The Straits Times, 18 February 1953

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    13 1 The Straits Times FOURTEEN PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1953. jf 15 CENTS
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    IT'S JUST BAD LUCK, SAYS BROTHER ISAAC
    51 1 IT'S JUST BAD LUCK, SAYS BROTHER ISAAC Mr. Isaac Penhaa, in Singapore last niuht, had the news broken to him hy the Straits Times 'So I've lost it, oh?" ho Raid. "Oh. well, that's tho way things go. It is just bad luck." "Comment? What else ran I say?" ho
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    WOMAN IS ROBBED OF $5,150
    167 1 WOMAN IS ROBBED OF $5,150 THE president of the M Women's Welfare A?sonation in Singapore. Che Sahara bir.te Noor Moharr.ed. was i robbod o.' $5,150 in cash and Jewellery during the New Year holidays. Hazimat binte Mnnamed Riussull. her 17-year-old daughter, told the Straits Tine yesterday 'hat the three men
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    THE MILLION DOLLAR NEWS
    465 1  -  NAN HALL By Madam Tan heard it, then went back to film Tan Soo Eng got the news when she was called out of the cinema last night in the middle of the 6.30 screening of "Million Dollar Mermaid." "I never had any doubts about it!*'
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    The drunk in a taxi
    90 1 i Will P. M Said Dawood refused to pay his taxi- fare last Monday night, the driver took him straight to the Geylang Police Station, the Singapore Third Police Court was told yesterday. But the magistrate, Mr. Choor I Singh, said that a drunken I
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    They shot first, says U.S.
    105 1 NEW YORK. Tucs. A UNITED States Air Force spokesman said in Tokyo that Soviet planes flrea the nrst ■hot* in the air incident with American lighters over north Japan yesterday. The spokesman wag reported to have stated earlier that two Boviet LA- 11 fighter planes
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    HIT-RUN RAID
    36 1 TAIPEH. Tues. Chinese Nationalist sea-borne guerillas have made a hit and run surprise rr id on Meichow Island, off the coast of China's Fukien i Province, the Central News I Agency said here today.
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    POLICE HERO ACCUSED
    367 1 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. FLJ.CE Lieutenant E. i. Wadge. of Johore, who holds the George Medal for gallantry against the terrorists, claimed trial when charged before Mr N. L. Cohen in the Sessions Court today with housebreaking and theft of two cushions, a wardrobe and two side tables
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    MAN, BOY, BABY DIE IN 3 ACCIDENTS
    158 1 rpHREE fatal road acci- dents occurred within eight hours in Singapore yesterday. First was at about 9.45 a.m. when 16-mon'h-old Kasimah binte Salleh was knocked down by a bus while running across Newton Road. She died on the spot. Second occurred in Syed
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    3 GIRLS HURT IN CRASH
    13 1 Three Singapore girls were injured yesterday when their
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    NOW NANCY DOLLAR HEIRESS
    91 1 Straits Times told them ol the decision. I.trlier at her home in the Tanglin district, Madam Tan had made the Straits Times reporter promise to tell her the news as soon as it was received. The news came when she and Nancy were at the cinema.
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    LEE MENG IS REFUSED PERMISSION TO APPEAL
    154 1 LEE MENG IS REFUSED PERMISSION TO APPEAL LONDON. Tues. THE Privy Council today refused Lee Men?, alias Lee Ten Tai. 25. permission to appeal against her death sentence at Ipoh in September for unlawful possession of a hand-grenade. She was charged under the 1948 Emergency Regulations. The Kuala Lumpur Appeal
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    U.S. BOMBS HIT RED SUPPLIES
    42 1 TOKYO, Tues.— Japan-based American Superforts flew against 180 m.p.h. winds last night to bomb a 50-acre barrack and supply centre near Hamhung, the air force said. The target contained 115 single-storey buildings and five large warehouses. Reuter.
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    $13,500 FAITH
    32 1 DETROIT. Tucs. Prophet James Jones, ruler of the "Church of Universal Triumph in the Dominion of God," was today presented with U. 5.513.500 mink coat by his faithful followers.— U.P.
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    BUS STRIKE
    26 1 PARIS. Tues- Thousands of Parisians were two hour s late for work today when subway and bus workers staged a flash sit-down strike.— U.P.
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    SHE'LL REPLACE THE 'EMPRESS'
    40 1 LONDON, Tues.— The Canadian Pacific Steamship Company announced today that it has bought the liner De Grasse from the French Lines to replace the Empress of Canada which was destroyed by fire last month at Liverpool.
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    Ships may sail in convoy
    50 1 T ONDON, Tuesday.— Britaig may consider sailing her ships in convoy in the China seas if attacks on them by Chinese Nationalists and others continue Lord Reading. Foreign Under Secretary, mad e this clear in the House of Lords today in reply to a queation.^-Reuter
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    'COMMON LAW MARRIAGE WAS PROVED'
    496 1 'COMMON LA W MARRIAGE WAS PROVED' HALL ROMNEY'S London cable I) Ml^siMi the Penhas appeal with costs, the .ivy Council said it was clear that the Christian .Marriage Ordinance of 1936 only applied to marriages in which one or two parties was a Christian. The judges did not think :t
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    DEAD RIGHT
    57 1 TOKYO. Tues. -PoCice here said an unemployed widower and hi.s 16-year-old daughter included their pet black cat in a "family suicide pact" when they cut their throats last night. On the wall of the room where they died was a note pinned to the wall, which said: "This
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    ROSENBERGS
    46 1 they get a new reprieve NEW YORK, Tues— The United States Court of Appeal today granted a stay of execuion to Mar. 30 to atom spies, Julius and Ethel. Rosenberg, to permit them to petition the Supreme Court for a review of their case. Reuter.
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    Terror turns on the bandits
    178 1 Terror turns on the bandits SEGAMAT, Tues. fAMERONIANS and the R.A.F. and R.A.A.F. have terrified the tough Communist third regiment skulking in Jungles near Labis. 20 miles south of Segamat. A relent lf.-s Chinese New Year drive resulted in seven terrorist surrenders and five kills within 60 houi-. For the
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    LINER RACES INTO PORT Hold in flames
    59 1 LINER RACES INTO PORT Hold in flames NAPLES. Tues.-The 11,150--ton French liner Ferdinand De Lesseps. carrying more than 650 troops and civilian passengers, race»J into port here today with a fire blazing in one of her holds. Passengers stood on the deck while harbour nremen Dumped water into the hold
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    JET CRASHES Three killed
    36 1 JET CRASHES Three killed LONDON. Tues— An RAF. Canberra twin-jet bomber crashed in a wood near Roystcn late last night, killing its crew of three. The plane was on a training flight from a nearby airbase.—Reuter.
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    RUSSIA'S BOMB
    23 1 WASHINGTON. Tues.—President Eisenhower told his first prcs.s conference today that it was absolutely certain that Russia had the atom bomb— U.P.
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      825 2 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS are Invited for the post* of in Engineer. Road Construction: ibi three, postn of Manager, Seasoning Depots and Timber Impregnation Plants, In Selangor, Perak and Johore. The first two appointments will be made ImnvHilately and the third in July, 1953. AU appointments would j be for a
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      733 2 NOTICES COLONY OF SINGAPORE THE DISTRIBUTION OF GEBMAN ENEMY PROPERTY ORDINANCE 1952. THE DISTRIBUTION OF GERMAN ENEMY PROPERTY (No. 2) ORDER. 1952. 'ON. No. 5549 of 1952) Creditor* In the Colony In reaprct of any obligation Incurred before 3rd September 1939 which was on that day the obligation of either
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    WORLD'S BEST INVESTMENT FOR 15 CENTS
    225 3 WORLD'S BEST INVESTMENT FOR 15 CENTS AM \l pill YOUXCi— health? Asians- a christening— and a birthda; NEW YORK, Tuesday. MR. Maurince Pate, executive director of the International Children's Emergency Fund, said today that in the last three years Asia had made "tremendous strides" in fighting disease among children. lie
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    Girl's nylons went bang boy, 9, pays
    87 3 HONG KONG, Turs. INTO I Bong Kong court j today went 175 people rhare'ecl with lottins off firecrarkrrs over Chinese New Year Police 1 1 a cl announced a ban on firecrackers before the holiday. Yoongtti to be fined was a boy of
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    Not so bright
    60 3 BIRMINGHAM. Tucs. Britain'^ jewellery imiu.-try is slowly being "forced out ol business by taxation. Mr. Robert Prin«le. president ol the British Jewellers' Asaociatlon. said yesterday. "Our bc>t workiren and designers are losing their skill because retailer.s dare not s'ork anything in the nature nf an innovation on
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    High ambition
    24 3 ZURICH. Tues. A sevenman Bwltt expedition to the Himalaya! this year la being organised by the Academic Alpine Club of Zurich.- -Reuter.
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    The M.P.s talked on
    71 3 JERUSALEM, Tues. AN anonymous telephone warning that a bomb had been placed in the building was received at the Israeli Parliament during last niyh:'.-" debate of the diplomatic break with Russia. The Sergeant at Arms told the Speaker, who decided to go on with the session.
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    FAME FORI BABY HARRIET
    123 3 STARTING LIFE with distinction— Harriet Jane Colville. in the arms o) her mother. Lady Colville. O n the baby's right is the Queen; o n her left the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill. The father. Mr. John Colville, statidina behind hi* wife, wax private secretary to Mr.
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    The blonde who taught Pat tells her Jelke case story
    178 3 The blonde who taught Pat tells her Jelke case story NEW YORK. Tuesday. OARBARA Harmon, a worldly-wise blonde who was said to have coached Pat Ward, the girl friend of Miimt Jelke. as a call-girl, went on the witness stand >esterday to testify in Jelke's trial on charges of procuring.
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    ITALYPUTS SEAL ON PIRATE OIL
    115 3 ITALYPUTS SEAL ON PIRATE OIL VENICE, Tues. FIVE-THOUSAND tons Of Persian fuel o:t. brought here from Abada n by the Italian "pirate" tanker Miriella. were today sealed by Italian customs officers m a dockside storage tank. The dispute^ oil will remain there for two weeks while i the Venice tribunal
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    Muslim aid
    37 3 THE HAGUE. Tues. The! Council of Muslim and co- 1 operating organisations In Holland have set up an Islamic relief committee in the [Netherlands to rud flood victims in Indonesia and earthquake victims in Persia.--Reuter.
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    Texas blow-up
    34 3 BROWNFIELD. TEXAS, Tues. —Fifteen people were reported injured, three seriously, when 2001 b. of dynamite exploded in a burning warehouse in the village of Plains. 32 miles west of here today. Renter.
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    Holland agrees
    30 3 THE HAGUE. Tuos- Holland has agreed to look after Israels interests i n Russia now that diplomatic relations between Tel Aviv and Moscow have been broken off. Reuter.
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    New envoy
    18 3 LONDON. Tues.- Sir Derwent William Kermode. aged 54. has been appointed British Ambassador to Czechoslovakia —Reuter.
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    Weaver gaoled again
    80 3 TOKYO Tues. fRANK Lo/al Weaver, 27--year-old Australian exsoldler, was today sentenced, to three months Raol for his eighth illegal entry Into Japan I to be with his Japanese wife. 1 Before giving himself up to the police on November 11 Weaver said he had been unable to
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    The last raft
    57 3 NEW ORLEANS. Tuc<= —Last hopes faded today for 46 people aboard a United States plane lost i n t>y- GuCf of Mexico on Saturday, when a fourth I life raft— the last she carried j —was found empty. Three other rafts, all empty, were found n the
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    Dust storm hits Texas
    59 3 CHICAGO, Tues- -The worst dv.st storm in -20 years covered two-th:rds of Texas today a.s :i snowstorm hit the Mid-west and a cold wave moved down from Canada. In Texas, forecasters said i the storm was the worst since the day s of the great "Dust
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    ROAD TRANSPORT PRIVATE' NOW
    82 3 LONDON. Tuesday. TIHE House of Commons, by 296 vptes to 257. lasi J night passed the Conservative Government Bil to put Britain's nationalised road transport systerr back into private hands. The industry was nationalised by Labour in 1947. The Bill, which now goes to the House
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    WARNING TO TRIBESMEN
    33 3 TEHERAN. Tues— The Persian Government today warned Bakhtiari tribesmen who have been causing disorders in the neighbourhood of Ahwaz, southern Persia that troublemakers are liable to execution or life imprisonment.—Reuter
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    LONDON STOCKS
    289 3 Small buying LONDON. Tuen. 1 RESPITE interference from set.tle- ment opera lions, the London Stock Market generally attracted quite a good deal of small buying today, though no outstanding move- men is occurred. Domestic I*!ues continued In demand and giltedßed moved quietly higher to the extent of threetiixteenthi.
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    LONDON TIN
    26 3 LONDON. Feb 17 Cash Buyers t955: Sellers C3.iT: Forward Buyers t M 9: Sellers C 940; Settlement IW Turnover a.m. 30 tons; p.m. 5.
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    LONDON RUBBER
    31 3 LONDON. Feb. 17— Spot 22 d March 22 'id.. Apr-June 22'<<\. Juh-Sert 22', d.. Oct. -Dec 22<id Feb c.if. 22d. Mar. r.il. 22Ud. April cii. 22. d Vaiket: Easier.
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    BLOC REFUSES KOREA AID
    46 3 NEW KORK. Tues -Twelve members of an Arab-Asian bloc in the Unitd Nations have decided to reject any request from the United States ->r the United Nations for troops or supplies for the Korean war, it was disclosed by diplomatic sourcrs yesterday—A.P.
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    CHIANG'S ARMY CHIEFS ON TOUR
    34 3 WASHINGTON. Tues. A Chinese Nationalist Army mission which Includes the soldier son of Chiang Kai-shek will reach the U.S. on Thursday for a three-week tour of military installations.— A.P.
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    MORE WATER FOR A MILLION DOLLARS
    196 4 Joint colony idea part of defence measures SINGAPORE Government and the city council may embark on a joint $1,000,000 scheme to increase the colony's water supply by developing certain underground resources. The proposal, part of Government's defence measures, is designed to ensure an adequate
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    He did NOT bite the policeman
    86 4 He did NOT bite the policeman TEO Keng Nam was yesterday acquitted by Mr. Chcor Singh, the Third Police Magistrate. on a charge of obstructing a policeofficer in the execution of his duty. The prosecution alleged that when a ooliceman tried to arrest Too on Oct 25 last year. Teo
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    44 fowls in two baskets
    63 4 When a police sergeant stopped a man carrying two baskets on his bicycle in Mandai Road on Monday night, he found 44 fowls :n then 20 in excess of the I number permitted. In the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday, the man. Chia Soo. pleaded
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    NEWSMEN TO TOUR INDIA
    65 4 Five Australian journal!.^ who have been invited by thp Indian Government to tour the country, are due to arrive in Singapore from Australia today by air. Their are:- Mr. J. Goodpe (The Sydney Suit; Mr. G. Harriet (The Sydney Morning Herald); Mr. Dour las Wilkio iThe
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    TO DESCRIBE EMERGENCY
    48 4 Mr. Norman Soong. managing editor of the Pan-Asia Newspaper Alliance, arrived in Singapore by Qantas-BOAC yesterday to report on the Emergency. He has just returned from Egypt and will sperm a few weeks in Malaya befo/e going to Jakarta and his head office in Tokyo.
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    HIS EVIDENCE WAS FALSE
    44 4 PENANG. Tues.— Yeap Kok Seng, contractor of supplies for the Pulau Jerejak leper camp, was today sentenced to one day's imprisonment and fined $100 for giving false evidence at the trial of Cheng Seng Lim, an inmate of the camp.
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    VERDICT FINDS MISADVENTURE
    40 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues Amajit Singh, four, was killed when a lorry struck him in Bungsar Road, Kuala Lumpur, on Nov. 26. A verdict of death by irisadventure was returned by Sheikh Arahman in the Coroner's Court today.
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    HOLIDAY IS OVER FOR THESE TWO
    75 4 Miss Victoria Tan (left), second year medical student at the Iniversity of Sydney, and Miss Jenny Koh, freshman of the Sydney technical college. who were among 15 students who left Singapore for Australian schools yesterday by Qantas Skymaster. It was the second run of
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    Guards are 'a great success' in their first jungle fight
    167 4 Guards are 'a great success in their first jungle fight Bl KIT MERTAJAM. Tuesday. PROVINCE Wellesley Home (iuards, in their first jungle fight, have wounded a terrorist. They were the first Federation Home Guards to volunteer for jungle fighting. Th P guards took part in an all out strike alone
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    S'pore flood relief men named
    91 4 S'pore flood relief men named THE Governor ol Singapore. Sir John Nicoll. has appointed the following to serve on the Sirgapore Flood Relief Committ ;f Mr. Lee Kcng Chian. Mr. Tan Lark Syr. Mr. R. Johnston (Singapore Chamber of Commerce i. Mr. Tan Siak Kew 'Chinpse Chamber ol Commerce i,
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    Free unions send team to inspect estates here
    165 4 KI'ALA LUMPUR. Tues. rjUYKNTY-THREE Mala I yan plantations rubber, tea. coconut and oil-palm will soon be inspected by the Inter n itional Confederation of Free Trade Unions. The Confederation is sendin e Mr. T. S. Bavin, of the National I'nion of Agricultural
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    JANUARY COST 68 RED LIVES
    72 4 JANUARY COST 68 RED LIVES KUALA LUMPUR.. Tues. DEVISED figures today show that in January 68 terrorists were killed, 39 surrendered. 30 were wounded and 11 captured. No regular police were killed or wounded. Three soldiers were killed and two wounded. Six civilians were murdered and eight are missing. Security
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    Their revels end in court
    64 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues— Scores of New Year revellers today paid fines for their misdoings over the holidays. Twenty-eight Chinese were fined a total of $430 for gambling; a Dutchman, a Sikh and seven Tamils were fined $10 each en charges of being found drunk: and
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    BILL TO END INDECENCY'
    42 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— A bill to be introduced in the Federal Legislative Council prohibits the posting in public places of indecent pictures or printed matter. Advertisements offering to treat people suffering from venereal disease are treated as indecent.
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    TWO CHARGED WITH FRAUD
    57 4 Olga Atkinson and Benjamin Charles Roy Steele were charged in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday with fraudulently inducing Hock Lee and Company, of Kuala Lumpur, to deliver them a consignment of tinned goods early in January. They were each offered bail of $2,000 on one
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    ANOTHER HALL
    29 4 TAIPING, Tues.— The new community hall in Jelai will officially be opened on Feb. 24. Practically every new village in this district now has a community hall.
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    GUARDS' DANCE
    30 4 TAIPING. Tues— The Taiping Home Guards will hold a gala dance at the Hokkien Hoay Kuan on Feb. 28 ?t 8.30 p.m. in aid of their Amenities Fund.
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    WANTED: OLD CANNON FOR FORT
    132 4 PENANO, Tues. T<HE Settlement Government is anxious to find old cannon for Penang's historic Fort Cornwallis. These cannon are required for installation on the fort walk. An official release asks for information to be sent to the Settlement Engineer. The nearest cannon to the fort
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    EX-BANDIT TELLS HIS FRIENDS: 'COME OUT'
    159 4 ALOR STAR. Tuesday. TWENTY THOUSAND leaflets dropped over Kedah jungles told bandits today: "Your struggle is hopeless." The leaflets are signed by an ex-bandit Sep Ah Hiew, who describes the bandit leaders as "mere running dogs and cannon fodder for Russian imoerialists." Sep calls
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    Pick-pocket is gaoled for a year
    108 4 Pick-pocket is gaoled for a year KI'ALA LOIPIR, Tues. pH.\R(.ED with picking SHO from the pocket of a Chinese outside the KeCinema on Jan. 17. Leo Cheng. 27. told the Firs» Maristrate. Inche Ismail, that he was prepared to plead guilty if the rharg* vas amended tn read SlO Police
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    LOWER COURT TO TRY WOMAN
    63 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tups a suspectpd woman terrorist. 23--year-old Lee K.v.n. was charged In the Supreme Court toriav with having a terrorist document in her possession on Vivian Estate Kuyow. on Nov. 27. Mr Justice Brlggs decided that the case could be dealt with adequately by
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    Student dies after fall
    38 5 Seven-year-old Seh Lay Lian. a Methodist Girls' School student, who fell 30 feet from the verandah of a second-storey Singapore Improvement Flat at KamponK Silat. or. Monday evening, died in the General Hospital yesterday.
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    UNIONS PLAN TO COMBINE
    79 5 JOHOKE BAHRU. Tues.— The next meeting of the >< j Federation Government Ad- >> ministrative and Clerical Serli vices Unions executive > committee will be held in < Johoro Banru during Easter. A plan to amalgamate all affiliated unions of the Federation Union is in the
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    Detective, 3 others gaoled
    80 5 The Singapore Fourth DLstrict- Court judge. Mr. J. B. Jeyaratnam. yesterday sen- tenced a detective Lee Kok Yong of C.I.D. Hokkien subbranch, to nine months' gaol for causing grievous hurt to a trisha ridrr. Yu Tor Huat. Three other men. Yeo Teck Seng, a revenue officer,
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    New society to build 1,000 low-cost homes
    215 5 New society to build 1,000 low-cost homes TWO BEDROOMS, A BIG HALL AND KITCHEN-FOR $6,000 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. A NEW co-operative housing society, which plans to erect 1,000 homes within the incomes of lowsalaried clerks, is being; formed in Kuala Lumpur. The organisers will meet shortly to settle details of
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    Help 'small fishermen,' says adviser AT CO-OP PARTY
    141 5 Help 'small fishermen,' says adviser AT CO-OP PARTY MR. B, J. Surridge, the Adviser on Co-operative Affairs to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, yesterday suggested spending more money to rehabilitate "small fishermen" to improve Singapore's fish supply. Mr. Surridge suggested this ln reply to a question by a
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    Bishop will visit troops
    53 5 Dr. John C. Heenan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Leeds. England, will arrive in Singapore early next month, on the first stage of his visit to British troops in the Far East. After meeting all uni's in the Malayan jungle areas. Dr. Heenan. will visit Royal Navy
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    ANNUAL MEETING
    63 5 SUNGEI PATANI, Tues The annual meeting of the Central Kedah Indian Association, Sungej x'atani. v-.ill be held at No. 258, Jalan Hospital, at 4 p.m. on Feb. 22. MR. COLIN SCRIMGEOIR. a New Zealand film producer, who arrived in Singapore from London yesterday after having completed negotiations to
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    WIIMA'S AID CALL IS 'BREAKFAST IN BED'
    202 5 A POLICE boat is keeping watch on the 7 000-toi Jet fuel tanker Wiima to prevent anyon coming: ashore or Koinp: on board without permissior All that la necessary to visit i the Wilma la to use a hire boat that has a
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    Petrol won't cost more
    70 5 THI; rise in the price of gasolene in the United States by 2.1 cents will not affect the cost of petrol in the Colony. Mr. J. T. A. Rohan, public relations officer or the Shell Company in Singapore, told the Straits Times yesterday. American petrol price
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    GODOWN BLAZE
    41 5 A blaze, caused by a short circuit in a godown l n Cantonment Road. Singapore, sent two flre engines to the scene yosterday. The fire w a s DUt out within a few minutes. No damage wa R caused.
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    Bunny Doyle on the way to entertain troops here
    135 5 BRITISH comedian Bunny Doyle was due to leave London yesterday for Malaya to entertain service units fighting the terrorists. He is well known to British troops in most overseas theatres. Last spring he was in Korea entertaining the Commonwealth Division. He
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    AIR CHIEF AT R.A.F. CAMP
    58 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— General Sir Charles Keißhtley. Commander -in Chiel FARELF. this morning visited No. 22 Special Air Service Regiment at Sungei Besi. Accompanied by Major General Sir Hugh Stockwell G.O.C. Malaya, General Keightley had discussions with the Commanding Officer of the Regiment, Lt. Col.
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    PAY DISPUTE TALKS
    53 5 PA Y DISPUTE TALKS Negotiations over the wage dispute between the Singapore Mental Hospital Uniformed Staff Union and the Government will start on Tuesday at the Labour Office. A Colony lawyer. Mr. S. K Reddi, will be the union's spokesman, while the Government will be represented by Mr. J. G.
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    NO PERMIT
    39 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues.Tan Soon Than and Tan Choo Len were fined $40 each In the Police Court today for erecting a fishing stake at Laut Pangkana:. in Johore territorial waters, without a permit from the Port Officer.
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    NEW BILL
    20 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— A register of midwives~will be kept if the Federal Legislative Council passes a new bill.
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    Mermaid models keep him busy
    133 5 j^JORE and more Singapore girls are calling at the Raffles Hotel suite of Mr. Ray j Scott, hoping to model his swim suits. Mr. Scott, general manager of a swim suit firm, plans to hold a parade of mannequins wearing his models next Tuesday at
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    HAWKERS SAY: IT'S NOT ROSY'
    173 5 HAWKERS SAY: IT'S NOT ROSY' They don't like the esplanade HAWKERS who have paid high rentals for stalls in the Singapore City Council's esplanade restaurant now regret it. Some want to change their menus. They complain that they cannot make a profit on the food they sell now. Mrs. Robert
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    JAPS BAN RUBBER FROM MALAYA
    256 5 Sterling limit used up By Our Market Correspondent UfHILE Singapore markets were closed for the Chinese New Year holidays, the Japanese Government suspended all imports from the Sterling area, including Malayan rubber, under the automatic approval system. The Japanese Government said that this action was
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    Parade and 'at home'
    83 5 JOHORE BAHORU. Tues The Johore Bahru branch of St John Ambulance Association will parade on the padang opposite the Supreme Court, Johdre Bahru. on Sunday at 4.45 p.rr. when Ungku Tun Aminah, wife of the Regent of Johore, will present First Aid and Home Nursing certificates
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      150 5 Ikw^^P^^B^i^^i^Tj SINGAPORE KOIAKY tLI B W<<^ inrhron Dusmfs, merlinz at Capitoi K. d Room 1 p.m to 2 p m T.W.C.A.; International Club h m community (lnging for member* and friends »pm Place S Raffle* 9 p'Viujr relations oirirr.. HaMia F;:m Units fre e snows at 16 Kempa* Rnad village
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    DEATHS
    108 6 S.N MARSHALL died at his homo In Vaucluse. New South Wild, on the 16th February 1953. CECIL D. JACKSON. a«ed 74 at Brißhton.on Tuesday February 10th. nfr-r a long Illness. Beloved Hu»b.md of Lorna. May his spirit rest In rx'ace after a long life of work. SOH— Mrs. Soh
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    48 6 MR. A: MRS. EBENEZER EGBERT D ARANJO thank all friends, end relatives who attended their ur<idlnt; and who sent useful prefents. THE FAMILY of the late Mr. Ttu Chow Ktm thanks all friends and relatives who sent, wreaths. •ctoHs, etc., and attended the 1 mitral on 13.2.53.
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      Tito's Advic On China
      607 6 Marshal Tito probably knows very little about China. But it is generally conceded that nevertheless he is in an excellent position to give China much sound advice. For a strong dose of Titoism would be a health giving purge. It is a prorpect which has been
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      Burmese Rice Profits
      444 6 Malaya's purchases of Burmese rice are small, but Burma's rice harvest and its government's agricultural policy are of general interest. Talks for the allocation and price settlement of this year's exportable surplus are now ending on a note comparatively hopeful for the deficit countries. The price is
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      Perak's Tractors
      246 6 In Perak the buffalo is being thrown out of work. Over half the Federation's nearly two hundred tractors are n Perak. The use of buffaloes as draught animals in wet padi lands is dying off, and even in districts where there still many of them, padi planters are
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    TERROR BEHIND THE LINES IN KOREA
    658 6  - TERROR BEHIND THE LINES IN KOREA RICHARD HUGHES By TOKYO. IT is a long and lonely mountain road that winds down from Seoul, rased capital of South Korea, across burned makeshift bridges, through desolated villages and around steep snow-capped peaks, to Pusan, the seaport through which the bulk of United
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    Portrait of a Governor London Log
    796 6 Portrait of a Governor London Log LONDON A MAN who, deaf and dumb. proclaims through "Who's Who" that his favourite recreation is 'talking nonsense" is at work in London on a portrait which will hang in the Legislative Council Chamber In Singapore. He is Mr. A. R. Thomson, Associate of
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      A TRAFFIC REPORT
      126 6 li:iTH reference to your cdi- torial. "Traffic Problems," I would like to express my admiration vt Mr. Kinsey, chairman of the Traffic Advisory Committee, for his very courageous and fearless condemnation of the Governments lamentable failure to implement the sound, realistic recommendations of the Trimmer Committee which
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      The intention behind ECAFE, and the result
      267 6 I AM very amused by Mr. Yap Pheng Geek's vehement attack on your very moderate and justified comments on the conferences of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East. The reasons why Mr. Yap should be so worked up about this
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      Federal ion Loan
      107 6 THE other day my trustees, the Midland Bank Executor and Trustee Company Ltd., submitted to me a reinvestment scheme to which I agreed. I sugSTsted. however, that they might consider investing; in the Federation Loan. The following is an extract from the reply of one of the
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      USING AND LEARNING CHINESE
      293 6 USING AND LEARNING CHINESE WHAT Dr. Ho, in his provocative article in Mondays paper, is telling us. in effect, i? that it is easier for a Chinese child to learn Chinese than for an English child to iearn English. That may or may not be, but it is in any
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    On the Margin
    477 6 W andrring song THE correspondent who yesterday referred to the origin of the srng "Terang Bulan". and placed it most probably as a Malay folk wng of Sumatra, naturally lecallrd I in our own mind 'he account of this song given by Mr. Wrbb Jones in the
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    A NEW DEAL FOR WORKERS Bill to expand and modernise the labour laws
    394 7 A NEW DEAL FOR WORKERS Bill to expand and modernise the labour laws KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. A BILL which amounts to a complete revision of existing labour laws regarding employment in the Federation is to be introduced shortly in the Federal Legislative Council. Tho Bill, entitled The Employment Ordinance 1953,
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    SECRET HEARING BEGINS
    135 7 SECRET HEARING BEGINS MR. John Cameron, Q.C.. the arbitrator appointed bf the Governor of Singapore. Sir John Nicoll. heard the naval base dispute in ranv'ra for more than three hours yesterday in the Roaistrar's Court in the Supreme Court building. The Straits Times understands that Mr. Cameron asked all present
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    RECITAL BY BOY, 15
    56 7 Alphonso Anthony, 15-ycar-old Singapore violinist, tackled an exacting programme with great self-a.s.surance in his first solo recital at the H.M.V. studio last night. At the piano was Lim Pee Yin. aged 17. and Mi.ss Kay Cornelius violin joined them in the slew movement of Bach's Concerto
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    CRIMINAL COURT OF APPEAL
    34 7 The Singapore Ciurt oi Criminal Appeal will hold 3 session at the Hich Court or Thursday, Feb. 2'S, at 10.3 C a.m. The Chk-f Justice. Sii Charles Murray-Ayn.Mey, will preside.
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    IT WILL BE JUST 'IMPRISONMENT
    337 7 No *cat' under the new deal KUALA LVMPUR. Tuesday. 4 "NEW DEAL" for prisoners is proposed in a bill to be introduced soon in the Federal Legislative Council. The bill will abolish penal servitude and rigorous and simple imprisonment and substitute plain "imprisonment Whipping with
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    REMANDED TO BOYS' HOME
    51 7 Heng Meng Kai. 17. yesterday claimed trial in the Singapore Third Police Court to a charge of escaping from lawful custody on July 18 last year. He was ordered to be remanded in the Gimson Boys' I Home while a date was fixed I fcr his
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    YOUTHS FINED
    43 7 Three youths. Chin Kow Jre. Chew Wah Seng, and Lim Gak Hee. weie fined $10 each in thp Singapore Third Police Court yesterday when they pleaded guilty to a charge of fighting in public at West Hill Road n n Monday.
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    HOLIDAY IN H.K.
    27 7 Mr. H. E. Kingdon. Civil District Judge, Singapore, has left for Hnng Knn: nn a short holiday He will bo back on March 5.
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    20 MILLION AMERICANS WILL SEE 'TIME' FILM ABOUT MALAYA
    176 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A CAMERA crew of "The March of Time" film scries has arrived ;n the Federation to make a documentary film for America's 20-million televiewers. Shooting will begin at a tin mine in Puchong, 11 miles from Kuala I
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    STAFF SAW THEIR WEDDING
    132 7 ANY Singapore General Hospital staff members attended yesterday's wldding of the hospital almoner. Miss Kathleen Joy Eastaugh, and Mr. Ronald Broughton Mumford, at St. Andrew's Cathedral. The Bishop of Singapore, the Rt. Rev. H. W. Balnes. conducted the service The bride was given away by Dr.
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    Four false alarms—then Mr. Blythe's call got through
    371 7 Four false alarms— then Mr. Blythe's call got through 'HELLO, JAKARTA -SINGAPORE SPEAKING' TIE telephone rang for the fifth time an hour late. Mr. W. L, Blythe. the Colonial Secretary, picked up the receiver. Then for the first time Singapore and Indonesia were linked by telephone. Mr. Blythes two-minutr conversation,
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    DOCUMENT SIGNED IN GNORANCE Woman tells Colony court
    325 7 DOCUMENT SIGNED IN GNORANCE Woman tells Colony court MADAM KOH CHUA KIM yesterday told the Singapore Fifth Police Magistrate, Mr. D H. Chapman, that she put her thumbprint on a document for the sale ol her six houses without knowing what it meant. She was giving evidence against h" cousin
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    BANDITS BURN FACTORY
    141 7 BANDITS BURN FACTORY KUALA LUMPUR. Tue». TERRORIST fin -raisers last X n.snt destroyed a factory on a Chinese-owned estate in the Tangkak area of Johore. Police reiaforcetnrata in their way to the scene Wtft fired on by the terrorists, but there were no casualties Two police vehicles were fired on
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    NEGLIGENT
    24 7 J. G. Dowsett. an architect was fined STS by a Singapore traffic court yesterday for ncsUipently driving his car r/ong Upper Aljunied Road.
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    TRIAL CLAIM ON THEFT CHARGE
    56 7 Chung Leong was offered bail of $100, in one surety, in the Singapore Sixth Police Court yesterday when he claimed trial to a charge of stealing two iron wheels of a concrete mixer, valued at $50 belonging to Lee Neo Thuan. The case will come
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    Six win scholarships
    100 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. i Six Malayans have been awarded scholarships to study In New Zea.and and Britain. Mr. Foo Khee Lim. formerly of the State Agricultural office. Johore. Mr. Ch°ang Kok Choy. of the Penang Agricultural Department, and Mr. Chee Sek Pan. of the Kuala Lumpur Agricultural
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      88 7 The Weather WEATHER statistics throughout Malaya yesterday were: Minimum temperature: < 7.30 p.m. on Feb. 16 to 7.30 a.m. on Feb 17>: Singapore (76 degrees), Ponan^ (73), Kota Bahru (73i, Kuala Lumpur (73), Ipoh (70), Kuantan (70). Maximum temperature: (7.30 s.m to 7.30 p.m. on Feb. 17c Sineapcrf (89), Penanp
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      SNOW
      51 8 Blizzards sweeping the no rth of England and North Wales last week disrupted communications and cut off whole towns and villages. Snowdrifts up to 30 feet in depth were reported along some rosds. Phrto shows: An .irview of ftie Derbyshire town of Tideswel!, which was completely cut off by
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      ICE
      38 8 None but the biggest ships are .ibc to enter or leave Copenhagen Harbour without the aid of ice-breaker ships following a week of heavy frost in Denmark. Picture shows the ice encrusted prow of a Cerman schooner.
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      ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE VICTORY FOR BRITAIN
      29 8 ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE VICTORY FOR BRITAIN Mr. and Mrs. Cullip. members of the winning English team which won the AngloDanish Dancing Contest held in Copenhagen on Feb. 7.
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      FLOODS
      22 8 An air view cf Oudc Tonge in Holland which indicates the magnitiude of the flood disaster that has engulfed the Netherlands.
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      A CROWN OF SWEETS
      51 8 A CROWN OF SWEETS Ihr Coronation and the Crown Icweli and Regalia have inspired gems of the confectioners' art whi-h are on view ft the Silver |übilcc Exhibition of Hie C oyHon (Surrey) Master B.ikrn' Association Picture shows an intricate replica of the Imperial State Crown made of mariipan and
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      Untitled
      35 8 Three of France's brightest stars Daniele Codet Yves Montand and Simone Signoret (left to right) pictured during a reception at the Dorchester Hotel in London. They came to London to attend the opening of the
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      41 8 French Film Festival at rhe Rialto Cinema. Simone Signoret was the star of L.i Ronde" and Golden Marie." RICHT: Cecile Aubry, charming French actress, enjoying a break-off during the making of the film "Piovuti Dal Cielo" (Rain Of Heaven) in Milan.
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      121 8 (SHELL) JALAN ISMAIL SERVICE STATION BATU PAHAT, JOHORE CHOP TONG SENG 0 U I k/\ MBAWMffAT JIIHIUWIII SHI IWIV OPERATORS HAVE BEEN SPECIALLY TRAINED IN SINGAPORE BY SHELL m J X j4?\> Styled to stay beautiful J^^a quality -bui It to Here ir the newest, finest, most advanced body design.
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    DIRECTOR ALLEGED TO HAVE ABETTED A FORGERY
    1030 9 DIRECTOR ALLEGED TO HA VE ABETTED A FORGERY Court story of 60,000 lb. of carbon black had over the phone asked him if he wished to be present, when 1 made the application before your Honour. "He told me that he did not think it necessary and had no objectlcn
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    'Seeker of truth' offers $500 for an explanation
    112 9 'Seeker of truth' offers $500 for an explanation PFNANG. Tues. AKI ALA KANGSAR Muslim Inrhp Yahaya Ariff. who calls himself "seeker of truth." has offered a reward of S5OO t.. any ulama (religious tearher) who ran explain "fully and thoroughly" the IS Muslim conceptions reached during the recent Islamic debate
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    Injured worker awarded $4,320
    63 9 MUAR. Tues— Sim Soon Too. a workman of P.W.D.. Batu Pahat. was awarded $4,320 by the North Johore Commis--1 sioner for Workmen's Compensation. Sim was cutting and loading laterite into lorries at 76th. I milestone. Yong Peng Parit Suloog Road, when a lump of laterite fell
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    HIS WIVES MEET IN COURT
    121 9 HIS WIVES MEET IN COURT but the tiff is being 'patched* PENANG, Tues. rE two wives of a Post Office parcel clerk wie in court today. One, Che Tom, was charged with assaulting the other, Shanfah Che Tom, with her pretty 19-year-old daughter, Che Insom. and her two sons, Zainui
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    Flew to son's wedding
    81 9 Methodist Mission Educational Secretary for Malaya and principal of the Methodist Boys' School at Kuala Lumpur, Dr" Ho Seng Onp. and Mrs. Ho flew to Singapore to attend their son's wedding at the Wesley Church on Monday. The bridegroom was Dr Fridie Ho Guan Lim. of
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    'Joy flights' were popular
    81 9 IPOH. Tues.— A large number of Ipoh residents took advantage of the Perak Flying Clubs two-day "Joy Flights during the holiday week-end. The weather hampered flying yesterday afternoon and those who were unable to make the trip will be able to have their rides on Sunday
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    CLAIMS ON PRE-WAR GERMAN DEBTS
    150 9 ALL claims concerning pre-war German debts, and A^erman property in Malaya. will have been settled in about six months' time Mr. W. O. AlcocK. Singapore Aimir.lstrator of German Property, told the Straits Times this yesterday. A circular letter had been sent to all creditors in
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    300-YEAR-OLD COSTUME WINS PRIZE
    89 9 300-YEAR-OLD COSTUME WINS PRIZE PENANG. Tues. SCHOOLGIRL. Foo Yip Mrng. wearing a 300-year-old Chinese costume, won first prize in the international dress parade at the three-night fun fair held in Alor Star in aid of the Hwa Keow School building fund. GirLs from all Chinese schools In Alor Star competed
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    CANCELLED
    39 9 Tonight's class in the Adult Education course on "The World Around Us," by Mr. Keith Payne at the British Council in Stamford Road, Singapore, has been cancelled. The course will be resumed on Wednesday next at 6 p.m.
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    TEACHERS' UNION
    33 9 SEOAMAT. Tues— The Segamat branch of the Jo)'or e Indian School Teachers' Union will hold Its annual meeting at the India-Ceylon Association Tamil School hall at 10.30 a.m. on Feb. 22.
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      329 9 Straits Times Crossword I 3 ™7~ T"" 6 |7 I I 19 20 s~ 22 23 25 26 27 ACROSS ,4. OMdMMMI (si. 1. Return goo.l for evil like a U. O. grant a Oothic nrch (5). s:oker (4. 5. 2. 41. 17. Pleasant enough to tap .1 8. Spring
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      245 9 SINGAPORE PENANG 6.30 a.m. Malay Music; 7 News: »c 7 c in Malay: 7.05 Malay Music; 7.15 610 LlstSers' CVUJiur- 7 N?ws Morning Siar; 7.30 News Jn English: ,2 fro^lV. Rtoorl -an r»h?A Rriffht nnri Rariv R T--Vin JTOgreSS Report 730 Radio 7.30 Hnght ana E«ri> 8 J:nn nrch 8
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    Mat Tries His Magic Again
    891 10 Mat Tries His Magic Again PART OF OUR EXCITING JUNGLE STORY THE LAST A LI, Rukiah and! the Jungle folk set out to rescue Elani Elephant who is in trouble. They flnd him sitting on the ground with his tail trapped under a fallen tree. They try several times to
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    SCHOOLBOY FINDS A STAMP BARGAIN
    326 10 This Swiss stamp illustrates tne national fag game played in the mountains to accordeon music and yvJe mg. THE answers to ihe Stamp Quiz set by Auntie Kathleen and myself hire been pouring in. Much to our surprise there are manp wrong answers to the
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    Try Your Luck With Ink Blobs
    200 10 Dear Boys and Cir's, As Uncle BiM has tod you, prizes will shortly be '.ent to the winners of the Stamp Quiz. We cannot print all the winning names as there are too many, but we are very pleased to see so much interest
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    Can You Solve The Farmer's Puzzle?
    361 10 HERE'S a little puzzle for you: A farmer had three square fields, sidp by side as In Sketch A. The farmer, who was very old. decided to retire i i and give Vi hi fields H>-t-| to his eight 1/t~\l sons. Naturally, h e
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      216 10 f n nek/ i**pnm*d btetvd^K SHAMROCK TiA J V now bett&i ttt&K twill jß^ Soyt Mr. L/pt*a Blending is the art of choosing the best from many teas. Shamrock is a blended tea. Choice Ceylon and Malayan teas are chosen to give you a delicious tea of unvarying flavour and
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      28 10 DLEASt enrol me as a menjbor ot the Children's r Corner Wise Owls Club, and send me a badge. NAME ADDRESS DATE OF BIRTH iiiiiiiiiiiiimiiitimiii iiiiiiii nun j
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    'Service to mankind': the motto
    95 11 Their First Aid exam, passed, these Malay members of one of the Singapore Malay nursing divisions are taking a Home Nursing course at the Brigade Headquarters in Stamford Road. Their First Aid exam, passed, these Malay members of one of the Singapore Malay nursing divisions
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    PEOPLE OF MANY RACES UNITED
    683 11  -  NONI WRIGHT Bj AN ideal, not a religion. A its activities unite people of every race, caste or creed in a campaign against suffering and disease. •Ring up St. John Ambulance, they'll givt us a First Aid post." Every committee organising public function uses those
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    RUBBER SHARES ATTRACT MORE
    250 12 BUYING INTEREST MARKET PRICE SAGS AFTER the week-end holiday the share market opened yesterday very quietly and the volume of business reported was the smallest for several weeks. To everyone's surprise, however, rubber shares attracted most interest and transactions were reported in Teluk Ar»son, Batu Lintang
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    STERLING RUBBER COMPANIES
    89 12 STERLING RUBBER COMPANIES DURIAN SEBATANG: The Johore Government has offered compensation to Durian Sebatang Rubber Estates Ltd. 0f £20.422 for that part of the property originally owned by the company and known as the University area. The award is subject to appeal. The area was acquired by the Government to
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    62 12 Slnrapore rhlnc«e Produce Ex- rhange: Noon prices pirul were: Copra: buyers $38-. sellers $39. Coconut oil: $sf»' sellers. Pepper: Muntok. white. $555 sellers. 9irawak. $550. Lamponc. blark, $439 The market was dull generally I with no business passing. Lewi* and Peat: Closing prices were 1 Coprn: March buyers
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING
    162 12 CHIPS lylns aloneslde the Slnga. pnrp Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Empire Pride 12. Esun Miru 45. Ka'onc C.P Ctfv of Blrkenhead 67. Benr-.n^chen fl 9. Bonm- i hor 11. Tung Snnz N. Wall S and 6. Maxwell Brander 21 22. Tfr»r 23 24. Dalzu Maru
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    RUBBER PRICES
    186 12 Rubber was inclined to sag ypstrrday. This was caused by the news that Japan had suspended imports Including rubber from the sterling area under their automatic approval system. March first grade closed at 77J cents a lb. Offtake was small, the rrarket not yet having fully become operative
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    TIN PRICK
    18 12 The prirp of tin in Singapore yesterday was declared at $472 a pirul. up 12J ornts.
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    New York Stocks
    42 12 D"w Jnne< averages on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday and Monday were: 10 Industrials '.ft Railroads 10 r>nmp«'ir Bonds 5 Utilities Pri 283 11 108.70 98 22 52 61 Mon. 2R2 18 10R 11 !>8 17 52.70
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    223 12 MELBOURNE, Tues. INVESTORS showed a little more confidence en the Stock Exchange today after a momentary pause following the sweeping Labour election wins In New South Wales and West Australia. It is expected that more vigorous steps will now be taken by the Federal Government In an endeavour
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    Exchange rates
    102 12 THE following exchange rates to mrrchants were announced by the Malayan Exchange Banks A's'-ciation ve'terday: New York, bii'ing. T.T. 33. air mail OP. 33 'w 90 days. 33 t credit hills. 33 5 16 trade hills Selling. T.T. or O.D 32 11 16. ready. Canadi. buying. T.T. 32'
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    Percy Bassett—hardest hitter at his weight
    1003 13  - Percy Bassett hardest hitter at his weight PETER WILSON By ....who wrote after watching Basset t maul Har Famerlion: "The one thing hope is that those responsible for our own young prospect "Smiling" Sammy McCarthy, have no ideas of him meeting Bassett for years. If they even meet in the
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    13 ex-heavyweight champs still alive
    383 13 13 ex-heavyweigh t champs still alive OS 111 Si IS JIM HIIS <?«> NEW YORK, Tuesday. UfHAT happens to former world heavyweight boxing I TT champions? Well, some retire, some go into business, one is a minister, some become boxing or wrestling referees and one has become a wrestler Nat
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    Jim Carter outpointed
    122 13 MONTREAL, Tucs. JIMMY Carter, world lightweight champion, was outpointed by Armand Savole champion of Canada, in a lum-title ten-round bout here Ust night. The (..iite-st wa* fairly even for seven rounds bit then the Canadian forged uheud to k*»lh a unanimous dei i.sion. He staggered Carter In
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    Kee Chan v. Elorde tonight
    63 13 MANILA. Tues. Flash Elorde. Orient bantamweight champion, will enter the ring a 3-1 favourite against Urn Kee Chan of Singapore. In a 10-round non-title bout here to- morro\T ninht. Elorde won thr Orient crown from Hirosht Horlguchi in a recent flght in Tokyo. On the
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    BRION SURVIVES 3 KNOCKDOWNS
    47 13 NEW YORK, TXies. Heavywrlcht contender Bob Baker of Pittsburgh sent Cesar Brlon, Argentina's "Iron Man" on thrpe occasions to the cam a* last night but could not put him nway m he won a unanimous t<«n-round derision In Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway arena.— (UP).
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    THEY WANT FIGHTS HERE
    147 13 TTWESE three African A fighters— from left to right Panama Flash (bantamicetght). Ace Chocolate 'welterweight! and Kid Dynamite (flyweight) will be passing through Singapore early, in Murch on their way to Australia for engagements there. They are at present campaigning in India and intend leaving there
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    HE MAKES THEM GASP WITH AWE
    212 13 SCOTLAND'S smilin? featherweight. Sammy McCarthy, is growing to be as big a nam c in the East End as Ted LrwLs and Kid Berg, writes CLIFFORD WEBB who says that contrary to PETER WILSON'S "go slow with McCarthy" advice in the adioinlng columns, British
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    FOLLOW THESE HORSES AT B. TIMAH
    1217 14 Honeymoon, Phenomenon and Flower Harvest IJONEYMOON (late Nipgly), a nicely-actioned four-year-old by the Fair Trial horse Gustator, shaped promisingly in a splendid trial with Sion Tudor on the training track at Bukit Timah yesterday. With Jackie Smith astride, Honeymoon was always going too well
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    A NICE BREAK FOR WAHAB
    254 14 To< Kt'Y Abdul Wa.iab is at last cetlinc a lurkv break. After a lean season last year I In had only 13 rides all through the season Wahab broke the ire at Ip f >h last month when he won on Rice Mill. At iln
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    17 14 TOIMT: Hlsh n:-"l hr< <!> i fi IMS Ml: Lo-r VtV\ ll.«l and !W. (1 II
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    Fox has two good ones this meet OLYMPIC, FLEMINGTON
    433 14 Fox has two good ones this meet OLYMPIC, FLEMINGTON OLYMPIC is very fit after a brief spell and, taking a line through Millionaire, Olympic looks too good for any Class 2 field over a mile and beyond. Olympic's last appearance was at Bukit Timah in Novem- ber when he just
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    Injury-hit Austrians beaten 5-2
    126 14 Injury-hit Austria ns beaten 5-2 HONG KONG. Tues. T'UI Austrian touring soccer Lini F.C.. lost by five goals to two for the first time in its 16 Far Eastern games yesterday against a Hong Kong selection. The Austria ns were completely overrun in the first 20 minutes, allowing Hong Kong
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    NEW ZEALAND PICK TEST XI
    115 14 WELLINGTON. Tues. —W. M Wallace, vice-captain of the New Zcahind team which toured England in 1949. returns to international cricket to lead New Zealand in the first Test a?alnst South Africa beginning here on March 6. The team ls: W. M. Wallace (Auckland 1 captain.
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    C.Y.M.A. (Katong) visit Malacca
    79 14 Dunns: the Chinese New Year holidays, the C.V.MA. (Katong) made a trip to Malacca to play friendly games of football, bidminton. and table-tennis. The results were Soccer: Beat St. Francis Association by 2-0. (Scorers J. Pereira and M. Rozarioi: beat S.C. Depo' XI by 3-1. (Scorers
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    Two dates for soccer referees
    67 14 Civilian soccer referees are reminded that the second discussion meeting will be held on Monday, Fob. 23. at Jalan Besar stadium at 7.15 pm. This will be followed by a talk by Mr. R. B. I. Pates, chairman of the S.A.F.A. referees committee, on Friday,
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    MATCH OFF
    24 14 The inter-school soccer match between Presbyterian Boys' School and Bartley Boys' School, to have been played at Farrer Park yesterday, was cancelled.
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    ARSENAL ARE FAVOURITES
    69 14 ARSENAL ARE FA VOURITES LONDON. Tues. London's two surviving teams for the quarterfinals of the Football Association Cup were installed first and second favourites at a Victoria Club callover on the Cup last night. Arsenal are 2-1 favourites with Tottenham Hotspur 9-2. Bolton Wanderers were best fancied of the othe
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    S.R.C. SOCCER
    55 14 The following will represent SRC in friendly soccer matches against Indian Recreation Club today and against Hongkong Shanghai Bank on Friday. J. de Silva. L. Rodrigues. A. W Pox. M. Carrol. R. Henderson, S. Orton. R. Stevens, L. Rodrigo, O. Rozario. M. Wright, R. Schoon. D. Hay. A.
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    S.C.R.C. CRICKET
    28 14 The annual cricket meeting of the Singapore Chinese R.C. will be held in the clubhouse on Friday at 5.15 p.m. All members are invited to attend.
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    BEECH POOL DID FASTEST GALLOP
    517 14 I>KK( II POOL, a winner at Ipoh i in December, covered 3f. in a .shade under 37sec., at Bukit Tlmah yesterday— the fastest gallop of the morning. Beech Pool, ridden by Smith, drew iiwuy from the hard-ridden Trimstyle In the final furlong tc win the
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    Dooley hurt, may lose leg
    117 14 PRESTON. Lanes.. Tues IJEREK DOOLEY. the Sheffield centre-forward whose right lee was broken in a collision with the Preston North End goalkeeper in their First Division match last Saturday, is seriously ill. An anti-gar.grene serum was rushed by special police cars to Preston Royal Infirmary
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    Miller goes distance with Randy Turpin
    355 14 LEICESTER. Tuesday. >ANDY Turpin. Britain's contender for the worM middleweight boxing championship, outpointe 1 hi: tie Miller, of South Africa, over ten rounds List ight before a capacity crowd of 8.000. It was a warmup fight for urpin. holder of the British liddleweight crown
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    American signs up v Turpin
    114 14 LONDON, Tues American Paddy Young has been signed to meet Randolph Turpin. British and Em- oire middleweight champion. 8.. Earl? Court. London on Marcn 17. promoter Ja.k Solomons stated lo- day. He made this announcement tr 1 reply to statements in New Vnrk Mtereiaf by
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    Cricket meeting
    57 14 A meeting of all convenors or I secretaii.'s of cricket teams amliat- ed to trie Singapore Cricket Association will be held at the S.C.C on Friday at 5.15 p.m. to arrange fixtures for the season. The first committee meeting of the B.C.A. for the year will b^ held
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    GOALS CHEAP IN SCHOOL SOCCER V.S. Saints & R.I. win
    594 14 GOALS CHEAP IN SCHOOL SOCCER V.S. Saints R.I. win pOALS were cheap in schools soccer matches playcSl In Singapore yesterday. In the "'needle" match of" the day between the unbeaten teams. Victoria School and St. Joseph Institution. Victoria won 3-1 on the V.S. ground: St. Andrews, playinc at Barker Road,
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    Hole hits 102 against the Springboks
    188 14 Hole hits 102 against the Springboks ADELAIDE. Tues. PRAEME HOLE, stylish younc batsman who has been chosen 0 tour England this year, scored 102 of South Australia's second nnir.L'.s total of 276 for ei-;ht wickru iqamM the South Africans Siuth Australia, unbeaten this sea-son, had gained a first innim* end
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    ARCHIE MOORE WINS BY T.K.O.
    95 14 SAN FRANCISCO. Tucv— World light heavyweight champion Archie Moore of St. Louis scored a technical knockout over Leonard Dugan, a Californian Nearo in the eighth round of a slam b.ng fight at Winterland last night. Moore weighed 179 to Du':-:i's 209 in a non-title bout
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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      55 14 i rf t .yjpjaMaaaaajijajaanaMaaj^^ t '^^AJnLJ—^LaT-L^-i j,.^ RKiGER SKVKX-A-SIDE: KAAK KanKaroos v Saints A', R AS( K v Royal Signal* 'A. SCC v Harbour Board. Saints 'B v Srm'nf.int 'A'; on Padaru. from 4.l'> p.m. BOXINf; RAF Malaya championship, Seletar. KJOCeal INTER-SCHOOL: R.I. 'X' v Seranroon E.S. at S.F.S.; (.in
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