The Straits Times, 22 March 1948

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    21 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 Klliin PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1948 4- PRICE I'EN < I n I
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    Eight Malays Said Shot
    73 1 From Abdul Aziz bin Ishak Malay correspondent in PMUMC reports that eight M.il.iy youths living in the district or Talobaw. South Si.un. were recently arrested, tnken away to a nearby spot and shot by a party of men. men. the report adds, mere rst bayonetted. Another
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    Britain Firm On Palestine
    246 1 LONDON. Sunday. BRITAIN ■erred notice! terday that she would leave on May 13 :t> plan.wd, deswithdrawal ol Amerifor ihe parti■>f the Holy Land. A Foreign Ollic-.' spokesman. Britain would p for] I as the American UN delegate (Mr. Austin): he announced withdrawal of United support, said
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    BIG 3 PROPOSAL: TRIESTE FOR ITALY
    606 1 BIG 3 PROPOSAL: TRIESTE FOR IT ALY Yugoslavia Accused By Powers LONDON, Sunday. THE United States, Britain and France, m a surprise move, proposed to Russia and Italy yesterday that the free territory of Trieste be returned to Italy. In the wake of the announcement, the cry of "Vive Trieste"
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    FEWERPOWER CUTS SOON?
    84 1 Singapore's nightly electricity black-outs might ease up by the end of April, the acting Municipal Electrical Engineer (Mr. R. A. Waddle) &aid last night. Mr. Waddle said replacement parts for a generator running at reduced -capacity should arrive by sea from England soon. After their installation, black
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    Tornado Kills 52, Wrecks Planes
    297 1 CHICAGO, Sunday. FIFTY-TWO were killed, more than 300 injured and hundreds were rendered homeless yesterday in one of the worst tornadoes lhat hit America in recent vrars. Nine States were affected, but south-western Illinois, near St. Louis, was the worst hat. Forty-one were killed in
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    Reds Quit Berlin Conference
    267 1 Reds Quit Berlin Conference BERLIN, Sunday. XHE Soviet delegation 1 headed by Marsha); Sokolovsky walked out of last night's meeting of the Allied Control Council in Berlin. Before he left the meeting, Marshal Sokolovsky said: "By their actions the Western powers have proved that they have broken the agreement for
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    79 1 GANDIH'S ASHES: The urn holding Mahatma Gandhi's ashes, taken to Kuala Lumpur by air. was garlanded as it was held by Mr. John Thivy. (Government of India Representative) immediately on its arrival. Picture shows a short prayer service being led by Swami Sathiananda. of the Ramakrishna Mission, while Mr. T.
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    Eurasians' Status In Federation
    135 1 Eurasians' Status In Federation From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPER, Sunday HTHE question of Euraj 1 sians being accepted as non-Muslim subjects of I the Rulers of the Malay States will be one of the I subjects that will be discussed at the next conference of the Eurasian Union of
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    SEAC STATION
    50 1 COLOMBO, Sunday. The Government of Ceylon is understood to be negotiating with the British Government for the purchase of SEAC radio station in Colombo. Col. Kotelawala, Minister of Transport and Works, will discuss the matter with the British War Office when he visits in London in April. Reuter
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    24 1 LONDON. Sunday. The deaths have occurred of Mrs. Olive Marion Gough. former missionary m Malaya, and Mr. William Charles Southham, 76, formerly of Singapore.
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    WAR TALK RIDICULED BY CZECHS
    343 1 PRAGUE, Sunday. r«ZECH leaders today told V^ the country that there would be no shooting war because the Soviet Union was too strong. The Communist leader. (Mr. dementis) said in a radio speech that he did not believe in the danger of war because "the
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    $5,000 Reward For Missing S'pore Detective
    187 1 $5,000 Reward For Missing S'pore Detective EVERY available man of the Singapore Police Force was combing the island last night lor a Chinese detective who went looking for gunmen m the afternoon and failed to return. The missing detective is Chai Tzu Fong, a 39-year-old Hakka with a wife and
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    ROCKET MAIL EXPERIMENT
    64 1 LOS ANGELES, Sunday.— Ten rockets, each carrying 300 letters, will be sent hurtling across Searles Dry Lake to Trona, California, by the Reaction Research Society, on March 27. Society officers said today thai they envisaged the dispatch ultimately of mail across the country by this means. They
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    China Reds Accused Of Riots Plan
    165 1 China Reds Ac cused Of Riots Plan NANKING, Sunday. pOMMUNISTS, through L/ student bodies labour unions, arc planning large-scale riol and strikes in all iv cities throughout North and Central China around March 29, when the National Assembly convene*, according to the Cent mi News today. Besides espionage. uii-on and
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      Fire In Greyhound Stadium 25 Terrified Dogs Die
      97 2 LONG EATON, DERBYSHIRE, Sunday. TWENTY-five panic-stricken greyhounds were burned or fought each other to death when fire destroyed the club, bar, canteen and two stands at the Long Eaton Greyhound Stadium yesterday. The fire, believed to have been caused by a spark
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      Smallpox On Plane
      63 2 COLOMBO, Sunday. Air passengers from India will hereafter be subject to strict medical supervision on their arrival in Ceylon because of an outbreak of smallpox among passengers who came by plane from India a few days ago. The new order also insists that all passengers coming by
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      Tax Talks
      70 2 SHANGHAI, Sunday.— The Finance Minister (Mr. O. K. Yui) arrived here yesterday afternoon from Nanking on a mission to supervise the impending collection of the "share-the-wealth" tax. He will preside at a meeting this afternoon to thrash out the technical problems confronting the local tax collecting authorities and
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      7 Bodies Found
      71 2 SOMERSET. Pennsylvania. Sunday.—Seven bodies were found yesterday m he wreckage of a slngle-engined plane on a mountain top near here. Police said that nine people were believed to have been In the plane when It crashed into the side of Laurel Hill mountain m a heavy fog.
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      Ashes In Rangoon
      61 2 RANGOON, Sunday.—Ambassadors of China, the United States and other foreign representatives yesterday placed wreaths on an urn which holds part of Mohandas Gandhi's ashes. Some of the ashes will be immersed m Rangoon waters today. A portion of those received here is being 6ent to Prome, 160
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      Persian New Year
      50 2 TEHERAN, Sunday. On the occasion of the Persian new year Ia6t night, the Shah (Mohammed Reza Pahlevi) and Premier (Ibrahim Hakini) broadcast greetings to the Persian people. Premier Hakini said he hoped the "extremely tense" international situation would ease to enable Persia to start reform work. Reuter.
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      U.S. Coal Strike
      55 2 WASHINGTON, Sunday.— The leader of the American United Mine Workers' Union, Mr. John L. Lewis, yesterday accepted a Government invitation to meet coal mine operators tomorrow in an attempt to settle the U.S. coal strike. Coal stock-piles have fallen to dangerously low levels since American miners refused
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      Strike To End
      65 2 LONDON, Sunday. Government boilermen and liftmen who have been on strike for a week demanding higher wages decided yesterday to return to work tonight. The strike was called off on condition that troops, who have been operating heating apparatus during the stoppage, would be withdrawn and the
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      Pakistan Seamen
      73 2 LIVERPOOL, Sunday.— The High Commissioner for Pakistan (Mr. Hablb Ibrahim Rahlmtoola) and hla wife, the Begum Rahlmtoola, yesterday visited Pakistan seamen In the port of Birkenhead near here. The Commissioner's pary talked with the men Individually for more than 30 minutes discussing their needs and comforts while on
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      Textile Surplus
      55 2 COLOMBO, Sunday. Textile control in Ceylon is likely be removed shortly because stocks in the Island far exceed the demand. The Minister of Commerce and Trade (Mr. Suntheralingam) is awaiting a memorandum from the Textile Commissioner on the actual textile stocks in the Island before he takes any
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      Battle In Snow
      50 2 ATHENS. Sunday. Sixtysix guerrillas were killed m a fteht m a violent snowstorm over the Mount Olympus range, the Greek General Staff announced last night. The guerrilla forces also lost 22 men taken prisoner. Greek army casualties were stated to be one killed and seven wounded. —Reuter.
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      Maiden Voyage
      62 2 LONDON. Sunday.—A new cargo liner "Ben Macdhui" built for the Ben Line began her maiden voyage this week-end from King George V dock to Port Said. Malaya and Hong Kong. Every member of the crew with the exception of a few Chinese has a cabin to himself This
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      Margaret Rose
      24 2 Recent picture of Princess Margaret Rose who will accompany the King and Queen when they visit Australasia next year. A.P. pV»o 4
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      Meat Allocation
      50 2 WASHINGTON, Sunday.— The U.S. Agriculture Department allotted 13.370.000 pounds of meat and meat products to British Dominions and other recipients on Saturday. The allocation also will be shared by Dutch and French Colonies, the Philippines, and US Government projects abroad. It is the April-June quarterly export supply.— A.P.
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      Motion On Russia
      75 2 LONDON, Sunday.— A Labour member of Parliament, Mr. Seymour Cooks, is to table a motion m the House of Commons proposing that a mission, composed of Mr. Attlee, Field-Marshal Smuts and Lord Mountbatten visit Marshal Stalin. The object of the mission, It is proposed, should be to
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      Split Personality
      72 2 COLOMBO, Sunday.— A young radio engineer was charged here with committing criminal trespass by entering the office of the Prime Minister (Mr. Senanayake) and sitting on his chair with intent to cause annoyance to him. When the police arrived the man is reported to have said: "Don't touch
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      Deportation Order
      66 2 BANGKOK, Sunday.— The Siamese Interior Ministry yesterday approved deportation of 11 Chinese for profiteering. The Assistant Minister of the Interior said the deportation order represented a new Siamese Government policy to gaol and then deport profiteers instead of merely fining them. He added that 11 Chinese were convicted
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      Ruse Defeated
      58 2 BEGUSARAI (Bihar), Sunday. Students of a local educational institution who did not want to appear at their annual examination threw a dead rat into the examiriation hall and reported to the headmaster that it was pL.gue-infest A doctor, however, declared that the rat had not died of plague
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      U.K.-Ceylon Talks
      55 2 LONDON, Sunday. The Minister of Home Affairs in the Ceylon Government, (Sir Oliver Goonetilleke) Is expected in London tomorrow for discussions with Britain on matters of common concern, particularly Ceylon's sterling balances. Announcing this today, the Commonwealth Relations Office said other matters in the political and economic fields
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      "Leisure" Courses
      57 2 WASHINGTON, Sur.day. The House of Representatives veterans' sub-committee yesterday approved a controversial measure to eliminate socalled "leisure time" courses for war veterans. The measure would put an end to most government-fin-anced GJ. flight training as well as courses in ball room dancing, horse back riding, and other subjects
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      1210 2 NOTICES NOTICE RITCHIE ft BISSET. Our telephone exchange Nos. are now 5049 Ss 5040 with extensions. NOTICES MALAYAN EXCHANGE BANKS ASSOCIATION. Ml mrmlx-ts of the above Asson m Sinuapore will be closed on Friday, Saturday ndiv tho 26th. 27th 29th 1948 being "Easter Holi- LOST SHARE CERTIFICATE SIT GIAF COMPANY
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      673 2 NOTICES NOTICE New Dance Coupons win be Issued as from the Ist April. 1948. Will' Patrons who are m possession of old Coupons kindly exchange for new ones at our Cabaret Coupon Office, commencing from the Ist to the 3rd April, 1948. after which date no claim can be made
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    SOVIET JAMS U.S. RADIO
    289 3 Protest Issued By State Dept. WASHINGTON, Sunday. THE United States is asking the Soviet Union 1 to stop jamming her "Voice of America" broadcasts to Eastern Asia and the Orient. The U.S. State Department made this announcement after reports from Manila described how mysterious radio transmitters
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    Children Read More
    221 3 VfEMBERSHIP at the 1V1 Raffles Junior Library has increased considerably 1 since the war. Figures for boy members have jumped from 562 in 1939 to 802 today. Girls are not as keen read- t-rs There wore 145 members in 1939 and 339 today. The youngest member of
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    Singapore Diary
    101 3 TODAY Photographic exhibition, organised by the Photcxrraphic Society of St. Joseph's Institut.on, the School Hall. 3.30 p.m. to 6 30 p m. Open to the public. YM C A Orchard Road, commercial clacses. 5.30 p.m.. lending library, 7 p m. to 8 p.m., Choir i practice. 8 p.m.
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    Colman Is Named Best Actor
    227 3 Colman Is Named Best Actor HOLLYWOOD, Sunday. RONALD Colman, 57-year-old British actor, has gained Hollywood's highest honour an Oscar statuette for his role of a crazed actor who turns murderer in "A Double Life." His selection as top film actor of 1947 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
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    U.S. TAX CUT?
    22 3 WASHINGTON, Sunday.— The Senate will vote tomorrow on the Republican bill to cut income taxes by $4 800.000,000— A.P.
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    31 3 SLNGAPORE ELECTIONS: An election officer tipping out the voting papers from one of the ballot boxes at the Victoria Theatre m Saturday's elections for the Singapore Legislative Council. Straits Times picture.
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    Eight Years For Stabbing Wife
    173 3 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Sunday. OEN7ENCE of eight-years' rigorous imprisonment was passed on a man named Sockalingham after he had been found guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder at the Assizes here yesterday. He had initially been ac cused of the
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    SECRETARIES PASSED LIST
    71 3 T--e following Malayan candidates have passed the examination* of ttie Corporation of Certified Secretaries. London: Intermediate Khoo Yew Yuen (Singapore), Leang Hong Ton (Singapore), Tan Him Jm (Malacca). Intermediate. Sec'ucn "A" Chuah Guan Leong (Penang) Final Ta>n H ?.n^ Yong 'Singapore i. Final (Part 1) Goh Ten^
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    Federation Of Chambers Is Planned
    175 3 From Our SUiff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. A CONFERENCE to form a Federation of Malayan Indian Chamber of Commerce will be held in Singapore on March 27 and 28, it was learned here today. Invitations have already been sent to Indian Chambers of Commerce in
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    103 3 Sir Patrick and Lady Spens. who urrAvu in -Singapore MM night on their way to visit their married daughter in Jcsselton. Sir Patrick, former Chief Justice of India, has, since July, been chairman of the arbitration body appointed to settle differences other than boundaries between India and Pakistan and partition
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    Rainstorm Starts Floods
    146 3 A RAINSTORM m Singa- poro at 145 p.m. yesterday caused flooding stoppage of motor vehicles and the falling of trees m several parts of the city A low black storm-cloud and driving rain obscured vi- sibility so mush that motorists during the heaviest rain drove at about
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Mar. 22, 1948. THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE
    1061 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Mar. 22, 1948. THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE For all progressive citizens of Singapore who do not equate progress with the Left Wing programme, the results of the first elections on Saturday afford ground for considerable satisfaction and for renewed confidence m the future. Considering the heavy
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    ARIZONA MAY IE RAISED
    68 4 HONOLULU. Sunday. -The sunken battleship Arizona may be raised from the bottom of Pearl Harbour and the bodies of more than 900 navy men trapped in the wreckage may be recovered for burial. 4 boLird composed of eight Army Graves Registration rs will inspect the sunk»n
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    COLOMBO SHOWS THE WAY TO SINGAPORE
    1331 4 COLOMBO SHOWS THE WAY TO SINGAPORE Municipal Elections And Appointments Front Our Colombo Correspondent THE Municipality of Colombo was created by a proclamation dated Nov. 22, 1865. Its area, exclusive of the lake which now serves as a commercial waterway through the heart of the city to the Harbour and
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      To Voters: An English Rose In Malayan Soil?
      368 4 I SEE that m your leader of yesterday (Saturday) you referred to thei correspondent who said he had decided to vote, after considering Nature's delightful masterpiece "the seed, the plant, and then, behold, the flower that blooms." Your correspondent appears to have
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      LEFT WING ESTIMATES
      439 4 YOUR interesting edi- torial entitled "Our LEFT WING INTELiLECTUALS" has left me I very puzzled on one point. You state that the best way. to find out whether a nonMalay organisation is representative of those domiciled who regard Malaya as the object of their loyalty, is not.
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      601 4 CLASSIFIED ADS. I POT— At K K Hospital. Singa- ti :0th March, to Sjoerdtje. daughter. The encasement is announced i en (William) Won* Bint? of the late Mr. Mrs Wone Wing Leek of i Lumpur and (Lily) Chan \.yj. only daughter of the Mr Chan Kim Swee Madam Yar> Cher
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    WHITEHALL EXPERT ARRIVES
    242 5 Will Study Rice Production A COLONIAL Office adviser arrived in Singapore last night to begin "an up-to-date appreciation" of agricultural conditions in Malaya, British North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei for the Secretary for Colonfes. He is Mr. G. F. Clay, Agricultural Adviser to Mr. Creech Jones. (n<
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    Delegation Selected
    86 5 The Malayan delegation to the annual conference oi the International Student Service at Rangoon m July will consist of Dr. A. A. Sandosham (chair- I. Chen Chi Nan (Medical College Union) and Song Chu Chaj> and Wan Hamid (Raffles' College Union). Grad." the monthly bulletthe Stamford Club. Sintei
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    Traffic Try-Out Abandoned
    142 5 SINGAPORE traffic authorities yesterday abandoned J an experimental arrangement of traffic barriers I hat they placed m the Orchard Road traffic roundibout last Saturday. I The traffic barriers 1 m the roundabout are whitepainted oil drums placed side by side. The Officer m Charge of rraffic Police
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    THE SANGOLA
    21 5 The B.l. ship Sangola will now sail for Penang, Rangoon and Calcutta on March 23 and not March 25.
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    "OUR EMPTY CUPBOARD"
    149 5 Irom Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. Sunday.— "We teachers are asking for more of this worlds goods because our empty cupboard is not conducive to a contented mind, and a restive mir.a cannot produce good work," said Mr. Lionel Van Geyzel, the president of the Negri Sembilan Teachers'
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    NOT DRUNK ON FREEDOM
    202 5 The Ceylonese were not "intoxicated" by their wellmerited independence because they had been an independent race for more than i two thousand years, said the Yen. Narada Thcra during a talk on Buddhism at the Sinhalese Association on Saturday. "Lanka. which literally means a sign, so-called
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    30 5 ■ii The Old Victorians' Asso- ciation will hold its annual general meeting on Saturday, April 3, at 2.30 p.m. at the Victoria School Hall to elect '< officers for 1948 49.
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    Hand Signals Incorrect
    170 5 MANi members of the Singapore Motor Club 1' points at yesterday's "Blind Rally' because they Called to give tho correct hand signals. The rally was the first to b<> held by the newly-formed Club, and 25 competitors took part. Mr. F. J. Williams, driving an M.G. won
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      Wife Defended Husband With Axe
      114 5 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sunday. A WIDOW described m court yesterday how she struck with an axe a man whom she alleged had stabbed her husband to death. The woman. Lee Huat Neo, was giving evidence at a preliminary inquiry into a charge of
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      Ashes Tour
      66 5 FNANG, Sunday.— The urn containing the ashes of Gandhi \e expected in Penang on Tuesday morning. A short ceremony is to be held on its arrival at the Bayan Lepas airport. The ashes will then be taken to the Indian Association where they will remain until Thursday. Special
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      Cheating Charge
      67 5 SEREMBAN, Sunday.— Luke Bastlan aged 34, LanceCorporal in the R.A.S.C, Kuala Lumpur, appeared in the District Court yesterday on a charge of cheating Mohamed Latiff by inducing him to deliver to him two shirts, two pairs ot trousers and $10 in cash. The accused pleaded guilty. The case
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    Saturday Vote Criticism
    357 5 Saturday Vote Criticism VOTERS bi Singapore's first elections held ol Saturday wh 0 have had experience of elections elsewhere criticise one point in the procedure which they say, might imperi 1 the secrecy of the ballot and which should be amended in future. This criticism has arisen owing to the
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    "CRUCIFIXION" TO BE SUNG
    38 5 The Young People's Choir will render Stalner's "Crucifixion" o«i Saturday at 6 pjn at Bethesda Hall. Brag Basah Road. The public are invited All are requested to be m their seats before 6 p.m
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    22 5 THE Three Hours' Devotions 1 on Good Friday m St. Andrews Cathedral will be conducted by the Right Reverend Bishop Stephen Neill
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    9 More Council Names Expected
    401 5 THE nomination by the Governor of Singapore (Sir Franklin Gimson) of four Unofficials and live Officials to the new Legislative Council is expected to be announced about the middle of this week With six popularly-elected members on Saturday and three elected by Singapore's Chambers of
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    ELECTION RESULTS
    169 5 Rural East (Electorate ?.Wl) INCHE SAKDON BIN HAJI ZI'BIR (Independent) 607 Mr. (hoons Hock (hyp (Independent) 1!>8 Majority |«g Spoiled papers 39 Total votes cast 1143 Rural West (Electorate 2774) MR. S. C. GOIIO (Independent) «)81 Mrs. M. Pillai (Independent) 5»0 Mr. A. P. Rajah (Progressive) 4«0 Majority
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    FAIR FLOW OF BUSINESS
    759 6 Malayan Share Market Week From A Market Correspondent A FAIR flow of business was maintained throughout the week. Opening in uncertainty, the week closed on a happier note after the carrying of another stage in the Marshall Plan, the signing of the Western European pact and
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    Industrial Unrest In U.S.A.
    336 6 Industrial Unrest In U.S.A. NEW YORK, Sunday. AMERICAN soft coal l\ miners, with mine- owners' refusal to grant pension demands, walked out last week. Their ac- I tion brought an imme- diate threat of industrial paralysis. Industry feed* on coaL The J enforced diet was almost in- J stantly apparent.
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    Dow Jones Averages
    23 6 Stocks Industrials Rails I til i ties > War. 18 60.67 166.92 49.56 3100 Mar. a 62.90 173.12 51.78 32.62 A.P.
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    Castlefield (Klang) Rubber Profit
    62 6 C t-tiefield (Klangt Rubber Estate reports a profit for the year to June 30. 1947. of £32.877. A i lose of £6.429 was incurred the previous year. To expenditure on rehabilitation I £35,044, leaving after bringing forward £5.596, available balance £3.429. From this is deducted £100
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    Malayan Palm Oil
    178 6 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Sunday BRITAIN is to pay Malayan producers of palm oil £84 sterling per ton. This is a fixed price of £80 f.o.b. plus a Malayan export duty of £4. The Daily Telegraph comments that this figure has been agreed for 1948 only.
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    Repair Cost £90,000
    71 6 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, (By Air Mail). Merlimau Pegah Rubber Company has spent over £90,000 m the last two years m rehabilitating its estates. The chairman (Mr. J. L. Milne) says a debit balance of £24,349 m the year to Mar. 31, 1947, was arrived at
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    1947 Profits In Rubber
    358 6 From Our Staff Correspondent U>NDON, (By Air Mail). REPORTS of the Bukit Kajang and Sendayan (F.M.S.) Rubber Companies show a profit ou the past year's working. The Sendayan chairman (Mr. Charles Mann) says the company's recovery has been made despite a shortage of rice and "negligible
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    PROVIDENT FUND IS IN GOOD POSITION
    202 6 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, (By Air Mail). rl annual report of the Rubber Growers' Association notes the favourable position of the Malayan Planters' Provident Fund. The trustees of the fund resumed control about 18 months ago The R.G.A. expresses satisfaction at the activities
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    LONDON STOCKS
    465 7 LONDON, Sunday. REPORTS from New York that Britain's defence of sterling; was undesirable created discussion and interest m Friday's London stock markets, says Renter's financial correspondent. Apart from some appreciation of South African dividend-paying companies, accompanied by the revival of devaluation talk, this report had little effect on
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    Representation Of Rubber Industry
    140 7 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, (By Air Mail). THE annual report of the Rubber Growers' Association 1 describes the association's efforts to obtain representation for the industry in the forthcoming 4 ~<'ons with the United States, and on the Rubber Study Group. The report refers to
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    RUBBER
    75 7 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's prices at noon on Saturday were: Buyers Sellers Cts. Cts. per Ib. per ID. MO. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose nominal 39% *ott No. 1 R S.S fob tn bales April 99% 40 No. 2 R.S.S fob In bales April M% M Mo.
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    Gadek Rubber's 15 Per Cent Dividend
    50 7 Gadek Rubber Estates on Apr will pay a dividend of 15 per cent., less tax, on the £110,000 capital, for 1947. This is double the 7i per cent, for 1946, when the company returned to the dividend list after an absence of five years.
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    Sumatra Oil Production
    263 7 BATAVIA, Sunday. POYAL Dutch Shell Company's 1948 production target of oil from Sumatra Is 3,300.000 tons, according to a Government Information Service statement in Batavia. The Standard-Vacuum Company aims to produce 6,000 metric tons monthly by the end of the year. The oil will pro to Australia.
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    PRODUCE MARKET
    216 7 From A Market Correspondent ACTIVITY on the SingaJ\ pore produce market was very restricted a the week-end. Most sections were quiet. Changes recorded were minor. Weekend prices were: Rice Unclassified: No. 1 $70; 2 $65; 3 $57; 4 $53. Glutinous Rice: No. 1 $70; No. 2 $66. Sugar:
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    U.S. RUBBER LEGISLATION
    131 7 The India Rubber Journal remarks that the United States House of Representatives on Mar. 5 passed a bill to continue to June 30, 1950, Government operation of the synthetic rubber Industry. The bill continued also the Government's inventory allocation and specification controls ov r both natural and
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    PAKIR BEATS ONG CHEW BEE
    530 8 PAKIR BEATS ONG CHEW BEE Thrills In SLTA Tourney Finals jniSPLAYING top form A. G. B. Pakir, the Indian Muslim player, won the men's singles championship when he beat Ong Chew Bee in the finals of the Singapore Lawn Tennis Association's indoor tournament at the Happy World last night. A
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    Hutton Gets Century
    104 8 KINGSTON. Sunday.—la spit* of the tropical beat Len Hutton scored a solid centary —his second of the tonr —when the M.C.C. began their return match with Jamaica here yesterday. At the close of play the tourists had made 240 for four wirkrts. Hat ton's share being 128.
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    26 Golfers Enter
    160 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday! TWENTY-SIX Malayan 1 1 golfers have so far entered for the first postwar Malayan golf championship to be played here at Easter. They con: prise 11 from Singapore, 10 from Selangor, three from Penang and two from Perak. The entries to date are: Singapore:
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    GUN CLUB SHOOT
    31 8 The results of the weekly competition held at the range were: 1, G. Boehm 100 points 2 A. G. Boehm 85 points 3 Tan Choon Lee 80 point*
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    Singapore Chinese Hold Tryouts
    454 8 THE Chinese Amateur Athletic Association. Singapore, 1 held their trials yesterday at the Jalan Besar Stadium, preparatory to selection of competitors to take part m the meeting against Malayan Federation Chinese athletes to be held m Penang me tnais m renang win precede the selection oi
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    Swimmers Selected
    316 8 OI.NGAPORE Chinese O swimmers to meet the Malayan Federation Chinese m the final trials to be held m Singapore on April 3 and 4 were selected yesterday. Trials were held at the Chinese Swimming Club for the 50 metres free -style and the 200 metres breast-stroke events only.
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    Rain Stops Cricket
    300 8 RAIN stopped play after lunch yesterday in the cricket match between the Colts and the St. Andrew's Old Boys' Association at Woods ville. The Colts batted first and were all out for 64 runs at lunch-time. The St. Andrew's Old Boys did not bat because of rain.
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    FIXTURES OFF
    37 8 Yesterday's soccer fixture between the RAP Tengah and thf Jollilads was cancelled because the ground was unfit for play. The Jollilads' fixture against the 223 Base Ordnance Depot for Wednesday has also been called 00.
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    49 8 Frenchman Marcel Cerdan (right) lands a left t« Ifc* head of Lavern Roach, of Plainview, Texas. In the eighth round of their scheduled ten-round fight at Madison Square Garden on March. 12. Referee Arthur Denovan halted the fight soon afterwards In the same round, awarding the decision to Cerdan.
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    Surprise Win By Chelsea
    668 8 LONDON, Sunday. A HOME defeat for mighty Arsenal and reverses for the two Rangers (Glasgow m the Scottish League and Queen's Park m the English Southern Third Division) were the highlights of yesterday's football matches m which relegation and promotion problems were not eased. Chelsea's startling
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    SELANGOR XI v. SINGAPORE
    72 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. The following have been selected to represent Selangor In the inter-State cricket match against Singapore in Kuala Lumpur this weekend: H. A. F. Brooke (captain), Lall Singh, I. Ingleton. H. O. Bennett, C. W. A. Murray, Chua Eng Cheng. Khoo Bin Kheng, Lee
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    Dane Makes History
    224 8 From JAMES CHAMBERS LONDON. Sunday. IVOR Kind, the Danish Captain of the Cambridge University athletic team, made history on Saturday by winning three events In the annual track and field match against Oxford University. Kind won the high jump, discus throw and pole vault events but Oxford
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    Calcutta Cup Won By Scottish XV
    389 8 Calcutta Cup Wo n By Scottish XV EDINBURGH. Sunday. OCOTLAND regained the Calcutta Cup, cU ing the England Rugby XV by six points three at Murrayfield, Edinburgh, yv >u-. v. Sixty-live thousand people watched the ga. England lost scrum half Madge with torn ligaments in his left knee ndne minutes
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    25 8 Today: High wa^er, 7.51 a.m. (7.5 ft.), 10.09 p.m. (7.6 ft i Tomorrow: High water, 9.09 a.1.1. (8.3 ft.), 10.41 p.m. 8.1 ft.).
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    Sports Diary
    52 8 TOD.\ V SOCCER: S.A.F A. I a-* D>. I—A.A. A. v Nay. Jalan Bmr stadium, 5.15 p.m.. Div. II Singapore I Engineering Assn. v Kow-rs S.C., S.R.C., 5.15 pm Kranji W. T. v. Sing;ap>re District Sirnals, Fort Canning, 515 p.m.; Dockyard XI v. Base Grovp RE, Naval B»w,
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