The Straits Times, 8 January 1954

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    12 1 The Straits Times Established 1815 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1954. 15 CENTS
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    HANDS OF FRIENDSHIP
    18 1 KOREA: Red, warned INDO-CHINA: Aid goe. oa IRON CURTAIN: Treble.- From Ike: But we use
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    A-weapons if... TRUST OUR ALLIES' PLEA
    207 1 A-weapons if... TRUST OUR ALLIES' PLEA HDENT EISENHOWER Uw would be glad to dfsom any issues with Russia When«r there was a reasonable chance of results. the same time he warned thai the United Sinks had ■I "a massive capability to strike back" al Mcd aggressors Me rlcarh meant, sa>
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    POINTS from the Message
    84 1 POINTS from the Message M9Otnt t a Ptcsirieftf Eisenhower's j i- ii'- were: a The I'.s. mil hit w back if the fii-r/s rr- "<;/• Ihr irnr in Korea. The message is Interpret' <(/ to imply the use of atomic iccapons. The President asked Congreu for powers i nto,,i secrets
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    Tyranny in trouble
    105 1 Tyranny in trouble He .saw encouragement, too. m the ■vigorous resistance ot France and the Associated States' in Indo-China. He added: "1 shall ask Congress to authorise continued material assistance to hasten the successful conclusion of the struggle in Indo-China. This will bring closer the day when the Associated States
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    A new start possible
    113 1 A new start possible He urged Congress, many fioee members are rrhim [wwrr.s United ed lt.s with it. I R an international p he said, would >ward n LlUea, lie suzge.strri a step to benefit both them r.S. taxpayer. Mi- s:iici: "This step is the creatiea of i healthier and
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    A SECURITY OFFER
    118 1 »> Than.— The I niled Britain and F'aiue reed to make tlieir i ran tee offer to c Berlin confer'il on BragTCM ■i .md Austrian latire sources tewen have llj rep. .i ted :k (l mi the torm i fmnuitee be offered to illy any (can OJ
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    Global review of policy
    190 1 Global review of policy The President gave this plobal review of America's foreign policy: FAR EAST: A mutual security pact with, Korea to be submitted to the Senate; indefinite maintenance of bases on Okinawa island; continued assistance to In-do-China and Formosa SOITH ASIA: Progress through democratic methods is being shown,
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    Not Yugoslav jet
    37 1 BELGRADE. Thurs— A British Embassy official today said it was clear that an unidentified jet which attacked a British Dakota on New Year's Eve inside the Yugoslav frontier v as not a Yugoslav plane.
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    Beria's Bible
    27 1 VATICAN CITY. Thurs. Vatican Radio .'.ad today that Lavronti Bcria, Soviet police head, af.ker 1 for a copy of tho Bihlr before his execution. A.P.
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    Papa Patino gives them his blessing
    195 1 INJUNCTION IS DROPPED, SO RUNAWAY TIN HEIRESS MARIA MAY WED HER JAMES EDINBURGH. Thursday. MILLIONAIRE tin magnate Antcnor Patino today i l cave up his legal attempt to block the marriage of his beautiful 18-year-old daughter. Maria Isabella. to a handsome young Englishman. Kivay
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    Model hurt in S'pore car crash
    90 1 gIiNGAPORE model, Gwcn Day, a Chinese woman and her daughter, were injured in a head-on collision between two cars near Serangoon Post Office. Singapore, about 8.30 last night. The Chinese woman. Mrs. Eddie Chung, wife of a Chuiia Street business man. was admitted to
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    Russian girls told: Stay away
    33 1 GRINDELWALD. West Germany. Thurs. Strict nonfraternisation Is the order of the day for six Russian <;irl skiers entered for the international women's skiing contest which starts here today.
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    Surprise deal with Russia
    43 1 LONDON. Thurs- Russia has agreed to supply Britain with large quantities of two important strategic materials iron and manganese it was disclosed today. This surprise deal was the first of its kind involving such materials since the war. U.P.
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    Keep Queen away from African trouble spot official advises
    197 1 KAMPALA. Uganda. Thurs. THE Queens visit to Uganda 1 next April should be cancelled unless the .situation n ,he native kingdom o! Buganria improves, a high police officer said here y^ter day. He thought it inadvisable to •roue the Q»ren to
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    ROBBERY ATTEMPT FOILED
    134 1 ROBBERY ATTEMPT FOILED Police storm hut WHILE an armed robbery wa.s going on in an attap shack at the Bth mile. Holland Road. Singapore, last night, a police party rushed in. They detained two men. Madam Tan Ah Tia. the victim, told the Straits Times that two men walked into
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    Gurkhas bag 4 bandits
    58 1 3 OF 10 KILLED KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. I Troops of the 1 10 Gurkhas t killed four Communist terrorists in the Rengam area of Johore today, the Information Services announced to- night in a special communique. A patrol got one terrorist. A second patrol contacted 10
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    Baby born in plane
    40 1 GANDER. Newfoundland Thurs. A girl was born today aboard a KLM plane as it neared the International airport here. The stewardess made the dehvory 10 minutes before the plane landed. Mother and oh;ld are well. -U.P.
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    Liquor ban
    39 1 A Singapore City Council committee yesterday approved .by-laws which prohibit people "bringing intoxicating liquor into the Esplanade restaurant Those who are found unde j the influence of drink could 1 also be ejected under the new by-laws.
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    Loan for Ceylon
    26 1 COLOMBO. Item. Reliable sources said today that Finance Minister Sir Oliver Goonetilleke has secured a World Bank loan in Washington for Ceylon.— A.P.
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    Off to Kenya
    26 1 LONDON. Thurs Six Members of Parliament left by an today to take a dOM look at Mau Mau hot spots in Kenya. A.P.
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    THE NEW YEAR TRIPLETS ARE DOING FINE NOW
    150 1 SINGAPORE'S N«'« Year triplets, born to a Malay woman in (icylang Serai on Monday, are doing well. Their mother. Mariam hinle Abu Rakar. wife of Abdul llamid hi n Rujang. a Public Works Department machanic. not up yesterday for the Hrst time.
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    WE WILL MEET YOU ON A-TALKS
    99 1 WE WILL MEET YOU ON A-TALKS MOSCOW, Thurs. OUSSIA announced to- day she was rrady to join the United States in preliminary discussions in Washington on the problem of atomic energy. Mr. Molotov gave the Soviet decision today to the American Ambassador. Mr. Charles Bodlen. An official communique issued by
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    Exchange of views
    95 1 The communique said the Washington talks would con.si.st of an exchante of views on the procedure to be adopted in eventual atomic energy negotiations. There would be a discussion on the time, place and agenda of the final meeting. In Washington the State Department said that the
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    French kill 169
    28 1 HANOI. Thurs. French Union troops paced by parachute commandoes killed 169 Vietminh rebels in a violent fight yeslerday only 25 miles north of Seno airfield.
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    Mr. Rhee thinks it over
    201 1 Mr. Rhee thinks it over Meeting follows U.S. threat seoul. Thurs. president Byngman Rhop called an rmrrgency meeting <>f his top oflicials today to consider General Maxwell Taylor's blunt, threal to use Eighth Army troops against any South Korean attempt to frcp 22,200 anti-Communist prisoners brforo Jan. 2\. General Taylor,
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    STOP PRESS
    50 1 IWNMUNJOM, Thus.— Neii I nited Nations note to Neutral N Rc;ion Commission i-d extensio i of January II de.,<' I Ing 22,000 i it, it Note ua I i »c to from chairman It. K. 8. Thimayya to 1.. Nations and Conriunii->t commands liking for their \ic.ws. U.P
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    HITLER: Not dead—officially
    48 1 HITLER: Not dead— officially BERLIN. Thurs.—Hitler an* i his Goebbels are not official: dead. a.s far as the authorities here arc concerned. The registrar's office announced last night that the pair could not be declared dead because nobody notified the proper authorities ;it the tune they died. Rruter.
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    For 3,200 people it's freedom' day
    322 2 ANOTHER MALACCA AREA GETS THAT i 'WHITE' LABEL M tLACCA, Thurs. ANOTHKR section of Malacca— the third— whs declared "white" today. And Mr. G. E. C. Wisdom, thr Resident Commissioner, told thr proplr of Lubok China village (pop. 3.200) in a message: "This freedon
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    TWO FLY BACK
    46 2 MR. TOM MOORK, an art director, and Miss E. M. Fairbrother, a liaison editor, both of Woman's Own magazine passed through Singapore yesterday by QANTASBOAC Constellation on their way bark to England after a three months business trip to Australia. Straits Times picture.
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    —AND ONE STAYS TO 'PAINT TOWN'
    52 2 From Page One A LONDON artist, who was in Singapore during the war, yesterday marie a rome-back in a (Jantas-8.0.A.C. Constellation to "paint the town." He was Mr. F. Wottnn (above i who is here to paint travelling posters and calenders for 8.0.A.C. Straits
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    Patino gives consent
    146 2 Patino gives consent obtained a temporary injunction blocking the wedding for a week. The lovers, through an attorney, filed an objection to the injunction. This morning the couple's attorney announced there was no longer any need for him to contest the injunction in view of forthcoming developments. Then Patino's attorney
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    Indonesia may quit
    55 2 JAKARTA. Thurs. The Indonesian Government is exported to mako up its mind within two weeks on whether to liquidate th IndonesianDutch .Union, informed sources said today. There was much speculation that the visit to Europe by the Finance Minister. Mr. Ong Eng Die. is closely connected with
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    OUT GO THE INSULTS
    162 2 Jungle Green' publishers I agree to 16 deletions KIAI.A Ll'.MPl R, Thurs. The author and publishers of "Jungle Green", bestseller on the Malayan antiterrorist war. have agreed to delete in reprints of the book 16 epithets considered offensive to the Chinese, a spokesman of the Malayan
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    Ex-skyman doused a sergeant—6 months
    284 2 Ex-skyman doused a sergeant 6 months A SQUARE PEG, SAYS OFFICER a FORMER jungle parachutist, who created a disturbance in Raffles Hotel and later threw a bucket of water over a sergeant guard commander, was yesterday sentenced by a Singapore military court to six month's detention and ordered to be
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    $300 job for an ex-P.C.
    70 2 —as mace-bearer The Singapore City Council may have a steward who will also be mace bearer for the future mayor and toastma^ter at City Hall functions. When such a post is created. it is proposed that it should be filled by a retired policeman or
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    Rifle parts seized
    55 2 MUNICH. Thurs. A U.S. High Commission court here yesterday ordered the confiscation of £6.566 worth of rifle parts manufactured by a Munich firm and originally intended for the Dominican Republic The parts were seized last May when American authorities accused seven men with illegally manufacturing arms. Later
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    Gurkhas get bandit but 6 more escape
    132 2 K. LUMPUR. Thurs. A PATROL of the 2 10 Gurkhas yesterday killed a terrorist In thr Kota Tlnggi ana of .Tohoiv s with him escaped. A rifle and .<ix food packs wrre recovered. Terrorists smashed six rolllnp machines on n Chinese rubber smallholding
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    What's all the fuss?—Minister
    58 2 What's all the fuss? Minister SYDNEY. Thurs.— Pakistan's Finance Minister. Mr. Chaudri Mohamed Ali. said today that the facts of possible U.S. military aid to his country wen not as sensational as had bot'n reported "I don't know what th^ tun is all about." he said aft^ his arrival to
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    Boat sinks after hitting sandbank
    129 2 KUANTAN. Thura A 7.=> TON motnr Hone Lian 2 belong tiie Hone B Kuala Trrncgami. with about 90 tons of raruo. sunk about fron; Wuantan River after hitting a fanribnnk. The crew of 20 escaped. The boat was on its way foJ Trenfigami from Singapoie
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    Taylor in Tokyo
    23 2 TOKYO. Thurs— Gen. Maxwell Taylor, U.S. Bth Army Commander in Korea, arrived in Tokyo by air today from Seoul.— Reuter.
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    'Ease controls'
    32 2 MANILA. Thurs.— A former American Ambassador to the Philippines. Mr Myron M. Cowen. yesterday said that he favoured the lifting of controls in the Philippines to attract more foreign investments.—U.P.
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    GOING HOME-SO THEY SMILE
    32 2 THESE WEBB broad smiles as men of No. 83 Bomber Squadron. R.A.F., boarded thrir Lincoln aircraft at Ten ßah yesterday to take off for Britain.— Straits Times picture.
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    But these bomber crews are sorry to leave the bandit war
    211 2 A FTER nearly five months in Malaya, with more than 200 .successful sorties to its credit, No. 83 Bomber Squadron of the Royal Air Force is returning to Britain. The first four aircraft left from Tengah yesterday morning and
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    3,000 to see boy wed his childhood girl friend
    224 2 K. LUMPUR, Thurs. A CHINESE society wedding here on Jan. 16 will be the biggest in many years and the culmination of a childhood romance Invitations have been sent to over 3.000 guests to attend the ma'riage at the Selangor Chinese
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    TWO KILL TIGER IN SELANGOR
    131 2 TWO KILL TIGER IN SELANGOR Businessman pa,. $150 for skin KUALA LUMPUP A TIGER over i r% long from nos< which h# been on livestock in k; and farms at Sune« Choh Simpantr th* miles from RawarrSelangor was sh by two Malay hui Monday night A traffic jam wa.<= i
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    Guiana probe team arrive
    43 2 GEORGETOWN. Guiana, Thurt T brrs of a British G< commission to Ing ill constitution oj r- i arrived hrrr yeafc The chairman. 81 Robertson, said th< would tour thr counl beginning its hearing; the Peopled 7»rogn will boycott AP
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    Italy facing confusion
    36 2 ROME. Thura [1 night headed for poll! fusion after the collapse j| Premier Pella's gov according to spokesmt partie.v The President, 81 Einaudi. will beein h for a new Prime I day. Renter
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    STRIKE THREAT FOR BRITISH INDUSTRY
    156 2 and all over the six ceni* LONDON. Thurw BRITAIN'S key Industries will suffer from "guerill strike action by electrical workers culminating a national 24-hour strike because employ* workers cannot P^ree on their overtime rate. Ministry of Labour officials fai!ed to heal the breach ovei higher
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    Vicar bans archbishop
    59 2 LONDON. can Vicar has i 1 A^hbishop of Ca GWfTrey FishPr. rhurrh because of Dr connection with freeri The 43-year-old Vi Rev. Hubert Th of the Church o| Magdalen. Padding! the ban \va.s a principle. Mr. Trapp taid I tians' God and thr God are not onr
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    CHEQUES STILL SAY '1953
    41 2 Seven days after the bepinning of the New Year, the I Singapore Swimming Club is still receiving cheques dated 1953. In the latest members, one Iten "Members are r< as from Jan. 1 cl be dated 1954.
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    Police swoop after Red dynamite dump found
    237 3 „x, TEHERAN, Thursday. phRSIAN police last night redoubled their hunt for underground Communists after the discovery of 1,000 sticks of dynamite in a Communist hideout near the main Teheran railway station. Officials claim that the dynamite was to be used "'^assassinate a member
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    AIR CRASH IS SNOW HILLS 15 RAF MEN
    57 3 A IR CRASH IS SNOW HILLS 15 RAF MEN ON DON. Thurs. i- r.a.f. tnmspori ne crashed in a hist night, killing 16 men aboard. covered com north ol London. The ti m apart as It rlp- pulled out of r but one conEl A K. ruebv victims I the
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    Life's more placid now
    57 3 FOR EX-BANDIT AL Thurs Reformed train robber Al ningi and his wile have lebrated their golden idiriR anniversary. Al Is hi 73. <if a that looted trains and in Oklahoma. Arkansa K as in the 1890s of his robbeii' he and hi re arPresideni Theodore Roosevelt
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    She didn't sign
    28 3 BERRA. ThuH Aust- the declaractending g.at.t. tariff schedules to July 1, bt event her from raising Us td levels mat might t>' usually reliable sources.-
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    51 YEARS DESERTER, HE WANTS A PARDON
    140 3 M YORK. Thurs. 4 LETTER is on its way to Buckingham Palace asking the Queen to pardon a 72-year-old man who said he deserted Irom the British Am v .">1 j ean ago. The letter was sent for the one-time soldier. K.ilxrt Donald,
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    How much are you worth?
    117 3 How much are you worth? MANILA. Thurs. PRESIDENT Magsaysay has 1 ordered all government officers to make public their financial assets and liabilities before January 31. The order Ls designed to prevent government officials from enriching themselves while in p;.blic office at the expense of the people. The President set
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    U.S. dollars are dumped RED AGENTS INHK
    62 3 U.S. dollars are dumped RED AGENTS IN HK HONG KONG. Thurs-Com-munlst agents dumped more than US$5OO,OOO on the Hong Kong market last month in reveral of normal buying, it was learned today. Banking sources said within a few days Communist quarters got rid of about U*****0.000 in one swoop. The
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    Tremors in Madras
    40 3 MADRAS. Thurs. Earthquake tremors of more than seven seconds duration were reported yesterday from three places in Madras State. In two. Kothagudem and Ramavtiam, people rushed out of shaking houses. No loss of life was reported. A.P.
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    Malenkov is 52
    27 3 NEW DELHI. Thurs. The Indian Premier. Mr. Nehru, has sent meetiiißs to Mr. Malenkov the Soviet Prime Minister, who i is 52 tomorrow. A.P.
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    They want trade
    26 3 HONG KONG. Thurs.— Mr. D. Rusad. Indonesian viceconsul, here .said today that his country was anxious to maintain trade relations with other countries.
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    A new deputy
    19 3 MOSCOW, Thurs Mr. Jamal Magomaev, former Azerbaijan Local Industry Minister, has been appointed Deputy Premier. Reuter.
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    McCarthy on trial' is found guilty
    175 3 new york. Than. A "PUBLIC trial" of Senator Joseph McCarthy was hold here today. And 6.000 penoOa paid five cent* each to take part in the mock trial on the man who is head of the Senate Permanent investigations Sub-committee. A dozen pickets paraded
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    YOU, TOO, CAN BE A LIEUT-COL.
    346 3 But officer's letter starts row LONDON. Thursday. \3RITISH Army Colonel has sent letters to engineering apprentices telling them they face a "sheeplike procession to the office for the daily grind" and contrasting the joys of army life. The- British Employers" Confederation are furious an«
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    Snow snarls traffic BRITAIN SHIVERS
    49 3 Snow snarls traffic BRITAIN SHIVERS LONDON, Thurs. Ice and snow today created the worst traffic conditions of the winter m many parts of Britain Road and rail transport were snarled with some services cancelled. Northerly gales with showers of sleet and snow continued to buffet North Sea shipping. Neuter.
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    LONDON STOCKS
    258 3 LONDON. Thurs. UAH Eastern Issues Rave n'Hte a reasonable shnwinc on thr London Stock Exrhange loday. Rubbers and tin?, however, were neglected. Closing prices ot selected stocks were ttmmmm Consols 64\ Funding 4': 101 U -I War IH% +'.4 RANKS Mercantile (lU>i) 24 Hongkong isl2si 95'j Eastern (£5)
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    Married
    51 3 YKOMi:N warders and Inited States marines form a guard of honour for Corporal Raymond Schubert, aged 22, and his 19-year-old English bride. .Miss Rosemary Recce, after their wedding at the -.'hapel in the Tower of London. Corporal Schubert is a security guard at I.S. Navy headquarters in London. Reuter
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    LONDON TIN
    27 3 LONDON. Jan 7. Cash Buyers t660; Seiltrs t662' 2 Forward Buyers tf.36; Sellers C 637: Settlement C6fi2' 2 Turnover a.m. 35 tons; p.m. 25 tons.
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    LONDON RUBBER
    38 3 LONDON. Jan. 7 Spot IT.d Feb. 17'« d.. Mar. 17' id.. Apr-June 17\d.. JuK-Sept. nVt&., Oct.-I>r 17' d.. Jan. c.l.f. 17 1 lßd.. Peb CXI 17 1 16 d.. Mar. cl.f. 17", d. Ton.;: Fully steady.
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    7 RED DIPLOMATS REFUSED TO SEE THE 'DOC'
    388 4 But threat of quarantine brought them out of cabins QJKYKN Communist Chinese diplomats, one of them the Amhassador to Burma, flouted Colony regulations on their arrival from Rangoon hy refusing to leave their cabins for a medical inspection. The diplomats were returning
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    Way paved for national schools
    215 4 Way paved for national schools STANDARDS ARE RE-NAMED KUALA LUMI'I K. Thurs. THE re-namlng of English school Standards wil] pnvr thr way for schools, an I spokesman told thi 1 day. In future, Standard Primary one to SI Will be railed Standard one in Standard m>: ust as those In
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    Petition to Ruler on driver
    129 4 Petition to Ruler on driver Six months' gaol KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. A PETITION is to be sent to the Sultan of Selangor by friends of W. F. Nattrass, 28. a mining onpineer sentenced to six months' gaol for drunken driving, asking that his case be reviewed. Nattrass was sentenced on
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    Back to Ipoh
    31 4 IPOH. Thurs. a former president of the Malayan Rail. vay Institute, in Ipoh. Mr M j. Koley has assumed duties is senior asMstan* traffic sujerintendent. Malayan Railvav Ipoh
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    But not for Singapore just yet
    117 4 T'HK uniformed branch of Singapore Police Fonv and tin branch arclikely tn remain separai time It Ls not possible at present mber ol th> uniformed rank and file, a at the same I police spokesman told the straits Times yesterday. He was commenting on
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    THE UNION MEN ARRIVE Opening of wage hearing
    61 4 THE UNION MEN ARRIVE Opening of wage hearing THE EIGHT-MAN team of the Pan-Malayan Rubber Workers' Union is seen above arriving; at the Federation Treasury conference room in Kuala Lumpur for the arbitration hearing of the union's wage dispute with th.Malayan Planting Industries Kmployers' Association. Mr. P. P. Narayanan secretary
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    17-hour blackout in XL and Swettenham
    110 4 ALL-NIGHT SEARCH FOR FAULT KUALA LUMPUR. Thursday. AN all-night .search to trace an electric fault which plunged this town and Port Swettenham into darkness last night, ended just before noon today. The power failure lasted just OTW IT hours— one of the longest blackouts
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    MR GOODE CUTS THE RED TAPE
    159 4 Death reports I NEW scheme designed to -i* cut red tape in reporting the death or serious illness of Singapore Government overseas officers to their next-of-kin abroad has been introduced by the Colonial Secretary, .\ir W. A C Goode. Hitherto all such cases first
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    The guest had gone—also the host's clothing
    60 4 The guest had gone also the host's clothing A Javanese living in Thomson Road. Singapore, returned home on Wednesday afternoon to find all his clothing valued at $200 missing. Also missing was his guest, another Javanese. Host and guest met for the first time on Tuesday The !iiiist was invited
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    Union officials
    59 4 Officials of the Army Civil Service Union, Portsdown branch, Singapore, are: Chairman, Mr. J. S. Nair (re-elected secretary. Mr. J. T. Rocky; treasurer. Mr. P. Natarajan cre-elected) auditors, Mr. Quek Ah Lock and Mr. Teo Chwee Chye; committee: Miss Monicar Morrier, Messrs. Dick Scow. N. V. Dharan, L.
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    A SMILE FROM MR. HOUGHTON
    51 4 MR. R. G. D. Houghton. secretary of the Malayan Planting Industries Employers' Association, smiles as lit- arrives for the arbitration hearing of rubber workers' pay claims. He led the fiveman employers' team at thr opening of the hearing in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday. Straits Times
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    ELECTRIC FENCE FOR NEW VILLAGES
    106 4 Automatic alarm system IPOH, Thursday. THE Kinta Electrical Distribution Company has designed an electric fence which includes an alarm system, for new village perimeter protection. Three new villages in Perak have already been equipped. The K. ED. who are In charge of. lighting in the
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    Today's Radio SINGAPORE
    123 4 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 7.15 Time Signal <fc Opening Announcement; 7.16 Morning S'.ar; 7.30 News; 7.35 Melody Mixture 8 Hlll-Billy Half Hour; 8.30 Malay Programmes; 9 Muslce While You Work; 9.45 Housewives' Choice; 10.30 Matinee Classical Concert; 11.30 Malay Prograrrmes; 1 Programme Summary: 1.02 Muchu Novy; 1.30 Time Signal News; 1.45
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    Keep guns locked up, owners warned
    160 4 Keep guns locked up, owners warned SINGAPORE police yesterday warned all owners of licensed firearms to take fullest precautions against the weapons falling into wrong hands. The warning followed the theft ot a pistol and 14 rounds of ammunition from an Australian living in Rebecca Park on Wednesday afternoon. Two
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    $100,000 for Johore from dogs
    113 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs. JOHORE has more than 20.000 dogs and the Veterinary Department, which is now handling the issue of licences instead of the Post Office, hopes to collect $100,000 in licensing fees at 55 a dog. No receipt will be issued. Instead a blue
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    More want public aid
    39 4 Singapore's Social Welfar. 1 Department last month received 670 new applications for public assistance, eight more than in November. It paid $253,148 to 8.758 cases, of which $71,710 went to 3.166 cases for sick allowances.
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    Railway visit
    29 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— The Siamese railway delegation which arrived in Malaya on the newly opened Bangkok to Prai express visited the Malayan Railway.- Sentul worki here today.
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    Wanted a job
    32 4 Sudin bin Awang. ex-fore-man on board a ship altered his discharge certificate from ••good" to "very good' because he wanted a job. Sudin was fined $100 In Singapore yesterday
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    Smuggling bid
    32 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs A Chinese woman, Er Soo Cheng, was fined $100 in Johore Bahru Police Court today for attempting to smuggle a wrist watch from Singapore into the Federation.
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    New film law comes into force
    111 4 THE new law relating to the exhibition of films in Singapore, passed in July last year, comes into force today. The Cinenuttouniph Films Ordinance 1953 abolishes communal representation on the Film.s Appeal Committee I It empowers the Board of Film Censors to classify pictures
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    Rubber roads being tested all over Federation
    251 5 Rubber roads being tested all over Federation P. W. D. DIRECTOR REPLIES TO SIR SYDNEY PALMER KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. THK Federation Public Works Department is experimenting widely with both rubber latex md powder in road surfacing. K. Nankivell, Public Works director, rcvcalidded that special laboratory equipbeen ordered for research. The
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    SIAMESE SEE HOW IT'S DONE
    65 5 Visit to railway control room MB. K NAYI.OK. Chief Train Controller, explains to the Siamese state railway mission the working of the Malayan Railways' Operations Control Room at Railway Headquarters. Kuala Lumpur. On his riijht is Gen. C. R. Seriroengrithi, General Manager of the Siamese
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    Repairs are better than demolition
    16 5 Repairs are better than demolition pull- all rder h fall- down an the tion, Mr $25.
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    OUR CATTLE WILL BE BETTER NOW
    77 5 OUR CATTLE WILL BE BETTER NOW Bic; Improvements in the ■>■ ol Malayan cattle are expected to lollow the lung term experiments by the nwealth Sclentlflc and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia, a state- m the Commissioner General's Office suici yesterrganlsation, the statement added, aims to combine the high producing
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    Birthday ball
    28 5 IPOH. TOurs. A State ball will be held at the Istana Iskandaraiah, Kuala Kangsar, en January 16 to celebrate the birthday of the Sultan of Perak.
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    UMNO meeting
    12 5 \(i Thui The 'i ol MN I iturday Pension agreed
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    Penang plans new clinic
    48 5 PKNANG. Thurs. An antei atal and infant welfare clinic and market are to be built ,t Kampong Bahru. •This is pad ol our livcvear programme to expand ante-natal and Infant welfare services." Dr. Urn Khoon Hua£ „t municipal health Gfflcer. told the Straits Tunes.
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    More power for Kuantan
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    $23,000 lottery win was his downfall
    236 5 -HE TURNED TO SMUGGLING PARIT BUNTAR. Thursday. KOEK BOH CHENG, a 28-year-old labourer, won $23,000 In a lottery. He bought a new sports car for $5,500. did no work, fell into bad company and lost all his money. Then he was persuaded to use
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    HE CUT HIS TONGUE WITH A PENKNIFE
    74 5 HE CUT HIS TONGUE WITH A PENKNIFE I JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs. In reply to a charge of attempting to commit suicide oy cutting hi.s tongue with a penknife. Yon K Soon told the Police Court that he did not know what he wa.s doing. He wa.s ill at the time
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    Grenade charge against girl
    43 5 KUANTAN. Thurs. A young woman, Yap Chong, was, charged wlto possession of i hand-grenade and a detonator at Fook Kuh Men- I ite, Bungel Pandan area, on De-| cember 17. The case wa.s postponed to Saturday. Yap was remanded.
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    G.O.C. cuts soldier's sentence
    110 5 I)K!YVn: John Doofla* Barker, of thr Koyal West Krnt Kruiinrnt. who was sentenced to six months' detention and ordered to he discharged with imiomiiiy from the Army at a Singapore court martial in December for talking back to a Military Policeman, has had his m-m--tence reduced
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    Ex-pupils plan cooking class
    43 5 PENANG. Thurs. Plans for holding classes in cooking and sewing will be d .mnual meeting ol the Anglo-Chinese Girls School Ex-Pupils Association m Saturday. The meeting will be held at Marble Floor. Wmctiell Home. Logan Road at 4.:(u p.m.
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    The 2nd batch
    29 5 PENANG. Thurs —The second batch ol fisherman taking a special course in navigation, oilotase and seamanship in Penang will •graduate" at the end of this month.
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    GANGSTERS JUST DON'T CHANGE
    226 5 says Social Welfare report UXPERIEXCE has shown that it is exceedingly ■-'difficult to influence a person who is a staunch member of a secret society says the progress report of the Singapore Social Welfare Department for December. The report was commenting on the caw of a
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    The taximen don't like this meter
    196 5 SINGAPORE taxi owners may be compelled to buy taximeters from a local firm a.> a result of the City Council's committee decision not to renew the licences Ol taxi* without meters. Mr. T A. Simon, president of Singapore Hire Car As.<ociation, that an approved
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    Penang Indians to fete Rao
    49 5 PENANG, Thurs Indian. In Penang will give a farewell tea party to Mr. T. v. Ramakrlshna Rao, Agent ol the Government of India in Ma- laya, who is returning to India for re-assignment. The party will be held at the Indian Association op •Sunday.
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    Going homo
    24 5 IPOH, Thurs. Mr. E V. Collins inspector of mines, stationed in Batu Gajah, will go to Britain o n leave this month.
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    Now films
    23 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. The Federal Film Library here ha.s received a number ol new Ki-MM films from the Australian Government. I
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    First Council mooting soon
    47 5 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Thurs. The new Town Council here will hold its first meeting In the council room on Monday. Three nominated councillors, Mrs Florence s H Wong. Mr. Kanagasingam and inche Mohd. Noor Hamzah will be sworn in together with six elected councillors.
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    New advisor
    26 5 IPOH. Thurs. -Mr T. R. Hepworth returned from leave at tho week-end. He will take up duties as Legal Advises and Federal Counsel, Perak.
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    Girl missing 3 weeks
    82 5 AI.OR STAR. Thurs. POLICE here are looking for I a 15-year-old schoolgirl, who has been mussing f or I three weeks from her home in ja!an Tang*!. Khun Pek Yoke, a pup:i .it Ist. Nicholas' Convent here was reported to have left hoirr during thr fttoence
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    THE SINGAPORE DIARY
    252 5 Police Band: P'lbllr performance. Kins George V Park, 5.30 p.m. to I 6 30 pm. Singapore Art SoriHv: Exhibition I „f Photograph! by Ir.mcis Wu. Bii- i,sh Coum ii Hall BUunford Road, <l m Ul i M |i hi Ailnn ion Inf. ltoyal Kuei H Anmh i.itioii
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    TEXTILE FIRMS SELLING AT A LOSS
    199 5 TEXTILE FIRMS SELLING AT A LOSS textile mer- chants are today beirm forced to sell accumulated stocks of Japnnesf> and Indian textiles at 15 to 17 per cent, less than they now cost in Japan and India, a prominent textile merchant. Mr Hardial Singh, said yesterday. Local merchants, he said,
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    Policeman stole $73
    59 5 From colleague PENANG, Thurs— When he retained to hi.s quarters vi steruay. Constable Mohamea Si. ah. attached to the Penang Hill Police Station, found another special constable ransacking hi.s bag. Today Hussaln Mohd AUil. 21, pleaded suilty to stealing a gold ring and a silk sarong wort
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    Youths plan 5-day fair
    56 5 PENANG, Thurs.— The Youth Centre committee plans v lun fair at the New World park from January 14 to 18 to raise funds for the centre. Settlement Youth Council .mi.se a talentime .->i:o\v ith displays hy the Penaiig Chinese Chin Woo Association. Ten thousand Bag! wi.l
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    Wayang dates
    44 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. A Cantonese wayaim will b" held at Bukit Blntang Park on January 13 and at the Lucky World Park the next day in aid of the King Georcr V Silver Jubilee Memorial Fund and the Tong Shin Hospital Fund.
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    107 6 ARRIVE) froa rnfnn Blouses In i < pritrs from t rnwn <V Country. fi4. Hirli f-'-rr' SINGAPORE Arts ThMtTB prfMacbtMh at the TlkMtn Mtli. 15th, IRth January, Bookings ftt Robinsons i >pm WORII Puzzle Solutions. Send $1 mperi addressed f? ■i la!*! than Saturday- ai- solution}, guaranteed postf riav
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Fri., Jan. 8, 1954. The Chinese Schools
    758 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Fri., Jan. 8, 1954. The Chinese Schools Mr. Lee Kong Chians statement on the Colony's Chinese schools is a moderately phr— ed and impressive case [or aid from the public purse for the education of children not accommodated in Government schools. ()t the 160,000 children now
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    Conference Hopes
    514 6 A vote of confidence for Fiance's Premier, and Russian ■gretltnt to preliminary discussions in Washington on the problem of atomic energy, are encouraging omens for the Berlin conference. But the basic question remains unanswered —does Russia really intend this conference to reach practical decisions If so, in what
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    Does Malenkov mean business this time?
    848 6  -  John Fisher The Four Foreign Ministers of Britain, the Vnited States, France and Russia will meet in Berlin on Jan 25. The vital question is By West would probably object to a live-Power conference sin< c the Issues such as Korea, atomic weapon control
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    India wants them...
    168 6 STRAITS Times reader V K.Y.. of Kuantan. ha.s asked if old Christmas cards could be of any use, and. if so. to whom. Many thanks Y.K.Y. for your kind thought. I shall be very grateful to readers lor sending me any cards. We always gel requests from
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    Where are the cards?
    64 6 IT was rumoured in 1950 that the authorities were contemplating the issue of plastic identity cards. Most of the writing on present card.s is fast fading away, not taking into account that the person's photograph thereon is out of date. Shall we hope that 1954 will
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      'UNORTHODOX COUNCIL MOVE
      260 6 THERE may be some special standing orders or rules governing procedure at Johore State Council meetings, which might explain the rather unorthodox treatment of a motion by the Legal Adviser, at a recent meeting. The Legal Adviser moves (I quote from the minutes of the meeting or
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      Provident Fund query
      145 6 UNDER the heading 'Peculiarities of Pn vident j Fund" you published a let- ter from C. A. Donadio. Kulim. The accounts section of the Employees Provident Fund is under my Jurisdiction and if I the writer of that letter will j give me particulars of the case
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      'Stop the waste'
      104 6 THOUGH the Pahanp; Government ha.s rightly tumrd down Councillor Eliathamby'.s proposal advocating drastic retrenchment, one cannot help j sympathising with his point of view Departments like the Na- tional Rgistration and the Food Control must have been uppermost in his mind when he took up cudgels against
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    MORE BUSES HIS PLEA
    47 6 lAGF.EE with Mr. T. H. Boon anout the Singapore Tractioi Company extending its service to the end of Upper Serungoon Road. During rash hours th present service, by another company, is not enough. The schoolchildren are tne worst sufferers A Bis USER. Singapore.
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    CHINESE GRADUATES' PROBLEMS
    241 6 I CAN credit Fourth-Genera- 1 Uon Chinese with a strange! BeAM Of humour but I cannot see how I ca n credit him with i presenting a fair and masonable assessment of the g«v--ernment'B Bilingual Plan. His criticism i s consistently inconsistent. When a student from a
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    On the Margin
    328 6 On the Margin Pageantry iT IS good to rdrab d when '.'•e all run rr.unr! white .shirts and terns, unless we iri I'd to wear the hi that on hi the Sultan oi p hli pc iple's loyalt n its mounted »n elephai How t in world h ii pagi
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    Raise hell if you want more pay: Sir Gerald
    337 7 Raise hell if you want more pay: Sir Gerald BUT NEVER, NEVER TAKE A BRIBE SEGAMAT, Thursday. disputes were no excuse for corruption, the Commissioner, (General Sir Gerald told Government servants today. What i"iild do w;is to jret their unions to make hell" for the Government that they jjot '•u\
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    ATTEMPT TO END PRINTER'S DISPUTE Labour Chief suggests a Labour chief suggests a now formula
    67 7 ATTEMPT TO END PRINTER'S DISPUTE Labour Chief suggests a Labour chief suggests a now formula ur, Mr. between the Union Publishing union 1 firms manailled by apt to tl ike. .strike iemes different the union's deand the te sch< were mow only I of s method to his pro- w
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    New traffic lights starts
    21 7 New traffic lights starts M rson ad went I hen the I at .'-xt year. light hto ope- > we could," pokesman
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    Watch swindle: man held
    40 7 oingapore ponce yesterday detained a man in connection with a report made by a watchdealer in Victoria Street. The report alleged that a credit note for $1,680 against delivery of 70 watches, had not beet met.
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    Appointments confirmed
    39 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs— l Dato Ibrahim bin Abdul Rahman and Dato Seth bin Mohamed Said, have been confirmed as deputy Mental Besar and State Secretary, respectively. Dato Ibrahim's ap;x>intmi nt takes effect from July 18. lest year.
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    Negligent: $50
    21 7 Chia Seong Lim. a Singapore i Traction Company driver, was' fined $5o in Singapore yester- day for negligent driving.
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    $3,200 theft from shop
    48 7 I Into the] i rdressine Rci;irt. St* .tnri sto.e llery ard ie pr>'Sian and her family, were sight-M-einß at Haw Par Villa. She had closed the shop for the day and left it unattendnd. She found the back door >reed and the premises ransacked.
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    THE NEW YEAR TRIPLETS
    88 7 Mother looks on |iroiiiM> as visitor* «»all MORE THAN 250 visitors E have called at ihe home 50/ Sin </a pore's Neiv Year triplets in Geylang Serai. i4()Oi'e, their mother, Mariam binte Abu Bakar. s looks on nroudly as f r iends and relatives gather round.
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    Stay-put workers to contest action
    228 7 CASE ADJOURNED FOR A DAY 4 N APPLICATION' for Hiuh Court injunction against 10 workmen of the Endau Sawmill Co., Ltd. to restrain them from occupying the factory's premises in Lavender Street. Singapore, was adjourned yes*erday until today as the workmen want to contest the
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    Women, 72, fought with policeman
    129 7 Women, 72, fought with policeman MR. J. M. Devereux-Cole- 1 bourn. Singapore City Police Court Magistrate., yesterday taid: 'The court has great sympathy for an old lady who can fight with a policeman." He was replying to the prosecuting officer, Inspector If. Majid. in the case of a 72- year
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    Assize date
    16 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Thuts The first Assizes of th« year ben Will oprn on Tuesday.
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    ON 4-DAY VISIT FROM LONDON
    42 7 MISS PAMELA BATTSON, a BOAC g round hostess in London, who arrived in Singapore yesterday by QANTAfI Constellation on a familiarisation trip lo the Ka>t. She will be M thr Colony for four days. Straits Times picture.
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    1,242 get TB allowance $83 A PERSON
    57 7 1,242 get TB allowance $83 A PERSON Singapore Social Welfare Department last month gave 533 each to 1.242 people as TB treatment allowance. The Department approved 71 new applications. Allowances tor 106 people were stopped. 92 had bejome tit for light work, and lour were not cooperative tn lollow treatment
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    'Frank, friendly' arbitration hearing
    161 7 'Frank, friendly arbitration hearing KUALA LUMPUB Thurs. MR JUSTICE TAYLOR, arbitrator In the present v ;,..<• dispute in the federation's rubber industry, told the Straits Times today he oll |ci not predict when he would be able Ui issue thr award because 'Hut her cxpminatlon of the o»ur©| may be
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    Homo made food
    38 7 Gimson School for Boys, Singapore, collected 2,450 katis of vegetables and fruits from their community farm last month. They also supplied 17(1 pounds of diick for the ChristDIM table, and baked 7.927 pounds of bread.
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    PLEA FOR ASIAN DONORS
    107 7 PLEA FOR ASIAN DONORS Blood shortage rE Singapore Transfuaicn Service is appealing for more Asian donors They are finding :t difficult 10 cope with the many demands for Group B blood because few Europeans. wh.> form the majority >t donors, have blood of th.s group. A statement Issued by the
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    THE CONSUL'S CONGRATULATIONS
    52 7 HI AMEMCAM Consul, Mr. Robert J. Jansen. conjtratiilates Srl.mi.it bin Abu Yamin afler his marriage to Miss Sah Odah whose father, Keso t bin li.vi.m. has been chief messenger at ihe I'nited States Consulate-General, Singapore, for 3 1 years. The wedding was at Lorong Limau, off Kirn
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    CITIZENSHIP WILL BE THEME OF WEEK
    146 7 A "YOUNG citizens' week" U to be held throughout Malaya from Jan. 20 to Feb 1. Mr. F. C Arulanandom. chairman of the Malayan i Youth Council, announced today The Idea, he told the .Straits Times, is to turn the spot linht on the
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    $88 MIL. DROP IN CUSTOMS
    85 7 Rubber, tin blamed KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs (CUSTOMS and rxcisr revenue in the Federation last year dropped by nearly $88,000,000 compared with 1952. •The fall in the price of rubber and tin Is the cause' said an official today. Detailed excise fipurcs too when published will
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    'TWO DETECTIVES WERE WATCHING'
    208 7 Bus man kept fare, court told TWO detectives boarded a Singapore Traction Company bus one day and saw the conductor take 20 cents from a woman pasrer.Rer without issuing a ticket, a Singapore court was told yesterday. The detectives. Tan Kc**.| Juay and Tan Swop Ann.
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    TWO SHIPS IN HARBOUR COLLISION
    99 7 TWO SHIPS IN HARBOUR COLLISION J|!\VO -.hips. Hi,. Anshiin and 1 Sudhuiv Mill collided in Krpp«-| 1 1 1 1 hour yesterdiy evening. Slight damage was c :uisi-d in the bows of the Sudhurv Hill There «erfno easnalties, The accident occurred in front of Godown S3 at about LSI p.m.
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    Boys missing from home
    58 7 i ►een missing from the Gimson BoW Home, in Clrmm'i Road. Singapore, since Wednesday. A spokesman ol the Sccial Department said. We expect the boys will show up before Ions". Law passes Messrs. Annamalay A. E. Quinn and N Vaithinathan. I the UniverI "tidnn intermediate examination
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    Woman hurt in crash
    46 7 Flora Elias of Middle Road Singapoie, m taken to hospital ye-terday morning a.'te: an accident in Orchard Roid. near the Pavilion theatre. She wa.s injured in a collision with a military lorry. She was treated at the outpatients' clinic and sent hoir.c.
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    Police can't help if customers don't pay
    103 7 Police can't help if customers don't pay IfVERI daj an increasing J number of Stnc-ipore traders report to thr f'olic. nhnut easterners not meeting credit notes. A Police ipokeSSMBI viid yt»trrd;iv lhat, although this form ol cheating is on the inrrea.se. there Is I'ttf,. the police <;m do In stop
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    Sir Onn flies to jungle
    72 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Dato Sir Onn bin Ja'afar Member for Home Affairs, today flew in a helicopter to Pahans jur.-le.s to see '-inesHe took off from here with Mr. R. O. D. Noone. Fe<ieraM tlcna adviser on aborigines, in tno mom 'nR and returned In
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      186 7 The weather MINIMI M TKMPKRATI RK ,7 30 l<n.. on Jim: 6 to 7.30 a.m on Jan 7i: Singapore 75 degrees. Pm;uu; I 73, Kota Biihru 76. Ku.ihi Lumpur i'l. lpoh 14. Kuantan 74 I HAXIMIM TUtntKATDBI (730 11 in v.ao pm. 01. j;,n. i>: siniM- pun BS. Pcaiuaj 88.
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      No hard knocks for this Texan
      460 8 SIM >l UM TOP SI \H I.IIAIIL THK EASY WAY TEXAS. Hollywood's main source of supply of beautiful star material, has delivered the soods again. This time the thanks so to Amarillo. hometown of Carolyn Jones, the Lone Star State's latest contribution to film
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      Wildly impossible —but amusing
      221 8 Wildly impossible but amusing WILL ANY GENTLEMKN is an amusing and ingenious Englisn farce that revolves round the dual personality of a respectable bank clerk and the lamentable effects that a hypnotic display in a music hall have upon him. It all ends up with a Chase backstage but before
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      604 8  - WORLD of THEATRE VIC MEM WHEN the Singapore Arts Theatre production of "Macbeth" noes into rehearsal, complete with set, on the sUge of the Victoria Theatre this week-end. In preparation for its first performance next Thursday, nocturnal wanderers in Empress Place are likely to be startled by strange and violent
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      Out-ofthe-rut action
      330 8 Out-of-the-rut action "APPOINTMENT IN A LONDON" is one of those films about the R.A.F. in 1943 that usually follow the same pattern anc have the same set of stock characters. But it is different from the run of such films because the hero. Wing Commander Mason, is played with such
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      332 8 (ATHAY ORGANISATION J*i \l -I U\< TIO.NS -^p NOW IN ITS 3rd GREAT WEEK sEsOTltiiill riiiiiu tl-lM For Kookinvs <£Z-.Z<>&> A '•IHIIST SEE" H\ l M s| ONLY THK (INF.MASCOPF. s«i;iin \N PROVIDE 81TCH SPECTACLE -it INI xrKNSIVFI.Y CINEMASCOPE !Ml HODEKN MIRATLC \OI sf.f. WITHOIT <;i.ASSFS! liliiniiP Bl KION ISAM
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      147 8 \\VMCTH>H% I THE CONQUEST OF EVEREST. MWMI the film o* the year. Am.ixing and enthralling record of the pioneering feat that was the crowning glory of Coronation morning. Superb shots taken on the roof of the world and unrehearsed outburtt of human emotion in crisis. An experience not to be
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      239 8 A^i'^HVL hf plundered tK, mY-W ast forgotten cornrr Jv I). I. present* wr j JEFF Jl^ I CHANDLER uuuWxSc MARILYN MAXWELL '^^kwr ANTHONY QUINH SUSAN BALL in Toiiioi run 9 a m. -TICK UP 1 Sunday a.m. "i:\CrSl-: MY IH'ST" IX h TOMORROW MIDNIGHT ATTRACTION mMM FROM THE ALAMO SI
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    Horrors of Devil's Island wracked Degraves, innocent prisoners of France
    650 9 Horrors of Devil's Island wracked Degraves, innocent prisoners of France F E A T U R E POSSIBLY the best known miscarriage ;ce us the false conviction for n of the French Army officer \lfred Dreyfus. Barely a year the Dreyfus case, however, another shocking iflstance of nt men railroaded
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    medals
    192 9 Iglan j:\t- young men il and event ..rie a SUC- the edish Rcul-•-•nd. Ived gold and their n of by ited ort tnu they were i treed to ship befnBy 1890, the Degraves^still er— were in the South •Tying as officers in small Lsiand trading vessels They were engaged
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    blow
    317 9 (MbMO appeared on deck In response to Leonce Degrav\ ahouto. A few minutes latti Gibson was struck a violent blow on the back of the bead by the boom, as it swung over to .starboard following the •snapping of its holding tackle. Knocked into the sea. Gib .son was
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    In Manila prison
    166 9 In Manila prison For a yea r the? were COOlined in a Manila prison, while the Spaniards tried to foist them off on the French. The cue was considered their n sponsibklity. as the NluoraIr.n wa s on the French reat Tahiti. Eventually, in March. 1891. Leonce and Eugene Degrave
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    Flesh had swollen
    77 9 When, after 47 days, they reached Toulon and wore released from their shackles the hanclcuffs on their wrists COOld in >t be -e>n The rtosh had swollen and covered them completely. Removed t 0 Brest for trial before a Naval Court. the i v.- broMnr.s spent an-
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    Three trips to shore
    40 9 Three trips to shore Eugene made three trips to the shore with drowning convicts before someone shouted the dread warning. "Shark!" The warden in charge, seeinu Eugene's swimming prowess. ordered him to dive in and rescue the shovels and tools.
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    Thrown in sharks
    343 9 Eugene was with him when ne died. When the emaciated body he neld in his arms breathed no more. the younger brother went berserk and tried to bash out his brains against tl.e wall. Six men hustled him outside and held him down until his f'enzy subsided.
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    Brother's telegram
    169 9 One climbed aboard. He ben; over to assist the other over the side, but their combined weight was too much io r the frail craft. Afte r a few yards of laborious proRTM it sank underneath them. Nearly exhausted and cursIng their disappointment, the tw o men regained
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      90 9 ITALIA* Vho Vadiw* ARENA FIGHTS! Lllltl GLADIATORS! pectacular "SPARTACUS c GLADIATOR) in English Dialogue NEXT CHANGE to the CAPITOL ..A irl'V/J^ 3.6.15*9.15 last llhn ".FEEVAM .IVOTHr (Hindi) tit II > in i iin Sl.irrliu Shammi K»poor Tomorrow 1V "lOW M f UVVUrJ lire rtorlt I Bahru Today 700 MS P
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      353 9 Agents i CALDBECKS 15 HOURS IbVITHOUT FOOD That's how long lots of people go without proper nourishment for their systems! Figure rr out. Let's say yon have dinner al around 8 o'clock tonight. Tomorrow morning for hrrnkfant, all you have is a hasty cup of tea or coffee, and your
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      131 9 7 *fa#**tfJ)en Qllixote dela Mancb wSandw&nza THE LADy^ TALE OF WOE DloT] TTshORTLY AFTFR, THE PfIIEST NOT FAIL ON DEAF EARS, AND j AND BARBER WERE IN DON QUIXOTE WAS wt EARNEST CONSULTAfION WITH 16 QUICKLY LURED '^■^^Wj^^k 1 THE DUKE MH ADV"S HUSBAND. ,'.,-,>. FROM HIS »r— J Mi
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    SUNGEI BESI MINES
    7 10 SUNGEI B ESI M INES •••>,/>m- Meetim
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    AND AYER HITAM TIN DREDGING
    3789 10 AND AYER HITAM TIN DREDGING INEQUITABLE WAR DAMAGE AWARD MR. G. W. SIMMS ON TIN CONTROL Hie Annual f-nncei Hltam Tin Dvr ere held on rV'-rmber 3(1 in I W Simms. Die chairman, presided The follnwli I Is from menu which had i*-en cirv| NC.I l-.l MIM Hen >■ Injustice
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    NINE YEARS PRIOR TO COMPULSORY TIN RESTRICTION SCHEME
    48 10 NINE YEARS PRIOR TO COMPULSORY TIN RESTRICTION SCHEME I Labour forrp Year employed F.M.S !>22 82.195 923 9(16fi2 M 4 106.479 >M 107.257 I 110.293 Ml 122 HBB n2B innMi 929 104 4«8 330* 80,528 M:i;.iyn tin production (tons i 37.2-?6 ***** 4fi!M7 48.141! 47.790 H.:i!xi 64.505 63,974
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    PRICES SLIGHTLY EASIER
    276 10 Atom ml <!»«• nmrkfK TIN AND RUBBER RISE THE Singapore share market yesterday co quiet but the turnover was a little bettor th Hr the preceding day. Tin shares were again choice, industrials were inclined to be lire) rubbers and loans were neglected. I'm i cents a
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    RUBBER PRICES
    123 10 January first grade the Singapore nibhr: yesterday at 57> R pound, one cent above day's clo.-^e. The market I. with January at 57 Sellers were Inclined reserved, particula: grades, and then i ate trade buying and support. The market wa throughout the day same tone at the close
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    Australian stocks
    77 10 MB BOURNI C!:>sing Quotation* stocks today, comparer •rrd.iy Loan 3,; 1956-59 CM Loan 3,-. in.-iH-.iB Australian Paper Aurt. Consol md Bank of NSW. £:<R Sank Oi N B.W. right B. Hill Prop. Com tau lds Dunlops Culoni.il Bug Drug H 11(4 Zinc Qoldsbrough \t lust.) Mount I.yell Tarra
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    WALL STREET
    63 10 NEW YOI the Stock Marki further ground Industrials takint the from rails a..ri i eat level since Buyers had losi mid-afternoon and I aVIJP from the be 1 the list still aj riant fractional c ;iiii< Dow Jones averim and Wednesday were 30 Industrials 2H4 20 Railroad* 96
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    Produce prices
    52 10 Singapore Macs* rVmlii"--ohanßr: Nnon priec Copra itead IX MO bu Coconut oil vteicv Pepper: qule': All mtok «rhite 1330, I :iiii|>iin'_' hi. h I I '"is and IV»t veie Cup' i I MO buyers, 140 arv $40 buyer*, $4il March MOVj buyei Apni S4n buyers, |40S Coconu Ml
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    Exchange rates
    36 10 Tii.- Malayan B* Association a wllini for l-'n-n.h :I.lm I 1 read) was 11 MB on the free exchai it.. n Kon yerterrti i r r butMi at M 95 and one tMI 0
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      852 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS TECHNICIANS (temporary) in the Drainage and Irrigation Department. Research Station, Ampang, Kuala Lumpur. Salary OOP X 6 114 156 I 12 252 264 x 12 $360 p.m. with current COLA. Applicants with school certificate will be permitted to enter the scale at $102. p.m. 2. Qualifications: Federal cltitens.
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      543 10 NOTICES "notice The public Is hereby notified that our unused official receipt Nos *****9 to *****0 inclusive have been mislaid and will not therefore be considered as valid as from oih January, 1954. Rapid Baggage .t Transport Service Sole Proprietor 34 Msrket St. Spore- 1. CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE Assessment
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      655 10 TENDERS Tenders fojTsupply of RAILWAY SLEEPERS Tenders are invited for the supply of Xeruinu' and Konpai railway sleepers during the period January to July 1954. 2 Specifications may be obtained, from the Timber Purchase Office, Court Hill. Kuala I.umpur, or from any State Forest Office 3 Only tenders from holders
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      1083 11 MANSFIELD <Sc CO., LTD. gfgj °O»») Po«.l 4 r BLUE FUNNEL LINE r. UVMMOL. GLASGOW.' LONt>ON fcONTlNtNTAl'po'llTi Homburg Jon or r Hombunj 31/39 Jen. j ol t/)0 j on rrpool Jon 9 Jan 13 Jon. 14/16 Jon. 17/11 Jen 12 lon It Jon. 19/20 Jon 22/21 0 Jon. 20 Jon
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      1030 11 EAST ASIATIC LINE SAILINGS FROM SCANDIN AYI AN/U K CONTINENT "Java" l. r Spore P. Sham Panana, Jove for Kornlcriong, Saigon Hongkong, Monila, Kobe <or K °h«irhong, H-kong 11/13 Jan. Kino for Diakorto Kohvehang Saigon. Hongkong, Manila, Kob» Mongolia" for Kohsichong, H kong 1/ 1 Feb SAILINGS TO CONTINENT t
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      1144 11 BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD. SAILINGS to U.K. and CONTINENTAL PORTS Spore P. Sham Penona Bennnnes tor Avonmouth, Condon Rotterdom, Newcastle, Hull In Port Benledi for Liverpool. Gloigow, Homburg, Rotterdam In Pert 9 Jen. Benlawers for Liverpool, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Homburg 15/21 Jen. 22/24 Jon. 23/24 Jon. •enalder for Hovre. London. Rotterdam,
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      1058 11 MoAUSTER CO., LTD. TIL: No 1 1241 HAMBURG LOS ANGILIS. SAN FRANCISCO, onci for li}*., North Atlontic Ports PORTLAND, StATTLt ft VANCOUVER on,l Canaoi: vo Colombo Accepting coiqo tor Centrel I South CITY O> BIRKiNHEAD American Ports Spore P. Shorn Penono SUNNYVILLE 17/11 reb 14/14 Feb 14/« i reb. Spore
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    Indian textile dealers are annoyed at Rangoon report of 'rubbish' consignment
    126 12 Indian textile dealers are annoyed at Rangoon report of 'rubbish consignment INDIAN textile exporters in Singapore are incensed ai ;i Rangoon accu sation that one High Street Indian (inn "sent rubbish' to a Rangoon business house. It was reported that four cases claimed to contain rayon and cotton piece goods
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    THE BUSINESS WORLD
    443 12 THE BUSINESS WORLD A DANISH delegation has left Copenhagen for Indonesia to negotiate a new trade agreement. The previous acrermrnt has been provisionally extended for three months. In Copenhagen, the Indonesian Minister in Scandinavia greeted the announcement. He said Denmark was about to become his country's biggest nordic customer -A-
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    GOODYEAR EXPANDS IN INDONESIA
    69 12 GOODYEAR EXPANDS IN INDONESIA mHE Goodyear Tyre and A Rubber Co. has announced expansion of its plant at Bogor, i n West Java, to meet all nf Indonesia's needs for car. truck and bicycle tyres and tubes. It is planned to produce 190.000 ca r tyres. 173.000 truck tyres. 328.000
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    'Britain should lead with rubber roads'
    139 12 THK British Government should Rive a lead in extending the use of rubber in roads and help absorb some of the world's surplus rubber. This call to the British Government was made by Sir Hen r j Birkmyre, chairman of Mal i y a
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    U.S. expects rice exports to continue
    255 12 THERE will be no marketing quotas and no acreage allotments on the 1954 rice crop in the United States. This has been announced hy the United States Department j of Agriculture in view of an expected continuation of the heavy export demand of the
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    U.S. hit record with new rubber used in 1953
    140 12 U.S. hit record with new rubber used in 1953 RUBBER consumption in the United States hit a record 1.341,000 lone tons in 1953 compared with 1.261.413 long tons in 1952. according to the Rubber Manufacturers' Association Industry Group. Industry officials look for a continued high level of business this year
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    No figures
    143 12 Although no official figures an yet available on the use "t natural rubber for the year as a whole, consumption of the imported, tree-grown product was running more than 100.000 long tons ahead of the 1952 rate during the first 10 months of the year. The U.S. Reconstruct
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    'New Look' service stations
    113 12 A NUMBER of Singapore garage proprietors ar° striving for a "new look" ir their service stations with the addition of high pressure Jet steam cleaners. The cleaners are used for cleaning motor car chassis, fenders and motors— and then for cleaning the service station of oil
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    planned for Colony
    215 12 Mr. Lee also emphasised that the steam pressure cleaned grime away from a cars chassis and made thorough lubrication possible. One steam cleaner used in a Singapore garage has been seen by other service station men and now 13 more of the machines have been ordered. Mr.
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    'DOUBLE TAX' MOVE BETWEEN U.S. AND AUSTRALIA
    164 12 'DOUBLE TAX' MOVE BETWEEN U.S. AND AUSTRALIA INSTRUMENTS of ratification of conventions br--1 tween Australia and the United States designed to relieve double taxation of incomes and Rifts have been exchanged in Canberra. AcUs ratifying the conventions and a similar convention applying to the estates of deceased persons were recently
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    'See before you buy' textiles
    163 12 Sponsored by the Japan Wool Spinners' Association, the fiveman mission has been visiting a number of centres with the display. It was the first post-war display of its kind presented by Japan in Singapore. In the above photograph, the leader of the mission, Mr H.
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      BETTER RUBBER FROM MALAYA IS FORECAST
      243 12 BETTER RUBBER FROM MALAYA IS FORECAST A REDUCTION in the variability of nati produced in Malaya La forecast by the Research Institute of Malaya. This forecast is made in the. latest issue of the institute'/ Planters' Bulletin. The magazine revealed thai an ever recurring complaint by rubber manufacturers waa that
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      Classification scheme extended
      113 12 "THE Rubber Research Institute at the md n year was technically classifying aboui 30,0 per annum of Malayan produced rubber, thr in revealed. "This scheme ol i ition has I i ed to the produce of th cv estates and sn through packing h< the course of
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      INDUSTRY KEEN TO BUY GR-S PLANTS
      78 12 INDUSTRY KEEN TO BUY GR-S PLANTS PRIVATE Ind showing keen in assuring tho su the sale of U.S. G ment-owned rubber plants to terprise. New Yo: Comnu rce n about 2o Interest* baa visited the o three-man Rubb Commission in w The Journal of these visitors Ing the commi! they
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      188 12 Caterpillar DIESEL TRACTORS fy^^^^mi' 32 to 150D.8.H.P. FOUR WHEEi __jr^^_il >-.- -275 H°P. \OzJ/ TWO-WHEEL MODEL r^^SL Ijjpv 275 H. P. mL j> n 'V^r- New and Reconditionad */^^i^V^V™cpiJL Units are available 5' jSßt^r E.x-stock Singapore. A44(jijpr kJ—^ For details write: *^< fu«Ai iwpriu ro»rv» }|)f The PORT of LONDON
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      37 12 NEW YEAR S j RESOLUTION /hi i 'Hi ittk 15 M at '"yS i S\,'% W i■« v''B&> i i buy i ■BROOK MOTORS: B SOLE AGENTS: R. E. MORRIS CO., LTD. 18, BATTERY ROAD, SINGAPORt. 1
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    Menial work part of training, nurses told
    193 13 'DISCIPLINE MUST BE MAINTAINED 9 COMPLAINTS that Singapore nurses have to do too much menial work are nonsense, said the Direc-j tor of Medical Services, Dr. W. J. Vickers, yesterday. "Our nurses do not have to do anything like as much menial work
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    We've all the nurses we need, says Dr. V.
    194 13 RECRUITING DRIVE A SUCCESS THE recent drive to recruit nurses has been successful and has created a milestone in Singapore's medical history, the Director of Medical Services, Dr. W. J. Vickers. told a Press conference yesterday. "If morr girls came forward
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    2 died after truck and bus crashed
    160 13 ■JHE Singapore Coroner, Mr R. 8.1. Pates, yesterday returned a verdict of misadventure at the inquest on Lance Corporal Allan May and Loh Ah Khian. who died after a collision between a military truck and a bus. The collision occurred at the 12th
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    Engraved pen awaits owner
    33 13 A fountain pen with the name Goh reck Soo engraved on it, is among property awaiting owners at the Central Police Station. Singapore. Owner should contact Inspector Michael Chong.
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    Driver fined
    21 13 Tan Pens Seng, was fined $50 in Singapore yesterday and disqualified from driving for six months for inconsiderate driving.
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    Timely return saves girl
    41 13 An Indian broke into a room in Tan.jong pagar Road. Singapore. o n Wednesday and tried t^ molest a 15-year-old Indian girl. The girls grandmother re--1 turned fro m market just In time and the man ff^ri.
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    Employer fined
    38 13 See Tian Kit. proprietor of Wah Toon? Travel Service 1 was fined $100 in Singapore yesterday for failing to furnish I particulars of the driver of his car when requested to do so by the Police
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    Rubber imports
    13 13 PENANG. Thurs. Rubber imports into Malaya during December totalled 27,745 tons.
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    Miners to decide: Shall we back it?
    281 13 Miners to decide: Shall we back it? TIN RESTRICTION IPOH, Thurs. WTHETHER to back a tin restriction scheme will be the main question when owners of the more than 300 Chineseowned Perak tin mines meet next Wednesday. Thr international tin agreement reached late last year jat the United Nations-spon--1 sored
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    SONNY, YOUR TRICYCLE SHOULD BE LICENSED
    202 13 SONNY, YOUR TRICYCLE SHOULD BE LICENSED STRICTLY speaking, any vehicle with wheels on the roads, including toy Iricycles and toy motor cars, should be licensed and conform with num-ber-plate and lamp regulations, the Registrar of Vehicles, Mr. B. J, C. Buckeridße. said yesterday. He was con mentlng on the case
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    Fowl thieves gaoled
    42 13 Loh Ah Sun and Chong Hong pleaded guilty in Singapore »'3?t3riiy. ta stealing 43 iwWla from a market stall on Wednesday. They were sentenced to five months gaol each, to be followed i by a year's police supervision. I
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    FIRE-PROOF ROOFS NOT THE ANSWER
    203 13 Kampong lay-out more important FIRE-RESISTING roofs to wood and attap huts in Singapore will not make them immune to fire, the has told the City Council. Such roofs will retard the spread of fire only where a kampong is well laid out he says. But
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    Union meets on sackings
    78 13 Singapore City Councils Water Department Labour Union will hold a general meeting on Sunday to decide what action it should take regarding the dismissal of 142 riggers. The City Council authorities I have stated that the men were i I employed on a temporary basi^ I
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      473 13 Straiti Times j FRIDAY WORD PUZZLE >F»r Cut out «n<4 pin 'With other coupon* Potting instruction* appear below. Addrett \....4>."-~ 1 5 L....J L_£_i 1 1 I I H E A hBB fill in ZHA-8.-B1 JU. w! missing j 3 U A s K E t^B J™ 1 5 H
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      109 13 Si rai Ik Tim<>s Crossword LJ LJMJ 4 W s IJ 6 1 r 1..T" 13 1* 15 16 T!~ ?2 IT" 2*T I 2S "si" ||1~ ACK«ss 12. Rnal ailempt to lind a w«y m 1. important rl'y «hould not H <«• one without interest (7). n |g) 1
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      223 13 36. Level headed but praises unduly <9>. 27. Chimney-corner in a single fireplace (t). 2S. Applauded (7). 20. Offers to follow the engine fT). DOWN 1. He followed his trade in Chu Chin Chow t~). 2. Popular residences Tor sailors wives? <s>. 3. Beliefs held about men «n dwelling houses
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    NEC'S NEW RECORD EQUALS AUSTRALIAN 100-m. MARK
    452 14 NEC'S NEW RECORD EQUALS AUSTR ALIA N 100-m. MARK CINCJAPORE'S champion swimmer, 22-year-old Neo Chwee Kok, yesterday laid his strongest claim for recognition as one of the world's best sprint swimmers when he broke his own Singapore records for the 100 metres and 50 metres free style. Swimminp at the
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    SCOTTISH CAP FOR SIR EWEN'S SON
    85 14 "L"M\ I N Fergusson, son of •E* Singapore Legislative < <ni in 1 1 Imi sir Fuen Fergusson, will nlay for Scotland in their rugby union fixture .ii;:iinst France tomorrow. This will be Ferßiisson's first international rap. He is an Oxford "blue" and toured
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    Police Cup golf draw
    176 14 'pHE dr;u< ;>nd sturtii 2 times for 1 the Polirr Ch;i Hence Cup. to lir pbyeri ;it Hie Islinri Cluh tomorrow and Sunday are i times r.iven ;.rr for Saturday and Jsunday>: .Tours v Murrhlsoi. J p m.. fl 30 .1 m.: Murphy y Pal.«'fy 2
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    United 'B' win at K.L. 'sevens'
    86 14 KUALA I.l'MPt'R Thurs Selancor Untfri "B" today won the j servtm open wwhi ilflß nggm t.mrn.imrnt ty;itinc Ist Somerset Uffht Infantry In the final after; mating ;i mmjot upsrt by pliminntlng the tr.vouritef. Selancor Club "A", n the semi-fini 1« Unitort "B" beat Sompr.-ets
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    RICE MILL, STARRY ARE IN TOP FORM
    393 14  -  EPSOM JEEP By fJIMj.ArOKh-traincd horses were out in strength M the second and third tracks at Bukit Timah 1 yesterday morning when oflicial training started for the Singapore Turf Clubs meeting on Jan. 16. 20 and 23. Despite the heavy rain the tracks
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    Tamil festival soccer results
    62 14 INDIAN Brotherhood Soccwltes entered the final of the Tamil Festival knockout soccer competl- tion by beating Tamil Brotherhood Association 3-1 at Fairer Park ye.-terdat. i They will now meet either Sivijl. who beat Rajaji 5-0 in a quarter final match yesterday, or Indian Recreation Club. Sivajl
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    Sports Diary
    38 14 HOCKEY SIIA K.O. StMOR UKPI.AY I.ati(T Wanderer* v I 'niverMl> of Malaya. SCC padang. FRIENDLY: SRC v RNAS Sembawane. SRC padang: S.C.R.C. v Inhrrsilv of Malaya. Sepoy Lines. BOXING ROYAI- NAVY championships. H.M.S. simhang. 8.30 p.m.
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    Landy will switch to the Two Miles
    290 14 MELBOURNE. Thurs. AUSTRALIA'S John Landy. fastest mller In action today, will switch from the mile to two miles when the athletic season is resumed here on Saturday after the Christmas break. Landy applied to Victorian Amateur Athletic Association yesterday for a special two-mile
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    4 PENANG WINNERS TO CL. 1
    148 14 POUR winners in Class Two at the Penang Turf Club's Christmas-New Year meeting. which ended last Saturday. have been promoted to Class One, according to the latest j Straits Racing Association's amendments to classifications. < They are Golden Dolphin, j Majcstas, Carthusian and Golden
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    One change in Wales XV
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