The Straits Times, 26 January 1957

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    MALAY CLASSES FLOP
    300 1 GOVERNMENT TO REVISE ITS POLICY Education council misled us— Ministry mw PARENTS ISSfST: Teach our children English Til! Singapore Ministrj of Education innonnced yesterday that it was completely r ,\>i; its policy on Mala; education. I statement condaryl ip recently] id objected taught anted them English, the
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    Lock icon THE DUKE SPORTS A BEARD
    60 1 At sea-and he keeps up old Navy tradition THE Duke of Edinburgh, who served 10 years in the Royal Navy, has grown a luxurious Navy-type beard since leaving Australia for the Antarctic and the South Atlantic He is seen here arriving by longboat on Tristan
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    50 fail in hunt for tiger
    88 1 50 fail in hunt for tiger BENTONG, Fri. FIFTY special constables, Home Guards and estate workers today tried to flush out Bentong's man-eating tiger. They failed. The small army beat Its way through an area of scrubland between the air strip and Chamang new village in an effort to corner
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    Police get tip on kidnap plot
    167 1 FIVE MEN ARE HELD NEAR MILLIONAIRE'S HOUSK malauua, fnaay. pOLICE detained rive men here last night in con- nection with a suspected attempt to kidnap a I miiiiuiiitiie. The arrests were made after the police had watched the millionaire's house for six hours. He
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    Lock icon Red spy ring in New York: Three held
    213 1 Red spy ring in New York: Three held WASHINGTON, Fri. T*HE Federal Bureau of 1 Investigation announced today that three people had been arrested in New York for operating an espionage ring on behalf of Russia. The FBI Director, Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, identified those arrested as Jack Soble, 53.
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    REDS CHEAT THE BOMBS
    96 1 REDS CHEAT THE BOMBS KUALA LUMPUR, tri. Security forces today slogged into the area in the Ulu Langat Valley devastated by 12 hours of continuous bombing and strafing last night only to find that the eight terrorists targets of the attacks had managed to escape. hone of the bandits was
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    Lock icon Man from Tokyo
    27 1 TOKYO, Frl.— A high-rank-ing Foreign Office official wil] visit Malaya next month to settle outstanding economic and reparations problems, it was announced here. A.P.
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    Lock icon Sued for $24mil.
    31 1 LOS ANGELS. Fri— Former film actress Mary Pickford is being sued for $24,257,250 in a complaint charging that she failed to go through with a hotel purchase. A.P.
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    Turks hold up Egyptian ship
    33 1 ISTANBUL, Fri. Turkish authorities today held up the Egyptian tanker Nasr (Nasser) for payment of an indemnity after it had crashed into a quay while crossing the Bosphorous.
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    Lock icon Policeman's lot...
    31 1 LONDON. Fri.- A claim for a seven-and-a-half per cent increase for Britain's 70.000 policemen was flatly refused by the Government at a meeting here yesterday. it was disclosed Reuter.
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    Lock icon Swim champion injured
    80 1 MKI.BOIKNK. Fri. John Marshall, Australian Olympic swimmer and former holder of several world records, was seriously injured in a car accident today. Marshall. 26. was taken tn hospital after a car he was driving blew a tyre and m turned over near Climes. 97 miles north-west of
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    Nehru 'pained' by U.N. action
    150 1 Nehru 'pained by U.N. action NEW DELHI, Frl. Mr. Nehru said today he was "deeply pained' 1 by the five-power United Nations resolution which led to a call for the temporary retention of Kashmir's present status. (See Page 2> Talking to reporters at New Delhi airport after seeing Mr. Chou
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    Lock icon TROOPS RAID HOMES IN JAKARTA
    208 1 TROOPS RAID HOMES IN JAKARTA Big search for illegal arms JAKARTA, Friday. f ROOPS wearing steel helmets and carrying rifles with fixed bayonets began a house to house search for hidden arms in Jakarta today. Shortly after midnight truckloads of troops fanned out into residential areas and isolated houses were
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    Lock icon Suez hope
    34 1 PORT §AID, Fri. The United Nations expects that a channel in the Suez canal will be dear for 10.000-ton ships by a the first fortnight in Marcn, it was announced here today.—Reuter.
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    Lock icon DAG WANTS U.N. TROOPS ALONG FRONTIER
    189 1 DAG WANTS U.N. TROOPS ALONG FRONTIER V'EW YORK, Fri.— The U.N. secretary-gen-eral Mr. Dag Hammarskjoeld, today suggested deployment of the U.N. Emergency Force along the whole Israeli-Egyptian armistice line, including the Gaza and Gulf of Akaba areas. The suggestion was made in a report by the secretarygeneral to the General
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    Lock icon Cotton deal
    14 1 CAIRO. Fri. Egyptian newspapers today reported a new Soviet-Egyptian £12.000.000 cotton agreement.—A.P.
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    Lock icon British plan for queen of the air
    59 1 LONDON, Frl. SEVEN British aircraft firms are pooling their resources to produce the world's first supersonic airliner a new queen of the air. The companies are cooperating with the Ministry of Supply and with British Overseas Airways Corporation to produce the plane, which
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    MIDWIVES TO TAKE SECRET STRIKE BALLOT SHOW OF HANDS WON'T DO
    166 1 MIDWIVES TO TAKE SECRET STRIKE BALLOT SHOW OF HANDS WON'T DO CINGAPORE'S 120 Government midwives are meeting next week to take a strike ballot in an attempt to enforce their claim for a salary revi1 sion. At a meeting last Sunday the women members of the Singapore Government Midwives' Union
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    Lock icon Optym seized on ship
    43 1 HONG. KONG, Fri. Customs officers seized about 401 b. of opium and 51b. of morphine j from the Danish vessel Jacobsen shortly after it arrived here from Bangkok. No arreMs were made-. The drugs were valued at about USS7,SOO.—UP.
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    Lock icon Attache leaves
    31 1 LONDON, Fri. Lt.-Col Bela Nagy, expelled Hungarian military and air attache in London, left by air today for Vienna and Buda pe.st with his wife and four-year-old son.— Reuter
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    Film star due
    18 1 Hollywood actor William Holden is expected in Singapore on Tuesday. He leavet the next morning.
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    Lock icon STOP PRESS
    43 1 CEYLON 81 FTOt rs sovii:t plan NhW VOKK. Pfi— Cej lon today opposi-d Hri rrn revolution lo admit South Korea .mil >«>ulh \irtii,im (o IN and >upporlcd Soviet draft to briim both srttions of imcli divided nmnlry into IV simultaiM-oiitl.v Renter
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    Heavy blow at EOKA
    208 2 LEADERS SEIZED AND BIG ATTACK THWARTED Fri.— ln the heaviest 11 blow yet struck at the EOKA terrorist organisation. security forces have killed or captured nearly half its hard core leaders, seized an arsenal of weapons and probably forestalled a big attack on a British h<
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    Lock icon In chains to scandals trial
    67 2 PASQUALE SIMOLA, one of the men accused in the Roman scandals" trials arising from the death of Wilma Moritesi, is led in chains to the court in Venice, Italy, at the reopening of the case. Simola is currently serving a prison sentence for a crime
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    Lock icon ZHUKOV:U.S WANTS TO EXPLOIT THE MIDDLE EAST
    171 2 ZHUKOV:U.S WANTS TO EXPLOIT THE MIDDLE EAST NEW DELHI, Friday. THE Russian Defence Minister, Marshal Zhukov, last night described United States policy in the Middle East as "predatory." Speaking at a banquet given by the Indian Defence Minister, Dr. K. N. Katju, he said: "America, by pretext and by ruse,
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    Lock icon American air bases to launch A bomb war? 'Sheer propaganda'
    171 2 American air bases to launch A bomb war? 'Sheer propaganda' WASHINGTON, Fri.— The United States yesterday denied Moscow charges that it was building air bases in foreign countries round Russia as a springboard for an atomic war. The State Department described the charge as sheer propaganda." 'No surprise' Mr. Lincoln
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    Kashmir: U.N. decides
    180 2 India told to halt 'integration' and reminded of plebiscite resolution T^-EW YORK, Fri.— The 11 United Nations Security Council tonight approved a resolution calling for the maintenance of the status quo in Kashmir while the council continued consideration of the dispute between India and Pakistan over the
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    CHINESE JUSTICE for U.S. PRISONERS
    88 2 NEW DELI I \|R. CHOU EN-LAI, the Chinese Prim, A said here today: "American prL mitted offences against Chinese lav with in accordance with Chinese law. The Chill' commenting on Eisenhowers Wedmsdav policy towards < not be chai can p not be cli' can pri.so.
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    SNIP, SNIP, SNIP... AT £10 A SNIP
    64 2 DIRBLIN, Fri— Police here are looking for a "snip and run" gang which has cut off the hair from the tails of 100 cattle. The hair used for stuffing mattresses and reinforcing concrete is worth only £1 10s. But because they lose condition
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    Election issue friendship
    57 2 MANILA, Fri. President Magsaysay will run for reelection next November on the issue of friendship with the United States. "I fought on this issue in the presidential elections of 1955 and the senatorial election in 1955. and I will fight for it again In this electon. if
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    Lock icon Briton slain in ship
    58 2 TOKYO. Fri. Japanese police said tonight that the decomposed body of a British sailor was discovered buried in coal in the British freighter Vancouver City which berthed at Kawasaki, near here yesterday. Police said the body was discovered by workmen unloading coal. The Vancouver City left
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    Lock icon Attlee's agent, fed up, cancels meeting
    122 2 Attlee's agent, fed up, cancels meeting TOROxNTO, Fr] Attlecs Behead mcetin- at Hall tonight cancelled through 1* of interest. Mrs. Estello C: agent for the tub Prime Mil him by telafternoon that sales of fib poor that n ling tho meeting. She estimated thai than 200 pc ip up. Tho
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    Lock icon Matsu guns in action
    39 2 I TAIPEH Fri. C Nationalist shoi Matsu, off the N irthern Fukicn coast, ia.-t ni^ht damaKed three Comnun;.t in repulsing .i number ol vessels a' proach the Is! md alist Defence Mini munique dabned Reuter.
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    CRASH... PEDESTRIAN PAYS
    47 2 LONDON Fri A pedestrian was ordered to pay a motorist £26 and casts at Hitchin County yesterday for damase to a car caused when he ran into It while trying to catch The pedestrian was LAC Paul Walker, of R.A F. Station, Henlow. Bedfordshire.
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    Record flight
    19 2 NEW YORK. F u.s coasi cord thn minui. an Air Forci with the a .strt .mi U
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    Lock icon 52 rebels die
    19 2 ALGIERS, Fri. French forces killed 52 insurgents in operations yesterday at eight points in Alperla Reuter.
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    fled arms men for Cairo
    68 3 vt r \.\SSER THREAT TO H\U CANAL C&ARANCB URO, Friday. Russian exrrivedhere to train troops to MJ supplied the .ashed bellirefusal mditlon- strip >man He Canal wlthGreetings they ucians i eted by and hust-j and „:.rad of .un exteadily. many thouthey roun- i ■n on
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    Lock icon Dulles: U.S. is safer without Britain
    192 3 Dulles: U.S. is safer without Britain WASHINGTON, Fri. The Secretary of State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, told Congress today that in his view an American soldier called on to right in the Middle East would "feel a lot safer" if he did not have British and French troops alongside him.
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    Lock icon FOUR BRITONS ARRESTED IN BUDAPEST
    102 3 FOUR BRITONS ARRESTED IN BUDAPEST BELGRADE. Fri. The Hungarian authorities are holding under arrest in Budapest four Britons missing i since Jan. 15. a Hungarian Foreign Ministry spokesman said today. The spokesman, speaking by telephone to Belgrade, said the four "have been arrested by the Hungarian authorities. They ar c
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    Appeal judge
    28 3 LONDON, Fri.— Mr. Justice Ormerod, 66, has been appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in succession to Sir John Edward Singleton, who died on Jan. 6.
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    Lock icon KING SAUD MEETS THE AGA KHAN
    56 3 KING SAID of Saudi Arabia and the Aga Khan play with King Saud's five-year-old son Mansur i in the lounge of a hotel in Naples (Italy). King Saud railed on the Aga Khan while on his way to the Inited States at th c
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    Gambling fever
    18 3 WASHINGTON. Fri.— The pambling state of Nevada has revealed its casino's income: $119 million a year.
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    Lock icon Liner crash: A settlement
    46 3 NEW YORK, Fri— Lawyers for the Italian Line and Swedish American Line announced yesterday that they would settle out of court about 1.200 personal injury and cargo claims arising from the collision of the Andrea Doria and th« Stockholm last July. Reuter
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    Lock icon Zhukov tribute to Gandhi
    43 3 NEW DELHI, Fri. The Russian Defence Minister, Marshal Zhukov, began his second day's stay here today by laying a wreath at the shrine of Mahatma Gandhi. He later visited Delhi's red sandstone fort and lunched with Mr. Nehru.— A.P.
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    Lock icon Jap emigrants
    26 3 TOKYO, Fri.— The Japanese Foreign Ministry said today that Argentina had agreed to accept 400 families or 2,000 Japanese emigrants in five years.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon Makarios not disposed to discuss Cyprus
    80 3 LONDON. Fri— Lord Perth. Minister of Jtate for Colonial Affairs, told the House of Lords yesterday that the exiled Archbishop Makarios "was not disposed under present conditions to discuss any questions relevant to the future of Cyprus." The Archbishop. who Is leader of the
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    Jets collide over sea: 3 lost
    102 3 RESCUE PLANES MOVE INTO AREA HAVANA, Friday. TWO B-47 Stratojet bombers collided in flight over A the Caribbean Sea south of Cuba last night. Three survivors who took to a liferaft were picked up. Rescue planes of the Air Force and Coast Guard moved
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    Lock icon CAR FIRMS ON FULL TIME
    68 3 LONDON, Fri. Vauxhall Motors, one of Britain's largest car manufacturers, announced last night that they would return to fulltime work next week for the first time since last September, when sales dropped be- cause of hire purchase restrictions. The Jaguar Motor Co. also said it
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    LONDON STOCKS
    316 3 LONDON, Fri. Closing middle prices of selected stocks not including stamp duty were: LOANS Consols £55 9/16 Funding 4'; £91 9/16 +5/16 War nk% £7<^* BANKS Mercantile (£5) £3 15/16 Eastern (£5) £6% Chartered (£1) 38 6 +/9 Hongkong ($125) £91',i INSURANCE Com. Un. (uts.) 89 14 +1/74
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    Lock icon HILLARY HAS A LUCKY ESCAPE
    303 3 HILLARY HAS A LUCKY ESCAPE WELLINGTON, Fri.— Everest conqueror Si r Edmund Hillary, leader of the New Zealand Antarctic expedition, and two companions had a lucky escape from drowning last Saturday, according to a delayed despatch from a correspondent with the expedition which reached New Zealand today. Sir Edmund, Dr.
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    Jubilee moot for Rovers?
    53 4 tpoh. Fri. Plans for a Rover moot, to coinride with the celebration of the golden jubilee of the Boy lit movement will be disi ed at a conference here m Per: k Rover leaders on Feb 3. The conference will be held tit the 14th Ipoh
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    Those 'lazy' fruit trees
    264 4 NUCLEAR FISSION? IT'S MORE LIKELY TO BE MALNUTRITION A-TESTS ARE NOT TO BLAME, EXPERTS TELL Mr. GOH experts in Singapore said 5 oterday that they are «ure atomic radiation has nothing to do with Mr. Goh Tong Liang's ramhutan trees going "lazy." The Assemblyman had written
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    Woman, 71, beaten up by robbers
    82 4 TWO armed robbers beat a 71 -year-old woman, Lim Ah Tay. when she defied them in her house in Jalan Alsagoil. Singapore, yesterday. Lim wa s alone when the two entered the house. One carried a knife, the other an iron rod. She ignored
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    New youth club
    27 4 KAMPAR, Fri. a youth club, open to boys and girls of all nationalities above the age of 15. will be set up here soon.
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    THE BIG FIVE FOOT MYSTERY: A LIZARD A CROC?
    156 4 THE BIG FIVE FOOT MYSTERY: A LIZARD A CROC? WAS it a crocodile of a giant lizard? No-one in the village of Jurong was quite sure when they talked about a "strange reptile" shot in the area on Thursday. Measuring five-and-half feet, it had a small head with a forked
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    7 accused of having knives
    43 4 Seven men pleaded not guilty in a Singapore court yesterday to a joint charge of having offensive weapons two knives at Grange Road at 11.40 p.m. on Thursday. They were each granted bail of $250 till Feb. 2.
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    In the soup
    28 4 SEGAMAT, Fri. —Ng Chee Sen, 32, of Singapore, was fined $250 here for taking a bottle of birds' nest soup out of a restricted area.
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    Josephine will dance in annual ballet show
    68 4 JOSEPHINE TEO. 14, (above) is one of the pupils of the Taylor Dance Studio who will take part in the Studio's annual ballet display to be held at the V.M.C.A. at 3 p.m. today. Josephine, a Form 111 student at the St. Teresa's
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    BID TO CENSURE MALAY UNION
    220 4 I*«HE Singapore Alliance partners UMNO, MCA and the Malay Union will meet after the Chinese NewYear to discuss the "improper" action of the Malay Union in backing a demand lor reserved seats in the Legislative Assembly. Mr. Wong Foo Nam, leader of the Alliance, disclosed
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    Talks on, off
    27 4 The Singapore Government yesterday resumed wage negotiations with representatives of its employees in the Prisons Department. Further talks wore adjourned until Feb. 4. I
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    NOW 50 SAY IT: THIS BILL WILL RUIN OUR TRADE
    211 4 NOW 50 SAY IT: THIS BILL WILL RUIN OUR TRADE FIFTY Muslim business men have signed a petition protesting against the Singapore Government's Muslims' Inheritance Bill. The petition has been sent to a select committee of the Legislative Assembly. If the Bill is passed all Muslims will be compelled to
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    STANVAC MEN CLAIM HIGHER WAGES
    137 4 T*HE Stanvac Employ- ees' Union yesterday presented a list of claims on behalf of 250 industrial workers in Singapore and Pulau Sebarok. The main demand is for an increase in basic pay of $55 for all monthly paid workers and 30 cents more an hour
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    Riddle for court: Where is this man?
    139 4 A POLICE prosecutor, Chief Inspector Chan Chin Fong. told a Colony court yesterday that he could not say if the general secretary of the Singapore Farmers' Association, C. Y. Liew, was being detained by the police. Liew was not present for his trial
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    In Peking now they call for love
    56 4 In Peking now they call for love JHE pco ple are fed up ins stories of Communist triumphm, capitalists. China's rear!. mand romance love stone originality munist do«ma said last night I She was rt University of M. Club on a tnov< China's "rem washing! ol She said she proof
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    Formerly banned
    67 4 Western WOlt four years, wen cd for in univ« A tremenclou lie had been tn was demandiim from Chin more creative ai literature. There had bit > declaration In i said, allowinu think, write or prea thing— but always "within framework i ism." I She admitted lectuals were
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    Colony zoo
    36 4 The ■ncapore Zoo, covering an acre land was open at the 7% mile P.> Road. It is op n 9 a.m. to 7 p.n.. fee is 20 cents for and 50 cents for adulu
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    Secretary go<
    25 4 Secretary go&lt; JOHORE BAHRU. Fri —V: D. W. StPwar rretary the British Advlso. has lost his appointment M the abolition of the txwt British Adviser.
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    THOSE DEBTS: Mr.SINGH OFFER HIS SOLUTION
    230 5 THOSE DEBTS: Mr.SINGH OFFER HIS SOLUTION "JHE president of the Singapore Sikh Moneylenders' Association, Mr. Sadhoo Singh, yesterday made some suggestions which he thought might help the Civil Service Joint Council at present investigating the indebtedness of Government servants. He said the Government co-operative societies should: DEVISE a scheme to
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    Mrs. Harris returns to Britain
    115 5 Mrs. Harris returns to Britain A WIDOW and four of her five children leave Singapore for Britain today in the Laertes but she hopes to return to Kuala Lumpur where her husband is buried. She is Mrs. S. Harris, whose husband, Staff Sergeant W. E. Harris, was killed In a
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    'Second class citizens'—Labour Party chief hits at Govt.
    227 5 'Second class citizens Labour Party chief hits at Govt. PENANG, Fri. The Labour Party of Malaya said today that the Government's general policy of treating Chinese and Indians as "second class citizens" had raised doubts among many people in the country. "Up to now, all citizens of Penang. Malacca and
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    Adviser sees bus owners
    41 5 Mr. L. C Hawkins, who is advising the Singapore Government on unification of the Colony's public transport system, yesterday met Chinese bus owners. They had informal discussions on the Government's proposed unification of the Colony's transport services.
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    SECURITY CHECK ON CHINA STUDENTS
    232 5 Schools won't take any chances STUDENTS' coming back from Red China, with their brains washed or because they are unwanted as they are dull witted, will find it difficult to get into Chinese middle schools in Singapore. Most managements are now very careful about the
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    PLANE CAN 'SMELL' BAD WEATHER
    125 5 PLANE CAN 'SMELL' BAD WEATHER A SUPER CONSTELLATION with a radar nose will arrive in Singapore from Sydney next Monday. The airliner, operated by Qantas, has been fitted with equipment that maps the weather 150 miles away. Forewarned in this way. the pilot can fly above, under or around turbulent
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    Land goes back to the State
    44 5 JOHORE BAHRU Fri There were no bids for eight lots of agricultural land belonging to smallholders which were put up for auction in the Pontian district for recovery of arrears of rent. The land now reverts to Government.
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    EXHIBITS AT M-FAIR TO BE SCREENED
    201 5 EXHIBITS AT M-FAIR TO BE SCREENED KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. —Exhibits for the merdeka trade fair in Petaling Jaya in August and September will be screened, the Straits Times was told today. The assistant Minister for Commerce and Industry, llnche Khir Johari, has been invited to head a special committee to
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    Tengku praises British rule 'it made us happy'
    334 6 Tengku praises British rule 'it made us happy' PENANG, Friday. TENGKU ABDUL RAHMAN today praised the "benevolent rule of the British" in Malaya. "We who have lived under it have all been happy," he said. "I should like to see this form of rule continue after independence." The Tenflkll, addressing
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    To join TUC
    19 6 The Commissioner-Gene-ral's Local Employees Union, formed recently, has decided to join the Singapore Trades Union Congress.
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    Labour front birthday
    39 6 The Rochore branch of the Singapore Labour Front celebrated its first anniversary at the Broadway Hall, New World Amusement Park, last night. Among those present were the Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, and his family.
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    PAY CUT-BUT IT'S ALL A MISTAKE
    202 6 rpHE Singapore Ministry 1 of Education yester- day investigated a com- plaint that a Chinese middle school had cut i the salaries of teachers who had worked in Government -sponsored j schools during the riots when their own schools were closed. Mr. D. McLellan,
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    4 flung out of lorry
    52 6 Four men were thrown off a moving lorry when it took a corner in Rochore Canal Road, yesterday. The four. Harman Singh. 45. Mohamed Kunju, 34, Cheriam Koshy, 37, and Ramayan Rao, 30. were treated at the General Hospital for minor injuries and allowed to
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    LAWYER IS ACCUSED IN TRIPLE-DEATH CRASH CASE
    84 6 LAWYER IS ACCUSED IN TRIPLE-DEATH CRASH CASE MALACCA, Fri. A charge of causing the death of three people through a negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide against a lawyer, William Horace Sault, aged, 60. was mentioned here today. I Mr. Sault, It is alleged, caused the deaths of a
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    Sino-Malay league for Colony TENGKU'S ADVICE TO BE SOUGHT
    137 6 Sino- Malay league for Colony TENGKU'S ADVICE TO BE SOUGHT ASINOxMALAY league is to be formed in Singapore to strengthen relationship between the Chinese and Malay communities in the Colony. It is likely that it will be linked with a similar organisation across the causeway The Federation chief Minister, Tengku
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    GOVT. NOT WORRIED BY EXPAT EXODUS
    163 6 GOVT. NOT WORRIED BY EXPAT EXODUS Plans bring inad7 to fill vacancies THE Singapore LrOv 1 ernment, ls not un duly worried by th» number 01 r officials who v. leave the puclic serviS us a result oi yanisation. Steps have tlread: taken to nil vacai efficiently as possib the
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    State engineer
    22 6 JOHORE BAHRU, FrL— lfc R. Inglis has been app actins Stato and Irrigation Engineer. Johore, in Mr. J. E. prince.
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      216 6 VICTOR DOCCETT CATHERINE TAN SIEW ENC and other Senior Pianoforte Pupils in a BENEFIT CONCERT ALL PROCEEDS TO FUND FOR SENDING CATHERINE TAN SIEW ENC TO EUROPE FOR HIGHER STUDIES VICTORIA MEMORIAL HALL on SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3rd 1957, at 8.45 p.m. Tickets: $5. $3. $2. $1. book at Robinson's. A
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      193 6 niniA A 8.8.C. Jazz Club; 10.30—11.00 RADIO MALAYA BBC, Variety Parade •Programmes thus marked can b&lt;- tfft _«2 —ma rerrivptl by liKtrnrrs in Malacca lfGglOll3l Short wave 49 41m. Medium mm 476»., 2 nim. 366«. and SINGAPORE F.M. M.15 Saturriay Date: M.30 Bhort wave 41m. Medium News followed by Singapore
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    PRISONER'S IN CHANGI LAUGH AT LIFE IN JAIL
    151 7 PRISONER'S IN CHANGI LAUGH AT LIFE IN JAIL ORE than 250 prison--&gt;A ers had a hearty laugh in a steelbarred theatre in j Changi Prison, Singa- pore, last night. They laughed at prison life. They saw a film on prison life, "Public Pigeon No. I." Shaw Brothers held the preview
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    A GAMBLING ROW SPARKS GANG FIGHT
    66 7 A GAMBLING ROW SPARKS GANG FIGHT A gambling den dispute sparked off a gang fight in a coffee shop in Lorong Tai Seng. Singapore, last night. Two men, Lim Kia Cheng, 30. and Lim Poh Tee,. 20, were admitted to the General Hospital. More than 20 thugs Irom groups 32
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    Found—a dead Red
    78 7 Found a dead Red BA T U GAJAH. Fri.— A police party on patrol in the jungle seven miles south of here, found the body of a terrorist in a shallow grave yesterday afternoon. The terrorist is Yue Wu. i 27. a member of the Batul Gajah armed *°rk force
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    Tempers frayed in strange case of the 100 temporaries
    255 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. 'pHE Government Temporary Officers' Union has protested strongly against a proposal to sack 100 temporary clerks from the Federation Army headquarters. The secretary of the union's Selangor branch, Mr. D. P. Xavier, said today the Federation Government had
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    When to let off the bangs...
    87 7 SINGAPORE police have banned the firing of sand crackers, squibs or crackers other than those with black gunpowder during the Chinese New Year. Crackers with black powder may be fired from 7 p.m. on Wednesday to 7 a.m. on Thursday; from 11 p.m. on
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    Scholarship promise to young doctors ...WHEN SHORTAGE IS OVERCOME
    215 7 Scholarship promise to young doctors ...WHEN SHORTAGE IS OVERCOME K3ALA LUMPUR, Friday. THE Ministry of HeaXh and Social Welfare will increase the number of overseas scholarships for young doctors to qualify as specialists as soon as more medical office's are recruited. The scholarship prajramme 1 would be stepped JP when
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    N.S. RECOUNT PETITION TO BE HEARD
    80 7 N.S. RECOUNT PETITION TO BE HEARD SEREMBAN. Frl. The Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Thompson, has nominated Mr Justice Smith to hear the petition of the Negrl Sembilan Labour Party for an order to recount of ballot papers in Rahang Ward in the Seremban Town Council elections held on Dec. 1.
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    $58,000 debt order
    56 7 Mr. Justice Knight in the Singapore High Court yesterday made a receiving order against the Sin Sheng Book Co., of Onan Road, which owed the East Asiatic Co. $58,058 on a judgment debt. An application by Mr. D.G. Osborne-Jones, for the book company, for a fortnights adjournment
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    Had pistol: 4 years' jail
    42 7 Ang Chin Yam, 40, a labourer, who was arrested by the police in New Bridge Road, Singapore, on Nov. 14 while carrying a pistol, was sentenced to four years' jail by Mr. Justice Buttrose at Assizes yesterday.
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    Sex film
    32 7 "Secrets of Life", a film dealing with sex, including the birth of a baby, has been passed by the Singapore Catholic Movie Guide as being morally unobjectionable fo r all.
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    138 8 70 Words tit (minimum) V .SATURDAY and Sunf at "The Cockpit". Ring ***** for table reservations. THE WAY TO Kill all un- odours is with Alr-wlclc. Why not buy a bottle today, good •11 it. "NOW IN STOCK"—The new Material "Orion" tn lovely tv for girls—several shades. 72 High
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    25 8 I* Wariu $10 (minimum). MRS. W. N LITTLE (Penang) bo e\press her sincere .1 Friends for their Sympathy follow- deatti of her Husband In
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    26 8 Ju n trtt tS (Him.) Box SO ttt. extra. FOUND An Alsatian Dog Strugfling In the Water near Bedok Owner please contact Chan Phone *****.
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    72 8 M Wmtmt Si Mfin.) Box SO et: extra. LEAVES LABOUR Lost at the Hate, Modern S/c Furnished flats. H A C Central Htg. nursery with K.intue Optional, delivered meal ■en Ice, chOdnW paradise, school home facilities. Eaves The no Gloucestershire. TO LET FURNISHED: By Bii^liton Worthing coast road,
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    RELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS
    33 8 20 Ward* tl.iO (minimum). CHRISTUM SCIENCE SOCIETY, Singapore 8 Orange Grove Road, Slngapore-10 (off Orchard Road) Sunday Services and Sunday school 10.30 a.m. Testimony Meeting! Ist and 3rd Wednesdays 7 p.m.
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    Singapore, Sat. Jan. 26. 1957. The Parents' Revolt
    584 8 Singapore, Sat. Jan. 26. 1957. The Parents' Revolt A Singapore Government statement throws an extraordinary light on education in the Colony. The statement's primary concern is with the Malay schools, but there are wider irr. plications that have a direct bearing on every type of education; indeed, on the whole
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    Kashmir Interlude
    327 8 India's Prime Minister faces a painful dilemma. Last night the Kashmir constituent assembly was to dissolve itself, and today Kashmir was to be incorporated nominally at any rate within the Republic of India. But yesterday the Security Council of the United Nations approved, without a dissentient vote, a
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    The New Services
    224 8 The Malayan Branch of the British Medical Association is to discuss the future of expatriate officers affected by Malayanisation. In the Federation 22 per cent of expatriate medical officers are leaving the service this year, and in Singapore 23 per cent. In view of the shortage of
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    As I was saying.
    1188 8 IT would not be possible x to obtain an accurate picture of the civil service of self-govern-ing Singapore until every expatriate officer had indicated his intentions under the compensation scheme, said the White Paper o n Malayanisation policy. Do we know very much more now that
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    SATURDAY STUDY
    8 8  -  Han Hat Fong By APPETISING, 8UT....
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    Cleaned up by disc jockeys in bikinis
    457 8 l IIMH 1114 k ELLIS. VISITING TOKYO. GETS I HAVE met a Japan--1 ese disc-jockey. She walked daintily up and down my spine! It is part of the old Japanese custom* the ceremonial bath. Japan is bath crazy. There are more than 3,000
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    MAN IN THE STREET HUNGARIAN REFUGEES
    199 8 MAN IN THE STREET HUNGARIAN REFUGEES A LETTER appeared In the Times several weeks ago which may be of interest to other readers of tht Straits Times who have not seen it and would be glad to know how to help young Hungarian refugee.; *vho are now In the United
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    FIFTY YEARS AGO
    91 8 From the Straits Times of January 26, 1907 WE understand that it Is the intention of the Governor to announce at an early date that all salaries of Colonial officers have been raised, or Kre raised, by 5 per cent. This will be good news to some,
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    CHILDREN OUT WITH CONTEST COUPONS
    45 9 CHILDREN OUT WITH CONTEST COUPONS 100 boys m five round "rring ted a 100.000 I ium to Sinca- centre. pur- which the Straits Ho* to win c in n c the t nesses in the a selling spectlve EducaN m Hwa, Hwa St. le Hwa
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    Two-day holiday
    12 9 no donor Singapore Centre a Year I Feb. 1. noon.
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    Another 3 months in jail
    52 9 R Fri. A' broker, -r rving :.'&lt; nee lor &gt; to stay ther three Suther- Appeal Court today. He was convicted in November. Mr. J. Kirby. Deputy Public Prosecutor, said that Stuart had a previous conviction for drunken (Wring. "A drunken driver Is like a
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    Forged notes deal in hotel cost him $8,500
    186 9 BUSINESSMAN COMPLAINS TO THE POLICE: GANG PLAYED TRICK ON ME KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. GANG of confidence tricksters operating here has swindled a businessman of $8,500, police disclosed today. The businessman reported that he was induced by the gang to buy $30,000 worth
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    Ballerinas have 'fun in nursery'
    81 9 Ballerinas have 'fun in nursery' I^HE Frances School of A Pancing' last night presented "Time to Dance" at th Singapore Badminton Hall. Proceeds go to the building lund of the Deaf and Dumb School. Young Ballerinas performed an unusual number. "Fun in the Nursery." and dancers executed their pirouettes, arabesques
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    To study market
    26 9 A British business executive. Mr. C. L. Boileau. arrived in Singapore by BOAC yesterday to conduct an extensive survey of the Malayan market^
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    'L' driver in crash
    46 9 A military truck with a learner driver at the wheels left the road and crashed into a coffeeshop in Geylang Road. Singapore, yesterday. The truck stopped a few inches from a fruit stall occupying part of the shop. No one was injured.
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    Miniature zoo at club fair
    56 9 A baby elephant, a leopard, an orang utan and several snakes will be on display at the Bukit Timah Youth Club's Chinese New Year variety fair in Bukit Timah Lane, Singapore, on Feb. 2 and 3. The fair. In aid of club funds, will be
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    Nominated
    24 9 SEGAMAT, Fri. Messrs. Teo Peng Kai, C Somasundram and Wan Ibrahim bin Abdul Jalil have been nominated to the Batu Pahat Town Council.
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    VILLAGE CHIEFS WATCH THE VENOMS GO IN
    108 9 VILLAGE CHIEFS WATCH THE VENOMS GO IN VILLAGE COUNCILLORS look skywards as they watch R.A.F. Venom jets scream over the Ulu Langat Valley blasting eight terrorists with rockets and cannon fire. The councillors, from the 9th and 11th mile villages on the main trunk road south of Kuala Lumpur, were
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    Detainees: A Malay plea
    63 9 The Singapore UMNO is to appeal to the Chief Secretary, Mr. W. A. C. Goode, fo r the release of two Malays detained during the October riot? under the Public Security Ordinance. They are Mahmoud Awang, assistant secretary of the Singapore Traction Co. Workers' Union, and
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    $515 MIL. TRADE BALANCE
    50 9 $515 MIL. TRADE BALANCE KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Federation had a favourable trade balance of $515.3 million last year, according to official figures published today by the Department of Statistics. Exports totalled $2,262.3 million while imports totalled $1,747 million. In 1955 exports amounted to $2,370.4 million and imports $1,543.2 million.
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    He hid in Colony for 16 months
    157 9 A SWEDISH seaman who failed to rejoin his ship when it left Singapore hid himself In the Colony for 16 months. Finally, unable to bear the idle existence any longer, Svend Porsch. 19 a member of the crew of the Betty Maersk. surrendered
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    Woman found poisoned
    35 9 A 36-year-old woman, Chun Yew Keng. was found suffering from poisoning in her house in Joo Chiat Road Singapore, yesterday She wa s admitted to the General Hospital in a serious condition.
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    Liquor licences
    35 9 The quarterly session of the Board of Licensing Justices for Singapore will be held in the Criminal District and Magistrates' Courts building in South Bridge Road at 10 30 a.m. on March 19.
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    Five Malayans to pick men for top jobs
    243 9 THE NEW PUBLIC SERVICES COMMISSION AN ALL-MALAYAN commission will be responsible for senior appointments A in Singapore's Public Services from next Tuesday. Last night, the Government announced the names of the five members of the commission. They are: Mr. Chew Hock Leong
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    ANOTHER 60 WOMEN POLICE WANTED
    111 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Friday. T^HE Government is to recruit 60 more women police inspectors. I The first batch of seven recently passed out from the police depot here. A Government announcement today invited applicants from Federal citizens aged between 18 and 35 for trainlne at the
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    Failed exam—he spent two nights in temple
    324 9 Failed exam he spent two nights in temple TWO ADVENTUROUS RUNAWAYS TURN UP A SINGAPORE schoolboy, missing six days, told A yesterday how he made a 900-mile railway trip before his father found him at Malacca. Kanabhiran Arujunan, 15, former pupil of the Trafalgar Afternoon School, disappeared from his home
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    Starving girl inquiries
    41 9 Singapore Police questioned a Chinese family in Aljunied Road, Singapore, yesterday, in connection with the ■tarring five-year-old girl found abandoned in a back lane off Rochore Road, on Tuesday night. The girl is recovering in the General Hospital.
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    EDUCATION TALKS IN K.L.
    78 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Singapore's Minister for Education, Mr. Chew Swee Kee. is in Kuala Lumpur for talks with his Federation counterpart. Dato Abdul Razak. about finding a local officer to replace the Registrar of the University of Malaya, Mr. Maurice Brown, who is leaving soon. Mr
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    NO CANE FOR JOB HUNT NORDIN
    149 9 NO CANE FOR JOB HUNT NORDIN IPOH, Fri.— A boy who 1 went job-hunting in Singapore last Sunday without his parents' knowledge, was reunited with them here last night. Nordin, 14, was found by his fath-r. Mr. c. R. Amanlal Labu Ram, as he was about to enter an ipoh
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      Malays must be helped out of tight corner
      671 10 MR. D. R. Seenivasagam has expressed his displeasure at, the special privileges accorded to the Malays in order to assist their progress in the economic field. I am surprised that a responsible person like Mr. Seenivasagam should hold such views. It is
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      PRAISE FOR THE POLICE
      311 10 PRAISE FOR THE POLICE MAY I say a word of praise and thanks to our police force? While driving through Adam Park at night on January 21 our car lights burned out and the starter Jammed because of a short circuit. We had to abandon our car. Very early next
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      BACHELOR FLATS
      228 10 I was Interested in what Mr. N. T. S. Chopra had to say about S.I.T. flats for bachelors. Obviously he is Ignorant of the rigid conditions the S.I.T. imposes on applicants for flats. My application for accommodation was turned down simply because my family consisted of less than
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    AN AMERICAN PLOT IN SUMATRA
    1485 11 A LITTLE crowd had collected outside Weltevreden prison in Wellington Plain. The good people of Batavia were gazing entranced at a large flag bearing the Stars and Stripes of America, which had been flying over the gaol since eight o'clock that morning. Nobody could quite
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    Flag flying over prison gave governor a shock
    17 11 The Stars and) Stripei flying over Weltevredcn prison. I
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    RUBBER JUMPS 4 1/2 CENTS ON TECHNICAL MART REACTION
    529 12 By Our Market Correspondent THE feature of the markets in Singapore yesterday was the sharp rise in the price of rubber which regained 4} cents of the 21 cents lost in the last two weeks. After the heavy liquidation by weak
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    Healthier signs showing
    290 12 Healthier signs showing THIS has been a week 1 of sharp fluctuations with an active market, report H. C. B. Ltd. in their current rubber r e v ie w Throughout the period there has been an underlying uneasiness which was not a surprising aftermath, of the recent sharp decline.
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    83 12 The Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants, yesterday (all rates to $100):Canada: buying airmail: T.T. 31 7/16 O.D. 31 9/16. 90 d/st 31 7/8 credit bills, 31 15/16 trade bills Selling T.T. or O.D. ready: Canada 31 1/16. On the free
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    RUBBER PRICES
    151 12 Febniary first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed in Singapore yesterday at 95 i cents per lb. up 4.2 cents on Thursday's clewing price. The closing- tone was steady. Closing prices ln cents per lb. yesterday were: OFFICIAL: No. 1 R.S.S. Spot f.o.b. buyers 98, sellers 99; No. 1
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    S'PORE SHIPPING
    96 12 Ships lying alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Chuoh Maru 1/2, Kyoan Maru 4/5. Benveg 6A. Trein Maersk 6/7, Malaya 8/9, Aki Maru 11, Glengyle 13/14. Leksula 15. Langsa 16, Braeside 18, Serampang N. Wall 5, Tapah N. Wall 7, Sedenak N. Wall 9,
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    BROKERS' REPORT
    394 12 The Malayan Share Brokers Association reported: "Industrials were quiet and slightly easier on balance, tins were Irregular and rubbers slightly steadier." Singapore and Federation brokers reported the following business done yesterday:- Fraser Neave ords $2.25. $2 15 (odd lot); W. Hammer $1.70; Henry Waugh $1.72 Vi; Hume Industries
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    78 12 lOLBOI INVESTMENT moderately trading on thi here today. In terest was dl Oil Search win- I North Broken ii lead the silu were holier i Loans 3,, 195( Loarua', Con. Zinc. Bank of NSW. Mount Lyell N. Broken Hill Hill 50 Mount Morgan Peko Western Muni Ampol Ex..
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    95 12 Singapore CMM* i',,, h change: noon j yesterday were:Copra: quiet. $27 3 4 buyers, &lt;„; Coconut oil: stead) sellers, drum M 7 steady; no busm* Muntok while $106 special Sarawak i unchanged). Singapore Copr* p.m. prices: Strai Feb. (Nominal, &gt;j^, minali $28. Tone dull. Singapore (o&lt;,iiiut nil MUkn
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    Lock icon INDIA IN LEAD
    34 14 MANILA F:i.— lndia beat Formosa 5-3 today to share with Vietnam the lead In the men's championship in the Asian table tennis meet here. India beat Hong Kong 5-4 tonight. Reuter.
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    After 51 years the MAAA is to be disolved
    272 14 (\NK of the oldest 1 f sports organisations in this country, the Malayan Amateur Athletic Association, is to be wound up next month. The Executive Council of the M.A.A.A. will meet at Kua'a Lumpur on Feb. 24 to discuss a proposal
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    ENGLAND START WITH 115 RUN STAND
    297 14 Then they slump to 1844 DURBAN, Friday. ENGLAND, winning the toss for the third time in the series, scored 184 for the loss of four wickets here today when the third Test against South Africa It j &gt; c t 11 Play was curtailed
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    Lock icon Cricket tour by Ceylon next year
    122 14 COLOMBO. Fri. CEYLON has accepted an invitation from the Malayan Cricket Association to tour Malaya in August next year. Th e main fixtures of the three-week tour will be a "test" against AllMalaya and three-day matches against Singapore, Pen a n g and Selangor.
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    CROSS COUNTRY
    53 14 The Achilles Club wll hold a cross country race at 5 p.m. on Feb. 2 over a three-mile course at Mcßitchie Reservoir. The race Is open to all clubs affiliated to the Singapore A.A.A. Entries, with a $1 entrance fee. should be sent to V. E. Perreau. Shell
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    New records will be set soon, says O'Brien
    173 14 New records will be set soon, says O'Brien PARRY O'BRIEN, the shot put ace, flew into Singapore yesterday to begin his five-day goodwill visit. He arrived from Penang after spending six days in the Federation. O'Brien will begin his coaching "cllncs" with a two and a half session at Seletar
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    THREE GAMES FOR KL TEAM
    63 14 The Selangor Chinese Engineering Association's table tennis team will visit Singapore, during the Chinese New Year nolldayj. The S.C.E.A. were the Selangor runners-up last year and champions for three previous years. The visitors will play three matches Jan. 31 vs Chinese V.M.C.A.: Feb. 1 vs
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    NARROW VICTORY
    23 14 Aircraft Repair Squadron beat Flying Boats 1-0 in an R VF. Seletar inter-section knockout hockey game at Seletar yesterday Fiern scored.
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    Cricket knockout meet this year
    239 14 rpHE Singapore Cricket Association last night deA cided to add a "festival" 20 overs-a-side knockout competition to their activities for the coming season. This tourney, proposed by the re-elected president, Mr. K. Gould, was approved at the association's annual general meeting held at the S.C.C.
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    HK to play two games
    94 14 State fixtures for the year are: Apr, 19. 20. 21 Singapore v Federation at K.L.; May 11. 12 Singapore v Hong Kong; May 22. 23 Services v Hong Kong; June 22. 23 Singapore v Selangor at K.L.; July 20, 21, Singapore v Malacca; Aur. 3,
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    90 14 TODAY RUGGER Sanderson Cup Final: R.A.F. Changi v R.A.F. Tengah, SeleUr; Naval Base v R.A.S.C, Naval Base; K.N. Base Sembawang v R.A.S.C Sembawang; RNAS Sembawang v South Johore, Sembawang; S.I .C. home and home (under 30s v over 30s), padang; S.fc.R. v G.H.Q., Gillman. HOCKEY S.H.A. senior knockout:
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    Senior clubs face upsets
    375 14 Senior clubs face upsets LONDON, Fri. WHICH of the giants will be slain when the fourth round ties of the F.A. Cup are played tomorrow afternoon? For, with five of the most powerful First Division contenders for the trophy drawn against Third Division opponents, the tables are set for a
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    RAOC boxers in Army final
    60 14 The 30 Battalion R.A.O.C. beat G.H.Q. Signals by 18 points to 15 In the seml-flnals of the Army Inter-unit boxing championships at Alexandra last night. Royal Welsh Fusiliers will meet Ist Queen's Regiment in the other semi-final at Nee Soon on Monday. The final will
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    TWO GAMES FOR S'GOR CLUB XI
    72 14 The Singapore Cricket Club women's hockey team to meet Selangor Club in a friendly match on the padang today will be: Miss G. Lowe; Miss D. Campbell. Mrs. F. Kennedy: Mrs. V. Winterton, Mrs. A. VandeleurBoorer, Mr.-. G Yet ton; Miss A. Marshall. Mrs.
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    ALI GETS THREE
    30 14 A hat-trick by All Hassan enabled 2 Sub Depot to beat Headquarters 8-1 In the Inter-Sub Depot soccer final for the Governor's Shield at Keat Hong yesterday.
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    Lock icon INDIAN VICTORY
    21 14 RANGOON. Frl. The Indian Olympic soccer team defeated a Burma Eleven 4-2 after leading 2-1 at half-time today. Reuter.
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    177 14 T^HE SINGAPORE Cycle, Racing A Association yesterday f decided to urge the City Council to build a cycling track at Fairer Park. At the association's annual general meeting, Mr. Soh Qhee Soon, the president, said that the SCR. A. was greatly handicapped without a
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    413 16 CQLARE DEAL is on v^ the upgrade, and in his present form he should easily measure up to Class 3 requirements (Race Four). Down in Class 5 at Kuala Lumpur in November, he ran away from his opposition in a 7f race with
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    THE GOING WAS SOFT
    74 16 A steady drizzle in Kuala Lumpur last evening made the going soft. If there is no further rain today, the track will probably be yielding for this afternoon's races. TREBLE TOTE will be held on Races Three, Five and Seven; Forecast Tote on Races Two, Four
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    297 16 Epsom Jeep's each-way double for the day PENANG 6F WINNER! IS EVEN BETTER OVER SEVEN num. miiimiiiimiiiiimii i iiiimmmim in iiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiifiiii miiiiiimiiiiiiixiiHiiimmmmm I YCOS (Race Three) and SINGORA (Race Six), both last-start winners, should make a safe each-way double at Kuala Lumpur today, first day of
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    157 16 Tawakal a danger, watch him 3 he ran two good races behind Perfect Pearl over the Kuala Lumpur 7f and Dapple Grey over the Bukit Timah 7f. SINGORA has possibilities and down where he is. he is certainly worth following. This good-looking Ballyogan gelding showed good galloping ability at Ipoh
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    573 16 Nufenen needs only to run straight is in grand 1 form. He has been going great guns on the track If he keeps a straight course he will require a lot of beating over 5Jf today (Race Seven). At Penang last month, he was fourth with 8.10 to H Line
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    77 16 MELBOURNE. Fri. Shirley Pry, the Wimbledon champion, and Althea Gibson will meet in an all- American women's singles final of the Australian lawn tenni.s championships. In today's .semi finals on the Kooyong court, Shirley beat B Pmro.se (Australia) 6-3, 6-4 while Althea put out L.
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    1012 16 Race 1 2.45: Class 4, Div. 3— Abt. 7 Furs. 1 802 Good Forage 6y West 9.00 KBB Kongsi Rodgers 2 642 Jar* 4y D. Jones 8.12 Ouan Boh Stable Lee 3 039 The Beastie 4y Cracknell 8.11 JO. Galloway Donnelly 4 037 Every Chance 7y Bougoure
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    163 16 MELBOURNE. Prl. T^HE draw for the preliminary round of the European Zone of the 1957 DavLs Cup competition was made at Kooyong today by the president of the L.T.A.A., Mr. Don Ferguson, assisted by vice-presidents Mr. Harold Walker and Mr. Robert Roland. The European zone,
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    Mr. TAN WANTS MORE GOVT, PUBLIC AID
    376 16 SOSC CHIEF REPORTS ON G%, I TNLESS wealthy members of the pnbli, V Government come forward to nn.\; facilities for their athletes, there is not n of Singapore doing any better in futun Games. Mr. C.C. Tan, president of the Singapore National Olympic
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    95 16 SEREMBAN, Prl. TOHORE playing one man short, just managed to win the last match in the Southern .section of the All-Blues rugger competition, beating Negrl Sembilan by 10 points (two m:;il.-i to nine (two tries and a penalty) on the Station padanc here today. Johore took
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