The Straits Times, 13 February 1957

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  • 14 1 The Straits Times flat*" 1 Estd. 1845. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1957 15 CENTS
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  • 146 1 THEY FLED FROM FLAMES— INTO KNIFE GANG'S AMBUSH Jaga's whistle saves the lives of assistant manager, wife 5 held after murder bid v,. Pues. A <•! men at,i and -tabbed an m assistant estate nd his wife bej ran out of burning bungalow mat here thi* waning.
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  • 86 1 50 LONDON POLICE AT STATION TO KEEP FANS AT BAY THOUSANDS of frenzied fans swarm round the car carrying American rock n roll bandleader Bill Haley on his arrival at London's Waterloo Station last week to start a tour of
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  • 451 1 TOP BANDIT KILLERS HONOURED Crept into jungle camp KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. fFHREE MEN who took part in daring operations which eventually ended in the killing of Ah Ho, the Communist state committee secretary in Negri Sembilan. have received high awards. The George Medal goes to: Mr. A. J. V. FLETCHER
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  • 293 1 TWENTY-ONE senior expatriate officers of the Singapore Police Force, Including the Commissioner, M r Nigel Morris, will leave this year under the M a 1 a y a n i s ation scheme. The new Commissioner is expected to be the present
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  • 63 1 Banda writes to India, Pakistan COLOMBO. Tues. The Prime Minister of Ceylon. Mr. Solomon Bandaranalke, has sent notes to India and Pakistan appealing to them to reach an amicable settlement of the Kashmir problem. The Prime Minister has also sent notes to other members of the Bandoeng countries, asking
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  • 33 1 MANILA, Tues. The Philippines will export batteries to Singapore this month for use in the traffic signal system Mr. L. V. Magnaye, manager of the C.C Unson Co., announced. Reuter. I
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  • 62 1 THE QUEEN HAS PLANS FOR ROYAL REUNION LONDON, Tues. The Queen today arranged for a two-day "second honeymoon" with the Duke of Edinburgh aboard the Royal yacht Britannia at the end of a four-month separation wbioh gave rise to rumours of a rift between them. They will spend two days
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  • 22 1 NICOSIA, Tues. Cypriot Greeks went back to work all over Cyprus this morning, ending a 24 hour general strike. Reuter.
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  • 54 1 AT LEAST six children were knocked down and trampled by fleeing gangsters last night In a running battle in Lengkong Tlga off Changi Road. Singapore. The children were playing beside a provision shop near an open-air cinema when more than 30 thugs clashed with bottles and stones.
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  • 95 1 JAKARTA, Tuesday. THE Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ruslan Abdulgani, would appear before the Supreme Court on March 1 charged with being involved in an illegal money transfer, the Deputy Attorney-General. Mr. Zainal Abidin, told reporters today. Mr. Abidin, who will be the state prosecutor
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  • 299 1 Watakushi-tachi wa anatagata wo taihen ome ni kakarai'* to bandit Moto-san A LOR STAR, rues.— A Japanese brother and sister have written from Tokyo to persuade their bandit brother to quit the Malayan Jungle and rejoin his family "We are all longing to see you." they say
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  • 24 1 PARIS. Tues. Ministers began arriving here today for a 17-natlon meeting on the creation of a Europe-wide free trade zone— Reuter.
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  • 141 1 'TIGER v. DOG' ESTATE IS SOLD for $1,200,000 OENTONG, Tues.— The Shanghai Pah a n g Estate, three miles from here, where a dog fought off a tiger recently, has been sold for $1,200,000. Buyers of the 1, 400- acre Bri-tish-owned estate, which is managed by the Hong Kong firm
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  • 31 1 LONDON, Tues.— The Prime Minister. Mr. Harold Macmillan. will leave here by air on March 19 for Bermuda for his meeting there with President Eisenhower.— Reuter.
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  • 287 1 No STC buses on last race day ALL Singapore TracA tion Company buses will be off the road for four hours on Saturday, final day of the Bukit Timah races— from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The company's 3.000 workers will be at the Badmin- ton Hall for a trade
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  • 32 1 SMOKKiiorsi: nm Smokehouse of Lee Rubber Kartory. Nee Soon. Singapore, w.is gutted hv Hr,« r.irly today. Mr. tee l.urn Leaag, the manager, told police damage was estimated at sis :.(in
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  • 68 1 The Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, who leaves Singapore on March 6 for merdeka talks in London, is not expected to add to what he has already said on the matter at the Legislative Assembly meeting today. Questions are also unlikely to arise, as the all-party
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  • 259 2 Macmillan: Arms insurance must not jeopardise balanced economy LONDON, Tuesday. MR. HAROLD MACMILLAN said last night that Britain's plans to reshape her forces will not weaken them but make them more effective. The Prime Minister was addressing an English-Speaking Union dinner in honour of General Lauris
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  • 135 2 UNITY OUR SAFEGUARD —LLOYD LONDON, Tues. The Foreign Secretary, Mr. selwvn Lloyd, told the gathering: "NATO must continue to be our main defence against the military threat in Europe. It must also be a means of political solidarity. "If NATO countries continue to stand together they will be safe. Otherwise
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  • 93 2 NEW YORK, Thurs.— Government m cdi a t ors made a last-minute attempt today to avert a strike of 45,000 dock workers along the United States Atlantic coast, due to start this evening. Mr. Joseph Finnegan, Director, of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Ser- vice, announced that
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  • 272 2 COSTLY -BUT CHEAPEST WAY TO KEEP THE PEACE' LONDON, Tues.— General Lauris Norstad said in reply to Mr. Macmillan that catastrophe might be the outcome for the Atlantic treaty nations if economic considerations alone dictated strategy. "I am convinced that
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  • 265 2 COLOUR BAR ROW ON WAY TO SINGAPORE From HALL ROMNEY LONDON. Tues. nESMOND BISHOP, a v R.A.F. medical orderly from British Guiana on his way to Singapore, was told in Durban. South Africa, that he could be arrested because he walked hand
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    • 56 2 BELFAST, Tues. Mr Eamon de Valera made his first visit to Belfast last night for 27 years when ne arrived to take part In a debate arranged by Queen's University here. Police guarded the hall where the debate was being held, and nobody
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    • 15 2 DUBLIN: President Scan O'Kelly has dissolved the Irish Dall (Parliament) in preparation for a general
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    • 16 2 election on March 5. The Dail has 147 seats but the Speaker is automatically reelected. Reuter.
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    • 16 2 BELIZE: General elections are to be held In British Honduras not later than March 23.— Reuter.
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    • 23 2 MADRID: King Saud ol Saudi Arabia will visit Morocco and Libya en route from a state visit to Spain -U.P I'OKH). The Japanese
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    • 12 2 Cabinet approved the agreement to resume relations wl l n Czechoslovakia Reuter.
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    • 18 2 LONDON: More than a quarter of a million Americans visited Britain in i»bb, and spent about S4iw.2ou.non —UP
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    • 19 2 KINGSTON Hie West Indies Islands Federation being formed as a new British Commonwealth nation last night chose Trinidad as
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    • 15 2 the site for its caDital.-AP. t PARIS: France and P.:sia signed a three-vfi trade pact.—A.P.
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    • 35 2 MOSCOW: T: Parliament dealt a[■ ther blow to St&l Constitution by a a new law Whk power i.om Russia preme Court ani greater authority on D high courts In each d Soviet Union's 15 —Reuter.
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  • 126 2 Dress Show bared all for women only HONG KONG, Tues.— The American Women's Association of Hong Kong put a "ladies only" sign outside a fashion show yesterday. Reporters and photographers, as well as the waiters at the American Club, were ushered out because the models showed all. The association was
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  • 40 2 VIENNA, Tues. General Pal Maleter, leader of Hungary's "October Revolution", was seen in prison In Budapest only four days ago. according to a freed prisoner quoted by the independent right wing Austrian newspaper, Bild Telegraf, today Reuter
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  • 102 2 SEASCRAPE: 'DAMN GLAD YOU MISSE D,' SAID DUKE CAPETOWN, Tues.— The master of the British-In-dia liner Uganda thought he would let his passengers have a good view of the Royal yacht Britannia when tbeir paths crossed near the Canary Islands. So he reduced speed and alerted course in order to
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  • 34 2 JERUSALEM, Tues. An Israel Army spokesman saia one Arab was killed when infiltrators clashed with an army patrol today on Israeli territory near the Jordan border. There were no Israeli casualties. A.P
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  • 91 2 JAKARTA. Tues The first complete skull of a negrlto-type man estimated to be more than a million years old has been discovered In the remote Flores Island, 1,500 miles east of Jakarta, according to a Roman Catholic missionary there He said the skull oldest ever
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  • 101 2 4 'spies' must Pay up TO Price n REPATRIATION lONDON. v British 1 Office is ■AKb^ British «SKg spent 14 days in** Ranan jail charged with to pay the o air passaßp froi to London The Foreign Bet Selwyn Lloyci, to. oi Common;, thi s after a Labour Donald Chapmai
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  • 20 2 TOKYO. Tues. j Red Cross is trying to range a m;i April 1 of Japan Coymunlst China -A?'
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    • 138 2 I WELCOME WOLFE COHEN W PRESIDENT OF WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION W VICE PRESIDENT OF WARNER! BROTHERS PICTURES CORPORATION v& To honour Mr. COHEN now visiting Singapore, Shaw Brothers J; Wj Present with pride THREE SUPERB WARNER BROTHERS PRODUCTIONS W SCREENING SIMULTANEOUSLY J vJ^ as'Cash' Adams who'd run j
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  • 397 3 Soviet 'hands off plan for peace in Near and Middle East SHEPILOV INVITES WEST TO JOIN IN 6-POINT DECLARATION r(V, Tues.— j h( govid For Minister, Mr. Shepilov, toan nounced now totheW«J nt 'hands n the Middlt East. foreign to the H ushe for had notes ::ibasth< United and Petce
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  • 48 3 BANNISTER'S FIRST A 7LB. 11OZ. BONNY GIRL DR. ROGER BANNISTER, the first four-minute miler. and his Swedish-born wife, Moyra. proudly hold their baby daughter, Carol Erin Elver, at the University College Hospital, London. The baby was born on Feb. 8. She weighed 71 h 11 oz. A.P nicturc.
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  • 184 3 LONDON, Tuesday. A WIDE AREA of the English Midlands was A shaken yesterday afternoon by a "minor earthquake" which lasted as long as 30 seconds in some places. t- I It is thought to have been the most serious tremor in Britain
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  • 190 3 BR ITAIN THI S IS A BID TO REPLACE IKE DOCTRINE IOSDOK Hiei Baata'a lour powition to mainbilitj in the Uliarc .in at.l(l the reI»o( trine, sources ■daj I isenhowet last announced his infive I nited military aid to v the area a victim :..munist agcresA- par! ii.' Xii- doctrine,
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  • 28 3 PEKING, Tues.— Mr Cho.i En-lai returned to Peking today after a 12-week tour during which he visited eight Asian and three East European countries. Reuter.
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  • 71 3 JAKARTA, Tues. INDONESIA'S five Government parties today agreed upon a "total cabinet reshuffle." A spokesman for the parties announced after a meeting of leaders that they would discuss the reshuffle with President Soekarno "before Thursday." Political observers think that this would; leave the way open
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  • 44 3 PARIS, Tues. Jacques Corbeau, 21, spent his wedding night in a police station at St. Quentin. Police said he slapped his bride in a restaurant argument after the wedding and then attacked a policeman who tried to intervene.— A.P.
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  • 70 3 NEW DELHI. Tues. The Soviet Defence Minister Marshal Zhukov. offered India military aid during his recent visit here but India turned it down, diplomatic sources say. It is understood that the Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru, made it clear to Marshal Zhukov that India did not
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  • 258 3 LONDON. Tues. Closing middle prices ol selected stocks not including stamp duty LOANS Consols £S4\ Funding 4% £92'* '<. War Hfc« £74 5/16 BANKS Mercantile (£5) £3 31/32 Eastern (£5) £7 1/16 Chartered (£1) 37/9 /9 Hongkong ($126) £9C- +1 INSURANCE Com. Un. (uts.) 88/1 u 1/Royal 86/10^
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  • 26 3 LONDON. Tues— Spot 26f1.. Mar 25"5 d.. Apr -June 26d.. July-Sept. 25»jd., Oct.-Dec. 25.d., Feb. cIJ. 25^,d.. Mar. c.U. 25 7 id. Tone: Very quiet.
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  • 23 3 LONDON. Tuet,— Cash buyer* £764. sellers £766 Forward buyers £749, seller* £750, Settlements f 761. Turnover a.m. 310 tons p.m. 100 ton*
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  • 278 3 ULTIMATUM UP -SO RAF BLAST VILLAGE Yemen intrigue centre says communique ADEN, Tues.— The vil- lage of Danuba in the Western Aden Protectorate was destroyed by R. A. F. bomb and rocket attacks yesterday after a 48-hour ultimatum to hand over dissident tribesmen had expired, an official communique reported. Officials
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  • 30 3 NEW YORK. Tues.—Nationalist China's delegate. Mr. P Y. Tsao. charged in the United Nations yesterday that Communist China makes U*****,000,000 annually from the sale of opium A. P.
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  • 71 4 The Victoria Memorial Hall was filled with Singapore studenti and student-teachers yesterday for the first performance of the Teachers' Training College play "The Beggars' Opera." Mr. Verncr Rickley, the producer, told the Straits Times yesterday that more than 2,000 students will see the opera at two
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  • 63 4 THE Singapore Income Tax i Department began post- I ing of its 1957 forms to the tax-payers yesterday. The Controller of Income Tax, Mr. G. T. Holloway, stressed yesterday that any person chargeable for tax who did not receive a form should notify the department immediately. "The
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  • 283 4 HOME FROM PEKING— VIA A LOOPHOLE IN THE LAW Over the Causeway, and no questions asked JJRS. LIM KEAN CHYE returned to the Federation after two years in Peking via a legal loophole. Under an amended immigration law, passed at the end of last year, she could have been regarded
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  • 50 4 MALAYAN CHILDREN 'BETTER BEHAVED' MALAYAN children are better behaved than Aus- tralian children, says Miss Teresa Coelho, who returned to Singapore yesterday after five years at the University of Western Australia. Miss Coelho. from Kuala Lumpur, took her B.A. degree and Diploma of Education at the university. Straits Times picture.
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  • 32 4 The departure on transfer from Singapore of Mr. R. K. Tandon. Commissioner for India, has been postponed to March 7. when he will leave in the steamer State oi Madras.
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  • 15 4 The Royai Siamese consul-ate-General will be closed tomorrow, the Magha Puja Day.
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  • 88 4 Tutor had obscene books A teacher who had pleaded guilty to possessing obscene literature was not aware that the books he had were indecent, his counsel, Mr. Denis Lee, told a Singapore court yesterday. Abdul Rahman bin Jamaluddin, a guru, was fined $200. Earlier. Inspector M. Mclntyre, prosecuting, told the
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  • 47 4 The following .Malayans have been admitted to the Bar in London: Lincolns' Inn: V.C. George and Jenny Lav Buong Bee of Singapore. Middle Temple: K.T. Khoo, F.C.F. Wu and C.T. Tan (Federation). Grays Inn: M.A. Salleh (Federation), W.K. Tan and Ivy Wee f Singapore).
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  • 38 4 The Dale Carnegie Club of Singapore will hold a "Hawaiian Night" at the Siglap seaside bungalow of its (president. Mr. Run Run Shaw, on the night of Feb. 2£. to choose the best dressed "Hawaiian couple."
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  • 53 4 THE tigress shot on an estate in Mersing on Sunday being taken to a taxerdermist She was shot after springing at a man who was about to release her cub caught in a pig trap The cub is now in Johore Bahru Zoo.
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  • 227 4 First class starts tomorrow U7ITH the Singapore Polytechnic's first course on advertising starting tomorrow the principal. Mr. D. J. Williams, announced yesterday that two more courses would be introduced in the near future. He said: "Within a couple i of weeks I expect to start
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  • 96 4 SPECIAL up-to-the minute accounts of weather and ground conditions will be supplied to the SAS aircrait flying the first Tokyo to Copenhagen over the North Pole —route on Feb. 24. The information will come from a network of newlybuilt stations along the Arctic Ocean, from
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  • 34 4 Mr. J. j. Rattary, Industrial relations adviser t 0 the Singapore Employers' Federation, will talk on "Some Aspects of Asian Labour Relations at the Rotary Club meeting at the Cathay Hotel today.
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  • 124 4 A NOTHER 24 people from •fl Singapore will soon be China-bound on one -way tickets, in the wake of the record number banished on Monday. Government officials confirmed yesterday that the departure of the remaining 24 banishees was only awaiting completion of shipping
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    • 181 4 radio malaya Regional IS^fftSSSS SINGAPORE 476m.. 341m.. 366m.. and 279ra Short wave 41m. I A.M. '8.57— 12.00 For Schooli- w Medium wave 47«m. »8.00 Playbox '9.25 Sonet T» ,J* M 7I5 rime 8l n *J *"<* I Sing; '11.10 Behind The Scenes In 2P" 1 J Announcement; 7.16 j Malaya;
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  • 254 5 Court told: I went to police to save 'pr\zt-winning' brother ,1A KB 0 1 R Kl> cl«*. „n bin t( .ld a Nnjja- rt yesterday vn h.> brod t*o Chinese JJne about a tl had won a prize, ho went police- tearing bis brother 2u be kidnapped.
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  • 81 5 .nations have been In Singapore and ..•tend the un,apore Memorial to M viccmen and d in the last war. Vtx Cemetery, the a height of 80 feet. ans are inscribed the and women of the of Commonwealth known graves. the Governor. Sir inred panel
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  • 37 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The assistant manager of Kulai Yong No. 2 estate. In South Johore, last night fired at lights outside the bungalow perimeter fence. The lights disappeared. There were no known casualties.
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  • 34 5 The Governor of Singapore, Sir Robert Black, will visit the new headquarters of the Malayan Auxiliary Air Force at the former Kallang airport for the first time tomorrow at 530 p.m.
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  • 25 5 IPOH, Tues. A pair of gold cuff links worth $250 disappeared from the home of Mr. Lan Bolter in Part Gardens last night.
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  • 28 5 US EVA POSPISIL. a ohore planter's daughter, lew into Singapore from Sydney yesterday to join ler parents living in a tulai rubber estate.
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  • 206 5 It's a welcome sign, says party man SPECUjnON on a possible change of leadership of t) Singapore Labour Front was heightened yesterdT by the disclosure that there are five rivals for the post. All party executive and central committee posts are open for
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  • 32 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The deputy Air Defence Commander of Air Headquarters, Malaya, Group Capt. A.V.R. Johnstone, today piloted the new twin-engine Pioneer aircraft made by the Scottish Aviation Ltd.
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  • 61 5 UMNO a new demand The City division of Singapore UMNO has decided to ask the Government to change its policy on the promotion of Malay policemen and warders. It wants the promotion for these men to be automatic and based on experience, service and efficiency. Lack of knowledge of the
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  • 46 5 The Singapore Battalion of the Boys' Brigade win hold a re-unlon dance and dinner at St. Andrew's cathedral Memorial Hall on Feb. 23 at 8 p.m. Those interested in attending the dance should contact Mr. Tang Tuck Wah at 63, Hill Street. Tel. *****.
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  • 240 5 Missing $100,000 probe first task JHE Middle Road Singapore Factory and Shop Workers' Union, inactive since "Operation Liberation" last October, is functioning again. i Its first tasks: To probe the disappearance of $100,000 from its funds and to re-organise its members. A 21 -man caretaker
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  • 179 5 SINGAPORE police yesterday praised people of a village in Kirn Chuan Road for their great courage in beating a secret society gang. It happened on Monday night when the kamponn folk saw one of the villagers a cake seller. Teo Miang Hong chased by 20
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  • 161 5 GIRLS PLAY TRUANT TO SEE FILM PREVIEW DEVERAL Singapore schoolgirls played truant yesterday to attend the "ladies only" preview of the film "Written on the Wind" at the Capitol. Alter buying tbelr tickets they slipped Into the cloakroom and changed out of their school uniforms into billowing cotton dresses and
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  • 20 5 KUALA TRENGGANU, Tues.— The Trengganu Cosmo Club will hold its annual meeting here on Friday at 9 p.m.
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    • 242 5 LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY Ballet, at the Singapore Badmln- Hostel motor repairing by Mr. ■mfftin'G- At Assembly House, 10 I ton Hall, 8.45 p.m. E J. Escombe 7 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. PEACE COVE: Gospel meeting Y.W.C.A.: International Woo.mmr»iPii.r soriFTY of at 3M Jo chiat Rd •»t 8 P- m n s
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  • 63 6 J0 Worrfj $10 (minimum). MM RICHARDS thanks c- rr- one lor their condolence and kindi n Mm death of her husband 6. St. Richards on 17.1.57. I MRS GEORGE JOSEPH 'HEARY thank friends and for their good wishes. I attendance at their weddJng, HUSBAND and Family of Rose Arooroo
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  • 727 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed. Feb. 13 1957. No Need For Hurry Tcngku Abdul Rahman has emphatically denied having said that there would be no 1 elections after Merdeka. Indeed it would have been incredible if he had; as every schoolboy knows, one election does not confirm a party in
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  • 512 6 Just how vital it is that Britain and the United States should quickly mend the close political relations sharply rent by Britain's decision to act independently over the Suez Canal is spotlighted by three items of news appearing almost simultaneously with the announcement that Mr. Harold Macmillan,
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  • 811 6 Nehru on the wroni road THE discovery of a sense of Afro-Asian unity at the Bandung Con-^ ference nearly two years ago was impressive, almost inspiring, and far more important than most Foreign Offices in Europe yet realise. It explains, for example, why
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  • 455 6 OUTLOOK FOR SMAMESE ELECTiONS BANGKOK. WITH the general elections scheduled for February 26, Siam is seething with campaign activity, criticisms of party policies, and predictions that the elections will be rigged. The Siamese nation has been aroused by these activities. People discuss political parties
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    • 330 6 RECENTLY there has been some discussion in your columns of the Government's attitude to American and other foreign degrees. May I remind you that we have this problem t o face in an even more pressing guise much nearer home. I refer to Nanyang
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    • 151 6 Protertion for daughters TWE controversy in the A press regarding the Muslim Inheritance Bill is some fourteen centuries too late. According to Muslim belief Islam will last till the end of the world Therefore, the argument that it is impracticable or antiquated in the 20th century is Irrelevant. As for
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    • 155 6 Doctors in short supply rPHE shortage of doctors in A Federation Government hospitals is now taken for granted. We do not know what steps the Government ha s taken although time and again w e have been promised that "more doctors will be coming." W e have heard enough of
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    • 88 6 '"EiAIRPLAY" certainly hit the nail on the head when he said that not all the Temporary Officers in Government service were.underqualifled. This is especially tru e in the case of Temporary Translators. The qualifications demanded oft them are School Certificate English and Junior Middle 111 Chinese, and
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  • 283 7 MD IN JUNGLE CLASH, 0 JVST TOOK A TRAIN HIDE TO SINGAPORE \I)KI> Sclangor terrorist leader has cd in Singapore and returned to Kedcrat :<»n. irprised in his sleep at a house Though alone and handicapped by a
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  • 220 7 Proud day for Malay Regiment GALLANT STAND TO BE COMMEMORATED KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The Malay Regiment, which had its first real taste of battle during the siege of Singapore by the Japanese Army in 1942, is to commemorate its action in the defence of the island tomorrow. A Federation Army
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  • 64 7 SEREMBAN, Tues. Loh Kon Thai, 22. whose car knocked down and killed a man near the General Hospital here in December, was today sentenced to four months' jail by Inche Ali bin Hassan, the sessions court 1 president. Lor. was found guilty of causing the
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  • 93 7 MORE THAN 500 guests, including the Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, attended a party at th e Hotel Majestic in Kuala Lumpur on Monday night given by a prominent lawyer, Mr R. P. S. Rajasooria and Mrs. Rajasoorla. The couple were celebrating their silver wedding anniversary.
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  • 55 7 MALAY BUS COMPANY REGISTERED KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— A Malay company with a capital of $250,000 has been formed to run bus services here. Called Sharikat Kendera'an Melayu Ltd (Malay Transport Co), it has its head office here. Among the directors are a Federal Councillor and a State Councillor. Shares are
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  • 44 7 IPOH, Tues. The former Vicar of South Perak. the Rev. A. C. Dumper, and Mrs. Dumper left yesterday for a new appointment in Penang after seven years in Ipoh. His parishioners presented them with a dinner service set other gifts
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  • 42 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Tue.s. An actress, Lim Seok Oaik, was fined $30 here today for having a defeaced identity card. She said that she was always on the move, so had no time to get a new one.
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  • 27 7 The number of motor cars in Singapore Increased by 425 duting January to 45.694 at the beginning of February. There were 219.527 registered bicycles.
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  • 71 7 NIGHT CLUB SINGER TO MARRY YOUNG SOLDIER <; s n popular night several t, haa bcged to a British soldier to marry England in ■r John <..' ieen'3 he d for callI jo back to he is de- ither plays in the Lonnic OrchesBorn in Milan v born In twly)
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  • 66 7 Tues. —I lI Corporation ng Foot Sang. «'as today jailed for nine r< c charges of his firm of paint 11 559 last June. Pleaded guilty. A.S.P. Santokh Singh said that on three occasions Wong presented an order from a registered dealer for paint. The offences
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  • 20 7 Family remittances from Malaya to China In January amounted to $4,243,821, of which $2,867,166 was from Singapore.
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  • 96 7 MISS Soekartinl Sabekiti, Indonesia's first woman vice-consul in Singapore, who has just taken up her post in the consulate's information department. Miss Sahekti, 25, who speaks English. French, Spanish, Dutch and Malay, is a graduate of Indonesia's Diplomatic Service Academy and is one of the
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  • 27 7 Miss Violet Lee, daughter of the Federation Finance Minister. Col. H. S. Lee, has graduated as a doctor from the University of Sydney. Australia.
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  • 194 7 YELLOW FOR SAFER HELICOPTERS KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. DRIGHT yellow "wasp" stripes are now being paint- ed on the tail booms of all Royal Air Force helicopters in Malaya. This eye-catching safety measure has a threefold aim: 1. To help pilots of other aircraft to
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  • 62 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The All-Malaya Estate Asian Staff Union is to negotiate with the Malayan Planting Industries Employers' association on Thursday for a general increase of salary for the 3.000 clerks, technicians and medical assistants on estates in -the Federation. A spokesman of the union said
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  • 44 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. While a curfew was in force on Jan. 20 In South Johore during Emergency operations six men and four women were arrested for being out of doors. They pleaded guilty In court here today. Sentence was deferred.
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  • 49 7 The Staffordshire branch of the British Red Cross Society has sent a letter of thanks to the congregation of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, for their gift of 361 toys for Hungarian refugee children. The toys were flown free of charge to London by BOAC and Qantas.
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  • 100 7 Wife who wasn't' charge Charles Frederick Andrews, the civilian staff officer of G.H.Q. FARE L F was charged in a Singapore court yesterday with cheating the Command Secretariat of £2,814 15s by making them believe that he had a wife living with him in Singapore from Oct. 1, 1950 to
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  • 203 7 SINGAPORE'S new puisne Judge, Mr. F. A. Chua, 43, becomes the youngest man ever to be elevated to the High Court in Malaya. He will join Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tan as the second Malayan bom puisne judge in Singapore, a post which
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  • 16 7 Fourteen Russian trawlers and the 1.600-ton mother ship Gornozavodsky sailed into Singapore waters resterday.
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  • 106 7 A rally to 'strengthen voice of Malays' rE recently-formed Malay National Congress is planning to hold a rally early next month to "strengthen and unite" the voice of the Malays in Singapore. A source close to the congress told the Straits Times yesterday the rally would be a prelude to
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  • 70 7 KOTA BHARU, Tues.— Mr. Justice Neal today ordered a fresh trial here after finding that a plan already accepted by the court as an exhibit for the prosecution contained inadmissable evidence disadvantageous to a man accused iof murder. Samat bin Abdullah, a padi planter, ls accused of
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  • 27 7 The Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce has been asked to send in its proposed amendments to the Government's grant-in-aid regulations not later than March 9.
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  • 53 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. Going in search of a cow that had strayed, Ramasamy left 12 of the herd to graze along the railway track opposite the railway station. Today in the magistrate's court here he was fined $50. or two weeks' jail, for leaving
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  • 28 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The anti-vice squad today raided three opium dens In Batu Lane here and found opium, opium pipes and utensils. Three men were arrested.
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  • 410 8 Mortuary ordeal-by the coroner I 'IF ONLY Mr. K HAD TOLD ME I WOULD I NEVER HAVE SENT HIM THERE* PEOPLE allergic to corpses are never forced to go into the Singapore mortuary to identify dead persons. Mr. K. T. Alexander, the coroner, gave this assurance yesterday in reply to
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  • 94 8 All hands to the axes as fallen tree blocks main trunk road KAJANG. Tues.— More «ian 20 people travelling in buses and taxis today helped to clear a tree trunk on the Kuala Lumpur Singapore road near the 14th milestone here. Borrowing axes from nearby residents, they chopped the tree
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  • 189 8 Fine ballet -but oh! those seats A CAPACITY audience many groaning audibly about their seats— again packed the Singapore Badminton Hall last night to see the second of the San Francisco Ballet Company's three concerts. A less glamorous setting could hardly be imagined, but the charm and beauty of the
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  • 47 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. Mrs. ivy Porter, who failed to obtain an identity card in time, was fined $100 here today. She arrived from Britain on Feb. 21 last year and did not apply for a card until Feb. 9 this year.
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  • 45 8 Built without a permit fined A Singapore postman, Ahmed bin Abdul Samad. built a house at Loronx Tai Seng, without a permit. In the City Magistrate's Court yesterday he was fined $50 and told to submit his plans to the Rural Board within three months.
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  • 173 8 Industry demand again rejected KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. THE FEDERATION Government has for the third time rejected the rubber industry's demand for the abolition of the rubber anti -inflationary cess It has also rejected an alternative suggestion that th? cess be Imposed only when the rubber
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  • 22 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. The Johore Religious Department is to award scholarships for students to study at the Muslim College, Klang.
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  • 124 8 Moonlight battle IPOH, Tues. —In an engagement fought in bright moonlight last night, a patrol from the 3rd Battalion, the Malay Regiment, killed one terrorist and put three others to flight. The patrol, from C Company, and led by Major R. J. Oliver, 35, had lain
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  • 91 8 STRIP-TEASE? NO LAW AGAINST IT A JOHORE Government spokesman yesterday denied the existence of any law banning strip-tease shows in the state. The State Information Officer, Johore, Tv a n Syed Zainal Abidin, was commenting on a Singapore newspaper report that a ban had been imposed "on all strip-tease shows
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  • 48 8 A, Rock 'n' Roll com j: -1.- Lion for the Elvis Presley cup will be held at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Singapore, on Feb. 22. The entire proceeds will go to the Children's Aid Society. Those interested should contact Kingsley Morrando at Radio Malaya.
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  • 163 8 rE former proprietor of the defunct Sumatra Motor Co., pleaded not guilty in Singapore yesterday to six charges of cheating the Oversea Chinese Banking Corporation and three people of a total of $26,886. Ooh Soon Hln was alleged to have committed these offences between Sept. 7,
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    • 353 8 22. Are put In place to make 4^* I money for a tower (7). Straits I l ITI AS LrO^SWOrfl 23 Mor extravagant expert (7). */ll«lia lIIIIC7O VtIVdOWWIU 24. Handy for a small branc.i (5). 25. Direct, with emphasis! (9). |g| |H |H 1. Good looking Individual, 9 10 talented
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  • 1757 9 MIDNIGHT was pealing from the church bells of Prague one October night in 1787. In his cheap lodgings in Old Town a young man, clad in dressing gown with a wet napkin wrapped round his head, scribbled furiously across shea yes
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    • 232 9 Hex Morgan M.IK iXot afraid LJU rj" "_,V |,'1.~ I COUlPM T 1 WT "Oil CAN RECALL il^\ I l.togll §f I AM GOlHb TO MAKE T IM NOT AFRAlDOF K MORE P 58 PY >CXl« LiPE TO U-"— *-*|l V it POSSIBLE FOR OU WU "F TMATS J SL'RELV
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  • 133 10 Ships lying alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Santhia 1,2, Idomeneus 4;5. Benveg 6A, Benvannoch 6,7, Radnorshire 89, Carthage 11, Benvrackie 13,14, Shillong 15|16, Gorgon 17. Mlndoro 18 Salong N. Wall 5, Resang N Wall 7. Rawanu N. Wall 8, Auby 21J22, Braeslde 23;24.
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  • 39 10 On the free exchange market in Hong Kong yesterday, the U. S. dollar was quoted at 6.10 Ts for cash and 6.13% for T.T. Sterling was quoted at 16.16 and one tael of gold at 2C r
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  • 41 10 The following January rubber crops were harvested; Ayer Panas 91.000 Ib., Glenealy 91,400 lb., Klnang 83,500 lb., Pajam 140,000 Talisman 30.100 Ib.. Teluk Anson 65,364 Ib.. Via Benut 42.000 Ib.. Ayer Molek 37,590 Ib.. and Bukit Katil 47,082 Ib.
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  • 37 10 Outputs from the estates and mines in the Outline Group for January are as follows:— Robber 8.389.800 Ib., tea (black) 180,000 Ib., palm oil 919 tons, palm kernels 296 tons, and tin ore 1,471 piculs.
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  • 408 10 TIN PRICE DECLINES SHARPLY AS MORE ORE REACHES MARTS By Our Market Correspondent THE feature of Singapore markets yesterday was a sharp drop of $5.75 per picul in the price of tin which was quoted at $376.25, the lowest since last July. The price in Singapore had been steadily dropping
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  • 407 10 BROKERS' REPORT The Malayan Share Broken Ai••etotfea reported: "The lower commodity prices had a weakening ciitLi on the local share market, but prices eased only slightly in all sections." Singapore and Federation broken reported the following business done yesterday:— Fraser Neave ords 1227V4 to $2.25; Gammon $2.09* to $2.09; W.
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  • 136 10 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices per plcul yesterday were: Copra: steady; Feb. $28 buyers, $28% sellers. March 28* buyers. $29 sellers. Coconut oil: steady: bulk $43 M. sellers, drum $47 Vi sellers, re pur: steady: Muntok white $103. Sarawak $102 (both unchanged), special Sarawak black $80 (up
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  • 22 10 RUBRE R: y*Jl P«rTb. (down on/ of a cent) TIN: $376.2. p r (down 55.75, COPRA; P* r P'cul (ane|
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  • 85 10 MELBOf; INVESTMENTS x rises covere* stocks althout-:: were sharp on t>u here today Mil prices moved 1 leads were Boner. weaker with Oil Loans were :u Loans 3V D 195C-59 imS? »J Loans 3 V,, Con. Zinc. Bank of NSW Mount Lyell 7 Hi,i B 5r n hui
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  • 130 10 March first itradr ruhtwr v f.o.b. closed In Sin; r at 88% cents per lb., dj eighth of a cent on y closing price The closing tone wa Closing prices In cents x 1 yesterday were: OFFICIAL: No IRS f.o.b. buyers 88';. No. 1 R.S.S. Mar. buye-s U
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    • 921 10 NOTICES SHOP SPACE IN BEST SHOPPING AREA FOR LETTING Whole shop space In North Bridge Road (near the Odeon Theatre) Length of show space In front of shop is 22 feet. Total area of ground floor and upstairs Is 2,800 square feet. Especially suitable for retail: business in watches, cameras,
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    • 726 10 NOTICES NOTICE The Government of Brunei requires a Medical Officer. Interested persons with qualifications regUtrable in the United Kingdom should apply to the Chief Secretary (Establishment Branch), The Secretariat, Kuching, Sarawak, stating particulars of qualifications and experience. 2. The salary scale is Division 11 A, $840 x 30 870, 930
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    • 249 12 THE THREE JOLLY FISHERMEN Dear Boys and Girls. There were many interev.ing stories about you' pets and the winners ot the competition are as follows: Teoh Kok Choon. 705. Jalan Panchor, Kuhm, Kedah. Ravinder Singh, 352-A, Tanjong Katong Road, Singapore 15. T C. T. Rajah. 1858, New Area Road, Kuala
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    • 877 12 The scouts drift to a small island. Here they find a man called Shore who says he o»me to look for treasure but was followed by another man, Young, who threatened him with his life if he did not give up the treasure. Young left
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    • 117 12 Riddles from readers Q. What is it which can run but not walk, which can whistle but cannot talk? A. A locomotive engine. Q. What is always behind time? A. The back of a watch. Q. Why did the boy tiptoe to the medicine chest? A. He didn't want to
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    • 229 12 f\F the many stamps which \J were Issued to honour the Mozart Festival in 1956 I do not think there was a better one than the Austrian issue which is illustrated for you here. Thanks chiefly to the fact that Wolfgang Mozart's letters were carefully preserved by
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    • 188 12 T^ f >**.*■> Pastry that's crisp and golden to look at pastry that simply melts at a bite that's the result when you make it with Stork Margarine! Stork makes all pastry and cakes and sponges too into something extra-special. Give yourself a treat next baking-day use Stork Margarine. STORK
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    • 234 12 A 4og if wtart jtm make him He's devoted to yoori Fwd u_ mmty more so. He's the most re- well See how Mron R he Km« ■ponshe animal in the world. If CWe him a Bob Martins S yon gto him lore, he'll return it to His condition is
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    • 41 12 ccc Collect $ix of these coupon* to join the Children-t Corner Club. Please enrol me as a member of the Wise Owl» Club and tend me a badge. I am enclosing six C.C.C. coupon* and a stamped sell -addressed envelope. Address
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  • 534 13 THE SELECTION SQUABBLE AT MELBOURNE DURAY GAVE BAD ADVICE ALLEGES DE SOUZA KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. J HE CONTROVERSY over the selection of the Federation team to play Britain in their first match in the Olympic hockey tournament in Melbourne caused a split in the
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  • 169 13 Malays to discuss boycott move KUALA LUMPUR. Tues THE Malay Football Association of Malaya will consider at its council meeting on Feb. 23 a proposal to Boycott the F.A.M. for not arranging a fixture between the Indian Olympic team and All Malayan Malays. The secretary of M.F.A.M., Haji Hassan, said
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  • 113 13 COLOMBO, Tues.— The sixth Asian tennis champioasnips began here in brilliant weather yesterday with plaveis from Australia, Engioni Philloplnes and Communist China winning their first round matches. Nlel Gibson <Aust.) beat Arichandran iCey) 6-4. 6-0, 6-1. Warren Woodcock (Aus*) beat Sivallngam (Cey) 6-2, 6-4, 6-1.
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  • 33 13 ALL-MALAYA and Combined Services front row forward. Morgan brings down a All Whites "B" player during yesterday's S.C.C. seven-a-side rugger fixture on the padang. Straits Times picture.
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  • 179 13 rjEt'ENDING champions Marines Department scored their second straight win in the Singapore Government Services F.A. League when they beat Police "A" 5-0 at Farrer Park yesterday. Though Marines won by a bier margin, they showed they were still finding their form. Only
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  • 42 13 HOCKEY S.H.A. Quadrangular (replay) Civilians v Army, padang. Annual match: SC.C. v Dutch Club, padang. SOCCER S.G.S.F.A. junior league: Prisons v S.H.S.C.. Farrer Park; Police "B" v Broadcasting, Farrer Park; T.T.C. v M.A.A.F., Farrer Park. RIGGER S.C.C. seven-a-side competition, parians.
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  • 110 13 Recs— CSC semi-final on cards I^HE seml-ttnals of the Sin- gapore Hockey Association's senior knockout competition are likely to produce the most interesting matches this season. As a result of the draw made yesterday, the Singapore Recreation Club "Reds" may meet their old rivals, Ceylon S.C., for a place in
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  • 445 13 Johore, SCC 'A' out of sevens IT was a day of upsets on the padang yesterday when four second-round ties were decided in the Singapore Cricket Club's seven -a side rugger tournament. S.C.C. "A", champions for the past two years, were eliminated by a dogged R.A.F. Changi "B" side while
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  • 59 13 GLASGOW. Tues— St Mirren beat Partick Thistle by five goals to one aftc extra time in the secon replay of their Scottish Football Association Cup fifth-round tie at Hampden Park here yesterday. The score was 1-1 after 0 minutes. St. Mirren are t home to
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  • 139 14 Straits Times SELECTIONS EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER Race 1 2.15. FIRE POWER San Fernando Premium Bond SAN FERNANDO Small World Brave General FIRE POWER Small World San Fernando Race 2 2.45. RIO Jutting The Wizard JUTTING Lindalou Rio THE WIZARD Rio Nufenen Race 3 2 IS. POTENTATE Coflee Exporter
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  • 419 14 POTENTATE NEEDS ONLY TO KEEP A STRAIGHT COURSE "POTENTATE has only to run straight to outsmart a very moderate Class 2 sprint field (Race Three*. Like most of the Pandemonium stock, this four-year-old has a bright turn of speed and can nandle any type of going. Twice at Bukit Timah
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  • 225 14 EPSOM JEEP sums up today's Bukit Timah races ....T •■■■•■■•■■■•■■■aiimiiiiillllllllllllllll Fair Raleigh the danger in moderate sprint field jyjIROPHLI has trained on splendidly since running second to Metrostar II at Ipoh last month. I make him my best bet of the day (Race Four) at Bukit
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  • 194 14 Marigold can defy penalty and make it five off the reel MARIGOLD, in his present form, may well prove too good for the Class 3 sprint field in Race Eight. I am confident he can defy a 16-lb penalty for his all-the-way win on Saturday and equal the post-war record
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  • 1273 14 TO-DAY RACE CARD Race 1 2.15: Class 3, Div. 3—6 Furs. 1 090 Pearllne 6y Paterson 9.00 Lot Stable Yon* 2 -80 Verni 4y D. Jones 9.00 Mr. Tom's Stable Tjoa 3 46G Motion Picture II 6y Posner 8.13 Shaw Stable Spencer 4 658 Golden Surprise 4y Mortimer 8.13 V.C.
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  • 944 14 TAKE IMPROVING PIZARRO TO BEAT BAHAGIA PIZARRO is on the upgrade and has a great chance of making it four-off-the-reel in the Class 2, Div. I 6f. handicap (Race Six). This Fair Trial gelding hit a brilliant patch at the tailend of last season when he scored a double over
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  • 227 14 Indian win in last 15 minutes PEN ALL-INi, **J«tBtpdaj the F.A.M. c pions. o-\ second matel Fedcruu, City Stach,,, The law what disap, was not v minutes thai began to a superiority Penang dde held then. time. PenanK's scored in through Aziz Ahmad Penang punch India kicked Kanayan took I
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  • 32 14 Chilian, team to In the decidin-r S.H.A. Quadnngi padang today from: Humid. Mosbß i Williams. Gunendr.in. father. Devadas A Yam, Viji<r Mohinder Sinrh (1 Fernandez. Num.-, B
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  • 13 14 Maxwell S.C Cold Storage sc soccer match at Parn terdav.
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