Malaya Tribune, 23 March 1950

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    62 1 MALAYA Tribune BY THE,. PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE T«k Tribune" S'pore LARGER SALES THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALAYA Phone 5811/3 Nine Lines ntotutnea *imult*neoual# ut atnyapore, Suata u»m*~-, ,poh and "monj. UGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY MARCH, 23, 1950 TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE MUOM REPRSHBNTATrVB B. Maurice Clover, tfaJayi
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    AUSTRALIAN COMMANDOS URGED FOR MALAYA
    547 1 Menzies Says: "My Gove rnmen tDid Not Refuse To Help" Reuter and A.P. M LONDON, Wednesday. u'HILh Colonial Secretary Mr. James Griffiths was telling Parliament today that there was no evidence of men or material being imported from outside Malays to help the bandits, Australian
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    All Aid Short Of Guns For Malaya
    215 1 JN less than three months, "appreciable" American economic aid should be on its way to the danger spots of South East A.- 3 ia, including all aid possible short of guns for Malays: and French Indo-China. Mr. Allen Grinin. head of the U.S.
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    Sarawak Secret Soeietv Proscribed
    93 1 STOP PRESS Reuter. LONDON. Wed.—Mr. Thomas Reid, Labour, asked in Parliament today what had been done to suppress the secret society known as Rukon Tigabelas. which was responsible ior the murder of Mr Duncan M. Stewart. Governor of Sarawak, last December. Colonial Secretary James Griffiths replied
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    Griffiths' Warning On Petrol
    81 1 Reuter. LONDON. Wed. Colonial Secretary, Mr. James Griffiths told Parliament today that the ending of petrol rationing in Yialaya would not lead to any appreciable increase in consumption. This Is the opinion of the Malayan Government, he said. He added: "The Governments of the two territories
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    Gold Coast Extremists Sent To Gaol
    90 1 A.P. ACCRA. Wed. Kwame Nkrumah, extremist Gold Coast nationalist leader, received 12 months imprisonment in one court here today and was then taken to another where his appeal against sentences of 12 months on a separate charge was dismissed. In th? first court Mr.
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    FED. CITIZEN BILL PASSED
    60 1 The Federal Citizenship (Amendment No. 4) Regulations has now been approved by the Federation Government with the following additions to the categories of persons authorised to certify applications (a) Members of a Chinese Advisory Board in a State or Settlement; and (b) Chinese headmen who possess
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    NEW GUINEA NOT FOR U.S.I.'—CALWELL
    127 1 NEW GUINEA NOT FOR U.S.I.' —CALWELL Reuter-AAP. CANE ERR A, Wednesday. A JSTRALIA'S Minister for External Affairs Mr. n P.C. Spender, should tell Doctor Soekarno, tne Indonesian President, and others that no nation except the Dutch had any claim to Dutch New Guinea, Mr. Arthur Calwell (Labour) declared in Parliament
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    THEATRE FIRE
    24 1 A.P. TOKYO. Wed.—Six Japanese were crushed or burned to death today when a crowd panicked in a blazing theatre at Kanazawa —A.P.
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    BANDITS BURN LABOURERS' QUARTERS
    81 1 KOTA TINGGI. Today.—A gang of ten armed bandits raided Mawai estate and burnt down two labourers' lines and the houses of the estate mandore. They left after taking 14 identity cards with them. In the Tenan area of Segamat. ten bandits wearing three-star-caps swooped on a
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    NEW CABINET
    20 1 U.P. TEHERAN, Wed. The Shah of Persia today appointed All Mansur Mansurolmok to form a new cabinet —U.P.
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    TALKS ON ECONOMIC DEFENCE OF S.E.A.
    178 1 U.P. LONDON. Wed. OFFICIAL quarters said v today that a full meeting of the British cabinet will be called before Easter to discuss plans for the economic defence of South East Asia. They said that "departmental briefs" had been prepared by the Foreign Office
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    Road Sign Got Sore Throat
    85 1 U.P. SYRACUSE. New York, Wed.—"Tommy" the talking signal light stopped traffic today and gave pedestrians and motorists a lesson in safety. "Enjoy sights," It said. "Don't be one. Avoid that run-down feeling.'' Tommy is a traffic signal built by General Electric Company scientists. The light
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    BRITAIN HAS 'HOMING TORPEDOES'
    78 1 Reuter. LONDON. Wed.—Britain is experimenting with new types of torpedoes which will "nose out" enemy submarines, set their own course and finally strike. Giving details in a Parliamentary debate on the Nav> estimates today, If Callaghan, Parliamentary Be< retary to the Admiralty, said thest new weapons
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    THANKS' DRIVE
    59 1 A.P. LONDON, Wed.—The Royal family today opened a nationwide campaign of than es to the CommonweaJlu ,i.:d Uu; U.S. for the 70,000,000 food parcels they gave to Britain. The King and Queen sent a donation of £1,000 to a thanksgiving fund aimed at laising £2,000,000 to build a
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    "I WAS FORCED TO FIRE"
    118 1 A.P. Dar Es Salaam. Wed. A British Assistant Superintendent of Police. Mr. J. M. McLoughlin, testified today that in the riots on February 3, he was forced to fire with a revolver on those who seemed most dangerous. When his ammunition was exhausted, he attacked
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    Britain Does Not Favour Direct Approach To Stalin
    270 1 Reuter. LONDON, WeinesdJV. iJriITAIN does not favou: i direct oppr< icn uk on atomic energy bocaus? she dosa uot uilnk it would be a success, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told Parliament today. 'We think it would land us in difficulties anu we
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    But Acheson Says 'I'LL Consider It'
    146 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON. Wed. Secretary of State Dean Acheson today promised careful consideration for tuc piopooa! made by United Nation.-- Secretary General Trygve Lie fo; a mceling of Foteign Mini, ters Secuiity Council powers. Mr. Acheson had been asked at his'weekly press conference to comment
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    TALKS IN LONDON
    25 1 Reuter. Newark, New Jersey, Wed. Secretary cf State Dean Acheson may go to London in May. to strengthening Atlantic pact defences. Reuter.
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    FIRST MEETING
    24 1 Reuter. ESTRAD. Wed. Th? Aga Khan arrived here today to see lor the first time his 12--week-oki grand dau inter fasmln Reuter
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    CALL FOR FREE CONVERTABILITY
    349 2 EUROPE'S TRADE CHAMBERS U.P. NEW YORK, Wednesday. PRESIDENT Philip Reed of the International Chamber of Commerce ye3terday urged support for a European Payments Union and called for a "complete abolition of quotas in inter-European trade." -£T -l 1 a' v.L 1 1 Reed summoned a special
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    PRODUCE MARKET
    100 2 Coffee was very quiet again in the produce markets yesterday with little or no business passing. Copra was quiet but very steady with buyers opening at per picul f.o.b. Mar.-Apr. and rising to $37g. Sellers were holding off at higher levels. The London copra market was quietly steady
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    INDIES COPRA EXPORTS FALL
    49 2 WASHINGTON. Wed. The United States of Indonesia exported 16.826 long tons of copra during February, official government reports said on Tuesday. That was a 17-per cent feduction as compared with February. 1949. and 33 per cent below th° 1949 average monthly shipments of 25.284 tons.
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    BURMA GIVES REPLY
    43 2 A.P. RANGOON. Wed.—Burma s reply to the British Commonwealth offer of a £6.000.000 loan was handed yesterday to the ambassadors of Britain. India. Pakistan and Ceylon for their governments by the Foreign Minister Sao Hkun Hkio, it was authoritatively reported.—A«P.
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    Less Rice
    67 2 A.P. WASHINGTON. Wed. Burmese rice exports totalled 2 632 000.000 pounds during 1949. according to the U.S. P.-i-ai tment of Agriculture. Th.s is M.000.000 iK>unds less than 1948 exports. The 1936-40 average yearly exerts were 6.504.000.000 pounds, tlie Department said. Japan received tKJunds of the 1949 shipments. Other
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    Steady Quiet
    33 2 Singapore. Wed. The share market today ruled quiet but steady in all sections and there were few price changes to record. A bright feature Is the continued improvement in commodity prices.
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    RUBBER MARKET
    108 2 The rubber commodity market opened steady yesterday, but with little doing. The market, however, nrmed up towards the close with good buying interest. Closing prices in cents per pound were: Buyers Sellers No. 1 RSS f.o.b. Apr. 54 3/8 54 1/2 No. 2 RSS f.o.D. Apr. 53 1/8
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    PHILIPPINES COPRA EXPORTS
    55 2 WASHINGTON. Wed. Philippine copra exports for February totalled 29.536 long tons, the lowest monthly shipments since January 1949 when 23.466 tons were exported, the U.S. Agriculture Department reports Almost 20.000 tons of the February exports came to the United States, the Department said. The next largest amount,
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    Share Quotations
    849 2 Singapore, Mar. 21 Buyer* SeUera INDUSTRIALS Atlas Ice 1190 12.25 xb„ xd Alex. Bricks Pref. 2-40 2.50 Ord. 2.20 2.27 BB Petrol 34/6 35/6 B.M. Trustees 7 .50 8.50 Con. Tin Smelt Pref 21/3 22/3 cd Ord. 16/S 16/6 E. Utd. Assur. 38.75 39.75 Fed Dispensary 6.25 6.75
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    U.S. Economy Bright Despite Coal Snag
    118 2 U.P. WASHINGTON, WednW THE Commerce Department reported today United States economic activity has n r moderately in January and February rtJl!?*** coal strike. pite The rise was attributed to the dividends to veterans on their national service iif t policies, the high demand for
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    NOT ACCEPTABLE
    38 2 Reuter. LONDON. Wed.—Sir Stafford CnpDs. British Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday refused a suggestion that he should limit by law the amount of Sterling balances, both capital and interest, to be released in any one year.—Reuter.
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    Tin Prices
    70 2 SINGAPORE. Mar 22 t< price was $298-25 r*r nS ex-smelter. Up fl-* Plcu l LONDON. Mar 21 Spot £602£. Up £3> Three months £603.. Up Settlement price £602}. Up Turnover: 390 tuns Second sessionSpot £602 4 3 Up B|i Three months £603 £3|. Lfi Settlement price £603. tj
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    CURRENCY RATES
    163 2 Currency rates t.ow in force are as follows: I ree Market Currencies. Setting Buying T.T./O.D. T.T. O.D. Mtttl/i. «t. London 2/4 1/16 2 4 316 2 4 7IS I Australia 2/11 2/11 1 2 New Zealand 2/4 1/1« 2/4 2132 India. Burma and Ceylon 155 3 4 156
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      473 2 j On the RADIO MALAYA BLUE NETWORK ■JJOI4BB PHOGR \M MK£ 10.00 a.m. Kmn trim. Kuala I.umpur; 10.05 Close Down 10 5 I; or the. Schools:—Radio story Song Hook singing T*Zm*t* for t H 1*J lt atur u.uo Programmes in Ma--1.00 p.m. The Radio Or* l.estra with a programme of
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    U.S. Mission Meets C. G.
    76 3 Meeting of the United States Economic Mission to South East Asia with the C <mmis«ioner-G2ne-ral, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, at Phoenix Park. Picture shows from left to right: Mr. A.D. York, General Sir John Harding, Mr. Mac Donald, Mr. J.C. Stendall Bennett. Dr. VV. Clyd*, Cot
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    'EXCESSIVE SPEED CAUSE OF MOST ACCIDENTS'
    266 3 THE majority of fatal accidents and those where serious injuries occur are due primarily to excessive speeding. This was stated by Government at Tuesday's meeting of the Legislative Council in reply to questions on traffic speed traps raised by Che Sardon bin Haji Jubir.
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    Teachers To See Saltan For Pay Rise
    111 3 THE Kedah Malay Teachers' Association has decided to send a three-man delegation to see the Sultan ol Kedah about a "large number" of Class B Malay teachers whose repeated appeals for salary increases been ignored by the State Government. No definite date has
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    Unions Alum On Neden Report
    109 3 THK Singapore Army Civil St r• ie Union and the Local St ail Union declined to comment on the long-awaited and much-discussed Neden Report un conditions of service of local civilian workers ol the Armed Services, published yesterday. They said they want to make a
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    HOSPITAL MEN VOTE FOR UNION
    78 3 MALACCA. Wed.—At a meeting of the Malacca Hospital Assistants Recreation Club held recently, the members unanimously decided to form themselves into a trade union—the Malacca Medical Staff Union. The executive members, of which Messrs. Ang Cheng Leong and K.R. Sabapathy arc president and secretary respectively,
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    MALAY ROBS WOMAN
    58 3 A Chinese woman reported to the police that while on her way home on Tuesday night, a Malay waylaid'her at Lorong 25, Geylang Road. The Malay, she alleged, dragged her into a baclilane. tied her hands and feet and then gagged her before he made ifr wlt*i
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    RED POSTERS
    25 3 Police found seven Communist posters at 10' i milestone. Bukit Timah Road, on Tuesday. The posters were found stuck to cinema advertising boards.
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    No Decision Yet On Cut In Rural Water Rate
    147 3 GOVERNMENT has not arrived at any definite Tuesday's meeting of the Legtolatlve CoUn This matter has been under the Municipal Commissioners and the Rural Board since March last year. The points at issue are both important and complicated and further examination
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    TWO MORE LINCOLNS DUE TOMORROW
    53 3 The last two Lincoln bombers out of the eight wnioh have been sent from Britain to operate in Malaya are expected to arrive tomorrow. Two more arrived on Tuesday, and joined the lour which were already at Tengari. An RAF spokesman yesterday said: "That Is
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    THREE FINED $10
    41 3 Three women. Tan Kirn "way. Tay Siok Im. Yeo Mut Kia, and two men, Yeo Kirn Tseng, and Yeo Ah Luk. were each fined ten dollars for illegal entry into the Colony by the First District Judge yesterday.
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    Secretaries Exam Results
    190 3 The following Singapore candidates have passed the Examinations of the Corporation of Certified Secretaries held in December lest EXAMINAKoh Boon On. Koh Seat Wee Cheong. Thondemvelil Jcshue Cheriyan. Chue Shui Hoong. Chung Kong Fee Fang Wee Lim Gaw Synn Chee, Goh Leng Wang. Jimmy Kang Cheng Yam.
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    JUDGMENT RESERVED IN HAI HSUAN DISPUTE
    689 3 THE Chief Justice, Mr. Murray-Aynsley yesterday 1 reserved judgment in the dispute over the possession of the ship "JW Hsuan" which te 00» lying in the Singapore Harbour as the result ol a fourt order. seJedon .he captain of the vessel and another at
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    FIRE GUTS 11 SHOPS
    58 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.--A big fire broke out m Baling Town a' 12.30 pm. try day and destroyed 11 auau and plank shop nouses. The Police, hreflfhters and volunteers battled with the flames for several hours before it was nnally brought under control. Damage is estimated be
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    C.P.O. FETED
    35 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed.— Otticers of the Johorc Police entertained their Chief Police Officer. Mr. L.F. Knight, and Mrs. Knight to a farewell party this evening. Mr. Knight will be proceeding shortly on leave.
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    WOMEN SOCIAL WORK HOLD ANNUAL MEET
    206 3 r:E Annual Meeting or the Women's Social Woric was held in the Sal- vation Army Women ana Girl's Industrial Home yesterday. The meeting was opened by Brigadier F. W. Harvey, and his speech was followed by the Young People s Singing Company who sang
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    'People On The Move' Puzzle For Planner
    190 3 L GINGAPORE presents a peculiar problem to towr I 13 planners, because th< people are migratory, and t the pjanner cannot design any housing scheme basi c! on the local community. j Mr. J. M. Fraser, chairman of the Singapore Improvement Trust, said
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    MALAYAN T.U.C.
    563 4 riVE hundred labour leaders, representing 104 trade unions in tho Federation, will gather together on Saturday in the Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall, Kuala Lumpur. Their two-day conference will be one of the biggest of its kind ever held in Malaya. Many things will be discussed, but none more
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    PAGEANTRY WILL MARK ROYAL CREMATION
    712 4  -  by MILTON MARMOR BANGKOK. ALMOST four years after a bullet in the head ended his ill-fated reign, the boy King Ananda will be cremated and his remains dutifully placed alongside those of his royal Siamese ancestors. The occasion will be one of unparalled oriental ceremony
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    NIZAM IS A GHOST IN HIS COUNTRY
    1286 4  -  by SYLVAIN MANGEOT Reuter. THE former princely state of Hyderabad, whose incorporation into the Indian Union provided one of the most eventful chapters in the story of India's absorption of the Native States, is tolay settling down to its new existence as a
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    MYTH EXPLODED
    157 4 UNDER the heading "Hindus Expose a Myth", the Office of the High Commissioner for Pakistan in London has issued a denial of stories recently published that the severe riots in Calcutta in February were the repercussions of anti-Hindu occurrences in East Bengal (Pakistani. "Authorities id West Bengal (India)
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    KAISER SHED A TEAR-ON HIS CIGAR
    849 4  -  by A. HAWKINS Reuter. LONOON. EMPEROR William II of Germany in? Kaiser —who and lost, the first World War a?a'nst <>nd Allies—was. JiV'p Hitler, b-ind to outside world opinion until it was too late CKfgv, Prlnc-ss Ot Pless. an English aristocrat who married into
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    REHEARSAL AT THE MEMORIAL HALL
    18 5 symphony Or•hrstra yesierdaj rehearsed nt, w iiui/iai rtali for theii concert in AprU.
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    MALAYAN NURSE GETS BORNEO JOB
    115 5 HISS 11. Simmons, who was Health Matron itv and Child Welhre Singapore for 14 years 1934 to 1948. recently took up a post in Brur, North Borneo where she n developing a Bother and child health programme. Ifiss a mrnoos who was Madras, India, has
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    Varsity Plans Study Gifts
    106 5 The University of Malaya will soon announce a number of scholarships, the Tribune understands. Both for new senior students, these study gift will be based entirely on merit Plana for them are meat being finalised Meanwh'le the Board of ho ds its first g today. The
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    PASSPORT NOT VISAED—$100
    41 5 i r attempting to enter lony with an expired il ot admission, and passport issued in n last year, wnich had no* been visaed. Foo Ho Fans; was fined one hundred dollars in the SinUpore Marine Cert yesterday.
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    P.E.A. PLAN TO COVER COLONY
    246 5 T HE people's Education Association have submitted a plan to the Department of Education, which if approved will enable the P.E.A. to set about its work in the Colony in a really big way. The plan deals with questions of fees, payment of teachers, syllabus
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    HUNT STILL ON FOR AMOK KILLER
    121 5 MALACCA. Wed. The Malacca police are looking for the officer in charge of a police station, iii vie A r urftiah area who is alleged to have killed lour people at about ten o'clock last night. Police alleged that the man shot dead his
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    TEN-YEAR CITY PLAN TO FIGHT FLOODS
    600 5 SINGAPORE Municipal Engineer's Department is v now preparing a ten-year, multi-million dollar plan to save the city from frequent floods. Seven nfain canals flow through the city. Three of them —the Alexandra. Stamford, and Bukit TimanRochore Canals —flood more often than Ihe others, bringing
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    Registrar Says No To Welfare Body
    118 5 KIT ALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The application for registration by the Indian Welfare Association of Malaya. Klang. has been refused by th~ Rooristxar of Societies. It Is understood that I.L/uO uekets out of i total of 10.000 in a 'ottery have been distributed tor sue.
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    Flame-Throwers Used Against Cheras Bandits
    358 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. pLAME-THROWERS went into action against a gang of bandits, who were trapped by the Police and the Ist Suffolks at the 4s*f mile Chcras Road in the rural area near here yesterday evening. The suspected area was cordoned off and in the
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    THOSE AERIALS FOR S.I.T. FLATS WON'T DO
    76 5 The Singapore Improvement Trust has been told by experts that common aerials in STt flats in Tiong Bahru will nc-t be satisfactory. The reception might be chaotic. The Trust sometime ago said it would be prepared to make common aerials for tenant!. Tenants
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    Move To Cut At Red Food Supply
    215 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Wednesday. ANTI-BANDIT Month volunteers are carrying ou a food survey of squatter areas in Segama District as one of the measures to deny food to thj bandits. Teams of about five ABM Volunteers includinj some local Chinese have been visiting squatter
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    MORE HOLIDAY BUNGALOWS FOR GOVT. ME
    103 5 Singapore Government st vants will have two mo 1 pairs of semi detached ho s day bungalows built for the soon at Tanjong Rhu. Woi on the bungalows will sta almost Immediately. The Public Works Depar ment has been alloted $50,0< for expenditure on
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    GOOD DIVIDENDS AT BUKIT THIMAH
    2675 6  -  PERSIAN LORD WINS BY SEVEN LENGTHS BY ALBERT SPENCER The Man with 2,000 Winners UEAVY rain before the. second day's races of the Singapore Turf Club March meeting, yesterday, rendered the track at Buicit Timah heavy and as I predicted, punters had a bad day.
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    BIG SWEEP RESULTS
    53 6 TOTAL POOL: $298,272 First Prize No. *****2 $134,222 Second Prize No. *****7 $67,111 Third Prize No. *****4 37,284 Starters ($3,728 each): *****?, *****1," *****3, *****5, *****3, *****8, *****3, *****3,! *****1 *****4. Consolation Prizes: ($2,237 each): *****J,' *****7, *****0, *****2, *****5, *****8, *****9, *****0, *****5, *****4. Double Tote:
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    FEW HORSES SET AGAINST THE WATCH THIS MORNING
    247 7  -  By ALBERT SPENCER The Man with 2,000 Winners. /THE Bukit Timah track continued to be heavy 1 morning for workouts and as a result onlv a few horses were set against the watch, the majority being confined to three-quarter pace work The
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    Canada Wins Ice Hockey
    88 7 Reuter and A.P. LONDON. Wed. —Canada won the world ice hockey title of 1950 here. playing right through the championships without dropping a point. They were given their hardest game by Sweden tonight but ran out winners by three goals to one. In London, Switzerland won
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    JOHORE-S'PORE SCHOOLBOYS SOCCER MATCH
    237 7 ons for the annual soccer match between the Combined Singapoie Schools and the Combined Johore Schools have started. The 7—2 trouncing by the Johore boys ison is still fresh in the minds of the Singapore youngsters who are out to avenge it. electors have arranged trial
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    Good Entries For Perak Easter Races
    997 7 IPOH, Wednesday. The exceptionally good entries of 175 Class I and Class II horses have been entered for the Perak Turf Club "Perak Derby" Easter Meeting to be run in Ipoh on April 1, 8 and 10. Class I entries have drawn 63 horses
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    ARSENAL IN F.A. CUP FINAL
    173 7 Reuter. LONDON, Wednesday. A goal by right winger Freddy Cox in the fading seconds of the first half of extra time, shattered Chelsea's Football Association Cup hopes, and put Arsenal into the final for the fifth time. This goal beat a gallant Chelsea side in
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    Joe Louis To Meet Charles
    74 7 U.P. EL PASO, Texas. Wed. —Retired heavyweight champion Joe Louis said today that he is considering a return to the ring and negotiations are under way for a bout with the current title holder Ezzard Charles. Louis admitted that he was too impressed by the
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    Saints Hold Victorians To 2-2 Draw
    147 7 Playing on a water-logged ground the St. Andr-w's School held the Victoria School to a two-all draw on the Saints giound yesterday. Tl»e Victorians started off in whirlwind fashion and hi the Qtl minute Ramakrishnan dribblea the ball pa;' 3 several defenders before he
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    Bookmakers Prayers Answered At Liverpool
    283 7 LIVERPOOL, Wednesday. Heavy rain marked the opening of the Spring meeting here today and unless strong winds and a warm sun come along, tho going for Saturday's big steeplechase, the world famous Grand National, will be soft and heavy. This is what the bookmakers are
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    13 Service Boxers Fail To Turn Up
    116 7 Thirteen Service boxers failed to turn up at the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association's intermediate championships at the Happy World last night. The boxers were not present at the weighing at 5 p.m. The SABA officials were nonplussed for they had not received previous
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    SCC Beat Ceylonese
    84 7 The Singapore Cricket Club XI defeated the Ceylonese XI by two goals to nil In a friendly soccer game played on the Padang yest?rday. The S.C.C. team werp very much stronger than the Ceylonese, when they had Wright, their centre-for-ward, who played a clever game, equipped with
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    FREE FOR ALL STOPS IPOH GAME
    151 7 IPOH. Wednesday. Ciowd control which has always been a major problem facing Ipoh soccer i cached a climax yesterday when the game between League champion Chiang Churn XI and the Kinta Indians lesultcd in a free for a!' fight. The referee (Sgt. Carrol) stopped
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    S. A. P. SOCCER
    88 7 The team of the Poctel Atiilelir Party will he selected from the following to meet the H.Q. s.n Kapoif District on Inday at the C.V.M.A. ground. S«. Get rge s Road In the S.A.F.A. Junior B L Leavu>\ Bah Chee. Kway Yew Charlie Kan«\ Chua Hoi
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    SEVENTY-FIVE U.S. TANKS FOR CHIANG
    307 8 S'HAI BOMBED AGAIN U.P.-A.P.-and Reuter. TAIPEH, Wednesday. THE Montreal owned frieghter Argovan sailed from 1 Vancouver today with war supplies for the Nationalist stronghold of Formosa. Capt. F. Delaney, master of the freighter, said that his ship would unload 75 surplus U.S. army tanks in
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    It's Utterly Fantastic!
    98 8 U.P. MANILA. Wed.—me Chinese Nationalist Embassy branded as "utterly fantastic" today the alleged confession of a counterfeiting gang leader that his sing printed US$4OO,OOO in bogus American money ior Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's regime. Antipaz Pineda, gang leader, and five others were arrested a few days after American
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    BACKFIRED
    46 8 A.P. BENDIGO, Wed. Oscar J. Pus. 49, set a booby trap to frighten people stealing his ducks. He tripped over the wire attached to the loaded shotgun and the ol&st caught him in the body. He died a few days later in the local hospital.—A.P.
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    BIG JOB FOR CHIANG'S SON
    44 8 A.P. TAIPEI, Wed. Chinese quarters today predicted that Generalissimo's elder son, Chiang Ching-kuo, will get a high post in the Defence Ministry. If so, he is expected to become director of the Ministry's Political Training and Information Department. A.P.
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    Mao Seeks Siam Rice For Starving People
    120 8 A.P. aand U.P. HONGKONG, Wednesday. THE Chinese Communists arc known to be negotiating with the Siamese Government for fro purchase of rice to relieve the famine s akcn regions in East and Central China. A Commission from North Anhwei. one of the hardest
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    POLICE RUSHED TO PAKISTAN BORDER RIOTS
    74 8 Reuter. CALCUTTA, Wed.—Police reinforcements were rushed today to the East Pakistan border district of Nadia alter a border incident in which a large number oi Pakistanis, supported by Police and ansari (armed Muslim volunteers) were reported to have crossed over into India yesterday and
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    PRIVATE DEAL IN RECONDITIONED BRITISH GUNS?
    76 8 A.P. COLOMBO. Wed.—Allega tions that reconditioned bren gun carriers bought at British army surplus sales have been sold by private nrms to Pakistan were made last night in Ceylon's parliament by Trotskyist member Robert Gunawardene. Premier Sennanayake said that there is no desire on
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    U.S. AID TO KOREA
    18 8 A.P. WASHINGTON, Wed. Economic Co-operation Administration yesterday announced a grant of US*B,--428,000 to Korea.—A.P.
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    GOVT. TAKES YEDASHE
    44 8 RANGOON, Wed.—Burma Government forces have occupied Yedashe, an important communist stronghold 18 miles nortTi of Toungoo and about half-way between Rangoon and Mandalay. The troops had continued their forward march from Toungoo where arrangements are being made to restore civil administration.
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    President Again
    32 8 Generalissimo Chiang. Kai-shek sits with his wife at a tea-party in the City Hall at Taipeh. Formosa the day after he resumed presidency of Nationalist China.— A.P. Photo. A.P. Photo.
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    MAO AND NEHRU TO EXCHANGE ENVOYS
    66 8 NEW DELHI, Wed.- Negotiations between Communis i China and India for the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries are now concluded, it was authoritatively learned here, today. An exchange of ambassadors between Peking and New Delhi is expected soon and indications are
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    ISREAL WILL PRODUCE RUBBER TYRES
    74 8 U.P. NEW YORK, Wed. -Plans to build a $2.000.000 rubber factory in Israel to manufacture tyres and allied products, were announced today by Arthur Lourie. ConsulGeneral for Israel and Cyril O'Neil. Vice President of Foreign Operations, of the Genera! Tyie and Rubber Company. Akron, Ohio.
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    'A Potential Threat To Textile Industry
    218 8 Reuter. LONDON, Wednesday. JAPAN is a "potential threat" to Britain's textile industry, Air Vice-Marshal C. A. Bouchier, former Deputy Commander-in-Chief of British Forces in Japan, warned today. He told a Federation of British Industries conference here that Japan's basic economic problem was "too many
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    TWO BABIES CRY BEFORE THEY ARE BORN
    102 8 U.P. HOPKINSVILLE. Kentucky. Wed.—Two babies born here yesterday at the Kentucky Baptist Hospital cried audibly before their birth. Hospital authorities said today. The first infant was born to Mrs. Robert Hallawell. She cried about five minutes before the delivery was made. The other
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    DUTCH ENVOY
    24 8 THE HAGUE. Wed.—Jonkheer H. P. J. Bosch van Drakenstein has been appointed Netherlands envoy to the Burmese Union, it was announced today.
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    7,000 HELD IN ITALY STRIKES
    152 8 ROME, Wednesday. lEEPLOADS of armed police, with sirens shrieking, J went into action today against hundreds of thousands of workers obeying a Communist call to a showdown with the Italian Government. One person was killed, som? 400 injured and more than 7.000 arrested in a
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    DOG PoW IS DEAD
    87 8 A.P. LONDON, Wed.—Judy, the only dog Officially registered by Britain as a Japanese prisoner of war, is dead. The 14-year-old pedigreed Pointer held dogdom s highest decoration for valour, the Deckin Medal. It is considered the animals Victoria cross. Born in Shanghai, Judy was a mascot
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    GET RUSSIA TO BEHAVE FIRST: SAYS U.S.
    71 8 U.P. WASHINGTON, Wed. United States officials today gave a cautiously cool reception to Trygve Lie's proposals for easing the cold war with Russia. Responsible officials here, however, pointed out that Russia was boycotting the Security Council and a number of other United Nations
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    LEOPOLD MAY STILL GET IN
    61 8 U.P. BRUSSELS. Wed.—Ardent pro-Leopold Count Henri Carton de Wiart. 82. was given the task of trying to form a new Belgian government today. Carton de Wiart made it clear that he would try to restore exiled King Leopold to the throne. He is expected to
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    TWENTYNINE HURT
    27 8 A.P. BLOEMFONTEIN. Wed.— Three Europeans and 26 Africans were Injured today in methane gas explosion in the St. Helena Gold Mine. Orange Free State. —A.P.
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    GIRL'S PHONE CALL ENDS MYSTERY
    154 8 U.P. SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA. Wed. —Acting on her tearful plea to "send the FBI after me,' police last night swooped ('own on a highway 'motor court, rescued Florence Sally Homer, 12, and arrested an ex-convict who allegedly abducted her from Camden, New Jersey, nearly two
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    NEW GOVT. FOR CREEKS
    43 8 Reuter. ATHENS, Wed.- The Greek Liberal leader, M. Venizelos today accepted a mandate fiom the King to form a government and immediately began discussions with othei political leaders-. He hoped to form a government by tomoriow, he said.— Reuter.
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    Govt. Was Told To Exile Seretse Khama
    173 8 Reuter. LONDON, Wednesday. THE official commission of inquiry which probed the chieftainship dispute in the Bamangwato tribe of Bechuanaland unanimously advised Rritain against recognising Seretse Khama, the Government disclosed today. The commission—whose report ha& been kept secret—also recommended that Seretse should be exiled
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    'I AM HAPPY HE GOT IT -SAYS Mr.LIM
    754 8 Mr. WICKS GETS THE JOB Tribune Staff Reporter MR. F. S. Wicks gets the job. Mr. P. c. Lim t h other man, said last night: "I am quite hat Mr. Wicks has got it. I wish him luck and succS as
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    LONDON SHARES
    123 8 Reuter. LONDON. Wed. port from pr»v,n harder tone in f on th* Tondon Mo ~J today. Textile?, »|cit tobaccos were «han-ed and then- rt| imnrovements in l« cellaneou i«su<*; The tradim- i ,ff il* was I—dMtfl' J° h v thai ao«thy -nd lethartfl most section. r t «<■
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    SWEDEN WARNS WARMONGERS
    47 8 Reuter. STOCKHOLM. Wed. —If Sweden is involved in war against her will, she will defend her independence to the utmost. Swedish Foreign Minister Oesten Unden declared in a foreign policy speech today. But her policy was the same as it always had been —neutrality.—Reuter.
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY GENERAL
    152 8 YWfA: at 10 a.m., Embriodery Class at 3.3 C p.m. at Raffles ijyay. INTKR-KELIGIOI S (IKCANI SATION: Meeting on "Religion n our Daiiy lives'" at 5 p;n. at Raffles Institution. Speakers Rabbi Jacob Siiab 100. Mrs. H. B. Mborhead and Sw.mil Value danananda. Tanglln Club general
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    CINEMA
    112 8 CATH*.Y: "The at 11 1.45. 4.15. 6.45 and P. 30 m. PAVILION: "Citizen ivane" at 1.45. 4.15. 6.45. .md P. 30 p m. CAPITOL: "Tokyo Joe' at 11. 1.45. 4. 6.30 and 9.3») p.m. KEX: "Brittania Mews" at 11. 1.45. 4. 6.45 and 9.30 p.m. ALHAMBRA: A BtfUiwe Woman"
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    SPORT
    43 8 SOCCER: Snr. Ltre: BODCA v. RAF Se'etar at Jalan B<-sar: Jnr. B.l: Social A.P. v. H.Q. Singapore Dist. ot CYMA: Jnr. A.2: Jollilads v. Indonesian "A" at Gevlang. TENNIS: YMCA championships. BOXING: SABA intermediate tournament &t Happy Wtrld from 8 p.m. (cont.).
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