The Straits Times, 25 April 1950

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY. APRIL 34, 1»5#. PRICE TEN CENTS
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    TROOPS UNLOAD IN LONDON DOCKS
    204 1 Food Rotting In Eighty-One Idle Vessels LONDON, Monday. fHE Cabinet today ordered about 1,000 troops and sailors into parks of the London docks affected by strikers to unload foodstuffs tied up by a walk-out of nearly 13,000 men. During today, the 8.000 dockers on strike
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    EUROPEANS WAN! TO JOIN M.C.A.
    240 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LI T MTUR, Monday. TVKRAL Europeans, including a Malayan jockey tdteff in Singa|Mre and a European woman <n Juhore, have applied to the central office of the Vl.)' i van Chinese Ass«cia4»»n in Kuala Lumpur to h" ni"inhprs i ud
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    REFUGEE CAMP
    35 1 MUNICH. Mon—Political from East European •ountrios will be sent to a ■pedal German operated ■amp to be opened shortly in Efesse, United States zone, an \u\ lican High Commission jpocesman said on Saturday.
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    Unified Far East Plan For Big 3
    144 1 LONDON, Mon. rpHE U.S. Ambassador at JL Large, Dr. Philip Jessup, is expected to try to smooth the way for the adoption of a Far East policy in which the Big Three powers will pull in the same harness. Dr. Jessup was expected
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    ST GEORGE'S DAY CELEBRATIONS
    49 1 LONDON, Mon.— King George on Saturday led countrywide celebrations in honour of the patron saint whose name he bears. His Majesty took the saute at the annual St. O?orge's Day parade at Windsor of I.(XH) Kings Scouts. The Queen and Princess Margaret accompanied him— Reuter.
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    S.A. RACIAL BILL
    35 1 CAPE TOWN, Mon. The South African Parliament today introduced the group areas bill which sets aside residential areas for European, coloured and native people. Opposition is expected on points of detail.— Reuter.
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    Paper Suspended
    39 1 FRANKFURT, Mon. The German weekly paper Gerichtszeitung has been suspended for one month by the Allied High Commission for printing a "completely unsubstantiated" report of "alleged atrocities committed against German prisoners of war in France during *****6."—A.P.
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    TRIPLETS BORN IN SINGAPORE
    49 1 A' 27-YEAR-OLD Malay woman cave birth to triplets two boys and a girl in Singapore yesterday. The babies wefeked 5i H» 54 lb.. and ttf Ib. HaMraah Mnte Mohamed Yusof and her husband, a bead pe«n employed in a local bank, have seven other children.
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    M.N.P. Closes All Branches In Fed.
    149 1 TpHE Malay Nationalist Part>, Malaya, after being 1 refused registration in the Federation last week under the Societies Ordinance 1949, announced ose down all its branches in the Federation. The party, whose headquarters are in Palembang Road. Singapore, said it would continue to t
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    BOOM HARVEST
    20 1 MELBOURNE, Mon— The 1949-50 wheat harvest of 218 million bushels was the second biggest in Australia's history.— A.P.
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    Late News
    54 1 LONDON Mon. —In the debate on the Budget Mr. Winston Churchill said th«budget must be examined with the following 'unchallengeable background: Expenditure will increase irresistibly. Marshall aid will stop in the near future. German. Japanese and other ■•■impetiHon will rapidly and Vadily increase. Taxation direct and indirect has
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    RED EXECUTED
    42 1 HONG KONG, Mon. A Chinese Communist soldier has been tried, convicted and executed In Canton for shooting and killing a civilian truck driver who failed to give him a lift, the independent newspaper Wah Kiu Vat Po reported today. —A.P.
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    RED DEAN AUDIENCE FOUGHT FORPEACE
    187 1 RED DEAN AUDIENCE FOUGHT FORPEACE SYDNEY, Mon. 'I*HE Communist salute A of ti\e clenched flst, uaed to greet the "Red Oe«m." Dr. Hewlett Johnson, was also used to right at his peace rally on Sunday. A young man who shouted to the Dean, "Go back to Russia." had hie face
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    CYCLE STADIUM FOR BANGKOK
    55 1 TOKYO, Mon. Japanese and Thai promoters are jointly to construct a bicycle race track on the banks of the river Menam In Bangkok, according to the news agency Kyodo today. Work will start In July and will be completed In December, when Thailand will hold a
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    RED CARTOON OF BUDDHA RELIC
    179 1 From Our Own Correspondent COLOMBO, Monday. REFERENCE in the Soviet newspaper Izvestia in terms of "levity and disrespect" to the sacred tooth relic of the Buddha, which is an object of worship to millions of Buddhists, was deplored by the All-Ceylon Buddhist Congress at a
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    20 1 GEN. MARCEL Alessandri, who command* French ground forces in northern Vietnam around the IndoChinese City Of Tonkin A. P. picture.
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    Seamen Ban Malaya Aid
    52 1 MELBOURNE, Mon. rpHE Victoria branch of the X Australian Seamen's Union, at its monthly stop-work meeting today, decided to ask the Federal Executive to impose a black ban on any ship carrying troops or munitions to Malaya. It also passed a motion condemning the Premier's conscription
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    Comet Cracks Cairo Record
    85 1 CAIRO. Mon.— Britain's re-cord-breaking De Havilland Comet, the world's first jet airliner, today made the fastest London-Cairo flight in history. It landed at Cairo's Farouk airfield five hours eight minutes and 40 seconds alter leaving Hatfield. Hertfordshire, breaking the previous record of six hours and 35
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    ENGLISH APRIL
    17 1 LONDON, Mon.— Snow fell In Norfolk this morning and snow and hail In London.— U.P.
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    Free Press Music Supplement
    53 1 rpOMORROW'S Free Press JL will contain a special supplement to mark the visit to Singapore of the Robert Masters Quartet, one of the world's foremost chamber music ensembles. The quartet will give two concerts in Singapore on Friday and Monday and one in Kuala l.umpnr on
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    Bandits Kill Teacher
    65 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon BANDITS marched mo a classroom in the Tin Lok school in Ayer Kunlng village near Kampar. Perak. during lessons this morning and dragged a 28-year-old teacher outside. Then they tied him to a tree, beat him and shot him through the heart. After searching
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    ABDULLAH CLAIMS PALESTINE
    178 1 AMMAN, Mon. WING Abdullah of Jordan announced today that his government had decided to annex Arab Palestine. He told the new Parliament which met for the first time here this morning that the annexation measure would be presented to them for approval in a constitutional manner. In
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    Fire Destroys U.S. Atom H.Q.
    194 1 BERKELEY, C aluornia, Monday. LMKE and explosions destroyed the Atomic Energy Commission's Administration building here last night. Flames shot hundreds of feet into the sky from a building near the giant cyclotron Installation. The fire was brought under control before spreading to the cyclotron, an
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    S'pore Rubber Jumps Again
    392 1 S'pore Rubber Jumps Again By A Market Correspondent RUBBER prices again jumped on the Singapore market yesterday. At the official closing: there were buyers tor number one sheet lor May delivery at 71 K cents a pound but after the official close prices again advanced and there were unsatisfied buyers
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    US $50 A HEAD ON DEFENCE IN ATLANTIC PACT AREA
    265 2 Cost Of Freedom From Communism LONDON, Monday. A TLANTIC Pact countries are spending nearly U5520,000,000,000 a year on armaments, of which the United States is carrying about 75 per cent This amounts to more than US$5O a year for every
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    Israelis Celebrate 2nd Birthday
    120 2 Israelis Celebrate 2nd Birthday TEL AVAV, Mon TSRAEL wound up her se- cond birthday celebrations last night in a blaze of fireworks as thousands danced in the streets. Squadrons of fighter planes la low-flying aerobatics thrilled huge throngs along the beaches to Tel Aviv. The President, Dr. Chaim Weismann, received
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    All Aliens In P.L May Be Screened
    163 2 MANILA, Mon. DHILIPPINE legislators are considering screening all foreigners residing in the country to restore peace and order. Messrs. Tizon ana Reyes, sponsors of the bill, said reports had been received that some aliens were connected with dissident movements. Under the measure, a
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    GUSSIE NOT YET DECIDED
    47 2 THE AMERICAN TENNIS STAR. "Gorgeous Gnssie" Mormn. and Pat Di Cicco. Hollywood film distributor, photographed in Rome on their arrival from Nice. They have denied that they are engaged. "I won't know till I go home in August," said Miss Moran. A.P. picture.
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    Britain's First Duke Wants Petrol Pump
    175 2 LONDON, Monday. T«E Duke of Norfolk, England's premier nobleman, A has applied for a licence to open a gasolene station near his Arundel Castle estate. The Duke's scheme is the latest of a long line of moneymaking projects by impoverished aristocracy in a bid
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    HAINAN DEFENCE COLLAPSES
    367 3 Nationalists Flee In Panic, Say Refuses HONG KONG, Monday. rpHE Nationalist opposition to the Communists in Hainan Island has collapsed, according to arrivals in Hong Kong by air today. They said they expected the Communists to overrun the island within a few days. These sources who took
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    PRIEST: 'I AM NOT WORTHY'
    160 3 VlfcWNA, Mon. A 40-YEAR-OLD Austrian priest, Dr. Frani Jachym. suddenly inVmtpt.ed the ceremony at whicii he was h.Miiu consecra'ed Bishop at f»i S*eph°n's Calhedral In Vienna yesterday, declared himself unvonhv ot the honour and left the Cathedral. Di Jachym, Proinssor of Moral Th?>)lot>v at Vienna
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    U.S. Warned To Guard Coast
    61 3 WASHINGTON Mon. Atomic scientist Dr. Harold i v- said yesterday rhat the United States should do "•nnch morp" to, guard the da:i^«r 'hH subWill mine American I) !)O'.irs with atomic bombs nd it would be quire P M)!e for enpmy subma-i'"-s to sneak into major
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    EXPORTS DOWN
    35 3 WASHINGTON, Mon—The US. Agriculture Department said yesterday that Burmese rice exports during the first quarter of 1950 were only about one third of the volume reported during the corresponding period last year. .—UP.
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    No Decision Yet On Leopold
    94 3 BRUSSELS, Mon. ¥>OLITICAL negotiators in Belgium reached a new deadlock last night in their attempt to find a compromise solution to the Royal question. Socialist and Liberal representatives left after three hours and said they would convene again today with Premier-designate Paul Van Zeeland and
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    ARMS PROTEST
    36 3 ANTWERP. Mon—Twelve dockers were slightly hurt in Antwerp on Saturday when police baton charges dispersed a Communist-sponsored demonstration against unloading of American arms ships, due to arrive soon under the Atlantic Pact programme. —Reuter.
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    VIETMINH REBELS ATTACK TRAIN
    182 3 PS*fS2SS Vle r inh *£Z££X*, night attacked a military train o n the NhatrantSaigon line, east of Saigon, according to an Agence A French Headquarters communique said the attackers suffered heavy losses, whilp six Vietnamese were killed. Belore the attack l.he Vietminh cut the railway line
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    35 Died In US AF Tokyo Crash
    213 3 TOKYO, Monday. T«HE burned wreckage of a U.S. Air Force transport and the bodies of 35 Americans who died when it crashed on Friday night, were found yesterday on a mountain peak 37 miles south-west of Tokyo There were no survivors. i Searchers
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    Gandhi Memorial
    23 3 WASHINGTON, Mon. The Gandhi Memorial in Washington will be built on tbree acre* adjoining the property of the Embassy of India.—Reuter.
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    Waters Rise: 13,000 Leave
    73 3 CHICAGO, Mon. jUORE than 13,060 people were forced to leave their homes yesterday by turbulent flood waters in North Dakota and Western Minnesota. In Crookstom, Minnesota, 90 families were with relatives or were living in temporary quarters. Showers and thunderstorms were reported from many points in
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    WELCOME FOR DEAN
    34 3 RED DEAN IN AUSTRALIA: Surrounded by waring placards. Dr. Hewlett Joiinson, Dean of Canterbury, smiles to an enthusiast!* crowd which greeted Ms arrival at Essenden Aerodrome, Melbourne, recently.— Herald Sun picture.
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    Pakistan Pledge To Mediator
    58 3 Pakistan Pledge To Mediator KARACHI, Mon. QIIR Mohammed Zafrullah Khan. Pakistan Foreign Minister, yesteraday pledged his country's "fullest sunport" for Sir Owen Dixon, Australian jurist, recently appointed by the United Nations Security Council as mediator in the Kashmir dispute. The Foreign Minister made the statement on his return to Pakistan
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    PETROL TAX MENACE TO LABOUR GOVT.
    303 3 PETROL TAX MENACE TO LABOUR GOVT. LONDON. Monday. T^INEPENCE added by the last Budget to the cos* of a gallon of petrol in Britain threatens to bring the Socialist Government to the brink of defeal this week. The tax, wnich raised the price of a gallon o* petrol to three
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    Truman On US Anti-Red Measures
    127 3 Truman On US Anti-Red Measures WASHINGTON. Mon PRESIDENT Truman will address the Federal Bar Association on efforts to combat Communism both at home and abroad. with "special emphasis" on the administration's machinery for weeding subversives out of the government. L Some source* say that Mr Truman will not refer directly
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    HARRISON URGES PACIFIC PACT
    171 3 LOHDON, Mon. CALL for the Pacific powers to get together for an agreement on the line of the Atlantic Pact was made yest«rd«y by Australia's Derence Minister. Mr. Eric ftarrlson, on his arrival from Sydney by air. "If we can convince other powers that we are
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    WHIPPED' PARTNER WITH SNAKE
    87 3 CHICAGO, Mon. IF Kmil van Horn, an adagio whips his dancing partner 1 with a six-foot snake, it will cost him £350. Charged in Chicago with disorderly conduct, he heard Carol Borgia, his partner, tell the judge that he chased her into her hotel bedroom and
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    Leaders Start Reign Of Terror Among Bandits EXECUTIONS ON SUSPICION
    332 4 Leaders Start Reign Of Terror Among Bandits EXECUTIONS ON SUSPICION From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. |>ANDTT leaders have started a reign of terror in their own ranks, and have ordered killer squads to execute anyone suspected of, wanting to surrender to the security forces. One man was killed
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    CO-OP AND UNIONS TOLD: 'GO'
    108 4 CO-OP AND UNIONS TOLD: 'GO' r pHE Singapore Co operative 1 'Stores Society, the Slnnporp Teacheri 1 Union and ftp Army Civil Service Union I ivf h on told to leave their in North Bridge society and the two iccupf the first floor D f -hf tnilcting occupied oy the
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    GAOL FOR HURT
    44 4 I Mini Out C)» i „ri( -m.iulenl PARIT BUNTAE. Mon.— An was senU) three months" rigunprisoiiment In the Buntar Court (or havused liurt to Mainain dangerous weapon. It k> us stated that Mainicltam nabbed Maniam with penImile atanlckam I'o previous convictions.
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    NOBODY TOLD HIM NOT TO STEAL
    82 4 from Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR Monday. *'I HAS a constable for only two days and I did not 1 kn:»* the regulations. 1 pleaded a special constable. I vxn Ilin. charged today in the Sun*ei Patani sessions tir; with stealine cents from a
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    Prison And Rotan For Extortioner
    139 4 Prison And Rotan For Extortioner TWENTY-e 1 g h t-year-old Goh Seng Kirn, of Nankin Street, who was found guilty in the Singapore First District Court yesterday on charges of having assisted in managing an unlawful society and attempted extortion, was sentenced to a total of four years' rigorous imprisonment
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    TAIPING (OOP.
    49 4 From Oar Own Correspondent TAIPING. Mon. Applications for membership are invited by the newly -formed Taiping Co-operaiive Housing Society. The entrance fee is $3. and the share capital is $10 a share. Tht Government has s*t aside 70 acres of land in Asair Kumbang for the project.
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    50 Families May Gat New Homes...
    35 4 THIB SEA-MDK *»4 mi Kin»M< Amber, which faces Aahw ««U. «»n4s>li%» well over M*M tfmmm, occupants *f which are mostly ftahcraaen and Chhiese and Malay labourers.— Straits Times p*e*«re.
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    AMBER SQUATTERS: S.M.C. 'WORKING ON A PLAN'
    193 4 THE Singapore actin* Municipal Preskteat, Mr. T. P. F. McNeic*, told the straits Times that the Commissioners are working on a plan t« remove squatters in area* like Kampenf Amber to better area*. Mr. McNeice was replying to a letter which appeared in
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    4 Months' Prison For Detainee
    122 4 4 Months' Prison For Detainee JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. A DETAINEE of Majede* Camp, Pang Hon. iu sentenced to four months' rigorous imprisonment tn the police court today when he was convicted on a charge of being In possession of a seditious document. Sequel To Raid The case was a sequel
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    GIFT FOR VARSITY
    37 4 A FINE EXAMPLE of the art of Prof Ch*nc Tan Nune. the above picture was pr fro— ted to the Iniverrity of Malay Sladents' Uhkhi by the painter. Prof Chang paaoed throa^h Skicai»«re recently.
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    Cinema Seats And Duty
    151 4 THE Hon. Secretary of the 1 Cin—iatogra+h Kxhibitore association of Singapore and the Federation of Malaga writes to point out tha>t two words were omitted from the Use paragraph of a statement published yesterday This paragraph' should have read: "This Association has been at pains to
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    Unlicenced Toddy
    23 4 SEGAMAT. Sun. For having two gallons of toddy near Cha'ah village without a licence, 28-year-old Karuppiah was fined $20 at Segamat
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    New Chief Of M.I.C.
    59 4 Fraaa Oar Si*ff Correspoßdcnl KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. THE Working Committee of the Malayan Indian Congress, at its meeting held yeaterday, declared Mr. K. Ramanathan, of Kuala Lumpur. as president-elect of the Congress for the ensuing year. Mr. Ramanathan will take over from Mr. Budh Singh on
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    Sex Magazines On Sale In Colony Again
    171 4 Sex Magazines On Sale In Colony Again CALACIOUS sex magazines are still on sale on Singapore because the Government has tak< n no action since the matter was discussed in the Legislative Council early this year. The magazines disappeared— probably under the counter with a black-market value arter a description
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    DISPUTE ON LAST PROPHET
    138 4 By A Ma Ist Correspondent A BITTER doctrinal dispute is being waged in Singapore between orthodox Muslims who believe that "there is one God. Allah, and Moliamed is His prophet," and a sect who claim their founder as the last of the prophet r Pamphlets have
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    Fatal Crash In Johore
    74 4 Fr«n Our Staff Correspandent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. A European motorist from Singapore narrowly escaped drowning after his car collied with a bicycle on the Ayer Hitam Batu Pahat road in Johore today, killing the rider, an Indian student. The car went off the road, landing upside
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    Excess Load: Fined
    26 4 MUAR. Mon.—For overloading hU lorry with foodstuffs at Jalan Maharani. Tay Kirn Chua was fined $38 or 19 days' hard labour at Muar.
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    ROAD FINES AT SEGAMAT
    54 4 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT. Sun. P.EM. Bourdon was fined Segamat lor ignoring a iruflu; signal while driving his cr r For cycling on the v side of the road, Chua Chee Chong paid a $3 fine. Because he left his bicycle unlocked at Labis. Cher
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    SLEW WHILE HE SLEPT' APPEAL
    178 4 From Ovr Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. AN appeal against the death sentence by a Chinese who claimed at his trial that he stabbed the victim in his sleep, will be heard in Kuala Lumpur n« w^nroHav hv the Federation Court of Appeal. The Chinese,
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    Dinner Nets $14,000 Gift
    98 4 THE Uuiversity of Malaya 1 hu benefited by $7,502 and Singapore Antt-Tuber-cukMU Association by $7,214 from a recent Singapore Chinese dinner. Th« sum of $M 6 mw raiBed J° r the Association by a hat being passed round the gu«*t*, whom wer« 500 Singapore textile merehanu
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    Boleh Reaches Mauritius
    68 4 JVEWS was received at the Singapore Navat Base at the 1 week-end that Commander M. A. Kilroy in his yacht Boleh has reached Mauritius safety after calling at the Seychelles. He arrived there on April 15 and vms due to sail for Durban, South Africa yesterday. Commander
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    Hawker Scheme To Build Markets
    285 5 Hawker Scheme To Build Markets Ai tne resumed sitting yesterday of the Singapore Hawker Inquiry Commission, Mr Teo Penß Bok, president of the Singapore Hawkers' Union, said that "if the Government is busy and cannot provide additionai markets, the hawkers are prepared to put them up" However, he said that
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    WOMAN FACES $1,100 CHARGE
    44 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— F.>Mmah blnte Abdul Dalam. a nvcidle-aged woman, was charge in the pol'ce court today with criminal breach of trust of JewHlery valued at $1 124 ■^c case was adjourned for further investigation, ball In $750 beins allowed.
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    LETTERS CASE: MAN CLEARED
    108 5 FORTY-one-year-old King Foo Sung, of Enggor Street, who was charged in the Singapore Second Police Court with having given false information to the C.I.D. was acquitted yesterday without his defence being called. The allegation was that King wrote two letters to the C.I.D. saying that Han
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    CO-OP SOCIETY OFFICERS
    65 5 At the annual meeting of the Singapore Naval Base Employee s' Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society held recently, the following officers were elected: Chairman, Mr. K. S. Maniam: secretary, Mr. S. M. Khalaff: treasurer, Mr. M. Raman, committee; Messrs K. Thambapillai, A. V. Samuel. Jangir Singh, Latiff
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    SQUATTER FINES
    31 5 SEGAMAT, Sun.— Two farmers, 69-year-old Pee Youk and Law Soon Kian. nged 25, were fined $5 and $4 respectively at Sesramat for Illegal occupation of State land near Tementah.
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    Uncustomed Goods Allegation
    139 5 Uncustomed Goods Allegation From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. T EE Kuek Pow, of Singapore, was charged in the police court here today with being in possession of uncustomed goods 48 wri«t watches, valued at $744. on which the duty was till. Lee was found travelling on the train
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    THREW STONES AT CIRCUS GIRLS
    47 5 From Oar Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Monday. I]OR jeering and pelting stones with a catapult at circus girls, 18-year-old Tan Kai Seng was fined $4 in the police court today. Ihe girls were from a circa* which performed in Johore Bahru recently.
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    Did Not Wear Badge
    32 5 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Mon.— For failing to wear the badge around his arm while driving at Parit Jawa, Chan Tat Yen was fined $4 at Muar.
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    PROBING SINGAPORE'S HAWKER PROBLEM
    75 5 THE SECOND PUBLIC meeting of the Singapore Hawker Inquiry Commission was held at the Chinese Secretariat, Hivelock Road, yesterday. Picture shows members of the Commission. Mrs. K. Svasti, Mr. Chin Chye Fong, Mr. L. C. Goh, Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir, Prof. T I\. Silcock (chairman),
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    Naval Base Employees Want 44-Hour Week
    258 5 2 SERVICE UNIONS SEEK BETTER TERMS {SINGAPORE'S 10,000-membership strong Naval Base Labour Union has recommen ded to the Admiralty that industrial workers at the base, including overseers and storekeepers, should work a 44-hour week instead of 48 hours as at present. The union has
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    'MORE QUALIFIED MALAYS NEEDED'
    175 5 From Our Stan* correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. PHE need for qualified Malays to take a share in 1 the economic progress, social welfare and administration of Malaya was extremely urgent, said the Mentrl Besar of Selangor, Raja Uda, at the opening of a refresher course for
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    Many Entries For Dog Show
    75 5 me response to the 1950 Singapore Alsatian Dog Show in aid of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and St. John Ambulance Association has exceeded expectations. The secretary of the shuw. Mr Tan Tee Seng of the .Singapore Alsatian Branch of the
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    RECORD RICE YIELD IN KEDAH
    135 5 RECORD RICE YIELD IN KEDAH From Our Own Correspondent KJALA LUMPUR. Mon. rice harvest figures for Kedah live an average yield of 411 gantangs of padi an acre the highest ever lecorded. This confirms earlier expectations of a record rice harvest in the most important ricepreducing areas of the Federation.
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    Army Workers Plan 'All-Out' Drive
    200 5 TWE 6, 000 -strong Army Civil Service Union of A Singapore plans to stage an "all-out campaign" to improve the working conditions of industrial workers employed by the Army in the Colony, the Union's president, Mr. V. X Nair, told the Straits Times yesterday. He
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    Singapore Diary
    142 5 Y.W.C.A. TRAINING COURSE. programme preparation for World-Wid« Observance, 8. Fort Canning Road, 9 a.m.. Mr L. Rayner on "Clubs and Club Leadership." s. Raffles Quay. 4.45 p.m. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WOMEN'S WORK TARTY, mahJong drive, Presbyterian Church Hall, Orchard Road, 9.30 am. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL meeting VVo-ia Memorial Hall. 10
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    Judge On 'People Who Run Away'
    114 5 from O«r SUB Correspondent PENANG, Mon. THE Appeal Judge, Mr. Justice Jobling, said today in the High Court that when people run away on the approach of a police raiding party, it did give rise to the presumption that they were engaged "in some
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    YMCA CLASS IN FRENCH
    50 5 Aoout 5u students are attending French classes t ee weekly at the Singapore V.M.C.A. The classes are conducted by Dr. J. F. Halkema Kohl, who also teaches German and Dutch. Most of them are schoolboys taking French as a second J language for examination purposes i
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    GRIEVOUS HURT CHARGE
    69 5 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Mon.-Rama-yah was charged before the Seremban Sessions Court President, Inche Azmi bin Haji Mohamed, with voluntarily causing grievous hurt to R. Muthusamy on April 19 at Perthentian Tinggl Estate labour lines. Ramayah claimed trial. Mr. D. M. L. Bolt, prosecuting, said that
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    CHINESE ON $100-FIRE CHARGE
    64 5 CHINESE ON $100FIRE CHARGE From Oar SUB Correspondent ALOR STAR. Mon.— Yong Seah Yoong, an alleged arsonist, was charged in the Sungei Patani Sessions Court today with causing mischief by setting fire to a house belonging to an Indian Muniandy, on the night of Mar. 9. Property of $100 was
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    RHO FISHING: VIEWS WANTED
    39 5 SINGAPORE fish merchants and owners of fishing vessels have been invited to make suggestions for'modification of existing fishing; procedure in (he Rhio Archipelago and neighbouring areas. ThU followed rente S^ntaMnns hv number of firms to
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  • The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., Apr. 25, 1950.
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      London And Peking
      551 6 Reports from London that British commercial interests are seriously considering withdrawing from China are not unexpected. It is now over three months since the British Government recognised the Communist Government of China, and nearly two months since the British Charge d'Affaires in Peking opened regotiations with the
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      Peking Radio In The Press
      431 6 The following extract from a report in the Siamese newspaper "Prachakorn," published in Bangkok, will interest readers in Malaya: Chua Chi Hung, editor of the Cnlnea* newspaper Chuan Mia Pao. tu called to the C.I.D. office at two p.m. on March 9 bv Police Colonel
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    SABOTAGE TRIAL IN EAST GERMANY
    88 6 BERLIN. Mon.— East Germany's ilrst mass sabotage trial begins today, when nine men, inc'udlng a former Christian Democrat Minister, face a court at Dessau. 3axoAnhalt. The Christian Democrat 1b Dr Leg. Herwegen, f-»rmerly Saxe-Ant.-ilt Labour Nilnistor. Another defendant. Friedrlch Methfessel former Dessau Gas Works director
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    AHMAD
    113 6  -  Wang Gung Wu By Ahmad was educated. He never liked his masters, but he wm. He can be a clerk, all thought, But in his heart he had stirrings for Cam, Where his Head had beeru who was so clever. His wife with child again; Three times had he
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    English In The Kampong
    519 6  - English In The Kampong A Malay By Schoolmaster A I present there Is growing feeling among tnoughtful Malays that Malays are not getting adequate benefit from i.he existing educational' facilities. Only a very small percentage of the total number of Malay boys and girls In the Federation have the opportunity
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      Bumps, Bruises And Sudden Death
      417 6 TCIE March returns from the Singapore Traffic DeApartmentA partment disclose that out of 618 street accidents there were no casualties in 428 cases. These cases, Deing presumably of damage to private property, are only incidentally the concern of the Traffic Department. As regards the 190
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      CRESCENT AND STAR
      290 6 UVHEN the Federal Legislative Council approved of the design of the Federation flag last Wednesday, Sir Henry Gurney said: "This flag will be a symbol of unity." I hope it will, but I very much doubt it. The Crescent with the Star is a religious symbol. It
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    A FRIEND OF MR. GIRDLER
    169 6 ON reading Mr. P. G. M. Lee's letter of Apr. 18 on "The «Bren That Stopped," one could not aelp feeling bitter about the way in which poor Mr A. H. Girdler was left at the bandits' mercy. He was a flne man and a
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    On The Margin
    400 6 On The Margin A Point Of View TN our correspondence col* umns yesterday "Speedbird" dealt very reasonably with nay comments on what I noticed on my trip to England and back by BO AC He was wrong about there being comparatively lew Eurasian girls in oiugapore, (the 1947 census showed
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      30 6 I. !l BB^ ,^fc» III/ YJ t-^ <V i AWAITING THE REFEREE'S OEClSiOH. iffw r«)Kire of Mm Benltam Committee is to be tabled in the atmgapon LtgitimMve Council this morning.)
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    5,000 MORE PHONE LINES FOR STORE
    575 7 $8,500,000 Scheme To I Improve System Gets Under Way THE $8,500,000 development programme of the Oriental, Telephone and Electric Company now in progress in Singapore will increase the number of telephone lines available at the Hill Street Exchange from 10,000 to 15,000. The plan,
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    400 Yards Journey In 20 Minutes
    154 7 —BY AN AMBULANCE A MOTORIST complained in the Singapore Coroner's Court yesterday that it took 20 minutes for an ambulance to come to the rescue of a man rolling in pain, only a little more than 400 yards from the ambulance station. In answer
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    AFTER 9 YEARS
    28 7 AFTER 9 YEARS THE FIRST POBT-WAB "ton-cents in the slot" telephone kitMk In Hill Street, Singapore. This k th« first of 90 In the city.— Straits Times picture.
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    Accused Of Murder
    63 7 r'ENTY-one-year-old Ratnam Suppiah of Serangoon Road, appeared in the Relief Court, Singapore yesterday on a murder charge. Ratnam. it was alleged, •tabbed to death Rajoo Arasappan in a house in Berangoon Road on Sunday last. He was also charged with having caused grevious hurt U> two women,
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    FAMOUS QUARTET TO PLAY IN STORE
    135 7 fONSIDERBD to be one of the finest piano v quartets In the world, the Robert Masters' quartet arrives in Singapore tomorrow to give three concerts in the Colony including one for school children. Consisting of piano, violin, viola and cetto. the quartet 1* being
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    '5 Years To Live,' Gets Prison Term
    165 7 '5 Years To Live, Gets Prison Term J| O. Lewis Mole, 46-year-old secretary-treasurer of. the Klnloss Officers' Mess, Nasslm Road, was sentenced yesterday by the Second District Court judge, Mr. Tarn Ah Tah, to four months' simple Imprisonment for criminal breach of trust of $2,022 from the mess. Mole, who
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    Party To Mission
    74 7 MORE than 200 guests attended a cocktail party given by the Trade Commissioner for India in Singapore, Sardar Jogindra Singh, in the Capitol Blue Room last night in honour of Mr. J. A. Oandhi, manager of the Calico Mills Limited, Ahmedabad and his Allied Industries Mission. Mr.
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    ILLEGAL ENTRY
    37 7 From Ow SUIT Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— Tan Dji Bee was convicted in the police court today on a charge of entering the Federation at Johore Bahru without a valid passport, and was fined $50
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    TO TAKE OATH
    28 7 The acting Commissioner for Labour, Singapore, Mr, O. W. Davis, will take the oath as a nominated official member of the Legislative Council this morning.
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    U.K.-MALAYA PHONE LINK DELAYED
    132 7 U.K. -MALAYA PHONE LINK DELAYED From Our SteS Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Moo. rpKE radio-telephone link X between Malaya and the United Kingdom is being held up by technical difficulties. At present speech reception in London is reasonably good, but reception of London in Malaya is very poor. The Director-General of
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    GAOL FOR RAPE
    41 7 Sentence of two years' rigorous imprisonment was passed oy Mr Justice Thorogood In the Singapore Assize Court yesterday on a Tamil taxi driver, Raju, on a charge of raping a Tamil gir 1 under the age 16 years_
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    10 MALARIA CASES
    12 7 Only 10 eases of malaria among British. Gurkha, nd
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    HE BOUGHT PERMIT TO GAOL
    149 7 AN Immigrant from China, who was found, on his arrival in Singapore to have an entry permit and an Identity card both of which had been fraudulently altered. was yesterday sentenced to Kagyj^the^irj^DUtflct Chui, was sentenced to six months' rigorous imprison ment lor possessing the
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    10-CENTS-A-CALL BOOTHS AGAIN
    132 7 piFTY public telephones of the 10-cents-in-the 1 slot type will make their first post-war appearance in restaurants and other public places in Singapore during the next few weeks. The flirt post-war public telephone is available day and night in a kiosk: outside the Hill Street telephone exchange.
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    ....And The Big Rush Starts
    95 7 ....And The Big Rush Starts EVERY time the price of rubber jumps up a point. Singapore's telephone "congestion" worsens. "They all seem to pick up the telephone at once." an official of the Telephone Company said. "On race days the strain Is even greater. Peak periods are between 9.45 a.m
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    'Drink' Said The Ghost
    51 7 A MAM who drank a solution of caustic soda told the Singapore Second Poliee Court yesterday that a ghost offered him the drink. Twenty-two-year-old Tan Swee Seng said that he was half asleep when the ghost appeared. He was bound over for three months tor attempting
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    MALAY CLASS
    25 7 The Singapore Y.W.C.A. will soon start a Malay class for beginners. Those who want to Join the class should register now (Tel. *****).
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    Posting Boxes
    205 7 MORE IF JUSTIFIED' 'FHE postal authorities in Singapore will mstal posting boxes in any part of the island shou'd the circumstances warrant it. the Singapore Director of Posts, Mr. FX Smith, said yesterdav. He was commenting «.n a request made by the S n pore Ratepayers Assorts a
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    A Week-end Visit
    95 7 TWO frigates of the Royal I 1 New Zealand Navy i'am I Taupo and the Hawea, .pit I Singapore yesterday for Tfln- I comalee, Ceylon, after spend- I ing the week-end here. These ships and their crews I are scheduled to take part in I a six-months'
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    When cookie went sick
    630 8 FROM AN ESTATE BUNGALOW pOOKlES wife re- cently had to flpend six days in hospital. And as no one likes having to go to hospital It was with some reluctance that we left her behind, particularly as we are some distance away and knew we would
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    NO MORE STALE BREAD?
    90 8 gCitWTiSTS in America think they are on the track of two methods of keeping bread from getting stale A report said scientists believe the two best ways to prevent sta'^ness are use of hydrolyzed flour or the addl- m to diu"?h of amim acids. wetting agents,
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    Malayan Homes & Fashions
    123 8 Malayan Homes Fashions IT must be fun to have 1 two lively daughters like Siu Len and Siu Li fun to take them into the Botanic Cardens and watch them play, and fun to make pretty dresses for them. Mrs. Yong Nyuk Lin, their mother, thinks so too! She makes
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    When baby seems hungry, do this
    347 8 When baby seems hungry, do this I MOTHERCRAFT IN MALAYA by NURSE BRIDGET THIS week's article Ais written i n answer to a letter from a Mother of a healthy four fhonths old baby:, "8" who is breast fed. has made excellent progress but for the last few days she
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    On husbands
    382 8 DO YOU DESERVE A GOOD WIFE'S COMPANIONSHIP? RUT don't answer this quiz too perfectly top marks would make you a "slipper hero"— that's German for "henpecked husband." VOW it is the husbands' turn to be quizzed. A month ago wives were questioned under the head "Are you a
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    How to take care of your hands
    439 8  - How to take care of your hands JOAN HERBERT «y pETW wdmen are bless- ed with long taperIng fingers and almond shaped nails, but if they are always kept immaculately groomed and cared for, they will have a certain attraction and be part of the personalltv anyway. Hands repay a
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    THIS WEEK'S BONNIEST BABY
    38 8 THIS WEEK'S BONNIEST B ABY DINNER of the Bonniest Baby of the week prise of $5 is sta month, old Miss J««y Leone Shook Tin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B» S. Leoof of 31 Cnppage Road, Singapore.
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    They ask questions about aid for Malaya
    1189 9  - They ask questions about aid for Malaya Bob Gilmore v*s£*sv soy% MELBOURNE, Apr. 19 DRIME Minister Memoes' promise thai Australia would "seriously consider" any British request for :m\ in the Malayan Waf leaves tlv public interested, sympathetic nnd con- n fused I r. trains and pubs 5; t it question
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    SPY MANIA IN U.S.A. PAID OFF
    736 9  - SPY MANIA IN U.S.A. PAID OFF C. V. R. THOMPSON by NEW YORK: SCOTLAND YARD doesn't figure any more in all the crime plays broadcast on the American radio. The F.B.I, has taken over And as far as the American public is concerned, it is the same in fact as
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      73 9 j£* jpN Baby Moureen FOR THE WORLD'S BABIES Boby Maureen is the happy example of a LACTOGEN Boby She sleeps well, her flesh is firm, skin clear ond eyes bright. When artificial feeding is required, put your baby onto LACTOGEN, the powdered milk which is modified to provide a complete
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      119 9 Make a J£ Today! Cheese salad for luncheon what could be better for this climate? Cheese is such -j nourishing food and it gives you the calcium you need for healthy bones and teeth Always keep some Kraft Cheese in the house a-J make a habit of having cheese regularly
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      194 9 Sift AITS TIMES CROSSWORD i. A* £7».u ItSStS' Jl. CROSSWORD No. 41 6. Gem in b«etW form OIX <<«. i Jj I ji 4 I U li^He I 5 I "i C j V. Net traiulucent «>. n Haranfue altered In If (ti I Pi 10 cStu"*)! U4>yrin 1 ta
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    CAN INDIA ESCAPE THE RED SHADOW
    1107 10  -  G. D. K. M'Cormick by INDIA is slowly becoming a propertyowning democracy. Though the British Conservative Party's Industrial Charter may not have been closely studied in New Delhi, nevertheless the "propertyowning democracy'* part of it is now official policy. It is the only possible
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    They Don't Walk Behind Their Men Now
    392 10 B> JUDY BARDEN ANKARA. pEW women in the world have advanced as far and as fast in the 'ast 50 years as have the women of Egypt. Veils are only worn by the deeply religious, and walkine a step behind ifvir husbands if
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    The land of prayer gets ready for Reds
    446 10 By SYDNEY SMITH GANGTOK, India: THIBET, the Land of A Prayer, has decided to go on a defensive war footing against Communist threats. The Lhasa Government of hereditary nobles and "divinely appointed" monks is planning the heaviest defence budget and the nicest
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      244 10 ■g 1Mr lTnn view with a ABM. Volunteer aw^MWM tDche Ka88lm b n jj^jj othm«n; BFKBS 10 ajn. Newt from K L 10.05 7 •*> Interlude; 7.45 Spotting Close; 12 Malay; 1 p.m. Light Musical Talents"; 8 15 News; 8.30 445 pm p^n, tn Lon don EdlMusic; .1.30 News; Cy
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      World Tin Statistics
      141 11 THE HAGUE, Mon. rpHE International Tin Study X Group has Issued the following advance statistics: World production of tin in pancentrates durlnc Ttbnury amounted to 13,00' compared with 12,300 In January. Bolivian exports In February ran sharply to 1,730 tons from January's MS while Indonesian and Belgian
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      10% FOR NORTH MALAY RUBBER
      78 11 NORTH Malay Rubber Estates resumes dividends with a proposed payment of 10 per cent, less tax, on the £326.000 capital. The last dividend was a final of four per cent, for 1947, making seven per cent, for that year. Profit for 1949, after taxation, is
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      Radella Estate: Four Per Cent Dividend
      208 11 RADELLA Rubber Estate last year made a working profit, a/ter writing: off $4,573 replanting expenditure, of $11,078. With $6,886 brought forward, $17,964 is available for distribution. The directors have transferred $5,000 to general reserve and $1,137 to income tax reserve. They recommend a dividend
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      SHIPPING AT THE SINGAPORE WHARVES
      70 11 SHIPS alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns in brackets) were: Weat Wharf: Cyclops (13-14); Memnon (17-18). Empire Dock: Charles McLeod (21-22); Island Mall (29-30). Main Wharf: Melampus (31-32); Steel Vendor (33-34): Ben Cruachan (36); Batavia (40); Oewang (40»; President OUmour (44). Coal Plant:
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      SINGAPORE RUBBER PRICE HITS 72½ CENTS
      192 11 WITH the demand for nearby shipment of top grades continuing yesterday, prices in the Singapore rubber market rose to new heights. Business for May shipment was done at 71 1 cents per lb. A good amount of business passed in the morning but the
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      London Rubber
      29 11 London. Apr. 35.— Spot. Slttd; May, 2l',d; June. 21% d; JulySept., 20 7/16 d; Oct. -Dec., 19Hd; Jan. -Mar., 18 \d; May- June, e.i.f. 30Hd. Market Firm
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      Malayan Shares
      128 11 Ttmrn A Niittl Correspondent WITH little encouragement offered in the Malayan share market yesterday, prices showed narrow fluctuations. Business was on the small side-. Prices quoted by the Malayan Sharebroken' Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS S«jr«r Mter Henr* Wauin J M 2.K od H'konc 8'hmi Bank (H'kong rtt.) 676
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      THE PRODUCE MARKET
      81 11 Fr«tn A Market Correspondent pOPRA In the Singapore produce market wu quiet yesterday, with buyer* at $38* and sellers at $39 Vi. Zanzibar cloves were steadier at $95 sellers, with buyers indicating $92. Madagascar cloves had sellers at *91 and buyers at 489. Price (per picul) yesterday
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      MALACCA RUBBER PAYS DIVIDEND
      78 11 rS secretaries of the Malacca Rubber Plantations Ltd. have sent the following cable: The board recommends a dividend in respect of the last financial year of 7Vi per cent, less tax at the standard rate on Ordinary and Preterence stock payable on the first day of
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      MALAYAN COPRA EXPORTS UP
      52 11 WASHINGTON, Mon. 1%8 American Department of 1 Agriculture reports that Malayan copra exports Increased 51 per cent, and coconut oil exports 13 per cent, last year. Malaya, according to the report, exported 39,325 long tons of copra and 61,226 tons of oil. mostly to Europe and
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      TIN PUKES
      28 11 SINGAPORE. Mon., At*. 24.— 5»4 (down $3.75). LONDON. M*»., Apr. 25. Spot: £591— £591}. Forward: £591*— £591}. Settlement: £591}. Turnover morninr. 5 tons; afternoon. 95 tons.
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      JER. KUANTAN ESTATE
      223 11 5% Dividend JERAM Kuantan Rubber Estate, at the annual meeting in Singapore on Saturday, approved payment of a flve-per-cent. dividend for 1949, less tax at 20 per cent., and payment of $4,500 as directors' fees for 1949 Mr. E C. Martin, In the chair, stated that last
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    SELETAR BREAK C.A. RUN OF VICTORIES
    762 12 SELETAR BREAK C.A. RUN OF VICTORIES Winning Goal 3 Mins. From End Seletar 2; C.A 1. /CHINESE ATHLETES, last year's S.A.F.A. Senior League champions, and until yesterday undefeated in the present season, received their first set-back when R.A.F. Seletar beat them by two goals to one at Jalan Besar Stadium.
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      'Seconds Out' Should Be Called
      331 12 PROM the average spectator's point of view, the finish of the Sands-Brooks fight was not too well received. From where I sat I was convinced that had Brooks come out for the fourth round It would surely have been his last; but ending as It
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      C.V.M.A. BEAT BLUE ROVERS
      76 12 KEEPING up a relentless attack. C.Y.M.A. beat Blue Roverts by two goals to nil in a S.A.F.A. Junior B2 league soccer match played on B.OD.C.A. ground yesterday. C.Y.M.A. opened scoring In the 12th minute through Christy Nonfc who beat Wong Meng, Blue Rovers' goalkeeper with a
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    N.S. Prepare For Cup Tie v Army-Navy
    189 12 Fraat Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Mon. J^EGRI Sembilan'a F.A. prepared for next Saturday's Malaya Cup fixture against Army-Navy by holding a trial match here on Saturday against N. S. Combined Services whom they beat by two goals to one. The F.A. team on
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    Hospital Fail In 2nd Half
    130 12 AFTER leading by two goals to one in the first half, the Mental Hospital were defeated oy R.N. Dockyard by four goals to two in a SAFA Junior Al league game at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday Hospital scored their first goal in the tenth minute
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    W. Australian Schoolboys To Play Here
    153 12 W. Australian Schoolboys To Play Here TiHE sponsor of the Singa1 pore schoolboys' cricket team to West Australia, Mr. W. MacDermott, gave an assurance that a team of West Australian schoolboys would visit Singapore early next year when he spoke during the lunch Interval in one of the last matches
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    SIT SOCCER TEAM
    57 12 The S.I.T. Sports Club to play a friendly soccer match against the O.T.E.C. at Fairer Park today will be chosen from: Chee Swee Yuen. Chong Klan Pay, Thomas Cheng, Seah Kirn Bee. YusofT B. Hassan, Liew Pook Van. J. Grosse. Chow Weng Kal, Ismail B Kassim. Lee
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    S.A.B.A. TOURNEY
    33 12 The Singapore Amateur Boxing Association open championships will start at tr.e Happy World at 8 p.m. today. Weighing and medical :nsp«>ctlon will be at the Happy World at 5 p.m. today.
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    NEW JOCKEY DUE NEXT MONTH
    327 12  -  Epsom Jeep KUALA l.i MPL'K. Monday. UfEST AUSTRALIAN jockey Jackie Ingram, I hear, has accepted an offer to ride for a Penang stable. He is expected to arrive sometime next month. A useful lightweight, Ingram has been riding with success for many seasons in Western
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    Sports Diary
    49 12 SOCCER: Snr. Ige: RAF Changi v Pulau Branl at Jalan Besar; Jnr. Al: Police S.A. v 30 Btn. RAOC at Geylang; Jnr. Bl: Spore Dirt. Signals v HQ Spore Dist. at (VMA ground; Friendly: SJt.C. Customs on padang; S.I.T. t O.T.E.C. at Farrer Park. TENNIS: YMCA i-h>mp4*n-ships.
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    YMCA SINGLES FINAL ON SAT.
    32 12 The singles final of che V.M.C.A. tennis championships will be played at the V.M.C.A. on Saturday. The finalists are Ong Chew Bee and A. Q. B. Paklr.
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    BOD Badminton Results & Ties
    492 12 BOD Badminton Results Ties Refill us of ties in the BODCA badminton championships played over the week-end were: Men's Junior Single*:— Lim Ah Bee beat Joe Pereira IS— 3; 15 9; Sulalman bin Samad beat E. K. Menon 15 10; 5—15: IS— l5: Awaldin beat Quek Kirn Tlan 15—1, 15—0;
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    TEAM SHUFFLES BROUGHT 4 GOALS
    50 12 After being down by one-four in the first half, a reshuffle in their positions after the Interval brought victory to Union of Canton Sports Glub "by five-four in their friendly soccer match against the French Bank Sports Club at Upper Serangoon School ground on Saturday.
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    Social B.P. Beat Superflight
    101 12 Playing away, Social B.P. beat Superflight BP. by five games to two. Result*:— (Social players mentioned first) Singles: Wong Yeok Yeok bt Chan Soo Quan 15-9, 15-5; Chua Poh Koon bt Wee Aik Hoe 15-4, 15-10; Pang Kia Lim bt Kow Sim Chye 15-11, 15-11; Lee
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    Derby Tighten Up On Their Batting
    498 12 English Cricket Series No. 6 By JIM CHAMBERS LONDON, Monday. BOWLING and fielding win most cricket matches and for that reason Derbyshire with one of the best attacks in county cricket should always be up at the top with a chance of winning the
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    Heavy Diary For U.S. Fleet
    147 12 THE Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Glmson, will toss the first ball at an exhibition baseball game between the visiting U.S.S. Warships at 3 p.m. on Sunday, on the padang. A running commentary on the game will be given by the U.S. Vice-Consul, Mr. Robert
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    Given Facilities Of Test Cricketers
    449 12 S'POK BOYS' VISIT TO AUSTRALIA Straits Times Cricket Reporter THE TOUR of the Singapore schoolboy cricketers 1 to West Australia has done much to foster and cement friendship between Australia and Malaya, said Mr. C. R. Eber, manager and coach of the team, when he
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    ISLAND CLUB APR. MIXED FOURSOMES
    79 12 The Island Club's Mixed Foursomes for April played on Sunday resulted as follows: Winners: Mrs. McLean A. M. Windsor 92—22=70. Next best returns came from: Mrs. Hlddlestone J. J. WaMi 83—12-71; Mrs. Howe.ll L. Newbould 96—22 74; Mr. Mrs. E. Carroll 97—22-75: Mrs. K. T.
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