The Straits Times, 8 March 1951

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1H45 TWELVE PACiES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1951 PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    'MORE TIN DICTATION FROM AMERICA'
    932 1 'MORE TIN DICTATION FROM AMERICA' I7S Suspension Move Flayed "MORE dictation from America**. "The Americans are trying to put a pistol to the head of Malayan tin producers". These were some of the reactions of Penang tin leaders and representatives of tin producers in Kuala Lumpur yesterday to the United
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    GRIN AND BEAR IT
    42 1 OUCH, IT HURTS' TAN Gan Choon, of Batu Road School, Kuala Lumpur, scowls when injected with BCG. an anti-tuber-culosis vaccine, by Mrs. Loo Yew Hon. Lye Kok Choy (below) makes no fuss and says: 'IT'S ALL RIGHT 1
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    59 1 FOR THE FIRST Tl.Mfc a w Minn was chosen foreman «f Hip jury at Singapore A-M/e> yesterday. Shp was attractive dark-haired Mrs. Gladys M. Gasson. 'You are in ikms history. Mrs. Gasvm." said Mr. Justice Hi >v*n. Mrs. Gavson CUM to Singapore from Burma thrrp \n, a»u. She is accountMl
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    Secret They Kept From Mr. Bevin
    97 1 Secret They Kept From Mr. Bevin LONDON. Wed. THE Foreign Secretary, Mr. Bevin. learned for the first time today of a closely kept diplomatic secret. The British Ambassador to Turkey knew it. So did the office boy in the British Embassy at Lima. Peru, and the doorkeeper at Baghdad But
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    TALKS ON MALAYA
    32 1 LONDON. Wed—Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. British Commissioner General in South-east Asia, today saw Mr. James Griffiths. Secretary of State for the Colonies, for discuss.ons on the situation in Malaya—Reuter.
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    NAVY 'CALLS UP' SIXTY SHIPS
    108 1 LONDON, Wednesday. SIXTY ships are to be brought out of reserve to strve with the British fleet this year, Mr. James CalUfhan, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, said today. Hr told the House of Com- 1 ni vis they would include two destroyers, two frigates.
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    Spying Will Cost More
    87 1 LONDON Wd. BRITAIN'S scent service wil! cost one-third more next year. M Appropriation re^u^ts laid Parliament today asked for 4.000.000 to operate "His s F orelgn and other -.'■rvices" in the fiscal y,-*r beginning April 1. The requests also showed tn d'-cline of Marshall Aid. Counterpart
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    Glass Car On Show
    76 1 PARIS, Wed. A French car built of glass and light alloy with no gear box, back axle or doors, will be exhibited at a Geneva show later this month. The car, called the "Symetrlc," Is a 36 h.p. elght-seater, driven by a dynamo feeding four electric
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    Father Opposed Wooing, Shot
    67 1 A 29-YEAR-OLD suitor in Manila today killed the father and a brother of the girl he courted and then took his own life. Police believed Miguel Acierto shot Hilario Garduque. 50, the firl's father, and Ruben, her brother, because they opposed his courtship of Raquel, 17.
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    GEN. JUIN CALLED FOR TALKS ON MOROCCO
    161 1 PARIS, Wednesday. (GENERAL Alphonse Juin, Resident General of Morocco, arrived in Paris today for top-level talks on the Moroccan crisis. Conflicting reports on the nationalist movement in Morocco have caused concern in official French circles. The pro-Arab press of Cairo has reported disorders
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    NARRIMAN ILL
    22 1 CAIRO Wed.— Miss Narrlman Sadek. King Farouk's fiancee underwent, an appendicitis operation In a hospital at Alexandria on Monday. Reuter.
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    96 WERE BURIED ALIVE BY REDS
    59 1 TAIPEH, Wed. REPORTS from the Nationalist underground in the Chunsan archipelage claim that the Communists buried persons alive on Feb. 15. The victims, village and clan leaders in Nationalist days and some members of the underground, were buried near Ting-lai county on a charge
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    Wounded Man Fought 30
    113 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. ALTHOUGH wounded twice Mr. P. Broeken. a A European estate assistant armed with a pistol, kept 30 bandits at bay until police arrived. Mr. Brocken was riding in a car on Dublin Estate, Karar.gan, Kedah, when the bandits opened
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    657 m.p.h.
    24 1 PARIS, Wed.— A new French jet aircraft flew at 657 miles an hour in a recent test. It was announced yesterday.— Reuter.
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    AN INDIAN SHOOK HIS HAND: THEN HIS EYES POPPED
    199 1 AN INDIAN SHOOK HIS HAND: THEN HIS EYES POPPED From Our Own Correspondent. NEW DELHI, Wed. THE Prime Minister of India. Mr. Nehru, left his seat to personally congratulate Neo Chwee Kok after his win in the 400metres freestyle final. Neo, who was being massaged, got up to shake hands
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    CLAIMS PEERAGE
    40 1 LONDON, Wed.— An 84-year-old gardener living In New Zealand claims that he is Lord Avonmore successor to an Irish peerage dormant for 40 years. The College of Arms is examining the claim, which is "a promising one." Reuter.
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    M.Ps INVITED
    39 1 LOKDON, Wed. Members of Parliament of all parties have been Invited to a meeting of the House of Commons to discuss the claim that Japan should pay compensation to prisoners of war who were badly treated.— Reuter.
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    KOREANS RIOT IN TOKYO
    50 1 TOKYO. Wed.— Two thousand Koreans said to be Communist sympathisers rioted in Tokyo today. Seven-ty-six people, including 20 policemen, were injured. About 1,500 police were called out. They were stoned and they fought back with batons. About 300 of the Koreans stormed a police station A.P.
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    Father Asks Advice On Banned Romance
    108 1 From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR. Wed. ffiUNGKU Yahya, brother of 1 the Sultan of Kedah. went to Penanf? today to seek lt-gai advice regarding his daughter. 19-year-old Tungku Zabariah. and her romance with an Englishman in London. The girl has been reported missing
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    REDS STRIKE BACK AT U.N. IN KOREA
    267 1 REDS STRIKE BACK AT U.N. IN KOREA TOKYO, Wednesday. rOMMUNIST forces struck back sharply at both ends of the central Korean front today driving units of the United States 24th Division from a hill near Yangpyong and knifing into South Korean lines east of Amidong. First reports indicated that fighting
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    Chairman: Recall Mr. Blythe
    209 1 RIOT INQUIRY THE chairman of the Riot Commission. Sir Liou-l Leach, yesterday as>:ed Mr. A. D. Farrell (reoresenting rh? pnlt-^i why Mr. Loni*den. ASP., hart not b:vn cailed to eive evidence, sine* lie had be?n on duty "oulstd» the Supreme Court on Dec. 11. Mr. Farrell
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    C.G. Says: Reds Beaten If Aid From Outside Stops
    209 2 LONDON, Wednesday. jyjß. Malcolm Mac Donald, the Commissioner General for South-East Asia, arrived here last night for talks with Cabinet Ministers and said "If it were not for the threat from outside, the Communists in South-East Asia would have no hope
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    39 2 GEN. Mac ARTHURS v.tory toast on the Wonju front in Korea was criticised by the Women's Christian Temperance Union in the U.S.A. The temperance official suggested that he might have "something better to do" than drink champagne. A.P. picture.
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    Grenada: Situation Improves
    110 2 Grenada Situation Improves LONDON, Wed. MR. James Griffiths, Secre- tary of State for the Colonies, told the House of Commons yesterday that the trouble in strike-torn Grenada. British West Indies, has calmed down. He said the acting Governor announced on Sunday that if the improvement continued, the state of emergency
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    Triplets Born Over 3 Days
    74 2 LONDON, Wed. ]y|RS. Amy Elizabeth Oakes, 28-year-old wife of a lorry driver, took three days to have her triplets. She had a 4 lb-12 01. daughter in an East End hospital on Sunday, while the other two babies, both boys, arrived on Tuesday morning. One
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    MALIK DENIES IT
    30 2 LAKE SUCCESS, Wed— Mr. Jacob Malik, Soviet delegate to the United Nations, yesterday denied that Russia had prevented the adoption of a proposed international arms census. UP.
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    REDS GAOLED
    28 2 LUEBECK, Wed.— A British court here yesterday sentenced seven Communist youths to three months in prison for having illegally entered the North Sea island of Heligoland.—Reuter
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    Wants To Exchange His Eye For A Leg
    223 2 A DESTITUTE 68-year-old man in Kansas City Missouri, yesterday offered to trade one of hi! eyes for an artificial leg. John Shoppel, the man. said he was willing to part with one half of his eyesight because he was continually "falling down"
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    BIDS FAREWELL TO GORDONS
    44 2 LIVERPOOL. Wed -Wearing the kilt of the Gordon Highlanders, the Duke of Gloucester, yesterday flew here to say farewell to a battalion of the Highlanders. The troops are to be stationed in Malaya. The Duke is their Colonel-in-Chlef. —A. P.
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    CONFIDENCE VOTE
    41 2 ROME, Wed.-The Kalian Prime Minister. Mr Alcide de Gasperi, won a 325 to 16 vote of confidence last night in a tumultous session of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. The session was boycotted by Communist and Leftist deputies.— A.P.
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    'RISK' RATES UP
    35 2 HONQ KONG, Wed. War risk Insurance rates for ships sailing to Tientsin, Tsingtao and Shanghai will be Increased to five per cent. The new rate applies only to Inward China-bound shipments. Reuter.
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    INDIA ACCUSED OF AGGRESSION
    238 2 LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday. Q|IR Mohammed Zafrullah Khan, Pakistan Foreign v 7 Minister, charged yesterday that India wants 10 "grab" Kashmir. "The big fact is that Indian aggression is on the march," he said, opening a twoday debate on Kashmir in the Security Council. He called for
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    U.S. Atom Chief In India
    45 2 MB. DA£ID L£U£Nl-HAL (left), cl»*irinan of the U.S Atomic Energy Commission, with Sir Shanti Swarup Bhatnarar, Secretary to the Indian Ministry of Natural Resources and Scientific Research, at New Delhi. He visited India to study the defence scheme.— A.P. picture.
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    'DISTURBANCE'DURING KASHMIR FILM
    135 2 'DISTURBANCE' DURING KASHMIR FILM LONDON, Wed. MR. Victor Mishcon, chairman of the London County Council's Public Control Committee, said at yesterday's meeting of the council that there had been a "small disturbance" during the showing at a London ctnema of the Indian film the "Kashmir Story." Another London cinema Is
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    SOVIET BLAMES WEST FOR TENSION
    226 3 Sharp Clashes Mar Four Power Talks: 'Here We Go Again Feeling PARIS, Wednesday. THE Big Four deputies' conference In Paris yesterday was marred by sharp clashes after the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Mr. A. (.romyko, had charged the West with sole responsibility for the tension
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    31 3 TO SEE THE QUEEN, Sitt Hawa Ali el Bassir, aged 28, the first Sudanese midwife to receive a Red Cross Florence Nightingale scholarship in England, goes to Buckingham Palace.— A.P. picture.
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    FIRST TIME OUT SINCE ILLNESS
    47 3 MR. ERNEST BEVIN, tfri-ta-M's Foreign .Minister, at hfa t-r- 1 public sagagenu'iit since his illness. He to't-J his constituents: "If I have been ill a lot, it has hefn brought on by hard work. Ion? lioiirs, and no private prufit." A.P. pirture.
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    French Open Lies'lnquiry In Morocco
    170 3 CASAULANCA. Wed. A judicial inquiry inio "end- i:v: iatee news of such s 10 disturb public orde. has been opened at Rabat, administrative capital uf French Morocco, as a sequel to report* on the situation published in the Egyp0 P- ess. Ore such report said
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    Portuguese Reds Split
    81 3 LISBON, Wed. Dissident Portuguese Communists have split from the Kremlin-con-trolled underground Communist Party and formed a •national Communist party." The Yugoslav Communist Party newspaper, Borba, yesterday said Communist satellite countries were "in thP throes of a political crisis" because of Russia's economic exploitation of their resources and
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    ANTI-RED DRIVE
    19 3 RANGOON. Wed. Major military operations against Communist insurgents are making "satisfactory progress" in the Henzada district. Reuter.
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    H.K. BANK CHIEF TO GO ON LEAVE
    57 3 HONG KONG. Wed. Sir Arthur Morse, Chairman and Chief Manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank here, is to go on leave in the United Kingdom. He will be accompanied by Lady Morse. They will go by sea and plane to make a
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    'RATION RUBBER' PLAN
    118 3 'RATION RUBBER' PLAN WASHINGTON, Wed. INTERNATIONAL allocation is the "most practical solution" to parcelling out limited supplies of natural rubber to the "free nations," said Mr. Warren S. Lockwood. director of the Britishfinanced Natural Rubber Bureau in Washington. Writing in the current issue of Natural Rubber News, he said such
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    NEWSMEN GET MEDAL
    43 3 TOKIO. Wed. American Bth Army Headquarters in Korea yesterday announced the award of the Purple Heart service ribbon for wounds received in action to six American war correspondents. Altogether more than 20 U.N. correspondents have been killed or wounded. Reuter.
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    Students Try To Storm ECAFE
    227 3 LAHORE, Wednesday. ABOUT 5,000 students tried to storm the Punjab Assembly buildings yesterday, where the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East was in session. They were demonstrating against French action in Morocco. Military and mounted police were rushed to the spot and students
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    New Meeting On China Sanctions
    109 3 LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday. THE Chairman, Mr. Selim Sarper, of Turkey, has called a meeting for tomorrow of the 12-nation United Nations committee studying sanctions against Communist China. This will be the second meeting of the group, established by the General Assembly as part of the
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    Mollet Out Of Running
    89 3 PARIS, Wed. THE FRENCH Premier-de-signate, M. Mollet. Socialist Deputy, who pleaded for parliamentary help la forming a new Cabinet to show all is not confusion in France, failed in the National Assembly last night. He was beaten by moderate and rightist groups, which oppose his party's
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    OUT FROM BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN
    28 3 KATALIN KARADY, styled "the Rita Hayworth of Hungary," and Oliver Lantos, radio slngtr, in Austria after their escape from Hungary. A.P. picture.
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    LAST OF KING'S 85 SONS DIES
    63 3 BANGKOK, Wed. DAN KS, businesses and Government offices were closed in Siam today after the death of the Siamese King's chief representative in Siam, Prince Rangsit of Chainat. Aged 67, he was the Imst survivor of the 85 sons of the late King Chulalongkorn.
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    Mosque Murder Of Iran Premier
    252 3 TEHERAN, Wed. T»HE Prime Minister, Ali Razmara, was assassinated today. He was shot twice at the Maschede Sultaneh Mosque, and died in hospital one hour later. Police said the assassin was a fanatical member of the Fedaieh Islam religious congregation. The police arrested Razma ra's
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    DEFENCE COSTS THEM ALL $5 A WEEK
    137 3 LONDON, Wednesday. BRITAIN'S defence programme in the next three years will average 12s. 6d.— more than $s—a5 a week for every person in the country, said the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Gaitskell, la/t night. Mr Gaitskell, in a radio broadcast, said the
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    HISTORY MAY BE REPEATED
    86 3 SWALECLIFFjE, Kent, Wed. —Residents of this small village over-looking the North Sea, are afraid the State will take over their lands as It did 1,000 years ago. The parish lies within 6,000 acres to be surveyed by the Agricultural Land Commission with a view to compulsory
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    VISITORS
    27 3 MOSCOW, Wed.— The British, American and French ambassadors in Moscow yesterday attended the opening of the second session of the Supreme Soviet the Russian Pailtament.- -Reuter.
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    Planes Find Ancient Camps
    120 3 LONDON. Wed. JyJEW light is being thrown on Roman times in Britain jy aerial photography. The site of a Roman camp nearly 2,000 yean old In south-west Scotland has been revealed for the first time by the photographs. Previous!:/ no one knew that the Roman?, had
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    CLUB FLYER SPOTTED RIOTS FROM AIR
    3593 4 'Find Officer At K'allang '—Leach CIVILIAN witness, Mr. E. C. Daniels, told the Singapore Riot Commission yesterday that he had twice flown over the city on the afternoon of Dec. 11 and had been able to give information to a police officer at Kallang
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    CHIEF JUSTICE REFUTES INQUIRY ALLEGATION
    324 4 QIR Charles Murray-Aynaley. Chief Justice of Singapore, yesterday before the Riot inquiry Commission refuted an allegation that he had ordered the release of a European couple arrested for breaking the curfew during the riots. The allegation was made on Tuesday by the Deputy Commandant of
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    UMNO HITS BACK AT CRITICS, LISTS GAINS IT HAS MADE
    381 5 THK Tnitcd Malays' National Organisation Mas answered its critics with a 15-point statement to prove that it has been responsible for the many progressive changes that have been, or are being, made throughout the country. The answer is contained in
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    FAREWELL PARTY
    69 5 t 1 Yfl ORE than 200 Singapore teachers gave a farewell party to the Federation retiring: Director of Education, Mr. M. K. Holgate, at Raffles Institution yesterday evening. Pastries cooked by students from Raffles Girls' School were served to the guests by women teachers and Raffles Institution cadets.
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    NEGRI RULER FOR THE U.K.
    101 5 From Our Own Correspondent, SEREMBAN, Wed. The Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan left Seremban today for Singapore on the first lap of his journey for a six-month holiday In Britain and the Continent. "Tell my subjects to pull their full weight with the Government
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    AN ELECTION PROMISE
    55 5 An election promise that he will endeavour to bring about the reorganisation of the Security and Police Forces in the Colony so that they will be contented in every respect was made last night by Dr. P. T. Nathan, Independent candidate who Is standing for Rochore Ward
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    No Request For Somali Interpreter
    161 5 NO application has yet been made, the Straits Times understands, for a SomaJl interpreter to help in the case of Elml Ibrahim, which was postponed in the First Police Court last week, because of lanuage difficulty. Elmi Is now on remand facing a charge of
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    Singapore Diary
    109 5 BRITISH KED CROSS Ola People's Club. Wesley Hall. Fort Canning. 4.30 p.m. CHINESE V.M.C.A., Selegle Road, music class, 4.30 p.m., badminton, 5 p m.. body butldlns. 5.30 p.m., basketball, 5.30 p.m.. table-tennis. 7.30 pjn, Bible class. 8 p.m. ST. JOHN AMBL'LANCE A3SOC'ATION. Home Nursing class. Brigade H.Q.. Stamford
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    Beaten, Robbed By Gang, Court Told
    232 5 HOW an Indian detectiv* was robbed of his revolver and beaten up by three Malays and a Chinese, was told to the Singapore Relief Magistrate. Mr. D. A. Fyfe, yesterday. Facing tentative charges of gang robbery of the revolver and six rounds of ammunition,
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    2 MEN CHASED A THIEF
    71 5 Chua Ge Chung was fined $300 or a month's Imprisonment In Singapore yesterday for stealing two towels, a tin of cigarettes, a razor and comb, belonging to H. L Van Cuylenberg and Leone Yong Chuan, both of Calrnhill Road. Chua was said to have been
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    MORE BLOOD DONORS PLEA
    55 5 Dr. E. Lewin, of list Blood Transfusion Service, Singapore, said yesterday that the response from blood donors was poor. Dr. Lewin, who was addressing a meeting organised by the Singapore branch of thß Malayan Association, said that the support ol every citizen was needed to save
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    12 Families For Kranji Farm
    82 5 TWELVE families are being selected by a committee of L thr^e from 300 eligible families for the $49,200-/ arm that the Singapore Far Eastern Relief Fund Committee is building at Kranji, Singapore, for victims of war families. There will be six blocks of brick and
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    TRAINING SETS PROBLEM FOR THE BUILDERS
    292 5 A PROPOSAL to set up a training school to meet the shortage of skilled labour on the building trade is to be discussed at a meeting in Singapore on March 27. The Commissioner for Labour, contractors, and members of Singapore Improvement Trust, will attend
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    To Contest B. Timah
    109 5 Tiy|R. H. J. C. Kulasingha, Progressive Party candidate for Bukit Timah seat on the Singapore Legislative Council, will shortly hold a series of election meetings. He said yesterday that he believed that democracy could be fostered In Singapore only through adherence to a party programme and
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    23 Will Fight For Nine Seats
    313 5 23 Will Fight For Nine Seats "TIGHT Progressives, six Labour and nine Independents are expected to be nominated today for the nine seats in the April elections co the Singapore Legislative Council. Most of the candidates, including Mr Balwant Singh, for City, and Mr. M. P. Ramakrishnan, for BalestkT. have
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    DEATHS
    90 6 F IT. C J. ALLISON. R.N.7..A.F at Nel«on. New Zealand. Formerly Manacer. Sctnpah Estate, PW. and brother of the lat* J M. Allison < <l Sinut. Perak. ,'AMIESON: John, of 34, Marf.Mi Street Grernock. late Chief Fimir.rer of the Anglo-Saxon p.trolrum Co at the Genera) HosnitM. on 6.3.51. as
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    IN MEMORIAM
    64 6 IN MEMORY of the N.C.Os Bien of the 2nd Bn. S.S.V.P t k< n .'.»;.>• by the Jannncse and presumed killed on 8th March, 1P42. Inserted by Goh Gan niNMU AT THE LITTLE THEATRE. Armenia, ftiett, at 9 p.m. on H:,tiircl;iv 1 ith March and on the irMh.
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    The Straits Times Sin;, pore, Thur.s. Mar. 8, 1951. Local-Born Pointers
    740 6 The Straits Times Sin;, pore, Thur.s. Mar. 8, 1951. Local-Born Pointers During the last few days there have been several pointers in our news columns to show that the tide has really turned for the local-born at last, and tht.t the current is now running slowly but strongly towards the
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    The ***** In The Stockpile
    381 6 The suspension of purchases for the tin stockpile, announced in Washington yesterday by an exasperated General Services Administration, is unlikely to make any deep immediate impression on the market. The Administration will have to hold off for some time before it can expect any substantial
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    Cloak-and -dagger tactics
    1345 6 Cloak-and -dagger tactics Malaya under the Emergency 14 IN 1892 a Pahang chief, Bahman of Semantan, rebelled against his Sultan. His rebellion was squashed. In 1949 and 1950, occurred what might be called Pahang's second rebellion led by the 10th (Malay) Communist Regiment. This Regiment was smashed. It has been
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      Call-up of students
      255 6 I AM a post-School Certificate student, born and bred in Malaya, liable to be called up under the Manpower Regulations laid down by the Government. I earnestly beseech the Government to defer conscripting students of this standard until it is absolutely necessary to do so. We joined
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      FEE-PAYING DAY
      217 6 |S it compulsory for all pupils In Government schools to pay their fees on the nrst day of every month? Recently some boys attending a Government school were sent home by their teachers for failing to bring their fees on March 1. My nephew was one of them.
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      THE FAR-AWAY LISTENER
      167 6 I QUITE endorse the complaints about Radio Malaya transmission made by Mr. O. Q. Dawson of Kelantan on Feb. 26, "Listener" of Kajang on March 3 and Mr. O. A. LJm of Seremban on March 3. I was looking forward to listening last week to the commentaries
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    On the Margin
    457 6 On the Ma rgin Adat Kembau THOSE who have read th« notes in this column on the movement to abolish the immemorial Adat Perpateh in Rembau, led by the religious section of UMNO in that district, may be interested in the following note from one who speaks with authority on
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      12 6 "In the Municipal lobbies" DECAUSE of pressure on SSSLiT 111 the Munic|
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      261 6 Hydrogen Schoolboys know that two pans ol hydrogen unite explosively with one of oxygen to form water. Hydrogen is produced commercially in vast quantities by reversing this process. Water, in the form of steam, is split up into its constituent dements by passing it over red hot coke. The carbon
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    35 7 MR. L. C. lIITTCHINGS replying to a farewell presentat'on by the tuff of Robinson Co. at Kuala Lumpur. He has been general manager and is retiring after 28 y^ars with the company. Eastern Photographers picture.
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    INCREASE IN MALAYA'S POPULATION
    225 7 166,361 Over Figure At The End Of 1949 YJALAYA'S population continues to increase, according to statistics published yesterday. The total in the Federation and Singapore at the end of last year was 6,326,552 an increase of 166,361 over the figure at the end of 1949. There
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    Proud To Be Citizens'
    126 7 rpHE Malayan Undergrad. In L an editorial refutes what it says is an impression among the public that the University of Malaya is harbouring a group of Communists and is a nest of trouble-makers. The editorial says: "This is most unfortunate, because the students are very
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    SAVED A BANDIT FOR GALLOWS
    206 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. 'A YOUNG Scots Guardsman told the Kuala Lum- pur Supreme Court today that he and fellow Guardsmen took turns carrying for a mile a wounde.l Chin- c who had tried to shoot them. The Chinese. Lai Tee Kgok.
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    TWO CHARGED WITH ASSAULT
    54 7 \a Muricar and Abdul Majeed, were charged in the {Singapore Thirci Cistrict ("run yesterday with acsaultD. K. Broadhurst. Assistant Commissioner of I i !i: C.1.D.. at Arab Street m Dec. 12 when he was suppre^slng a riot. Bell of ?2.000 in two sureli< was granted until
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    DEATH FALL
    37 7 T:m Kuan Yee. asied 22, a Cantonese carpenter, broke J'is skull wheel he fell 12 feet while working on a celing of ne\vly-b: ijt house in Dyson Foad. Singapore. Inquest ■verdict yes.erday: Death by misadventure.
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    Police To Recruit Penang Men
    117 7 Police To Recruit Penang Men rE Singapore Police Furce. in its drive to build up a composite inter-racial poMce lorce. is to send a recruiting officer to Penang to get Chinese and Malay recruits. The Commissioner of Police. Mr. J. Pennefather-Evans. told the Straits Times yesterday that this was being
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    FINED FOR GAMING
    26 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. Scow Teng Choon and Yeh Swee Chiang were today fined $10 each in the Police Court for gaming in public.
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    STUDENTS TO HELP IN EMERGENCY'
    50 7 r«i:V*:NTELN students in O the University of Malaya have enrolled as special constables to defend the University in time of emerBfT.ry. About 10 others intend to join a defence crown which i.s mainly concernt-d with protecting the science laboratories and l '<rary at B'ikit Timah.
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    Story Ended Happily For Mimmie
    178 7 Story Ended Happily For Mimmie ■JIMMIE, the dog lost in Karachi, was found this week by her mistress, who flew the 3,000 miles from Singapore to search for her. Mimmie flew to England three weeks ago with three other dogs of the Game Warden of Negri Sembilan and Malacca and
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    PC's APPEAL DISMISSED
    72 7 Dismissing an appeal yesterday by P. C. Abdul Rahman bin Haji Tahir against conviction and sentence of a month's imprisonment. Singapore Chief Justice. Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley said: "It is a serious thing for a policeman to sleep on duty, especially when armed with a revolver." Abdul Rahman
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    Production Of Towgay Banned
    151 7 npHE Municipality has banned the production of A bean sprouts as the wells in which they are produced are said to be polluted. The producers claim that the spouts cannot be successfully grown on tap water. The Municipal Health Officers dispute this. The Health Officers conducted
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    BUDDHIST PATRON
    77 7 MR. P. H. HENDRY, patron of the Sri Lanka Buddhist Society at Kuala Lumpur, who was entertained by members of the Sri Lanka Buddhist Society and children of the Sri Lanka Buddhist School, at their premises last Sunday. Mr. Hendry has just returned to Singapore after a tour
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    RIOTER WAS IN A TRISHA
    185 7 RIOTER WAS IN A TRISHA MR. Frank Shaw Kennedy, of Overseas Traders Limited, told the Assize Court yesterday how a month after the Singapore riots while alighting from a bus he recognised a riot leader riding a trisha. He took the trisha number and the arm band number of the
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    RUBBER FOR HONGKONG
    42 7 The Szechuen sails mis afternoon with 900 tons of rubber for Hong Kong, and more than 400 passengers for Hong Kong and Swatow. Some passengers for Swatow will be transhipped from the Anting which arrives early todav from Penang.
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    CASHIER APPEALS
    45 7 Singapore Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, reserved judgment in the Appeal Court yesterday on an appeal by Llm Pin Yee. cashier of the International Cafe, against conviction and sentence of six months' for using a bank pay-In slip he knew to be forged.
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    Woman Was Drunk
    25 7 Kaliamma Narian Samy. a 26-year-old Indian woman, was yesterday fined $3 In the Singapore First Police Court for being drunk and disorderly.
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    PETROL SELLERS GIVE $6,000
    105 7 pETROL kiosk operators ot made recently by the Young1 the Standard-Vacuum Oil ber Hospital asking for doCompany from Singapore. Malacca. Tampin and Serem- pital. ban have contributed $6,000 Petrol dealers from Slngatowards the building of a pore and up-country who consultation room at the have contributed
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    Two Lose Bonds Of $2,000 Each
    172 7 THE Deputy Public Prosecutor, Singapore, Mr. E. P. Shanks told the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, yesterday that 109 persons had failed to surrender their bail when required in 1950. In the Appeal Court yesterday two bailors had their bonds of $2,000 each estreated.
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    Students Told: Pay Up 0r....'
    80 7 STUDENTS of the UmverK^ sity of Malaya have been given till Mar. 17 to settle overdue accounts with the University authorities. Those failing to do this will be suspended from courses of study for the rest of the current term and from the examination at
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    Didn't Show Card
    29 7 Captain Patrick Anthony Winter, aged 25, was yesterday fined $100 or five days' imprisonment In the Singapore First District Court for failing to produce his Identity
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    IN FULL RETREAT
    60 7 THE DOCKSIDE worker seen on the roof yesterday decided to wage war on bees in the box behind him. Armed with a piece of wood, wrenched from the side of a packing case, he went up boldly, watched by his friends. But he beat a hasty retreat,
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    'I Was Charmed And Cheated'
    356 7 THE QUEEN' AND THE FAITH HEALER AM ISS Lily Wong, aged 23, recently-crowned Coney Island queen, told Singapore Second Police Court yesterday that she was charmed and cheated by a fortune teller in a Singapore hotel. "I loved my mother so dearly that I was
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    HAD NO PERMIT
    23 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE. BAHRU. Wed. Llm Ah Lee, a Singapore taxi driver was today fined $25 Ji^hePollcj^Cour^fo^ti dnc
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    Survey Of Paya Lebar Airport
    94 7 rpHE surveying of the prox posed site for an international Singapore Airport at Paya Lebar has been completed and a report by aerodrome engineers is to be considered by Government. The Paya Lebar plan envisages the construction at a cost of $25,000,000 of an "H"
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    DRUNK IN ROAD
    37 7 Munjan Arumugam, aged 40, who was fined $10 at Singapore First Police Court yesterday for being drunk and incapable, was said to have been found by radio car police lying in Upper Aljunied Road.
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    Malaya 'Envoys' Training Scheme
    218 7 Malaya 'Envoys Training Scheme From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. |V/lALAYA'S first "amiTl bassadors" will be a group of well-educated, polished young men who will sail some time nexti year to work in BritisJi embassies and consuhut s in South-East Asia. Eventually they will servo In other parts of
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    STUDENTS ARF 'DYNAMIC
    63 7 4 Malayan scuden".; ;.re dynamic towards social and political troubles." said Mr. C. (Jamba, new Lecturer in Economics in the University f Malaya, in the latest nurnuer of the Malayan Undergnu'. Mr. Gamba, who wa ;n Malaya before the war. said that since then he had found
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    $3,000 BAIL
    56 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. How Chin Kwong was allowed $3,000 bail in the Police Court today when he claimed trial on a charge of being concerned in importing uncustomed goods. The goods were found In a Police Radio van, ie driver of which stated the
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    Borneo Traders Say: This Tax Is Unfair
    324 8 •M 0 REPRESENTATION' LEVY 'CAN BE EVADE*' PROTESTING against 1 "taxation without representation", the North Borneo Chamber of Commerce has made strong representations to the North Borneo Government against the Colony's proposed "residents' tax". In a letter to the Chief Secretary, the tax
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    READYFOR OFFICIAL OPENING
    36 8 SISTER J. L. Bl CKINGHA M. who will be in charge of the new Changi ward for Korean war casualties. puU the finishing touches in readiness for today's opening. —RAF. Public Relations picture.
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    Ward For Korean War Wounded
    165 8 4 NEW transit ward at the R.A.F. hospital, Changi, built especially for Korean war casualties, will be opened today by Lady Fogarty, wife of the C-in-C, Far East Air Force. The new ward is to be named Wroughton Ward, after the great RAJ. Base Hospital
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    Spore New Posts
    130 8 THE following Singapore Government appointments were announced last night Mr. B. J. Boast to act M Controller of Telecommunication*; Mr. N. H. Qittins to act as Chief Dental Officer; Mr. O. D. HunterGray to act as Superintendent of Police; Mr. 8. Cork to act aj Gaoler Grade
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    Woman Tells Of Gifts To Officer
    151 8 Woman Tells Of Gifts To Officer GIFTS from two Chinese contractors were among comforts in the Chancery Lane home of SquadronLeader George Charles Winton, a former member of the WRAF told Singapore First District Court yesterday. Wlnton is charged with coj.ruptly accepting a bicycle from a building contractor, Lirr. Chim.
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    RIOTING CHARGE
    37 8 Abdul Wahid bin Kudus, a 22-year-old Malay, was yesterday committed In the Singapore Relief Court to itand trial at the next Assizes on charges of setting flr« to a motor-car on Dec. 11 and rioting.
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    FREE LESSONS
    37 8 Free lesson* in hand-bag, pillow, table-cover and wall decoration are to be given by the Singapore Malay Young Women's Association, 31 East Coast Road. Katong. to Malay women who are hot members of the Association.
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      216 8 r— -1 SOll AOCNTS tog* V **jT^^\ AOVT, 6^' fHB GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., LTD. OF ENGLAND? jMHOAf O%S MALACCA KU«U tUHfUH PENAN^ There's nojiner <<^' health insurance vf-^^' J f t "1 Tou aniM kup huJthy without vitamin. fj t ~< I lack of Miffldtni vitamin A lowan bodily WO
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      328 8 Straits Times Crossword No. 310 i Madden me o^. dep^on (6). 3. Mall, sir (anag.) (7). I L' U 1" I, I "I 1 II 111 kv^n 3. In a Mr i eg j destroy •254 5«» 4. Use a lint In order to CUt off mmm §1 0. A
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      Two More Contests
      249 9 i Dear toys and Girls, I tvve a long waiting list of Pen Pal requests, so do not be disappointed if your name does 11 not appear right away. I assure you I will take them strictly in rotation. The three winners of the <• Nursery Rhyme
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      PEN PALS:
      166 9 j MORE Pen Pals this week* children. They are as* follows David Leong Cheong Whye, c/o* B. Williams, P.O. Box 907, Singa-' pore. Hobbies: Music and photo-* graphy. Chia Wai Chon, aged 11,' 20 Palmer Road, Singapore 2., Hobbies: Stamps and correspondence. Helen Yoon, aged 12. 510 Wood
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      Talking of stamps
      289 9 WE are beginning a stamp series this week, boys and girls. I reel sure it will be popular as I know that nearly all of you collect stamps. If you have any queries you would like answered regarding your own collection, send them to me on a
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      The Smugglers' Island:
      745 9 IT was the last day at 1 schopl belore the holidays. None of the boys were paying much attention to their lessons, they were too busy planning what they would do the following week, and the bell heralding the end of class was hailed with delight. "Hey
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    STOCKS
    315 10 LONDON. Wed. PRICES on the London Stock Exchange showed some fairly sharp falls on news of the assassination of the Persian Prime Minister but later rallied In the absence of selling pressure. Commodity shares, particularly tins, were depressed by the United States suspension of tin stockpile purchases, and fresh
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    ABERFOYLE SELL WATERLOO EST.
    48 10 ABERFOYLE Plantations direc- tors announce that an agreement has been entered into by the company for the sale of Waterloo Estate. The sale price U £33.250. and a deposit of £8,333 has been received. The company is to retain the benefit of rehabilitation claims.
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    Mercantile Bank Div.
    30 10 Bank of India directors have recommended a final dividend of six per cent, less income tax, making 12 per cent for the year to Dec. 31, 1950.
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    The Produce Market
    153 10 TITHITE pepper was easier In the Singapore produce market yesterday. Stock was scree. Sellers again quoted >10 a plcul less with Muntok at $1,130 and Sarawak at $1,125. Siamese white was quiet. Black pepper steadied supply from Sumatra is dwindling. Dealers anticipate an upward trend. The price
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    S.T,C, PREF. DIV., 1945 AND 1946
    41 10 S.T,C, PREF. DIV., 1945 AND 1946 SINGAPORE Traction Company directors hare declared a dividend of seven per cent, per annum on the company's Preference stock for the two years to Sept. 30. 1946. The dividend Is payable on March 13, 1951
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    Slight Drop In A Day Of Uncertainty
    202 10 From A Market Correspondent HTHE Singapore rubber market was uncertain yesA terday, with lower grades neglected. At the irregular close first-grade for March shipment stood at $2.26$ a lb. buyers, H cents below Tuesday's close. Turn-over was moderate yesterday. Closing prices yesterday were
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    Shipping In The Roads And Alongside
    173 10 CHIPS In the Singapore Roads and alongside the Singapore Harbour Board godowns at 4 p.m. yesterday were: Outer Roads: Hal Hsuan. Shapur. Islaml. Lalandia, Hero, Van Riemsdijk, Van Riebeeck, Rajula, Memmon, La Capirena, Carpentaria, Tanjer, Darlac, Palopo, Astyanax. Waikelo. Inner Roads: Resang, Kampan, Sin
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    Malayan Shares
    277 10 Tins Affected By U.S. Decision A MERICA'S decision to A cease stock-piling of tin had an adverse effect on Tin shares in the Malayan market yesterday Prices generally showed sharp declines. Rubbers and Industrials were steady. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrolcers' Association INDUSTRIALS MM 8.8. Petrol
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    H.K. EXCHANGE
    64 10 HONO KONQ, Wed. I^REE market currency exchange (or Hong Kong, dollars was quoted at the close today aa follows: US$l HKs6.ll (cash), HKJ6.I6 (T.); £1 HK$l5 65; one tael ot gold HK%3lB'-.~Xjr. »pHE Malayan Exchange Banks 1 Association announced yesterday that free market currency exchange rates for the
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    CANADIAN DOLLAR
    32 10 fpHE Malayan Exchange Banks Association announced yesterday tbat control direct rates for Canadian dollars were: Buying T.T. 34' i, Airmail (0.D.) 14%, (90 days) 34^; Selling T.T.;OX>. ready 34 1
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      412 10 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS To New York and Boston via Ceylon. India Egypt and Mediterranean Port*. ..nor, aa Singapore P Swettenham Penana Sr« Hf^ NT 11/16 Mar. 17/18 Mar. 19/20 Mar IOHNSON' 24/30 Mar. II Mar./ 1 Apr. 2/3 Apr. "PRES MOMROf- 9/14 Apr Owmt IS/lfi Aor "PRES. ARTHUR" 16/22 Apr.
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    LANDS DOUBLE
    2130 11 From EPSOM JEEP PENANG, Wednesday. IJINE-year-old Vanguard (J. Donnelly) brought off a splendid double to pay a handsome dividend of $57 in another day of upsets at Penang this afternoon, second day of the Penang Turf Club Spring meeting. All first favourites failed and highest dividend of the
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    Big Sweep results
    45 11 Total Pool $359,00*. 1st No. *****7 ($86,160) 2nd No. *****1 ($43,080) 3rd No. *****0 ($21,540) Starters ($4.786 each): Nos. *****9. *****0, *****5 *****3 *****3, *****2, *****9! *****1. *****5. Consolation: ($2,154 each) Nos *****2. *****2, *****5. *****5, *****1, *****5, *****1 *****3, *****5. *****6
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    Derby Attracts 21 – Limit 12
    1028 11 Derby Attracts 21 Limit 12 200 Entries For Perak Races From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wednesday. rpWENTY-one horses have been entered for the $30,000 Perak Derby, richest race on the Malayan turf, which will be run on March 24, last day of the Perak Turf Club's th-ee-day Easter meeting. The
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      154 11 •™*M»£»m5HJW*" 5159 11-1.45 4 6.30-9.30 *^sjj km aw 1/fl/fSV I fSv^WSSS^S 2^ B\GOl J&jf^i JjLjr HAROLD LLOYD^ 0 RETUHNS AFTER AN ABSENCE OF 12 YEARS TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE TO LAUGH IN! Here without shame is the Umt^ NAKFD TRUTH WL^ ahiut a boxs, a girl und
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      208 11 OPENING flllW/1 TORJ 2-4.13-6.30 B^ Does the Reformer reform the RedA head or I Does the Redhead reform th c ReH x/\ former KkSHE BELIEVED IN "KISS AT FIRST SIGHT jipDICK POWELL I TL I <^^£ ™l I commmi I DAVID WAYNE CECIL KELLAWAY RAY COLLINS ROBERT KEITH Please come
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      76 11 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 10 a.m. News: 10.10 Close; 10.45 Schools; 12 Malay; 1 p.m. Light Music; 1.30 News; 1.45 Dance Music (Cy Coleman, pianist); 2 Schools; 2.50 Close; S Malay; S.15 "Calling All Hospitals"; 7 News; 7.12 Radio Scientist; 7.20 Interlude: 7.30 Augmented Radio Orch.; 8 "Forum of the Air";
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    487 12 Chwee Kok Wins 400-m; Wolters Beaten By Touch From W. E. TREVOR, Straits Times Reporter NEW DELHI, Wednesday. SINGAPORE'S Neo Chwee Kok today completed a triple in the Asian Games by winning his third swimming title the 400-metres freestyle, beating the second man, Philippines' Mohammed Mala, b>
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    47 12 MAJORIE SUARES. All-India women s high jump champion (4 ft. 5 7/8 in.) in practice at the New Delhi National Stadium in preparation for the event a< the Asian Games now in progress, I.ookin; on is Ted W Arnold. Official coach to the Indian team.— A.P. photo.
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    Compton And Dewes Score Freely
    270 12 Compton And Dewes Score Freely AUCKLAND. Wed. DENIS Compton, top-scorer with 78. and John Dewes (61 not cit) recaptured their best form today against Auckland when helping M.C.C. to gain a strong position. M.C.C. declared at tea for 298 for seven wickets to lead Auckland by 152 runs on the
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    Japan&lran Draw Soccer
    98 12 OTHER RESULTS NEW DELHI. Wed. JAPAN and Iran contested a scoreless draw in the Asia.ii Games football tournament semifinal here today. Japan beat India by 70 point* to 46. after leading 33 to 24 in the first, half, at basketball. The flag of the Asian Games was
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    S'pore April Races
    153 12 T'WO runs for each division of Classes 2 and 3 horses will be provided at the Singapore Turf Club's April meeting (7, 11 and 14). Trophies will be awarded in the 9f. races for all divisions of Class 2. and for Div. 1 of Class 3. A
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    LA. CRICKET Xl's
    95 12 The Indian Association teams for Sunday's home-and-home cricket match, to start at 11 a.m. are: N. Abbasbhoy's XI: N. Abbasbhoy, Yacoob Madarl, Dr. M. Abraham, Louis Thivy, S. Thlagarajan, S. Thangathural. N. Narayanan, Joe Carvalhio, C. Popatlal, R. A. Sithambaram. A. S. Nalr, A. A. Philemon, and
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    Plucky Fight ByWengYew In Lifting
    414 12 Plucky Fight ByWengYew In Lifting NEW DELHI. Wed. JP Dame Fortune had smiled more kindly on Chay Wer.g Yew last evening, what a different story I would be writing now. But she did not and Singapore's featherweight champion had to b? content with fifth place In the first Asian Games
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    Wales win 2—l
    38 12 BELFAST, Wed.—Wales today beat Ireland by two goals to one here in an International soccer match. In Div. 1 League Sunderland beat Huddersfleld by 4—3:4—3: in Div. 3 (North) Ttanmere Rovers beat Mansfield Town 2—l.—Reuter.
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    Sports Diary
    38 12 SOCCER: Dlv. I: Rovers v Indonesians at stadium; Dlv 2: s H.B. v KoU Raja 'A' at BODCA; Div. 3A: Bine Rovers v Town Ranters at Geylang; SERVICES I.GE: R.A.F. Seletar v H Ba. R A.O.C.
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    COOK'S HAT-TRICK DID NOT STOP H.K.
    281 12 DESPITE a hat-trick by insideleft Cook, which put RAJ. Malaya ahead for the major part of the game, the airmen went down narrowly in their friendly hockey against Hong Kong District F.A.R.E.L.F. hockey champions, by four-three at Changl yesterday. Hong Kong were much faster
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    Ballot For 5 Horses On March 27
    176 12 Ballot For 5 Horses On March 27 I^HE Singapore Turf Club's ballot ;or the five horser it has been allotted by the Straits Racing Association will be held at the Grandstand on Tuesday, March 27 at a 15 p.m. The five horses, part of the 20 purchased by the Associated
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    NATIONAL HUNT PUT OFF BY RAIN CHELTENHAM. Wed. — The
    63 12 NATIONAL HUNT PUT OFF BY RAIN CHELTENHAM. Wed. The waterlogged condition of parts of the race track here caused the rest of the National Hunt festival arranged for today and tomorrow to b« abandoned. The Gold Cup which should have been run tomorrow will now be reopened for new entries
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    University Shade Too Good
    183 12 VICTORIA School went down gallantly on home ground yesterday when they lost twonil to the University of Malaya in a friendly soccer game. The University with such wellknown players like Lim Eng Siang and A Ghanl, a former Perai State player, proved a shade too good
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    Malayans Score In Six Singles
    419 12 All-England Badminton LONDON, Wednesday. SIX Malayans, Wong Peng Soon, Ong Poh Lim, E. B. Choong, E. L. Choong, F. S. Lav and Siow Watt Soon won their opening round matches in the All-England Badminton championships which began today at Empress Hall, Earl's Court, London I
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    Spring Surprise
    401 12 O O.D.C.A. (Base Ordo# nance Depot Civilian Association) sprang a big surprise in the Singapore S.A.F.A. Senior League when they humbled much-fancied Tiger Sporting Association by four goals to three in a keenly-contested game at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Twice in arrears. BODCA. Improved and battled stubbornly to
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    LUCKY WIN FOR SELETAR
    176 12 CELETAR FC. beat Tion« Bihnt Rangers one-nil festerdaj a a Singapore A P.A. Division s.i fixture at St. Geontp's Road. Rangers were rather w. lev.<» as they had the greater share of the attack in a gimp pta 'ed at a fast pace from start to
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