The Straits Times, 23 April 1951

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 i:k;ht pages SINGAPORE, MONDAY, APRIL IS, IMI PRICE TEN CENTS,
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  • 473 1 Others may go in row over the Budget LONDON, Sunday. ]^|R. Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Labour, and leader of the Left-wing group in the British Cabinet, has resigned. His decision was likely to start a Parliamentary crisis which could wreck the labour Government. It followed criticism,
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    31 1 ML. MELVIN A. CONANT. representative of the United States National Student As.soiii'ion. is now touring Snuth-East A-ia to iNM an international information service for students. Straits Times picture. Story P. 5.
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  • 286 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. r)XG Kong Nyen, the 'King' of Pulai, was shot dead by Communist bandits last night. Fifty-four-years-old Tong. the Penghulu of Pulai, and a member of Force 136 during the Japanese occupation, was awarded the British Empire Medal, which
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  • 122 1 BIG RED ATTACK AWAITED TOKYO, Sun. TTNITED Nations troops on the western front were tonight waiting for an expected major Communist counter-offensive. possibly within 24 hours. Patrols probing northward ran into strong resistance and reported that the Chinese forces were grouped in assault formation in a narrow but big build-up.
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  • 69 1 TEHERAN. Sun. Several pecple were injured today in a clash between a 50,000-stu-dent parade and sympathisers of the National Front and Fedayan Islam. The student* had gathered in the grounds of Albert High School to demonstrate in sympathy with the strikers in the southern oil
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  • 148 1 LONDON Sun. MR. Emmanuel Shinwell, British Minister of Defence, said today he believed the Soviet Union had 200 military divisions available, many of them ready to be deployed in the West. He said Pussia was producing aircraft at "a terrific rate". Of tha ParU. Xour-cowar deputies'
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  • 290 1 HOME, Sunday. npHE world's main producers and consumers of A rubber abandoned yesterday attempts to reach agreement on an equitable distribution of supplies and greater price stability. Government representatives from the producing and consuming countries, who have been in session in Rome since April 9,
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  • 78 1 CINCINNATI. Sun. SIR Giadwyn Jebb said yesterday he "should not want Co think about" what would happen to An-glo-American relations and the United Nations if Gen. Mac Arthur's foreign policy ideas prevail in the United States." The chief British delegate to the United Nations added: "I
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  • 43 1 CAIRO, Sun. A Ministerial Committee yesterday drafted what a responsible official termed Egypt's "take it or leave it" counter-pro-posals to Britain's recent note on Anglo-Egyptian relations. They represent the "minimum Egypt is prepared to accept," said a spokesman.— A.P.
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  • 26 1 'RESIST' SAYS RED BERLIN. Sun.— East German President Wilhelm Pieck called on West Germans last night to rally against rearmament and demand a peace treaty. A.P.
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  • 41 1 Nik. r. S. COLLIER. Forestry Advisor to the Colonial Office, who Arrived in Singapore yesterday by 8.0.A.C. Constellation to inspect Malayan forests. He waa met at Kalian* airport by Mr. C. Cams, Forest Officer. Singapore. Straits Times picture.
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  • 26 1 HONG KONG, Sun.—Tibetan negotiators have arrived in Peking for talks on the "liberation" of Tibet, the New China News Agency reported today. UP.
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  • 115 1 CAIRO, Sunday. BRITISH land patrols in Somaliland are on their 0 way to rescue four passengers of a plane which disappeared between Aden and Djibouti on March 19. The passengers are reported to be detained for ransom by tribesmen. This was stated last night by
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    100 1 ROYAL COUPLE ihe wvtKi :i of trip ->t ...i of Selangor daughter, Tnngku Bariah, and the Sultan of Trengganu's son, J ungku M-ihmud Yam Tuan Muda. ended yesterday when the couple in a half mile long precession drove through the streets of Kuala Lumpur. In an open coupe the bridal
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  • 133 1 China acts on foreign trade law HONG KONG, Sun. MR. Chou En-lal, Premier of the Chinese Government, has ordered promulgation of the Provisional Customs Act, which has been adopted by the Cabinet, to become effective on May 1. The Peoples Daily of Peking, official organ of the Chinese Communist Party,
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  • 31 1 LONDON. Sun.— The Conservatives retained Harrow West in a by-election Sir Albert Braithwaite received 22,826 votes to 8.877 for his Labour opponent, Mr. T. L. Uttlewood.— A.P
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  • 26 1 Armed Singapore police carried' out a two-hour screening operation early yesterday morning in the Bugis Street area. A number of people have been detained.
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  • 201 1 MASKED GANG GRAB $5,400 IN HOLDUP pOUR masked youths with pistols and knives, held up the occupants of a house in Upper Chinchew Street, Singapore, about 4 o'clock yesterday morning and got away with $5,400 in cash and jewellery. They herded the eleven occupants of the house, including women and
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  • 72 1 SAIGON. Sun. AN official French communique announced today that French and Vietnam forces started an "Important" operation near Haiphong. Vietminh forces lost 300 killed, and coo captured. The announcement said that French forces launched a surprise attack on Communist rebel troops and guerilla units which they
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  • 63 1 WASHINGTON, Sun. THE Defence Secretary, Mr. Marshall, said today that he felt the Russian people were losing their friendly feeling toward the Americans only because their minds were being poisoned. He said: "I have found the Russian people friendly. But they are never allowed by
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  • 50 1 RANGOON. Sun.— Men and women dived for cover behind luggage as rebels pumped bullets into a derailed train, 12 miles south of Maymyo. It was reported here today. The rebel* dynamited the train as it travelled down a 3,000-foot mountain to Mandalay. 42 miles away.— A.P.
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  • 86 1 NEW DELHI, Sun. Mr. Mahavir Tyagl. Indian Minis-, ter of State for Finance, today urged Indian nationals in Malaya to 'look up to Malaya as their homeland and to win the confidence and goodwill of the people." w Sp c akln at a rectption to Mr.
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  • 32 1 Two small lallang fires -j one in Tiong Bahru Road and the other in Garllck Avenue broke out Just after nooii yesterday. They were pui *ut within a few minutes.
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  • 70 2 MALAYAN TALKS TO PRINCESS MAJOR konaid Bridges, .Vtiiire Officer lor ihe Blind in Malaya (rljrht). Is preseni-d by Mr. H. BenneU, Home Industries Superintendent fur St. Dunstan's. to Princess Elizabeth at an exhibition for disabled ex- Servicemen in London. Major Bridges told Princess Elizabeth about his work in Malaya and
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  • 207 2 BUENOS AIRES, Sunday. A RGENTINE police said today they had arrested two spies alleged to have stolen secret documents on atomic energy on behalf of a foreign power. President Juan Peron announced on March 24 that his country had an atomic energy "pilot plant" in
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  • 45 2 LISBON. Sun. TENS of thousands lined the streets as President Carmona's funeral procession passed yesterday. The 82-year-old President of Portugal was buried In Jeronimos Abbey. All shops and restaurants were closed. There was a guard of honour of 10,000 servicemen.— A.P.
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  • 63 2 HONG KONG, Sun— Mai Rickmers, the first German vessel to call at Hong Kong since the outbreak of the second World War, left yesterday with more than 4,000 tons of German manufactured goods for North China. The cargo, which was loaded at Hamburg, was reported to
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  • 24 2 TOKYO, Sun.— Mr. John Foster Dulles, President Truman's special envoy, today conferred with Emperor Hiro. hito at the Imperial Palace. Reuter.
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  • 135 2 HONG KONG, Sun. WHEN the Chinese Com- munists took over Kwangtung province, Wu Cheng Pao-chiao, a woman long reputed to be a sharp-shooter with a pistol, strapped on two guns and took to the hills. She had had guerilla experience during the Japanese war
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  • 35 2 Twins— but one was 10 days late PERTH, Sun. \IRS. Ray Clarke of Lake if± Grace, a farming centre in eastern Australia, yesterday gave birth to a son born -10 days after his twin sister.
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  • 203 2 VOLGER FREED AFTER 14 MONTHS Hungary 'swaps spy for a crown with US BUDAPEST. Sun. 'PHE Hungarian Govern-*-ment is to release Mr. Robert A. Vogeler, an American businessman, sentenced 14 months ago to 15 years in prison on charges of espionage and sabotage. And in return, it was reported in
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  • 35 2 WASHINGTON, Sun. The American Society of Newspaper Editors yesterday condemned the Peron Government in Argentina, for .seizing the biR independent newspaper. La Prensa, of Buenos Aires, "and thereby ending Press freedom in Alrgrentlna."—A.P.
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  • 190 3 GROMYKO ON 'GENERALS WHO HAVE LOST THEIR SENSES' PARIS, Sunday. "ATTACKING U.S. policy yesterday Mr. Andrei Gromyko, Russia's deputy Foreign Minister, Raid one got a clear picture of U.S. opinion from statements by "generals who lost their senses, by generals who had only lost part of their senses, or generals
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  • 235 3 LONDON. Sun. IT is feared in Britain that Gen. Mac Arthurs Washin';.on speech will set oft a anti-British campaign in the United States. Mac Arthur was being critir>v'd in Parliament and the long before President Truman dismissed him. Now that he has had hU Bay
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  • 63 3 MOSCOW. Sun. DRAVDA today reported the 1 embezzlement of Government funds from the office of a refrigerator repair factory in Kemerovo, Siberia. The newspaper said that 280,000 roubles "melted away to nothing" but later were found in possession of certain refrigerator men. Pravda said that one
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  • 26 3 WASHINGTON, Sun. Senator Taft said last night that the policy of the Truman administration in Korea was "an encouragement to aggression, not a deterrent." A.P.
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  • 217 3 NEW ORLEANS, Sunday. TWIRTY-eight seamen are missing, presumably A dead, in the collision of two oil tankers in the Gulf of Mexico, about 300 miles southwest of New Orleans. i The collision, explosion and fire— ln a pre-dawn fog—yesterday wiped out most of the
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  • 74 3 BELGRADE. Sun.— About 500 sealed tin boxes containing anti-Yugosdav propaganda have been Ashed out of rivers flowing into Yugoslavia from Bulgaria, the Yugoslav news agency Tan jug announced today. The Bulgarian authorities destroyed a mill dam on the river Nisava. near the border, to ensure the
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  • 18 3 SAlGON£un.— lndia and Ceylon have begun talks with the Vietnam State Government to buy rice.Reuter.
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  • 678 3 CINGAPORES first "Fair Price List" of staple branded goods was issued by Government yesterday. The prices are not controlled, but "are meant aa a guix to the public." "There is no guarantee that any particular shop will have supplies." says an accompanying statement. "But the
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  • 76 3 KARACHI, Sun. ASGHAN Ashfaq, employee of a leading Karachi firm, has been arrested and accused of sending: falsely signed telegrams to the Pakistan Prime Minister. Mr. I.iaquat Ali Khan. The Premier has received over 24 falsely signed telegrams in the last two months demanding that the
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    37 3 Russian-built tank in Sine* pore pictured at the dockyard yesterday. Called the T-34, it was capture H in Korea. It is in good condition and is being sent to Sritain for examination. Straits Times picture.
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  • 150 3 2 ISRAELIS KILLED IN JORDAN AMMAN. Sun. JORDAN national guards and Arab Legion troops killed two Israelis of a platoon of 15 which crossed the armistice line yesterday towards the scene of a frontier skirmish on Friday, Jordan official sources said yesterday. In Friday's incident, an Arab Legion patrol drove
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    57 3 MR. L: >l.i;: Gamage. vice-chairman and joint managing director of the General Electric Company, and Mrs. damage, who arrived in Singapore yesterday by Q.E.A.8.0.A.C. Constellation from Sydney. During his stay here of five days. Mr. Gamage will meet executives of the Singapore branch. They will also call on the Governor
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  • 388 3 British 27th 'sorry to leave pals in Korea WITH THE BRITISH 27TH BRIGADE IN KOREA, Sun. BRITISH troops brought to a close a Korean chapter in the history of this brigade today when they began preparations for their relief and movement to Hong Kong in an apple orchard. Nearly nine
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  • 68 3 The 15,000-ton Chines* tanker Yunghao, which was reported to have left Hong Kong under tow for Singapore last Sunday, has not yet arrived. Yesterday, neither Singapore port's signal station at Mount Faber nor the naval authorities could tell where the ship is now. But there Is
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  • 56 3 TOKYO. Sun.— The Chinese Communists in a radio statement, today said the United States' proposed peace treaty with Japan was aimed at rearming Japan and preparing for a new aggressive war. The treaty could be interpreted only as indicating "a sinister American desire to
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  • 29 3 PARIS, Sun. Doctors on the tiny island of He cTYeu in the Atlantic today said the state of Marshal Petain was becoming "more and more precarious." Reuter.
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  • 788 4 ©IP Straits Simrs Singapore, Mon., Apr. 23, 1951. Dato Tan's Doubts Dato Tan Cheng Lock, in his speech at the meeting of the Malayan Chinese Association in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, spoke of "the Malayan State". If we are not mistaken, this was the first time that this pregnant expression
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  • 327 4 Attempts to reach agreement on an allocatory system for rubber have been abandoned, and Malayan producers will receive the news with relief, although the long run may show that this failure to agree is unfortunate. It is certainly unfortunate already for the Malayan Governments and the
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    6 4 HERE WE CO ROUND THE AGENDA
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  • 338 4 Assurance to Naning Malays WITH reference to "Naning Mourner's letter of Apr. 7, headed "Sheep without a Shepherd," I should like to say that in my statement of Apr. 1 made no suggestion of reforming the Adat Perpateh. My intention in holding a meeting is just to get the Naning
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  • 230 4 T AM completely in consonance with the views expressed by "Taxpayer" in his letter to the Straits Times of April 18, headed "The Cost of a Singapore Councillor." The present allowance of $500 for an honorary Job of a few hours' or a few days'
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    • 114 4 T REGARD with envy the art exhibition which Is now open to the public in Singapore. Some people have called Singapore a cultural desert. If It is one, then the Federation must be a worse desert at least as far as Malacca is concerned. While
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    • 135 4 rwas really shocking to see Mr. John Laycock. a Legislative Councillor for the last three years now re-elected as such in the Katong District reported, by you as saying, in a speech to the University of Malaya Historical Society, that the salary of the Com-missioner-General
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    • 68 4 Civil Service Union requests to the Army authorities for fortnightly payment of wages have been turned down. I think it would be In the interests of the Army to grant this request to its employees; 99 per cent of them are in favour of being paid
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    • 160 4 IN the Straits Times of Apr. 16 you quote Mr. H. Nutcombe Hume, a director of the Colonial Development Corporation, as stating that the loss on the Gambia Egg Scheme "will be less than one per cent" (of capital invested?). As the loss has
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    • 96 4 WHY does Singapore not use automatic traffic signals? There are numerous crossings provided with signals and no manpower to operate them. The money spent in converting these signals would soon be recovered by a saving of manpower congestion at many vital points in the city would
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    • 83 4 AN Friday, April 13, it was impossible to hear the news at 7 p.m. This happened on another day during the week. Occasionally the announcer's voice could be heard through what sounded like the cacophony of a mixture of a Chinese and Indian drama with funeral
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    • 90 4 FRIDAY, 7.05 p.m. I've given it up. for the hundredth time, in absolute disgust I mean listening in to the news "broadcast." I have never heard such an infernal noise In my life. I just couldn't get a word of it cat calls, whistles (several), bells ancU what
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  • 438 4 On the Margin Pulan Baweaii r ['HE Boyanese have long been one of the wellknown Indonesian immigrant races in Malaya. Therefore it will be interesting as well rs instructive to go back to points raised by my recent note on the Boyanese crews who man Hammer's waterboats in Singapore harbour
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  • 265 5 LANDLORDS HAIL MOVE TO RAISE RENTS Close scrutiny of bill in Council GINGAPORE landlords welcome che proposed amendments to the Rent Ordinance, permitting small increases in certain cases, and giving landlords the right to eject tenants whose income from sub-letting is more than 75 per cent, of the controlled rent.
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  • 223 5 KEDAH MAN WINS LOTTERY rIE $250,000 first prize drawn at the Malayan Chinese Association's second $1,000,000 lottery, which took place at the Chinese Assembly Hall, Ipoh, yesterday before a large gathering of all communities was won by an Alor S:ar ticket holder. Singapore, which sold the record number of tickets
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  • 63 5 I rom Our Staff Correspondent. PENANO. Sun.— Settlement councillor and Municipal Commissioner, Mr. N. Ponnudurai, has been nominated Penang Settlement representative on the Federal Legisla Council. He will take the seat of Dr. L°e Tiang Keng, the Federation's first Member for Health. Mr. Ponnudurai will attend
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  • 21 5 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. T?o Weng Seng was at Johore Bahru fined £20 for inconsiderate driving.
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  • 19 5 The body of an unknown Chinese was found yesterday morning by police in Albert vet, Singapore.
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  • 50 5 Mrs. Vibsini Menon, Singapore's first elected woman Legislative Councillor, at her post-election meeting in Seletar yesterday appealed to some 3.000 people to register as voters to exercise their power in the selection of their future representatives. Speeches were delivered in English, Tamil, Malayalam, Chinese and Malay.
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  • 24 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Tin production in the Federation last month was 107,890 piculs, equal to 6,422 long tO!!S.
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  • 168 5 From Oar Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. 18 months' negotiation with Government, representatives of the Federation of Rural Co-operative Societies. Perils, yesterday signed an agreement setting up a rice mill society to be called the Perlis Milline Society. Th* new society will take over all
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  • 75 5 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, SunMr. John M. Eccles and Mr. J. Bennett, of the Washington State Department, who are making a tour of the Federation, visited Johore Bahru today and spent an hour at UMNO Headquarters. They discussed the language and culture of
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  • 310 5 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Sunday. A RESOLUTION asking the Federation Govern- ment to set up a unified education service similar to that suggested by the Public Services Commission for Singapore was one of many passed at an eight-hour conference of delegates of teachers unions,
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  • 43 5 Information officers of al! branches of the United Malays National Organisation will meet at the Perak Secretariat In Ipoh on May 20 to exchange views and information and plan out a new publicity campaign. UMNO headquarters !n Johore Bahru announced yesterday
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  • 29 5 MR. AND MRS. Tay Swee Lenc. of Upper Ser&nr«on district, Singapore, with their children and a dau&hter-in-Uw (second from right) at their silver »> wedding celebration
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  • 231 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. T»HIRTY-one Malay rural co-operative societies in Selangor banded together yesterday to form a co-operative banking union. They decided at a meeting in Kuala Lumpur to raise an initial capital of $20,000 to $30,000 by selling $100 shares
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  • 77 5 A RADIUM needle worth jX $1,030 fell down a sink at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, Singapore, and was lost in the main sewer. The story is told in the report on the Audit of Accounts for 1948 issued by Government yesterday. The report says it was
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  • 94 5 5 UNIONS URGED TO UNITE B/fR M. A Kariir fnnndp Itl and legal adviser of the 400-strong Pakistani Seamen's Union, yesterday appealed to other seamen's unions in Singapore, to form a federation. He s ald that two out of five seamen's unions had already promised support. Mr. Kadir said: "Only
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  • 63 5 People living in the Kirn Keat Road area will meet on April 28 at the McNair Road School Hall, Singapore, to discuss the establishment of a community centre. Mr. G.G. Thomson, Public Relations Secretary, Mr. C.L. De'Souza, of the Social Welfare Department, and Mr. V.K.
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  • 63 5 From "ur Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Sun— A full Court of Appeal of the Federation will meet in Johore Bahru tomorrow. Members of the Cour. are MrJustice Bland Button (Chief Justice, Federation). Mr. Justice Bmwn (Acting Chief Justice, Singapore) and Mr. Justice Taylor. Mr. A. 8. Samuel, Senior
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  • 45 5 The Singapore branch of the Royal Air Force Association will hold its fifth annual dinner and dance at Raffles Hotel on Friday. The C-in-C F.E.A.F., Air Marshal Sir Francis Fogarty, and the AOC Malaya, Air Vice-Mar-sal R. S. Blucke, will be guests.
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  • 120 5 A REPRESENTATIVE of the United States National Student Association, Mr. Melvin A. Conant, will begin discussions with the University of Malaya student group today for setting up an international students information service. j Mr. Conant. who has received a favourable response for the project
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    86 5 AN eight-man police mobile squad of six lieutenants and two sergeants (see picture) is to start a vigorous traffic check in Singapore's streets. Tne mobile squad is the second of its kind, the first having been disbanded temporarily last year. The squad, now completing: an intensive training course
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  • 94 5 ONE hundred dollars in bail money was missed from Beach Road police station Singapore during 1948. This is revealed In the report on the Audit of Accounts of Singapore for 1913 published yesterday. The loss is included In items written off. Other losses of
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  • 61 5 Lee Ah Chong, aged 21, of York Hill Road, Singapore, has been sent for trial at the next Assizes charged with unauthorised possession of a revolver and seven rounds of ammunition. The revolver was alleged to have been found in the dashboard of a taxi in
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  • 38 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun.— Lim Ec Meng, a secondhand dealer, of Kulai, was fined $20 at Johore Bahru for being in possession of telephone wire and failing to satisfy the court how he came to have it.
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  • 98 5 SINGAPORE ART SOCIETY, exhibition of the works of local artists, British Council Hall, Stamford Road, 9 a.m. to 5-30 p.m. T.W.C.A., Raffles Quay, French conversational class, 10 ajn., cooking (Beef Bteak), 5 p.m. ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION, first-aid class, Brigade HQ.. Stamford Road, 5 p.m. CHINESE V M.C.A.
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  • 275 5 i From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. SEVERAL Malayan boys and girls are to be trained as youth leaders. They will be "groomed" by the Malayan Youth Council and the course will begin in August. Welfare experts and people experienced in youth
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  • 65 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun Four fresh bandit graves discovered today pointed to the success of a patrol of the First Malay Regiment who battled a gang of terrorists in the Jelebu district of Negri Sembilan on April 9. There were also Indications that
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  • 86 5 Centre to run adult 'school' fftfJE Henderson Estate Com1 munity Centre of Singapore is planning adult education classes. Enrolment has started and the classes will be opened as soon as there are premises The question of premises, it is understood, is being considered by the trustees of the Singapore Improvement
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  • 79 5 rpHE University of Malaya X authorities have taken measures to see that rioters are dispersed and ejected if thej should trespass Into University grounds. A notice signed by Prof. C. N. Parkinson, Raffles Professor of History, who is also in charge of Special Constables recruited from students
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  • 437 6 BUKIT KEPONG DUKIT Kepong Rubber Estates Ltd., whose Bulcit Kepong division was sold for $180,000 as at Sept. 1. 1950, shows a profit of $48,780 (17.4 per cent) for th« eight months tapping. Net liquid assets in balance sheet at Dec. 31. 1950, $181,038, are equivalent to 64.7
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  • 529 6 T»HE Singapore Share Market opened the week quietly and with little business passing, prices were generally easier. Although there was no great weight of selling, rubber shares declined hi sympathy with the commodity price and closed barely steady. Tins improved slightly on Thursday and
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  • 62 6 SINGAPORE Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association noon prices on Saturday were in cents per lb: Bayer Seller NO. 1 R.S.S Spot loose igiii IM y PO.B. In bales May: No. 1 R.S.S. ***** 189«4 No. 2 R.S.S. 182 184 No. 3 R.SS. 178 180 RMA 1 on reg.
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  • 77 6 ►yHE US. Government plans to increase synthetic rubber production by 100,000 tons a year with its present plant facilities, and has formula If d plans for building additional plants, according to the New York Journal of Commerce. In testimony before the Senate Small Business Rubber Subcommittee. Mr.
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  • 51 6 OVERSEAS TIN RUBBER LONDON, April 20. Spot 56', d., May 55'4d., June 65d.. July-Sept. 53iid., Oct.-Dec. 51d., Apr. c.i.f. 55d. nom., Apr.-May c.i.f. 54>;d May-June eiJ. 53^d. Market: Quietly steady. LONDON. April 20. Cash Buyers £1,170. Sellers £1,175; Forward Buyers £1,140. Sellers £1.150; Settlement £1,165 (unchanged). Turnover: a.m. 40 p.m.
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  • 353 6 BUSINESS done In the Singapore share market last week included: Industrials. Fraser Neave Ltd. Ords $3.55 to $3.47^4, Gammon $3.10 to $3.25, Hongkong Bank (Col) $740 and $738, Malayan Breweries $5.70 and $5.75, Malayan Collieries $1.77 <* to $1.80, Malayan Cement 2 cents and 2'i cents premium, McAllster
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    • 403 6 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS To New York and Boston v ia Ceylon, India, Egypt and Mediterranean Ports. Sngapoie P. bwettenham Henant PRES. ARTHUR' Cdns 23/24 Sals 26 Apr. 27/28 Apr. 29/30 Apr. PRES. BUCHANAN" 1/7 May 8/9 May 10/12 May "PRFS. HARDINC" 18/24 May 25/26 May 27/28 May "PRES. VAN BUREN"
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  • 329 7 Motherwell could not take chances HAMPDEN PARK, Sunday. CELTIC won the Scottish Soccer Cup for the 16th time yesterday by beating Motherwell by one goal to nil here. An all-ticket crowd of 134,000 saw John McPhail, the Celtic centre-forward, score the winning goal after 12 minutes play. Motherwell, who
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  • 236 7 WEMBLEY, Sun. PEGASUS, the combined Ox- ford and Cambridge University team, won the English Football Association amateur Cup by beating Bishop Auckland, from County Durham, two-one tn the fina" here yesterday. The varsity men, in the third year of the team's existence and novices
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  • 80 7 CINGAPORE Cricket Club "A" defeated Colonial.- C.C. by two wickets at cricket on the S.C..C. padang yesterday. Highlight of the game was fine batting by Colonials' W. Ratnayake who scored 74 runs, including eight boundaries. Colonials batted first and scored 132 runs <W. Ratnayake 74.
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  • 25 7 Straits Times Press scored a hree-one victory over Dunlop S.C. n a Business Houses "B" Division league soccer game at Geylang stadium yesterday.
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  • 79 7 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 10 a.m. News from K.L.; 10.10 Close. 1 p.m. "Monday Matinee"; 1.30 News; 1.45 "Home on the Range"; 2 Close; 6.15 "Radio Dance Hall"; 6.40 "Adventures in Music"; 7 News; 7.12 "Shakespeare's Plays," by Alec Guinness; 7.30 "Spot the Favourites"; 8 •World Affairs" (Allington Kennardi; 8.15 "At
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  • 26 7 In a friendly soccer game played on the Railway ground yesterday. Jollilads A.U. defeated Gordon Highlanders two-nil. Scorers for Jollilads were Sapee and Salahudin.
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  • 329 7 1I7FIGHTS for all seven rates on Wednesday April 25, second day of the Selancor Turf Club April meeting are: Cl. X, Div. I— Abt. sy 2 F. L'Apache 9.00 Life Buoy 8.12 Autumn Balloon 8.11 Billdaw 8.11 Lord Dhoti 8.10 Rimfire 8.09 La
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    56 7 THF HIGH Commissioner. Sir Henry Gurney (left) and the Bishop of Singapore, the Kt. Rev. H. W. Baines. watch the cricket match between N. J. A. Foster's XI and the Police Depot at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. Both Sir Henry and the Bishop played for Foster's XI. who won by
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  • 496 7 SATURDAYS RACING REVIEWED Sweet Maisie ends run of bad luck From EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. AFTER a string of defeats, Sweet Maisie finally snapped the chain of bad luck when she scored a clever 2.J-length victory in a four-horse affair at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, first day of the
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  • 70 7 PALERMO (Sicily), Sun: Jaroslav Drobny of Egypt, won the men's singles tennis championship here yesterday defeating Dick Savltt of the U.S. 6-4, 2-6, 6-1. 2-f 6-3. In the women's doubles, Doris Hart and Shirley Try of the U.S beat France's Nelly Adamson and Anne Marie Seghers 6-3, 6-2.
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  • 1057 7 LONDON, Sun. UK. Soccer League standings after yesterday's matches are: FIRST DIVISION Goals P W D L P A pts Tottenham 40 23 10 ***** 56 Manchester U4O 23 7 10 67 39 53 Blackpool 40 20 9 11 78 51 49 Mi '.'brough 40 18
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    • 372 7 ■Mwlvan Til J4 00 m*B*. n a.m., V M!!£JHpCS9M PLUS! 1.45 ■^J^MJL^^^^J n *'V Ie "A Citizen 6.45 |i *i Yfft'fJJtjk 9.30 p.m. inUUtCr'M I°' sin XK a P° re OPENS TOMORROW GREAT IN STORY! BIG IN STARS!! t m mi Imm -inter < MARI.tS K. FEI.DMAN prrtmf MYRNALOY- ROBERT
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    • 219 7 LAST DAY: 11 a.m. 1.45, 4.00. 6.30 9.30 p.m. >\ Howard Harries I is Vendetta m V***™* TOMORROW The Mightiest Story EVER TOLD!... The Story of iastt%? Buccaneers PAUL HENREID _==ON STAGE April 25th and 26th (At the 9.30 Performance only). Display of Fencing by the Singapore Fencing Club. Warner
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  • 523 8 BRILLIANT STAND BY WOODS MURRAY S. C. C. get on top after losing 5/30 By Oar Cricket Reporter A SPLENDID partnership of 10© tuns by B. W. Wood (SI) and R A Murray (S3), made In just over an hour after five wickets had fallen for 30 runs, enabled Singapore
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    46 8 The Elswk-k chall nee traphy donated br the Elswiek Cycle Company Ltd.. of Baxton-on-Humber. London for the All-Malaya .">•- miles cycle road race. The trophy was recently presented to the Perak Cycling Association by Mr. Teo Seomc Moh. d rector of Gain Hoe Company, the local agents.
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  • 120 8 p H.Q. Farelf lost a valuable T point In a United-Service* Football League game played at TangUn yesterday when they drew three-all wlrh RAJ. Changl. McLaughlan. R.A.F. centreforward, ni in good form. He opened the scoring in the 10th minute with a JO-yard drive and
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  • 921 8 SRC V SCC T S_ C.C. best SJt.C. hi M rui first innings at S.R.C. SJt.C. Q Clarke c Rees b Murray J. Ga'.Utan c So«W n b Smith 18 E. Le Meroier b Smith 13 J ilarteai b Ward 2 R da Si'.va b Ward R Perry
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  • 39 8 TODAY: Dlv. 1: 8.0.D.C.A. v Chinese Casuals at stadiam; Div. SB: R.N. Kranji v Customs at C.V.M.A.; Business Hse. Lge. B: Spore Cold Storage v Guthries at Geylang. TABLE-TENNIS: S.T.TJL Javenile singles at Great World from 4.34.
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  • 25 8 TODAY: 11.53 am (8.8), 11.36 pm Oft.); 5.25 am (04), 5.40 pm (2.4). TOMORROW: 1347 pm (8.5); 5.04 am (04), 6.13 pm (2.9).
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  • 300 8 A careful, chanceles. 117 by <*pt. Reynolds for Army in thsir two-day game Of cricket against Koyal Navy was one of the feature* of a bright and Interesting game •,-hlch ended in a draw at Naval S^T\Jh2«^?o» Base yesterday. Army replied with 310 runs for nine
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    17 8 Arshad leaps in the air to make a spectacular save in yesterday's stadium soccer. Straits Times picture.
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  • 520 8 Army Sinhalese win by innings JUNIOR CRICKET TOURNAMENT 4 RMY II (Section A) and Sinhalese (Section B) were the only two teams in the junior cricket tournament to win outright yesterday. Army beat Khalsa Association by an innings and 130 runs and Sinhalese beat R.E.M.E. (Civ.) by an innings i
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  • 116 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. THE Committee of the SeUngor Turf Club has amended the sehedale of racing for the second day of the current race meeting, on Wednesday, April 25 and on the last day, Saturday, April t*. The Committee decided to hold seven races on the second
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  • 95 8 From Our Staff Correspeodeat. PENANG. Sun. A EUROPEAN woman was slightly injured when spectators threw stones and chairs at the Hungarian wrestler King Kong at the Penang New World Stadium last night. Police later arrested two boys. King Kong battered Charlie Gamage into defeat after four
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  • 90 8 MRS. O. C. Weeks won the women's championship of the Island Club yesterday, beating Mrs. G. T. Moffett three and one. Mrs. Weeks and Mrs. Moffett were all square at the turn. Mrs. Weeks was one up at the 11th but lost the 12 and
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  • 38 8 The Singapore Royal Engineers yesterday beat R.E.M.E. by three goals to nil at Quintan Barracks In a replay of the semi-final of the Parker Cup. Carroll and King-Harmes (1), scored far the Sappers.
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  • 501 8 lovers 2; Kota Raja 1. A SLASHING poal by Inglis after a food run and pass by Chia Boon Leong fare Rovers Sports lub victory by tw« foals to one ever last year's hampions Kota Raja in an important Singapore
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  • 419 8 T ATEST Singapore Amateur Football Association league tables are: DIVISION 1 P W D L r A pU P. Branl I 7 1 JO 3 14 Rovers 3.0. 1 4 3 1 11 ft 10 BO DC A. t 4 I 2 11 10 10 Kota Raja
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    • 392 8 CLASSIFIED ADS. (Continued from previous Col.) VEHICLES FOR SALE ROVER 75 Orst registered Feb. '51, as new. owner leaving Colony Immediate delivery. Telepbocu ***** Ext. 572. AUSTIN A40, Black. 1950. below 10.000 miles. European ownerdriven, highest offer secures. Telephone 7748 office hours ***** residence. FOR SALE VauxhaU 12 registered 1*48.
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