The Straits Times, 8 February 1951

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1951. PRICE TFN CENTS
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    'GIVE UP N. BURMA TO RED CHINA'
    348 1 Envoy Advises Move To 'Avoid Entanglement RANGOON, Wednesday. fHE Burmese Ambassador at Peking, U Myint Them, has advised his Government in Rangoon it should write off North Burma territory to Red China to avoid entanglements. The disputed territory includes most of the Kachin
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    35 1 THE NEW C.-in-C, Far East Station, Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Guy Russell, inspecting a guard of honour drawn from H.M.S. Ter.ror at Phoenix Park after his arrival yesterday. Straits Times picture. Story in P. 7.
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    80 DIE, 500 HURT IN TRAIN SMASH
    141 1 WOODBKIDGE, NEW JERSEY, Wednesday. AT least 80 people were killed and 500 injured 3iiO of them admitted to hospital when a businessman's train carrying more than 900 passengers plunged 20 ft. from a bridge here to a road below. The train roared at
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    Butter Glut May End
    59 1 WASHINGTON. Wed. rS. butter surplus soon become a shortage. The Agriculture Department, by last Autumn, had i and stored nearly 2.000 C00 lb. of butter, which it be sold to public at producer prices. •.ost of this batter .has been eaten and officials say ;iy be
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    BIGGER QUAKES MAY HIT ASSAM
    50 1 NEW DELHI, Wed. A GOVERNMENT geologist predicts that earth- quakes of great intensity may recur in Assam, in north-eastern India. The geologist, Mr. P. C. Poddar. made the prediction in a report to the government on the earthquake which rocked the area last August. AT.
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    U.S. Aircraft Used Against Vietminh
    119 1 SAIGON, Wednesday. AMERICAN-BUILT B-26 light bombers, recently sent to reinforce the French Union forces, have made their first attack on Vietminh forces in North Indo-China. The official communique gives no further details. French Union naval landing craft, took part in the destruction of strong Vietminh
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    VISIBLE BRAS —NEW LOOK
    39 1 LOS ANGELES. Wed Plunging neckline and off-the-shoulder dresses have brought brassieres out into the open, and American manufacturers at their annual show here displayed gaily coloured bras n velvet, satin, taffeta and similar fabrics. A.P.
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    14 Injured In S'pore Car Crash
    142 1 FOURTEEN people were injured in Singapore yesterday afternoon when a station wagon in which they were going to Johore Bahru struck a culvert and overturned. The accident, involving 18 people was the worst in the Colony over the Chinese New Year. Four people two
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    NIGERIAN AS GOVT. HEAD
    43 1 LAGOS. Wed- The Colonial Secretary. Mr. James Griffiths, has approved the appointment of the first African head of any Nigerian Government Department. He Is Dr. Samuel Layinka Ayoocji Manuwa, who becomes Director of Nigerian Medical and Sanitary Services. Reuter
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    FOOD FOR INDIA
    30 1 NEW YORK, Wed.— Former President Herbert Hoover left by train for Washington today to confer with President Truman on steps to alleviate the famine in India.— UP.
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    MAJOR ERUPTION
    23 1 CANBERRA. Wed.— A major eruption by Mount Lamington >>n New Guinea was reported by the Government volcanologist at Port Moresby today
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    TAX FOR GUAM
    18 1 WASHINGTON, Wed.—President Truman has ordered he people of Guam to start >aying income tax.— AP.
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    GOODWILL JAPS
    21 1 NEW DELHI, Wed. A '■< rete-man goodwill trsde mission from Japan is arriving in New Delhi on Feb. 18 -AP.
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    TOWER COLLAPSE KILLS SEVEN
    43 1 NEW DELHI, Wed CEVEN people were killed and about 15 Injured when centre -r- collapsed today. Five passersby were killed outright by falling debris and gers passing the tower at the time of the accident had a narrow escape.
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    'DUBIOUS' ON SANCTIONS
    43 1 STOCKHOLM, Wed The Swedish Prime Minister said today he thought sanctions against China might develop into something which was "not at all intended." He told Parliament that the Government was extremely dubious about the "suitability and efficacy" of sanctions.— Reuter.
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    'REFORM' DEATHS
    33 1 TAIPEI. Wed. The proNationalist China Union Press alleges 500 landlords have been put to death at Ningpo in the past*"three months us part of the Chinese Communist new land reform programme.—A.P.
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    IMPORTING SKILL
    26 1 NEW YORK, Wed. The United States Is planning to admit another 100,000 displaced persons of skilled occupation to aid the national defence effort.— AP.
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    MORE MEMOIRS
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    LEG OPERATION
    39 1 LONDON Wed.— Randolph Churchill, son of Britain's former Prime Minister, was operated on yesterday for a leg injury he received in Korea. Churchill was wounded last August while covering the activities of a U.N. night patrol.— A.P.
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    REDS SENTENCED
    28 1 PARIS. Wed. Seventeen people who distributed leaflets supporting last month's Communist called demonstration against General Eisenhower were given suspended sentences of eight days' imprisonment yesterday. Reuter.
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    28 1 ELEPHANTS in* rich regalia formed part of the mile-and-a-half Ion; colourful procession at Delhi marking the first anniversary of the inauguration of the Republic of India. A.P. picture.
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    Card Robbery-With Bottles
    221 1 Card RobberyWith Bottles piGHT Chinese youths armed with lemonade bottles robbed 80 people celebrating Chinese New Year in Singapore's Botanic Gardens of their identity cards yesterday. A young Chinese who refused to surrender his card was assaulted by the robbers. He was sent to hospital where his condition was last
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    'Cold War'ln U.K. Docks
    58 1 'Cold War' ln U.K. Docks LONDON, Wed. L ONDON dockers continued Work today against' a background of a cold war between strike agitators and union officials. On Merseyside, 11,515 dockers were on strike, as a protest against the union acceptance of an 11 shillings a week rise. They say the
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    'Atlantic Sea Force'
    56 1 WASHINGTON. Wed THE Atlantic Treaty nations have virtually completed plans for establishing a unified sea force like their combined land and air forces on the continent, with an American admiral commanding. Admiral William C. Fechteler. Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, will probably be named soon as
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    U.S. MAY GROW NATURAL RUBBER
    63 1 WASHINGTON, Wed. UNITED States scientists v state they have made progress on control of leafblight, which up to now has hampered the growing of natural rubber in the American tropics. If they can defeat the South American weevil, which causes the blight, it is certain
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    CHUSAN CARRIES ON TO CEYLON
    54 1 BOMBAY, Wed —The P O luxury liner Chusan, quarantined on arrival here from Britain yesterday with 12 Influenza cases aboard, left Bombay today for Colombo The 354 of her 610 passengers landing at Bombay had been moved to another ship in harbour to be under
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    Allies Smash Seoul Defence
    159 1 Allies Smash Seoul Defence TOKYO, Wed. IJNITED Nations forces have knocked Chinese Communists from their main line ot defence south of Seoul, an Army spokesman said today. The Chinese have withdrawn five and a half miles into a new mountain line less than six miles south of the Han River.
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    Two More P&O Liners
    56 1 LONDON. Wed THE P O Company is to order two more big liners for the Australian run, it wa3 disclosed yesterday. One will be built on th 2 Clyde and the other in Belfast. They are both to be fitted with a type of stabiliser successfully
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    To Visit Australia
    17 1 KARACHI, Wed. Pakistan's Prime Minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, will visit Australia in May— Reuter.
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    Cut Rents, Share Land, Control Disease
    225 2 Cut Rents, Share Land, Control Disease TRUMAN LISTS S.L ASIA'S NEEDS WASHINGTON. Wed. rE quarterly Economic Co-operation Administration report >vhich President Truman sent to Congress yesterday said SouthEast Asia faces a pervasive need for agricultural and economic improvement. The report said the ECA aims In this area were "to reinforce
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    BOOKIE'S BUSINESS BEHIND BENCH
    64 2 pOR 31 YEARS Miss Marjorie Barton was clerk of a r Brooklyn court. She was a familliar and respected figure, well known to many judges and lawyers. Recently Brooklyn made a drive against bookmakinp. And an amazed magistrate suddenly found Miss Barton led before him. The
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    TAILLESS U.S. JET FIGHTER
    39 2 U.S. NAVY'S tailless jet fighter is designed for catapulting from carrier decks for a rapid climb. It is actually a triangular wing with a slim nose extending forward to provide the pilot's cockpit. A.P. picture.
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      Man Overboard Swam 8 Miles To Shore
      220 2 -rHIRTY-SIX hours after falling overboard from -I the Indian destroyer Rajput, eight miles from shore, Stoker Terence Glasford walked up to a ship s sentry in Melbourne and said: "I swam ashore." Glasford was given up for lost off Point Lonsdale at the
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      MRS. PANDIT
      34 2 WASHINGTON, Wed— Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Indian Ambassador to the United States, left yesterday for Mexico City to present her credentials as Ambassador to Mexico. She also retains her American post. Reuter
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    A-BLAST 'BIGGER THAN BIKINI'
    139 2 A-BLAST 'BIGGER THAN BIKINI' LAS VEGAS. Wed. npHE Atomic Energy Commission said yesterday it was "completely satisfied" with the results of the atomic tests and was ending experiments for the time being. Atomic tests in the Nevada desert, have lasted 11 days. Mr. Clete Roberts. Los Angeles news commentator, who
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    'BAN NEGROES IN SCHOOLS' MOVE
    45 2 GEORGIA, Wed. The "white supremacy" forces of Governor Herman Talmadge of Georgia are planning to hand over all Georgia's state schools and universities to private people. They hope to stop Negroes entering white schools under constitution laws against racial discrimination.
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    223 PLANES LOST
    31 2 WASHINGTON, Wed.— The U.S. Air Force announced yesterday that aircraft losses in Korea up to Jan. 18 totalled 223— but only ten were shot down in combat. A.P.
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    Car Horn Foiled Suicide Bid
    46 2 NEW YORK, Wed. pARK-KEEPERS heard a continuous blowing from a parked car in the Bronx. They found 27-year-old Robert McFarland shot through the chest. He attempted suicide, but unwittingly summoned help when he slumped forward on to the horn button.— A.P.
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      947 2 NOTICES NATURALISATION NOTICE is hereby given tbat RANSISCUS JACOBUS VAHRaEYER of Flat 58. Cathay Building, Singapore, is applying to the Governor for naturalisation, und that any person who knows any reason why naturalisation .should not be granted should send a written signed statement of the facts to the Colonial Secretary.
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      576 2 NOTICES SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY Notice is hereby given that Barker Road and Asimont Lane will be closed in sections to traffic until further notice for the purpose of constructing a sewer. BY ORDER THE EUROPEAN CIVIL SERVANTS ASSOCIATION OF MALAYA THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will be held at 5.30 pjn. on
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    Italy's 'Tito Party' Grows
    158 3 Italy's 'Tito Party' Grows ROME. Wed. ■jOICCARDO Cocconi, a member uf the Communist Party Secretariat for Reggio Emflia District, quit the party today and strengthened the new Italian "Titoist" movement. Cocconi, 40, a wartime par:i hero, published a letter to tiie Communist Party saying he backed the position taken by
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    U.S. EXPORTS TO CHINA
    82 3 WASHINGTON. Wed. I ts applying for licenc■s'tc ship goods to Hong I and Macao, under the i :ons now in force, must submit their justifications for such shipments as Dents to their applii the US. Office of In- mal Trade announced. action is intended to I
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    REDS ARRESTED
    20 3 TOKYO, Wed.— ln three da; since dawn on Sunday,! Japanese police have arrest- 1 ed 5!9 Communists— Reuter.
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    RATIONS & BOMBS
    45 3 RATIONS BOMBS FLYING BOXCAR of the U.S. Far East Air Force discharges its cargo of rations and petrol for United Nations troops in Korea. RIGHT: Aircraft, in circle, going in for a raid on railway yards as fire rises from petrol jelly bombs. A.P. pictures.
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    Attlee Denies A Split Over Rubber Exports
    263 3 LONDON, Wednesday. '■'HERE is no disagreement between Britain and America over the shipment 1 of strategic materials from Britain to China, Mr. Attlee said last night. lie told the House of Commons that Britain's policy in this matter "is determined in the lieht
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    BOW BELLS WILL BE MUFFLED
    71 3 LONDON. Wed. LEGEND says the only true Cockneys are people born within the sound of the bells of Bow Church, in the East End, which stood from 1311 till it was hit by German bombs. Now there will have to be fewer Cockneys or better
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    Old Ships Are Good Business
    84 3 Old Ships Are Good Business HONG KONG, Wed. AT least half the scrap steel from ships broken up in Hong Kong is finding its way into China. But dealers say a lot of it is going to Japanese shipyards. Nations are bargaining with salvage dealers, who have tripled prices in
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    SILK EXPORTS
    21 3 LONDON. Wed. Britain's silk exports in 1950 were within 6 per cent of the target figure of £800.000— Reuter
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    WEST DISCUSSES SOVIET REPLY
    375 3 Note Rules Out Discussion Of Far East WASHINGTON, Wednesday. gRITAIN, France and the United States today began discussing their reply to Russia's note on a Big Four meeting. There were indications that they may soon propose a list of subjects for the meeting. The Russian note,
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    37 3 TEACHERS OF AL AZHAR, Islam's oldest university, have gone on strike for more pay and modernisation of the curriculum. The striking sheikhs held a meeting which decided to send its collective resignation to the authorities. A.P. picture.
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    Rail Strike May End
    87 3 WASHINGTON, DROSPECTS for setting the 1 U.S. railroad strike were "encouraging," said a White House official, but rail officials are still gloomy. Late yesterday tour rail unions, alter 48 hours of debate, reduced their basic demands to writing for the first time. Tlie demands hinge on
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    NO MISSION TO MOSCOW
    86 3 LONDON, Wed— Mr. Clement Attlee turned down yesterday a suggestion in the House of Commons that he should visit Moscow at once to discuss problems of world peace with Marshal Stalin. Mr. Cyril Osborne, (Conservative), suggested that he should do this in a similar way to
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    PRISON BATTLE
    36 3 BUENOS AIRES, Wed. Firemen and police yesterday fought a nine-hour battle with 104 prisoners who had rioted and attacked guards. They had to surrender after the fire brigade flooded the large common cell. Reuter.
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    29 DIED
    27 3 PARIS, Wed.— Air France announced yesterday that 29 persons were killed in the DC-4 plane that crashed on Saturday in the French Cameroons.— A. P.
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    LEFT US $125 MIL.
    30 3 NEW YORK, Wed—Lon-don-born Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilks, 80, one of the world's richest women, died last night in a New York hospital. She left USSI2S,OOO,OOO.— AP.
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    AUSTIN CARS TO COST MORE
    45 3 LONDON, Wednesday. THE Austin Motor Company yesterday announced Increases in the prices of Austin cars, ranging from £28 to £100, to take effect immediately. It said the increases were due to considerable rises in the cost of basic materials*. Thi^wA^^Ui^^^^ui^L
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    SOVIET CHARGES 'U.S. BOMBED CHINA'
    188 3 LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday. OUSSIA yesterday charged the United States with 238 air attacks on Red China in November and December and called on the United Nations to condefnn "these illegal acts by the Government of the United States." i Semyon K. Tharapkin, the Soviet delegate,
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    THRIFTY HIROHITO
    39 3 TOKYO. Wed. Emperor Hirohito has bought a 1951 Cadillac— America's luxurious car which the Imperial household says "will economise on petrol and not be extravagant." The Emperor has managed till now with four 1935 British Daimlers.— A.P.
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    PAKISTAN ACCUSED
    70 3 NEW DELHI. Wed.— Indian Deputy Foreign Minister, B. V. Keskar. said yesterday that Pakistani police penetrated 500 yards into the village of Meharpur. Indian territory on the West Bengal border. Hi December and the village still was in the hands of Pakistani police. He said that no troops
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    RED CHINA WINS SEAT AT TALKS
    39 3 PEKING DELEGATION which was voted a seat, claimed by Nationalist representative, at the Cairo conference of the Universal Postal Union. From left are Messrs. Su Yu-nung, Hsu Chuan-hsien, and Ke Pao-chuan. A.P. picture.
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    Dominion Envoys To Get Higher Status
    71 3 LONDON, Wed. THE British Government will soon introduce legislation giving Commonwealth High Commissioners in London the same status and privilleges as foreign ambassadors. Exchanges are now taking place between London and f!ommnnwpalll panltaJs on Commons. Commonwealth High Commissioners in Britain rank with ambassadors for
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    RAW MATERIALS CONTROL PLAN
    141 3 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. DKIT.U.N, the United States and France have in- vited about 20 Western countries to join in setting up international machinery to increase production of 11 scarce raw materials and allocate their use. Cotton, wool and sulphur commodities would be affected for the first time,
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    NON-BOGGING TYRE IN U.S
    61 3 AKRON, Ohio, Wed.— A new "high flotation" tyre to keep vehicles from bogging down In sand or mud will be standard equipment on U.S. Army tactical trucks, the B. F. Goodrich Co. announced. By using lower tyre pressures, the tyre presents a broader base and thus
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    'Barbarians Threaten World'
    95 3 VATICAN CITY, Wed. THE Pope yesterday likened the present state of the world to the days when the barbarians overran the Roman Empire, breaking down its civilisation. He appealed to all leaders "to multiply their efforts to 1 dominate and restrain the invasion of moral ill which
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    Pupils Fail, Teacher Blamar
    51 3 PRAGUE, Wedne.^ IF a pupil in Czechoslovakia misbehaves or jaih school, his teacher gets the blame, states a new of the Ministry of Education. The order also requires each pupil to carry a boot, containing rules of conduct, clast schedules and record; of grades end penalties.
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    "FLEECING" BY MIDDLEMEN BOOSTING
    220 4 PRICES, SAY SHOPMEN CINGAPORF. shopkeepers claim they are being fleecec' by 'middlemen' from whom they buy their goods. "Coffee-money" demanded by these middlemen, say shopkeepers, has increased in the past two months. A shopkeeper in the Katong area told the Straits Times yesterday that 'coffee-money demanded
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    STUDENT FOR INDIA
    36 4 MR. ADAM A. AHMAD. 19-Mir-old son of Mr. A. A. Kihim of Naina Mohamed ml Sons. Kuala I.umpur. is t-iitv; to study at Madras Iniversitv Up is an old ><" <>f the Victoria Institution.
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    FINE OR GAOL
    27 4 SEGAMAT, Wed.— An option of $100 fine or 50 days' imprisonment was given 37-year-old Ramasamy charged at Segamat with illegal posI session of toddy.
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    Careless Wheels
    22 4 From Our Own C'orrespondant. SEGAMAT. Wed— Ali bin Mohamed Zin. aged 23. was fined $10 at Segamat for inconsiderate driving
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    CHARGED WITH RASH DRIVING
    34 4 FEGAMAT. Wed. Manifrsm. 39. was charged in the I Circuit Court with rash driving. Bail of $400 was allowed. "It was stated that ■V life was lost in the accl-ik-nt.
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    FOWL CHARGE
    28 4 SEGAMAT. Wed. Woon Vai Leong. 26. was offered t!00 bail by the Segamat Magistrate when he was charged with stealing eight i> wli -valued at $55.
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    GOING TO LONDON
    44 4 A LARGE CROWD of relatives, friends and well wishers were at the Kalian; airport yesterday to bid farewell to Cheong Hock Leng, the Colony's singles badminton champion. Hock Lenjr left for England where he will be participating in the All-England championships.
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    SPARKLERS SET TREE ON FIRE
    58 4 From Oui Staff Correspondent PENANG. Wednesday. SPARKLERS thrown in the air by children celebrating Chinese New Year set nre to a palm tree in Barrack Road. Penang. last night. The tree, in front of the house of Mr. Chan Yik King. Inspector of Chinese Schools,
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    December Bandit Damage Nearly $2 Million
    208 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. gANDITS destroyed or damaged $1.8 million worth of property in the Federation in December. Of this total $1.3 million represented damage to buildings, staff bungalows, labourers' lines, rubber stores and engines. I During December bandits held up
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    ROTARY GIFT FOR SCHOOL
    49 4 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Wed. The Seremban Rotary Club has agreed to give $100 to the building fund organised by the Kuala Pilah townspeople to build three additional class rooms which will be used for primary students of the Tuanku Muhammad School Kuala Pilah.
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    GAOL FOR LIES
    35 4 From Our Own Correspondant). KOTA BAHRU, Wed—Jaafar bin Idris and Yusoff bin Hussain were gaoled for six and three months respectively at Kota Bahru for giving false evidence in the Sessions Court.
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    ABSENT: GAOLED
    29 4 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA KANGSAR. Wed.— Majld bin Pandak Salleh. Malay special constable, was gaoled for three months at Kuala Kangsar for being absent from duty.
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    31 4 NO ONE WAS HURT when this car belonging to the Singapore Legislative Councillor Mr. R. Jumabhoy, was hit by a military truck in Holland Road on Tuesday evening. Straits Times picture.
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    AND HE WANTED TO MAKE MONEY
    73 4 From (>ur Own Correspondent KAJANG. Wed. WONG KIM LONG, aged 61. a hawker, wanted to make a bit of money for the New Year. So be took some fowls into town to sell. But the police stopped him. And at Kajang court he was
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    SOLDIER FINED
    21 4 From Our Own Correspondent KAJANG, Wed. Private Hfltchinson, of C.A.N., Gemas was fined $50 at Kajang for negligent driving.
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    83 R.A.F. STRIKES IN JAN.
    174 4 83 R.A.F. STRIKES IN JAN. r spite of prolonged spells of bad weather in January, the R.AP. in Malaya made 83 airstrikes against bandit targets during the month. F.E.A.F. announced last night. The most strikes— 27— were made in Perak, many in the region of "the worst town in Malaya."
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    RADIO MALAYA NOW HAS 5 ORCHESTRAS
    158 4 LIVE music from Radio Maially's Singapore studios has been overhauled and emerged, a* from last Monday, in sev-' eral new form*. Five new combinations take the place of the former 10-piece Radio Orchestra, and according to the Director Of Broadcasting Mr J S ifmeresque,
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    3 REFUSED BAIL ON THEFT CHARGE
    46 4 From Onr Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Wed.— Bail was opposed when two Malays— Sapawi and Hassan bin Kassim were charged in the Segamat Court with theft of tyres. Lee Kim Leong, 18, was charged with abetment. He was nlso refused bail.
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    $200 BAIL
    20 4 Frma Oar Own Correspondent SEOAMAT. Wed.— Alleged to have failed to report to the police whiie under lupervl-
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    Curfew On Eleven Kedah Villages
    247 4 A CURFEW covering a wide area which includes eleven villages, was imposed yesterday by the Kedah Government following the murder of seven Chinese and the burning of 26 squatter huts at Pokostoi, near Bukit Junun, a fortnight Pgo. The Mentrl Besar, Kedah, Tunku Ismail bin
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    City Warned Of 'Blackmail' Over Its Tender Rules
    244 5 City Warned Of 'Blackmail' Over Its Tender Rules 'J'HE Singapore Municipality will be exposed to a form of blackmail by unscrupulous contractors unless it revises its tender rules. Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy, the Independent Municipal Commissioner for the City Ward, said yesterday. Mr. Jumabhoy said the move by the Commissioners
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    SCIENCE SHOW
    24 5 VIS/TORS watch an experiment being worked out in the Chemistry section at the University of Malaya's science exhibition yesterday— Straits Times picture.
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    FISHERS TO FORM ASSN.
    106 5 FISHERS TO FORM ASSN. MALAY n in Singapore and the neishbourLslands are considering the formation o! a Malay rmen's association by heir st-tndard of living, inch Maikam. a I rative worker, and ar'i iry oi the Malay louncil, said yes thai Malay fishermen the need for such an association. fishermen,
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    DRAMATIC TURN TO CIVIL SUIT
    74 5 Fnm Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT. »Ved. rnHfcRK was a dramatic turn to a civil suit before t«ie Segamat Circuit Magistrate yesterday when the plaintiff challenged the defendant to swear on the Koran that th» suit was false. The challenge was accepted. Motid.ix-d Hassan bin Maideen
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    ELECTED MAJORITY FOR COUNCIL SOON'
    135 5 AN elected majority in tne Singapore Legislative Council could be easily achieved by abolishing nominated i onverting Chamber of Into populari ;:>d seats and reducing racial seats to lour. Mr. C. C. Tan. President of the Singapore Progressive Party, told the S' raits Times. He
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    50 PICULS COPRA LOST IN FIRE
    203 5 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. FIRE destroyed about 50 piculs of copra this morning at the Ban Tin Bee Oil Mill in Sungei Ptnanf The cause of the fire is not Kiiown. Arson 1 is not suspected. Workmen reporting for duty at 7.45
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    CAR OVERTURNS
    38 5 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Wed— A European pianter, Mr. J.H. Keedwell. of United Patani estate, escaped unhurt when the car which he was driving turned over at Bukit Arangam, in Sunpei Patani. last night.
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    No Bascule Type Bridge
    97 5 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. THERE is only a remote pos- sibility of the bascule bridge at the Causeway being replaced, the State Secretary, Johore. stated today when asked about the future of the Bailey bridges at present in service. The bascule bridge was
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    K.L. CONSUL TO RETIRE
    68 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— The French Consul in Kuala Lumpur, M. Schalbart, head planting manager at Socfln Co., leaves the Federal capital next month on retirement. He first came to Malaya in 1928 and has been associated with Socfin ever since. M. Schalbart,
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    A.D.O. FOR KULAI
    31 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Kulai had now been placed under resident Assistant District Officer, Inche Abdullah bin Ahmad, of the Johore Civil Service, has been given the new appointment.
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    29 5 LEE Kirn Yoonjj, aged IS, and his brother, Lee Hing Min p. aged 11, ready to take off on a Kuala Lumpur Flying Club joy-ride yesterday. Straits Times picture.
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    600 Tons Rubbishy Food Destroyed
    135 5 600 tons of waste food from New Year parties, old household goods and other discarded matter has been collected in Singapore in the last two days and destroyed in incinerators New Years Eve was the busiest day for garbage collectors as housewives did drastic cleaning.
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    Many Found 'Ang Pows' Expensive
    378 5 Many Found 'Ang Pows' Expensive Straits Times Woman Reporter EXHAUSTED and much imLj poverished after the New Year celebrations, many Chinese women were wishing yesterday that it would not be necessary to observe the New Year again any more. "Look at the state of my house," a nonya sighed as
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    He Ran Jap Blockade
    249 5 man who foupht for three years with the roughest and toughest band of guerillas in the Philippines, and icho helped smuggle guns, landed by submarines, to the Resistance moi'einent throughout the Philippines, is in Singapore as third engineer of the freigther Leneverett. He is 31 -year-old
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    HOSPITAL BOARD
    72 5 From Our Own C'orre>;| :id> nt JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. The following have been appointed to the Batu Pahat Hospital Board:— Syed Esa bin Alwee, Mr. F. Rawcllffe, Incrie Abdul Samad bin Puteh. Inch'e Ahmad bin Hajl Abbas. Mr. J. C. Isaacs. Mr. Wong Aun Phui. Miss M. Van
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    FREE COURSE FOR PLANTERS
    105 5 THE Ross Institute of Tropical Hygiene London, Is holding a free annual laymen's course kn tropical hygiene for planters and miners fropa July 23 to July 27. Mornlaf session* are arranged to provide a con- and its control. In the afternoon* other tropical diseases and problems,
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
    63 6 MRS. MABEL DE SILVA and f-.mily r::prrss their heartfelt 111 nks to all kind relatives and li-mis >vho attended the funeral i I the late Mr. Harold de Silva ■a those who sent wreaths Ri-.d loaned ars. PERSONAL "INDIAN BEAR" Cocktail Party. It is regretted that owing to un-fi-jtn
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs., Feb. 8, 1951. Before The Polls
    718 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs., Feb. 8, 1951. Before The Polls Nominations Day for the next Legislative Council elections in Singapore will be on March 8. and Elections Day will be on April 7. Already election posters are appearing, the parties are announcing their candidates and platforms, Independents are coming
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    Grenades And Brandy
    413 6 A hand grenade was thrown from an upstairs room of a building in Pauline Street, Telok Anson. The target apparently was a jungle police squad which was passing by, but the grenade fell close to a group of Chinese standing near the entrance to a cinema. Two
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    "Pushing" Malayan Pines
    338 6 "Pushing" Malayan Pines VLTE have been told by a recently arrived British businessman that there is, in Britain, "a great thirst for Malayan pineapples." Well, I suppose the sweetened syrup in which the pines are canned has a certain attraction for children and the sweet-toothed (anything sweet is at a
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    10 6 Photo graph by C. A. Gibson-Hill. CHILDHOOD IN KUALA TRENGGANU
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      A voter's questions at Katong
      319 6 AFTER reading Mr. John Laycock's election manifesto, and while I am all for better social conditions, I commend the following points to Mr. Laycock and other would-be Singapore Legislative Councillors: It Is most difficult to have a telephone Installed In one's home unless one has
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    In the Municipal lobbies
    864 6 The European resignations.... A bolt from the blue.... Three or eight months' pay? Peace in the parks npHERE has been much talk about resignations of Eurcpean officers of the Singapore Municipality, and it may be useful to re-state the position. Out of a total strength of
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    THE HIGHER SERVICE
    374 6 BACK TO SCHOOL? 1 AM one of those un4 fortunates who passed the Cambridfe'e School Certificate about a dozen years ago. Ever since, my head has been between the grindstones of the mill known as Government service. I am also one of those unfortunate Government servants who
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    On the Margin
    422 6 The Big Parade THE other day there ws a note in this column en an interesting English school run by the Methodist Mission in Medan which has two thousand pupils. This note caught the fye of a Chinese resident oi Singapore who attended this s. w 4
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      221 6 Platinum When Um Spaniards conquered South America, they found rfw Indians making white gold. This was an alloy produced by mixing gold with grains of a grey untarnishable metal, now known as platinum, a name given to it by the Spaniards from its resemblance to silver (plata). Platinum is gaining
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    NAVY GREETS ITS NEW C-IN-C
    403 7 A dm ira I Russell 9 s Flag Broken A t Ph oen ix Park the tradition of the Royal Navy was seen in Singapore yesterday when Vice-Admiral, the Hon. Sir Guy Russell arrived to take over as Commander-in-Chief of the Far East Station in
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    GARDENS HOLD-UP
    37 7 POLICE take volunteers for an identification parade in which four youths suspected of hcv'.ding up 80 people at the Botanic gardens yesterday were produced. (Below) Police check two people leaving the gardens. Straits Times picture.
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    On Riot Commission
    238 7 'THE Commission to inquire i t to the recent Singapore riots headed by Sir Lionel Leach. X C. former Chief Justice of Madras, is due at Kallang airport about 5.45 p.m. on Saturday. Other members of the Commission are Mr. John Henry Wenham <above left) uuti Capt.
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    3 Apply For Registration
    94 7 THREE new trade unions, the Singapore 0 1 1 Workers' Union, the Singapore Rattan Workers' Union and the Nanyang Shoe Manufacturing Company Workers' Union, have applied for registration in Singapore. The Singapore Oil Workers' Union and the Rattan Workers' Union have a membership of 45 each.
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    HE STOLE GLASSES
    62 7 Charged with stealing five glasses belonging to Koh Boon Jian in a sampan off Telok Ayer Basin. Ang Boon Tan pleaded guilty in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday. He was alternatively charged with dishonestly retaining the stolen property, and failing to produce his identity card. The
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    SOFTER BEDS FOR VARSITY
    43 7 TIRED University of Malaya students will soon have soft cotton mattresses and pillows to sleep on. Tenders have been invited by the University for 200 single bed mattresses and 300 pillows. They will replace worn out or damaged ones.
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    S.I.T. Flats Plan "Heartening"
    198 7 MX V. K. Nair. chairman of the 30.000-strong Singapore Federation oi Services Unions, yesterday welcomed the report that the Singapore Improvement Trust may open its accommodation to ;ill categories of wage earners. Th.- recommendation, which l under the SIT Boards ideration. has been made ly a
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    Story Of 3 Drunken Men On New Year
    168 7 THREE people, a Sikh, a European and a Chinese, yesterday pleaded guilty in the Singapore Fourth Police Court to being drunk and disorderly over the Chinese New Yenr. They were fined $5 each. Tlit- SikVi. Oardial Singh, was <rcn shouting and running
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    'STUCK RED POSTERS'
    43 7 Tiew Chwee Leong, aged 21, was yesterday tentatively charged in the Singapore Fourth Police Court with posting eight Communist posters on the signboard of the Singapore Glass Factory at the junction of Henderson Road and Tiong Bahru Road on Monday.
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    Mr. Dowson Came Just In Time
    215 7 The Organ Needed Repairs DROVIDENCE in the person of Mr. H. A. Dowson arrived in Singapore yesterday. Mr. Dowson, who has played, built and repaired organs for the past 50 years, arrived on the Canton just in time to overhaul the St. Andrew's Cathedral
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    10 FINED FOR GAMBLING
    44 7 Ten Chinese were charged in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday with gambling in public for money. Considering that it was a tradition for the Chinese to aamble on New Year Day, Mr. D A. Fyfe fined them $1 each.
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    New General Secretary
    43 7 ,-I-vS HAZEL McCrea, of if! the Y.W.C.A.. arrived by (he Canton yesterday to take up her duties as the new General Secretary of the Singapore Y.W.C.A. "I am very happy indeed to be here," Miss McCrea told the Straits Times
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    RECORD TRADE WITH INDIA
    140 7 TRADE between India and Malaya was a record In 1950, the Indian Trade Commissioner in Malaya, Sardar Jogindar Singh, said yesterday, ExporU from Malaya to India In the yew were $75,unn arm The peak of 1950 trade was reached in December, when Malaya's imports from India
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    BOYS' CLUBS NEEDED
    69 7 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA. Tues.— The hope that Malaya would need a full-time organiser to assist the Chief Scout Commissioner and State and Settlement organisations, was expressed by Mr. F. H. J. Dahl. travelling Commissioner of the Imperial Headquarters. London, who has just ended a tour
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    IMPRESSED BY NURSES
    77 7 Dame Katherine Watt, until recently Chief Nursing Adviser to the U.K. Ministry of Health, said yesterday that she was impressed with the volume of work being done by all too few nurses In Singapore. Dame Katherine, who Is on a tour of the Middle East and South-East
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    ONN IN PERAK
    29 7 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wed.— Dato Onn bin Ja'afar, Chairman of RIDA, left Ipoh this morning accompanied by officials of UMNO Peratc branch on a
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    New S'pore Move On Easier Gas Payments
    187 7 New S 'pore Move On Easier Gas Payments THE possibility of permitting domestic consumers of gas to pay for installation chaiges on an instalment basis, is being investigated b.v Municipal Commissoner for East Ward, Mr. Frank C. James. This is to assist persons within the lowei income brackets to use
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    Arms For Malaya?
    84 7 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wed. MR. D. RENTON, National Liberal, will ask the Colonial Secretary In the House of Commons next week if planters and security forces in Malaya are getting more and better arms and if there are enough armoured vehicles to fight the terrorists.
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    The Firemen Stood By
    111 7 piREMEN stood by all night on Tuesday watching over the smouldering embers of the fire in Pulau Saigon, off Havelock Road. Singapore, which gutted five godowns containing rice, animal fodder, peanuts, dried chillies and green peas. They were withdrawn yesterday morning after having put out several
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    ROBBERY CHARGE
    31 7 Ong Hock was yesterday tentatively charged in Singapore with gang robbery at Thomson Road on Chinese New Year Day. The case was postponed to Feb. 14. Bail was opposed.
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    2 Barred Labour Men Not Giving Up Hope
    196 7 'THE two Singapore x Labour Party members, Messrs S. Jagunathan and V. X Nair. who for "technical reasons" have been prevented from .contesting the forthcoming Singapore Legislative Council elections, "have not given up hope" of running for Councillors. They said they had
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    $22,000 From The Dindings
    121 7 TN addition to regular monthly subscriptions and contributions from various part of the Federation, the following donations were received for the University of Malaya, for the week ending Nov. 25. SINGAPORE: The China Society, Public Relations Office. Empress Place. $384.60: Singapore Table Tennis Association $11. TRENGGA.VU:
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      LIAN SOO WINS HIS REWARD
      460 8 QPECTRUM led Ah Chan and Lian Soo into a large room. And what a room it was. There were pets of gold lying in heaps around the floor. 7'here were chests full of glittering Jewels, and piled high to the ceiling there was a mass
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      WHO'S WHO ON STAMPS
      157 8 L OUIS Pasteur was the greatest doctor of the 19th century. He was a specialist in the study of bacteria, and h« produced a serum which combats hydrophobia, and anthrax. He also discovered the cause and cure for the disease which kills silkworms. In later years,
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      WHAT DOES THIS PICTURE SHOW?
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      SIX PRIZES TO BE WON
      426 8 SIX PRIZES TO BE WON Dear Children. Your own idea of having two puzzles a week has proved immensely popular, and entries are piling up even higher than they were before. The three winners of the < jumbled shapes contest are: P. > Vachee, 207 Railway Qtrs. Gemas; Daphne Teoh,
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      PEN PALS
      39 8 Wong Suet Lan. c 'o Wong Wai Lam, Anglo-Chine.se Continuation School, Ipoh. Ellen Ang, 79A Owen Road. Singapore. Billy Biannan. 141 Railway Hill fM. Qtrs.i. Gillman Barracks, Alexandra. Singapore. Tan Seng Pow, 279 Joo Chiat Road, Singapore.
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      42 8 r>LEASE enrol me as a 1 member of the Children's Corner Wise Owls Club, and send me a badge. NAME ADDRESS DATE OF BIRTH Collect ten of these coupons to become a member of the Children's Corner Club.
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      38 8 To F»NO OLJT t>O THE THKEE1 Addition sums G>elov/ L.ETTE.fc^ OF EACM FlG-Ul^E. IN fWE. /^MSWEI^S. XcU CPN RE«D -THE V/OIM>S RCR.OSS. »S9 281 "7ZB IO5 19% 9Z2L I I I 24.7 o 6 •73 175 2.1 I
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      319 8 The closing date of these contests is Feb. 19. StTaits Times Crossword 286 £-™^^e^S^. Lad (8). Bi 4 Hl s W Ptf B «5 thsr and ofTspiing for S^ 5£^ iwS? »«w *>"*> s DOWN 8 9 1. "Ruin tact" (anag.) (8). I |sgS I I' 3. Feature of a
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    THE FIRST CRICKET ON THE PADANG
    826 9  -  PETERSON By and of course the Victorians objected because it was played on a Sunday afternoon. Later however Sunday cricket became a regular feature which continues today. The Esplanade In Old Times—2 IN February 1819, the plain of Singapore was a wilderness of tangled
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    Sending Coals To Newcastle
    293 9 I IME is being shipped from Singapore to an island in the Indian Qpean, whicn is for all practical purposes nothing more than just a solid hunk ol lime, sixty square miles of it! Recently at the Singapore Harbour Board wharves, the after hold of the
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    LOOKING AT EUROPE
    65 9 ONE hundred and fifty South African university students have arrived in Britain to start a six-week. £39,000 tour of Europe. Ninety of the students are girls. The tour— arranged by the National Union of Students is costing each of them £260 Four of the girl students three
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      376 9 The Gift of the year the new jf XvAJ^ PARKER fwl NEW FEATURES' /f NEWrnauoN M}/ on J y pen MJW with the Ink Ow-*^^ i if\ f Here's news about the world's mosi 1/ warned gift pen The new Parker "5I M V Iff has a remarkable new Aero-metric
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      314 9 They're new... they're modern... they're Mield Products COWLEY f II and I I R O C' ft a batata yam \UZ^ t iZ\ These big capacity modern vehicles have the finish and refinement* of a private car. The high performance engine has been designed tor economy dependability and long life.
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      175 9 TODAY'S RADIO «iNripr»T 3 30 "Thursday Symphony" <De•WMrvM hus Ireland( v Williams); 0.30 10 a.m. News, Emergency News News 9.4S "Mtermeiao" 10 from K.L.; 10.10 Close; 10.45 "Much-Binding In-the-Marsh"; Schools; 12 Malay; 1 p.m. Light 10.30 "Thursday Serenade"; 11 Music; 1.30 News; 1.45 Dance Close. Music; 2 Schools; 2.50 Close;
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      London Stocks
      279 10 LONDON, Wed. WITH operators awaiting ihe crucial Parliamentary division on steel nationalisation, business in the London Stock Exchange today was on a much smaller scale. Closing middle prices ot selected stocks, as supplied to the Straits Times by special arrangement with The Financial Times, were: LOANS Consols 6»i
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      Lahat Mines Interim
      28 10 T AHAT Minfs directors have declared a second interim dividend of 25 per cent, less tax, in respect of the year to Mar. 31, 1951.
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      RUBBER CHEMICALS SCARCE
      82 10 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Wed. THE U.S. Government's synthetic rubber programme is running into shortages of essential aniline and naphthalene, according to an official of the National Security Resources Board. Rubber chemicals require 40 to 50 per cent, of the country's total output of aniline and
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      FACTS BEHIND THE RISE IN THE PRICE OF TIN
      220 10 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. TTOE rise in the price of tin to a succession of new peaks is attributed to America's attemot at pricefreezing. The stringency of supplies has been emphasised by the latest United Kingdom stock figures. According
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      BROOME EST.: TIN POSSIBILITIES
      56 10 BROOME Rubber Plantations' chairman. Sir Lionel SmithGordon, told shareholders that it had been known for many years that there might be prospects for tin production on Broome Estate. Preliminary discussions with leading tin producers were taking place to see If something could be done. It was
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      Hitam Tin Output
      12 10 HITAM Tin in January produced 95 piculs of tin-ore.
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      TIN: £1,420 IN LONDON
      23 10 LONDON, Wed. Feb. 7.— Spot Buyers £1,420 Forward 1,390 Settlement £1,425 (down £16); Turnovers: a.m. 30 p.m. 70 tons.
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      Tin May Be Exception
      92 10 U.S. PRICE FREEZE WASHINGTON, Wed. "fUT ALAYAN tin. Japanese raw ii 1 silk, Philippines abaca (tor hemp), copper tungsten and certain other materials may require special price treatment In view of the American price freeze on imports. Economic Stabilisation officials said yesterday they hoped soon to
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      Competing for Rubber
      234 10 ALTHOUGH competitive rubbei buying nas been eliminateo in America there is no lack of such competition elsewr.ere. according to Lewis Peat of London. "We reel," they state, "that the longer this unhappy state ot affairs lasts the soonei an attempt will be made to initiate some form
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      LONDON RUBBER
      31 10 LONDON. Feb. 7— Spot 68 id., Mar. 67* id., Apr.-June 62>,d. July-Sept. oTid., Oct.-Dec. 54' 2 d., Feb. c.i.f. 64\d.. Feb.-Mur. c.i.f 62>..d.. Mar.-Apr. 62 '^d... Marker Nominal firm.
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      Tin Price In South Africa
      149 10 7AALPLAATS Tin Mining Company. the sole Governmentappointed Importer of ingot tin in South Africa, states in a circular that owing to rhe virtual stoppage of tin exports from the U.K.. no tin is now available from that source. Consequently, says The Financial Times, the South
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      310 10 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS To New York and Boston via Ceylon. India Egypt and Mediterranean Portt. Singaoo-e P Swettenham Penang PRES. VAN BUREN C. 6/7 Sails 9 Feb. 10/11 Feb. 12/11 Feb. PRES. lEFFERSON 5/15 Feb. 16/17 Feb. 18/19 Feb PRES POLK 23/28 Feb. Omit 1/2 Mar PRES. CRANT 5/11 Mar.
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    ENGLAND FACE TEST DEFEAT
    901 11 Three Star Men Out For 114: 388 Still Needed From JACK FINGLETON (Exclusive to the Straits Times) ADELAIDE, Wednesday. /\NLY THE FINAL obsequies remain to oe performed over the Fourth Test here tomorrow. England with only seven wickets in hand and Brown practically a cripple after
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    59 11 SIMON". R.A.S.C. s scrum-half, lost possession of the ball after Knowles, Hussars' wing three, had made a weak tackle. Churchill. Hussars' wing forward, attempts to pass through a R.A.S.C. player to get at the ball an incident in yesterday's F. N. rugger final which was won by R.A.S.C. by six
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    Scoreboard
    184 11 AUSTRALIA— 1st Inns.: 371 England 1st Inns. 272. Australia 2nd Inns. Archer c Bedser b Tattersall 32 Morris ran out 16 Hassett Ibw Wright 31 Harvey b Brown 68 Miller hit wicket b Wright 99 Burke not out 101 1. Johnson e Evans b Warr 3 Lindwall run out
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    Ho Ho Team Win In Penang
    51 11 (From Oar Staff Correspondant.) PBNANG, Wed. Poor ground conditions spoilt what would have been a good game of basketball last night, when Singapore's Ho Ho team defeated Penang's Cheng Wah by 36 points to 25. The match was played in aid of the Welfare
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    SHB HOLD STRONG CHANGI XV 8-ALL
    304 11 TPHE Singapore Harbour Board did well yesterday 1 to hold a strong R.A.F. Changi XV to an eightall draw (a goal and a try to a goal and a drop goal) while playing one man short for half the match which was played at
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    Rugby Union Results
    23 11 LONDON, Wed. Rugby Union result:— Hospitals cup first round: Westminster Hospital 6, King's College Hospital 3. played at Richmond. Reuter.
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    Rest Tipped To Beat Europeans
    254 11 B v Our Hockey Reporter "pHE Rest are favoured to defeat the Europeans today, when they clash for the second time since the liberation in their annual hockey encounter on the Singapore padang. Rest just managed to snatch victory by the odd goal in seven
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    CHUNG WAH OPEN TOUR WITH WIN
    129 11 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK. Wed. CHUNG Wah Athletic Association of Perak trounced Assumption Football Association, four one at Bangkok's National Stadium yesterday before a large Chinese Ne«r Year crowd. The Malayans gave, a more impressive display than the Singaporeans. Chung Wah opened scoring
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    Japan v. U.S. After 30 Yrs.
    147 11 MELBOURNE, Wed. TRAVIS Cup competition betMJ ween United States and Japanese players this year will be the first in 30 years. If the Japanese succeeded in I training a team and sending it to the United States, It will be the first time .players
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    New Dates For Ryder Cup
    84 11 LONDON. Wed. THE British Professional Oolf Association yesterday insisted that the 1051 Ryder Cup match at Pinehurts, North Carolina, be played on consecutive days. American authorities had suggested that the match be played on Friday, Nov. 2, and Sunday Nov. 4. Commander R. c. T.
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    UNINSURED TAKES TOP SPRINT IN SMART TIME
    1845 12 Tulloh, In Fine Form, Rides Three Winners By EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. A MbKA fckKlLb of lurkless defeats, Uninsured (Tulloh) broke the ice when he outsmarted a useful lot of top class sprinters in the 51f urlong speed test at Kuala Lumpur
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    394 12 8.11 (337-140) Charles); (3) Park 8.05 (162—81) Tulloh. Smartly away on the rails. Minstrei Bov streaked oS to an early breakaway and at the half miie he was six lengths clear of Cabaret with Bonnie Prince third. Kaisermc fourth and Orison fifth. Park was last. Minstrei B£v was still fix
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    STEEL AGE DIES AFTER RACE
    122 12 From EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. CTEEL Age, a five -year-old grey English mare by Pylon 11 out of Aftermath, collapsed and died in her stall after finishing fourth to Congo in Race Five here this afternoon. A useful sort, Steel Age showed early promise
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    11 12 Today: 12.44 a.m. Oft. Un.) 12.06 jam. (10ft. 3in.i.
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    176 Entries For S'pore Spring Meet
    819 12 A TOTAL of 176 horses has been entered for the Singapore Turf Club's Sprin-r Meeting on Feb. 17, 21 and 24. The entries comprise 77 Class 1 horses and 99 Class 2 horses: The entries are: Class One Perky Count (1. Perky Knight x
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    Snap Tries Give RASC Cup Win
    401 12 pOOR HANDLING and combination among the Fourth Hussars' threes lost them the final of the F. and N. trophy rugger, which way won by R.A.S.C. "A" by six points (two tries) to three points (a penalty goal) at Nee Soon yesterday. On the general
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    12 U.K. HORSES FOR MALAYA
    162 12 Wnm Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Wed. TWELVE horses purchased by 1 the British Bloodstock Agency on behalf of the Singapore Turf Club and various owners in Malaya will be on their way out during the next few weeks. Some will be leaving at the end
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    I.R.C. SOCCER XI
    51 12 A team from the following will represent Indian R.C. against Nam Wah S.C. at Jalan Besar Stadium on Saturday. Players are asked to turn up at the Stadium dressing room at 4.45 p.m. Narayanan, Veloo, Nadarajak. Gani, Kalimuthu. Moorthy. Ganesan, Dutta. Bala. All, Kiishnan. Param, Osman, Awther
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    Hock Leng Takes 60 1b Of Food To UK.
    306 12 Hock Leng Takes 60 1b Of Food To UK. By EDIN I'KTEKS AN Tuesday, when Sinv gapore's new badminton champinn Cheou? Hock Leng piad in the Straits -Times London Letter about the United Kingdom's 3d a weo'< meat ratio n— which could be contained in three matchboxes— lie made a
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    Dr. Thompson Buys 2 Horses For $63,000
    170 12 From Our Own Correspondent D LONDON. Wed. R. MELVILLE THOMPSON, the Singapore racehorse owner, has paid about' $63,000 for two first-class two-year-olds to carry his colours on the English Turf The horses were purchased and will be trained by the well-known trainer Victor
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    11 12 HOCKEY: Europeans Rest— Mim, RUGBY: S.C.C. Seven-a-slde louinamrnt S.(
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