The Straits Times, 9 December 1953

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    15 1 The Straits Times Mat*'*** fiat**** He***** Kstablished 1845 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1953. 15 CENTS
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    MOSCOW GETS BIG 3 NOTE
    694 1 West will listen to case for China PEACE IN KOREA IS FIRST OBJECT BERMUDA, Tins, •pi IK Western Powers have agreed thai ;ii the proposed Bifl Foill meeting they will listen to the Soviet argumenl for a further meeting to include Communist China, il was
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    Minister ill
    29 1 Colombo, rues. Ceylon's Minister for Home Affairs, Mr A Ratnayake. collapsed with a heart attack after addressing h meetinp in Kandy. His condition is serious.— A P.
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    THE KISS HE WONT REPEAT
    49 1 MELBOURNE. Tuesday A 21-YEAR-OLD motor cyclist, who police said turned round anri kissed his uirl pillion passenger they wove throuch traffic :it 44 miles an hour, was today fln^d A El 2 for dangerous driving and had his licence suspended for three months. Router.
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    'Copters to help
    27 1 MELBOURNE. Tuex. The Department of Civil Aviation ■tied licences for four helicopter! to take part in Urn search for oil in New Guinea. Reuter
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    FRANCE DOES NOT WANT'RED'PEACE
    173 1 FRANCE DOES NOT WANT 'RED' PEACE SAIGON. Tuesday. FRANCE wants peace but not on terms that would lead to Communist rule of Indo-China, the French i Commissioner-General in Indo-China. Maurice de Jean, said today. He made no direct reference tn the Communist suicide at- j tacks at Gia Loe. which
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    Troop treaty
    28 1 LONDON. Tues. A treaty between Britain and Libya, which permits stationing of British troops in the newly-created North African Mate. took j formal effect yesterday.— A.P.
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    Bungalow attack beaten off: troops answer radio SOS
    226 1 Bungalow attack beaten off: troops answer radio SOS RENGAM. (Johoro), Tuesday. 4 TERRORIST Rang attacking a bungalow on I'lu Remis Estate last night were driven off when police and troops rushed to answer a radio SOS from a beleagured planter. Mr. Burton, and his wife. At 8.30 p.m. bandits cut
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    DEBORAH IS 11th
    75 1 Gary Cooper heads list HOLLYWOOD. TIMS. The British actresses Deborah Kerr has been named in a list Ol the most popular actors and actresses ;n the United States. He r namp was 11th among self-ted in a poll conduttert hy a trade magazine (Box Office i among
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    Commons debate
    38 1 LONDON. Tues. Th- British Cabinet mad P plans today for a foreign affairs debate next week in which Sir Winston Churchill will gJve thp House of commons a full report on the Bermuda Three-Power ■nee. Renter
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    Women all wam those Coronation style earrings
    104 1 Women all wam those Coronation style earrings LONDOS Tues. The Queen has made earring* th r biggest fashion craze of the century, icwcllrry makers say here. The boom began when women saw Coronation \s pictures of the Queen in tiara and matching chan,v rlclirr type earrings. Nojf manufacturers n r
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    Queen phones to England
    53 1 Aboard The Royal Yacht Gothic. Tues The Queen lUU spoken by radio telephone tc members of the royal family in England from the Gothic, now in the middle of the South Pacific on her way to Fiji The telephone is fitted with 1 scrambling device to
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    Russian troops mutiny in East Germany
    56 1 Russian troops mutiny in East Germany 111 ICI IV. Tues.— The antiCommunist information bureau said today that more than .V) Russian soldiers have been arrested after a mutiny in Rernau Garrison, near Berlin. The bureau said they refused to obey orders after an officer beat a comrade who had fallen
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    Red China going to Moscow talks
    35 1 BERLIN. Tues— A conference of the Foreign Ministers of Russia, her Ea.st European satellites anH Red China will begin in Moscow, on Friday it was reported here today— A.P
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    4 RESCUED AFTER DRIFTING NINE HOURS
    144 1 4 RESCUED AFTER DRIFTING NINE HOURS TELIK ANSON. Tues. fl^Ol'R men were rescued hy a passing fishing boat early this morning near Baeandatoh after clinging for 9 hours to an empty 44 gallon drum. Iheir boat hart capsized in ihoppy sea*' near Pulau Sembilan in the Straits of .Malacca late
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    Malaya 'an enigma'
    54 1 Malaya an enigma' LONDON. Tues— The Tim, today declared that the struggle in Malaya was more Mttei even than that against the Man Man in Kenya "Malaya, whose ruture cor. stitutiona] form us Important because here a nation has to be somehow built out of two warrinc communliles. remains an
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    New proposals on Trieste
    64 1 LONDON. Tues.— Yugoslavia last nisht made new proposals to the British Government aimed at having a five-power onference on Trieste, a Yugoslav Embassy spokesman said. They were not revealed. A Trieste message said that Italian tanks, artillery and infantry continued to withdraw gradually from the positions
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    5 year contract
    30 1 HOLLYWOOD. Tues—Laurence Harvey, the English Shakespearean* actor has been sicned by Warner Brothers to play in a minimum of six films during the next five years. Reuter
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    Snow, ice, fog
    36 1 LONDON. Tues Sm.w ice and foe covered many parts of northern England and Scotland today as an exceptionally mild spell over most of the country i showed signs of endinc Rev- I ter.
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    Girl victims
    25 1 BRUSSELS. Tues. Two trains collided in fog yesterday on the Brussels-Ghent line. killing four persons and Injuring '^i. Most victims were girls. -AP
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    All is quiet again in Teheran
    82 1 All is quiet again in Teheran TEHERAN. Tues. MILITARY authorities here report complete after a clash inside Teheran University yesterday when troops fired on students shouting anti-Government slogans and distributing pamphlets protesting against the resumption of Anglo-Persian liplomatic relations Eye-witnesses said police fired aft^r students tried to wrest their weapons
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    Doing well
    33 1 LONDON. Tues Fournonths old Wariboko. the Yieerian girl who survived an operation separating her from icr Siamese twin sister, was eported to he exccedinclv well )y hospital officials here today. -Reuter.
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    'Germ' probe
    25 1 WASHINGTON. Tues.—Unit>d States military courts of nquiry are investigating the sassa of Servicemen who made 'sern warfare confessions" vhile prisoners in Korea. Reuter.
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    BABY BOY PREGNANT, SAYS DOCTOR
    157 1 PARIS, Tues A 20- MONTH -OLD baby boy is pregnant. a French doctor claimed yesterday. Professor M. Lombard, of Algiers, told the French Academy of Medicine that he had discovered a four-month-old foetus in the abdomen Of the mal r baby Name, condition and whereabouts
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    Churchill tried to stop Ike's U.N.speech
    179 1 Churchill tried to stop Ike's U.N. speech LONDON. Turs. lORD Beaverbrook's i Daily Express claimed today that the Prime Minister. Sir Winston Churchill, tried with all the eloquence at his command to talk President Eisenhower out of making his atom bomb speech to the United Nations. And when Sir Winston
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    KOREA: RED 'NO' TO FINAL OFFER
    234 1 Russia still the stumbling block PANMUNJOM. Tuesday. pOMMUNIST negotiators here today summarily rejected a detailed United Nations proposal for a full Korean peace conference which the United States representative Mr Arthur Dean, described as "our final offer." The stumbling Dloclc *as usain the status
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    Cairo taiks
    26 1 CAIRO, Tues.— The British Charge d'Affaires, Mr. Robert Hankey. conferred with the Egyptian Foreign Minister. Dr. Mahmoud Fawzy. for one hour here yesterday. Reuter.
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    New terminal
    16 1 PHILADELPHIA, T v c s Philadelphia's new U5515,000.--000 airport terminal opens on Saturday.— A.P.
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    NEW TIN PRICE . PACT IN SIGHT
    182 1 NEW TIN PRICE PACT IN SIGHT From HAM, ROMNEY LONDON, Turs. OEPORTS from Geneva say ajrrprment was in sißht yesterday on the compromise minimum and maximum tin price proposals submitted by the cood offices committee of the tin conference. Authoritative sources told the Geneva correspondent of the Financial Times that
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    STOP PRESS
    40 1 'U.S. PAPERS ARE RED' CH\R(.E OTTAWA. Toes John Bl.ickmore said In Bsjbjh <>f Commons last nit; lit most US. and Canadian newspapers are under ttmttti if Communism. Rlackmo.-j has defended Senator McCarthy In two ret tut speeches. A.P.
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    Africa warning
    31 1 NEW YORK. Tues.— Mrs. Lakshmi N Mcnon, of India, told the United Nations Trusteeship Committee yesterday that nationlist aspirations of the peoples of Africa could not be ignored.. UP.
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    VIOLET SKETCHES A PORTRAIT OF HER FILM STAR HERO
    155 2 HOLLYWOOD, Tuesday. TEFF Chandler, the Hollywood movie star, doesn't know it yet but he is soon going to be presented with a portrait sketch of himself. Violet Sleigh, the 18-year-old Kuala Lumpur girl who won the recent Miss Malaya beauty contest
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    Terrorists gone and all the fish were dead
    64 2 Terrorists gone and all the fish were dead KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A patrol of No. 4 Federal Field Force found a terrorist resting place in the Labis area of Johore yesterday. It had room for 15 people and was two days old. The patrol followed fresh tracks to a river,
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    Swiss warning
    36 2 BERNE. Tups. Switzerland will renounce her Chrll air agreement with Britain unless British air companies reciprocate facilities granted to them in Switzerland the chief of Swiss Air. M Walter Berchtold. said her,, yesterday.— Router.
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    Trade plan
    13 2 TOKYO. Tues. Japan is planning to expand trade wi*h Siam.— UP.
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    DRESSES FOR THE ROYAL TOUR
    179 2 lYnrntan Hartnoil v.viiibiiiwt in London vilon THREE of the dresses to be loom by the Queen on her present Commonwealth tour were recently exhibited by Royal designer. Norman Hartnclt, at his salon ;n Rruton Street, London. They arc shown in the sketches at right. Left:
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    Rubber talks deadlock: 'Serious' row over wage cuts
    159 2 Rubber talks deadlock: 'Serious row over wage cuts KLALA LUMPUR. Tuesday. 4 DEADLOCK has developed in the wage talks i between representatives of Malaya's 300.000 1 plantation workers and the rubber estate owners. The talks between the All-Malayan Rubber Workers' Negotiating Committee and the Malayan Planting Industries Employers' Association— broke
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    PAYROLL BANDIT 9 YEARS
    137 2 I^OR his part In a $18,000 pay•T roll robbery last June. V. Muniandy, 24 was gaoled nt Singapore Assizes yesterday for nine years. Muniandy pleaded suilty to a charge of robbery. Two other men. Osman bin Abdullah and Ahmad bin Abdul Hamid alias Ahmad Boyak who
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    Boycotted by 300 men
    83 2 CHESTERFIELD. England. Tues .TIHREE hundred workrrrn at I M. an ironworks here yesterday began a boycott ot Ronald Hewitt, 29-year-old crane driver, because he obeyed his union and turned ud for worn during the 24-hour nation-wido strike of engineers last Wednesday. Last Friday Hewitt's workmates sentewced
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    Nine people die in 'quake
    57 2 ANTOFAGASTA, Chile Tues. I— A strong earthquake ye^ter- day shattered almost a third ot the homes in Calama, an i Andes mountain rail town I about 125 miles north-east of j 1 Antof agasta. Nine people were Injured, three seriously and th P population of
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    KNIFE ATTACK ON STORE POLICEMAN
    103 2 A man is detained 4 CHINESE ran amok at the junction of Upp/»r Cross Street and South Bridge Road, Singapore, yesterday afternoon and attacked a special constable with a knife. The constable. Abdul Rahman, had just left a bank where he had been on guard
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    American pledge to Pakistan
    40 2 KARACHI, Tues.— The U.S. Vice-president. Mr Richard Nixon, yesterday pledged that J th" United States would be I Droud :o stand with Pakistan in developing the country industrially and in protecting ;t from aggressive forces, y.p
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    THAT THEFT RESULTS IN BEST DINNER
    195 2 Gifts pour in for the old folks THE theft last week of the Christmas poultry being reared in the Home for the Aged in Thoirson Road, Singapore, has resulted in the best Christmas dinii'T the old folks have ever had. When thieves broke into
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    Oil men strike it rich in West Australia
    59 3 FIRST radio pictures from Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia, scene of the hie nil strike, show (left) a worker servicing a bore pip**; (centre) a derrick beside which rest 90-foot pipes withdrawn from the cemented and sealed-off bore ready for further drilling; and
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    McCarthy followers are dupes, says labour mp.
    216 3 McCarthy followers are dupes, sa ys labour mp. LONDON, Tuesday. A LABOUR M.l', described supporters of Senator, Joseph McCarthy as "dupes", in the House of Commons yesterday. Tho Mornbor. Mr. Thomas Reid, asked the Government, what warlike stores had been exported by Britain to Communist China in the last six
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    GUIANA PROTEST REJECTED
    149 3 i ondon. Tues. THE House ol Commons last msht rejected ;i mutton criticising the Government's policy m British Guiana whose cunsMtutlon Mispendrri la<t October. The mbtton Bought to annul i a draft order-in sus- pendinc the constitution and setting up an interim torm of Government It was
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    For Stockholm
    33 3 STOCKHOLM. Tu<- Profesaor Hans Ariolf Krobb. 1 of Sheffield University, one of thi.s year's Nobrl Prize winners for medicine, arrived at Ootnenbury, West Sweden, yesterday on hi.s way to Stock! Kcuter.
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    Oriental chair is planned
    47 3 SYDNEY, Tues. Sydney University Senate has decide^ to re-establish the Chair of Oriental Studies, which has bron vacant since 1950. The Senate will decide whether Japanese or Chinese studies will be given the n.ain emphasis in the faculty when ;>piication.s for the Router
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    Queen giving up mansion of destiny
    99 3 Queen giving up mansion of destiny LONDON. Tues rE QUEEN today decided to give up Fort Belvedere, the 18th century mansion where the Duke of Windsor made hi.i decision to abdicate 17 years ago. The Fort the Dukes country home until 1936 has belonged to the Crown for over a
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    New 'Pygmalion' by Egyptian
    38 3 SALZBURG, Austria. Tues.— The Salzburg Mozarteum Theatre has .staged the world's first performance of a nrw play b 7 the Egyptian author Tewflk el Hakim. The play. "Pygmalion." was received with rounds of applause.—A.P.
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    Peace hope
    34 3 NEW YORK. Tues.—Publishers and union representatives today met Federal mediators, who said an agreement had been worked out which could end an 11-day strike that iras closed six New Yor* newspapers. U.P.
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    New Press job
    23 3 MANILA. Tues. —Presidentelect Ramon Magsaysay last night named Mr. J. V. Cruz, former newspaperman, &s his Press secretary. A. P.
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    Dominici says: Not guilty
    53 3 DIGNE. Tues.— Gaston Dominici. aged 77. last nißht retracted his confession that he killed British scientist Sir Jack Drummond, Lady Drummond and their daughter Elizabeth. During hi.s first formal hearing in chambers the old farmer replied to all questions: I did not shoot— l did not
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    Farouk for Paris
    17 3 ROME. Turs —Ex-King Farouk of Egypt left Rome yesterday by train for Paris.— A.P.
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    Bereaved
    18 3 LA PAZ. Tues.— Mrs. Victor Paz Estenssoro, wife of Boli- via's President, died yesterda' I —A P.
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    Duke joins in the fun
    89 3 I 111 DIKE OF KIMNBI K<;il is shown hire with a whitewash brush in his hand and an apron over his shirt and shorts as he plays the "barber" in the traditional crossine the line ceremonies. The Royal tour liner Gothic was crossing the equator
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    U.S. 'HAS WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL AIR FORCE' CLAIM
    176 3 INDIANAPOLIS, Tuesday. MR. CHARLES WILSON, the Secretary of Defence, last night said that the United States now had the most powerful and effective air force in the world. "Our outstanding combat experiences in Korea indicates that we also have the best pilots,"
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    XMAS STYLE
    29 3 MM II I is the name given to this vivid green lorgnette decorated with red holly berries. It is described as a Christrras spectacle fantasy. Reuter picture.
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    Towpath killer to hang
    128 3 Towpath killer to hang LONDON. Tues. ALFRED CHARLES WHITEWAY, 22-year-old "towpath killer." lost his appeal at the Oid Bailey yesterday. He had been found guilty of murdering 16-year-old Barbara Songhurst. Barbara and her 17-year-old friend, Christine Reed, were cycling home last June when they were struck down, raped, killed and
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    Death for two agents
    50 3 LONDON. Tues— A Polish military court at Stettin yesterday sentenced to death two of three men accused of being Western agents sent to Poland "to prepare the way for parachutists," Warsaw Radio reported The third accused was sentenced to life imprisonment. All three pleaded guilty.— Reuter
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    New envoy
    41 3 LONDON. Tues.— The British Government has appointed Mr. Denis Wright, head of the Economic Relations Department of the Foreign Office, to be Charge d'Affaires in Teheran, the first appointment since diplomatic relations were resumed with Persia on Saturday.— Reuter.
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    Peace prayers
    38 3 ROME. Tues.— pope Plus XII led 400,000.000 Roman Catholics, on both sides of the iron curtain, today in the joyous opening to a "little holy year- dedicated to the Virgin Mary and prayers for peace.— Reuter.
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    HUNDREDS QUIZZED ON SHIP FIRE
    198 3 LIVERPOOL. Tues. POLICE seriously considered 1 1 sabotage when the 20.000--i ton liner Empress of Canada caught flre and sank in thr Liverpool docks last January. thp official inquiry into the disaster was told here today. They questioned severa hundred men and carried out other
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    LONDON STOCKS
    269 3 LONDON, Tuea. THE end of the account and the fact that the next one will be of three weeks 1 duration -nade for quietly irregular condition* In tea shares today, while rubbers were Inclined to be dull through lack ol active Interest. Closing prices or «eiected stocks were
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    LONDON TIN
    26 3 LONDON. Dec. 8. Cash Buyers £655; Sellers £660; Forward Buyers *545; Sellers £647':: Settlement £670 (up £15). Turnover a.m. 70 tons, p.m. 20 tons.
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    LONDON RUBBER
    38 3 LONDON. Dec. 8— Spot 17\d Jan. 18d. Feb. 18d Mar. 18d.. Jan M*r. 18'« d.. Apr-June 18'« d.. JulyS*pt 18',e, Dec. c.lf. 17',d.. Jan. rlf. 17", d. Peb c.li. unquoted. Totie: Very steady. 473 LOSE JOBS
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    Miners are worried, Council told
    185 4 Miners are worried, Council told KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. ALLEGATIONS of "strained A employer-employee relations in the Malayan collieries were made at the Selangor I State Council meeting today. Mr. Tan Tuan Boon said that the Colliery Workers' Trade Union had complained that the recent sacking of 473 workers at Batu
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    MIDWIFE IS ACCUSED OF CHEATING
    71 4 MIDWIFE IS ACCUSED OF CHEATING Zahara binte Haji Akit, a midwifg, was charged in Singapore yesterday with cheating tw 0 women of $100 each. She was alleged to have faLsely induced Amnah binte Hussein and Hapsiah binte I Haji Alias to believe that they would obtain employment by giving her
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    I THE TWO STYLES
    40 4 TWO SINGAPORE SCOUTS, l-eong Lee Sun (left) and Leon:; Hong Moon, model the two styles of scout hats. On thr left is the new beret-style and on the right the oldfashioned four-cornered hat. Straits Times picture.
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    Coal industry 'between the devil and the deep blue sea'
    395 4 DRYSDALE BLAMES OIL FOR MINE SLUMP KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. MR. John Drysdale, chairman of Malayan Collieries, today criticised the Federation Government for its delay in deciding on a coal policy. Government co-operation, he said, had been sought to ensure the
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    New cargo liner here soon
    46 4 Another new cargo liner belonging to the Swedish East Asia Line, the 7.710-ton Sudan. will make her maiden call at Singapore early next month. Fully air-conditioned, the Sudan was launched at Gothenburg on Aug. 25. It has room for 12 passengers.
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    Officer's wife late for card
    52 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Mrs Linda charnley. wif e of a police officer was fined $25 her P today for failing to take out an identity card in the prescribed period. She arrived in Johore on Aug. 2 and only applied for th P card on
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    Getting ready for floods
    37 4 KOTA TINGGI. Tues.— About 300 families here have registered with the Governcnt for assistance in evacuation if floods hit Kota Tinggi again. The town was damaged by floods in 1948. 1950 and 1951
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    Movement ban
    32 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues The movement of cows from Jchore to any other place in the Federation, and their slaughter, except under licence from State Veterinary Officer Johore, is now prohibited
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    Nuncio due in Ipoh
    38 4 IPOH. Tues. —The Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Lucas, now touring Malaya, will arrive in Ipoh tomorrow evening to conduct benediction at the Church of St Michael. Afterwards a parish address will be read to him
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    Stole tyre, rim
    40 4 Neja Singh and Lim Poh Guan were each fined $100 or six weeks' gaol in Singapore yesterday when they were found guilty of theft of a motor car tyre and rim, worth $150 at ißukit Timah Road.
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    DRUG BAN URGED FOR UNQUALIFIED MEN
    99 4 REGISTERED but unqualified dentists in Singapore may In future be banned by law from using such drugs as the sulphonamides and penicillin. A committee, which recently investigated the matter, has said that the Colony should amend the dental ordinance and follow the Federation, where
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    NOW THE SCOUTS WANT A NEW HAT
    266 4 Many favour the beret krHE BOY SCOUTS' familiar wide-brimmed four--1 cornered hat may soon be abolished— if Scottish icouts have their way. 4 recent proposal to the Scottish Council of the Scouts' Association said that the overwhelming majority of smuts fppl that the
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    He thought policeman was fooling
    159 4 He thought policeman was fooling OSMAN bin Sedin. a motorcycle patrolman, told a Singapore court yesterday how be chased a car for two miles one night before he realised that the driver was a friend who used to work with him at the Traffic Police. Osman was testifying against Ramalingam
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    Malaya imports 19,857 tons rubber
    36 4 PENANG, Tues— Singapore and the Federation imported 19,857 tons of rubber from neighbouring countries in November, official statistics show. The bulk of the rubber came from Sumatra. It supplied 12,339 tons.
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    Now I'll make wives vanish—Sorcar
    167 4 Now I'll make wives vanish Sorcar CORCAR the magician is bringing his show to Singapore again— two years and half a dozen visa-filled passports after making 30 people faint at the Capitol Theatre with his tonguecutting act. Back from Britain and Europe with a new repertoire of tricks, he will
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      254 4 Rotary Club Weekly lunrheon meetlner »t, Capitol Red Room 1 pm Speaker: Sir George Rendel on •'Diplomacy Todny." Police Band: Public perform* nrr> at Farrer Park 530 p.m. to 630 p.m. Vnlvrrsitv Of Malaya: P'lblir Ipcture on ■'Evolution of Human Destiny" by Professor Jnllrn Huxley at Arts Lecture Theatre. Eu
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    Remanded for 48 hours
    59 5 Bernard Wee Hong Seng. 21. claimed trial in the Singapore Fifth Police Court yesterday to a charge of housebreaking. It was alleped that on last Monday morning Wee entered the house of Jit Ah Kan at Cornwall Gardens to commit theft. Wer was remanded for 48
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    Combined Xmas party in Spore
    67 5 The Singapore Presbyterian Youth Fellowship will hold a combined Christmas party at Prinsep Street at 8 p.m. on Dec. 26. The Fellowship's Katon^ Kroup will hold its annual general meeting in the Presbyterian Boys' School, at 8 p.m. on I Dec. 11. This wilj be
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    Alliance man
    25 5 In the Batu Pahat Town Council elections for 1954, Inche Suleiman bin Abdul Rahman was returned unopposed as a candidate for UMNO-MCA Alliance.
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    SPEND MORE ON EDUCATION OR FACE NEW KIND OF EMERGENCY-DATO
    276 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. DATO Haji Yahya bin Dato Razak warned today that Selangor must spend more on education or be prepared to face a new kind of emergency. He was speaking during a budget debate in the Selangor State Council
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    More revenue and Selangor can use it
    138 5 More revenue and Selangor can use it KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. SELANGOR State revenue next year is expected to exceed this year's by about $780,848, the State Financial Officer. Inche Abdullah bin Kulop I di. said today, during: a budget debate in the State Council. The budget was approved unanimously. Salaries
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    Life guards meet
    25 5 The Executive Committee of the Singapore Life Guard Corps will hold a meeting at the YM.C.A. tennis pavilion at 6 p.m. today.
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    Selangor Ruler wants elected State Councillors
    206 5 Selangor Ruler wants elected State Councillors 'GREAT STRIDE TO SELF-RULE' KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. THK SULTAN OF SKLANGOR told the State Council at its budget meeting today that he wanted State Council elections as soon as conditions permitted. The Council, he said, had set up a committee to make recommendations for
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    ,\ew IVnaitg 4'oinirilloi*
    41 5 MR. II r.i; f i.li;i)l I one of IVm.hu two nominated municipal councillors. He will attend his first meting on Monday next. A committee member of the Penang; Chamber of Commerce, he has been in Penang since 1931.
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    THEY HAVE TO KEEP UP WITH THE NURSES
    49 5 THEY HAVE TO KEEP UP WITH THE NURSES JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. JOHORE hospital assistants want the government to give them as many uniforms a.<= the nurses. At present they s^ f° ur uni forms, the nurses six. The assistants also want the same free laundry concession as the nurses.
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    HE HID RED NOTE IN BISCUIT TIN
    162 5 Gaoled for seven years PENANG. Tuesday. A TINY terrorist document, written in microscopic Chinese characters, was produced as an exhibit in the Sessions Court here today when Yeoh Cheong Kang. 26. a fisherman, was charged before Mr. B. V. Rhodes with possession of
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    THEFT FROM HOTEL
    81 5 IPOH. Tues.— Two burglars scalled the gutter of the Rex Hotel in Hugh Low Street and stole a bag belonging to a lodeer from Seremban. They removed the content.--of the bag outside the hotel and stole $50. a fountain pen and the bag itself. Clothes were left
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    Rendel meeting
    29 5 The Rendel Commission, which is reviewing the Colony's constitution, held a meeting yesterday and appointee a committee to investigate certain aspects of the problem of representative government.
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    Boy killed
    28 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues —A two year old boy, Shum Weng. was "fatally injured yesterday r.lternoon when he collided with a car in Kampong Attap, Kuala Lumpur.
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    Huxleys arrive in Singapore
    59 5 Prof. Julian S. Huxlry, biologist and author, and Mrs. Huxley arrived in Singapore by BOAC Constellation from Jakarta yesterday for a few days' stay. He will give a talk in the Arts Lecture Theatre. Eu Tong Sen I building, Cluny Road, on Satur!day at 6.30 p.m.
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    Three beat man to death, court told
    136 5 Three beat man to death, court told KUALA LUMPUR. Tues \MAN told the Kuala Lumpur Supreme Court today that hf> saw three others beat his brother to death last April 10. In the dock were Pajan Singh. Charan Singh and Bahadur Singh, charged with murder A woman. Mahendur Kaur. was
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    Xavier flies in and out in a hurry
    102 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. LESS than three hours after arrival here yesterday. "Rhumba King" Xavier Cugat and his band were performing to packed houses at the I Chenwu Auditorium. Then it was full-speed to the airport, whrrr two chartered planes were waiting to
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    THEY ARE TOLD: TEAR DOWN ALL POSTERS
    77 5 THE Singapore City Cleansing Department began "Operation Tidy 1 yesterday. All its workers were told to tear down election posters from walls, lamp posts and trees. The department's chief. Mr. J. Ephraim. told the Straits Times: "This seems to De a bumper year
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    Govt. quiz team will ask man in the street: What is your view about elections
    257 6 Govt. quiz team will ask man in the street: What is your view about elections J^ SCIENTIFIC inquiry into the election-consciousness of the peopli of Malaya has heon ordered hy the Federation Government. The Department of Information will begin the job in Johore State thi month. A 40-member investigation team
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    Malayan air pioneer is seriously ill
    149 6 Malayan air pioneer is seriously ill MR F. G. London, Bli architect and pioneer of private dying in Malaya, is nerlously ii! in Singapore Oeneral Hospital. He is over 70 yr.v ot a»e and has been ill for some t«mc, following an operation last year for an internal complaint. A
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    MR. WEBBER GETS A MEDAL
    65 6 JUST llHiii!! the start ol tot- IttiiUi-i meeting of the Selangor State Council yesterday the Sultan presented II. Selangor Conspicuous Gallantry Medal to Mr. M. 1.. Web her, Johore State Forevt Officer, for saving the life of a wounded police lieutenant during a bandit amhush
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    Fined $80 and disqualified
    51 6 Nc Tian Seng a mechanic, pleading guilty in a Singapore murt y< din-ins an auto-cycle without licence, In surance and the owner sent, -aid he was only I the cych alter mending it He was Bi and disqualified from driving nil types of vehicles lor a
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    Had opium in car, gaoled
    37 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues Yap Ec Benc. 43. was .sentenced i to two years' gaol lor having. 96 lb of opium, worth $38,500 The opium was found in a. I car ar Sentul.
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    Beaten up as he tried to stop thief
    131 6 I^HE Singapore Third Polic< Court was told yesterdaj how a Malay fisherman hac his wallet snatched while he was watching a Chinese puppet show. A man standing near bj grabbed the thief but was beaten up by four othe r men. The
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    To Kuala Lumpur
    27 6 RAUB. Tues.— Mr. A Nadarajah. office assistant in the British Adviser's Office. Kuala Lipis. has been transferred to the Treasury Accountants office. Kuala Lumpur.
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    R.A.F. to halve S'pore—England time
    174 6 R.A.F. to halve S'pore England time By WILLIAM OIRTINAY A PLAN to speed Royal Air Forco Transport Command nervicM bottom England .'nri Singapore is bcine tried out this work. Hastings transport loft, the RAF. Station. Changi, on Monday, with a double n! 12 officers and airman, lhe rarrirv bunk.s for
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    THIS CAN PUT AN END TO WARS'
    124 6 IPOH. Tuesday. IF Operation Service is practised on an international 1 scale we can abolish wars and bloodsned said the Sultan of Perak this evening when he officially i inaugurated the week-long programme celebrating the first anniversary of Operation Service. The Sultan was
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    Trouble-in th shade of the old bamboo
    141 6 KIAI.A LI'MPIR rues. THIKI is trouble over the shade of an old hjmboo clump in the Lake Gardens in Kuala Inn pur and the Municipality has received a letter about it. During the Coronation celebrations, stallholders in the carrions were allowed to spread
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    1,712 TRISHA RIDERS TAKEN OFF STREETS
    177 6 Figures for last 11 months "THE City Council's policy of gradually removing trishas from Singapore streets has thrown 1,712 trisha riders out of work in the past 11 months. This could have caused only a two per cent rise in unemployment registrations, Mr F.
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    New council will meet on Friday
    26 6 The newly constituted Singapore City Council will hold its first meeting on Friday to elect committees and to be photographed.
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    Socialised medicine for Malaya, they say
    257 6 Socialised medicine for Malaya, they say IPOH, Tues. T«HE PERAK PractitionA ers" Society states that eventually Malaya must get socialised medicine. It says this in a memorandum to the Medical Education Inquiry Committee, headed by Sir David Lindsay Keir. now touring Malaya. If and when it does take place, it
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    Wanted—an editor
    39 6 Wanted an editor KUALA LUMPUR Tues. The Adult Education Association is engaging a S7OO-a--month editor for Its fortnightly newspaper in romanised Malay and English. The paper will cater for those who have completed or are undergoing adult education courses.
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    ' Purchase of land not finalised
    59 6 Purchase of land not finalised KUALA LUMPUR. Tues The Selangor Government's plan to get land at Kampong Pantai. near here, to build a 515.000.000 Municipal sewerage system, has not been flnalioed yet. This was stated today by Inche Ahmad bin Haji Husin. acting State Secretary, in reply to Inche Ali
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    Carol practice
    23 6 The Geylang Straits Chinese Methodist Youth Fellowship's carol practice takes place tonight at 8 o'clock at 235, Joo Chiat Road. Singapore.
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    GETS A MEDAL FOR KEEPING LINES GOING
    79 6 SEREMBAN. Tues. Inche Ahmad bin Hussein, a linesman in the Jelebu district of Negn Sembilan, was today awarded the Director General's Meritorious Service Badge for maintaining line communications in the Jelebu area despite sabotage efforts by terrorists. The presentation was made by Mr.
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    i Making survey of local market
    64 6 An executive of the biggest j I grain and flour exporters on I I the west coast of the United I States and Canada flew 4 nto Singapore yesterday from Ja- j karta to make a survey of the local market for Americ/n I
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    GURKHAS BACK FROM NEPAL
    29 6 BACK from lrave in Nepal. 415 Gurkha warriors from various detachments arrived at Sinsapore yesterday aboard the 8.1. ship. Sirdhana. M;uiy returned with theii families
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    'Spiritual war' on Reds will be stepped up
    281 7 K LUMPUR Tues FrF fltrht nirnirUt Communism w.UII be communism win do stopped up in Selangor on the "spiritual front", the Sultan told his Council Of State here today. Moves are being made to .spread the teachings of Islam. A .scheme Tor
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    Reds die of starvation in Pahang
    172 7 KI'.M.A 1.1 MPIR. Tues. SIX more Communist terrorists have, died in the Federation. Four of them three Chinese niid a Malay succumbed to either sickness or starvation in the last few weeks in the Sungei I (in lnn^ area, ncir Km. ml. hi. Fanatic.
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    ANTI-FLOOD PLAN HAS TO WAIT
    189 7 Gout, has no money, council told Xl ALA LIMPIR. Tuesday. yHK 55.000.000 anti-flood scheme for the Malay 1 settlement of Kampong Bharu in Kuala Lumpur will have to wait indefinitely because the Selangor Government has no money to implement it. mis was stated today ay
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    Happy councillors boost fund
    143 7 PENANG, Tuc.v rpo celebrate the success of the UMNO-Muslim ?a:didates at last Satun'.ty's municipal elections. Inchc S. If, Zainul Abid'ln Chairman of the Alliance, said today he would donate $1,000 tj the Penans UMNO buildinu fund. All three elected councillors —Mr. S. M. Hussain, Mr. H
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    Shorter curfew
    23 7 SEGAMAT. Tues— The curfew, which operated from 7 p.m. at Labis, has been relaxed. It will now start at 10 p.m.
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    Big demand for science teaching
    70 7 Big demand for science teaching KUALA LUMPUR. Tue.".. THE demand for science classes has increased "be- yond expectations." the Finance Committee of the Selangor Council of State said today in approving $11,000 for sriente equipment at aided schools. Extra science classes needed more equipment, it added. The money will go
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    Commission arrives
    40 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tue.v— The British Medical Education Inquiry Commission, headed by Sir David Lindsay Kelr. arrived here today. The commission Is studying medical education facilities in Malaya at the invitation of the Singapore and Federation Gov f rnment.
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    Sultan opens fun fair
    27 7 ALOR STAR. Tues. The Sultan of Kedah yesterday opened St. Nicholas' Convent fun fair. The fair will remain open >r another two nights.
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    100 seek land
    38 7 SEGAMAT. Tues.— Morp than 100 Malay tappers, thrown out of employment as the result of the closing down of small estates for security reasons, have approached the Government for land near Labis to plant padi.
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    $100,000 vote
    30 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The finance committee of the Selangor Council of State has approved a supplementary vote of $100,000 for more junior subordinates 1 quarters and labourers' lines.
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    Co-op meeting
    21 7 PENANG. Tues. The Penang Postal and Telecommunications Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society will hold its half-year-ly meeting on Saturday
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    Raub concert
    24 7 R A U B. Tues Methrdist Girls' School gave a concert to mark the close of the school term for the year.
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    DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN WHO KNIFED WOMAN
    308 7 Provocation plea fails BEFORE a crowded Singapore Assize Court gallery, Mr. Justice Buttrose yesterday sentenced to death Goh Choon Guan, 26, for the murder of Madame Tan Kirn Neo at her house in Lorong Stangee on September 3. The Jury returned a unanimous
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    COURTHOUSE GUARD FOR ARMS CASE
    125 7 Two accused refused bail BUKIT MERTAJAM. Tuesday. ARMED police and detectives took up strategic positions as a security measure today when two men. Tan Hock Thiam. 31. and Kee Saik Kooi. 26. were brought before Mr. J. W. D. Ambrose in the Nibong Tebal Magistrate's
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    Robber was identified at station
    184 7 MAN WALKED IN AND... A MAIDSERVANT went through two cabinets of photographs of people on police parole, at a Singapore police station before she picked that of Chan Kong Gee as the person who had waylaid and robbed her near a hospital 34 days before.
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    $5,000 for Christmas
    38 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Selangor Government Is mqkir.c a $5,000 erant to th" Amenities Committee for entertaining the forces durin? the Christmas holidays. The finance committee of the Selangor Council State has approved the grant.
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    Housing survey in Malacca
    44 7 MALACCA. Tues. Twentyfive Malacca High School senior students sacrifice two weeks of the December vacation to carry out a diagnostic housing survey of Malacca town. The first of Its kind in the Settlement, it is part of "Operation Service" week.
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    Pledge renewed
    26 7 PENANG, Tues.— Two hundred hospital attendants today renewed their pledge to serve patients in the General Hospital without thought of "personal gain or remuneration."
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    New school
    21 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A $10,000 Tamil school is to be built in Kuala selangor for children of Government labourers
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    VEGETABLE PRICES IN SINGAPORE
    105 7 VEGETABLE PRICES IN SINGAPORE Retail prices in «ntr per Itati of vreetables at three Singapore markets yesterday were irarh Film- S borough <lmon Rd. (Mary Chyc slm Kane konp; Lctture Pen chye Spring onions Angled loofah Bitter gourd Cucumber i,<hu' bMM trench beans Brinjal itreen is. 11.1..1 purple Chillies greet.
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    $1,000 for his wedding
    45 7 WHEN Tencku Mohamed Yu.sof Shah, son 01 the Sultan is married this month the Selanpor Government will pay $1,000 towards the wedriins expenses A er'ant of $1,000 is always made by the Government when any of a Ruler's children are married.
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    186 8 Word, 110 (minimum) BRIDAL OOWNS and bridal headdresses in the very latest styles come and reserve your wedding gown at Vanity. THE STAGE Club presents "Love in Albania" at the Victoria Theatre on 10th. 11th 12th December at IJM pm. Bookings at Robinson 1 .-I'FEDBOAT SERVICE. Treat the children
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      The Terrorist War
      1023 8 Recent signs of increased terrorist activity in some parts of the Federation underline the periodic and necessary warning against taking too much for granted. Incidents reported in the last two weeks include the use on two occasions of landmines, not entirely a novelty in the terrorist war
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      Mossadeq's Legacy
      238 8 Anti-British demonstrations, quelled by police bullets, are not the nicest testimony of new Persian friendship for Britain, but the legacy of hatred left by Dr. Mossadeq perhaps made! inevitable ugly protest by the I fanatical against the new Gov- ernment's decision to restore diplomatic relations. General Zabedi has
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    Persia hovers between the Shah and Gen. Zahedi
    984 8 LAN LANG writes about reports of their differences PERSIANS today live suspended between two worlds. They are sceptical as they are credulous. But there is nothing luxurious about their situation. The regime itself i.s poised between the Shah and his soldier-Premier General
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      RURAL HEALTH STAFF DISCONTENT'
      391 8 RURAL HEALTH STAFF DISCONTENT' rE statement by the Member for Health. Dr. Lee Tiang Keng. at a medical conference in Penang, where he referred to the High Commissioner as being deeply interested in rural health ser- vices made interesting reading. His appeal to heads of state, and settlement health chiefs,
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      Suggestion for playfield
      118 8 JT is observed that large num- bers of children who live on Monies Hill Terrace. Bukit Timah Road and Monks Hill Road play on these roads, although close by there Is a blj» field bordered by Winstedt Road, Monies Hill Terrace and Clemenceau Avenue. At present this
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      Is it a 'raw deal' on the roads?
      269 8 I RECENTLY had the good fortune to take a motoring holiday in the Federation, and was amazed at the high standard of road maintenance there, compared with Singapore. I 1 be?in to wonder whether the Colony is affluent enough to giant the
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      Perfect reading
      67 8 MAY I congratulate the De- partment of Broadcasting for the excellent manner in which the news was broadcast at 9 30 p.m. on Thursday. December 3. The reading was perfect; the diction, accent and correct pronunciation and the complete absence of hesitation throughout bespoke culture and ability. It
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      ENTRANCE TESTS
      254 8 I GAVE ungrudgingly the best part of my life in serving the Kelantan Government faithfully, with a clean service record, thereby earning a gratuity and a pension. Last August I submitted my application on behalf of my son who was born at Kota Bharu in 1946 to the
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    On the Margine
    476 8 Changed picture THERE arc over 6.000 colonial students in Britain ttlb year, which is twenty times as many a* there were before the War. From West Africa corm-s the largest quota. 2.548. Law la the favourite faculty, absorbing :ifty per cent of all the students. I cannot
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    On strike says poster
    39 9 THIS PLACARD which claims that tin- sacked workers are "on strike" is tarried by a Ri rl employee of the Concrete Industries of .Malaya Ltd.. whose factory closed down on November 6. J^'.raits Times picture
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    That claim for a big slice of Malaya is probably 125 years late
    416 9 That claim for a big slice of Malaya is probably 125 years late Till, mystery woman in Jakarta who is planning to take over vast tracts of Malacca as «oon as Malaya is made independent will most likely find she is 125 years late with her claim. fho woman, who
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    'KEEP OUT' WARNING TO UNION LEADER
    295 9 'KEEP OUT' WARNING TO UNION LEADER A SINGAPORE magistrate yesterday warned Mirza Abdul Majid, president of Indo-Malay Pakistani Seamen's Union and secretary of Asian Maritime Officers' Union, against trespassing at the Master Attendant's office. Mr D H. Chapman. Of the Fifth Police Court. tod Majid- "You wer P certainly on
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    Girl, 3, falls from window
    41 9 A three-yrar-old girl, K. Palaiamah. yesterday fell Irom a window on the first floor of a flat in Kampons Lalat, Singapore. She was taken to General Hospital, where her condition WM reported not critical last ni'Jht.
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    100 STILL PICKET CLOSED FACTORY
    178 9 They want three months' pay ABOUT 100 former employees of the Singapore Concrete Industries of Malaya. Ltd., are still picketing the factory— which closed 32 days ago because of the trade slump. Carrying illustrated placards, they have picketed th* idle factory in Swanaqe Rotid. Katong.
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    'FLATS OF DEATH,'HE CHARGES
    172 9 'FLATS OF DEATH, 'HE CHARGES (MTV Councillor Mr. Lee J C'honn FnR (Labour West) descri'trs the Sinca.pore Improvement Trust flats ;is Miiculr pits" anil "death (raps" in n letter he urotp to Urn Trust's rhairman. Mr. T. P. P. McNeice, vcstoril;i\ He referred lo recent falls .hy three children from
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    Got the film —lost cameras
    43 9 Got the film lost cameras Two cameras, one valued at $1,000 ai.d the Other $220 \ve:e stolen fmm a car parked in Hich Street, Singapore on Monri.iy afternoon. The owners had lrft the car unattended for f.vo minutes While they wore buying film.
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    ACTION AGAINST STRIKERS
    91 9 I BOAL action Is beinc taken J by the Si raits Tradinc Company Ltd. to move five Chinese labourers fmm the company's premises at Pulau Brani Smoltinc Work Th< five were among the eighty strikers and they haw nnt return to work. They are still occupying company
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    $2m. flats for Orchard Rd.
    55 9 A $2,000,000 six -storey block of flats and shop? will be built in Orchard Road eariy next year by the Sincapore Ngee Ann Kongsi, a Chinese clan association. The block will comprise 65 fiats and 20 shops and will be built on the site of
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    'Specs' stolen as she slept
    54 9 A European wrman had a handbag containing a pair of spectacles worth $65 stolen I from her room while she slept on Monday night. Police believe the thief used i a pole to hook the bag out through the window bars. The handbag was recovered
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    Necklace snatch
    79 9 A man snatched a gold necklare from <he neck" of a six-year-old girl while she was playing in Norris Road, Singa- pore, on Monday night. MR. N. iKtll'.nl v Kuala I.v mpur Traffic Police Chief, adjusts the hat of Police Lieutenant P. J. Kisby before he and two
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    TOP COPS TAKE OVER AS 'MATA MATAS'
    234 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. EUROPEAN Police Lieut- 1 enants dressed as traffic "mata matas" patrolled streets, drainage and irrigation officials cleared drains, and police parties shot marauding pigs today as part of their contri-' bution to "Operation Service" week in Selangor. Tonight bis crowds
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    Wife went to seek job: did not return
    68 9 Wife went to seek job: did not return ASNAH binte Abdul Kadir. 19-year-old housewife living at Lorone 41. Geylang. was reported to the Singapore police as missing from home since Monday. Her husband, a labourer, yesterday told the police of her disappearance. Neighbours now look after their three-year-old son. Asnah.
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    Contempt: $5
    25 9 KLANG. Tues— Lee Chai Choo. 61. who spat in court, was fined $5 for contempt of court in the Sessions C'Jurt here today.
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    Bishop gives a tea-party
    68 9 A TEA-PARTY wa.s given yesterday by the Bi.hop of Singapore, the Rt. Rev. H W. Baines, for the Anglican clergy and representatives from Malaya and Bangkok who will be attending today's session of the Synod of the Singapore Diocese. Members of the Methodist and Presbyterian churches
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    Bank clerk fined $225
    68 9 Lee Chee Gun. bank clerk, was fined a total of $225 yesterday in the Singapore First Traffic Court for driving a car without a licence, third party insurance and consent of the owner. Police were said to hav e oiscovered his offences when they made a
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    New Zealand impressed 8 teachers
    173 9 New Zealand impressed 8 teachers EIGHT Technical Trade School teachers in the Federation returned to Singapore yesterday by BOAC Constellation from Auckland much impressed with the hospitality of New Zealanders and the high standard cf living there. They were Messrs. D. S. Dass, H. A. Van Gayzel, All bin Adam,
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    Mail from U.K.
    64 9 PENANG, Tues.— Mail from Britain will arrive in Penang by the Anchises on Dec. 10, by the Olenearn on Dec. 13 and by the Clytoneus on Dec. 17. The next mail for Britain and Colombo (by the Mentor t will close at the GPO at 4 p
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    These boys are menace, he says
    145 9 VTOUTHS carrying illegal 1 dangerous weapons, were a menace in Singapore. They could threaten others with death if their demands were not met. Mr. Song Kok Hoo. Deputy Superintendent of Police, said in a Singapore court yesterday. He said th-is to Mr. Tan Ah
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    GOVT. PLEDGE TO SETTLE CLERKS' CLAIMS SOON
    187 9 GOVT. PLEDGE TO SETTLE CLERKS' CLAIMS SOON 'Be patient'— Union head rtE Singapore Colonial Secretary. Mr. W. A. C. Goode, yesterday pledged to settle ("very soon") outstanding claims from about 700 temporary Government clerks and non-General Clerical Service men. He made this pledge to representative? 1 of thr Singapore Government
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    Man from Everest is returning
    109 9 Man from Everest is returning From HAM, RO.MNKY LONDON, Tues. MAJOR Charles Uvlie, Second- in-Command of the successful Everest expedition, will have a reunion with Shrrpa Tensing during his return .journey to .Malaya to rejoin his regiment, the 2 10 (iurkhas. .Major Wvlie. wh'i has been on a lecture tour
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    Film chief flies in
    54 9 Mr. Louis Lober. general manager of United Artists' lorcmn department, and Mrs. Lober flew mto Singapore from Jakarta yesterdax on a world-wide tour of trie film company's offices. They will stay about a week, during which Mr. Lober v maKp arrangements to celebrate the company s
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    Red Chinese ore for Poland
    39 9 The Finnish freighter Mnnt;i Thorden arrived in Sincnpore yesterday from Whampao with 6.875 tons of iron-ore for Poland. The freighter stayed in Colony writers only lon^ enouah to take on bankers, water and provisions.
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      160 9 THE WEATHER Minimum trmprratare (7.30 p 111 on Dec. 7 to 730 a.m. on Dec. 8> Singapore 76 degrees, Penang 67. Kota Bahru 69. Kuala Lumpur 73 Ipoh 65. Kuantan 69. Maximum trmprraturr (730 a m. to 7.30 pm. on Dec. 81: Slnjsapore 90 Penanc 89. Kota Bahru not received
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    Armchair comfort for men in the jungle forts
    1519 10 I Mini Till SKY COMES AT a police fort deep in the jungle of South Jobore, 40 miles from the nearest road. a lieutenant sat on a log smoking his pipe and reflecting how much more comfortable it would be to sit
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    PLASTIC CAR BODIES A CHALLENGE TO STEEL
    505 10  -  H \HHY r. DRAKE invasion of plastics into the car-body building field is a stronger threat to steel than has yet become generally apparent. Their appearance on the bodywork of cars of two lone-esta-blished British firms, in the forms of the new Jowett
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      231 10 CATHAY ORGANISATION jQ ATTRACTIONS ijp F~OPENS "DAY K Phone 21-1 Hi lor Kookinus AT 11 a.m.. Ltf, 4 15. Ml !>.:!0 pm. SAft%^' (««*OX PAXOH.I.IIM: ifUBEWw lIAIK Klsin<; ACTION AND RAW COIRAGE FROM THK WEST'S MOST COLOI RKI L > CHARACTERS BIFKAI.O BIM, CODY AN!) I WILD BIM- IIICKOK! DARING,
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    French air ace shot down 53 Germans, was buried by shellfire
    1548 11 French air ace shot down 53 Germans, was buried by shellfire Shortly before noon on May 25, r 1917, a lone German Albatros fighter circled impudently above the French flying field near Corbeny. Sud- denly, a watcher on the ground shouted, "Here comes Guynemer the Bosche A is already dead!"
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      155 11 Dennis Brothers Limited announce that THE CYCLE CARRIAGE CO. (1926) LTD. SINGAPORE AND KUALA LUMPUR have been appointed sole distributors for Singapore^ Malaya, Borneo and Sarawak for Dennis COMMERCIAL AND PASSENGER VEHICLES Diesel Petrol models available Represented throughout the Federation fcjeT^V THF VfllfF OF lgfflp*§gggfi THROUGHOUT THE WORLD ■V**^i'Uf|[r i
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      269 11 Till: ABABMAN X 11,11 IS aiioiiished by his encim. I In- \oiiiu MM Kint; Salrh Hid I lie fugilm-s fought Iheir wa> from his underwater palace with his mother and sister* and llmni-h (hi- fronds of seaweed, preIns private bodyguard. "Our dav we will return." vowrd pared to lead a
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    INDUSTRIALS AND TINS HIGHER
    561 12 1 rim ml lht> nun lifts TIN AND RUBBER RISE The tin share section opened a little better than Monday's close but after the metal price 1 was declared there was some disappointment, the local price being still £10 or so below London. Some prolit-taking occurred
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    RUBBER PRICES
    175 12 December first grade closed on the Singapore rubber market yesterday at W2 cents a pound, one-eighth of a cent above Monday's close. The market had opened around the previous day's closing level. There was a "wait and see" attitude on possible support from the United States There was
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    Produce price.;
    74 12 Singapore Chine** Prndure h rhance: Noon prices per p cul were Copra: stead"- December $39. bmeis. »40 fellers; January $395, bnvers. $4(i sellers. Coconut oil: steady; «63'sellers. Pepper: stiMdy: Up 15; Mun>ok white 5340. Sarawak $335. Lampone black $300. Lewi* and Feat: Closing prlcrs were: Copra: steady, very
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    TIN PRICE
    17 12 The price of tin in Singapore yesterday was declared at $3M> a picul. up $4.
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    Australian stocks
    238 12 MELBOURNE lues O THONG iicin.iiifi lor selected in- J Mriil kMWi was again lent me oi the Stock Exchange t(Ki;i>. Several good rises \ierr scored on higher bids whlrh went mmmMML Ampul Petroleum slipped bark 4s. 3d to 34.V 9d. on lighter trading while Ampol Exploration closed 2s.
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    WALL STREET
    118 12 NEW YORK. lues YIH'I'H general .stimulus lacking th< Stock Market yesterday backrii lurther away from the recent recovery high. The volume, however tended to contract which was, at li-r»M. technically reassuring In rather featureless dealings the list developed a predominance of mostly fractional losses, led by pivotal industrials
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    Exchange rates
    81 12 yHE Malayan Exchange Bank. Association made Vie [ollrminjt changes In its rates to merrhanis y esterday: CANADA: buying. T.T. 12\. air mail, o.d. n%, 90 days. 32 'j credi' bills. 32 916 trade bills; selling TT. or O.D. ready. 32\ t On the free exchange market tn Hong
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    Rubber crops
    50 12 I The following rubber crops ,ar« reported for November. Pounds Ayer Molek Rubber 24.01(1 Bukit Katil Rubber 29.73(1 Allentay Rubber 28.50(1 Benta Rubber Estates fiO.nno J i ,i m Kuantan Rubber fifl.OOd Kundong Rubber Estate 35.500 Mentakab Rubber 66.400 Sungei Bagnn Rubber 122.00(1 I Tanjong Pan Rubber 53.300
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    Tin-ore outputs
    17 12 The following outputs of tin-ore reported for November. Piculs Hitam Tin 82 Talam Mines 440
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    Kesang Tin tribute
    20 12 In November Kesang Tin received trlbutr on a production of 131 plcul* of tin-ore amounting to $3,254.
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    Singapore shipping
    131 12 CHIPS lying alongside the Singa- pore Harbour Board wharves or I expected todnv are:Oranje 1-2, Warora 4-5. Bra.ieverelt C.P.. Roepnt 6-7. Steel Maker 8-9. Sirdhnna 11. Nabob a i3-M I.evrikusen 15-lfi. Karslk 18. Tune Sonc N W»ll I and 1 Beluru 21-22. Giang Seng 23-24. Mentor 2.5-26. Meonia
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      956 12 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS VACANCIES EXIST FOR STUDENT NURSES I The next course In the Training 1 School at the General Hospital, Singapore, commences on 4th January, 1954. Salary scale *102 6A 114 B $156 12A 240 B $252 12A 288 p.m. plus C.O.L. and Singapore Allowances. Total emoluments at present range
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      772 12 NOTICES TONGKAH HARBOUR TIN DREDGING LIMITED (Incorporated In the Federation of Malaya) NOTICE Or MEETING Notice Is hereby given that the twelfth ordinary general meeting ot the members of Tongkah Harbour Tin Dredglnß Limited will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, 16 Barrack Road. Kualx Lumpur, Federation
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      329 12 NOTICES WEARNE BROTHERS LIMITED Notice Is hereby given that the Thlrtyninth Ordinary Oeneral Meeting of the Shareholders will be held at the Registered Offices, No. 45 Orchard Road, Singapore on Wednesday, 23rd December 1953 at Noon. Notice 1* al*o hereby given that Transfer Register will be cloned from Wednesday. 16th
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      639 12 TENDERS FEDERATION MILITARY FORCES TENDER NOTICE DISPOSAL OP SCRAP METAL Tenders are lnvlied for the purchase of approximately 4000 lbs of I scrap metal now ipng at Composite Stores Depot The Malay Regiment. I Port Dlckson. Tender forms can I be obtained from Officer Command Ing Composite Store* Depot. Tenders
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      FORGOTTEN CITY
      893 14 THE Scouts find a city in the jungle ruled by t mad scientist who plans to kill the world except for a selected few. They arc shut up in cell with a guard whom they manage to get on their side. They find secret way out of the
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      A PARTY GAME
      171 14 LI ERE is a game for your Christmas party which will cause lots of fun and is a good way of making sure that thei boys and girls don't just stand around looking lost when they first arrive. First you must find a lame piece of coloured
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      Talking About Stamps
      283 14 Talking About Stamps A VERY striking series Aof highly coloured stamps comes from the Portuguese Colony in West Africa Angola. These stamps are in denominations of five, ten ani twenty cents and each one depicts an animal. The five cent shows a leopard, correct- ly coloured, standing in a jungle
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      Have you won a prize?
      378 14 Dear Poys and Girls, Thrre were very many pntnr for the Ink Flob Contest and you certainly used vnir imaginations. There were fountains, bats, beetles, all kinds of animals, wtird faces idols, maps, Christmas trees and many others. The winners arc as follows: Edward Tan,
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      190 14 (mmmihemagnoliK w/s "pasteurised I 1 'P a A- Look for the famous lft n {rfVCr£S "Magnolia" trademark it's your utt guarantee of purity Ifi^^^ l<y and Q u;lli( y and remember, all "Magnolia" products are scientifically Y^jfiGtfrai pasteurised and r] factory-packed for I^s^^^ -^Qi^ul your P rotection x MIL K
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      200 14 CROSSWORD CONTEST CLUES ACROSS.— I. Piece r j p— t K-^-a. Exeter is '7s county town, fi ■B~~BB^|~~'^|~~^l Something sour like vinegar. Mm P^-LJ 9. Mother may us,' it. for milk b p j fo^ I H[ Wag. 16. Quite certain. 17. The j^ |BPM^ f^ 18. Cinque Port where
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    PUNTER'S DELIGHT TO OUTPACE HIS RIVALS
    820 15 PUNTER'S DELIGHT TO OUTPACE HIS RIVALS By EPSOM JEEP DUNTER'S DELIGHT has a smart turn of speed and over the Ipoh straight five furlongs, this three-year-old by The Cob should prove too fast for his rivals in Race Five today, second day of the Perak Turf Club December Meeting. Punter's
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    134 15 ■s M JEI CALL BOY POIN Race 1 2.30. EVER GLORY King!, beau Rosalind TIA JUANA Rotalind Ever Glory ROSALIND Above Board Ever Glory Race 2 3.05 RED HAT Fairy < •1 1 Sanrla* June RED HAT Gilan Fairy Gift RED HAT Gilan Fairy Gift Race 3
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    Start day with Ever Glory
    179 15 Start day with Ever Glory irVER GLORY was a confident Up in his first race in Malaya, at Kuala Lumpur last month, and he ran a good race up to a staee. This Manitoba thror-year-old has pui on more condition since then, judqine by his work on the track, and
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    Young boxer dies in crash
    162 15 CEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD Som SaX Virabhak who had been selected for the Sincapore youth boxing ream I that is scheduled 'o leave lor Australia on Dec. 31. died in the Johoie Bahru General Hospital on Monaav night after a motor cycle accident at Pontian Kechil a few
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    Siam joins the AIBA
    111 15 SIAM will be able to send a team of amateur boxers to the Asian Games In Manila In May next year. The Amateur Boxing Association ,of Slam has been accorded full affiliation tn the Association Internationale de Boxe Amateur, bringing the total of Eastern count He."!
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    977 15 TREBLE TOTE: Races 4, 6 and 7. BIG SWEEP: Race 8. Race 1—2.30: Class 3, Div. 4—5 Furs. Str. I—s GuUr II 9.00 Mr T. V Mitchell Bagby 2 864 Rosalind NTanning 8.13 Mrs. R Yeap A. Sleigh 3 536 Tim Juana Franklin 3.12 Leo Kongsl Wadswortn
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    PARK IN BETTER CONDITION NOW
    224 15 By EPSOM JEEP PARK II was backed confidently in his first race in Malaya, over the Kuala Lumpur 6f. last month, and he put up a good display to run second to Ginseng. That performance showed Park II to be a good sort and I
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    Big entry for Malacca race
    143 15 '< TifANY leading Malayan cyclUU 1 have entered for the annual 30-mlle blryrle road rare (MalarraAlor Qajah-Malacra i to be held next Sunday. Dec. 13. i Penang's Tommy Taylor, who won the event last year, will defend his title, and other competitors include Singapore's Kwa
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    Civilians may lose rugger record to Services
    473 16  -  W. E. TREVOR By rOMBINED CIVILIANS, who meet Combined Services in the annual Malayan Kujrby Union match at Ipoh on Saturday next week, will find themselves in the unenviable position of defending an enviable record. In the last six years that the game
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    Colony team for hockey final named
    161 16 SINGAPORE Hockry Association srloctors last night named the Colony tram to meet Srlansor in thp Malayan hockey championship nnal at Jalan Bcsar stadium on Dec. 20. The team will he tested this Friday in a match against Johore on thr padanc. The side is:
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    Spore All Blues side v Negri
    54 16 The Sins.ipore fifteen asuiw Nrtii Sembilar. in the All B.ues ruabv competition at Eeremn>n on Saturday vill he A. Rajarernam: D. Longpsttfb, W Func. Luke Jama, Robert Lr.w; Ronald Tnn. Cherc Poh: Eng Soh. Win Hoe. Sinthnmoney; Hoon Scnc, Har.iit Sinsh Vijr.re-.nam. V. de
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    146 16 MELBOURNE. Tues JACK Iverson. thr Australian Test spin bowler with the freak prip. has asked Uic Australian Board of Control for permission to accept an invitation to join the Commonwealth team now touring India. Mr. W. H. Jeancs. the Board Secretary, said in Adelaide today 1
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    RECS TWICE HAD TWO-GOAL LEAD
    503 16 SINGAPORE Recreation Club beat Singapore Cricket Club 4-3 at hockey on the padang yesterday S.C.C. staged a determined rally during the closing stages but S.R.C., who had led 3-1 and 4-2, were never in danger of losing their advantage. S.C.C. started the match with a
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    New Zealand bowlers finding form
    169 16 New Zealand bowlers finding form JOHANNESBURG rues yLASTAIR TAYLOR, coing Jn No. 7. hit 64 not out today to -ivi T v -.nsvaal from complete collapse on the second diy ot their match here ncnln^t the New Zea- '.and touring team I At the close Transvial hid .scored 145 for
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    Ground ban on Melville
    109 16 JOHANNESBURG. Tues. ALAN MELVILLE, former South African cricket captain, has 1 bfn banned from the pavilion n: Joh^nnesburc's principal sports prounri Ellis Park. He in not permitl'ri to enter it during the Transvaal match acain.M New Zealand, at present in procress. The ban \va« imposed by
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    Another champion to miss SAWLF meet
    326 16 By EDIN PETERS r r ENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD Chianc Kok Chpont;. Singaporp's light- hpavywpight weichtlifting champion for the past three years, and winner of a silver medal at the First Asian Games held at New Delhi in 1951, will not defend his title at this year'.s
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    CAMBRIDGE HOLD OXFORD TO DRAW
    41 16 LONDON. Tues. OXFORD and Cambridge drew 6-6 in the Interrniversity Rushy I'ninn match at Twickenham today. Full back Davies kicked a penalty goal in the second half for Cambridge to wipe out Oxford's interval lead.— Reuter.
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    Fijians to meet Perak at Ipoh
    63 16 IPOH. Tues. »|ALAYA"S hlccest rugger draw. the all-conquering Fijians, are cerl am to attract a record crowd when they meet Perak on the padang hire this Saturday. The Perak Rugby Union has also arranged combined school* mutch botween Perak and Prn;inc the first of
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