The Straits Times, 17 May 1951

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  • 20 1 The Straits Times MALA YA 'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1951. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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  • 384 1 De Lattre cancels trip to Federation /ipvPD»? y A Special Correspondent (^JNILKAL Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French High Commissioner in Indo-China who is attending the three-power military talks in Singapore, has cancelled his proposed trip to Kuala Lumpur today because, I understand, ditterences of
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    35 1 ASS WRIGG. a 28-year-old actress who will be Lady j.odiva m the Coventry Festival of Britain pageant. Unlike the original Lady Godiv a who wore nothing, Miss nrigg will wear flesh coloured briefs and brassiere.
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  • 264 1 r,i» r^, NEW YOR K, Wednesday. OIR Gladwyn Jebb, Britain's delegate to the United Nations answered criticism of Britain's role and conduct in the Far East last night He told the New York City Bar Association of Britain's rtforts against Communism In Malaya, the Middle
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  • 138 1 Terrorist deputy is arrested TEHERAN. Wed. ABDUL Qasim Rafii, deputy leader of the fanatical Fedayan terrorist sect was arrested after an exchange of shots, in which no one was hurt, police disclosed tonight. "Mossadeq fthe Persian Premier) is lucky I have been arrested otherwise I would have killed him during
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  • 218 1 BOARD EXPLAINS DELAY KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. THHE delay in publishing the *JJ e f»rt of the Board of Arbitration on Plantation Zf gs *»c.to extraneous causes, the Board stated in its re P°, r t which was issued today The Board first met on Jan 10 Kehtt. 1U lBSt The
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  • 107 1 LONDON, Wed.-The British Empire Society for the Dlind is about to launch i appeal on behalf ?nin h f *****0 People in the bund estimate d to be This great sightless population is three times that of the blind populations of Britain tethe lted States DUt
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  • 36 1 RANGOON. Wed A Bur overn ment forces kmttvL K&iet rebels who atabout 75 miles west of Rangoon where Communists Karens and members of (he People's Volunteer Organisation have started joint operations.— Reuter.
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  • 25 1 MANILA, Wed—The Philippine 10th Battalion combat team in Korea will be relieved apon by the reinforced 20th combat team under Lleut.-OW. Marcos GL
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  • 536 1 A SINGAPORE report that the 2,300-ton vessel Norbay, bound for the Communist China port of Whampoa with $2,000,000 worth of rubber, was detained by the Penan; port authorities on Tuesday was yesterday stated to be inaccurate. Penang Port and Customs authorities yesterday described the report as
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  • 114 1 BAGHDAD. Wed. pREMIER Said Pasha told Parliament today that Iraqi army anti-aircraft units has arrived in Syria to defend Syrian territory against »Ir attacks. "A number of Iraqi Royal Air Force squadrons are now taking military position* in Syria" he continued. 'The move was
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  • 122 1 the Allied lines, they made a strong dawn attack on advanced South Korean positions north-east of Inje— just north of the 38th Parallel on the east coast sector Two battalions of Communists struck the South Koreans north of the village of forcing them to
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  • 46 1 Vlamin'ck, *o"n Part/ 11 /0/l/ 0/ l a jud <>* in <*«* he could not identify his own paintings. hd X lami c *> v*o is 76, had been called to give evidence m a case in which two peom false pictures.— A JP.
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  • 152 1 S'PORE WILL NOT BE HIT— VIEW From Our Own Correspondent. LONDON, Weds. THE view that China will be fh ab L e v to get from Indonesia the rubber she cannot now fhl on Mal aya and that the direct export of Indonesian rubber to China will mt Singapore processing
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  • 37 1 —Appeal to Truman WASHINGTON, Wed.—President Truman was asked yesterday to grant executive c.emency to seven Nazi* who have been sentenced to hang in Germany for atrocities in the war. The U A. Supreme Court has
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  • 142 1 WASHINGTON, Wed. BRITAIN'S Lord Privy Seal, Mr. Richard Stokes, said today that he would discuss with American officials the possibility of forming an international shipping committee to control the allocation of the free world scarce strategic raw materials. Mr. stokes who is making a four-day visit here
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  • 774 1 Tappers to get 65 cts. more From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. lUAGE increases for rubber workers have been awarded by the Board of Arbitration on plantation workers' claims. The Board's report was published today. The workers demanded an overall $4 a day for contract tappers. The Board has
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  • 207 2 JERUSALEM, Wed. POLICE yesterday cor- doned all roads around Parliament in an Intensive search for a man who tried to send the building up in flames. The plot failed because two of the conspirators wore the wrong hats-^out of date army head gear
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  • 45 2 Applications are Invited for appointment to ft Lectureship in Economics with special reference to Agricultural Economics. Further particulars may be obtained from the Registrar, University of Malaya, Singapore, 10, with whom applications must be lodged not later than 15th June. 1951.
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  • 64 2 CANBERRA, Wed.— Prime Minister, Robert Menzies and the Commerce and Agriculture Minister, Mr. John McEwen, yesterday discussed the sending of food to relieve the Indian famine. No official announcement was made but It was learned that one plan is to draw. If possible, on
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  • 86 2 India 'knew about Mac A' WASHINGTON, Wednesday nEPUBLICAN Senator Styles Bridges yesterday asked K Gen. Omar Bradley in the Senate investigation bow "certain foreign countries got the information in advance of Gen MacArthur's recall." Bradley said he was not aware that they had known in advance Bridges said. "Well, for
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  • 28 2 hi GE KITES taking the air during the Royal AeronautELl Society nrden l»cU at Whit* Waltham. Berkshire. £55%525 S%r kite* wa. a llfe-ri« dummy pilot.
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  • 5,000-year-old bear's skeleton found
    • 229 2 AMATEUR climbers discovered °J A b ear. believed to be between 5,000 and 7 000 years- old while exploring a cavern In the limestone Pennine mountains in Yorkshire. Mr. Donald Robinson, teacher at a nearby school, with a party of climbers, saw leg bones sticking out
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    • 102 2 MANILA, Wed. pLAME throwers were used by the Philippine army against Communist Huks for the first time yesterday In an attack against a band enterenched near Magallanes, on the Cavite-Batangas provincial borders. Patrols killed one Huk and wounded several others In a preliminary clash which
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  • 344 3 LONDON, Wednesday. fHE United States is believed in diplomatic quarters to have urged both Britain and Persia to go to the extreme limits of compromise in an effort to achieve a negotiated settlement in the oil nationalisation dispute. But the Americans are believed to
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  • 51 3 SAIGON. Wed UENRI Jumeau, acting head 11 of the French police at Dalat, has been suspended following the alleged shooting of 20 Indo-Chinese prisoners, including six women. He is believed to be held in custody. A French communique said that an inquiry had been started into the
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  • 134 3 Gagging law: Nehru gives assurance NEW DELHI, Wed. THE Indian Prime Minister, 1 Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, told Parliament today the .Government would not take advantage of the restriction lit is proposing to put on freedom of speech and expression "except in the event of a national or international l-idian newspapers
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  • 33 3 MANILA. Wed. President Quinno last night warned Communists and subversive elements that the Government was prepared to crush them if they continued to menace the security of the State.— Reuier
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  • 96 3 MANILA, Wed. ro PIY-LEE, 54-year-old Chinese grocery- storeowner, refused to give change for a five peso vote to tico men who had bought 60 cents worth of beer and peanuts from him. He said he had no coins and asked them to buy some more
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  • 48 3 PLAUDITS FOR DANNY DAN^iY KAYE. the American comedian is congratulated by (irom left) Kitty Carlisle, Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh after his third and most successful appearance at the London Palladium iast week. For 70 minutes Danny kept the audience of 2.000 cheering at his songs and capers.
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  • 200 3 RARE CHANCE' FOR PLANTERS HONG KONG, Wednesday. A PRO-COiMMUNIST newspaper in Hong Kong is urging both local Chinese and "Overseas Chinese capitalists" to take advantage of "a rare opportunity" by investing in rubber plantations on Hainan island. i Making the appeal, the Wen Wei
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  • 96 3 BURGHEAD, SCOTLAND, gLEVEN sea cadets overdue in a training cutter off Cromarty and Burghead, east Scotland, were "spotted" yesterday by a searching R.AF Anson. T>.e cadets, aged between 13 and 15. were from Moray Sea Cadet School at Burghead. When they failed to return from a trip
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  • 39 3 LONDON. Wed.— The Laur Government's' majority /er the combined opposition in the House of Commons was reduced to three yesterday by the resignation through ill health of Mr Rhys Davies, 74-year-old Socialist member for Westhoughton, Lancashire. Reuter.
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  • 128 3 Greece and Turkey may join pact WASHINGTON. Wed. rpHE U.S. State Department x indicated yesterday that the United States feels the best way to provide for the security of Greece and Turkey is to bring them into th* North Atlantic Pact. The statement said: "The governments of Turkey and Greece
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  • 167 3 DAMASCUS, Wed. THE Syrian Premier, Khaled Azim. told the Arab League Political Committee here yesterday what help other Arab states could give his country in the event of an Israeli attack on Syria's borders. Representatives of a number of Arab states expressed .eadiness to
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    34 3 ituMiu.M, evacuation oy air to a South "Korean hospital is 13 -year -old Korean boy wounded by a grenade in a battle near his home. He is being: cared for by an American nurse.
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  • 187 3 Japan 's trade must stand alone, says US TOKYO. Wed. T»HE United States today x told the Japanese they could Join the free world as an equal business partner but warned them that they must depend mainly' on their own efforts to secure economic progress. Major General William F Marquat,
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  • 159 3 LA PAZ, Bolivia, Wed. A MILITARY junta seized power in Bolivia today and forced the resignation of President Mamerto Urriolagitia who was defeated by his exiled rival, Dr. Victor Paz, in the recent election. Dr. Paz failed to win a clear majority and under the constitution the
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  • 73 3 SYDNEY Wed WITH shouts of "add that to the Affray Fund" men of the submarine Tactician showered a BaJmoral naval depot wharf with coins as they sailed for Singapore yesterday. The Tactician's crew has already given £45 for dependants of the 75 men lost when the
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  • 75 3 ET ro T STRASBOURG Wed. UROPES two-year-old Consultative Assembly ended its first 1951 session last night after 12 days formally deDlormg that 'what has been achieved so far has not fulfilled the hopes raised by the creation of the Council of Ejurope Seventy-seven of Its 125 members
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  • 45 3 1ST INDONESIAN ENVOY TO PEKING JAKARTA, Wed.— Usually well-informed circles said yesterday that former Foreign Minister Mohammed Rum was expected to be named Indonesian Ambassador to India to replace Dr. Sudarsono. The sources added Dr. Sudarsono would become the first Indonesian Ambassador at Peking.— Reuter.
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  • 25 3 SYDNEY, Wed.— Airlift reinforcements for the Australian battalion in Korea began yesterday when 20 soldiers left in a Qantas Skymaster for Japan. UP.
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  • 164 3 CALIFORNIA, Wednesday. TWO men broke into the Pasadena Laboratory x yesterday and attempted to photograph a rocket motor test stand clssifled as a top military secret by plant officials. The plant's night foreman. Mr. Charles Qrover, reported to the police that he saw
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  • 73 3 MELBOURNE, Wed.—Thousands of 18-year-old youths eligible for national service training had not registered when the midnight deadline was reached. Reports early this morning indicated there would be 3,000 defaulters in Victoria, 2,000 in New South Wales and 1,400 In Queensland. Figures for other states were not available.
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  • 175 4 Teochews honour god's birthday TN honour of the Teochew God Pak Tien Chiew Such's first of three birthdays, thousands of dollars worth of 'gold' paper and paper effigies of 12 other Gods were burnt by Teochews at the god's temple off Upper Serangoon Road yesterday The Teochews revere Pak Tien
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  • 60 4 REPLICAS OF GODS' COSTUMES HANGING on the walls of the God Pak Tien Chiew Such's temple off Upper Serangoon Road. Singapore, are the paper replicas of the costumes worn by the god and his attendants. These, and thousands of dollars worth of 'gold' paper, were burnt yesterday in honour of
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  • 348 4 U.S. 'fifth column' allegation angers Chinese in Singapore 'SLANDEROUS CHARGE,' SAT LEADERS THE Washington report that a potential fifth column of nearly 10,000,000 Chinese exists in South-East Asia raised howls of protest in Singapore Chinese circles yesterday. The figure was mentioned by Mr. Dean Rusk, U.S Assistant Secretary of State
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  • 136 4 P" l view of the urgency of controlling the construcioHf luxury "buildings, Sir Franklin Gimson Governor of Singapore, has granted PJ™JJ»3jJ" a Bill to that effect, introduced by I*6^™™ Councillor. Mr. Thio Chan Bee, to be taken through all its stages at the next
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  • 89 4 There will be special broadcasts to all school children in Singapore and the Federation on Empire Day next Thursday, May 24. Dato EEC. Thuralslngham, Federation Member for Education, will speak at 8 a.m. and his speech will then be translated into Malay and Chinese The Governor, Sir
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  • 58 4 From Oar Stan* Correspondent FINANO, Wed.— The Colonial Office's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. EP. Pridie, arrived in Penang yesterday on a three-day visit to the Settlement. He will visit Penang General Hospital, the Ayer Itam health clinic, the site for the Empire Fisheries Training and Research
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  • 56 4 Pleading guilty to entering Singapore without a permit, a married woman, Goh Kek Heng, told Singapore First District Judge, Mr. H.E. Klngdon, yesterday that she came for medical treatment and would soon return to Karlmon Island. She was fined $50. For failing to have an identity
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  • 23 4 From Our Own Correspondent. TAIPING, Wed. Revenue Officer Mong Khal Chong of the Taiping Customs Department has been transferred to Johore Bharu.
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  • 26 4 S'PORE SOCIAL The first of the St. Andrew's Old Boys' Association's monthly socials will be held tonight at St.- Andrew's School Hall, Singapore, at 7.30 p.m.
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  • 365 4 MAJID LOSES HIS APPEAL, REBUKED MR M A Majid, president of the Indo-Malay-Pakistani Seamen's Union, who lost Jib^ppea in Singapore High Court yesterday a«a» nst ™J eviction order to leave 34, Collyer Quay was told by tie Acti^ Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Brown: "Do not talk about the Governor-in-Council in
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  • 45 4 A nine-month-old boy, Tien Tien Sin. died in the General Hospital during an harelip operation, a pathologist said at a Singapore inquest yesterday. Recording a misadventure verdict, the Coroner, Mr. Choor Singh, said there was no evidence of negligence or malr ractice.
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  • 117 4 From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Wed A resolution that the railway administration shorten working hours at all Maishould shorten working hours at all Malayan railway stations and goods sheds from a 12-hour to an eight-hour day was passed unanimously it the second annual delegates' conference
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  • 100 4 Y.W.C.A.. Raffles Quay, dressmaking class, 10 ajn.. French class. 10 a.m., Malay advanced class. 5.30 D.m. BRITISH RED CROSS. Old People's Club. Wesley Hall. Port Canningt 4.30 pjn. ST JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION. Home Nursing class. Brigade H.Q.. Stamford Road. 5 p.m. V.M.C.A.. Orchard Road. French class. 5.30 p.m..
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  • 69 4 SMOKEHOUSE SITE UNDER 'PAWANG' PORT DICKSON. Wed. ABOUT 600 pounds of rL rubber were destroyed on Monday night when a smokehouse in Sar g a Estate. Rantau. caught fire. According to a Malay belief, .the locality where the smokehouse was built has been under a "paw an?" ajjd that no
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  • 249 5 3,000 IN SUBURBS PLAN WAR ON THE 'BAD HATS' ORGANISING themselveg for their own defence against "unsavoury characters" and for mutual aid, 3,000 people of Balestier area, a suburb of Singapore, will held a mass meeting on Saturday at Rayman Avenue Field to inaugurate the Balestier Community Centre. A Working
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  • 39 5 A PARTY of Malay sappers from the Royal Engineers yesterday visited Singapore's owno wn Festival of Britain in the United Eingineers building. River Valley Road, and are here seen admirinr a model yacht. Straits Times plct ure.
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  • 189 5 S'pore men buying Fed lottery rr,»™ HORE BAH RU, Wed. THERE are indications that m s nn 8 a Poreans are buying Uckets ta the Federation'! welfare lottery from post offices this side of the causeway. As no records are kept of the names and addresses of persons buying these
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  • 30 5 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. For carrying an overweight of timber on a three axle lorry. Pang Kah Keng. was fined $800 at Johore Bahru today.
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  • 83 5 suff c »"«*pom«iit. E KUALA LUMPUR. Wed IGHTEEN prosecution witnesses in a murder trial were told at the Kuala Lumpur Supreme Court today to go home but to attend court aram on June Mr. Justice Wilson postponed the case because two important witnesses had not arrived.
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  • 190 5 Retribution in South Africa r\R. Edmund D. Soper, an authority on race and religions who U now serving as Honorary Professor of Comparative Religions at Trinity College. Singapore, yesterday warned of "a terrible retribution" in South Africa because of that government's racial policy. Speaking to Singapore Rotarians on "Race A
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  • 108 5 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wed. |>ATCHOULI oil maintained 1 Its month-old drop in price due to low demands from Europe and America. There are now more than 40,000 lbs., in Penang awaiting orders. Patchouli oil Is being offered at between $35 to $40 a lb
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  • 23 5 The annual meeting of the Old Victorians' Association will be held on Saturday at 5 p.m. at the Victoria School Singapore.
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  • 88 5 CJAPTAIN D. W. Fen ton. chief pilot of Malayan Airways, leaves for Britain by BOAC Argonaut today to bring back a new Dakota. He will fly the Dakota to Singapore in seven hops through six different countries in four days, Mr. A. Fishwich, Malayan
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  • 126 5 'Here since Oct. not in trouble' PRIVATE Dingwall, aged 19. 1 of the R.E.M.E.. was sentenced to one month* imprisonment in Singapore yesterday for housebreaking on March 22. Dingwall pleaded that he had been drinking for two hours and added: "I have been here since Oct. S last year and
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  • 324 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. TTON bandits' were killed and two wounded when A they walked into carefully laid ambushes set by security forces in the Federation yesterday and Three were killed in a single ambush on an estate in the Kuala Kubu
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  • 84 5 UNION FORMS 20th BRANCH The twentieth branch of the Singapore Army Civil Service Union— the REME District Branch— was formed yesterday at a meeting presided over by Mr. V.K. Nalr, the vice-president. The branch has now about 80 members. Its potential membership is about 200. Office-bearers are: Chairman, Mr. Philip
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  • 84 5 Latchiman and Chan Fatt Hong were disqualified from driving for 12 months by the Acting Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Brown, in Singapore High Court yesterday. Latchiman had been fined $50 for driving under the influence of alcohol. He also had his licence endorsed. Chan had been fined
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  • 74 5 LABOUR PARTY FOR PENANG PENANG, Wed. DENANG'S first Labour Party wu formally inaugurated last night at a meeting attended by trade union leaders. Mr. Yeap Choong Kong. Penang Labour representative on the Federal Council, was elected chairman. "If we can prove to the people that we are sincere and have
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  • 20 5 Th« UMNO Information Officers' conference on Sunday at Ipoh, ha* been postponed Indefinitely, UMNO headquarters announced yesterday.
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  • 178 5 Malay only for KL Commissioners From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. JT is possible that much of the business of the x newly-constituted Kuala Lumpur Municipal Commission may have to be conducted in Malay, which may cause considerable delays in the carrying-oul of business. The President of the Kuala
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  • 102 5 THREE retailers from the Orchard Road area will be present to answer housewives' question* on rising prices at the consumers' rally called for tomorrow, by the Singapore Consumers' Association (Tangtln Branch). British Council Hall, the rally will now be held at the V.M.C.A. assembly hall in Stamford
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  • 689 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thur. May 17, 1951. The Silent Lottery The first State lottery in the history of Malaya is now in progress in the Federation, but the public is as yet hardly conscious of that fact. The explanation is not far to seek. The Federation lottery should have
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  • 428 6 Sir Gladywn Jebb's address to the Bar Association in New York completes an explanation of British policy on trade with China which should satisfy American critics whose comments have been outspoken rather than knowledgeable. Britain's principal delegate to the United Nations added to this explanation a comment
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  • 384 6 Jungle tum tum versus tom tom "gTRANGLER,** in his letter of May 10 headed "Starving Out < the Bandits", has made one of the most construct* *c suggestions concerning bandit elimination. 1 We all know that we eat to live and five to eat. and presumably the urge at the
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  • 717 6 IT'S WAR WHEN YOU PARK IN SINGAPORE In the Municipal lob6it?s rptlE parking problem in Singapore is so acute that motorists are now at war with one another tor the inadequate parking space available. This war Is between ownerdriven and syce-driven vehicles, mainly in the congested business district. How is
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    • 299 6 T SUPPOSE that, $2 a bottle on whisky having 1 proved disappointing as a means of fighting Inflation. Government considered it wise to give a hint in the Federal Legislative Council that some compulsory savings scheme was "under consideration for the rubber and tin
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    • 211 6 'pHE large majority of these affected by the Benham salary scales are people who entered Government service tinder pre-war salary schemes, which then offered, comparatively, a very favourable relationship to the schemes of the other services (technical assistants, teachers, hospital assistants, etc) Naturall v and justifiably those who
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    • 325 6 WITH reference to the question posed by "Fisheater" in the Straits Tunes of May 12 on worm Infections that may result from eatrag flsh. I wish to say that no menUon was made in my recent statements to the Press 0/ the larval flake because
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  • 479 6 On the Margin la Old Singora I HAVE been favoured with a 1 most interosttng Itttot from a Malay resident of Bangkok about the not* IB this column on April 30 oa the old town of fXngora, oa the east coast of Slam (where, by the way, the Japanese landed
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    • 802 6 CLASSIFIED AM. DENHOLM: At BuxtffMT Ho»-| plUl. on Ml.il. to Joyce aad Lcuu, Mcdra Je*n. CHBAK-CHAIf: The encacenmt took plan on U.i.il of Cfceak Tu Lee (Denny), eldest •on of Mr lire. Cbeak Boon Ttek. ead UUt Ch*n Ouek Kin (D»tay). ekUet «Uu(thter of Mrs. Chan lies Bfei and the
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    • 18 6 5 V OF 01/TSTANDtNG < X Z*M WOOLLENS < AVAUABLE fok you* seucr/OA/ AT REASONABLE PR/CCS PHONE: 6535 2KCHUUA STREET
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    • 233 6 Barium jF Iwl s?m*Pmw^iZGUMK^ j£ JBa MS^f49^^^w^^r^m\. Mar 4. I m^t law^^E HaW m>aN^lk Patient! may associate faarwai vita the unpalatable meals which they are given before aa X-ray examination, but it is barium iulphate whica to used for this purpose, and not the soft silvery-white barium metal. Barium is
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  • 334 7 Passport gang in China gets deportees here From Our Own Circupoadft JOHORE BAHRU, Wednesday. of illegal imugnats in Johore recently have revealed the exuteace of a hi* ©rjfiuiisation in China which trafickg ni the sale Jf passports to enable people deported from *Waya under the Emerg«e«cy
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  • 60 7 FLOATING DOCK No. 4 FUJATING 4~k N.. 1 (aWr e mm Braia*. larrest IWmtiae try *tks arrired in Siorap«re yesterday «n her L-ki- lUIU- pietare *#ws crew ««.ber, .t the dry relaxing in the saa. Dvnc the O^ilU's star in port the crew win be allowed ashore to visit the
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  • 246 7 1«K United Malays National Organisation ."afcrongiv supports" the •State Nationality Bill j already introduced by several Malay States, stated Suara UMNO, its official orpan, In Its latest Issue The Introduction of State Nationality. Suara UMNO •aid, meant that the Malay States would no longer have to
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  • 75 7 The three Indian dancers who began their 10-day season in Singapore at the New World on Tuesday night are giving people of other communities an opportunity to see classical Indian dancing. 1 According to Western standards, it is less like dancine and more like a game of
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  • 177 7 21-day limit on storage sought I amendment to the Ports Ordinance to let the Singapore Harbour Board auction all goods held in their godowns for 21 days will be sought by Government at Tuesday's meeting of the Legislative Council. In an amending Bill, to be introduced by the Attorney-General. Mr.
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  • 57 7 LAND GIVEN FUR NEW SCHOOL "Ite Singapore Government last night annoiaiced that it had accepted a gift of about I five acres in Bukit Thnah Irom Messrs Credit Foncier D'Extreme-Orient for a school I for children living in the Princess Elizabeth Flats. Messrs. Credit Poncier D'Extreme-Orient last year save about
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  • 60 7 SIX aircraftmen, members of the R.A.F. Yatch dub have started a voyage from' Singapore to Malacca in two co^ted airborne SesoS? fin^ Cavalier and Bonney Mary, were each manned by a crew of three. in^ n cra 't, have no motors and no wireless equipment so
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  • 71 7 Singapore last month lm48,700 tons of rubber out of a ota I of 54,737 tons, according to official figures published this morning. From Sarawak imports for April totalled 4J&9 tons, from Borneo 910 tons, and from aiam 174 tons. Total Federation imports f or the month were
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  • 165 7 AXE of Russia's largest floating: dry docks arrived in Singapore en route to Vladivostok from the Black Sea port of Odessa as flagship of a three-ship flotilla ander the conunaad of Senior Captain (Com- modore) Nikolai Liikin. Towing the dock Is the -.830 ton freighter Admiral
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  • 58 7 Charts are being prepared in Malay in Singapore for the visit on May 25 for three days of Dr. Frank C. Laubach. who is bringing a literacy team He will spend three days in Singapore and two in the Federation. This is expected to pav e
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  • 42 7 Lim Kirn Tee and Ho Bar Hul were committed for triai at the Asstaes in Singapore yesterday od a charge of gang robbery at Baiestier Road with thtfee others and wbifc being armed with knives. They reserved their defence.
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  • 104 7 M ORE than $11,000 has been raised this year at fonr auctions by the Singapore Custodian of Property. There will be a tilth caie on Wednesday. Wardrobes. cupboards. jiaeboardy, bortccaMS chest of drawers, drwstm; tables, wooden beds, desks, ctools, two upright pianos, dinner war or* fhrwease*
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  • 33 7 J^f. %XSG irifki} d °y en th <*«»«»« kSST^\£ Mr. F. Chown toast the "c""****" <*"n* Shinr Jit Pao, at Its to«rth «-^er»rM«fcr c»e r Cecil street yesterdi?. —Strmka times picture.
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  • 150 7 1 FIVE-STOREYED office building in the centre of Singapore will be auctioned by Nassim and Co. next Tuesday at 2.10 p.m. The building is of reinforced concrete at No. is battery Road. It occupies an Ufa of 1.521 square feet and is on a 99§-year lease.
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  • 32 7 From Our Staff Correspondent. PENANG, Wed.-Sir Henry Gurney, patron of the People's Education Association, will Inspect adult education classes in Penang at the Han Chiang School on May 18.
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  • 225 7 OVERCROWDING ON LORRiES From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. I EGAL action will be taken shortly against Kuala MJ Lumpur employers who transport their labourers in dangerously overcrowded goods vehicles. It was announced at today's meeting of the Municipal Traffic Committee that three labourers have
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  • 123 7 APPOINTED IN S'PORE The following appointments j n Singapore were announced yester-day:-Professor D. E. C. Mekie to be member of Uie Medical Council of Singapore and the Federation; Mr. William Gerald WorHrn» Governn >« Ivt Statistical .J tne T Malayan CivU Service»M Mr. J. S. Smith, senior assistService, to be
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  • 47 7 Our Own Corri-spond.iK JOHORE BAHRU, Wed Found asleep on duty a special constable, A. Rengasamy, was sentenced at<Cota Tlnggi today to six weeks' gaol. Inche Kadir, the magistrate, said he had imperilled the liTes of his comrades, who were off duty and asleep.
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  • 92 7 From On- Staff Cmt^inilfl. PKNANG, Wed. rJTTFYING at the trial of Lee Lay Leong on a charge of attempted extortion, a young woman, Llm Sal Oeok, said In court today that Lee collected $6 a month from her as "protection money." *X)n Feb. 9. he came
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  • 42 7 The Sree Narayana Mis don has started Malayalam classes for children at West Hill Road. Seletar. Singapore. Parents who wish to send their children should register toem with the secretary, Mr. K. O. H. Rajan, West Hill Road, Seletar.
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  • 38 7 PLEAS TO S'PORE COMMITTEE The Singapore Health Committee has been asked by Mr. S.S. Manymm (Progressive North Ward) to clear nightsoil at night He has also suggested that domestic and commercial refuse should be collected In closed vans.
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  • 29 7 Following police raid a 3t-year-old woman, Tan Chen* Ktan, was fined $100 in Singapore Second Police Court yesterday for assisting to a ehap-Ji-kee tottery at Clyde Street.
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  • 27 7 Rosie Toh, a Siamese, and Som binte Manda. a Javanese were each fined $10 in Singapore yesterday for falling to notify their change or address.
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  • 23 7 The Singapore Municioality last night said that the Police Band will be unable to perform at King George V Park todaj.
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  • 275 7 BENEFIT FUND FOR ALL, URGES TAN IN BILL BILL to start a central provident fund for all Singapore workers not provided with a similar or better retiring benefits scheme will be introduced by Mr. C. C. Tan (ProgressiveTanghn) at Tuesday's meeting of the Legislative ho J? 1 °f tral P
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  • 70 7 Tnm Oiar Own Correspondent TELUK ANSON Wed. fpWENTT-eiffht persons in X the second batch of draftees called up were medically examined at ♦ir Teluk Anson Hu.spiUl. Oat of these six were rejected as medically unfit, while of the remainder 22 were selected making up
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  • 76 7 'Streamline Go vt,' report rE report on re-organis-i^K the administrative procedure of the Singapore Qorernment departments has been forwarded to Government by Mr. R. A. Withers, of u»don. w.ho was engaged early this year to survey the problems. The report recommends methods for streamlining administratiVe procedure, lnclodlng staff and accommodation
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  • 179 8 CINGAPORE is using three to four million gallons of water more a day, compared with the same period last year, but supplies will not be rationed so long as the present weather continues. The Municipal Water Engineer, Mr W. S. Stredwick, yesterday
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  • 62 8 INCHE AHMAD IBRAHIM. nominated Singapore Legislative Councillor, speaking at the tea party given in his honour yesterday by the Young Men's Muslim Association. Others in th« pictur« are: (from left): Haji Mohamed Khan (President of the T.M.M.A.). the Governor of Singapore Sir Franklin Gimson Mr. Nacir Mallal
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  • 79 8 Peh Thiam Poh, a Revenue Officer, told Singapore First District Court yesterday that he found Ho Sen Sen*, in a lane oft* Tanjong Pagar Road carrying 385^i tahils of raw opium in two parcels in a rattan basket. Ho said he did not know the contents
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  • 49 8 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. Inche Azml bin Haji Mohd. president of Seremban Sessions Court has at his own request been released from the Colonial Legal Service to return to Kedah Civil Service. He is now working in the State Secretariat. Alor Star.
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  • 206 8 'Nominated' must be fearless NOMINATED members will aways be needed to represent sections of the population who would otherwise not have their representatives in the Legislative Council, said Inche Ahmad Ibrahim, a nominated Singapore Legislative Councillor, yesterday. He was speaking at a tea party given by the Younjt Men's Muslim
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  • 92 8 COUNCIL POLLING SOON TWO UnofflciaJ members of the Singapore Legislative Council to serve on the Executive Council will probably be elected next week. The Royal Instructions authorising amendments to the Colony Order in Council have been received. The amendments will allow the number of Unofficial members on the Executive Council
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  • 43 8 Dismissing the appeal of a special constable against sentence of a month's imprisonment for sleeping on duty, the Acting Chief Justic, Mr. Justice Brown, said yesterday that, the court should not give the impression that such an offence was not grave.
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  • 150 8 TWO of Britain's De Havilland Comets, the first long distance jet airliners, have been ordered by the Chargeurs Reunis S.A. of Paris for the French Colonial .runk routes to Saigon and Africa. They will be operated by a subsidiary company, the Union Aeromaritime de
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  • 35 8 A Singapore clerk. Koh Bah Swee. sentenced to three months' imprisonment for stealing motor- cycle spareparts from an Army store, had his appeal dismissed by the Acting Chief Justice. Mr. Justice Brown, yesterday.
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  • 36 8 From Our Own Correspondent, JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Fermin bin Sidin. of Batu Pahat. was fined $40 at Johore Bahru for driving a lorry at 4'l m.p.h. when the speed was ilted to 20 m.rj.h.
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  • 136 8 BECAUSE of the almost daily variations in prices of meat and vegetables, the Singapore Government does not intend for the present to include these items In their weekly "fair prices lists.'" Deputy Controller of Supplies, Mr. W. W. Jenkins, told the Straits Times yesterday that on certain days
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    • 277 8 Today's Radio SINGAPORE (B.B.C. Midland Light Orch.); 8 ■a -u w¥ in in Penang Sport* Review; S.15 10 t.m. News from K.L.; 10.10 ..pi,,,).,, rhnL»»- "n».t Prnnin r-inc*- in 41 Schools- 12 Oloar- cnoice 9 ureat People Brown S-ch J ScS *>!*>" Show"; 10 D.nw Music; pltals; 7 News; 7.12
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  • 250 9 Cherubs On Your Shorts |F you should find chubby Arcadian cherubs prancing over your short* this year— don't be alarmed. The latest vogue l s for dresses and sportswear made in an 18th century furnishing fabric known as totfe de Jouy. it resembles cotton and is printed with delightful pastoral
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  • 244 9  - QUICK EASY TO MAKE BISCUITS By JOAN HERBERT lIERE are some tasty cheese biscuits that are quick and easy to make, and will keep well in an airtight tin. They are useful to keep by you, as they can be made quickly into machan ketchils if friends drop in, or
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  • 127 9 A LTHOUGH this canno; really be calle a "dress of the week," it's such ai Impressive ensemble that it deserves moment of admiration. It was created for the "jewel Ball' •t the Dorchester Hotel in London in ait of the Dockland Settlements. The dress is chalk-white
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  • 268 9 WHAT clothes need a woman take to fly round the world? Here's one who Is doing It: Brenda Rawnsley, In private life Mrs. Keighley and mother of seven-month-old Jonathan Eden. Her round the world wardrobe, designed to cover hot and cold climates packs Into two suit-cases
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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    • 251 9 m 0^ 1/1/ t 553& >* "1 ||W) ,mf K IfeßSSKri W hen you serve Campbell's Chicken Noodle Souj» you are sure to find tender pieces of chicken and plenty of homey egg noodles in every plateful. Taste tells Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup is delicious because it's prepared as you
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    • 212 9 Straits Times cVsswcrd "A^men, 30 Push around In turn 2 3 I* T~ Is 17 I a I DOWN. I sp mmmm I t. A recluse before a small i-l _C_l_.lt_i 1 *?<>£«*.«* «*>*«., 9 sssk S|| B_ 4. u', the mother of Achilles 8S SSS fc^S JSSS5 5SSa 8
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  • 565 10 THE COMMODORE, THE CAVIARE, I^HEN I introduced my\elf as a journalist to Russian Commodore Nikolai Lukin. senior captain of the three-ship Russian flotilla in his cabin aboard his flagship. Floating Dock No. 4 yesterday, his first reply was to reprove the officer who accompanied me from the gang plank. He
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  • 1279 10  -  CELL 32 at the end of the first-floor landing of Stafford's grim ancient gaol is not a pretty place, but at least 800 convicts in this prison, which was the last British home of the treadmill, covet vacant possession of it. It is unique for
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  • 14 10 Collect six of these coupons to loin the Children's Corner Club.
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