The Straits Times, 2 February 1951

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1951. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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  • 344 1 'Can H Return Warning Is Likely Soon From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. fHE Federation Government may warn youths who are quitting- Malaya to avoid the call-up: "You won't be allowed to return/ The announcement will be made soon if the present rush
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  • 233 1 U.N. PUSH ON AFTER BLOODY FIGHTING TOKYO. Thurs. ITNITED Nations plunged ahead up to three miles in bloody hand-to-hand fighting below Seoul today amid first signs of weakening Fed resistance Eighth Army forces swept jirross 47 hills and throHgh 46 valleys along the broad western Korean front. Farther east, a
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  • 159 1 THE unsettled feeling exist1 ing among China -born families in Kuala Lumpur who have sons in the call up category, is having a marked effect on the usual business boon which shopkeepers expect just before Chinese New Year. Parents paying out fares to China in
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  • 67 1 BELFAST, Thurs.— At least eteht men were killed when a gangway leading from the A r/ine whale factory ship Nan Person collapsed and burled thecn on to the dock- ■ide and into the water here > ■''ay. Seventy men were crowding •shore at the end
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  • 43 1 THE HAGUE, Thurs The former Dutch Foreign Minister, Dr. Dirk Slikker, is understood to have failed to form a new cabinet. On returning from his interview with Queen Juliana, he said that he "appreciated being free again. A.P.
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  • 39 1 ROME. Thurs.— An Italian Deputy Signor Enrico Mattel, today accepted a challenge to a duel by another Deputy, Signor Florestane Fausto. He slapped the challenger's face in the Chamber of Deputies two days ago.— Reuter.
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  • 38 1 TOKYO, Thurs.-Mr. John Foster Dulles, U.S. Presidential emoy, met Gen. MacArthur tonight for the third time to bring the Supreme Commander up to date on the eight-day peace treaty discussions in Japan.— ReuterAAP.
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  • 137 1 \|R. T. Van der Qaast, De- A puty Secretary for Economic Affairs Singapore, and Mr. A. Heywood-Waddington, the Federation's former Secretary for Economic Affairs, now on retirement In London, will represent the Singapore and Federal Governments at the Rubber Conference which begins in London
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  • 59 1 "NOW I CAN BE like other boys." said legless Osman bin JafYar, as he tried out his new tricycle in Singapore yesterday—with artificial legs. His brother Inche Uda of the Mersing Fire Brigade, carried the stick that helps Osman along on his
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  • 172 1 PARIS, Thursday. lIHILK many -coalminers and steelmen stopped work to enforce wage claims in France, train men of the Pennsylvania Railroad and New YorkNew Haven Railroad joined the nationwide U.S. tie-up by reporting sick today. Some northern industrial centres in France faced paralysis from small-scale strikes
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  • 94 1 LONDON, Thurs. Britain will not send any spare arms to Spain. Mr. Kenneth Younger. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, told the House of Commons yesterday. Mr. Peter Smithers., Conservative, asked "In. view of the important position Spain occupies on our imperial communication lines have
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  • 43 1 A BABY boy was born in a trishaw in Kampong Java Road, Singapore, yesteday while a husband was taking his wife to Kandang Kerbau maternity hospital. A midwife teas called from the neighbourhood and she attended the woman.
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  • 73 1 VIETMINH FIRE ON U.S. SHIP SAIGON, Thurs. THE U.S. Navy escort car- rier, Windham Bay, came under mortar fire from Com-munist-led Nationalist guerillas today as she made a 60mile run up the Saigon River from the China Sea with American military aid for Indo-China. Observers aboard the ship said that
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  • 32 1 HONG KONG, Thurs. The Hong Kong Government is believed to b e considering lifting the ban on certain Imports from Japan, informed sources said today.- U.P
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  • 276 1 Rubber profits up by 400 per cent so BONUSES of $50,000, *20,000 and other sums of thousands of dollars were said to have been paid to employees of Singapore Chinese firms for the Chinese New Year. These bonuses, based on last year's fleures show on
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  • 166 1 10 Men Hold Up 350 Girls: Hoist Red Flag TEN unarmed Singapore Communists held up 350 students of the new Chung Hwa Girls' School, Braddell Road. Singapore, yesterday and stole 280 Identity cards. While the raid was on, on* man lowered the school flag from the mast on the second
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  • 118 1 T Hi Al Capp fans who x have been following in The Sunday Tribune the adventures of LIT, ABNER and the amazing characters who people Dogpaich, can m future read about them every week in THE SUNDAY TIMES Al Capp has been described a s
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  • 38 1 LONDON, Thurs.—The library of the USSR Academy of Sciences has asked the Chinese Academy of Scierces to send works of the "classics of Marxism-Leninism" in Chinese and Mao Tse-tung's works, Moscow Radio reported.—Reuter.
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  • 62 1 TOKYO, Thurs.— A United States Air Force spokesman said today that an air force air-sea rescue plane, hunting for an RAF Sunderland patrol plane which was three days overdue on a flight to Hong Kong with possibly 22 persons aboard, sighted some floating wreckage yesterday. The spokesman said
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  • 51 1 LITTLE ROCK. Arkansas. Thurs.— Eleven men broke out of a criminal ward of the state mental hospital here today after a 15-minute fight and escaped into the snowcovered countryside. The fugitives, all charged with felonies, overpowered four attendants and fled. At least one was armed.—
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  • 29 1 LAS VEGAS (Nevada), Thurs.— The third atomic test explosion within six days occurred today at the Atomic Energy Commission's proving grounds, 100 miles north-west of here.— UP.
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  • 22 1 LOS ANGELES, Thursday. MRS- Jean Stoyer was arrested on a drunk charge today niinr nsili/vt ititftiii'ol kw rtim***t*,*i (.<■<<.
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  • 52 1 COLOMBO, Thurs The Commonwealth plan for aid to South and South-East Asia may wx. rop lts "Commonw f?. lth "tie to encourage United States participation usually reliable sources said here today. Suggested new title for the Committee is Council for Economic Co-operation in South and
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  • 26 1 LONDON, Thurs.— Mr. Ernest Bevin, British Foreign Secretary, wlio has pneumonia in one lung, had a "very good night" it was stated today.— Reuter.
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    • 52 1 Hq|||H Late News LAKE SUCCESS. Thurs.— The United Nations Assembly today voted 44-7 to brand China as an ae«xrssor. A.P. When you play *Chay— Chuan" during Chinese New Year... it does not matter when you lose if you are "betting" on glasses of Anchor Beer! *2>U —It V Gold Medal
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  • 73 2 FORT WORTH, TEXAS, Thurs. THE "Oil Forum," international oil industry toagazine published at Fort Worth, announced it has cancelled all subscriptions from Russian and other Communist controlled areas. It has discontinued supp'vi 'f ronies and its map of vMal Middle East oil fields, to Russia,
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  • 240 2 US Red Convert Who Didn't Reach Moscow 'LEARMT THP m$ WAY 1 NEW YORK Thurs. ARDEN Perm, 29-year-old former Communist who tried to go to Russia, returned to the United States yesterday broke, weary and disillusioned about life behind the iron curtain. Perm disembarked from the liner Washington with his
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  • 39 2 LONDON, Thurs— About 15,000 men of the US. Air Force are stationed in Britain, plus 1.500 sailors and 25 soldiers, the Air Minister, Mr. Arthur Henderson, told the House of Commons yesterday replying to a question.—Reuter.
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  • 28 2 LAKE SUCCESS, Thurs. Dutch, Turkish and Brazilian representatives took their places in the Security Council today for the first time since the election last September. Reuter.
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    • 78 2 LONDON, Thurs. rVHE Kingjand Queen Vill be the first Britons to buy 15s. savings certificates under a new rearmament loan announced yesterday. They will buy them through the Buckingham Palace savings group on behalf of their grandchildren, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, it was announced
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    • 199 2 /CENSORS in Atlanta, America, banned Mac Wesi in flesh as they had done 18 years ago on film They said the play "Diamond Lil," in which Mac wa< scheduled to appear, was "lewd and obscene" in New York. I Jack Small, the producer, is seeking
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  • 30 2 CEYLON GREETS PAKISTAN LIAQUAT VLI KHAN, Prime Minister ol Pakistan, ith. his 23-yeai-01.l hostess, Mrs. Sheila DodanweU, in London. Her father is Sir Oliver Geonetileka, Ceylon High Commissioner. Reuter picture.
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  • 204 2 MANILA, Thursday. A WITNESS gave evidence at a deportation hearing yesterday that Co Pak, deported Chinese Manila millionaire was head of a Chinese Communist murder ring which "liquidated" several local Chinese, because they opposed Mao Tze-tungs government. Ong It, 29-year-old Chinese serving a prison sentence for kidnapping,
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  • 80 2 NEW YORK, Thurs. IMMIGRATION agents seized 83 Chinese aliens and quantities of Chinese Communist literature today in a raid on a Chinese seamen's organization. Mr. Edward Schaughnes>-y, District Immigration and Naturalisation Service Director, said the Chinese apparently entered the United States illegally and will
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  • 83 2 WASHINGTON, Tnurs. Mr. Gordon Dean, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, said that ail information about the Nevada test explosions will be withheld to stop the Russians finding out about them. "They are essentially experimental nuclear defamations," he told a news conference. There has been speculation that
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  • 40 2 OTTAWA, Thurs. Canada is to hold a secret army and air force exercise on the subarctic north of Fort Churchill, Manitoba, to test the tactics, men and equipment she proposes to use to defend her northern territories. Reuter.
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  • 18 2 MANILA, Tnurs. The Indonesian President Soekarno flies to Baguio, summer capital of the Philippines, tomorrow. Reuter.
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  • 42 3 C.rXERAL Eisenhower (right) with Kin? Frederick «lur n? his recent visit to Denmark. "Any country, regardless of its sze. can take the lead in showing the spirit of freedom." declared the Western Defence Chief. US IS. picture.
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  • 188 3 BRITONS MAY WORK LONGER LONDON. Thurs. BRITAIN'S "manpower cabinet" yesterday urged r working nours and in•d use of women in md-i.-.try to meet the demands c: the accelerated rearmam nt. programme. Mr. Aneurin Bevan. new Labour Minister, met lor the flrv t T,e the Joint Advisory C ncil to draw
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  • 26 3 LONDON. Thurs. The f ye ll Treaty powers discussed civil defence measures in Western Europe at a twoday conference which end^d here yest-rd?-/.— Reuter.
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  • 487 3 TOP 11 IN U.N. WIPE KOREA FROM COUNCIL LIST LAKE SUCCESS, Thursday. YHE Security Council last night unanimously decided to delete the Korean question from its agenda. Britain proposed the deletion, the Soviet Union agreed and all 11 members held up their hands when the President culled for the vote.
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  • 204 3 FRANKFURT, Thurs. A MERICAN authorities today restored freedom and property to Alfred Krupp. Germany's arms king, and reduced sentences on nine top generals and eight diplomats. The military men include Field Marshal Milch, state secretary in Goering's air ministry, whose sentence is reduced from
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  • 272 3 VIRGINIA, Thursday. A LONG campaign to keep seven negroes of n Martinsville, Virginia, from dying in the electric chair this weekend for raping a white woman, spread across the world yesterday and brought a blistering cable from Moscow to the Governor, Mr. John Battle
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  • 110 3 WASHINGTON, Thursday. T was learned today that the threat of a Chinese Red invasion of Indo-China figured prominently n the Truman-Pleven strategy talks on the Far East. Informed sources said intelligence reports received by both American and French officials from different Far Eastern listening
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  • 32 3 CAMEL CORPS marching in the Indi« Day celebrations at Delhi. One feature of the procession was a series of tableaux depicting landmarks in Indian history. G M.S. picture.
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  • 76 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs General Eisenhower arrived in Washington yesterday from West Point, to make his report to President Truman and Congress on his survey of Europe's will and ability to oppose Communist aggression. What the Supreme Commander of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces had to say at the
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  • 55 3 LAKE SUCCESS, Thurs. rTHE harassed chairman of a United Nations committee has promised coffee and doughnuts to diplomats if they will arrive on time for sessions. The offer came from the chairman of a special 15nation committee that ts rewriting the United Nations half -completed treaty
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  • 95 3 MAESTEG, WALES. Thurs. rpHE 20.000 people of A M aesteg are living by candle light not because they want glamour at dinner table, but because their money is not the right size. Many live in homes with shilling-in-the-slot gas and electric meters, emntied every three
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  • 57 3 NEW YORK, Thurs.— New York handled 118 fewer ships in January than in the same month last year— a nine per cent drop. The decline reflects international tension and the U.S ban on shipments of strategic goods to China. During January 1,067 slips called or embarked. There
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  • 237 3 We Are In Good Shape, Reports MacA LAKE SUCCESS, Thurs (GENERAL Mac Arthur reported to the United Nations yesterday that it was within the capabilities of his troops to continue to inflict "staggering losses" on the Chinese Communist forces in Korea. The statement was made in one of his periodic
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  • 74 3 LONDON, Thurs.— The British Communist Party denied yesterday that it wants to abolish Parliament, destroy the British Empire, or introduce Soviet power to Britain. A new programme of aims, published in a 22-page pamphlet, entitled "The British Road to Socialism," declared the Communist Party rejected
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  • 95 3 PARIS, Thurs. PRANCE will shortly limit r the movements of Communist diplomats assigned to Paris, a Foreign Office spokesman said yesterday. J 4 J The first country affected will probably be Hungary, which recently put tight our.trols on the movement on all who has
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  • 296 4 LABOUR ELECTIONS 'MYSTERY' CLEARED THE "mysterious" way in which the Singapore Labour Party dropped the nomination of Messrs. V. K. Nair and S. Jaganathan for the forthcoming Legislative Council elections when it announced its candidates on Monday, is now clear. The two party numbers ceild not contest the elections btrau.M'
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  • 43 4 i PRELIMINARY performance before the opening of the circus in Outram Roac, Singapore, last night. Schoolboys, on their way to makan. stoa to play ivith the monkeys, tchich of course, entered into the game. Straits Times picture.
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  • 209 4 A CIRCUS came to town yesterday, and crowds gathered round the ten Is and cages loiik before the last trapeze was put in place, the last rope secured. Schoolboys. stopped to feed the elephants first there are three of them all.
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  • 30 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.— The South Johore Rugby Football Club v.ill be holding its annual bail on Feb. 10 at the Johore Civi Service Club.
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  • 25 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs The following have been appointed members of ihe Exc se Licencing Bsard, Batu Pahat, for 1951.
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  • 140 4 THE Singapore Ratepayers' Association considers that i Municipal Commissioners 1 should not be paid more than i $200 a month The association is also op- posed to any payment being made retrospective. The committee of tne as- soclation. having heard personally from a Municipal
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    35 4 MRS VERONICA CATIIEK INE •PILGRAMS. managing director of The Cockpit, and Mr. Kenneth Edward Hilborne, a Singapore solicitor, after their wedding at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd yesterday. Father Moran officiated.— Straits Times picture.
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  • 433 4 KA TONG RESIDENTS WILL BOYCOTT PROFITEERS Pian To 'blacklist' blackmarket shops RESIDENTS of Katong suburb, Singapore, will be told not to deal with shops that have been found to be profiteering by the committee of a consumer resistance movement which will shortly be found by the people of various communities
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  • 55 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs Chong Kirn Puat. of Kuala Lumpur, was charged at .?ohore Bahru with driving a lorry negligently on the Ayer Hitam road. Chong claimed trial and said he was trying to avoid colliding with a military truck when his lorry overturned. Hearing
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  • 72 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. JNCHE Mahmood, the magistrate, said in Johore Bahru court that the police "appeared to be slack" when Lee Ah Sang was charged with selling ramhutans in a prohibited area. In the court's records the charge was entered as "selling
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  • 88 4 Dyaks May Join S'pore Police £)YAKS may be recruited into the Singapore Police Force. A senior Police spokesman said that no final decision had been reached. "As nothing was known about the Dyaks in the Colony, it would be difficult to say If they would be suitable for police work,"
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  • 65 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. pHAN SIEW, a woman em- ployee of the Dunlop Rubber Factory, Singapore, was charged in the Sessions Court with importing eight pounds of opium. Customs officials arrested her aboard a train when a cane basket with opium was found beside
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  • 37 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— Lai Ah Kow, an old woman, was charged at Kluang with failing to register and obtain an identity card. She was allowed bail in £300 pending trial.
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  • 251 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. SIX Malays and two Chinese woodcutters have been kidnapped by four armed bandits in the Kuala Krai area of Kelantan, It was reported today. They were taken away after being robbed of food and personal belongings. Another man who
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  • 105 4 THE 330 HOSpltal Uniformed S ;.ff Union will ho.v lusting on. Sunday to discuss future action regarding the Singapore Government's refusal to place their months-old demands on salary questU i» before an industrial committee. The union has aLso asked for a change of their present
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  • 163 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday RELIEVED to be part of the 200-strong gang of bandits roaming Pahang, 100 Chinese, Malay and Indian terrorists yesterday morning raided labourers' quarters on an estate in the Kuala Lipis area burning houses and leaving 80 people homeless
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  • 80 4 SINGAPORE Finance Committee will shortly be asked to consider a Government proposal tot a token vote to meet claims arising out of the December riots. The final amount to be set apart for such claims will not be decided until the end of this month
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  • 256 5 Freea Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Thuis. A DOCTORATE from an American university was just as hard to obtain me from a British university, said Dr. Ho Seng Cng, principal of the Penang Anglo-Chinese School, today. Up was replying to re.-ent criticism of American culture
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  • 26 5 TAIPING. Thurs. Ceylon I inion Day will be celeb d by local Ceylonese on Sunday with a "social at the Ceylon Association, Sta1 tad.
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  • 324 5 'TOLD OFFICER TO LEAVE BLAZING CAR' —POLICE Fireman Faces Riot Charge MALAY fireman in the Singapore Fire Brigade, who was alleged to have told his superior officer during the recent riots to leave a burning car alone and return to rhe station, appeared in the Singapore Relief Court yesterday. The
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  • 84 5 MALA YA 'S WAR DAMAGE LONDON. Thurs. 'pHE Colonial Secretary, Mr. James Griffiths, told the House of Commons last night that war damage payments of $6,370,723 were made to Malaya up to the end of 1950. Mr. Griffiths said most of these payments were ir.Jtlal. But interim dividends were declared
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  • 49 5 Mr. C. N. Goss.Ha, a representative of the Tata Industries of India, has arrived in Singapore after visiting Indonesia. Siam and the Federation of Malaya. His visit is the result of the discussiors a recent Indian trade delegation had with business communities in South-East Asia
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  • 27 5 Found in possession of 2:2 :i 4lb. of dutiable tobacco at Tanjong Rhu Road, Lee Ah Kow. aged 29. was fined $500 In Singapore yesterday.
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  • 160 5 TEN medical specialists are expected to be recruited 1 in Britain by the Singapore Government to meet the present shortage of doctors in the Colony. These officers are being engaged under the scheme recently approved by the Colonia l Office to transfer British
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  • 94 5 Singapore art society. photographic exhibition. British Council Hall. Stamford Road, 9 am to 530 pm Y.U.C.A.. Raffles Quay. Malay beginner.' class. 9.15 a.m. and 5.15 p.m. CHINESE V.M.C.A.. Selegie Road, music class, 2.30 p.m., badminton, 5.30 p.m.. basketball, 7.30 p.m., table-tennis tournament. 7.30 p.m.. mouth organ band. 7.30
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    29 5 VI SJ> ELIZABETH McLACHLAN and Mr. George Suth«Ihlt 2-aaI n> «5 c l in apor Traction Company, af «T their w«ddinc at the Presbyterian Church yesterdayStraits Time s picture.
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  • 122 5 THE marriage took place at the Singapore Presbytenan Church yesterday of Miss Elizabeth McLachlan and Mr. George Sutherland Garden, of the Singapore Traction Company. Miss McLachlap is the only daughter of the late Mr. John McCullam McLachlan and Mrs. McLachlan, and Mr. Garden is the
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  • 325 5 ARMY 'CALLED IN FOR ANTI-RIOT DRILL were yesterday "called in" to assist the police when internal sex curity anti-riot drills— "Operation Popper"— were staged for the second time in Singapore. At a moment's notice, four companies of the Green Howards were rushed to Beach Road police station to help cordon
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  • 35 5 Charged with possession of 28 lb. of dutiable cigarettes. Soon Ah Seng claimed trial in Singapore yesterday. The case was postponed until March 14. Soon was allowed bail of $1,000 in two sureties.
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  • 34 5 The Singapore section of the Kiwi Members' League will hold its Chinese New Year dance at the Raffles Hotel ballroom at 8.30 tonight. A few tickets will be available at the door.
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  • 104 5 THREE Boyanese and two Malay youths appeared in a Singapore Court yesterday on tentative charges of gang robbery and house breaking involving property valued at $1,450. They w r»: Ahmed bin Chukery. aged 19. Hassan bin Osman, aged 19. Mahfod bin Masnor. aged 20. Sulaiman
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  • 45 5 From Our Own Correspondent GEMAS Thurs.— S. Subramanian, aged 22. was sentenced at Getnas. to two months' imprisonment for possession of a wrist w«tch and fountain pen reasonably suspected to have been stolen. The exhibits were ordered to be confiscated.
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  • 253 5 Officers want to see Griffiths From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Thurs. THE European Civil Servants' Association has asked thaft the Secretary of State for tha Colonies, Mr. James Griffiths, should receive a delegation from Malaya about the curtailment of home leave because of the Emergency. It has been poil.ted out
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  • 35 5 Mr. Ng Teck Peow has been appointed U. art as Dcpaty Commissioner of Estate Duties, and Mr. Cyril Francis o> Souza to act as Deputy Commissioner of Stamps, the Singapore Government announced last niehl.
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  • 754 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Fri., Feb. 2, 1951. University Business convocation ceremony on Tuesday referred to the very fenerous gift of five million dollars made by the Colony to the University at the end of last year. The sudden flush in the exchequer of the Federation would surely justify a
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  • 46 6 MR NO TEONO BENO. proprietor of 8oon Stok Co., Klang, p.isaed away peacefully on Thursday morning February 1st, 1951. He leaves behind two sons, three dawrhters and a liost of relatives. funeral at 1.00 p.m. on Satiirdiy Snl Inxtant (ro:n 101, Bftu Tiga Road Klang.
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  • 404 6 There seems no reason why the joint government committee now enquiring into the official cost of living allowances should be so slow in its deliberations as to make interim increases necessary. There is little to discuss. The principles were laid down years ago, and were confirmed
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  • 897 6  -  RICHARD HUGHES TOKYO. THE searching winds of blame are at last blowing ungratefully around that great lonely and complex figure General Douglas Mac Arthur. Is his legendary career now drawing to a close in the treacherous yellow quicksands of Korea? Unquestionably there is a growing disposition in Tokyo,
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  • 449 6 America 's Price-Freeze A correspondent acked •a Tuesday if Hie U.S. Information Service could explain the wage-price freeae in America. The US IS. obliges. AMERICA'S economy A Is a vast, complicated mechanism, geared to an operating force of more than 61 million civilian workers. *I\) impose over-all controls on this
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    • 495 6 tlflTH reference to "Asian's" letter in last Satur- days Forum, on the Eurasian Union of Malaya, I was not surprised to read his criticisms for the simple reason that my speech at Kuala Lumpur (referred to) was incompletely reported Two papers distorted the I meaning so as
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    • 202 6 HPHE remarks made by "Independent" in today's (Thursday's) letter headed "A Voter In Cynical Mood bear a generic resemblance to the arguments of the late M.D.U. when dissuading potential electors from registering for votes. Doubtless he regards the poor, benighted and ignorant Asian as unfit for
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  • 416 6 On the Margin Family Grrlc itfOST Europeans suppose that, there is little family life as they understand It in Chinese households, that thtr whole family dors not. gather around the table U a unit at meal-timrs. and so on. No doubt this is tme of the oldfashioned type of household,
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    • 732 6 \SSIFIED ADS. SPELLER PREWTI3: The tngmt— H-Pt to announced between CapMB Ooil Edmund Klrby f pcller. the DoraeWilre Regiment. B of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. of Bystoc* Terrace > and Shelaph Maureen only <U«Khter ot Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Prentis of Kuala lumpur, Malaya. SITUATIONS VACANT WANTED a
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    • 48 6 l -r>. READER'S Digest (AMERICAN EDITION) M •Wlwn Th« Communi«U Cam* To Chuang •The Weapons We Need For Freedom •Robert Frost, Cracker. Barrel Socrates •Story of Ernie Pyle Book Condensation Etc. €tc. Etc. Ht Jamry Itsit Mow On Sale Sole Agents RAJ GOPAL LID POST BOX 257 SINGAPORE
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    • 101 6 "•^JftWoPTICIBN Fallow Institute Ophthalmic Opticians (EnR 1 Fellow Worshipful Co. of Spectacle-Makers (EnR Freeman of the City of London By Appointment to H.M Forces, South East Asia. 6 Raffles Place Singapore Phone ***** EVEN THE BOTTLE IS BETTER/ n NO OEEP DIPPING, NO GROWNG INTO JUTS^J. INKy DEPTHS TO FM.L
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  • 331 7 'Master Mind 9 In Swindle Bid |JEUT. John Desmond Rowe, ajfed 34, of the Royal Army Pay Corps, was yesterday found guilty by a Singapore court-martial of stealing I,o*o. the property of the War Department. He was sentenced to be cashiered and *raoled for
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  • 111 7 ON AMMO, GRENADE CHARGE CHIK bin Ngah. a labourer at the Base Ammunition Depot, Kianji. Singapore, was day committed to stand trial in the next Assizes on charges of unlawful possession «fa handsrenaije and one xi iiici oi .~03 ammunition. At a preliminary inquiry yesterday. Chief Inspect, >r Lai B»'hari
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  • 34 7 Mr. F. D. Ascoli. director of the Dunlop Rubber Company, arrived in Singapore by air from Briiaiii yesterday. He was met by Mr. S. A. Handley. manager of the company in Malaya.
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  • 31 7 THREE of the RAF. police dogs take their first look of Singapore from their ship. They are on their way to Hnn. Knn.
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  • 231 7 f HKRh were seven dogs with ambitions aboard the freighter Cerenthus which called at Singapore yesterday en route to Hong Kong, where they will take on guard duties at R.A.F. establishments •'I'll say they have," said Corporal Mike Renaldo of Yorkshire, senior of
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  • 220 7 Now Osman Is Like Other Boys ASHY but happy boy. 11-year-old Osman bin Jaflar. of Mersing, rode round the ground floor of Robinson's store yesterday showing how he can manipulate a shining red and cream tricycle with his new artificial legs. 'Now I can be like other boys," said Osman.
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  • 150 7 THE purchase of nearly 1 $1,107,000 worth of electrical equipment, cables and sundry stores for the Municipal Electricity Department was approved by Singapore Municipal Commissioners «X their meeting. In addition, $300,000 was taken off the starred list in the budget to provide for the
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  • 36 7 For impersonating a detective and extorting $15 from an unlicensed hawker. 23-year-old Tan King Liang, a vegetable seller, was yesterday sentenced in Singapore to nine months' imprisonment and one year's police supervision.
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  • 135 7 JHE Royal Singapore Fl fund to buy a four-seat lying Club is launching a ;er aircraft. In an appeal to members of the club, the president. Mr. J. C. Cooke. said a four-seater aircraft was necessary because the club's present Tiger Moths were
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  • 111 7 From Our SUIT Correspondent IPOH. Thurs. ON his first official visit to Perak for the year, Sir Henry Gnrney, High Commissioner, Federation of Malaya, today spent one hour inspecting the biggest and most up to date resettlement area in the Federation, situated at Sungei Dunan. 25
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  • 64 7 Mr. Seymour I. Nadler newly appointed Assistant Public Affairs Officer of the United States Information Service, accompanied by his wife and three children, is due to arrive In Singapore on Feb. 14. Mr. Nadler will be a member of the USIS staff to be headed by
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  • 105 7 from housing, the Singapore Progressive Party will initiate and carry out other measures for social progress in the Colony. This promise was made by Mr. John Laycock who fired the first shot in the Legislative Council elections campaign with a broadcast over Rediffusion last night. Mr. Laycock is
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  • 78 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Because it is almost impossible to get suitably tr fried staff with the necessary scientific and mechanical knowledge to examine and report on Inventions before a patent can be granted, the Federal Government is to Introduce a Registration of United Kingdom Patents Bill
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  • 64 7 CRASHED INTO 2 CARS— SAFE A SINGAPORE motor cyclist, Chew Bok Leong, who crashed into two cars and landed en his back yesterday evening, escaped unhurt. Chew, who was going down Cecil Street, collided with the first car at the junction of McCallum Street. He bounced back, crashed into a
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  • 76 7 THE wedding took place at the Cathedral of the Uood Shepherd yesterday between Mrs. Veronica Catherine Pilgrams, managing director of The Cockpit Hotel, and Mr Kenneth Edward Hilborne, a Singapore solicitor. Rev Father Moran officiated. Mrs. Pilgrams is the daughter of Mr. D. J. Allen of Lincoln,
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  • 98 7 MAN who has met over convicts during his 30 years' service in Federation and Singapore prisons leaves for Australia today on retirement. He is the acting Superin- was awarded the M.B.E. last year. Mr. Cox remembers the early days when convicts used to break stones
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  • 162 7 RUMOURS that the Russian ship Chelyuskinetz, now disabled in Singapore roads, is a "spy ship" in radio contact with jungle terrorists and shipping ammunition ashore, are declared to be unfounded. A story alleged to have been spread by British seamen in a ship which anchored near
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    61 7 A SURPRISE awaited Mr. Dhanwant Singh, senior interpreter at the Singapore Police Courts, yesterday when he opened his office desk. In the drawer were two week-old kittens. The drawer was locked at 4.30 p.m. on Wednesday. There was no sign of the mother cat. and how the
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  • 24 7 Mr. M. Saravanamuttu, Ceylon Commissioner in Maiaya, returned to Singapore from Ceylon by air yesterday after an absence of two weeks.
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  • 214 7 Retirement death ages being studied in S'pore EXPATRIATE LONGEVITY PROBE STATISTICS on how long European expatriate officers live after retiring from Malayan Government service are being prepared by the Accountant-general's Office in Singapore. An inquiry 16 years ago found that, generally, they died when 61. The Investigation is being made
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  • 91 7 TEACHER'S DUTY STRESSED THE responsible oiuy the 1 teacher had towards the community, was stressed in a talk on "The Training and Profession of a Teacher" by Mr. Frederic Mason, Professo. of Education. University of Malaya at the Faculty of Medicine yesterday. Mr. Mason sad: "It is widely supposed tliat
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  • 99 7 Army Store Men Seek Support OFFICIALS c: the Stores Personnel Group o f the Singapore Army Civil Service Union are sounding opinion in the other armed services to see how much support they will give if the Army's I.uOO storekeepers decide to strike for higher pay and better conditions. The
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  • 93 7 THE Seventh Day Adventist Missino in Japan, which was rapidly expanding, had dedicated nine new churches in the past 10 months, the Mission, president. Mr. F R. Millard. said on his arrival in Singapore yesterday by POAS Dakota. Mr. Millard is here to attend the annual Far
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  • 16 7 IPOH. Thursday.—Mr. H. J Barnard. Chief Police Officer Peiak has gone on local leave
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    • 77 7 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Renowned Textiles Must Remember MUIR MILLS LTD., KANPUR (INDIA) For Quality, Durability Speciality in all COTTON GREY SHIRTINGS. DRILLS. SHEETINGS DHOTIES. SAREES. TOWELS, TEPESTRAY CLOTH ETC.. AND YARNS All Enquiries to their world distributors BANSIDHAR GOPALDAS CO. Kalbadevi Road. Bombay 2 (India) Local Enquiries to Singapore Office at
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  • 544 8 Flag Raised At Ceremonies From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. ANE thousand two hundred students of the Methodist Boys' School in Kuala Lumpur today pledged their loyalty to the country in the only ceremony of its kind held in any school today during Federation
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  • 63 8 i'tVILS of the Methodist Boys' School, at Kuala Lumpur, (top) pledged their loyalty to the Federation of Malaya during their Federation Day ceremony yesterday. They were led (left) by the principal, Mr. H. F. Clancy. LOWER: The ceremony at Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur, showing the flags of
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  • 44 8 The MuslL/i divine, Maulana Abdul Alim Siddique, will not leave Singapore for Bangkok this week as originally intended. On Sunday he will give a lecture on "Islam and Fatalism" at the premises of the All Malaya Muslim Missionary Society.
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  • 28 8 BENTONG, Thurs.— Raja Abdul Jalll bin Azman has succeeded Inche Badrilla Abdul Karim as Social Welfare Officer for Pahang. Inche Badrilla has been transferred to Klang.
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  • 151 8 SEVENTH Day Adventists from Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaya at th\ir annual Far East conference, which started in Singapore yesterday considered how they can continue their mission work in Korea. The Korean delegates are Mr. E. W. Bahr, President of the Korean Union
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  • 87 8 TWO Singapore Muslim 1 leaders, Mr. Mohammad Khan, president of the Young Muslim Association, and Tuan Syed Abdullah bin Yahya. president of the Arab Union, will attend the World Muslim Conference in Karachi from Feb. 9 to 11. The secretary of the Singapore Muslim League, Mr. Bashir
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  • 20 8 KUANTAN. Thurs. Mr. Chew Yun San. a Kuantan school teacher, died at his home after a lonj; Illness.
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  • 42 8 SEREMBAN, Thurs.— A BCG vaccination campaign In *4egri Sembilan will be conducted between Feb. 14-28. At first it will only be pos?lble to provide this service for school children, children attending infant welfare :linlcs and babies born in Grovernment hospitals.
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  • 29 8 MUAR. Thurs.— Lim Hong Llan. owner of Chop Nam Hup Hin, of Parit Jawa, was ined $50 at Muar for selling intoxicating liquor wholesale without a licence.
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  • 201 8 IN a simple ceremony next Wednesday, Admiral Sir Patrick Brind, Commander-in-Chief, Far East station, will hand over office to Vice-Admiral Sir Guy Russell. Sir Guy will arrive in Sin»apore on the morning of ''eb 7on the Canton. He vill be met by Sir
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  • 76 8 Malay Art Society Plans Show THE MALAY Art Society of Malaya, formed a year ago. will hold its first art exhibition at the Brttish Council Hall. Singapore, from Feb. 11 to 17. The Society has a membership of 40. Most of the Malay artists are amateurs. They study the works
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  • 112 8 A flag day will be held in Kjala Lumpur tomorrow in aid of the Y.W.C.A. 1951 Building Fund Appeal. Flags will be sold by voluntary helpers of the Blue Triangle, Pioneers, Y.W.C.A., the Wednesday Morning Club, W.S.L. the V.M.C.A. and Malay girls from Kampong Bahru. The committee is
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  • 329 8 FEDERA TION FLAG SYMBOL OF UNITY From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Thursday. A BRAHAM Lincoln's famous Gettysburg' address was quoted by the High Commissioner, Sir Henry (lurney, when he spoke to students of the Anderson and Anglo-Chinese Schools this morning on duties of citizenship. Sir Henry was speaking at Federation
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  • 141 8 100 Wore Mourning Bands In KL From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thur.s. ONLY 100 members of the UMNO Youth movement, wearing white bands on their caps, attended the Federation Day ceremony organised by the Kuala Lumpur UMNO at the Sultan Suleiman Club this morning. The bands a Muslim siija
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    • 127 8 Forthaf "just-combed" look all day) long m MM /uticura pittama has an almost medical gefxarr 10 a^est ing itahate Irrft* J I > wwrtmg. In dranfrig I inllwtnawon ■•»<• •orpriess I II 1 1 el«w»ing u p S k(n trouMrs I COMFORT FOfl 1 FEET J &Cetraa& toatt&d in tie
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    • 152 8 HAPPY WORLD Saturday 3rd Feb. at 9 p.m. DON T COME IF YOU ARE NERVOUS THE BATTLE OF THE BRUTES CHARLIE CAMACE Jf SI (Says "He Won't Be A Champion/ i When I've Finished With Him) IM :3j|i KING KONG (I'll Tr.«r Him To Pieces) ANDRE ADOREE M Sensational French
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    • 104 8 Straits Times Crossword 281 8 1 z lin z x z_' •o "i 71 Z Z ■2 13 I i« 15 16 i 7 'S 20 2i 22 23 2* 26 le~ n. Pacn ii«>. 8. C. ■..<■■ oiw, i"o 1-jo (G). 15, Neat soldier (7). 9. Dogged, but not
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    • 178 8 25. Old servant's fee (8). 26. E. Anglican river, or source of water (6). DOWN 1. Priggish lake (8). 2. French ecclesiastic In minor orders <4>. 3. Restraint? Try a new wife, about 50 (6). 4. Stupid, with sin in its heart (7). 5. Fair at exams (8). 6. Extra-sad
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  • 277 9 A Facial For Your Shoulders HOLLYWOOD makeup experts warn that women fiad better become aware that their arms, shoulders, and bosom skin areas need as much conditioning and beautifying as their faces, with iashionable necklines plunging hither and yon as revealingly as they do. Whe. revsaling their shoulders in on?
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  • 85 9 IRONING OUT wrinkles THERE is a lovely litll. gadget on the En-lish murkft. called the '•lonet te." easy to use foolproof in action, which will Iron out your wrinkles and massage lace and neck without ■tretchint? the skin or eneouragintj the sa-'gmg of 111 V^£ ,j v What a boon
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      73 9 spotted organzas. Tailored in metallic shades pewter, creamy coffee, urey. Newest material: Fine-fringed shantung. IN: Easy-to-wear Jull-skirted feminine styles. any-way-you-like tleevet, soft necklines. OR sharply tailored, narrow-skirted designs, tight hips. Some skirts cling to the knees jlare out below. Bodices tailored some sleeveless Details: 'lowers high up at
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      74 9 |.V. Lt'.'le change on last year Nipped-iji Kui.sts, full skirts stay. Interest centres on the hip. Tops when not bare-should-ered have soft, scooped-out necklines s o 1 t revers. Gayest iaeas. scooped out necklines j.lled in uith lace. raffia topless bodices bordered with ivy leaf geraniums, pleated
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      83 9 JN: Two-tiered skirt effects, spirals, overskirts shaped like aprons but may be norn at the back or on one side, OR I 1 clinging, stieath snapes with a plunge neckline and split-up-the-front skirts Details: Sleek hair styles to set off jutting-out hiplines, fanshaped sweeps of material impressive hip drapes
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  • 145 9 :Is Food The Way To A Man's Heart question-to-start-an-arcument i "WES" says Leslie Hardern I member of the Wine T and Food Society. "I wouldn't dream of marrymg a woman T wno wasn't a good cook, however much ,mj ht f|irt wjtn t ncr "NO" is the unexpected vote of
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  • 578 9 BRUCE FRASER' talking about FILMS V T OW that the dust of war the last war, at leas t— has settled a little it is possible to make films about iome of its ncrrors without their becoming propaganda hymns -of hate. The first of such
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    • 22 9 aU mW m ib^b S \i/'^^B *r^ bINutR S-ewtfco- MACHINE igr Singer Sewiig Machiie Ct., (Int. in B.S.A.j Meyer Chanien. Singapore. J^jTfi^F
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    • 196 9 COLD CREAM and VANISHING CREAM for that lovelier look y!J^^^ffl?tfS?wgj^3r *ss s j I i. rfe i FACE POWDER ROUGE PERFUME LIPSTICK! TALC BRILLIANTINE HAIR CREAM h BOURJOIS OISTRIBUTOKS 6RAFION LABORATORIES LIMITED. SINGAPORE lusry cm/whom The growing child ex pcnds his energies at an l^ff^tt^S enormous rare- growing itoaiTi^K^^^ir^ fast
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  • 287 10 LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE LONDON, Thurs. (^LOSING middle prices of selected stocks, as supplied to the Straits Times by special arrangement with The Financial Times, were: LOANS Consols o»J Funding 4% lOti War 31% »2J 3 B»\KS Chattered (£9 pd.t 91 Uercanti.e (£25 1 <£12 pd.) 22 Hongkong ($128) 18 •Tuilcro
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  • 193 10 RUBBER MARKET Half -Cent Drop In A Very Quiet Session THE Singapore rubber market was very quiet yesterday. The price of first-grade for February shipment closed at $2.15 buyers, half a cent below Wednesday's close. With Chinese New Year approaching, some sections of the trade were squaring their positions. Trading
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  • 44 10 SINGAPORE, Thurs., Feb. 1— 5693 (up $7.25 to new record price; previous record $685.75 on Wednesday.) £1,365 a ton in London LONDON, Thurs., Feb. I.— Spot: Buyers £1,365; Forward, £1,330; Settlement, £1.360 (down £10); Turnovers: a.m. 140, p.m. 100 tons.
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  • 207 10 A Good Day For Tins TIN shares yesterday again received encouragement from London, as also from the excellent batch of dividends announced In the morning. Rubber shares, where business was done, were firm. Industrials remained steady. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association wereminim; Ampat 4/8 Austral.
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  • 129 10 THE copra section of the Singapore produce market opened steady yesterday with buyers at $56 2 rising to $57^. Sellers, however, held off throughout the day. No copra changed hands; the market closed steady. The coconut oil section was quiet, sellers quoting $93 with n* buyers. In
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  • 31 10 HONO KONG, Thur«. FREE irarkei currency exchange for Hong Kong dollars was quoted today as follows: U9sl HK*5.?6 (cash), HK»6.oo'i (T.); £1 HK515.20; one tael of gold HK$325 UP.
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  • 84 10 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Thurs. TJEPORTS from Washington indicate that the system of U.S. Government buying of rubber is likely to pave the way for international allocations of raw rubber. The idea has been under discussion by a grow'ng number of Government agencies, according to the
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  • 58 10 YyASTE from the manufacture of paper from spruce wood m.n- provide raw material for a new synthetic rubber, according to a report at a recent meeting of the American Chemical Society. Experimental tests of tyres made of 'he new synthetic rubber Indicate that ii may be
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  • 51 10 From Our Staff Correspondent iPOH, Thurs. I AHAT Mines directors have declared an interim dividend of 25 per cent, less tax at 95., in respect of the year to Mar. 31. 1951. It will be payable in London on Peb 20 to shareholders registered on Jan.
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  • 145 10 gHIPS in the Singapore Roads and alongside the Singapore Harhour R/Mrri <rnHmrn« T-.ct.rH Harbour Boatd godowns yesterday we J[ e:, Outer Roads: Hal Hsuan, Hoi Wong. Tang Shun. Wai Hing. Shin ß,?' IV*^ van Buren. Sambas. American Mail. Szechuan. Leneverett. Van Riebeck. Inner Roads:
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    • 355 10 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS To New York and Boston via Ceyion. India, Egypt oocc Singapore P Sweltenham Penang PRES. HARDING 2/3 Feb oSI! V A c N r?- UREN lßPorf Sails BF b IVI2 r**> f*fi '«««">" 6/15 Feb. 16/17 Feb. 18/19 Feb PRES POLK 23/28 Feb. Omit 1/2 Mar PRESIDENT
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  • 738 11 Hong Lim Green Days Recalled SINGAPORE Chinese Recreation Club begins this year a break in its 65-year association with Hong Lint Green There may be mixed feelings at this parting, but to the younger set, frustrated by the failure of all attempts to rehabilitate the Club
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  • 229 11 LONDON Th-jrs. IN a fourth round replay yesterday of the FA. Ojp soccer competition. Third Division team Mansfield Town beat Second Dirtsion club Sheffield United by 3—l3 —1 after extra time. The complete fifth rc^nd draw for the P.A. Cup Is: Woiverhaxnpton Wanderers v Huddersfield Town. Chelsea
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  • 26 11 TODAY: 5.31 a.m. (8J), 8.56 pjn. (7 1): 1.15 p.m. (2.6) TOMORROW: 826 ajn. (8.6), 11.05 pjn. (8.4); 3.11 a.m. (6.2), 4.04 pjn. (1.1).
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  • 31 11 RUGBY: S.C.C. Sfven-a side tourney an padans. HOCKEY: S.C.R.C. v RO.D. at Hone Lim Green; S.K.C. v CYHi. (St. Teresa) on padanc; Police v Khalsa at Khalu ground.
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  • 615 11  - Diffident South XI Set On Scoring First Win JOHN MARKS HOCKEY CLASSIC TOMORROW ByB v A DIFFIDENT South team left this morning for x Ipoh determined to scored their maiden victory in the eighth annual North-South hockey encounter tomorrow. North, on the other hand, are equally Jieen on maintaining their
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    • 244 11 TODAY'S RADIO SINGAPORE BFIBS 10 ajn. News, Emergency News 4.45 pjn. "Prom the London from KX.J 10.10 Close- 12 Malay; Editorials- 4.55 Ravel; 5.15 "Spe- ctal Dispatch'; 5.30 Symphony 1 p.m. Light Music; 1.30 News; O f Strings"; 6 Indonesian; 6.30 1.45 Dance Music; 2 Close; 6 Ra- Cantonese; 6.45
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  • 366 12 Weekend Meetings At K.L. Will Decide By the SPORTS EDITOR THIS weekend at Kuala Lumpur two meetings important to the future of sport in this country will be held. Tomorrow delegates from all over the Federation will revive the effort to form a Pan-Malayan
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  • 162 12 Games Fund Far Short Of $30,000 JjKJNDS for the Singapore contingent to the Asian games at New Delhi were far short of the target figure of $30,000. An appeal is now made to sports loving Individuals and firms to donate to the fund. Mr. Wee Kirn Wee, acting secretary of
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  • 338 12 rpHt. Singapore Olympic and Sports Council, which met behind closed doors at the V.M.C.A.. Stamford Road last night, decided not to send any representatives to the meeting sponsored by the A.A.A. of Malaya to be held in Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. The meeting called for by
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  • 114 12 piFTY year old "Jossie" de Souza, Singapore's only official at the 1948 London Olympics, was yesterday named manager for the 23 -strong Singapore contingent to the Asian Game s at New Delhi. Mr. de Souza was chosen from three candidates at a two-ana-a-half hour meeting of
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  • 86 12 The Singapore contingent to the Asian Games at New Delhi will leave the Colony by air on Feb. 25. The team will leave New Delhi on March 16 and arrive in Singapore the next day. Eacn member of the team will be equipped with i blue
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  • 44 12 rpODAY'S Free Press con-. J. tains a special fourpage racing supplement. Features include an article by Allan Lewis on Malaya's apprentice jockeys and a complete form guide for the Selangor Turf Club Gold Cup meeting opening at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow.
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  • 330 12  -  EPSOM JEEP From KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. IRISH ABBOT is fast running into his best form. That was the strongest impression I got after watching the leading candidates for the Selangor Gold Cup race on Feb. 10 work this morning. Irish Abbot (Lansdown) was worked
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  • 33 12 MRS. G. E. N. Oehlers wife of the Singapore Hockey Assn., president. Rives away the K.O. troply to Neubronner, captain of the winners. Singapore Recreation Club. Straits Times picture.
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  • 499 12 FOURTH TEST PROSPECTS From JACK FINGLETON Exclusive To The Straits Times ADELAIDE, Thursday. THE Adelaide Oval groundsman says he is perfectly satisfied with the pitch. Local experts say they have never seen a better one, but my own personal opinion is that the skipper who
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  • 147 12 The Singapore Olympic and Sports Council last night decided to include a water-polo team in the the Singapore contingent for the Asian games to be held at New Delhi of March 3. Selection of swimmers, athletes and weightlifters was also confirmed at last night's meeting. The
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  • 93 12 Owing to club fixtures, certain games due to be played on Saturday have been changed as below: Sat. Feb. 3: 5.15 RAF Tengah 'A' v. Singapore Engineer Re«:. 'B; 5.45 Saints 'A' v. Green Howards. Mon. Feb. 5: 4.3O— RAF. Changl v. R.A.S.C. B; 4.55— R.A.5:C. 'A' v.
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  • 575 12 VTAVAL Base 'A 1 and Singapore 11 Cricket Club 'A' teams proved themselves to be among the outstanding sides In the ac.C.'s annual seven-a-side Rugby tournament which went into its third day's play on the padang yesterdayBoth sides entered the second round easily
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  • 309 12 S.R.C. RETAIN trophy WITH 2 SNAP GOALS OINGAPORE Recreation Club "Reds" retained th« Singapore Hockey Association knock-out trophy when they beat Singapore Cricket Club two-nil in th final on the padang yesterday. S.C.C. gave one of the best displays of defensive hockey seen. Their centre-half, Maj. Cooke, appeared to be
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  • 33 12 Members of the V.M.C.A. who would like to play in the 1951 cricket and soccer teams are requested to submit their names to the Programme Secretary, Mr. Andrew Lee before Saturday.
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  • 243 12 4 LARGE number of Colony badminton enthuslats are now making eteiy effort to send On* Poh Llm of Fra^r Neave Sport* Club to compete in the All-Eng-land badminton championships scheduled io start on March 3 Poh Lira, who was one of Malaya's T.'iomns cup players,
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  • 120 12 JOHANNESBURG. Thu. DUDLEY Nourse ha.s been uppointed captain of the South African cricket team to tour England this summer. Nourse, who is 40. led S.- ih. Africa in the Test matches as^inst England in 1948-49 and against Australia last year. He VI captain under Alan Melville
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