The Straits Times, 24 February 1951

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PACiFS SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1951 PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    BRIGGS TO MUSTER LABOURERS
    156 1 Act At Once Order To Rubber Men From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. CONCENTRATION of labourers on rubber estates and tin mines to protect thtm against the bandits will be started immediately and should be completed by the beginning of May. Lt.-Gen Sir Harold Briggs,
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    27 1 i ,< H ARMOUIUatS prepare the fuses or bombs at Ike lan Son Nhut airfield, near Saigon, m the war a unst omniunM rebHs m Indo-China: A.P. picture.
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    BARGAINING ON RUBBER
    201 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Friday. IT is reported in London that rubber is being used as a bargaining point by the Americans at the Tiruuav Conference, which for many weeks past has been dbcMsta* international unrTs ana is understood that the i Government ha.s been i
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    2 HOMES ROBBED
    43 1 A of six Chinese, some armed With revolvers, robbed the Chinese occupants of two s.-s at the 131 milestone Uhi Sembawans Road. Singa- j vit", on Wednesday. Cash j .n 1 jewellery totalling $450 v c reported taken by the
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    1000 000 Face Starvation If....
    85 1 WASHINGTON. Fn. AT lee 'it one million Ind- ians will die of starvation if Congress fai's to approve a US $l9O OOO.OOO gift of grain. Mr. J. J. Singh. President of the India League of America, said yesterday. He appeared before the House Foreign Affairs
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    Girl Friend Saw Detective Shot
    99 1 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Friday. A 25-YEAR-OLD detective. Lee Chin Kirn, was shot dead tonight before the eyes of a girl friend by two unknown gunmen at a lonely spot near Wellesley School, in Argyll Road. Lee was cycling slowly, talking to the girl,
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    A NEW CURE
    21 1 PRAGUE. Fri. Czechoslovak scientists claim to have produced a new kind of pill called stopethyl to cure a!«holism.—A.P.
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    RAF Flying 7 day Service Ambulance
    151 1 RAF Flying 7 day Service Ambulance A HASTINGS flying ambulance aircraft is due to arrive at Changi R.A.F airfield today from Japan, carrying wounded of several European nationalities from the Korean war The aircraft will be inaugurating a seven-day service which will link the United Kingdom and Japan. The R.A.F.
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    RUBBER BURNT
    27 1 PALEMBANG. Frl. Ten tons of smoked rubber sheets were destroyed during a fire in a smoke house on Belalau estate, near Palembang, on Wednesday.— Reuter.
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    ROBBED IN STREET
    24 1 A young Chinese, Tan Teck Meng, was robbed of $860 in cash by two other Chinese In Raffles Place yesterday afternoon.
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    'Blue Lamp' Award
    23 1 LONDON Frl.— The British Film Academy last night named "The Blue Lamp" the best British film of the year. A.P.
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    Rosyth Explosion
    21 1 LONDON. Frl.— An explosion at a Royal Navy training school at Rosyth killed one ratine and injured others.— Reuter.
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    Instructions Sent
    177 1 Instructions have been sent to State and tettlement authorities on the new nnanc.al arrangements for "controlled areas." Th sc provide that the employer will have to pay tovnew arcommJdation for hM orr^Joyees whether it is on his own land, someone elses land, or on State landThe cost of
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    Benefits For Base Men
    91 1 MOST of the 10,000 industrial workers in the Singapore Naval Base will now get superannuation benefits covering the period of the Japanese occupation, because of an amendment to the Superannuation Benefits Act, passed recently in the House I of Commons. As a result of this amendment,
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    LADY SNOWDEN
    27 1 LONDON, Frl— Viscountess Snowden widow of the "Iron Chancellor." in Britain's second Labour Government between the wars, died here during the night, aged 69.— Reuter.
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    PEACE-MAKERS
    28 1 OSLO, Fri.— United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Trygve Lie, and the Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, were among 28 people nominated for this year"s Nobel Peace Prize.— UP.
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    TRUMAN MAY BE SENATOR
    124 1 WASHINGTON, Fri. MR. Truman will not seek another term as President when his present eight-year run expires on Jan. 20, 1953, according to unofficial Congressional sources here today. Friends of the 66-year-oX President said he was seriousi ly considering running again for his old Senate seat.
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    CONDEMNED MAN SET FREE
    57 1 RANGOON. Fri— The Rangoon High Court today acquitted and ordered the release ol the Burmese Communist leader. Bo Tun Sein. who was sentenced to death under the High Treason Act by a lowei court. The High Court judgment today said that although Selr carried arms there
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    Re-export Ban Hits H.K. Traders
    157 1 THE Singapore Government has prohibited tne reexport to Hong Kong of all goods of hard currency origin. Explaining the new ban a spokesman from the Economic Affairs Department said it was known that merchants in Hong Kong. instead of placing orders for hard currency goods
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    Apartheid In House
    53 1 CAPE TOWN, Fri. THE South African Par- liament has banned the entertainment of nonwhites in the House unless accompanied by a senator vouching for their social standing. Members were told this yesterday following the entertainment of two Chinese diplomats by a senator in the Parliamentary coffee lounge
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    ROYAL RECEPTION
    41 1 LONDON. Frl.— Some 600 diplomats and their wives bowed to the King and Queen tonight at one of the most elaborate presentations in Buckingham Palace since before World War 11. Those presented at court Included about 125 Americans.— A.P.
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    VOTERS MAY REGISTER IN APRIL
    142 1 REGISTRATION of voters More than 100 officers ap- j expected to be selected from for the Municipal elec- pointed by the election office, several Government departtions at the end of this year will make a house-to-house I rnents, as the post Is only and the
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    FREE LAND IN EGYPT
    53 1 KING FAROLK. to celebrate his weddng, gave 200 landless Egyptian peasants five acres of land each near Cairo. They also received a small house, a barn, one cow, one ass," and money. Dr. Hamed Zaki Bey, Minister of National Economy, is seen giving a peasant his
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    'Shots Started Riots'— Wiltshire
    95 1 'Shots Started Riots'— Wiltshire riVINU evidence at tne sevenin suung 01 me amg4U pore Riot Commission yesterday Mr. R. C. B. Wiltshire, Acting Commissioner of Police at the time ol the riots, said he believed that "the firing cf shots ai the Supreme Court was the spark which ignite*? tht
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    Riots Continued
    110 1 •1 think that the riots continued after these shots had started the violence, under the misapprehension that those shots had oeen fired by m member of the police force." "I considered that It was most important that order should be restored by the police force. In my view
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    RADIOS FOR THE KAMPONG FOLK
    68 1 Kampong folk in Malaya. cut away from electric supply— will shortly be able to tune Into radio programmes. Radio sets, to be sold at $75 a set, have just arrived in Singapore. The radios are specially designed to cover the vernacular needs of Malaya and
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    BOTTLED NOTE FOR CHANGI
    59 1 WALKING along the beach at Harlec h. North Wales, on January r? Mr. E Edwards, of Trvfpr Terra"" Hl *rlp"h. found a bottle which had been washed up. ins.io was a message— "Please return to Far East Air Force Chan?i Singapore 11.1.51." Mr. Edwards immediatey wrote
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    'Killer' Drive Routs 10,OOO
    234 1 'Killer' Drive Routs 10,OOO TOKAO. Fri. UNITED Nations forces drove seven miles deeper into Communist territory in east central Korea today oi.d reported that the (-ommunla s were moving In a human stream from then new 1 "Killer" offensive. American troops seiZ-'d Pyon^rhan-. on the eastern end of the froni
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    15 REDS KILLED
    32 1 RANGOON Frl. Burn, government forces burnt out a Communist hideout, killed 15 and wounded 20 Cor*"munlsts in a battle ;n the Meikttla area. (50 rriles south o( Mandalay.— Reuter.
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    French Arms Chief Held In Spy Hunt
    181 2 French Arms Chief Held In Spy Hunt PARIS, Fri. I OUIS Huet, production chief of a targe French armaments factory, was arrested last night during a secret police spy hunt to reci)/er stolen plans for a new antitank grenade. The new grenade. In which Atlantic Pact generals were interested, was
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    INDIA STUDIES U.N. MOVE
    69 2 NEW DELHI, Fri.— A Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday the Indian Government is still consider ing the British-American resolution to the United Nations on Kashmir. The Cabinet's Foreign Af fairs sub-committee had reached no decision on instructing India's U.N. delegation at a meeting yesterday. Official Indian
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    SHOT IN STREET
    39 2 TACLOBAN, LEYTE, Fri.— Ramon Millano, Leyte's most notorious bandit chief, was shot dead by a constabulary officer in a village street. Millano had been accused of leading a robber band in hold-ups of buses and trucks.
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    BRITAIN'S NEW JET ROCKET
    34 2 BRITAIN'S NEW JET ROCKET JET OITTLET and tail fins of a British jet rocket 20ft. long The Ministry of Supply announces that a similar missile has been launched from "somewhere in Britain." Renter picture.
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    CEYLON WARNS EUROPEANS
    179 2 M o n COLOMBO, Friday. R. A. E. Goonesinha, Ceylon's Minister of State, has warned the European community that he would be compelled to introduce legislation if they refused to co-operate with Governments policy of "Ceylonisation" in employment The Minister quoted a director of a European firm,
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    Western Music Is For Snobs'
    88 2 PRAGUE, Fn. TF EST E R N capitalist music, from jazz to symphony, "serves those who are responsible for the preparation of a new war," says a Prague critic. "The larger part of this music is composed for a pampered snob audience and to show
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      Sausage Contained Human Toe
      165 2 A BOGOTA newspaper said yesterday that a woman found a human toe in a sausage she was eating at a picnic stand in the town of I Ontibon, near Bogota. The mayor seized the' remaining sausages and a laboratory found traces of human flesh and blood
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      INDIAN WOMAN MATHS MARVEL
      34 2 SHAKUNTALA DEVI, Indian woman with a rift for mathematics, rave a demonstration at the Institute of Physiology, Rome, where she solved mentally problems which had baffled calculating: machines. A.P. picture.
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      U.S. SENDS AID
      45 2 RANGOON, Frl.— Four of ten motor torpedo boats presented to Burma by the United States have arrived and will be used against rebels in the shallow creeks of the Irrawaddy delta. Burmese crews went to the United States to be trained.— A.P.
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      FOREIGN MONARCHS WELCOME, BUT...
      88 2 BELFAST, Friday. 'THE Northern Ireland Senate yesterday suspended Se- nator Patrick J. O'Hara, an Irish Nationalist, for referring to the British Royal Family as "foreign Monarchs." Senator O'Hara refused to withdraw a statement that a united Ireland would welcome "foreign monarchs like the King and Queen."
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      747 2 SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY FOR INFORMATION OF MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS Please note that two infectious cases of SMALLPOX (Chinese) were In Singapore In transit on 11th, 12th 13th February. Their exact movements in Singapore are unknown so Medical Practitioners are advised that fresh cases of SMALLPOX may occur from 23rd February, 1951. BY
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    'TRAITORS' IN CHINA
    77 3 LONDON, Friday. pKOPLE committing treason against China by "working in league with imperialists" will bo liable to the death penalty or life imprisonment under new regulations reported yesterday In the New China newsagency. The regulations provide penalties for crimes b t th<> state ranging from five years'
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    THIS IS WAR IN KOREA
    39 3 G!RL WESTS as she waits, t hungry, and in rars, t.> hi lakes, to Kojedo >s- \-.<\'\ where thousands of Koreas refugees «re being c red for by the I nited N -Mo.is. A.P. picture.
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    AuSTRALIAN CONTRIBUTION
    37 3 '"VN'RERRA. Fri. Prime I r Rob?rt Menzh-s said v that Australia will c 1 tribute appropriately with C'!i:i(ia aiid New Zealand to subsidise a resumption of the I .Tific Australian- < an shipping serv;r» by U.P.
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    Bandit Groups
    92 3 "If we do not thoroughly destroy the people's enemy, there cannot be a people 1 victory", said Peng Cheng, deputy chairman of the Political and lJ»w Committee. "If we do not suppress the wolves of the American and Chiang bandit groups, the security and victory of the people
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    A-Aircraft Research
    96 3 A- Aircraft Research WASHINGTON, Frl. SECRET research on atomicpowered aircraft that may fly 80 times around the world on one pound of iuel it was disclosed yesterday, has progressed to the experimental design stage. Talks are now being held wl:h the General Electric Company's aircraft engine divUion and the Consolidated
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    RADIo POLICE
    52 3 RADIo POLICE SCOTLAND YARD'S latest move in V.i fl-ht a--, nst eri-ne is the fittinx of two-way radio to police motor cycles. Even during an actual chase, the police cjn be warned by a flashing light on their handlebars that headquarters is calling. They speak to Scotland Yard through their
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    FAILED IN ATTEMPT TO RAISE DEAD
    177 3 RANGOON. Frl. *N Indian fakir plunged a dagger repeatedly Into his body without 111-effects to prove he was no fake after falling to raise a man from the dead. The attempt was made at Pegu, 50 mile* from here, when snake charmer Maung Tin
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    U.S. To Build Air Bases In France
    194 3 PARIS. Friday. 4 MEKICA is to build at least two huge air bases Am France at a cost of U555,000,000 each. Jet bombers and fighters, part of General Eisenhower's command, it was learnt yesterday, will be based there. f Work on the bases,
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    WARNING TO STRIKERS
    77 3 WELLINGTON, Frl— The New Zealand Government warned leadera of the ftve- day-old waterfront strike to1 day that they would be liable to be sent to prison unless they returned to work by Monday. Reports from the labour front indicated that the unions intended to fight the Government.
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    U.S. Plans Own Aid To Asia
    184 3 WASHINGTON, Friday. rpHE United States is reported to be contemplating its own programme of economic and technical aid to Sooth and South -East Asia, involving: an estimated $250,000,000 in the first year. This would leave the American Government free to administer its own part
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    BEWITCHED— NOW BEWILDERED
    85 3 LEYTE, Fri. P A VINO ORPILLA was U convicted of murderinc a 70-year-old woman he suspected to be a witch. Orpilla told the court that when his wife became ill last Autumn he suspected that elderly Leonarda Talon, a neighbour, had bewitched and poisoned her. He said
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    CHANNEL RACE
    31 3 LONDON. FrL— Prizes totalling U. 5.520,000 are being offered this year in an international swimming race across the English Channel under the sponsorship of the London Dally Ma'J A.P.
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    PLANE CRASH AT PERTH SCHOOL
    45 3 PERTH AEKU Club Tiger Moth which crashed near a school in West Australia. Th© control panel of th« rear cockpit was smashed forward into the front cockpit and an auxiliary petrol tank was crashed on to the passenger. AP. picture.
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    Churchill Says British Navy Ignored
    82 3 Churchill Says British Navy Ignored LONDON, Frl. MR. Winston Churchill roused Parliament yesterday when he said that Britain had been "brushed out of the war" by the appointment of an American vice-admir-al to command Atlantic Pact sea forces. Mr. Churchill asked Prime Minister Attlee indignantly: "Was there not a British
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    Attlee's Reply
    214 3 Mr. Attlee had announced. In response to a question by Mr. Churchill, that tlie Defence committee of the 12nation North Atlantic Treaty Organisation had decided an American should be Supreme Naval Commander. The Prime Minister declined to disclose the man named, but It has been known that Vice-Admiral
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    3 SHOT DEAD
    31 3 MANILA, Fri.— Three convicts were shot dead, another recaptured while a fifth succeeded in escaping from the National Penitentiary at Muntinglupa, some 20 miles south of Manila.— U.P.
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    HOPE OF AVERTING U.K. RAIL STRIKE
    148 3 LONDON, Friday. rpHREE thousand rail way men were on strike and A 10,000 others had begun a "slow down" last night as the Government waited anxiously to see whether the breakdown in wage talks would lead to a stoppage of all freight and passenger
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    SWISS ASKED TO STOP EXPORTS
    41 3 BERNE, Frl.— France. Britain and the United States have asked Switzerland to stop sending strategic materials to Russia and her satellites. Swiss exports to Russia and her satellites In 1950 totalled 300, 000, 000 Swiss francs.
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    AID FOR IRAQ
    32 3 PARIS, Frl.— The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Is sending a 14-man team to Iraq, to*build up the country's economic and productive resources, the Bank announced yesterday.— Reuter.
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    Russia Nervous Over Baku
    166 3 WASHINGTON Frl. "haunts the Kremlin." It said 11, said the absence of re- i»« o ian r>rp« Iranians consider Soviet op- forms In Iran playa Into the QNE reason for Russian pres- posltlon to f ore ign visits to hands of the Russians who surt on
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    WILTSHIRE GIVES EVIDENCE
    1455 4 'Believed Blythe Had Complete ConfidencelnMe I think that had been done' by mv predecessor. When was that?— l feel It has been almost continuous. By your predecessor, do you mean Mr. Poulger?— Yes. sir. We have got over it by introducing a rank called police lieutenants. Since
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    CROWN COUNSEL AT INQUIRY
    50 4 £JRO\VN Counsel appearing before the Riot Commission are: Mr. A. D. Farrell. for the police; Mr. M. H. Buttrose, for the G.O.C., Singapore District; and Mr. AH Simpson, amicus curiae ("friend of the court") The Solicitor-General, Mr. C. H. Butterfleld. Is appearing for the Singapore Government.
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    'Several People Telephoned Me'
    1158 4 veral telephone calls waiting for me. My servant had written several numbers on a pad. "The numbers were those of the private secretary to the Governor; Mrs. Blythe. wife of the Colonial Secretary; and Mr. MrNeice. the then Municipal President. I think there were others. I
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    Victims Asked To Testify
    102 4 AFTER the Chairman of y- 1 the Riot Commission, Sir Lionel Leach, had heard evidence of an incident during the riots in which three Europeans were attacked in Fort Road, one being killed, he directed that if the two survivors were still in Singapore, they should
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    11 HURT, VEHICLES HAD BEEN STONED
    861 4 11 HURT, VEHICLES HAD BEEN STONED —I think ou his own initiative he told me that he had ordered this battalion to tiuni by. Did you consider at that time that military assistance was required?—No sir. You did not asK lor It/— No. But you reported mat the situation had
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    1268 5 jr From Page Four development In Beach Road?— The situation grew worse. At o'clock the Deputy Commissioner. Mr. Li vet t, rang up and said he thought that there was going to be an attack on the police station. I gave Mr. Livett very exact Instructions on the manner in
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    CHINESE ARE AGAINST PEKING MISSION TO SINGAPORE
    259 5 ALTiIOLCiH Singapore Chinese leaders are n >n-committal, there is a strong feeling among Chinese in the Colony, especially businessmen, against the Peking Government's BUfljeffted mission to investigate living condition< of Chinese in Malaya. This attitude is a result of the Peking Government's recent
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    Big Future For Colony Oil -He Says
    115 5 Big Future For Colony Oil He Says Iv. oil industry in Singapore has a very big future, said S.andard Vacuum Oil nys genreal manager. \V. Geddes. who loaves t'i Olony tomorrow on tr insfi r to London. Mr Geddes told the Straits Times yesterday that expansion tv being made in
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    HAD GRENADE —CHARGE
    42 5 IPOH, Fri. Brought to court under special escort, 25-year-old Chia Kee Hoo was charged today with being found in possession of a hand grenade at the Ayer Itam Squatter Area, Chemor, on Feb. 20. The case was postponed to
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    DROP IN VARSITY GIFTS
    106 5 DROP IN VARSITY GIFTS ""MONEY has been coming in very slowly to trie University of Malaya Endowment Fund" the Bursar of the University, Mr. W.G. McIntosh, told the Straits Times yesterday. He attributed the drop to the December riots and the many end-of-the-year expenses which people have to meet, like
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    THEY ARE OFF TO ASIAN GAMES
    66 5 SINGAPORE'S contingent of 22 to the Asian Games at New Delhi photographed with three Singapore Olympic and Sports Council officials at a farewell party given in their honour at the G. H. Cafe. Singapore, yesterday. Third from the right in the front row Is
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    'The Coconut Has Brighter Future Than Rubber9
    216 5 'The Coconut Has Brighter Future Than Rubber 9 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Friday. MALAYA'S coconut and copra industry has In some respects an even brighter future than rubber, Mr. R G. H. Buxton, a former chairman of the London Copra Association and of the London Rubber Trade Association, said
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    CHINESE JAZZ IS CHEAPER
    44 5 Popular Chinese jazz records, sold at the spectacular price of $15, are now being offered for $3. Record dealer* yesterday stated that prices fell with the new stock of recordings. Today, you can even get a ten per cent discount
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    MC's Purse May Be Cut
    136 5 MUNICIPAL Commissioners In Singapore may get an allowance of $200 a month Instead of $300 which they voted for at a secret meeting last year. The proposal to reduce their allowance is still under discussion. Mr. Norman Ward, the Acting Municipal President told the Straits
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    Singapore Diary
    121 5 TODAY: BOY'S BRIGADE, Third Singapore Company, Wesley Church, Fort Canning, choir practice, 8.30 ajn., gymnastics, 4>13 p.m. BRITISH RED CROSS, Handicapped Children's Club, weekly outing, to R.K.O. Pictures, 3 pjn. V.M.C.A., Orchard Road, chess club, 3 p.m., movie circle show, pm. CHINESE YJM.CA., Selegle Road, body building, 4
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    Jungle Factory Found, 13 Chinese Held
    314 5 Jungle Factory Found, 13 Chinese Held From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. THIRTEEN Chinese have been arrested in the Alor Gajah area of MALACCA, following an operation in which six bandit camps and an illegal rubber factory were discovered. A Security Forces patrol yesterday contacted four bandits in the
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    Fed. Unions Growing
    120 5 PENANG. Friday. AN average of 3,000 workers are Joining trade unions in the Federation every month Mr. O. L. Wilkinson, Assistant Trade Union Adviser, said today on the fifth "birthday" of the movement. This was in marked contrast to 1948, when trade union membership dropped Immediately the
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    Malacca Tree Port Talks
    69 5 From Our SUIT Correspondent MALACCA, Fri. REPRESENTATIVES of Chinese associations in Malacca loill discuss th 9 move to press for the restoration of Malacca's free port status on Sunday. The meeting, sponsored by the Malacca Chinese Chamber of Commerce, wi'l be at the Chamber's premises. Chinese
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    $21/2 Million Penang Fish Study Plan
    191 5 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. Fri. pOVERNMENT has already VI acquired 130 lots of land In rural Sungel Pinang as the site of the British Commonwealth's $2,500,000 Fisheries Research Institute to be built In Penang. The site will ultimately cover 290 acres Payment has
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    DEATHS
    96 6 TAN SOO HEAN passed away p ircfully on 21.2.51 at his residence. 114. Heeren Street. Malacca, aged 59, leaving behind widows, five sons, two daughters, three dauehters-in-law, two sons-in-law five prandsons and re-lr-tiirx! to mourn his loss. Cort.. irr.ves for family burial rround at Padang Jambu on 12 noon.
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    Singapore, Sat., Feb. 24. 1951. Culture And Cash
    853 6 Singapore, Sat., Feb. 24. 1951. Culture And Cash There has been talk lately about the need for an Arts Council in Singapore. We already have the Singapore Art Society, which has done so much to foster the arts of painting and photography during its brief existence and is planning an
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    Tiftg Uears Aga FOOD PRICES UP IN SELANGOR
    293 6 Tiftg Uears Aga FOOD PRICES UP IN SELANGOR (From the Straits Times of Feb. 17-24, 1901) THE Government of Selan1 gor, having abolished all market farms in Kuala Lumpur, loses between $50,000 and $60,000 revenue. But instead of this step cheapening the price of foodstuffs, the price has actually in
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    36 6 Photograph by R. E. Holttum. This tree of the Malayan jungle is peculiar in bearing flowers at the base of its trunk. The flowers are cream- coloured. This photograph was taken in the Botanic Gardens, Singapore.
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    As I was Saying
    1026 6  -  THE elections Singapore is to hold in April will not make the same claim on the British press for attention as did the elections just held on the Gold Coast. Nothi n g Singapore can offer can compare in any way with the Convention Peoples Party
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    Singaporeana
    798 6 TF you are a European or a Eurasian, you no doubt think that the riots of December, 1950. were the worst in the history of Singapore. But if you are a Chinese, you might say that the riots of 1854 were even worse. Those riot* lasted ten days, and
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    CINEMAS WAR ON CHAIR SLASHERS;
    327 7 Gang Damages 4,000 Seats In Two Years SINGAPORE cinema managements have declared war on a gang of chair-slashers, who have been up to their tricks for the past two years. The gang has slashed at the upholstered seats of Singapore's live leading cinema nouses and
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    RUSH FOR S.I.T. HOMES SEEN
    158 7 T!IK Ilous.n-r Recommendation CommiUee of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Singapore, deelded yesterday to invite its 60 association memlirrs to assist in its task of recommending applicants for Singapore Improvement Trust accomnuKlation. •1:1: ons will be r Iced to handle all applica- lion-- from members
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    DEATH FOR GRENADE
    66 7 Fnri Our *»'a!T orrespundent SEREMBAN. Fri. -A Chinese i »ber tapp r Lee Soo— was yi prday sentenced to death If r carrying a hand-grenade n Ladanu Oeddea Estate B :i I the Prosecutor Mr Hugh rci. D.P.P. alleged that ;< police parts n operations i red
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    More Planes For Club
    78 7 TWO Miles Gemini aircraft may soon be added to the Royal Singapore Flying Clubs fleet. The Department of Civil Aviation who own the planes, has decided to let the Club use the planes if they would service them and let the Department use them whenever they
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    DR. H.C. STUBBS
    28 7 An application to be discharged from bankruptcy brought by Dr. H. C. Stubbs of Singapore, was yesterday allowed by the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley.
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    NOTHING TO SAY
    46 7 Receiving and adjudicating orders were made against j former Singapore boxing promoter, A. Razak, in the Singa- I pore Bankruptcy Court yesI terday. Razak was asked to I show cause why the orders should not be made. He had nothing to say. i
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    HALF-HOLIDAY FOR VOTING BACKED
    156 7 4 PUBLIC half-holiday for polling day, April 10, has the backing of most Legislative Council candidates and of both Singapore political parties, i a Straits Times survey yesterday revealed. Mr. C. C. Tan, President of the Progressive Party, said the Progressives had already made verbal representations
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    S'pore Dance Competition
    67 7 THE 1951 Singapore mixed amateur dance championship will be held at Raffles Hotel on March 8 and 9. A cup and 12 trophies will be awarded to the six best couples. Winners of this championship will represent Singapore for the Inter-State competition In the Federation. Entries must
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    $150 FOR C.B.T.
    39 7 From Our Staff Correspondent. IPOH, Fri Sangaram, a 24-year-old Tamil was fined $150 or 45 days' imprisonment in the Ipoh Magistrate's Court for criminal breach of trust of three shirts, valued at 115, belonging to Lieut
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    Colony To Have Two TUC Chiefs
    97 7 SINGAPORE'S t r.a d c union movement is going to have two central organisations instead of one, it was learnt yesterday. While the proposed Singapore Trade Union Congress under Mr. Lim Yew Hock, Labour Party president, is nuw in its final stage of preparation,
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    4 Wives Weep When Husbands Get Gaol
    162 7 rVDUR young Chinese wives seated in the First Police Court yesterday, wept when they heard the Magistrate, Mr. H. A. Forrer sentence their husbands to three months' rigorous imprisonment each. T~~ The men Tay Yuc Leong, 18, Neo Ah Lam, 23, Neo Ah
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    WELFARE HOME READY SOON
    45 7 From Our Staff Corresponds IPOH, Fri.— The $30,000Old People's Home, sponsored by the Perak Chinese Welfare Association, is expected to be ready early next month. It will accommodate 100 inmates. The Social Welfare Department has given 100 blankets to the home.
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    Mounts Bay Returns For Refuelling
    142 7 Mounts Bay Returns For Refuelling ANCE the leader of the internatlonal flotilla of French Dutch. New Zealand, Australian Canadian and American frigates on escort duty in the Korean war. the 1,600-ton Mounts Bay has returned to Singapore Naval Base for refuelling. Escorting part of the landIng force, she took part
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    SVC MOVE TO PRE-WAR MESS
    114 7 OFFICERS of the Singapore Volunteer Corps last night gathered at their temporary mess for the last time for dinner. They remove to their permanent prewar mess within the next few days. Following old custom, steak and kidney pudding was the one and only dish with
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    OPIUM TOOLS
    24 7 Three Chinese were yesterday fined $20 each in the First District Court for having opium apparatus at Changi Village on Feb. 21.
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    3,399 STORE ANIMAL LOVERS
    71 7 ftTEMBERS U. s:.,gapore y^ncw has J^anUnal- ,°g« Prevention of Cruelty to j^ rs Ma j or i e clemons was Silva, and treasurer, Mr. J. Animals League held their again unanimously re-elected Frey. first general meeting at president of the League. Rev League members from each
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    BACK IN PORT
    35 7 OFFICERS of the frigate. Mounts Bay, n lax in ikd v...r:iroom before lunch. The 1,600-ton ship is engasred in patrolling the Malayan coast for illegal entrants and arms smuggling. Straits Times picture.
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    Council Seeks $250,000 Aid
    224 7 A $250,000 GRANT from the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund is being sought to set up a central headquarters complete with a theatre, library, lecture halls and offices— for Oie Singapore Council for Adult Education. The Council which plans to train 5,000 adult illiterates and give
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    Death Of Dr.B.J.Ess
    144 7 The death occurred yesterday of Dr. Bertram John Ess, member of a wellknown Eur- i asian family, at his home in Sandy Lane, Singapore. Dr. Ess, who had been ailing for some time, is the brother of Municipal Commissioner Mr. C. P. J. Ess. His brother-in-law is
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    Saw U.S.I.S. Man In Mob
    111 7 MOHAMMED bin Abdul Samad 39-year-old senior assistant in the United States Information Service, was yesterday found guilty of being a member of an unlawful assembly during the December riots and sentenced to six months' Imprisonment by the Relief Court Magistrate. Mohammed, conducting his own defence,
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    GAMBLER FINED
    18 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri. Cheong Kee Sin was fined $70 in the Police Court today for gambling.
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    New U.K. Asia Policy —Dening
    90 7 New U.K. Asia Policy Dening 'THE British are establishing the foundations of a new relationship in Asia on a basis of equality and mutual respect, said Sir Esler Dening, Britain's roving ambassador, ir. a broadcast from Australia this week. The anti-bandit campaign in Malaya was bound to be a slow
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    "PETROL POURED ON MY HEAD"
    59 7 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Fri.— A 55-year-old Indian, Raman Shaprie, who said he felt "someone pouring petrol over my head," was yesterday ordered to be sent to the Tanjong Rambutan Mental Hospital for observation. "I like to stay in hospital," said Raman when charged with failing to
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    MAO DUO NOT LET HIM IN
    272 7 MAO DUO NOT LET HIM IN A CANADIAN iruit e.r--pert, who sought to introduce 500 new varieties o1 fruit trees to China, was re f need entry into the country. Now is m Singapore with his trees— on his waf to Inditi He is s'i-year-ald Mr. Donald X Fans, who
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    Singapore Doctors Warned: 'Be On Guard'
    200 8 Singapore Doctors Warned: 'Be On Guard 2 CHILDREN FROM SWATOW HAD SMALLPOX f TWO children from A Swatow who were in Singapore in transit from Feb. 11 to 13, were found on arrival in Borneo to be suffering from smallpox. Singapore doctors are now warned to be on the lookout
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    728 Babies In A Week
    86 8 nURING the week ending v Feb. 17, births In Singapore numbered about four times more than the total number of deaths. Births totalled 728 against 189 deaths. Chinese headed the death list with 152 Including 65 women. Chief causes of death were tuberculosis, which claimed
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    THREE HOTEL MEN FINED
    49 8 Three hotel-keepers were each fined $15 in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday for falling to record the particulars of their lodgers. They were: Tay Keng Hong of Rex Hotel. Tan Mok Kin of Nam Hong Hotel and Ong Tin Ah of Ghim Peng Hotel.
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    GAMBLER FINED
    28 8 From Oar Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Frl Cheong Kee Sin was fined $70 in the Police Court today for gambling. The money found, $37. was confiscated.
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    Jap Textiles To Flood Colony
    154 8 VIOKE than 2,400,000 yards of Japanese textiles will arrive in the Colony during March. This is in addition to the usual quota of Japanese textiles allotted to Singapore's textile dealers. Colony textile dealers have' secured quotas for $25,000,000 to purchase textiles from Japan which may
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    HAD OPIUM —3 YEARS
    49 8 Makdom bin All, a 30-year-old driver of a Malacca newspaper van, was yesterday sentenced by the Singapore First District Judge, Mr. H. B. Kingdon, to three years' Imprisonment for possessing 8 3 4 pounds of opium. Makdom gave notice of appeal. Bail of $5,000 was
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    BOMBAY TEXTILE MAGNATE
    59 8 BOMBAY TEXTILE MAGNATE MR. A. E. MASKATI. the prominent Bombay textile magnate and industrialist (left) who left for India in the Canton after a business visit to Singapore pictured with the Singapore Managing Director of A. T. E. Maskati Ltd., Mr. H. T. Attaree. and Mrs. Attaree. who went on
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    PUSING PAYS IN DAWN ROUND-UP
    228 8 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Friday. pUSING village has paid $35,870 of the $40,000 collective fine imposed for non-cooperation with the authorities. Befora dawn today police and troops descended on the village, cordoned off the wired-ln perimeter and herded all men over 18 on to
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    PROUD CUB GETS FIRST AWARD
    53 8 ViNCENT TAN, nine-year-old Wolf Cub of the 17th Kuala Lumpur Group, receiving Selangor's first deration, Sir Henry Gurney. The Chief Scout Commissioner, Mr. E. M. F. Payne, also attended the Founder's Day rally at Kuala Lumpur. Leaping Wolf badge from the Chief Scout of the
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    HURT IN CRASH
    38 8 Mr. William Mcßae of Braddel Hill, Singapore, was slightly injured when the car in which he waa travelling collided with a radio patrol van at the Junction of Hill Street and Stamford Road yesterday afternoon.
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    THINKING DAY IN J. BAHRU
    101 8 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Pri Thinking Day which commem norates the birthdays of Lord and Lady Baden-Powell founders of the Boy Scout and Girl Guides movement was celebrated yesterday by local Guides with a tea party at the N»hee Heng Girls' School. It
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    'False' Federal Citizens Warned
    175 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri, ANYONE who. to get a r% Certificate of Citizenship, makes a statutory declaration that ntf' intends to settle permanently in the Federation when he has no intention of doing so, commits perjury, the Federation' Government stated today. The Government
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    Rubber Mart Sensitive
    210 8 THE Singapore rubbpf market was featureless this week, with traders fitting on the shlelii: ,\s, say* Lewis Peat's market i ;)crt, issued yesterday. The short position on ne.irby* has been considerably alleviated. In consequence the market lvis.' become more sensitive to any upcountry selling. There has been
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    ROBBERY IN LOCK. UP ALLEGED
    68 8 Four Chinese were tenta* tlvely charged in the Singa* pore Second Police Court yes# terday with robbing Koh Toni Hwee in the police court lock-up on Thursday They were Lim Yew Teck. Quah Slew Song. Goh Chia Juay and Chan See Lek. The* were alleged
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    PRESIDENT AGAIN
    25 8 Mr. Ang Toon Tiong was re-elected President of th« Lian Li Benevolent Associa* tion Singapore, at the Annual General Meeting held recent* J*
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      269 8 Straits Times Crossword 300 toiu^r a oV mps of th KSSTS K&&J, C^r i^v. j 1 iiii 1 m.i 1 2. Using a tool and over-hang-H H Hi H I "V <«»• SSSS SSS SSS S. I am under obstruction la Us 9| Italy (4)mi <• Bone and company make*
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    WAGES: FINES ARE ILLEGAL
    338 9 "/^I VITAS," in his very interesting notei last week on the question of fining employees, reminded me that this matter came in for considerable discussion in the early twenties on the preliminary works on Gunong Pulai water scheme. The question of fines arose from one concerning
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    THE COLONEL ON "KOOM"
    186 9 I AM moved to protest at your slipshod and indecisive foot-note reply to "Come Come" of Port Dickson. in last Saturdays Forum, on the pronunciation of "cum" in cum dividend." "Men steeped in Latinity" are not "liable" to say •koom," They dn say "koom." in common
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    —& A WELSHMAN
    73 9 A WELSHMAN IN your foot-note to "Koom Dividend" in last Saturdays Forum, you say Welshmen are permitted to say "ewm. "Cwm" in Welch means a valley, and has nothing to do with the English word "come." The verb to come 1 in Welch is "dyfod." A search of two English
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    SATURDAY FORUM
    5 9 MALAYAN CROONING CHAMPIONSHIP
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    Cooking Oil And Soap: Tolong-Lah!
    125 9 fOCONUT cooking oil, which before the war cost 20 cents a bottle, now costs $1.50. and the price of a bar of washing soap has increased from 20 cents to 95 cents. If cooking oil and soap were luxuries I would gladly do without them,
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    I SIX INCHES OF MUD, ETC.
    90 9 ALMOST every week I see Javanese labourers hauling mud. debris, etc.. out of drains ln the vicinity of Kampong Tiong Bahru, then spreading this refuse all over the nearby roads and pathsmaking the paths four, five or six inches deep ln wet mud. The
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    KEEPING IN TOUCH WITH CEYLON
    91 9 WITH a view to keeping the Ceylonese ln Malaya well informed about conditions ln their motherland, may I suggest that the Commissioner for Ceylon in Malaya recommend to the Government of Ceylon a free supply to all Ceylonese associations in Malaya of Ceylon Government publications
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    TO KAMPONG MELAYU BY CAMEL?
    117 9 LIVE in East Coast Road, As Ido not intend to prooutside the Singapore ceed to that rustic hamlet by Municipal area. I have a vote, dromedary, I shall not vote. Three years ago the polling Nor do I t lnte d to by station for
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    The Fish Business
    285 9 WITH reference to the letter, appearing in the Straits Times on Wednesday, sitned by the Director of Fisheries, we quote below a comparison ©'the prices of imported Canadian halibut, local ikan merah and local ikan kurau. LOCAL P*r lb. IMPORTED per Ih. vt^-cz fa-e- Ikan Merah. Middle
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    LIFE IN A HOTEL
    151 9 THERE has been much comment on the licensing of hotels in Singapore residential areas. The committee appointed to investigate the matter does not appear to be helpful, as its report is based on assumptions rather than on facts. The cropping-up of hotels in the vicinity of
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    Speed Up On C.0.L.!
    51 9 QANT the Government speed up the Interminable Benham salary and COLA, discussion to a conclusion instead of dragging on from one meeting to another? The Government promise "to Implement payment immediately" to all Government employees, because of the increasing cost of living, is still unfulfilled. V.M.
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    A Call To Warrior Sikhs
    227 9 A Call To Warrior Sikhs IT is surprising that Sikhs, who are noted as warriors and who have a long history of military service behind them, are not volunteering for the armed auxiliary services in Malaya. I am sure that if the Sikhs could break their reserve and come forward
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    THE SERVICES COMMISSION
    192 9 QUERY," in his letter ot Feb. 20. does not reveal the grounds for his remarks concerning the applicants for the Singapore Higher Services interviewed by the Public Services Commission, but X is clear from the letter that he is seriously misinformed The Public Services Commission has considered
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    AFTER ELEVEN YEARS' WORK
    88 9 ALTHOUGH I have put in 11 years' service as a clerk, my present salary Is only $120: with 50 per cent C.O.L.A. I get a total of $180 a month. I have four children and my monthly budget is about $200. This means that every month
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    "The Normal Stigma"
    176 9 rANK you very much for A. W Frisby and Mr. your editorial headed Thio Chan Bee, when these "The Normal Stigma", of latest proposals for amendYeb 21 ment were discussed, no such With regard to your com- limitation was envisaged by ment that 'It Is not likely
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    AND THE UNIVERSITY
    221 9 IN a recent editorial, headed "The University's 1 Friends, you said: "Most of the m<ney (to the University Endowment Fund) is coming from Chinese businesses and individuals all over the Malay States." And later: "Yet we know the Chinese in the Federation have their grievances, and, so
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    DISAPPOINTED IN ALOR STAR
    84 9 IT is most perplexing, disappointing and annoying to note that clerks without the School Certificate qualification are barred from getting further pay increments Are the Federal authorities aware that by so doing they are creating further anomalies? Clerks with as much as 30 years' service, for
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    HALT AT MAJOR ROAD AHEAD
    205 9 HALT AT MAJOR ROAD AHEAD PjJAY I enter a pica for the marking rf "M3jor Roads" in S;iig \pore. and the enforcement of the Highway Code ps applied to s.ic'i '•oads by the use of mo r e "Halt— Major Roid a :i signs In EnffMsa and the vernacular'/ Thousands
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    Stocks
    821 10 LONDON, Fri. WHILE fresh attempts were being made to reach a settlement in the railway dispute, the London Stock Exchange maintained a policy of "watch and wait" today. Nevertheless the undertone was firm while on the surface were scattered small gains. Buying of long-dated Issues helped the giltedged section
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    H.K. EXCHANGE
    31 10 HONGKONG, Fri. P»REE market currency exchange for Hong Kong, dollars was quoted to day as follows: US$l HKS6.IIU (cash), HKS6.I7H (T) £1 HKJ15.70: one tael of gold HKS3294.— UP.
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    TIN: $7361 A PICUL
    449 10 SINGAPORE, Fri. Feb. 23— 5736.87 H (up $10,374.) £1,500 a ton in London LONDON. Fri.. Feb. 23.— Spot Buyers £1,500; Forward £1,440; Settlement £1,490 (up £5). Turnovers: a.m. 59. p.m. 20 tons. S Malayan 30/- 31/S Troaoh 24/6 25/fl Sungel Best 17/6 18/8 Sunset Bldor 44/-
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    $2.28
    225 10 THE Singapore rubber market was steady yesterday with specially good demand for lower grades of R.S.S. At the steady but quiet close, the price of first-grade for March shipment was $2.28, five cents above Thursday's close. There was a fairly good turnover in the market but re-milled grades were
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    68 10 From A Market Correspondent A LTHOUGH a small amour business was done for covering, pepper remained r steady In the Singapore p. market yesterday. Muntok white was quoieu $1,200, Sarawak at $1,195. Lampong black sellers quoted $670, $10 a picul below Thursday's price. In the copra section,
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    SHIPS ALONGSIDE
    60 10 SHIPS alongside tbe Singapore Harbour Board godovnu at 4 pjn. yesterday were: 44 Taluai 42-43 Rebeverett. 40-41 Kertosono 38-39 Calchas. 36-37 Anshun 3334 Glenbeg, 31-32 Meonla, 29-30 Meliskerk, 27-28 Kilwa, 25-26 Bidor. 23-24 Orna, 21-22 Maxwell Brander, 19-20 Cornelius Maersk, 17-18 Bencruachan, 15-18 Glaucus 13-14 Rlmau, 8-9 Blntang,
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    $26,000 Full Contingent Will Go To Delhi
    428 11 $26,000 Full Contingent Will Go To Delhi B y W. E. TREVOR (Straits Times reporter who will cover Asian Games) THE best farewell news the Singapore contingent to the Asian Games at New Delhi had at a party in their honour last night was given to them by Mr. G.
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    'Will Do Best'
    178 11 •'Fro:n the 1948 Olympic* In which we were represented by one person we have now grown to a team of 22. I do not propose to comment on individual or team prospects but I can say we are resolved to do our best. ••Even if we are
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    Social A.P. Dinner
    30 11 The Social Athletic Party will celebrate its 21st Anniversary Dinner at the residence of Mr. Ang Kirn Chwee. No. 41 Emerald Hill Road today at 7.30 pjn.
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    Today's Radio
    77 11 SINGAPORE 10 a.m. News; 10.10 Close; 12 Malay; 1 p.m. "Saturday Ballroom"; 1.30 News; 1.50 Plantation Music; 2 "Album of Harmony"; 2.15 Spore Racing; 5 Malay; 6 Kentucky Minstrels; 6.15 Children; 6.40 Radio Malaya Sextet; 7 News; 7.15 "Police and the People"; 7.20 '•Listeners' Choice"; 7.50 'Spotlight on
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      R.A.S.C. WIN BOXING CUP
      54 11 R.A.S.C. School (Far East) won the Anchor Cup in the first Singapore Base District inter-unit team boxing championships at Tanglin Barracks gymnasium last night when they defeated 30 Bn. R.A.O.C. by 19 points to 14. The cup was presented to the R.A.3.C. team by M&j.-Gen. D.
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      Selangor Club Not In League Soccer
      59 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. T/"UALA LUMPUR clubs were to- day surprised to learn that Selangor Club, premier club in Selangor, had not entered for the 1951 soccer league. Selangor Club, in 1906. were the first team to win the Senior Division league and in 1908
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      FOGARTYCUPGOLF
      87 11 FOGARTY CUP GOLF The semi-finals of the Lady Fogarty Cup Competition (R.A..F. women's Golf) will be played on Tuesday at the Island Golf Club. Semi-finals are: Mrs. James (Island Club) v Miss Davison (Seletar G.C.); Mrs. Hiddleston iChangi 0.C.) v Mrs. Hamilton (Seletar O.C). Results of match-play wre: Mrs. James
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      S'pore Motor Club
      69 11 The following were elected officials of the Singapore Motor Club at its annual general meeting held yesterday:— President: Mr. Gibbs-Pancheri; vice-presid-ent. Mr. J. A. Barr; non. secretary treasurer: Mr. F. I. Storkey; committee: Messrs. F. J. Williams. J. N. K. Moncriefl, H. Wood, P. A. L«ws. J.
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    Malacca Will Ask For M.A.A.A. Meet
    167 11 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Friday. MALACCA is ready with complete aoparatus of Olympic pattern to run a full scale athletic championship, and it is hoped to have the Malayan A.A.A. meet In Malacca soon. staged elected president of th^ Ma SK^JE said g*B
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    37 11 JAKE LAMOTTA (left) takes a right to the body from Ray "Sugar" Robinson m their world middleweight championship fight m Chicago on Feb. 14. Robinson won on a technical knockout m the 13th. round. A P. photo.
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      ACS Handicapped By Lack Of Field
      514 11 CRADLE of several Colony players in the past, the Anglo-Chinese School faces none too bright prospects this year. With its under-sized playing field at Barker Road still under repair and likely to remain so for a long time, the soccer-playing boys and their master-in-charge,
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      Siong Boo A A Officials
      178 11 Committee members of the Siong 800 Athletic Association elected at the Association's annual general meeting recently are: President, Mr. Wong Kwok Leong; Vice-Presidents, Mr. Lim Chio Leow. Mr. Koh Hor Khoon. Mr. Lee Kirn Choo. Mr. Tan Kang Hong. Hon. General Secretary, Mr. Choo Kwai
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      TONIGHT'S WRESTLING
      61 11 Singapore's best wrestlers will be seen in action at the Happy World arena tonight In a three-main-event card. Andre Adoree, the heavyweight champion of Canada will fight George Duane, ex-Orient champion and King Kong takes on the promising Ray Hunter. Charlie Gamage fights George Zbisko and Samson, a
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    AMENDS TODAY
    571 12 In Need Of A Race When Beaten Last Saturday By EPSOM JEEP yyEKjHT is always a tremendous factor in any race hevond six furlongs on a heavy track at Bukit Timah and the result of the $5,000 Spring Cup over a mile for Class 1, Div. 1 horses
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    Todays Going
    18 12 T IIE soing at Bukit Timah remains heavy in spite of bright and sunny weather yesterday.
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    Hard Test For Maj. Scholar
    1057 12 T*HE Class 1, IMv. 2 mile handicap (Race 4) appears to rest between x Majestic Scholar and Harrier. Majestic Scholar has obviously been saved for the mile as he did not accept on the first day. Majestic Scholar has tasted defeat only once In three
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    WOMEN'S GOLF
    38 12 The following are results of I lie women's competitions at tht Island Club last Sunday:CAkTHAY CUP: Winner-Mrs. A. Weeks (78-8 70). L.G.U. "A": Winner— Mrg. A. Weeks (78-8=70); "B": Winner 1 Miss K. Meyer (ldJ-16=67). 1
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    Straits Times Selections
    139 12 EPSOM JEFf CALL BOY POINTER RACE 1 2.15 ABBOTSFORD Metbory Court River Patrol WONDER LAD Abbotsford Belgium ABBOTSFORD Mefcury Court River Patrol RACE 2 2.45 BROWNSBAY Tantalus Springbok TANTALUS Springbok Brownsbay SPRINGBOK Brownsbay Tantalus RACK 3 3.15 BALLROOM Bonnie Prince Hayde« HAYDEE Ballroom Bonnie Prince BONNIE PRINCE
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    Today's Race Card
    1092 12 DELOW is given the card of events for today's races at Bukit Timah. The double tote will be on Races Five and Eight. The Big Sweep will be on Race Seven. Race 1—2.15: Class 2, Div. 1— F. 19 Yds. 1 001 Liberty Flag Charles 9.00 Mr.
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    Australia 206-8: Brown's Spell Starts Collapse
    315 12 Australia 206-8: Brown's Spell Starts Collapse From JACK FINULETON Exclusive to the Straits Times MELBOURNK, Friday. AUSTRALIA were 110 for one when England's captain Freddie Brown came on to bowl "seamers" today In the final Test. Ttn minutes later Australia's back was broken by Brown and the score read 123
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    Scoreboard
    106 12 AUSTRALIA— Ist Inn,. Burke c Tatter.sail b Bedder 11 Morris II. h Brown 50 Hassett c Mutton b Brown 92 Harvey c Evans b KrowD 1 Miller r A- b Brown 7 Hole b Bedser 18 I. Johnson Ibw Bedser I Lindwall not out ]g Tallon <• lluiton b
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    Pink Gin For Top Sprint
    183 12 Pink Gin For Top Sprint By EPSOM JEEP CTRICTLY on the weights it is difficult i to pass over Piiik Gin in the Class 1. Div. 1, 6-fur-long sprint (Race 5). This promisiag four-year-old scored a fluent 2i-length win in Div. 2 beating a pretty "hot" lot and there cannot
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    37 12 TODAY: 12.31 a.m. (8.9); HIT o.in. (99>: 611 a.m. (2.7>. c 6.40 p.m. fO.9>. i TOMORROW: 12 54 a.m. «91>. I 12 54 p.m. <9 9i; 643 a.m. (2 1) lo 7.10 p.m. (1.4). t
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    3 Wkts. For 1 Run
    256 12 ±iro*n came on wnen there s a sudden onslaught on Taileri I. ttowiing "mmh" he Imnwdu oly changed the game's complex ..m. He trapped Morris les-beiore. iud Harvey caught behind, and cau^.iu Miller oft his own bou-ling, ill within 13 balls, and for o:uy (KM
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