The Straits Times, 30 May 1950

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 fWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY MAY 30, 1950. <£ PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • 378 1 Strachey Says Make Army A Career From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. JJETTER terms of service for Malayan Other Ranks serving with the British army may result from a talk which the Secretary of State for War, Mr. John Strachey, had with Malayan
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    33 1 2, B 9 A D the ran *on on arrival at Penan; were (right) Mrs. Andrew Gilmour, wife of Singapore's Secretary fo* Economic Affairs with her daughters Sheena and Anne —Straits Times picture
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  • 147 1 From Our Staff Correspondent S PENANG, Monday. AID to be -homesick" the crews of two Panamanian vessels, the Prospero and Georgios Patamianos. have stopped work in protest, It is understood, against a long period of service away from their families. The men are also reported to
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  • 119 1 Britain On Whitsun Spree LONDON. Mon. BRITONS forgot the dollar gap. the production drive and the colri war today to join in the biggest and gayest spree since the war. With unlimited petrol for the first time since 1939 and more food and the fewest restrictions hi years, they rushed
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  • 22 1 TAIPEI. Mon.— The Northwest Airlines announces beginning weekly flights between Formosa and the United States on June 5. A.P.
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  • 21 1 TOKYO. Mon.— The American Red Cross has closed its office in Seoul after four and a half years.— A.P.
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  • 128 1 Fathia Fears To Return To Egypt SAN FRANCISCO, Mon. PRINCESS Fathia of Egypt on honeymoon said- "I am sure I will be separated from my husband if we return to Egypt." She wants to stay in the United States. Unless her brother King Farouk, changes his mind, her husband must
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  • 81 1 WASHINGTON, Mon. A plan to establish a United Nations agency to help solve international shipping problems has been approved by the U.S. Senate foreign relations committee The agency would be known as the Inter-governmental Maritime Consultative Organisation, and would become effective upon approval by 21
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  • 60 1 JAKARTA. Mon. Two Europeans were arrested last Friday night for trying to rob the Indonesian driver of his car according to an announcement of the Jakarta military governor, reports Aneta. It says three Europeans dressed in Dutch army uniforms, held up a driver, seized him by the thxoat
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  • 101 1 PARIS, Monday. FRENCH parachutists, with fighter plane support on Saturday night recaptured the post of Dong Khe in the frontier region of northern Vietnam from Vietminh Indo-Chinese guerillas, who occupied it on Friday night, according to a Saigon communique reported by Agence France Presse yesterday. Insurgents,
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  • 19 1 DAMASCUS, Mon.— A bomb was thrown at Government House here today, but c&used no injuries or damage.—Reuter.
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  • 90 1 COLOMBO, Monday. r«EYLON has protested to the Soviet Union about an article and cartoon "offensive to Ceylon Buddhists" which the Soviet. Government newspaper Izvestia published on Saturday. I The cartoon showed the i British Foreign Minister, Mr. Bevin. kneeling before the sacred tooth of
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    36 1 LALL SINGH, one of Malaya's best-known cricketers, who led the Rest side to victory over the Europeans in the annual Clarke Cup match in Singapore yesterday. (Europeans v Rest match report in Page 12).
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  • 73 1 BOMBAY, Monday. POLICE today kept strict vigil along the waterfront and ordered the closure of city towers, normally open to the public, to forestall suicide attempts by students who failed in their matriculation examination. Results announced today registered 61 per cent, failures out of 55,000 students
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    19 1 QUEEN MARY, who was 8) last Friday, crossing stepping stones at the Chelsea Flower Show in London. A.P. picture.
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  • 317 1 FIREMEN were early thif morning still battling with a rubber fire which broke out shortly before midnight at the Outram Road godown of Louis Dreyfus and Co. Thousands of people in pyjamas and nightdresses watched the fire and radio police who were on the scene
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  • 75 1 pAPTAIN "Turko' Westerling will appear before Mr. H. E. Kingdon, the Singapore First District Court Magistrate, this veek to face an inquiry into an Indonesian application for his exiradition. If Mr. Kingdon considers that the application meets the requirements of the Extradition Act, 1870, a warrant
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  • 84 1 AUCKLAND, Mon. BECAUSE something "went wrong with the machinery" between Britain and New Zealand, the Prime Minister. Mr. Sidney Holland, was not advised beforehand of the British decision to abolish petrol rationing. Lord MacDonald, Britain's Paymaster General, said here today. Lord Mac Donald, was commenting on Mr.
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  • 83 1 from Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Six-year-old Jeffrey Mack, son of Mr. F. E. Mack, acting Controller of the Postal Savings Bank. Malaya, died in hospital today from in- juries received in a car crash in Victory Avenue last night in a storm. The car,
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  • 232 1 8 BANDITS KILLED IN ONE DAY From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. gIGHT bandits have been killed in engagements with troops during the past 24 hours. Army casualties were two killed, both Coldstream Guardsmen. In an engagement in the Tapah area of Perak Coldstream Guards engaged party estimated at
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  • 57 1 SEOUL, Mon. KOREA, today wound up the campaign for tomorrow's national elections. Six deaths, three kidnappings, four cases of arson and about 500 arrests have been reported Among thoseo <se put in gaol were 42 candidates and 178 electioneers. The main charge was violation of
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    29 1 MISS JILL CRICHTON72I-year-old diplomatic cadet who leaves Australia next month to take up the post of Third Secnetary in the Australian Commissioner's office in Singapore. Sydney Morning Herald picture.
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  • 70 1 PRETORIA, Mon. i^ENERAL Smuts was tak. n ill yesterday, four days after his 80th birthday. The former South African Premier cancelled his trip to Britain which had been arranged for next Friday. Doctors ordered him to bed because of a nervous ailment in his back which
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    • 397 2 FRESNO (California), Monday. A CALIFORNIA Central Airlines plane, with 29 persons aboard, made an emergency landing here after a passenger had accused the stewardess of serving poisoned coffee and pulled a gun on the pilot. An airline spokesman identified the passenger as John O'Reilly, who
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  • 27 2 MASK and fan, made of material matching the dress, was shown by a Paris designer as part of a sunvmer casino ensemble. A.P. picture.
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  • 67 2 TOKYO, Monday. FOB the first time since she became a commoner, former Princess Taka, at present Mrs, Kazuko Takatsukasa, was measured Yesterday for a Western-style two-piece dress. Pupils of a Tokyo dressmakers' school, who took Mrs. Kazuko's measurements said she was "slightl^ larger than the
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    • 143 2 NOTICES PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, JOHORE A General Meeting to form a Johore South Branch of the Malayan Society for the Prerent'on Of Cruelty to Animals win be held In the Johore Civil Service Club, Johore Bahru, on Monday, sth June. 1950, at 5.30 p.m. The attendance of all
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    • 501 2 NOTICES I NOTICE TO SINGAPORE j EXPORTERS EXPORT OF "FOREIGN" BEERAND AERATED WATER < BOTTLES. < Firms Interested In obtaining a 1 qupta to export "foreign" beer c and aerated water bottles may i submit applications to the Im- ports A Exports Control Department, Singapore. Applications should be suported by
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    • 387 2 TENDER NOTICE SORTH PROVINCE WELLESLET NEW WATER SUPPLY Tenders will be received at the >ffice of the Settlement Engineer, Penang. from Contractors "Class B" and upward registered with he Public Works Department up o noon on Thursday, 22nd June, 1950. for The construction of Stall 3uarters &c. at Bukit Toh
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  • 313 3 BERLIN, Monday. yyKSTfcRN German police along: the 103-mile Kast-West Berlin border began a close check of all vehicles crossing from the Soviet sector early today in case of a possible last-minute effort by the Communists to smuggle propaganda leaflets as part of the
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  • 204 3 World Spy Round-Up Soon Report LONDON. Mon THE Sunday weekly Rey- nolda News said yesterday that more than a dozen atomic scientists, government officials and businessmen are likfly to be arrested soon in the biggest international spy round-up ever known and chargou with passing highly secret information to Russia. 'They
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    40 3 JAPANESE TRADITION. 2,600-years old, was toroken when the second daughter of Emperor Hirohito married a commoner. The bride and bridegroom are seen with the Emperor (right) leaving a private temple after the ceremony at Tokyo. A.P picture.
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  • 242 3 i Airfcti, Monday. RATIONALIST military leaders expect a Formosa 11 invasion in the first weeks ol September. Meteorologists explain that the Communists have about three weeks "invasion weather" in which to cross the 100-mile strait, or otherwise will have to delay the o ueration until sorinsr.
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  • 188 3 LABOUR SWITCHES POLICY LONDON, Mon. 'pHE British Labour Government has suddenly switched to a policy of decontrol and economic liberalisation since the "hush-hush" meeting of Party chiefs at a country mansion at Dorking, Surrey, last week-end. In one short week, the Government has: Derationed nearly all steel; Agreed on more
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  • 51 3 COLOMBO, Mon.—Twentyfive delegations to the World Fellowship of Buddhists yesterday laid the foundation stones of the All-Ceylon Buddhist Congress headquarters in Colombo. Dr G. P. Malaiasekera, Professor of Pall University Ceylon, expressed the hope that the new building would become a world centre of Buddhism.
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  • 38 3 MELBOURNE, Mon. A thief rtole a dead woman's wedding ring while funeral services were being held for her. The family returning from the cemetery, found the house ransacked and Jewellery, including the wedding ring, missing. AJ\
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  • 27 3 TIIAKIN NU smiles as he meets Field Marshal Sir William Slim, commander in the Burmese campaign, during his recent visit to London. A.P. picture.
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  • 165 3 LONDON, Mon. JIM CHAPMAN, skipper of the British trawler Etruria, seized this month while fishing off the Murmansk coast, alleged here yesterday that the Russians "ruthlessly" cross-examined him for seven days and nights. His story appeared in the Sunday Dispatch. The Etruria, held for
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  • 201 3 Difficulties At Baguio Over Politics BAGUIO. Mon. A N informed source said today that there were clear indications that representatives of seven non- Communist Asian countries in conference here since Friday were finding political questions "the most difficult." Delegates from India, Pakistan and Ceylon had flatly stated that they were
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  • 127 3 ISRAEL: 'YES' ON HOLY CITY LAKE SUCCESS, Mon. ISRAEL announced yesterday that she Is now ready to accept complete United Nations control over Jerusalem's Holy Places and all other matters of universal religious concern in the Holy City. The announcement was made in a memorandum to the United Nations Trusteeship
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  • 40 3 NEW DELHI, Mon.—Pakistan, said the newspaper The Statesman yesterday has reciprocated India's offer to take back Muslims by offering to receive back Hindus who have left West Pakistan since February 1. Both countries will restore evacuee property. —A.P.
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  • 190 3 CAPE TOWN, Monday. 2OLTH Africa's Minister of the Interior, Dr. Eben Donges, told the House of Assembly today that the Government's new Group Areas Bill envisaged the provision of separate areas of land for different racial groups "by compulsion if necessary" The Bill came
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  • 27 3 TEL AVIV, Mon. The Mediterranean coastal districts of Israel are fighting a widespread outbreak of infantile paralysis. Thirty-four cases have been reported so far. A.P.
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  • 252 4 'RUBBER CRISIS' FEARS IN AMERICA Call For More Synthetic NEW IORK, Monday. APPREHENSIVE rubber manufacturers in America feel that the United States may be approaching another crisis in the rubber industry. They urge an immediate stepping up of production in synthetic rubber plants. Because of "threatened Uommunist aggression affecting Far
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  • 219 4 WORLD RICE IS DOWN WASHINGTON, Mon. FE Agriculture Department yesterday reported that the world rice harvest for 1949-50 is estimated at J34.000.000.000 lb of rough rice, three per cent less thar the post-war record of 343,000.000.000 lb harvested in the n* season. Tlip repoit caid most of the < occvrrel
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  • 38 4 Ird'ti Our Own <'orrpsp»nd»nl SEGAMAT. Mon— A special constable 38-year-old IsjTKiil bin Pawang Sa'at was charged at Segamat with Jailing to take out an identity card and with using another's card Bail of $150 was offpred
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  • 61 4 LI\£KPOOL, Monday. Tl'MiKl Naauradtia, 26-year-old cousin of the Sultan of I\ih;ina. arrived here yesterday on the troopship Orbita with eight other Non-C«mmissi»n»d Officers of the Malay R. uim?nt to train far an army commission at Britain's Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He and the other N.C.O.s
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  • 190 4 New Asian Club Formed In Penang From Our Staff Corrcspoadrnl PENANG. Mon. AN Asian club was formed in Penang yesterday evening at a meeting of about 50 prominent members of the Asian community. Elected the first president of this clvb to be known as the Penang All Blues Mr. Heah
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  • 34 4 THE SECRETARY FOR WAR, Mr. Job* Straehey. talking with the Raja PeretKjpaan of Perlis at a garden party given by the Rmlers at Kuala Lumpur daring the weekend. —Straits Tines pictare.
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  • 165 4 NO POLITICS FOR INDIAN ASSN. SINGAPORE Indians have no reason or desire to engage themselves in political activities of any kind apart from safeguarding their interests in the Colony, says the Committee of the Indian Association in its annual report. This, it adds, is because India is now a tree
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  • 55 4 niYING from a board at V the deep «"od of the Mount Emily Swimming Fwei, Singapore, Ho Ah Weng, aged M, struck his head on the cement bottom. A fife-gaard brought him to the surface and gave first aid before Ah VTeng was taken
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  • 42 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. For deviating from an approved plan by putting up a house closer to the boundary than should have been the case, Ibrahim bin Osman. a Government pensioner, was fined $7 in the Johore Bahru Police Court today.
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  • 43 4 TTie latest number of the Raffles Museum Bulletin Is entirely made up of papers on the fauna of the Cocos-Keel-ing Islands based on material and data collected In *he group by Dr. C. A. Gibson-Hill between December 1940, and November. 1941.
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  • 210 4 Hawkers Told: No More Bribes USDBR rales drawn up oy the Hawkers' Association, Singapore hawkers must not collect mjnej for anybody. Those found collecting money will be secretly reported to the police. This was stated by Mr. Teo Pang Bok. chairman of the association, to the president of the Chinese
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  • 84 4 From Oar Staff Orresp >i.*ent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. A sum of $400 was collected for the Kluang Convent Building Fund from an open air boxing tournament at Kluang. i The competitors, mainly Army men. included CSM Ini structor R. Jones, of Kuala Lumpur,holder of a Far
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  • 219 4 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Monday. ALTHOUGH more than a year has elapsed since the Federation of All -Malayan Estate Staff Unions began negotiating with the Malayan Planting Industry Employers' Association for an increase in staff salaries and allowances, no agreement has yet
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  • 54 4 MBS. H. B. MOORHEAD of the Singapore Tbe«9»»hical Society, who is speaJcint on the "Declaration «f the I nter -Religious Organisation" at a public meeting of the Religious Organisation «C Singapore and JohOTt at the Katoag Beys' Clv% at 5M temorrow. Inche Sarden bin
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  • 48 4 From Oar Staff Corre&poadeiit JOHORE BAHRTJ, Mon.— A verdict of "suicide by hanging" was recorded by the Batu Pahat Magistrate at the Inquiry into the death of Ramasarny who was found dead hanging from a beam In the house of his cousin on Sri Guding Estate.
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  • 105 4 Ttmm O»r S4*« C#rrrsponrt<*nt KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A LTHOUGB Federation A flags, six feet long and three feet wide, cost np to $50, several Kuala Lumpur firms have received orders. Mr. F. A. Hare, manager c 4 Robinson and Co, who made Use first one
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  • 40 5 MX. LAWRENCtf FO head «if the Seventh Day Adven1 1> I .Mission in Sarawak, who is in Singapore on his ■u.i.v to the coming Mission rocHTPnce in San Fran- < sco— Straits Tinirs picture Report in Pa^e 7.
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  • 120 5 Chinese Ys Form A New Club A CLUB for promoting educational, cultural and physical activities among the English-speaking members of the Singapore Chinese YMCA was formed at a special meeting held at the association in Selegle Road last night. The ciub, which will be i known as Chinese YMCA Cosmopoiitan
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  • 43 5 I Our Own Correspondent V GAMAT. Mon. BeC» se he failed to slop at a road block in front of th? Bam Ainm police station, a 23-year-old car driver, Choong Choi Mm was lined $20 at Sesamat
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  • 189 5 VARSITY EXAMS TO BEGIN TODAY A iITS and science stuA dents today begin the lirst big examinations hetd by the University of Malaya since its foundation nearly a year ago. These will last about a fortnight. Up to October 1949, Raffles College and the King Edward VII College of Medicine
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  • 99 5 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Mon.— Recent appointments to the P.W.D. in Malaya are Messrs R. M. Woolfenden (assistant engineer) and D. A. Flett (pupil architect). Mr. Woolfenden, a native of Manchester, is a B.Sc. from Loughborough. After serving as a technical assistant at the Royal
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  • 31 5 THE RUSSIAN SCHOONER Krab, pictured at anchor in the inner roads, Singapore, soon after her arrival from Colombo yesterday. She is on her way to Vladivostok. Straits Times picture.
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  • 241 5 SINGAPORE'S HIGHEST BUILDING A BID to speed up construction of the 19-storey Asia Insurance Building at Collyer Ouay will be made by Nominated Municipal Commissioner, Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, at the Commissioners' ordinary monthly meeting tomorrow. Mr. ¥np Will move a iesolution asking the Commissioners
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  • 45 5 SINGAPORE Municipal j messengers who convey i minute papers and other documents from municipal offices ,to the offices and homes of Commissioners may be provided with mo-tor-cycles. At present they carry files and papers either on bicyles or by public transnrtTt
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  • 663 5 From ALAN WOLSTENHOLME Straits Times Special Correspondent MENTAKAB, Monday. J^AST night the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. James Griffiths, slept in a planter's bungalow here, two miles off the main road in the heart of a Pahang danger area. Earlier he had
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  • 116 5 TTHE following passengers A disembarked at Kallang Airport yesterday from points outside Malaya. Passengers In transit are not included in the list. QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS From Sydney: Messrs. W. Bentley, A, McCorquodale, E. W. Bailey. P. H. Spencer, A. H. Ames, W. J. Hutchinson, Dr. D. A.
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  • 63 5 TO restore the St. Ciair organ at the Victoria Memorial Hall, a Singapore municipal committee has recommended the provision of $50,000 in next year's budget. The committee also proposes to engage an expert from the United Kingdom firm which built the organ. St. Andrew's Cathedral authorities
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  • 60 5 "I DIDN'T KNOW" "L DRIVER From Our Stan C'orrespimlt-nt SEGAMAT, Mon. "I bought the car only a few days ago to learn driving and did not know it was in such a condition," said Tan Chin Hai, aged 42. when charged in the Segamat Court with operating a vehicle that
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  • 50 5 CHINESE V.M.C.A., chess club, 5 p.m., weightlifttng, 3.30 p.m., basketball, 5.30 p.m., SERVICES UNIONS, Protest meeting, Victoria Memorial Hall, 6 p.m. SINGAPORE FILM SOCIETY, "Arturo Tescanini" and other shorts, U.S.I.S. Theaterelte, Raffles Place, 6.30 pjn. MAN Ijl BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION, Twa Loh Koti practice, 4, Borneo Road, 1 pm.
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  • 210 5 THE skipper of the Straits Steamship coaster x Angby plying between Kuching and Singapore, assisted by his Chief Officer and a Malay gunner, helped to deliver a ten-pound baby boy from a Chinese woman deck passenger on the vessel's last run to Kuching. The woman,
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  • 66 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A COLUMNIST in the Malay weekly, Utusan Zaman, says that not less than 10 members of UMNO who attended the assembly in Kuala Lumpur recently, which discussed citizenship, told him that they had intended walking out. But when they read Sir Henry
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  • 37 5 BAND FAREWELL From Our Staff Correspondent PENANO, Mon.— The Penang Municipal Band's farewell programme at the Botanical Gardens on Wednesday evening will Include a quick march, Farewell to Penang," composed by the retiring bandmaster, Mr. Cecil Scott.
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  • 140 5 Front Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. THE 87th bandit executed under the Emergency Regulations was hanged at the Johore Bahru prison this morning. He was Loh Yuen, alias Low Wong, who was sentenced to death at the High Court, Johore Bahru on March 29, on
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  • 1027 6 With rubber over eighty cents, and tappers earning from six to twenty dollars a month more than they were getting three months ago, it is not surprising that the Asian subordinate staffs on estates should feel that they have a right to
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  • 178 6 VOV wrote in last x Friday's leader of 'The China Enigma." If there is an enigma at al) it is entirely the result of Britain's insincerity. Neither Mr. Bevin In the House of Commons nor you, sir, In your leader have said anything of the hard facts which
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  • 1693 6  -  R. ONRAET COMMUNIST BEGINNINGS IN SINGAPORE-?, \yHAT has come about in China, fndo-China, Indonesia and Burma since the war ended, and not ijuite so obviously in India, is, in fact, that state of affairs envisaged as favourable in Communist plans for a
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    • 221 6 ITNLESS Mr. John Strachey ana Mr. James Griffiths v can succeed in seeing things in Malaya with the same "eyes" as those through which Mr. Griffiths recognised the plight of his fellow-miners, with whom he worked for many years In the coal mines, I
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    • 177 6 I, AS one of the very few of the S.S.V.F. and F.M.S.V.F. who "came home" from the Kuching camp (Batu Lintang), am shocked at the film censor's decision to ban the film "Three Came Home" from exhibition in Singapore or Malaya. The story may be grim,
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    • 145 6 WITH reference to "Doubt- ful's" letter on self-govern- j ment In your Issue of May 26, I do not think that after the granting of self-government any increases In salary could be made; nor could living conditions improve. On the other hand, I think that living
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    • 286 6 T»HE Singapore SawA millers' Association's statement that there is no shortage of timber, as reported by you on May 24. is most misleading. The majority of the local builders are having their work held up because of shortage, and delay in delivery, even with kapor and
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    • 59 6 AFTER looKing around Singapore and Johore. I have come to the conclusion that Johore doesn't provide commercial classes for the people. Singapore has many, but as far as I know there are none in Johore Bahru. Does that mean that we Jobore residents have to travel to Singapore
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    • 78 6 rkeep pace with the advanced countries of the world, it Is only right that we Malays in Johore should have a public vote for the replacement of Dato Onn as Mentri Besar of Johore. The Government should publish the names of those who are considered
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  • 402 6 Jacob's Shares IS a compulsory student of the Old Testament in my Sunday School days, I was moved almost to tears by the picture of Jacob as a rubber shareholder in the weekly share-market review published in the Straits Times yesterday. one would ask Mr. Griffiths to
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    • 758 6 Straits Timet Free Preti ti rh« CMVtMMM «t Mvvrtiitf i, i tt#r#svfttAftve at l«t Fleor Singapore Cold Storage Orchard Read wiN ivcatv* mull advertisements end answers to boa nyml tri CLASSIFIED ADS. SITUATIONS VACANT RECEPTIONIST wanted With slight knowledge of Optical lenae« for European Optician. Box No. A9936. S.T. WANTED
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  • 354 7 Minister 'Very Helpful 9 Says Union Official From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. THE Secretary of State for War, Mr. John Strachey, had a 30-minute discussion with a delegation from the War Department Civil Staff Association in Kuala Lumpur this morning:. The Association is
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  • 164 7 THE joint protest meeting sponsored by the three services unions at the Victoria Memorial Hall today is expected to be one of the biggest indoor meetings of workers yet held in Singapore. The organising committee has invited no fewer than 40 trade unions, representing
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  • 28 7 THE GOVERNOB, Sir Franklin Gimson, greets Lady Gimson at Penang when she returned on the Canton last week-end from the United Kingdom.— -Straits Times pietnre.
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  • 45 7 FLYING TO AUSTRALIA in a Miles Gemini twin-engined plane from the United Kingdom are A. Vigano (left) and his co-pilot A. R. Barnard. They arrived at Kalians airport yesterday. Mr. Barnard is a former pilot of H.M.S. Triumph. Straits Times picture.
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  • 225 7 Dyak Weapons For U.S. Show A COLLECTION of Dyak weapons, costumes, head- gear, model houses, brass armlets, lei; bands and necklaces is on the way to the United States where it will be exhibited at the conference of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission to be held in San Francisco from
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  • 89 7 TWE Singapore Co-operative A Society is to open a branch store in Tiong Bahru soon. The society, in a newsletter circulated among members. said the Singapore Improvement Trust has allocated it a shop In Seng Poh Road Opening date will be announced later. The newsletter said the
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  • 71 7 SINGAPORE taxicabs may retain the front passenger seat, a committee of Municipal Commissioners has derided The committee recommends the deletion of the proposed bylaw prohibiting the carrying of a passenger next to the driver. The committee's decision, to be confirmed on Wednesday, follows a demonstration
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  • 88 7 Seven rural districts in Singapore will soon have their own free public libraries. The British Council has made gifts of books to enable them to cater for the reading needs of the people living in their districts. The first library will be opened in the Paya Lebar
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  • 64 7 From Oar SUIT Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— Johore Is planning to be represented at the seventh World Scout Jamboree to be held in Austria next year. It is hoped that more than one Scout will be sent and it is likely that those who go will be given
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  • 54 7 The Indian Navy flag ship, Delhi, with three destroyers and four frigates of the Indian Navy, will arrive in Singapore on June 21, from Jakarta. The Delhi is taking Pandit Nehru, to Indonesia, from Cochin on June 2. After visitIng Indonesian ports the Indian fleet
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  • 248 7 PARENTTEACHER ASSN. FORMED SINGAPORE'S first Par-ent-Teacher Association was formed yesterday at a meeting in the Can Eng Seng School, an elementary English school for boys. Fifty parents were present at the meeting. The association aims at promoting co-operation and understanding between parents and teachers for the welfare of the students.
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  • 67 7 THE FUNERAL of Mr. H. O. v> Ir. General Manager of the Acilphi and Sea View Hotels Ltd.. took pjace on Whit M >rany a 1 5 30 p.m. at Bidadari Cemetery. MRS. M. T. JOSEPH, mother of J. T. Robrrt and mother-in-law of Rev. C. B. Paul, passed
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  • 164 7 MK. Tan Kan Kee, Singapore Chinese leader, who is now touring Communist China for the second time, will return to the Colony next year, his son, Mr. Tan Kok Kheng, said, yesterday. Denying rumours that his father would not return to Singapore Mr. Tan Kok
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    42 7 MISS JEANNETTE Kankin, Montana-born ex-Congress woman from the United States, now in Singapore on her way back to U.S. after studying Gandhi's movement in India. "1 hate all war and I am against all methods of violence," she told the Straits Times.
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  • 137 7 VET. FEES TO BE REVISED REViiJi^D charges for treatment of animals at the Municipal Animal Infirmary, calculated to increase annual income by $7,000 are under consideration by the Municipal Commissioners. It is proposed to raise the present minimum charge of S5 for a major operation with local anaesthetic on small
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  • 69 7 The Singapore Chinese newspaper, Nan Chiau Jit Pao, is to continue publication, its manager, Mr. Ang Si Si, told the Straits Times yesterday. "There is no foundation to any report that publication will be suspended voluntarily at the end of this month," he said. One
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  • 36 7 Mrs. Helen E. Wessels, chief of the Libraries Branch In the Washington headquarters of the U.S. Information Service la expected to arrive in Singapore from Jakarta next Tuesday for a brief tour of Malaya.
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  • 191 7 17-OUR Australian trade F unionists arrived in Singapore by Constellation from Sydney yesterday on their way to attend the International Labour Conference to be held in Geneva from June 1 to June 28. I They were Mr. C. Bevan, President of :he Adelaide Trades and Labour Council,
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  • 292 7 1/IR. Heinrich Otto Waser, general manager of the ITI New Adelphi and Sea View Hotels Singapore, died suddenly early yesterday morning at the Adelphi Hotel from a heart attack. He was 60 years old. Mr. Waser leaves a widow and daughter in Switzerland and a
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  • 224 7 Labour Code Ready Soon THE new Labour Code, to control labourmanagement relations and ensure a greater measure of industrial peace in Singapore, will be ready before the end cf the year, Mr. G. W. Oavis acting Commissioner for Labour, told the Straits Times. The Labour rv^-rt-nenUt In Singapore and the
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  • 58 7 Mr Yap Pheng Geek, a director of the Sze Hai TonBanking and Insurance Company, becomes President <if the Singapore Rotary Clvb on July 1. succeeding Mr. I Cresson. Mr G G. Thomson will succeed Dr. Chen Su L,an as a vice-president th? otlv r vice-president.
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  • 731 8 The story of the toad JHE largest toad I ever saw is now a member of our household. I say is, because he nearly wasn't! The truth of the matter was that he. being of such an outlandish size, began to un-nerve females (and even one 01 two males) who
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  • 112 8 Malayan Homes Fashions M'SS Dutcie Lambert likes to be in the centre of things that is why she prefers to live a bachelor girl's life in the Fort Canning Y.W.C.A. than to journey daily to the office from Serangoon, where her father lives. Dulcie believes in making her room look
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  • 580 8  - Don't wash baby's mouth NURSE BRIDGET MOTHERCRAFT IN MALAYA Nurse Bridget is going on leave shortly and so wishes to introduce you to Nurse Janet, who will be writing on mothercraft in her absence. As well as having professional qualifications and having specialised in children, Nurse Janet is mother with
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    29 8 THIS WEEK'S Bonniest B a by is lain Donald Munro of 14 Hair»shire Drive, Kuala L unipur. He was 13 months old when this photograph was taken.
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  • 578 8 THE Chinese girl in x Singapore is standing at the crossroads of life for she is the product of an age-old ctvilisation which has been subjected to radical Western influences. There Is on one hand the advice of her grandmother, a
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    • 81 8 liii^sß'*' rQ\i/L UN* n^» t \VI7 B by EnC Schotman \W fo o« Singapore wawmt "I can hardly wait. Mother wonders /■/^l E9/ ot my appetite, but when LACTOGEN /FiMl^KH!*/ I comes round I can't resist it." L Wm^J I LACTOGEN is pure cows' milk especially prepared for the world's
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    • 176 8 Have a good breakfast Think of your favourite breakfast, and it's almost sure to include bacon or ham. A good choice, too! Breakfast sets you up for the day and a good breakfast is good nourishment. Vary your dishes there's Back or Streaky bacon or luscious Gammon rashers. Gammon, Back
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    51 9 MGHT LIFE IN TOKYO: A club In Tokyo's Wall Street hive introduced clamour with a nearly node dancing (irl a, the star turn of an entertainment called "Atomic Show Toe tired business men who *o to the club appear to be bored— but most of the customers come again for
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  • 384 9 B> A SPECIAL ORRESPONDENT WHEN Samuel Goldwyn icrives In London ■0 i tro.n his Continental tour he hopes to have plans w 11 advanced for a big new lil i production in Enzland. rt will be the first picture p\ r made by Goldwyn. But, w 1
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  • 1278 9 DENIAL AND DEMOLITION CLAIMS 'THE recent Press notice on the subject of Denial and Demolition claims, issued by the War Damage Commission, has attracted the attention of those who had their property requisitioned in 1941-42 for the purpose of denying its use to
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  • 237 9 By Our Woman fnrrpoionrtpnt Aa^£?£?3?v o«v, SINGAPORE teacher has written and produced her own play, Pflllprt "A nrpnm of S "Tf o fS?H hv Empire", it was acted by 1^ rJS at Fairfleld Girls School before Major General Dunlop on Empire Day. A schoolgirl doing some
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    • 159 9 H MneM *m/ty /6eM it 1 Everyone knows the best Virginia cigarettes are made in \M%) London; but, fortunately, they do not all stay there The famous vy^X Uk Bensor Hedges red tin is a familiar sight in almost every /YSc -4; country of the world. You will find these
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 259 9 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD MM^ n Produet of on. €tot av x CROSSWORD No 66 g, Warning, from Hitoka., N. aora at Ota ftaiia *■'*>-_ V^^^ BelloeuaJt IS. Not rtgM .by onei ode I 13 1 I I* 1* I i* I I c i iillin 1 I 14 1. dMtr
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  • 1113 10  - Should these children be born? WOODROW WYATT, M.P. f T WAS announced in a magistrate's court at Birmingham recently that Mrs. Kindred, a 28-year-old mother of six children, had agreed to be sterilised. Mrs. Kindred, who can neither read nor write, was charged with neglecting one of her children. She
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    • 266 10 f««UI« ABOVE J ANYTHING ILSI TODAY 11 A.M. 1.45, 4.15. 6.45 6c 9. J0 THE HAPPY CROWDS Prove Conclusively that "ON THE TOWN" is the Best Technicolor Musical Ever Made.. GENE KELLT "TTi 4 i^ Frank Sinatra x ti&W t betty garrett sW^^mm*. ANN MILLER. />\|#TJMnn|A JULES MUNSHINI AET^ffRV X
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    • 81 10 SINGAPORE 10 a.m. News rrom K. L.; 10.05 Close: 10.50 Schools; 12 Malay; 1 p.m. Light Music; 1.30 News; 1.45 Dance Music; 2 Close; 6 Listeners' Choice; 7 News. Share Market, interlude; 7.30 "Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery"; 8 "Music Shop"; 8.30 Talk of the Town; 9 London Studio
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    • 87 10 Share Market: 7.12 London Concert Orch; 7.30 David Ng and his Hot Five; 7.45 Radio Doctor; 8 Popular Classics; (Nicholai, Tschaikovsky, ProkonefT*; 8.30 As S'pore; 9 Varietv Bandbox; 9.30 News; 9.45 Dance Music; 10 "Blue Danube"; 10.30 "Those Were the Days"; 11 Close. PENANC 10 a.m. 12 As S'pore; 6
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    • 85 10 News: 9.45 Great Artists; 10 "Lady In a Fog"; 10.30 Dance Music; 11 Close. B. F. E. B. S. 4.45 p.m. Prom the London Editorials; 4.55 Benjamin Britten: 5.15 Commonwealth Survey; 5.30 "Whose Body?"; 6 Indonesian; 6.30 Cantonese; 6.45 Music from the Screen; 7.15 PVench; 7.30 English Half-Hour; 8 "The
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    • 294 11 MikMAKAB Rubber Compe.ny'B 1U chairman, Mr. O. M. Knocker, speaking from the chair at the annual meeting last week, referred to the "grievous losses" which the rubber producing Industry haa suffered In manpower, property and revenue as a result of terrorist action. The financial Implications of
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    • 25 11 TJNITED Malacca Rubber Estates in April harvested 72,871 lbs. of rubber. This brought the total crop for 12 months to 1,040,600 lbs.
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    • 299 11 1,000,000-Ton Annual U.S. Potential? From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Monday. A MILLION tons of rubber may possibly be used "annually for American highways, according to George White and Yullle. the London rubber brokers. They state the possibility in their monthly market report, in which they
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    • 136 11 From A Market Correspondent rpAIPING Consolidated made a x net profit of 6584,773 (67 per cent.) In 1949. A final dividend of 20 per cent, is recommended, making 80 per cent against 32tt per cent last year. Net liquid assets In balance sheet $1,015,093, are equal
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    • 135 11 From A Market Correspondent I TNION Insurance Society of Canton's net profit for 1949 was £476,315, or 70s 7d per share. The proposed dividend of 32s 6d (£219.375) will absorb less than the income from Interest and dividends (£227.477), so that a sum greater than
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    • 167 11 MALAYAN EXCHANGE RATES ]?XCHANO£ quotation*. M announced by the Malayan Exchange Bank* Association, an: Free Market Currencies Sean* t.tjom London 2s. 4 J/32d. Australia 31. 11 1/32<L New Zealand 2s. 4 l/16d. India, Burma Ceylon 155% Pakistan 108 hi Hong Kong 53 9/16 Mm T.T OJ). London 2s. 7/32d. 9a.
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    • 138 11 From Our Own Correspondent MR P. J. BURGESS, chairman of Merton Rubber Syn- dicate, says In his annual statement to shareholders that the chief future problem for plantation rubber producers continues to be that of replant mr in order to take advantage of the
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    • 338 11 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS TO NEW YORK AND BOSTON VIA CIYl™ INDIA, BCYPT and MEDITtRRANEAN PO*>j S'oor. p sham Penane Prcs. «an Baren 1/) una 4 UM c/« i BM Pre. (.Hen.. «/jo .E 11/12 13/15 11-V c Po* 28 |un«/ 3 luly 4/6 lulv TO UA, PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC PORTS.
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    • 403 11 EAST ASIATIC LINE SAILINCS FROM SCANDINAVI A/UK./ CONTINENT JAILINCS TO CONTINENT/ m/ 1 SCANDINAVIA m/t "Malaya" due abt lune 18 tor Bangkok Loading at Singapore. Port Swettanham m/s "India" due abf. |une 26 Penang for Bangkok. Saigon, Manila, Hong Kon« Kobe. Yokohama 6 Takubffr m/% "Fabtria" dee abt. |ury 10
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    • 804 11 PI McAUSTER CO- LTD. (Incorporated in Singapore; Telephone No. 59O6 KLAVENBSS LW1> M.KnrtAn buckmalx l0$ ANC€LU tAH ulahc,™ LONDON, HAVRE, ANTWfRf, WRTUANO SfATTU VAN<ToUVI« ROTTERDAM HAMBURG. Accepting cargo for Cantrai South American Ports. •Wig C ?.V?T .^^Port/IO May fRAN f'»X!y-« CITY Of CHELMSFORD Spore 15 1mm CAmWTug P. ST.-: H.rrW
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  • 741 12 Tourists Lead 2-0 In 7 Mins But Almost Lose Sing Tao 2; Malays r»R THE FIRST time in their tour, the all-con-quering Sing Tao Football Club did not win. Yesterday evening, before a 12,500 crowd at Jalan Besar Stadium they had to be content with
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  • 273 12 Richard Eu Wins Gun Club Plaque RICHARD ETJ won the clay pigeon club plaque at the Singapore Gun Club's Whitsun- shoot held yesterday Eu had a gun score of 68 plus a handicap of eight for a total of 76 points. Runner-up was C. F. Seston with a gun score
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  • 58 12 THE Sino-Malay XI of Singapore to meet the Sing Tao tourists at Jalan Besar tomorrow at 5 p.m. will be chosen from the following. Chee Seng, A. Rahman, Salleh, Haji Garhan, Harith, Hee Jong, Sharif Madon, Tee Siang, A. Bakar, Boon Leong, Chong Kum. Osman Angullia,
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  • 196 12 LONDON, Monday. A HUGE international entry well up to, if not better than its usual high standard, will contest the All-England lawn tennis championships which will start at Wimbledon on June 26. The closing date for entries is not until early in June but there are
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  • 363 12  -  EDWIN LEONG By Among the 144 players participating in the Singapore Badminton Association's junior singles championship this year, are quite a few making their first appearance In the annual championships. While it is most encouraging to have such a record entry and so many
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  • 323 12 A NUMBER of spectators, anxious to leave Jalan Besar Stadium in a hurry after yesterday's soccer but blocked by a wall of fellow spectators in front of them, forced open the door 'of the stadium kebun's kitchen in order to bypass the crowd. This incident
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  • 120 12 EXCEPT for a brief rally oy the 61 Coy. RASC In the early stages of the second half, yesterday's Singapore A.F.A. Junior B-2 tie between the Tuan Mong 0.8.A. at 3.0.D. ground proved to be a dull game. A pass from Lim Han to :e.itreforward Yew
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  • 89 12 PARIS, Mon.— lrvin Dorfman, of the United States, today provided the first major upset of the French lawn tennis championships here by defeating the seeded Australian champion, Frank Sedgman, one of the favourites for the Wimbledon ttiie. Dorfman, seeded only 22nd in his own
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  • 45 12 SOCCEB: Snr. Ige: Kota Raja t. Royal Navy at Jalan Besar; Jnr. Bl: Cheerful Lads V. HQ Singapore Dist. at Geylang: Jnr. Bl: C.YJH.A. v. Halkowyu S.C. at CYMA. FBIENDLY: Guthrie S.C. V. SJ.T. and Chung Hua Rangers t. Bocklltes at Farrer Park.
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  • 235 12 Tourists Well Placed v. Glamorgan LONDON, Mon. BY tea today the West Indians had scored 294 for seven wickets In reply to Glamorgan's first Innings total of 123. A bright third-wicket partnership of 101 between Worrell (97) and Weeks* (59) was the feature. Later Gome* (n.o. 43) and Johnson (n.o.
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  • 243 12 LONDON, Monday. Positions in the English County Cricket Championships before the series now in progress are: 1st Inns, lead No in match P. W. L. D. decision Lost Drawn PU. Warwickshire (411 0 0 48 Northampton 8 2 11 1 1 Surrey I S 1
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  • 599 12 REST won the annual cricket match against Europeans by 72 runs in the Clarke Cup match which ended at the Singapore Cricket Club yesterday after only about seven hours' play in the three days allotted the match. Lall Singh, the Kest Shipper, declared at the
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    • 204 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. (Continued from page •> FOR SALE FOR SALE BY TENDER 2274 Aluminium corrugated sheets 8 feet, tn view at 1003 North Brlc"ge Road. Tenders must be sent before the 14th June to Bous'ead Co. Ltd., Lloyd's Agents. I.H.S. HUTTENBACH Continuous Sheeting Battery 8 palri of Rolls, 28" wide,
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