The Straits Times, 3 February 1955

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    14 1 The Straits Times Maw* Hew**** Estd. 1845 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1955 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon ULTIMATUM' TO CHINA
    629 1 Must reply to U.N. in week SILENCE— 'FURTHER ACTION' NEW YORK, Wednesday. )NS Security Council delegates have agreed unofficially Red China week to reply to the invitation to attend the Coun-tease-fire in the Formosa area. One delegate said that if not reply by early next week the
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    MALAYA A KEY SPOT, SAYS BARTLETT
    123 1 MALAYA A KEY SPOT, SAYS BARTLETT PENANG, Wed. RNON BARTn mer IndcMember of and diplo•■■spondent of 11 d o n N c w a arrived with in Penang !;i \v;ty to to take up lointment as immentator 's Times. a year Bid, M l 5 so attrac- i 3."i yrars
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    Lock icon ATTLEE peace plan
    67 1 LONDON. Wed— ln an interview with the Daily Herald .vrsterday. Mr Attler made these proposals to end the peril of war over Formosa: I Send Chiang Kai-shek and his chief Nationalist lieutenants into exile. 2 Leave Formosa out of the United States' "island defence ring." 3 Neutralise
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    It's a aoodbye kiss for pretty Deanna
    82 1 ONE HUNDRED and forty boys and girls left for Australia in the Gorgon yesterday to go back to school after spending the Christmas holidays in Malaya. The Gorgon is taking back the last batch of schoolchildren who returned here last month. Picture shows
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    Schoolboy hurt
    32 1 A Singapore schoolboy, Yusop bin Abdul Hamid, 11, was seriously injured when he fell from a coconut tree at the Junction of Sims Avenue and Kampong Wak Tanjong last night.
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    Lock icon New judge
    31 1 LONDON, Wed. Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan, new. lv-appolnted Judge of the International Court of Justice, left here by air today to take up his post at The Hague Router.
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    Lock icon A-BOMBS KEEP WEST SAFE—CHURCHILL
    106 1 A-BOMBS KEEP WEST SAFE— CHURCHILL LONDON, Wednesday. CIR WINSTON CHURCHILL told the Commonwealth Prime Ministers today that the West's possession of the hydrogen bomb and nuclear weapons prevented the free world from being: overrun. In a long review of the rapid development of hydrogen and atomic war weapons, the Prime
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    Onn leaves capital
    40 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Dato Sir Onn bin Ja'afar, who has retired from his appointment as Member for Home Affairs and Chairman of the Rural and Industrial Development Authority, and Lady Onn left for Johore by train tonight.
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    Pilotstops plane 3ft from big drop
    260 1 Pilotstops plane 3ft from big drop KUALA LIPIS, Wed. ARMY engineers and RAF officers watched anxiously as a Pioneer aircraft circled Fort Dixon, a jungle encampment six hours up river from here, yesterday. For the first time since the jungle fort's airstrip had been completed a Pioneer aircraft was to
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    Lock icon Egypt's threat
    25 1 CAIRO. Wed.— Colonel Nasser, the Egyptian Premier, .said today Egypt would quit the Arab League pact lf Iraq signs the Turco-Iraqi treaty. Reuter.
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    THE ASHES are STILL ENGLAND'S
    443 1 Statham, Tyson set the pace... Compton halts collapse... Evans makes winning hit... and ADELAIDE, Wednesday. gNGLAND beat Australia by five wickets in the fourth Test match here today— -and thus retained the Ashes after one of the most exciting day's cricket in the long series
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    'Snubbed' by girl, he set fire to barn
    126 1 LONDON. Wed. ORLANDER George Glrdler, 24-year-old farm worker who set flrp to a barn because he alleged he was snubbed by Mls s Jennifer Newboult. was committed to a mental institution after he had pU-adcd guilty to two charges of arson at
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    Lock icon Kreisler is 80
    19 1 NEW YORK. Wed. Violinist Fritz Kreisler. "elder statesman of the music world." is 80 today. AP.
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    A GREAT MOMENT FOR US-HUTTON
    57 1 A GREAT MOMENT FOR US -HUTTON ENGLAND'S CAPTAIN, Len Hutton, watched the closing ■tage of the tame from the broadcasting bos at Adelaide yesterday. Immediately after Godfrey Evans made the vinning hit. Hutton said: "This is a treat moment for us We are very happy to have been able to
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    Lock icon Missing bomb
    35 1 TOKYO. Wed. A U.B. Jet plane accidentally dropped a 3 lb practice bomb that fell without exploding north of Nagoya. Japanese police reported today They said the projectile has not been found AP
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    Lock icon No Aussies for Malaya—yet
    52 1 No Aussies for Malaya yet CANBERRA. Wed. The Acting Prime Minister, Sir Arthur Fadden. today denied a London newspaper report that the Commonwealth Prime Ministers had agreed that Australia should send land and air forces to defend Malaya. "The Australian Oovernmrnt ha& not entered Into any commitments anywhere." Sir Arthur
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    Lock icon Palace audience
    22 1 LONDON. Wed. -The Australian Prime Minister, Mr. R. Q. Menzles, was received by the Queen at Buckingham Palace today. UP.
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    Lock icon THE JUDGE WAS WATCHING
    72 1 ROSEBURG OreßQn, Wed District Judye Warran A. Woodruff fined Vornori Ward, 32. US$5O ($l5O Malayan) for drivinp his far after his driver's licence had been revoked. The judge glanced rut the window a moment later. Ward was Retting behind the wheel of hl> car again. He
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    Lock icon New bid to stall German arms
    141 1 New bid to stall German arms MOSCOW Wed. A NEW Kremlin "bomb- shell" launched in a last-minute attempt to stall West German rearmament is likely to be the chief function of the Supreme Soviet summoned for its annual session tomorrow. This is the firm belief of ex« perienced Western Diplomats
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    STOP PRESS
    86 1 niPIUMMK IM.MI Ml V MU 1,1 111 III) I ONI (ON \\>d The British (him i imiiiil vi noum id ((id.ls it b on Md< i m UfUag diplomatic lnimiimis from Russian babaa*) st.iii here except fur tlic .mill. i .i'lim Simult.uii mi I- it i di closed
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    Lock icon New rubber tax
    26 1 JAKARTA. Wed. The Indonesian Government is to impose an extra duty of 10 per cent on all rubber exports from March 1. Reuter.
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    Lock icon CHESS PLAY BY ROBOT
    63 1 ROME, Wed.— A British electronic calculator, which can play chess In its "leisure" moments, is belne Installed at the Italian National Research Council's headquarters liere The Manchester-made calcu- lator can solve the most complicated mathematical problerr.*- in a fraction of the time required by ordinary machines.
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    Out go the phoney importers
    315 2 Indonesia to slash 2,000 from official lists BIG NEW DRIVE TO END GRAFT AND WASTE OF FOREIGN CURRENCY From Our Own Correspondent JAKARTA, Wednesday. TO END corruption and waste, the Indonesian Government is to reduce drastically the number of "national importer*" it has itself created.
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    HER LIFE DEPENDS ON HIS ANKLES BUT MONICA SHOWS NO FEAR
    87 2 At the agr of 14, Monica, the youngest member of "The Jenekes" flying trapeze act, is a cirrus veteran. Although her job is one of the most dangerous in the business, she knows no fear because she has complete
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    Lock icon Basketball star 'denied bar service'
    84 2 SAN FRANCISCO. Wed. THK Harlem Globetrotters' basketball star, Recce (Goose) Tatum, has filed a suit against a local bar, eIUUfIM he was refused service because he wa?< a Ne fro iru-.ell Snow, manager of the Beverly Plaza Hotel, which operates the Pan American 1 Kat,
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    Lock icon AGA KHAN ILL —BUT HIS SHOW GOES ON
    79 2 AGA KHAN ILL —BUT HIS SHOW GOES ON CAIRO, Wed. The Aga Khan, too ill to go to South Atrica to be weighed in platinum by his followers, has decided to hold the ceremony in a Cairo hotel. The manager of the Semiramls Hotel said the Aga Khar.'s followers had
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    Lock icon Another rail strike threat
    48 2 LONDON, Wed. Twelve j thousand Underground railway J vnrkers have threatened to strike within 14 days if the balance of a 15 Der cent wage claim is not met. Their union leaders rejected ru w wage proposals made by the London Transport Executive. Reuter.
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    Thief rides off on motor bike
    48 2 A thief rode away on a motor cycle parked in Penang Lane. Singapore, yesterday morning. The motor cycle, belonging to Mr. Lim Ong Huat of Geylang Road, was a 250 c.c. B.S.A. painted blue and black and carrying the number S. 5554.
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    More for the flood fund
    59 2 Further gifts to the Federation Flood Relief Fund received in Singapore yesterday are: PERAK: Mr. Tan Khoon Ann $10, Lower Perak Bu.< Co. Ltd., Teluk Anson S2O. Staff of Lower Perak Bus Co Led. $106. Rotary Club, Lower Perak. $50 Malayan Indian Congress branch, Bagan
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    BANGKOK: NO ROOM AT THE INN
    144 2 Some Singapore people have been forced to postpone trips to Bangkok later this month because the city's accommodation is booked out for the 6EATO conference. Colony travel agencies said yesterday they were warning tourists and businessmen that there was little hope of find- -1
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    Lock icon 12 KILLED IN 2 AIR CRASHES
    151 2 12 KILLED IN 2 AIR CRASHES 1 10 in Indian Dakota LONDON, Wed. people have A been killed In two air crashes in the last two days— lo of them in an Indian Airlines Dakota near Nagpur Airport early today and the other two in a British 1 Columbia Airlines
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    ANOTHER BUST?
    284 2 Singapore studies Dior's new look for bosoms and decides: It's much too hot for that here fkPINIONS of Singapore dress shop proprietors on Dior's new AB-line (almost bare) ranged from a warm "simply marvellous" to a cold "merely experimental." Here are some comments: Whiteaway's Dress Salon: "Frankly we
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    Lock icon WAR WIDOW EVACUATED FROM TACHEN
    50 2 WAR WIDOW EVACUATED FROM TACHEN The grief-stricken widow of Nationalist Chinese guerilla lands at Formosa with tears in her eyes and a bandage around her head. She was among the first batch of 150 women and children evacuated from the Tachen Islands by Nationalist Chinese craft last week. A.P. picture.
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    Lock icon Fog grounds scientists
    55 2 LONDON. Wed. -Fog grounded 13 Japanese atomic scientists today forcing them to leave Oslo by rail for London instead of by plane as intend cd. The scientists had been expected here this morning to begin a week's tour of Britain's industrial atomic energy projects before going on
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    Lock icon U.N. asks 84 to atom talks
    49 2 NEW YORK. Wed. Mr Dag Hammarskjoeld. United Nations Secretary General, sent invltlatlons today to 84 countries for an International conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy. The conference Is to open In Geneva on Aug. 8 and will !ast 12 days.— Reuter.
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    Man gets gash on head
    41 2 Mohamed Yusoff, 43. of Wilkie Road, Singapore, received a gash on the back of his head after an argument with a man in Beach Road yesterday afternoon. He was treated as an outpatient at the hospital
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    Plan to beat bad teeth can poison millions
    319 2  - Plan to beat bad teeth can poison millions Chapman Pincher By TO BEAT tooth decay I I Singapore City Council i is to fluorine'e the is- I lands water supply soon. l In London, the Health I Ministry has also an- j nounced plans to fluori- I nate the water
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    Protest to Chiang
    70 2 KARACHI. Wed. Pakistan has protested to the Chinese Nationalist Government against the seizure In November last year by Nationalist naval units °f a Japanese freighter, the Nlsshu Maru. which was carrying 7,000 tons of Chinese coal to Pakistan, official sources said here today. The ship was reported
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    Hellen Keller coming East
    51 2 NEW YORK. V/ed. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and the Ambassadors from Japan, India. Pakistan. Burma and the Philippines were among speakers at a farewell banquet here last night honouring Dr. Helen Keller. 74. famed deafblind educator, who leaves on Friday for Britain and a 40.000-mlle Far East
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    DATO ONN BEGINS HIS FIGHT
    99 2 DA TO ONN BEGINS HIS FIGHT KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— Dato Sir Onn bin Ja'af ar, sec- 1 retary-general of Party Negara. I who has Just resigned as Member for Home Affairs and chairman of RIDA to devote himself to politics, will ad-| dress a public meeting at the Town Hall.
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    MORE FORGED NOTES
    103 2 Another two $5 'duds' in Selangor KUALA LUMPUR. Wednesday. TWO more forged $5 notes have been found in 1 Selangor, bringing the total to eight in the last month. They were handed into a Kuala Lumpur bank on Monday. Seven forged notes have been found In Kuala
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    Warning on Navy
    35 2 LONDON. Wed— A warning that the Navy Is "at a dangerously low ebb while Russia is building a "mammoth fleet" was given in a pamphlet published by the Navy League here yesterday.
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    Lock icon U.S. conscription
    29 2 WASHINGTON, Wed—Military leaders asked today for a four-year extension of thr conscription law which expire on June 30. calling It essential for the US defence programme Reutr-r.
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    Lock icon MOSCOW AGAIN TRYING TO GRAB INDONESIA, SAYS ISLAMIC GROUP
    245 2 MOSCOW AGAIN TRYING TO GRAB INDONESIA, SAYS ISLAMIC GROUP NKW YORK, U, A REPRESENTATIVE of a dissident grou "Islamic Republic of Indonesia eharre that "world Communism" is engaged in tempt to take over Indonesia. Hasan Muhammed Tiro said in similar Communist attempts have failed past nine years. He referred to
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    Peer meets woman who shot him
    47 2 Peer meets woman who shot him LORD VI Y thea Mrs. Mavi v lelt prison In a term ■booting maximum r conduct on her without bar outsk: Lord Vivian n Later at "We an She adti ly true I now. Lord V nursina hon following i! D
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    Briton jailed in Hong Kong
    23 2 HONG KON( Kong marine sent a 31 deserting the Clyde nder MadriV head. Cheshire. > guilty, saying sick whi:
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    DDT inventor gets £6,000
    59 2 LONDON, Wed.— The Royal Commission on awards to inventors last night announced they would give £6,000 to the makers of the Insecticide "DDT "—Mr. J R. Geigy. of Basle, Switzerland, and the Gelgy Company of Manchester "D.D.T." 1 was discovered in 1936 and was successfully used
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    DENIAL NO USE, JAP SAYS
    56 2 TOKYO. Wed —A columnist in the English language Daih M.tinichi said today a few dishonest manufacturers hen were ruining the reputation ol Japanese made goods abroad. The columnist said that Japanese woollen mufflers with 1 Made in Scotland labels were among "phony" goods 'bo'ni; sold
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    'We' hit back'
    19 2 ABOARD YOPKTOWV \Y<ci R C. Ring i Force T\ win sho "Self has n< said today
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    Lock icon Envoy arrives
    27 2 SAIGON. Wed. Takashi Konagaya. Japan's first Minister to Virtnam since World War 11. has arrived here trom Rangoon to take up his new post.— AP.
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    Aid to India
    11 2 NEW DELHI and Ru ment today p Russiai
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    Trinidad welcomes radiant Princess
    213 3 Trinidad welcomes radiant Princess JPAIN, Wod. MARGARET j ii ere yerterI,,ndon in the Canopus tin monthh( British; immediately Quern and dinburgh at Palace and to Mother at Clarup from the Airport p Incess Mariiui radiant, doorway ol silk dress Ii ated Bilk cap length white' dress was a the form
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    Industrial drive
    33 3 LONDON, Wed. Moscow I Radio said yesterday that the Central committee of the So- virt Communist Party has approved a number of new measures for the development of Soviet heavy industries
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    29 DIE AS TORNADOES HIT MISSISSIPPI
    102 3 29 DIE AS TORNADOES HIT MISSISSIPPI NEW YORK, Wednesday. •E8 smashing shanties and schools of Mississippi cotton plantations left a toll of at least 29 The pre-season twisters left destruction states. tred the death v national hed splintered \rd school for more bodies. ball the bodies »J found were children
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    Lock icon New giant jet engine on display
    94 3 BRISTOL, Wed. A GIANT new turbo-jet enA gine, claimed to be the most powerful in the world, was given its first public demonstration at the Bristol Aircraft Company's works here yesterday. The Olympus 101 engine, destined to power the new RAF Avro- Vulcan bomber.
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    Lock icon Trade delegation
    37 3 HONG KONG, Wed. A British trade delegation of 22 members under Mr. John Blott, a London leather merchant, left here today by train for Communist China at the invitation of Chinas National Import-Export Corporation. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Flying back for trial
    62 3 LONDON. Wed. George Horsfall. 23-year-old Kenya Polico Inspector, left Britain by air today for Nairobi to answer charges alleging perjury in connection with a rerent trial of a Mau Mau suspect. Horsfall was arrested when he arrived in Britain last December and on January 11 was
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    TRUCK DRIVER ACCUSED OF ROLE IN BULLION HAUL
    133 3 LONDON. Wed. Police today arrested Reginald Edgar Crane. 40, a truck driver, on charges of complicity in the daylight gold bullion robbery at the Royal Dutch Airlines' i KLM' London depot on Sept. 21 Fast-working bandits crashed a truck into a KLM
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    Lock icon Rubinstein murder baffles New York police
    317 3 N|u V..XX. \V,.,|. I)','/ r,«u,n,d yes- the s,ene of l:i """^'iM-s murder ""■*"< «.,s, ionin)c of his servants. »'<r and aunt r 'P«rt, d mys trrious at his '"'"Mon during I "i Jan. 27 murdered 'harge of the murtfer law,. r«rt in a „vrr
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    Lock icon MOBILE FORCE TO FLY TO TROUBLE SPOTS
    365 3 Britain to form a stand-by 'fire brigade 9 of two divisions P.M. tells conference: You must also help LONDON, Wednesday. IJRITAIN is to form a "flying: fire brigade" army which can be held in readiness to deal with emergencies in Asia, Africa and
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    Lock icon Two grave diggers fled in terror
    225 3 Two grave diggers fled in terror DI'RHAM, Wed. TWO youths broke into the family vault of Sir Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, opened an old coffin and fled in terror at the sight of a corpse, a Durham court was told. The prosecution said that Robert Stephenson, 16, and Albert
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    72 3 WATCHED by dancer Gi.rry Rurne, of the Sadlei s Wells ballet, Stanislas Idzikovski helps high jump champion Dorothy Tyler in training. Athletes and dancers got together at the Royal Academy of Dancing in London I to see what they could learn from each other
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    Lock icon VIETNAM IN THE BALANCE NOW
    260 3 50-50 chance to save her Collins WASHINGTON. Wednesday 1 1 TNITED STATES officials are putting the finishing i touches to a six-point plan to save Vietnam from Communism, authoritative sources said yesterday. Gen. J. Lawton Collins. I President Eisenhower's special representative in Vietnam. 1 yesterday
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    Lock icon Oil-soaked seabirds are killed
    126 3 Oil-soaked seabirds are killed LONDON. Wed. rpHOUSANDS of oil-soaked 1 seabirds were being killed by animal welfare officers along the coast at Folkestone ve.*tcrdav as they struggled ashore from oil patches in the Straits of Dover. The oil is part of a 3.000--square-mile patch which ha; been floating in the
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    Linda in Italy
    17 3 ROME. Wed. Film star Linda Darnell arrived here last night to make a picture.
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    LONDON STOCKS
    383 3 LONDON. Wod. ENCOURAGED by initial Rood gain- in Government securities the stock market here started the new account today on a cheerful note. OUtedged stocks did not, how ever, fully hold their earlier gains and' In some cases prices finished lower on balance. In f.reiuns Japanese were firm
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    LONDON TIN
    25 3 LONDON, Feb 2. Cash Buyers £713; Sellers C 714: Forward Buyers SIMMS Sellers C 715; Settlement £712; Turnover a.m. 5 tons; p.m. 20.
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    LONDON RUBBER
    33 3 LONDON Feb. 2. Spot 29l,d. Mar. 29Tsd.. Aprtl-June 29\d July-Sept. 29' id, Ort-Dec. 29d i F*b". c.i.f. 29\d, March c.l t. 29 ,d., April c.l.f. 29' ad. Tone: Rarely ate. dy.
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    Auditor: I found 3 false credits in bank ledgers
    359 4 Auditor: I found 3 false credits in bank ledgers Two clerks and a businessman are accused AUDITOR told a Singapore court yesterday that when he checked the accounts of the Ban Hin Lee Bank Ltd., he found three false credit entries in ledgers kept in the custody of a clerk,
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    Land laws retard progress in Kelantan
    204 4 Land laws retard progress in Kelantan KOTA BHARI', Wed. r "1 1 1 land tenure system, which does not allow sale or transfer of ownership quickly, is frightening private capital away from investment in Kelantan for development work, the Straits Times learned today. Once an applicant receives a piece of
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    Nominated to town council
    59 4 SUNOEI PATANI, Wed. A former elected councillor. Mr. John Kuruvilla, who did I not defend his scat in last year's election, has been appointed a nominated member of the Sungei Patanl Town Council. Mr. Kuruvilla successfully stood as an Independent in 1953. He was elected on
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    Election show opens
    51 4 PENANO. Wed. The acting Resident Commissioner. Mr. D. Gray, today declared open the elections exhibition aimed at stimulating public interest in the forthcoming settlement and Federal elections. The exhibition will continue at the Khek Association until Saturday. It will be at Nibong Tebal from Feb. 8 to
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    Boy drowns
    26 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed Lee Chee Hwa, a 16-year-old schoolboy, was drowned when he went with six other boys for a swim at Stulang Laut.
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    CHARGE OF MURDER REDUCED: LUCKY'
    174 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE Federation Chief Justice, Sir Charles Mathew today told Sadasivam Pillay that he was very lucky that the charge of murder against him had been reduced to one of causing grievous hurt. The prosecution had not i proved intention to kill. Sir
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    POLICE BOSS SEES THE RIOT SQUADS
    71 4 POLICE BOSS SEES THE RIOT SQUADS Col. W. A. Muller, Colonial Oflice Inspector Oeneral of Police, now on an inspection tour in Singapore, saw two demonstrations of anti-riot fighting technique yesterday one at the Gurkha Contingent Camp in Cantonment Road and the other at the Reserve Unit Headquarters in Jalan
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    Suicide bid is alleged
    58 4 PENANG, Wed. Llm Chin Koo. 50, was charged in his absence In the Penang Magistrate's court today with attemptinß to commit suicide. Lim was alleged to have tried to hang himself with *i piece of cord in Perak Road on Jan. 31. Lim is in hospital
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    50th anniversary celebration
    43 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Th^ Selaiißor Chinese Chamber of Commerce is celebratine its 501 h anniversary this month. Thcrp will be a tea party at the Chinese Assembly Hall on Monday and a dinner at the same place on Feb. 13.
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    Locket missing
    21 4 PENANO. Wed Low Koon Yin, a waitress, returned home from work »o find her gold rhaln and locket missing.
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    STORE TO SPRING A SURPRISE
    233 4 I Expert lauds films made in Colony 1 VfR. TOM Hodge, head iTI of the Malayan Film Unit, yesterday said that a Singapore made film might spring the big surprise at the SouthEast Asian film festival to be held in the Colony I from May
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    Concert to aid school
    63 4 PENANO, Wed. Teachers and students of the ArißloChinese School will stage a concert at the pykett Avenue Hall on Saturday in aid of the school buildini? fund. A farce. N Horrors. Incorporated" by H. L Miller, and a Chinese play, The Price of Perfection." will be
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    Rotary talk
    34 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. Datin H. E. MacKenzie gave a talk to members of the Johore Bahru Rotary Club yesterday of her impressions of her recent visit to Angkor Wat. Saigon and Bangkok.
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    Poultry thieves
    31 4 PENANG. Wed. Poultry thieves stole 196 fowls valued at $555 from Jawl estate. Nibong Tebal, and Bukit Tambun on Monday, eve of the birthday of the "God of Heaven."
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    DOUBLE BEDS PREFERRED
    56 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Malayans are becoming more double-bed conscious, said Mr. M. J. Watters, export manager of a bedstead firm, who is visitinc the Federation. His firm last year sold $800--000 worth of bedsteads to Malaya. Mr. Watters has already covered 28,000 miles on his business tour
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    Pleads guilty to theft of pen
    52 4 IPOH. Wed. Lim Choon Bin of Taipinc today pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court to stealing a fountain pen from Chin Kong Seau at the Rex Theatre on Jan. 31. He was allowed bail of $200 and the case was postponed to Feb. 10
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    Stay away from politics, youth tol
    90 4 PENANG. Wed. Settlement Councillor Dr. N. K. Monon last night told Penang youths not to be involved in politics or Join any political party while still at school. Dr. Mr non was sDeakin* at a rally of 250 representatives from youth atgsniaations marking the
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    All set for festival at Batu Caves
    54 4 A ll set for festival at Batu Caves KUALA LUMP A RECOIL 35,1)00 Sundu Thaipn.s;r Batu Cavi north ol The Tarn ligiou-s India. K speak on I A statue i] festival Is h rarricd in Mariam:: Street, caves 8a Eight i install, d have bti date 5,000 p At' Indian
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    Art exhibition at convent
    21 4 PENA-. paint ii. Europnii; rl bitcci a( I morrow I The exhibit the Pi tho work., o)
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    Farmer fined
    11 4 KUALA II.;; was fined $10i I a food proh:'
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    Bigger library
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    A BIG CAKE FOR A LITTLE GIRL
    60 4 "WHAT A CAKE! exclaim the kiddies, as one-year-old Vesta Lee cuts her 351 b birthday cake. Vesta is being helped by her daddy, Mr. Lawrence Lee, resettlement officer of Pendamaran new village. Port Swettenham, and her mummy. More than 300 attended the birthday
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    A Chinese bank to train Malay
    105 4 A Chinese bank to train Malay THE Oversea-Chine.se Banking Corporation has awarded a one-year scholarship to Inche Mohamed Yasin bin Ahdul Rahman, a member of thr Johore State Council, to sti»dy general banking with its head office in Singapore. This is the first time the bank has awarded such a
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    STABBING AFTER GIRL 'LOST FACE
    151 4 Husband danced with somebody PENANG, \v 4 POLICE constable, Meor Yahaya Magistrate, Mr. J. W. D. AmbYn had forgiven his attractive danrc host binte Isa. for stabbing him at "We are now reconciled. he said. Aishah was cautioned and discharged after pleading guilty to causine
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    SAMSU UNDER FIREWOOD: OWNER FINED
    36 4 SAMSU UNDER FIREWOOD: OWNER FINED JOHORE BAHH Custoi: i ofl in the Kill on Jar.. H nd I quantity mented stack-, Oi Thr month 24 boit'' 50 gallon* ol He haci 01 tion for a similar
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    Pahang posting
    24 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed Inche Sufllan bin Hashim. who was formerly Deputy Public Prosecutor, Johore, Bag been appointed acting! State SeeI rctary, Pahang.
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    CAR MEN'S OWN FIRM DOES GOOD BUSINESS
    82 5 CAR MEN'S OWN FIRM DOES GOOD BUSINESS an ioo policies \j issued by n Motor and rnderwritera ned by the r, a month i been morr tid the man, Mr. lar insurance members as a c in the orth said. beer. rs are damaged V. claim bonus Sen tariff rates.
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    New officers named
    43 5 c nu i in <u\ .s Upper Seranpore, for this Mr Tan Peng nd re- -.liony Goh: Mi Lee Augustine B :y. Mr. treasurer, Mr. i :hoi Mr. Chua Richar-.: Mong. 1 I Chua, I.im Kirn Chu i and Francis
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    SUICIDE BID CHARGE WITHDRAWN
    27 5 SUICIDE BID CHARGE WITHDRAWN barged with at- vas acquitted Singapore without be- to make his imood, pro> that he had withdraw have atthe Si -lapore on Jan.
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    'Big Gun' Chuang is certain he will hit target
    494 5 'Big Gun' Chuang is certain he will hit target of the underdog says: 'We will ffet new Councils to speak n all languages 9 Actions speak louder Transferred to warship Broke up a strike \|K. CHUANG HUI tTI TSUAN. the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce's 56-year-old champion of multilingualism, said
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    Woman, 84, on stretcher faces charge
    71 5 AX invalid 84-year-old woman, win carried on a stretcher into the Sineapore Fifth Police Court yesterday to face a chap-ji-ki charge. Tan Keou Km was said to have been arrested at her house in hin Hui Street on Tuesday nit-nt with *."> chap-ji-ki slips
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    RACKET TEMPTS SCHOOLBOYS
    149 5 But police alert to gambling bosses KUALA LUMPUR. Wednesday. I OCAL parents were indignant today when told that gambling racketeers had been preying on boys going to and from three schools near the centre of the town At Monday's meeting >>f the Municipal Council Mr. Douglas \tlianet"
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    Kamala club officials
    77 5 Officials n the Kamala Club. Singapore, for this year are ma: President. Mrs. A. C. Sinha: vice-presidents, Mrs. J. M Jumabhoy and Mrs. Mary Lobo; general secretary. Mrs. Veeoa J. Mehta; assistant secretary. Mrs. P. Ramkrishnan; treasurer. Mrs. T. If. K. Menon. Committee: Mesdames M George, if.
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    Ambush fails
    30 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed An Area Security Unit ambush party fired at four figures in the dark In the Kangar district of Perils on Monday night. All lour escaped.
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    Student killed
    39 5 TELUK ANSON. Wed.— Chan Ngow Chin. 13-year-old student of San Mm School. wa> fatally injured near the junction of Canal and Immigrant Roads this morning whin the bicycle he riding collided with a lorry laden with rubber.
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    Shadow war
    28 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Home Guards fired at some suspicious figures in the dark near the perimeter wire at Gua Musang. Kelantan, last night. Nobody was hit.
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    Lorry kills boy
    24 5 BUTTERWORTH. Wed. A three-year-old boy. Idris bin Mfrican. was fatally injured by a lorry on the Bukit Merta-lam-Sungei Patani road today.
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    THE MAN WHO TALKED TOO MUCH
    131 5 THE MAN WHO TALKED TOO MUCH KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. yENKATRAMAN Naidu, 25, accused here today of failing to re- j port to the police while i he was a police super- 1 visee last March, said the I Mentri Besar and the police had caused him "unnecessary inconveni- ence." Venkatraman.
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    A GOOD SHOT'S JOB
    118 5 GAME WARDEN CHOSEN FROM 47 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THERE were 47 applicants for the post of game I warden recently advertised by the Federations Game Department, but few had the qualifications. The man who got the job is I Mr. A. K. Robinson, 29. a former
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    Fun fair for two days
    59 5 IPOH, Wed. St. Michael's institution will hold a twoday food and fun fair here for their building fund. The Raja Muda of Perak will declare the fair open in the school grounds on Saturday at 230 p.m. The fair will be open till midnight and
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    19 deaths from pneumonia
    53 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Pneumonia caused 19 deaths out of 58 cases in the Federation in the week ended Jan. 15. Two deaths were reported out of 36 cases of dysentery There were three cases of poliomyelitis with one death, eight cases of enteric fever and four
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    Labour Party to put up 5 candidates
    167 5 fpHE Singapore Labour Party decided at a meeting last nisht to put up five candidates in the April Legislative Assembly elections. Two wan named. The party vice president. Mr. Ahmed All Khan Surattee. was nominated to contest the Pasir Panjang Division, where his
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    RACE BETWEEN 2 SPORTS CARS ENDED IN CRASH
    269 5 RACE BETWEEN 2 SPORTS CARS ENDED IN CRASH Injured trisha rider gets $200 A RACE between two sports cars along fUranf— Road, Singapore, at midnight on Sept. 11 ended when one of the cars struck a trisha, injuring the rider. The Second Traffic Police Magistrate was told this yesterday at
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    Socialites help at carnival
    84 5 PENANG, Wed. PENANO socialites served ncnya delicacies to patrons at ih» Penan? Chinese Chamber's food ahd fun carnira] which opened last night at the New World Park. Th" fair, n. aid of the Federation Flood Relief Fund, attracted ;t large crowd, it will be continued tonight.
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    $570 haul from unlocked room
    50 5 IPOH, Wed— Mr. and Mrs. M. F. MimlLston of Kuala Lumpur lost a watch worth $360. a $50 pen and a wallet containing $160 at the Station Hotel here on Monday night. The thief entered their room while they slept. The doer was not locked.
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    They were slow
    34 5 PENANG, Wed. Detectives yesterday arrested three pickpockets who stole fountain pens and a purse at various bus stands. One pickpocket was arrested at the Temple oi Heaven. Penane Hill Railway Road.
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    Colony assizes
    19 5 The next Singapore Assizes will be held in the Supreme Court at 10.30 am on Feb. 8.
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    DEATHS
    124 6 21 U,.rd. $l» (minimum). WEE- Joseph Wee Yong Ton seed 71 passed away peacefully at i No 10 Kuo Chuan Avenue, leaving iM-lilnd two sons Wee 800 Eng. Wee 800 Chua. two daughters, two sons- i ln-law and several grandchildren. ill leave Our Lady Queen c>: Peace church for
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    60 6 jn H.. f rf« J/fl (minimum) REV. BROTHER DIRECTOR and the staff of St. Patrick's School i thank all who helped to make the 1 m Pair Of the 30th January a success. MR AND MRS. JOHN LOWE Thank all Relatives and Friends for their kind wishes. Valuable Presents
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    124 6 20 H,,rrf, fin (minimum). FOLLOW PEDANT Every Day In the Malay Mail" if you want to win that $5,000 word puzzle. oil, l -POPS popping In every child's mouth. Lovely Fruit Flavoured Sweeta on a Stick. Made by Pullers Ltd Sole Agents: Robinson's TOWN it COUNTRY HAS A large
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    The Straits Times. Singapore, Thurs. Feb. 3, 1955. End Of A Chapter
    848 6 The Straits Times. Singapore, Thurs. Feb. 3, 1955. End Of A Chapter Addressing the last meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council, the Governor sketched only in the broadest outlines the Colony's progress during i the life of the legis! iure as it is now constituted. Yet the picture was impressive.
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    Controlling The Purse Strings
    447 6 In a recent comment on some observations by the Pres- j ident of UMNO, we pointed out that Alliance leaders appear to be under a misconception concerning the financial authority of the administration which will be formed by the political party or parties which win the
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    Mukim grew 50 per cent. more padi than the average for Federation
    1957 6 Mukim grew 50 per cent. more padi than the average for Federation THE THIRD OF FOUR ARTICLES BY DR. E.H.G. DOBBY DESCRIBING A UNIVERSITY INQUIRY INTO PADI GROWING IN MALAYA ONE of our teams of geographers settled in "Mukim 4" in the Province Wellesley ricebowl east of Butterworth and a
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      Federal financial control
      391 6 IN a sub-leader under the heading "Planning A Policy" you stated that the Alliance does not appear to understand the responsibilities it will have should it win the forthcoming Federal election. You went on to state that "the Legislative Council already holds the purse -strings". Nothing <s
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    On the margin
    158 6 We want to AN Kngllsfa writ. coin's inn just pub show thai men and tii. Engll h B deeai migrated The qu Malayans words "bai crn.nt for n mercial and the ofi lava. But is it v. in Mi tins lj.shed for Sin Federation. those I i
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    $3,000 TO CAR THAT RUNS MOST ON LEAST
    93 7 $3,000 TO CAR THAT RUNS MOST ON LEAST Malayan 0 i!i r<)in--000 J>n/c 1955 I onomy Run m Butterjapore dur- holidays. B mi a. in standardn. service Butterwill u<t $:i.OUO, will wh<> covers md finishes' petrol con- > his will be prize $500. reached by mileage bj ar in tons,
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    4,000 in rally
    20 7 IVT, Wed. —More •n from all Pahat gathernment Enallsh xerdav to hrar Day message, h, Chinese and
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    Masked robbers
    16 7 II MPUR, Wed. wearing hand- MiW- irth mile Klang' alter forepen a ca.sh j
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    SHOT FIVE CATTLE—$2OO
    59 7 SHOT FIVE CATTLE— $2OO A seDon William 31, was fined s ion Court being found hlef by killing $500 on the Aver Pasir division of th( Ong Hin Ttang Estate in the Alor Ga.iah district. He and two special constables serving under hirr were charged with shooting five of a
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    He stole jewels for sick mother
    42 7 A youth told a Singapore •ourt yesterday that he stole 1650 WOttta of jewellery from lis employer's house to pay us Mck mother's medical >Cla Sabapathy. alias Dollah. vho plra<kd guilty, was jailed or six weeks.
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    Seaman wins $200,000 claim
    310 7 Customs must return 5,290 seized watches HE CAME HERE FROM HONG KONG TO HEAR JUDGE SA V HE WASN'T SMUGGLER 4 SINGAPORE court yesterday ordered the return of 5,290 watches and 180 writing sets, seized by the Colony Customs last September, to a man who had
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    8 WILL HELP THE SANDWICH MAN
    255 7 'No Europeans? surprising' EIGHT Singapore men yesterday telephoned Capt. Edwin Richardson, the sandwich board safety man, offering their assistance to walk the streets with the boards. They had read his complaint in the Straits Times that he was "fed-up" with the shyness of those
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    The killer drugs: Health men act
    195 7 The killer drugs: Health men act THE Singapore City Health Department is pressing its drive against the sale of Chinese drugs containing lead adulteration. Taken in large doses, these drugs can kill. Four druggists have been fined from $50 to $100 for selling such drugs. At least two or three
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    'Customers' robbed him
    76 7 CIGARETTE THEFT Tvc men, one armed with a knife, robbed a stallholder Mohamed Ibrahim, of Jalan Bc-ar, Singapore, of two carton^ of cigarettes on Tuesday nmht. Mohamed Ibrahim said the men posed as customers and asked for the cigarettes. As soon as he handed over the cigarettes,
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    Lock icon Holiday posts
    47 7 Singapore General Post Office will remain open from 9 a.m. to midday on MondayThalpusam. With the exception of Joo Chlat. Tiong Bahru. Towner Road, Kandang Kerbau and Maxwell Road, all other post offices and postal agencies will be opened from 9 am. to 10.30 a.m.
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    Women's Toe H
    32 7 A women's section has been formed in the Singapore branch of Toe H. The women's meeting will be at 10.15 a.m. every Wednesday at Talbot House, 11. Scotts Road.
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    $1,020 mil. —but little for Singapore
    192 7 $1,020 mil. —but little for Singapore SINGAPORE is unlikely to get much of the £120.000,000 (about MSI, 020,000,000) the British Government intends to spend on the Colonies in the next five years. Colonial Development and Welfare Fund allocations are apportioned on the basLs of need, and prosperous Singapore is well
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    Annual meeting
    23 7 The Gadek and Padang Sebang (Malacca) Malays Welfare Association will hold its annual meeting at 200. Beach Road, Singapore, on Sunday.
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    MAN SAVES WOMAN FROM WILD BOAR
    69 7 TAMPIN. Wednesday. A MALAY saved a Chinese woman from a wild boar goring her at her veßetable plot at Semat, ten miles from here, yester-. day afternoon. The woman fainted when the boar charged at her. The Malay saw the incident J and came
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    He'll fight polls
    25 7 - Mr. C. T. B. Unnithan. a contractor, will contest the Singapore Legls attve Assembly elections as an Independent in Fairer Park division.
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    7 DRANK AND KNEW NOTHING OF MURDER'
    128 7 Appavoo Thayan, a naval base labourer, accused in the Singapore Assize Court of the murder of K. Irulappan at 7 pm. on Oct. 27. told Mr. Justice Whitton yesterday that he had been drinking Chinese medicated wine and that he did not know
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    'Le Million'
    32 7 The Singapore Film Society will show "Le Million" at the British Council Hall, Stamford Road, at 9 p.m. on Feb. 19 and 830 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Feb. 20.
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    -VEGS CHEAPER AFTER FLOODS
    136 7 -VEGS CHEAPER AFTER FLOODS MALACCA, Wed. rpHE price of vegetables A in Malacca is dropping. Choy sum, which was 35 to 40 cents per kati last month, is now from eight to 12 cents. Pak choy is being sold from ten to 15 cento per katl. It fetched from 35
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    South Africans wed in Singapore
    58 7 MR. GIDEON UOTHA and Miss Valeric Thorn, both formerly of South Africa, who were married at the Presbyterian Church in Singapore yesterday. Mr. Botha, who conies from Cape Town, is the Malayan sales manager of Kuthni in > Ltd. in Singapore. His bride arrived from
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    IGNORED ORDER TO APPEAR
    287 7 This time dealer is fined $500 A SINGAPORE businessman who refused to appear r% at the office of the Deputy Controller of Foreign Exchange when asked to do so was yesterday fined S5OO in the High Court. He was Lim Peng Kia against whose acquittal last
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    This man will tackle the Colony Hoods
    56 7 This man will tackle the Colony Hoods MR. F. PELTON, Singapore's flood problem solver. He is now chief research engineer in the drainage and irrigation Department, Kuala Lumpur. Mr. Pelton, 52, has been in Government service for 27 years. He takes up his new appointment on March 1 when he
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    Industrial council soon for rubber
    71 7 Industrial council soon for rubber KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. rpHE constitution of Malaya's 1 Rubber Industrial Council may be signed early next month. A meeting of employers and workers today agreed to make a few alterations fti the wording of the constitute n. The constitution now awaits formal approval by the
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    Job-hunting, loses $130
    39 7 While a woman living In Muar Road, Singapore, was at the Labour Office looking for work on Tuesday afternoon a thief broke into her house and stole a gold bangle and a gold ring worth $130.
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    THAT MYSTERY BANG
    103 7 ...was just a cracker, say police SINGAPORE police investigating the explosion on Tuesday at the junction ol River Valley Road and Killiney Road, when two young men were severly burnt, believe that it was only i "nlorificd fire cracker." A police spokesman told the Straits Times yesterday
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    Market plan held up
    60 7 KLANG. Wed Hang Town i Councillors have been given n i r time to study 'he plan for the oew 5400.000 market here This followed requests made a* a nreting of thr council today. .n members had Mkad for morr time on ihe grounds that the
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    Penang Assizes
    26 7 PENANG. Wed. Penan? Assizes will be ceremonially opened on Feb. 7. Earlier there will be a service at St. George's Church at 10 a.m.
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    Boy killed by car
    32 7 BATU PAHAT, Wed. K. R. Aghavan, 16-year-old son of Mr. K. Nalr was knocked down by a car In front of the Rex Theatre yesterday and died Immediately.
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    Coroner clears officer
    201 7 'NO CRIMINAL IMPLICATION' THE Singapore Coroner, Mr. K. T. Alexander, yesterday cleared Lieut. M. S. Findeisen. of the Royal Naval Air Station at Sembawang, of criminal implication in the death ol a woman killed in a road accident. The accident occurred on Thomson Road, in front of
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    4 MONTHS IN JAIL FOR TELLING LIES
    85 7 4 MONTHS IN JAIL FOR TELLING LIES A labourer told the police a story of how he was assaulted last August, then gave an entirely different version of the incident when the case was heard by Mr. M. Karthigesu. a Singapore magistrate, on Oct. 2. Yesterday. M. Palavasan w;u jailed
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    MALAYA CALLING: 1,780 TIMES
    61 7 Malayans mad? 1,780 overseas radio telephone cml* from October to December last year, according to Mr. J. C. Dallow. Singapore's Director ol Telecommunications. Incoming '-nIN for th» d totalled 1.319. from Malay* to Indonesia were 448 <783 l.ieomingt, K--.re Konp 534 <505 i Britain 483 9
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      170 7 The weather MINIMI \i TEMPCEATIRE: (7.30 p.m. on Feb 1 to 7.30 ».m. on Feb. 2) Singapore 72 degrees. Penang 74. Kota B.ihru 67. Kuala j Lumpur 74. Ipoh 73. Kuantan 67. MAXIMI'M TEMPERATURE: (7.30 a.m. t o 7.30 p.m. on Feb. 2>: Singapore 89. Penang 89, Kota Banru 83.
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    House robbed
    22 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Wfed. Thieves broke into a house near Klang Road abattoirs and *tele $570 and a wristwatch ivorth 5390
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    Big MCA property plan
    205 8 THE AIM: TO PROVIDE A STEADY SOURCE OF INCOME SITES ALREADY BOUGHT IN SINGAPORE, IPOH AND KUALA LUMPUR THE Malayan Chinese Association is to invest about $2,500,000 in property to ensure that it ha> a steady source of income to finance its activities. The M.C.A. has
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    Dato Razak is youngest Mentri now
    105 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. PAHANG'S State Secretary. Dato Abdul Razak bin Hussain. has been appointed acting Mentri Besar in place of Tengku Mohamed ibni Sultan Ahmad who is on sixi months' leave. Dato Razak. 33, who is deputy president of the United Malays National Organisation,
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    Call-up: Medical test for new men
    44 8 Medical examination of thr second batch of National Servicemen will be carried out from Feb. 8 to Feb. 14 at the Singapore Military Forces Headquarters. Beach Road. Clothing and equipment will al.-o be issued during the same period.
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    The 120,000 nomadic job-hunters of Kelantan
    216 8 The 120,000 nomadic job-hunters of Kelantan KOTA BHARL'. Wed. MORE THAN 120,000 Malayans left Kelantan last year to find work in other states and in Slam, the Assistant Controller of Immigration. Inche Syed Kabeer bin Syed Ahmad, told the Straits Times today. Emigration was at a fairly constant rate of
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    IT WON'T BE THE SAME
    183 8 IT WON'T BE THE SAME Film re-write for Han Suyin book HAN SUYIN, (Dr. Eliza- beth Comber) does not expect the film version of "A Many Splendoured Thing" to follow her book closely, her husband, Mr. Leonard Comber, said yesterday. "It was agreed that the film company would do the
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    Granted a decree
    72 8 Manoel Da Silva, who had been living apart from his wife. Margie Doreen Da Silva. under a deed of separation. since May 1945. was granted a decree nisi in the Singapore High Court yesterday by the Chie"f Justice. Sir Charles Murray-Ajrnsley on the grounds of adultery. Inspector
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    Union course
    33 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed— Mr. S. Sellappah, an official of the Feaeration's Trade Union Adviser's Department, goes to Liitain in the Chusan on Feb. 8 on a six-month course in trade unionism.
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    They 're in market for anotherEdendale
    126 8 They 're in market for another Edendale THE owners of the Edendale. sunk by Chinese Nationalist planes at Swatow on Jan. 19, are looking for a ship to replace her. The owners, Jebshun Ship- ping Company of Hong Konc may buy a replacement in Sinapore The 58-year-old Edendale was the
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    A woman ticks off Australian seamen
    307 8 A woman ticks off Australian seamen Tappers hacked to death Goods train derailed i From MASSEY STANLEY SYDNEY, Wed. AN Australian news- paper today published a revealing retort from an Australian woman, now in Malaya, to seamen in Victoria who recently threatened not to carry troops and war materials to
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    Dinner date for two men
    78 8 Two executives of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, who have been visiting branches of the Institute in Australia and New Zealand, will arrive in Singapore on Monday to keep a date. Mr. B. O. Porter, president, and Dr. A. M. Allen, secretary, will attend the
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    Girl's scream brings help
    57 8 A schoolgirl who was robbed of $10 three weeks ago by a man as she was walking home alone Boscombe Road. Singapore, found the same man dosKine her footsteps on Tuesday night. This time she screamed for help. Residents in the neighbourhood chased and caught a
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    Cloth stealing charge
    49 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Omar bin Akob. 36. of Malacca, today pleaded not guilty here to stealing twu bales of black cloth worth $72 from shop In Petaling Street. Kuala Lumpur on Jan. 15. H<> was alowed bail of $500 The case was postponed to Feb. 21.
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    A 'PAIR OF LIARS AND ROGUES' ARE JAILED
    197 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed.— Mr. N. L. Cohen, president of the Sessions Court here, to- day called Abdul Rahman bin Abdul Hamld and Ahmad bin Tamby "a pair of liars and I rogues." He then jailed Abdul Rahman for five years and Ahmad
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    RAF inspectors tour Changi
    54 8 Royal Air Force personnel at Changi yesterday had two distinguished visitors the In-spector-General, Air Marshal Sir Chan's E. N. Guest, and the Inspector, WRAF. Grou^ Officer Jean Conan Doyle. The two officers are now on an Inspection tour of RAF centres in the Far East. They
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    SINGAPORE MAN WEDS PENANG GIRL
    40 8 MR. LCI. Laßrooy of Singapore helps his brid<\ Miss Kuliy Monica Perera, to cut their wedding cake at a reception in Penang. The wedding was solemnised at the Church of the Assumption. Lido Photo picture.
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    Open market rice is going up and up
    284 8 BUT GOVT. STOCKPILE RICE CHEAPER THE price of open market rice in Singapore, quoted at $36.50 per picul before the Chinese New Year is now up by $2. There is every indication that it will rise again, according to Mr. Teo Hang
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    Reds slay civilian
    22 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Terrorists murdered a civilian. Kee Ah Yak. 60, in his house at Pengerang, Johore, on Monday.
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    A SPREE—WITH FIRM'S CASH
    56 8 A SPREE— WITH FIRM'S CASH In three days V. Kannuthurai spent $509.40 of his employer's money. He was employed by the British Electroplating Company. Penang Lane, and on Saturday was given $165.25 to put into a bank and a che- que i" r K I he wa I Ilr 1.
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    He 'didiy, know' Car hit man at 70 mph
    121 8 He 'didiy, know' Car hit man at 70 mph THF x Clan assist a term death ol drivinu h ly. was Justice Appeal C Lf.broov i in thf 8< Buntar ebargi I dent at 11. lie wai and nn.fi SI lesser C to rendi r Jured pei stop after Fast
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    1602 9 STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL FEATURE Mob jeered at world's first 'tube railway' in London t/l I t tilth tn rtit/cft S h«' mintf si §trk Chnkiny rltuids ...tuiti hirst's hniivd JIIWIIIIIIM IMHH4. 1 trait'timI'4>flllfl> j TOMORROW 1 HilU Milrhell. I'rophi J Of Air Warfare y\ GROUP of elegant men in grey
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      113 9 Shvrhtvk ffo/##f#>.v #/######> sirurk hoart /{ff&k "^^flH DEAD AS A DOORNAIL, MOLMES! f INTEKESTiNe VERY jfrfl*rr Mvk ftwegf Thy rwps ~"™^^^^^Pf?^^] IT ISN'T TOO ME/VILV T COSM.TMESE CUT-LEAF 1 T EGAD.' BOTTLES AMD PTcTT^xr-rvMi arujf=o^no STOCKED- DOEStfT LOOK 3WUXJBCRON ARE BEALmndL. FLOrVERS? WUATAN I nS^cEf^QhrnwuA-r? LIKE A REAL FLORIST. l
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    UNITED ENGINEERS GAIN 70 CENTS ON DIVIDEND NEWS
    499 10 UNITED ENGINEERS GAIN 70 CENTS ON DIVIDEND NEWS ONE of the brightest spots on an otherwise unmU spiring Singapore Share Market yesterday was a rise of 70 cents in the buyers' price of t nited Engineer ordinaries on the dividend announceFor the financial year ended December fcl the company are
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    BROKERS' REPORT
    278 10 The Malayan .Share Brokers' Association reported: "On the local BftMM market mest IndusmaLs were firm Tins were s lfthtly easier over small trading while rubbers were marked down In the absence of buyers." Singapore members i eported the following business done yesterday Fraser and Neave ords $2.04: Gammon
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    SHIPPING
    94 10 Ships lying alongside (he Singapore Harbour Board wharves or exported today are: London Spirit 4 5 Nadir C.P Aenea-. 67. Ben vannorh 89. Bintanp 11. Ki):mc 12. M.inriama 13 14. Binco Maru 15 16. Singapore 1? Arnold Maersk 19 20.. Sirusa N. Wa.! 5, Rokan N Wall 7. Sedenak
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    184 10 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices per picul yesterday were: Copra: quiet: February $31 7 8 buyers. $32 sellers; March $32 1 8 buyers. $32 3 8 sellers. Coconut oil quiet bulk $48 1 2 sellers, drums $50 I 2 sellers. Pepper: quiet, no business reported; white variety
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    OFFICIAL PRICES
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    62 10 tone in \u'> stocks recon on the si minirif firmer Dran modfi. Loans 3 [g i Louu 3 Bank of N S W Con Znw N. BrokeHill 5 Mount V Ampol Bxplor Mil Oil Search AuM. Con In A.P.M. Bradford B Hill Pi ild Ounlop Eler. 7Anr Kelt
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    RUBBER PRICES
    61 10 f.o.b. closed In at $102 r. rent lower II The closing ClOMIli; pi jr. prr lb wen loose buyer; 102 1 R S S Krl 103; Nn. 2 102',; No \m%. Singapore Chambei Rubber A Wednead lb. were: Ruv. Spot No 1 R s S b;ilf. I No
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    29 10 Tlic yerterd (anad.i 11*4. on bill*. S3 3 16 tradi T.T. oi OP On the frw Hone K lar «a> and 1 1 Btcrlln one t i
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      155 10 apisi children's M preparation for children of all H 1 I B colds and hr.nchitis. I hmcim ll Goulding's mixture is I I I pleasantly flavoured and I m "HT."'"".^.*^ I I BOOTS PURE DRUG CO fFAR EAST) LTD. UNION BUILDING, SINGAPORE UMHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII(£ -HARVEY" 1 STEEL OFFICE FURNITURE I 5
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      468 10 APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS are ln.ited from .lalays for employment In the I.il.iy Regiment Central Band as <and boys. Applicants should be >nween the ages of 14 and 16 '.j nd should have passed Standard V .la lay School: previous musical .alning would be an advantage but s not essential. Successful appllants
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      301 10 NOTICES THE MALAYAN EXCHANGE BANKS ASSOCIATION ALL members of the above Association In the Colony of Singapore will be closed for business on Monday 7th February being Thalpusam. CHANGE OF ADDRESS Messrs. Henry Noon 6c Company announce that their office has now been removed to: Crosby House, (3rd floor) 71,
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      820 10 NOTICES NOTICE Mr. J A. McLEAN. late of Kalumpong Estate, is no longer In the employment of ORIENTAL ESTATES AGENCY THE TRADE MARK ORDINANCE, 1950 NO. 26 of 1950 This advertinrmrnt appears by direction nf the RexUtrar of Trade Marks under the provisions of Section 49(7) of the Ordinance. NOTICE
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      232 10 SHIPPING NOTICES t.i.i. "STATE OF MADRAS" SAILING FEBRI'ARY 14, 1955 DECK class tickets per above sailing for Netrapattinam and Madras will be on sale from February 4 and may be had at our office on production of valid travel documents. R. JUMABHOY SONS LTD.. EASTERN SHIPPING CORP. LTD. Slim Fat
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    TALKING POINT
    193 12 TAKE CARE WHEN YOU SIT, MISS! rE four-slit cheongsum, for so long a story which seemed to have no basis in fact that one could discover, has now been seen in Singapore. It is not jikfly to prove popular, writes a reader who has seen it. First of
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    It's the price that matters
    43 12 Joints of meat should have price tickets showing the cost per lb. so that housewives can work out for themeplvcs if they are bring correctly charged. So says a report presented to thr County Counails Association in Britain.
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    Have a GOOD CRY and live longer
    575 12  - Have a GOOD CR Y and live longer CHAPMAN PINCHER by IF men wept as easily as women instead of bottling up their emotions they might live much longer. That is the latest theory of doctors who are trying to find out why men are sufferiiiK so much more than
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      THE ALL-IN-ONE STREAMLINE HAT MAKES ITS BOW
      240 12 T<HE ninth season of x Italian fashion shows recently opened at Florence, where buyers from Europe and America have increased by 75 per cent since six months ago, and I even noticed French buyers in the huge Pitti Palace audience. This is now
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      Modern shape
      86 12 MOST interesting new line is the all-in-one hat, without seams or brim. It had a tall crown and is made of soft drape satin silk, pulled well down at one side of the face. It is a streamline modern shape, uncluttered by trimming Other interesting styles include forward-tilted
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      Star models
      62 12 STARRED among the models in my notel<ook: Charleston cloche, hugging the head and revealing not a sinple strand of hair; nightclub caps, in irridescent sequins with back interest; schoolgirl boaters, with long embroidered ribbon streamers: gypsy scarf hats, with twisted side drapes, stitched with flowers. Queen Alexandra toques
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      DIED FOR HER GRANDCHILDREN
      40 12 A: Plalnfield, New Jersey. Mrs. Oscar Augustine, aged 50. dropped her grandchildren Nancy, aged two, and Donald, eight months, intc policemen's arms from a third-storey window. Then she fell back into a burning room and died
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    EFFICIENCY PLUS TACT A.RE NEEDED FOR THIS JOB
    383 12 EFFICIENCY PLUS TACT A.RE NEEDED FOR THIS JOB IV3 you want to make an inquiry from SATA? All you have to do is to ring the town office. The voice at the other end of the line is that of Mrs. Phyllis Lim. the Social and Press Secretary of this
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      155 12 J^ MILK'S UW AND THE CHILDREN COME il^rC RUNNING, BECAUSE THEY ffi*^]Z *>tts~A LOVE THE CREAMY TASTE OF BEAR BRAND zk'iftvffi&ls* sterilized /=^Cs swiss WimM "wk ntl% y \y^^^iw A }»lass of cold BEAR IJRAND 1 Milk is not only a lovely drink llliiliiii& but is a so a FOOD
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      166 12 > %0 HEIN2 MAYONNAISE J>UNIFOPM FLAVOR.!, Nwiiiit:[' iiiinui!' ::l^\ Htl NZ Ma > >onn and u v V^^ wa > s P urc alwavs smoother I V 1-, "I textured unh exact!) ti, quant fla\or Hhnv Mayonnaix j^^^^?^^^^j|rf£ ncly hefter quality -~^^^^Bk\ Choice ingredients, care j %J^R fully hlcn^ c
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      362 12 0 25. Astronomical film fan? (4-5). I Straits Times Crossword :SS:r"" 28. Even frivolity carries a tax 1 2 3 4 \b I E^fJ K^7 tJKSIg I h lt! c6 JSSS TSW STO rws- jwjt »SS SSS S^ IM s 9 2 Front horse in the Ho"- 1 of |§S
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    Determination wins like a chamnion
    2531 13 ALL THE RESULTS, DIVIDENDS and CASH SWEEPS I Race One CLASS 3 DIV. 2—6 FIRS. uka Kongsl's i 13) SNOW RLAZt: 8.13 (1180 59.m Bagby 1 (7) Sugar Bush 8.5 carr 8.0 (568—147) Leong 2 <4> Pearly 8.2 (165-158) Franklin 3 (1) Sky High 8.11
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    THE BEST DIVIDEND BY MISS WINNIE
    115 13 THE BEST DIVIDEND BY MISS WINNIE EPSOM JKE1* G 9.7. jj ion (Bouii up a grand display to right Class 1, Id over 6f. by ths at Bukit t < r d a y. Turf Club February DotorminaMiionK the irlongs out he pi ned out n the traight .inpion he
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    BIG SWEEP
    57 13 Total Pool: $314,080 Ist: No. *****2 ($141,336) 2nd: No. 4987 1S (f 70,668) 3rd: No. *****4 <S 39,260 > Starters: ($3,020 each) Nos. *****4, *****0, *****8, *****9, *****0, *****6, 538G68, *****6, *****4, *****8, *****8, *****1, *****6. Consolation ($2,355 each) Nos. *****5, *****6, *****6, *****8. *****0, *****6, *****7, *****8,
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    Peter Keenan to fight Sinn
    21 13 day by Mr. er of Stadiums :in date would be ned in r are ..'■xi three
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    FIJIAN VICTORY
    18 13 IST, Wed —The full '■:ounred Fijian by 28 poii r o eight 'goal and game here.
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    14 13 IKItiES College Itt Si Barfs eir tirst- match here on Feb. 9.
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    PICTURE TIP
    19 13 The StraiU Times picture Up for yesterday's races wa« JACKPOT II who was third in Rare 8.
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    FINAL HOCKEY TRIAL TODAY
    96 13 IPOH. Wed THE Malayan Hockey Federation's flnul trial will be played tomorrow on the Chinese Assembly Hill ground, after which the team to meet Singapore In the return "international 1 in Ipoh on Sunday, will be namec tOLOIKS: Mohamed Anwar, N. Monerasinghe, Chua Eng Cheng; i
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    SELANGOR RACE ENTRIES
    720 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. T«HIRTY-two hordes have been entered for the Selangor Gold Cup over a mlle-and-a-quarter. main race of the Selangor Turf Club Meeting on Feb. 12. 16 and 19. Of these, half will probably be nominated for the race. A total of 162 horses has been
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    DIV.3 HOCKEY FINAL TODAY
    57 14 Ceylon Sports Club II will meet S H.B. Police in the S.H A. Third Division league final on the SRC. p.'idani; today. C.S.C. were the Div. 3B champions and S.H.B. Police the Dlv. 3A winners. The CSC. team today will be: Thamby: The- ara.ian. Rajallnßam: icfii.'iM
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    SAHAR SCORES 3
    32 14 A hat-trick by Sahar enabled Fiithul Karib to beat Woodbridge Hospital 3—l in a soccer friendly at Jalan Besar yesterday. Kam Poh replied Aith a goal for Woodbridge Hospital.
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    Oh, what a fright Miller gave Hutton's men
    1044 14 Oh, what a fright Miller gave Hutton's men Aussies lost 7 for 42, England 5 for 90 in the most iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiMMiiiiiimiMiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiii'iiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiMiii iniiiniiiiMiniiimiii mil minimi hiiimiiiiih sensational day's cricket in Tests since the war From Jack Fingleton ADELAIDE. Wed. ENGLAND today had a E* few shocks before they went on to
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    ADMIRA BEGIN WITH 5-0 IN PLEASING STYLE
    555 14 Jy The Sports Editor THE pin-striped, black and white jerseys of Admira F.C. of Vienna are destined to be remembered with pleasure on Malayan football fields. Last night this continental team with an International reputation played leisurely. almost gentle football to beat a
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    Lock icon Kucs credited with world marks for 5,000 m., 3 miles
    289 14 LONDON. Wed. I yLADIMIR KUCS. the Soviet I middle distance runner, h.i.-, had two world record*, the 5.000 metres and the three miles, reeoß- nlsed by the International Amateur Athletic Federitlon. Kucs set both records at Prague on Oct. 23
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    WEEKEND TEAMS v ADMIRA
    148 14 The Slno-Malay team to play Admlra PC. at Jalan Besar Stadium on Saturday at 8 pm. will be selected from: Chee Seng, Fook Teng, Teow Keng. Kok Cheng. Hee Jong. Kok Seng. Hin Weng. Boon Khlm. Boon Seong. Boon Leong. Yeng Huat Kirn Benit Angullla. .Johan,
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    155 14 UJBTRALIA-lsi .nn,^ BK3LAND Vlorn> < .nd Apple\.irrt Burke I) »arv,. v P p,,., d i Miller I) Statham Haddocks Urn Benaud ib» Archer Evans b T\, DavidMwi ll m U ,rdl, Johnston c Ippleyard b I > son Johnson not out Total "7" wnouu frii at >i iT^" Bouim,
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      807 14 WANTED I 2t Wordt %S (Min.)— Box iO ett. txtrm. HIRE CARS wanted for monthly hire Apply Radio Taxi Ltd. Tel. 250 1 7. OOOD HOME For ThUee Year Old Mongrel Part Alsatian. Friend!;to Children, good Watch Dog. Phone *****. LOAN WANTED IMMEDIATELY $5,000. Very Oood Security Repayable in 12
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      302 14 RACE RESULTS AND DESCRIPTION -P. 13 CLASSIFIED ADS. FOR SALE 2d Wordt $i (Min.)— Box it rtt. txtrm. FOR SALE Australorp pullets ichlcks from Hampton Farm) point of lay $12/-. Apply Malayan Poultry Farm, 45 Winchester House, Phone 6884. KATONG FLOWER SHOP: Shipments of Gladlolles bulbs from Holland. Special varieties
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      89 14 ajtebSa/e very watch, movie cameni and t guaranteed to be free from d workmanship. This guarunt. tn the goods we sell. Of »*ua] greater practical value. t!. we offer our customers, etthei [I period of the written warran' sold by us. or at moderate i qualified and .specially tniin d
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      41 14 •In iJtui LIJLJKJdbJJII HOCKEY S.H.A. XI v SC.C, on padang. JUNIOR (II 1 (replay): K.X. v S.E.R., at Naval Base. S.H.A. League. Div. 3: Ceylon S.C. v S.H.B. Police. S.R.C. p. ul.i ni; BOXING SABA. Youth championship. Badminton Hall. 8 p.m.
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