The Straits Times, 8 February 1954

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    16 1 The Straits Times Sea*** 1 Established 1845 SINGAPORE. MONDAY, FEBRI ARY 8, 1954 PRICE 13 CENTS
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    KASHMIR TO JOIN INDIA
    156 1 Premier says decision to accede is I irrevocable LONDON. SUNDAY. KASHMIR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY VOTKD LAST NI(;HT FOR ACCESSION NDIA, THE ALL INDIA RADIO RERTED TODAY. The radio qimtod Kashmir's Prime Minister saying that "not even the Security Council can our decision to strengthen the state's ties
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    TEARS FOR A WOMAN TENOR She sings only at husband's grave
    11 1 TEARS FOR A WOMAN TENOR She sings only at husband's grave
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    CURB ON GERMAN ARMS WANTED
    217 1 Russia explains aim at talks LONDON. Sunday. AIOM <t\\ Radio in its transmission in English this ing said that the Soviet Inion's chief preIn the German question was to avoid cir;Uneea under which German militarism Tmild rvor acain viol.it>' peace in Furone. "That goal can
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    Raging fire halted on village edge
    55 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. 1) MPT action by the Kuala brigade 1 .saved t Kampons Mat .-'ruction today through five aci the frinee.s of the, Ke flamrs came feet of the houses. in a valley near the rrarriens. en battled side by side for an
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    China deploys troops in Tibet
    33 1 J IPEH. Sun -The Nation--1 Chinese news agency. r nne. today reported 000 Ohine.se Com- i i oops with Russian now beius deSouthern Tibet, bord- India. Rp Her.
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    One of the world's finest voices
    175 1 BY a freak of nature one of the finest tenor voices of our time has hern given I In a woman. Baria Ossi- powna of Vienna, who moves her audiences tn j rapture and tears when she sines the famous arias I of "Tagliacci"
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    Russian loan
    49 1 MOSCOW, Sun— Russia said j today that she i.s frantlns Finland a ten-year loan of 40 million roubles <US£lO million' in American gold dollars. She has also agreed to Pay Finland in foreign currency and gold for part of Finnish exports to Russia this year.— A P.
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    REDS FEAR MORE GERMAN RIOTS
    165 1 BERLIN, Sunday. I DED agents moved into major industrial plants in the Russian zone today with orders to arrest any (irrman who demands free elections. Ernst Wollweber issued the decree to his Ment police smash a wave of unrest which started as soon ;>s Soviet
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    Statement on Press strike
    469 1 Statement on Press strike Reply to union THE statement issued by i the Singapore Printing Workers" Union in con- nection with the stoppage of work at the Straits Times is inaccurate and misleading in the extreme. The facts are that an Liqulr> into the behind schedule; printing of the Straits
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    Better news of the Pope
    90 1 rome. Sun. The condition of Pope Pius j XII. who has been ill for the past fortnight, continued to improve somewhat today, a Catholic source said. The Pope, w ho will be 78 on March 2, passed a quiet night, it was added. The Pope's
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    Her first try wins her $5,000
    139 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. COLE winner of last week's STRAITS TIMES word puzzle contest was Kuala Lumpur housewife. Mrs. Foons Yoke Ying. of Imbi Road. Mrs. Foonq certainly had "beginner's luck" as it was the first time she had entered the competition. She was busily
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    Crowd sees the Queen enter church
    224 1 Sydney. Sun QIGHTSEERS, in the heart of Sydney packed the v ments today to watch the Queen and the Duke of Edin- j burgh drive to morning ser- 1 vice at St. Andrews Cathe- I dral. The Queen wore a short sleeved frock of
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    THIS COMET LETTER REACHED MALAYAN STUDENT IN DUBLIN
    103 1 "DAD, your tier to me by Comet .n was salvaged from thr :ind here is the envelope v* >now that it reached me safely." says Mr Cheam Theam Khenc. a medical student in Dublin, in a letter to his .Municipal Councillor father
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    FOUR BATTLE TERRORISTS
    133 1 ALOR STAR. Sunday. AbX)UR-MAN patrol ot the first Manchester Regiment last Wednesday— Chinese New Years dayattacked a bandit camp and fought a rive-minute battle with nine terrorists in the Bongsu Forest Reserve in South Kedah it was disclosed today A British corporal received slight shoulder injuries and
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    Busmen get more money
    72 1 The wagt dispute between the Singapore Traction Company and Its employees union has been settled Those setting $100 and .ess a month will get an Increasi ot 15 cents a day those getting $120 and less 20 cents more and those drawing $125 and above 25
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    Quake wipesout 4 towns
    189 1 Quake wipes out 4 towns MEXICO CITY. Sun. A •'VERY DESTRUCA^ TIVE" oarthquakr lasting more than 20 minutes demolished four towns In southernmost Mexico and sent Inhabitants Seeing into the mountains, press reports said yesterday. Travellers tnn'n thp devastate! ana reported "numerous deaths and hundreds of injured walking dazed In
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    47 1 (THIS issue of thr A Straits Times has brrn produced by the efforts of iiruhj engaged staff assisted by a numbei Of volunteers, from outside as well as i7iside the office. We apologise for any shoncomings in setting and appearance The Straits Tunes icill continue to appear.
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    New York visit
    19 1 NEW YORK Sun —A s?roup of Japane.se Industrial specialists 7'ill visit New York on F^b 11.-A.P
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    Soldiers floe a burning billot
    27 1 SEOUL, film A i.;h fire British Army transit billet today drlvinj I^ii soldiers oul of their quarters. No one was hurt. -U.P.
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    ROYAL ELEPHANTS JOIN FIGHT AGAINST VIETMINH
    366 2 French break attack on Laos capital HANOI, Sunday. A THIN line of French Union troops stretching I across 40 miles of steaming jungle beat back I Communist-led invaders again yesterday while royal elephants helped bolster the threatened capital of Laos, against rebel assault. The
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    CHRISTL, 20, IS CHOSEN AS THE CARNIVAL QUEEN
    61 2 A nunnequin. Mitt Chrit Zetler Schoemig. v a chosen Carnival Queen for 1954 at Vienna's Moulin Rouge during the weekend. Picture shoivs: Miss ZellerSchoemig icentre* On the left is Miss Tamerin Dolly Lisa, u-ho took second place, and on the right, la
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    U.S. planes and men for Indo- China
    111 2 WASHINGTON. Sun. T»HE DEFENCE Department A announced today that it was sending some more light bombers and about 200 more] air force ground crew technicians to aid the French Union, forces fighting the Communists in Indo-China. The actual number of B-26 bombers involved
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    Rotary award for Singapore man
    55 2 CHICAGO Sun. A Singapore student is among th<» Fellowship awards granted by the Rotary International it was announced today. He is James Chin Son Swee The fellowships entitle the recipients to one year's advanced study abroad and are of value rangini I from $1 800
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    Farewell call
    21 2 LONDON. Sun. Thp Egyptian Minister. Hussein Mansour. paid a farewell call yesterday on President Tito. Belgrade Radio reported.— A.P.
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    Men airways
    31 2 NEW YORK. Sun. PanI American World Airways announced yesterday it will start direct air services between the United States and Denmark. Norway. Swpdpn and Finland on April 24. A.P.
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    U.N. and Indian heads at lunch
    164 2 ALL ILL-FEELING GONE PANMI'NJOM. Sunday. "TOP I.N. and Indian Commanders had lunch toget- her today before the Indians' departure from Korea, where they guarded the repatriated prisoners of war. General John E. Hull. U.N. Far East Commander, replied: "We appreciate the cooperative spirit shown
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    THE CITY IS IN STRIPED PANTS AGAIN
    55 2 THE CITY IS IN STRIPED PANTS AGAIN LONDON. Sun. rE City" Wall Street of London- Is going back to the good old days. This mpans dark suits and striped trousers. During the clothes rationing days that grpw out nf the war. sports jacket and flannels bpeamr acceptable for clerks In
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    Peron for U.S.
    27 2 LONDON. Sun The Lnrdon Evening News yesterday said that Presidpnt Peron of the Argentine would have a brain operation in the United States A.P.
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    'KILLER' MAYHIT AGAIN
    184 2 'KILLER' MAYHIT AGAIN JAKARTA. Sun. MERAPI. Indonesia's "killer" volcano. may explode shortly with greater force than the eruption in 1930 that caused 30.000 deaths. Dr. G. A. DeNeve. Indonesia volcanolo- gist, said today. He added that gas pressure under the lava plug covering the volcano's crater was Increasing. The volcano
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    Syria closes its doors
    83 2 BEIRUT. Sun. Syria closed Its frontier with Lebanon yesterday. Levanese persons and goods were not permit I ted to enter Syria and Syrians were not allowed to enter Lebanon. although citizens of each country could return home if caught in the other country by the closure.
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    China sea naval Exercise soon
    67 2 MANILA. Sun WARSHIPS and planes of Britain. the United States and France will soon I participate in a joint 10- I day anti-submarine exercise in the South China Sea the U.S. Navy announced. Commanders will be Bri tain's Vice-Admiral Sir Charles E Lambr and Air
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    Defence force
    40 2 CAPETOWN. Sun. The j South African Defence Minister. Mr. F. C. Erasmus, said in the House of Assembly yesterday that South Africa has ninej fully-equipped bomber squadrons and enough combat units I to man three divisions. A.P. I
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    Goodwill visit
    29 2 CAIRO. Sun President Neguib announced yesterday that Kine Sand nf Saudi Arabia would pay a goodwill rlsll to Egypt '.ate this month or early in March.— A.P.
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    NARRIMAN MAY SOON MARRY A DOCTOR
    147 2 CAIRO. Sun. A WEEKLY newspaper reported yesterday that former Queen Narriman plans to marry a surgeon, son of one of ex-King Farouk's closest friends. But her lawyers doubted it. The newspaper Akhbar El Yom said Narriman who recently received her divorce from Farouk. had
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    THEY PLAN TOURIST AIRLINE
    125 2 rE Air* Transport Licensing Authority will hold its first puhlir inquiry in Singapore today into an application by a local airline to run a tourist -class .service to the Fpderatlon. North, Borneo and Sarawak The inquiry the first under I rpgiilatinns intrnrturpd in IPS0 1 —will
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    Ramon was just too late
    74 2 LONDON. Sun. The Hasting! Chess Club has told thp Spanish Che.ss Federation it profoundly regrets ar.v c ie for misunderstanding over the exclusion of the Spanish chess ma^'or Ramon Bord"l'. from the premier section nf the recent congress at Hastings. But it says the Spanish
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    Big game made plenty of dollars
    59 2 Big game made plenty of dollars ASIAN 1 bnurnr Un now gey« dollars clo i bavi] International Hi Altht Satur kin Besai thr gamp which thn Intrrii:. was a finan--: i ComplPtc available yet but that p will total mnro Thr> eamr. p!:, thr Ist F:', :ind a Invitation XV
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    Crashed jet salvaged
    24 2 LONDON. Sun last nieht fish, d "irbn-prop Bi r Severn. Thr £800.000 ■rlpftled In rrash-land a tank and v. in. v
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    A —victim dies
    12 2 A victim dies HIROBHIM rt by t;v Ri of Hiroshima A P
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    Fernmoor sinks
    20 2 MANILA. Sun mo^r.-hip I fn;ii ripped I Sr a reef, sank aft^r its en I the shins hfcbo.v-
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    Molotov rejects compromise by the West on Germany
    301 3 Molotov rejects compromise by the West on Germany PROP A GANDA ANS WER BERLIN, Sunday. r plh Western Foreign Ministers in a major compromise aimed at breaking the deadlock on Herman unification today offered to give East Germans an equal share in running all-German elections. But the Soviet Foreign Minister.
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    Mercy race fails to save a life
    134 3 •M Mill Sun I>ni lOMVI I ins took the life of a IS Aitiiv ollic rr Nt.-ni.iv even m i coast I piano prepared t.i take off on a merry mission. 1 he Officer died from an acute attack of polio aboard the
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    I CAN WALK NOW—IT'S GRAND
    58 3 I CAN WALK NOW— IT'S GRAND LEARNING to use miniature crutches, and very happy about it. is this crippled African child in the orthopaedic section of the King George VI Hospital. Nairobi. Kenya. Watchinc are British MPs Mr. E. B. Wakefield. Conservative (left) and Mr. A. Bottoiuley. Labour, who with
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    More Chinese to evacuate Burma
    43 3 BANGKOK. Sat. THE evacuation ot additional 1 foreign troops and their dependent^ from Burma will mcd on F<b. 14. on that d;ite 150 U] arrive oth< re ii an Internatlonn centre near ;rma. comn of :es from Burma
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    Turkey's friend
    28 3 ANKARA. Sun.— Turkey will send a special delegation to Karachi soon to pave the way I for a political, economic and cultural pact with Pakistan. A.P.
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    STRIKE WAVE IN ITALY
    95 3 STRIKE WAVE IN ITALY ROME. Sun. ITALY'S Social Democrats organised a nationwide strike wave with the Communists yesterday even though the party executive had aßreed to continued negotiations for a four-party cabinet with the Christian Democrats, the Liberals and Republicans. The Executive decided to continue the talks, while the Social
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    Crash in Alaska
    33 3 ANCHORAGE. ALASKA^ Sun. An Air Force C 47 crash-landed during freezing! rain 75 miles northeast of here yesterday and some of Its 16 passengers are known to have survived. A.P.
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    STRENGTH GROWING' ,
    94 3 STRENGTH GROWING' LONDON. Sun.— Sir Winston Churchill the Prime Minister, said here today that the Government, confident in its growing strength, would play a hading part among the western powers in the pursuit of peace. "We shall go forward, hand In hand with our allies and with our friends in
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    BIG HUNT ON FOR MAIL GANG
    162 3 Flying squad called LONDON. Sunday. J7LYING squad cars from Scotland Yard, were called in early today to search for the six masked bandits who robbed a post office mail van on a lonely road outside the capital yesterday. It was one of the biggest
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    Malayan election plan criticised
    200 3 WHAT DOES THE VOTE MEAN? LONDON, Saturday. TWO British political weeklies, the left-wing New A Statesman and Nation and the Conservative Spectator today criticised the proposal of the official Malayan elections committee that at the outset only half the Federal Legislative Council should be elected members.
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    HOMES DRIVE BEST MONTH
    79 3 LONDON. Sun.— British builders put up 318.779 houses in 1953 18.779 more than the Government's target figure. It was announced here. The total of 33,505 houses and flats built in December was the highest monthly figure .since the war. The number of new permanent homes built
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    'Thank God' says freed American
    155 3 NEW YORK. Sun. MR. JOHN Hvasta, 26-year- I old American freed by the Communists after more I than five years as a prisoner and fugitive in Czechoslovakia, j stepped from a plane at Ide- i wild airport here today for a I joyful reunion with
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    COURAGE SALUTED
    97 3 HONG KONG. Sun. CLEVEN-YEAR-OLD Barry James Ware, a British Navy Petty Officer's son who has been In the Royal Naval Hospital for 13 months because his bones will not knit, became an honorary crew member of U.S. carrier Wasp yesterday. The presentation, made by Lieut. Cmdr. C. P.
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    Blast kills 8
    20 3 SAPPORE. Sun. -Eight Japanese coal miners were killed yesterday when gas exploded and trapped them underground. A.P.
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    CHIANG MEN ROUTED IN BURMA
    104 3 RANGOON. Sun. RELIABLE reports reaching here last night from the trading town of Myitkyina, 3t)o miles north of Rangoon, said, Chinese Nationalist irregulars in that area had been routed by Government troops. The reports said 12 Chinese. Including two captains, surrendered following an engagement in
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    CONFIDENT CARLIE GREETS THE QUEEN
    124 3 CONFIDENT CARLIE GREETS THE QUEEN SYDNEY, Sun. A COMPOSED brown-eyed war orphan. Carlie Anne Lopes aged 10. today greeted the Queen without a trace of shyness when she visited Legacy House. Legacy is an organisation formed to look alter children of Australians killed in the world wars and in Korea.
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    50 die in Saigon
    19 3 SAIGON. Sun. A small pox epidemic has killed at least 50 people in Saigon.— A.P.
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    The Straits Times Singapore. Mon., Feb. 8. 1954. First Things First
    779 4 The Straits Times Singapore. Mon., Feb. 8. 1954. First Things First Political attention has been fastened in recent weeks to exclusively on the question of Federation election.- and the expansion of the Federal Legislative Council that almost no interest has been shown in the practical measures which the Federation Government
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    83 4 MR AND* MRS RONALD PEREIRA thank relatives and friends for their good wishes and valuable presents on the occasion of tneir marru.'c al Sincapore on 2 1.54. lOtfl GRACE BRIDGES wishes their beautiful wreaths, telegrams, letters and condolences on tlie occasion of the beloved husband Ralph nr and Mrs
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    96 4 !n H „rrf. til I minimum) GOH BOEN TIOE p--Maurice Clare In Vivaldi's Four Seasoi mortal Hall. Wednesday intn February. Bookings at Rob:-. HEODOLTTCS En- ex Stock. Dts. Tho Scientific 1 33 Tii? I Tele-. I ART Exhibition by Yankee 1 De Luxe. 25 Hiph Street KOI.I OW PEDANT
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    PARKS OR FLATS?
    156 4 I THINK the compensation which the City Council has to pay for the adjoining land to extend Kator.g Park is over $1,000,000. Such a large sum of money could be much better used by lending it to the Singapore Improvement Trust to build flats and or artisan
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    Admission age is six years
    195 4 T*HE normal age of admls- slon to Government and Government Aided Schools is six years on January 1 of the year of admission. Discretion has always been allowed so that a Senior Inspector of Schools or Superintendent of Education could admit children slightly under age
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      MUSICAL GOOD WILL TOUR OF FAR EAST
      1285 4 IT is a pleasant task and a considerable relief to record that the musical events forecast in an article in these columns a year ago have duly taken place, exactly as planned. Little more need now be written about '1953. except to record
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      The burning of cities
      193 4 IT may be permissible to announce the possibil'ty of "sun reflectors" burning down cities but the logic of it is to be questioned. Briefly an artificial satellite is a body circling the Earth at a speed of 18.000 m.p.h. at a minimum height of somewhere in
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      'Right man for job'
      91 4 V|UCH has been written Itl about the activities of our traffic chief but I thin:< his real value to this Colony has been overlr ,>ked. Fortunately, the right man was avaiable at the right time fo r the right job. for it took i a bravo
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      IN DEFENCE OF GOVERNMENT
      272 4 I^LYNE STREET. In his enthusiasm to prevent what he calls a grave injustice on the part ol the Government In flxin? values when a land improvement scheme is contemplated so as to acquire land as "cheaply" as possible, is himself guilty of a "grave injustice" towards
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      Inquiry wanted
      187 4 incident in Singapore when handcarts and stalls were torn down and smashed in a Singapore police swoop on unlicensed hawkers causes public disgust. There was certainly no necessity for this punishment of people trying to earn an honest living, although slightly on the wrong side of the law.
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      QUEEN'S STAMPS
      129 4 I WAS very surprised to read in your paper that the postal authorities have had no information concerning the new Queen Elizabeth stamps for Singapore and the Federation, and Mr. Durrant, the Singapore Director of Posts, was stated to have said that no proofs were received from the
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      WHO FIRED?
      36 4 THREE shot fired from a revolver at a Singapore hotel were dismissed by a police spokesman as "all in fun." is it because the man who fired the shots was a police officer? T.S.K.
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    On the Margin
    287 4 1 WOODROYV y A r T IjiIGHT YEAH i I run intd iriß jroung i H Normandy. VVi drinks went to some story ab called the last moment and getting triun turned. said, "my nami top. Woodrow V, this must hi I was thinking •elf." I .sometime
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    Nanyang University seeking funds
    174 5 SPONSORS WILL LAUNCH COUNTRY-WIDE CAMPAIGN TOD A V 4 MALAYA-WIDE rampaign for funds will be launched by (he sponsors of the Nanyang ntj today, the Straits Times was told last nicht. will not be disclosed until the University I Council meets this week. Sponsors hinted that
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    Govt. treated unkindly
    71 5 PENANG. Sun. Ge r v ants had to tolerate r.s of the public ich could hard- •Jv ri as courte Chi itm Konu. PreP( nang Junior lon, ime, I would ;isk sttnd to the public in if patience and which 'Operation j demands from m mbera at
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    Countess M to to visit S'pore
    38 5 Countess Mountbatten Sup- 1 erintendent-in-Chief of the Nursing divisions of St. John Ambulance Brigade, will arrive in Singapore on Feb. 27. The countess will review nursing divisions in Singapore and the Federation.
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    DEATH
    23 5 uic-is Marie on 7th Feb aged rtege >■•• •n Road, on Bth Feb. „t the rilurch of St. lost reet. and thence Intern-
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    Farmer's body found in river
    40 5 ALOR STAR. Sun —The body .ihaya bin Man. 40-year- old padi planter of Pulau i Langkawi. was found in the Kedah River at Tongkang. here today. Police do not sus- i 1 ptft foul play.
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    Shillelagh is safe in the bank
    240 5 Shillelagh is safe in the bank -SO IT CAN'T GO ON TOUR AGAIN fpHE ugly black club below is called a shillelagh. Not even the most nationalistic Irishman would pay more than $10 for it. Yet it rests in the strongroom of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank as carefully protected
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    Make these 2 bills one law-Alliance
    147 5 Make these 2 bills one law-Alliance IPOH, Sun. THE Perak State Aiiiance Committee met this morning and decided to forward two resolutions to the secretary of the Select Committee on the Election Offences Ordinance 1954. The resolutions are: The Allance deplores Perak's absence of participation in this bill. which may
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    Institute women attend course
    56 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Tengku Yah, president of the KHantan Women's Institute. opened a Women's Institute or- sanisers' course in Kota Bahru. KHantan. yesterday. About 100 members from all over the State attend the four- j day course which is intended ;to help the women in their
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    French trooper
    38 5 The 30.447-ton French troopsi.ip Pasteur with 3.000 troops on board arrived in Singapore yesterday on her way to Saiunn. She staved In port for about 12 hours to takp on water, j bunkers and provisions. I
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    Inaugural talk
    49 5 Dr. T A. Lloyd Davies. Professor of Social Medicine and I Public Health in the University of Malaya, will g.ve his inaugural lecture in the Central Hall of the Faculty of Medicine. Singapore, at 6.30 p.m. on February 18. He will speak on "Medicine. Society and Health."
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    L. Exhibition
    23 5 I UMPUR. Sun. who held sue- xhibitions in Singa- the Chine- Mere from 25 28. pier will open It ruarjr 25.
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    WANTED: A WOONCHU EXPERT
    141 5 WANTED: A WOONCHU EXPERT None at court SINGAPORE Magistrate. Mr. J. M. DevereuxColebourn. is unable to find an official Chinese interpreter who knows the Woonchu language to help in a court case. Reason: there is none among the Colony's interpreters who has qualified in that language. The case involves Ng
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    They pleage support
    65 5 JOHORE BAHRU. SunRepresentatives of a number of organisations have j pledged their support in the j youth club project planned by the Johore Bahru Rotary Club. The club is estimated to cost $40,000. It is hoped to raise $***** by the Rotary Club's drive and the balance
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    He asks about future of resettled Malays' land
    138 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. rE problems of resettled Malays in Pahang and the future of their property will form the basis of questions by Councillor Inche Wan Abdul Aziz bin Ungku H Abdullah at the next meeting of the Pahang State Council on
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    SAVED BY THE RAILS FROM A PLUNGE INTO RIVER
    76 5 THIS LORRY yesterday crashed into the railin?s( of S»ir Arthur's Bridge in Kalians Road. Singapore, but the driver. Teo Boon Teck, escaped with only slifiht injury. Teo would have been thrown into the Railing River had it not been for the
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    Naval union's strike threat
    283 5 10,000 MA V COME OUT FOR ONE DA V TROUBLE is again brewing in the Singapore Naval Base. The executive committee of the 10.000--strong Base Labour Union meets today to plan a oneday strike. A three-man delegation representing the workers in the dockyard met the Superintendent
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    No extra pay for stenos, Govt. decides
    96 5 No extra pay for stenos, Govt. decides rE Singapore Government has turned down a more pay claim by the Secretarial Staff Association for stenographers and registry assistants. On Friday, the association will mvet to protest against Governments decision and consider further action. Mr. A. B. Retnam. the secretary of the
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    $9 mil. jobs for private builders
    29 5 The Singapore City Council I allocated $9,000,000 of last year's building programme to private contractors. Of this sum. $6,000,000 was for .staff accommodation.
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    Gramophones for the troops
    58 5 IPOH. Sun. The Armed Services Welfare Association of Malaya, supported by voluntary contributions, has presented 20 gramophones, each with a collection of records, for use by security forces in their operational bases in Malaya. The association was formed last yea r to raise funds for providing
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    THE PATRONS OF THE DINNER DANCE
    72 5 THIS WAS just one of the hundred tables patronised by society leaders. Government officials and business heads a t the annual dinner and dance of t he Singapore Chinese 1 adies' Association on Saturd ay. Picture shows from left Mr. T. P. F. McNeice,
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    Society leaders become waitresses
    168 5 SINGAPORE society and busi- ness leaders turned them- I selves into waiters, waitress- rs and barmen when the Singapore Chinese Ladies' Association held a dinnerdance at the K limn home of Mr. I. A. Ellas on Saturday night to raise money for h clubhouse. The president.
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    CHAP GOH MEI: FIREMEN TAKE NO CHANCES
    234 5 CHAP GOH MEI: FIREMEN TAKE NO CHANCES SINGAPORE had no serious flre during the last few days of the Chinese New Year celebrations, but the city fire authorities are taking no chances on ".Chap (ion Mci" night Feb. 15, last day of the festive season. Disclosing this to tho Straits
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    Ex-detainees plan an association
    133 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Former Malay detainees are preparing to form an association to promote their welfare and help members to find jobs. mission is being ■ought to hold a meeting of all to form til ciation in Kuala Lumpur on Feb. 14. Inche Zaln bin ArilT.
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    Padang fun fair
    40 5 RAWANG. Sun.— A fun fair on the Town oadane and a dance at the International Centre highlighted thl* town's Welfare Week C«leI brations in air 1 of the Ulu j Selangor District Welfare I funds here yesterday.
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    Thousands tried but no one ever broke the bank
    1640 6 Thousands tried but no one ever broke the bank JN the winter of 1873, officials of the Monte Carlo casino watched with tolerant amusement a staff of clerks jotting down the winning numbers of each roulette wheel, for a week. The clerks were directed by Joseph Jaggers, an English engineer.
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    Holiday investment buying
    913 7 WEEKLY REVIEW OF THE MALAYAN SHARE MARKET Tins harder, but rubbers idle By our market correspondent THERE was a transformation on the Singapore market last week and in spite of the Chinese New Year, when business is traditionally dull, industrials showed a firm tendency with tins making
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    66 7 THE following dividends were announced by companies operating in Malaya last week: UNITKD ENGINEERS: 10 per cent, on ordinary shares and 10 per cent bonus; preference shares 11 per cent both payable March 12, books close March 1. McALISTERS: 10 per cent interim dividend. BATI' SEI.ANGOR: 15 per cent
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    Japs curb rubber imports
    274 7 SINGAPORE rubber cir- j cles have been in- formed that the Japanese I Government has cut down I free allocations of import rubber owing to a shortage of sterling funds. The President of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Tan Siak Kew. believes this is
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    NO AID CUTS HE URGES
    62 7 WASHINGTON. Sun. Foreign Operations Administrator Harold E. Stassen. has promised to fight any attempt by Congress to cut the foreign aid appropriations required by President Eisenhower. He said at a news conference that when the appropriations from individual countries reach the legislature this year they
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    Arms to East Berlin
    70 7 BERLIN. Sun. Communist authorities have sent a Soviet army division to the outskirts of Berlin and handed heavy arms to the Peoples Police today in fear of a new East German rebellion. Reports from behind the Iron Curtain say East German feeling threatened to boil into
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    Rubber mission
    31 7 A party of Japanese rubber I manufacturers and importers will arrive in Singapore from Tokyo during the middle of this month. Thry will study rubber market conditions In Singapore.
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    SHARE BUSINESS
    230 7 THE following list of busi--1 ness done in the Singapore Share Market last week is reported by one firm of share brokers for the period January 30 to February 5: Industrials: Consolidated Tin Smelters Ords 24 9 and 24 10J. Gammons $2.97J and $3.00. Jacks $3,874 and $3.90
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    OUTPUT DOWN BUT WORLD USED MORE
    89 7 NEW YORK. Sun— World prodi.iiion of natural rubber last -ear ix estimated by the I nitrri States Ctovernmrnt at 1.717.000 lone ton*, a decline of 3 8 per cent from 1952 o«rt put. hut the fourth largest year in history. World consumption was vtim.itrrl
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    U.K. urged: Trade with S. America
    130 7 LONDON. Sun THE Economist yesterday called on British hu.sines.-,mpn to .stasr a co.ncback In Latin American markets It urged them to modify their products to meet the changing demands. German competition wa* mentioned a.s a formidable factor. Reporting a sharp .setback in Britain's Latin
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    Peron: Operation
    25 7 LONDON Sun President Peron of the Argentine will rndercn a brain operation In the United States, it Is re rorted here. -A. P.
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    Tin drops after surprise jump
    542 7 t f>tniit<nf[Jltj mar/n>ls r PHE tin and rubber markets were both quiet las! week because of the Chinese New Yrar and th' volume of business transacted was small. The tin price manY an unexpected jump of $4.12} on Friday to brine the price up to
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    Rubber and tin output
    68 7 During January. Pahang Cnnsoliriainri treated 15.000 tons oi tin r>r r and produced 220 tons r>f tin concentrates, the Borneo Company reports. Oth>r January outputs reported by the same company are: Kuala Reman Rubber Estates 1U.200 lbs. of rub ber: BungP| Kinta T n Drodiiinc 231
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    Exchange rates
    36 7 The Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes In rates to merchants, yesterday CANADA: buyin; T.T. 90 days 32 1-4 credit bills. 32 5-16 tradp bills: selling T.T nr OD 31 9-16 ready
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    ORK OUTPUT
    14 7 r iilfilUn reports that R.ihman Hvrlraulic Tin Or" Output tOI ""in"---l njcute.
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    ALL LEAGUE LEADERS SLIP
    334 9 Chelsea keep up unbeaten run LONDON. Sunday. Till iniir EnfUak LeafflM leaders, ail amone the is, lh in the Cup all failed to take maximum points from (he League fray yesterday. \\>st Rromwirh and Everton drew while the 1 urd Divi^inn sertional leaders, Ipswich and porl
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    IT'S TOUGH AT THE TOP
    232 9 In the second division I ONOON, sun. QNF of the most fantastic situations ever known in English League football is developing at the top of the Second division table Two cluhs. F.verton and Leicester City, share the lead with 36 points each thouch Lverton have
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    RUGBY UNION
    82 9 LONDON. Sun. Rugby Union results yesterday were: County Championship iquartrr-flnal': Gloucestershire v Hertfordshire postponed owing to frozen ground. Club match: Stewarts College i F.P.i 12 Boroughmuir 0. All other club matches listed for yesterday were r;;nrrlled owing to frozen grounds Reuter. FIJIAN stluirts converge on a lone S.C.C.
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    All Blues final drawn; rough play
    278 9 IPOH. Sunday. (JELANGOR Asians are to keep the All Blues Rugby Cup for six months as the result of their 3-3 draw with Penang Asians on the Ipoh Padang last evening. Penang will hold it for the other six. lelangor won the Cup tor
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    All Blacks win easily
    170 9 BEDFORD. Sun JHE All Black beat Nor'hEastern Counties by 16 rxiints (two goals, two tries) to nil here yesterday. Their forwards were stronger, and this was backeu up by last running and passing. Towards the end the All Blacks' speed and ntnes« began to tell and
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    South Africa in the lead
    117 9 OOUTH AFRICA led Austra- lla by four matches so three at the end of the second day's play in the first lawn tennis "test here yesterday. Results (South Africans .MSuudd!A\ fimr sjw -<wn bt Mrs. Hary Hawton 7-5. 6-1 Mrs. Hazel Redick-Smith bt Miss Fay
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    Springboks struggle for runs
    399 9 CAPETOWN. Sun. AT the close of the second day's play In the fifth and final Test between South Africa and New Zealand yesterday. Sou:h Africa had scored 194 for the loss ol six wickets in reply to New Zealand's 226. South Africa never mastered the New
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    F.T.D. award to Peng Han
    117 9 LIM PENG HAN, well-known Singapore racing motorist, drove his modified 1096 cc supercharged Kleft to victory against Coopers driven by Chan Lye Huat. Chan Lye Choon and Jimmy Milne to win the Fastest Time of the Day award for cars at the Singapore Motor Club's
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    RUGBY LEAGUE
    68 9 LONDON. Sun. Yesterdays Rugby League Cup first round (first leg) results were: Halifax 19. Dewsbury 0. Hull 24. Widnes 0. Kelghley 12. Barrow 11. Latcnford Albion 20. Wlgan 40. Leeds 13. Bat ley 20. Liverpool City 5. Oldham 15, Wakefleld Trinity 24. Whitehaven 13. York 13. Hull Kingston
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    U.K. SOCCER RESULTS
    308 9 THE LEAGUE. DIVISION I Aston Villa 2. Chelsea 2. Bolton 3. Cardiff 0. Burnley 1. Liverpool 1. Charlton 1. West Brom. 1. Huddersfield 2. Sheffield U. 2. Manchester City 0. Arsenal 0. Preston 1. Manchester U. 3. Sheffield W. 4. Middlebro 2. Sunderland 3. Portsmouth I. Tottenham
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    The Fijians exploded a myth .
    819 10 The Fijians exploded a myth Rainstorm did not stop them By W. E. Trevor ALTHOUGH the result was the same, there were A several surprising differences in Saturdays rugby match between the Fijians and a Singapore Cricket Club Invitation XV, compared with similar previous encounters. Ever since the Fijicns came
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    Golden Lotus a worthy winner
    450 10  -  EPSOM JEEP By fOLDEN LOTUS, a five-year-old English chestnut gelding by The Bug out of Carnmid. put up a brilliant performance by beating seaso.iecl stayers to win the Selan^or Gold Cup over a mile and a quarter in record time at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.
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    PERAK'S OUTLOOK BRIGHT
    153 10 PERAK'S OUTLOOK BRIGHT IPOH. Sun. THE 1954 cricket season in Perak will have special I significance this year as the annual North-South Malayan cricket 'test' will be played in Ipoh. The last occasion when this match was played here was in 1950 when South won convinci ngly. Towards the end
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    S.H.A. TRIAL
    40 10 The Singapore Hockey Association trial, .scheduled for yesterday, was postponed to 5.10 p.m. today on the Singapore Recreation club ground. All the 26 players named originally are to attend and should bring with them white and coloured jerseys.
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    J.M.F. win cup tic
    35 10 Johore Military Forces beat lAyer Molek 5-1 in a Johore Bahru District F.A. Cup match yesterday. Wan Abdullah <4> and Ungku Mohamed scored for J M F Ali for Ayer Molek.
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    YOUTH BOXERS WILL BRING MANY TROPHIES
    206 10 PERTH, Sun. TAKING with them more th.n 50 trophies-includ-ing the Aw Cheng Chye Cup— the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association team left Freemantie for home In the Charon this morning. More than 100 members and officials of the West Australian Federation of Police Boys Clubs
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    BA&BY.MULLEY TOP LISTS
    131 10 Waliy Bagby was top trainer at th P Selangor Turf Club Gold Cup meeting with five winners and $15.300 in stakes. Muiley was champion jockey with four winners with Franklin a close runner-up with three. TRAIN! 1^ Laasdown. Mawi and D. Jones each rode a winner. Ist
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    85 10 WALCOTT HITS A TEST CENTURY I out «Mlr trouble ai.j thr 1 partiCu ct 10 I 4£ et« i centi soon after .He Lakei j»» stand real iMd JK£SOARD WESTIXIMI I Holt c- Gravenej i Stollmevcr run out Worrell t, SUth 1111 Walcott not i vi Pairsodemu r iiutton h
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    35 10 THE Sil petition opens mutch betwi tution and H land This will tx Harbour B"arri Royal Signal and RASC A Royal Bn| n The i compet: 1 not ta k Chanei
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