The Straits Times, 22 February 1951

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1951. PRICE TEN CENTS
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    The Twins Come Aboard
    43 1 TKOOPS.iiP TWINS, .Vnne and Susan Bonsall, aged 17 months, who are coming with their mother to see their father. Sergeant Harry Bonsall. R.E.M.E.. at Sincapore. He has seen them only once., when they »ere throe months old. P.euter picture.
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    'KILLER PATROLS' SEE NO REDS
    272 1 U.N. Troops Held Up At Han River TOKYO, Wednesday. TORRENTIAL rain lashed i the Korean front into a sea of mud tonight after United Nations "killer patrols" roamed far north in the centre without meeting important Communist forces. The Communists seemed intent on defending the
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    17 Rescued From Rio Cable Car
    84 1 RIO DE JANEIRO, Wed. gEVENTEEN persons were rescued yesterday after being stranded for six and a half hours 600 feet above the ground in a dangling cable car near the top of the famous Sugar Loaf Mountain. The car hung on only one cable
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    New Chief Of Radio Malaya
    100 1 THE application of Mr. J. S. Dumeresque to retire from the post of Director of Broadcasting has, the Straits Times understands, been accepted by the Federation and Singapore Governments. His successor will be Mr. N. Lloyd Williams, who is at present Deputy Director of Broadcasting,
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    POLICE FIRE ON RED BILL STICKERS
    97 1 SINGAPORE detectives opened fire last night on four Chinese Communists caught putting up Communist posters in Queen Street. None of the men was hit however but one was arrested after a short chase. The arrested man, a 17-year-old youth, was brought to Police Headquarters
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    30 Chinese In Siam Appeal
    82 1 From Oar Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Wed. A MEETING of the committee appointed by the Siamese Government to consider the request of several Chinese Trade Associations to amend the order for deportation of 30 Chinese to detention in Petchabun was held here today. The committee decided
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    NEW MOVE ON KASHMIR
    48 1 LAKE SUCCESS, Wed. Britain and the United States today proposed demilitarisation and a plebiscite for Kashmir. The two Western powers introduced a resolution to that effect in the U.N. Security Council. The resolution proposed that a U.N. representative supervise demilitarisation and the plebiscite.— A.P.
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    Indonesian Tank Rams Dutch Home
    59 1 EANDOENG. Wed. MniUM-SIZED tank of Indonesian Army this morning rammed the house ct the Netherlands military tuiseion commander in Bono' oer.tr. Lieut. -Col. Tijman, I Aneta. v reported that the tank"? Peering was out of order and the tank crashed through a garden wall Into
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    FLASH MELTED HIS WATCHES
    32 1 '.VOOD Queensland. V A flash of lightning Wh'.»h killed George Dousctt. .i <'lted two watches l ket. Dowsett had n to the funeral of his -old mother. Reuter.
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    BURMA PLANS
    28 1 RANGOON. Wed. Burma intends to nationalise land— i iv so as not to jeo- national minorities, r for Agriculture, B i Khin Maung Gale, said -Reuter.
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    Armed Terror On Indian Border
    183 1 NEW DELHI, Wednesday. THE Home Minister Mr. C. Rajagopalachari, told Parliament today that armed Communist bands were terrorising villages along the Communist Chinese and Indo-Burmese borders. He said the attacks had caused a "dangerous and disturbed" state in Kamrup, Assam and Manipur provinces. The Minister
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    Sale Of Treasures
    26 1 RANGOON. Wed.— Silk taprstries. reported to be 1.000 years old brought here secretiv from China may shortly be displayed for sale.— A. P.
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    NEW PARTY IN BURMA
    53 1 RANGOON. Wed.— Twelve members of Parliament led by Aung Tham. elder brother of the late Gen. Aung San, have resigned from the AntiFascists People's Freedom League to form an independFascists People's Freedom ent bloc in Parliament. They claim that the FPFL "no longer represents popular opinion
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    3,500 KILLED BY SMALLPOX
    29 1 CALCUTTA, Wed.— Almost 3.500 persons have died of smallpox in Calcutta in the past 90 days. It is the worst epidemic of the century. U.P.
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    DANISH ANSWER
    34 1 COPENHAGEN, Wed.— The Danish Red Cross said today that its three-man team sent to Korea will be recalled If General Mac Arthur insists on his demand that they wear U.S. uniforms. A.P.
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    $10,000 THEFT
    29 1 Thieves broke into the house "Of a young Chinese businessman in Buckley Road, Singapore, early yesterday morning and got away with •nore than $10,000 worth of •wellery.
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    Cabinet Crisis At First Meeting
    149 1 SAIGON, Wednesday. THE Vietnam Defence Minister, Nguyen Huu Tri and Education Minister, Dr. Phanhuy Quat, flew to Dalat to confer with Vietnam head of State Bao Dai today, after having tendered their resignations from the new Vietnam State Cabinet, which met for the first time
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    REWARD FOR AN UNKNOWN MAN
    85 1 TH E Riot Investigation Unit is anxious to contact and reward a person, believed Eurasian, who rescued two European women and a child during the riots. At 7.30 p.m. on Dec. 11 this person rescued the women and child from a mob at the junction
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    TERROR ATTACK ON JAVA TOWN
    52 1 JAKARTA. Wed. Five hundred armed terrorists attacked the west Java town of Tasik-Malaya for several hours early on Sunday morning, killing at least four people. The attackers kept the town under fire from midnight until dawn. Th» gang was believed to be from Darul Islam
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    FOUND HANGING
    26 1 A Chinese was found hanging from the rafters of a house in River Valley Road, Singapore, last night. He had been dead some hours.
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    FILM DOESN'T PLEASE WRITER
    74 1 HONG KONG. Wed. IRS. Agnes Keith, authoress of "Three Came Home," arrived today from Vancouver by a Canadian Pacifle Alrllnt-s plane. Sandakan to meet her. They will return on Monday to Sandakan where Mr. Keith is Conservator of Forests. Mrs. Keith said she is writtng a
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    RESCUED AFTER 2 HOURS IN SEA
    184 1 I OST overboard off Penang, a sailor was spotted from the air and rescued as darkness was falling after being in the sea for two hours. He was lost'from tne frigate Mounts Bay late on Tuesday afternoon, but was not missed till the frigate
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    FIFTHCOLUMN IN RED ARMY
    59 1 WASHINGTON, Wed.— A Georgetown University professor told Senators yesterday that a fifth column of antiCommunist Russians was infiltrating the Red Army and stirrinu up trouble behind the Iron Curtain. Dr. Lev Dobriansky. who also president of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, urged that United States
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    HEALTH AID
    38 1 BANGKOK, Wed.— Dr. Melvin Griffith, of the U.S. Public Health Service, arrived In Bangkok today to assist Dr. Erval Coffey, Medical Officer of the U.S. Special Technical and Economic Mission to Slam. S.T. Corr. 22HUKS KILLED
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    Objection To Position Of Crown Counsel
    279 1 Objection To Position Of Crown Counsel RIOT COMMISSION INQUIRY WHEN the Singapore Riot Commission began n its fifth session yesterday morning Mr. Dennis Murphy, representing three riot victims, challenged the position of Crown Ljunsel representing individuals involved in the inquiry, on the grounds that this was causing disquietude among the
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    TENANTS' RIGHTS IN LAW
    279 2 The Progressive Parly Replies IT appears tnat inter1 ested parties are now suggesting that the Progressive Party or some members thereof, favour allowing landlords to evict tenants, notwithstanding the Control of Rent Ordinance. ShorUy before June 15, 1948. a decision was given in one of our
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    11 2 Katong Post Office early morning, before the customers crowd in. i
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      Luxury Tax And Cost Of Living
      450 2 r APPEAL to all the public NOT to be misled by 1 the proposal for a tax on luxury goods. How can a tax on goods curb C.0.L.? In plain English, it cannot and will not do so. This can be clearly seen in
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      THE $1 TICKET RACKET
      124 2 "CAMSON and Delilah" is in- deed a good film, well worth seeing. Many patrons, including myself, queued up for dollar tickets about two hours before the show we wanted to see. Then some people, apparently late arrivals, started cutting In and pushing. The I queue of
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    Overwork In Katong P.O.
    173 2 Overwork In Katong P.O. AS the Postal Depart- ment is a revenueproducing department, which serves the public at a considerable profit to Government, may I suggest that the comfort of the public might be more considered? Katong Post Office has the same size of staff as it had, I imagine,
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    DAMANSARA ESTATE
    242 2 I READ with great Interest in the Press that Subramaniam, a pupil of the Senghat Estate Tamil School. Ipoh, and the son of a rubber tapper, had been offered a scholarship by the directors with the kind recommendation of the manager there, for his studies at Anderson School,
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    CALL TO ARMS: 1941-51
    188 2 BIR Shenton Thomas J made a patriotic speech just before the fall of Singapore. In it he said that the Government would stand by its fighting men. For daring to take up arms against the Japanese I was Immediately dismissed by my firm and paid only
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    RUSSIA ASKED TO TALKS IN AMERICA
    234 3 West Confident Of Moscow 'Yes 9 PARIS, Wednesday. THE Big Three Western Powers have invited Russia t<; a meeting of the Foreign Ministers' di'nuties in Paris on Mar. 5 to fix an agenda for a Kitr Tour peace conference in Washington. The invitation was
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    PANTOMIME PUSS MEETS ZOO LION
    29 3 SUviM IRVIN who has naif her name as Puss in Iks London pantomime. 'Puss in Boots." with (he Dudley zoo lion cub. Reuter picture.
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    Seagrave 'Misbehaved With Nurses'
    92 3 RANGOON. Wed. THE C'vprnment prosecutor rcily :~ked :he apourt to uphold "he gaol sentene on Dr. Gordon S?afor helping the Burmese rebels. •It is on record that Seagrave misbehaved himself with the nurses at the border town hospital at Namkham." be >:iid "This was never rebutted
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    NAZI PLEA LOST
    47 3 WASHINGTON, Wed.— The United States Court of Appeals refused to halt the scheduled execution in Germany of seven convicted Nazi war criminals. But the Court 1. ft the way open for attorneys for *V>e seven to carry the case to the S'tareme Court.— Reuter.
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    Labour Wins Vote On Peanut Failure
    109 3 LONDON, Wednesday. THE British Government defeated tonight by seven votes a Conservative attack on its costly attempt to grow peanuts in Africa. The House of Commons was asked to refuse an appropriation of about £15,000.000 to be used in an effort to salvage something
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    THIS WAS A TOWN
    37 3 SOUTH KOREAN TOWN of Anyanj, reduced to rubble, as infantry and tanks of a United Nations task force move through, on the road towards Seoul, a few miles to the north.— A.P. picture.
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    Common Front Plan For Pacific Defence
    184 3 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. AMONG seveial ideas put forward toward a Pacific defence setup is one A which brings Australia, New Zealand and the United States together with a common front. This idea, it is reported, has New Zealand Premier Sidney G. Holland's approval. officials however,
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    DETAINED PILOT JUMPS OFF TRAIN
    70 3 DURBAN, Wed A NATION-WIDE search started yesterday for Martin Goetzee, 44-year-old air force pilot who escaped from police custody by jumping from moving train A few hours earlier Goetzee had arrived by sea from London where he appeared as a fugitive offender. Goetzee escaped by
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    KING CALLED 'A STOOGE'
    60 3 KHATMANDU, Wed.—Communist hooklers attempted to create a disturbance at a public meeting at Khatmandu yesterday and distributed leaflets which charged King Tribhuvan with being a "stooge" of the Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru an "agent of capitalist America." The leaflets called on the people not to
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    Trade Talks In Moscow
    77 3 MOSCOW, Wed. A CHINESE trade delegation, headed by the Deputy Trade Minister, Wao Yilin. has arrived in Moscow for important talks with the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Trade. Western sources say the discussions may be aimed at further increases in the trade turnover between the two
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    Security Men Held
    39 3 MANILA. Wed. Seven Filipino security guards of the United States air base at C.ark Field. 40 miles north of Manila were arrested by Philippine police for allegedly supplying Communist-led Hukbalahaps with arms and spare parts.— Reuter.
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    Japs 'Can't Rearm'
    57 3 TOKYO, Wed. PREMIER Shigoru Yoshida declared today that Japan neither wanted to rearm nor was economically capable of rearming. He told the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Diet, that some foreign exponents of a Pacific pact were advocating inclusion of Japan in a military allowance as a
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    DENTIST IN KOREA
    30 3 DE.Vf AL RKI'AIKS in Korea by the Indian Field Ambulance. A soldier from Derbyshire, is treated by Capt. J. M. Roa Narsannapet, of Southern India.— A.P. picture.
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    UK ENVOY TO SIAM
    27 3 BANGKOK, Wed.— Britain's new ambassador to Siam, Sir John Magowan, is expected to assume his post here the middle of next month.— A.P.
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      Rhinos Ate Cotton In Sudan Village
      170 3 EIGHT rhinoceros devoured half the cotton crop at Nimule in Equitoria Province, the official Sudan Monthly Record said^ Game scouts in the area were reported to be busy looking for maurauding elephants and buffalo. More than 300 elephants were killed in the Torit District
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    Far East Army In HK Test
    57 3 HONG, KONG, Wed. A Far East Land Forces' training exercise to study the tactical aspect of defence in modern warfare' will be held here tomorrow. Officers from Malaya and Singapore will atend the exercise. Representatives of the War Office, the Royal Navy and Royal
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    INDIA AND U.S. DIFFER ON ASIA-ACHESON
    291 3 INDIA AND U.S. DIFFER ON ASIA-ACHESON WASHINGTON, Wednesday. THE American Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, yesterday said that the Indian Government was "striving to restore peace" in the Far East and to prevent the Korean war from spreading. He appeared before the Foreign Relations Committee to support President Truman's
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    Ceylon Plan For 'Festival Of Asia'
    155 3 Ceylon Plan For 'Festival Of Asia' COLOMBO, Wed. /^EYLON proposed yesterday an industrial, agricultural and cultural exhibition a year from now by all South and South-East Asian nations. The proposal has been forwarded by the Dominion Government to all the governments which took part here in the Commonwealth Consultative Committee
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    PAKISTAN WANTS TO SELL RICE
    38 3 WASHINGTON, Wed. A Pakistan spokesman yesterday said that his country is willing to sell 350,000 tons of rice to India for rupees, and anticipates a wheat surplus which India can also buy.— U.P.
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    117 Years' gaol -more to come
    72 3 117 Years' gaol -more to come BANGKOK, Wed. nHUEY SAE LAW, known to police as the Siamese counterpart of the notorious American gangster John Dillinger, was gaoled for 20 years in Bangkok on a charge of robbery. He was already under a 91-year sentence. And on the ivay back to
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    Chinese Can Be Beaten Shinwell
    176 3 Chinese Can Be Beaten Shinwell LONDON. Wed. ORITAIN'S Defence Mr Emanuel Shinwell, said yesterday that events in Korea in the last few vveeks had shown beyond all doubt that the Chinese and North Korem forces "can be nr" ked and mastered". Latest information indicted that the Chinese counteroffensive had been
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    Seoul 'Great Victory
    97 3 DARWIN. Australia, Wed. THE major battle near Sco» just ended was one of the greatest allied victories of any war said the British Commonwealth Overseas Forces Commander, Lieut. Gen. Sir Horace Robertson, on his arrival from Japan last night. He stressed United Nations troops' superiority over the
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    REBEL GAOLED
    38 3 SAN JUAN, Wed.— The Puerto Rican Nationalist leader, Albuzu Campos, was found guilty yesterday of illegal possession of arms and explosives in the antiAmerican riots last autumn, and sentenced to 10 years nine months' imprisonment. U.P.
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    ATTLEE: NO EMPIRE COMMITTEE
    137 3 LONDON, Wed. r PHE Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, yesterday turned down a proposal that a com-.-aittee of Commonwealth defence should be reconstituted to supervise the defence of Lhe Commonweal! h Mr. Joseph Grimond. Llbtiul, made the proposal in a been important changes in the constitutional relations
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    'FELT UNJUSTLY ACCUSED'
    2858 4 'Malay Police Morale Low Since Riots: Thrown Into Confusion 9 Thought Religion Was Concerned 'Orders Were Not Clear, Definite, Says Senior ASP \fOHAMED Amin bin Haji Jamil, A.S.P., senior Malay officer of the Singapore Police Force, yesterday told the Riot Commission that the morale of the Malay
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    CROWN COUNSEL AT RIOT INQUIRY
    55 4 TROWN COUNSEL ap- pearing before the Riot Commission are: Mr. A. D. Farrell, for the Police Mr. M. H. Buttrose, for G.O.C., Singapore District. Mr. A. H. Simpson, amirus curiae ("friend of th« court"). In addition, the Solici-tor-General, Mr. C. H. ButItrfielri, is appearing on
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    YOUTH SHOT AT FATHER'S SHOP
    51 4 mWENTY-TWO-year-old Gan A Slew Tham. was shot In the left.shoulder outside his Jll^. 'aihyr^^lrui^shouin He was admitted to the General Hospital but his condition is not sc'rlous. Qt>n aald yesterday that he two shots. "l ran into the shop and waJ'bleeding^^l^d^ot^ who tired the shots
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    Woman With Pistol, Sten Lea Selangor Bandit Gang
    370 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. A KAT Chinese woman, well dressed, made up, 'waring jewellery and armed with a pistol and sten gun, leads a bandit gang which burns buses in Selangor. Bus drivers and conductors operating northof Kuala Lumpur
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    He Wanted To Become A Legionnaire
    173 5 He Wanted To Become A Legionnaire IVAN Hirssppinig, 18- year-old pantry boy ■in the Danish m.v. Meoftttempted to join French Foreign Legon m Saiyon when his thtp called there last month. i s a result, he is beJiipped home as a eager" on the same a sadder but wiser Ivan
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    'Chai Wei' With Ten-Course Lunch
    122 5 A TEN-course Chinese lunch with special Fukkien meat dumplings, chicken noodles, roast chicken, sweet and sour pork and popia, was given by Miss Mary Chen. Secretary of the Y.W.C.A.. to seventy friends yesterday. Miss Chen, who is shortly retiring after being Secretary of the Y.W.C.A.
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    CLERK FINED $10
    27 5 JOHOR BAHRU, Wed— Ang Joo Seang, a clerk in a military camp in the Kota Tinggi area, who was fined $10 today for gambling.
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    Inquisitive Red And Pal Killed
    249 5 Inquisitive Red And Pal Killed From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. 4 inquisite bandit who walked out of his hut to investigate the shooting he had heard was shot J dead by security forces. The shooting he had heard spelt death for his comrade as well. They were killed
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    1951 Tea Party To Remember 1819
    272 5 AN invitation to tea followed the meeting in Singapore yesterday between Major Eric Flint, great grandnephew of Sir Stamford Raffles, and the Tungku Muda Mahomed, great grandson of the Sultan Hussain Mahomed Shah, who concluded the treaties with Raffles which established the tMm of
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    Youth Gets Gaol, Sobs In Court
    108 5 Youth Gets Gaol, Sobs In Court A 19-YEAR-OLD labourer, Koh Ah Pong, yesterday cried in the Singapore Relief District Court when sentenced to six months' imprisonment for breaking into a Church Street house on the night of Jan. 27. Koh. who admitted two previous convictions for theft, was also sentenced
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    Singapore Dairy
    72 5 C'HNESE V.M.C.A., Selegie Road, music class, 2.30 p.m., badminton, 5.30 p.m.. basketball. 7.30 p.m., mouth organ band, 7.30 p.m. BRITISH RED CROSS, Old Peoples Club. Wesley Hall, Port Canning, 430 p.m. Y.W.C.A.. Raffles Quay, Malay advanced class. 5.15 p.m. V.M.C.A.. Orchard Road, gymnastics, 6 p.m., table tennis, 7
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    Execution Stayed
    89 5 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed IfARRUPIAH, sentenced to 11 death at the Johore Assizes for being a bandit agent and collector, has had his execution stayed. It is learned that the Government of India is appealing to the Privy Council on Karrupiah's behalf. Karrupiah had appealed
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    'Malaya Has Two Great Needs'
    372 5 'Malaya Has Two Great Needs —Sir John Hay rPHERE is no occasion to be pessimistic about the future of Malaya, said Sir John Hay, Managing director of Guthrie and Co., and an international figure in the rubber industry, who has Just toured Malaya. Sir John In a Straits Times interview
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    S.C. ACQUITTED
    32 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— Paul David, a Special Constable on Timor Estate, was in the Police Court today acquitted on a charge of deserting from the force. The charge was withdrawn.
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    GURKHA PIPERS GOING TO SCOTLAND
    42 5 TWO PIPERS selected for a pipe major's course at the School of Pipinjr in Edinburgh, are Sgt Padambahadurßai of I 7 Gurkha Rifles (rUht) and Sjet. Rambahadur Pradhan of 2 10 Gurkha Rifles— Army P. R. picture.
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    'Gallant' Driver Chased Killer
    316 5 THE Singapore Coroner yesterday praised "the very gallant action of Special Constable Abdullah bin Mohammed Kassim who, although unarmed, chased a gunman for over half a mile." "I recommend that this should be brought to the notice of his superiors," he added. Mr. Choor Singh was
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    GURKHAS TO BECOME 'HIELAND LADDIES'
    82 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. TiHE first pipers from the Brigade of Gurkhas have Been chosen to attend the pipe major's course at the Schoo! of Piping Edinburgh. They are 3gt. Padambahadur Rai. 1/70* United Kingdom shortly to attend this year's course which
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    DRIVER FINED $50
    28 5 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed Hashim bin Taib, a Police van driver, was fined $50 today in the Police Court for negligent driving.
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    Mrs. Brinnand Dead
    15 5 A 32-year-old Euroopan woman, Mrs. Aurlel Edna. Brinnand, died In the Btpga-
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      125 5 m IMH P Mil mf mJI«*IH Kip -^If^Rs K^lie nannei Well, perhaps next year ••I'll try an/thing once," says John. And on: on well believe him. Full of exuberant health venturesome mischievous he is at once a joy and a trial •'It's all that Cow Gate he's been having." saya
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    DEATH
    28 6 GRAHAM: Mrs. Mary, aped 84 yeors. beloved wife of the late David Graham, lately of Teluk Anson. Perak. at. Lancrside Avenue. Glr^s-jow. <n Friday 16th February. ML
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    66 6 THE WIFE AND CHILDREN Of the lat- Irnac Augustus Danl:T thnnk their many relatives, friends, and all who attended Mm funeral and sent wreaths, teleirrnms and messaees of con(Jplrnrp. THE CHILDREN or the late Mr A. G. Morais tender their heartfelt thinks to all friends and relatives v ho
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Thur. Feb. 22, 1951. Change Again In Korea
    495 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thur. Feb. 22, 1951. Change Again In Korea Without underestimating Communist resourcefulness in Korea, the latest attempt to smash the centre of the U.N. line seems to have ended satisfactorily. Eighth Army troops are back on the offensive again, having retaken nearly nil the lost ground
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    Old Hands In Penang
    264 6 The Straits Times has received a letter from a reader in Penang in which he makes a plea for old hands In the Municipal service. The Municipal Commissioners in Penang have decided to follow Government in requiring their clerical staff to pass an examination before crossing
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    11 6 LETTERS to the editor will be found in Page Two.
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    In the Municipal lobbies
    584 6 T'HE proposed leave A regulations of the Singapore Municipality have been made public this week, and attention is being focussed on one new and controversial recommendation—that locally domiciJed officers in the Senior Officers 1 Salary Scheme shouM be given overseas leave twice during their service. No
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    'I was a bandit: I tired of it'
    1095 6 'I was a bandit: I tired of it' Malaya under the Emergency -4 FOURTEEN men sat on low plank beds in a police barracks in Negri Sembilan. It was nine o'clock in the morning. The men, all Chinese, most of them very young, were clean and fresh after their morning
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    TOMORROW
    23 6 rpiEN CHONG, 23 year-old X Kheb who used to be bodyguard to a Communist regimental commander in the Jungle, tells his story.
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    On the Margin
    433 6 On the Margin More Ohl-'l hticrs l^HEN presenting a gallery of Malayan old-timers in this column last Mondav (without their permission. I am afraid i I intended to add that I felt sure I had forKOtten to mention, or had not heard of. many other old residents who ousln to
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      190 6 Sulphur Bring me fire, that I may purify the house with sulphur wrote Homer in the Odyssey. This yellow rock, which burns to form choking fumes, has been known since the earliest days of civilization. Pliny describes the surface deposits of sulphur in Sicily and explains how it was used
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    'MALAYA CANNOT IGNORE UNIONS'
    160 7 'MALA YA CANNOT IGNORE UNIONS' From llur Staff Correspondent PENANG. Wed. A MALAYA progressing slowly and constitutionally towards political in'jspendence and selfgovernment oannot afford to ignore the Trade Union movement, Mr. J. A. Brazier. Trade Union Adviser. declared in Penang today Addressing local trade unionists who had gathered to meet
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    He Waited 3 Tears For Chiang
    199 7 He Waited 3 Tears For Chiang A FORMER Tientsin pilot, hefty 73-year-old Captain F. H. Hamblin, whose licence was revoked by the Chinese Communists, is now on his way bach to England in the Canton with Mrs. Hamblin, after having waited in vain for three, years for the return of
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    Mob Stoned Car: Boxer
    110 7 (^OI^POKAL Jimmy Welch the Kuyal Air Forcr win is also a Singapore b x<t yesterday told the Sin■■.inore Relief District Court now the t^xi in which he was travelling was stoned by :i >T>ob of rioters in Seragoon R >1 on Dsc 11. i. who was
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    S.T.C. DRIVER WINS APPEAL
    54 7 An appeal by Meer Saman, v.io has driver for 29 years md emnloyed by the Singapore Tracticn Company, against the endorsement of li i licence was allowed by the Chief Justice, Sir Charles M'Tray-Ayndey in the Sin-p^->ore Appeal Court yesierrtrv. aman's appeal against a for negligent
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    THEY CAN LAND IN S'PORE
    50 7 Indian prssengers travellint; from Madras to Si igapore can now disembark at Singapore, instead of Penning c of a rec?nt decision of the Government of India. S S R iju a, the only ship travelling between Madras and Malayan ports, forni;rhtly carried passengers to Pcnily.
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    New Constitution For Indian Chamber
    116 7 THE Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce is to have a new constitution by next year to allow for an enlarged committee of management and secret ballot in the election of the committee. A sub-committee, consisting of Messrs. J. M. Jumabhoy, D. G. Shah and W.
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    INS RAJPUT To CALL AGAIN
    72 7 INS RAJPUT To CALL AGAIN T.N.S. Rajput, a destroyer of; the Indian Navy, will arrive in Singapore on Mar. 12, from Australia en route for India. The Rajput will be in the Singapore waters for three days. Visitors will be allowed to board the vessel during her stay in the
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    He Missed His Ship
    69 7 ENGINE greaser D. Munro yesterday told the Singapore First Police Court why he missed his ship. He said that he shopped, slept, got into t>e wrong bus and finally reached the Naval Base only to find that s his ship— Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel, Wave Governor
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    STOPPED CARS FINED $10
    55 7 A 42-year-oJd Tamil, who stood in the middle of Grange Road on Wednesday night and attempted to stop passing cars, was yesterday charged in the Singapore Fourth Police Coujt with behaving in a disorderly manner. The Tamil— Senasamy Nadason—pleaded guilty and was fined $10. He was
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    JOHORE DOCTORS
    18 7 From Oar Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Wed Dr. Ylng Ding Seng, who recently graduated from the
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    JENDERAM CRITICS ARE TOLD: NONSENSE'
    376 7 JENDERAM CRITICS ARE TOLD: NONSENSE' Malays Wanted Area Cleared From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. IT was nonsense to compare the evacuation of Jenderam in Selangor with the razing of the Czech town of Lidice by the Germans in 1942, said the Director of Information, Mr. J. N. McHugh,
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    JEAN HERE FOR PLEASURE, BUT
    71 7 A NEWSPAPER woman Is always a newspaper woman even when she is on a pleasure trip, said petite Jean Mac Donald (left) a reporter of the Hollywood Star Bulletin, who arrived in Singapore yesterday with Mrs. Lewis Milestone, wife of a Hollywood movie director. Jean
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    Court Told Of 'Dancing Rioter'
    215 7 Court Told Of 'Dancing Rioter' CINGAPORE Third District Court was told yesterday that Juraimi bin Radzi, a Malay, "danced wildly" before a crowd during the riots. He was carrying bottles, sticks and stones, it was stated. Juraimi was charged with iwo other Malays, Masood bin Ismail and Mohamed Hussein bin
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    ARMY RECRUITS
    60 7 The Army Recruiting Officer. Captain W. H. Blakemore, will visit Telok Anson, Ipoh. and Bukit Mertajam from, next week to Interview recruits. He will be at the Telok Anson police station from Feb. 28 to Mar. 2, at Ipoh Civil Labour Office on Mar. 5 and 6, and
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    FIRMS MAY RAISE WAGES
    144 7 EMPLOYEES of a number of Commercial firms in Singapore may soon find an increase in their wage envelopes— this is because of the present high cost of living in the Colony. A number of commercial enterprises, such as, foreign banks, shipping companies, and import pnd export
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    'Letters to India Not Stamped'
    87 7 rE Postmaster-General, Malaya, stated yesterday that large numbers of letters were being posted by surface mail to India without sufficient stamps on them. H e pointed out that a tax ot double the deficiency was collected from the addressee of each insufficiently prepaid article bejvre
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    VARSITY TALK
    41 7 Dr. Benjamin H. Sheares, Professor of Midwifery and Gynaecology in the University of Malaya, will deliver his inaugural lecture, "Fantasy and Fact in the Study of Human Infertility," at the Faculty of Medicine, on Apr. 19 at 6.30 p.m.
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    NEW SECRETARY
    32 7 The president of the Kota Raja Sports Club. Tengku Muda Mohammad, announced that Inche Madon bin Haji Roshld. the Club secretary had resigned. The new secretary is Inche Mohammad Zain.
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    Armstrong From Canada (Below O) Finds Singapore Not So Hot
    302 7 J^LTHOUGH it was 20 degrees below zero when he left Canada, Mr. D.S. Armstrong, who has just arrived in Singapore to be the new Canadian Government Trade Commissioner, says, "Singapore is not as hot as I had expected." He succeeds
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    JOIN HOME GUARDS, INDIANS TOLD
    76 7 IN appeal to Indians to A Join the anti-bandit campaign and the Home Guards was made by Mr. G. V. Thaver, President of the bnnging and circumstances, were Malayans first and foremost. By resisting terrorism, Indians would be helping their country of origin, Mr. Thayeradded^^^^^^^^^^
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    Peat Area Pines May Be Better
    105 7 Peat Area Pines May Be Better THE future of the Malayan pineapple industry will depend mainly on crops from the peat land plantations now coming into bearing for the first time, said Mr. C. E. Courtney, an adviser to the industry. In a Radio Malaya talk this week. Because of
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    Police Head Gets Factory Backing
    93 7 Police Head Gets Factory Backing OINGAPORE factory managements yesterday welcomed Commissioner of Police. Mr. J. P. Pennefather-fcvans suggestion that the public organise the/r.selves into groups against possible Communist outrages— but declined U- comment. A spokesman of the Singapore Glass Manufacturer* Company, however, said his company had already take:i action in
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    HE STONED GURKHAS
    72 7 A man who was a member of the mob which stoned a detachment of Gurkhas outside the Supreme Court on Dec. 11, and who also threw stones at people sitting on top of the Cricket Club, was yesterday sent to prison. He was Ahmad bin Musa, an
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    TOOK $663
    53 7 Lee Chin Tong, a 43-year-old clerk, pleaded guilty in Singapore yesterday to two charges of crimnal breach of trust of a total sum of S<>63 belonging to the Gestetner (Eastern* Ltd. He will be sentenced en Feb. 28. Two bails, one of $1,000 and the other of $500,
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    Butterworth To Tengah In 40 Mins By Jet
    87 7 ■pLIGHT-LT. Pete Chambers who flew a Meteor twinjet fighter from Butterworth to Tengah Singapore, yesjterday in exactly 40 minutes. The average speed was 566 miles per hour. The usual time for a commercial flight Is about two and a quarter hours. "I
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    Killed Uncle Who Disgraced Family, She Told Assize Court
    369 8 Girl, 17, Faced Murder Charge— Freed From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Wednesday. 17- YEAR- OLD Chinese girl yesterday told the Negri Sembilan Assize Judge, Mr. Justice Charles Abbott, that she had killed her uncle because he "had brought disgrace to my
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    NO FLAG DAY FOR GIRLS
    137 8 NO FLAG DAY FOR GIRLS POLICE have refused per1 mission to the Girl's Home Building Fund Committee to hold their Flag Day planned for this month. The Home. Mount Mary, situated at Thomson Road, Singapore, is run Dy tne Good Shepherd Nuns. A police spokesman, confirming this yesterday, said that
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    CHEAT GETS FOUR MONTHS
    47 8 Abdul Manap. a 27-year-old Indian, was yesterday sentenced to four months' imprisonment for cheating Chan Chee lian of $40. Abdul was stated to have Induced Cnan to deliver the money to him by pretending that he hi\d eight cases of milk to sell.
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    STUDENT HEALTH MEETING SOON
    172 8 LfEALTH problems of University students tuber- culosis, their nutrition and mental health will be discussed at the Student Health Conference for Universities of South-East Asia to be held in Singapore soon. The conference will be opened by the Commissioner General. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. It will be
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    'No Future For Labourer's Wife'
    95 8 \JM Say Lok, a labourer, was yesterday ordered to pay $25 compensation to his icife by the Fourth Police Court Magistrate, Mr. P. Claque. His wife, Chua Sai Tim, had complained that Lim hit her on the head and arms with an iron pile. Lim,
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    TURKS GAOLED NEW SINGAPORE JUDGE
    195 8 SINGAPORE^ new District Judge, Mr. H. L. Wrigglesworth, once spent three hours in a Turkish Jail. This happened in August last year when he was travelling by car from Calcutta to Athens with an American friend This is how it occurred, according to Mr. Wrigglesworth.
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    VARSITY HEALTH TALKS
    42 8 VARSITY HEALTH TALKS ROBIN S BISLEY. general secretary or the New Zealand International Student Service and Dr. Sigvard Wolontis, general secretary of the World University Service Headquarters at Geneva, who are discussing arrangements for the Student Health Conference. Straits Times pict ure.
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    'Sentences Not Heavy'
    87 8 TWO appeals by a Malay and an Indian against sentences of two years and 18 months imprisonment respectively, were yesterday dismissed by the Chief Justice. Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, in the Singapore Court of Appeal. The Malay, Jamal bin Kamin, appealed against a twoyear sentence tor criminal breach
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    GAOL FOR RUBBER
    26 8 Convicted of fraudulent possession of a bale of rubber worth $200, Ng Ah Llm was sentenced in Singapore yesterday to three months' imprisonment.
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      32 8 Straits Times Crossword 298 16 17 ACROSS. 14. He provides another Tale 01 8 More or leas a disbanded a Tub (8) chow team (8). 19. AJIm Lohengrin (8, J, 3, 4
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      161 8 If). 25. Not water-tight (6). 26. SufTerinr from mange (8). 1 OWN. 1. Alternative between a bulb and an insect for a bird (9). ,2. Leander swam 'the Hellespont, for her (4). 3. Biblically associated with buckler (6). 4. The quality of keeping aloof (5-10). 5. Oh. fitter (anag) (8).
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  • CHILDREN'S CORNER
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      General Knowledge Question Time
      219 9 vH ERE to u *™T to test your general knowledge. The answers are at the bottom of the page. 1. Beethoven was *a great musician. During his later Son S WaT?t d f (Tp" Sffi^ BllndneSS (C) 2. Here are some famous fictional characters, and names
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      WISE OWL MEMBERSHIP TO BE UNLIMITED
      559 9 Dear Children, A lot of you are getting anxious in case the membership of the Wise Owl Club closes before you have had time to -collect your ten coupons, however, you need not j worry about this as we do not I intend to
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      PEN PALS
      130 9 P. Grace Koshy. Standard V A, Sultan Ibrahim Girls' School, Johore Bahru. Hobbies: Collecting labels, and dancing. Rani Suppiah. aged 15, 30 A Upper Perak Road, Singapore. Hobbies: Photograph collecting and films. Amina binte Ahmad Jalaludin. Police Quarters, Pendang. Kedah, wishes to have 'some Pen Pals in Singapore.
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      Were You Right?
      84 9 •aoBid jo jno si j£bj3jioeih "S •jb8id b sajfouis 3H f brii si BjuimodossFi pu« "ubji n «isjad '3JJ3 S I puBiaJi njamnog •puBncqx -»ou si ™«1S 'anqndaH laiAOS am JO u°!un si BjssrrH s,m3iN asuiuirvrpiw V.. traanft Xjjb; am S8.» on* 'biuwjij, jo aJBadsajiaqs wibih!M pu«
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      C.C.C. 4
      16 9 Collect Un of these coupons to become a member of the Children's Corner Club.
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      QUICK END FOR A SLOW RACE
      263 9 QUICK END FOR A SLOW RACE ONCE tnere lived an old Sultan who had two sons. He knew that the end of his life was fast approaching, and he could not make up his mind which of his sons should inherit his lands. They were both very fine youths, but
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      WHAT IS A SPOONERISM?
      55 9 THE other day I was asked: "What is a spoonerism?" In case you don't know a spoonerism is a twisting of words invented by a man named Spooner. Here is an example: "Auntie prefers to steal at the doors." What was really meant was "Auntie prefers
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      COMMOTION IN THE CHICKEN HOUSE
      275 9 THIS is a true story about my chickens. We keep quite a lot of hens, and some weeks ago two of them became broody, so I bought them each a clutch of eggs. They looked very pleased when I put them in the nest, and
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      310 9 VV hen you serve Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup you are sure to find tender pieces of chicken and pltnty of homey egg noodles in every plateful. Taste tells Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup is delicious because it's prepared as you would do it yourtelf It is a family favorite-have it soon,
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      23 9 DLEASE enrol me as a member of the Children's Corner Wise Owls Club, and send me a badge. namb ADDRESS DATE OF BIRTH
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      201 9 J? T From when if j J your baby weighs 15 lbs until all yf^ 20 milk teeth are through As soon as your baby weighs 15 lbs., start giving Farex regularly every day. Your baby needs Farex until all 20 milk teeth are through. Farex is the nourishing food
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    LONDON STOCKS
    309 10 LONDON, Wed. fJAUTION and a generally easier trend was again apparent in the London Stock Exchange today which remained under the influence of the labour troubles in railway, dock and engineering trades. British Government funds, however, were fractionally higher and with a harder tone In some of the
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    RUBBER MARKET
    239 10 Australia Holds Off: Price Drops 3 Cents From A Market Correspondent AUSTRALIA was offered a certain amount of £X rubber in the Singapore rubber market yesterday, but refused the offer. The price of first-grade for March shipment dropped to $2.27 a lb. buyers, three cents below Tuesday's close
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    TIN: $7383/4 A PICUL
    35 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. Feb. 21 —$738.75 (down $17.75). £1,475 a ton in London LONDON, Wed. Feb. 21— Spot Buyers £1,475; Forward £1,405; Settlement £1,485 (up £55). Turnovers: a.m. 50 p.m. 65 tons.
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    The Produce Market
    146 10 From A Market Correspondent /~VN reports that a few tons of white pepper had changed hands, sellers raised their prices by $10 a picul in a steady Singapore market yesterday. Muntok white was quoted at $1,190, Sarawak white at $1,185. Lampong black remained at $680. The copra
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    H.K. EXCHANGE
    32 10 HONQ KONG, Wed. P*REE markei currency exchange for Hong Kong, dollars was quoted today as follow*: DSil HKS6.ll'i (cash), HK16.15 (TV £1 HK$ 15.67; one tael of gold HKS327.— UP.
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    Tekka 6d. Interim
    32 10 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wed. T'EKKA directors have declared a further Interim dividend of 6d. prr share for the year to March 31. 1951. payable on March 21.
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    Shipping In The Roads And Alongside
    183 10 gHIPS in the Singapore Roads and alongside the Singapore Harbour Board godowns yesterday were: Outer *oads: Hai Hsuan. Slamat. Chelyuskinetz, Nidar, EMountain Flying Arrow. ReyniersJ!. H/dra. Lipis. Elias O. Kulukundis. Baud. Sambas. Hal Lee. Inner Roads: Tat Ann, Par.gkor. Toboall. Tung Hong. Kan Klung,
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    Malayan Shares
    234 10 Tins And Rubbers Still In Demand JHERE was again good demand for Tin and Rubber shares In the Malayan share market yesterday. good number of price rises was recorded in these two sections. Industrials were steady. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: Barer* Mhn B.B.
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    25% FOR LINGGI PLANTATIONS
    56 10 T INGGI Plantations directors recommend a dividend, In respect of the last financial year, of 25 per cent, less tax, payable on April 9. Profl f before tax. and subject to audit £422.279; tax £220.708; to general reserve £53,106; additional replanting provision £35,000: balance on profit
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    CANADIAN DOLLAR
    36 10 'J'HE Malayan Exchange Banks Association announced yesterday that control direct rates for Canadian dollars were: Buying T.T. 34 9/16. Airmail (O.D) 34 11 16. (90 days) 34 15 16; Selling T.T. O.D. ready 34%.
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      380 10 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS To New York and Boston via Ceylon, India, Egypt and Mediterranean Ports. Singapore P Swettenham Penang r2^L X f eb/4 M mit 5/7 Mar. 101 l ?«m£.Lh S/ M 12/13 M 4 ''s Mar. [OJJNJON iO/26 Mar 27/28 Mar 29/30 Mar PRES MONROE 9/14 Apr. Omit. 15/16
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    PATES AND BOON LEONG COACH R.I.
    736 11  - PATES AND BOON LEONG COACH R.I. HARRY FANG By Emphasis To Be On Team Spirit WITH fresh talent from feeder schools and an offer from the Colony forward, Chia Boon Leon^, to assist in practices and lectures with demonstrations by R. B. I. Pates, hon. coach of the Singapore Amateur
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    VICTORIA REGAIN SHEFFIELD SHIELD
    42 11 MELBOURNE. Wed. VICTORIA yesterday resained the Sheffield Shield from New South Wales after beating Western Australia outright. With 29 points Victoria were two points ahead of New South Wales, who beat South Australia outright in Sydney yesterday. ReuterAAP.
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    4 Malayans Get Their Half-Blue
    112 11 4 Malayans Get Their Half-Blue LONDON, Wed. EW. Barker (Singapore), Captain of Cambridge University Badminton team, has awarded half blues to four other Malayans, P. L. Chai, David and Robert Choong and S. K. Lee, who will be in the team to meet Oxford at Abindon. Berkshire, on March 3.
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    COLONY LOSE IN JAKARTA
    80 11 JAKARTA. Wed.— President Soekarno kicked off this afternoon in the soccer match between a combined Sino-Malay team from Singapore and the Indonesian team to the Asian Olympic Games in India. The Indonesian team won easily by six goals to nil. The Indonesians showed themselves to be
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    AW HOE CUP
    32 11 HONGKONG, Wed.— The Hong Kong Football Association yesterday voted the presentation of an annual Aw Hoe Memorial Cup for an annual football competition between Singapore and Hong Kong teams.
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    24 TEAMS FOR S.C.A. TOURNEY
    206 11 AT an extraordinary general meeting of the SinA gapore Cricket Association held at the S.C.C. yesterday evening, it was decided to run a Tournament again this year. Twenty-four teams have entered for the tournament. Entry is open up till Feb 27 to affiliated clubs and
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    36 11 LAN JOHNSON (background) misses one from Washbrook off Hill in the M.C.C. v. Victoria match at Melbourne. Washbrook was later stumped by McDonald oft Ring for 49. The match ended in adra^- A£ L photo 1
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    227 11 JOHANNESBURG, Wed. THINK the South African selector* have done a great selectors have done a great job in selecting the team to tour Great Britain this year," said Alan Melville, captain of the 1947 Springboks in England, at Johannesburg yesterday. He differed from the selectors
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    ISLAND CLUB
    37 11 Island Club ladies section officials for 1951 are: Mrs. A. Weeks (capt.); Mrs. R. Llm (vlce-capt.) Mrs. Hodgkinson (secretary) Mrs. E. McMullan (L. G. V. handicapper); Miss Eileen Lee and Mrs. U. Cavanagh (committee members)
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    772 11 I1I 1 N his second article on the Tests, sent exclusively for the Straits Times, former Australian Test all-round-er Jack Fingleton advances the theory that a reason for the slow batting today is due to the fact that the Test teams no longer
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    CAMBRIDGE SCORES FINE WIN IN MAIN RACE
    2124 12 Ellery In Great Form Again, Completes Double By EPSOM JEEP ASHING AWAY in front three furlongs out, Cambridge (Lansdown) battled on resolutely under pressure to beat Uninsured and Richmond in the $3,500 Singapore Stakes over 6f. for Class 1, Div. 1 horses at
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    45 12 Total Pool: $419,100. First: *****6 ($188,595) Second: *****0 94.297) Third: *****1 52,387) Starters ($7,483 each) Nos. *****0; *****5: *****0; *****5; *****5; *****9; *****9. Consolation ($3,143 each): Nos: *****1; *****7; **********91; 3O464'I: *****2-' *****6; *****1; *****5; *****3. DOUBLE TOTE 74 tickets paying $238 each.
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    192 Entries For Penang Races
    897 12 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. J^ TOTAL of 192 entries has been received for the Penang Turf Club's three-day Spring meeting on March 3, 7 and 10. The entries comprise 74 horses in Class 3, 63 in Class 4 and 55 in Class 5.
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    SOSC Is Short Of $8,550 for Games
    337 12 SOSC Is Short Of $8,550 for Games IUITH only three day*, more to ro before the Singapore team leave for the First Asian Games it New Delhi, the Singapore Olympic Sports Council is stili $8,550 short of its target of 530,000 to send its 22man team and a nonparticipating manager.
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    SCHEDULE FOR PENANG RACES
    103 12 The racing schedule for the Penang Spring meet is as follow*: First Day: Class 3, Div I— s',4f and 7f and Div. 2 7f; Classes 4 and 5 (combiiied) Divs. 1, 2 anil 3— s'.f and 7f each. Second Day: Class 3, Divs. 2 and s'af;
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    CEYLON XI 293
    25 12 KANDY, Wed— Ceylon Central Provinces were all out for 293 on the second final day of their match against the Commonwealth team.
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    13 MALAYANS WILL BATTLE FOR ALL-ENGLAND TITLES
    127 12 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wed. rE Malayan challenge for the All-England badminton title will be In the hands of 12 player Wong Peng Soon. Cheong Hock Leng, Ong Poh Llm, Ismail bin Mar jan. Eddie Choong, David Choong, Alii AH, H. E.
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