The Straits Times, 10 November 1953

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    15 1 The Straits Times filial* I***1 He**** Established 1845. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1953. 15 CENTS
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    MORE RUBBER ROADS
    337 1 Singapore plans a 'full-scale experiment 9 THE Singapore Government has decided to expand its policy of laying rubberised roads. Seven tons of rubber powder has been bought I from the Rubber Development Board, Kuala Lumpur and, from now on, rubber will be used for making most of
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    IBN SAUD (KING OF OIL) DIES
    146 1 IBN SAUD (KING OF OIL) DIES BAHREIN. Mon. KING Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia died today. He was about 83. The King was reported to b a seriously ill last month with heart disease. He had been crippled with arthritis in recent years. Heir to the throne. 52-year-nld Emir Saud
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    Airman changes his mind
    172 1 AFTER week-end discussions with senior RAF officers. Corporal Larry Buckley has decided that he docs not want to n arry the Rirl he was forced to leave behind in lions: K 1 1 c Corporal Buckley who leaves today for his new posting in Ncßombo, Ceylon,
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    London talks on cost of Emergency
    71 1 LONDON. Mon. GEN. Sir Gerald Tcmpler continued his talks with; Colonial Office officials here today. Authoritative quartern said the talks concerned the politici I Mpecta Of the anti-Com-munist drive in Malaya. At the same time the cost nf Malaya's anti-Communist campaign is reported to
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    New links with China
    59 1 WASHINGTON. Mon. The Kremlin la displaying an overriding Interests in strengthenlnc Its tiei with Rod China and improving living condi--1:ons at home. Russian experts said today. They said these points stand out in reviews underway here of Moscow's current line as revealed in recent diplomatic contacts
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    Spies known, he says
    49 1 BERLIN. Mon. An East German official today said they were locked in underground war with a vast network of Western spies. Col. Hans Borman, of the Secret Police, .said: "We know who they are and where their headquarters are. We know everything about them."— A.P.
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    Visit to Saigon
    40 1 SAIGON. Mon.- The British Sixth Minesweeping Squadron commanded by Captain H. G. T. Pad held arrived here today from Singapore on a two-day courtesy vfett. The five ships are expected to sail for Hong Kong later. Renter.
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    4 million seek more pay
    40 1 LONDON, Mon. About 4.000.000 British workers will seek pay rises amounting to about £200.000.000 a year. The demands covering railway factory, shipyard, mine workers and busmen, range from 12s. 6d. a week to £I.— Reuter.
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    MOSSADEQ SUICIDE THREAT
    359 1 MOSSADEQ SUICIDE THREAT TEHERAN, Mon. TVR. Mohamed Mossadcq *J on trial at Sultanatabad near here today threatened to commit suicide, dismissed his counsel and warned the court that he might boycott future sessions. "If you like you can sentence me to death. I will not ask for an appeal. I
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    200,000 strike
    30 1 PARIS Mon.— Schools all over France closed today as 200.000 teachers went on a 24--hour strike to press wage demands and protest against a.leged government "thought control.'— U.P.
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    Evacuation plan is now out of action
    208 1 TACHILEK, (North-east Burma). Monday. EVACUATION of Chinese Nationalist guerillas from Burma to Formosa broke down yesterday after one day in operation and with only 204 Chinese taken across the Siamese border. The evacuation began on Saturday but broke down because of the argument
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    Siamese twins in Holland
    59 1 LEEUWARDEN (Holland! Mon— Mrs. S. de Vries-Klomp-stra of Oenkerk, a village in the northern province of Fries Land, gave -birth to Siamese twins today. The baby girls, joined at the stomach, were taken to the hospital here, where medical experts said it was too early to
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    Royal stroll in park starts row
    114 1 LONDON. Mon. 1 PRINCESS MARGARET'S walk with her dog In St. James's Park just across the road from Buckingham Palace hu stirred up a fuss in the London press, which says she broke an unwritten rule by her solitary stron. Today a Palace spokesman
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    Russia faces troubles
    48 1 WASHINGTON. Mon. Dr Adenauer, Chancellor of West Germany, .said Russia laced 'he threat of really big internal troubles because she nad one-third less food per Inhabitant than In 1928. He said this in a copyrighted interview In the magazine U.S. News and World Report -A.P.
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    Victim named
    24 1 Police early this morning identified the victim of the Singapore sex killing as Ong Mul Hong. 24. a waitress. (See Pajfr 2).
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    Ex-Premier protests
    40 1 THE FORMER Prime Minister of Persia, Dr. Mohamed Mossadeq, denounces the competency of the military court trying him for allegedly conspiring to unseat the Shah. This A.P. photo was radioed from Teheran to London and then to Singapore.
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    VOTES FOR CASH GANGS THREATEN STORE ELECTION
    161 1 ORGANISED GANGS of racketeers are trying to mould Singapore's December City election campaign on corrupt lines. Posters are being torn down and money Is being demanded from candidates by promising vote* Candidates are also being threatened Some candidates t>e:ieve that children are engaged
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    Call to end trade ban
    114 1 From 1 HALL ROMNEY LONDON, Mon. IT is expected in political circles here that the end of the embargo on the sale of small private cars to Red China will lead to increased pressure on the government to relax the ban on British trade with
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    Threat to quit
    42 1 MALTA, Mon. Socialist leader Dominic Mintoff told a political meeting today that, if he became Prime Minister after next month's election, Malta would seek to quit the British Commonwealth unless Britain gave the island the right to self-determination.— A.P.
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    Sterling talks
    26 1 LONDON, Mon Sir Oliver Goonetilleke. Ceylon's Finance Minister, discussed rterling area problems here today with Mr Reginald Maudling. Economic Secretary to the Treasury. Reuter
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    No elections -that will save money
    119 1 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon THE Town Councils of Johore Bahru and Batu Pahat can look forward to saving a few thousand dollars this year because of by-elections which will not b» held. When nominations closed foi the December by-elections the retiring candidates, who are standing
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    Radio appeal
    33 1 A recorded broadcast appeal for funds by Lady Sanderson, President of the Singapore branch of the British Red Cross, will be heard over Radio Malaya at 9.25 p.m. on Nov. 15.
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    17,500 TROOPS PROTECT BALLOT
    171 1 MANILA. Mon. PHILIPPINES police chief Florencio Selga today assigned 17.500 army reserve troops to "protect the sane* tlty of the ballot against terrorists at all costs" In the elections. Selga Issued his orders to thp forces after President Elpldlo Qulrlno. seeking reelection as Liberal President, gave
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    CAMBODIA: FRENCH HAND OVER
    157 1 CAMBODIA: FRENCH HAND OVER PNOM PENH. Mon. VTATIVE MILITIA aimed with wooden guns paraded unde r pouring rain today as France turned over military power to Cambodia. The militia, including women in faded uniforms and boy scouts wearing yellow berets, marched through the capital arter King Norodom Sihanouk took command
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    Now they're on attack
    60 1 HANOI. Mon. The Indo China war has entered a new phase, with Franco-Vietnam forces on the offensive for the first time in seven years. French commanders said today. •Operation SeagulL" a 24-day drive aimed at ending a rebel threat to the vital Red River delta was
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    Peace urged
    35 1 PARIS. Mon— The annual congress of the party of French Defence Minister M. Rene Pleven, last night adopted a resolution urging the Government to start negotiations to end the war in Indlo-Ch.na.— Reuter.
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    Allies reject protest
    156 1 Allies reject protest TRIESTE. Mon. rIE Allied authorities here today rejected the demand by the Italian Prime Minister, Signor Guiseppp Pella for an official inquiry into the Trieste riots. An authoritative Allied sourer said reports received from the police during the street battles last Thursday and Friday made it clear
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    STOP PRESS
    27 1 RUBBER EMBARGO TO STAY LONDON. Mon.—British Government today refuted request in House of Commons for lifting of •km bargo on export of rubber to China.
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    Duke sees yacht
    35 1 GLASGOW. Mon. -The Duke of Edinburgh flew to Scotland today to see the new 4.000-ton Royal yacht. Britannia which will bring the Royal couple home next May from their Commonwealth tour.— Reuter.
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    GOLDSMITHS TO PROTEST
    92 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A CONFERENCE of federation goldsmiths -win be called soon to protest against the new Federation Governent control on gold. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Selangor Goldsmiths' Association here last night. Goldsmiths here oppose the part of the control forbidding them
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    ISRAEL LISTS 12 JORDAN ATTACKS
    212 2 TEL AVIV, Monday. AN ISRAELI army spokesman today listed 12 cases of alleged armed attacks on Israeli territory by "infllttators from Jordan" since October 17 when the Western powers decided to raise the issue of IsraelArab border tension in the United Nations. i Speaking on
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    FINED $250 ON LOTTERY CHARGE
    92 2 FINED $250 ON LOTTERY CHARGE IPOH. Mon. GIVING expert evidence in a characters lottery case in the magistrates court here toaay, Cniel in&pector Wong Sze Kirn explained a coae which he alleged was used by a shop assistant in recording punters bets. In thr dock was Chi" Sam Fee. 23,
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    RESTING
    27 2 WASHINGTON Mon -Gen. Grorec C. Marshall, a£ed "2. under treatment for an inflamed lung after influenza, last night was Mid to be resting vrry well— A.P.
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    Customs step up opium drive —2 big smugglers caught
    249 2 TWO large-scale opium smugglers were recently 1 arrested, Mr. R. S. Tufnell, acting Comptroller of Singapore Customs, said yesterday. •Other Drincioal traffickers are receiving attenP y tion," he added. Statistics showed that smugglers had of late been operating on a reduced
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    Red paper forecasts end of ban
    93 2 Red paper forecasts end of ban HONG KONG, Mon. THE pro-Communist newspaper Wen Wei Pao said today that Indonesia wants to sell rubber to Red China and if tit does the trade embargo against the Reds will "col--1 lapse." In a lengthy editorial, the Chinese language newspaper said Hong Kong
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    New delay expected
    67 2 LONDON. Mon —The AngloEsyptian talks on the future of the Suez Canal zone will probably remain suspended until after the Sudanese elections, which may influence their course, diplomatic quarters said here today Britain and Egypt have accused each other of interfering in the elections, in which the
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    U.N. 'a mirror'
    32 2 DENVER. Mon.— Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt yesterday said that the United Nations had been a mirror for ill the world to see the obstructionist tactics of the Soviet bloc.— A.P.
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    HUNT FOR SEX SLAYER
    175 2 HUNT FOR SEX SLAYER poR the second time within a month, Singapore police have launched an Intensive island-wide hunt for a sex killer. Early yesterday the battered body of a Chinese ;irl was found in a lonely spot by the side of Bartley Road. There was a mark round her
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    Australia has answer
    39 2 Australia has answer CANBERRA. Mon.— An antisubmarine exercise off the East Australian coast at the weekend proved that Australia's defence forces had an answer to submarine attack, the Minister for Navy and Air, Mr William McMahon. said today —Reuter.
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    Min Tet school officials
    40 2 IPOH. Mon.— Ofßce-beartrs of the Mm Tet School are: President Mr. Choonj? San-vice-president and supervis-r i Mr. Kok Yoon San: vice-pre-sident Mr. Lee Khoon Vi>on general secretary Mr K&o Rwek Suen: treasurer /Mt Leone Chin Nyean.
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    Soviet order
    23 2 PARIS. Mon. Informed sources today said that the Russian Government had ordered 100.000 tons of steel products from French mills.— A.P.
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    6 TONS OF TURKEY AT CHRISTMAS
    192 2 SERVICEMEN in Singapore are assured of feasts fit for kings on hristmas Day this year. N.A.A.F.I. is importing six tons of turkey. There will also be two tons of chicken, one ton of plum duff. nearly 6,000 toys and books for the children of
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    Truce talks in Korea
    29 2 PANMUNJOM, Mon.— Allied and Communist officers met today to discuss the deadlock on arrangements for the Korean peace conference. They will meet again tomorrow. A.P.
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    DOCTORS THROW OUT LIQUOR ADS
    75 2 CHICAGO, Mon. PUBLICATIONS of the American Medical Association will drop all liquor and tobacco advertisements from Jan. 1, 1954. Letters have been sent to all advertisers and advertising agencies notifying them of the I new policy. Cigarette tobacco and alcoholic beverage advertisements were dropped because
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    HAIL AND FAREWELL
    65 2 SINGAPORE YESTERDAY welcomed home one well-known Colony couple and bid farewell to another. Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Wolters (above) arrived in the liner Willem Ruys after seven months' leave in Britain and Europe. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Reilly (below) left far Britain in the Chusan
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    HONOURED
    14 2 WASHINGTON Mon.— lieut Edward R schowalter has won the Medal of Honour.— A.P
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    The final touch-up
    38 2 AN ARTIST is never satisfied with his work. l.iv Kane (above) puts the finishing touches to his painting "Pounding Rice" BELOW, Chen Wen Hsi studies his paintmi; of a bazaar in Bali.— Straits Times pictures.
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    BALI—BY 4 CHINESE ARTISTS
    145 2 BALI— BY 4 CHINESE ARTISTS rE Singapore Art Society is now showing mor^ than 100 paintings and sketches of Bali by four Chinese artists living in Singapore. Held in the British Council Hall. Stamford Road, tho exhibition, which is open until Sunday, is drawing large crowds. The four artists. L;u
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    NO NEW GERMAN DEAL
    221 2 NO NEW GERMAN DEAL LONDON, Mon. AN intensive drive to mould East Germany as completely the Communist pattern as Russia's other satellites iis--likely to be the first result of Moscow's decision not to attend a Big Four Foreign Ministers' meeting on Germany and Austria, diplomatic quarters said here yesterday. Whatever
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    Pledge sought
    35 2 BRUSSELS Mon The Belgian Socialist Congress last night said' that the Government must give every assurance as to Briiains anociation with the European defence community before th< y would support the communit —Reuter
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    Asia favoured
    35 2 MADRAS. Mon— Japan wa increasingly looking towarl Asia and not to the Wrst. ntd Mrs. Ammu Swaminathan. Indian M. P. and leader of an all-women Indian goodwill mission. Just Back from Japan. -A.P.
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    2 BRITISH OFFICERS DIE IN OASIS INCIDENT
    244 3 2 BRITISH OFFICERS DIE IN OASIS INCIDENT LONDON, Monday. TWO BRITISH officers have been killed in an incident on the Persian Gulf where British led forces are blockading an oasis of eight villages on the Trucial coast against the forces of Saudi Arabia which claims the territory. The War Office
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    LONDON STAR IS 21
    47 3 MISS I I 1/ Mil 111 I arm i who stepped from the chorus of "Kiss Me. Kate" into the lead at five minutes' notice, celebrates her 21st. birthday at London Casino. Here she cuts the cake, as colleagues cheer. n pper picture.
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    NEW SIAMESE AMBASSADOR
    22 3 PRIM K CIU'LA. new Siamrse Ambassador to Britain, on his way to the State opening: of Parliament. A.P. picture.
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    Three shot at dance
    32 3 KIEL. Mon— A dance came to a sudden end hrre yesterday when a 22-year-old policeman shot dead his girl friend and her partner and then killed! himself. Reuter.
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    Better in Malaya — Harding
    96 3 Better in Malaya Harding LONDON. Mon. FIELD MARSHAL Sir John Harding. Chief of the Imperial General Staff, last nignt said that the improvement ip the terrorist situation in I Malaya continued, but no one could afford to relax. "The initiative is ours and the bandits are on the defensive." he
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    Ex-minister accused
    40 3 CAIRO. Mon.— Ahmed Abdul Ghaffar. a Minister in nine different governments under ox-King Farouk. was placed under house arrest yesterday. He will go on trial today on charges of abuses of power and corruption of government machinery. A.P.
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    Violence warning in Ceylon
    90 3 Violence warning in Ceylon COLOMBO. Mon. SIR John Kotelawala. Ceylon's Prime Minister, last night warned opposition parties here against using violence. Speaking at Kotte, a Communist stronghold on the outskirts of Colombo, he said: "If opposition parties want to stage a hartal (shop closing) or strike in good faith, let
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    Russia builds up navy
    43 3 TOKYO. Mon -Adrriral Robert Carney. U. S. Chief of Naval Operations, today said that Russia had been steadily building up her naval power. In the event of war. Soviet .submarines could give the American fleet serious trouble. -A. P.
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    Shell kills 4
    21 3 MANILA, Mon. Four people were killed yesterday when a shell exploded in Tarlac Province, north of Manila A.P
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    Naval visit
    23 3 KARACHI. Mon- -The First Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Rhoderick Macgrigor, arrived here yesterday for a sixday visit. Reuter.
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    Earth tremor
    15 3 ATHENS, Mon— A strong earth tremrr was recorded by Athens observatory yesterday. Reuter
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    A palace is stoned
    38 3 CJUDAD VICTORIA. Mexico Mon.— More than 200 people stoned the office of the newspaper El Heraldo and the governor's palace here last night. The demonstration followed a meeting which criticised the local administration. A.P
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    Officer buried
    26 3 CANBERRA. Mon.— Cadet patrol officer Geoffrey Harris. aged 21. who died ol wounds from a tribesman's tomahawk in New Guinea, was buried yesterday. Reuter.
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    24 sign pact
    16 3 LONDON, Mon. Twentyfour nations have so far signed the International Sugar Agreement.— U.P.
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    She keeps alligator
    53 3 GEORGK WASHINGTON, 3ft. long alligator, watches as his owner, Mrs. Pamela Atherton, of Surrey, England, prepares a meal for her husband. Mrs. Atherton prefers alligators to other pets because, she says, "You don't have to take them for a walk and they need feeding only once a
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    100 p.c. VICTORY FOR SALAZAR
    140 3 LISBON, Monday. DR. ANTONIO Salazar's Government Party, Uniao Nacional, won a 100 per cent victory in yesterday's general election in Portugal. All 28 opposition candidates were defeated. It was the first officially contested election since the Portuguese military uprising in 1926 brought the present regime
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    Churchill peace bid 'sabotaged'
    93 3 LONDON. Mon. MR. RICHARD CROSSMAN, Labour M.P. last night •said that Sir Winston Chur-. chill's 'one-man peace effort" had been sabotaged by his Cabinet and the Americans. Mr Crossman said that since May 11, when the Prime; Minister asked for top-level Big Four talks with Russia,
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    Too busy for Nobel prize
    47 3 LAMBARENE. French Equatorial Africa. Mon.— Dr. Albert Schweitzer. 78-year-old Alsatian Nobel Prize winner says he will be much too busy here with his hospital his leper colony and his manuscripts to go to Oslo to receive his prize on December 10 —Reuter
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    The time has gone...
    90 3 LIMBE, Nyasaland. Mon. SIR GODFREY Huggins. the Federal Prime Minister told 800 people at Limbe, ten miles from Blantyre that "the time has gone wnen you have to look outside Africa for assistance". "The Federal Government will have sufficient power to look after its own peoples
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    Back to Bombay
    27 3 MADRAS, Mon— The Canadian Minister for Fisheries Mr James Sinclair, returned to Bombay yesterday after visiting a fisheries project on the Travancore coast.— A.P.
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    Writer dies
    25 3 PARIS. Mon.— Ivan Bunin. 83-year-old Russian writer who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1933. has died after a heart attack— A.P.
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    ROYAL PROPERTY TAKEN OVER
    111 3 CAIRO, Mon. "C<GYP' r "S Revolutionary Council last night decided to confiscate all the property of all members of the Roy.il Family. This involves tens of thousands or acres of Egypt's best land, several palaces, and cash I and valuables worth several million U.S. dollars The
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    LONDON STOCKS
    286 3 LONDON, Mon. ACTIVE Interest was at a low ebb on the stock market today and after the accumulation of week-end orders had been dealt with business dropped to a disappointing level. Very little Interest was exhibited In Far Eastern stocks. Teas were narrowly Irregular but bankings were steady.
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    LONDON TIN
    28 3 LONDON. Not. 9. Cash Buyers C 62 Sellers £627- Forward Buyers t6o7»i; Sellers £612.; Settlement £620 (up £2 1 Turnover a.m. 25 tons; p.m. 45. F
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    LONDON RUBBER
    31 3 LONDON. Nov. 9 Spot 16d rxr 1T%4 Jan-Mar 17'» d. Apr June 17<i.. July-Sept 17' id. Nov c.l.i. 16>td., Dec. c.l.f. 17-Hd.. Jan <• I f 17\d. Tone Quietly steady.
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    Russian aim is peace, he says
    89 3 M LONDON, Monday. R. N. BELORHVOSTIKOV, Russian charge d'affaires in London, said here last night the Soviet people were deeply convinced that there was no outstanding issue which could not be settled in a peaceful way. He was speaking at a meeting in connection
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    Food ban now affects 30,000 in kampongs, new villages
    270 4 NIBON(; TEBAL, Monday. THIRTY THOUSAND people in nine villages and several kampongs in Nibong Tebal district today came under the food restrictions being imposed in South Kedah. Areas affected by the restrictions include Simpang Ampat Bukit Tambun. Changkat. Sungei Kechil, Tassek
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    Call for elected Council
    112 4 PENANG. Mon. A FITLY elected Municipal Council should be set up as soon as possible. Mr. Yeoh Cheng Kunc. Labour candidate for Tanjong. said at a mass rally here today. "Anyone who opposes such a move ix a traitor lo Malaya's independence movement." he declared. Mr.
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    Profit—s3,6l7
    35 4 Profit— s3,6l7 RAUB, Mon.— Two hundred and forty one members of Pahang Government Servants Co-operative Thrift L Loan Society borrowed a total sum .of $90,396 during 1952. The society made a net profit of $3,617.
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    FIGHT THE REDS, STUDENTS URGED
    235 4 IPOH, Monday. STUDENTS of St. Michael's Institution here were urged today to "get into the main stream of life in this country" and work against Communists "who are striving to poison the minds of the people." Mr. Leong Yew Koh. secretary general of the Malayan
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    People of the river
    157 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. r IS is a story of selfhelp among kampong people in east Pahang. Some months ago about 160 people frotr kampongs along the Pontian River were resettled at what is now known as Kampong Parit, two miles up-river from Kuala Pontian. They opened
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    Sultan lays wreath at memorial
    90 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon A COMBINED military, police and Home Guard wreath- laying ceremony was held at Temerloh war memorial on Sunday. Wreaths were laid by the Sultan of Pahang. the District Officer, Mr J. c. Bottoms, and community leaders. The Sultan took the salute j
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    HELP FOR RICE MEN
    101 4 PENANG. Mon. rpHE Department of social A Welfare needs another ..537 to carry out its relief scheme for padl planters of Sungel Acheh whose recent crop fai>d. The department has asked the settlement government if any fund was available to I make up this amount, which
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    4 years for harbouring a bandit
    133 4 4 years for harbouring a bandit SUNGEI PATANI. Mon. A CHINESE physician, Pang a Chee Meng, aged 60. who prescribed medicine for a high ranking member of ;he Malayan Communist Party was sentenced to four years' imprisonment In the Sessions Court here today. He was convicted of harbouring bandits in
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    Bound over
    38 4 RAUB. Mon. For trespassing in the house of a woman special constable, Wong Khong, a 54--year-old Chinese club servant •a as bound ovor to be of good conduct for one year in a surety of $200.
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    RIVER SEARCH FOR CRASHED MAN STILL ON
    84 4 IPOH. Mon. Squads of Area Security Units from the Chemor Police are still searching the Chemor River for the body of 25-year-old Tan Ek Chang who was flung off his motor-cycle when he crashed against a bridge on Thursday night. The river, swollen
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    Burglars left his trousers
    63 4 IPOH. Mon.— An Income Tax Department official, staying In a Government officers mess in Tambun Road, last two dress suit jackets and a fountain pen set last night in a burglary. The trousers belonging to the suits and other clothes were not taken. A police officer
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    Red hideouts strafed
    46 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon— Terrorist hideouts in Selangor were heavily strafed and bombed by Lincoln bombers today. Last night Communist camps In the Kuala Lannut district of Selangor were raided. No casualties to terrorists or Security Forces were reported during the last 24 hours.
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    Vegetable prices in Singapore
    127 4 rE following were the retail prices in cents per kati of vegetables at three Singapore markets yesterday:— c.i.i. h I Urn Simon Road Imroußh Road St. Celery 80 90 120 Chye sim 35 40 30 Kang konß 30 30 15 Lettuce 80 80 80 Peh chye
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    Sri Persekutuan officials
    73 4 BENTONG. Mon. Officials of the Sri Persekutuan Melayu' in Bentong for the year are: President. Inche Mohd. Nor bin Imam Isa; vice-president, Yang Ter-amat Mulia Tengku Besar Mahmud; secretary, Inche Mohamed bin Arshad; treasurer, Inche Abu Bakar; committees: Inche Awang Mustiipha. Inche Chik bin Mattin, Inche Mohamed
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    Expatriate pay for Indian
    58 4 BRUNEI TOWN, Mon —The Government has announced the award of arrears of expatriation allowance amounting to $12,100 to Mr. V. K. A. Pillai, Assistant Engineer. Public Works Department, stationed at Kuala Belait He is the third Indian recruited from Malaya to get such allowance The others
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    Malaya will send its soap abroad
    157 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Monday. LEVER Brothers Ltd. plans to export its Malayan manufactured soap to other Asian countries next year. The company will spend between $1 million and $2 million for this. "We do not know yet how successful we might be but the prospects
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    Acquitted on charge of extortion
    137 4 Acquitted on charge of extortion A CQUITTING Fam Chun A Swee 37. yesterday of a charge of attempted extortion, Mr R W H Davies. the Singapore Sixth police Magistrate, deplored that a woman, the orincipa.l witness in the case, had "deliberately" failed to attend court. The case, fixed for hearing
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    Man, 65, gaoled
    28 4 Chua Cheok Sum. 65. was sentenced to three months' gaol In Singapore yesterday, when he pleaded guilty to charges of having opium utensils and chandu.
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    Dental speaker Company colour
    56 4 MALACCA. Mon.— Mr. J. Saunders, director of dental services. New Zealand, will speak at the Malacca Rciary Club tea meeting on Wednesday at the Malacca rest house. The 4th Singapore Company Boys' Brigade, will hold a dedication of Company Colour at the Oeylang Methodist Church. Aljunled
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    Two teachers married
    49 4 TWO COLONY schoolteachers— Mr. Josrph Thambiah and Miss Helen M. Paul— were married at St. Andrews Cathedral. Singapore, yesterday. A reception at St. Margarets School, to which the bride is attached, was attended by nearly 500 people. Mr. Thambiah teaches at St. Andrew's SchoolStraits Times picture.
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    INDONESIA PACT URGED
    178 5 Malaya losing trade PENANG, Mon. WITH the recent decline in trade with Indonesia, Malaya is gradually losing her market in that country. To prevent this, a prominent trade leader today urged the appointment of a Malayan Trade Commissioner to Indonesia. "We need a trade agreement with our
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    8,000 saw Ipoh art exhibition
    111 5 IPOH. Mon. ABOUT 8 000 people saw the international art exhibition sponsored by the Ipoh Rotary Club, which was held in the Perak library for a week and ended yesterday. About $60,000 worth of paintings and scrolls by artists from Europe and ten Asian countries,
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    Acquitted on charge of murder
    161 5 Acquitted on charge of murder 'I IM SONG KEE, one of two Chinese accused of the j murder of Lim Ah Yee and the attempted murder of Peh Chin Kiat, was acquitted and disi charged by Mr. Justice But- trose at Singapore Assizes yesterday. The Crown offered no evidence against
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    Disqualified from driving
    74 5 Private A. H G. Covey. Royal West Kents. Selarang Barracks, yesterday pleaded guilty in a 'Singapore court to two traffic offences and was fined a total of $50 and disqualified from driving for a year. Covey admitted that he drove a motor- cycle along Tanjong Pagar Road
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    Walk-out Indians are re-nominated
    153 5 MALACCA, Monday. riE Malacca divisional committee of the Malayan Trade Union Council decided today that Mr. P. P. Narayanan and Mr. M. P. Rajagopal should again represent trade unionists on the Federal Leeislative Council. This followed a letter from the MTUC asking foi nominations for vacancies
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    Man in prison pleads guilty
    59 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon A 25-year-old man was brought from prison before Inche 1 Ismail, Kuala Lumpur Pint Magistrate, today on a charge of dishonest! retaining a wn.it watch worth $40 belonging to Jaswant Singh, a temple watchman. Abu Samad bin Hussain, now serving a sentence
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    Warship to visit Teluk Anson
    34 5 TLLUK ANSON. Mon.— H.M.S. Opposum of the 3rd Frigate Squadron will visit Teluk Anson from Wednesday to Friday. The ship has a complement of 10 officers and 180 ratings
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    20th anniversary
    31 5 TELUK ANSON, Mon.— The Kiung Chiao Club iHainane.se club) in Ah Cheong Street will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a dinner at its premises at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday.
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    Lucky guess
    40 5 RAUB, Mon. Mrs. Anjang Saith. wife of the District Officer took home a 4 lb 2 oz cake after she had guessed its v.-elght correctly in a competition on Poppy Day Club Night held at the <3overnment Club.
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    73 5 THE MIDLANDS Urban Co-operative Union, with 15 member societies and a total membership of 15,000 in Selangor. Negrl Sembilan and Pahang, celebrated International Co-opera-tors' Day with a tea party in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. Tengku Yaacob, Member for Agriculture and Forestry, is speaking. On his left are Mr. K. Subramaniam.
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    Queen's coins due in time for ang-pows''
    113 5 Queen 's coins due in time for ang-pows PENANG. Mon. NEW QUEEN ELIZABETH coins are expected to arrive in Penang at the end of the year. Mr. C. E Gascoigne. Settlement Treasurer, told the Straits Times today that these coins would be Issued in denominations of five, ten, 20 and
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    Lorry driver fined $30
    44 5 PARIT BUKTAR, Mon Cheong Kirn Fatt, a lorry driver, was fined $30 by the circuit magistrate, Che Abu Bakar bin Haji Hussein for carrying 683 fowls in 19 baskets and 419 ducks in 12 baskets and causing them unneces*sary suffering.
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    10 months for break in
    79 5 When Ismail bin Laham, unemployed, broke into a house at Carlisle Road. Singapore, at 12.30 a.m. on Aug. 26. his footsteps woke up an occupant of the house. Mahmud bin Laham. The First Criminal District Court was told this yesterday when Ismail, convicted of housebreaklng,
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    Naval volunteers to get training
    146 5 RATINGS WILL SPECIALISE PENANG, Monday. THE Penang sub-division of the Malayan Royal 1 Naval Volunteer Reserve will send ratings for specialist training next year, Commander D. W Graham, staff officer, said today. "We hope to send about 20 I to 30 students to the seaman
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    Acquitted on theft charge
    73 5 After an 11-hour sleep, a Singapore liquo r shop manager found $160— his takings of a previous night— and a $25 watch missing from a drawer. The back door of the shop was open. This was stated in the Sixth Police Court yesterday when Goh Boon
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    HAD STOLEN WIRE: GAOLED
    50 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Twenty-year-old Cheah Un alias Cheah Pak Len pleaded guilty before Raja Chik Jaafar, Kuala Lumpur Second Magist- j rate, today to having stolen copper wire valued at $106. Cheah who had a previous conviction for attempted extortion, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
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    77 5 MR L. SOLK, head of the Apostolic Society, wbo is on a tour of his diocese in Indonesia and Australia, arrived in Singapore yesterday in the liner Willem Ruys. Mr. Solk, who is accompanied by his wife, told the Straits Times that the new religion was founded seven years ago
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    Be Proud of Your English
    531 5 Are you content with the way you speak and write? Are you sure that you are not making mistakes that cause people to underrate you? Never has the importance of effective speech and writing been more widely recognised than today. If you can express yourself
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      92 5 THE SINGAPORE DIARY Beating of the Retreat: by four massed bands in recognition of Remembrance Day at Singapore Padang. 5.45 p.m. University of Malaya: Film show.' lecture at Arts Theatie 5.45 p.m. i Speaker: Professor A. C. Hardy of I Oxford University. PubUc Relations Office Mobile Ftlm Unit's free shows
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      97 5 Kaciiik' Champs (colour) —at Collyer Quay, 1.15 p.m. sin««porr Art Society: Exhibition of Palntalnga of Bali at British Council Hall, Stamford Road. 9 a.m. to 530 p.m. Admission free. V.M.C.A.: Malay Jawl class 5.30 p.m judo and gymnastics 5.30 pm table-tennis 7 p.m.; Week of Prayer ft World Fellowship devotional
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      85 5 leader: Mrs. Ruby Norrls; square Dance Club "Quest Night" S p.m. at Raffles Quay. Sri Senpaga Vlnay«j»r Temple Sathurthl Festival at 19. Ceylon Road, 5 30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Alumni Association Ollnicopatholoslcal meeting at pathology laboratory. Faculty of Medicine Srpoy Lines, 8.15 p.m. Study Uroup Movement: Lecture courses at,
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    DEATH
    65 6 2» H'orrfv $10 (minimum) MRS. CHUA HOON MONO nee E" N?an Neo passed away on 9.11.53 nt No. 81. Lim Ah Woo Road off < laavlnt behind her 4 sons. P«h C oon. Poh Seh. Poh < Poh Hee: 4 daughters and in law and man .-rand criidren and
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    160 6 ?0 H itrd J fit 1 tntnt ntii tn MR. AND MRS. W. GURUGAY ♦hank relatives and fnonds for their presents ?nd attended tnclr wedding I 53. MR. tc MRS. R.A. De ROZABIO t v .-nk all relative* and friends lor their help :>nd valuable presents on tin occasion
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      The Colony's Future
      913 6 The Commission of nine i which begins tomorrow, under j the chairmanship of Sir George Rendel, its review of the Colony's constitution, will find the atmosphere in the Victoria Memorial Hall something less than electrical. This does not j mean that the time has not come for
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      The Warta And The Qalani
      341 6 We publish today a final selection from the numerous letters which readers have written us on the symbolical burning of the newspapers Warta and Qalam. The majority of all the later letters support unequivocally the action of the Johore Bahru branch of UMNO, and the
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    'Home of own' for Asian students
    842 6  -  lOSMAR WHITE -By- IN AUSTRALIA HUNDREDS of Asian students who attend Melbourne University every year are soon to have a "home of their own." The first £A 30,000 subscribed by the public of Victoria state towards setting up International House at the university has
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      The burned papers
      54 6 WARTA and Qalam speak more for the American Government than they do for peoples of this country. It Is high time the United State- I Information Service was challenged to admit or deny whether or not it has a direct interest in the policies of these papers.
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      58 6 CYNICUS may be excused for his defence of the freedom of the press because it is not expected that he has read Qalam and Warta. Those who have and yet champion i the two papers only do so be- j cause they have an axe to srind with Tunsrku Abdul
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      19 6 Yf R. H. A. Alsagoff should realise that anti-Com-munist propaganda does not necessarily mean anti-Chinese propaganda. ANOTHER ANTI-COMMUNIST Singapore.
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      41 6 ft UNTIL the burning of Warta and Qalam, I thought high ly of Tungku Abdul Rahman. But his action has proved to me what sort of government this once peaceful country will have when it gets independence. GOVT. PENSIONER. Singapore. ft
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      THEY NEED WATER
      97 6 THEY NEED WA TER 'JHERE are nearly a thousand people in Tanjong Bendahara. Alor Star. All are suffering from scarcity of water. Most of them have to get their water from a few railway workers' taps and have to pass through the compound of the Railway Quarters, because then- is
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      60 6 MANY readers have protested strongly against the policy of Qalam and Warta not because these newspapers are anti-Communist, but because they think they are racialist. Qalam and Warta 's approach to Communism approximates Senator McCarthy's It Is racial in concept. This is precisely the policy which the Japanese followed during
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    On the Margin
    445 6 Any parallel? rEV used to call Trieste the western Singapore before the 1914 war. Far fetched but some truth in it. Trieste was to .south-east Europe what Singapore is to south-east Asia; it was to the Austrian Empire what Singapore is to the British Commonwealth, a cosmopolitan
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    New plan expected to make big improvement in rural life
    256 7 New plan expected to make big improvement in rural life KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. A PLAN to put rural Malaya on an organised basis and help its 2,500,000 population get a dignified place in the nations social structure is being discussed in high government circles. The plan, based OO community development
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    RULING ON WHO PAYS POWER BILL
    105 7 TIIK Singapore City Council's public utilities committre will consider at a meeting i today whether sub-tenants should b e separately supplied with electricity The Council has received applications from sub-tenants and the committee will recommend a policy for dealing with such applications. The general
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    NEXT MEETING IN SINGAPORE
    66 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.The Joint Co-Ordination Committee of the Federation .md fiinsapore held its fifth mret|nu in Kuala Lumpur today Tinder the chairmanship of the Commissioner-General. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. The meeting continued its consideration of the present machinery i^ r co-ordinating policy arid administration in i
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    Coroner going to Britain
    39 7 The Singapore Coroner, Mr Choor Singn. la leavinß for Hri tain today on M.x-inonth Gov ernment scnoia.snip. Mr. Chour S.nsn. wno Ls n' Bachelor oi Luw 01 London University, is to undergo further legal studies.
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    He refused to hire taxi
    190 7 PANG AH ING was fined $10 in the City Police Court yesterday when he was found guilty of refusing without reasonable excuse to let his taxi for hire while it was parked in a stand in Tanjong Pagar Road on September 18. Mrs. B. R.
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    DRIVING CHARGE FAILS
    127 7 DRIVING CHARGE FAILS DECAUSE the complainant In a case before the Singapore First Traffic Court was not available yesterday, the magistrate. Mr. F. A. Chua acquitted S. R. Anthony, a syce, on a charge of dangerous driving. Anthony had earlier been convicted by another traffic magistrate and fined $150 or
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    Dance teacher?' officials
    83 7 Officers of the Institute ot Dance Teachers (Malayan tor the year are: President: Mr C. H. Chan. I vice-presidents, Messrs. G R. Collick and Victor Ong; secretary, Mr. Leonardo Slddons, asst. secretary, Mr M. G. Adamsha; treasurer, Mr. C. F. Tan: auditor, Mr. C. N. Wonz. Area
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    Wreath for POWs
    49 7 Miss A MacNamara. an Australian school teacher, vill lav a wreath of Australian wild flowers at Kranji cemetery tomorrrw at 11 a.m. in memory of South Australian prisoners of war buried there. Canon R. K. s. Adams of St Andrew's Cathedral, will conduct a short service
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    Defence chief arrives
    32 7 Singapore's new Defence Secretary, Mr. L. H. N Davis, arrived yesterday in the Willerr. Ruys. Mr. Davis takes over from Mr. C. R. Forsyth who leaves Singapore on Sunday.
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    37 fined $5 each
    18 7 A Singapore magistrate yesterday fined 37 cyclists S5 each for riding bicycles without bells.
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    Darmi moves into her new home
    242 7 IT'S HER FIRST IN 56 YEARS DARMI binte Wangsamaja, 56. yesterday turned the front door key of her new horne the first she has ever owned in Kampong Melayu, Singapore, and walked across the threshold. Darmi walked slowly through the house, feeling the doors.
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    ROTARY CLUB
    41 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon —Mr J. M. Allison, of the Southport Rotary Club. Queensland, who was entertained in Johore Bahru last year, has sent a Rotary banner to the Johore Bahru Club. The banner is displayed at the club meetings.
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    $10,000 gift for T.B. fund
    40 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Lady Templer's tuberculosis hospital appeal fund has received a gift of $10,000 from Col H. S. Lee, Member for Railways and Ports. The .second list of gifts bring* the total to $86,373.
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    Water cut off
    27 7 Water supplies for Singapore Improvement Trust tenants in the Alexandra area will be cut ofl from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today for repairs.
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    New citizens
    14 7 Certificates of Naturalisation have been granted to 42 people in Singapore recently.
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    ALLIANCE GETS TWO K.L. COUNCIL SEATS
    127 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. I rpHE UMNO-MCA alliance to- day won two of the four| Kuala Lumpur municipal coun- oil seats which become vacant in December as nominations for the elections closed at midday. Polling day is December 5 Two alliance candidates -Mr Cheah Ewe
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    Holiday over
    28 7 Mr Norman Lloyd Williams Is returning to Singapore next week from leave in England to take ud his forme r duties as Deputy Director of Broadcast-
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    $4,000 raised
    15 7 The Singapore Gift Fund for Indian Custodian troops in Korea stands at $4,000
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    Malacca doctor's appeal heard
    261 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Monday. A N appeal against a five-year prison sentence passed A by the Malacca High Court on Dr. Ong Bak Hin, who was found guilty of performing an abortion on a woman who later died, was heard in the High Court here today before
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    Trainees return
    32 7 BRUNEI TOWN, Mon. Messrs. 8.8. H. Andrews and Abdul Rahman of the Medical Department have returned after completing a laboratory training course at the Institute for Medical Research, Kuala Lumpur.
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    $5 for trespass
    31 7 Sum Kee Yang was fined $5 in the Singapore Seventh Police Court yesterday, for wilful trespass in entering the compound of a house In Oeylang on Aug. 28
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    TO STUDY MUSIC IN BRITAIN
    43 7 Miss Madeline So, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. So C'hiu Sheng of Singapore, who left by the Chasan yesterday for the Royal Academy of Music. Miss So obtained her 1..R.5.M (pianoforte) in Singapore recently Straits Times pictnre.
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    Libel suit is adjourned
    60 7 A libel suit by Miss Chu Yung Yung, a singer, against a Chinese language newspaper, Feng Pao. was adjourned sine die In the Singapore hHig Court yesterday. The adjournment was flowed pending confirmation of terms of settlement by the parties. Mr. Robert H-sieh appeared for the
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    Families give personal bond
    46 7 BENTONO. Mon. Three 'Punjabi families in Ben torn; were ordered to execute personal bonds of $100 each for six months by Mr. E. M. Smallwood, the West Pahang Circuit Magistrate. The charge said they were likely to commit a breach of pe^ce.
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    ELECTION CAMPAIGNS GAIN MOMENTUM
    77 7 /^ITY Council election campaigns In Singapore's five wards are gathering momentum. Mr. S. S. Manyam, Labour candidate for North Ward, yesterday challenged his Progressive opponent. Mr. Llm Choo Sye, to address an election meetino; with him. AIM) invited to at the meeting, which Is being organised
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    Paglar is patron of Christmas social
    128 7 Paglar is patron of Christmas social rr\HE S.ngapore Young Ma--1 layans' Club will hold a Christmas social and dance under the patrorage of Legislative Councillor Dr. C. J. Paglar next month to raise funds for the Singapore Youth Council's general assembly of the World Assembly of Youth. The dance, to
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    RENDEL: 98 OUT OF 100 DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S ABOUT
    417 7 (\F 100 people interviewed by Straits Times reporters 98 knew nothing about the Rpndel Commission which tomorrow begins discussions on Singapore's next step towards self-government. Ninety-eight teachers, lawyers, doctors, trade unionists, businessmen and Government servants were uninterested in whether Singapore
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    AWARDS FOR GOOD CADETS
    108 7 AWARDS FOR GOOD CADETS CSM WONG GLOK SEAM of the Raffles Institution topped the list of 82 cadets who received Cadet Efficiency Certificates Part I and II from Lt. Col T J. Hutchingson R. A. at the Singapore Volunteer Corps Headquarters yesterday. Wong secured 333 marks in the examination The
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    COURT PAYS TRIBUTE
    70 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Tributes to a "very One man were made today by the Fede ration Chief Justice. Sir Charles Mathcw. Of the Supreme Court He was referring to Mr. K K Benjamin, the KupJa Lumour lawyer who died last week "He will be sadly missed by
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      154 7 The Weather Minimum temperature: (7.30 p.m. on Nov. 8 to 7.30 am on Nov. 9): Singapore 74 degrees, Penang 76. Kota Bahru 75, Kuala Lumpur 74, Ipoh 73, Kuantan 72. Maximum temperature: (7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on Nov. 9): Singapore 89, Penang 88, Kota Bahru 94, Kuala Lumpur 90,
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    Indian traders due in
    95 8 A 15 member industrial delegation from the Manufacturers Organisation, Bombay, will arrive in Singapore today. The delegation, headed by Mr. Morarji J. Vaidya, president of the Indian Council of Foreign Trade, will visit various industrial concerns and meet local Government officials and businessmen, during their Xour-day
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    FINED $400 FOR FELLING TIMBER
    60 8 FINED $400 FOR FELLING TIMBER JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. JACOB David, a timber contractor, was fined a total of $400 here for illegally felling and collecting timber on Jemaluan? State land In addition 30 logs seized by the Forest Department were confiscated. An application for compensation made by Mr. G. E.
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    ON LEAVE
    29 8 MR. JACK PAYNE, senior detective inspector of the Singapore Harbour Board Police, who left Singapore in the Chii.vut for Britain on six months' leave. Straits Times picture.
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    $4,000 gift for Indian troops
    52 8 Gift Fund Committee of Singapore for Indian Custodian troops in Korea has col lected $4,000. Mr Jamnadas Mehta. chair man of the committee, told the Straits Times yesterday that the money would be sent to the Government of India for distribution to the Indian troops
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    Moved biscuits: he's fined $20
    52 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Ong Chin Wan. who was found moving two tins of biscuits without a permit, was fined $20 in the Police Court. He told the Court that he was on his way to Muar and the biscuits were gifts from his brother to
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    Sultan's cousin plans visit
    36 8 BRUNEI TOWN, Mon—Pengiran Maharaja Leila, a State Councillor. Minister of State and a cousin of the Sultan, will shortly visit Kelantan. His purpose is to study the Malayan constitution at first hand
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    Taximen want new meters date
    249 8 Taximen want new meters date OINGAPORE taxi owners have asked the City Council to extend the deadline for fitting meters from Jan. 1 to June l next year. Although the City Council has agreed that no taxi will be granted a licence if not fitted with a meter after Jan.
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    NOW HE WORKS IN BRUNEI
    22 8 MR. CHEAM KIM SWEE. formerly of Singapore, who has joined a well-known firm of contractors in Brunei.
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    'Noconfidence'in two who quit Council
    157 8 'No confidence' in two who quit Council JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. rE Johore division of the Malayan Trade Union Council today voted no confidence in Mr. P. P. Narayanan and Mr. M. P. Rajagopal for resigning from the Federal Legislative Council without the consent of the MTUC, which nominated them. The
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    'Godfathers' will help Abdul, 12
    124 8 r-IK Singapore Junior Chamber of Commerce is looking for six "godfathers" to help send a 12-year-old Malay boy through school. Four "godfathers." including an American, have already agreed to contribute to the schooling expenses of the boy. Abdul Latiff Mohidin They are Dr. C. J.
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    'I must have my toddy'
    51 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Karupiah told the Police Court here today: "I cannot live without drinking toddy. I am poor and unemployed so I tap trees for toddy." He was found guilty of tapping ten coconut palms at Masai and fined $150 or 50 I days'
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    Indian envoy visits Colony
    29 8 Mr. D Murugesan. the new Indian Consul-General to Shanghai, is in Singapore on a short visit. He will leave for Shanghai today in the Santhya
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    $900 tax fine
    29 8 Ang Low was yesterday fined S9OO or six months' gaol in Singapore for falling to send in income tax returns of Chop Joo Bee for 1951.
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    HE STAYS BEHIND
    87 8 ON SATURDAY morning Mr. R. Waters, his wife and their three children packed to leave for Britain. But when the Chusan left Singapore yesterday Mr. Waters was ieft standing on the wharves he is in charge of the Singapore Harbour Board police and there was just too
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    TRIED TO SMUGGLE: $9,000
    194 8 TRIED TO SMUGGLE: $9,000 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. BELIEVING that they had got the co-operation of two Customs officers by promising them $30 each. Foo Yoo Kon* and Giam Boon Van tried to smuggle 841 b. of unmanufactured tobacco and avoid $642 duty Their fines totalled $9,000 The arrangement made with
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    Chap-ji-ki fine
    70 8 Seah It Kay. a trisha rider v.ho admitted being g Chap-Ji-ki runner, was fined $300 or two months gaol in Singapore yesterday. MAY LIANU, three years old. prepares to cut her cake at the party given for her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Lien Ying Chow, of
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    PASSENGERS ARRIVING IN THE CANTON
    529 8 The following passengers are expected to arrive in Singapore today in the P and O liner Canton from Britain: Ist. Class. Mr. Si Mrs. J. A. Aitken and child. Mr. N. L Alexander. Mr. J. L. K Brove. Mr. Mrs. W. Burns and two children.
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      487 9 THE I/MB/IV XX.MS The Sultan of the indies was so Meanwhile. however. Princess It was the first of many such worried about Hie disappearance Peribanou. the underworld fairy visits, and although the Sultan of his youngest son, Ahmed, that whom Ahmed had married, taw was delighted to see his ten
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    SHARES STEADY BUT QUIET
    604 10 .\r«MMi«i the markrift RUBBER AGAIN LOWER rpHE Singapore share market yesterday was very quiet throughout the day when only small business was written in all sections. Prices throughout wrrr. however, fairly steady at around Saturday's closinc levels. Tin was unchanged at $308.75 a picul and rubber
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    TIN PRICE
    17 10 The prior of tin in Singapore yesterday was df--1 hired at $308.75 a picul. unchanged.
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    Australian stocks
    183 10 MELBOURNE Mon INDUSTRIAL i.-.,dcis hart a firm I opening market on thr SNtIjJ Exchan«e today. Drug Hmisrsß Dunlop and Felt and Trxule ■kam were among the rises Bank of New South Wales rights I pOacd 4s. «ltli sales at 1625. Wool held Its strong tone In Sydney and
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    Exchange rates
    105 10 ■pHE Malayan Exchange Bank? Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants yesterday: NEW YORK: buying. T.T 52 7 air mail, O.D. 33. 90 dus 33.. credit bills. 33 316 trnde billsselling 32 11 16. jeady. CANADA: buying. T.T 32', «lr mail. OD. 32 90 days,
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    October rubber crops
    38 10 The following crops of rubber were harvested in October lb .\y»r Molek 26.930 Amulcamated Malay 62.500 Borelli Rubber 67.000 Coni.Pinara 57.700 Nc* Serendah Rubber 57. ion Ku..la Sidtm Rubber 104 SS3 Ba.ssett Rubber 32 ODO
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    Produce prices
    70 10 Singapore Chinrvr Produce Exchange: Noon prices per picul were Copra: steady; November $37', buyers. $37 k sellers; December $37 buyers. $37 sellers. Coconut oil: steady; $fii sellers. Pepper: steady: Muntok white $340. Sarawak $335, Lamnonc bla< k $300. Lewis and Peat: Closing prices were Copra: very quiet; November
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    Singapore shipping
    132 10 CHIPS lying alongside tru Suik.ipore Harbour Board wharves or exported today are Canton 1-2. Orestes 4-5. Le Malre C.P.. Pcleus 6-7. Santhla 8-9. Lanekoes 11. Patroclus 13-14, Shinwa Maru 15-16. AsahUan Maru 19-20, Sumpitau N. Wall 3. Angby N. Wall 5 and 6. Selawror N. Wall 8. Maxwell
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      515 10 NOTICES HOME GUARD QUOTATION Contractors residing in Bentong or Raub Districts are Invited to submit quotations up to 1200 hrs. on Friday 13th November for the construction of one brick wall 105 ft. x 12 ft. x 3 ft., adjacent to the Bentong air strip. Further particulars may be obtained
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      383 10 NOTICES THE MALAKA PINDA RUBBER ESTATES, LIMITED (Incorporated in the Colony of Singapore) Dividend No. 48. NOTICB 18 HEREBY GIVEN that at the 38th Ordinary General Meeting of the Company to be held at the Registered Office of the Company. No. 96. Market Street. Singapore, on Wednesday. 23rd December. 1953.
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    THE BUSINESS WORLD
    443 12 THE BUSINESS WORLD OFFICIAL circles in Britain are reported to be surprised at Russia neglecting the opportunity to buy rubber openly at world market prices when Red China is buying from Ceylon at much higher prices. Although British control bans exports of rubber to Red China, exports are allowed to
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    Siam's rubber exports to U.S. are higher
    93 12 Siam's rubber exports to U.S. are higher THE United States took 8.184 metric tons and Japan 20 metric tons of Slam's total September rubber exports of 8.204 metric tons, according to the latest figures released in Bangkok. August shipments were 5,939 metric tons. In the first nine months of this
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    $1-M. HOTEL TO BE BUILT IN JOHORE BAHRU
    343 12 $1-M. HOTEL TO BE BUILT IN JOHORE BAHRU From a Correspondent lOHORE BAHRU'S first hotel a million-dollar, four-storied, 36-bcd-roomed building will be built next year. The project is being sponsored by well-known Johore Bahru businessman Mr. J. C. Chang, proprietor of Hai Loon Trading Co. The hotel will be built
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    U.S. tyre industry 'confident'
    77 12 U.S. tyre industry 'confident' TEADERS of the United States' rubber industry are confident of next year's business prospects even if there is a 15 per cent, drop in production of new cars, according to reports from Akron, Ohio. The basis of their confidence in an ability to resist a recession
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    SEARCH FOR NEW MARKETS
    100 12 SEARCH FOR NEW MARKETS SEEKING to establish new agencies in the Far East, Mr. Williams N. Modglin, president of Modglin Co. Incorporated, of Los Angeles, is expected in Singapore soon. Mr. Modglin, who left the United States on October 30. is visiting Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Jakarta, Bangkok and Hawaii,
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      Drive to boost Malayan exports of pineapples
      245 12 Drive to boost Malayan exports of pineapples A DRIVK is being planned to boost Malayan exports of pineapples and bring Ihe industry back into its pre-war third place on Ihe Malayan export table. Malaya supplied between 80 and P0 per cent, of Britain's pineapple imports before the war. Main point
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      Singapore market exists for 'good' quality products
      74 12 ITEEN to investigate the Singapore market after reports of adverse trading conditions with falling commodity prices, Mr. Nils Sellin. export manager of A. B. Optimus, of Sweden, manufacturers of pressure lamps, stoves and industrial equipment, visited the Colony recently He found during a
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    BIG BOTTLING PLANT READY SOON
    165 12 pOMPLETION of the $6-million bottling plant being installed in the River Valley Road branch of Fraser and Neave Ltd. is expected next April. A start on installing the equipment was made in 1951. Part of the equipment is shown in the above photograph The machine
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    Aerial survey to find rich Malayan minerals
    228 12 AN aerial survey of Malaya's east coast, where there have been indications of valuable mineral resources, is planned if conditions are suitable for aircraft to make a geological survey. The survey will be made hy a CanaHian geologist, Mr. George Shaw, who left
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    'Revolution' in building in Australia
    117 12 'Revolution' in building in Australia A REVOLUTION in building theory and practice ha.« begun in Australia- -the biggest revolution for hundreds of years, according to that country's building experts. Plaster of paris. under a new nwthod of construction, is now belnu used structurally. With roofs unsupported by any framework of
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    'I want to kill somepin'
    727 13 I want to kill somepin' ,LApY PAKENHAM TALKS ABOUT CHILDREN ...said my boy, aged three, brandishing a stick "f WANT to kill some- pin"! I want to kill somepin!" With horror I realised *his was my eldest son, aped three, strutting about the house, brandishing a stick. Are thc>3 the
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    Keep a good first-aid box
    416 13 SISTER CLARE I HAVE given you some hints about minor ailments and accidents. But you may be a little hazy about the things it is good to have "by you" to deal with them. It Is a very good idea to get together a simple
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    The 'Unharmonious'
    298 13 The 'Unharmonious THE PRACTICE of child adoption has been common to the Chinese since the days of their earliest civilisation. Sometimes adoption is a necessity. When a newly born child is sickly, hard to take-rare-of, in an ever-crying-mood, or touchy to things inanimate in the house. His "pay-jee" (horoscope! is
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    All young beasts require freedom
    475 13 says THE PLANTER'S WIFE IT Is regrettable that some folk harness up bullocks before they are large enough to do the job required of them. I do not think this practice helps the owners in the end. It is all right to train them youngish
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      99 13 i Yj \iftl™ ll f\w Pinky Chuang *r °f Sintupore. This is Pinky Chuang of Singapore at six V\\ months of age. When sending us this photograph V\\ Mr. Chuang wrote:V\\ "I am writing to express my thankl to Vs\ your LACTOGEN which my Boy has been taking V *>
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      117 13 Straits Times Crossword I T* I^HM s L Jml 15 14 *S|| IS '6 'B 19 ro "Si" lll^~ ACROSS ends In smiles (8). 1. Town has rouuh part (7). H. F»»rly good at putting In 5. Call hack after she gets centre (8). varnish ingredient (7). 1»- Accessory of
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      194 13 28. Wilde attached Importance to being this (7). 29. Mountain Invites lady to be still (7).. DOWN 1. Si rip of material for musician; era (7). 2. Brother of Romulus (5). 3. How to bring down prices (9). 4. Where they make stays but not corsets <S>. 5. Tlirn my
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    Peng Soon's Taipeh tour mystery
    310 14  -  SENTINEL By A WARNING ON AMATEUR STATUS WONG PENG SOON, the world's No. 1 badminton player, has tentatively booked six air passages to Taipeh (Formosa) for an exhibition tour that may involve the loss of amateur status for the players who take part. The touring
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    52 14 THE CAPTAIN of the Combined Services soccer team, J. Davenport, receives the lay Lian Teck Shield from Mrs. Tay Lian Teck after Services 3-2 win over Singapore Civilians in the annual Poppy Day Fund match on Sunday. Mr. W. A. C. Goode, Officer Administering the Government, also offers congratulations. Straits
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    SELANGOR B.A. SAYS DESERTION'
    195 14 By NG YOOK YOON KUALA LUMPUR Mon. THE tournament committee of the Selangor Badminton Association "views with disapproval" the application by Abdullah Plruz and Llm Koon Yam. the State champion and runner-up respectively, to Join the Mayflower B.P. tour to Formosa. This was the decision it
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    Blues trounce Sembawang
    195 14 ALL BLUES proved too good for RNAS Sembawang in their rugger friendly at Police ground yesterday, winning by 27 points (three goals, two tries, two penalties' without conceding a point to their opponents. The game was disappointingly one-sided and but for an early raid and a last-minute
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    IRISH CHANGE
    50 14 BELFAST. Mon— lreland have been forced to make a change in their World Cup soccer team to meet England on Wednesday through Injury to the Glasgow Cel'lc outside left Tully. Norman Lockhart. of' Aston Villa, who wa* outside left In the game against Scotland. Is brought in Reuter
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    J.R.U. OFFICIALS
    37 14 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon —Mr Justice Storr has been elected president of the Johore Rubcv Union. Others elirted v.xre: Vicepresident.s. Messrs E. J. Cooper and J. F. M. Roualle; hon. s-cretary and treasurer. Mr. PGM. Lee
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    SCHOOLS XI TO MEET JOHORE
    73 14 Singapore Combined Schools hockey team will play against Johore English College Past and Present Combined on the Victoria School ground this evening. The Combined Schools team is: R. Ess iSJIi; R. Stevens (SABS' T. Rodrigues rSJIi; Heng Hoe <VS>. D. Hay (VSi. E. Wljeslnghe (SJIi;,
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    PATTY & LARSEN WIN DOUBLES
    49 14 PATTY LARSEN WIN DOUBLES SANTIAOO. (Chile), Mon.— Budge Patty and Art Larsen won the men's doubles title in the South American tennis tournament here, beating jaroslav Drobny and Enrique Morea 5-7. ff-4. 6-2, 4-6. 6-3. Earlier. Morea beat Drobny 3-6. »>-3. 6-4, 6-3 in the singles final.— A. P.
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    VARSITY WIN
    31 14 University of Malaya beat 30 Bn. R.A.0.C.) 2-0 In a Singapore Hockey Association Dlv. 2 match at Alexandra Road yesterday. Scorers vere B. K. Sen and R. 8. McCoy.
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    OLYMPIC GAMES HOCKEY TEAMS
    54 14 THE HAGUE, Mon.— L. J. Van U fiord. President of the International Hockey Federation, said today he thought the following 12 countries might send hockey teams to the 1956 Olympic Games In Melbourne: Britain. Germany. India. Pakistan. Japan. New Zealand. Australia, the United state*. Argentina. Malaya.
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    Coronation Cup soccer scores
    88 14 Coronation Cup soccer scores Results of the Civil services Association's Coronation Cup soccer competition played at Farrer Park on Sunday: Posts and Telegraph A beat H M. Customs 3-2 In the senior game Scorers were Mat don, Sharif! Giman and Harlth (P tt T). Rawi and Dawood. Public Works Dept.
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    Two victories for St. Joseph's v Victoria
    377 14 pOR the first time this season, two hockey matches between two schools were played on th« padan<» yesterday, when St. Joseph's Institution met Victoria School or. the SRC. ground. 9.J.1. were winners by 3-0 In their fir«t-team game. In the second- ten m
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    Three youngsters impress at K.L.
    405 14  -  EPSOM JEEP By KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. HOOGLY, Projector and Kempton a trio of smart two-year-olds attracted most attention on the training track here this morning. Hoogly, with George Whitney astride, displayed a bright turn of speed in a trial with stable companion Sir Climax (Strakeri,
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    Three world title fights
    123 14 NEW YORK Men— Three world championship bouts top the boxing programme this week at such wld»lv scattered points as Montreal Chicago, and Sydney (Australia). Lightweight champ Jimmy Carter starts it oft" on Wednesday at Montreal against Armand Savoie Carter Is 5 to 1 over the No.
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    DUTCH CLUB LOSE
    28 14 Singapore Harbour Board Police beat Dutch Club 2-0 in a Singapore Hockey Association Dlv. 2 match at Keppel ground yesterday. Changka Singh scored both goals.
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    6 LIFTERS CAN REACH SOSC MARKS
    222 14 4 RECORD entry Is expected for this year's Singapore Amateur Weightllftlng Federation championship, to be held at the Happy World Stadium on Dec. 13 and 14. Mr. Chua Tlan Teck, honorary trainer and coach of S.A W.L.F., told the Straits Times that he Is
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    INDIANS NET 5 TO BRANI'S 4
    309 14 rIERE was no lack of goals at Jalan Bcsar i stadium yesterday in the last fixture of the SAFA first division league in I which Indian Recreation Club beat Pulau Brani by 5-4. Narayanan. Indians' regular j goalkeeper, figured in a different role as
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    TOP HONOURS FOR GORDON PIRIE
    48 14 LONDON Mon— Gordon Pinr Britain's staff distanre runner, baa been awarded the C. N. factsui Memorial Cup for the outstandlnz athlete of the year and the Harvey Memorial Gold Cup for the be.s: champion of the year by the English Athletics Association. Reutei
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    TIGERS WIN BY JIMMY'S GOAL
    58 14 TIGERS WIN BY JIMMY' S GOAL TKiKR SPORTING AMOC1A TION brat Banka-Rilliton K.A. by Ihr nnly goal of the farm h«Tf yesterday. l.pft-»inarr Jimmy Tan scorrtl in the 17th minute of the second half. Rest plavrr on the held was the Ranka-Rilliton rrntre half, van dcr Rrrc. who playrd in
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