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Title Section18 1950-04-12 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGFS SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS18 words
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Article360 1950-04-12 1 Azis Flying To Jakarta To Explain JAKARTA, Tuesday. THE six-day revolt by pro-Federalist forces in Macassar ended today with the surrender of Captain Abdul Azis, its leader. Military sources announce that shiploads of Government troops standing off Macassar have landed at two points. The Defence Minister.Reuter; AP; UP - 360 words
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Article, Illustration253 1950-04-12 1 KILLED 13 BANDITS, AWARDED D.S.O. THE most sustained pursuit of a bandit gang yet achieved, resulting in 13 bandits being killed and at least 36 wounded In the Jerantut-Kuala Krau area of Pahang, has led to the award of the D.S.O. to Lt.-Col. E. P. Townsend, commanding Ist Battalion, 6th253 words
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Article164 1950-04-12 1 Stay Out Of War Warning To Japs TOKYO. Tues. A FORMER Japanese staff colonel who was reputed to be the "brain" behind General Yamashita's blitz of Malaya and Singapore, has advised Japan to stay out of any future world war. Ex-Colonel Masanobu Tsuji, 48, a legendary figure of the lastUP - 164 words
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Article49 1950-04-12 1 LONDON, Tues. -Mr. Etaquat AH Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, is expected to visit over 12 American and Canadian cities during his official tour of the United States and Canada in May. He will arrive by air in Washington on May 3. Reuter.Reuter - 49 words
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Article135 1950-04-12 1 TOKYO, Tuesday. T»HE Japanese government hopes that Malaya will 1 come to the rescue of Japan's light industries and buy heavily-stockpiled bicycles, sewing machines, porcelain and other products. Mr. Toyokichi Nakagawa. of the Commerce Ministry, said today that Japanese light industries are in aUP - 135 words
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Article22 1950-04-12 1 Because of satisfactory butter supplies, the Government of Singapore, has decided to end all rationing of tinned and frozen butter.22 words
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Article22 1950-04-12 1 HAVANA. Tues— A two-day strike by nearly 500,000 Cuban sugar workers ended yesterday when opposing sides accepted a compromise. AP.AP - 22 words
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Article, Illustration73 1950-04-12 1 IPOH BOMB OUTRAGE: Tbe spot in the dining room of the Hotel Metropole. Ipoh, where a hand-grenade exploded killing Mr. E. H. Dawson and wounding a waiter Leong Eng Piew. Scattered around are the shattered chairs and table. Below, the 0.C., Special Branch, Mr. H. B. Ryves (facing camera) making73 words
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Article105 1950-04-12 1 BANGKOK, Tuesday. UNITED States has granted US$lO,OOO,OOO worth of arms and other military aid to Siam, threatened h> Communism, the Siamese Premier, Marshal Phibun Songkram disclosed today. This is the first concrete manifestation of decisions reached at the Bangkok conference in February. Mr. PhilipAP - 105 words
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Article57 1950-04-12 1 TOKYO. Tues. rff Japanese Govern ment has restored to the United Kingdom 505,457 kilograms of tin seised during the Pacific war. Gen. Mat-Arthur's headquarters announced today. The tin, valued at more than U*****,000 was loaded aboard the Isbrandsten Line vessel Flying Cloud at Kobe and YokohanaReuter-AAP - 57 words
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Article52 1950-04-12 1 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Tues. WHEN 120 prisoners at VT the Batu Gajah Gaol broke open the door of the block in which they were confined yesterday afternoon, they beat up si fellow prisoner. It took four hours to restore order and lock them52 words
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Article60 1950-04-12 1 KINGSTON, Jamaica. Tues. —Four American destroyers joined in the search for an amphibian plane which made a forced landing off Jamaica on Sunday. Aboard were Mr. Harold Banting, a Briton, assistant managing director of the Caribbean International Airlines, and Mrs. Banting and Mr. and Mrs.AP - 60 words
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Article33 1950-04-12 1 SYDNEY, Tues. Japanese oysters were barred from exhibition at the New South Wales oyster farmers' assoc! ation annual competition today because oyster growers feared they would Introduce new disease.— A. P.33 words
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Article126 1950-04-12 1 From Oar SUff Correspondent PENANG. Tues. r nHE High Commissioner. 81r Henry Gurney, In an interview at Penang today, referred to the possibility of closer ties between Singapore and the Federation which was suggested by the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson. on his return from England. "Our first126 words
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Article277 1950-04-12 1 rHE Federal Legislative Council will debate a motion asking for military reinforcements for Malaya at its meeting in Kuala Lumpur next Wednesday, the High Commissioner, Sir Henry Gurney, told the Penang correspondent of the Straits Times yesterday. Sir Henry said the matter was "receiving constant277 words
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Article112 1950-04-12 1 HONG KONG, Tues. BRITISH authorities this afternoon called off plans to evacuate 900 stranded foreigners in Shanghai. The Chinese Nationalists have refused to grant the motor vessel Anking safe conduct. It Is also believed no firm agreement could be reached with the Chinese Communists concerning the riverAP - 112 words
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Article32 1950-04-12 1 CULVER CITY. California, Tues.— A giant helicopter which may prove to be a flying crane Is being tested by Howard Hughes Aircraft Company, builders of the world's largest plane. Reuter.Reuter - 32 words
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Article80 1950-04-12 1 PEARL HARBOUR, Tues. VICE-ADMIRAL Russell S. Berkey said here yesterday he knows of no extensive operations of Russian submarines alone the coast of Asia. What positive Information he had, the outgoing Commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet told reporters, had been well covered by reportsAP - 80 words
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Article32 1950-04-12 1 RANGOON, Tues. Burmese Government troops have occupied the Central Burma rebel stronghold of Magwe, and. another at Tantapin, Toungoo, 150 miles to the south-east, It was reported here today.— Reuter.Reuter - 32 words
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368 1950-04-12 1 CLAMOUR FOR RUBBER IN STORE MARKET Brokers Work Overtime By A Market Con espondent YESTERDAY'S rubber market in Singapore was the most active for many years. After the normal closing hour of 5 o'clock brokers and dealers remained in their offices until after six o'clock endeavouring to handle numerous telephone368 words
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Advertisement65 1950-04-12 1 > The M<*t Depends oi< i ime- neepers i P. H. HENDRY, <[ JEWELLER < ->» North Bridge Rd. Sptfi The familiar Player's Sailor figure symbolises all thai i* dependable and worthwhile m tobacco-manufatfur* /^sJ^OTS In the cigarette world it stands for Player's Navy pL/iwJJLA Cvt a name tendered iustly65 words
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Article1639 1950-04-12 2 Mr. Charles Mann's Review he Ordinary Oenerml Meeting 111 1 he Rubber Orowers' Assocla- I i Incorporated) was held on I March In the Council Cham- I nt the Association's Offices. < Frnrhurch Street. London. 1 3. 1 t r. Charles Mann 'the Chair- I >,1,639 words
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Article, Illustration243 1950-04-12 2 Singapore Man For U.S. Trade Talk In Tokyo TOKYO, Tues. *VBE American Consul A for Economic Affairs Singapore, Mr. A. Bland Calder, will be among American economic experts in a special six -day conference in Tokyo, beginning April 17, to discuss the trade problems of 12 Asian nations threatened byAP - 243 words
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Article78 1950-04-12 2 BERLIN, Tuesday. »pHE three Western occupation powers may allow West Berlin to join the West German Republic as 12th federal state in the next few weeks, German and American officials indicated yesterday. Both the West German Parliament and the West Berlin City Assembly have formally78 words
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281 1950-04-12 2 MELBOURNE, Tuesday. 4 100-OUNCE gold nugget, shaped like a dog and 1 worth at least £1,200, has been found in a backyard mine at Wedderburn. Gold worth £12,000 had already been won by backyard miners at Wedderburn, 150 miles north of Melbourne. TheReuter-AAP - 281 words
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Advertisement71 1950-04-12 2 pocket INHALER m U ways j\jifl [js> eadjr to *»>*—* elieve the first hint f a cold I**l for us* during Ik* day. \i\\y r*charg«d from Vap«jc fcottU. 4 CO IN EM AGGERS THIS CONCERNS YOU! Singapore's 34 cinemas have asked Government for tax reduction e.g. 5 cents instead of71 words
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Advertisement599 1950-04-12 2 NOTICES NOTICE THE ESTABLISHMENT of B. P. De SUva, Limited will remain dosed on Thursday, April, 13th tor the Sinhalese New Year. NOTICE Our Establishment will REMAIN CLOSED ON THURSDAY rHE 13TH INSTANT, being the Sinhalese National Day. P. H. Hendry. Jeweller, 78, North Bridge Road, Singapore. WARNING "The public599 words
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Advertisement575 1950-04-12 2 NOTICES MALAYAN CHINESE ASSOCIATION M Unlimited 91/- Sweep For MEMBERS onlj Drawing at the Chinese Assembly Hall, Kuala Lumpur, on Sunday, the 16th April, at 2 p.m. PUBLIC NOTICE CLOSURE OF COAST ROAD, KRIAN. It is notified that the Coast Road between 6th mile Sungtl Bakau and the 7% mile575 words
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Advertisement441 1950-04-12 2 NOTICES THE MOTOR VEHICLES (COMMERCIAL USE) REGULATIONS NOTICE OF AFTLICATION FOR A ROAD SERVICE LIMITED. TAKE NOTICE that I Lee Ming of Mentri. Triang by occupation Contractor intend to apply to the Commissioner of Road Transport, Federation of Malaya, for a Road Service Licence to authorise me to operate a441 words
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Advertisement60 1950-04-12 2 Here we have a car with a wealth of J^^J^ practical utility low running costs. __^L_Mm attractive body lines, solid construction V W and the 'utility' spaciousness so necessary to the dealer who wants a small dependable car for his 'every day business requirements. PROGRESS MOTORS LTD. f 46 ORCHARD60 words
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216 1950-04-12 3 HONG KONG, Tuesday. ('HINESE Communist trading agents in Hong Kong have placed an order with a Chinese shipyard here for the construction of 50 vessels which could be used as landing craft, according to a Chinese report. These craft willReuter - 216 words
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Article87 1950-04-12 3 lU.KI.IN. Tues. n« Erwin Meuller, 39-year-old physicist at I'.ilms Kaiser U'ilheltn Institute for Physical Chemistry, announced yesterdiv the development of a n.i roscope which, he says. allows man to see the ni'-'ocule for the first time. Dr. Meuller said his inirroscope. which he calls the "field electro-micro-Miiip"UP - 87 words
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Article145 1950-04-12 3 Conference Of C 'wealth Unionists LONDON. Tuesday pjRITISH Trades Union Congress announced yesterday that it expects nearly 12.000,000 Commonwealth Trade Unionists to be represented at a two-day conference in Geneva next June. The British T.U.C. proposed the contirence in a letter sent to all Commonwealth movements by the Central SecretaryReuter - 145 words
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Article45 1950-04-12 3 ANKARA. Tues. -Turkish intellectuals and Communists w.itched anxiously today as Nizim Hikmet, the nation's top Communist and puct, went into his third day of hu-ieier strike "to the death" in protest against the Government's determina' ion to k i him in exile.— U.P.UP - 45 words
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Article66 1950-04-12 3 TAIPEH, Tues.— More than 5,000 Communist guerillas surrendered on Hainan Island in the week ending April 9, the Nationalist Defence authorities of the invasionmenaced South China island said today. Leaflets dropped from thr air promised the guerillas their lives and "re-education" —in other words a full courseAP - 66 words
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Article60 1950-04-12 3 LONDON. Tues— Police at Lincoln today officially- denied reports that traces of poison had yet been found in the bodies of two elderly men exhumed last week at the Lincolnshire village of Whaplode Drove, where they are investigating local suspicions of murder. Organs from theReuter - 60 words
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250 1950-04-12 3 TEL AVIV. Tuesday. f\R. Chaim Yachil, of the Jewish Agency, estimates that 400,000 Jewish immigrants will have come to Israel by April 23 since Mi.* State was proclaimed in May 1948. This will represent a 60 per cent. increase in population. It is plannedReuter; AP - 250 words
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Article143 1950-04-12 3 FRANCO'S DAUGHTER MARRIES MADRID, Tues. WITH skyrockets bursting. overhead, 28-year-old Carmen Franco, only child of Spain's Generalissimo, was married yesterday amid 17th Century royal splendour to a young Madrid physician. The bridegroom, 29, is Cristobal Martinex Y. Bordiu. Marquess of Villaverde. The couple received a fortune in gifts, including aAP - 143 words
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Article51 1950-04-12 3 KARACHI. Tues.— A Pakistan Air Force Bristol freighter, carrying 16 officers and men. crashed in wild mountain country between Gilgit, Kashmir, and Peshawar on Saturday. Search parties beating their way through rainstorms over rugged terrain had not located the scene of the crash late yesterday.—Reuter - 51 words
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Article113 1950-04-12 3 LONDON, Tues. f pHERE is no question of Earl Mountbatten being appointed to South-East Asia, an Admiralty spokesman said yesterday. Admiralty quarters said Earl Mountbatien is relinquishing his Mediterranean command next month to take up his appointment at the Admiralty as the Fourth -Sea Lord.113 words
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Article, Illustration38 1950-04-12 3 PREMIERS MEET: Mr. Liaqtut All Khan. Prime Minister of Pakistan, being greeted at Palam Airport (Delhi) by the Indian Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, when the former arrived to discuss the communal situation in Bengal. A.P. picture.AP - 38 words
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Article245 1950-04-12 3 SAIGON, Tuesday. OAIGON'S two months' political tension has been eased, according to Vietnamese authorities who attribute this to the Government's determined attitude and to emergency measures taken by the Vietnamese police and security forces. Students and Intellectuals arrested after the March 19 disturbances have been releasedReuter; UP - 245 words
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Article43 1950-04-12 3 GLASGOW, Tues The smallpox outbreak claimed its sixth victim yestorday us Miss Catherine Wilson, 20-year-old nurse, died in the Knightswood Hospital where she had worked. There have been oo new cases reported in the last 10 days.— UP.UP - 43 words
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Article, Illustration28 1950-04-12 3 JAMS CARTER, Columbia Pictures' star, wears a bonnet made of "sunshine straw" so called because on bright days it allows the hair to glisten. Reuter picture.Reuter - 28 words
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Article125 1950-04-12 3 WASHINGTON, Tues. The United States Congress has full power to ask whether a person is a Communist party member, or believes in Communism. If he refuses to answer, the penalty may be a gaol sentence plus a heavy fine for contempt of Congress. That is theAP - 125 words
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Article41 1950-04-12 3 SOUTHAMPTON. Tues. Heavy Atlantic gales have delayed the luxury liner Queen Mary at least 12 hours on her voyage from New York. Loaded with 1,838 passengers, she is not expected to dock here until Thursday morning. A.P.AP - 41 words
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Article401 1950-04-12 3 UK, US Applaud Bengal Peace Pact LONDON, Tues. r PHE agreement reached oetween the Prime Ministers .of India and PaKistan on the treatment of minorities has been welcomed in London and. by American officials* and foreign diplomats in Washington. One American official said the agreement was the result of statesmanshipReuter; AP - 401 words
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Article34 1950-04-12 3 VATICAN CITY, Tues. The Vatican last nigr.t broke its long silence on ihe stale of Catholicism in Poland, claiming that the Communist government is '♦enslaving'/ and "wiping out" 21.000,000 Polish Catholics.— UPUP - 34 words
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Article140 1950-04-12 3 ROME, Tuesday. THE Italian Government warned the Communists yesterday that attempts to sabotage the unloading of American arms at present en route to an undisclosed Italian port will be dealt with as treason. The test or the Communist threats to block the arms programmeUP - 140 words
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Article68 1950-04-12 3 TOKYO, Tues. Tokyo police who have been round-ing-up known gangsters in the Tokyo and Yokohama areas h'/ve arrested more than 1,500 this month. At dawn 160 police swooped down on two separate hangouts of the Daigo Gang. The leader and six of his henchmen were taken intoReuter; Reuter-AAP - 68 words
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Advertisement46 1950-04-12 3 i RAILWAY MINE I PLANTATION f i EQUIPMENT LTD 1 RAILWAY I MATERIALS J LOCOMOTIVES TRACK (ALL WEIGHTS) j FREIGHT CARS i WAGONS (ALL DESCRIPTIONS) CON YE V ORS j Phone or write our Kngineering a Department for advice and quotations upon your tran»- portation enquiries.46 words
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Advertisement177 1950-04-12 3 Buy it in the 12 oz tins Sole agents in Malaya and Singapore for Kraft Walker products: COLD STORAGE Singapore Cold Storage Co., Ltd. Preserve and protect your new car'n ■tf^JP^M finish restore and increase your old car's W**Jl beauty-with simoniz and simoniz ki.kknkk. W»^*" These world famous producta are177 words
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Article273 1950-04-12 4 Messenger Found With Armed Men From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. A 28-YEAR-OI I) farmer, Lim Lean Seah, who was described by his counsel as a "civil worker" for the bandits, wa* today sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude by Mr. Justice Wilkinson in the273 words
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Article153 1950-04-12 4 VISITED HIGHLAND SAKAIS From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Tues. LONG-HAIRED and deeply sunburned, with a 20-year-old reflex-type camera j slung over his shoulders. 41- year-old Mr. Tong Shu Fa. a Chinese explorer, has returned to Kuala Lumpur from a visit to Sakais in the Cameron Highlands area. He is153 words
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Article37 1950-04-12 4 From Our Staff Correspondent MUAR, Tues. Lim Chan j was acquitted at Muar of having six piculs of sheet rubber arid two yiculs of scrap rubber of which he OOald not give a satisfactory account.37 words
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Article94 1950-04-12 4 Fretn Onr Staff cerrr*|p>n<ient KUALA LUMPUR, TuesThe wedding of Mr. Colin Simons. Electrical Engineer of the Singapore Municipality, and Miss Gwen 4efke. formerly radiographer at the General Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, took placs at St. Mary's Church, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. The bridegroom Is the son of94 words
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Article95 1950-04-12 4 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Committee members of the Selangor Government Servants' Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society entertained their presi.i" >i Mr. W. E. Rigby, to a farewell tea party in Kuala Lumpur today. Mr. Rigby. the Deputy Financial Secretary of the Federation,95 words
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Article, Illustration31 1950-04-12 4 KUALA LUMPUR WEDDING: Mr. C. W. J. Simons and Miss M. G. Meeke wbo were married at St. Mary's Churcb. Kuala Lumpur. on Monday.— Straits Times picture. (Report in this pare.)31 words
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Article174 1950-04-12 4 rilK Singapore Police" Force las organised welfare committees for its members, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. R. E. Foulger. said yesterday commenting on the recommendation of the United Kingdom Police Mission. I The Colony Police Force's welfare committees consist of four categories. There are the174 words
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Article43 1950-04-12 4 From Onr Staff Corresi>on<lcnt JOHORE BAHRU, Tues Omar bin Shahjiri, hospital attendant at Johore Bahru, who failed to attend Court to answer a charge of enticing away a married woman, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for contempt of Court.43 words
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Article34 1950-04-12 4 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Tues. -Mr. E. M. F. Payne, Chief Scout Commissioner in the federation, will address the Seremban Rotary Club at a dinner meeting tomorrow on the Scout movement.34 words
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Article25 1950-04-12 4 TAIPINO, Tues. Chuan Teng Peow and Ooi Thlan Seng were each fined $20 by the Taiping Magistrate for h-vtaf no attendants on their25 words
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Article178 1950-04-12 4 From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR, Tuesday. IN a dispute between two rubber tappers over the 1 price of a tapping knife, one of them, Man bin Sidik, lifted th c other up and dropped him on the ground, head downwards. Ihe man, Low Gan,178 words
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Article30 1950-04-12 4 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Tues. Eeven Sikhs, found gambling on the banks of the Klnta River last Thursday, were each fined $15 in the Magistrate's Court today.30 words
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Article33 1950-04-12 4 A GIFT of $25,000 from Malayan Breweries Ltd., is among; recent contri- buttons to the University of Malaya Endowment Fund. I Yesterday the fond stood at I $2,581,056.33 words
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Article82 1950-04-12 4 A LETTER recently arrived in Australia addressed: "To a flight hostess who lives in the country north of Sydney on a sheep farm, who flew from Singapore to Karachi on Monday, Dec. 12." Tbe letter bad been posted by Mrs. Duncan Stewart, widow of theReuter - 82 words
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Article142 1950-04-12 4 OPIUM AS TB CURE, 2 CHARGED Prom Our Stan t'ormin-Mii-i i JOHORE BAHRU. Tlifs. pLEADINC* >?>iilfy to unport- ing 7lb of opium Heng Ah Kirn, a motorcar driver, stated in the T^ore 3ahru Sessions Court todaj tnat he had been discharged from hospital still raftering from tubercular and had horn142 words
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Article41 1950-04-12 4 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Tues. Seventy-year-old Tee Png, who faced a charge of having live leaf packets of chandu, < handu dross, and smoking *> ■<■.'.<•.. had been found dead, the Muar Sessions Court was UMd. Ran case was struck out.41 words
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Article31 1950-04-12 4 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, rues. For falling to keep His identity card in good condition. Nal Singh of Plentong. was fined $2 In the Police Court today.31 words
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Article33 1950-04-12 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Police found counterfeiting machinery and 800 Siamese and Malayan counterfeit coins when they raided a Malay house m Kampong Pulau Tok Paker, in the Tumpat area of Kelantan.33 words
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Article139 1950-04-12 4 I'i'om Our Staff Correspondent PENANQ. Tues. PUR del ifo s from Burma arrive c eenang today to attend *ne rive-day AllMalaya Methodist Youth Fellowship rally which opens at the Anglo-Chinese School in Pykett Avenue on Thursday night Led by Rev. Tj Hla Seta, vicepresident of139 words
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Advertisement145 1950-04-12 4 UPTONS UPTONS oflif./^ CANISTER TEA IS f If ff IMi IDEAL KOK FOOD f fJUf^l I'ACKKI) IN \g «»A||it VARIOUS SIZES Jlm y%il f i^Mf > 1 lb., »/4 lb. J-.ii IMI'OKTERS: HKNRY WAlfiH A tO LTD >V^Er^ 4)\i,\l'OKK. PKNANG. kI'AI.A Ll'MPl'R. rPOH AK^jmMT^Walfc^Jm "^^^^ijs^Bsssssssssk .IE *"v yJfS^^^ N; '^'^S'^mA145 words
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206 1950-04-12 5 No Tape Check: Speed Trap Case Fails fHE Singapore First 1 Traffic Court Magistrate. Mr. S E. Teh, yes- i terday discharged a Malay syce, Dollah bin Aziz, without calling his defence, on a charge of driving through a "speed trap* in Holland Road at 43 2 miles an hour206 words
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Article73 1950-04-12 5 From Our Own Corrc-nondent MUAR, Tues.— While out tapping, a Chinese woman rubber tapper, Hoi Ng Mol, dropped her identity card into a pool water. When she picked it up the photograph on it was damaged. She therefore replaced the picture with a new picture of73 words
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Article58 1950-04-12 5 From Oar Own Correspondent PARIT BUNTAR Tues. Puah Ang Kow and Goh Boon Kirn were each fined $20 in the Parit Buntar Court on charges of gaming N$ Chee Boon, the owner of the house, was fined $150, or three months' imprtsonmeot, for permitting his house58 words
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Article35 1950-04-12 5 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Tues.— For obstructing the footoaths at Jalan Maharani with thsir baskets of food. Goh Chow Kee and Chua Teck Urn were each fined $5 by the Muar Magistrate^35 words
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Article21 1950-04-12 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues Inche Awang bin Haji Mohd. Said has been appointed a lieutenant in the Johore Military Forces.21 words
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70 1950-04-12 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. "ACTIVE consideration" is being given by the Federation Government U. the appointment of on experienced adviser to the Criminal Investigation Department of the Federation Police. The Government may seek a man with considerable colonial or Indian experience.70 words
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Article43 1950-04-12 5 From Ont Own Corresnonil'n' MUAR, Tues.— A vegetable gardener. Toh Teck Chow, was sentenced by the President of the Muar Sessions Court to eight weeks' simple imprisonment for possession of chandu dross and apparatus at Parit Jawa.43 words
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Article49 1950-04-12 5 From Our Own rorriMnondrnf T A I P I N O. Tues.— The Young Men's Hindu Assocla- J tion of Taipin? will hold a New Year poojah at the Sithi Venayagar Temple on Thursday. The image of Sri Venayagar" will be taken round the temple in procession^49 words
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Article29 1950-04-12 5 TAIPING, Tues. Mr. X X *>tllav of the Post and TeleiraDh Department, Tainlng. will go on transfer to Kluane: j f\s Assistant Superintendent of Postal Services.29 words
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Article, Illustration46 1950-04-12 5 5 MISS MARION COLE and Mr. John Ellicott, of H. M. Naval Base, who were married at St. Joseph's Church in the Boys' Town at Bukit Timah Road yesterday. Father Tang officiated and the reception was held at the Country Hotel. Straits Times picture.46 words
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Article169 1950-04-12 5 By Our Woman Correspondent WHEN the postman arrived at the Social Welfare Department yesterday, he delivered more than 20 letters, each containing a "glam»ur boy" picture from suitors seeking the hand of the "fairly well off" Singapore Chinese woman who wants a husband. Last169 words
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Article, Illustration35 1950-04-12 5 THE MENTRI BESAR of Brunei, Inche Mohamed Hassan bin Kulop Mohamed, who will be accompanying the Sultan of Brunei, Sir Ahmad Tajudin on his visit to the United Kingdom early in June.35 words
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Article59 1950-04-12 5 From Oar SUIT Correspondent PENANG, Tues. RECEIVING an urgent report that a shooting: had occurred in the European residential area of Brooke Road, a police flying squad rushed to the scene this morn ing only to find that two dogs had been shot near the race59 words
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Article98 1950-04-12 5 S'p ore Plea For 10-Year Tenant A PLEA has "been made in ■''■Municipal committee by Mr. C. F. J. Ess (Progressive West Wart) on behalf of the Singapore Chinese anti-bandit fighter, Mr. Ng Tong Nam. An order for Ng's ejection from an Improvement Trust flat in Tiong Bahru will come98 words
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Article183 1950-04-12 5 Can Tenancy Be Passed On To Son? I IF two Singapore Municipal employees share the same Municipal quarters, and one dies or leaves the service, should t'-e other be allowed to take over tenancy of the quarters? This is the question which the Quarters Sub-Committee of the Municipality has been183 words
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Article101 1950-04-12 5 CHINESE V.M.C.A., 107 Selegle Road, staff meeting, 9 a.m., chess club, 5 p.m.. weightllftlnß, 5.30 p.m. Y.W.C.A., official opening of training course for voluntary workers. 8 Fort Canning Road, 5 p.m. P.E.A. PUBLIC LECTURE, Pr« fessor T. H. Silcock on "Literacy tn Singapore," British Council Hall, Stamford Road,101 words
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119 1950-04-12 5 From Oar SUIT Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. FEDERATION'S Civil Defence Commissioner-De-signate, Mr. O. W. Somerville, will leave by air next Tuesday for the United Kingdom where he will attend three civil defence courses. Mr. Somerville who was Selangor's Anti Bandit Month organiser119 words
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Article268 1950-04-12 5 A FLOOR POSES PROBLEM FOR S.M.C. 'PHE question of whe- ther the tenant of a Singapore shop, who has been allowed to build a mezzanine floor, must tafce the floor with him when he gives up his tenancy, is one of the problems to b e discussed by a committee268 words
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Article30 1950-04-12 5 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Tues. A motor cyclist, Lye rhiam Young, who carried two people on his machine at Sagll was fined I $5 at Muar.30 words
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Advertisement497 1950-04-12 5 Be Proud of Your English Improve Your Speech and Writing m A Few Hours Are you content with the effective speech and writing way you speak and write? Are been more widely recognised you sure that you are not than to-day. If you can exmaking mistakes that cause press yourself497 words
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Advertisement197 1950-04-12 5 MALAYAN AIRWAYS MERCUI RANGOON WEEKLY SERVICE FROM SINGAPORE AND PENANG ON MONDAYS FARES FROM SINGAPORE TO MERGUI $215 RANGOON $300 66 lbs. Baggage carried free MANAGERS: MANSFIELD COMPANY LTD. TELEPHONE 5021 TELEGRAMS "TEBBAN6" NEWEST Selections of INDIAN 6c PERSIAN CARPETS y are now on displayPay v* a visit at your197 words
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Obituary68 1950-04-12 6 MR. WEK THE AM SENG, aged v;ed away at No 19. Calinhill Circle on 11.4.1950 ai 11.10 m leave* ."orrowing Mr. Ai Mrs. i'livc Hin Mrs. Kwa SL'w Mi- Yro Chiang Swee. Mrs. i;aw K\fY. Swee. Mrs. Qaw Khek rht.w. Mk. I,auw Pek Tjin. Mrs. l. ii Chin Tuan,68 words
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Article51 1950-04-12 6 (I.ARENCF D'SOUZA 6i lui.uly thank all those who sent kttcn ot condolence «\t loied ihe funeral ot the late a nfiouza. MRS. CHAN HOR NAM and rca iliank all friends and illative* who attended the lurx-ial «f Mr. Chan Hor Nam and thow >i,t wreaths and MMQ I i51 words
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627 1950-04-12 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed Apr. 12, 1950. A Squeeze In Rubber It is with mixed feelings that the rubber industry views the remarkable climb in prices which has brought rubber to its highest point in over twenty years. For it is no longer a satisfactory price on com- mercial627 words
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Article480 1950-04-12 6 Last week the Municipal President in Singapore, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice. was reported as having told the Commis- j sioners that estimates and plans weie being prepared for the aquarium to be built in the George the Fifth park with the $360,000 that is available in the480 words
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Article36 1950-04-12 6 SAN FRANCISCO, Tiies. The Australian-born dockers' leader, Harry Bridges, was sentenced to five years in prison lor lying about, bis membership In the Communist Party so that he could become an American citizen.36 words
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Article386 1950-04-12 6 A REPLY FROM ONRAET ITIND and well informed friends have sent me cuttings from the Malayan Press to io with my recent letter in the Manchester Guardian on the subject of the Malayan police. This letter was in reply to one written by a Mr. Maurice Broady, who criticised what386 words
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Article136 1950-04-12 6 AS chairman of the Singapore Traffic Advisory Committee, I wr'te to express my ap T preciation of your leading article of Apr. 8, headed "A Matter of Minutes", on the Colony speed limit. It is still true to say that the success of any schemes of136 words
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Article108 1950-04-12 6 I AM the wife of a mercantile employee. My husband's salary, Including Co.L., Is now 42.8 per cent, higher than his ore-war salary, but ii's C■) L. allow ance Is less than 20 per cent, of his present basic salary. I have to pay increased electrical bills108 words
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609 1950-04-12 6 HONG KONG. COVIET Russians and internationally minded Chinese Communists are energetically preparing the stage for firm and permanent control of China against any future threat of "Tito ism," or other types of "diversionism". "Diversionism" is reliably reported to have already started budding inside the ChineseUP - 609 words
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Letter542 1950-04-12 6 Vf AY I, as a miner, place on record my complete T approval of Colonel Hannah's contentions, in his recent letters to the Straits Times, and may I also refute a statement by a correspondent that the police were taken by surprise by this emergency?542 words
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Letter333 1950-04-12 6 'TWERE is one point in A the letter from your correspondent A.S.C.' (published under the heading "Col. Hannah And A Perak Planter") which should be emphasised. It is true that powers under the Emergency Regulations are ample "if they are used."' But are they? If it is333 words
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Article398 1950-04-12 6 On The Margin Slipper Orchids i NOTEWORTHY exhibit at the recent Singe i\>ie Flower Show was the Brat hybrid Slipper Orchid to up produced in this countiv. It was a cross between a sptcies from Siam and -uioihn from Java. There are five wild species of Slipper Orchids in M:.laya,398 words
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Advertisement695 1950-04-12 6 KNIOHT On t April H>. ■> Vt.iiK^Hr HoxpitMl. Kuxla Lumpur to Kathleen wife of Brie D a dBi«2itrr ChrifiUne. M A ABISHEOAM of t<nang nrcl Caroline. second litilllW of Mr mid Mrs. 8. Our:iel Ki.-ala Lumpur. SIMONB V.FEKE-The inamagr V.iHiam Jerry, youngeM M,n of ih lnte Ml. P. Sydney hmi695 words
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Advertisement86 1950-04-12 6 ■♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦♦♦♦♦♦■f COMPUTE RECORDINGS w GILBERT SULLIVAN OPERAS H.M.V. RECORDS. D 7510. SI GONDOLIERS. 1 15 Records) $38 40 Diill IS H.M.B. PINAFORE. Records) $28 80 DTiOB It lOLANTHE (11 Recordsi $35.20 DBfllOi IS MIKADO (II Recordsi $35.20 D ***** 80 PRINCESS IDA (10 Recordsi $32.00 D77SO 40 PIRATE OF PENZANCE86 words
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Advertisement18 1950-04-12 6 IMMEDIATE DELIVERIES EX. WORKS ALL STANDARD SIZES HUME INDUSTRIES (far east) LTD. •■MMiiMHBHBHHIBMBBHMMHBBMM* 1 sisij^^''^ \w 800 IC18 words
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271 1950-04-12 7 BANDITS SWOOP ON MALAY REGT. CAMP Night Battle In Pahang From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. A GANG of bandits last nijrht attacked a camp of the First Malay Regiment at Pay a Lang in the Mentakab area of Pahang. They withdrew after a half-hour battle, in which there271 words
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Article177 1950-04-12 7 r>w» Oar *U» Crr m JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. rpHE Johore Teachers Union 1 adopted a resolution at ih»u annual meeting to support the formation of a Malayan Teachers Union optn 1< all teachers, active and r» tired, employed in Govern in*nt and Government-aided English schools In the177 words
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Article97 1950-04-12 7 MALAYANS desiring to tour Australia without any uf the worries usually besetting tourtfti will be able to do .so through Qantas Empire Airw;".s from June this year. The company has Just anil a aeriet of fully inclusfve group tours of thai rMmtrj The fare varies between J-'"5497 words
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Article26 1950-04-12 7 Fur helping to run a chap-Ji-ki lottery. 58-year-old Wee Ban* Wee was fined $250 In the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday. He pleaded guilt>26 words
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Article238 1950-04-12 7 Y.W.C.A. MEET IN SINGAPORE WOMEN from all parts of Malaya Penang. Ipoh, j Kuala Lumpur. Malacca Singapore met at Raffles Quay yesterday for the annual meeting of the Y.W.C.A. I in Malaya. Among the gu?5M were Lady Mi-Kerron. Mrs. H W. Barnes and Miss Elizabeth Palmer, the world Y.W.C.A. Secretary238 words
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Article104 1950-04-12 7 LOW Khy Yam. chinchew of I the motor vessel Hua Heng. was acquitted in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday of possessing 70 sealed letters in contravention of the Post Office Ordinance. The letters were found in Low's cabin-cum-ofDce by Customs Officials just before the ship vas104 words
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Article101 1950-04-12 7 Old Chinese Wedding In Singapore After a spate of Easter weddings in 20th century fashion, Singapore rounded off the holiday yesterday with an old-fashioned Chinese tceddinp performed according to time ol^ rites. The marriage was that of Miss Yeo Chfe Luan. daughter of Mr and Mrs Yeo Ark, of Singapore,101 words
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Article57 1950-04-12 7 Stole Dog Meat Allegation Twenty- four-year-old Goh Hock Hin was charged in the 1 Singapore Fourth Police Court I yesterday with having stolen nine tins of dog's beef and a knife from an R.A.F. dog kennel at Tengah.on April 10. Goh who pleaded not guilty, was allowed ball of $100.57 words
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Article42 1950-04-12 7 Hamdan. a 34-year old J Malay worker, cycling home for lunch, wax killed In a traffic accident at 66 3 4 mile Buklt Timah Road at 12.30 p.m yesterday. Traffic police are seeking eye-witnesses of the accident.42 words
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Article, Illustration39 1950-04-12 7 ARCHERY COMPETITION: One of the competitors la the first Singapore archery championships, Mr. Lim Seew Pent, photograph** at the "shoot*" organised by the Singapore Archery Ctab at the University of Malaya t round. Straits Times pietare.39 words
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Article131 1950-04-12 7 THE second adult night school class in English, organised by th« Pasir Pan- j jang; Rural District Commit- \.ee, opened at the Pasir Panjahg Government Malay school last night. About 30 people of several races and from all walks of life merchants, labourers, fishermen, artisans131 words
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Article113 1950-04-12 7 Blackouts In S'pore: Warning THE Deputy Electricity En- gineer. Mr. R. A. Waddle, yesterday warned the Singapore public against blackouts unless they co-operated in cutting down the use of electric power during the peak hours in the evenings. Mr. Waddle told the Straits Times that current consumption throughout Singapore was113 words
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Article27 1950-04-12 7 Mr. John Rayner. who recently visited the Turtle Islands off Sarawak, will talk about turtles and their habits over Radio Malaya at 10 o'clock tonight.27 words
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230 1950-04-12 7 Double Deckers: S.T.C. 'To Keep An Open Mind THE Singapore Traction Company is prepared to approach the question of introducing double-deckers in Singapore with an open mind, Mr. A. Ewing, general manager of the Company, told the Straits Times yesterday. But there were many factors which had to be considered230 words
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Article, Illustration109 1950-04-12 7 Fran Ow Staff •rrmpondenl IPOH, Tues. MR. H. i Ted) Dawson, victim of the Metropole Hotel bomb outrage here jesterday. was buried today at the Connolly Road Cemetery In Ipoh. Jockeys, trainers, turf officials and me/nbers f the racing fraternity, many of whom were in the109 words
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Article162 1950-04-12 7 IT was the Wembley Exhibition which attracted Mr. Edwin ("Jack") Moule to Malaya 24 yean ago, and it was internment byb v the Japanese which enabled him to learn and speak Hokkien fluently. He will soon retire from th c position of officer-in-charge of the162 words
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Article65 1950-04-12 7 ACTING Chief Secretary Mr. M. V. Del Tufo, irtfl move at the meeting of the Legislative Council next Wednesday that the Federation flag should have 11 horizontal stripes, alternately red and white, with a blue quarter totth a crescent and 11 pointed yellow stars superimposed.65 words
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Article34 1950-04-12 7 Fines of $30 each were imposed on 26-year-old Ng Thian Hong and 36-year-ola Soh Peng Khoon In th,e Singapore Third Police Qouxt yesterday for entering the Singapore Harbour Board area without permission.34 words
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Article60 1950-04-12 7 Frma> Our Staff C«rre*p«a4cnt KUALA LUMPUR. Tves. PRST squad of Chiaese recruits to the Federation Police Force will report to the Police Depot in Kuala Lumpur on May 1 for training. The commandant of the Depot. Mr. F. K. McNamara. t«M the Strait* Times today that60 words
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Article106 1950-04-12 7 irpwo young men have stt A out from Britain by car on a 12,000-«nlle overland trip to New Zealand, where they hope to arrive by mldNovember In time for the centenary celebrations. They are the Hon. John Godley, heir of Viscount Kilbracken, and tx-G.106 words
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Article34 1950-04-12 7 I Major Henry F. Holthu&en. a prominent United States lawyer and former Minister to Czechoslovakia, is in Singapore on a short visit. He if touring Asia studying United States Information Service activities.34 words
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Article186 1950-04-12 7 $10,000 BETTING SLIPS SEIZED EIGHTEEN lists of chap-Ji-ki bets showing amounts totalling more than $10,000 were seized by the Singapore Police from the attic of a house in Bukit Pasoh Road on March IS. In the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday, the owner-tenant of the house, a 36-year-old woman Phoon186 words
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Article39 1950-04-12 7 Twenty-lour-year-old Raymond Saunders of Kepp< 1 Barracks pkaded not guiliy in the Singapore Third Polit-i-Court yesterday to stealing two mosquito nets from thi barracks. Ball of $50 was granted, 'lite case was postponed to April 19.39 words
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Article32 1950-04-12 7 Voluntary workers of the Children's Social Centres have organised a sale of work ot articles made by the children in the centres, to be held at Whiteaways on Saturday.32 words
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Article27 1950-04-12 7 From Ont Staff C'orre>>><i<>i>t SEREMBAN, Tues. The first meeting of the Nepi) Sembilan Council of StiMe for the yfar will be held en Saturday. i27 words
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Advertisement79 1950-04-12 7 Colours 8- Polishes RED TILE FLOORS "CMHUL POLISH m «w S>w». Buff. §rmn, Crmm, WMt —4 Jrwmtpmrtnt tm ••i'v'jiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiinmiiiiiiiiiciiiniiiiriiitiiiiiiiiiinitjiiMimiHii I (household appliances}! 5 Tin Controlled Heat Iron No. The Upright Tffj.-l:r AC JIS. AC DC $36. »C DC %Ul Krtllt mB^^KJ AC IX' %22.b0. j£ W&r )I*.tr Qtftr AC DC79 words
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Advertisement17 1950-04-12 7 KC^TOS POPLIN BRASSIERES WHITE JTEA-ROSE SIZES 32 TO 38 $3.50 I LX" HUAT RADIO CO jj^ |^jj17 words
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183 1950-04-12 8 A SIX-MAN U.N. Mission, headed by Mr. Maurice Pate, executive director of the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund, arrived in Singapore yesterday by X.L.M. Constellation from Jakarta. The mission will spend two days in Singapore foi discussions with the Commissioner-General, which, it183 words
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Article, Illustration23 1950-04-12 8 MISS ELIZABETH PALMER t.V world Y.W.C.A. Secre- tary for South-East Asia, i arrived m Singapore by KIM from Bangkok yesterd.'v. Straits Times picture.23 words
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Article100 1950-04-12 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. C:iAL3 of the Malayan Planting T •'•tes Associati a and representatives ef the Malayan Estates Trade Unions T r r»<jes Negotiation Committee will meet in Kuala L»mpur tomorrow to finalise an agreement on working conditions on estates. The100 words
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Article148 1950-04-12 8 QINGAPORE will again be v the venue for ihe AllMalayan Chess championship in 1951. if Penang llayprs are not able to put up sufficient guarantee to run the nameni in that Settlement. This decision was taken at the annual general meeting of the Malayan Chess Federation on148 words
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Article, Illustration95 1950-04-12 8 THE UNITED NATIONS International Children's Emergency Fund mission photographed on its arrival in Singapore from Jakarta yesterday. From left to right are Mr. s. M. Kceny, Director <>t UNICEF In Asia; Mr. Maurice Pate, Executive Director of UNICEF and leader of the mission; Mrs. Compston; Dr. J.95 words
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102 1950-04-12 8 Y[MD£TEKRED by the threat of the Nationalist blockade, the 7,600-ton Isbrandtsen Line freighter Flying Trader left Singapore yesterday to break the blockade of Shanghai again. The Flying Trader arrived at Singapore on Monday for bunkers. No cargo was taken on here, most of102 words
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Article60 1950-04-12 8 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Tues.— Bail of $250 was allowed Tay Chai Kok when he was charged in* the Muar Court with causing hurt to Tew Hua Kok by driving his car so rashly as to endanger human life. It was alleged that Tay's car collided60 words
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Article22 1950-04-12 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— Inspector Wong Tuck Yoon, of the Criminal Investigation Department, Johore Bahru, left yesterday on transfer to Bentong.22 words
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Article29 1950-04-12 8 QARGO aboard a 3OAC Argonaut which arrived at Kallang Airport, Singapore, yesterday afternoon included four live baby crocodiles and eight drums of live tropical fishes.29 words
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111 1950-04-12 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. applications were received for the position of Health Inspector at Kuala Lumpur, it was stated at a meeting of the Municipal staffing committee today The President. Mr! H. T. W. Oswell. i i that this number111 words
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Article286 1950-04-12 8 Rush To Import Siam Rice On Sat. iVfHEN Government con- tioi over the private Import of certain grades of rice from Siam is lifted in Singapore and the Federation on Saturday, rnanv Singapore rice importers are expected to aD T >K for A.Ps co import. Mr. Er Cher Ann, manager286 words
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Article92 1950-04-12 8 From Our Stall Correspondent SEREMBAN, Tues. SCOUTS formed a guard of honour outside the Church of the Visitation, Seremban, this morning when .At. Tony Wong Chee Kwee was marrieo to Miss Stella Poi Lian Neo. The Rev. Father Choo officiated The jiicKjuuom who Is th? Group So92 words
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Article, Illustration195 1950-04-12 8 I IKE so many oilier animal collectors who come J to Singapore, Mr. Peter R. Ryhiner, a Swiss from Buenos Aires, Argentina, is finding that the emergency in the Federation is hampering his work. Mr. Ryhiner, who has come to Singapore from Siam— after takfng195 words
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Article42 1950-04-12 8 From Our Own Correspondent PARIT BUNTAR, Tues For carrying a pillion rider on his bicycle, Man bin Mahmood was fined $3 in the Parlt Buntar Court. The pillion rider. Bidln bin Abdullah, was also fined $3 for abetting the offence.42 words
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Article56 1950-04-12 8 rO Westland-Sikcrsky S5l i ambulance helicopters for the Royal Air Force in I Malaya are due at Singapore In the Glengyle on Friday. The helicopters will be casualties suffered ty jungle patrols. It is understood that experiments will be made in lifting casualties into the56 words
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Advertisement73 1950-04-12 8 itffii'ifi'Hiffiil PthSm -ii H^lb^^^&l w9mmm mm tfww*^^ Every Commer truck is specially designed for its job and built with the precision engineering that has mad* the name COMMER famous in 119 countries and on the roads of 5 continents. No wonder Commer was chosen by CIAN SINGH CO.! Represented by73 words
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Advertisement344 1950-04-12 8 wfaMt^^ J^fcr '-WWII Jt^^3b W "l t H mi^* M •'•"TmlffiTfTaf Vis Your grandfather has such bright and perfect teeth, my son, because he has always used Gibbs Dentifrice. You know how good it tastes, too, and it costs me so little. Dentifrice <Sp|^ x-ao ui-iiirt o. a w oiki><344 words
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Article, Illustration1502 1950-04-12 9 The London Letter The London Letter Some black doubts before Budget Day LONDON, April 2. y*\ Ihe lime tins is read it will be nearly Budget Day: a Budget Day lo which no-one appears I<> be looking forward with much hope. In Britain taxation has become to a great extent1,502 words
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Article531 1950-04-12 9 BLOSSOM TIME IN BRITAIN WHAT of Britain out- side of politics, eco- i nomics and statistics? 1 Well, what has pleas- ed me most this week- i end has been to see the < J cherry trees coming Into i bloom: two in my* garden are already covered with <531 words
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Advertisement239 1950-04-12 9 QUAKER OATS ftrfft* build TAHER, HUSKIER children! 1 > i:r- FOODYAIUI WONDER FOOD Quaker Oats is Nature's Wonder F00d no other whole grain cereal supplies more nourishment for growing youngsters! This tasty, nutritious breakfast food is a real bargain in nourishment. Children thrive on Quaker Oats; it's rich in the239 words
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Advertisement116 1950-04-12 9 MHiIMBHBIBIIIKBaaBIIMBIB^HBaBSBIMIIIM i» A V If H WEBS I I I J" 1 %ss& SL^flssi Iwsi^Sfe LAURENCE, SCOTT ELECTROMOTORS LTD. Electrical Engineers sinre 1883 SOLE AGEKTS RENEW ~l^ YOUTH H renews the bright Rv^FERI^II energy of youth, pro- IV P^IC WlNfy|j| motes the vigour in r^'<£~^\ ißk "^^^if J/M the prime116 words
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Miscellaneous256 1950-04-12 9 m SINGAPORE Talk To™ Planning): .1.16 10 Radio News Reel; 10.15 Classl- ,»t mik Crooners' Corner; 7.30 Blue Da- cal Records; 10.45 "On the Job"; oi i Tnr^M,,* nube 8 «*<"« Doctor; 8.10 Run- 11 Dance Music; 11.15 "Sterling m y i I* P ?V ht m.i^T i nyemede Swlngtette;256 words
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Article, Illustration854 1950-04-12 10 "COUNT FOLKE BERNADOTTE." By Ralph Hewins. (Hutchinson and Co., London, 18s.). J^KSS than a month ago, a London newspaper reported from Haifa that the official investigation into the murder of Count Bernadotte, the United Kations mediator, in Jerusalem on Sept. 17, 1948, was to be reopened. The854 words
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Article301 1950-04-12 10 I*HE following new books and 1 reprints will be added to Raffles Library within ihe next few days: "Age Cannot Wither: The story of Duse and d'Annunzio", Bertita Harding. •'Days for Decision", Anthony Eden. 'Our Daily Pood.' Hilda M. Coley. •'Twelve against the Law"'. Edward D. Radin. The301 words
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Article331 1950-04-12 10 A "brave line of play gave a certain South top score on the following board in a match-point duplicate 1 game. South, dealer. Neither side vulnerable. 4 IIHI K3 O Q 10 8 4 auST J 8 4 ||]l tuei yxTH oaJ 7 *T7 10 ftii iilti331 words
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Article505 1950-04-12 10 THE ASIATICS by I Frederic Prokosch. (Faber and Faber UK 6d.). ALTHOUGH loose and amorphous, and seemingly lacking in structure and purpose, this is a rich, fascinating novel. From Beirut to Haiphong, the colourful embroidery of the East is unrolled for our delectation, like a magic505 words
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Advertisement184 1950-04-12 10 MILBS ABOVE pB ANYTMIN6 ELSE LAST DAT! iia.m.. us, JJ.IS, 6.45 9.30 p.m. m^Jsisff:Z^k <.«"tf ""mSf* Uli,,. I'l1 'I 'til 1 TECHNICOIORI tWi W OPENING TOMORROW WE MAKE NO COMMENT OTHER THAN "A TRULY GREAT PICTURE" ICIVEI US THIS DAY ADAPTED FROM PIETRO DONATOS "CHRIST m CONCRETE" NOTE AS THIS184 words
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Miscellaneous151 1950-04-12 10 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD ACMM zo Metallic ,b*ait of chaM I PM back ecrded fabrta ■> •nd open (abric (7X. M P«rple» (dlvcriiogly '> <8k J. Tb« ol venifea- <•««'«• tion a) n Cootlrainl (6>. 10 Ntat act* (anag.) P<»Po«el UnltatiaD cola. J3. Hectora (winaily I nr. tptt4 i J <1K151 words
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Article284 1950-04-12 11 'Ill-Advised Costly' \LABOUR CODE —Mr. Barlow From Oar Own Correspondent LONDON, Tues. "TT is most necessary that the Government should realise the fundamental fact that its job is to govern," says Mr. T. B. Barlow, chairman of Highlands and Lowlands Rubber, in his annual report. He. recalls that a year284 words
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118 1950-04-12 11 TALISMAN Rubber Company's profit on last year's working amounted to 150,208. Investment and miscellaneoui income and the balance brought forward from the previous year brings this total to •73,110, from which are to be deducted directors' fees, reserve for income tax and the Interim118 words
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Article503 1950-04-12 11 THE Malayan share market yesterday was unable A to find any lead after the holidays, and small business was scattered throughout the list. Prices quoted by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were: INDD3TBIAU BBJ*I S.IICI Atlas lea un 1138 Alex Brick* PrcX 2.40 i 50 Ord 3.30503 words
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Article399 1950-04-12 11 SINGAPORE, Tues., Apr. 11 $292.25 (up $0.50). LONDON. Tues., Apr. 11— Spot: Cs92r— «592 J. forward: £594— £594 i. Settlement: £592 i. Turnover morning, 198 tons; afternoon 75 tons. Takuapa Valley it,. te/6 TiUb ISO JSS id rakka 6/6 Tekka r«lplni 13/6 14/1 Taluk Kruln 1.6S I.TS remon399 words
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Article259 1950-04-12 11 Price Still Rises For Rubber RUBBER continued to rise In price in post-holiday trading in Singapore yesterday. The closing quotation for first-grade spot, loose, was 68 Vi cents per lb. buyer a rise of about three-eighths of a cent above Thursday's highest price tor this grade. The market ruled steady259 words
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Article70 1950-04-12 11 From A Market Correspondent pOPRA in the Singapore product market was slightly steadier yesterday, buyers opening at $871 rising to $37%. However, no sellers came forward. Coconut oil remained unchanged at quotations ruling before the holidays Prices per picul were: Gambler $210 (round). $82 (Java cube). Pepper70 words
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Article91 1950-04-12 11 SHIPS alongside the Singapore Harbour Board Wharves yesterday (godowns In brackets) were: Mala Wharf: Matla (33-34), Steel Rover (36), Van Riebeck (38-39), Demta (40). Wakde (41>. Kampar (43). We«t Wharf: Lancashire (1-2), Patroclus (4-5), Rhesus (6-7). Benattow (8-9), Shillong (11), Adrastus (15-16). Empire Dock: British Prince (17-91 words
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Advertisement1324 1950-04-12 11 MANSFIELD «St CO., LTD. <lncoK-Hate4 in Sli mt»m) BLOB rUMMBL LOfsT Carnprs opti .a te pre teed via ether pc« Is te lea 4 and dUdtarge cane. SAILINCS te LIVERPOOL, CLASCOW. LONDON CONTINENTAL PORTS Out Sail* P S-h»m Aikwm toi uverpooi Apr. 12 Apr. 11/14 p.typhamw tor Holland London b1,324 words
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Advertisement351 1950-04-12 11 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS TO NEW YORK AND BOSTON VIA CEYLON. INDIA. ECYPT and MEDITERRANEAN PORTS Monroet IS^TiLpr. i?"™ l 9/ P 2o*^r. rs aar. 2 i',nt& "After i.?,,& Pre. Van tlren 23/27 Mo 28/29 May 30 M.//1 I^l t Ctli Barcelona. TO USA. PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC PORTS Pres. FiHmere 25/29351 words
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Advertisement413 1950-04-12 11 EAST ASIATIC LINE SAILINCt FROM SCANDINAVIA UK SAILINCS TO CONTINENT/ CONTINENT SCANDINAVIA fej"^^-'" 2 Lo^ 1 Singapore. Port Sw.tttnrwn ■WS "Lalandria" dv. abr Ape. 22 Mw.«l«"M w.«l«" ri.,. .ht Anr 11 lor Vieon Bangkok for Madray Colombo. Ad«n Port Said, Genoa. London (passangcrs m/§ Kof.a dv* iM. May only) Antwerp.413 words
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Advertisement972 1950-04-12 11 MoALISTER tfc CO.. LTD. (Incorporated In Singapore) Telephone da. s«oe KLAVENKfS LINE ■M.KBW-- A BUCKNMf mtnn a_wvn.««a.«. Los AMCU|V ,AN mANCISCOm ANCISC0 LONDON. HAVRE. ANTWERP, PORTLAND SfATTLt C VANCOUVER ROTTERDAM HAMBURC Arceotln, caigo tot Cent.a. 6 South CITY Of POONA Amartcan Ports Spore P. Sham Per ■>• SUNNVViLLt It/fi AO,.972 words
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364 1950-04-12 12 R.N. SECOND-HALF EFFORTS JUST FAIL B. O.D. Civilians Score 4-3 Win BODCA 4 Royal Navy S TWO GOALS In arrears at the interval, Royal Navy x foguht hard to stem the tide of defeat in a SAFA Senior League game against 8.0.D. Civilian Association at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday, but364 words
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287 1950-04-12 12 S'pore YWCA Team Win President Cup SINGAPORE won the President Cup in the AllMalayan Y.W.C.A. Easter Sports Carnival for which twelve girls from Kuala Lumpur and eight from Penang came down to compete. The Singapore girls proved too strong, especially in netball, and ended up with 16 points. Kuala Lumpur287 words
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Article97 1950-04-12 12 V.M.C.A. open tennis tourne/ ties for tomorrow are: Men's Open Singles: (Quarterfinals): H. K. Yadi v A. O. B Pakir; O. H. HoUoway v A. I. Perelra; t. A. AlsagofT v H Kami': Ona Chew Bee v Winner oj Lim Hee Chin Sz Chan ih Kow.97 words
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Article, Illustration33 1950-04-12 12 MR. R. F. H. DRAKEBROCKMAN leads in his champion sprinter No Regrets (E. Donnelly up), who completed a double at Ipoh last Saturday, winning both days' sprint races for cracks. Straits Times picture.33 words
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Article150 1950-04-12 12 Cennucci Is Best Man In HK Team ARRIVING in Singapore on April 24 with the Hong Kong Combined Services soccer team is RSM Cannucci of the R.A.M.C., who is the outstanding member of the 17 players to tour Singapore and the Federation. RSM Connucci played for the Army in England150 words
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Article462 1950-04-12 12 EPSOM JEEP IPOH - EPSOM JEEP IPOH AYRES ON PERAK DERBY SUCCESS By ruesday. INDIAN HEATHER ran a great race. He was always 'going well and when h e hit the front three furlongs out I knew he had the race won, but I never expected him to win462 words
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Article93 1950-04-12 12 SOUTHAMPTON, Tuts. Twelve members of the West Indies Cricket Team to tour England arrived at Southampton yesterday afternoon by tender from the "Oolflto" and proceeded to London by the boat train. They were: John Goddara f captain) Gerry Gomez, Clyde Walcott, Everton Weekes, Cecil Williams, RoyReuter - 93 words
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Article119 1950-04-12 12 In a return badminton match played on their court recently tre 0.8.C. Sports Chrt beat trie Latcos B.P. by four games to three. Results (O.E.C. Sports Club players mentioned first) Singles: Lee Siong Siew bpat Llm Teck Chwee 15-6, 5-15, 15-12-Sayud lost to Lee Siong Gim 15-12.119 words
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Article, Illustration74 1950-04-12 12 JACK THOMPSON, who rode Sir Falcon to victory in the £8,000 Sydney Cup, on Monday arrived in Singapore yesterday by QANTAS Constellation. Jack, accompanied by his wife, 4s on his way to Eire for the six months' racing: season. Jack (centre) and his wife are here seen with Malayan Jockeys74 words
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Article211 1950-04-12 12 By EPSOM JEEP IPOH. Tues. I^EWS of the tragic death of retired Malayan jockey Ted Dawson in Monday night's bomb outrage at the Hotel Metropole in Ipoh has come as a shock to the racing fraternity, for Ted was popular with all —officials, owners,211 words
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Article72 1950-04-12 12 BUFFALO. New York. Tues. —The twice postponed N.B.A. world heavyweight title fight between the holder Ezzard Charles and Freddie Beshore will be held in June, according to match-maker Charley Pinto. The bout was originally set for February 28. postponed to March 29 then postponed indefinitelyReuter - 72 words
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Article225 1950-04-12 12 rnHE Chinese Swimming Club's new 50-metre swimming pool now being constructed at Amber Road is expected to be ready for the use of members in August this year.This is revealed in the club's annual report to be submitted at the club's annual general meeting225 words
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Article200 1950-04-12 12 TN SIDE-RIGHT Sharrif stole the show in yesterday's Junior B-2 S.A.F.A league fixture between Indonesian "B" and the Aston A.C. at Oeylang Stadium. He netted five of his side's six goals against Aston A.C. who did not score at all. If the Aston defenders had played200 words
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181 1950-04-12 12 R.E 2 R.A.K (C) 1 A FTER a scoreless first half, the Royal Engineers n beat R.A.F. Changi by two goals to one in a SAFA Senior League fixture played at Changi yesterday. The Airmen were unfortunate not to have shared points. For181 words
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Article52 1950-04-12 12 SOCCER: Snr. ]ge: T gcr S A. v. Pulan Brani at Jalan Bexar; Bu. Use. Comp: Oriental Tel. Ex. S.C. t. Oversea Chinese Bank at (ieylanc; Jnr. A 1: Indian B.C. 'A* t. H.M. Dockyard at C.V.M.A. ground; Friendly: Customs V. Indonesian Lge. 'A' *t Farrer Park. TKNNIS:52 words
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Article53 1950-04-12 12 Leading one nil at the interval, the University of Malaya conceded two goals in the last 15 minutes of play to the Combined Singapore Schools to lose their soccer friendly at Sepoy Lines yesterday. Mosbergen got the University's goal, while Andrew Llm (penalty) and Kok Peow netted53 words
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Article, Illustration49 1950-04-12 12 PLAYERS IN SUNDAY'S TENNIS EXHIBITION: From left: Robert Chia, Geoff Brown, Bill Sidwell and Goon Kok Lem. The Australian pa ir beat the Penan? champions by 7—57 5 and In the singles Brown and Sidwell each won a set with tennis that thrilled the Penang crowd. Straits Times picture.49 words
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Article135 1950-04-12 12 1 LARGE number of patients, Including several casualties of the bandit war, saw Dave Sands, brothers Alfie and George, and local boxers In a series of exhibition bouts at the British Military Hospital at Alexandra yesterday afternoon. The British Empire middleweight champion, Dave, first tooK135 words
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Miscellaneous22 1950-04-12 12 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: 6.25 a.m. (Bft. 91n.) and 9.08 p.m. (7ft. lin.». TOMORROW: 8.08 a.m. (7ft. Sin.) and 9.44 p.m. (7ft. 51n.>.22 words
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