The Straits Times, 16 April 1952

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  • 19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER; ESTABLISHED IS45 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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  • 546 1 MURDER— AND STATION BURNS Battle on railway BANDITS FLEE AFTER ARSON BANDITS murdered two Chinese in a villas outside the perimeter fence of Lavanir seffirTto" ft?** mlnUtes bef °^f yesterday mlw y Station earl amA S 10 K<* Yong, a fie d 47, a rubber contracloi d^r aMed 54 <
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  • 108 1 They all want to marry him TOKYO. Tues F WEAVER B h OME AN G' M. WfcAVER. the former Australian Serviceman who illegally returned to Japan «fven times, said here today he is being besieged by Japanese women wanting to marry him. His Japanese woman lawyer, b-autiful Miss Chisato Wuraki.
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  • 103 1 ?£I?£ JLLD California, Tues RALPH FONO, a ChineseAmerican farmer, v ho Pleaded guilty to offering two airmen U8$1.500 to shoot W li e W as y ester <lay sentenced to four months' ?aul fined US$l,50O and placed on probation for five years The judge granted Font's request
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  • 24 1 MAltlLA, Tues— President Quinno today signed a bill giving women equal pay with men employed in the same type of work.— AP
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  • 37 1 LONDON, Tues— Mr. R E Phillips, of the Inland Revenue Department at Stoke-on-Trent, has been appointed senior investigation officer of the Malayan income tax department. He won the Victoria Cross in the 1914-18 war.
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  • 30 1 RIO DE JANEIRO. Tues A milltarv commission m▼estigating Communism m the forces yesterday announced the arrest of 13 officers suspected of sympathy with Russia.-UP aj""p<tl 'ny Wlln i
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  • 187 1 iMLfiHMiiiUH RETIRES gIR GEORGE ALLEN, Vice- Chancellor of the Dj^antas-BOAC^to see Lady Allen who has been i seriously ill in London. George, who said he most probably not rewas originally due to on retirement in June 3 years in Malaya and irs in East
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  • 198 1 CAPETOWN, Tues. ]\|R. J. G. N. Straus^ leader of ohe Opposition, today accused Dr. Malan's Nationalist Government of "flouting the law of the land" by its refusal to accept the Supreme Court Judgment that the separate Representation of Coloured Voters Act is invalid. When
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  • 46 1 WASHINGTON, Tues A B-36 10-ecigined bomber, ■f* the world's largest, crashed on take-off from Fairchild Air Force base today, killing 15 of the 17 aboard. The bomber crashed in a field half a mile north of the base and burst into flames— Reufer.
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  • 130 1 New hope on P.O. W. issue in Korea (RENEWAL of the vita^pri- soner exchange talks I which could break the Korean armistice deadlock appeared imminent today tt Vice-Admiral Joy, senior UJ*. delegate, and RearAdmiral Libby, chief negotiator on the prisoner issue returned to Munsan yesterday after a week m Tokyo.
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  • 71 1 NEW Y °RK, Tues. JAPANESE competition has brought American silk scarf printing to the brink of financial disaster, the screen printing industry said Low wages enabled a handroiled Japanese printed scarf to be sold m America for one dollar, even with the present duty of 32V
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  • 39 1 HOLLWOOD, Tues Actress Terry Moore, aged 23 received an uncontested diS fewee yesterday against ll^l s lar Glenn Davis, aged 27 whom she said "did rn OO d ti* e y." ILTp c. lntheClnema
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  • 29 1 MANILA, Tues.— A mayor and chief of police were today found guilty of rebellion, murder and arson, and m^T l^ llfe imprisonment by a Bulacan court
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  • 244 1 A town with an ugly record rtE ease with which bandits carried out their attack Tel 1 1 railway station early yesterdav was explained to th e straits Times dv a police officer thpi2f i th n one thlr< l of if n^f e i? La y an Layang. if
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  • 115 1 100,000 LEA VE FLOODED HOMES mnmi OMAHA, Tuesday. F^2£S«| Wm fSi th swirlln Missouri and Mississippi Rivers today continued to pour over cities and rich farmlands, driving nearlY 100 000 to record crests m the States of Minnesota and Wisconsin Parts of eleht Btates are under water and nearly 20.000
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  • 15 1 DETROIT, Tues—Government, industry and labour joined forces today to welcome Queen Juliana.— UP.
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  • 60 1 BANGKOK. Tues. f* ENEBAL Pin, Siamese Devi puty Premier, has ordered all local radio stations to discontinue the "demoralising" practice of broadcasting names mentioned in requests for record music. Such broadcast requests constitute indirect toremakinu and. if allowed to continue, may lead to
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  • 136 1 Trouble for Malaya— in golf bag LONDON. Tues THE Daily Mirror today maintained that Sir Oerald»Templer had touched on one of the most dangerous problems when he recently criticised certain people in Malaya. "Sir Gerald ha s said there K.top much golf in Malaya Waterloo may have been won on
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  • 18 1 LA PAZ, (Bolivia), Tues w ca P ltal appeared firmly under the control of Its new
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  • 64 1 K.UAJLA LUMPUR. Tues pAMERONIANS aqd the *f Malay Regiment together killed two bandits 'in battles yesterday and a European estate manager was wounded in an ambush in Kedah. The Cameronians rontacted two arm»d terrorlats te food ammunltlon »nd «"ne A natrni n* t*.~ <»«^ o
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  • 64 1 Dato E. E. S. Thuraisingham Federation Member for Education, left for Colombo By air yesterday, accompanied by his wife and children, on his way to Canada to attend the Rubber Study Group Conference. Dato Thuraisingham will stay m Colombo for a week before going
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  • 43 1 TAIPEI, Tues.— The Foreign Minister, Mr. George Yeh, chief Nationalist delegate m the Sino-Japanese peace negotiations, said today that the treaty has beer, worked out m its final form but the exchange notes and the record of proceedings still required discussion
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  • 29 1 LONDON. Tues. Moscow Radio stated today that a Czechoslovak Government delegation has arrived m Peking to negotiate a pact for trade, cultural relations and mutual assistance.— Reuter
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  • 17 1 LONDON. Tues Peking has ordered the training of 500.000 technicians toman China's Industrialisation programme.—UJ.
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  • 14 1 DAMASCUS. Tues. Syria Jjf 8 4ecWed to tttablisb diplomatic relations with Afghanistan.— Reuter
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  • 361 3 11 -nation move Rejected IRENCH USURP OWER' CLAIM NEW YORK, Tuesday. JHE UNITED NATIONS Security Council 'ast night refused to put on its agenda the complaint by 11 Asian and Arab nations against French poKey m Tunisia. Brazil, Chile, China, Russia and Pakistan voted m favour
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  • 43 3 4UEEN JULIANA of the Netherlands, who h on a ▼•-it to the U.S. wears her rap and gown after rrceiyin* an Honorary Doctorate of Laws decree of Columbia University In a ceremony at New York City on April S.
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  • 74 3 LONDON. Tues. FLEVISION is rapidly turning Britain Into a nation of weekend screen watchers according to a survey published by the British Broadcasting Corporation today. Of television's present 5.500.000 viewers 61 per cent. spend their Saturday evening silently facing their sets. Evening viewing keeps the 12
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  • 93 3 BELGRADE, Tues. ABOUT 309,000 people paraded through Belgrade today In an organised rally protesting against Anglo-American talks aimed at giving Italy a share In the administration of Trieste. The Peoples Front, trade unions and other organisation* whipped up demonstrators m a house-to-house canvass yesterday. Many were
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  • 39 3 MOSCOW. Tues.— Mr. Sidney Silverman, M.P., announced tonight that the British group attending the Moscow Economic Conference had negotiated £28.000.000 of new business with the Chinese, Russians, East Germans. Rumanians, Czechs and Bulgarians.— Reuter.
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  • 98 3 Danced too much shot LAUTERBACH, WALTER NEUGEBAUER, 5^, .yesterday committed suicide after he had killed his girl friend, shot his dog and terrorised villagers Neugebauer. who had been drinking heavily at a wedding party, threatened another guest who danced too ?I te S wlth Lulse O** 8 a p d
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  • 62 3 MARGATE. Tues ANE of Britain's big six tn c uni °ns prepared today to support Mr. Aneurin fight agains? the nations record rearmament programme. fu 71 "ecutive council of the Union of Shop DistribuSn<s£ d AIHe w d Wor kers. with 250.000 members, tabled an emergency
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  • 32 3 WASHINGTON Tue« —The Bolivian Ambassador to the Marnnpf tateS V SS H enOr Ric «2o Martinez, yesterday said that J« h ad resigned after recent events In hl s country.— AFP
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  • 38 3 WORCESTER, Mass Tues.Mrs. John F. May. aged 46 gave birth yesterday to twin daughters who became her 21 St. and 22nd children. Of her other 20 children. 18 cr e still aMve.— AFP
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  • 25 3 NEW YORK, Tues.—lndia has doubled her contribution to thf United Nations agency for the protection of children The contribution will be 1,200,000 rupees.—AFP.
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  • 125 3 CAPTAIN F2°-J2Zn radioed from his grounded Liberty ship. William Eaton, off Tokyo Bay today that he was staying aboard but with only one cargo hold left unflooded. There was not much chance of nte ship being pulled free. The American Navy in Tokyo has
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  • 133 3 TWRKE WOMEN, argue dur- ing a conflict between pickets and police outside the Western Electric Company warehouse m Philadelphia. The woman with the placard claimed that police assaulted girls who were preventing workers from entering the warehouse. The girls, members of the Arr I ican Communication
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  • 173 3 LONDON, Tuesday. WHEN the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, returns from his Easter hoi day, one of his major headaches will be the Russian reply to the three powers on the unification of Germany. The American Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, and the
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  • 120 3 Explosion blasts ship ...and dreams DUBLIN, Tues 1TEVEN Lawler's 80-vear-old schooner, St. AusteU, blew up off the coast of c °unty Wexford yesterday to end his dreams of a solitary sea voyage to America to prove his courage to a doubting woman. Lawler and a man, identified as Thomas MacDonagh
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  • 26 3 NAPLES, Tues. The first contingent of Turkish officers assigned to Admiral Robert Carney's South Atlantic Com mand headquarters here reported for briefing yesterday.
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  • 35 3 LONDON, Tubs.—A British company hopes to recover 100,000 tons of Iron and zinc and lead m the next 20 years from dumps left by smelting works on the outskirts of Swansea, Wales.— A.P.
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  • 26 3 ROME, Tues.^-Thlrty-two wople were taken to hospital last night after a wedding breakfast m Rome. Doctors said that the cake had poisoned them.—A-FP.
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  • 108 3 Curfew after Easter brawl TEL AVIV, Tues. ISRAELI authorities clamped a curfew today in Nazareth after clashes between Muslim youths and Greek Catholic boy scouts. A communique said five men were injured in the dashes this morning, two of them seriously, it added: "Tendon prevails in the town." Nazareth, visited
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  • 61 3 WASHINGTON, Tues. AMERICAN business plan s to spend a record of $124,100,000,000 for new factories and equipment this year. The main cause of the expansion i 8 the defence programme. A relatively small expansion, however, is planned this year by industries which manufacture only civilian goods.
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  • 49 3 JAOA PESSOA, Brazil, Tues —The State police chief yesterday said that he would forbid a second international brandy drinking contest In Porto Cabedello. The organisers of the contest said they, would try to hold it, possibly mi n a ship outside Brazilian territorial waters.— U.P.
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  • 51 3 WASHINGTON, Tues Senator Tom Connally told a Press conference today that he expects the Foreign Relations Committee, of which he is chairman, to recommend a ~ut of at least $1,000,000,000 in President Truman's new foreign aid bill. This would bring the amount down to
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  • 288 4 Saved from canal, f amily to buy hero a gift 'THE DAROYA family 1 will buy Mr. Ling See Yeong a present for rescuing them from the Rochore Canal, Singapore, when their car plunged into it on Monday. Tne five members of the family were on their way home from
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  • Article, Illustration
    32 4 THE NEW Co-operative Stores for member of the NegriScmbilan Police Force, which wa s declared open on Monday by the British Adviser, Mr. M. C ff. Sheppard. Photo by Le« Chee Ying.
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  • 131 4 THE 17 squatter families who have been living m the Woodbridge Mental Hospital grounds for the past 20 to 30 years, have up to next Tuesday to quit the site. They were given 20 month 3' notice. The Singapore Land Office is
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  • 90 4 Negligent, court told TAIPING. Tues. DORAI^AMY. aged 21 of a Jungle Company, was charged in the Magistrate's Court today with causing the death of a nine-year-old boy. Rama, by a negligent act not amounting: to culpable homicide. The case was postponed to A,pr. 22 and $500 bail was allowed. Doraisamy
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  • 165 4 SEREMBAN, Tuesday. IT will now cost more to marry or to get a divorce under the Muslim law. A new fee will also be charred for the registration of every reconciled marriage. I It witl cost $1 to register a Muslim marriage, as against 50
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  • 226 4 City Council dispute for Govt. rpHE Federation of Singa- pore City Council Unions Is to send copies of the correspondence between the City President, Mr. T.'P. F. McNeice, and the Union Secretary. Mr. S. Rengasamy, to the Governor-in-Council, the Commissioner for Labour. Mr. G. W. Davis; the assistant Trade Union
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  • 107 4 Malaya got US $410,000 in aid MALAYA has received to date US$4lO,OOO under the Marshall Plan for U.S. equipment for its road buildIng programme, the United States Information Service said yesterday. OthUr help, said a statement, was the despatch last year of US. Government experts to aid m the development
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  • 60 4 •THE soprano of the New 1 York Metropolitan Opera Miss Helen Traubel may sing m Singapore m June. She is due m Singapore on a three-day visit on June 17 following a concert tour of Japan. Miss Traubel has appeared frequently on national radio programmes
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  • 62 4 The officials of Klang branch of the Malayan Indian Congress for the year eire President. Mr. T. Jang Singh, vice-president. Mr. p Jaganathan; secretary, Mr D. Jayaratnam; treasurer—Mr. A. Karuppiah. committee: Messrs. V. M. Vasagam, K. Thangaval, X R. Sonamuthu, M. Sinnah. V Nadasan, S. Kathirasan. K.
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  • 115 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. A NO SENG MOH, successfully appealed against a sentence of two months Imprisonment passed on him by the Pontian Magistrate s Court for smoking chandu. Grounds of appeal were that no chandu was" produced at. the trial, there was no evidence to show that
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  • 99 4 During the first three months of this year 2,336 new motor cars were registered and licensed ic Singapore making the total number on the roads 25.038. During the same period 162 new motorcycles were put on the roads bringing the total number of motor cycles on
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  • 35 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Registration clerks for the forthcoming Town Council elections at Bandar Maharani, Muar, have been appointed and will be on duty from today to May 26 when the Register closes.
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  • 34 4 The 7,730-ton cargo ship Benlaw. which the Ben Line recently bought from the Motter Line, yesterday paid her first visit to Singapore. She is on her way from Australia to Britain.
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  • 38 4 A shop-keeper, Lim Ah Chew, was fined $750 or six months' rigorous imprisonment m Singarjore yesterday for having 35 counterfeit trade mark transfers of bicycles. Lim said the transfers were left with him by a canvasser.
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  • 260 4 SUBSTATIONS liable to load sheddinc today DAY Cavanah Bd./Collyer Quay. Vletoria Memorial Hall 1 2. Prince St. /Market Bt, Baffles Plaee/Malacca St., Boat Quay, Union Building. Hume Pipe, Rheem. Ford; Bin Srn«. Wire Mesh. PWD Quarry, Nanyanf Mfg., Bnkit Paiijanr. National Carbon, Princess Elizabeth Estate. Dairy Farm. Ulu
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  • 102 4 SUNGEI PATANI, Tuesday. BE good mothers and worthy citizens, the Very Rev. Mother St. Jean, Superior-General of the Order of St. Maur. advised pupils of Sungei Patani Convent today. Rev. Mother St. Jean, who addressed the pupils m French, urged the girls to study
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  • 53 4 Y.W.C.A. RafT.es Quay: Katong seniors meet at St. H Ida's School. 4 p.m. KAMALA CLUB, Moulmeln Road: First aVd and home nursine, 5 p.m R.A.0.8. Grand Council, Pride of the East Lodge: Weekly meeting at 44-C Raffles Quay, Spin. AIX-MALAYA M.Y.E. Institute at the ACS.. Barker Road, film
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  • 108 4 Goh Kin Yong. a 29-year-old shopkeeper, of Woodsville Road, Singapore, who slapped police constable, Jali Din Maran, was fined $25 yesterday. Goh, who was charged with causing hurt to the constable In Queen Street on the night of Apr. 3. said he was drunk. Inspector
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  • 113 4 rE Public Works Department m Sarawak has not ret passed the new atrlrtrip at Sibu. on the Rejang River, as nt for passenger aircraft, although work on it ended some weeks ago. In 'Singapore yesterday, a Department of Civil Aviation spokesman said "As soon as
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    • 69 4 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 10 a.m. News: 10.05-10.45 Women's Magazine: 11-11.20 London Studio Concerts; 1 P-ni. K en Griffin, Organ; 1.30 News; 1.452 Lunch Time Prom: 6.15 Hobbies: 6.40 Radio String Ensembl?; 6.55 Announcements; 7 News: 7.157.25 This is Communism: 7.30 Radio Rhythm Club; 8 Jack Smith Show; 8.15 Entr'acte; 8.30
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  • 278 5 S 'pore youths told to urge more to register SINGAPORE Supervisor of Elections, Mr. G. G. Thomson, yesterday appealed to Colony youth organisations to help to double the named on the Singapore electoral register. He told a Press conference. "Our youth organisations have clearly identified themselves
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  • 207 5 RUSSIA BUYS RUBBER PENANO, Tues. RUSSIA continued to buy rubber from Pemmg last month but her purchases dropped by nearly half. Latest statistics issue! today showed thnt Mar-jti rubber shipments to Russia totalled 1,075 tons, valued at $3,056,781, against the previous month's total of 1,960 tons, worth $6,093,087. March exports
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  • 59 5 There were 449 more births than deaths in Singapore in the week ending Apr. 5. There were 649 births: 111 men and 89 women died. TubercuBosls caused the deaths of 19 people, one more than the previous week, and 66 new cases c/ tuberculosis were reported.
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  • 68 5 Jean Pierre, a former clerk at the Indian Association Club, m Balestier Road. Singapore, was charged m Singapore yesterday with crimir nal breach of trust of $96. He was also charged with cheating Ng Chong Liew of six bottles of whisky, valued at $102.50, m Selegie
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  • 78 5 rpHE Assistant Supervisor of X Elections, Singapore, Mr. Ponnuduray last night broadcast the Colony's 250,00 eligible voters to register immediately for the IJecember City and Legislative Council elections. In a broadcast, Mr. Ponnuduray said: "The supreme power in a democracy rests with the battot; and
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  • 155 5 IN SPITE of what many people seem to think, Singapore's weather ha s not undergone any mysterious change, and the last s'x weeks have not been at all abnormal in rainfall for the time of year. Dr. C. A. Lea, Director of Singapore's Government Meteorological
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  • 83 5 rE following have passed the Pitman's shorthand examination held in Singapore in December: Eighty words: Margaret C. Campbell. Anne Gilmour, Lim Mai Chan. Laml«ort C. Almodlel, Margaret S. Ferguson, Amy Naidu, Maggie Llm and Lau Nghee Seng. Ninety words: Yip Kara Choong, Mohamed Zakl bin Mohamed and Yap
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  • 90 5 A bus conductor, Tan Hock Ouan, charged with carrying excess passengers m Thomson Road, Singapore, told the City Police Court yesterday that four police constables, who were passengers at* the tin^e would give evidence to the contrary The Magistrate, Mr. K. J L. Jamleson, postponing
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  • 64 5 Depressed over the loss of his eyesight and his job, a 36-year-old electrician, Chee Shin Hong, drank a solution of caustic-soda. Detective inspector Fongr Ying Loong told the Singapore Coroner, Mr. Choor Singh, yesterday. Chee was found by his mother lying by the side of
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  • 145 5 WHEN Chua Tay It tried to collect a five-year-old debt from Llm Sin Koh, he wa s staboed m the neck instead. It was stated m the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday. Llm, charged with causing hurt to Chua with a screwdriver, was
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    28 5 ONE OF THE TWO Europeans who joined devotees to walk across a bridge of knives at the exorcism ceremony at Tanjong Bungah, Penan; on Sunday. Straits Times picture.
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  • 43 5 Building contractors In Singapore last night met Mr. T. Stigner, managing director of a leading Swedish building firm, Evers and Co., at a party on board the East Asiatic Company's ship Japan. Mr. Stigner is visiting Singapore for a week.
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  • 25 5 The Chettiars* (Nattukkottai) Chamber of Commerce, Singapore, has donated $25 to the Singapore Association for the Blind and $10 to the Salvation Army.
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  • 151 5 rpHE Singapore Medical Workers' Union yesterday asked Government to reinstate six female hospital servants of the General Hospital, who have been given a month's notice that their services will not be required In a letter to the Dlrectoi of Medical Services, Dr. W. J. Vickers,
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  • 44 5 After discussing steps to prevent unauthorised releases to the Press the Singapore Labour Party last night decided that all information to the Press on party matters would m future be given only by the general secretary, Mr. D. Stevens.
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  • 31 5 A natural causes verdict was recorded yesterday on a 31 -year-old vagrant. Tan Kian Tee. a former labourer, who died from advanced tuberculosis m Changi Prison hospital, Singapore.
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  • 93 5 BUTTERWORTH, Tues. WITH rape offences on the increase. Province Wellesley police today advised parents to "keep a closer watch" ovef their daughters. A police spokesman told the Straits Times that three rape cases had been dealt with in the courts. In addi- tion, several attempts
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  • 311 5 Six freed on arms charge ACQUITTING six out of eight young Chinese charged with going armed with offensive weapons, the Singapore Relief District Court Judge, Mr. S. E. Teh, said yesterday that it was "quite obvious these boys were all going out to rob someone but they are not being
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  • 41 5 Seo Ah Ng, aged 46, of Kim Klat Road, Singapore, was charged in Singapore with fraudulent possession of three watches, three jtold rings and four fountain pens. He claimed trial and was offered bail pending trial on Apr. 22.
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  • 749 6 The Straits Times Singapore, wed. Apr. 16, 1952. The Kampong Leaders Almost from the beginning, is has been apparent that the success of the Rural and Industrial Development Authority is going to be largely dependent on the response of the ketuas. and penghulus, and on leadership generally at the village
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  • 279 6 A disconcerting factor m the proceedings of the Penang Settlement Council which saw an Unofficial bid for funds foi housing ended by the chairman's casting vote was the composition of the Official side of the Council. Two Officials have been added. I Had this debate taken place
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  • 45 6 CAPE TOWN, Tues.— The South African Prime Minister. Dr. Daniel MaJan, is believed to have presented to hi? Cabinet yesterday a Bill reeking to establish that South African courts do not have the right to test Acts of Parliament. Reuter.
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  • 16 6 TEHERAN, Thpst. The Persian A?rtf>&ssactot-< 4o Paris. Abel Hassan Fb*>-adJ, has been recalled.— A.F.P.
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  • 387 6 Unions the cost of living HOI POLLOI" suggested in last Saturday's Forum that the unions could be more constructive if they co-operated with their employers and the Government in bringing down prices rather than demand more wages. As a trade unionist I feel it my duty to point out that
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  • 148 6 I NOTED with interest and concern your account last Wednesday of how hooligans attack schoolgirls and women teachers in Kuala Lumpur. You state that, in spite of police patrols, these individuals still lurk in bushes, ready to molest young women. Two things could be done. These
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  • 958 6 MR. LYTTELTON, HIS CRITICS MALAYA LONDON. Socialists, who, have been trying to get the British Government to allot Parliamentary time for a debate on Malaya, are almost certain to try and call Mr. OLver -Lyttelton to account for what they will probably call his discourtesy to the House in making
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    • 187 6 I THINK the Kelantan Government should know that the bus service m its State ls inefficient and inadequate, Kuala Krai people who go to Kota Bahru m the morning .sometimes cannot Ret the bus home m the afternoon as the buses are always full. According to the
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    • 214 6 A CURIOUS constitutional case has arisen in Penang on the basis of an allegation made by a Settlement Councillor. Dr. N. K. Menon. Speaking on the adjournment during the April meeting of the Council, Dr. Menon referred to the "creation of two new Official members" and asked if
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    • 230 6 PSYCHIATRY THE CATHOLIC IN your Thursday edition Is 1 a Reuter report about a supposed wholesale condemnation by the Catholic Church of all psycho-analy-tic treatment. May I, as a former professor of psychology, briefly outline the Catholic position on psycho-analysis? Our aim is to embrace what is true and reject
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  • 446 6 Entranced THE Auntie Colleague (whose enormous mail yesterday contained one letter addressed to N. T. Kitelh has observed our remarks on the ability to remember back tcf the age of three years and less. She commented that, according to the claims put forward for hypnotists, .sundry experts
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  • 351 7 Money needed for building PLANS for the transfer of the University of Maiaya to Johore have now been completed and preliminary work has begun, Sir George Allen, retiring Vice-Chancellor of the University, told the Straits Times at the airport yesterday before he left Singapore
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  • 242 7 MORE THAN a week after the first warning was given that rabies existed in Selangor. action was taken yesterday to ensure that unmuzzled dogs roaming the streets will be destroyed. ONE LIFE was lost in the big gale which swept across Penang and Province Wefleslcv
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  • 73 7 An odd- job worker, Ng Kim Kee, told the Singapore Second Magistrate, Mr. R. B. I. Pates, yesterday that his wife spent too much time gossiping with neighbours and he was not willing to take her back and maintain her. The magistrate ordered Ng to support
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  • 34 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— Mr. K. Orme, of the PWD stores. Johore Bahru, was given a farewell party on the eve of his transfer to Kluang. He is succeeded by Mr. S. Chelliah
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  • 159 7 45 weary horses, but only one rested ANI.Y one of 45 weary v/ horses stuck oat for a rest, before being led off the freighter, Carpentaria at Singapore Docks yesterday morning. They had been a month at sea on the way from Australia. On landing they were coaxed into special
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  • 105 7 mHE Singapore Sinhalese X i Association has collected over $200 for the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association fund. Mr. H. J. C. Kulasingha, president .of the association, told the Straits Times yesterday that on account of the death of the Ceylon Prime Minister, Mr. D. S. Senanayake, the association
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  • 43 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues Wong Ah Tong, a learner rider, who rode a motorcycle without displaying "L" plates, was fined $10 m the Johore Bahru Police Court and a further. sso for not being covered by a third party insurance policy.
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  • 36 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— Mr. J. G. G. Pitt, from Kedah, has arrived In Johore Bahru to take over duties from Mr. J. Lewis, Deputy Comptroller of Customs, who has gone to Kuala Lumpur on transfer.
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  • 161 7 THE first signs of progress on Singapore's new multi-million-dollar airport at Paya Lebar will soon be seen, when work starts on a 1,600-foot culvert which will carry a stream underneath the site of the main runway. Th e Public Works Department's resident engineer on
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  • 32 7 An interpreter m Hockchia was not available m Singapore. High Court yesterday, so a case m which a man was suing for the custody of his infant son was postponed.
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  • 70 7 More than 400 candidate-; cam e forward in Kedah and Province Wellesl«y to fill 100 vacancies in the Royal Air Force Regiment (Malaya) during a tour just concluded by a recruiting team. The selected men will start training early next month at the Regiment's Depot
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  • 194 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. A COURSE to create a new kind of leadership m rk the kampongs will be. held at the College of Agriculture, Serdang, during the college's vacation Government's policy is to organise the rural population to co-operate with it m kampong development activities.
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  • 51 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— Lim Oh, of Batu Pahat, was charged in the Johore Bahru Police Court today, with giving Mr. SeCby, of the Customs Department, false information relating to a rubber stamp. The case was adjourned to May 26 and Lim wa s allowed $1,000
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  • 49 7 A Singapore shorthand writer. Mr. .Kwek Chip Leng. was the onfy candidate who passed the 150 words Pitman's shorthand examination held in' the Coiony last December. Mr. Kwek. who was a, War Crimes court reporter, is now m the Department of Civil Aviation.
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  • 201 7 'HEATED' MEETING EXPECTED rpOMORROW'S meeting of the Singapore LegisL lative Council is. expected to be a heated one when the National Service Bill comes up for second reading. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, the Labour Party representative who received a mandate from the party at the annual
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  • 118 7 II/HAT is believed to be the tt biggest chap-ji-ki haul in Singapore since th e entl of th° war was made early yesterday by members of the gambling suppression subbranch of the C.I.D. Police raided an attap hut off Florence Road and arrested four men
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  • 133 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. A FEATURE of the opening today of the registration of voters for the Johore Bahru Town Council election next December was the big interest shown by Malays. Ninety-five per cent of those who- registered were Malays. Even before the doors of the Election
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  • 41 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Maz'.am bin Rahmat. of Bakri, Muar. a member of the- 19th Jungle Coy. Tampol, was charged In the Sessions Court today with criminal breach of trust of a rifle, bayonet and 10 rounds of ammunition.
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  • 84 7 HOMICIDAL drivers m Singapore alone injure ten people ever* day and kill on every two days, the Colony's Traffic Chief. Mr. VV. R. M. Haxworth, told the Technical Association of Malaya last night. These road hogs, h* said, killed more innocent people m
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  • 118 7 THE snake that, grounded a Qantas Conste'.latlon for 24 hours when it escaped from a wire container nt Kalian* airport a fortnight ago; was found dead when the plane was stripped fn Sydney a few days ago. The snake had travelled to London and back to
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  • 304 7 MORE SHIPS FOR CUSTOMSDEPT. IN JOHORE KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. FEDERAL CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT is to get more fast launches in its fight against smuggling and illegal immigration along the Johore coast a senior Customs official told the Straits Times today. At present, it has only two motor launches to patrol the
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  • 24 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— For driving at more than 30 m.p.h., Pek Hong Seng, of Singapore, was fined $60 ai Johore Bahru today.
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  • 61 7 Venkatesh Churgupty was yesterday sentenced by the i Singapore Third District Judge, Mr. H. A. Forrcr, to two years' imprisonment for i being m fraudulent possessj ion of 10 pieces of corrugatied iron sheets, seven pieces of scrap brass, and two motor car tubes. Churgupty, who
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  • 170 7 FVEVELOPMENT of a Mala- yan nationalism means, among other things, an attachment to the soil from which we derive our liv hood, said Professor Oeo G. Catlin. formerly of Citi University. U.S. m a broadcast last night. Professor Catlin, who spent a few days m
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  • 397 8 Straits Times Special Correspondent PRINCETON, New Jersey, Tuesday. J)K. HU HSIH, whom many in the Western world number among the most learned "scholar-statesmen of pre-Mao Tse-tung China, has not yet decided whether he will return to the Far East to accept the
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  • 88 8 A batch of 54 Malays entered training yesterday for service with the R.A.F Police Auxiliary at airfields in Singapore and the Federation. Ff^ruited from nearby districts, all will serve" at airfields near their homes on completion of their eightweek course at the Far East Air
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  • 100 8 mantling officer of the I.N.S. Cauvery. and Mrs. Lobo and officers cave a cocktail party to the Representative of the Government of India m Malaya, Mr. M. Gopala Menon. and Mrs. Menon, officers of the Royal Navy and Malayan Navy Volunteer Reserve and their wives
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  • 104 8 KUALA LUMPUR Tues. rpHE appeal of Mr. Lye Chin Loy, a contractor, against an order by Mr. Justice Taylor to pay $10,400 as damages and loss or rent to a timber merchant, Mr. Ong Ha>, was today settled amicably out of court. Mr. H. Y. 1
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  • 199 8 VI ORE than 600 youths, attend ng the third post iTI war All-Malaya Methodist Youth Fellowship m Singapore, were urged by the Commissioner-Gene-ral, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, to lead the developing Malayan nation by character and example. Mr. MacDonald, In his message read at the opening
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  • 90 8 DESPITE official assurances that the position would soon be eased, the steady decrease m imports of raw goods from Indonesia continues to affect the rubber milling and coconut oil factories m Singapore. A number of oil mills have staggered their working; hours to ke«P as many workers
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  • 221 8 P. M. U. CHIEF WARNS SULTANS KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. 'THE president of the 1 Peninsular Malays Union, Inche Hashim Ghani, today accused State Governments of forcing Malays to sell Malay reservation and hereditary lands (Tanah Pesaka) in order that they might be given t» Chinese squatters. Inche Hashim Ghani warned
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  • 114 8 SINGAPORE is almost certain to be a stopping point eventually for Japanese airliners A Singapore Civil Aviation Department spokesman yesterday said: "The Japanese are already sending ships, and it is a certainty that when the peace treaty is finally ratified, they win apply for
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  • 53 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.Charged with carrying two excess passengers m his taxi. Kew Swee told the Court that the two extra passengers were a dato and a clerk of a resettlement area. "And because they were big shots you committed an offence,'* remarked the Magistrate and
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  • 27 8 TAIPINO. Tues.— Mr. and Mrs. Retnasamy Pilfiay. of Taiping, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary at the Marlammam Temple. Friends were later entertained to dinner
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    • 348 8 Straits Times Crossword v galned^ DOWN I I M miij 1 t 1, i '1' 1. Direct teacher (5). I 2 3 I 4 S58 8 2 William Thackery (9). Sssk 3. Past dyes are not (7) Hi 1 9 4. Hfa cricket records stand ££U M* m 6. a
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    • 824 9 A HAPPY Easter, Uncle Ollle, 1 cried Ah Chan, handing the Wise Owl a parcel. "Well!" squawked Uncle, "this is a surprise. Imagine, a present for me." He unwrapped It eagerly and hooted with delight when ne found Inside, a chocolate egg resting in an
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    • 312 9 a Dear 6ov and GirK Here are the winners ot our -fish paint or contest. You will remember that only five readers managed to get the picture puzzle right last week, so I have added the sixth prize to our list of winners this week They are:
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    • 33 9 Lucki/, the London Zoo newest bally, a Bacirian camel, makes her first public app"oratice. She is nine Gays old btt bid weather I prevented her Iron- taking a walk bhfort.
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    • 331 9 m Ikl v/IjAYASINGHAM of I^l Serembar has written tn me to suggest that it would be of general interest to boys and girls and stamp collectors m general if I could illustrate a stamp bearing tke portrait of i Ceylon's late Prime Minister, Mr. Don Senanayake, and
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    • 339 9 HERE are eight more general knowledge questions. A total of eighty to ninety marks shows that you are very good, sixty to seventy is quite good, below that is fair. 1 Kublai Khan was a great warrior-emperor who lived many years ago. Of what country was
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  • 273 10 LONDON. Tues. HPHE London Stock Exchange presented fairly satisfactory appearance today. though the market fu slow to start after th« holiday Tradtng was on a small scale, with end account influences adding to the quietness Closing middle prices of selected stocks were: I.OANB Contois aol +1 ftmdtn* 4%
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  • 80 10 SHIPS alongside the Singapore Harbour Board godowns. or expected there at 7 a.m. today, are: 1/2 CRnton: 4 5 Tjlmenten?: Coal Plant: Hon? Soon: 8 9 Steel Admiral; 11 Tegelberg: 13 14 Glengyle: 15/16 CarpenUria; 19 20 City of Norwich; N.W. 4 Tung Song: NW. 7 Resang: 21
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  • 455 10 U.S. Professor champions natural rubber 'Don 't give Malayan Reds best propaganda weapon A WARNING against giving the Communist rk agitator the best weapon for his propaganda oy makin? public statements of the desire to eliminate the need for natural rubber is given in the Natural Rubber News by Mr.
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  • 14 10 SINGAPORE, Tues. April 15 S47t'm a pieui (down $I'm).
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  • 24 10 LONDON ADril 15.—Cash Buyers £96*1; Sellers £9RV, Forward Buyers £965; Sellers £965); Settlement £963; (down £4). Turnover: a.m. 40; p.m. 40 tons.
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  • 30 10 LONDON. April 15— Spot «2Vid., May 33d., June 31Sid., July-Sept. Ud.. Oct.-Dec. M\tl., Jan-Mar 2«\d.. April c.i.f. 32»»d.. May c.l.f. Jl\d.. June cXf. 31 '4d. Market: Very dull.
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  • 183 10 By a Market Correspondent rE Singapore Rubber Market was slightly steadier at the opening, following the Easter holidays, but, after a few transactions, buyers adopted a cautious attitude and prices reverted to last rhursday's levels. With the easier tone, sellers were more in evidence, and
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  • 120 10 Malayan Shares Quiet steady rE Malayan Share Market opened quiet and steady yesterday after the holidays The majority of changes were to slightly higher levels. Yesterday's price changes by the Malayan Share Brokers' Association were: INDUSTRIALS Barer* ScHer* Qimmoni 2.7ft 2 »5 W Hinmrr 42 50 43 50 cbt Malayan
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  • 33 10 HONO KONO, Tues. C'REE market currency exchange for Hong Kong dollars was minted at. 'he close fodav as fellows: US$l HKJB 355 (cash); HK16.385 (T.T.); HKSIS.BS. One tael of sold $»9.5
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  • 78 10 ITTLE activity was reported In the Singapore Produce Market yesterday. Copra was very quiet, with bids lower at 24 a picu! against offers at $25 't. Pepper again showed steady price declines. sellers quoting Muntok at $565 a picul. Sarawak at $560 and Lampong (black) at $425
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  • 694 11  - Sturveta has improved since, Penang win EPSOM JEEP By GOOD CHANCE FOR SATURDAY KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. gTURVETA, an attractive-looking chestnut by Dastur, has made good progress since winning at Penang on Mar. 5. With Herb Charles astride, this promising four-year-old showed a lot of galloping zest when he outsmarted Kaiserine
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  • 462 11 LONDON, Tuesday. \M ANCHESTER United retained their lead of the iT1 First Division in the Easter Monday English League soccer matches with a crushing 6-1 victory over another Lancashire club Burnley. The United after being held I to a goalless draw in the first
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  • 46 11 IPOH, Tues.— The Perak Turf Club's $10,000 horse-float was put to good use during the recent Easter meeting when 65 horses were transported to and from the railway station. The float is specially built to hold three horses securely and comfortably.
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  • 38 11 In a SAFA Div. 3B League soccer match played at the C.Y.M.A. ground yesterday, Singapore Fire Brigade beat Customs by four goals to nil. Scorers were: Sa'ad (2). Teo Yan Seng and LJm Beng Lock.
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  • 264 11 BOTH SAY 'I'LL WIN' BY K.O. Sugar Ray v Graziano CHICAGO. Tues. f HAMPIOn Ray Robinson and Rocky Graziano, each predicting, he will win a knockout, are all set for their middleweight title flght in Chicago stadium tomarrow (Thursday lo ajn. Malayan time). Chicago's flght fans are more excited over
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  • 68 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Young Men's Sikh Association held Supply Depot, R.A.S.C. to a three-all draw m an FAS. Div. 3(N) match at Sentul Pasar today. RASC led by two-one at the interval. Grivosti scored both the RASC goals and Jaswant Singh for the Sikhs.
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  • 50 11 TAIPINQ, Tues.— Three singles third round matches in the North Perak tennis championships were played here today. Results: Mohd. Hasali (Kuala Kangsar) bt Lee 8wee Keng 6-4. 6-3; Chang Swee Wah bt Lbn Seang Quee 6-4, 6-3; and Lee Kim Loon bt Rama Rao 3-6, 6-0, 6-4.
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  • 149 11 LONDON, Tues. OUGBY Union results yesterday v were. Maesteg 9, London University S; New Brighton 9, Wasp* 6: Newbridge 9, Nuneaton 3; Newport 11, London Welsh 6; Penryn 16, St. Mary's Hospital 3: Penzance and Newlyn T, St. Thomas's Hospital 0. Plymouth Albion 0. Leicester 19; Pontypool
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  • 226 11  -  EPSOM JEEP By RIDING eight winners at the Perak Derby meeting, Colin Tulloh has established a commanding lead in the Jockeys' list with 21 winners, eight ahead ol his nearest rival. Athol Mulley, who rode- 18 winners up to the end of the Singapore Spring
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  • 54 11 TOKYO, Tues. The Japan Table-Tennis Association announced it would Invite two British table-tennis players Richard Bergmann and Johnny Leach to tour Japan for a month from the middle of next month. The association will pay all expenses and will expect the two to play 13
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  • 56 11 EDINBURGH, Tues. Haxhlm Khan of Pakistan retained the Scottish open squash rackets championship here yesterday, defeating Mahmoud Karim of Egypt 9-0, 9-0, 10-8. After 12 minutes' play, Khan led by two games a 3-0 in the final game. Karim rallied well and the pair provided sonr of the
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  • 60 11 KEMPTON PARK, Tues. Zabara, warm favourite for the 1,000 guineas at Newmarket on May 2, was beaten by five lengths by the Irish-bred Filly Lady Sophia in the 1,000 guineas trial stakes over 7f here today. The winner had finished second to Zabara in her only race in
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  • 482 12 HEAVY DEMAND FROM FED. By Our Badminton Reporter rpHE Thomas Cup Tickets Committee of the Badminton Association of Malaya is being overwhelmed by applications for tickets and, according to the committee's chairman, Mr. Lim Chuan Geok. the allocation of tickets is going to
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  • 47 12 rpHE Singapore Badmin- ton Associations longawaited $800,000 hall at Guillemard Road is fast nearing completion and will be ready next month. All the four wings of the hall have been built and I the framework of the roof is now in place.
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  • 171 12 CKLETAR YUle Indian S.C. who dominated play for the greater part of the first half and led I—o at the interval, looked a very tired team m the second half and went down 3-1 to Singapore Harbour Board Police In a Div. 3B SAFA League
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  • 42 12 LONDON. Tuei. Todays Rugby I Union results: Abertlllery 9 London Welsli 0; Cardiff 6. Northampton 3: Coventry 6. Clyde 13; Exeter 11. Leicester 0. Newport 8. Barbarians 3: Pontvpool 8. London University 5: I Ebbw Va'.e 41. Birmingham 8 Reuter.
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  • 87 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday.— Seventy young women from all parts of the Federation and Singapore are participating the threeday All-Malayan. YWCA annual sports which started here today. Two tennis matches were decided this afternoon, Singapore beating Kuala Lumpur m both games. At badminton. Kuala Lumpur beat Penang
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  • 36 12 The Singapore B.HJVA. Dlv. 3 soccer match between Borneo Co. SC. and East Asiatic S.C. which was to have been played at Farrer Park yesterday, was postponed because the referee did not turn up.
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  • 30 12 In a S.A.F.A Div. 2 League soccer match played on the 8.0.D.C.A ground yesterday. Tong Beh-u Rangers beat Kota Rajah "A" by four goals to two.
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  • 420 12 GHQ Signals had reward for trying GHQ (Sigs) 1; Terror 0. A GOAL by centre-forward Evans in the closing stages of play against the run of play gave GHQ. Royal Signals victory over HMS. Terror in their United Services Senior Learue game played at Tanglin yesterdav. Navy, a faster, fitter
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  • 34 12 SOCCER: Comb. Services Aryans J. Besar; Business Houses Lgd: Straits Times v BaU Farrer Park; S.C.S. 'B v Handelsbank— C. Union; SAFA Div. 3B: SMSU v SUSC— Geylanf. BOYS SOCCER final— SCC.
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  • 183 12 SOCCER RESULTS AT A GLANCE STORE A.F.A. LEAGUE Division One Kota Raja 1 S.R.C. 1 Division Three (B) Sdetar Ville 1 S.H.B. Police 3 Fire Brigade 4 Customs S.C. 0 UNITED SERVICES LEAGUE Division One RAF (Changi) 3 RNAS (S'wang) 1 GHQ Signals 1 HMS Terror 0 RAF (Lodgers) 2
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  • 97 12 Medicals beat Arts and Science 6'^-3 l a in the inter-Faculty chess match at the University of Malaya on Saturday. Results were (Medicals mentioned first) Tan Kan Hong bt Freddy Tan; Charlie Urn bt Mohd. Yusof Rahman; Phoon Wai-On drew with Chia Kin Hin; Teoh Khong
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  • 57 12 LONDON Tue*.— Today'B football results: FlfcST DIVISION: Alton Villa 7. CheUea 1: Huddersfleld Town 2 Sunder land 2: Wolverhampton Wanderers 1. West Bromwlch 4. SECOND DIVISION: Coventry City 5. Luton Town 1: Leicester City 2. Rotherham United 0 THIKD DIVISION (BOUTBEEN): Northampton Town 6 Bournemouth 3. THIRD
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  • 201 12 ALTHOUGH they were wlth■i*. out the services of their star player, Carlos Loysaga who is on the sick list. PRISCO basketball team of Manila proved too good for Kong Slong whom they beat by 80 points to 60 at the Happy Worltf arena last night
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  • 81 12 Following are Mercantile Bank SC. officials for this year: Patron, Mr. Ong Chay Tong; president, Mr. Lee Choo Seng; vice-president. Mr. Seow Slan Chye; hon. secretary. Mr. Charlie Chua; hon. treasurer, Mr. Cbla Boon Swee: hon. auditor, Mr. Low Ah Toey hon. sport* capt., Mr. Koh Song Hua;
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  • 150 12 Aryans 'will be at best' today T*HE Aryan Gymkhana touring 1 soccer team will play their third game In Singapore today when they meet Combined Services at Jalan Besar Stadium, kick-off at 5.19 p.m. The Aryans are full of confidence after their good 3-1 victory ovei Singapore "A" on Sunday,
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  • 121 12 In a friendly badminton match Rotterdam B.C. beat O.T.E.C. Sports Club by four games to three. Results were. (R.T.S.C. players mentioned first) Singles: Wee Thiam Bock lost to Adnan b. Jeman 4-15, 15-9. 6-15. Liew Khoon San beat Koh Cheng Hock 15-10, 15-4: Tan Chiang Teo
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  • 344 12 TPCA STAMINA TACTICS WIN TIE KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. Tamilians 3; Selangor C.R.C. 1. TAMILI ANS PCA, the Selangor F.A. Cup champions, 1 gained two valuable points in the First Division of the FAS league by beat ng Selangor Chinese Recreation Club, the titleholders, 3 1 at Princess Road this evening.
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  • 295 12 KOTA BAHRU, Tuesday. THE second day of the Kelantan soccer carnival saw a major upset by Suara Muda when they beat Singapore Corinthians 2 1 before 8.000 people probably the biggest crowd ever to see a football match here yesterday. The weather was Ideal
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  • 190 12 Rajas relax -and Recs recover K Raja 1; SBC 1 HONOURS were shared at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday when Kota Raja and Singapore Recreation Club met In a S.A.F.A. First Division game. An evenly-contested first halt brought no goals. Both teams had an equal number of chances but the finishing
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  • 95 12 DUBLIN, Tue*. Mr. H. H. Stanley's nine-year-old gelding Alberoni ridden by L. Stephen won the I.lsh Granl National over 3' 4 miles at. Falreyhousa near here yesterd iy. Carrying boaoin xeight of 10 stone, Alberoni started 6-1 joint second favourite and won by 2'i lengths from
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  • 63 12 PRINCE Edward Road Boys Club and Queen Street Boys Club will meet m the Boys Clubs Soccer Cup final on the padang today. The Officer Administering the Government, Mr. W Blythe, will kick-off at 5 p.m. Mr. Blythe will also present the trophy to the
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