The Straits Times, 24 November 1953

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    14 1 Nat*"*' I The Straits Times Established 1845 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1953. 15 CENTS
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    30 REDS RAID VILLAGE
    273 1 Home Guards are overpowered, guns seized YONG PENG, Monday. A GANG of 30 terrorists early yesterday stole L 19 shotguns and 90 cartridges in a daring raid on a Home Guard post here. The .'5 ;i.in. raid \v;is made only a few yards from the main
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    MALAYS BAG 4 BANDITS
    94 1 MALAYS BAG 4 BANDITS KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. rL'R more Communist terrorists have been killed In the Federation. One y terrorist suspect has been captured Two terrorists were killed by a patrol of Company of the First Rnttalinn of the Malay Regiment in the Sclamat area of Perak. Two rifles, a
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    Reds turn down Christmas gifts
    34 1 WASHINGTON. Mon. FOU| Iron curtain countries have turned thumbs down nn an American nft> r of thousands of Chnstmas mod package* They are Poland. Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Roumania. U.P
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    Ceylon rubber for China Reds
    29 1 COLOMBO. Mon Three PolLsh shipe are now In Colombo harbour loading T.Tim lonj of rubber for Communlxt China. It m learned today. A P.
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    Mao Tse-tung mystery
    60 1 TOKYO. Mon. The Nor.i Korean Premier. Kirn II Sung, attended a banquet in Peking last nicht in which officials called for closer co-operation between China and North Korean. Peking Radio said The broadcast did not men- tion Mao Tse-tung. who has not been mentioned on any Communist
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    Nixon tour death
    25 1 MANILA. Mon —A motorcycle patrolman died tonight from injuries sustained in an accident while escortins the US. Vice-President Mr. Ricl.ard Nixon— U.P.
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    New envoy
    22 1 RANGOON. Nov The new British Ambassador to Burma. Mr. Paul Henry Goro-Booth. 'today presented his credentials to the Burmese President
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    Triplets are 'not weir
    64 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. THE "HEAVEN' triplets, born on Friday v the Chinese Mat emit v hospital here, were said today to be "not well" The babies, all Doys are Thian Snong (Heaven's Gift > I 31b. 13oz Thian Loy < Heaven Sent 31b. 3oz. and Thian
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    Police seek mother of slain schoolgirl
    460 1 Police seek mother of slain schoolgirl SINGAPORE police want to find the mother of the Colony schoolgirl. Chong Geok Tin, 15. of Seok Wee Road, who was found strangled on Pearl's Hill on the afternoon of Oct. 12. Mr. Giam Chong Hing, the Assistant Coroner, was told at yesterday's inquiry
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    Trade union men back in Council
    68 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon MR. P. P Narayanan and Mr M P Rajagopal are back in thp Federal Legislative Council. The High Commissioner. Gen. Sir Gerald Templer. tonight accepted their re-nomi-nat:on by Malayan Trade Unions Council Mr Narayanan and Mr. Rai;igopal recently resigned with three
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    Killed 15 women in seven years
    37 1 TOKYO. Mon. A 27-year- 1 fild Japanese peddler, sen- tenced to death for strangling two women, today told police he had killed 15 women in the i past seven years.- A.P.
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    Ex-champion dies
    24 1 LONDON. Mon. Peter Lat- ham. one-time world chamr>ion at both court tennis and rackets, died yesterday at the age of 99. A.P.
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    FATHER VISITS SON, 16, IN DEATH CELL
    24 1 FATHER VISITS SON, 16, IN DEATH CELL MX GAN and his ui.'e walKinu un th f road leadina >o prison to visit their son.
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    STORE WOMAN SHOT
    128 1 Gunman injures young mother A SINGAPORE mother »M shot in the rißht ear by a Kunman in her house near the Beach Road market shortly after 10 p.m. yesterday The victim. Tay Chye Hoon. i 21. was with her six -month -old baby when she heard someone
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    Nehru on Guiana
    37 1 NEW DELHI. Mon. The Prime Minister Mr. Nehru, told the Indian Parliament's Upper House today that his Government would not raise the question of Britain's actions in British Ouiana before the United Nations. A.P.
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    Sweet music for sinners
    53 1 LONDON. Mon The blare of a Salvation Army band next door was sweet music to sinners who robbed a branch Post Office at Ipswich last night The burglar alarm went off. but nobody heard it over the drums and bugles. The thieves (rot away with about
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    5 Communists die in raid
    42 1 HONG KONG. Mon-Na-tionalist guerillas killed fly? Communist soldiers In a prf dawn attack on Yientien village 15 miles north of the China-Hong Kong border >n Friday, the pro-Nationalist newspaper Sing Tao Jih Pao reported today A P
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    School roof falls
    22 1 ATHENS Mon. Twenty- j nine children were Injured when the roof nf a suburban school collapspd here today A.P.
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    Their first meeting since boy killed servant
    219 1 MR. GAN CHONG BIN. > a retired Singapore rubh. r dealer, saw his son. Gan Km..Lock. 16. in thr condemnrd cell in Outram Gaol yesterday for thr first timr sinit thr boy's arrrst for murd< r 15 months ago. Kng Lock is undrr
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    BOMBERS BLAST REBEL TROOPS
    147 1 12,000 Vietminh on the march HANOI. Monday. FRENCH bombers today attacked a 12,000-strong 1 Vietminh division advancing towards Dien Bien Phu, a mountain town 170 miles west of Hanoi, captured by Franco-Vietnamese parachutists last Friday. A French High Command spokesman said the planes dropped their bombs
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    Drunk bull kills 3
    70 1 CALCUTTA. Mon A bull drank nearly a gallon of flery country-made spirits at Kharagpur, 60 miles west of Calcutta, ran amok in the town's main street and gored three people to death today before a crowd cornered it and killed it with clubs The bull drank
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    NOW IT'S 'SMAZE'
    68 1 NEW YORK. Mon— South-east winds have dispersed the "smaze" a mixture of smoke and haze— which had blanketed New York City for six days, and replaced it with clean fog. The foe, like thp ituizp. crippled airports and slowed harbour and road traffic. But to millions of
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    ITALY IS READY TO TALK
    95 1 ITALY IS READY TO TALK On Trieste problem ROME. Mon. ITALY today officially announced acceptance "wit! out conditions" of the BiR Three proposal for a five- Power conference on the Trieste problems. This action by the Italian Government is seen here as paving the way to a solution of the
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    Shotgun boy, 13, saves gems
    106 1 Shotgun boy, 13, saves gems LONDON. Mon A 13-YEAR-OLD schonlhov hlazrd away with a shntKun on Saturday nieht and soared oft thievrs escaping from his home with a C 6.000 haul of jewellery. Thp raiders dropped a .">< wt safe containing the jewellery on the lawn and ran off to
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    BIG FAREWELL FOR QUEEN
    379 1 Fine flying weather forecast LONDON. Monday. f MKM) flying weather was forecast today for the 11 start of a six-month Commonwealth tour by the Queen and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh. Security guards at London Airport kept an around-the-clock watch over the Stratocruiser Canopus It
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    Prayer poem for the Royal tour
    102 1 Prayer poem for the Royal tour LONDON, Mon \HR. JOHN MASEFIELD, Poet Laureate, has written "A Prayer" on the Queen's Commonwealth tour Headed 'On Our Queens Going to Her Peoples. It appeared in The Times today It read: Love is no buden orotherhooa no chain; A living league of nations
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    New Royal title
    37 1 LONDON. Mon— The Queen today assumed the honorary title of Master of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets, first held by her uncle, the Duke of Windsor, when he was Priiue of Wales.— Reuter.
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    Peking gives Koreans $970 m.
    155 1 Peking gives Koreans $970 m. HONG KONG, Mon. fHINA and North Korea today signed an agreement for economic and cultural co-operation. Peking Radio announced. The agreement was .signed by the Chinese Premier, Mr. Chou En-Lai, and the Prime Minister of North Korea, Kirn II Sung. Under the agreement China will
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    STOP PRESS
    35 1 INDIAN MAY UWK UN. AID IN KOREA PANMUNJOM Fri.—lndian Lt.-Grn Thimayya will ask United Nations General Assiinh' to step Into the stalemate at Panmanjom says report from UN. headquarters in New York— A.P.
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    New appointment
    38 1 LONDON. Mon— Mr. John A. Thivy. a former Representative of the Government nt India in Malaya, has been appointed Minister of India »o Syria, according to an an nounrement released by thIndian High Commission her". —Reuter.
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    Queen accepts
    37 1 WELLINGTON. Mon. Mr Sidney Holland. New Zealand Prime Minister, told parliamentarians her r today that th^ Queen had accepted an invitation to dine with members and thoir wives at Parliament House on Jan 13.-- Reuter.
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    NEW PLAN WILL HELP 1,000 GET COOKERS
    172 2 NEW PLAN WILL HELP 1,000 GET COOKERS ANEW "installation" system approved by the Singapore City Council yesterday will give about 1,000 housewives electric cookers, fans and water heaters in a month. The City Council, which previously did all the installation work in houses, finds it cannot cope with the increasing
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    A $5,000 STUMPING
    74 2 PENANG. Mon. ABOUT $20,000 worth of opium, hidden in IM cricket stumps was seized when Customs officers raided a house in Ayer Itam Road on Oct. 13." Today, Tan Kuan Yew pleaded guilty in the Sessions Court to a charge of importing .".nib of opium. He was
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    THEY'RE STILL GUESSING ABOUT TEMPLER 'S SECRET
    398 2 Will he stay in Malaya or will he go? Straits Times Special Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. SPECULATION continues in Kuala Lumpur on the future of Gen. Sir Gerald Templer, the High Commissioner, who may bring up the matter when he addresses the Federal
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    Extra time for calls to Britain
    91 2 Extra time for calls to Britain THE HOURS of service at Christmas and New Year for telephone calls between Malaya and Britain will be extended by special arrangement with the British Post Office. From Dec. 1 the Singapore Telecommunications Department will accept bookings from subscribers who want calls to be
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    Arms handed over in Burma
    30 2 RANGOON. Mon.— The first arms to be surrendered by Chinese Nationalist troops being evacuated from Burma to Siam were hander" over during the week-end.— Reuter.
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    Islands sought
    31 2 TOKYO, Mon.— The Japanese Government has asked the United States when it will return the administration of the Ameni, Osioa, Amami and Oshima islands, it was reported today— UP.
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    Lily's four pints of beer...
    105 2 Lily's four pints of beer... LILY blnte Sheikn Nadar. a Singapore »axi-dancer. went to a hotel, had four pints of beer slammed a telephone 'receiver down, and brandish- ins a beer bottle, said to a woman. "You think you are !so big." She hit the other woman 'Wee Chwee Neo.
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    Defence talks
    22 2 ATHENS. Mon.-Lieut.-Gen William H. Tunner. Com-n.ander-in-Chief of the US Air Force in Europe, is in Atherr.i for defence talks A.P
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    Presenting the colour
    40 2 THE SLLTAN of Selangcr presents the battalion flag to Inche Muti who receives it on behalf of the 3rd Battalion Klang District Home Guards. The ceremony was held on Sunday on the Klang padang. Straits Times picture.
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    New Indian Agent for Malaya
    60 2 New Indian Agent for Malaya A lawyer, Mr. P.M. Nair, who «a& Assistant Controller of Imports in the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry, has bfen appointed Agent of the Government of Iniia in Malaya Mr Nair. youngest son oi Sir C Madhavan Nair of the Privy Council left Madras
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    Barter pact
    19 2 TAIPEH, Mon. Siamese trade officials are expected to visit Formosa soon to conclude a barter agreement A.P.
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    MARKET PRICE LISTS ARE 'ONLY A GUIDE'
    152 2 UOUSEWIVES should regard the Agricultural 11 Department's vegetable price lists, published daily in the Straits Times, as being a guide only to maximum retail prices for first-class vegetables a Department snokesman said yesterday. The department's inspectors compile their price lists each day by
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    VEGETABLE PRICES IN SINGAPORE
    125 2 Retail prices in cents per kati of vegetables at lour Singapore markets yesterday were: i.i.n-n turn- Mmon Kd. borough Rd. X.X Celery 110 120 120 100 Chye sitr. 35 35 30 35 Kang knns; M 30 25 2S Lettuce 90 90 50 75 Peh chye 50
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    2 HUNGRY REDS DIE IN TRAP
    195 2 Moonlight vigil pays off ALOR STAR. Monday. A PATROL of the Fifth Malay Regiment killed two A armed bandits in a moonlight ambush last night at Kellang Bahru, near Kulim. Tapioca roots and a tin of stale rice found in the bandits' packs confirm
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    Christine on golf course
    45 2 CHRISTINE JORGENSEN, the former U.S. soldier who became a woman, plays a round of golf between shows at the Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas. Picture shows Christine taking a shot at Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn Country Club near the city A.P. picture.
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    Baby croc finds a happy home
    191 2 rl baby crocodile which was caught in a monsoon drain in Robinson Road last Thursday is thriving and happy in its new home. Mr. Tan Teng Hee, chief clerk j in a firm of rubber dealers, j who f I'inil the crocodile, has given
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    MEDICINE MEN SAY: WE DON'T SELL COURAGE
    273 2 But they DO use rhino horn SINGAPORE'S Chinese medicine-men yesterday laughed at stories in the British Press that they sold courage by the cup. They shook their heads with amusement at a Sunday Dispatcn report which said that the price of rhincfc ceros
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    THANKS, SAYS MRS. EDE TO COUNCIL
    81 2 THANKS, SAYS MRS. EDE TO COUNCIL SINGAPOM City Councillor. Mrs. John Ede (former Mi -4 Amy I. ay rock) said "thanK you" to councillors for their wedding gift to her, in a letter she wrote to the City President from Japan. The letter was read to councillors at their meeting
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    Left goods off listfined $5
    88 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon ARRIVING here yesterday from Singapore in a lorry. Mosdrin Gani of Kluang handed the Customs a declaration of dutiable goods re was importing, but omitted list goods which were not dutiable, such as celluloid bail^ mouth organs, safety pins an.J hair pins
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    BCY, 10, SHOT DEAD
    60 2 KI/ALA Ll'MPl'R. Monday. 10- YEAR-OLD boy was found shot dead after a Hon.Guard in the Pagoh ar-a of Johore fired when he sau movement and had challenged three times. A Government statement today said the incident occurred at 9 p.m. in an i rea wherr there
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    Visit to India
    25 2 NEW DELHI, Mon— Admiral of the Fleet Si- Rhoderick McGrigor. Britain's First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff, arrived here yesterday—Reuter.
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    LET'S BE FRIENDS, SAYS EDEN NOTE TO PERSIA
    195 3 LONDON, Monday. ]MR. EDEN, the Foreign Secretary, has sent a personal message to (icn. Zahedi, the Persian Prime Minister, urging- a speedy resumption of diplomatic relations between Britain and Persia, diplomatic sources here said today. Mr Eden sent the message last week
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    £500 TO END PUZZLE OF REDHEADS
    134 3 £500 TO END PUZZLE OF REDHEADS LONDON. Mon. OFFICIALS of the seaside holiday resort of Cleethorpes are offrrinc £500 to try to solve the mystery of the shy redheads. For years officials have been puzzled by the fact that blondes or brunettes have always won their beauty contests, and there
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    Two fly to freedom
    49 3 FANKFURT. M o n.— r*wo I anti-Communist Czechs flew over the Iron Curtain yester- day in a small sports olane and asked U.S. authorities for political asylum. Th? plane landed near the I Bavarian town of Regensburc; after a 150-minute flight fiom i Prague— A.P.
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    French-Chiang barter pact
    47 3 TAIPEH. Mon— The French commercial attache. M. R. Grimaud. left for Hong Kong today with a "general agreement in principle" of a US$l,OOO,OOO trade pact between France and Nationalist China. Under the agreement. China will pet non-strategic commodities in return for Taiwan tea.— U.P.
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    New tanker
    18 3 MONFALCONE. Italy, Mon The Mare Nostrum, seeend Italian tanker of 32,000 tons, was launched here yesterday.
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    New cabinet
    19 3 SAIGON. Mon.— Chan Nak. wnose cabinet resigned in Cambodia last week. ha.s formed a nrw cabinet. Reuter.
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    Plans for the land
    48 3 MELBOURNE. Mon. Australian engineers ;irp putting final touches to plans which could enable Australia to support three times its present population of eight and a half million. Main points of the plans ar^ conservation of water and soil and efficient ut-ilLsation of resources. Reuter.
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    Debate plan
    28 3 LONDON. Mon. Thp H nf Commons i s oxpcctrd to debate soon the arrrst of Cardinal Wyszynski and the troatmrnt ot Roman Catholics In Poland.— Reuter.
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    Peking claim
    19 3 TOKYO. Mon .--Pekinc Radio last nieht said that 2.000 different animals harl been raptured in North-east China.
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    The Queen's race-going hit again
    152 3 EDINBURGH, Mon. DR. Donald Soper, president of the Methodist conference, last night repeated hLs criticism of the Queens patronage of horse racing. When a questioner alleged he was climbing down" on his criticism, Dr. Soper replied: •Not a bit of it. I am not nagging
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    Homes lost
    29 3 TEHERAN. Mon. Floods washed out homes and nri-iges in the Azerbaijan mountain arra.s yesterday after 28 days of snow and rain. No deaths are reported —A. P.
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    Reds may try to extort confession
    81 3 WASHINGTON. Mon. THE State Department expects the Chinese Communists to try to extort espionage confessions from three Americans seized aboard a yacht of! Hong Kong last March, officials said. So far not a word has been heard from the Reds on the fate of
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    CHINESE WIVES IN BRITAIN
    47 3 TWO of the soldiers who returned to Britain from Hong Kong in the Empire Pride brought Chinese wives. Left lo right Corporal Edwm Crrenwood. aged 23, with Fo Mm (Jessy) and Corporal Bryan Flint, aged 22, with See Nai (Lisa Anne). Popper picture
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    FRENCH LABOUR LEADER HELD
    139 3 'A danger to security' PARIS, Monday. OEN'OIT FRACHON, secretary-general of the Com- munist-dominated General Labour Confederation. France's largest labour organisation, was arrested yesterday on charges of endangering state security. A warrant for his arrest was issued on March 24. 1952, after police raids on Communist headquarters
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    Cost of arms
    31 3 WASHINGTON. Mon.-Sena-tor Mike Mansfield yesterday said that the re-arming of Japan would require millions of dollars in U.S. military aid or a vast increase in Japanese trade.— Reuter.
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    Equal pay for the same job
    98 3 Equal pay for the same job KAMPALA. Uganda. Mon. rE Governor of Uganda. Sir Andrew Cohen, told the Legislative Council today of a plan to pay equal salaries to Government workers regardlfss of race. The Governor, in his annual speech to the Legislative Council, said new salaries would be determined
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    Hover plane death
    31 3 VALETTA Malta, Mon. Commissioned Air Engineer, Francis George Bradbrook, of the British aircraft carrier Glory was killed instantly by the whirling tail propeller of a helicopter aboard ship.—Reuter.
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    Leaving Moscow
    19 3 MOSCOW, Mon— Five Japanese Red Crass delegates were leaving Moscow today to visit Japanese war prisoners. Reuter.
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    New service
    17 3 LONDON. Mon. A public telegraph service between Britain and North Korea has been opened. Reuter.
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    Celebration
    14 3 BEIRUT, Mon. The Lebanon yesterday celebrated the tenth anniversary of its Independence. A.P.
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    Silver Mile for Abbey
    41 3 LADY ROSEMARY Ml'IK, formerly Lady Rosemary Spen-cer-Churchill, places coins as she starts a Silver .Mile at the west door of Westrrinster Abbey London. This was part of the appeal for money to repair the Abbey. Reuter photo.
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    HIS NEW 'FINGERS' WERE HIS TOES
    120 3 LONDON Mon. A 16-YEAR-OLD boy born without fingers on his left hand has been given new "fingers"— the toes of his left foot. The boy. Terry McNamara. of London, learned this weekend that five years of operations to rrstnrr his hand tf normal had
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    LONDON STOCKS
    305 3 LONDON, Mon. »T<HE only bright spot in tod«y« stock markets was the Kaffir section. News that Randfontelns uranium extraction plant was to be extended resulted in a heavy demand for the issue and the resultant Rain led the section to Irregularly higher prieea. Far Eastern stock.« were quiet.
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    LONDON TIN
    28 3 LONDON, Not. 23 Cash Buyers £665; Sellers £670; Forward Buyers £645; Sellers tw;i j; Settlement £662< 2 (up £ls'-i). Turnover a.m. !0 tons; p.m. 120 tons.
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    LONDON RUBBER
    30 3 LONDON Nov. 23— Spot 17'«. d. Dec. 17',d Jim-Mar. 17\d.. AprJune 17'*d.. July-S«pt 17'vd., Nov. elf. 17'« d.. Dec. ci.f. 17>«d.. Jan. tit, 17' 4 d. Tone: Steady.
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    These 'malicious people call themselves Malayans
    228 5 *NO TIME FOR THEM\ SAYS PATO SIR ONW KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. NATO SIR ONN BIN JA'AFAR, National U Chairman of the Independence of Malaya Party, said tonight he would have no truck with "malicious people" calling themselves Malayans but with no real interest in
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    Committee gets powers for loans
    108 5 Committee gets powers for loans THE City Council yesterday pavp Its finance committee Discretionary powers to Brant hmiMng loans to its worker*. The committee can now ap-| prove loans of more thai $2.i.000 but not exce. $35,000 in .special c;ue.s. It may approve an extended repayment up to 21 years.
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    Schoolgirl gets first prize
    69 5 TAIPING. Mon.— Winners of the annual oratorical contest held here at the Hua Lian Hic'.i School were: Middle School: 1. Mitt Sheali Lai Phing, 2. Yonß Pine: Sin. 3 Li.w Poh Er and Scow Kirn ■ok. Hißhor Primary: I. Cbtmm Yang Kwang. 2. Llm Bl an
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    U.S. professor visits Ipoh
    54 5 IPOH, Mon. Professor Max Millikan. Director of the Centre for International Studies at Massachusetts, the Institute of Techonolosy in Boston, Is on a visit to Ipoh. The professor, touring thr world, was the guest of the CPO, Mr. J. D. N. Harrison and Mrs. Harrison during
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    $2,418 for fund REG HARRIS HAD THE ANSWERS
    116 5 $2,418 for fund REG HARRIS HAD THE ANSWERS I SEGAMAT. Mon.-- Segamar C'llected $2,418 for the Poppy Day Fund Mrs. Rees wife ot the Administrative Officer w.i- thr organiser. Harris is seen above talking to Insrx-itor A. R. Omor of tbr Federation Police Forre who won the Bombay 100-mile road
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    'PAY $10,000 OR I KIDNAP YOU' THREAT ALLEGED
    209 5 OO YING CHENG, principal of the Hong Seng School for Girls, told the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday that an advertisement canvasser. Lin Jien Tuan. tried to extort $10,000 from i her by threatening to kidnap either her or one of her
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    CONFERENCE HELD UP— BY PARROTS
    71 5 A PAIR of parrots needing inspection before export caused Mr. A. H Foster. Singapore's Acting Veterinary Officer. to cancel a press conference he was to have held yesterday. Reporters waited ••■> minutes and the public will have to wait till "some future time" before they
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    Rotary talk
    31 5 MALACCA. Mon. Mr. F. C. W. Edge. Senior Inspector of Schools, will speak on "Educational Problems of Youth" at the tea mreting of the Malacca Rotary Club on Wednesday.
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    Councillors discuss staff terms
    99 5 Councillors discuss staff terms SINGAPORE City Councillors KJ spent half an hour yesterday discussing staff matters. On a motion by Mr p. R. i Williams (Labour Rochore>. Councillors referred back a committee decision turning down an application from local .senior dfficers for passage grants for their children up to the
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    Camp-fire for Scout fund
    46 5 KLANO. Mon.— A camp-fire bating two hours, will be Klann.s contribution to the Federation of Malaya Boy Scouts headquarters building fund. The camp-fire to be stacrri by scout groups in Klantr. will be held on Dec. 4. on the AngloChinese School padang.
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    TIGHTEN POISON LAW
    164 5 Till "widely different" basis of the co-ordination and interpretation of the poison* law in Singapore and the Federation is criticised by the Ph;trin;u t ulUiil Journal of Malaya. An editorial in the latest issue of the journal says it is possible for a preparation to lie classified
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    7,000 FAKE $10 NOTES SEIZED IN RAID, COURT TOLD
    285 5 Three men plead guilty PENANG, Monday. PARTIALLY completed $10 notes and an assortment of counterfeiting articles were seized by police when they raided a house in Irving Road on Aujf. 22, Mr. J. D. Peterkin, Deputy Public Prosecutor, said in the
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    $50 patrons couldn't get in for show
    144 5 WHEN eicht Cantonese npcra stars staced a performance for charity. 6.000 people stormed the Happy World Stadium in Singapore on Sunday night. And as a result, the Kwonjt Wai Siew Free Hospital ls now $80,000 better off. The stars who organised the show
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    Brunette doll
    43 5 MALACCA, Mon —A brunette doll, beautifully dressed in a pink gqwn with a blue .iibon around its waist and carrying red roses, won i"or a schoolteacher the first prize In the Malacca women's T.B ward patients' "dressing the doils" competition today.
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    Brigade saves kampong
    51 5 KUALA LUMPR. Mon rE prompt arrival of the Kuala Lumpur Fir* Brigade saved a kampong behind thp Tuberculosis Hospital In Pahang Road when a Bre broke out In an attap nouse today The roof was destroyed. The kampong hai a population of more than 600 Chinese and
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    Candidates woo the listeners
    240 6 RIVAL COUNCIL PARTIES ON THE AIR NOW Election campaign swings j into new phase 'FHK three political parties contesting the Singapore City Council elections last night started the second phase of their campaigns on the radio. With only 12 days to polling day, three candidates Progressive,
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    Fire officer for Britain
    38 6 MR. STKVKN VELGE, a Singapore Fire Officer, who will spend six months in Britain next year on a fire prevention course. He hǤ been in the fire service for 12 year*. Straits Times picture.
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    Music again — after 12 years
    183 6 Music again after 12 years rE organ at Victoria Memorial Hall. Singapore, was played again for the first time in 12 years ye.sterday. At the keyboard wa^ Mr. R. A. Waddle, a City Council electrical engineer, who played it 22 years ago at the Installation ceremony. But the organ Is
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    HE CALLED POLICE INSPECTOR AN IDIOT
    146 6 HE CALLED POLICE INSPECTOR AN IDIOT PENANG. Mon. A POLICE inspector today refused to accept an apology from a man who had called him an "idiot." William Allan Carland. 28. who pleaded guilty before Lt.-Col. J. F. H. Weston. the magistrate, to a charge of behaving in a disorderly and
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    Visit put off
    20 6 Mr. K. KamaraJ Nadar, member of the Indian parliament, has postponed his Malayan tour to next month.
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    HELP FOR LAMBAK'S LOOMS
    89 6 HELP FOR LAMBAK'S LOOMS Loan advice, too JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. 'THE Rural and Industrial Development Authority last year lent Che Lambak binte Bilal $650 as working capital. Although the loan was satisfactorily applied her business was run in such a haphazard manner that she was unable to get steady contracts
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    Special gaoled
    34 6 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon Sulong bin Yusof, a Special Constable, stationed at Kota Tinggi- was sentenced here to 10 months' gaol for stealing clothing from Ibrahim bin Wongso, living In the same barracks.
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    He plans co-ops for Chinese farmers and pig rearers
    190 6 He plans co-ops for Chinese farmers and pig rearers KIALA LUMPUR, Monday. AN EXPERT in industrial and farming co-operative systems, Mr. Peter Goullart, is now in the Federation to try and get more Chinese small farmers and pig and poultry breeders to form co-operative groups. Mr. Goullart, an Industrial I
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    ONE DIE, TWO HURT IN CAR ACCIDEM
    82 6 ONE DIE, TWO HURT IN CAR ACCIDEM SEREMBAN. Mon. 4 SEREMBAN businessman was killed and two others were seriously injured when the sports car in which they were travelling ran off the road and crashed against the concrete railings round the King George V School padang late last night. The
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    Fashion show time changed
    50 6 The time for the Doris Geddes "Fashion Fantasy' 1 at Raffles Hotel. Singapore, tomorrow has been changed fro m 8.30 a.m. to 9.45 a.m. The show Is being presented specially for passengers Of the President Polk whose arrival will b*> delayed becaus c of a typhoon
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    Johore to get more markets
    38 6 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Tenders have been invited for the erection of two .subsidiary markets in Johore Bahru. One market will be built at Jalan Kolam Ayer and the other in Jalan Kebun Ten
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    Rubber is so cheap here, says trade boss
    180 6 Rubber is so cheap here, says trade boss KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A JAPANESE rubber trade leader said here today that Japan war keen to buy Malayan rubber because it is so cheap and good. Mr. S. Suzuki, president of the Talsei Rubber Industry Ltd.. one of Japan's biggest rubber manufacturers,
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    Fine goes up by $350
    82 6 ALOR STAR, Mon. The Kcdah Assize Judge. Mr. Justice Hill, today Increased a fine of $150 or three months' gaol imposed on a tapper, Osman bin Hashim, to $500 or six months' imprisonment. Osman had been convicted of causing hurt, by stabbing, to his employer,
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    Flying home from Korea
    50 6 Fifteen men of No. 2 Squadron of the South African Air Force, recently stationed Jn Korea, flew into Singapore yesterday in a 8.0.A.C Argonaut from Japan. They are on their way home after serving in Korea for 15 months. The airmen will continue their journey today.
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    $10 mil. for Malacca
    46 6 Public services In Malacca will cost Just over $10,000,000 next year The Settlement's Education Bill is the highest, with $4,702,005. and the rural boards will cost just over $1,000,000. Religious affairs will cost $2,000 and courts and medical and health services $736,349
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    Woman had still, samsu: fined $253
    67 6 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon Chong San Moi and her husband, Lim Chin Tong, were charged in the police court with having a still and a jar of illicit samsu on which the duty was $63.25. Cnong pleaded guilty but Lim claimed trial. The prosecution offered
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    NO P.O. DETECTIVE BRANCH—YET
    138 6 NO P.O. DETECTIVE BRANCH— YET KUALA LUMPUR. Monday. A PROPOSAL to sot up a Post Office investigation branch in Kuala Lumpur has been shelved because of the urgent need for economy, a Government spokesman said today. The spokesman said the establishment of the brinch was urged by a Uritish postal
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    MALAY AND CHINESE FOR VARSITY EXAM
    64 6 MALAY and Chinese may be taken by candidates In the entrance examination of the University of Malaya in 1955. The syllabuses for these two new subjects will be issued soon Additional mathematics will be accepted as a minimum entry for admission to the examination
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    Banishment law change
    90 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon— An urgent Bill to make It unlawful for a person expelled from Singapore. Penarn or Malacca to reside in the Federation will be intriKlucPd at the Federal Lcpislative Council on Wednesday. The Bill docs not apply to Federation citizens or British subjects born In
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    NOW THEY DON'T HAVE TO PASS THA T FILE FROM ONE TO ANOTHER
    208 7 THE administration of the Singapore City Council will be streamlined next year. Fewer files and minute papers will be required and the public will be dealt with faster. Yesterday Mr. A. P. Rajah (Progressive-North) told Councillors at
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    New council to choose transport authority
    143 7 r¥. DEBATE on the question of who should run Singapore's public passenger transport service in 1955 was deferred till January next year by the City Council yesterday. This means the issue will ro before the newly constituted Council at its first ordinary meeting after
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    Public baths call goes to committee
    239 7 Public baths call goes to committee NO DEBATE YET THE Singapore City Council yesterday referred to the finance committee two resolutions by Mr. M. P. D. Nair <Lab. South j asking the Council to provide public libraries and public baths and wash houses. Under a standing rule, no debate could
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    Sick workers 'chased off' says union
    111 7 rnHE City Council's Town 1 Cleansing Labour Union yesterday alleged that some of the City medical officers were "chasing off" sick daily-rated workers of the Council asking for treatment. The charge is made in a letter to the Superintendent of the City Cleansing Department.
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    Straits Chinese leader dies
    48 7 MALACCA. Mon— Loh Kirn Swi. 59. a Straitsborn Chinese community leader, died at the Malacca General Hospital today Mr. Loh was a former president of the Straits Chinese British Association and official and trustee of many Chinese associations. The funeral takes place on Wednesday.
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    Opium smoker broke bond
    93 7 rpHE Sixth Police Magistrate,. A Mr. R. W. H Davirs. ye.sterrlay postponed sentence tr> Dec. 7 on Term Song Lai. alias! Tan Song Lai. who pleaded ptiilty to a charge of breach of bond on Friday. It was stated that on Oct. P. when Tan was
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    Budget talk
    68 7 Mr. E Himsworth, Financial Secretary, Federation of Malaya, will talk on the Federal Budget over Radio Malaya at 10 p.m. tomorrow. TIIF |MMM MA1. 1., science and domestic science building of the Sophia Blackmore memorial at the Methodist Girls School premises at Mount Sophia. Singapore, was opened yesterday
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    WOMEN START A 'BIG TWO' ALLIANCE NOW
    136 7 —To support their menfolk MALAY AND CHINESE women in the Federation are trying to form a liaison committee parallel to the UMNO-MCA liaison committee. The Malayan Mirror, official orsan of the Malayan Chinese Association, published yesterday, said that the first SlnoMalay liaison committee
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    Goode sees how the city is conducted
    71 7 THE Singapore Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. A. C. Goode, attended a City Council meetIng yesterday to see how the city conducts Its business. Introducing him to Councillors, the Deputy City President, Mr. J. T. Rea, said: "Mr. Goode always believes in roliu to
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    She gets 2-year UK course
    81 7 MIK.S Jessie Choc. 19. of St Choo for tho first time when Hilda* Church, Singapore, she opens the St. Hilda's School has been awarded a scholar- fair at 11 a.m. on Saturday .ship by Mrs. Luke Yew. for I Mrs. Loke has aurrod to give
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    A TAX ON WATER FOR SINGAPORE?
    219 7 'Ridiculous' say Councillors A SUGGESTION that the Federation Government should charge an export duty of half a cent a gallon on all water supplied to Singapore from Johore is described by City Councillors as "ridiculous." The suggestion was made by a Straits Times reader
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    Malayans meet at Bristol
    47 7 Singapore teachers, amons them Mr. Chew Kirn Boon, Mr. S Singh. Mr. Wei Tuck and Mr. I. Solomon, at Cheltenham on a two-year scholarship, visited Bristol University recently. Malayan students at Bristol University Joined them at a social arranged by the British Council.
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    Modesty case
    48 7 Lee Kok Yong as charged in the Singapore Fifth Police Court yesterday with using criminal force on a woman. Lee Siew Eng, with intent to outrage her modesty. The case was postponed to Nov. 30. Lie, who claimed trial was allowed $300 bail in one surety.
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    AXE HITS DOCTORS FROM U.K.
    101 7 Recruiting stopped PENANG. Mon. 'THE Federation medical headquarters have stopped specialist recruiting in Britain. A spokesman told the Stralfs Times today that because of the present financial stringency no more expatriate specialists and medical officers would be engaged. But recruiting of health officials and anaesthetists
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    Found hanging
    31 7 Tan Chwee Toh. a 38-year-old vegetable farmer, was found hanging from a tree near his home in Bukit Arang. Singapore, yesterday morning. The discovery was made by his mother.
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    More births, longer life are his aims
    158 7 IMP HEAD STARTS VOTES BATTLE PENANG. Mon. rE PENANG branch of the Independence of Malaya Party wants a hiuher birth rate and the average expectation of life to go up. its leader. Mr. Heih Joo Seang. said today. Mr. Heah. who was making
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    Did not give up licence, fined $100
    118 7 IPOH. Mon. IN THE first case of its kind to come before the Ipoh Traffic Court Lav Gee, of Chemor, was fined $100 for not returning to the Registrar of Motor Vehicles, Perak, his car licence which had been cancelled. Mr. J. G.
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    New member
    24 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Mr R J. MacDonald-Bennett has been appointed an Unoiticial member ol thp Selancor Council of State for a year.
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    DEATHS
    69 8 MRS RETNAMMAL David aged B 5 years, the beloved mother of Mr. D. W. Devaraja. Funeral at Birtadari at 5.30 p.m. today. LOH KIM SWI. 59. died at Malacca General Hospital, on Nov. 2.trri. leaving behind his wife. Tan Bock Neo. 2 .sons. Huan Benp and Hork Beng. 2
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    38 8 1« Worit 5 18 (minimum) MRB. TAN SOO GUAN <fc Family tender their gratitudes to relatives <v friends for their wreaths, contributions, night visits, attendance*, etc.. at the funeral of the late Mr. Tan P ir > Guan
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  • The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., Nov. 24, 1953.
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      A Chance To Help
      721 8 The Colony's Legislative Council may have the opportunity this morning of anticipating the British Government's announcement of financial help for the Federation. Singapore cannot afford to give or to lend on the British scale. But it can make a gesture and probably will. The Council's desire
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      U.S. Rubber Policy
      342 8 The American Government has lost very little time in responding to the recommendation of the International Rubber Study Group that the interested governments review their programmes in the light of the immediate price problem facing the producers of natural rubber. The G.S.A., the Office of Defence Mobilisation,
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      Land Acquisition
      217 8 There has been enough criticism of the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill to justify the Colony Government not proceeding with the second reading a^ today's meeting of the Legislative Council. As it now stands it is a bad and possibly a dangerous Bill. One of its worst blemishes is
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    WILL THEY CERTIFY MOSSADEQ INSANE?
    920 8 WILL THEY CERTIFY MOSSADEQ INSANE? \J. L. HAYS, ed "hated Anglo-Iranian" out of Abadan should hang even if he did slip up (forgetting the Persian provrrb: "You cannot hol<i two water- i melons in one hand") in try-] ing to extend his 28 months of "rule-by-swoon" into a re- bublican
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    Lordor Log
    308 8 .1/K. 70//.V £&£R rpHE Malayan Forum has X just passed a resolution that, "it is not in the best interests of Malaya to join the Commonwealth on achieving its independence. It was considered of sufficient importance to record the fact on one of the main news pages oi
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    Education and jobs
    333 8 LETTERS about Indian education which have so far appeared in the papers have been written by our Indian friends in Malaya. May I. as a neutral, unprejudiced, and impartial Malayan, comment upon a letter written by the secretary of the Indian University Graduates Association of Malaya. I
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      ASIAN ANGLE ON UNITY
      155 8 ASIAN ANGLE ON UNITY j J was very interested to read the letter headed: East and West tied together. Nobody but a pessimist like that poet who wrote. East is East, and West is West: and never the twain shall meet" or words to thr same pernicious effect, would cavil
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      WOMAN CHOSEN
      70 8 J would like to correct the statement in London Log that Mrs. Ward Ls the first woman to be elected to the committee of the ABM. I was elected in 1942 to this committee and was I believe; the first woman to serve on it. I do agree
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      Marriages
      119 8 UNI. IKK oilier towns in Malaya, the Hindu temples in Kuala Lumpur do not issue "marriage certificates." It is I not known why. Will leaders of Indian community come forward to rectify this omission. Kuala Lumpur. S. K Easterner was gone for good and all. The time has come
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      'Herded into huts'...
      152 8 'Herded into huts' TT will certainly be glad tidings to parents in Ipoh. that no child of school going age will be turned away, thanks to the new school which has been constructed in Pasir Puteh. Parents in Kuala Kangsar will, however, not have much cause for Jubilation, because their
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    On the Margin
    487 8 Travel tide I FEEL inclined to rnvy Mr. Mateti Marashimam, the I Indian traveller who is motorcycling round the world and Is now as far as Seremban. His two companions got no further that Pakistan. It la the thins that I suppose all of us have onre
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    POLICE TO CONTROL CUGAT'S PARADE
    174 9 WHEN Xavier Cugat arrives in Singapore next Monday, police will line the route from Kallang airport to Raffles Hotel to control crowds as his 10-car (American) procession passes. 'Divisional policemen will be on duty when the procession leaves Kallang airport for Raffles Hotel." a police
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    Commission gets reports
    43 9 The Constitutional Commission in Singapore ye.stprri^y received re-ports on locai c vf rnrrent and the electoral roll The Commission discussed points arising from the reportat private meeting. Plans for talks on further RUbJecta within its terms o. reference were madp.
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    Globe-trotters for Manila
    45 9 A globe-trotting American and his wile, who hav c been in Singapore on a week's visit. are flying to Manila today Dr Max F. Millikan. "Director of the Centre of International Study. Massachusetts Institutp of Technology, arrived recently by Pan American Airways.
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    Black smoke costs $300
    73 9 I^HE MANAGER of Hork Lee Amalgamated Bus Company pleaded guilty in Singa- pore yesterday to three charges nf allowing his buses to be used on the road while they were I emitting excessive black smoke. Fining him a total of $300. the magistrate said: 'I hope
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    Guard against leak5 on British aid
    302 9 Guard against leak 5 on British aid TEMPLER ORDERS: NO NEWS TILL I SPEAK Tomorrow is the big day KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. QREAT secrecy is being observed in high Federal Government circles over the figure and nature of Britain's financial aid to the Federation. Only a handful of people know
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    COLONY BUDGET DEBATE TODAY
    224 9 THE report of the budget committee of the Singapore Legislative Council on the Colony's estimates of revenue and expenditure for 1954 will be discussed at this morning^ Council meeting in the Victoria Memorial Hall. Last montn a $32 million deficit budget for 1954 was referred for
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    THIEF WAS IN COURT —TO STEAL
    47 9 THERE was a thief in the m»nber one Singapore police court yesterday but he wis not in the dock. Soon after the court began the morninc's sitting th owner of an 585 raincoat learned it had been stolen. Police are investigating.
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    He speeded to oblige a passenger
    76 9 He speeded to oblige a passenger PLEADING euilty to a charge of speeding. Lim Sei Kow. a taxi driver, told a Singapore court yesterday that he was asked to go fait by his woman passenger. "She was an expectant mother who was in a great hurry to get to the
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    She leads 18 dancers
    54 9 THIS INDIAN dancer. Miss Auzurie, reached Singapore yesterday from Bombay. She is the leader of an 18-member ballet team which will open for a two-week season at the Singapore Badminton Hall on Nov. 28. Miss Auiurie's dancing was acclaimed in London during a recent tour of
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    Budget meeting
    23 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The budset meeting of the Trengganu Council of Stat~ will be held on Dec. 10 at Kuala Trengganu.
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    Sons busy, so father goes to court
    104 9 Sons busy, so father goes to court SCHOOL EXAMS ON A SINGAPORE father yesterday stepped into the dock of the Singapore City Police Court and pleaded guilty on benalf of his two sons, accused of riding their bicycles without bells. He told the magistrate that he had come to court
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    Party by police
    27 9 ALOR STAR, Mon. The rank and file of the sth Malay Regiment were given a tea party by the Alor Star police here yesterday.
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    MOTOR-CYCLIST GETS $25,971 DAMAGES
    143 9 —For permanent leg injuries A MOTOR-CYCLIST. Yusof bin Kayab, 23, who A received permanent injuries to his right leg in a collision with a motor car, was awarded $25,971 as general and special damages in an action which he brought against the owner-driver of the car,
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    Hook charge
    41 9 KLANG. Mon. S. Parunial, 35, was charged with volun-' tartly causing hurt to K. Rajoo with a iron hook at the Railway headquarters. Port Swettenham. on Sunday. The casp was postponed to Dec. 7 Parumal was allowed $300 bail.
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    KEPT 3 STOLEN CHEQUES CHARGE
    134 9 rpAY ENQ CHONG claimed trial at Singapore Assizes yesterday to throe charges of retaining throe stolon Overseas Chinese Bank cheques or alternatively with voluntarily BwtKttng in their disposal Th P first charge related to a cheque for $4,000 and the offence was alleged to hay
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    Lights stay on
    23 9 Singapore City Hall will shine every nieht in futuie becau.se experiments to floodlight it since the Coronation have been successful.
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    Alleged to be gunman
    52 9 Alleged to be gunman Ibrahim bin Mohamed AH, 24, was tentatively charged in the Singapore Fifth Police Court yesterday with armed robbery in King's Road on Oct. 24. It was alleged that Ibrahim robbed Teo Eng Tiong of $2,660 at the point of a revolver. The case was postponed to
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    THE 'SANTA CLAUS' FLEET SAILS IN
    156 9 A MERICAN destroyer division 302 now in Singapore on a four-day visit is known as the ''Thunderbolt Division." But It may soon he called th r "Santa Claus Division." Officers and men of the four destroyers have been buying Christmas presents even since they
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    GANGS STRIKE AT MIDNIGHT HOUR
    199 9 Spore police arrest two men WHEN the city's clocks were striking the midnight hour on Sunday, Singapore hold-up men struck twice. In ROBBERY NO. 1 a Chinese Government clerk and his fiancee were walking in the grounds of the Tropical Research Unit of the General
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    'Service' goes to the aged
    50 9 KLANG Mon Outings for the older people living in rural areas in Klang have been arranged by a committee in conjunction with "Operation Service" week which begins on Dec 8 The aged will be taken to places of b terests in Klang and Port Swettenham.
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    Driver freed in drink case
    283 9 Driver freed in drink case THE Singapore First Traffic Police Magistrate. Mr. F. A. Chua, yesterday agreed with Mr. John E. Lloyd, defence counsel when he queried the validity of Inspector A. Henry's arrest of William Aars«n on a charge of drunken driving. Under cross-examination. Inspector Henry had agreed that
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    RAF man on drink charge
    65 9 Flight-Lieut. Rnb*rt H Moore. 34, of R A.F. Seletar pleaded not guilty in Singapore yesterday to a charge ol ririvinß a rar while under the influence of drink or drug to such an extent as to be incapable of proper control. He was allowed bail
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      162 9 THE WEATHER Minimum temperature '7 30 p.m. on Nov. 22 to 730 a.m. on Nov. 23 1: Singapore 75 degrees, Penanjj 72. Kota Bahru 73. Kuala Lumpur 75, Ipoh 72, Kuantan 70. Maximum temperature (7.30 a.n:. to 7.30 p.m. on Nov. 23 1: Singapore 89, Penang 89. Kota Bahru 81.
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    Retiring air chief sees 'enormous9 future for Singapore flying
    327 10 Retiring air chief sees 'enormous 9 future for Singapore flying CINGAPORE has an enormous potential as the Far Eastern focal point of international and local air services, the retiring Director-General of Civil Aviation, Mr. A. W. Savage, believes. Mr. Savage, who came to Singapore in 1949, said yesterday that he
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    I BACK FROM U.K.
    48 10 MB. PARAXJOTHY. an old boy of the Government Ins ILsh School, Segamat, returned to Singapore yester<liy in the Victoria after five years in England studyinc law. He was railed to Bar at Linrolns Inn recently and intends to practice in Singapore. Straits Times picture.
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    SPEEDIER AID AT DISASTER
    137 10 SPEEDIER AID AT DISASTER New welfare plan VICTIMS of Singapore JLsastrrs will not have to wait Imic brforp they get help [torn the Social Welfare Department's Public Assistance section. A system has been w ..rked out to enable Public Assistance I officers to be at a troubled spot within minutes
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    SHE SOLVED HER LOVE PROBLEM
    265 10 And one about healthy too DRETTY Miss Chong Siew Neo had two big problems yesterday. In one short interview at thf I Royal Singapore Tuberculosis Clinic, both were solved. Problem No. 1 wa.« the dreq-1 disease tuberculosis. ML s Chong. 21. has had it since
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    Union reception
    25 10 The Singapore Traction Company Employees Union will hold a reception at its premises. 18 Race Course Road, at 7 pm. on Dec. 1.
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    Driver shows court a letter saying 'We won't prosecute'
    290 10 Driver shows court a letter saying 'We won't prosecute' 4PPEARING to answer a charge of wrong: parking. Dr. F. C. B. Marshall told a Singapore traffic pojice court yesterday that the police had told him in a letter dated Oct. 8 that no action would be taken for the alleged
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    Car crashes into ravine, three hurt
    74 10 Car crashes into ravine, three hurt IPOH. Mon. A CAR in which three delegates of Semangat Permuda, Penang and the representative of the Penin- sula Malay League and the i Peninsula Malay Union. Penang, were returning after attending the Malay Nation il Congress at Johore Bahru crashed into a ravine
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    Hospital sale
    33 10 Patients of Woodnrtdno Hospital. Singapore, will sell irticta made by thorn in the rial! of the administrative Niildine in Ylo chu Kanjr Road from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday.
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    2 accused of cheating
    56 10 Tan Kirn Yam and Andrew Bennett were in Singapore yesterday committed to stand trial at the High Court on a charge of cheating Uthandi .a barber, of $600. It was slated that Uthandi gave them the money to get a barber contract at Alexandra Military Camp.
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    Dinner and dance
    27 10 Graduates of University of London will hold a Foundation Day dinner and dance at the Sea View Hotel. Singapoic at 8.30 p.m. on Saturday.
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    He prints bank notes
    116 10 MR. B. C. WE^TALL. chairman of tin- London firm of Thomas De La Rue. which has been primarly concerned in the making of bank notes for nearly every country in the world for the past 100 years, arrived in Singapore yesterday in the liner Victoria. He
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    Y.W.C.A. XMAS BAZAAR
    72 10 The Singapore Y.W.C.A. will hold a Christmas bazaar at its hostel in Fort Canning Road from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Dec. 5. Mrs. T. P. F. McNeicc, wife of the City Council, will open the bazaar. Item.s on sale will include home-rr \de articles, Christmas
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    'CHAP-JI-KF MAN GETS SIX MONTHS
    85 10 'CHAP-JI-KF MAN GETS SIX MONTHS Tan Kiat Seong was sentf need to six months gaol yesterday when he was convteted in the Sixth Polks Court of assisting in a public lottery on May 22. Mr. S. D. M. Jepson, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, sand that when he and a
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    $30,000 DAMAGES FOR A LIBEL
    185 10 $30,000 DAMAGES FOR A LIBEL rIE acting Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Brown, in the Singapore High Court yesterday awarded Mr. Tan Kee Gak, the managing director of Sin Lit Press Ltd., the publishers of Sin Lit Pao, $30,000 damages in a libel action which he brought against another Chinese language
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    Fans club meet
    35 10 Cinema Fans Association. Singapore, will meet at the Kadayanallur Muslim League hall, 72. Tanjong Pagar Road, at 11 a.m. on Sunday to elect office-bearers. Mr. C. R. Dasaratha Raj will preside. •t
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      THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
      457 11 I gathered a rich harvest or treasure from the place that was to have been my tomb and brought it out into the small clill'-loeked bay I that wa.s accessible only to ships. By nu pile of treasure I made a fire and scoured the sandy shore
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      'Seek the woman in the crime' said first scientific detective
      2002 11 EARLY in 1880, a dapper French clerk in the Paris Prefecture of Police nervously stroked his beard while he waited to see his chief, Prefect Andrieux. Tucked under his arm was a massive file, a revolutionary system of identifying and
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      253 11 THE KING OF CHAMPAGNES THE CHAMPAGNE OF, KINGS $38 00 I S2O 00 pc p PER The Iradinc i linnipisnc ■upplird to Cluhs. Hotels Bar- throtichout Malaya. Tr.»dr pnquirirs nvitrd SOLE AOENTS— MALAYA RORNKO Thm swmmm a thm no si: Parker Senior DUOFOLD A Th« pan with th« big Ink
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      363 11 S-T-k'f-T-C-H-i-S y-o-u-r DOLLAR! -^^Pj^ CONVERTIBLE The "500 C" is your money saver 56 miles per gallon: 60 miles per hour and the tax is only (3 ptr month. Its durable, reliable, parks easily and it's available IMMEDIATELY! Full stocks o/ spares ai'ailable. PROGRESS MOTORS LTD. ORCHARD ROAD. SINCAPORE-9. WEARNE BROS.
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    PRICES RISE IN INCREASED TURNOVER
    793 12 Around the mar Avis RUBBER JUMPS, TIN HIGHER |r THE Singapore share market was quick to respond to the better commodity prices yesterday. Sentiment was greatly improved, the volume of business increased and prices generally in tins and industrials were higher. The market closed very
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    RUBBER PRICES
    231 12 December first grade closed on the Singapore rubber market yesterday at 58 S 8 cents a pound, one and five-eighth cents above Saturday's close. Although the market was still cautious there was a sli»ht change :or the better in .■sentiment. The market opened with December at 58 2
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    Exchange rates
    159 12 tHB Malayan Exehanee Banks Association made the following changes in its ra'es to merchants yesterday:— XKW YORK: buvln<:. TT. 32 7 8 air mnll. O.D. 33. 90 rlavs 33 1 8 credit bills. 33 3 18 tr?de bills: sfil'.nT. TT. orOn. 3! 11 lfi. reidv. CANADA: burins, TT.
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    TIN PRICE
    18 12 Thr price <>l tin in Singapore yesterday was declared at $321.50 a pint!, up 50 rents.
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    OCTOBER TIN OUTPUT
    92 12 Tin production in tinFrderation in October was 1 5 7 "> tons, compared with 4.669 tons in September. making: the ten months' output MJM tons, compared with 47.095 tons in the corresponding period of 1 !i:»». Of the October output of concentrates. 3.970 tons were produced in
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    Australian stocks
    164 12 NrET.BOtTRNK. Mnn. J^lIK Investment market opened with a firmer undertone toritr llthouch few price movemen'.s wrrf l.ir«e. Several silver-lead issues eas-ri The volume of trading was nnt leavy but transactions covered ■> ralrly wide range of Industrials. Closing prices of selected slock -j today cimpatec! with Friday wer<--l/ian3'..';
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    Produce prices
    68 12 Singapore Chinese TroHnre ?>- -tfcMg*: Noon prices per plnil werr Copra: steady: November «^7 buyer?. $38 sellers: Deremh"i $37 buyers. $38', sellers. Co<onut oil: steady: *61.. spllt Pepi>er: quiet; Muntok white *^in. Sarawak $335. Lamponc hlark S^nn l.exis and Peat: Closing prlre 'f 9. ere Copra: It— dT
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    Wool very steady
    74 12 MKI.BOI'RNB. M«n V T ALUES were on a pnr with thn-r established last week when new sene.s of wool sales opened here today. Good merino flips appeared to mo- e siithtlv in .^rllrr 1 favour -j Blridinc was led by the Cnnttnept I nport from lornl mills
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    Singapore shipping
    220 12 CHIPS lvinj: iilonuMdr the Sini-..- Harbour Board wh.irvr l\ expected tndny are:— Victoria 1 2 Scndai :i. MfeM 45. Stnndella CP. Tjiwancl 87, President Harding S3. Borneo 11. Brnmhor 13 14, Tablnla l.i l« Hulda Maersk 18 Burnsldc 13 2n MpagW N. Wall 3. Pet.dinK N. Wall 4
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      229 12 definitely MORE CUPS 111 I I > I |fifu •*'**°'^w//J!mH -^Mm^^ pen packet ofr BOH' TEA HYGEIA DISSOLVENATOR MODERN SANITATION A NEW MORE ATTRACTIVE MODEL COMPLETE INSTALLATION FROM $400/--including one Drum of Dissolvent. (Inclusive of all charges) ELIMINATE NAUSEOUS CLOSET PANS WITH THEIR DISCOMFORTS AND DANCERS PROVIDES THE SAME COMFORT
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      415 12 NOTICES MALAYAN COLLIERIES LIMITED (Incorporated in the Federation of Malaya) NOTICE OF MEETING NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that the Thirty-fifth Oeneral MeetIng of the Members of the Com- 1 pnnv will be held at the Registered Office of the Company. Hongkong tt Shanghai Bank Building. Kuala Lumpur, on Tuesday. Bth
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      353 12 NOTICES NOTICE Federation of Malaya Security Loan (1952) Jlfl.nno.mm— v, Rec<«ter«d Stark 1»«2 1972 Notice Is hereby given that the Register of the above mentioned stock will be closed from Ist December to 15th December, 19.53 (both day* Inclusive) for preparation of Interest Warrants. J.H. NEWBIGGINO Registrar, Public Debt Office,
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      859 12 PUBLIC NOTICE APOLOGIES M/S. Kon Peng Watch Co. of 415. North Bridce Road. Singapore, hereby lender their sincere apologies to Messrs. Chun Chong of 53. South Bridge Road. Singapore, for having j Inadvertently Infringed their rights by having Imported a number of faked "ELECTION" watch dials Into the Mala; an
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      325 12 CENTRAL ELECTRICITY BOARD NOTICE TENDERS are Invited for the purchase or 5 (Five) Lots of Scrap materials comprising approximately 12 tons of scrap Iron, 2.000 lbs. scrap copper. 52 empty 44 gain, drums. 230 empty 4 gain. Kerosene oil tins used motor vehicle tyres and miscellaneous electrical fittings Si equipment.
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      47 12 MITSUI pQ L 'NE WESTBOUND HOUND TMI WORLD SERVICE Japan S>n«apor« Part S««tt*ntiam Pcnonq Htw Yark Aaenti C.F. SHARP <Sc CO., (M) LTD. UNION BUILDING. SINGAPORE TEL: 5394 78, ***** L.X jhrrp Co (m) Ltd. AVIATION Jfff^r DIV 'S!ON I ATA. BOOKING AGENTS ALL AIRLINES union BLDCsinonpoßE
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      1010 13 H& <?-**"" EAST ASIATIC LINE SAILINGS FROM SCANDINAVIAN/UK /CONTIHf NT S'pere P. Sham Penong "MonchurM" for Bangkok, Saigon, Hongkong. Manila, Kobe, Yokohama T7.... 1/ 1 Dec 2/ 2 Dae. 1/ 1 Oac. "Fehtria" for Bongkok 8/ 9 Dae. 7/7 Dae. Oee. "Lalondto" for bongkok 29/29 Dae "Panama" for Bangkok, Hongkong
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      1109 13 BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD. SAILINGS to U.K. and CONTINENTAL PORTS Spore P. Sham Pena rj ■anejhor for Hovra, London, Rotterdam, Hull Gdn. 13/14 10 Nev/ 2 Dae. 1/ 4 Dae B enwyvls for Ganoo, Avonmouth, Liverpool, Hull 30 Nay/ 4 Dae. 3/ Dec 7/ S Dae. Benettow for London, Antwerp.
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    Wool and wheat as examples for International tin 'disagreement'
    764 14 Wool and wheat as examples for International tin 'disagreement' MAN BITES DOG One Singapore business concern commented: "When a member of the Malayan community or any other producing country declaims that the present low price of natural rubber will have very serious consequences for the industry, it is not news.
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    U.K. firms join forces in bids for contracts
    176 14 U.K. firms join forces in bids for contracts LEADING British manufacturers are forming companies to contract for complete development schemes overseas This was revealed by Mi. J. P. Ford, managing director of Association Oil Encines < Export i Ltd.. at the recent British Institute of Management conference. He said it
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    Steel tubing frame for new factory
    89 14 A FACTORY with a frame of all-welded steel tubing, fabricated entirely on the site, is nearing completion on a new trading estate not far from Liverpool, in Britain. In a few months time it will, itself, be turning out tubular steel structures for a
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    Colony role in 8.1. F. for discussion
    93 14 Colony role in 8.1. F. for discussion REPRESENTATIVES of the •IV three Chambers of Commerce in Singapore have Seen appointed to a committee to discuss the Colony's participation in next year's 8.-iMsh Industries' Fair. The representative^ are Mr A F. Taylor. Singapore Cuamber of Commerce; Mr Yap Pheng Geek, Chinese
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    JAPAN IS CUTTING OUT PRE-WAR TRADE PRACTICES
    118 14 JAPAN IS CUTTING OUT PRE-WAR TRADE PRACTICES THE Japanese Government is making every i effort to erradicate trade I practices in manufactured (goods which created a 'bad name for Japanese ?oods before the war. This was revealed by Sir Norman Roberts, British Minister in Tokyo for the past three years,
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    EXPORT AID BY JAPANESE GOVERNMENT
    111 14 rE Japanese Government is trying; to increase exports by giving more loans and extending the time of 7<ance by submitting; revisions of export l;i»>. according to the latest issue of the Japan Trade Times. The newspaper adds that the Japanese Ministry of Finance expects these
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    Bigger world rice harvest forecast
    168 14 WORLD rice production in the August-July period of 1953-54 will be slightly higher than in the preceding year, according to a preliminary estimate by the United States Department of Agriculture. The department reports that rice acreages were increased in many parts of the world and
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    Indonesia criticises foreign oil companies
    132 14 From A Special Correspondent Foreign oil companies in Indonesia are being criticised because all of the favourable trade balance between Indonesia and the Philippines does not (to to the Indonesian Republic. This trade balance is in Indonesia's favour by more than US$25 million a year
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    Rise in copra from Indonesia
    72 14 rE United States Department of Agriculture has reported that Indonesian copra exports last month were 29.944 tons— an increase of 37 per cent on September and 45 per cent, more than in October last year. Indonesian exports in the first ten months of this year
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    COMMERCIAL NEWS & VIEWS
    6 14  - COMMERCIAL NEWS VIEWS Eric Woolnough By
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    SMIL. PROJECT STARTS SOFT DRINK OUTPUT
    204 14 SMIL. PROJECT STARTS SOFT DRINK OUTPUT OOFT drinks manufactured by the now million-dollar Bireley's (Singapore) Ltd. project will be on the Malayan market berore the week-end. This was announced by the chairman. Mr Sort Hiong Kiat who added that initial production of orange, pineapple and grape drinks will be about
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    U.S. policy on rubber not clear
    166 14 —Says businessman UNABLE to find any clear cut or hopeful ideas on United States Government and trade policy towards natural rubber. Mr. G P Noakes. chairman of Kempas. Ltd., believes the only solution is to continue reducing estate costs Mr. Noakes made this comment
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    Low rubber prices hit USS trade
    142 14 Low rubber prices hit USS trade I OWER world prices for commodity products reduced the British Commonwealth's U.S. dollar earnings with rubber, wool and jute during 1952--53, the Commonwealth Economic Committee has reported in London. The committee revealed that in spite of tho falls in these commodities Britain earned more
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    When 'Spot' became 'Ishpot'
    324 15 I AM NOT one to laugh at other people's pfforts at a strange language. But there are moments when It is hard to supress a smile and I am quite sure this cuts both ways. I never did have any fancy ideas about my Malay. Those
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    QUEEN IN SUMMER COTTONS
    241 15 QUEEN IN SUMMER COTTONS A PART from her broadcast to the Commonwealth from Government Hoiue, Auckland, New Zealand the first to be made by the Sovereign outside the United Kingdom—the Queen is likely to spend Christmas Day quietly with the Duke of Edinburgh. It will be full summer m New
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    Side-whiskers...
    342 15 Side-whiskers. ...spit curls... ...and shingles fROM nowonwards-un-and shingles for you, if you want to stay in the fashion There fa norn SQ L°°£; J* OC"^ M as aeaa as Queen Anne And a jolly good thing, *ay I. while London hairdresser Vasco explains "it icas a'.icays so wretchedly untidy." Just
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    DON'T GIVE TOO MUCH TIME TO BABY
    490 15  - DON'T GIVE TOO MUCH TIME TO BABY SISTER CURE B» COME "good" mothers concentrate on baby to the neglect of the older children. Such mothers are probably carried away by their excitement and pleasure in baby, and by their realisation that a mother has to set about bringing up baby
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      266 15 Nt rails Times Crossword B< -|iK'S li Mttle Wn»M vn. .o.— i\*.v^i KVO.VI 37 Bat 8 n>ov «ni«'nt In split grata j 1 He spares (old hat. perhaps j im 4. Position not, available on thU I nilOiTiftrP^* 19. Milton iost the plare (Bi. HsO Egga ESS| sj| SSjR &s|
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    SELANGOR S NEWI STAR PLAYER
    43 16 OON CHONG TECK. S<'langor schoolboy who led the State's defence against Fcnang hi the Fot:np Seong Kuala Lumpur. Oon took Cup challenge round at Ooi Teik Hock and late Hoo Chye to three sets in the singles matches.
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    Landy makes a good start
    52 16 MELBOURNE. Mon John j Lanriy. Australian crack miler. had his first PM'ing of the season a r Olympic Park here vrs inlay awl clorked 4min. 9sec. for the mile. He slowed down to a Ik oelo'e he crossed the line and won by 110 vnrds.
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    Will England's record stand?
    381 16  -  VEKNON MORGAN \U LONDON. Monday. THE England-Hungary football match at Wembley on Wednesday has probably created greater inter- 1 est the world over and certainly on the continent j than any other soccer game hitherto. It is a struggle br-twrpn the master*. th 0 tram of
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    PENG SOON HAS 'EXPELLED HIMSELF,' SAYS B.AM. PRESIDENT
    379 16 PENG SOON HAS 'EXPELLED HIMSELF,' SAYS B.AM. PRESIDENT KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. yyONG PENG SOON, world unofficial badminton champion who is at present on an unauthorised tour of Taipeh, has "expelled himself" from Malayan badminton, said Mr. Heah Joo Seang, president of the Badminton Association of Malaya, here yesterday. "We cannot
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    Strickland for Asian Games talks
    232 16  - Strickland for Asian Games talks SENTINEL By rE Singapore Olympic Sports Council, al an en/urgency mooting last night, proposed that its honorary secretary. Mr Tod Strickland, should attend a special meeting of the Asian Games Federation to be held in Manila on Dec. 5 and 6. Two important matters will
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    Robb to come in for Finney
    143 16 LONDON. Mon /"'EORGL ROBB. of Tottenham Hotspur, former amateur inter national who Is in his first season r.s a professional, will be England's outride lef acamst Huneary at Wembley on Wednesda\ it was announced vets' erd->v. He takes the place oi Toi 1 Finney.
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    THREE GOALS BY BARBARA
    55 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon After a Koallesfi first half f'Wl). Sports Club v:. nncri an easy 4-0 victory mvr Selangor Club in a women's "hockey match at Cheras Road today. Centre forward Birbara Leem- brugi?-n scorea tne first. 4hird and I the f-Hir'h coaLs The second was
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    FARELF CUP
    39 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Vf Al AYA Signal Regiment, won their first rourd tie In the FARELF nicuer com.ietltion. when they beat Headquarters Malaya by 25 points (five goals i to nil on the HQ ground this evening.
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    NORTHSA VEGAME WITH LATE GOAL
    366 16 T«HE TNIVERSITY of Malaya's annual North against 1 South rugger match at Bukit Timah yesterday ended in a draw (8-8), each team scoring a goal and a penalty. North saved the game with a goal in the last few minutes. This is the second time
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    Lillibullero can beat Cinecolor
    395 16 J"OP class sprinters dominated yesterday morning's training at Bukit Timah. Cinecolor, with David Jones astride, ran a breezy If. in 50 with Millionaire for company while Lillibullero (Donnelly) sprinted away on his own over 4f. in 50 1/5 and 3f. in 38. Cinecolor and Lillibullero clash
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    i Draw for SHA k.o. hockey
    187 16 'FHE draw. for the Slnsaoore Hockry Association's knock-out competitions are: Senior division (Ist round: Wanderers v S.C.R.C. at Shell ground on Dec 5; University v LatifT Wanderers on Dec. 6/6; University 2nd XI v BODCA on Nov. 27 Police v Indian Association: RAF Seletar
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    DRAW FOR SCOTLAND v REST GOLF
    385 16 I^KE draw and starting times ol 1 the Scotland v The Rest poll match at the Royal Singapore Golf Club on Sunday are: FIRST NINE: 8 00: R W. Brown (13) ft A. C Baxter (17) v W. H Lydall (17) ft F. H
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    Galistan Cup winners
    37 16 THE SINGAPORE VOLUNTEER CORPS team that w(m the (.a list an Cup at Sunday s rifle shoot: from left, Lt. Newman, Capt. Thong, Qms. Abdul Karim, 8.E.M., and Wok bin Bakri.— Straits Times picture.
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    WAIKIKI GALLOPS IN FINE STYLE
    296 16 iI.'AIKIKI was full of running on the training track as Bukit Timah yesterday morning. With David Jones astride, this Linklater four-year-old did a fine work-out with Zanzibar (Lansdown), clocking 51 4 5 for 4 f and 37 3 5 for 3 f. i Walkiki is
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    World soccer results
    62 16 I DESULTS of intemation.tl Heat matches played on Sunday were I In Hamburg Germany bfi I Norway 5-1 in a Group One qu.ilily- in? m.-tch of the World Cup. In Zurich Switzerland and Belglum drew 2 2. In Lisbon. Portugal beat SKm'li Africa 3-1 In Copenhacfn. Mot-cow
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    MANKAD FOR SECOND TEST
    61 16 NEW DELHI. Mon.— Vinon Mankad India's best a!l-roimriei been included in the team for the ;*<-onc 'Test" against the Commorwealth cricket team. WlUm m Bombay on Dec. 3. Mankad. V Oadkarl. Ja.su Patel and O R Sunderam liave been orought into the team In place oi
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    Wing men are killing open game
    404 16 RUGBY'S BOGY LONDON. Mon. Plans to dean up thr came Of Rugby and makr it more entertaining for sprctator.s are almost as old y as the game itself. From time to time rules have been discarded, amended; or new ones have been framed and
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    Swedes win agrain
    39 16 TOK\O Mon The Swedish MM toun D.iu'girdcns'.s yes ci riiv von 'lir fir,* came of their J 'p.inoe lour by beating an Allr eodls to on" Moro than l. 000 spectators watched t no tarne Ruiter.
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    RECS BEAT P&T
    29 16 Singapore Recreation Club hr Bd Trlecraph Union Sport;Ctub by 2-0 in a hmkev fnend'.v plnvpri SRC ground yesterila\ Scorers were John Marten.s and Jimmy D'AlmeM* a
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