Malaya Tribune, 9 May 1950

Microfilm: NL3773
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1 8 Malaya Tribune
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    Masthead
    60 1 MAYALA Tribune PEOPLE FQK 77£F Tel: Tribune" Spore. LARGER SALES THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALAYA Phone 5811/3 Nine Lines Pubiwfted simultaneously at B*tgapore. Kuala Lumpur, Ipo% ana Penang. EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1950 TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE E. Maurwe Glover, Malaya Tribune t>//ice, 143
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    Truman Tells Of World War III
    103 1 i b O RD iRUMAN TRAIN M<>n. President tn who is 66 years old said today that the next few months will determine whether or not there will a third world war. President told a railstation crowd at Illinois, that 11 lationlsts have their
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    HOLIDAY FOR CLEM
    22 1 A.P. LONDON. Mon.—Clement Attlee and his. wife plan an eight-day motoring holiday in France during Parliament's Whitsuntide recess.- A.P.
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    INDO—CHINA GETS $15 MILLION
    434 1 First U.S. Move To Halt Soviet Menace In South East Asia Reuter U.P. WASHINGTON, Monday. Till Tinted States Government plans to announce within the next 24 hours the first formal allotment of $15,000,000 worth of military aid to Indo- hi in to fight the "menace of
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    BRIND IN H.K.
    20 1 U.P. HONGKONG, Mon.—Admiral Sit Patrick Btlnd, Commander-in-Chief of the British Far Eastern Fleet, arrived in Hongkong yesterday.—U.P.
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    79 ASHORE WITHOUT PERMITS
    107 1 Tribune Staff Reporter Seventy-nine people will be charged in the Fourth District Court today for illegal entry into the Colony. They comprise of 53 Chinese men, 16 Chinese women, seven Indonesian men and three Indonesian women. They are at present bo ing detained in the Central
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    House Gets Petition To Sack Strachey
    104 1 A.P. LONDON. Mon.—A petition with 18.(>00 signatures demanding the removal irom office of War Minister John Strachey and Defence Minister Emanuel Shinwell was presented to the House of Commons today. The petition said tnat Doth "have in the Dast expressed their sympathy with Communism".
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    BANDITS BURN 2 SMOKE HOUSES AND KONGSIS
    69 1 JOHORE BAHRU. Today. Eight bandits raided Dato Wong Shee Fun Estate yesterday and burned down a smokehouse, a kongsi and 75 piculs of rubber. The damage is estimated at $20,000. A kongsi, smokehouse and ten pieuls of rubber in a neighbouring estate was
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    SSSH Not The 'Phone
    50 1 Tribune Staff Reporter f All heads of Govern- ment Departments have been circularised not to discuss important or confidential matters over the telephone except in cases where speed outweighs all i other considerations. Reason: Because of the defective telephone exchange, unauthorised people are listening in. S
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    Russian Film Passed Uncut By Censor
    85 1 The 9.916-feet long Rus sian film "Alexander Nevsky t shown to members and guests of the Singapore Film Society at the Victoria Theatre last night I was passed uncut by the Film Censor because it was a piece of straightforward drama based on a
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    Queen Launches Ark Royal
    48 1 An estimated 50,000 saw Queen Elizabeth launeh the 36.800-ton Ark Royal. Britain's newest and biggest vircraft earrier, at Birkenhead recently. Pieture shows the giant craft sliding down the slipway in the Cammeil Laird Yard after the launching bv the Queen. —A.P. Photo. -A,P Photo.
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    SINGAPORE TEACHERS MAY GO ON STRIKE
    306 1 Tribune Staff Reporter THE Singapore Teachers Union in a few days time will send a referendum to members to find out if they will consider a strike if all other methods of conciliation fail. This was announced by the President, Mr. N. Scharenguivel, yesterdaj
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    Peking Protest Cable Has Not Arrived—Official
    121 1 Tribune Staff Reporter THE Singapore Chinese newspaper, Nan Chiau Jit Poh, late last night knew nothing of a protest cable from Peking to Sir Franklin Gimson, the Governor of Singapore. The cable, according to an agency message, deplores "the oppression of the paper" and
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    CHINESE WITHOUT TEARS'
    96 1 Tribune Staff Reporter Professor Jou Bienming. who has recently returnea from a five-month visit to the United Kingdom, gave an hour's talk or ation and the Problem of an International Language at the V.M.C.A. last night. Prof. Bienming said that Romanization or Shu-Tung-Weng (Writing in Universal Script)
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    COMMUNAL RIOT: ONE HINDU DIES
    55 1 A.P. KARACHI. Mon. On<Hindu was killed and three were injured in a communal riot on Saturday at Jacobabad In Slnd Province. Gazi Fazullah the Slnd Province Premier announced tooay. He said that 85 Moslens were arrested for looting. The situation was brought under control within
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    STOP PRESS
    87 1 Australia Won't K<Asked For Armed Aid Reuter. MELBOURNE, Today. The Newspaper Melbourae Sun stated today that the Commissioner General for South-East Asia. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald will not seek military aid when he discusses the Malayan situation with the Prime Minister. Mr. Menzies. But, says the Sun, Mr. MacDonald
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    Move Quickly, Says Hoffman
    72 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON. Mon. Mr. Paul Hoffman, the Marshall Plan Administrator, said today: "Unless we step in, we are going to lose Indo-China. Mr. Hoffman added thai unless the United Stairs developed a suitable programme for Indo-China. "India also mi-ht fare tro'ioie la<»*»- (V He described the
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    TEXTILE WAR IN FAR EAST AGAIN
    350 2 Reuter and U.P. TOKIO, Monday. BRITISH and American textile manufacturers are 5 worried that they will soon lose their Far East crn markets to Japan. An Anglo-Americani Cotton Mission is now in Japan, to talk over the r Japanese rivals, the problems of the
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    Palm Oil In March
    40 2 Malayan exports of palm oil in March totalled 4,612 tons an increase of 876 tons over exports in March. Palm kernels exported during the month totalled 860 tons. Palm oil imports were 123 tons in March.
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    Djuanda Hopeful For USI Economy
    119 2 The USI Minister for Economic Affairs. Dr. Djuanda. said in a recent press interview in Djakarta that there was a tendency towards improvement in the field of exports. It was on the basis of this indication that he was not pessimistic of the future economic
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    Fox Plans Welcomed
    52 2 U.P JAKARTA. Mon.—The ndonesian Economic Council, has hailed the announcement by Mathew Fox concerning his programme for industrialisation, development, and international trade in Indonesia. The statement said that Indonesian businessmen are convinced that funds sufficient for rehabilitation cannot be found from foreign loans, unless supplemented by private
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    Along The Godowns
    59 2 Hoegh Silvercrest (44); Elpenor (42 43); Cuacam (41); Sarmi (40); Korea (38 39); President Harding (36); Steel Admiral (38 84); Herefordshire (31 32); Bemattow (17 18); Maxwell Brander (21/22); Star Arcturus— Pemba (23 24); Rhesus (25/26); Glenbank (29/80); HinSang(l6); Sedili (15); Kustbris—Steel Mariner (18/14); Benwyvis (11); Pyrrhus
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    MARCH TRADE IN COPRA, COCONUT OIL
    127 2 Malaya imported 8.604 tons of copra in March valued at $4,603,076 and exported 8,749 tons worth $5,416,114. Some of the leading import figures were: from North Borneo 1,400 tons, from Lingga 1,894 tons, from Sumatra 4,216 tons. Leading export figures were to Sweden 3,400
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    Tin Price
    15 2 Tin price in Singapore V e#t«rday was $394 per picul ex-smelter. Up $3/8.
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    U.S. Profits Increase
    51 2 NEW YORK. Mon.—Profits of American corporations in the first quarter of this year show a strong upward trend from a year ag A compilation of 503 corporations in all fields of business and industry snow first quarter profits were six percent ahead of the first quarter of
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    INDUSTRIALS HAD SMALL INTEREST
    45 2 i SINGAPORE May 8. Industrials continued to attract small interest at current levels and it was pleasng to see that 1 Straits Traders re-enter- ed the dividend list. Tin t shares showed little change while rubbers ramp in for fresh enquiry.
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    RUBBER RISES AGAIN
    80 2 THFJhE were good buyers in the rubber commodity market yesterday and prices rose by another cents from Saturday. The undertone appeared firm. There was good demand in the market tor June delivery. Closing prices in cents per pound were: Buyers Sellers No. 1 RSS f.o.b. May 78
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    PRODUCE
    63 2 Copra was quiet in the Singapore produce markets yesterday with buyers at $38 3/4 and sellers at $39 1/4 per picu' f.o.b. May-June. No business was reported. Coconut oil was quoted at $62 3/4 per picul f o.b. MayJune, with no bids in evidence. Cloves were a quiet market
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    Share Quotations
    843 2 Singapore, May 8. IJfDOBTKiA US Buyer* BcJlen Atlas Ice 90 12.25 Alex. Brick» Pref 2.25 2.35 Ord' 2.05 2.15 8.8. Petrol 33/- 34/B.M. Trustees 7.25 7.75 Con. TIB Smelt in Pref 20/3 21/6 xd Ord.' 15/6 16/3 E. Utd. Assur. 38.75 39.75 Fed Dispensary 6.25 1.75 Fraser Neave
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    More Squeeze In Pepper Likely
    125 2 U.P. NEW YORK, Monday. THE pepper market sagged early last week on km quotations from India, but became firm later Imports during the first four months of this year were about 40% above the imports for the same period last year, an expert estimated. He
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    Banks Are Quitting Shanghai
    111 2 A.P. HONGKONG, Mon.—Only 100 of Shanghai's 500 Chinese banks still are operating and over half of these want to close, the Hongkong Standard reported today. Heavy taxes, stringent control by the Communists and enforced purchases of victory bonds have forced the banks out of business. The
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    U.S. Textile Men Against Tariff Cut
    108 2 A.P. ATLANTIC CITY. NEW JERSEY. Mon. The President of the National Association of Textile Machinery Manufacturers said yesterday, imports of fabrics and textile machinery from Europe and Japan would seriously affect the nation's war potential. At a U555.000.000 exhibit of textile machinery marking the
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    CHINA SELLS TUNG OIL
    84 2 Reuter. HONGKONG. Mon. The Chinese-language Financial Daily News today carried confirmation of recent reports that the South China Foreign Trade Control Bureau in Canton had resumed the issuance of tung oil export as from May L The report said the resumption of tung oil exports is
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    INDIA FIXES JUTE QUOTAS
    73 2 NEW DELHI. Mon.—The Government of India has announced jute export quotas for the eight months ending December this year. The highest quotas are: Australia, 70.000 tons; Bri tain, 25,000 tons: Egypt. 14.000 tons: Burma, 7.000 tons; British East Africa. 6,100 tons and Nigeria 5,500 tons. Quotas
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    JUTE RETURNED
    52 2 NEW DELHI, Mon.—All Assam jute held up in transit through East Pa kistan has now been released. About 475,621 maunds out of 596,203 maunds originally held up has arrived In Calcutta and the rest Is on its way. Transit of additional raw jute from Assam through Pakistan has
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    RUBBER EXPORTS DOWN IN APRIL
    111 2 Malayan exports ol rubber in April totalled 68jQ69 tons a decrease ol ZUK tons as compared with March exports Of ports 43,767 tnn s ribbed smoked sheet. i.sn tons pale crepe. 6.019 tons estate brown crepe. 10.668 tons remilled rubber 1.159 tons sole crepe. 4846
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    S. Africa May Withdraw From IMF
    57 2 U.P. WASHINGTON M South Africa may be to withdraw from Urn ternational Monetary Fund because she is insistu her right to sell goldabov.the agreed world pfl $35 an ounce. The South African Finance Minister, has that his country n the right to sell its
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    PARENTS MUST PLAY THEIR PART— MR. FRISBY
    272 3 DA RENTS were urged to take an active interest in 1 their children's education by the Director of Education, Mr. A. W. Frisby, in a broadcast yesterday "The time has gone when parents regarded their duty as complete when they paid someone else
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    TIME FOR TENANT TILL APPEAL
    98 3 An application by a Chi- i woman, who had been j nit red to give uo tenancy ol a house in Dhoby Ghaut. she be allowed to re 1 on the premises pending apocal. was allow- by Mr. Justice Evans in the High Court yesterday.
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    GUNNERS SEEK MALAY RECRUITS
    86 3 lit. B. G. Felce. Ist. tapore Regiment Royal Artillery, is recruiting Malay personnel between the of 18 and 24 for the Ist Singapore Regiment Royal Artillery. He wIU be in Kluang to- i i In Kajang tomorrow and on Thursday in Ra wang. In each case.
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    3 RACEHORSES BY THE CHARON
    63 3 The Blue Funnel ship. Charon, .vhich arrived in Singapore from Australian ports yesterday brought 2.408 sheep, three race I and 2.106 tons of a rti rood cargo. There also 69 passengers. Another ship from Ausn ports, the 7.769-ton 8.1.5. N. Querimba brought a numoer of
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    K.L. VICAR DIES IN SINGAPORE
    47 3 Tin death of the Vicar Johns Church, Bukit [anas, Kuala Lumpur. Rev. < r Donat Perrisoud. at age of 71. occurred in oirmapurr yesterday noon. came to Singapore about three weeks for rthdiral treatment. The eral will take place at j-30 pjn. today.
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    TINY TOTS DO THEIR BIT
    89 3 The St. Joseph's school exhibition which was opened yesterday by Mrs. Frisby. includes the handwork of tiny tots who have made among other things stools and models of animals, animated with shells picked up during picnics— showing how play is combined with work and sport
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    PLANTER, SIX CHINESE SLAIN BY BANDITS
    305 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. DANDITS killed a European planter and six other Chinese civilians in a series of outrages in the Federation during the past twenty-four hours. The 26-year-old European, who is assistant manager on an estate in the Bentong area, was killed when bandits
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    HAD LOCKS AND BOOKS, CHARGED
    67 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— YusorT bin Wok. claimed trial when he was charged in the police court today for possession of three bicycle locks complete with keys and four English story books. YusoiT could not give a satisfactory explanation when he was questioned by the police
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    SENSELESS Gl's DIE IN HOSPITAL
    60 3 U.P. OSAKA, Mon.—The Aimy disclosed the death of two soldiers who were found unconscious in barracks at the 24th Infantry Regiment on Thursday morning and said that military police authorities were investigating. Privates John L. Ushry and Wesley E. Ivy died 15 minutes after their
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    GI's KILL JAP, JAILED
    72 3 U.P. SAPPRO. (Japan), Mon.— The Army Court Martial sen- tenced two American soldiers to 25 years' imprisonment .or j killing a Japanese during a IXO robbery Private Beale W H. Custei, I 21, and Ralph D. Ervin li>, j were found guilty of beating I Mataichi
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    SOLDIER STOLE TYPEWRITER
    57 3 U.P. OSAKA. Mon.—The Court Martial uuitfcad Private I !Uu i. H. Wright «b year gaol and rK-honourab!* discharge tor -ttaling an army typewriter and selling it to a Japanese. The sentence is subject to review by Major-General William B. Kean, Commanding General of the 25th Jnfantry .Division
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    1800 Exhibits At Today's Art Show
    751 3 IF only two per cent, of Singapore's school children turn up with their parents to see the Singapore Art Society's Ninth Inter-School Art Exhibition at the Victoria Memorial Hall today, the hall will have the biggest crowd it has ever had. Mr. C. A.
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    FIRMS SEEK GRABS
    165 3 MANY commercial firm;: have asked the University of Malaya to recommend their graduates for employment in their establishments, said Professor J. C. Cooke addressing the Raffles Institution boys yesterday. Starting salary in a commercial office may be usually low. but there is always the assurance of future
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    HAD 7 PENS
    22 3 Chan Hoi. 48. was fined $50 in the Fourth Police Court yesterday for fraudulent possession of seven fountain pens.
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    BEWARE OF THE DOC
    583 4 JAPANESE diplomats are brushing their topJ hats and filling their fountain pens in anticipation of signing the long overdue peace treaty. They believe that this thorny problem has good prospects of being settled at the forthcoming Foreign Ministers Conference. A Commonwealth Working Party is holding preliminary
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    COMMUNIST CHINA GOES TO SCHOOL
    905 4 The "scrfiptures" of Mar*, Lenin and disciple Mao are compulsory subjects. Reuter-AAP. HONGKONG. THE compulsory study of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Tse-tung's philosophy, highlights New China's educational reform pro gramme now being gradually enforced throughout the country. main r --son fOT this nibve, according to official
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    WILL MAURICE WEBB DELIVER THE BACON?
    797 4  -  by Ernest Agnew A.P. LONDON A 45-year-old ex-newspaper man and onetime preacher is trying to solve Britain's greatest riddle. Tt is: How can the government get the food that fills the warehouses to the millions of people asking for more without upsetting the nation's
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    St Andrew's Mission Hospital
    295 4 Sir,, The report and accounts of the St. Andrew's Mission Hospita' were presented to the Annual General Meeting on the 14th April last but I consider that their contents shculd receive wider publicity. This ypplie? in particular to the Medical Report for the past year. Both
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    AMERICANS LOST AN HOUR
    883 4  -  AMERICAN NEWSLETTER by J. KERIGAN NEW YORK. WASHINGTON, the nation's capital, turned out in its best spring finery of blooms and blossoms to welcome Prime Minister Liaquat Ah Khan of Pakistan. Here with his wife for a coast-to-coast tour of the United States, at the invitation
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    ZOO IS CHOOSY ABOUT "DEPOSITS"
    315 4 WASHINGTON. IF you think that everything at a zoo is sent in by explorers and scientists from farway places, pull up a chair. Housewives, schoolboys, businessmen, even policemen, have given animal, birds or reptiles to the U.S National Zoological Park of the Smithsonian Institution. Various
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    POLICE, SMC MEN EXTORTED MONEY
    624 5 Woman Hawker SERIOUS allegations of corrupt practices by the Police and members of the Municipal Town rising Department were made by a Chinese woman vegetable hawker yesterday. She told the Hawkers Inquiry Commission how the members of the Police and Town Cleansing Department took bribes
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    TONIGHT'S SHOW
    29 5 The Rmvcroit Players, an ur theatre group made up of service men and will present "Theai! in the Rowcroft Theatre at Ayer Raid at n 15 lomght.
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    Cutting The Cake
    35 5 Mrs. Mary A. Holden 1 celebrated her 54th j birthday recently. Picture shows her family I gathered round her as I she cuts the birthday cake. Picture by Wee I Ghim Siong.
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    Drunk, He Took Taxi To Celebrate Birthday
    202 5 UAROLD Bertrai Stever, a seaman from the Steel Admiral, yestrday told the Second Police Magistrate that he wasintoxicated on Saturday last and took a taxi to celorate his birthday. "I would lixe 'ou to understand, Sir. that I am not a tn j
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    HE untitled FROM STALL
    83 5 For the sake of uin of Players and teven fcpstan cigarettes valued a $1.85. Lian Ngouk Siong. a-oung Hokkien. went to go yesterday, to stay there r two weeks. Mr. S. E. Teh. Police Magistrate, watold that on April 30 last, hile Ngern Eng Teck washing
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    COUNCIL MEET
    20 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The Pahang Council State will meet at the Cot House. Kuala Lipis. on We nesday.
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    U.S. Presens Books On Constitution To Federal Council
    191 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Moi THE United States Go vernment this mornim presented to the Federa. Legislative Council a collection of twenty volumes on the American Constitution. Constitutional Law. Constitutional History and American Government and Politics. The presentation was made at the Council Chamber
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    #USED DUPLICATE KEY TO OPEN ROOM-Gw/7 Told
    73 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon Sim Yeow Chop. 27. who was charged in the police court today with theft of a rolled gold brooch worth $4 belonging to Aik Mvi Lan. claimed trial. Sim who occupies a room on the top floor of the house,
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    MAN HAD TWO PICUL OF SCRAP RUBBER
    65 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon Chin Sai Loi. 'aged 20,-pleaded guilty to a charge of fraudulent possession of two piculs of scrap rubber before Magistrate Che Kadir today. The court granted the inspector's lequest for postponing the case to May 15 to receive a finger
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    The 'Modern Woman'— Story Told In Court
    312 5 AN Eurasian husband said *n the High Court yesterday that when he questioned his. wife over her going out witn different m<m in the evening and returning home at two o'clock in the morning, -he replied: "It .s none of your business. As
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    TWO SOLD PORK WITHOUT LICENCE, FINED
    79 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.--Two shopkeepers from Scudai, 45-year old Nai Tak Kwong and 42-year old Lim Yung Long, -.vere each fined $25 in the Police Court today for selling pork on the five-foot-way without a Town Board licence. They were also each fined $15 for
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    COME AGAIN, CIMSON TELLS SEVENTH FLEET
    72 5 The Governor ot Singapore. Sir Franklin Gimson. in a telegram to the Commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet. Rear Admiral F. W. Boone and the Commander of the Task Group Captain B. Moss, expressed delight at the Flat's visit to the Colony. He hoped
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    HELPED TO RUN LOTTERY
    50 5 Tia Yoke Kan, in the Third Ponce Court yesterday, was fined $350 for assisting to run a public lottery. ian was apprehended in a house in North Bridge Road when ne tried to run oil alter throwing away chap-ji-ki slips for a total stake of $196.19.
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    HE CHASED GIRL TO THE BEDROOM
    152 5 SAYS HE WAS PLAYING YAP Choo Lock, who chased a frightened girl to her bedroom, yesterday told the First District Judge that he was "just playing with her." "That is an impossible excuse." Mr. H. E. Kingdon. the Judge, remarked and sentenced Yap to
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    10 'Crushers' For Bukit Panjang Quarries
    161 5 BUKIT PANJANG granite men are planning to instal ten new crushing machines at their quarries preparatory to meeting the demand from contractors wnen the Bukit Timah quarries close on July 1. Each of these machines capable of turning out fifty tons of granite a
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    C.I.D. MAN ON EXTORTION CHARGE
    72 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— Arraigned on an extortion charge in the Magistrate's Court today. Lim Seng Kee, a detective corporal attached to the C.1.D.. claimed trial. Seng Kee was alleged to have attempted to extort $300 from a Chinese at Sungei Bantu Village in the Penggerang
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    ROAD TAX PAID, SAYS CYCLIST
    80 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— Charged with not having paid the road tax lor his motor cycle for the first half of this year. Mahat bin Haji Mustafa produced the tax licence which showed that it had been paid prior to summons on Feb. 7. He said
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    20 YEARS OLD
    32 5 More than a hundred guests attended the 20th. anniversary celebration of the Broadway Musical Party at Madam Koh Suat Neo's bungalow on the West Coast Road over the weekend.
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    Husband Took Gems, Wife Took Poison
    65 5 See Toh York, a Chinese woman told ihe Second Police Court yesterday that she took caustic soda because: Her husband, who had quarrelled with her took her jewellery, and gave her only S2O when she asked him for maintenance. She was bound over for
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    Kota Raja Beat S.R.C. On The Post
    407 6 By scoring the deciding goal four minutes before the game ended. Kota Raja just managed to defeat the S.R.C. by 3-2 in their senior league encounter at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. Kota Raja dominated play almost continuusly except lor a period before the
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    TENGAH AIRMEN TROUNCE BODCA 6-0
    247 6 The Royal Air Force (Tengah) trounced the British Ordinance Depot Civilian Association ,4 A" by six to nil in their Junior A-2 league match played at BODCA ground yesterday. Lnspte of this score, the BODCA's custodian gave a brilliant performance when be saved no less
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    TBA HAT-TRICK
    52 6 Scoring a hat-trick Chandra was mainly responsible for the 6 —l victory of the Tamil Brotherhood Association over Sing* pore District in a frtandty game of soccer played at l'oit Canning yesterday. Other T.B.A. scoters were J Morias. S. Dutta end Paul Davis. Tommy scored the onlygoal for
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    CARAVAN RETURNS THE BEST TIME
    211 6 PENANG. Today: The No. 2 track was opened this morning for fast work, the best time being returned by Caravan (Poshni) 40£ seconds for the three. Young Lucius fEKery) took 41 1/5 for the same distance and was going nicely on the bit. Other time
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    15 HORSES WILL NOT GO TO TAPES
    1105 6  -  BALLYMUN, BONNIE GREY ARE BEST BY ALBERT SPENCER The Man with 2,000 Winners. PENANG, Today. CCRATCHINGS for tomorrow's races, the second day of the Penang Turf Club Summer meeting, are likely to be heavy. Already fifteen horses have been mentioned as non-acceptors. The
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    ELEVEN GOALS SCORED AGAINST POSTAL MEN
    53 6 The Postal Telegraph added another defeat to their list when they met the Kota Raia "A" team in the Junior S.A.F.A. League soccer at Geylang Stadium yesterday. P. T lost by 11-0. The scorers were: Rashid fl). Amir '2l Ibrahim (2). Ahmad <2>. Arshad
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    Rain Holds Up County Cricket
    330 6 Reuter. LONDON. Mon. DULL skies from which rain fell steadily made another unpleasant day for most teams concerned with first-class cricket matches toriav and while ome Dlay was possible at three v<_nues, ot.ners produced no play. Three were called off before lunch and at Lords,
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    SAVOLD & WOODCOCK GET READY FOR TRAINING
    320 6 SAVOLD WOODCOCK GET READY FOR TRAINING Reuter. LONDON, Mon. Lee Savold, blonde, 6-fept American heavyweight, and Woodcock, British champion, have chosen contrasting training environments for their world heavyweight title fight (European version) at the White C*y, London, on June 6. Savold will take up quarters at Scarborough. There the local
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    FORM GUIDE FOR TOMORROW
    5481 7 2nd. Day Of Penang Races Class 4, Div. 2-6 F. WHISPERING SANDS 9.00 t ii.n ia: i LAsi j t-12 *y. (Spowaft) Lien 3 Div. mile A 110 >ds. Won by ol Sarawak 11, 8.01 (Flannery) Time 1 mm. 57 JVS sees, .lotox Heavy. SEVENTH: 10-12
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    582 7 (LASS 2, DIV. X— C FI'RLONGS. I'ICTI RE-GOER !> 00 "Shaw Yang Stable Spencer HALLYMIN II B.U 'Madam Chan" I «-wia ill Kin ll' 81» M,s. Abu Bakar J.R. Podgers Rodgers EGYPTIAN Qt EF.N 8.11 "Levee Kongsi" Rodger." AIR GEE 8.10 Mrs. EE. K. Dimolino H. S eiifh
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    CRICKET MAY EMULATE SOCCER TRANSFERMARKET
    242 7 Reuter. LONDON, Mon. Transfers of cricketers at astronomical fees are envisaged by some cricket followers because of the ability of players to change county teams under special registration. There are some within and outside the membership of the M.C.C. who think that select authority are
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    89 7 Reuter. LONDON. Mon.—England's soccer selectors, building their side for th<* World Cup finals in Brazil in July, have suffered a blow by the withdrawal of Laurie Hughes, Liverpool:; centre half, from the England "A" international sid< which meets Portugal in Lisbon next Sunday.
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    DISARMED TROOPS MASSACRED
    109 8 U.P. KOHSING. Mon. NATIONALIST soldiers arriving here from Hainan Island said today that the Chinese Communists had massacred hundreds of disarmed Nationalist troops and their families after the two sides had arranged an evacuation truce. Lt. Wong Wei-chou said that the Incident took place on the beach
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    110 VICTIMS
    20 8 U.P. NEW DELHI. Mon.—Press reports said today that 110 persons died in the Punjab Mail disaster yesterday. —U.P.
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    HELP ME, AS RUSSIA IS HELPING MAO'
    276 8 AND CHIANG SAYS, 'NO TROOPS' U.P. and A.P TAIPEH, Monday. PRESIDENT Chiang Kai-shek today appealed to the I nited States to aid his Nationalist China, as, he said, Russia had helped Communist China Chiang requested technical and military assistance—but not troops, ne called
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    BANDITS BURN LORRY
    66 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Today. —A Chinese, armed with a revolver, held up a lorry at the 33rd mile Johore Bahru Ayer Hitam Road yesterday. He forced the driver to proceed for a mile when he was met by three other bandits. The driver and his assistant were then,
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    RED JET AIRFIELD BOMBED
    132 8 A.P., U.P. TAIPEI. Mon.—A Nationalist An Force communique said today that several waves of Nationalist planes attacked the airport ot Ningpo. reputedly built for Rusaan-built jet planes. It said the runways were blasted and other installations were destroyed. Five-thousand 32-pound bags of rice were loaded aboard
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    YOSHIDA ON JAP PEACE TREATY
    74 8 Reuter. TOKYO. Mon —Japan enjoys de facto peace relationships with the United States. Britain and other nations and it enly remains for parties concerned to formalise this relationship by means of peace treaties, declared Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida today. Speaking before the prefectural governments conference
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    #IT'S SERIOUS IN MALAYA' — Radford
    223 8 #IT'S SERIOUS IN MALAYA' Radford Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY, Monday. ADMIRAL A. W. Radford, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Pacific Fleet, who came to Australia as a guest of the Commonwealth Government to take part in the Coral Sea week celebrations declared that the onward march of Communism in Southeast Asia has
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    LONDON SHARES
    200 8 Reuter. unrootr. Mon. caution and hesitancy were uppermost in Ihe London etocfc < xchange today, operators adopted a "po-alow" r»o icy whilst awaiting outcome of the thyoe POWOr cordtrĕnce to be held in Jondon It* 1 week British Government slocks opened on a firm note and vnth the
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    Hypnotised
    71 8 MRS. Norma White, 20, i>) Becctee, Suffolk, holds her six-dau-idd babu. which nas born whth st<t IMU ui,<tt r the hypnotic treatment o/ Dr Nod aherrnrd, o) Beeekm, •> general i>ia< tittoner, Tin Brimeh Medical Council have no objection t<> hypnotic treatment provided it ii ndmtnisti >> d hp
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    U.S. Arms Aid For S-EA About To Begin
    213 8 A.P. WASHINGTON, Monday. THE United States is reported about ready to begin its long delayed arms aid programme for Southeast Asia. Plans for early action were discussed last Thursday by the National Security Council, of which President Truman is chairman. Some officials
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    FLEET EXERCISES
    40 8 Reuter. THE HAGUE. Mon.—British. French, and Dutch aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, and submarines with aircraft of the RAF and Coastal Command, will combine for manoeuvres in the English Channel on May 22 it was announced here today. -Reuter
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    REDS GO SHOPPING IN H'KONG
    90 8 Reuter. HONGKONG. Mon —Communist purchasing agents in Hongkong have been buying considerable quantities of hardware, kerosene and gasolene, according to usually reliable sources. Sources say agents spent as much as HK520.000.000 on these purchases which were made in small scattered lots to avoid disturbing the
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    RUSSIA IN 1054
    32 8 A.P. PAiiiS. tOO. n»e U.S. State and Defence Department! estimate that by 1954 Russia -.'/ill be armed to the point where she might overpower the United States without help.—A.P.
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    KILLED BY BANDITS
    22 8 KOTA TINGGI, Today.— An Indian Mohamedan Sh'ali bin Sazil. was shot dead by a gang of 70 bandits yesterday.
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    BIG THREE PLAN MID—EAST POLICY
    166 8 U.P. LONDON, Monday. THE co-ordination of Western policy on the Middle 1 East and the prospects for the integration of the Middle East into the overall defence plans of the Western democracies against a Communist advance will be discussed by the Big Three Foreign Ministers
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    'MR. MELLERSH' AND MR. HOBBS' FLY TO SYDNEY
    159 8 Tribune Staff Reporter AIR Vice Marshal F. J. W. Meilersh, the Air n Officer Commanding the Royal Air Force in Malaya, left Singapore this morning for Australia, in civilian clothes. He was described on the pirliner's papers as "Mr. Meilersh. Government Servant".
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    BLOCKADE HITS H'KONC—AMOY SHIPPING
    82 8 HONGKONG. Mon. Shipping service between Hongkong and Amoy has been directly affected by the Nationalist blockade carried out by patrolling warships. Local shipping circles say that the service on this route is practically suspended and that most shipowners affected are thinking of transferring their vessels to
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY GENERAL
    179 8 EXHIBITIONS d Schools Arts Crafts k>| at Victoria Mentor al Hal i,, a.m.—4 p.m. Malay A: is c, m Kota Raja Malay a.m.—5 p.m. KIM CATION WEEK s.i.o. l Exhibition in everv liool~ CHINESE Y >11 A U,. 5 p.m.. Weight lift uik irid >' j
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    CINEMA
    113 8 CATHAY: -Caiigtii a: 11. 1.45, 4.15, 6.45 and 9.30 p.m. PAVILION Mr. IiHv.dtrr fJoes To College" hi 2. 4 15 6.3» and 9.30 p.m. ALHAMHKA Oon V.nslow of the Navy" at 12.HO, ..:t" t> and 9.30 p.m. OARRHK "Sehidup S> it at 3.15. 6.30 and ».15 p i RK\:
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    55 8 SOCCER: Sino-Ma ays Kong Services at J «iusi r <-ai Snr. lge: R.E.M.E. v K.A.F Cliantii; Jnr. A 2: Cmumm v Ip4i nesians A at C i- r>Hse. <replay»; Malavan v Borneo Motors on pjuan-. TENNIS: YMCA Fm- Bi.sali Road 5 p.m., Football ;ii B.i <•> tier Road <YMCA
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    Pakistan Sides West In Cold War —Liaquat Ali Khan
    204 8 U.P. NEW YORK. Monday DRIME Minister Liaquat Ali Khan placed ?akb--1 tan on the side of the United States in the cold war today declaring that his new nation would resist to end the "dark forces at work threatening to extinguish
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