The Straits Times, 22 January 1951

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JANUARY 22. 1951. PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • 324 1 1 Op. c. Increase Proposed By Government From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. immediate ten per cent rise in the cost of living allowance for Federation Government and municipal employees is likely to be recommended at the Federal Legislative Council meeting on Wednesday. At the
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  • 112 1 Floods And Rain Stop Bandits From Our SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. FR three days heavy rain and floods have affected bandit activity so much that there has been almost a lull In the past 24 hours, say the polk-e. But police work has gone on and several arrests have
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  • 44 1 Air-Marshal Sir Francis Fogarty. Commander-ln-Chief, Fu E.ist Air Force, flies from Singapore on Wednesday to visit Air Chief Marshal Fuen Rennapakas Ridhagani, C-in-C of the Royal Siamese Air Force. He will also visit the Prime Minister. Field Marshal Ph'bul So; gkhram.
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  • 322 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. n HI main Singapore Kuala Lumpur road is still 1 impassable to motor traffic 18 miles from s iin.it and seven miles from Gemas, though there were indications today that the floods were sub- siding. All mail
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  • 100 1 SANTIAGO, Sun. gEVERAL hundred natives on Easter Island, in the Pacific, saw an aeroplane for the first time in their lives yesterday when a Catalina plane of the Chilean Air Force landed there. The island is one of the stages on a possible direct air
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  • 89 1 'Let Attlee Visit Stalin' U.K. PAPER LONDON. Sun. SUGGESTIONS that the Prime Minister. Mr. Clement Attlee, should fly to Moscow accompanied by Mr. the Indian Prime Minister, or other Commonwealth Prime Ministers, to confer with Stalin, was made by the British Sunday newspaper, Reynolds News. "We must make it clear
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  • 72 1 An R.A.F. spokesman said yesterday that there was little hope of any survivors from the privately-owned Dakota, missing near the Siam border for more than a week. It was reasonably certain that the wreckage seen near Sungei Padi, seven miles across the Siam border, was the
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  • 119 1 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Sunday. T^HE inhabitants of the town of Pusing. who were x yesterday .collectively fined $40,000 and ordered to close all shops in the town in the first inquiry of its kind in the Federation, are appealing against the sentence. i
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  • 149 1 TOKYO, Sunday. ITNITED Nations forces re-entered battered Wonju in central Korea today within 24 hours of withdrawing from the vital road and rail centre. A patrol had earlier penetrated into the "outskirts of the city, which has changed hands several times. Acommunique said "Friendly
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  • 53 1 HONG KONG. Sun. THE Hong Kong Chinese Reform Association resolved today to petition the Government to build a subterranean tunnel linking mainland Kowloon with Hong Kong. The two are now Joined by a ferry service. Suggestions for a tunnel had been made previously but rejected
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  • 111 1 37 DIE INALPINE SNOWS GENEVA, Sun. SWISS authorities counted at least 37 dead last night and many others missing after 24 hours of Alpine avalanches which swept away houses, cut rail lines in dozens of pj*ces and tore down miles of j^ephone wires, TTie figures of 37 was given as
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  • 17 1 SALT LAKE CITY, Sun.— Mormon missionaries have been ordered to leave Hong Kong.— A.P.
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  • 14 1 NAPLES, Sun. Duchess Helen of Orleans-Aosta, aged 84, died last night.— U.P.
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  • 46 1 SOURABAYA, Sun. The biggest bank robbery in Indonesia's history was solved recently when police succeeded in recovering 3,785,700 rupiahs of 3.800,000 robbed from the Java Bank at Sourabaya In December last year. Almost all those involved were arrested by the police. ReuterAAP.
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  • 30 1 Six adults and four children were injured when two cars were in collision in Outram Road, Singapore, shortly before midnight. All were Chinese. All were taken to hospital.
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  • 21 1 BOMBAY, Sun. The Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru, landed at Bombay today on his way home from London. Reuter.
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  • 128 1 ROME, Sun. ITALY'S Communist-con- trolled Federation of Labour yesterday challenged as unconstitutional the Government's order temporarily suspending all civil employees who walked out on strike in protests against General Elsenhower. Guiseppe di Vittorio, Bec- ter, Signor Alcide de Oasperl, that Italy's constitution made no distinction between political
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  • 44 1 "WE'LL BE BACK NEXT CHRISTMAS BACK TO SCHOOL: Laughter and tears at the Harbour Board wharf yesterday, when the Charon sailed to Australia with 94 children from various parts of the Federation and Singapore returning to their studies in Australian schools.— Straits Times picture.
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  • 223 1 CIX armed men tied up an unarmed constable and Sikh watchman at the Singapore Standard and Sin Chew Jit Poh office in Robinson Road, Singapore, yesterday, and tried to set the place on fire. They poured petrol on Linotype maenines ana set them alight, then went
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  • 35 1 NEW YORK, Sun. SCREENING of the Italian film "The Miracle" was delayed 45 minutes last night because of an anonymous telephone bomb warning. Cardinal Spellman has termed tha film "blasphemous." A.P.
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  • 186 1 'Keep Pacts, Says Soviet LONDON Sun. DUSSIA acoused the United States, Britain and France yesterday of reviving a regular German army and "organizing a military alliance against the Soviet; Union." Identical notes to Britain and Franca compared the Atlantic Pact to the Axis pace, which bound Germany, Italy and Japan
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  • 61 1 LUCKNOW. Sun. Ten people Including eight policemen were injured yesterday at a' demonstration by sugar mill strikers on which police opened fire at Hardoi. 60 miles from here. In all 50.000 workers in 28 sugar factories in the United Provinces have been on strike since
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  • 316 2 STOWED AWAY FIVE TIMES TO SEE WIFE TOKYO, Sunday. AN Australian ex-Serviceman Kenneth William Gibbons, who stowed away in five ships, served three months in a Chinese gaol and who was deported once from Japan, is back again in Tokyo all for the love of his Japanese wife and his
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  • Article, Illustration
    61 2 MISS SHAKUNTALA Dcvi, one of the world's mathematical wizards, can extract the sube root of 12-digit figures in a couple of seconds. Her parents discovered her talent for figures when she was six years old Miss Dcvi, who is at present in Paris, where this picture was taken, hopes to
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  • 104 2 BERLIN, Sun MR. Ernest Davies, British Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, questioned on rumours of a British coalition at a Press conference said here last night "this has not been and Is not being considered." "Recent Cabinet changes indicate Quite clearty that the Prime Minister has not this
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  • 90 2 HANOI, Sun. Q.EN De Lattre de Tassigny, French Commander-in-Chief in Indo-Chlna, said here last night that French Union forces had used American napalm (jellied petrol) bombs against Vietminh troops in this week's fourday battle 30 miles northwest of Hanoi. Gen. De Lattre said
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    • 260 2 Cable Flashes 10 Accused: Tried To Overthrow Tito r PEN middle-aged Yugoslavs are on trial in Belgrade 1 charged with trying to overthrow Marshal Tito's Government by force. Their leader, a retired professor of theology, based his defence on claims to political freedom, as stated in the Atlantic Charter. The
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  • 65 2 LONDON. Sun.— The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Gaitskell, yesterday discussed arms drive problems with the eight-man Industrial Brains Trust. The Trust represents employees and trade unions. Before the reopening of Parliament neit Tuesday, decisive moves are being made in connection with the shortages of raw
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  • 78 2 WASHINGTON.' Sun.-The Economic Co-operation Administration said yesterday that it is winning the propaganda battle with V Communists in South -E. Asia. -A .spokesman said that Communist lies are being exposed by the very nature of American aid itself, and by the dramatic presentation of facts through
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 510 2 NOTICES FAR EASTERN FREIGHT CONFERENCE Effective M-l-51. Shippert we hereby informed that the base rates on Copra. Coconut Oil. Oilcakes, Oilcake Urals and Palm Oil are Increased J5' t All other baae rates appearing in Section V of the Far fctstern Freight Conference Freight Tariff No. 4 from Malaya. •ith
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    • 165 2 M Notice r SINGAPORE MUNiaPALITY TENDERS MUNICIPAL BBCRETARIAT. Punning of the Csnleen at Clubhouse, Municipal Holiday Bunga-i lows. Telok Mate Ikan for thd oeriod enJing 3\ Drcembei 1951 :'^rtlcul«r» from Asst. Muniripall SecreUry (Welfare) (Room No. 243). Forms from Tender Room. Ground Floor, Muaictpal Office. Clogf N00N— 1 .2.51. CENTRAL
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    • 726 2 TrtE Singapore harbour board TRAFFIC DErARTMENT Holiday Chinese New Tear's Day, Tuesday, 6th February, 1951. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that vessels alongside the Board's wharves and. working before 11 a.m. on Monday, sth February, 1951, will be worked after 11 a.m. on that day without extra charge provided they complete
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    • 252 2 Mill v i/rrnr i ai^P^t^yH IX L. L. r*J Squibb J x Dental Cream \jfyr KN'Pm: f^StStnTHSnt r«l. 1852 %ur whole family neeJs nourishing \\lf?^i jv QUAKER OATS^II Big Benefits from Quaker Oats IB- AR «tf fwcKcooiai*tl Aj&£ stiiiwni „Wr.<pf.tei., iffy m im\ MOU MM k«. rf tfcOTi^ttM. I.) (NW3
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  • 592 3 AUSTIN: DRAW LINE AGAINST AGGRESSION NOW US Demand Goes Before U.N. LAKE SUCCESS, Sunday. DUTTING the "brand China an aggressor" resolution before the United Nations Political Committee, Mr. Warren Austin, for the United States, said that now was the time to draw the line. Collective action was the best hope
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    14 3 M LIONEL Henry Lamb, the newly-appointed British Minister to Peking. A.P. picture.
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  • 226 3 ROME Sun. J^JR. Nehru, Prime Minister of India, said in Rome on his way back to India, tha: the Chinese Communist Government desires a settleiii nt by negotiation of the X rean war. A-ked if he thought another word war inevitable. *Ir Nehru replied: "No:
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  • 99 3 What The U.S. Urges THE six points put to the Committee by Mr. Austin were: I— Communist China is "engaged in aggression in Korea." 2— The United Nations is determined to continue its resistance to this aggression. 3 All States are asked to help the United Nations action in Korea.
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  • 105 3 BRUSSELS. Sun. FIELD Marshal Viscount Montgomery said yesterday that all Atlantic Pact nations must adopt a twoyear period of military training if the Western defence plan was to be effective. He added that it was essential to start this two-year conscription immediately with the men now in
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  • 349 3 'Ike' To Germans: 'Stand With Us' LET BYGONES BY BYGONES' FRANKFURT, Sunday. GENERAL Dwight Eisenhower, -checking West European defences, said at Frankrupt today that he had returned to Germany to let "bygones be bygones." He believed that the Western peoples, including Germans "who really believe in the system on which
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  • 52 3 LONDON. Sun.— For health reasons the Prime Minister of Australia. Mr. R. Menzies. will be unable to visit Europe next week, it was stated in London yesterday. Mr. Menzies and his staff are expected to fly home to Australia towards the end of the
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  • 30 3 MAO TZE-TUNG. Chairman of the Central People's Government of the Republic of China, confers with Chu Teh, Commander-m-C hief of Communist China's armed forces.— Camera.
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  • 38 3 A KOiIIAN mo. her. bent double in pain, sobs as she halts with her child, unable to continue her flight from the Communist hordes in the fighting xone south of Seoul. A P. picture.
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  • 248 3 Driberg Attacks 'Museum Piece' LONDON, Sun. MR. Tom Driberg, the iTI newspaper columnist and Labour MP, who recently visited Malaya used a column in Reynolds News today to criticise a speech made to the Malayan Association by a Kuala Lumpur lawyer, Mr F. J. Woodward. Mr. Driberg quoted this from
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  • 83 3 MANILA, Sun.— The United States will defend the Philippines against any external aggression. Mr. Myron Cowen, the UJS. Ambassador to the Philippines, said yesterday. Mr. Cowen, who has just returned from the United States, said appropriations had already been made to provide such aid as
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  • 54 3 WASHINGTON, Sun. Mr. W. H. Harrison, of the United States Defence Production Administration, said in Washington yesterday that" American industry with Government aid. would add 12.000.000 tons of steel and 575,000 tons of aluminium to its output over the next two years. The copper outlook was "not so
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  • 242 3 TOKYO, Sunday. pREMIER Shigeru Yoshida said last night that Japan should not be forced by a peace treaty into rearming. Japan's independence and security must be defended by the patriotism of the Japanese them- selves He told a Liberal Party meeting: "This should not lead
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  • 45 3 HONO KONG, Sun.— Wong Chuen, aged 45, Chinese merchant arrested on Friday for smuggling into the Colony six katls of dutiable liquor, told the court yesterday it was all "for my own consumption, I am a good drinker." He was fined HKS7S.— A.P.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 103 3 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD .r k,"T, k Il*!***"I 1 CROSSWORD No. 271 Cf.-trb fur ;i Kiplina hero T (to 4> 14 No damp »tudy for tm» A diamond lubilee year l 0 iSs I 21 Schooner wrecked (Even- J* 1 too *not. T hLJH-JH-JHpBSb »(M.imON TO CWHIIMI Wfc n» Re^'"^"*' Was
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  • 68 4 MRS HARRY OII.D wishes to thank her very many friends for Die cables, flowers and letters of condolence In her sad bereave■nent Mr. A Mrs: Boey Kock Cheow •nd family thank all friends, relatives in Singapore. Kuala Lumpur and Penariß and the staff of ihe Teluk Kurau English Cchool.
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  • 753 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Jan. 22, 1951. The Chinese Malayans w It, is very rare in the modern I world to read a speech made at the foundation of a new rural community. If such speeches were made in the pioneering ;days of America or Canada or other new
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  • 388 4 On the Singapore waterfront i there is a godown which is I leased by the Government of the Federation of Malaya, and thereby hangs a tale. The facts j have been dug out by a keen Malayan researcher into poli-tico-economic affairs, verily researcher with the nose of*
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  • 32 4 MOSCOW, Sun.— The Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. Andrei Vyshinsky, handed to the British and French envoys in Moscow yesterday Soviet replies to the Western Powers' notes on West German re-
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  • 1207 4  - Mental SicknesS No Stigma At Yio Chu Kane NONI WRIGHT By VO straitjarkets, no padded cells, little violence. A bright hospital atmosphere of wards and covered ways, no prison or "snakepit" of locked cell horrors Patients playing draughts and chess, reading the papers, listening to the radio, smoking, digging the
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    • 135 4 pOR a modern city, Singapore is not to be comr mended for its progress. Drainage is absolutely inadequate for the rain that falls. This rainfall is not abnormal; it has been experienced for years. Modern sanitation is apparentiy a luxury and Singapore is the worst city I
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    • 104 4 MR. Tan Ah Wee, in a letter in the Saturday Forum, stated that a pre-war scale of architects' fees was still in force. I am assured, on good legal advice, that there is no scale of architects' fees in force In Singapore or the Federation. The scale of fees
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    • 102 4 I AM writing this in the dark, but I am seeing red. We on this side of Orchard Road have had to suffer no less than three long Blackouts this week up till the time of writing. Recently a spokesman ot the Electricity Department announced
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    • 79 4 A CCORDING to recent A Press reports, employee* on contract whose salaries art not over $250 will be eligible to Join the employees' provident fund when a Bill to this effect has been passed in the Federal Legislative Council. Will this Bill, when passed, include teachers
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    • 214 4 PROMOTION IN THE PUBLIC SERVICES LP.L.'s letter, published by you on Jan. 12 under the heading "Government Promotion." reveals a misapprehension of the methods of the Public Services Commission. Before the Public Services Commission decides which of the candidates for any post shall be called for interview, every member of
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  • 509 4 On the Margin "Slalky And Co." gOME memories of boyhood day.; on Singapore Island half a century ago, and of roaming the countryside and "poaching" in the orchards with a gang of friends in the holidays, appeared in "Singaporeana" a week or two ago. Since my own memories are of
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    • 21 4 H^v iIH Er II $280 This is a lovey birthday gift any lady will appreciate. A.MMMUM NLJI It COU.YKK QVOV SINGOPQBK
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  • 426 5 DAYLIGHT TUTS IN POWER MAY END SOON Appeal To Use Fewer Lights gINGAPORE may be free from power cuts during daylight hours from this week, although if storms darken the city during the day and consumers turn on their fights, there is no guarantee that the load requirements will be
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  • 119 5 rrurn Our Staff < orrr pondrnl KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. i HOPE that Mr. W. N. Gray. the Commissioner of 1 Federation, would on? regarded as the ""saviour of Malryr" was ex- i by Mr. S". S. Mani.m. p.-eMdcnt of ire Police Admin FtratlTe and Clerical SerTirP 1
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  • 197 5 Scouts Say Thanks— With The Scriptures iJIBLICAL references were used i.t a recent exchange of signals between Malayan Scouts operating against bandits in the jungle and a RAF. Dakota Sqwdron which dropped suppLcs. The Malayan Scouts sigi nailed: "Troops very im- > pressed by way in uhich drop rcas carried
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  • 152 5 AUSTRALIA AWARDS TO ASIANS IS part of its contribution to the British Commonwealth Technical Co-opera- tion Scheme for Asia, the Australian Government is offering Asian students in Singapore both men and women two scholarships or fellowships, Senior or Junior, tenable in Australia. A scholarship is awarded for a course leadi.g
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  • 24 5 Three Sikhs injured in a fight at Temhling Road, Singapore, yesterday evening, were treated as outpatients at the' General Hospital.
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  • 143 5 From Our Special Correspondent FM7Pii« f AM^ RON HIGHLANDS, Sunday. pUPILS for the first co-educational secondary boarding school for Army children in the Far feast, which opens here this week, armed in an armoured convoy at the week-end Among the 38 children w.?re some who
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  • 233 5 Frisby 's Appeal To Parents TAKE AN INTEREST IN SCHOOLS' T»HE Director of Educat Frisby, yesterday c: school-going: children to on, Singapore, Mr. A. W [horted the parents of ake an active interest in the running of schools. Mr. Frisby was addressing members of the Singapore Buddhist Federation and parents
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  • 63 5 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Sun. LT.-Gen. Sir Harold Briggs, Director of Operations, Malya. yesterday told the general meeting of the Malayan Chinese Association how best they can co-operate with the Government in the present Emergency. The meeting, presided over by Dato Tan Cheng Lock.
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  • 97 5 rE Singapore Welfare Committee, formed to aid those affected by the December riots, decided at its second meeting yesterday to start distribution of financial aid on Tuesday. More than 70 families mostly Malays and Indian Muslims and on c Eurasian family, have applied for aid The
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  • 54 5 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sun That section of the Yong Peng— Paloh road, from Yong Peng to the level crossing at Paloh, has been declared a controlled area for the movement of food supplies. Food supplies moved In convoys, organised and escorted by the PoUce
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  • 54 5 THE BSX WOMEN who took part in the draw of the million dollar M.C.A. Sweep at the Chinese Assembly Hall on Sunday at Ipoh. From left t o ri«;ht ar*:— Mrs. Cheah Ghim Leng, Mrs. Chin Swee Onn Mrs. Aw Boon Soo. Mrs. John Pillay, Miss Eileen Yeoh
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  • 304 5 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Sun. THE Chinese Assembly Hall in Kuala Kangsar Road was heavily guarded by auxiliary police this morning when the draw for the first Million DoHar Lottery of the Malayan Chinese Association was made. Among those present were Inche Mustapha Alr"\kri. State
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  • 39 5 THEFT CHARGE JOHORE BAHRU, Sun—Gopal was charged in the Sessions Court today with committing theft of a $10 note from Tharoy Rajoo and a gold chain from Miriam Bee at Kulai. He was allowed bail in $200.
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  • 72 5 YWCA. Raffles Quay, Cantonese cooking by Mrs. 1. C. Lam. 5 p.m. YMCA. Orchard Road, Maiay Class. 5.30 p.m.; judo class. 6 p.m Rosemary Mmnis' lecture on "Jane Austen's Countryhouse Comedy," 8 p.m. SINGAPORE ART SOCIETY. life class, British Council Hnll. Stamford Road, 6 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.
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  • 17 5 mStJSSI 'SSi 90 M SSStl A i^S&. UZ!g««£lg» ga^^ l srs* s»t«r«»,.
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  • 56 5 Singapore Hindus, mainly Tamils, will celebrate "Thaipusam" tomorrow with spef^ al Payers in temples and the distribution of food to the poor. More than 100 Hindu devotees In Singapore are expected to carry "Kavadi." a oP»2 f self-mortiflcation. The Chettiars' temple in Tank Road will be
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  • 153 5 AS a result of the steeni price increases in Singa-* pore, clerks, store-keeprrsf shop assistants and sales girls are to appeal to their, emp/ioyers for immediate wage increases. Employees of more than I<J leading firms said that they had already approached thrt managements
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  • 340 5 Housewives In New Bid To Beat Price Racket "The women I asked were too interested in other things and told me It was useless to try to crt high prices while some 'peoplo were prepared to pay them. "This time 1 am prepared to start in a quiet way with
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  • 267 6 From A Market Correspondent BATU Selaagor Tin Dredging Company's dredge worked throughout the year to Sept. 30, 1950. and a profit of »168.135 (12 per cent.) was earned. From this a dividend of 10 per cent. Is recwnmertded. against nil the previous year. Net liquid assets In balance
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  • 73 6 CUNGEI Best Mines, Ltd.. antnounces that in the quarter to Dec. 31. 1950. Sungei Besl section produced 1.902.6 p'cus. Pelepah section 2.637.6 piculs and Pelepah section tributors 138.6 piculs of tin-ore. A YER Hiiam Tin Dredging in the quarter to Dec. 31. 1950, produced 500 piculs i 29
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  • 56 6 London Rubber LONDON. Jan. 19— Spot 62'^d Feb. 62d.. Mar. 59»id.. Apr .-June 57'-d., July.-Sept. 52% d.. Oct.-Dec. 48>\d.. Jan. c.i.f. 6O'»d., Jan.-Feb. c.i.f. 60d. Feb.-Mar c.i.f. '58> 2 d.. Market: Steady. Jew York Rubber In U.S. cents per lb, closing, bid: Jan. 18. Jan. 19 1
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  • 373 6 The Outlook In Rubbers From A Market Correspondent OVER the past week there have been progressive advances in th*e Singapore share maiket, particularly in Tins and Rubbers. There was considerable activity, with a good turn-over in all sections. Further apprehension regarding the prospects of
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  • 319 6 BUSINESS done In the local share market last week included: Industrials Fraser Neave Ords. $2 90 to $2.95 to $2,92 4. Malayan Breweries $4.70. Malayan Collieries $1.29 to $1,324. Maynard Co. $7.50, Overseas Chinese Bank $76, Robinson Ord. $2.20 and $2.17';, Straits Steamship $14.75, Straits Times $3, Uniteer
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  • 25 6 TV/I EMBERS of the Malayan iVI Exchange Banks Association in Singapore will be closed for business tomorrow. Jan 23, for Thaipusam holiday.
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  • 127 6 From Oar Own Correspondent LONDON. Sun. MR. Harvey S. Firestone, Jr.. has stated that the Firestone Company has offered the U.S. Government the services of its buy'ng organisation and factory preparation facilities in the Far East. The U.S. Government's action in taking over the sole buying of rubber,
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  • 68 6 jytß. Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., ITX told stockholders at the annual meeting of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company that the company's rubber plantations in Liberia had increased production to 63.866,000 lbs during the year to Oct. 31. The previous year's production was 57,558.000 lbs Production
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  • 19 6 CUNGEI Way Dredging In the quarter to Dec. 31, 1950, produced 109 4 tons of tin-ore.
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  • 112 6 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Sun. time in the future O the rubber-producing industry will be faced with a day of reckoning, according to Sanderson Company. London rubber brokers. In due course, says the firm the U.S. Government will have accumulated a stock-pile of about one
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  • 353 7 England XV Go Down 23-5 SWANSEA, Sunday. fLTALES, the holders of the triple rugger crown and TT with their team of stars playing in true form, beat England convincingly here yesterday, by four goals, one try, (23 points) to one goal, (five points). Wales led at half time by
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    26 7 X AND WICK (Spencer) being led in by his trainer. Lt.Col. T. L. Fox after winning the second race at Ipoh on Saturday. Straits Times picture.
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  • 303 7 "DEST performance in British club Rugby this week-end was accomplished by Leicester at Bedford, where the home team led 11-3 at half-time, but lost 11-15. Newport easily retained their unbeaten record when they beat Coventry by 24 points to five H C.BY UNION B-dford 11. Leicei
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  • 179 7 gOME sparkling matches were seen to the first round of the Singapore* Chess Championships played off at the V.M.C.A. on Saturday evening. Dr. Lim Kok Ann. 1949 holder of the Lim Boon Keng Oup, gained an easy victory over N. G. Singh. Among
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  • 20 7 Owing to the water-logged condition of the course, Island Golf Club will not be open for play today.
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  • 1068 7 LONDON. Sun. UK. Football League standings after yesterday's matches were FIRST DIVISION PWDLFApte Tottenham 27 16 6 5 59 33 38 Mid'brough 27 15 8 4 64 38 38 Arsenal 28 15 6 7 56 32 36 Newcastle U. 26 13 7 6 46 38 33
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  • 513 7 LONDON, Sunday. f\F the 32 clubs which will contest the fourth round of the English Football Association Cup next Saturday, only 10 gained the encouragement of a League success yesterday. No fewer than 11 of them were beaten and the same number were
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  • 278 8 Inauguration At K.L. On Feb. 3 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. A COMMITTEE meeting of the Amateur Athletic Association of Malaya this morning decided to take the initial step in railing for an inaugural meeting for the formation of a PanMalayan Sports
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  • 239 8 MADRAS, Sunday. THE Commonwealth touring team led India by 19 runs with three first innings wickets in hand after three days' play in the fourth unofficial Test here. When play ceased today the Commonwealth had made 380 for seven wickets in reply to India's
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  • 29 8 TODAY: 10 09 am i9.l>, 1132 pni (84'; 4.31 am (5.5). 5.10 pm (1 3). TOMORROW: 10.41 am (9.4); am (99.4) 504 w (4.2), 5.39 pm lift).
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  • 121 8 From 'Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, San. THE following have been selected to play for the South In the annual hookey classic against North, which will be played in Singapore on Feb. 3. B. Noronha (S'pore) R. Barth (S'pore) captain, P. Kumar usamy (Negrl); P. Pennefathe- (S'pore).
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  • 94 8 From Our Staff Correspondent BEREMBAN. Sun. DOWN by two goals In the firs' half. Malacca did well to draw 2—2 with Singapore In today's final match of the Triangular hockey tournament played at Seremban. The match was below Stat* standard. Singapore were superior in the first
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  • 57 8 MANILA, Sun. OINGAPORE's soccer team won their second successive match today at the Rizal Memorial field when th«y« beat an All-Chinese selection by four goals to one. The half time score was two-one and after the interval Awang Bakar scored two goals for the tourists. Singapore
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  • 765 8  -  EPSOM JEEP SATURDAY'S RACES REVIEWED From IPOH, Sunday. T7INCENT Dunwoodie's nippiness at the barrier and strength at the finish enabled Brilliant Marc to upset a big betting plunge on Abbevstead in the Class Div. 1 six-furlong sprint at Ipoh on Saturday. Away in a
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  • 63 8 More than 25 sailing boats and yachts, of the Royal Singapore Yacht Club raced yesterday from Singapore to Changi to take part in the Royal Air Force Changi Yacht Club's regatta next weekend. Conditions w?re unfavourable with rain and very light, winds Several boats had
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  • 32 8 RUGBY: S.CC. v Combined Schools' on^adang. HOCKEY: Women's Seven-s-nide tourney on S.CC. padang; SRC. t Khalsa Assn. on S.R:C: padang; S.C-B.C. v Hongkong St Shanghai Bank at Hong Urn Green.
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  • 136 8 S.B.A. Asked To Find New Site For H all From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. REPRESENTATIVES from 50 Chinese guilds and associations at a meeting held In the- Chinese Assembly Hall, Kuala Lumpur, today strongly opposed the erection of Kuala Lumpur's $100,000 badminton hall's chosen site. The new badminton
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  • 324 8 IPOH, Sunday. TiOLLOWING are weights for all eight races for Wednesr day. second day of the Perak Turf Cluf January Meeting, and for two races on Saturday the last day. Cl.l,Dlv. 1-5 «tr. Pierce BrMge 9M s- I fr I "■T'mlr* «n« XX dr»ht HUT 1
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  • 36 8 Mrs. K. R. Daniels, wife of the trainer, leads in Musketeer winner of Race Eight at Ipoh last Saturday. Musketeer paid $49 and was ridden by E. Donnelly. Straits Times picture.
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  • 60 8 GLASGOW. Sun. EB. -CHOONG. 20-year- old Malayan medical student, won the men's singles title in the Scottish badminton championships here on Friday. In the final he beat Irish international F. W. Peard 15-11. 15-6. Later Choone paired with E. L. Choong to win the doubles from
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  • 99 8 From Our SUff Correspondent PENANG, Sun. "DERAK iook Uie honours In the Quadrangular hockey tournament when they beat Penang 5-0 at the Western Road ground today, thus winning all their three ties. Perak comtoi ied very well and their defence gave Penang no chance whatsoever. The champions
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  • 88 8 SYDNEY, Sun. A flfteen-year-old schoolboy. Barry Darke, sensationally broke five Australian records when he won the 1.650-yard swimming title at North Sydney Olympic Pool last night. His swim eclipsed the performance by world-beating John Marshall at his age. His bag of records included the 1,650 yards
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  • 35 8 The Naval Base Permuda soccer team beat a visiting side o: the Young Men's Muslim Association by three goals to nil at Naval Base yfsterday. The scorers were All (X) and Ahmad.
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  • 175 8 H.K. Britons Score A Notable Victory HONO KONG, Sun. BRITAIN'S dim outlook for sports- superiority in 1951 has brightened considerably. Not 'only t'id a Hong Kong British cricket team easily flatten their American opponents, but they also trounced the Yankee at his oivn traditional game, baseball, yesterday. The cricket victory,
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    • 90 8 TODAY'S RADIO SINGAPORE 9.35 ajn. Schools; «.55 Interlude; 10 News, Emergency News from KX.; 10.10 Close; 10.45 Schools; 12 Malay; 1 p.m. Monda; Matinee"; 1.30 News; 1.45 Cowboy Songs; 2 Schools; 2.50 Close; 6 "Composer of the Weelc" (Bizet): 6.30 "Oieat People of (he Past' (Mahatnr.a Gandhi); 7 News Share
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