The Straits Times, 6 February 1951

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1951 ir PRICE TFN CENTS.
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    Public To Hear Riot Inquiry
    235 1 Public To Hear Riot Inquiry THE commission to in1 quire into the December Singapore riots will hold all its sittings in public except when actual security organisation details are given in evidence. The commission will pro- j bably sit In the Singapore Supreme Court or in the i Memorial Hall.
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    FRANCE RESTRICTS HUNGARIANS
    42 1 PARIS. Mon.— The French Foreign Ministry today annvincvd restrictions on the nts of Hungarian diplomats -n France. an specifically exgludei tne Hungarians from I ii Versailles probable ti-adcj'.iarters for General D'iei.f D. Elsenhower's Atbntlc Pact Army Headquart A. P.
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    NUNS MUST TRAINi
    22 1 HONG KONG, Mon. The Communist Government has ordered "monks and nuns" to r for training in pro- works." AP.
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    No Accommodation
    38 1 LONDON. Mon. Britain i n the United Nations i ,ause of the many vl- .-> xp-vted for the FestiTii of Britain this year it will ■ot bf possible to accemmotfate the General Assembly in l noxtautumn. —Rev-
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    AWARD IN FOXHOLE
    37 1 AWARD IN FOXHOLE IiKIU-OEN&KAL George Peploe, commander of the U.S. Second Division, pins the Silver Star for Gallantry on Sergeant Elmer H. Wood in a foxhole on the central Korean front in an unusualceremony. A. P. picture.
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    UN- TANKS ANSWER RED ATTACK
    261 1 Three Columns Strike Behind Enemy Lines TOKYO, Monday. THE Eighth Army today answerd the stiffening Chinese resistance by sending three powerful armoured columns deep into enemy territory one punching within seven miles of Seoul. All three columns turned back on orders to inflict as much
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    Pat Johnson Will Stand For Council
    291 1 E. Pat Johnson, Independent Labour Commissioner or North Ward, badly injured in the Singapore will contest coming Legislative Council elections. Mr. Johnson agreed to nomination after several approaches by supporters. He will contest the seat in the Balestier (North) Ward, which is his home
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    WRECK SIGHTED
    40 1 PARIS. Mon.—Air France said today that one of its planes, missing in Nigeria. French West Africa, with 29 people aboard, has been sighted 40 miles north-west of Douala. Cameroons. A military rescue party is on its way.-A P.
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    3 MORE DIE FOR RAPE
    64 1 RICHMOND (Virginia) Monday. THREE more Negroes the 1 last of the "Martinsville seven" were executed here today for the mass rape of a 32-year-old white woman in Virginia. While they were walking to the electric chair, six other Negroes, sentenced to death in 1948 for
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    MAROONED ON ALPS SUMMIT
    50 1 VIENNA, Mon. Three American military planes have dropped stores to the snowbound inhabitants of the Sonnelick observatory marooned in a 10,184-foot summit in the Carinthian Alps, near Heiligenblut. Climbers have been unable to reach the observatory, because of heavy snowfalls and the danger of avalanches. Reuter.
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    U.S. IGNORED
    42 1 CAIRO. Mon.— The Executive Committee of the International Postal Union decided by a secret ballot not to discuss the United States resolution demanding the expulsion of the Chinese Communist delegation. The delegation was accepted by the organisation last month.— Reuter.
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    Governor Calls On Shot Policeman
    148 1 THE Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Qlmson, went to the General Hospital last evening to see Police Constable Cheman bin Soam, who was wounded by a Chinese gunman early yesterday morning. The Governor shook him by the hand and told him "I am pr/)ud to
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    Polite Warn Motorists
    71 1 Polite Warn Motorists SINGAPORE Police yesterday issued a warning to all motorists and lorry drivers to be cautious when parking their vehicles owing to the spate of thefts of tyres, wheels and svare parts Quoting an example, a police spokesman said that on Saturday a driver found his lorry missing
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    7 To Die For War Crimes
    45 1 FRANKFURT, Mon. CEVEN condemned German war criminals will probably be hanged shortly after midnight on Feb. 13. Relatives of the seven have received official telegrams notifying them that final visits to the prisoners will be on Feb. 13.— AP.
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    INDIAN NAVAL STOKER LOST
    46 1 MELBOURNE. Mon. A stoker was washed overboard from the Indian destroyer Rajput at dawn today seven miles off Port Phillip Head, near Melbourne. He was seen swimming the heavy seas but by the time the Rajput turned round he had disappeared.— Reuter.
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    'FAILED TO ARREST MOB' CHARGE
    103 1 INSPECTOR Bujang bin Tun- gal, of the Singapore Police Force, was charged In the Singapore First District Court yesterday with "Intentionally failing, to arrest rioters who were gathered outside the Geylang Police Bujang claimed trial. The case was postponed to Mar. 5 when it will
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    MINISTER DEAD
    21 1 CAPETOWN. Mon.— Dr Albert J Stals, South African Minister of Health and Social Welfare, died here early today.— Reuter.
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    Chief Here Today
    11 1 The new Commissioner of Police, Singapore, Mr. John
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    Grenade Flung In Shop Wounds Nine
    127 1 I7IVE boys, three women and a man were wounded when a terrorist flung a hand grenade into a tin ore dealer's shop in Main Street, Chemor township, 10 miles north of Ipoh, at noon yesterday. Two, the 18 year old daughter of the shop
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    MALAY POLICE CHIEF SHOT
    388 1 THE Assistant Commandant of the Singapore Special Constabulary, Mr. Abdul Rahman bin Abdul Aziz, was shot by a Chinese gunman 30 yards outside his home in Lorong 6, Geylang Road, as he was leaving for work at 8.45 yesterday morning. His driver, Abdullah bin Mohamed Kassim,
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    NOT WANTED
    30 1 DAMASCUS, Mon. Police dispersed hundreds of students demonstrating here today against tomorrow's visit by General Sir Brian Robertson, Chief Commander of British forces in the Middle East. Reuter.
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    HUSSEIN MAKES A VOW
    159 1 HUSSEIN MAKES A VOW AUSSEIN Ibrahim, 25-year-old corporal in the Sin? ipore Police Force, stood by an open grave at the Malay Cemetery yesterday, and a.i the coffin of his father-in-law, Assistant Commandant Abdul Rahman bin Abdul Aziz of the Special Constabulary was lowered into it, vowed to find the
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    BAO DAI GOES TO PRAY
    43 2 BAO DAI, chief of Vietnam State, in full ceremonial dress and followed by court officials, goes to the imperial palace at Hue for a religions ceremony. At right is the Governor of Vietnam. Pham Wan Qiao. A.P. picture.
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    JUNGLE GEMS TO AID ARMING
    145 2 PARIS. Monday. A MERICAN dollars are pouring into the jungles of Equatorial Africa to bring out industrial diamonds for Western rearmament. Possible new diamond fields are being explored to make sure the United States and her allies have a sufficient supply to prevent a bottleneck.
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    'ANARCHY' IN AUSTRALIA
    73 2 CANBERRA, Mon.— Labour Minister Harold Holt warned Australians yesterday they were on the eve of the blackest period in their industrial history. Twenty-four hours before the miners were due to begin their one day a week stoppages, he described the present situation as "anarchy". The waterside workers
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    ROCKET MEN IN AUSTRALIA
    40 2 DARWIN, Mon. Sir Harry Garner, chief scientist at the British Ministry of Supply, and Air Chief Marsnal Sir Alex Coryton, chief executive of guided missiles, arrived here today from London to survey guided rocie; developments. Reuter.
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    Army Killed 1,978 Huks In Eleven Months
    188 2 Army Killed 1,978 Huks In Eleven Months CURACY TO OVERTfiteOV^ JaV[RN*rtT ill'- J MANILA; Mon. SINCE April when the Philippines Army took over the Job ot restoring order, 1,978 Communist Hukbalahaps have been killed, 584 captured and 122 surrendered. National Defence officials revealed. The figures were given by the National
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    A CASE WHERE CRIME PAYS
    90 2 PRAGUE. Mon. {JNDER a new legal fees schedule in Czechoslovakia, the heavier the crime against a defendant the more pay a lawyer gets. If the crime calls for a maximum penalty of a year's gaol, the lawyer is paid 1,000 crowns. If 5 years, he
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    MOZART-NOTJAZZ
    33 2 TEL AVIV. Mon.—Harmonica player Larry Adler is usually asked for Jazz at the end of a concert. But not in Israel. People ask for Mozart Brahms, Schubert, and Tschaikowsky. he says. A.P.
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    US to Control Tungsten
    66 2 WASHINGTON. Mon. THE UJS. Government's Na- tional Production Authority, from March. 1, will allocate all tungsten, except ores and scrap, and will limit non-essential uses of the ateel- alloying material. The steel regulation has been tightened. Officials said curtailment of tungsten supplies from China and Korea,
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    Aircraft Carrier Sabotaged
    109 2 HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, Monday. TWE engines of the Canadian aircraft carrier MagA nificent were sabotaged on the eve of a training cruise. A spokesman said no serious damage was done and that the 18,000-ton carrier would sail for Bermuda on schedule today. Damage was confined to the
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      Old Medicine Man Wasn't Far Wrong
      169 2 r[E Indians were not so far wrong in their medicine, says Mr. Clarence Smith, of the University of California Department of Anthropology. His researches show that old medicine-man concoctions were often made from the same substances used in modern medicine. The Indians, for example,
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    Hitlers Gift To Rommel Found
    43 2 BEIRUT, LEBANON, Mon A REVOLVER engraved "From Adolf Hitler to Qenercl s* Rommel in recognition of hts bravery" was found by Beirut police in a search for prohibited arms. They found the gun, which holds 30 cartridges, 011
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    TRUMAN MAY SHELVE REARMING OF GERMANY
    295 3 PARIS, Monday. RENE PLEVEN, the French Premier, has been assured by President Truman in their Washington talks that there will he no early rearmament of Germany, it is reliably reported in Paris. The President told M. Pleven that rearmament of other Western European nations
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    UK-Canton Travel Ban Protest
    118 3 UK-Canton Travel Ban Protest HONG KONG. Man. THE recent restrictions on the entry of Chinese Into Canton are causing great Inconvenience to city merchants travelling between thp Colony and the South China ci'y The Hong Kong general chamber of commerce has •ddressed a letter to General Yeh Chien-ying, Governor of
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    NO RED PROGRESS
    36 3 NEW YORK. Mon—The director of the American Geographical Society, Dr. George H. T. Kimble. reported yesterday that Communist principles had made "no visible headway" in the -British and Belgian colonies IB Africa.—A P.
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    Tinless Cans In America
    78 3 NEW. YORK. Mull. THE American Can Com- reports considerable j In developing substiI r tin in making cans. Mr. W. E. Stock, the execut < (-president announccans made of Unless it -el have been produced *b .it M fast as tin cans. ud that for some
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    DEATH OF A SHIP
    43 3 STERN first, the 9.720-ton Panamanian tanker Janko founders in th* Atlantic off Cap* Finisterre. She sank later with her back broken by the severe gales. Survivors were picked up by the liner Venus and landed in Southampton. Reuter photo.
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    I'll Do My Best —U.N. President
    176 3 LAKE SUCCESS, iMunday. THE President of the United Nations General x Assembly, Mr. Entezam, said that he was determined to try to set up a good offices committee for a cease-fire agreement in Korea. But United Nations diplomats were pessimistic after the Chinese Premier
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    STORE RUBBER FOR JAPAN
    53 3 TOKYO. Mon— The Ministry of International Trade and Industry will decide to permit the import of crude rubber from Singapore because Japan stock holdings have decreased recently. The Ministry is expected to allocate an equivalent of $24,000,000 in sterling funds to buy about 16,000 tons of
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    Died In 1447— Tower Burial
    89 3 LONDON, Mon. J£ING George VI has given his assent to the reburial of the third Duke of Exeter, who died in 1447, and his first and third wives. Anne and Ann. For centuries the remains of the Duke and his wives lay in their magnificent
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    TROOPSHIP CANCELS SOS
    112 3 TROOPSHIP CANCELS SOS LONDON, Mon. CANCELLING a distress signal and expressing thanks by radio for offers of help, the 11,275-ton British troopship Devonshire resumed her journey to Singapore last night after an carJier signal had asked for help. The distress signal was sent out from the middle of the Bay
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    PLANES SAVE PATROL
    92 3 SAIGON, Mon. Vietminh troops attacked a French patrol near Haiduong in Tonking, a French communique said in Saigon today. The French were quickly rescued by mobile reserves and warplanes which strafed the Vietminh troops At least 40 of the Vietminh were counted dead after the battle, which
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    TURCO'S CAR THERE -BUT NOT TURCO
    122 3 MADRID, Mon. CAPTAIN Raymond "Turco" Westerling set police of three countries guessing again yesterday when his car drove across the international bridge from France into Spain at Irun. Journalists, trailing the leader o f the "Heavenly Host" unit in Indonesia a year ago, found
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    US STRIKE THREAT TO TROOPS
    98 3 US STRIKE THREAT TO TROOPS CHICAGO, Mon. AMERICA'S railway strike, which has hit 50 railways and 100 cities, yesterday threatened a shortage of ammunition for U.N. forces in Korea. Ammunition which should have been on the way to troops in Korea had been halted in arsenals by the widespread freight
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    DON'T BE FOOLEDU.K. UNION CHIEF
    54 3 LONDON, Mon. A warning to 5,000 striking Liverpool dockers and other workers that Communists were seeking to foment labour unrest to baulk economic recovery in Britain and Western Europe, was given yesterday. The Transport and General Workers' Union generalsecretary, Mr. Arthur Deakln, urged workers: "Do
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    $1 FOR WIFE
    29 3 LOS ANGELES, Mon.— Two days before he died, film star Jack Holt signed a will cutting off his wife, Margaret, with US$l. He left US$l5,OOO. —A.P.
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    KASHMIR DEBATE
    24 3 LAKE SUCCESS, Mon.— Friday, is being considered as the date for the opening of the Kashmir debate in the Security Council. U.P.
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    60m.p.h. Gales Lash U.K: Lifeboats Out
    125 3 LONDON, Monday. OIXTY mile an hour gales swept Britain yesterday and whipped up the worst sea storm of the winter in the Straits of Dover. Mailboat services between England and the Channel Islands were suspended for the first time in several years. The mailboat
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    GETS DIVORCE
    54 3 SCattuEN Actress Elizabeth Taylor leaves a Los Angeles courtroom on Jan. 29 after getting a divorce from Mr. Nick Hilton, hotel heir. She said, with tears in her eyes, that Hilton was neglectful and made her nervous. She waived alimony. They had been married a little more* than
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    TRAINS STICK IN SNOWDRIFTS
    38 3 COPENHAGEN. Mon. Many towns and villages in Jutland were cut off today in the worst snowstorm of the winter. Rail traffic was almost at a standstill and several trains were reported stuck in snowdrifts.—Reuter.
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    TASMANIA PULP
    39 3 NEW YORK, Mon.— Output of the Australian newsprint mills in Tasmania will be increased to 80,000 tons a year when new paper making equipment just installed begins operating, the Australian Information Office said in New York— A.P.
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    1456 BIBLE
    13 3 NEW YORK, Mon.— A copy of the 1450 Gutenberg Bible, jnUslng&incel824^ia^aeej^
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    Hospitals Take Patients At Point Of Gun
    246 3 Hospitals Take Patients At Point Of Gun WITH THE 29TH BRITISH BRIGADE, KOREA. Mon. /WERCROWDING in Korean hospitals is so bad that Army doctors "of this brigade have had to force receptionists to accept extreme cases at the point of the gun. One medical officer said: "One of our corporals
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    PUNCTURE PROOF TYRES
    39 3 AKRON, OHIO, Mon. THE Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. announces it is making motor-car tyrca which are "blow-out safe and puncture proof." "They remove all hazards from any kind of tyre failure." said the company. A.P.
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    Elected Majority In Council -Party's Aim
    284 4 THE ultimate develop- ment of the Singapore Legislative Council into a Parliament and the appointment of elective members as Ministers will be sought by the Singapore Progressive Party during the next three years. This is stated in the aims of the Party for the
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    DIES IN INDIA
    27 4 BENTONG. Mon— Mr. I. P. Mohammed, founder of the firm of the same name in Loke Yew Street, Ben tone, has died in India
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    CEYLON DINNER
    66 4 MR. K. P. S. Rajasooria. (centre) president of the Selangor branch of the Ceylon Federation of Malaya, and guests drink the toast of the Federation of Malaya at a dinner given by the association in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. From left are Mrs. M. V. Del Tufo. the
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    CAR TURNS OVER AFTER CRASH
    193 4 Clunies-Ross: 'My Speed Was 70' From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Monday. JOHN Clunies-Ross, aged 22, of Exeter College, Oxford, was said at Salisbury Court to have driven his car at about 80 i.i.p.h., passed another car skidded at the bottom of a hill and lost
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    $350 HAUL BY BURGLARS
    37 4 nURGLARS cot into the Asia restaurant. Seremban, during the week-end and stole $150. and 18 tins and several packets of cigarettes worth $200. It Ls believed they tot la through a side door
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    ONE A WEEK QUIT GOVT SERVICE
    253 4 ONE A WEEK QUIT GOVT SERVICE From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. AN average of almost one European Government officer a week has left Government service in the Federation and Singapore since the beginning of 1950. There have been 48 resignations and non-renewal of contracts. Ten were women who
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    FOR UNIVERSITY From Our Own Correspondent
    30 4 FOR UNIVERSITY From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA. Mon.-The Malacca committee of the Untversity Appeal Fund with the Stamford Club and Medical College Alu:nni. raised about $2,000 a;, a recent dance.
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    Killed Tiger With One Shot From Our Staff Correspondent
    86 4 Killed Tiger With One Shot From Our Staff Correspondent PAHANG, Mon. JNCHE Awang Pit, a kam1 pong guard of Kg. Padang, rifle in hand, waited in a tree for a tiger to return to a cow it had killed. Two hours after darkness fell, the tiger, six and a half
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    Rail Union Rejects Benham Salaries
    215 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. TTOE Permanent Way Officers' Union of the Malax yan Railway has unanimously rejected the new interim salary scales based on the Benham Report. Delegates from all Federation states at an emergency meeting in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday decided
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    GOING TO U.K.
    29 4 MISS ROSIE CHAN, Health Nurse. Bukit Mertajam. Province Wellesley. wl« is leaving in March by th»> nhusan for Britain on a Health Visitor's course. International Photo.
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    POLICE OFFER $2,000 FOR PAHANG BANDIT
    96 4 From Our Stsff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. rpHE Pahang Police are offer- ing a reward of $2,000 for information for the arrest of Chan Chor. who is now known to be In the Bentong district. He Is a Kwongsai of medium a HmD due
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    MALAYAN COURT TOLD
    315 5 MALAY AN COURT TOLD AN elderly Eurasian yesterday told the Singapore First District Court Judge, Mr. H. E. Kingdon, how he was attacked and stabbed by a Malay police constable in Bukit Panjang Village, Singapore, during the disturbances in December. In the dock, charged with causing hurt to 65-year-old L.
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    CAUGHT AS HE PICKED LOCK
    69 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A TAMIL, Karuppiah, tried to pick the lock of a bicycle parked in the fivefoot way at Ampong street. But the owner, who was having a meal in a restaurant, ran out and caught him. Inche Haron bin
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    RUSSIANS CARRY NO GUNS
    142 5 RUSSIANS CARRY NO GUNS THE Russian merchant navy can well claim to be composed of men after "anti-war-mongering" Stalin's own heart. Proof of this may be obtained in Singapore, where captains of all Russian ships calling here have to report the presence of arms and munitions aboard. Without exception, they
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    NEW YEAR BUS CONCESSION
    41 5 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. The Road Transport Department has made a New Year concession by allowing buses on outstation routes to carry passengers standing This concession will only b«> for four days from today.
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    APPEAL IS REFUSED
    77 5 The appeal of K. A. Padmanabhan against sentence of six years' imprisonment on charges of forgery was yesterday refused by the Chief Justice. Sir Charles MurrayAynsley. in the Court of Criminal Appeal. Addressing the court. Padmanabhan claimed that "great doubt" existed in this case as forgery had
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    EXPERTS STUDY SPORE PLAN
    213 5 IT IS STILL premature to talk about how much money will be spent on economic development in Singapore during: the next six years, and how much external finance the Colony will receive for this purpose, says the latest Singapore Economic Information Bulletin, in a reference to
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    34 5 THIEF INSPECTOR C. M. Sunderaj. 31. who leaves this month for a six-month course at the Metropolitan Police School, Hendon. He is the first Malacca police officer to be sent abroad. Straits Times picture.
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    ACSU TALKS POSTPONED
    71 5 The Army Civil Service Union has postponed its Annual Delegates' Conference, which was scheduled to be held on Feb. 11, the general secretary of the union, Mr. P. Williams, told the Straits Times yesterday. In a statement the union asks all branch offices to submit their returns
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    UNDERWEIGHT: $25
    27 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Lee Kee Woo. who committed fraud by underwelghlng fish in the Johor* Bahru market, was fined $25 in the Police Court today.
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    6 Months For Two Rioters
    110 5 A MALAY and an Indian Muslim who were recognised as members of a mob which was shouting slogans and threats in North Bridge Road during the recent riots, were yesterday found guilty In the Singapore First District Court of being members of an unlawful assembly
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    Court Told Of Riot Robbery
    318 5 FIVE youths who were alleged to have tied up and robbed an elderly Eurasian before they ransacked a house at Changi during the riots, stealing more than $1,400 worth of property, yesterday appeared in the Singapore Relief Court. They were three Boyanese, Amed bin Chukery,
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    THEY WILL NOT HEED BROOKE
    109 5 THEY WILL NOT HEED BROOKE FIVE Sarawak anti-cession associations have wired Mr Anthony Brooke. exRaja Muda, their refusal to abandon their campaign against the cession of Sarawak to Britain as urged by Mr. Brooke last week-end, because of the grave international situation They promise however, to do all in their
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    Ceylonese Promise 'True Allegiance'
    184 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. ABOUT 150 members and guests of the Ceylom Federation of Malaya (Selangor branch) last night heard their president, Mr. R. P. S. Rajasooria give an assurance that Ceylonese in Malaya who wished to make this their permanent home were
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., Feb. 6, 1951 The Cynic's Butt
    664 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues Feb. 6, 1951 The Cynic's Butt It is so easy to be cynical about Singapore politics, wheIher in their old or new forms; cr. alternatively, to go to the other extreme and claim pure disinterestedness for the nominated members of the old iirder or pure
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    The Widows And Orphans
    392 6 Some pertinent questions about that institution of Govprnment service which is commonly but erroneously known as the Widows and Orphans Fund were asked by Mr. Prosper Liston, of Penang, in a letter published in this page yesterday. There is actually no such fund and no liability
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    SILVER WEDDING
    27 6 HEMS'. EY KELLY. On Febril: 'rv 60^1926 at All Saints Church. Talping. Thomas Hemv Wv of Leeds. Yorks to Mabel Wen Kelly of Bradford. Yorks.
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
    64 6 Mr d A. GEE of Gopen» gratefnLy acknowledges the many repressions of sympathy and klnrincsM recently extended to W Mr MRS. LAURIETHOMAS «W) to thank the Drs. Matron. Sbtm, Nurses Str.fi ot «he Miodleton Hospital for Uie •rent care, attrition kindness Shown to Mr daughter Lora lne Airing her
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    PERSONAL
    20 6 FOORMANS Music Aeademv ■4 Wilkinson Road, wishes all Ills Chinese friends and pupils a Mappv md Prosperous New Yea..
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    NEW TRIAL
    62 6 TRENTON, New Jersey. Mon.— Six Negroes sentenced to death here in 1948 for the murder of an elderly shopkeeper will face a second trial in the State Superior Court tomorrow. Following their appeal, left>ving groups conducted defence fund campaigns for the Trenton Six." The State Supreme Court set
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    THE YEAR OF THE HARE
    377 6  -  By G. T. BOON ALTHOUGH much oi A the colourful cere monial ritual has beer swept away by the tid of modern civilisatior the Chinese New Yea; celebrations, which star today, still rank hig) among the Chinese com munity in Malaya as on of the
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      Federation Shirts: Silk Or Kadar?
      401 6 TiHE recent rush by Indians to apply for Federal citizenship made me wonder about their zeal to exchange the old lamp for the new. Questioning more than a hundred of them has brought to light the fact that they have been told it would be
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      LANDLORDS IN NEED
      199 6 r)WING to rent control v there has been no rent Increase since 1939 except the small increase in November 1947 authorised by the Government. Since then, especially lately, the cost of living has gone up very much. Small property owners, especially those who own only one or
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    A Theatre For Singapore
    749 6 p rom A Special Correspondent T*HE recent attempt to 1 run a repertory theatre in Singapore failed perhaps chiefly. though not solely, be- cause the producer, energetic as he was, catered only for a European audience. With that limitation he could never have succeeded, for the
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    On the Margin
    480 6 Burnt Earth f|NE thing that has lung puzzled me In books and articles on Malayan garden- ing is why the use of burnt earth is recommended (an exasperating piece ol advice, by the way. to a suburbanite who has no materials for bonfire except grass cuttings. dead
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    42 SIGN UP ON FIRST DAY
    425 7 50-Year Old Clerk Among Volunteers pORTY-TWO people went to the Chief Registration Centre in Beach Road yesterday, opening day of the Singapore Manpower Bureau, and signed op for voluntary work with the Cm! Defence Corps and ancillary medical and fire services. The response was
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    59 7 KMA Ml T DA *f ffVrak tern tre) at Ike State handset girrn by the Data Kfona Pc tra, Uncfanr. mt S«r?ef Ujoitf, at >»m b*faii at A nan. n*a r Seremban. At right is the Ivtentri Be*ar of N>*ri Sembttan. Date Haji AMtl Malrk: <, n thr left is
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    Free Ghani Urge World Muslims
    189 7 THE rdeaac of Mr. Kaiim Ghani, foiiner Presicenv and now Patron of the Singapore Muslim League, Is being sought by the World Muslim Conference, according to an Associated Press report from Karachi. Mr. Ghani, who is being 4 ainfd in Singapore in connection wttti the
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    RACE HORSES FOR S'PORE
    28 7 The Dutch ship, Teucer, 8.922 tons, arrived in Singapore yesterday from Birkenhead with six horses, presumed to be race horses, to be unshipped here.
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    Woman To Contest Elections
    207 7 Woman To Contest Elections HTHE first woman to an- nounce her candidature for the elections to the Singapore Legislative Council is 25-year-old Mrs. Vilasini Menon, wife of Mr. C. Q. Menon, a Colony lawyer. Mrs. Menon will contest the Seletar constituency as an Independent. She told the Straits Times yesterday
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    Will Study T.B. Work In Malaya
    117 7 DR. Sofia Bona de Santos, of the National Chest Centre at Manila has come to Malaya on a WHO-UNICEF fellowship to study the clinical aspects of tuberculosis and BCG immunisation. Dr. Santos, who has been observing the anti-tuberculo-sis campaign In Johore Bahru by a
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    DISPUTE LED TO GAOL
    59 7 A dispute over a loan of 30 cents which his friend. Liew Slew, asked to be returned, led Lim Chin San. aged 19. to strike his neighbour with an iron bar. This was stated in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday when Lim w«s ientenced to
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    CHINESE NEW YEAR RUN ON BANKS
    233 7 WITHDRAWALS running into tens of millions of dollars for the Chinese New Year were said to have been dealt with during the last few days at the eight Chinese banks in Singapore. Clerks at these banks worked late into the night from last Wednesday
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    2 CHARGED FOR NO PASSPORTS
    43 7 ">«n Our Own lorrrvpnndcnl JOHOUE BAHRU. Mon. talcajl bin Haji Kassim and Kamaniah binte AJI were charged in the Police Court today with entering the Federation without passports. The case was postponed for hearing later in the month.
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    EVEN AMAHS CUT THEIR PIGTAILS
    185 7 CtfNGAPOBE hairdressers O were practically worked off their leet yesterday when thousands of Chinese women insisted on having new coiffeures for today, their New Year. Some shops were open the whole of last night. 'My (iris don't mind doing 24 hours duty," the manager of
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    More Will Beat Blackmarket
    204 7 eight Singapore Municipal Commissioners staying in the Katong area are being approached by Mr. Frank C. James (Progressive— East Ward) to join the anti-blackmarket campaign which he is organising in the East Ward. Mr. James, who has called, preliminary meeting of people Interested fn the campaign
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    SAPPER GUILTY OF THEFT
    117 7 SAPPER GUILTY OF THEFT CAPPER A. Payne, of the Singapore Engineers Regiment, was yesterday convicted by a general court-martial for the theft of two lorry loads of angle irons, the property of War Department, on Dec. 2, and sentenced to six months' detention. The conviction and sentence are subject to
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    GAOL FOR RUBBER
    26 7 Found In fraudulent possession of three pieces of scrap rubber. Chua Ah Klat, aged 41, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment in Sin-
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    In Court On Stretcher
    87 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. AFTER partly hearing the evidence of the first witness at a preliminary inquiry in a murder case. Inche Kadir bin Yusof, the Magistrate, refused to proceed further unless a doctor was called to certify that the accused was in
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    STOLE—GAOLED
    38 7 Pleading guilty in the Singapore Second Police Court when charged with stealing a Municipal valve cover, Ngo Shu Kah. aged 40, was yesterterday sentenced to three months' rigorous imprisonment, to be followed by a years policp supervision.
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    Dr. Maggie Lint, 6 Others Freed -On Conditions
    322 7 THiY GO BACK TO WORK J)R Maggie Lim, Lady Medical Officer, Singapore Municipal Health Department, three Government school teachers, two undergraduates of the University of Malaya and a Government clerk were released conditionally from detention yesterday by Singapore Government. They were held,
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    CAR THIEVES BUSY AGAIN
    73 7 For the first time In many months, a car was reported stolen in Singapore yesterday The car, a new Austin No! SC 9931, was sto!en from outside the house of the owner Mr. K. C. George, in Tiong Bahru early on Sunday morning. Mr George, who
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    MALAYAN STUDENTS TO MEET
    181 7 MALAYAN STUDENT S TO MEET APUELIC meeting to dl«CUBi the arrests by tre Singapore and the Federation Governments of a number of students said to be connected with Communist organisations will be held by Malayan students in London on F b. 9. The Utusan Melayu's London correspondent In a letter
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    3 Appeals Dismissed
    103 7 ARIFFIN bin AH, a young Malay. who app i against conviction an^ tence of six years' rig< imprisonment on a charge r armed robbery, had his app 1 dismissed by Chief Justi Charles Murray-Aynsley in i c Singapore Court ot Crl 1 Appeal yesterday. Ariflfin claimed he
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    Heated Discussion On Maria Case: Struck Off UMNO Agenda
    231 8 'SUB JUDICE' YOUTH DELEGATES WARNED From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. A HEATED discussion on the Nadra (Maria Hertogh) case ended in the subject being struck off the agenda at the UMNO youth movement's half-yearly meeting at Sultan Suleiman Club,
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    46 8 AUSTRALIA'S highest ranking; journalist, also managing editor of the Melbourne Herald and Sun. Mr. J. C. Williams, arrived m Singapore yesterday by Q.E.A.8.0.A.C. Constellation from Sydney. Mr. Williams, who will stay m Singapore for five days, is on a tour of East Asia.— Straits Times picture.
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    ONN TOLD —'DON'T INTERFERE'
    225 8 ONN TOLD —'DON'T INTERFERE' From Oar SUff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. T")ATO Onn bin Ja'afar, president of the United Malays National Organisation, was told today to mind his own business by Inche Hashim Ghani, president of the 6,000-strong Peninsula Malays Union At a meeting of UMNO youth yesterday Dato Onn
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    NEW GOC FOR SINGAPORE
    82 8 Major General G.O.C. Scott, British Commander of the Hamburg district, has been appointed Commander of the Singapore district as from May. He will succeed MajorGeneral D. Dunlop, who ha* been G.O.C. Singapore district since 1948. Major-Gen. Scott is a gunner like Major-Gen. Dunlop. He served on
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    K.L. Cocktail Party
    59 8 THE RAJA MUDA of Selangor gave a cocktail party at th« Istana Raja Muda over the week-end to Seiangor Rotarian.s and their wives. Among the guests were from left: Mrs. H. S. Lee. Mrs. Wan Alima Osman. Che Oan. Tungkii Lat, wife of the Raja Muda of
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    WomanToHeadNew Singapore Union
    167 8 OINGAPORE'S next woman v trade union leader will be Miss Sim Hong Kang, an employee of a shoe manufacturing company whose workers have recently applied for the registration of their union. The first was Mis* Wee Kiat Neo of the Army Civil Services Union. Most of the
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    Man Who Went Bail Died
    75 8 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Tay Boon Kai and Lee Ah Wan, charged at Johore Bahru with having consumed chandu In the labourers' lines at the BBC Station, Plentong, were told that the person who had bailed them out had since died, so
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    SIAMESE POLICE KILL BANDIT
    227 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. CIAMESE Police, operating on the Siam-Malayan frontier, have killed a bandit, arrested a suspect and seized a handgrenade, a quantity of ammunition, four large coils of copper wires, batteries and fuses. A second bandit has been killed by a
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    GURNEY GOES TO S. TIGA
    56 8 SIR HENRY GURNEY. the High Commissioner, tests the equipment of an Auxiliary Policeman during: his visit on Sunday to the Tillage of Simpanc Tiea in the Slttmwan District on the first anniversary of its burning by bandits. At left is Mr. W. F. Grieve, the
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    HIGHER PAY FOR 10,000 WORKERS
    100 8 A BOUT 10,000 workers have been given or ranging from 10 to 50 per They Include workers in rubber, glass, shoe and cigar factories: coal-workers, and workers in quarries and engineering firms, Mr. C. W. Lyle, Assistant Commissioner lor Labour, said yesterday. The Increases have
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    'OUR FAULT'
    68 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Mrs. L. Bryan, in charge of the Transport Department of William Jacks fc Co., Singapore, answered in the Police Court today when the firm was charged with allowing a motor lorry to operate carryIng goods without a haulage permit. "Its our fault entirely," she said
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    'TOO SUDDEN'
    45 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Lee Hem? Seong of Malacca, was fined $25 at Johore Bahru for driving a lorry negligently and colliding with a military truck on the Ayer Hitam road. Lee said the military truck stopped suddenly, giving him no time to brake.
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    END PEKING RECOGNITION'
    54 8 From Our Own Corre>;p»n'l<>iit IPOII. Mon. THE Federated Malay States Chamber of Mines supports the Associated Chinese Chambers uf Commerce of Malaya in calling: on the British Government to withdraw recognition of the Peking government. A resolution asks ihs Federation Government l» pass on the view to
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    PROTEST ON GOVT DELAY
    108 8 PROTEST ON GOVT DELAY OINGAPORE pharm.ni j> •J will criticise Government's delay in answering their request for more pay at a meeting called by ths Southern Division of the Malayan Pharmaceutical Association at the V.M.C.A. oa Friday. They will also discuss the question of asking Government to permit them to
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    CONVAIR IN SERVICE
    54 8 The first Convair airliner to be put into regular service by Garuda Indonesia Airlines arrived in Singapore yesterday from Medan and later took off for Medan and Jakarta. The service is usually operated by Dakota aircraft. Garuda Indonesia Airline* have eight new Convair? which are gradually being
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    5 STRANDED SEAMEN
    61 8 5 STRANDED SEAMEN The 450-ton Tong Hoa. under the command of Capt. J. A. Moon, arrived in Singapore from Jakarta yesterday with five distressed British seamen alleged to have been stranded in Jakarta. Captain Moon, whose ship also brought 360 tons of general cargo for Singapore, reported that he was
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    $1,452 THEFT CHARGE
    46 8 Charged with stealing; motor spare parts valued at $1,452 from the Air Ministry, Seletar, Ton Her Leng, aged 27. and Ong San Liang, aged 29, claimed trial in Singapore yesterday. The case was postponed until Feb. 12. Bail of $1,000 each was allowed.
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    BOARD NAMED
    61 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Monday. Member* at the Ho«pual Board for Poiulan tills year are: Ui* district officer; the first and second assistant district officer, Mr. J. Taylor. Dr. p.T. Liem. Mr. Yeo Ltm Thtam, Mr Ooh Chor Huat. Inche Mohamed Amin bin HaJI Mohamed Inche Abu Samad bin Ahmad,
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    HE DIED FOR THE SECOND TIME
    1314 9  -  REBECCA WEST BY VLTHEN sf;iiiair Lewis died recently it was > tiis second death. For j at some time in the > thirties a man of great I literary talent, possibly I genius, changed into an > eccentric whose literary > gifts were Incked
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    BIGGEST COTTON SUCCESS STORY
    105 9 LANCASHIRE'S biggest success story is told In the comlng-of-age accounts of the £16,695.000 Lancashire Cotton Corporation, formed 21 years ago when bankruptcy and unemployment stalked through the cotton towns. Of 140 mills acquired by the corporation only 50 remain, but against the dismal pre-war picture of
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      320 9 (i?±(zrx\ Wee TcJtCMxru riF/jJ^ For 3 Successive Years ESTHER WILLIAMS has been^S*\ QUEEN of Chinese New Year! N j 7949- On an Island with You 1 1950-' Neptune's Daughter' wKm and NOW 1951 wBL "DUCHESS of IDAHO lAj COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR 1 M.G.Ms FUN-IN-SUN VALLEY MUSiCAL Starring Esther WILLIAMS John
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      292 9 'Adventures of Richs»rd Hanriay'; SIH6APORK 3 'Gramosaic' ('Let's Go to 9 a.m. BrigUt Early'; 9.30 'In L™%?J ni< e and Holiday Mood 1 10 News, Emer- ""J&J ""LTfi i 445 P m iFr m the London gency News from K.L.; 10.10 "Way „«> i elod es 9 3 Editorials 1
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      WAITING IN THE QUEUE
      212 10 HAVE you ever watched a bus queue? It can be fascinating. Just in front of me the other day a woman tried to grab all three of her children with one hand, whilst with the other, she clutched several parcels and large umbrella which continually knocked
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      17 10 A drawing of Longfellow Si'iit by Chong Wan Sang. CIS). 12: Streb Road. K-' \i 1 M-nonr.
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      A VERY STUPID CROCODILE
      267 10 THERE was once a monkey who lived on a mango tree near the seashore. He had a crocodile friend who used often to visit him. One day, the crocodile's wife said: "I would like to eat a monkey's liver. Bring your friend here tomorrow so that
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      9 10 From Wong Wu May (13), 164. Jalan Gopeng, Kampar
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      Helping A Friend In Need
      188 10 Helping A Friend In Need ANCE upon a time there v was an ant. It was crawling along the banks of a river, and it stopped to rest on a leaf. Suddenly a strong breeze came and blew the leaf into the river where the current whirled it round and
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      ANOTHER SPECIAL PAGE
      96 10 ANOTHER SPECIAL PAGE 7 Dear Children, I For those who missed f last Thursday's Child- t ren's Corner 1 would like to explain that this is a special Chinese New Year page, and is en- i tir ly devoted to efforts I i sent in by the children. It was
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      EVER SEEN A GREEN BEE?
      144 10 TV/TAUREEN Tan Leng Fong ITX (11) 32 South Bridge Rd., Singapore, ser.ds two tricks for this page. Find an empty matchbox and inside the tray write a large letter B with a green chalk. Take the box from your pocket when you are with a
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      THIS GLAD NEW YEAR
      41 10 nOGS bark—children shout. Lanterns are aglow. Frangipani fills the air. Tropic breezes blow. Bats swoop, hawkers cry. Crackers explode near. Sucking pigs and caket galore. Make this glad New Year. DERYTH VINE (16), 18 STEVENS ROAD. SINGAPORE.
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      17 10 This old gate in Malacca was drawn by Woo Chee Wah (14). 82 Lorong Bukit Chin*, Malacca.
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      8 10 Drawn by Surianib Hamid, 273 Kapar Road. Klang
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      Rude People Are Never Liked
      211 10 Rude People Are Never Liked GOOD manners do not come naturally. They have to be taught, and what is regarded as polite behaviour in one country may be consider- ed rude in another. In England for example, It is a mark of respect to remove one's hat in church or
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      Have You Heard These?
      54 10 Q. What never asks questions, but always gets an answer? A. The door bell. Q. What is queer about locking a piano? A. You always leave the key* inside. Q. What fruit is always found on a penny? A. A date. MONG YOON KHEE. (13) 44
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      THE BROKEN DOLL
      36 10 noSEBUD is my doll. And once she had a fall I trted and tried to mend my doll. But I couldn't do It at all. RUTH YIN, (10) 740 EAST COAST ROAD, SINGAPORE
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      18 10 Collect ten of these coupons to become a member of the Children's Corner Club.
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      271 10 It's cookie's 'holiday! so you probably cooked your own bacon this morning! but you had bacon to cook; those at home have very little Do send them a FOOD PARCEL .We pack, post and insure choose your own items or order one of our "made-up" parcels. COLD STORAGE Singapore Cold
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      321 10 25. Shade half an engraving Straits Times Crossword 284 (8 > DOWN mmj luuii iumi ij x^. 1- Artistic upholder of the law 1 HI H s H 3 H 4 H I 8 I 7 U t9 >- SS| 2. One of those the Jews had 8 H»S 9
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    London Stocks
    309 11 LONDON Mon. nnHE trek from iron and steel X shares Into other sections of the London Stock Exchange continued today. Internationals moved sharp. ly higher following the buoyancy of Wall Street, gains were shown by Malayan tins and there was firmness In rubbers. Closing middle price* o! selected
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    Sungei Bidor Tin
    22 11 CUNGEI Bidor Tin Dredgii.fc in January treated 301,900 cubic yards in 672 hours to produce 886 piculs of tin-ore.
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    25% FINAL, FOR PETALING
    317 11 25% FINAL, FOR PETALING DETAILING Tin's healthy position is evidenced by the company's report and accounts for the year to Oct. 31. 1950. The directors recommend a final dividend of 25 per cent., less tax, on uhe new total issued capital of $4,400,000. Interims amounting to 60 per cent have
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    3-Cent Rise In Rubber
    179 11 £)EALERS in the Singapore rubber market were still endeavouring to cover their short positions yesterday. This resulted in a steady market throughout. At the steady close the price of February first-grade stood at $2.27 buyers, three cents above Saturday's close. Closing prices yesterday were per lb:
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    TIN: $7073/8 A PICUL
    40 11 SINGAPORE. Mon.. Feb. 5. -$707 .37* (up $«.87J to new all-time record). £1/435 a ton in London LONDON. Mon.. Feb. 5.— Spot: Buyers £1,435; Forward. 1.400; Settlement, £1,400 (op £5); Turnovers: a.m. 40. p.m. 60 tons.
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    Ships In The Roads And Alongside
    162 11 SHIPS in the Singapore Roads and alongside Singapore Harbour Board god owns yesterday were Outer Roads: Hai Hsuan. Shiny o Maru. Waibalong, Chelyuskinctz. Hoi Wong. Van der Hagen. La Carmela, Polyphemus. Tang Shun, Vibeke Maersk. Sambas, Benlomond. Tjtbadak. Nieuw Holland. American Mail. Leneverett, Ganges.
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    410 11 Malayan Shares Good Day All Round trmu X Market Correipoadeai npHE Malayan share market X opened on a very firm note yesterday Tins and Rubbers were marked up appreciably, while Industrials had much better inquiries. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: LtUlSlKl.lU Bayers MMM B.B. Petrol 44
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    Hock Leng Will Have His Lucky Racket
    280 12 Hock Leng Will Have His Lucky Racket WHEN Cheong Hock Leng, Singapore's new badminton champion, boards a X.L.M, plane for the United Kingdom tomorrow morning, four rackets will be tucked under his arm. One of them is his prized possession, the racket that helped him to beat Wong Peng Soon
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    25 12 ARTHUR MORRIS turns a ball to square leg off Wright for one during: Australia's first innings at Adelaide. Morris scored 206, his highest in Tests.
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    HUTTON CARRIES IIIS BAT FOR 156 But Australia Keep On Top
    851 12 HUTTON CARRIES IIIS BAT FOR 156 But Australia Keep On Top From Jack Fingleton Exclusive to the Straits Times ADELAIDE, Monday. DLAYING through the innings for 156, Len Hutton was the solitary English batsman of any stature in the first innings for England in the fourth Test here today. Hutton's
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    140 12 AUSTRALIA— 1st Inns.: 371 M.C.C.— 1st Inns. Hutton not out 156 W j hhrook c Iverson b Lindwall 2 Simpson b Bill Johnston 29 C'ompton o Tallon b Lindwall 5 Sheppard b Iverson 9 Brown b Miller IS Evans c Burke b Bill Johnston 13 Redser Ibw b Iverson
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    IRC Did Well Last Season
    175 12 TNDIAN Recreation Club soccer x team— at their first attempt in S.A.F.A. competitions enjoyed a good season last year. The I.R-C. won two challenge cups beating R.A.F. Seletar for the Gandhi Memorial Cup and Rovers S.C. for the V.O. Chidambaram Challenge Cup. Eight I.R.C. players
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    KRIAN 'SEVENS' FINAL DRAWN
    56 12 From Our Own Correspondent PARIT BUNTAR. Mon. An interesting rugger match was witnessed yesterday in the final seven-a-side knock out tourney organised by Krian District Rugby Football Club, when Pehang Sports Club and laiplng tailed to reach a decision after extra time. The final scor» was
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    KNEE GOOD FOR YEARS
    96 12 ADELAIDE. Mon. MIDDLESEX cricketer Denis Compton, England's vicecaptain in Australia, has Just received from his medical advisers the most optimistic report on his knee since the operation last summer. Specialists have informed him that with care he should be able to participate for years. rhey say
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    Selangor Race Weights
    130 12 K. LUMPUR, Mon. HANDICAPS for S rices on Saturday, third day of the Selangor Turf Club's meeting, are: Cl.»,Div. l-S'iF. Kim fire 9.00 Picture Goer 8.13 Independence 8.12 April Shower* 8.1* Black Velvet 8.08 Wellington 8.08 Bow Legs 8.17 Yutol KM Fair Flower 8.l> Trobella S.04 Release
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    RAIN HOLDS UP K.L. TRAINING
    57 12 From EPSOM JEEP. KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. There was no track work of any note this morning. Heavy rain practically all night put parts of the course under water. The only training tracks opened were the sand and No. 4 grass on which horses did not
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    Gymkhana In Kedah
    123 12 Gymkhana In Kedah From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR Monday. HPHE Kedah Gymkhana Club will hold a Gymkhana meeting on March 31. At the annual general meeting* recently, the president, Mr. W. E. Northcote-Green told members the club would have been closed had it not been for Singapore and Johore
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    SAFA BEATEN IN BANGKOK
    83 12 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Mon. The Singapore Amateur Football Association had the first defeat of their tour here when they were beaten 4—34 3 by Bangkok Combined yesterday. Singapore dominated the exchanges in the first half. The score at half- time was 2—l2 1 in
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    Som Pong To Fight In K.L.
    154 12 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. COM Pong, official welterweight champion of Singapore, will flght Golden Boy, welterweight champion of Selangor, at the Kuala Lumpur Bukit Blntang Park on Friday. Sam Pong hai returned from the Federation and Singapore. Since his arrival ten
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    Three Ties Go To Extra Time
    635 12 Seven-A-Side Rugby DAIN YESTERDAY slightly marred play in the second round of the Cricket Club's seven-a-side tournament but the five matches were so close that extra time had to be taken in three of them to decide the winners. Results in brief were R.A.F.
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    Jackson Eliminates Colony's Davies
    362 12 NORTH MALAYAN GOLF From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Monday. O.R. JACKSON, the Selangor and Ipoh S.C. golf champion, eliminated Malayan champion D.A.O. Davies (Singapore) by four and three to enter the final of the North Malayan Golf Championships here today. Jackson will meet C.A. Collins (Penang)
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    HOLE IN ONE
    19 12 J. Stogdon did the 14th hole in one at the Royal Singapore Golf Club course yesterday
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    25 12 TODAY: 10.33 a.m. (9.7); 5.03 aJn. (sft.), 5.37 p.m. (0 1). TOMORROW: 12.15 a.m. (9.1), 11.21 a.m. (10.1); 5.40 p.m. (4.4), 6.15 p.m.
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    Recs Score 3-Nil Win
    93 12 CINGAPORE Recreation Club w had no difficulty in defeating a Scratch team, substituting for A.C.S. Old Boys, by three goals to nil in a hockey game on the Padang yesterday. The Scratch team fielded eight players and were on the defensive most of the time. A
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    Mangrum Wins At Tucson
    50 12 TUCSON, Arizona. Mon.— Lloyd MangrUm ot (Jhicago, «on thi; US»10,000 Tucson open golf tournament yesterday with on 11-ur.aer-par total of 269 for 72 holes. Jim T-jrnesa of New York, Jack Burke Jnr. of Texas, and Lew Worsham of Pennsylvania, tied for second place with 271. A.P.
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    BUDGE RETIRING
    54 12 MELBOURNE, Mon. Former world tennis champion Donald Budge, fourth member of the Pancho Gonzales Prank Parker Dinny Palls professional tennis troupe now touring Australia, says he will retire at the end of the present tour. Budge said he would work as a sporting television announcer when he returned
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    32 12 TODAY RUGBY: S.C.C. Seren-a-side tourney on padang TOMORROW RUGBY: FAN. Cup Final. R.A.S.C. "A" v Fourth Husoarg at Nee Soon; Friendly: Singapore Harbour Board v R.A.F. Changi at Keppel Harbour.
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