The Straits Times, 2 January 1949

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  • 19 1 The Straits Times LARGESI NETT SALE IN MALA YA No. 701. SINGAPORE. SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 1028 1 U.K. WANTS REPORT ON HIRE ARREST Smuggledplea 'for justice 9 Sunda, Times Staff Correspondent LONDON, Saturday. (JARLTON A. HIRE, Singapore businessman now in a Dutch jail *t Tanjong Pinang awaiting trial on a gun-running charge, has succeeded in smuggling letters to Britain. As a result, the Colonial Office has asked
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    31 1 WINNER of the race for Malay koleks over 30 feet long and with a crew of over ten men at the New Year Singapore sea sports yesterday. First prize was S2OO.
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    61 1 OLD MALAYA came back to Singapore for a few hours yesterday when the Malays turned out in their prahus, koleks and other boats, all dressed in traditional costume, for the New Year Sea sports. Here a rowing boat with crew all out In a rowing rare pass the Fullerton Buillings
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  • 191 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter IPOH. Saturday. 'TROOPS which followed up an air strike yesterday morning on a bandit camp in the Sungei Chendering area, in Kampar, captured the second in command of the c imp. The other bandit •■scaped into the thick swamp in which the camp
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  • 75 1 Sunday Times Stan' Reporter KUALA LUMPU: Sat. DUNEWAL of driving licences will cost five dollars in tha Federation this year instead of the previous two dollars The new rate was gazetted tins week-end Fees from driving tests, E: > visional licences, new eences and renewals were sxpected
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  • 77 1 Japanese undercut prices' MANCHESTER, Saturday. JAPANESE textile manufac- turers are again undercutting other foreign countries, the Manchester Chair.her of Commerce said ir. a statement yesterday. "Despite a promise that Japanese selling prices would bear a strict relation to world prices based on American production costs, this check is rapidly diminishing,
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  • 81 1 Sunday Times Correspond! ot BANGKOK. Saturday. P-JOLIE labourers or workers of any class are prohibited entry into Siam under a new measure designsd to tiehten control of immigration into Siam. The new measure will also requ're immigrants under the quota .o possess passports and visas granted by
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  • 307 1 Peace— on my terms': Chiang NANKING. Saturday. DRESIDENT Chiang Kai-shek, in a New Years Da) message to the nation on the 38th anniversary of th« Chinese Republic, offered his Communist foes peace or his own terms, or war to the bitter end. President Chiang suggested that he himself woulc be
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  • 54 1 PARIS. Sat.— After an allnight session, French deputies were at dawn today still discussing details of the 1949 budget. The clock in the National Assembly still showed midnight, and the calender marked Dec. 31 so that theoretically the budget could be completely passed before the
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  • 55 1 BELGRADE, Sal— Premier Marshal Tito said In his New Year's broadcast that the Communist Information Bureau is doomed to failure in its efforts to oust him as Yugoslavia's leader. Ht- declared "we are not wavering now and those who| are slandering us should be well
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  • 64 1 FIVE MALAYS TO BE 1st MAGISTRATES Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. FIVE Malays have been ip pointed to act as First Magistrates in the Federation as from today. They are Inche Mohamed Din bin AH and Wan Ahmad bin Wan Omar (Negri Sembilan), Inche Mohamed Noor bin Seiiul and
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  • 157 1 BATAVIA. Saturday. AS Dutch hostilities in Java ended except against "rebellious elements" the High Commissioner, Dr. Loyis "oe!, in a N»w Year broadcast, appealed to all Indonesian; to "accept the new situation and set your hands to the plough in order to build together a
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  • 104 1 TEENAGERS RUN RIOT MIAMI. Sat. '"j'Hh p« '\:O' force was called ■I out late last night to quell a "riot by 2.000 teenagers welcoming the New Year. A police official said rowdies set nre to boxes and crates lining a street after a jamboree parade had passed. Then they swarmed
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  • 90 1 WASHINGTON. Sat.— P A sident Truman Is expected tC ask the new democratic Congress to boost taxes by some U553,500,000,000. He Is expected to tell legislators In his budget message that unle,s Increases are made the government will be in debt during the
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  • 23 1 SUNNINGDALE. Saturday -Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh today drove to Windl \;ham Moor, their country home at Sunnlngdale Reuter.
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  • 40 1 British doctors, who are in revolt against the Labour Government's -iatlonal Health Service Scheme, are threatening to hold mass meetings in the New Year and to march in protest to Downing Street, the British Medical Journal reported yesterday.
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  • 84 1 B ing beats Betty Grable BING Crosby became box office champion of all time by becoming No. 1 of the top ten money making stars for the fifth year hi succession. More people have paid more money to see the balding crooner, according to Motion Picture Herald's anmnl no'l. than
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  • 99 1 wcdacii c TEL AVIV Saturday. ISRAELI spokesmen said today that their forces, in the Negev offensive, had crossed the U.N. partition Imes and routed the Egyptian,, causing y.^ heavy The Egyptians have officially denied the Israo' claim of sweeping successes." This was the first
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  • 282 1 Officer, 7 men killed in ambush Sunday Times Staff Reporter IPOH. Saturday. A British officer, a corporal, and six troopers of the 4th Hussars were killed, and nine others wounded in an ambush on the Sungei Siput- Jalong Road at midday yes- terday. Five bandits were killed and the bodies
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  • 50 1 NEW YORK, Sat. THE Standard Vacuum Oil Company announced in New York on Friday that Kla- mond Oil field in New Guinea had been brought into production with the I;i si delivery of crude oil to the port of Sorong. in western New I Guinea.— A P.
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  • 1184 2 When turkeys were five dollars each FaHHH KaiiHiliilßnaß IHfl J SPENT a quiet Christmas. My roast turkey was a piece of boiled fish, my plum pudding a custard pudding, my wine a cup of Benger's food und dried milk. I enjoyed it all, because I am on a diet and
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  • 309 2  -  KEBUN 1.-lt'i'M'T-M'H.-l by (HAVE in mind thre? rather beautiful climbers which, al though grown by the real enthusiast, ought to be better known. They are Afgekia Sericea. Ipo maea Horsfalliae, (var Briggsii), and Clematis Triloba. Afgekia is grown from seeds and if given some good compost or
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  • 512 2 PHOTO NOTES COME people, as you probably know, never take a picture without including everything—and usually a little more. When they picture people they shoot for the whole figure. When they snap scenics, they attempt to include inessentials. That, of course, does make for many fine
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    15 2 CONCENTRATING on detail close jpi like rt,i, helps pro I dxc sioie effecti*« f ipahort.
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  • 314 3 "TRUE DEMOCRACY" M.N.P. CALL Communalism attacked Sunday Times Staff Reporter QPEAKINC at the opening of the fourth annual congress of the Malay Nationalist Party, Malay leaders called for a true democracy "to improve living conditions*' and a united effort to stand against communalism which was submerging healthy nationalism in Malaya.
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    33 3 DR. BURHANUDDIN, one of the founders of the Malay Nationalist Party, addressing over 1,000 Malays from Singapore and the Federation at the opening session of the Party's fourth annual congress at Geylang yesterday.
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  • 43 3 SEOAMAT, Sat. —To replace Mr. O. L. Carson, who has gone on transfer to Jasin, Mr. J. S. Smith has been appointed Assistant Conservator of Forests, Johore South. The new Conservator of Forests for all Johore is Mr. E. J. Strugnell.
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  • 147 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter rOTjR million aspirin tablets, f together with other drugs and chemicals, are being offered for sale by the Medical Department In Singapore. They are part of stocks which have been declared surplus to the needs of the Department. These surplus were
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  • 80 3 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA KANQSAR. Sat. THE police band of the Fede--1 ration of Malaya was In Kuala Kangsar this afternoon under band master Mr. A. W. Crofis. This band is touring as on a pre-reeruitment drive in the Federation and is making history in Malaya.
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  • 59 3 CELEBRATIONS IN TAPING Sunday Times Staff Keporter TAIPINQ, Sat. Churches here held WatchNight services yesterday to usher in 1949. Many gay house parties also ended with the lusty singing of Auld Lang Synne. Entertainment centres were packed to capacity owing to the holiday. The weather during this season here it
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  • 33 3 SEOAMAT, Saturday. The Inspector of Weights and Measures, Johore, will tour the State to verify weighing Instruments and weights and measures. He will be In Segamat irom March 19 to 22.
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  • 260 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter IPOH, Saturday. pWE out of the eight information centres in Perak by 1 the Federal Department of Public Relations will cease functioning from today because the Government cannot find the money to keep them running. The centres which are
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  • 178 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A RECORD number of competitors entered for the 18 racing events for sailing and rowing boats in the Singapore New Year Sports yesterday. About 100 boats took part. Malay kolehs Bugis prahus, sampans, yachts, dinghies, ships' lifeboats and fishing boats took part
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  • 37 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA KANGSAR Saturday: Acting Chief Sanitary Inspector Baslr of Taiping has succeeded Mr. Ng Telk Swee at Kuala Kangsar as Town Board Secretary and Town Superintendent. Mr. Ng succeeds him at Taiplng.
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  • 129 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S Municipal Commissioners think that caterwauling need not be discouraged in Singapore, but that night-howling by dogs definitely should be. At any rate that is why citizens must licence their dogs and not their cats. Any dog seen on the streets
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  • 142 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter ZEALAND zoos are now competing with 11 zoological institutions in the United States for Malayan animals and reptiles in an effort to get specimens of animals which died during the war. Following recent large shipments of animals by sea and air,
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  • 51 3 MALACCA, Saturday. YONQ Joon Seng pleadtd guilty to assisting In running a public lottery Wah Whey and Chap Jl Kee before Inche 3ufnan, magistrate, yesterday. He was fined $500 or four months' hard labour. The accused was allowed to pay $100 and the balance $40
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  • 392 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. "VVE have suffered and are still suffering from lack of registration of properly qualified architects in thla country," said Mr. H. C. Upton, chairman of the Kuala Lumpur branch of the Institute of Architects, Malaya, yesterday. He
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  • 42 3 Sunday Times Correspondent TAIPING. Sat.— A good house saw the performance of a local Malay Dramatic Association's play at the Town Hall yesterday. Ahmad Tajuddn, a local clerk who wrote th« play, entitled "Second Wife", took the leading role.
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  • 629 4 Pieces of 8 new style \MY Lords of the A"* Admiralty have just announced that the Navy's share of the £4,000,000 prize money from the sale of enemy ships and cargoes captured during the war will be the last time that prize money will be paid. In the early part
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  • 576 4 I BROKE with an old- established custom the other day. Normally when I have a book that contains a foreword written by some notable person. I make it a rule to read through .he book first before looking at the Foreword so that I can truthfully say that
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    20 4 ONE of the reason why swimming pools arc so popular In Hollywood Ava Gardner, ■•■n in many films in Malaya.
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  • 835 4 PENANG, too, has a kramat isle Pulau Kechil (or Pulau Tikus) —where both Chinese and Malays annually hold kenduri for a Malay datoh. Hundreds of believers go to pay homage, turning the small uninhabited island into a gay holiday spot The island holds a kramat the tomb of
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  • 584 4 808 GILMORE reports m AUCKLAND, Dec. 22. MEW ZE A n LAND'S Labour Government is entertaining this week an official guest from Malaya— "Mr. Tuan Haji Mohamed Eusoff, assistant director of the Co-operative Societies' Department in the Protectorate of Malaya." The Government says he is
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  • 245 5 S'PORE WAS DRIER LAST YEAR Still above average Sunday Times Staff Reporter J^AST year the weatherman in Singapore, the man who controls the rain, opened the taps over the Colony to the tune of 105 inches, which is fifteen inches less than in 1947 and 1946. Rainfall in 1948 was
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    49 5 USTICE stares oat to sea J from her seat over the door to Singapore's Supreme Court. In one hand she carries a sword for the evildoer and in the other a pair of scales on which to weigh either side. Unfortunately they are slightly tilted.. but on whose side?
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  • 234 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter JMANY hundreds of Singaporeans every day past the Supreme Court Building without noticing the tilt in the scales held out by the four-ton figure of Justice gazing across the Esplanade out to sea. Few pause either to consider that the figure
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  • 112 5 H.S. BUDGET PLEA TO H.C. Sunday Times Staff Reporter SEREMBAN, Sat. rrHE addition of a post of Second Assistant State Secretary. Class Two, of the Malay Administrative Service for Ncgrl Sernbllan has necessita'pd a supplement of $4,367 to the N.S. estimates for 1948. At the budget meeting of the N.S.
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  • 18 5 Rev. Lee Tsek has been granteu a licence to solemnize marriages within the Colony of Singapore.
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  • 93 5 Sunday Times StjfT Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. AGREEING with defence counsel's submission that there was no case to meet, the Kuala Lumpur District Judge, (Mr. M. Gar ton) yesterday acquitted and discharged the former branch manager of the Remington Rand Company, Mohd. Sa'ad on a charge of criminal
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  • 293 5 Sunday Times Financial Correspondent PHI share markers last week were open for only hal the working period, so that the volume of business was small. Prices, however, in the industrial and tin sections improved slightly and most business was done at prices higher than those ruling at
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  • 95 5 Sunday Times Sta T Reporter IT is proposed to hold a farewell re-union dinner in honour of Mr. F. L. Shaw, headmaster of Victoria Institution. Kuala Lumpur (1929— 1936), who la leaving Malaya on retirement early this year. The function which will be open
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  • 57 5 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANQ, Saturday. A 810 Malay wedding takes place here on Jan. 8 when Che Zaharah, daughter of Mr. C. M. Hashim, will marry j Inche Ohazali, eldest son of the Mentri Besar of Pahang, Dato Mahmud. Several Sultans. Mentri Besars, local government
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  • 34 5 KINEMATOGRAPH A.G.M AT the annual general meeting of the Klnematograph Renters' Society of Malaya Ltd.. Mr. Nor.cc Sen (Columbia) was unanimously elected President. Mr. Richard OConnell (Paramount) was elected a member of the Council.
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  • 148 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SEREMBAN, Saturday. PROPOSALS for running a lottery at intervals for the benefit of the anti-tuberculosis campaign in Negri Sembilan will be one of the main items on the agenda of the Negri branch of the Malayan Association for the Prevention of
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  • 40 5 UP to Dec 21 last year, £,827 persons were arrested In Johore by security forces. Of these 1.565 were subsequently released. Since Dec. 21, scv>n bandits have been killed In Johore, and 17 "wanted" bandits arrested.
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    81 5 poll AH YEW was hanged 11 at Taiping Gaol on Friday. He was found illegally carrying parts of a Sten gun. LEONG HEE was sentenced to death for carrying 70 rounds of ammunition. He was hanged at TalpJng Oaol on Friday CHENG SENG HONG surrendered to security forces
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  • 579 6 THE STRAITS TIMES SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 1949. UNOnimity INTO 1948, a year that will always be remembered for its differences of opinion on almost every sublect, the United Nations trought astonishing unanimity on two subjects agreement to ignore utterly any of the pronouncements of its Security Council, and agreement all
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  • 2073 6 Up the coast of Pahang EAST COAST JOURNEY Part 111 WE left Merging for the second time on the morning of the third Sunday in July. The storm of the previous day had died, but there was still a strong swell, and the blue-green sea rose and fell deeply under
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    • 95 6 V E Itu \Vk\) fST 1883 ill M V^f IN SINCAPORE. JOHORE <^^^X AND MALACCA ONLY. ■V An attractive g'ass will be given \&l\ re# wit 1 evt r > our d° xen VJ^^?^^^ F. N. Drink< purchased berween \anuar- 3rd and 22nd. Chinese New Year will be j H
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  • 532 7 128, 619 DAYS WORK LOST BY STRIKES Singapore has better record Sunday Times Industrial Reporter SINGAPORE lost 128,619 man-dayt through strikes in 1948, as compared with 492,708 man-days lost in 1947, according to the Labour Department's "strike schedule," shown to the Sunday Times yesterday. This compares well with the 850,000
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    50 7 IMr. Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan inspected a guard of honour provided by a contingent forty strong of the Negri Sembilan Police when he opened last week's meeting of the Council of State. On the Yam Tuan's right Is Che Jalil, A.S.P.. who was In charge of the parade.
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    19 7 MERRYMAKERS at the Tanglin Club. Singapore, where over 800 members and guests gathered to welcome in the New Year.
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  • 82 7 Sunday Times Correspondent SEGAMAT, Sat. FAN Sam a 41-year-old Chinese appeared In Segamat District Court today charged with the possession of Illicit samsu and fermented mash. He was alleged to have been found on Chan Wing Estate, Jagoh, with a complete liquor still. A
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  • 34 7 LEAGUE'S PARTY Maulana Abdul Alim Siddlqul, a Muslim divine, and Prof. M. L. Qureshi, an ECAFE officer, were entertained by the Overseas Pakistan League on Friday at a tea party at Kallang Airport Hotel.
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  • 70 7 Sat. OVER 600 people saw the New Year In the Runnymede Hotel last night when they attended the Penang Rugby Union's New Year Eve dance The dance was attended by Resident Commissioner, Mr. A. V. Aston, accompanied by his wife, and the Chief Police Officer,
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  • 338 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. pLAYINC a vital part in the war against terrorists are L the Army's flying "taxi-drivers" using their "grasshopper" planes 1,700-pound 130 h.p. Austers. The "taxi-drivers" belong to 1907 flight of 656 Air Observation Post Squadron based in Kuala
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  • 44 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Sat.— Mr. C. H. W. Goult, editor of the Malay Mail, Kuala Lumpur, was married at the Presbyterian Church yesterday to Miss Jean Abernethy Fisher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Fisher, of Banting, Selangor.
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  • 138 7 New Year patrols in K.L Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LU.MPUa, Sat. SPECIAL patrols were once, again out on duty In Kuala Lumpur last night against the possibility of terrorist ativity during the New Year's eve festivities. There were big gatherings at theatres and the biggest crowds of merry makers
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  • 136 7 Sunday Times Correspondent MALACCA, Sat. NEW Year's Eve saw the official opening of Malacca's latest club, the City Club, whose objects are "to bring together a number of business men of common interest and promote social services such as rendering assistance and financial aid where essential
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  • 120 7 Ii^ROUP Captain E. Q. North;\Jway of R.A.F. Maintenance Base, Seletar heads the list of officers and senior N.C.O.'s of Air Command, Far East, who appear In the N/.v Year's Honours List. He receives the C.B.E. Others who received awards are: 0.8.E.. Wing Commarder N. G. N.
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  • 161 7 hotels, cluos and cabarets were packed r thousands of people In mood to welcome the New Year. Many kept the festivities going until the small hours of the morning. At Raffles Hotel there were six hundred diners, while the Tanglin Club was tilled to capacity
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  • 190 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter YTNLIMITEO barter trade between Singapore and Sumatra will be one of the result of the Dutch occupation of ports previously controlled by the Republicans. The Netherlands Consulate-General has stated that the Dutch do not intend to abandon their cooperation with Singapore authorities
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  • 43 7 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANQ, Saturday. AFTER a year's yeoman service towards Muslim and other travellers, the Light Street Rest House closed its doors today because its founder, Mr. S. A. Rahlm, a local philanthropic Muslim businessman. Is returning to India.
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  • 97 7 MALACCA, Sat. MANY people after their private parties last night went to the Capitol Dance Hall, the only hall of its kind in Malacca, where they greeted the New Year with much merriment. The European community tuined out in full force at the Rest House and later
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  • 194 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter /"INLY a relatively small number of motor-car dealers in Malaya will be 100 per cent, affected by the ban on all non-British made cars of over 20 horsepower which will be felt about next June, when current orders have been filled.
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  • 269 7 SEREMBAN, Saturday. THE establishment of a Scout Council for the Federation of Malaya is awaiting the final approval of the Overseas Scout Commissioner, Col. Walton, and of the Chief Scout, Lord Rowallan, The Sunday Times was informed yesterday by Mr. E. M. F. Payne, Chief
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  • 32 7 K. KANGSAR, Sat.— Raja Azham bin Raja Kamarulzzaman, Deputy Assistant District Officer, Kuala Kangsar, has been transferred to Tanjong Malim and Inche Mohamed Ariff, from the Perak Secretariat, succeeds him.
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  • 37 7 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Sat.— Mr. L. J. L. Haxworth, Immigration officer, Penang, will leave Penang on Monday on transfer to Singapore as Immigration officer. His successor will be Mr. A. G. Roche of Singapore.
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    • 645 8 THIS WEEK FOR YOU r-What the Stars ForetellCAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20). CANCER (Jane 23-July LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). 20). This should be a happy Harmony should be ap- 23). You can come to an —Be sure your idea is a good week for you. Matter* on parent
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    • 847 8 BRAIN TESTERS FOR EVERYBODY HOW many square he found that tne squatty yards" said the sur- had spoken the truth, veyor, pointing to the small How many sticks w«M plot of ground. there? "It Isn't square," said *he VK j^n^ <*- squatter, "It's a triangle. And }«nm vtn aqj, -sap^t
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  • 162 9 Hats for Town AND why not? They are ri an essential part of the smart woman's wardrobe. No beautiful day dress or suit can be called really important if not completed with a hat. Here are four (from top to bottom) THIS top-of the-head '-bonnet is for baby faced lyoung
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  • 548 9  - Malayan children's book MARY HEATHCOTT by AMONG the season's new books for children is Mrs. Barbara Baker's "The Herewegoes" (The Hogarth Press, 55.), a charming blend of the realistic and fantastic, set in the coastal plain of Kelantan near Bachok and Kemassin. The time is 1942 and the central characters
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  • 768 9  -  GWEN ROBYNS by DROFESSOR of fashion the first in world history is the title given to ultra smart Mrs. Madge Garland, who brings a breath of New Look to the sombre, grey academic atmosphere of London's Royal College of Art. From the moment she swept
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  • 321 9 SPHERE'S such a lot to x be done at the last minute when you have a party. Have some dishes ready to serve cold, prepared well beforehand and you will find them a good standby. COLD CONSOMME THIS is very simple to prepare and looks pretty
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    • 461 9 In my efforts to improve prehension, so close a grip environment have any bearmyself as a conversationalist and a following of the theme ino on the untPlliarnre mei-> I have become a worse one. that an aptly placed inter- intelligence level? Searching for topics, I have polation here and there
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  • 1020 10  - 1948 MOST MEMORABLE FOR UK SPORT VERNON MORGAN Year of London Olympiad From Router's Sports Editor 'JfHI year 1948 will go down to history as on* of the most memorable of all time for British sport. Not because of a very special feat by any British athlete, man or woman,
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    31 10 THF Eclipse Badminton Party, Singapore interclub champions In 1948, held a dinner party at the Happy World last weekend to celebrate their success. Picture shows the larg> attendance at tha function.
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  • 346 10 SYDNEY, Saturday. SHEFFIELD Shield cricket matches in Australia yesterday had varying fortunes. The match in Sydney between Queensland and New South Wales began after being held up yesterday throughout by rain, but at Melbourne where Victoria and South Australia had a full day's play on
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  • 302 10 CALCUTTA, Sat. /\PENINO batsman George Carew. last-minute choice by the West Indies to replace the sick J. Stollmeyer for the third Test against India, was nowhere to be found on Friday morning when lie wax wanted to open West Indies first innings. John Ooddard.
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  • 72 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday rt following have been selected to represent Selangor in an inter-State Rugby match against Perak on Jan. 8. at Kuala Lumpur: Capt. Reed; F/O Levlseur, Cpl. Mitchell, D. A. Borrle. W/O Neel; H. O. Bennett, D. A. Weir; J
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  • 229 10 S.C.C. 1st team trounce Police S.S.S 29 points, Police 5 points IN a game in which they were superior in all departments, 1 the Singapore Cricket Club defeated the Police by 29 points (four goals and three tries) to five (one goal) at rugger on the padang yesterday. homer made
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  • 372 10 r order to Improve their standard of badminton, the French decided to U~ ow open their annual badminton cnaraplonahlps lost year to Dlayers of all nations. The 20th French Dadmiuton championship took place on April 10 and 11 last at the Racing Club of France.
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  • 73 10 ENGLAND won the toss and took the first innings when the Test match against South Africa began in Capetown yesterday. Weather conditions yesterday morning were perfect, with indications of extreme Tieat liter. With Mann, the England captain, testing himsMf and deciding that he was fit to play
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  • 113 10 SYDNEY, Sat. OLYMPIC representative Morrta Curotta ha* declined an Invitation to compete In the Australian athletic championships in Sydney lon Jan. IS and Jan. 32. Curotta acted on instructions I from hit trainer and on medical advice. I It was stated that Curotta rei turned from tht
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  • 52 10 Sunday Times Ipoh Sporta Reporter rl inter-State hockey matoh between the Perak Malays and the SelaQgor Malays played m Ipoh yesterday ended in a one-all draw. Raja Azlan. Perak's centre-for-ward, scored for In the first half. Tusuff, the htslde-left obtained the equaliser for Selangor In the
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  • 47 10 KUALA KANGSAR, Sat. Pthe Malay Schools InterState football match at Kuala Kangsar yesterday between Perak north and Kuala Lumpur team, the Selangor team won by three goals to two. Aziz. Noordin and Hassan scored for the visitors, and Untok and Mustapha for the homesters.
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  • 58 10 From Our Own Correspondent Parit Buntar Friday. Krian will meet the Buklt Martajam High Sshool old boys team at rugger on Sunday. The match will be played on the public padang, Parit Buntar. The Krian team will 1m: Burton; Stoner Plttendrich, Sip Fon?, David; Josselyn, saUebudin; L«win,
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  • 46 10 THREE thoroughbred horses own--1 ed by Mrs. J. W. Kmg of South Oodstone, Surrey, were killed in a collision with an Army lorry on the main London-East-bourne Road at South Oodstone yesterday. The horses had strayed on the road from the paddock.— Reuter.
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  • 168 10 Coirtlmied from prer. col. of Northern Ireland; Jack Parker, the speedway king; Joe Davis, still peerless among snooker players; Harry Churcher, England's brilliant walker; and champion cyclist Reginald Harris. It goee to Monaghan by virtue of the fact that he holds the world's flyweight title and these days British boxen
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  • 1260 11 THE Australian Press yesX terday hailed Don Brad man's knighthood and flowing tributes were paid to him not only as a great cricketer, but also as a great Australian. W. J. O'Reilly, one of Australia's greatest bowlers, who was associated with Bradman, in a Press tribute
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  • 645 11 BRADMAN ADVISES I OOKINC back over the sunbathed crowds of Sydney, the lordliness of Lord's, and placid days at Worcester in England's sometimes chilly May, I select as first essential the importance oi the player's approach to the game, the mental outlook of the man playing
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  • 442 11  -  CAPTAIN Badminton notes. by THE efforts of the Selangor Badminton Association's Tournament Committee to beat the calendar have not achieved the success they deserve, for once again a fewtournaments have encroached on the new year that has Just begun. Main -u--e was the lack
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  • 214 11 DON Bradman, Australia's first cricket knight told a Melbourne luncheon yesterday that he regarded his knight- I hood as "an honour to cricket and evidence of cricket's strong link In Empire relationships." In his reply to congratulations, he put forward these •even resolutions for cricketers:
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  • 243 11 Sunday Times Segamar Sports Correspondent I OH ORE sport in 1948 suffered greatly as a result of the Emergency in Hie country and all ambitious plans made last January had to be shelved. Cricket got off to a good start and, for the first time
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  • 2670 12  - LITTLE NED SURPRISES IN C-G's CUPRACE EPSOM JEEP PermitaDormez wins sprint From BRILLIANTLY ridden by Abdul Mawi, Little Ned won the Commissioner-General's Cup over 1 miles for top-class stayers to pay $87 at Penang yesterday, the concluding day of the Penang Turf Club Xmas-New Year Meeting. Mawi kept the Domaha
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    36 12 V"13! PATF.I. LA TKOY leads in Ovation (E. Donnelly). Jl winner of the Mx-furlong race for la>j 2, Div. 4 horses last Monday, second day of the ***&M Xma»NVw Year* Meeting.— Picture by Scoop's Amatey Service.
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    28 12 MISS Pamelu liston, daughter cf Mr. C. P. Liston, leads In her father's horse Baba (Bafby), a winner in the Penane races last Wednesday. Sooops Amateur Service picture.
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  • 152 12 LONDON Sat. BRITISH Olympic officials receive awards in tne New Year's honours list for their work In carrying out so successfully the 14th Olymclad in London this summer. They are headed by Lord Portal.- president of the Olympk Games, who becomes a 'Ought Grand Cross of
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  • 49 12 PHILADELPHIA, Sat. BARNEY EWELL, coloured American sprinter, who was second in the Olympic 100 metres, has been declared a professional. The rulirtj by the Middle Atlantic Amateur Athletic Union followed Ewell's acceptance of a gift of a furnished houae from eitl',ens of Lancas cr, Pennsylvania Reuter.
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  • 33 12 JJIG item on the programme tor Australia** Rugby League in 1949 win be the tour of New Zealand by an Australian team, the first since 1935. Reuter- A. A. P.
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