The Straits Times, 3 February 1953

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    12 1 The Straits Times TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1953. 15 CENTS.
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    IKE LIFTS THE BLOCKADE
    1095 1 Recall of fleet clears way for Chiang to attack mainland RED CHINA LOSES 'SHIELD' WASHINGTON, Monday. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER has ordered the United States Seventh Fleet off Formosa to stop shielding the Chinese Communist mainland against outside attacks. In his 8,500-word first State of the Union message
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    WE'RE READY SAYS THE ADMIRAL
    128 1 WE'RE READY SAYS THE ADMIRAL lIOHOI.ri.U. Mon. MA CHICHUANG, Nationalist China's Chief of Naval Operations, said today that I the Chinese Navy is ready to make commando-type raids on "'<• I: ''<l China coast. But. he added, systematic I major attacks on the China > coast were a question of
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    FILM ACTOR DIES
    14 1 NEW YORK, Mon. Film actor Alan Curtis, 43. died today—UP. ay
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    MALAN WINS
    29 1 CAPETOWN. Mon. The i House of Assembly today rejected by 83 votes to 68 an opposition motion of "no confidence" in Dr. Malan's Oov- 1 eminent.— Reuter.
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    2 SHOT DEAD
    20 1 NAIROBI. Mon.— Two more Klkuyu tribesmen were shot dead in the Klnangop area during the night.— Reuter.
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    SINKING INQUIRY
    32 1 DONAGHADB, Northern Ireland, Mon.— The British Government started an inquiry today into the sinking of the ferry. Princess Victoria, in the Irish Sea with a loss of 132 lives.— A.P.
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    TRADE TALKS
    16 1 KARACHI, Mon.— An Indonesian trade mission arrived here yesterday to negotiate an agreement. A.P.
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    SHIP HITS REEF —AIR PICTURE
    95 1 THE FINNISH freighter Herakles (5,047 tons) yesterday hit a coral reef 15 miles from Singapore. For two hours the Singapore Harbour Board's two strongest tugs tried to pull her off. Bound for Pulau Bukom for fuel, the 43-year-old freighter hit a soft reef near Beacon
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    800 dead, thousands missing in Europe's worst-ever sale
    296 1 800 dead, thousands missing in Europe's worst-ever sale LONDON. Monday. AT least 800 people are known to be dead and thousands are missing in the worst gale ever to strike northern Europe. Huge areas of eastern England have been devastated by tidal waves which have swept as* far as ten
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    BIG BLITZ ON REDS —Dawn attack
    60 1 BIG BLITZ ON REDS Dawn attack TOKYO, Mon -The Far East Air Force said that Japanbased Superforts made their biggest attack in more than a year against Communist front line positions today. Superforts dropped more than 100 tons of explosives along the 155-mile front before dawn today in sub zero
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    5 MIGs DOWN
    34 1 SEOUL, Mon. American Sabre jets caught Russianbuilt MIGs out in the open for the 15th straight day and destroyed or damaged five of them in dog-fights over North Korea today.— U.P.
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    ROTHERHAM —Home game
    40 1 ROTHERHAM Home game LONDON, Mon.--Rotherham United, who beat cup holders Newcastle last week, are drawn to meet the winners of the Aston Villa vs Brentford replay at home in the fifth round of the F.A. Cup.—Reuter. The draw Page 12.
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    AIRLINER MISSING —39 ON BOARD
    109 1 HALIFAX, Monday. 4 CHARTERED British airliner believed to be carrying 39 persons disappeared over the stormy North Atlantic today and the Royal Canadian Air Force ordered six bombers out to look for it. A United States Coast Guard ship and a weather vessel are converging
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    Red boss Ah Ching is killed
    89 1 Red boss Ah Ching is killed KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. iH CHING, terrorist boss of J\ the Kahang area of Kluang. Johore. was killed yesterday by a Police "Tiger" Squad. Branch committee member for the Communists in Kahang arta. Ah Ching was with three members of his gang on an estate
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    DEFEAT FOR QUIRINO
    51 1 MANILA, Mon. The Supreme Court ruled today that President Quirino did not have any emergency powers and declared null and void tw<T l^esldratffr orders bfc°d en the claim that he has suchpowers. The executive orders directed the release of funds for public works projects and typhoon relief.—
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    BACK TO WAR
    22 1 SEOUL, Mon. Maj. John Eisenhower returned to the Korean battle-zone today after watching his father inaugurated as President.— A.P.
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    CHURCHILL: NO COMMITMENTS
    31 1 LONDON. Mon— Mr. Churchill told the House of Commons today that he made "no formal or informal commitments" with President Eisenhower during their meeting early last month— A.P.
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    TANKER SENDS SOS FOR TUG
    45 1 LOURENCO MARQUES. (Mozambique). Mon.— The 10.488--ton Argentine tanker San Julian is drifting off south-east Africa in the Mozambique Channel and has radioed for a tug, it was reported here today. A tug has gone to her aid from Durban. A.P.
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    C-IN-C RETURNS
    38 1 Admiral Sir Guy Russell, Commander-ln-Chief of the British Far Eastern Fleet, arrived back in his Singapore headquarters yesterday by C.P.A. plane from Hong Kong after visiting the British fleet serving with the United Nations in Korea.
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    REBELS KILLED
    26 1 SAIGON. Mon.— Sixty Com-munist-led rebels have been killed or captured In violent fighting In the Tonkin delta area, the French Army reported tonight. —Reuter.
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    JAPAN EIGHTH
    27 1 TOKYO, Mon.— Japan was ranked eighth among merchant marine nations of the world with a total of 1,014 ships (2.*****0 gross tons) last year— U.P.
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    ARMED POLICE GUARD COURT
    163 1 BRUNEI. Mon. BRUNEI town police, reinforced by police from the oil-town of Serla and from Kuala Beiat stood guard owr the court house In* Brunei when eight Malays appeared on a charge of being members of an unlawful assembly. The police were armed with tear gas
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    WIFE, 22, FOUND STRANGLED
    239 1 Murder in locked flat at Tiong Bahru By FELIX ABISHEGANADEN MRS. HO CHWEE ENG, 22-year-old General Hospital blood transfusion assistant, was found murdered last night on the bathroom floor of her Tiong Bahru, Singapore, flat. She had been strangled with a black crepe negligee. Her husband,
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    ELEVEN DIE IN CRASH
    38 1 PEARL H^. 'Oik. Man. Eleven U.S. Na» v men died In the crash of a Neptune patrol bomber on a flight In the mountains of north Okinawa ;*n Saturday Pacific Fleet headquarters announced today.—A.P.
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    -ALL SAFE IN THIS CRASH
    49 1 MANILA. Mon. A United Btates DC-4 transport plane crashed and burned at Hong Kong this morning and was a total lew. But there were no deaths among the 24 persons aboard, a 13th Air Force spokesman said. There were -priou.s injuries, he added U.P
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    HE FELL FROM PIER INTO SEA
    43 1 An 18-year-old labourer. Mohamed Rashid bin Jaff»r. fell into the sea off Clifford Pier. Singapore, while working on board a ship yesterdiy. He was rescued by customs men and was treated in bos' pltal as an out-patient
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      303 2 TENDER Tendcri uiilrh will close at 13 noon on 10th February. 1953 are lnvi'ed by the Commissioner of Police Federation of Malaya for the purchase of .surplus items of foodstuffs. Full details may be obtained from the Office of- the Force Quartermaster. Police Headquarters, Kuala Lurrpur. >. W. D. TENDER
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      927 2 PUBLIC APPOINTMENT APPLICATIONS are invited foi i the following In the P.W.D. Kota Bharu. Kelantan: (a) 3 Diesel Fitters. I (b) 3 Motor Fitters. Applicants must be fully trained and for post (a) have at least 3 c vcars experience on dlesel engine maintenance and repair. Know- ledge of Caterpillar
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      639 2 TENDER NOTICE TENDER FORM Buildinr* at Forest Department Timber Depot Ipoh. 1. Tenders must be sent to the Director of Forestry, Court Hill, Kuala Lumpur In a sealed envelope clearly marked on the outside •Tender for Ipoh Depot" before noon on 12th Frbruary, 1953. 2. Only P.W.D. registered Class C
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    'CHIANG IS READY TO ATTACK
    288 3 New American move worries Britain I and France £HIANG KAI-SHEK is waiting in Formosa to invade the mainland. He is already planning shadow fcovernments for three provinces. President Eisenhower's State of the Union message to Congress neutralising the Seventh Fleet is expected to unleash the
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    Communists double their armies
    81 3 Communists double their armies TAIPEH, Mon. rE semi-official Ta Tao news agency yesterday said that the Chinese Communists were doubling their armies to 5.000.000 men to meet the threat of a two-front war in Korea and on the mainland. The news agency said the Communists planned to build an army
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    Jap Reds splitting
    49 3 TOKYO. Mon Former Communists who resigned from the party today reported a developing split in the Japan Communit Party's leadership over a "military policy" adopted for agitators among; the peasants. They predicted more resig- I nations in a farmers' rebellion against party control and policies.- Reuter.
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    CAIRO VISIT
    24 3 CAIRO. Mon. The Italian Drfence Minister. Sisnor Kandolfo Parciardl. arrived here ,by air last night on a fiveI day official visit.— Reuter.
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    New defence pact plan
    48 3 ATHENS. Mon— The Greek Foreign Minister. Mr Step.i^n Stephanopoulos. yesterday said that his visit to Belgrade today may be the final step towards a Greece-Turkey-Yueolavia defence agreement. The proposed agreement, however, would not trespass on Greece and Turkish commitments to NATO, he said Reuter.
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    Japanese deal
    21 3 NEW YORK. Mon. Japan will supply Korea and Formosa with nitrogen this year, the Journal of Commerce said A.P.
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    PHOTO GIFT
    19 3 CAIRO. Mnn. The Premier. Gen. Naguib. has sent an autographed photograph of hhuself to President Eisenhower.- U.P.
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    65 3 MISS PATRHIA BROWN a singer, (left) and Miss Shelia Bradshaw. a model, who. with their mothers, clambered out on to the starboard wing and helped to balance a sinking flyine boat The flying boat was taking off at Calshot. near Southampton, when the port wing touched the water and the
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    IT COULD MEAN A WORLD WAR
    118 3 IT COULD MEAN A WORLD WAR I Shinuoll I LONDON, Mon. MR. Emanuel Shinw'll, Defence Minister in ti last Labour Government, last night said that the then rumoured American decision to let Nationalist forces attack the mainland might extend the Korean war and even bring about a global war. •We
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    Let Chiang quit U.N. —Bevan
    122 3 Let Chiang quit U.N. Bevan LONDON. Mon. MR. Aneurin Bevan, leader of the "rebel" Labour ILP.J last night sai-1 he re- j parcled the appointment of Mr John Foster Dulles as United State.' Secretary of State with the gravest a:arm. Referring to the danger of a spread of the Korean
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    4,sooplanesinFar East—US general
    152 3 4,sooplanesinFar East US general RED AIR FORCE GROWS TORYU. Monday. GEN. O. P. Weyland, Commanding General of the U.S. Far East Air Force, last night said that the Russians had 4,500 war planes based in the Far East in addition to their air forces in Manchuria and C hina." His
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    VILLAGE IS QUIET AGAIN...
    156 3 VILLAGE IS QUIET AGAIN... BALLINALEE. EIRE. Mond. ANGRY villagers of Ballinalee last night decided to call a truce in their "Bi'^p of the Post Office" after they were promised that thp.r complaints would be raised in the Dail. The Government's transfer of Ballinalee post office 'rom Mrs Katherine Devine to
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    A-POWER HINT
    31 3 PARIS, Mon.— M Felix Gail- I lard, chief of the French atomic energy commission, yesterday said that France might have factories operated I by atomic power by 1961.— U.P
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    Watch over the border
    54 3 BRISBANE. Mon.— Australia is to establish an army observation post overlooking the Dutch New Guinea border. The Army Minister. Mr. Josiah Francis, said the post would be at Wanimo on New Guinea's north coast 18 miles from the border and 40 miles from Hollandia. capital of
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    FLEET PROBE
    30 3 MELBOURNE, Mon. Australian authorities are investigating reports from Tokyo that Japan would send a big pearl shell fishing fleet to North Australian waters, the Melbourne Argus said yesterday—Reuter
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    LONDON STOCKS Market quiet
    402 3 LONDON STOCKS Market quiet LONDON, Mon. rpHE Stock Market got off to a good start this morning on the Chancellor of the Exchequer's encouraging references to the country's financial and general position. Optimistic references In the weekend press to the market as a whole were also helpful. However, firmness and
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    LONDON TIN PRICE
    27 3 LONDON. Feb 2— Cash Buyers C 969; Sellers €970; Forward Buyers €947; Sellers €948; Settlement €967 (up CD. Turnover a.m. 35 tons; p.m. 30.
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    U.K. RUBBER
    30 3 LONDON. Feb. 2. Spot 23 -d March 23' ,d. Apr-June 23 >,<f July-Sept. 23d. Oct.-Dec 22\d > Feb c.l.f. 23 d.. Mar. c.i.f 23«id.j April c.i.c. 23<;d Market: Quiet.
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      317 3 Formal Dinner Party menu: Ox-tongues, formally a'trssrd in tasty aspic, served with crisp, chilled salad usually follovxd by warm compliments. Q- M. E- Ox-tongues, of course Singapore Cold Storage Co., Ltd. jippparanvps arc t/pce/y/'/tp... If you believe that the two black dots in the centre are of different diameter. you
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    'Change plan of training, recruiting'
    139 4 'Change plan of training, recruiting' REVISION of the present I method of recruiting and training of social workers in Government posts in Singa- pore and the Federation is j urged by Miss Elizabeth M. Milne, of the social administration department at the University of Malaya. Unless this is done, the
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    Journalist wed in Penang
    64 4 PENANG, Mon.— Mr. Llm Eng Cheng, of the editorial staff of the Kwong Wah Yit Poh. was yesterday married to Miss Cheah Hooi Bee, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Cheah Ewe Hock. She was attended by Miss Ivy Chew. Mr. Lim Eng Moh. brother of
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    PRAYER SERVICE
    36 4 Singapore Ceylonese will celebrate their Independence Day tomorrow with a special pooja and prayer service at the Sri Senpaga Vinayar tern- i pie in Katong. The Ceylonese Commissioner, Mr. M. Saravanamutu. will be present.
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    RESIGNATION
    18 4 KOTA TINGGI. Mon.— Mr. R. D. Williamson, Assistant State Home Guard Officer in Kota Tinggi. has resigned.
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    SACK THE BOSSES OF SINGAPORE BRANCH THEY TELL THE M.C.A.
    248 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Monday. FEDERATION leaders of the Malayan Chinese Association have demanded the en b\oc' resignation of the working and general com-! mittees of the Singapore branch. Mr. Leong Yew Koh, secretary-general of the 1 association, who led the attack,
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    Car plunged into stream
    41 4 IPOH, Mon.— Six peoplethree men, two women and a child— were slightly injured when their car plunged into a stream and overturned at the 39th mile, Tpoh-Teluk Anson road. They were on their way to Teluk Anson.
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    Now there's ice-cream and candy far ati
    160 4 Now there's ice-cream and candy far ati rpHIS is the story of five little inmates of the Singapore Trafalgar Leper Home who were "'leftovers" because no one wanted to adopt them. They didn't mind so much being pointed at as the "left-overs,"- but they did care about having to po
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    RESTRICTED AREAS
    28 4 KOTA TINGGI. Mon.— Pasir Gogok new viClage, Sungei Rengit new village and Tai Hong Chinese settlement in the Kota Tinggi district have been declared restricted areas.
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    NO PERMIT
    32 4 KOTA TINGGI, Mon.— Teh Soo Yong. charged before the Kota Tinggi magistrate with moving five bottles of Chinese medicine without a permit in a restricted area, was fined $20. 1
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    Licensing Board members
    45 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— The Administrative Officer and the District Officer. Muar w:ll be chairman and vice-chairman of the Muar Licensing Board. Other members are the Deputy Commissioner for Labour and the Health Officer. Mr. D. E. Forbes and Mr. Chan Shi Shi.
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    CHILDREN SAVED IN BIG BLAZE
    144 4 Fire partially destroys house KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A EUROPEAN family lost most of Its possessions in a fire which partially destroyed a Hampshire Drive home late on Sunday night But two young children asleep In an upstairs bedroom. were rescued. When firemen arrived, the whole
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    They'll visit prison
    175 4 SEREMBAN, Mon.—Thlrtythiee people, including 11 Government officials, have been appointed by the Mentri Besar of Negri Sembilan to form the Board of Visiting Justices to Serembiin Prison for 1953. They .ire: President. Sessions Court, i Chairman i. State Secretary. District Officer, State Agrlrultural Officer, Deputy Commissioner for
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    INDEPENDENCE IN THREE YEARS'
    170 4 We can do it, says the Ten'gku PENANG, Monday. yHE President of the UMNO. Tengku Abdul Rahman, A last night renewed his call for Malaya's independence within three years. "We can achieve this if we have the real national i spirit," he told 10.000 Malays attending
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    Elect mentri besar, says UMNO youth
    171 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. THE Kuala Lumpur branch of the United Malays National Organisation Youth League yesterday adopted a proposal calling on State Governments to amend their constitutions to allow future mentris besar to be chosen by popular elections. Under the present State coastitution a
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    ACQUITTED
    38 4 Lee Shue. a hotel-keeper, was acquitted yesterday In the Singapore Sixth Police Court of failing to record particulars of two me n and a woman who had rented rooms in his hotel on Aug. 30. last year.
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    Moved ghee, fined
    27 4 KOTA TINGGI. Mon.— Sheik Salleh bin AH was fined $10 in Kota Tinggi court for moving five katis of ghee In a restricted area.
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    Town council for Kota Bahru
    72 4 KOTA BAHRU, Mon.— An ordinance for an elected town council for Kota Bahru, based on the same style as Jchore Bahru, is expected to be passed soon, said Nik Mustapha, former assitant district officer, Kota Bahru, who will supervise the elections. Kota Bahru will have
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    DIAL 999 FOR URGENT 'OPERATION SERVICE'
    103 4 DIAL 999 FOR URGENT 'OPERATION SERVICE' IPOH, Mon. INLYING squad cars of the ■T Ipoh police will now be available under "Operation Service" to help the public, said Mr. J. M. C. Wheeler, 0.5.P1. this morning. These cars, on 24-hour duty, can be called by telephoning Ipoh 999 at any
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      91 4 BritUh Red Cross Society: Opening of Red Cross Home for Crippled Children, Tanah Merah Besar, by the Countess of Limerick, 4 p.m.; Annual General Meeting S p.m. Public Relations Office: Mobile Film Unit's Free Show, Oimson School for Boys, 7.15 p.m. 1.5.1.5.: Free film show 'Portrait of an American Family"
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    POLICE ARE READY TO HELP
    270 5 Men ta I pa tien ts relatives get assurance •pHK Singapore police will answer any «all by relatives of discharged mental patients who give trouble, a Colony police spokesman said last ■ight. This follows two reports yesterday that nonviolent patients taken home from the strike-bound
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    Malays plan a business syndicate
    108 5 Malays plan a business syndicate KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A CONFERENCE of Malay businessmen In Selangor will be hold In Kuala Lumpur on Feb. 28. Sponsored by the Selangor Ke;ua Kampong Association, it will discuss tne possibility of establishing a Malay business syndicate designed to encourage more Malays to participate In
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    Negligence by bus driver
    59 5 Soh Choc Seng, a dentist, told the Singapore Second Traffic Police Court yesterday that a Sineapcre Traction Company bus. collided with the rear of his car at Selraie Road on Au<; 28. Inrhe A. W. Ghows. the masistrate, convicted the bus driver. Omar Kiishnar.. of neclicent
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    MOVED BREAD-$2O
    28 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon Hee Siang. who moved two loaves of bread from a restricted area without a permit, was fined $20 in the Police Court today.
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    HELICOPTERS NOW A UNIT
    81 5 "JtIALAYAS helicopters have been integrated into one unit. From today the new Royal Navy helicopter squadron. No. 848, which flies 5.55 Sikorsky eight-seaters. and the former Far Fast Casualty Fvacuation Flight. R.A.F., which flies smaller SikorskyWestland helicopters, will he co-ordinated under one wine of the R.AJ.
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    MALAYA TESTS A KENYA CLEANER
    241 5 Helicopter to hit Mau Mau DRISTOL Sycamore helicopters will soon descend on "the lairs of the Mau Mau terrorists in Kenya. They will bear the recommendation- "Proved thoroughly fit for service by exhaustive tests in Malaya." Yesterday a new test helicopter was unloaded from the
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    In idea jo fight the Reds may win you $15
    122 5 In idea jo fight the Reds may win you $15 KIALA LUMPUR. Mon. IF you have ideas on how to end the Emergency or to make progress toward self -government write to "Post Box for Ideas." Radio Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. They may win you $15. Radio Malaya will be introducing
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    Not enough evidence
    48 5 Yusuf bin Hassan, alias Yasuf bin Hashim, who appeared before Mr. Justice Knight at the Singapore Assizes yesterday on a charge of house-breaking by night was acquitted when the Crown withdrew the charge. Mr. A. V. Winslow said there was insufficient evidence to convict Yusuf..
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    One-way loop a success
    276 5 One-way loop a success BUT HARD ON PEDESTRIANS THE first businessday test 1 of Singapore city's new I "one-way-only" traffic loop beI tween Jalan Sultan and Cross Street was a success yester- day except for some pedes- trians who had a nerve-wrack-i ing time at certain road I junctions. Singapore
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    He retained lead: $100
    92 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Biboon was fined $100 in the Police Court yesterday for retaining 12 pieces of lead which •belonged to a boat owned Dy Mr. James Wickenden, of Singapore. The boat was anchored off Tiias. On Sept. 13 when Mr. Wickenden went to bale out
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    Countess to open Home
    59 5 The Singapore British Red Cross Society's Home and I School for crippled children Iwill be opened by the Countes.s of Limerick, at 4 o'clock this afternoon The Home Is on the beach at Tanah Merah Besar The Countess visited Service hospitals in the Colony yesterday. She
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    NEW YEAR 'ANG POWs' FOR POOR AND AGED
    111 5 CHAW BROTHERS will di Year "ang pows" (red and aged at the New Worl In addition to these mone- 1 tary gifts of $2 each, five katis of rice, one katl of sugar, a tin or milk and a towel will be
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    Stole bottles and a raincoat
    44 5 Muthusamy, who was charged before the Singapore Second Police Magistrate, Mi. J. F McWilliam. with stealing 48 empty bottles and a raincoat from five-foot ways on Jan 26 yesterday pleaded guilty and was fined $75 or five weeks' imprisonment.
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    Boon Yew Assn. officials
    377 5 offlclaLs for 1953 of the Boon Yew Association. Singapore, are: Patroas: Tan Ctieng Miang. Tan S' n Peng. Ooh Lye Or, Chua Yew Chiang. Lee Swee Ting, Koh Beng Sam. Chua Tai Tien. Son Yong Tee, Tan Han Cheap. Sim Ah Kow, Yeo Tlan Ton*, scow
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    53 6 MONTIGNY. Mary passed away peacefully January 31st Perth. W. Australia Deeply reirretted. MR. OOH TEE CHYE a gradu ■to of tho Technical College, K.L. who recently Joined the Govt. Survey Dept., Spore, expired on 2.2 53 as a result of a motor cycle accident. Funeral at 2 p.m. today
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    67 6 THE FAMILY of the late Mr. V E. Dins thank all relatives and friends for their condolatory letters, teleernms. wreaths and help given In 1 heir recent berea\ement. MR. AND MRS. 001 CHENG RANG sind family thank all friends «pd relatives for their kind measures of condolence, telegrams, loan
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      Green Light For Chiang
      545 6 The intention of President Eisenhower's orders to the U.S. Seventh Fleet to abandon the role assigned to it by President Truman is abundantly plain. The instructions are that the fleet 'no longer be employed to shield Communist China." President Eisenhower has given the green light to
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      Kampong Chia Heng
      368 6 The case of Kampong Chia Heng is building up, attap fashion, into a test of City and Legislative Council responsibilities and Dollcies. Three blocks of wooden and atfap buildings, have sprung up in this kampong. No-one knows who erected these buildings, but they are unauthorised constructions like
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      M.C.A. Policies
      269 6 Domestic matters occupied most attention at the Malayan Chinese Association's annual meeting in Kuala Lumpur. The M.C.A. is to become a much more closely knit organisation, with greater stress on political activity. As to the Association's political creed, Sir Cheng-lock Tan broke new ground in the course of
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    THE VOLUNTEER'S DAY AT WOODBRIDGE HOSPITAL
    1201 6  -  LILLIAN BUCKOKE By IT is 3 a.m. in the Woodbridge Mental Hospital, and time for the day's work to begin. Into the kitchen walk 10 prisoner-wortoers from Changi and Outram Road Gaols, eight patients, and two planters. Since the strike began, four days ago,
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      640 6 An owner- tenant's modest home MUCH has been sa:d about the recent Increase :n rents, rates and rackets Inflicted by landlords and experienced by tenants. The position of the averase wage-earning owner-tenant of a post-war house has, however, not been giren as much publicity apart from a brief reference in
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      210 6 Singapore. Universities in India YOUR correspondent L.C.L. has evidently misunderstood my letter regarding the establishment of a Chinese university In Malaya, and he quotes the universities of Inaia as an example in his arguments. I am aware that L.C.L. is a well-known resident of Penang who has travelled far and
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      EDUCA TION OF ADULTS
      319 6 rpHERE is an Adult Education X Council in Singapore. One would like to know its constitution and how it exercises its supervision over tthe manner in which the enormous sum of money which Government has placed at its disposal is expended. This query is prompted by
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    On the Margin
    495 6 1 Gyve-house THE official decision to change the Malay name of a police station from rumah pasong ("handcuff house"! to balai police has not gone unremarked. Two letters comment on it. one from Inche Mustapha Albakri, Keeper of the Rulers' Seal, who lemarks i that the term
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    '5 GREA T YEARS IN LIFE OF NA TION
    335 7 5 GREA T YEARS IN LIFE OF NA TION Four leaders tell the story of progress in the Federation KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. pOUR Federation leaders today told the story of the five-year-old Federation of Malaya a story of unrivalled development, despite a "hard and stormy" life. The keynote of their
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    ONE-DAY ABSENCE PROTEST
    218 7 Workers want wider margin CTRONG action in protest at revised draft disciplinary measures being considered by the Government for its dailyrated employees was threatened yesterday by a Singapore Government and City Council Labour Union committee. The union secretary. Mr. R. K Palaiyan, told the Straits Times that
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    Indonesia phone link
    65 7 The proposed radio telephone link between Sim; ipore and Indonesia may bepm operating by the end of this month. Tests are now being carried out. Singapore businessmen hove bern asking for a telephone link with Indonesia for months. In Indonesia, the post master general at Bandunt; ruu
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    'One-nation feeling is the need*
    74 7 'One-nation feeling is the need* KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. MR. K. L. Devasar, president of the Malayan Indian Congress, today in a Federation Day message said: "All of us should develop a onenation feeling as Malayans. We ran keep our cultures in nur homes." He had no doubt that the Indian
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    Perak gets two woman councillors
    121 7 IPOH, Mon. \T THE next session of the Pcrak Council of State. Che Khadijah binte Abdul Aziz, the onCy woman member in the past two years, will be joined by Ton Puan Salmatul Akuam binte Haii Abdul Rashld. Ton Puan Salmatul Akuam. the 24-year-old wile
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    'Katong Cuite' rehearses
    48 7 'Katong Cuite' rehearses MERLE MONTEIRO, a "Katong Cutie", rehearses a Hawaiian dance which she will perform at Nora Kraal's Hit Parade, coming shortly to the Victoria Theatre. The show, under the patronage of the Colony Governor, Sir John Nicoil. is in aid of Boys Town.— Straits Times picture.
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    HE IS ACQUITTED OF MURDER AT RETRIAL
    104 7 bin Ahmad was acquitted of murdering Mat Noor bin Daud by Mr. Justice Bellamy in the Supreme Court. Kota Bahru, without his defence being called yesterday— the third day of trial. The murder was said to have occurred at Padang Bonggor. Kota Bahru,
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    FOR STUDIES IN AUSTRALIA
    33 7 Anthony See, 15, flies to Australia today for higher studies. He Is the son of Mr See Jock Tuan. of Master's Limited. Singapore. Anthony studied drawing under his father.
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    He preyed on sad mothers
    143 7 A MONTH after being released from Kiol. Ta n King Liang preyed upon the sorrows of two mothers whose sons were in prison. Tan was sentenced yester- day to four-and-a-half years' gaol by Mr. H. A. Forrer, Singapore Criminal District Judge. Tan dishonestly induced a
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    A HOME FOR COUNCIL
    56 7 The Singapore Public Works Department's report on the suitability and estimated cost of transforming the old Supreme Court building into a modern chamber for Legislative Council meetings will probably be completed in a month. If approved, the chamber will be sound-proof and air conditioned. It will
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    Picnickers robbed
    50 7 Two European picnickers at Bf.akang Mati lost a camera, with an exposure meter and liter, worth $580. a cigarette lighter worth $10 and $96 in .•ash. The two men left their be'ongings on the beach when they went for a swim. The articles were missing when they returned.
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    Made "U" turn without care
    57 7 A Federation motorist, Llm Kee Chiok. was fined $60 In the Singapore First Traffic Police Court yesterday for negligent driving at Keppel Road. Singapore, last Friday. The court was told that Llm. without taking precautions, made a "U" turji on the road and drove Into
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    Extortion bid alleged
    76 7 Two youths, Wet Lim Par and Ho Lye Seng, faced a tentative charge of attempted extortion in the Sir.gapoie Sixth Police Court yesterday. It was alleged that Wee and Ho sent an anonymous letter i to Low Yew, a snopkeepei at i Tanjong Pagar, threatening to injure
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    Varsity to form dance socety
    39 7 The University of Malaya's dancing enthusiasts will meet at the Dunearn Road hostel at 5 p.m. today to discuss forming a University dance society. The society aims to improve the standard of ballroom dancing.
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    FIFTH OF HER NAME
    130 7 THIS is the $83,000 22'j-ton Simit V, to be used to j ferr v passengers to and from Straits Steamships vessels at Malacca, which Mrs G. P. Noakes. wife of the chairman of Sime Darby and Company Ltd.. christened at the launching at Thorneycroft's Tanjong Rhu
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    MOTHER FOUND HUSBAND DYING
    116 7 Coroner told: He stabbed himself A MOTHER of seven told the Singapore Coroner yesterday that her 38-year-old husband stabbed himself to death because he was ill and believed he was going to die soon. Tung Juat Eng. aged 36. said she was awakened early on Jan.
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    Contented poodles arrive
    52 7 THESE contented-looking poodles were among the hundreds of animals which arrived yesterday in Singapore on a flying ark from Sydney. With the poodles is their owner, Mr. R. Mclntosh Whyte. A Qantas-BOAC Skymaster brought six kangaroos, 24 boxes of parrots, five cats, six dogs and 12 boxes
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    More Malays needed in professions
    138 7 SEREMBAN. Mon. rpHE Mentri Besar of Nestri I 1 Sembilan. Dato Haji Abdul I Malik bin Yusoff. last nittht said more Malays should enter the professions. Speaking on behalf of the! Yang di-Pertuan Besar. who was present at the Federation j Day tea party given
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    IT WAS A POLICE CHIEF'S CAR
    138 7 OINOAPORES deputy Com- mlssioner of Polio*. Mr. D. K. Broadhurst, had a "miraculous" escape when his car narrowty avoided a headlong collision with a car driven by Ahmat bin Ahmad. Insp. Tuan S. Zaln. prosecuting, said In Singapore yesterday. Ahmat was driving the car
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    AN ORPHAN AND A CRUEL WORLD His fate is up to the Sultan now
    272 7 AN ORPHAN AND A CRUEL WORLD His fate is up to the Sultan now JOHORE BAIIRI, Mon. WHEN Yue Cheong was six 1 years old his father and mother were killed. It was 1943, one year after the Japanese invaded Malaya. Vue Cheong went to live with an uncle at
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    He hit bus stop, hydrant
    81 7 Soon after overtaking a bus with which it collided, a lorry swerved and knocked down a bus stop on the side of a road. The impact caused the lorry to swerve to the other side of the road rind smash a firehydrant. inspector Kadir Bakar,
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    THE PIGS CAUSE A STRIKE
    120 7 THE PIGS CAUSE A STRIKE Workers told to get rid of them TELUK ANSON. Mon. INDIAN workers on five coconut plantations in Lower Perak went on strike today in protest against notice of dismissal given to several workers engaged in breeding pigs. The estates are Strathmasie, Melintang. Bagaa Datoh. Kualapcrak
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    Witnesses were absent
    76 7 Witnesses for the prosecution did not .shov: up in in* Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday whei the ease against Khoo Bee Pak. of Chua Chu Kang Road Singapore, charged with possession of opium and opium smokl>v utensils, was called. The maglstrat", Mr. J Jeyaratnam, thereupon requited Khoo,
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    CAMERA STOLES
    24 7 Thieves broke into a hous< at Palm Road. Singapore, on Sunday night and stole a carncro with a flash holder worth $93.
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      91 7 The Weather WEATHER itlctfca throuehotit .lava yesterday were: Minimum tcinm-- I'irf. (7.30 p.m. on Feb 1 to 7.30 a.m. Feb. I), S pore 74 degrees i, Penang (73 1. Kota Bahru 74 1 i Kuala Lumpur 70 1 Ipoa 70 Kuantan (71). Maximum temperature: (7.30 am. to 730 pm on
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    MCA backs Chinese university
    94 8 MCA backs Chinese university KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. PROPOSALS to giv c all-out support to the Chinese University plan were unanimously approved by the annual conference of the Malayan Chinese Association. The proposals were made by the Singapore branch, which also asked that the headquarters should approach the Singapore Government for
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    Man on cheating charge
    57 8 Song Mian Tong, alias C. C. Song, was charged in Singapore Fifth Police Court yesterday with cheating Tan Kiat Khoon of a wristwatch i and chain worth $235 at North Bridge Road on Jan. 17. He claimed trial and was allowed $500 bail until Feb. 9
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    They keep the hospital going
    138 8 THE WOMEN AND MEN WHO ARE GIVING UP THEIR SPARE TIME TO HELP RUN SINGAPORE'S STRIKEBOUND MENTAL HOME THESE M'RSES, led by a Sister, have finished their training at the Singapore General Hospital, and art waiting to take their final examinations. They are among those
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    MACHINES WILL HASTEN WORK ON S'PORE ACCOUNTS
    328 8 WITH the introduction of new machines recommended by the organisation consultants, there should be a considerable speed-up in producing the public accounts of Singapore for publication each year, the Accountant-General, Mr. N. M. Kennedy, MIU »1 -»n IV***,. "Last year three key mom-
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    'Big hand' for scout
    57 8 A BIG welcome is planned for the director of the Boy Scouts International Bureau. Col. J. S. Wilson, who arrives in Singapore on Saturday. He will visit scouts in the south-weetern district and will later go to Government House. After spending 10 days In Singapore and
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    Charge made in hospital
    95 8 Lying injured in the lock-up of the Singapore General Hospital, Adnan bin Ahmad, of the Radio Division, yesterday heard a tentative charge of causing the death of a girl. Lim Eng Hua, 5. made against him. The charge was explained by an interpreter In the presence
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    AUSSIES DO FARM WORK TOO
    237 8 No bias over Asian students •THERE Is no stigma in Australla attached to gardening or farming work and such jobs are well-paid, the Australian Commissioner. Mr L. R. Mclntyre. said yesterday. Mr. Mclntyre was commenting on a Sydney Herald report, that the only work Asian
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    S'pore boat owners fined
    74 8 The Singapore Fourth Police Court Magistrate. Mr. J. B Jevaratnam. yesterday dealt with 44 cases in which people were charged with keeping their motor-boats, sampan<; and twakows between Cavanagh Bridge and Bonham Street Steps without actually loading or discharging goods Fifteen men pleaded guilty. Nine men
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    JAGA ACQUITTED
    35 8 A watchman. Amichan Turuseram. was acquitted In the Singapore Fifth Police Court yesterday on a charge of breaking into a building belonging to Buan Lee Seng Ltd.. at Fisher Street on Jan. 4
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    A PRIEST'S PLEA
    84 8 rpHE Venerable M. Gtinasiri. X a visiting Buddhist prlost from Ceylon. Is appealing to the Singapore Government to declare Lord Buddha's birthday, which falls this year op May 27. a public holiday, as It Is In Ppnang Mr T. A. Sunal, President of the Singapore Buddhist Associatlorf
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    T.B. IN SPORE CAN BE WIPED OUT, HE SAYS
    138 8 rpUBERCULOSIS in Singapore can be wiped out by A intelligent handling, said Mr. C. L. Edwards, chairman of the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association, in SATA's annual report published yesterday He said: "This requires unity of effort on the part of the medical
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    TOO IMPATIENT
    34 8 For bringing his motorsampan alongside the vessel. Canada Besar. on her arrival in port befofe she was prooerlv anchored. L#e Oh Ter was yesterday fined $15 in the Singapore Fourth Police Court.
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      258 8 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 630 am. Tamil Mu«lc: 640 News In Tamil; 6.45 Chinese Music: 7 Neus in Chinese: 7 05 Malay I > Music; 7.15 News in M.ila> 7.20 > Mornlne Star; 7.30 News in Eng- I lisli. 7.35 Bright and Early: 8 An- j uouncers' Choice; 8.30 Bandstand: 8.57-12
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      GIVE YOUR BABY A GOOD START
      639 9 GIVE YOUR BABY A GOOD START AS already announced Nurse Bridget it on leave in England. In response to public demand, we have now engaged the services of SISTER CLARE, an experienced and fully qualified nursing sister and midwife. Sister Clare will help readers with their problems if they write
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      It broke all rules
      218 9 THIS is the dress that smashed an illusion in Britain. Ninety per cent, of the big dress manufacturers would not produce it for the mass market. It breaks all the sacred sales rules. The dress has sloping shoulders. The rules say that for the big trade
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      37 9 Hey! Whjt't Daddy up to? This sermt to be the question of young David, who wins thii week's SS Bonniest Baby prize for bis parents Mr b Mrs. T. L. Yang of 25, Queen Astrid Park. Singapore.
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      'Seeing' cards that are hidden
      480 9  -  MICHAEL AMRINE MYSTERIES OF THE MIND -2 By DOES the mind have abilities to "see" things which it does not actually see through physical means, and does it have some mysterious ability sometimes to foretell events (as in dreams), or even to influence events through
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      273 9 Straits Times Crossword ACROSS men are found i9>. 7. They cause poets harm (9). 16. Nervous exhaustion ended by 8. Stern-sounding writer (5). a cigarette (5-3). 10. Sad moments that mean 18. Solitary ones after little ones nothing to the bald (8). (8). 11. Sensation experienced In eat- 19. A
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    ASST. REGISTRAR OF STATISTICS
    47 10 MR. L A. JOSEPH. Assistant Registrar of Stutistics, has been ivith Government for 36 years. Educated at Raffles College, he was in the Singapore Treasury for 15 years and secretary of the Kinrj Edward VII College of Me**" 1 r>e for three years.
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    Trade witK Japan-Malaya's biggest 1953 problem
    458 10 THREE ASPECTS OF COMFLUJATEDCOMMERCIAL RELATIONS TODAY QNE of the biggest problems which the Sterling area, including Malaya, has to solve in 1953 is trade relations with Japan. This subject is getting more complicated as the months go by and a solution has got to
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    Adverse trade balance
    203 10  -  GEOFFREY BOLAND I WITH exports to Malaya worth $237,072,620 for the first 11 months of last year, Japan had a trading: balance in her favour of $95,419,249. At the end of October, this favourable balance to Japan was $93,528,581, having grown from $86,506,551 for the whole of
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    Queries put to London conference
    153 10 AT the recent Commonwealth Economic Conference in I London, Asian delegates were reported to be raising the question of Japan's trading position in South-East Asia, but nothing more has been heard of the I proposal. They were reported as ask- ing why Japan could not
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    SOME BIF EXHIBITS
    100 10 AMONG the exhibits at this f* years British Industries Fair from April 27 to May 8 will be: Newly-developed, non-cor-rosive and water-resistant clamps, claimed to eliminate hand-splicing of wire ropes and to be quicker and better. A new flintless table lighter, which needs filling only three times
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    26-m. miles
    15 10 Indian aircraft carried more than 500,000 passengers and flew 26-million miles in 1951.
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    Bicycle trade Kings of Penang are twins
    228 10 THE bicycle trade kings of Penang Mr. Khoo Soo Jin i above right i and Mr. Khoo Soo Ghee— are 65-year-old twin brothers and both devout Buddhists. Born m April 1888. the sons or i Mr. Khoo Twa Puah. a pep- I per
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    Generators for villages in Malaya
    98 10 Generators for villages in Malaya AN ORDER recently placed J with a British engineerIng firm for diesel electric generating sets for resettlement villages in Malaya has. led to a display being arranged in Leeds illustrating one method being used in the defence of villages against Communist attack. A scene has
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    December crops
    25 10 Leong Hin San Estates Ltd. produced a rubber cjrop of 48 000 lbs. in December. Tota output for three months Is 141.900 lbs.
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    Indonesia and India have 'much in common—even to rice shortages'
    271 10 Indonesia and India have 'much in common even to rice shortages' rpHE INDONESIAN trade delegation, now in New 1 Delhi to negotiate a new trade agreement, was told last week by the Secretary of the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Mr. H. V. R. Ayyangar, that Indonesia and India
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    Foreign trade figures delayed
    30 10 The detailed final foreign trade figures for December will not be available for another few days owing to a machine breakdown in the Statistical Department, Singapore.
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    Leaders of business in Malaya
    216 10 MR NG QUEE LAM, 33-year-old Hokkien, and one of the youngest leaders of the rubber industry in Singapore, was educated in China where he passed through Middle School at the age of 17. He returned to Singapore and joined his brother in business and showing
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    OPERATION OF RUBBER LAW
    440 10 Registration figures and amended rules LATEST figures given to the Straits Times by the Malayan Rubber Exports Registration Board show that 442 have registered as packers for exports of rubber solely grown and produced on land in the occupation of the applicant. A further 289 have
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    APPOINTMENT IN JAKARTA
    76 10 MR. GLENN A. WOOD, manager of T. V. Mitchell and Co., Ltd., and general manager and director of Mitchell, Elliott and Co., Ltd., who has been appointed representative in Indonesia of the Isthmian Line, in Jakarta. A United States citizen, Mr. Wood, who was born in Topeka,
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    U.S. exports will decline
    53 10 United States' imports will remain about the same '.n 1953, while its exports decline, the National Foreign Trade Council predicts. Imports will run at about U.5.511.300-million, or about the same as in 1952. while exports will drop about US$7OO--million from last year's figure of L 5.512.500-million,
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    BENTA RUBBE ESTATES
    116 11 BENTA Rubbfr Estates Ltd., earned a net profit of $267,298 in the year ended September last, compared with $737,550 in the preceding year. An Interim dividend of 10 per cent was paid and a final dividend of 20 per cent is reconrmanded for approval at the annual
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    DIVIDENDS
    165 11 The following dividends were announced during last week: Austral Malay Tin: 64th. 3s. a share, payable Taiping and Sydney. March 6. books close February 21. Austral Amalgamated Tin: 15th, Is. 6d. a share, payable Taiping and Sydney April 17, books close ApriJ 4. Kampong Kamuntinr Tin: 78th, 6d. a
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    Dredge refloated
    18 11 TAKUAPA Valley Tin Dredging Ltd announce that its No. 2 dredge was refloated on January 23.
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    AROUND THE MARKETS
    491 11 REPORTS that the Chinese Nationalists were all set for invasion of the Chinese 1 mainland coast stimulated the rubber price in Singapore yes- terday and a gain of 11 cents j over Saturday was recorded at the close. February first grade closed at 81 cents a lb
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    TIN PRICE
    20 11 T^HE price of tin in Singapore yesterday, February 2, was declared at $471.25 a plcul. down 25 cents.
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    Produce Mart
    95 11 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange noon prices yesterday per picul were: Copra: $37 >/ 2 f.o.b. buyers, sellers $38. Coconut oil: $57«/ 2 sellers (down $1). Pepper: No buying interest; Muntok. white $520, Barawak, white $515. Lampong, black $410. Sago flour: Lingga $16 n i sellers. Sarawak $161 i,
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    H.K. DOLLARS
    31 11 rE Malayan Exchange Banks Association states that the following rates for Hongkong dollars are now established Selling -t.T or O.D. 53 0 16 Buying- -T.T 531 16: O.D. 53.
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    To Liquidate
    22 11 British Investment Trust F.M.S. Ltd., is to be» wound up voluntarily. Mr. I. H. Quart?rmalne. Evatt Co.. Ipoh. is liquidator.
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    S'PORE SHIPPING
    173 11 CHIPS lying alongside the Slnga> pore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Merkur 1 '2. President Buchanan 45, Benreoch 67, Klelrecht 89. City of Chester 11. Trevethoe 13 14. Empire Windrush 15 16. Japnra 18. Mantln N. Wall 1 and 2. Sumpltal N. Wall No 4, Angby
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    AUSTRALIAN SHARES STEADY
    82 11 MELBOURNE. Mon. INDUSTRIAL leaders had a A steady market on the stock exchange today. Most orice movements were narrov, however, and trading volume was light. Australian Cement. BHP and Electrolytic Zinc made smail gains. Selected mining issues again attracted speculative interest. King Island Scheelite shares dropped 2
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    Perak finish champions
    373 12 with record score WILL MEET SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. DKRAK smashed all records in inter-State competitive hockey when they overwhelmed Penang by 10-2 in the final match of the North Malaya Quadrangular on the Kuala Lumpur padang today. Perak thus made sure of appearing in the final
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    CHUA ENG CHENG DROPPED FROM NORTH TEAM
    167 12 CHUA ENG CHENG DROPPED FROM NORTH TEAM Ki.U.A UDHVOB, Mon. <kjAl.\ surprise In th» selection I of the North hockey team to I meet South, at Penang nn Feb. 14, was the omission or Chua In- Chenc, Selancor s full back. IT- has been dropped out even f i •■-ii
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    'Follow example of badminton9
    74 12 'Follow example of badminton 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The British Adviser. Selangor, Mr. H. G. Ham-nett. said last night that he hoped hockey would, like badminton, put Ma lava In the sports limelight la the "not far distant future." He said this when proposing a toast to Malayan hockey at
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    Spate of goals in last few minutes
    158 12 Spate of goals in last few minutes Srlan»or 4 Pahanc 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. HECTIC seven-minute goai- croripc spell towards the enH the mntrh saved spectators f--om b 'rdom in the earlier match nf .i.ivs Qnadrancular hockey (r which Selancor beat Pahane 4-1 Selangor led 1-0 at the Inter 1
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    S'gor Club sevens win
    196 12 KL'ALA LUMPUR. Mon A start was madr this evpnine la the Srlnr.^or Rucby Union's seven-a-sirie tournament. Three sames were srheduled but Sr-lancor United 'B l conceded a walkover to Police "A". Sclansor Club "A", rist year 5 '■hamplons. had little difficulty in 'coring four goals and
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    MARINES BEAT FATHUL KARIB
    91 12 VIARINE Department beat Fathul Knnb 3-1 at soccer at Farrer Park on Sunday. Wahab (2» and ■l rahbn vo.ed for Marines; Mahmoud rrpl.ed for Fathul Karib from a penalty. Youiv,' Siklis beat Traction Union y-n. al.-o nt Farrer Park. Scorers we'-e Aniar Singh <2>. Mohinder S-ncli.
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    NEW CLUB OPEN TOURNAMENT
    87 12 TAIPINQ. Mon.— Following are the reratta of the Wtm Clubs open tennll murnnment which was continurci yesterday. Men's single (Ist round)— Ng Ah Wii'i beit Nnsarurtdln 6-0. 6-1: 2nd round »--Lt. C. J. S. Heatti boi.t O L. Carson 6-4. 1-6, 6-2; Rama Rao beat Lian
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    Friendlies wanted
    20 12 Clubs which want soccer frlendlles should write to SA. Pditana. United Sports Club, 22 Tessensohn Road, Singapore 8.
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    THE FINAL POSITIONS
    43 12 FINAL placing in the North quadrangular hockey tournament are: Piral; 3 3 0 0 16 3 C Srlancor 3 3 0 19 3 4 i in: 3 0 12 2 9 1 ivnanx 3 0 1 2 3 IS 1
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    FIRST DAY WEIGHTS AT KUALA LUMPUR
    609 12 WEIGHTS for all eight races at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, first day of the Selangor Turf Club's Gold Cup meeting, are: Cl. 1, Dlv. I— lM. Noodrnte Inn 9.0 i) <..imli.ii Mi-1 n v 9.00 Parmiter 8.12 Entertainment II 8.12 Broadside 8.08 Mubarak 8.00
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    This race should tell who's champion
    273 12  -  NG YOOK YOON By Xl \l LUMPUR, Monday. main race on Saturday, first day of the Selangor Turf Club's Gold Cup meeting, will not only serve as a trial for the first of the season's "rlassirs" but virtually decide the country's chamninn horse. The
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    COLONY HOCKEY Coutts' goal saves S.R.C.
    210 12 COLONY HOCKEY Coutts' goal saves S.R.C. A GOAL by Coutts Just before full time saved Singapore Recreation Club from certain defeat b\" a ten-man Teachers' Ttainins College side in a friendly hotkey match at the SRC. yesterday. Teachers took the lead with a goal by AJit Singh in the first
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    DUGGIE LAYS SOCCER ODDS
    61 12 LONDON. Mon Britain's biggest bookmaker. Duggie Stuart. Is oSerinz odds of 16-1 against Arsenal bringing off the Cup and League double this year. The last time this was achieved naa by Aston Villa in 1897. Other odd* offered by Stuart against bringing off the double are:
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    Trade Fair soccer
    26 12 In the miniature soccer compe'ition under floodlights at theGreit Eastern Trade Pair last night. Kampong Bahru Rangers beat Sime Darby S.C. by 4-3.
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    REME take the 4 1/2-m run
    152 12 n EME "A" won the Singapore Achilles Club's inter-team cross country race (4' 2 miles i held on Saturday at the Mcßitchie Refervoir catchment area. Ten teams took part. RAF. Tengah were second and R EM E. "B" third. The individual placings were: 1.
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    CATHAY CUP GOLF
    76 12 The Cathay Cup competition will be played at the Island Club on Sunday. The draw and times are: 2.45 p.m. Mrs. Jones. Mrs Smart; 250 p.m. Miss K. Meyer, Mrs Goldsmith; 255 p.m. Miss O. K Barrett, Miss K. Yong; 3.03 p.m. Mrs. Jantzen. Mrs. B. Meyer.
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    SCC BEAT MP
    40 12 Singapore Cricket Club defeated Royal Military Police by eight points (goal and try) to nil In a rugger match at the S.C.C. padang is.erday. Pigon's try was converted but McMullan's was not. Mjj Ci.irke refereed the game.
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    BEST GOLFERS WILt BE AT IPOH
    226 12 IPOH. Mon. rpwENTY-EIQHT golfers from 1 Perak, Penang and Selangor have so far entered for this year's North Malayan golf championship to be played off on the Tiger Lane course of the Perak Turf Club Sports Club during the Chinese New Year holidays on
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    PATES IS BACK
    27 12 Mr. R. B. I. Pates, honorary coach of the Singapore Amawur Foot bn 11 Association. returned to Singapore yesterday after leave In the U.K.
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    Fifth round: Away draw for Arsenal
    395 12 LONDON, Monday. ARSENAL'S fortune in the Football Association Cup drawn ended today when they were drawn awny to Burnley for the fifth round which is to be played on Feb. 14. Last season Arsenal did not meet First Division opponents until the semi-finals. So
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    Pulau Brani boys win
    23 12 Pulau Branl Boys beat Kampone Bahru Boys Club 8-0 at soccrr at the Railway ground, Kampone Bahru. on Sunday.
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    NO PROMISES COACH PALLETT
    304 12 NO PROMISES COACH PALLETT KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. GEORGE PALLETT, senior honorary coach of the English A.A.A., arrived In Kuala Lumpur this evening to conduct a series of courses in the Federation: "1 don't promise any quick results." He told the Straits Time* that he thought Malaya would take several years
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    Fijians-SCC return game on Saturday
    236 12 By Second Row NO-ONE can poss:r>y afford to miss the return rugby clash between the Fljians and the Singapore Cricket Club which is to bo playo'l On the padang next Saturday. Ever since the Fijian* Just scraped home by six points to three when they
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    Jake Tuli is not coming
    176 12  -  PETER HILL. Fr^m Straits Times Staff Correspondent LON^OJN. Mnn. lIM WlCf?', nran-aKer Jof "JoltinK :-a'fce Tuli, British Empire flyweight champion, says that he has never agreed to Tuli fighting the Orient flyweight champion, Tanny Campo. in Singapore. Negotiations were opened for Tuli to fight "some
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    Rugby sevens begin on Sat.
    165 12 yHE first round draw for the Sinmre Rugby Union seven-a-side < <>iv.!>etition to be played at the ipore Cricket Club padang, beglnnlnf on Feb 9. li as follows: RAF Tengah "B" v RAF. Sletar iFlvlng Boat Wingi, 5 pm: HA. ißlankang Math "A" v Naval
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