The Straits Times, 23 January 1957

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  • 20 1 f\ »lff TOfr fTi^f WM*TV A-JR'Vi I The Straits Times. AW**** Estd. 1845 SINGAPORE. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1957 15 CENTS
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  • 475 1 ROADBLOCKS, ARMY PATROLS IN 'CRISIS CAPITAL' Demands for provincial autonomy grow in strength Ali is warned: Celebes may be next to rebel JAKARTA, Tuesday. Minister, Dr. Ali Sastroamidjojo, I to maintain his government in i v demands for provincial autonomy k'd from Sumatra and the Celebes iry
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  • 90 1 Controls on foreign assets are eased JIKARI I ins— The Indonesian Monrt.ir\ Council today !i'<d froien rupiah accounts <>f foreign enttrprisea here for investment in enterprises in Indonesia, foreign linns are allowed to transfer abroad 6i per cent of Hnir pn.nts after taxes. "n remmlaini 40 per "'it is held
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  • 397 1 GIRL MAULED AS ESTATE TIGER POUNCES Manager (his dog saved amah) in rescue dash BENTONG, Tuesday. TIGER today mauled a girl on Shanghai Pahang Estate, 24 hours after it had fought a battle with the estate manager's dog. The girl. Lam Foong, 12. was tapping rubber naif a mile from
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  • 151 1 I AM THE MAD BOMBER, HE TELLS -POLICE- MEW YORK, Tues.— A 11 man arrested by Waterbury, Connecticut, police today saiu he was the "Mad Bomber of New York." The man. George Metesky. 53, who lives in Waterbury with two sisters, is said by the police to be a "eood
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  • 46 1 LONDON, Tues. Shipping lines belonging to the Far Eastern Passenger Conference announced today that fares will be increased with all* sailings leaving terminal ports on and after March 1. Each member line will announce details of its own new rates later. Reuter.
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  • 31 1 COLOMBO, Tues. The United States, Australia, New Zealand and Canada have given Ceylon 95,000,000 rupees about $63,000,000) in economic aid under the Colombo Plan, the Government announced today. U.P.
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  • 108 1 —And a town trembles as black panthers roam streets at night KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Workers say two black panthers are roaming the centre of Petaling Java. Kuala Lumpur's satellite town, seven miles from here. The beasts, a mother and he r cub, came from nearby secondary junele. Workmen of a
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  • 211 1 Request for fresh negotiations nrHE Malayan Mining Employees' 'Union is to ask 1 the Malayan Mining Employer^'. Association to open fresh negotiations for a new agreement on wages and working conditions. In a memorandum to be submitted tb the association, the union is asking for an
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  • 59 1 LONDON, Tues. Japan for the first time ever overtook Britain last year as the world's largest shipbuilding nation in peace-time after more than doubling her production in 15 months, it was announced here today. Lloyd's register shows that Japan last year started work on, launched and completed
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  • 24 1 CALCUTTA, Tues. The Dalai Lama left here for the Tibetan capital of Lhasa today after nearly two months in India. Reuter.
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  • 67 1 COLOMBO, Tues. Eighteen people including four children died last night in a fire which broke out at a wedding feast in a shed on a tea estate near Kandy. The 17-year-old bride and 11 others were severely burned and are in a critical condition. The
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  • 28 1 MELBOURNE. Tues. Australia's biggest trade union, the Australian Workers Union, today adopted a resolution calling for an immediate end to British atomic weapons tests in Australia.—Reuter.
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  • 136 1 Y OU have only SEVEN da V s left to try for that 5 $100,000 Chinese New Year "ang pow." r That is the prize offered by =j the More About Eve CommitS tee in its Charm Contest in aid 7". 1 1 1 1
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  • 69 1 AT least six men were injured last night in a gang fight in Singapore. More than 50 people armed with parangs, daggers and bottles fought a 20-minute pitched battle at the waterfront in collyer Quay. Police radio patrols rushed to the scene following a
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  • 15 1 BANGKOK, Tues.—Fortythree candidates registered today for the National Assembly elections on Feb 26
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  • 85 1 KANUUON, lues i Uf Chiet Officer of the Slnga pore-registered ship. m.v Olory. Mr R. N Fox. ot Se rangoon Gardens accidental ly fell Into Rangoon River >n Sunday night and wa.s drowned n<>lic> reporter) to day Mr fox, a Briton. v a oout 60, had lived
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  • 46 1 Israelis pull out of Sinai JERUSALEM, Tues. J Israeli troops pulled out of the Sinai Desert today. They withdrew as far as the Gaza Strip and a coastal region 15 miles long guarding Israel's shipping route through the Gulf of Akaba. A new frontier of white-
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  • 172 1 TRICK TALKS OFFER LONDON Tues— Yemen today told Britain it would agre<> to disctivceasefire on Aden frontier Britain meanwhile complained to IN Security Council accusing Yemen of raids into Aden. Reuter painted oil drums and barbed wire marked the two contested areas which Israel says it will not
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  • 114 2 FORMER VOLUNTEER FORCE OFFICER DIES IN U.K. LONDON, Tues.— The death has occurred at Blackpool of MaJ. Alfred James Pharaoh. MaJ. Pharaoh served for 22 years before the war In the Straits Settlements Volunteer Forces. He was In prisoner of war camps at Changi and Sime Road, and in 1945.
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  • 93 2 CAIRO, Tuos.- A report issued by the United Nations Suez Canal clearance authorities hero today said that 16 of the total of 44 wrecks in the canal had been cleared -s<> far. 10 by the AngloFrench fleet and .six by the United Nations fleet. One span
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  • 982 2 Harley Street expert: Adams must have turned widow into a serious drug addict 'NO QUALIFIED DOCTOR COULD BE IGNORANT OF INEVITABLE EFFECTS OF SUCH A DOSAGE' 'I LIVE FOR MY WORK, HE SAID... 'THIS MAKES PEOPLE JEALOUS EASTBOURNE, Tue6. A medical expert testified here today that doses of morphia and
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  • 73 2 BUDAPEST, Tues. The Hungarian Government today ordered all citizens to turn in their Identity cards to the police before the end of this month "for extension." The obvious purpose was two-fold: First, the Govern I ment wants to establish how many people, and who fled from
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  • 202 2 IT'S ALL QUITE FRIENDLY, HE M CANBERRA, Tia THE Minister for Territories. Mr Pau said today he was sure points of c between the Australian administration of the Islands and Mr John Clunies Ross. king" of the islands, could be settled Referring to reports
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  • 76 2 COLOMBO. Tm.v mission oi Ing i bour disputes port has gug| legislation t o strikes and lo harbour. The commission. the Attorney-' months a series of labour a released Us last night. It considered of strikes m I perativy fox economic the tame safeguards
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  • 17 2 HONG KONG. people were Ul left homeloflames swept tl huts in a resettl here— A.P.
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  • 123 2 TOKYO, Tues. /COMMUNIST China said today that agents of Nationalist china started the Hong Kong riots which killed 61 people and injured hundreds last October. "It was clear that the riots were incited by the Kuomintangs special agents," Radio Peking said in a broadcast monitored in
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  • 304 3 THE FIRST QUESTION IS ON H-BOMB TESTS: 'SOME GROUNDS FOR HOPE 9 LONDON, Tuesday. \ROIR OPPOSITION MEMBERS sat silent today when Mr. Harold Macmillan made his lir>t appearance in the House of Commons as Prime Minister. Macmillan was cheered by his own supporters, but there was
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  • 100 3 Mac is new leader of Tories LONDON, Tues. Till iKw Prime Minister. Mr. Harold \l.u mill.Ki. Ml today ■nanunously elected iiidcr o! llif Conservative Partj in mv mmlmi in Mr Anthony Kden, vim resigned two weeks The motion lor his election v*a.^ seconded bj Mr It. A. Butler. Lord Friw
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  • 59 3 BONN, Tues. What is claimed to be the world's most generous old-age pension plan was approved today by the !We s t German Bundestag I (Lower House). The contri- butory scheme will give workers and employees about 60 per cent of the average monthly wages
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  • 122 3 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. T*HE U. S. Supreme Court yesterday granted a A hearing to 23- film actors and other film workers who sought millions of dollars in damages on a complaint that a Hollywood "blacklist" kept them The claimants said they were blacklisted by the film
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  • 32 3 BANGALORE. Tues.— lndia is to build an atomic power station with a capacity of 140.000 kilowatts as an "experimental measure," Mr. Gulzarilal Nanda. India's Minister for Irrigation, said here.— Reuter.
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  • 76 3 OMMUNIST CHINA'S Prime Minister, Mr. Chou En-lai, drinks a toast to "the solidarity of Communist countries" at a banquet at the Chinese embassy in Moscow during his recent visit to Russia. Also in the picture are (left to right) Mr. Lazar Kaganovitch. Deputy Premier; Mr. Krushchev.
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  • 31 3 NICOSIA. Tues.— A curfew which had been clamped down on Nicosia to prevent clashes between Greek and Turkish Cyprlots was lifted at dawn today after nearly 24 hours.— Reuter.
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  • 25 3 LONDON. Tues. Nicholas Eden, Sir Anthony's 26-year-old son, has declined to stand as Tory candidate for his father's seat. Warwick and Leamington.
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  • 187 3 TURKISH YOUTHS UNDER CURFEW NICOSIA, Tues. All Turkish Cypriot boys between 12 and 21 in Nicosia's walled city will be placed under a sunset to sunrise curfew beginning tonight, it was announced today. The curfew— the first time such a measure has been applied against the Turks will remain in
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  • 42 3 AMMAN. Tues. AngloJordanian negotiations on the ending of the AngloJordan Treaty evacuation of British forces and liquidation of British bases in Jordan will begin next month, the Jordanian Prime Minister, Mr. Suleiman Nabulsi announced here tonight Reuter.
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  • 36 3 TAIPEH, Tues.— A Nationalist patrol boat seriously damaged a Chinese Communist gunboat in a seven-minute exchange of gunfire off Matsu Island on the northern Fukien coast, the Nationalist Defence Ministry announced last night. Reuter.
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  • 237 3 Cable flashes Freak storms hit Britain LONDON. Tues. Freak electrical storms last night interrupted radio services between Britain and North America. The storms also affected reception on television sets in the northern half of Britain, and dislocated transmission services from London.— Reuter. KARACHI: Pakistan has agreed to be host at
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  • 59 3 'Roman scandals 9 trial opens VENICE. Tues. The "Roman scandals" drug-and-sex manslaughter trial of Piero Piccioni. son of a former foreign minister, who is charged with causing the death of beautiful Wilma Montesi. 21. openeVl here yesterday. The proceedings were confined to the hearing of technical objections by both prosecution
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  • 296 3 LONDON, Tues. Closing middle prices of selected stocks not Including stamp duty were: TIN LONDON, Tues. Cash buyers £802 < sellers £805. Forward buyers £778," sellers £779. Settlement £799. Turnover a.m. 15 tons, p.m. 25 tons. RUBBER LONDON Tues Spot 28d Peb 26d.. Mar. 2«d., AprJune 25 7
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  • 92 4 COFFEE SHOP PRICES RISING KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The price of coffee and tea in Relangor coff c c shops wi;i be raised by two cents a cup from next month because sugar and milic liave gone up. Coffee and tea without milk will be increased from 13 reits to 15
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  • 28 4 Two men armed with knives robbed a City Council labourer, Goh Ban Sang, at his quarters in Paya Lebar Road, Singapore, of $3 yesterday morning.
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  • 359 4 Man accused of murder says foreman wanted $s—then5 then made him work harder IPOH, Tuesday. THE accused in a murdar trial here told the Hiffh Court today he had warned the victim that he would "kill him and suck
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  • 202 4 HUNDREDS of Singapore's old people waited throughout the night tor the Shaw Brothers' ninth annual distribution of "ang pows." which began at 7.30 a.m. yesterday. Queues began to form outside the Great and New World parks at 4.30
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  • 44 4 Singapore police last night found a 251 b. mortar bomb, believed to be a war relic, at a building site in Bartley Road. An expert from the Army Bombs Disposal Unit removed the bomb. It was in a highly dangerous condition.
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  • 103 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Air Officer Commanding, Malaya. Air Vice-Marshal W. H. Kyle, has sent a message of condokMce to the parents of Cadet Pilot Gilbert Manuel. 25, who was killed in a Tiger Moth crash at Serdang Estate on Sunday. I i his letter. Air Vice-Mar-
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  • 120 4 RIDDLE OF 'VANISHING' DANCERS MR. uonald Moore, a Singapore impresario still thinks there is more than meets the eye in the riddle of the "vanishing dancers." Earlier this month. Mr. Moore had to cancel arrangements for Anthony Burke and his partner. Miss San Fan* Tjiok to perform in Singapore because
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  • 220 4 2 OUT OF 5 CIVIL SERVANTS OWE AT least 40 per cent of Singapore Government officers are chronic borrowers and heavily indebted to a total of from $250,000 to $300,000, according to a reliable estimate given to the Straits Times yesterday. Many others, the estimate
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  • 64 4 OFF FOR U.S. TO GET DIPLOMA MISS FONG LAI YOOK. 18. formerly of Raffles Girls' School, who left Singapore for San Francisco by PAA yesterday for further studies. She will study social science at the Sacred Heart College, Kansas, and later take up medicine. Miss Fong is the daughter of
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  • 134 4 Education Department >is working out scheme to recognise them KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Government is working out a new scheme for the recognition of university degrees of India, Ceylon, Pakistan, Indonesia and other countries. A spokesman for the Education Department told the Straits Times that the matter was
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  • 137 4 Seamen seek more pay NEW CONTRACT DEMANDED THE Singapore h--1 Seamen's t; ld a J submitted a proposals, inch, h wage increases and an nual bonuses fir smallcraft personnel 2 the Singapon ManW Employers' F« 4u <* terday that the pX**?' sent through Uie P JS2& Council of Action, incorporation
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  • 86 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— Federation policemen will get their long-awaited peaked hats before Merdeka Day A police spokesman said today that an order had been placed with the Crown Agents in London for 25.000 caps. The new hats will replace the sonckok-type caps worn by
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  • 368 5 RADIO CHIEF ON LISTENER RESEARCH acting Director of Broadcasting in Malaya, Mr. F. N. Lloyd Williams, agreed yesterday that there was an urgent need for listener research, but "there just has not been the money for it." He was commenting
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  • 95 5 A CATHAY Pacific Airline plane with a feathered engine gave Singapore Airport officials an anxious hour yesterday morning. The plane was bound for Hong Kong with 14 passengers and a crew of eight when one of its four engines failed about an hour after leaving
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  • 113 5 COLONY GIRLS TO PLAY IN BRITISH FILM r'O Singapore actresses, Miss Gracia Tay and Miss Barbara Lee, have had auditions in London for parts in a new Technicolor British film, Wyndham Way. Gracia appeared in the very successful West End play, Teahouse of the August Moon, and with the 8.8.C.
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  • 41 5 JOHORB BAHRU. Tues.— Dr. Lai Mm Tet. a graduate of Sydney University and eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Lai Kai Joo of Jonore Bahru. left yesterday for Tasmania to become senior medical officer at the Royal Hobart Hospital
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  • 406 5 Wash amah tells of struggle in room A WASH AMAH, Tan Siew Eng, told a Singapore preliminary inquiry yesterday that a man who was waiting for his clothes suddenly turned upon her sister and stabbed her with a knife. She said she struggled with the
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  • 290 5 MALAYS TOLD: FOSTER HARMONY THE president of the x Singaore Malay Union, Tengku Muda Mohamed, said yesterday it was essential to foster co-operation and harmony among the various communities in Singapore. The Malays, he said, had to play their part and it was for this purpose that he represented the
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  • 50 5 Or. H. R. Morrison, Singapore City Health Officer, said yesterday that only 68 midwives have re-registered for practise in the city area this year compared with 424 in 1956. Under the Midwives Ordinance, those who fail to register will be liable to a fine of $20.
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  • 44 5 Lim Kay Hua, a businessman, was acquitted in a Singapore court yesterday at his continued trial on three charges of not making proper returns to the Income Tax Department showing the full renumeration paid to one of his employees from 1951 to 1953.
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    • 283 5 Esplanad* Gardens. 6 p.m. to 7 ternatlonal Women's Clvb talk by p.m. Mr. W. L. Blythe on Chinese secret CLOTHING SHOP at St. As- societies, 10.30 a.m beauty culdrew's Cathedral, C.W.A. Room, ture class, 5.30 p.m. South Side, 3 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. VMI (MVrharrf Road)- Sincheon meeting— film show
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  • 90 6 20 H,.rd* H0 (minimum). tT OLI.ENBACH Beloved Hu.sband of Violet passed away after long Illness on 20.1 57. Deeply mourned by Wife. Daughter and Family. MR. I.A I NANO FUN passed i- r.icpfullv at 1 a.m. on 22 .1 57. Mourned by his beloved wire Tor .)<*< Eye and
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  • 111 6 II) Word! $10 i minimum). FERNANDEZ Herman and Babs thank Relatives and Friends for their kind Attendance. Congratulations, Presents and Assistance at their Wedding 16.1.1957. YKO SIEW CHUAN and I -hank Friends and RelaWrraths. Assistance and p at the Funeral of the Jnt« Mr. Yeo Sle.v Chuan on 20.1
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  • 643 6 The Straits Times. Singapore, Wed. Jan. 23, 1957. Chamber And The Schools Undesirable elements, says Mr. Tan Lark Sye, should not be allowed to exploit the mass meeting which the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce is calling to frame representations against the Government's grant in aid regulations for the schools.
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  • 366 6 Dr. Sastroamidjojo's promised statement to Indonesia's Parliament seems to have been an unskilled and unsatisfactory performance. He is unlikely to I have strengthened his Cabinet's position simply by ignoring a growing demand for its resignation, while his pledge of regional economic planning and "the widest possible autonomy" for
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  • 227 6 i Forty per cent of Singapore Government officers are chronic borrowers, more or less heavily in debt. It sounds an extraordinarily high proportion, but this nevertheless is the estimate of an official well placed to know.. The problem is to be discussed by the Civil Service Joint
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  • 539 6  -  J. L. HAYS By NICOSIA. T<HE new British Mid- die East defence command, known as British Forces, Arabian Peninsula, has been formed to counter Yemeni and Saudi Arabian mischief-mak-ing in an area vital to Britain because of its strategic position astride air
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  • 834 6 THE DANGERS CONFRONTING BRITAIN'S MOVE FOR WEST EUROPEAN UNITY WE stood in the door- way and looked back at the crowd in the Hall of the Knights, the magniE ficent old building in the Hague which the 5 Dutch Government had placed at the disposal of Sir Win- ston Churchill,
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    • 199 6 IHAVE nothing but praise for the treatment which my wife received at Kandang Kerbau Hospital. But many parents. I am sure, will agree with my complaint that the system of registering babies at X.X leaves much to be desired. Without the K.K. registration form. I cannot get
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    • 153 6 MY attention has been drawn to a reoort headed. "Government delay brings blackout, threat." which purports to be from a statement by the City Electrical Engineer. Mr. R. A. Waddle. I should like it made known that Mr. Waddle did not make any statement to the press
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  • 95 7 LUMPUR, Tues. K The Federation .nt today anth« ;ippointnf Inrh^ MnhGhazali bin as the counCommissioner will leave la by plane for his wife. ""mer.t nunenti nf Kingdom. India ation of Malaya to tho c.stablishDdhi of a FeIth the offl>tyled the for the Fedeln India."' His
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  • 185 7 IT V ALA LUMPUR, Tues. lv —"Horror" pictures of road accidents will be displayed in shop windows here when the Municipal Council holds its first "road safety week" in March. Motorists and pedestrians will be told of the need for greater rare on the
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  • 54 7 T Ministry of applications ptceopers for change their during the ar period. applicants want to omit the holiday previous Ito Jan 30— New Year's Eve. An official cf the Ministry said during the last few weeks, about 80 shopkeepers had violated the Weekly Holiday Ordinance. Action would
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  • 396 7 COURT TOLD OF PAY DAY SPREE WITH TWO CABARET GIRLS car-in-the-sca tragedy which involved the death of three men and a teen-aged cabaret girl in Singapore on Nov. 28 last was officially labelled a mystery yesterday. The Singapore coroner, Mr. K. T. Alexander, declared
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  • 140 7 INCOME-TAX POSER FOR ATTORHEYGENERAL SHOULD a man who falls to submit his income tax returns after having been fined for not making the returns for the same years be prosecuted again? NO, said defence counsel in a Singapore magistrate's court yesterday. It was against the principles of British justice for
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  • 39 7 Llm Teck Kong. 20. of Jurong Road, Singapore, was rescued from drowning off Clifford Pier, yesterday evening. Lim slipped at the landing steps while alighting from a sampan and was rescued unconscious by the sampanman.
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  • 37 7 Officers and men of "A" Division. Volunteer Special Constabulary, in Singapore will hold their annual dinner and dance at the V.S.C. mess hall in the Police Training School, Thomson Road, at 7 p.m. on Saturday.
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  • 34 7 The wedding picture of Squadron-Leader R. C. Hazel and his Norwegian bride, the former Miss Torbjorg Nordanger. published in the Straits Times yesterday, was by Sgt. J. M. Keegan. of R.A.F. Changi.
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  • 36 7 Mr. R. K. Tandon. Commissioner for India in Singapore and Malaya, who Is being transferred on the completion of his tour of duty will leave for India on Feb 12 in the Santhia.
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  • 25 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues Lee Ah Kau was fined $200 In the Johore Bahru magistrate's court today for using a private car for hire.
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  • 58 7 BATTLE SCENE...END of the Ampang gang STRAITS TIMES SKETCH shows the scene of Monday's battle near the Stlangor Golf Club in which three bandits members of the notorious Ampang gang were killed by security forces. Earlier, two bandit suspects had been arrested by the police near Peel Road. They were
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  • 430 7 UNIONS' BOSS: WE WERE DISAPPOINTED rpHE secretary of trip A 10,000-strong Singapore City Council Labour Unions' Federation, Mr. O. S. Rengasamy. yesterday accused the council of introducing new designations for its labourers with the sole intention of reducing their earning capacity. Mr. Rengasamy
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  • 179 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. A NOTHER group of more than 180 members from the Puchong branch of the Malayan Mining Employees' Union resigned en bloc from the M.M.E.U. today to Join the proposed All-Malayan Mining Workers' Union. I The secretary of the branch, inche Yacob bin
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  • 67 7 The "Time to Dance" show in aid of the Deaf and Dumb School building fund, will be held in the Singapore Badminton Hall on Friday and Saturday at 8.30 p.m. Frances Poh. principal of a dancing school, will present 180 of her best performers of all
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  • 35 7 Madam Lee Chun, who was said to have an interest, in a Singapore pawnshop, was fined $50 in the City Court yesterday for being late in sending in her 1956 income tax returns.
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  • 219 7 LIFE on board the m.v. Gold Beeker, said Arthur Danaher, 40, the only original member of the crew still with the ship yesterday, was lust fine. A diving engineer by profession. Arthur said that his skipper Capt. Bill Havens painted no rosy picture of
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  • 59 7 Where is my poodle Sheba, wept Dolores DOLORES ALVAREZ, (above) the principal dancer of a French company. 'Ballet Bastille," wept on arrival at Singapore Airport yesterday to begin a season at a Colony nightspot. REASON: She could not find h»r net poodle, '«heba. She went away quietly after airline officials
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  • 171 7 UNITED FRONT CALL BY BABAS rpHE presidents of the Straits Chinese British associations of Ponang, Malacca and Singapore in a Joint statement yesterday urged the peoples of the Federation and the Colony to present a united front and not to give any cause for dissensions arising out of communal Issues.
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  • 73 7 KOTA BHARU, Tues. Tne volume of marking involved In last year's Standard Six Malay school examination papers set locally was the reason why the results came out late, the Kelantan Chief Education Officer. Mr. D L. McCorklndale. said here today He was clearlfylng the position which
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  • 114 8 Big 'join up' campaign is planned in Colony AN all out publicity campaign has been planned to attract recruits to Singapore's first locally-raised operational battalion. The Secretary for Defence and Internal Security. Mr. R. N. Broome, said yesterday that the campaign was geared to start as soon as the pay
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  • 51 8 The Southern branch of the Malayan Dental Association will give a farewell dinner to Mr. N. H. Gittlns. Singapore's chief dental officer. rho will be leaving the Colony soon. The dinner will be held at the Dragon Room, Cathay Restaurant, at 8 p.m. on Feb
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  • 41 8 Offered bribe $240 fine JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. For being in possession of chandu Yang Poh. of Kota Tinggi was fined $80 in the Sessions Court, Kota Tinggi, yesterday. He was fined anothe r $240 for offering a bribe to a constable.
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  • 23 8 An eight-year-old boy, Loh Ng Wai, was knocked down and killed by a lorry in Thomson Road. Singapore, yesterday afternoon. Id!
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  • 265 8 Govt. to take over— by agreement or by compulsion In comes the man to tell how to do it THE Singapore Government has accepted the principle of a unified public transport system, Mr. L. C. Hawkins, who will advise the Government on unification, told the
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  • 98 8 18 Alliance men win without a fight PENANG, Toes. Eighteen Alliance candidates in six wards two in Penan* and four in Province North were returned unopposed when nominations for the Settlement's first fullyelected Rural District Councils were accepted today, i Fifty -one other candidates —27 Alliance, 12 PanMalayan Islamic Party,
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  • 56 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. The officer in command of a patrol of the 2nd Bn., the Royal Welch Fusiliers, was killed when he and his men attacked a terrorist camp in the Gelang Patah area on Sunday. The patrol shot dead two bandits In the camp and
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  • 33 8 Mr M D. Menon, Supervisor of Works. University of Malaya, died at the General Hospital, Singapore, early yesterday after 30 years' service with the university and the former Raffles College.
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  • 202 8 SATA to take a i $300,000 chance T*HE Singapore Anti- Tuberculosis Association has decided to "take a risk" and go ahead with the building of a $300,000 hospital at Changi. The association last month had deferred Its decision on the (hospital because of uncertainty over the Government's new TB policy.
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  • 149 8 (CLOSURE of the Suez Canal has hit a Singapore man in a very special way. He is Police Constable Abdul Wahid bin Baba, 28, paralysed from the M*aist down) for whom the Government has bought a special hand-controlled car. The $4,500 vehicle was
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  • 38 8 The Friends of Singapore will commemorate Feb. 6. the anniversary of the foundation of Singapore, with a dinner. The society's patron, Sir Robert Black, and Lady Black will attend the function in Raffles Hotel.
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  • 1617 9 Bullet ended the romance of English girl who loved Hitler vj^wlkAHpJflj^Pjfe n \K windswept, overcast day in 1948, I |aun< h left the small island of i n( hk<nnoth in the Hebrides. Through miles of swirling, dangerous, islandjotted «:«U i r« 't battled its way to the i town of
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    • 168 9 tin v t Longer, wider, roomier, y,* more powerful than ever before! The new Zephyr has a longer and wider look with rich, roomy luxury inside. The six-cylinder 'oversquare' engine has been designed for instant responsiveness and higher cruising speeds. Low centre of gravity, 'miracleride' suspension, outstanding vision and safety-type
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    • 184 9 Hex 3iarffan 9 M.D. *Helio 9 Winstade* p- j— r -i--r,| m^^^w \J> 1* V- "W heuo w^LAOf.T L r>t> *cupsf .rifA ffT s y//^ **/Sty' fl t &***&> toans-wec that I j I; i l »4* "JiJs i"ii««.i I I V I x 7«nljfl rrX HERE W Question for
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  • 358 10 METAL OUTPUT LAST YEAR WAS ANOTHER POST-WAR RECORD By Our Market Correspondent AS was expected, Federation of Malaya miners in 1956 set up a post-war production record for the second consecutive year. Production of tin-in-concentrates last year totalled 62,295 tons, the highest since 1940 and an increase of 1.7 per
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  • 126 10 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchance: noon prices per picul yesterday were: Copra: steady; Jan. $27% buyers, $28 t sellers. Coconut oil: quiet steady: bulk $43 U sellers, drum $47 sellers. Pepper: quiet: no business reported done; Muntok white $113. Sarawak $112 (both down $2), special Sarawak black $81 (down
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  • 330 10 The Malayan Share Brokers Association reported: 'Industrials were quiet and inclined to ease, and tins and rubbers were quietly steady" Singapore and Federation brokers reported the following business done yesterday:— Praser Neave ords $2.25; Gammon $2.06; W. Hammer $1.70; Henry Waugh $1.75; Hongkong Shanghai $890 cd; Hume industries
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  • 149 10 February first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed in Singapore yesterday at 89% cento per lb.. down 3% cento on Monday's closing price. The closing tone was easier. Closing prices in cento per lb. yesterday were: OFFICIAL: No. 1. R.S.S. Spot f.o.b. buyers 94 H, sellers 95 U: No.
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  • 75 10 The Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes in Its rates to merchants yesterday (all rates to 8100):— Selling T.T. or O.D. ready: Belgian Franca 1624.: Holland Guilders 123 Deatiche Marks 138 H. On the free exchange market In Hong Konc yesterday, the U.S. dollar was quoted
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  • 81 10 AUSTRALIAN STOCKS MttaOTJl TNVESTMev A steady ton being Herald Bd. on the Stock F% I today. Over., and small. Loans 3',\ Loans 3\' t 19 Con. Zinc. Bank of NSW Mount Lyeli j N. Broken Hill Hrn 50 'g4?., Mount Morgan Peko I Western Minin K AmpoL Ex. Oil Search
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    • 132 10 Tor perforrMnft M outstanding economy For inexpensive personal transport you can't choose better than a B.S.A. The entire range is inexpensive to buy and ""hire purchase terms available I2scc Bantam ISOcc Bantam MajoComing to Britain? over 200 new self-drive cars AA A RAC recommended i NEW and USED cars sold
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    • 300 10 NOTICES RURAL BOARD, SINGAPORE ASSESSMENT LIST 1957 (Sections 63 A 68. Municipal Ordinance) The Rural Board has duly revised the Assessment List for 1957 which is now open to Inspection by owners and occupiers of property comprised therein, at the Rural Board Office, Empress Place. Singapore 6, during office hours.
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    • 226 10 NOTICES NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I. LIM GIM. HA of No. 67-4, Kovan Road. Singapore, nave left the care and protection of my husband LEE KIM KEW (son of i.ii^ CHOON SENG of No. 17, South Canal Road, Singapore) since February, 1954. and I do not recognise him
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    • 462 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS are Invited from Federal Citizens for the post of Assistant Chief School Instructor. Police Department. Candidates must be Normal Trained Teachers with five years teaching experience and be able to translate various Instructional Notes and portions of relevant laws Into Malay. Salary scale: $310 x 14 464/484
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    • 797 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA LECTURESHIP OR ASSISTANT LECTURESHIP IN MATHEMATICSAPPLICATIONS are invited for appointment to a Lectureship or Assistant Lectureship In Mathematics depending on the qualifications and experience of the successful candidate. The appointee would be expected to assume duty by the beginning of the Session 1957/58, commencing September
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    • 794 12 The Scouts are adrift all night in a small boat and after some hair-raising experiences reach an island which they think to be uninhabited. Exploring it they see a footprint in the sand. Then they hear someone trying to start their boat. NOW READ ON. T*HE
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    • 306 12 :?n V n%rs nd o?te "finding the girl, rW contest are Ang Ek joo. 5. Yio Chu Kan* Road Singapore 1 9 Or.g Poh Kheng, 273. Kota Road. Taip.ng. Teo Soon Huat 57. Kampong Eunos. Singapore. 14 Chew Nee Chin. 539-B, jalan Rajo
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    • 141 12 For many years now New Zealand has been issuing a Health Stamp, the proceeds from the sale going towards paying the expenses of holiday camps and rest centres for convalescing children. Switzerland also have the same idea with their "Pro Juvenate" issue. Now I see that the
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    • 187 12 HAVE you ever heard of fish climbing trees' You probably think this \k impossible, but it does in fact happen. Not very often, I must admit but there is one strange fish which sometimes leaves the water, travels inland and actually climbs trees. It is the
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    • 94 12 Here is a trick to puzzle your friends. Ask them if they can tell, without looking, at which end of a box of matches the heads are to be found. Let them produce an ordinary box of matches, preferably at least half full. They will try different
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 162 12 Natural Vitamin C in the worlds most delicious tonic drink The finest natural vitamin C tonic drink ever is Ribena made from blackcurrants, the fruit which is richest in vitamin C. Ribena makes a wonderfully delicious tonic which even those suffering from loss of appetite can enjoy. Ribena helps build
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    • 362 12 v A /ft but Doctor, <^Uy4> why does 'Disprin' relieve pain Eu wfcl-. so quickly? jp|J^J r— 1 SEE— IT DISSOLVES! Disprin tablets really A This it Dfiprta This it not! of mcrc 'y breaking remedies. S(f Because Disprin dissolves, it i SniOf lj p" ~Vi rapidly absorbed by your
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    • 249 13 DATHW VACANT Box id ets. extra. SI 283, Tanßlln -One Double- j Modern B.ith■room. New icphone. 5322. tnBBMD SemlCrowhurst I rim Estate, Rrtrlger- I monthly. Tel. IMMEDIATELY ■om S. Din- idee. Cookig Area. p in alter fully Fur- Flat. $475 T'-lrphone, Fimtly. Hine Bain- contained at with i Kitchen at
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    • 405 13 OFFICE SPACE VACANT If Word* SS (Mtn.)-Bop St et: txtra. PART OFFICE To Let with Desk. Chairs and Own Telephone Apply Box A 6863. S.T. EDUCATION 20 Word* Si (Min.)— Box SO et: txtra. j STUDY CIRCLE under strict! supervision private house, central i schoolchildren unable study at home. $10,
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    • 461 13 i BOOKS PUBLICATIONS 20 Words SS (Mm.) Box SO et: txtra. i THERE ARE A lot of mistakes you needn't make! If you are a beginner in the garden, or in gardening in the tropics, you need ProfMsor R.E. Holttum's "Gardening In the Lowlands of Malaya." It will put you
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    • 880 13 AGENTS WANTED It Words SS (Mm.) Box SO ets. extra. OUR AGENTS MAKE £100 and mor« by taking orders for Personal Christmas Greeting Cards and Calendars. If you are a Genuine Agent with good contacts Brltains largest Publishers will send you a Beautiful Free Sample Book for 1957. Highest Commission
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    • 1101 13 VEHICLES FOR SALE 20 Words SS (Mm.) Box St et: extra. 1955 MORRIS MINOR Oood 1 condition European owner. Ring Hamon ***** ext. 2. 9 a.m.— B p.m. LATE 1961 RILEY 1% Utre. One owner, Comp. insured October 1957, $2,550. View 75 Wlikie Rd alter 2 p.m. A OOOD SELECTION
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    • 477 13 FOR SALE in Word* SS (Mm.) Box it et: txtra. PEDIGREED ALSATIAN PUPS in excellent condition. Twelve weeks old. Reasonable price to good homes. Tel: *****. SPECIAL CHINESE New Tear Attraction!! "Tlntawn" Lifetime Sisal Carpet* with contemporary colours available from Keng Hup Sent,-, 80/82 Victoria Street. ONLY FEW SHOPPING Days
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    • 97 13 Olivetti Letters 22 In a motor-car or on a train In an aeroplane or at a hotel jtV On your knees or at any chance table #^Ak This light and aificlant portabla XJv^iaw Wl transcribe your correspondence yU^ Your travel notes /A\ Your vacation memories. J Guthrie Co. Ltd. Singapore.
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  • 370 14 Nuf enen in great form FAST WORK BEGINS ON KUALA LUMPUR TRACK NEWCOMER NAB II DOES IMPRESSIVE TRIAL WITH GRAZIE By EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. "^UFENEN, with Geyer up, showed a fine turn of speed to clock 37 4/5 for 3f on the training track at Kuala Lumpur this
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  • 131 14 Weights for second day i ii 11 1 for three races on Ihe second day of the Kuala I.umpur meeting next Wednesday are: Cl. 4, Div. 1-5 F Oiissa 9.00 Tufton 8.12 Arch Side 8.08 Frogman 806 Silver Screen II 8.05 Port of Spain 8.04 Townsman 8.03 Peculiarity 8.01 Priority
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  • 126 14 DOYAL Army Service Corps beat a depleted Ceylon Sports Club side 5-0 in a first round match of the Singapore Hockey Association's junior knockout competition at Balestier Road yesterday. Ceylonese took the field with nine men and R.A.S.C. went into a commanding 4-0 lead after
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  • 47 14 Hamid 's goals beat SCC Two goals by Mohamed Hamid helped Teachers Union to beat Singapore Cricket Club 3-1 In a friendly hocktv match on the padang yest»day. Van der Meij scored an early goal for SCC. which S. K. Kulasingam got the other goal for Teachers.
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  • 31 14 The Senior Golfers' Society beat R.S.G.C. Associates (women) in a golf match at the Bukit Timah course. The ten S.G.S. pairs scored 7Vi points to 2\ by the women.
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  • 56 14 BRASHER IS LEADING 'SPORTSMAN' LONDON. Tues Chris Brasher, Olympic 3.000 metre steeplechase gold medal list, has been voted leading British "Sportsman of the Year" by the British Sports writers Association. The six are in order: Chris Brasher, Jim Laker. Dick McTaggart. Stanley Matthews. Donald Campbell (holder of the world's water
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  • 250 14 rrHE Badminton Gazette, official organ of the 1 Badminton Association of England, says in its latest issue that Oon Chong Teik, 20-year-old Malayan student in London, should come into reckoning for the selection of Malaya's team for next year's Thomas Cup Challenge Round. In a review of the
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  • 323 14 SCHOOLS CAN PLAY IN TOURNEY MINISTRY NO OBJECTIONS SCHOOLS can now compete the Singapore Youth Sports Centre's basketball tournament for the Youth Cup, starting on Feb. 23. There has been some misunderstanding over the Education Ministry's views towards schools taking part in this tournament. This was settled yesterday. It is
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  • 103 14 CINGAPORE Asians will have two practice matches this week in preparation for the All Blues final against Perak on Feb. 9. They will hav e a practice among themselves at Thomson Road tomorrow. They will meet Johore Asians at Johore Bahru on Sunday. The following 25
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  • 62 14 NEW YORK. Tues. Mickey Mantle, the American baseball league's most valuable player, won the Hickok "Professional Athlete of the Year" award last night. A US$lO,OOO diamond-studded, gold-buckled belt goes with the honour. Mantle was .selected in nation-wide poll of sports writers. Don Larsen. Mantle's teammate,
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  • 51 14 J. W. R. Muraille won the Royal Island Club's gold medal competition with a net score of 72. He also won the "A" monthly medal. The "B and "C" winners were E. B. Svmonds and J. Sheedy. Mrs. F. Fryer and A. Murdoch won the mixed
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  • 35 14 NEWMARKET, Tues. Mr Basil Jarvis. formerly one of England's leading racehorse trainers, died here on Friday, It was announced yesterday. Mr. Jarvis, who was 69, won the Derby in 1923 with Pupyrur Reuter.
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  • 121 14 PIETERMARITZBURG, Natal, Tues. JACKIE McGLEW, South African cricket captain, J will miss the Third Test against England starting at Durban on Friday. McGlew, who also missed the first Test but played in the second, has been troubled by a shoulder injury. A statement
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  • 43 14 RAF. Seletar "B" beat Merchant Navy by 17 points (goal and four tries) to nil in a rugger fixture at Seletar yesterday. Seletar got their tries through Mawson (2), Bsasley (2) and Crouch while Christopher made a conversion.
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  • 82 14 A MALAYAN CHAMPION TAKES A LESSON FROM PARRY O'BRIEN After completing two more "clinics" at Kuala Lumpur, he left for Penang by train last night. O'Brien is seen above showing Malayan woman discus champion Lee Yoke Lin the correct technique for this event. Straits Times picture. AMERICAN shot put ace
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  • 32 14 PIETERMARITZBURG. Tues.— Natal drew with the M.C.C. touring team in their four-day match which ended here today. Final scores: M.C.C. 293 and 122-6 dccl Natal 163 and 185-5. Reuter.
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  • 56 14 BANGKOK, Tues. MALAYA'S Khong Kit Soon beat Thailand's M. V. Devakul 6-3, 6-4 in the first round of the men's singles in the Thai national lawn tennis championships at the Royal Bangkok Sports Club this evening. Khong's 19-year-old opponent was runnerup in the Junior
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  • 52 14 MELBOURNE, Tues—Wimbledon champion Miss Shirley Fry and Miss Aithea Gibson, the New York negress, entered the semifinals of the women's doubles In the Australian tennis championships here today. The American pair beat Mrs. Jennifer Hoad and Miss Jill Langley, of Australia. 6-1, 6-2 Id the
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  • 152 14 SYDNEY, Tues. 'MEW South Wales, who needed 1>( 196 runs In their second Innings for outright victory, had to be content with first Innings points when rain restricted play to 82 minutes on the final day of their Sheffield Shield match against South
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  • 137 14 COUNCIL VOTE OF $1,500 FOR HALL MALACCA, Tues. rIE finance committee of the Malacca Municipal Council at a meeting last night decided to jive $1,500 towards the Malacca Badminton Hall Fund subject to the approval of the High Commissioner in executive council. The haU had been threatened with seizure if
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  • 84 14 Sunday is 'walking day' for them KESAV.V. It Han rank the m athletes in M For these there is do "day off in schedule ail them to pi year's Asian yo. They do Inten from Monday AND SUND/V. DAY. 1 Harichandr i crack hall mill "We take lon from the
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  • 268 14 W/L\M J&t S'GOR MOVE UPSETS COLOS) T'HE Selangor Lawn Tennis Association's decision to run the Malayan Junior championships at Kuala Lumpur at Easter this year has surprised Singapore's tennis officials. The president of the Lawn Tennis Association of Malaya, Mr. Chua Choon Leong, is
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    • 849 14 CLASSIFIED ADS. (Continued from Pace 6) SITUATIONS VACANT ttWm+tt (»">■) Box >n rtM. txtrm. ALL THOSE at present abroad i seeking positions in their own or another Country, should write for ira and terms of a service wiui 47 jrean worid-w'de reputa-! tinn:— Percy Coutts h Co., Ltd., 1 (Dept
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    • 85 14 ooooacooaoooooeo g wJLttOCUtH/ 0 PORTABLE. Q (Mains/ Battery) MODEL 11 11 IMI| Here is th e range and tonal quality of a fin table receiver with the convenience of a port mains and battery set that you can rake with anywhere. Price: Singapore $260/- Federation s Less 10'r for cash
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 43 14 RIGGER R.A.F. Seletar v Naval Base, Seletar; R.A.S.C. v RE. Ayer Rajah Road; SCC "A- v SER, Ayer Rajah Road; Police v The Blacks, Thorn son Road. HOCKEY S.H.A. senior knockout (replay) CSC v RAF Seletar, Balestier Road Friendly: SRC v YMSA. padang.
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