees Had Seditious Documents
    103 4 Detainees Had Seditious Documents From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. Wed. A POLICE raid on the Pulau Jerejak detention camp on Oct. 22 was mentioned In the First Magistrate's Court today wnen six detainees pleaded guilty to possession nf seditious documents. Five of them— Kung All Heng. Lee Fool, Ec Chony
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    DRIVER CLEARED
    63 4 From Our Own Coi respondent TAIPING, Wed. A verdict of death by misadventure was returned ny the Taiping coroner on Manila m, an Indian tapper who was knocked down by a car at Sim pang Road. The coroner exonerated the driver of the car, Van? bin Manap, but
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    BUDDHIST WORSHIP
    49 4 A SPECIAL SERVICE cf worship was held at (he Sinhal ese Buddhist Temple, Outram Road, Singapore, on the occasion of the second month of the death of Mr. D.D.L. Gunawardhana, father of Hie priest. Rev, M.M. Mahaveera, who is seen standing near the altar. Straits Times oicture.
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    MALAYAN TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA
    201 4 IT is Australia's desire to continue and expand friendly trade relations with Malaya, "one of our valuable markets," said the Australian Trade Commissioner in Malaya, Mr. James Payne, in a talk broadcast over Radio Malaya last night. Last year Australian exports to Malaya totalled more than
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    YOUNG WOMAN CHARGED
    61 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. Kirn Ah Lee, a young Chinese woman, appeared in court at Johore Bahru when the charge against her of stealing 141 sheets of rubber was amended to one of being in unlawful possession of them Hearing of the case was
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    HIT R.A.F. LORRY
    45 4 Mrs. C. Ives was fined $15 in the Eighth Police -Court. Singapore yesterday, when she pleaded guilty to. driving her car along Apavon Road. Changi. on the morning, of Dec. 9 in a negligent manner and colliding with a R.A F lorry.
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    Diphtheria In S'pore Killing More
    233 4 Diphtheria In S'pore Killing More 'THE incidence of diph- theria has increased greatly in Singapore since the liberation. Cases admitted to Middleton Hospital, the hqspital for infectious diseases in the Colony, totalled 256 last year. Figures for the three preceding years were 140 cases in 1946, 154 in 1947 and
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    NEGLIGENCE: $15
    24 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. In the Police Court today Mohd Said bin Saibon was fined $15 for negligent driving.
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    TRIAL POSTPONED
    57 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. The trial of Ibrahim bin Abdul Ghaffar, Postal Agent of Ulu Choh, on a charge of criminal breach of trust of Postal Orders valued at $73, began at the Assizes today but was adjourned to the next session of the court
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    SUGAR MEN FINED
    49 4 The proprietor of a sundry goods shop in Spooner Road, Abdul Mohamed Dinputi, and the salesman, Myduni, were fined |250 and $75, respectively, in the Singapore Second District Court yesterday for selling half a katty of sugar at 15 cents three cents above the controlled price.
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    'Sourabaya Sue' Has Her Happiest Day
    163 4 "QNE of my greatest ambitions is to see a united v Asia on a broad democratic basis," said Koetet Tantry, famous In post-war Java as "Sourabaya Sue" when she sailed from Singapore yesterday for Jakarta, after an absence of two years. One of the
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    $2,000 FINE
    50 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed Tan Tow Gay was today convicted in the police court on a charge of conveying 9,600 boxes of matches, on which duty of $192 had not been paid, and was fined $2,000, in default four months' imprisonment. The matches were confiscated.
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    KEPT BY FORCE, SAYS MOTHER OF TWO
    136 4 From Our SUO Correspondent PENANG. Wed. "fHE mother of two illegitimate children wept In court today when she told the Magistrate. Mr. D. R. Home that she had been "kept" by force and without her consent. The woman. Chin Yuat How. summoned Yeoh
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    FOUNDER'S FOOTSTEPS
    59 5 FOUNDER'S FOOTSTEPS CAPT. JOHN HEADLAM, V iss Edith Simpson and Cub Alan Brodie of H.Q. Malaya District, Kuala Lumpur, inspect the footprints of the founder of the Boy Scout Movement, Lord Baden-Powell, at Castle Camp, Kuala Lumpur, on Monday. Miss Simpson is Lady Tubmaster of the 34th Kuala Lumpur Scout
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    'WE NEED ACTION' IN 'MONTH'
    489 5 Critics Asked To Volunteer From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. JT IS no longer enough to give verbal support to the anti-bandit campaign. We need action and we need volunteers," said Mr. R. Gibson, Settlement organiser, to Penang Rotarians this afternoon. It was obvious, he
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    COMPANIES ASKED TO FREE MEN
    184 5 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. CMPLOYERS have been ask- ed to release men for full time Anti-Bandit Month duties by the Selangor State organiser, Mr. G. W. Somerville. He wants people who volunteer to state precisely m which days or times the} will
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    DROVE TOO FAST
    50 5 Chua Chwee Eng was convicted by the Eighth Police Magistrate. Singapore, Mr. P. Claque. yesterday, fined $100 and had his licence endorsed fo r driving his motor car along Yeo Chu Kang in a danKerous manner at a speed of between 50 to 60 miles per hour.
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    LONG SERVICE
    52 5 R.S.M. GRIFFITHS, of the Royal Ulster Rifles, now with the Malay Regiment at Port Dickson, wearing the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal he received on Sunday from Colonel C-W.P. Richardson, officiating: commandant of the Malay Regiment. R.S.M. Griffiths has been in the Army for 21 years.— Straits
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    Govt. Food Buying To Continue
    169 5 T«HE Government of Singapore proposes to continue importing rice, flour and sugar for the time being, according to the acting Secretary for Economic Affairs, Mr. H. W. Nightingale. It will ensure, however, that its policy can be speedily changed any time it is decided to
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    VICE-CONSUL
    16 5 Mr. Philip E. Haring has been recognised as ViceConsul of the United States In Singapore.
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    Code May Cover More Workers
    476 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE Acting Commissioner for Labour, Mr. J. P. Biddulph, told the Straits Times today: "The revised labour code is a completely new piece of legislation. While it involves many of the principles and good features of the present
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    Singapore Diary
    79 5 ST. ANDREWS CIVICS CM B, Mr. Tan Chlau Khoo on Australian Universities," School Hall, Woodsvllle, 3 pin. JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, Cathay Restaurant, 5.15 pjn. THEOSOPHICAI. SOCIETY 8, Cairnhlll Road, 6.30 p.ra ANSON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION, Twa Loh Koh practice, 50-A, Nelson Road. 7 p.m. CINEMA SHOW, uy Public
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    JOHORE CAR AND TRAIN COLLIDE
    75 5 A EUROPEAN, Mr. McPbail, the manager of Amber Estate, Senai. Jobore, and his wife and child, had a narrow escape from serious injury yesterday. A car in which they were travelling was involved in an accident with the soath-btund mall train from Kuala Lumpur at
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    DEATH
    13 6 ROY FORBES passed away on the l"tr. January following operalion at Glasgow.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    104 6 MR. MRS. JO. DOLIVEIRO Thank those who «ent presents, m the occasion of their wedding. CATHARINE .md Francis Thomas thank all those who gave help, and all those who sent wreaths, letters and messages «.f condolence, during their trrpnvement. MR. M.F. CORDERIO-& family thank the doctors and start of
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs. Jan. 19, 1950 The Pontian Tunnel
    980 6 One of the most unfortunate episodes in the history of the Singapore Municipality closed with the debate on the Pontian tunnel at the meeting of the Municipal Commissioners on Tuesday, and, whatever view may be taken in professional engineering
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    IN THE C.S.O.
    183 6 4 FEW days ago I had occasion to visit the Colonial Secretary's Office in Singapore on business, and was shocked by the lack of lighting, ventilation and proper working conditions for the staff. The offices had low powered bulbs, as a consequence of which the clerks were
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    Moderates In Nigeria: A New Party
    690 6 Moderates In Nigeria: A New Party By GRAHAM JENKINS, Keuter-A.A.P. Special Correspondent ENUGU, (Nigeria). ANEW Arrlcan Nationalist political party favouring closer co-operation with Nigeria's thinly scattered white population is reported to be emerging from the wave of racial feeling and genuine distress which has swept Nigeria since the African labour
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      Children of Malaya: Queries for Mr. Polak
      475 6 I NOTICE from the Press that Mr. Simon Polak, an important executive of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, is at present visiting Malaya, and I suggest that whilst he is in this area he might clear up several points about the
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      A CIGARETTE RETAILER
      158 6 IN the Straits Times of *Jan. 14, it was pointed out by Malayan Tobacco Distributors, together with their wholesalers, that all retail shops were being supplied with sufficient supplies of cigarettes to meet the public's demand and that there should be no question of an increase In
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      A CHINESE MOTHER IN PENANG
      334 6 A CHINESE MOTHER IN PENANG I AS a mother of six, who can just" about afford to send them to school, with no left-overs for medical or dental expenses, I am greatly heartened by your Penang staff correspondent's report of the °ddress given recently by the Chief Dental Officer. The
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    Malayan Camera Studies
    414 6 "TTHE Malayan Land- scape," a new book which has just appeared In Singapore bookshops, contains a series of 70 camera studies by Dr. C. A. Gibson-Hill, with an introduction by Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. This introduction is more than the usual brief foreword: it Is a little
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    MALAY BANDIT REGIMENT SMASHED
    438 7 Pahang River, k am pongs Are Happier Now From Our Special Correspondent FRASER'S HILL, Wednesday. JHE "Tenth Malay Regiment", the bandit group which has been operating along the Pahang River, has been smashed by the security forces. Two of its important men for each of whom
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    PRISON TERM IS SET ASIDE
    330 7 PRISON TERM IS SET ASIDE TEO BAN HOCK, brother of the late Dr. Teo Kah Toh, successfully appealed in the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday against sentence of a year's rigorous imprisonment on a charge of criminal breach of trust Of $23,400. Allowing the appeal the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Murray-Aynsley.
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    $10,000 In Gems In 3 Buckets
    155 7 $10,000 In Gems In 3 Buckets A FINE of $4,500, or one year's rigorous imprisonment was imposed on Audul K:rlm, of Ganghoring, Batavia, by the Singapore Second District Judge, Mr. Tan Ah Tah, yesterday when he pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to export precious and semiprecious stones valued
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    19 Gamblers Fined $1,110
    72 7 rHEONG PAR CHANG, ,57. was yesterday fined $750 in the Singapore Fourth Police Court for assisting; in the management of a common gaming house m Pagoda Street on Nov. 3- Eighteen Chinese who were found gambling on the premises, known as the "Ec Loo Club", were
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    A 'Seasick' Man Sails In The Boleh
    210 7 A 'Seasick Man Sails In The Boleh 15.000-MILE TRIP ON BOARD the 40-foot yacht Boleh, which left Singapore yesterday for a 15.000mile voyage to Britain, is a veteran seaman who is "constantly seasick." "I never get over it," said Lt. Comdr. John Rusher, veteran of escort ships In World War
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    WOMAN ROBBED
    28 7 Four Chinese toughs yesterday morning waylaid a woman, also Chinese, at the junction of Lorong 3, Geylang and Sims Avenue, and robbed her of $20 cash.
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    STOLE RUBBER
    38 7 A quayside labourer. 21-year-old Yeo Ah Moh, of Puket Road, who pleaded guilty in the Singapore Second Police Court to theft of a sheet of rubber valued at $2, was bound over for six months yesterday.
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    32 7 A PHOTOGRAPH taken at the 223 8.0.D. Civilian Association's dinner at St. George's Road, Singapore. In the centre are Mrs. King; and Brigadier F. S. King, C. B. E. David Photo picture.
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    Suffolks Get 3 Near Kajang
    265 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. EH)R the first time after several weeks' quiet, x security forces clashed with bandits in the Kajang area on Monday evening when a patrol of the First Suffolks contacted a bandit gang in a small camp near Dusun
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    180,000 CHILDREN LEARN BY RADIO
    141 7 ANE hundred and eighty thousand children in Malaya, Sumatra and the Rhio Islands are listening to the schools broadcasts from Radio Malaya. Started, In January 1016. when 18,000 children in 60 schools listened to Radio Malaya programmes, the broadcasts are noi~ being listened to by
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    LABOUR PARTY IS ANNOYED
    182 7 THE Secretary of the Labour Party of Singapore. Mr. M. P. D. Nair. yesterday criticised the way in which the Asian Federation of Labour was formed in Ceylon, describing it as undemocratic." The rank and file of Singapore trade unionists were never consulted about this; In
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    Industrial Court
    119 7 THE following have been appointed to be independent members of the Industrial Court of the Colony of Singapore for three years: Messrs. D. Robertson, Evan Wong, Sandy G. Pillay, Dr. P. S. Hunter, Mr. E. Galistan, Dr. H. S. Moonshi and Mr. J. C. Cobbett The following have
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    GIRL MISSING
    25 7 Lee Poi Keng. a 19-year-old girl, was reported yesterday to have beeri missing from her home at Cavanagh Road, Singapore, since Jrfh. 10.
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    Stabbed His In-Laws When Wife Left Him
    167 7 fyHEN his wife left him because of ill-treatment, Tan Chin Seng, 26, of Cecil Street, went to his father-in-law's house. Dounded on the door and demanded her return. While his wife hid herself, her father admitted Tan An argument started, and Ta^ was
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    FRENCH RUGBY PLAYERS IN SINGAPORE
    51 7 THE FRENCH AIR FORCE rugby team, who arrived from Saigon on Tuesday evening to play two matches in Singapore, seen at the Pavilion Restaurant yesterday. In the background (fourth from right) is F/Lt. Haugh O'Connor, of the R.A.F., who showed the visitors round.— Straits Times
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    DEAD GUARDSMAN NAMED
    52 7 From Our SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.The Scots Guardsman killed In a battle with bandits in the Rawang area of Selangor on Monday was K. Holland, of Padiham. Lancashire, it was announced today "The Scots Guards N.C.O. who was slightly wounded ivaa Lance Sergeant G. Reilly A
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    Call For Woman Asst. Labour Commissioner
    247 7 gINGAPORE should have a woman assistant commissioner for labour, at least three women labour inspectors and a woman assistant trade union adviser, said Miss Wee Kiat Neo, Chairman of the Women's Group of the Army Civil Service Union, at the annual general meeting: of
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    48 HOURS NON-STOP READING
    88 7 THE Sixh community of 1 Singapore will commemorate the Indian Republic Day at the Central Sikh TemnV, Queen Street, with a BODtinuous reading of the Holy Book for 48 hours. This reading of the Holy Book will end in a special prayer after which sweets will
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    4 POLIO CASES IN SELANGOR
    41 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Four cases of poliomyeli;is were reported in SeTanunr during the week ending Jan 7. Only five cases ot scrub typhus, compared with nine :ases the previous week, were reported.
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    FISH TALK
    31 7 The Director "of Fisheries. Mr. D. W. Le Mare, will talk on the problems of Malayan fisheries and plans for solving them, over Radio Malaya at 8 p.m tomorrow
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    WAS HIS FACE RED!
    63 7 A SINGAPORE motorist, finding the road up at Fin lav son Green yesterday and a barrier of oil drums making a cul de-sac, parked and locked his car. Coming back an hour later he blushed to find the road repairs and barrier had moved on. and
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    A VISIT TO THE LAND DYAKS AT KAMPONG PICHIN
    1147 8  -  f Hedda Morrison By TEBAKANG is a small place in the First Division of Sarawak the Division which contains the capital Kuching. It lies beyond Serian, which you can reach in three hours by bus from Kuching along a good road
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    Malacca statue that "walked"
    269 9  -  SIMPANG LIMA liy IN Prya Lane. Malacca, at the rear of Bandar Hilir Road, stands a Roman Catholic chapel of the Portuguese Mission in Malaya where there is a large statue of the Blessed Virgin around which several legends are told by the congregation. The original
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    Dutch barn into restaurant
    41 9 LEONARD MANASSEH. Singapore designer of the Festival of Britain restaurant, thinks hard on other .deas A perspective drawing of the interior of the Festival of Britain restaurant, which wai designed by Mr. Leonard Manasseh, a Singapore man.
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    Colony man's design wins first prize
    422 9 Colony man 's design wins first prize I run, Our London Correspondent WHEN the people of London go to the conference hall of the County Hall, Westminster^ this month to see the public exhibition of the designs submitted in two architectural competitions held *n connection with the Festival of Britain,
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    Stone that cures stings
    154 9 By P. S. MARK AN DAN THE roadside snake charmer has often demonstrated the miraculous power of a small black stone, which is said to be an effective cure for snake bites. He coaches a cobra to sting him on van jus parts of bis anatomy,
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    PLAYING GOLF WITH BOWS AND ARROWS
    771 9 By IT'S a far cry from the colourful days of Robin Hood and his Merrie Men (why were they always "Merrie", I wonder? Was the liquor tax less in those days?) u0 playing golf with a bow and arrow. And it's not at all
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      527 9 ■^■■■■□■■■vsijniiipH Most players do lot pay enough trump response was fairly strong, attention to what experts c.-ul but it certainly did not indicate "avoidance plays.' A dpflntUoa cf the ability to solidify North's this type is Implicit in the follow- spades, to supply a high diamond, ing deal. and still
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    Plan To Teach Squatters Civic Duties
    262 10 Plan To Teach Squatters Civic Duties From Our Special Correspondent FRASER'S HILL, Wed. A PLAN to insWl a sense of civic responsibility in the Chinese populations of villages and resettled areas of Pahang has been launched at the village of Benta, where 60 squatters and shop-keep-ers attended a meeting at
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    31 10 MISS MARY CHITA celebrated her 16th. birthday at Bok House last Saturday. She is seen here with her mother. Mrs. B. S. hua, the well-known horse owner. C. F. I.arm picture.
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    NAVAL CHIEF ON WAY HOME
    89 10 Rear-Admiral C. T. M. Pizey. retiring head of the U.K. Services Liaison Mission to Australia, arrived in Singapore yesterday afternoon by BOAC-Qantas Constellation. He is on his way home' to Britain for leave preparatory to relieving Vice-Admiral Earl Mountbatten of Burma as Flag Officer Commanding
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    INSECURE LOAD CAUSED DEATH
    84 10 Ng Yam Kee, a young Chinese lorry driver, was yesterday sentenced to seven days' imprisonment by the Eighth Police Magistrate, Singapore, Mr. P. Claque, for driving his lorry -negligently at the junction of High Street and St. Andrew's Road on Nov. 30, causing two passengers and
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    DEMAND FOR 'TEA MONEY' ALLEGED
    310 10 Priority Board Member Charged From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. 4 LLEGED to have corruptly tried to get $250 as "tea-money" for approving an application for a telephone, Burhanuddin bin Dato Gangil, th e Malay member of the Telephone Priority Board, appeared h?for« Mr.
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    ROYAL SEAL KEEPER
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    Trooper On Last Trip
    101 10 AFTER more than four years of dairying thousands of French troops to Indo-China, the 12,000-ton Messageries Maritime* i-hip Marechal Joffre passed through Singapore yesterday for Marseilles on her last voyage as a trooper. On her return to France, she will go into drydock for a complete
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    Bravery Awards To 3 Police
    301 10 Bravery Awards To 3 Police From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A EUROPEAN tin miner, a Euro Dean police sergeant, and a Chinese extra Dolice lance-cor-poral have been awarded Colonial Police Medals for gallantry. They are honorary Auxiliary Police Inspector Eric Connaught Burne, Sergeant James McKenzie. «r>--^ LanceCorporal Cheng
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    SPEEDING DRIVER CAUSED CRASH
    70 10 Mohd. Dalip bin Yunus was convicted In the Eighth Police Court. Singapore, yesterday, when found guilty of driving his car in a dangerous manner and colliding wlt;h another «*ar near the Cairnhill Road and Bideford Road junction on Dec. 3. It was stated that Yunus was
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    SULTAN ABROAD
    46 10 From Our Staff Correspondent FRASER'S HILL, Wed.— The Pahang Government has voted $35,000 towards the expense of the Sultan's forthcoming holiday in England and the Continent. Part of this sum will be used to buy a car which will be brought back to Pahang.
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    TWO FREED ON RED FLAG CHARGE
    130 10 From Our SUB Correspondent PENANG, Wed. TWO Chinese flagmakers who had earlier pleaded guilty to displaying Chinese Communist flags in a position visible to the public w«re today acquitted and discharged in the Penang Magistrate's Court as sanction to prosecute had not been obtained
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      257 10 NOW SHOWING 11.00 1.45 4.00 6.30 9.30 Aimo Hitchcock -wawer won. Tomorrow M'nite "KANNIYIN KATHALI" (in Tamil) Adapted From Shakespeare's Twelfth Ni;;ht KB. ADVAXCE BOOKINGS FOR CASH OXLY! IN GOLD yqWSi OR THE TAKING... If YOU CAN FIND U! SEETHE AUTHENTICTREASURE HUNT >TOR. in COLUMBIA'S Starring GLENN FORD SATURDAY MIDNIGHT
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      113 10 SINGAPORE 10.00 News (also at 1.30, 7 and 9.30); 10.05 Close; 10.50 For the Schools; 12.00 Programmes In Malay; 1.00 The Radio Orchestra; 1.45 Dance Music; 3.00 Close; 6.00 Programme Summary; 6.02 Children's Programme; 6.20 CallIng All Hospitals; 7.12 This is Communism; 7.30 Dance Music, 8.00 Forum of the Air;
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      96 10 Air; 8.30 Thursday Syrophony: 9.45 American Personalities Parade; 10.00 Happy Anniversary; 11.00 Close. PENAN! 10.50 Foi The Sc.W^j, 11. 15 Singing Together; 11.40 English Literature;- 12.00 Malay Programme*; 6 00 Programme Summary; 6.02 Swing High,' Swing Low; 6.30 Movie Magazine; 7.00 News (also at 9.30); 7.15 This is Communism; 7.30
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      116 10 17.15 News (French); 7.30 English Half Hour; 8.00 "Strictly Vocal;" Thai; 8 45 Dutch; 9.00 JKuo/ti; 9 30 Burmese; 9.45 "rots not Summary and Interlude; J Huu. ;*w« Reel; JO. 15 ad Ca 1 %f.n "Gerald Barry Unf;* 11.0 r ;-nce Music; 1.15 *"*»«cUi D'^patch:" 11.30 i li. at News
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      PROBLEM OF U.K. MINISTRY'S TIN STOCKS
      448 11 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. npHE problem of what Is to happen to the Ministry lof Supply's still substantial stocks of tin is difficult, says the Metal Bulletin, which points out that the Government held 14,369 tons of metal in the U.K. and
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      TIN PRICES
      31 11 SINGAPORE, Wednesday, Jan. 18. $287.75 per picul (op 10.50). LONDON, Wednesday. Spot: £599' 2 £600. Forward 584 4 584 M Seitlement: £600. Turnover: morning:, 80 tons; afternoon, 35 tons.
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      MALAYAN SHARE MARKET
      197 11 MALA YAN SHARE MARKET From Our Market Correspondent r pHERE were small appreciations in the tin section of the Malayan share i market yesterday. Industrials were still attracting interest at the lower levels. Price changes announced by .tie Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: 1 > I t 1 1. 1 I
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      PRODUCTION OF TIN ORE
      45 11 PRODUCTION of tin ore concentrates In the Federation during December totalled 106,030 plcula. it was officially stated. Perak produced 68.069 picuis. Selangor 26.956. Negrl SembUan 2.446. Pahang 3.586. Johore 1.773. Trengganu 798. Kedah 1.098, Pot lls 1.066 and Malacca 238 picuis.
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      RUBBER PRICES IMPROVE
      204 11 RUBBER PRICES IMPROVE THE Singapore rubber market showed a considerable Improvement In prices yesterday. Sellers were reserved but there were good buying I Inquiries from both upcountry centres and locally. Closing prices (per ib) yesterday were: No. 1 R.S.S. spot loose buyers 50 cents, sellers 50 Vi cents; F.OB, in
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      SHIPPING AT S'PORE WHARVES
      116 11 SHIPS alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns tn brackets^ were: Main Wharf: Pundua 1 33-34), JTjipanas (36-37). Siberoet (40-41), Tosari Ml>. Benmacdhul (42-43). West Wharf: Malaya (1-2). i Amnuputty <3>. Bali (4-5). Hoegh j SUvercloud (6-7). Calrhas (8-9). Madoera (11). Kudat U3-i4), ißenreoch (15-16).
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      London Stocks
      197 11 LONDON, Wed. THERE was a change of sentiment In the giltedged section of the London stock market yesterday. Buying orders In medium and long-dated issues created galn« of an eighth to threeeighths per cent. Following were the closing middle prices of selected stocks a.supplied to the Straits Times
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      "FACTS AND FIGURES"
      78 11 jrpHE 29th edition of "Facto »nd> Figures" relating to Malayan 'industrial, tin and rubber companies, compiled and published by Fraser te Co., of Singapore, was published yesterday. This investor's guide fives statistical data concerning the Un and rubber industries of Malaya as well as Information regarding the
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      PRODUCE MARKET
      86 11 From A Sfcrfcet Correspondent OVERSEAS inquiries for pepper continued in the Singapore produce market yesterday. However, only small arrivals and transactions took place. Yesterday's prices (per picun were: Gambier $260 (round). $50 (Java cube). 155 (Hamburg cube) Copra $36 (sundried) $35.50 (mix|ed): Pepper $850 Muntok white, $845 Sarawak
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    FRENCH AIRMEN LOSE THEIR FIRST GAME
    494 12 FRENCH AIRMEN LOSE THEIR FIRST GAME Malayan R.A.F. In Top Form R.A.F 9; French AM 6. <THE ROYAL Air Force, Malaya, played their best 1 game of the season yesterday when they defeated the French Air Force, Far East, by nine points (two tries and a penalty) to six (two
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    Chinese Win Tournament Hockey 3-0
    257 12 THE Singapore Chinese ReI creation Club created an upset in their hockey knockout semi-final tie when they beat the Khelsa Association by three goals to nil on the Association ground yesterday. The Kbalsa Association could not do a thing against the determined set of Chinese
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    S.H.B. Police Beat Blues
    165 12 TN an interesting game of rugger, in which the final result was in doubt till the last five minutes, the S.H.B. Auxiliary Police beat Singapore All-Blues by* 14-11 (goal, three tries to a goal, two tries) at the Faculty of Acts ground yesterday. For 5.H.8., Bainsbridge,
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    HIGH LEVEL AID SOUGHT FOR BOXER'S RELEASE
    145 12 HIGH LEVEL AID SOUGHT FOR BOXER'S RELEASE SYDNMT, Wfd. BJR Philip Noel-Bmr, secre- 111 Ury for Commonwealth Relations, is to be asked In New Delhi to assist In obtaining the immediate releasr of the Northern Rhodesfen Empire Games welterweight boxer, Lindsay Kin*. detained ln Karachi When the team arrived at
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    S.A.F.A.Gets $905 Out Of $250,000
    141 12 S.A.F.A.Gets $905 Out Of $250,000 OUT of a total income of $251,000 for the 13 months under review, the Singapore Amateur Football Association has only been able to show a surplus of $905, members will be told at the Association's annual general meeting to be held in the Singapore Recreation
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    YESTERDAY'S SOCCER
    82 12 The following are the results of friendly soccer matches played in Singapore yesterday: H. Q. (Singapore Dist.) Deat IJt.C. 'A' one-nil at Farrer Park; FEDSEC beat St. Patrick's School three-one on the school ground; Cheerful Lads Assn. beat Tons Mong Old Boys three-two at Katong; and at Farrer
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    ARMY BEAT S.R.C. 3-2
    100 12 The Army beat the Singapore Hecreation Club by three goals to wo in a friendly game of hockey 3n the padang yesterday. Army, playing for the first time as a combined XI since October, put up a grand show and 1.-.d in Major Lucas, Lt.-Col. Rumsey
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    HOTSPURS XI
    61 12 The team to represent the Hotspurs ln a friendly game of soccer against Victoria School XI on the school ground to-morrow will be selected from: W. Skinner. Soo Woon, Ec Bin, Luke Lopez, W'un Mahmood, Kirn Hian, Daud Roslan (capt.), Seng Chiang, N. Ganesan, Paul Thomas, Shimbhu Dutta,
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    S.C.F.A. MEETING
    26 12 The annual general meeting of the Singapore Chinese Football Association will be held in the clubhouse, 10 Farrer Park, on Saturday at 2.30 p.m.
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    OAG TO ENTERTAIN MALAYAN TEAM
    109 12 THE Malayan contingent to the. British Empire Games to be held in Auckland next month will be entertained 10 a tea party at Government House on Saturday at 5 p.m. when Sir Patrick McKerron, Officer Administering the Government, will meet the seven members of the
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    Buy Sound Horses Advises Breeder
    386 12 VjR. R. F. WATSON, a racehorse breeder and a j director of Newmav'-"* Bloodstock Ltd., which t is exporting British racehorses to Malaya, told the < Straits Times yesterday that conditions here demanded first of all that horses should be sound i and have proved
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    Thompson Available For One Fight Only
    186 12 Thompson Available For One Fight Only THERE is still hope that the British Empire lightweight champion, Billy Thompson, will flght in Singapore m the near future ™E™= man. and Singapore promoter A. Rank Yasterday, Huntm-ui sent Razak a cable In which he said that his protege was available for one
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    Yew Heng To Join M.C.F.A.
    128 12 Yew Heng To Join M.C.F.A. CHAN Yew Heng. the Rovers S. C. player, has been invited to play for the Malayan Chinese Football Association tourists at Hong Kong on Saturday in his usual position as full-back. The invitation has been accepted and Yew Heng, together with Mr. Yeap Hock Hoe,
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    S'GOR WOMEN'S XI
    62 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— rhe following have been selected '-o represent the Selangor State women's XI at hockey against Singapore on Saturday at Kl.. Mrs. Yap Slew Yeo; Miss Lim Ah Tal. Miss Inderjit Kaur; Mrs. N. Soars, Jnr-Comdr J. Gilbert. Miss H. Early; Miss Neela Rajaretnam. Miss
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    Sports Diary
    20 12 RUGBY: French Airmen r Civilians on Padang. HOCKEY: 223 8.0.D. T Ceylon S. C. (tourney). St. George's Rd.
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    ACTOR TO MAKE AMENDS IN IPOH
    346 12  -  EPSOM JEEP By IPOH, Wednesday. ACTOR, an expensive failure in his last start at Bukit Timah in November, may make amends at the forthcoming Perak Turf Club January races. This long-striding chestnut with Tulloh astride went freely when he beat stablemate So Black (Flannery)
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    FRENCH STEM AN RAF ATTACK
    44 12 FRENCH STEM AN RAF ATTACK LOrJDON. second-row forward for R.A.F. Malaya, gets the ball away to Sutton before being tackled by two players from the French Air Force XV when the two teams met at Jalan Besar yesterday, R.A.F. winning 9-6. Straits Times picture.
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    $2 Million Paid In Govt. Taxes
    256 12 SINGAPORE TURF CLUB ACCOUNTS THE SINGAPORE Turf Club paid Government $2,106,827 in respect of tax on the totalisator and sweep receipts last year, according to the Club's statement of accounts for the year ending Dec. 31, 1949, which will be presented at the annual
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    4th TEST ENDS IN DRAW
    291 12 4th TEST ENDS IN DRAW CAWNPORE. Wed. rpHE FOURTH unofficial Test L match between India and the Commonwealth tourists ended today in the expected draw. India being 84 for four when set three hours to make 300 runs for a win in tht? last day's play With a lead of
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