The Straits Times, 17 March 1950

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1950 it PRICE TEN CENTS
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    MALAYA'S AID CUT £2,000,000
    152 1 LONDON. Thurs. p -;TAIN will spend £5,846,vM More on developing r colonies in thi» next 12 •nths. but the grant to Malaya In aid of local rev 'rules Is cut by £2.000.000. bringing it down to ft 3.000.000 I was announced today with publication or Government
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    8 HURT IN CLOSE RANGE AMBUSH
    453 1  -  Shotgun U.K. Film Men, BoRs Wounded By From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. AN their way to Pahang to film British troops in action against bandits, two members of the Crown Film Unit who arrived in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, were ambushed by
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    72 1 MR. LORE WAN THO. the Singapore millionaire, garlands his bride Miss Christina Lee. at the reception held after their wedding yesterday at the Singapore Registry. The garland was presented by an Indian friend. Mr. Lflfec i* a son of Mrs. Loke Yew and the late Dr. Loke II aiH hi»
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    RUBBER WORKERS GET PAY OFFER
    231 1 i mm Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. AN offer of his »er wages by the Malayan Planting industries Employers' Association to represent a Ir.'s of Rubber Workers' Unions was made at the i.nc!usion of wage talks yesterday. The offer made in th* light il
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    No Australian Troops Coming
    57 1 ANBERRA. Thur». THE Australian government will jiot consider sending Australian troops to Malay* to subdue Communist terrorism, the Armj Minister. Mr. J. Francis, said last night. The Melbourne Herald called editorially yesterday for Australian troop* to join the fight against the bandits in view of Australian
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    HIS FIRST VISIT
    55 1 LONDON, Thurs. Indonesia s first envoy to Britain. Dr. R. Subandrio, called on Foreign Secretary Mr. Ernest Bevin, yesterday", and reportedly discussed prospeels of an Anglo-Indone- slan trade deal. Dr. Subandrio s call on Mr. Bevin was his first since he arrived in l London to serve
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    NEHRU'S VISIT
    15 1 MEXICO CITY, Thurs. -I I Nehru will visit Mexico in Sept.— U P.
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    Radio Phone To Britain This Year
    89 1 LONDON. Thurs. RADIO telephone -«ervice between Britain and Mai laya will be re-opened by the Middle of this year, subject to satisfactory tests, the Earl jof Lucan announced on be- half of the Government today. It had been necessary, he said in a written
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    TENDER MISSING NEAR ENIWETOK
    64 1 PEARL HARBOUR, Thurs. |—A United Sta'/)s Navy tender, with 33 officers and i men aboard, was reported missing yesterday en route to Enlwetok atoll, the site of the atomic proving ground, i 2.600 miles from Pearl Hari bour. The tender was on an errand to lay
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    US Technical Aid To Malaya Possible
    185 1 TECHNICAL assistance to Malaya was possible, x said Mr. R. Allen Griffin, head of the U.S. mission which is touring South-East Asia, on his arrival in Singapore from Saigon yesterday. During the next five days the mission will confer with the Commissioner -General, Mr
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    $350 CHEQUES PLAN STARTS
    42 1 THE Singapore War Damage Scheme, 1950, which provides an initial payment of a sum not exceeding $350 on any award, wa s put into operation with effect from Jan. 1, 1950, by a Government Gazette Supplement published yesterday^
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    Ruth Chosen As Tribal Queen
    218 1 LONDON, Thursday. 'THE Seretse Khama fighting Committee in London 1 announced today that they had received a cablegram from Bechuanaland stating that the Bamangwato tribesmen had accepted Seretse's English-born wife Ruth as "Queen and mother of the future chief." The Prime Minister Mr. Attlee. la
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    RECOGNITION
    27 1 HAVANA, Thurs.— The Foreign Ministry officially announced today that Cuba had recognised the governments of the three states of French Indo-Chlna: Vietnam, Cambodla and Laos— U.P.
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    HUSH-HUSH THREE
    24 1 OTTAWA, Thurs.— A topsecret three-nation conference on defence research opened in Ottawa today with leading Canadian, British and American scientists in attendance.—U.P.
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    FIRE BURNS TYRES WORTH $2,500,000
    63 1 NORTH KANSAS CITY, Thurs. AFIRE raged out of control for nearly eight hours today in two large buildings and caused damage estimated by fire officials at U.S. $3,000,000. Officials of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Company said their loss was 80.000 tyres of all varieties
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    SUPPORT FOR BAO DAI
    314 1 PARIS. Thurs. THHREE thousand NationaA lists among Hoa Hao tribesmen in Long Zuyen. 118 miles west of Saigon, have rallied to the support of Bao Dai's new government. Agence* France Presse reported today from Saigon. Hoa Hao chief Nguyen Glac Ngo declared: "We Joined Bao Dai's
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    COLD WAR PROFIT
    31 1 BERLIN. Thurs. Russia makes an annual profit of U*****,000,000 from the cold war in Germany, while the United States loses at least U*****,000,000 Western Allied economists estimate.— A.P.
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    AUSTRALIA REPEALS BANK ACT
    130 1 CANBERRA, Thurs. A BILL repealing Australia's A 1947 Bank Nationalisation Act was introduced in the House of Representatives tonight by the Treasurer, Mr. A .W. Fadden. It provides for the re-establishment of the Board of Control of the Com- monwealth Bank, replacing the control of the
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    REPLY ON GOA SOON
    66 1 LISBON. Thurs. r THE Portuguese Government will reply soon to the recent communication from the Government of India on the future of Goa and other Portuguese possessions In India according to an official announcement. The Indian Government's communication was received on Feb. 27, the announcement added.
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    Month MenMay Stay In Harness
    239 1 From Our Staff Correspondent K. LUMPUR, Thurs. rpHE maintenance pi A Anti-Bandit Mciut; volunteering on a permanent basis by the Federa tion's civilians is being considered by the Government. State and Settlement organisers have been asked te assess, in conjunction witt their Governments and ttM
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    REDS TEACH CHINA
    24 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Thurs. Russian professors and experts are teaching in the Chinese Communists' new I'elcing University, according to Peking Radio.— Reuter.
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    Britain Supports H.K.
    282 2 Court On Red Planes LONDON, Thurs. npHE British Government has rejected a proposal in the House of Commons to send a commission to Hong Kong to probe the handing over of 71 former Chinese Nationalist aircraft to the Chinese Communists. A Conservative member, Air Commodore A. V.
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    H.K. HOUSING FOR SERVICES
    99 2 LONDON, Thurs. The Defence Minister, Mr. Emmanuel Shinwell, told Mr. L. D. Gsmmans in the House of Commons yesterday: "One hundred -and fifty-seven wives have joined Their husbands in Hong Kong since the garrison was reinforced last year. A further 69 sailed early this month and
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    DEFENCE TALKS IN OTTAWA
    60 2 OTTAWA, Thurs.— A hushhush defence conference, attended by Canadian, United States and British experts in radar, gas, psychological and other forms ol warfare opened in Ottawa yesterday. The conference, sponsored by the Canadian Defence Department's Research Board, was launched under such stringent *secrecy precautions that no
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    JAP SHIP FOR
    36 2 LOUIS DREYFUS TOKYO, Tnurs. The 5,800-ton freighter L. D. Philip, ordered by Louis Dreyfus and Co\, a French lirm operating in Malaya, will be launched in Japan's (Jraya dockyard on March 31 Reuter.
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    INGRID WILL NOT HAVE TO WAIT FOR ROBERTO
    192 2 STOCKHOLM, Thurs. fNGRID BERGMAN will 1 not have to wait three weeks while banns are published in Sweden before she marries Roberto Rossellinl, Swedish authorities said in Stockholm yesterday. A Swedish Foreign Office spokesman said that Miss Bergman is registered In the
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    METAL HOUSE
    21 2 THIS prefabricated bouse, standing off the ground on steel scaffolding, was shown at a Paris housing exhibition. A.P. picture.
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    'Ban Screen Apostles Of Degradation'
    303 2 People In The News NEW YORK, Thursday. MR. Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association, has answered the challenge of Senator Edwin Johnson, Colorado Democrat, who has introduced a bill to establish a State bureau to deny licences to actors and actresses convicted of
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    CAT CAME HOME WITH 2 FRIENDS
    80 2 CHICAGO. Thurs. r>ABLO, he tomcat lived in 1 a Chicago tavern, lie came home early one morning, scratched on the door, and the night watchman opened it. In walked Pablo with new pals men carrying pistols. They took US650 and left. ANEW Delhi cat
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    ARREST REPORT 'NONSENSE'
    66 2 ARREST REPORT 'NONSENSE' PARIS, Thurs.— Bishop Garald P. O'Hara, Papal Nuncio to Rumania, yest.er.lay said that reports of his impending arrest were all nonsense." He spoke to the Associated Press by telephone from Bucharest. A secretary, asked about the- reported arrest of Bishop Martin Aran. chief Catholic prelate in Rumania,
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    YEMEN ACCUSES BRITAIN ON ARMS
    207 2 YEMEN ACCUSES BRITAIN ON ARMS CAIRO, Thurs. fTHE Yemen Government yesterday delivered a protest to Britain alleging that British sources are supplying arms and ammunition to tribesmen in the Hadramaut. The protest was announced by Hassan ben Ibrahim, Yemenese Minister of State, who said the note was received through Mohammed
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    Polonaise'
    20 2 SHIMMERING blue satin makes this attractive evening dress "Polonaise" modelled by Hollywood stariet Nancy Davis. M G M. picture.
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    ATOM PLANT CANCER RESEARCH
    45 2 WASHINGTON, Thurs. rE atomic plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, intends to open the first of its cancer research centres about Selected patients from the south-eastern United States will be brought to the new hospital for experimental treatment with radio-active elements— Reuter.
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    "SAVT THE HINDUS" CRY TO NEHRU AT BORDER
    311 3 CALCUTTA, Thursday. rRIKS of Save the Hindus of East Bengal" and the screech of conch shells greeted Pandit Nehru, the Indian Prime Minister, on his arrival at Ranaghat, on the Eml Pakistan fiorder, yesterday. Pandit Nehru nearly broke down when crowds of
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    SHAH IN PAKISTAN,
    46 3 SHAH IN PAKISTAN, THE SHAH of Persia, pictured at m reception fives in his honour during his state visit to Pakistan by the Prime Minister. Liaquat AU Khan and his wife. The Begum leads the Shah, followed by Liaquat All Khan, forward to meet the guests.
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    SHANGHAI AIR-RAID: 2 SIDES
    302 3 SHANGHAI AIR-RAID: 2 SIDES HONG KONG. Thurs. IVlfc. Nationalist Central Newi Agency reported li>l night that Chinese Nationalist bombers raided o.i Tuesday scoring hits on dV Lunghwa airfield r ta.ivs the control tower I opt establishments. •he Communist radio at Peking, reported t ji) bomo^ were dropped on the city
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    SUB SALVAGE HELD UP
    45 3 SHEERNESS. Thurs. Pumping operations to clear the hull of the submarine Truculent were postponed yesterday. The lifting gear of one of the two lifting vessels had been damaged. The submarine sank on Jan. 12 with the loss of 84 lives.— A.P.
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    NO ISRAEL HELP FOR RED MOVES
    41 3 TEL AVIV. Thurs.— Mr. D.ivid Ben Gurions Social D mocratic Party. Mapal, cellared yesterday it had re-j-rted a demand by Israel's L'liwingers to adopt a foreign policy supporting all Soviet Russian peace moves. A P.
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    Oil Strike Story
    23 3 VANCOUVER, Thurs. l.Avge quantities of oil are reported to have been discovered In the Peace River R-ea of British Columbia.
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    PERSIA PACT WITH INDIA
    119 3 PERSIA PACT WITH INDIA TEHERAN. Thurs. A FIVE-CLAUSE friendship agreement between Persia and India was signed yesterday morning In the Persian Foreign Ministry by the Indian Ambassador. Seyed AH Zaheer and the acting Iran Foreign Minister, Dr. All Gholi Ardalan. The agreement, which Is India's first with a foreign country
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    RED POLLS
    64 3 MOSCOW, Thurs.— Soviet voters gave overwhelming approval to the bloc of Communist Party and nonparty candidates to the two houses of the Supreme Soviet. Official figures announced yesterday are. For the Council of the Union: for, 110.788,377: against, 300,14«; invalid. 1487. A total of 119.090,000 voted. For the
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    Malaya Is Reds' True Objective In S-E Asia
    214 3 Ma laya Is Reds True Objective In S-E Asia From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Thursday. Yfl ALAYA is the primary objective of the Comin- form; Burma Indo-China and Siam would only be necessary as a means to that end, said Major General J R. Hartwell, in the monthly magazine Eastern
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    LINCOINS ARE ON THE WAY
    54 3 LONDON. Thurs. ASQLAOKON of Lincoln bombers. No. 57, left Lincolnshire today for Malaya to fight the terrorists. Flying in stages of about 2,000 miles a day, the planes are expected to arrive by next week-end. Their ground crews are being flown out separately in Yoik
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    TO CONFER WITH NEHRU
    79 3 JAMMU, KASHMIR, Thurs QHEIKH Mohammad Abdullah, Chief Minister of Kashmir, is leaving for Delhi this week-end to confer with Prime Minister Jawaharla 1 Nehru on the United Nations Security Council's decision to appoint a mediator in the Kashmir dispute. A special convention of the All-Jammu and
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    House Assurance On China Envoys
    284 3 No Interference In Malaya LONDON, Thursday. AN assurance that any interference in Malayan internal affairs by Chinese Communist diplomats "would not be permitted" was given to a House of Commons questioner yesterday by the Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, Mr. John Dugdale. Mr. Dugdale,
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    BELATED' AID TO MALAYA
    139 3 From Our Own Correlpondent LONDON. Thurs. BY reinforcing; troops in Malaya and sending bombers, the Government has shown belated realisation of the seriousness of the menace to the order and economic life of the Federation, says the Daily Telegraph. The paper adds that official assurances in
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    DEFIANT OFFICER
    92 3 WASHINGTON Thurs. THE United States Navy announced yesterday that Captain John G Crommelin, the Navy flier who publicly criticised military unification policies despite gar orders, has been sent on leave on half paybut the. Captain immediately defied the new attempt to silence him. Capt. CrommeUn said: "1 am
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    ASSEMBLY IN TASMANIA ENDED
    29 3 HOBART, Tasmania, Thurs. —The Labour Prime Minister, Mr. Robert Cosgrove, dissolved the Tasmanian House of Assembly yesterday for an early elsrtion. possibly in mid-April. Reuter.
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    'FASCISTSWINE' CRIES IN ASSEMBLY
    143 3 'FASCIST SWINE' CRIES IN ASSEMBLY PARIS, Thurs. AMID banging of desks and cries of "Fascist swine," the French National Assembly early today gave a 416 to 181 vote for ratification of the Atlantic Pact agreement by which the United States will send arms to France. Fifteen minutes of tumult closed
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    Acheson Calls For Soviet Co-operation
    268 3 BERKELEY. California, Thursday. THE Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, called on the leaders of the Soviet Union to co-operate sincerely with the United States in finding solutions to present world problems and so bring peace and security to the world. Addressing the Conference j
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    PENANG PRESIDENT IS ANGRY
    473 4 Criticises Way Staff Union Made Complaint From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Thursday. "IT is, to my mind, sheer nonsense that a local Municipal complaint has to travel 500 miles before it reaches my ears," the Deputy Munici- P-esident Mr. H. G. Hammett, declared at today's meeting
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    Brind Back In Singapore Fronm H.K.
    69 4 1 IE Uomuianuer-ln-Gaief, I East Station, Admiral t Putiick E-.inci. returned to Singapore yesterday in eh ve.te;. Alert. Ing a fortni",nt v tin the fleet <?i Hong; Konß Ling the Philippines. Ivhl c at Subic B^y. Piriipp Admiral Brind iind Vlce-Ad-tilral R. S Berkey.
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    MALAY CHARGED
    64 4 From Oar Own Correspondent < KUAR. Thurs. Charges wi i dishonestly retaining s 01-.n proper y at Paru L.sar. a 35-year-old Malay, j 1 10 bin Hdshim. was allowed bil of ?200 by the M :strat? and the case :oncd to March 23. He vai MegtA to h:ive
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    NO LICENCE
    41 4 Jr. in Our Own t'orrespondrnt I MUAR, Thurs. Two Chi- n 19, N'eo Kow Ec and T:iv Hr.i Kirn, who v:ere found selling cig-ii.u^s wivbout m licence at Jalan Sisi, were each fined $10 by the Muar Maeis rate.
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    MUNICIPAL BILLS BY MACHINE
    71 4 THE Finance Corrviittee j? SingaDore jV.unicipaj Commissioners has approved further mechanisation of ttiti Municipal Treasurer's Department at a eoMt or $2.s ooo This d—'^'on Is due for confirmati f by the Commissioners on ::ar. 11. The Finance IMWBlttei favours purchase ol a ma chine which will
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    CONTACT TOURIST
    65 4 LR. AJJMED Giamil Ma*«.ua K«t«(khL Secre aryCeaetal of the l -> -ration Mirr-ilice ot the AU-Nor h A -iia Sates Peoples' < -i iiisj who has arrived in in«ra»)<>4e Hr. Ahmed i> mm ronlact tour of b s.ncss \ip,i in Pakistan. I'Hia. Pur-m iMilaya and I«1 m»sia li»
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    Had No Permit To Enter
    79 4 From Oui Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.- I Marotf bin Yunos, a merchant of Medan who arrived in Johore Bahru yesterday from i Sumatra, was charged In the Dtilice court today with enter- 1 j ng the Federation without a valid permit. Maroff told the
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    POLICE BAND IN TAIPING
    46 4 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Thurs. The Federation of Ma'aya Police band under Mr. A. W. Crofts. A.S.P played in Tai- -)ing yesterday. Those present included 3ngadier X A. Sknne. Mr. Mac Lean 0.5. P.C., Perak North and Mr. Murphy 0.C.P.D.. Taiping.
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    JAKUNS NEEDED AID -NOT PROSECUTION
    182 4 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Thursday. SIX Jakuns brought before the Segamat Magistrate for failing to take out identity cards, were admonished and discharged. The Magistrate said they were poor ignorant folk who required to be helped rather than prosecuted. It was stated that the
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    COSTLY TODDY
    36 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs. B. Ramasamy, a 60-year-old tapper of Hang Yang Estate. who was found in possession of a gallon of toddy was fined $20 in the Police Court today
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    Parked Too Near
    37 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. Tan Boy Chong. of Singapore. and Low Chew Kirn. a local driver. weTe today fined $8 rarh tor parking their cars <»> vii- 20 feet o f rr> <"*»<•-
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    'Sex School' Story Raises Protest
    229 4 MALAY women leaders at Kuala Lumpur are Indignant over a report in the Sunday Pictorial, London, that Malay women train girls as prostitutes when they are as young as 12 years. The statement, attributed to Miss Josephine Foss of the Malayan branch o! the Colonial
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    MEDITATING TWO YEARS IN JUNGLE
    55 4 From Our Own Correspondent TELUK ANSON. Thurs. AN Indian who said be went into the jungle near Nova Scotia Estate. Teluk Anson. to meditate two years ago was charged with having no identity card. Bail of $300 was (ranted Nagamnthu and the case was adjourned
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    Praised By Chamber
    116 4 From Ouc Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. MR. A. A. Mohamed Abdullah, the retired president of the Selangor Indian Chamber of Commerce was praised yesterday for the services he has rendered to the chamber and the Indian community in general. Speaking at a tea-party in his honour,
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    SUICIDE BID ALLEGED
    42 4 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Thurs. A Chinese woman, Tong Yak, aged 47, at present in the Muar hospital, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by jumping into the Muar River. The case was postponed to March 23.
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    3 WEEKS' GAOL
    38 4 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Thurs. Found tn possession of chandu in his house at Bakri village, 68-year-old Go Knee was sentenced by the president of the Muar Sessions court to three weeks' simple imprisonment.
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    SCHOOLBOYS VISIT TIN MINES
    29 4 BOYS of Klanr High School recently visited itae workings of Petaling Tin Mines as part of their Geographical education. They are seen approaching the dredge.
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    U.S. USES MORE RUBBER
    318 4 U.S. USES MORE RUBBER WASHINGTON, Thurs. TTNITED States Industry consumed 04,159 tc/i of new rubber In January 1950— the highest monthly consumption since June 1948— according to preliminary statistics reported by the UJS. Department, of Commerce. In December 1948, 84,461 tons were consumed and in January 1949, 87,128 tons were
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    SCOUTS MEETING IN TAIPING
    45 4 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING. Thurs. The second annual general meeting of the Taiping Boy Scouts Local Association will be held at the King Edward VII School on March 21 at 4 45 p.m. Mr. A. K. Sabapathy Is the secretary.
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    GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY VISIT
    38 4 From Omr Own Correspondent KLANG, Thurs— Members of the Klang High School Geographical Society visited the Petaling Tin Mines, the Meteorological Station, Kuala Lumpur, Air-Control Unit. Kuala Lumpur, and the Setnpak hot springs last Saturday
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    TODDY CHARGE
    52 4 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Thurs. "We know nothing about it." said an Indian and his Chinese companion when charged In the Segamat Circuit Court yesterday with alleged possession of four gallons of toddy. They were 49-year-old Marlappan and Tay Boon Kual, aged 20. Each was offered ball
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    MISSION LEADER
    37 4 MISSION LEADER MR. ROGER ALLEN GRIFFIN, head of the U. S. Technical Assistance mission which is visiting Malaya, pictured with Mrs. Griffin en their arrival by air In Singapore yesterday. Straits Times picture. Another picture in Page
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    POSTMAN WHO TOOK $10 GAOLED
    166 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. .iPRESSING the opinion that "punishment must be such that it jvould not only deter the accused but deter others as well," the President of the Kuala Lumpur Session* Court. Mr. D. M. K. Grant today sentenced a young
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    Police DOGS USED TO TRAIL BANDIT
    53 5 Police DOGS USED TO TRAIL BANDIT From Our Stall Correspondent Xl AI.A LUMPUUR. Thurs. rI.HT; doss were used to trail a wounded bandit who was shot hy special constables on Coronation F.stite. in Johore. on Tuesday. The doss followed a h 1 u| trail for about 200 yards and then
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    Playfield For Geylang Children
    82 5 Playfield For Geylang Children CHILDREN of Geyking, who have been in need of a playing field, will get one laid out for them soon. Through the efforts of Mr. Frank James and Miss Amy Laycock, two Progressive Municipal Commissioners for East Ward, which includes Gcylang, a Municipal committee has agreed
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    Offer $30,000 For 2 Bandits
    201 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. REWARDS of $15,000 each are being: offered by the Selangor Police for the arrest of two Malay bandit lenders operating in the State. One of them was a lance-corporal in the F.M.S. police in prewar days and a
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    To 1 Road: $18,000
    34 5 The Rural Board yesterday agreed to take over the access road built by the Island Club at a cost of $18,000 and decided to name it the Island CfUb Road
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    5 Murdered In Past 48 Hours
    234 5 5 Murdered In Past 48 Hours From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. FIVE civilians, Including a Sakai leader, were killed by bandits during the past 48 hours. In Johore, about 50 uniformed bandits last night raided the Chinese-owned Ton* Chuan Estate and murdered a Javanese and a Chinese labourer
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    FOUR ASIAN A.S.P.s TO TRAIN IN U.K.
    157 5 THE Singapore Police Force will send four Asian officers to the United Kingdom next July if a scheme to train Colonial Police officers in British police work materialises, Th«» training plan, which enable both expatriate locally-domiciled Colonial Police officers to undergo courses at
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    THEY WILL FISH ASHORE NOW
    83 5 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Than. THE entire fishing community of Kuala Kemaman about 500 men volunteered for the AntiBandit month, but with one proviso: they would serve when they were not at sea. The problem of organising their services was finally solved when
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    TAIPING HINDU ASSN. MEETING
    72 5 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Thurs. The 28th annual general meeting, with a tea party, of the Young Men's Hindu Association will be held in the Association Hall in Upper Station Road on March 25 The association runs a school, where physical training and gardening are
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    FESTIVAL MODEL
    31 5 MRS. P. T. WONG, one of the models in the Festival of Chinese Fashion, which is having a repeat showing at Raffles Hotel in Singapore tomorrow. Lloyd Studio picture.
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    WorkToStart On $500,000 Traffic Scheme For Bukit Timah
    399 5 WorkToStart On $500,000 Traffic Scheme For Bukit Timah NEW ROAD TO BE BUILT AS the first stage of a $500,000 traffic scheme on Bukit Timah Road, a mile of new road between Holland and dementi Roads will be built this year. A central eight-foot green strip will divide the road
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    NOT REGISTERED: FINED $100
    58 5 From Our Own Correspondent RAUB, Thurs.— Ng Yong, a 27-year-old Cantonese, was fined $100 or two months imprisonment, by Inche Anjang Saith, Raub Circuit Magistrate, for failing to register and get an identity card. Ng Yong was arrested during a police screening at Tras following a
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    C-in-C VISITS IPOH
    36 5 IPOH, Thurs.— The Com-mander-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces, General Sir John Harding, paid a brief visit to Ipoh this morning and inspected the 2/2 Gurkha Rifles, the Ist KOYLI and the 4th Hussars.
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    WOMAN GETS $2,000 BAIL
    88 5 From Oat .Siall C'orr>Mi> indent KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— A Ceylonese woman. P. Thanapakiam. today appeared before Mr. D. M K. Grant In the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court charged with cheating and fraudulently using as genuine a forged cheque. She claimed trial to both the charges. It
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    WITNESS ABSENT: CASE ADJOURNED
    88 5 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Thurs. Because a prosecution witness was not available yesterday, the trial of 26-year-old Gerard Jean Noury, of Johore Labis Estate, was adjourned till March 22 by thf Segamat Circuit Magistrate. Noury is charged with the death of an 18-year-old Malay due
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    A-B MEN 'SPURRED' BYATTACK
    172 5 Prom Our 8tafl Correspondent PENANO, Thurs. THE hand grenade explosion In Muntrl Street on Tuesday night had served to make the majority of Penang's Anti-Bandit Month volunteers "all the more keen" to get on with their fob. the Assistant Settlement Organiser, Mr. J. L. Fleure said
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    116 Fewer Members
    64 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. MEMBERSHIP of trade un1 ions in the Federation dropped by 116 between January and February this year, states a report by the Registrar of Trade Unions. Mr J. B. Prentis. The present total membership of the Federation's 163 unions is
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    Municipal Welfare Chief Quits
    189 5 Municipal Welfare Chief Quits BECAUSE his status as an Independent officer In the Singapore Municipality had been reduced, the Municipal Welfare Officer, Mr. A. V. Benjafleld, has resigned his post. Mr. Ben j afield said yesterday that the action of the Commissioners in placing the Welfare Department under the Municipal
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    TAPAH VISIT
    22 5 From Our Own Correspondent TAPAH, Thurs. Mr. M. Saravanamuttu, Ceylon Commissioner in Singapore and Malaya will visit Tapah on Saturday.
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    Singapore Diary
    170 5 A B T EXHIBITION, Drltlsh Council Hall, Stamford Road 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Y.W.C.A., Girls' Club meeting, 5, Raffles Quay, 3 p.m., Town Pioneers' meeting, 8, Fort Canning Road. 4 p.m. UMAR PULAVAR SCHOOL. official opening of the new building. Maxwell Road, 4.30 p m CHINESE YJM.C.A.,
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    M.C.A. Move To Admit Other Races
    166 5 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. MON-CHINESE, provided they n are 18-years-old and have certain residential qualifications, will be eligible as associate members of the Malayan Chinese Association, if amendments to the constitution are approved by the general committee at a snefiftl meeting
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Fri., Mar. 17, 1950. University Gifts
    898 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Fri., Mar. 17, 1950. University Gifts This has been a good week for the University of Malaya. The four donations announced at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce meeting on Wednesday are very welcome not only because I hey will swell the University Endowment Fund by
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    DEATH
    57 6 MRS NBO ONO JOO (Bee Mudiim I-ee Slew Tan>. paaaed a«av peacefully at t.ii p.m. on JS 3 50 at her residence No. 241. Road, leaving behind her, i i other, Lee Jim Hock, two ters. two fons-ln-law. Robert Wre A Lee Choo Slew A one .'luifhter Funeral on
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    62 6 CHARLEB AND PAT HWJJ- WELL thank the many friends »ho Kent flowers and letters of thy recently, and trust they mil understand If they are not ully replied to. I HE FAMILY of the late Mr. /hxandrr Joseph Perelra, wish to (hunk nil kind relaUvea and liirnds who attended
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    "TERROR RAIDS ON CHINA"
    211 6 LONDON, Tuesday. CIR John Pratt, who was head v of British war-time propaeanda to the Far East from 1939 to 1941, and who is a former Foreign Office official, bitterly attacked American policvin China in an article in trie Manchester Guardian. Sir John wrote that the
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      Revenue On The Roads
      326 6 Revenue On The Roads WITH reference to the recent correspondence about the speed U-nit on Singapore Island, I point out that your correspondents are in error? The imposition of a speed limit has never en intended, in this country or in the U.K., to an accident-reducing It is purely and
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      PASSENGERS IN PRIVATE CARS
      141 6 I WAS travelling with friends the other night when our car was stopped by a police patrol car. Our identity cards were checked, and after surveying the car in which we were travelling one of the policemen remarked: "Your car Is meant for only four persons;
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      New Buildings For Old: A Poor Tenant's View
      160 6 t UNDERSTAND that plans are afoot in Gov1 ernment and Municipal circles to pull down old houses to build new ones. I wonder if this plan is timely. Singapore would be indeed an ideal city if all the old houses could be
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      THELIM-WICKS "FUSS"
      196 6 1SEE In your issue of Wednesday that it is now clear that Mr. Lim, one of the candidates for appointment as Singapore Deputy Water Engineer, is in fact not a local-born man but China-born. My clear recollection of the original general decision of the Municipal Commissioners on appointments
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      THE BOMB AT THE ADELPHI
      87 6 THE main Item of news In I Monday morning's paper amazed me! i read in major headlines that a home-made bomb had been thrown into the dining room of the Adelphi Hotel, Singapore, causing damage and injuring four people. Yet battles on up-country estates, with
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      A LOSS IN 1942
      91 6 THE news that War Pay- ments will iwgin this month is indeed a great boon to many who are anxiously waiting. In this connection could you enlighten me on the following? I had a sewing machine, bought on the instalment basis in December 1943. War broke
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      A VOLUNTEER IN CHINA A Working-Cla&8 Governor?
      616 6 MANY readers have expressed their views on Mr. Tan Kah Kee's recent speech. Please permit me to join in. We all know— yes even the Americans admit that Chiang's Nationalist Government is a washout. Yet America still gives unconditional and allout support to
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      Hamburg, Shanghai, Canton
      269 6 Hamburg, Shanghai, Canton ■fTISIT Germany... travel to Hanover, Hamburg or Osnabruch see for yourself the result of British and American bombing—l suggest that if Canton and Shanghai are now beinp; subjected to what you describe as "terror bombing," most German cities received far worse doses. The bombing of the "industrial"
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    On the Margin
    365 6 On the Margin Mr. Foo Ah boo UARCH 14, 1950, will Mir be a red-letter day in list life of Mr. Foo Ah Six, ofl 110 Campbell Street, Ptna.jg. He has written to tell ;i,e Straits Times about ii <l it gives me much pleasi.te to tell readers of thi*
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      96 6 jiiiiiMMiiitJiimrrtMiujiMmiwiioiiiHMi i DUSTER This new VACTKIC DUSTER U a self -contained Cleaning Unit, 'operating entirely by itself. It is of such a Light Weight that you can work It with one hand. It has a powerful motor encaaed In an aluminium body with an easily detachable Dust Bag. Complete with
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      82 6 ffl^i OPTICIRN Fellow Institute Ophthalmic Opticians (Eng Fellow Worshipful Co of Spectacle-Makers (Eng Freeman of *he City of Londm By Appointment to H.M. force*, South East Asia 6 Raffles Place Singapore Phone ***** i -I Ef FEBRUARY ISSUE NOW ON SALE 3 Klllßlllli|J I «X» MSTMM/rO«i RAJ a oomi ire
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    UNION WARNS ARMY
    276 7 'Breakdown Of Industrial Re la lions If... 9 workers employed by the Army in Singapore, in a letter to their employers, have warned that any further delay in the settlement of outstanding claims might result in a breakdown of industrial relations, <4 for which sole responsibility must
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    GAMBLED, LOST, DIVED TO DEATH
    175 7 GAMBLED, LOST, DIVED TO DEATH NINETEEN-YEAR-O L D Yong Yeow Luan of Rochore Road, who leaped from the fourth storey of the Air View Hotel last Sunday was upset because he lost $250 in gambling during the Chinese New Year, the Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter, was told ■day.
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    Negligence: $50 Fine
    79 7 KOH Cheng Tin pleaded guilty i n the Second Traffic Court Singapore, yesterday to driving his lorry in a m manner on the morning oi Jan. 26 at the lunrtion of Sumbawa Read j'j.d Kallang Road, resulting In a collision with a Sing::nae Traction Company bus. He
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    Boys' Home To Gaol
    54 7 FN days after being released from a Boys' Home, 19-year-old Tan Ah See was caught by a detective snatching a handbag from a woman in Queen Street. In the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday, he was sentenced to six months' rigorous imprisonment. He had two previous
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    Cinema Tax Bill Out
    59 7 A BILL to give effect to certain recommendations et the recent report by the Film and Entertainments Duty Policy Committee, was published In Singapore last night The Bill is to be Introduced in the Legislative Coun::ll. It provides for the rates of entertainments duty to b«
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    Donations To SATA Fund
    47 7 The Singapore Anti-Tuber-culosis Association announces receipt of donations totalling $677.69. from the fallowing: Proceeds from Blue Bird show $421.23: Anonymous $10. Mr. Chan Chew Kaw $100: collection box $31.48; C. E. Morton < Malaya i Ltd., $100: and The Malaya Tribune Press Ltd.. $15.
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    Busman Fined
    42 7 Harjan Singh, a bus driver, was fined $30 in the Second Traffic Court, Singapore, yesterday, when he pleaded guilty to driving a Singapore Traction Company bus in a negligent manner and colliding with a motor-car at Serangoon on Jan. 22.
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    Church Bazaar
    31 7 The Straits Chinese Methodist Youth Fellowship and the Women's Society of Christian Service will Jointly hold a bazaar on Saturday, April 1, at Kampong Kapor Road at 3 p.m.
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    Ammo Find
    24 7 A box containing 964 rounds of rifle ammunition was found yesterday morning in a house being built at Bouna Vista Road, Singapore.
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    OATH-TAKING
    24 7 MR. TAN LARK STE. new President of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce taking: his oath of office on Wednesday. Straits Times picture.
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    No Cards: 4 Gaoled
    81 7 nrwo men and two women were sentenced to one month's rigorous imprisonment in the Singapore First District Court yesterday for not having identity cards. The two men were Cheong Lye Fook, 45. and Satar bin Mohamad, 25. The women were Tan Kim Wah, 59, and Sim
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    Building Laws
    30 7 The nnal draft of the Singapore Rural Board buildIng by-laws will be discussed at the next meeting of the Board next month, it was stated at yesterday's meeting.
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    New Members
    30 7 The Singapore Rural Board yesterday enlarged its Zoning Sub-Committee from three to five and appointed Mr. Chin Chye Fong and Mr. A. L. B. Swainc as additional members.
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    They Drove Too Fast
    54 7 Fourteen motor car drivers and three lorry drivers were fined a total of $305 in the First Traffic Court, Singapore, yesterday, when they pleaded guilty to speeding along Buklt Timah Road between Feb. 6 and 7. Defendants appeared as a result of speed traps over a
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    Photo Display
    26 7 About 4,000 people attended the photographic exhibition held by the Chinese tourist. Mr. Tong Shu-fa, at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce this week.
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    BLAMED A GOD FOR SCENE IN COURT
    193 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thursday. PHE third day's trial in the Supreme Court at Johore Bahru of 13 men accused of consorting with armed men was adjourned yesterday when Wong Ah Chick began screaming in the dock and stamping his feet.
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    COLONY FLOUR PRICE DOWN
    47 7 FROM next Monday, the retail price of Government imported flour wilt b< reduced by four cents per kati. the Singapore Government announced yesterday. The new prices will be: Wholesale— $17.64 per picul; to industries $17.82 per picul; and retail 19 cents per kati.
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    AIM AT 'STORE SCHOOL' IN ART
    161 7 Singapore Art Society is trying to establish a "Singapore school" of painting, said Mr. Roy Morrell, speaking at the East-West Society last night. Mr. Morrell said that in common with other parts of the world, there has been a Ren era! revival of amateur
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    Yesterday' S'pore Wedding
    123 7 Yesterday' S'pore Wedding C-G And The Bride THESE Straits Times pictures were taken at the weddina yesterday of Mr. Loke Wan Tho. Malayan cinema magnate, to Miss Christina Lee. The pictures shou: TOP. the Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, offers good wishes to the bride, at the reception at 16
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    Cannot Stay In Singapore
    44 7 Mr. Chng Beng Lee, a Penang Chinese merchant who accompanied Mr. Tan Kah Kee on his tour of Communist China, has been refused permission by the Singapore Government to remain in the Colony. Mr. Chng holds a Chinese I passport.
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    Car In Drain
    47 7 The Singapore Rural Board yesterday decided to take no action on the question of removal of a derelict car in the drain off Chua Chu Kang Road, after a member had said that he could contact a scrap iron merchant to remove itfreeof charge.
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    Road Named
    32 7 The reserve road oIT 5| mile Dunearn Road was yesterday named after the former owner of V surrounding proper 'im Eng Neo, as Weo Avenue, by tht fc*iwpof« ißuiai Board.
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    'TAX' ON PONDS IS URGED
    116 7 'TAX' ON PONDS IS URGED HUNDREDS of prawn ponds which dot Singapore's west cok«st could provide substantial revenue to Government, suggested Mr. E. Galistan at the monthly j meeting of the Singapore Rural Board. The ponds have been built on crown land, for which owners paid only licence fees to
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    No Dispensary On Isle Of 2,000 People
    174 7 No Dispensary On Isle Of 2,000 People AN island with 2,000 inA habitants without a dispensary, formed tha subject of a strong protest at the Btngappre Rural Board meeting yi sterday Mr." H. J. C. Ktilasinv i, chairman of the Pasir FV.»jJang Rural District Committee, criticised the removal <fl the
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    Thivy Visits 'Jumna'
    88 7 rE Represe native of Ij.» Government of Mr. J. A. Thivy. and Mi* Thivy. yesterday went <n board the Indian Navy >. Jumna, on her arrival at i-a Singapore Naval 3asc on routine visit. The vessel U under command ot Capt. B. Soman ana is che fir*l
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    RESEARCH UNIT SHOULD
    297 8 PLAN RUBBER ROAD TESTS From Our Start Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. jD ATHER than allow 50 or so P.W.D. engineers to "play round experimenting with rubber surfaces" there should be a road research unit in the Federation able to spend its whole time studying every possible factor
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    Meeting At K.L.
    42 8 From Our SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. —The quarterly meeting of the Malayan Association will be held at Kuala Lumpur on March 29. Mr. E. D. Shearn, the president, and Mr. Y. C. Kpng, vice-president, will address the meeting.
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    GAMBLING BILL IN KELANTAN
    124 8 GAMBLING BILL IN KELANTAN Vrom Oar Own Correspondent KOTA BAHRU, Thurs. A BILL aimed at prohibiting chap Ji kee in Kelantan, and another to provide for selective breeding of cattle in the State were passed at their first reoiiing at a meeting of the Kelantan Council of State 'us morning.
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    WATER COLOURS ON DISPLAY
    52 8 f'runi "ur si.itl Con ■spotirient IPO;, Thura Mr. Yong Mun Sen n water colour artist ot' Penan-j. will hold a threediv pxhlbttlon of his work at the Kr>na Knng Association In BwwstM R'^d parting «n Friday ds trnm the exhlbl11 h<. Innated to the I P
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    AMERICAN MISSION
    80 8 THE U.S. MISSION which is to lay the groundwork in South-East Asia for the "Point Four" technical assistance programme arrived in Singapore by air from Saigon yesterday afternoon. Left to right:— Mr. William McAfee, a U.S. State Department Far Eastern affairs specialist; Mr. K. Allen Griffin, head of
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    Better Provident Fund Terms Urged
    130 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. BETTER retirement terms for Malayan planters are urged in The Planter, the official organ of the Incorporated Society of Planters. An editorial states that there is an urgent need for an increase in provident fund rates by bom
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    $500 FOR SPORT
    25 8 SEREMBAN. Thurs —The Central Welfare Council at Kuala Lumpur has granted S5OO for a football pitch at Titi in the Jelebu area.
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    Houses for S.M.C. staff
    71 8 SINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners propose to build six two-bedroomed type bungalows at Braddell Road for tbe accommodation of senior officers. A committee of Commissioners has recommended the acceptance of the lowest tender for this job at $158,250. Connected expenditure for sanitary and electrical installations, and furniture, will
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    Malayan Trade Unionists
    218 8 To Hold Meeting In Penang From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Thursday. DELEGATES representing leading Penang and Province Wellesley trade unions will meet on Saturday afternoon at the Junior Civil Service Association in Penang to discuss leading questions to be raised at the forthcoming conference of Malayan trade
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    SCHOOLSAVES 7-MILE TRIP
    65 8 SCHOOL SAVES 7-MILE TRIP From Oar Own Correspondent KLUANG, Thurs.— A new Malay school built by kampong people under the guidance of the Kluang Malay School Advisory Committee was opened by Ungku Salleh bin Ismail More than 500 parents and children were present. Tuan Hajl Ismail bin Hasian. Health Inspector
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    N.S. TRANSFERS
    49 8 from Our Own Correspond<-r-l GEMAS, Thurs.— Mr. Gan Nam Chye, of the Chief Police Office. Seremban, has been transferred to the Gemas District Police Headquarters. Mr. Chu Tian Eng and Mr. Lee Tian Chal, of the same office, will be transferred to Jelebu and Port Dickson respectively.
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    RUSSIAN RUBBER RECORD
    170 8 From Our SUB Correspondent PENANO, Thurs. WITH one ship loading about 8,000 tons from Malayan ports and another due to take a similar consignment next week. Russia will be receiving a record total of some 15,000 tons of rubber from Malaya this month. Purchased through London agents,
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    REGENT TO BE NAMED
    60 8 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Thurs.— The Sultan of Perak, who is leaving for a six months' vis't to England later this month, is to make a proclamation appointing a Regent, at a ceremony in the Council Chamber, Ipoh, next Monday. Rajas, Chiefs, State Councillors, Government
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    Traders Want Rice De-rationed
    201 8 MALAYAN rice traders, says an informed Singapore source, are convinced that now is the time for the Governments of Singapore and the Federation to de-rration rice and to restore the rice trade to private channels. They are expected to ask the Governments to act at once
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    PORT DICKSON SCOUT PLANS
    85 8 From Our SUB Correspondent SEREMBAN Thurs. The Port Dickson District Boy Scouts' Association will assist Federation Scout Week from March 25 to April 1 in raising funds for a training camp. They will undertake odd jDbs for members of the public as one way to raise
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    BROKE CURFEW: FINED $10
    51 8 Prom Oar Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Thurs. "We were on our way home when our car broke down and It grew dark while we were repairing the vehicle," said Munusamy and his friend Nadeson, charged in the Segamat Circuit Court with breakIng the curfew. Each was fined
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    Ipoh's First Co-op Store Opens
    89 8 Ipoh's First Co-op Store Opens *Rom Oar Stall Conespondent IPOH, Thurs. TPOH'S first co-operative store was opened by the Chairman of the Kinta Town Board, Mr. J. M. Brander, yesterday evening. The President of the Ipoh Co-Operative Stores Society. Mr. R. H. Oakley, said that there was no intention of
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    SULTAN OF PERAK
    36 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA KANGSAR, Thurs. -The Chinese community of Kuala Kangsar entertained to dinner at the Tsung Wah Chinese School the Sultan, and the Raja Prempuan of Perak on Tuesday night.
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    Klang Methodists
    35 8 From Oar Own Correspondent KLANG, Thurs— The Rev. B. J. Gurney Fox, Vicar of Selangor, will speak at the weekly devotional meeting of the Methodist Youth Fellowship at Klang tomorrow at 6.15 p.m.
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    WING TO U.K.
    28 8 INCHE ABDULLAH bin Ibrahim. M.C.S.. Assistant State Secretary. Paban?. who will accompany the Sultan of Pahang on a visit to the United Kingdom next week.
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    15-Year-Old Boy Hurt In Crash
    74 8 From Our Staff t:orrc..;>i-.. >Nt PENANO. Thu;s AN Anglo-Chinese ■cuool boy, 15-year-olfi Lim Chin Keong, was slightly injurei this morning when his bicycle collided with an iDoh-regis-tered car at the Junction of Argyll Road and Chulia Street. Lim was riding towards the. direction of Argyll
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    Chinese Charged With Cheating
    61 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, lilul Arrested in Penang, a middl aged Chinese, Goh Jee Pun?, today appeared before Mr. i>. M. K. Grant In the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court, charged with cheating lee Eng Kee of $300 in Kuala Lumpur in August 1948. The
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    POLYGLOT CREW TO RUN BLOCKADE
    97 8 A BRITISH freighter, Empire Olencoe, with a crew of nine nationalities on board, left Singapore yesterday In an attempt to run the Chinese Nationalists' blockade of Shanghai. The ship has been chartered by the American shipping company. Isbrandtsen Line, and Is under the command of
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      After the big bombardment
      480 9 gAVJyou seen "Battleground" yet? You .hould do. Decause it has caused more comment than any other f. l^ SS r nl ng i°i lg tim e-Magnificent rou?n Meanwhile, here Is a heated debate mi th* «im ho the l.b, lcrth>. And I kn,;£2«t2L23ir t i. 1
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      MEET SUSAN
      67 9 DORM o. lune 30 in Brooklyn, N.Y., fcnan Hi y wars hat wanted to be an actreas at long it she can remember. Susan married actor Jest Barker in 1944 j -i wwm rof" Wwh* yolk* couple had tWin DOTS CfWftWfy and TinnHiy. Fivo feet, three j«4 a
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      KANE MARCHES ON
      777 9 Cinema news by J. C. BEHAGUE C yS E !J S?!T I s C min f back How old te it-ten, eleven, twelve years? Kifi^^^ Vi6Wed and might welfhaTbeer! nowever stands the test of time What a revolution it must have caused In the film industry way
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      17 9 MOTHER AND DAUGHTER: Jane Allvson ««n with her 15-months-old daughter Pamela J^n c Tma^ied to Dick Powell.
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      139 9 DAILY CAIShOL U5 4 5 Slrows ~"**%|p «S^* 6JO 9.30 SHE WAS AFRAID TO TELL THE TRUTH IN HER OWN DIARY! j ■"9 I fl Aiil 4 iff J|^yi 4B is DAVID BRIAN ROTH ROMAN 1 <?;t.al Moroinf Shows at t I P TOMORROW: DBIMS ALONG THE MOHAWK" I SI'.N'DAT.
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      239 9 H^jP^^ MOW CHOW/ Af f A Ringside Seat to the 1950 British Empire Games held in New Zealand! %SBB£+i THE EXCLUSIV7 I FULL-LENGTH FILV, /|r op\k S lAr RPITKU B \v W ■n/ EMPIRE Nm I I v/ GAM F^ 1 THE MALAYAN <^»wip^ TEAM EAGLE -LION wm OISTR»(/TK)H You
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      108 9 S1NCAPOOS j 1« a.m. News from K.L.; 10.06 Clow; 12 Malay; l p.m. jay mibur Strings; j .50 New«; 1.45 Dance Music t 01<»e; Urht Music (Radio Ore*.;; «0 Fred Warninj Hit PennsylVanians V News. Share Market, Inter^ Jud« mUxvJew witJi a capture*) Tamil bandit, translated; 7. JO Music of
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      107 9 8.10 Alviao Rey and hit TnpkM Isle Music; «.M Malayan PoUce Band; 9 Much Binding In the Marsh; 9M N*w« 9 45 Music 'htouttfi tbe Aees: lfi.15 American Personalities; 10-30 burn; Close; PENA.RC 1 2 p.m. As 8*pare; f Listeners OHllnf: 7 »m»s, Shane Marfcrt; 721 Piano Parade, f<M Radio
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    WHITHER NOW IN BRITAIN?
    1321 10  -  Richard Denman By of The Economist THK General Election which led to Hw present Parliamentary deadlock in Britain was fought almost exclusively on economic issues. What, then, is to happen to British economic policy now that the two contesting parties have bf>en returned in such equal
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    Russia builds a rouble bloc
    638 10 MOSCOW S announcement that the rouble has been revalued came with all the unexpectedness and surorise which normally attaches to important news from beyond the Curtain— there are no soecOators there to talk in advance of such 1 •.rvoments. or to take -i^aqre of them
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    Huks hope for help
    136 10 MANILA, By Air. (]OMMUNIST-LED Hukbalahaps are hoping that their "foreign allies"— the Chinese Cammunists will invade the Phllppines. This has just been revealed to the provincial authorities of Nueva Ecija province, north of Manila, by a police lieutenant who escaped from a Huk concentration camp in
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      235 10 STRAITS TIMES CEOSSWORD .cm.! 25 H*r tackward o\j«ct from CROSSWORD No. 16 I A^ent lluv Cicwr bi4 Dntm^W?™" Tl'l I>"1 It I' U I j I HTT |< I |> i gs£. r. Pl *n.. 5 s:r ?M dv nur ■i 1 y ii» i 111 1 iroa<7> Rufflt »n
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    London Stocks
    340 11 LONDON, Thurs. T"HERE waa no definite trend at the start of the new account In the London Stock Exchange yesterday. British Government stocks showed small gains in abort-dated issues. Others were KMdy in Idleness. 1-wuHng ludusUials maved a few pence In either direction with veagre routine business. Closing
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    ENCOURAGEMENT FOR TIN SHARES
    179 11 From Our Market Correspondent lIVTTH the price of tin metal showing a rise of $8| per picul in three days, Malayan tin shares were given a little encouragement yesterday but without London support it was difficult to stimulate enthusiasm locally. Industrials continued firm. Price changes announced
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    FEB. RUBBER HARVESTS
    72 11 r TURQUAND, Youngs, McAullffe Co. announce the following February rubber crops, in lb.: Alor Gajah Est. 18.100 Ayer Panas Est. 92.000 Glenealy Plant. 56.000 Kluang 58,000 Pa] am 163 000 Tambalak Est. 26.000 Talisman 34.500 Teluk Anson Est. 60,4i9 Ulu Benut Consol. 40,000 QTHER February rubber harvests
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    HIGHLANDS AND LOWLANDS PARA
    46 11 HIGHLANDS and Lowlands Para Rubber Company proflU for 1949, subject to audit, amount to £127.065. Transferred to reserves: Taxation £55,000. replanting £36,000. depreciation £8.500, dividend 10 per cent, less tax. Carried forward £45,570. Meeting Apr. 25. Transfer books closed Mar 14—21 inclusive.
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    TIN PRICES
    28 11 SINGAPORE, Thursday, Mar. 1fr— 5297.62'' 2 (up LONDON, Than. Mar. 16. Spot: £6004 £6Mf. Forward £6*U £6411; Settlement £600}. Turnover: morning 130 tons, afternoon 90 tons.
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    MERCANTILE BANK
    242 11 Sir Charles Innes On Malaya Fit high' time that law and order should be reestablished in the Federation and confidence restored among the general population," says Sir Charles Innes. chairman of the Mercantile Bank of India. In his statement to shareholders, circulated with the annual report. Sir Charles
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    Singapore Rubber
    204 11 ipHE Singapore rubber mar ket opened considerably steadier yesterday with prices half a cent higher than on the previous day. There was moderately good trade buying though sellers were reserved. Offerings from Indonesia were still little in evidence. The market closed very steady. Closing prices yesterday were: No.
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    105 11 From A Market Correspondent ("VRDERS for considerable quanw tities steadied the copra market yesterday. Buyers quoted $37>4 but sellers he'd or for half a dollar more. Coffee was slightly s^cudlcr with buyers at $1284 f or Rio 5 and sellers a*kin<; for $132. Coconut oil buyers quoted
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    SHIPPING AT THE SINGAPORE WHARVES
    92 11 CHIPS alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns In brackets) were: Main Wharf: Nagara 31-321. Mount Davis (33-34), Silvana '36). Rajah Brooks (39). Marauke (39). Sitsen (40-41), Boissevaln (42-43). Wa«t Wharf: Burnside (11), Olenartney (13-14), Rlmau (151 V Empire Dock: Pundua a7-18>. Kistna (19-20).
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    WET WEATHER HORSES SHOW
    991 12 FINE FORM Final Gallops At B, Timah IT IS ANYBODY'S guess what the state of the going will be at Bukit Ttmah tomorrow, opening day of the Singapore march Meeting, but if the rain of the last two days continues, the claims of wet-weather horses like
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    S.H.B. Police Player Sent Off Field
    161 12 S.H.B. Police Player Sent Off Field C»CAIFE of the Singapore Harbour Board Auxiliary; Police was ordered off the field by referee G. de Silva in a Junior AI league soccer match in which the BOD Civilian Association held Police to a one-all draw yes- j terday. Ten :ninutes after halftune,
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    Sports Diary
    49 12 SOCCER: Snr. Lfe.: KAF Seietar I v S.C.C. at Jalan Besar; Jnr. A. 1: j 3* Btn RAOC v H.M. Dockyard at I Geylanf; Friendly: Kiwi League v j Stanvai at Farrer Park; Coronalion Ran<ert v KAF Tengali, f arrer Park. TENNIS: TMCA rhampiomhips from 5 p.m.
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    SNR. GAME OFF
    27 12 The S A.F.A. first division soccer fixture between the Singapore Rovers and the R.E.M.E. at Jalan Besar yesterday was postponed owing to rain. f
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    Courage A Threat To Arctic Lord
    277 12 A FTER SEEING Courage's fine track performance i at Bukit Timah yesterday morning. I do not feel quite so sanguine as I did earlier in the week about the chances of Arctic Lord in the mile race for Class 2, Div. 1, tomorrow. Trainer
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    BARRIER TRIAL FOR 5 NEWCOMERS
    81 12 FIVE of Trainer Yong's new English importations Cadzow Glen. Arabian Knight. Steel Age, Royal Link and Battleship, were given a barrier trial at Bukit Timah yestt-rday morning. Royal* Link played up a bit. while Cadiow Glen (Tait) appeared to be I slightly nervous but. after
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    GRAND DAY RETURNS BEST TIME
    207 12 GRAND DAY was the only horse to break 40 for 3f. on a Heavy track at Bukit Timah yesterday morning. Relishing the mud, this Coronation Day gelding a wet weather horse— ran 3f. In 39 4/5 with quite a bit in hand at the finish.
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    Standard Gain 10-1 Victory
    90 12 THE Tiger Standard, with a number of Senior Division players in their team, made a successful debut in the Singapore A.F.A. Business Houses League competition when they beat Bukom Sports Club by ten goals to one' at Oeylang Stadium yesterday. Awang Bakar, Kota Raja's centre-forward who
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    Vie Richardson Backs Chester
    92 12 ADELAIDE, Thurs. ¥X)RMER Australian Test F captain. Vic Richardson, agrees with the proposal made by Frank Chester, English Test umpire, that appeals should be banned experimentally for a season. "I have been advocating this for years." said Richardson. "It would eliminate all appeals trouble." Chester, talking
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    S.C.C. SOCCER XI
    52 12 QINGAPORE Cricket Club team |3 to meet R.AJV Seletar in a Senior League soccer game today will be: Behrends; Sykes Brown: Hooton. Davids. Twist (capt.); Russell, Mathot. Wright. PottsDawson. Verrmll. Reserve*: Lloyd, Hagon. Mackean. St. Joseph's' Continuation I School's Primary spoils will take place on Saturday at
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    GLENARTNEY WIN
    22 12 The socfer team of the Glenartney beat Bukit Kasita S.C. by two goaU to one on the Railway trrouud yesterday.
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    REST OF OVERSEAS SPORT
    462 12 AUCKLAND, Ihuis. JACK IVERSON, Victoria's stai leg-break bowler, brought his i tally of wickets for the Australian team in New Zealand to 50 yes'er- day when the touring team beat i Southland by -an Innings and 37 runs at Invercarglll. He claimed five Southland second innings
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    Brooks Stands To Lose Two Titles
    434 12 TONIGHT'S CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT IF AUSTRALIAN Alfle Sands beats Negro boxer Boy Brooks of Manila at the Happy World Stadium Singapore, tonight, he will become the holder of two Orient titles. Sands and Brooks are meeting for Brooks's middleweight title but, according to recognised practice
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    Livingston For County Cricket
    69 12 NORTHAMPTON, Thurs.— L. "Jock" Livingston, who captained the Commonwealth cricket team which toured India and Pakistan, will play in English County cricket for Northamptonshire this summer. Northamptonshire Clu'd today received MCC approval of their request for the special registration of Livingston. Prior to first coming to
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    UNITED DROP A VALUABLE POINT
    114 12 LONDON, Thursday. MANCHESTER UNITED, the English Football iTI League Div. 1 leaders, were yesterday held to a scoreless draw' at home by Liverpool in a match for vital championship points. The point they gained brought Liverpool into clear second position with 41 points, four behind
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    ST. JOSEPH'S WIN
    36 12 St. Joseph's Continuation School defeat Bluesvllle Soccer XI by four goals to nil in a friendly game of soccer played at St. Joseph's ground yesterday. Scorers were William Tan (3) and Thonias Wong.
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    12-NIL VICTORY
    27 12 The Malaya PublUhlug Houat defeated the National Carbon by 12 goals to nu in the BuslneM Houses Soci'tr I«agiie In ttM ;?vlan* stedi'in", on Ti'esda".
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    SPECIAL RACING FEATURES IN F.P.
    55 12 Singapore Free X Press will contain a special racing supplement. It includes a complete form guide for the Singapore Turf Club March meeting compiled by Allan Lewis, and a special illustrated article on t»*e rehabilitation of the Bukit Timah racecourse after the re-occupation. Make sure
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    Rehearsals For Senior Cricket Teams
    443 12 Rehearsals For Senior Cricket Teams pRICKET gets well int<» stride in Singapore this week-end, with a good many of the Senior tournament clubs having friendly fixtures and trials before the first, round matches start on, Sunday, March 26. A good many Service players, especially from R.E.ME, have yet to justify
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