The Straits Times, 31 May 1951

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1951. if. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    TANKS STAND BY IN OIL CAPITAL
    380 1 30,000 chant 'hate hymn at parade TEHERAN, Wednesday. yANKS stood-by at key points of Persia's capital last night as 30,000 demonstrators chanted a 'hymn of hate' against Britain. The marchers, calling for nationalisation, of the Anglo-Iranian oil company, yelled: "with iron fists we'll smash
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    PULAI CLEARED: `GUARDTOODEAR'
    286 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. rpHE ancient Chinese settlement of Pulai, in South Kelantan, where in July 1948, the Malayan Communist Party first tried to establish a people's "republic", has been evacuated. Its 300 inhabitants, all that remain of the prosperous gold seeking community of
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    SINATRA 'TO GET DIVORCE'
    55 1 NEW YORK. Wed. THE New York Post said yesterday that Mrs. Nancy Sinatra has decided to give FrankU a divorce so that he can marry Ava Gardner. The couple have been legally separated since September. The crooner's international pursuit of Ava has been the subject of
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    REDS FEAR AID
    45 1 HONG KONG, Wed —The Chinese Communists, who have been so determined to cut off religious, educational and medical institutions from foreign influence that they have forbidden them to accept foreign money, have turned down L".5.524.000 for the school for blind in Shanghai—A.P.
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    COTTON EARNING
    25 1 NEW DELHI, Wed —India earned U551,980,000 by exporting cotton plecegoods last year, Deputy Commerce Minister, Mr. D. R. Karmarkar, told Parliament. A P.
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    WE CAN AGREE, SAYS RUSSIAN
    75 1 GENEVA. Wed.— A Soviet representative told United Nations members here today that the basis of his country's foreign policy was the peaceful co-existence of the capitalist and Communist economic systems 1 "If the will is lacking t-j secure this then war is possible." Mr. Amazasp
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    'MIRACLE IF 66 ESCAPE'
    280 1 'MIRACLE IF 66 ESCAPE' Hope fades for trapped miners EASINGTON. Durham. Wed. fPWELVE rescue teams today were fighting their way through gas and walls of debris with fading hopes of saving 66 miners entombed 900ft. below ground. Sixteen men are now knowti. to have died in yesterday'^ explosion which blasted
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    Del Tufo denies 'crisis' reports
    379 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. r<ATEGORICAL denials that there was a constituXy tional crisis looming in the Federation over the State Nationality BUI were made today by the Chief Secretary of the Federation, Mr. M. V. del Tufo. and the Keeper of the
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    TYRES DEARER
    23 1 The price of vehicle tyres and tubes will go up from between five and 10 per cent in Singapore from tomorrow.
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    Irish horse wins Derby
    54 1 IRISH horses took first and third places in the Derby at Epsom yesterday. The race was won by Arctic Prince, a 28-1 chance, with Sybil's Nephew (50-1) second and Signal Box 120-1) third. This year's Derby was the richest-ever, the winner's prize being well over £19,000.
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    THE KING'S VISIT OFF
    40 1 LONDON. Wed.— The King, who is suffering from influenza, today decided not 10 make his planned week-end visit to Northern Ireland. Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret will carry out the programme arranged for the visit.— Reuter.
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    NANCY MOLLER STILL WAITING
    37 1 The order to unload the $8, 500,000 rubber cargo in the Nancy Moller, which was requisitioned by the Ministry of Transport, was not carried out yesterday, and the ship is still in port.
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    BEVIN TO BE BURIED IN THE ABBEY
    109 1 LONDON. Wed. MR. Ernest Bevin, former Foreign Secretary. Is to be reburied among Britain's Kings. Queens, statesmen and poets in Westminster Abbey, the country's greatest shrine. Announcing this today, the Prime Minister. Mr. Attlee, told the House of Commons that the burial would
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    MALAY WITHOUT TEARS
    46 1 DR. ii{.vv:i iMß.ua. (above) technical adviser for the World Literacy Committee shows Kuala Lumpur teachers the simple method of teaching romanised Malay. "Never scold, frown or yawn at adult illiterates," advises Dr. L»uhach, to the amusement of the teachers (left). Straits Times pictures.
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    Pilot changed his mind—27 died
    174 1 Pilot changed his mind— 27 died HONG KONG, Wednesday. THE crash of the Pacific Overseas Airways (Siam) airliner on March 11. was caused by an error of judgment of Pilot J. R. Cory, an American, according to investigation by Mr. A. F. W. Andren, inspector of accidents from the Department
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    'Truce in Korea soon'
    80 1 GENEVA. Wed. HERN AN Santa Cruz, president of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, said yesterday he was "full of optimism" tha.t there would soon be a truce in Korea and that the world political crisis would end. He called for a "higher economic and
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    BOMB SCARES IN NEW YORK
    44 1 NEW YORK. Wed. Two Jewish newspapers in New York had bomb scares yesterday. Employees were evacuated from the buildings of the Jewish Daily Forward and the Jewish Day while police searched the premises for bomba. They found none. Reuter.
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    URANIUM SEARCH
    83 1 BONN, Wed. I*HERE are 300.000 people mining uranium for the Russians in the Soviet zone, according to an official West German Government report. The survey said the Russians have sunk 250 shafts in Saxony in the search for the atomic war material. It was Impossible to say how
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    '2 Red defeats have no equal'
    258 1 '2 Red defeats have no equal TOKYO, Wed. MAJOR defeat of the two Communist offensives in April and this month by the "magnificent United Nations force" had no parallel in history, said the U.N. Supreme Commander, Gen. Ridgway, today. "For the enemy there is no compromise, for us there is
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    DE LATTRE'S SON KILLED
    33 1 SAIGON, Wed.— Lieut. Bernard de Lattre de Tasslgny, son of the French Comman-der-in-Chief In Indo-Chlna, was killed in action today at Ninhbinh, about 70 mile* southeast of Hanoi.— Reuter.
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    URGED: POOL RAW GOODS'
    243 2 URGED: POOL RAW GOODS WASHINGTON, Wednesday. YJR. William Foster, the E.C.A. administrator, warned Australia and some other countries yesterday that the United States expected them to co-operate fully to assure an equitable distribution of their raw materials to the United States and her allies. At a press conference, Mr. Foster
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    Jet engines win dollars
    52 2 LONDON. Wed BRITISH engine makers last year earned U552,170,000 in royalties and licence fees from American manufacturers who built Britlsh-desisn ed jets, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. GaitskeiL trid t:ie House of Commons vesli rday Earnings this year were expected to "show an increase he
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    COUNCILLOR ACCUSED
    67 2 MANILA. Wed.— Charges of rebellion with murder will be instituted by the armed forces of the Philippines with the City Fiscal's OSflce against Amado V. Hernandez, Manila Nationalist opposition councillor, tomorrow It is understood that Hernandez, a former president of the Communist-inspired Congress of Labour Organisation, will be
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    'SPECS' HALT CANNIBALISM
    72 2 ROSE coloure p'nee-nez "sp.-taclc-." havi Lru-ien up an outbreak of cann'balism among tbe hens at Mr. Atkinson's farm near Spaldin?, Line. Equipped with plastic lenses, they are clipped to the beak and do not interfere with feeding, breathing or breeding, merely preventing the birds from looking forwards.
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    TRADE PACT
    41 2 NEW DELHI, Wei. An Indo-Iraq trade agreement has been signed to run to the end of the year. India will import wheat, rice, millet barley and dates, and export cotton piecegoods, jute manufactures, tea, coffee, timber and plywood.— U.P.
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      A £2 bird brought him £100 reward
      185 2 1 1/fR. Arthur Willis, 31-year-old Bournemouth Post m man, shot out his hand to grab Beauty, a pe buds:«rigar and n^ted £100. B?auty had been flying around for 48 hours with a €100 reward on her head, the whole town on the lookout,
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      MUNICIPALITY OF KUALA LUMPUR
      44 2 By kind permission of the Commissioner and Officers of the Federation of Malaya Police, the Police Band will present a programme of music In the Lake Gardens, Kuala Lumpur, from 7.30 p m to 9 p.m. on Sunday. Juno 3rd.
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      TARIFF PLEA
      49 2 HONK KONG, Wed. Representatives of the colony's weaving factories have asked the Chinese Manufacturers Union to negotiate wi f h the British Government on the new imperial preference cost accounting system. Local manufacturers are required to pay in advance 30 to 35 per cent duty deposit.— ReuterAAP.
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    U.S. `NOT GOING ALL OUT'
    295 3 Russia catching up in the air, says Vandenberg WASHINGTON, Wednesday. (jJKNKRAL Hoyt S. Vandenberg said yesterday that the United States must build a huge air force which can smash Russian industrial centres and at the same time destroy the Soviet Air Force with swift blows.
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    China 'will not get H.K. planes'
    173 3 China 'will not get H.K. planes' WASHINGTON, Wed. a STATE Department spokesman said yesterday that he did not believe the 40 civil aircraft which a Hong Kong court recently awarded to Red China, although an American company claimed them, could be shipped to the mainland He cited the recent United
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    SERVICE ON SHIP'S HULK
    59 3 HONOLULU. Wed.—Fiftythousand flower leis. woven by Hawaii's school children, were placed yesterday on the graves of 14.000 veterans of World War II in the national cemetery of thp Paciri". A special service will be held today— Memorial Day— aboard th ft hulk of the battleship Arizona,
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    SPY FOR 2 YEARS
    29 3 BELGRADE, Wed— A Yugoslav Army captain admitted in court yesterday that he had been giving Czechoslovakia military information, including radar secrets, for two years.— U.P.
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    JAP TREATY TALKS OPEN
    58 3 LONDON, Wed. The first of a series of informal exchanges between Britain and other governments interested in the Japanese peace treaty opened in London yesterday. A delegation from The Hague discussed the matter at the Foreign Office. Similar contact with the French and Canadian Governments will,
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    AIRSHIP BACK
    35 3 The first airship to be built in England for 20 years. It is Lord Ven try's "Bournemouth," which was inflated in the rfent ha near at Cardineton (Beds) which once housed the RlOl.
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    'Red troops will enter Tibet soon'
    160 3 SAN FRANCISCO. Wednesday. DEKING radio yesterday said Red troops wouid 1 enter Tibet soon "to defend national frontiers' according to the A.P. listening post in San Francisco Road work was being rushed on a highway leading to Tibet from adjoining Sikang Province, in China
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    Famine statement
    21 3 LONDON, Wed.— The British Government will make a statement in the Commons this week on India's food shortages. Reuter.
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    Danger in moving troops, say Jews
    163 3 JERUSALEM, Wednesday. ISRAEL has warned "interested parties" about the 1 danger in unprecedented troop movements in Arab countries, the Acting Premier, Mr. Moshe Sharett, told Parliament last night. The Security Council reso- lution of May 18, which ordered Israel to halt drainage operations in
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    The 6s pound
    59 3 LONDON, Wed THE British shopper with a pound note in his pocket can now buy slightly less than half what he could in 1938. The Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Hugh Gaitskell, also told the House of Commons that the pound will buy now only what six
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    BAN ENFORCED
    32 3 WASHINGTON, Wed.— New Zealand's Government said yesterday that it would use existing export control regulations to enforce the United Nations ban on shipment of strategic goods to Communist China.— AP.
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    MORE CONFIDENT, SAYS BRIGGS
    156 3 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. pENERAL Sir Harold Briggs, Malaya's Director of J Operations, said over the 8.8.C. that an increasing degree of confidence has returned to Malaya with more evidence that the bandits are feeling the pinch. In a statement recorded in Malaya. Gen.
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    U.S. 'PAYING A HIGH TOLL'
    64 3 PARIS, WED. Mr. Andrei Oromyko declared yesterday that "the American people are having to pay a high toll as a result of U s aggression in Korea. "Evidently those who took action in the beginning against Korea got giddy heads and that explains their continuing
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    BIG CAR IMPORTS
    29 3 NEW DELHI, Wed.— lndia last year imported from Britain 7.247 automobiles at a cost of 26,763,000 rupees Commerce Minister, Mr H X Mahatab told Parliament A.4
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    4,100 CANDIDATES
    28 3 PARIS, Wed. Candidates for the French general elections on June 17 total 4,100 for 627 seats 30 per cent more candidates than in the 1946.— Reuter.
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    EGYPT P.M. ACCUSED: SOVIET CONTACTS
    98 3 CAIRO, Wed. THE Prime Minister, Nahas Pasha, was today accused of being In touch with "Communist contacts" in Cairo. Dr. Hussein Heikal Pasha, leader of the Liberal Constitutional Party and former president of the Egyptian Senate and Inter-Parliamen-tary Union, said the Prime Minister was "In
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    ITALY GOES TO RIGHT
    84 3 ITALY GOES TO RIGHT ROME, Wed. POMMUNIST strongholds in the industrial belt of Italy toppled yesterday as results came in from elections on Sunday and Monday in 28 provinces. Genoa and Venice were wrested from flve-year-old Communist rule. In the great industrial belt linking the two cities, the Christian Democrat
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    Let Fed. pay for scheme, say MPs
    296 3 Let Fed. pay for scheme, say MPs From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wed. A MALAYAN electricity scheme should oe financed by the Malayan Government and not by the Colonial Development Corporation, said M.P.s during a debate on the Corporation's annual report. Mr. Walter Fletcher referred to the £3,750,000 loan to
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    BUDGET PASSED
    22 3 MANILA, Wed.—The Philippine Congress adjourned last night after approving a national budget for the *****952 fiscal year calling for U*****,424,885.—A.P.
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    SULTAN'S CORONATION
    272 4 From Our Special Staff Correspondent BRUNEI, Wednesday. J7VERY house in Kampong Ayer Amous, Brunei's water village, is this evening flying a flag in celebration of the coronation tomorrow of Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin as the twentyeighth Sultan of this little Malay State. As dusk fell, lights were hoisted
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    Singapore Diary
    158 4 FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN, VS. Building. River Valley Road, exhibition. 9 a.m. U> 6 p.m.. film show. 6 p.m. Y.W.C.A.. Raffles Quay, dressmaking, 10 a.m. Malay advanced class. 5.30 p.m. BRITISH RED CROSS Old People's Club. Wesley Hall. Fort Canning. 4.30 p.m. KAMALA CLUB. Mrs. F. Labauch on "Adult
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    YMCA NOW RUNS REST HOUSE
    132 4 YMCA NOW RUNS REST HOUSE f THK Teachers' Rest House at Meyer Road, Katong. has been taken over by the Chinese Y.MC.A. since the lapse of management by the May fair Association, dosed by Government early this year The Rest House will continue to be used for the benefit of
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    HAD STOLEN PROPERTY
    81 4 Tan Jwee Hlng and Faquir Mohamed bin Atta Mohamed wer P acquitted by th e Singapore Third District Judge, Mr S. E. Teh, yesterday on a joint charge of robbery without being called for their defence. Faquir, who pleaded guilty to an alternative charge of dishonestly retaining
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    HE EXHIBITED INDECENT NOTE
    65 4 A Chinese roadside medicine seller. Lee Kai. was fined $50 or one month's imprisonment when he pleaded guilty In the Singapore First Police Coun yesterday to exhibiting a writ ten note of an indecent nature Because he was unable cr> pay the fine yesterday and to
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    Hospital for mothers one of the best
    125 4 i^R. E. D. Pridie, Medical Adviser to the Colonial Office, said after a visit to Singapore's Kandang Kerbau Maternity Hospital yesterday: "It is one of the best run hospitals I have seen." "It compares well with maternity hospitals in Britain." Dr. Pridie was
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    Extension to hospital
    56 4 rpHE Kandang Kerbau Maternity Hospital will soon have an extra 100 beds. The br?ds will be accommodated in n ii air-conditioned threeey building to be erected al Farrer Park. The extension Is provided Tor in the ten-year Medical PJin for the Colony. The site for the building
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    HE WILL VOTE
    56 4 MRS. N4NCI LTNN, the only woman registration clerk in Kuala Lumpur, helps a Malay driver fill In his form at the Registration CentTe at Batu Road School while Mr G. Hawkins, Supervisor of Elections. looks on. Mrs. Lynn, a welfare worker, was the only woman to volunteer
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    Housewives told: 'buy fish again'
    167 4 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesdr-y. AN appeal to housewives to accept expert' advice and start buying fish again was broadcast over Radio Malaya last night by Mr. D. W. le Mare. Director of Fisheries. Mr. le Mare assured the housewives ("with all the authority
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    Dr. V. C. Allen to retire
    53 4 DR. G. V. ALLEN, vicechancellor of the University of Malaya, is to retire next year. The date he leaves will be decided when his successor has been appointed. The first vice-chancellor of the University, Dr. Allen was formerly principal of the Kin* Edward VII
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    SILENCE COSTS
    27 4 PARIT BUNTAR. Wed. Soo Tian Hua was sentenced to a year's imprisonment at Parit Buntar Sessions for failing to report loss of his identity card.
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    SEGAMAT DANCE
    18 4 SEGAMAT, Wed— A social and dance has been arranged by the Segamat International Club on Saturday.
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    First woman president
    91 4 From Our Own Correspondent KOTA BAHRU, Wed. rVHE Federation 'Member x for Education. Dato E.E.C. Thuraisingham at a teachers' tea-party yesterday congratulated the Kelai.tan Teachers' Union on beint; the first in Malaya to have a woman as president. Accompanied by Mr. L.D. Whitfield, Director of Education, Dato
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    NO PERMIT: $50
    47 4 From Oar Own Correspondent. SEGAMAT, Wed. Chang Kim Fah. 26-year-old lorry driver from Labis was flneo $50 for carrying lgos In his vehicle without a haulage permit. The timber was badly needed at a local sawmill, he said, and no other transport was available.
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    VOLUNTEERS ON PARADE
    38 5 MEMBERS of the Singapore Volunteer Corps during their passing-out parade at S.V.C. Headquarters yesterday. About 30 recruits took part. Lt.-Col. H. J. Rae. Commanding S.V.C. (Liaison) Regiment, is seen taking the salute. Straits Times picture.
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    Unite schools, Johore urged
    282 5 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wednesday. T*HE Johore Government was today asked to conA sider the possibility of "amalgamating the religious and secular teaching fraternities of the State" in order to expand its teaching facilities. The question came from Mr.' H. E. MacKenzie, denior Unofficial
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    Johore thanks Dato Teoh
    65 5 i urn Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. MEMBERS of the Johore ri State Council today stood in silence for a minute as a mark of respect to Daio Teoh Sieio Khor who died since the Council met last. The Acting Mentri Besar, Sued Abdul Kadir
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    Shoe strike: talks likely
    81 5 NEGOTIATIONS to settle the strike of 200 workers at the*Bala Shoe factory in Singapore are being arranged. Employers and workers have approached the Labour Department for help, the Deputy Labour Commissioner. Mr. C. W. Lyle. told the Straits Times yesterday. The workers went on strike on
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    67,000 are re-settled in Johore
    146 5 67,000 are re-settled in Johore Fran Our Own Correspondent. JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. WORK on re-settlement schemes has been completed, insofar as the physical resettlement is concerned except at Endau in the Mersing area, at Kampong Paya in the Kluang area, Mr. Cun-nygham-Brown said in the Johore Councii of State today
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    Wants Municipal salaries revised
    291 5 A REVISION of monthly salaries of all employees of the Singapore Municipality on the permanent establishment, will be sought in a motion which Mr. Yap Pheng Geek (Nominated) will introduce at this afternoon's meeting of the full board of Municipal Commissioners. The motion, which is being
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    Did you see these two incidents?
    117 5 FE Singapore Traffic Police are appealing for eyewitnesses or any persons with information about two accidents one at 7.10 a.m., at the six and half mile Bukit Timah Road on May 2, and the other on Tuesday afternoon at the junction of Joo Chiat
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    MORE MANGOES FOR PENANG
    39 5 PENANG, Wed. Another consignment of 5,000 baskets of Indian mangoes will arrive in Penang thljj week by the Jalagopal. This excludes the 20,000 basket* received recently. The fruit is selling at afcout 40 ceflts each.
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    Johore Bill is first 'firm step to free Malaya'
    866 5 Johore Bill is first 'f irm step to free Malaya' THE Johore Nationality Bill, described by the State Legal Adviser, Mr. W. Martin McCall, as "the first firm step towards the creation in Malaya of a free and independent nation" was yesterday referred, amid applause to a select committee of
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    They will not remove hats
    95 5 From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Wed \^HEN 800 troops, police, Scouts and Girl Guides parade in honour of the King's birthday in Kuala Lumpur next Thursday, hats will be raised to cheer the King— except those of a contingent of Gurkha troops, who by
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    ENTERTAINED TO FAREWELL PARTY
    54 5 From Our Own Correspondent. MUAR. Wed. Mr. D. A. Somervllle. Administrative Officer. Muar, was entertained to a farewell dinner by Muar Government servants in the Muar Club last night He Is leaving shortly for Johore Bahru where he is taking up a new appointment as Commissioner
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    MACHINES FOR FARMERS PLAN
    100 5 From Our Own Correspondent. JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. riOVERNMENT plans to in-, \M troduce to farmers in this country the use of modern machines- to help them in their work Inche Rahman Experiments had been carried out by the Government over the past five years and these
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    DEATHS
    75 6 MR. P N. MADHAVAN, formerly ©f A.M.D.O.W. Headquarters. Malaya. Singapore, passed away peacefully at his residMK. Ksyanfcilun, .Travancore, last week." Deeply regretted. MRS KOH SIAK XBQNO (nee Tan Chit Neo), passed »way peacefully at No. 890. Joo Chlat Road, on May 28th, 1951. 'She leaves behind the only daughter,
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Thur. May 31, 1951. Dr. Pridie's Policy
    998 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thur. May 31, 1951. Dr. Pridie's Policy With Dr. E. D. Pridie, Chief Medical Officer to the Colonial Office, in Singapore this week, this is an appropriate time to onsider the basic world probem of which Dr. Pridie is at nee an instrument and a symbol,
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    U.K. WANTS BURMA WOLFRAM
    119 6 LONDON, Wed. MR. Richard Stokes, the Minister responsible for obtaining Britain's raw materials, said yesterday he was doing all he could to get valuable metals from Burma. Mr. Walter Fletcher, Conservative, had asked in the House of Commons what he was doing to get bigger supplies
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    BRUNEI ENTERS HER GOLDEN AGE
    1356 6 BRUNEI ENTERS HER GOLDEN AGE The 28th Sultan is crowned today, oil gushes in Sena and From a Straits Times Special Staff Correspondent AS 36-year-old Sultan Omar AH Saifuddin is crowned today with Oriental pageantry as Brunei's 28th Ruler, his iittie Malay State, the smallest in the great island of
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      Polyandry too?
      353 6 "fHINESE Simple Simon," in his letter headed "Polygamous man," said on Monday that men were by nature polygamous, having been made so by the Almighty. If Mr. Simple had any powers of reasoning he would not have made such a sweepingly ridiculous statement Can he explain what leads
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    On the Margin
    396 6 Oak Apple Day PROM an Englishman wh« came out to Singapore when I was still toddling about my native heath at the blissful age of two, I hava received the following foot" note to this column's comments of last Tuesday on celebrations of King Charles II's escape
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    S'PORE-INDIES TRADE TALKS
    392 7 Govt. official speaks for Chinese firms fjIGH LEVEL trade talks between Singapore and Indonesia are now being held in Indonesia where Mr. L. E. K. Averill, Assistant Secretary in the Singapore Economic Affairs Department is confering with Indonesian officials regarding the improvement of trade relationships between the
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    WAR SUNK CARGO TO BE SALVAGED
    144 7 OALVAGE work has started on ships sunk during the war in Indonesian waters. The work is expected to yield $400,000,000 in scrap and cargo. The job will last several yrars More than 200 wrecks «>1 merchant shipping, aonie nl which left Singapore and uere
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    SIX GET PENSIONS
    61 7 The Johore Council of State, today approved the payment of $25 a month to each of the five sons and daughter of the late Ungku Aziz bin Abdul Majid who died in London last month. Capt. Hussein bin Onn's suggestion that the motion be amended to read
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    Slow reading at 5 cents a day
    41 7 Ruffles Library. Singapore, will charge five cents a dap for overdue books from June 16. The total charge will not exceed the value of the book. Subscribers are asked to return all overdue books.
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    Charged with murder
    34 7 Leow Scow was tentatively charged before Mr. P. Claque in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday with the murder of Lim Kirn Sai. Leow was remanded in custody until June 6.
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    Two more lifeguards for pool
    115 7 TWO more lifeguards are to be appointed by Singapore Municipal Commissioners to augment the staff at the Mount Emily swimming pool and to supply the new pool, to be built shortly at Tanjong Pagar. The new appointments, to be confirmed by the Commissioners at their
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    I AM SHOCKED: DATO PAGLAR
    71 7 The President of the Singapore Recreation Club. Dato C. J. Paglar, who is one »f two Eurasian members on the Legislative Council, Is to investigate charges that unemployed Eurasians In the Colony are operating a* gangsters Dato Paglar said yesterday: "I am absolutely shocked oy
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    No gaol for Squadron Leader—$1,000 fine
    345 7 No gaol for Squadron Leader $1,000 fine OQUADRON-Leader George C. Winton, who yesterday lost his appeal against conviction of accepting a bicycle from a contractor, had his sixmonths' prison sentence quashed by the Acting Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Brown. The fine of $1,000 or six months' imprisonment was upheld. Winton
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    KING'S BIRTHDAY
    36 7 The Colonial Secretary's Office In Singapore yesterday announced that a limited number of tickets for the King's Birthday parade to be held on June 7 has now been issued to th« public and no
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    $200 FINE
    34 7 Ghee Teow Kang, a hotelkeeper, was fined a total of $200 in the Singapore First Police Court yesterday after pleading guilty to summons charges of failing to record the particulars of lodgers.
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    SIAMESE POLICE CHIEF AT K.L.
    41 7 Lieut- General Phal Siriyanon, deputy Director-Gene-ral of the Siamese police, walks to his plane at Kuala Lumpur with the Acting Commissioner of Police, Federation. Mr. W. D. Robinson, after visiting the Federal capital. Straits Times picture.
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    CHINESE HAIL NEW LAW
    117 7 CHINESE HAIL NEW LAW SINGAPORE Chinese circles yesterday welcomed amendments made to the Emergency (Travel Restriction) Regulations, enabling the Competent Authority to cancel any entry permit for public security reasons. They said that the amendments which were gazetted on Tuesday night were necessary to legalise any action likely to be
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    SLEPT WHILE ON DUTY
    77 7 Mohamed All bin Yatim, a Malay police constable, was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment by Mr. T. E. Smith in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday for sleeping on armed duty. Police Lt. W. L. Jones told the Court that he found Mohamed sleeping on a
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    CHEATING CHARGE
    44 7 Ahmad Ali Khan Surattee was offered bail in $2,000 in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday after he had claimed trial to a charge of cheating Robinson and Company of 12 watches valued at $1,390. The case -was postponed to June 6.
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    MR. G. W. WEBB
    49 7 Mr. G. W. Webb, secretary of the Singapore Social Welfare Department, will take over duties of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs on June 4 from Mr. j. p. Biddulph, who leaves the Colony on leave with his wife and family for Australia on June 5.
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    11 Russian ships to stay a week
    92 7 PLEVEN modern-looking Russian coasters the fifth Vladivostok-bound flotilla to pass through Singapore in recent months anchored in Singapore Outer Roads yesterday. They will be here for six days. Tftn of the olive-painted coasters are of a type now being mass-produced in the Baltic
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    14 7 TWO of the eleven Russian ships which arrived in port yesterday. Straits Times Picture.
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    1,300 MORE A MONTH TUNE IN
    52 7 jyjALAYA'S audience of radio listeners Increased bj about 1,300 a month last year. Jackson, said It wm "a satisfying increase." For the last five months of 1950, the Federation avera;;:: peak, with 1,340 new licences Issued. Singapore had an Increase! of about, 300 newly
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    3 Britons die as 50 bandits strike
    256 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. tMFTY bandits attacked a patrol of the first 1 battalion, the Worcestershire Regiment, in the Kluang area of Johore on Sunday. An officer, 2nd Lieut. W. O. Morris RAOC (attached) and two other ranks, Cpl. B.
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    DIDN'T REPORT DEFACED CARD
    62 7 Explaining the defacement on his identity card. Lee Meng Watt, a seaman, told thp Singapore First District Court yesterday that he alway« had the card on him and because of his work he was frequently exposed to sunshine and rain which damaged the card. Lee. pleading
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    AND HE DOES IT AGAIN
    66 7 MAJOR Peter Richardson who in January won the Distinguished Service Order when he led men of the l/2nd Gurkha Rifles in a rousing attack which killed 25 bandits also led the same company "B" on Monday when 12 bandits were killed. Monday's action took place
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    JOHORE CUSTOMS
    25 7 JOHORE BAHRU. WedThe Customs Causeway Office. Johore Bahru, will be closed on June 6 for Awal Puasa and June 7. the King's birthday.
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    Veil of secrecy hid Siam's chief of police
    307 7 Veil of se cr ecy hid Siam's chief of police From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. gIAJVrS anti-Communist 'Sherlock Holmes* wearing a cap like the famous fiction detective of Baker Street, but without the pipe, left Kuala Lumpur today after a three-day visit to the Federation under a veil
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    Workers are cautious
    76 7 gINGAPORE Government employees In the lower Income group were yesterday cautious in their comment on the report that the Government may raise their cost of living allowances. Mr. P. Govindasamy, president of the Singapore Postal and Telecommunications Uniformed Staff Union, would not comment until he had studied
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    4 APPLY FOR LABOUR JOB
    80 7 Only four applications ha. been received by the Singapore Labour Department for a Chief Employment Officer to take charge of the employment service and orgar.Ls* technical training for indus^-.' rial workers. Closing dat<? 11 June 4. All tour applicants ire Indians— two from the Federation
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    WOMEN WORRIED: MEN DEFIANT
    288 8 'We will resist eviction THERE were defiant men and dispirited women at Singapore Improvement Trust flats at Tiong Bahru, Kampong Silat and Race Course Road yesterday. It was the last day of grace under notices to quit sent to 62 families last month. The men said
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    12 8 MR. AND MRS. Lim Men*; Ngor who were married at Segatnat -recently.
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    GET YOUR SON TO BE A PRIEST'
    238 8 MONSIGNOR Michael Olcomendy, Bishop of Malacca, said yesterday: "Catholic parents will have to encourage their sons to become priests." He was commenting on the shortage of priests in the Federation and Singapore, and the need to recruit more students for the priesthood. "There
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    4 lawyers in will dispute
    98 8 FUR Singapore lawyers asked Mr. Justice Spenser Wilkinson in the High Court yesterday for direction»s on the proper interpretation of certain clauses in the wUi of the late Singapore millionaire Mr. Joseph Aaron Elias Mr Elias died in July. 1949. The property referred to in
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    LOST CARD AT SEA
    83 8 LOST CARD AT SEA Charged with failing to produce his identity card, Sal Han Eng told the Singapore First District Judge yesterday that he had lost it and all his belongings when he was swept overboard from his lighter some time ago. Sal produced a letter from his employer about
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    Expert flies out to test soil
    141 8 A FOUNDATION problem faces the builders of the 16-storey Asia Insurance Building in Collyer Quay, Singapore, and a soil expert from Britain is to be flown out. I In foundation tests by Messrs. Steen Sehested, the owners' consultants, no evidence of solid rock has
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    COMMISSIONED
    24 8 The Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, has granted a commission to Mr. J. R. Knight as Pilot Officer in the Malayan Air Training Corps.
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    'Cocos King' going to help subjects
    346 8 JOHN Clunies-Ross, 22-year-old "King of the J Cocos Islands" sails on Saturday to his tiny kingdom to use the knowledge he has gained at Exeter College, Oxford. He took a special course on Colonial administration. The students were young men for Government service ell
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    WILL GIVE CHEQUE TO UNIVERSITY
    117 8 MR. G. Uttamram, a Singapore Indian textile merchant, who will present a "fat cheque" to the Chancellor of the University of Malaya. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, at a party on Monday. Mr. Uttamram would not disclose, the amount which, he said, would be to set up
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    S'pore's 10 dangerous roads listed
    390 8 S'pore's 10 dangerous roads listed A LARGE map showing the ten most dangerous roads In Singapore will be one of the exhibits at the Victoria Memorial Hall during tie "Safety First Week lT from Saturday to June Hth. The roads are Bnklt Timah Road, Woodlands Road, Orchard Road, Kallang Road,
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    2 8 MRS. LAUBACH
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    LITERACY CHARTS FOR STORE
    115 8 T|R. Frank C. Laubach's tour of Singapore and the Federation to demonstrate his technique of teaching the adult illiterate to read and write has aroused such great interest .that hla_ wife has women at Kamala Club today. "The ideal place to start a drive for mass
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    Dress of the Week
    235 9 AJERE is a frock that will be useful for those many occasions when a long dress is called for but you do not want to look too formal Made in two pieces, overlapping at the waist, it lends itself to many adaptations, so with only a
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    KEEPING CRISP IN A HOT CLIMATE
    333 9  -  PEARLE HARFORD By IT is every woman's dream to be "crisp as a lettuce leaf" in a hot country, although heaven knows lettuces wilt quite as fast as humans if left long enough out of cold storage. However, let us try to emulate the
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    Crash, Bang!
    70 9 DRIVING around Singapore there is a small, much battered car, which has, sus I pended from the rear mud I guard, a plate bearing the I legend: "lesus Saves.' It has been suggested by a I I local wit that Singapore wo- men drivers place similarly I r
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    You Can Throw Out That Razor
    336 9  - You Can Throw Out That Razor MAUREEN MALLAL By pHOSE who suffer from superfluous hair on legs, arms and face, which is aggravated by the Malayan climate, need do so no longer as there is a new treatment available which removes it quick!.- and painlessly, without the harshness of a
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    A LOOK AT LONDON'S NEW HATS
    127 9 uuaidi designed by OtcO Lucas. Worn straight on the head, it's lemon colour with grey and white chiffon swathing to give a softening effect to the style. Nice wi.h dress suits or the tailored look. A STRAW toque, wit:. two feather mushrooms as it's
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      346 9 StraitS Tim©S CmCCWnrrl round, expressing grief (4>. J IOM3 I IlllWa V-IUbbWOra 32. Red «all (anag.) (7). ■jMt. 33. The roll of an enemy (7) S55 3 4 5 I 7 I Ia I 3< Two instruments with might iSJSg; nd main (6. 3. 5). sssssj 55SJ !!!!5? li"W N
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    LONDON STOCKS
    297 10 LONDON, Wed. THE London stock market 1 was colourless today with the volume of business subnormal and with market mer. awaiting developments in the Persian situation. The statement by Britain s Foreign Minister outlining the United Kingdom attitude, however, assisted oil shares with Anglo-Iranian up to 51. CJoama
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    RUBBER MARKET
    182 10 Three-cent price rise; steady throughout From A Market Correspondent THE Singapore rubber market maintained a steady tone throughout the day yesterday. A rise of three cents a lb. in the price was recorded, mainly as a result of short-covering. Turn-over was moderate, i with a rew transactions reported
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    London rubber
    28 10 LONDON, Wed., May 30— Spot 44d.. July 43%d., July-Sept. 43%d., Oct.-Dec. 39d., Jan.-Mar. 37d.. J'jne cJ.f. 43&d., June-July ci.f. 42Hd., July-Aug. c.l.f. 41d. M»rket: Very steady.
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    ESTATE WAGES From Our Own Correspondent
    81 10 ESTATE WAGES From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wed. MR. P. J. Burgess, chairman oi Sungei Telor Rubber Estate, after stating in his circular to shareholders that wages and costs of every kind have mounted excessively, says that although it has been relatively easy to provide for the increased costs on
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    TIN: $565 A PICUL
    41 10 SINGAPORE, Wed., May 30.— $565 (down $4.37}). £1,120 a ton in London LONDON/ May 30.— Cash Buyers £1,120; Sellers £1,125; Forward Buyers £1.105; Sellers £1.110; Settlement £U20 (down £15). Turn-over: a.m. 40 tons, p.m. 70 tons. i»
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    H.K. MONEY MARKET
    95 10 HONG KONG, Wed. FREE market currency exchange toi Hong Kong dollars quoted at the close todaj M follows: US$l HK56.23% (cash), HKs«.J7tt (T); £1 HKIIS 72; one tahtl of gold HKS3I4%— U.P THE money market in Hong Kong is again tight as a result of $30,000,000 being
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    Shipping in the Roads and alongside
    182 10 CHIPS in the Singapore Roau and alongside the Singapore Harbour Board godowns at 4 p.m yesterday were: Outer Roads: Hai Hsuan, North Star. Nancy Molier, Hiwassi, Salte 53, Walwerang. Kilv.a, Ulysses, Salte 52. Murmansk. Hoegh Merchant, Touranl, Salte 56, Bendoran, Van den Bosch. Poyang.
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    Malayan shares
    140 10 Industrials firm, Tins steady rE Tin section of the Malayan share market continued steadier yesterday. Rubbers had some support at lower prices. Industrials remained firm. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers 1 Association were: INDUSTRIALS Gammon* 2 07 Hkoni S'hai Sank iH" ong reg 725 00 MINING
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    CANADIAN DOLLAR EXCHANGE
    36 10 •T»HE Malayan Exchange Banks A Association announced at Uie week-end that control direct rates 1 for Canadian dollars were: Buying TT 35 V*. Airmail (OD.) 35%. (90 days) 35%; SelJing, T.T.10.D ready 34%.
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    186 10 From A Market Correspondent T»HE Singapore copra market eased yesterday with lower advice from ttie Continent. Buyers opened bids at $41% a picul with sellers at $43. A little business was reported at $42%. The market closed with buyers at that level and sellers holding off. Coconut
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    A CANTER
    718 11 Fa vourites fin ish poorly in Derby M EPSOM DOWNS, Surrey, Wednesday. K. Joseph McGrath of Eire carried off Britain's richcst-ever Derby when his colt Arctic Prince (28-1) cantered away from a field of 33 to win easily by six lengths. After a photo the 50-1 outsider Sybil's
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    66 11 SOCCEK: Singapore 'A' v Sumatra Police at sUdium Di». 2: IJK.C. 'A' v S.HJI. at GeytaagDiv. 3B: BODCA A' P 4 T at BODCA; Basiocss Bse. Lge. A: Borneo Motors Bime Darby at V.M.C.A.; Business Hse. Lge. B: Mansfield v Bata S.C. at Farrer Park. TABLE TENNIS: Leach
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    PERAK CHAMPION BADLY BEATEN
    95 11 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wed. Biggest npset in the current Perak badminton championship occurred on Monday when Goh Chong Hong beat Teoh »«ng Khoon defending J«>*les champion and Thomas Cup player. Goh was in devastating form and won 15-0. 15-2. Goh will now meet Tan
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    R.E.M.E. miss many chances v. Tamilians
    161 11 "pAMII. Brotherhood Association, playing determined football did well to hold the strong RJE.M.E. to a one-all draw in their S.A.F.A. senior division march at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. R.EM.E. dictated play throughout the first half but their forwards threw away easy scoring chances. This
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    Last 4 in Paris
    73 11 PARis, Wed.— Two Australians a South African and former Czech f" J Dr «*ny wfll fight it out in tne French tennis championship semi-finals tomorrow. The Australians are Frank s*K*nian and Ken MacGregor, African Kric Sturgess «f^S Vitt S^a^ht CUrk or the VS. were yesterday defeated
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    33 11 SMILES ALL ROUND AT END OF RACE THREE: The Potentate, with Mawi up is led in through the winner's gate by Maj. Lindsay Years at yesterday's races at Bukit Timah. Straits Times picture.
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    152 entries for Ipoh June races
    897 11 From Our Staff Correspondent OIPOH, Wednesday. NE hundred and fifty-two entries have been received for the three-day June meeting of the Perak Turf Club, to be held on June 9, 13 and 16 catering for horses Class 3 and 5 There will be eight
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    GAN KHEK KHIAM CUP
    186 11 ♦w ll^ v*u *s <l competiUon for the Oaw Khek Khiam Cup will take place on Saturday afternoon, me draw and starting times are vw' u**^ 130I 30 J W V »> <«> vH. H. Tonka (12); 2.35 S. K. Won iJ*> W. Perrier Mayor (1):
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    Today's Radio
    80 11 SINGAPORE 10 a.m. News from K.L.; 10.10 Close; 10.45 Schools; 12 Close; 1 p.m. Light Music; 1.30 News; 1.45 Del Station Trio; 2 Schools; 3.50 Close; 6.15 "Calling All Hospitals": 7 Newt; 7.12 Radio Scientist; 7 JO Interlude; 7.30 Augmented Radio Orch.; S We Beg to Differ"; 8
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    PINK GIN SCORES FLUENT VICTORY IN SPRINT TRIAL
    2436 12  -  EPSOM JEEP By Happy Quadrant pays $94, The Potentate $65 NICELY POSITIONED behind the pace, Pink Gin (McPherson) streaked away over the last furlong to score a handsome l£-length victory from No Regrets in the Class 1. Div. 1 Summer Cup Trial
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    19 12 Pink G«n raced past Ladles Flame halfway up the straight and won easily from No Refrets.-Stralls Times pic tar*.
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    Big Sweep results
    55 12 Total Pool: $502,800. 1st No. *****8 S22S.260 2nd No. *****1 $113,130 3rd No. *****3 62.850 Starters ($5,237 each) Nos,. *****4; *****7; *****9; *****0: *****3: *****3; *****0: *****8; *****0: *****4: *****2; *****1. Consolation ($3,771 each) Nos *****9: *****9: *****8; 590«98: *****'!: *****3: *****4; *****3: *****3: *****5 DOUBLE TOTE
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    66 12 BATTLESHIP (on the outside). Keel Rose (on the rails) and Double Aries battle it out stride for stride half a furlong from the winning post in Race 4 at Bukit Timah yesterday. Responding to Wally Bagby's vigorous riding, Battleship got up in last few strides to beat Keel Rose by
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    U.K., Denmark not Keen to play here
    220 12 IF HALL IS NOT READY... BADMINTON officials in Britain and the Continent are worried over the lack of a proper badminton hall in Singapore for the 1952 Thomas Cup championships, said Ong Poh Lim, the Colony's badminton star yesterday. Ong had Just returned
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    HK Army XI begin tour with draw
    189 12 THE Hong Kong Army cricket team, now on a visit to Singapore, played their first game In the Colony yesterday against G.H.Q Parelf. The game ended In a draw. Scores were: Hong Kong Army: 150 (Capt. Graveston 49. Capt. Haycraft 32; Col. Ricketts
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    CHEW BEE GOES TO 4TH ROUND
    41 12 SURBITON, Surrey. Wed. ONG CHEW BEE, Malayan triple champion, beat S. K. Bartlett (South Africa) 6-2, 6-1. in the third round of the men's singles in the Surrey grass courts lawn tennis championships today. Renter.
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    Watte saves tourists
    54 12 Watte saves tourists ILFORD Essex, Wed. A FIGHTING 128 by Walt© saved the South Africans after a bad early collapse against Essex in the opening day's play today. The tourists totalled 315 for nine, but five wickets fell cheaply before Walte and A. Rowan, and later Tavfleld, brought the score
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    SCOREBOARD
    132 12 SOITH AFHICA— 1ST. INNS. I. lowu k rrnlon McGlcw Ifcw Bai»ey Walls e Bailer R Smith i ■< KuNrrlon k Proston J Mm c Insoto Preston 1 Muui Ik* r. Smllh A. Rowan k K. Smith "> ravneld k P. Smith Mann c Dodd* k Prriton M Ctiuhk n»t
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    4 COUNTIES SHARE LEAD
    125 12 LONDON, Wsd T ANCAyHIRE, Warwickshire and A- 1 Kent, all of whom won their matches ended yesterday. Joined Hampshire at the top of the County championship table, each with 40 points. Rain, which washed out Monday's play, completely prevented even a first-Innings decision bein? reached in
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    H.K. stars due here tomorrow
    73 12 rTHE two Hong Kong table- tennis players. Sit Shu Chor, and Pu Chi Fang are expected to arrive in Singapore tomorrow and barely three hour., after their arrival here they will be playing against Johnny Leach, the worl.l champion and Michel Haguenauer the French champion
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      28 12 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: 7.48 a.m. (7.7), 8.14 p.m. (7.8); 1.46 a.m. (3.S). 2.07 p.m. (3ft). TOMORROW:. 8.58 a.m. (7.9), 8.52 p.m. (8.3); 2.40 a.m. (2.4), 2.58 p.m. (3.3).
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