The Straits Times, 30 April 1951

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 184S riCHT PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1951 PRICE TEN CENTS
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    QUEEN JULIANA 42 YEARS TODAY
    18 1 QIFEN JULIANA of the Netherlands is celebrating her 42nd birthday today. A.P. picture.
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    BE PROUD OF IT-SIR FRANKLIN
    214 1 A MESSAGE from the Governor. Sir Franklin Gimson. Issued last night in connection with the second Education Week, asks the citizens to take pride in the education plan and to expro^s their thanks by giving their fullest support to its operation. TO PARENTS the says:
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    MORE TYRES
    30 1 CINCINATI. Sun. Mr. V.ildo L. Semon, of the B.F. '■oodrich Co., said yesterday hat the tyre shortage will •id "soon" because produclon of synthetic rubber Is :i<Tasine. A.P.
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    FED. ANTI-INFLATION MOVES
    368 1 Stabilisation fundplan TIN, RUBBER To\ CONTRIBUTE Straits Times Political Correspondent A STABILISATION fund for tin and rubber may be propbsed by the Federal Government as its main immediate remedy for inflation which has raised the currency note issue to over $700 million. This is what Sir Henry
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    Papers up to 15 cents
    150 1 Papers up to 15 cents T^E daily and Sunday news- i paper publications of i The Straits Times Press Ltd.: 1 i Tht Strait* Times i The Sunday Times The Singapore Free Pros will bf sold at a retail prica of 1 5 cents from tomorrow. This is in accordance
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    6 HUKS KILLED
    30 1 MANILA, Sun.— Philippine soldiers killed six Communist Huks and captured 15 yesterday in the same area where outlawed guerillas killed five U.S. airmen a week ago. A.P.
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    TO SEE IKE
    24 1 WASHINGTON, Sun.— Mr. Charles E. Wilson. U.S. "Defence Mobiliser," left by air for Paris last night for talks with General Elsenhower.
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    STUDENT SENT TRUMAN THREATS
    220 1 STUDENT SENT TRUMAN THREATS COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sun. O T. Gaudlitz, aged 22, 1V an Ohio University graduate student, described by a classmate as shy arfi quiet, was arrested yesterday on charge of threatening the life of President Truman. Secret Service agents arrested Gaudlitz late yesterday. They traced him through two
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    IN IT AGAIN
    25 1 LONDON, Sun.— The first British Forces reservists to be recalled for temporary training reported at depots all over the country today. Reuter.
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    CABARET BRA WL IN PENANG
    102 1 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sunday. DENANG police were called out at about 11.30 last night to stop a "free-for-all" fight which developed in the City Lights dance hall between several British servicemen and others. The incident started when a soldier hurled a chair at
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    IT'S VERY DULL ON A SUNDAY'
    91 1 FIVE thousand French troops who disembarked in Singapore yesterday on their way to Indo-China, said that the Colony "is an enchanting city but very dull on a Sunday." They arrived aboard four cargo troopers, the Pasteur, Lt. de la Tour, Nantes and Docteur. Roux
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    C.G. ARRIVES IN SAIGON
    93 1 SAIGON, Sun.— Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, Commissioner General for Far East Asia, arrived at Saigon by air today from Singapore on what he described as a fiveday fact finding visit to IndoChina. Later he flew on to Hanoi, 1 where he is to stay until May
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    DEFENCE PACT
    8 1 COPENHAGEN, Sun.—Denmark and the United States
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    SEGAMAT CURFEW
    59 1 From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. A Federation Government announcement today said that from May 1, a state of curfew between the hours of 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. has been declared for the Poljce Circle of Segamat including all main and estate roads. Segamat Town Board
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    BIRTHDAY
    26 1 TOKYO, Sun. Emperor Hirohlto today appeared three times on the balcony of the Imperial Household replying to the people's (greeting for his 50th birthday.— Reuter.
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    Too much to eat in rationed England |
    106 1 Too much to eat in rationed England COMPETITORS In an eatingcontest of 19 courses at England. When this picture was taken there were 11 courses to go. but Olive Hay ines had to rest. Cyril Hyde (left) and D. Pritchard were still going strong, but nobody could keep up with
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    Mr. Menzies wins, majority down
    201 1 Mr Menzies wins, majority down MELBOURNE, Sunday yHE Prime Minister, Mr. Robert Menzies, and his Liberal Country Party coalition were returned lo power m the Australian General Election today, but with a reduced majority. i»r:*i_ *i._ v i: With the counting still in progress, estimates late last night were that
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    NEW MINISTER
    20 1 MR ALFRED ROBENS. who has succeeded Mr. Aneurin Bevan as Minister of Labour and National Service. A.P. Picture.
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    Vogeler has a relapse
    113 1 VIENNA, Sun. A SERIES of personal broadcasts to have made by Robert Vogeler, who was released from a Hungarian prison yesterday, were cancelled today. Vogeler's wife, Lucile, was reported to have said that her husband had suffered a mental reaction to his sudden release and reunion
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    BOMB HURTS 4 IN BANDOENG
    66 1 JAKARTA. Sun. Four Indonesians were injured last night when terrorists threw a handgrenade into the front court of Indonesia's bluest and most modern hotel in the centre of Bandoeng. One of the Indonesians who were all passers-by was rushed to hospital in a critical condition.
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    90mph-STEERING WHEEL CAME OFF
    58 1 From Our SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. C. C. BUDGE, travelling at 9# m.p.h. in Kuala Lampur's Lornie Kilometre Race, had a miraculous escape today when the steering wheel of bis car came off la his hands. The car spun round twice and stopped 25 feet
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    'U.K. SHIPS DEATH TO U.N. MEN'
    75 1 ATLANTA, Georgia, Sun. MR. E. Cocke, jnr., National Commander of the American Legion, told the Atlanta Junior Chamber of Commerce that Britain _wa» shipping Six are of British registry." he said. "Every shipload is a load of death to the United Nations troops." Mr.
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    8 HURT IN BOMB OUTRAGE
    78 1 From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR, Sun. PUR British soldiers, three Chinese and one Malay were wounded last night when a Chinese youth hurled a hand grenade at Jalan Anam, Kuiim. South Kedah. An arrest has been made. The Injured were walking in a dark
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    POLICE FIRE ON RIOTERS
    35 1 BOMBAY, Sun. Police yesterday fired on rioting Hindus and Sikhs in Ahmedabad, in west central India. Five persons were wounded as mobs attacked police and Muslims with knives and sticks.— A.P.
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    British captives killed in Korea
    261 1 British captives killed in Korea WITH THE 29TH BRIGADE IN KOREA, Sun. (COMMUNIST troops v who captured British and Belgian officers and] soldiers in the heavy fighting after the Corn-* munist offensive shofl several of them "without! giving them a chance", said a British officer who escaped. "They lined us
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    'HEAVY LOSSES'
    37 1 DUNDEE, Sun.— The Secretary of State for War, Mr, John Strachey, admitted today that the Gloucestershire Regiment had suffered "heavy losses" In Korea. He added, however, that ht did not yet know the detail* Reuter.
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      81 1 ft o l c x t tnd LONGINE WATCHED jj H. SENA, LTD. t Singapore Penan* and Bangkok m <5 **m a meet an old friend in a I {Jj distant land is like refreshing rain after a long drought There's an appealing simplicity In this proverb from old China;
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    GREEK WOMEN GET FIRST VOTE
    28 2 M«g. ALEXANDER PAPAGOS. wife of Field Marshal Papagos. casting her vote when Greek women voted this month for the first time. A.P. picture.
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    Lord Mayor's threat
    53 2 CARDIFF. Sun. Cardiff's lord Mayor last night threatened to ask other countries to accept his city as capital of Wales If the British Government refused. A council of prominent citizens which advises London on Welsh affairs has proposed Cardiff (population 230,000) for this tit'.e. Wales has no
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    DIDN'T KNOW THERE IS A WAR IN KOREA
    191 2 DIDN'T KNOW THERE IS A WAR IN KOREA 14 months in solitary confinement VIENNA, Sunday. £N American businessman, Mr. Robert Vogeler, aged 38, was released yesterday after 17 months in a Hungarian Communist prison, of which the last 14 months he spent in solitary confinement. Mr. Vogeler's confinement was so
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    £1,320,000 deficit
    113 2 LONDON. £un. TH E Government-sponsored Colonial Development Corporation which run* 50 schemes in 22 territories yesterday announced a total deficit 0f*£1,320,249 for 1950. The Colonial Development Corporation was formed three years ago. empowered to spend £110,000,000. Nine schemes were started in 1948 19 in 1949 and 22 in
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    Uruguay eats the most ...eat
    44 2 Uruguay eats the most meat WASHINGTON. Sun. lIRUGUAY is the biggest meat-eating country in the U world and Japan the smallest, anys the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation. In 1949, the average Uruguayan ate 281 lb.. compared with 2 lb. for the average Japanese.
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      1154 2 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS PROGRAMME ASSISTANT (Schools) in the Dept. of Broadcasting. Salary scale la $410 ASO 710 B 760 A3O 1,000 p.m. with current C.O.L.A. The appointment will be on a three year agreement in the first Instance with prospect of penslonabllity and permanency. Age, experience and qualifications will decide the
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      666 2 NOTICES MALAY REGIMENT TENDER NOTICE Tenders are Invited for the supply of large quantities of Barrack Stores to the Malay Regiment. Tenders will close at 12 o'clock on 11th May, 1951. Full particulars are obtainable from 'Q' Branch RHQ, The MALAY Regiment. Port Dlckson. TRAFFIC NOTICE KI.ANG BRIDGE 1. North
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      179 2 NOTICES NOTICE As from May Ist, 1951, I am severing my connection with Sino-British (Malaya) Limited. Please address all future communications to 48. Raffles Place. Tel. No 4173. R. S. SAGAR. BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE AUCTION SALE OF Unclaimed "M.G." Motor Car T« be held at The
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      194 2 NOTICES NATURALISATION NOTICH Is hereby given that Chin Yoon Fook of 15, Negri Sembilan Flats, Spooner Road, Singapore, is applying to the Governor for naturalisation, and that any person who knows any reason why naturalisation should not be granted should send a written and signed statement of the facts to
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    MAJLIS VOTE FOR OIL GRAB
    284 3 Fighting rages in streets as deputies meet TEHERAN, Sunday. THE Persian Majlis (Parliament) last night voted unanimous approval of its oil committee's resolution to nationalise the oil industry, take charge of all oil installations, including those of "the late Anglo-Iranian Oil Company**. The Majlis had
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    THIS WAS 1949
    16 3 RITA HAYWORT3 and \!y Khan at their wrttor May 27. 1349.— A.P. pietwe.
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    Rita to seek separation from Aly
    155 3 NEW YORK. Sun. FILM actress Rita Hayworth announced last niuht that she \ras taking the necessary steps to obtain legal and permanent separation from Aly Khan. She had reached the decision "after long consideration and without recrimination or external influence." she said. •"I have
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    JILTED MAN SUES
    53 3 JILTED MAN SUES BANGKOK, Sun— A breach of promise suit has been filed by a man against his fiancee at the Bangkok CiTil Court. The man, Santm Dhlpmonkol, is suing Absorn Suvatdhl for 5,080 baht for "loss of face" and 9,000 bant which he claims to have advanced to the
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    'YOU FACE THE SAME ENEMY'
    170 3 'YOU FACE THE SAME ENEMY' HONO KONG. Sun. BRITISH soldiers returning to Hong Kong from Korea iwere told today by Lt. Gen. Sir Robert Mansergh. British Commander in Hong Koog. that they had merely been transferred "to different parts of the same front against th> sam« enemy." The Argyle and
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    PETAIN REJECTS HIS DOCTORS
    27 3 PARIS, Sun. Petain felt so well today that he refused to be examined by doctors. He is recovering from pneumonia and complications. A.P.
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    12 KILLED
    33 3 FORT WAYNE, Sun. A United Air lines plane en route from Cleveland to Chicago crashed m a storm late yesterday. All the eight passengers and crew of four were killed— U.P.
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    Singapore Diary
    108 3 EDUCATION WEEK: Free ftlm show for students, Cathay, 8.30 a.m. Malay schools combined azt and crafts exhibition, Kota Raja Malay School, Victoria Street, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., inaugural address by Mr. A. W. Prisby over RadioMalaya. 7.12 pjn. V.W.C.A.. Raffles Quay, French conversational class, 10 a.m., cooking
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    MR. LIE LOOKS IN
    38 3 Tim SECRETARY -GEXERAI. at the United. Sat&mj. J*r. Tryyre tie. enters an Egyptian house, nortl* of Cairo, where the Gorernment has c itaMtshed a social centre. He is en a MidWe Eastern tour. A.P.
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    Workers reject hopes on Budget
    203 3 GLASGOW, Sunday. BRITAIN'S Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Hugh GaitskeB T said yesterday that Britain's £4,70G,m r eo« three-year defence programme was something the Government believed could be carried oat 'without fatally damaging the fabric of our economic life". He told the Scottish regional conference
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    NUNS ARRESTED
    24 3 HONO KONG, Sun.— SevOl foreign sisters at the Roman Catholic Sacred Heart orphanage at Nanking have been arrested. Communist reports said. Reuter.
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    FRIENDLY
    11 3 MADRID Sun.— Spain, and Ethiopia have established diplomatic relations.— A.P
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    NUDES IN PEACE PARADE
    49 3 XEW DELHI. Sun. A BOUT 50t,00ft Hindus massed along Delhi's main streets yesterday as Indian holy men paraded Cor mites in a convention dedicated to world peace. Included in the procession of 500 were a dozen members of the Himalayan sect who mareherf naked. »'.P.
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    Wanted—a positive peace policy
    222 3 Wanted— a positive peace policy STOCKTON-ON-TEES, Sun. SIR Hartley Shawcroas, Britain's newly appointed President of the Board of Trade, said here today that Britain must seek to change the policy of the Communist states "by showing at once our strength and our good faith." In an appeal to end a
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      79 3 Today's Radio 10 a.m. News from Ki.; IfUO riose- 1 P-itL "Monday Matinee" 130 News; 145 "Home on the Range"; 2 Close: 6.13 'Radio Dance Hall"; 8.40 "Adventures m Music"; 7 News; 7.12 Interlude: 730 "Spot the Favourites"; 8 "World Affairs" (Allington Kennard)- 8.15 "At Your Request" Classical St Light
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      217 3 estate (6). j||j 3 3 |p 4|54 5^ 8 1. You draw them to shut out i|H 3. The youn? on« is taught how I to shoot (4). NSSS 3. Plates used at mealtimes (8). r^" 3. Mansion having had a scholar 1^ I^l Lg. s >i Dece P* ion
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    DEATH
    24 4 HKYCOCK: On April 26th, suddenly Philip John Hippest** Heycock of Bast Norton Hall, I Leicestershire. Barrlster-at-Law, attached Judge Advocate General's Brnnch. G.H.Q., FARELF.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    36 4 THE FAMILY of late Mr. Lee Hong Beng wishes to thank the civilians staff of R A.F., Seletar, who have been to kind enough for their donations: particularly to Mr. James Mlkando and Mr. Hrusbnh.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Apr. 30, 1951.
    832 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Apr. 30, 1951. 1 thai there are, for the Inference which otherwise may be drawn from the District Officer's warning must give rise to com* uneasiness. The Government must take the strong- I •at possible measures against I any section of the community I which
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    The Privileged Patient
    312 4 The Privileged Patient n. reminder that there still are compensations m Government service was given by a printed paper tabled at the meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council last week. This set out the different scales of fees to be charged to the general public and to Government servants m
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    Canteen opinion of $500 a month
    235 4 Canteen opinion of $500 a month YOUR editorial on x Legislative Councillors' pay, m last Thursday's Straits Times, did not bring out m its correct perspective the real common man's point of view. As a mother and wife o clerks, you have to go Into the offices, canteens, coffee-shops, eating-stalls
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    STANDARD OF SERVICE
    195 4 I VEHEMENTLY deprecate 1 the attitude of the elected Legislative Council members who opposed the motion tJ reduce the allowance paid m unofficial members from $500" to $250 a month. Like many others, I had expected no opposition from the elected, members. Such a stand would have
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    $250: HAPPY MEDIUM?
    102 4 IVfESSRS. Laycock. Mallal and others of the Singapore Legislative Council are to be congratulated on taking steps to have their Council pay of $500 per month reduced to $250. While some members of the public may agitate for total removal of the allowance. I would not caai
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      Selling the pass of education?
      374 4 FF the Government of Singapore— and by that I mean every last Legislative Councillor as well as Empress Place and Government House— is permitted to shelve the Colony's educational plans then we may as well make up ooru r minds here and now to write
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      SELFISH' K.L. KRANI
      140 4 r reply to "Public," whose letter headed "C.O.L.A Govt. example" appeared on April 26. if I have appeared selfish in my previous letter it was in the interest of the non-Government public that I was. It Is indisputable tha any Increase in the circulation of money fosters
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      ASIANS' 1950 BONUSES
      73 4 THE statement made by Mr. V. M. N. Menon which was reported In the Straits Times of April 24 under the headings "Estate pay 'out of proportion,' Europeans get 30 times Asian bonus". Is misleading. More than half a dozen members of the Asian staff of Dublin
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      Untitled
      36 4 Letters slfned with a nom-de-plome cannot be published unless the writer's name and address are communicated in confidence to the editor as a atfn of rood faith. Correspondents are asked to write as briefly as possible.
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    Mr. Laycock and the coolie
    232 4 nEM arks made by Mr. John Laycock on the motion to reduce to $250 the monthly allowance of $500 payable to unofficial members of the Singapore Legislative Council were startling. Ha Is likely to find no more future support from the "common man." "The Legislative
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    THEINDIAN FIRMS
    161 4 WHEN Government, the Municipalities and so many mercantile flrnn nave increased COL allowances for their employees, what, may I ask have Indian flrms done? Though the Indian firms d hlKh educational o^H llflc f tlons Breat efficiency and six months' probation fK ey Beem not to recognise they
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    On the Margin
    438 4 On the Margin Siligura ¥N consequence or my ha/X ing hazarded a guess thai the name of Slngora, on the east coast of Slam, might be a shortened form of Slngaoura. I have received two letter* recalling the explanation of this name which was given by the late J. C
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    PUSING HEEDS LAST WARNING
    237 5 Men flock to join village Home Guard From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Sunday. DUSING, "the worst town in Malaya", which was given 48 hours yesterday by the Kinta District Officer, Mr. M. L. Bernacchi, to organise fully its Home Guards has not lost time in doing
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    GOVT. TO RELEASE FUNDS FOR CO-OPS
    170 5 GOVT. TO RELEASE FUNDS FOR CO-OPS From Our SUIT Correspondeat. SEREMBAN, Sun. GOVERNMENT has agreed to release money for the establishment of retail co-oper-ative stores wherever possible in the Federation. Wholesale co operative societies will also be established at Penang, Kota Bahru, Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur, Raub. Scremban, Malacca, Jonore Bahru
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    LARGEST ORCHID
    26 5 VANDA Maurice Restrcpo, largest orchui of its species, which has been imported from Ceylon by Mr. Lim Hong Hee of Singapore. Straits Times picture.
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    Old boys 'could help the Malays'
    123 5 THE Old Boys' Association of the Kuala Kangsar Malay College could become a powerful organisation to help Malays in general, said Mr. K. D. Luke, acting Headmaster, at the college speech day and prize giving on Saturday. "With few exceptions the mos'. prominent Malay
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    H.K. rubber exports
    106 5 CINGAPORE Government last J night confirmed that the procedure published on April 27 for exports of rubber to Hong Kong remains unchanged. Licensing for the third and succeeding monthly periods will be done on the 20th of the preceding morVi, that is, on May 20 for June
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    ONLY 8 ENTRIES FOR DOG SHOW
    77 5 There were only eight entries for the Scottish terrier dog show organised by the Scottish Terrier Association of Malaya at the Singapore Police Training School. Thomson Road, yesterday. Mrs. M. Hackett's Rannoch Rita ot Mervale won the challenge cup presented by the association for
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    TRAINING IN POLICE
    44 5 FORMER BOYS of the Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur, who have been called- up under the manpower regulations and are training at the Police Depot. From left are: Tan Chong Ann, Chin Chiew Seong. and Teo Joo Huat. Straits Times pic ture.
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    'FAVOUR THE CALLUP MEN'
    120 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. PERSONS called up under the Manpower Regulations should be eligible for Federal citizenship or State nationality after their release, the working committee of the Malayan Indian Congress urged at a meeting at Kuala Lumpur today. The committee said It
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    DUTY WASN'T PAID: $700f
    70 5 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Sun.— 800 Ah Keng and Teo Gek Siew. charged in the Police Court. Batu Pahat. with being in possession of 40 gallons of fermented mash on which duty had not been paid, were each fined $700 or seven months' imprisonment.
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    NEGLIGENT: $25
    32 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun Hong Lim Lak was fined $25 in the Police Court for negligent driving and ordered to pay $28.80 for the repairs of a teleg'aph post he damaged.
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    U.N. TECHNICAL EXPERT HERE
    53 5 MR. V. R. CHITRA. United Nations Technical Assistance Expert with the International Labour Organisation, who is in Singapore on his way to Ceyion to survey the possibilities of developing cottage and small-scale industries. He will discuss with Singapore Government officials the possibilities of developing similar industries
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    EXHIBITION OPENS EDUCATION WEEK
    261 5 SINGAPORE'S second Education Week opened yesterday with an exhibition of Malay arts and crafts at Kota Rajah Malay School, Singapore. Thousands of articles, made by over 11,000 students of 43 Malay schools In Singapore, and more than 1,000 paintings were displayed. The Director of Education, Mr.
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    NEW LIST OF 'FAIR PRICES'
    123 5 I^HE second list of "fair •1 prices" of essential commodities wag issued by the Mr. W. W. Jenkins, Deputy Controller of Supplies yesterday. Powdered milk: Klim (1 lb.) r,2.70/.«;2.80; (214 lb.), $«.70/$6.80 (5 lb.). $13.10/«13.30. Tea: Gold Bird: (3 lb.), $7.50; (6 lb.), $15; (25
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    Raffles graduates want one service
    241 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. GRADUATES of Raffles College, Singapore still want a unified education service for Singapore and the Federation. Admission to this service would be governed only by qualifications. At a three-day meeting ot the Pan-Malayan Council of the Stamford Club
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    Unions pick delegates
    137 5 MR. V. K. Nair, president ol Singapore Federation of Services Unions, has been appointed Singapore delegate to the Asian regional conference of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions at Karachi on May 28. At a meeting of all Singapore trade unions yesterday, it was decided to
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    SCOUT TROOP LAUNCHED
    86 5 The 50th Scout Troop was officially launched by Dato Syed A. M. Alsagoff, Assistant County Commissioner, at an investiture ceremony at the Al-junied Islamic School yesterday. At the ceremony 35 graduated tenderfoots were sworn In by Dao Alsagoff to become fully fledged scouts In the new troop.
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    NO PRICE LIST
    37 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun.Sohor bin Haji Sirat. Kunjl Raman and Yong Leng Sim. coffee shopkeepers of Pandan, were each fined $80 In the Police Court Johore Bahru, today for selling tea and coff«f Tult.hnnt. Hliml*glmt__
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    700 TAXIMEN FORM 'SHARES' COMPANY
    148 5 700 TAXIMEN FORM 'SHARES' COMPANY Yf ORE than 700 Colony taxi owners decided yes- terday to run a $500,000 business in motor spare parts, fuel, and motor insurance. The decision was taken at the annual meeting of the Singapore Hire Car Association. The' association's president. Mr. T. A. Simon, said
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    Exchange of pulpits
    125 5 THE first of two ecumenical Sundays was observed in Singapore yesterday by Protestant churches when ministers changed their pulpits with each other. At the Presbyterian church In Orchard Road, the Right Rev. H. W. Baines, Church of England, Bishop of Singapore, preached in the morning service while
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    GOVERNMENT WAGE TALKS
    51 5 The approval of the Singapore Legislative Council is to be sought on the final form of wage talks for Government employees, a Government spokesman said yesterday. Government will also consult the views of Its employees unions and the Trade Union Adviser on the form such talks should
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    Estate men are 'against trade unions'
    203 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. rE Plantation WorkersUnion of South Malaya is ■to protest to the Malayan Planting Industries' Employers Association that a number of estate managers are making it difficult lor their workers to organise into trade unions These managers have
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    ALTERED CARD
    30 5 From Onr Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Sun.— Abdullah bin Selamat was fined $25 in the Magistrates Court. Batu Pahat yesterday for altering certain entrips in his identity card.
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    DEATH
    33 5 WONG CHEE KONG, Commercial artist, passed away peacefully at his residence No. 55 Kampontj Bahru Road, yesterday at 1.30 p.m. Cortege leaves Church of St. Theresa at 4.30 p.m. for Bidadarl today.
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    Malacca Rubber
    99 6 MALACCA Rubber Plantations in 1950 paid £64.471 Malayan export duty against the previous year's £22,761; estimated taxation based on 1950 profits is: profits tax £100,000 (previous £15,500). future (U.K. and Malayan) income tax £208,000 (£20,000). The company's current assets last Dec. 31 were £813,856 (against £318,58 C), and
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    EAST. REALTY COMPANY
    63 6 From A Market Correspondent EASTERN Realty Company showed a profit, for the year to Dec. 31, 1950, of $104,607 (10.5 per cent) after provision for Income tax and a proposed dividend of nine per cent (against six per cent the previous year). Net current assets, including investment
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    RUBBER RAILWAY CROSSING
    114 6 IT|THAT is said to be the first rubber railway crossing ever constructed has been laid down at the Portage Path crossing of the Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railroad in Ohio, reports Rubber A^e. The formula. 50 per cent ground rubber and 50 per cent asphalt, was developed
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    SHARE MARKET INVESTORS GREW CAUTIOUS LAST WEEK
    317 6 SHARE MARKET INVESTORS GREW CAU TIOUS LAST WEEK From A Market Correspondent prices m me Malayan mancer openea iasc week very steadily, and with Investors Inclined to be optimistic there was a slight all-round Improvement. For want of any definite trend on the London Stock Exchange, however, sellers came forward
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    Sepang Valley: total 221/2%
    136 6 From A Market Correspondent CEPANO Valley Estate, like many 0 other estates, was a victim of rubber stealing in the year to Dec. 31. 1950. Profit earned was $211,456 (102 per cent.), and a fin»l dividend of 15 per cent, k proposed making a total of
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    ROME TALKS STATEMENT
    294 6 From Our Own Corres/ mdent LONDON, Sun. A STATEMENT on the recent Rome rubber conference is expected in the House of Commons tomorrow (Monday), when Sir Hartley Shawcross will answer a question asking what agreements have been reached with the Commonwealth and the United States over the
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    Business done
    367 6 From A Market Correspondent BUSINESS done in the Malayan share market last week included: Industrials— Fraser Neave Ord. $3.50 to $3.52 Vi to *3.47tt. Gammon •3.30, Hongkong Bank (Col) 9756 to $750, Malayan Breweries «5.75 to $5.85 to 85.75. Malayan Cement 29 cents paid. Oversea-Chinese Bank $96, Robinson
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    LONDON RUBBER PRICES
    36 6 From Our Own Correspondent. LONDON, Prl., Apr. 27. Spot 54'jd.. June 54d., July-Sept. 63d., Oct.-Dec. aid.. Jan. -Mar. 49d.. May eJX 53?; d., May-June cU. 53Ud.. June-July cl.f. *****^ Market: 9teadier after easier.
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    SPURS WIN DIVISION 1 TITLE
    310 7 Relegation issue remains open LONDON, Sunday. "TOTTENHAM Hotspur, with a single-goal victory over Sheffield Wednesday, made sure yesterday of winning the Football League championship Thus they have equalled the achievements of Everton (1931 and 1932) and Liverpool (1905 and 1906) by carrying off the Second
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    Positions
    1081 7 LONDON. Sun. UK. Soccer Leagu* standings after yesterday's matches are: P W D L F A pts Tottenham 41 24 10 7 79 43 58 Manchester U4l 24 7 10 73 39 55 Blackpool 40 20 9 11 78 51 49 Afid'brough 41 18 11 12 76 64 47
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    Roberts wins UK golf title
    139 7 Hunstamon (Norfolk). Sun. /^EOFFREY Roberts, 20-year-old bespectacled schoolmaster of the Southport and Alnsdale, Lancashire Club, won the English amateur golf championship herr yesterday at the 39ih hole, in a historic final. He defeated Harry Bennett, 36-year-old electrical contractor of the Buxton and High Peak. Derbyshire
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    Rotherham to Div. 2, Forest almost there
    279 7 LONDON, Sunday. OOTHERHAM UNITED, runners up In the Third Division (Northern) of the Football League in 1947, 1948 and 1949, have at last achieved their ambition of reaching League Two status. Their two-nil win at Lincoln yesterday assured them of promotion. Nottingham Forest
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    40 7 AWANG BAKAR. Singapore Malays' centre-forward beats Singapore A's captain. Ismail Btijans. to the ball but Hoon Leon*, on left, has the situation covered. Singapore A won by 2—l2 1 at the Stadium yesterday. (R-port in P. 8.V Straits Times picturp.
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    More enterprising batting needed
    540 7 ENGLISH CRICKET PROSPECTS From JIM CHAMBERS LONDON, Sunday. A YEAR ago when writing of cricket prospects for 1950 it was suggested that English cricket was in for a "rough time" during the next 12 months. The "rough time' duly came along For the first time in
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    Ikin hits 192, G.Edrichlls lor Lanes
    159 7 Ikin hits 192, G.Edrichlls for Lancs LONDON, Sun. A DOUBLE century partnership between John Ikin and Geoffrey EUrlcn for the second wicket gave Lancashire a splendid start to the season at Oxford yesterday. They had scored 408 for •.hree at the close. The left-hander Ikin. recently returned from the Commonwealth
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    GLOUCESTER BEAT COVENTRY 14-NIL
    245 7 LONDON, Sun. /GLOUCESTER achieved one of the most impressive victories of the final Rugby Union programme yesterday by defeating Coventry by one goal, one penalty nnd two tries, to nil. For once the dangerous Coventry back division could make little headway against determined ttacks and Gloucester,
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    CIVILIANS REFUSE CHALLENGE
    595 8 Set 201 to make in 150 minutes, make only 117-6 By Our Cricket Reporter CIVILIANS refused Combined Services' challenge to make 201 runs in 15t minutes mi the parting yesterday and the result of the annual match this year reduced to a one-day mat eh by Saturday's
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    Scoreboard
    207 8 COMB. SERVICES. L Kera Chaplin c Ratnayake b Smith 7 Major Sweet b Enr Cheng S Capt. Reynolds c de Kretser b Lall Siach 42 LAC Hopkins b Kng Cheng 24 Major Smytb-Piccolt c Ratnayake c Thiam Siew 15 Cdr. Alderson st. Thurajanebam b Lall Singh 51 Capt. Diplock
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    Awthar Singh's record broken
    111 8 /COLONY'S up-and-coming cyclists, Suradi bin Karman of the Tanglin C.C. and Tan Joo Kar of the Chong Wah cycling team who were placed first and second in the Singapore Cycle RacingAssociation 25-mile Time Trial held yesterday on the Bukit Tunah Road, bettered Awthar Singh's newly established
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    32 8 I'h's was Singapore Malays' only soal in yesterday's stadrnra mutch. Picture shows Hoon Leons (on ground) and goalkeeper Narayanan nnable to stop Samad's drive which went for the corner. Straits Times picture.
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    Tulloh and Spencer top tables
    206 8 Tulloh and Spencer top tables From EPSOM JEEr. KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. IN spite of a blank day on the last day on Saturday, Colin Tulloli easily topped the jockeys' list at the meeting with seven winners. Hiding with all his old vigour and dash 'Porky' Donnelly had a remarkably successful
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    2 TITLES FOR VILVARATNAM
    73 8 ■jyt F. Vilvaratmm showed excellent form to win both the Singles and the Doubles tiMes in the Utiiversi'y of Malaya tennis championship finals held yesterday at the University Courrs at Bukit Timah Road. The men's doubles was won by E. B. Labrooy and Vilvaratnam who beat
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    Jnr. Cricket: three teams win outright
    244 8 OTHER SPORT SN P. 7 INHERE were three outright JL results in the Singapore Cricket Associations Section B •tournament played yesterday. R.A.F. Tengah n and Braddell C.C. both scored innings victories while 8.0.D.C.A. accepted a sporting challengT by V.M.C.A. in making 90 runs in
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    Bank's lOmen score 5 goals
    180 8 DLAYING lor 50 minutes of the game with only ten men, Chartered Bank S.C. notched a Qtt-u] vie ory over Ford SC. ye erday in a Business Houses L.,.gue B fixture on the Police ground. Rank's n^ht winger Llm Heng Kee hurt Ml foot early
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    2 PTS FOR CYMA
    39 8 The Catholic Young- Men's Association (Parish Mission) took a walk-over in their Singapore A.F A. Division 3 "A" fixture at Geylang yesterday. Their oppon- i ents. Singapore Civil Service AsH ciation. failed to turn up.
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    TOO MUCH DEMAND ON CL2 HORSES
    369 8 TOO MUCH DEMAND ON C1.2 HORSES From EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. OERHAPS it would be altogether unkind to term the three day April meeting of th* Sdaagor Turf Club as a complete farce but It left no doubt that Class, Two horses are getting too* much racing. Most of
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    Reggie Trevor does it again
    443 8 LORNfE KILOMETRE From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. REGGIE Trevor, the Sungei Siput planter, again showed that he is easily the best racing motorcyclist in the country today when he swept all opposition aside in the Lornie Kilometre road race here. He returned times
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    Kedah beat Penang 3-2
    101 8 From Oar Owi Correspondent. A LOR STAR, Sun. Kedah played well to beat Penang by the odd goal In five in a friendly interState soccer match here this evening. The game was played at a fast pace and had many thrills. Penang would have at least
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    Sports Diary
    9 8 I SOCCER: Dlv. 1: Kot* Kaja l
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    Good teamwork rewards S 'pore A; 2-1 win v Malays
    388 8 BETTER teamwork fliaWed Singapore "A" ta score their first vfctoty this season when thay snatched a dramatic M^|well-des«nred two-ona decision over Shifapore Malaya in yesterday's keenly-contested soccer game at Jalam Besar The result provided a surprise, for the Malays who
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    SAFA league positions
    472 8 S AFA league positions Latest positions in the Singapore Amateur P.A. L«gw are: DIVISION 1 P W D L F A ptl P. Branl 8 7 0 1 20 3 14 8.0.D.C.A. 9 9 3 3 13 10 12 Rovers SO. 7 i J ill 1U Kota Rajs 9 4
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      402 8 CHANGIBEATPWD R.A.P. Changl beat the P.W.D. by three wlcltets In a friendly ;ame played at Chanel yesterday. Scores In brief were: P.WJ>.: 172 (Barker 32 no.. Balasintham 28. Howe 26. Barton three for 23, Mldgley four for 72 >. < hangi: 173 for seven dsherwood 59, Hutchlnson 51 n.0.. Buchanan
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      27 8 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: 4.5* ».m. (7.*», 7.45 km. (8.9); 13.42 p.m. (1.5). TOMOMIOW: 8.49 a.m. (7 3), 1.38 pm. (7.3); 1.23 a.m. (4.8). I J6 p.m. (1.6).
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