The Straits Times, 29 January 1952

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    22 1 29 JAN I9SZ The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED 1X45 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1952 if PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    EGYPT'S POLICY UNCHANGED
    570 1 New Premier to carry on fight BREAK WITH BRITAIN CONSIDERED CAIRO, Monday. EGYPT'S new Premier, Dr. Aly Maher Pasha, who replaced the sacked Nahas Pasha last night, will continue to press for British evacuation of the Canal Zone and unity of the Nile Valley. In a broadcast
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    Last plane from Cairo gets here
    429 1 Last plane from Cairo gets here PASSENGERS from the last BOAC-Qantas plane to land m Cairo said on arriving m Singapore yesterday that mobs of Egyptian rioters were seething across the tarmac at Farouk Airfield when they made their netawav on Saturday morning. The Egyptian airport authorities forced the passenRert
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    Ship blown a mile
    74 1 SUVA. Fiji, Mon. A 150-mile-an-hour hurricane the worst In Suva's history today devastated wide areas, and smashed a concrete block of shops and offices. A British 7,000-ton ship was blown nearly a mile from a wharf. Damage to property was heavy. One man was killed and
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    Maher Pasha 'old friend of Britain'
    117 1 LONDON, Mon THE London Daily Mail, commenting to-day on the appointment of Aly Maher Pasha as Egyptian Prime Minister, says: "King Farouk has chosen wisely." It describes Aly Maher Pasha as "an old friend of Britain who has served his country before m a
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    FIRE DEATHS
    31 1 SYDNEY, Mon.— Ten persons were burned to death and two firemen were missing today as bush fires raged m southern New South Wale* and the state of Victoria.— Reuter.
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    AIR CARGOES
    23 1 SAIGON. Mon. -The 100 th. 101 st and 102 nd US. ships with aid for French Union forces arrived today.— A.P.
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    NEW SHIPS FOR FAR EAST RUN
    43 1 GENOA. Mon. The Lloyd Triestino Line has temporarily suspended its passenger service to the Far East The service will be resumed m about six months with two vessels now under construction, the Asia and the Africa -A.P.
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    CHURCHILL BACK
    16 1 SOUTHAMPTON Mon Mr Winston Churchill arrived here today m thf> i'.ner Queen Mary. —Reuter.
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    26 1 ARTHUR "KIPPY lIADIf.V (IrU a'»ove) pictured with Scupper soon after their re- union yesterday. On the right is Bruce Martin who found Scupper. Straits Times picture.
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    BOY'S BEST FRIEND RETURNS
    116 1 CEVEN-YEAR-OLD Arthur I "Klppy" Hadley who lost his best friend on Friday at Tanah Merah Basar, Singapore, was last night re-unit-ed with hi« pet, striped boxer dog Scupper. Ktppy said: "I'm so glad :he has been found. He's a fine doggie." Scupper was found by four-year-old
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    Two back from course
    64 1 6LCO.NI> :At.L 1 V:»du. .-.hukor M n Chick, aged 23, (RIGHT) youngest officer m the Malay Regiment, who returned to Malaya yesterday m the trooper Lancashire, with Second Lieut. Abdul Manan bin Abas, aged 27. after an officers' training course at Sandhurst. They are the first
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    33 accidents mar festival
    266 1 3 DIE ON STORE ROADS rpHREE deaths and 11 serious injuries m 33 accl- dents made yesterday the second day of the Chinese New Year a black day for traffic accidents m Singapore. The worst accident occurred at the 10th mile Changi jßoad when three cars
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    THE 80 MEN FROM KOREA
    62 1 EIGHTY British soldiers from Korea arrive m Singapore today m the Empire Orwell to join the fight against Malaya's bandits. They are part of the 41st Independent Commando Royal Marines, who have been withdrawn from Korea after 16 months' active operations They have been drafted
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    PLANE HITS HOUSE
    28 1 FRANKFURT, Mon —Three Germans were feared killed when a United States Air Force "Flying Boxcar" crashed into a house today The crew had baled out--Reuter.
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    New 'aggression in Asia for U.N.'
    122 1 PARIS, Monday. yHE United States today said that any future 1 Communist aggression m South-East Asia would be a matter for most urgent and earnest consideration by the United Nations. In a speech calling on the U.N. Political Committee to condemn Soviet violation of
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    Canada to protest
    48 1 OTTAWA, Mon. CiANADA is to protest to the Egyptian Government over Saturday's riots m Cairo, which led tv th e death of the Canadian Trade Commissioner, Mr. Joseph Boyer. As Canada has no diplomatic representative m Cairo, the British representatives will transmit the protest.— A.F.P.
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    MALA YA HAS A PLAN TO SAVE THE POUND
    161 1 MALA YA HAS A PLAN TO SA VE THE POUND MR. T. Van der Gaast, Deputy Secretary for Economic Affairs, Singapore's delgate to the Commonwealth Finance Ministers* conference m London returned to the Colony yesterday with plans for Singapore and the Federation to help the sterling area to tide over
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    NEW U.N. SCHEME ON P.o.W.s
    120 1 NEW U.N. SCHEME ON P.o.W.s PANMUNJOM, Mon. T*HE United Nations delegate i this morning handed the Communists a proposed settlement for prisoners of war exchange. It said that Red Cross dele- gates should have permisj slon to question prisoners and to see that the terms of the j Armistice are
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    £40,000,000 oil refinery for Perth
    104 1 £40,000,000 oil refinery for Perth rE Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, is negotiating with the Australian Government to build a £40.000.000 refinery near Perth, the West Australian capital This was stated m Singapore yesterday by one of Anglo-Iranian's negotiators. Mr P, Hackforth-Jones, who passed through by QantasBOAC with his wife, on his
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    WAR DANGER
    34 1 WASHINGTON, Mon.— Mr. W. Averell Harriman, said today he believes Stalin has no intention of involving Russia m a total war, "but there Is great danger he may stumble into it." Reuter.
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    BACK FROM WORLD TRIP
    36 1 NEW YORK. Mon.—Member of th P US. House of Representative Mr. Peter Mack, landed last night at Springfield, Illinois. In his personal plane after a round the world flight, begun last October.
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    Two vessels 'detained'
    92 1 HONG KONG. Mon. rE Chinese Communists have "detained" a tug and alighter of the British-owned Asiatic Petroleum Company and are holding them at a small customs port near Macao. An official of the company said today that the vessels were on a routine trip to Macao with
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    Tank-led troops swoop in Tunisia
    147 1 Tank-led troops swoop in Tunisia TUNIS, Mon. 11/ lORE than 2.000 Arab nationalists have been arrested by troops and police throughout Tunisia during the past 24 hours. House to house searches for weapons and nationalist literature were carried out by infantry and police m widoly scattered localities. while French Vampire
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    Rhee back in Seoul
    67 1 SEOUL, Mon. "CX)R the first time since the Red offensive forced the South Korean government to quit Seoul on January 3 last year, President Syngman Rhee today addressed a crowd from the Capitol steps. Ten thousand Koreans were feting the Nev Year. General Van Fleet was
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    U.S. INTERVENES
    25 1 RANGOON. Mon. The American Government at the request of Burma has asked Chinese Nationalists to withdraw their troops from th« Burma border —Reuter.
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    Jakarta seeks a higher price than $1.18
    379 2 U.S. INDONESI AN TIN TALKS THIS WEEK j WASHINGTON, Mon. AN Indonesian mission A is due to arrive here this week to open negotiations for the resumption of American tin buying from the Jakarta Government. The mission will be headed by Darmawan Manguxnkusumo,
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    Earldom for Alexander
    62 2 LONDON, Mon. VISCOUNT Alexander has been awarded an earldom on relinquishing the post of Governor General of Canada. He is expected to become Britain's Defence Minister m the near future. The appointment of Mr. Vincent Massey, former Canadian High Commissioner m London, as Governor General of Canada,
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    EXECUTIONS START AGAIN
    54 2 HONG KONG, Mon. A landlord was executed afteT a public trial attended by over 10,000 people m F&t Kong county, South China, according to an official press report from the mainland. Another was sentenced to death at a trial attended by over 3.000 people at Nam Hoi,
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    Cactus may make newsprint
    49 2 MEXICO CITY, Mon. Newsprint may be made from cactue. Nazario Ortiz Garza, Minister of Agriculture, said Mexico is experimenting with a new type of cactus, related to the century plant, which may give 52 to 62 per cent of cellulose suitable for newsprint A P
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    BUSH FIRES
    30 2 SYDNEY, Mon.— Fresh busri fires roared through New South Wales and Victoria today, with the death toll m both states rising to 10 and many others injured. UP.
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    Australia to seek loan
    62 2 NEW YORK, Mon. A USTRALIA may soon seek a new loan from tbe World, Bank, trade sources m New York predicted. These sources said Australia might ask for U*****,000,000 to finance imports of US industrial equipment. Last year, about U5540,0000,000 worth of equipment was shipped to
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    10 bodies found in Hoogly
    39 2 CALCUTTA, Mon. Ten bodies have now been recovered from the River Hoogly following Saturday's collapse of a gangway between the jetty and the Indian cruiser Delhi, throwing more than 75 people into the water.
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    HOME FOR PRINCESS
    25 2 HOME FOR PRINCESS PRINCESS ELIZABETH and Dok€ of Edinburgh wiH stay hi this mountain hmse m Kenya before they sail frwo Mombasa 4* A«straSa—lP jbmU.
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    U.S. rubber imports more than doubled
    93 2 NEW YORK, Monday. AMERICA'S foreign trade reached a record of A nearly USs26,oW,O§«,o*> m ISSI. Exports were estimated at about $14,6*0,M0,M«, and imports at I?SSII.2*O,«M,«M. The increase was estimated at more than 33 per cent above total trade of US$l9,126.000,000 m 1990. The National
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    TEENAGERS SET A MINK PROBLEM
    39 2 BONN, Mom. TyRUNKENNESS among schooUfriliren as voting as 14 has become a problem m Russian-occupied East Germany, according to complaints m the Communist press. Another problem is rowdyism and lack of discipline among students.
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    Gave up apple of his eye
    85 2 VIENNA. Mon. f pHE municipality of Vienna has received a parcel posted In a small town of the American Middle West, containing a centary-oM imperial apple made of tin. In an accompanying letter. a 0.1. formerly stationed m Vienna -wrote that the apple belonged
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    AIR-SEA SHIELD ENOUGH -HOOVER
    120 2 AIR-SEA SHIELD ENOUGH -HOOVER NEW YORK, Mon. Tt/nt. HERBERT HOOVER* ax 77-year-old former President of tbe United States, advised America yesterday to frrrild air and «ea power to defend the western hemisphere. "The first purpose of this reptrtrttc roast be the defence of this final Gibraltar of freedom", he said
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    H.K. has 50,000 tons of metal
    63 2 HONG KONG, Mon.—Godowns m Hong Kong have ia stove 51,000 tons of metals, the highest figure since 1941, according to tie Ta Tung IPao. Steel bar s alone total 110.0001 10.000 tons. Merchants were quoted as saying that the original indent price for steel
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    REVOLT SEQUEL
    40 2 KHATWANDU, Mon Nepal's Prtnae Minister, Matrika Praad Koirla, today set up a high level emergency committee to lieal with the situation arising oat of last week abortive revolt by a section of the Halcsha Dal Home Guards.— Reuter.
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    GERMANY DEMANDS EQUALITY
    224 3 Membership of NATO her price to join Europe 9 s army FAKIS, Monday. yyF,ST Germany demanded membership m the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation yesterday as her price for aiding Western defence. Professor Walter Hallstein, chief German delegate to the Six-power European army talks, m Paris, said Germany
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    WAR IF GERMANY RE-ARMS, SAYS M.P.
    113 3 LONDON, Mon. 'EARS that German rearmament would nder a third war inevitle were expressed by r. Eric Fletcher, a ibour M.P., m a speech Cambridge yesterday. ich rearmament should halted before it »s o late, he said. The German Army would tisis; o! 400.000
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    AUSTRIAN ENVOY
    16 3 I*X LOWKNTHAL VON ■hxmeC'KY. who has ■♦■n appointed Austrian ■nbassador to the United States.
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    She has 224 escendants
    53 3 She has 224 escendants OVEN. Alberta, Mon. IS Kla-ss Hohlenn, who has 224 living descents, observed her 100 th "lday ye.fterday She has n children. 67 grandchil- 132 great-grandchll-i. and 18 great-great-idchildren orn at Emdpn. Germany. Hohlen went to Canada 1910 from the United tes to which she had emited
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    COMMITMENTS
    16 3 lASHINGTON Mon. imitments of the Interonal Bank for Reconction on Dec. 31. were 11,783,00. -Reuter
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    PREMIER DIES
    16 3 I.OW. Mon. -The Mon,l Prpmlpr Marsha] -'san. has died m the hospital m Moscow
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    Hundreds flee as river rises
    88 3 Hundreds flee as river rises CLEVELAND, Mon. JJUNDREDS fled their homes yesterday as the Ohio River rose over the flood stage at th> rate of six inches an hour under heavy rains. Red Cross rescue teams had 65 boxcars available for evacuating 600 people from the flood-striken towns of Brilliant
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    PRICES CUT
    30 3 NEW YORK, Mon —Lever Brothers have announced price cuts ranging from 2.5 to 5.25 per cent m the wholesale prices of bar and packaged soaps and shortening. -I
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    He fought with Caesar
    52 3 RIMINI, Italy, Mon AN archaeologist, Luigi Nenato Pedrettl, has uncovered the tomb of one of Caesar's captains near the River Uso. It contained the remains of a tall warrior, with hi s weapons. Pedretti believes the remains belong to a centurion of the 13th Legion.— A
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    INDIANS HELP
    23 3 JOHANNESBURG, Mon Ten leaders of the anti-Gov-ernment South African Indian Congress were arrested on Saturday night after a party conference. A.FP
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    BOMBERS CHASE TERRORISTS
    77 3 SOLO JAVA Monday [NDONESIAN troops supported by bombers have broken up a concentration of Muslim extremists m Central Java after pursuit. The battle against 600 members of the terrorist Darul Islam organisation ended on Friday with scores of them killed and many wounded and taken prisoner Three
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    Japs bid for Persian oil
    73 3 TEHERAN. Mon JAPAN offered Persia a 1 goods- for-oil barter deal yesterday, a key Persian official said m Teheran over the week-end. Andre Chang, representative of the Nippon Oil Tanker Company, saw All Amini. Persia's Minister of National Economy, to discuss an agreement between private
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    Floods menace two towns
    46 3 COLUMBUS, Ohio. Mon Floods are seriously threatening the towns of Columbus and Daytona and part of the population has already been evacuated. The floods have been caused by heavy rain which resulted m the overflow of several rivers m the area. A.F.P
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    Mobile labs sent to pitheads
    144 3 MANCHESTER. Mon ORITAIN'S National Coal Board is sending mobile laboratories to the pitheads to test boilers and help collieries get more heat from the coal they burn Testing units used by the Ministry of Fuel and Power to help industrial firms econo- mise on coal,
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    Deserted Red Army
    40 3 Sergeant Vadim Baykhin Demidovitch, formerly of a Red Army guard rifle division is seen (right) at a Press conference he gave at Graz, m Austria, to tell why he decided to desert and quit Russia. A.P. picture.
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    Army, police seek fugitive Japs
    165 3 HUNT ON FOR STRAGGLERS MANILA, Monday. A LARGE force of Army troops and constabulary, augmented by dog teams and Navy patrol boats, begin an all-out drive today to kill or capture Japanese stragglers on Lubang Island. Colonel Marcos Soliman, Deputy Commander of the Second Military
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    THERE IS NO CURE FOR A COLD
    116 3 LOS ANGELES, Monday. 'THERE is no cure for the common cold, says a Canadian doctor,' and even the use of anti-histi-mines to prevent it "has been almost wholly disMoved." )r. G. Edward Tremble of McOili University, told a convention of eye. ear. nose
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    THEY WANT TO TAX FISH
    47 3 WASHINGTON, W0;..--Senators William Knowiand and Richard Nixon, both Republicans, are supporting a 3-cent a pound tax on fresh and frozen fish. They said the proposal "is a fair and reasonable approach to f he problems confronting the Industry and others concerned."— U.P
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    REST OF THE WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF
    124 3 REST OF THE WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF LUDEVIK Frejka, President Gottwald's Economic Adviser, has been arrested on charges of conspiring against the Czech Communist regime. A Japanese trade mission will start shortly negotiations with Argentime officials to cowhide a new trade agreement British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines plans to start a
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    He fears total war in Far East
    134 3 He fears total war in Far East SOUTHPORT, Mon. T'HE former Labour r Cabinet Minister, Mr. Hugh Dalton, declared here yesterday that reckless action m the Far East might lead to a full scale war with terrible repercussions m other parts of the world. Mr. Dalton, speaking m support of
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    Iron curtain austerity
    89 3 LONDON. Mon. RUMANIANS were going to their banks today to exchange old money for new under a drastic currency reform announced suddenly last night According to Bucharest radio, the nsw currency is pegged to the soviet rouble and can be exchanged on a variable rate ranging from
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    Taft attacks Truman
    61 3 NEW YORK, Mon. A REPUBLICAN presidential candidate, Mr. Robert Taft, last night launched a violent attack on President Truman's foreign policy. He said it was the most disastrous m the whole of American history and consituted a direct threat to the future of the United States. He
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    DRAGON YEAR MEANS GIFTS, ALMS AND CELEBRATIONS
    515 4 THE DRAGON YEAR 1 of Hi* Chinese cam* in boisterously and happily in Malaya over the week-end. In Singapore, Straits Times staff photographers took these graphic pictures of the New Year Eve and Day. The Chinese did not stand on ceremony in celebrating
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    SECRET SOCIETIES ARE HAVING A VERY THIN TIME NOW
    148 5 gINGAPORE'S secret societies, responsible for most of the killings, extortions and grang fiffhts m the Colony from 1946 to 1948, are having a quiet time. A C.I.D. spokesman si gency Regulations and a < the members of the soci them by
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    MOVE ON TEMPLER DEPUTY
    120 5 MOVE ON TEMPLER DEPUTY KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. THE Government has Pub- lished the terms of the motion to be introduced at i the Federal Legislative Council this week, seeking approval to appoint a Deputy H.gn Commissioner The motion, which will be Introduced by the Acting Chief Secretary. Mr. D. C.
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    $300 BAIL
    37 5 KLUANG. Mon. Accused of illegally tappinp rubber trees belonging to the Government. Cha Chui Leone, of the resettlement camp at Rengam was allowed bail of $300 at Kluang. The case was postponed to Feb. 5.
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    Chief to be transferred
    44 5 TELUK ANSON, Mon.— The Territorial Chief Lower Perak, Raja Haji All bin Raja Haji Mahmud. will be going on transfer to Kuala Kangsar on Feb. 1. He will be succeeded by Raja Kechil Sulong. Raja Musa Ibni Sultan Abdul Aziz.
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    HOSPITAL BOARD
    57 5 KLUANO, Mon.— The following have been gaietted as visitors to the District Hospital: Ungku Malmunnah bint* Mansor. Inche Zarah binte Mansor, Inche Sa'adlah binte Hajl Adam, Mrs. Lim Chin Khean, Mrs. Cheong Soo Kheng. Pengulu Wan Embong bin Ibrahim, Mr. M. D. Samuel, Mr. S. M. Pillat, Inche
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    New system at Johore Bahru foils evaders
    285 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Monday. HPHE new system introduced at the Job ore Bahru 1 Customs Base for checking food-laden lorries arriving from Singapore has eliminated a traffic bottleneck and quickened the flow of foodstuffs into the Federation. Johore Customs officers say that since the
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    Blackout schedule
    224 5 Substations m Singapore lia'j' to load shedding today: DAY Alhambra. Raffles Hotel. A: Junied Road. Sims Avenue, Paya Lebar rumps, .100 Chial Place. Jalan Yasin, Jalan Eunos, Cam- bridge Road, Rangoon Road, Townner Road, Serangoon Road, Sennett I Estate, Kolam Ayer, McPherson Road, Kirn Chnan Road, Boundary. Florence
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    Motorist is killed by car fan
    68 5 Motorist is killed by car fan TELUK ANSON. Mon. MOTORIST was killed instantaneously when one of the blades of the fan m his car snapped off and pierced his lung. He was Mr. Suppiah, aged 46. a director of the Hup Soon Omnibus Company. Teluk Anson. When hi s accelerator
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    BROKE CURFEW
    48 5 KLUANG, Mbn.— A twenty-year-old female, Gan Lan Yong. who was found out-of-doors during curfew hours was fined $10, or four days' simple imprisonment. Gan said she wa s on her way home after tapping and did not know it was so late when she was arrested.
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    Work on $1-mil. school may start soon
    168 5 PENANG, Monday A FTER a delay of three years, work on St. Xavier's Institution's $1,000,000-school is expected to begin m March on the bombed site m Farquhar lis was announced by the tor. the Rev.- Brother tn, at the opening of the il's
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    NEW FORUM 'ON THE AIR' TONIGHT
    159 5 I ABOUR trade unionism and management will form the subject of the first Malayan Affairs Forum discussion over Radio Malaya tonight at 8.30 TTie Forum, under the cnairmanship of Professor E. H. G. Dobby. will consist tonight of the President of the Singapore TUC
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    DINING THEIR OLD CHIEF
    225 5 <£j |)OCTORS who served during the war under the Director-General .of Medical Services, Lieutenant-General Sir Neil Cantlie, now on a visit to Singapore, entertained him to dinner at the home of Professor G. A. Ransome, Professor of Medicine at the University or Malaya on Sunday night.
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    Million to learn of bandit fight
    236 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. DRINCESS Elizabeth, the Duke of Edinburgh and a million Ceylonese will learn about Malaya's fight against Communist banditry when they visit the Colombo Plan Exhibition next month. Forty-nine cases of heavy exhibits left on the Canton for Colombo last week. They
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    Donations to SATA
    97 5 Recent donations to S.A.T A. Fund include:- $1,452.55 Mr. S. H. Tan, (Marden Company Proceeds of "Esther" Cantata), $1,000. Mr. Chee Guan Chiang hvmemory of father (late Mr. Chee Swee Cheng), $1,000 Indersons Co: $500. Mr. J. A. Elias, $200. Nanyang Press. $169.87, Nationale Handelsbank. Singapore: $100,
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    JUMPED INTO RIVER WHEN 'BANDIT' CAME
    186 5 TELUK ANSON, Monday. 4 MALAY special constable told the Teluk Anson Sessions Court that when a man came up to his sampan at the Town Jetty and demanded his identity card he thought he was a bandit and jumped into the river. 1 M
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    Today's Radio SINGAPORE
    111 5 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 9 a.m. "Sweet and Sour": 9.30 "Pianists on Parade": 10 Emergency News from K.L.; 10.05 "Housewives' Choice"; 11 Andre Kostelanetz and His Orch; 11.3012 "Music from Hawaii"; 1 p.m. Light Music; 1.30 News; 1.45 Dance Music; 2 "Time For Music"; 2.30 Ray Ellington Quartette; 2.45 "Glsele", Canadian
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    Singapore Diary
    38 5 CHINESE VMCA, Selegie Road: Badminton 5 p.m.; basketball 5.30 p.m.: table-tennis 5.30 p.m.; free maths, class 7.30 p.m. SINGAPORE ART SOCIETY: Third Open Photographic Exhibition at British Council Centre, 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. admisson fre«
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    SPORE LABOUR PARTY-IMP MERGER MOVE
    280 5 SPORE LABOUR PARTY-IMP MERGER MOVE A RESOLUTION that the Labour Party af Singapore be merged with the Independence of Malaya Party will be moved at the annual conference of the party m Singapore next month. The resolution will be tabled by some of the veteran Labour leaders, who feel that
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    Women 'must serve to be equals'
    147 5 Women 'must serve to be equals' PENANG ,Mon. IF women wished to have equal status with men they must come forward and give public service, Mr. O. Veeriah, secretary of the Central Kedah Indian Association, said at yesterday's annual meeting He was commenting on the poor response to the association's
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    SPECIAL GAOLED
    27 5 KUANTAN, Tues.— Ja'afar bin Mohamed, a special constable, was sentenced to a year.'s imprisonment here for stealing 13 katis of scrap rubber from Jabor Estate.
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    LICENSING BOARD
    52 5 PORT DICKSON. Mon.— The following hav e been appointed to the Licensing Board m Port Dickson District for the year: The District Officer. Port Dickson (Chairman): Deputy Commissioner for Labour. Negri Sembllan (vice-chair-man); Health Officer, Negri Sembilan. Tunku Syed Ahmad. Dato Muda Linggl, Mr. F. Cunningham Towkav Khoo
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      65 5 Today is the anniversary of the day On which Sir Stamford Raffles first landed on Singapore island, said Professor C. N. Parkinson. Raffles Professor of History at the University of Malaya, broadcasting over Radio Malaya last night. JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The marriage took place at the bride's residence Endau, of
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., Jan. 29, 1952 Smallholders' Revolution
    976 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., Jan. 29, 1952 Smallholders' Revolution A "revolution" m the economic life of the rubber smallholder is planned m the rubber replanting bill which is to come before the Federal Legislative Council m March. The bill was published at the week-end. It sets up a replanting
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    EYE-OPENER
    148 6 AM a Chinese Buddhist, and until recently I felt that all followers of Buddhism were united In this spirit of brotherhood I and others of my race who are Buddhists have contributed many things m cash and kind towe.rds furthering the teachings of our Lord Buddha. My main interest
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    A banner for the Indians
    366 6 dN the eve of India's Independence Day (as I write), Mr. K. L. Devasar, the present head of the M.1.C., would do well to reflect a little and make a decision which would mean a lot to his community at a small personal sacrifice. In
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    GOOD LUCK TO THE I.L.P.
    98 6 Tyiß. S. S. Manyam has decided to start a new party called the Independent Labour Party. One section of the Singapore Press, despite claims to being "independent", has come out strongly m opposition to Mr. Manyam. As a truly impartial newspaper, however, lam sure you
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    THE JAPANESE ARE! READY TO REARM
    650 6 Their coastguard and police forces are ideal training grounds for officers, N.C.O.S and instructors of any new forces TOKYO. JAPAN approaches full independence with a coastguard service composed of more than 400 vessels totalling nearly 50,000 tons, a 75,000man police reserve organised like an
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      161 6 IT is heartening to see that the Government may 1 now revise the circular issued m 1949 which enabled Government servants to take part m politics. I too was a Government servant (1929-1941) and I was not permitted to say anything against the Government or the Rulers, or
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      THE MALAYAN HORSE
      114 6 YOUR correspondent J.8.m., himself anonymous, charges me with hiding behind my anonymity. I have used the pen-name of "Klyne Street" for over twenty years: my identity is known to the Government, to the Police and to anybody who chooses to find out. In particular it is known
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      Looking after the seamen's welfare
      123 6 I VERY much appreciate the opinion expressed by Mr. Asabmiah of the Pakistani Seamen's Union that the Government should establish welfare centres for the betterment of seamen m general and his countrymen m particular. Boarding house keepers, many of them Pakistanis, are reaping a fortune
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      Jeers at a meeting in Kuala Lumpur
      213 6 THERE was no doubt that Dato Onn was jeered and shouted at by th£ large crowd of about GOO people at the UMNO-M.C.A. election meeting at the Sultan Suleiman Club on January 15. There were also other remarks from the crowd which were
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      184 6 I CONGRATULATE you on your towgay leader on Saturday morning, which worthily upholds the tradition for integrity and Impartiality of the Straits Times. What you say will not make pleasant reading for some people, but you have quite rightly taken the stand that thp safeguarding of the
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      WEST COAST FERRIES
      134 6 riTRANSPORT m Malaya is 1 not as it could be The Emergency interferes with railway services and. to a lesser extent, with road transport. Floods play havoc m season But what is the excuse for the primitive ferry services for vehicles at Muar and Batu Pahat. on
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    'On the Margin
    441 6 'On the Margin Greetings rR some reason our Chinese friends always seem bo have a little smile to themselves when annually we wish them Kong Hee Fatt Choy. On the whole we incline to the opinion that the smile must be caused by our outlandish pronunciation, which Is apparently a
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    BAN LOTTERY, SAY WIVES
    323 7 'We suffer from losses 9 UNIONWILLBACK THEIR PLEA A PLEA to stop the sale of Malayan Chinese Association lottery tickets m Singapore was made yesterday by a cross-section of wives of Government and commercial clerks. They were backed by the Labour Party and the women's section
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    HE BRINGS A DUKE'S MESSAGE
    170 7 HE BRINGS A DUKE'S MESSAGE TIE Commis&ioner-in-Chlef of the St. John Ambulance Brigade. Lt.-Gen Sir Otto Lund, arrived m Singapore from Bombay yesterday even'nK 24 hours behind schedule. He travelled m one of four BOAC aircraft which were on Cairo airfield when It was attacked by Egyptian mob s last
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    NEW SESSION
    34 7 IPOH. Mon The fourth session of the Perak Council of State will eisd on Thursday and the first meeting of I the fifth session will be held I on Feb 20. I
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    Six pretty faces lured hint on
    111 7 Six pretty faces lured hint on A MARRIED man with a family told the Singapore Fourth Police Court magistrate, Mr. P. Clagiie. yesterday that be stole a box of six dolls from a parked car "because they looked so pretty." Koh Bee Tat, aged 24. was sentenced to one month's
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    TOWN BOARD MEMBERS
    100 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Members of the Pontian Town Board, for the year are: The District Officer. Pontian. president); Inche Abdul Aziz bin Ismail, (deputy president) First Assistant Collector of Land Revenue. Pontian; Health Officer. Johore South; Technical Assistant incharge. P.W.D.. Pontian; OCPD, Pontian, Inche Ibrahim bin Abu
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    Dragon Year fires
    86 7 BUTTERV'ORTH, Mon. SP A R X L L;R S thrown by children celebrating Chinese New Year are believed to have paused two fires m Butterworth, damaging property worth about $5,000. An attap house was completely burnt down at the New Ferry Road, behind Butterworth Convent, at noon
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    TWO TEACHERS TRANSFERRED
    41 7 KAJANG. Mon.— Mr Ma Loh Kah and Mrs. Yap Slew Fah. Kajang High School teachers, have left on transfer to Kuala Lumpur. Mr Ma is now attached to Batu Road School and Mrs Yap to Pasar Road School
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    INFORMATION MUST BE KEPT SECRET
    85 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. T'HE working committee of the MCA Selangor A branch will be told m advance of any resettlement move planned by the State War Executive Committee m future. This assurance was given by a representative of the Chinese Secretariat at a meetlne of
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    K.L. hospital facilities 'disgraceful'
    109 7 K.L. hospital facilities 'disgraceful' KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. FACILITIES at the General Hospital In Kuala Lumpur were disgraceful, Mr. K. V. Thaver. an IMP candidate m the Sentul Ward, said at a Kuala Lumpur election meeting. If a patient went «o the hospital at seven a.m. he would probably be attended
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    BODY FOUND
    24 7 TELUK ANSON. Mon.—Police have recovered the body I of an Indian labour ,VeerapaI tham, from the Bernam River I at Utan Melintang.-
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    A New Tear record for the future
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    FAMILY SNAPPED IN GARDENS
    92 7 (CHINESE New Year is a good time to take a photo of the family and the Botanic Gardens, m Singapore, possibly the best place, so let's group them, focus, set the self-timer, and then take my own place m the gap left for me a picture
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    Why Britain is alien—by Dato Onn
    85 7 Why Britain is alien— by Dato Onn KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. f)ATO ONN BIN J A/AFAR, chairman of the Independence of Malaya Party, was asked at an' election meeting here last night why he, as a member of the Government, had called the British Government "a foreign power." He said that
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    COMBINED 'Y' DANCE '
    63 7 COMBINED 'Y' DANCE A six-piece dance band will play at the V.M.C.A. Y.W. C.A. New Year dance and social at Raffles Quay on Friday at 7 p.m. Advance booking is urged as accommodation is limited, rhe charges are $8 per head Bookings should be made before Jan. 30 to Mrs
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    WIDOW DIES
    22 7 SEREMBAN, Mon.— Mrs. G Simpson, 58-year-old widow of a Seremban postmaster, died yesterday. She leaves three daughters and eight grand-children.
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    'Standing room only' in court
    171 7 'Standing room only' in court II >vas "standing room only* m the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday when nearly 100 people were charged with minor offences over the New Tear week-end. Th* Magistrate. Mr. Peter Clagae, fined 65 people a total of $475 when they pleaded guilty. Several other cases
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    Crowds came out when rain ended
    173 7 A HEAVY downpour m the morning temporarily dampened the Chinese New Year festivities yesterday but as the weather cleared m the afternoon, crowds of Chinese with new suits and bow ties, and attractive dresses and cheongsams resumed their traditional round of visiting. The Botanical
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    TENANTS MUST REGISTER
    63 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. The Emergency (Tenants Registration) Regulations have been made applicable to the re-settlement areas at the sth Mile, Batu Pahat Road; Kampong Paya; 2nd milestone. Jalan Mersing: Bth milestone. Jalan Mersing; Kahang, Chamek, Paloh, Sungei Sayong. Kampong Bukit Ptsang, Layang Layang, Rengara. 51st milestone, Johore
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    KAMALA CLUB SOCIAL
    17 7 The Kamala Club of Singapore will hold a social at 5 p.m. on Thursday.
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    ONN DENIES MALAYS WILL BE 'SWAMPED'
    408 7 ONN DENIES MALAYS WILL BE 'SWAMPED' KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. T»HE Malays would not be "swamped" even if tha franchise were widened and other races given more rights, Dato Onn bin Ja'afar, founder of the Independence of Malaya Party, said last night. He was speaking at a meeting held to introduce
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    NEW TAXI TRACK AT AIRPORT
    111 7 NEW TAXI TRACK AT AIRPORT •THE taxi track at Kallang •I airport is to be resurfaced. This will be the main development at the airport this year. It is estimated to cost $100,000. Work will begin m two or three months and will be finished about July. Government Is carrying
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    RENT BOARD NAMED
    51 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. The Rent Assessment Board. Batu Pahat. will be: the President Town Board, the Administrative Officer, the First Assistant Collector of Land Revenue. Tuan Syed Esa bin Alwee Onche A. Samad bin Puteh. Inche Mohamed bin Amran. Mr. Lee Thiam Chye and Mr Tan Peng
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    PASSES LEGAL EXAMINATION
    23 7 Mr. Peter Shal of Malacca, has passed the English Inns of Courj Hilary law examinations m Roman Law Class 111.
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    'FULL SPEED ASTERN'
    1147 8 DELMER puts MiumH in the position of Russian— i Soviet lnt.ll!£n« Officer writfn. for St.lin .nd hi, Politburo on the sit«t.on created b, new. of a junior Atom Bomb. "If I were in the Kremlin he *ays, "I would order Memorandum to the Deputy Chairman of the
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    'Painless' people
    122 8 THE eight-year-old Pool Dorset, girl who, it was disclosed m the British Medical Journal, broke a thigh and several bones m her ankles and feet without feeling pain has made medical history. There have not been more than ten such cases reported since 1900 and most of them
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    30 8 ■"he Swedish icc-skaiinc ft or, Maj Britt, rehearses a Spanish dance on the ice for her forthcoming show m London. She will perform on a portable rink only 15-feet square.
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    Anita & Armand at Raffles
    234 8 Anita Armand at Raffles talented dancing team, v with all the sparkling crispness and vivacity of their native Canada, are appearing at Raffles Hotel nightly to highly appreciative gatherings.— They are Anita and Armand. They have Deen dancing m England for the past two years, including London's Ciro Club and
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    Next Year's Air Race
    78 8 Entry forms are about to 'go out internationally for what promises to be the greatest competitive event i m the peacetime history of I aviation a 13,000 miles air I race from Britain to New Zealand planned for the summer of next year. Britain, it is
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    NOW ITS A RED WEED
    72 8 Russian weed has taken hold amid the sagebrush of America's rangelands and is becoming a threat to the nations meat supply. Even if some farmers think the whole thing is a Communist plot, the experts insist that the weed— known as halogeton reached American soil
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      284 8 24. Surprise (V. 25. Islands and one inhabitStraits Times Crossword n pings i 2) I ISHSa DOWN liSli i 2 3 5) i. Fine white linen doth (7). H*||s|| -;«S|; 2. "Still m thy right hand sil S§^ iH Hi HI carr y gentle peace to silence HI HI HI
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    35 9 i 1 JCt-.NKIKI'tA IAi.KI. IK-monita-old daughter of the .Marquess and Marchioness of Anglesey, is a keen pianist, although at present her enthusiasm outruns her techniqnr. In the picture, Lady Henrietta ffots pianissimo!— Paul Popper picture.
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    85 PER CENT OF H.K. BABIES ARTIFICALLY FED
    335 9 INQUIRIES made m Hong Kong as to the ace at which artificial feeding was started showed that out of 1,000 infants, 397 had been artificially fed from birth, 263 started when only a few days old, and 202 at about a week
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    Children's fund gets donations
    155 9 THE United Nations International Childern' s Emergency Fund announced that it has received a contribution of $50,000 from the Government of the Dominican Republic. This contribution was the fourth received on a pledge of $50,000 made to the Fund m 1948 by Dominican Republic, to be
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    Toilet Training In Young Babies
    687 9  -  Nurse Janet MOTHERCRAFT IN MALAYA By llllm IM— A MOTHER wrote rer cently asking why it was that when her baby was tiny she managed to train him to use his little pot, but now that he is ten months old although, he never wets
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    Siam gets UNICEF aid
    116 9 THE Siamese Government is paying more than 7004)00 ticals for a laboratory for its TB clinic. The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund will contribute all the US$l5,OOO worth of equipment for the laboratory and the World Health Organization will provide the technical experts. This is
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    How tall will your child be ?
    252 9  - How tall will your child be HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE. By IF you want to know how tall your child will be, science has a sure way of telling, beginning just before the teen years. The method wa s explained by Dr. Nancy Bayley, Dr. Alta Gordon and Edward Bowes of
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    500 Child Health Centres for Asia
    229 9 T»HE United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund centres and help m tensify the fight against !£ff c m*S scourges to Malaria: To increase the number protected from 1 MW.OOO to 5,000,000. BCG (vaccination against TB) To increase the number tested from 9,000,000 to 20,0004)00,
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    WEST INDIANS FIGHTING BACK IN TEST
    732 10  -  112 for 2, need 304 more runs JACK FINGLETON From (Exclusive to the Straits Times) SYDNEY, Monday THE West Indies have 1 winning the fifth Test close of play tonight, for tourists had scored 112 ru to win. This means they i Stollmeyer is
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    183 10 v IKXI.IA— Ist INNS: 111 \\.>l INOIKS— Ist INNS 78 \ii-ii.iluiis 2nd Inns M Diii.ild l> Kamadliin 62 Ihoms hit wkl. b Worrell 2* hMM Worn II b Valentine (4 (.uilleri b Worrell 8 Miller t W.-.ks b Valentine <• Hole b Worrell 62 I., i.juu b Worrell 19
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    Treloar, eyes on Helsinki, wins sprint
    114 10 BRISBANE, Mon Jl'reloar. Australia's sprint hope for the Olympic Games, ea.-ily won the 220-yard final today In view of the Australian athletic chaniptonahlpt nerie. Hs time of 21.5 sees.. though not his best, was considered good In view of the track and swelterIng heat.
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    29 10 TODAY: High 0051 (9.1) and 1212 1 10.7 1. Low 0615 (4ft.) and 1855 (I TOMORROW: 0122 (9.2) and 1258 1 10.6): 0654 (3.4) and 1931 (0.9)
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    Rovers call for members
    81 10 OOVERS Sports Club, one of the leading Singapore A.F.A. First Division soccer sides, are beginning the new sea.«on In earnest. To start with, a membership drive is being made nnd all former members have been issu»d with "renewal" application logins. Applications close on February 5. Thursday,
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    BAN ON SWISS GYMNASTS
    74 10 BERNE. Mon. Candidates for the Swiss team to compete m the gymnastic events of the Olympic Games at Helsinki this summer have been forbidden to appear at exhibition meets prior to the Games. The Swiss Gymnastic Federation satfl the Dan was Imposed because too frequent public
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    S.T.C. ELECTION COMMITTEE
    55 10 At the Singapore Turf Club annual general meeting on Friday, the following ten members were elected to the election committee: Messrs A. Donald. J. B. Myles, F. R. Atkinson. W. Gordon. V C Bath, J. A. D. Morrison. R. .Tjmabhoy, R. B. B. Donnel. E. L. Nathan
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    PULO BUKOM S.C.
    25 10 Any club or association wishing to play friendly soccer with the Pulo Bukom Sports Club should contact Chia Buck Phuang. hon secretary.
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    696 passes to stadium —proposal
    234 10 A COMMITTEE decision that the Singapore Amateur Football Association should be granted a total of 696 free passes for this year, for admission to Jalan Besar ataium for football matches arranged by SA.F.A.. will come up for confirmation at the monthly meeting of the City
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    QUEENSLAND TRAIL VICTORIA
    48 10 BRISBANE. Mon. Queensland, who were 65 behind on first innings, were 234 for seven wickets m their second innings at the close of the third day of their Sheffield Shield match with Victoria. Queensland made 220 m their first innings, Victoria replying with 285— Reuter.
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    Danes win in H.K.
    86 10 HONG KONG. Mon. The Danish soccer team. Akademisk Bokdklub. scored their second straight win here when they defeated a Hong Kong combined eleven by three goals to nil this afternoon before a crowd of about 9.000 At half time the Danes led 2-o.— Reuter 1 iriEAH
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    Kenyon century in big MCC total
    281 10 THE M.C.C., with breezy batting, declared at 441 for eight wickets m their match against Hyderabad today. Kenyon, m his best innings of the tour, was the star with a dashing century. At close of play Hyderabad scored 82 for three wickets for a
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    K.O. hockey nears final stages
    120 10 K.O. hockey nears final stages CINGAPORE Hockey Association's senior knockout tournament semi-finals will be decided on the padang today and tomorrow. The final will be played on Saturday. On the S.C.C. ground today, Cricket Club meet R.A.F. Changi. Umpires will be F. Milne and Cdr. Lawson. In the other semi-final,
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    Ki-Ming will run in L'shire
    161 10 LONDON, Mon FIRST big event of the flat racing season m Britain comes next week, seven weeks before the racing actually starts. It is the publication of the weights for the Lincolnshire handicap, first big race of the season to be run on the Knavesmlre
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    Sports Diary
    24 10 HOl Xl V Snr. K.O. tourney SCC v RAF (Chanel) at SCC Jnr. X.0.: RAF (Tenrah) v. Uni versit.T at Sepoy Unes.
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    SCOREBOARD
    111 10 HYDERABAD— Ist. INNS. !M MCC— lst. INNS. Lowson b Ghulam Ahmed 37 Spooner c Krishnamurthy 18 Graveney c Rao b Ghulam Ahmed 96 Kenyon c Bhoopathy b Nazir Ali Kha n 112 Poole c Rao b Nazir Ali Khan 79 Leadbeater not out 63 Brennan c b Ghulam Ahmed
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    Leach leaves a horseshoe behind
    192 10 LONDON, Monday. lyOKLI) table tennis champion, Johnny Leach, left London Airport today to defend his title m the world championships m Bombay without a lucky horseshoe and with no one to see him off. I As he boarded the plane together with other members of
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    38 10 "VJI SXMiERO. the S.C.C. goalkeeper, gets ready to clear as Kuip»'i aiiii Reynolds fall back to intercept an attack by Teachers Training C ullege m their S.H.A. knockout tournament inatcb on Sunday. S.C.C. w4n 2-1. Straits Times picture.
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    London Stocks
    269 11 LONDON, Mon. (X)MING statements from Commonwealth Finance Ministers cast a shadow today over the London Stock Exchange. Business was small. Closing middle prices of selected stock*, u supplied by special arrangement witb The Financial Times. wcr«: Ctinsals (1 Funding 4% »8J War 3t% Mi I! BANKS Chartered (£5)
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    Dredge company reports
    181 11 ITEPONO Dredging Company showed a net profit of £113.678 (84.2 per cent) after U.K. i profits tax for year to June 30, 1951. Three dividends of 9d, each, making 45 per cent m all. j were paid. Net liquid assets m balance sheet, £101,743, were equivalent to
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    LEDANG BAHRU'S 'MODEST TAXES'
    325 11 EDANG Bahru's gross earnings during the year v to July 31, 1951, were £207,525. Of these earnings, says the chairman, Sir Andrew McPadyean, "the British and Malayan authorities appropriate the modest proportion of 70 per cent, m duty and taxation and this m a year m
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    RAUB GOLD'S 'FREE' SALE
    131 11 RAUB Australian Gold Mining Company, m a circular to shareholders, announced that on Dec. 8, 1961, the company re- i ceived permission from the Federation Government to sell half of its gold production on the ree market m Malaya on certain conditions. A first sale at
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    TIN: $493⅜ A PICUL
    42 11 SINGAPORE, Fri., Jan. J5—5493 37 > 2 (up $8.37 H.) London: £1,000 a ton LONDON, Jan. 28.—Cash Bayers A: 1.000, Sellers X. 1,0024; Forward Buyers £997^, Sellers £998; Settlement 1.002 2 (down £2V4). TnrnjMrer: a.m. 90, p.m. 45 tons^
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    DEC. RUBBER
    38 11 jjWATT Company announce the following December rubber crops, m lb.: Brunei Utd. Plant 32,000 Changkat Serdang Est 38,6000 Chermang Develop. 136,000 Indragiri 59,411 Lunas Est. 79,600 Nyalas Est. 43,500 Rivervlew Est. 178 000 Tapah Est. *****3
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    P.D.-LUKUT EST. 1d. INTERIM
    40 11 nORT Dickson-Lukut (PMS) Rubber Estates director? have declared an Interim dividend of Id. per stock unit free of tax, payable on March 12 to stockholders on the register at the close of business on Jan. 30.
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    29 11 London rubber LONDON. Jan 28.—Spot 40' Ad., Mar. 4P'.d.. April 40V«d. AprJune 39\d., July-Sept. 38Wd.. Oct.-Dec. 37Ud.. Feb c.i.f. 40^d., Mar ci.f. 40d.. April cii. sgtfd. Market: Very quiet
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    Membakut Estates statement
    205 11 Membakut Estates statement ILfEMBAKUT Estates directors. In a statement referring to rumours of the possible sale of the property In North Borneo, report that no offers have been received. The directors are not anxious to sell the estate, but if any offer is submitted which is worthy ot consideration steps
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    CHAMEK EST. LIQUIDATION
    83 11 MUAR River Rubber Company directors announce that the Chamek Rubber Estate, of which the company holds five-eleventh of the capital, has gone into voluntary liquidation and that an Interim payment of £100.000 has been recelved.Krian Rubber Plantations Company, which holds two-elevenths of the capital, has received £40.000
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    SHIPPING IN SINGAPORE
    70 11 SHIPS alongside the Singapore Harbour Board godowns, or expected there by 7 a.m. today, are: 1-2 Bali, 4-5 Aagtekerk, Coal Plant Bir Hakelm, 6-7 Rajula, 8-9 Steel Ranger, 11 Begum, 13-14 Glenartney, 15-16 Marabank 18 Francisville, 19-20 TJmaxia. 23-24 E. Sang, 25-26 Lalandla, 27-28 Tasman, 29-30 Tantalus,
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    McGregor wins final
    199 12 ADELAIDE, Mon. FRANK Sedgman, unofficial world No. 1 lawn tennis player, was beaten by Wimbledon runnerup Ken McGregor m the final of the Australian national championships here today McGregor won 7-5, 12-10, 2-6, 6-2 Sedgman led 5-2 and looked to have the first set m the bag,
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    Scouts win tearaway Cup
    591 12 Rugby final RESULT WAS IN DOUBT TILL END S.A.S 9; S.E.R. 3. IT was a great and hard struggle and alter 1 60 minutes of crashing tackles and tearaway forward rushes, the Special Air Services Regiment beat the Singapore Engineer Regiment by nine points (a try,
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    Legalise the 'bookies'— Penang call
    329 12 PENANG. Mon. pENANG racing circles urged today that, iastead of losing one eye on illegal betting. Government snould race reality and recognise the need for legalised bookm A prominent racehorse owner »M ?hat legalised f «wkmrtlng tad the advantage or offering a :redit system. •It
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    NORTH HOCKEY XI Pk., S'gor men make up team
    297 12 NORTH HOCKEY XI Pk., S'gor men make up team IPOH, Mon. SIX players from Selangor and five from Perak will comprise the North Malayan hockey team to meet the South in the annual "classic" J to be played at Malacca on Saturday, Feb. 9. Seven of those selected will be
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    23 12 X U JACKSON, North Malayan golf champion, who will meet B. J. Newey of Malacca today m this year* final.— Straits Times picture.
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    SKINESKI WINS PAKISTAN TITLE
    52 12 LAHORE. Mon- Vladislav Skineeki, a Polish exile, won the Pakistan lawn tennis singles championship here yesterday when he beat Iftilcar Ahmad of Pakistan Ahmad retired at the end of the third set when he twisted an ankle. The score stood at 6-8. 6-1, 6-3 In Bklncski's
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    NEW SOCCER TOURNAMENI
    94 12 ZURICH, Mon.— The Grasshoppers Football Club of Zurich has launched a new internatiinal football competition for a cup to be awarded once every two years. Each of the European football clubs talcing part lr» the competition will play each of the others at bMM and away In
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    N.S. MALAYS WIN 'QUAD' TITLE
    200 12 SEREMBAN. Mon. WITH two wini. and a draw, Negri Sembilan Malays became champions m the Malays Inter-State Quadrangular hockey tournament between Pahang, Perak, Selangor and Negri Sembilan which concluded on the Seremban padang today. Midway m the second half of the match between Perak and
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    54 12 THE SELANGOR HOCKEY XI who boat P«-nan e 3-4 m a m "l l }L with an match m I»oh last Friday. Selangor wo n the c h a m^onship with an unbeaten record Other participating teams were Perak, Penamr and Pahan« p-no finished that order.— Straits Ttme» picture^ 1
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    Kamis beats Yon for first time
    613 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. HKAMIS of Singapore today scored his first success against Yon bin Mian of Johore m their fifth meeting m tournament play when Kamis won the open singles title m the All Malaya Malays tennis tournament by beating Yon 6—2,6 2, 6—3.6
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    SKATING RECORD
    53 12 OSLO. Mon: Hjalmar Anderson CNorway) European and world title holder broke his own world speed skating record for 10,000 metres durng the Norwegian championships at Gjoevik, Central Norway, yesterday. He covered the course m 16 minutes 51.4 seconds, clipping six seconds off his old record of 18 minutes
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    TWO MALAYAN TITLES TO PIRUZ
    448 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. ABDULLAH Piruz, the Selangor State badminton A champion, today annexed two titles in the first All-Malaya Malays badminton championships which was held at the Survey Hall, Kuala Lumpur, during the Chinese New Year holidays^ Piruz won the singles title and. partnering Che
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    Newey, Jackson in golf final
    762 12 IPOH, Monday. [X)RTY-one-year-old B. J. Newey of Malacca, a P comparative newcomer to the country, today «at George Halliday one up to enter the final of his year's North Malayan Golf Championship rhlch is being played at the Perak Turf Club Golf :iub. Newey will
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