The Straits Times, 2 February 1956

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  • 13 1 The Straits Times Ik**** Estd. 1845 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1956 15 CENTS
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  • 703 1 MISSION GETS ALMOST ALL IT WANTS: HOLD-UP ON LOAN silence with Boyd on Merdeka Day as Lancaster House talks near their close He'll be first to announce it ~XSD ONLY WHEN HE RETURNS New Defence Ministry will be part of Rahman 's portfolio From LESLIE HOFFMAN
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  • 163 1 'Britain will act on own to revise China trade embargo list' INEY cables [•KDON W«i. Reports 'reach in c London from "ashinrion say there is a 'name thai Britain may lf i on her own to revise "ii trade with h '"a, making them the I'n.se on trade W| th
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  • 51 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. A 17-year-old Eurasian boy, Finan Andre Montelro, was drowned in a disused mining pool off Sentul Pasar this afternoon. He was the son of Mr. C. F. Monteiro, a teacher at St. John's Institution, Kuala Lumpur. Finan, who left school recently, could not
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  • 35 1 A student of the Chinese High School who is also an official of the Chinese Middle School Students Association was held by the Special Branch under the Public Security Ordinance on Monday night.
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  • 417 1 COWARDLY REDS' T\HE Malayan Com- munist Party was publicly damned yesterday by the Chief Minister ard leaders of ALL political groups for its "cowardly" attack on three Singapore police posts on Tuesday night. They appealed to the public for every scrap of information to help
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  • 199 1 Admiralty's act of kindness did it rE 16-day-old strike by 9.000 members of the Singapore Nay al Base Labour Union ended yesterday through "an act of kindness." The union called off the strike at 2.30 p.m. yesterday and ordered Its members to report for duty today.
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  • 75 1 THE JOY of BEING HOME AGAIN IT WAS a happy, happ> six-month course in Briday for Sergeant Mohamed tain He L has been h t years in the army and is Isa. 28. yesterday for he was attached to the Malay Reghome in Malaya again. Sgt intent's Federation Train Isa.
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  • 248 1 REDS SHOW A FLAG— THAT'S ALL A COMMUNIST FLAG. 34 inches by 27 inches, was found on a tree at the junction of Tiong Bahru Road and Boon Tiong Road. Singapore, at 2.30 p.m yesterday. Except for this flag, found by a detective on his
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  • 61 1 Two Singapore Labour Front Assemblymen, Mr. A. R i Lazarous and Mr. Lee Choon j Eng. who left the Government side to join the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly, have been told to answer to the party's central committee next Wednesday. Both have been asked to
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  • 36 1 KADUNA. Nigeria, Wed. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh arrived here by air today for a three-day visit to the Muslim northern region, which covers two thirds of this vast colony. Reuter.
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  • 37 1 London shivers then sun LONDON. Wed— Londoners went to work In sunshino today after their coldest night for nine years. The temperature fell from 23 degrees at midnight to 21 degrees 11 degrees below freezing—seven hours later.
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  • 25 1 LONDON, Wed A.A. Milr.r. playwright, novelist, essayist and writer of light verse, died last night at his Sussex home. He was 74.
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  • 24 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Roads in the Segamat area of Johonp were still blocked by floods today, but the water is slowly falling.
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  • 481 1 Ambushed by 20 Reds he was to have married next month KULAI, Wednesday. A TERRORIST GANG today ambushed and killed Mr. Richard Macveijjh, '.V.\, assistant manager of Kulai Besar Estate, and one of four Special Constables escorting him on his rounds. Another Special Constable and an Indian
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  • 34 1 IV (IP HUM. AYS: YORK CITY OUT LONDON. Wed Result-, of today's two F.A. Cup fourth round r*'pla>s were Chelsea 1, Burnley 1 (after extra time). Sunderland 2, York City I.— Renter.
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  • 59 1 U.S. accused of manipulating I IPOH, Wed. Sources connected with the tin industry here today blamed American manipulators for the continued drop in the tin price. They expected the price to go below $300 because of the present glut on the American market. They said: "The Americans are
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  • 19 1 JAKARTA. Wed.— The InI donesian Parliament today I ratified Indonesia's particlj pation In the International Tin Agreement
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  • 329 2 urrvoiAW DRAICP 9e%w COMMONWEALTH AMTD A TREASURED HEBIT'AGK of BRITISH WITT-IE and JUSTICE HppMpHHpMßnppHpHppa^^ QUEEN TOLD: 'WE OWE EVERYTHING TO HARD WORK OF BRITISH' LAGOS, Wednesday. *'THE British Commonwealth is the only effective league of nations the world has seen," said Abubaka Tafawa Balewa, Nigerian
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  • 132 2 Release our trawlers, says Russia to Norway LONDON. Wed.—Russia today demanded the release of 11 Soviet trawlers seized yesterday and on Monday by Norway on charges of fishing illegally inside Norwegian territorial waters. Moscow Radio said the Soviet Government was willing to regard the affair as "a misunderstanding" but stood
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  • 27 2 ALGIERS. Wed. French officials last night announced that 76 rebels had been killed In the past 24 hours in a gerles of scattered engagements.—A.P.
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  • 335 2 E LAGOS, Wed. A LITTLE Nigerian boy made the Queen laugh here last night when he kept bowing to a line of news photographers instead sof giving her a posy of E flowers. 5 For Olubunmi Jibowu. six years old and three feet high,
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  • 134 2 From Malacca to London a skull LONDON, Wednesday. MALACCA Museum has given the British Museum in London a rare whale's skull. It is the only specimen of its kind in Britain and one of the very few in museum collections anywhere in the world.
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  • 39 2 MOSCOW, Wed.— Mr. Sergei Kruglov, who became the Soviet Minister of Internal Affairs when Lavrenti Beria was denounced and executed in 1953. has been "released from duties." He is replaced by Mr. N.P. Dudorov. Reuter.
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  • 33 2 WASHINGTON. Wed.— The Governor of the Philippines Central Bank, Mr. Miguel Guarierno. and officials of the U.S. Export-Import Bank began negotiations yesterday for a loan to the Philippine* -A.P
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  • 34 2 PITTSBURGH, Wed. A U.S. Air Force B-25 twin-en-gined bomber crashed in a river yesterday about six miles from Pittsburgh's business district. Four of the five people on board were rescued.—A. P.
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  • 106 2 NEW YORK, Wed. Singer Billy Daniels was charged last night after a man was found shot and wounded outside a Harlem bottle club. The Negro star, now appear- ing at the Copacabana night club, was charged with felonious assault and illegal possession of a pistol.
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  • 77 2 HONG KONG, Wed.— Peking wants the Hong Kong Government to detain the Chinese Nationalist Sabrejet fighter and its pilot who made an emergency landing here yesterday. Mr. Con O'Neill. British charge d'affaires in Peking today forwarded the Chinese Communist demand to the
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    • 52 2 Prince i t airport drama MAXIi A CAMBO; force I i ing Prin. Sihanouk, Cambodian P ister, skidd, (i runway ai nil n port yesi prince and cials with hin unhurt The accl when one of the Dakota landing. The prince Ls o- a day official visit to the* lippines.
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    • 25 2 ISTANBI thief, Shahabettjn who holds the r derworld record from custody the Pres.s after caught for the that he would soon and go to Reuter.
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    • 16 2 OTTAWA: Affairs Ifinisti i Pearson, said ir yesterday thai would continue diplomatic reci Communist Chinj ter.
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    • 23 2 BRISBANE: blacked out 14 suburbs by crawling or a power-house and causjv It was the la did. The 19.000--. killed the snake Reuter.
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    • 23 2 BEIRUT: The Iraq Qa ernment yestercay ofa to mediate the dispute b tween Lebanon Iraq Petrolei m over Lebanon's pipelines crossin try. A.P.
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  • 55 2 AGRINION, Western Greece. Wed.— Forty gipsies yesterday battled with 40 shepherds over ownership of a donkey. Many were injured before gendarmes broke up the fighting. But the worst the donkey. It was m dismembered by the g;s pulling its l p gs from or.er and the
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  • 386 3 Geneva talks Mop-now eh*., t.— new plan to solve Formosa problem ISHINGTON. Wed. q\\{ Anthony Eden F suggested yesterday hlt Mr. John Foster pylfc.s vhould try to lliec a meeting JHtb Mr. t-hou En-lai to H* llsS ormosa a "d ,ihtr problems
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  • 27 3 WASHINGTON, Wed. Rpar-Admirai Raden Subiakto. Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Navy, arrived here yesterday for a threeweek tour of U. S. naval installations.—U. P.
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  • 158 3 SLBVERSION BY RED ENVOYS* CAPETOWN, Wednesday. S.FRICA has asked Russia to recall her from the Union by March 1 after reLdence that they cultivated subversive md carried out Communist propaganda rnment announced today niched diplotatkra with in li'4_ during she now has a in
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  • 87 3 BRITAIN'S BILL FOR CYPRUS TERROR IS £200.000 WEEK LONDON. Wed. THE War Minister, Mr. Antony Head, said yesterday that it is costing Britain more than £200.000 a week to keep British soldiers in terrorist-torn Cyprus. He was answering a question in the House of Commons. In answer to another question.
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  • 179 3 CHINA OFF TO FINE START ...in industrial race NEW YORK. Wed. /COMMUNIST CHINAS rate of industrial increase since 1952 appears to be the highest in Asia, according to a survey for 1955 published tonight by the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East. The Commission begins its annual meeting
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  • 56 3 LONDON. Wed. Soviet Union and Afghanistan today issued in Kabul a joint communiaue on economic collaboration between the two countries. Moscow Radio announced. According to the communiaue, the loan will be U.S. SlOO million, repayable within 30 years. It will be used for financing agriculture, building
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  • 73 3 VASHLVGTON. Wed.— The 1 8. Immigration Depart- ye.nerday that Mrs. iri d'Aquino Tokyo 'ill be given every r inity to defend herself thp U.S. Governr move to deport her. portation warrant charges that she last entered the United States without \alid documents or immigration inspection. That
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  • 48 3 THE Federation's Minister of Transport. Col. H. S. Lee, chats with Mr. Gilbert Longden. Tory M.P. for South-west Hertfordshire, durine a party given by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association for the Malayan "Merdtka" mission at the House of Commons. A.P. picture.
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  • 225 3 It's set off by electricity, says report ONDON, Wed. A London newspaper reports that Britain is working on a hydrogen superbomb process to be fired by electric current instead of by an atomic bomb like the Bikini blast. Security prevents Government officials from commenting. The News
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  • 81 3 HOLLYWOOD, Wed. Marie Tsien, 25-year-old actress, won a divorce here after claiming that her husband, Mr. Ernest Tsien, now living at Vancouver, Canada, wanted her to "behave in accordance with the ancient customs of obedience of their na- tive land." She told a court yesterday:
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  • 311 3 LONDON, Wed. STOCK MARKETS here made a better showing today but the improvement was due more to a cessation of recent selling than to any Increase in buying. The advance on Wall Street yesterday and the news that the U.S. will not cut oil imports were two helpful
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  • 27 3 LONDON Feb 1 Spot 32d., Mar. 31\d., Apr. -June 31 July-Sept. 30 4 d.. Oct.-Dec. 29tfd., Feb. c.l.f. 315.d.. Mar. c.l.f. 31 'jd. Tone: Very steady.
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  • 23 3 LONDON, Feb I. Cash Buyers £785. Sellers £787, Forward Buyers £771; Sellers £772; Settlement £788, Turnover: ajn. 85 tons, p.m. 65 tom>.
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  • 203 3 Strikers agree on talks IT'S LAST CHANCE MINISTER SYDNEY, Wed.— Hopes of ending Australia's nationwide dock strike were raised today when the Government and trade unions agreed to meet at a round table conference on the eight-day-old stoppage. The Invitation to the conference in Canberra on Thursday was issued today
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  • 54 3 MOSCOW, Wed. The Soviet Minister of Culture, Mr. Nikolai A. Mikhailov, left here by air today for Britain for talks on the expansion of cultural co-operation between the two countries. He was invited by Mr. Christopher Mayhew, a Labour M.P. and chairman of the British Council's
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  • 178 4 'Marshall blows hot, cold' OPPOSITION BLOC WANTS FACTS THE Progressive and x Democratic parties yesterday reiterated their demand for a full statement of what had taken place during the visit of the Singapore Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, to London in December. "Since his return from London. Mr. Marshall has
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  • 49 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The British Adviser, Trengganu, Mr. J. F. Hannyngton. is returning to Malaya soon after sick leave in Britain. Mr. F.M. Smith, who has been acting as British Adviser, will become Secretary to the Minister for Natural Resources, Dr. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman.
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  • 28 4 KAJANG, Wed. Thieves broke into a Chinese medicine shop in Tukang Street here last night and stole medicine and personal belongings valued at more than $650
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  • 86 4 SIX SISTERS TO LEAVE FOR FRANCE AND CEYLON PENANG, Wed.— Six novices of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Penang will leave for Prance and Ceylon in the Chusan On Sunday to spend a lifetime caring for the aged there. Five of them Sisters Vera de Souza, Theresa Francis,
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  • 44 4 PENANG, Wed. Mr. A. Balakrishnan (Alliance Jelutong) yesterday urged that cash be given to long service Municipal labourers instead of sold brooches and tie pins, as recommended. The president of the Municipal Council said the suggestion would be considered.
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  • 169 4 Last food ship here DOCK STRIKE FORCES UP BREAD PRICE rE last cargo of frozen food from strike bound Australia arrived in Singapore yesterday in the Blue Funnel shin Charon. The ship had completed loading her 1,800 tons of cargo including 1,000 tons of flour when the strike began Dockers
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  • 24 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed The British Council will give a film show at the Lake Gardens here on Sunday at 7. 30 p.m.
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  • 366 4 MOTION FOR SINGAPORE ASSEMBLY AMOVE for merger talks with the Federation is being made by the leader of the Singapore People's Action Party, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. The Federation Chief Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, wrote to the Colony Chief Minister. Mr. David
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  • 178 4 "^INE MEN, including Assemblyman Mr. Lim Chin Siong of the People's Action Party and the PAP trade unionist Mr. C. V. Devan Nair, have formed a convening committee to set up a union of unemployed people in Singapore. Mr. Lim Is a member of
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  • 298 4 KEEP the TOP EXPATS Now the inspectors say it 'Don't Malayanise our chief too soon* SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE inspectors agree with rank and file men that the Commissioner, Mr. N. G. Morris, and senior expatriate officers who act as his advisers should not be "Malayanised" too quickly. The inspectors have
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  • 109 4 TWO young Army couples in Singapore last night successfully fought for half an hour a fire which threatened to burn down their house. The couples are Cpl. and Mrs. John Craig and Sgt. and Mrs. Victor Lowe who had just moved in into
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  • 19 4 JOHORE BAH* Mr. Quek H elected seci Johore State W< mittee to Bessie Wati Saturday fo holiday.
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  • 9 4 The Black, Kon, UnlV( soclation Mandarii
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  • 67 5 THE TOWN CLEANERS LIST 15 DEMANDS tricing con- ire among 15 •r.itted by >orc City Cleansing n to the norities ruppiah, the y< sterday l rr.ands inI of rubber who have to a and prolU to those man-boles. free raincoats wants tran- :>• equipped i.>sengers. shoea should rry workers >hould
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  • 14 5 I;: dder-wnilama L ndon pub- Staughton a pore by on his way
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  • 77 5 Mistaken for Red PENANG. Wed— A sergeant of the 2nd Bn.. Royal Australian Regiment, was accidentally shot dead by one of his own men last night while on operations in south Kedah The sergeant was mistaken for a terrorist by his men who were in ambush
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  • 132 5 BABELISM': I'M SURE IT'LL WORK— YAP I 1 lay from a conference in India where P' ;s translation of three languages was my banker. Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, was more j than ever that Singapore's Legislative I mid be multi-lingual. Mr. Yap said French, English and Russian were the languages
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  • 281 5 SINGAPORE AND FEDERATION WARNED BY ECAFE 'BE PREPARED TO MEET SLUMP TOGETHER' LJM economic co-ordination between •r ,5 a ore and the Federation is necessary the Malayan economy is to be prepared for lower natural rubber prices, warns a United Nations survey released today. iri«Sj. ce
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  • 48 5 IPOH, Wed. The Federation Education Department has extended this year's Easter holidays of the schools to enable teachers to go abroad. Instead of the usual fortnight holidays at the end of the first term during the Easter season, schools will be closed for a month.
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  • 167 5 COLONY'S PAST ON SHOW Two schools plan a pageant A PAGEANT will be A staged in conjunction with the exhibition of the history of Singapore on Monday at the Victoria Memorial Hall. A cast of 80 has been drawn from the St. Margaret's and St. Andrew's schools. Everybody will be
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  • 19 5 E ,-jipore Rota- attended a nner party on N isbo Maru in rbour. Their host
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  • 18 5 A labourer. died in hospital v days after i -ri d after a i Rapat new
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  • 80 5 DR. K. B. KELLEY, a Colombo Plan agricultural adviser thinks Asians are reluctant to use modern techniques for breeding farm animals. Dr. Kelley. has been touring the Federation and arrived in Singapore on Tuesday. He leaves for Burma today. He thinks Singapore's veterinary standards are
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  • 155 5 Britain's gift to Singapore Assembly due tomorrow A "ROSE" which weighs a hundredweight is coming to Singapore. It is an 18 Inch square stone, cut in the shape of a Tudor rose. Salvaged from the old House of Commons, which was bombed out during the war, it
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  • 198 5 OWNERS 'CAN'T MEET' NEW RULE PIVE open air cinemas r in the East Coast Road area of Singapore may close next month. Their owners claim they cannot meet conditions imposed by the police for the renewal of their licences. The owners have appealed
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  • 93 5 A PRETTY girl clerk of the Singapore Income Tax Department. Teresa Thangasamy, was stabbed in the left shoulder while waiting for a lift in Fullerton Building yesterday morning. Just before the attack a boy tried to speak to her but she ignored him.
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  • 32 6 7(i Wordi tlO (minimum) MR. fc MRS. 8. R. SATHYAMURTHI NAIDU thank relatives and friends for their valuable gifts, good wishes and assistance on the occasion of our marriage Oi. 23-1-56.
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  • 563 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs. Feb. 2, 1956. Meat And The Death Rate The Federation's Minister for Agriculture was perhaps unfair to his nutrition experts when he attributed the relatively higher death rate of Malays to their eating less meat. Fine specimens of manhood have been reared on a diet
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  • 372 6 Education For The Malays Beginning next month, the Federation Government will set up special residential schools in five States and the two Settlements which will give secondary education to 400 more Malays every year. The plan overcomes two difficulties in the way of the Malay who wants education beyond a
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  • 232 6 While estimates that half of Singapore's population are Communists or Communist sympathisers are obviously exaggerated, the grenade attacks on the C.I.D. and police posts at Geylang and Jalan Eunos are a violent reminder of the danger in Singapore's midst and of the fact, sometimes incredibly forgotten, that Communism
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  • 750 6 INDONESIA PUTS BAR AG AINS FILMS FROM MALAYA (COMPETITION from foreign films is causing concern to producers in Indonesia and in Jakarta recently a spokesman of the Indonesian film industry urged the Government to enforce quoted regulations in respect of films produced in Malaya and the United States. The spokesman,
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    • 291 6 YOUR editorial entitled "Part Time Study" is a timely one. It Is no use talking about Malayanlsation when we do not have the necessary men to carry out such a process. The Government, we think, is not doing enough to encourage men who are
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    • 113 6 AFTER reading Mr. Old Singaporean's reply about "koo nian," I personally called upon some Chinese Schoolgirls and made enquiry about it. They told me "koo nian" is the right and usual expression and nobody will slap me in the face for saying It. However, in Peking and
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    • 73 6 TH E contention that cyclist should not ride with open umbrellas is ridiculous. Talplng is a place noted for its rain, and the poor labourer, who receives daily pay of just above $2 or a person/ with children in school, cannot afford a taxi.
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  • 845 6 A MINOR revolution has taken place, and hardly anybody has noticed it. The 5 British Government, Mr. Lennox-Boyd told the House of Com- mons a few days ago, will "prepare to take S any measures we may consider necessary. 5 including Jamming"
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  • 127 7 CHINESE WORKERS FORM A UNION KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. A rubber workers' which will 'not control from quarter" was d today. ,ugh called the PanRubber Union. Its constltu- [or membership Don's nrcanlser and gi neral, Mr. Tan firmed at the lnthat the union fd as a rival to mal Union of
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  • 19 7 RE BAHRU, Wed. 26, was electro- be touched the perimeter fence I new village yesterc
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  • 24 7 r>hall Sir Francis j I c-in-C. Far East j has accepted the I :dency of the Singapore the Royal Air it lon.
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  • 106 7 U\U UMPUR. Wed.— The Indian Government is to bf asked to abolish the "drrk" class on ships be- turrn Malaya and India. Thf rwjuot will be made by m\ members of the Indian Parliament now in Malaya stißate conditions »n Indian ships. Ihf.v
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  • 612 7 MAGISTRATE; INJURIES CAUSED DEATH -BUT NO EVIDENCE OF MURDER INTENT FOR TRIAL AT NEXT ASSIZES Father offered $30,000 bail at end of inquiry T'l^ murder charge gainst the parents of the three-year-old Ik)v found dead on Bedok Beach was yesterday reduced to culpable homicide not
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  • 99 7 TEN OF the 13 Singapore and Fedcr.ition scouts who returned to Singapore from Australia by ship yesterday after attending the Pacific Jamboree near Mclbourne. Said Scoutmaster Horace Sta Maria, leader of the party: "All of us had a truly wonderful time. So warm
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  • 56 7 PEOPLE IN THE CASE The accused EE CHONG KHOON, aged 20, a salesman PANSY SEOW, also 20, his wife. Both were originally charged with the murder of their three-year-old son, Ec Tai Seng. The charge was reduced to one of manslaughter yesterday. Counsel MR. C. H. KOH for Ee. MR.
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  • 196 7 FIVE OTHERS FACE EXPULSION TWENTY-SIX of the 31 Malay schoolboys who deserted their classes on Tuesday to picket the Singapore Ministry of Education, returned to their books yesterday after they were threatened with expulsion by the Minister, Mr. Chew Swee Kee. Of the
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  • 55 7 Three Indians waylaid a man In Tembellng Road, Singapore, at 3.30 a.m. yesterday and robbed him of $102 and a wrlstwatch. The victim, Ec Boh Kong, told police he was passing a hotel when the men pounced on him and beat him up before robbing him.
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  • 45 7 PENANG, Wed.— The Penang Indian Association will entertain the new Assistant Indian Commissioner in Malaya, Mr. P. H. Desai, and Mrs. Desai to a tea party on Friday. Mr. Desal will arrive in Penang tomorrow for his first official visit.
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  • 151 7 Boy steals once too often from same man WHEN Baboo Singh found that someone had stolen his bicycle lamp one night early last month, he bought a new one. A fortnight later, he parked his bicycle in the same place backlane off High Street and went into a nearby shop
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  • 47 7 KLANG, Wed. A fire destroyed an attap house in Kampong Sungei Pinang, three miles from here, this afternoon. The owner, Inche Basaran bin Ahmad, later told the police that the damage amounted to $5,000. He said he had lost all his life savings.
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  • 30 7 Abdul Hadl bin Musgol, 28. pleaded not guilty In Singapore yesterday to a charge of impersonating a detective in an attempt to arrest S. Rathinasamy In Kerbau Road.
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  • 75 7 Mr. Lee Slow Mong, chairman of the Singapore Arts Council, yesterday suggested that the Colony and Federation Governments or any local authority should maintain art galleries. He told Singapore Rota- rians: "The best service that a government or a local authority can render the arts is
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  • 262 7 Federation Day ceremonies MALACCA, Wednesday. DEOPLE who say that Malaya will go to the dogs once independence comes are those who want to cling to their colonial mother's apron strings and are afraid to face the world, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. Mr. J. W. Sweetman, said
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  • 219 7 The crisis laws 'must go' VILLAGERS TO PETITION GOVT. KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The All-Malaya New Villagers' Association decided at its inaugural meeting here today to ask the Federation Government to abolish the Emergency Regulations. A Johore delegate, Mr. ChenK Sow Pin. supporting the resolution, said the n?w villages were like
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  • 21 7 MALACCA, Wed.— Mr. P. G. M. Mahindasa has been elected president of the St. Francis' Association for this year
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  • 16 7 MRS. CHEN AH POH (Nee Chia Kirn Uan> departed 2/2/55 always loved and remembered.
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  • 39 7 A 22-year-old woman. Teo Meow Eng. was found dead In her home in Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore, with her throat cut and a wound in the stomach yesterday morning. A vegetable knife was by her side.
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    • 158 7 The weather MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: (7.30 p.m. on Jan. 31 to 7.30 a.m. on Feb. 1) Singapore 71 degrees. Penang 73, Kota Bahru 72, Kuala Lumpur 71 Ipoh 73 Kuantan 69. MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE: (7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on Feb. 1) Singapore 89 degrees. Penang 88. Kota Bahru 84. Kuala Lumpur
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  • 752 8  - ONE in FOUR CANNOT AFFORD THE BARE NECESSITIES- FRANCIS WONG Survey shows facts of a worker's life By QXK person out of four in the working class families of Singapore cannot afford the minimum requirements of food and clothing. Half of the worker households are "acutely overcrowded" and another fifth
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  • 54 8 Gold bars case Mr. Justice Whitton reserved judgment in the Singapore High Court yesterday in an appeal by the Crown against the acquittal of Chew Chong Jin, security officer of Pan-American Airways, on a charge of abetment of the importation of six bars of gold into the Colony. The gold
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  • 45 8 Twenty-six sanitary inspectors from Singapore, the Federation, Borneo and Sarawak yesterday began a ninemonth training course for the diploma of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health. The course was opened by the Minister for Health, Mr. A. J. Braga.
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  • 43 8 Special prayers will be said at the Sri Senpaga Vinayagar Temple in Ceylon Road, Singapore, at 7 a.m. on Saturday to mark Ceylon's Independence Day. Mr. C. Gunasingham, Assistant Ceylon Commissioner in Malaya and Singapore, will be present.
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  • 41 8 Mr. David Marshall will open the Singapore Art Society's seventh photographic exhibition at the British Council gallery, Stamford Road, at 5.30 p.m. tomorrow. The exhibition will be open to the public from Saturday till Feb. 14.
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  • 418 8 WHY TEAR IT ALL DOWN? was an indig- nant outcry in Singapore yesterday against the City Council's decision to tear down the costly interior remodelling of the lower section of the Victoria Memorial Hall. Everybody closely connected with the lower hall was unanimously opposed to
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  • 56 8 The NAAFI management yesterday met a local employees' delegation and agreed to negotiate on the 16 demands submitted by the NAAFI Local Employees' branch of the Singapore Commercial < and Industrial Workers' Union. Mr. Ang Liong Sing, secretary of the union, announced this last night and
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    • 273 8 oMw\L% NEW SERVICE from BANGKOK PNOMPENH MONDAY &0600 OEP BANCKOK ARR: 1310 MONDAY SATURDAY 0750 ARR SIEMREAP DEP lI2OSATURDAY 0820 DEP SIEMREAP ARR: 1050 0920 ARR PNOMPENH DEP: 0950 FARES TO ANGKOR WAT FROM BANCKOK SINGLE ST $85; RETURN ST $152 APPROX. PROM PNOMPENH SINGLE ST $72; RETURN ST. $l3O
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    • 394 8 EVER LASTING FISHING NET: THE KURALON FISHING NET W. Introduce ih« r*w y n»h«tic ftbf. Kurolon Urn which It ropi d v popularity in Japon. TMI KURAION RSHING NCT ho« olr«rfy be 9n octuofly w t0 US( Japan to bring obout th« rotionaJizotion ond new success to f s >-
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    • 178 8 TYlo; 10.00 Down Beat; 10.30— 11.00 Music Past and Present. RADIO MALAYA M|^p^H^H •Programmes thus nwrked can ||f^4!-4[ljjf']| bo rrceivrd by listener* In Hlii^iJlMlfl Malacca. Short wave 49 St 62m. s^ia^HHilelflßßelHLllßlHßH Medium wave 476 m., 343, 366 m, SINGAPORE t, v. Short wave 68m. Medium wave A.M. *9.22 and 11.08
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  • 1593 9 STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL FEATURES Man with price on head led British invasion fleet Spy, and a blockade runner, he helped design and lest the first submarine Mystery hero of m i Napoleonic wars I ONE STORMY night in 1802 a broadshouldered giant of six-foot-three named Thomas Johnstone achieved the supposedly
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    • 179 9 Hex Morgan. 3M.D. She apologised i fo\o YOU FIND I" S-E ~*S fc > SUS |I T "H:\<. VOJJTJE VggV iS^JJßHaafi tvE-L, It /,£SE v;i_--: ,vr..Ts I V f "*•> U»>VTON PNEUMONIA—BUT IS I StSiK^S TOTkK.E CAaf^JaSSS^ ACCEPT UE3 A.POwO3V ---until 3-E/ tV LATE, J /YOU CEBTWNL.'* ft.BE I vE*V
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  • 361 10 By Our Market Correspondent ALL Singai>ore markets were quiet yesterday due to lack of advices from the Federation of Malaya where Federation Day was being celebrated. Tin was again depressed and fell by $2.50 per picul to $380.12* on further easiness
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  • 44 10 THE Federation's Financial Secretary has fixed the following prices for calculating customs duties for the week starting February 2. RI'BBER: $1.09 per Ib. COPRA: 5432 a ton. COCONUT OIL: $684 a ton. PALM OIL: $694.75 per ton. PALM KERNELS: 5363 a ton.
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  • 221 10 The Malayan Share Brokers' Association, Singapore section reported: "With the holiday in the Federation, all sections of the local share market were quiet." Singapore brokers reported the following business done yesterday: Praser and Nea- e ords. $1.77> 2 Gammon $2.42 W. Hammer $2.80 (and overnight): Hongkong and Shanghai
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  • 159 10 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices per picul yesterday were: Copra: quiet; February $27'buyers, $27 :l A sellers: March $27 7 S buyers, $28 1* sellers. Coconut oil: quietly steady; bulk S49'j sellers: drum $43 a sellers. Pepper: quiet: Muntok white $134. Sarawak $133. special Sarawak black $93
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  • 156 10 Ships lying alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Corfu 12, Spondllus 4.5, Hamburg 67. Steel Chemist 8 9 Olga Maersk 11, Tarifa 13,14. Benvrackle 15 16. Prestes 18, Nissho Maru 19.20, Stla N. Wall 8. Selangor N. Wall 10. Pangkor 2122, Buloh 23 Taype 24.
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  • 142 10 February first grade rubber buyers, f.o.b. closed in Singapore yesterday at $108 per Ib. up half a cent on Tuesday's closing prices. The closing tone was steady. Closing prices in cents per Hi. were: No. 1 R.S.s. Spot f.o.b. buyers 108, sellers 108 U; No. 1 R.S.S. February
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  • 18 10 ■WGAPORk., RUBBER: (up half a ((I; .>H s.lPicul (down S2 5 0l fc COPRA; P'cul (unchanged,
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  • 83 10 AUSTRALIAN STOCKS Investments ■>„-. prices moving Stock Excharue falU were aim.j minings the trading in oil easier and uranium/^!? 1 and silver lea,. steady. "*s| Loans 3V, urn Loans a v.;. i 95 0. 0r; Con. Zinc. Bank of NSW Muont Lyell 3| ,*<* N. Broken Hill Hill 50 Mount
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  • 27 10 On the free exrhangs Buhl Hong Kon K dollar was quoted I cash and 5.90 fat I Sterling- wu qa I one tael of gold
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  • 22 10 TAKI'APA VALUI I Dredge produced Ml ore in January; tk I stopped on Janunrv mated two months for lidfe]| pairs.
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 626 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS Applications are Invited for the supply of all provisions, and firewood for the Malay Women's Training College, Malacca, from 23rd May. 1956. Pull particulars may be obtained from the Malay Women's TrainIng College Office. Tenders to be sent In to Principal Malay Women's Training College before noon on
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    • 642 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS ARE INVITED from Federal Citizens for appointment as Clerk/Interpreters In the Department of Mines, Federation of Malaya. Candidates, age 17-23 years, must have passed School Certificate examination with Credit in EngHsh. Salary scale: $137.50 x 7.50 152.50/ Exam-/-175 x 7.50 -205/ Exam/224 x 14-336/ Bar/353x14-422 Special Grade
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    • 596 10 NOTICES NOTICE The public Is hereby Informed that Mr. CHIA ENG TAT has since the Ist February, 1956, ceased to be employed by us and that he has no authority whatsoever to act In any capacity and to. transact any business on our behalf. TONO LAM CO., LTD., 23/25. Robinson
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    • 791 10 NOTICES AUSTRAL MALAY TIN LIMITED (Incorporated In the Federation of Malaya) NOTICE OF DIVIDEND NOTICE Is hereby given that a Dividend, the Sixty-ninth of One Shilling and Sixpence (1/6) sterling per share, less Malayan Income Tax at 30%, has been declared due and payable to registered shareholders at the Offices
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    • 408 10 NOTICES OVERSEAS TRADERS LTD. INSURANCE DEPT. Welcome Enquiries For All Classes of Marine Insurance. Tele:— 7541 or P.O. Box No. 18 Represented At Lloyds. WILLIAM JACKS COMPANY (MALAYA) LIMITED (Incorporated In the Colony of Singapore) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the 27th Ordinary General Meeting of William Jacks Company (Malaya),
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    • 328 10 KNUTSEN LINE orient service FROM CANADA/U.S. PACIFIC PORTS— 3O DATS Sailing Arriving San Francisco S'poce P. Swet Pcn»n« Ogeka Bakke Sailed 13 Feb' 18 Fcb 19 Fcb 2 Elisabeth Bakke 4 Feb 5 Mar 7 Ma- 8 Ma. Gjertrud Bakke 3 Mar 2 Apr 4 Apr Anna Bakke 7 Apr
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    • 1063 11 fly. rHE BLUE FUiatßX UMB option to proceed vio other ports to l~^i "T"*'" 5 Dept. f C SS UYERPOOL. """^ttSSti^"^ Ou# So"* P Sl*,--fco. t.-r Holland, Homburg, "om Penong I."** A Avonmouth G. 33/34 Fob 4 F.b m. b 1§ b »/27 F rt 28/2, I^/hS, F.b 20 Feb
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    • 1092 11 t^ B^^^^ aHM^ aHßf^^ BaßH l^^^| m^^ maa a^ maa^ m^ maaaaaaaa^^ mM^ ma^^ ma^ maaa W^ ma^ maa^ maa aM -^^E^^k J^^^^b B 'L^^^| b^ a a^2^^ a^^ B^^^^ g^ aH 4 a^^ a^ B^^^^| EAST ASIATIC LINE SAILINGS TO CONTINENT/SCANDINAVIA For Aden, Part Said, Genoa, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Homburg,
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    • 1035 11 SngTHE BEN UNE STEAMERS LTD^i,/? 0 SINGAPORE (Incorporated in the United Kingdom) S LINK SAILINGS TO U.K. AND CONTINENTAL PORTS Spore P. Sham Panang •BENVRACKIE for London, Rotterdam G. 13/1* Soils 3 Fab Direct errtves Lsndsn 2S Feb BENALDER for Homburg, Rotterdom, Liverpool G 23/24 3/ 4 F.b 4/ 4
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    • 1151 11 McALISTER <k CO., LTD. TEL: No.t ***** BLLKHMAM 8k BUCKN ALL KLATBITBaW LINE LONDON, HAVRE, ROTTERDAM. LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO, HAMBURG ORTLAND, SEATTLE 4 VANCOUVER and for U.J^A., North Atlontle Ports Aec p na tmtmo for Central 4 South and Conoda ond via Colombo CITY OF OTTAWA FRANCISVIILE S pore
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  • 488 12 TtfiE little Indian boy sat on the Rest House steps sobbing. He was a pathetic sight complete with satchel and rather poorly though neatly dressed. Between sobs we extracted the information that he had lost his bus fare. Even when this was given him
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  • 206 12 MY 15 YEAR OLD daughter feels that j the time has arrived for her to begin using niake- up," writes a worried j Mother. "And I do not want her to look over-made-i up as I feel that young j girls should not
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  • 451 12 HOW MEN SPOIL WOMEN PAULINE STERLING ARE American women spoiled? European and American men both say "Yes". American women don't have anything to do. the men say. Their homes run without them by automation. And, they have the "gimmies." A man, they say, has to keep showering his wife with
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 508 12 When your child is in pain You can now, at last, give aspirin safely special Children'! aspirin. Doctors know that aspirin 1 "jtt*^ is best for treating fever and relieving pain in rT 1 Kk Children, but only in small, exact, safe doses. That I *T^kl is why doctors recommend
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    • 178 12 l\ VARDLEV Feather Foundation— a tinted liquid cream —gives a perfect surface to hold the fine bloom of your powder. Feather light, feather soft, this non-drying foundation hides every tiny blemish, keeping your skin amazingly supple and soft to touch An ideally light, fresh foundation for hot, humid climates fxyundedion
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 223 12 Straits Times Crossword ~T~] |2 I |3 j U jmjs I le 1 p I fa T~ |H To" 17 '8 19 20 Hill I I ACROSS (Addlson) (7). 5. Capable of projection (7). 1 I^oFTIZ-sZrfl?. a^t the charKe 9 -M£?*F£Z*B!Sr 1118 ofßoman 10. Like a barrier to Pyramu* fl
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  • 717 13 Selangor Turf Club entries KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. 1 fkNE HUNDRED and forty four entries have been received for the Selangor Turf Club's Gold Cup Meeting on Feb. 11. 14 and 18. They comprise 83 Class 1 and 61 Class 4 horses. Among the Class 1 horses,
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 299 13 mm^^^mm^l^^^TlTV^V^^mmmmmmmm^mmmmmm^mmmmmmmmSßimmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmlmmmmmmmmmmmmfli (IM sPACE WANTED t-Hox St et». txtr: [pen or Talplng area ;.vation. rompound !th sr»rage/s and iciise. Box AB22S n SFACi WANTED -Box St eU. txtrm. KM require* small Please submit ST. TUTION I ,—Box St eU. txtra. all subjects. Apply Darlington.' Road. Katong. Lane, Singapore. ATE! learn to
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    • 291 13 DANCING »or 4, tit (mimtmum) Oalt,l mantK 1, W.rd. UJ D^W Seavlew Hotel. !?n? F£~ 12 pJn Con- f 1^ 1 B *ad- Saturday Extension DANCING NIGHTLY at the 2SS(m S C^, rUled £125? r HJ Good Pood e*tni? and Sa'urday extension "U 1 a.m. WHERE TO EAT in Word,
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    • 451 13 HOUSES LAND FOR SALE it Word, U (Ml*.)— Box St ct: extra. j SEASIDE bUNGALOW. Tanah IMerah, 70.000 sq. ft; Freehold' vacant land. Bedok Road. 5.900 sq. ft. opposite school. Apply ALiagoff, 34-B. Market Street. GOINO CHEAP 2-Storey New Bungalow cost $65,000 1952 to be I sold $45,000 4-bedroom sitting
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    • 388 13 VEHICLES FOR SALE 20 Worst* Si (Min.)-Box St ct: extra. ANOTHER WINNER 1948 i Cltreon Light 15 good condition, regularly maintained and serviced recent overhaul. $1,900. Box A 1313 S.T. FOR SALE— One 1949 International KBS Truck Pair condition registered Johore also one 1946 American Ford 5 -ton Truck damaged.
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    • 430 13 NOTICES NOTICE OF INTENTION UNDER SECTION 68 {t) OF THE ROAD TRAFFIC ORDINANCE (NO. 17 OF 1941) It Is hereby notified for general information that the Rural Board, Singapore, as the Highway Authority for the Rural Board I Area of Singapore, Intends to make an order to be cited as
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    • 424 13 TENDERS POLICE TENDER NOTICE TENDERS which will close at 12 Noon on Wednesday 15th February 1956 are invite! by the Commissioner of Police, Federation of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur for the Supply of M. T. Tyres and Tubes for the period Ist March 1956 to 31st December 1956. Full particulars may
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    • 736 13 LLOYD TRIESTINO i I I R HONGKONG \jQ SPECIALLY REDUCED ROUND- VOYAGE FARES SPORE HONGKONG SPORE j PEP. ARR. PEP. ARR. i "ASIA" 21/2 25^2 27/2 1/3 "VICTORIA" 22/3 26/3 28/3 31/3 I "ASIA" 21/4 25/4 27/4 30/4 I "VICTORIA" 22/5 26/5 28/5 1/6 B^ I |$J EUROPE \,mr EXPRESS
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  • 99 14 PENANG, Wed.— The Penang Badminton Association selectors sprang a surprise today when announcing the Settlement's line-up for the Foong Seong Cup Challenge Round against Singapore, the holders, this weekend. I <•< Him Chye, I'rnang singles runner-up for the last three years,
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  • 2498 14 RANSOME S DOUBLE TOTE FEAT WORTH $933 A TICKET Bougoure wins the two main events By EPSOM JEEP OIDING in top form, Jockey Rowland Ransome landed a big-priced double on Boy Garyth ($81) and Little John ($81) at Bukit Timah yesterday, second day of the Singapore
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  • 57 14 SYDNEY. Wed. JIM Burke, who is almost certain to tour England with the Australian team this year, scored 57 not out to help New South Wales to take first innings points in the drawn Sheffield Shield match against Victoria here today. Victoria 340 and
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  • 99 14 US tennis star will play in S'pore today 808 PERRY, one of America's rising tennis stars, will play in exhibition matches on the Singapore Cricket Club courts at 5 p.m. today. Perry, who arrived in Singapore yesterday on his way to New Zealand, will play a two-set singles match against
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  • 55 14 TOTAL POOL: $325,877 First: No. *****4 ($146,644) Second: No. *****2 73,322) Third: No. *****6 (S 40,734) STARTERS ($3,133 each): Nos. *****3, *****9, *****4, *****1, *****9, *****6, *****2, *****8, *****9, *****9, *****4, *****5, *****7. CONSOLATION ($2,444 each): Nos. *****6, *****7, *****5, *****7, *****3, *****7, *****9, *****2, *****6, *****2. DOUBLE
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  • 32 14 DACCA, Wed— M.C.C. cricketers drew their match here today against Combined Schools. Final scores In the two-day match: M.C.C: 270. Combined Schools: 113 and 119 for one wicket.—Reuter.
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  • 144 14 CINGAPORE Cricket Club "B" beat St. Andrew's School by 15 points (five tries) to three (penalty goal) In their rugger match on the padang yesterday. An early raid saw the Club threequarters move up to Saints' tryline where Galbraith scored at the corner. Harrison missing the
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  • 367 14 nRIGHT EYES 11, who routed a his Class 2. Div. l rivals by seven lengths over a mile last week, has been promoted to Class 1, according to the latest amendments to the Straits Racing Association classification list. Another Buklt Tlmah winner promoted
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  • 327 14 SINGAPORE'S badminton selectors wore the gloomy looks of worried men last night. They had Just been told that Singapore champion Ong Poh Lim, still being troubled with his old ankle injury, may be able to play in only the doubles when j Singapore
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  • 28 14 LONDON. Wed. F.A. Cup fourth round replays: Sunderland 2 York City I; Chelsea 1 Burnley 1 (after extra time); Doncaster R. l Bristol R. 0. Reuter.
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  • SPORTSFRONT
    • 498 14 —And he gets one in return h By THE SPORTS EDITOR i T^O TROUBLE at all starting the Sportsfront today, praise be to Prosit. Remember him, the disgruntled Singapore athlete who thinks that because field event athletes like h i m cannot qualify
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    • 787 14 CLASSIFIED ADS. (Continued from Pa«;e 6) SITUATIONS VACANT tfl Wo'J, SJ (Min.)— Box SO rr». ett-a. ATTRACTIVE EnßUsh-Speak-lnß Barmaid with personality required for club. Part time, full time, experience unnecessary. Box A 1331 S.T. EXPERIENCED STENOORAPHER required for old-established British Import firm. Permanent position f>leasc apply Box A 1320, 6.T.
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    • 203 14 Chronometer DATO ETERNH-MHTir wfty The first self-^iihlin^ chronometer M a ball-bearing Eterna offers you a self-winding watch of two-fold value— not only does it tell you the time, second by second, but tl records the date, day by day. And It's a chronometer. It Is a well-known that a chronometer
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 27 14 HOCKEY S.H.A. junior knockout cup quarter-final: R.A.S.C. v 8.C.C., padang. SOCCER Singapore Indian Football Association trial, Farrer Park. Friendly: Springdale S.C. HQ. Singapore Base District, Farrer Park.
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