The Straits Times, 5 December 1949

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 <iHT PA(iES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1949. PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • 594 1 Seriously Wounded By Malay Student Blood Transfusion In Plane To Spore •JHE new Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Sarawak, Mr. Duncan George Stewart was on Saturday stabbed in the stomach and seriously wounded in a sudden attack by a young Malay student at Sibu, a town
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  • 25 1 The Governor of Sarawak, Mr. Duncan George Stewart, on his arrival in Kuching on Nov. 14. —Picture by K. F. Wong.
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  • 31 1 URS. Stewart is Hying ITI from England today to be at the bedside of the Governor. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart hare a son and two daugh- ten.
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  • 201 1 Only 1 p.c. Active AntiCessionists AN authority on Sarawak said last night that he i .Mimated the active members of the anti-cession movement would not amount to more than one per cent of the population of Sarawak— which was half i million. At tot half the total are pagan tribes
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  • 32 1 C\TANIA. Sun. The flow of lava from Mount Etna, in eruption since early Friday began to slow down today! bribing hope that village* in Km path might oc spared.— Keuter.
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  • 34 1 PARIS. Sun. Gen Marcel Cirpr>ntier. Commanding the F.- >nch Forces in the Far Bast, arrived here today in m nt on the situation in In -China to the French (i prnment. Rmter.
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  • 145 1 Last Round of Campaign This Week Australian Election MELBOURNE. Sun. THE coming week will witness the final round in the Australian general election campaign. On Saturday 4.750.000 voters will elect, a new House of Representatives enlarged from 75 to 123 seats. There- are 465 candidates including 40 Communists. Political prophets
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  • 36 1 x BATAVIA. Sun Pandit Nehru has declined an invitation from President Soekarno to attend the inauguration ol the United States of Indonesia. He expressed hope to be able to visit Indonesia next year.— A.P.
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  • 233 1 HONG KONO, Sun. ACTING Chinese President r\ U Tsung-jen Is due to leave Hong Kong tomorrow by plane for the United 3tates. according to his spokesman. He will be accompanied by Madame Li and Generals Li Han. former Nationalist Minister of the Interior, and
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  • 38 1 MR. MALCOLM MACDONALD, Commissioner General for South-East \»ia, photographed during his rfcent visit to Indo-China while talking with the King of < ambodia in the latter"? throne room at Pnom-Penh.— Indo-China Information Office picture.
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  • 13 1 NEW YORK, Sun— Philip Harry, 53, noted playwright, died yesterday.— A.P.
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  • 211 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. DANDITS attacked a military party in the Kroh "area o f Kedah, near the Siamese border, yesterday evening. Details of the attack are not yet known, but it was stated today that the military party suffered casualties. The
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  • 66 1 CHARLIE -'MAN OF THE YEAR' NEW YORK, Sun. THE Time magazine's readers began nominations in letters to the editor for the magazine's "Man of the Year." Nominations published this week included the President of the United Nations Assembly. Carlos P. Romulo, India's Prime Minister. Pandit Nehru, and "he who has
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  • 33 1 Following Saturday's elections, the Singapore Municipal Commissioners will hold a special meeting on Wednesday at 2.15 p.m. After the meeting, a group photograph of the Municipal Commissioners will be taken
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  • 46 1 TOKYO. Sun. -The toll of known dead in the coal mine cave-in at Tadakuma "colliery last Friday rose to nine today. Rescue teams report that faint voices can still be heard from a spot where 17 pit workers were burled alive.— Reuter.
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  • 36 1 BUENOS AIRES, Sun. President Juan D. Peron said today that he Is going to prosecute the editors of Argentina's two largest newspapers for reporting a speech accusing him of enriching himself in office.— A.P.
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  • 94 1 TOKYO. Sun Britain, the. United States. China and Burma have finished th" ,var crimes trials of Japanese, the Japanese Foreign Office has announced. Of the remaining four countries still holding war criminal suspects, the Philippines and French Indo-China are trying to wind up their trials
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  • 459 1 RUBBER PRICE MAY GO UP —U.S. VIEW From ALLINGTON KENNAKD. Straits Times Special Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sunday. A 17 per cent, increase in natural rubber con- sumption by American factories in October, revealed in figures just published, lends point to the prediction by Mr. P. W. Litchfleld, chairman of the Goodyear
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  • 157 1 INDIES RECOVERY APPEAL BAMIA. Sumatra. Sui>. DR. Sjafruddin Prawiranegara. Republican VicePremier for Sumatra ha.> promised the foreign owners of businesses and properties in Indonesia that their properties would be protected after the transfer of sovereignty from the Dutch ta the Indenesians at the end ol December. Dr. Prawiranegara. who led
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  • 30 1 HONO KONG. Sun. The rabies situation in Hong Kong has become "despe: ately •erious Dr. Q. L Shaw Deputy Director of Health.' told a Press conference.— Reuter.
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    • 290 2 LONDON, Sunday. THE Earl of Strathmore, 31 -year-old nephew of the Queen, pleaded not gu\\iy at Perth, Scotland, to driving a jeep while drunk. He was called to the dock under his family name of Timothy Patrick Bowes-Lyon. His address was given as Glamis Castle,
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  • Article, Illustration
    45 2 MR. M. KADIRKAMA SEGARAM of Ceylon Drieberf College who recently passed the London B.A. examination honours) degree in Ceylon. He is the third son of the late Mr. V. K. Murugasa Pillai of Taiping and an old boy of the Penang Free School.
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  • 46 2 LONDON, Sun. With the cotton industry falling substantially below 1949 targets for both yarn and cloth production, textile companies are beginning to agitate for an increase in working hours from 45 hours weekly to 48. The answer will probably be no.— U.P.
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  • 81 2 GENERAL FOUND SHOT DEAD BULINGAME. California. Sun. Major General George F. Moore, Commander of Corregktor fortress off Manila in the long Japanese siege, has been found dead near here with a bullet through his head and his service pistol in his hard. Contents of a note found on the generals
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    • 311 2 NOTICES SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE CO.. LTD. •rporated In the Colony of Singapore) NOTICE 18 HEREBY OIVKN Uie Forty-Fourth Annual Oesmu Meeting of tre Company will be held at the Offices of > <1 St Co Ltd.. Collyer Quay pore nn Saturday, Um 10th Dfrfmb-r, 1949. at 12 Noon. BUSINESS 1
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    • 348 2 NOTICE BRITISH COUNCIL SCHOLARSHIPS No application* for Scholarships for 1050/51 will be accepted after Saturday. 10th December, 1949 "municipality of KUALA LUMPUR Application* axe Invited by the Municipal Commissioner* of Kua» I.uinpur lor the post ol— MUNICIPAL ENGINEER. KUALA LUMPUR. Applicants should be Corporate Members of the Institute of Civil
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    • 725 2 NOTICES NOTICE TAKE NOTICE that SIM StEW KNO and EE HOR LEAN carrying on business at No. f Clarke Quay, Singapore under the firm name of EASTERN PRODUCE COMPANY, hereby Intend on the 15th day of December 1949 to dissolve partnership and to wind up the said business. All creditors
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    • 621 2 NOTICES THE lASTERN UNITED ASSURANCE CORPORATION, LIMITED. NOTICE is hereby riven that the Transfer Books of the above Corporation will be closed from the 13th to 20th December, 1949, both days inclusive for the preparation of Interim Dividend Warrants. By Order of the Board, SIM YANG BIANO, Acting General Manager.
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    • 575 2 NOTICES AUCTION SALE THE ANGLO-CHINESE SCHOOL CUSTODIAN OF ENEMY OLD BOYS ASSOCIATION PROCLAMATION NO. 14 OF 1945 AND By order of the Custodian or THE METHODIST CHURCH Enemy Property. Federation of Malaya,' the undermentioned property will be sold by Public Auc- Invite all alumni, parents of tion by MESSRS. A.
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  • 247 3 LONDON, Sunday. five-starred red flag of the Chinese Communists was unfurled for the first time in Britain yesterday at the first session of the unofficial two-day Britain-China Conference. The speakers demanded immediate recognition of the Communist regime by Britain, without waiting for
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  • 70 3 «f H St R Fy;n F rf T x ER JO «N de Souia takes round the relic hL «F ?u CIS Xavle J kissed durin the celebrations of the feast of the Saint at St. Joseph's Church y CaL"^ y AhA *h rancis Xav r the
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  • 142 3 From Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE. Sun. THE Australian Minister o Immigration. Mr. Arthui Calwell. stated this week-em that wnere Australian girh were unhappily married ir Asia or elsewhere fare* back to Australia could usually be paid by the Australian Government. This, he slid, was
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  • 104 3 Libya Told Of 'Struggle' CAIRO. Sun. AZZAM PASHA, Secretary of the Arab League, in a written statement to the Libyan people last night, said: "The struggle for independence is not yet ended. "Today you begin a new struggle to build the Libyan State on a strong basis, with a national
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  • 76 3 JERUSALEM, Sun. The people of Jerusalem will not co-operate with any foreign rulers, declared the Jewish Mayor, Mr. Daniel Auster. addressing a mass meeting in the city to protest against i the UN prou -d Internal Uonai r en v > ci».y. The meeting sent a
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  • 63 3 HONG KONG, Sun. Mr. Aw Boon Haw has suggested to the Hong Kong immigration authorities a simplified procedure for the entry of Malayan Chinese visitors to this Colony. The Hong Kong Government recently notified Chinese in Malaya that they should apply for entry visas wttfa the
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  • 43 3 LONDON. Sun. The British Post-Master General has been Informed by the Pakistan Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs, that there is no objection to the money order service being resumed frcm the United Kingdom to Pakistan at the new exchange rate.— Reuter.
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  • 181 3 K.L. UMNO VOTES IN FA VOUR MALAYAN NATIONALITY From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. A MEETING of the Kuala Lumpur branch of UMNO voted today in favour of the Communi- ties Liaison Committee's proposals for a Malayan nationality. Dato Onn bin Ja'afar, UMNO presiI dent, and several other leaders
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  • 90 3 from Our Staff Correspondent fiERTIFICATES of a'ppreciavv tlon are to be presented to all those who collect $1,000 or more in Perak for University Funds. Perak's Varsity fund total is more than $80,000. Inche Mustapha Albakri and Mr. V. D. Kuppusamy nave been elected Perak delegates to
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  • 37 3 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR. Sun.--A police supervisee, Tan Ah Kok alias Quek Hong Tiang, was remanded in police custoday after being charged at Muar with falling to report to the P-'Hce once a month.
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  • 62 3 INTERNATIONAL t O R TMGHTLY CLUB, 5. Raffles Quay, 10 a.m. Rev. S. M. Thevathasan will speak on Ceylon. Y.W.C.A., 5, Raffles Quay rookery class (Chinese dishes), j p.m. REFEREES' ASSOCIATION. n-tetlnß, V.M.C.A.. Orchard Road, 6 p.m. INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS' ASSOCIATION, life class, British Council Centre. Stamford Road. 5
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  • 55 3 POET STANLEY. Falkland! Islands, Sun.— The Antarctic ship John Biscoe, which la steaming south through ice pecks to rescue 11 British scieni ist.s, reached Deception Island early yesterday, said a radio report picked up here. The scientists have been marooned at their posts on Stonington Island, near
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  • 64 3 From Out Own Correspondent TAPAH. Sun. SGT. Hassan bin Awang of the Tapah Police was acqnittpd In the Tapah Circuit Magistrate's Court on three charges of breach of trust and criminal misappropriation of personal effects belonging to people banished from Malaya. The charges concerned a sum of more
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  • 105 3 BANGKOK, Sunday. DUDDHIST SIAM was host to 100 Protestant Christian delegates, observers and visitors at yesterday's Bangkok opening o f the East Asian Christian conference. I The Siamese Regent, Prince Rangslt of Chalnat. on a gilded throne, officially opened the conference and welcomed delegates
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  • 27 3 CAPT. AND MRS. S. S. LUSCOMBE. with their two months-old son, Anthony John Horwood, who was christened at St. Andrew's Cathedral, yesterday.— Straits Times picture.
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  • 244 3 LONDON, Sunday. 'JHE world's free trade unions were asked yesterday to liberate the workers in Communist countries. Mr. Johannes Mikhelson. representative of the International Centre of Free Trade Unions in Exile, appealed for help before the Free World Trades Union conference. "We
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  • 77 3 TEHERAN, Sun. PERSIAN press report said today that abov. 20,000 Persian pilgrims t holy places in Iraq wer< held up on both sides of the Iraqi frontier. The reports said the Iraqi authorities would not allow the pilgrims' transport tc enter Iraq, and themselves only provided
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  • 21 3 MUAR. Sun: -Six Chinese were each fined $5 by the Muar Magistrate for obstructing the public road with their stalls.
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  • 160 3 Yemen Talks Of Action Against UK CAIRO, Sun. 1*HE Yemen's long-smoulder-ing quarrel with Britain over the disputed border areas of the Aden Protectorate yesterday threatened to flare up into a major International issue. The Minister of State, Hassan bin Ibrahim, announced: 1. The South Arabian Kingdom is preparing a full
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  • 86 3 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.The members of the Kuala Lumpur Methodist Tamil Church and the Methodist Tamil Youth Fellowship jointly celebrated the golden jubilee of the Church and the 26th anniversary of the fellowship with a dinner held at the Abraham Memorial Hall last night.
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  • 33 4 Mr V. T. Vale of Alliance EnKtiMCfiM Co.. ltd.. Kuala LumI ii. dud or injuries sustained turn motor accident, in Klanc Ho pii l l o- m o" the 2nd lvrmbor 1949.
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  • 29 4 \!t^ Inez Campbell and ions thank all relatives and friends who kindly sent wreath*. me«*B(fes of condolence, and attended the funeral of the late Mr. P. IV Ciimnbell
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  • 1047 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Dec. 5, 1949. Labour In Singapore One lesson to be learnt from the Municipal elections campaign which ended in Singapore on Saturday is that the challenge of the Labour Party has at least resulted in more thorough and searching discussion of public affairs. When the
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  • 115 4 LIKE your Perak correspondent (whose letter was published last week). I too am disappointed to find that in the flag recommended by Flag Committee of the Federal Legislative Council no yellow appears. In designs that I submitted. I made yellow the predominant colour, as representative of Their Highnesses
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  • 1291 4  - THE COLONIAL POLITICAL PLATFORM E.H.G. DOBBY By Dr. SOCIOLOGY OF COLO. NIES. By Rene Maunier. (Routledge and Paul. Tw« Tolnm $37.) COUTH -EAST Asia is cutting adrift. After a couple of centuries during which the different parts of this huge region were linked to the metropolises, to London, Paris, The
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  • Man-in-the-Street
    • 292 4 IT is a matter for deep aesthetic satisfaction to all, other than Scots, that the recent Ordinance banning the public display of national emblems will presumably mean a St. Andrew's Day on which the eye and mind will not be affronted by a display of
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    • 93 4 LET the people decide for themselves about Birth Control. Get, busy and open clinics In the big towns first, and expand or close down these clinics according to demand, but serve only the married. I believe family limitation is the only solution for raising the
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    • 173 4 IN your issue of Nov. 29 it was reported that 'ie Australian Immigration Minuter, Mr. Arthur Calwell, on an election tour in Perth, held a "Straw Poll" at a meeting to decide whether or not to admit the Japs to the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. Calwell
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    • 98 4 T*HE University of Malaya is now established with its two essential faculties of Arts and Science. I therefore see no reason why the Malayan Education Department should not embark upon a new policy in connection with the School Certificate Examination, which should and could be abolished in
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  • 397 4 IN your issue of December 1 you quoted statements attributed by Renter to Mr. William Phillips, head of General Motors research labo!<>rjes. For ready reference I set out certain of "vs" statements: 1. Tyres and tubes can now be made of synthetic rubber to last longer than
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    • 38 4 Skilled Watchmakers can achieve these standards of accuracy Variations per 24 taovirs low priced watches 1 minute medium i minute ETERNA 15 seconds highest grades i seconds Expert service needed to maintain this performance after sale WAY SHKAttttt
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    • 116 4 ffl*^! OPTICIAN Fellow Institute Ophthalmic Opticians (tng Fellow Worshipful Co of Spectacle-Makers (Eng Freeman of tht City of London By Appointment to H. M. Forces, South Zast Asia 6 Riff in Pint Singapore Phone ***** Invites you to see a Display of glorious X'mas gifts: open daily until 6 p.m.
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  • 24 5 SK( TION of the large crowd which tried to get into the Mount Emily SwimmingPool yesterday.— Straits Times picture.
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  • 626 5 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sunday. THE Sessions Court at Johore Bjhru was told yesterday by the O/C, C.I.D., Johore, Mr. C. S. K. Bovell, how he found marked I n dollar notes while searching a magistrate's room. Mr. Bovell was giving
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  • 129 5 A HIGH standard of acting ...is teen at the Victoria e hist night when the pjp'.ls of Dean's School acted t!i > "Bluebird. .1 t'lis story of the little boy a id siirl who set out to seek tne bluebird of happiness, t i<re is everything to appeal
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  • 17 5 Tne Rev. S. M. Thevathasan will address the International Fortnightly Club K>rnlng at 10 o'clock.
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  • 42 5 MR. K. JAGATHEESAN. the only Independent candidate in the Municipal election, who successfully contested the City Ward, speaking over the microphone after his victory on Saturday. He defeated Mr. H. A Jivabhai (Pro*.) and Mr. F. B. Oehlers (Labour).
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  • 47 5 l-ru.ii Our SUB Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The wedding of Mr. Robert Yee King Loke to Miss Grace Wong Sook Yen took place at the Capital Restaurant, Kuala Lumpur, today. Mr. Yee is one of the youngest members of the Kuala Uimpur Flying Club.
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  • 308 5 Singapore Police Rushed 11 p o Mount Emily wimming Pool A POLICE radio patrol car had to be called to I the Mount Emily municipal swimming pool, Singapore, yesterday afternoon when nearly 1,000 men and boys charged the closed gates in their enthusiasm for a swim. The
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  • 46 5 MISS AMY LAYCOCK goes smilingly to the microphone after her victory at the Municipal elections on Saturday. She won the East Ward seat for the Progressive Party with 1.006 votes against the Labour candidate's 556, out of a total poll of 1.584 votes.
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  • 160 5 Drs. Silent On Health Service Move From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. ASIAN doctors, members of the central branch of the Alumni Association of the King Edward VII College of Medicine, met in Kuala Lumpur today to consider their attitude towards the parallel seniority lists proposed in the scheme
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  • 54 5 I St. Patrick's Institution, Singapore, held a variety concert in the school hall in aid of the school building fund. The boys of the primary classes had been trained by Mrs. L'Angelier and Mr. John Snodgrass. A violin solo by Jimmy Lim and a sketch called "The
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  • 55 5 THE SENIOR BOYS of the St. Patrick's Institution in a scene from their item "Joining the Foreign Legion" during the charity concert in aid of the school building fund, held at the school hall. Left to right: Low Peng Hai. Leonard Cher. Frankie Tan. Roy Redrup and
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  • 146 5 SPEAKING at a parade of the Singapore Chinese Second Corps of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, the Commissioner, Dr. D. A. B. Hopkin, said he was glad to see new members coming forward to set the tradition of the Chinese corps pre-war. More than 100
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  • 48 5 Dozens of Europeans were among the couples dancing the joget modern at the Adelphi Roof Garden on Saturday night. Occasion was a dance held in aid of the Malayan Airways Sports' Club and the Society of Licensed Aircraft Engineers. Siput Serawak was the guest artist.
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  • 38 5 Krona Oar Own Corre*pond«rt MUAR. Sun.— Mr. K.V. Llngam was entertained to tea by the Ceylonese community In Muar on the eve of hla departure for Ceylon. He. la president of the Muar Ceylonese Association.
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  • 67 5 From Our Own Correspondent GEM AS. Sun. AT a recent meeting of the Oemas Mukim Council, mention was made of the poor quality of the current season's padi crops at Kampong Ladang and Kampong Kubang. It was stated that food pests were mainly to blame. The
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  • 21 5 There will be a life class for the International Artists Assn. at the British Council Hall tonight at 8.30.
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  • 74 5 Two people were injured in a motor cycle accident on Saturday night in front of the Yock Eng Chinese, School. Tanjong Katons Road. Singapore. The cyclist knocked down an Indian pedestrian and the impact threw off the Malay pillion rider The cyclist was unhurt. Yesterday morning an
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  • 35 5 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. Sun. Negri Sembilan will establish a Religious Affairs Department next year. Raja Hoi Mohamed Nordin bin Raj<* Deli was told at yesterday's meeting of the Council of State.
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  • 29 5 GEMAS, Sun.— A 55-year-old Tamil railway tindal, Suprayan, was knocked down and had his hand crushed by a shunting locomotive at the Gemas railway yards this evening
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  • 117 5 From Oui Slafl Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. THE 48th Qurkha Infantry Brigade has taken over command of all troop* operating against bandits in Pahang It is commanded by Brigadier R. C. O. Hedley Until yesterday Pahang came under the command of the 2nd Guards Brigade.
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  • 167 5 CURRENT ACCOUNT INTEREST From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. Vf EMBERS of the standing committee of the lV Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce of Malaya took time off from discussing forthcoming Japanese trade questions to pass a unanimous resolution urging Malayan banks to revert to
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  • 284 5 Phone Link To East Coast From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. FHE Federation Tele- communications Department has completed and 1 brought into operation a network of radio telephone stations which, for the first time, gives the peninsula a coast-to-coast speech link-up. It is possible today tor anyone to call
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  • Commercial And Shipping News
    • 144 6 WEEK-END RUBBER PRICES WEEK-END rubber prices Include the following: Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's noon prices on Saturday (.Dec. 3 > were (in cents per lb.>: nu. i xv. oo. opvL loose nominal 46% 47 F.O.B. in bales Dec. No. 1 R.S.S. 46 47 No. 2 R.S.S. 45 46
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    • 20 6 Industrials Railroads Domestic Bonds Utilities Dec. 2 Dec. 3 193.63 194.43 90.29 50.78 99.94 99.97 39.52 39.58
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    • 92 6 THE total acreage of tappabie rubber estates of 100 acres and over in the Federation of Malaya at the end of October amounted to 1,813,255 acres against 1,818.825 acre* in September, according to official statistics. Of these, tappabie rubber estates which entirely c«wed tapping cover?d 23.409 acres
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    • 203 6 From Oar Own Correspondent LONDON, Sun. fOMMENTTNO on the fact that V forward tin has fallen by over £170 from the Ministry's official price In little more than a fortnight, the Metal Bulletin sayi In th?se circumstances it is hardly surprising that consumers' confidence in the metal
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    • 769 6 WEEKLY MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW From A Market Correspondent yOLUME of business was small and conditions dull on Malayan markets during the week. The Press forecast of substantial agreement on War Claims between select committees representing .Singapore and the Federation was completely ignored by the market. Operators now regard expectations
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    • 355 6 LQNDON, Sun. BRITISH Government funds were quietly steady in the London Stock Exchange on Friday and but little affected by the announcement of conversion terms concerning 1^ per cent. Following were the closing middle prices of selected stocks as supplied to the Straits Times by special arrangement with
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    • 384 6 EAST ASIATIC LINE SAILINCS FROM SCANDINAVIA U X CONTINFNT SAILINCS 10 CONTININT/ t/% "Tranquebar due abt. Dec. 12 SCANDINAVIA for Bangkok. Manila H'Konft m/s "Nordvest" due »bt Oec Jl Loading at Singapore Pott Swettenham for Sai«on 6 Ban B kok fr Ranang m/s "Mongolia due abt lan 4 for Bangkok
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    • 1037 6 MoAUSTER <Si CO.. LTD. (Incorporated in Singapore) Telephone No «9Oc> ELLERMAN .O»MU «^V«-«S. M LOS ANCELES. SAN FRANCISCO. PORTLAND SEATTLE b VANCOUVCR LONDON. HAVRE. ANTWERP, Accepting rargo for Central Sootn ROTTERDAM ft HAMBURC. American Ports CITY OF COVENTRY Vpc-e UC S ham" P.,* s Spore P. Sham Penang C. 8-9/4
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  • 497 7  -  JIM CHAMBERS By Arsenal And Wolves Draw LONDON, Sunday. ALL four top teams in the First Division of the English Football league, drew (heir matches yesterday and that left Liverpool the Leaf ue leaders, still unbeaten after playing 19 games. Liverpool drew two-all with Portsmouth
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  • 1076 7 UK League Football Positions LONDON, Sun. FOOTBALL League standings a after yesterday's matches were: P W D L F A Ft*. Liverpool 19 10 9 0 33 16 29 Manchester U 19 9 8 2 36 IV 26 Arsenal 20 10 5 5 41 29 25 Wolves 19 9 7
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  • 18 7 LONDON, Sun. Oxford and Cambridge drew two-all in the annual inter-varsity soccer match here yesterday. Reuter.
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  • 198 7 KARACHI. Sun. TI"ICKETB tumbled quickly on the second day of the match between the Commonwealth cricketers and Karachi-Sind yesterday. Commonwealth. 49 for two overnight in reply to Karachi-Sind's first innines tola! of 150. were dismissed for a paltry 115. Karachi-Bind, startlne their second lnnines with a
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  • 68 7 KUAI A LUMPUR. Sun. SIX matches have been arranged for the East Java basketball Ueam which is due In Kuala Lum- pur tomorrow. The visitors will meet the Klang Wah Klew on Wednesday. They will play two matches against Klang teams. On Thursday the visitors'
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  • 159 7 From VERNON MORGAN LONDON, Sun TWICE this week-diirlag the England-Italy match In London and again at Birmingham during the match between ttie First Division city side and the Swedish A.I.K. team -there was a misunderstanding over the question of substitutes. This is a point
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  • 482 7 Johore Crumbled Against Robust Singapore PAck AFTER their first thrilling encounter on the Singapore Padang at Che beginning of the season, a large crowd of spectators turned up at Johore on Saturday to watch Singapore Civilians and Johore meet for the second time in the H.M.S. Malaya Rugby competition, expecting
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  • 53 7 It has been pointed out that Urn organisation making strong representations for Thong Saw Pak. the Colony weightlifting champion, to be sent to New' Zealand without any further trial la the Singapore Amateur Weightlifting Federation and not the Singapore Amateur Weightliftin<r Association as reported in
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    • 86 7 SINGAPORE 10 am mews from Kuala Lumpur; 10.03 Close; 10.30 For the Schools; 12 Programmes In Malay; 1 p.m. Monday Matinee: 1.30 News lako at 7 9.30); 2 Close; 6 Programe Summary; 0.02 Light Music 6.30 Hawaiian Melodies: 7.30 Movie Magazine; 8 World Affairs: S.1S At Tour Request; 9 Take
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    • 92 7 Opening; 6.01 Light Music: 6 30 Dance Music; 7.15 Paul Weston and his Orchestra; 7.30 Swing Session; 8.00 World AOalrs; 8.15 Julal Tan and Tony Valerio; 8 30 Whose Body? 9.00 Record Review: 9.45 My- Bongs for You; 10.00 Dance Music; 10.30 Starlight Serenade: 11.00 Close. Including BBC relay*: 5
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    • 79 7 Melodies'; 10.45 The Jungle is Neutral'; 11.00 Music; 11.15 'Commonwealth Survey': 11.30 New*: 11.4C 'Evenlnr Serenade'; 12.00 Close. AUSTRALIA 5.30 p.m. Forces Favourites; 6.00 Sonata Recital; 6.30 Overseas and Australian News (also at 8.30, 10 and 11); 7.00 Masters of the Piano; 1.30 }Mucta-BindlBg-li>-The-Marsh': 8.10 Sydney Boxing; 8.20 Singers and-
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  • 503 8 Three Singapore Forwards Shine From Our Staff Correspondent SEKEMBAN, Sunday. IN A THRILLING encounter from start to finish, the x Indian touring soccer team were held to a threeall draw by the Lien Hwa today before one of the biggest football crowds ever in
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  • 33 8 HOt'KET FRIENDLY: B.R.C: v. G.H.Q.. FARF.LF on padanc Dutch Clpb t. B, O. D. C. A. B. O. D: (round; g:C.C. women's 2nd XI v. RAF. women 2nd XI on padang.
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  • 176 8 CYCLING CARNIVAL THE second post-war Singapore Cycling Carnival organised by the Cosmopolitan Cycling Club which started yesterday with the 60-mile Novices' race on Lim Chu Kang Road ended in Malays securing the first three places. The winner, youthful Has- san bin Sawi of the Pasir
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  • 70 8 Hotspur; will meet Chinese Athletics and the Malayan Airways at soccer on Tuesday and Thursday respectively at Geylang Stadium Hotspurs' teams will be picked from the following: W. Skinner: Ec Bin. Win. Mahmood. Dollah Hamid. Daud Rosian (Capt). Seng Chiang. Kirn Hian. Paul. Shambhu. Dutta. Syed
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  • 64 8 At the annual general meetinc of ihe Singapore Amateur Weightlifting Federation held on Saturday, the following were elected to office: President: Mr. B. L. Dunsford: Vice-Dresidentv Messrs. Leonu Kwane Nang And Chua Tian Teck: Hon Secretary: Mr. Korut Fook K-e; Hon. Treasurer: Mr. Tav Yew Chal. PuWicitv
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  • 95 8 The Singapore Asian Rugby Union will be holding a trial game at the Raffles' College grounds, Buklt Timah. tomorrow afternoon to select the side to play Selangoi All Blues at Singapore on Dec. 10. The following players have been asked to turn up: WHITES: Patrick
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  • 888 8 From EPSOM JEEP THE JUDGE called for two prints of the photo-finish and scrutinsed them A with a magnifying glass before he announced a dead-heat for first place between Dancing Fury and Frog in the third race at Ipoh on Saturday, the first
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  • 390 8  -  VERNON MORGAN By LONDON, Sun. THE thrilling encounter between England and Italy this week showed clearly that England is going to have a very tough task In her quest for the Jules Rlmet trophy, which goes to the world champions at Rio De Janeiro next July.
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  • 442 8 HTKKJHTS for all ei«ht races for Wednesday, second 'day of the Ipoh races, and three races for the last day on Saturday, are: CL. 4, DIV. 3 6 Furs. Caravan 9.00 Rosaline 8.11 Carefree 8.11 Red PUne 8.10 Spearmirth 8.09 Little Lady 8.09 Entertainment
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  • 277 8 S.H.A. TOURNAMENT RESULTS TVHE SHERWOOD FORESTERS, by their fine x victory over the R.E.M.E. in the second round of the Singapore Hockey Association knock-out tournament, have entered the quarter-finals of the competition. They beat the R.E.M.E. by four goals to two at Gillman Barracks yesterday. In
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  • 238 8 Peng Soon Peng Hooi Extended SINGAPORE doubles champions. Wong Peng Soon Teoh Peng Hooi, playing for the Mayflower Badminton Party, were fully extended by the Johore sta:.champions, Tunku T. A. Jalil ie Zainul Abidln bin Ahmad, who played for the Useful "Blues" in the inter-club champinships played at the Clerical
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