The Straits Times, 3 January 1952

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    18 1 The Straits Times IALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1952 PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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    REDS STUDY NEW P.O.W. PLAN
    295 1 'One-for-one exchange proposal FREE CHOICE IS SOUGHT PANMUNJOM, Wednesday. ■JHE Communists agreed today to study a new United Nations plan for exchange of Korean war prisoners on a one for one basis. The six-point proposal linked the exchange of prisoners and civilians held on both
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    Operation Rescue off S'pore
    22 1 THE BARFOIL and a K.A.t- helicopter at the scene of yesterday's Valetta crash at Changi. RAF PRO picture.
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    BANDITS USE A TAXI TO KILL 3
    167 1 BANDITS USE A TAXI TO KILL 3 KIMLA LUMPUR, Wed. THREE bandits drove up in a taxi to the' estate guardroom on a Johore rubber estate and started a fight in which a special constable and two Chinese children were killed and a cons' ible and an estate labourer were
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    China 'not so bad', they say
    115 1 China 'not so bad', they say NEW YORK, Wed. CHINA was in much better economic and political condition than Washington had led the American people to believe, says Business Week, a trade journal. In a survey, based upon what it said were direct reports from its Far Eastern bureaux, the
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    Quake shakes Formosa
    44 1 TAIPEI, Wed. Huallen. on the east coast of Formosa, experienced a strong earthquake yesterday, but th«re were no casualties and no serious damage At the first rumblings tht populace rushed into the streets. Hualien, is 75 miles south of Taipei.— AP.
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    $10,000 THEFT: 3 HELD
    85 1 •THREE men aie being held by the Singapore CID. in connection with a $10,000 burglary of wrist watches from Bajaj Textiles, of Raffles Place, between New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Police believe that burglars broke rnto the store by climbing Into the first floor
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    SNOW CUTS OFF 3 VILLAGES
    37 1 SALT LAKE CITY. Utah. Wed. About 1,000 people in three Utah villages were today still cut off from the outside world due to very heavy snowfalls throughout the Rocky Mountain region. A.F.P.
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    155,800,000 IN U.S.
    23 1 WASHINGTON, Wed.— The population of the United States on Dec. 31 was 155,800.000, according to the >nsoa Bureau.— A P
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    Death cell escape
    47 1 AMIENS. Wed. pOLICE have caught the two murderers who yesterday escaped at dawn from the death cell of the "escape proof" Amiens gaol after holding up the warders. They had got only 17 miles to the north-west of the town when they were captured.
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    Stay-on captain radios 'all's well'
    327 1 LONDON, Wednesday. STILL holding out on board to his wrecked American freighter, Flying Enterprise, adrift in the Atlantic, Captain Kurt Carlsen radioed today that he would stay aboard until he is towed to port or sinks. Meanwhile a new storm threatened. If he leaves the
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    EX-AIR HOSTESS DIES IN U.S.
    50 1 1-fISS Laura Lee, (seen here) 1 a former air hostess with Malayan Airways has died in America. Her family in Singapore said they- received a cable from Illinois telling of her death. Miss Lee left recently for America to take a course in dress making.
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    VALETTA HITS SEA, 3 SAVED
    200 1 VALETTA HITS SEA, 3 SA VED 'THE naval boom defence ship Barfoil made a 1 mile-and-a-quarter dash to the rescue when an R.A.F. Valetta transport crashed into the sea off Telok Paku, near Changi airfield, yesterday. Barfoil picked up the aircraft's crew of three, the only occupants, who were clinging
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    RUSSIA: WE BACK INDIA
    70 1 PARIS Wed.— Russia to- 5 .y attacked South Africa's racial policy and said that Indians there were "doomed 'o Intolerably hard condi"!ons of existence". Speaking on a United Naions political committee resolution calling for a commission to help India. Pakistan and South Africa settle the problem
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    BODY RECOVERED
    43 1 HQNG KONO. Wed.— Naval divers yesterday recovered .the body of one of the four missing American crew of the United States Navy P. B M. Mariner flying boat which crashed while taking off from Kowloon Bay seaplane base on Monday Reuter.
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    LITVINOV DIES
    123 1 Pravcra gave him a halfcolumn obituary on the last page, describing him as "an old Bolshevik and prominent diplomat." Litvinov, who was 75, was Ambassador to the United States from 1941 to 1943 and chief representative of Soviet international co operation between the two world wars As Foreign
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    FIRST FIJIANS ARRIVE TODAY
    102 1 THE advance party of the Ist Fiji Infantry Re(?irnent, 16 strong, is due to arrive in Singapore this evening by R.A.A.F. aircraft from Sydney. When the main body of the regiment, all volunteers. arrives in Singapore later this month they will receive jungle training before joining
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    No. 1 kill to the Gurkhas
    82 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A PATROL of the 1/7 Gurkhas made the first bandit kill of the New Year yesterday. They were about to return to base from ambush positions in the Bahau area, Negri Sembilan, when they spotted three bandits. The Gurkhas opened fire,
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    British troops in gun battle
    290 1 British troops in gun battle ISMAILIA, Wed. TROOPS of the Royal A Lincolnshire Regiment fought a gun battle witli Egyptian terrorists in "Sten gun alley", here yesterday. There were no British casualties. The terrorists opened lire with rifles and Bren guns on V.M.C.A. bridge, which spans the Sweet Water Canal.
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    6 DIE IN CRASH
    25 1 TANANARIVA. Madagascar, Wed. Six people were killed and five injured when an Air France plane crashed yesterday. in northern Madagascar. A.F.P.
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    CHURCHILL WANTS U.S. TO SHARE' ATOM
    208 2 CHURCHILL WANTS U.S. TO SHARE' ATOM P"<e*«»ier w'll bargain with Truman ABOARD THE QUEEN MARY AT SEA, Wed. HIGH on Mr. Churchill's programme for his Washington conference with President Truman will be an attempt to break down the post-war barriers which blocked A n g 1 o-American exchange of atomic
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    Pravda with a light heart
    62 2 MOSCOW. Wed. |>RAVDA looked at the New JT Year and saw no world war in the months ahead. "People are getting into 1952 with a lighter heart than they greeted 1951," said a leading article. "This is not because Washington's maniacs have calmed down. Their
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    THREE SMART WOMEN
    57 2 THREE SMART WOMEN MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT (centre) has headed Che list of the "World's 12 Smartest Women" for the fourth consecutive year. The editors of Book of Knowledge said a poll conducted among newspaper writers, parents and educators also honoured Princess Elizabeth Heft) .and Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (right), former
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    He has a new plan for M.-E. defence
    128 2 LONDON, Wednesday. r<ENERAL Nuri Es Said Pasha, Iraq's Prime Minister, who arrived in London on Monday is testing out British reactions to a possible compromise proposal for Middle East defence, usually well-informed quarters believed here today. The general is thought to have
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    Mossadeq gets a week to decide
    97 2 Mossadeq gets a week to decide TEHERAN. Wed. THE Persian Premier, Dr. Mossadeq, was yesterday given a week to decide whether he wants United States aid under conditions similar to those given to other countries, usually reliable sources said here. The Premier, who has rejected American military, technical and economic
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    BUY MALAYAN TIN, U.S. URGED
    382 3 Contracts will break Bolivia price deadlock From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. 1 is reported from Washington that Mr. Stuart Symington, chairman of the Reconstruction nance Corporation, is being urged to resume I purchasing and, in the words of the Financial lines' Washington Correspondent, thus
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    But there's a ring on her finger...
    181 3 But there's a ring on her f inger... LONDON, Wed. UI.DFN-HAIKED Hollywood si irlet Nancy Valentine, 23. who went to India to wed the Maharajah of Coorh Behar, arrived in London today, neither a Maharani nor Miss Valentine. ir said: "1 am not legally the Maharani, but I am also
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    Time bomb at a party
    55 3 MACAO. Wed N explosion, believed to have been caused by a mp bomb occurred In the hlnese Chamber of Comerce building Macao, as ew Year's Ev P merrymakers ere waiting to set off fireorks. Windows were smashed, but iere were no casualties. The Chamber of
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    FISH FOR SOVIET
    36 3 LONDON. Wed. Britain nnounced last night that she ras now exporting herring to tussia. One fourth of the past eason's catch off the East inglian coast has been sold o the Soviet.— A.P.
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    TO BE SUED
    43 3 JAKARTA, Wed. Three Chinese newspapers here will be sued by the Indonesian Government for publishing news and articles attacking supporters of the Chinese Nationalist Government. They are the Sin Po. the Democratic Dally News and the Sin Hua Pao.— AFP.
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    Storm wrecks 200 homes
    38 3 MALANG, Wed. Storms have caused serious destruction in the East Java Malang regency, reported Aneta news agency. According to latest reports, 100 people were injured and more than 200 houses destroyed or heavily damaged.-
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    King goes shooting
    36 3 SANDRINGHAM, Wed. 'J'HE KING, still convalescing from his operation, went shooting on the Royal estate here yesterday. Other members of the party were the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke of Gloucester —Reuter.
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    His 2s. 6d. may win him £6,250—IF....
    86 3 His 2s. 6d. may win him £6,250 IF.... LONDON, Wed. THE bookmaking firm of Douglas Stuart today accepted a bet of 25.6 d. to £6,250 that all of the following would not happen this year. m The Conservatives to re main in office. Chelsea to win the F.A. cup. Cambridge
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    Germans are moving in again
    127 3 Germans are moving in again LONDON, Wed A FRONT page message in today's Daily Mail said Germany had captured trade in Egypt worth £7,000.000 In a few months. The paper's Cairo correspondent, Ralph Izzard, wrote that this drew attention to the growth of German power and influence in the Middle
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    28 feared killed
    61 3 PHOENIX, Arizona, Wed. ALL the 28 occupants of the C-47 military plane, reported missing since Sunday, are believed to have been killed, according to a report received from the search party last night. The search party had climbed Mount Lookout near here following a report that debris
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    3 DIE IN FIRE
    32 3 CHATTANOOGA. Tennessee. Wed. Flames which started from a Christmas tree caused the death yesterday of Mr and Mrs. W. P. Fergusra. and their daughter, Mrs. Jean Rogers, 39.—
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    KIRKBY SCHOLARS ARRIVE IN BRITAIN
    140 3 LONDON, Wednesday. |t|R. L. D. Whitefleld, the Federation's Director ot ITI Education, flew 8,400 mile* from Malaya to welcome 150 Malayan students at St. Pancras Station here yesterday. He arrived a week ago and intends to return to Malaya on Jan. 19. The students looked
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    29 3 COCONUT trees scorched by the intense heat after the Hibok Hibok volcano had erupted in the Philippines. The volcano spouted flames and smoke for nearly a week. A.P. picture.
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    Princess' pilot gets honour
    174 3 LONDON, Wednesday. CAPTAIN OSCAR B. Jones, who flew Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh over the Atlantic for their Canadian tour last autumn, has been made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. Squadron Leader Horace Nash, who piloted Princess Margaret to Italy, Princess Elizabeth
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    Burma to join Colombo plan
    64 3 COLOMBO, Wed. THERE is "every likelihood" that Burma will join the Colombo plan, according to her Minister to Ceylon, U Tint Swe, on his return to Colombo after a short visit home. The Colombo plan, decided upon by the Commonwealth Foreign Ministers in January, 1950,
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    NEW EFFORT FOR PEACE TREATY
    62 3 WASHINGTON, Wed.— The Western Powers will make a new and determined effort later this month to persuade Russia to agree to an Austrian peace treaty. Responsible officials here say a fresh treaty draft, approved by the United States, Britain, and France, will be submitted to
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    Flung himself on grenade
    63 3 TOKYO, Wed. A UNITED States infantry sergeant who smothered an exploding Communist grenade with his body has been posthumously awarded the Medal of Honour. Sergeant William S. Sitman shouted a warning to his men and hurled himself on the grenade when it fell in his machine-gun
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    AGGRESSIVE MOVE MEANS WAR—NEHRU
    177 3 AGGRESSIVE MOVE MEANS WAR— NEHRU CALCUTTA, Wednesday. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru, last night said A that any aggressive move by Pakistan against Kashmir would mean all-out war between India and Pakistan. Addressing a mammoth 500,000 audience in West Bengal, Mr. Nehru reiterated that India's army would remain in Kashmir
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    Govt. 'wise to think carefully'
    179 3 LONDON, Wed. THE British Government had been wise to think carefully before making a decision on the appointment of the new High Commissioner in Malaya, the Manchester Guardian said today. The paper quoted the reaction of the Straits Times to a recent rumour that Field
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    Egypt 'not worried'
    72 3 CAIRO, Wed. 'T*HE Egyptian Premier, Mus1 tafa el Nahas Pasha, said today that Egypt was "ready to use force in reply to force." He was commenting on a statement by Gen. Sir Brian Robertson, British commander in Egypt. Nahas Pasha said: "We are not worried by such
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    6 women call a 'lost' man 'hubby'
    215 3 6 women call a 'lost' man 'hubby' NEW YORK, Wed. CIX women who sai<J they were the wiveJ of an ex-communicated Mormon were held ill Mesa, Arizona, today charged with "open and notorious cohabitation". The women were arrested on complaints by Bishop Wendel Davis, of the Church of Jesus Christ
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    MOSCOW BOASTS
    23 3 LONDON, Wed. Russia i 3 smelting as much steel as Britain, France, Belgium and Sweden put together Moscow radio said. Reuter.
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    Guests went home cold
    66 3 LONDON, Wed. THIEVES helped them- selves to 11 fur coats in the home of Lieut. Colonel Martin Charteris, assistant private secretary to Princess Elizabeth, while their owners were toasting the New Year. The coats, valued at between £3,000 and £4,000, were the property of Col. Charteris'
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    And Progressives plan election drive now
    187 4 And Progressives plan election drive now ELEVEN MONTHS TO CO FOR POLLS— (SINGAPORE Progressive Party is to start early on its campaign for the City Council elections in December. It is expected that the six candidates will be selected at a meeting this evening. A committee under the president, Mr.
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    68 4 Flood time is swim time for children around Tetok Aver market. When high tide flooded the market yesterday these children took off' their clothes and plunged in But it may be one of their last dips in the market. The City Council hopes to stop flooding in the area by
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    REGIMENT HAS A BABY DAY
    211 4 REGIMENT HAS A BABY DAY "If ORE than 50 Malay babies, JTI .sons and daughters of men of the R.A.F. Regiment (Malaya) and locally-re-cruiicd men of 19 Air Formation Signals Regiment, will compete on Saturday in the iirst baby show to be he-Id at the R.A.F. Regiment Depot, Telok Paku,
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    SCOUT TOUR ENDS
    44 4 KOTA BAHRU, Wed. A party of 51 scouts of the Islah English School, under Asst. Scout Master Wan Eusoffee, have returned to Kota Bahru after touring' the West Coast. They spoke highly of the cooperation they received from their brother scouts.
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    Stole cycle spare parts
    72 4 YAP Han Sue, of Tiong Bahru Road, was sentenced in Singapore Third Police Court on Monday to one month's imprisonment for theft of bicycle spare-parts from the Asranius at the Singapore Harbour Board on Dec. 29. Mr. B. N. Finch, A.S.P., who prosecuted, said that Yap
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    Plea to educate City's urchins
    146 4 THE Straits Chinese British Association has been asked by Mr. Jee Ah Chian, City Councillor and SCBA vice-president, to urge Government to provide compulsory primary education in Singapore. This will be discussed at the SCBA committee 'meeting next week along with Mr. Jee 's suggestion
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    Alleged theft of rubber
    90 4 SEVEN Chinese and four Indians were charged in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday with stealing over a ton of sheet rubber valued at $3,500 from the Harbour Board on Monday last. They were Neo Kee Sin, Lim Kee, Chua Boon Teck. Tan Chye Quee. Low
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    BAIL ALLOWED
    23 4 SEGAMAT, Wed. Bail in $300 was offered Lim Tim Siak, aged 24, charged at Segamat with retaining stolen lorry spare parts.
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    No applications from the new doctors
    75 4 PENANG, Wed. of the six new doctors who graduated recently from the University of Malaya had so far applied to join the Federation Medical Services. "They are probably waiting until after the holidays. Now that these are over I expect some applications," Dr. R.
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    Air course for Indonesians
    81 4 Eighteen Indonesian stu-dent-pilots are to go to Britain shortly on a two to two-ana-n-half years training course following an extensive tour taken recently by Dr. Sukoto, head of the Indonesian civil aviation in Europe and the United States, states the Indonesian news service. Indonesia will send
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    Reunion after 25 years
    74 4 Professor Chandran Devanesen. who teaches history at the University of Madras, had a reunion at Kallang Airport on Tuesday with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. J. D Edwards, and cousin. Mr. J. E. R. Edwards, of the Customs Department, after 25 years They all
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    THE MAN WHO STAYED AWAY
    36 4 SEGAMAT, Wed.— For failing to attend court. 28-year-old Leong Kok Sam was fined $25 and had his $50 bail estreated. For driving a car without a licence, he was fined $15.
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    Lim elected to Varsity Court
    42 4 PENANG. Wed. Penang's new Municipal Council yesterday elected Mr. C. O. Urn. Radical Party leader, its representative on the Court of the University of Malaya Mr Llm takes over from Sir Hussein Abdoolcader whose term has expired.
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    CIVILIANS HURT
    30 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.Two civilians were wounded by bandits on Monday— one In the Batu Pahat area of Johore and the other in the Jelebu District of Negrt Sembilan.
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    COMMUNISM MAKES WIVES WED AGAIN
    160 4 COMMUNISM MAKES WIVES WED AGAIN KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE Communists in South Fukien province were forcing young women to marry although their husbands were living in Malaya, said Mr. Lav Wong over Radio Malaya today. Many Malayan Chinese returned to China j,o marry but did not bring their brides to
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    Two cases of polio in Selangor
    66 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. TWO cases of polio were reported in Belangor during the week ended Dec. 15. There were 99 cases of pneumonia, with 14 deaths, luring the week. Pahang headed the list a-ith 28 cases, of which four *ere fatal. Perak came next
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    LORRY BURNT
    21 4 KUALA LUMPUR Wed.— Twenty bandits, dressed in khaki, burned a lorry in the Muar area of- Johore on Monday
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    Reds attack train
    21 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed— Two passengers were wounded when Communist bandits fired on a train In Johore on Monday.
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    One killed, 6 wounded
    64 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.' 'TERRORISTS lost one killed and another six wounded on Monday. There were no casualties among the security forces. i The bandit was killed in an engagement in the Johore Bahru area. Four of the 25 bandits were wounded, two seriously. Two bandits were
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    Court clerk is gaoled
    51 4 ALOR STAR, Wed. A. Kuppusamy, a Kroh court clerk, who misappropriated $260 in fines entrusted to his care, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Tuan Syed Barakbah, Baling Sessions Court President, told Kuppvsamy that misappropriation was a serious offence rendered worse when committed by a Government
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    SUICIDE BID IS ALLEGED
    33 4 TELUK ANSON, Wed. Bail of $150 was offered a 20-year-old woman. Chintamany, when she was charged here with attempted suicide by drinking iodine. The case was postponed until Saturday.
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    'Lazy' Costa Rica can't compete
    127 4 'Lazy' Costa Rica can 't compete TpHE rubber industry of Costa Rica, Central America, cannot compete with Malaya, leading Singapore rubber leaders said yesterday. They were commenting on a report that the United les might get rubber from a Rica, where, it is said, (00 acres, could ultimately 1 150,000
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    Guard was asleep
    57 4 \TUSOFF bin Abdul Ghanl, X a 23-year-old policeman, wag sent to gaol for a month in Singapore yesterday for sleep ng while on armed duty at Kanang airport on New Year's Day. Inspector 7. S. Zaln said that Yu.'off was found sleeping and had a loaded rifle.
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    Ifs a record, says doctor
    56 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. THIRTY-FOUR babies were born on New Year's Day in Kuala Lumpur. Twenty-one were born at the Chinese Maternity Hospital and the others at the General Hospital. The 13 at the General Hospital are a record for any one day. said Dr. E.
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    1,500 to parade for their chief
    137 4 ONE thousand five hundred members of 46 ambulance, nursing and cadet divisions of the Singapore St John Ambulance Brigade will be reviewed by their Commis-sioner-in-Chief, Sir Otto Lund, when he visit* the Colony next month On an inspection tour >J St John Ambulance units
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    THEY GOT A BANDIT A DAY
    355 5 367 accounted for in Johore last year average Of one bandit a day fell to the security forces in Johore last year. Increased contacts had led to a record number of surrenders. This is disclosed in statistics from Johore stating that 367 bandits were
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    Then rescue came at Christmas
    320 5 SHIP ADRIFT SIX DAYS pOR six days the small Japanese freighter, Masani 1 Maru, was battered by huge seas as she wallowed, water-logged and out of control, her propeller shaft broken. Then on Boxing Day in the South China Sea came rescue in the shape
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    A former bandit is cleared
    159 5 A former bandit is cleared KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. 22-year-old surrendered bandit, charged in Kuala Lumpur today with attempting to extort $200 from a boyhood friend, was discharged without his defence being called. Low Kah Seng was alleged to have committted the offence at the second mile Pahang Road. Lav Sin
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    USIS appointment
    28 5 Mr. James F. Anderson, formerly o f USIS, Saigon, has been appointed Associate Director of the United States Information Service in charge of the Penang Office
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    Went amok on his wedding day
    76 5 Went amok on his wedding day ALOR STAR, Wed. A MALAY special constable who is alleged to have run amok and to have killed two Chinese and wounded another at Kampong Lallans last week, has now been found dead. He Is believed to have killed himself with his own rifle.
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    10-DAY HINDU CEREMONIES
    41 5 The 10-day annual "Thiruvempa Pooja" ceremonies commenced at the Sri Senpaga Vinayagar Hindu Temple, Ceylon Road, Katong early yesterday. During the ten days special "Thiruvempa Pooja" will be performed, sacred hymns sung and prayers offered to Lord Siva.
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    LOTTERf CASE
    41 5 Ting sine Huat. aged 45, pleaded guilty in the Singapore First Police Court yesterday to a charge of assisting in the management of a chap-Ji-kl lottery on Tuesday. Sentence was postponed until Feb 18 Ball of $1,000 was offered.
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    'Refresher' for 30 teachers
    98 5 IPOH, Wed. THIRTY geography teach- ers are attending a sixday refresher course given by Professor E. H G Hobby and Mrs N. H E Hanby of the University of Malaya. Professor Oobby said it was the first time such a course had been conducted by the
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    HAD NO LICENCE
    35 5 Wong Ah Hiong and Ong Ah Oh were each fined $100 in the Singapore Police Court yesterday for being unlicensed trisha riders and for using a rider's badge without having a licence.
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    THEY WANT A 'SILENT ZONE'
    128 5 AS a result of complaints made to him by Singapore Improvement Trust Estate residents in Tiong Bahru of the disturbance caused by the sounding of motor horns, Mr. M. P. D Nair, a Labour Councillor, has suggested that the area be declared a "silent zone"
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    An example of peace & harmony
    89 5 An example of peace harmony Canada was the only country in the world with 3,000 miles of unarmed and undefended frontier, and an example to the world of bow two nations Itself and the UJ3. could live in complete peace and harmony. Dr. A. E. Armstrong, retired Overseas Secretary of
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    Red Swastika opens branch
    45 5 IPOH, Wed.— Dr C. T Wang, former Foreign Minister in the Nationalist Government of China and a onetime Ambassador to the United Kingdom and the united States, today declared open the recently formed Perak branch of the World Red Swastika Society.
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    RUBBER COUNCIL AND GOVT. AGREE
    369 5 RUBBER COUNCIL AND GOVT. AGREE KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. AGREEMENT has been reached between the Rubber "Producers' Council and the Federation Government on the establishment of the Rubber Stabilisation Fund, the Straits Times understands. Negotiations have been going on for more than six months The Federal Legislative Council, scheduled to meet
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    Bail refused on extortion charge
    75 5 Teo Ah Leng, aged 25. claimed trial in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to a charge of attempted extortion on Oct. 10 threatened a woman. Soh last year Teo was alleged to have Kirn Llan. by putting her in fear of injury, and thereby
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    Accused of $60,000 finance offences
    131 5 f HNG Song Thiam, proprietor of Chop Chng Hwa Seng in Boat Quay, was charged before the Singapore First District Judge, Mr. Tan Ah Tah, yesterday with three charges under the Finance Regulations, involving $60,000. He was alleged to have made three payments of $20,000
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    He asks for more water
    93 5 IVfR. Lee Choon Eng, Labour iTI City Councillor, has written to the Council asking that a second stand-pipe be provided in Femhill Road. He says that most people in the areas,, at present served by only one stand-pipe are daily-paid workers. "I consider this single
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    V.S.C. PARTY
    25 5 Members of the Volunteer Special Constabulary "B" Division will hold their annual New Year party on Saturday at the Kandang Xerbau Police Station.
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    PLEA FOR PRICE CONTROL
    161 5 APLEA for controlled prices for building materials has been sent to Singapore's Secretary for Economic Affairs, by the building firm of Seacon, Ltd Mr. V W. Frampton, the firm's managing director, said yesterday that there was an unfair difference in the prices of mild steel bars
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    DEATH
    100 6 BERTIE McOulre age 51 years passed away peacefully on the 2 I 52 at 3*3 Paya Lebar Road. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. Mr. and Mrs Wong Onn Fook thank then- many friends and rr'atlves for their kind wishes and valuable presents on the occasion of thrtr marriage on 30th Dumber 1951. MRS.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs. Jan. 3, 1952. Washington Tin Talks
    847 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs. Jan. 3, 1952. Washington Tin Talks It is now reasonably certain that Malayan tin and rubber will be among the subjects that Mr. Churchill will discuss with President Truman, although President and Prime Minister are unlikely to involve themselves in more than a brief discussion
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    Maxim Litvinov
    298 6 Maximovitch Litvinov, whose death has been announced by Moscow Radio, was one of the last of the "old Bolsheviks," a title reserved for the small group which led the 1905 revolution. To his close friendship with Lenin, and a later genius for keeping himself to himself, he probably
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    THE COMMUNIST VOICE IS SMALL IN INDIA'S HUSTINGS
    880 6  -  SELIG S. HARRISON By NEW DELHI. T*HE Communists can't x seem to make their voices heard in the noisy general., election campaign now under way throughout India. Out of 20,000 candidates contesting the elections, to the Central Parliament and 22 State Legislatures,
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      The educationists and the pyramid
      1056 6 The educationists and the pyramid A SPEAKER at Penan- recently described as "monstrously unfair" any suggestion that Government departments might be overstaffed. He maintained that they are, on the contrary, understaffed and overworked. He suggested, further, that those who think otherwise are Influenced by fear of taxation— which may well
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      322 6 DAVID BATHSHEBA A FILM entitled 'David and A Bathsheba," now showing for more than a week at a local cinema, relates a story of David, a Prophet of God or a King of the Israelites The film shows David (peace be upon him) as an adulterer and a murderer. It
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    On the Margin
    509 6 On the Margin Flight of hornets gINCE we have disposed at least temporarily of tigers, rats, snakes, centipedes and wasps over the last few days, it seems only right that w« should revert to the topio which brought Mr. 8. Ramachandra to write to us with his note on centipedes
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    THREE-SESSIONS-A-DAY SCHOOLS SOON
    240 7 Halliday: They may start next term CHANCE TO LEARN FOR 3,000 MORE CHILDREN CIX Singapore schools will probably have three sessions a day during this year's first term, said Mr. A. H. H alii day, Inspector of Schools, yesterday. He is now working out the staffing and
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    PRINCESS WILL SEE 'HER OWN' ESTATE
    197 7 PRINCESS WILL SEE 'HER OWN' ESTATE WHEN she opens the Colombo Plan Exhibition in Colombo on Feb 5. Princess Elizabeth will see pictures and a model of the Singapore housing estate named after her. Mr. G G. Thomson, Public Relations Secretary, said yesterday that the chief Singapore txhiblt at the
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    44 will be registered
    70 7 pORTY-FOUR contractors are to be registered for works undertaken by the Singapore City Council's Architect and Building Surveyor's Department this year. Of the 44 selected, 18 are being registered as eligible to tender for work valued at over $150,000; 11 for work between $50,000 and $150,000
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    City stores issue price challenge
    222 7 City stores issue price challenge SINGAPORE'S leading deO partment stores yesterday challenged the writer of a letter to th e Straits Times to prove his statement that children's clothes in Singapore were double the price of the Identical article in London The statement is grossly exaggerated and, in fact, entirely
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    45 cases on first day
    67 7 SINGAPORE City Police Court, the former Registrar of Vehicles' Court in Middle Road, functioned for the first time yesterday when 45 summonses were dealt with. Mr. K. J. L. Jamieson, the magistrate, said the court would first deal with City Council departmental prosecutions Cases formerly
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    Mr. Forrer takes Oath of Office
    55 7 Mr. H. A. Forrer, former Registrar. Supreme Court, and a District Judge, who had been living in retirement, assumed duties yesterday as Civil District Judge and Magistrate. He took the Oath of Allegiance and the Oath of Office before Mr A. W. Bellamy in
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    2 accused of extortion
    60 7 A charge of extortion was explained to Tune Kok Chong aged 22, and Uew Chong. aged 18, bcth of Lorong 17, Geylang, in Singapore yesterday. They were alleged to have threatened to beat up Bong Hock Eng in Sims Avenue on New Year's day if Bong
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    $3,000 POLICE OFFER
    95 7 SINGAPORE Police have offered a $3,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for throwing acid at a wedding party in Angullia Road on Nov. 25. The acid injured six guests, one seriously. The latter was Mr. Tan Kirn Kee, a
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    $100 BAIL
    28 7 SEGAMAT, Mon. Bail In $100 was allowed to Ng Bak, alias Tey Yew Chai, 29, charged here today with moving medicine out of a restricted area.
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    Cowboys join hands with courtiers
    264 7 pLEGANT courtiers from Elizabethan England joined hands with jitter-bugging cowboys yesterday evening at the Victoria Theatre when a full dress rehearsal was held of the International Variety Concert to be staged there tonight and tomorrow night in aid of St. Andrew's Mission Hospital Dancers and
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    Colon; Sikhs Honour leader
    60 7 Sikhs in the Colony began observances in honour of their leader Guru Gobind Singh on Tuesday. At the Central Sikh Temple in Queen Street, Singapore, a 48-hour non-stop reading of the Holy Guru Granth Sahib, which began on Monday morning, will be concluded this morning. During
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    Chinese goodwill must be won
    333 7 EASE 'HARSH' CITIZEN LAW KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. ]t|R. W. M. MacLeod, president of the Malayan iV Association, recommended today that Government should ease the Federal citizenship qualification to gain the confidence and greater co-operation of the Chinese in the fight against Communist banditry. Speaking at
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    Mr. Lyttelton writes to pensioners
    94 7 Mr. Lyttelton writes to pensioners KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. MR. Oliver Lyttelton, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, will consult the Federation Government regarding the Pan-Malayan Pensioners' Association's complaint about the "miserable plight" of widows, orphans and service pensioners. Thia was revealed in a letter from Mr. Lyttelton to Mr.
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    STORE'S NEW KNIGHT
    18 7 STORE'S NEW KNIGHT YESTERDAY'S picture of Sir George Allen, taken at his office in the University of Malaya.
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    HAD NO LICENCE
    27 7 For pushing an unlicensed handcart along Fullerton Road on New Year's Day, Chua Cheng Choon was fined $50 in Singapore City Police Court yesterday.
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    'LAW PANEL' MAY BE SET UP
    114 7 AS a result of a proposal by JX Mr. David Marshall, the Singapore barrister, that a panel of lawyers could help the City's poor by advising them whether they had cause for action, Government wUI probably take action. Mr. W. G. Alcock, Official Assignee,
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    SIR GEORGE REVIEWS THE UNIVERSITY
    452 7 SIR GEORGE REVIEWS THE UNIVERSITY QIR George Allen, Vice- Chancellor of the University of Malaya, who received a knighthood in the New Year's honours, yesterday said that the most significant occasion in his career was the founding of the University. "The founding of the University in 1949, and its vigorous
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    Adventists to discuss publishing
    121 7 Adventists to discuss publishing REPRESENTATIVES from] all publishing departments of the Seventh Day Adventists in South-east Asia will meet at a Far East Convention between Jan. 13 and Jan. 15 in Singapore to discuss plans for 1952, Mr. G. A. Huse. the publishing department secretary of the general conference of
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    DO YOUR DUTY, HE SAYS
    298 7 DO YOUR DUTY, HE SAYS —And Emergency will be over KUAL.A LUMPUK, W«jd. A CALL to the people of the Federation to play a more active part in ending the Emergency was made by two speakers at the quarterly meeting of the Malayan Association in Kuala Lumpur this evening. Mr.
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    GAOL FOR MAN WITH AN ALIAS
    45 7 For falling to report to he police, 25-year-old Awa-ig Yatim bin Awang. alias Mohamed bin Awang. was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, to be followed by another 12 months' supervision by Singapore Fourth Police Magistrate, Mr. P. Claque. yesterday
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    When the fruit was opened three felt very, very seedy
    318 8 THIS GOT UNDER THEIR SKIN KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. THK fruit tasting committee opened a fruit and one man held his nose and three others hurried to the door. It was a durian from Siam. This happened at the Federal Agricultural
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    Bandits kill headman
    70 8 IPOH, Wed A FEW hour s after he was kidnapped by bandits at Tunggang Kramat Pulai on Sunday night, the body of a Sakai headman. Kulop Chabang, was found in a shallow grave three miles in the jungle The discovery was made by two other Sakais who
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    Delayed on way to U.K. course
    207 8 LMHR senior Asian police officers spent five extra 1 hours in Singapore before they left Kallang airport last night for six months' advanced police training in Britain. They were ASPs Frank Pestaha. H L. Boudewyn and V. Retnasingam and Chief Inspector Tan Teck Kirn.
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    Councillors told: Dont give orders
    120 8 f J 7 HE staff of Singapore City Council support the request by the President. Mr. T.P.F. McNeice, to city councillors not to give orders directly to employees. Several employees complained that they dare not ignore the instructions of a councillor, and yet a departmental
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    Caused hurt: $75 fine
    43 8 PARIT BUNTAR, Wed.— A Tamil labourer was fined $75 in Bagan Serai for voluntarily causing hurt to Thanimalai at Ouala Estate on Oct. 13. It was alleged that the accused stabbed the complainant In the course of a quarrel.
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    $184 CHARGE
    37 8 SEGAMAT. Wed.— Alleged to have misappropriated $184.21 on the Chuan Moh San Estate, 34-year-old Kok Choon had his case transferred from the Sessions Court to the Magistrate's Court here today. Ball of $200 was allowed
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    Ignorance in Malaya 'appalling'
    169 8 PENANG Wed. IINGKU AZIZ, Lecturer in v Economics in the University of Malaya, last night said that the ignorance in Malaya, especially on the life of peasants was appaling. "We know so little about the rural people. Yet a lot of people pretend to know a
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    RintaChiefs son weds
    78 8 IPOH. Wed. INCHE Mohamed Nazari, son of the territorial chief of Kinta, Dato Mohamed Eusoff, was married to Che Sherifa Sham binte Syed Mohamed Ali in Ipoh The religious rites were performed at the residence of the bridegroom's parents at Edgar Road, by the Kathi of Ipoh.
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    Rent board grants increases
    118 8 Rent board grants increases THE monthly rent of $86.25 1 of two houses 740 and 742, Mounbatten Road, Singapore, was increased to $112 by the Rent Conciliation Board yesterday. The Board sat in the Civil District Oourt building for the first time under the presidency of Mr. Eu Cheow Chye.
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    Trader wins $500 claim
    118 8 JUDGMENT for $500. with J costs was given by Mr. H. A. Forrer in the Second Civil District Court yesterday in a claim by Wong Choy. trading as Kwong San Lee and company, against Ong Oh The claim was based on a cheque issued by Ong
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    Soldering iron killed him
    34 8 TAIPING, Wed.— A misadventure verdict was recorded on Lee Hoe Meng, aged 20, who was electrocuted on Nov. 12. Lee was handling an electric soldering iron when he 'was killed.
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    Singapore Diary
    48 8 Y.W.C.A., Raffles Quay: Ballroom Dancing Class 5 p.m.; Dressmaking, 10 a.m. Chinese V.M.C.A., Selegie Road: Basketball, 5.30 p.m.; Tabletennis, 7 p.m. British Red Cross Old People's Club: Wesley Hall, Fort Canning: Meeting at 4.30 pjn. St. John's Ambulance Brigade, Stamford Road: Home Nursing at 5 p.m.
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    2 on modesty charge
    73 8 IPOH, Wed. VUSOF bin Hashim, a 19- year old special constable, was charged with attempting to outrage the modesty of a woman, Low Chow Tai, in the lock up of the Ipoh Central Police Station. Jaffar bin Din, another special constable, was said to have abetted
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    EIGHT GET AWARDS
    131 8 EIGHT GET AWARDS REAR-ADMIRAL A. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Flag Officer and second-in-com-mand of the Far East Station, has been made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the New Year Honours List. Other awards 0.8. E. (MILITARY) Commander K. J. D'Arcy, Chief Staff Officer of the Flag Officer Malayan
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    $300,000f0r new school
    69 8 ALOR STAR, Wed. ■PHE building of a new $300,000 Chinese school in Sungei Patani has been deferred pending final Government approval. Plans for a two-storey building have been completed and permission has been granted for the necessary funds to be raised. So far about $130,000 has been
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    Carried excess weight
    40 8 PARIT BUNTAR, Wed.— A lorry driver, Yeoh Hock Poh, was fined $50 in the Bagan Serai carrying an excess load of one ton in his lorry. He was fined another $10 for driving along a restricted road.
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    WHILE THEY WAITED FOR PLANE
    30 8 WHILE THEY WAITED FOR PLANE CHIEF INSPECTOR Tan Teck Kirn, (left) ASP V. Retnasingam. ASP Frank Pestana and ASP H L. Boudewyn before they left last nijjht —Straits Times picture
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    Blackout areas
    166 8 •THE following substation* will be 1 liable to blackouts today:— DAT Rangoon Rd., Towner Rd,. Serangoon Rd., Sennett EsUte, Knlam Ayer, McPherson Rd., Ktm Chuan Rd., Boundary Rd., Florence Rd., Upper Serangoon, Yio Chu Rang Rd., Govt. Printing Works, Woodleigh Park, Braddell Heights, Arthur Rd., Tanjong Katong, Broadrick
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    BROADCASTS TO LAST LONGER
    223 8 DADIO Malaya's Indian and Malay programmes are to be extended from Jan. 7 and its English morning: programmes from Jan. 21. Mr. Tony Beamish Deputy Director of Broadcasting, said yesterday that during the school teijps the extension of the Blue Network's English programmes would fill the
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    ACCUSED OF LYING
    101 8 Quek Ec Hong, a former detective, was tentatively charged in Singapore yesterday with giving false evidence during a police investigation into a gambling case, in which 23 people were involved, on Sept. 13 in North Bridge Road. He was alleged to have a police officer that he
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    Packing Without Wrinkles
    321 9 HOUSEWIFE HERE are a tew tips on how to pack your holiday clothes in order to keep them wrinklefree. 1 m thing to do Is to coiled ail the clothes you will need on your hoiiuay, hanging dresses and suits on nangers around your ruo Ro« -tart
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    AFTER THE PARTY —THE HANGOVER
    717 9  -  Magda Dunin -By— THE best— or the worst of the parties is over, and everybody, except the hardy and the abstemious, is feeling tired And in the wake of the parties there follows indigestion, acidity, and dull, recurring headaches. The nicest of all cures for
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    Why Not Silver For A Child's Birthday Gift?
    337 9  - Why Not Silver For A Child's Birthday Gift? HELEN MOORE By 'THERE must be many parents who still possess pieces of sterling silver which have been theirs since before they could remember, as they are engraved with the date of their christening many years ago. Generally these mementoes, given by
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    150 9 <nUPW must be laughing.\'.\i fit to split his sides',', "at, the United States got-.- <', ernment. i> It has set out to solve., ythe iimeless mysteries of--4' love asid marriage on an appropriation of vssi2,ooo. <> The first session of the. •82nd Congress appro>pri-\\ ated some
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    Turpin 'Man of Year' in UK sport
    718 10 By A Special Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. AT the end of a year it is the good old British custom to cast around among twelve months of memory and select a sportsman of the year. We have cast an eye at the greatness of
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    N.S. Telecoms win cup final
    127 10 SEREMBAN. Wed.- N.gn Sembilan Telecoms defeated N.S Police iwest) circle by seven goals to two in the nnal ot the N.S. Government Services footbal; league to win the Mentrl Besar Shield here yesterday. The score at half time was twoali YusoS and Atan scoring foi
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    Perak R.U. win 24-5
    29 10 IPOH, Wed.— Perak Rugby Union XV defeated Commandos by 24 points (3 goals. 3 tries) to rive (a goal) on the padang here this evening.
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    Colony are champions
    130 10 BASKETBALL KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. AS expeected, Singapore kept their unbeaten record and emerged champions in the men's section of the Malayan Basketball Congress which was completed here last night. Singapore Proved too strong for selangor in the final winning by 62 points to 38. Singapore led throughout
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    India score 257 for 6
    242 10 CALCUTTA, Wed. TN reply to England's first innings total of 342 India scored 257 for six wicket* here yesterday. India's overnight score of 65 for no wickets had become 120 for four by lunch against accurate and hostile bowling. India began 227 runs behind with
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    RACE SEVEN TOTE
    20 10 Tote dividends for Race Seven at Penang races on Tuesday were: Horizon $11, $6; Young Jack $8.
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    234 10 KOTA BAHRU. Wed. IN one ol the best soccer matches seen here the Oerda. a new combination, gave the Prisons Sports Club some very anxious moments, especially when they opened accounts with a lovely goal by Mat Noor. This lead was short-lived, because Wan Hussein
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    Bottles thrown at Glasgow 'Derby'
    360 10 LONDON, Wednesday £RO\\ I demonstrations marred the match between traditional Glasgow rivals Celtic and Rangers, the top game in Scotland's New Year football programme yesterday. Rangers, who were always the masters, won 4—l.4 1. Bottles were thrown on to the field after Rangers had taken
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    Barkway in N. Malaya
    79 10 IPOH Wed. ft>AY Barkway, British AAA honorary coach, arrived by plane here yesterday afternoon and today began a seven day course for 30 athletics Instructors from Perak, Penang and Kedah. Last night he was entertained to a dinner by the president of the Perak AAA, Mr.
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    ENTRIES FOR OSLO MEET
    82 10 HELSINKI, Wed. RUSSIA was not among the 28 nations entered for the 1952 winter Olympics in Oslo a few hours before the deadline expired at 12 midnight Monday. The 28 naions which have reported their entry to the Winter Games so far are Argentina, Australia, Austria,
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    TERRY ALLEN TO MEET SANDEYRON
    38 10 LONDON, Wed.— Maurice Sandeyron, of France, win meet Terry Allen or London In a ten-round tight at the Royal Albert Hall on Jan. 29. Allen is a former world flyweight champion.— A. P.
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    London Stocks
    308 11 LONDON, Wed. A SWING of active Interest from home stocks to selected overseas Issues today gave the London Stock Exchange an Irregular appearance. Giltedged and leading industrials drooped but there was firmness in oils, foreign bonds and selected minings. Exceptionally among home stocks shippings made several useful advances
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    Exchange rates
    82 11 f£HE Malayan Exchange Banks Association yesterday announced agreed rates of exchange to merchants as follows: Baylsa Air Mail F.T. OD. M 4/et New Tort 32 IS/16 S2 it/il's^Ult Canada, U 3/16 53 5/16 SSt/lf Trade Rill* New York 334 SelHog T.T^O.D. Beadr New York ,M, M S2 9/ie
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    Ceylon coconut oil duty
    110 11 'I'HK Government of Ceylon has amrndfd the sliding scale of export duties 6n coconut oil and desiccated coconut following representations by the trade. The duty on coconut oils has been reduced, as from December 23, from 90 to 80 per cent, of the export duty on
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    RUBBER MARKET
    217 11 Year opens dull; prices almost unchanged From A Market Correspondent TpHE Singapore rubber market opened the year on a x dull note, with prices more or less unchanged from last Saturday's closing levels Only a little business was done at $1.40$ and $1.40$ a lb. for January first-grade.
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    TIN: $450 A PICUI
    37 11 SINGAPORE Wed., Jan. 2. —$450 (up $11.5«) London: £927} a ton LONDON, Jan. 2.— Cash buyers £927), Sellers Forward Buyers £925, Sellers £926; Settlement £9271 (up £22*). Turnover; a.m. 125. p.m 5t. tons.
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    100 11 FJULLNESS was the rule on the Singapore produce market yesterday, the first day of business this year. A small volume of business' was reported In the coconut oil section at $63 a picul. but further buyers held off. Copra prices opened slightly steadier, buyers bidding at $38
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    THE HONG KONG DOLLAR
    36 11 HONG KONG, Wed. FREE market currency exchange for Hong Kong dollars was quoted at the close today as follows- US$l HK*6S2U (cash), HK*6.56 (T.T.); £1 HK515.85; one tahil of gold HKs3l9tt— UP.
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    Malayan shares
    275 11 Industrials and Tins firm rtE year opened with renewed firmness for Industrials and Tins in the Malayan share market yesterday. Brisk business was done particularly .in Tin shares, but sellers remained reserved even at improved prices. Rubbers were a quiet market. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers'
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING
    203 11 CHIPS expected alongside the Singapore Harbour Board godowns at 6 a.m. today are: 1/2 Empress Of Australia, 4/5 Breconshlre, Coal Plant Subadar. 6/7 Bencleuch, 8 Lasem. 9 if<m«n<«», 11 Benarty, 13 14 Aacanius. 15/16 Memnon and L.C.T.694. West Side. Empire Dock Entrance Rajah Brooke, 17/18 E Prince 19/20
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    AUSTRALIANS FIGHT BACK
    869 12 Need 192 for victory with 9 wickets in hand From JACK FINGLETON (Exclusive to the Straits Times) MELBOURNE, Wednesday. yyiTH nine wickets remaining, Australia needs 192 runs to beat the West Indies in the fourth Test match here. A win would give Australia the "rubber 1 whereas
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    SEASON ENDS WITH THRILLS
    383 12 Epsom Jeep reviews Penang races PENANG, Wednesday. A RECORD-BREAKING season for the Malayan Turf was brought to a close in glorious weather at Penang on New Year Day. Thrills were aplenty in spite of the moderate fields and some of the highlights of the day's racing
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    27 12 Osman bin Hussein leads a forward dribble for North Federation Civilians XV during their match against Federation Services on the X.L Padang on Saturday. —Straits Times picture.
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    211 horses entered for Singapore Spring meeting
    924 12 211 horses entered for Singapore Spring meeting A TOTAL of 211 horses have been entered for the Singapore Turf Club's Spring Meeting to be held on Jan. 12, 16 and 19. There will be nine races for each day The entries are: Class Two Ist Run 2nd Run 6f or
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    Married v Singles soccer match
    43 12 The first annual Married versus Singles soccer match of the Chung Wah Football Club will be held on Sunday at St. Georges Road. Players are requested to meet at 63. Bras Basah Road before 4.30 p.m for transport.
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    Hockey trial in K Lumpur
    142 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. JN preparation for their annual hockey match against The Rest, Selangor Europeans held a trial on the padang this evening. Colours beat Whites by four goals to nil. As many as 26 players were tried out. Hooper, the Selangor State goalkeeper, is
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    I.R.C. WIN 2-0
    30 12 Indian Recreation Club beat Supply Reserve Depot by two goals to nil In a soccer friendly at Farrer Park yesterday. Scorers were N. Nadarajah and P. Moorthy.
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    WONG GIVES ONG A WALKOVER
    280 12 SINGAPORE BADMINTON By Our Badminton Reporter TUESDAY night's crowd at the Clerical Union Hall 1 Singapore, were disappointed because the Peng Soon -Poh Lim clash they had wanted to see did not come off. At the last moment a Mayflower official announced that the Malayan
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    States to hold open title meets in future-LTAM
    462 12 States to hold open title meets in future-LTAM OTATE tennis championships are to be "open" tournaments in future, says the first "general circular" of the Lawn Tennis Association of Malaya which has been issued to all State associations and affiliated organisations. This is one of the steps that the L.T.A.M
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    Doc Rodgers gets 9 wins at Penang
    243 12 PENANG, Wed. rE FOUR-DAY Penang Turf Club Christmas-New Year meeting turned out most satisfactorily for the local stables which won 15 races including the plum of the meeting the Commissioner General's Cup in spite of powerful outstatlon rivalry. Doc Rodgers came into his
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    PERAK BLUES XV v KEDAH
    88 12 IPOH, Wed.— Perak All-Blues, who have already beaten Penang. will meet Kedah All-Blues on Saturday ai Sungel Patanl In the key match of the competition, perak need only a draw to quality as northern finalists. Following will represent Perak: Amri, Kamalanathan, Kassim, Cheah Mook Sen,
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    Army hockey XI to meet Recs
    44 12 Following will represent the Army against the Singapore Recreation Club at hockey on the SRC padang on Saturday: Kukalld, Coulter, Shaw, Eterlngton, Reynolds, Sweet, Slade, Dickinson, Rajah Tan, Sinclair, Ahmad Nisar. Reserves: Evans, Reed, McMurtrie, Highcalzonl« and Potter.
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    T.P. RANGERS
    68 12 The following will represent Tanjong Pagar Rangers in a friendly soccer match against Faral Junior at Farrer Park tomorrow at 5.15 p.m.: Jamal, M. K. Syed. S. A. Hanlfta, V. N. Ibrahim, K. 8. Tana, M. N. Syed, K. K. Ibrahim, 8. A. Hussein, S. M. Abdul Kader,
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    Rugby results
    43 12 LONDON, Wed. Yesterdays Rugby Union results are: Blrkenhead Park 18, Waterloo 11. Rugby LMf*e: Halifax 18, Rochdale Hornets 5; Salford vs. Swinton (postponed ground flooded); St. Helens 9, Kelghly 0; Whltehaven 15, Belle Vue Rangers 6; Wlgan 3, Warrlngton 5.— Reuter.
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