The Straits Times, 14 April 1950

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1950 jf PRICE TEN CENTS
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    HITCH REPORTED IN PEKING TALKS
    337 1 Reds Ask For British Support In U.N. First LONDON, Thursday. OROSPECTS for an *arly establishment of friendly British relations with Communist. China waned yesterday when British officials reported that Peking was piessing for conditions outside the field of normal diplomatic procedure. The officials said that
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    49 1 MORE THAN .VOoO Sikhs paid homage yesterday, the concluding day of the threr-day celebrations of the birth of Kh lisa, at the Central Sikh Temple, Singapore. Picture shows two Sikh women and a girl enjoying the free meal provided by the temple committee. (See also P. SiStraits Times picture.
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    UK TO PAY MORE FOR TIN BOUGHT
    222 1 AIM. A VAN tin producers are to get an additional payment from the British Ministry of Supply for the tin bought by the Ministry in the two months between devaluation of sterling and the re-opening of the Metal Exchange in November. The Ministry
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    Rubber Falls 2½ Cents
    66 1 It' BBER prices fell two and a half cents in the Singapore market yesler:n sympathy icith a general easing in London ond New York. Trading was cautious throughout the day. Reports that small offers are (inning forward from Indonesia helped prices down. "A healthy shake-up.'' We
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    Jap Dies In Gaol Mishap
    69 1 Caprain Matsuzaki Mlnora. a Japanese prisoner in the O.'tr.im H^ad Gaol. Singapore was accidentally electrocuted today. Hi> wa s working in the ironing room when he tampered with the iron while the current was still on and was killed instantly. During the war he was
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    QUITS RED CHINA
    27 1 HONG KONG. Thurs.-Mr Alfred Harding. Vice-Consul of the American Peking Consulate, was one of four Americans who reached Hong Kong today from China. -A.P.
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    MAHARAJAH'S DEATH FALL
    63 1 BOMBAY. Thurs.— Sir Gulam Singh Bahedur. deposed Maharajah of Rewa. died on the way to hospital today after falling 36 feet from the terrace of the Maharajah of Bikaner's palace at Malabar Hill. Bombay. Police are Investigating his death and the body has been inspected by the
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    ACOMINFORM SLIP-UP?
    81 1 HONG KONG, Thurs. OFFICIAL Communist dispatches from Peking today admitted there were 10,000,000 famine refugees in the Central and South China administrative region alone. The dispatches said the figure of 10,000,004 had been given by General Lin Piao, Chairman of the Central and South China Regional Military and
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    Second Rail Accident In India
    125 1 NEW DELHI, Thurs. TWELVE passengers were A injured when the Delhi express ran off the rails last i night ten miles from Fyzabad. i in the United Provinces, on the East Indian Railway. The train resumed Us journey after about seven hours' delay. The cause
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    Ingrid Settlement Comes Nearer
    58 1 HOLLYWOOD. Thurs.— lnBergman's marital tangle will apparently be settled without a bitter court fight with her husband Dr. Lindstrom. Attorneys for the couple said today that they were i-iaking progress in negotiating out of the court a settlement over the custody of their 12-year-old daughter Pia
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    JAP TAX CUT
    47 1 TOKYO. Thurs. -The Japanese Finance Minister. Mr. Hayato Ikeda, today notified the International Taxation Committee representing American. British. Dutch and other foreign interests in Japan that the Japanese Government was prepared to cut by half the proposed 55 per cent, tax on foreigners' incomes.—Reuter.
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    RED FIGHTER SHOT DOWN
    56 1 TAIPEH, Wed— The Nationalists announced today that a Russian-built fighter plane has been shot down on the Chinese coast south of Shanghai and the pilot captured. His nationality was not divulged. The enemy pilot was captured after bailing out and taken to Nationalist naval headquarters at
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    SMALLPOX THREAT "VERY REAL"
    48 1 MELBOURNE, Thurs.-Aus-tralians were warned today that the danger of a smallpox epidemic in their country was "very real." Dr. A. J. Metcalfe, Director-General of Health, stated that officers had recently returned from Java, where they studied the disease, which was very widespread there.— Reuter.
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    OPERATION ON MR. BEVIN
    42 1 LONDON. Thurs.— The British Foreign Minister, Mr. Ernest Bevln. was operated on today for haemorrhoids and doctors said he was resting "quite comfortably." Mr. Bevin is expected to be back at the Foreign Office within a fortnight— U.P.
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    "RED DEAN" IN SINGAPORE
    23 1 DR HEWLETT JOHNSON, Dean of Canterbury, who arrived by air in Singapore yesterday. Straits Times picture. Interview in P.
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    U.S.I. PREPARED TO BUY OUT KPM
    59 1 JAKARTA, Thurs. The Secretary General of the Ministry of Public Works, Mr Sutoto. said today that the Government is prepared to buy out the KP.M. Dutch company holding the interIsland shipping monopoly. He said the Government would probably buy the majority of the stock
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    BURMA RETURNS BUDDHIST RELICS
    52 1 RANGOON. Thurs.-Golden caskets containing sacred relics of Arahats Sariputta and Moggalana. two of Buddha's disciples, on loan here for public worship, will be returned to India on Sunday Other loaned Buddhist rellcs will be returned to the Temple of the Sacred Tooth in Ceylon on Apr.
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    TRYGVE LIE MAY GO TO MOSCOW
    134 1 LAKE SUCCESS. Thurs. \Jl R. Trygve Lie, Secretaryl"* General of the United Nations, .admitted yesterday that he might go to Moscowlute this month in a move towards ending the Chinese representation crisis In the United Nations. Mr Lie told reporters that he had not
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    38 1 A SINGAPORE CHINESE police trainee, flying over the shoulders of his Malay instructor, learns close combat the hard way at the Singapore Police Training School in Thomson Road. Straits Times picture. Story and other pictures on page 7.
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    "Invisible Killers" Slew Victim Amongst Crowd
    506 1 From GEOFFREY GELDARD, Straits Times Reporter. KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. 'FHREE terrorists yesterday accosted Mr. Tan Liang Buck, superintendent of Goh Ban Huat pottery works at Segambut, three miles from Kuala Lumpur, dragged him to a side lane and shot him dead. Dozens of people
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    JAPS FOR EXPORT
    38 1 COLOMBO, Thurs.— Dr. P. S. Lokanathan, secretarygeneral of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, has informed the Ceylon Government that General Mac Arthur will release Japanese technicians 'or service in Ceylon. -A.P.
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    Ceremonial Bathe
    35 1 NEW DELHI, Thurs Nearly a million Hindu pilgrims are crowding into the city of Hardwar, in the Himalayan foothills, to take part In the great ceremonial bathing In the sacred Ganges today.— A.P.
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    ITALY WON'T PAY...
    55 1 ROME. Thurs. ITALY said yesterday that she could not pay reparations to Soviet Kussia until an agreement is reached on the value of Italian properties in the Balkans. An informal note handed to ithe Soviet Government said that the Russians previously .had minimised the value of Italian
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    Hungary Can't
    60 1 BUDAPEST, Thurs. HUNGARY told tbe United Stales yesterday that she would be unable to pay compensation in dollars tor American property nationalised there, because of "the absence of commercial relations" between the two nations. The United States Government was informed that Hungary would "make use of American property"
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    Jakarta Outlaws Azis Rebels
    242 1 Jakarta Outlaws Azis Rebels JAKARTA. Thurs. CAPTAIN Abdul Azis, whose rebel forces seised Macassar a week ago was officially proclaimed an insurgent today and President Soekarno ordered government forces into action to dislodge the rebels. Dr. Soekarno declared in nationwide broadcast: "As tha President of the United States of Indonesia
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    KEEP IT UP
    37 1 LONDON. Thurs Britain has asked a number of other sterling area countries not to relax their special measures to reduce the dollar drain, though the sterling area's gold, and dollar position has recently improved—Reuter.
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    INDIA, PAKISTAN AGREE TO ACCEPT SIR O. DIXON
    240 2 INDIA, PAKISTAN AGREE TO ACCEPT SIR O. DIXON Australian Jurist To Be Kashmir Mediator LAKE SUCCESS, Thursday. INDIA and Pakistan have each accepted Sir Owen Dixon, Australian High Court justice, as the United Nations representative in the Kashmir dispute. The appointment of the 61-year-old judge has been confirmed by the
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    Revitalise U.N. Call By Egypt
    122 2 LAKE SUCCESS, Thurs. MAHMOUD Fawzi Bey Egyptian President of the United Nations Security Council for April, said yesterday that the time had come for the United NattoM to "revitalise" its work and "do something more positive than what we have been doing sn far for
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    Land-Grabbing Rio Reds Captured
    135 2 RIO DE JANEEIO. J hurs CJIXTY-EIGHT men. said by the police to be fanatical Communists, who 6ok over the British-owned Pirapetinger plantation <H gunpoint were captured yesrerc'ay by Brazilian troops. The men overpi'we.ed the manager. Mr. Charles P. Young, and other plantation residents. The police at
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    'LIVING BUDDHA' PRAYS
    50 2 "FIERCE PRAYERS": The Dilowa Gegen Hutukhtu, the "living Buddha," clasps his hands before an altar in his quarters at John Hopkins University (U.S.) and offers "fierce prayers" for his friend, Mr. Owen Lattimore, who has been charged by Senator McCarthy with being a Soviet spy. A.P. picture.
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    ECAFE REGION TRADE URGED
    200 2 CALCUTTA, Thursday. DRITAIN, Australia and the United States stressed the importance of developing trade between the area covered by the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East and outside countries when the Commission's iron and steel sub-committee concluded its three-day session in Calcutta
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    BUDGET SURPLUS
    37 2 LONDON, Thurs. Austraralia will have a substantial budget surplus at the end at the current financial year on June 30. The customs revenue is already only £3.000,000 short of the year's estimate of £60,500,000— Reu^r.
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      2 Husbands Take Short Cut To Gaol
      246 2 LOS ANGELES, Thursday. TWO men are held in gaol here after cutting off their wives' hair. Police pointed out they both lack barbers' licences. Edward L. Bruce, aged 6, is accused of assaulting his wife by trimming her two- foot tresses to "keep
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      MINDSZENTY FOR RUSSIA REPORT
      86 2 VATICAN CITY, Thurs. THE weekly Sunday Osservatore Romano said yesterday that Josef Cardinal Mindszenty has been taken to Russia. The refusal of the Hungarian authorities to give any news of the Hungarian primate sentenced to life imprisonment is "another proof of the cruelty and brutality of
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      CARMEN WEDS
      110 2 has been married to Principe Gretano parente, eldest son of the late Italian Marquess Envi< o Parente and the Marchionpss of Cnstel VLsordo— AP. DUPLICATING machines in Rumania will be banned in a for night's time unless special permits are obtained. A probable reason Is to make the
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      USIS MEN TO BE TRIED IN PRAGUE
      51 2 PRAGUE, Thurs.— An undisclosed number of employees of the United States Information Service in Prague go on trial tomorrow :n Prague's Pankrac Court. Western reporters have been invited to attend. The invitation did not disclose the charges nor the lames of the accused.
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      313 2 SINGAPORE TURF CLUB To The Ordinary Members SINGAPORE TURF CLUB. Gentlemen. NOTICE is hereby given that a Special Meeting of the Ordinary Members of the Club will be leld at 5.15 p.m. on Friday, the 21st day of April, 1950, at the Singapore Chamber of Commerce iPullerton Building), Singapore. ;or
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    SOUTH-EAST ASIA WILL GET PRIORITY WITH BIG 3
    396 3 PARIS, Thursday. INDO-CHINA and South-East Asia would be among the first items on the agenda on which immediate policy decisions would be made at thi" Kig Three foreign ministers talks in London next month, a French Foreign Office spokesman said last night.
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    U.S. NAVAL CHIEF
    33 3 THE I.S. Secretary of the Sin, Francis P. Matthews, tio recently conferred vi i h the British Admiral <he Fleet. Lord I rasrr. v%ln> visited him at j-hington.— A.P. picture.
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    U.S.AID TO MALA YA PROPOSED
    96 3 U.S.AID TO MALA YA PROPOSED WASHINGTON Thurs. IrNITBD States Stat- Department officials said y'su»rday that a special olt -t States survey mlnton to South-East Asia nad cabled home oropo=;als for American inomic aid to Malaya and Burma .licials said the propo— II 1 hi a preliminary nature .uici now being
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    U.S. BUSINESS IMPROVES
    66 3 WASHINGTON. Thins President Truman's Council of Economic Advisers told Congress yesterday of a rise In ilmost every business in-(i,-x in the first quarter of 1950. Industrial outout in March I more than made good the I of the coal strike, j House building set up a record.
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    RED ADVANCE
    36 3 SEOUL, Thurs. S-x hundred freshly enroll* d Communist guerillas have broken from Commu:i!;.t Nor'h Korea into the mountainous Ondaesan region of South Korea, the United Nations Committee on Korp3 w.is to i yesterday.— Reuter.
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    TAX DODGERS IN JAPAN
    68 3 TOKYO, Thurs. --The Gov- ernment's tax administration i agency yesterday disclosed the country's woryt tax dodgers. The Yawata Steel Plant of i the Japan Iron Work» headed the list with 141,536,000 yen (€141.536 sterling) jin arrears. Others were the I Mitsui Chemical Industries i with 112,703,000
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    'U.S. Should Act In East' —Dewey
    127 3 'U.S. Should Act In East' Dewey NEW YORK. Thurs. pOVERNOR Thomas Dewey ll of New York has called on President Truman to set up a "genuine bi-partisan" foreign policy and has told fellow Republicans they should respond to'any sincere offer. Something should be done quickly about the Far East. He
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    MASS V.D. CURE ATTEMPTED
    52 3 NEW YORK, Thurs. In the first attempt in world history to eradicate venereal diseases from an entire nation, penicillin injections will be given to the entire population of the Republic of Haiti, the New York Times reported today. The operation, involving 3,500,000 people, will take two
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    Snatched Coffin Of Turk National Hero
    214 3 ISTANBUL, Thursday. Vf ARSHAL Fevzi Chakmak former chief of the lT Turkish General Staff, was buried yesterday after students snatched the coffin from a gun carriage and bore it away over the heads of a mourning crowd. The students, members of the national party
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    EASTER PARADE
    37 3 EASTER PARADE: Parasols and popcorn, champagne and sunshine mingled to make the Easter parade in London's Hyde Park a success. Here a gaily loaded stage coach ambles through a surging crowd of rewllers. A.P. picture.
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    Mopping-Up After 18-Day Battle In Indo-China
    182 3 SAIGON, Thursday. A N 18-day-old battle raging between French troops and Vietminh (insurt*f«rt) forces in the flooded and heavily wooded southern Indo-China, has slowed down. Aircraft and naval artillery, employed earlier to check the Vietminh oflensive, are now silent as French troops begin mopping-up.
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    Probe Into 'Massacre'
    99 3 MANILA. Thurs. THE Department of National Defence has ordered an investigation of a reported massacre of about 70 civilians by Government nolice forces in the town of Ba- color, Pampanga province. The alleged killing, which was said to have occurred on Good Friday, drew strong denunciations from
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    RECOVERED
    25 3 PART of Herman Goering's treasure. excavated at VeKvnstein Castle, near Nuernberg, Germany, being stored at the art collecting centre in Munich. Germany. A.P. picture.
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    E. GERMANS TO BE DIRECTED
    78 3 BERLIN, Thurs. fOMMUMST leaders are preparing a vigorous law for "planned direction of labour forces" in East Gernuny to support a fiveyear economic plan. Allied officials said the new labour law might be used to "direct" young East Germans to join the policearmy which now
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    Baltic Rescue Bid In 5th Day
    200 3 Baltic Rescue Bid In 5th Day COPENHAGEN. Thurs. A MERICAN rescue planes flew over the Baltic again today the fifth of a search for a missing United States Navy patrol bomber which had become the centre of tension in the east- west cold war. Yellow objects floating in the Baltic
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    HALT TO RED PURGE URGED
    81 3 LONDON, Thurs.— Britain's atomic scientists yesterday urged "strong opposition" to any extension of Britain's purge of Communists. The Council of Atomic Scientists Association said it would "view an extension of the Civil Service purge to other institutions with grave concern." The Prime Minister, Mr. Clement
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    ROME REDS PLAN BID TO DISCREDIT MAID
    181 3 ROME. Thursday. TWELVE hours after the first American arms sent 1 to Italy under the Atlantic Pact arrived at Naples, 42 of Italy's top Communists met in Rome yesterday to plan their summer campaign against American military and economic aid. In Naples 20
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    SEVEN DIE IN ONE FAMILY
    74 3 TOKIO, Thura. Seven 1 members of a single famiJy I were found dead in the i woods behind a Buddhist i temple in the northern Honshu city of Sendal yesterday, adding to the long list of currently popular 'family suicides." All the bodies were lined
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    3 CHINESE IN SIAM ON EXTORTION CHARGE
    98 3 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Thurs. SIAMESE police have arrested three Chinese, believed to be Communist agents, for allegedly extorting not less than 3.000.000 baht from Chinese businessmen in Siam. Documentary evidence of regular communications between the three Chinese extortionists and Communist ported
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    250 PERLIS STUDENTS GO ON STRIKE
    305 4 250 PERLIS STUDENTS GO ON STRIKE Protest Against New Reforms From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR, Thursday. THE Perlis Religious Council held an emerger.yy meeting this afternoon in an attempt to settit' a strike called by 250 pupils of the Alwiyah Arabic (Religious) School at Arau. The students, including eleven
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    GOING TO EUROPE
    36 4 II \S Mil. Mill AHMKD. member of Ihe Federal Legislative Council, who vill shortly leave for I cop- |>) attend the mcclii nf the Kublirr Study Gr*«p at Kru^srK which ■taita on May 2.
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    Millionaires To Visit Singapore
    112 4 Millionaires To Visit Singapore J A. MORE than a dozen Amc- j lican millionaire? i»te he tjB UwrUts on i! round-the-world liner President Monroe which arrives in Singapore tomorrov from San Francisco Mo is the md of the American tourist ships to visit Singathis year. Bhe will rein port fo.-
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    NO LIGHTS: FINED
    30 4 I ro-n Our Own Onrr?«ninilent PARIT BUNTAR, Thurs Awang bin Din and Oh Bak Chin were each fined $7 at Bagan Serai for leaving their bicycles unattended.
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    DRAPERS RUSH FOR SHOPS
    106 4 DRAPERS RUSH FOR SHOPS TEXTILE dealers head the list of more than 1,000 applicants for 15 newly-con-verted shops In the Singapore Improvement Trust estate in Seng Poh Road. Tiong Bahru. The Singapore Co-operative Stores Society has applied for one of the shops, and a co-operative store is one of the
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    Not Opium Addict
    122 4 MAN who cxaimed to be i an opium addict when he was found with about one pound of opium was sentenc- j jed yesterday in the Singa- I pore Second District Court to 1 seven months' rigorou* imprisonment. Dr. Neoh Thian Soo, the prison doctor, said that
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    MALACCA ROTARY CLUB OFFICERS
    68 4 rrotn Our Stan Correspondent MALACCA. Thurs.— The following are the new officers of the Malacca Rotary Club: President, Dr. W. Glyn Evans; vice-president, Mr. Tan Eng Chye; secretary, Mr. K. T Joseph; treasurer, Mr. A. Sambantham Chettlar; Sgt.-at-Arms, Dr. Foo Hee Seng; directors Dr. R. H.
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    M.Y.F. RESOLUTION ON LOTTERIES
    116 4 From Our Stall orrespondent I'ENANG, Thursday. PHI: nth All-Malayan Methodist Youth Fellow- ship Institute, now meeting in Penang, will consider tomorrow a resolution against the introduction of State lotteries in the Federation. The discussion will be held in secret session among 400 delegates and fraternal members
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    TO MARRY AT IPOH
    64 4 SITIAWAN, Thurs. The wedding of Mr. J. D. J. Jacob, of the Anglo -Chinese School at Sitiawan. to Miss. Rajamoney Glory, nurse at Johore Bahru, will take place at the Church of the i Holy Spirit. Ipoh. next Saturday. Miss. Glory is the eldest daughter of
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    Jews Make Life Hard For Palestine Germans
    67 4 LIFE has become "very hard" for Germans in Israel under its present regime said a 74-year-old German, Mr. Nicolai Schmeidt, who with his wife has quit P^£jtln^^^»ggkJils_jQitune through Singapore last night. "We have a number of good friends among the Jews'. Mr. Schmedlt
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    PROTEST AT PAWNSHOP CARD CHECK
    72 4 l-rom Our Slaff Corresponilcni KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. KUALA Lumpur pawnshop I keepers are to make representations against the order which i-e«iuires them to demand identity cards from persons tendering articles for pawn. They have failed in their efforts to get the police to lift the
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    A Big Day For Them, Too...
    98 4 SINGAPORE'S CHIEF JUSTICE, Mr. Justice Murray Aynsley addressing over 250 people who attended yesterday's tea party at Cathay Restaurant, anniversary of Khalsa. In the picture are Mrs. Murray-Aynsley and Mr. J. A. Thivy. Stral ts Times picture. mHE anniversary of Khalsa yesterday was a
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    Great Tasks For Malayan Youth
    187 4 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Thursday. nnHE great tasks facia? Malayan youth were 1 referred to by both the Commissioner-General and the High Commissioner in messages read at the opening of the All-Malayan Methodist Youth Fellowship Institute at Penan* tonight. "Great responsibility rests upon a
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    COCKTAIL PARTY FOR SIR PATRICK
    56 4 The three Chambers of Commerce in Singapore will be holding a cocktail party in honour of Sir Patrick and Lady McKerron at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Wednesday, April 26 at 7 p.m. Sir Patrick, who Is retiring from bis post as Colonial Secretary, will
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    BOARD MEETING OF HOSPITAL
    36 4 The annual meeting of St. Andrew's Mission Hospital Board will be held at 5.30 today. The public are invited to attend the meeting and afterwards to inspect the wards and medical facilities
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    RECRUITMENT
    19 4 From Our SUIT Correspjndi nt MALACCA, Thurs. The next army recruitment in Malacca will be on April 28
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    A DAY OF PRAYER AND FUN
    172 4 A DAY OF PRAYER AND FUN For 3 Communities.... YESTERDAY was a day of celebration for three communities in Singapore. It was the New Year day of the T lils and Sinhalese, and It was also the anniversary of Khalsa. the Sikh reli^'fm. THE TAMILS Tamils gathered in their thousands
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    N.S. MOVE FOR FINANCE BODY
    104 4 N.S. MOVE FOR FINANCE BODY From Our Staff Correspondrnl SEREMBAN, Thurs.— A resolution that a finance committee consisting of the State Financial Offlcsr a.< ex-officio chairman, and all the Unofficial members of the Council of State, be appointed as "provided in the Standing Rules and Orders of the Council of
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    FOOD CONTROL
    48 4 From Our Own Corresp indent TAPAH, Thurs. Packiry aged 36, and Supplah, aged 28. were charged at Tap»h with moving 24 katties of rice each into the controlled area of Sungei Diam, Bidor, without permission. The maximum allowed Is 15 katties. They were fined *10 each.
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    SHOUTS COST $5
    43 4 From Our Own Correspondent TAPAH. Thurs. Man jah Singh and Nazar Singh of Bidor were charged before the Tapah Circuit Magistrate with having behaved in a disorderly manner at Bidor Police Station by shouting at each other. Both were cor-
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    TRUST RENTS MAY BE CUT BY 12PER CENT
    313 4 TRUST RENTS MAY BE CUT BY 12 PER CENT SUB-COMMITTEE of the Singapore Board of Improvement Trustees hns recommended a reduction of 12£ per cent, in the rents of flats and other premises built by the Singapore Improvement Trust after the war. Rents of pre-war Trust buildings are unaffected by
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    TORCHBEARERS
    29 4 TORCH BEARERS From Oar SUIT Correspondent MALACCA. Thurs.—Brigadier F. W. Harvey and Mrs. Harvey will be present at the inaugural meeting of the Salvation Army's Torchbearer Youth movement tomorrow
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    Coffee: In Tins Up, Beans Down
    115 4 ARISE of from 20 to 40 rents a pound tin lias been recorded this week In the prices of tinned coffee In Singapore. Dealers said the Increase i was a result of the sterling devaluation Prices quoted by one R: fries Place store yesterday
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    8 Old People On Begging Charge
    91 4 From Our Staff I orrf^pim :-ni JOHORE BAHRU, Tint s.— Pleading for leniency vlun charged in the Johore Bamu Poiice Court with begging, eight Chinese men ami women, ail over 60. promised either to keep to their hornet or to work in future. Onp
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    KEDAH MCA SEEKS FRESH HEARING FOR DETAINEES
    243 5 The association further suggests that deiainees now considered by the Commission of Review to be "les& dangerous" than they were at their first inquiry, should be released on a bond or guarantee. The meeting also considered a letter from the Deputy Commia* sloner
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    CHINESE BATTERED TO DEATH
    209 5 From Our Stall Corresmiiiicit KUALA LUMPUR. Thuri. AN elderly Chinese was battered to death and his wile wa s beaten unconscious when bandits broke Into their house in Kampong Ayer Hltam on the Ch'emor Boad Ipoh. on Tuesday night. The bandits first took tr.e couple's identity
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    He Jumped Into Sea
    70 5 From Our Own Correspondent BUKIT MERTAJAM, Thurs. pjECAUSE he vas "ashamed of being supported by my mother-m-law, 25-year-old Cheah Kwong Heng iumped into the sea from a PenangButterworth launch, but was rescued by Harbour Board ferrymen. Cheah told the Province Circuit Magistrate yesterday that he was
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    TRANSFER
    25 5 From Our Own correspondent TAPAH, Thurs.— Mr. Victor Dury, headma^er ci tne Government English School, Tapah, has left Tapah on transfer to Batu Gujah
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    Singapore Diary
    93 5 SOCIAL WELFARE COUNCIL, meeting. Old Supreme Court, 4.30 p.m. CHINESE V.M.C.A., 107. Selegie Road, chess club, 5 p.m.. weightlifting. 5.30 p.m., basketball. 5.30 p.m. SINHAL ES E ASSOCIATION, New Year reception, Robinsons' Cafe, 5.30 p.m. ST. ANDREW'S MISSION HOSPITAL, annual general meeting 250-254 Tanjong Pagar Koail. 5.30 p.m.
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    JOHORE CHINESE 'NO' TO ACCOUNTS BILL
    202 5 From Our SUB C'orrespouu. nJOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. lOHORE Chinese have decld- ed to oppose the proposed legislation to compel Chinese commercial houses to keep their accounts in English or Romanised Malay. At a meeting in Johore Bahru of members of the Malayan Chinese Association,
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    2½- TON GIFT TO WELFARE DEPT.
    48 5 The Westrallan Farmers of Australia have given two-and-a-half tons of quick frozen vegetables to the Singapore Social Welfare DeDartment. The vegetables— p^as, beans, cabbage and rhubarb— will be distributed by a Singapore food store to institutions run by the Social Welfare Department.
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    TRAFFIC OFFENCE
    30 5 From Our Own Corresoondent TAIPING, Thurs. Wong Thian Loy who admitted he failed to observe Stop, i Look and Go slgr was fined. $5 in the TaipJng :ourt.
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    Election Organiser Leaving Colony
    209 5 VIK. Gerald Hawkins, who organised the first Singai"l pore Legislative Council elections, is retiring from Government service. With his wife, who supervised the Municipal elections, lie will leave Singapore next Monday for the United Kingdom Re told the Straits Times, yesterday that he regards the elections
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    MILK IMPORTS
    34 5 Supplies of tull cream sweetened condensed milk and unsweetened evaporated milk are now available for export from the United Kingdom, stated Mr. W. H. Walker, Executive Controller. Imports and Exports, Singapore, yesterday.
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    ON ASIA TOUR
    37 5 MR J. G. DE BENS. Deputy Commissioner for the Netherlands in Indonesia, who arrived in Singapore yesterday from Jakarta by X.L.M. plane. He will tour Dutch consulates in South East Asia. BtmWl Times picture.
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    9 MONTHSFOR EXTORTION
    48 5 9 MONTHS FOR EXTORTION From Our Own Correspondent KAJANO, Thurs.— Yap Teck Nam, a 37-year-old businessman at Dengkll. pleaded guilty at Kajangt to attempting to extort $500 "cash for bandits" from Eng Kai by putting him in fear of injury. Yap was sentenced to nine months' rigorous imprisonment
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    LEFT CAMP BUT GIVEN NO CARD
    51 5 KAJANQ. Thurs.— A 62-year-old woman. Chong Kong, was sentenced to seven days' simple imprisonment at Kajanu for not having an identity card. She said that she had recently been released from a detention camp and ha^ asked her children to get a card for
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    NEW SVC OFFICERS
    53 5 NEW SVC OFFICERS FIVE OF THE SIX members of the Singapore Volunteer Corps who were promoted 2nd Lieutenant alter a recent officers' training; course. Left to right, 2nd Lieuts. E. E. Ebert, G. G. Newman, N. T. Lopez, Anwar Ibrahim and L. M. Pereira. The other officer is 2nd. Lieut.
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    $160,000 Holiday Homes For SMC
    159 5 DITILT a t a cost of $160,000, six holiday bungalows 13 will be opened officially towards the end of next month for the subordinate staff of the Singapore Municipality. Site of the new Municipal holiday bungalows is at Telok Mata Ikan at the 10th mi'-^tnne.
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    Mr. Aw Off To Indies
    77 5 Mr. Aw Boon Haw, the Tiger Balm King, left Singapore yesterday by X.L.M. Constellation for Jakarta his first trip to Indonesia since the end of the war. A spokesman of the Aw family told the Straits Times that Mr. Aw has plans to extend his
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    OFFICERS ARE KEEN
    115 5 CNTHUSIASM for the offl- cers' training courses and the in which they were conducted was voiced by six members of the Singapore Volunteer Corps who have been promoted second lieutenants. All except one turned out smartly in the new junglegreen uniforms at the S.V.C. drill hall The
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    Singapore Man Wins Fortune In Sweep
    264 5 Singapore Man Wins Fortune In Sweep [yiH. Hugn Mac Lean, a L 1 Singapore ship's engineer, who drew Freeoooter in the Grand National at Aintree on March 25, has won the Irish Hospitals Sweepstake's first prize of £25 000 (Straits $204,000). Mr. Mac Lean who is chipt engineer of one
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    MR. BINGHAM TO BANK HIS BLOOD
    66 5 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. Tues. rE acting Resident Commissioner. Mr. R. P. Bingham. was registered as a blood donor yesterday afternoon when he declared open the new Penang blood bank. After cutting a ribbon placed across the transfusion room, M. P. Bingham had
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    30 6 THE FAMILY of the lale Mr. •Wi« Theam Seng thank all thoae %h<. sent wreaths. letters of «:ouoolencc. telegrams, night >kFilj> pud attended his funeral on IS 4 M
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Fri., April 14. 1950. The Colonial Grievance
    1116 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Fri., April 14. 1950. The Colonial Grievance A new o ok which merits study in Malaya is "Self-Gov- j eminent For The Colonies." by W. R. Crocker. This book, it may be recalled, was praised by Lord Milverton in his j article on racial tensions in
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    RAIN AND RUBIES IN RANGOON
    79 6 RAIN AND RUBIES IN RANGOON RANGOON, Thurs.— Heavy rains competed with Burmese water-throwers traditionally celebrating in Rangoon yesterday the opening of the six-day Bank Holiday for the Burmese New Year, which falls on Apr. 17. Burmese hail the New Year in drenching one another with water. A Burmese ruby merchant
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    Behind The Terrorism: Your Neighbour?
    1274 6  -  A PERAK CHINESE AN INSIDE VIEW OP THE ENEMY-II By f tlfc aims of Malaya's rebellious Communists are well known, and tbe man-in-the-street has a slight inkling of what is going on. But everybody who wishes Malaya well is looking to somebody else to bring
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      310 6 pERMIT me lo use your "olumns to appeal to my countrymen and countrywomen in the Federation of Malatya and to point out to them that, while the Malays and Chinese have their own organisations to put their views before the Government through the proper channels, Indians born
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      THE MALAYAN R.A.F.
      233 6 A3 a Malayan, I find boundless Joy in the establishment of the R.A.F (Malaya). Recruitment, I hear, will begin soon. As this is the opportunity of a lifetime for Malayan youth fired with ambition and led on by enthusiasm, courage and vision to become one day the
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      FOR MR. T. S. WEE
      33 6 I ENCLOSE $10 for the University of Malaya Endowment Fund in lieu of a wreath in memory of the late Mr. Wee Theam Seng. YONG LOON CHONG. Singapore.
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    MERDEKA
    143 6 Low o'er the verdant land the storm clouds roll; The erstwhile sunny hills are hid from sight. More gloomy than the dark of moonless night, The angry threat'ning banks predict the toll. Of ruined bounty, labour laid to waste, Exacted by the storm-f!ood"s raging haste. Down through the years
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    On The Margin
    442 6 On The Margin Malayan Lore QNE thing that puzzit is why so few memUi* of the domiciled commmn .<* read the Journal of the Malayan Branch, Royal A Society, and the Malayan Nature Journal. Ninety per cent of the mi mbership of the two ■ocletlei which produce these jou Is
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    80 6 nHMJsV At 25 Rankin Road ugh. on 15th Feb., 1960. Jihn Ingli*. Civil Engineer, latr Malayan Railways. MHF MANUEL MIRANDA. mother or Mr. Plus Miranda of I'nHii Mff Estate. Sunget Buloh. ■.nd Mi' Ocilv Vax of Malacca. li-mM-d sway peacefully at Port Tiivaririnim. S. India, on Apr. 10. SOW CECILIA
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    S'PORE POLICE DRIVE TO ENROL CHINESE
    232 7 Many Wanted For Training THE Singapore Police Force has started a recruitment campaign to enrol Chinese between the ages of 18 and 24 as regular policeman. As many Chinese as possible are wanted, especially those with a knowledge of English and Malay, the Commandant
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    MEDALS PLEA TO LONDON
    178 7 MEDALS PLEA TO LONDON rp.jE Singapore Government 1 and lhe CommissJonerU» nerals office are understood to have recommended to the Honours and Awards Commlt\f< in London that the Emerwork of members of the Singapore Volunteer Corps (Liaison I and the Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Rewrve should make them eligible for
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    GAOLED FOR CASH THEFT
    87 7 Nineteen-year-old Tan Boon v sentenced yesterda.. in the Singapore Fourth Police Court to two months' rigorous Imprisonment for stealing $28' Jiom a fellow-tenant in h:^ house in Joo Chiat Terrace on Mar. 11. The fellow-tenant. Lim 1+ ny Huat. said Tan saw he bad a sum
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    BEAUTY CONTEST PICKPOCKET
    58 7 Sentence of 18 months I rigorous imprisonment was I passed on 26-year-old Won 1 Yin Khong in the Singapore First District Court JFCSterdaj for theft of a fountain peu. Wong lifted the pen from the pocket of one of the spectators at the Beauty Con test held
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    TRAINEES RELAX
    44 7 AFTER A STRENUOUS morning of drill. Singapore Chinese police trainees (above) relax in their barracks at the Singapore Police Training School in Thomson Road. (Below): Some of the trainees learn how to clear obstacles by climbing a dummy wall.— Straits Times Pictures.
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    Flats Withdrawn From Auction
    372 7 MEYER PROPERTIES SALE 'PHREE lots of freehold land at East Coast Road, Thomson Road and Tank Road were sold quickly, but three large blocks of flats for which bids were below the reserve prices, were withdrawn from sale at yesterday's auction of properties of the Meyer
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    MAN & WIFE CHARGED
    64 7 MAN WIFE CHARGED Urn Ah Oh of Dukes Roa i and his wife, 22-year-old Lay Ah Choon, appeared In the Singapore Relief Court yesterday for alleged possession of a jade ring which was reported to have been taken from its owner during a ganp, robbery. Both were charged with dishonestly
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    Blind Men Seek Braille Uniformity
    110 7 Blind Men Seek Braille Uniformity Yf AJOR D. R. Bridges, blind Welfare Officer for the Blind in the Federation, returned to Malaya by KLM Constellation yesterday after attending an international conference at Paris at which half of the 20 delegates were blind. The talks, called by the United Nations to
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    "WHY I CAN'T BE SACKED"
    481 7 THE RED DEAN GIVES 3 REASONS "T can be dismissed from mv post on only three grounds," said Dr. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, and noted Russopbile, when reporters at Kalians airport yesterday asked him to comment on the Archbishop of Canterbury's latest attack. "I
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    'VICTIM MET ROBBER IN HOSPITAL'
    258 7 THE Singapore Deputy Public Prosecutor, Mr. E. P. Shanks, told the Singapore Assize Court yesterday how the victim of a robbery, a detective looking for an injured robber and a man now facing trial charged with in the robbery— met at the General Hospital. Ong
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    'Big Change In Status Of Asian Women'
    161 7 X IOU4II T T VIIIVII QECAUSE of the vast change In their status in SouthEast Asia today, women are now required to shoulder res- ponsibilities which were not j I theirs in the past, Miss Elizabeth Palmer. world Y.W.C.A. secretary for South- East
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    3 On Riot Charge
    187 7 »TiHREE Chinese were J. charge^ yesterday In the Singapore Second District Court with rioting In En Tong i Seng Street on Feb. 27. 1 »The complainant. 23-year- old Sia Beng Hai. alleged that as he drove a lorry into Eu Tong Seng Street to pick up
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    $17,500 GIFT TO UNIVERSITY
    27 7 The- Singapore Rotary Club has donated $17,500 to the University of Malaya Endowment Fund The money was raised by the Rotary Movie Ball
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    CHILDREN'S S.P.C.A. FOR S'PORE
    68 7 rE Singapore Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will soon start a children* biaiu-h. -aid Mrs. Marjorie demons, a committee member, In a broadcast last night. Members of the children's branch would have special badges provided to show that they were animal levers. Mrs.
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    KALLANG IS NOW No. 2 AIRPORT IN HE FAR EAST
    215 7 KALLANG IS NOW No. 2 AIRPORT IN HE FAR EAST gINGAPORE'S Kallang airport is today the second busiest airport in the Far Eat*, a position formerly held by Bangkok. With a movement of 20 aircraft a day landings and departures Kallang handles almost as mnch traffic as Kai Tak in
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    $2,500 RAISED FOR HOSPITAL
    39 7 The President of the ln1 ncr Wheel, Mrs. M. R. Anciano. announced yesterday that $2,500 was raised for the St. Andrew's Mission Hospital by an Easter Concert given at the Victoria Memo- rial Hall. Singapore.
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    Morphine Charge
    77 7 Two young Chinese and an elderly Eurasian pleaded not I guilty in the Singapore Fourth i Police Court yesterday to a charge of possession qf 360 i tubes,, each containing 20 tablets of morphine, in a car in Middle Road on Apr. 12 Ec Swee Huat. 22. and
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    S'pore Ship Aground Off Bangkok
    109 7 S'pore Ship Aground Off Bangkok A SECOND attempt U <- float the 984-ton t Steamship vessel Boloh i*t Kground on a. sandbimk M miles from Bangkok, wilil be made at high water today' Buloh went agrouiui jn Monday night cratsk'p lie channel near the moolli f the Menatn River. Ai.
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    Put Blame On Weather
    91 7 I .ifiWO men. a farmer 1 labourer, who a; ir. the Singapore Full D trict Court yesterday I thfir identity cards wen faced blamed the wean.f The farmer. Ten Ah T whose card WU defaced jbeyond recognition whs fir>td $10. He explained he v carried his
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    U.K. BOARD OF TRADE MAY SELL RUBBER
    174 8 U.K. BOARD OF TRADE MAY SELL RUBBER From Our Own Corespondent LONDON, Thursday. iN view of the peak rubber price, dealers in Mincing Lane today showed interest as to the policy of the Board of Trade regarding stocks accumulated during the war and the immediate post-war period of bulk purchase.
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    17 8 MR. LOH TOONG HOI and Miss Lav Yoke Lan who w err married in Kuala Lumpur recently.
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    400 WANT LICENCES RENEWED
    115 8 OWNER-drivers of Singapore taxis have asked the Singapore Hire Car Association to get their hiredcar licences renewed for this year. rijout 40J taxi licences have not ::ewed by the Singapore Reof Vehicles Department this me Registrar of Vehicles. Mr. W M wkttt, when seen yesterday would
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    RED CHINA WANTS SIAMESE RICE
    56 8 BANGKOK. Thurs A Chinese merchant in Bangkok has told the Siamese Government he wants to buy Siamese rice for the Red China government Mr. Ho Min-wa. the merchant, wants to export the rice to Kwantung province. Siam wants a guarantee for payment in foreign currency,
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    FOR BRUSSELS RUBBER TALKS
    42 8 Mr. Lee Kong Chian, Singapore delegate to the Rubber Study Group conference at Brussels will be leaving by air noxi Thursday. Afier the conference. Mr. Lee will visit Paris, Germany, United Kingdom and America before returning to Singapore.
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    Point 4 Aid For Siam
    83 8 From Our Own Corresponded BANGKOK. Thurs.—Sevtrpl projects, including a plan to increase and improve Sium'a rice production by plant breeding and a Kheme to diversify the country i agriculture have been recommended to the United States Department by the seven man mission investigating President Truman's
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    SAID CARD WAS TAKEN AWAY
    81 8 From Our Staff Uarraaa »ni JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. Charged in the Police Court with failing to obtain an identity card. Kum Santi said he had a card but r .->ad been taken nw:iy by the owner of an eating shop. The case was adjourned for
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    Australia's Own Avro Lincoln
    58 8 THIS picture taken at Chanjrl aerodrome yesterday shows the H members of an Aus-tralian-built Avro Lincoln, which is on its way to take part in a British RAF. air display in Britain, lined up against the aircraft immediately after it landed. The plane is the sole
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    Govt. Policy On Local Padi Price Sought
    460 8 From Our Statf Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. JHE Federation Government will be asked at the Federal Legislative Council meeting next Wednesday if it intends to revise the present price of local padi when the existing guarantee lapses in June. Mr. P. C. Au-Yong
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    ENGAGED ON THE SAME DAY
    36 8 >IR. SAUL MEYEK and Miss Ksther Menahun (above) and Mr. Jacob Solomon and Miss Hilda Meyer (below) who were en?a?ed on the same day in Singapore recently. Zikoi's Photo Sfrvici- pictures.
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    BACK FROM LEAVE
    37 8 from Our Staft I orrcspuu<i<-i' JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.Mr. S. M. Hakim, the well known Government Canteen Contractor and a prominent Musiim businessman has returned to Johore Bahru afior a six months' holiday in India.
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    T.N.T. ENDS WORK IN COLONY
    159 8 T.N. T. ENDS WORK IN COLONY THE Spare Time and Talent Enterprises— an organisation which for two years has raised funds for food parcels to dependants of men who died or were wounded In Malaya during the vvar and dependants of men injured In the bandit campaign— ls to close
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    U.N. BODY HAD AID TALKS WITH C.G.
    85 8 rpHE possibility of further aid by the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund to British territories in South-East Asia is believed to have been discussed with the Commis-sioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald by a six-man U.N. mission during Its two-day stay in Singapore.
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    BUTTER CARDS SHOULD BE KEPT
    151 8 BUTTER CARDS SHOULD BE KEPT pHE Singapore Food A Control Department yesterday warned that although butter is off the ration in the Colony, nolders of ration cards under the former butter rationing scheme should aot tear up their cards. A Food tvepartment official said that If de-ration-ing should result in
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    34 Grabbed Money
    105 8 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Thurs. WHEN the police raided a shop house in Port Weld, the 34 Chinese, including six women, who were gambling there, grabbed their money. Only $4.15 was found on the table. However. $256.20 was discovered on their persons. This was told to
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    LIM, WOUNDED, MADE REPORT
    78 8 From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR, Thurs. AFTER an unknown sunman had fired at hirr, a wounded druggist, Lim Fooi San, staggered into Bukit Silemhan police station today to report the incident. The shooting took place this morning 16 miles from Sungei Patani. The gunman escaped.
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    Social Conscience Is One Aim Of YWCA
    129 8 By Our Woman Correspondent rvEVELOPMENT of a social runscience and training for citizenship are amoiic, the aims of the 1.W.C.A., the new president, Mrs. H. B. Amstutz, told the Straits Times yesterday. "We hope to get more people to serve in the various
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    INSURANCE PLAN BEING STUDIED
    67 8 From Oar Stan ('oncsii i ii JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— Proposals for a scheme of compulsory insurance against certain risks arising out of the emergency are under consideration by the Chinese in Johore. It is understood that discussions have been going on both in London and Malaya
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    Service Concert
    29 8 An Army entertainment unit last night presented "Spot Light No. 4" at Nee Soon before going on a tour of Service units, hospitals and clubs at Singapore.
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      103 8 JL>^"* Where the climate is /r^\ damp and hot, a j f*^) ifefe O§ iEr irisSfcr, l)unl() P> llo mattress \*&p j Klfe -I r armchair is v y^^\> air circulating ■<? <^v\ *rir *'**"""x, v ■> /-v- """^f "The Inside Secret through the <\^C^\^^' 'l/i^ el Modern Comfort'y minute
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      187 8 otWu4 UOth (iaH t*t(i£ ml ££^9 gE^BMWiiwijiiMii*^^ FEDERATED MOTORS LTD. ORCHARD ROAD SINGAPORE REPRESENTED THROUGHOUT THE FEDERATION BY WEARNE BROS., LTD. i-^ t t I because Kolynos foam It's between the teeth that danger lies. That's where bactrria multiply and go to work— producing the acids that cause decay. Kolynos
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      New Film Unit For S'pore
      972 9 New Film Unit For S'pore A NEW film producing company is to open soon in Singapore, according to information reaching me this week. It will confine itself to Malayan films and will make use of the vast amount of local talent in Malaya. This company has already prepared its production
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      JEANNE PLAYS PINKY
      50 9 JEANNE CRAIN as Pinky in the film of that name. See review beiow. GLYNIS JOHNS, star of Sidney Gilliat's State Secret is seen in the headdress in which she first appears in the picture when Douglas Fairbanks finds her singing in a music hall in Central Europe.
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      SUCCESSFUL SUSAN
      173 9 qiWENTY-ONE-YEAR-old Susan Kennaway, act-, ress daughter of a wellknown Malayan rubber planter, was packing her bags the other day in London's Three Arts Club, to go to a new job with the Arts Council's West of England Theatre Co. The Three Arts Club, founded 40 years ago by
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      MARLENE YEARNS FOR RAGS
      352 9 MARLENE YEARNS FOR RAGS "T WANT to wear a nurse's uniformJust onee in a motion picture," said Marlene Dietrich, who is weary of appearing constantly on the screen in hltra-glamorous costumes. "If I could get a nurse's role I would not have to worry about clothes,'' the actress said in
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      HOT
      331 9 APPEARING on cinema screens throughout the world lust now are films dealing with the controversial subject of colour prejudice. Some of them are bad but one or two ire outstandingly good, •a ad one of the best of its kind was previewed 'n Singapore this week. The title of
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    Kampong life in the emergency
    749 10  - Kampong life in the emergency ISAGITTARIUS I BY HOUSEBOAT UP THE PERAK RIVER IIAVI: jusl returned from trip to Bandar Bahru, Pasir S;tl;ik, and Kanipong (iajah, mukims (sub riislricts) in Lower Pemk, travelling up the Pfrak river by !ioiisel)oat from Telllk Anson. The object of my visit wis to obtain
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    53 10 A MORNING dress made of Hghl srey wool. The strapIe, hndice has two striprs on liiht coloured, the other Mack. The jacket of the Minr material is lined in Mack. The hat is made of Macfe and white straw. The model was shown at the Spring Summer collection of Gahriella
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    MYSTERY OF THE SAMSUI WOMEN
    372 10 MYSTERY OF THE SAMSUI WOMEN HAILING from the Samsui district of Rwangtung in China, the Samsui women have become quite a feature in the Malayan scene. Scattered all over Malaya, they are a part of the country's labour force. The tin mines, the rubber estates— all need the help of
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    The children suffered
    419 10 by Our Woman Correspondent pOR four days during the Easier holidays, hundreds of Singapore children wailed. They were in pain, they were sick and they needed medical attention. Many of thdm belong co poor families living in the heart of Chinamwn. Medical practitioners seldom specialise in pediatrics
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    Malaya's 'Joss' Industry Revives
    503 10  - Malaya' s 'Joss' Industry Revives K.S. CHIA By A ONCE-neglected in- dustry is now enjoying a boom in Malaya and Singapore. Josspaper manufacturing is providing full-time occupation for hundreds of men, women and children. In Penang alone some 25 firms have mushroomed during the last two months, to turn out
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    GURKHAS: A DENIAL
    108 10 WITH reference to an artl- cle by a woman contributor headed Gurkhas Were So Very Shy." published in the magazine section of the Straits Times yesterday, a spokesman of the Brigade of Gurkhas refutes as untrue the allegation that the condition of women and children was unhygienic
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      156 10 rlfo\ TO SAIGON OtA \£jr~^ Connections loi all j aW parts ol lndo-<*hina Arrivals fron Saigoa Thursdayt 3.50 p.m. V\ Departures for Saigon N^ \jpilNC»fO«l aM xfrance ■OOKINC UnCC OENEK»I ASENT. I Mothers need Strength I to maintain their health WE** jk H -rAil 'r W BRANDS ESSENCE OF CHICKEN
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      243 10 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD "•mi 26. found in molt oolite (31. 1. Servant wno wrow poetry 17. yv t hip bss a rig in destiny i«>. (7). 4 Stretchy p-ifi (6> M. It v, turned ov« la refoc 10 AhnciouUerhUh.P.r.U M .l 3 l^ 3^' o tre.t 11 X.a« 1 jn,
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      London Stocks
      335 11 LONDON, rhurs. VOLUME of business In the London Stock Exchange yesterday was barely sufficient to cover expenses. Pinner prices nevertheless encouraged many Domestic l&sues. Rubber shares were a few pence better where changed, out turnover was small. Small declines were fairly widespread among Oils. Closing middle prices ot
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      SIAM MINES WAR DAMAGE: £5,000,000 PACT
      146 11 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Thursday. DRITISH and Australian claims for war damage to tin mines in Siam have been settled with an agreement that the Siamese Goverment will pay a lump sum oi to.uuu.uuu. Payment will be made oui of Siamese Government reserve
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      TIN COMPANY OUTPUTS
      78 11 TIN COMPANY OUTPUTS OSBORNE Chappel, Ipoh. announce the following tin-ore outputs for the quarter to Mar. 31. 1950, in piculs: Chenderiang Dredging 507 Gopeng Consol. 3,250 Hongkong J.UO6 Kent (F.M.S.) Dredging 1,945 Kinta Mines 1.240 Kilhnghall 1,100 Malaysiam 440 Pengkalen 1,741 Petaling 8.667 Pusing Rubber Tin (tributers^ sales* 1,173 Rambutan
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      RUBBER CROPS
      27 11 SIME. Darby Company announce the following rubber estate outputs in lb.: Feb. Mar. Kempas 383,000 391.000 Radella Est. 18.200 16.50 C Bukit K.B. 8.600 10.300
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      TIN PRICES
      29 11 SINGAPORE, Thurs., Apr. A3— 5292.50 (down $0.75). LONDON, Thurs. Apr.. 13. —Spot: 591 i— £s92. Forward: £591}— £592}. Settlement: £591}. Turnover morning. 105 tons; afternoon 75 tons.
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      MALAYAN SHARES
      122 11 From Our Market Correspondent rpHE Malayan share market was featureless and inclined to ease yesterday. Price changes announced ay urc Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were: Bajrr 8.8 Petroi 336 Fraaer dc Neavc Ord S.I7J H'kong B'hai Bunk (H'kong reg.) 710.60 McAhster 35 75 Robinson Co Ist Pref. 6
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      PRODUCE MARKET IN SINGAPORE
      72 11 From A Market Correspondent pOFFEE in the Singapore produce market was quiet yesterday. Copra had buyers at $36?* and sellers at $39, while coconut oil rose by 50 cents to $62 so lie: s in old drums. Prices per picul were; Gambler $210 (round), $82 (Java
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      2½-Ct.Drop In Rubber
      218 11 rpHE Singapore rubber market eased yesterday In sympathy with London and New York, and on profittaking. Trading was rather cautious and the undertone throughout was uncertain. < The market closed weak at 2& cents per lb. below the previous day's quotations. Closing prices yesterday were, per lb.:
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      GUTHRIE GROUP PRODUCTION
      59 11 pUTHRIE COMPANY announce outputs from the various estates and mines In the Guthrip grouo of companies for March, and for the first quarter of 1950, as follows: Rubber— 6.275,610 II 1 20,062,846 lbs. Tea (black) 160.500 lbs; 497.500 lbs. Palm 0i1— 1.673 tons: 3.897 tons. Palm kernels
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      SHIPPING AT THE SINGAPORE WHARVES
      108 11 QHIPS alongside the Singa^or. J Harbour Board wharves yesterriav igodowns in brackets) were: Main Wharf: Kustbris (31-32). British Prince (33-34). Steel Rover (36). Telemachus (38-39). Toboali (40). Gewang (41). Kampar (43V West Wharf: Patroclus (4-5), Bpri3tto* (8-9). Shlllonu 111). Breconshlre (13-14), Adrasrus (15-16). Empire Dock:
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    GABOS SCORES 5 GOALS IN F.&N. WIN
    344 12 GABOS SCORES 5 GOALS IN F.&N. WIN Fancied Bank XI Surprised In Thrilling Game F N 6 H S Bank 4 FIVE goals by Awang Gabos paved the way for a surprise victory for Fraser and Neave over the favourites, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank XI, by six goals to four
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    Casuals Muddle In Mud
    262 12 KAF (S) ...6 Casuals ...0 |T was muddle in the mud for Chinese Casuals in their S.A.F.A. Senior league match against R.A.F. (Seletar) at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. Going down •ix— nil. Casuals could •iot cope with the sodden pitch and the heavy, slithering ball. Seletar,
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    22 12 TODAY: 9.15 a.m. (7ft. Sin.) and 10.12 p.m. 7ft. Bin.i TOMORROW: 10.05 ajn. (Blt 3in.) and 10.39 pan. (Bft. l.n.t.
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    24 12 RA-LI (Dunwoodie) being led in by trainer OUie Davies after winning the Cl. 1, Div. 3 sprint at Ipoh on Saturday. Straits Times picture.
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    Ceylon Fail After Good Start In Test
    113 12 KARACHI. Thurs. AFTER a good start, Ceylon collapsed for 162 in their second unofficial Test cricket match against Pakistan today. At close Pakistan had scored 27 without loss. CEYLON— Ist Inns Makin Salih c ImtUi b (hippa 30 Rodrigo Ibw Khan Mohammed 39
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    Old Stagers Are Now 'Has-Beens'
    680 12 By EPSOM JEEP IPOH, Thursday. DUT FOR the outstanding form of two five-year- olds, Indian Heather and No Regrets, the past several meetings from the viewpoint of the actual i racing must go on record as a total eclipse of the older horses prove to
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    Inglis Nets Three Goals
    126 12 SINGAPORE Har'jour Board Auxihary Police beat Cosmos Sports Club by four goals to nil in a Junior A, Group 2. soccer league match played at Geylang stadium yesterday. Inglls scored three goals but there was little sparkle in his display A fine move by Rozario, Wylie
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    Sports Diary
    59 12 SOCCEB: Snr. Igt: Tlters 8. A v B.C.C. at Jalan Besar, Business Hse. Comp: Chartered Bank t Malayan Airways at CYMA; Guthrie S.C. v Borneo Motors at Gey lane; Jnr. R!. Star Soccerites v 4th Supply Uc D. RASC at BODCA. Friendly BAF Combined v Eurasians on padane;
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    21 12 (iROUP photograph taken at the first anniversary of Swallow B.P. held at 69, Lorong, X, Teluk Kurau, recently. Mobile Foto Service.
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    "Good Talent In Indonesian Football"
    127 12 "Good Talent In Indonesian Football" MR. KAREL LOTSV, President of the Royal Netherlands Football Association (K.M.P.D.), passed through Singapore by X.L.M. Constellation after having given 32 talks on soccer and sport in general to Dutch troops awaiting repatriation from Indonesia. Mr. Lotsy told the Stiaits Times: "Indonesia has some promising
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    Boy Brooks To Resume Training
    63 12 DOY BROOKS, Orient triple champion, is recovering from his slight indisposition and will resume training tomorrow. Brooks was scheduled to fight Australian Dave Sands, British Empire middleweight champion, at the Happy World Stadium tonight, but the fight was postponed to next Friday after It was
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    RAF Cup XI Includes 7 Of Last Year's Team
    237 12 RAF Cup XI Includes 7 Of Last Year's Team T»HE SINGAPORE Com- Dined Royal Air Force 3O"cer team to meet AllSingapore on Saturday, April 22, in the opening game of the Southern section of the H.M.S. Malaya Cup soccer competition will include seven of last year's ulavers. The team to
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    N.S. Will Miss Whitehead
    116 12 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. rhurs. \EGRI SEMBILANS State soccer team this season will be without the services of the Military players. Whlter.ead of Malaya Cup lame and Gash who, in a match against Selangor played here recently, turned out as left fullback for Negrl. Both
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    TIONG BAHRU RANGERS XI
    72 12 Tiong Bahru Rangers XI to meet the Singapore Cricket Club on the padang on Monday will be chosen from: Cheong Miv, Loh Pook Teag. Huln Chun Hoong, Lav Fook Sing, Ooi Cheng Aun, Swee Lim Swang, Yip Chung Kun, Cheong Kai Seng. Lum Chong Mun, Chan
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    SCOTT MAY BE IN WORLD CUP SQUAD
    277 12 LONDON, Thursday. "THERE seems little doubt that the England soccer se)# ctors intend the side chosen to meet Scotland in Glasgow on Saturday to form the nucleus of England's 22-player squad for the final stages of the World Cup competition in Brazil. Provided
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    67 12 FIRST cyclist to be elected Britain's Sportsman of the Year,' Reg Harris shows the trophy to Mrs. Fanny Blank. ers-Koen, Holland's star Olympic athlete, at the presentation ceremony in the Savoy Hotel, London. Harris, professional sprint champion of the world, won the title and trophy by gaining a majority of
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    No New Talent In YMCA Tourney
    362 12  -  KEN JALLEH By HPHE V.M.C.A. open tennis championships, resumed A for the first time since the liberation, and now in the concluding stages, have revealed no talent that Singapore tennis fans have not seen in the past few years. Except for veteran A. T.
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    WEEKEND CRICKET
    285 12 WEEKEND cricket teams ate:—. SINGAPORE RECREATION CLUB Saturday v C.R.E. (N) at SRC. 2.15 p.m.--S Hope, J. Aeria. M. Rozario, N. Barker, A. B. Collick, J. de Souza, W. Haseldine, D. Kruseman, R. Neubronner, T. Neubronner and R. Tessensohn. Sunday v Colonials (tournament) at St. Joseph's ground- .1.
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      53 12 I The Third Man" AND THE I HARRY LIME THEME j Will soon be returning to Singapore FOR A LIMITED SEASON ONLY ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦■♦•♦♦♦♦♦♦f. LUNCH TODAY IN RAFFLES BALLROOM LUNCH TIME MUSIC 1 TO 2 P.M. TMfeJt-- COCKTAIL MUSIC 7TO 8 P.M. W LIGHT MUSIC 8.30 TO 10.30 P.M. CASTILLO HIS
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