The Straits Times, 12 February 1954

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  • 15 1 The Straits Times New***** Establis led 1845 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1954 PRICE 15 CENTS
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  • 568 1 Your last chance to confess on aid to Reds RIGHT ANSWERS 0R... By W ILLIA.M FISH LAYANG LAYANG, Thursday. \S SECURITY FORCES concentrate "for showdown with Communist terrorists in the a\anu Laying area, the 2,500 people of the "bad village of Johorc have been jjiven a last
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  • 123 1 Molotov's plot misfires WEST TURNS 40WN SECURITY PACT' BERLIN. Thurs. Western J to- I the Soviet nera] Euroll( :tive security Inn i ai desAtlantlc the Soviet Forhad presented «ton oi the c here hlch would i fence I ft the forupa m lal In- i was •.\oid the division pc
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  • 71 1 Back to 14 pages TODAY the Straits Times is back to its regular 14 pages and will continue to carr v all its news, sport, feature and commercial services m normal sued issues Order your copy now of the 20-page Sunday Times which wil! carry all your favourite strip cartoons
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  • 366 1 Judge says 'no' to ex-wife's bid to stop provident fund draw ".'DON. Thurs. j London Divorce s today dismissed J 1 to restrain Mr. Wright. a i ilanter in Malaya, y iking withdrawals £7.000 account in n Planters' Fund. ion for an inte- was made by r N tie Wright,
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  • 38 1 LONDON. Thur.s. Mr. Alex Anderson. Labour Member of Parliament for Motherwell. Scotland, collapsed and died during a committee meeting this morning in the House of Commons. Mr Anderson, a teacher, was 65. Reuter.
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  • 250 1 'We'll do our utmost to prevent outbreak of another war* LONDON. Thurs. DI'SSIA gave a pledge last night to do her utmost to prevent the outbreak of another war. 'i iiiiti cm! manifesto from the Soviet Communist Party defined Russian foreign po- licy as one of
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  • 163 1 WOMAASHOT, TOO K. LUMPUR Thurs. 4 NOTHER Communist terrorist branch committee member has been killed by security forces. I He is Chan Wan. who went into the jungle in 1948 He was shot yesterday by a combined security unit and i volunteer force patrol in
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  • 51 1 A police party led by ASP. Mr Cheah Teng Cheoh seized a loaded .38 revolver l n New Market Road. Singapore just before noon yesterday. The revolver with five rounds of ammunition was found in an open space next to a house. Later a man was
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  • 37 1 Maj.-Gen D. D. C. Tulloch. the newly appointed General-Officer-Commanding. Singapore Base District, will arrive here in April to take up his post. He is at present attached to Headquarters Southern Command.
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  • 60 1 CAMBRIDGE LAGS OXFORD. Thurs The 1 university city of Oxford had i more than twice as many i drunks last year as Cambridge, says the Chief Constable of Oxford. The number charged in Oxford was 65. six more than the previous year and the highest since
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  • 140 1 Reserves to fight Mau Mnu NAIROBI. Thursday. ALL Europeans between the ages of 18 and 45 living in Kenya must register for possible service to fight the Mau Mau. the C-in-C, General Sir George Erskmc announced today. In a nationwide broadcast Gen. Erskine said
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  • 37 1 TAIPEH. Thurs. Vie. -Art Admiral Alfred Pride. Commander of the United S'at-s Seventh Fleet, left Southern Formosa for Tokyo today after a four-day Inspection tour of the Nationalist Chinese armed forces on Formosa. Reuter
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  • 35 1 WELLINGTON, New Zealand Thurs— A lion chewed it.- 22--year-old keeper's arm for several minutes today as onlookers tried frantically to beat it oft" The man's arm was lacerated from waist to elbow.
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  • 46 1 TOKYO, Thurs. Prizewinninp: American novelist i James Michener said today that most Japanese want to follow a "middle of the road" policy in their new way of life but are being tugged by forces lof both the extreme left and 'extreme right.— U.P.
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  • 36 1 TAIPEI, Thurs.— The Nationalist Ministry of Interior today claimed that the Chinese Communists had joined Russia in mapping a South-East Asia expansion programme which called for complete victory in Indo-China in 1954.— UP.
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  • 64 1 I'IIKIM, SEVERELY over his spectacles. Sir Gerald tells village councillors from Laying Layang: "Go back and have a good, straight talk to vonr people just like I've had to you." Straits Times picture. GEN. TEMfrLER, assisted by a police officer, takes the villagers' sealed replies
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  • 75 1 JAKARTA. Thurs. new Indonesian economic i A policy designed to attract foreign investments will soon b. announced, according to the Premier Dr. All Sastroamldjoo. He told the Indonesian Journalists' Association that his Government would soon sponsor a plan to create "a favourable climate" for foreign
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  • 35 1 LONDON. Thurs. T h c Queen Mother has invested Mr Roger Stevens. Britain's Ambassador Designate to Teheran, with the Insignia of a Kniuht Commander of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
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  • 56 1 ROME. Thurs. Italy s Chris- 1 tian Democrat Premier-desie- j nate. Slgnor Mario Scelba. > vesterady formed a left-of- 1 centre coalition Governmer." consisting of Christian Democrats. Social Democratinn Liberals Sisnor Scelba. bitter foe of Communists and neo-Fasclsts called last night on the President of the
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  • 34 1 An action for damages for slander by Dolly Tjia Hwa Neo against lvr milMonaire father- in-law Mr. Goei Kirn Lian will come up for hearing ln the Singapore High Court next Monday.
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  • 26 1 HONG KONG, Thurs— The Hong Kong Government todayrelaxed its ban on the reexport of Japanese goods to other parts of the sterling area— Reuter.
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  • 12 1 BERLIN. Thurs. East German Communists have banned Mickey Mouse.— UP.
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  • 89 1 'THE Ist Battalion, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West. Surrey), arrived in Singapore on the troopship Georgic yesterday for another tour of service I in Malaya. The Battalion was here seven years ago. But most of yesterday's arrivals are new to jungle warfare. They will
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  • 175 1 Iron men resume advance Attack decision by commanders? SAIGON. Thurs. rpHE 12,000-strong Viet--1 minh "Iron" Division has resumed Its advance on the Laotian royal capital of Luang Prabang and is now only 31 miles aw>v. according to Intelligence reports. the French Army announced hrrc today. The Vletminh forces were advancing
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  • 52 1 MIAMI -(.Ml LONDON rhui i r.ir'-d I" li.v h Station todaj afti i trr\ m.»ii x\ ii iiiil S( i thai stick "> mil had been dun llk i i i foond nothing. Man had jiven three tinilai warninsa wt rk 1 <i li linn nitr u.ts found.
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  • 27 1 CAPETOWN. Thurs. —Th bly i L i today dete ated by M votes to 60 an Oppo sltlon vote ol no conflriVnce li in's Government
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  • 87 1 FLAT OUT— NO BLACKOUT COVENTRY. Thur.s TEST pilot Alec Franklin flew a Meteor jet to r 28 minutes yesterday while lying flat on his stomach. It was the first test :u Britain of a plane designed for flying in the prone position In this position a pil<" make sharper turns
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  • 59 2 NEW YORK. Thurs. The world's biggest and brightest electric light will be ■witcb- ed on publicly today in Rockefeller Centre here. It is a 75.000-watt. 50-pound bulb which will shine like a miniature sun in honour of Thomas A. Edison's 107 th anniversary and the seventieth
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  • 260 2 U.S. will stay out of the 'hot' war in Indo-China AIM OF AID —IKE WASHINGTON, Thursday. pRKSIDKNT KISENHOWER said yesterday that every mo\o ho made to help the French in Indo-Chini «as calculated to keep the I'nited States out of a hot war in the area. Mr. Elsenhower (old his
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  • 103 2 i *TlH£ QUEEN, accompani A ied by the president i of Sydney Legacy. Mr. H B. GihsO". meets MMM 0/ I young members at I Legacy House. they gave her a demon I stration of physical train- ing. The 44 Legacy Clubs of Australia care for
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  • 105 2 Little San Marino tries again LONDON Thun. TUT TINY Republic no, between th^ nes and Italy's Adriai further notr to Britain in her claim W .T7.sn.nnn war dam by thr Royal I T not< wai handed to the offli-r by thr Republic'f Consul G^nrral here. Mr G T McEwan. nut
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  • 68 2 NAIROBI. Thurs A M.«n Man terrorist, who calls him<.rlf (lrnor.il Hitlrr his hern wounded and captured hy a British patrol in th<* N\cri District of Kenya, it was reported vrsterdiM Thr l:ist Man Mm "(ienrr.il" captured in Kenya was "firnerni China." vud t<> have hern second in
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  • 146 2 Guests hawk them at £50 MbLBUUHM.. inurs. MELBOURNE City Council Investigating thr black market' in Royal Ball invitations which have been offered for sale at up to A G 50. The Town Clerk. Mr. Harold Samuel Wootton. said last night guests caught hawkinc their
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  • 34 2 BOMBAY. Thurs.- Japan Is Willing to finance the setting up of basis drug and medical i factories in India Medical Trade Mission sponsored by the Provincial Government of Osaka, said yesterday. A.P.
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  • 20 2 WASHINGTON. Thurs.-The Detence Department yesterday issued a draft call for 18.000 men for the army in April. -UP.
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  • 326 2 Divorced couples face new bar LONDON Thurs. J\IVORCED couples wl'.l be unable to re-marry in church during the life-time of their previous partner if a proposal now before a Church of England legal body becomes law. The proposal is amons several in a draft plan to revi.se ecclesia.stic.al laws which
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  • 43 2 VATICAN CITY Thurs.--ThP Vatican Press Office said yesterday that the improvement in the Pope's condition <avf "good hope for his speedy general recovery." The pontiff has been suffering from a stomache disturbance for the past 17 days Reuter.
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  • 148 2 14 people killed in night of (error in West Java JAKARTA, Thur C'OrKTEEN people wrre killed anrl 13 Injurei 1 1,000 well-armed terrorists looted thrrp villages on Monday night, according to olliri;i] reaching heie today. The attack, thr biggest carried oui by tl in months, was blamed
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  • 75 2 SUPER JET IS READY TO GO INTO ACTION LONDON. Thurs Britain first "fa.ster-than-sound' Supermanne Swift Jet fighters will go into operational service in the next few days. Uv Air Ministry announced. The Vlckera Supermarine Swift Jet set up p world air speed record of 73r>.7 miles per hour last September.
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  • 74 2 Girl murder: Hunt for artist ends [RUN SPANISH De r.n-i H a charge of gtran girl. They plcki d him i day in a small I town, on th" I Spain and His raptuiv pndrrj I manhunt and cry last spring Family frieiH Britain will apriSpani. 'i Oov^rnmeni ion Tho
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  • 82 2 BRISTOL. Thurs. Paul Oarland, 19-vcar-old Boy Scout, has been asked to turn in his badge because he is a Communist. Scout Commissioner. Mr. J. L. Millitrin. said today. Oarland. first in his troop to win the Queen's Scout harice, recently was appointed
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    • 327 2 Straits Times Crossword \i' i 2 1 j 3 1 rif i i 6 1 ri p li 1 MP~M~:^I 8 9 10 v m 1 y l _I_l pll_l I_II iaZM_id_lJlJ3Zli a^inni 1 n il i i~na ACROSS ploie i 7 i. 1. A smashing result i 4. 3.
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  • 248 3 500 WRITE IN RERUN, Thursday AMBLING their freedom, hundreds of East Germans have written to the U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, urging him to stick by his guns against the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. M. Molotov. in the Rig
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  • Article, Illustration
    37 3 A picturesque srene is afforded by these Dutch skaters out for a Sunday afternoon's sport. They were among the thousands of people in Holla nd who took advantage of the freeze-up to go out skating. AP. picture.
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  • 75 3 XEGRO BAND COMPLAINS WASHINGTON, Thursday. tO singers were barred from a Republican per party attended by President Eisenhov.-er Saturday, a Negro reporter complained at the P Ldent's news conference yesterday. I the action by the Di ta police. I nhower said Ith his thi v
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  • 32 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs. THIRTY phials of unlabelled cobra venom were stolen from a drug saleman's cir in Hyattsville. Maryland. last nialit. Police issued a warning that a sinsle drop could kill
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  • 156 3 RUSSIA TO BUILD FOR EGYPT E CAIRO. Thurs. GYPTS military government disclosed yesterday that it Us nesotiatinK with Russia on "big projects" in line with a determined policy of neutrality between East and West. Maj. Salah Saiem. Minister of National Guidance, said Egypt would "co-operate with I all who support
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  • 40 3 LONDON. Thurs. British railway freight and dock charges are to go up by 10 per cent from March 1. The increa.si- is caused by a recent i pay rise given to the railway--1 men.
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  • 136 3 Oona is now a Briton i HAFLIN wife, the tiirnu-r Oona has renounced hei in ili/cn.sliip and Ik i Bi itiofa subject, iplin lir.indishrd her patotpwt when she i ■iiuiiin from *>« it i nun h.iplm. daughter «f tin- late n pi n« right, Eugene mil is Chaplin's ■Mi h.ipllll
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  • 22 3 Thurs. A French arded ex-King Peter LVla 500.000 fl gterday the ill monarch his while he wa« P
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  • 44 3 press conference given at the Kast Berlin Press Centre by Mr. L. F. Ilyichov. of the Russian Foreign Ministry, who spoke on the progress of the BiK-Four conference. The woman is Ilsin Hua, of the New China News Agency, Peking.
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  • 145 3 Strong guard on coast JAKARTA, Thursday. THE Indonesian Vice-Premier, Mr. Wongsonegoro, said yesterday it is highly unlikely that the Malayan Communists have moved their headquarters from the Malayan jungles to Indonesia. Mr. Wongsonegoro. who is in charge of the nations security, was commenting on
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  • 94 3 MANCHESTER. Thurs.--Beveral more groups of British businessmen are planning visits to Moscow to seek orders as soon as they have cleared their goods with the Board of Trade as "non-strategic. In addition a group of textile machinery makers who returned from Moscow a few days ago
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  • 352 3 4 reasons why we should buy LONDON, Thursday. r rn I HOUSE of Commons, by a majority of 31 tonight 1 rejected a Labour opposition motion seeking to censure the Government over the recent £400.000.000 Anglo-Japanese Trade and Payments Agreement. Mr. Harold Wilson, former
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  • 52 3 TAIPEH. Thurs Gen Chiang Kai-shek prepared for the Feb. 19 opening of the National Assembly by Journeyina to Taipeh's City Hall today and registering as an Assembly member. One of the Assembly's Jobs will be to name the country's president. Gen. Chiang will probably
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  • 223 3 LONDON, Thurs. Clewing prices or selected stocks wens MNUW I Consols 64% Funding 4% 101 > 2 War 3'k% 85N i-oan 3 K 1956-59 £94 12/ 6d Mail .rfrrcantlli (U2 1 24 Hongkong ($125) 95/-xd easier!) i£s» 8^ Chartered (£1) 45/INSURANCE Com. Un. (uts.) 13V» Royal 13' s
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  • 23 3 LONDON. Feb. 11— Cash Buyers £655; Sellers £656; Forward Buyers £f>34; Sellers £635: Settlement £656. Turnover a.m. 100 tons: p.m. 30.
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  • 36 3 LONDON. Feb 11.— Spot 16-\d Mar. ISHA* Api -June 16 ,d.. JulySept. 16\d. Oct -Dec 16 -,d. Feb. c.l f 167'16d.. Mar c.i f 16 7'l6d. April c.l f. 16' ad. Tone: Very steady.
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  • 137 4 He will step up radio training KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. A RADIO expert from ■"thp Unitrd Nations. Mr. Alan J. Edwards, will arrive in Kuala Lumpur on or about Frb. 20 to help put Malaya in lino with modrrn radio telecommunications development I -ix months hel and direct Jecommunirartmen's hool in
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  • 76 4 A crew of 37 Chinese seamen wii: leave London early this morning to take delivery of the Austasia I new 4.250-ton 5.5 Mandama. This will bp the company's third operate betAustralia, indoncda <*nd a The other two ;,re the mv. Malay md
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  • 200 4 Three more brickyards close down— soo sacked SALES HIT HARD BY CONCRETE BLOCKS A HOlT 500 Singapore brick-workers will lose their jobs next month. The Chief Employment Officer, Mr. F. G. Tyson, told the Straits Times yesterday that the men affected are employed in three of the 12 brickyards in
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  • 106 4 Lack of market, transport and sanitation facilities in the Singapore Improvement Trust flats area in Norfolk Roac: la annoying the tenants. There plan to protest to the authorities i Some of the residents told j the Straits Times yesterday that on rainy days they had to
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  • 41 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Mr. E C. G. Barrett, acting British Adviser Kodah, Is go- Perak on leave in the middle of next month. Mr. G. S. Rawlings who now on leave will take over frum him.
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  • 73 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. The income of the Tunp Shin Hospital in Kuala Lumpur has dropped considerably becau.v of the fall in rubber price, the committee of the hospital w:i.< told last night Mr Chong Shin Guan. vice- president of ,he hospital appealed for donations and said
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  • 133 4 THE Federal Government estimates it rvmld spend 52. 250.000 to prepare the country for elections. The work will take at le&it tit months once the elections Ordinance la passed according to Government experts Before the Ordinance is passed thr election committees re- port must
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  • 90 4 MR. VV. G. ALEXANDER. Registrar of Co-operative Societies in Port Louis. Mauritius, addressing officials of cooperative bodies in Singapore at a tea-party. Mr. Alexander is here to "study every aspect of co-operative work in the Colony. On his risrht is Mr. S. H. Peek,
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  • 124 4 ROMAN Heng. 24. who pleaded guilty in a Singapore court yesterday to misappropriation of bedroom furniture worth $365. was discharged conditionally to be of good behaviour for six months in 5250. Mr A W Mahmoori. A.S.P.. prosecuting said that on Jan. 27. last year. Heng
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  • 75 4 Muslim 'no' to slaughter by humane killer KUALA I.U.MPUR. Thurs. RELIGIOUS advisers to the Sultan of Selangor are against .slaughter of animals j hy stunning them with a humane killer. It Col. J. l> I Daly chairman of the Malayan Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals (Selangor
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  • 74 4 $1300 was short in NAAFI safe j A SUM of $1,302 was missing CX from the safe of a NAAFI. canteen at Blakan Mati on j January 11. a Singapore Court was told yesterday. But the canteen manauvr. Bin Chee Fong, who was responsible for the shortage, made good the
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  • 15 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs. It. G A. Carruthers. ASP.. Ciuansr has been transferred to eennint
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  • 258 4 COURT REJECTS NURSE'S CLAIM TO $6,500 LAND It was not bought forher—judf), Xl AL\ LUMPUR, Thnrsda A SUPREME Court .judpe today dismissed lx brought by a former nurse Of the Scremba eral Hospital, Mrs. ML S. Thaver. claiminy t was the owner of a piece of land in Kuala I
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  • 37 4 -FOR so Gl KUALA LUMPUP IKMMWO cm, i at the Mala-, q K nearing complt Tlic Government a bungalow school in Da:;. I ton f buildintwo classrooms. The school no-, than 100 students
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  • 41 4 KUALA LUMPUR The Prrak I! Company Ls phi crease the output. Mi pies, general maf if y Club today. The plans arc ti much electricity i is produced by all th< ing si i country now.
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    • 294 4 l^^ry^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H SINGAPORE I^3o Friday 8a11r0.,.,, non Clowffimmim Down and l 7.15 lime Signal ana Opening fffTAT a I fTlf niTD Announcement. 7.16 Morning BUr UkUALA LUMrUK 7.3u News 7.35 Melody Mixture. 8.00 Q v Market Report I Hill Billy Half-Hour 830 Mala-, =,L f™ ?V'Vn Re iK> Ab News. 7.15
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  • 12 5 ,rear-ol< i ol in Kamp re, was n. the boy.
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  • 187 5 Both sides wait for each other to resume row rpin. Riteon pay row between the Singapore' in merit and the Council of Joint Action, tenting 20,000 local (Government workers, hl quietened down each side waiting: for the make the next move. il spokesman told the
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  • 20 5 I ofl Sinwere SI each. n Kek framed lied to beat their boat c trouble.
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  • 278 5 K. LUMPUR. Thurs THE president of the Malayan Indian Association, Mr. G. V. Thaver. said today the solution to his countrymen's "petty differences" in Malaya was given 17 years ago. "When India's Prime MinLster. Mr. Nehru, visited Malaya in 1937,-
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  • 124 5 A BRIDE PLEADS TO RULER Wants divorce PEX ANG. Thurs. A NEWLY-WED Malay wife! in Mm-. -i Patani has appealed to the Sultan of I Kedah acainst a Kathi's re- .iection of her petition for a divorce. The woman, it is reported, told the Kathi she did not want to
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  • 80 5 i KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs Miss Hazel Duncan. Secretary i of the Malayan Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani•maLs iSelangor Branch' told the Straits Times today that the branch had decided to organise "vigilantes" who would Bo on inspection tours to pro- I I mote kindness
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  • 20 5 KUANTAN, Thurs.— Thirty- three people from Gamban;: new village have passed their St. John ATibubn;e first-rud examination.
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  • 34 5 To bridges, wells, paths— s9o,ooo PENANG. Thurs. RIDA spent $90,000 in Penang and province Wellesley last year. Inche Ismail bin Ibrahim. Assistant Development Officer, said today. It concentrated on building bridges, wells and footpaths.
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  • 31 5 SOMETHING is wronc with this new Singapore police van seen above. Can you spot it? You're rißht— the traffic indicators. Both point in the same direction.
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  • 85 5 KUANTAN. Thurs. KUANTAN. chosen as the new capital of Pahang. is to become the first town in the State to hold elections. Nine Town Councillors will be elected in May. The Government will appoint eight councillors, five if whom will be ex-offlcio members. Registration
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  • 66 5 LONDON, Thurs. Mrs. Mary Bridget Lotinga, daughter of Sir Shenton Tho- mas. Governor of the Straits Settlements at the time of their capture by the Japanese, us resi pondent in an undefended divorce suit to be heard In London. She and Lt.-Col. Jack Leslie Larry Lotinga. who was
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  • 29 5 Art of Dance Studio. Singapore, will hold a lecture, with demonstrations by pupils, for parents and friends at Raffles Institution hall at 5 p.m. i tomorrow. I
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  • 200 5 To-each-a-meter may settle water bill row 1 TEN thousand Singapore Improvement Trust tenants, A now under orders to pay higher rates from Mar. 1 or quit their homes, may have their worries dispelled by the installation of separate meters for domestic and industrial use. Speaking for these tenants, who now
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  • 94 5 Trishas may get a new lease on life THE Singapore City Council may revise its seven-year-old policy of gradually eliminating trishas from the Colony Next Wednesday, the Council's Vehicles and Traffic Committee will consider a letter from representatives of 5.000 trisha riders and owners, protesting against this policy. The committee's
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  • 19 5 KUANTAN, Thurs. -Mr. Koe Ah Cheong a senior hospital assistant here has been promoted to special grade "B".
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  • 166 5 U.S. SENDS TEAM FOR TALKS ON RUBBER PENANG, Thur.;. RUBBER del?gates horn America will be In Singapore in April for talks with local leaders of the industry. The Rubber Manufacturers' Association of America and the Rubber Trade Association of New York have called a conference on April 22 with the
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  • 68 5 I ALOR STAR. Thurs.-Electo-ral rolls for the Alor Star and Sungel Patani town council areas can be inspected until Monday. The registers will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 4.30 p.m at the town council offices information centres, post offices and registering ward offices in
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  • 44 5 A fountain pen. believed to have been stolen from a passenger in a trolley bus at Victoria Street. Singapore, on January. 29. has been recovered by the police. Owner should contact Inspector Ng Leng Hua at Beach Road Police Station.
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  • 150 5 Will check divorces, they nay THE Singapore Malay Women's Welfare Association 1 will soon appeal to the Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. .A. C. Goode. for a Muslim marriage court to deal with domestic disputes and divorces. Che Zahara binte Mohd. Noor. the association's president,
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  • 32 5 About $900 worth of Jewellery kept in a box was stolen from a house in Jalart Eunos. Singapore, on Wednesday night. The box was later found near the house.
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    • 67 5 1 he Barrelts OI W impolc Slrect I GALA PREMIER Tuesday*] 6th Feb* at VJCTORIA THEATRE inlaid of S.A.T.A. also oil. ITth. 18th. 19th. 20th. Feb. BOCK'.^j AT ROBINSONS ;<>AC^ DONATED BY WILUAM~JACKS S CO"(M) LTD; 'aMBBLIX^r ideal get/era/ tome for io^t-^^p^\^ i recovering from ///uef^^-Z-^^&ffdES^ fating run douti iL^mStk
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    • 216 5 Survey shows ti§k boys lead in milk drinking $h^ In a recent study of typical *>~ > ~^7!>A/ i!^!^~*~^ milk coasumption for a week, c^" fii>n^^ it was found that seventy five (l*!^-^ i per cent of the milk consumed sSbF^I was used as a boveraßo The Ks*^U largest coasumption
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    • 300 5 SINGAPORE DIARY Police Band- P'lblic i>erformance conditioner theatrette, 26. Raffles Parrer Park. 5.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. Place, 1 p.m. Telok \>ei MV F Bible-study Shell Theatrette: Free film show class on Acts 'of the Apostles," —The Valley of the Weavers church hall 235 Telok Ayer Street. 1 (colour)— Shell
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  • 15 6 ;il Hnrii. J/d I minimum) expired yeaei short lllnest.. ate leave* irau, *30 p.m.
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  • 19 6 ez and heurt Ivea and ho attended the funeral of DCtl Fernandez as well as cars In their
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  • 92 6 !n Hiird. $;u (minimum) AR I Exhibition by Yankee Leon? i 29 High Street. I Every day In the 'Malajr tlall' if you want to win that 55.000 word puzzle. COMe) to O EC. Cookery Dens 12, R.uterv Road. I .rday at RNITY readj mades: I ::om $35. skirt*
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  • 790 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Friday. Feb. 12, 1954. Trade With Japan Wider recognition thftn in the past of the fact that the United Kingdom Government cannot dictate to Malaya and other dependent territories the pattern al their trade was a feature of the Commons' debate on the Anglo-Japanese sterling pay-
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  • 480 6 The Singapore Education Department has done well to lipiit the charge* which the private English schools may levy. In general they have been unduly high, even allowing for the profit -making character of these schools. Some ask for as much as $16 a month in
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  • 1335 6  - Time for a big shake-up m ideas and action on defence Cyril Falls The United States is to concentrate on building up its air force following the basic change in: its defence policy outlined by i President Eisenhower recently. Britain has not been keeping pace with potential developments of warfare.
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    • 374 6 THE comparative indices of the cost of living, as published by the Federation Statistics Department. will probably end the year showing an average decrease in 1953 of about four points on 298 points in 1952 for Europeans and around 12 points in 1953 on totals of
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    • 146 6 WOMEN NOW EQUAL pOMMONSENSE Adviser ha* missed the point at issue I viz.. polygamous marriage and his original biological reasons to support his view. Perhaps the modem scientist could extend his theorizing into a new field and proclaim some theory for women in- dulging in polyandry, but as 1 has
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    • 112 6 rERE is criticism of Dr. Lin 1 1 Yu-tang. who is to become Chancellor of the Nanyang University, for hie I outspoken views on Western 1 clothes. If other men of distinction. 1 for example. Mr. Malcolm 1 Mac Donald. have in the past
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    • 141 6 j LISTENED on the radio to one of the most interesting explanations of common j t afflc difficulties that worry quite a number of motorists. It was done in such a way j that a somewhat painful subject became instructive j and very
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    • 146 6 Vf R. Davies states that the 1»1 admission age to Government and Government-aided schools is six years on Jan 1 of tne year of admission My child was 6J years in January and was registered for adI mission in a local English I school two years
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  • 334 6 On the Margin Athletes and sonn«J THE IDEA j ya's youth in must appeal to Gei plrr The Oenera the only Bngll I I know where .1 15. awarded, by I tion of former boy who in onr the Rreatrv painting, design poetry with the wess at gamr.s. When firmer
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    • 396 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. ,rf. .«.»> minimum) 10.2.54 to Anne and Peter Port To lenii and John, at umpur. rtaiikihter Uth, wife of Hospital, ir. Susan (nee u;!e (if Captain Ml unce H Ktnrari. on daughter, who lived only i H.,,rf. fill I milt.m./m) ON F<:> 1 ROI n Mr. J. P
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    • 38 6 MAHATMA The Monumental Biography of MAHATMA CANDHI in EICHT VOLUMES by D. C. Tendulkar AUTHORITATIVE m. COMPLETE MOVING Avotlahlc Shortly FREE eight-pare descriptive brorhnre obtainable from the Sole Agents C. R. OASARATHA RAJ LTD Post Box 257 Singapore
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    • 79 6 6 RAFFLES PLACE. PHONE ***** l r. v. fnUfci K. E. MEYER F.N.A.0., o. opt. K. BELL DIP OPT.. AS.T.C. F.A.OA si i m Pjm Round Trips to 3 U JAPAN A 21 day Cruise J calling at J HONGKONG YOKOHAM.V KOBE i s. CHUSAN leaves Spore. 14th April, 1954
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  • 61 7 ensure? I don't care: Onn MBAN T i bin J 1 1 of the Malaya Party i.urn. Bub- represen- :<-(\ 'h< a million .n national i ihlnese 11 another eenm Is brought against ll Member .Pi I should number of Chinese to become :^ir Onn de- at a meet--bilan Club
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  • 77 7 PORE'S pilot scheme to ere flooding has hit a mnnt br started uni hroiph which ene:neT> rut a canal nas bepr im the Army. I arc to thr c now •nment and th* City Council are sharing this bill. The City
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  • 87 7 Heads plan to aid poor boys 300 study gifts rE Singapore Chinese Schools' conference plans to raise money fir 300 scholarships for poor pupils in the Colony. Many students through lack of funds had Xn leave school, a conference official told the Straits Times yesterday. A campaign week in April
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  • 92 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. i N official of the Federation Government's Economic Division said today that th^ invitation for a Malayan trade delegation to visit Russia would not be considered untii the end of the month. By then Malay's delegates to the ECAFE conference in
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  • 60 7 A wealthy Singapore businessman, found guilty of ignoring a police notice, told a traffic court magistrate yesterday: You are at liberty to fine me as much as you like." Tay Cheng Seng was fined $200 for failing to furnish particulars of the driver of his
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  • 51 7 IPOH, Thurs.— Perak toduy got its first woman head of department. She is Mrs. Then Chin Nyean who took over duties as acting State Social Welfare Officer, Perak. Mrs. Then, who was trained in England, succeeds Mr. J. B. Saville, who left today on long
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  • 49 7 PENANG, Thurs. Alaga Nadar, a toddy tapper, was today sentenced by Mr. Justice Spenser Wilkinson in the High Court here to four years' gaol for a raping a 10-year old girl. Alaga. who told the court he had two wives, pleaded guilty.
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  • 29 7 IPOH. Thurs.—Major-Gen-eral W.H Lambert. G.O.C. No. 1 Federal Divisional District, returned to his headquarters at Taiping yesterday after touring North Kedah and Perils for two days.
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  • 86 7 Today: Singapore 4.29 a.m. (8 ft. 5 ins.) 7.14 p.m. (6 ft. 8 ins.); Port Dickson 1 a.m. (6 ft. 9 ins.) 1.04 p.m. (5 ft. 3 ins.); Penang 8.52 a.m. (4 ft. 2 ins.) 9.04 p.m. (5 ft. 6 ins.). Tomorrow: Singapore 5.43 am (8 ft. 1
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  • 127 7 "fc nrst T.B. nursing certi--1 flcates ever awarded in Singapore were itiven yesterday to 14 women and one man of the Tan Took Seng j Training School in Mandalay Road, Singapore. Of the 15, three won distinction in the two-year course, which bfean in 1950. They
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  • 21 7 The Governor of Singapore. Sir John Nicoll. will open the 51. 500.000 fire station at Alexandra on February 25
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  • 161 7 McNeice asks: Who gave order? THE Singapore City Presi- dent, Mr. T. P. F. Me- Neicc, is investigating the case of Peter K. Kumaia- samy, a City Council em-1 ployee who said in a police court on Tuesday that he' had been
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  • 269 7 Bu t there ARE ladies who don't want to be presen ted a t court A WOMAN lawyer submitted in a Singapore court yesterday that Chinese women are averse to attending courts. The lawyer. Mrs. Lucy Cheng, said this when the magistrate questioned her about her client's absence. Mrs. Cheng's
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  • 65 7 "Ane Pows" (red packets' will be given to every euest who attends the annual social of the Chinese section of the Singapore Y.W.C.A. Concert items to display Chinese culture, ancient Chinese heroines and beauties, and traditional customs will be introduced into the programme. The social will
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  • 34 7 KUALA LUMPUR, rhurs Six hundred Chinese members of the security forces will o» given a New Year party by tho Selangor Amenities Committee at the Chinese Assembly Ball here in Sunday.
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  • 151 7 Squatters to get bill for rent SHOPKEEPERS who have been squatting on Singapore City Council land in North Bridge Road, near Elgin Bridge, may soon get a bill for 54 1.000. The Councils c.states and fire brigade committee hat agreed that the shopkeepers should be
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  • 106 7 Jack Williams, managing director of the Melbourne Herald group of nev/spapers and joint managing director of the Australian Associated Press, and hLs wife flew into Singapore by QANTAS Constellation last night. They were met at Kalian-; Airport by Mr. A. C. Simmons, managing director of
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  • 37 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Work on the Port Swettenham to Kuala Lumpur trunk road will start in twelve months' time, the Klang and Kuala Langat Executive Engineer. Mr. K. Wilson told the Klang Town Board today
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  • 125 7 A woman told a Singapore court yesterday that she drank iodine because her husband walked out after they had a quarrel. In the Fourth Police Court Tan San Neo, 29. was charged with attempting suicide on Wednesday. Tan. who told the court her husband
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  • 66 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs Medicinal preparations are as indispensable as food, says a letter from the Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce to the Member for Economic Affairs. The chambers want the import duty on these drugs cut on the grounds that this has been done— to
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  • 39 7 IPOH, Thurs.— The recently formed Union of Social Welfare Workers in the F?deration will hold a meeting in Seremban on Saturday Raja Teh binti Raja Haji Kamaralzaman has been named Perak representative for the meeting.
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  • 21 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs. Mr. K. N. Chelliah, chief storekeeper, P.W.D., Johore. has retired after 26 years service.
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  • 21 7 Family remittances totalling $3,700,484 were sent from Malaya to China last month, of which $2,371,523 went from Singapore.
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  • 425 7 MAURICE CLARE was the soloist and Inspiration of a concert at the Victoria Hall on Wednesday In which the string playing was of a standard not often enough heard in Singapore. Clare Is an artist in whom the spectacular Is subordinated to a beautiful
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  • 163 7 HE'S OFF TO SEEK LADY LUCK Man who was picked up from the sea ITISHINO NASAJI. 23--1 V year-old mystery man who was picked up from the sea on" Pa.sir Panjang ten months aeo. is at last leaving Singapore. Nasaji, alias .lonn Wanamaker, told the Straits Times last night tha;
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  • 249 7 Host at party was a cheat IPOH. Thurs. 4 29- Year-Old Indian Muslim gyed Rahim, told the Sessions Court tod:iy how he cheated the proprietor of the BandoenK Restaurant Ipoh. WPnt to the raat l^nd told the manager i schoolteacher from uopens. which was untrue, i tnen ordered food and
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  • 31 7 KUAI.A LUMPUR, Thura Lord Baillieu. World Chairman of Dunlop Rubber, mriveri hrre today on his ani nual "routine" Inspection oi the company properties in thr 1 Federation.
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  • 53 7 TELUK A'-JSON. Thur.s.— The I $450,000 housing estate of 12 acres belonjdng to the Teluk An.son English School Tearhers' Co-operative Housing So- fifty at thn first milr. Chanqkat Jnne Ro^ri. has been named Kampong C*uru. Trp main mad pasting Kampong Guru ha.s been named Jalan Aman
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    • 63 8 THE JAPS BRING BACK THE TERROR... ...to show war doesn 't pay when you lose you could visit Tokyo's cinemas today, this is the sort of thing you u-ould see as the Japanese live again through the horror moments of the war. These scenes are from a new war film,
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    • 1007 8  - I FO UND IT FRANKLY HORRIFYING... RUSSELL SPURR Tokyo cinema audiences weep as 1C >' watch the war films now flooding Japan, hut pride in war lingers still says DEARL HARBOUR. I I have dived in a Japanese torpedo bomber upon the unsuspecting battle fleet. I have watched the Japanese
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    • 346 8 'The Scoutmaster' is a pleasing little comedy rE SCOUTMASTER" is a little comedy in which Clifton Webb performs as a neurotic intellectual who has been, rather foolishly I thought, put in charge of a chidren's programme on sponsored television. His wife, who is very sentimental, with a longing for children,
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    • 254 8 Ihe phenomenal success of in iti openings in England. in Australia, in Norway, in Japan and in Singapore yesterday proves ■fail that outstanding entertainment las no barrier of language or geography. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY ili«iiiii™iiraT# A' HIM >*f Ir Mil J* DDIHUED Jahmmrm I OIK\ 1 imkmmm CAPITOi7"PAVILION 11.
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  • 1565 9 Killer turned interpreter to frick olice NEWBURYPORT Massachusetts, is an attra ctive seaport that was old in the days of the American Revolution. Once an important shipbuilding centre, it is natural that one of its narrow, cobbled thoroughfares should be called Ship Street. On Monday, December 10,
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    • 192 9 tf "nr^iT 1 lOth day todayi 1 v s,~omo mom. aooo. !i.30 p m I M,M)IN(. Jj£ |fc IiARRAGE OF J~ J °toH JERRY" SCARED STlfp- 1 1 COM) 111 MMiM'dKK". -iiinl.o M K \|{O<> 111 M lOK Till IM-,| \Sl\\ li| m HSTIVAI. ***** SMAMI 1»W A "r. p.m.
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    • 292 9 KOLYNOS the 'Active' Chlorophyll toothpaste The instant you start brushing I. it keeps with Green Kolynos, you'll en o\ your breath fresh. its lively pleasant taste— you'll /.r' 2. %fe gum the glorious cool Gneshnesi thai troubles. only Kolynos with chlorophjli i. it checks can give! What's more— it last;
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    • 35 9 Tamerlane The Terrible IV^" SO TUfS tS THE CONQUEROR WHO "S. I I s^.<f?Sr^". ''"Sig <r^f I\\ WOULD RULE THE WO*LO! AND SO HE < Jfc Z^ Jrf^^J^Z^^r^^ 'aVa. \SH*t-L.' AH .UNDEFUORLDOF RATS^s V^KL' Jpt\#%^^\kJ C^
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  • 307 10 KOREA THREAT PUTS PRICE OF RUBBER UP Around the markets PRESIDENT Synjfman Rhee'fl throat I the Communist Chinese forces still in North Korea sent the price of rubber up bj i of a cent to 55] cents a lb. yesterday but depi the local share market. Tin hardened by 25
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  • 195 10 The Malayan Share Brrjcers Association said: Tht- Shan Market showed an easie; trend in all sections with a smaller turnover. At their 4 p.m. meetins members reported the following builnoi done: 88. Petrol 39 Federal Dispensary 52.85: Fraser and Neav e ords $2. $2.01 Gammon $3.02 J. $3
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  • 163 10 yHE Korean war threat sent the price of rubber up in Singapore yesterday by fiveeighths of a cent. First grade closed last night at 55> 4 cents a lb. There was some factory buying interest but seilers were inclined to ho'J ort'. Closing prices yesterday in cents per
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  • 16 10 Tho price of tin p-irc jrenterdai n i tf Blfl a pi. ii up
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  • 61 10 MXLBOt N ket on moves i markei very active wl Closinc (j ciay compjp day:— Australian Papa Aust. Cons-.:, md n Hill Prop Dun lops 1 Su'jur Drug House Golcisbroueh Mori r.c i. tu Mount I. veil Tarn Palta N. Broken Hill Patons rth A Amal Tin J
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  • 37 10 SINGAPORE Chin ducc p. p iry S3BJ rch $38 l a S3B 3 Coconut oil: quie: sellers Pepper; Mead] i tiPs »p $5: Muni s n Lami find p. Coconut oil: markei sr,2- buyers. stm
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  • 51 10 4 LTHOUGH <Klanß> Rub: fold 600 acre* to Pet it may tak.' plrte the tnu Castlefield's chaii Addinseli. say Ucely brfor, name of the pur consequently in r< initial payment of price. Necessary survi division of tit] sons connected wit! e^ncy. take two year;
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  • 47 10 Harrisons and Cr laya i Ltd. reports I January rubber ci Rubbrr Co. LI i Bonta Rubber I G&.ooo lb.. Jeram K Rubber Estate Ltd I Kundong Rubber 38.000 lb. Mental Co., Ltd.. 75,103 Bagan Rubtx i lb. and Tanjoi Estate I td. 55.600 lb.
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  • 55 10 ship. :bour Board peeled today are Ak;iKi Maru I Shoie] Maru 8 9 dish i 11. Chi 18. Si 1 lighter N W lon L'li 3n Pyrrhtu SS39, fn «M li B ROADS i oNti I Upta, Merllmau l\\l It ROADS Pul. 1 Sapphire, P< lander Prani Hal
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    • 919 10 I PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS STOREKEEPER in Teachers' Training College. Kota Bahru. Afje: 17—23. Qualiflcations: CAtiMH of the Federation. Std. VII English School. Salary— Std. VII: S72xB 84 102x6-138 150x6-228: Std. VIII: $90x6 102 120x6 138 150x6-228 1 plus COLA. Applications on form Oen. 147. obtainable from any District Office, to Director
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    • 667 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENT Overseer, Grade I. at Teachers' Training College. Kota Bahru. Salary: $150xA6 216 plus COLA. Duties: Looking after v.Mde acreage of land labour force of 26. College enrolment approximately 300 students. Quarters provided Applic ants should possess some experience of looking after motor mowers and tractors; Citizens of the
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    • 705 10 NOTICES NOTICE One of the leading Indian insurance companies, writing business in all classes of insurance, desires opening a branch and/or a Chief Agency and /or a Principal Representative's office at Singapore for Federated Malaya State Person with status and capable to organise substantial premium income in all departments will
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  • 88 12 MR. L. J. Jiskm.t. f:\eeulive Vice-President of the Imperial Commodities Corporation of New York, nho is now visiting Sinc»pi'ie to study the local rubber market. Mr. Jiskoot is visitini; his cor- j porat inn's a^sociat? <om-| party in Malaya AngloAmerican Corporation Lttl. He is also a
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  • 525 12 Research into Hardwoods A VALI'ABLE new booklet which will help the British building; industry to make the best use of the lesser known timbers from overseas, particularly those from the Far East, in maintaining the target of 300.000 new houses per year in Britain
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  • 206 12 TIN USED IN JUTE BAGS EXPERIMENTS in Britain ia the i>e of tin to -.-resir bags against rot iatcst development in the search tor wide field for the metal. Tin tor these experiments, is in the form of vv hat art known as I ■l^s i comb ii tion of
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  • 397 12 JAP BANK FOR INDIES DELAYED Cabinet decision JAKARTA. THR InJontsi.m Com minent is putting off 4 iluninn on the opening of an ladoaesiaa- Japanese I j ic-ionstru.tion hank. This bank is one of the.- plan afoot in Japan >r the develoMKStt of ln.v .tsu economy with apantsc capital. It is
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  • 5 12  - COMMERCIAL NEWS VIEWS j^juim i^^
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  • 129 12 SAN FRANCISCO. Thursday. YEW contract rates to Indonesia and Malayan ports 11 were announced by Pacific Straits and Pacific Indonesian shipping conferences. Special rate authorisation was given by the Pacific Indonesian conference on asphalt packed to Surabaya, Samaiang. Cheribon. Jakarta and Belaw:an Deli, effective February and
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  • 364 12 JAKARTA. Thursday THE Indonesian-Chinese trade -agreement is considered a step forward in Indonesia's trade and economy, but at the same time it is pointed out that the targets mentioned in the agreement arc nothing more than a guide and may not
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  • 151 12 PLASB doors designed for Internal "are translucent and which lei through I ant being transparent wore recently Intri Pilkington Brothers, a leading British fti manufacturers. The first doors arrived in Singapore three week< aso for i Gi.thrie and Co.. Ltd Pilk 1 ton's Malayan
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    60 12 me managing director of Huntlev and Palmer Ltd., Mr. J. R. Gales, who is due to arrive in Singapore tomorrow on a tour of the Colony and the Federation to in \>-i i markets. Mr. Gales who is head of the famous biscuit concern, will he visiting the
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    50 12 rpHK Hon I'eler Samuel, a A director of the AngtoSaxon Petroleum Co Ltd., and the Shell Petroleum To.. Ltd.. who is in Singapore in the course of a visit to the Far East. Second son of Viscount Pr;irsted. Mr Samuel is on the board of several other companies.
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  • 411 12 THE OUTLOOK for rabbet in l')s,i is reasonably hopeful" -tatis the Economist in a surxey of the industry. Natural rubber has not entered 'his year under the weight ot i gross surplus of nearly 200. 1in0 tons as the Ruhhtr Study Group last May feared
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  • 69 12 President fleet will be enlarged i I bigger shi an In and frrmht trafnc v now on 10l the r wife and Mi S three A;rport by Ml <>f the firm p mmt In Mr I agenc e and travel bur the Philipp Siam. M ion. India and P Thr
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  • 10 12 CAR OUTPUT IN U.K. UP in: nearly an noun< V
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  • 137 13 CRITICS FLAY ENGLAND LONDON. Thurs. BRITISH sports writers tori. i\ sympathised with the West Indies crowd that jeered and booed England's first innincs 'crawl in the Test match at Bridgetown. England batted five hours for 128 runs. Here are sports writers comments: Daily Sketch "It was a spineless display of
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  • 86 13 IPOH. Thur^ The British Adviser. Perak. Mr. 1. W. Blelioch will give away the championship pennant ar Saturdays nnal of the Perak Rugby Union knockout competition between Kinta Europeans, the holders, and Police. Kinta Europeans: Chandler; Winchester, A. N Other. Ryan. Clemo; A. N Other. Meikle:
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  • 44 13 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs. The Johore police Continc^nt rMdmin'on championships resulted as follows: Singles P. C. Ya>ob. 'Muar>. beat P. C Axil 'Kulai'. 17-18. 15-10. 15-4. Doubles: Abdul Razak and Abdul Shukor 'JB district' beat Insp. Tharmalinsam and Oh Cheng Kooi 'Muar> 15-11.
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  • 40 13 IPOH. Than. In a hard hitting semi-nnal tie of the mnior Division Ipoh knockout hockey competition yesterday the band of the Wftst Yorkshire Regiment held the 48 Gurkha infantry Brigade to a scoreless draw de-spite extra time.
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    50 13 GORDON. Norwich outsJde right, beats Roper. Arsenal outside left, in the air for the ball and heads for the Arsenal goal. Smith (3). Arsenal left back, covers his coa' area. Norwich caused a major upset in the F.A. Cup fourth round by winning this match at Highbury by 2 l.
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  • 355 13 BRIDGETOWN. (Barbados), Thursday. yHK West Indies did not enforce the follow-on when they dismissed England for 181 soon after the start of the fourth day's play in the second Tost here. At close of pfay West Indies had scored 272 for one
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  • 198 13 3,000 AT IHF GAMES PENANG, Thursday. pENAXCJ Hockey Association have made provision for 3.000 to see the Indian Hockey Federation XI in action ajjainst Penan* on Western Road ground on Saturday. Feb. 27. "We have received applica- Uona for tirkets from Kedah Perlia and Krian; Mr. Narian
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  • 586 13  -  EPSOM JEEP Rv l\ r ITH thp new season on the Malayan Turf now well under way. rival stables are bejfinnJn? to exploit their newcomers and there appears to be some really good material among the batch of newcomers who will have their introduction
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  • 20 13 KLANG. Thurs. High School Boys defeated the Old Boys at rugger yesterday by six points to three.
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  • 30 13 KLANG. Than. AngloChinese School. Klang. beat Jubilee School 7-0 at soccer yesterday. Scorers: Yusuf (5) 1 1 l.atifT (1). The other goal was 1 an "own" coal.
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  • 113 13 'THE Argonaut-s. playing their first game of the seasr.n. beat Fraser Neave 4-1 in a friendly soccer match at River Valley Road on Wednesday Awang Bakar .scored a "hat trick" in the first half the first two goal.s coming aftei good work on the
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  • 127 13 MANILA. Thurs. STEFFAN STOCKENBERG. Sweden's No 3 tennis player, and K.H. Ip. Hong Kong champion, were both eliminated in yesterday's quarter-finals in the Asian championships. Stockenberg lost to the Philippines boy star. Johnny Jose, after a tense three-hour struggle. 7—5. 5—7. 7—5. 3—6.
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  • 125 13 PENANG. Thurs. —Standard of cricket in Malayan schools lis expected to improve this year, a Malayan Cricket Asso- ciation official said today, i Seventeen Kirkby graduate.*--i the first batch to receive cerMi ricates of proficiency from Hie Lancashire Youth* Cricket Council, will help
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  • 46 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. S Ganesan was the individual champion at the South Indian Rovers S.C.s first athlenc meet here yesterday. He won the lOC. 220 and 440 yards events and was second in the half-mile. Selangor Railways won the inter-Club relay.
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  • 214 13 SEVENTY teams two more than last year-have entered for the fly» divisions of the S.A.F.A. league in the coming season, which starts officially nn Mar. 1. Following are the full entries: FIRST DIVISION Tigers Rovers. Amicable A A.. Chinese Athletic. Fathul Karlb. Indian R.C.. Kota
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  • 1007 14  - Singapore had 2 goals disallowed in 3-1 defeat by Indians .JOHN MARKS By GREAT 'KEEPING BY PILLAI Indian H.F 3; Singapore 1. SINGAPORE put in a splendid performance against the touring Indians in the opening hockey game at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday and with ordinary luck would have held their
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  • 211 14 By THE SPORTS EDITOR r) THE Indians the victory, to Singapore the glory, i That is my verdict of yes- terday's hotkey at Jalan Be- I sar Stadium. This was also the ungrudging compliment paid to Singapore by the Indians, a fine > band of
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  • 72 14 MANCHESTER. Thurs.- The English League overwhelmed the League of Ireland by nine goals to one here yesterday. The Englishmen adapted themselves better to the waterlogged pitch after being held to 2 1 at half-time. Don Revie. playinc on his own ground, and Jackie Sewell. an English
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  • 140 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. rE Federation of Malaya Amateur Athletic Union is meeting in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday to decide whether to send a team to the Asian Games at Manila from May 1 to 9. The Asian Games Federation recently approved Malaya's application for
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  • 198 14 Selangor bid for soccer prestige KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. "J shall do my best, v ith the help of my committee, to restore Selangors lost prestige at soccer" said Dr. K Sundram, newly elected president of the FAS. at th> annual general meeting at the YMCA last night. Dr. Sundram was
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  • 101 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— Se- I lancor Combined Schools beat an eight -man Selangor Chinese R.C. 'earn 4-1 in a Selangor Hockev Association Div 1 cS> match on the Victoria Institution ground today. Centre forward Baharuddin c;rr I the schoolboys a 1-0 lead when he converted a
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  • 24 14 The Sineapore Cricket Association first committee meeting of the year will be held next Friday, Feb 19 at the S.C.C. at 5.15.
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  • 22 14 The annual meeting of cricketers of the Singapore Cricket Club will be held in the clubhou.se at 5 15 today.
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  • 260 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Thms. rCHNICAL College gave a grand display of fighting rugby in beating Royal Air Force by five points igoali to three points (tryi in their seven-a-side rugby quarterfinal tie here today. The Collegians were later joined in the semi-finals by Selangor Club "A."
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  • 429 14 AUSSIES SCRAP? THROUGH AFTER EXTRA TIME yHK ROYAL Australian Air l-om i,. im through to the second round of the Sinn a side rugby competition on the Padanj) with a spectacular extra-time tetory over ii rr In the other matches flayed yest; rday Blnnpore f3i Club "B" beat Royal BngUi
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  • 62 14 BYD! ON a John Land thi n ath' The loi runner had I four-mlnuti An oili( i.ii annoui thr race sairl ed effect ol l.anih w.in This n ake«, tl menal in the Lady took th first abou Australlana Jli Aloe And' Finland's P
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  • 27 14 KUAI a'ld Perak r* will p] i ard the Teams: grtangoi M. S: Sinnh. B in Singh. Selangoi Women Esme Tan Ki. omen nandf
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  • 22 14 KUALA LUMPtffi Owinc to heavy rain SelangQT Women's Hocke\ fixture between r.W P Club and Selangor Chinese R.c was postponed
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    • 106 14 Sports Diary TAIPIXC. Soccer: Frri Re^l v. Kins Edward VII School. IPOH Hockey: Knockout firnl Kinta Indians v. Malays, padanp Kl ALA 1.1MPIK Hockey: SH.A. Leaeue. Dtv. 1 SIA v. YMSA, Taylor Road. Friendly: Selangor v. HQ Malaya. Garrison sround: Selaneor Club v. Selancor Sikh Union, padanc Sorrrr: Bredil Shield.
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