The Straits Times, 18 March 1952

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1952 I'LtICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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    NEW APPEAL ON KOREA
    269 1 Russia wants the truce talks before U.N. WASHINGTON, Monday. RUSSIA may soon make a new effort to transfer the Korean truce talks to the United Nations headquarters in New York, American officials said, today. They said the way the Communist negotiators have been stalling at Panmunjom
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    BANDITS KILL 3 IN AMBUSH OF POLICE
    155 1 BANDITS KILL 3 IN AMBUSH OF POLICE KUALA LUMPUR. Mon A POLICE lieutenant and a bren gunner wire killed outright and a special constabulary corporal was fatally woandeJ when 20 bandits ambu.shtd a police party in the Kuantan area of Pahang yesterday The police were in pursuit of a eang
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    Germ war 'nonsense'
    56 1 WASHINGTON. Mon. MAJ. Gen. Torstein Dale, Director General .-f Med'cal Services of Norw?gian Armed Forces, today dismissed as nonsen.se Communist charges that United Nations were using germs in Korea. "You do not have to brirg germs into CommunU* territory they were already there." said Gen. Dal*, who
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    Burned his feet
    76 1 A EUROPEAN member of the technical .staff of Straits Trading Company at Pulau Brani. Mr J. Lines, had both his feet burned when he stepped on molten metal in the factory works yesterday afternoon. He was brought to Singapore by the Singapore Harbour Board fire float Han
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    A garland for Sir Franklin
    57 1 THE FIRST FREEMAN of th e City of Singapore. Sir Franklin Gimson said goodbye" .o more than 109 Malay ratings of the Malayan Naval Force at the Naval Base yesterday Sir Franklin wa s garlanded by Chief Petty Officer Ismail bin Hassan (above). Later be
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    New draft for treaty
    51 1 N TAIPEH. Mon ATIONALIST China today presented a revised draft for a Sino- Japanese peace treaty. The draft was described as •final." It met some of the Japanese objections to the original Nationalist draft presented at the formal opening session of th<» conference on Feb 20—
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    British ship drifting
    48 1 SEATTLE. Mon.— A Coast Guard cutter and an oceangoing tug today ploughed through the choppy North Pacific to a British freighter drifting 420 miles off the Washington coast. The Liberty ship Darton radioed that she had lost her propeller, but was not in danger. U.P.
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    'East Germany has 300,000 Chinese slaves'
    203 1 'East Germany has 300,000 Chinese slaves' TAIPEH, Mon. rpHfcRE are an estimated -I 300,000 Chinese in slave labour camps in Russiancontrolled East Germany. Mr. James Wei. publisher of the English language newspaper, China News, and deputy director of the Nationalist Centra] News Agency, reported today from Paris. Mr Wei. who
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    POLICE KILL MAN IN CASH DEMAND TRAP
    108 1 PENANG. Monday. pOLICE today shot dead an extortionist after ne had demanded money from a shop in the crowd ed business area of Beach Street, Penang The man. identified as Chan Kirn Hong, called at the shoo at about 4.00 om But he
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    Bandits burn lorry
    32 1 Terrorist*, burned a I'vry on an estate In the KUiang district or Johnre. yesterday Rubber trees w«>»<" s'ash*»d and tatex caps smasher; in the JoH^re Bahru and Kluang areas
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    Sir Cheng-lock proposes a Malayan Chinese regiment
    522 1 TELL US YOUR NEEDS AND WE'LL TRY 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. CIB Cheng-lock Tan, speaking on the new National Service Bill in a broadcast from Radio Malaya tonight, suggested the formation of a Malayan Chinese regiment. He said that the Chinese community should
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    Australia 'had no option'
    73 1 Australia 'had no option CANBERRA Mon. MR. Robert Menzies. Prime Minister of Australia, today, repeated his pledge to Britain that as soon as Australia's balance of payments position permitted, her drastic cuts in imports would be reviewed. "We should have been delighted to leave British exports to Australia untouched," he
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    20 lawyers, but still he was gaoled
    98 1 CAIRO. Mon. AHMAD Hussein, lawyer and leader of the Al Ish brake} ah (National Socialist) Party. formerly known as the Greenshirt Fascists, was sent to prison today for 18 months for a series of articles held to be an offence against the sovereign
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    RADIO APPEAL TO VIETMINH
    61 1 SAIGON, Mon. French Army propaganda chief Col. Claude Clement last night appealed to the Vietminh leader. Ho Chi Minn: "Whv not stop this bloodshed of your youth and ours?" In a broadcast. Col. Clement said: "You know the day will come when your units, decimated and
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    Dr. Lester at University
    38 1 THE new Director of Medical Services. Federation, Dr. H. M. O. Lester, yesteiday visited the Medical Faculty of the University of Malaya In Singapore. He leaves Singapore tomorrow for Kuala Lumpur and I Penang.
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    Bandits derail Johore train
    107 1 KUALA LUMPUR MOn I^AY mail train services were cancelled between Qemas and Kluane today because bandits derailed a train In Johore. It Is hoped that normal running will be resumed tomorrow with the day mail trains. The Malayan Railway today said that the down local train
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    BOMB KILLS GIRL, 12
    31 1 SAIGON, Mon.— Two people, one a 12-year-old girl, were killed when grenades were thrown among dockworkers In the Chinese section of Saigon. Twenty-on« people were hurt.— Reuter.
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    4 Reds charged with spying
    43 1 STOCKHOLM. Mon Swedish security police have arrested a fourth Communist on a charge of spying for Russia, it was reported from Lulea, North Sweden, today. Three other Communists are In custody awaiting trial charged with spyin* for Russia
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    MORE FOOD BY AIR TO 'FIGHT TO DEATH' MEN
    440 1 Gallant village rewarded KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. JJAMPONG Temenggcr, in Upper Perak, which nearly a year ago echoed to the cry of "Lawan Sampai Mati!" (We fijjht unto death) today received its periodic reward for courage a 4,4001b. airdrop nt food. It
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    Soviet note on Germany: Big 3 meet
    149 1 Soviet note on Germany: Big 3 meet LONDON. Mon. rP diplomats of the "Biff Three" Western Powers are meeting here today to consider their governments' reply to Russia's note last week urgine immediate talks on a German peace treaty On the British side will he Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden,
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    BOMB IN RADIO STATION
    45 1 TUNIS. Mon.— A homemade bomb was thrown la»t -night Into the studios of Radio Tunis by a person believed to be Tunisian, it did not explode French police yesterday detained 125 people In differen: parts of Tunis for identity checks.— Reuter.
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    LABOUR PLANS WORLD AID
    348 3 'Asian poverty makes Britain seem paradise LONDON, Monday LABOUR Party policy in the next General Election would be shaped round a world mutual aid plan, a Party pamphlet sai*d today The pamphlet, prepared by Mr. Michael Young Labour research adviser, said proposals would be presented for
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    ATOM BOMBS WILL COST £60 MILLION, SAYS M.P.
    205 3 ATOM BOMBS WILL COST £60 MILLION, SAYS M.P. L LONDON. Mon. EFT-WING Labour M P., Mr. Ian Mikwdo last night said that, at a rough Ruess. the first British atomic bombs to be tested in Australia— with all rhe background work would cost between ar.d L 60.000.000 Speaking at a
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    BANNED AGA.
    19 3 JAKARTA Mon— The Indonesian Film Censorship Board ha.s banned th e fll m David ana Bathsheba AFP
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    Mid-air tragedy
    26 3 Mid -air tragedy CASABLANCA, Mon —Four French residents were killed near here today when two civilian two-seater planes collided in mid-air and crasher inflame* A P
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    PIPED ASHORE
    41 3 i M UliLl.iK SOUNU ushered passengers asbore from the He de France a I Southampton it was the bamboo flute »f Miss Bokul a member of the I da\ Shanker- dancing team which arrived there for season in London
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    Canton rice for fire victims
    48 3 HONG KONG, Mon. -Rice given by Canton welfare or! ganglions was distributed today to the Tung Tau v 11age fire victims. The distribution wa, nostE after the *«Hn2rt mission was refused permission to enter Hong Kong Thi s caused riot, i n Kowloon
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    MINE TRAGEDY
    29 3 ODENDAALSRUST Orange Free State Mon— Twenty people were feared killed at a gold mine here tonight when a huge piece of concrete fell down the shaft Reuter.
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    12-language radio
    22 3 NEW DELHI. Mon-AII India Radio "broadcast an of 21 nours dai'y "i 12 different languages to overseas audiences in 1951
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    Firebugs gaoled
    24 3 CAIRO. Mon -A mllitarv court today sentenced :o prison eight persons accused of amn during 'he Cairo riots of Jan 25.— UP
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    7 COULD HAVE SEIZED POWER'—de GAULLE
    193 3 7 COULD HAVE SEIZED POWER'— de GAULLE /liTMirwA. Lfi MANS. Monday Charles de Gaulle, leader of the French "Peoples Rally (RPP). bi XK est party in the National Assembly said yesterday he could have seized power by a coup d'etat In 1947 Explalnlne why he chose to retire he said
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    10 hours on sate—and gang gave up
    87 3 10 hours on sate— and gang gave up HONG KONG. Mon IJANK robbers, helped by a bank worker, were frustrated in an all-nfeht attempt to open a safe containing HKS4BO.U(M> the police said today. Two runnten were let tutu the Ho Cheng Bank last liffbt hv an accompli.-? inside. The*
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    'More UK rubber for Reds'—report
    228 3 'More UK rubber for Reds'— report From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Monday. "THIS rubber for Russia," said the Sunday Disx patch across its front page yesterday, headlining a story which began by pointing out that Britain's exports of rubber to Russ'a have risen from a mere 18 tons in June
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    Cripps: 'Much less pain'
    60 3 I ZURICH. Mon.— Sir StafI ford Cripps, former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, is fairly comfortable and has much less pain. Lady Cripps said in a statement issued here today. Sir Stafford is in a Zurich clinic under treatment for a tubercular infection of the spine.
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    Efrol Flynn files suit for $224,000 damages
    124 3 SASSAU. Bahama* Mun ERROL FLYNN here Ui Dress the heaviest damage suit In the history of Bahamas' Supreme Court changed hotels abruptly when he learned the hotel where he wa*. staving l« partly owned by thp man he sulns for $'24,000 The Hi'ilvwoorl
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    22 3 lilt rctir *.C"1 rKOtlLb: l.imara Toumanova world famous ballerina whose profile is claimed to be "the perfect one." photographed in London recently
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    'Patton tank best-US Colonel
    193 3 'Patton tank best-US Colonel KOREA. Mon. |T<ANK Commander Col. Charles Turner today pointed to a camouflaged Patton tank, sunk in firing position on a ridge, and said: "This is the best tank we have ever Col Turner was answering a challenge of a British tank I commander, who told tank
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    Festival bribe charge
    73 3 LONDON, Mon._The for|mer deputy general manager of last summer's Festival of Britain exhibition was alleged in court here today to have received bribes in connection with the olacing of contracts. It was said that Thomas Alfred Taylor, aged 53. had received £353 from a firm interested In
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    'BLACK MAGIC TO MAKE A GIRL OF 14 LEAVE HOME
    258 4 Bottles, tins, crockery 'dance* round house KUALA LUMPUR. Monday. DOTTLES, tins and crockery have been performing a weird pantomime in the home of an Indian Christian family in Sentul, Kuala These strange occurrences have taken place only when a 14-year-old
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    69 4 DOWN comes the first tree-fore-runner of hundreds that must fall to make way for progress. Yesterday, workmen felled two coconut trees to make way for the work on Sineapore's new multi-million-dollar airport at Paya Lebar Soon there will be an office where the trees were, and eventually, on the other
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    ON LEAVE
    27 4 KOTA BAHRU. Mon-Mr N K. Ponampalam. chief clerk of the police" derjartment. Kelantan. will leave at the end of the week in six months' leave
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    Now they cut way for new airport
    225 4 THE TREES WERE HI^FRIENDS riFTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Ah Tak, a squatter for I1I 1 many years in Kirn Chuan Road, stood by his bicycle in the poSring rain yesterday afternoon and watched workmen fell the first of hundreds of rJcomS t trees to make way
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    FARMERS ARE NOW SOLDIERS
    125 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. AFTER only two weeks of training at the Malay Regiment Depot at Port Dickson, easy going Malay youths have become alert and disciplined soldiers, says a Regiment statement They form the recruit complement of 153 men in No. 4 Company and until they
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    Blackout schedule
    200 4 SUBSTATIONS liable to loadshedding today are: DAY Alexandra ar.ckworks, Pasir Panjang, Reformatory Rd., Oxygen Factory. Cressonite. SU James, Miri Rd.. Silat Rd., Bukit Pasoh. 8.A.T.. Trafalgar St.. Anson Rd.. Tione Bahru, Sago St.. Raman St. People's Park, Nanson Rd., Lam Soon Oil Mills. Guan Hin. U.E. Network. V£.
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    NO PERMIT: $60
    32 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon Ftor carrying 20 persons in his lorry contrary to the conditions of hl s haulage permit, Abubalnr bin Marden, was fined $60 in the Police Court.
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    32 4 MRS. MARGfcR* GRIFFITH. a founder member of the Xx-W.R-N.S Association of Singapore, who is leaving Singapore soon Sh« was an N.C.O. in the Wrens in the two world wars.— Straits Times picture.
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    MR. MacG. WILL MEET THE PENSIONERS
    87 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. 17IVE delegates from the Federation Government Pensioners' Association will discuss their case with the Deputy High Commissioner. NJ.D.C MacGillivray, at a meeting* to be held wltnin me next fortnight. Mr V. Kanapathiplllay. president of the association which represents nearly 10,000 pensioners,
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    Schoolgirl bound over
    47 4 JOHORE -BAHRU. Mon.— Town Board labourers found the corpse of a baby in a dust bin at Bukit Serene. Today, a «chooleirl. Ling Hjan Jong, pleaded guilty in Ss f«Uce Court to tUspcelng tjlie Inlant-wftftb-was bom aivl> <IiIU!T?»Jf She was boand over for r
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    SAM-SOO WED IN KUANTAN
    61 4 KUANTAN. Mon.— Mr Sam Sui Hoi a Kuantan contractor, and Miss Soo Wan Lan of Kemaman, were hiarried at the Kwong Siew Association. Kuantan. on Friday. J The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Soo Penß Nam. Mr Soo Lip Seng was bestman and
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    Cheated firm court told
    75 4 Cheong Yin Wing, aged 28. was yesterday brought before the Singapore First Po lice Magistrate, Mr. R.C.B Bell, on three charges 01 cheating in January ano February involving a total of $507. He was alleged to have deceived George Oliver Daniel that the money was foi
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    SHOW SUGGESTED
    39 4 A proposal that an exhibition be held on the first anniversary of City DaySept. 22 has been made by the Singapore Public Relations Secretary. Me O. G. Thomson to the City President. Mr. T. P. P. McNelce.
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    School renamed after Gimson
    61 4 ON the eve of the Singapore Governor's departure for Britain on retirement, the Bukit Timah Boys' Home in Clemenii Road Ims been renamed "The Gimson Ch There' SFmon thafl I>o hoys at the school In'stmcUon <M riven hi basketry. cari*ntry. tailoring bakine and iarming. The boys
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    RAN INTO CAR
    38 4 TAIPING. Mon.— For fall■ng to maintain efficient control over his motorcycle thereby knocking into a motorcar at the junction oi Kota Road and Eastern Road. Ooi Leong Beng was fined $25 by the Taiplne raaglsrate.
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    Increase the students' allowances, they urge
    170 4 Increase the students' allowances, they urge KUALA LUMPUR. Mon SIX students recently returned from Britain declared today that they considered the incrca>ed cost-of-living allowance* for Malayan Government students there to be totallv inadequate. The six were giving their opinions here to a committee appointed to consider the cost-ol -living allowances
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    CAUSED HURT CHARGE
    56 4 PARIT BUNTAR. Mon.— Bahari bin Hall Taib claimed trial in Parit Buntar court to a charge ol having caused hurt to Aly bin Hajl Anwary It was alleged tha-t he attacked Aly with a knife on March 10 at Tanjong Piandang The case was adjourned to March
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    Singapore Diary
    126 4 Y.W.C.A. Raffles Quay: Mandarin beßinners 9.30 a.m.: advanced. 10.30 a.m. Ballroom dancing. 9 pjn. V.M.C.A. Orchard Road: Combined staff meeting, 11.30 a.m.; cricket practice, 5 p.m.: S.AB.A. meeting. 5.15 pm.: M.V.P. Institute committee meeting, French. Malay and Commercial classes. Judo practice. Gymnastics and S.J.A B. Pirst-Aid class. 5.30
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    Legislative Council will pay last tribute
    208 5 Legislative Council will pay last tribute FAREWELL SPEECH TOMORROW OFFICIAL and Unofficial members of Singapore Legislative Council will pay tribute to the work of the retiring Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, when he presides for the last time at the Council today. Sir Franklin leaves for Britain" on retirement at 11.15
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    25 5 MX LAL CHEN POH. a FARELF. Singapore, who received a "good service" certificate yesterday from the C-in-C FARELF, General S>. Charles Keightley. —Straits Times picture.
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    Music exams to be held
    85 5 THE practical examinations 1 of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, London, will be held in Singapore between August and September this year. Entries should reach the Examinations Secretary Department of Education! Singapore, before May 15. Entry forms are now available at
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    NEGRI WIFE SEEKS BEAUTY QUEEN TITLE
    104 5 NEGRI WIFE SEEKS BEAUTY QUEEN TITLE THE entries for the Singapore Rotarians' Beauty Queen contest to be held at the Great World on Saturday to raise $50,000 for the Colony's lepers, are now coming in thick and fast. To-day's entrants are Mrs. Helena Ogle, of Kuala Pilah, Negri Scmbilan (top),
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    SHB staff to plan move
    85 5 STEPS to ask the Singapore Harbour Board to pay Its Asian staff the Government rates of cost-of-llving allowances retrospective from Jan 1. 1951 will be discussed at the extraordinary general meeting of the S.H'.B. Staff Association today. Mr. P. C. Filial, secretary of the association,
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    14 days' gaol for theft bid
    55 5 Tse Ah Sol. aged 32, was gaoled fo r 14 days in Singapore yesterday for attempting to steal fowls at a house in Lorong Tai Seng on -Mar 13 He was arrested by a policeman whle trying to steal fowls after cutting open the
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    $13,847 RAISED by Y.W.C.A.
    145 5 rr\HE annual drive for funds J. bv the Singapore Y.W.C.A which was launched on Feb 18 by Lady Fogarty, wife or the Commander-in-Chief Far East Air Force, ended officially on Mar. 15 after raising $13,847. Mrs. Helen Tan. acting general secretary of the Singapore Y.W.CA., who
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    Stole in-laws necklace
    81 5 A TAN bin Avang, alias Anuar bin Awang, 19, a police supervisee, was fined $5 in Singapore for failing to report himself at the Orchard Road police station on Feb 25. He pleaded gvilty to a second charge of stealing his sister-in-law's gold necklace, worth $60. Mr
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    Gamblers are fined
    50 5 Thirty-three people, who pleaded guilty to gaming in public were fined a total sum of $330 m Singapore yesterday They were arrested at various place s over the week end. A sum of $50.35 seized at the raid*, was ordered to be Daid to the Poor Box
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    76 5 vi.'» iw'Ji ai k VN f^ m lT b s and esti > Wi Patrcks society' at lended '.-»L Patricks IJa» dinner at S-;i y.hm.!tJE S n apore L '»«t n>h* The president of the society. Mr. T. P. F. McNeice. was presented with vi Irish •hillelacb. Picture show. <from
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    Found in drain by patrol car
    63 5 Ten hours after he had been picked out of a monsoon drain at the junction of Serangoon Road and Lavender Street. Tan Oim Yong, was brought before the Singapore First Police Magistrate, Mr R. C S Bell, yesterday He was charged with being drunk
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    Passenger disappeared on way to Singapore
    106 5 NO further details are available regarding an Englishman. Mr D A Campbell who disappeared from the Nleuw Holland, on Feb 17 when the liner wa s passing through the Barrier Reef on her way irom Australia to Singapore. It U understood, that Mr. Campbell
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    ACQUITTED
    35 5 JOHORE BAHRU Mon urn Meng Fong, a car driver of Singapore who was charged with offering a bribe of $2 to a constable was ac quitted and discharged Mr C F J Ess defendert
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    Morris puts off his leave
    158 5 Morris puts off his leave AM R. Nigel Morris, Acting iJM Police Commissioner, Singapore, -has agreed to postpone his leave for three months. He was due to leave for Britain on six months' leave on Mar. 27. Last night he said; "I have agreed to stay on for three months
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    Team dance contest
    77 5 OINGAPORE will compete *-5 against Penang in a team amateur dance competition at Raffles Hotel on Thursday and Friday A similar competition held recently at Penang was won by Singapore. Singapore will be represented oy Mr Lam Jlon Khim and Miv Annie Chla, Singapore's 1950 and 1951
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    GIRL DIES IN KINTA RIVER
    48 5 IPOH. Mon —A 11-year-old girl. Lin Ah Moy. was drowned in the Klnta River behind Anderson School, in Ashby Road, yesterday. Eight children were bahing and Lin got inu> difficulties and disappeared in the strong current. The river Is swollen by recent rain.
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    CASHIER WANTED TO FAKE THEFT
    110 5 Court told v tiv, KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. A nAltln A1 tl ?r? r J ver alle?ed in Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court today that a cashier had suggested that he mkappropriate his firms money by letting some one to tie them up and pretend they bad
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    DEATH
    27 6 LORIMER— suddenly mt the Hollies Auchtnblae. KtncardineBhire. Scotland, on 6th March. 1852. John G;t>b Lorimer, late oj Port Dictson. Malaya, dearly beloved husband of Alice Reid.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    70 6 MRS. R K MYLWAHANAM gratefully acknowledges the several messages of condolence wreaths, etc. sent by the Directors. Agents, Management. Stan Contractors of Oil Palms of Malaya Ltd. and other friends, well-wishers and relatives on the occasion of the death of her beloved husband on the 8th of March, 1952
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    ANNOUNCEMENT
    38 6 DO NOT miss the Singapore Arts Theatre's production of Ibsen's Ghosts st the Victoria Theatre on the 20th, 21st and 22nd March, at 9 p m. Seats at $5. S3 and $1 can be booked at Robinson's
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Tues. Mar. 18, 1952 Income Tax Scandal
    645 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues. Mar. 18, 1952 Income Tax Scandal Another ten cents a pint on beer, and smaller increases in the duty on whisky, brandy and still wines are not going to meet any opposition from the Unofficials at today's meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council. But they
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    In Kampong Kirkby
    469 6 Reports from "Kampoiv Kirkby," and from the teachers under training there, encourage confidence in the success of this much criticised scheme. The first discover;, which so many of the students made on arrival in Kirkbv would seem indeed to speak for itself. Most students expressed surprise, said
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    The Communists seek but the lonely hearts
    906 6  - The Communists seek but the lonely hearts ROBERT KINGSLEY IN LONDON, AMONG THE OVERSEAS STUDiNTS By AS the crow flies, Prague is roughly 650 miles from the centre of London's student quarter in Bloomsbury But some coloured students at London University might be pardoned if at times they felt Prague
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      IT'S UP TO THE HORSE TO DO HIS BIT
      145 6 IT'S UP TO THE HORSE TO DO HIS BIT I SHARE the views expres- sed by the Representative of the Government of India that everyone should do his bit for the country. "It is easy to take a horse to the water, but the drinking is up to the horse
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      'INTRODUCE IT SENSITIVELY'
      108 6 IT WILL be a disgrace If the Legislative Councillors approve the National Service Bill without having some knowledge of it. Malaya is supposed to be "democratic," and if one thinks that he owes very much to this country, then it is up to him to volunteer for
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      The kindly police escort
      80 6 rwas a great pleasure o watch, 1 at a crossroads in Singapore last Friday afternoon a'Mafay policeman rafcc the trouTflfe kindly to eseor an elded* Chinese woman across tlie^ street ia front of 'th« trafflci > I n Til i.i I r Such small acts of
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      The smallholders and cocoa
      299 6 THERE appeared in your columns on March 10 a letter under the headline "Cocoa for the Small Man" in which "Agriculturist" stated that the 44 cents extra replanting cess could only oe devoted to the replanting of rubber He suggested that the planting of cocoa on
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      GOVT. STAFF & HOUSING
      145 6 GOVT. STAFF HOUSING WHILE sympathising with the feelings of Government servants over the housing shortage;, one cannot help but think that the problem could be overcome if there were fewer Government servants for whom quarters had to be found. Owing to the Emergency, it has been necessary to increase the
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      ITS CHEAPER IN SARAWAK
      111 6 WHY must presettl-day Governments insist on interfering with the simple, pleasures of one's Hie.' I read wi-.h dismay your report of the Singapore Gov- ernmenfs announcement oi the increase of duty on beer and whisky, particularly as T have just returned from Sarawak where the bar
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    On the Margin
    395 6 Coy bears VESTERDAYS note on the I night- jar. toc-toc bird or as Radio Malava has put It In the more modern coinage. the doink-doink bird referred In the passing to the understandable yhvness and silence of the creature in given circumstances. It was suggested that this
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    NO DADDY, WALK THIS WAY, MR. LIM IS TOLD
    175 7 NO DADDY, WALK THIS WAY, MR. LIM IS TOLD MR. Llm Yew Hock, a Legislative Councillor, was puzs.!ed when his two daughters who are pupils at Raffles Oirls School, refused to walk BESIDE him In the street, but Insisted on walkIng In single file BEHIND him l/hen he asked why,
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    Robbed man charge
    70 7 Victor Adaikalasamy was yesterday tentatively charged before the Singapore First Police Magistrate, Mr. R. C. S. Bell, with robbing Seah Kiong Inn last Thursday at the junction of Veerasamy Road and Jalan Besar. He was alleged to have held up Seah with a knife and robbed him
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    4 FOUGHT: FINED
    31 7 PORT DICKSON. Mon X Kaniappan, M. Kannan, V. Ellappan and M. Rasalingam. were each fined $3 in Sepang for fighting on March 8 at Tanjong Rhu Estate Sepang.
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    CYCLIST HURT
    25 7 A Chinese cyclist was hurt n a collision with a motorcar outside the Singapore Traffic Court, Outram Road, shortly before midnight last night.
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    LABOUR ROW LIKELY
    151 7 Council may quit on Sunday SINGAPORE, as well' as >3 Britain, has its Cabour Party troubles and the annual meeting: in Victoria Memorial Hall on Sunday is expected to be a stormy one. A clash over the expulsion of Mr. M P. D. Nair, City Councillor, may
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    Dodgers are violating the Koran, Muslims told
    207 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. ANYONE who dodged National Service was violating the teachings of Islam, Mr. S. A. M. Ally Maricar, nominated Kuala Lumpur Municipal Commissioner, told Indian Muslims at a meeting at the Alu Lane Mosque, Kuala Lumpur. He quoted Koranic verses to
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    NIGHT AT SEA—IF HE IS LATE
    111 7 NIGHT AT SEA— IF HE IS LATE rpHE Govern or-design a. e of 1 Singapore. Mr. John Nlcoll. will arrive in the Colony by air In the middle of next month. He will be sworn in by the Chief Justice. Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley on the day of his arrival If
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    AND NOW KOKO IS TOO BIG....
    205 7 I^OKO, Singapore City Council's tame orang utan, 1V and Miss L. E. Bach, his warden for three and a half years, may soon part. The Council proposes to give Koko to the Tungku Mahkota of Johore. who has a zoo. Miss Bach is resigned
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    He undervalued imports
    38 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.Lvi Kum Cheun, a commission agent of Singapore was aned $350 in the police court, for undervaluing 60 cases of sardines for impor: to Johore The 60 cases, valued at $1,890, were confiscated.
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    Back from India
    25 7 PORT DICKSON Mon Mr. Ginder Singh. Negrl Rotarian and Sikh community leader, has returned to Port Dickson after a holiday in India.
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    Woman cleared of latex charge
    42 7 JOHORE BAHRU Mon Yang Slew Ywin a woman charged i n the Pengeran* police court wkh unlawful possession of 35 lb of latex was acquitted She was arrested by a special constable when she was cycline home
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    HELP US TO OWN OUR HOMES' PLEA
    155 7 QINOAPORE Government Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union is to ask ah elected and nominated members of the Legislative Council to urge the Government to encourage Asian officer* to buy their own homes Mr O v Tessensohn president of the union, yesterday said that
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    SUSPECT HELD
    26 7 ALOR STAR Mon -Kedah police- yesterday arrested a Malay suspected of.oe.ing t oandit food supplier in the Kampong Alor Uertng area of fMt Star.
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    HE STOLE HIS UNCLE'S FOWLS
    43 7 TAIPING. Mon.— For then I of two fowls belonging to his uncle, Supplah was sentenced by the Taiping Magi- 1 strate to two months' imprisonment to be followed by six months' police supervision Suppiah admitted two previous convictions.
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    'Challenge of century' says padre
    122 7 rE task of bringing Christianity to the 500.000 people in the 342 resettlement areas in the Federation is "the greatest single challenge of the century" to the Methodist Church in Malaya, said i the Rev. J. Harry Haines, chairman of. the committee on squatter resettlement
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    Gaol for assault
    30 7 For causing hurt to Noor Mohamed bin Kunchee Merican with a piece of iron pipe, S. Hamid bin Kadir was yesterday gaoled for three months in Singapore.
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    Did not tell: $10
    27 7 PORT DICKSON, Mon For failing to report his defaced Identity card to the police, Lee Liong Kok, 41 was fined $10 in Sepang
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    39 7 VI K PETER HOLLAND and Miss Bridget Mary Cliflo.d, after their wedding yesterday, at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, Singapore. The bride, an officer in the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, is from Killarney. Straits Times picture.
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    Youths will be taught to be leaders
    185 7 Youths will be taught to be leaders PLANS to provide leadership training tor about 600 youth delegates from Singapore and the Federation to the third post-war All-Malaya Methodist Youth Fellowship Institute at Anglo-Chinese School in Barker Road. Singapore, have been completed said Mr Thio Chan Bee, Singapore Legislative Councillor, yesterday.
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    Opium found in car panel
    89 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. /\PIUM woruh $60,000, desvT tined for Singapore, was seized by Customs officers when they searched a car at the 10th mile Scudai road yesterday. The two persons in the car Khok Seang Hooi, a piece* goods dealer, and Ch'ng Chia You. a
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    Million-dollar show security
    124 7 DOUND-THE-CLOCK security precautions win 'be 1 carri ed out for nine QiM. at ,the British Council KaK, .Slrigapore. fqr the million-dollai Chir.e^art exhibttfefi. organised Jointly by, <tne China Society and tbe Singapore Art Society. On show will b* ancient jades, porcelain, bronzes and fta,|n tings which have
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    Ballet dance team here
    54 7 FIVE dancers from Sumatra who are in a Balfaese ballet team which arrived in Singapore by air last night after attending the Colombo Exhibition. The five specialise in Snmatran folk dances. They will give a dance recital at the Victoria Theatre on Mar. 24, 25 an/1
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    London home of Raffles for sale
    173 7 EJIGHWOOD House, in Mill Hill, London, the home 11 of Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore, is up for sale. Mr. O. G. Thomson, Singapore's Public Relations Secretary yesterday said he thought Highwood House should be preserved as a symbol of the partnership between
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    $200 FINE IN CRUELTY CASE
    50 7 Oh Guan Chuan. a poultry farmer, was fined $200 in the Singapore City Police Court yesterday for causing unne- cessary suffering to birds It wa s stated that Oh put 1 267 fowls. 59 ducks and seven geese in nine baskets on i Satur lay.
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    KILLED IN ROAD ACCIDENT
    40 7 TELUK ANSON Mon -An Indian cyclist. Manikam. aged 2. a labourer of the Ratanul Estate, was killed In a collision with a motor car from Ipoh at th P third mile Changkat Jong Road Teluk Anson
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    'WHISKY GALORE BY '54'
    91 7 'WHISKY GALORE BY '54' WHISKY in plenty by 1954 was forecast last night by Mr. D. Wilkinson, a director of Haig Distilleries. Mr. Wilkinson was speaking at a dinner given last night by John Little and Co. "Today," he said, "it does look as if the Government means business and
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    PRE-WAR CLAIMS REACH MILLIONS
    125 8 PRE-WAR CLAIMS REACH MILLIONS SINGAPORE and Federation businessmen are claiming millions, of dollars in respect of outstanding pre-war trade with Indonesia. To ascertain what is owing the Custodians of Property In Singapore and the Federation are calling for details of debts outstanding on the liberation between residents or businessmen in
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    Malayans at health talk
    91 8 PENANG, Mon. A Malayan delegate, Dr. R. E. Anderson, Kelantan's Chief Medical Officer, will preside over a symposium and demonstration on yaws at the World Health Organisation's Western Pacific regional conference now being held in Bangkok. The conference started last week-end and is expected to last
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    NO REPORT: $10
    29 8 PORT DICKSON. Mon.— For failing to report his change of address from Tanah Merah to Sepang resettlement area. Tan Ah Choo was fined $10 in Sepang
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    'UNDUE INFLUENCE EXERTED ELAND SALE, OURT TOLD
    593 8 'UNDUE INFLUENCE EXERTED ELAND SALE, OURT TOLD 'Lawyer took advantage of position* allegation KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. ALLEGATIONS that a Kuala Lumpur lawyer had bought property mortgaged to his client by exercising "undue influence" during the Japanese occupation were today made by Mr. C. H. Smith, a Singapore lawyer, before Mr.
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    39 8 MR. R. G. BARON, of Kelan Estate, Kulai, Johore and his bride, Miss Kathleen Horsburgh, of Sydney, Australia, after their marriage in Singapore. Mr. Baron, has been a planter both before the war and since in Kedah and Perak.
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    CO-OP STORE TO CARRY ON
    56 8 BUKIT MERTJAM, Mon.— By 69 votes to 1, members of the Bukit Mertajam Cooperative Store Society decided during the week-end that the society should carry on. A new management committee was elected with Dr. M. P. L. Yegappan as chairman. Mr. Chin Fook Goei was
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    S. C. GAOLED
    40 8 PORT DICKSON. Mon. Baet bin Talib, a special constable, was sentenced to six months' gaol in Sepang court for using criminal force with intent to outrage the modesty of a 14-year-old girl. Senab. alias Kasinan binte Ahmad.
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    Murdered man left $2m. estate
    167 8 T*HE Chief Justice of Singapore, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, yesterday approved the will of the late Mr. Yong Yit Lin, a former president of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, who was murdered on May 25, 1950, and the deed of family arrangement signed by his
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    Detention for Private
    39 8 Syed Mustapha bin Syed Endut, a private of the Royal Army Service Corps, who pleaded guUty to being absent without leave for six months, was sentenced to 56 days' detention by a Singapore court martial yesterday.
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    'Stupid' driver fined $25
    84 8 WHEN a lorry driver was charged in the Singapore First Traffic Court yesterday with carrying 14 more persons than he was licensed to, he said he did not know the maximum he was allowed to carry. The Magistrate, Mr. J. F. McWilliam, said, "If you are
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    6 WOMEN FINED
    21 8 PORT DICKSON. Mon Six women were each fined $20 in Sepang for gambling. The informer was given $30.
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    UNIQUE TRIBUTE TO THE GURKHAS
    285 8 UNIQUE TRIBUTE TO THE GURKHAS BENTONG. Mon. rE "Victors of Bentong the First Battalion of the 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha. s Rifles today handed over their task to the Ist. King's African Rifles. As the four-mile long convoy of Africans went over the Gingting Simpa Gap pass from Kuala
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    Banker owes $301,479
    41 8 A BANKRUPTCY petition filed against Soon Keng Seng, a bank official, was adjourned in Singapore High Court yesterday. The petition was filed by Tan Geok Chuan .who had obtained judgment against Soon Keng Seng for $301,479.45 and costs.
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    Camp destroyed
    28 8 PENANG, Mon.— An auxiliary police jungle squad yesterday located and destroyed an unoccupied flve-man bandit camp in the Balik Pulau district of Penang. Documents were found.
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    These Council men may miss call-up
    102 8 OINGAPORE City Council would ask the Govern ment to exempt from the call-up workers in essential services, the deputy City President, Mr H G. Hammett, said yesterday He was commenting on a resolution passed by the Government and City Council Labour Union Mr. Hammett
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    NEW MEMBER
    37 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The High Commissioner has appointed Mr. Lee Thean Chu a temporary unofficial member of the Federal Legislative Council for the period during which Mr. Lim Khye Seng Is absent from the Federation.
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    $50 FINE FOR 3 OFFENCES
    79 8 Tay Kian Tong was fined $20 in Singapore yesterday for driving without front and rear lights at 8.50 p.m. on June 6 last year at the Junction of Kallang Road and Lavender Street. For carrying two persons in excess while driving along Havelock Road on
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    DRIVER FINED
    21 8 Santa Singh, an omnibus driver of the Singapore Traction Company was yesterday fined $40 In Singapore tor negligent driving.
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      271 8 Today's Radio SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR 10* am. Emergency News from 10 a.m. 2 p.m. A* S'pore; 6 K.L.: 10.05 "Tunes from the "Melody Time"; 6.30 Children; 8 45 Show,"; 10 45 12 Schools; 1 p.m "Round the Bend"; 6.55 7.15 As Light Music; 1.30 News; 1.45 'The S'pore; 7.15 *:The
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    PREVENTING BAD HABITS
    488 9  -  NURSE JANET \MOriWRCRAMT IN MALAYA JJy MANY bad habits develop in children because of something wrong in their emotional life. Any kind of unexpressed worry, sucn as the feeling of being left out because of the arrival of a new baby, or disharmony among parents, may cause
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    20 9 NYLON FOR NIGHTWEAR -Ideal for travelling, this nightdress has a boat-shaped neckline above a gathered bodice and a full skirt.
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    The Art Of Having A 'Quiet Sit-Down
    528 9 MANY women sit so badly that an evenIng's reading in an armchair tires them as much as a spell of scrubbing at the washtub. They sit down to take the load off their feet, but do nothing about taking the load off their
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      316 9 2v Push around on British Straits Times Crossword 26 %s£rj& »> DOWN i— 1 1 By «dverb (10). 7""^ I1 I! 5 it H 7 S 3 2 Poor little man at Lbe f™« "*SS Ss*k sSS— Stt -j— BS 6 j Healthily (6). I 4 Confuted ending (4). i
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    LONDON STOCKS
    313 10 LONDON, Mon. T'HE London Stock Exchange was mainly dull today with most of the trading of a professional nature. Oovernment securities, although quiet, were very firm with the strength of Sterling still a major influence in this market. Small offerings were shown In most of the leading industrials
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    RUPBER DROPS 1¾ CENTS: MARKET QUIET
    163 10 T'HE steady morning's opening in the Singapore Rubber Market was not sustained and in the course of yesterday's trading, prices sagged slightly on lack of buying support. The volume of business was restricted. I The market closed quiet with April first-grade buyers at $108
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    65 10 PEPPER prices again recorded lower levels in the Singapore Produce Market yesterday. Sellers quoted $630 a picul for Muntok. $625 for Sarawak and $550 for Lampong black, but tu business was done. Copra was very dull with Bids at $26 and sellers 75 cents higher. Coconut oil
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    S'PORE SHIPPING
    65 10 SHIPS in the Singapore Harbour Board godowns. or exp -eteri at 7 ?.m. today are: 1-2 Felix Roiissel; 4-5 Cingalese Prince. CP W Scudai; C.P E. Kamunlng; 6-7. Rebeverett; 8-9 Shads' Ib!s: 11. O'erroy 13-14 Olenearn: lis. Rlmau; lb. Hal Lee; West sid-, Empire Dock Entrance. Laiat (K.P.M.i;
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    Australian Share Market
    143 10 From Our Own Correspondrni MELBOURNE. Mon DRICES fell over a wide range of shares on Melbourne and Sydney Stock Exchanges today. The falls ranged up to 3/- a share and many market leaders were Included. Sales volume contracted as buyers quickly became cautious and reduced or withdrew
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    Malayan shares
    265 10 THE Malayan Share Market opened the week on a quiet and steady note yesterday. Yesterday's price changes by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: I.NO18TBIALK Burrri Sri cr> Fraser gt Neav» Ord« 3 70 3 80 W. Hammer 42 40 43.50 cd Malayan Dements .M l 01 M Colls
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    TIN: $481A PICUL
    11 10 TIN: $481 A PICUL SINGAPORE, Mun. Mar 17_$481 (down 62' cents)
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    London Tin Price
    26 10 LONDON. Mar. 17.— Cash Buyers £973: Sellers £974; Forward Buyers £974; Sellers £974}; Settlement £975 (down £2J). Turnover; a.m. 80. p.m. 90 tons.
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    EXCHANGE TO MERCHANTS
    78 10 'PHfc. Malayan Kxciia nite BanE5 Association announced agreed rates of exchange to merchants yesterday as follows: BITING Air Mail T.T. O.I). M d>i Credit Bills New York 334 331 331 Canada 321 33 33) Trade Bills New York 33 7/16 Srllllnf T.T./O/D. Ready New York 32 11/
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    U.K. RUBBER
    39 10 LONDON, Mar. 17— Spot 33'/2d. Apr. 33d. May 32-d.. June 32d. Apr-.-June 32'/ 2 d.. July-S«pt. 30\d. Oet -Dec. 29 :1 ,d.. Mar. c.i.f. 32>id Apr. c.i.f. 32d.. May c.i.f. 31 2 d Market: Quiet after steady.
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    Tronoh, Southern Tronoh, Kepong pay dividends
    215 10 rE Directors of Ttonoh Mines Ltd. have declared a Fifth Interim Dividend of 9d per share, less Income Tax at 9/6 d in the in respect of the year to Dec. 31. 1951. They have also declared a Pint Interim Divider d of per
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