The Straits Times, 20 February 1953

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    12 1 The Straits Times FOURTEEN PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1953 15 CENTS
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    Trial by jury may be next step
    315 1 Trial by jury may be next step 'TRIAL k>s iry nriy soon be introduced in the Federation. The matter is now under consideration by the Federation Government and the Federation Bar Council, the Straits Times was told. Federation lawyers were vrsterriay generally agreed that the assessor system was unsatisfactory in
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    COMET WILL BRING MERCY APPEAL
    127 1 From HALL ROMNEY SIXTY members of Parliament today signed a petition to the Sultan of i Perak asking him to grant a free or conditional pardon to Lee Ten Tai, alias Lee Meng, condemned woman terrorist. The petition, which leaves hv Comet tonight, urges the
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    8 REDS DIE IN TRAP
    304 1 Big air raids on hideouts AMBUSH SUCCESS KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. THE Communist bandits today had their wors day for months. Nine of them were kille< and two wounded. Eight were killed by two platoons of tht '2 7 Gurkhas operating with the First Gordons in
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    FLOOD AID
    64 1 Tempter Fund $69,982 KU.»:.A LUMPUR. Thurs. The High Commissioner. Flood Relief Fund, which was opened »n Feb. 9 to help rehove distress among victim! |of the floods in Britain, has reached 569.982. This does not include a donation of £10.000 made by the Federal Government. Singapore Fund $54,148—
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    OFFICER SHOT BY MAU MAU
    57 1 NAIROBI. Thurs. A Mau Mau gane fired on two British officers in a midnight ambush in the Thomsons Fails area. One was shot through both legs: the other wa s not hurt. The injured man was driving a car which, in spite of his injuries,
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    Strike at a cemetery
    50 1 NEW YORK. Thurs— More than 550 bodies lay unburied today in 10 New York cemeteries where 200 grave diggers have been on strike since January 7. Many relatives have dug graves and buried their dead themselves because hearse drivers refused to cross cemetery picket lines.— Reuter.
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    'QUEEN OF SOUTH AFRICA*
    56 1 CAPETOWN. Thurs.— A bill introduced today i^ the House of Assembly by Dr. Daniel Malan. the Prime Minister. gives anew royal style and titles to Queen E'izabeth II a s "Queen of SouV. Africa and of her other realms and territories, head of the Commonwealth." The
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    ENGINE TROUBLE
    36 1 SHANNON. Thurs. A Trans-World Constellation flying from Gandrr, Newfoundland, developed engine trouble over the Atlantic today and was escort eri to Shannon. Eire, by another airliner of the same company. Both landed safely. —Reuter.
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    TOR POLAND'
    33 1 BELGRADE, Thurs.— Yugo Press, the Yugoslav news agency, said last night that the 5.000 tons of Persian oil taken to Venice by the Italian tanker Miriella was destined for Poland.— Reuter.
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    SYNTHETIC MOVE
    29 1 WASHINGTON. Thurs.— The Republican Congressman, Mr. Paul Shafer, said yesterday he would introduce a Bill to dispose of the Governmentowned synthetic rubber industry to orivate enterprise.— Reuter.
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    SNOW CUTS OFF 40,000
    34 1 ROME, Thurs. Towering snowdrifts today isolated 40.000 Italians in five towns high In the Apennines after violent snew storms in the past few days, according to reports reaching here. Reuter.
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    COLONY WATCHES CEYLON CHOLERA
    29 1 All peoplp entering Singapore from Ceylon will be quarantined. The Singapore Government last night announced that there is cholera in the Jaffna district of Ceylon.
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    MAN SACKED: 2,000 STRIKE
    48 1 BIRMINGHAM, Thurs— A strike of 2.000 key workers stopped production lines at the big Austin motor factory here yesterday, and threatened a closure of the whole plant employing 21,000 people. The men walked out in protest against the dismissal of a shop steward. Reuter.
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    NENE MOVES OUT
    60 1 MANILA, T-hurs.— Little Nene. manager of the two Singapore boxers who failed t o appear for their .scheduled fights at the Rizal Stadium here last night, was today reported to have taken his fighters to an unknown place in the suburbs of Manila. The R!zal stadium has
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    BOMBERS HIT AGAIN
    38 1 SEOUL, Thurs.— Nearly 200 Allied flghtef-bombers renewed their attacks at a Korean tank and infantry training centre, which was still smoking from yesterday's 400- plane raid. Pilots said today's strike ignited many new flrea.— AP.
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    WITH AIR REGIMENT
    65 1 PRIVATE BILL SPEAKMAN. Korea V.C., may come to Malaya. 11, plans to leave his old regiment, the Scottish Borderers, md join the Special Air Service Regiment in Malaya. cables HALL RO.MNEY from London. When Private Speakman sailed from Singapore to Hong Kong on his way to Korea
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    Chiang 's aircraft drop supplies to his guerillas
    180 1 Ch iang 's aircraft drop supplies to his guerillas t TAIPEH. Thursday. TT WAS learned today that Nationalist planes flew 1 deep into Communist-controlled China hinterland late last week and dropped munitions, radio sets and instructions to guerillas wno are a t present engaged in pitched battles with the Chinese
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    YOUTHS KNIFE THEN ROB SHOPKEEPER
    113 1 YOUTHS KNIFE THEN ROB SHOPKEEPER A shopkeeper, aged 42, struggled with four youths armed with knives who last night tried to rob his shop at the eighth mile, Tampenis Road. Singapore. Four young thugs wearing masks knocked on the door of Peh Teck Hock's shop. Peh's daughter, aged 16. opened
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    15 HELD IN SWOOP
    90 1 —C.I. D. raids underworld A FORMER detective was among 15 suspects arrested by the C.I.D. in a swoop on the Colony's underworld haunts yesterday. Victims of armed hold-ups were called to C.I.D. headquarters last night to identify the suspects Singapore"s Assistant Commissioner C.1.D.. Mr J.M.McN. Maclean,
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    NO BLOCKADE ON WIIMA, SAY PORT OFFICIALS
    464 1 NO BLOCKADE ON WIIMA, SAY PORT OFFICIALS SINGAPORE Government has not put a blockade on the Red China-bound Finnish tanker Hiim.i. which has lain off the Sultan Shoal lighthouse, Singapore, for the last nine days. This was said yesterday by Singapore Master Attendant. Commander L. P. Lane. It was repeated
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    Britain rallies to Dooley HELP FROM ALL
    273 1 Britain rallies to Dooley HELP FROM ALL PRESTON. Thu.-s. SPORTS-LOVING B /Ham rallied to the aid of Derek Dooley, tragically stricken national soccer star, with cash and job offers a s he lay seriously ill in a hospital here today. Dooley. his athCetic career cut short at 23 by the
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    SITUATION 'GRIM'
    45 1 WASHINGTON. Thurs. Congressional leaders of both the Democratic and Republican parties reviewed the wortd military situation with President Eisenhower today A House member said later it was a portrayal of "a grim picture.'' The leaders spent 90 m!nute s with Mr. Eisenhower -A.P.
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    Butcher boycott
    29 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Thurs. The AFL Butchers' Uni On has threatened to call a walk-out in any California meat market that handles low-priced frozen New Zealand beef.— A.P.
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    NEW PENALTIES
    37 1 NAIROBI. Thurs. New e £?A c m r 5 e ncy regulations published today make it an offence, with a liability to ten years' imprisonment fcr anyone to associate with nnd assist suspected persons Reuter.
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    PAPER BANNED
    33 1 PARIS. Thurs. France today banned the Spanish anarchist newspaper Ruta published by exiles in Paris for contravening Press regulations and printing articles -likely to create difficulties on the diplomatic plane."— Reuter.
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    DEFENCE QUERY
    41 1 LONDON. Thurs- The Br Itish Government i s to be asked i n the House of Lord s for details of the five-nation military staff group nn w being plamed to deal with the defence of South-East Asia Reuter.
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    Living 'pay' may be reviewed
    262 1 Living 'pay' may be reviewed THE Singapore and Federation Governments are likely to review the whole question of cost of living and "family" allowances to their employees as a result of a meeting between members of the two legislatures which took place in Singapore on Wednesday. The Federation representatives wet
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    Second tanker spotted
    74 1 WASHINGTON. Thurs.— A second FinnLsn tanker, loaded with jet fuel for Communist warplanes, has been spotted in the Mediterranean by Western security accnts. But American officials believe the ship's operators may have changed their minds about hauling its highly strategic cargo to Communist China. The .ship, the
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    FUNERAL OF INDIAN MINISTER
    42 2 FILL MILITARY HONOURS were paid to Gopalaswami Ayyangar, late Indian Defence Minister, when he was cremated at Madras. The body was laid on a gun carriage for the two-mile drive to the cremation ground. Thousands lined the route.
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    PRESS COUNCIL
    24 2 LONDON, Thurs.— Britain's newspaper owners and organisations representing journalists, have agreed on draft proposals for the formation of a press council. Reuter.
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    CHINESE LOOT TOWN IN NORTH BURMA
    92 2 [CHINESE guerillas attack Muse, 80 miies north o p.'iest and inflicting 35 a Burmese garrison. Burmese Army sources in Rangoon identified the guerrillas &s Chinese Nationalists and confirmed that the attack took place last Monday Mor c than 10.000 Chinese guerillas are operating inside
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    Ike appoints ambassadot
    34 2 WASHINGTON. Thurs President Eisenhower today named Mr. Karl L. Rankin as United States Ambassador to Nationalist China. Mr. Rankin has been acting charge D'Affaires at Taipeh, Formosa, since I August 1950.
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    4 A great step forward against cancer
    170 2 MADRID. Thursday DR. WALTER KI'HLMEY, 53, a bald bespectacled German scientist, yesterday announced "a great step forward in the fight against cancer." Spanish cancer specialists called the German's work "interesting" after he had lectured the Spanish Cancer Institute on 50 "hopeless" cases he
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    BERLIN WILL BE HELD, RUSSIA TOLD
    127 2 BERLIN WILL BE HELD, RUSSIA TOLD BERLIN. Thurs. rIE United States Hip,h Commissioner, Dr. James B. Conant, last night gave Russia a biunt warning that the Eisenhower Administration would defend Berlin "as an unshaken outpost of the Western world." Dr. Conant also promised that th e United States would oppose
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    CASUALTIES
    20 2 WASHINGTON. Thurs. TTnitrd Statrs rasualtirs in Korea reached 130.003 today, an increase of 274 since lait urck. .v.v.v.v.s-.v.sv.vw.*.-.*.-. 1
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    FAR EAST AGREEMENT
    249 3 Britain, France and U.S. to build closer military liaison PARIS, Thursday. y FRENCH Ministry spokesman said today that the United States, Britain and France were close to agreement on co-ordinating and building close liaison between their military commands in the Far East. The purpose of the co-ordination,
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    REPORT SAYS MORE TANKERS ARE EN ROUTE FOR PERSIA
    153 3 TEHERAN. Thursday. \|R PARKIDEH. chairman of the Persian Nationalised Oil Sales Commission, told reporte.-s today that the Italian Supo: Company had already sent more tankers out to Persia. Th r Italian Supor Company were the charterers of the Italian tanker Mirirlla.
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    'Quit CanaF talks may start soon
    178 3 CAIRO. Thurs. JJ'GYPT will next week ask for the evacuation of British trooDs from the Suez Canal, a Government spokesman said in Cairo today. The Premier. Gen. Mohamed Naguib. will hand the British Ambassador, Sir Ralph Stevenson, a ncte asking the British Government to
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    Operation on star
    17 3 HOLLYWOOD. Thurs.— Film j actor Dick Powell was operated I for appendicitis today.— U.P.
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    I did not intend to shoot, says corporal
    184 3 I did not intend to shoot, says corporal FAYID (Suez Canal Zonei. Thurs. BRITISH Corporal Harry Richard Page, accused of murderinp an Egyptian stall holder with a burst from his Stengun told a court martial today: "I had no intention of shooting." "I felt rather ashamed of running away," he
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    AMERICA LEFTS PRICE CONTROLS
    39 3 WASHINGTON. Thurs.— The Government yesterday lifted price controls from milk, butter, ice-cream and other dairy products. Drugs, cosmetics, coal and most service charees such a.< for car, radio, and television repairs were also freed. Reuter.
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    HUNT BY 1200
    37 3 TEL :VIV. Thurs— Police today detained a 30-year-old Iraqi immigrant after a search by 1200 men for a eytllst, who raped and killed Racrl Levinc, four-and-half. in a grove on the city's outskirts— Reuter.
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    Dog that saved a patrol
    174 3 Dog that saved a patrol SAN FRANTISCO. Thurs. THE GOLDEN Gate German Shepherd Dog Club of Northern California was so stirred to hear about the exploits of war dog York in Korea that it otTrred tnday to make him and his trainer honorary members. York is a hie five-year-old black
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    Dulles talks of blockade plans
    123 3 Mr. Dalles, ftddresslng his first Press conference since taking (ifflrr. said in answer to questions about the possibility of a naval blockade that the question of action to interrupt, or at least minimise the flow of military material to the Chinese Communists had beon "under
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    DEFENCELESS
    31 3 THE HAGUE. Thurs.— About half of Holland's dykes are broken, leaving the country defenceless against heavy storms, Mr. A 6. Maris, Director General of State Waterways, snid here today. Reuter.
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    RAN OFF RUNWAY
    33 3 rome. Thin.-; An Egyptian Air Force Gloster Meteor |el plane was .siiriitiy damaged yesterday when it ran ofT the runway at Rome's Clapino airport The pilot was not hurt.— UP.
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    NONE BETTER
    24 3 SYDNEY. Thurs.—Lieutenant General W Bridgeford declared here today there was no better fighting division in Korea than the British Commonwealth Division. Reuter.
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    3-POWER TALKS
    26 3 ATHENS, Thurs— Talks will bo-:in today to draft a political agreement between Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey, the Greek Foreign Office said last night. Reuter.
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    THE PICTURE THAT ANGERED A NATION
    93 3 THE PICTURE ABOVE caused an uproar in Belgium. It shows King Badauin 'left) Kith his step mother, Princess tic Rethy and his father. King Leopold, in the French rivicra. They were on holiday there vhile Belgium mm distressed by Europe's heavy floods And this
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    Call for York air crash inquiry
    117 3 LONDON. Thursday. 4 BRITISH Air Charter Company. Skyways, of London, is pressing for an r% early inquiry into reports of sabotage i n connection with the mysterious disappearance of one of its York airliners in the North Atlantic on February 2. The airliner was
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    Turkish delight
    53 3 STRAIGHT FROM the Turkey of Osmanli Sultans came the inspiration for this Schiaparelli turban hat of concertinapleat shantung in red, white and black. The oriental splendour of the turban is enhanced by the diamond cb°p and pentiant ear-rings, designed by Mellerio, which put the cost of the hat
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    ALL FORGIVEN BY AMNESTY
    156 3 PARIS, Thursaay. rE FRENCH National Assembly e^rly today voted an amnesty for 12 Alsatian conscripts sentenced to hard labour for their share in the 1944 massacre at Oradour Sur Gla nc The House had earlier stood in silence tor one minute in memory of the 642
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    Von Kuechler free
    79 3 BERLIN, Thursday. rE man who led German's invasion of Poland, which set off World War 11. was released from the Air<>ricancontrolled war criminals camp here today Former Field Marshal von Kuechler. nb w 72. and In Lad health since his recent heart attack. wa s granted medical
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    SEVAN AGAIN TALKS OF A THIRD 'PEACE' BLOC
    257 3 SEVAN AGAIN TALKS OF A THIRD 'PEACE' BLOC NEW DELHI, Thurs. MR. ANEURIN SEVAN, British Labour leader, told correspondents here yesterday that Britain could remain in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and still I form part of a third group of nations working for peace. Mr Revan was replying to
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    LONDON STOCKS
    296 3 LONDON, Thurs. /CONDITIONS were rather quletw on the Stork Market today and early hesitanre led to a mixed price pa'tein. Forripn bonds were fractionally harder In fmall trading with Greek issues receiving speculative support. Small lowering of values were noted in giltedged but considerable volume of small buying
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    LONDON TIN
    25 3 LONDON. Feb. 19. Cash Buyers £959; Sellers £960; Forward Buyers £937; Sellers £938: Settlement £959 (down MM). Turnover a.m. 45 tons; p.m. 55.
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    LONDON RUBBER
    37 3 IX7NDON. Feb. 18— Spot 22 .d M:.'h 2?-: a. Apr-Ana 2C\ri JulT'Btpt. 22';-il. O I -D'"'-. 22 -d Keb ciT. 22 ',d. Mar. c.i.f. 22 \d April r if. 22 \ri. Market Se Uerr, reserved.
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    CIGS ON WAY TO KENYA
    46 3 FAYED (Suez canal), Thurs. Genera] Sir John Harding, Chief of the British Imperial General Staff, arrived here today by air. He will stay with General Sir Brian Robertson Commander-in-Chief. British Middle East Land Forces and fly on to Kenya tomorrow. Reuter.
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    GOING HOME
    31 3 TEL AVIV. Thurs.—Thirtynine members of the Soviet legation staff here, recalled when thi* Soviet Union severed diplomatic relations with Israel last week. will embark for home tomorrow.— UP. I
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    ONLY $950 DOWN AND THESE MEN HAVE A HOUSE
    244 4 Government fixes easy payments pACILITIES to encourage Singapore government officers to buy their own houses have been agreed upon by the Government and the Federal and Colonial Building Society. With a down payment as low as $950 an officer can now
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    TRADE TALK
    36 4 Mr. D. F. Karmarkar, Minister of Commerce for the Government of India, will addre.ss a public meetins on "India's commercial relations" at the Indian Association premises in Singapore at 5.15 p.m. on Feb. 22.
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    Singapore Archery flub dance
    62 4 Singapore Archery flub dance THE OVERGROWN BOY under the speared pomelo is 6ft-6in Jack Sullivan, committee member of the Singapore Archery Club. The man who put the arrows there was Mr. Ron Knight, champion Malayan bowman. It was the William Tell act which climaxed the Archery Club dance at Raffles
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    24 Malayans to go to Sandhurst
    143 4 40 FOR U.K. TRAINING KI'ALA LI'MPUR. Thursday. OF the 40 potential officers of the Federation Regiment and the Malay Regiment who are leaving for training in England next month, 24 will be selected for a long course at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst.
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    COUNCIL MEETING
    22 4 BATU PAHAT. Thurs— The Town Council. Batu Pahat. will meet at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Batu Pahat, on Monday.
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    Land may be allotted for cheap housing
    171 4 Land may be allotted for cheap housing SINGAPORE Government is working on a scheme to allocate > large number of build'.ng i)i'>t s tiff paya Lebar to people wishing to build low -cost houses. The land, at Jalan Kambing and Kirn Chuan Avenue, wkl be leased temporarily. A Government spokesman
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    OFFICER TOOK $207, GAOLED
    42 4 SEGAMAT. Thurs. A former assistant resettlement officer. Kang Wing Choon. 25. was sentenced in the Begmmat Session* Court to a month's hard labour and finrd $500 or another four months' gaol for criminal breach of trust of $207.
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    HELPED DISTIL
    46 4 TELUK ANSON. Thurs. Qonvictrd of abetting Tan Chow Srng to cii.<til intoxicattng liquor without a licence at An.im Puloh Acres in tho Teluk Anson area on Feb. 3. One; Tiam Hork, 41, was fined $500, in default six months' imprisonment, in the Magistrate's Court
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    MALARIA COULD HIT US HARD
    151 4 MALARIA COULD HIT US HARD SINGAPORE'S Chief Health Officer, Dr. M Doraisinpham, said yesterday that the Colony would suffer a "very violent" outbreak <>f malaria if adequate precautions were not taken Dr. Doraisingham, addressing the monthly meeting of the Singapore Rural Board, said he wanted to correct a misapprehension that
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    SEMINAR ON EDUCATION
    49 4 The Sinaapore Counril for I Adult Education has organised a seminar for its language class English teachers at the Gan Eng Seng School in Anson Road at 9 a.m. on Feb. 22. There will be lectures on adult education. language teaching techniques and adult education problems.
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    'Double your gifts' plea
    59 4 The Singapore Y.W.C.A. will aunch its annual appeal for unds today with the slogan: ■Celebrate the Coronation Dy lr.ubling your donation." Target figure set for this year is $33,000. All gifts ar? exerrpted from tax. Funds are needed for .ho maintenance and delelopment of the Y.W.C.A's
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    MOVED FOOD: $35
    34 4 MUAR, Thurs.— Ton Kee Tan, 58. was at Muar fined l $35. in default two weeks' gaol, i for moving food from a restricted area at Jalan c Panchor, Bukit Pasir.
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    Concert for aged, boys
    67 4 MALACCA. Thurs. Radio Malaya, Malacca, Chinese section, will hold a concert a* a Chinese New Year treat for Malacca Welfare Home for the Aged and Jubilee Boys' Club inrrates r> n Saturday at 8 p.m. The show will be held in a hall of the home
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    A.S.P's TRIAL —Date fixed
    42 4 A.S.P's TRIAL —Date fixed MALACCA, Thurs— The trial of an Assistant Superintendent of Police and officer-in-charge. Jasin police district, on a charce of cheating in respect of travelling claims, was today fixed for hearing at the Malacca Sessions Court on Mar. 4.
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    RALLY TO MARK SCOUT WEEK
    60 4 IPOH. Thurs.— Scouts of Xinta group will mark Scout Week with a rally at the St. Michaels institution, on Sunday morning at 8 a.m. On Saturday the Perak Bey Scouts' Association will hoM its annual meeting at the St. Michael's Institution hall at 2.30 p.m.
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    DISORDERLY: $10
    23 4 MUAR, Thurs.— For behaving in a disorderly manner at the entrance of the amusement park, Poh Soon Hee was fined $10.
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    DROVE TOO FAST
    24 4 SEGAMAT, Wed.— For driving a timber lorry at excessive speed along the main road, Gan Kee Keng, 28, was fined $25.
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    EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL REPLACED
    334 4 EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL REPLACED ANEW exchange control Bill was gazetted by Singapore Government yesterday in place of the Bill withdrawn at j the December Legislative Council meeting. In a long statement of the I objects and reasons, the Attor-ney-General, Mr. E. J. Davles, replies to the criticism which forced the
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    Remanded on murder charge
    53 4 TELUK ANSON. Thurs.— -Lee Jit Wan. 26, was charged in the Magistrate's Court with tne murder of Loo Huat Kee, 30, at .Teluk Anson on Feb. 15. He I was remanded. Loo, a coffee-stall keeper, was found dead with several san wounds in his chest late
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    NINE SHOTS —THEN BOAR MADE A DYING CHARGE
    93 4 NINE SHOTS —THEN BOAR MADE A DYING CHARGE ALOR STAR. Thurs. AFTER nine shots had been fired at It, a dying wild boar mad<- a last rbarge at a farmer in Kampong Bubu and wounded him on the leg. The farmer, Din Tet, was awakened last night by cries made
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    Conviction set aside
    60 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.Mr. Justice Storr in the Supreme Court today quashed conviction and set aside a sentence of nine months' gaol passed on Chlew Fong by the Sessions Court for possession or opium. The judge found that Chiew had not been given a copy of the chemist's
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    SCOUT WEEK IN JOHORE BAHRU
    55 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs Scout Week In Johore Bahru will begin on Sunday. From that day. Boy Scout s will offer their services for a variety of jobs. The money they get for their work will go to a central fund to maintain camping sites In
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    EXHIBITION WILL BE HEAVILY GUARDED
    109 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. A HEAVY GUARD will be placed on priceless Chinese porcelain and pottery to be exhibited in Kuala Lumpur for a week from Feb. 28. More than 120 exhibits will be on show at the first Chinese ceramics exhibition ever held in the
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    27 suspected Red helpers held in big screening
    228 5 SURRENDERED R.WDITS HELP FORCES KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. TWENTY-SEVEN suspected terrorist helpers were arrested yesterday when military and police forces screened the new village of Jenjarom, near Ranting, in South Selangor. Two surrendered terrorists, who had been branch committee chairmen in the Communist
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    20 5 INCHE ANAS SAAT and his bride, Che Norli Kaniis, at the bersanding ceremony after their wedding in Singapore. David picture.
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    HIGHER PENSIONS IN SPORE
    112 5 Approval likely next week rE Singapore Legislative Council will be asked on Tuesday to approve a schecne providing for increased allowances for Government pensioners. The scheme will cost the Colony an extra $1,350,000 annually. It v based on the recommendations of the Joint Consultative Finance Committee
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    Prize cars for two
    65 5 PENANG, Thurs.— First prizr of a new Austin Somerset in the recent Darma Dewar, UMNO lucky tickets draw wa.s won by Inche Matt bin Lebai Man. of Pekan Rabu, Alor Star. Kedah. Second prize, a new Austin 7. wth: to Mr. C. A. Taylor, of Penan?,
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    CIVICS COURSE
    18 5 KANGAR, Thurs. Thirty ketuas attended a civics course held at the Government office, Kangar, Perils yesterday.
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    Two Penang curfews go
    64 5 PENANG, Thurs.— Two more curfews have been lifted in 1 1 Penang. 1 1 A police statement today I announces tnat curfew orders from last October on r rural areas in the central and south-west distrricts have i been cancelled. f These areas included land i
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    CHAIRMAN AGAIN
    56 5 IPOH, Thurs.— Mr. W. G Scott was today re-elected chairman of the Perak branch i of the F.M.S. Chamber of Commerce. The following members of the committee were elected for the current year: Messrs W. R 18. Perrot, J. T. McDougall, P. i Gilmour, R. Jacobs, J. H.
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    ARCHITECT
    14 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs Mr. Eric Taylor has taken up duties as Municipal Architect.
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    Three were late: $600
    63 5 PENANG. Thurs. The; Penang Income Tax Department has Intensified m cam- 1 paisn MalMt !at«' tax pay-! menus and returns. Three more offenders have been prosecuted thi s week. For failine to lodge their 1951 and 1952 returns within 21 days. P. A. Abdul Ghaffoor, P.
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    MURDER—BY UNKNOWN
    53 5 MURDER— BY UNKNOWN ALOR STAR. Thurs.— The Alor Star magistrate, Tuan Syed Hussain, held today that a young married woman, Luan Din Nooi, was murdered by an unknown person. Luan's stabbed body was found in a grazing field at Kampong Naka. Mukim Rambai, on Jan. 2. Her two-year-old child was
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    KULIM GETS NEWO.C.P.D.
    38 5 IPOH. Thurs.— Mr. Leong Boon Swee. A.S.P., has been posted to Kulim as O.C.P.D. in place of Mr. G. H. A. Murphy. Mr. Leong Boon Swee was with the C.I.D. in Ipoh for many years.
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    CURFEW RELAXED OVER NEW YEAR
    50 5 RAUB, Thurs.— Curfew hours in the new villages in the Raub District were relaxed up to midnight for the Chinese New Year. People from the new villages were able to visit friends in Raub town and see a cinema show. Special bus services were run.
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    HE CAN'T GO
    42 5 PENANG, Thurs.— Federal Legislative Councillor, Mr. C. M. Hashim. will not be able to represent the Federation at next week's ECAFE trade conference in Manila owing to ill health. Mr. Hashim was to have been the Federation's only delegate.
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    DEAF SCHOOL
    27 5 IPOH, Thurs. The Perak Appeal Committee for the Federation's School for the Deaf yesterday decided to set up committees In all districts in the State.
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    I WAS ROBBED, SAYS DRIVER
    181 5 Three men accused A TAXI driver, Ang Chew Chin, yesterday told the Singapore Fourth Criminal District Court how three men robbed him on Oct. 13 at Sommerville Road, Singapore. He said Tay Thiam Chong. Chew Hai Yong and Tan Bene Whatt boarded his taxi at
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    He will help to recruit Chinese
    82 5 He will help to recruit Chinese KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. THE Malayan Chinese Association has appointed a liaison officer to help recruit Chinese into the police and other security forces. The officer, Mr. Yap Yin Chung was formerly a home guard officer at Seremban. He will be attached to the M.C.A.
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    $1,637 lost in robbery
    72 5 TELUK ANSON. Thurs Throe men broke into a copra dealer's house at Tebok Pulai l the Sabak Berm.m area, on Chinese New Year night and t ,°i^ casb an d jewellery worth $1,637. according to a report first made to police The robbers ransacked the house
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    A $10 mil. suburb for the capital
    232 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. rIREE miles from the centre of Kuala Lumpur a suburb is being built which will make the Royal Air Force station the most modern in the Far East cost: nearly SlO million. When work on the bigger brighter RAF station
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    Gaol for two suppliers
    58 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs Yap Kirn Seng and Lai Thiam, alias Ah Keow, who were found in possession of a terrorist document and suspected bandit supplies in Sungei Tua Road, Kuala Lumpur, were sentenced to prison terms in the Supreme Court today. Yap was sentenced to three
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    School to help 1,000 children
    60 5 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Thurs— A gesture by the Buklt Mertajam High School may make It possible for 1,000 children from Province Wellesley new villages to attend the Coronation celebrations in Penang Cost of sending the children over is estimated at $6,000. The High School has offered
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    I WAS ROBBED OF $6,065
    218 5 Spore clerk tells court rN KOON LIANG. a cigarette delivery clerk, told Mr Justice Knight at the Singapore Assizes yesterday that two Chinese, one of them armed with a pistol, held him up at Woodlands Road and robbed him- of $6,065 one day in August
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    Art show in Batu Pahat
    36 5 BATU PAHAT. Thurs.— The town's second art exhibition will be held at the Government English School hall, tomorrow and on Saturday. The Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. will open the exhibition.
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    Fire at clinic
    43 5 PENANG, Thurs.— Firemen took only a few minutes to put out a small fire which broke out today in the welfare clinic of Police Headquarters in Penang Road. A stove used to sterilise surgical instruments caught fire. Damage was negligible.
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    GETTING READY
    29 5 BATU PAHAT. Thurs— The Coronation Celebration Committee, Batu Pahat, will hold a meeting on Tuesday at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Batu Pahat. to discuss further plans.
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    PENANG HOUSING
    28 5 PENANG, Thurs.— An application by the Penang Municipal Council for a loan to develop a second housing estate is under consideration by the Federal Housing Trust.
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    $52,000 GOLD FOUND IN SHIP IS SEIZED
    162 5 rIRTY-TWO and a half pounds of gold slabs valued at $52,000. were con--1 flscated in the Singapore Third Criminal District Court yesterday when Lee Kirn Hens? was sentencfd to one year's imprisonment for importing the gold intn Singapore without a permit on Feb.
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    Aflickering candle gave more light
    131 5 Aflickering candle gave more light KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. AT 3.30 this morning;, among a maze of machinery in the giant Connaught Bridge power station, a tiny candle flickered and led engineers to a fault which had caused extensive electrical load shedding this week. Mr. E. R W. Lee, a shift
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    119 6 THE FAMILY of the late Mrs. Fliz.ibeth Julia Nonls thank all f:>nris and relative* who attended the funeral, sent wreaths and letters of condolences In their recent brreavoment. MR. MRS. WILLIAM TAN w.«h to thank all relatives, friends who attended the wedfling. 16th February at the place of Mr.
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    57 6 ITS FUN looking at clothes, more especially at Madeline's where you don't fe*l compelled to buy. THE STAGE CLUB presents Trespa.^ by Emlyn Williams on M;irrh sth, *6th and 7th at Victoria Theitre, 9 p.m. Box Office now open a' Robinsons. j 1 i j j I f i
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      Family Pay Problems
      636 6 Family Pay Problems Mr. Dasaratha Raj, who has asked the Colonial Secretary when the report on family allowances for locally domiciled government officers is to be published, can look forward to a complicated answer. For the visit to Singapore of a team from the Federal Legislative Council has given this
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      Federal Prison Reform
      555 6 The Criminal Justice Bill, shortly to be introduced in the Federal Legislative Council, offers that body an opportunity to debate the penal system which we hepe it will accept. It is a short, simple bill, but an important one, and its objects are not likely to be
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      Mr. Bowles Explains
      120 6 Mr. Chester Bowles, the American Ambassador to India, has made an explanation which he may have to explain. The United States, he told a press conference in Nepal, would be "delighted to co-operate with China and the Soviet Union if the fighting in Korea was stopped and
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    THE TRAGIC REFUGEES OF GERMANY
    951 6  - THE TRAGIC REFUGEES OF GERMANY ANTONY TERRY By BERLIN. fTHERE are tired red eyes among British intelligence officers in Berlin these days— red eyes from sleepless nights of work. Outside the British screenIng centre in Karollngerplatz in the heart of the British sector, and a stone's throw from the giant
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      TO ASSIMILATE ALL
      386 6 THE discussion, reported by you on Feb. 16, by the UMNO executive on the formation of the United Malayan Party, said to be sponsored by the Dato Panglima Bukit Gantang. Perak. cannot have come as a surprise to those who have been following the present doings of
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      Strength of unity
      149 6 ALMOST everywhere In Malaya there exists party I feeling, so that It looks at If any move to unite the peoole of this country will be pochpoohed. At a time when ye are in desperate need of It, unity seems to fly ever further from us. Party
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      Banker's letter
      161 6 ON Feburary 18 you published an extract from a letter written by the Midland Bank Executor and Trustee Company Limited to a client regarding an investment in a Federation of Malaya loan. The following day, you published statements by a number of Federation leaders accusing this bank of
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      THE MILO IS NOT 'MILO'
      95 6 WITH reference to the newsitem in Pape Two of Thursday's Straits Times headed 'India Fails to Get Milo From China," w e should like to make it quit« clear that thp Milo referred to is not "Milo," Nestles fortified tonic food drink neither is the
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      CHINESE, WRITTEN AND SPOKEN
      127 6 npHE article by Dr. Ho Yung Chi on the Chinese language ls most interesting. But surely he ls misleading when he implies that the Chinese language Is "spoken" by 550 million people, adding as he does that that figure Includes the Japanese, Koreans and Indo-Chinese, who
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    A Bishop's task in S.-E. Asia
    461 6 WHEN the Bishop of Singapore, the Right Reverend H. W. Baines. goes on leave to England at the end of this month, he will have given 3' 2 years' service to the Malayan community. For the head of any Church is more than just
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    On the Margin
    561 6 J VnlllClM ON Wednesday. In referring to flit 1 overgroofi song i "TVrang Bulan", we .spoke or i Raja Razman, of Pcrak. a s a i lover of and authority on I Perak history and custom. Our pmyer lor more conclusive lnr I formation about the origin
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      778 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. STOKES: To Florence, wife of Eric Stokes, a daughter at 71 Kheam Hock Road, Singapore on February 18th. THE engagement ls announced brtwern Maurice, son of Mr Mrs. A. F. Crisp of Wellington, New Zealand, and Megan Marcarpf. daughtrr of Mr. Mrs. F. T. Mills. East Putney. London.
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      107 6 How to argue What do you do when an Ignorant stranger lays down the law on your own pet subject? Hit him? Walk away? Say "You don't know what you're talking about"? There Is another way to deal with him— a way that can make him want to find out
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    MYSTERY OF THE ARMED GANG WHO WEAR SWIMMING TRUNKS
    299 7 New one on us, say the police FOLLOWING the Chinese New Year crime wave, a new armed robbery gang is cashing in on the threat-and-grab business in Singapore. It is a gang with a difference. There are three Malays and they
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    Brave boy flies off to get a new face
    235 7 A MALAY hoy from a Malacca; k i inpiiiu; with :i brand new i snnckoh anil a well-filled Kuilrast' will climb aboard an j K.A.F. Rkeraft at (hanxi air- j liciti Stagapan Ihh »»omin« ami ll v <>(T tv .Mt-lbourne for
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    SIR DENYS DUE
    23 7 Sir Drnys Lowson. chairman of Australian Estates and former Lord Mayor of London, is due in Singapore by air tomorrow.
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    STORE GIRL GUIDE RALLY
    50 7 Singapore"? annual "Thinking Day" Girl Guide rally will be hrlri In the grounds of the Colonial Secretary's house in thr Government Hou.-e domain at 4 p.m. tomorrow. In the event of wet weather, tho rally will be at St. Mar- I taret'g School in Sophia Road
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    TALK IN STORE
    29 7 Mr. I. V. Polumin. a research worker, will give a talk on "Aoorigir.es in Malaya." on Fob. 26 in the British Council Hall at 8.30 p.m.
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    4 Malayan airmen for Coronation
    77 7 4 Malayan airmen for Coronation PENANG. Thurs" PUR men will represent the Penang squadron ol the Malayan Auxiliary Air Force at the Coronation in London. They will be led by Officer Cadet Hamzah bin Mohamed Salleh, a member of the air crew. Sgt Chin Thean Lock will represent the ground
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    $40,000 for Perak
    65 7 IPOH, Thurs.— Nearly $40,000 of Rural and Industrial Development Authority funds will be spent on minor schemes in rural Perak, said Mr. E. K. Fisk, the state development officer. This money will build landing stages on rivers, reclaim of padi lands and provide wells, minor water supplies,
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    LABOURERS WILL NOT GET TEMPLE
    49 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The Kuala Lumpur Municipality has refused to build a temple for Indian labourers living at Shaw Road in Kuala Lumpur. Members of the Municipal Housing Committee felt that there would be repercussions if it was paid for out of ratepayers' money.
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    NOT VALID: $25
    28 7 For having; an expired radio licence. Gan Hock Huat, of Geylanp; Road, was yesterday fined $25 by Mr. Choor Singh the Singapore Third Police Magistrate.
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    JOHORE CLERK
    28 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. Inche Zalnal bin Mohamed. Clerk of th e Council, Johore, is on leave and has been succeeded by Imfhe Ooyub bin Abdul Manas.
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    Three for ECAFE talks
    109 7 Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, a mevnbcr Of tho Trade AiviBory Committee, loaves Singapore this morning by a:r with Mr R. Jumabhny and Mr. C H W d tn attend tho ECAFE trade promotion conference in Manila. Mr. Yap said that the conforme^, which opens on Monday,
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    BOUND OVER
    44 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs Salmah binte Hitam, 17, who worked as a servant to help her widowed mother, was today bound over six months In a $100 bond when convicted on a charge of assisting in concealing a wrist watch valued at $150.
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    'DIGNITY IS BEST DEFENCE'
    175 7 'DIGNITY IS BEST DEFENCE' MORE than 100 Malay, Chinese and Indian women last evening attended the opening of the Singapore Council of Women's first club Mrs. W. L. Blythe. wife of the Colonial Secretary, opened the club, which will be open every week night a: the Joo Chiat Children's Centre.
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    To visit Singapore
    68 7 Mr. Peter Henry Burgess, a well-known composer of songs and pianoforte pieces and conductor; will be visiting Singapore in September as an overseas examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, London. He has been an examiner for the Associated Board since 1951. He
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    CO-OP GIVES 19 AWARDS
    47 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Nineteen scholarships have been awarded by the Selangor Government Servants' Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society Ltd.. Kuala Lumpur. Sixty-three students from various schools in Selangor sat for a competitive examination. The scholarships are for children of past and present members.
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    RETURNING NEXT MONTH
    51 7 IPOH. Thurs. Dr. L. W. Jayesuria, formerly of the District Hospital. Ipoh. who went on study leave to Britain two years ago, will toe posted to Telufc Anson on his return early next month. Mrs. Jayesuria, who went to Britain last year, will also be returning to
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    ANNIVERSARY 32
    24 7 The Singapore Foochow Coffee Merchants' Association will celebrate its 32nd anniversary with a dinner at the association's permlses In Queen Street tomorrow.
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    Place of horror ...but now it is a wholesome club
    173 7 DR. Paul Moyer Limbert, secretary-elect of the World's Alliance of Y.M.C.A.s. yesterday described Singapore V.M.C.A. as "a living symbol of courage and firm faith in the ultimate triumph of right over wrong." "Its present building in Orchard Road was defiled
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    $1,000 bail in theft charge
    69 7 Ler Ah Kum cCaimed trial yesterday in the Singapore Fourth Police Qeurt to a charge of stealing 2J Dn s of scrap Iron from the International Salvage Association Ltd. He wa s granted bail of $1,000. The case will be heard on June 16. He
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    CARD OFFENCE
    30 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs Sher All, a new arrival from India, who failed to register and obtain an identity card within the prescribed time was fined $25 here today.
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    VISITS CLINIC
    16 7 The Countess of Limerick yesterday visited the Singapore Family Planning clinic at Towner Road.
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    NEW HEALTH SECTION FOR RURAL BOARD
    108 7 rpHE Singapore Rural Board yesterday decided to set up a new department to Improve sanitation in the Colony's outlying districts. Approval from Government to appoint an officer to head the department will soon be sought. Known as the Sanitation and Conservancy Department, 1 the
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    VOLUNTEERS TO START DRIVE FOR RECRUITS
    147 7 VOLUNTEERS TO START DRIVE FOR RECRUITS rpHE Singapore Volunteer A Corps will start a recruiting compaign next month for 16 officers and 260 men, Its commander, Lt.-Col. T. J. Hutchinson, said, yesterday. Week-end camps be held at the new corps camp at Changi. The course for the officers will be
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    Firm did not exist— allegation
    117 7 Firm did not exist allegation KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. A 28-YEAR-OLD salvage engineer. B. C. Steele. alleged to have posed as the manager of a non-existent company to cheat a Chinese firm of $584. claimed trial in the Sessions Court today. Steele was charged with cheating Hock Lee and Company. Mountbattcn
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    UNESCO MAN FOR JAKARTA
    48 7 i Dr. Alexander Wolsky. principal scientific officer for South-East Asia of the United Nations Educational, fiaientific and Cultural Organisation, passed through Singapore yesterday on his way to Jakarta. He recently attended a conference i n the UNESCO headquarters in Paris o n international research.
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    The sergeant, the corporal, the signalman —and 11,532 valves
    311 7 The sergeant, the corporal, the signalman —and 1 1 ,532 valves A FEW days after he arrived in Singapore from England, an Army sergeant conspired with two subordinates to steal radio yalves from their depot. Yesterday. Sergeant L. J. McGuinness. 37, of the Royal Signals. wa s found Ruilty by
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    S'pore Eurasian leader survives censure move
    353 7 S'pore Eurasian leader survives censure move STORMY TWO-HOUR MEETING A RESOLUTION criticising their president, Mr. P. F. de Souza, on his "acrobatics and moral gymnastics" in the Singapore Legislative Council was defeated at the annual meeting of the Eurasian Association last night. After a stormy two-hour discussion, the meeting voted
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    MR. NINOMIYA SENDS $100 TO THE FUND
    125 7 MR. NINOMIYA SENDS $100 TO THE FUND THE Japanese Consul-General in Singapore. Mr. Ken i Ninomiya, was among those who sent donations tc the Singapore Flood Relief Fund yesterday— the first day of the "appeal He &aye $100 Donations received by the secretary of the Relief Fund committee, not including
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    ALL GUILTY
    32 7 All 13 people who were pro- f secuted in Singapore last month t for focd and price control I i offences were convicted. Fines' t totalling $595 were imposod. J
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    HE POSED AS A DETECTIVE
    42 7 Ng Choon Seng, alias Kirn k-ng. 31, I boatman, was yeserday sentenced to three nonths' imprisonment by the Singapore Sixth Police Magisrate, Mr. R. B. I. Pates, for impersonating a police detecive and attempting to extort :60.
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    THEY WANT JURY SYSTEM
    348 8 Lawyer critics of trials by assessors fairly well so far and there would be serious practical difTirultie.s against introducing trial by jury in the Federation. "A jury system might work iii Kuala Lumpur where there is a fairly lartfC population irom which t draw the jurors."
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    INAUGURAL LECTURE
    56 8 Professor J. A P. Cameron, Professor of Orthopaedic Suruory in the University of Mal:iya, will give his inaugural lecture in the central hall of the Faculty of Medicine at Sepoy Lines. Singapore, Bt 8 p.m. on Tuesday. He will speak on "The Development and Future of Orthopaedic Surgery."
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    LABOUR ADVISER TO SEE MALAYA '
    47 8 LABOUR ADVISER TO SEE MALAYA IPOH Thurs.— Mr. E. Parry, assistant labour adviser to the Sceretaary ol State for the Colonies, is expected in Malaya at the end of this month for a fortnight's tour. Mr. Parry will study trade unionism and industrial re- lationship in Malaya.
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    FALLEN TREE BRANCH LED TO BLACKOUT
    76 8 FALLEN TREE BRANCH LED TO BLACKOUT RESIDENTS in Angallia F':uk. Singapore, last nielil thought that thr hlarkouts urrr on t ln-iii again, when the lights suddenly went out. Their alarm was shortlived, however. The branch of a tree had fallen across *he overhead feeder wires and cut them. An Electricity
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    'Interests of nation must come first'
    113 8 'Interests of nation must come first' PENANG, Thurs. PERSONAL interests must give way to national interests, Tengku Abdul Rahman, president of the United Malays National Organisation, told Malay peasants during a tour of six Pemaig villages today. The formation of the UMNOMCA discussion group in the Federal Legislative Council I
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    TO THE WORLD'S ROOF
    95 8 l^ivr of the men who hope to scale Mount Everest, world's highest peak, as a Coronation year achievement. From left are Dr. M. Ward, the medical, officer, who is the son of Malaya's Commissioner in London; Mr. M. U'estmacott, Major C. G. YVylie. Mr G. C.
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    CHAIRMAN CONDEMNS SECRET VOTE PLAN
    199 8 T*HE Singapore Rural Board ■i- chairman, Mr. E. V. G. Day, yesterday condemned a suggestion that secret balloting should be allowed at board meetings. At th p monthly meeting Mr. Day declared: 'Secret balloting is highly undesirable. It will open the door to all sorLs
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    SELANGOR PARTY
    29 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Chinese members of the security forces serving in Selangor will be given a party by the Selangor Security Forces Amenities' Committee on March 1.
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    Two fined $1,000 each for bribe offer
    231 8 Two fined $1,000 each for bribe offer IPOH. Thurs. TWO mine employees, an engine driver and a purchasing agent, were today fined $1,000 each, or four months' gaol for offering Mr. A. E. Miles, Inspector of Machinery, Ipoh, a bribe of $50. They were Wong Swee. 43. and Chong Pun
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    Scout officials of Lower Perak
    111 8 TELUK ANSON. Thurs Officials of the Lower Perak District Boy Scouts Association for 1953 are: President, Raja Muda of Perak; vice-presidents. Raja Kechll 'Sulong. Messrs. H. Walker, R. J. Morton, W. E. Perera and Lim Ewe Cheng: secretary. Mr. Oor. Seru Teong: assistant secretary, Mr
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    TRANSFERRED
    18 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs._ Mr. G. Duggan. Executive Engineer. Johore Bahru. has left for Teluk Anson on transfer.
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    CRASH KILLED FOUR WOMEN: DRIVER CHARGED
    129 8 CRASH KILLED FOUR WOMEN: DRIVER CHARGED ipVERY day for nearly five years, Loh Ah Toh, a supervisor, had sat next to the driver of a lorry that had carried women workers to the Lee rubber factory in Upper Thomson Road, Singapore. She sat in the same seat on Jan. 7
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    IN SPORE ON WORLD TOUR
    59 8 Mr. E J. Boswell King, retired Chief of Supplies. London County Council, arrived in Singapore yesterday by Qantas Constellation from Sydney on a world tour. Mr. King, who retired from the Council last year, will spend a week in Singapore gathering facts to write a
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    CRUSHED BY A ROLLING LOG
    51 8 Ching Swee Hock. 47. a stevedore, was crushed to death on Jan. 15 when a log rolled on him while the Kampar was being unloaded alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves. At the inquest yesterday the Coroner. Mr. Giam Chons Hing. returned a verdict of
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    Caused hurt with parang charge
    59 8 Jemadin bin Kasim was yesterday charged in the Singapore Fourth Police Court with voluntarily causing hurt to Samat bin Alam by wounding him on the chest with a parang o:i Wednesday at Pulau Ayer Merlimau. oft Sineapore. He claimed trial nrd was granted bail of
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    Woman first refused to sign —COURT TOLD
    149 8 Woman first refused to sign —COURT TOLD A LAWYER told a Singapore police court yesterday that a woman refused to sign a document of sale after it had bern drawn up for her. but cam c back the same afternoon and put her thumbprint on it. Mr. K. I. Tan.
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    INSTALLATION
    34 8 The installation service of m!? e .i. 1953 Sin sapore District Methodist Youth Fellowship cabinet officers will be conducted by the Rev. Tracey K Joties in the Wesley Church at nine o'clock tonight.
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    DESERTER GAOLEL
    32 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs Esa bin Hamzah. an exta police constable, stationed at the Sta'c Trainir.s School, Kulai. wa.s .sentenced to thre« weeks' Imprisonment today by tr.e police court for desertion.
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    COWSHED FIRE
    24 8 IPOH. Thurs.— A cowshed in the Guncng Rapat new village caught fire this morning Part of the thatched attap roof was burned.
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    HINDI EXAMS
    18 8 The Hindustani Prachar Sabha will hold Hindi examinations at all Malayan centres tomorrow and on Sunday.
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    BANDITS FIRE ON TOWER
    42 8 IPOH. Thurs— Bandits last nl <iht fired a few shots at the polire look-out tower at Kampong Rapat new village, three m.les from Ipoh. and damaged thp searchlight The bandit flre was returned, but no casualties were reported.
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    SAINTS AMONG LAST FOUR IN 'SEVENS' '
    642 9 SAINTS AMONG LAST FOUR IN 'SEVENS' Thrilling rugger in quarter-finals POYAL AIR FORCE Seletar, Singapore Cricket 1%< Cliib "B", Sembawang "A" and Saints "A" will contest the semi-finals of the Singapore Cricket Club's seven-a-side rugger tournament on the padang tomorrow. In yesterday's quarter-finals. R.A.F. Seletar beat R.A.F. Tengah "B" by
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    C.S.C. tipped to win today's S'poreHAfinal
    202 9 By Our Horkry Reporter CEYLON Sports Club Will take the field at the S.C.C. tocLny. firm favourites against the University in the final of the Singapore Hockey Associa- j ticus senior knockout tourna-L ment for the G. E. N. Oehlers I Challrnee Cup. Ceylonese
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    JAPS WITHDRAW
    38 9 TOKYO. Thurs.—Japan will not compete in the world tnble tennis ebamplansnipi next month in Budapest although Jarrltnuwr ,ne the h°lders of four ttOat, but is already m.iknc plans ;o participate in the 1954 tournament in London—UP.
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    Farrer Park soccer results
    79 9 Results of friendly soccer matches played at Farrer Park yesierday were: Mansfield S.C. beat Rocklltes 2-0. Scorers Sunardi and Mohamed Isa. X.P.M. beat Handelsbank S.C. 7-0. S. V. B. MelJ scored five goals, Leong Li Beng and D. Vos, one each. Braddell S.C. beat Buklt Tlmah
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    TIONG BAHRUC.C.
    52 9 TIONG BAHRU C.C. The Tlong Bahru Community Centre table tennis team against the Singapore Chung Hwa Service Association at Tlong Bahru tomorrow will be chosen from Quek San Chew, Llm Kirn Woon, Yap Sze Trio, Tyo Fook Lee, Yang Sing Chine. Szeto Liang, Yu Chun Yee, Nc Fook Wah. Koh
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    Stonor Shield put on knockout basis
    306 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. AM EXTRAORDINARY general meeting of the Selangor Cricket Association decided tonight, by 15 votes to ten, to run the Stonor Shield competition this year on a knockout basis. This competition was run on a league system in the past two seasons.
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    36 9 SCC "B" winger McMullan. did not get far this time, being forced into touch by South Johore s Hewitt in their 'Sevens' rugger quarter-final on th P Padans yesterday which SCC won 15-5. Straits Times picture.
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    Chorpade in Indian team
    207 9 POr.T OF SPAIN. (Trinidad i. Thurs. JAYSIKHRAO Chorpade. 22-ye&r- i old all-rounder from Baroda who arrived only last week to re-, inforce the Indian touring team, has been included in India's side for the i third Test against the West Indies which begins here today. It
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    RIGBY LEAGUE
    31 9 LONDON. Thurs— Results of Rugby League Cup ties (first round, second legi played yesterdiv were: Leads 32, Wakeneld Trinity 9 Wakefleld eliminated >: York 3, Salford 8 (York eliminated).— Reu'er.
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    MANILA'S LIFE BAN ON PARAS, KEE CHAN
    532 9 MANILA, Thurs. GINGAPORE promoter Little Nene said today he stopped Lim Kee Chan jand Little Paras from I fighting last night bei cause the local promoter failed to live up to his contract terms. Ten thousand angry fans n f a j; y
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    S'pore Services XI for Butterworth
    102 9 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Thurs. Singapore Combined Services will i meet Heidens XI at hockey lr ale! of the Province Wellesley Police Welfare Coronation Fund at 3utterworth this Sunday at 5.15 p m. Singapore Combined Servu M, captained by Frank Reynolds, will include another English international Col.
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    S.R.C. CRICKET
    44 9 Singapore Recreation dub will start the season's cricket practices on Tuesday and thereafter hold practices dally except on Mondays and Saturdays. SRC. will play in the Singapore Crirtcet Association's senior and junior tourneys. The crickrt convenor is Mr. James Aerla, telephone *****.
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    This is what they say of Bobo Olson
    261 9 By GEORGE WHITING LONDON, Thurs. WHAT sort of fighter is this Carl "Bobo" Olson, who is being touted as title opponent for Randolph Turpin? I Stories, contrived to make us tremble, are being allowed to "leak" across the Atlantic concerning Olson. Routine
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      ADVENTURE IN VENICE
      330 10 JJOW attractive a place Venice must be. The other day. we saw the Venice of a few hundred years ago in 'The Thief of Venice". Now we have the Venice of today in "Venetian Bird". Here is adventure, pure and simple. A private detective is in Venice
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      A. picture leave you speechless
      849 10  -  BRAIN CROZER »> sized town with clean streets, a basy bus;nrss section, neat little suburbs and flourishing small incus, rles on the outskirts. To J;n. Austin, who edited the local newspiper, it was a little too quiet f.-r a Journalist. The thing was. he didn't
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      One-minute Review
      247 10 LJERE i* a selection of films now in circulation in Sinjj- I pore or rhc Federation. Three stars means »n ourstand- 5 -n« film, two stars better than average, one star good eftertainment LIMELICHT: Unique Chaplin tcar-jerkinc rib- I ti'kler in which the little man keeps his reputation
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      THE LOVELY STARS OF FRANCE
      102 10 THE French Film Festival at the Rialto Cinema. London, ending last week, was a brilliant occasion that brought many of France's most beautiful stars to the capital. Some pictures of them have already appeared in the Straits Times this week. Here are two more. On
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      314 10 Rrx Harrison gives his ir" il drhnnair pol nhrd performance" h. TROZIER (S. Time*). fft W IILLI fj> -Harrison-Palmer fL\BSs} Poster, Froii Broadway's heartwarming surcess ahout successful marriaee from the Ist NKJHT t o the Ist BABY. ON STAGE H\ 'J Hjll^ Bth DAY Queen ie Paul Presents The Sun
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    25,000 Chinese Christians wiped out under Reds
    628 11 CHURCH UXDER FIRE IX TWO COUNTRIES From ARNOLD BEICHMAN in Hong Kong THE inside story of red A China's all-out war against religion, instituted on an organized nation-wide scale coincident with the communist onslaught on Korea in June 1950, and which, thus far,
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    STAGE and MUSIC
    544 11 THE two plays of the Arts Theatre which have just finished— "Antigone" and "A Village Wooing" seem to have been a great success. If everyone didn't like them at least they were stimulated to some reaction. "Antigone" drew most comment and appears to have surprised quite a
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    DON'T SPOIL THIS TALENT'
    259 11 THE only concert this week —a violin recital by Alphcnso Anthony at the H.M.V. studio in Singapore sets a problem. How fast should a Rifted young muMclan be pushed along? Anthony ls only 15. and he Is certainly gifted. At the same time he U no
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    Climax to long fight in Yugoslavia
    484 11  - Climax to long fight in Yugoslav ia USGOOD CARLTHERS By YUGOSLAVIA'S recent break with the Vatican raises anew the question of where .*eliKion stands today in that Communist-ruled Balkan crossroads. The dramatic break-off of all relations with the Roman Catholic state in Rome last December 17 is essentially the climax
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      302 11 Straits Times Crossword ACROSS 8. Red baths for a charuje iB>. 1 Addressed in confidence to 13. A fop Invites a bird to en'er the deaf? <l. 4. 2. 4, 3>. 1 8 > 9. Obliged to introduce an animal IS. Unbiased >9). (7>. 16. Writer and artist iB>. 10.
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    INDONESIAN TRADE LIKELY TO BYPASS STORE ■KSI 7 n^=sn retail prices m rULLUvv bull M V i tmttgti mmr t\tj?
    818 12 INDONESIAN TRADE LIKELY TO BYPASS STORE ■KSI 7 n^=sn retail prices m rULLUvv bull M V i tmttgti mmr t\tj? Sixty ye.ir old, Signor Raffarlc Ferrajolo, thr lirst post-war Italian Consul for Singapore. Malaya and Borneo, is searching for any pre-war records that might have been left in Singapore after
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    RUBBER ON DISPLAY At exhibition in London
    209 12 RUBBER ON DISPLAY At exhibition in London IN thes e days of labour shortages and hish prices the average housewiie is ronstantly looking for labour-savins devices and other means of making the hom P brisht and comfortable at the m cast. In their display at the Ideal Home Exhibition. Olympla
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    Technical aid scheme working
    157 12 INDIA and South-East Asian countries are working as close-knit circle helping one another in their development schemes under tha Colombo Plan technical assistance scheme. This was revealed at the policy commission of the Council of the Colombo Plan, which began a one-wet-k conference in Colombo. The
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    RUBBER SHOES
    48 12 The rubb-T factory at Dacca. East Pakistan, is now producing more than 3.000 pairs of thoet daily, brides rubber sheeting and gum boots. In about throe months' time, tiie factory will be equipped to produce 200.000 cycle tyres and 300.000 cycle tube s a year. I
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    BETEL NUT EXPORT TO INDIA
    95 12 JNDIAN merchants in Singapore yesterday welcomed the decision of the Indian Government to allow once ap-.iin the import into India of Malayan betel nuts. The importation of betel nuts into India from Malaya was banned a few months ago. Under the new decision which is
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    Japan's trade with S. E. Asia falls
    158 12 JAPAN'S trade with approximately 30 per with 1951. incomplete fieu Deliberation Board reveal The boards report to the jjapane.se Diet this month showed, however, that the nations of Asia had, since the war taken an increasingly im- portant part in Japan's trade. The
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    SIAM MAY HAVE TIN SMELTER
    186 12 SIAMESE tin-ore exports to smelters in Malaya and the United States may be cut if a proposed pilot plant smelter is established by the Siamese government. The plant, a feature or the Mines Department's five-year j plan, is .stif.l under government consideration. If established, it
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    56 12 The world sales director of 8.0.A.C., Mr. Kehh Granville has arrived in Singapore in the course of a round the world tour. Picture shows his arrival at Kalians Airport. Left to right: Captain K P. Mollard managing director of Malayan Airways Ltd., Mr Granville, and Mr J. P. Hill 8.0.A.C
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    RETAIL PRICES MUST DECLINE
    370 12 LOCAL MARKET IS OVERSTOCKED j^OW that the Chinese New Year is over it is a good time to take stock and ask if it was as bad from a business point of view as has been alleged. It is difficult in Malaya to ascertain bank withdrawals
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    STERLING RUBBER COMPANIES
    240 12 STERLING RUBBER COMPANIES THE rubber market position is by no mean 3 without promise, in the view of a well-known London firm of stockDrokers who have just produced, for private circulation a Manual of Rrbber Planting Com panics. It is a useful publication, giving detailed information concerning all the leading
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    TAXATION IN BRITAIN
    97 12 fHERE are 15.850.000 individuals, paying income tax in the United Kingdom reveals the 95th annual Income Tax report for 1951-1952. The year's figures also show that 60 people enjoyed incomes of more than £6.000 after paying income tax. The tax took £9.400.000 from their total incomes of
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    Leaders of business in Malaya .
    185 12 Leaders of business in Malaya BITTERLY disappointed that he was unable to afford a college education in China, Mr. Chua Kiam Teck, a seriousminded youth emigrated to Malaya after schooling at a Catholic mission. He had neither relatives nor friends when h f arrived in Singapore. 27 years ago. and
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    SHARE MARKET CONTINUED QUIET BUT STEADY I
    477 13 SHARE MARKET CONTINUED QUIET BUT STEADY I RUBBER PRICE ADVANCES THE Singapore share market yesterday was generally steady but quiet with some small investment buying of popular industrial counters. There were few important price changes. In the industrial section the inquiry covered Federal Dispensary, Gammon, Robinson i ords.. Straits Times
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    179 13 MELBOURNE, Thurs. A WIDE range of Investment Issues was taken to higher levels on the Stock Exchange today in a buoyant market. The trade volume was fairly heavy. Stimulating influences were the steady stream of hopeful company reports and dividends and expectation of taxation reductions, following the Labour
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    New York Stocks
    40 13 Dow .Tones nveratres on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday and Wednesday were- Tties. Wed 3D Industrials 281.51 281 14 20 Railroads ***** 107 85 40 Domestic Bonds 98 15 98 11 15 Utilities 52.42 52.32
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    77 13 Slnr/aporr Chinese Produce T change: Noon prices per picul were Copra: steady, buyers S39 1 sellers $39^. Coconut oil: sellers *592 Pepper: Small business p.i^rrl with v.hlte Tarttty up $5 and black unchansed: Muntnk, wliltp $sfio sellers. Siravak $555 and Lampong. black 5435. LMPaI and Peal: Closing prices
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    RUBBER PRICES
    12 13 Rubber ln Singapore yesterday gained I 1 cents and closed
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    72 13 The Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following alterations ln Its rates to merchants yesterday: Canada: buying, T.T. 32 38. air mail, 0.D.. 324, 90 days. 32\: selllne. T.T. or 0.D., 32 1 18. Other rates were unaltered. In Hong Kong yesterday the free market currency exchange of
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    Rubber stocks fall
    26 13 Stocks of rubber in the Colony at the end of January totalled 51.567 tons, compared with 52.954 tons at the end of December.
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    AUSTRALIAN WOOL SALES
    50 13 I MELBOURNE, Thurs. Wool buyers bid confidently at Melbourne wool sales today and the market for all descriptions was ftilly firm. All leading buyers represented ln local centres shared ln the competition. In Sydney the market for good type wools was good but other descriptions were Irregular.
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    TIN PRICE
    17 13 The price of tin in Singapore yesterday was declared at $472.25, a picul, down $1.75.
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING
    164 13 Ships King alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves or j expected today are: Empire Fowey 1-2, Ben Hong Liong 3. Bagan 4-5, Tawali 6-7. Bencruachen 8-9. Breconshire 11. Benmhor 13-14. City of Birkenhead 15-16. Scudal N. Wall No. 5. Maxwell Brander 21-22. Teucer 23-24 Panekor 25-26. Marudu 27-28.
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    SIX HORSES SHOWED TOP FORM ON TRACK
    656 14 SIX HORSES SHOWED TOP FORM ON TRACK Epsawn Jeop 9 s Bukit Timah round-up THERE were six outslandini? gallops at Bukit Timah yesterday morning. They were done by: Many Thanks 3f. 36 3/5 Palio half a mile in 49 4/5 Honeymoon 3f. in 36 3/5 Director If. in 36 4/5
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    Airmail retired after 6 years
    224 14  -  EPSOM JEEP Ksassaml TEN-YEAR-OLD Airmail, one of the best money-spin- j ■Ml in post-war racing in .Malaya, has Keen retired. Ownr'l by Mesdames I. K. Cheah and H.A. Lim and trained by Doc Rodgers, Airmail an Australian bay hy llotanic out of Sweet Clare, won
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    SANDY COASTS HOME EASILY
    83 14 SANDY COASTS HOME EASILY bourne. Thursday. —Joirn Lnn-ty r.in or." mile in 4 minutes 111 <-onr!s tn niii the Northern Victoii.in championship at Bendteo. 100 in !es north-was) of Melbourne but nl ht. I r v. wh" had -.ivii up all r'aii": 'o err,< ie t| 1P wnrMl record tliis
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    Spencer horses shape well
    519 14 DOX OFFICE, 35 M.M. and Carthusian— a smart trio from the Spencer stable shaped extremely well in their winding-up gallops on a fast track at Bukit Timah yesterday morning. Box Office (Reader i and 35 MM. <D. Jones) were matched in a 4-f. workout. Increasing the
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    45 14 ITAXSON, Bolton Wanderers goalkeeper, leaps to save a shot from Pye, Luton Towns centreforward, but Turner, Luton Town's inside-left, goes higher as he reaches the ball with his head during the F.A. Cup sth round tie at Luton on M. 14. Bolton won 1-0. Reuterphoto.
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    Mr. Meadowlark deleted
    171 14 'THE CLASS 2 horse, Mr. Mea- dowlark. a fairly useful stayer i by Sol Orlens. who once beat Shaw's champion Gnmbar Melayu, has been deleted, according to the I latest Straits Racing Association release issued yesterday. Birthday Gift, now In Class 2. will In future be known
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    Only goal in last minute
    137 14 I A GOAL scored In the laM minute of play wave St. Jasephs a 1-0 itaM St. Patricks at Bras Basah fWtO i The s-ame was fast and exciting With both sides playing clean, hard football. Alter an even first half. St. he hammered away
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    MANCHESTER C. SIGN GOURLAY
    52 14 LONDON. Thurs MANCHESTER CITY yesterday bought Willie Gourlay, 20-year-old goalkeeper of Cowdenbeath. a Scottish Len--1 gue club, for €3.000 Manchester City have been f-earchinK long for a replacement to brilliant Germanborn goalkeeper. Bert Trautmann, who plans to return to Germany at the end of the I
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    I.R.C. OFFICIALS
    85 14 Officials of the Indian Recreation Club for 1953 are patrons Messrs S. A. Mohamed Ali. K M Oil Mohamed and K. Jagathesan: president. Mr. A. P. Rajah; vice-presi-dents. Mr. N. V. Vengad.isalam and Mr, Ahmad Sheriff; sec-etary. Mr. P. Appavoo; asst. secre ary, 9. J. (Kandasamy; treasurer, M\
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    Furuhashi ban: 'I don't mind'
    231 14 MELBOURNE. Thurs. HIRONOSHIN "Flying Fish" Furuhashi said today that he "did not really mind" the Victorian Amateur Swimming Association's ban on him. "I came to Australia to learn wool classing, not to swim". the Japanese swimming idol told Renter. Furuhashi. who knows only a little
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    REME WIN HOCKEY
    28 14 In friendly horkey match at Farm Park yesterday REME bent RE (Works servicesi 2-1. Buller and Pnrkin scored fo r REME. Alre for the losers.
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    10 entries for youth soccer
    174 14 10 entries for youth soccer ONLY 10 entries, one from the Kota Rajah Malay Boys school and the rest from English schools in Singapore, have been received for this year's Singapore A. FA. youth soccer tournament which is scheduled to start next month. Entries have been received from the following
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    Rovers open new season
    204 14 Rovers open new season NOW that>, the charity match in aid of the Western Europe Flood Fund has been postponed to Saturday, Mar. 7. the first match of the Singapore soccer season will be between Rovers, last season's league champions, and Fathul Karib. who are likely to be amon the
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    Boniface shows great form
    92 14 Bonif nee. former Combined Services player, played a great game for Singapore Traction Company again;- 1 BODCA at St. Georges Road yesterday, bm S.T.C. were beaten 3-2 I Thraugh his efforts. S.T.C. toe!; an early 1-C lead when his clearance to Song Chia was turned into
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    RUGBY UNION
    27 14 LONDON. Thurs— Rugby union results ye.stcrdiv were: HOSPITAL CLP St. Thomas' 0, Guys 0 (replay on Feb. 26) COL'NTY MATCH Northamptonshire 16, Monmouthshire 16— Reuter.
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    15 14 TODAY: High 0234 (9.2) and 1527 (8.1). Low 0857 (1.6) and 2100 (3.8).
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    S.T.C. REBUILDING AWAITS GOVT. O.K.
    200 14 STEEL for a new grandstand and subsidiary buildings necessary for the expansion of the Kuala Lumpur racecourse is lying idle until Government fives the "go ahead" signal for the Selangor Turf Club's re-building scheme. This steel is valued $676,565 at current prices. Th s i
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    A FLYING FIJIAN
    48 14 JIMMY MKIKI.K. Pi-rak and North scrim) half, goes'^rp with the ball unaware that a "flying" Fijian is after him during the match between the Fiji Rest :»nd Selannor Club "invitation" team on the Kuala l.mnpur padang on Tuesday. The Fijians won 40-8. Straits Times picture.
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    L.E.P. is flyweight champ of R. A.F.
    272 14 LEADING Aircraftsman Mr> w»s of Selotar, a locaM recruit, last night won the n n n flyweight chamß pionship of Royal Air Force Milaya. at Seletar.^bJ knocking out L. A. C. Caldwell of Butterworth in thfl second round. I Seletar boxers were to
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    Randyfighh Cartier next
    100 14 Randy fighh Cartier next LONDON, t; iU i». vt ALTER Cartier of New York. leading American middle '\ri;'it will take the place of Padd young acainst Randolph Turplt l' British champion, at Ear Court. London, on Mar. 17. J.ick Solomons, the proinoir today that he had rellas* tnm his eoatrad
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    North v.SoutH in Penang
    99 14 PENANO, Thuri. r PHE Nnr'h v S^uth cricket w be played in Penang thLs yei This was confirmed by tl Penan? Cricket As^oclaUnn at I r.nnual gen-ral meeting held la night at the Chinese RecreatK Club. The meeting decided to hold dance on Saturday. May 30
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    UNLIKELY TO PLAY IN U.K.
    86 14 CINOAPORE'S triple champion hiid uiaya's Thomas Cup hero i,i-i yt.i- Ong Poh Lim, and bit (i p;iitner Ismail Marjan have up li.ipe of taking part in ihN AX-England badminton champ. <>n.■l:ps wMek begin in London on Mai. 18. No-one has offered to ?end either to
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      85 14 HOCKEY: Sinjaporr Hotkey Association senior knockout Hnal: lm\er^ity v Ceylon Sports Club at' S.C.C. (-round. Friendly: R.A.K. i iiniu v Singapore Eneineer K. Un m. Chanri. SOCCER: liUfr-M hnol: Raffles Institution "A" v Oan I iijs Seng, at <..m IMR Seng ground; An-.lii-Chinrse School v Barllry Serondary School at Barker
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