The Straits Times, 5 January 1955

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    13 1 The Straits Times IW* Estd. 1845 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1955. 15 CENTS
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    BIGGER BORDER BROOM
    210 1 Siam- Malaya talks pjewplan to sweep out the Reds K li MPI R Tufi. fpop n a "d giamt se officials w ill here this month the expansion of the combined antiCammonisl intelligence system no w\ operating in south Nam. nida, man" hief, arrives ur on Jan.
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    CINDERELLA JANETTE
    203 1 TOO POOR FOR SANTA TO CALL —BUT HONESTY CHANGED IT ALL JAXETTE CHILES, 13. found a wallet in the street in Limehouse, London and took it to the police station. It contained £15. It was Christmas Eve. A police officer said: "I hope Santa Claus brings you lots
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    The magazine you must get today...
    105 1 The magazine you must get today... IJAVE you got your XI c opy of The Malayan Monthly for January? If S not, you should do so NOW. E Among its many features z are: SINGAPORE MASS WEDDING a picture story of one of 26 couples; CENSORED!— Deglnning i E new
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    Lock icon Wife sues author
    23 1 PHILADELPHIA, Tues. James Michener, author of "Tales of the South Pacific," was sued for divorce yesterday by his wife. A.P.
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    FOR ANNE, IT WAS THE SECOND TRAGEDY
    163 1 'At home, we drank to them/ says father From HALL ROMNEY LONDON. Tuesday. THE death of Donald McPherson. who was found shot in a bathroom at the Singapore V.M.C.A. hostel on Monday morning, was the second tragedy in the life of Anne Herring,
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    Lock icon U.S. $2 million compensation
    44 1 TOKYO, Tues.— The Japanese Foreign Ministry announced Japan had agreed to accept an American offer of U552,000,000 compensation for lnluries and losses suffered by Japanese fishermen and the fishing industry as a result of hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini. —Reutcr.
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    Lock icon Nine drown
    27 1 CARTAGENA, Spain, Tues. —Nine men were feared drowned when a Spanish navy tuX sank in heavy seas today a mile off this naval base. AP
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    SAD FATHER CHRISTMAS COMMITTED SUICIDE
    107 1 READING, Tues. The Father Christmas at a big department store here committed suicide at the end of his nine-week reign, it was revealed here today at the Inquest on Robert Trown. Trown, 70. w.is left without a job on Christmas Eve. Six days later, saddened
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    Lock icon Suez back to normal
    58 1 ISMAILIA. Tues.— A convoy of 69 ships was on the move again today in the Suez Canal after the dispersal of fog which had held them back when the canal was opened last night. Within 36 hours navigation through the canal, blocked since Friday by a
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    Lock icon Dag in Hangkow
    32 1 NEW YORK. Tues The United Nation* SecretaryGeneral, Mr. Dag Hammarskjoeld, arrived in Hangkow today on his way to Peking, according to a message received at United Nations headquarters. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Pope ill again
    26 1 VATICAN. Tues. The Pope's doctor warned him today against overwork after the 78--year-old Pontiff suffered a return of his hiccoughs last nluht UP.
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    Wardlethe walloper checks Australia
    197 1 Wardlethe walloper checks Australia MELBOURNE, Tues. A USTRALIA, needing A 165 runs with eight wickets left, are favourably placed to beat England in the third Test here and take a 2-1 lead in the series. England's task Is not hopeless, but it might have been had not Johnny -Wardle indulged
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    Power men threaten to strike
    73 1 mHE Singapore City Councij 1 Electrical Workers' Union will give 14 days' strike notice to the City Council tomorrow If the authorities fall to reinstate two workers dismissed Trom the Pasir Panjang power station. This was decided at an extraordinary committee meetIng last night. A
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    Lock icon Winged terror
    41 1 AUCKLAND, Tues. An elephant at Auckland Zoo panicked at the sisht of a helicopter from the U.S. Icebreaker Atka today and stampeded for half a mile, scattering visitors. A keeper's wrist was broken bciore the animal was calmed. AP
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    Lock icon Night of fear
    25 1 MESSINA. Sicily, Tuec. Hundreds of Liparl islanders slept in the open again last night, chased from their homes by returning earthquakes. A.P.
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    Lock icon His children call him auntie-ban book, urges wife
    183 1 MANNHEIM. Tues.— A German woman is today suing for a ban on publication of the two-volume autobiography ot her ex-husband, a fr-mer sailor who Is now a woman. The wife Frau Elizabeth Glckelelter who has two sons of the marriage, has obtained
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    MYSTERY OF MISSING MAIL BAG
    291 1 MYSTERY OF MISSING MAIL BAG It contained at least $2,500 DOLICE and postal au- thoritles in Singapore were yesterday trying to solve the mystery of a micsing bag of registered mail which is known to contain at least $2,500— perhaps a great deal more. The bag disappeared from the registration
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    Lock icon Shops threaten—then squeeze wives
    202 1 Shops threaten then squeeze wives TRADE SHUT-DOWN GROWS KUCHING. Tuesday. THE threatened "strike' of import and export firms and shops in Kuching has sent panicky housewives on a foodstuffs hoarding spree. Shops are doin^ a roaring trade and raising the price of rice The Government today warned the public not
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    Lock icon The Fizz Stakes
    43 1 LONDON. Tues. A London firm of bookmakers last night entertained 2.000 of their best clients to champagne and caviar at a party to mark the end of the best year on record for bookmakers and the worst for backers. Reuter
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    Gurkhas shoot four in jungle
    238 1 Gurkhas shoot four in jungle IPGH, Tues. rOUR unarmed Chinese r going through a military drill in the Jungle near Hendra Estate in the Tungkai Area, South Perak, were shot at by a patrol of the 1/6 Gurkha Rifles yesterday morning. One of them. Koo Eng, was killed outright. Another,
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    STOP PRESS
    43 1 Hi RKI' UW IHKf Vf >l 4 Imi Tnc. T» r*p! .<l of !H: 1 I an H n'!v "I •■.rd d IU n tort- ht M i TV.«nd.« In *irj>w< f -<i «o hit Barm »nd R"it morrow --Ri-ot'-i 1
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    DOMINICI CASE TO REOPEN
    69 1 PARIS. Tues. The French Minister, of Justice, M. Guerin De Beaumont, has decided to order a new investigation in the case of Gaston Dominici, condemned murderer of the Drummond family. Dominici, 77, was convicted at Digne on Nov. 28 of murdering British food scientist Sir Jack
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    'Slavers' netted $50,000 a year
    313 2 FOR THE GLAD-EYE GIRL: $1,000 DOWN— AND A THREE-YEAR CONTRACT PITY? NO, NOT FOR THEMSA YS DPP OF FIVE WOMEN WHO TRIED TO BUY MAID OF 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. VIYK women, convicted of trying to buy a 19--year-old tfirl to use her as a
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    131 2 Lightweight jet engine invented WASHINGTON. Tues. A lighter and more powerful jet engine than any now In use has been invented by Private Simon Waitzman. 20. U.S. Army authorities said here yesterday. Private Waitzman. a former University of Pennsylvania .student, has been granted a Government patent on the engine, said
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    Lock icon Xmas crash inquiry
    53 2 LONDON, Tues A public inquiry is to be held into the Christmas Day plane crash at PrestWick airport. Scotland. In I which 28 people were killed. The plane, a 8.0.A.C. Stratocruiser bound from London to New York, burst into flames as it landed at Preatwlck early on
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    Busy Wall Street
    32 2 NEW YORK. Tues. Turnover of more than 4,500,000 shares on Wall Street yesterciav set a new peak for the current boom and the biggest in more than four years.
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    Lock icon Black Watch man killed
    59 2 NAIROBI Tues A private of the Ist. Bn.. Black Watch, was killed and another was wounded when African farm guards fired on troops at North Kinangap, it was announced j today The man killed was James Graham. 21. His wounded comrade is Thomas Connor. 22. Thtrtjr-ntne
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    Lock icon Colonel UP and Mr. DOWN
    7 2  -  Walter .by
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    NEW AIR CHIEF ARRIVES
    87 2 NEW AIR CHIEF ARRIVES r THE new Air Officer Commanding Malaya. Air Vice Marshal Wallace Hart Kyle. who arrived in Singapore by the Canton yesterday to take up his new appointment. Air ViC" Marshal Kyi. 1 an Australian, iias been Director of Operational Requirements at the Air Ministry since July
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    Bitten by snake
    27 2 A labourer. If. T. Madasamy. was bitten in the leg by a snake in Bukit Panjang Village. Singapore, yesterday. His condition is not .serious.
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    WEEK-END LASTED EIGHT YEARS
    154 2 LONDON. Tues. Guardsman Jonathan Pilkington -pent more than eight years as a buSLmt" l"u;t His absence began, he said. when he asked for week-end le-ivp from the Irish Guards at Chelsea Barracks BO that he could Dlay a match in October 1946 for St Helens, Lancashire.
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    Lock icon Americans say: Yes our planes can pick up man on ground
    213 2 WASHINGTON, Tues. THE UNITED STATES Air Force acknowledged last night it had equipment, which a plane in flight could use to snatch cargo and human beings from the ground. But it denied a Peking Radio allegation that such equipment
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    PARENTS: DON'T BE BULLIED
    323 2 Take the advice of an expert LONDON. Tuesday. DARENTS should stop being bullied by the experts, Sir Charles Morris, 56. Vice-Chancellor of Leeds University, an expert himself, advised here. He said it would be much better if parents stopped leaving the education of their children entirely
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    DOLLY WANTS 31,500,000 FOR 41 DAYS OF MARRIAGE
    212 2 DOLLY WANTS 31,500,000 FOR 41 DAYS OF MARRIAGE MIAMI. Tues. John Jacob Astor's third wife want* *****0.000 ($1,500.--000 Milayam to settle the»r court battle and Astor has countered with an offer of I'SSUOO ($3,000 Malayan) for each 01 the 41 days they lived together, the Miami Daily News said yesterday.
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    Lock icon NIXON MAY VISIT FAR EAST AGAIN
    70 2 NIXON MAY VISIT FAR EAST AGAIN WASHINGTON. Tues.— The United States News and World Report said President Eisenhower might ask Mr. Richard Nixon, the Vice-President. to uncuTiake a secret mission to South-East Asia "when 1 Communists at the moment arc making big gains among thi people." The magazine said Mr.
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    Lock icon Study tour
    45 2 NEW YORK. Tues. The Rev. Daniel Poiing. resident of the World Christian Endeavour Union, left here today for Honolulu on the first stage of a tour of the Far East. India and Europe to study "the spiritual climutc of the free world."— Reuter.
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    NIGHTWATCHMAN JIM GETS £1,357 IN OVERTIME
    132 2 LONDON. Tues— Night w «tihman Jim Ruff, of lleslon and Nli-worth council, woke up t( the fact that he uas working 100 hours a week instead ii' the refutation 44. So in went a claim for overtime 56 hours a week since 1952. The
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    Doctors say: Lock up wife beaters
    331 2 Doctors say: Lock up wife beaters LONDON, Tues. COMPULSORY mental treatment for men who are persistently cruel to their wives or children is urged in a report to the Royal Commission on Mental Law submitted on behalf of Britain's psychiatrists. This move mignt prevent many murders and other crimes of
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    Mr. Yap is off to trade talks
    140 2 Mr. Yap is off to trade talks MR. YAP PHENG GECK, a Singapore city councillor, j leaves for Hong Konß today to 1 represent Malaya and Borneo lat an ECAFE trade sub-com-mittee conference. He will return on Jan. 13. Dr. F. C. Benham, Economic Adviser to the CommissionerGenerals Office, and
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    Lock icon Italian Reds got Mussolini's treasure
    161 2 WASHINGTON. Tues. Mr Josef Swiatlo, former security official in Poland, said In te.sti- i mony published here yesterdny that the partisans who killed Benito Mussolini had found a fortune in cash and Jewellery on him. Mr. Swiatlo told the contnesMonal committee on Com-; munist aggression
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    HIS WAIST IS HIS WEIGHTY SUBJECT
    67 2 THIS AMERICAN claims to be the biggest man in Illinois. Robert Hughes, aged 28, from Baylis, tips the scales at 946 pounds and is still putting on weight. His waist measurement is an ilmost iinl)i-li<'\ ibli ihes. Robert Mann of uhooDiiiß rough, he was
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    Lock icon New travel ban
    31 2 WASHINGTON. Tue United States imposed gent new restrictions di by Soviet citizens in tl ed States v a retaliatoi .sure against restrict as in ihe sovii I Reuter
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    THE RUPIAH RIDDLE
    134 2 Govt. gets a $22,500 haul 4 SUM of 85,000 Indonesian rupiahs I 522.850 arrived in Singapore from Hon» Kon" by ed parcel post, addressed to a Chines.- in Bo who disowned it, was forfeited yesterday by M Chua, the First Criminal District Ju The forfeiture order was
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    U.K. TO BAR 'UNDESIRABLES'
    332 3 New controls on immigrants from Colonies planned ftut there will still to no colour bar LONDON, Tuesday. iv is to control the flow of immigrants B Bl li* the Colonies 1 tr° nl [on on the exact methods has been tor new legislation are now being
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    SINGER FIGHTS TAX CLAIM
    22 3 SINGER FIGHTS TAX CLAIM court tax i T Kiepura hemp and his also a rnings million Mr Mr. Kleive Bri■inmand they WarRev-
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    Ceylon lifts rubber ban
    23 3 I In view orld rubber vel offered has freed export to than China. :.s not the pact bound tally.
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    Lock icon Cruelty—so Purdom sues for divorce
    90 3 Cruelty so Purdom sues for divorce SANTA MONICA. Calif Tues. BRITISH film star Edmund Purdom has filed a suit for divorce against his wife Anita, whom he married in London lour years ago tomorrow. His .<uit charges cruelty against the 27-year-olri ballet dancer, who has blamed her husband's sucuen rise
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    Woman in treason case freed
    8 3 Mario provii Paris
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    Lock icon TWO 'FED UP' GIRLS
    93 3 They smashed Sir o Scots resl- at it ded in Stirlthe? had ley and Winston 8 window had become depressed. They b r oke the window in Downing Street and another at the Privy Council offices merely because they were fed up." There was no political
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    Lock icon MOTHER'S LOVE SOFTENED MAU MAU
    115 3 V BRITISH woman. Mrs. Anne Lovat Carnelly, with her two children. David and Jane, eighteen months whom Mau Mau ter- rorists captured hut set free unharmed after a raid on the ("arnelly farmhouse at N-Uvasha, 50 miles from Nairobi. Mrs. Cornell? titeu to fire on
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    Lock icon Thick snow disrupts the traffic in Britain
    266 3 Thick snow disrupts the traffic in Britain LONDON. Tues HEAVY snow w;as falling in London and must of Britain today after one of the coldest nights of the winter. Main roads were blocked, communications broken and rail traffic dislocated. London was transformed into a white, misty city as workers waded
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    Lock icon Woman pilot dies in sea crash
    132 3 Woman pilot dies in sea crash SAN DIEGO i California). Tues. THE body of Mrs. Diana Bixby. 32. well-known round-the-world pilot, was recovered yesterday from wreckage of her plane oIT the coast of lower California. Mrs Bixby had been missing since Sunday on a flight from Mexico to Long Beach,
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    Lock icon SIR WALTER TO MEET RAIL MEN
    267 3 They'll discuss that report LONDON. Tuesday OAILWAY union leaders, who have planned a na1V tional rail strike for midnight on Sunday, today agreed to have talks tomorrow with the Minister )1 Labour. Sir Walter Monckton They will discuss with him a hurriedly prepared report
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    Lock icon 'Mirror' for the stars—in London
    54 3 'Mirror' for the stars in London LONDON, Tues. London is to have its first planetarium, a domed building in which the movements and positions of planets and stars are reproduced, in about two years time. It is to be built by a private concern at a cost of about £50--000.
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    Lock icon Labour Party's food pledge
    42 3 LONDON. Tues. The Labour Party pledged itself today not to re-introdure tood rationing if it come* to power in Britain's next general election, but said it would restore bulk buying and might restore the Ministry of Food. UP.
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    Lock icon New radio link
    20 3 NEW DELHI. Tues. A direct radio telegraph service was opened yesterday between New Delhi and Peking. Reuter.
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    Lock icon SHOT PRESIDENT BURIED
    58 3 PANAMA CITY. TOM Colonel Jose Remon. President of Panama was buried in I Panama city lati yesterday afternoon lrs s lnan 24 :I(nirs after his assassination by unknown gunmen The National Assembly has declared a state of sienc, tem|)orarily supprcsMnn constitutional guarantees, to help scent police huntinc
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    Lock icon Big gems hunt at airport
    111 3 Big gems hunt at airport PRKsnVHR. Tups. 11/OKK.MKN hru.ui today to TT shovel up 1.000 tons of top soil at Prcstwick airport so that it can bo sifted for diamonds scattered on the surface in a Christmas Day airliner crash. The diamonds, valued altogether at between V; 800.000 and 1
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    Lock icon SIR WINSTON'S FUND WON'T BE TAXED
    129 3 LONDON, Tuesday. OIR WINSTON CHRUCHILL'S 80th birthday pre- scntation fund— now understood tc be approaching the £300.000 mark ($2,500,000) will not be subject to tax, it was learned here. This decision has been made by the Inland Revenue Authorities after a review of the
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    Lock icon Bandits in Canton
    56 3 TAIPEH. Tues. Red Chinese agents in South-East Asia met in Canton for an end-of-ye;ir review under the chairmanship of Liv Shao-chi. it was reported today The report said 19 representatives of Chinese Communist agents in Indo-Chiua, Burma. Malaya, Indonesia. Siam, Hong Konc. and Macao were summoned to
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    Lock icon Aga Khan ill
    25 3 NICE. France. Tues. The Aga Khan, leader of the Ismaili sect of Islam, has been ill but his condition has improved. A.P.
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    Lock icon Attlee is 72
    19 3 LONDON. Tues —Mr. Clement Attlee, leader of the Labour Party, celebrated his 72nd birthday yesterday.— U.P.
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    LONDON STOCKS
    320 3 LONDON, Tues. After early uncertainty broucht about by nervousness regarding the railway .strike threat and some endacrount, profit-taking London stock markets took on a brighter appearance towards the close. There has been some expansion in the giltedged market and prices steadily improved. Rubbers weie quieter while teas tended
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    LONDON TIN
    24 3 LONDON, Jan. 4. —Cash Buyers V:«f»3: Sellers K. Forward Buyers tfifll': Sellers BWf; Settlement MM; Turnover a.m. 65 tons p.m. H tons.
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    LONDON RUBBER
    37 3 LONDON. Jan. 4— Spot 31 .d F>b. 30-d.. Mar. 29-S.d.. AprilJune 28 \d July-Sept. 27 ',d Oct. -Dec. 27d.. Jan c if. 28 9 16d Feb. c.l.f. MML, March c l.f. 28', d. Tone: Ea-y.
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    20 AUSSIE EXCHANGE CADETS FLY HERE
    189 4 20 AUSSIE EXCHANGE CADETS FLY HERE TWENTY members of the Australian Air Training Corps landed at Tengah yesterday ning. They will tour Malaya. They are here on an exchUlM scheme. Led by Flt.-Lt, J. A. Challlnor ol th< k.a.f.. 20 cadets from Malaya left Tor Australia on New Years Kve
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    Two fined for having chandu
    45 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues \ew Yik Sin and Ling Yong I Chin were chanted today with having chandu and opium smoking utensils. Each had two previous convictions. Yew wa.s fined $600. or six months' ia.il. and Ling $500, or, Jour month*.
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    Death on road
    43 4 Lim Meng Loo, 7. was knocked down by a car and kill* d at the3rd mile. Thomson Road. Singapore at about 3.30 p.m. yesterday. Eye-witnesses are asked to contact Inspector G. KriLshnan at the Sepoy Lines police station, te.. 2400.
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    Thief under his bed
    64 4 1 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Mustapha bin Ahmad, of Singapore, who stole clothing worth $30 from a house in Jalan Ah Fook was jailed for -J years with t tTect from Oct. 20. to be followed by two years' police supervision. The owner of the house found
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    Dance officials
    31 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Y.W.C.A. Dance Club has elected Miss Linda Chiew as president. Other officials are: VicePresident. Mr. Richard Nadu, secretary. Miss J. Knight. treasurer. Miss Gloria O'Brien.
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    CYCLE THIEVES IN KEDAH
    64 4 ALOR STAR, Tues. Police today warned the public to beware of a gang of bicycle thieves operating In the state. Membi r.s ol the sans mu< from one arra to another, it was said. Forty-two bicycles were stolen in North Kedah last month. A police spokesman
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    That jigsaw test keeps 1,200 from school
    227 4 'I AM SORRY WE CANNOT FIND PLACES FOR YOUR CHILDREN' KUALA LI'MPI'K, Tues. MORE THAN 3.000 Selangor school children who took the "jigsaw" intelligence lest in November have been given places in Standard One in Government and aided English schools. But the parents
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    DETAINEES NOW GO TO PRISONS CHIEF
    87 4 Federal Govt will save $1,750,000 KUALA LUMPUR. Tuesday. T*HE COMMISSIONER for Prisons has now taken over administrative control of the Federation's detainees, who have dropped to fewer than 2,000. The peak figure was in Nov ember 1950 when nearly 11.000 people were held in
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    An admiral flies in 'for a gin at Raffles'
    242 4 An admiral flies in 'for a gin at Raffles' REAR-Admiral H H. Goodwin. Commander of United States Navy Forces In the Philippines, arrived in Singapore yesterday after a sevenhour flight and said he had come "just for one To a suggestion that It was a long way to come Just
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    STUDENTS ARE OUT OF JAIL
    195 4 Boys grumble about prison T Singapore Chinese students who were sentenced to three months' Jail for obstructing a police officer have now been released. Five of them all boys, were released from' Outran-. Road prison last week after servinß two months and two week* of
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    She must pay to get gems back
    97 4 A WOMAN whose son stole her $2,000 worth of jewellery and pawned it was told in Singapore yesterday to pay $1,000 to the Thai Woh Pawnshop, Serangoon Road, If she wanted her jewellery back. The woman. Koh Siew Ting, who said the jewellery
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    Two world travellers cannot find a bargain
    159 4 Two world travellers cannot find a bargain IF Singapore shopkeepers 1 have any bargains for sale. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Kaprelian, who arrived in the Colony yesterday on a round the world holiday, are two people who would like to find them. As Mr.s. Kaprelian put it: "We ye been
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    Bandits wound soldier
    51 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. lI.Q. Malaya Command today said that Lance Corporal M. Thapa was wounded in both thighs when terrorists ambushed a patrol of the 1 2 Gurkha Rifles in the Kota Tinggi area of Johore on Sunday. He is now in the British Military Hospital in
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    Guard shot by accident
    34 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues A Home Guard in Johore killed another Home Guard yesterday when he accidentally discharged his shotgun. The incident occurred at Kampong Telok Rimba. in the Tangkak District
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    Malay wedding
    37 4 KAJANG. Tues. The marriage of Che Haizan. eldest daughter of Inche Mahmood bin Ahmad of the P.W.D. here, and Inche Abdul Murad bin Haji Zainuddin. a clerk at HQ. Malaya Command, took place here yesterday.
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    Party for 5,000
    33 4 Singapore Rotarians Christmas treat for 5,000 poor children, postponed because of the floods last month, will now be held at the New World amusement park at 2 p.m. on Friday.
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    Selangor prepares for disasters
    209 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. DISASTER relief com--17 mittees are now being set up in each of Selangor's five districts in a pilot scheme to provide immediate aid for disaster victims. The district officer heads each committee, which includes the chiefs of police, tire services, social welfare and
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    Gurkhas back
    16 4 The Santhia brought 367 Gurkhas and their families back to Singapore from India yesterday.
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    MEDICINE MAN'S $600 DOSE
    72 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues Charged with making a faLse declaration in re.spect of certain herbs he was importing. Yong San Poh, a medicine dealer, pleaded that he had made a mistake. "The mistake was very much to your advantage," Mr N. L. Cohen the president said. when
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    A police driving instructor jailed
    205 4 A police driving instructor jailed K. LUMPUR, Tues. 1 pOLICE Lieutenant D. F. Perry, chief mii structor at the Federal Police Driving School here, described by his superior officer as a man whose "character and i work were exemplary," was sentenced to six weeks' Jail in the SesI sions Court
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    Chinese YMCA art show
    46 4 The Chinese Y.M.C.A.s second annual art exhibition will be opened at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce to--1 morrow at 5.30 p.m. by the Legislative Councillor. Mrs. Elizabeth Choy. About 120 oils and water- colours by about 50 young artists will be exhibited
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    Clerk allowed $6,000 bail
    33 4 KLUANG, Tue.v Mohd Khalid bin Haji All. 39. a clerk at the Land Office Kluang was charged with criminal breach of trust of $5,793. He was allowed $6,000 ball
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    THE RIGHT TO SACK IN SECRET
    440 5 Dock workers crowd into court as inquiry on dispute opens 's not up to us to give reasons, says Penang fl a rboiir Board chairman PENANG, Tuesday. HARVEY, chairman of the PenM 'Harbour Board, told a co'-rt of inquiry hat it a;is nut incumbent
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    Pair-snares padre to whom wealth is a sin
    24 5 Pair-snares padre to whom wealth is a sin Hogan who n the eh he P v the bad :rn to n That S HOGAN
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    Bill collector who kept $1,016
    14 5 Bill collector who kept $1,016 paid tnpany, -'8. of before Imlnal "lti Mala--8 and
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    Bourne patron
    24 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The G.O.C. Malaya. Lieut-Gen. Sir Geoffrey Bourne, has arcepted an invitation to be Dof the War DepartCivilian Staff Association.
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    'JUNGLE' MEN EXTORT $170 FROM WOMAN
    35 5 r, KI'ALA LUMPUR. Tuesday. 'oday reported to the police iiom the Junßle" extorted $170 in Kampong Pantai. near the tion, this morninu. ad tliiit and n she house find
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    The final notes
    7 5 1)0 norial Jan 18.
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    New school
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    The last show
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    Off to food talks
    64 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Tucs, Mr K. T John, of the Johorc Veterinary Department, will icpre.sent Malaya at a United us Food and Agriculture j conference in India this month. The conference— in Lurknow will discus: ways of improving egR and poultry production in Asia, particularly the Far
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    CASH GIFT FOR BLIND FLOOD VICTIM
    47 5 M\ll Ml WTOON, :i .mil lilintl. receive* >lo from Cat B. <irry of the Salvation Artm .is n-lirl irom the Singapore Flood Relief Fund yesterdax. Mali had earlier collected clothing. sj\ katis rut- and Mlf tins of milk Mr.iits Times picture.
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    'FORGOTTEN' PEOPLE GET FLOOD AID
    202 5 MORE than ric-| tims or Kampong Limn. off Paya Lebar Road. Singapore, were given rice, clothing, milk, biscuits and cash by the Singapore Flood Re- I lief Fund yesterday. They were the last batch to get relief. The forgotten" residents were ea -h given $5.
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    Crash-but not a scratch for driver
    66 5 r |MIK IHtIVKR of this lorry escaped unhurt when it collided with a military truck at Tanjonß Pasar Road, Singapore yestcrda> evening. The lorry, loaded with lagar, ran into the side of a KA.S.C. five-ton truck coming out of the rail«a\ station. The lorr>'s
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    HE BEAT UP CABARET GIRL $50 FINE
    83 5 HE BEAT UP CABARET GIRL $50 FINE Ambak bin Hussm \>.a.-> tiiu'd $50 in the Singapore Sixth Police Court yesterday for assaulting pretty Julia binte Mo. i hamad at the New World Ca hard on Tuesday night. Two police officers driving along Kitchener Road heard a commotion at the cabaret
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    Govt plugs Emergency rules loophole
    245 5 Govt plugs Emergency rules loophole KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A FORMER terrorists successful appeal to the Privy Council against his death sentence for carrying has caused the Federation Government to block a loophole in the Emergency Regulations. The High Commissioner ha.s made two amendments to tighten up the existing regulations, making
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    HELP FOR THE HOMELESS OF NEW YEAR FIRE
    69 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Selangor Welfare Department has helped about 200 people made homeless by th.New Year fire which guUed .t rubber .smokehouse and about 20 hoOMN in Klang Road on Sunday evening They received iree meai.and this afternoon relief team.-; from
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
    13 6 ER WE3BER Phank a: hnr \:i. ratulatory on the .age on on.
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    IN MEMORIAM
    41 6 IN ME MORI AM ;n Words It* /minimum). a N. S SABAPATHY. J.P. called iome on sth. January. 1954. In lovrv by his beloved i hildrcn. "Peace P' Death doth hide but not divide, rhou art with ChrL-t and Christ 10.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Wed Jan. 5, 1955. Trusting the Trust
    883 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed Jan. 5, 1955. Trusting the Trust Before the Chairn n of the Singapore Improvement Trust defenda or explains again the decision to rent houses and flats in Queenstown to tenants earning more than S6OO a month he should refresh his recollection of the Legislative Council
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    Mr. Nehru And The M.I.C.
    460 6 When Mr. Devaser, the presi- dent of the Malayan Indian Congress, triumphantly claimed that Mr. Nehru had bestowed his blessings on the MIC. link with the UMNO-MCA Alliance, no doubt he was hoping to silence opposition to this move. He has miscalculated. The Indian Press
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      EASE TAXATION TO ATTRACT NEW CAPITAL
      366 6 EASE TAXATION TO ATTRACT NEW CAPITAL JUDGING from the verbatim report of the last Federal Council, it would seem that both the official and the unofficial members agree that to save Malaya outside capital must be attracted, but no member made a suggestion how this could be done. There seems
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      CULTURE BELONGS TO ALL
      283 6 CULTURE BELONGS TO ALL TTHERE is a fallacy in A the arguments of Mr. Lim Lian Geok's letter, who thinks the language policy is a threat to racial cultures. The basic concept that the world consists of a chessboard of cultures is invalid. Non-material culture elements like a religion, a
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      Children could earn own fees
      262 6 YOUR correspondent "Un-der-Qualified' has the right to his opinions on secondary, primary and vocational education. I write because he made a reference to the teaching of crafts at the English College which, I believe, has met with a certain amount of success. Having had some
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      Others to the rescue
      88 6 MR. Uew Fong Poh, President, of the Selanßor Transport Workers' Union, is reported to have said "the Union realises the inconvenience the strike has caused to tnr public....;" What a belated realisation. He should now realise the 'inconvenience' of a delayed settlement to the Baton members,
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      WALLFLOWER
      38 6 DANCE bands in many Singapore "night-spots" play three <ur fewer) numbcrx then rest Mr rive mr morei minuti-.s. The dances are becoming fewer and the intervals longer. I.s this the ii.fluence of the musicians' i. TROMBONE. Singapore.
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      POLITICS NOT A PROPER SUBJECT FOR SCHOOL
      146 6 THE teaching of politics :n schools Is anxiously awaited by students. Parents have realised the importance of this, but must bear In mind that the teaching ol politics does not necessarily mean that their children will be better citizens tomorrow. There Ls every
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    Does Malaya need twelve councils?
    929 6  -  W.C.S. CORRY By rpHERE are a number 1 of hard-working, sincere and capable men in the higher ranks of both wings of the Alliance, but at the top leadership one fails to see a future Prime Minister of Malaya. Leadership still largely consists In fulminating
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    Only the margin.
    165 6 Only the margin. Films in Selau MR. TOM HQDG dent of th< s Sock teach Ma!;:-. can I entertainm< I the four groups, and i, Kaporf, v. rl work up-coun" in.. Thf Blmj samp that B tiny draws upoi mittedly, h but then, been going work ol front, contii It
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    Trust flats 'for the poor ONLY'
    391 7 COUNCILLORS PITCH IN AGAINST THE HOUSES-FOR-THE-RICH MOVE y> l/> THE PLANS FOR POSH UO UES- BUILD CHEAPER OI SS INSTEAD, THEY ALL SA V (he-lower-income-group move gathermi turn in Singapore yesterday as md City Councillors renewed their call ment Trust to keep their homes
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    The final cheer
    38 7 The Telok Aver Methodist Youth Fellowship, Singapore, will hold a "Kai Chok" party to mark the end of the school hi lidaya on Friday nicht at 730 at the church hall, 235. Telck Aver Street.
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    Youth, 19, dies
    8 7 :-<^cued Pisir. He died General
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    Yes, YES, the poor will head the queue
    247 7 T'HKSE are the facts about the controversial Queenstown flats, which the Singapore Improvement Trust proposes to let to applicants earning more than $600 a month if those earning less reject them. The facts come from the arting Trust Manager. Mr. F. E.
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    SATA says 'thanks' to these Santas
    258 7 SATA says 'thanks' to these Santas THE appeal made by the Singapore Anti-Tubercu-iosis Clinic for $1,000 *.o give a Christmas party for 200 young patients succeeded— with $343 to spare. And the clinic also received Rifts in kind worth about SI. OOO. A SATA spokeswoman said yesterday: "We are very
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    WOMAN FALLS 15 FEET
    59 7 Lee .bout 15 rtorey house in Slngauries <• neral broke the force of her fall and she landed near a drain. Neighbours believed that Lee. who came from China five months ago. walked in her sleep and toppled over the window railing. Her husband, a seaman,
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    Common kitchen plan will keep bandits hungry
    322 7 FOUR GUARDS PATROLLED DINING ROOM AS TAPPERS ATE BAHAU, Negri Sembilan, Tues. yHE Federation Govern- ment's plan to stop food reaching the terrorists, by opening communal kitchens in operational areas, has already been tried out on one estate near here and the workers
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    SCHOOL DECISION IS FINAL
    213 7 Despite students' walk-out threat T*HE Methodist Board of Education met in Singapore 1 yesterday and confirmed the decision of the Selections and Promotions Board on the appointment of a new principal for the Anglo-Chinese School, Klang. to succeed Mr. G. S. Arumugam when he retires in
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    Saturday dance
    26 7 Singapore Y.W.C.A. will hold a New Year dance and supper at th? Y.W.C.A. Hostel, Fort Canning Road, from 8 p.m. to midnight on Saturday.
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    $3,600 theft
    23 7 PENANO. Tues. Burglars broke into Sime Darby's godown in Brick Kiln Road last night and stole 90.000 cigarettes valued at $3,600.
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    The discreet and silent man of education
    81 7 The discreet and silent man of education UK. MOIIAMMII) YAR.MIN. Minister of Education in Indonesia, was the most silent man at K.illang airport yesterday. Everyone talked freely, but Dr. Yarmin, who was returning to Jakarta, after a four-day visit to Singapore and preferred to say nothing. Newsmen approached him and
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    Mr. O and Beethoven pleased the King
    468 7 Mr. O and Beethoven pleased the King BUT SINGAPORE DOES NOT KNOW HIM YET Straits Times Music Correspondent CHILD prodigy, now at 40 a famous violinist in four continents meet Ricardo Odnoposofl. He is in Singapore and tonight will give his firstever concert in the East at St. Andrew's Memorial
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    High tides
    63 7 TOOAV: Singapore 6.48 a.m <Bft Sin i 909 p.m. (7ft. 71n.):Port Dickson 316 am. (Bft 21n.t 3.37 p.m. (6ft. Sin. i; Penang 10.01 am < sft Sin. i 10.24 p.m < 7ft ltn.t TOMORROW: Singapore 7.59 a.m. (Bft. Sin.) 1030 p.m. (Bft. 21n.i; Port Dickson 4.27 a.m. (Bft
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    Welfare Council gives $5,000 for flood victims
    548 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. rE Executive Committee of the Federation's Central Wellarr Council has River. $5,000 to the Federation Flood Relief Fund, which now totals $213,288. The Fund closes on Jan. 15. Latest gifts include: JOHORE: Wai Chow Association, Kluang »50, Jublle« Bchool »50,
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    MEN OBJECT TO HAVING GIRLS AS BOSSES AT HOSPITALS
    217 7 MEN OBJECT TO HAVING GIRLS AS BOSSES AT HOSPITALS IPOH, Tuesday. OOSPITAL assistants are peeved because they have to work under women matrons and sisters many of whom are their junior in age, experience and service. This scheme was recently introduced into some hospitals. It is not uniform in the
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    Shopmen did complain to Indian Govt.
    164 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues rE PRESIDENT of the Selangor Shop Assistants Union. Mr. T. P A. Abdul Kareem. today confirmed that the union has sent a 2.500-word memorandum to the Indian Minister for External Affairs, complaining about conditions of work in the Federation. "But we
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    Tax collector sails in
    41 7 Mr. W. B. Hargreaves, Senir.r Collector of Taxes in Britain for the last 21 years, arrived in Singapore yrsterday in the Canton. He ha.s join< d the Bin Income Tax Department b nt Controller of Income Tax.
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    YOUTH FILMS ARE WINNERS
    62 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tu^s. Two films about youth wtr» the most popular Malayan Film Unit productions sent overseas last year. The unit said today that one film. "Tomorrow is Theirs," was sent to "3 countries an i was commercially distributed In Britain, Indonesia and South Africa. The
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      81 7 The weather MINIMUM TEMPERATL'KE (7 30 p m on Jan. 3 to 7.30 a.m. on Jan. 4 1 Singapore 73 degrees, Penang 74. Kota Bahru 73. Kuala Lumpur 72. Ipoh 71. Kuantan 71. MAXIMI'M TEMPERATURE (7.30 am. to 7.30 p.m. on Jan. 4): Sinsapore 87, Penang 85, Kota Bahru 85,
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    Kick costs sergeant a crown and stripe
    242 8 Kick costs sergeant a crown and stripe STAFF Sergeant Arthur Edward Rolph, 25. was yesterday sentenced by a Singapore court martial to be reduced to the rank of corporal for assaulting a sergeant of the Royal Military Police. Rolph. of 30 Battalion. Royal Army Ordnance Corps was convicted of kicking
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    Iron bar man is jailed
    55 8 Ng Hong Chua, a young shop assistant who attacked an elderly assistant, Queck Teck Heng. with a piece of iron, in Ellenborough Market on Nov. 1 last, was jailfd for six months by Mr. T. Kulasekharam. Second Criminal District Judge, Singapore, yesterday. Ng was found
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    Welfare meeting
    24 8 TAIPING Tues— The Taiping District Welfare Committee will hold its next meeting at the Sessions Court. Taiping at 5 p.m. on Friday.
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    Swim-suit robbers on prowl again
    124 8 Swim-suit robbers on prowl again SINGAPORE'S "swimsuit' robbers, who terrorised people in the K.itong and Changi areas a year ago. are active again. At 3.20 am yesterday, a police lance-corporal saw a .Malay, dressed only in a pair of swimming trunks, peering into a parked car in Lorong 34. Geylanff.
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    Malayan mail lost in crash
    46 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Mail for the United States, the British West Indies and South America posU-d in the Federation and Sineapore on Dec 20 and 21 was lost in the BOAC crash at Prestwick in Scotland, the Postmaster General announced today.
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    Chinese play planned—but in English
    208 8 Chinese play planned but in English A CLASSICAL Chinese play.' A "Western Chamber." will be presented in English I throughout Singapore and Ma- laya next March with an allChinese cast. The 14th century play will be directed by Dr. S. T. j Hsiung, dean of Nanyang University's faculty of arts.
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    LANGUAGE PLEA TO BE IN ENGLISH
    268 8 Chinese chamber drafts a petition to be sent to the Queen Soon the call will go to you: Sign here, please A PETITION to be sent to the Queen seeking to permit the use of many languages in the new Legislative .Assembly is now
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    CONSULAR WIVES AT 'BURMA DAY' PARTY
    55 8 MRS BA THAIN<; (left), wife of the Consul for the I nion of Burma, greets Mrs. Ken Ninomya. wife of the Japanese Consul-General, at a reception held at "Burma Villa." Singapore, to celebrate Burma Independence Day. last night. Looking on is Mr. Ba Thaung.
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    Secretariat man weds
    74 8 PENANG. Tues. Mr. Her.ry Hee Hing Chin. Assistant Secretary at the Colonial Secre- tary's Office. Singapore, was married in Penang today to Miss Phyllis Su Hui. daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Y. Y. Huang. The ceremony was conducted by the Rev. Jack Griffiths, vicar of Penang.
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    Two fathers get $2,500 each
    49 8 Two fathers get $2,500 each MIKK IS .Mr. Ini.i Huns Mianß. of Kuala Lumpur, one of the two winners in the Straits Times Word Puwle "GGG". He has a 19--month-old son. The other winner, Mr. Lim Kay En?, of Singapore, is the father of nine children. Straits Times picture.
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    Manager fined
    31 8 Manager KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.—J. Chelladurai. manager of the Sivaguru Book Depot, Scott Road, was fined $200 at Kuala Lumpur today for exhibiting for sale obscene literature in his shop.
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    SEA SPORTS MAN HAD NO CLEARANCE
    88 8 SEA SPORTS MAN HAD NO CLEARANCE Molok bin Andik came to Singapore from Pulau Terong. Indonesia, in a small sampan to attend the Sea Sports on New Years Day. But as he was leaving the Colony on Tuesday, he was .stopped by Marine Police off Tanjong Rimau and it was
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    Death fall from ladder
    54 8 Pang Cheng Choon. a labourer, was standing on a ladder and cutting the branches of a rambutan tree at Serangoon Road on Oct 25. la.st year, when he slipped and fell to his death. After an inquest, the Singapore Assistant Coroner. Mr. Giam Chong Hing yesterday
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    TRADER WHO WANTED STOUT ON THE CHEAP LOST $100
    107 8 PENANG. Tues. A sundry shopkeeper was cheated of $100 by a man who promised to get him stout for the New Year on the cheap. Khor Ewe Thun, 29, pleaded guilty to cheating Gan Beng Chei and was remanded in custody
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    SHUT-DOWN HITS SARA WAK SHOPS
    312 8 Singapore will not be hurt SARAWAK shops and trading concerns now staging a protest close-down seemed to think they were on an extended Christmas holiday, a Singapore importei said yesterday. The importer, who asked that his name be withheld, said: "The only people they will
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    Alliance men split on seats for polls
    208 8 Alliance men split on seats for polls IPOH, Tues. A SHOWDOWN meeting, on Sunday will decide whether the three-party Perak State Alliance— I 1 UMNO, MCA and Progressives—will break or survive. The three parties have fallen out on the question of selecting candidates to contest the 10 Perak seats in
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      369 8 11. 23. TreaU: badly helpfully (3. Sirs its Times Crossword V' 3 i exwnd clrcular trip 25 Cavalry N.CO. <7). SSSS&JS&SSl i i |o ill* Ic I. I K&l&U 28 Vacancies in lines of detach§S*I v N ment 1 12 avo^ nSns^ i x5§$ It >\\ N HI HI 1^
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    STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL FEATURE Shackleton: the explorer who led a gamble to success
    1680 9 STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL FEATURE Shackleton: the explorer who led a gamble to success 4m& 1 1 I HAT sensible, polished and somewhat 1 long-winded English writer Dr. Samuel Johnson vrote a long poem some time towards the end of the eighteenth century of the Christian era which he called 'The
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      184 9 Shvrl&ck Hointvs Piun #o E'wvnyv jLk ~/vvrrw THE GERMS VANDSO CEVEMSE vour ~^B^ 1 wate LAW- ABIDINJG CITIZENS.' I N^^^^^V^ I SHALL IKJMOCULATE J A©IPINS CITIZENS WHO \W WEE< THE CONTENTS OF THIS \tfh iPivfi Tracy Phony tul<ln>ss ■"■■■■^H I rWECANY FILE CMAROES 1 [DO YOU THINK 7 CERTAINLY 1
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    RUBBER FALTERS IN ITS RISE FOR FIRST TIME IN FORTNIGHT
    346 10 A REACTION set in on the Singapore Rubber Market yesterday and for the first time since December 22 the closing price was easier than it was the day before. January first grade rubber buyers f.0.b., closed at 97 J cents
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    132 10 Singapore Chinese Prsdaee Exchange: noon prices per plcul yesterday were:--Copra: quiet; January $31 7/8 buyers. $32 sellers: February $32 buyers. $32 1/8 sellers. Coconut oil: steady, up 50 cents; $51 1/2 sellers Pepper steady with six tons business reported: all varieties down $1: Muntok white $214. Sarawak $213.
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    SHIPPING
    71 10 Ship* lying alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Canton 1.2, Awajlsan Maru 4 5, Cornelius Maersk C.P Abbekerk 6 7. Pyrrhus 8 9. Rajula 11. Somali 15 16. Kobe Maru 18. San Jeronimo lf» 20. Stla N. Wall 8. Kampar SS 23 24. Agamemnon 25
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    TIN OUTPUTS
    16 10 Sungel Bldor s December tin output waj 1.022 plculs. Takmapa Valley produced 336 piculs.
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    BROKERS' REPORT
    378 10 The* Malayan Share Brokers Arelation reported that: ■Industrials train commanded the majority ot Interest on the local share market. rin» were Irregular and rubbers tended to ease on profit-taking. Members reported the following business done yesterday;— Fed Dispens«ry $3.40; Fraser and Ne*ve ords tl.97'i. $1.98, Gammon $3.20 tc\,
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    OFFICIAL PRICES
    17 10 BINGAPORI lan i TIN: 1M5.29 p pr. r (down |1 RIBRKK In. (down li (<nt
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    72 10 Trading npfnee on the Rfvk tod investment price variation.'. Loans 3'« IM4 Loans 3'« IBM-61 Bank of N K W Con. Zin Mount Lyell N. Broken Hii: Hill 50 Mount Morgan Peko Western Minim: Ampol Explora'. Oil Search Aust Con. ln< i A.P.M. mew i Bradford B Hill
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    RUBBER PRICES
    95 10 January first trrnrir closed In Sinen|». 97 cents a llv. do* n Monday's dating p j tone was easier am The turnover v Closing prici-^ per Ib. were: No. )R loose buyers 97', el ci R SS. Jan. buyer-. 91 No. 2 buyers 37 Ml buyers 94 V
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    43 10 The Malayan Exchani;r Association made tbt changes In its rates to m' yeaterday:French Francs: O.D. ***** ready On the free r*< Hong Kong vr-ierdav dollar was quoted 587 and 5.89 for T.T. Sterling was rjun'r one tarl of gold at 2.VV
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    WELL WHATEVER NEXT?
    29 12 Really people expect too mvch. I need six pairs of hands. for this job," says the chimp, as he prepares to tackle a piece of carpentry.
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    THE DOG AND CATS HAVE A FINE OLD GAME
    381 12 THE DOG AND CATS HAVE A FINE OLD GAME E rt EAR B °y s and G|rls--2 Here are the six winners S ot our Santa Claus painting contest Lam Kirn Lian, 5 aged 9, 95 A Cross Street, Singapore I Peter Khoo, aged S 11.41-0 Leng Kong Ova. E
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    Can you put the missing words back in order?
    379 12 Can you put the missing words back in order? rvRY to fill the blanks in 1 this story. You will find a iist of missing words at the bottom. All you have to do is to sort them into their correct order. Ah Chan and his friend Llan Soo decided
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    OSTRICH RUNS AT GREAT SPEEDS BUT CANNOT FLY
    323 12 ISMAIL from Kuala Lumpur rcrites to ask me which is the biggest bird in the world. It is the ostrich. This bird grows to a height of eight feet. The ostrich is a very fast runner and can speed along at fifty
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    PRIZE WINNER
    14 12 This lovely chinchilla takes first prize at a cat show in London.
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    Answer to Ah Chan's story
    46 12 Wrre you able to put the miming words In thrlr eorrrrt order? In case not here they are. Picnic, biiMcets. bus. breezes. Are. alight, food, twice, Muhlnc. tied. drift, line, heavy. WHweed. amnll. luck, fish cook, •uak. caught, dark, friend, lovely.
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    Mystery of THE WOODEN STATUE
    930 12 Mystery of THE WOODEN STATUE THE FIRST INSTALMENT OF AN EXCITING NEW SERIAL. WHAT SECRET DOES THE STATUE HOLD? RAHIM and Ah Chonfc were staying with their friend Patrick Da Silva for the school holiday. Patrick's mother had gone to look after her cousin who was ill so Mr. Da
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    AN AMERICAN BOY WANTS A PEN FRIEND
    262 12 AN AMERICAN BOY WANTS A PEN FRIEND A HAPPY Neic 1 ear to You All." I hope that philatelists both young and old have had a nice holiday, and that they have spared a thought and a dollar or trco for the unfortunate folks rendered homeless by the floods. Among
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      249 12 E CLUES ACROSS— 3 To S catch sight of. 6. "W.C. 5 S was a famous cricketer. 7. S S There is one in the arm called S the "humerus 9. Small par- S Z tides of water blown from the S E tops of waves, etc. 11. As 5
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    Seven more teams to play
    461 13 STORE SOCCER CHANGES IF ACCEPTED MEAN.... And Junior divisions will be most affected SINGAPORE League football will have a new set-up this season if recommendations by the Singapore Amateur Football Association League and Cup committee find favour with the Council. The recommendations affect the second
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    Lock icon KHAN BEATEN
    34 13 NEW YOHK Tues— O. Mateer of Philadelphia, beat Assam Khan of PakUtan by 15—9. 15 5. 15 10. here yesterday to win the United States men s o.oen squash rackets championship Reuter
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    F.A. Cup 3rd round ties
    135 13 LONDON. Tues. REVISED football fixtures for Saturday: Football Association (up third round; Arsenal v Cardiff: Blackburn v Swansea. Blackpool v York. Other third round matches on Saturday: Bolton Millwnll. Bournemouth v West Bromwlch. Brentford v Bradford City. Brighton v Aston Villa, Bristol Rovers v Portsmouth.
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    Lock icon Famous friends with their awards
    148 13 ROGER BANNISTER (right) holds the trophy presented to him as Sportsman of the Year in London. Beside him is his friend and helper in so many track races. Chris C'hataway, who holds liis trophy (a mud el of a television camera) presented to him as
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    NO COACHING, NO PACE BOWLERS...
    249 13 But S'gor had a fine year KUALA LUMPUR. Tuesday. maintained an unbeaten record at cricket last yeai and scored innings victories in three of their five inter-State matches. Reviewing the season in his report, to be presented at the annual general meeting of I the
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    TIMEFORM RATED MAN ABOUT TOWN 119
    394 13 MAN ABOUT TOWN, one of the top two-year-olds in England in 1953, is among three new horses registered in Class One, according to latest amendments to the Straits Racing Association's classification list. The other two in Class One are Zabigiione, 4 br. e.g. by
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    Lock icon HK players go over to Red China
    115 13 HONG KONG. Tues. SEVERAL Chinese soccer players, who have brm playing for local clubs in the Hong K«>n« Football League, have left for Red China to train under Russian coaches to represent Red China in the 1956 Olympics, according to sporting circles yesterday.
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    Kee Chan is offered Manila bout against Jap
    239 13 Kee Chan is offered Manila bout against Jap LIM KEE CHAN, who nghts the world's fourth-ranking bantamweight Pierre Cossemyns of Belgium at the Happy World arena on Jan. 16, will probably be the nrst Malayan boxer to fight against a Japanese since the war but the fight will not be
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    Lock icon Toweel to fight Cohen for title
    127 13 PARIS, Tues. ¥T was announced Here today that a contract had been signed for Robert Cohen (France) to defend his world bantamweight boxing title against Willie Toweel (South Africa) in Johannesburg 'on March 5. The announcement was made by Cohen's manager. M. Oaston Charles
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    Australians need 165 more with eight wickets in hand
    745 14 TEST IN BALANCE AGAIN AS THE PITCH PLAYS UP CABLE Urn JACK FIN6LETON MELBOURNE, Tues. TWE third Test match 1 between England and Australia here is anybody's game. The only certainty about It is that it will finish tomorrow. At stumps
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    Soccer stars out on Sat—for charity: then vs Austrians
    307 14 Soccer stars out on Sat for charity: then vs Austrians YOU JUST can't keep Singapore's top footballers out of the picture for long. Barely four weeks ago they returned from their Hong Kong and Manila tour and put aside tho boots after a nine-month season for ten weeks' rest before
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    Lock icon INDIA 17 FOR TWO BUT SAVE THE TEST
    299 14 DACCA. Tues. PAKISTAN and India drew i the first cricket Test of their present series here today. Pakistan scored 257 and 158; India 148 and 147 for two. Pakistan. 97 for one last night, were all out for 158 this morning in
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    43 14 HULL. Tues— The former England footballer, Raich Carter, now manager of Leeds United Club, was married here yesterday. HU bride. Miss Ellen Patricia Dlxon, worked In the office of the Hull City Football Club when Mr. Carter was player-manager there Reuter.
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    Duke defines a champion
    105 14 WHAT makes a champion motor cyclfct? Like in other sport<. it is natural ability together with hard work, practice and concentration, says Britain's ace rider Geoffrey Duke. The 31 -year old world champion arrived in 81ngapo'-> by air yesierdav on his way to Australia to take
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    207 14 SYDNEY. Tues. ]^EW SOUTH WALES, the Bhleld A holders, won their Sheffield Shield game against Queensland here today by 48 runs, final scorer being: NSW 278 and 167; Queens land 230 and 107. Their first innings lead gave New South Waie» victory as the team.were
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    PITCH WAS NOT WATERED SAY VICTORIA, MCG OFFICIALS
    155 14 PITCH WAS NOT WATERED SAY VICTORIA, MCG OFFICIALS By JACK FINGLETON MELBOURNE. Tues AT the end of tonight's play, the assistant secretary of the Melbourne Cricket Club made the following announcement: "The Melbourne Cricket Ground and the Victorian Cricket Association, after a searching inquiry, emphatically deny that the pitch or
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    Thomas Cup trial this weekend
    131 14 Thomas Cup trial this weekend THE first i: arranßed by thr ton Association of M:i be held in Kuala Lun weekend. The p ;i m' two sessions are: Saturday: Lim K and Tan Jin Eonu v Leong and Lim Say H Koon Yam v Lim W Ooi Teik Hock ami
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    Colony Blues for K.L. game
    69 14 Singapore All Blues will meet Selansor All Blues at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. Tha following Singapore players will travel to Kuala Lumpur; Yap Boon Keng, D. Longpoetih. H;irdial Singh. Luk Juan, Chong Yew 1 Chin Bin. Clmof V< M Adcock. Win Uo. Y<i.. Yuen Client.
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