The Straits Times, 30 January 1951

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1951. PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • 433 1 They Rush To Get Passports In Federation From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. THOUSANDS of China-born Chinese youth.between 17 and 25 are trying to quit the Federation to avoid being called up under the Manpower Regulations. Armed Malay police controlled the crowd at Kuala Lumuur
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  • 162 1 TWO TOP MALAY BANDITS KILLED from Our Staff Correspondent KJALA LUMPUR, Mon. TUYO Malay bondit leadAtA t rs in Selar.j»or, one of th in with $IJ,OOO on his head, have Deon killed by security forces near Kuala Lumpur. They were Hither bin Haji Ibrahim and Abdul Manan. Hither, who was
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  • 105 1 BRITAIN'S total defence iorces will number 800.000 by April 1. the Prime Minister. Mr. Attlea, said today in a statement on defence in the Hou.-e of Commons. Two hundred and thirty-flve thousand reserves officers and men, mainly trom Britain's wartime forces would be called up for
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  • 22 1 JAKARTA. Mon.— The Indonesian Government is to rein": 3d uce metal coins to replace 25 and 10 cent notes. Renter
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  • 17 1 Th«- Governor. Sir Frajiklin Gimson. has recognised M. Ber«r> Geladp as French Vice- l in Singapore.
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  • 162 1 S'pore To Name 'Ideal Work Girl' A COMPETITION open to all working girls in the Colony is being sponsored by the Singapore Junior Chamber of Commerce, to choose "Singapore's Ideal Working Girl." It is proposed that the entrant must be recommended by a senior member of the firm or office
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  • 34 1 THE HAGUE, Mon.— Dr. Dirk U. Stikker. Foreign Minister in the Dutch coalition Cabinet, which resigned last week, today was sounding party leaders on forming a ~\v government Reuter.
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  • 69 1 Air Vice-Marshal R. S. Blucke. who has just taken over as Air Officer Commanding the R.A.F in Malaya, flies to Kuala Lumpur today to inspect the R.A.F. station there and visit Advanced Air Headquarters. The Air Vice-Marshal will remain in Kuala Lumpur until
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  • 29 1 MANILA, Mon. Two Americans were killed and another was seriously wounded in an ambush today near Macalelon, about 200 miles south-east of Manila.— UP
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  • 38 1 COLOMBO. Mon—Sir Esler Denlng, British roving envoy lin the Far East, arrived in Colombo today from Singapore. He will confer with the Ceylon Prime Minister Don Stephen Senanayake, and the British High Commissioner. Sir Walter Hankinson.—Reuter.
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  • 16 1 MADRID, Mon—Six people were killed when a snow avalanche fell on two small
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  • 59 1 CHINESE YOUTHS, most of them between the ages of 17 and 25. crowding the counters of tbe Immigration Department, at Kuala Lumpur, yesterday morning to get certificates of admission in preparation for going; to China. Since the middle of last week, the number of persons applying
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  • 107 1 ASINGAPORE-based Sunderland flying boat was reported from Taipeh last night to have crash-landed ir> the sea 240 miles south of Okinawa. It is said to be carying 12 passengers and a crew of ten. British and American aircraft were searching the sea off the east
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  • 60 1 |7<OUR Chinese cook* enjoyr ing a game of mahjong in a coffee shop near Tengah airfield were severely burnt when the pressure lamp under which they were playing fell on to the table and exploded. The coffeeshop proprietor, who was looking on. was also injured slightly.
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  • 28 1 LONDON, Mon.— Mr. Ernest Bevin, the Foreign Secretary ill with pneumonia, was much better tonight. His temperature is now normal and his condition was satisfactory. Reuter.
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  • 22 1 HONG KONG. Mon.— Three Vampire Jet fighters have arrived here from Britain to strengthen the air defences.— Reuter-AAP
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  • 164 1 WASHINGTON, Monday. OLANS for a government guayule rub Der produc- tion programme in South Texas were announced by Senator Lyndon B. Johnson. Mr. Johnson, Chairman of the Senate Preparedness Committee, said in a statement that 1,600 acres in the irrigated winter garden area
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  • 60 1 1 ram Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Mon. A STATEMENT on Malayan rubber exports to China is expected to be made in the House of Commons tomorrow. The matter is being raised by Mr. L. D. Gammans, Conservative, who is asking how exports durin ff the
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  • 22 1 A four-year-old Malay girl a A s killed by a Malay-driven R.AJ* lorry at the 14* m.s. Changi Road yesterday.
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  • 12 1 Four tona of rubber worth about $13,440 was stolen from
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  • 89 1 PITTSBURGH, Mon.—Development of an electric autopilot to guide planes on a split-second accuracy is announced by Dr. Clinton Hanna, associate director of Westinghouse Research Laboratories. "With the autopilot at the controls a plane will be able to take the steepest dives, turns, rolls and loops with
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  • 378 1 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Monday. •pWEN TV-FI VE people, including soldiers, dance hostesses, civilians and a two-year-old girl, were injured when a hand-grenade was thrown into the centre of the floor of Seremban's only dance hall the Yam Yam Dance Hall at 11
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    53 1 MR. NORMAN WARD. Malayan Establishment Officer who will act as Singapore Municipal President when Mr. T. P. F. McNeice goes on leave on Feb. 17. He was formerly Principal Assistant Secretary in the office of the Commissioner-Gene-ral and later Principal Assistant Secretary of the service branch of the Federal Secretariat.
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  • 68 1 CHINESE NEW YEAR SUPPLEMENT THE Singapore Free Press will publish, tomorrow in addition to the usual eight-page newspaper, an eight-page Chinese New Year Supplement. It will contain special articles, short stories and pictures. In the same issue, the Free Press begins publication of a new series of articles by the
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  • 190 1 Ground, sea, air attack on Inchon TOKYO. Mon. rjEN. Mac Arthur threw a powerful ground, sea and air assanlt against the Inchon area during the past 24 hours. While tank-Jed vanguards of the «th Army advancing along the Suwon-Inchon road were last reported probing forward from a point within 14
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  • 51 1 MELBOURNE. Mon Sir Douglas Copland Vice-Chan-cellor of the Australian National University, said in Melbourne last night that Australia should recognise Communist China and allow her to take part in world affairs. The Chinese Government was the strongest that country had had for 100 years, he added.—
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  • 26 1 LONDON, Mon— The British Ford Motor Co. exported 146.000 cars, trucks and tractors in 1950, an increase of 48,000 over 1949.— A P
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  • 2245 2 The Perak River Hydro -Electric Power Company, Limited. Statement to tbe Members by the Chairman. MR. WILLIAM SHEARER, on Tbe Directors' Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st July, 1950. The account* and the Directors' report for the year ended 31st July, l»50. deal with a period
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  • 189 2 TEHERAN, Monday. THE Shah of Persia, Mohammad Reza Pahlevi, issued orders yesterday for the >ale to the peasants of all the Crown lands he inherited from his father. A Royal Proclamation appointed a special committee to organise the transfer. The lands will be
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  • 101 2 CALLANDER (Ontario, Mon. piVE girls with a nvlliondollar hank balance, the Dionne quintuplets, plan to visit Britain and Europe this summer. They will be 17 in May. Said Olira Dionne, their father: "They will make their own decision. They have seen a lot more than
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    • 241 2 vyEST German tax advisers whose business is to save their clients' money had better be softspoken about how they do it. One enterprising adviser who proudly revealed his tricks in an advertisement has been fined 100 marks. The court said it was illegal to
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  • 65 2 SAOUIK AHMAD, aged 57, went to tbe cinema in 1921, was struck by the beauty of tbe leading lady, went home and divorced bis wife. Since then he has been married and divorced to 42 women. "A woman's heart can be weighed only against
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  • 16 2 KARACHI, Mon— A 12-man F.cnch mission la coming to Pakistan next month to dis-
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    • 487 2 notices settlement of penang scholarship fund The Trustees of Uu Fund wist) to consider as soon as possible applications for scholarships to Infttitattons oversea* for courses commencing during the present year. 2. Forms of application may be obtained from the Secretary of the Board of Trustees, Education Office. Penang. When
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    • 373 2 NOTICES ALFRED CHARLES WILLIS, DECEASED All persons having claims against the Estate of Alfred Charles Willis deceased late of the Singapore Marine Hostel. Anson Road, Singapore, who died on the 18th January 1951 are requested to send particulars of thler claim forthwith to the undersigned. Dated the 27th day of
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  • 345 3 WASHINGTON, Monday. PRESIDENT TRUMAN today welcomed the French Premier, M. Pleven, to the United States for crucial talks on the French-American strategy against Communism. "We hope you will have the most pieasant and profitable visit. We in the United States are all friends
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  • 42 3 GENERAL Omar Bradley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Ch'.el of Staff, tells the Seaatc Preparedness Subcommittee that the military lon et bein? built up "are ■■fßeieat in my opinion to iverr disaster for our counirv.' A.P. picture.
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  • 148 3 Mr. Dulles Meets Jap Premier TOKYO. Mon. TIIR John Foster Dulles and l'l Prime Minister, Mr. Yoshida, concluded a < OOF and 40 minute v rmvting'' on Jap- eace treaty questions t and immediately left onference with Gencra] MacArthur. spokesman for the l peace mission" said n attempts were made
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  • 38 3 LONDON. Mon. British Overseas Airways Corporation lost over €5.000.000 during 1950, Sir Miles Thomas, chairman said last night. This was £3.000.000 less than the 1949 deficit for the state-owned airline, Sir Miles
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    56 3 INDIAN REPRESENTATIVES at the principal capitals met Pandit Nehru at Paris recently. From left are: R. X Nehru (Stockholm) B. R. Sen (Rome); Madam Pandit (Washington); Sir Senegal Rau (United Nations); Premkishen (Berlin); Sardar Harditt Singh Malik (Paris); Sir Girja Shankar Bajpai (Secretarygeneral, Indian Foreign Affairs, New Delhi);
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  • 218 3 LAKE SUCCESS, Monday. JiYVELVE Arab-Asian nations polished up a refurbished plan today for a "peace conference" with Communist China and prepared to submit it to inspection by United Nations delegates. The new trimming to the old proposal was the addition of a clause, at
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  • 160 3 Coal Barges To Berlin Held Up BERLIN, Mon. piGHTY barges carrying 40,000 tons of West German coal were held up on the Mitteland Canal yesterday causing an acute fuel shortage in both East and West Berlin. The barges were stopped between Brunswick, in the British Zone, and the Soviet Zone
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  • 229 3 Meat Fam ine May Push Out Labour LONDON, Monday. THE British meat shortage appears to be raising a political storm which may even push the Labour Government from office. The Press has almost unanimously attacked the Government on the new 20 per cent, cut in the meat ration announced on
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  • 52 3 LONDON, Mon. Soviet agents are offering transport planes for sale in South America and low-priced automobiles in Europe. The types of transport planes for commercial airlines are priced at U.S. $40,000 and U.S. $125,000. Earlier this mor.th, a medium-powered car was exhibited in Western Europe, price
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    25 3 MX. WINSTON Churchill, British Opposition leader, pictured in London on his return from a holiday in North Afrea and France. A.P. picture.
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  • 72 3 ROME. Mon— Mr. Robert Delaney and his wife, Mary are reported by hospital officials to* be out of danger from injuries suffered in a plane crash near Taraquina, Italy, on Saturday. They still have not been told their daughter, three months-old Mary Helen, was killed. Mr.
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  • 243 3 'Don't Arm Japs Chinese Warn The U.S. HONG KONG, Mon. T*HE Chinese Commun- ists today warned the United States through their official organ, the People's Daily, that if she pushed through her plans for Japanese rearmament and a separate peace with Japan, "a tense situation would ensue in the East".
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  • 173 3 COLUMBIA. Mon. SENATOR J. William Fulbright said in Columbia. "We should not undertake at this time a major land war with China In an address at the Christian College for Women, he called for withdrawal of troops from Korea; warned against failure to make a
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  • 56 3 MANILA, Mon. 'J'WO ice cream sellers fought in a bus station over the sale c/ a Id-cent ice cream. One of them died of knife wounds. The other ivas charged with murder And, police said, the customer they were flgiiitng about bought his ice cream
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  • 224 3 Colonialism Must End— Soekarno MANILA, Monday. T'HE Indonesian President, Dr. Soekarno, addressA ing a joint session Congress, denounced colonialism as "contrary to the principles of the charter of the United Nations" and asserted that the Indonesian "struggle is not yet at an end, for part of our national territory is
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  • 99 3 NEW YORK, Mon.. A REPRESENTATIVE of the self-styled South Moluccas Republic said Ambonese soldiers in Java awaiting repatriation have appealed to Queen Juliana to help speed formerly in the Royal Netherlands Indonesian Army, cabled the Queen demanding to be repatriated to New Guinea or to parts
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  • 367 4 A STREAMLINED new liner, me 0,0~0-ion AjiwailKi i iiagram niver"), latest audition 10 tne neei ot me uoyai imerocean UMS. vtuu accommodation lor n«any 2,uuU passengers, glided into Singapore narbour yesierday on nor maiden voyag* lrom Amsterdam witn only two pas&engers. They are Mr.
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  • 61 4 RECRUITS ARE WANTED Frm O-t Staff Correspondent PENANG. Mon. The Army recruiting officer. Cant. W. H. BlPkemore. will visit Penane; and BaHk Pulau from Feb. 5 to Feb. 10 to interview recruits. Cant. B'^kemore will be at Oarri«=nn h°idauarters. Northam Rd.. Penan?*, from Feb. 5 to Feb. 7. md ?t
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  • 38 4 From Our Own Corresnondmt IPOH. Mon.— Girls will give the majority of items at the first vprietv concert orpanLseri bv thp Haii Abdul Wahab English School at the Ander'On R-hool Hill on Tuesdsy i d Wpdnrsday.
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  • 55 4 From Our ?:ar: Corir.-pornient KVANTAN, Mon. (\NE hundred and ten bags of mail uihich had been hela\ up at Jerantut and Raub for over a week by the floods arrived in Kuantan on Saturday by two mail trucks. With an off-duty clerks and delivery men helping all mail
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  • 177 4 From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR, Monday. WITH the death of another victim at Sungei PatanJ hospital last night, casualties in Saturday's attack on squatters in the Bukit Junun area have risen to seven dead and five wounded. About, 26 huts were set on fire
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  • 34 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Inche Ahmad bin Hajl Mohd. Nor. from Public Relations at Kuala Lumpur, has been transferred as offlcer-in-charge of the mobile unit for Bentone and Temerloh.
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  • 86 4 MRS. R. S. Clemons, president of the Singapore Animal Lovers League, has appealed to a Singapore woman motorist to contact her about a cat which was tied to the back of her car. The woman motorist stopped her car outside Raffles Museum on Friday
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  • 72 4 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA. Mo.:. Vaccinations with B.C.G. will be available free at Malacca from Feb. 2, it was announced at a schoolteachers' gathering at the St. Francis' Institution addressed by Dr. Buss-Hanson, head of the United Nations team, and Dr. E. A. Hardy of the Malacca
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  • 44 4 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR. Mon.—No issue of ration sugar has been made in Muar this year because of delay in shipments from Singapore. A shipment has now arrived ard an issue covprlng four weeks' ration a person is being given.
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  • 28 4 KUANTAN, Mon. When inspectors tried to collar bu'ls within the Town Board area, Jan Mohamed "•hooed them away. He was 3n?d $5 by the Kuan tan mai^rpte.
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  • 8 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Men Contributions towards the
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  • 44 4 THE THIRD COMKT the first for BOAC. takes off from Hatfield airfield. England on its maiden flight? Singapore will see the Comet in a few months when provine trials to the East begin— Straits Times picture.
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  • 458 4 Comet Will Land In S 'pore On Trial Flight To Australia JETAHttlNB. *O» /KAHGrf^OO- WTO Straits Times Air Correspondent BRITAIN'S De Havilland Comet, the world's first jet airliner, will touch down in Singapore this year, probably in October, on its way from London to Australia on a training: flight. Aviation
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  • 103 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. yjORE than 200 Police con1 stables and Asian inspecors will tomorrow join the anks of the Malayan Police force after completing their raining. At a passing-nut parade at ;he Police Depot, Kuala Lumjur, the acting Commissioner )f Police, Mr. W. D. Robinson, vill take
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  • 55 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon In the Police Court today when the case against Osman, a Special Constable accused of causing hurt to Sgt. Narang Singh by shooting him, was called the prosecution asked for a further month's postponement beoause the Sergeant could not yet leave
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  • 210 4 HE DIDN'T LIKE HIS C.O. PTE Samat bin Buang went absent from his unit of the RAOC for four months because he could not agree with his commanding officer. When the commanding officer was changed he returned Samat was sentenced to five months' detention for absence by a Singapore court
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  • 96 4 THE head of the Central Statistical Branch of the Air Ministry, Mr. S. A. Day, arrives in Singapore today on a week's visit to Headquarters, Far East Air Force. Mr. Day's department controls the official 'memory' of the R.A.F.. and has branches in all Command headquarters.
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  • 97 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— An accident a year ago In which Chong Wai Vien. a partner of Oriental Opticians, Singapore, was fatally Injured was described to the Johore Bahru coroner today. Lee Wai Yin. a former dance hostess at the Happy World
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  • 51 4 From Our Own ror respondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— The following have been appointed to the Kota Tinggi Excise Board for the current year:- the Administrative Officer (chairman), ttie District Officer (vice-chairman), the Medical Officer, Kota Tinggi, Mr. A. Webb, Mr. T. A. D. Menon and Mr. Tan Tok
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  • 117 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. OIGNALLER Colin Maxwell, aged 19, and now serving in Malaya, has been presented by the G.0.C., Malaya, Major-General R. E. Urquhart, with a shield for being the year's best all-round National servicemen in the Malaya Signal Regiment. The
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  • 238 5 Higher Service Examination Maugham is one of the authors that candidates for the first entrance examination for Part I of the higher service, to be held in Singapore, will be expected to know. Other authors are Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, Evelyn Waugh and Graham
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  • 110 5 Our Staff Corrrspondrnt KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. ]yjORE than 2,000,000 tons of cargo were discharged or loaded at Federation ports during 1950. Figures Issued today by the Registrar of Statistics, Wr H.L. Barnett, show that during the year 1.153.693 torn ol general cargo were unloaded
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  • 64 5 KOTA BAHRU. Mon— Mr. F H J. Dhal, Travelling Scout C mimissioner. was the guest ar a dinner at Kota Bahru attended by the Tungk MahkoU. the British Adviser, members of the committee of th > K.lantan State Boy Scouts ion and Scout officers Mr Dhal's
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  • 102 5 SINGAPORE ART SOCIETY, photographic exhibition. British Council Hall. Stamford Road, 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. INIVERSITY OF MALAYA, special convocation, Oei Tiong Ham Hall. 2 pin ST. ANDREWS'^ SCHOOL CIVICS CLUB, Mr. Jonathan Chelliah on "Australian Unhersity," School Hall. Woodsville. 3.15 p.m. CHINESE V.M.C.A.. Selegie Road, body
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  • 301 5 All Spore Police Check Security MALAY and Gurkha police squads charged with fixed bayonets ii. Singapore streets yesterday when the entire Singapore Police Force staged 'Operation Popper'-an internal security anti-riot exercise. Steel-helineted constables with wkkerwork shields and gas masks charged with drawn batons, retreated
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  • 48 5 YONG Kim. 50-year-old farmer in Braddell Road, Singapore, Is a distressed man. The recent floods destroyed all the vegetables in his half-acre plot. It cost him $400. Yung's misfortune is typical of many Singapore farmers whose vegetable crops were ruined by the rains.
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  • 100 5 At a recent meeting, former members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade in Paya Lebar, Singapore, decided to resuscitate the Brigade. Dr. G. Haridas, Commissioner of the Brigade in Singapore, and Dr. W. J. Vickers chairman, were present and stressed the fact that the resuscitation of this
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  • 229 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Munday. A FTER an eight-day break because of floods, the first through passenger mail trains between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur ran again today. Day mail trains left both Singapore and Kuala Lumpur this morning. i The line itself
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  • 50 5 WE BOUGHT MOST BRITISH CYCLES LONDON, Mon. y^ALAYA, with its 5,000,000 population, bought more British bicycles last year than any other country in the world. Of the total of more than two million. 237,880 were bought by Malaya. Pakistan, with a population of over 70 millions, came next with 217,236.
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  • 52 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. TWO brothers of the Sultan of Pahang who appealed against sentences of three years' and two-«nd-half years' Imprisonment respectively for cheating the Mercantile Bank at Kuantan of $18,000 had their appeals dismissed today. They were Tungku Abdul Aziz ibni AJmarhom and Tungku Hussein
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  • 378 5 Municipal Union Wants Higher Living Allowance INCREASED cost-of-living allowances, ranging 1 from $25 to $70 above existing emoluments, is claimed for a married officer with children by the Singapore Municipal Services Union in a memorandum to the Municipal Commissioners The memorandum, which is signed by the president of the union,
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  • 26 5 PARIT BUNTAR, Mon.— Ngoi Kuat Fong was fined 5350 at Parlt Buntar for having ten uncustomed watches at his shop in Muntrl Street.
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  • 125 5 GOVT. MEN WANT 90 p.c. C.O.L. THE 4,000-strong Singapore Federation of Government Employees' Unions, has sent a memorandum to the Colonial Secretary asking for an increase of 30 per cent cost-of-living allowance, because of the rising prices of essential commodities in Singapore. At present Singapore Government employees geu a C.O.L.
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  • 51 5 BECAUSE his creditors were pressing him, Yeo Ah Chee, a 30-year-old house patnter, decided to end his life. He took a solution of caustic soda, and died seven months later in the General Hospital. Yesterday, a verdict of suicide was returned at the inquest in the Singapore Coroner's
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  • 242 5 'STRUGGLE LEGITIMATE'— Brazier rrom Our Staff Correspondent SERE MB AN, Mon. "JN Malaya you have the beginnings of a labour movement which can play an important part in the development of the economic and political life of this country. The struggle to attain social justice and equality of opportunity are
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  • 158 5 100 ft. flood stops a mine MACHINERY and 111 equipment of the Kesarig Tin Mine, 17 miles from Malacca, are under 100 feet of water which poured in during the floods. 'There is no hope of salvaging; the machinery ana equipment at present." says a statement Issued in Singapore by
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  • 115 5 MR Viktor Grosz, a Singapore Government servant, who sued his wife, Hilda Gesina Grosz, for a divorce on the ground of her desertion, was granted a decree nisi by the Chief Justice. Sir Charles Murr3y-Aynsley. In the Singapore Hign court yesterday. Mr. Grosz told the court
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  • 61 6 MRS A S. BROWN desires to express her gratitude for the many expressions of sympathy and kindnesses recently extended to her. MR. MRS. C. of Meru Tin Ltd., Jelapang thank friends A relatives for their presence A: gifts on the occasion of the, niurriage of their son Che Ahnvd
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  • 785 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., Jan. 30, 1951. Boom Year For Trade The bare figures of the value of last year's trade do not give, of course, by any means a complete picture of a remarkable year. But they are truly astonishing figures, and they do paint with broad strokes
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  • 348 6 Although nothing has been heard of the "White Australia" policy in Malaya for some months past, the Straits Times is still receiving pamphlets written by Australians to show their stay-at-home countrymen how harmful that policy was as administered by the former Federal Government, and how it ought to
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  • 1070 6  - INDO-CHINA: FRENCH LIABILITY HUGH GIBB By WHEN I was in IndoChina last summer, most independent observers there believed that the political and military situation had reached a virtual dead1 o c k between the French and their VietNamese allies on the xme side and the Com-munist-led Viet Minh on the
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    • 79 6 T*HE United States Government is to freeze both A prices and wages. How silly of it. Every official in Malaya knows the idea will never work. As It Is probably fair to say that the proportion of keen businessmen trying to avoid controls Is about the same
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    • 171 6 THE Registrar, Board of Architects, in a letter published on Jan. 22 under the heading "Architects' Fees", stated that the Interpretation Ordinance 1951 preserves the scale of fee* passed by the Governor-in-Council under the Architects Ordinance 1926. although this Ordinance was repealed in 1941. With respect, no
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    • 89 6 The Time J CANNOT bear the tension in my mind any longer since seeing the hawker with the red swollen face and itching body (he seems to be scratching all the time) surrounded by schoolchildren every afternoon buying food and other articles from him. He has what seems
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    • 118 6 T AM afraid many are A misinformed on the b 1 a c k-marketing of sugar. The black-marketing is carried on by the licensed dealers. They will supply only the authorised amount to the rationed customers at the controlled price. Any extra amount has to De
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    • 106 6 WHY must film distributors treat their adult public as teachers treat a kindergarten class? Your film critic tells us that because Singapore people have "a good deal of starkness in their own lives they want a bit of escapism". This, presumably, made tht box-office boys doubt
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    • 136 6 LIKE many others, I cannot endorse the view of "An Indian", whose letter headed "An Indian to a Chinese" was published on Jan. 26, About the reasons of Chinese intervention in Korea. The North Koreans had the firm assurance of military heflp from China and Russia
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  • 537 6 On the Margin Camera Arliats p the Singapore Art Society has done nothing else, it has stimulated public interest in the art of the camera to a very marked degree. When I went to the annual exhibition of photography on Saturday momtrg the British Council hall was full of people
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    • 792 6 CLASSfyiED ADS. TO YVONNE, wife 0* A. R. Bnyder. at Kanriang Kerbau on «7th January, a «oo. Both well. HELPS On 27th January. 1951, at RAF. Hospital, Changl, to Marie, wife of Dennis Helps, a daughter. Joanna Louise. VAlfDERZANDEN: To Nel. wife •f C H. van der Zanden at Kandang
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    • 31 6 EVERBRIGHT OPTICAL CO. Offering Complete Services essential to Eye Comfort Visual Efficiency. (1) VISUAL MALYtIS (2) VISUAL TRAINING (3) GLASSES IF NEEDED C. S. CHONG, OPT. D. 19. CHULIA ST.. STORE.
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  • 400 7 Some Employers Refuse Time To Volunteers pOUR members of the Singapore Volunteer Special Constabulary have lost their jobs because they were mobilised on V.S.C. duties for three weeks during the December riots in Singapore. Mr. J. M. Mason, Commandant of the V.SC told the Straits
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  • 55 7 MR. MAMORU SHINOZAKI former Welfare Officer in the Municipality during the occupation, was visited aboard the Shir»i Maru yesterday by Dr. Lim Boon Keng (extreme right), whom he calls "Papa San," and Mrs. Lim Boon Keng. All visitors aboard were checked by a man from the
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  • 203 7 S'PORE DELEGATE FOR U.K. TALKS IIR. T. Van der Gaast, Deputy Secretary for Economic Affairs, Singapore, is leaving for London this week to attend a nine-power conference on commodity procurements. All Commonwealth countries are expected to send representatives to this conference, which begins on Feb. 6. A U.S. observer and
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  • 49 7 Two thousand needy people over 60 will receive gifts of rice, sugar, milk and money at the Great and New Worlds this morning for the Chinese New Year. Similar distribution of gifts today will be mse'e by the Shaw Brothers organisation at Ipoh, Penang and Malacca.
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  • 29 7 The offices of the Fisheries Department in Singapore have been moved from the fourth floor. Fullerton Building, to godown No. 3 at Telok Ayer Basis. Singapore 2.
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  • 104 7 A FAVOURABLE balance oi over $1,000 is reported by the Singapore Family Benefit Society in 1950, for the first time for several years. Over $8,000 was paid out to the families ol 1A members who died during the year. One of them. Mrs. R. Pestana
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  • 103 7 Whisky Was Spirited Away— Gaol PHUA Ah Soy saw a man take three bottles of whisky from his lorry and put them in a trishaw. He chased the man and caught him. but when he returned he found the trishaw driver had ridden off with the whisky. Yesterday, the man
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  • 104 7 FN Yang Meng. 30-year-old manager of a sundry goods shop in Serangoon •v V,?* vest «day sentenced m the Singapore First District court to three months' imprisonment on charges of gelling sugar above the controlled price and dealing in controlled articles without a licence fn Mr -r
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  • 80 7 BURMA'S Foreign Minister Sao Hkun Hkio. arrived in Singapore yesterday afternoon by KLM Constellation. f r ?J" J a ar t* 'or informal talks with the CommissionerGeneral Mr Malcolm MacDonald. The Foreign Minister i s on his way back to Rangoon after talks with the Indonesian
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  • 61 7 he kept a radio which a Malay woman had asked him to deliver to a shop for over a month an Indian, Tha^gaveloo, was yesterday sentenced in Singapore to six months' imprisonment and one year's noiice supervision. Thangaveloo, who admitted two previous convictions pleaded guilty to
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  • 210 7 A MAN who maintained four of his dead brother's rx children and claimed income tax relief was allowed his appeal when his case was reviewed by the Income Tax Board in Singapore The Board dealt with four appeals, three of which were dismissed. In one case
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  • 143 7 CHAMBER OPPOSES CONTROLS UNLESS the Government can show the benefits of price control, the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce will oppose the Government decision made last week to study the immediate need for control of a wide range of essential commodities. The Chamber felt that the control of goods was
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  • 76 7 A MALAY, Syed Hussain bin Kadir, yesterday claimed trial in Singapore to breaking into the house of Mohd. Ali bin Abdullah in Woodlands Road, Singapore to steal two watches. He was alternatively charged with assisting In the disposal of a watch valued at $65 at Jalan Ah
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  • 44 7 A Singapore revenue officer found five quarts of dutiable samsu in a rubber tube carried by a passenger in a bus. In Singapore yesterday Llm Quee Kee, a woman aged 55. was fined $30. in default one month's imprisonment.
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  • 38 7 The annual general meeting of the Women's Group of the Army Civil Service Union of Singapore will be held at 3.30 p.m. tomorrow at the ACSU Hq., the former Central Pass Issue Office, at Canning Rise.
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  • 101 7 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A MALAYAN Tito may be j rM operating among the bandits. At least it seems certain that they rely on the Western bourgeoisie Charles Lamx> instead of on Marx, Lenin, and Stalin when important matters are at stake— such
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  • 105 7 'CONNIE' WAITED FOR V.I. P. KLM Constellation delayed its take-off from Kalian* airport yesterday afternoon by five minutes to take on board a YIP who was scheduled to awive by .Mr Ceylon from Darwin. The YIP, Commander Van Der Schatte, of the Royal Netherlands Navy, is on his way to
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  • 289 7 Crackers for the Chinese New Year piREWORKS may be let r off in Singapore between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Feb. 6, Chinese New Year, the police said yesterday. But sand-crackers are banned and no fireworks may be let off near a hospital or anywhere where a public nuisance
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  • 68 7 NG Peng Wan, aged 34, was yesterday charged in Singapore with stealing a fountain pen belonging to Ho Ah Yee at Joo Chiat Road. He was also charged with fraudulent possession of two fountain pens, and offering his gold ring to a detective not to arrest him.
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  • 145 7 From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR, Monday. m NGEI Patani branch of the Malayan Chinese Association is to appeal to the Kedah Mentri Besar, Tungku Ismail, to remit the $25.00 C fine imposed on Sungkop village on Saturday '•While we do not question the justice
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  • 301 7 ELECTRICITY PROBE URGED BY McNEICE 2INGAPORE Municipal Commissioners at their monthly ordinary meeting to-morrow, will be asked to set up a special committee to go Into the question of electricity supply and advise on what policy should be adopted to meet piesent load requirements. A motion to be tabled by
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  • 104 7 MR. J. Krane, Chief of the Service Organisation of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, arrived in Singapore last night from Brussels to discuss plans for the ICFTU education programme for Asia with Mr. Dhyan Mungat, ICFTU chief in Singapore. Here for about two weeks.
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  • 149 7 WHILE playing with her brother and other small children, three-year-old Dorothy Carson slipped and fell Into a drain. It had been raining heavily and Dorothy was swept away. She was picked up almost a mile away in a deep monsoon, drain near
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  • 36 7 Pleading guiltj to a charge of stealing 16 coconuts belonging to the military at Russed Road. Kahat bin Osman. aged 24. and Charkam bin Karjew. aged 25. were fined $30 each in Singapore yesterday.
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  • 9 7 Six bicycles were stolen in Singapore yesterday.
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  • 38 7 The Singapore Rural Board has revised for 1951 the assessment levied on all houses, buildings and lands In the Board area. The new assessmeat list may be seen at the Rural Board Office during office hours.
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  • 71 7 THE Russian freighter Chelyuskinetz, which broke down in the Straits of Malacca, had to recall another Russian ship, the Perekop, five sailing days away on her run to Colombo, to tow her back to Singapore. But the captain said today that the damage was slight. MRS.
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  • 58 7 THE Governor, Sir Frank* lin Gimson, will open the second convocation of the University of Malaya at the Faculty of Arts building, Bukit Timah, at 2 p.m. today. Sir Franklin, who is a Pro- Chancellor of the University, will deputise for th« Commissioner-General, Mr! Malcolm Mac
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  • 595 8 He Has Now Realised Ambition ELEVEN days ago, on Jan. 20, Abdul Hamid, v 20, cheerful and smiling, left his home in Kulim, South Kedah, for Singapore to enlist in the R.A.F. (Malaya). He hoped to be back on Jan. 23 Floods
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  • 70 8 THE Indian Government will fully license for export the quota of 120 million yards of coarse and medium cloth already fixed, the Indian Trade Commissioner in Singapore announced yesterday. All licences Issued in future will oe for shipment from April No licences will be issued
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  • 25 8 ABDIL HAMID faces the selection board at Changi which approved his enlistment into the R.A.F. (Malaya).— RAF P.R. picture.
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  • 230 8 NO MORE PUDDLES, FOOTPATHS TO improve the sanitation in the Geylang Serai area one of the Colony's largest hutment ar^eas and to make the approach to the area easit> the Singapore Municipal Health and Engineering authorities have drawn up plans for the construction of drains
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  • 64 8 Because he imported fireworks without a licence and then stored them in a dangerous place, Saw Leok Lin, marager of the Nan Tat Company, George Street, Singapore. was yesterday fined a total of $700 in the First District Court. Pleading guilty, Saw was fined $500 on
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  • 70 8 rE acting Commissioner of Police. Singapore. Mr. R. C. B. Wiltshire, has received a letter of thanks from the Royal Humane Society in London, of which he is local representative, for $1,004 from the people of Singapore. Sir Leslie Orme, treasurer and cnalrman of the society, says
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  • 95 8 Chettiars' (Nattukkottai) Chamber of Commerce office bearers for the year are: President, Mr. A. R. S. A. R. Annamalai Chettiar; vice-presi-dent, Mr. M. P. L. Malayandi Chettiar; secretary, Mr. K. N. M. Kannappa Chettiar; assistant secretary, Mr. S. N. S. Nachiappa Chettiar: treasurer. Mr. V. S. P.
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  • 205 8 TAPPERS ESCAPE FROM BANDITS From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. PDUR Chinese rubber tappers who faced a bandit firing squad have lived to tell Ine story. The tappers told Federation Police today that six bandits dressed in jungle green with three star caps and armed with sten guns held
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  • 248 8 TWO South Koreans will be among the (»0 delegates attending the 13th Annual Council nf the Far Eastern Division, Seventh-Day Adventist Mission, to be held at Singapore Headquarters from Feb. 10 to 18. f Former residents of the illfated capital. Seoul, they are now on
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  • 92 8 From Our Staff Correspondrul IPOH, Monday. (CHINESE prisoners in Taiping gaol will get gifts for the Chinese New Year. The M.C.A. Perak branch today sent a cheque for $400 collected from miners and businessmen in Ipoh. The money will provide "red packets" for the prison* em.
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    • 218 8 KLI In keeps gU without refrigeration Families in every P«« o' h world ire assured of milk unfailingly safe and healthful when they use KI.IM. Your KLIM milk is protected in the tin against dampness, contamination and any harm it keeps without refrigeration. Since with KLIM there is no waste
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  • 655 9  -  WARREN BENNETT **y How Much Of A Threat Is Russia? there is some Doubt Whether She Could Find Enough For Her Huge Armies SOME diplomatic and military experts believe oil may be one of the big reasons Russia is not ready now to touch off Woiid
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  • 543 9  -  GAULT MacGOWAN By HEIDhLBERU. DED Army marshals ""fear a reborn German infantry more than they fear the atomic bomb, according to an analysis of the European situation appearing in the Basler National Zeitung. "Great powers negotiate today with their cards on the table
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    • 247 9 II A.M. 1 45. 4.15. 6.45 9.30 P.M. Th« Guts-And-Glory Story |p-v>""' of The U.S. Marines! 3 C\ MAUREEN OEARA JOHN mx;Jp jL> Tripoli jIS PI.IS! An KxcHlfnt Swimming Short "Water Speed" -NEXT CHANGESIKH KINO STARTLING STORY OF A WOMAN WITH "NO MAN OF HER OWN" She lived a rH|
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    89 10 TJluil*-mo:ith-cM Peter Cutshatc slipped from i r-mother't arms ■•-painted pluy- .and crawled for the Itrst I Then he seized two rattles tnl bunded them on the floor with delight. There c been nothing j table in this picture. of a proud mother icith her baby Except that Peter is an
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  • 169 10 CCALLOPS are on the 1 agai-. and ther? •re sa many delicious ways O: I'kng them. The verj nicest is. I think. X \LLOPS MORNAY. Simb. r one lib. scallops "enough 1 four people* in on? t ,>k!..-. -cupful water and to *If a teacupful white
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  • 435 10  -  NURSE JANET By MOTHERCRAFT IN MALAYA "VIY little girl who is A twenty months has developed fits of naughtiness and defiance. It is wearing me out, and making me uritable in :urn", writes a mother from Pahane This is a problem which
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  • 633 10 A TIGER SKIN GOES WASTE From An Estate Bungalow A TIGER was recently shot on one estate by Malay hunters and it was a beast in its prime. Unluckily they did not have even elementary ideas about preserving the skin or else they had not bothered. They were probably too
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    26 10 Mne-month-old Carol Anne Aroozoo, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aroozoo of 1 Kulim Place, Singapore, wins this week's $5 prize for the bonniest baby.
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  • 51 10 OLENDER 25-year-old Barbara Grant is a beauty expert working for a big London salon. She has just left on the Queen Elizabeth ttt a winter-in-the-sunshine tour of Latin America and the West Indies, lecturing tn sales staffs in stores about the use of her firm's
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    • 83 10 Baby Eric Schotman XWt' 1 Singapore mm^/ fatfefotM-eaStei' "I can hardly wait. Mother wonders /M^jH pTf/ ot my appetite, but when LACTOGEN /f jj^| jfiM.ij/ comes round I can't resist it." /•^K^JIHHHv/ LACTOGEN is pure cows' miik M <*gM^R 11 1 especially prepared for the world's jf&liWmmA ft 1 pothers:
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    • 211 10 Wheiii- When Not To Brush HTHE usual invocation from the pages of women's magazines is to brush and brush your hair. It is a very sound advice but not in every case Here is a short list of when and when not to brush: ALWAYS Healthy hair of all types
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    • 225 10 Welcome to our Chinese customers. Can vou I"* 1 5 flavour and tastiness of HAM? 1 tnen you'll appreciate our Special quality. Buy a whole ham. or half or any amount you want. COLD STORAGE Singapore Cold Storage Co., Ltd. FRY'S CHOCOLATE^ NUTS roastthcm lightl> tocnhanccthcirdelicatcfla\iuir; m^f coat them generously
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 482 10 Straits Times Crossword 278 "5T |f| 55" ACIiOSS 2J. He recorded a 16 Strange finding: 9. A uniformed ser- very palpable hit ny in Moab tombs (4, 5> vant souns .r.itifcle Hamlet (5). 18. nay broke (anagt i9>. 28. Prom whene* (8). 10. Over a hun.rsa good news was bn>-
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  • 254 11 LONDON, Uon. (^LOSING middle prices of selected stocks, as supplied to the Straits Times by special arrangement with The Financial Times, were: Contola MI ruixiinf 4% :<ni W«r St% Ml 3. BANKS Chartered <«S pd.) N Mercauti e i£2») (£12 pd I 23* Honckonf (I1M) 76 Eaatcro .«ii
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  • 58 11 OUNGEI Salak Rubber u payinga second interim dividend of four per cent., making a total ol eight per cent., less tax, to date. in respect of the year to Dec. 31 last. No distribution was made for any of the nine preceding years. For 1940
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  • 33 11 pATAUNG Rubber Estates r directors have declared a second Interim dividend of IS per cent (3s. per £1 stock) In respect of the year to Dec. 31, 1950, less income tax-
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  • 206 11 RUBBER MARKET Turn-Over Small From A Market Correspondent ♦PHE Singapore rubber market was dull and featureless yesterday, with only a small turn-over. Conditions, however, were better for off-grade rubber. ~rTZr~T~Z7Z7T The market opened at $2.12 buyers for February firstgrade and rose at one stage to $2.14. At noon the price
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  • 11 11 SINGAPORE, Mon.. Jan. 2»— 1681 (up $4.87)/*.)
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  • 25 11 LONDON, Mon.. Jan. 29.— Spot: Buyers £1,355; Forward. £1,325; Settlement, £1,350 (up £75); Turnovers, a.m. 1.10 tons. P m. 90.
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  • 142 11 From A Market Correspondent "\vriTH 15 tons of Lampong black done at $630 a_ picul loose yesterday. the peppei section of the Singapore produce raarkt remained steady. Lampong black Increased in price by (5 a picul to $635. The two white varieties, however, remained unchanged. The copra
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  • 152 11 Business Limited rpHE Malayan share market opened the week very quietly yesterday with only a limited amount of business passing. Industrials and Rubbers were steady but Tins were Inclined to ease. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS Bayers JfeUcrs (Hkongregi 650.00 Robinson it
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  • 171 11 CHIPS in th. Singapore Roads and alongside the Singapore Harbour Board godowns yesterday were: Outer Roads: Hal Hsuan, Hoi Wong Van Rlemstdijk. North Star, Luxmi, Atlantic Seaman, Tang Shun. Mvi Hock. Waibalong. Vim. Perekcp, Cape Race. La Carmela, Kwei Yang, Oranville. Selandia, Marian. Helen
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  • 43 11 QUNOEI Krlan Rubber Estate directors have declared second interim dividend of 7H per cent, less tax, for 1950, payable on Feb. 15. The first interim was 2'i per cent. For 1949 a single payment of five per cent, was made.
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  • 68 11 dembia Rubber has accepted an offer of £32.270 for an outlying division consisting of about 461 acres of the Malacca property. Apart from 72 acres of young, mature, bud-grafted material the area consists of old mature rubber showing declining yields with numerous large vacant disease patches: in addition,
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  • 57 11 "JV/TANCHESTER North Borneo ivl Rubber is resuming dividends with an interim of five per cent, less tax, on the £165.000 Ordinary capital in respect of the year to Mar. 31, 1951. The previous payment was four per cent., less tax, for 1940-41. Warrants will be posted on Feb.
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  • 31 11 HONG KONG. Mon. PEE rrarket currency exchange for Hong Kong dollars was quoted today as follows: US$l HK55.88 (cash). HK55.95% (T.); £1 HK815.30; one tael of gold HKB32IH.— U.P.
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  • 33 11 HPHE Malayan Exchange Banks 1 Association announced yesterday that control direct rates for Canadian dollars were: Buying T.T. 2AX, Airmail (0.D.) 34%. (90 days) 354; Selling T.T./OJD. ready 34 7 16.
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    • 1144 11 MAMSFIELD tfc CO., LLD. tincorooiaftao n bngapore) BLOC HJWWBI. UNI anMaa ta a.ara.a ma affcat port* lo toad am 4 discharg. cargo. wrnrr opnoa ra pronaa via araar zzi rAMruiaiMTii pniTt SAILINCS to LIVERPOOL. CLASCOW. LONDON CONTNINENTAL PORTS Oum Sa'H) P Sham P«nani Tyadaro** rot Holland. ,0, 0/ i L
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    • 354 11 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS To New York and Boston via C.yion, India, Egypt and Mediterranean Ports. Singapore P. Swettenham Penang PRES. HARDINC In Port 30/31 Jan. 1/2 Feb. PRES. VAN BUREN 31 |an./8 Feb. 9/10 F.b. 11/12 Feb. PRES. JEFFERSON 6/15 F.b. 16/17 Feb. 18/19 Feb. PRES. POLK 23/28 Feb. Omit.
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  • 408 12  - TOP STAYERS TO CARRY 9.7 EACH EPSOM JEEP By 7-f. Trial Before S'gor Gold Cup KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. THAR A STREET, top money-spinner on the Malayan Turf last season, and Four o'clock 11, outstanding stayer last year, are both handicapped at 9.7 in the 7-f. handicap for Class 1, Div.
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    61 12 PADDY aged 12. and Buster, 10 (right) children of Gr. Capt. and Mrs. Morse of R.A.F. Changi. who distinguished themselves during the RAF. Changi Yacht Club Regatta during the week-end. Paddy helming a Burline Praam, "Hornet," came second on handicap in the under-16-feet Allcomers race. Buster, crewing for Gr. Capt.
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  • 136 12 SYDNEY, Mon. AUSTRALIAN hopes of keeping the Davis Cup this year sufieied a rude shock today when Frank Sedgman. Australian champion and generally considered the worlds No. 1 amateur, was surprisingly bea'en 6-2, 5-7, 6-1. 3-6. 4-6 by the young American, Dick Savitt. in a semifinal of
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  • 634 12 By Our Rugby Reporter THE Singapore Cricket Club's annual scven-a-side tournament which opened on the Padang yesterday in fine weather and before a large crowd with five brisk games, did not produce an unusually high standard of Rugby but it did come forward with d
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  • 418 12 TWO NEWCOMERS TO RACE AT K.L. By EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMFCB, Monday. AVALANCHE (late Bridgenortb), a four-year-old chestnut English gelding by Derby winner Owen Tudor out of Rorke's Drift, a Spion Kop mare, and Kew Gardens, a four-year-old bay English gelding by Full Bloom
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  • 37 12 Johore Bahru, Mon.— The postponed All Malayan Archery Championships will take place at the Royal Johore International Club on Saturday, Feb. 4. Both last year's men and women's champions are expected to defend their titles.
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  • 30 12 RUGBY: S.C.C. seven-aside tourney on padang; F. N. Cup Final: Spore Engineer Regt. v R.A.S.C. 'A' at Tanglln, S p.m. HOCKEY) S.C.C. t B.C.R.C. seu?l-flnal replay K.O. Umutj.
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  • 94 12 From Oar Staff Correspondent PENANG. Mon. "|X)R personal reasons," I 1 Penang's Thomas Cup player Ooi Teik Hock will not be able to accept the Badminton Association of Malaya's invitation to go to the United Kingdom with Wong Peng Soon and take part In
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  • 58 12 In a friendly hockey match played on the S.C.C. padang yesterday, the Girls' Sports Club 2nd XI did extremely well to beat the Singapore Cricket Club women's 2nd XI by three goals to one. Miss R. da Silva (1) and Miss Patsy Cordeiro scored for O.S.C; and
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  • 38 12 B. N&ronha, selected to keep goal for South against North In the annual hockey match to be played in Ipoh on Saturday, is unavailable. His place will be taken by All bin Yatim of Negri Sembilan.
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  • 82 12 THE COMBINED Services team, playing in the H.M.S. Malaya cap soccer competition this year, will be purely a Singapore Combined Services team, F/L. Randall, secretary of the Inter-Services Sports board, said yesterday. The Singapore Combined Services team will be playing in the Southern section this
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  • 496 12 K. LUMPUR, Mon. WEIGHTS for all eight races for the first day, Saturday, Feb. 3, of the Selangor Turf Club's Gold Cup 1951 meeting are: Cl. l,Wv I-7F. Tara Street 9.07 Four O'clock II 9.0" Happv Traveller 8.11 Kinder Gold 8.10 Raj Mahal 8.07 Irish
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  • 355 12 HUTTON, WASHBROOK SCORE FREELY ADELAIDE, Monday. A FTER gaining first innings lead of 85 runs, the M.C.C. scored 108 for no wicket in their second innings by the close of play on the second day of their return four-day match against South Australia here today. South Australia were dismissed for
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  • 146 12 M.C.C— IST. INNS: Ull SOUTH AUSTRALIA IST INNS. C. Pinch Ibw b Close 1 N. Dansie b Wright M I. Duldig Ibw b Slatham 4 0. Hole c Mclntyre b Tattersall 20 P. Ridings not out 2ft 1. Michael Ibw b Wright A L. Smart b Tattersall 1 B.
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  • 218 12 LONDON, Mon. THE Football Association Cup holders. Arsenal, have at last been drawn away after a remarkable run in which they were drawn at home every time possible last season and in the third and fourth rounds this season. In the fifth round, to
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  • 80 12 SYDNEY, Mon. A RTHUR Morris, Australian Test vice-caplalr 182 for New South Wales at- jc V-toria ia their Sheffield t n i> here. Others with < wer« Keith Miller (»..<>, R. 59) and J. Burke (40). Morris declared tlie V til Wales first innings clot'-< 5»
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  • 50 12 LONDON. Mon— The Cambridge tennis blue and badmiivon star. K. S. Khong. of Ipoh and St. John's, and another Malayan S. Lav, entered the final of the men's doubles in the Middlesex county badminton championships, but were beaten by A. Barron and A. Horden 12-15, 8-15.
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  • 31 12 BANGALORE, Mon.— The Commonwealth cricket team beat the Mysore State XI by nine wickets here today. Scores were: Mysore 137 and 157; Commonwealth 260 and 35 for 1 Reuter.
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    • 27 12 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: 3.03 ajn. (8.8), 3.24 p.m. (8.4); 9.10 a.m. (2.9), 9.22 p.m. (3.5). TOMORROW: 3.42 (8.6), 4.35 pjn. (7.6); 10.08 a.m. (2.9), 10.05 p.m. (4.5).
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