The Straits Times, 25 January 1956

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  • 675 1  -  GEOFFREY BOLAND By BAN ON SHIPMENTS TO RED CHINA MAY BE LIFTED j tut what then? Some are cautious, some say it would be 'economic millennium* j No clue to what Peking might ask for QIKSTION in Malayan rubber intry circlet today is what will be
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  • 80 1 A SYNTHETIC QUERY TO BRITAIN LONDON, Tues. The Malayan "merdeka" delegation is to ask the President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Peter Thorneycroft, why Britain should spend 40,000,000 gold dollars on buying 70,000 tons of American synthetic rubber when she can get all the natural rubber she wants from
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  • 242 1 i From LESLIE HOFFMAN LONDON, Tues. Mr. Gerald de Cruz, former Singapore Journalist and prominent member of the leftist Malayan Democratic Union, has cabled acceptance of an offer made to him by the Singapore Labour Front to be their sec-retary-organiser. Mr. de Cruz
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  • 31 1 NEW YORK, Tues. Mrs. Janet Connor, 36, collapsed and died from a heart attack last night five minutes after her father's death also from a heart attack.— A. P.
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  • 496 1  -  NELSON RUTHERFURD Victim: Just-married police officer By KOTA TINOGI. Tues Police Lieutenant Edward Hughes. 30 was fatally wounded by terrorists who ambushed his armoured troop-carrier on tn c Mersing road near here today. Lt Hughes recently returned from a visit to Australia and New Zealand. In
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  • 159 1 SUN SHINES FOR THE BIG DAY LONDON, Tuesday. THE Federation Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, and the Mentri Besar of Perak, Dato Panglima Bukit Gantang, had an audience with the Queen this morning. They were escorted to Buckingham Palace by Mr. John Hare, Minister of
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  • 57 1 Only one appeals From HALL ROMNET LONDON, Tues.— Only one of the two accused sentenced to death in the Kuala Lumpur cashier murder case, Chen Chung Ling, is petitioning the Privy Council for leave to appeal. The other accused is Kwong Kirn On, an unemployed youth of 18.
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  • 23 1 Lee Hoe, a 32-year-old woman, collapsed in a bus in Orchard Road last night and died on the wav to hospital.
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  • 40 1 TENGKL ABDUL RAHMAN is greeted at No. 10 Downing Street by Sir Anthony Eden. The Tengku and his entire delegation spent about half an hour with the Prime Minister. A. P. radio picture from London.
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  • 80 1 BOMBAY: PEACE RETURNS BOMBAY, Tues.— Bombay, scene of bloody riots last week, was peaceful today. Schools, textile mills and other factories are open again. Buse s are running. No Incidents were reported. With the return of peace there was also a decline In the exodus of Oujerati speaking citizens who
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  • 46 1 BOMBAY, Tues.— The Bom-bay-Calcutta mail train was derailed before dawn today 350 miles east of Bombay. Sabotage was blamed. There were 1,500 passengers aboard. The locomotive and 10 coaches left the track but only one person was reported killed and 12 injured. A.P.
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  • 33 1 BASTOG'NE (Belgium). Tues.— Bedry Tahir Saman. the Turkish Ambassador to Brussels, was killed instantly I today when nis car skidded off a road and hit a tree near here. A.P.
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  • 19 1 LONDON, Tues. The Queen danced the mambo with Douglas Fairbanks at a Piccadilly party last night. Reuter.
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  • 37 1 Lim Lee Wah, a three-year-old girl, last night swallowed a needle at her home in Bedok, Singapore, and was taken to the General Hospital where an X-ray showed the needle lodged in the stomach.
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  • 31 1 LONDON, Tues- -Mr Alexander N. Pusanov, Premier of the Russian Soviet Federal Republic, has resigned. Moscow Radio announced today. This is the largest republic In the Soviet Union.
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  • 129 1 fTHE Singapore LaA bour Department stepped into the Naval Base dispute yesterday in a bid to end the nine-day-old strike by 9,000 workers. The dispute is between the Naval Base Labour Union and the Admiralty over the eviction of two former employees and
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  • 54 1 LONDON. Tues. Tent?ku Abdul Rahman is so certain that he will still be in England on Feb. B— his 53rd birthday and the day on which the amnesty to the Communists expires that he has booked for a party of 300 guests at a
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  • 169 1 Troops ready to man docks MELBOURNE, Tues. Servicemen throughout Australia were ordered today to be ready to man the country's strike-bound ports at 24 hours' notice. Service chiefs, at the Federal Government's direction, issued the order to all navy, army and air force units as the strike of 24,000 dockers
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  • 52 1 m.n (.ik ion wins com iih;m k <> 1 1 JKKI SAI.IM Tin;*.— omimuiisl motion of no conlidcncc in Mi David Men (union. tile Israeli I'rinic Minister, for ordn lß| a retaliatory raid on Syrian portions last DciTinbcr. was defeated by 74 votrs to four today in the
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  • 88 2 Vatican bans 3 more books VATICAN CITY, Tues. rE Vatican has placed on its index of forbidden books three works by a Frenchman. Dr. A. Hesnard. which expound a new code of morals. They are: MORALE SANS PECHE (Morals Without Sin), published in 1954. LTNIVERS MORBIDE DE LA FAUTE (The
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  • 27 2 ROME. Tues.— Four stamps showing winter sport scenes will be issued here for the opening of the seventh Olympic winter games at Cortina Dampezzo. Reuter.
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  • 384 2 They battle frozen wastes to bottom of the world "POLAR RACE -A WHIPS EYE VtEIV T ONDON, Tues.— The freighter Tottan left Antarctica yesterday, after landing the advance party of the Royal Society's Antarctic expedition on the shores of Cnatsland. The Royal -Society said here yesterday: "106 bay in which
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    • 229 2 LOS ANGELES: Actress Mary Beth Hughes won a divorce from singer David Street after testifying that he once struck her so hard with the back of his hand that he left an imprint on her cheek. She said that
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    • 33 2 MANILA: Police here have started a campaign against jay-walking by arresting 2,500 offenders, mostly students. The courts were jaramel and imposed S8 fines or five days* Jail.— Reuter.
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  • 249 2 Terrorism makes no difference to Cyprus as a ba^ 'Resign 9 rumours are spiked LONDON, Tuesday. T*HE Governor of Cyprus, Field Marshal Sir John Harding, denied heatedly in a television interview last night that he intended to resign because of a "row" with the Prime
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  • 63 2 NICOSIA. Tues.— Masked terrorists at Famagusta yesterday held up people going to the police to surrender guns, took the weapons and escaped. The Government ordered that all guns, whether licensed or not, must be handed in to the police before noon today. It is estimated
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  • 21 2 WASHINGTON, Tues. A U.S. Navy research balloon launched in Japan three days ago was seen over Texas today. Reuter.
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  • 20 2 NEW YORK, Tues. The United States yesterday contributed U553,208,070 to the U. N. Children's Fund.— A. P.
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  • 20 2 LISBON. Tues. Senhor Juscellno Kubitschek, Presi-dent-elect of Brazil, left here by air early today back to Brazil.— Reuter.
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  • 122 2 Blackout at 70 m.p.h. then train left rails LOS ANGELES, Tur< —The driver at thr npress tr.iin which (»-> ed here on Sunday m the loss of last night he bluik'H out before the trim nit a nm M :0 111 .p.h. and overturned. On hi> hsspl Mr. Frank turn
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  • 41 2 A Viscount airliner due Friday 'RRITAIN.^ 0 airliner I count, will pore Airport on Jriaaj noon. n .v,irh The Vteco London un delivery HI tralian Air U The VI rated by 31 300 of X the ready been them by th
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  • 19 2 Opposing Ike NEW YORK tor William publican I day to I enhower P in the r maxy eonte I
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  • 15 2 Greece agrees ATHFV I has agreed I March 01 I I countn- I and Yu
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  • 329 3 IT'S NOW UP TO CHOU AND DULLES REDS, AMERICANS TALKF.n FOR FIVE MONTHS WITHOUT RESULTS 'The only way to ease Formosa tension 9 GENEVA, Tuesday w)MMUNIST CHINA said today that the' dispute over Formosa could be settled only at .met'tinjJ between the United States Secretary of gtate, Mr. John Foster
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  • 113 3 KATMANDU, Tues. Till Qbccb •> n( President gbenbower have been to attend the coronitiim of Ktel Mahendra ,f Nepal <>ii May I n t h rr imitations have gone to Pr< -!d«rit Rajendra Prasad of India. Mao Tsetunj of China. President Rene < otj "f
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  • 35 3 Uf, Tues. An Israeli enetrated six miles the Jordan border Dead Sea and c with Jordan It was annouc- < 'oday. I rdan Home Guard riously injured, the i ement said. Reuter.
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  • 20 3 InIOON, Tues.— The Ameretary of State, Mr. ■ter Dulles, will visit March, it was learned here today. I
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  • 72 3 The air girls learn how it's done I Five Japanese stewardesses being trained at the BOAC training school in Britain visited the Elizabeth Arden beauty salon in London. All BOAC planes carry Arden make-up. Being shown the correct method of aplication is Miss Kazue Tokorora, 23. Other hostesses (left to
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  • 214 3 GRADS WILL NOW FIGHT FOR QUEEN AND COUNTRY BRISTOL. Tues. ORISTOL University v debating union last night rejected a motion which gained world-wide prominence when passed by an earlier generation of Oxford undergraduates in the *****. The Bristol students rejected by 50 votes to 13
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  • 140 3 'Marilyn Monroe' shape can double the speed of new planes WASHIGTON, Tues— The "Marilyn Monroe" shape for aircraft can now be used to build planes which would fly at twice the speed of sound, the U.S. Government's air research agency said yesterday. The new design, named after the film star
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  • 144 3 When she is freed she will be an 'asset* NEW YORK. Tues. r»KYO ROSE." jailed 10 years for her broadcasts to American troops during the war, has been offered a job as a radio announcer when she is released. The offer was made by
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  • 365 3 LONDON STOCKS LONDON, Tues. rpHERE was little to assist sentl- ment In the stock markets today and investors displayed a ereat reluctance to extend commitments in view of the clouded economic outlook. Selling however, was smaller than of late *rt after initial marking-down prices tended to rally. But there was
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  • 178 3 5 die in Morocco political battle RABAT, Tues. \f OROCCAN national- j ITI ists of rival political parties fought in the; little town of Souk El Araba yesterday, leaving five dead and ten wounded. The town of about 5,000 people, is In north-western Morocco, near the Spanish Morocco border. The
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  • 48 3 CANBERRA. Tues. Mr. Richard Casey, Australian Minister for External Affairs, said that the Queen had consented to the name "Prince Charles Mountains" being given to a range in Australian Antarctic territory. The mountains are 150 miles south-east of the permanent Australian base at Mawson. Reuter.
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  • 15 3 SAIGON, Tues. South Vietnam has decided to hold elections on March 4. Reuter.
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  • 248 4  -  PETER KAYL Confidential matters" hold up action— Attorney-General By I He may be allowed to choose final home KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. THE Federation's Attorney-General, Mr. T. V. Brodie, said today that "confidential matters" were holding up a banishment order made against a big-scale opium
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  • 92 4 XL ALA LUMPUR, Tues. A Wick h am trolley broke its lan belt when it ran into a SU-gallon tar drum l.uil between the rails in the Labis area of Johore last night. It dragK<*d the drum 70 yards before stopping. Ten yards before the trolley
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  • 54 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Police today seized more j than 3,800 feet of copper wire from a boy in Chan Sow Lin Road The wire is believed to have been cut from telephone posts at the fourth mile, Cheras Road last night. The boy will be
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  • 24 4 NIBONG TEBAL, Tues. I Province police today lift- ed the curfew imposed on the village limits of Nibong Tebal on Jan. 13.
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  • 58 4 Tree trunk trap for manager KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A police corporal warned the manager of the C.E.P. Niyor estate, in the Kluang district of Johore, when he saw three trunks laid across the estate road on Sunday night. Guards were alerted. Soon after lights were seen along the perimeter fence.
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  • 45 4 TAIPING, Tues.— Mr. P. Nadason of the Central Electricity Board, Taiping, was entertained to a farewell dinner at the Ylt Sun Restaurant here last night prior to his retirement. He has completed 29 years' service with the department as a fault-finder
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  • 85 4 A Singapore magistrate, Mr. J. M. Devereux-Cole-bourn, yesterday complained that police requests to remand accused persons for a week were so numerous that they were becoming stereotyped. Inspector T. S. Zain had asked the court to re- mand Yap Poh Yuen for a
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  • 133 4 The barnacle bosses -by Singapore union chief rE president of tne Singapore Trades Union Congress. Mr. S. Jaganathan, warned yesterday that unless certain employers stopped their attempt to suppress healthy trade unionism, he would name and denounce them publicly. These employers, he said, "Irrationally summarised" the trade union movement as
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  • 208 4 MURDER BID AT RAFFLES PLACE EHDUR MEN. who took part in what was described r by the prosecution as a "brutal attack on an unarmed man," were jailed by Mr. Justice Taylor in Singapore yesterday for terms ranging from five years to eight years. They
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  • 47 4 A one-week exhibition of the history of Singapore will be held at the Victoria Memorial Hall from Feb. 6 when Singapore celebrates the 137 th year of its foundation. The exhibition will be opened by the Governor, Sir Robert Black, at 5.30 p.m.
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  • 27 4 An Indian girl. Komenawale, 7. narrowly escaped serious injury when a falling coconut grazed her brow near her home in Jalan Eunos, Singapore, yesterday evening.
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  • 154 4 r r O traffic accidents occurred within four hours of each other early yesterday morning. The first was at East Coast Road, opposite the Ocean Park Hotel, when a heavily laden car collided with a bus and then crashed into a lamppost. The impact
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  • 205 4 IPOH, Tues. Mr. Justice Pretheroe today transferred the case of a 15-year-old girlmother, charged with killing her baby, to the juvenile court in Tapah. Ramayee, daughter of Veeramuthu, originally had a charge of murdering her four-year-old daughter In the Tapah hospital, on Sept.
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  • 21 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. The Lstanas ln Johore last year cost the Government $113,870 for their maintenance and upkeep.
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  • 214 4 JOINT LOTTERY WAS MY IDEA, says BRAGA Assembly debate in April rpHE Singapore Health Minister, Mr. 1 disclosed yesterday that the proposal 'tn joint social welfare lottery with the f made by him recently on a visit to Kuala I I had discussions on K Federation Minister I •Health and
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  • 46 4 Friendly Aussie by Colony air girl MISS VIOLET (»(m 24--year-old QAiitas Airways receptionist, returned to Singapore yesterday after two weeks in Australia. Australians were "very friendly and co-opera-tive" towards Asian visitors and students, she said. Miss Ooi attended a (Juntas course in Sydney. Straits Times picture
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  • 49 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Another $1,086 has been received for the Kuala Lumpur Municipal Fund for relief of the Gombak Lane flre victims. The Malayan Youth Council collected $637. of which $484 came from the Batu Road English School. The fund now totals $92. 274.
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  • 50 4 KUALA LUMPUR Tues. Five Indian members of Par liament will tour the F»df ration for a week :rom Jar 30. They arc: Mr U Upadya (leader) Dr P 0 Ramchandra, Mr V.M Üba: dullah Mr. T S. Pattabh: raman and Mr T V Kaira laswamy
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  • 30 4 Mariners arc wni: flrinc practice will I I on Biakanp: Mati I I 30 to Feb. 3 and from Feb. to 10 between 8 am I I p.m.
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  • 139 5 CLOTHES ARE HER BIG INTEREST Marlowe, O rld famous tordlst and an lodged autho-r-on instrument of and 18th haa a great in clothes and rdl in an n her hotel with rimes reporter Where Chinese coat Both my I want to hree suits." is Mr. Leonid landscape l< aviriß toB
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  • 25 5 Union officials Wow Koon has i n tfdent of the mica) Industries Union, Sinthls year with Mr. n.rong as vice- i Mr. V. A. Chel-
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  • 61 5 I A L A TRENGGANU. A departmental inI held by the President of the Kuala Treng- Inche Ibrahim bin Jalleh, into alle- i :men that they I had been detailed to do work unconnected with their normal duties. Inche Ibrahim said he was aware that the firemen
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  • 227 5 CINGAPOKE doctors yesterday warned against the indiscriminate use of penicillin and other anti-biotic drugs to cure minor ailments, without medical advice. Professor E. S. Montelro of the University of Malaya, told the Straits Times that all doctors realised penicillin could be dangerous. He said
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  • 21 5 Singapore's Controller of Immigration, Mr. M. C. Compton was "progressing satisfactorily" yesterday after an operation at the General Hospital.
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  • 723 5 MORE PAY for BUSMEN MEANS DEARER TRANSPORT for PUBLIC T m Court of Inc <I"ii*y into the Singapore Traction Company dispute was told yesterday [lie company would nave to run at an annual loss of about $2 million if the employees' demands 1 were met.
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  • 69 5 MR. LIM LEAN TENG (above), a Penang millionaire, has given $100,000 to the Nanyang University Fund the biggest individual gift from the Federation. The money was sent through the university's administrative office in Singapore. "This is Mr. Lim s first donation and we hope he
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  • 193 5 They prefer private practice to Govt. THE SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT Establishments Officer, Mr. I. D. Fraser, said yesterday that the Government was always seeking young Malayans with University degrees for administrative posts— but could not get them. He was asked if the 13 Malayans who have
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  • 142 5 42-MILE PROCESSION TO MEET THE BRIDE ALOR STAR, Tues. The Kedah Government today appointed a six-man committee to draw up plans for the forthcoming marriage of the Raja Muda, Tengku Ralim, to Tengku Bahiyah. eldest daughter of the Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan. The
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  • 197 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Tuesday. AN ACCIDENTAL death verdict was recorded today on Sgt. G. Hayes of R.A.F. Station, Changi, Mrs. Hayes and their son, Michael who died after a crash at the 23rd mile Ayer Hitam road on Oct. 30. The Coroner, Inche Salleh
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  • 95 5 10-year jail term quashed KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— A 25-year-old Singapore man sentenced to 10 years' jail by the Federation Chief Justice, Sir Charles Mathew, for gang robbery, today walked out of the Federation Criminal Court of Appeal here a free man. Abdul Kadir bin Hail Tambi successfully argued his own
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  • 34 5 Chinese paintings by a Hong Kong artist, Mr. Tseng Hou Hsih, displayed at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, are now on show at the Kheh Community Guild in Peck Seah Street.
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  • 29 5 Eight wartime graves in Singapore have been dug up and the bones taken to the Tivan Cemetery off Jalan Eunos. The land is needed for new roads.
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  • 68 5 How to be a queen it's secret JTVEN plain Jane will have a chance to become Singapore's Chinese New Year Queen. A contest, open to all comers, is to be the highlight of a dance on February 12 at Raffles Hotel in aid of the Canine Home in Thompson Road.
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  • 61 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. The following have been appointed members of the Kota Tinggl Hospital 3oard for 1956: Che Sapiah binte Mohamed Akil, Che Zainab binte Ahmad, Sharifah Zainab binte Mohamed, Mrs. M. H. Edmett, Mrs. H. K. Watt, Mr. Tan Seng Toon, Mr. Tan Kay Tiong, Mr. T.A.D.
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  • 23 5 Thieves broke into a house in Kheam Hock Road, Singapore, on Monday and stole 14 bottles of liquor worth $200.
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  • 663 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed. Jan, 25, 1956. Taxation And Unity Any comments which Singapore's Chief Minister may make on Tengku Abdul Rahman's speech to Malayan students in London will be delivered in the Assembly when it meets early in February. Mr. Marshall owes the Assembly a statement in any
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  • 374 6 As a Minister in a Government which is pledged to rapid Malayanisation, Mr. Chew Swee Kee quite naturally is incensed at any suggestion that he may be thinking of bringing in expatriates through the back door. Yet Singapore's Education Minister has only himself to blame if his journey
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  • 180 6 There are two excellent reasons why Singapore's Chief Minister should not fly to Bangalore, as he proposes, to head Singapore's delegation to the conference of the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East. The first is that there is plenty of business much nearer
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  • 361 6 EMPLOYERS MUST MOVE WITH THE TIMES rE letter from "Libra" in your issue of January 17, is full of contradictions. "Libra" is either a knave, a fool, a hypocrite or a person who received privileges from the expatriates. The Malayan Trade Union Council wants immediate Malayanisation of the Public Services.
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  • 144 6 BLOW AT MUSLIM BELIEFS rE reported action by Mrs. X in forming: an aristocratic clique in opposition to mixed marriages contravenes one of the principal tenets of our faith and constitutes an appalling disclosure of the state of mind of some of my countrymen, which cannot pass without sharp criticism.
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  • 146 6 I NOTICE that the Kedah government is about to spend a very large sum of money on Kedah roads and bridges. I see no sign of any of this money being used on the Bandar Bahru Parit Buntar ferry. This is the most exasperating and Inefficient ferry in
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    • 179 6 T AM one of those called 1 recently to attend talks in Kajang and Sungei Chua to discuss the sending of representatives to witness the searching at police check points. I did not turn up at those meetings simply because I think it is the duty of
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    • 45 6 No emergency facilities WHY is it that the Kan- dang Kerbau hospital is not equipped to deal with emergency cases The same is true for an anti-tetanus injection. It is ludicrous to have a hospital which does not treat emergency cases. K J. R. Singapore.
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    • 87 6 An unhealthy altitude WITH a select committee appointed to work on the Malayanisation of the Federation Government services, the Medical Services show an unhealthy attitude. The Senior Asian gazetted appointment of Lady Superintendent, carrying a salary of $700 per month in the Sungei Buloh Medical Department, fell vacant last April.
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    • 60 6 'Pestered' on par day IT HAS become a practice of the money lenders in the Federal Capital to come to the Government offices and pester the Government servants on pay days. I understand that in Singapore they are prohibited from entering the Government offices. I trust that the heads of
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    • 35 6 Heavy taxi rates rXI drivers are charging heavily for country travel. In order to minimise the charge, mileage meters should be fixed in every taxi and the charge calculated according to mileage. CALCULATOR Ulu Selangor.
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    • 44 6 r;E letter from Francis Lee gives the impression that the crews on Chinese operated buses are inconsiderate. In my short stay here, I have seen no evidence to support this statement. In fact, the reverse would seem to be true,
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    • 116 6 HOW my letter could convey to "Englishman" the Implication that the average Malayan cannot understand English if it is pronounced correctly is a source of amazement to me. If a word is pronounced Incorrectly, it does not necessarily mean that it does not convey its meaning.
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  • 760 6 BACK to Maiayamsation, for it is a subject upon which the government of Singapore must make up its mind well before the Chief Minister goes to London in April. And also one upon which leaders in the Federation speak with many
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  • 122 6 REPORTS ON TEACHERS T^HE Straits Tin A ed Dr. Ho Educational Si the Methodist schools, as sayin though he hag Inches high," with reccemendations to d: tain teachers, has not sacked any. All Methodist A.:: school teachr: pointed with the an:- of the Educate ment, and can dp d..-.r: only
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    • 892 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. 20 Word, $10 (minimum). M. P. KUMARAN of Methlla Stores, Segamat. to Mythili. a son. (Harlkumar) at General Hospital. Johore Bahru. on 21st January, 1956. A brother to SreeKumar. 2« Kurds S7O (minimum). KAIKINI CHANDRAGIRI: P D Kalkini s/o Mr. Mrs. D.R. Kalklnl to Lalita d/o Mr. Mrs.
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    • 20 6 MALAYAN RAILWAY Travel in Safety and Comfort ALL FIRST AND SECOND CLASS BEDS ARE NOW FITTED WITH FOAM LATEX MATTRESSES
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    • 74 6 H E R Rl NGS FRESW or TOMATO SAU' AGENTS Tf) C E MORTON (MAUU) IJJ I Singapore Kuala I.umpur J^> Always Remember CATHAY SILK STOr for High Quality Goods and Low COLOURED B£D ?HHETS *0"»90" MIN'S BIST PO«>UK SHIRTS CANNON COTTON BLANKETS ™'«i 0 AMERICAN "TRUVAL" SPORTSHIRTS AMERICAN NIGHT
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  • 239 7 I'm not mad but I've shot him' GURKHA RIFLEMAN CHAHr.rn WRH PAT CHETT GUN MURDER IN BAHAU CAMP COIRT TOLD OF ALLEGED CONFESSION' IN THE GUARD ROOM KUALA LUMPUR. Tuesday Jit of a court martial to try an alien who i alleged to have committed an offence ritory outside the
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  • 278 7 Simone the seaman in skirts WITH THREE MEN IN A BOAT TO FRANCE ALONE on a 42-foot cutter with three men during a four month cruise from Singapore to France doesn't worry Simone Moncharmont beautiful, 29-year-old French schoolteacher. "I'm a sailor first and a woman second," she says. Her companions
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  • 88 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Chinese labourers have bought six rubber estates in west Pahang, mostly near Bentong. The estates are of 20 to 30 acres and prices ranged from $12,000 10 $15,000. A Pahang Labour Department spokesman said a labourer and his family had been
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  • 290 7 The owner was shot by mistake MALACCA, Tuesday. INSPECTOR Yeo Lvi Long today produced a shot--1 gun as an exhibit in the Alor Gajah Coroners Court and told the Coroner, Mr. Ramanatha Iyer, that it was responsible for the death of a number of terrorists. But
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  • 54 7 MALACCA, Tues.— The Malacca branch of the British Red Cross Society is appealIng for Malay. Indian and Chinese novels, short stories. magazines comics and children's books for the library for tuberculosis patients at the General Hospital here. Gifts should be sent to the Red Cross
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  • 91 7 Talks offer instead of strike The Singapore Improvement Trust Labour Union has agreed to defer a strike notice and negotiate with the Trust authorities on Its five claims. The claims are: Payment to Trust workers of the $25 bonus given to City Council labourers after their strike last year: accommodation:
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  • 258 7 A chat and all's well CHEW EXPLAINS CASE OF H.K. EXPATS 'THE president of the Federation of Government Employees' Unions, Mr. N. A. Kularajah, yesterday had a chat with the Minister for Education, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, and came away satisfled with Mr. Chew's explanation of his recent visit to
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  • 74 7 SLIMMING? ER, YES AND NO SLIMMING? Weil, yes, that's the name, John Slimming. Bat right now he is not slimming but trying to regain the six pounds he lost proving that it is possible to live off the jungle and survive. Mr. Slimming, Assistant I'rotector ot Aborigines, went into the
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  • 248 7 THEY'RE NOT OUT TO FIND FAULT Lan to draw up "a bold imaginative scheme" to tackle the problem of raising teaching standards. He suggested refresher courses for teachers. Mr. McLellan commented" "These have already been held and will be continued. But there are so few inspectors
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  • 33 7 The Singapore branch of the Malayan Indian Congress will hold a mass meeting at Jalan Besar Stadium at 5 p.m. tomorrow to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the Indian Republic Day.
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  • 73 7 ■pHE British applicant to whom the Board of Governors of the Singapore j Polytechnic offered the post of principal has accepted. He is Mr. D. J. Williams, at present principal of Lancaster and Morecambe College I of Further Education in Britain. He holds the degree of Bachelor
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  • 115 7 Officer killed ft From Page One struck Lt. Hughes seated next to the driver on the forehead. The driver accelerated and into a second ambush laid 200 yards further along the road. He drove through it. At the sawmill police telephoned Kota Tlnggi for a doctor. Lt. Hughes was
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  • 61 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tups. Dr. H- M. Soo of Kuala Lumpur Is to be given the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Hong Kong. He is the first Malayan graduate of the university to get an honorary degree for services given to it.
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  • 96 7 NO UMNO 'GAG' IN COLONY 'Tell us criticisms' THE secretary of the UMNO division in Singapore, Inche Sved Ahmad Jamalulil. denied yesterday that local UMNO branches were being "gagged" to prevent them from criticising Alliance Assembymen. It had been reported that criticisms from the branches had damaged the prestige of
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  • 25 7 The Malayan Air Training Corps will hold an exhibition at its headquarters in Waterloo Street. Singapore, at 5 p.m. on Feb. 2.
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  • 243 7 Cast away good character A MALAY soldier who, according to his counsel, "threw away his good' character and became a disgraced man," was sentenced to two years' jail by a Singapore court martial yesterday for stealing detonators. He was Pte. Patada bin All. 29. of the R.A.O.C.
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    • 248 7 OFFERS EX STOCK ONE 1,000 ton DOWNSTROKE AND HORIZONTAL ANGLE PRESS by LEEDS EXGIXEERIXG HYDRAULIC CO. LTD., with 18' glar.ded downstroke ram, BJ* stroke and clamping surface 15" x 22". Max. daylight 2' ij'. Two pull-back rams 3*" dia. Horizontal ghnded ram 18* dia. 14' stroke, damping surface 15' x
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  • 387 8 AS SINGAPORE FRETS AND FUMES... KUALA LUMPUR Tues. Political leaders in the Federation today were reluctant to be drawn into the row that has flared up over a possible merger with Singapore. The Federation Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman,
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  • 57 8 WORRIED AMAH FOUND DEAD IN DRAIN A WORRIED amah wanting news of her ramily in China slipped into a monsoon drain and was drowned, a Singapore inquest was told yesterday. A misadventure verdict was recorded on So Yee Mvi, 41, whose body was found in a drain in Fort Canning
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  • 120 8 New bid in Perak to woo bandits from the jungle IPOH, Tues. All mobile units of the Information Department in Perak have cancelled their routine tours to concentrate on wooing terrorists to "surrender before it is too late." The amnesty, declared on Sept. 9, will end at midnicht on Feb.
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  • 149 8 EVICTION CASE INVOLVES QUEEN A SINGAPORE lawyer, Mr. L. Lloyd, contended in the Second Criminal District Court yesterday that an action taken by two Naval Base employees and their union secretary, Mr. S. Woodhull, against the Dockyard Commodore Superintendent regarding the "unlawful eviction" of two former employees involved constitutional issues.
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  • 260 8 ONLY ONE MORE CHAPTER TO WRITE IN REPORT fTHE Malayanisation Commission has only one more chapter to write before its report on how the Government service should be Malayanised is complete. The Commission is meeting three times a week in an attempt to bring its report up
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    • 47 8 SEA VOYAGING? SEE COOKS Always Carry COOK'S TRAVELLERS' CHEQUES SAVES EHm AND v^^|/ FROOD IS A BOON TO HOUSEWIVES rayi\ CONTINENTAL |^^E^s DELIVERY ||£SlSp^W|l IP I c Apply for details to: GEORGE LEE LIMITED (MOTOR DIVISION) 200 CLEMENCEAU AVENUE, SINGAPORE 9. TEL: *****-5 Represented throughout the Federation.
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    • 203 8 FEDERAL AND COLONIAL BUILDING SOCIETY LTD. mi FUTURE OF MALAYA will he direefej from th«> HOMES of the PEOPLE Since Incorporation the Federal and Colonial Building Society Ltd. has assisted over 4,500 families to purchase the homes of their choice. KUALA LUMPUR No: 19, Old Market Squart FEDERAL AND COLONIAL
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    • 490 8 House; 10.00 The Goon Show; RADIO MALAYA 1030 Dance Music; 11.00 Close. (•Programme thus marked ran be received by listeners in Ma- I ?/|T»J T|l tjl I larra) Short wave 49 and 62m. Medinm wave 4?6m., 343, 366 m. and 297 m. A.M. -8.57 and 11.08 English SINGAPORE Schools Broadcasts;
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  • 572 10 TIN PRODUCTION IN 1955 WAS BEST SINCE THE WAR By Our Market Correspondent MALAYAN tin miners achieved a post-war record in 1955, producing 61,244 tons of tin-in-concentrates representing a rise of .91 per cent on 1954, the previous highest post-war year. The total was 554 tons more than in 1954,
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  • 136 10 February first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed in Singapore yesterday at $I.oB^ per lb. up three-eighths of a cent on Monday's closing price. The Hosing tone was uncertain. Closing prices in cents per lb. were: No. 1 R.S.S. Spot f.o.b. buyers 108%, sellers 108%; No. 1 R.S.S. February
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  • 170 10 Ships lying alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharvea or expected today are: Oranje 1-2, Steel Traveller 4-5, Thor Odland C.P., President Monroe 6-7, Benmacdhui 8-9, Benvrackle 11, Teucer 13-14, Cyclops 15-16, Slamat 18. Tjlbadak 19-20. Sumpitan N. Wall 6, Lalwul N.Wall 8, North Star 21-22. Senai 24, Mason Lykes
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  • 174 10 NEW YORK. Tues. Some 10.350 workers in ten factories of Chrysler Corporation will be laid off o"n Wednesday, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Journal quoted the Plymouth divl- .-ion of i\je company as saying the lay off was to bring dealers stocks in line
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  • 101 10 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices per picul yesterday were: Copra; quiet; January $26 s buyers, $27 s sellers; February $27 buyers. $27 B sellers. Coconut oil: steady: bulk $39 < t sellers; drum $42 4 sellers. Pepper: quiet; Muntok white $136, Sarawak $135 (both unchanged), special Sarawak
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  • 265 10 The Malayan Share Brokers Association reported: "All sections of the local share market were quiet and subdued." Singapore and Federation brokers reported the following business done yesterday: Federal Dispensary $2,524; Praser and Neave ords. $1.80: Gammon $2.52'?; W. Hammer $2.85 cd; Malayan Breweries $3.50; Malayan Collieries $1; Metal
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  • 64 10 An extraordinary meeting of Malaysiam Tin is to be held on February 9 in London to confirm the board's announced plan to repay 2s. per ss. ordinary unit. Last November's circular explained that as the Olaml area would need no large capital outlay there was a surplus of
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  • 38 10 On the free exchange market In Hong Kong yesterday, the U.S. dollar was quoted at 5.87 V» for cash and 5.89 S. for T.T. Sterling was quoted at 15.71 and one Uel of (old at 254%.
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  • 10 10 OFFICIAL PRICES NNGAPORE RIBBKK tjat thr COPRA; Picul (unchtn^,, N
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  • 81 10 MEI.HOr I Investmrms turnover lUtl Slock Mark, minings oils light althoum were better suppo- dropped bui s 18/-. Silver If-,, lower metal firm. Loans 3*% m*. Loans 1%% 1956-5J Con. Zinc. Bank of N.S.W. Mount Lyell N. Broken Hill Hill 50 H: Mount Morgan Peko Western ID Ampol
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 450 10 ISIT KIDNEY TROUBLE? Those poms are o warning WC^^aSj.li Backache, acakJ- I JBp> In*, burning and v- J^_M>W^^^ ntaoon are Natnrc'a Wfi^mLt wmrr.inr roo that aomething may be kidney*. Theaetwo K W <U blood purifiers do la^Bwr lam ntaliy important *>«4 •Job m adding the tjtttm of waat* poiaooa and
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    • 300 10 NOTICES NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given that Mr. Wong Tet Luke's service with us will be terminated, as on the 31st January 1956 and he will have no authority to act on cur behalf, as from the Ist February 1956. MACPHAIL CO. (IPOH) LTD., IPOH. CHANGE OF TELEPHONE NUMBERS As
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    • 394 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS SELANGOR TURF CLUB APPLICATIONS are Invltad for the combined post of Secretary and Clerk of the course to the Selangor Turf Club. Salary according to qualifications and experience. Applications to be sent to the Chairman, Selangor Turf Club, 85 Ampang Street, Kuala Lumpur by 29th February 1956. COLONY
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    • 394 10 NOTICES OVERSEAS TRADERS LTD. INSURANCE DEPT. is at Your Service, for Insurances At Lloyds. Tele: 7541 or P.O. Box No. 18 BY ORDER OF THE LIQUIDATOR Re: Low Tangchang Limited AUCTION SALE OF 31 Cues of 12 Qt. Bottles each "Macleay Duff" Brand Scotch Whisky and 14 Cartons of 12
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    • 333 10 I P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE TENDER for the erection of Two (2 1 Nos. of Two Bedroon* Police Officers Quarters Class 'E' including all sewerage and drainage outlets at I 1 Mile Coast Road. Port Dtckson, closed on 23.11.55 Ls recalled and will be received from registered class 'E' contractors and
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    • 423 10 KNUTSEN LINE orient service FROM CANADA/U.S. PACIFIC PORTS— 3O DAr.s Sailing Arriving San Francisco Spore f. Swet. Penan* fr:— Ogeka Bakke 10 |an 12 Feb* 16 Feb 17 Feb I Elizabeth Bakke 4 Feb 5 Mar 7 Mar Cjertrud Bakke 3 Mar 2 Apr 4 Apr Anna Bakke 7 Apr
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    • 1094 11 EAST ASIATIC UNE SAILINGS TO CONTINENT/SCANDINAVIA '•r Aden, Port Said. Genoa, Antwerp, Rotterdam. Hamburg, CopaP-hnaoa Gothenburg Oslo T'oore P. Sham Penana LALANDIA" a/9 Feb ."INDIA" 28 Fob/ 2 Mar M0IA 4/ 8 Mar 9/ 9 Mar 10/U Mar »i r -1 15/17 Mor 18/18 Mar 19/20, Mar SAIUNCS FROM SCANDINAVIA/UK
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    • 1028 11 ."SngTHE BEN UNE STEAMERS LTD T £i/r SINGAPORE (Incorporated in the United Kingdom) J LINES SAILINGS TO U.K. AND CONTINENTAL PORTS Spore P. Sham Penong BENLOMOND for Avonmouth, London, Newcastle 6.13/14 24/27 Jew. ■BENVRACKIE for London, Rotterdom 0.11 Sails 3 Feb Dfcect arrives Louden 2J Fob BENALDER for Hamburg, Rotterdam,
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    • 1248 11 McALISTER <S CO., LTD. TEL: No.: ***** ELLERMAN «t BUCKN ALL 1 KLAVENESS LDfS LONDON, HAVRE, ROTTERDAM, LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO HAMBURG PORTLAND, SEATTLI ft VANCOUVER ond for U.S.A.. North Atlontic Port* Accepting corao for Central ft South ond Canada ond via Colombo America CITY OF OTTAWA FRANCISVILLI Spore P
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  • 827 12 The Moon Bears Have fun watching a magic spell Rosemary, Teddy and Golly make a flying saucer from a spinning top arid go to the moon. A s they land the top sinks into the earth where they find moon bears are living. As usual Teddy and Golly begin to
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  • 352 12 IN talking about the" old man of the mountains stamp of New Hampshire. 1 iorgot to mention that the stamp also has the words "Liv e free or Die" at the bottom of the stamp, while at the top it says "V£ Postage, 3
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  • 230 12 WHAT WILL YOU; NAME PUSSY? Dear Boys and Girls, What a time I have lust had judging the word building competition. You are certainly very industrious. Here are the six winners. Ong Chong Beng, 137 Haig Road, Singapore 15, Wilson Tan, 10 Hoot Kiam Road. Singapore 10, Shirley Fong, 84
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  • 286 12 But uncle wouldn't experiment after all HAVE a -puzzle for 1 you today Uncle Ollie," said Ah Chan. "Ooooh have yooou now?" xauawked the Wise Owl. "Well let m e hear it; puzzles are my speciality." "Which weighs the most? asked the boy with the magic boots. "A pound of
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 195 12 JU/una/rbehs ilrinl@illl tf— Eno is a mild but surprisingly efficient antacid never causes i fl ll upset, but gives quick, positive relief from acid indigestion, ?>,-#■ flatulence and heartburn. jjHyli^^* That's because of Eno's mf special buffering antacid action. r Hji^f When someone overeats —or a eats something that doesn't
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    • 31 12 Please enrol me as a member of the Wise Owls Club and send me a badge. I am enclosing six C.C C. coupons and a stamped self -addressed envelope. Name Address
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    • 12 12 C.G.C. Collect six of these coupons to loin the Children't Corner Club.
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    • 190 12 GOOD ENOUGH H Brooches from $120/- (I ir-*N J 'FUJIYA' BRAND Cultured Pearl I are real pearls U Modern science has merely learned how to control their growth U ON SALE AT ALL HIGH-CLASS JEWELLERS y _c o TOCT m Moirjioif, r H The Arcidr. Smjiport. P. O. Boi 393.
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  • 438 13 Shook result In Singapore hookey UNIVERSITY of MaV laya caused the season's biggest upset in Singapore hockey when they eliminated Singapore Recreation Club "Reds", defending champions and this year's League title holders, by 2-1 in the first round of this year's senior knockout competition
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  • 296 13 AN appeal to curb rough play has been made to club officials by the Singapore Business Houses Football Association. In their fifth annual report the Committee make special mention of the increased number of incidents last season. "It is with considerable regret," the report
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  • 80 13 HAMILTON, New Zealand Tues. rjnHE West Indies gained a lead of 78 runs, with three wickets In band, over Walkato on the first day of the second match of their New Zealand cricket tour here today. The tourists dismissed Walkato for S3, and then scored 160
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  • 27 13 Yachts from R.S.Y.C.. Royal Englneeis. Tengah, Changl, Seletar and Sappers Sailing Club will take part In the annual Naval Base regatta on Sunday. Jan. 29.
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  • 78 13 Bradman at the nets shows how ADELAIDE, Tues. SIR Donald Bradman today made one of his rare appearances as a batsman since be retired from cricket eight yean aro. He batted for 25 minutes in the nets at The Oval ground here, where South Australian cricketers were coaching juniors. Bradman
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  • 48 13 English and Chinese School girls had their badminton coaching course from Wong Peng Soon at Raffles Institution yesterday. At times Peng Soon spoke Mandarin to the Chinese School girls to explain a point. Today's session will be at Victoria School for Group C boys.
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  • 46 13 11. M.5. Crane beat R.A.F. Seletar Greyhounds In a rugby friendly at Seletar yesterday by 13 points (two tries, drop goal, penalty) to three (penalty). Tries were scored by Redpath and Sullivan. Davles scored the other points. Russell kicked Seletar's penalty.
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  • 41 13 Selerang beat Seletar 4-0 In the Services inter-schools soccer league at Selerang yesterday, scoring through E. Stanley (3) and R. Whitham. In another fixture at the Naval Base Seletar "B" beat Naval Base 1-0 with a goal by Clark.
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  • 215 13 MONTE CARLO, Tues. BRITISH cars swept the field In the last competition of the 1956 Monte Carlo Rally when they took five of the six prizes in the safety and comfort events yesterday A Standard Vanguard, driven by Maurice Gatsonides, of Holland, won the
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 352 13 .s;;iio ADVERTISE-I "'E*-. hnS :U *ij Advertriemenr* to: only c xSoneiT Mi Flat by I/>unge/Dlnlng HPdroom, bathroom pl, Box A 1206 w 3 Bedrooms hsll. car porch. „,n. fans, heater tan. Frankel 0 Box A 1204 S.T. FURNISHED bathroom, kitmodem conve.t« walk Post u« s.t. ,,:wn. full board, „ed Services
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    • 369 13 VACANT ess?™., £r»»«o<», "sess «L Bedrooms 4 Fans aj^^as: ACCOMMODATION WANTED W <*"•>-••* cts. txtrm. ..^"jfESSIC-NAL MAN Requires JifK^Uy One-Bedroom Flat SelfConUtaed, Good Locality. Rental n Unfurnished GPO B °x 1180. ™rIJ AMERICAN FAMILY reaulres Uire. bedroom furnished or iSfu" ™*hed house. Buklt Timah TangUn or( Holland Road a?^ ne
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    • 870 13 TUITION 2$ Wtrd» U (Mln.}—B,x M cU. axtra. FEBRUARY NEW SESSIONS: aregg Shorthand, Bookkeeping, TypewrlUng. Also Shorthand Speed Classes 70/150 Special coaching for LCC Examinations. Chunghwa Institution. 68. Short Street. Singapore EVENINO CIASSES. Regular school subjects. Std. I-Vm, School Cert 6-8 Subjects 5 Groups lncl. Art. H.S.C. St Post-School Cert.
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    • 228 13 VEHICLES FOR SALE 20 Word, SS {Min.)— Box St cts. txtrm. 1954 VAUXHALL VELOX, Flat 1100 1951 Mayflower. Standard Vanguard. Singer, Chevrolet*, 1953 Flat 500 cc Station Wagon. All In excellent condition. Call Wong 278, Lavender Street. ROLLS ROYCE Sliver Wraith Park Ward Drophead Coupe offered by owner having purchased
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    • 215 13 FOR SALE 2$ Words SS (Min.)— Box St cU. txtrt. CATALINA SWIMSUIT BARGAINS! Assortment Oddments, past seasons models to be cleared at 25% 40% discounts. Excelsior Ltd., 66, High Street ENGLISH LINENS $1.30 P. yd. Bedcovers $3.20. French Net 50c P. yd, Bathtowel $2/- Doublesheets 3 Pieces $11/-. Luck's, 17,
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    • 223 13 FOR SALE^^ 20 Word, SS (Min.)-Boj^iocts. txtrm. TO POTENTJAIDIeseI Engine Users, we offsr our comprehensive stocks raptfe of General Motors IndiustjMn and Marine units and Generator Sets. To the many hun^ dreds of existing General Motors users, we recommend our GM Parts Service we are the only source of new,
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    • 538 13 M€u4tUtfa4fS X NEW SERVICE from BANGKOK PNOMPENH MONDAY 6-0600 DEP BANCKOK ARR: 1310 MONDAY 6SATURDAY 0750 ARR: SIEMREAP DEP: II 20 SATURDAY 0820 DEP: SIEMREAP ARR: 1050 0920 ARR: PNOMPENH DEP: 0950 FARE S TO ANGKOR WAT FROM BANCKOK SINCLE ST $85. RETURN ST $152 APPROX. FROM PNOMPENH SINCLE ST.
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 83 13 BUGGER FABELF (Singapore zone) final: HE.MI Workshops W Stafapore Engineer Regiment, G.H.Q. TanfUn; Sanderson Cap: 14 R.N.Z.A.F. t R.A.F. ButUrworth: Friendly: N*r»l Base v R.A.A.F.. Tengmh: Kimnji W,T t R.N.A.S. Sembawanf, Sr/mbawanjr,; S.C.C. "A" G.H.Q. pftdMir: Nee Soon RFC St. Andrew's School. WoodsrUle HOCKEY S.H. A. v Ceylon Services, Jalan
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  • 224 14 Nine-times champion Rube's here on holiday JOTTIHGB OUBE BILLETT, one of IV the most famous names in Malayan racing, is back in Singapore on a short vacation. Rube retired a few years ago and returned to West Australia after a colourful career on the Malayan Turf. Rube was one of
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  • 493 14 WEST POINT (late Knight's Yarn) has progressed on the right lines since his winning debut at Buk.it Timah in November. This four-year-old by the Guineas winner Happy Knight went faultlessly in a tryout with Programme, covering 3f in 38 2 5. Four Charmers (Franklin), who
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  • 39 14 SYDNEY, Tues. Keith MUler, Australian Test all rounder, who has been troubled by a back InJury, is unlikely to play for New South Wales In the Sheffield Shield match against Victoria here on Friday.
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  • 24 14 Singapore Cricket Club drew 2-2 with Royal Malayan Navy in their hockey friendly on the padang yesterday. Interval score was 1-1.
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  • 450 14 WELSHMEN ARE AMONG THE STRONGER OPPOSITION piRST Battalion, Fiji 1 Infantry Regiment, the defending champions, are entering only one team in this year's Singapore Cricket Club seven a side rugby competition, which starts on the padang on Feb. 6. The Fijians have not
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  • 119 14 HUNT, BELL COME IN FOR TAYLOR, CHANDLER KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. There are two changes in the North XV to meet South at Jalan Besar stadium on Saturday. The North skipper, lan Chandler of Selanffor, cracked a bone in his rigrht hand during last Saturday's SelangorNegri rugger friendly and he will
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  • 52 14 Kick-off is at 5 p.m. RUGBY FANS are reminded that the match will start at 5 p.m. and not 5.15 as stated on tickets and that there is only today and tomorrow morning left in which to buy their reserved seat tickets. These are on sale at the S.C.C. and
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  • 656 14 Epsom Jeep reports on newcomers and track work OHAW STABLE'S newcomers. Amusement Park and Opera 11, showed galloping: ability on the training track at Bukit Timah yesterday morning. Amusement Park (late New World), with Jock Wilson up, came away from Ramsbury, another newcomer in
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  • 447 14 [{HENG-Hl A. Whose entry is subject to a veterinary examination, showed a bright turn of speed on the training track yesterday morning .Breaking from the half mile, he ran the last 3f. in 38 2/5. Lycos is keeping his Penang winning form. With
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  • 121 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. TWE SULTAN of Selan«or will lay the foundation stone of the million-dollar new grandstand of the Selangor Turf Club after the Gold Cup race on Feb. 18. The stone, of black marble with a bronze plaque bordered with the Selangor colours
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  • 59 14 Singapore Recreation Club drew 1-1 with Royal Air Force Tengah In their junior knockout hockey tie on the padang yesterday. Recs opened scoring late in the first half through centre-forward Edwin Tessensohn. Tengah equalised a few minutes later through centre-forward LAC Page. After extra time neither
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  • 194 14 Airmen's novices boxing at Chang i AIRMEN from Changl, Seletar. Tengah, Kuala Lumpur and Butterworth, took part in the first preliminaries of the Royal Air Force Malaya and Singapore Novices Boxing competition at Changl, Singapore, yesterday morning. The preliminaries will continue this morning at 11 at the same place. There
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  • 316 14 S'PORE OLYMPIC CONTINGENT IS TAKING SHAPE SPORTSFRONT By THE SPORTS EDITOR SINGAPORE'S contingent to the Olympic Games at Melbourne this year is beginning to take shape. The Singapore Hockey Association will definitely send a team. Secretary S. Yoga raj ah told me so on Sunday. On Sunday, too, the Singapore
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  • 28 14 PAKISTAN LEAd LAHORE, iv clared their l for nine and by "A" had rp;u;> their second Innli Cial T e! ,t Hanlf Mohami Pakistan. M.C.C, their first In]
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  • 11 14 University > SBHFA BfMUUI British cars taki I places.
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  • 223 14 S'pore boxers wh impressively in HK By a Special Correspondent HONG KONG. Tues. ALL three Singapore competitors won their bouts last night in the Hong Kong amateur boxing championships. They arc members of the Royal Malayan Navy serving on board the H.M.S. Newfoundland. Featherweight Austin Dunsford was the first winner,
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