The Straits Times, 12 February 1955

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    17 1 The Straits Times. NatW d tie**"**' 1 Estd. 1845 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, FEBRI ARY 12, 1955 15 CENTS
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    IN the CANBERRAS-1, 2, 3, 4
    372 1 j JET BOMBERS IN MALAYA Soon they'll hammer the bandits |l was made in Malaya yesterday when Britain's latest Canberra jet bombers vc n Singapore. rras will soon iK'^in intensive the terrorists in the jungle. The opera- three months. lanes are the lirM B(>
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    Lock icon Car chief dies
    24 1 PARIS. Fri Pierre Lefaucheux. 56. president of the Renault car factory— France '.•< biggest was killed today in a car accident— A.P
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    Lock icon JUNGLE WAR TRAINING FOR AUSTRALIANS
    42 1 I RRA Fri. of the Army, I r.uu'is today in increase \ustralian in jungle war- t the 1 nl.irK is to tustraliani i<> said training Lhi recently retime iunclc train- anuncra. •rould he acprovidr for itput. Reuter.
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    Lock icon WORD INVITES MALENKOV
    43 1 I A telegram r Soviet the !i— the :iety and happy retirement. The telegram also invited him to take part In a debate on Feb 24 on the motion This house refuses to be frichtened by the Communist bopcy Reuter.
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    Lock icon Tito's vow
    19 1 Tito 's vow RIJEKA. Yugoslavia. Fri President Tito declared toda\ that Yugoslavia "will nevei loin the Eastern bloc U.P.
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    Tunnel plan for Hong Kong
    19 1 Frl The ent an- had asked Bri- in, two- Si harKong BritLsh '"nina main-
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    Lock icon ANOTHER PIERRE TRIES
    95 1 ANOTHER PIERRE TRIES PARIS. Fn. M PIERRE PFLIMIN. the second man to try to form Frances 21st. post-war Government, began his consultations today by calling on the outgoing Premier, M. Pierre Mendes France. M. Pflimlin hopes to Rive President Rene Coty ati answer by tonight "M Pflimlin served in eight
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    Lock icon Butler warns
    36 1 LIVERPOOL. Fri— Britain's exports havi not T>een rising fast enough to keep pace with imports. Mr. R. A. Butler. Chancellor of the Exchequer, warned members of the Merseyside Chambers of Commerce here today. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Tribe splits
    35 1 NEW DELHI, Fri. Naga tribesmen on the Burma border, who have demanding an independent "Nagaland." have now split into two groups, one of which is reconciled to remaining within the Indian Union. Reuter
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    Lock icon Smoking danger
    28 1 CHICAGO. Frl— The journal of the American Medical Associaion yesterday said "There seems now to be definite evidence that smoking can damage the heart musCl« A.P
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    Lock icon Stylish surgery
    31 1 LONDON. Fri— Orion, a new nylon fabric, has been used successfully in BritLsh surpery as grafting material for diseased arteries, the British Medical JournaJ disclosed to- j day —Reuter
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    Soviet justice
    24 1 LONDON. Fri— Six members of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union have been relieved of their pasts. Moscow Radio announced today.
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    Volunteer corps
    23 1 BANGKOK. Frl— Slam b cstablishinu a big volunteer civil defence corps to counter i the threat of Communist aggression. A P
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    Lock icon Call on Emperor
    16 1 TOKYO. Fri. Emperor Hirohtto '"day received Lord Hi.re-BfliKha. former British War Minister— A.P.
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    Lock icon Union says: Exile Chiang
    60 1 LONDON, Fri. Leaders of Britain's 700,000-strong National Union of Mineworkers declared here today that General Chiang Kai-shek, president of Nationalist China, should be exiled At an executive meeting they passed a resolution "enthus- 1 lastically endorsing" the re- 1 cent statements made by Mr. Clement Attlee,
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    Lock icon 'Plot against Nixon' reported
    43 1 MEXICO CITY. Fri. The newspaper Ultimas NotJcias reported today that 14 people had been arrested here for plotting against Mr. Richard Nixon, the VS. vice-president, who is o.i a visit. Police would not confirm or deny the report— Reuter.
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    Lock icon 'No' to air probe
    32 1 LONDON. Fri The Prime Minister. Sir Winston Churchill, last night rejected Labour Party demands that a royal commission be set up to look into Britain's air defences. UP.
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    Flying saucers!
    240 1 3iiiiiiiiumln PENANG, IPOH and TELUK ANSON the cry went up mmimmiil- NORTHERN MALAYA i A was "invaded" yesE terday by a fleet of E "flying saucers". From E Penang. to Ipoh to 1 Teluk Anson, hundreds S of people claimed to have seen them. The "saucers" were flyE
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    7 shake hands after a landing
    291 1 7 shake hands after a landing SEVEN men stepped out! of a plane at Changi airnjeld yesterday after- 1 noon and shook hands with each other. They were members of the crew of an RAF Valetta sup-ply-dropping plane which crash-landed when its undercarriage jammed soon after its take-off from Kuala
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    'Help! Baby is choking'
    51 1 JACKSONVILLE. Florida. Frl—An alarm system to prevent babies from being suflocated has been demonstrated It is a device which sends out both audible and visibl- signals It resembles a portable radio and weighs about 61b It goes into action at the slightest change in a baby's
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    Lock icon ing—A.P. Killer landed
    31 1 ing— A.P. Killer landed AUCKLAND. Fri Lieut Gen. Sir Willoughby Norrle. Governor-General of New Zealand, ha* caught his first killer mako shark a 228-pounder which took 30 minutes to land —Reuter.
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    Lock icon SILVER-GREY SEA PRINCESS
    107 1 BRIDGETOWN. Barbados. Frl. —Princess Margaret yesterday donned a one-piece sll-v^r-Krey bathing suit and relaxed at the beach here. I She was taking a free afternoon and evening as a break from the exacting duties of her tour of the West Indies On her drive from Bridgetown, the
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    Britain hit by cold spell
    45 1 LONDON Fri Britain had a cold ni«ht yesterday with .some snow on the East Coast and In Scotland Tempera--1 tures dropped In place.s to 10 deeree.s Mtowr freezing point but today was brisht and clear over most of the cou:.t:y
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    39 1 LONDHN. m.— Fifty :i ->|>!i--cntmn.s have been reccivec i<>r th( ioh of warden at Ma.aya HpU. thr student*.' hostel and entre. rendered v.i- UU by tn< resignation thnmuh illne»s o.' Mr. F C. Barrai lo .ph. -keuter.
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    CASHIER LOST ON WAY TO BANK
    187 1 Police believe he was kidnapped KUALA LUMPUR. Friday 4 58-YEAR-OLD cashier. Mr. Yap Kon Shin, disA appeared on his way to a bank yesterday with $5,000 of his firm's takings. He left his office in Pudu Road soon after midday with I a salesman
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    Lock icon The sack for 2 Ministers
    59 1 KATMANDU. Fn —The Royal Council of State today dismissed two ministers of Mr. M P Koirala's cabinet. Mr. Koirala. who leads the National Democratic Party, had demanded the dismissal of the two men, Mr Prasad. Minister without Portfolio, and Mr Misra. Minister of Communications, who
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    Lock icon Curtain falls
    29 1 PANMUNJOM. Fri. A Belgian soldier. Roger F. Hoste who crossed into North Korea last August. today chose to remain behind the Bamboo Curtain with the Communists. Reuter.
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    Terrorist gives up— to his wife
    202 1 Terrorist gives up to his wife SHE BRINGS HIM OUT OF JUNGLE KUALA LIPIS. Fri. A YOUNG Malay wife with 19 friends and relatives went into the Pahang jungle last week determined to bring out I her terrorist husband and his comrades Today she and a relative cam* 1 nut
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    EDEN WILL VISIT THE JUNGLE TROOPS
    95 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Friday. rpHE British Foreign Secretary, Sir Anthony Eden. will visit troops fighting the terrorists in the Federation, it was announced here tonight i He and Lady Eden will spend two days as guests of the High Commissioner. Sir Donald MacGlllivray. and Lady
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    SHE GAVE UP HER GUNS FOR ORPHANS
    201 1 SHE GAVE UP HER GUNS FOR ORPHANS KEELUNG. Fn "TWO GUN" Huang Pa-mei has reached this Formosan port, minus her famous guns but loaded with 100 orphans from the Tachen islands. The former guerilla and pirate leader, famed for resistance first against the Japanese and later against the Communists, seemed
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    Lock icon Aga Khan is illjubilee put off
    46 1 CAIRO. Fn.— The Aga Khan has a touch of bronchitis, an Ismaill Moslem leader. Count Lakha. announced here today H. said the Aga Khan's platinum jubilee celebrations due to be held in Cairo on Feb 20 had been cancelled Rtuter
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    Lock icon Pact signing
    32 1 BAGDAD. Fri. Turkey and Iraq will sign their defence pact here on Feb 23 0B the second day of a stut. rlsM by the Turkish President. Mr Celr.l Bayar— Reuter
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    No, Chou says it again
    126 1 No, Chou says it again -in a much, much milder tone NEW YORK. Fri. OFFICIALS in Washington are study. ne a new message from Mr. Chou En-hu. Prime Minister of Communist China, on United Nations proposals for a ceasefire in Formosa, it was learned tonight. De: out one source said
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    STOP PRESS
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    Lock icon ZHUKOV—the reasonable Russian
    601 2 ZHUKOV— the reasonable Russian IKE (they went to a football match together) SAID: 'I COULD DO BUSINESS WITH GEORGF EDDY GILMORE/"" Associated Press Correspondent in I I Moscow for 11 years, throughout World War II until just after the death of i Stalin, writes this intimate pen picture I of
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    Lock icon $30 MILLION IN A TINY PHIAL
    340 2 Soldier carried radium 10 gears PORT ARTHUR, Ontario, Friday 4TOMIC energy experts studied a two-ounco phial or radio-active powder yesterday, while police I checked a former soldier's story of smuggling it into I Canada. Provincial police revealed that Angus MacDonald surrendered the phial three
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    He saw Georgi's downfall in the
    90 2 LISBON, Fri. "Professor Horus," 34-year-old Portuguese astrologer whose real MUM ls Raul Lapa. predicted the fall of Malenkov in a newspaper Interview here three weeks ago Lapa. clean .shaven and with a (rank open face, looks more like a sportsman than an aMioloner no
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    Lock icon PRIMATE; DIVORCE MAY he BLESSING
    104 2 PRIMATE; DIVORCE MAY he BLESSING 1 Can Gcoi: rday Chu r c n could not standard divom added I agea 01 been "ab II in .1 pan here I quite hai ended marriage h i th« Holy Sp able to dantJ: Tnr ,it down thai son party or no■unfed In
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    M.P. queries floggings
    15 2 SINGAPORE CA bl I W II men r lllt'llt sonm< til "In
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    Snowfall traps beauty queens
    15 2 PAH IS .sand hoi I I all roads Fn-ric many telepl
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    Prosecutions wanted
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    Lock icon Her ashes
    11 2 I.ON-" widow o\ 8 li.shcri i. River i P.euter
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    Lock icon World's first space clock
    37 2 ILHRRISBURG, Pennsylvania. Fri The "world's" firs', space clock' which records the hour. da>. month and year or both Mars and the earth— i., beinu exhibited at the Pennsv.'vanla State Industrial Fair heie Reuter
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    Lock icon Two killed in gun battle
    28 2 BUENOS AIRES. Fri Two Argentine police were killed In t gun-battle with unidentified people while chasing a criminal near the Brazilian border. -Reuter.
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    Lock icon Drops 300 ft.— gets scratches
    35 2 VICHY, France. Fri. An American pilot baled out of a Bkyraider fighter here at 300 ft and escaped with a sci -an hed head He landed in deep snow —Reuter.
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    Lock icon Tito back
    20 2 BELGRADE. Fri President Tito landed at Rijeka, Yugoslavia, today after a two-month journey to India and Burma. —Reuter.
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    The heiress who inherits $46 million
    39 2 The heiress who inherits $46 million BKAllllll. Mrs Mnllie Net cher Braneo. ?8. of Chicago. nrently became th<- sole legatee of a fortune .-stimatid at S4t> million, throimh the deaths of her grand mother and her uncle Popper picture
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    Lock icon McCarthy man "cooked evidence'
    121 2 McCarthy man "cooked evidence' NEW YORK Fri. FORMER Communist told a Fedtral Court I that be and Mr Roy Conn, a I former assistant of Cnm-munlst-huntlng Senator scph McCarthy, "developed" false testimony together In the trial of 12 Communist lead' The lormer Communist. Mi Harvey IfatUSOW, said h' I as
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    2 VARSITY CAVEMEN
    72 2 DetMilcm spend a freezing first nig* READING. Fri. Two Reading University students. Arthur Shepherd, 22. and Tearlacli Mac Lean, 2i, spent freezing uncomfortable first night in rave where they are trying to live like pre-hi.sioric men. Heavy ram drove them from their wood fire lit by rubbn.u
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    Lock icon WAS THE WRONG MAN HANGED?
    397 3 Former Home Secretary tells of his anguish on Evans, Christie cases LONDON, Friday. MR. J. HITKR EDE, former Labour Home Secretary, revealed to a hushed House of ommons last nijjht his anguish about a man who may have been innocent when he was hanged on
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    jail did me a lot of good' -Nehru
    77 3 Fri. Till r f Mr Nrhru. .eSerdas that o plc would spendtei some (pent U ars In prisons stniffsic for thf Cam- Socletj "f I M,V,TSit> UMMr. Nrhru Mi prison career O of («od pelted mr to I to ret into the
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    U.S. WARNED: THIS WOULD BE FOLLY
    31 3 U.S. WARNED: THIS WOULD BE FOLLY yesterday should had a -a weaj to think that Ing. %rmy chief of the Amcbaslng its on the war and imic war. One the other—
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    Lock icon Bid to indict ex-president
    19 3 ition comisked rm< r duizado on lent Jose president :r.urdered on nded from 5 A.P.
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    Lock icon MPs support Parliament switch plan
    172 3 MPs support Parliament switch plan LONDON, Fri POUR Labour Members of Parliament today called on the House of Commons to accept the recent Soviet proposal that M.P.s should speak m each others' parliaments. They put forward a motion i saying that if other countno including Russia would apree to take
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    Lock icon Accountants deny race bar
    99 3 Accountants deny race bar BIRMINGHAM. Fri BIRMINGHAM chartered accountants yesterday denied a Birmingham Unlvcr *l l J charge that a colour bar operated apain.'t overseas graduates wantinc to be articled clerks. A spokesman of the local Society of Chartered Accountant.-: said: "An accountant b restricted to a maximum of two
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    Lock icon Queen to unveil statue of King
    54 3 LONDON, Fri The Queen will unveil a national memorial statute in London of her Father, King George VI, on Oct 21. The statue in bronze, will be erected in Carlton Gardens, close to Buckingham Palace and near the official home oi Sir Anthony Eden,
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    Lock icon Rabbit clean-up
    35 3 MAIDSTONE. Fri Farmers are organising a countywide mopping up operation to eliminate the remaining one per cent of wild rabbits who have escaped the past year's ravages of the •'killer" disease mvxomatosis —Reuter.
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    PRISON FOR 'HORROR' COMICS' MEN
    67 3 LONDON. Friday. print, publish or sell "horror comics" in n will be liable to four months" imprisonment i £100 (about MS857) under a Govern- led today. bits the import or plates ■.lid be used rnmi I it had delegislation to ions follow -the Persons tionsi
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    Lock icon Churchill gets Israel scroll
    76 3 LONDON. Fri. Sir Winston Churchill's actress daughter. Miss Sarah Churchill, de- 1 putised for her father at the presentation to him last night of a testimonial scroll from the new Institute of Technology being erected nea r Haifa, in I The Prime Minister has that the
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    Lock icon Sea of Galilee gun battle
    58 3 TEL AVIV. Fn. An Israeli Arm? spokesman said today that Syrian guns had fired on two Israeli police patrol boats in the Sea of Galilee. Fire was returned One Israeli policeman was wounded. li-raeli has asked for an enurpencv meeting of the Israeli-Syrian mixed armistice
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    Lock icon Admiral posted to Germany
    40 3 LONDON, Fri. Admiral Keith Campbell Walter has been appointed Flag Officer, Germany, and chief British Naval representative in the Allied Control Commission. He succeeds Rear Admiral R. S. Warne The appointment takes effect from March— Reuter.
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    Ashes found
    41 3 BORDIGHERA, Italy, Fri— The ashes of Flavius Lucretianus and his wife Jula Fuscina. two Romans who are believed to have lived about 1,700 years aco. were found here yesterday Diggings for a building j project led to the discovery.
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    53 3 NICOLE Bi:!U.ER. known as "the swrrtest eirl in the world." smiles on arrivinc in London from Paris. Nirt>l<\ 18-year-old French actress, is to appear on television in Britain. Shr made a great impression in her first film rolr as 15--yrar-old Vinra in Colette's "Riprninc
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    Lock icon KENYA AMNESTY GETS RESULTS
    198 3 24 Mau Mau surrender a week LONDON. Friday. •PHE result of the amnesty offer to Mau Mau trrror- ists in Kenya is encourasine. Lord Lloyd, Undersecretary for the Colonies, told the House of Lords. Up to Feb. 8. 73 terrorists surrendered a weekly aver- 1 ace
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    Lock icon A fair ballot —and Reds may win it
    120 3 A fair ballot and Reds may win it BOMBAY. Fri. TWELVE million Indian peasants start polling today in an election which could result in the appointment of the first Communist Govern- 1 ment ever to win power by accepted Western democratic processes. The election is for the State Government in
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    Lock icon French to stay
    44 3 BONN. Fri. Dr. Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democra- i tic Party today rejected a pro- posal that all French police, troops and civil servants should be withdrawn from the Saar before the Franco-German statute cm the disputed territory came into effect.— Reuter
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    Flu hits schools
    36 3 FRANKFUK I Fri. Schools in 20 more communities in Weal Germany closed yesterday because of an influenza epidemic which has claimec at least 10 lives in the last three vu ekr. A. P^
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    Lock icon MINE HOST DEFENDS THE DINNER
    137 3 PESHAWAR. Fri. A host! here had to use his doublebarrelled shotgun to give "covering fire" against ravenous I awks yesterday while a touring Indian cricket team enjoyed a Pathan-style open air meal. Sher Khan, captain of the Central Zone team which drew with the Indians
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    New Russian regime keeps up tension
    230 3 THE new regime in Russia had not yet revealed any evidence of the Soviet's "self- I proclaimed desire for peace." Australia's Minister for External Affairs. Mr. R. G Casey. said in a broadcast in Slnga- Dore last night. Mr. Casey said that, on the
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    LONDON STOCKS
    434 3 LONDON. Fri. THE stork market continued to go ahead today with sentiment again influenced by yesterday* strong advance on Wall Street. Giltedged stock r.ime into favour and recorded fractional gain* In foreign bond)! Germans and Greeks were firm but Japanese tended to be Muhtly lower. Dollar stock* marked
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    LONDON TIN
    25 3 I.OXI»OX. Feh. 11— Cash Buyers V.TI«: Seller* t7l«': Forward Buyers C7l7 1 Sellers €718: Settlement £719: Turnover a.m. 90 tons: p.m. 100 tons.
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    LONDON RUBBER
    35 3 LONDON. Feb. 11 —Spot 31' 4 d. Mar. 31'sd.. April-June 31 \d. July-Sept. 3O'-.d.. Ort -Dec. 30'^d Feb elf 3l4fi Marrh elf 31. d April c.i.f. 30 ,d. Tone: Slightly easier after firm
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    IT'S HOME ONCE IN 2 YEARS NOW-NOT 3
    113 4 IT'S HOME ONCE IN 2 YEARS NOW-NOT 3 ANEW leave scheme has boon introduced for the expatriate staff of the University of Mai:: It cives them a free passage home once in two years instead of three. But it cuts down their leave from six to three months. This scheme
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    No bail for man, 51: Remanded
    48 4 PENANG, Fri -Oo Cheng Kang. 51, was charged in the Magistrate's Court here today with swifting in the disposal of 413 pieces of cloth valued at $7,200 and believed to be stolen property. Bail was opposed and Oo was remanded a week.
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    Poppy Day record
    51 4 SEREMBAN, Fri.— This year's collection for the Poppy Day Fund in Ne^ri Sembilan was a record Mrs. M. N Massie, the orof this years collection, said that a sum of Slin. 104 had been collected. The previous record wai In 1951, when a sum of $17,424 was
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    K.L. robbers snatch $1800 in road
    82 4 K.L. robbers snatch $1800 in road KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. A salesman in a local tobacco firm was robbed yesterday by two Chinese nf $1,492 and a $300 cheque. <>'n of the robbers wore a handkerchief mask. The salesman. Siah Mole I iiu of Thong Guan and Co.. was leaving a
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    Murder trial witness gets police escort
    175 4 PENANG. Fri. Ponnusamy. a defence witness, was escorted to his home by policemen today after he had given evidence at a murder trial. He complained to Mr. Justire Spencer Wilkinson that a man had threatened on Feb. 7 to kill him if he gave
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    For $300 down: a $6,000 home
    293 4 HOUSING SOCIETY WILL LEND THE CASH-300 UNITS UP THIS YEAR CHEAP HOUSE PLAN TO AID GOVT. MEN— THEY'LL PAY REST IN 15 YEARS pOR a deposit of only $300 to $350, Singapore Government employees in the lower income v oup will get priority to
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    Beat his sister, court told
    50 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. P. j Thangavelu, 27. pleaded not guilty here today to causing grievous hurt to his sister Mariayaee by assaulting her at the 5 mile, Klang Road yesterday. He was allowed bail of $250 until March 18 when the case will be heard.
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    Wanted: A 'brainwave' to stop death leaps
    218 4 Wanted: A 'brainwave' to stop death leaps A SINGAPORE City Councillor, Mr. A. P. Rajah, yesterday invited the public to suggest ways of preventing suicides at the Upper Pickering; Street flats. "If anyone has a brainwave, I am prepared to take it up in the Council," Mr. Ra.iah said. He
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    Church festival
    42 4 IPOH. Fri— The titular feast of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes. Ipoh, will be celebrated on Sunday with a high mas? at 8.30 a.m. In the evening there will be a rosary proctssion and evening mass and benediction.
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    Jockey with 250 winners flies in to ride in Malaya
    99 4 MR. \V. A. BELL, an Australian jockey arrived in Singapore by air from Sydney yesterday to join the Shaw Stable. Bell will probably ride In Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, the second day of the i Selangor Turf Club February meeting.
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    THE THIRD MAN IN THE ROOM
    106 4 THE THIRD MAN IN THE ROOM A YOUNG Indian woman, engaged to be married, I went to spend the night in the house of her fiance In Rangoon Road. Singapore on Thursday night. She slept with her prospective mother-in-law on the floor, while the fiance and his father slept on
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    Quarrel at the market
    54 4 Two men quarrelled over some cows brains offered for sale at Kandang Kerbau Market. Singapore, on Thursday afternoon. In the quarrel, one of the men. Lee Soo Hin, a hawker, was struck on the shoulder with an axe. He was treated at the General Hospital and
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    Police arrest 21 in raid No. 2
    96 4 Police arrest 21 in raid No. 2 TELUK ANSON, Fri. OOLICE arrested 21 people, 1 including an official of the association, in a raid on the Lee Chuan Benevolent Dramatic Association in Ah Cheong Street here last night. It was the second gambling raid in four days. In the first
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    Malayans in Britain
    48 4 A total of 210 students from the Federation and Singapore went to Britain last year, said Mr. Alan Lennox Boyd, Secretary of State for the Colonies, i In the House of Commons this j week. The number of .students from Sarawak and Borneo was 28
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    He moves up
    28 4 The promotion of Mr. Tham Ah Kow to be Fisheries Officer. Singapore- a superscale appointment i Grade Gi was announced by the Government last night.
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    2,000 GET TOKEN $2 FROM FLOOD FUND
    158 4 ABOUT 2,000 kampong dwellers in Geylang— mostly Malays— recived $2 each as a token grant from the Singapore Flood Relief Fund Committee yesterday Nine members of the Malay Women's Welfare Association, supervised by Captain A. Hall of the Salvation Army, handed out the
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    Silver salver for lawyer
    66 4 Mr. R. M. Young. Singapore's Director of Education, will present on behalf of the Bartley Secondary School a silver salver to Dr C H Withers-Payne after the openmg of the school's science block at 9 a.m. on Feb. 18 Thp gift is in appreciation of his
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    Russian oil ship is here
    45 4 The 1,117-ton Russian tanker, j Novlnsk, third Red ship to call in Singapore in 10 days, drop- ped anchor in the Colony's outer roads yesterday. She is taking on 840 tons of I diesel oil from Batumi to Vladivostok. I
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    OFFICIALS OF THE CHINA SOCIETY
    146 4 OFFICIALS OF THE CHINA SOCIETY New officials of the China Society. Singapore, for 1955 include ten vice-presidents. They were elected at the annual meeting on Wednesday. The vice-presidents are Dr. Chen Su Lan, Mr. Tan Slak Kew, Mr. O. H. Kiat, Mr. P. <K. Hernon, Professor A Op- I penheim.
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    OUT OF JAIL 5 DAYS—IN AGAIN
    57 4 OUT OF JAIL 5 DA YS—IN A GAIN IPOH. Fri. Five daysi after coming out of Jail on Jan. 5. Jaafar bin All, 20, was I arrested for dishonestly reUuiuau a stolen $10 watrh. Jaufur. who had 15 previous convictions, was today found guilty and .sentenced to one year's imprisonment
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    UNIT OFFERS TO CHASE AWAY BIG BAD WOLVES
    123 4 UNIT OFFERS TO CHASE AWAY BIG BAD WOLVES PENANG, Fri. GIRLS can report "wolves" to the Penang Tenants' Registration Unit. "We are anxious to help sheck this nuisance," a spokesman of the unit told the Straits Times today. "Our department can easil\ trace the Identity of any mischief-maker, but complainants
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    Ejection case fails
    154 4 FIRM SUES FOR HOUSE: EMPLt HAD BEEN DISMISSED KUALA LUMPUR Pi VI R. JUSTICE WILSON in the High Cour J f dismissed a civil suit by G Ltd., against a former employee, J. v. session of a house. Riley joined the firm on June 21. 1951 In
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    Scrub typhus
    30 4 IPOH. Fri— There was oriiv one case of scrub typhus, a non-fatal one, reported in Perak last week. It occurred in Perak R.ver Valley Estate in Padang Ranp&s.
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    New pumps give capital better water supply
    19 4 to rive Kual started he ::id. Areai oi I a 24-hc ii
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    50 artistes in Indian show
    30 5 MPUR, Fri. :il amateur ike part in an •id folk dance ekananda Hall. tomorrow. organised by ipur Bangeetha ha, an InstltuInterest in and dances of
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    Pahang officials installed
    24 5 Fr! --Dato k bin Dato Hus.sain Mohamed Suffiar. tn were today tins Mentri state Secrerespectively. B^sr.r. Tcneku 1 on six months'
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    Red Cross nurse
    33 5 TAIPING, F:i. Miss Jeai Wright has assumed duties as Red Cross Nursing Sister ti the Pokok Assam village clinic, replacing Miss Jane Austin. who has gone to Australia on •'■ave.
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    Dearer postage
    28 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Malayan postage rates for parcels to Formosa. South Korea and the Philippines are to be increased from March 1 it was announced today.
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    Man denies intimidation
    59 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Chin Paw Lin, 31. of Petaling Jaya. pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here today to criminally intimidating Chew Konu chin at Chan Sow Lin Road yesterday. Chin was al- i leged to have threatened Chew with Injury. i The case was postponed
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    Dato Tan to work again for amnesty
    85 5 Dato Tan to work again for amnesty \\G. Fri. K had not ;ts probandii amSir ChengIdeni of Chinese said in High Com- MarGilthe pro,ime tlltlP this the Straits jppropriatr nmeni glvei im pmparrd > and mo t f lO vt. mus< decide decide Tcncku md I can only loyal f>d
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    500 PLANES? MIGHT BE MORE
    275 5 Casey returns to Colony and comments on SEATO report Size of air force in Malaya depends on 'arrangements' JF arrangements are made to strengthen the air forces in South-East Asia, there mitfht be more than 500 planes hased in Malaya, the Australian External Affairs Minister,
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    It's jobs for 2 or strike by 436 men
    90 5 iron, Fri. ArOTAL of 436 Chinese, Malay and Indian workers in Hie K ii. i section of the Tronoh Mines have ballotted to strike if two of their colleagues are not reinstated. The result of the secret ballot made known today,
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    Col. Muller sees police tattoo
    51 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri— The [nspectoi -General of Colonial Mice, Coltniel W. A Muller. now visiting the Federation. last night attended the Uttoo at the Federal Police Depot ivith the Commissioner of Police, Mr. W L. R Carbonell. The Chief Justice. Sir Charles Mathew, was also
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    $35,000 in
    30 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The trustees of the Mariamman Trmplp collected more than $35 000 durinc the Thaipusam festival at Batu Caves last weekend. This was a postwar record
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    Ist anniversary
    25 5 The Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home will celebrate the Alii anniversary of its Literary Union at 179. Bartley Road. Singapore, at 4 p.m. tomorrow
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    CABARET GIRL GETS DAMAGES
    80 5 CABARET GIRL GETS DAMAGES KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A COMMERCIAL assistant was fined $20 today and ordered to pay $60 compensation to a dance hostess for assaulting her. The girl. Rosalind Saw, summoned G. M- Gunn, 25, for assaulting her at Ampang Road on Feb. 4. Gunn pleaded guilty. Miss Saw
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    Died on trip to girl friend
    62 5 ALOR STAR, Fri. A Kuala Lumpur salesman. Sin Chek Sew. on his wav to Kedah to visit hi.v girl friend, died in the general hospital here last night after a motor accident. Sin was a passenger in a car when it collided with an
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    Murder charge is dropped
    72 5 NIBONG TEBAL, Fri. Two s trisha-riders, Darius bin Ismail and Samsuddin bin Yahaya, i who were accused of murdering < i taxi driver, Manap bin Has- 1 him, were discharged in .Vibong Tebal court today. Inspector Lim Poh Bok told the magistrate, Inche Hassan Din Hussein
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    Air Ministry
    48 5 Thi' cxrctitivo committee ol the Air Ministry Local Staft Union and friends will hold a dinner it the Suath-East Asia Hotel. Singapore, at 7.30 tonight in honour of the president. Mr. A. M. Nair, who I received the 0.8. E. In the New Year honours list
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    They'll go to sea —for tin
    149 5 OFFSHORE AREA TO BE PROBED i KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. A MINING company is to for tin in the sea bed off th( Selangor coast. More than 130 square miles of the sea bed will be bored from a specially constructed pontoon A firm of
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    Fund gets his provident money
    52 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri —The I Lady Templer Tuberculosis I Hospital Appeal Fund has receive d $279 from the Employees' Provident Fund. The money was left to the haspital by Chan Seng. 69I year-old rubber estate worker, who died in October. The fund now .stands at
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    EDITOR, 26, TO TALK ON 'DEMOCRACY'
    111 5 EDITOR, 26, TO TALK ON 'DEMOCRACY' IM 111 BYED lIISSEIN bin Ali M.U.is H, editor of "Progressive 1 s I a in." a monthly journal published in Amsterdam, arrived in Singapore by KIM from Jakarta yesterday. He is on his way to Amsterdam after visiting his parents in Jakarta. Inche
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    The railway cook lost $144
    44 5 PENANG, Fri. A Malayan Railway cook, Sim Sun Lee, lost $144 while sleeping in the Prai station canteen this morning. Sim had arrived from Singapore. He hung up his trousers before sleeping and woke to find the money missing.
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    Annual meeting
    26 5 The Bale.stier Community Centre. Sinpapore. will hold its annual meeting at Whampoa Square Field, opposite the centre's premises, at 4 p.m. on Feb. 20.
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    Rifle taken' from sentry but he knew nothing of it
    192 5 Rifle taken from sentry but he knew nothing of it AT a Singapore court martial yrsterday a young British soldier denied he had slept while on sentry duty but could not explain how his rifle was taken away from him without his knowledge. Sicnalman Toni Seago 19. of Singapore District
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    Bicycle thief was 'tempted'
    62 5 PENANG. Fri. Charp.-d with stealing a bicycle In Cintra Street on Oct. 11 hurt \v.«r. Kok Kan Chong explained in court today that he had succumbed to temptation after seeing the bicycle lying idle for .several day.-. "No one seemed to attend to it. so I
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    CURFEW GOES, BUT NEW BARS ARE ON
    155 5 CURFEW GOES, BUT NEW BARS ARE ON IPOH. Fri. THE perimeter i which wa.s imposed or. Ampang Bahru new village, on the outskirts of Ipoh on Suncla an ambush of the Kinta Valley Homo Guards on Friday, wa.s lifted this morning. When the authorities rlampnci the perimeter and house curfew
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    16 die in week from pneumonia
    29 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. There iths from f>9 pneumonia cases in ti,-r;-tion in the week ended J;>n 2'J Thirty-two i tWO death I report
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    Club burgled
    26 5 KUAI.A LUMPUR. Fri. Burglars hr->K<' into t h<- bar of the Public Works Department sport dub in Cl I rnrlv today and stole llauor.
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    HE TAUGHT DYAKS TO PLAY FOOTBALL
    128 5 LONDON. Fri The Rt. Rev. F. S HollLs, former Bishop of Sarawak, and later one of two Assistant Bishop.s of Leicester, who died at Leicester -in Feb. 4. aged 70. lived in Sarawak for more than 30 years When he first wont to Borneo
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    43 6 .'0 WnrHi fin I minimum). MR JACOB YOONO T! Doctors and Nursing BUfl Ol Ward 2 and Mr Oehlers, Dental Surgeon, O n for the recovery Marg.-iret Yoong. Hr thanks also all \e\ friends and pupils for their vim's and prayers. LH-'
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Sat. Fob. 12, 1955. The Malay Schools
    703 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Sat. Fob. 12, 1955. The Malay Schools The explanation given by the Member for Education of the Federation Government policy for Malay schools ought to quieten the fears of some Malays that their .nguage and culture are in peril. It is surprising that there should be
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    In The Picture
    329 6 Time was when the Malayan Film Unit flickered aggravatingly on the screen. It has now found itself, and can justly and modestly describe the last twelve months as "a vintage year." It won two major awards in the Southeast Asian Film Festival, and two of its films
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    The Independents
    256 6 A feature of the forthcoming Singapore Legislative Assembly elections is the large number of candidates who will stand as independents. There are already eleven of them against 57 named by the parties. It is certain that before nomination day many more who have no party affiliations will enter
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    As I was saying
    794 6  -  B **jf rmr■ m\ W T *^< II \ll m x^ m^..'^' v.j THE whipping of Brit--1 ish servicemen for crimes of violence in the Colonies is a subject that has roused the House of Commons before now. Colonel Marcus Lipton, a Labour M.P.. wants it
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    SATURDAY STUDY
    8 6 STOVE-MAKER.— Photograph by Kok Ah Chong
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    HALT BY THE WAYSIDE
    976 6 HALT BY TH E WAYSIDE MALAW7SSAJV CEEING tho paucity of roads that run up tho mainland of Malaya it is extraordinary how easy it becomes to take the wrona: one out of Johore Bahru. There are only three exIts from that rather disappointing place but, apart from the maze at
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    FIFTY YEARS AGO
    115 6 From the Straits Times of Feb. 16. 1905. rDAY the Hindu community of Singapore are holding high festival over thr formal installation of the idol of tho Kreat Ood Siva in Orchard Road Temple. The Templo has just been rebuilt and redecorated and the biiiidinu look.s remarkably
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    Boat sinks in Pahang River: 17 die, 4 survive
    275 7 TRAGEDY LAY IN WAIT FOR EARLY MORNING TRAVELLERS CALL GOES OUT: HELP VICTIMS' FAMILIES KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. gEVENTEEN Chinese rubber tappers, including two hildren, are now known to have drowned when a launch carrying 21 people sank in the Fahanjr River
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    SCIENCE vs THE CRIMINAL
    66 7 ,ang lost battle -jence l heard how un- throwing Penang ted the departso! ye fed been Into an :*> of .< used Arsenal traced traced to a sal mm. who lock ol pc of tin. ■s of the >mb. had bomb Dtcause of an in- i?
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    51,600 worth of wire stolen
    52 7 51, 600 worth of wire stolen IPOH. Fri. Thieves »to:c 1 1,100 ib of copper wire valuer. 1 1 600 belonging to the >: River Hydro at the 4' 2 •s, Simpang Pulai Batu Gniah Road. Thr wire about 2.700 feet to be installed today to I supclv power to
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    Australians 'adopt' Yin Toon of Malacca
    149 7 111LDLKSS Australian V couple has "adopted" Chan Yin Toon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chan Ah Him. both teachers of the Anglo- Chinese School at Malacca. For six years. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Granland of Melbourne have been acting as foster-parents to Yin Toon
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    'T.B. check on teachers every year'
    103 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. rpHE Johore Bahru AntiX Tuberculosis Association J has recommended to the Edu- cation and Medical Depart- i ments that all teachers should undergo an X-ray every year. It points out that at the i last examination seven of 81 teachers were
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    SIXTY MARCH AT PASS PARADE
    181 7 Youngest airman still at school 4FTER eisfht weeks of training. 60 recruits of th( Malayan Auxiliary Air Force had their passingout parade at their headquarters in Beach Road. SinI gapore. yesterday. It was the fifth and iMfl passing-out parade since the MA AT. was formed.
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    Two tried to kill—charge
    66 7 Two tried to kill charge Abdul Jaffar bin Ibrahim and Mawar bin Abdullah were charged in the Singapore Fifth Police Court yesterday with attempting to murder Sharifl bin Kassim at Serangoon Road on Jan. 5 Another man. Yusof bin Rahim. was charged with abetting them. Bail of $5,000 in two
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    16 women visit Singapore
    55 7 Manila'.s sixteen women delegates to the Pacific and South-East Asian Women's Conference, arrived in Singapore by air yesterday, after attending the meeting held in Honolulu. The party will tour the Co--1 lony for three days, after f which they will fly to Bangkok. Hong Kong, and
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    The man who gave names
    74 7 In yesterday's report of the trial at Malacca of Mr Tan Kee Gak, on a charge of misappropriation, a transposition of names made it appear that Mr Tan gave the presiding judge the names of three bank employees who were alleged to have been lent
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    S.T.C tea party
    32 7 Sir Thomas Strangman vi- ;t me Chairman of the Sin,re Traction Company, will Kive a tea party to members of the company's staff on Thurs- day at Robinson's Cafe.
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    Terrorists cut Phone wires
    16 7 PUR Fri. A phone mile Ttfluk Perak. polea were and the wires
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    Goodwill tour
    31 7 The Indonesian Consul- General in Singapore. Mr Hermen KarU»wisastro. left by 1 air for Kuching yesterday on i {a goodwill tour of Sarawak. I Brunei and British North Borneo.
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    Hospital theft
    30 7 A patient in Ward 7 of the Singapore General Hospital has reported the theft of $200 and five imp pound notes from a lock* r beside his bedL
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    S'pore Eurasians to reply to Sir Onn
    124 7 THE Eurasian Association of Singapore has taken up remarks made by Dato Sir Onn „n Jaaffar at a recent Party Negara meeting in Kvila Lumi PU Mr PF. de Souza. president 'of the association, said vester- day that he was in touch with
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    They were 'gunning' for me -Mr. Sim
    207 7 They were 'gunning' for me -Mr. Sim V|R. SIM BENG SENG, 1( ITI Singapore City Councillor, may contest I the Legislative Council I elections against the Progressive Party which i expelled him recently. He will face the Progressives' Mr. Soh Ghee Soon if j he stands for Rochore Ward which
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    RICE MEN GET NEW LINE OF TRADE
    145 7 SINGAPORE rice merchants may now export rice to the Federation without buying from Government stock. The Controller of Import and Exports. Mr W. H Walker announced this yesterday. Applications for import permits should clearly state that the rice Is for re-export to the
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    Nine officers promoted
    86 7 Nine officers in the Education Department. Singapore have been promoted: i Mr H N Balhetchet to be I Senior Inspector of Schools. To br sohool principals: Mr C A. pctrr.so-i lOutram School). Mr Soon Ban Hoc 'Bartley Secondary School Mr V Ambiavagar 'Beatty Secondary School'. Mrs. M.
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    Found hanging
    21 7 A 56-yrar-nld unemployrd man Tan Koh Lay was found hanging m a houw In Stms Avenue Singapore-, yesterday mornlnu
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    PAY $100 a MONTH TO MY WIFE? I'd RATHER GO to JAIL
    208 7 Contractor tells magistrate KUALA F.IMPIR, Fridiv INCHE ABIMI, RAM, the second magistrate, today told Lee Hoon. a contractor, that he would ha go to jail if he did not pay his former wife and five children $100 a
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    Extortioners who failed are jailed
    103 7 CHONG SIN THI AM and Thean Yon Loy were jailed yesterday for 17 ny and nine months respectively t for attempted extortion. The Singapore Third Crl- t minal District Court was told i that they threatened Madam Choong Siew Lan with, death i in an
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    Art exhibition opened
    56 7 Mr Ko Teck X.: of the Sinpap^rf < Chamber of Comrr. I terday opened the exhibition of Chinese ar« painting* by Professor Wn KOB| t B Kong. The exhibition of mor< than 150 paintings, at Chamber premises in Hill Street, is open to the public :rom 9
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    Man denies theft
    54 7 Seven hours after h( va alleged to have stolen a pair of trousers worth $13 from Chiam Soon Leok at 3 40 yesterday morning. Enp Piak Lee was allowed bail of $250 by a Singapore court when I mcd trial to a theft "hare His case will
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    Bus drops a girl 2 miles from school
    105 7 PORT SWETTENHAM Frl A SHIPPING clerk, Mr. Yeofa Cheng Hock, ha.plained to the Ft:, -ansport Dep ■ip Distnc; o::. lice that a conductor his seven-year-oirt daughter oft a bus and threw out her scho.il books because -he did not renew her monthly
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    REDS IN SCHOOLS' PROBE
    58 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Chinese schoolteacher. I nations are to be asked to i!ivestigate alleged Communist infiltration in Chinese schools I in the Federation. They are to report back to their parent-body, the Federation of Chinese School TeachTjations. The decision to ask for suet an inquiry v
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    $177 robbery
    35 7 A man broke into the room of a 21 -year-old woman, Ng Foo Yong, in Thomson Road. Singapore, on Thursday night, and robbed her i>f a necklace and a watch, total value $177.
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      155 7 The weather MININI'M TEMFERATI'RE t730 p.m. on Feb. 10 to 7.30 a.m, on Feb. It); Singapore 76 degrees Penang 74. Kota Bahru 72. Kuala Lumpur 73. Ipoh 72. Kuan tan 72 I MAXIMUM TEMPERATIRE 730 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on Feb. lie Singapore 91. Penang 89. Kota Bahru 86. Kuala
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    Blood test—but whose blood?
    299 8 Blood test but whose blood? SAMPLES NOT PROVED TO BE FROM CONVICTED MAN-COUNSEL FATAL GAP IN DRUNKEN DRIVING CASE, SAYS APPEAL LAWYER KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. fOUNSEL submitted in Kuala Lumpur High Court today that the prosecution had failed to establish that samples of urine and blood sent to a chemist
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    Now military bands play! at Gardens
    100 8 Now military bands play! at Gardens HTHE militarj band on duty j 1 in Singapore will play at the Botanic Gardens on the first and third Sundays of each month from 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. This has been decided by the General Officer Commanding Singapore Base District, Majorral D.
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    Postman faces outrage charge
    60 8 A postman, Ahmad bin Abu Bakar, was charged in Singapore yesterday breaking into tht Children's Aid Society Home at Tomlinson Road to outrage the modesty of a woman at 12.45 a.m. on Feb. 7. Wo plea was taken. Bail of S5OO in two sun was offered
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    Admitted to Bar
    34 8 Mr. M. S. Miranda, barrister, was admitted to the Singapore Bar by the Chief Justier. Sir Charles MurrayAynsley, In fhe Singapore High Court yesterday to practice as an advocate and solicitor.
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    Dedication
    32 8 A special dedication service for all officers of the Singapore Battalior, The Boys Brigade, will be held at the Presbyterian Church. Orchard Road, at 6 p.m. tomorrow during the evening worship.
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    DEBTS DROVE HIM TO FRAUD
    66 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri A clerk who pleaded guilty to misappropriating $566 belonging to his firm, today told the Sessions Court he used the money to pay off mahjong debts and rent arrears. He had since repaid the money to the firm, the court was told.
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    Kampong folk get a $2 flood grant
    56 8 HERE are some of the 2.000 Geylang kampong dwellers mostly Malays who received a token grant of S2 each from the Singapore Flood Relief Fund at the Far Eastern Trade Fair. Geylang. yesterday. Earlier the recipients had complained that they had received nothing
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    Biggest ever show for voters
    116 8 Biggest ever show for voters TIHK fourth voters' rally of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce at (•eylanc Serai tonight will be o*i an even hie err scale than the previous ones. Aimed at voters of the I'lu Redok division, the rally, will he held at the Great Eastern Trade
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    Dies after short illness
    42 8 IPOH. Fri —Madam Lee Chit Thai 82 mother of the wellknow:- Perak miner, Mr Choong Sam. died last night tfter a thrce-dav illness. The funeral will take place I from 127 A Treac.her Road at noon on Monday.
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    Leave for vicar and his wife
    54 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri— The Rev J. J. Sampson, vicar of St. Christopher's Church here, will leave for Britain with Mrs Sampson on Feb. 23 They will be away four months. The congregation of St Cl' r i>topher's will entertain them to a farewell tea
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    CONDUCTOR PAYS FOR NEGLECT
    215 8 CONDUCTOR PA YS FOR NEGLECT Man fell from bus and died A BUS CONDUCTOR, Goh Peng Chin, was fined $100 yesterday for neglect of his duties in an accident in which a man was killed. He was convicted of causins grievous hurt to Karrupiah by a negligent act, endangering human
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    THREE SHOP WORKERS ACCUSED
    63 8 Three people employed at a Raffles Place shop were charged in Singapore yesterday with possession of unstamped one-yard measures for use in business. They were Royston Consigllere, F. Fernandez and Gan Yam Teck All claimed trial They were alleged to have been found with five measures
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    Tremor in coal town: 8 houses damaged
    169 8 Tremor in coal town: 8 houses damaged BATU ARANG, Fri. IpiGHT shephouses, 250 J yards from th<: old main office of the Malayan Collieries, were badly damaged last night when land caved in following a tremor at about 10 o'clock. The Post Office and the former Batu Arang Co-opera-tive Store
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    More for the Flood Fund
    56 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Three more donations totalling $414.50 have been received for the Federation Flood Relief Fund, which now totals $310 466. The donations are from: Teachers Common Room. Government English School. •Kluar.g. $100: Sungei Patani ■donations $169.50 Proceeds of soccer match between RAF Butterworth
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    Memorial to union chief
    56 8 Mr. A. A Ewing. general manager of the Singapore Traction Company, will unveil a bust of the late Mr. R K Samy at the S.T.C. Employ I1 Union premises. 18, Race Course Road, at 10.30 am tomorrow. Mr. Samy. who died in April la.*t year, was
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    Band concert
    28 8 The Resimontal Band of the 15 19th Kind's Royal Hussars will play at Kiiiß Georpe V Park. Singapore, from 530 p.m. to 6 30 p.m. tomorrow.
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    FOOTPATHS FOR 25 ROADS
    78 8 The Singapore City Council will spend about $180,000 this year to build footpaths on 25 roads and traffic circuses. Mrs. Amy Ede, a City Councillor, said yesterday. Mrs. Ede. a member of the public works committee, was replying to the In.sppctorOcncral of the Colonial Police. Col.
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      340 8 Straits Times Crossword i I 2 I s 1| T-T"""" «T" 7"" a~~ "HT a i* "so" 21 22 23 Ti" 26 27 !l I I ZiH I!" I Z ACROSS 8 At vague Intrrvuls iS, 3. 3. I. Lay on or palm ofl (6). 4>. 4 An irritating chant?
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    STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL FEATURE The mutiny that failed looks quite tame in retrospect
    1588 9 STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL FEATURE The mutiny that failed looks quite tame in retrospect minim) THEY WERE DELIBERATELY MISLED 1 1 SINGAPORE'S history during the war was "singularly uneventful," writes one of the islands chroniclers, meaning, of course, the World War of 1914-18. It was certainly eventful enough in the war
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      127 9 w ■Hi £1$ WUCH TRADERS. i OLD A Th ,p.n witHth.biß ink to tf\ ■:\e or bB eight C i ro- I mi ABOUT YOUR fUTURE? "■T'T- 1 i mmmii nmM Nt I raiiwMg H~irvi»l >»» n ■1|- M»~ 1r.,.~..,n, '"♦■■l I ta .-.tw l»l 1 Vi "t.^t.-m into iciiiis
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      230 9 i I^l iMr'SMJM M I %N Mm i mJ Sole Ac:' THE EASTERN AGENCIES (1946) LTD. Singapore and branches IbKkitt Cmlmm Lm ffi tTptmim"*! _^^^^F -T» Whenever, whi'iever inf' tlon 1 '.sand nurses take elaborat< it ions nothing is left to ch.mce. Hn.-; ta ;itoflo 1n Gt. Britain— rely on
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      244 9 Shvrhtrk itntmvs When biivksiufje I I \t *er<e£\ I /QCITe. BeT TELL YE A'AUfI.VIE WUV WHAT DiFPERESiCeT BUT NKxTIIII ~*~^N,^>^ &/4CO/4)UI DID YOU CBO6* Tk(E *T4eE TO J DOE* IT AWE J jCNOW lI I] V^ MADAME 16 CORBECT^B I 'i J| fAA\Lt SCUB. EN.TOANCE WHY \^T WMEBE I MADE
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    MORE CONFIDENCE AGAIN ON SINGAPORE SHARE MARKET
    670 10 By Our Market Correspondent slackening of international tension brought! renewed confidence to the Singapore Share 1 Market yesterday and for the first time for three days the general easier tendency was halted. The orderly evacuation of the Tachen islands and 1 more hopeful
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    RUBBER PRICES
    120 10 February first grade rubber buyers fob. closed in Singapore yesterday at $1 06|j per lb.. I. above Thursday's close. The closing tone tv steady. Closing prices yesterday in per lb. were:— No. 1 R.S.S. Spf loose buyers 106. sellers IM'/i; No 1 R S.S. Ffb buyers 10fi' 106
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    More demand for lower grade rubber
    502 10 More demand for lower grade rubber 1 rpHE two main features of the I- pail week have been firstly 1 the political tension in the 1 F\r BMt and secondly, a brt- 1 ter demand for lower grades 1 1 frop> o\-rrseas.sstat s the' werklv rubber report of Holiday. Cutlrr.
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    155 10 Singapore Chint-st Produce F.\ chanter: noon prices per p:cul yciterday were: Copra: quiet; Frbr.iary $30 buyin, $31 sellers; March $31', buyns $31., sellers. Coconut Oil: quiet, bulk $47 >-j sellers, drums $49 sellrrs Pepper: stctdy with total of 30 toni business reported, all viirieties up $2; Muntok while
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      597 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS WESTERN REGIONAL PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT BOARD IBADAN NIGERIA. Applications are invited fron planters with at least ten years ex perlence for responsible posts wltr the above board. 2. Applicants should preferablj possess a degree or diploma ir agriculture or forestry and/or b« A.I.S.P. experience In the following crops an
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      1474 10 NOTICES DISSOLUTION OF ENGAGEMENT BY MUTUAL CONSENT the Engagement between I.im Hock Neo of No. 2 Lorocg 36, Geylang Road Singapore, and Wee Kee Seng ol n 576 Havelock Road, Singapore, been dissolved today 12-2-55, a NOTICE TO SHIPPERS OF CARCO FROM SINGAPOKK t PORT SWKTTFNHAM AND PENAIWi TO RANGOON.
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      402 10 MM.,,,,,., r HICE;I dip I ftlßßrH lb 'Ill) I I COPRA P Hi l,;, SINGAPORE RED FUNNEL HEAP ENG MOH SS CO.. SOON BEE STEAMSHIP CO.! :>:i/-V>< lVluk Aycr Slree! Phone Passenger 6c Freight-Servic SAILINGS TO n.I.XKARTX A CTHUBOM FORTNK.IIII SI K H I m.v. 'T.unc Srnc" ft 1.. S'poiT
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      1058 11 bui'l^ncTHE BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD. m SINGAPORE (Incorporated in the United Kingdom) S LINES SAILING? TO U.K. AND CONTINENTAL PORTS *'pore P. j horn Ptnang Bcnelbanach for London Newcastle, Hull G. 27/2S 15/16 Feb 17/ IS Feb Benmher for Liverpool, Glasgow, Rotterdom, Hor'tHjrg 14/20 Fcb 21/23 Feb 24/25 Feb Benvennech
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  • The STRAITS TIMES Saturday forum
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      Women want a voice in war on divorce
      199 12 Women want a voice in war on divorce IT IS indeed very gratifying to read that Singa-; pore Muslim Leaders are aware of the evil of the increasing divorce rate. The men marry once, twice, thrice or even four times and divorce their wives at their will, without any proper
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      Posts are still unfilled
      74 12 Posts are still unfilled SINCE the introduction of oi the unified service scheme not a single local graduate has so far been appointed principal of a Govment secondary school or of any other post of equal status. In May. 1954, the Department of Education invited applications for a number c
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      Booking clerks are embarrassed by the supporter who overdid it
      339 12 IN his .itn nipt to do justirr to the railway hookinK clerk. "Sympathetic" has overdone it. He condones the retention of loose change from passengers merelv because hookins clerks lose in the course of booking, and have, therefore, to rob
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      Chinese 'dare not speak'
      395 12 ACCORDING to Mr. Tan Chin Tuan, the petition I of the Chinese Chamber of i Commerce to the Queen say-, that the Chinese comprise 80 percent of the population I and 60 percent of the elec--1 torate. The only association that 1 can really speak for
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      'MAKE COMMON CAUSE' ADVICE
      130 12 'MAKE COMMON CAUSE' ADVICE J.M.C." of London, in admonishing "White Asian," appears :o be a few steps behind the times when he considers that a domiciled European had better attach himseli to one of the non-communal political parties. If he does sc ho merely becomes tolerated but will receive scant
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      POLICE COURTESY
      520 12 A HEAVY branch of a tree in my compound broke and hung across the road. I telephoned Joo Chiat police station and within ten minutes a policeman arrived and tried to get some men to move the branch. But it was a Hindu festival, so he told the
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      THE LAW AND A LOOPHOLE
      112 12 I' SA\ II n x"^» jt^ r ACCORDING to its annual i\ report, the Singapore Turf Club now has 1,629 ordinary members and 41,799 subscribing members. A cnndkiite for ordinary membership must b.- a Brltlsh subject sind proposed by two ordinary members and sponsored by
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      242 12 To UAXVKOK HONGKONG, SAIGON ran CALCUTTA. HAIPHONG, MANILA, JESSELTON, SAN LABI AN. LHA a British airline, with Bntisli and Maintenance Engineers; .md abii a regional service, to offer l>-u with a very hi«h standard of comfo efficiency and punctuality Consult: .M.il.iv.iii Orran BaiMint. Sincapot The Borneo Co. l.t(! II Miss
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    NAZAKAT BEST IN SECOND DIVISION
    47 13 NAZAKAT BEST IN SECOND DIVISION up two OPPOSiI imah. th 8.4 '.side and right up nt the in the SI akea with furd she and :o a Timah ay three d not 1 and •bird :npur ay well vious v run- beat< n Nazakal behind and Shnn-
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    PEREZ REFUSES U.S. OFFER
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    Bearer Bond has first-rate chance
    369 13 JEEP'S STAR 1»» Bicardi A Nazakat A Happy Life rv seven norses that ran at recent Spore meet are withdrawn from today's cup trial By EPSOM JEFP DEARER BOND, beaten 13 only once in four outings last season, has a first rate chance to enhance
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    BICARDIHAS CARRIED 9.0 AND WON OVER K.L. SHORT SPRINT
    1128 13 l P agumi,: a very moderate 1 riv 4 sprint field m H:>re ill- .ndi ta first -rate chance In ipitc of hi> 90. This Greek .'our-yenr-old scored over the p:: I f with 9 0 in :r. November, and at
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    TODAY'S GOING
    84 13 IT was bright and sunny at Kuala l.utnpur yesterday and up to last eveninc the going wan good. 9 *> RADIO MaU.va will broad- i-t commentaries on all racrs at Kuala Lumpur today. rl following have been scratched from all enEagemrnts: Jolly Sailor. Mm rnlnr. Flushing. Euphrates. Straits
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    Spring Cup is main Bukit Timah event
    236 13 THE Spring Cup for Cla*, Onr. Div. 1 horsef over mile will be the m»in event al the Singapore Turf Club March Meeting tv be held at Bukit Tlmah on March 12. 16 and 19 The race ls worth $6 000 in stake*
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    STRAITS TIMES SELECTIONS
    154 13 EFBOM JEEP < ALL 80% pointer Bit ARM Marrelle Good Andrew Race 1 2.30. BICARDI Good Andrew Marrelle BKARDI Good Andrew M•• < 11. Race 2 3 .no KLMAR Brown Booty Grasie Tollana II Kumar KUMAI. Brown Booty GraiJe Rare 3 5.30. NA7.AKAT Kinr C row Pad!
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    TODAY'S RACE CARD
    1166 13 ACCEPTORS and probable jockeys for today's races, first day of the Selangor Turf Club February Meeting, are: Race 1—2.30: Class 4, Div. 3— 5J Furs. 1 144 Blcardi 4y Smith 9.00 Dr. C. K Quek Ellery I 2 000 AU Baba 7y Talt 813 Kok Hoong Yong
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      400 13 MUST BE I* C(\UV WON Straits Times SATURDAY WORD PUZZLE "OOO" I Cut out tnd pin w th other coupons I Potting instructions appear below j Name Address >• i IE[W A R "p|. nu m CLUES FOR WORD PUZZLE 0006 1. Is often «iven for the return/ 4. If
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    S'pore stars won't play for MCFA
    87 14 SINGAPORE Chinese players will not play for Malayan Chinese F.A. against Admira F.C. at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. The live Singapore players, Chee Senu. Hee Jong, Hin Wong. Boon Leong and Boon Seong, yesterday informed the M.C.F.A. secretary they were unable to accept the invitation
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    Federation led Admira till six minutes from end
    429 14 GREAT KEEPING BY DAVE MacLAREN KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. A LUCKY GOAL scored six minutes from the end saved Admira, the Vienna football club, from their first defeat when they forced a one-all draw with a Football Association of Malaya side on the
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    Anchor Cup to 30 RAOC
    201 14 Battalion. Royal Army Ordnance Corpv won the Anchor Cup for the Sine iporr D'strlct inter-unit boxlnc rh.impion- I ship when they beat G H Q. Sipnal Regiment by 18 points to II in tlie final at the B.idminton Hall last night. The champions will now
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    5 re-elected to Singapore Turf Club Committee
    355 14 5 re-elected to Singapore Turf Club Committee A MEMBER of the Sin-i gapore Turf Club, at its annual general meeting yesterday, asked those standing for election to the committee of management to withdraw if they were going on j leave during their term; of office. Mr J. Foley, who spoke
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    RAIN—NO CRICKKT
    39 14 MELBOURNE Fri A waterlogged outfield prevented play on the first day of the four-day return match between the M.C.C. and Victoria here today It ts the third time in four matches at Melbourne that rain has intervened—Reuter.
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    F.S.A. DINNER
    26 14 Members and guests of the Friendly Starting Association are reminded that the Annual Dinner will be held at West Point Garden at 8 tonight.
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    SCRC CRICKET
    23 14 The Singapore Chinese Recreation Club will hold their annual rrirket meeting at Hong Llm Green on Tuesday at 5 15 p.m.
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    BODCA BEAT SCC
    20 14 B O.D.C.A. bent Singapore Cricket Club "A" 4 l In a hoekev friendly on the padang yesterday
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    SINGAPORE ALL BLUES CONFIDENT THEY'LL WIN TODAY'S FINAL ON MERIT HOT LUCK
    332 14  - SINGAPORE ALL BLUES CONFIDENT THEY'LL WIN TODAY'S FINAL ON MERIT HOT LUCK By TEOH BUG lATT I; UCK put Singapore into this ;I Cup rugby final against K("cl points average decided the < v Singapore's favour—but at Kuala the Colony players are out to shov 3 regain the Cup, whirh
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    PLAYED FOR 2 TEAMS
    146 14 SIIA to study complaint THE League and Knockoul Committt t of the Singapore Hockey Association will investigate a complaint that a player has appeartd for two different teams in the knockout competition The player Ls alleged to have turned out for Young Men a Sikh Association
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    SELETAR TOOK THEIR CHANCES v. TENGAH
    205 14 ROYAL AIR FORCE Seletar "A" made full use of their chances in beating RAF. Teneah "B" by 18 nnints I ahr'efgoaS anPa try, K in the annual S.C^ seven-a-side rugger competition on the padang yesterday. ThLs waa the last first-round j fixture of the
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    The Weekend Sport
    129 14 TODAY MMM 1.0.C. v liji.uiv padang. 5 15 n m RNAS Seinhanang v Raval Engineers, Semhawang. HCKKKV SENIOR CIP: 8 R.C "Redi" v RAF SeleUr, padang. 515 p m ll mplrn S. Nagalah, MM Wood): latifT Wanderer* v H.r.R <' S(' ground il Sgt Oaborne. K/Sgt Davles).
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    WINDS HOLD IP RECORD TRIAL
    5 14 WINDS HOLD IP RECORD TRIAL
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