The Straits Times, 4 March 1950

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    20 1 The Straits Times MALAY AS LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1950. if PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP BAO DAI"S SON
    326 1 To Force His Father's Hand In Politics DARIS police said yesterday that they had foiled a plot to kidnap Prince Bao Long, son of ex-Emperor Bao Dai, head of the Frenchsponsored state of Vietnam. It is believed the kidnapping was intended to force his
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    101 1 1 MISS MAIDRENE YAP (left) models a frock which has strayed far from the Chinese cheong-sam. for the Chinese Festival of Fashion at Raffles Hotel. Singapore, tonight. At a preview at Bukit Serene on Thursday, Miss Yap wore this frock, the tailored taffeta top of which is all that remains
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    Labour Faces Internal Party Crisis
    231 1 Labour Faces Internal Party Crisis LONDON. Fri. I*tiE labour Government was threatened with a c: ms In its own party today n the Cabinet abandon■lans tor further natlonal'ition ol industry and the p>Wf>rtal labour unions openi drive lor higher pay. The Prime Minister. Mr. C -ment Attire, risking a ■It
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    A-BOMB DEFENCE TO BE STUDIED
    366 1 Somerville's U.K. Visit From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. MALAYA'S first Civil Defence Commissioner, Mr. G. W. Somerville, who leaves for England next month to study civil defence measures, will undergo instruction on protection and defence against the latest forms of modern warfare including
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    SPORE DEFENCE CHIEF RETURNS
    72 1 LT.-Col. E. L. E. Davis, Singapore's Assistant Secretary 'or Defence, returned yesterday from the IK after a two-month course at the Civil Defence Staff College at Sunninsdale. Col. Davu was studying civil defence problems under the auspices of the Home Office. He visited Liverpool and Birmingham
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    CHINESE TO BE DEPORTED
    64 1 MANILA, Fri. -Mass deportation of thousands of aliens, mostly Chinese, whose permits to stay here have expired, loomed today as immigration authorities prepared to carry out rigid enforcement of immigration laws. Informed sources estimated that 50.000 aliens, mostly Chinese, had been permitted to enter the Philippines
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    ARMY LORRY HITS POLICE BLOCK
    41 1 A military lorry driven by a British soldier crashed into a police road block at the junction of Tampenis Road and Chang! Road, Singapore, last night. Two hurricane lamps and the police sign board were broken.
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    ELECTION MOVE
    40 1 WASHINGTON, Fri.—The U.S. Navy has ordered Amerl-I can warships to stay away from Greek ports until after Sunday's national election In Greece as part of the "hand* off" policy, which the United States Is following towards the election.—A.P.
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    Trishawman Robbed
    26 1 A trishaw rider waa robbed of $8 and an ''Jentity card by a Malay and an Indian at Kinta Road, Singapore, early yesterday morning.
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    BOXER'S SECOND DIES AT FIGHT
    132 1 From Our Special Although now on the crest Correspondent of a wave, Driver declares MELBOURNE. Frl. that he will never tight again AFTER a 12-round fight j The second. Nick ?o»rt.^\. here tonight In which the »as taken 111 during the last Malayan boxer Jaglr
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    "U.S. MEN NOT HELD" -RUSSIA
    92 1 MOSCOW. Fri. RUSSIA today denied in a note to the United States that 38 American citizens were being detained in the Soviet Union. The Deputy Foreign Minister. -Mr. Andrei Gromyko. said in a communication delivered to the American Embassy that 37 of the 38 persons
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    Jap Cycles Wanted
    11 1 TOKYO. Fri.—Formosa is to import 3.000 Japanese bicycles.—U.P.
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    Govt. Denies Turko Was 'Entertained'
    305 1 rpHE Singapore Government yesterday issued a statement denying a report in a London newspaper that police officers had "entertained" Capt. "Turko" Westerling, leader of the rebel Indonesian "Army of the Heavenly Host", after his arrest on Sunday. The report which was cabled to the Dally
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    Govt. Talks On Legal Points
    110 1 Govt. Talks On Legal Points THE British Government Is at present in consultation with both the Dutch Government and the Indonesian Government about the disposal of Capt. "Turko" Westerling. The Indonesian request lor Westerling's extradition on charges of murder. manslaughter, and other crimes. is being considered, but several technical legal
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    AIR 'ECORD
    27 1 MADRID. Fri.— The Philippine Airlines DC-6 "Lingayan" flew from London to Madrid in two hours 24 minutes yesterday, setting a new commercial speed record. -U.P.
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    Australian Film Man For Malaya
    162 1 FUNDS have been made available under the L.K. Colonial Development and Welfare Act for the visit of an expert to advise whether th c present organisation and staffing: of the Film Unit maintained by the Federation Government are appropriate for the work which it is
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    Malays Die For Stewart Murder
    82 1 ROSLI bin Dobie and .Morshidi bin Sidek. who were sentenced to death in January for the murder of Mr. Duncaet Georue Stewait. the former Governor of Sarawak, were executed in Kuching Prison on Thursday morning. Rosli and Morshidi were tried in the Second Circuit Court
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    FAMINE THREAT
    26 1 HONG KONG, Fri— The East China zone around Shanghai faces a serious famine with over 1.000.000 people affected, reports reaching here said today. Reuter.
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    U.S.Hint Of Aid Soon To S.E.Asia
    251 1 U.S. Hint Of Aid Soon To S.E.Asia WASHINGTON, Fri. rpHE U.S. State DepartA ment hinted to Congress yesterday that it might produce an aid programme for SouthEast Asia within the next three months. It said U*****,000,000 is available for new foreign programmes. The department noted thafc USSIOO.OOO.OOtf In unused China-aid
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    Sumatra Unrest
    24 1 MEDAN, Fri.—lndonesianlanguage papers in Medan continuously report incident* in various parts of East Sum* atra, according to Aneta news agency.— Reuter. AAP.
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    Western Germany "Honeycombed" With Red Spices' Says General
    283 2 United States Army Officers Warned FRANKFURT, Friday. f lEUT.-GEN. Clarence Huebner, Commander of the United States Army troops m Europe, said today that Western Germany is "honeycombed with Communist agents." Gen. Hutbner's statement followed the recent) news that Important documents had disappeared
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    U.S.GOVT. MAY SEIZE MINES
    196 2 WASHINGTON, Friday. PRESIDENT Truman said yesterday that draft plans for the seizure of the U.S. coal mines had been drawn up, but he did not indicate when, or in what circumstances, they might be used. He made his statement at— a news conference when he commented
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    TRUMAN RUBBER PLAN REJECTED
    74 2 WASHINGTON, Fri. THE U.S. House of Representatives Armed services sob committee yesterday rejected President Truman's plan far disposing of Government's wartime rubber plants and, instead, recommended a three -year extension of the present law. If Congress accepts the sub-committee's recommendation, the Government will retain about 90
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    Brind Due In Manila
    136 2 MANILA. Fri. ADMIRAL Sir Patrick Brind. Commander-in-Chief of the British Far Eastern Fleet, which will hold joint manoeuvres with the United States Seventh Fleet in the China Sea shortly, is due in Manila tomorrow. He is expected to call on President Quirino the same day. Admiral
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    UNOFFICIAL FOR AUSTRALIA CANBERRA, Fri. — Britain
    66 2 UNOFFICIAL FOR AUSTRALIA CANBERRA, Fri Britain has agreed to lend a Treasury official, Commander Robert Jackson, to Australia as temporary secretary to the proposed new Ministry of National Development, Mr. Richard Casey announced yesterday. During the war Commander Jackson organised the Middle East supply centre which was responsible for feeding
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    KKK CHIEF CHARGED FOR MURDER
    164 2 PELL CITY (Alabama), Fri. of an unmasked and unrofr-ri A high leader of the Alabama f^f J^** visited bis home. Ku Klux Klan who is g* hls £,m-also, malso a clergyman was jg- th e Ku Klux charged here with taking n h i *J}"
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      Crowded Prisoners Eat, Sleep In Shifts
      363 2 SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, Friday. AN intense Royal Canadian Mounted Police drive against "moonshiners" makers of illicit liquor —has filled Sydney gaol to double its normal caoacity. Prisoners are forced to eat and sleep m shifts because almost 90 are held m the ancient gaol
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    STRAWBERRIES'
    30 2 FOR MALAYANS going on leave: Digby Morton's new summer outfit pictured here is railed "Strawberries and Cream"' and features a crushed strawberry pink edge-to-edge linen Co 3!.— Reuter picture.
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    PEASANT GRAB IN S. ITALY
    73 2 ROME, Fri. DEASANT couriers, riding on mule back and sometimes running barefooted, last night raced through the remote hilltop villages of Calabria in Southern Italy rallying countryfolk for the latest "peasant revolt." An estimated 100,000 acres of uncultivated land has been parcelled out between individual
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      630 2 NOTICES NOTICE BENTA KUANTAN ROAD. NOW OPEN TO THROUGH TRAFFIC. STATE XNOINESR. PAHANQ. NOTICE To all our business friends, we herewith Inform you that MR, LAI YEW MENQ hitherto our salesman for hardware, cement, building materials etc. Terminated his services with our company as and from Ist March 1950. MANAGER,
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      589 2 NOTICES NOTICE Take notice that I, 8. RASOO of 389 Joo Chtet Romd Singapore. have applied to the Board of Licensing Justices, Singapore, for the issue of a third class Public House License comprehensive. In respect of premises 212 Ra^e Course Road, B*pore, under the name of "Race Course Bar"
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    PRESIDENT TRUMAN SAYS: "I'LLNEVERGO TO MOSCOW"
    330 3 PRESIDENT TRUMAN SAYS: "I'LLNEVERGO TO MOSCOW" WASHINGTON, Friday. pKKSIDENT Truman said yesterday that he would never go to Moscow so long as he was President of the United States. In even more categorical terms than On any previous occasion, the President, at his weekly Press conference, rejected any possibility of
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    Emergency U.S. Plans On Defence
    194 3 WASHINGTON. Fri. S. \TORS learned at a secret session yesterday that ';ency plans were now for putting the United s on a wartime basis, including civilian defence 8 vast possible atomic bombi a- Miilard Tydiru* '!*>- i _i. Maryland) chairman cf tt rfi-natc Armed Services
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    COLD SHOULDER FOR RUSSIANS
    65 3 WASHINGTON. Fri. The Fir Eastern Commission held ber of its weekly sessions rday without the Rus- who are continuinc boycott in protest rut the presence of the nese Nationalist members. The commission has given r. indication of yielding to Russian demand that the se Nationalists be
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    "U.S. MAY RE-ARM JAPAN"
    119 3 NEW YORK, fn GEN. Robert L. Eichelberger said last night that the United States might have to permit Japan to re-arm defensively. This would be necessary said the former Commander of U.S. Bth Army in Japan, if "there comes a peace treaty and her security is
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    SAAR AGREEMENT
    37 3 PARIS, Fri.— France aban- dons its claims to ownership of the Saar coalmines, but receives the right to exploit the mines, in an agreement with the autonomous Saar Government signed In Paris I today. Reuter.
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    Pakistan Admits Report Of India Riot Inaccurate
    192 3 NEW D*XHI, Friday. THE Indian Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, has Pr^L elVe il a communication from the Pakistan Premier Liaquat Ali Khan, admitting that a report published in Pakistan that 'over 10,000 persons were killed in recent communal disturbances Calcuttawas 'found i«> be
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    8 SENTENCED TO DEATH
    77 3 PARIS. Fri. -Eight former members of Vichy and Montlucon Gestapo units received death sentences at Lyons today after an 11 -day trial dining which the military tribunal examined fc.OOO alleged crimes. The 37-page charge sheet included 1,000 cases of deportation, 300 cases of summary execution, 100
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    KEY MEN
    38 3 MR. HUGH DALTON, Mr. G eorf e Tomlinson, Mr. Harold Wilson and Mr. George Isaacs leaving No. 10, Downing Street, after the meeting at which the Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, chose bis new Cabinet. A.P. picture.
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    Secret Service Probe Ordered
    240 3 LONDON, Friday. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, yesterday 1 ordered a full investigation of Britain's secret service, M.I. 5, as a result of the Klaus Fuchs spy trial. Mr. Attlee gave direct orders to the War Minister, Mr. Tohn Strachey, to inquire into how Fuchs
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    GREAT WORK' OF THE COLONIES
    93 3 LONDON. Fri. MR. James Griffiths, who has replaced Mr. Arthur Creech Jones a s Secretary of State for the Colonies sent a message today to all Colonial Governors: "I am a newcomer to your affairs, though I have watched with the keenest interest the work
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    4 RECOGNIZED
    32 3 SEOUL, Fri— Dr. Syngman Rhee. President of South Korea, announced today that Korea would immediately recognise the three new independent Indo-Chinese states of Vietnam. Cambodia and Laos and Franco-Spain.— Reuter-AAP.
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    GERMANS ENTER FASHION FIELD
    38 3 THE NEWEST summer frock by a German designer, in green cotton printed in white with red polka dots and a white bolero jacket, was shown at a recent fashion show in Berlin. A.P. picture.
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    37 U.S. PILOTS GET BACK-PAY
    205 3 HONG KONG, Wtl jp get a large hoard of VS. dollars belonging to the Chinese National Aviation Corporation, the Chinese Communists had to pay more than US$l5O,OOO to 37 American pilots and other creditors yesterday. A Hong Kong court uiled hist week that the urline
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    Chiang Get U.S. Backing Against
    211 3 WASHINGTON, Fri. npHE United States State Department indicated yesterday that the United States recognises Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek rather than Gen. Li Tsung-jen as President of Nationalist China. Gen. Li, who has been acting President has challenged the validity of Chiang's return to power. President Truman
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    AGREEMENT WITH ISRAEL FORECAST
    56 3 TEL AVIV. Fri. Political circles in Israel said last night that they were "not surpriseed" at the resignation of the Jordan Cabinet which was announced yesterday. These circles believed the resignation Indicated King Abdullah intended to carry out an agreement with Israel, despite opposition in certain
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    Troops Ready For Greek Elections
    159 3 ATHENS, Friday. MILITARY garrisons throughout Greece went on iTI standby orders three days before an estimated 1,800,000 voters elect a 250-member Parliament that will contain at least half a dozen widely divided parties. The Army chief, General Papagos, has ordered an investigation into charges that
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    Red States Accused
    140 3 THE HAGUE, F:i. 'THE International Court of Justice has spent three days hearing an issue arising from alleged violations of human rights in Soviet satellite states. Britain accuses Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania of "a wilful refusal to carry out a clear obligation" contained in the peace treaties.
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    UNION SEEKS OVERSEAS LEAVE WITH FULL PAY
    497 4 UNION SEEKS OVERSEAS LEAVE WITH FULL PAY yHE Municipal Services Union has suggested to the Municipal Commissioners to set up a system of full pay overseas leave with return steamship passages for locally domiciled employees of the Singapore Municipality. The suggestion is made in a memorandum on conditions of service
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    $4,600 LIQUOR FINE
    216 4 $4,600 LIQUOR FINE AS a sequel to a Customs raid on a house in River Valley Road In which four men were found squatting •round a basin of water taking labels off bottles, 25-year-old Goh Keng Yoon wa« fined $4.6(10 or six months' Imprisonment in the Singapore Tiird Police Court
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    JOHORE ISSUES FOOD ORDERS
    84 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Fri. T?ROM today, no foodstuffs may be moved in the State of Johore betv>een the hours of 7 p.m. and 5 a.m. No foodstuffs in excess of a quantity considered sufficient for a person's normal requirements may be moved within
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    NO CARD
    44 4 .From Oar Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Fri.— Asmah binte Ali, of Rengam. who failed to produce her identity card for inspection at Kulai was yesterday fined $4 in the Police Court, Johore Bahru. She had forgotten to bring her card with her.
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    Dawn Check At Ipoh Detention Camp
    197 4 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Friday. ANTI-BANDIT Month volunteers, including a number of European women, carried out a surprise check of the detention camp here. They worked in close co-operation with the police »t dawn today. Large quantities of documents were seized and taken
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    TRISHAW RIDER INJURED
    54 4 A trishaw and Its rider were pinned between a lorry and a police van at New Bridge Road Singapore, yesterday afternoon. The accident occurred when the lorry was trying to park in front of the stationery police van. The trishaw rider was treated at the hospital and
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    RED PAMPHLET
    23 4 A Communist pamphlet was found by a Police Radio Patrol car at Gainshamarican Road, off Mohd. Sultan Road, Singapore, yesterday evening.
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    CUD TO BE HOME
    54 4 CUD TO BE HOME MISS ROSALIND TAN returned to Singapore yesterday after three years studying singing in Melbourne. Rosalind says she is glad to be back because she did not like the "changeable" Australian weather. With her is her nephew. Mr. Eugene Lee Eu, who hag been studyIng at a
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    U.K.WelfareMen To Be Sought
    214 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. riR. Charles Rawson, Chief Social Welfare Officer of the Federation, who goes to England on three months' leave next week, will spend part of his holiday looking; for probation officers to Implement Malaya's children's charter. "Our children's charter is
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    PROMOTED
    38 4 Pram Our Own Cf ropwxltct JOHORE BAHRU. Frl. Inche Talib bin Hajl Taib, District Officer. Batu Pahat, who U at present on leave. has been promoted from Class IB to Class 1A of the Johore Civil Service.
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    THE MONTH WILL HIT RUBBER
    139 4 THE MONTH WILL HIT RUBBER From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Frl. ALL-OUT drive against the Communists in Ma'aya can have nothing bat an adverse effect on rubber production/ states Lewis and Peat's weekly London market report. The report also mentions as an adverse factor the growing accumulation of rubber in
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    ST. PATRICK'S DAY DANCE
    64 4 The Singapore Y.W.C.A. will hold a social and dance >n the occasion of St. Patrick's Day on March 17. The function, which will take place in the .Y.W.C.A. premises In Rattles Quay, Is open to members and their friends. Admission is free but light refreshments and
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    LORRY CRASH
    23 4 An Army 3-ton Ibrry ran into a ditch and overturned in Jalan Sultan, Singapore, late last night. The occupants esaped unhurt.
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    LONG SERVICE RECOGNISED
    68 4 THREE MEMBERS of the Singapore staff of the Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada with more than 25 years service received mementoes yesterday from Mr.- Roy Grant, associate superintendent of agencies, who Is on a world tour of inspection. He is seen here handing the presentation to
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    U.S. Paper Hopes Bandits Will Be Crushed
    150 4 WASHINGTON, Fri. THE Washington Star, in a leading article on Malaya's "Anti-Bandit Month,'' hopes that the Comiftunist-led guerillas who have been burning, looting and killing for the past 18 months will "now be hunted down and annihilated." "Such a task ls all the
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    The Week In Rubber
    282 4 r THE rubber market has again been somewhat hesititant, but any setback has immediately brought In trade buying. There can be little doubt, says Lewis and Peat's weekly market report, that the under tona continues to be very sound. Estimateed consumption of natural rubber in the
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    Production Of Iron At Dungun
    233 4 \l/ITH reference to a report which VT appeared in the Straits Times on Jan. 20, giving details of iron ore production at Dungun Mines, in Trenggaun. now under their new owners, the Eastern Mining and Metals Company Ltd., we have been asked to point out
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    9 WILD PIGEONS
    34 4 From Our Own Correspondent TELUK ANSON, Frl.-For possession of nine wild pigeons without a licence, Sanl bin Jan tan was fined $25 or three weeks' rigorous imprisonment. The pigeons were -oa&»cated.
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    SEVEN DIE IN HIGHLANDS AMBUSH
    398 5 Bandits Fired At Convoy From Cliffs Front Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. NEW Zealand hydro-electric engineer, a British Army officer, four British other ranks and a Malay special constable were killed and five British other ranks were wounded three seriously— when bandits ambushed a
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    28 5 THIS GROUP of Singapore Malay women were among the hundreds of people who attended the St. Andrews jumble sale at the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday.* Straits Times picture.
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    Johore PWD Staff Lack
    141 5 From Oim Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU Fri. THE Public Works Depart1 ment describes the year 1949 as a "Care and Ma Itenance Year"; care beil^ exercised to ensure that the continuing emergency resulted in the minimum of the minimum of interference with the Department's essential services
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    PANDAN LAMPS
    26 5 vapour street lights are to be installed at Pandan five mile* from Join Rahru. ;o replace four tie lamps. The cost Will be SfifiO
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    RAF Malays Aid In Operations
    215 5 DETACHMENTS of the RAF Regiment (Malaya), composed mainly of Malays, went b n jungle operations with the security forces in the Federation last month. This is mentioned in the February operations report issued by HQ, Far East Air Force. The report says that during February,
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    New Year Festival Ignored
    75 5 Chap Goh Meh, the 15th and last day of the Chinese New Year celebrations, passed almost unnoticed and unobserved in Singapore yesterday. In China Chap Goh Meh used to be the day when girls visited temples, dressed in their best, to pray for good husbands. Only
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    Special Jury Finds Malay Killer Mad
    220 5 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Friday. A FTER retiring for ten minutes, a special jury found that 42-year-old Ismail bin Awang, on trial for murder, was insane at the time he caused Looi Ah Seng's death on Nov. 4 last year at Sungei Dua
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    U.S. CONSULAH CHANGES
    90 5 Mr. Richard A. Poole has been appointed Consul in charge of the U.S. Consulate in Kuala Lumpur. He has been in charge of the Consulate as Vice-Consul since the departure of the Consul, Mr. William L. Blue, in August last year. Vice-Consu* James R. Ward has been
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    LORRIES MUST BE WASHED
    178 5 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Frl. ALL lorries carrying "sodium arsenlte." a chemical usually used for weedkilling on rubber estates, will in future have to be thoroughly washed before any other goods can be conveyed In the same vehicles. This order has been made by the
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    FOURTH BIRTHDAY
    38 5 UNGKU JANET FAWZIA OSMAN seen with her mother Che Wan Fatimah binte Mohammed, during her fourth birthday celebrations in Johore Bahru last week. A large number of friends and relatives attended the party.— Straits Times picture.
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    WOUNDED BANDIT KILLS SERGEANT
    50 5 A European police sergeant was killed in the Bentong area of Pahang yesterday by a grenade flung at him when he approached a wounded Chinese who had been shot as he broke away from a screening line-up The Chinese was shut dead afteT the grenade exploded.
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    Singapore Diary
    143 5 Y.W.C.A., 5, Raffles Quay Man1 darln class, 9 a.m., Chinese literature, 11 aon. EXHIBITION OF F.VIMIM,^ by Dr. William Clyde, In aid of the Diverslonal Therapy Unit of Tan Tock Seng Hospital, to be opened by Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, Robinsons. Raffles Place. 11.30 ajn. V.M.c.A.. Orchard Road,
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    MCA GIVES $21,000 FOR SQUATTERS
    106 5 From Our SUIT Correspondent MALACCA, im. A TOTAL grant of $21,000 has been approved for the relief and re-settlement of squatters by the Finance Sub-Committee of the Malayan Chinese Association, consisting of Messrs. Yong Shook Lin. Khoo Teik Eec and H. S Lee said Mr.
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    LEAGUE PARTY
    50 5 SIR HENRY CRAIK (left) senior member of the Central council of the Overseas League, pictured at a party given in his honour by the Singapore branch. He is seen with Capt. A. C. Ben field of the Straits Merchant Service Guild and Mrs. Lilian Buckoke. Straits Times picture.
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    RUBBER WAGES TALKS AT K.L.
    272 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. WAGE talks between representatives of Malayan rubber workers and officials of the Malayan Planting Industries Employers' Association began in Kuala Lumpur today. Discussions this morning, it is understood, were confined to the workers' pre- I sentation of their
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    Sale To Aid Hospitals
    85 5 THE St. Andrew's Mission Hospital's Linen Guild will hold its first annual sale and entertainment this morning at 10 o'clock at the Y.W.C.A., Raffles Quay, to raise funds to supply the hos pltals with their larger linen requirements The entertainment, which will be formally opened by
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    STORE OPEN-AIR CHURCH SERVICE
    34 5 The Bethesda Church In Katong will hold an open-air service at Marine Parade. Singapore, tomorrow at 545 p.m. Mr. Lan Morrison of the National Bible Society of Scotland will preach.
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    FREE MEDICAL SERVICE SOUGHT
    71 5 THE Singapore Municipal Services Union has proposed to the Municipal Commissioners that free medical and dental treatment should be given to monthly -paid employees. It proposes that the Commissioners should appoint a panel of medical officers, whose services to employees should be available at (heir homes
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    Typhus Drug Cures Typhoid
    174 5 Typhus Drug Cures Typhoid THE drug described by British medical experts as a certain cure lor scrub typhus, chloromycetin, is being used to fight typhoid fever in Singapore. Dr. N. A. Canton. Municipal Health Officer, said yesterday that the drug had been used with success in a number of cases
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    CHARGED WITH EXTORTION
    90 5 Bail of $2,000 in two suivt**> was allowed when 27-year-old Koh Yin Seng was tentatively charged in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday on two counts of extortion and one of imp rsonating a member of the police force. It was alleged that on Feb. 16 Koh
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    War Damage Bill— Copies On Sale
    32 5 War Damage Bill Copies On Sa le Copies of the War Dam"«m Commission Ordinance <r--now on sale at the Publication Bureau in th? General Post Office, tflntnnore, a t 50 cents each.
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    DEATH
    28 6 HO QUEE PHIAU. aged 50. passed away peacefully at 10 am 3rd March 1950 Funeral fiom No. 31. Lorong 33. Geylang. •t 11 a.m. *th March 19(0.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Sat., Mar. 4, 1950. Pleasures And Duties
    828 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Sat., Mar. 4, 1950. Pleasures And Duties hough that was not the spirit n which H was appointed. fhus it is by no means enouraging in its attitude to the heatre. A reduction of the tax 0 half the standard rate is a gesture, but no
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    Party Politics And Public Services
    290 6 Party Politics And Public Services The letter from Mr. C. C. Tan, leader of the Progressive Party, which was published in this page yesterday, focussed attention on a question of principle in the conduct of public affairs by the Singapore Municipal Commissioners. Bo;h the Progressive Party and the Labour Party
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    Seremban Dance
    31 6 SEREMBAN, Fri. The Seremban Women's Sports Club will hold an international dance at the Negri Sembilan Club tomorrow night. Half of the proceeds will go to the anti-tuberculosis fund.
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    Pearl Harbour: 'We had wonthewar'
    1931 6  -  WINTSON S.CHURCHILL Grand Alliance— War Conies To America By IT was Sunday evening, Dec. 7, 1941. Winant [the American Ambassador] and Averell Harriman [Mr. Roosevelt's special envoy] were alone with me at the table at Chequers. I turned *n my small wireless set shortly after
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    On The Margin
    371 6 Unparliamentary lIONOURABLE members of the Federal Legco ha*« been given a little lesson in parliamentary etiquette in a letter which they have received from the Clerk ol Councils: Sir Madam. It is a practice of the Hoiiw of Commons and other LtgitUtive Bodies that do memUr passes
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    COLONY GOVT'S $2 ½ HOUSING SCHEME
    222 7 COLONY GOVT'S $2 HOUSING SCHEME Senior Junior Officers To Get Quartern THE Singapore Government is to spend $2,568,000 on its first major housing scheme for Government employees since the liberation. Of this, about $1,400,000 is allotted for the erection of houses this year for expatriate officers and those who are
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    MEDAL WINNER
    57 7 MR. CHARLIE CHOW PING LOONG, a shipping clerk •f the Borneo Co. at Miri, who was presented with the Royal Humane Society's Bronze Medal and Certificate by the Resident, Fourth Division, for diving into th«- sea and saving a woman passenger who fell between the m.v. Timbali and
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    BOTTLES THROWN IN BAR
    171 7 /t PUNJABI Mohammedan, Moil Khan, was fined $10 and ordered to pay $20 compjnsation in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday for causing hurt to Mrs. Elizabeth Hughes who was injured when two bottles were thrown in a Killiney Road bar during Chinese New Year. Pleading
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    Chinese Art Show At University
    159 7 AN exhibition of Chinese art will be opened at the University of Malaya today at 4.30 p.m. by the Vice-Chan-cellor. Dr. G. V Allen. The exhibition will continue tomorrow and on Monday. The public is welcome. More than a hundred pictures by Mr. Chen Wen-shi
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    CHINESE FACES ARMS CHARGE
    61 7 Thirty-eight -year-old Lim Guan Hai. of Dunearn Road, was committed for trial at ihe next assizes in the Singapore Sixth Police Court yesterday on a charge of possession of a revolver and 10 rounds of ammunition. It was alleged the police found the revolver and ammunition
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    BANKRUPT ORDERS
    69 7 On his own petition. Alan Thomas, of the Prison* Department, was adjudicated bankrupt yesterday In the Singapore Supreme Court. An order for him to pay $130 a month towards his debts was made by the. Chief Justice. Mr. Justice Murray-Aynsley. Other orders were: H C Stubbs to pay
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    SUICIDE BIDS ALLEGED
    154 7 SUICIDE BIDS ALLEGED ANG Chiian Peng, a 28-year-old Chinese, of Crawford Street, Singapore, was charged in Singapore yesterday, with making three attempts to end his life once by eating nails, again by eating broken glass, and then by eating iron scraps. Ang. it was alleged, had made these attempts between
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    PENANG "SECRET"
    63 7 From Our SUIT Correspondent PENANG, Fri— When Mrs. A. V. Aston, wife of the Resident Commissioner lays the foundation stone of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank's new building tomorrow, a small cylindrical tin will be buried under the stone m a specially-provi-ded recess. The contents of the tin
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    PADRE MAY WED
    22 7 The Rev. (Squadron Leader) John Johnson has been given a licence to solemnize marriages within the Colony of Singapore.
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    Seizure Of S 'pore Ships Reported
    225 7 I?LEVEN motor fishing vessels belonging to Singapore citizens and fishing companies are reported to have been seized by Indonesian naval patrols offSam ak and Banka last wr Vend. An official complaint was I made on Thursday with the Fisheries Officer. Mr. T. W. Burdon.
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    RATJON ADVICE FOR SPORE
    70 7 The mobile rationing unit wili attend to the ration card probiems of Singapore rural folks according to the following programme for the rest of ihr month Mondays: mornings Woodlands: afternoons Bukit Panjang. Tuesdays: mornings Padang Terbaker: afternoons Jalan Eunos. Wednesday*: mornings— Buona Vista Road; afternoon* Keppel
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    OFFERED BRIBE
    54 7 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT. Fri.— For offering a brioe of $2.50 to a police constable to obtain his release, 23-year-old Llm Yong Kwang was fined $50, or 25 days' gaol, by the Segamat Circuit Magistrate. It was revealed that a police patrol discovered him using an illegal
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    Untitled
    40 7 THE CHARON brought to Singapore yesterday Mrs. Salikin. the Australian wife of Mr Mohamed Salikin of the United States Information Service, and their three-year old daughter Jameel. Mrs. Salikin and Jameel have been on leave in Australia. Straits Times picture.
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    LADY MOUNTBATTEN TO VISIT MALAYA
    119 7 From Our SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Fri Countess Mountbatten of Burma, as head of the St. John's Ambulance Association, will be visiting the Federation or Malaya from March 10 to 14. She will arrive in Kuala Lumpur on March 10, and will be the guest
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    ON THE CHARON
    34 7 CHIEF INSPECTOR CHARLES SUCH of the Singapore Police with Mrs. Such and his two daughters, Pamela and Shirley. The family returned to Singapore yesterday after leave in Australia. Straits Times picture.
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    Specials Fought Bandits For Hour
    291 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. SPECIAL constables on Pagoh Estate at Segamat, Johore, drove off a strong force of bandits yesterday evening after an hour. The bandits failed to penetrate the defences. When two jungle squads and a platoon of the 1/2 Gurkhas
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    Trespassed To Find Man Friend
    125 7 Trespassed To Find Man Friend BECAUSE her "man friend had visited the house of another woman, 33-year-old Iris Florence Codd, of Joo Chiat Place, "forced her way into the house, ransacked the premises and broke the woman's mirror." Codd pleaded guilty in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday to trespass
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    Opening Broadcast
    33 7 A direct re-broadcast from London of a commentary on the ceremonial opening of the British Parliament will be heard pver the Blue Network of Radio Malaya at 6.15 p.m. on Monday.
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    Values Jump Near Skyscrapers
    154 7 T»HE value of Singapore properties in Battery Road, 1 Orchard Road and Finlayson Green has increased a great deal by the erection or intended erection of skyscrapers in their vicinity, according to Mr. Cheong Thiam Slew, a Singapore appraiser and auctioneer. The present good demand for
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    PENANG GIRL, 18, IN DEATH FALL
    77 7 From Ow Staff Correspond* nt PENANG, Fri. AN 18-year-old girl, Ung Saw Hoon, died in the Penan; General Hospital yesterday evening following a 20-foot fall from the window of her house in Muntri Street. The other inmates were in the kitchen when they heard
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    New Understanding
    86 7 I Brought up to show cause why she should not be committed to prison for contempt of court for disobeying an order of the Bankruptcy Court, Ng Shwee told the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Murray-Ayn-sley. yesterday in the Singapore Supreme Court that she had not understood the order.
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    'CHARGE CYCLIST' -CORONER
    104 7 'CHARGE CYCLIST' -CORONER THE Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter, yesterday suggested that a cyclist, who crossed the path of a bus just before it crashed into a drain, should be prosecuted for careless riding. As a result of the accident, in Bukit Timah Road on Feb. 26, a police
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    CASHIER ON C.B.T. CHARGE
    65 7 Fifty-niiie-> ear-old Herbert Peter Cardoza, cashier and head book-keeper of Ewart and Co Civil Engineers, was charged in the Singapore Sixth Police Court yesterday with criminal breach of trust of $4,822 belonging to th*» company. Cardoza was also charged with falsification of the company's account books.
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    Muslims Asked to Give To College
    212 7 Muslims Asked to Give To College mfUSLJMS in Malaya are now being asked to rally their support for thr $500,000 Muslim College which is to be built l n the Federation. In a foreword to the draft scheme for the college Just published. Mr. S. I. O. Als;igoff President of
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    PENANG-BOUND CARGO SAFE
    115 7 From Our Staff oorre.<»i> .i.drnt PKXA.NG, Fri pARRYING about 1.700 \J tons of cargo for Penan*:, the Brnledi has been town! to Malta following a l-rr which broke out on board last week. Thr fire was >til| burning yesterday, according to cable received hi the afternoon by
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    CHINESE BEAUTY
    495 8  -  LEE SIOW MONG fc \...<lark and lucid eyes.... face beyond compare" By This article is dedicated to the Festival of Chinese Fashion to be held in Raffles Hotel this evening. J HAVE been asked many a lime what Hie standards of hc.Mitv in Chinese women are. I believe
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    A tasty dish
    275 8 LOBSTER THERMIDON rK)R few people: Take two cooked crayfish. Cut in half, remove flesh and cut into small squares. Melt 1 oz butter or margarine with >/4 clove garlic, finely chopped. Stir In 1 tablespoonful flour to make roa^. Reduce with 2 tablespoonsfui mushroom liquor and 1/3
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    Say It With Sauce
    470 8 Kathleen Hickley gets some advice on the dinner problem- PERHAPS one of my first thoughts on learning I was coming to Singapore to live was, no more food worries, no more vainly trying to make the Sunday joint last until Friday, no more fish queues, and
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    "Perfect Air Girl" For Singapore
    96 8 Miss Doreen Pennell, described as the "Perfect Air Girl" of the British Women's Junior Air Corps, is visiting Singapore shortly on her way to Australia. Aged 24 she comes from Birmingham and is the winner of a "Flight to Australia" competition, organised by the W.J.A.C.
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    Head-waiters as censors
    356 8 LONDON: FRIPPETS of tulle and feathers are causing a fashion row in smart dining and wining haunts. The short evening dress has been generally accepted but the jewelled evening cap is often frowned on, and many a lady dressed In the height of fashion has been asked
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      307 8 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD young s %£&rm?i* crossword no. i E» ,7% w %_g tflJrjr to I TF I 4I 4 II 5 iTT T n 1- >. my body (N.I (91. >^— n ——t— ia Craftsman (9) M, _j v enturouj manner t Jl Signs of money abroad (5) Jj4i.
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  • SATURDAY FORUM
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      "BLACKMAIL" IN SINGAPORE POLITICS?
      482 9 "BLACKMAIL" IN SINGAPORE POLITICS? IN the Straits Times of Mar. 1 you quoted the following remarks by Mr. Ess, made in a Singapore Municipal Commission debate on the appointment of a Deputy Water Engineer: the European officers are going to say that if Mr Lim is appointed they are going
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      100 PERSONS: FOUR TAPS
      78 9 I DISAGREE with Mr. A Song Kok Eng's view (in Tuesday's letter headed "Standpipe as a Laundry?") that the Singapore Water Engineer should act against poor people who use the public standpipes in Singapore for washing clothes. I wonder if he is aware that, owing to
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      No Squeeze At Pudu Now
      280 9 No Squeeze At Pudu Now yOUR publication on Feb. 18 of my letter headed "The Ayahs In Pudu Hospital," complaining of "squeeze" among hospital employees, has had its repercussions. Last week, when I got my wife admitted to Pudu Hospital, I handed to her two $1 notes for the stretcher
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      Watching The Constellations Over Kallang
      280 9 pOR some weeks Constellation aircraft flying intc r Kallang Airport have been forcing their attentions on the people of Singapore. They pass neai the city's highest buildings and over the mosi crowded parts of Chinatown on their long, low run-in. The approach to the main
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      TALKING POINTS
      179 9 Why. oh! why can't the << Singapore Municipality do f, the gas mains, the water ';< mains, road resurfacing \s AND island building all > at once, at nights and at week-ends, in the vicinity of Collyer Quay?— Moto- 3 ist, Singapore.. <} My criticism is directed r>
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      AN INDIAN IN DEFENCE THE DOWRY
      243 9 1 REFER to the letter headed "Dowry System" in the Saturday Forum. The giving of a dowry according to the means and ability of 'he parents is an age-long custom not only in the East but also in the West. The city of Bombay
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      A MALAY LISTENER
      71 9 RASN'T the Malay Section of Radio Malaya Singapore something better to offer to its many Malay listeners than songs such as Bengawan Solo. Bunga Tanjong, Sapu Tangan and so on? These songs are already too old. More stuff is wanted like that broadcast from Radio Malaya Kuala
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      Tips For Exhibitors
      145 9 IKE many other film fans, Ido not get my moneys worth when I go to the cinema. One sometimes wonders if the film exhibitors pay any heed to regular film-goers' suggestions Here are a' lew suggestions of my own: Start the last show of the day at
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      ALAS FOR THE GOOD OLD PRE-WAR DAYS
      179 9 ALAS FOR THE GOOD OLD PRE-WAR DAYS DEADING the Straits Times and its contemporar- ies in this year of grace is like having a nightmare when you compare it with reading the newspapers published before the last war. In those good old days we seldom, if ever, saw Malayan political
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      'TEMPORARIES' AFTER T.B.
      148 9 WITH reference to a note in the "On The Margin" column of Feb. 28, in which the writer said that "temporarvs" in Government service always got the heavy end of the stick, I should like to cite an example. I refer to those "temporaries" who, having had
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      CHINESE NEW YEAR EMERGENCY '
      86 9 CHINESE NEW YEAR EMERGENCY IT was my belief that a doctor's first duty was to attend to his patients, but it was shattered recently when a friend of mine was taken seriously ill on Chinese New Year's Day. Several calls were put through to a couple of doctors, asking them
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      COCONUTS IN JAVA
      206 9 •pLANIurtS Wife's" arUcie, wnicli appeared in your columns on Fee 14 unaer vie heading "Do palms ne^d salt? nas drawn my autention. 1 don't thin* ii is u.wa/s the case that coconut i.. c s aDSoro sail, inougn me fan. is that coconut trees growing along the
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      FROM A PERAK ESTATE
      164 9 TK) exclude clerical x workers from the proposed new Labour Code in the Federation is very unjust. Since there is no legislation to protect the interests of monthly-paid employees, it Is high time that Legislative Councillors brought this forward. The most hard-hit of monthly-paid workers arp
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    London Stocks
    375 10 LONDON, Fri. PERMAN bonds were a W bright feature of the London Stock Exchange yesterday. Otherwise, markets were lifeless and without driving force. The tendency in Domestic Industrials was to lower leveU, although one or two miscellaneous leaders closed with small gains. Political uncertainty continues to weigh heavily.
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    TINS UNAFFECTED BY METAL PRICE
    769 10 From Our Market Correspondent i\ESPITE a further improvement m tin metal prices, Tin shares remained inactive but slightly steadier m the Malayan share market yesterday. Industrial and Rubber shares were practically un- changed. Prices quoted by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS Bayer Seller
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    TIN PRICES
    30 10 SINGAPORE, Fri. Mar. 3 —$289.12., (up $0.25.) LONDON, Fri, Mar. S. Spot: £600 —No Sellers. Forward: £585— £585V 2. Settlement: £600. Turnover: Morning: 140 tons, afternoon 455 tons.
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    Singapore Rubber
    218 10 OPENING at about quarter of a cent per lb. below the previous day's closing price, the Singapore rubber market steadied slightly throughout the day yesterday. Business was again on a small scale. The market was very quiet. Closing prices yesterday "vere No. 1 R S.S. spot loose buyers
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    125 10 From A Market Corrtspoix' it /iDFPEE in the Singapore produce V marker, yesterday remained practically unchanged from Thursday's position. Copra was very steady with business passing at $37 per picul and further buyers. Sellers were quoting $38, but without keenness. Coconut oil buyers were fiuoled at $59
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    C.A. START OFF WITH 3-1 VICTORY
    522 11 But Recs Made Them Fight Hard C.A 3; S.R.C 1. /CHINESE ATHLETES, last year's Singapore Amatear Football Association Senior League champions, got off to a good start in this year's league with a three-one victory over the Singapore Recreation Club at Jala n Besar
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    Hospital And RAPC Share Six Goals
    246 11 Hospital And RAPC Share Six Goals A GOAL right on the final whistle enabled the R.A.P.C. Nee Soon to draw three-all with Mental Hospital Recreation Club in a Junior Group I, league socoer fixture played at Geylang stadium yesterday. In spite of the sodden ground and greasy ball, the game
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    Arts-Science Win 7-1
    226 11 rE first inter-Faculty soccer match since the founding of the University of Malaya was played at Sepoy Lines ground yesterday and saw Arts and Science triumph by seven goals to one over the Medical Faculty. There was a large crowd present. The large margin of defeat was
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    17 11 TODAY: 10.39 a.m. (9ft. 3in.) and 11.48 p.m. (Bft. 51n). TOMORROW: 11.30 ajn. (9ft. Bin.).
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    Two Army Fights End In 1st Round
    305 11 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. TWO knock-outs were witnessed in last night's Malaya District boxing championships at the Chinese Assembly hall in Kuala Lumpur The first was in the bantamweight division, the flght ending In the first round when L/Cpl. Glossop
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    Indians Expect Much Of Raiji
    404 11 SINGAPORE CRICKET PROSPECTS A CRICKETER who would have represented the Cricket Club of India against the Commonwealth touring team had he not come to Singapore will strengthen the Indian Association team in this season's Singapore Cricket Association tournament. He is M. N. Raiji, who played
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    Sports Diary
    152 11 TODAY SOCCER: Senior Lge: Kota Raja v. Indonesian Lge at Jalan Besar. (referee. Cape. Roberts); Junior B I: Fathul Karib Club v. H.Q., Spore Disk at Geylang stadium. BADMINTON: Spore Malay championsh'ns at Haw Par Hall. 2 and 7 p.m. GOLF: Island Club championship (qualifying round); Royal Singapore
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    CYCLING VENUES
    45 11 PARIS. Fri.— ltaly was yesterday appointed as the venue for the world road and track cycle championships for 1951. The Congress of the International Cyclists Union decided' the road races would be held at Varese and the track races at Nigerelll, Italy— AJ».
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    S.C.R.C.CRICKET XI v. STRAITS TIMES
    68 11 SINGAPORE Chinese R.C. cricket O XI to play the Straits Times S C. at Hong Lim Green today at 2 p.m. will be picked from: Khoo Ong Lee, Ong Tong Bee, Ong Beng Bee, Ha Fook Sian, Lav Hock Chye, Richard Tay, Francis Lee, Chan
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    B.O.D. BADMINTON
    67 11 At the fourth annual general meeting of the Badminton Section of the BOD. Civilians' Association, the following were elected officials for the year: Convenor: Mr. Teo Boon Eng; Asst. Convenor: Mr. Jimmy Goh; Committee member: Mr. S. Gopal. Affiliated parties or clubs desirous of having friendly matches with
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      303 11 SINGAPORE News; 7.20 Charlie Kunz: 7.30 6.4S Northumbrian Barn Dance London Studio Melodies; 8 QuU 7.15 French; 7.30 English; 8 Jaz 10 a.m. News from X.L 10.05 Corner; 8.30 Adventures of PC.49; Octet; 8.15 Thai; 8.45 Dutch; U Close; 12 Malay; 1 p.m Dance 9 New Dance Records; 9.30 News;
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    GRECIAN PRINCE BEST BET AT PENANG TODAY
    1372 12  -  EPSOM JEEP John And Court Jester Also Recommended By PENANG, Friday. /GRECIAN Prince is definitely on the upgrade and I select him as the best bet on the card at Penan* tomorrow, the first day of the Penan Turf Club Spring Meeting. The
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    JAYAWICKREME TO LEAD COMBINED XI
    86 12 JAY AWICKREME TO LEAD COMBINED XI COLOMBO. Fri. THE Ceylon all-rounder S. S. Javwickreme will lead the combined India. Pakistan and Ceylon team in their three-day cricket match against the Commonwealth touring team starting at the Oval, here tomorrow. Other members of the team will be: D. G. Phadkar and
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    SITPHOL WAS TOO SMALL AND FRAIL
    364 12  -  MERV WILLIAMS By MELBOURNE, By Air. SIAMESE boxer Chai Sitphol was far to o small and frail to stand the wear and tear he was subjected to by Australian bantam champion Elley Bennett, at Sydney stadium last Monday. He was outclassed, and it was
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    Cen tries By Morris And N. Harvey
    202 12 Cen tries By Morris And N. Harvey i PORT ELIZABETH, Fri. AUSTRALIA got off to a fine start m the fifth and final Test match against South Africa, scoring 380 for the loss of only four wickets m the opening days play here today. Australia won the first three Tests,
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    SWALLOW B.P.
    50 12 The Swallow Badminton Party elected the following officials at Its inaugural meeting recently: President: Mr. Yeo Boon Kiat: Hou. Secretary: Mr. Tan Boon Pheng; Asst. Sec.: Mr. Michael Wiiulii; Hun. Treasurer: Mr. Harry Ho; SnorU Capt Mr. Vlucent R.TT.V Committee? Mr. Ibrahiui bui Putvh and Mr. Jimmy Ho.
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    Straits Times Selections
    147 12 EPSOM IEEP CALL BOY POINTER RACE 1 2.M ALABAMA Cararan Laurie CHUM'S CHOICE Loch Clyde Alabama ALABAMA loch Clyde (hum's < holce RACE S 3.M JOHN l>nton Bright Mengif-nir LENA DEAR Bright Mencseng Fenton JOHN Lena Dear Fenton RACE S III DF.MAK i S Jade Pr' tiros
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    Today's Race Card
    874 12 Today's Race Card BELOW is given the card of events for today's races at Penang Carefree, Francelene, Tiestone, Kinta Valley, Streatfleld and Whispering Sands have been scratched from all engagements. The Big Sweep will b e drawn on Race 8. Race 1—2.30: Cl. 4, Div. 4— 5J Furs. 040 Dark
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    Boy Brooks v Sands Slated For March 17
    141 12 ROY BROOKS, triple champion of the Orient, will defend his welterweight title against Alfle Sands in Singapore on March 17 subject to the approval of the Singapore Boxing Board of Control. If the fight comes off, it will be the biggest chance
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    Peng Soon And Holm In Final
    513 12 LONDON, Friday. WONG PENG SOON tonight entered the final of fT the All-England badminton championships in the singles by beating Joern Skaarup (Denmark) 15—11/12—15, 15—0 in their semi-final. Peng Soon's opponent in the final will be Denmark's Poul Holm, who beat his countryman Ole
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    2-1 VICTORY
    27 12 PARIT BUNTAR, Fri— The young Indians' soccer team scored a two-one win when I they met the Malay Teachers in a friendly match here yesterday.
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    NEW JOCKEY FOR OLLIE DAVIES
    53 12 A NEW Jockey arrived in Singapore by the Charon yesterday to ride for Trainer Ollie Davies. He is V. T. Dunwoodie of Perth, West Australia. Dunwoodie, whose riding weight is 7 st. 12 Ib. will have his first ride at the Singapore Turf Club meetIng
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    Seletar Win Team Boxing Trophy
    231 12 Seletar Win Team Boxing Trophy THE R.A.F. Seletar won ths team cup In the R.A.F. "Malaya) Open Boxing Championship finals at Seletar. Singapore last night. Seletar had 14 points. Changi had six. Kuala Lumpur, two. Tengah and Butterworth one each Air Vice Marshal Mellenli gave away the prizes: The results
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    I.R.C. v SELETAR
    78 12 ter-ftnal The Indian Recitation Clua will play a friendly game of soccer against the RAF. Sv\>" i at Seletar on S:nday. The IJI.C. team mention-; t below will meet at Faner Paik a'. 3.30 p.m. for transport to Scleiar. K. Narayanan. A. Razak. 8 Veloo. T. Nadarajah.
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