The Straits Times, 10 February 1953

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    15 1 The Straits Times TWELVE PAGES Established 1845. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1953. if 15 CENTS
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    TEMPLER OPENS FLOOD FUND
    474 1 Malaya 's chance to help Britain STORMS CONTINUE KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. QENERAL SIR GERALD TEMPLER, the Hijjh Commissioner, today opened a Federation fund to he!p victims of the disastrous floods in Britain. It will he known as the High Commissioner's Flood Relief Fund. Over 100 people
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    THE NEW RADIO WEEKLY
    70 1 THE NEW RADIO WEEKLY TIJK .second i^u«- of thj bißger and brighter RADIO WF.KKLY will he on sale this week with its NEW FEATI RI S NEW STRIP CARTOONS FILL PROGRAMMES Last wrek's issue had a creat reception from the Malayan reading public. In somr areas, it was sold out
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    Guided missile ships 'ready'
    43 1 TOKYO, Mon. -Four United Elates Navy glided missile Fhips are nearly ready to join the Seventh Fle»t of? Korea and China ".should the war situation require their use." the American Far East Naval Forces headquarters here announced today. -U.P.
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    Their loyalty is lofty
    57 1 LONDON. Mon— Ten Britons, headed by Col. John Hunt. 42. will leave London in mid-February to climb the 29.002-foot Mount Everest as a gesture of loyalty to the Queen The mountain, the highest in the world, has never been scaled. The last unsuccessful expedition was by
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    WOMAN TAKE AN ISLAND
    67 1 Guerilla victory NEW YORK, Mon.— Chinese I Nationalist women guerillas captured an island off Uie coast of China's Chekiar.ls Province recently and held it i against a small Communist force, radio reports heie said. I Chekiang is south ol Shanghai. The reports, quoting Nationalist sources on
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    GIFT FROM INDIA
    47 1 TO THL ARCHIVES of the Singapore Government is now added another book the Constitution of India. Picture shows the Governor. Sir John Nicoll. receiving the bo«k from Mr M Gopala Menon. Indian Government Repr* sentalive in Malaya at a ceremony yesterday. Straits Times picture.
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    2 HOMES WORTH $110,000 CAVE IN
    235 1 2 HOMES WORTH $110 ,000 CAVE IN Deep drains are blamed PARTS of two new 555.000 bungalows in a residential area of Singapore fell in while workmen were finishing the buildings. A Straits Times reporter wh< visited the site yesterday found labourers re-laying the foundation of half of one bungalow.
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    Mercy trip for the sick seaman
    147 1 Mercy trip for the sick seaman PUNTER WUTTKE, a seaman VJ in the 11,197-ton tanker Windward Islands, on its way from Kobe. Japan, to the Persian Gulf port of Ras Tanura, fell ill yesterday. The ship was then hours away from Singapore, which it was to by-pass. But because Wuttke
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    JET FIGHTERS FOR FORMOSA
    27 1 FORMOSA. Mon.— The Chinese Nationalist Air Force here is to get a squadron of United States jet fighters soon, Nationalists said today. Reuter.
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    EDEN'S BANQUET
    29 1 LONDON, Mon Mr. Eden. British Foreign Secretary, will give a banquet to the diplomatic corps in London on June 5 as part of the Coronation celebrations. Reuter.
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    Boats collect flood victims
    26 1 HKTO workers in .small boats evaluate flood victims on Canvey Island in the Thames Estuary, one of the worst-hit areas in Britain.
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    Now all he needs is $20
    195 1 Now all he needs is $20 —WANDERER'S HELPING HAND AN adventurer yesterday answered a call for help from another adventurer. Verity Gill, a 19-year-old schoolboy of Singapore, read in the Sunday Times about Donald Edwin White. 16, who arrived in Singapore after hitch-hiking 12,000 miles across Europe and Asia. Donald
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    BACHELORS IN HUNGARY PAY SPECIAL TAX
    91 1 BUDAPEST, Mon. rE Hungarian Government has started a broad programme aimed at encouraging Hungarians to have more children. To help pay expenses, bachelors, spinsters and rhildless married couples were directed to pay a special tax four per cent, of their income. A decree outlining
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    GUNMEN RAID 2 HOMES
    360 1 $5,900 cash, gems stolen rpHE SPATE of robberies in Singapore continued yesterday, when $5,911 in cash and jewellery was taken by armed men in two raids. At about 9.30 a.m. a house in Cuff Road, at the junction of Serangoon and Kampong Kapor Roads, was raided
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    Police fire on gang
    59 1 PERAK AMBUSH KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.- -A police lieutenant and special constable escort were ambushed by six terrorists on the Sungei Siput-Rsis.t loadin Perak yesterday. The terrorists, armed with Tommy guns, rifles and shot guns, fled when police opened fire. Military reinforcements rushed to the scene, but
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    BACK TO LONDON
    18 1 LONDON, Mon.— The Queen ended her quiet country hoiiday today and returned to London.— Reuter.
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    WINSTON SAYS NO
    88 1 WINSTON SAYS NO Big 3 talks of no help LONDON, Mon. •THE Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill said today that he did not think a Big Three meeting with Stalin I would help the international 1 situation at the moment. Mr. Churchill made the statement in the House of Commons
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    KING GEORGE'S BIOGRAPHER
    32 1 LONDON, Mon.- -Mr. John Wheeler-Bennett, historical adviser to the Foreign Office, has been appointed by the Queen to write the official biography of her father, King George Vl— Reuter.
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    FLU KILLS 226
    24 1 MUNICH, Mon.— An influenza epidemic which has gripped South Germany for several weeks has now killed 226 people in Bavaria alone.
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    TRADE PACT
    13 1 JAKARTA, Mon— lndonesia has signed a trade agreement with Pakistan— UP.
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    FESTIVE MOOD
    18 1 A thief broke into a house in Duncarn Road yesterday and stole 12 bottles of whisky
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    4 MOY LANDING —Report
    23 1 4 MOY LANDING Report TOKYO, Mon. A widespread but unconfirmed rumour here tonight said Chinese Nationalists had landed at Amoy, Southern China— Reuter.
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    82 DROWN
    41 1 Sumatra floods THE HAGUE. Mon .—Fightytwo people were reported drowned and 32 missing in floods which inundated parts of North Sumatra, according to Indonesian news agency Aneta cables reaching here today. Damage is estimated at j 15,000,000 rupiahs— Reuter.
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    FIVE MORE REDS OUT OF ACTION
    108 1 Gurkhas bag 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon rREE more Communist terrorists have been killed by security forc<\ s and two others have surrendered. One member of the security forces has been killed. The 9th Platoon of the Ist Somerset Light Infantry killed om> of four
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    FAROUK AIDS FLOOD FOLK
    78 1 Party cancelled j ROME, Mon. Ex-King Farouk of Egypt announced today that he has cancelled his 33rd birthday party fixed for Wednesday— to have been his jbigsest reception since he was I dethroned- as "an act of solidarity" with the flood-stricken people of northern Europe. A
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    £250,000 GIFT
    18 1 WELLINGTON. Mon.— The New Zealand Government will give £250.000 for flood relief 'in Britain and Holland.
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      744 2 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS nrc invited for the post of Health Education Officer In the Health Department, Singapore. Candidates must hold :in Honmirs Decree, preferably In Biolocy and should be willing to proceed overseas for further tralnin if required. A Diploma In Eduration or Social Studies would be of advantage. Appointment
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      1904 2 COMPANY MEETINGS MALAYAN TIN DREDGING AND SOUTHERN MALAYAN TIN DREDGING NEED FOR ACTIVE PROSPECTING MR. ERNEST V. PEARCE ON THREAT OF REDUCED PRODUCTION Th* .iriinnrnpd annual crenerdl i vlth that ininuttous tax *'Etc*s' meetings of the Malayan Tin Dredging. Ltd., and Southern Malayan Tin Dredging, Ltd., were held on January
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      724 2 TENDERS TENDER NOTICE SALE OF BRASS INGOTS. TENDERS will be received up to noon of 20th February, 1953, at the office of the Director of Public Works. Maxwell Road. Kuala Lumpur, lor the purchase of 1671 Brass Ingots (approx. 41.218 lbs). Tender forms etc. may be obtained from the undersigned
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      379 2 NOTICES KUALA LUMPUR MUNICIPALITY LAKE GARDENS CANTEEN Applications are Invited for the lease of premises in the open air canteen to be erected by the Kuala Lumpur Municipality In the Lake Gardens, Kuala Lumpur. Tender forms may be obtained from the undersigned upon payment of a deposit of $100. This
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      395 2 NOTICES SINGAPORE MUNICIPAL 41^ DEBENTURE STOCK 1930/70-80. SINGAPORE CITY COUNCIL 5% DEBENTURE STOCK 1952/62-72. NOTICE Is hereby given that the Transfer Books of the above Slocks will be closed from 14th February. 1953 to Ist March, 1953, bo:h days Inclusive, for the pro- paration of Interest Warrants In j respect
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    END THIS RIVALRY, SAYS DULLES
    196 3 You've been divided too long, he tells Europe LUXEMBOURG, Monday. MR. JOHN FOSTER DULLES, U.S. Secretary of State, yesterday called on European nations to end their "historic rivalry" and establish the foundations of a broader and deeper community "among people who have been divided too
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    What Mr Tan Kah Kee says about it
    120 3 What Mr Tan Kah Kee says about it HONG KONG, Mon. rpAN Kah Kee, former Singanoiv millionaire, told the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference In Peking that the so-called commando raids to be launched by Chiang Kai Shek would not amount to anything, but would only harass China's coastal region.
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    BEVAN FLIES OFF TO INDIA
    56 3 LONDON. Mon.— Mr. Aneurin Bevan. Britain's leading leftwlnser. left here by air last night fcr Calcutta to fulfil a long-standins: official invitation to visit India. At the airport, Mr. Bey.m j said he would also go to Pakistan and Burma and would see political leaders
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    New pledge on Malan's race laws
    268 3 BATTLE OVER 'DESPOTIC POWER' CAPETOWN, Mon. SOUTH Africa's Torch Commando Organisation nearly 250,000 strong pledged to bring down Dr. Daniel Malan's Nationalist administration. announced today that it would organise mass protests if the government rejected safeguard amendments for its new anti-defiance Public Safety I
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    RUBBER TOPS LIST
    80 3 LONDON. Mon. BRITAIN maintained a sizeable trade with Russia and the East European satellites throughout 1952. with rubber as the chief export Item, official figures disclosed today. A Board of Trade survey of overseas trade showed that between January and November of 1952 Britain's total trade w
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    33 YEARS MORE France's defence hope
    66 3 33 YEARS MORE France 's defence hope PARIS, Mon.— France will ask Britain to extend to 50 years her guarantee to come to the military aid of any member of the European Defence Community which is attacked. The guarantee of military aid given by Britain to the European defence nations
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    22 3 SIR BERNARD DOCKER, millionaire and head of the B.S.A. engineering Arm, who has been charged with offences under the Exchange Control Act.
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    Big hunt for manager's Mail Mau killers
    148 3 NAIROBI. Monday. IT'ENYA'S Assistant Commissioner of Police is'direct- ing the hunt today for Mau Man terrorists who slashed a British farm manager to death, gravely injured his African servant and slightly wounded a British woman on Saturday night. Police, using trained docs and
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    TWO WIN THE M.C.
    59 3 Raided outpost SEOUL. Mon. rpHE FIRST British CommonA wealth Division announced today that the Military Cross had been awarded to two officers of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment. They are Lieut. Rodney and 2 Lt. Patrick lan Orr. They were awarded for destroying enemy fortifications on
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    French plan for Vietnam
    72 3 SAIGON. Mon. FRANCE has tentatively acF cepted a master plan for a Vietnam Army build-up allowing mass withdrawal of her troops from Indo-China by 1956-58, it was disclosed in Saigon by the Vietnam Chief of Staff, Gen. Nguyen Van Hinh. Creation of "several dozen" light battalions
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    Crash kills six
    33 3 BUENOS AIRES, Mon.— Six people were killed and 14 injured when a crowded bus was involved in a collision with a lorry. 75 miles south of Buenos Aires yesterday. Reuter.
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    Beauty's visit
    21 3 BANGKOK. Mon.—Preparations are being made for "Miss Slam. 1952." (Miss Nangsao Thong-ural) to visr. the Siamese Force in Korea.—
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    MINISTER SACKED
    21 3 LONDON. Mon.— The Hungarian Minister of Justice. Gyula Decsl, has been relieved of his post. He is a Jew.Reuter.
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    Persia going dry.
    37 3 Persia going dry TEHERAN. Monday rpHE Persian Majlis (Lower House > today unanimously 1 passed the third reading of a Bill seeking to prevent the manufacture. Import, sale or consumption of alcoholic drinks and opium In Persia Reuter.
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    45 3 'Kiss Corner' IT GETS all the kisses. It is iv a corner of the Jack Of Clubs club in Mayfair, London. Celebrities who visit the club sign their name on the wall and then kiss itActress Joan Rice here viakes her contribution to "Kiss Corner."
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    WARNING TO IKE ON BLOCKADE MOVE
    286 3 U.S. will have to 'do it alone 9 LONDON. Monday. FI'RTHER moves by President Eisenhower apainst Communist China might isolate the United States in the Far East and strain her European alliance. British Socialists warned that America would have to "go it alone" in
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    KASHMIR ROW 'MOST DANGEROUS'
    117 3 JERUSALEM. Monday. T\R. Ralph Bunche, head of the United Nations 17 Trusteeship Council, said yesterday the PakistanIndian dispute over Kashmir was "potentially the most dangerous in the world." Dr. Bunche stopped here on his way back to the United Nations Headquarters in New York after a
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    LONDON STOCKS
    295 3 Market quiet LONDON. Mon. THE London Stock Market was generally quiet, with Interest confined to a few specialities. The markets opened with a firm undertone but. with no significant news to stimulate interest, became subi!ued. There was slight dullness among Government securities, with some lt.riß-dated issues l/16th lower.
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    LONDON TIN PRICE
    26 3 LONDON. Feb. 9. Cash Buyers €973: Sellers £975; Forward Buyers €944: Sellers 1945; Settlement COBO (up LI). Turnover a.m. 85 ton*; pin 10
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    U.K. RUBBER
    36 3 LONDON. Feb. 9. Spot 22 \d March 22 Hd Apr.- June 22 *„d., July-Sept. 22 I ;d.. Oct. -Dec. 225 d., Feb. elf. 22« d Mar. cai. 22'ud.. April el.f. 22 ..d. Market: Easier
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    English win
    34 3 COPENHAGEN, Mon— Four thousand people saw an English amateur dancing team last night beat a Danish amateur team. The dances were the waltz, slow foxtrot, Vienese waltz. tango and quick steo. Reuter.
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    Shipping boss dead
    32 3 LONDON. Mon.— Sir Francis Vernon Thomson, chairman and manasing director of the Union Castle Mail Steamship Company, died hero yesterday —on the cv c of his seventysecond birthday.— Reuter.
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    Trade fall
    19 3 TOKYO. Mon. Japan's trade with South-East Asia fell by 30 per cent last year from 1951.— U.P.
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    UMNO-MCA man wins by-election
    93 4 MALACCA, Mon. IrNCHE Tamby bin Abdullah 1 became the first Malay of the MCA-UMNO alliance to be a municipal councillor when he was returned unopposed today. When the nominations for Malacca's first by-election for the Tranquerah Ward closed at noon tcday, his was the only one
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    For toothache, he tells court
    51 4 Charged with possession of opium. Lee Ah Teck yesterday told a Singapore magistrate that he vied it not for smoking but to cure a toothache. Mr J. B. Jeyaratnam. the Fourth Police Court magistrate, allowed Lee $250 bail. The case will be heard en May
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    4 found in opium dens, court told
    59 4 Four men, Wong Yew Wah. Wong Chan. Lam Tai and Aw Su Hawn laced a charge in the Singapore Fourth Police Court of frequenting houses used for smoking opium. It was alleged that Aw was found in an opium den in Clyde Terrace
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    GOVT. IS TOLD: 'END THIS MUSICAL CHAIRS GAME'
    364 4 Seven police chiefs in seven years PENANG, Monday. THE chairman of the Penang Chamber of Commerce, Mr. H. B. van Praagh, today demanded an end to the "game of musical I chairs" under which departmental heads and other officers are transferred from
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    Yvonne is aft an sang tour
    42 4 Yvonne is aft an sang tour MISS YVONNE CHANG, Shanghai-born singer, will open her tour in Malaya with a programme of English, Mandarin and Malay songs in Kota Bahru. Mm Chang was entertained to dinner at the Cathay Restaurant on Sunday night.
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    No national plan yet for schools
    35 4 PENANG. Mon.— The Penang Government has not yet made any plans for converting existing schools to national schools. Mrs. Cheah Inn Kiong was told in the Settelment Council today.
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    HE WOULDN'T LET TAXI PASS, COURT TOLD
    251 4 Man on negligent driving charge HO TIONG HWEE was alleged in the Singapore First Traffic Police Court yesterday to have thwarted four attempts by a taxi to overtake his car and made the taxi follow him from the 7th milestone Pasir Panjang Road
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    ACCUSED OF ROBBERY
    45 4 Noordin bin Mansoon was yesterday charged In the Singapore Third Police Court with robbing a woman, Low Chooi Lian. of a bag containing $6 at LJm Ah Woo Road on Sunday night. Mr. Choor Singh. the magistrate, postponed the case till tomorrow.
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    MAN WHO CAME BACK
    125 4 Magistrate remembered him WHEN Abdul Gaffar, 35, a bread and coffee setlor, w»s cautioned and discharged In the Singapore F'fth Police Court last Friday for obstructing the pavement of St. Andrew's Ro.-.d, the magistrate. Mr. D. h. Chapman told him: "You are discharged this time but
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    HELP US IN STRIKE —UNION
    136 4 HELP US IN STRIKE —UNION Fund appeal in Singapore THE SINGAPORE Harbour Board S'.aff Association yesterday appealed to all trade unions In the Colony for strike fund donations. The association has threatened to strike on Monday. It will hold a meeting of its 150 volunteer pickets today to give instructions.
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    Faces I-card charge
    78 4 Mohammed Yusuf bin Mohammed Yasin was given the 'necessary papers to obtain a Singapore indentity card but he did not bother to do so, the Criminal District Judge, Mr. H. A. Forrer, was told yesterday. Yusuf, a Malacca man, was i charged with failing to register for
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    Threatened employee with gun
    95 4 Threatened employee with gun KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. rpHE PART-OWNER of a A Chinese tin mine, Scow Mm 47, threatened to sboot an employee asking for his wages, the Sessions Court, was told today. Scow pleaded guilty to charges of threatening grievous hurt to Wong Chong with a revolver and behaving
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    Youth, 18, on pistol charge
    59 4 An 18-year-old youth, Llm Buck Sing, was charged in the Singapore Fifth Police Court yesterday with possession of a "three-cornered dagger" and a .38 revolver, both unlicensed. He was arrested on Sunday night when police raided an attap hut off Mohamed Sultan Road. Lim was
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    356,538 CITIZENS
    24 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Federal citizenship certificates, issued up to December last year, totalled 356,538, it was officially stated in Kuala Lumpur today.
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      107 4 1-CU.IC t BA.NU: r«Mtl pe7iurmance at K .m Kate ilOjim to 630 p m MN«.\POKt si AMP tLIB: Social Imeci.iiif ai Saack.e Ciuo buiidtne Bncb Road bli pra MNt.APOKI ART slJtltrV: Fourth annual txi.ib:l:on or Pnotogriipi)» at Br:ti*h Council Ha;.. Siam/ord Roid »m to 030 p.m n Kill KLLAno.NS UkUCt.i
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    'MOUTHPIECES' FOR WORKERS
    221 5 Complaints can be made through estate councils KUALA LUMPUR. Monday. YEW "mouthpieces" to voice the grievances of 320,000 plantation workers in the Federation are being considered by the Labour Advisory Board, trade unions and employers. There is at present no medium at plantation level through which workers
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    'L'DRIVER FINED
    53 5 'L' DRIVER FINED Sin Yeow, a learner-driver, was lined SliO In K yesterday for driving ::i" an Inconsiderate mai uer at Bukit Pasnh Rd id Sin id.su pleaded -unity to failinn to display an L-plate and to not being acci ed by a lie< run d drl 1 was fined
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    Cheque was returned
    73 5 Twenty-six-year old Song Mian Tong. alias C.C. Tong, I gave a cheque for $235 for a 1 vrrlstwatch on Jan. 17. but the chtque was returned to the' dealer, marked "refer to i drawer." Inspector A. D Jacoba told the Singapore Filth Police Court magistrate yesterday. Sons
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    New clubhouse and hostel
    36 5 IPOH. Mon.— A building permit has been given to the V M C.A. for the construction of their new hoste] and clubhouse in the Coronation Park area, estimated to cost abou: $250,000.
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    Farmer, 70, is gaoled
    84 5 BENTONG, Mon.— A 70--yrar-old farmer, Chan Yuen, of Bukit Tinggl, Pahang, was sentenced t two year* imprisonment when be pleaded guilty In the Bentong Sessions court to having two tins of milk "reasonably presumed to be fur the use of terrorists." Chan was stated tc have
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    HAPPY IN THE NEW VILLAGE
    188 5 HAPPY IN THE NEW VILLAGE ABOUT 100 Chinese and Malay squatter families who were reluctant to Ceave their homes in Kampong Chantt'k. Singapore, a year :\u,o, said yesterday: 'Thank God we were evicted." They are happy be.-ause they are nuw leading a peaceful life on the slopes of a hill
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    TB PATIENT'S SUICIDE
    67 5 Wee Juet Lam. 44. a tuberculosis patient, who had tolri her husband several times that .she would one day end her life because she could not bear I suffering, was found hanging in her room at the Hylam Hospital, Jalan Ampas. Singapore, at dawn on Jan. 12.
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    Chinese New Year posts
    88 5 The General Post Office in Singapore will be open from 8.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. during the Chinese New Year holidays on Feb. 14 and Feb. 16. Other post office and postal agencies will be open from 9 a.m. to 10 30 a.m. There will be
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    CAMERA TALK
    34 5 Mr. W. J. Davis, of Kodak, Ltd.. will give a talk on "Kodachrome Characteristics and Use" to the Singapore Camera Club at 8.30 p.m. on Feb 11 at 57, Pheng Geek Avenue.
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    WELFARE PLAN FOR PATIENTS
    186 5 Dr. Vickers gives 'go ahead' signal f\XE of last week's volunteer workers at the Singapore Woodbridge Mental Hospital. Mr. C. O. L. Salvesen, has been given the "go ahead" signal by Or. W. J. Vickers, Director of Medical Services, with his plan to form a welfare
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    Only half the instructors are active
    198 5 LESS than half of the Singapore Civil Defence Corps volunteers who took an instructors' course at the Kolam Ayer civil defence school are now fully active as instructors, the Commissioner for Civil Defence, Col. L. T Firbank, told a press conference yesterday. Some were
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    SULTAN'S VISIT
    20 5 KUAN T A N, Mon.— The Sultan of Pahang visited the police circle headquarters, at Kuantan on Saturday.
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    M.C.A'ssl-m. HOUSING SCHEME
    75 5 KUALA LI'MPUR. Monday. rpHE Finance Committee of the Malayan Chinese AssociaI tion has approved in principle a M -million scheme to finance housing iif Selanicor's satellite town in Petaling, the Straits Times was told today. The scheme provides for the construction of blocks of houses to be
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    DEATH
    26 6 MY LIM KOK GEK, beloved husband of Sim Moey Eng and beloved father of Llm Buck Thow, died at General HospltaJ on Feb. 7th. 1953.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., Feb. 10, 1953. The War In Indo-China
    640 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., Feb. 10, 1953. The War In Indo-China The war on Malaya's doorstep, the struggle in IndoChina, commands less attention than it deserves in a world concerned with more spectacular news about Korea and Formosa. Recent developments, however, though they have ir. no sense indicated a
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    Keeping It Dark
    354 6 Malaya's delegates to the International Rubber Study Group's rubber buffer stock meeting are not being very communicative The working party appointed by the I.R.S.G. has discussed the question of a buffer stock to prevent burdensome surpluses of rubber or serious shortages, and has reached an undivulged measure
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    Citizens By Law
    269 6 A Federation correspondent raises a point in citizenship law i which apparently has exercised many Federation citizens. He asks whether a person who is a citizen by operation of law need produce on every occasion, or indeed on any occasion, a citi- zenship certificate to prove his
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      M.C.A. lotteries
      278 6 AT long last the truth of the M.C.A. has been told; this time not by ordinary men-in-the-street. not by Jealous opponents, not even by angry but welldisciplined M.C.A. members, but, strange as it may seem, by the heads of this association. A couple of months ago, when I
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      EXAMPLE OF SERVICE
      153 6 I WOULD like to express my admiration of Colonel A. E. Young the Federations Commissioner of Police, for making herculean efforts to instil courtesy and a spirit of helpfulness into the rank and L of the Police Force, especially at a time when the campaign to oust
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      SIR SYDNEY'S WORD
      114 6 YOU were good enough to publish my query whether there was any bias in favour of Malays for entrance into the University of Malaya, and it was very reassuring to read Sir Sydney Caine's statement that such fears are without foundation. There still does exist, however, considerable
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      REJECTED BY THE UNIVERSITY
      420 6 REJECTED BY THE UNIVERSITY WHILE the controversy regarding the creation of a Chinese university is going on, I would like to give my own case. I passed the highest standard in a secondary Tamil school and was given a scholarship, after much correspondence between the Labour Officer and the Education
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      6 6 Photograph by Freddy Ocy CLOSE-HAULED EQUILIBRIUM
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    From K.L. to T.V. stardom
    666 6 ktflS 4*4 LONDON. A GIRL born in Kuala Lumpur about 20 years ago has roused the enthusiasm of British television critics. Slit is Iris Russell, of the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre, whose parents now live at North Berwick, in south-east Scotland The performance which earned widespread
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    A CHAOS OF COLONY BICYCLES
    539 6 A CHAOS OF COLONY BICYCLES I NOTICED with inter- st that, at a recent meeting of the Legislative Council. Mr. H. J. C. Kulasingha, Progressive Party member for Bukit Timah, pleaded tor Dlcycle parks in the Colony. He received the reply that "the suggestion was worth following up." It may
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    On the Margin
    529 6 Foaming charger IT does Indeed seem a pity that, when Her Majesty is crowned. Captain John r>ymoke, Queens Champion, will not ride into Westminster Hall on a foaminn; charger, dressed rap-a-pic in armour, to cast down a mailed gauntlet and challenge to mortal combat any temerarious enough
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    MASS SACKING FEAR AMONG CLERKS
    184 7 Many temporary workers now seek permanent Government jobs SINGAPORE Government temporary clerks feel that a circular sent to all departmental heads last week may result in mass sackings. Section chiefs have to report to the Colony Establishment Officer within 10 days the effect of labour
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    MEMS SAID 'NO'
    183 7 kSo an Army irifv tosvtt her Job as slufft m itnliHv modd HI NDRKDs of telephone calls to a Raffles Place departmental store yesterday resulted in Mrs. Rusty Snelson (above) losing her job. The tuans and mems of Singapore objected to her being stared at by passersby
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    Refloated half of dock for Britain
    149 7 Refloated half of dock for Britain HALF of Singapore's 24.750--ton floating dork, which has been lying in the Johore Strait s;ncc just before the end of the war. has born refloated :ind made seaworthy. An Admiralty boom defeniv and salvage officer, Mr. R. T Brammall. who supervised the raising operations
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    PERAK PLAYING FIELDS' ASSN.
    46 7 TPOH, Mon.- first annual general m etirg of the Perak Playing Fields* Association will be held in the committee room. Kinta Town Board, on Sunday. Feb. 22. President of the association Ls Mr J. M. Brander. Mr. Bulfcan Singh la hon. secretary.
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    DEATH
    56 7 TAN CHOW KIM ;i«ed 70. passed ftwaj p— Ctflllly en lib. 9tli at 131 Moulmein Road, leaving behind beloved wife, three son? Ounn Hens. Guan Kiat pnd Gnan Hong four daughters, two daughters-in-law, four fnns-ln-law. 23 Grandchildren «nd risht grandchildren to mourn bfe torn. Funeral on Feb. 13 at
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    S'PORE CARGO RECORD
    39 7 The Singapore Harbour Board hancilea a record of 5.655.123 tons o* cargo during thr year enainr Jund 30. 1952. This was an increase of 14.3 I per cent t*t the previous '•ears tor.. of 4.947.272 tons.
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    3 more trade unions in S'pore
    55 7 Three new trade unions were registered in Singapore durin? January. They were the Singapore City Council Workers Union, the Singapore Army Labour Union and the Singapore Pub- lie House Owners' Association. There were 171 registered trade unions with a total membership of 69.330 at
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    Fund H.Q. will be efficiency guinea-pig
    172 7 Fund H.Q. will be efficiency guinea-pig KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. T^HE six-m on t h -old A Employees' Provident Fund headquarters in Kuala Lumpur is to be transformed into a model office early next year as part of the Organisation and Methods Division pro-i gramme to streamline and improve Government efficiency.
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    Trial claim on gold charge
    104 7 Wong Yee Ha. a 39-year-old woman, claimed trial "in the Singapore First Criminal District Court yesterday to Importing two and a half pounds of gold into the Colony, without a permit, on Saturday last. Her suitcase, in which Customs officers at Kallang airport were alleged
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    HE STOLE BICYCLE
    65 7 Pleading guilty in the Singapore Fifth Police Court yesterday to stealing a bicycle from the five-footway of "the Oversea Union Bank in Raffles Place on Jan. 7 a former coffee merchant, Koh Cheng Hoo, 36. told the Magistrate Mr. D H. Chapman, that h<was ill that .lay
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    He'll train to be air line pilot
    124 7 FIRST MALAYAN ON THE COURSE MR ONG TONG BEE, 26, will be the first Malayan to do a full commercial pilot's course at the Air Service Training School in Southampton, England. His father, Dr. Ong Slow Hian, a Singapore doctor and company director,
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    Cambridge results in a fortnight
    90 7 Cambridge results in a fortnight KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. CINCE last week, hundreds of boys and girls in the Federation have telephoned newspaper offices, each with the same nervous inquiry: "Have the results arrived?" Today, Mr. P. S. Halg, the Examinations Secretary, told the Straits Times: "The Senior Cambridge results are
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    Sailor drove a bus
    106 7 r)AVID J. Hentschel, 22. of H.M.S. Lysander, was yesterday fined a total of $500 and banned from driving for a year by the Singapore First Traffic Magistrate. Mr. R. C Hoffman. He pleaded guilty to four charges driving a SingaporeMalacca express bus without lawful consent, driving
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    Acquitted on opium charge
    71 7 A young married woman, Ang Chwee Hoon. wa s yesterday acquitted by Mr. J. F. McWilliam. the Singapore Second Police Magistrate, on a charge of possession of opium. When police raided her place at Chin Swee Road on Sept. 23 last year, they found a tin
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    THEY'RE BRITISH SUBJECTS NOW
    94 7 Naturalisation certificates have been granted to 26 more people. They are Lv Pao Kung, Wong 'Cheong Po. Goh Kirn Chee. Jacob Manasseh, Wong Chai Lung, Goh Chee Him, Kwek Boon Tong, Quek Seng Boon T.o Siong 800, Lai Ting Yong, Ng Thuang Kiat, Hasan Soleiman. Leow
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    INJURED MAN LAY IN WRECK
    117 7 INJURED MAN LAY IN WRECK KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A EUROPEAN. MR. W. J. R. COX was badly injured when his car crashed into a steel telegraph pole on Ampang Road. Kuala Lumpur, last night. It was the fifteenth accident on that road this year. Bleeding profusly from deep wounds in
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    He behaved like a madman'
    130 7 He behaved like a madman' TAN Chin Soon, a Singapore Harbour Board labourer, was yesterday fined $110, In default three weeks' imprisonment, by the Singapore Second Polic? Magistrate. Mr. J. F. McWillivn, who found him guilty on two charges of disorderly conauct and possession of a chopper with intent to
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    Decree nisi granted
    63 7 Mr. Justice Brown l n the Singapore High Court yesterday granted a decree nisi to Mrs. Islay M. V.Vld, dissolving her marriage w jih Mr. Ronald S. Wild on the ground of his adultery. The decree nis! is to be made absolute in six months. The partie
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    STUDYOFFED. SCHOOLS PLAN
    45 7 The Federation Government's scheme for national schools will be studied by the Advisory Committee on Chine.se Education which wa.s set up by Singapore Government last year. The committee has so far met twice to dLscuss the problems facing Chinese schools in general.
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    TRADER HAD NO PRICE TAGS
    47 7 For failing to display price tags on food stuffs offered for sale. E. Shaikdawood, proprietor of a provision store In Geylan<r Road, Singapore, was fined $45 or three weeks' imprisonment by the Singapore Fourth Police Court magistrate, Mr. J. B. Jeyaratnam, yesterday.
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    Home nursing course for girls
    57 7 A free home nursing course for girls above 16 will be held at St. Johns Ambulance Brigade Headquarters. Stamford Road Singapore, on Feb. 22 at 4 p m Girls can enrol at the headquarters on week days or at Gan Eng Senc School. Anson Road,
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    ATTACKED IN CAR WITH FRIEND
    177 7 lOH HO CHWEE yesterday told a Singapore court that while driving a car along Tiong Poh Road with a friend, on the night of Oct. 30. they were assaulted by some Indians who surrounded their car Another man. Aw Choon Hunt who tried to help
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    Main University income is from Govt.
    187 7 IPOH, Mon. THE total annual expenditure of the University of Malaya now totalled 54.500.000. Interest from endownment funds and investments l.r .v lit in 5250.000 and fees another 5J50.000. The remainder of more than $4.--000.000 r.i mr from Government grants. This was disclosed this
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    WIDOW SUES FIRM
    157 7 Man killed by AN ACTION for damages for the death of Mr. Peter Tay, a former Assize clerk of i the Singapore High Court Registry, in a bus accident was broughl by his widow,: I bus, court told Madam Phyllis Hieng Swee Neo, and his six child
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    PENANG SHOULD BF AT CROWNING, NOT ONLY PARADE
    258 7 PENANG. Monday. F WOULD BE undignified for representatives from Penang to watch the Coronation only along the route and not in Westminster Abbey, said Mrs. Cheah Inn Kiong in the Settlement Council today. She was speaking on a motion by the Legal
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    Boy, 16, drove mother's car
    71 7 Nr Kian Fong, 16. a student, was driving his mother's car in Kampons; Ayer Germuroh Road. Singapore, on Oct. 18 when he was stopped by a radio patrol In the Singapore Second Traffic Police Court yesterday Ng pleaded guiLty tc driving while he wa:, under
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    Sir Gerald sends his 4 best wishes'
    114 7 Sir Gerald sends his 4 best wishes' KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. THE Sixth Battalion of the Malay Regiment, which recently completed operational training, today received a special message from the High Commissioner, Gen. Sir Gerald Templer. "I am very clad to know that you are now ready to take your part
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    KUANTAN M.Y.F. OFFICIALS
    69 7 The Kuantan Methodist Yuiith Fellowship elected tnt following oflice-bearers for 1953: President: Mr. Tan Kirn Yip: vice-president: Miss Yeow Poh Clno; secretary: Mr. Lim Hong Ha treasurer: Mr Foo Boon Loke. Commission chairmen: Mr. E A. R. Murthy (Worship and Evangelism); Mr. Cheong Ah Chye (World Friendship);
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    REDS BOMBED
    17 7 Linen ana Hornet aircraft from RAF Tengah bombed a terrorist camp at Kuala Krau yesterday.
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    Dinner at building site
    72 7 fTHE foundation site of the new 18-storey Asia Insurance skyscraper at Finlayson (i recn in Singapore, which is still under construction, was the scene of a dinner party last night. More than 200 people, including all the labourers who had helped to complete the foundation, were
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      87 7 The Weather WEATHER statistics throughout Malaya yesterday were: Minimum temperature: 7.30 p.m en Feb. 8 to 7.30 a.m. on Feb. 9i: Singapore (75 degrees), Penang <74>, Kota Bahru (71), Kuala Lumpur <70>, Ipoh 1 67 1, Kuantan (69). Maximum temperature: 7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on Feb. 9i: Singapore (89
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    FUTURE OF RUBBER WILL BE DECIDED AT COPENHAGEN
    365 8 Talks on draft buffer stock plan KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. THE FUTURE of natural rubber would be decided at the International Rubber Study Group meeting: in Copenhagen in May, Mr. O. A. Spencer, the Federation's Member for Economic Affairs, told the Straits Times
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    6 Malayans to study in New Zealand
    172 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. SJX Malayans have been awarded New Zealand Government scholarships under the Colombo Plan. They will leave for New Zealand by air before the end of this month Th* successful candidates are: Inchr Ahmad SharlfT bin Abdul Rashld. of the Serdang;
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    Youth talks in S'pore
    80 8 T.ilks "n g inibling. lotteries, bribery and corruption, money and careers, and Communism and Christianity, will be hc'.d by Anglican Youth Fellowships' in Singapore at the War Memorial Hall next week. The talks will be held drrly untiC Easter Day. Apr. 14, when there will be
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    HE HIT SAMPAN MAN WITH ROD
    47 8 Cheong 800 Goe, a lighterman, who pleaded guilty at the Sinsapore Assizes yesterday to a charge of causing hurt to Queit Kian Seng, a sampan man. with an iron rod in the Singapore Rivor. was put on a two-year $1,000 bond.
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    COLONY'S CRACKERS
    96 8 More imported last year r AST ypar Singapore imported 571 cwt. of rockets and firecrackers valued at $135,000, compared with 486 cwt. valued at SlO-i,OOO in 1951. Cracker Imports from China decreased from 374cwt to 302 cwt whiCe the amount from other Asian countries Increased from 22 to
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    FOUR MORE MARKETS
    40 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— The Johore Bahru Town Council today approved thr recommendation of the building subcommittee to erect four subsidiary markets in the town. The markets will be built at Nongshik. N«»>e Heng. Yahya Awal and Tebrau.
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    HOME OR LOCK-UP FOR NEW YEAR
    369 8 Magistrate will decide today JOHORE BAHRI Monday. QN(i Chor, tentatively charged with murdering a resettlement officer, will know tomorrow where he will spend Chinese New Year in his home with his family or in a police cell alone. His couhspl. Mr. David Marshall, submitted
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    Found body lying in mud
    86 8 While catching prawns in the Kallang River off Lorone 3. Geylang, Singapore, on Jan. 12. a labourer, Lim Tian Swce. saw the body of a man. in black lying face downwards in the mud. Terrified, he fled from the spot and told the police of
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    POLICE CHIEF CHALLENGES PUBLIC TO A QUIZ CONTEST
    201 8 POLICE CHIEF CHALLENGES PUBLIC TO A QUIZ CONTEST Xl ALA LUMPUR. Mon. THE Federal Commissioner of Police, Col. A. E. Young, in .1 broadcast tonight called for "some friendly rivalry" between th c public and the police. Ri viewing thr Operation Service courtrsy campaign, Col. Young told Malayans: "Let us
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    K. TINGGI BOARD
    41 8 KOTA TINGGI, Mon. Members ol the rent assessment board ol Kota Tinggi for 195.1 arc: district officer, Kota Tinggi ipresiaentj; administrative officer, Kota Tin&gi, Ungku Mohsin bin Moliamed, Mr. T. A. D. Meaon, and Mr. Tan Tok Chee.
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    Coronation goods arrive in S'pore
    155 8 Coronation goods arrive in S 'pore /CORONATION souvenirs hay» J started to arrive in Singapore from Britain and signs are that before long shops will have a range oj goods bearing the Queen's picture. Mr. J. O. Davies, owner of a leading manufacturer's representative firm yesterday warned shoppers to beware
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      229 8 MOD AY'S MiAMMtO SINGAPORE I 6.30 a.m. Malay Mu»ic; 1 News In Malay; 7.05 Malay Music; 7.15 MornuiK star; 7.30 News; 7.36 Biicht and Early; 8 Bandstand; 8.3(1 House nives 1 Corner; 8.57 Schools; II MUkic: 11.08 Schools; 1 p.ta. Kadio Orch.; 1.30 News; 1.45 i Rliythm; 2 3.10 Schools:
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    Is her place really in the home?
    400 9  - Is her place really in the home? DOROTHY ROE By rpHE next time you hear a married man expound that "woman's place ls in the home" you might point to certain husbands in other parts of the world as truft examples of modern enlightenment. Some of these Droadmlndnd husbands let
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    IT'S HARD TO USE SIXTH SENSE
    636 9  - IT 'S HARD TO USE SIXTH SENSE MICHAEL AMRINE MYSTERIES OF THE MIXII 3 Ht SCIENCE has shown there ls something— it is hard to say how much— in tiie general theory that the mind can communicate with other minds without the use of ordinary physical means Even people who
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    28 9 Chubby Miss Chua Suan Choo wins this week's Bonniest Baby Competition and $5 for her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chua, of the Traffic Manager's Office, Singapore Harbour Board.
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    26 9 THE EEATHEHz With a iißmficant tittle twiddle at the •op this feather cofnpletes a launty hat ca led "Nmi-patte-en-l'air" C'Nini-paw-in-the-air), conceived by Maud and Neno, Pars.
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    Talking of baby clothes
    429 9  -  SISTER CLARE MOTHERCRAFT IN MALAYA By fFHOSE of you who read ■1 last week's article on preparing mother for baby's arrival will perhaps be thinking. "But what about baby? What should I have ready? How soon should I begin to prepare his clothes?" and so on.
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      367 9 c. c. c. Collect six of these coupons to join the Children's Corner Club. Straits Times Crossword 18 Vg? for a Dalnaatlan 19. piant for male politician (4). tissH fc§^2 [§^|3 4 I l^]<> I -$3 7 Ei§§H 20 Onp more letter and she lisis! N*is nl§s nSssi Is*§H l^isil
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      Malayan products for British Industries Fair
      356 10 GLASS, TEXTILES, SA UCE, PINEAPPLES RUBBER FOR the first time in the history of Singapore, industrial products manufactured in the Colony will be shown at the Coronation British Industries Fair, at London and Birmingham, during April and May. The presence of these products at
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      Dredge engineer visits Malaya
      212 10 Dredge engineer visits Malaya PAYING his first visit to Malaya last week was Mr. T. F. Holman, director of Holman Bros Ltd. a British company which manufactures machinery for Malaya's tin mines. Mr. Holman. whose firm also makes machinery for gold, nickel and uranium mines. was on his w-ay to
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      COCONUT OIL PRODUCTION
      88 10 In 1952 oil mills in the Federation treated 147.776 tons of copra and produced 81,185 tons of coconut oil and 51,581 tons of coconut cake. This compares with 156,734 tons of copra, 86.397 tons of coconut oil and 55.661 tons of coconut cake in 1951. In December
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      Dessicated coconut
      182 10 THE Federation Co-operative Department has decided > to study the possibility cf j starting a dessicated coconut I industry in Malaya. "We hope to send out a field team shortly to investigate the prospects of export trade with foreign countries" Mr. R. G. Gates, Assistant Commissioner Co-operative Development.
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      New workshops
      67 10 WEARNE Bros. Ltd are building extensions to their workshops and an off i the road petrel station on an acre land off Orchard Road, Singapore, next to the old Jewish cemetery. The petrol station will face Orchard Road. The cost of the extension is $250,000 and it is
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      More rice for Malaya
      156 10 THE outlook for Malaya's rice supply from Siam this year is better than 12 months ago. Last year Malaya, Hong Kong, Sarawak and North Borneo asked for 475.000 tons and there was a backIng of 50.000 tons owing from 1951. The territories received 355.000 tons. An
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      THEY MAKE "CHINA SCARLET" BLANKETS
      297 10 UOR 70 years the business of Wormalds and Walker r Ltd. of Dewsbury Mills. Dewsbury, Yorkshire. England have exported to Malaya and Hong Kong the pillar box red blankets with the thin black stripe an essential requirement of every Chinese household. In Malaya last week
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      LEADERS OF BUSINESS IN MALAYA
      242 10 ONE of Klang's leading businessmen and welfare worker is 62-year-old Mr. G. C. Proctor, J.P., who has been in Malaya for 42 years. Mr. Proctor is the proprietor of the Planters' Supply Agency which deals in estate supplies and has been in business since 1935.
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      MANAGER RETIRES
      254 10 \IR. William Shedden, iVA deputy manager of the Singapore Traction Company retires from the company's service this month after thirty years' residence in Singapore. Mr Shedden. born and educated In Glasgow, saw service in the first World War with the R.N.V.R. and was employed with the Glasgow Corporation
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    SHARE MARKET OPENS QUIETLY RUBBER SAGS ON SELLING OFFERS
    507 11 SHARE MARKET OPENS QUIETLY RUBBER SAGS ON SELLING OFFERS THE Singapore share market opened the week quietly and not much interest waa shown in any section. In the tin share section Petaling recorded a slight recovery and eventually had business at $6, compared with $5.90 on Saturday. The final dividend
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    113 11 rpHE following rates to merchants wore announced by the Malayan Exchange Banks Association yesterday: I New York, buying. T.T. 33. Mr mail. O.D 31 18. 90 days. 33' A trade bills. 33 15.16 credit bills Selling. T.T.. O.D. 32 11 16. ready Canada, buying. T.T. 32 3 16,
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    185 11 MELBOURNE, Mon. /GENERAL investments »ere W Irregular on the Stock Exchange today on light volume trading. Several leaders slipped back a little but the undertone throughout was fairly steady. Gold-mining shares lost their upward impetus. Hill 50, the new West Australian producer held at the advunced level of
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    Tin-ore output
    36 11 The following outpu's of tin-ore are reported for the month of January: Pirn's K. Kamunting 161 I Thabawleik l. r ds Pa*wak 376 Aust. Am.il. A. Kumbang M 7 Ulu Yam 716 Puchong 528
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    RUBBER CROPS
    56 11 The following rubbe- crop.-, were harvested by the esta'es in January: lb. Koala Reman 117.900 Sttnejtl Tukang 50.000 Allenby Rubber 34.000 Benta Rubber F 2.500 Jeram Kuan'an S3 .ion Kunrinne Rubber 39 000 Meniakab Rubber PO.BOC Sungel Bacan inoono Tsnjone Pan 65.n0n I Aver MoSek 32.950 Buklt KaMl
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    93 11 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange, noon prices per plcul were: Ccpra: was reported steady quiet at $30" buyers and *40 sellers. Coconut oil: q-.Uet; $59 (down 50 cents). Pepper: steady with more over- I seas inquiry. Muntok. whit*. $535 Sarawak $530 <up $S>. Lamponp black (unchanged) $420. Tapioca: flour:
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING
    184 11 CHIPS lying alongside the Singa- 13 pore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Tjibadak 1-2. Ceylon 4-5. Merkur C.P., Talisman 6-7. Belloroph<n I 8-9. B«nt 11. Kajane 13-14. Mt. Cameron 15-16 Benalder 18. Luxmi 19-20. Renaam N Wall No 4. Be!?tia N Wall 5 and 6. Memakab
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    SOUTH AFRICANS HIT BACK
    350 12  -  JACK FINGLETON Weak bowling was to blame From MKLBOI KNE, Monday. A USTRALIAN jaws slumped here today at the efforts of a "second eleven" attack to break through the South African defences in the fifth and final Test. At the close of play the Springboks had
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    ALAN KING IS BACK
    50 12 ALAN KING, who has represented both Singapore and Perak at outside left in the Malaya Cup competition, has been transferred from Ipnh to Singapore. He will play for Frasor nnd Nrave in the Business Bwm League and for Singapore Cricket Club in the jS.A.F.A. Senior League.
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    Another draw in Cup replay
    67 12 LONDON. Wed— Football results nnight: I. A. Cup Fourth Round serond rrplavs: West Bromwich Albion 1. Chel-ea 1 (extra time>: Notts County 0. Bolton Wanderers 1. As a result of today's replays 8.-.lion Wanderers visit Luton Towa in fifth round this Saturday. F<-b. 14. The
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    RAFFLES WIN 4-0
    38 12 FTfrie? institution beat Bine^pora Cold Storage hv four B^p) to n 1 in a friendly ?occer matrli on the R I ground 'esterday. S-or'rs fn: RI. were: KM-m-i <2>. Penr Loke and Tp.n K;m Chye.
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    FOR MANILA
    40 12 LIM K^E CHAN. S:n<;apr-e bantranrright. die tn y-r-e tomirrow by r>ir ?r>r Manila, "^ere h» vill flcht Flali Klorde Philiopine bantam chiimpirti on Feb 18. I-ittle PMlirfll a'so jo ro M for a flßht on the same pro^ra-nin"
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    SCOREBOARD
    66 12 MSTHALIA IM Innsl 530 SOI TH AFRICA i ii-l r Langley b johnslnn lit iV;>itr run out 64 A\a!kins b Archer 92 I Tun- ton Ibw Johnston Id Mrlenn Ibw Noblet 81 Kr|ih b lobrfiton 10 i C rctham n"t cut 21 Mnwl not out IS Extras Total (for
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    AUSTRIAN SIDE NOT COMING
    60 12 The Singapore soccer team which has been on tour to Hong Kong md Manila returned la.st night. A S.A.F.A. official with the tour■v.s team told the Straits Times last .ichf that the crack Austrian team. I.iiiz F C. were unable to visit Sinsaix>re as had been
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    JUNIOR CRICKET CLUBS TO MEET
    40 12 A meeting of Junior club cricket convenors or secretaries will be held at the S.C.C. on Friday at 5.15 p.m. to elect the Junior representatives to serve on the committee of the Singapore Crirket Association.
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    ROVERS JUNIORS
    32 12 Rovers Jun;ors will play a friendly sccrer match against Rocklites at Fairer Park at 5.15 p.m. today. All members of Rovers Juniors are afked to turn up at the ground.
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    THE LINEAR SYSTEM GOT A TRIAL
    867 12  - THE LINEAR SYSTEM GOT A TRIAL Jerry RAF Seletar sport.... by DURING the Flying Boat Wing soccer trials this weekend we were treated to a display of the Russian method of refereeinjf, officially known as the Linear System of Control. This system consists of the referee running the length of
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    SCOTTISH CUP FIXTURES
    107 12 LONDON. Mon. The draw for the third round of the Scottish Clip to be played on Saturday, Feb 21 resulted today as follows: I Queen of the South v Albion Roy- ,ers; All drleonlans v Hibernian i Aberdeen v Motherwell; Morton v JRanßers; Third Lanark v Hamilton
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    Sporting Gesture retains his form
    278 12  -  EPSOM JEEP From KUALA LUMPUR. Monday. ESTURE, outstanding sprinter of last season, showed that he has lost none of his form when he did a delightful gallop on a wet track here this morning. Breaking from the half mile, Sporting Gesture <J. i Donnelly) steadily
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    'Substitute' plan for FA
    241 12 From A Speci-il Correspondent LONDON, Mon. rE Football Association will sooner or later consider one of tho s.ir.est solutions ever put forward for one of the most controversial problems in soccer, "substitutes or no subi stitutes." The proposal, submitted by schoolmaster-referrc Ken Astcn of Essex, would
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    120 are invited to Pallett course
    285 12 IT WAS announced in Singapore last night that about 120 people, including some of the Colony's best athletes, and coaches of clubs, the Services and schools, will be invited to attend the course to b« held by George Pallett, senior honorary coach of the
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    Gold medal M. Paterso
    183 12 THE BMal Singapore v, ChitiVl 1952 Gold Medal* ws|K won by M. M. Paterson nfc February Medal i Stroke) i "inMbnfm A" division was won l.y de Rome (77 10 67 >. T'lersjpU'rts ret timed were M. M. Pater.^Kj (72 2 7Ci. J. M Or 71
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    Alfie earns right for a title fight
    186 12 SYDNEY. Mon. 1 A LFIE SANDS < 156 lb.) outI pointed the Victorian holder of the middleweight title of Australia. Al Burke 1 159 lb.i, in a non-title fight over 12 rounds at the Sydney Stadium tonight before a crowd of 5,000. Alfle,
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    Ip wins in Manila
    44 12 MANILA. Mon— Fausto Gardini i ltaly i and KH. Ip (Hong Kongi ves:erd.u- won their doubles match to niter tlie quarter-finals of the Philipoine? national tennis championships. Tliey defeated a Filipino pair. Andy Saranglao and M. Elizalde 6-2. 6-4.— A.P.
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    'SEVENS' GET OFF TO POOR START: UPSET BY SIGS.
    489 12 DESPITE ideal conditions excellent weather and good crowd— the Singapore Cricket Club's seven a-side rugger competition had a disappointing sta 1 on the padang yesterday when only one of the threv scheduled matches was played. R.A.F. Seletar Flying Boat j Wing
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    Australian boys may box in Singapore
    127 12  - Australian boys may box in Singapore SENTINEL Xv WINNERS of the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association's rrrent youth championships the fir* held in the Colony ma get an opportunity tn me> overseas opposition this yea The secretary of the S. 8.A., Bertie Dunsford, to mo yesterday thai he h. invited the
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      323 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. VEHICLES FOR SALE STANDARD 12 HP. .^.'.oon 194' first resls'prer l 1948. Steering and Iront. suspension recently overhauled. Upholstery recently renewed, eneine ex?"i;ent. body coo- $1,250. Phone 4283 ,-ffcr 5.30 pm FOR SALE ATTRACTIVE Pc .hre« ■aflHst Ki"rns. Rlne *****. FOR SALE seronti-hnr.d Pinno very good tone. Wbot
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      46 12 111 (.(.KR: Slneapore (ricket Clul/s 7-a-side romprtition. srrond round: REME AvH.MS I nirorn: Sembawang "B" v RAF -^lrta--; I'niversity of Malaya v SC "A"; RASC "A" v South Johore. padm; sUrlint; 4.43 p.m. HOCKEY: Singapore Horkry Assoriation srnlor knockout semifinal: SCC v I'niversity of Malaya, padang.
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      26 12 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: High 0556 (7.9) and 2153 (6.7 1. Low 1406 (2.7). TOMORROW: High 0730 (111 and 2235 (7.4). Low 0117 (6.3) and 1525 (1.9).
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