The Straits Times, 30 January 1952

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  • 370 1 $300,000,000 aid bolsters defence IT ALL GOES ON ARMS WASHINGTON, Tuesday. BRITAIN is to get a U*****,000,000 aid grant to support her defence programme, the Mutual Security Director, Mr. W. Averell Harriman, announced last night. The funds, given under the new U557,328,903,976 Mutual Security Act, will
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  • 91 1 We will do our duty Churchill LONDON. Tues. ]^|R Churchill, the Prime Minister, home from the United States, took personal charge of the Anglo-Eevot-ian crisis yesterday. He said on landing from the liner Queen Mary: "You may be sure the Government will do Its duty, whether what it does Is
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  • 81 1 LONDON. Tues. THE Conservative Government today announced a super-austerity programme in a drastic bid Ul save Britain from bankruptcy. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Butler, said he would fire 10.000 civil servants in the next six months, slash imports from the United States and reduce
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  • 154 1 LONDON, Tues. JJUSSIA has protested again against the creation of the Middle East Command in notes sent to Britain, France, the United States and Turkey. Tass, the official Soviet news agency, in a despatch i received in London today, said a note was handed to the
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  • 91 1 REDS CONCEDE A POINT MUNSAN, Tues. "pHE Chinese Communists gave a strong indication at Panmunjom today that they would hand North Korea back to the North Koreans by agreeing to a slight change suggested in paragraph ten of the proposed armistice agreement. The agreement proposes that a civil administration of
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  • 164 1 tONDON, Tuesday. HPHE Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, today reaffirmed 1 that British troops would stay in the Suez Canal He told the House of Commons that rioting in the Zone has done nothing .to diminish Britain's ability and determination to maintain her rights under
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  • 239 1 BANDITS KILL 5 POLICE IN DUSK AMBUSH IPOH, Tuesday. IN a dusk ambush on a lonely estate in North Perak yesterday 30 bandits killed five policemen, seriously wounded a probationary Asian Inspector and got away with the guns of the dead. One bandit was killed. The police, in two Land
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  • 167 1 CONGRESS KEEPS THE LEAD India 9 s elections NEW DELHI, Tues. TNDIA'S Congress (Govern1 ment) Party tonight retained its overall lead in results so far announced, for the Parliamentary elections. With 175 out of 489 for the House of the People (Lower House) now known. Congress has won 120 seats.
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  • 36 1 BUNN, North Carolina. Tues.— A mule that fell 40 feet down a well Into five feet of water was hoisted out by a crane two and a half hours later, only slightly injured.—AP.
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  • 121 1 TUNIS, Tuesday. FRENCH troops and police, with tanks, yesterday r rounded up a number of Tunisian nationalists after sealing off the Cape Bon peninsula and encircling several villages. I "Tie officer in charge of round up said those arted belonged to the Neo rtour
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  • 60 1 IN a freak accident last night at Potong Pasir a lorry drove into a pond. Police are still searching for the body of a Punjabi missing from the lorry. There were 25 accidents in Singapore up to midnight last night, resulting in eight people being injured,
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  • 60 1 NEW DELHI, Tues. THREE people were killed and six others Injured today when police opened fire at a demonstration held In Jodhpur in honour of the Maharp.iah, killed two days ago in a plane crash. The demonstration had been officially forbidden and the police were trying
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  • 35 1 CLEVELAND. Tues.— Thirty passengers on a Capital Airlines plane were badly tossed about and five injured yesterday when an air pocket caused the plane to drop 3.800 feet before levelling oft* -AP.
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  • 26 1 HONG KONG, Tues. A Chinese Communist Press dispatch received in Hong Kong today said the film industry in Chin a has been nationalised.— U.P
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  • 25 1 TOKYO, Tues.— A Soviet mission representative here today told a meeting of Japanese industrialists that Russia wants a trade agreement with Japan.— Reuter.
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  • 114 1 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. 'THE U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday x approved a Bill overhauling the immigration laws after a three-year study. The Bill will remove all racial barriers to Immigration and naturalisation. For the first time. It will permit Japanese, Malayans and other
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  • 57 1 MANILA, Tues. pOMMUNIST Huks killed Vy seven people and wounded another In a raid on a village In Pangasinan last night, the Defence Department announced The Philippines News Service reported that army units wiped out a Huk hideout in the Sierra Madre mountain range and
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  • 69 1 WASHINGTON. Tues. American and Indonesian officials said today they expect to begin next week an effort to agree on resumption of United States tin purchases. The big question is whether the Indonesians will agree to the formula which the United States recently worked out with
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  • 175 1 rpHERE were anxious faces among the men of the Fiji battalion at Nee Soon camp yesterday They were worried about the safety of their families in the hurricane which swept over Fiji on Monday. The battalion adjutant said: "We have heard nothing yet but some of
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  • 67 1 Russia hits targets LONDCH, Tues. COVIET industry as a whole exceeded its 1951 production targets by 3.5 per cent, the USSR Council of Ministers reported. Moscow Radio said that the only branches of Soviet industry which failed to achieve the goals set in the five-year plan were timber, which fulfilled
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  • 183 1 Move for Asian as deputy to Templer KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A MOVE to appoint an tL Asian as Deputy High Commissioner for the Federation will be made at tomorrow's meeting of the Federal Legilative Council. A councillor will propose that the word "Asian be introduced into the motion standing in
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  • 52 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Tues. THE Colonial Office told me this morning that Gen. Sir Gerald Templer, the new High Commissioner for She Federation of Malaya, would receive a salary of £6.000 a year plus allowances of £2,500. Sir Henry Gurney's salary was £5,000
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  • 30 1 GAINESVILLE. Florida, Tues.— Dr. Fred Harvey Neath, aged 69, inventor of the selenium mustard gas used as an offensive weapon in the First World War, has died.— A.P.
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  • 314 2 MANILA TALKS TRY TO CHECK PIRACY, SLA VING MANILA. Tues. AN increase in smug- gling, piracy and slave trading in the atoll-dotted waters of the Celebes Sea between the Philippines and Indonesia has become the subject of three-cor nered diplomatic discus- 1 sions here. The Philippines Foreign i Secretary, Mr.
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  • 75 2 Japs ask to join P.o.W s in Russia TOKYO. Tues. FAMILIES of unrepatriated Japanese prisoners have decided to ask Marshal 6talin for permission to •join them in Soviet territory. They agreed at a rally that the request should be forwarded through Ikuo Oyama, who recently won a Stalin Peace Prize.
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  • 60 2 HONG KONG. Tues. THREE armed Chinese 1 greeted the year of the Dragon last night by robbing the Wing Sing earthenware store of HK$4.OOO in cash. The store was closed for the New Year holidays. The men walked into the store, bound four of the five
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  • 43 2 HONG KONG. Tues. An unoccupied car parked on a steep village road In Happy Valley slipped her brakes and plunged driverless to the bottom. Three Chinese men and a woman were taken to hospital, none of them seriously iniured—A.P.
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  • 47 2 WASHINGTON. Tucs. The U.S. State Department announced today it would build a powerful new Voice of America transmitter near East Argadia. North Carolina, to beam programmes to Europe and Latin America. The $7,000,000 transmitter is expected to be ready in 18 months— U.P.
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  • 32 2 ROME, Tups. Italy V.li reject Russia's proposals that she withdraw from th e North Atlantic Alliance In return for revision of the Italian peace treaty, diplomatic quarters said yesterday.— D.P
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  • 122 2 Big atom project to start soon WASHINGTON, Tuesday. THE Atomic Energy Commission said yesterday that it will start pushing its new $5,000,000,000 to $6,000,000,000 project "just as soon as it is authorised by Congress." The chairman, Mr. Gordon Dean, disclosed at a news conference that preliminary surveys are already being
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  • 106 2 KARACHI. Tues THE senior Begum of Junagadh, Munawar Jan, has been arrested here on a charge of murdering her 13-year-old maidservant. The body of the servant was exhumed on Saturday, three days after burial, and a post-mortem was carried out. Later five servants of
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  • 22 2 MANILA. Tues.— Two earth tremors shook Dumaguete city, in the Central Philippines, early today. No damage was reported. A.P.
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  • 106 2 LOS ANGELES, Tues. EARLY last month, Mrs. Julia Pearson wrapped two big Christmas packages to send to Korea. One she addressed to her son, Private Chester Whisamore, of the Third Combat Engineers. The ether was for the Y.M.C.A.'s gift list for servicemen Inside the second package. I she
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  • 119 2 JAPAN TO MAKE FRIENDS IN ASIA' TOKYO, Tues. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Shigeru Yoshida, told the Diet yesterday that the Japanese Government would strive for good neighbourly relations and economic cooperation with other Asian countries. He told questioners that military experts would laugh at the allegation that Japan was planning
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  • 61 2 MANILA. Tues.— A Huk liquidation squad" has been I sent to Manila to kill President Elpidio Quirino and i other high Government officials, it was disclosed here today. Details of the murder mission were contained in captared documents which revealed that the would-be assassins had been
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  • 37 2 NEW ORLEANS, T Mr. Harold Young, president of the National Cotton Council, said yesterday the cotton industry may find itself in a "desperate situation" if there is a big reduction in the 1952 crop.— UP.
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  • 329 3 Risk of a world war, U.N. told LONDON, Tuesday. JJRITISH official opinion is disturbed by reports of the continued build-up of Chinese Nationalist troops on the borders of Burma and the Southern Chinese Yunnan province. A Foreign Office spokesman said last night that Britain
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  • 154 3 BURMESE FIGHTING 6,000 CHINESE RANGOON, Tues. Burmese troops were today fighting about 6,000 Chinese Nationalist troops who have trespassed into Burmese territory* 1 a Government communique said last ni'^ht. Without any permanent b isp they are moving about in .small bands from place to place, the communique added. Earlier today
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  • 158 3 South Africa to help with gold CAPETOWN, Tues. SOUTH African Finance Minister, Mr. Nicolaas Havenga, revealed yesterday that South Africa is examinißf the possibility of drawing: on her gold reserves to help tne sterling area. Speaking in the House of Assembly on the recent Commonwealth conference in London, he said
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  • 23 3 BANGKOK. Tues. The cremation of Prince Rangsit, uncle of King Phumiphol and the last living son of Kin-.'. Chulalongkorn, took place today.
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  • 14 3 MANILA, Tues.— The Jap-anese-Philippine reparations talks have been postponed indefinitely.— UP.
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  • 65 3 LONDON, Tues. PIELD Marshal Viscount Alexander was yesterday appointed Minister of Defence. Hi s appointment will take effect from March 1. In the meantime, Mr. Churchill will continue to hold the office. Mr. Churchill will probably retain control of grand strategy, and remain spokesman for defence matters
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  • 135 3 Secretary named for Hong Kong LONDON, Tues. MR. R. B. Black, deputy Chief Secretary In North Borneo, has been appointed Colonial Secretary in Hong Kong In succession to Mr. J. F. Nicoll, who is to be Governor of Singapore. Mr. Black wa s born in 1906 in Edinburgh and was
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  • 53 3 WASHINGTON, Tues. THE United States Navy yesterday placed a $30,000,000 contract for converting two heavy cruisers into guided missile ships. Rear-Admiral Homer Wallin, chief of the Navy Bureau of Ships, said that the feasibility of launching guided mLssile s ff f <> m warships had been
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  • 77 3 PARIS, Tuesday. 'PHE United Nations Political Committee yester1 day rejected Soviet and Egyptian demands for the withdrawal of Western troops from Libya and the closing of military bases there. The Soviet proposal, callin» for withdrawal within three months, was defeated 32 to six (the
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  • 68 3 Israel honours U.N. martyr JERUSALEM, Tues.— lsrael yesterday paid homage to the memory of Count Folke Bernadotte, assassinated by Jewish terrorists In 1948 when he was United Nations mediator In Palestine. Eight Cypress trees were planted and dedicated at the Neve-Ilan settlement, on one of the highest outlying hills a
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  • 76 3 BRISBANE. Tues. WHEN Gloria Kunde, aged 15, and her younger sister. Ruby, heard suspicious noises while they were home alone. Gloria got out her father's rifle and fired a shot Into the darkness down th? stairs. Then the Rlrls went back to bed. putting the rifle
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  • 28 3 SYDNEY, Tues.—Specially named for honeymooners Is a guest house in suburban Sydney It i s the Coolnoo, on Kissing Pvint Road, Turramurra. UP.
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  • 158 3 REST OF THE WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF An outbreak of polio has forced cancellation of plans for Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh to visit Trincomalee, the largest harbour in Ceylon. The 100th, 101st and 102nd U.S. ships carrying military aid for the French forces fighting Vietminh in Indo-China
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  • 183 3 Britain seeks the perfect crossing From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Tuesday. MILE of main road traffic in South London is to be used for the first big experiment by the Ministry of Transport and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research to find the perfect type of pedestrian crossing. One
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  • 104 3 BONN, Tues. f THE French-German crisis over the Saar became more acute last night, endangering plans for the West European Army and threatening a setback to West German rearmament. The crisis stemmed directly from France's appointment of M. Gilbert Grand val, High Commissioner of the Saar,
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  • 45 3 SYDNEY, Tues. Fruitgrowers near Sydney are using a carbide-gas gun to scare orchard-ravaging flying foxes driven south in thousands by bushfire.s. The gun Is fired by a water drip system and can be regulated to detonate every few minutes.— Reuter
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  • 128 3 PARIS. Tues fHE South Korean Government appealed to the United Nations SecretaryGeneral Mr. Trygve Lie. yesterday to safeguarl Cimmunist war prisoners who do not want to go home The Prime Minister Mr. Chiang told Mr. Lie in a letter: "Th e United Nations Command
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    51 3 OH OJLLIE. look what I've got! Film comedian Stan Laurel shares his two grandchildren with his screen partner, Oliver Hardy, before the comic pair starf off on a seven months' tour m which they will visit England. Parents of the children are Stan's daughter, Lois, and her actor husband, Randy
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  • 50 3 PRESIDENT TRUMAN points to the military services item on a chart summarising the United States Budget for 1953. Sixty cents of every dollar is to be spent on the services. The Budget Director, Mr. Frederick J. Law ton, helps the President to hold the chart. AIP. photo.
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  • 129 3 CREW JUMP BY PARACHUTE TOKYO, Tuesday. A B-29 Superfortress, bomb-laden on its way to North Korea, exploded in the air tonight with a blast that shook part of Tokyo like an earthquake. All 13 crewmen in the aircra*- mrachuted before the explosion and 12 reported UK-.^s^v.-s
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  • 63 3 MELBOURNE. Tues The External Affairs Minister, Mr. Richard Casey, said last night that Australia would allow the Japanese to fish mother pearls in the Arafura Sea. between Australia and Eastern New Guinea He explained that the permission was conditional on the Japanese abiding by
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  • 36 3 LONDON, Tues.— The Rev Cyril Butterworth, a London priest known to thousands 61 United States servicemen In Britain during World War II as "the Parson of Rainbow Corner," died yesterday aged 69
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  • 331 4 1951 WAS MALAYA 'S GREATEST YEAR EVER FOR TRADE \IALAYA had its most prosperous year ever in 1951, official trade figures revealed yester- j day. The favourable trade balance was $1,270 million, an all time record, with exports valued at $5,990} million and imports at $4,720 million. In 1950 Malaya
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  • 34 4 THE FORUM: Dato H. E. MacKenzie, member of the Johore Executive Council, Mr. Lim Yew Hock. President of Singapore T.U.C., Professor Dobby and Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, City Councillor Straits Times picture.
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  • 136 4 P.C. beat off a bayonet charge KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. ALTHOUGH wounded. Police Constable Junit bin Rafie drove off a bayonet charge by an overwhelming force of bandits and today h«» van awarded the Colonial Poliie Medal for gallantry. Junit was the leading scout of two jungle squads operating in the
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  • 48 4 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Tues The Fun fair in aid of the Inlian Association Building Fund at Bukit Mertajam has been extended until tomorrow Part of the proceeds will ko to thp T. B Fund Indian Republic Day was ■trlrbrated here with a treat \>: Indian School children.
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  • 111 4 3,000 SEE PHOTO DISPLAY MORE than 3,000 people have seen the Singapore Art Society's third annual photographic exhibition at the British Council Hall during the first two days of the Chinese New Year holidays. Dr. C. A. Gibson-Hill, a member of the Society's Council, reported a brisk sale of the
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  • 46 4 SEREMBAN. Tues. The Gedok Restettlement area held its first home guard meetine at the village community centre recently. The meeting elected five section leaders and one home guard chief officer. Five sections, consisting of 28 rren to a section were forirod. Training has started.
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  • 189 4 SINGAPORE should not follow the example of Britain and America in having paid trade union officials, said Mr. Lim Yew Hock, president of Singapore Labour Party and Trade Union Congress, last night. He took part in a new Radio Malaya bi-monthly series, Malayan Affairs Forum,
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  • 96 4 Run school only buses, he says THE Singapore Traction 1 Company should run buses on all routes in the City area for school children, Mr. H. A. Jivabhai, Independent City Councillor, said yesterday. He said he will raise the question at the City Council meetine tomorrow. He said: "l have
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  • 157 4 2 die as taxi. armoured car collide BUKIT MERTAJAM, Tues A TAXI driver, G. Ramasamy. and one of his passengers, Tan Kirn Chooi, 21-year-old former detective, were killed yesterday when the vehicle in which they were travelling was involved in a head-on collision with- a Manchester Regiment armoured car. Two
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  • 30 4 Col. Arthur Young, the 45-year-old City of London Commissioner of Police, will fly to Malaya on Feb. 15 to take over reorganisation of the police force there.
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  • 50 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Men of the Ist Bn., Suffolk Regiment, killed two bandits in a battle on a rubber estate near Kuala Lumpur today Two soldiers were seriously wounded and one slightly. The battle was in the Ulu Klang area on the northeast outskirts of Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 65 4 ONLY HAD $5BUT FINED $15 SEGAMAT, Tues. Pang Lian, aged 73, failed In an attempt in Segamat Court to have his fine reduced from $15 to $5. "I am old and poor and have only $5 on me with which to pay," he pleaded when fined $15 for having a
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  • 256 4 Malaya has big future —TEMPLER From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Tues. YjALAYA'S new High Commissioner, Gen. Sir Gerald Templer, told Malayan students in London that he believed j Malaya had a great future. Things that hap- I pened there would be of major importance to Asia j and the world.
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  • 173 4 PENANG, Tuesday. pOVERNMENT clerical services in the Federation have 600 vacancies for permanent clerks, but they will be difficult to fill because of inadequatesalary scales, Mr. Ooi Thiam Siew, secretary of the Penans: Government Administrative Clerical Services Union said today. "Temporary clerks wno are I filling
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  • 152 4 City Council has room for 65 clerks SINGAPORE City Council has 65 vacancies in the clerical grade of its service and boys and girls who have passed the School Certificate examination or who have sat 1 for it last December, may apply for these jobs, Mr. T. M Stevens, the
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  • 37 4 Seven Indonesian seamen, who deserted their ships In America, arrived in the Ball which put in at Singapore yesterday on her way from New York to Djakarta. The seamen are being sent back to Indonesia.
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  • 90 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. WITH the exception of petty thieving. Chinese New Year in Kuala Lumpur was practically crime free. The reason, Mr. J. R. Sykes, O.C.P.D. Kuala Lumpur urban area, told the Strait? Times today, was that extra police patrols had been sent out. There were
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  • 134 4 gEVERAL Ceylon residents In Singapore yesterday criticised the Ceylon Government's ruling that, when they apply for travel papers to Ceylon, they should produce not only their own birth certificates but their fathers' as well. The Ceylonese were com- menting on the announcement of the Ceylon Commissioner regarding
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  • 228 5 Singapore City Engineer, Mr. G. Edmond, has closed part of Marine Parade in Katong because it is in danger of collapsing into the sea. Mr. Edmond ordered the closure after a City Councillor for East Ward, Mr. Frank C. James,
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  • 167 5 MAJOR PRAISES 'BRIGHT BOYS' rHE Commanding Officer of the Malayan Basic Training Centre, Major T. Y. FeFguson, yesterday praised 19 recruits of the Boys' Training Wing who have Just completed six months of their twoyear course at Nee Soon Camp. He said: "They are certainly bright and enthusiastic lads. I
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  • 325 5 RURLY Commando, Lieut. G. P. D. Roberts, is a tough man when it comes to dealing with Chinese Communists. He won an American Bronze Star, when, in operations with the U.S. Marines in Korea, he re-took a hill at Hagaru-ri in face of a hail
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  • 149 5 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 9.30 a.m— 9.50 Schools: 1' Emergency News Prom X L 10 05 "Women's Magazine; 10.45 —12 Schools; 1 pjn. Dance Music; 1.30 News; 1.45 Lunch Time Prom: 2—3.20 Sctlools; 6.15 ''Nature Club"; 6.40 Radio I String Ensemble; 6.55 Announcements; 7 News; 7.15 7.25 This is Communism"; 730
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  • 70 5 J^ BRITISH soldier sitting 1 at the back of a lorry was shot dead by bandits on the Labis- Yong Pens; road on Sunday. Other soldiers returned the fire, but the lorry, one of two on the way to Nee Soon. Singapore, did
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  • 49 5 Mr H. Chilton, publicity manager for Horllcks Ltd.. arrived in Singapore yesterday to study conditions In Singapore and the Federation in connection with his company's future advertising programme in Asia. On arrival at Kallang. he was met by the local Horlicks representative. Mr E. DudlyBateman
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  • 111 5 IPOH Tues. MAJ. GEN. J. C. Westall. Chief of Staff to the Commandant General. Royal Marines, in his inspection of troops of a Commando Brigade in Perak. used an Auster plane armoured rail trolley and armoured car to get around. Gen Westall on his nine day
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  • 45 5 PENANG, Tues.— Fire Brigade engines last night saved a blazing tree from being completely burnt down at Western Road in front of the General hospital. The top portion of the tree had been set alight by sparklers tnrown by children.
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  • 15 5 NIBONG TEBAL. Tues.Province Wellesley police today curtained Low Ping, aged 35. under Emergency Regulations.
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  • 26 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Inche Ismail bin Abubakar, State Treasurer, will act as State Finance Officer, when Inche Ahmad Prang goes on leave on Friday.
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  • 178 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. EVERY family in Malaya should have at least one member trained in home nursing and Arst aid, 111 1. 1. -General Sir Otto Lund, Chief Commissioner of [the St. John Ambulance Brigade, said here today i And the Brigade aimed to
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  • 32 5 MLMtiV.IiS <>r TJJf. .is! Independent Commando Group. Koyal Marines, make merry on the Empire Orwell before disembarking in Singapore for duty in the Federation. Strait s Times picture.
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  • 89 5 DEPRESENTATTVES from all airlines operating in 1%1 Asia and Australasia are to attend a regional conference of the International Air Transport Association which will be held in Singapore on Feb 12—15. The conference will be held in the Mac Donald House offices of Mr.
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  • 94 5 PARIT BUNTAR, Tues. Murder by an unknown person or persons unknown," was i the verdict returned by Coro- ner Inche Salleh bin Eckhardt at an inquest on a middle-aged Chinese man found in the river at Kuala Kurau on Sept. 3. The hands were tied behind
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  • 107 5 PENANG, Tuesday. DENANG'S bicycle curfew has caused the cancella- tion of the parade an-i inspection of the Penang Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade by the Brigade's Commissioner-in-Chief, Lieut.-Gen Sir Otto Lund. Most of the youths In the division use bicycles. The parade
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  • 41 5 KAJANG. Tues.— Mr P. R. Andrew. Officer Superintending the Police Circle. Se'.angor South, will shortly leave Kajang for a holiday in England. He has been president of the Ulu Langat District Football Association and the Kaiane Pioneers Cricket Club
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  • 139 5 'Evil Day' rain kept the big crowds indoors IT was indoor day for the Chinese yesterda>— third day of the New Year. The third day it considered cvil and in any case it rained. But the cinemas were packed. And the Great, New and Happy Worlds reported record New Year
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  • 153 5 624 WENT FOR AIR RIDES ROYAL Singapore Flying Club took 624 people for joy rides over the Colony during the first two-days of Chinese New Year but bad weather o n Monday prevented 34 people going up. There were two intervals of 10 minutes each and one of 20 minutes
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  • 96 5 g MOHAMED Yousif, a contractor, who was made bankrupt with liabilities of $42,000, obtained his discharge in the Singapore High Court by consenting to judgment in the sum of $5,000. The Assistant Official Assignee, Mr. T. Kulasekaram, told the court that from the assets realised he had
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  • 45 5 SEREMBAN, Tues. The following will form the Seremban Licensing Board for the year. Th e District Officer. Seremban (chairman) Deputy Commissioner for Labour Negri Sembilan (vicechairman) Health Officer. Negri Sembilan Mr. S. Thamby Rajah. Mr Yap Mau Tatt and Mr. Tan Beng Hock.
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  • 20 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. Mohamed Shariff, who owned a bakery business which he established forty years ago. died today.
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  • 100 5 Y.W.C.A. Raffles Quay: Mandarin class 9.30 a.m. and 10.30 a.m CHINESE V.M.C.A. Soligia Road: Staff meeting, 9 a.m.; basketball, 5 p.m.; body-building, badminton, 5.30 p.m tabletennis. 7.30; Chinese chtss 7.30 p.m.; commercial evening school 6 p.m. KAMALA CLUB: Moulmeln Road. First aid and horn? nursing. 5 p.m. R.A.0.8.
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  • 23 6 WAUGH peacefully on January 2fith 1952. P. J. Roy Waugh beloved husband of Margaret and dear father of Jean Patricia and ■mm
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  • 35 6 MR MRS. LEE FOONG YEE nnd family of Seremban thank all tho»e who sent wreaths, condolence messages and rendered assistance, during their recent bereavement at the raaeral of Madame Yong Hin Leone. i n«T
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  • 706 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed., Jan. 30, 1952 The Burma Border in the UN. Political Committee observed, the accusations have an ominous ring. When Mr. Vyshinsky alleges that the United States plans to maintain Nationalist troops near Communist China's borders in preparation for "new aggressive acts," he would seem to
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  • 337 6 The summary of 1951 trade, j published today, is a register I of record figures. Exports I last year totalled $5,990 million, and imports $4,720 million. Both figures are records. And so is the $1,270 million favourable balance of trade, which exceeds the 1950 surplus by
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  • 1133 6 Patrick C. Gordon Walker, M.P., Former Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, in his third article on the recent Finance Ministers' Conference, outlines the reasons for the sterling area's plunge into deficit, and explains why the 'normal remedies' can no longer be effective TK>
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  • Man-in-the-Street
    • 392 6 IMAGINE a servant who demands no living quarters, no guarantee of a fixed scale of wages, increments or pensions; never complaining, always ready to work for daily wages; yet one who may be dismissed On Short notice. a servant nrmilH ho a paragon. The squatter Is just
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    • 65 6 f^MIL school teachers on estates are being asked to make rope s from stones. A single teacher has in many cases to teach up to Standard VI and in a few cases to Standard VII A teacher can teach 40 children in one class but not in
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    • 53 6 WHEN the Straits Times recently reported an I.M.P. candidate as reading his speech the name of the Party was mentioned. On Monday last week a case was quoted in which a candidate was not able to speak. You should have said he belonged to the MCA. -UMNO combine. BINGSAK
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    • 273 6 f THE man-ln-the-street is being swept off his feet by the speed with which party candidates are flying at one another's throats in the K. L. Municipal election with the promises of more playing fields, free primary education, lower taxation, etc. The analogy cited recently
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    • 220 6 A HOUSEWIFE ANSWERED ON TOWGAY THE towgay question is very confusing, and party politics seem to be entering into it. As an ordinary housewife, who buys towgay for her family. I should like to know if some health or medical authority would please give us facts: v (1) How are
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  • 391 6 Eighth power JT'S not so very long since our Elder Brother and Colleague commented In thtt column on that recunvnt nuisance, the chain letter. The business has been brought up again by a Perak correspondent and the hjun letter which he has end as evidence might simply
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    • 781 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. iMriflrd Form in Pace S 1 THE ENGAGEMENT la announced today of Chan Glm Swee, eldest son of Mr. Chan Pak Ohn and the late Mdm. Ho Slew Choo and Teh Poy Khuan. third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Teh Thong Chee. both of Penang. The engagement is
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    • 23 6 ELECTRIC WASHING MACHINE. WASHES CLEANER, WRINGS DRIER. New shipment arriving soon. Book yours now. T. M. A. LTD., 61,63, High Street, Singapore, 6
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  • 294 7 New equipment bought 8,000,000 GALS. A DAY EXTRA fHE water supply of Singapore will improve in about seven months, said the City Water Engineer, Mr. W. S. Stredwick, yesterday. He said that he hoped by that time to bring down an additional six to
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  • Article, Illustration
    41 7 KITALA LUMPUR members o» the St John Ambulance Brigade gKe first aid to a "victim" of an accident durbig a demonstration. Dr. D. R. McPherson, the Brigade Commissioner, and Mr. Chong Hoi Fah the Brigade Superintcndant. are watching— Straits Times picture;
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  • 139 7 MCA answer protest by wives AN official of the Malayan Chinese Association replieti today to protests by wives of Government and commercial clerks against the M. C. A. lotteries. He said, "Our lotteries are run to help resettle and maintain thousands of squatters. "No complaints have been received from wives
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  • 87 7 He will fly home in £1000 plane JOYING on the floor at his home at Goodwill Hill yesterday surrounded by maps and charts, Mr A. F. W Andren, Chief Engineer of the Department of Civil Aviation, Singapore, put the finishing touches to his plan to fly home to England in
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  • 97 7 Mr Andrea sa id: "When I heard that the company which bought the Gemini wanted it flown to England, I applied for leave because I wanted the chance to get in a bit of Hying." Mr Aud'en and Mr. 'Babe' Learoyd, V.C fornyrly the Federation Government's staff
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  • 63 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues.— An exhibition of handicrafts by UMNO Youths section will be held at Batu F.rhat at 9 m. on Friday in connection with U» UMNO Youth Conference wnlch opens on Saturday at the Bandar Pengerang School. Syed Nasir bin Ismail, of the Johore Education Department, will
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  • 31 7 KUALA- LUMPUR, Tues The fourth election meeting of Mr. S. C. E. Singam, inde pendent candidate for Bungsar Ward, will be held on the YMCA ground, Brickfields, on Saturday.
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  • 55 7 A Straits- born Chinese, Billy Loh, who smuggled food Ito Australian prisoners -at Caldecott Hill camp during the occupation has died aged 40. Caught by the Japanese he was detained and tortured, and soon after contracted tuberculosis. Help was given him when Australian newspapers reported the part
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  • 70 7 The Independent Labour Party of Malaya, wrote yesterday to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Mr. Oliver Lyttelton asking him to give one constitution to the Federation and Singapore. The letter asked Mr. Lyttelton to organise a committee of peoples' representatives from both terrorlties to form
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  • 183 7 RESOLUTION urging the British Government to make a statement of policy on the political future of Malaya will be moved by Mr M P. D a™' -^o City 99 T ou ncill or and president of the nf rVIr V1 w c Union at
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  • 96 7 /COMMISSIONER Herbert A. Lord, the Salvation Army Commissioner in Korea, who pre-war commanded the Army in Malaya, is one of 45 foreign civilians who Peking Radio has stated in a broadcast, the Communists are willing to release in any exchange of prisoners agreement in Korea.
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  • 156 7 SAFEGUARD OUR RIGHTS 9 A MEMORANDUM asking for legislation to safe- guard the rights of shop assistants in Singapore will soon be sent to Government, Mr P. M Williams organiser of the proposed shop assistants' union I said yesterday. Mr. Williams said that it
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  • 106 7 MALAY CLASSES URGED SEREMBAN, Tues REPRESENTATIVES of the IV Seremban division of the UMNO will see the Senior Inspector of Schools to press for more special Malay classes in English schools in Negri Sembllan A memorandum on the subject has already been sent to the Senior Inspector followin c a
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  • 20 7 JOHORE BAHRU Tues.Inspector Mohd Shariff bin Mohamed, of the Special Branch, has been promoted Assistant Superintendent of Police.
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  • 25 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues.— The resettlement areas of Jemaluan? and Kampong Kongsl, Endau have been gazetted as areas where the Emergency (Tenants Registration) Regulations apply.
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  • 77 7 KUALA, LUMPUR Tues riEYLONESE in Selangor will \j celebrate their national day on Monday Permission has been granted for the flag of Ceylon to be flown. The Assistant Commissioner for Ceylon in Kuala Lumpur will hold a cocktail party at hi s office in Lok P Yew
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  • 81 7 FE Federation produced a total of 111,762 piculs of tin concentrates last month. Detailed figures were: Perak 64,126 piculs, 3,817 long tons; Selangor 36,980 piculs, 2,201 long tons; Negri Sembilan 2,911 piculs, 173 long tons; Pahang 4,282 piculs, 251 long tons; Johore 1,148 piculs. 69 long
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  • 44 7 JOHORE BAHRU Tues Mohammed bin Abdullah a Naval rating, was charged today with voluntarily causing hurt with a knife to a British soldier at the Garden Cafe. Johore Bahru, on Monday. He claimed trial and was allowed $500 bail
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  • 100 7 MALACCA, Tuesday. RESIDENTS of the Portuguese Settlement are X agitating for a public loudspeaker for the 500odd persons in the Settlement. They have approached the Settlement Secretary with a request that the matter be brought before Government A resident of the Settlement said; "The lot of
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  • 68 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues Mr M. Kanthaswamy, secretary of the Johore Teachers Union, has been nominated by the Johore State division of the Malayan Trade Union Council to the Johore Council of State. The Johore Civil Service Association has nominated Ungku Aziz bin Hamld to the State
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  • 44 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. There were only 24 fresh cases at Johore Bahru police court today, most of them for minor traffic offences. And although it was the first sitting of the court since the holidays, there was only one gambling case.
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  • 21 7 KAJANG, Tues.— Dr. Balbir Singh, a former medical officer at Klang, ha s passed MR C.P. from Edinburgh.
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  • 94 7 CINGAPORE CITY Council's Traffic Committee has recommended that white check lines be painted on minor roads to control traffic at corners. The Registrar of Vehicles. Mr.'W. A. M. Watts, advised the Committee that lines should be painted on the left half of roads which
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  • 220 7 DEPT. WANTS PARENTS' AID IN TB TESTS THE Singapore Medical Department is carrying' x out a campaign to test the susceptibility of school children to tuberculosis, and several thousand children have been tested since Dr. Arne Buus Hanseri, Danish director of the B.C.G. team of United Nations experts, left the
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  • 167 7 Lucky bricks will raise Hall funds KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. SELANGOR Badminton Association has drawn up a big programme for its fun fair to be held at the Chinese Assembly Hall here on Friday and Saturday The object is to raise funds for the association's new hall So far 30.000 "lucky
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  • 74 7 SINGAPORE Harbour Board < Labour Union will ask the Harbour Board to intro- duce a paid sick leave scheme for daily-paid employees if a resolution i s approved at the annual meeting on Feb 24 .Another resolution will ask I for free medical aid for all
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  • 175 7 'Let all parties choose symbols' suggestion tha political 1 arties in Singapore be allowed to choose their own permanent election symbols is being made to the Superviser of Elections, Mr. G. G. Thomson, by Mr. C. R. DasaratharaJ (Labour Legislative Councillor for Rochore). Mr. Raj told the Straits Times yesterday:
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  • 95 7 D JOHORE BAHRU. Tues ATO Syed Abdul Kadir bin \j,»n. Muhammad. Acting Mentri Besar. visited pontian over the weekend to distribute badges t o the Home Guards. He was received by a guard of honour furnished by the Home Guards at Pontian Inche Abdullah bi n
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  • 1096 8  -  Carl him By ON the 19th of April, 1800, Sir George L«ith arrived in Penang i by the HMS "La Sybell." The next day, the Eari j of Mornington, then Governor-General, ap- ixjinted him LieutenantGovernor and Comman- der-in-Chief of the Island. Sir George
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  • 200 8 TIHE first medical officer appointed in Kelantan was a Siamese, says a report Issued by the "State Government on the progress of Western medicine In Kelantan during the last fifty years. He was Kun Saman Tat Wicharu. Kun Saman was given his lob in 1907, but two
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  • 205 8  -  Sgt.Michael Ingram By— IN a quiet, efficient way, the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers ,in Malaya are playing a vital part in the anti-terrorist campaign. At the Command Workshops In Kuala Lumpur daily repair work varies from watches to bull-dozers wireless sets to assault boats—
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  • 558 8  -  PATRICK KEITH By 'THE Pandamaran Re- settlement Area in Selangor— one of the biggest in the Federation—is rapidly growing into a model satellite town, inhabited by squatters from all over the State. lus development into a thriving centre of more then 16.000 people, engaged mainly
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    • 323 8 Straits Times Crossword 5- 1 &> mldmght ln the 1 of the s!eep-Ume." (Brownml m n nn m i__j 26 Hamfm a> S__ ____atia ti 1 DOWN 7 Us M WatMy (7) I 1 1 1 1 lvviTi»L v i 1; r^: ->. vJ' v^wJ 2 Composer or ••Cavallerla _P^
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  • CHILDREN'S CORNER
    • 868 9 "THIS Is a good place, x we'll have our food here," said the Scoutmaster, Mr. De Souza. The boys of the Rover Patrol had been pushing through difficult country since early morning, and they dropped their packs with a sigh of relief. "Must say I'm ready
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      43 9 "7 A^ fi^£ i the South Africun bush baby at the Lv.id.on i £.00, has been sent a toy teddy bear by a young armirer The toy is even smaller than Bubbles, so the two can share a cup quite comfortably, as shown
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    • 466 9 rOMAS DvrOng. ot Singapore wants to know for what subjects the Nobel Prizes are awarded 9 THEY are awarded for Physics. Chemistry, Medicine Or Physiology, Literature and Peace. The money comes from the income of a trust fund established by the Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel, who died
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    • 14 9 Collect six o/ these coupons to join the Children's Corner Club.
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    • 303 9 Dear boys and Girls. Very many thanks to ire oretty New "tear greeting cards you sent me I hope all our i readers had a wonderful time during the holidays Our painting contest «c» very hard to judge I drn't s think I have ever received
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    • 321 9 I f ALY has recently issuec special stamps in connec tion with the restoration oi the Monastery of Monte Cassmo. "which was very badly damaged during the fighting ■n Italy in 1944 The monastery was originally founded by St. Benedict m AD. 529. and the fourteenth .entenary
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    • 265 9 IF you want a new game to play indoors set about saving or finding as many corks as you can. Ten will be sufficient for this game though if you wish to make the game larger, you can of course do so. When you have collected
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    • 192 9 WHAT a nuisance," cried Mrs Chong "there's I a hole in my bucket. How I am I going to draw my water from the well?" "That's all right my dear, i I'll mend it," said Mr Chong. "There's a pieue of tin in the kitchen, will
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  • 296 10 London Stock Market LONDON, Tues BEAR covering at the end of account created a firm tone in many sections of the Stock Exchange. Small gains were registered in domestic issues as professional operators levelled books ahead of the statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to be made after the
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  • 116 10 KUALA Lumpur Rubber's preliminary statement shows a Jump in group profits from £70,577 to £182,123 for the year to June 30 1951. This was struck after Tjic taxation (less double taxation' relief) of £125,652 (£49.103) and Malaya tax of £120,000 (£11,200). The dividend (previously announced) was
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  • 29 10 LONDON. Jan. 29— Spot 41d., Mar 41.. April 40?; d.. Apr-June 40Hd.. July-Sept. 39d.. Oct-Dec. 37<d. Feb. cl.f. 40d.. Mar c.i.f. 40^4d.: April c.i.f. 39^d.. Market: steadier.
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  • 50 10 SHIPS alongside the Singapore Harbour Board godowns, or Glenartney. 15/6 Marabank. Francisville, 19/20 Obra, 21/2 Wander. 23/4 E. Sang. 256 Lalandia. 27/8 Jf"?" 1 "'l 0 Tantalus. 31 2 Sch led 33/ ?.fQ Bakke.'36 S. Otis Bland. 38/9 GlenKarry, 40/1 Gorgon. 42/3 Syanly 44 Lenbuerett. 45 Ambica.
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  • 152 10 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. MR. Jesse Larson, chairman of the General Services Administration, announced yesterday that Britain had agreed to sell to the United States 25 000 tons of crude natural rubber for stockpiling. He said the deal would be completed in the next few months and "would
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  • 30 10 LONDON, Jan. 29.— Cash Buyers £999. Sellers 1 001 Forward Buyers £996, Sellers £9971; Settlement £1,001 (down £1J). Turnover: a.m. 135, p.m. 20 tons.
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  • 210 10 OESOLUTIONS approving the transfer ol the estates, undertaking and assets of the Carnarvon (Selangor) Rubber Company to the Sungei Buloh Rubber Company have been approved at extraordinary meetings of both concerns n London. Shareholders of Carnarvon also approved the voluntary liquidation of their company. As a result
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  • 295 10 WASHINGTON, Tues. [T.S NATIONAL output in U the fourth quarter of L951 rose to a new record rate of US$333,000 million, according to Mr. Truman s council of economic advisers. Submitting their monthly report on changes in major economic indicators, the council estimated that the rate Of
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  • 152 10 From Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE, Tues CHARE prices resumed their downward drift on the Melbourne Stock Exchange today, when trading was resumed after the Monday holiday for Australia volume was light. Sellers had to offer their shares at lower points to dispose of holdings. Buyers were quick
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    • 283 10 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS Singaoor. Swettenham "en^ng Cdns J6/J7 30 )an f.t: st "PRESIDENT BUCHANAN" "T-. h Omit OmM. r ut^Tn s c b lano s *vio^ AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD. UNION eUlLOINC 21 Pott >w«ttenham 6 Penang Ag«ntv i«m. Part* C LYKES ORIENT LINE direct re HOUSTON NtW ORLEAN* MOBILl
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  • 909 11  -  Brian Crozier jiium By IN command of th< huge, complex organi sation for the arrangements for the visit ol Princess Elizabeth anc Duke of Edinburgh tc I Australia in March is Lieut.-General Frank Horton Berryman, one of Australia's most dis tinguished soldiers. He is
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  • 524 11 JLYING away from an English winter tomorrow (Jan. 31) Princess Elizabeth and th e Duke cf Edinburgh will alight in sun-scorched Kenya for a five-day holiday before continuing their 30,000-mile Commonwealth tour in the 15,000-ton Shaw Saville liner Gothic, which has been specially fitted out for
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  • 193 11 Rocket Ship Hazards A ROCKET ship flying through space to the moon, or some far distant planet, could be wrecked by a meteor weighing no more than an ounce, it has been found. Scientists already know a good deal about what the first men to fly to the moon can
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  • 101 11 IN the cairn waters of Loch Fyne, Argyllshire, Royal Navy divers are now making 300-ft. descents— almost the maximum working depth for a diver in a flexible diving suit— as part of their normal training. It is not often that divers are called on to
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    • 269 11 7th DAY Wj^fc' 77 11 Je»n PETERS /A °*'LV: Louis JOI'RDAN mJ^B Urn-ISOU m ISO in 20th CenturySWASHBUCKLING <^£^ 9SO P SPECTACLE Mk. ADDED A SPECIAL WRESTLING SHORT ATTRACTION! "BONE BENDER PARADE" ON SALE U2WJ4/U/6J i# |"FItMALAYA' TEL 5400 AIR- CONDITIONED TODAY! U 'H Mi 9.30p.nr. NO NEW YEAR a
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  • 858 12  - Bouncers beat West Indians TACTICS DID NOT PLEASE CROWD JACK FINGLETON By (Exclusive to tne oiraus iimwj SYDNEY, Tuesday. THE West Indians here today got their final taste of Australian bumper medicine and they didn t like it. Neither did a lot of other people. Facing last evening's total of
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  • 119 12 AUSTRALIA Ist Inns.: 116 WEST INDIES Ist Inns.: 78 AUSTRALIA— 2nd Inns.: 377 WEST INDIES 2nd Inns. Rae c Harvey b Rinr 25 Stollmeyer b LindwaU 104 Walcott c Langley b Miller 12 Weekes c Langley b Llndwall 21 Worrell run out 18 Gomez b Miller Christian! c Johnston
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  • 271 12 Where are the cricket dissenters Reader asks IN his column of Friday last "Sentinel" hinted that there would be "strong opposition" to the Singapore Cricket Association's new tournament proposals, and further stated "I hope and I am far from al^ne in this that this evening there will be a revolt,"
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  • 85 12 SYDNEY, Wed. Australian Women's iimateur Athletic Association in Melbourne has nominated the following women's sprinting team for the Helsinki Olympic Games: Marjorle Jackson (NSW.) Shirley Strickland (W.A.); Winsome Crlpps (Viet.) and Verna Johnson (W.A.). Miss Jackson and Miss Crlpps will run In the 100 metres,
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  • 43 12 TOKYO Tues. The Japan Amateur Swimming Federation has announced it will send 26 athletes and seven federation officials to the Olympic Games in Helsinki this summer. Hasajl Tabata. federation president, was picked to head the swimming team. AJP.
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  • 52 12 BOSTON Tues.— New England featherweight champion, Tommy Collins smashed challenger Joey Cam to the boards in the second round of their title fight here lait night. A fierce barrage of lefts and rights, culminating with a righthanded chop put Cam down for the full
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  • 274 12 NORTH MALAYAN GOLF FINAL IPOH, Tuesday. PLAYING brilliant golf, Bernard J. Newey, a Malacca planter, became the 1952 Northern Malayan golf champion when he beat the holder, R R Jackson of Perak, two and one In a wellcontested final on the Tiger Lane course this
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  • 144 12 MONTE CARLO, Tues. BRITAIN swept the board in the a Monte Carlo motoring rally which ended here yesterday. British drivers Sidney Allard and Stirling Moss took first and second places in the general classification while British cars with French drivers took five out of the first six
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  • 28 12 TODAY: High 0122 (9.2) and 1258 HO 6>: Low 0654 (3.4) and 1931 (0.9). TOMORROW: 0153 (9.1) and 1344 (10 ft.): 0735 (2.9) and 2006 (1.6).
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  • 38 12 RUGBY: Royal Signals v RAF Changl at Signals; SCC v Naval Base on padang; S.II.B. v RAF Tengah at SHE; Tengah "A" t R.M.P. at Tengah. HOCKEY: Senior K.O. tourney: S.R.C. v Police (semi-final) at SJtt.C.
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  • 148 12 KUALA LUMPUR, rues. TUNGKU Raja Mohamed, president of the All-Malayan Malay Badminton Association, yesterday appealed to his community to continue their progress In the game so trnt they could produce more players of the class of Abdullah Pirur,, the Selangor champion and Ismail b'p Marjan, doubles
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  • 202 12 BRISBANE, Wed IN a thrilling finish to their Shef1 field Shield game tbday Queensland beat Victoria, holders ot the trophy, by 18 runs. The last Victorian wicket f rll to Len Johnson in the closing minutes of the final day and Johnson (four for 46)
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  • 491 12 VAN BREUKELEN WILL HAVE BIG SAY IN TOP SPRINT ON SAT. From EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. SOME of the finest sprinters in training on the Malayan Turf will be seen in action at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday when Uninsured and Co. line up tor the first big sprint handicap
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  • 453 12 WATCH CURLEW, COL. WHATNOT f URLEW and Col. Wha ers in the making anc and-coming youngster in not are champion stayChantilly is another tiptoe Van Breukelen stable with a bright future. Curlew and Col. Whatnot are both Selangor Gold Cup probables but whether Chantllly
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  • 185 12 ISKANDAR CUP TO BE REVIVED Malay tennis KUALA LUMPUR, Tueo. rpHE ISKANDAR CUP lnterstate tennis competition for Malays Is to be revived this season after a lapse of more than ten years. This decision "/as reached at a meeting of delegates from various States and Settlements who attended a meeMng
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  • 26 12 BOMBAY, Tues: The five-man team from Singapore arrived here by air last night for the world table tennis championships, which start on Friday. Reuter.
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  • 378 12 HORIZON, Royal Fair and Sporting Gesture are a trio of youngsters from trainer Sullivan's stable who will go a long way this season. Horizon has certainly inherited a bit of pace from his sire. The Cob, and it is my opinion that he will do
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  • 96 12 A FRIEND of the Malayan Thomas Cnp Badminton team, Mr. H. Chllton, representative on the International 'Badminton Federaton of the U.S.A., said yesterday on arrival at Kallang Airport that Sir George Thomas, the donor ot the Thomas Cnp, hopes to come out here for the finals
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  • 90 12 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— The South Johore Rugby Club's last, match to be played on the home ground takes place on Saturday when the Club's opponents will be the Naval Base. The SJ.R.F.U. season will be brought to a close after the match against R.A.F. Scletar which
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