The Straits Times, 7 January 1952

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED 1845 EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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  • 279 1 Churchill, Truman meet on yacht ROAST BEEFTHEN A 'COLD WAR 9 MEETING WASHINGTON, Sunday. PRESIDENT TRUMAN and Mr. Churchill wound up the first of their cold war talks tonight, and the White House said "a wide range of topics" was discussed. The talks were aboard the President's
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  • 76 1 A PLASTER and a twoday growth of beard on chin, (apt. Maner Lualdi. waits for clearance from Indonesian immigration officials at Kemajoran Airport. Jakarta. He and his companion. Italian journalis* Mario Fioretti. damagrd their small Macchie plane when they crashlanded at Benickalis. last Wednesday. They were
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  • 196 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. ORITAIN should not introduce self-government for Malaya at the pace set by Dato Onn bin Ja afar and Sir Cheng Lock Tan, said Mr. K. C. Chia, president of the Selangor Labour Party, at the party's first pre-election meeting
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  • 16 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun No Emergency battles or murders were reported in the Federation yesterday.
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  • 58 1 LONDON, Sun. CEVEN American airmen were killed and 18 injured in a double plane crash near Burtonwood, Lancashire, last night. Two men are missing. A United States Navy Neptune coming in to land at an American base crashed into a United States Air Force Dakota on
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  • 147 1 —But union leader says Onn is right KUALA LUMPUR. Sua. rtATO Oiin was right in \J refraining from pledging the independence of Malaya within the Commonwealth, said Mr. S. Arumu- j gam, chairman of the I Electricity Board Workers' j I'n ion, at an IM? municipal election meeting in Kuala
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  • 55 1 PARIS, Sun. GENERAL Jean de Lattre dp Tassigny. French High Commissioner in Indo-China. underwent an operation yesterday in a nursing home near here. A bulletin signed by six doctors said the operation Look place "in favourable circumstances" and added that 10 further bulletin wonld be mblished.
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  • 54 1 LONDON Sun.—Rear-Ad-niral T. H. Simpson, Royal \avy (retired), a former ngmeering specialist, his Aife and their two children *ere all killed yesterday when their car collided with a notor coach at South Minns. Hertfordshire. Rear-Admirai Simpson was < Fleet Engineer Officer to the British Pacific Fleet
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  • 140 1 SAIGON. Sun. JJ«ENCH bomberi carried the war in Indo-China to within a few miles of the Chinese border last night. The planes, mostly Ameri-can-made B-2&S. roared out of Hanoi to as far north as Caobang in a determined bid to smash the supply lines between the
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  • 124 1 TOKYO, Sunday. A UNITED NATIONS spokesman refused here today to comment on Communist allegations that UN. aircraft had bombed Chinese mainland cities, but emphasised that all pilots were under strictest instructions not to violate the Chinese f rQxi tdcr Peking Radio charged the
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  • 15 1 TAIPKH. Son— Poor Chinese Communist spies were shot yesterday by the Nationalist*.— Reuter.
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  • 198 1 JAKARTA LETS Rjl.F. IN ISLANDS round the coast of Indonesia were searched from the air yesterday by R.A.F. flying boats seeking the pilot of a Hornet single-seatei fighter, missing since Friday. Wreckage from the aircraft was found by planes and naval ships In the South
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    49 1 Four of the six /Singapore beauties (above) who took part in the 1952-Body Beauty Contest ai tne Happy World Stadium, last flight They are from left to right: Miss Mary Kam. Mias Lily Wong. Miss Nancj Iftui, and Miss Rose. And below is the winner. Miss Maria of Menado.
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  • 29 1 NEW DELH Sun.— The Nepalese Prime Minister, Mr Matrika Prasad. arrived here today for a two-day visit. He will have talks with Mr. Nehru and other Ministers
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  • 49 1 MMBNASHA, Wisionsin, Sun. ■8. John Gililngfcam of Oshkosh, VJS. tot her purse containing $509 at a club here on New Tear's Eve. Yesterday the club received a brown paper package by anil from Appleten, Wisconsin. la it was the purse. It contained $1,819.— U.P.
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  • 218 1 fiHE flood position In SeX gamat got worse last night after heavy rain throughout the day. The District Officer. Segamat, Mr. Samsu bin Mahmood. said that nearly 2.000 women, children and oU men had been evacuated from the resettlement area at Kam pone Abdullah,
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  • 33 1 THE HAGUE. Snu— A detachment of 160 Dutch volunteers Is leaving here on Tuesday to relieve members of the Dutch force fighting with th P United Watlona in Korea— AP
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  • 58 1 MILWAUKEE Wisconsin Sun.— The "Fighters for MacArthur" organisation began its drive yesterday to draft General Douglas Mac Arthur for the 1952 Republican Presidential nomination The nr*t official rally nf the organisation got under way here at an hotel. Similar meetings were scheduled during; the week-end at
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  • 164 1 Eve of peace, says Schuman PARIS, Sun. THE French Foreign Minister., M. Robert Schuman, told a meeting in Toulouse today: "We are probably on the eve of an armistice in Korea". "We may be sure that war is not imminent and Is not inevitable. We hold in our hands the
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  • 46 1 RIO DE JANEIRO, SunFifteen passengers were killed and 20 seriously injured when an omnibus and tram collided in Salvador, capital of Bahla state, yesterday. The bus burst Into flames after the collision and some of Its passengers were burnt to death.— Reuter
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  • 43 1 CAIRO. Mon.— Four R.A.F. men were injured when Egyptian snipers ambushed three R.A.F vehicles in the Canal Zone yesterday. Armoured scout cars went to the rescue and fired mortar shells into the nearby Egyptian village of El tfaid Siwesi.— AP.
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  • 37 1 The screening of the film "David and Bathsheba,' now showing at the Alhaml m in Singapore, has been delayed in the Federation until it has been shown to the Federation Appeal Board.
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  • 62 2 NEW YORK. Sun. pOLICE and federal agents last night arrested 500 suspected dope peddlers and addicts man y of them teenagers in raids throughout the country. A law passed by Congress last year made prison sentences compulsory for drug peddling. First offenders get a minimum
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    39 2 THE NAWAB OF PATAUDI, who died in New Delhi on Saturday after a heart attack while playing in a polo match. The Nawab, a first class cricketer, has played for both India and England in his '.on? cricket career.
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  • 50 2 TEHERAN, Sun.— The bodies of Dr. Henry Bennett. President Truman's Point Four representative. Mrs. Bennett and six other Americans, killed in the crash of an Egyptian airliner here on Dec. 22 were sent back to the United States yesterday aboard a U.S. military plane. A.P.
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  • 87 2 TOKYO. Sun. A WIDE gap separated the parties in the reparations talks between Indonesia and Japan yesterday, but further discussions this week are expected to iron out differences between the two countries. The Indonesian proposal, handed to the Japanese on Friday demanded payment of reparations for
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  • 237 2 'ALL-OUT WAR' ON CHINA PLANNED, IF... NEW YORK, Sunday. rpHE United States plans an all-out air-sea war against Communist China if she violates any Korean armistice with new aggression, according to Press reports here. The Government was reported to be advising its allies that the armistice, if agreed, should be
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  • 76 2 REST OF THE WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF DRINCESS MARGARET 1 danced until the early hours yesterday at a Hunt Ball in March mo nt House, Berwickshire, Scotland, on the first day of her 10-day holiday on the Scottish border. Siamese shipping agents have withdrawn their services to the Chinese mainland
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  • 43 2 TWO TUDEH (COMMUNIST) PARTY members and a Persian policeman were seriously injured in a Teheran election riot. The Foreign Office announced that Britain has ratified the Japanese peace treaty. KING IDRIS OF LIBYA, will pay an official visit to Egypt shortly.
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  • 75 2 THE PERSIAN PRIME MINISTER, Dr. Mossadeq, has agreed that the two- man World Bank mission now in Persia should visit the oil refinery town of Abadan and report their findings to the bank. The American frigate Sausalito has arrived at Saigon on the American Navy's first post-war goodwill
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  • 41 2 THE GREEK GOVERNMENT has denied reports that Greece is seeking to buy 2,000,000 tons of oil from Persia. British newspapers will have to pay £1 more a ton for their supplies of newsprint. The new price will be £66.
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  • 36 2 BOSTON, Sun.— Strip-tease has been banned !n Boston Massachusetts. A clean-up drive started by Archbishop Richard Cushing. rang down the curtain on "bold" clothes shedding in the city's night clubs and burlesque theatres -UP.
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    • 62 2 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 10 ajn.-10.10 Emergency News from K.L.; 1 p.m. "'Monday Mattnee 1 130 News; 1.45-2 "Home on the Range"; 6.15 Children; 6.35 "Adventures in Music"; 6.55 Announcements; 7-7.15* News; 7.30 "Spot The Favourites"; 8 "World Aflalrs". Allington Kennard; 8.15 "At Your Request"; 9 Movie Magazine"; 9.30 News; tf.45
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  • 136 3 gets an Eisenhower job NEW YORK. Sun. MARSHAL Zhukov. leader of the Russian armies against the Nazis, has emerged from a fiveyear eclipse to become "the Soviet Eisenhower", Mr. Hanson Baldwin, military t'crresponrient of the New York Times, said in an article in this week's issue
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  • 51 3 TAIPEH, Sun. f-ARDINAL Speliman, Archbishop of New York, yesterday described Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek as "a great leader who has fought many years for the freedom of the world." He was speaking to hundreds of Catholics at Hwashnn Cathedral shortly after his arrival from Tokyo by air..
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  • 303 3 9-DAY ORDEAL OF A GALLANT SKIPPER NEARS ITS END LONDON, Sunday. THE crippled American freighter, Flying Enterprise, was being towed towards Falmouth Harbour at about three knots today. Her skipper, Capt. Kurt Carlsen, who had refused to abandon his ship despite
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  • 138 3 Reds block 'shadow army' plan PARIS, Sun. fHE Ukraine, Byelo-llussia and Poland yesterday, backed the Soviet Union, in opposing the western-spon-sored collective security plan before the United Nations Political Committee. The three delegates spoke on the fourth day of the committee's debate on an 11power resolution seeking approval of the
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  • 140 3 LONDON, Sun. piK Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy of India from 1936 to 1942, collapsed and died yesterday while out with a shooting .party .on his estate in Scotland. He was 64. Victor Alexander John Hope, second Marquess of Linlithgow, was Viceroy of
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  • 183 3 Warning on Reds in Asia SAN FRANCISCO, Sunday. WORLD-wide Communist revolutionary forces may be planning aggressive action in South-East Asia, Mr. Edwin Stanton, United States Ambassador to Siam, declared here yesterday. Mr. Stanton was leaving by air to return to Bangkok after home leave and consultation
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    65 3 CLAD IN WHIT£ robes with wreaths round their heads, seven young Asian girls, who were postulates for a year, became novices at the Convent of the Little Sisters, Thomson Road, Singapore, yesterday. This •Straits Times picture shows the postulates being led in processsion into the Convent Chapel for the religious
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  • 143 3 KARACHI, Sun. THE Pakistan Foreign Minister, Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan, said yesterday that there are now two courses open to the Security Council over Kashmir— first, to call on both India and Pakistan to perform those things on which they have agreed and, second, to
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  • 212 3 The following arras will be liable to blackouts today: DAY Albert St.. Short St.. New Spore Ice Works, Firestone, Mackenzie Rd.. Bukit Timah Pumps. Balestier Rd.. Jalan Ampas. 8.M.8.C.. MacRitchie. Braddel Rise. Island Golf Club, Sdetar Pumps. Nee Soon Village, Seletar Wireless, Mental Hospital. Trafalgar Estate. New World.
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  • 111 3 I»HE United Nations' special political committee decided yesterday to set up a three-man commission to help India. Pakistan and South Africa to settle their differences over the treatment of Indians In South Africa. The committee passed, by 41 votes to two, with 13 abstentions,
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  • 306 3 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Sun. r? is thought in London that Mr. Stuart Symington's resignation from the chairmanship of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation may imply the start of fair, if rigorous, relations between Malayan tin producers and the United States The
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  • 56 3 WASHINGTON, Sun.— The Attorney-General. Mr. Howard McGrath today took steps to put a halt to gangsters' and racketeers' activities all over the country. He ordered the F. 8.1, and police to make mass arrests of all suspects, who will be brought Before 93 Federal Juries
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  • 226 3 —Wo place for goodness 9 MANCHESTER, Sunday. THE South African Government's decision to 1 declare the Rev. Michael Scott, champion of South- West African tribes, a prohibited immigrant, was criticised xzf the Manchester Guardian in an editorial yesterday. I "The racialists of South Africa recognise
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  • 77 3 BRITAIN DOING' MORE THAN ANY OTHER ALLY' WASHINGTON, Sun MR. Manley F. Fleischmann, United States Defence Production Administrator, yesterday said that Britain was doing more to build up milUary strength than any other ally of the United States. Defending the recent steel for aluminium exchange with Britain, an arrangement which
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  • 31 3 TEHERAN, Sun.— Persia's Minister of the Interior and acting Labour Minister, Amir Kalali, resigned yesterday after threats by the Parliamentary opposition to seek his Impeachment and trial.— Reuter.
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  • 47 3 NEW DELHI, Sun.— The Prime Minister of India, Mr Nehru anu the American Ambassador in India, Mr Chester Bowles, signed an agreement here yesterday under which the United States Government will allocate $50,000.000 t>y June 3D for speeding up development projects In India. Reuter
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  • 750 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Jan. 7, 1952. ICFTU And The Unions The delegation from the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions which made, many months ago, a survey of trade unionism in Asia encountered at the beginning of its mission a great deal of suspicion. It was able to
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  • 359 4 A pointer to much needed action by the Malayan Governments, whose complacency in the matter of income-tax collection is quite remarkable, is found in the intention of the British Inland Revenue authorities to seek among university graduates a new corps of income-tax inspectors to deal with tax
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  • 816 4  -  PETER KIRK -by LONDON. T^HE Soviet Union has always been peculiarly sensitive about the figure it cuts to the outside world. The pose of the beneficent champion of the oppressed peoples of this world is still maintained, despite all the evidence to
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    • 457 4 Rubber potential in Costa Rica IN your issue of Jan. 3 there appeared a short report headed "'Lazy' Costa Rica can't compete". It began: "The rubber Industry of Costa Rica, Central America, cannot compete with Malaya, leading Singapore rubber dealers said yesterday". What an amazing statement for them to make.
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    • 100 4 TTNDER the heading "Magistrate to refuse orders to quit", published 19 the Straits Times of Jan 4. I see that, In these troubled times when the housing problem looms large there Is a man who has the welfare of the poor at heart. If peace and
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  • 765 4 Adult education 's aim in Malaya PROFESSOR SILCOCK REPLIES IN your issue of Jan. 3 a writer calling himself "Diogenes" made a number of rather misleading references to adult education. It is as well therefore to be clear first about the proper place ol politics in adult education subsidised from
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  • 410 4 Bird ape pONSIDER the case of the Burong Cha'amah. And next time you hear yourself being cruelly mimicked do not at once turn to upbraid the fellow standing nearest you. The mimicry may come from a 14-lnch-hlgh bird. The bird is the Burong Cha'amah, which is described
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  • 301 5 IMP will fight all the 12 seats THREE WOMEN AMONG CANDIDATES KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. A TH REE-cornered fight for most of tht 12 seats on the Kuala Lumpur Municipal Commission to be filled by election is likely on Feb. 16, when 11,000 voters go to
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  • 56 5 No, no not in my birthday suit! "NO NO— not in front oj all those people. I don't like them to see me in my birthday suit." Little one-year-old Mokhtar Taib cried in vain as the firm, but gentle, hands of Sister Helen porter had him stripped and weighed at
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  • 97 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. [)NE of the most fashionable Chinee weddings since the hcerauon tooK place in Kuaia Lumpur today when Miss Ong Siew Kean of Kuala Lumpur married Inspector Dng Kirn Boon of the Singapore Police force. The bride is the daughter 3f Mr. Ong Chee King
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  • 47 5 Donations totalling $1,661 were made to the University )f Malaya Endowment Fund >n the week eno*d Dec. 29. rhe Fund no v stands at (4.654,644. The Chettiars' Chamber of Commerce, Malacca, contributed $144. bringing their total donations to the fund :0: 0 $10,000.
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  • 142 5 [SINGAPORE'S General Post Office hopes to eliminate queues and bring quicker, more efficient service to Ks customers by Introducing a new system the Ipswich Scheme. •Under this scheme, the Director of Posts, Mr. W. A. Cooper. said yesterday, "postal clerks, who are now assigned to
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  • 82 5 LIEUTENANT John Leonard Bartlett. Royal Army Pay Corps, and Miss Pauline Waite, of Manchester. England, were married at the Garrison Church. Ne e Soon. Singapore on Saturday. The Rev. R. T. Holtley officiated. The bride, who arrived in the Empress of Australia last Thursday, was
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  • 164 5 Day of tears for the babes on show IT was a day of tears for the 40 Malay babies who competed in the baby show held at the R.A.F. Regiment Depot, Telok Piku, Changi, on Saturday for the children of men of the R.A.F. Reg iine n t (Malaya) and
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  • 197 5 THE Vehicles and Traffic Committee of Singapore x City Council will be asked at its next meeting, this week, to consider a letter from three organisations seeking immediate joint action by Government and the City Council to smooth out traffic and parking problems in
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  • 99 5 EIGHT girls— all from China took the vows at the Chapel of the Convent of the Littls Sisters, Thomson Road, Singapore yesterday. In three years they will become fully qualified nuns. Three of seven girls, who have been postulates at the Thomson Road convent for a
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  • 180 5 MOKE than 2,000 rubber workers in Singapore gave up a day's wages to attend a rally at the Great World yesterday to celebrate the first anniversary on the Singapore Rubber Milling and Manufacturing Workers' Union. Also there were Mr. Lin; Yew Hock, president of the
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  • 51 5 SAFETY— AND IT'S COOL The Chartered Bank have installed in their new premises in Battery Road. Singapore, a safe deposit vault which is believed to be the largest in South-East Asia. The vault which is bombproof, burglar-proof and fireproof, is air-conditioned. There are more than 3,000 deposit boxes in the
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  • 58 5 A verdict of death by misadventure was recorded in Singapore at an inquest on seven-year-old Ithnan bin Makmor, whose body was found floating in the sea off Pulau Tekong Besar on Nov. 28— Mandi Safar day. The coroner, Mr. Choor Singh, said the boy might
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  • 75 5 SINGAPORE Postal and Telecommunications Uni_ formed Staff Union yester* day rejected a Government offer of pension rights and increased pay. This was decided at a workers' meeting. The members told the general council to pursue its efforts with Government until all the union's demands had been met.
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  • 47 5 Singapore's Jewish Organisation— Habonim presented its sixth annual variety concert last night in the British Council Hall, Singapore. There was a cast of 23 and the show was directed and produced by Mr. Joe Khatena and Mr. Jonah Joshua and compered by Mr. Abraham Solomon.
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  • 106 5 QNE thousand children will; be able to begin studies when the Canberra regional school at the Singapore Naval Base is completed In three months. The school's foundation- stone will be laid by the Director of Education, Mr. A. W. Frisby, on Thursday. The Port Education
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  • 155 5 LEARNING GAP TOO WIDE: CANON ADAMS AUSTRALIAN educational authorities have sug- gested to Canon R. K. S. Adams, principal of St. Andrew's School, Singapore, that Malayan students who intend to go to Australian universities should spend their last two years at school in Australia. Canon Adams said yesterday that the
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  • 156 5 4 ordained in Methodist Church KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. ITtOUR men were ordined r in the Methodist Church by Bishop Raymond L. Archer, head of the Methodist Mission in SouthEast Asia, during the annual Conference Ordination service at Wesley Church, Kuala Lumpur, today. The Rev. Bernard C. Wahl, of Penang was
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  • 33 5 The Indian Fine Arts Society of Singapore will celebrate the Thyagaraja Festival on Jan. 27 with a singing contest of pieces composed by a South Indian poet. Prizes will be awarded
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  • 263 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. A FORMER Singapore teacher who dedic"ated his life to the Christian ministry nearly 30 years ago has retired. He is the Rev. Ooh Hood Kehg, pastor of the Strait* Chinese Methodis' Church at Kampong Kapor. who ha» served for 27 years.
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  • 34 5 The death occurred in Colombo yesterday of Mr. R. A. M. Thuraiappa, brother of Mr. M. Rajaratnam and Mr. M. Gunaratnam, and brother-in-law of Mr. M. Saravanamuttu, Ceylon Commissioner in Malaya.
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  • 88 6 ON the left is the wedding picture of Mr. Aloysius da Silva and Miss Peggy Stewart, who were married at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd. Centre: Mr. and Mrs. Ali bin Mohamed, after their wedding at their home in Upper Weld Road, Singapore. And right: Mr.
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  • 415 6 CONGREGATION of nearly 400 packed St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, yesterday morning to hear the Archbishop of York, Dr. Cyril Garbett, deliver a "message from the home church" to Malaya. Strong security measures were taken at the Cathedral. Four radio police cars stood by and
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  • 176 6 Labour party to back the Hill plan SINGAPORE Labour Party General Council will meet soon to decide its policy towards the City Council. Mr. P. M. Williams, general secretary, said yesterday that the report on local government by Dr. L. C. Hill, the British authority, will be discussed. It is
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  • 25 6 TAIPING, Sun.— The Chinese Recreation Club will hold a Chinese New Year's Eve dance at the Hokkien Hoay Kuan on Jan. 26
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  • 43 6 TELUK ANSON, Sun. A 38-year-old woman Ping Hong Moy, was fined a total of $1,250 for unlawful possession of apparatus for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor. 3 gallons and 2 pints of uncustomed samsu and 250 gallons of fermented mash
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  • 39 6 VMCA, Orchard Road. Kataf c ass 5.30 p.m.; Brtciy building end Judo SJO p.m. ST. JOHN AMBULANCE AS SOCIATION. Stamford Road First Aid class, 5.30 p.m. SINGAPORE ART SOCIETY, British Council Centre, lite Class from 6 p.m
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  • 103 6 City won't destroy private pests SINGAPORE City Engineer's Department will only destroy hornets' and bees' nests in public streets or buildings belonging to the City Council. Mr. G. Edmund, the City Engineer, said yesterday that his department did not undertake the destruction of these nests on private property because there
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  • 87 6 PARIT BUNTAR. Sun. CHEN Koon Chin, of Ipoh. was fined $25 in the Parlt Buntar court when he pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving. The prosecution said that Chen, while overtaking a car along the Parlt Buntar-Ba-gan Serai road, narrowly averted a head-on
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  • 53 6 TELUK ANSON, Sun.— Chia Ah Koek, aged 30, pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a still, five gallons and five' and a half pints of uncustomed samsu and 50 gallons of fermented mash at Bagan Sungei Belukang. The case was postponed to Saturday. Chia was allowed
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  • 130 6 rHE Singapore Social Welfare Department, having appointed two male probation officers, is now seeking a woman officer to work with the men under the extended probation scheme which came into force at the beginning of the year. Under the old system probation work was
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  • 67 6 SEREMBAN, Mon. When UMNO holds its next General Assembly, the Seremban branch will urge Government to expand the scope of the Malay Translation Bureau in the Federation. At a recent meeting of UMNO in Seremban, when it was decided to .make this proposal, it was pointed
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  • 59 6 THE Perak Estate Employees' Union has published the te^^f 11 of J ts montn 'y magaiine "Nagareegam". Printed in Tamil, the eight-page issue contains. among other items, an editorial on the responsibilities of labourers, articles on the Emergency and the role of the people to end
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 239 6 Straits Times Crossword 3"~ i~~ jug 5. I e~~ r" 1 "T" 1^1 ~¥l I 13 14 IH 6 17 i8 19 20 F~ 22 j 23 i 57" "~^1 ACROSS No chicken! (3, 4). I. Lover or hi. oat*, uno elfS&^rr 1 1<lr fffcSfS? a'Vtktue (5). g«» In the
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  • 114 7 gURMA-MAI.AY Tin announces the following output figures for December 1951, in cubic yards dredged and piculs of tin-ore produced: Katu Dredging 95.000. 410. Renong Consolidated Dredging 199.000 372. ipAKUAPA Valley Tin Dredging, using two dredges, covered 250,000 cubic yards in 1.306 hours to produce 504 piculs of tin-ore
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  • 114 7 AVER Weng (Rahman) Deve■'Mopinent and Prospecting Company, during the year to Sept. 30. 1951. in tribute from "fossicking" on the mine in Slam, fell short of outgoings *by $5,713.53. The balance sheet shows net liquid assets at $65,683. say 33.9 cents per share. In the current term
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  • 65 7 PAHANO Consolidated. from large-scale deep mining of tin lodes and lesser investment income, showed a profit, after British profits tax and the Preference dividend, of £939.296. or 250 per cent on the Ordinary capital. Dividends of 75 per cent were paid. Net liquid assets work
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  • 63 7 MENTAKAB Rubber Company on Dec. 4. 1951. made a forward sale on the "Named Estate" basis of 60 tons of No. 1 R.S.S. for delivery. five tons monthly throughout 1952. at 44 H 0.8. cent.* per lt>. c.i.f. New York, any variation in freight being
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  • 516 7 SHARE MARKET BUOYANT ACTIVE AT THE YEAR'S TURN From A Market Correspondent I AST week's Malayan share market business was done in half a day of the old year and three of the new. During that time activity rose to a very high pitch. All sections save Loans showed firmness,
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  • 120 7 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association at che wet t -end announced agreed rate* of exchange to merchants ns followslariat 4ir Mali r.l O.D. M a«.a n«» von 32, "JB Canada 331 334 3s, rraa> rtilu New Yor« 11 »,i fc Oevlonii,i- m I r.'O.D Kr>H, w JOT\ 329/
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  • 273 7 BUSINESS done In the Malayan share market last week included Industrial*— Fraser ft Neave Ord $4 07' t to $4.10, Gammon *2.82', to $2.85. Malayan Breweries $5.20, Malayan Cement (25 cents paid) 61 cents. McAlister $41 and $42. Maynard $10 Robinson Ord $3.95. Singapore Cold Storage $4.85, Straits
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  • 54 7 KRAMAT Pulal tin tributes, seheellte production from tailings and investment revenue brought a profit after British profits tax of £19.429 (11s. 6d. per share) for the year to March 31. 1951: 6d. per share was distributed Net liquid assets in balance sheet, at £62.846. are equal to
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  • 84 7 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Bun AN offer for the purchase oJ the remaining property of Takau Rubber Plantations In Nesrrl Sembilan has been recrtved. subiee' 'o orompt acceDtsnce. which the directors consider favourable, and they have ac- '■eDted the offer subject to confirmation by members
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    • 1339 7 MANSFIELD 6c CO.. LTD. (Incorporated in Srngapora) BLUB FUNNEL LINB Carrier* option to proceed via ether ports te load and diKharffe car««. SAILINCS to LtVfRPOOL CLASCOW. LONDON b CONTINENTAL PORTS. (Xie Sail* P Sham Penana l>nt»m ioi VXalwillet. Havre 6 Liverpool C. IS/1* lan I la*, t/11 la*. 1 2/
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    • 365 7 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS Co New fork and Boston Ceylon India Ecvpt and Mediterranean Ports Singapore 'enant -PRES. HARRISON 8/ 16 lan 17/18 la* "9/21 lan t.s -SCHUTLER OTIS BLAND' 16/21 fan 22/23 (an 24/26 an >s -PRESIDENT BUCHANAN" I ft/24 lan 25/26 lan 17/29 lan To Los Angeles Atlantic Ports
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    • 457 7 EAST ASIATIC LINE •AILINCS FROM SCANDINAVIAN X /CONTINENI S'por* S'harr 'ertane '01 tjangkok rtKonj Kobe 6 Yokohama 11/12 |an Falstria" tor Saigon 6 Bangkok 11/ Ulan India" for Bangkok Hong Kon« Manila Kobe Yokohama 1 /5 Feb 10 lan./l Feb 16/29 Jan Merelia" for Banekok Hong Kong Kobe 6 Yokohama
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    • 1066 7 McALISTER <Sc CO., LTD. Telephone No 5906 ILURMAN uutKNALi HLAVBNBSS L.INB LONDON. HAVRE, ROTTERDAM b LOS ANCELES. SAN FRANCISCO, HAMBURC. PORTLAND SEATTLE b VANCOUVER and tor U.S.A North Atlantic Ports' and Canada via Colombo Accepting cargo tor Centra. South s.i CITY OF KARACHI American Ports. Spore P. Sham Penang c
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  • 715 8  -  SENTINEL SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR By 001 AND HARITH ARE RUNNERS-UP rpHE mountain of letters which has grown on my desk during the past week leaves me in no doubt that the majority of readers do not agree with my choice of Harith as
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  • Article, Illustration
    40 8 AJis. Dorothy Ji^ec SCC women centta fatasna, tackled by a defender as she tries to eel through iv Saturday's hockey on the Singapore parian* in which the Kuala l.umpur P.W.D.S.C. wanes and S.C.C. women drew one -all. Straits Times picture.
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  • 273 8 r TtH Kuala l.umpur i\\\ Sports Club h-icltrr I cam were held I* another '«r.i» when they ptaird the Girl* Sp-»n« Club, on the S.R.C. ground yesterday. There was no scoring. On Saturday, the* dr»"W me .ill against tie S.C.C. weiwn, The first half was played
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  • 69 8 JAMSHEDPUR. Sun Id sharp contraat to the Calcutta. Test crawl last week, the MCC scared 370 far five wickets in the five hours play an the. opening day of their match against Eaat Zone here On a lute matting wicket. Jack Robertson played himself rig it back to
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  • 360 8 A POWEa cur at the Clerical Union Hall caused a postponement of the match between the Bournemouth and the Lucky Strike badminton parties, which were to play off the seml-flnal tie of the inter-club championship last nl«ht. The Katch Is now fixed
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  • 82 8 LONDON, Sun. Charles Bray, cricket writer of the London Dally Herald, commenting on me "slow motion" Tests between India and England, blames the Indian Cricket Board of Control for allowing such batsmen's wickets to be prepared. 'Australia, South Africa and England nave all come Into tine in
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  • 68 8 *CLANG, Son. Selangor beat Negrt Sembilan by six points (two tries) to nil yesterday tat the first Inter-State rugger match played in Klane stnee the liberation The Klang padang. where the game was played, was almost completely water-logged there h»ing pools ankle deep at several
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  • 307 8 rWICKENHAM, Sun UUCTB Africa beat England 1 oy eight points (a goal and a penalty goal) to three points A try) after a herculean battle ovre yesterday. The South Africans led 5-3 at naif tow to a superb e;ic««ntei which kept the huge czo+a
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  • 246 8 LONDON. 8u». RUGBY Onion results yesterday were: International: England 3. South Afrlea Club matches: Guys Hospital 5, Old M. T 3; London Hospital 5. Stroud 8; London Scottish, 3, Gloucester 5; Metropolitan PoUc« b Rlcbmood 8- Middlesex Hospital 3, Aldershot Services 0; Old Paulines 6,
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  • 269 8 By A Special Correspondent 'THE Urge crowd that witnessed the inter- Service 1 game at Seletar on Saturday between Roya) Navy and the R.A.F. were treated to what was probably the finest exhibition of rugby football this season. The Airmen played as a magnificent team
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  • 1033 8 LONDON Suo IT K. hoot Ball ie»gue Htadmo after yesterdays matches are: HRST DIVISION Ooals p w. a. l. r m. ru PorUmuuttt 27 1C 5 ft 4? 37 37 Manchester 0 27 I« 7 8 58 38 35 Arsenal 2T M 1 51 M M Newcastle 0
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  • 495 8 U.K. SOCCER HIT BY WEATHER: CROP OF UPSETS LONDON, Santte Vf ANY League clubs will not quickly forget the iTI first Saturday of the New Year when conditions encountered were among the worst so far this season. Quagmires resulting from the recent rain and snow brought a numler unexpected results
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    • 25 8 SINGAPORE TIDES TO1MV Hi*a MI» .It) -iud J01I i low ooosiia, v..i :s3* (1 ft.). TOMORROW. (Till i»5' anri I1SO |1«V: MM <•«) catf 144* ill)
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