The Straits Times, 27 April 1951

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1951. PRICE TEN CENTS,
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    522 1 MPs told plan for Malaya is 'impractical' LONDON, Thursday. ]y|R. Tom Cook, Colonial Under-Secretary, said today a health insurance scheme for Singapore and the Federation was impracticable at present but health and medical services were being improved and extended. He was replying in the House of Commons to Mr. Stanley
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    CHOY FIGHTS FOR THE CHILDREN
    253 1 SINGAPORE'S 13,000 children of school age— hit by Government's decision to curtail the Education Department's building programme may stil! go to school if the Colony's woman Legislative Councillor, Mrs. Elizabeth Choy, gets her way. Mrs. Choy will ask Governnvnt whether every available bit of accommodation
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    SON FOR BISHOP OF SINGAPORE
    48 1 Mrs. Baines. the wife of the Anglican Bishop of Singapore, the Right Rev. H. W. Baines. gave birth to a son In the Kandang Kerbau Hospital yesterday. Bishop and Mrs. Baines have another son. Andrew, who was born hi England four years ago.
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    Stokes will handle raw materials
    39 1 Stokes will handle raw materials LONDON. Thurs. \I\R- Richard Stokes has been appointed Lord Privy Seal and wUI be responsible for a new department dealing toith the supply of raw materials, it was officially announced in London tonight.— Reuter.
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    Price of a bicycle— and the difference
    111 1 Price of a bicycle and the difference FrQm Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. T*HE Financial Secretary, Mr. W. D. Godsall, yes- terdav told the Federal Legislative Council the prices, C.I.F. and retail, of bicycles sold in Kuala Lumpur. One bicycle cost C.I.F. $72 and was sold for $120. Another
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    SIAM PILGRIMS
    30 1 BANGKOK. Thurs. Two shiploads of pilgrims are scheduled to leave Siam on an annual pilgrimage to Mecca. The pilgrims comprise mostly Inhabitants of four South Siam Malayspeaking provinces.
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    Papers up to 15 cents
    142 1 Papers up to 1 5 cents THE daily and Sunday news- paper publications of The Straits Times Press Ltd.: r The Straits Times The Sunday Times The Singapore Free Press will be sold at a retail price, of 1 5 cents from Ist May 1951. This is in accordance with
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    I-CARD RAID ON HOSPITAL
    77 1 OIK marked Chinese, one be- lieved to be armed, raided two wards at Tan Tock Seng Hospital at about 11 p.m. last night No one saw them enter the Hospital and they carried through the raid undisturbed. They took over 60 cards from patients in bed.
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    Fed. telecoms chief named
    76 1 Mr. R. Gibson, Director of Telecommunications Singapore, has been appointed Director-General of Telecommunications, Federation of Malaya and Singapore, it was officially announced last night. Other appointments are: 3r. R. Calderwood, Health Officer, to act as Chief Health Officer, Singapore; Mr. W. G. Wormal, M.C.S. to act
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    RED RUBBER
    31 1 LONDON. Thurs. Malaya exported 40,400 tons of rubber to Russia and 120,000 tons to China between July 1950 and March 1951, the House of Commons was told yesterday. Reuter.
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    SIAM GETS MORE U.S. ARMS
    97 1 From Our Own Correspondent. BANGKOK, Ti urs. A SECOND consignment of arms equipment for the Siamese armed forces has reached Bangkok by the United States warship Panaman and is being unloaded at the Chang. The U.S. aircraft carrier Cape Esperance last week brought a larger
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    RECEIVED BY POPE
    38 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Thurs.— Now in Rome as advisers to the British delegation at the rubber conference, Mr. H. H. Facer and Tuan Sheikh Ahmad have been received in audience by the Pope.
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    MALAY SEAMEN TRICKED
    184 1 MALAY SEAMEN TRICKED TACOMA, Washington, Thurs. A STORY of "shanghaied" Malay and Indian seamen being turned to "green fields and harsh treatment" in California Is told by an officer aboard a ship unloading tea here. First officer Roger Fielding p f th» Silverplane of the Java Pacific Line, said his
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    C.G. FOR HANOI
    52 1 SAIGON, Thurs. The Commissioner General for South East Asia. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald is due to arrive in Hanoi on Sunday to confer with, the French Commander-in-Chief for the Far East, General De Lattre de Tassigny. on common problems in campaigns against Communist infiltration in Indo-China and
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    London okays new airport plans
    158 1 pLANS for Singapore's new $20,000,000 airport at 1 Paya Lebar have been approved by the Colonial Office in London, the Director of CiviUAviation, Mr A. W Savage, said yesterday on his arrival by air from London. Mr. Savage, who made the trip to London specially
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    THREE-HOUR TRIAL: 198 EXECUTED
    55 1 HONG KONG. Thurs. THE pro-Communist Wen 1 Wei Pao said here last night that 198 people were executed in Canton after a "pur^e trial" yesterday. The paper said the trial lasted three hours in front of the Sun Vat Sen Memorial Hall. The proceedings were broadcast
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    53 1 I.ANR-iKACK undercarriage of this Piper Cub plane takes ditches and stone heaps in its stride and is claimed to be the answer to the pilots' prayers. Designed by Count Giovanni Bonmartini, Italian motorcycle and enginp designer, the track can be adapted to any size of plane and fitted to retractable
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    Estate manager consorted charge
    126 1 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Thursday. A 41-YEAR-OLD European estate manager and racing motor-cyclist, Jeffrey Watts-Carter, appeared in the Tapah Magistrate's Court today, on seven charges under the Emergency Regulations and was remanded in custody until May 3. Three charges were of consorting with bandits, three
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    WESTERLING —A DENIAL
    55 1 JAKARTA, Thurs. Indonesian police officials today denied that "Turko" Westerling is back in Indonesia. They said the police were ready for Westerling if he shows up," but no special alert orders have been given recently. The Netherlands High Commissioner's office also strongly discounted the rumour that Westerling
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    PROF. OLIPHANT
    10 1 SYDNEY, Thurs.—Professor Marcus Oliphant Australian atom scientiat underwent
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    300,000 TO VOTE ON STRIKE
    40 1 BOMBAY. Thurs.— lndia's 300,000 railwaymen today decided to have a strike ballot next month in protest against the Railway Ministry's "adamant attitude" towards their pay claims. They waat increased wages and cost of living allowance.
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    'Leave' Brigade turned to fight
    261 1 'Leave' Brigade turned to fight KOREA. Thurs. •VHE British Common- wealth 27th Brigade, whose battalions were preparing to sail fcr Hong Kong when th 3 Chinese launched their Spring offensm, returned to. the line and stopped the Communists central breakthrough drive. Commonwealth infantrymen fighting their last battle under the flag
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    M.P. ARRESTED
    34 1 CAPETOWN, Thurs. Mr. H. G. Luttig, a Scuth African Nationalist Member of Parliament, has been arrested on charge of falsitps, a form of fraud, the Speaker told the South African Assembly today.—Reuter.
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    Mecca pilgrims marooned, 22 die
    206 2 Cable Flashes rtISCOVERY of 22 bodies and four people dying on an isolated Red Sea island has led to the uncovering of an illegal organisation in Eritrea which, instead of taking pilgrims to Arabia, marooned them on the island and left them to die. The
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    BIG GOLD HAUL ON H.K. SHIP
    109 2 HONG KONG, Thurs. pOLICE searching the 8,986-ton British ship Glenartney for drugs," have seized gold worth HK$ 1,650,000 (about -£103,000), some on the passengers and some hidden. Today's find. £36,000 worth, was near the propeller shaft. Nobody claimed It and no one was arrested.
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    Newsman vanishes
    22 2 PRAGUE, Thurs.— America yesterday reported the disappearance of Mr. William Oatis, Prague correspondent of the Associated Press of America.— tieuter
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    'BRITAIN HAS BEST RIFLE IN WORLD'
    95 2 LONDON. Thurs. J^ new light automatic rifle for British troops has more than twice the rate of fire of the present one. the Defence Minister, Mr. Emanuel Shhiwell. announced yesterday. He claimed that it was the best in the world. It had a .280
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      1242 2 NOTICES 1 AIR MINISTRY r METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE Vacancies exist for three Meteorological Observers In the Air Ministry Meteorological Service on Singapore Island. Applicants for these posts must be Malaya born and edu- cated, less than 21 years old and must hold Senior Cambridge or Malaya School Certificate. Appointment will be
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      661 2 NOTICES NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Lhat Koh Thiam Neo, wife of Tan Boon Pheng of No. 105, Koon Sent Road. Singapore, has on the 2a day of April 1951 left the care and protection of her husband of j" her own accord and as from that date the said
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    'ALL FREE NATIONS' OPPOSE MacARTHUR
    190 3 Senate warned of Allied stand WASHINGTON, Thursday. gKNATOR William Fulbright (Democrat, Arkansas) declared today that if General Mai-Arthur's policy were adopted the United States might have to carry it out without her allies. In a speech prepared for the Senate, Senator Fulbright said: "Every Government
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    'If possible'
    30 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs. Truman said today that it was still the policy of the United States and the United Nations to limit the war in Korea "if possible." Reuter.
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    ATTLEE LEAVES HOSPITAL
    162 3 ATTLEE LEAVES HOSPITAL LONDON, Thurs. MR. Attlee the Prime Minister after spending five of the most eventful weeks ol his career in hospital left St. Mary's Hospital. London, today for his country house at Chequers, Buckinghamshire. The 68-year-old Premier had made a good recovery from a duodenal «leer and was
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    ARMED HUNT FOR SHEEP RUSTLERS
    56 3 MELBOURNE, Thurs. Police are investigating the rustling of more than 1,100 sheep, valued at almost £10.000. in Victoria at Yaload Vale, 50 miles from Melbourne. Armed station band* are co-operating with eiaziers and police to track down a gang, which is believed to load sheep
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    He's spared—mother hears the news
    151 3 He's spared mother hears the news MOTHERWELL, Scotland, Thursday. \f RS. John Stewart, mother of 26-year-old BomiTl bardier John Stewart who is not to die after all for the murder •of a young Chinese waitress at Tampin, Malacca, said today: "I am so glad to know my son has been
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    49 3 NA'i LL i. .c^vijTS, ihe nr :«1 G.iiOO to be recalled' ln Britete, carry their kt at Portsmouth. One has his £5 bounty between his teeth. Right: Sailors remove the 'mothball covers' from H.M.S. Widemouth Bay, one of the frigates held m reserve at Sheerness. Reuter and A.P. pictures.
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    'ALLIED GRAVES WILL FILL KOREA'—Gromyko
    318 3 'ALLIED GRA VES WILL FILL KOREA Gromyko THE Soviet delegate, Mr. hours at the Foreign PARIS, Thursday. Gromyko, last night attacked the West for two Ministers' deputies' conference, now in the eighth week of negotiations. He attacked 'almost everything' said a Western spokesman. At one stage he said there would
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    Elephants may fly to UK
    47 3 COLOMBO, Thurs. AC EYLON elephant, "Sita Dcvi," and her baby tvill shortly flu for the U.K. if negotiations now going on between Colombo's Zoo authorities and Mr. Alfred Ezra, Council Member of the London Zoological Society, for their sale prove successful. —Reuter.
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    Daylight saving
    24 3 .TAIPEH. Thurs. Clocks here will be advanced one hour beginning May 1 to put into effect the summer daylight saving time.— Reuter.
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    Japanese 'Right' election victory
    135 3 TOKYO, Thursday. VATION-wide local election returns yesterday dealt another blow to Japan's left-wing parly and were considered likely to strengthen the cause of Prime Minister Yoshida In re-establishing Japan as a Pacific power. In a large turn-out of voters 90 per cent of the electorate the
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    50 HUK SUSPECTS ROUNDED UP
    26 3 MANILA, Thurs. More than 50 Communist Huk suspects, including the entire police force of the Bataan town of Moron, were rounded
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    'RACE CONTACT MEANS FRICTION'
    58 3 CAPE TOWN, Thura. THE Minister of the In- terior. Mr. Eben Donges, moving the second reading of South Africa's Bill to alter the representation of coloured voters, said that points of contact between races were eventual points of friction. The Bill seeks to remove coloured voters
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    US Pressman charged in Prague
    121 3 US Pressman charged in Prague PRAGUE, Thurs. WILLIAM Ortis, Prague correspondent of the Associated Press, was arrested and is now charged with activities hostile to the Czechoslovak state. Replying to official United States enquiries made yesterday, the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry this morning officially informed the United States Embassy in Prague
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    China grain for India
    78 3 NEW DELHI. Thurs. INDIA has concluded an agreement with Red Qhlna for the purchase for cash of 500,000 tons of soghum grain to help relieve India's food shortage. The first 40,000 tons are expected to be shipped to India during June. The agreement was concluded in
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    U.S. SULPHUR EXPORTS
    53 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs. The U.S. Commerce Department last night announced that it will licence the export of 230.000 long tons of crude sulphur in the second quarter of 1951. Licence quotas for the current quarter are: Britain, 95,000 tons; Australia. 21,250; France, 20.000; New Zealand, 17,500; and South
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    BARODA EX-RULER SEES PRESIDENT
    77 3 NEW DELHI. Thurs. THE Gaekwar of Baroda yesterday met President Rajendra Prasad to explain his "innocence" of the charges made by the government which led to his deposition, Baroda palace source* said. Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru and the Minister of State, Mr. N. G. Ayyangar. The.
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    25-year plan for Empire urged
    296 3 25-year plan for Empire urged LONDON, Thurs. SIR Frank Nixon, president of th.e London Chamber of Commerce, advocated today more planning for the wholo Commonwealth 'so rich in its various resources" and less for Britain's "precarious little island economy". Sir Frank said at the annual meeting of the Chamber that
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    DIVERS FIND 19 BODIES
    63 3 KEY WEST, Floria Thurs. —Navy divers were given the gruesome task of recovering the remnants of 43 mangled bodies from the submerged wreckage of two planes which collided in mid-air yesterday. Nineteen bodies were brought up. The victims lost their lives when a four-engined passenger plane
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    'Clever woman— but not clever enough' gets two years' gaol
    387 4 'Clever woman— but not clever enough' gets two years' gaol SHE POSED AS A MILLIONAIRE'S WIDOW From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA, Thursday. STRAITS-CHINESE woman, posing as the widow of a Singapore millionaire, was stated here today to have caused the arrest of the Indian manager of a rubber estate in
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    SCHOOL ARTISTS TO SHOW TALENT
    272 4 SCHOOL ARTISTS TO SHOW TALENT THE Singapore Art Society will put on the 10th Inter-School Art Exhibition in conjunction with Education Week at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Singapore, from May 2 to May 5. The exhibition is open to schoolboys and girls in Singapore, but they must be under 20*
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    DRIVER FINED
    48 4 From Onr Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs Abdul Rani bin AbhAs, of Singapore, was fined 380 in the Police Court today for dangerous driving aJong Pontlan Road whe,n his lorry collided with a bus causing $400 damage to it and injuring a passenger in the lorry.
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    AIRMAN FINED
    33 4 A.L. Bell, of the R.A.A.F. was fined $10 in Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday for disorderly conduct. He was said to have been shouting outside the Bandoeng Restaurant on Wednesday night.
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    Police may 'threaten man in custody'
    211 4 LAWYER PROTESTS From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. D RAJARETNAM, aged 20, an apprentice employ- ed by the Malayan Railway central workshops Sentul, was at Kuala Lumpur today charged with murdering two Tamils, N. Govindasamy and G Subramaniam, at Sentul on Tuesday night.
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    scholarship to STUDY FARMING
    45 4 MB, LEX lew Sion;r, a member of the Negri Sembilan Agricultural Department, who has been awarded a British Council grant for a short study course of British agriculture. Aged 32, he is an old boy of St. Paul's Institution at Seremban.
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    JAKARTA STUDIES S'PORE PETITION
    135 4 T*HE Indonesian Consulate-General, Singapore, has x forwarded to Jakarta a petition, on behalf of 2,000 Malay fisherman, alleging seizure of nets and fishing tackle by Indonesian authorities from fishermen fishing in waters around Pulau Tekong, Pulau Palempas and Pulau Angip. The petition was submitted last week
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    TRESPASS TRIAL
    39 4 From Our Own Correspondent. JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.— Mok bin Nahar and Amin bin Salam, charged at Johore Bahru with committing trespass at the Tebrau Vehicle Park with intent to commit theft, were allowed bail of $150 each.
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    USIS MAN HERE
    22 4 Mr Jack A. Gertz. newly appointed Assistant Information officer of USIS. Singapore, arrived from London yesterday by QEA/BOAC Constellation.
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    HALF WENT ON DOCTORS' BILLS
    95 4 MEDICAL expenses of members' families consumed nearly half the amount of loans granted by the Singapore Harbour Board Employees' Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society last year. of the Society presented at the annual meeting yesterday. The Society, with a membership of 495 at the end
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    LIM TORE JIM'S CARD COURT TOLD
    38 4 MUAR, Thurs.— Charged in the Muai Sessions Court with depriving Jim Foo of his identity card, 19-year-old Lim Huan Pau was allowed bail of $350. It was alleged Lim tore Jim's card.
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    Major wrote, a mother is happy now
    211 4 LONDON Thurs. MRS. Marion M'Gregor of East Carron, near Falkirk Scotland, is a widow wita two sons on National Service. When one, Alex, was sent to Malaya with the Seaforths. Mrs. M'Gregor was rather worried. Now she feels happier, for the postman has
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    'So that's how it's done?'
    43 4 Staff Sergeant Muriel Bradburn (foreground) and ten other WRAC's from GHQ FA RELF called at the Straits Times office yesterday. They visited the printing department where they watched printed papers come off the rotary press. Straits Times picture.
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    SUGAR BLACK MARKET FINE
    75 4 Imeichi Mammu, 20 an Indian salesman of Woodlands Road, Singapore, was fined $500 or one month's imprisonment in the First District Court yesterday after pleading guilty to selling a kati of sugar for 60 cents, 28 cents above the controlled price, to Ahmat bin Kamdan a
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    Unlicensed taxi
    30 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— Darus bin Suheda, who used an unauthorised vehicle as a taxi, was fined $90 at Johore Bahru. He said that his passengers were his relatives.
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    Church plan to help squatters
    316 5 Church plan to help squatters AN overall plan to meet the spiritual, educational and medical needs of squatters in Federation resettlement areas by setting-up churches, schools and medical clinics has been decided by the Methodist Church in Malaya. Twelve representatives of the Advance For Christ and His Church Committee, Board
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    Federation C. O.L. increase from Jan. 1
    305 5 From Our Staff Correspondent r^TTTP KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday TOE Federation's 90,000 Government servants are to get their new cost of living allowances £i 53S cc h ve fr T Jan this ear ThtaSS rnnnS y a ma J° rit y of the Federal
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    Man who changed his story
    113 5 Man who changed his story rX)RTY-year-old Ang Heng Pow, who gave two different versions of an accident was fined $100 and sentenced to a day's simple imprisonment in Singapore Third District Court for making a false statement. During a police Investigation into an accident in Pagoda Street on Jan. 7
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    CHAP-JI-KEE
    37 5 A 16-year-old girl, Tay Ah Char, pleaded guilty In the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday to assisting In the management of a chap-jl-kee lottery at Lorong Lalat on the night of Apr. 25. Sentence was postponed.
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    SHOT YOUTH WENT HOME BY TAXI
    143 5 QIEW Kirn Llan of Minto Road, yesterday told the Singapore Coroner. Mr. E. Ebert, how her son staggered into the house on the night of Dec. 11 and cried: "I have been shot." Slew was giving evidence at an Inquest into the death of
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    BUDDHIST LEADERS
    41 5 SINGAPORE BUDDHIST lc:der s greet Dr. G. P. Malalasekera on his arrival from Colombo by air yesterday. Picture shows the Rev. Fa Fanff, Dr, Mala'.asekera. and Mr. Lee Choon Sen*, president of the Singapore Buddhist Federation. Straits Times picture.
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    Council to hear ban on cinemas
    161 5 From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR, Thursday. I'HK petition by five Kedah cinema managers A against the Government ban on Thursday shows during the Muslim fasting month starting from June 5 is to be considered by the State Executive Council at its next meeting.
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    'BIG EVENT FOR LABOUR'
    93 5 SINGAPORE Labour Party regards the formation of Penang Labour Party as "a momentous event" in the history of the labour movement in Malaya, said a Sin. gapore Labour Party spokesman yesterday. He said that labour indus- 1 trlal!y organised "is only half organised" and that the
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    HE CALLS FOR PEACE
    124 5 THE world needs knowledge and understanding— not lust for power, declared Dr. O. P. Malalasekera, president of the World Fellowship of Buddhists, at a public lecture given In the Victoria Memorial Hall last night. He told his Buddhist audience, four-fifths of whom were Chinese, that the
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    SAFE CHARGE
    55 5 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.— Yuen Peng Weng, Ng Poon Hock. Lim Choon Lai. and Kok Sal Seng, were charged in the Sessions Court, Batu Pahat, yesterday with the theft of a iron safe valued at $420, the property of Chan Cheow Sai. They were allowed
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    WAGE INCREASES SOUGHT
    303 5 Few recruits for Municipal clerical staff AN increase in the monthly salaries of Singapore Municipality staff and the widening of recruitment for Municipal clerks is being sought by Mr. S. S. Manyam, Progressive Party Municipal Commissioner for North Ward. Mr. Manyam has tabled two motions to this
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    No pocketmoney for M.C.'s move
    183 5 No pocketmoney for M.C. 's move A MOTION to rescind the $300 tax-free allowance of the Singapore Municipal Commissioners, will be tabled by Mr. K. Jagatheesan. Independent, City during the ordinary meeting of the Commissioners on Monday. He said last night, that he ia expecting support from some of the
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    DEATHS
    105 6 SMITH. At Batu Oajah Hospiial on Tuesday 24th April 1951. M irjory, beloved wife of Charles Ith of Malayan Tin Dredging I i-1 Batu Gninh. MORBERGEN HARRHTTE Al ICT* MOSBERGEN. <nee Mrrrrlls) beloved wife of Mr. W. P Mosberfzen. J.P. aged 70, died suddenly 26th April at her reMdcnce
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    23 6 MR. MRS. S. RATNAVALE thank all relations and friends for fhrir valuable presents, eongratu1; tory messages and help rendered at their wedding.
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    IN MEMORIAM
    45 6 IN MEMORY of late R. K. Shanna. of Raffles Institution. who died on 27th April. 1950, to the great sorrow of his loving wile Mrs. R. K. Sharma and his sons Mahesh. Murali Vijay>. Multis Die Bonls Plebilis Occidit Nulli. lifbilior Quam Nobis.
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    The Straits times Singapore, Fri., April 27, 1951. Federation C.O.L.
    989 6 The Straits times Singapore, Fri., April 27, 1951. Federation C.O.L. Inflation clearly is much in the mind of the Federal Legislative Council, without perhaps any precise idea of thr further measures which mus be taken to limit its bancfu effects. The High Commissioner, however, has foreshadowed some of them, without
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    BIGGER US. BASES IN PHILIPPINES
    70 6 MANILA, Thurs. FURTHER strengthening of the defence of the Philippines, by the United States is understood to have been discussed this week by President Qulrlno and the U.S. Ambassador Mr Myron M. Cowan. It was reported that these talks were designed to bolster the 1947
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    FOREBODLNG GROWS IN INDO-CHINA
    874 6  - FOREBODLNG GROWS IN INDO-CHINA By GRAHAM JENKINS HANOI. pRICES of staple commodities like rice and meal have risen about 20 per cent, in the French an-ti-Communist bridgehead in northern Indo-China in Ihe past two months of Tonkin's "war of attrition" and since General MacArthur's dismissal. Two firm convictions, now deeply
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      Planter's warning on 'regrouping'
      579 6 J HAVE recently returned from leave to find that the planting industry, planters and agency houses i have committed themselves to assist Government' in one of the maddest and stupidest schemes ever imagined— not only to assist in it but to pay through the nose for
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      THE STUDENT BODY
      267 6 MR. L. S. Sodhy, president of the University of Malaya Students' Union, on Monday night "urged that undergraduates be given the opportunity to govern themselves, instead of being treated like schoolboys—required, to pay fines as a disciplinary measure." One sympathises with Mr. Sodhy. The practice of fines
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      BETS; LEGAL & OTHERWISE
      228 6 BETS; LEGAL OTHERWISE IF my information is correct there are approximately 22,000 subscribing members In the Singapore Turf Club and 1,500 ordinary members, the latter of whom have a say in the affairs of the club and are entitled to several advantages which the subscribing members do not receive. I
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    On the Margin
    475 6 Taj »ah Weed W7ITH reference to my note on the wild orchids known as Klnta Weed and Tapah Weed. I have had a letter from a planter In the Tapah district in which he describes the plant which he has always called the Tapah Weed, and which
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    CHILDREN'S NURSES NEEDED AT ONCE
    294 7 Hospital ready to train them quickly CT. Andrew's Mission Hospital in Singapore wants to train as quickly as possible nurses with special qualifications for nursing sick children. This is stated in the Hospital's medical report for 1950, which will be presented at this evening's annual
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    141 7 RADIO MALAYA S popular feature. "Korum of the Air," was broadcast for the last time last night and listeners beard Canon R. K. S. Adams pay an impromptu tribute to the retired Director of Broadcasting. Mr. John Dutneresque. He said: "I want to give a hearty vote of thanks to
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    'TRIED TO STRANGLE ME'-WIFE
    232 7 TJOW a husband tried on three occasions to strangle his wife in bed was yesterday told In the Singapore High Court by a middle-aged Chinese woman. She was Mrs. Molly Tan. t\ho was suing her husband Mr. Tan Keng Seng, for a divorce on the grounds
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    SHE WANTS SILKS, SATINS, FOR MEN
    189 7 A PRETTY young woman blamed apathy and laziness, and not shyness, for the lack of colour in men's clothes She was Miss M. Keel who unsucce.ssf ully moved the j motion ''Man is dowdy' at an East-West Society Cebatp at the British Council Hall
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    'Unsightly' wood yards must go
    74 7 'Unsightly' wood yards must go BECAUSE Singapore Muni, cipal Commissioners consider some of the timber stores on main roads in the City unsightly, the owners will have to find other premises In !ess conspicuous surroundings. These stores about nine which are situated along Kallang Road, Geylang Road. Serangoon Road, Jalan
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    Scales for markets
    92 7 MR. S. M. A. H. Chisty Labour. Rochore*. a member of the Health Committee of the Singapore Municipal Commissioners, will advocate the compulsory use of scales for weighing by smallholders. The Health Committee has decided to abolish dachings from Municipal markets because they are easily manipulated. This
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    ARMED ROBBERY
    30 7 Three armed Chinese thugs robbed the occupants of a house on Changi Road of $50 and a gold ring worth $20 in the early hours of yesterday morning.
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    42 7 MR M. GOPALA MENON. speaking at the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday evening. Picture shows, from left to right. Mrs. R. Jumabhoy, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald Mr ill. Oopala Menon, Mr. R. Jumabhoy, Sir Franklin Ginison and Mrs Jogindra Singh. Straits Times picture.
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    RUBBER EXPORT LICENCES
    165 7 A STATEMENT by the Public Relations Office, for the information of Singapore rubber dealers and producers who wish to ship rubb-i- from the Colony to Hong Kong under the licensing of exports scheme, states that licensing will be by the calendar month and the second morthW period
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    Estate will have a modern plant
    113 7 Estate will have a modern plant ALTHOUGH they are outside the Municipal limits people on Princess Elizabeth Estate at 11th Mile. Bukit Timah Road. wiH have modern sanitation. Singapore Improvement Trust is constructing its own sewerage disposal plant on the site. Mr. John Carter, acting; Estates Officer, said yesterday. The
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    DEATH APPEAL DISMISSED
    77 7 In dismissing the appeal of Yeo Ah Hang against sentence of death for the murder of his employer. Tan Chew Tin, Mr. Justice Brown, president of the Criminal Court of Appeal, yesterday described the trial judge's summing up as "impeccable." Chew Tin was stabbed to death at
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    G.O.C. enjoyed 550 mph flight
    80 7 MAJOR-GEN. RJS. Vrquhart, G.O.C., Malaya, flew at 550 m.pJi. in a Meteor jet aircraft when he toured the RAF. station at Tengah yesterday. Sqn. Ldr. W.G. Duncan Smith, who piloted Gen. Urquhart said later: "We flew around for a bit at 10,000 feet, and got
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    Sikh shook them all— in Hokkien
    165 7 Sikh shook them all in Hokkien A SINGAPORE Sikh last night surprised the audience at St. Joseph's Institution hall when, after listening to the Hokkien translation of a lecture given by Mr. H. A. Shearman, he himself spoke In Hokkien. He was Kartar Singh, who works for the R_A.S.C. at
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    TRANSFERRED
    42 7 From Our Own orrcspoadent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs Cadet ASP K. G. F. Irwin has been transferred from Mersing to Muar as OCPD. Mr H H. D. Wite. of the Pontian' Police Circle has been transferred to Batu Pahat Police Special Branch.
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    S'pore—a garden where East meets West'
    197 7 S'pore a garden where East meets West' INDIA Is an influential and wise member of the family -of democratic nations, and the arrival of her representative in Malaya by itself is a notable event said the Commissioner-General MiMalcolm Mac Donald, yesterday. Mr. Mac Donald was speaking at a tea party
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    THEFT CHARGE
    23 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs The trial of Chin Kok Lai. of Singapore,, on a charge of theft of two wns waa fixed
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    ANTI-BANDIT JET PHOTS
    35 7 h L£. LT. WILLIAM James and Sqn. Ldr. W. G. DuncanSmith, photographed at Tengah shortly before they took off on the first Jet mission against the Malayan bandits. R.A.F. Public Relations picture.
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    In bed with the wrong woman
    278 7 4 YOUNG Singapore Chinese fireman, who broke 1^ into a house at night intending to see a 16-year-old girl, but by mistake climbed into bed with her mother, was yesterday sent to prison for eight weeks. H e was 25-year-old Teh Ho Chwee of
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    SHOW IN AID OF BOYS
    68 7 SHOW IN AID OF BOYS TOWN Following their donation of tn« premiere of the Scandinavian Ice Revue to Boys Town, Messrs. Run Run and Runme Shaw have agreed to donate the entire proceeds of we 6.30 performance of Johnny Holiday at the Rex Cinema on May 16. to Boys Town.
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    They ignored an order
    62 7 TW£ Education Department has told Chinese schools that they must give 40 days notice of student group trips from Singapore. Some Chinese school* have ignored previous requests, and have organised educational trips without prior consultation, Department officials said yesterday. Schools are also required to notify the
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    FINDERS PLEASE RETURN....
    51 7 Two $1,000 notes were lost in Tanjong Katong Road. Singapore, on April 18. The notes are no longer negotiable. The numbers of the notes are A/1 ***** and A/1 ***** and the finder Is asked to re. port to Inspector Ong Kirn Boon at Beach Road Police
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    2 jets bring house down
    266 7 2 jets bring house down rpwo R.A.F. Jet Vampire 1 fighters yesterday made their first airstrike In the anti-bandit wai* when they blitzed a target in south-central Johore. Diving with rocket projectiles, the aircraft destroyed an abandoned estate bungalow used as a bandit hide-out and rest house. The jets were
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    Best swimmer drowned
    74 7 From Our Own orreapondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs Special Constable Jumadi bin Salleh, the best swimmer in a jungle police post, was drowned when the squad wns crossing a river during antibandit operations. When he saw Jamudi in difficulties the Security Officer shouted to Jamudi to return to
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    Inspector found guilty— 'caught off his feet'
    390 8 Inspector found gu ilty 'ca ught off his feet' JJIUANG bin Tunggal, a former ponce inspector, was convicted yesterday by the Singapore First District Judge, Mr. H. E. Kingdon, of failing to arrest rioters outside Geylang police station on the night of Dec. 11. Sentence was postponed to May 3.
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    MAN WITH GUN, AMMO TO DIE
    127 8 MAN WITH GUN, AMMO TO DIE From Our Own Correspondent. RAUB. Thurs. LAI Kok Fei was sentenced to death,by Mr. Justice D. M. X Grant at the Raub Assizes fur having a revolver and four rounds of ammunition. According to the prosecution a Gurkha patrol saw two men running out
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    'DECLARATION FALSE' CHARGE
    78 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.— Abdul Rahman bin Maulund. who was charged in the Sessions Court, Batu Pahat. yes-t-relay with having made a false declaration that he was a member of Johore Defence Force and had left Ma'.aya during the Japanese occupation was allowed ball in $700 pi'nriing trial.
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    HE WILL 'COVER'THE KOREAN WAR
    45 8 HE WILL 'COVER' THE KOREAN WAR Mr. Stephen Barbour. war and foreign correspondent of the News Chronicle, photographed by the Straits Times yesterday when he nassed through Singapore on his way to the Korean war front. With him is Mrs. Josephine West. Qantas air hostess.
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    Students' Union hits at police
    265 8 DOLICE action over the release of information about a fiftht on St. John's Island this month is criticised in the latest issue of the Malayan Undergrad. official organ of the University of Malaya Students' Union The Undergrad editorial says that "inconsistency" in a highiv respected
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    NO TIME TO THROW AMMO: HANGED
    94 8 From Our SUIT CorrespondrnX KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. A PERAK bandit, Chen? 1 Min, was hanged in Taiping prison this morning-. He was one of four Chinese surprised by a jungle squad in a kongsi at Lahat on Nor. 11 last year. One of the
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    HIGHER POLICE TRAINING SCHOOL TO BE OPENED SOON
    435 8 HIGHER POLICE TRAINING SCHOOL TO BE OPENED SOON Alternative to sending Asians to UK 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. J^ POLICE higher training school is to be established at Kuala Kubu, in Selangor, and already a commandant and chief instructor have arrived in the Federation, announced the
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    Appeal court frees man on 6-year term
    171 8 bin Hussain, one of four men sentenced to six years' rigorous imprisonment for assault and robbery, yesterday left the Singapore Criminal Court of Appeal a free man The appeals of the three others— Ali bin Othman Tahir bin Salim and Kwari Chan Yin—
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    $100,000 BAIL FOR FOUR MEN
    156 8 TiHREE men— Peh Seng 1 Yong. Koh Lock Seng and Tan Quee Lim— were yesterday allowed bail of 325.000 each pending trial In the Singapore Fourth Police Jourt on a charge of cheating a storekeeper of 57 cases of textiles worth $75,000 A fourth man.
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    TRIED TO STEAL BUS STOP CHARGE
    45 8 Tan Soo Leng, 29, was yesterday charged in the Singapore Fourth Police Court with attempting to steal a bus-stop post at Bukit Timah Road on Wednesday. Six other Chinese were charged with abetting Tan. All claimed trial and were
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    $1,200 P.M. DEPUTY FOR ONN
    203 8 $1,200 P.M. DEPUTY FOR ONN From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs J)ATO Zainal Abidin bin Haji Abas, an M.C.S. officer and former Deputy Chief Welfare Officer for the Federation, is to be Deputy Chairman of the Rural and Industrial Development Authority. Dato Zainal is returning from Britain at the
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    SINGAPORE U.N. ASSOCIATION
    54 8 The sponsors of a Singapore branch of the United Nations Association met Mr. Henri Fast, Director of the UN. Far East Information Centre a few days ago during his recent visit to Singapore. A meeting will be called to discuss the formation of a Singapore branch in
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    GOVERNORS' MEETING
    58 8 The Governor of North Borneo, MaJ.-Gen. Sir Ralph Hone, and the acting Chief Secretary of Sarawak. Mr. J. H. Ellis, arrived in Singapore yesterday afternoon to attend a Governors' conference which the CommissionerGeneral, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. la holding at Buklt Serene. Mr. Ellis is representing the Governor of
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    KRANJI FIRE
    41 8 A flre near No. 1 Sub-Depot, 223 8.0.D., Kranjl. last night was put out by the Army Fire Brigade after people living in the area fought vainly against The flre burnt a large area of dried bushes and lallang,
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    A VEIL WORTH $8,500
    267 9 A VEIL WORTH $8,500 nTHE wedding dress of Narriman Sadek the future Queen of Egypt is a better kept secret than France's latest tank. •II is a secret," said Madame Germalne Le Comte. the Paris designer," a very great secret We should not think of letting you see it." What
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    OUT, BRIEF CANDLE !
    106 9 OUT, BRIEF CANDLE THE blackout is over, the lights are on, and there Is a chorus of satisfied, relieved "ahs" as the candles are extinguished. But one minor irritation yet remains: the acrid smoke from the candles which fills the room and lingers on. It can be easily avoided, however,
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    ARE YOU KIND TO TO YOUR NYLONS?
    323 9  -  By JILL JORDAN ARE your nylons lasting you as long as thev should? It really is possible to lengthen their life by a little extra care. In the first place, when you buy stockings, know what you want to get. and insist on
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    Work Of A Champion
    37 9 Two of the modern hair, styles ichich won for Vienna's' Otto Potschnke the title of "Europe's Champion Hairdresser" at the 54th H airdressing Congress in Vienna. They are in a new colour tobacco-orown.
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    AT HEART THEY ARE THE SAME
    271 9  -  By LIAU NYUK OI SMOKING, dancing, drinking and the use of make-up have made no difference to the hearts or morals of Malayan Chinese girls, says an expert who has been studying them for 29 years. The expert is Miss Mary Chen, retiring secretary
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    DEBORAH HAS A GO AT COMEDY
    270 9 BRUCE FRASER talking about FILMS FkEBORAH Kerr, who u has recently been achieving greater popularity in Hollywood than ever she did on her native heath in Britain, has her first chance at a comedy part in "Please Believe Me". Deborah's intense personality, seen at
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      208 9 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 10 a.m. News from K.L; 10.10 Close: 1 p.m. Radio Orch.; 1.30 News; 1.45 Glen Miller Orch.; 2 Light Music; 2.30 "University of the Air"; "She Stoops to Conquer", by Oliver Goldsmith; 3.30 Close: 6.15 Children; 6.30 "Forces Favourites" 7 News, 7.10 Interlude, 7.30 "Personal Choice"; 8
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    Parang's Municipal bill up $1½ million
    337 10 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Thursday. pENANG Municipal Commissioners today approved a supplementary budget for $1,528,670. The Municipal President, Mr. H. G. Hammett, said "We cannot swim alone against the stream of high prices. We can only bow to the inevitable." Since the budget
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    Price of mutton to be probed
    299 10 THE statement made in a recent issue of Brown's Malayan Economic Reviewthat Australian sheep on the hoof for local slaughter cost 200 per cent more in Singapore than they do in Hong Kong is being closely investigated by the Colony's Food Controller. Mr. A.
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    'Housing cuts will increase crime'
    185 10 'Housing cuts will increase crime ITNLESS the Singapore Government is prepared to give "adequate housing facilities" it will have to spend more money in tackling the •'unending problems of poverty, disease, ill-health black-marketing and crimes", Mr. M. P. D. Nair] president of the Singapore Army Civil Service Union said yesterday.
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    STOLE 21 PAIRS OF PANTS' CHARGE
    54 10 Chia Buck Seng of West Coast Road, Singapore, claimed trial yesterday in th» Fourth Police Court to r charge of stealing 21 pairs of trousers at 2 Sub-Depot. 223 B.O.D., Alexandra Road on Tuesday. The case was postponed to May 21 for hearing. Bail
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    Admits
    40 10 cheating Mohamed Alif bin Osman aged 24, was remanded till today after pleading guilty in Singapore Second Police Court yesterday to cheating Mr. A. R. Lancaster of Borneo Co. by having him approve false claims for allowances totalling $133.
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    ON HIS WAY TO AUSTRALIA
    49 10 MR. L. P. SCOTT, chairman and managing director of the Manchester Guardian, and grandson of the famous C. P. Scott, arrived in Singapore yesterday on his way to Sydney as a guest of the Australian Government for the Federation Jubilee celebrations. Straits Times picture.
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    K.L. split over voting rights
    225 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. RESTRICTED voting rights recommended in the draft Constitution of the Municipality of Kuala Lumpur have divided local community leaders into opposing camps. A majority in favour feel t that this Is the best way to ensure that only
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    Price tag —is a MUST in S'pore
    157 10 Price tag is a MUST in S'pore pRICE tagging will be necessary for Singapore even though the present fair prices system has got off to a good start, said Mr. W.W. Jenkins, Deputy Controller of Supplies, yesterday. One advantage of pricetagging would be. with legislation to back it, that shopkeepers
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    Singapore Dairy
    112 10 SINGAPORE ART SOCIETY, exhibition of the work of local artists, British Council Hall, Stamford Road, 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Y.W.C.A., Raffles Quay, Malay beginners class, 9.15 a.m. and 5.15 p.m.. Mandarin class, 10.30 a.m. CHINESE Y.M.C.A., Selegie Road, music class. 2.30 p.m., badminton, 5 p.m., basketball, 5.30
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      336 10 Straits Times Crossword i^ST&Si^^^ Hjl 2 i i i -|7 (6?* Mastlcatin and sallowing p^ H§ DOWN. in m m i^n m m 9 Not m fam < ana &-> <». ma $|g §H S|§ H| 3. Such were Cobbetfs Rides 10 I§s IT" (5) isssg 4. Superfluous and turned
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    LONDON STOCKS
    319 11 LONDON. Thurs. INTEREST in the London Stock Exchange today remained restrained by uncertainty In the domestic political situation and price changes were irregular. British Government stocks encountered some selling which resulted in losses of up to a quarter in nationalisation issues. In a mixed industrial section engineerings and
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    H.K. EXCHANGE RATES
    36 11 HONG KONG Thurs. P>REE market currency exchange for Hon.* Kong collar* was quoted at the close today as follows: US$l HKSe.OS^ icash>; HKS6.I4 (T>: £1 HK515.60 one tahil of gold HKS3I9 1 U.P
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    RUBBER MARKET
    184 11 Selling pushes price* down two cents a Ib. From A Market Correspondent 'THE Singapore rubber market was hesitant yester- day, awaiting clarification of Government's policy on destinational control. Up-country liquidation continued, pushing prices down to two cents a lb. below Wednesday's close Quiet conditions prevailed throughout, and a
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    London Rubber
    31 11 LONLXSN, Thurs., Apr. 26— Spot 55 ad.. June 55 Vid., July-9ept. 54d., Oct.-Dec. 52d., Jan.-Mar. 50d., May c.i.f. 55d., May-June ri.f. 54'' 2 d., J-^ne-July c.i.f. 53',2d. Market: Quiet.
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    'Tacts & Figures'
    105 11 'Tacts Figures' "l^ACTS <Sc Figures," compiled r and issued by the Singapore sharebroking firm of Fraser Company, has reached its thirtieth edition. It now brings the records of Malayan companies up to last year. It is as compact, informative and clear as ever it was; it remains the constant arid
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    TIN: $589 1/8 A PICUL
    42 11 TIN: $589 1/8 A PIC UL SINGAPORE, Thurs.. Apr. 26.— 5589,121 (down $1-621 £1,145 a ton in London LONDON. Apr. 26.— Cash Buyers £1,145. Sellers £1,150; Forward Buyers £1,135. Sellers. £1,140; Settlement £1,145 (down £15). Turnovers: a.m. 80 tons, p.m. 10 tons.
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    The Produce Market
    141 11 From A Market Correspondent. A QUANTITY of copra for nearby shipment changed hands in the Singapore produce market at $50 V4 a picul yes erday. The market was steady, with buyers raising bids from $49 '4 to $50 'j for May shipment, and to t50-\ for June
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    Malayan shares
    114 11 Quiet and easy THE Malayan share market^ remained very quiet yesterday. Business was restricted in scale. In some instances prices eased slightly. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokew Association yesterday were: Bajreri IB. Petrol 49/tunnvmcde 110 SeJarr. 50/3.90 xd cbl MINING kmpat 6 3 langrin 39/6 IlUm
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    REPLANTING SHELVED
    117 11 Suloh Estates SULOH Rubber Estates' replanting scheme has had to be shelved because of terrorist action. The company's shareholders were told of this at the annual general meeting on Monday. The chairman, Mr. J. M. M. Lewis said, however, that despite the fall in production the company's finances
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    Shipping in the Roads and alongside
    181 11 CHIPS in the Singapore Roads and alongside the Singapore Harbour Board godowns at 4 p.m. yesterday were: Inner Roads: Hai Hsuan. Salte 53. Salte 52. Kola, Alex. De Rhodes, Pahud. Union Builder. Wairata, Kota Agoeng, La Colorada. Bosnik, Granvllle. Surat, Ibis, Bati, RaJula. Outer
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    S.C.C. SEAL KOTA RAJA'S FATE IN DIV. 1
    536 12 S.C.C. SEAL KOTA RAJA'S FA TE IN DIV. 1 Fine display by Woods Davids S.C.C 2; Kota Raja 0 SINGAPORE Cricket Club sealed tottering Kot:> Raja's fate in the Senior Division of the Singapore A.F.A. league competition when they beat last year's champions by two goals to nil at Jalan
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    Wolves go down to Chelsea
    169 12 LONDON. Thurs. /CHELSEA, who seem to be V* doomed to relegation from the First Division of the English Football League, kept themselves In the end-of-season fight against the drop to the Second Division with a 2-1 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers yesterday. The results were. ENGLISH
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    FRASER & NEAVE STILL UNBEATEN
    277 12 FRASER NEAVE STILL UNBEATEN UNBEATEN leaders of the Business Houses Football League "A'' Division, Fraser Neave scored vet another victory when they beat Pulau Bukom by three goals to one on the V.M.C.A. ground at Balestier yesterday. F. N. pressed right from the start, but their forwards missed several opportunities
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    COLONY JUNIOR BADMINTON
    59 12 Entries are now open for the Singapore Badminton Association's junior championships, viz Men's junior singles, men's junior doubles, women's junior singles, women's junior doubles. The entry fee is $3.00 per competitor per event. Entry forms are obtainable from the hon. secretary, Mr. Wee Kim Wee, United Press
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    GUBBINS BEST FOR CHANGI
    55 12 LJIGHLIGHT in R.A.F. Changi's 1A 7-0 win over Singapore Engineer Regt. in the Services Soccer League at Gillman Barracks yesterday was the fine display of Gubbins, Changi's inside-left who scored two goals in the game. Changi's third goal came from Robinson off a penalty kick. Changi
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    Nine men lose three-nil
    146 12 PLAYING for 55 minutes with only nine men. Town Rangers S.C. went down to the Medical Workers Union S.C. by three goals to nil in a S.A.F.A. Division 3B league soccer game played on the B.O.D.C.A. ground yesterday. Rangers took the field one man .hort and
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    G.S.C. teams win netball games
    128 12 In the opening games of the Singapore inter-club netball season, Girls Sports Club's "A" and "B" teams beat Singapore Cricket Club women on the S.C.C. padang yesterday. G.S.C. won the "A" team game by 16 goals to eight and the "B" game by 15 goals
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    SANDS NOT TO FIGHT TURPIN
    57 12 SYDNEY, Fri. Dave Sands, Empire middleweight champion, said here tonight that he will not go to England to defend his title against Randolph Turpin in June. He said it would not be worth while going to England to fight for £3,000 and suggested that £5,000
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    SERVICES SOCCER
    18 12 R.N.A.C. all R.A.F. Maintenance Unit played a one-all draw in the United Services Soccer League yesterday
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    Kilometre Speed Trial at K.L.
    309 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Thurs. MALAYA'S first kilometre speed trial organised by Selangor Motor Club, will be held over the Lornle Mile course at Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. Up to yesterday 27 entries from the Federation and Singapore had been received for the
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    TOMORROW'S K.L. RACE WEIGHTS
    244 12 WEIGHTS for all eight races at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow, last day of the Selangor Turf Club April meeting, are: Cl. 1, Dlv. I-6F. Gambar Melayu 9.00 Airmail 8.13 Sweet Maisie 8.12 Wonder Lad 8.10 Billdaw 8.09 Belgium 8.06 Liberty Flag 8.05 Blondie 8.04 Haoma 8.02 "letinue
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    Fifty Grand set for a 'double'
    283 12 From EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. TKAIXEK Phil Tankard must be congratulating 1 himself on having decided to run Fifty Grand this meeting. Up against a very moderate lot Fifty Grand cake walked his race over 7f. on the first day and now looks
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    Acceptors for Guineas
    158 12 LONDON, Thurs. Thirty-one final acceptors were announced tocav for tb 2 000 Guineas, the fir* oi the *1 British classics, to be run C a mile at. Newmarket en Wednesday May 2. They are: Danae, Paradise Street, The Champ, Damyan, North Carolina, Sun Prince, Prince Doullly, Malkas
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    S'PORE 'A' TO PLAY MALAYS
    103 12 Eighteen of Singapore's best Malay players will take part in Sundays soccer game at Jalan Besar Stadium In which Singapore "A" will meet the Malay Football Association. The Singapore "A" team, which includes seven Malay players Is: Narayanam; Johan, Veloo; Yasln, Hoon Leong, Ismail Bujang
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    THOMAS' CHANCE FOR WORLD TITLE
    65 12 LONDON, Thurs. WELSHMAN Eddie Thomas is to fight for the welterweight championship in America. No date has been set yet. Manager Sam Burns said today that he had agreed with Lew Burston, representative of the International Boxing Club, that Thomas, holder of the British European
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    ST. ANDREWS 'A' KEEP WINNING
    53 12 St. Andrews "A", only unbeaten team in the Singapore inter-school table tennis competition, continue their winning streak last night by trouncing St. Joseph Institution by nine matches to nil. Other results are: Chinese High School "B" beat Raffles Black 5-4 and A.C.C.S. beat St. Andrews
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    CRICKET OFF
    20 12 The cricket game between Combined Schools Singapore and University of Malaya scheduled for this Sunday has been cancelled.
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    BLACKPOOL 7-4 TO BEAT NEWCASTLE
    484 12 F.A. CUP FINAL TOMORROW LONDON, Thursday. OLACKPOOL or Newcastle? That is the question soccer fans are asking on the eve of the Cup Final which takes place at Wembley Stadium on Saturday. Newcastle have reported 100 per cent, fit nd they are confident of success.
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    Sports Dairy
    60 12 SOCCER: Dlv. I: R.E.M.E. v C.A. at stadium; Div. 2: Fathul Karib v S.H.B. at fteylang; Business Hse. Lge. B: Mansilelds v Rotterdam at F A N ground; St. Times v Guthries at Breweries friendly: Combined Schools v Kota Raja at R.I. ground TABLE-TENNIS: S.T.T.A. juvenile tournament at
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    Fullerton 118, saves tourists
    141 12 LONDON, Thurs. /^EORGE Pullerton, the South VI African cricket team's No 1 wlcketkeeper. hit freely to score 118 not out In a one-day game against D. o. Clark's strong team of county players at Maidstone yesterday. He saved the tcirisw from possible defeat after a startling
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    SAJARAH 'A' WIN 2-NIL
    67 12 Katong Sajarah "A" defeated the Young Men's Muslim Association by Ufl goals to nil in a S.A.F.A. Division 33 league game played at Geylang Stadium yesterday. After frittering away many scoring chances Sajarah gained the lead In the 12th minute through centre-forward Sarlfl. The score remained
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    OLD VICTORIANS
    39 12 The annual soccer match between Past and Present Boys of the Victoria School for Mr. Ong Eng Lian's Challenge Cup will be played on Thursday, May 3 at tie school ground in conjunction wit a Education Week.
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      28 12 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: 1.25 am (8.9), 3.25 pm (7ft.) 8.27 am (0.1), 8.10 pm (4.6). TOMORROW: 2.13 am (8.4), 4.54 pm (6.6); 9.32 am (0.7), 9.12 pm (5.1).
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