The Straits Times, 31 May 1950

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 fWFLVE PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1950. <£ PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    SERVICES UNIONS' MASS PROTEST
    505 1 Visiting Ministers Told "Take Note' 9 [IS one of the biggest indoor mass meetings yet held in Singapore, the three Services Unions yesterday jointly condemned the "unwarranted delay" in granting their two-year-old claims for housing allowance and revised salary-scheme for certain categories of civilian workers in
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    WHOSE BABY?
    123 1 IS Mrs. Jenkins' baby daughter really Mrs. Morrison's? The Australian Supreme Court says 'No.' T'vo Australian barristers, Mr. John Galbaiiy. and Mr. C. A. Sweeney, arrived in Singapore from Melbourne yesterday, on their way to London to appeal to the Privy C'vmcil against the decision. Two girls now
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    MUNICIPALITY TO OWN BAZAAR
    38 1 RANGOON. Tues. The Soortee Bazaar. Rangoon's bi :41st shopping centre, is to b<- transferred to Municipal ownership on July 1. This decision was taken unanimously by the city's public health and market committee.— Reuter.
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    GIRL GOT BIGGEST CHEER
    169 1 GIRL GOT BIGGEST CHEER I^HE crowd at last nights A protest meeting saved the biggest of all their big cheers for young Miss Lilian Yuen of the Admiralty Local Staff Union who was one of the speakers. They cheered and whistled in approval when Miss Yuen, speaking with great intensity
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    DUCHESS' FIRST HUSBAND DIES
    46 1 SAN DIEGO (California) Tues.— The Irst husband of the Duchess el Windsor died here today. Ho was retired United States Navy Capt. Carl Winfield Spencer, Jr He and the present Duchess —then Miss Wallis Warfield, of Baltimore were married in 1923.— Reuter.
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    Reds Censor China Mail
    95 1 HONG KONG. Tues. T*HE Chinese Communist 1 Government is secretly •'nsoring mails in and out o"f China, presumably to gather information for a security check on the population. The censorship was suspected for some time, but the first definite confirmation of its existence was given by
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    FRENCH ACCUSED
    57 1 PONDICHERRY. Tues.— Dr. N. C. Rajkumar, the AllIndia Congress Committee's Foreign Secretary, told reporters at Pondicherry yesterday that "in the present state of lawlessness no referendum was possible in Pondicherry." He charged the French authorities with conniving at "the prevailing -owdyism," and with suppressing "legitimate political activities under
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    Hero Brought His Parang With Him
    160 1 From On Staff Correspondent IPOH. Tues. A MALAY peasant carrying the parang with which he lopped off the head of a terrorist last week was today presented to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Mr James Griffiths. The peasant was waylaid Dy three
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    COTTON PROFITEER FINED, GAOLED
    57 1 BOMBAY, Tues.— Mr. S. B. Sekaria, multimillionaire cotton magnate, was yesterday sentenced by the City Magistrate in Bombay to four months' rigorous Imprisonment and a- fine of 800,000 rupees for contravening cotton textile control orders. Passing sentence, the Magistrate remarked: "Profiteers are pests of society and
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    62 1 THE RAINS CAME when Mr. James Griffiths went lo Sungei Besi tin mine in Selangor. The Minister went ™VA j" rain c«»t and with umbrella to inspect the mine. With him are (left) Mr. A. H. M. Cretch, Chief Inspector of Mines, Mr. V. Noall, manager, Sungei Besi mine and
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    BANGKOK LIFTS THE CONTROLS
    129 1 BANGKOK, Tues. CIAM'S Government last night promulgated a Royal decree lifting Import control on all goods hitherto restricted with the exception of sugar, molasses products, cars, motor cycles, paint, oils, cement and oxygen which are still under control. Tung oil and linseed oil having iodine value
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    'YES' GAME TOO LATE
    115 1 THIS is the story which the captain of the Norwegian ship Bergersgram, which B-rived in Singapore yesterciay for bunkers, had to tell: When we arrived at Dalny, my chief electri.fiian was taken seriously ill \oiih appendicitis. t begged the Communist igauthorities for permission to ami him
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    STRONG ENOUGH
    38 1 MANILA, Taes— The U.S. naval force in the Pacific is sufficient to meet any emergency and 00 Immediate increase in its strength is contemplated, said Admiral Arthur W. Radford, Command-er-in-Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.— A.P.
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    MCA Request To Mr. Griffiths
    246 1 CITIZENSHIP COMMISSION From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. A DELEGATION from the Malayan Chinese Asso- ciation which interviewed Mr. James Griffiths, Secretary of State for the Colonies, at King's House this morning, suggested the appointment of a commission to study carefully the whole question
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    HOLIDAY COSTS 275 LIVES
    42 1 NEW YORK, Tues.—The toll of violent deaths in America's Memorial Day weekend rose to 275 today. With one more day of the holiday to go traffic crashes had cost 181 lives. Drownings and other accidents accounted for 94.—Reuter.
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    HOME RULE PLEA
    27 1 EDINBURGH, Tues Church leaders from all parts of Scotland appealed to the British Government today to consider the question of home rule for Scotland.—Reuter.
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    SMUTS IN BED
    26 1 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Tues.—Field Marshal Smuts Is bedfast with sciata at his farm near Pretoria. Doctors last night said they were not alarmed.-»-U.P.
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    PREMIER ILL
    21 1 VALETTA, Malta, Tues: Malta's Prime Minister, Dr. Paul Buffa, was taken 111 In the Legislative Assembly last night. Reuter.
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    RUBBER TOPS 90 CENTS PER LB.
    49 1 {RUBBER in Singapore yesterday leapt in price by over 3!l> cents per lb. to 911 cents. Business was done at this price for firstgrade June shipment. Singapore dealers are of the opinion that the price may rise still further. (Details in page 11).
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    THIEF REPENTS
    31 1 SYDNEY, Tues.— A theif who robbed the home of a man attending his wife's funeral returned a bracelet and wedding ring by post two days after an appeal. Reuter.
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    'Malaya Peace Vital,' Menzies
    170 1 'Malaya Peace Vital, Menzies CANBERRA, Tues is no question A that the position in Malaya today is serious", Australia's Prime Minister, Mr. Robert Menzies said last night. He told the House of Representatives: "It is fundamental to Australia's security that the situation in Malaya, which has been brought about by
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    OVER 6,130,000 IN TOKYO
    19 1 TOKYO, Tues. Tokyo's population on April 1 was 6,134,000, says the Tokyo Metropolitan Report.— Reuu-r.
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    30,000 ESCAPES
    29 1 TEHERAN, Tues. Tinny thousand mud houses and shops collapsed during; a flood in Meshed, East Iran, yesterday, according to reports reaching here. No casualties were reported. A.P.
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    FALSE VISAS
    23 1 GENOA, Tues. —An organisation which provided fafse emigration visas for lie Argentine at £100 sterling each has been found her?.- -Reuter.
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    Winnipeg Flood Fefugees Go Home As Water Recedes
    285 2 WINNIPEG, Tuesday. THE tide of Manitoba flood refugees,* mostly women, children, the old and the sick, was slowly beginning to flow back into Winnipeg today. The return of 900 hospital patients evacuated to Saskatchewan has started and the backward movement of more
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    SADISTIC SLAYER SOUGHT
    131 2 LONDON, Tues. HUNDREDS of police and detectives searched today for a sadistic killer who picked up Agnes Mary Walsh in Piccadilly Circus on Saturday and left her nearlynude body in a rented room with her own silk stocking knotted around her throat. The killer was described as
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    RED LEAFLETS
    48 2 CAIRO, Tues. Authorities in Cairo started secret investigation on Monday after the arrest of four policemen who were alleged to have carried leaflets against the Minister of the Interior, Fuad Sirapelden Pasha. Communist leaflets attacking Fuad were known co have beer, uncovered a few days ago.-Reuter.
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    WRONG FLAG HELD UP RACE
    68 2 LONDON, Tuesday. rE Spanish Republican flag flattered over the White City Stadium at the British Track and Field Games yesterday and threatened to cause an international incident A Spanish competitor, Senor R. Baldoma. saw the red. yellow and purple flag among those of other nations
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    HIGH BUT NOT DRY
    39 2 WINNIPEG CAR being hoisted above the flood and hung from the branches of a tree. The owner of this Canadian house lashed cycles to the chimney while the water rose for several weeks. A.P. picture.
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      'Earl Of Derby Wrote Shakespeare's Plays'
      228 2 LONDON, Tuesday. PROF. Titherly is seeking to prove in a 400 page book, which is the result of 30 years study, that William Stanley, sixth Earl of Derby, was the man who wrote the plays attributed to William Shakespeare. Titherly, now aged 75 und
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    JAPS ATTACK U.S. POLICE
    280 3 Stones Thrown At Tokyo Red Meeting TOKYO, Tuesday. AMERICAN military police today arrested four Japanese after an attack by Com-munist-led Japanese on a group of four American soldiers. This was the first time that violence of this nature had occurred since the occupation began. The incident
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    ASCOT WINNER
    33 3 PINK ANGEL was the name of this bright summer bat M n at the fashionable English race meeting. It is of pink straw trimmed with flowers and mother-of-pearl uinss.— Reuter picture.
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    MALAYA WAR MUST BE WON'
    169 3 MALAYA WAR MUST BE WON' LONDON. Tues. THE Daiiy Telegraph said today that the war in Muiuya was now the most critical point in the "universal cold war," and must be won at all costs. "Communist control of Malaya wouid spell immeasurab.e disaster to the Western powers in Suiith-Etst Asia
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    HAD 4 "WIVES" -LOSES JOB
    43 3 MANILA, Tues.-A wife need not testify against a husband, but four did and cost a Manila patrolman, Nicasio Clemente, his job for "gross misconduct" after lour women he had married in eight years confronted him before investigators.— U.P.
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    "EAGER TO BE DEMOCRATIC"
    64 3 TOKYO, Tues. lEUTENANT GENERAL Walton H. Walker. Comimnding General of the Eighth United States Army, said today it had become "increasingly apparent that the great majority of the Japanese people are willing and eager to accept democracy." The General, who was delivering a memorial day address
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    DEFENCE TALKS IN CAIRO
    128 3 DEFENCE TALKS IN CAIRO LONDON, Tues. WELL-INFORMED quarters said today that they considered it likely that FieldMarshal Sir William Siim, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, will go to Cairo in the near future for military talks on the defence of the Suez Canal zone. Reliable quarters saia that Field
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    PAKISTAN ENVOY
    23 3 CANBERRA. Tues.—Pakistan's first High Commissioner to Australia, Yusuf Abduulah Haroon, was today received by the Prime Minister, Mr. G. Menzies. Reuter.
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    61, ON RAPE CHARGES
    93 3 TOKYO, Tucs. Masami Ban, 61-year-old artist and member of the local Juvenile Protection Committee, was arrested yesterday on charges of rape and indecency. Ban was charged with having raped at least 13 young »»irls between the agos of 11 and 15. His approach was to Invite
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    NEW GUILDERS
    32 3 JAKARTA, Tues.— The Indonesian Senate in closed session this morning took up the bill concerning the issue of 230,000,000 guilders in new notes with the likeness of President Sukarno.— U.P.
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    MARIA'S PARENTS
    51 3 THE HERTOGH family, parents of 13-year-old Maria, whose return to them in Holland is opposed by her Malay foster-mother, Aminah. Mr. A. P. Hertogh is on the extreme left with a Dutch Red Cross worker, who helped in their search for Maria, between him and his wife. A.P.
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    Asia Wants More Say In World
    245 3 BAGUIO, Tuesday. THE Bag uio conference ended at noon today after the delegates formally approved a resolution for increased economic and cultural co-operation among themselves, and a greater voice in world councils dealing with Asian affairs. The final plenary session was addressed by the
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    Deserters Were Told Of Horrors
    186 3 BERLIN, Tues. FJESPITE Communist propaganda stories, such as "the British and Americans will feed you poisoned fruit and give you explosive cigarettes," many East Berlin Germans, including a mayor and scores of policemen, deserted the Communist fold and sought sanctuary in the Western sectors during
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    Election Arrests
    30 3 TOKYO, Tues.— Police have arrested 70 peopie in the Tokyo area for breaking the Electoral Law. Offences range from vote -buying to the distribution of banned literature. Reuter.
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    Network Of Spies In Canada
    156 3 TORONTO, Tuesday. Q<PY fever has today reached its highest pitch in Canada since 1946, when a Russian cipher clerk, Igor Gouzenko, exposed to Canadian authorities the existence of an elaborate Soviet spy network. So far, the excitement Is based mostly on speculation. The focal points
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    FLOOD DAMAGE IN JAPAN
    49 3 TOKYO, Tues.— Two persons were killed, one home destroyed and 104 houses flooded above floor height on Sunday in the Fukushima prefecture because qf heavy rains. Two bridges were washed away, rivers «.ve )< flowed at 16 points and roads were damaged fn several places. Reuter.
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    30 CANDIDATES WERE RED
    47 3 SEOUL. Tues. SOUTH Korean police yesterday announced 112 arrests, including 30 candidates contesting today's general election, after discovery of a Communist spy ring. The police claim to have broken a code in which messages were being sent to formerly Russian-occupied Northern Korea.— Reuter.
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    OPERATIONS FOR ALI KHAN, WIFE
    72 3 BOSTON, Tues. Pakistan Premier, Liaquat Ali Khan, and the Begum are expected to undergo operations in Boston hospital after" their tour of Canada this week. The Pakistan Ambassador, Ispahanl, said that the Premier had left hospital after a two-day chehcfc-up and was advised to return
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    ICEBREAKER GOES TO AID OF TRAWLER
    66 3 SEATTLE, Tues. The United States Coast Guard Icebreaker North Wind yesterday weut to the aid of the 52-foot trawler Oceanus in distress with six men aboard off the gale-lashed British Columbia coast, 500 miles north-west of here. The Royal Canadian Air Force at Vancouver
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    INDONESIA MOVE ON FOREIGN SHARES
    137 3 JAKARTA, Tues. DOREIGN firms in Indonesia may apply to the Foreign Exchange Institute for foreign exchange to pay dividends of shares held abroad, according to Aneta news agerjey. If the authorisation is granted, the Institute will empower the applicants' banker to pay the dividends In
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    Reds Fall Back
    188 3 Reds Fall Back HANOI, Tues. REBEL guerilla forces have been driven from the entire Red River delta area of northern Indo-China, Major-General Marcal Alessandri, commanding officer in the area, said yesterday. He told the Agence France Presse that about 2,100 square miles with a population of 3,000,000 have been reoccupied
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    JUMPED TO HER DEATH
    115 3 RICHMOND, Virginia, Tues. Mary Thatcher, aged 57, wife of a vice-president of the Philip Morris Company, tobacco firm, ill and with a divorce pending against her husband, committed suicide yesterday by jumping from an office building window. This was her fourth try in two days. Police
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    REPLY TO RUSSIA
    29 3 WASHINGTON. Tues. Diplomatic circles here say the United States, Britain and France are framing parallel notes rejecting Russia's demand that Trieste should be internationalised. R?' r.
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    MINING LEADER ON EMERGENCY 'Far Greater Weight Of Resources Must Be Utilised'
    1100 4 MINING LEADER ON EMERGENCY 'Far Greater Weight Of Resources Must Be Utilised' From Our Staff Correspondent iPOH, Tuesday. THE overall situation in Malaya has not improved and a far greater weight of resources must be utilised if law and order is to be restored, said Mr. W. M. Warren, acting
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    MRNVR CHIEF IS BACK
    30 4 MRNVR CHIEF IS BACK THE OFFICER COMMANDING M.R.N.V.R. Cmdr. Lamincrt R.N.V.R. with his wife, and daughter, Carolyn Frances, returned to the Colony yesterday on the s.s. Canton. Straits Times picture.
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    Chinese Schools Ask For More
    251 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesaay. EiIFTY-ONE Chinese schools ir Selangor have sent 1 a joint appeal to the acting Chief Secretary to increase their grants-in-aid i n order to permit them to carry on. Pointing out the "precarious position" of all these Chinese
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    SPECIALIST...
    66 4 SIR PHILIP MANSONBAHR, world-famous specialist m tropical diseases, photographed by the Straits Times on his arrival at Kalians airport yesterday when returning to London from a four months' study of Filairsis (Elephantiasis) m the Fiji Islands. Sir Philip took a colour film, which he hopes to show m London
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    Exams Here Quiet, But In Cairo...
    145 4 ALL THE 108 arts and 57 n science students turned up punctually at Oei Tiong Ham Hall, Singapore, yesterday for the first degree examinations of the University of Malaya The invigilators, Professor G. G. Hough, Department of English, and Mr. C. G Webb, Department
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    WIDER USE OF SCOUT GRANT
    54 4 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— Allocations from the grant made by .the Federation Boy Scouts' Association to the Johore Boy Scouts' Association are to be made to Boy Scout troops in Chinese Gov-ernment-aided schools. In the past the grant has been divided between
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    DOG OFFENCE From Our Own Correspondent
    32 4 DOG OFFENCE From Our Own Correspondent PARIT BUNTAR, Tues. Because he did not muzzle his dog or have It chained up Ng Yoke Slew was fined $4 in the Parlt Buntar Court.
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    Pamphlets On Citizenship
    85 4 J^BOUT 2,000 pamphlets explaining the citizenship proposals of the Communities Liaison Committee are being distributed by the Johore Bahm branch of UMNO to fts .nemben, the Majlis reports "The issue vitally concerns the Malays. They must therefore oe given every opportunity to discuss among themselves these proposals
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    PRESS OFFICER FOR BRIGGS
    120 4 From Our Staff Corrcponttent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. THE staff of the Director of Operations, Lieut-Gene-ral Sir Harold Briggs, Is to be Increased by the addition of a staff officer who is to be •tyled Emergency Information Officer. An official statement says that Mr. A. E. Josey
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    $15 STORM
    46 4 From Our SUIT Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— Tan Leng Hak was fined $15 in the Johore Bahru Police Court today for being in the Strait* of Johore in a sampan during curfew noiirs. Tan told the Court that he was delayed by a storm.
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    Malacca Plea To Union Men
    287 4 Malacca Plea To Union Men From Our SUB Correspondent MALACCA, Tues. "YTOJ must pull as a r team in the interest, of Malacca workers as a whole and not confine your activities to your; particular industrial sec-« tion or group," Mr. R. Caddick. Assistant Trade Union Adviser, Southern Division, told
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    CHEATED LEGAL ADVISER
    71 4 JOHCRE BAHRU, Tues.— Osman bin Yahaya, a driver. was admonished and discharged in the Sessions Court today for cheating. After he had been dismissed by Mr. D. B. W. Good, the Legal Adviser, Johore, Osman went to a washerman and asked for $2. saying Mr. Good's car
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    STOLE FOWL
    35 4 From Our SUIT i orrespnnid nt JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— Tan Song Guan. a hawker, was fined $50 in the Johore Bahru Police Court today for theft of a fowl fron a Malay's compound.
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    Police Transfer
    26 4 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Tues.— ASP. Ahmad bin Haji Hussein, 0.C.P.D., Johore Bahru, has been appointed Assistant Adjutant, Police Depot, Kuala Lumpur.
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    "CHINA SEAS NOT SAFE"—SHIP'S CREW
    173 4 "CHINA SEAS NOT SAFE"— SHIP'S CREW From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Tuesday. TIME crew of the Georgios Patamianos stopped work for only a few hours last Wednesday because they did not want to go to th e China Seas which they considered unsafe, Mr. S G. Lindholm shipping manager of
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    NEW STAMPS OUT TOMORROW
    71 4 Fuaxaub stamps ol Johore, Kedah, Malacca, Negri Sembilan, FahanK, Penang, Selangor and Trengganu will be available at the Singapore General Post Office from tomorrow. The stamps are available in denominations of one cent to $5. A complete set for any State or Settlement will cost $9.84.
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    Went Wrong Way
    36 4 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— Dost Mohamed, a Singaoore driver who turned Into a one way traffic road agat.i3t the stream was lined $5 in the Johore Bahru Police Court today.
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    COMPANY'S HOUSING PLANS REJECTED
    358 5 43 Units In Less Than An Acre From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. KUALA LUMPUR Municipal Commissioners' Buildings and Plans Committee today turned down an application by the Singapore Cold Storage Company for permission to erect staff quarters at Sungei Besi Road. The decision was
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    Near ing The End Of The Battle....
    41 5 FIREMEN WERE STILL IN ACTION yesterday among smouldering rubber and cotton yarn in the gutted godown of Louis Dreyfus in Outram Road. This picture shows the devastation caused by the fire.— Straits Times picture
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    Wounded, Fought Off Terrorists
    380 5 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Tuesday. A SPECIAL constable acting as escort to the assistant manager of Kamuning Estate, Sungei Siput, Mr. John A. T. Jones, was killed and Mr Jones himself wounded when an unknown number of bandits yesterday ambushed their <^ar on an estate
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    Singapore Diary
    99 5 CHINESE V.M.C.A.. Selegie Road, staff meeting, 9 a.m., chess club, 5 p.m., welghtlighting, 5.30 p.m., badminton and basketball. 5.30 p.m., mouthorgan class. 7 p.m. MUNICIPAL COMMISSION. monthly meeting followed by a special meeting, Board Room, 2.15 p.m. Y.W.C.A.. Katong Groups' .neeting. St. Hilda's School, Ceylon Road, 4 p.m.
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    FINED $15
    32 5 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Tues.—ln the Muar Magistrate's Court, Tia Poh Joon was fined $15 for the building partitions, compartments and outhouses and other structures without Town Board's permission.
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    FINED FOR GOATS
    25 5 From Oar Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Tues. —Dagang bin Mohamed, aged GO, was fined $4 at Segamat for allowing his goats to stray.
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    "Give Goods Vehicles Freedom"
    153 5 A PLAN for the freer movement of Singapore goods vehicles entering Johore has received the unanimous support of a committee ">t Municipal Commissioners. The committee has vxpressed the view that anything that can be done to secure for Singapore goods vehicles in Johore the same treatment
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    MUSLIMIN TRUST OFFICIALS
    58 5 Officials of the Muslimln Trust Fund Association. Singapore, a» e: President, Dato Syed Ahmad bin Mohamed Alsagoff: hon. secretary and treasurer. Syed EX T; committee: Dr. S. I. M. Ibrarrm. Syed Abdullah bin Yahya. Syed Huss,ain bin AH Al Inche Mohamed bin Hajl All. Shaikh Abdurrahman bin
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    FOUND IN SEA
    21 5 BUTTERWORTH Tues. The body of an Infant girl was today found floating; in the sea below Mitchell Pier.
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    Wants House Of Rammed Earth
    242 5 YIR. C. M. LEE, a Singapuie business man, plans to iTI build a house with rammed earth, a mixture of earth, sand and lime. I < He saw this mixture used irj the anti-flood walls along the banks of the Swatow River in South China
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    Goats Strayed
    23 5 SEGAMAT, Tues.— Because they allowed their goats to stray at Labis, Suppiah and Naina-were fined $5 and $3 respectively at Segamat.
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    BACK TO STUDIES
    67 5 MISS N. LEELA MENON. daughter of Mr. K. M. K. Menon, senior mathematics master at Raffles Institution. Singapore, flew by Air Ceylon to Colombo yesterday. Miss Menon is returning to Madras after spending a brief holiday with her parents here, and is to complete her final year
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    KALLANG AIRPORT ARRIVALS
    239 5 THE following passengers "were among those who disembarked at the Kallang Airport yesterday from points outside Malaya on the various air services. Passengers in transit are not included in the list. X.L.M. From Amsterdam: Messrs. Alexander Martin, H. B. W. E'.liot and Patrick Joseph Hawe. From Cairo:
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    Lady Gimson Returns To Singapore
    116 5 Lady Gimson Returns To Singapore CPEC1AL security and auxilliary police were posted at all keypoints in the Singapore Harbour Board vhen Lady Gimson, accompanied by the Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, arrived on the P. O. liner Canton vesterday morning. Lady Gimson, wearing an emerald green frock, disembarked Immediately
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    DRIVER FINED
    28 5 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Tues.—A driver. Ng Chang Nam. who carried passengers in his lorry at Bukit Pasir was fined $10 by the Muar Magistrate.
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    Godown Blaze: Arson Theory
    227 5 Godown Blaze: Arson Theory SINGAPORE police, suspecting arson, yeslerdav began investigating a $700,000 fire whicn gutted th e Louis Drey lus rubber godown in Outram Road early yesterday morning. A half-filled oil can tound near the scene was seized by the police at 4 a.m. The godown, owned by the
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    Constitution To Be Changed
    78 5 THE constitution of tlie People's Education Association of Singapore is to be changed so that members of trade unions affiliated to it could be admitted to individual membership at a reduced subscription. The new constitution will Im discussed at a special general meeting to be held
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    DEATH
    18 6 ANN AND FRED MACK regret fc> announce Uie death of their darling son Geoffrey, on 39th May.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    91 6 MR. MRS. A. B. OOMEZ. Eungel Masai Estate, Maaal, Jnhorp, thank all relatives friends who attended their wedding, sent valuable presents and ngs. MR. MRS. W. B. LOPEZ tit Malacca, sincerely thank all friends relatives, for their atIrndance, assistance, useful pre«rnts telegrams on the occasion <> f their marriage
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Wed., May 31, 1950 A Synthetic Alarm
    663 6 Some familiar names are mentioned in American reports that rubber manufacturers are urging that more synthetic rubber factories be put into production, feeling that America is "approaching another crisis in the rubber industry. Mr. John L. Tollyer, President of
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    A London Echo Of Bukit Serene
    408 6 A Kuala Lumpur resident who is on leave in London has sent back to the Straits Times a cutting from The Times of May 25 in which the Minister of State, Mr. Younger, was reported as saying in the House of Commons The Malayan
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    STRAIGHT TALKING TO THE MINISTERS
    1056 6  -  DICKSON BROWN ]\JR. James Griffiths, Secretary of State foi the Colonies, and Mr. John Strachey, Secretary of State for War, will leave Malaya with no illusions about what the people in th5s country think. They, or at least Mr: Strachey, will also be left in
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      Britain In Malaya: Mr. A. F. Taylor
      580 6 Britain In Malaya Mr. A. F. Taylor 'THERE is no gainsaying the facts that: (a) There is a heavy and steady flow of capital away from Malaya; (b) It is becoming increasingly difficult to attract first-class men to the professions and to business in this country; (c) Whereas Malaya with
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      MR. STRACHEY IN THE MARKET
      47 6 I N°TO fro tod *y S,(M^ 27) f. l^ c the Straits Times tnat Mr- fatr*ckey expressed ffSSuStc answer to qulte aimjile but jt i S quite understandable that Mr. .Strachey would not know it. The answer Is''Trivate Enterprise." FREEDOM. Slnf apore.
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      BIBLE STUDY FOR PRESSMEN
      196 6 "i^ECIL Street's" comment on a market correspondent's Biblical knowledge proves that what "Cecil Street" was taught by compulsion was not remembered. Had he referred to the Bible is there one in the Straits Times office?— then he would have found the analogy apt. He would have
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      NO TRIBUTES FOR MINERS?
      125 6 j IT Is indeed heartening I to read in the Straits Times of May 23 a fine i tribute paid by Sir John Hay to the commendable record of the rubber planters and their staffs during this emergency. We never find any of the principals of
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    On the Margin
    399 6 Morning Star yyE ARE not finished yet with our reflections on the Star and Crescent in the Federation flag. Mr. Basil J. P. Joaqulm, of Kuala Lumpur, writes: You ask, "What wan the origin of the Star, and how did it come to be linked with the
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    ONE-WAY TRAFFIC SCHEME OPPOSED
    559 7 Will Cost Bus Travellers More, S'poreM.Cs.Told T HEW] can be no justification for a one-way 2- v s J cheme L n Sin a Pore until it has been established as a first principle that the most efficient use is being made of present road surfaces,
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    DRIVE STARTS FOR NEW VOTERS
    205 7 DRIVE STARTS FOR NEW VOTERS CINGAPORES Labour a and Progressive parties and a number of business firms have between them drawn more than 75,000 registration forms for voters in the Municipal and Legislative Council elections. Election authorities expect a substan tial rise i n the number of pie -tors this
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    MURDER PLAN ALLEGATION
    61 7 Two Indians. Danapal and Gnvindasamy. appeared be- I for.' the Singapore Relief Cuurt magistrate, Mr CF Seston. yesterday, and were tentatively charged with "having abetted Chua Seng Kee during the month of April in the planning of a murder which was not committed in consequence of their
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    Chamber To Support Bus Protest
    165 7 T1HE Singapore Chinese J Chamber of Commerce will support the protest made by the Chinese Bus Owners' Association against what it called "unfair competition" by the Singapore Traction Company. This decision was made at yesterday's monthly meeting of 4he Chinese Chamber when the bus owners"
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    FOR DETENTION
    32 7 Abdul Rahman, a 52-year-Md Indian who appeared in ihe Second Police Court-yes-terday on a charge of vagrincy was sent to house of letention by the magistrate Mr. S. E. Teh
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    HURT WIFE ALLEGATION
    69 7 Teo Chiam Chwee, aged 25 claimed trial in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday on a charge of-caus-es grievous hurt with a knife to his wife, Lim Sai £°*fnn a d was offered bail of $500 ln two sureties. The case was adjourned to June o. r
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    TOURIST LEAGUE FOR SINGAPORE
    60 7 The development of a Tourist League in Singapore to implement decisions made by ECAFE at Its last meeting ln Bangkok will be discussed at a meeting arranged hy the Singapore Economic Secretariat this morning. A 5 r&inis Groom, .Travel Consultant appointed by 1 ECAFE, will maei
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    Thousands See Mr. Yong's Funeral
    471 7 THOUSANDS lined the streets of Singapore in the Dlazin* sun yesterday to sec the funeral of Mr. Yon* Yit Lin, leader of th e Kheh community and a contractor, who was killed at the Ton* Lam Club, Bukit Pasoh, last Thursday. The funeral procession, one
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    SLEPT ON DUTY: GAOLED
    225 7 SLEPT ON DUTY: GAOLED "IN a time of emergency like 1 this, I must take a serious view of this offence said Mr. S. E. Teh, the Singapore Second Police Court magistrate yesterday when he sentenced a young special constable, Jamil bin Jofri, to two weeks' rigorous imprisonment for sleeping
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    TREASURY BILLS
    18 7 Singapore Government will nvite tenders for an Issue )f $6,000,000 by Treasury Sills on June 10.
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    He Didn't Want To Be A Russian
    143 7 AN elderly Russian who had n lived in Malaya for 30 years, was yesterday cautioned and llscharged In the Singapore First District Court on a charge of defacing his identity card by changing his nationality from "Russian" to "former Russian". "He probably wanted
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    Wanted: 'Indonesian Type Girl'
    299 7 JllR. Carol Reed, leading British film director, X1M arrived in Singapore yesterday seeking an Indonesian type girl with a certain amount of acting experience." Mr. Reed stressed this point: "We are not 1 wldng for an extremely pretty girl. Rather, she must have a strong character."
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    BICYCLES: STRICTER CONTROL PLANNED
    95 7 tration) By-laws which will hft discussed at a special mStin? of Municipal Commfiionerf this afternoon Under the proposed bylaws all bicycles which are to be E^ered for the first time must be produced for Inspeccles"m^ eotße otR^ glSt,i;ar ot Vehv!" s^ -Mays: SspKratX f °r blcycle
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    FUNERAL PROCESSION
    43 7 POLICE JEEP leads the funeral procession for Mr. Ton» Thl Moantb»tt«n Road, Sinrapore, yesterday wit* OMhid-deeorated hear se was followed by 75 lorries SS «S*h" nd n .oo»»ln« emblems as well as many cars and bases with mourners.— Straits Times picture
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    STRACHEY TALKS TO TROOPS
    141 7 STRACHEY TALKS TO TROOPS From Our Staff Correspondent BENTONG, Tues. MR. John Strachey, Secretary of State for War today told men of the Ist Devon Regiment, who had Just returned from an operation that "the British Government was determined to see this thing through." National Servicemen among 'he troops told
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    Debtor, Creditor Case Verdict
    316 7 Debtor, Creditor Case Verdict THE Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Murray-Aynsley, gave judgment yesterday in the Singapore Supreme Court in favour of Madame Constance Quaker, who claimed from Madame Xho Siok Eng, under the Debtor and Creditor (Occupation Period) Ordinance of 1949, a sum of $917. being balance of a mortgage
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    INDIAN ATTACHE IN SINGAPORE
    27 8 VOL. S. R. L'BEROI. India s first military atta.hr to its rmbassy at Jakarta, who arrived at Kalian* airport yesterday Straits Times picture.
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    Officers Of FMS Mines Chamber
    116 8 Officers Of FMS Mines Chamber from Our Staff vi r.,p<»idcnt IPOH. Tues. VI R. J. T. CHAPPEL was m elected President of the FMS Chamber of Mines at the 39th annual general meeting in Ipoh today. Other Council members el^eG »vre vice-president. Mr. W. M Warren, Messrs. E. D. Bain.
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    HAD LIQUOR IN TYRE TUBE
    52 8 A Chinese woman, i^" Seok Ttant. Pleaded Bmlty before Mr. C. H. V. Blake. Singapore Third Police Magistrate yesterday to being found with dutiable liquor, concealed in a car tyre in a tube. Sentence was postponed Ml June 6. Bail of $100 in one surety
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    BETTER SERVICE TERMS PROMISE
    130 8 BETTER SERVICE TERMS PROMISE AN assurance of better conditions of service for locally enlisted Malayan other ranks was given by Major General D. Dunlop, G.O.C. Singapore District, at the nassme-out parade oi ?55 recruits of the Training and Transit Centre at Nee Soon yesterday. Mohd. Noor bin Ismail, 3 Coy
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    GIRL GUIDE FUN FAIR
    81 8 GIRL GUIDE FUN FAIR From Our s> nl KUALA LUMPTJP. Tues.— A fun and trade fair and a concert will be given by the Perils Girl Guide Association under the patronage of the Raja Perempuan of Perils at the Malay School, Kangar, on Friday. The Perlis girl guides will stage
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    HAD SAMSU: FINED
    47 8 MUAR. Mon.— Ng Kirn Seng, aged 57, was fined $70, or 30 days 1 hard labour, for possession of samsu and $80, or a further 33 days' gaol, for possessing apparatus for the purpose of manufacturing intoxicating liquor. The sentences are to run consecutively.
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    CHAMPION RECRUIT
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    Tapper Had A Hand Grenade, To Die
    290 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA Ll'MPUR. Tuesday. f OO CHONG, a young Chinese rubber tapper was Li todav sentenced to death b> Mr. Justice EN. Tavlorfnthe Supreme Court, Kuala Lwnvur.Jw unlawfuT possession of a handgrenade. The verdict of euiltv was returned by two
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    ACTING M.O.
    32 8 From Our Own Correspondent KAJANG, Tues.—Dr. Balbir Singh, of Kuala Lumpur, is acting as Medical Officer at the District Hospital, Kajang, as Dr. Vellupillai is on three weeks' local leave.
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    NO LICENCE: $5
    30 8 From Our Own I'orresponcknt SEGAMAT, Tues.—For failing to take out a licence for her dog, Tan Chee, a Chinese voman. was Pneci So by the Sega.mat Magisin.'.e.
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    Political Unrest A Handicap To Tin Recovery, Says Fergusson
    490 8 Political Unrest A Handicap To Tin Recovery, Says Fergusson thechairman, at the annual meeting yesterday of the Straits Trading Company. time/; he^dded.^^ fc preparation for the time when world industrial activity may not be as robust as it is today and when strategic stockpiling may not be as actually necessary
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    BOYS NOT RELIABLE —BENCH
    132 8 From Our SUB Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Tues rE Johore Bahru Magistrate, inche Kadir. said today that the evidence of tnr?J boys on a fatal road accident could not be relied uS>n 2nd it looked to him that the boys had been coached in what to say.
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    MEN WANTED FOR ARMY
    71 8 Irom onr SUft Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.The Army in Malaya is looking for further reinforcements for the R.A.S.C. and A recruiting officer will be at Klang (Central Police Station) on Friday and at Kajang (Central Police Station* on Monday. He will be available from 9 a.m.
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    LIQUOR WAS FOR HIS WIFE
    50 8 Found with illicit liquor. Lim Peng Yee. a labourer, was fined $80. or three weeks rigorous imprisonment, in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday. Duty payable was $27 21 Pleading guilty, Lim said that the liquor was mixed with medicine and was for his wife.
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    POURED BOILING WATER ON HIM
    34 8 A Javanese youth. Baharen bin Talb. was fined $30 or two weeks' rigorous imprisonment in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday for pouring boildins water on Suliman Din Kasut.
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    Had Chandu: Gaol
    42 8 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR. Tues. Tan Chai Tian aged 53, found in possession of seven match boxes containing chandu dross at Jalan Yahya. was sentenced to three weeks' simple imprisonment by the President of the Muar Sessions Court.
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    Soldier Sent To Gaol For Theft
    132 8 A BRITISH serviceman, John Duckworth, aged 21, A W a s sentenced to one months *»OT™ J^'"^ ment yesterday in the Singapore Third Police Court for theft of jewellery valued at $510 from Mr jnd Mrs. de Vries, passengers on board the steamer Hemland
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    SWEET POTATO CULTIVATION
    46 8 The Federation of Malaya 1 planted 26,566 acres with food crops, other than padi, In the first quarter of the year. Of this 11,533 acres were under sweet potato, 992 acres under groundnut, 1,351 acres under maize and 10,348 acres under market garden.
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    FINED $80
    19 8 MUAR, Tues. A driver, Abdul Hamld. was fined »0 by the Muar Magistrate lor overloading Ml truck.
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    Lorry Driver Acquitted
    73 8 From Our Own Correspondent KAJANG. Tues.-Loo Fooa lorry driver was acquitted and discharged by the Kaiang Circuit Magistrate Inche Anuar, on a charge or causing the death of D. Abu Hassau bin Abdullah and Teng Kan Fatt by a negligent act. Abu Hassan and Tong fell off
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    J.B. ACQUITTAL
    47 8 From Oar SUIT Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— Teo Wee Hock, of Singapore, who was charged with indecently assaulting a four-year-old European girl, was acquitted in the Sessions Court today by Mr. W. B Sutherland, the President of the Court. The proceedings were held in camera.
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    VICTORIA HALL FILM-SHOWS PLAN
    46 8 commercially, at a small admission shaige Ut the VfcUria To h make this possible, a committee of Municipal CoirmisSers has agreed in principle to making the SSSi awllable and recommend* that Commissioned should contributo $259 toward the wpensei ol living these show».
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    The London Letter The Merry Month of May
    1472 9 LONDON, May 21. IN a quiet and homely way, Wav often seems the most pleasing month of the \rar in England. It's the month when thp seeds start to sprout at.d the exciting green rows streak the brown et>rtli in the garden.
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    Here and THERE IN BRITAIN
    564 9 Here and THERE IN BRITAIN ■I mHE abolition of > A "points" means that one can, for the first S time since early in the j> war. now walk into a ■J grocer's shop and buy as much tinned salmon, I* l m or golden syrup, tinned peaches or chocolate
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      203 9 STF* AITS TIMESC«*0!5SWO*!D «ci>eit n pre» "•J«2w«» <«• CROSSWORD No. 67 I. Drink otter Joha CM). M. Jw Itorttero franc. ft '1 r«W U .%-w-i aa,u«ai f] L II L E. in the course «f filnJ yi^m, tn r* "j To* I* pVs" (or point In *L P t C"SLSf??m"'
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    FROM A SINGAPORE BOOKSHELF The longing for the past
    942 10 The Last Romantics. By Graham Hough. (Duckworth, 155.) By ]y|R. HOUGH was for three years a prisoner of the Japanese. He managed not only to keep alive but to think a great deal "in the intervals of more pressing activities" about
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    LIBRARY LIST
    271 10 THE following new books and reorints will be added to Raffles Library within the next few days' The Court-Martial of the "Bounty" Mutineers. Owen Rutter (ed). Refrigeration Air ConditionIng. R. C. Jordan G. B. Priester. Religion In China, E. R. K. Hughes. The Theory Practice of Gamesmanship, Stephen
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    A GOOD GUIDE TO MALAY
    203 10 k SECOND edition of "A Guide to Malay Conversation," by Mr. A. E. Coope, late of the Malayan Civil Service, has been pub- lished by Kelly and Walsh at $3. This edition has been revised and enlarged by Mr. Coope, but he says in his
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    EAST & WEST have met
    265 10 EAST WEST have met "DULSE", a little book of 'verse by Wang Gung Wu published privately by Beda Lim at the University of Malaya, will be an eye-opener to any of th e Kipling persuasion who may come across it. The twain, East and West, have met. and the result
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      81 10 SINGAPORE 10 a.m. News from K.L.: 10.05 Close; 10.50 Schools; 12 Malay; l p.m. Dance Music; 1.30 News1.45 Light Music; 2 Close; 6 Children; 6.30 Light Music: 7 News. Share Marsei; 7.12 Radio Scientist: 7.30 Rhythm Parade: 8 Radio Doctor; 8.10 Classical Mu&ic Shop; 8.30 Much Binding In The Marsh;
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      79 10 News; 10.10 Close; 13-7.30 p.m. A« S'pore; 7.30 American Jazz; 7.45 "Intermezso;" 8 Wednesday Theatre. "Track of the Cat:" 8 New Recording; ».3O News; 9.45 Barbara Mullen, Songs; 10 Movie Magazine; 10.30 Dance Music* 11 Close. PEMANO 10 a.m. News from K.L., 10.50 —1 p.m. As S'pore; 0 Listeners Calling;
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      81 10 Wives' Tale;1 1° Dance *»»%l sic: I 1 Close. B. F. E. B. a. 4.45 p.m. Prom the London Editorials; 4.55 Benjamin Erittcr: 5.15 "Report from Britain;" 5.30 Richard Tauber; 6 Indonesian: 6.30 Cantonese; 6.45 "Time for Music;" 7.15 French; 7.30 English Half-hour; 8 "Strictly Instrumental;" 8.15 Thai; 8.45 Dutch;
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    Synthetic As A Market Control
    262 11 Synthetic As A Market Control From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Tues. rpODAY more than ever be1 fore, the rubber market has a very real safety valve In the potential production of synthetic at commercial cost, says the monthly market review of Oow, Wilson and Stanton, the London rubber brokers. It
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    APRIL RUBBER HARVESTS
    41 11 FATT <k Company announce the following April rubber harvests, in lbs.: Brunei Utd. Plant. 28,000 Changkat Serdang Est. 25,700 Chermancr Develop. 120,000 Haytor Est. 11,162 Lunas Est. 59,000 Nyalas Est. 43,700 Rlvervlew Est. 151,000 Tapah Est. 'i 9,422
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    EAST & WEST have met
    108 11 EAST WEST have met SHIPS in the Singapore Outer and Inner Roads and alongside Harbour Board godowns yesterday were: Outer Roads: Hai Hsuan. Ophir. Chong Tong. Drupa. Inner Roads: Matang, Kustbris, Resang, Rajah Brooke, Lanikai, Tung Hua. Kampar. Malim. Hong Thong, Darter. Merlimau, Kah Poh. Banenara. Alongside Godowns: Luxmi 44,
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    STEADIER TONE IN MALAYAN SHARES
    873 11 From Our Market Correspondent THE Malayan share market re-opened yesterday 1 on a steadier tone after the holidays and, with interest still centred on the rubber and tin commodities, inquiries for shares improved slightly. Prices quoted by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were:— Barer ««Mer
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    TIN PRICES
    24 11 SINGAPORE, Tues.. May 30—5301.50 (same). LONDON, Tues.. May 30.— Spot: £601}—£602; Forward, £602}—£603; Settlement, £6012. Turnover: morning, 98 tons; afternoon, 85 tons.
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    Rubber At 91¼ Cts. The Lb.
    236 11 DUSINESS in first-grade rubber for June shipment was done at as high as 91 Vi cents per lb. in Singapore yesterday. The market was firm throughout the day, with fairly heavy buying and with sellers reserved. Singapore dealers were of the view that, with
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    PRODUCE MARKET
    56 11 From A Market Correspondent pOPRA in the Singapore produce market yesterday opened slightly steadier after the holidays. with sellers quoting $39, but dropped to $38'-j sellers and $38% buyers. Coconut oil remained unchanged in price, sellers indicating $62 without buyers. Cloves were steadier, with busl ness done at
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    KOTA RAJA MADE TO WORK FOR VICTORY
    481 12 Thrustful Navy Score 2 Goals Kota Raja 4; Rojal Navy 2. EAGUE leaders Kota Raja had a far from easy passage in defeating Royal Navy four-two in a S.A.F.A. Senior League game at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. Rajas were able to maintain a
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    35 12 HAKITII, Captain of thr Singapore Malaya Cup team that visited Malacca last Saturday, is introduced to Mr. G. E. C. Wisdom, Malacca's Resident Commissioner, by Mr. P. G. M.-»hin-dasa, president of M.F.A. Straits Times picture.
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    Kent v Hants Ends In Tie
    253 12 LONDON. Tues. T*HE County cricket chamJL plonship game between Hampshire and Kent ended in a tie at Southampton today. Scores in the series ending today are given below. At Southampton, Hampshire v Kent tied Kent 162 and 170. Hrints 180 and 152 (Arnold 52).
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    3-1 WIN FOR TIONG BAHRU
    83 12 rpiONG BAHRU Rangers easily defeated Rocklites oy th.ee goals to one when they met In a friendly game of soccer at Fai r er Park yesterday. The Rangers opened teOt-i&fc through Chlong Mun oil a lovely centre by Kai Seng in thf firsthalf. A miskick
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    Dunwoodie Shows Profit Of $323
    303 12 By EPSOM JEEP IPOH, Tuesday. /COMPARATIVE newcomer Vincent Dunwoodie is the only jockey whom it pays to follow on the Malayan Turf this season. Both Arthur Ayres and Jackie Tait show a loss following the Singapore Turf Club's Summer Meeting. Dunwoodie has ridden nine winners
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    DENIS COMPTON IS HOPEFUL'
    133 12 LONDON, Tues. DENIS COMPTON, 32-year-old English Test cricketer, who is suffering from knee trouble, said after an hour's visit today to his orthopaedic surgeon: "We are hopeful." He told Renter that, contrary to reports, it has not yet been decided whether he is to have an
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    Fourth Win For Goldies
    169 12 G LOWING Goidies, University of Santo Tomas basketball team from Manila, trounced To Kong Sports Club by 66 points to 78 points in a game played at the Happy World stadium last night before 2,000 spectators. It was the Goidies' fourth came in Singapore and they
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    R.S.Y.C. Rowing Results
    126 12 Resulu of the Koyal Singapore Yacht Club's Rowing Regatta held during the weekend on Selat Sengkir were: thengmai Cnp for Senior Fours: 1st He«»: Willis' Crew, B Mati Station; 2. Cork's Crew, P. Branl Station. By half a canvas, time: 4 min. 40 sec. Guest's Crew a
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    CYMA WIN 4-1
    118 12 The C.Y.M.A. playing on home ground. Deat the Haikowyu Sports Club yesterday by four goals to one In a Junior Bl league tie C.Y.M.A. opened ".coring through Andrew Llm, but their opponents equalised before the interval v,ith a stinging drive by Sapra. In the second half, C.Y.MA
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    Sino-Malay XI v Sing Tao Today
    362 12 Sino-Malay XI v Sing Tao Today SINO Tao Sports Club of Hong Kong play the fourth game of their Singapore visit when they meet Sino-Malays at Jalan Besar Stadium today. Ordinarily, the powerful SinoMalay combination could have been counted on to make Sing Tao fight very hard to keep Intact
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    Cheerful Lads Beat District
    145 12 A VASTLY superior team, Cheerful Lads had little difficulty In beating Headquarters, Singapore District, by four goals to one In a S.A.F.A. Jnr. B 1 league soccer match played at Geylang stadium yesterday. The first half was fast clean and exciting but the same could not
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    Sports Diary
    37 12 SOCCER: Sins Tao v Sin-i .Malays at Jalan Besar. Jnr. Ige.: Katong Sajarah t CVMA at Geylang Indonesian B t Singapore Medical W.V. at CVM A ATHLETICS: E.A.F. Malaya sports (finals) at Changi. 2.15 p.m.
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    64 12 Secretary of State for War, Mr. John Strachey, took time off from his more serious business in the Federation on Sunday to watch the Selangor v. Penang cricket match on the Kuala Lumpur Padang. He is seen here meeting Selangor bowler A. H. Phillips. Also in picture are Selangor's J.
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    Pakistan Navy & Recs Draw 4-4
    404 12 Pakistan Navy Recs Draw 4-4 OUT-OF-SEASON HOCKEY THRILLS npilE Singapore Hockey Association league cham1 pions, Singapore Recreation Club Reds, were held to a four-all draw by a team from the visiting Pakistan Navy on the padang yesterday. Although the game was right out of season, it will not easily be
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    SBA Women's Junior Events Draw
    231 12 The araw lor the women's singles and doubles In the Singapore Badminton Association's Junior Championships Is: WOMEN'S SINGLES Top Section: Miss Molly Chia (Useful) v Miss Betty Cheo (Jacques) Miss Tan Wee Teck (bye); Miss Lucy Chee (Titan) (bye) v Miss Rosaline Koh (Marigold) (bye):
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    GAW KHEK KHIAM CUP GOLF DRAW
    380 12 rpHE qualifying round of the x Island Club's Gaw Kfcek Khiam Cup competition will be held on Saturday. Sixteen lowest net scores and aU tielng for the 16th place will qualify for second round, which will be on medal stroke play under handicap and
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    W. Indies Win By Innings
    225 12 CARDIFF, Tues. THE West Indies touring cricket team beat Glamorgan by an innings and 26 runs here today. Glamorgan required 153 to make West Indies bat again when play was resumed this mornt.rtß In warm sunny weather At lunch Glamorgan, with only three second innlnss
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    McLELLAN SHIELD
    29 12 Mansfield Sports Club's 19">0 inter-departmental soccer competition final for the McLellnn Shield will be contested between Straits Steamship and Main Line (Blue Funnel) at Farrer Park :>>- day.
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