Malaya Tribune, 17 February 1950

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    67 1 MALAYA TRIBUNE BY 2KB PFOPLE I fc r nrt j PEOPII let TnU* LARGER SALES THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALAYA Phone 5811/3 Nw Loss Published simultaneously at S Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang. TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1950 TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE E. Maurice
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    City Water Engineer to Retire?
    120 1 Mil. F.Ci. tne Municipal i Water Engineer has ap- j pied for retirement. He has been with the Municipal Water Department for 27 years. He is about 52 years j is married and his family is j in Singapore. Before the outbreak of Japanese hostilities
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    BRITISH AIR COMPANIES MAP NEW FLIGHTS
    99 1 U.P. HONGKONG, Thurs. Two Brttisn-Mrrned airlines announced plans today for scheduled flights throughout the Far East, including Co;nmunist China. The two airlines are the Hongkong Airways Limited and Cathay Pacific Airways Limited, both of which plan to fly passengers, cargo and mail with Douglas
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    NAVAL,OPS
    30 1 Reuter. LONDON, Thurs.—Ships of the Indian Navy and the British East Indies Fleet are to carry out combined exercises between Feb. 27 and March 2. the Admiralty announced tonight.—Reuter.
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    And Now In X-Bomb Warning
    131 1 U.P. WASHINGTON, Thurs. Sautter Mffiurd Tyd'n<r«* Jodnv f;>reca< an "X I H i'y" of the tutors h b > ssfd COOI 1 destroy mankind. Me B -rtary of State Dem Ach: m to start wjrkmg i-mru-d'a-tr'v lor world dl««armamer". ivdings ehr.irman o« tie Beiusf* Armed
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    RIOTERS WANT TO SING 'GOD BLESS AMERICA'
    74 1 Reuter. BELIZE. British Honduras. Thurs.—Angry demonstrators who want to s.ni "God Bless America" when Princess Alice arrives hera next Thursday, ware 4isrt#rg?f] hTe last night by mounted and foot police wicn bacons and tear gas. Several demonstrators were arrested after chasing a local
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    HEARTENING NEWS
    20 1 U.P. ST. LOUIS. Missouon Thurs. Researchers are perfecting a supersonic dental drill that In supposed to be painless.—U.P.
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    U.S. READY FOR PEACE
    338 1 But Stalin Must Go To Washington Reuter. ncrcmwT rr WASHINGTON, Thursday. pkLalDiuM Truman said today that the United doors were alw°vs open to pea.ce negotiations bat the next .meeting with Marshal Stalin would have to take place in Washington. mi 1 a 1 if A i.
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    12 INDONESIANS AND A KITTEN
    90 1 A.P. PERTH. AUSTRALIA. Thurs. Twelve shipwrecked Indonesians and a three-weeks-old kitten who sDent three days on a raft without food or water landed at Perth today by the Norwegian tanker, Elise. The Indonesians were on their way from Sumatra to I Jakarta when their 35-ton
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    NEW YEAR EVE ROBBERIES
    57 1 Four Chinese, one armed with a pistol, held up and robbed a compatriot of $30 and his identity card in Eilengorough Street at 5 o'clock this morning. Last nignt, at 11 o0 Dm. a Chinese woman was waylaid and robbed of $20 and a oawn shop
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    LIGHTNING KILLS MAN
    41 1 A Malay was struck down and killed by lightning in Sambawang Estate. Nee Soon, yesterday. It appears he was sand ing on his d.-JO'- s:eo when lightning skrtzek the side oi the hoJSSfi which *as only slightly damaged.
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    General Steele
    63 1 General James a. attjat r»r> 1-tencntL v.ao in vifciunx fttoofttfong ovu, tak airport talking to welcoming officials. Ihey are. lelt to rigut, Erigacher M. S. K. Maunsell. chief of staff of the army ir» Hongkong; Maj. Gen. J. M. Kirnman, chief of staff. Far East Land Forces; General
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    CHURCHILL SCOTCHES DEATH RUMOUR
    253 1 Reuter. LONDON, Thursday. DUMOURS spread through London and through the >rest of Britain during the night that Mr. Winston Churchill had died. Newspaper office telephones started ringing in the early hours of the morning with calls from people wanting to know if the rumours were true.
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    EXTENSION SOUGHT \
    21 1 EXTENSION SOUGHT U.P. RANGOON. BURMA, Than Burma's parliament voted on Tuesday to j extend martial law for 1 another six months.U.P.
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    JAY ACCUSES WINNIE
    82 1 Reuter. LONDON, Thurs. Mr. Douglas Jay. Economic Secretary to the Treasury, contended tonight that there would have been "something like the American War of Independence' in India by now if Mr. Winston Churchill had been tn power and had tried to mai.it ;m British rule there by
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    SIX KILLED
    23 1 A.P. SiiDuAisu, Michigan, rhurs.—Six workers were killed today when an explosion ripped apart a building nt the Dow Chemical Company's plant.—A.P:
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    Season's Greetings
    12 1 THE Tribune wishes all Chinese readers. Kiong Hee Fatt Choy
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    A Thought For Chinese Mothers
    114 1 Most of the city will be at rest to-day while tne Chinese celebrate New Year, Ou hu?..-re-os oi tne>x countrymen will be at work as usual, to help the luckj ones enjoy their noliday. Bus conductors, taxi-drivers, cinema ushers, the men and women employed in
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    PARIS ORDERS CRACK DOWN ON REDS
    154 1 U.P. PARIS, Thursday. THE Government ordered senior officials throughout the country, today to crack down ruthlessly on any Communist attempts to sabotage or demoralize the nation. The orders were dispatched after an emergency Cabinet meeting held last night to consider the mounting: wave of
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    TIN: UP 2s.6d.
    41 1 U.P. LONDON. Thurs. Cash tin rose two shillings and six enee today in Lonoon t-> j tiS s. tU& v.. ':ed. Ninety-day tuitlier i-eii i ivt sWltngfc t hid, £fl6o-5s I «'ked. Total turnover wai 50 ton". -A.P
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    Smuggled Arms Were New Year Goods
    150 1 A.P. BANGKOK, Thurs.--A "red hot" caigo discharged by the m.s. Mvi Hoc on Jan. 27 and reported to consist of 2,000 illegal weapons for the Communists turned out to be "luxury imports" —vermicelli, dried cuttlefish and mushroom, the Siamese Customs announced. The report grabbed
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    Rubber Expert Challenges Sir Stafford Cripps
    245 1 Reuter. LONDON, Thursday. A BRITISH rubber expert who claimed that Britaii had lost £225,000,000 in dollars since 194! through rubber price fixing, today challenged Sh Stafford Cripps' recent statement that the price wai fixed by the British Government after "full consul| tation with the
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    DUKE SETS UP RECORD FLIGHT
    57 1 Reuter. CAIRO. Thurs. A single seater British Fury fighter piloted by Squadron Leader Neville Duke did the 2.183 miles between London and Cairo today in six and a half hours, an a vera j speea oi 334.3 miles per hour. S/ Ldr. Duke set up
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    Gubi tche \\ Trial Is Adjourned
    99 1 Gubi tche Trial Is Adjourned NEW YORK, Thurs.— th Coplon-Gubitcnev spy trh was adjourned unexp;'cter ly tooay amid rumour, tha a major development to U/ a-.r m imminent. The Federal Judge. S>l vcs.er hyan, dismissed tfc jury until Monday, sayin only "a situation has arise ana ihe 11.crests of justic
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    PLOT TO MAKE NEW STATE
    66 1 Reuter. ACCRA, Oold Coast. Thur| Tfcurs. —Dr. Kwame N'Kru mah, head of the Nation alis Convention Peoples ParU admitted in court heie that he had made plans t;{ establish a "West Africa* Soviet Republic" including thi God Coast. He is on trial here with 1}
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    LABOUR TROUBLE
    19 1 Reuter. PARIS, Thurs. Nicf: police appealed to Marseil-t les for reinforcements a* new labour disorders loomee ahead.—Reuter.,
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    Three Have One Aim: Better Homes
    124 2 TOHEE Singaporeans—a girt and two boys—want build this Colony better homes. So yesterday they took the Westralia for Melbourne where they will study architecture in the university for five years. Aftei that, they plan to go go to England for post graduate courses in
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    Detainees Get New Year Gifts
    95 2 JpHORE BAHRU. Thuis. Chinese Neew Ycsr gifts of sweets, choco'ates. toffees, bisciiUfe, cigarettes, app'es, tinned pineapple were distributed to detainees at the Majedie Camp*. squatters at the Mawai Resettlement Camp, and inmates of the Johoie State Leper Camp. State Welfare Home and the Johore Bahru
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    4 WRACs IN FANCY DRESS COMPETITION
    88 2 FHDUR British Army women from the W R.A.C. will be among the fifteen saronged girls. who dressed G Esther Williams, the M.G.M. swimming star, will compete n Saturday evening for the title cf Chinese New Ye-.r Queen at the Happy Word Singapore's young men
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    RED PACKETS FOR SQUATTERS
    60 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. More than two hundred Chinese resettled in Jerokoh. Pahang. yesterday received a New Year surprise, when the committee of the MCA Branch, Kuala Lipis, visited them to distribute red pac kets. r The men MM women got ten dollars each while the children
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    GAS TIN BURSTS, MAN KILLED
    61 2 A.P. PENANG, Thurs. A Chinese balloon seller this morning was killed when the gas chamber made out of a fourgallon benzine tin. sMdenly exploded. The man. Tan Boon Kce, 35, was selling vie oailoons near the city market. While inflating, the gas drum burst. The
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    CRACKERS—A REMINDER
    39 2 A reminder for Chinese New Year celebrants. Crackers can only be fired from seven in the morning till seven in the evening today. No cracker firing to-morrow cr any other day. No cracker firing during the night.
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    RED PAMPHLETS
    16 2 Ten communist pamphlets were found by the police in Braddel Road at noon yesterday.
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    SHOULD TENANT GET 2nd. NOTICE?
    170 2 SHOULD a landlord serve his tenant with a second notice to quit before he proceeds against him to deprive him of his statutory tenancy? This question was discussed in the High Court yesterday at the hearing of an appeal on a decision of the Civil
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    $95,000 For Fire Services
    62 2 The Rural Board yesterday agreed to contribute an annual sum of $95,000 for the scivices of the Municipal Fire Brigade. The recommendation has been sent to Government. It was also decided at yesterday's meeting to go ahead with plans for the building of two community halls
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    ENTERIC FEVER-A WARNING
    117 2 NEW Year holiday makers in the New Bridge Road, Anscn Read, Tclok Ayer i street end Outrnm Road area will t; wc'l advised (not to c c t unwrapped ice cream, unbottled ice drinks, and unwrapped cooked foods duiing the holij days, as they might catch enteric
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    NO FLASH WILL BEAT THIS 'EYE'
    266 2 MR. D. Humphriss, of 111 the General Electric j Company, has plans for a new 'electric eye' device which will time the entrants for the Singapore Motor Club's Easter Sunday speed trials to onethousandth of a second. Mr. Peter Liddell Hon. secretary of the
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    MOVE TO PUT BRITAIN BACK ON RACING MAP
    123 2 oiNGAPORn; Cai Club mem»3 ben an? being asked t« ■nb or bo towards the cos*, of a £2.500. fully equipped racing car workshop, to ewe mrage financial sup port for the now racing ca;>uilt by Ilritish Racing Mo iorr;. It la hoped
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    627 BABIES
    35 2 Pneumonia killed 28 peopi* in Singapore for the week < ndinq I<Y'». It, Tuberculosis took 10, COilvtttykMiß 13. and enteritis j:;. Total nun. *.r of deaths during the week -175 Total number of- births—627.
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    INDIAN CLEARED OF BRIBE CHARGE
    124 2 AN Indian, Hiralal Badlo, under sentence of eight months' gaol for offering a bribe of $15 to Cpl. S. E. Harper of 'the Regimental Police, Selarang Barracks, Changi, was cleared of the charge when he appealed in the High Court yesterday. T* inn,. 1 H-,.,4.
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    THIEF CAUGHT RED-HANDED
    68 2 Lim Ah Cheow of Hajnilton Road told the Second Police Court yesterday that when he opened the back-door of his house early one October morning, he saw a man removing the-fourth nut of his motor car battery. The other th're nuts were alrcadv unsci ewed. Magistrate Mr.
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      201 2 "Wishing all our friends and Chinese Patrons a Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year" a a i r if TODAY DAiLY 3 showsI* Ait f(l V« At 3.15 -630 9 15. Miss NAIMA AKEF has estaWiskd kutti Singapore's No. 1 Pin-up Girl in (or "Miss Quicksilver") There's more singing more
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    SUB INSPECTOR GETS 13 YEARS FOR EXTORTION
    435 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. POLICE sub-inspector, Raja Ariff bin Harman Sah of Kuala Trengganu, convicted on two counts of extortion, has been given gaol sentences totalling thirteen years. His accomplices, Awang bin Abu Bakar, a petition writer, and Bakar bin Omar, a local pleader
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    LECTURES ON ADULT EDUCATION
    89 3 Free public lectures will be given under the auspices of the People's Educational Association, in the British Council Hall. Singapore ou Wednesdays at 5.15 p.m. Community Development— by Mr. A.W. Frisby. on March 22; Mass Literacy Campaign —by Dr. D.J. Prioe, on April 5; Literacy In
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    CHAP-JI-KI MAN GAOLED
    48 3 A young Chinese youth Lim Kit Leng was fined $120 in default one month rigorous imprisonment in the Singapore Third Police Couit yesterday, for assisting in carrying a chap-ji-ki lottery. Lim told the Magistrate that he had no money. He was then sent to prison.
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    MORE LOCAL NEWS FOR STUDENTS IN UK
    69 3 THE Singapore Government considering how best to -upply reading matter from Malaya to keep our students in England abreast of events in this country. At present, newspapers and official publications are being sent to the Students Liaison Officer in London for distribution. It
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    COUNCIL MEET
    32 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Tburs —The twentieth meeting of ti:«- Pahnnj? Executive Counc will be held at the ol the Mentn B< sar, Kua'o lapi on Feb. 20. at 10 P m.
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    Govt. Denies Arms Racket
    127 3 RUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. A Government spokesman today said that no report has been received by the Malayan Gcve-nment of a steady flow or war materia' being sttHlg-p-'ed from the WCO-China Coast to Malaya. Nor is there, added the spokesman, any evidence to state that such smuggling
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    MORE PUPILS IN JOHORE
    66 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs. Enrolment at the 241 Malay Vernacular Schools in Johore has now leached a total of 39,261 pupils of whom 13,425 are girls. This total shows an increase of 6.000 pupils on 1949 and 8.000 on 1948 figures and neatly double the enrolment in
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    HINDUS BUILD GANDHI LIBRARY
    56 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Thuis. The Hindu community is building a Maiiatma Gandhi Memorial Library to propagate Hindu religious teachings. The estimated cost of the Library is $10.000. The building is in the toim of a hall and is being built within the compound of the Sn, Raja
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    Union Says: Halt Easy Dismissals
    190 3 THE 5 000-strong Naval Base Labour Union, Shiga--1 pore is dissatisfied with the way the Naval Base authorities have dismissed Union members. Ihe Union says that the employers have broken the agreement relating to dismissal of worKers. The Union is calling an emergency general meeting
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    169 Unions
    33 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs —A Government press release yesterday stated that tttere were 169 trade unions registered in Maiaya. There were also IS unions, of which one is a Federation waiting registration.
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    USIS 'HOUSING EXHIBIT' IN K.L.
    159 3 USIS THE USIS "Housing Exhibit" which was put on view to the Singapore public for two weeks in December last year is now in Kuala Lumpur and will be exhibited at the I'SIS Library. 75 Ampang Road, from Feb. 20 to March 4 It is
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    Rolls Cars Will Keep 'Grecian} Touch
    125 3 Rolls Cars Will Keep 'Grecian Touch THE directing manager of Rolls Royce Limited, manufacturers of the riost. expensive car in the world, arrived in Singapore yesterday on his way to Australia. He was accompanied b> Di. Llewellyn Smith, in charge of motor car division. He is stopping over for a
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    USIS MEN TO CONFER IN S'PORE
    83 3 AN area conference or heads of the Ujaited States Information Service In East and South Asian countries will bt held in Singapore Irom next Thursday till Saturday, the American Consulate General announced yesterday. The meetings will oe private. They will con>rn ways and means
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    BANDITS HAVE LOST 1,664 MEN
    307 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. THE terrorists have lost 1,664 men since the emergency began. Of these. 1,051 were killed. 123 wounded and captured, and 490 captured unhurt. Four hundred and four bandits escaped, though wounded. This was announced in a Federal Government release giving the bandit
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    313 ARRESTED
    42 3 there have bees 6~±z> arrests in the Federation for the week-ending February 15 two in Penang, 22 in Malacca. 77 in Johore. 17 in Kedah Perl is. 22 in Selangor. 86 in Perak, S7 iv and 18 in NafFft Semi-i'an.
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    321,509 HAVE SIGNED ON
    119 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. THE total number of volunteers who have sigi.ed on for the anti-Bandit month is now 321.509. More than 18.000 came torward during the past twantyfour hours. The scouts of the Clifford School and Chinese Schools at Kuala have volunteered to assist the State
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    PROPOSAL FOR ONE CONTROL IN ISLAMIC AFFAIRS
    58 3 THE UMNO-sponscrcd Al3 Malaya Muslim Religious Conference, scheduled for Feb. 21 and 22 at Muar, Johore. will considc. a for a unified administrative system of Islamic Affairs throughout Malaya. SpQpsois consider it necessary to co-ordinate the policies cf the vaiious States for efficient
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      125 3 ACCOMMODATION "A large American I'unipany is anxious to find «:ood Quality furnished or unfurnished housing for senior staff. Willing to lake over accommodation durintr >me leaven and pay adequate furniture rentals. Would also he clad to take o\er Cathay building or other leases, compensating nresant tenants fnr repair expenses. Write
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      291 3 ARIEL Ii «o ]fl Smt§§ Framt I Brimful with power and never-failing performance. Handscme to look at 1 grandL to drive on. m Distributors: George Lee IfOtoes, Singapore. Segamat Store A Agency, K. Lumpur. %/J Hock Hoe Co., Ipoh. ff| Segamat Store Agency, Penang. ft J Heng Seng Co., Kota
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    KALLANG AIRPORT
    579 4 >jIR Miles Thomas, chairman of BOAC. who should know a thing or two about flying, comes out in favour of Kallang as Singapore's main I civilian airfield. Interviewed in London after his Far Eastern our, Sir Miles said that Kallang's approaches make it suitable not'only for present day
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    LET THE PUNISHMENT FIT THE CRIME
    2252 4  -  STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER Fines and imprisonment «re not enough to risrb eorri>|»iion. We might revile ilie mm* of (he (liiiiese Ken or ilic l.ntfli*!» nillorr In punish offender* by MENCIUS BEST news of the week for me is the Federation's anti-corruption plans. I
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    NEW U.S. DIPLOMACY
    381 4 NEW YORA. FOREIGNERS prOabiy have often wondered now the American government of recent years has managed to carry on its intense, manysided activities in foreign affairs without any conceited and damaging public opposition. President Truman has encountered none of the bitter, widespread antagonism President Wilson met when
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    AN ASIAN IN SEARCH OF HAM
    308 4 The People's Sir, Last Monday I was dashing from one grocer to another looking for a leg of ham. These grocers sell a lot of ham all right, but not the brand I was looking for. A few of them advised me to try
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    LIGHT STEP AND A SHARP MIND
    207 4 Sir, This Colony is moving into the fifth year following its liberation and we have heard words of praise at the vast progress it has made in its rehabilitation. But how much of a sham such statements are may be gauged from the state
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    A TAXI • OWNER PROTESTS
    230 4 A TAXI OWNER PROTESTS Sir. We learn that The Commissioners have approved 100 new taxis called the London Ivnf 1 Taxis tor "experimental" purposes. I would like to state that this is not the time for that kind of experiment. From the point of view of a taxi owner. I
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      19 4 CELEBRATE THE HAPPY IVEW YEAH DELICIOUS Jw* ORANGE .^SBajf 'PHONE 6354 FRAMROZ LTD. ESTABLISHED 1904 riw BnPMMwP'iir mr Br
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    NEW LIGHT ON OUR APE ANCESTORS
    1311 5 CLERICAL opposition in the latter half of the 18th century effectively stifled research into Man's beast-like ancestors. Over the last 50 years a few anthropologists, mostly museum officials In London and Washington, have coasis•"iitiy smudged the clear picture of the evolution o: (.1 the
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    HEYDAY OF THE POODLE
    1235 5 FI3HTY-EIGHT peers Of the realm have used dog Mfs in their coats ol inns. Odd facts like this eently discovered by the Kennel Club show how p-rootcd is the dog cult n Britain. That cult has expanded and changed since the war. About 1.000.000 pedigree ogfl
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    MISSING LINK
    118 5 U.P. BRISBANE. BRISBANE born Johannesburg Professor R. A. Dart claims co ha/c discovered «t prehistoric skull which links the human race with that of ;he apes. Professor Dart, who is Dean of the Faculty oi Medicine and Dentistry at Wiwatersand University. Johannesburg, recently returned to Brisbane lor the
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    CHARWOMAN'S SON RUNS THE O.E.E.C.
    619 5 I AT 9.30 a m. CTCPf week day. a big car glides through the wide, iron gnu, pates of the Chateau de la Muette. once the home ol the Paris Rothschilds, and now the headquarters ol Organisation for European Economic Co-operation. Out jumps a iau.
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    NEPTUNE'S DAUGHTER
    32 6 Cinemaquatic star K«th»r Williams is ba*k aitain in Sinsapore in M-G-M'a Chinese »w Year presentation. "Neptune's Daughter." now at the Cathay. I'fayingr the romantic lead opposite her is Kicardo Montalhan.
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    With Miss Ball's Compliments
    395 6 jILLE BALL IS MISS at. beautiful, though tly dumb, secretary. William Hold.-n is mond. her boss, in Co)ia's "Miss Grant Takes ;ri\mond." It's obvious efore. that the ccmedy •edings have nothing o with the historical or raphical background pi I city by the samp name >.
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    FORGOTTEN SCREEN IDOLS TELL WHY THEY FELL
    423 6  - FORGO TTEN SCREEN IDOLS TELL WHY THEY FELL By BOB THOMAS A.P. ■f'f HOLLYWOOD, Thurs. IKER WONDER what haplyNpens when a movie star from fame "Ijifrhat thought intrigued me HI I watched a bunch of w* time gatiier to if, ar.ur Cecil L. Demille, who Kigan shooting the first I'iture
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    THE WORLD IN 20 MINUTES
    869 6  -  BRITISH FILM COMMENTARY by WALLACE LEONARD LONDON, Thurs. DICTUREGOERS, m many parts of -world, will now be seeing a short "interest" fum called "Report on Hongkong" and absorbing it with all the more appreciation because it bears the series' subtitle "This Modern Age." From over
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    Mighty Male Has Appeal
    171 6 A.P. HOLLYWOOD. Thurs. |DA LUPWO telieves that I pairing a short leading lad and a tall leading man in movies is a sure wa; to enhance a (Urn's value a* the bo< office. The British-born actress, Who 3 5 leet 3 inches tall, delivered herself of
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      107 6 CAI*TAIM EASY \*f Eesiic Tor—r II (JAM! fT^iXMW^tiSpM M HEP. JUST I V" O'TW hc^^WWJI^IWI BUT X W 1 "iELL K.u KH&H S \F--\ 'Ay 5 J "IcA I*E JO3T LEARNED HO* 5> ■"■"'M EXPECTING VOL) HAVE TO V»AIT 1 l APOLOGIZE ALL AB^L; f E WAS I MARS MS
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    Won't You Believe It
    370 7 /THE belief that one j can dctermin j character bj' the bumps on the 'skull is a* ancient as it is untrue. Some of our greatest geniuses have had small brains and some of our more noiSs!i i numDs! u Us have nan larie ones The
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    DO YOU KNOW THAT
    43 7 Many peonle need whole blood transfusions. Others need the special blood products. One is plasma, the fluid part of blood, which ly a aulck. shocking substitute for whole blood. Another is a blood protein, serum albumin, that fights shocks
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    GASIFICATION IS ECONOMICALLY ADVISABLE
    418 7 I pVEN the wholesale prou duction of low-quality gas at the pithead by the simple expedient of firing "loose" seams underground will not keep the power men's graphs above the safety level. But Fuel Minister Gaitskell seems to think the old I idea is worth a
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    MEASURES TO COMBA THE LOCUST MENACĔ
    664 7  -  By C. RATTIGAN I DEFORE World War il «OGUStS and grasshoppers Between them .ost the world m toxi destruction and in the f rcwabaiing taem no teas an cuuttial sum than £io iiio.i. The cost is now probacy mud. higher. Both arc of the
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    How To Make A Barometer
    760 7  -  By Henry L. Williams nMt is little difficulty in making a barometef when once you have the gbma tab* ana tne mercury The tube for th*f s a special barometer tubing which has a thick wall to v/ithstand the weight of the mercury ;n T
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    Gear On Loan
    83 7 behalf of the Royal SoResearc h Facilities inittee aeronaut and mo- Su Geo In .L '««t week /iscio ienV^ V 1,Cc r^ul P ,t pre* st&S*J"" M It include.- submarine fo -ymg boat for seal anu w! JOWj censuses, a kite balloon «i 3 rl cr with
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    NEW DRUC MAY CURE LEUKEMIA
    70 7 U.P. NEW YORK. A new c*r u ha~ Mb reaped usually fatal disease of leukemia in Harold Kravetsky t -ur-year-o:d victim who enT v|i C v. H xT r nlta v a critical condition three weeks ago. doctors said today. «arol I left the ioipHs]
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    150,000 GERMANS WORK IN RUSSIAN URANIUM MINE
    130 7 A.P. HAMBURG. TbOTi wSSfni s^000 are in Rnc i ln mines 2L R!J s iil an-occupied Eastern Germany, the West German Social Democratic Party (SPD> claims. 86-page report or. conditions in the mines. ihe SPD says that both men ?w ome n are
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      59 7 SUK AmiSTROXC By Bob Srhoenke l, Matter then push them jack... are you /elena *5*E THE OVER&OARP TO THE SHARKS. GOING TO JON SUCH LI AMI J v ELENA... CARLOS HAS SAIP YOU SJI S^^?,S^ NT 1 HE/W H,M THATS A RING J+ttĔm ~M TELL Vie WHY AW STEEL WERE
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    BALLET PIROUETTES INTO THE SCHOOLROOMS
    1464 8  -  Highly Trained Teachers Groomed Bv Ar nold L. Haskell i LONDON IXLET companies come I and go wit;; bewildering Mdity. The art itself is so licmcral that all too often hing remains but a mejry. a collection of photo(gpna, and a few press c».ipfct ballet,
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    STRANGE AS IT SEEMS
    94 8 Reuter. WROTTESLEY PARK, Staffordshire. Thurs.—Baron Wrottesley. 77-year-old bachelor, has a stiange hobby. He is trying to breed the perfect spotted mouse. In his heirloom-filled home here- his family dates back to the 13th. century—he keeps 20 white mice with black mai kings in six oblong boxes
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    PIRATES IN PETTICOATS
    1110 8  -  By G.B. Cross HISTORY recounts the exploits of two females who would probably have heaid tne adventures oi th°ir soldiering and sailorIng sisters wttn tolerant smites, lor they combined both occupations and became p:ra-:rs with such success that their names arc almost as well known to students
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    IT'S TWINS TOO
    38 8 A.P. SYDNEY. Thurs. John Sharkey, a farmers wife, gave, birth to twins in a truck. The husband was driving her to a hospi a when the truck was held up by a flooded creek.—A n
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    Ever Hypnotized Your Wife?
    461 8 NEW YORK. UAVE you hypnotized your wife or husband? Why Thiols the best solutum of everybody's marital blems of this nature can be solved hy the mu.r.bo jumbo of hypnotism. He didn't say it quite that way. But he did say that he could hypnotize a
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    H.K. Manoeuvres
    36 9 [Hiring recent manoeuvres of British forces in Hong Kong, Major I*. C. McLaughlin gives an order via walkie-talkie Io C ompany. Firs* Battalion, the King's Own Scottish Borderers, to attack. A.P. Photo. A.P. Photo.
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    House Campaigns Planned In Gaol
    137 9 A.P. BELFAST, Thursday. THE old Sinn Fein party's two candidates for the British Parliament are writing their campaign speeches in Belfast prison The candidates, McCateer of Londondorry and James Steele of West Be'fast are serving sentences on convictions. Friends are conducting their campaigns. Tlie Northern
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    SPY JAILED
    41 9 STOCKHOLM. Thurs. Swedisn Dusiness v ivtitiag Leffler was founu guilty of espionage today and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment. The foreign diplomat involved was not named in the trial. Leffler is the nephew of wellknow mathematician Goesia iviittag Memer%y»u.x-%
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    ROBOTS WILL REPLACE SOLDIERS IN WORLD WAR III
    696 9  -  By CHARLES B. LYNCH Reuter. OTTAWA, Thursday. BOBOTS will replace the "foot-slogger" «n World War 111, according to Dr. O. M. Solandt, who at 40 is Chairman of the Canadian Defence Research Board and one of the world's top military sci^ntis^s. The
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    Radio Can Step Up Rice Crop
    86 9 ReuterAAP. TOKYO, Thurs. A 77 year old scientist and member of Pailiament claimed he could step up food production to make Japan self-sufficient by treating wheat and rice seeds with radio waves. The scientist. Hajime Hoshi, told Parliament his radio treatment of seed cut
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    Russia Will Win H-Bomb Race—BERNAL
    296 9 Russia Will Win H-Bomb Race —BERNAL U.P. LONDON, Thursday. ANE of the few Westerners ever permitted to see Soviet science at work said yesterday that Russia will probably win the race for the hydrogen bomb "if she considers it important enough". Professor J. D. Bernal. leftist head of the Physics
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      108 9 ALLEY OOP hy V. T. Hamlin 1 f r say. r l I I cscmz: i cwt uo H E S X" .STtftf it- LIKE CSCAZL say, TV I JUST CKN'T.'jL SiVING THAT/ S ES. SA>S...JL)ST STAJ2T V EE... Jhh MY 60SH. LECTURE OOP 15 NOTu Cks OFF WITH "LACES
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    CHINA TO SIGN TRADE PACTS WITH RED LANDS
    319 10 A.P. CAN FRANCISCO, Thursday. The Peiping radio fl said yesterday a trade agreement between Communist China and Russia would follow soon on the heels of the 30-year treaty of alliance and mutual 3.ssisl3.nct? A broadcast, heard at San Francisco, quoted the Communist
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    Pakistan Jute For S.Africa
    67 10 U.P. KARACHI, Thur. —The Paxistani Ministry of ComD erce announced last night that 5,000 tons of jute has been allotted for export to South Africa before April 80. Pakistan recently lifted it>hau or tiade with South Africa Other jute quotas announced for the period were 25,000
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    Along The Godowns
    63 10 Rajuia (44); Hunera (42 3); Rebeverett (40/1); Saparoea (38,9); N. Holland (35--6); Pyrrhus (33 4); Stanvac Djarak (81/2); Sang.da v l7 8); Purnea (IC/20); S.H.B. (ran (21 3); Sunipitan (234); Kraeside (25 6); Beenrrmcr.de (27 8); Westralia (29 30); Benavon (15 6); So mall (13 4); Malaya
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    JAP MISSION
    23 10 NEW DELHI, Thur.— A ten man trade and agriculture mission has arrived from Tokio to discuss expansion of Indian- Japanese trade.
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    Better Turn
    35 10 SINGAPORE, Thurs.— t Bespits tne Chinese t x>w Year h«''dav« J S firmness of tin and rub- ncr f »m<noa«i«*--» v» >*s r L inclined to affect the share market t ovourably. Jf-
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    Share Quotations
    849 10 Singapore, Thurs. INDUSTRIALS Atlas Ice 11.90 12.25 xb., xd Alex. Brick* Pref. 2.40 2.50 Ord. 2.20 2.25 8.8. I/'trol 34/6 35/6 B.M. Trustee! 7 50 8.50 Coo. Tin Smelt Pref. 21/3 22/3 Ord. 15/3 16/6 S. Utd. Assur. 39 25 40.25 list Trust Dispensary 6.50 7.00 Eraser Neave
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    RUBBER VERY STEADY
    122 10 There were good orders for all grades of rubber in the rubber commodity market. The market was very steady with a very good undertone. New York showed an age rise of 2.0 points for foi wards. Chinese dealers were disinclined to do business on Chinese New Year.
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    Rubber Imports
    52 10 Malaya's foreign imports of rubber totalled 17.588 tons in January. Of this 14,652 ton 3 were imported into Singapore and 2,936 tons into the Federation. The United States of Indonesia sent to Singapore 9,050 tons during the month and another 1,015 tons to Penang. Penang imported 587 tons
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    Tin Prices
    35 10 A.P. SINGAPORE, Feb. 16: Tin price 5289-25 cent*, per picul < x-godown. Dp $0.75 cents. LONDON, Feb.ls—The *n market was weak. Cash tin closed down two shillings six pence to £599.10». bid, £600 asked.—A.P.
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    MALAYAN COPRA OUTPUT DOUBLED
    75 10 The Federation almost doubled her copra production last year as compared with 1948 A total of 122,937 tons was produced in 1949 against 64.619 tons in 1948. Output from estates was 36.957 tons while the total from small-noldings as 85.98U tens. Estates in Perak producea 20,020
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    ECA AID
    52 10 A.P. WASHINGTON. Thuis. The Economic Cooperation Administration yesterday allocated South Korea U554,460,000. It authoiized Korea to buy with it'U552,422,000 woith of petioleum- from the Middle East. Latin American and the United States, t T 551,782.000 worth of iaw cotton from the United States and US$4l,OOO worth of Japanese
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    Bid To Boost Silk
    128 10 A.P. NEW YORK, Thurs.—The world's silk makers, including Japan, the largest producer, will conveue in New York to map plans designed to recapture at least par*, of their prewar markets. Siikmen from 32 countries have been asked to attend an International Silk Association congress here from
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    HECTOR, SAILING AND BONNIE PRINCE BEST BETS
    1136 11  -  By ALBERT SPENCER —%7 kjm. The Man with 2000 Winners KUALA LUMPUR, Today f.lVEN a reasonably dry track, the three best bets for tomorrow—the opening day of the Selangor Turf Gold Cup Meeting—will be Hector, Sailing and Bonnie Prince. The weather, at the
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    Several Horses Seratched
    65 11 Although, thq ?.oing will be good tomorrow several horses will not be running. Advance >cratchings indicated this morning were: b.s Surprise. Contract. Ecliptic. Indian Heather. French Custom. Milluall. Oregon. Colbay. Achilles, Game Law. Well Done. Silver Sequin. Lynchburg, Pamarv. Birthday Gift, Ra.i Mahal. La-Wan, April Showers, Victory
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    ALLWORTH SET AGAINST THE CLOCK
    99 11 On.y one hc*s< worked fast this morning -AUworth (Charles who ran three lurtongs in 37 'sceonds. Tudor Pride ij. Donnelly) splinted a furleng in 13 sees. Pace or sprint work was lone by Lord Dhoti (E-Mcry.), Pert cf Gold (Harper), Invest (Turner), Lucky Ace (Lansdown),
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    WEST WILL MEET IKE WILLIAMS
    48 11 A.P. NEW YORK, Thurs. Sonny Boy West, of Washington. D.C., was substituted for ailing Bernard Docusen of New Orleans as tomorrow night's nontitle opponent for the lightweight champion Ike Williams at the Madison Square Garden. Docusen has influenza, the International Boxing Club said.—A.P.
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    Bobby Njoo Favourite For Tonight
    110 11 Bobby Njoo has the opportunity tonight at the Happy World Stadium tc piovc to boxing fans that the battering he received from Alfie Sands in ins last fight has in no way impaired either his confidence or the ability which has made him the most
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    SOUTH AFRICANS GOING HOME FROM THE GAMES
    142 11 The Scuta African Empire Gam-'S team had a right to be proud when thoy landed in Singapore hy UOAC. Constebat'on yesterday. "We couldn't do better in tne G-mes said Capt. C.J. Rootema.i. manager of the team. "We took eight firsts and eighteen of
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    SERVICES SIDES IN SEMI FINALS
    219 11 SEVEN-A-SIDE RUGBY THE R.E., South Johore, R.A.S.C. and Naval Base 1 rugger teams entered the semi-finals of the Singapore Seven-a-Side Rugger Tournament when they won their matches in the quarter-finals on the padang yesterday. eH minat- The semi-finals between RE. and South Johore. and between
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    Most Exciting Race Of The Year
    264 11  -  BEST SPRINTERS TO CLASH By ALBERT SPENCER Racegoers in Kuala Lumpur tomorrow should witness what, in my opinion, will be the most interesting race of the year when the speed and weight carrying ability of three of the Dest sprinters in the country will
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    NEW "CAP" IN FINAL INDIAN TEST TEAM
    202 11 Reuter. MADRAS. Thurs. The Fifth, final and what may prove the deciding unofficial Test between Tndia anu vie team opens tomorrow on the Chepauk Sporting wicket here. The Commonwealth won the first Test at Delhi and India won the third at Calcutta. The
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    B.B.B. of C. Told Mills has Retired
    64 11 Reuter. LONDON. Thurs. Freddie Mills, the British. European. and Empire light heavyweight boxing champion who lost his world title when he was knocked out hy American Joey Maxim last month, announced that he has retired from competitive boxing. He has written his manager,
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    "C" COMPANY DEVONS WIN MALAYA SHIELD
    143 11 The Ist Battalion. Devon Regiment held their Rifle meeting at Nee Soon Ranges. The Regimental band played while regulars, national servicemen and ofhfrrs contested lor trophies some oi which are still in sate keeping in the Bank of 'C Company won the contest within
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    Ward Cup
    157 11 The Waid Cuo lor the Light Machin- Gun pair to get the highest score was won by L/Cpl Longi ian and Private Milton of T>' i ompanv. vert Cpl. Vigg and Pte. Brudfidd of HO Oortpany. Class B of this event tot yAUM solditrs was won by rteti
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    LAYCOCK CUP FOR BOYS' CLUB SWIMMERS
    92 11 LA YCOCK CUP FOR BOYS' CLUB SWIMMERS At 4 p.m. on Saturday. February, 25. the first annual swimming sports of the Singapore Boys' Clubs will be held at the Mount Emily Pool, under the auspices of the Singapore Youth Council. Mr. John Laycock has donated a Silver Challenge Cup for
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    340 12 'IF COMMUNISTS TAKE INDO-CHINA, IT WILL BE TOO LATE' SPENDER A.P. U.P. SYDNEY, Thursday. A COUNTER move to the new Soviet-Chinese A Communist Pact was announced by the United States today by offering help to any state in Asia, including Red China. This offer came as Australia's External Affairs Minister,
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    WOMEN BLAMED FOR RIOTS
    167 12 Reuter. CAPETOWN, Thurs.—Dr. Janaea, South African ter of Native Affairs. untd African naUve women today for being largely responsible for recent rioting in non-European townships of the Union. "If we go into the cause of recent riots you will find that women are to a large
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    LONE ROBBER HAULS $5,000
    58 12 Reuter. HONGKONG. Thurs. A lone tniei in vie near, of the city made away with between $10.000 and $15,000 in cash and several thousand dollars worth of dresses. The roobbery occurred in a linen and chest store less than 100 yards from the Star Ferry wnaii
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    LONDON SHARES
    158 12 Reuter. LON'DO". Thurs.— The London Stock Exchange today pat ted to take breath arte* s leap to hiehw levels, ihew \v><» no repetition of the brightness and optimism that *aye "irencui to many domestic is.ues. Nevertion of gains in miscellaneous leaders although active irltiest theless there was quiet
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    China Gets Little From Russia-Acheson
    167 12 U.P. WASHINGTON, Thursday. SECRETARY of State Dean Acheson said today a that Communist China can expect no real benefits from its new alliance with Russia. On the contrary he predicted that the Kremlin will use the treaty as a means of tightening its political and
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    FLIES OUT TO SICK HUSBAND
    44 12 A 20-ycar-o-d wife of a -'-MipT/. Ctu^^pmr» t ''°'<n. i. flying out from England to see her husband at the D.M.H Sloan was flown down from the Federation yesterday fol•ooriag an accident. Hu erudition is believed to be serious.
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    To Quit Movies
    58 12 Rev. Herman Hunks, w r Pastor of the Pre- sbyterian Church at iPunxuntawney, U.S.A., shakes hands with 21--year-old film star Colleen lov.nsend outside the Church. Colleen, who says she is going to quit the movies for ir-ligious work. addressed the congregation at the regular Sunday service. Members
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    SINO-SOVIET PACT IS AGGRESSIVE
    95 12 U.P. TAIPEH. Formosa, Thurs. Yeh formally charged today that the Chinese RedsSoviet agreement is an aggressive military alliance between the USSR and the puppet Peiping Communist regime" with tht United States the principal target. In the first official government reaction to the Moscow announcement, Yeh said
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    Ladies In Retirement Is Good Fun!
    333 12 W.M.B. j IN Singapore's Victoria Theatre, I once sat through i a lecture in French, which I am sure went as far I over the heads of the large audience as it went over my own. But it was culture, and we were there
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    JEEP AMBUSH
    68 12 Reuter. BOGOR. Thurs. Four j persons were killed and one wounded when a jeep was shot at by terrorists from an ambush in an estate j north of Tjl andjur, about 120 kilometers south of Djakarta. according to I Areta news agency. The Dutch planter accompanied by an
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    SUGAR ON FIRE
    24 12 A.P. SALINAS, California. Thurs. Fire virtually destroyed a warehouse here yesterday with a loss of stored sugar that may approach USSI,OOO.OOO.—A.P.
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    LAWYERS PURGED
    15 12 A.P. ivOME. Tnurs.—A "dras- tic purge" of lawyers is underway in Czechoslbva- kia.—A.P.
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    Chiang Reinforces Hainan Defences
    226 12 U.P., A.P. Reuter. HONGKONG, Thursday. riIINESE Nationalist navy has sent reinforcements and armoured units to Hainan island to resist a Communist invasion expected some time during the crjming week. The armoured units were flown from Formosa. Communist forces on Liuchow peninsula were expected to conduct a
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    Argentina Fights A Lone Battle
    165 12 Reuter. THE HAGUE, Thursday. ARGENTINA seemed to be fighting a lone battle when the International Court of Justice began hearings today on whether the United Nations General Assembly to bring the case to the International Court for an opinion—maintained that the Assembly had the final
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    174 12 Reuter AAP. DJAKARTA, Thursday. A RELIABLE source said here today that the Netherlands Ambassador, Dr. H. M. Hersdhfeld, had asked the Indonesian Grovernment to release a number of Dutch soldiers arrested by the Indonesia Army in Djakarta and Bandung. It was believed that the
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    RED HARRY'S PROMISE
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    BOMB KILLS 12
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    CINEMA
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