The Straits Times, 10 February 1951

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1X45 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURPAfr, FEBRUARY 10, 1951. if PRICE IHS IKNTS.
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    U.N. TANKS REACH HAN RIVER
    344 1 Seoul Within Range Of Allied Guns TOKYO, Friday. AN American tank column plunged through a ragi.ij; snowstorm to the Han River southeast of Seoul today close on the heels of fleeing Chinese Communists. Other United Nations forces*, swept within a mile of Seoul's big industrial
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    34 1 MIC. D. P. McNAMAKA. A -islant Comrii>Moner of Police >n charge of Administration. K'ial.l Lumpur w >i<< left Singapore yrst«r-d-.iv. on Uv- M ''t- -vi' r f»r Perth on retirement. r Ti n-s nictur >.
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    300 PROTESTOVER LEAVE CUTS
    202 1 From Our Staff CorresponJenl KUALA LUMPUR, Fiiday. MORE than 300 European Government olTieers trim the Federation and Singapore tonight frankly discuss;'! the cutting of their home leave aid criticised other conditions of their -.ei-vice in the presence of the Hi»h Commissioner <>f Ihe Federat'tn. Sir Henry
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    GIRLS ROBBED
    33 1 Four Chinese one o! them a young girl held up atM robbed the occupants of a roffee-shop in Lorong 17 Oeylang. of 27 identity card soon after 11 o'clock las' night
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    Week-End Of Royal Weddings
    116 1 LONDON, Fri. THE Daily Mail said today that King Farouk of Egypt wi'l marry Narriman Sadek, 17, tomorrow or on Sunday In Abdin Palace, in Cairo. King Farouk v.ill be 31 on Sunday and the Dsily Mail said it understood the wedding had been timed to
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    OFFICER, 'RUDE', SAY MEN
    55 1 COLOMBO, Friday.— Police used tear gas to disperse strikers at Polonnaruwa. northern Ceylon Agricultural Corps camD. who had held six camp officers prisoners for three days. Three men were arrested, making a total of 60 since the strike started last week. Trte strikers alleged the officers
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    They Won't Invest Money In China
    124 1 HONG KONG, Friday. THE Chinese Communists are appealing to overA seas Chinese to invest capital in industries inside Red China but are not meeting mucr success. According to a Bangkok i dispatch to local Chinese newspapers. Chinese in Siam have received letters from the
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    TEACHERS TO GO
    26 1 NEW YORK. Fri—The New York Education Board has dismissed eUht school teachers who refuspd to say whether rrt*»y had rver been Com1 uiunlsts.—Reutor
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    'I Heard Bangs, Saw Girl Fall'
    584 1 MALACCA TRIAL WAITRESS IN BOX From Our Special Correspondent MALACCA, Friday. A 19- YEAR -OLD Chinese waitress, Lily Than, gave evidence at the continued hearing at Malacca Assizes today of the trial of BOmbau?ier John Stewart, R.A., accused of murdering Eunice Tan, aged 19.
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    U.K. BUILDERS GET PAY INCREASES
    62 1 LONDON, Fri. ()Vl.lt 1,000,900 building ■workers are to share another X 25,000,000 a year in wage increases, it was announced yesterday. They will each get about 9s. 2d. ($3.85) more a week from March 5. An immediate result will be all-round increases in the cost
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    PROPHET'S TOMB IN DANGER
    79 1 KARACHI. Fri. T7GYPTS Ambassador, Abdul Wahab Azzad Bey, yesterday appealed to all Muslim countries to Join In saving the tomb of the Prophet Mohamed at Medina. Twelve pillars of the tomb have been reported on the verge of toppling and the entire structure threatened. The Ambassador
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    COSTS OVER $2,000 TO HOUSE THEM
    79 1 TOWK hotel accommodation X for th« members of the commission which arrives in the Colony today to investigate Singapore's December riots will cost over 52.000. The three members of the commission-Sir Lionel Leach, Captain H. Studdy and Mr. J R. Wenhamtogether with their secretary
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    Red Loses Passport
    77 1 DARWIN, Fri. AUSTRALIAN Immigration officials confiscated the passport of Mr. James Healy, Federal Secretary of the Australian Waterside Workers Federation, when he arrived here by air last night. He was returning from the Warsaw Peace Congress last November. His passnort was reported to have been invalid for
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    MISSING MAN FOUND DEAD
    49 1 SEMARANG, Fri— Police yesterday morning found the body of a planter. Mr. P. A. Portier, who had been missing for some days. The body was found in high grass near the place were he had been kidnapped. There were two bullets in the head. Reuter.
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    5 SENT TO DEATH
    31 1 HONG KONG. Fri.— A Communist court in Canton sentenced five men to death for counterfeiting Communist money and sent four others to prison for long terms..— A.P.
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    6 FIREMEN DIE
    23 1 ROTTERDAM. Fri. Six nremen in a fire-engine which plunged Into a canal today were toelieved to have been drowned.— Reuter.
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    Atom Now Mightier After Tests
    71 1 Atom Now Mightier After Tests WASHINGTON, Friday. OENATOR Brien McMahon declared yesterday that the mysterious blasts in Nevada had increased America's atomic might, which he called the main deterrent to World War 111. As chairman of the Senate House Atomic Energy Committee, he issued a statement saying: "The Nevada operation
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    Aga Khan Enters Trade
    59 1 KARACHI, Friday. THE Aga Khan, one of the richest men in the world, is planning to invest his wealth In several Industrial projects in Pakistan. He has had a series of meetings with Pakistan's Industrial Minister, Nazir Ahmad, and local industrialists in this connection. He also
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    SPORE SUGAR WILL NOT COST MORE
    64 1 While the price of rationed sugar will go up by four cents a kati in the Federation beginning next Monday, the price in the Colony will remain unchanged for the time being at 32 cents a kati. A Food Control Department spokesman confirmed last
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    CEYLON WATCHES THE CHUSAN
    40 1 COLOMBO. Fri. Ceylon authorities placed under observation the 24,000-ton Chusan when she arrived here today from Bombay with four cases of influenza aboard. Passengers for Ceylon and those in transit were allowed to disembark here. Reuter.
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    NO COMMENT
    33 1 The Singapore Government announces that it does not wish to comment on the report in a local newspaper that the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. R. C. B. Wiltshire, has resigned.
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    THREE FIRE CALLS
    23 1 Engines of the Singapore Fire Brigade were called out three times yesterday to deal with minor fires in the city.
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    RESIST HIGH PRICE RACKET, SA YS McNEICE
    290 1 RESIST HIGH PRICE RACKET, SA YS McNEICE appeal to co-operators in Singapore to support the consumers' resistance movement which is being organised by Mr. Frank James, a Municipal Commissioner, was yesterday made by the Municipal President Mr T P. F. McNeice. Mr. McNeice was speaking at the Silver Jubilee tea
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    ANOTHER CAB BURNT OUT
    75 1 Sixteen hours after burning a Yellow Top taxi outside Lorong 29. Geylang. Singapore, Communist youths flrec another taxi at Neil Roac early yesterday morning. The Malay driver told th< police that as he stopped foi a young Chinese, two othei youths, one armed with 2 dagger,
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    60 Pandits Ambush Police Party
    108 1 60 Pandits Ambush Police Party From Our Staff (orrespondant. KUALA LUMPUR. Fri POLICE lieutenant wafl killed and another lieutenant, a planter, a polie* constable and a special (•■instable were wounded wftea band is attacked a uolirs party who went to inves ifirate the burning of a bus in the Kuantan
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    Bus Arson Bid Fails
    75 1 TWO ymiMHhtu.-s rr. trt%r unsure*™ iLaUemp > set tire to fIKTC. bus by throwing peraHL^n il at North Bridge RoSfl^near the Sultan Mosque- -ftijit after 10 o'c'ock last nisinj". The bus, crowd ra with passengers, was on Its \r»y to Geylanß. when at tha road junction
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    The King's Savings Dwindle: Govt. To Help
    295 2 The King's Savings Dwindle: Govt. To Help f |VtM^ LONDON, Fri. qnHE high cost of. living has hit oht King so hard that his savings are exhausted and the Gove/nment is going to take some £40,000 expenses off his hands. Mr. Attlee, the Prime Minister, announced this in the House
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    NEPAL HONOURS|
    29 2 NEPAL HONOURS THE KING Ol' \EIML (ri*h*.) placing a wreath on the "samadhi" of Mili.Uin.i i;.indhi. at Bajifbat, Delhi. He is assisted by the Crown Prince (left).— P. picture.
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    3 MISSING IN BOAT MISHAP
    104 2 HONG KONG, 1 riday. TTOREE British civilian employees of the Admiralty 1 in Hong Kong are missing and believed drowned after a capizcd naval dinghy in which they had been sailing on Wednesday was found yesterday drifting off Lantao Island, five miles west of Hops.
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    5-YEAR SENTENCE
    31 2 NEW YORK, Fri. William W. Remington, formerly of the U.S. Commerce Department, was sentenced to fve year's imprisonment yesterday for perjury In denying he ever was a Communist. -A.P.
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      Colombo To Close 8 Taverns, 8 Bars
      302 2 AS from October this year, three arrack and five IX toddy taverns and eight foreign liquor bars in Colombo's business centre, in which Indians pre- I r1f>mitio4a mill »l*vc* A dominate, will close. A poll in this area resulted in a 3-vote victory
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      EX-EMPRESS
      29 2 PRINCESS FAWZIA, who married Ismail Sherin Bey, an Egyptian Army Colonel in 1949, wore this flowerdecked hat at Cairo. She was formerly the Empress of Persia.— A.P. picture.
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      NOT ENOUGH
      41 2 WASHINGTON, Fri. Admiral Arthur D. Radford, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet, told a news conference yesterday that neither the Chinese Reds nor the Formosa-based Nationalists at present have enough major equipment to launch large-scale amphibious assaults against each other.— A.P.
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    SPRING IN PARIS
    23 2 A TRELLIS of black grosgrain strewn with pale pink roses forms a hat at a Paris spring show. A.P. picture.
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    Tibet Fails To Get Red Guarantee
    112 2 KALIMPONG, Fri. FMLURE of negotiations between the Dalai Lama's representatives and Red Chinese officials in Calcutta was reported here today by Tibetan official sources. They said that the Tibetan delegation was unable to get satisfactory guarantees on internal autonomy. The Tibetan mission was led
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    DEFENCE DEBATE NEXT WEEK
    56 2 LONDON. Fri. The House of Commons will debate foreign policy on Monday, it was announced yesterday. It will also debate defence on Wednesday and Thursday. The Defence Minister, Mr. Emanual Shinwell, an authoritative source said, would give latest figures about tanks, guns and aircraft, usually kept
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    U.S. PLOTS WAR—UNION HEAD
    149 2 U.S. PLOTS WAR— UNION HEAD LONDON, Fri. JLfR. J.B. FIGGINS, general secretary of the powerful National Union of Railwaymen and one of the country's top labour leaders, said yesterday that increases in armaments are a preparation for war by "American imperialism." Mr. Figgins is a member of the Council of
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    MAN FOR MALAYA
    30 3 MAN FOR MALAYA TROOJ'b of llio rtrsl I'altaliun, the t>;i»*pti s O»vn Koy.xl West Kent Rfifimeiit, stow away their hafcsa.fe at Liverpool nfliT embarking la*.', week for Sin<.ii>orc. \.P. picture.
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    Growing US Support For Pacific Plan
    121 3 WASHINGTON. Fri. J)IPLOMATIC authorities n. Washington yesterday said that there were two main reasons why the Unued s views with increasing; enthusiasm the idea of a dc :)act. it would provid* a fi imework to jus ify a hir and sea power which U>>
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    MUFTI ELECTED
    31 3 KARACHI Fri yyORLD Muslim Conference delegates from 32 coun- a preliminary meeti >-sterday unanimously the Mufti of Palestine. E! Amin El Hussaini. to be th' Subjects Coi Ch3i.-T^an.— A.P.
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    DOCKERS BACK ARRESTED MEN
    177 3 LONDON. Friday. HUNDREDS of dockers struck work in the Port of London today to demonstrate outside a magistrate's court where seven unofficial strike leaders were being charged. When the dockers leaders this morning learned that the men had been arrested by Scotland Yard Special Branch officers
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    Hens That Laid 'Golden' Eggs
    99 3 LONDON, Fri. THE head of a vast eggproducing scheme which supplied eggs to Britain at a cost of more than €20 each, has resigned, it "cas reported in London ymterduy. He is Mr. Millard J. Fhillivs, 48, an American who had been a poultryman in
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    ARMY BREAKS U.S. STRIKE
    69 3 WASHINGTON, Fri.— An Army ultimatum "work or be fired" sent hundreds of raliwaymen back to work yesterday as the nine-day-old nation-wide railroad strike showed definite signs of jollai«ing. The Army acted on orders irom President Truman, who accused the union leaders of jehavinj nice a bunch
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    Frozen Alive —She Lives
    163 3 Frozen Alive She Lives CHICAGO, Fri. A YOUNG woman was found frozen in an alleyway yesterday and astonished doctors found she was alive, but in a state of "deep freeze" In a condition like rigor mcrtis. Doctor* said they bad never n^ard of another case like It. They said her
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    PI. WILL PRESS CLAIMS ON JAPS
    35 3 MANILA, Fri— Senator Vincente Francisco, chairman of the Philippines Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday opposed the United States proposal that the Philippines withdraw its 8,000,000,000-peso reparations claims against Japan.
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    NEW U.N. MOVE ON KASHMIR
    111 3 LAKE SUCCESS, Frl. gIGHT diplomatic quarters yesterday said that Britain and America, with the possible co-sponsorship of other nations, next week will present a joint resolution tj the United Nations Security Council aimed at solving the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. Both delegations kept
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    LABOUR GOVT. WIND DEBATE ON
    519 3 MEAT BY EIGHT VOTES LONDON, Friday. THE Laboui Government last night defeated by eight vote* a Conservative attempt to force it out of office by blaming it for Britain s meagre meat rations. It was the second unsuccessful Conservative challenge in two days and the
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    Housewives Collar MPs
    62 3 LONDON, Fri. PROTESTING housewives, some waving their small weekly ration, "invaded" Parliament yesterday as politicians debated Britain's critical food situation. The women nearly 100 of them collared passing MPs to voice the nation's biggest grumble on the reduction of the weekly rations to tts lowest ever level,
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    War Powers Sought In Britain
    243 3 War Powers Sought In Britain LONDON, Frl. SPECIAL emergency powers given to the British Goernment during the war are to be made law for the nation's new rearmament drive. Parliament will be asked to approve a new Bill permitting certain wartime controls and restrictions They will be used, the Government
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    CATHOLIC BISHOPS FROM ASIA
    47 3 BISHOPS from Pakistan and Japan, visiting America to seek financial help, called on Bishop Ready in Ohio. From left. The Most Rev. Francis Benedict Cialeo, Bishop of Multan, Pakistan; the Most Rer. rani laguchi. Bishop of Osaka, Japan; and Bishop Ready. A.P. picture.
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    U.S. Sends Secret Reinforcements
    148 3 FRANKFURT, Germany, Friday. I TNITED. STATES reinforcements have arrived secretly in Germany. They have oeen assigned to General Eisenhower's Atlantic Pact force, an- nounced the U.S Army. The Army said reinforcements were the 443 rd and the 66th Anti-Aircraft Battalions, which reached Germany in the past
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    mourning for more meat
    31 3 LONDON BUTCHER shows his feelings for the beginning of the Bd. fresh meat weekly ration by placing a tiny coffin and wreath in his window. A.P. picture.
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    China Reds Losing Loyalty Battle
    151 3 HONG KONG, Friday. 'rHK Chinese Reds are reported to be losing the battle for the loyalty of an estimated 10,000,000 overseas Chinese, whose allegiance is fxpected to have a substantial bearing on the future of the Peking regime. r A number of overseas Chinese communities,
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    NINE KILLED
    40 3 ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, Fri. At least nine men were killed and more than 40 injured, many critically, in an explosion which ripped open the minerals building of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing plant at St. Paul yesterday.— AP.
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    55 DAY FAST
    36 3 TURIN. Fri.— The Fakir Burmah, a French citizen of Indian ancestry, climbed out of a glass box In Turin, Italy, yesterday, claiming a world fasting record of 55 days and two hours.— AP.
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    Canada May Aid India
    62 3 OTTAWA. Frl. CANADA may supply wheat to India to help relieve the famine, but her contribution will probably depend on decisions reached at the Consultative Committee of the Commonwealth Colombo, i Plan, which meets next w,eek In Colombo. In Washington yesieroay. President Truman endorsed an appeal
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    RADIO ACTIVE SNOW IN U.S.
    50 3 WASHINGTON, Fri. p ADIOACTIVK snow fell in Washington yesterday, the United States Bureau of Standards said. It could have been caused by the recent atom tests near Las Vegas, Neyada, they said. The snow was harmless and contained only a minute fraction of radioactivity. Reuter.
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    Ambon Troops Want To Aid U.N.
    157 3 JAKARTA, Fri. f EADERS oi -t.OOO Amboinese joldiers who refuse to be disarmed or demobilized lrom the former Dutch tLast Indies Army offered yesterday to send two battalions to fight with U.N forces in Korea The Amboinese demanded in a cable to the U.N.,
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    TRUMAN SAID `NO COMMENT'
    80 3 WASHINGTON. Frl.—President Truman said yesterday that he had received no communication from Gereial Mac Arthur recommending: the use of Chinese Nationalist troops In Korea, or on the Chinese mainland. He was answering a question at a Press conference. When a corresponds': t asked him if General
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    1,700 DEMAND A HIGHER HOUSE PAY
    205 4 IN a strongly worded memorandum to the Singapore Municipal Commissioners' Special Labour Committee the 1,700strong Government and Municipal Labour Union has asked for an immediate increase in the housing allowance from $6 to $15 a month for all married labourers, not provided with Municipal
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    Indian Will Take English
    90 4 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Fri. IN addition to engaging five Malay teachers to conduct Malay classes for the upper form students, Province Wellesley's biggest Chinese school, the Jit Sin, has appointed an Indian, Mr. E. Rajamoney, to teach EnglLsh to the first and third year pupils. Mr. Rajamoney
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    BATU PAHAT TRANSFERS
    46 4 From Our Own Correspondent KLUA N G. Fri.— Mr. S. Kandasamy of the Kluang Magistrate's Court who is going to Batu Pahat, was given a tea party by the Ceylon Association. Mr. P. Sinnappoo from the Magistrates Court at Johore Bahru succeeds him.
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    S'pore's Big Thirst During New Year
    206 4 f IQUOR dealers in Singapore yesterday estimated that about 500,000 gallons of beer. 150,000 gallons of stout, 9,000 gallons of brandy and 3,000 gallons of whisky were consumed in the Colony during the first three days of the Chinese New Year. These figures, however,
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    BRIDGE WARNING
    40 4 Fii m Our SUE Correspondent KTJALA LUMPUR, Fri. The PWD reported today that the bridge No 8/2 at the Pekan Road. Pahang. l s passable to light traffic only until further notice. This has been caused by floods.
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    SPEEDING, FINED
    28 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Frl.— Cheah Kirn Swee and Lav Chok Kal were fined $20 and $30 respectively in the Police Court for speeding.
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    DANCE JAMS TRAFFIC
    46 4 DANCE JAMS TRAFFIC THE LION DANCE performed in Mosque Street, S n<apore, yesterday by the Kheli community, created a traffic jam when hundreds of Chinese gathered to watch it. This is staged every year during the first month of the Chinese New Year. Straits Times picture.
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    $500,000 SCHOOL
    241 4 WORK WILL START NEXT WEEK THE Methodist Mission in Malaya is to build a $500,000 girls' school on its 120,000 square feet property, bought in 1895 on a 999-year lease, at Mount Sophia, Singapore. Work is expected to start next week and the building is scheduled to be
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    INTERLUDE
    23 4 TAIPING. Fri. A party of Taipins; amateur entertainers gave a 90-mlnute musical programme at Taiping Rehabilitation Camp on Chinese New Year Day
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    "If Our Comrades In The Jungle Only Knew...'
    119 4 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Fri. J?ED up with conditions in the jungle, nearly 50 bandits have surrendered to police recently in the Segamat area. Twenty of them with their wives, and children, were entertained to a Chinese New Year dinner by
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    P.R.D. Changes Its Name
    68 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. IT was announced in Kuala Lumpur today that the Department of Public Relations will in future be known as the Department of Information. The words "Public Relations" have also been dropped from all appointments and will be replaced by
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    MRS HAWKINS APPOINTED
    47 4 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. Fri pENANG Commissioners today chose Mrs. G. Hawkins as Deputy Supervisor of this year's Municipal elections. She will get $750 a month, with a transnort allowance of $100. The appointment takes effect from a date to be agreed on.
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    Sultan Opens New Phone Exchange
    37 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Frl.— The Sultan of Kelantan recently opened the new $55,000 telephone exchange at Kota Bahru. The switchboard now has 240 lines and later will have 320.
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    ON SICK LIST
    35 4 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, Frl Among the patients at the Batu Gajah Hospital are Mr. L. G. Holloway, Superintendant of Stores, PWD, Ipoh, and Mrs. Angela Wakefield, President of the Y.W.C.A.
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    Malaya Is Improving: Griffiths
    113 4 Malaya Is Improving: Griffiths From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Fri. gPEAKING on terrorist activity in Malaya, the Secretary for the Colonies. Mr. James Griffiths, said in the House of Commons yesterday that substantial progress had been made with new measures decided on In December. The High Commissioner, Sir Henry Gurney.
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    Court Mercy Plea For Schoolboy
    241 4 Court Mercy Plea For Schoolboy AN appeal for leniency for a Malay schoolboy, found guilty of being a member of an unlawful assembly during the Bertha Hertogh riols was dismissed yesterday by the Singapore Relief Court magistrate, Mr. D. A. Fyfe. The boy— burly. 17-year-old Abdul Mutalib bin Haji Salleh
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    SULTAN OF TRENGGANU
    67 4 The Straits Times Is informed that the letter from the Sultan of Trengganu applying on behalf of his son for the hand of Tengku Bahriah was presented to the Sultan of Selangor by Tengku Serl Setia Raja of Trengganu and not, as reported, by Dato Lela Perkasa
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    Lucy Wants To Mind Babies
    54 4 Twenty-one-year old Miss Lucy Tong of Hill Street. Singapore, a Government clerk is the first and only Chinese woman so far to register at the Singapore Manpower Bureau. She volunteered for any type of social welfare work and expressed keen Interest in the care of
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    6 YOUTHS ON RIOT CHARGES
    102 4 Chinese and Malay O youths alleged to have taken part in the Bertha Hertogh riots, told the Singapore High Court Judge, Mr. Justice Brown, yesterday, that they had been forced into the !orry in which they were arrested. They were: Ng Bok Si :irx, Heng
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    Shopkeepers DidNotClose
    102 4 THE Singapore Labour Department is investigating charges against 100 Chinese shopkeepers in Singapore for not closing tsi ir shops on the scheduled werkly holiday over Chinese New Year. Some shopkeepers did not obtain permission from the Singapore Labour Department to keep their shops open on the scheduled closing
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    Gurkhas Use Red Indian Tactics —Kill 5 Reds
    373 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. TIIK inside story of how No. 2 Platoon of the 2/7 Gurkha Rifles recently killed in c bandits by using: Red Indian tactics in an action east of Raub, Pahanp, was told today. On Jan
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    No Firearms May Be Posted
    24 5 r VHE Singapore Gorern- ment has bemned the sending of firearms or any other lethal iceapons h the post.
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    2 KILLED IN RAID ON TRAIN
    232 5 2 KILLED IN RAID ON TRAIN From Oor Staff I orr»"M»ondenl IPOH. Fri. A 23-YEAR-OLD Chinese p;rl. Chong Moy. of Ipoh Tin Ltd Puchonß. Selangor. vas killed instantaneously when bandits fired on last Bight's mail from Penang to Kuala Lumpur at 10.45 p.m. 1 between Salak North api F'ingei Siput.
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    HURT CHARGE
    34 5 Ng Teng. aged 47. was yesterday charged in Singapore with causing hurt to Ng Chin Seng with a knife. Ng pleaded not guilty and was allowed bail of $200 until Feb. 16.
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    AH Right For Canaries— But To Us.....0h!
    265 5 AH Right For Canaries— But To Us..... 0h! pLAYING bebop on a clarinet to his pet canaries, Charlie and Veronica, between watches on the P. 40. freighter Somali, which berthed in Singapore yesterday, is the favourite pastime of Second Officer Terrence Blair Healey. Since buying his first pair of canaries
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    Kampong Given 'Pusing' Warning
    173 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. DESIDENTS of Kampong Bahru in the Sungei Rening area of Ulu Selangor were yesterday reminded of the punishment meted out to the villagers of Pusing and warned against helping the bandits. 1 'Do not make it necessary for Government
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    Cheating Charge
    39 5 Fran Oar Own t'arrespondent KUANTAN, Fri.— Rani bin Hassan, charged with cheating a dealer at Tanah Puteh, was said to have hired a bicycle for four hours but failed to return it. The case was postponed to
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    Many Visit Shinozaki
    71 5 JJUNDRED and eightyeight persons have visited Mamoni Shinozaki, Welfare Officer in the Municipality during the Japanese occupation, since his arrival on the Shinyo Maru last month. Among those who visited him was his former, cook and many businessmen. The Shinyo Maru Is scheduled to leave Singapore on
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    Social Welfare Aid For Riot Victims
    168 5 ■j'HK Department of Social Welfare In Singapore will visit the homes of 149 victims concerned in the December riots to see if they are in need of financial assistance. Deserving cases wil' be helped with money. 1 The Department's monthly report, released last night,
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    WAR DAMAGE QUERY
    63 5 Questions on the war damage funds available for distribution, and total payments made so far, will be tabled at the next meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council by Mr. c. C. Tan (Municipal South-West). Mr. Tan wants to know the annual expenditure of the War Damage Claims
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    RESETTLEMENT
    16 5 Fron Our Ow» (.trnponient RAUB, Fri, Mr. J. H. Harvey-Kelly. M.O.ft., has been appointed Resettlement
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    38 5 DR. H. W MILLER, Directo r of the inWnation U Nutrition Research Foundation in Washington DC, addressing members of the General Mtdieal Council of the Fsr Eastern Dirision of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission yesterday. Straits Times picture.
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    New Cult Guarantees 'Paradise And Houris9
    128 5 New Cult Guarantees 'Paradise And Houris 9 MOTHER new religious cult, which guarantees "paradise and houris" for its followers, has sprung up in the Ulus— this time in Kampong Plong, Muklm Ulu Nerus, in the district of Kuala Trengganu. he new cult requires that its followers should undergo a special
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    Gall For State Food Shops
    157 5 ILfR. R. K. Samy, SingatT1 pore trade inion leader, called on the Government yesterday to open State shops at once to back the people's price resistance movement. He said the movement would defeat its own purpose unless State shops and cooperative stores were available. Existing
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    MAJ.-GEN.HEDLEY GOES TO INDIA
    56 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The 0.0.C. South Malaya district; Maj-Gen R. C. O. Hedley. who is also Maj-Gen. Brigade of Gurkhas, has left for India to visit Gurkha transit camps. Ma j. -Gen. Hedley, wno will meet Gurkhas who are coming to Malaya
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    SUB-OFFICES FOR BILLS A SUCCESS
    189 5 T*HE Singapore Municipality's latest experiment, the establishment of sub-offices in various parts of the City for the collection of Municipal bills, has I Droved a success I There are now five subofflces in densely populated localities and the number of bills paid in at these
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    SCHOOL FOR CHINESE DOCTORS PLAN
    111 5 SCHOOL FOR CHINESE DOCTORS PLAN PRACTITIONERS of Chinese medicine to Singapore are considering the setting up of a school to train new practitioners, in view of the steady decrease in their number due to deaths and othev causes. Most Chinese in Singapore prefer -lative medH cal treatment. Mrs. Lee Yang
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    Legal Aid For Muslims
    74 5 THE question of legal aid to innocent Muslims who were detained by the police after the riots, and the creation of a panel of Muslim lawyers, was discussed at a committee meeting of the Singapore Muslim League on Thursday. It was considered that a number of
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    NOT IN COURT
    44 5 Because the complalntant, K. Muniamma, failed to appear in court yesterday, two Indians, Ratnam and Krishnamma, a woman, were acquitted by Mr. P. Claque, the Magistrate. They were alleged to have caused hurt to K. Muniamma at Yeo Chu Kang Road.
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    'Over 1,000 Quit UMNO Join PMU'
    120 5 From Our Staff ("iMrrsnonrtetil KUAL A LUMPUP,. Fri rpHE Executive Council of the JL Peninsula Malays Union today claimpd that more than 100 members of I'.M.N hay* resigned to loin P.M.U. In a statement, the council of the P.M.U. stated that thesa people had
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    The Straits Times Singapoe, Sat., Feb.10, 1951 Fresh Fish Prices
    600 6 The Straits Times Singapoe, Sat., Feb.10, 1951 Fresh Fish Prices One of the mysteries of the cold storage business in Singapore is that it is able to sell smoked and frozen fish caughi thousands of miles away at prices lower than those charged for fresh fish caught in Malayan waters.
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    The Widows' Fund
    306 6 Following the comments in these columns last Tuesday on the Widows and Orphans Fund, as it is commonly called, a retired officer of the M.C.S. whose memories go back a very long way has given us some further recollections. This fund was started for European officers in
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    Fifty Years Ago. MUSIC ON THE ESPLANADE
    250 6 Fifty Years Ago. MUSIC ON THE ESPLANADE (From the Straits Times of Feb. 3-10, 1901). AT last Singapore has decided to attempt to emulate Penang and have a public band of its own. The idea is good, and It is to be endorsed most heartily. The object is to have
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    9 6 Phutog.cph by Birte S^eL.cu TIN DREDGE AT AMPANG, SELANGOR
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    As I was Saying
    1099 6  -  Cymiciis -By 'pHE Riot Enquiry Com- mission arrives in Singapore today by air. and so does the iate Commissioner of Police Mr. R. E. Foulger. who is expected to give important evid- 1 ence. Any idea that this Is no more than coincidence is correct. They
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    Singaporeana
    938 6 |£ADIN MAS Is the name of a Malay kampong at the foot of Mount Faber. off Kampong Bahru Road. and. also ot a Government English school nearby. It is a curious name, for Radin Is a princely title of old-time Java, equivalent to Tungku in the Malay States. How
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    GREEN HOWARDS TROOP THE COLOUR AT SINGAPORE
    268 7 GREEN HOWARDS TROOP THE COLOUR AT SINGAPORE pROST-BITTEN wounded soldiers ftom Korea sat in the hot tropical sun yesterday to witness the impressive ceremony of the Trooping of the Regimental Colour of the Ist Battalion the Grocn Howards, at Selerang Barracks. General Sir John Harding, Cominander-ln-Chief, Far East Land Forces,
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    33 7 GENERAL Sir John Hardlag, Commander-in-Chief, Y.\r K:ist land Forces, taking tin- White at thr Troopins; M the Colour hv the ]^l Battalias the Gr«-cn Upwards at the Klvians Karracks yesterday Straits Times pu-tiire.
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    $28,344 Paid In T.B. Allowances
    171 7 A SUM of 528.344 was paid out in T.B. allowances (ti 443 cases by the Social Welfare Department, Singapore, last month. Department's monihl* j says that the farm bi Ing built at Kranii with ccntr buto:is from the Far E'.isttrn Relief Fund is now taking
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    Boom For Studios
    92 7 PHOTOGRAPHERS made thousands of dollars during the past few days. When all other shops were closed, studios and photographic stores remained opened during the Chinese New Year. Dressed in New Year finery men. women and children posed for photographs which will be treasured as mementoes. Amateur photographers
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    GOLD CHAIN NOT STOLEN
    69 7 IPOH. Fri— A 35-year-old woman Kannammal. was acquitted and discharged on a charge of retaining a gold chain suspected to have been stolen ai:d valued at $200 at Ipoh. The magistrate said that he could not rely upon the evidence of some of the prosecution witnesses
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    Points System For Malay Settlement
    192 7 A SUB-COMMITTEE, consisting of three members A of the Board of Management of the Malay Settlement, Jalan Eunos, was appointed at a meeting of the Board on Monday to examine applications for sites in the Settlement and to interview applicants. The Board approved a point
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    SIAM OFFERS U.N. FROSTBITE CURE
    80 7 LAKE SUCCESS. Fri. SIAM has offered a new type of aid to the U.N. forces fighting against Communist aggression in Korea, through Prince Wan Waithayakon. Siam's representative to the U.N. Prince Wan disclosed that "rapid and satisfactory results" have been obtained in treating cases of
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    ACQUITTED
    39 7 A Raja Manikam, aged 22, was acquitted and discharged in Singapore yesterday when the prosecution withdrew a charge of attempted murder against him. He was alleged to have fired at a police radio van on Woodlands Road, Singapore.
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    SWALLOWED SEED, DIED
    54 7 While Lee Hah Heng. a 48-year-old hawker, was eating a ran.Outan, he accidentally swallowed the seed. Hi s family tried to he!p him while he was coughing and choking, but when the ambulance arrived he was dead. Yesterday the Singapore Coroner, Mr. E. Ebert returned a finding
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    STOLE WATCH CHARGE
    51 7 Ahmad bin Salleh. aged 18, claimed trial in Singapore yesterday to a charge of stealing a watch valued at $85 belonging to R.S.M. Bottle :it Tanglin Barracks. He was alternatively chargt with dishonestly retaining he watch which was believed to be stolen property. Ball of $200 was
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    Pharmacists' Move On Minimum Wage
    163 7 Pharmacists Move On Minimum Wage SINGAPORE pharmacists, at a meeting at the Y.M. C.A. yesterday evening, decided to propose to the Pharmacy Board th*t the starting salary for an Inspecting Officer should be $325 per month. Members of the Phamaceutical Association pointed out that the reason for Government's Inability to
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    Johore State Councillor
    80 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. MR. N. Balasingam, who has been nominated a member of the Johore State Council was elected Chairman of the Trade Union Council of Johore State division at a meeting held yesterday. The meeting decided to send a letter to the
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    SENTRY IS CHARGED
    56 7 Charged with sleeping in a jeep while armed with a rifle and 50 rounds of ammunition on sentry duty at Kallang Airport on Feb. 3. a special constable, Mahbok bin Haji Handan. yesterday pleaded not guilty in Singapore. The case was postponed until Feb. 16 for mention
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    NURSING BOARD
    54 7 The Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, has appointed the following to be members of the Nursing Board: Miss B. Rodrigues, Miss Llm Quee Neo, Mrs. M. Pereira, Mrs. Betty Tan, Mrs. A.W, Pereira, C. Karthlgesu, N. Thanabalam, Tan Ah Ngee, P. Sammy, Mr. Thlo Chan Bee and
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    People Name Hospital
    52 7 CHINESE residents in Yeo Chu Kane have a name of their own for the Singapore Mental Hospital. They call it the Woodbridge Hospital' because a wooden bridge used to be over the stream which runs by the side of the hospital. Government has, therefore, to use the
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    DURIAN SELLER IS FINED $15
    34 7 KAJANG, Fri.— Alang bin Laboh was fined a total of $15 at Kajang for selling durian without a licence and for obstruction by stacking the durians on the road.
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    TODDY FINE
    34 7 KAJANG, Fri.— The Kajang Circuit Magistrate. Inche Harun, fined a 35-year-old Indian labourer. Sinniah. $75 for being in poossession of a jar of toddy on West Country Estate. Kajang. without a licence.
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    Model Of $2,500 House
    138 7 ■p/f* first scale model of m house costing around $2,500 is now on display at the offices of the Singapore Rural Board. A spokesman of the Rural '.ioard told the Straits Times that, for the benefit of hose who cannot follow a plan, the Board had
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    CITY JOBS ARE A PROBLEM
    222 7 rE Procedure Committee of the Singapore Municipality will meet shortly to consider whether a Services Commission should be set up to handle all appointments and promotions of Municipal staff. If the Committee agrees in principle that such a body is desirable, it will submit its
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    More Cars Registered
    72 7 A TOTAL of 156,407 vehicles of all descriptions use Singapore roads. Of these, 29,609 are motor vehicles and 111,917 bicycles. Three hundred and seventy eight motor cars were registered in January bringing the total number of cars to 16.946. Other increases are 53 motor cycles and 745
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    NEGLIGENT: $25
    43 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Fri Mokhtar bin Hassan was fined $25 in the Police Court for driving a motor car negligently and colliding with a bicycle ridden by a schoolboy on the Kota Tinggi road. The boy suffered abrasions.
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    Move For planter
    22 7 Move For p lanter SITIAWAN, Fri.— Mr. J. A. Foster, from Selangor is now attached to Sungei Wangi Group, Ayer Tawar, Dindings
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    They Lived Happily....
    189 7 TPIIK story of a Chinese woman who expected a dowry from her prospective son-in-law, and a bridegroom who also stuck out for a dowry Is told in the monthly report of the Singapore Social Welfare Department. But the story has a happy ending, the report records. It
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    TABLE 'ARRESTED
    28 7 KUANTAN, Fri. A police party raided a large compound house on the river front and brought away a van load of Chinese and a gambling table.
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    FIVE MEN TO ADVISE CITY CHIEF
    242 7 FIVE MEN TO ADVISE CITY CHIEF FIVE-MAN committee will be appointed shortly by Singapore Municipal Commissioners to exercise the extra-ordinary powers of their President in cases of emergency. The committee, headed by the Municipal Presi^ dent, will include a representative from each of the two political parties, an Independent elected
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    Small Shops Hard Hit
    115 7 SMALLER shops have been so hard hit during the recent Chinese New Year celebrations that many are prepared to sell of their goods at cost just to get ready cash. As most people have already laid in a good stock both of foodstuffs and of household
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    THEFT: $50
    33 7 Seng Hoe Guan was yesterday fined $50, in default a month's imprisonment, after pleading guilty to stealing two valves belonging to Eric Pestana of the Engineers' Base Workshop on Feb. 1.
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    RIOT HEARINGS IN COUNCIL CHAMBER
    194 8 Inquiry Men Arrive Today nnHK sittings of the Commission to investigate the December riots in Singapore will hold its meetings in public in the Legislative Council Chamber in the Victoria Memorial Hall. This was stated in the official order constitutin» the Commission published last night.
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    'Father' Of Watch In Singapore
    170 8 'Father Of Watch In Singapore T attainment of near lion in making wrist LI meant that large]' f people in Malaya uches used to get < r p by a combination i [ration and dirt now 1 the riuht time all the Thi« is the expert opinion aher" of the
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    BACK TO GAOL
    23 8 FreM Our Own < Orrrspondant. TAN, Fri -Salleh bin '.as sent to two i for not reporti police .supervisee from gaol.
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    APPOINTED
    15 8 FreM '!nr Own ("orrwpondfnt KUANTAN. Fri. —Mr H tea has been appointed Agricultural Officer.
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    Pk. UMNO Sets Record
    126 8 IPOH. Fri. THE total membership of the Perak UMNO branch of more than 25.000 is the highest for any State in the Federation. Raja Omar bin Raja Ali, general secretary, said that until recently Johore headed the list, but there had been a big spurt in
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    WANTED TOUCH MEAT IN HIS CURRY CHANGED
    156 8 TOUGH piece of vieat in his curry on Jan. 2 brought Mohd. Noor bin Mohd Rashid, a craftsman attached to the R.E.M.E. Base Workshop at Ayer Rajah Road, before a Singapore District courtmartial yesterday on a charge of striking a supperior officer. Mohd.
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    The Onion— And You
    215 8 SINGAPORE imported almost double the quantity of onions in 1950 compared with imports In 1949 because of the Increase in consumption and decline in local production. Except for a few tons of spring o n i n s (frown around Jurong and Braddell Roads, the Colony
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    Over $400,000 For Courses Abroad
    130 8 rHE Singapore Government will spend $432,800 this year .on scholarships and special courses abroad for its officers. A total of 40 scholarships and 2 special courses may be awarded. The allocation covers 16 officers already training in Britain and nine due to return this year.
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    Cat Walked Out Of Tale By Herself
    82 8 PURLY, a Siamese cat with a tail to match her name, and about to produce kittens, has wandered from her home because she did not like the new tenants' pets. Her owner, the Dayang Muda of Sarawak, has recently written a book about
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    BOAT IS A HOME SAYS MAGISTRATE
    63 8 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Fri. THREE boatmen. See Cheok, Yeo Chau and Tho Soo Hoon, charged with being out of doors during curfew hours, were acquitted by the Magistrate who said that a boat can be a home. The men said that
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    CAUGHT WOMAN'S HAND: FINED $50
    44 8 A lorry drwer, Manikam, 39, was fined $50 or 25 days' imprisonment in the Segamat Circuit Court, for outraging the modesty of a Malay married woman at Batu Anam. He went to the woman's house and caught her hand.
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    Steady Mart In Rubber
    233 8 rE Singapore rubber market reopened on Thursday after the holiday, on a very steady note says Lewis and Peat's market report issued yesterday. Business was done in the morning for February shipment at 233 cents per lb. and towards the close, another new high at 240
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    Evidence A Story —Court Is Told
    203 8 Evidence A Story —Court Is Told From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. fi R. CLEMENT, a Euro- pean electrical engineer who is charged with stealing $12,000 worth of copper conductors, today, in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court, described the evidence of prosecution witnesses as "a well rehearsed story engineered
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    Singapore Dairy
    105 8 TODAY. BRITISH RED CROSS Handicapped Children's club ouUng, Katong Park, 10 ajn. to noon. CHINESE V.M.C.A., Selegie Road, body building, 4 n.m., basketball, 5 p.m., badminton, 5.30 p.m., Chinese New Year party, pjn. LIAN LI BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION, monthly general meeting, 4, Borneo Road, 7.30 p.m. SINGAPORE SOCIETY OF
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    29 8 MR. AND MRS. LEONG HON FUN after Iheir wedding at the Singapore Marriage Registry yesterday. The bride. Miss Loke Peng Tue, has just come from Canton. Straits Times picture.
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      315 8 Straits Times Crossword 288 Vlffa-Sw»un«! v, I I I I I 1 I I I i I I ..VJ.VS, DOWN. 2 5 1. Mechanical device that enI SSSS ables goods to be delivered 1. The competitor ran inside BaS> SMS &g£| IN£& kJ& ,7 §H IU 3. Showed signs of
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    CONTROL OF PRICES?
    459 9 AT the last meeting of the Federal Legislative Council, two resolutions, among others, were adopted to promote discussions expected to lend to a rise In Government employees' cost of living allowances, and, with Singapore, urgently to con.Mder price control, rationing and fiscal measures to combat Inflation. Anything
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    29 YEARS IN BUTTER WORTH
    209 9 [TheWidows'And Orphans' Fund ilj| a leader Jt Feb. 6 you 1 stated that there was actually no su< n Fund as the Widows' and Orphans' Fund I. for one. do not know when this Fund was changed into a scheme. I was a contributor to
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    AND 25 YEARS IN K.L.
    124 9 I HAVE contributed towards the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund for 25 years. My wife died about five years ago. I have two grown-up children, and I do not like the idea of re-marryi::-. According to the rules of the Fund I am not eligible
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      CONRAD IN SCHOOL
      134 9 ONE of our set books this year is Conrad's "Rover". To my surprise a senior teacher of a mission school has labelled Conrad's style bombastic Men like Moon and McKay 'joint authors of "A New English Course," "Social English." etc." describe Conrad's stvle as limpid as a
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      $10 A TIME
      43 9 YOUR Thursday report of Chinese labourers and tappers, happily forking out $10 a time for air joy-rides at least left m e with the consolation of knowing that the K.L. Flying Club was the jainer in this case. HARD-UP. Ipoh.
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      New Year Question: Why Are Young Men So Foolish?
      356 9 IKE lots of my neighbours, I sat up hour after hour and then cried myself to sleep \*hile 1 waited for the return of my husband and mv only son, who had been invited out to dinner on New Year's Day
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      Kung Hee Fatt Choy
      115 9 IT gave me great pleasure to hear the steady and fluent voice of Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald when he wished his Chinese listeners "Kung Hee Fatt Choy" in his New Year broadcast. It gave me even greater pleasure to hear that Mr. Mac Donald, whose five
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      KUALA LIPIS CATTLE
      132 9 KUALA LIPIS CATTLE rpHE State Secretary. Pahang, A has very kindly issued a circular urging all Government servants in Pahang to do a little gardening in their spare time, near their quarters, to supplement the supply of vegetables. The response has been very good I myself am doing a little
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      27 9 Letters signed with a .nom deplume cannot be published nnlrss the writer's name and addrm are commanicated In ronfidcncr to the editor as djn of good faith.
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      Negri Wants A Mining Member
      146 9 Negri Wants A Mining Member I AM voicing the indig- nation of ir»c miners in Negri Sembilan The authorities of the State of Negri Sembilan have steadfastly refused to recognise the mining industry or to appoint a representative of this industry on its Councils. The members of the Councils as
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      RAPE MUST BE PUNISHED
      192 9 MR. M.K. Seah, in his letter of Thursday headed "Sentence Of Death For Rape," apparently considers that conviction for rape is not in tune with the principles of law, justice and democracy." Does this mean that those tried and found guilty of this crime should be
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      WAITING FOR A TELEPHONE
      195 9 "JMPATIENT," in his letter of Thursday, is less than fair to the Telephone. Company in his suggestion that only those with "pull" can obtain the installation of a telephone. I have for the past two years been attempting to obtain an additional line for a legal
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    Govt. Officers' Leave: Right Or Bribe?
    138 9 Govt. Officers Leave: Right Or Bribe? CIVITAS." in Thursdays "In the Municipal lobbies." i 8i 8 badly misinformed when he states that Government officers get six months' leave whether or not they decide to return to Malaya for another tour of duty. I have done three and a half years
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    IN SEARCH OF A COUNTRY
    350 9 I WAS born in India but came to Malays at the ape 1 of two. I have been here ever since. I was educated in local schools and sat my Senior Cambridge examination last year. Recenuv I applied to the Teachers Training College for ifimission.
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    CHOOSING THE CONSCRIPTS
    108 9 rE Federal Government could end some of the mistrust of conscription if it announced how the 20,000 are to be selected from the 290,000 liable to register. Tnose who remember the Controller of Manpower declaring, in the Legislative Council (May 1949), that the Chinese should pay for
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    EURASIAN DINNERS AND DANCES
    364 9 EURASIAN DINNERS AND DANCES Jtfß C. F. (Jumes, in a letter punlished on Feb. 2. said it was impossible to solve the many "Eurasian prob:?m.s satisfactorily "when we (the Eurasian Union of Malaya) meet only once in six months and rush through our business in one day." To this excuse
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    Stocks
    304 10 LONDON, Fri. 'THE-London Stock Exchange was quiet today ahead of the weekend and whilst awaiting developments in the dock strike situation. Price movement! were mixed but they were mainly to higher levels. Rubbers moved higher and firmness in tins reflected the price of the commodity. Closing middle prices ol
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    PRODUCE MARKET
    86 10 THE copra section of the Singa- I pore produce market was I steady yesterday, but with an ab- I sence of sellers. There were buyers at $59. Coconut oil sellers quoted $96 but no business was reported. In the pepper section, Lampong black went up by $10 a
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    MALAYAN SHARES
    462 10 From A Market Correspondent A CTIVE conditions again prevailed in die Malayan share market yesterday with very *ood demand for Tin and Rubber share" industrials wnr<> firm Prices Quoted by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buyer* Setter* A*x Bricks Pref i&2» Orli 2.03 AUu Ice 13.00 B.B.
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    TIN:$732A PICUL
    458 10 SINGAPORE, Fri. Feb. 9. —$733 (up $9 to new alltime record.) £1,450 a ton in London LONDON. Fri.. Feb. 9.— I Spot Buyers £1,450; Forward £1.420; Settlement £1.455 (up «5). Turn- > overs; a.m. 75, p.m. 25 tons. S. Malayan 38/3 29 8. Tronoh 34/- 35/Sungel Besl 16/3
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    $2.32
    220 10 AFTER reaching a new record price of $2.41 alb. towards the close on Thursday, the price of first-grade rubber for February shipment went down in Singapore yesterday to $2.32, seven cents below Thursday's close. The market was still fairly quiet, with business on the small side It opened at
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    MALAYAN TIN SHIPMENTS
    95 10 STRAITS Traders announce the following January tin shipments in tons: From Singapore to— XJJC. 230 (70 optional Continent), U.S.A. 353' i. Continent 691' i, Canada 100, Pacific 11, Africa one, Australasia 66, Middle East six. From Penang to— UJC. 49t, U.S.A. 768, Continent 1.325%, Canada 115. Pacific
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    H.K. EXCHANGE RATES
    34 10 HONQ KONG, Frl. pmEE market currency exchange r tor Hong Kong, dollars was quoted today as follows US$l HKSS93 (cash). HKSSM ft.il £1 HK515.30; onp tae! of gold HKS32O. U.P- I
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    SURVEY OF RUGGER SEASON—I
    729 11 SURVEY OF RUGGER SEASON— I Standard Back To Pre-war Level NEW YEAR MAY BRING CHANGES By A Special Correspondent A NOTHER rugger season is almost behind us, a season which can be described as the most successful since the war. The standard of the game has improved a great deal
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    TOURISTS 413: INDIA 143 FOR 4
    282 11 KANPUR, India, Fri. INDIA were not too well placed at end of play on the second day of the fifth and final unofficial "Test" against the Commonwealth tourists. Commonwealth went on to total 413 today from their overnight 307 for six, adding 106 in
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    Sutcliffe Wants Players With Guts
    337 11 From JIM CHAMBERS LONDON, Fri. TWO famous English Test cricketers, Herbert Sutcllffe of Yorkshire and Godfrey Evans of Kent, present wicketkeeper for England in Australia, had a lot to say this week about international cricket. Sutcliffe, one of the bsst opening batsmen ever to play
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    34 11 LEN HUTTON turns lan Johnson to leg to reach 98 during his innings of 156 not oat for England t Australia m the fourth Test at Adelaide. Australia won the game by 274 runs.
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    Last Four Left In Sevens Rugby
    492 11 m^, s^r EK)UR sides— R.A.S.C, "A", Royal Signals "A", r Naval Base "A" and G.H.Q. 'A'— are all that are left from an original entry of 40 teams in the S.C.S.'s seven-a-side Rugby tournament. These four sides who have managed to battle their way
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    BROOKS TKO'D IN BRISBANE
    50 11 BRISBANE. Fri. LEN Dittmar (152'ilb), middleweight champion of Queensland, beat triple Orient champion Boy Brooks (158'^lb.) •a a technical knockout in the ninth round at Brisbane Stadium tonight. Brooks'* left eye waa completely eloaed. When the flfht was stopped Dithnar waa well ahead on points. —Seuter-AAP.
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    Sports Diary
    91 11 TODAY RUGBY: 8.C.C. Seven-aside tourney, semi-finals and flna!, on padanc Frieiidlies: Spore Harbour Board v R.N.S. Sembawang at Keppel Harbour; G.H.Q. Farelf 'A' v. 221 Veh. Bn. RAOC at RAOC ground; Police v. R.A.F. Seletar at Thomson Road. TABLE TENNIS: Philippine Chinese Juniors at Great World, 8 p.m.
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      138 11 JVANHOE DRAWN BY PETER J4CKSON f IKOCXOTHIff TMCOt MAS AMOMC I 4SSISTANCI L«t j\f{ V\J I 1 f/^^Bv/ fl S Ll 0 1 I ORABKO THC OTHER /R I TMC RANKS Of T«C (XSlN»«t«rriO B 'HUNHOKXT. <EU- B V ML.} V 1M r/ lW II WMICH *H« TT WtO HIS
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      91 11 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 10 a.m. News. Emergency News from K.L.; 10.10 Close; 12 Malay; 1 pjn. "Saturday Ballroom"; 1.30 News: 130 Interlude (Plantation Music); 2 "Album of Harmony"; 2.15 K.L. Racing; 5 Malay; 6 Kentucky Minstrels; 6-15 Children; 6.40 Gerry Soliano at the Hammond Organ, Raffles Hotel; 7 News; 7.15
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    FOUR O'CLOCK SHOULD TAKE GOLD CUP RACE
    479 12 FOUR O'CLOCK SHOULD TAKE GOLD CUP RACE Light Weighted Gold Meridian Real Danger Hrom EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. HOLD Meridian will be a bigger menace to champion stayer Pour O'Clock II than most people will concede in the Selangor (iold Cup race at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow (Race 5), final
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    Ondine For The Main Sprint
    961 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Friday. THERE were some solid bets on Ondine on Wednesday in spite ot his stiff impost of 4.12, but he ruined whatever chances he had at th» start. I Whethei this grand sprinter could have gone close to beating Uninsured had he got
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    TODAY'S GOING
    27 12 KUALA 1 I MPI K. Fri. TPHK GOING at Kuala Lumpur this morning was Rood. Barring further rain, Ihe going should be Idem, tomorrow afternoon.
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    WellRated Springbok For Race 7
    154 12 From EPS<;>l JEEP KUALA LUMPI.'R Fri. T-AKING a line through Ambassador's fine .showing against Uninsured in a oretty fastrun race on Wednesday, Springbok must be regarded as a strong prospect in the Div. 2 sprint for top class horses tomorrow (Race 7) Ambassador and Springbok,
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    Straits Times Selections
    140 12 •o <TK SACK 1 2.J0 GOLD MEDALLIST Double Ariea Allworth KEEL SOSE Gold Medallist Double Aries KEEK ROSE Gold Medallist Silver Sequin RACK t 3.0* SPEAR OF SARAWAK Film Fan Scarlet Tifer II SCARLET TIGER Spearlicht Film Fan SPEARLIGHT Film Fan Selopian RACE 3 3.3* CONGO Ecliptic
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    Today's Race Card
    963 12 THE card of events for today's racs at Kuala J- Lumpur is given below. Double totes will be on Races Four and Five and Seven and Eight. The Big Sweep will be drawn on Race Eight. Race 1—2.30: Class 1, Div 3—6 Kurs. 1 001 Gold Medallist
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    DOLLAH NETS THREE
    157 12 I iiim Out Owi Correspondent BANGKOK. Fri p^OR the first time in the-r ioiu Cheng Wah nearly laced defeat yesterday, when they met Chaisod footballers at the National Stadium. Down three-two on the change Of ends, the Malayans rallied strongly to hold Cbalsod to a fourall draw.
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    Can Winner Claim The World Title?
    516 12 By The Sports Editor the Malayan badminton champion be regarded as the unofficial champion of the worli or should that honour go to the winner of the AllEngland title? The question is asked and answer^, by Leow Kirn Fatt, one of Singapore's great badminton
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    PERAK APPEAL FOR POH LIM, MARJAN
    188 12 From Our Staff or respondent 'I'OII, Fri. pERAK HAS laken steps In swell Ihe fund to send lh« Malayan and Singapore hidmiiiton doubles champions. Ong Poh Lim md Ismail Marjan. to :he IK. to .'omprlr In dm All-Knel»nd rhampionship.s. Thr Prrak Malays Badminton Association
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    59 Teams For Colony Soccer
    145 12 riFTY-NINE tea,,,, will in this years Sil ABMtear Fooibill A. social T a competitions— U hi bemor leapue. Is n Divi j >i> fi «nd 14 in -A- Mcboa ■ad i m B of DivKion 111 There will In adtliiion be His usual cio ht
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    29 12 TODAY: 1.3S a.m. i9.li. til p.m. (9.9«; 7.20 I.M. i^.9i. 7.48 p.m. (1.7). TOMORROW: am i 2.OC> p.m. 1 9.3 > 755 am. lU'.'fi, 8.!4 p :n ,J.4i.
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