Malaya Tribune, 7 April 1949

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    65 1 Malaya Tribune By THE PEOPLE FQft THE PEOPLE Te»: "Tribune. &'P n ro. l*urger Sales Than Any Afternoon Taper In Malaya Phone: 5811 8 Nine Lines Published siynultancously at jlajNTpore, tfuata Lumpur, Ipoh, and Penang. EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1949 PRICE 10 CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE:
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    SIR STAFFORD TURNS THE SCREW
    538 1 'Tough Budget' Shock For Britain A.P. LONDON, Wednesday. Qir Stafford Cripps laid a bad news budget before Britain's screly taxed citizens tonight and told them "We can't have our cake Mid eat it too." He offered only tiny pittances of tax relief in odd bits
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    WIND AND WAVES
    43 1 Changi Sailors Wing i)iiii!iaml*>r Av!lag's -spitfire" (left) narrow iy won the second place 'at the K.A.F. Command Week" regatta at hangi yesterday tr.um Cpl. Harper's "tempest" (right). Th" Minner uas Group Captain Cecil Wright s "Sisla a" (Story Page Seven).
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    FISHY BUSINESS
    35 1 KU ANG. Wed. Lee Chai Heng was fined 2>20 or ten days simple imprisonment by ang Magistrate, t'ngku Saueh bm Ismail for < ooked fish at Jidan ig on April last V ithout licence.
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    ASIA PACT SOUGHT BY EX-GOVERNOR
    186 1 LONDON, Wednesday Sir Olaf Caroe, former Governor of the Indian Northwest Frontier Province, told the Royal Empire Society today that the Atlantic powers must underwrite an Indian Ocean defenei system. He said it was doubtful whether India and Pakistan could unite to provide defence for
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    EQUAL TREATMENT
    19 1 A.P. NEW DELHI. Wed Pandit Nehru, Indian Premier today promised foreign capital equal treatment with Indian capital.—A.P.
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    THERE'LL SOON BE NONE
    113 1 Trishaw! A thousand and fifty-one trishaw riders have 'hung up their boots and saddles' during the last three months because business is getting bad Mr. Chuan Choon Yong. the president of the Trishaw Association said this yesterday, commenting on the unexpected fall in rcgistratb, i of
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    FIJI DEFENCES
    40 1 Reuter. WELLINGTON, N B W ZEALAND, Wed.—Fiji's defeneefl are being reorganised to ensure the security of New Zealand's trade and shipping routes to Britain and the North Pacific. Mr. Frederick Jones, New Zealand Defence Minister, announced here today.—Reuter.
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    A Brave Budget
    48 1 Reuter. LONDON, Wed.—-Sir Stafford l ripp*' budg t was hailed by though! rul eeonoonsts a>» one 'ii the most courageous 'f produced bj the Kinahec Minister ot any countrj liUt poUtica l observer,; awaited the reaction i cost ol living Increase* from organised labour. —Beater.
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    Stanley Arrest Ordered
    115 1 A.P. LONDON. Wed. A London police court has ordered B wa»rant for the arrest of Sidney Stanley, the man without country, for failing to appear in court today on bankruptcy summons. The prosecution said that Stanley, central figure in *h government's bribery investigation last year, had not
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    NOT YET IN ISRAEL
    87 1 A.P. NEW YORK. Wed. Sidnej Stanley is not yet In Israel but he is going there and Will be admitted when he arrives, according to Stanley's brother, Marcus Wulkan. Wulkaa told the Associated Press that he had spoken to Stanley's lawyer in T<i Aviv wlio said
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    MERCHANTS WANT BARTER BACK
    209 1 SINGAPORE merchants have this week stepped up their campaign for the resumption of barter trade with Sumatra. There were two closed-doors meetings yesterday on the issue and another is scheduled for Friday. Friday's meeting to be held at the Singapore Chamber of Commerce will be between
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    PARIS APPROVES
    27 1 A.P. PARIS. Wed.—The French National Assembly's Foreign j Affairs Committee today indirectly recorded its approval of bringing Western Germany Into a European economic union. A.P.
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    Tories Claim Win In Council Polls
    165 1 A.P. LONDON Wednesday.—The Conservative Party claimed more victories over Labour today in significant county council elections in England and Wales. A Conservative Party spokesman said the party increased by 43 its seats on 21 councils. Elections are being held in 61 county councils this
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    Protest Ignored
    62 1 A.P. WASHINGTON. Wed. The United States will ignore Russia's formal protest against the North Atlanticpact. At statement from the State Department said today, "The Russian Government's inter pretation of both objectives and provisions of the pact I? erroneous. In view of the many published statement* made on this
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    DUTCH DISAPPOINTED
    45 1 A.P. AMSTERDAM. Wed. Dr. J. N. van Royen. Netherlands spokesman in the Security Council on the Indonesian dispute, said today he was disappointed by the Indonesian Republican raply to the invitation of the U.N. to participate in direct negotiations with the Dutch. A.P.
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    COLONY SHORT OF DOCTORS
    351 2 'Situation Serious' -warns Dr. Vichers (Tribune Staff Reporter) THERE might soon be an acute shortage of doctors in Singapore's hospitals, the Colony's Director oi Medical Services, Dr. VV. J. Victors said at a press conference yesterday. "The situation is serious and Government is aware of tho
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    The New Committee Members
    194 2 NEW Committee mem peri are as follows: Sub Committee on E\Gratia payments to Passive and Civil Defence Services: Mr. g. E. n. Oehiera, Mr. Yap Phong Geek, Mr Sandy Pillay. Dr. P. J. Nathan, Mr. V. Pakirisnmy, Dr. C. J. Poh and Mr. P. J. Johnson.
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    BICYCLE FOR TWO
    47 2 KLUANG, Wed. Lot) Kirn Hok. who carried a r ill ion rider on his bicycle at Jala* luni Sirat. Rengam. on April 2. wrs fined |6/. with the om.i n cf three days simple ImprL nmcnt by the Kluung Magistrate TTngku Salleh bin Ismail.
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    Retirement Dates
    170 2 njIHE retirement dates of the elected commissioners are as follows: To r*dir<« Ist. Saturday in December 1949: Mr. Hassan Ali Jivabhai. Mr. Chong Thut Pitt. Inche Ahmad bin Mohd. Ibrahim. Mr. D. Robertson, Dr. S. H. Al-Junoid and Mrs. Robert Eu. To retire Ist. Saturday in Itooacnjtac 1950:
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    1st 'City Mother' Reads Address Of Loyalty
    173 2 Mr. 0. ii Wat, nead-of-the-polls in the "c: enl Municipa! ejections, miuh a gallant gesture to the C ommission's new l\ elec ted JCtty Mother" Vfr* Robert Eu, at Ibe l.rst meeting of the new commissioners yesterday. He asked that she, and not
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    'Ladies And Gentlemen'
    387 2  -  Said Mr. Blythe (Tribune Stall Reporter) SINGAPORE'S newly-elected Municipal Council met for the first time yesterday afternoon, in an atmosphere of friendliness, good spirit and politeness to a lady. The Colony's first 'City Mother', Mrs. Robert Eu sat right at the centre of the Commissioners' horse-shoe table
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      193 2 I TOOK WRONG TURK J KLi'ANG. Wed. Wang Kong was charged tor break-j m<i traffic rules uy taKing the j j wrong road on the Wiyl trafficc" at the junction ol Jalan' J Mi rsing and Jalan Lambal:. He I was fined $5/- with the ppUOH of three days simple
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    NURSING SITUATION IMPROVES
    234 3 Bnl There Is No Rami For Them (Tribune Staff Reporter) |K1 i ursing situation had so improved during the past siv months that Singapore hospitals were finding difficulty in accommodating new recruits The Director of Medical Services Dr. W. J Vi,-k ts said this yesterday. Since terms
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    ARCHITECT DUE
    60 3 irtner frocn the firm I son and Turner, one 1 leading hospital archi- organisattotai in Ausis expected to arrive in Sil t» shortly. II advise on the plan- I the General ami Kei bail hospitals j n scheme envisaged Colony's medical plan I Vickers, the Director j l]
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    Municipal Standing Committees
    251 3 THE following Standing CC remittees were appointed at yesterday's special meeting Of the Municipal Commissioners COMMITTED NO. 1 Messrs. P. J. Johnson. Chong Thutt Pitt. D. Robertson. C. J. F. Ess. G. E. N. Oehlers. Syed Ibrahim O. Alsagoff and Yap Peng Geek. COMMITTEE NO. 2 Di.
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    ROTAN, JAIL FOR THIEF
    102 3 CKOO Hock Teck (18). WM lobbed a Chinese boatswain on a motor boat in the Tcluk Ayer Basin of cash and Olfier articles on August M last left the AsStae Court yesterday to serve a sentence of 30 months. Choo will also receive strokes of the
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    RAF Blitz Bandit Area In Selangor
    85 3 KUALA I. I M I'l K. Wed. Two waves of Iteauughter* and Spitfires blitzed a bandit area in the Kuala Lanjrat Forest in South Selnngor this morning. Lor about 45 minutes, they bombed the area and lollowed up with de- \astatlng cannon, rocket and
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    FIFTEEN RED SPIES TRAPPED
    121 3 KUAIJi UTMPIIR, WedneMlay. OKCURITY forces caught 15 bandit spies when they raided and screened residents in Tanjong Ranibutan and the tnitskirts of Cheinor yesterday. Two of the spies were women who wore identified as aettve bandit agents. A Siamese was arrested in his house at Kamponfc
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    SARDAR BALDEV SINGH'S APPEAL
    67 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Sardar Baldev Singh. Indian Defence Minister, has appeale I to all Indians in Malaya lo conskier themselves unofficia' ambassadors of India. The message which was sent to the Malaya Indian Congress assures Malayan Indians that they have not been forgotten at home and
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    Fraud Alleged In Pepper Deal
    360 3 CLAIM FOR $40,000 JJOYV a consignment of what purported to be 150 bags of White pepper and paid for on that basis turned out to be 160 bags of copra, was disclosed in the Singapore High Court yesterday during the hearing a claim for $40,000
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    BOR FACES THEFT CHARGE
    105 3 G. W. David Timms. a 23--year-old British soldier was yesterday charged with rob bing a taxi driver on April 4. j Timm is alleged to have had a knife. The robbery was said to j have taken place at 9.30 p.m at 92 milestone Upper Thomson
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    OLIVE BRANCHES
    438 4 THERE is talk: of peace talks in China and 1 Burma. Two tottering Governments snatch at the olive branches held out by the Communists in the hope that they will arrest their plunge into the abyss. In Peking, the Nationalist delegates prepare to face General Mao Tse-tung's eight
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    ECAFE'S FABLES
    210 4 THJS Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East is to hold its next session in Singapore during the first week of October. We have followed the travellings of the delegates with interest. They certainly get around. They wintered in Lapstone, high in the Blue Mountains of Australia;
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    The Cold War Front
    206 4 ALLIES MAP SPRING STRATEGY TO COMBAT RED THREAT ATLANTIC PACT: Western spring campaign starts with signing of historic North Atlantic Pact, aimed against a common enemy— —Communist agression. I N ASSEMBLY: The offensive will continue in an East-West "war of words'' at the United Nations General
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    World Government
    170 4 U.P. A LEADING proponent of world government believe* it can bo achieved only if the United States tykes 'active leadership in the movement, hassador Carlos I. Komulo of the lead. Governor Chester Howies of Connecticut made this observation in the March issue of Harper's Magazine. Bowles said: "Pandit
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    JUDGMENT DAY IN NORTH AFRICA
    1526 4  -  war should break out it is likely to be fought near Armageddon. by MAX BOYD A.P. IF Russia and tho West go to war, one of their ma jo; battles is likely to be fought near Armageddon. Armageddon is the Hebrew name for a pass
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    COFFEE STALL OF THE AIR
    77 5 ru\ist %\ith twoCalifornia-Florida endurance fliers aboard, BUI Harris and Dirk Ki. del. makes a running fori a.id food from a jeep at Craig Field, Jackson vtlle, Florida. The plane lew infrom Meridian, Missouri. 5150 nvaj t<» complete one of its longest Stretches. Upon arrival at
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    Why You Chew Your Pencil While You Work
    220 5 UP. CHICAGO, Wednesday.—A Chicago doctor said today that chewing gum and nibbling candy—or even chewing your pencil—on a job can be an important part of doing work. Dr. Leo Bertemir of Detroit said eating and working are two aspects of a single
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    STEAM SHOVEL MURDERS HISTORY
    91 5 A.P. NDON, Wed. London* curators and geolowince painfully every big steamshovel digs Southward bank of th? •nd tosses its load into uting dump tracks. of London's 17th and atury history is being nto the sea by the ton indation is being dvi, w power plant. "It
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    REWARD
    32 5 A.P. MOINES, lOWA, Wed o. Aliward tossed into truck a horseshoe he found ty street "afraid it Might puncture some motorist' A irw minutes later he a i rssio mil.—A T.
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    Love Loses To A-Bomb
    50 5 A.P. HOLLYWOOD. Wed. Warner Brothers studio has discovered that the latest edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica devotes nine pages to the atom bomb, but not one word to love. In 1768, the same encyclopedia devoted five pages to love, and foui sentences to the atom. A.P.
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    HE'S BETTER THAN EVER
    52 5 A.P. LONDON, Wed--Actor A.K. Ma thaws, 79, says he has never missed a single performance through illness In 63 years oi acting. Matthews considered retiring 20 years ago. but changed his mind. He is now starring in both the stage and screen versions of "The Chlltcm
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    OLDEST PROFESSION NATIONALIZED?
    130 5 A.P. PRAGUE. Wed. Czcclio- Slovakia's Ministry of Healtn I says that prostitution is no i longer a pioblcm in tills couni try, because unemployment haj been liquidated and men and women have equal work lights factors brought about by tho Socialist order, it says. It has begun
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    MIND MY CORNS
    38 5 A.P. READING. England. Wed. It cost William Hcnslcy £1 to trample on the law. That is what he was lined for stepping on the toes of a policeman directing traffic alter a footbaH game. -A.!'.
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    Less Shine For M.P.'s Trousers
    146 5 TAILORS REJOICE A.P. LONDON, Wednesday.—The trousers of British MPs will be less shiny when the House of Commons is rebuilt. That is the prediction of the Shoe irul Leather Industry Magazine, commenting on the scats to be installed in the new house. The Commons v/as
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    C.I. MOTHER-INLAW INVASION THREAT TO U.S.
    92 5 A.P. LONDON. Wed. A gioup Bl 10 Biiti-sh mothers of G. I. war brides plan to visit ti.eii daughters in America this summ I taking enfbrosdered linens, silverware, brass antiques and other articles with which to »ey for s three-months holiday. The mothers, all
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    The Law's Long Hand
    79 5 A.P. SHEFFIELD. Wed. David Elldred's wife got tired of pushing their daughter's baby carriage. So he put an electric motor in to propel the pram. He took it out again after a talk with police. They told him the powered perambulator, which made three miles an
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    Hell Hath No Fury....
    109 5 Reuter.-AAP. tokio Wed. A Japanese Kz?. singer, frustrated to love, vented hei spleen on her lover, band-leader in s theatrical Tokyo ntgnt club, by attempting to commit suicide w'ule she .vas on the stags with htm. fcfltsuko Kondo, the jazzsinpei collapsed on the stag? of the
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    ESCAPE ME NEVER
    93 5 A.P. MANILA, Wed—The House, of Representatives today voted to ban divorce in the Philip pines. The action provides that divorce in any form or on any ground will be prohibited one year after both houses of Congress approve an amended civil code. However the House unanimously agreed
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    TRAPPED 3 MONTHS
    31 5 Reuter. LONDON, Wed. A young terrier has been rescued alive from a 190-foot deep disused mine-shaft at Camborne. Cornwall, after being trapped in it for three months. Reuter.
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    Stutterers' Bondage Ends At Last
    372 5 A.P. WINTER PARK, Florida, Wednesday. An American woman with 60 years of stammering in her family has teamed with her husband to dewte tteir finances and the latter years of their lives to correcting the stuttering of others. She is 54-year-okt Kleanor Weston Emery. He
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    PLAN TO BOOST AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION
    270 6 CANBERRA, Wed. The Federal Goveriunent is making every effort to increase production in j Australia and it has a broad plan which is gradually taking shape. This was the reply given by a government official in Canberra yesterday to a statement made in Hobart by
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    Rubber Exports Down
    106 6 RUBBER exports from Malaya in March fell 1 4,015 tons below the February figure. The total for March was 77,435 tons and that for February 81,450 tons. The total for the first quarter this year stands at 252,548 tons. This is more than three times the exports
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    Produce Market
    128 6 WITH the Dutch underselling NEI copra in Europe, the Singapore copra market has become progressively easier in the last tew days in the absence of foreign enquiries. Coconut oil was also easier yesterday with little business done. Black pepper eased $2 yesterday writing a slight setback in a
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    Air Mail Schedule
    76 6 Air malls are due to arrive today from the United Kingdom, Aden, Arabia, Canada, Europe, India, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Palestine, U.S.A., Central and South America, He'land. Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, Slam, Indonesia, Batavia, Medan, Sourabaya and Padang. Surface mails are expected from Federation of Malaya, Indo China,
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    Along The Godowns
    72 6 Kampar (41); Empire 11amble (Sheers Wharf); Talabot 42/43); Empire Caicos (40 41); Benmaedhui Gewang (:i8 39); Stealer (Si 36); Malaya (33 34) Steel Navigator (81 32); Utrecht (17 18); Talang Hkar (19 20); Maxwell Bramler (21 22); Tvdeus (28 24) Kulan (27 28); Okhla (29 30); Glenroy
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    RUBBER MARKET
    85 6 THE rubber commodity market opened steady yesterday. There was a fdr volume of enquiries and selling wa<; well absorbed. I losing prices were: Buyers sellers No. I May RSS 36* 30 No. 2 May RSS 38% ill's No. 3 May RSS 31 M*i On registered tender: May-June 38%
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    MacARTHURTOLD TO CUT RED TAPE
    127 6 TOKIO, Wed. British traders have called on Gen. Douglas MaeArthur to cut red tape involved in Japanese foreign trade transactions and permit British banks here to open yen accounts. These were among the proposals and complaints raised by British representatives during the Sterling Area Trade
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    TRADE PACT
    29 6 Reuter. ROME, Mon.—A commercial agreement has been signed »n Rome between Italy and Holland and the Netherlands East Indies for a considerable Increase in reciprocal trading.— Reuter.
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    SYDNEY STOCKS RALLY
    158 6 SYDNEY, Wed.- After last week's fall in industrial share prices on the Sydney Stock Exchange, there have been steadying signs during the first two days of this week. Buyers are still operating cautiously but orders have been sufficient to give a rallying turn to front-rank industrials Explaining
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    Little Interest
    37 6 There was only a little Interest In the share market today as news is awaited of the l .K. budget. Kepong tins nre today ouoted in their new form at a par value of ss.
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    Malayan Share Quotations
    864 6 SINGAPORE. Wed. Buyers Sellers I Atlas lice 15.50 16.50 Ilex. Unci Pref. 2.K0 2.90 OrdS. 2.05 2.15 P.P. Petrol 39 6 40/0 B. M. Trustee 7.60 Six) Cons. Tie Ord. 16/6 18/--do. fP) 23/6 21/6 E. Utd. Assur. 40.75 41.75 -.state de iTUat 7.00 8.00 Federal Dispensary
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    VAN BREUKELEN SHOULD SUCCEED AT IPOH
    281 7  -  From ALLAN LEWIS IFOH, Wednesday. ROOKING through the handicaps lor the l*erak Turf Club's Meeting, I would say, without going into figures, that Trainer M. Van Breukelen is set for a very good run at Ipoh. He is well represented with an entry of
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    ACCEPTORS FOR METROPOLITAN HANDICAP
    76 7 Reuter. LONDON. Wed. The final rs, with weights, for sjreal Metropolitan Hantaan, to be run at Epsom Tuesday, Apr. 19, number IS They are: Laurentis 9st. Now or Never 8 13, ITrgay 8.11. Locovedls BJ*. v Create Cup Bs, Bangkok 8.4, Better Catch Karagan tt 8.0,
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    VICTORIANS WIN
    48 7 The Victoria Sehooi ;.cat a Dutch XI from V. 8. Tulhot ly l live goals to two .ii s< ccer at the school ground, yostorti&y Scorer for the school were Leyman <2>. Chek Kan- (2) mill Ibrahim, John Hennson netted the two goals for tin- nutch.
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    Danes Will Play Better—Christensen
    161 7 Danes Will Play Better Christensen Reuter. COPENHAGEN, Wednesday. N. I*. Christensen, chairman of the Danish Badminton Association, said here today that he was not too optimistic of a Danish victory in the match against the Malayans which is dUe lo take place here on April 11. "But lam sure we
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    JOLLILADS WIN AGAIN
    111 7 THE JolUlads Athletic Union beat the Borneo Motoi < Club by thiee fill to one n an S.A'F.A. Junioi B Group match at St. Georges Road, yesterdaj. Borneo Motor* opened scoring in the first half through Mohamed Kirn but. JolliladS soon equalised with a beautiful header by
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    RICKABY NETS 2 FOR NAVY
    61 7 THE Navy B team trounced the Tamil Brotherhood Association four-rdi In a Ju- nior A Group I tpfßOßt at Geylang yesterday. Ten minutes nfter the start the Navy inside left Rickaby, slammed w. the hrst goal. Then I.tanner scored two consecutive goals Five minutes before
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    Ceylon Team Wins Changi Sailing Meet
    163 7 R.A.F. 'COMMAND WEEK' fEYLON won the sailing meet at the VC.F h. 1 "Command Week" held at Changi, yesterday with a total number of 14 points. The Changi team was second with 11 points, Meter thin! <(> i>tO and Hongkong last (5 pts.) Sailing
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    Malaya And Seletar Win
    61 7 HOCKEY THE Kuala Lumpur XI representing Malnya beat Hongkong one ml in a hockey semi-final at the 1* AF. ••Command Week" M Ch.mgi yesterday. The scorer was Morns who slammed in the ball two minutes before the end of the game. Seletar defeated Ceyion seven-nil in
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    SELETAR LOSES
    104 7 THE Hongkong team won the tennis finals of the RAF "Command Week" held at Changi yesterday. They beat the Seletar Technical Wing by four games to two The following are the results (Hongkong players mentioned first): SINGLES W/O Doyle beat F Lt Deuchar 6 -4, 6-1. L. A
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    Rovers Beaten By A Late Penalty
    380 7 KOTA RAJA 2 ROVERS S.C. I DOVERS Sports Club, the "unbeatab.V. tasted defeat at the hands of Kota Raja in an S.A.F.A. Senior league fixture at Jalan Besar stadium, yesterday. However, their defeat was the most unfortunate thii g that could have happened to
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    JACKS T-TENNIS
    47 7 The following will represent Jacks' Spotts Club at table tennis against Chinese SwimI ming Club on Saturday, at 2.30 p.m.: Lim Swee Tian. Teo Sin Kong, Ho Soo Huat, Teo Ban Chong. Chew Seng Hong. Ooh Tian Chye. H. O. Hameed. Reserve Lim Choo Ann
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    RECORD ENTRIES FOR JUNIOR MR. SINGAPORE COMPETITION
    282 7 WHAT piomises to be a real treat to followers of the iron game will be the 1919 Open Junior Singapore Amateur Weightlifting Championships and Junior Mr. Singapore Contest to be held at the New World Aiena on April 17 and 18 at 8
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      41 7 m< m Ukl IT'WAS 1 J rlJ p3 ABOUT! AT LEAST, HE SHOULD HAVE Jl I I 0.X., DYNAMITE- 6! 4 nrlv the first t/mei '"J YOU'RE y this breaking up given me a chance to rf I c-jt there and
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    Stranded Tongkang Towed To S'pore
    183 8 A 4O-TON motor tongkang. the Hwa Lor (JBC 2575,, was towed 110 miles into Singapore harbour yesterda/ by the 977-ton Sarawak Steamsnip Company's s.s. Belaga because of an engine breakdown. Chief Officer S. W. Holdway of the Belaga said that his vessel came from Sibu.
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    No Racial Planks In Elections
    141 8 The complete absence of racial issues during the itcent Municipal Elections is mentioned in a te'egram sent by His Excellency the Governor Sir Franklin Gimson to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. The telegram goes on: "This absence is a tiibute to the consistent
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    RED 'QUAKE
    30 8 A.P. TOKIO. Wed.—Government meteorologists said thoir seismographs recorded an earthquake late last night which showed the epie-'nlre in the Japan sea about Nf miles southwest of '..td'voslok.— A.P.
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    Europe Congress Has New Plan
    186 8 A.P. LONDON. Wednesday. The European movement today called for the inclusion of West Germans and refugees from Communistled countries in a 17-nation parliament of Europe. The Movement, whose honorary presidents include present and former European premiers, asked a ten-nation conference to reserve a number of
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    SISTER KENNY GOES HOME DISAPPOINTED
    99 8 A.P. SYDNEY. Wed.— Sister Elizabeth Kenny. Austialiai nurse famous for her method of treating infantile paralysis, lett on Tuesday night by plane for the Um.ed States. She may never return to hei native land. Sister Kenny expressed di.-; appointment at the lack ol interest in
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    FRENCH BEAT BACK CHINESE BORDER ATTACK
    61 8 U.P. PARIS. Wed. A French Army communique in Hanoi today said that tnirty-ii v> Vietnam troops were killed on Monday in fighting near the Chinese border. Two bands or Chinese anAnnaniite guerillas were thrown oack on to Cbinest territory near Lao Kay. The French
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    PAPERLESS
    35 8 U.P. WASHINGTON. wed 1 Over one million residents of the Greater Washington a; were without their local morning news papers this morning because of a workers strike in all four of the dailies UP
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    DRUNK CAUTIONED
    48 8 KLUANG. Wed. Ponnan aged 28. tound drunk on April 1 at Bebut Estate and had a small bottle of samsu. He was cautioned for being drunk and lined $3.70 for possessing samsu by the Circuit Magistrate. Inchc Azman bin Haji Abdul I lamid from Batu Pahat.
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    REQUEST REFUSED
    27 8 A.P. TRIPOLI, Wed.—Tne British administration refused an Aral) request to hold a demonstration and strike today against a return to Italian rule on "security grounds."—A.P.
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    THE LUCKY WINNERS GOT RADIOS
    118 8 Members of the staff of William Jacks Co., wenhosts at last night's distribution of prizes for the Philips Radio Contest winners at the Hoof-Garden. Adelphi Hotel. Out of a total number of entrants of 6,727. three persons won radio-sets, twentyfour consolation prizes and the rest
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    HICKS DIES
    22 8 A.P. LONDON. Wed—Sir Seymour Hicks, distinguished actor, producer and playwright, died today at his home in Fleet. He was 78.—A.1.
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    "Censure Speaker" Demands M.P.
    258 8 A.P. LONDON, Wednesday —Quintin Conservative, today introduced a motion in tho House of Commons to censure the Daputy Speak*] of the House. Major James Milner. on BO issue arising out of yesterday night's debate on Britain's meat situation. The motion charges that Ifllnei is "wanting in
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    'TO USE FORCE IF NECESSARY'
    69 8 U.P. GRAFENWOBHK, German), Wed. General Lucius Clay the American Military Govei nor in Germany, toi<i American troops celebrating Army Day here that they were in Europ pledged "to prevent aggressi by force, if necessary." General Clay spoke briefly after two hundred UniteStates tanks had rumble.!
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    REBEL SUCCESS
    39 8 A.P. LONDON. Wo. I. The Greek rebel radio claimed t" day that Greek guerilla force I bad recaptured the mountainous western Grammos area w Greece from which they were driven by Greek Government troops last autumn. A.r.
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    4.000 ARRESTED
    29 8 A.P. NEW DELHI. Wed. Four thousand Communists haw been arrested in southeast Hyderabad and the situation is "under .control, it was announced in Parliament to A P.
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    TRENGGANU TAKES THE LEAD
    198 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— Trengganu is the first State in the Federation to organise its own appeal committee for the University of Malaya Fund. The inaugural meeting of the State Appeal Committee was held this morning at the Istana Maziah. Kuala Trengganu, with the Hon. Tengku Mohammed
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    'SURRENDER OR ELSE' REDS DEMAND
    190 8 Reuter. NANKING. Wednesday. The Communist Peipmg radio tonight demanded the "complete surrender" of Nationalist Government armies as a prerequisite to n peace agreement. The broadcast .said this surrender vas the oniy way to peace, and that there was no room lor compromise. "Surrender is beneficial
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    Indian Air Chief Here
    116 8 The Dtreetor-Gencr v of Civil Aviation in India, Mr. i„,a<ia. is expected in Bingaj,mis auernoon on hflerri indiao Overseas Airlines Skymaster which i s on a tent flight on the proposed l\>m bav-Sydncy line. because the present political situetion m Indonesia, it was stated, the night
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    Mortality Low Last Year
    144 8 DEATHS in the Colony i. Singapore last year were the lowest on record while a total of 44,450 births durinj tlu same period wa the hignI est iccorded for the past W years. This was revealed ny tr.c Director of Medical Servic* I, I Dr. W.
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    STRIKE, JAILED
    46 8 A.P. ATHENS. Wed. Fifteen members of the Greek Clvi l Servants Cnion Bxectltfc** have so far been arrested fo» their part in the strike of civil servants which started this morning despite Government warnings that < inergeney an J anti-strike laws would be enforced. A.P.
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    WHITLEY COUNCIL FOR S'PORE
    78 8 A Whitley Conned has I cen formed for die Singapore Hospital Assistants' Croon, the Director of Medical Services, Dr. W. J. YirKers, b.> nounced yesterday. The Council will cater for hospital assistants, laboratory assistants, sanitary inspectors, and other technical grades of the subordinate medical services »vho
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    UNO Team To Advise On Singapore Vaccination
    164 8 'piiE methods to be adopted for a B.C.G. vaccinatum campaign in Singapore and the Federation may shortly be recommended by a team of experts- from UN.O. The Colony's Director of Medical Services, Dr. W. I Vickers. said yesterday that government were considering the
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    MEDICAL AID FOR S'PORE ISLANDS
    164 8 Medical services have Deed extended to nine out of 12 rf Singapore's islands Help far the other three is under consideration. The Director of Medical Services. Dr. W. J. Vickers said this at a press conference, yesterday. The population in the nine island- have been
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    LONDON STOCK MARKET
    156 8 Reuter. LONDON. Wed. Trnumg in the London Stock Exchange was at low level today with dealers awaiting details of the British budget. Trice changes wenfew but generally firm tone wa;; maintained. British Government Securities failed to record an alteration and the section had its quietest session for
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    WHATS ON TODAY
    85 8 Ull I \IIIIUli< M ItOM III pii i Mill.. «Mi L Mi I'AOJ C Ci'uno: Kill it SINi. i. i: OI*Klt.\TI Annum 111 iif \lki o«-_, ilX')»"rU;|. m —O 1J X Ol M. I I J 1t(M|ux-|ft I |i m Mi i |H|l L«1 V n't"! I
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    Cinemas
    169 8 C'ATH.W: Roofs," (in Mandarin v.ith L?.r Mah. Shueng Koon, Yun C and Wa Tin- llun 6.30 and 9.30 p.m. ALHAMURA: "Under Shanghai Roofs, (in Mandarin» witl Lan Mah, Koon, Yun Chu and Wa Yii I.I 6.15 and 9.30 p.m. CAPITOL: "Treasure of Sierra Madrc. with Humphrfy Bogart and Walter
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    Sport
    42 8 LEAGIE S()( t'EK: S:. Div., Royal Navy v. Tarn B.A. —J. Bcsar; Jnr P. Bukom S.C. v K.A Scir.bawang—B.O.DC.A. rr (Scorer's 1M.; -Inr. Ik Lobar Bus SC. v. C.Y.M A Goylang. rKIKNIHA b Anthony's School v. H if Inst —S.J.I groun
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