The Straits Times, 25 April 1952

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    22 1 The Straits Times MALAYA 6 i\A 1 IUNA l. NEWSPAPER. LSTABUSHEU IH45 SIXTEEN PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    SINGAPORE MUST BE SECURE
    396 1 Nicoll: That is best way to help Federation ijj \KIN(i Singapore secure was one of the best ways the Colony could help the Federation in the anti-bandit war, the Governor, Mr. John F. Nicoll, told reporters yesterday at his first Press conference. And he made a
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    Stalin got an ultimatum
    128 1 WASHINGTON, Thurs. PRESIDENT Truman said today that the United States forced Russian troops out of Persia in 1945 by sending an ultimatum to Stalin. The President told a news conference that he sent an ultimatum to Stalin telling Russia to get out of Persia by a
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    Pocket money-and a big smile
    52 1 CANON R. K. S. ADAMS has a big smile as h e gives pocket money to five-year-old Ton Chens Huay at the Trafalgar Home, Singapore yesterday. Ninety-five children were riven money hy Singapore Leprosy Relief Association. Miss M. A. Buxton is in the centre.— Straits
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    'Send US-Chinese to Malaya' plea
    307 1 LANGUAGE IS SNAG,? SAYS M.P. From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Thursday. JLfK. JOHN RANKIN (Labour) said in the House of Commons today that the psychological root of much of the trouble in Malaya was due to the fact that British officials could not make real
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    Colony cars stall in big storm
    109 1 Colony cars stall in big storm SIX cars were stalled near PeopQe's Park and Outram Road, Singapore, last n lgh j. during a 40-minute cloudburst which came after a week's sultry weather. Hashes of lightning split the night sky just before the rains tame. Some roads were flooded to a
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    Plot against Paraguay
    48 1 I BUENOS AIRES, Thurs. More than 40 Paraguayans have crossed the border into Argentina after the discovery #of a plot against the Paraguayan Government, reports from the frontier said toady. The refugees said many arrests had been made, Including a number of highranking Army offlcers.-«-Reu-ter.
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    5 REDS SEEK CONTROL OF THE WORKERS
    273 1 5 REDS SEEK CONTROL OF THE WORKERS Communism in Indonesia EiIVE men three Chinese and two Javanese are 1 believed to be working from Jogjakarta to get control of the Indonesian labour unions for the Communists. Two Dutch journalists, Mr. Leo Hanekroot, president of the Dutch Federation of Journalists, and
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    H.K. police chief tells of riots
    119 1 H.K. police chief tells of riots HONG KONG, Thurs. DOLICE Superintendent D. I G. MacPherson described the Kowloon riots on Mar. 1 when the Ta Kung Pao sedition case was resumed at the Supreme Court today. He said that he assumed full responsibility for the action which the police took
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    JANE ADOPTED THEIR BABY
    36 1 LONDON Thurs. —Michael, tCavanaugh 37. and his wife Florence were put on probation today after admitting that they illegally allowed film star Janp Russell to adopt their son Thomas 18 months UP
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    CULTURAL PACT
    32 1 CAIRO Thurs Spanish Foreign Minister. Don Alberto Martin Artajo. arrived here today from Saudi Arabia for a four-day official visit during which Egypt and Spain '<> sign a cultural pact Reuter.
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    $2-m. damage in waterfront fire
    52 1 VANCOUVER. (8.C.). Thurs —A flre. believert caused by a grain dust explosion caused damage estimated at more than $2,000,000 when !t swept through Vancouver's waterfront area yesterday. Harbour Board officials said today The blaze swept through a largp warehouse, an elevator and a grain loading
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    CONVICT RIOTERS WIN 'WAR'
    101 1 CONVICT RIOTERS WIN 'WAR' JACKSON. Thurs. SOUTHERN Michigan prison rioters today agreed to end their mutiny after the Governor of Michigan surrendered to their 11 -point reform demand. The 169 rioters agreed to leave cellblock 15 as soon as the terms of the agreement were printed by the newspapers They
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    June 2, 1953. Queen told
    67 1 LONDON, Thurs. THE Daily Express reported 1 today that the British Cabinet has advised Queen Elizabeth II that June 2 next year, would be a suitable day for her Coronation A Buckingham Palace spokesman said that no decision has been made, and that nothing can
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    NOT LEFT ENOUGH
    41 1 A man driving a large saloon car knocked down a "Keep Left" sign on Kallang Road. Singapore, last night resulting in his car overturning on Lt* side The car caused a minor traffic jam for about an hour.
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    'PREPARE' CALL
    32 1 HANOI, Thurs. General de Linares today addressed an Order of the Day to his troops asking them to prepare to strike new blows which will be decisive.— A F P
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    Opera singer dies
    22 1 NEW YORK, Thurs.— Elizabeth Schumann, 63, noted German opera singer, died on Wednesday night at the Memorial Hospital— UP
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    Anti-bandit boat sinks
    52 1 f\NE of the two Landing Craft (Assault), assisting .security forces in antibandit operations in the upper reaches of the Pahang river, sank after it struck a submerged object. An official statement yesterday said there were no casualties and salvage operations are in progress. The boat sank in
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    He will shoot Malayan scene
    43 1 Mr. Joseph Roberts, a staff photographer of the National Geographic Magazine, arrived In Singapore yesterday to gather material and take photographs for an article on Singapore and the Federation. Mr. Roberts recently did a similar assignment In IndoChina.
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    Morals charge causes brawl
    105 1 SYDNEY. Thurs DOLICfc were called out 'o t^stop 0r.., a, Sidney University today after students had chased a dedivery van from the grounds and seised copies or the univprslty magazine The disturbance wa» after a tetter in the magazine 2S."!Ei "MS. 'ta university colleges Twelve students
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    UNEMPLOYED TOLD TO CHANGE JOBS
    151 1 LONDON, Thursday JNEMPLOYMENT, increasing in the British textile industry, .could b e drastically reduced if workers agreed to switch to other jobs, labour leaders Latest unemployment statistics show 432,900 people ire out of work, but there are still 316,000 unfilled jobs, according to a report
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    Triple crash in Singapore
    36 1 Three vehicles were involved in a collision in Stamford Road, Singapore, last night. A jeep was in collision with a taxi, which pushed a passing car into a drain. Nobody was Injured.
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    BANDITS KILL SIX
    14 1 Terrorists murdered six civilians In various parts of the Federation yesterday
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    The other ticket won him a fortune
    152 1 The other ticket won him a fortune IPOH. Thurs. HAPPIEST man in Ipoh this week is 23-year-old Kathiryan, a garbage collector drawing $95 a month from the Kinta Town Board, who has won nearly $230,000 in the Social Welfare lottery I Kathiryan's ticket, No. *****8, gave him first prize or
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    TUC discuss carbon strike
    75 1 rE governing council of the Singapore Trade Union Congress will oh Sunday, discuss latest developments In the strike at the factory. Meanwhile, the president of the Congress" Mr. Lim Yew Hock, will continue to try to negotiate a settlement between thp company and the union. There
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    Curfew 'test'
    40 1 CAIRO, Thurs Cairo's mldnight-to-dawn curfew, which is being suspended during the month of Ramadan starting on May 25. will be finally lifted "if this experiment succeeds," the Minister of the Interior,* Mortada el Maragh Bey. announced today.— Reuter.
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    Queen's cable
    42 1 LONDON Thurs. The Queen has sent a message to the Governor General of Australia, Sir William McKell. on the eve of Anzac Day which commemorates the landing of Australia and New Zealand troops in Gallipoli on April 25. 1915.— Reuter.
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      18 1 f yourbesfMvr \iogWeorget) Malaya's own favourite drink > _JB J?^^ Ml' £LJKP? ORANGE CRUSH is good for your health
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    EXPERT AID FOR FARMERS
    62 2 WASHINGTON, Thurs. The Mutual Security agency announced today it was recruiting a score of United States agricultural specialists to launch an intensive drive for greater food production in Western Europe. The specialists, will form a pool to be drawn upon by countries of the Organisation for
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    Australia may seek dollar loan
    32 2 WASHINGTON, Thurs. The Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Robert Menzies. is expected to discuss in Washington next month the possibility of obtaining a $50,000,000 International Bank loan— UP
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    The Saar flares up again as West Europe problem
    187 2 BONN, Thursday. rpHE industrially rich "pocket'' territory in West Europe, the Saar, flared up as an international problem again yesterday when the West German Chancellor, Dr. Adenauer, told his Parliament that [the present line of negotiations with France over [the territory
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    JAPS NOT PACIFIST
    76 2 WASHINGTON, Thurs. rpHE Australian Ambassador to the United Stats*. Mr. Percy C. Spender, said yesterday that it "would be unwise if we assumed that militarism is dead in Japan, just as it would be stupid to think that Nazism is dead in Germany." Mr. Spender was addressing
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    Indian army will war on jackals
    120 2 NEW DELHI, Thurs. rE Indian Army is being called in to hunt down 2,000 jackals plaguing New Delhi. An official of the New Delhi Municipal Committee said General K. M. Cariappa, Indian Commander -in Chiet, had offered to launch "Operation Jackal" to rid the
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    Coronation date
    27 2 LONDON. Thurs.— The Daily Express said today that plans had been submitted to Queen Elizabeth to hold her coronation -on Jhipe 2 next year.— Reuter.
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    Persian decree
    19 2 TEHERAN. Thurs. The Persian Government may extend the state of siege in Teheran by two months.— A.F.P
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      515 2 NOTICED TRAFFIC NOTICE BUK1T KEMUNING EOAD The Bukit Komuning Bailey rtrnl& is closed to all traffic until further notice All vehicles not exceeding tons from Kuala Lumpur to Port Swettenham can proee<xi via Klang seroM the Sydney Bridge at any time but vehicles exceeding six tons but not exceeding eight
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      767 2 NOTICES JUNIOR TECHNICAL SCHOOL, EVENING CLASSES. lUlestirr Bead. Singapore- 12. The Junior Technical Scboo'. Evening Class Year commences on the sth May, 1963. Vacancies exist In the following daises:— 1. Building construction; 3. Builders' Quantities; 3. Electric: I Engineering; 4. Mechanical Engineering Design; i. Marine and Mechanical Engineering: 6. Carpentry
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      716 2 HATURALISATIOH NOTICE is hereby given that Miss Then Poeng Moi of 11 Branksome Road, Singapore 15 is applying to the Governor for naturalisation, and that »ny person who knows any reason why naturalisation should not be granted should send a written signed statement of the facts to the Colonial Secretary.
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      176 2 TENDER NOTICE Tenders which will close at 12 noon on 6ta May 1952 are Invited by the Commissioner of Police. Federation of Malaya for the making up of jungle green Uniforms. Full particulars may be obtained on application to the office of the superintendent "Q" branch. police Headquarters. Kuala Lumpu
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      318 2 x -«;..i. ii jit,..: i. r i'.»:.i. /F MEMORANDUM NOTE FOR AIR TRAVELLERS. P. ».A. SCHEDULE CHANGE. Flight' Four from Singapore to Manila and on to the U.S.A. will henceforth be known as flight 834/2. This flight will depart every Wednesday morning at 9.30 L.T., effective with the departure on
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    OUR ENEMIES NOT SO SURE—Alexander
    254 3 OUR ENEMIES NOT SO SURE— Alexander \illied defence efforts are the reason 'BUT ANXIOUS PERIOD AHEAD 9 LONDON, Thursday. JTIELD Marshal Earl Alexander, the Defence Minister, said last night he was not convinced Britain's potential enemies felt sure they were strong enough to challenge her and her allies in mortal
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    A KING TRIES AN ANTI-TANK GUN
    39 3 Ki.\i, BAIDOI IN OF BELGIUM fires a Bazooka during: a visit to the Arlon Infantry and Artillery Army Training Centre. He hit the target, a crippled tank, with his second shot. A.P. picture
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    Million missed at pay parade
    148 3 Million missed at pay parade TOKYO, Thurs. APANKSE police at Kure I said today they were as- j M-ting the military police in their search for a Canadian private suspected of snatching one million yen j during a pay parade, he money was missed during noon parade yesterday, when the
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    Small nations get their way
    69 3 NEW YORK. Thurs. The t-nation Human Rights ommission overrode U.S.. ritlsh and French opposition •sterday and adopted a de- tand that the UN supera* all plebiscites in territors that do not govern them■lves. The demand was a recomendation to -the General ssembly on how to
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    Commons to debate Africa
    118 3 Commons to debate Africa LONDON. Thurs. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, in the House of Commons today promised facilities for a debate on the proposed federation of Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, with reference to the attitude of the Africans. The Minister of State for the Colonies, Mr.
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    Canal police more helpful
    53 3 ISMAILIA, Thurs. LieutGen. Sir George Erskine, retiring Commander of British troops in Egypt, said here today that British contacts with Egyptian police in the Canal zone had been "most satisfactory" in recent weeks. General Erskine has handed over to Lieut.-Gen. F. W. Fes tins and leave.s
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    SPEAKMAN IS DIGGING IN
    49 3 TOKYO. Thurs. Private William Speakman. V.C.. Is digging In happily again on a Korean hillside. Pte Speakman volunteered for a second tour of Korean duty after receiving the V.C. from Queen Elizabeth for valour In action with the Borderers on Nov. 4, last year.— Reuter.
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    HE CANNOT GO
    39 3 RANGOON. Thurs. The Burmese Government has refused a passport for Tun Aung Gyaw. president of the All-Burma Ministerial Services Union, who was Invited by the All-China Federation of Labour to May Day celebratlons in Peking.— Reuter
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    34 abandoned
    34 3 BERLIN, Thurs. Rescue workers have abandoned attempts to reach 34 miners buried alive in a collapsed shaft of the Martin Hoop colliery at Zwickau, Saxony, where 13 men were killed last Sunday.
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    U.S. tin policy 'led to Bolivian revolt'
    158 3 T WASHINGTON. Thursday HE Washington Post, in an editorial, blames the I Reconstruction Finance Corporation and Its I miserly tin policy" for the revolution in Bolivia I recently. *~«»i» "For months," the Post said, "the State Department warned that the failure to reach
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    'Sub killer plane' is ready
    78 3 'Sub killer plane' is ready WASHINGTON, Thurs. T»HE United States Atlantic Fleet today received the first of a series of streamlined seaplanes specirVly designed to combat sabmarine. The aircraft is equipped with electronic aids for the detection of subs both above and below water. It carries depth charges, torpedoes, rockets,
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    MALAN WINS IN FIRST CLASH
    177 3 CAPETOWN, Thursday. DR. Daniel Malan, South Africa's Nationalist Pr.me Minister, tonight won the first round of the constitutional battle over the Supreme Court's rejection of his government's coloured voters law. By 71 votes to 58, the House of Assembly rejected a move by the Opposition
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    BISHOP SEES CIVIL LIBERTY MENACED
    104 3 SAN FRANCISCO, Thurs. BISHOP PAUL B. KERN, ol Nashville, warned the quadrennial general conference of the Methodist Church last night that America is "confronted by a widespread and sinister threat to the liberties we cherish." I "TJhe democratic process,' h£ declared, in the church's traditional
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    WEST REPLYING TO STALIN
    106 3 WEST REPLYING TO STALIN LONDON, Thurs. SENIOR British. French and American officials met at the Foreign Office here to day to draw up the Western reply to the latest Soviet note on a final settlement with Germany. The Western reply is expected to reject the Soviet proposal that the occupying
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    BOAC Profit
    42 3 LONDON. Thurs.— The British Overseas Airways Corporation made a profit of more than £250,000 in the last financial year, the chairman. Sir Miles Thomas, announced today. Two and a half years ago the Corporation had a deficit of £B.ooo.ooo— Reuter
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    Festival opens
    19 3 CANNES, Thurs. Thirtyseven nations are represented at the sth International Film Festival which opened here yesterday.— AFP.
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    Britain to seek opinion from Sudan
    83 3 LONLXSN. Thursr HPHE Foreign Secretary, Mr. J Anthony Eden, working with his advisers* from Cairo > and Khartoum, Is thought to have completed proposals aimed at consulting Sudanese opinion in the Anglo-Kgyp-tian dispute over the future status of the Sudan. It was believed the
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    CHINA'S ART IN SINGAPORE
    694 4  -  Dr. C. A. GIBSON HILL By "HROUGHOUT Malaya the Chinese have for centuries playe*d a very prominent role and it is especially fitting that an exhibition i of the arts fostered by their civilization should be presented to the Singapore public. This exhibition, organised b. the
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    Adventure ends for boy who wanted to see bright lights
    316 5 Adventure ends for boy who wanted to see bright lights PICTURE HELPED TO FIND HIM KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD HARBHAJAN SINGH, Malaya's "Dick Whittington", who ran away from home in Johore Bahru nine days ago to see the "big, wonderful buildings and bright lights'* of Kuala Lumpur, ended his adventure
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    RUBBER TRADE ASSOCIATION
    100 5 The following were elected officials of the Itubber Trade Association of Singapore* at a meeting held this week: President, Mr. Lee Kong Cblan; general secretary. Mr. Tan Hock Seng; assistant secretary, Mr. Yap Ec Chlan: treasurer, Mr. Llm Boon Tellc; assistant treasurer, Mr. Koh Teik Khoon; standing
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    Dr. Faris to act as Vice-Chancellor
    134 5 Dr. Faris to act as ViceChancellor DR. D. W. O. FARIS, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, has been appointed actIng Vice-Chancedor of the University of Malaya at a meeting of the University Council. Dr. Faria told the Straits Times that he would continue to hold this appointment until the
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    Driver fined for negligence
    71 5 Convicted of having driven a car negligently, a stenographer Ltp Yew Meng of f Road, was yesterday fined $30 by Mr. J. F. MacWilliam l n the Singapore Traffic Court. The charge arose out of a minor collision between Lee's car and another driven by Mustam
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    HIGHER OUTPUT OF RUBBER IN MARCH
    146 5 Rnoo™ KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. ÜBBER production in March, though still below I the monthly average for last year, recovered I from the big drop in February estates produced 25,679 tons and smallholdings 20.810 tons during th e month making a total of 46.489 tons
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    Singapore Diary
    107 5 YWCA. Raffles Quay. Malay class, 915 a.m. and 5.15 p.m.: continuation class, 10.30 a.m; beginners class, 9.30 a.m; advanced, 10.30 ajn. YMCA. Orchard Road: Pharmaceutical Society meeting, 5.15 pm: games. 540 pm; literacy class 8 p.m. Chinese YMCA, Selegle Road: Music, 2 p.m.; games frcm 5 p.m.; mouth
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    Radio Malaya's chief
    48 5 AMR. H W JACKSON, who ha s been acting Director A of Broadcasting, Malaya, since Mr John Dumeresque retired, has been appointed Director. Mr. Jackson was formerly Deputy Director and w» s stationed In Kuala Lumpur before coming to Singapore on Mr Dumeresaj tie's departure
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    HAWKERS GET LAST WARNING
    62 5 SINGAPORE City Police Court Magistrate. Mr. K. J. L. Jamieson, yesterday issued a last warning to hawkers at Anton Road that they must not ply their trade over four feet from within 20 feet of a road junction.' Mr. Jamieson told IS hawkers, whom he cautioned
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    STAMFORD CLUB
    23 5 The annual meeting of the Singapore Stamford Club will be held tomorrow at 3 pm at Raffles Institution teachers' common room
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    EVERY ROOM IS BOOKED
    140 5 ALTHOUGH It will be at least another nine months before even the foundation work Is finished, every room and suite of offices ln the new Asia FUildlng at Flnlayson Green, Singapore, has already been booked. Yesterday, an Asia Insurance Company spokesman said: "The whole building has
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    39 5 FOUR HAPPY GUIDES Rtiide Lady Tempter, wife of the High Commissioner, round their camp at Bukit Istana, Klang. Lady Tempter paid a surprise visit to the camp yesterday. Thirty-one Girl Guides from the Federation and SingaIstana.— Straits times picture.
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    TRISHAMAN FINED
    23 5 An unlicensed trlsha rider Chong Keng. who used another rider's badge was fined $100 ln the Singapore City Police Court yesterday
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    Annual meeting
    23 5 The 22nd annual meeting of the Old Raffleslans' Association, Singapore, will be held at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday at Raffles Institution
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    Templer plan having its effect, Peers told
    162 5 LONDON, Thurs. EARL Alexander, Britain's new Defence Minister, said yesterday that General Sir Gerald Templer'g "vigorous direction of our affairs" in Malaya was beginning to have its effect. "But I cannot promise an early ending of the conflict," he told the House of
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    DEATH OF PLANTING PIONEER
    178 5 DEATH OF PLANTING PIONEER Rubber trees art memorial to him KUALA LUMPUR, Tue*. < |t| AJOR E. H. T. Gough, 111 a pioneer in bud-graft-I Ing on rubber trees, hu died at his home In Rosscahill, County Galway, Eire, at the age of 80. From 1921 to 1924 Major I
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    NURSES GET A NEW PLEDGE
    261 5 All ranks open —Dr. Vickers THE SINGAPORE DIRECTOR of Medical Services, Dr. W. J. Vickers, yesterday reiterated that all ranks of the nursing profession were open to local girls. Local nurses, he said, would be acknowledged In future as being on an equal footing with
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    'DUTY FIRST', COUNCILLORS TOLD
    252 6 'DUTY FIRST COUNCILLORS TOLD Don 't neglect electors, says Mr. Tan gINCiAPORE City Councillors should not neglect their duty to those who elected them, the president of the Singapore Ratepayers' Association, Mr. Tan Chin Tuan, said last night when he addressed the association's annual general meeting. "It has been suggested",
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    77 6 rpUE first and second prize-winner* of the Youth Magazine essay competition are seen here (from left second and fourth) after they had received them from the donor, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice (centre) President *of the Singapore City Council. Picture s how s (front left) Mr. Cheong Hock Hai (adviser)
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    30,000 new I-cards issued
    134 6 30,000 new I-cards issued rE Singapore Registration Centre in Stamford Road has replaced 30,000 damaged or lost identity cards since February 25. said Mr. Cheng Kirn Wliatt, commissioner ot Registration, yesterday. The registration staff also dead with 11.430 changes oi address with the help of the police. Mr. Cheng said
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    PENANG CYCLES
    26 6 PENANG Thurs.—Authenticating officers who helped to issue identity cards in Penane in 1948 also helped to issue or renew 30.675 bicvele licences this year.
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    Couldn't tell time
    37 6 SEGAMAT, Thurs.— "l. was a few minutes late as I did not have a watch and could not tell the time," said 22-yrar-old Tai Seng who was, fined $15 here for violating' the curfew.
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    REDS KILL INDIAN PLANTER
    129 6 REDS KILL INDIAN PLANTER IPOH, Thurs. UR. P. BAYLIF, 46-year-old in Indian conductor in charge of Penarth Estate, Karai, seven miles from Enggor railway station in the Sungei Siput errea, was shot dead by bandits yesterday on the estate. Fifteen armed and uniformed bandits. 11 of them Chinese and four
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    Change job, man told
    120 6 rpHE Singapore Chief Justice Sir Charles Murray-Avns-Sey. on Wednesday told a Malay taxi driver with three previous convictions for negligent driving to find' some occupation other than driving. The taxi driver. Maswan bin Ibrahim, appealed Ibrahim, appealed against an order of 12 months' suspen- l sion
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    Court hears 211 cases in a day
    115 6 rE Singapore Third Police Court yesterday dealt with 211 summons cases, imposing a total of $4,040 fines. During the afternoon electric fans ceased working in the court room because of a blackout. All but about 30 of the 211 people pleaded guilty. Of
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    I got it this time, shot man told wife
    144 6 PENANG, Thursday. A WIDOW, Khoo Siew Kirn, told the Penang Coroner today that after hearing two shots in the afternoon of Oct. 26 last year she ran out of her house and saw her husband, Cheah Kirn Cheng, in a kneeling
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    Deputy health chief resigns
    62 6 IPOH, Thurs. rE DEPUTY STATE Medical and Health Officer of Perak. Dr. G. A. Mott, has resigned. He will relinquish his duties in July and leave for Canada. The State T.B. specialist, Dr. A. W. D. Mureira, has also resigned, said Dr. Mott. "So far, we
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    BLYTHE OPENS NEW WING TO HOSPITAL
    227 6 BL YTHE OPENS NEW WING TO HOSPITAL SINGAPORE Government's appreciation of the work done by the Youngberg Memorial Hosp t.J at Upper Serangoon Road was expressed by the Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blythe, when he opened a new $425,000 wing to the hospital yesterday. Mr. Blythe said: "Institutions- such
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    S'pore move to get more voters
    93 6 S'pore move to get more voters NEW Singapore electoral registration forms are being: issued by Government in English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil— and two mort registration centres are now operating. The centres are at the Public Relations reading room In the Chinese Secretariat. Havelock Road, and the identity card registration
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    $45,000 for light
    28 6 PENANG. Thurs.— An estimate of $45,000 to install electricity in the Municipal labour lines has been submitted to the Municipal Finance and General Purposes Committee.
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    $3-REMINDER
    20 6 SEGAMAT, Thurs.— Kasslm bin Yacob aged 38, was fined $3 at Segamat for leaving his biycle unattended and unlocked.
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    Black spots in Singapore today
    357 6 rpHE following areas win be liable to blackouts today DAT (1) Milne Rd.. Jalan Sultan, Beach Rd., Alhambra, Raffles Hotel, Sumbawa Rd., Boon Tat St., Aljunid Rd., Sims Avenue, Paya Lebar Pumps, Joo Chiat Place, Jalan l'asin, Jalan Eunos, Rangoon Rd., Towner Rd., Serangoon Rd,,
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    Air of hope in crisis says planter
    153 7 Air of hope in crisis says planter KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. rpHERE had been an air of X renewed hope and urgency in the Emergency during the last three months, said Mr. R. D. Blngley, a Selangor planter, at a farewell dinner last night. Mr. Bingley is retiring at the end
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    COURT DISMISSES HIS CLAIM AGAINST GOVT. FOR $14,880
    379 7 Ev-c!erk went to India as Jap agent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. jy|R. JUSTICE WILSON, in Kuala Lumpur Supreme Court, today dismissed, with costs, a claim for $14,880 against the Federation Government by a Tamil, a former FMS postal clerk, who went to India
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    44 7 MA. LEO HANEKROOT, president of the Dutch Federation of Journalists, (left) and Mr. R. Korsten, o/ the Dutch newspaper Maasbode, who arrived in Singapore yesterday after a two-month tour of Indonesia sponsored by the Indonesian Government. They leave for Holland tomorrow. Straits Times picture.
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    Regt. party in Mentakab
    123 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Thura rE 4th Battalion Malay Regiment NCOs and soldiers gave their Commanding Officer, Lt. Col. Q. Hewetson, and his successor Lt. Cod. E. A. HetFord. a cocktail party in Mentakab. A concert was presented by "D" Company. Lt. Col. Hewetson. who Is from the
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    Village youths attend camp
    58 7 PORT DICKSON, Thurs.— Sponsored by the Port Dickson Boy Scouts Association, 14 boys were selected from three Tanah Merah new villages to camp for four ciays with o|he r Scouts in the district. These boys will be trained as potential patrol leaders when the Scout movement
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    PLEADS GUILTY TO ROBBERY
    78 7 IPOH, Thurs. -Leong Kam Yoon, aged 22, today pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court to having robbed a youth, Yap Kai Chong, on two occasions in March and April this year. Leong was alleged to have robbed Yap of a wrist watch and $4.50 on Mar.
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    YWCA TO MEET
    28 7 PENANG, Thurs.— The Penang Young Women's Christian Association will hold its annual meeting at the club room in Anson Road at 5 p.m. on Saturday.
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    Old boys want a clubhouse
    71 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— To raise funds for a clubhouse, old boys of the Victoria Institution are staging a twoday carnival and trade fair on Saturday and Sunday at. Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur, beginning at 11 am. on both days. On the first day a dance
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    Portuguese Minister for Malacca
    115 7 Portuguese Minister for Malacca MALACCA, Than. pOMMANDER Manuel Maria Sarmento Rodrigues, Minister for Portuguese overseas territories, will visit Malacca on May 19 to meet descendants of the Portuguese who settled in Malacca 400 .years ago. He will arrive in the sloop Goncalo Velho with journalists and cameramen from Portugal. Commander
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    III-treated girl charge
    56 7 MUAR, Thurs.— A 49-year-old woman. Low Ah Lan, was charged at Muar with causing unnecessary suffering to her 3-year-old ward, Ah Lin. She was alleged to have assaulted the girl with a broom-stick at the P.WD. quarters, Jalan Tanjong. Bail of $150 was allowed' and the case
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    IMPERSONATOR
    26 7 SEGAMAT, Thurs.— For impersonating a food control inspector, Osman, bin Haji Nassir, aged 29, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment by the Segamat Circuit Magistrate.
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    He shot at barking dogs
    80 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. ANGERED by dogs bark•fl Ing at him, K. Omandan. a young Indian special constable, took out his rifle and fired a shot at the «lops. The dogs however, escaned unhurt. Today, Omandan was found guilty to charges of behaving in a disorderly
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    Wages claim dispute for members
    74 7 Wages claim dispute for members THE Singapore City Council 1 Labour Union Federation will meet on Sunday to plan its future course of action over its claims dispute with the City Council. A meeting of all members will discuss the decisions of the City Council sub-com-mittee, which held a fourhour
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    Book gifts to Perak Library
    31 7 IPOH. Thurs.— The conjmittee of the Ipoh Club library have given 123 books to th e Prrak Library. Members have also given books to the library.
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    HIGHER STUDY GIFTS FOR TWO TEACHERS
    149 7 TPENANG, Thursday. WO teachers, Miss E. Z. Thomas, of St. George's Girls- School, and Miss Li m K^eow Choo, of St Xavier's Institution, have been awarded Penang Settlement Scholarships for a training course overseas. Pour awards were announced today. The other two winner^ are
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    Youths urged to help new villages
    140 7 •NEED REAL AND URGENT 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. FEDERATION youth leaders were urged today to 1 "recover the honour of youth in this land" by helping to make good citizens of the children in the new villages. Shocking numbers of small children in these
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    DEATH
    18 8 GOUOH. on 7th April. 1952. Ri»in Harry T;ppen Gough, at Roßscahlll, County Ga!way. Eire, aged 80 years.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Fri., Apr. 25, 1952. Action And Criticism
    599 8 The Straits Times Singapore, Fri., Apr. 25, 1952. Action And Criticism A very odd volume of criticism has mounted against the High Commissioner in the past three or four weeks. It is satisfactory that London remains unimpressed. In Mr. Lennox Boyd's warm phrase, j there is "entire and growing j
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    Training The Technicians
    459 8 Some of the recent criticism of the lack of facilities in Singapore for technical training appears to have been marked by gay ignorance of the facilities which are in fact available. The demand for trade schools is made spasmodically and earnestly bytrade union leaders, industrialists, educationists and
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    REHABILITATION AND NOT DETENTION
    834 8 REHABILITATION AND NOT DETENTION A Federation Chines? reader suggests ITNDER the Emergency Regulations, several thousand persons have been kept in Detention Camps. Those persons ar c merely suspects, owing to certain information made against them, who have on investigation been considered capable of causing danger to the security of the
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    INTER-ARAB DEFENCE
    138 8 CAIRO. A NEW, 10-year Middle East defence pact goes into automatic operation soon, tying tgether at least four Arab States in this strategic area. The pact, which at the beginning will bind Egypt, Jordan. Syria and Iraq, is largely an unknown quantity. But thi/fe Is a possibility the
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    Uranium in the kangaroo country
    517 8  - Uranium in the kangaroo country Arthur Morley By SYDNEY. TOR three years a veteran bushman, John Michael White, hunted kangaroos in the empty bushland, lifty miles south of Darwin. Like the other Northern Territory hunters, he kepv his eyes open for minerals a man always had a chance of picking
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    CABLE SHIP WITH A HISTORY
    637 8  - CABLE SHIP WITH A HISTORY TREVOR BLORE By SINGAPORE'S cable ship Recorder this year ceiebrates her 50th birthday. She is the veteran of the fleet which maintains the world-wide network operated by Cable and Wireless Ltd. Recorder was originally named H.M. Cable Ship Iris, and wa s owned by the
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    On the Margin
    364 8 Wo ifd builders QJO FAR no philologist, pro- fessional or other, has accepted the invitation to explain the origin of th« Mala v word for a pineapple, nanas. However, we have presumed to extract from th» daily mountain of letters to the editor a few words on
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    NEVER HEARD OF SECOND WIFE—WIDOW
    687 9 NEVER HEARD OF SECOND WIFE— WIDOW Husband 'did not stay out all night in thirty years' If ADAM (JAN ENG NEO, widow of Mr. Lee Sicw Kow, told Mr. Justice Rogers in Singapore High Court yesterday that she did not know Madam Yeo Siew Neo. She had never recognised her
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    Price of Jap potatoes in S'pore rise
    138 9 THE price of Japanese potatoes in Singapore has risen from between 18 and 20 cent s per katl to more than 30 cents Per kati. Yesterday dealers in the smaller markets were quoting as much as 40 cents a katl. A spokesman of
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    Bandit fighter charged
    65 9 Jaga Nath, a member of the 10th Federal Jungle Company, was yesterday brought before the Singapore First Police Magistrate. Mr. D. H. Chapman, on a charge of deserting his post at Labis, Johore, on Apr. 3. He was remanded in custody until May 1 pending the arrival
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    Traffic chief blames motorist for street chaos
    286 9 ONE KILLED EVERY 2 DAYS MR. W. R. M. HAXWORTH, Singapore's traffic chief, blamed, motorists last night for being the main cause of the Colony's present traffic chaos, in a talk to the East-West Society at the British Council Hall. In recent years,
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    CURIOSITY (a man's) KILLED A GIRL, 2
    137 9 CURIOSITY (a man's) KILLED A GIRL, 2 LEE AH CHEW, a 29-year-old coffee shop owner, who knocked down a two-year-old girl, Lim Siew Hua, with a car on the morning of Feb. 20 at Tembeling Road was yesterday ordered by the Singapore Coroner, Mr. E. Ebert. to be arrested and
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    On a mission
    121 9 rpiIERE WAS A GREAT deal of work to be done for blind welfare throughout the world, said Sir Clutha MacKeniie (above), consultant on blind, welfare to the United Nations, who arrived in Singapore yesterday by Qantas-BOAC from New Zealand. Sir Clutha. who was blinded at Gallipoli, is
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    CALL-UP: 'LEAVE ALIENS OUT'
    146 9 SINGAPORE ASSOCIATION is writing to Government about the call-up of aliens and the method of registration in the National Service Bill. The association states that r aliens should not be called up for what "is, in effect, military service." No country in the world applies conscription
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    WHY THE FUSS?
    113 9 WHY THE FUSS? ...asks D.S.O., 20 SECOND Lieutenant William (Bill) Purves. the first National Serviceman to win the D.5.0.. arrived in Singapore yesterday In the Empire Trooper on his way home from Korea. Lieut Purves. who has just celebrated his 20th birthday, asked "What's -all the fuss about? I won
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    Assn appeals for funds
    83 9 OF the $350,000 required for a new school at Moulmein Road, only $25,247 has been collected, says the annual report of the Christian Brothers Old Boys (Singapore I Association to be preI sented at the annual meeting at St. Joseph's Institution next Tuesday. Appealing for donations,
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    Mentri Besar leaves for U.S.
    50 9 THE Mentri Besar of Kelantan, Dato Nik Ahmad Kamil bin Haji Mahmood,left Singapore yesterday by Pan-American Airlines for a three-month tour of the United States on a U.S.I.S leader grant. Dato Nik Ahmad Kamil will visit educational and political institutions and agricultural organisations in America.
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    OBA OFFICIALS
    51 9 rhe management committee of the Old Boys' Association of the Singapore Presbyterian Boys' School are: President, Lim Opok Eng; vice-president. Felix Lee; secretary, Tan Tian Chye; ass., secretary. Tan Jwee Meng; treasurer, Ong. Lye Huat; sports secretary, Kwek Bak Soug; committee: See Chan Bolt, Felix Lee. Foo Jee
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    ASSOCIATION TO DEFEND ISLAM
    54 9 KUALA LIIMPUK. Thurs. Shvr.Nl V elderly kampong headmen, mosque officials *nd a Hom e Guard sub-inspector today agreed in Klang to form the muchcriticised Selango r Association for the Welfare of Islam. They took half an hour to re,ach the decision. The semi-policilal organisation is pledged
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    Siam ships in port
    27 9 rO Siamese minesweepers, Maeklong and Posamton, arrived in Singapore yesterday. The vessels, which were on a training cruise, return to Bangkok on Tuesday.
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    Driver's appeal succeeds
    47 9 Mm Hung Chow, a lorry driver, who appealed against a conviction and sentence of six weeks' imprisonment on a charge of theft of 30 gunny bags belonging to the R.A.S.C. had his conviction and sentence set aside on appeal in Singapore H'.gh on Wednesday.
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    Driver fined
    37 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— S. Chelliah, a motor bus driver ,who drove in a negligent manner and collided with a motor car which then overturned into a ditch was fined $35 in the Police Court "oday.
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    36 ACQUITTED
    22 9 MUAR, Thurs. Thirtysix tappers, including 12 women, were acquitted at Muar on a charge of breaking the curfew at Pagoh.
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    You can be meter readers too
    101 9 (3LIPS teiling gas. water and electr tlty consumers in Singapore how, to read their own meters wJCI shortly be sent to all consumers with their monthly bills This was suggested by the Public Utilities Committee of the City Council as the answer to charges
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    Smuggled paintings for show
    201 9 PRICELESS paintings, antiI ques and porcelain smuggled out of China and later bought by Malayan collectors, will be among the exhibits at the multi-million-dollar Chinese Art Exhibiton to be jointly" sponsored by the China Society and the Singapore Art Society. The exhibition, which will be opened
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    45th anniversary
    22 9 The Gok Loo Club willhold its 45th anniversary dinner at the club premises, 70-1 Club Street. Singapore, on May 3.
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    151 9 NINE- YEAR-OLD George Wijeratne was running an errand to the grocer's yesterday when he saw a little wire-haired terrier in a monsoon drain. It was covered with mud. Only its head showed above the drain-water. George forgot all about his errand and raced back to his home at 58, Ceylon
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    Contractors firm fined
    43 9 Central Contractors, who have contracts worth $4 million with the Singapore Improvement Trust, were fined $50 yesterday in the Singapore City Police Court for failing to demolish two sheds at Kirn Keat Road after fie expiry of their temporary permits.
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    Show for troops
    28 9 KOTA BAHRU, Thurs. Kelantpn Security Forces Amenities Fund last night Rave a free circus show to 100 soldiers of the Malay Regiment and Jungle Squad.
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    Officer could not identify driver
    131 9 MR. ,W. A. RABY, A.S.P., reported a lorry driver for driving negligently along Changi Road on Sept. 2, last year, but could not identify him in the Singapore Second Traffic Court yesterday as nearly eight months had passed between the alleged 1 offence and the
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    Customs charge
    49 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— Slow Knee Chan was allowed bail in $250 pending trial on a chargfe of attempting to etade customs duty of $32.80, being the difference of duty on a quantity of medicine which he declared at $285 but which was found to be worth $416
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    Science helps in search for car
    151 9 SCIENCE has been called in to help the Singapore Traffic Police track down the car which killed a Telecoms messenger near the corner of Beach Ro-Nd and Jalan Sultan on the night of April 16. The Government Chemistry Department has examined one car for
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    An emergency meeting
    72 9 The Naval Base Labour Union, Singapore, will hold an emergency Council meeting tomorrow to decide what action should be taken regarding the reported granting of establishment rights to the ncn-industrial staff at the Base. Mr. Foong Kum Yoo, the Union Secretary, told the Straits Times yesterday, that
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    In wrong place
    27 9 JOHORE BAHRU, ThHrs K. M. Hanlffa, a foreman was fined $15 for parking his motor vehicle in a place where no parking was allowed.
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    DEATH
    48 9 MADAM TOH LIEW SEE '47) beloved wife of Tong Vim Hong at the General Hospital at 3.20 p.m on 24.4.52. Funeril nt Buddhist Cemetery at 2 p.m. I today. Leaves four daughters, one son and several grandchildren to mourn her loss. May hrr soul rest in peace.
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    NO DANGER IN THE MALAYAN OUTLOOK
    238 10 Text books plan for Chinese KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. THERE are no grounds for fear that by jjivinj? the Malayan outlook in Chinese, text books Chinese culture will be lost, Mr. L. I. Lewis, Assistant Director for Chinese Education, told the Straits Times today. This
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    Salary $860, but job still vacant
    147 10 Salary $860, but job still vacant AN $860-a-month Singapore Government job has been going .begging for over a year because the Colony Labour Department has been unable to find a suitable candidate to fill it. The post that of an Inspector of Factories was advertised in the foreign and local
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    Kedah to form co-op bank
    40 10 ALOR STAR, Thurs. A Co-operative Banking Union for North Kedah will be formed at a meeting tomorrow in Alor Star. Main aim of the union will be to improve the economic conditions of rural dwellers.
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    DEFACED CARD
    30 10 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs Charged with defacing his identity card, Abdul Rahman bin Ali told the Magistrate that he had caly inked over his age. He was fined $5.
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    Wins U.S. scholarship
    69 10 MISS Chan Suk Hun, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chan Ping Kee of Seremban, has been awarded a United States scholarship for 1952-53 to study at Lin den wood College, St. Charles, Missouri* The scholarship was awarded for her outstanding record in her first year of study
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    Fair nets $10,000
    24 10 IPOH. Thurs.— The two-day fun fair organised by the Lady of Lourdes Church in aid of its building fund realised $10,000.
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    Govt. offer to union
    73 10 VTEGOTIATIONS .between iy Singapore Government and the Postal and Telecommunications Uniformed Staff Union have been in progress for som c time and certain offers regarding the salary and allowances of assistant postmen and mechanic charge hands and th e pensionabilitv of certain grades have already been
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    130 want to join Riot Unit
    100 10 ONE hundred and thirty i Singapore youths have applied to join the Police Riot Unit, the Colony's answer to any would-be rioters, A police officer said yesterday, the cCosing day for ap- j plications: "We could do with more Chinese." Of the applications. 27
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    35 10 TWO SIAMESE NAVY minesweepers, the Maeklomg and Posamton, lying alongside Pulau Bukom yesterday shortly after their arrival in Singapore on a short visit. The Posamton was formerly the Minstrel, a British minesweeper. Straits Times picture..
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    INDONESIA TO SEND COPRA TO SINGAPORE
    238 10 INDONESIA TO SEND COPRA TO SINGAPORE TWE three-month-old crisis in Singapore's oil 1 milling industry will end early next month when large supplies of copra arrive from Indonesia following successful negotiations between the Singapore Economic Affairs Department and the Indonesian Government. The copra will be from stocks held by the
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    No May Day procession in Singapore
    100 10 No May Day procession in Singapore SINGAPORE trade unions will not hold any procession to celebrate May Day, on May 1, because the Colony Police had refused them permission, the general secretary of the Singapore Trade Union Congress, Mr. S. Jaganathan, told the Straits Times, yesterday. He said the S.T.U.C.
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    Dindings co-ops
    24 10 SITIAWAN, Thurs. Two co-operative stores, the Ayer Tawar Estate Co-operative Store and the Cashwood Estate Co-operative Store have been opened in DLndings.
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    S'pore rent control 'unfair'
    234 10 S'pore rent control 'unfair' PROPOSED continuance of rent control in the Colony was last night denounced by the president of the Singapore Ratepayers' Association, Mr. Tan Chin Tuan. Mr. Tan, addressing the association's annual general meeting, said: "Anyor ■"■ho looks at the questio- n- uout bias can sure'.y hr lt
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      292 11 JAPAN'S "Yuklwansoo" won top rating at the international film festival in India. 'Undoubtedly one of the best festival films, which no one should mfs^s declared "The Statesman," the leading Indian newspaper. Critics hailed the film when the festival opened in Bombay. Crowds flocked to the picture
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      12 11 One of the fine action scenes from The Red Badge Of Courage.'
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      BIG HAND FOR A BRIGHT MUSICAL
      697 11 BRUCE FRASER talking about FILMS r»OOD musicals beln^ rare as they are, let** give a big hand to "Singin' In The Rain", the best that's come my way for a long time. It has all the essential ingredients good tunes, laughs, dancing and pretty
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      109 11 A Look Bark At Fashions Of The Twenties QO YOU remember the fashions of the twenties? Even if you do, probably both these pictures from "Singin' In The Rain" look equally crazy now, and you probably think Hollywood laid it on a bit thick. Yes, they did: one ot these
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      BEST OF THE CURRENT SHOWS
      321 11 IERE are pocket reviews ol the best films at present in circulation, in Singapore and the Federation. Three stars indicate an outstanding picture, two means above average, and one star indicates good en tertatoment. A Place In The Sun. Outstanding direction, photography i and acting
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      260 12 IT WOULD appear that many havn missed the point when writing about Mr. Haxwortn of the Traffic Branch. There can be no doubt that this officer is a public servant. He has. however, appeared in print more or less expressing a wish to be a dictator.
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      229 12 THE attempt of Dr. Daniel Malan's Government to establish a "Parliamentary High Court" )n order to invalidate the Supreme Court ruling which disallowed the South African Parliament's order to remove coloured voters' names from the common electoral rolls has brought a constitutional crisis in
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      LABOUR AND SERVICE
      130 12 MR. UM YEW HOCK is reported to have indignantly denied that the members of the Labour Party who voted against the National Service Bill ar c aliens. But surely this makes matters worse? Some sort of case can be made out for alvns opposing conscription, but none
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      FAIR SEX FIRST
      190 12 I RECENTLY went to the Registration Centre in Stamford Road, Singapore with my sister to get a new card for her as she wa& twelve years of age, I must say the Registration Centre is not being administered as It should be. Men and boys who go
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      BANDIT CASUALTIES
      84 12 OVER a year ago. General Briggs was very candid 1 and said that bandit casual- tie s were immediately made up. In other words, the Emergency measures were not progressing particularly favourably. It would be Interesting if General Templer could tell us whether bandit casualties are being Immediately
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      DISCUSSING PENSIONS
      256 12 SINCE the arrival of the new High Commissioner and his Deputy the Province Pensioners' Association and the Pan-Malayan Association have requested that pensioners' matters be given due consideration. It is very gratifying that the Deputy High Commissioner has agreed to give a hearing tq a delegation In order
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      298 12 Minimum basic wages r|ATO C J. Paglar is to be congratulated on his attempt to introduce a minimum basic wage law to protect workers from being exploited. It is surprising to note the very little interest shown in such an important matter. The Press reports. "The Singapore Government does not
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      THE FLIES AT THE CAMERONS
      109 12 mHOSE of us who have gone 1 a-holidaying at Cameron Highlands will no doubt agree that the Camerons is a charming spot and an ideal place in which to recuperate and rest. There is Just one fly in the ointment and that is the fly
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    6 12 Shell Photographic Unit picture. RAFFLES LIGHT
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      252 12 Straits Times Crossword sH^ psS; §j|^ 1 iiCKuas A gover.jiueui department a. Tax pan of a pillar <6> could try a ruse (Bi. 9. A la'e bet (anag.) (3-5). li>. Loving compassion usually 10. Weight wl h certain kind lirpiWs rough handling (8, 7;. ,of hair-cut 15. A boon, but
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    LONDON STOCKS
    281 13 LONDON. Thurs. SPECULATORS were active in Japanese bonds on the Stock Exchange today. Prices soared about five prints and then fiucfiated violently t^ dose around one-and-a-half points higher. Closing r-iiddle prices if selected stocks were: Consols cqi +1 Fundint i% ni I Wsj 3% I*} BANKS Chartered <£6)
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    Australian wools firm
    53 13 From Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE. Thurs. fOMPARED with the improved rates recorded earlier In ihe week, th? demand for fine crossbreds improved slightly at today's Wool Sale. All oth t types were fully firm. The U.K., Japan and the Continent bought with freedom. The Australian mills were
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    51 13 TWERE was again little activity In the Singapore Produce Market yesterday. Copra eased slightly, buyers bidding $25 H; a plcul for Mny shipment against offers at $28. Pepper prices kept Wednesday's levels, sellers quoting Muntok at $480 a picul. Sarawak at $475 and Lampong (black i at
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    Australian Share Market
    186 13 From Our Own Corr?spondeni MELBOURNE, Thurs THE Dulk of the 700 listed indust rial share Issues held quie'ly steady on the Stock Exchange today. The undertone of the market was improving «t the close. Trading will be resumed on Monday af er the Anzac Day break. Federal
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    RUBBER MARKET CLOSES STEADY
    191 13 One cent gain after mild fluctuations By A Market Correspondent liflLD fluctuations prevailed in the Singapore ITI Rubber Market yesterday. Opening quiet, mode rate transactions were again at slightly lower levels, although some Continental orders continued to come in. Towards the close, however, sellers were inclined
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    TIN: $477¾ A PICUL
    14 13 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Apr. 24, $477 'i a picul (up 9K>.
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    London Price
    25 13 LONDON April 24.— Cash Bayers £965; Sellers £9651; Forward Buyers £9661: Sellers £967; Settlement £965} (up £2). Turnover; a.m. 260 tons; p.m. nil.
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    U.K. RUBBER
    30 13 LONDON, Apr 24?— Spot 32d., June 33d. July-Sept 31d., Oct.Dec. 29% d., Jan.-Mar. 28V, d.. Miy cJi."3l%d.. June c.i.f 3lMid., July ciJ. 31 4 d. Market: Quietly steady.
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    116 13 Tins maintain firmness A FIRM note was maintained in the Tin section of the Malayan Share Market yesterday and prices continued to improve. Industrials were quietly steady, while interest in rubbers was patchy. Yesterday's price changes by the Malayan Share Brokers' Association were* INDUSTRIALS itraiU Traders 23 25
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    H.K. EXCHANGE
    32 13 HONG KONO, Thurs. t»REE market currency exchange of Hong Kong dollars was quoted at the close today as follows: US$l HK56.415 (cash); HK56.445 (T.T.): HK515.90 One tael of gold $296.00.
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    Tin output
    36 13 TIN ore outputs for the quarter to March 31 of the following two companies were announced recently. Ayer Hitam Tin Dredging Ltd.. 6.694.8 piculs (938H tons); Puket Tin Drrdging Ltd.. 2.125.2 piculs (126H tons).
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING
    214 13 SHIPS alongside 'he Sing .p^re Harbour Board g'<vK*ns oi expected there at 7 am. totiny. are: 1-2 Laertes; 3 I^aiwui; 4-b Cluf Maersk: Coal PUui. Wyvern; 6-7 Bencruaohan 8-9 Singapore; 11 Sumatn. 13-14 Arundel Hill; 15-16 Luxml- 18 Santhia: 19-20 Flintshire. NAY. 8 Sedili: 21-22 Tat Anr. 23-2-.
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    SCRC v IA
    80 14 Singapore Chinese Recreation Club cricket team to play Indian Association (senior tournament) tomorrow and Sunday: We« Chong Jin (cap 1 Khoo Ong Lee. Eu Cheow Chye, Ang Earn Hock. Cheong Thlam' Blew. Chua Kee Meng. chua Eng Cheng. Ong Swee Law. Tan Huck Chum. I Wong Slew
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    HK badminton stars ask to play in KL
    388 14 K. LUMPUR, Thurs. HONG KONG'S lead inn badminton players want to take part in the Selangor B. A. open invitation championships which will be held in the new hall here on June 4. 5, 6 and 7. They have written to friends
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    40 14 CUF FINAL "REHEARSAL": Goring, Arsenal centreforward, dives through m wall of Newcastle defenders (striped shirts) while Simpson, the Newcastle goalkeeper, falls on .the ball. The match wa s played on April 17 and resulted in a one-all draw. Popper picture
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    France win Rugby League championship
    143 14 LONDON, Thurs. I^KANCE. won the international r Rugby League championship yesterday alheugh not engaged in a match. England were opposing Other Nationalities at Wigan and the latter, who included 11 Australians, a Scot and an Irishman lost with the score 31-18 in favour of England
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    71 14 SOCCER DIV. 2: Indian S.C. A' H.M. Dockyard at CYMA. DIV. IA: Teaaßeais y. BetetNer Con. Centre at GeyUng. BUS. HSE. LOB: flwagaeag Bank 'B w. Boos cads at TBfCA. UTD. SERVICES LGE: Senior: REME t. RAF (M); GtKJ t. RAF(S); SER RAF(T). Junior: RAF (Maintenance) r. REME;
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    NEWCASTLE ALSO FALL TO WBA
    287 14 LONDON, Thursday. WEST Bromwich yesterday scored a clear-cut fT four-one win over Newcastle United in a Div. 1 English league match. They thus have the distinction of beating both Cup finalists within three days, having won against Arsenal on Monday. Yesterday's large soccer programme did
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    Eu Tong Sen Cup golf
    138 14 'THE Island Club's open Invitation golf competition (or the Ku Tong Sea Cup will start at Ute Island Club on Saturday. May JO. Conditions are: 1. The competition is open to members of any reaognlsed golf club: 2. One qualifying rcund medal s'roke play on
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    TEACHERS XI
    51 14 Teachers Training College team to meet Ceylonese 1 n a S.C.A. junior tournament match at the C.S.C. ground on Sunday la: T. Rajendram. AJit Singh GUI. Almeida, James Aerla, Avthar Singh. Wong Pong Weng, Soocelaraj, Desmond Keyt. Balachandran, Rajaratnam, Ha r ban Singh. Reserves: George Tan, Balasingara. Poh
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    Ankarah in world title eliminator
    150 14 LONDON. Thurs. OOY ANKARAH. British Em- I plre featherweight champion j from the Gold Coast, will fVh Ray Famechon o( pram-e at Nottingham Ckmnty i football ■round otWiv 9. Tills will b«r j final p'.tmlnator j frr the-worW fe«»nerw>'«;ht chTtrM plonship held by Sandy Saddler.
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    MARIGOLD BP OFFICIALS
    79 14 Marigold Badminton Party official* for 1952: Patrons— Wee Ohim "A-ng, Scab Peng Chuan. Ong Wha SoeiJ; president Koh Teck Ec; vicepresidents Low Cheng Koon, Tay Bong Soo, Tan Chong Tee. Koh Hua Quee. Koh Keni< Slang. Klong Woon Kew; hon. secretary Lee Jouy Seeh; hon. asst. secretary
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    IT LOOKS EASY FOR HONG KONG
    790 14 Sentinel s Sportlighf U/HEN All Hone Kong take the fievl at Jalan Besar stadium on Saturday for the first Aw Hoe Memorial Cup match against Singapore, they will be one of the strongest sides ever to play here if prior information about their players
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    Indian selection
    33 14 LONDON, Thurs.—Vljay Hazare. the captain of the rnrfon cricket team, announced today that thw selection committee for the tour wcu'd consist of himself, H. R Adhtkarl (vlce-captaltt) and D. O Phadkar.—Reuter.
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      29 14 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: Hifh MM (8.9) and 2329 <8>i: Low 0523 iO.lt and 1739 i2.Si. TOMORROW: 1231 '8 Si and 23S4 i9 ft >: MM i 021 and, 1804 <3.1>.
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    Flag of Peace-Cobro clash the highlight
    409 15 By EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. THE FLAG OF PEACE-Cobro clash in the Class 3, Div. 1, 6-f. race on Saturday will be the highlight of the last day of the Selangor Turf Clvb T s April Meeting. Flag Of Peace put up a
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    26 15 ARSENAL BEAT BLACKPOOL: Logic, the Arsenal in-side-right, takes a shot at goal but -J. Wright, the Blackpool leftback. diverted the ball. Arsenal won 4-1. Popper picture.
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    MARCIANO SUSPENDED
    109 15 AUGUSTA, (MAINE), Thurs:— rhe Maine Boxing Commission., last night suspended heavyweight title contender Rocky Marclano of Bronckton, Mass., for 30 days starting May 13, for "deception" during a Maine exhibition tour. The suspension, ordered after a public hearing, is effective In every state except New York, the commission
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    QUEEN'S SCHOLAR IS READY
    309 15 Bj EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, fhurs. QUEEN'S SCHOLAR (Straker) worked with tremendous gusto; this morning when sne skived over 3f. in 38 2/5 wide out on the second track. This four-year-old b3' His Highness look s ready ran a good fifth to Gay Ensign last week
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    41 15 >■„-',!- n I ior I THE HONG KONG football team who arrived in Singapore yesterday for th P first of the Aw* Hoe Memorial Cup inter-port matches against the Colony. The Cap and replica w«re brought pith the team. Straits Time* picture.
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    RACE WEIGHTS FOR TOMORROW
    351 15 PIXOWING are the weights for tomorrow, last day at the Selangar Turf Club's April meeting; Cl. >, Dlv. I— 6 F. Glltedged 9.00 Ctlekity Click 8.13 Cobro 8.12 Flat o* Pear* 8.10 Jimson B.M Obsenrmtion 8.08 Philanthropic 8.07 Steeltrap 8.17 Airmail 5.06 Rapid Red 8.05 Sealed
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    Lon first Malay for Olympics
    304 15 \NE of the three weightlifters in the Singapore contingent to Helsinki will be the first Malay to take part in the Olympic Games. "Pocket Hercules" Lon bin Mohamed Noor, at 31, has been since 1948, the king-pin of Colony bantamweights. Though not the best lifter
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    Boxer suspended
    25 15 WASHINGTON, Wed. Harold Johnson, ranked as third best lightheavyweight In the United States, was yesterday suspended indefinitely by the National Boxing Association. Reuter.
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    MANY POINTERS FROM THE WEEK'S CRICKET
    698 16 By Our Cricket Reporter THE Singapore Cricket Association's senior tournament will be in its fourth week this week-end when only Section B matches will be played. Indians entertain Chinese and the R.A.F. will be at home to Royal Navy. S.R.C. are the odd team
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    23 16 NESSUS (Russell) bein c led in by trainer E. R. Daniels after winning Race 5 at Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday. Straits Times picture.
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    Postponements
    45 16 The Business Houses F.A. Div. 2 match between Malayan Airways and Strai's Times to be played today has been postponed to June 3. A Div. 3 game between Jacks S.C. and Mercantile Bank S.C., scheduled for May 8. had been postponed to June 7.
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    DIV. 3 SOCCER
    44 16 In a SAFA Div. 3A League soccer match played at the CYMA ground yesterday Immigration Sports Club and Young Companions shared two goals. CYMA beat Blue Rovers 2-1 in a SAFA Div. 3A league match played on the BODCA ground yesterday.
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    BORNEO Co. WIN
    43 16 DLAYINO with better determination Borneo Co. S.C. beat Cold Storage "B" 3-1 in a Business Houses FA. Div. 3 match at Clerical Union ground yesterday. Ibrahim, Afmawy, J. Koh scored for Borneo- Co., while Phaik Mohmad replied for Cold Storage.
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    6-2 FOR BREWERIES
    37 16 Malayan Breweries beat Marine Hostel United 6-2 in a friendly soccer match at the Breweries ground yesterday, Jaffar (2), Andy (2), Manickam and Charlie scored for Breweries. The Hostel replied through Malek and Langellan
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    Umpires meeting
    24 16 j Singapore Cricket Association's i next fortnightly meeting of um- pires will be held in the S.C.C. at 5.30 p.m. on Monday.
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    10,000 see Aryans win in Kluang
    224 16 KLLANG, Thursday. A RECORD crowd of 10,000 today saw the Aryan Gymkhana tourists beat Johore Chinese F.A. by two goals to one on the pad an g here. Although they were as goalshy as ever, the tourists nevertheless gave a delightful exhibition of their
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    Chinese better but scores blank
    285 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. Chinese R.C 0; Malays 0. SELANGOR Chinese, F.A.S. First Division champions, should have taken both points against Malays by a bagful of goals in their match today on the TPCA ground had the r forwards been a little accurate in their shooting.
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    Too often the refereeing is pitiful
    452 16 LETTER TO SENTINEL T WAS considerably surprised to note that no reference whatsoever was made In the Press to the travesty of refereelng at last week's S.C.C. v. Katong Sajarah game on the padang. All the infringements in the book were performed with. complete
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    MATCH OVER IN 14 MINUTES
    259 16 PORMER Malayan doubles champions Ong Chew Bee and Lim Hee Chin took 14 minutes yesterday to qualify for the semifinal of the men's doubles in the Singapore YMCA open tennis championships which are being played on the Bras Basah Road court*. Top-seeded Chew Bee and
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    NO FIXED VENUE FOR THOMAS CUP TRAINING
    305 16 NO FIXED VENUE FOR THOMAS CUP TRAINING AM ALAYA'S 14 Thomas Cup probables have hit a snag at the outset of their intensive training for the Cup defence in Singapore on May 31 and June I—they1 they have no fixed \enue for practices. Yesterday's practice was| scheduled to be held
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    Shell combine well to beat M.P.H. 4-1
    148 16 MUCH better combination enabled Shell S.C to beat M.P.H. Sports Club 4-1 In their Singapore BHPA Div. 1 game ai Farrer Park yesterday. Shell opened scoring In the 7th minute through right winger Andrew Lim after a neat pass from Boon Leng. Midway
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    Young Rovers had easy day
    149 16 ROVERS "A" had an easy win in their S.A.F.A. Div. 3B match against Kadayanallur Muslim League at Oeylaug stadium yesterday, when they scored five goals without reply. Only the X.M.L. goalie prevented the young Rovers from doubling the score Rovers had to wait until the
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    PENANG, IPOH LGE. TABLES
    195 16 THE Penang and Ipoh first division soccer positions to date are: DIVISION 1 P W D L P APts F Youngsters 2 2 0 0 12 0 4 Police S.C S 1 2 0 7 4 4 Baharul Alam 2 110(33 Sepoy Lines 2 110 5
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    SCC DEFEAT SIME DARBY
    65 16 Singapore Cricket Club soccer XI yesterday won one-nil at home against Sime Darby S.C. in a friendly m»lch. After a scoreless first half, Wright scored the only goal, one minute after the interval, in a game of missed chances. The Sime Darby attack failed badly in
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