The Straits Times, 17 February 1955

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    20 1 The Straits Times Ik***** Estd. 1845 SINGAPORE, THI KSD.AV. FEBRUARY 17, 1955. 15 CENTS ■faMU i >O h HMi iwww
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    A RED BOSS GIVES UP
    193 1 police told: Say when -And I'll be there: Ah Tan K. LI MPUR, Wed. rpHK I (dt ration (Jo\- ernment disclosed tod;n the Mirrender of (he lushest ranking Communist terrorist linre 1950. At one tine a $75,000 reward was offered for his rapture. Ah eommltof
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    IF WE WERE ATOM-BOMBED...
    90 1 A "SMALL" ATOM BOMB dropped on Singapore would devastate an area three miles across. A larger hffmb would destroy an area five to six miles across. A hydrogen homtt would destroy everything 10 to II miles around it. These figures were given hy one of the
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    Sun glasses to beat the Tobago sun
    62 1 PRINCESS Margaret wears sun glasses during her tour of the island of Tobago. Behind her is Sir Hubert Ranee. Governor of Trinidad and Tobago. Later when Princess Margaret arr I A at St. Kitts in the rnyai yacht. Britannia, yesterday a 21 -gun
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    Lock icon British Consul pays bandits £1,800 to ransom Colonel
    123 1 British Consul pays bandits £1,800 to ransom Colonel RANGOON. Wednesday. VIR G. A. MINTO. the British Consul, returned here today from the Jungle where he was reported to have handed bandits 25.000 kyats (£1.870) ransom for a retired British Colonel. Col. Richard Oswald Perrott was kidnapped while on a duck-shooting
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    LEGLESS MAN SEES SON DIE
    109 1 LEGLESS MAN SEES SON DIE NEW YORK Wed A LEGLESS father of Heber, Utah, watched helplessly from his wheelchair yesterday as his son lay bleeding to death on the kitchen floor. The boy. 15-year-old Gary N. Hiatt. had crawled upstairs to the kitchen from the basement after an explosion had
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    Lock icon COMETS
    44 1 'made safe LONDON. Wed Mr. John Boyd Carpenter. Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, i told Parliament today that the knowledge gained in a recent Investigation would enable Britain's Comet jet liner to be strengthened and; made safe for future opera- tion. -Reuter.
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    Lock icon The Aga Khan
    13 1 T he Aga Khan Ifhe platinum Khan will I In his bedixurlous SemiAP.
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    Lock icon 1,500 busmen strike
    83 1 LONDON. Wed— More than 1.500 busmen, from four of the London transport system's 100 odd depots, went on strike last night in protest against new work schedules Involving cuts in services. Fifteen routes and parts of two more are affected and about 300 buses and trolley buses
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    Lock icon Premier off to flood areas
    49 1 JAKARTA. Wed The Premier. Dr. All Sastroamldjojo. today left Jakarta for Djambl to survey floodstrlcken areas In Central Sumatra About 350.000 of a population of *****0 In Djambl. Merlngln and Batangharl region have b<vn victims of the most disastrous f'.oods In Its history Reuter
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    Liquor traffic
    43 1 ROME. Wed— Traffic was blocked for four hours on road near Chicri today by a lake of wine. The road wax flooded when a truck skidded and overturned, dumping Its load of 300 gallons of wine on the pavement A P
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    Lock icon $9 million fire
    20 1 WELLINGTON, Wed fire tonight destroyed nearly SO million worth of wool awaiting .shipment from New Zealand -AP
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    Lock icon Tests off again
    23 1 LAS VEOAB. Wed Unfavourable weather today again postponed the start of a new se/lei of United States atomic tests. Reuter.
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    Lock icon In goes a priest and Legation siege ends
    405 1 In goes a priest and Legation siege ends 30 MINUTES LEFT AS MTI-REIS QUIT BERNE. Wed. A PRIEST today broke the defiance of antiCommunists who had barricaded themselves in the Rumanian Legation here. Three members of the band of anti-Communists who seized the Legation after fighting their way intc It
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    Lock icon WHEN YOUNG GIRLS DRINK...
    75 1 WHEN YOUNG GIRLS DRINK. LONDON. Wed. An alarming Increase in drunkenness among girls under 21 In Britain has been accompanied by a rise In the Illegitimate birth rate, the Economic Research Council, an Independent social study group, said today. It reported that girls aged 20 bearing Illegitimate children In 1952
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    Lock icon Nehru sails down the Nile
    59 1 CAIRO. Wed. Thousands of Egyptians crowded the banks of the Nile today and cheered as the Prime Minister. Col Oamal Abdel Na&ser. and the Indian Premier, Mr. Nehru, sailed down the river on board an Egyptian Government yacht. The two statesmen will continue their talks
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    Lock icon Film of Buddha
    26 1 WASHINGTON. Wed— The Metm-Ooldwyn-Mayer studio has signed the English author Christopher Isherwood to write a screen play on the life of Buddha. -Reuter.
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    75 below zero
    17 1 UMIAT. Alaska. Wed —The temperature here dropped to 75 degrees below aero yester-day.-U P
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    Rubber takes a quick six-cent toss
    211 1 PR the first time In a month, rubber fell below the dollar level In Singapore yesterday The price fell by six cent* to close at 99 1 8 rent* a Ib. The drop was due to heavy selling by .speculators, who had bought rubber
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    MYSTERIOUS Mr CHEN LI The 'man with a message' is really a Malayan Chinese
    357 1 A PHOTOGRAPH of a Malayan Chinese, published in the Straits Times Annual of 1953. apparently served as the subject of a recruiting advertisement which has been criticised in Australia Published in newspapers throughout Australia, the advertisement
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    TWO DAYS LEFT FOR THAT ENTRY
    76 1 HAVE you sent in your entry for S The Malayan Monthl ly't $20,000 Must I Be Won Word Puzzle I Contest 'G'? If you have not, you should I do so AT ONCE. Entries for this s great, all Malayan I competition close s
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    Lock icon BEWARE! PENGUIN CROSSINGS
    65 1 HOBART. Wed The little Tasmanian community of Bruny Island (population 790 is debating how to solve Its traffic problem too many penguins on the roads. One proposal the local I council b studying Is to build pipes under the roads as sub terran< an penguin crossings Sceptics,
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    Lock icon Britain can lick them all in the air
    117 1 LONDON, Wed. f THE Government said 1 toniKht that Britain "has an effective air defence against what any potential enemy is at present able to bring against us" and the world's best night air defence. The statement was made In an official
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    STOP PRESS
    33 1 SO M»»M IBU MIR MAO -IMMI Ktw vor.h I'nited State*. State. Mr. J..h Dalle*. tod.«v npim her larrrnn 1 i I ali>t Chin. 4 Commuai-t petitions off him Isatf Rrntf r
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    Lock icon 'Exile Chiang'
    33 1 LONDON. Wed Leaders of Ibi powerful British Shop Distributive and Allied Workers' Union called today for the exiling of Generali;>.s:in Chiang Kai-shek and th<> placing of Formosa under neutral control. —Reuter.
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    MCA plays second fiddle in Alliance
    267 2 THE 'MONEY ONLY' CHINESE DISAPPOINT THEIR LEADER SIR CHENG-LOCK AGREES: 90 PER CENT OF THE VOTERS ARE MALAYS KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. T)ATO SIR CHENG-LOCK TAN, president of the Malayan Chinese Association, said today that the MCA, would have to play second fiddle to its
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    Lock icon C.I.G.S. will tour with Sir Anthony
    86 2 C.I.G.S. will tour with Sir Anthony LONDON. Wed. FIELD Marshal Sir John Harding. Chief of the Imperial General Staff, will accompany Sir Anthony Eden on hit eastern tour beginning on Saturday, the Foreign Office said today. The Foreign Secretary, who will attend the SEATO conference in Bangkok opening on Feb.
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    Lock icon Mr. Holland coming back
    70 2 LONDON. Wed. The New i Zealand Prime Minister. Mr. I Sidney Holland, will leave here by air for Singapore on his way back to Wellington next i week. In Singapore Mr. Holland will have talks with his External Affairs and Defence Minister, Mr. Thomas L Macdonald.
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    Lock icon $380,000 fire loss
    42 2 MANILA. Wed. One per- i ■on was killed and nine injur- 1 fd in two separate fires yesterday in Luzon, causing pro- ptrty damage totalling two and i a half million pesos ($380,000), according to reports reaching here.— U.P.
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    The blind people say: Let us meet Helen
    220 2 The blind people say: Let us meet Helen VISIT to Malaya by the famqus blind :her Helen Keller Id Inspire blind and dicapped people throughout the country, leaders of blind organisations said yesterday. The Singapore director of the United States Information Service, Mr. E. J. Conlon. yesterday cabled Washington to
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    MAIL SHOPPING FROM JAIL
    55 2 NEW YORK. Wed. Shoes, watches and jackets have been arriving at Columbia Jail. South Carolina, in parcels addressed to prisoners at "flats" corresponding with their c 1 11 numbers. The warders found they had been ordered from a mall order firm. They also found most of
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    Han Suyin book before cameras
    86 2 FILMING of "A Many splendoured Thing", bestselling story by Malayan author Dr. Elisabeth Comber (Han Suyin). haa already begua la H«ng Kong. It Is one of 2*th Century Fox's major productions for the year. The start. Jennifer Jonr* and William Holden. are ■een relaxing In
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    BEGGING IS BEATEN
    712 2 BILL FISH, making a tour which shuns Malaya's big 1 cities, visits SEGAMAT, the proud town where... J SEGAMAT, Johore. Wed. "IT IS our proudest j 1 boast in Segamat." said my guide to this north Johore town of 15.000 people. "that) there are no beggars' here."
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    Lock icon KENYA PARLIAMENT PRAISES COL. YOUNG
    169 2 NAIROBI. Wed -Colonel Arthur Young. City of London Police Commissioner. who came out to Kenya to re-orga-nlie the police, was prai.sed In Parliament here yesterday for his work In transforming the African poltcv Mr. Ehud Mathu, Kikuyu leader of the African members of the Kenya
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    French troopship calls here
    32 2 The 9,900-ton troopship Ltcontt de U«le arrived In Singapore yesterday from Balgon with 650 French troopg bound for Marseilles. The .ship called to take water, provisions and bunker*
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    Lock icon Keeping cold out
    23 2 LONDON. Wed. The women's sewing circle of Holy Trinity Church at 4Jttlncbourne has made 30 night shirts for Eskimos Renter
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    STORMS AHEAD AT TODAY'S ADULT COUNCIL MEETINr
    273 2 STORMS AHEAD AT TODAY'S ADULT COUNCIL MEETINr No picnic for Prof. \j (l r DAY'S general meeting of the Sineannr. for Adult Education is expet-tr-ri t.i h miest since it was formed four years Member organisations havp bureaucracy against the Council chairman. Prof. Frederic Mason. Prof. tion at the University
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    Singapore houses impress visitor
    145 2 Singapore houses impress visitor MISS MABFj iT pieMdrnt n f New Zealand Uom R Teachers said restart impressed In M n N housin* and IU n t lJn dards. eeaptm 2! Miuaiour and ty of Man.la and H .,n t Kon«, the onK oth South-1...! J" she has seen. "At
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    Lock icon Blizzard in Scotland
    52 2 LONDON. Wed -A blizaard I wa« raging In Northern Scot- land today and eraduallv moving down across the country london had a bright morning after one of the coldest r.lghts of the present wintry spel!. but snow was expected to reach most of Southern England by this
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    Mendes says 'no'
    36 2 PARIS wed. Outgoing premier. M Pierre Mendes u c t; today turn<fd down an invitation to nerve as Vice Premier m the Cabinet that socialist leader. M. Christian Pineau. Is trying to form
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    'Scorched earth in Tachens
    26 2 HONG KONG Uvinx thinf i i by thr Chii I the T 'by OOMMBIn day. .1 com Con.munist N< Agency n port
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    Off to Athens
    9 2 ROME Wi I nf Kr I
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    Lock icon BRITAIN BOILS OVER—TEA MONEY IS THE CAUSE
    269 3 BRITAIN BOILS OVER— TEA MONEY IS THE CA USE LONDON, Wednesday. lonjf -simmering teapot tempest is; c boiling point. Steadily rising prices n'i favourite non-alrholic beverage row in the House of Commons yesheadlines on the domestic crisis today ifl affairs out of the main positions in m n\ newspapew. b
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    Lock icon The Jagans defy their party
    46 3 The Jagans defy their party B Guiana) Wed. D| JAGAN and his born wife. Rom their key wing People's party two days to recognise Ln their offl:k anquarters i>ed to hand 0 ;;ment!> to irnham has to repla ;he party. Narain Singh as successor a> Reuter.
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    Lock icon Airport men on strike
    21 3 About 2.000 mployfa. be- last night ..Rect 18 initgoing air :ncludBntish Ovi ration airlines ondon and Reuter.
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    Peace nominee
    16 3 imcntarians 'hat it Mr. Clement enl iry leader of for the 1955 V P.
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    Lock icon $ still good
    18 3 still good I Wed. The In- nt has ap- the Mala- rider in aco of Indo- car. U.P.
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    Lock icon Margot's husband now ambassador
    53 3 LONT>ON, Wed —The Queen yesterday approved the ap- pointment of Mr. Roberto Arias, husband of bpllerina Margot Fonteyn. as Panamanian ambassador. Mr. Anas Is due In London tomorrow with his bride on their return from a honeymoon in the Bahamas. They were married in Paris on
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    Lock icon MYSTERY VIAL—IT'S RADIUM
    72 3 MYSTERY VIAL— IT'S RADIUM b .nee vial ol rial held at On'arir>. :ndic- Fined raCanadian tp K-snian was Thought the tit be pure raooo i about The vial, now despnsit^d in the radium vault of Port Arthur General Hospital was obtained by a Canadian soldier. Angus MacDonalJ. whLe stationed In
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    Lock icon ROYAL couple married in Portugal
    52 3 PRINCESS Maria Pu of Italy and Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia were married in the small white church of Our Lady of the Assumption at CascJis. 20 miles from Lisbon, on Feb. 12. In this picture Princess Maria signs the marriage register as Prince Alexander watches
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    Lock icon Man 'died'2 days before his heart
    106 3 Man 'died '2 days before his heart WELLINGTON. New Zealand, Wed ASIRGEON told the coroner at Invercargill today how the heart of a man. who "died" on the opentin< table, kept going for two days after being massaged. Dr. Norman Waddle said that he *a* operating on Mr. l.fwiv «h'h
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    Lock icon $710,000 is lying idle
    70 3 OTTAWA. Wed Almost $710,000 in cash owned by a Scottish woman has lain inactive In Canadian banks since 1945 Soon it will be transferred to the Bank of Canada for safrkeepinc until Mrs Margaret L Maitland-Tennant of Cramond Bridge. Midlothian. Scotland, wants it. She deposited the
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    Slave camps
    25 3 NEW YORK. Wed The United States told the United Nations Organisation yesterday that Red China has at least 2 000 slave labour camps
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    ROW OVER MERCY KILLING PLEA
    217 3 A bombshell, says chairman LONDON. Wednesday. A SUGGESTION that physicially and mentally abnormal children should die by euthanasia mercy killing) caused a storm here yesterday before the Royal Commission hearing evidence on the law relating to mental illness and mental deficiency. The suggestion came from
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    Shadow of death over 7,000 sq. miles
    197 3 Shadow of death over 7,000 sq. miles WASHINGTON. Wed. rE IS. \tomi< Enero Commission diM lox-d yesterday that about T.OM stiuare miles of territory was contaminated h> deadl) radioactivity after the explosion of a vrr> Urge Ihrrmo nuclear (hydroKent device" in the Pacific last year. Mr- Lewis Straus, chairman of
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    Lock icon Queen will be at party
    54 3 LONDON. Wed— The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh mill attend a private party, given by the American Arahassador. Mr. Wlnthrop Aidrich, and hl» wife here next Tuesday anniversary of George Washington s birthday. The party will be at the ambassador's new home. Wlnfleld House,
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    Trial ship
    31 3 LONDON. Wed The Royal Navy today said that the 8 580-ton maintenance ship Girdle New was being converted into Britain's first ship for trial of ffuided missiles -A P
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    Lock icon Bazooka contract
    25 3 TOKYO, Wed The Army announced today it hac awarded a 5850.000 contract to a I Japanese f.rm to make ba- I zookag. U.P.
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    Lock icon BUSMEN TO STRIKE FOR COLOUR BAR
    136 3 WEST BROMWICH. England. Wednesday. BUS WORKERS here have decided to strike on Saturday and every following Saturday until the local transport authorities ban the employment of coloured bus crews. This was announced by Mr. i Harry Oreen. Midland* district secretary of the 1.300.000--strong Transport
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    Lock icon Casey is ill with dysentery
    43 3 PNOM PENH Cambodia. Wed Mr. Richard Casey Australian External Affairs Minister win taken ill with dysentery here today. He 1* expected to recover in time for the Bangkok conference of South- East Asia Defence Pact next Wednesday -Reuter
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    New governor
    30 3 LONDON Wed Britain V;c» Chief of the Imperial General StafT. Lt.-Oen sir Harold Redman hat been appointed to kucceed Gen. Sir Gordon Macmtllan as Governor of Gibraltar. U.F
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    Lock icon 'DOPE IN DRUG FACTORY9
    64 3 'DOPE IN DRUG FACTORY 9 TT T RIN. Wed The ChlapPHrelll Pharmaceutical Company, one of Italy's largest producer*, of pharmaceutics, was ordered last night by the Interior Ministry to rea.se production of all drufts. The order to reaae production followed an investigation carried out by police, of the former director
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    LONDON STOCKS
    384 3 LONDON. W«d A SENSITIVE atmonpherf prevailed on the utork market hers iv»i»y and there were attempt* to put prte«s hlcrier at nnt but when gUMdgad remaned the (all. lndu»triaU followed and there m no marked preponderenre of It U.« The ncntlmnu influenced by money rale ronaidrrations »nd Mr
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    LONDON TIN
    26 3 LONDON. Frtt IS. Cash Bvyrra C?M: SHIrr« «7*»: Forward Bayrr* C7I1J: S*Urrs C712; S*ttlrmrnt 1 71 1 Turnnvrr am 55 tons: p.m. mi torn.
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    LONDON RUBBER
    34 3 LONDON Peb 16 Bpot 29d Mar 28".d April-June 26 ,c July-Sept 26 ',d Oct -Dec 27 ,c. Peb c l f 26 Marrh r l f 2g«d April cjf. MS.. Tom: Uncertain
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    Sultan got $18,000 for2l-day carnival
    187 4 Sultan got $18,000 for 2l -day carnival IPOH, Wed. AN EMERGENCY meeting of the State Finance Committee on Feb 8, authorised the expenditure of $18,000 for the 43rd wedding anniversary celebrations of the Sultan of Perak and the Raja Perempuan. This was revealed In a paper on the proceedings of
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    100 CASES OF LEPROSY IN SCHOOLS
    491 4 Health o£fio«rt step up their vigilance There is less prejudice now and more care By NAN HALL vtORE THAN 100 suspected cases of leprosy have A been found among pupils In Singapore schools In the last 12 months. Signs of the disease have been
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    PENANG TEACHER HELPS BRIDE TO CUT THE CAKE
    60 4 PENANG TEACHER HELPS BRIDE TO CUT THE CAKE ML TAN KIM SAI. a teacher at the Chung Ling Hieh School. Fenang. helps his bride. Miss Mary Teng Slew < h"o. m tear her at the Penang Convrm, to cut their wedding rake during a reception at Sea View Cottage, Tanjong
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    15 GO BACK AND ARE FORGIVEN
    197 4 'We are sorry/ they tell school JUNIOR Technical School students who have returned J after walking out on Tuesday morning in protest over the revised time-table will not be punished, the chief instructor. Mr. J. C. Hickey, told the Straits Times yesterday. Yesterday another
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    SAVED THEN THE RESCUER IS DROWNED
    87 4 TAIPING. Wed. Chan Toh Ping. 25. drowned In the Coronation Swimmlnc Pool here after he bad saved a boy In difficulties. Aa the boy was helped ashore Chan, a Haa Man HlKh School student, slipped bark Into the pool. He was believed to be
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    Suicide bid
    28 4 BATU PAHAT. Wed— Chew Chong Soong. of Renglt. was sentenced to one month's Jail for attempting to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a knife.
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    Triad appeal fails: 'A grave crime'
    143 4 Triad appeal fails: 'A grave crime' TJHE Chief Justice. Sir -I Charles Murray Aynsley told 24 secret society men yesterday: "You should know the seriousness of a secret society. You must be dealt with very seriously when a caae like this arises He was dismissing their appeal against sentences of
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    Tower to be memorial
    52 4 TANJONO MALIM. Wed. -A coronation memorial clock tower costing $3,900 is to be erected In Tanjong Malim Members of the Tanjonj? Mallm Town Board yesterday visited the proposed site. The Government has contributed $2,000 towards the cost The re«t of the money will be ral&ed trom
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    Attack by a parang man
    67 4 Attack by a parang man A man armed with a parang chased another man. lost him. then dashed into a pin-table shop in Anson Road and attacked the proprietor's son and a shop assistant last night. The proprietor's son. Khaw Kirn Hong, 14. and the aaslst ant. Tan Ah Kow.
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    AIRMAN, 20, KILLED
    100 4 Cannon exploded as he cleaned it BUTTERWORTH. Wednesday. SENIOR Aircraftman W. H. Leppard. 20, was killed by k a cannon while cleaning a Hornet aircraft on the R.A.F. airfield here yesterday evening. Leppard died on the spot. A RAF .spokesman told the Straits Time* today that the
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    Fire destroys $9,000 rubber
    38 4 ALOR STAR. Wed. Rubber trees worth $9,000 were dr.--trayed big fire on three estates at Buklt Berang Ayam. seven miles north of Kullm, yesterday. Labourers using sticks put out the fire after several hours.
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    Society's new directors
    64 4 The Federal and Colonial BulldlnK Society. Singapore, has appointed new directors to replace three men who have resigned or retired The new directors are Mr. J. A. D. Morrison, who Is also the new chairman, Mr. E. L. Peake, and Mr. D. E. M. Flennes, representing the
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    Clerk loses home in fire
    61 4 An attap hut occupied by a clerk. Fong Peng Hwee. and his family of six was destroyed ny fire In Plantation Avenue. Singapore yesterday afternoon. Fong's wife and children w<t<> in the hut when the fire broke out mysteriously on the attap roof. The hut
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    Rubber stolen
    20 4 Four bales of rubber worth $1,000 were stolen from a tongkang anchored off Beach Road, Singapore, yesterday morning.
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    MALAY YOUTH GROUPS MAY UNITE
    67 4 MALAY YOUTH GROUPS MAY UNITE KUALA LUMPUR. Wed —An attempt to unite Malay youths of various organisations in the Federation to work for Independence will be made at an All-Malaya Malay Youth Conference to be held here an April 9. The conference is sponsored by the Scmangat Pemuda Melayu Association.
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    Cocktail party for Rotarians
    61 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. Dr. Yeoh Bok Choon. president of Johore Bahru Rotary Club, and Mrs. Yeoh. last night entertaim d members of Johore Bahru Rotary Club and their wives to a cocktail party at their home to celebrate the club's winning the Attendance Shield. The shield
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    Nanyang budgets for first 8 months
    131 4 EBTIMATEB of the Nan- yang University's expenditure have been made only for eight month* the initial period of work I rum January to August this year. This, according to Mr. R. M Lai. Executive Secretary of i the University, has been sp< daily arranged
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    THE WIFE BEATER WARNED
    149 4 Mr. Adam* binds over father of six K. LUMPUR. Wed. KUALA LUMPURS acting First Magistrate, Mr J. O. Adams, has a drink occasionally but he does not beat his wife. He said m In court today when convicting a lorry driver Ramasamy. of attemptIng to outrage
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    Damaged cargo fetches $27,900
    56 4 Three lots of damaged copra cakes and chips and ground i tapioca fetched 127.900 at an auction yesterday. The damaged cargo was from the Dutch freighter. Kota Otde, which hit a rock and sprang a leak 70 miles off Singapore, while she was on her way
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    Gambled in own den: Fined $620
    47 4 KUANTAN. Wed. A shopkeeper. Lee Seong. who allowed his premises In Oambang town to be used for gambling was yesterday fined $600 or three months' Imprisonment Lee was also fined an additional $20 for gambling wl*h others on his own premises
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    $2,784 sarong charge
    44 4 Yeap Chwee Eng claimed trial In Singapore yesterday to a charge of stealing 3K5 wrong?, valued at $2,784. belonging to Shaikh Omar bin Ahdlaah Ahkhtlb. on Jan 12. Ball of $4,000 wsj allowed and thr case was postponed to Feb. 23.
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    Water-25 mil- gallor plan under way soon
    112 4 Water-25 mi l- gallor plan under way soon •PHL x Council work soon on lion srhf-m. extra 25 mi of watf-r Tebrau R. The Council rec ed to drop a 'he "unllmli ,the JbtMN H to expandlni scheme Now it will the second itag< dcvelopmer I has provided 2 lons
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    Crash women buried
    43 4 KUALA LUMPUF Two wnnvn [Injured In a road ac [the Bongel B Monday were tv;: homes at Serdang village today. Th< Lok. 83. and V' K Two of the j.r, wlii t on the dam was discharged :r last night.
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    That killer
    28 4 KUALA LUMPUR Th»Tt were 30 death pneumonia nut 01 71 the Federation in Qm endfri Feb 5. TWO deaths out of 35 tery CMti were reported
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    JAR LINE ANGERS TRADERS
    60 4 PENANG. Wed. Penang 1 Chinese merchants have cabled their agents In Hong Kon.; u> "refrain aa far as pos- i sible" from sending goods by the OS K Line after an alleged refusal by the company's local agents to grant overside ed by the Gink" .month
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    Fun over 'liars and monkeys'
    300 5 OPERATION ABUSE 1 GRIPS INTEREST OP PENANG VOTERS BUT NO LIBEL 9 CHALLENGE TO DATO TAN IS IGNORED ON ELECTION EVE PENANG, Wednesday. WEEKEND of name-calling by top party leaders has set the pace for the final lap of Tenants first Settlement Council elections on
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    Crackers for jumbo's joget in the jungle
    151 5 Crackers for jumbo's joget in the jungle IPOH. Wed. s (.\>n •aril ..skicl to deal jth an eIepJUUM mva- ,n h« i'irn.(l up armed cracker.. Inche MajM bta Pcnk Mate round odaj 1 n ,l 1( IMb! Majid, an official m.-n.1».-t said M.1.3 farm's and rubtapper* rmroup.-d at M.ilim. had
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    Two women sent for trial
    32 5 ".rPUR. Wrd Two aged 56. m d 20. initv d for trial on a charce RPKula- eged to h;ivr known pornner prrjudicial to on the nicht of
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    Cultural gift from India to university
    112 5 Cultural gift from India to university MR. R K. Tandon. the Indian Commissioner in Malaya yesterday presented 70 books and 86 maps to the University nf Malaya for Its proposed Department of Indian Btudles. He also announced that the Government of India had made a token grant of $4,000 for
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    New council elected
    79 5 KULIM. Wed Mr Lam Wai Kee has been elected chairman of the new local council at Selama. Bandar Bharu district. South Kedah The council elections, held or. Sunday, resulted as follows: Pekan Ward Mr Yong Teng Sang. Mr. Lam Wai Kee and Mr Chang Serng Hsin. Central
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    They want him to stay on
    47 5 TAIPING. Wed. The Indian community of Taiping resolved at a meeting last Sunday to ask the Government not to transfer Mr A. Renpam. assistant Commis.sioner of Labour, Northern Perak to Penang. Mr. Rcneam if due to leave Taiping early in March.
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    New chairman
    24 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed —I Indie Mahmood bin All has been appointed chairman of the Board of Visiting Justices In Johore for 1955
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    Tanjong Malim has chief again
    61 5 IPOH. Wed. The Perak State Council today approved a motion by the State Secretary Inche Hashlm bin Mat Idris. that the office of territorial chief of Tanjong Malim district be revived. The office has lapsed over the past two years following the transfer of the
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    No record: $75
    33 5 KUANTAN. Wed Lim Thiam Kwee. proprietor of a retail liquor store, was fined $75 here yesterday for failing to keep an account of all liquor bought and sold by htm.
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    Pahang has new British Adviser
    21 5 Mr. M. been appointed P 4 he was Trenaeanu. that was British here in I tfßcer.
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    RED STROLLED INTO POLICE HQ AND SURRENDERED
    107 5 fIWM, \\e,l._ Acting swiftly alT the surrender of a umtiMinist terrorist yester<li*. the authorities sent a tin rait tcxla. over the hill art-as of Prnane Island ;.i<ivt a message from •hf man who had given him- '"P n-i Vmu Ah Kong. calmly into
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    Posters set off polls 'little war'
    153 5 I EADERS of the Singapore Progressive Party and Labour Front are at loggerheads over the Legislative Assembly election poster campaign The Progressive Party leader, Mr C C. Tan. alleged that the Labour Front had deliberately put up posters with their emblem of "a pick
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    Perak to study member system
    46 5 IPOH. Wed —A special committee has been appointed by the State Executive Council to study a proposal for the introduction of the member system in Perak. This was revealed in a written reply tabled at today's meeting of the State Council.
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    BACK THE ALLIANCE, INDIANS ARE TOLD
    127 5 BACK THE ALLIANCE, INDIANS ARE TOLD BUKIT MERTAJAM, Wed. rpHE president of the Malayan Indian Congress, Mr. K. L. Devaser, today urged all Indians to throw in their lot with the Chinese and Malays now. "I am glad that Indians have joined and have been accepted by the UMNO-MCA Alllanc.
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    Last tribute
    34 5 IPOH. Wed. The Perak State Council today paid tribute to Mr. Wong Bine Hea. a councillor who died on Jan. 6 after a short illness. The gathering observed one minute's sil nee.
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    Hool. man fined
    30 5 Lai Ah Chat was fined $20 in Singapore yesterday, for causing hurt to Ibrahim bin Hi Mohamed with an iron IMOB on Feb. 13 at Nelson Road.
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    Stole turkeys, duck when drunk
    57 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. A youth. S. Muthusan.v. admitted in the first Magistrate's Court here today that he stole two turkeys and a duck but said that he was drunk when he committed the offence. Muthusamy was bound over for $50 for 12 months for stealing
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    5 years for an eye
    65 5 5 years for an eye ALOR STAR, Wed. A fishmonger. Lim Geok Seng. 55, told Mr Justice Hill today that he could not earn a living after a Malay attacked him seven months ago, causing hue to lose one eye. Saad bin Yusoff. a padi planter, was sentenced to five
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    Reforms: The report is ready
    175 5 Reforms: The report is ready NOW THE RULERS WILL STUDY IT KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. *rHE Malay Rulers who i meet here next week are expected to examine a report by the advisory J committee appointed by I themselves and the High Commissioner to study the Federation Agreement The Rulers will
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    GURKHA FLIES BACKWOUND 'PLAYED UP'
    126 5 A GURKHA soldier who was shot in the left leg during a bandit ambush in Malaya last December and returned to his home in Nepal after medical attention, flew back to Sinifapore yesterday for more treatment. The wound. which he i thought had heaJfd. atartrd
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    FIVE FACE EXTORTION CHARGE
    92 5 FIVE FACE EXTORTION CHARGE KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Five men were today charged in tht First Magistrates Court here with attempting to extort money from Chon* Chew Foon by puttine him in fear of injury at Paaar Road yesterday mornlr.g. The> were Tham Meng Kirn. 24. of Kuala Lumpur, chew Karr
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    Bring and buy for charity
    37 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. -A "bring and buy" *ale will b<held at Nn 4. Jalan Meldrum tomorrow beginning at 10 am. The money raised will be given to the British Red Cross Society.
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    DEATH
    58 6 211 W,,r4, $l» (m,»im,,m). ONG MR. ONG KEAN CHOON i i paaaad awaj paaoafull > leaving behind 2 aoua Ong Cilin I li\r. OH( Glin Poh art Oiik KOOl Yong, On K Kool B n Term Tok. one diniKlitiT-in-ittw M rs ()li^ (Jim '1 six KranddauKhte;-. Oortaga ,ye 3!)
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    42 6 20 Word* fit (minimum). MI.: I P HELLAPAH and I ok all tii(*e who Kave ud sent comforting n thrir recent bereave- MR. AND MRS 1< C. DA SILVA thank 'or Hood rats and attendance on n of their marriage on
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    ANNOUNCEMENT
    127 6 21) W,,rdi till (minimum). FOI.I-OW PEDANT Every Day In t i,u want to win I 000 word F.v? t i I i OOTTI »n i>hf.sse.s In H I u.e i the new shipment re- i v.ei'k Ht Town to I ANOTHER NEW COM ACTION Of pi iresh and i
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    LOST
    21 6 BJ >• BM H rfv tAOB I'KM)\M- H < .mental Value I ost near I >•. Raffles Place Finder ReBox A 2116. ST.
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    Singapore, Thurs. Feb. 17, 1955 News On The Cheap
    667 6 Singapore, Thurs. Feb. 17, 1955 News On The Cheap I The lctiK'lis to which some ntiiciiils in Maliiya will ro to mark their disapproval of the aiui its ways has never lost it.-, power to amaze the working journalist. The latest example, however, has a novelty nil it> own. Recently
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    Tenant's Lament
    355 6 The sub-tenant's lament, published in our correspondence columns the other day, sounded an exasperatingly familiar note. ilt recognised the rapacious chief tenant to be the real villain in the rent racket, but pleaded that most sub-tenants are powerless to act. But they are not; the rent control law
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    Tea In London
    235 6 "Tea in London" was the subject of one of Ruth Draper's famous sketches. Tea in London, and all the cities of Britain, was the great standby in the long flaming nights of Hitler's blitz. But tea in London is now seven shillings and a penny a pound.
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    Russia is trying to prevent Asian unity by policy of terror
    704 6  - Russia is trying to prevent Asian unity by policy of terror A REMARKABLE document has been published I which throws considerable light on the relative strength of the Free World and the Communist World. This is the report on the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation entitled "The First Five Years." >^^^^m
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      Magistrates need not have legal qualifications
      312 6 Magistrates need not have legal qualifications MR. A. P. Godwin, in his letter on the appointment of magistrates, does not show much sympathy for the local lawyer or understanding of the subject. The qualifications for magistrates to-day do not require a full legal qualification plus three years' experience. In fact.
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      Time for a major operation
      181 6 QO Mr. Manyam. president of the Singapore Labour Party, is looking not for allies but for an alliance. But has not the time come for a major surgical operation? Mr Manyam hlm>elf. when he stood for election to the City Council In 1853. was defeated
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      CROWDING ON NIGHT MAHS
      102 6 THE General Manager of the Railway may be unaware of existing conditions, but like scores of others, I experience inconvenience and discomfort. I rtfer ln particular to the night mall between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Passengers are often denied the use of the buffet car due
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      PRODUCE EXCHANGE
      231 6 THE picture of the members of the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange taken on the occasion of the annual Chinese Neaw Year party, calls to mind the leading and prominent part played by Mr. W. P W. Ker ln founding the Exchange in Prince Btreet about forty years ago.
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      Money 'wasted' on pensions
      128 6 IjV>R the .sake of effecting much-needed economy in tli,. finances of the Federation is It not about tlm«* the Government revised its pensions .system? At present, a pensionable officer can retire at 40 or 50 and rompulKorlTy at 55. The effect is that A at 40
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    On the margin
    159 6 The crying n*j I DO n In H b<-:ni< grai sllKht. by a corn Str:.. 1 Have we not Coleman 182Ri and Street, 1 1 bcronx I slum n< n One cai n 1 our c ta;'ur. I buildinghas worth 1 The encourai old Is ai down
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    Prophet Isaiah had real 'gen' on RAF, says CO.
    333 7 QUOTE: fc AND THE FOUNDATIONS OP THE EARTH DO SHAKE' »m)M AIR STRIKES AGAINST BANDITS [saiak was quoted by a battalion yesterday in a congratulatory I \.V. squadrons based at Tenjjah, unc from Lt.Col. P. H. Man. officer ttialion. Royal Hampshire
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    Pay $11,000 or..." threats are alleged
    33 7 KIAT who waj in 100, wa.s led in a| n rrcuxSin Ab Rabiting. :h'(J Avenue, she paid In.sp enl an un- v. Chlay him tloni postponed tv
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    Band in gardens
    16 7 I Band f the Own H B inlc Gar- from 4.30 1 Sunday.
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    Women's dance
    27 7 The Business and Professional Women's Club of the Singapore Y.W.C.A. will hold :i dance at "Gleneagles" from 9 p m. to 1 a.m. on Saturday.
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    PRODIGY'S FATHER WANTS A FLAT
    157 7 THE father of SaKo Lane's wonder-boy violinist yesterday applied for a Singapore Improvement Trust fiat because his son could not practise in the cramped cubicle in which the family now lives. In a letter to the Trust. Sin- t gapore musician. Mr. Goh Soon Tloe.
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    Absent on day of raid allegation
    83 7 Absent on day of raid allegation MKIMHAV Wed.— Four more Home Guards, from Ram new village, were charged at Seretnban today with failing to report for duly on the day the vlltsge wst« raided by trr- < rorUts. They were Vong Kit Seong, Liew Heng, Yap On and Tan (hong.
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    'Luncheons not enough' -Sir Donald
    86 7 SEREMBAN. Wed. MALAYAN Rotary Clubs were tonight urged by the High Commissioner. Sir Donald MacGllllvray. to "do more than hold weekly luncheons and dinners." He was speaking at the Seremban Rotary Club's dinner held on the golden Jubilee of Rotary International. "The clubs must do
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    A professor on Indian thought
    37 7 Prof. C N. Parkinson. Professor of History at the University of Malaya, yesterday gave a talk on "Indian Political Thought" to the Indian University Graduates' A*«ociation of Singapore at the U.S.I.S. theatrette
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    Off to London
    36 7 Mr P. G. Peralta. acting exhibition officer of the Public Relations office In Singapore, will fly to Britain tomorrow to attend an Information officers' training course in London .sponsored by the Colonial Office
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    They'll petition the Govt.
    57 7 TANJONG MALIM Wed. The people of Tanjong Mallm are to petition the Federal Government to speed up the construction of a new road to Slim River village. This road, said Mr D K. K.i ...ikan.tr speaking at yesterday's meeting of the Town Board, had been promised
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    Penknife attack alleged
    43 7 Gurbachan Singh claimed trial In the Singapore Sixth 1 Police Court yesterday to causing hurt to Bantha Singh with a penknife on Tuesday at Race Course Road Ball fo $500 was allowed and the case was postponed to May 19
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    Fliers to lay own bricks for club
    298 7 Fliers to lay own bricks for club TK) prevent itself being A forced out of existence the Singapore Flying Club is proposing that members themselves should move their hangar from Kalian*? Airport to Paya Lebar Airport and build their own new clubhoust there. A sub-committee has worked out the details
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    Two accused of robbery
    52 7 Two youths. Llm Ah Llm and Wong Chin Nam. went on trial in the Singapore Assizes yesterday on a charge of robbing Klew Hln. a textile merchant, of cash and property to the value of about $144 at Jalan Eunos on Oct. 7 last. Hearing continues
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    Stole from friend
    33 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. Ohanl bin All. a rar cleaner, was .sentenced here to five months' Jail for stealing $27 and clothing belonging to a friend. Miistapha bin Md. 81 n
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    $2,500 fine
    33 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. Abdullah bin H. Abdul Ohanl was fined $2,500. or 12 months' jail hero today for attempting to smuggle 5.000 cigarettes Into Joborc The cigarettes wire conI II.V Hlld
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    LOST BOY FOUND WORKING ONESTATE
    218 7 LOST BOY FOUND WORKING ONESTATE 'THE 15-year-old Singa- pore Bchoo lb o y, Mahin Abubaker Sidik mlsslnf? since Feb. 2. was found yesterday morning in Kota Tlnßßi working as a labourer on an estate. The man who spotted him was Mr T. A. F. Menon. chief clerk of Nam Hen*
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    Malaya Hall gift
    78 7 The Society of Indian Fine Arts. Singapore, has entrusted I the Government with a colI lection of Jaipore brassware j for Malaya Hall. London. The gift consists of four I flower vases, two flower bowls, two trays and one liquor decanter The Chief Secretary. Mr W A.
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    Speech training lecture
    52 7 MLv Betty Lumsden Milne, a Malayan authority on speech training, will give a public lecture on "English Speech Rhythm A Discovery," in Singapore on Feb. 24. The lecture, sponsored by the Singapore Teachers Union, will be at the St. Joseph's Institution hall. Bras Basah Road, at 7
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    Centre meeting
    26 7 The Balestler Community Centra Singapore, will hold its annual meeting at the Whampoa Square field, opposite the centre's premises, at 4 pm on Sunday
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    ABRUPT END TO THREATS CASE: TWO ACQUITTED
    109 7 The trial of two men alleged to have threatened on Oct 4 in sma.sh up a Colony office and damage cars parked outside ended abruptly in Singapore yesterday the second day of a hearing for which four days had been set aside. Inspector
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    Inspector: I hid and heard threat
    211 7 FIVE ACCUSED OF ROBBERY BID KLANG. Wednesday. rE maßistrate here. Raja Sulaiman, was told today how a police party laid a trap and arrested five alleged robbers who had demanded money from a 68--year-old man at the tenth mile Kapar Road, Klang. I last
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    'Anatomy of the atom'
    68 7 To acquaint the public with I some of the basic concepts in science. the University of Malaya's Science Society has arranged a aeries of lectures ,at Raffles Institution at 8 'p m. every Friday of th» week. The first. The Anatomy of! the Atom." will bo
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    Man who had never heard of bandits
    181 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed A lorry driver. Ooh Chong Khlm, today told Mr. N. L Cohen. Di e.Mdent of the Sessions Court here that he had never heard of bandltN or of people being ihoi by them. He was fined $400 for fallliiK to
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    MERCHANT SAYS $154,000 FINES ARE EXCESSIVE
    208 7 MERCHANT SAYS $154,000 FINES ARE EXCESSIVE Exchange Control case appeal JIIKiMENT was reserved by the Chief Justice. Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, in the Singapore High Court yesterday in the appeal of Teo Slew Jin. a merchant, against three District Court fines totalling 5154.M0 on charges under the Foreign Exchange Control Ordinance.
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    Air search for seamen called off
    104 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed rE air search for threr shipwrecked Malay flsh> rI men off Pulau Kapas. near Kuala Trengganu. was called 1 off this evening. Royal Air Fnrre planrs I which searched in vain for seven hours yesterday were out I again from early
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    Here to visit the army hospitals
    40 7 Brigadier Helen Gillesple. Director of the Army Nur.sine Services and Matron-in-Chief of the Queen Alexandra Nursing Corps, arrived in Singapore yesterday on a tour of military hospitals and medical centres in the Far East.
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    New Queen's Scouts
    51 7 Three Singapore Boy Scout.,. Yang Peng Hwa, Liew Teni? Leong and Loh Sang Torn?. have been made Queen i Scouts They will receive their Royai Certificates at a rally to commemorate the 98th anniversary of birth of the late Lord Baden-Powell, at the AngloChinese School on Feb
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    New agent
    34 7 TELUK ANSON. Wed— Mr Che< Seng Fook has assumed duties as goods agent, Tcluk Anson wharf, in place of Mr. Szto Sim Beng. who has been transfi rn-d to Gemas in Johore.
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    Not negligent
    26 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed Sirt K O. Ayres of 221 Vehicle Battalion, was acquitted in the Magistrate's Court today on a charge of negligent driving.
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    DOLLARS LAG BEHIND DISCS
    81 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Of the $12,619 promised by telephone rallers In the "dollars for discs" programme In December, only about $10,000 has been received by Radio Malaya Radio Malaya today ap- I pealc dto all those callers who have not fulfilled their promises to do so
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    331 8 ]t|AX ROSTAL, one of the l world's greatest violinists and teachers, said on his arrival In Singapore yesterday that he will be glad to help any promising Malayan violinist. "I'm always looking for taone can show promise. I shall be willing to make him
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    He claims trial
    45 8 St'lamat bin Raslpan claimed trial In the Singapore FMth Police Court yesterday to a charge of stealing $650 from Lee Tong Choon on Sunday night Ball of $1,000 In one surety was allowed till Feb. 23 when the rase will be heard.
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    The aristocratic apprentices
    495 8 $40-A-MONTH MILL MEN CAME TO WORK IN CHAUFFEUR-DRIVEN CAf( Hn rBEE MO-a month textile mill apprentices arrived at work every day in chauffeur-drlYen cars, a Singapore Court was told yesterday. The three apprentices. See Yong Kwong, Sim Cheng Wah alias Sim Kirn Po, and Tay Eng Hoe,
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    FROM GERMANY TO STORE ON 'HITCH -STRANDED NOW
    153 8 T«HE Singapore Immigration author inquiries about two German hitch-hiki Nuber and Hans Schul/, who are stranded in the Colony without morv age to Indonesia where they want to go rrnxt ™1 The inquiries began yest«r- i day when the Pan Malayan Students'
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    Chamber's vote rally
    38 8 rE fifth ber 0} Comn of B.O(Ni The rally, .-p. in the Bukr held in th.- p] Chlni Bukit Timah Rn There wen s and derr thf I before mm t harnb* r ol their
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    Rotary jubilee
    27 8 lebra' the R dinner at thr I Garden at 830 pn. m F* 23 and a ball Memorial Hall at 9 pj. 3 March 5
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    HE WENT WHITE AT RED NOTE
    265 8 Greeting card said: Pay $500 0r... IyHILE a sundry shop was doing brisk business fT serving Chinese New Year shoppers, a youth called and left a small red envelope on the proprietor's table, the Singapore Second Criminal District Court was told yesterday. Red is
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    Scalded baby dies—10-day
    163 8 Scalded baby dies 10-day battle ends THE Chinese baby girl, who was found scalded In the Kandang Kerbau Maternity Hospital. Singapore, the day 1 after she was born, died at the General Hospital laat night after a ten-day battle to save her life The baby, daughter of Chan Peng, wife
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    He denies $297 theft
    52 8 Ball of 11.000 was yesterday allowed Husstn bin Mohamed Hassan 30. who claimed trial in Singapore to a charge of stealing a shirt. a pair of trousers, a fountain pen. a felt hat. and cash— all worth $297 fmm Nadiir bin Taruno on the evening of
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    2 stabbed in streets
    54 8 Two men were stabbed, one In Nankin Street and the other In Upper Serangoon Road, on Tuesday night. The Nankin Street victim, a Chinese, was wounded In the neck In a fight with a youth. The other victim, an Indian was attacked by three men as
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    150 sign up
    32 8 More than 150 girls and boys were enrolled as members yesterday at the opening of the Joo Chiat Youth Club at the Joo Chlat Children's Centre. Katong, in Singapore.
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    Thief breaks in
    22 8 A thief broke Into a house In Chapel Road. Singapore, yesterday morning and stole a gramophone and a wrlstwatch.
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    Dr. Lin on culture
    46 8 Dr. Lin Yutang. Chancellor of the Nanyang University, will talk about "Race and Culture" at a meeting of the University of Malaya Raffles Society at SSO pm. tomorrow The meeting will be held at the Oel Tlong Ham Hall. Cluny Road. Singapore
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    $24 theft charge
    43 8 Wan Kirn Soo pleaded guilty in the Singapore Eighth Police Court yesterday, to stealIng articles worth 524 belonging to Ah Foo on Feb. 1 at Victoria Btreet. Ball of 1500 was allowed and the case was postponed to Feb. 23.
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    BUONAPARTE HIT ME, SAYS JOSEPHINE
    102 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Wednesday. T»HOMAS BUONAPARTE, a hotel receptionist in Singapore, was acquitted here today on a charge of house trespass with intent to annoy his wife. Josephine Nonis. a telephone operator. Josephine Nonii told the court that on Dec. 19 Buonaparte came to her quarters
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    fly to fort
    74 8 KIT ALA LUMPUR. Wed —The j six BUm«ae police and army 1 offlcers. who have been here on a five-day fact-finding tour left foi SongkhU and Bangkok today from looh. Today they visited a police field force headquaifters In Ipoh and then went by Pioneer aircraft to
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    $3,601 for fund
    26 8 The sum of 13.601 was col- I lected at the Singapore AntlTuberculosls Association Chinese New Year Ball at the Victoria Memorial Hall. Singapore.
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    VETERAN RETIRES TO FARM
    83 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Mr. H. J. Barnard, assistant Commissioner of Police on the staff of the Director of Operations is retiring next week, after 27 year* with the police Mr. Barnard 45. hu family I connections In Malaya going back as far as 1890 Bom in
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    Magnate to build home for orphans
    128 8 Magnate to build home for orphans fHE Lee Foundation is to build a $150,000 nursery home for orphans under the care of the Salvation Army in Singapore. The home, which will be built on a site at the 9th mile. Euklt Timah Road, will provide room for 120 orphans. Plans
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    Attacker wore mask
    59 8 A masked man wearing dark glasses, a blue pullover and blue shorts broke into the room of an amah at Pulau Branl on Tuesday night and molested her. The man was armed with a knife and threatened to kill her she said. She was cut In i
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    FLOOD VICTIMS GET SUM
    46 8 The Singapore Social Wei- fare Department yesterday t>aid out more than $9.'JCO in rehabilitation gifts to flood victims at Kampong Lima and Loronp 29. Chicken feed, fertilisers, rice and maize, w farmers to fliH'Ci Great Eastern Tradi the Tai K^ni Tai Sene.
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    Lock icon 'Iron Man' of three Czars helped crush freedom STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL FEATURE
    1555 9 'Iron Man' of three Czars helped crush freedom STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL FEATURE /I CHOIR of 20,000 men, women and children trudged through snow-clad St Petersburg one bitter Sunday in January, 1905. In the voice of a tortured nation they sang what was reputed to be the Czar's personal hymn, "God
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      198 9 Shvrlock Holntos Planting crime i *OPPOSt rr rS 1 VWtfTS COCO «TABeCO *4fcj\ BY 3D/t'. /T^PnHQ^M g^g^^^^^^^^^ > H_ I ggggggggg^t^gUggyggg^nflggSkii^gggggggggggg^gXrVM^ I I iPif/i Tracy Mivlicoptvr trail gggggggggg^ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggi r A PiCeON? T TWINK Yl FuSTOJ. PAUCAHT WECOI PtCBONS NOT TCO FAST [WE COULD AFTEP WILD DUCK P WWO U*N BE
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    RUBBER PRICE TUMBLES BY SIX CENTS ON I HEAVY SELLING
    927 10 By Our Market Correspondent THE price of rubber in Singapore tumbled yesterday following unusually heavy selling and March first grade closed at 991 cents per pound, six cents below Tuesday's closing price. The heavy selling pressure was due to the
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    RUBBER PRICES I j i i j 1 I j '
    128 10 RUBBER PRICES I j i i j 1 I j March flrst gradr nibtvr buvfr« fob cloned In Singapore yai I at tt'l cent* a lb. nU cent* below Tiifuday'n cloning prtce. The closing tone wax Irrnfular. Closing prlrM yesterday In rrn'* per lb were:—No 1 RS s K[>ot loone
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    181 10 Singapore Chinese Produce r\ change: noon prices per picul yesterday: Copra weak: February $29 3 8 buyers. $29 5 8 xellerv Marrh *29 7 8 buyers, $30 1 4 sellers. Coconut oil: quiet no business reported, all varieties down $1; Muntok $215. Barawak $214. Lampong black $143. Singapore
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    SHIPPING
    208 10 Stagastar* lying aWngvM* thr Mnopoff HirWir Hoard w starve* •r ■>wli< W4ay m: rablnla 1 2 TJlpana* CP. City of Otum 6 7 million Akl Maru 11 Harunasat, M»ru 13 14. Anahun 16 It. TroUu.n It. Charon 19 30 Arnhem N Wall 5 I Ssdao N Wall 7. Stia
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    43 10 AUSTRALIAN STOCKS da) a •*nh were Loans 1 I Con /.inr Bank i Mount I N. Brnfc> Hill .0 Mouni M Peko n In A P M I rd B. Hii: Id /mr r, C. J Coles I C 1 Swan B Woolworth
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    18 10 Canada: OD. 32 1 h hills. 3-' or O D On dollar Sterlii i one tae:
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      814 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS I STUTiENT Intrrprrterf. M.ili\ ■nd Indian Tamil/Punjabi i on the salary scale $114x6-126. Candl(lutes must h;ivr uttMnrri thrir ntli bul not their 23rd Wrthd.iv. must have passed the school on I Examination «iih a credit in English nnd milfct ha\p a knou'ledKe of Kalay/Taadl/PunjaM as the case may
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      404 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS are Invited for the i>o*t of Student Nuraei on the Salary Scale $102-A6-114/15fi 168Al2 240 252-Al2-388 plu* COLA, at existing rates for the Social Welfare Department. Federation of Malaya. Successful candidates will be trained either In the Oeneral Hospital. Kuala Lumpur or Penang Appll- j cants must
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      699 10 NOTICES THE INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT Mr. Andrew A. Swing has been appointed the representative of the Institute In Singapore. Any matter relating to the Institute should be referred to him c/o The Singapore Traction Co Ltd.. P.O. Box No. 841, Singapore. SITUATION WANTED DENTIST, also Surgeon Dentist. 30 years experience,
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      908 10 NOTICES DISSOLUTION OF ENGAGEMENT BY MUTUAL COH6EMT the Engagement between BlEabeth June Olbson and Donald Sydenham was (H*aolv*d on 14-2-55. P W.D. ROAD NOTICE The road over the Sungei Tebrau 5S Miles. Johore Bahm -Kot.i nnggl Road will be closed for repair* from and including lsV March. 1955 until further
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      599 10 Re: FLORENCE ROMFORD. Deceased ALL PERSONS having any claims against the Estate of the abovenamed deceased late care of Westmuvter Bank limited. 121. High Street Oxford, who died on the 29th day of April. 1954. are required to send particular* of their claims In writing to THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE SUPREME
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    CHIROPODY it doesn't
    156 12 CHIROPODY it doesn't SINGAPORE'S newcat chiropoalst. Miss Audrey Carr, .says that many of her patients come to her under the Impression that they are about to have a pedicure with nail polish and all the trimmings. Chiropody is a remedial treatment and the chiropodist requires long and thorough training. Audrey
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    LOGIC IN SHOPPING TALKING POINT
    287 12 LOGIC IN SHOPPING TALKING POINT ASIMJAPORK wife who srnt her husband on a sudden shopping expedition for the night's dinner writes almost with awe of the speed with which he did the jol> without overspending, either. This underline* the difference of the sexes In their general approach to shopping. Most
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    Lock icon THE SQUARE LOOK
    432 12 from j EILEEN I ASCROFT j FLORENCE. and rib- bons turned the great white ballroom of the Pittl Palace Into a midsummer n i g h V s dream of fashion. Bchuberth of Rome showed a sugary randy-floss collection of short evening dresses In flower-scattered organdie and
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    Home-made diamonds—but they're twice the cost of real ones
    448 12 Home-made diamonds but they're twice the cost of real ones TLIAN-MADE diamonds, exactly like ITI nature's own. were announced in New York this week— a scientific dream come true. They cost at least twice as much to make as natural diamonds, but in time the cost may be grratly reduced.
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      60 12 Straits Times Crossword BBa^ ■^-^^^a^aK^a RxVvVy^vvV^sTSXVvvl NVvc3 N>S5^J 1 A M 11 j ly 1^ *^k™ aasasMi MMbUMasssßißsi I fwifne (Pi\^ p»*TiofTn Mcwiiry *t«O»» ),,,,r quM.ty 8f 7 A dUTaxent Dulltv iiuit Lh» ur n. A »"«P oi cake for Sunday- Wh »lly holay? («i. •laeTTs, o^ >* rty P»
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    Cargo Rice sets Malayan record
    132 13  -  TRAINER YONG SADDLES TWO CL. 1 WINNERS AT KUALA LUMPUR §80 UPSET JY GOLD TQWN IN HACE TWO EPSOM JEEP Bj RICE, a compaci v old Riding ran the Malayan when he j, of a second Exporter'! „113 ssec. track ,pur yester- daj of the
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    Lock icon Rocky's nose passes test
    62 13 YORK. Wed. i -round tast of A DOM Rocky world heavyi pion wu.s tared ready to, ..:ist Don Britain la May Francisco or 30, boxed hi a >parrinj? vinced Mr. Al ger, that he was his title. .1 scar i if his nose blow he received
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    Lock icon TURPIN WINS IN EIGHT
    101 13 BIRMINGHAM. Wed. i ft rurpln. the British ilserwetgM boxing Kav Schmttt, the I m ptoa iierp last :>qualined In the tie 10-round const flght, since x'atfn In one Mltrl the Italian Home. I Turpin weighed Just over 12M. 31b the heaviest he has been and this
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    ALL THE RESULTS, DIVIDENDS
    1465 13 Race One CLASS I. DIV. 2— FIRS. Mr. 8. W. Kirns. <2) EARTHQUAKE 8 8 < 174—99) Mortimer 1 1 3 1 Shamrock Slipper 8 7 (739—188) Mulley 2 (5) Toacan 8 3 293—125) x»it I (4) Purplr and White 8.7 (196—971 Manning 4 (1) CELERITY
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    BIG SWEEP RESULT
    66 13 TOTAL POOL: S228.0M. FIRST: ?t.0017 (SC1.5C*). SECOND: *****7 (S3«,7M>. THIRD: 164*60 <$15.3M). STARTERS v5.«7K, Non: I464M. *****2; *****8; 1591*3; *****2. CONSOLATION: (S1.368) Nos: 321M8; 1S4266; *****1; 31M57: *****4; *****4; *****2; *****7; *****2; *****7; TREBLE TOTE: No winning combination. $1,141 carried forward to Uftt day. FORECAST TOTE: Race
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    Lock icon Trabert tops home list
    145 13 NEW YORK. Wed »T»ONY TRABERT. the United 1 SUtes Davis Cup player was' ►eerted No. 1 today In the Untied States Lawn Tennis Association's Indoor championships, which begin I here on Friday. His teammate Vie Beixas did not I enter the singles competition which has drawn
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    Lock icon No change in Scottish team
    86 13 EDINbUROH. Wed. Scotland have chosen the team that beat Wales by 14 points to eight ten days ago to meet Ireland In their Rugby Union International at Murrayfleld an Saturday week The team Is A Cameron i capt A. R Smith. M K Elgle. R
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    29 13 LOS ANOELEB. Wed. Paseual Peres, of Argentina, today declined an offer to defend his world flyweight boxing title against Keeny Tersn here new spring.— Reuter By
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    19 13 The Strait* Times' picture tip for yesterday's races was 111 NTKKS CALL who wa* •econd in Race
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    125 ENTRIES FOR PENANG RACES
    564 13 PKNANO. Wed ONLY 125 horses— 42 in a. 3 and 83 in Cl 4 have been entered for th* Penanc Turf Club's three-day Spring Meeting on Feb 26 and March 2 and 5. There will be seven races on the first and third days (starting
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    77 13 S< hrdule of racing Is: First 4»y Cl. 3. Dlv* l and 2 oxer Sf and Dlv. 1 over 7f Cl 4 I'm 1. 2 snd 3 over V,f and Di\ 4 over 7f. Second day: a. 2. Divs. 1 and 3 over 6f Cl 4. Dlvs.
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    338 13  - 'Creaking veterans again in Aussie Xl JACK FINGLETON CANBERRA, Wed. 'THE Australian selec- tors yesterday dropped Arthur Morris i and Bill Johnston from the team for the fifth Test against F^ gland to be played at Sydney next Friday week. Undwall, who did not play In th» fourth Teat because
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    495 14 DAZZLING DOUBLES ENDS TENNIS GALA BUT ROGER BECKER WAS OFF COLOUR By Oar Tennis Reporter DAZZLING doubles, which the Swedish Davis Cup players Lennart Bergelin and Sven Davidsson won 6-1, 6-8, 6-2 against Britain's Roger Becker and John Barrett, brought to a fitting close the
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    65 14 FIXTURES FOR FIFTH ROUND OF F.A. CUP LONDON, Wed. rT<HE FIXTUREB for the fifth A round of the Football Association Cup competition to be played on Saturday are: Birmingham City v Donetuiter Rovers; Liverpool v Hudderafleld Town: Luton Town v Manchester City; Nottingham Forest r Newcastle United; Notts County v
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    AMATEUR BOXING
    55 14 •"THE Singapore Amateur Boxing Association's novices' open championsblps will be held on Msrrh S and 4 at the SB A. stadium and not on March 4 and t as pro viously announced. Entries close with the Hon. seere> ury of the SABA.. Mr. B. L. Dunxford. c/o Social
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    CEYLONESE TEAM FOR CUP REPLAY
    53 14 The Ceylon Sports Club team to mcc* Dockyard SC in the first round replay in the sha senior knockout competition at Balestler Road tomorrow will be picked from S. N Plllai. S. Nagaiah. Ponnudural. Rajaratnam. Balakrishnan. Yogarajah W PonnUh ThliUgaltngam. Thuratslngam. Kandasamy, Balasundram. Thevarajan. Rajaltngaan.
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    ENGINEERS PUT UP BEST PERFORMANCE
    330 14 SCC 'A' WIN IN SECOND HALF ICf -A" t; R.A.S.C. CINOAPORI Cricket Club "A" played a xluggtsh utnr ag»ln«R A 8C but the Corps after hold Ing the Club to scorelew first half failed to offer food defence and were beaten The Club scored in
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    25 14 Nee Soon Boy* Club oesi Chartered Bank SC J-0 In a soccer frtendlv at Parrer Park yesterday D Barratt and A Mclntosh scored
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    480 14 TOP-FORM FIJIANS LEAD THE WAY AFTER playing scrappy 1 rugby In the second; round, the Fijlans were! back to their best form to j lead B.C.C. "A". S.E.R. "A" and R.A.F. Tengahl into the seml-flnals of the Singapore Cricket Club's seven-a-side competition yesterday. The semi-finals. between Fl]l_ns and B.C.C. "A"
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