The Straits Times, 13 March 1951

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 nVELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1951. PRICE TEN CENTS
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    REDS 'DEFLATED' — RIDGWAY
    356 1 REDS 'DEFLATED' RIDGWAY Victory If We End War At 38th r He Says TOKYO, Monday. COMMUNIST resistance collapsed along the 70-mile Korean central front today and the Reds fled toward the 38th Parallel. Air observers reported that the Communists were abandoning Seoul, threatened by an Allfed flanking drive to the
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    Commission Goes Back In Warship
    140 1 r 'HE S n sapor e Riot Inquiry C omission, headed by Tii- Lionel Leach, will leave aboard the aircraft Warrior bound tor i The Royal Navy has made facilities for the un to work undisturbed aboard th° Warrior and tr.f Commission hopes most of
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    KNOCKED DOWN
    24 1 .nnese woman was i own by a car ih < I Ko:;d. Singapore, yesterday and was taken to I, with a head injury.
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    10-MINUTE FIRE
    18 1 A lailanti fire in Merang B off Telok Belangah Road Singapore yesterday out in ton minutes.
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    C.G. GOING TO HONG KONG
    71 1 LONDON. Mon. MR. Malcolm Mac Donald. Commissioner-General in South-East- Asia, will leave London for Hong Kong tomorrow after a week's consultations with the Government. His plane is due in Hong Kong on Thursday. A Colonial Office spokesman said there was "no political significance in Mr.
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    Atom Fleet Bill Signed
    140 1 KEYWEST, Florida, Mon. PRESIDENT Truman set in gear yesterday a vast programme lor building an atomic-age fleet, including a a 57.000-ton aircraft carrier capable of launching bombers big enough to carry atom bombs. Mr Truman signed a bill authorising an immediate start on a $2,250,000,000 naval
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    Gold Trial Postponed
    56 1 BOMBAY. Mon. THE trial of Manuel Gstrreton. former Chilean Ambassador to Turkey, on a charge involving the smuggling of nearly £125.000 worth of gold Into India, was postponed to Saturday. Evidence was heard against Clacomo Cohen, an Italian Jew. facing a separate trial on charges of smuggling
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    FILM STAR No 3 A GRANDMOTHER
    41 1 HOLLYWOOD, Mon.— Film star Mary Astor, aged 45, joined Marlene Dietrich and Joan Bennett in the ranks of Hollywood's "glamorous grandmothers" when her daughter Marilyn, aged 19. gave birth to a girl last night. A.P.
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    48 1 A TOAST to the welfare home for crippled children at Morib was the official plan for these Malay boys and girls when the Sultan of Selangor opened the home on Sunday, but they would have enjoyed the drink just as much whatever the occasion. Straits Straits Times picture.
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    BETTER PROTECTION FOR TAPPERS URGED
    432 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. MR. F. V. DUCKWORTH, the acting Commissioner of Labour, Federation, told the .Straits Times today that estate managers agreed with him that his department could do nothing about the strike, involving more than 3,000 tappers in South Selangor
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    HIGHER COL FOR TAPPERS
    128 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. THE Malayan Planting Industries Employers' Association today offered to pay special cost-of-living allowances to all tappers and estate field workers as an interim measure. The offer was accepted when M.P.I.E.A. representatives met representatives of th Rubber Estate Workers' Union for flhe first time
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    MAO TORMENTED BY RED SPEARS'
    98 1 TAIPEI. Mon. THE "Red Spears," one of China's most powerful secret societies, are rapidly increasing their activities against the Chinese Communists on the Red China mainland, states the China Union Press. The agency says that in 10 counties of Southern Anhwei the "Red Spears" had
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    French Commandos Raid Island
    139 1 HANOI, Monday. "THREE hundred French and Vietnamese comA mandos have landed on the Tonking Gulf island of Cathba to clear out big Vietminh forces. They were put ashore in landing craft from a French naval sloop at dawn last Thursday. Latest reports said they were sweeping
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    Seagrave Wants To Go Back
    72 1 RANGOON, Mon. T\R. Gordon Seagrave, aged 55, American mis-sionary-writer, was today still waiting for Governmen permission to return to Nankhan, a military-con-trolled area on the Chinese border. Dr. Seagrave was released four days ago after serving 51 days of a sixyear sentence for allegedly helping
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    M.P. COMPLAINS OF 'A BLUNDER'
    107 1 LONDON, Men. gRIGADIER Fitzroy Maclean, Conservative, asserted In the House of Commons today that the MIG-15 jet engine being used against TTflitpH Mat long tr<inr\g in Korea was a copy of the Nene engines sold to the Russian? by the Ministry of Supply i n
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    FLU SUSPECTS HELD AT DARWIN
    37 1 SYDNEY, Mon. Twentyfire passengers and the crew of nine on a BOAC Constellation were quarantined when the .plane reached Sydney from London today. Two influenza suspects were quarantined at Darwin yesterday.— Reuter-AAP.
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    He Helped Hitler
    23 1 HANOVER. Mon.— Dr. Alfred Humgenberg, German right-wing politician who helped Hitler to power in 1933, died today. He was 86.—Reuter.
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    MILKMAN HURT
    26 1 A Tamil milkman vas knocked down by a military lorry In Yio Chu Kang Read, Singapore, last night and was fro Iran tr> hntnttal
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    STATE TAKES OVER TIN BUYING IN U.S.
    154 1 STATE TAKES OVER TIN BUYING IN U.S. WASHINGTON, Monday. 'J'HE United States Government today made itself the sole importer and seller of tin to end what a Senate committee called "price ffouginti" by foreign sellers. The National Production Authority also ordered that all American users of pig tin should come
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    Contrasts In U,S. Policy
    492 1 Fiom Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Mon. THE apparent inconsistency of United States policy towards dependent territories is reflected in reports reaching London from Washington during the week-end. On the one hand, the development of "backward areas is declared a vital part of the U.S. defence programme
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    Czech Purge Continues: More Held
    117 1 PRAGUE, M.m. IT'OUR more top-ranking .T Czech Communists have been arrested and charged with treason. The deputy Ministry of National Defence, General Reicin, is alleged to have been an accomplice of Otto Sling, now under arrest on charges of spying for Britain. General Kopold, a
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    13 IN BARRACK ESCAPE BID
    30 1 GLASGOW. Men.— Thirteen soldier prisoners tried to escape from the detention block at Maryhill Barracks. Glasgow, yesterday. Seven got away. Six have been caught.— Reuter.
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    Strikers Stop Trams
    26 1 BARCELONA, Mon. An estimated 300,000 workers downed tools in a cost-oi-living strike in Barcelona today. Yelling crowds stormed tramcars an.i stopped taxis.— Reuter.
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    Queuille Prepares French Voting Change
    269 2 Queuille Prepares French Voting Change W o* W/war! as- i PARIS, Mon. HfHILE France's new fT Government, led by the Premier, M. Henri Queuille, prepared yesterday to buckle down to some of the urgent problems left hanging during the recent 11 -day political crisis, Geri Charles de Gaulle warned that
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      Britain 'Swimming In Medicine'
      179 2 DRITAIN is floating in a swimming bath of "medicine, Miss E. M. Russel Smith, of the Minis- 3 I" *%J< nt Health 0»— Wee. £1,011,835 sterling waa spent in 6,577,157 prescriptions and State medicine was taken by over 1,000,000 people. "Many people saytkhey feel better if
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    CONFERENCE
    26 2 LT.-GEN. M. B. Ridgway (right), commanding the I.S. Eighth Army in Korea, greeted on U.S.S. Missouri by Vice-Admiral A. D. Struble with whom he eon-
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    NEW B.B.C. CRAZY QUARTET
    34 2 NEW B.B.C. CRAZY QUARTET STAGE AND RADIO comedians (frcm left) Michael-ton-tine, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, and Peter Sellers have formed a crazy quartet. They will be heard over the B B.C. beginning this month.
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    BUDDHISTS PLAN PEACE DRIVE
    124 2 COLOMBO, Monday. INTERNATIONAL Buddhist leaders meeting here 1 have decided to launch a world peace campaign. They are considering sending a .deputation on i world tour, paying particular attention to centres of unrest. They have appointed a committee with Dr. G. P. Malalasekera. president of the
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    ACCUSED OF CATS 'MURDER'
    39 2 COLOMBO, Mon. A MAN was accused of killing a cat in a plaint filed before the magistrate in Avissawella. The plaintiff alleged that the man shot his eat because it had eaten his food. Heater.
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    ON WAY TO KOREA
    29 2 SALISBURY, (Southern Rhodesia) Mon. Southern Rhodesia's volunteer unit for service in Korea left here last night for Durban where it will embark for Singapore. Reuter.
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    EISENHOWER: 'I WORLD USE A-BOMB IF WORTH IT'
    242 3 WASHINGTON, Monday. rKN. Dwi&ht D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Atlantic Pact army, would use the atomic bomb "instantly" if war comes, if he is convinced that it would bring sufficient destruction to the enemy, it was disclosed yesterday. He also believes
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    3 Accused Of Murder
    64 3 MANILA. Mon. John L. Montgomery, Filipino-Ameri-can head of the Manila Ship Waichmen's Union, and two others were today charged with the murder of a British shipping executive, Mr. Francis M. Gispert, secretary and manager of the Associated Steamship Lines. The two other accused are Arthur de
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    RITA FOR FRANCE
    34 3 ROME, Mon. Rita Hayworth, wife of Prince Aly Khan, left last night for Cannes France, to meet her children. The American 31m star spent a few days in Rome sightseeing. A.P.
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    THEY STILL (ANT GROW TALL
    66 3 TOKYO, Mon. THE weight and chest measurement of school children have virtually been restored to the pre-war level, although something is still to be desired in height, according to Japanese Press reports. This was revealed in a survey made by the Education Min stry on
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    CAPTURED BY FRENCH
    36 3 COMMUNIST VIF.TMiXH prisoners, under French Guard, inarch through the 'streets of the Indo-Chinese coastal town of Tienyen. Vietminh prisoners and political suspects are used by the French Army in labour gangs. A.P. picture.
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    One Man Stops A Battle
    189 3 One Man Stops A Battle ALICE SPRINGS, Central Australia, Mon. PHARGING empty handed v into a tribal war between 30 full blooded aborigine^ armed with shovels, spears and knives, a Native Affairs Officer, Mr. Arnold Long, restored peace but not before two natives had been killed. The clash was in
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    FLAGS UP
    24 3 TAIPEH. Mon.— Flags new in Formosa to on the death anniversary Dr. Sun Yat-sen. founder 01 the Chi. I nese Republic— A.P.
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    Supremo For Med. Tops Malta Agenda
    207 3 VALETTA, (Malta), Monday. BRITISH Middle East Service Chiefs arrived here yesterday for a two-day conference opening today with United States Service Chiefs on security problems affecting the area. Top subject of the conference is likely to be the appointment of a supreme naval commander
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    GERM WAR MASKS
    19 3 WASHINGTON, Mon. Masks for civilian use, as protection against germ and gas warfare, are being developed
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    Fargie Freed By General
    212 3 KURE, South Japan, Monday. F«RECT, smartly -uniformed Robert Fargie, 29- year-old RASC driver, walked out of a detention camp a free man today when his Commanding General refused to confirm a court martial sentence of ten years passed for manslaughter of a Korean civilian. Fargie, who
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    20,000 Reds Die In Korea Typhus Scourge
    249 3 20,000 Reds Die In Korea Typhus Scourge TOKYO, Mon. GEN. MacArthur's headquarters yesterday got a report that typhus in Korea has wiped out 20,000 Chinese and North Korean troops. The report contradicts an Eighth Army statement two days ago that there was no confirmed evidence of a typhus epidemic. The
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    The Leaders—In Clay And Wax
    58 3 The Leaders— In Clay And Wax LONDON, Mon. YUGOSLAVIA'S 11 -man Parliamentary delegation to Britain yesterday laid a wreath on the grave of Karl Marx, father of Socialism and Communism, who is buried at Highgate cemetery. Then the group, at the invitation of the British Parliament, went to Madame Tussauds,
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    51 EXECUTED IN CANTON
    45 3 HONG KONG, Mon.—Fiftyone people were executed in Canton yesterday for "inexcusable counter-revolutionary crimes," dispatches to two pro-Communist papers here said today. The group was headed by 44-year-old, Sun Tsai-liangr former Director of Operations of. the old Nationalist Canton garrison command. A.P.
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    REDS 'CAN PENETRATE INTO ISLAM'
    128 3 KARACHI, Monday. THE English language newspaper Sind Observer warned yesterday that the plot against the country announced by the Premier, Mr. Liaquat AH Khan, shows that even Islamic nations are not impervious to Communist penetration. The paper pointed out that I at least two of
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    972 American Casualties
    40 3 WASHINGTON, Mon. THE second largest American casualty list in the Korean war containing 972 names was issued here yesterday by the Defence Department. It showed that most of the casualties were suffered between Feb 11 and 19.—Reuter
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    RIVAL CHINESE GROUPS CLASH
    42 3 RANGOON, Mon. Armed police have been posted in the Chinese colony in Bhamo, Upper Burma, after a clash between two rival Chinese groups, Press reports here said today. One man was seriously injured. Police made two arrests. Reuter.
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    WINGATE A GENIUS-CHURCHILL
    147 3 LONDON, Mon. J^|R WINSTON Churchill yesterday paid tribute to "one of the most brilliant and courageous figures of the second world war" the late Maj. Gen. Orde Charles Wingate; leader of the Chindits in Burma. After directing two historic and 1944, Gen. Wingate was killed in an
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    500 NEW TEACHERS AT WORK MORE TRAIN
    230 4 500 NEW TEACHERS AT WORK MORE TRAIN JHE third batch of 250 candidates began the Singapore Education Department's emergency teachers* training course yesterday. Since the department launched its $23,000,000 supplementary education scheme last year, two batches of 250 candidates, have completed emergency training at the Teachers' Training College. Since then
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    Pan-Malayan Body To Fight Prices
    81 4 Pan-Malayan Body To Fight Prices FORMATION of a Pan-Mal-1 ayan Consumers' Association to fight hish prices in the Federation and in Singagapore is the aim of the Singapore Consumers' Association. The Singapore Association will co-operate with kindred organisations in the Colony and the Federation. Its aims are the prevention of
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    Ultimatum Plan By Rail Unions
    182 4 From Our Staff Correspondent muDiPTP KUALA LUMPUR, Monday JHREE railway trade unions today decided to send The three unions the Locomotive Enginemen's un-l ion,, the Permanent Way Officer's union, and the Signalmen s Union— warned that if they get no satisfaction they will take joint
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    NO OVERTAKING: NO PARKING
    44 4 The Singapore Advisory Committee yesterday announced that no vehicle may park between the kerb and the white line in the middle of the road. Overtaking is prohibited wherever a double line is laid down in the middle of a roadway.
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    UNIVERSITY HAS VERYGOODNAME
    291 4 THE University of Malaya has a very good reputation abroad, states Dr. G. V. Allen, vice-chan-cellor, who returned to Singapore yesterday in the Patroclus, with Mrs. Allen, after five months' leave In_ Britain. While in Britain. Dr. Allen discussed the possibility of exchanging staff between the University
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    MR. M.J. FORSTER
    29 4 The Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson. has appointed Mr. M. J. Forster to be a member of the Advisory Committee, it was announced last night.
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    FENCES WILL KEEP OUT HAWKERS
    64 4 WIRE fences at presen being erected aroum Singapore schools are ti I keep out hawkers not Com I munists, Mr. R. M. Young Deputy Director of Educa 1 tion, told the Straits Time! yesterday. "Fences with locked gatei are part of the nor ma I
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    Bandits Kill Nine Police
    194 4 Bandits Kill Nine Police From Our Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. CIX special constables and a police constable were killed yesterday in the Mersing area of Johore when a P- W. D. lorry escorted by a police patrol was fired at by a bandit gang. In the Kuantan area of
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    See-The-World Man Goes Horne—Tired
    288 4 See-The-World Man Goes Horne Tired RAYMOND Face, aged 26, left his Sydney home six R% years ago to see the world. But he didn't like it, he said yesterday as he left Singapore in the Maetsuycker—bound for Sydney. Raymond said: "Since leav- I ng home as second cook in a
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    University Fund
    192 4 DONATIONS totalling $5,790 were received during the week ended March 3 for the University of Malaya Endowment Fund, which now stands at $3,867,418. During the year. $12,709 was given to the fund. Further contributions have been received: Mr. A. M. Mac Donald. $10; Mr. Justice Bnpgs. $50; Mr.
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    ARMS CHARGE
    36 4 v c™, Chon 8. a sed 21. of York Hill Road, charged in Singapore Third Police Court yesterday with having a pistol and seven rounds of ammunition, was remanded In custody until March 19.
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    41 4 Slav* Tairoff, well-known Singapore musician, and his bride Tania Myssiakoff, formerly of Shanghai, were married yesterday at the Presbyterian C h n re h, Singapore A reception was held at the Adelphi Hotel. The groom win lead the band at the
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    FAMILIES KEEP HOMES
    170 5 MCA Wins Fight To Stop Braddell Heights Evictions THIRTEEN Chinese families at Braddell Heights, some of whom have been living there for more than 25 years, have been saved from eviction by the help of the Singapore branch of the Malayan Chinese Association. The land on which
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    COLONY HAS NEW JUDGE
    126 5 COLONY HAS NEW JUDGE MR. M.H. Butt rose assumed duties as acting Puisne Judge yesterday. He presided at the Assizes in the High Court. Mr. Justice Buttrose, who comes from South Australia, arrived in Singapore with the British Military Administration towards the end of 1945. He took a leading part
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    INDIAN GETS $3,318 AWARD
    62 5 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR. Mon.— While helping to garage a truck. Periyathampi. an Indian labourer of Johore Labis Estate, was squeezed between the truck and a post and sustained a fracture of the skull and lacial injuries. As ne was no longer fit for work,
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    WARSHIP ON VIEW
    43 5 The Indian warship Rajput, which is in Singapore on its way back from Australia, v ill be open to visitors from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow. The ship is at the Man of War Anchorage in the outer roads.
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    JUNGLE PATROL ARRESTED HIM
    54 5 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Chin Kee Loon, an assistant in a pawnbroker's shop, charged at Johore Bahru with being found with four packets of chandu, was bound over in $150 for 15 months. Chin was arrested by a police patrol when he was
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    ANTI-T.B. FIGHT
    34 5 From Oar Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The Medical Department, Johore, has appointed two members of the staff antlT.B. welfare officers. They will help the T.B. district Association's Almoner, Mrs. Nina Su.
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    Mr. Hutchings Looks Back
    381 5 |y| EMORIES of over 30 years of Malayan history will go to the United Kingdom with Mr. L. C. Hutchings, the retiring chairman of directors of Robinson and Co., when he leaves on the Carthage on March 22. 1 Mr. Hutchlngs, who Is being succeeded by
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    Place For Feet —NOT Fists
    56 5 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. H^HE joget modern dance hall was a place of entertainment not a boxing hall, said Inche Kadir, Johore Bahru Magistrate, today. He fined A. Rahman bin Aioang and Samad bin Baba, a special constable, $5 each for fighting
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    Move To Beat S'pore Tax Dodgers
    141 5 Move To Beat S 'pore Tax Dodgers SINGAPORE Government representatives yesterday met Mr. Tan Siak Kiew, of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, to discuss the abolition of aliases in Chinese businesses. It wag decided to prepare a memorandum to send to Chinese businessmen for their comments. Mr. Tan Siak Kiew
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    DYNAMO THIEF
    25 5 R. Narayasamy, a Singai pore Harbour Board labourer. j was yesterday fined $50 in Singapore Third Police Court for stealing a bicycle dynamo.
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    Maternity Ambulance Service
    93 5 Maternity Ambulance Service A DAY and night ambulance service exists in Singapore to remove expectant mothers to hospital free of charge, but few make use of it. Dr. P. T. Nathan, Independent Municipal Commissioner for Rochore Ward emphasised the plignt of women giving birth in trishas and taxis on the
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    Speech That Broke A Rule
    84 5 VjK. Jura Payne, Austraixi x Han Trade Commissioner in Singapore, set a precedent yesterday by making a speech to Trade Commissioners at their Above Mr. Payne (centre) is sharing a joke with Mr. A. I). Stutchbury of the Economic Secretariat. Mr. Payne told the meeting
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    RAF MORALE VERY HIGH'
    80 5 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Mon. "I found morale very high, particularly in the operational theatres in the Far East, where the men have a tough job," said the Rev. F. Douglas Morley, principal Methodist chaplain to the R.A.F., who recently returned after an extensive tour
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    SPECIAL STOLE FROM CORPORAL
    49 5 Mohamed Kassim bin Tanggon, a Special Constable attached to the Patani Street Police Barracks, yesterday pleaded guilty In the Singapore Third Police Court on a charge of stealing clothing belonging to Corporal Pagal Dal of the Singapore Police Force. Sentence was postponed to March 19.
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    NO PRICE LISTS
    34 5 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— For not displaying price lists in Engjish, Malay. Chinese, and Indian of the current maximum prices of tea and coffee. Thlan Kheng Halt and
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    The Straits Times Singapore,Tues, mar.13,1951
    672 6 This week the campaign for v the Legislative Council elections in the Colony begins in earnest, with twenty-two canre, didates in the field and nine y seats up for election in the •s. new Council of twenty-five a members (excluding the Govj y ernor in
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    Lessons From Hong Kong
    502 6 In the long review of Far Eastern trade which Sir Arthur Morse the chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, has made to the Bank's shareholders, Malayan attention will be particularly attracted by the progress of Hong Kong. Like Malaya, Hong Kong has had a record
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    Malaya under the Emergency—l 7
    988 6 Malaya under the Emergency— l 7 Red faces in Slim district Communist 8th Independent Company has increased its activities in the Selangor Perak border region in an attempt to recain "lost face". Security force operations, the resettlement of squatters, and full police control of populated areas in Tanjong Malim district
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    Tommorow
    11 6 A NEW dormitory <£ town for Kuala Lumpur, with 17,000 inhabitants.
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      308 6 'J'HE Singapore Improvement Trust long ago decided that local-born workers should be given preference in the allocation of Trust accommodation. This is as it should be, because this principle applies in any other country. But why the S.I.T should call for applications through the Chinese Chamber of Commerce (when the
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      TRACKING DOWN THE DEER
      93 6 DOTH "Planter's Wife" (Mar. 6) and "North Londoner' (letter of Mar. 9) may be interested hi this extract from "The London Naturalist for 1948," published in November 1949: "FALLOW DEER—There is still a wild herd of fallow deer in Epping Forest and the adjoining coverts; they
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      STATE CO-OP. TO FIGHT HIGH PRICES?
      107 6 STATE CO-OP. TO FIGHT HIGH PRICES? I SUGGEST that the only way to keep prices down at present Is to open a "State Welfare Co-op. Shops Society" in every State by means of a million-dollar sweep lottery, such as the Turf Clubs and the M.C.A. are now running. Half the
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      A WARNING FOR MOTORISTS
      106 6 MOTORISTS, beware When passing the bridge over the Selangor River near Rasa, go dead slow. I have witnessed two serious motor accidents since this bridge was repaired or strengthened Just by placing a few pieces of thick timber nailed on top of It giving sufficient space
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    On The Margin
    440 6 On The Margin Roh Roy Canoe JJAVE you ever read a description of canoeing on a Malayan river? The Malaya do it every day, we know, bu* I mean canoeing as a sporft. I quote below a delightful Dassage from Mr. G. M. Notleys letter which provided the grist for
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    SHIP REPAIR COSTS STAGGERING'
    161 7 Yearly Bill In Singapore Tops $12,000,000 FNGINE and hull repairs to ships in Singapore and passing through the port cost more than $12,000,000 a year, it is estimated. This is stated by the President and Committee of the Association of Engineers, Singapore, in their report for
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    102 7 rr.;!:::;t': smart girls in JL ciurit green skirts moved around the Singapore Immigration Department yesterday and c.i<is<>() quite a stir. The.. wiTe the first worn emp!oypes of the Beiirtateal to appear in uniforms designed and provided by themselves 'for the convenience of the public' Said Mrs. T. M. Griffin (centre):
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    RECORD INDIA TRADE
    54 7 RECORD INDIA TRADE with laflla I 1951. toiall- roo^oo. In January, figure in any h. is been parole in the I Indian imports into Imports in January $25 400.000, showing an Increase of 921 per cent cv. r > same month in 1949. a exported f8. 5W.000 of floods to
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    STONE BLAMED
    50 7 I i i n Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.^-' Ong Kirn Ep was fined 525 to1 ihru for Inrate driving. It was said his c:ir collided with an(i her car on t^.e Pontian R id dig sa^ he was trying when he nsi i.n (,'iu-oming i .r
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    FAREWELL
    27 7 Anglo-Cl university training I farewell dinieir ml tress Mi-^s Lisa M Ho. on Thursday at 8.30 i Dl. at 'he V.M C.A. Hall. re hard Road
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    RAF Man Asked about 'Vast Sums'
    446 7 QUESTIONED in Singapore First District Court yes- terday about "vast sums" he had to pay for a car in June. 1949. Squadron Leader George Charles Winton said he brought £150 with him from England. Winton is accused of corruptly accepting a bicycle from a
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    YWCA Appeal —$8,000
    64 7 SINGAPORE Y.W.C.A. ap- peal had realised 55.151 up to yesterday. The sponsors says: 'Our icork among the women and girls of Singapore is on'.y limited by the funds ice have a. our disposal." "Our sincere thanks go to those nho have donated so U7istintingly. Will tho>e icho
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    HAD 660 KATIS OF RUBBER
    50 7 Tan Siew Chair, 20. pleaded guilty in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday to a charge of fraudulent possession of 660 katis of rubber at Telok Ayer Basin on Dec. 29 last year. Sentence was postponed to March 19. Tan was allowed SI. OOO bail.
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    THEFT IN A LANE
    74 7 When Tan Kee walked dow.: a lane off Desker Road Singapore, he was surrounded by four men. One of them, Loh Ah Kiang, took his foun- i tain pen. Tan blew a whistle and the' men ran away. He saw Loh i enter a house and
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    Untrained Men 'Alarm' The Experts
    249 7 rK President and Committee of the Association of Engineers, Singapore, will report to the annual meeting on Mar. 21 their alarm at the increasing recruitment of unsuitable junior engineers into the Merchant Service. "It appears that any young man who can lay the slightest claim
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    18 FOR TRIAL ON RIOTS
    97 7 Six Boyanese, five Malays, two Indians and a Javanese were committed in the Singapore Relief Court yesterday for trial at the Assizes on charges of rioting on Dec. Ill; setting fire to a car belonging to Mr. Gordon Hoey, and assaulting him. i Also committed
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    500 AT OPENING OF NEW HOTEL
    55 7 More than 500 people attended a cocktail party last night to celebrate the openlng of the $400,000 Ritz Hotel, in Bernam Street. The hotel is equipped with the most modern facilities. More than 80 per cent of its 29 rooms were already booked last
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    MANDORE ON MURDER CHARGE
    131 7 A CHINESE mandore. Lee rk Lian Poh. alleged before Mr. Justice Buttrose in the Singapore Assizes yesterday that he saw a fellow mandore stab a Singapore Harbour Board labour contractor at East Reclamation Road on Nov. 18 last. of Tan Choo Tin, a SHB labour contractor.
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    SIPUTEH DEAD' FOR 20 HOURS
    61 7 From Onr SUB Correspondent IPOH, .Monday. A STRICTER curfew has been imposed in the wired off area of Siputeh town where the people have to remain indoors for 29 hours a day. The two two-hour periods the inhabitants are allowed out of their homes are:
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    OppositionTo Trust Ruling Increases
    202 7 OppositionTo Trust Ruling Increases OPPOSITION from Chinese guilds and associations in Singapore to the rule excluding China-born Chinese from applying for Singapore Improvement Trust accommodation is gaining strength and support. Latest association to show disapproval is the Tong On Whay Kuan (a Cantonese district association) at New Bridge Road which
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    UNION CHIEF ASKS ABOUT REPORT
    40 7 The Secretary of the Pakistani Seamen's Union, Mr. Asahab Miah, wants to know what has happened to the report of the commission of inquiry into Singapore Registration Bureau. It closed its hearings In early December.
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    A MOCK ELECTION
    43 7 A MOCK ELECTION "HONEST" BUN, Miss Bon Yoke Lan, stands on a table with one of her posters as she issues final instructions to her publicity and canvassing agents during the trial election campaign at the Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore, yesterday.— Straits Times picture.
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    'HONEST' BUN IS QUICK OFF MARK
    291 7 'HONEST' BUN IS QUICK OFF MARK MISS Bun Yoke Lan. a student of the Pre-Univer-sity Training Class, will compete with 11 boys who arc Independent, Socialist and Liberal candidates for four seats in a mock election at the Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore, on March 30. She will be an Independent candidate
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    SINKS IN RIVER
    43 7 The Flag Officer, Malayan Area, reports that a naval launch manned by the Malayan naval force struck a rock in the approaches to the Dindingr River, Perak, while on Malayan coast patrol duty last Saturday, and sank in shallow water.
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    FAMILIES ARRIVE
    28 7 The troopship Empire Orwell yesterday arrived in Singapore with 150 women and children, families of Servicemen in Malaya. She left later with troops for Hong Kong.
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    Accident Fatalities Drop By Half
    89 7 STATISTICS for February show a drop of seven in the number of fatal accidents in Singapore. Eight were killed against 15 in January, the Singapore Safety First Committee stated yesterday. Out of a total of 753 traffic accidents reported during the month 192 Involved nonfatal
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    Stewart Appeal Next Week
    102 7 Stewart Appeal Next Week From Onr Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. THE appeal of Bombardier John Stewart, 26-year-old artilleryman from Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland, against the conviction and sentence of death' passed by Mr. Justice Abbott at Malacca Assizes on Feb. 13 will be heard before the Federation Court of Appeal
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    Hall To Have A 'Sound' Test
    259 7 Hall To Have A 'Sound Test NEW conceit hall, able to seat more than 1,200 will be tested for accoustics tomorrow and Saturday when the Junior Symphony Orchestra give the first orchestral concerts in the Lee Kuo Chuan auditorium of the Anglo-Chinese school. The stage of the Lee Kuo Chuan
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    ACCOUNTANTS WARNED...
    57 7 Mr. Jee Ah Chian, speaking on accountancy in the series of career talks organised jointly by the Rotary Club and the YMCA in Singapore last night said that films and cabarets are a deterrent to serious students of accountancy. He said lhat any person wishing to take up
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    BRIGGS GOES ON LEAVE IN APRIL
    47 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Director of Operations. LieutGen Sir Harold Briggs. leaves Kuala Lumpur at the end of this month for a three-week holiday in Cyprus. He will return in April to resume duties as Director of Operations for a further period.
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    NEW PAY RATES ANNOUNCED FOR POLICE AND SPECIALS
    385 8 NEW PAY RATES ANNOUNCED FOR POLICE AND SPECIALS From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. "^EYV rates of pay for the uniformed arm oi the Malayan Police Force and the Specia Constabulary were published today. The rates are effective from January 1 this year. Rates for detectives are still under
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    MEDAL FOR A POSTMAN
    201 8 MEDAL FOR A POSTMAN KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. POSTAL agent who was also an auxiliary policeman has been awarded the British Empire Medal for refusing to surrender to a gang of about 40 bandits who surrounded his house, shot at him and set the house on fire. Inche Mohamed Tahir bin
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    Sacked Man Hit Worker
    69 8 KKARUNAKARAN, a ab- ourer at the Naval Base workshop who was under notice of dismissal, hit a fellow worker Low Fook with an iron pipe. At Singapore Second Police Court yesterday h e was bound over in $100 to be of good behaviour for three months
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    FINED $700 -SMUGGLING
    51 8 Lee Jauw Kiat. a bumboat man. was yesterday fined $700 in the Singapore Third Police Court for importing 50 lbs. of dutiable cigarettes into the Colony on Feb. 26. Lee was chased by a Customs patrol boat. He admitted owning the cigarettes and failed to produce duty
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    132 8 MR. Kenneth E. Imrie, 44, of Singapore, manager of Nestle's Products (Malaya) Ltd.,was one of the 26 persons killed when a Pacific Overseas Airways (Siam) Skymaster crashed into a hill in Rons Kons; on Sunday. He was the only Britor. on the plane. Mr. Imrie had been on a business
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    BACK FROM ECAFE TALKS
    56 8 Singapore and Federation delegates to the I\"AFE conference at Lahore. Pakistan, returned to Singapore by plane yesterday morning. Mr. Andrew Giknour. Singapore's Financial Secretary and Secretary for Economic Affairs, and Mr. Yap Pheng Geek represented the Colony at the conference. The Federation was represented by Dato
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    HAWKER'S DEATH PUZZLES COUT.
    65 8 Saying there was no evidence to show how the collision happened the Singapore Coroner, Mr. Choor Sinsh, returned an open verdict yesterday on Sim Cher Kuang 60-year-old Teochew hawker, who was knocked down by a S.T.C. bus at Orchard Road roundabout. The Dus driver, Suppiah. said
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    Pensioners Start 'Battle Fund'
    125 8 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Monday. HTHE Pan-Malayan Pensioners Association is col1 letting a "battle fund to "fight our battle incessantly at the proper time and at the proper places until we achieve success'". The association has boon corresponding with Government about increased pensions and cost-of-living
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    Singapore Diary
    65 8 PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Ladies Work Parly monthly meeting. Church Hall, Orchard Road. 10 a.m. CHINESE Y.M.C.A., Selrrie Road, badminton, 5 p.m.: body building, 5.30 p.m.; basketbali 5.30 p.m.; table-tennis, 7.30 p.m. Y.M.C.A., Orchard Road, gymnastics, 6 p.m.; Radio Revels, 8 p.m. TECHNICAL ASSOCIATION, mm show Shell House, Collyer Quay,
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    Teoh-Lee Wedding
    117 8 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Mon. MR. Teoh Tiaw Tee, a Straits Times staff reporter in Penang, was married at the Civil Registry today to Miss Lee Kim Sim, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Phang Leng. The ceremony was performed by Mr. B. G. Smith. Senior Registrar
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    CLAIMS TRIAL
    80 8 Chua Tiiiam Bock claimed triad in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday on a charge of stealing a wallet containing $3 and an identity card from Ong Yong Seng at the junction of Bukit Teresa and Kampong Bahru Road on Nov. 5 last year. He also claimed trial
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    VISAS FOR FILIPINOS
    61 8 To facilitate the issue of passports to Filipinos in Singapore and the Federation who desire to travel abroad, the Philippines Consul in Bangkok, Senor Jose Alejandrina, will be visiting Malaya soon to process these documents himself. Senor Alejandrina will be here for about 10 days before returning
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    PAHANG VALUER
    30 8 BENTONG, Mon.— Mr. Yap Khen Van of Kuantan has been appointed by the Mentri Besar, Pahang to practise as an appraiser in the State of Pahang this year.
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    S'PORE POLICE IN RIOT EXERCISE
    118 8 THE rank and file of the uniformed branch of ihe Singapore Police Force were alerted yesterday when "Operation Zipper" 8n exerris* to tp<st rommnnlM i«I0^ C. St-.« Cl™«l nlC t; men were standing by from six al^e first incident was reported 'rom Kallang airport. Radio
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    When Baby Sucks His Thumb Bonniest Baby Of The Week
    761 9  - When Baby Sucks His Thumb Bonniest Baby Of The Week NURSE JANET By MOTHERCRAFT IN MALAYA A MOTHER writes saying that as her babv of six months has begun to thumb suck, should she take steps to stop it. and if so, by what methods? If she leaves it, will
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    31 9 BALMORAL :s the name of this red check taffeta evening dress with apron front and full white net underdress. It was shown in Lon don by Dutch designer Herbert Sidon.
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    HOW TO SERVE THE WINE
    563 9  -  GEORGE MARRINER A GOOD corkscrew is a rarity. Most of them are too narrow, too smooth, or too short. They can cope with a foolproof cork, but are apt to pull out of a soft, perished or brittle one. The best corkscrews are wide in
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    Charm Of Old Houses
    493 9 FROM AN ESTATE BUNGALOW T»HERE is a cry for perA fection in houses these days but perfection doesn't always make a home. It is rare to find charm in houses where everything is perfect and while we all aim at labour-saving some of the boxlike contraptions
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      359 9 Straits Times Crossword Bymp thy^ -to ~"T 2. Glass pigeon (7). s| 2 3 6 6 3, it'a often eleven (4). Esss -> 4. Octogenarian (3, 8). §S§§ ssSS §sSS SSS S^j 3SSS 55^ SSS SSS 5. bound in their coats. HH il H Plil^l H H hosen. and their
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    London Stocks
    296 10 LONDON, Mon. ALTHOUGH most sections of the London Stock •Exchange today were without outstanding movement, small losses became fairly general in quiet end account trading. There was some revival of active interest in rubbers and tins which made upward progress but oils continued dull Closing middle prices of
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    RUBBER MARKET
    168 10 Large Turn-Over At Lower Prices T»HE Singapore rubber market was extremely active yesterday, with a larpe turn-over. The price of March first-grade at a quiet-after-easy close stood at $2.03£ a lb. buyers, nine cents below Saturday's close. i— Prices in the market declined by 10 cents a lb.
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    London Rubber
    33 10 LONDON, Mar. 12.— Spot 62Vid, Apr. 61 -\d, Apr .June 60d, JulySept. 544, OcU-Dee. 50d nom., Mar. elf. 59d, Mar. -Apr. elf. 57\d. Apr.-May c.i.f. 56* id. Market: Steady at decline.
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    3s 6d DIVIDEND FOR EASTERN BANK
    79 10 I^ASTERN Bank directors re-r-^r commend a final dividend for last year of 3s. 6d. per share, less tax. Net profit for year £123.928: total available, with sum brought forward £212.362. To reserv? nil; premises £30,000; contingencies £60.000; carryforward £89.362 Dividend payable* on and after
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    TIN: $554 A PICUL
    36 10 NNGATOiU, Won., Mar. 12— $55* (in n ..ZS.) £1,240 a ton in London LONDON. Mon., Mar. 12.— Spot Buyers £1.240: Forward £1.075; Settlement £1,250 (up £30). Turnovers: a.m. 120 p.m. 100 tons.
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    123 10 /"1OPRA sellers, In a quiet section of the Singapore produce market yesterday quoted $61 a pi^ul, buyers $59. No business was reported. Sellers of coconut oil quoted $102 but buyers were reluctant. The pepper section was also quiet with no business reported. Sellers 1 quotation were: Muntok
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    RUBBER CROPS
    27 10 ■p<EBRUARY rubber crops announced are, in lbs.: Bukit Katil Est. 35,366 Malaka Pinda Est. 62.490 New Scudai 30.500 Perak River Valley 36,000 Sungei Tukang 57,000
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    Shipping In The Roads And Alongside
    180 10 CHIPS in tile Singapore Roads and alongside the Singapore Haibcur Board godowns at 4 p.m. vesterday. were. Outer Roads: Hai Hsuan, Star Betelgeuse. Banjoewangi. Patrorlus. Chong Ya, Van Riemsdijlc. Japara. Howell Lykes. Marion, Tasman. Wairata. Waikelo. Tonjer, M. de Larrinaga, Hong Siang. Chel\'jskinetz. Tjisadane.
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    Malayan Shares
    205 10 Buyers Bid Up For Tins CTEADINESS of the com- modity resulted in good share buying in the Tin section of the Malayan share market yesterday. Turnover was fair, and at higher prices. Rubbers and Industrials were steady. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers" Association were: INDl'Sl RIALS
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    SELAYANG TIN 10 PER CENT FINAL
    43 10 OELAYANG Tin Dredging dlrectors recommend a final dividend of 10 per cent in respect of 1950 In addition to the declared interim dividend of 30 per cent for the current year. (Meeting and dividend payable March 30).
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    H.K. EXCHANGE
    33 10 HONG KONG. Mon. ijiREE marxet currency exchange for Hong Kong, dollars was quoted at the close today as follows: US$l HKS6.O6 (ensh), HKS6.IO <T); £1 HK515.60; one tael gold HKJ3O9.— U.P.
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    CANADIAN DOLLAR
    69 10 rpHE Malayan Exchange Banks Association announced at the week-end that control direct rates for Canadian dollars were: Buying T.T. 34 9/16. Airmail (OX».) 34 11/16, (90 days) 34 15/16; Selling. TT. O.D. ready 34 3/16. KAMRA Dredging in February produced 152 plculs of tin-ore I with treating 45
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    GAMES TEAM WILL BE FETED
    504 11 Dinner Dance On March 27 GRAND reception awaits the Singapore contingent to the First Asian Games at New Demi when they arrive back in the Colony on Saturday. At a meeting of the Singapore Olympic Sports Council at the V.M.C.A. yesterday, the committee decided to
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    50 11 FELL AT LAST HURDLE: Jockey D. Dillon was leading on National Spirit (right) i n the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham last week until the last fence when National Spirit fell (above). The race went to Hatton's Grace (left), with two French horses Pyrrhus 111 and Prince Hindou second and third.
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    Triple Crown For Drobny At Cairo
    175 11 Triple Crown For Drobny At Cairo CAIRO, Mon. 1AROSLAV Drobny, self-exil- ed Czech star, retained the men's singles title yesterday in the Egyptian lawn tennis championships here yesterday. In the final he beat Felicisimo Ampon, diminuiive Philippines Davis Cup player, 6—3. 6—4. 6—0. Miss Shirley Pry (United States) won the
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    Will PO Oper Dollar Fund?
    94 11 READER ASKS T entirely agree with Mr. Prank James's suggestion of a "Dollar Fund" to assist our athletes, who have won such honour in the Asian Games at New Delhi. My friends and I will gladly hand in our dollar donations at the Hong Kong
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    SETIA B.P. TO CELEBRATE
    112 11 Setia Badminton Party will celebrate its fourth anniversary at No. 6 Carpmael Road, Singapore, on Sunday at 4.30 p.m. M:s Nora Lim will distribute prizes to the champions and run-ners-up of the year's tournament. A group photograph will be taken and a Makan Keichil will be
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    Leach Wins World Table Tennis Title
    227 11 VIENNA, Monday. JOHNNY Leach, the English international, regain- ed the men's singles title in the world table tennis championships which ended in Vienna yesterday. In the final he beat Ivan And read is (Czechoslovakia), 16—21, 21—18, 21—18, 21—12. It was the second time that
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    Goalkeepers Best In 1-Goal Game
    261 11 D.E.M.E. defeated Singapore Recreation Club one-nil in a scrappy Singapore A.F.A. Senior League game at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. The only pleasing feature of the encounter was the good display of the goalkeepers who showed clever anticipation. S.R.C.'s Gammed deserves mention for a plucky display.
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    L.R.C. v RAJPUT
    49 11 The I.R.C. XI will play friendly soccer match against Indian Naval Squadron Rajput at Farrer Park tomorrow: I.R.C. team will be from: S. Paul. Mahalingam, K. R. Muthiah, Gani. Layman, Rashid, P. L. Thiagarajan. S. Duita. S. Krishnan, Salahudin A. Singh. Osman. Teddy. Kalimiithu, T. Nadarajah.
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    Marines Win After 3-1 Deficit
    216 11 Marines Win After 3-1 Deficit gXCITING footbaU played in a keen competitive spirit was seen in a Singapore A.F.A. Division 3A league fixture between the Marine Department and the R.N.A.S. Sembawang at the C.Y.M.A. ground, St. George'* Road, yesterday. The Marine Dept. won five-three alter being led two-nil before halftime.
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    4-Nil Victory For Muslims
    152 11 VTOUNO Men's Muslim Associa1 tion beat Catholic Young Men's Association four-nil in a S.A.F.A. division 3B league game at Geylang yesterday. The game was fast but lacked constructive efforts and the interval was reached with no score. In the 10th minute of the second half Samat
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    SIGNALS BEATEN
    36 11 In a Services League match, played at Singapore Dist. Signals ground. R.A.P. Tengah beat Singapore Dist. Signals Regt. by two goals to one. Morley and Woods scored for the winners and Oreen for Signals.
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      195 11 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 9.35 a.m. Schools; 9.55 Inter h'de; 10 Nev*; 10.10 Close; 10.45 Schools; 12 Malay; 1 p.m. Radio Orch.; 1.30 News; 1.45 Johnny long Orch 2 Schools; 2.50 Close; 5 Mnlay; 6.15 David Oranville Ensemble; 6.45 IXN. Programme7 News; 7.10 Interlude; 7.30 "Adventures of PC. 49; 8 'Music
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    11 PROBABLES FOR 'DERBY'
    616 12 Keen Tussle Certain For Last Berth IPOH, Monday. IN just over ten days' time we shall witness one oi x the greatest races for years when the best of Malaya's stayers will be lining up at Ipoh to compete for the richest prize in Malayan Turf
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    PERAK T.C. PRIZES TOTAL $324,000
    69 12 IPOH, Mon. DRIZE MONEY for the threeday Perak Turf Club Easter meeting will amount to $324,000. The plum of the meeting will of course be the 430,004 Perak Derby with a $3,000 gold trophy addedThe St. Patricks Stakes over lift straight will carry $15,000 in
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    Pk. Derby Horses Arrive
    197 12 IPOH, Mon. gUKIT TIMAH invaders spearheaded by Technicolor, J'avance, Toboggan, Happy Traveller— all "Derby" prospects Majestic Scholar and Cambridge have arrived at Ipoh. All took the long trip up pretty well and limbered up on the training track this morning. Technicolor looking a picture, was cantered
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    Sports Diary
    52 12 SOCCER: Div. 1: Tamil B. A. v S.C'C. at stadium; Div. 2: Rocklites v Katong Sajarah at BODCA; Div. 3B: .Tollilads v Customs at CYMA; Business Hse. Lge.: Malayan Breweries v Malaya Publishing Hse, at Breweries ground: Sime Darby v F. X on padang: Services Lge. RAF Changi
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    W. LEWIS TOPS LIST
    265 12 TyiORE often than not, the greater share of the prizes at the Penang race meeting fall to resident stables. However, local trainers failed to keep up the good average at the Spring meeting which ended on SatuMay. Federation and Singapore trainers came out slightly in front
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    1 CLASS FOR A MEETING?
    113 12 IPOH, Mon. rE very large entries at recent meetings are receiving the serious attention of Turf officials and already there is a suggestion that the 600 odd horses In training be reshuffled into four classes, and each meeting be confined to one class only. Perak
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    WEIGHTS FOR 14 RACES AT IPOH
    613 12 T^ollowing are weights for Saturday, first day of the Perak Turf Club Easter Meeting. St. Patrick Stakes Cl. 1— 5iF. Str. Cambridge 9.07 Miss Nathan 9.04 Richmond 9.04 In insured 9.04 Garuda 9.00 Good Gamble 9.00 Noble Lad 9.00 Technicolor 9.01P Kk-.ilrlli. 9.00 Cl.
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    Todd Joins Everton
    130 12 'M'EWS has bepn received that 23-year-old John Todd, wellknown Singapore soccer player from the Royal Engineers, has signed up with Everton, a First Division club in the English football league. In a letter to a friend, W.O. II Butler of the RE. (now playing for Rover Sports
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    FOUR O'CLOCK II CAME BATTLER
    306 12 Derby Spotlight 7 I T?OR the 1950 Singapore Gold Cup, the Straits y Times racing correspond- > ent, Epsom Jeep, compiled a unique series of Gold > Cup profiles and from his deductions Tie selected > Tara Street to win from Four O'clock II rating
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    GAMBAR MELAYU TO MISS IPOH
    45 12 IPOH, Mon. Gambar Melayu (late Casting Vote), the first Hyperia offspring to be imported to Malaya, will not fulfil his engagements at Ipoh. OtHer non arrivals are Kudat Hate Silvei Pool) Assize. Clynor, Charlemagne. Asia. Madasari. Berubah Nero, Warwick Castle
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    F.A. To Consider SAFA Invitation
    302 12 THE Football Association (England) will shortly consider an invitation from Singapore Amateur Football Association to play a game between the F.A. Australia/New Zealand touring side and a Singapore representative team in Singapore on the team's outward or return trip. This was stated yesterday by S.A.F.A.'s
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    S.M.E.A. Withdraw
    25 12 Singapore Mechanical Engineering Association have withdrawn from the Singapore Amateur Football Association Dlv. II league as they are unable to field a team.
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    G.N. FAVOURITE
    36 12 SURREY. Sun Course bookmakers made Mr. J. H. Whitney's Arctic Gold clear favourite for the Grand National at 7-1 after his victory In the Grand National trial chase over 3m, 180 yd. here yesterday
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    MCC Beat Otago By Innings
    168 12 MCC Beat Otago By Innings DUNEDIN, Mon. DISMISSING Otago v twice today for an aggregate of 220 runs on a rain-damaged pitch, the M.C.C. beat them by an innings and 161 runs with a day to spare. Denis Compton declared the MCC first innings closed this morning at the Saturdayscore
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    SCOREBOARD
    180 12 M.C.C. Ist Inns— 381 (for X dclil.t OTAGO IST. INNS. L. Watt Ibw b si.nl.am 2 G. Mills c b Wan 4 E. Watson c TattersaU b Warr 1 B. Sutrliffp c Simpson b Tattersall 41 W. Haig c Shrppard b Tattersall I L. Smith c Warr b Tatteramfl
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    CLUBS WANT PAY UP £2
    110 12 LONDON. Mon. Repnveui > !ve? of Football League Clubs. private conference bere today agreed to s-jpport Sunderland'.i proposal that players" wages should be increased to a maximum of £H a week. The present maximum is They also favoured an Increase of three pence on Btaluton
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