Malaya Tribune, 30 October 1949

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  • 58 1 j />£G/>L£ /OA THE PEOPLE Tefe Tribune" S'pom MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER Phone 5811/ I Nine Line* Published simultaneously at Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang. SIXTEEN PAGES. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS. SUNDAY Tribune THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE: E. Maurice Glover, Malay* Tribune Office, US Fleet
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  • 1034 1  -  By OSCAR FERNANDEZ scheme to cut Singapore's 553,700,000 water projects by $12,000,000—which has lain in cold-storage for ten months—is now being studied by certain Municipal Commissioners. The scheme is the work of Mr. C. D. C. Braine, former resident engineer of
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  • 58 1 Prin« 'ss Margaret wore a gay tassel on her artist-style beret, when she went with Princess Elizabeth to the House of Commons ia bear Prime Minister Attlee announce his new era of austerity for the British p <m>l. It made
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  • 490 1 Tell The People THE University of Malaya was founded in the name of Malayan nationhood. The youth of Singapore and the Federation see it not only as a seat of learning, holding out the prospect of careers long closed to them, but
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  • 41 1 L£Nlk)N, Sat. Fined for behj? drunk and Incapable at Tuirbriflge Wells, a man told the police that he had been celebrating his birthday, hia wedding anniversary and the anniversary of his divorce, wliich all fell on the same da/.
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  • 26 1 Reuter. LONDON, Sat.— Summer timrfwill end in Britain toiugi when clocks will be put bacf one hour to return to OrJnv/ich mean time. —Reutetj
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  • 291 1 Tribune Staff Reporter AN island home where T.B. victims, too far gone to be cared, can end their days in peace, is planned by the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association. The colony would consist of a group of attap huts, each big enough to
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  • 80 1 Reuter. BOMBAY. Sat.— Indians will pay leas for their food and clothing after Nov. I, Cotton goods will come down by ten .per cent and food grains by from three to 15 per cent. Textile manufacturers fore cast that one result of the cuts will
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  • 24 1 I SANGATE, Sat. Mr. I. I Hartley, of Sandgate, caught a 171b conger, Inside which was a complete set of fishing tackle.
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  • 63 1 BRIGADIER RL D. Erskine, Commander of the 2nd. Guards Brigade, was a passenger on the Auster aircraft which has been missing since Thursday evening. The aircraft, piloted by ('apt. J. F. Chare her, of the 1907 A.O.P. Flight, H.Q., Singapore District, left Mentakab for Kuala Lumpur,
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  • 45 1 NEW YORK, Sat.—Elrich Powell, New York carnival entertainer, bet 25 cents he could break an empty win bottle over his h*»ad. He dio so. "Again" said someon" Powell swung again. A third bottle did not break. Powei: was taken to hospital with concussion.
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  • 30 1 SYDNEY. Sat. Docker? other than ministers of religion, according to an Australian statistical! use fewer bad words than any other members of the community. Ballock-drivers swear most.
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  • 142 1 Reuter. -TO BUT "CIVVIES" MACAO, Sat.—Nationalist soldiers, who have given uo their weapons, are walking the streets of Macao to-day trying to sell their uniforms so that they can buy civilian clothes and food. Thousands of Nationalist troops are being ferried in junks and sampans from
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  • 225 1 A windfall of $2,320 will come Government's way in entertainment tax on 400 seats for the Music Circle's Celebrity Concert in the Victoria Hall next Sunday. At $15 each, they are the highest-priced seats ever issued for a concert in the hall. The Government's 'rake-off*
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    • 44 1 Deals CjV* Death Twofold MAELZEL METRONOME. For Correc/ Timing. idiny Music Pupils failed in jfaafr thejr Examinations because of 11/ t jj3r irregular or wrong timing; yet veiy few know how to JB|SNa femed: hlrw rC rreg'dar »86 North Bridge Road, Singapore Pnooe; 483
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    • 78 1 Season Trading Co. 57. HIGH ST„ TEL: 8218? g Favoured by Fortune (Hi ina4 eed are those memljefs OT the ifjJuY rSk human race to th' possession < JjUJ WW a critica! P«K«pt» ,w P alate permits fjjj a full apprtciati a°* au tnc IIII! nuances if* y our that
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  • 282 2 Pledge To Work For Policy Tribune Political Correspondent THE Singapore Labour Party's platform for the December Municipal elections will be reform in five major directions housing, education, transport, recreation and democratic institutions. The Party's manifesto issued last night pledges all Labour Commissioners to work for
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  • 48 2 (Tribune C orrespondent) MALACCA. Sat. Malacca's bumper Welfare Week <Aug. 27 to Sept. 3) realised a net sum of $10.064 58, according to the final statement of accounts just issued. The gross collections amouted to $16,650.73, of which public donations accounted fof $6.490.75.
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  • 141 2 r E Labour Party record for nine months in this year is outlined in its official ejection manifesto issued last night. It claims. io nave had the principle of requisitioning empty dwellings accepted by Commissioners. It forced an investigation into wasteful spending of over $1,000,000 on
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  • 147 2 MORE than $90,000 has been received in Malaya from the Earl Haig Poppy Daj Fund since 1945, including a donation Ol $25,713 for the police and their dependants during 1948. Lady Gurney, wife of the High-Commissioner for the Federation, and Chairman of the
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  • 69 2 THE eleventh session of the Singapore Assizes will begin in the High Court next Wednesday. Mr. Justice L. E. C. Evans, the senior puisne judge, will preside. The session will be a short one. there being only four cases for trial. There is one case of
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  • 146 2 EVER since she was a child. Miss Flora Le- lah has wanted to go to t America. She will get 1 her wish on Thursday, November 3. Miss Lelah was until recently, the President of J the Habonina Movement— V a youth movement for Jews, equivalent
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  • 46 2 MALACCA, Sat.- Three Chinese- will stand their trial on a crtargc of piracy when the Malacca High Court sits on Tuesday. Nov. 1. Originally there were four accused persons in the case but one of them committed suicide recently in prison while awaiting trial.
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  • 263 2 Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter THE Secretary of the Singapore Association of Engineers, Mr. D. L Greer, said yesterday that local students will have to change their attitude towards boiler-suit* if they want to seize the opportunities now open to them for engineering careers.
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  • 190 2 '«GAMAT. Sat. Arnwi bandits held ufT a food lorry at the 8U mile Sega mat' Labis Road yesterday, point, ing their rifles and p.stoi• athe driver, they forct 1 „'r. to drive the vehicle intrv a road, then unloaded the goods. The driver and
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  • 176 2 Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter J|Pw. David Marshall, Singapore advocate and solicitor yesterday called the Colony's divorce laws "cruel." He said that they prevented parties who can "no longer live together in harmony from seeking divorce and getting married." Mr. Marshall pointed out that this made
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  • 101 2 MAIkcCA, Sat. Thirty shirts, batt of a consignment, sent bylthe Australia Goodwill Miision to the Malayan Government for distribution to the nfcedv by the Welfai, Departmlr.t, were exhibited in th I Malacca Sessions court today at the trial of 20-year-oii Baba bin Haii Mahmiid,
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  • 265 2 A suggestion that the Singapore Recreation Club Girls' Spoils Club and the Eurasian Association be formed into a corporate body brought lively discussion at the annual genei-al meeting of the Association. It wax proposed that the question of unification be referred to th-
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  • 26 2 LONDON, Sat. Malacca anes can again be carried by R.A.F. junior N.C.O. drill instructors at schools of recruits training on duty within station bounds.
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  • 26 2 LONDON, Sat. Free denture replacement for a man who lost his set vv.ien he was seasick was approved by Wert Suffolk Rxecative Council
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  • 20 2 Mr. Mrs. Harold Lee, after their wedding at Katong Church yesterday. Mr. Lee the .3£ jftttEflf Kat n Church yMtprttajr
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  • 77 2 What i* this man doing? Water divining, light-rope «a or fishing? d You'd never g„«M, twt lie's pushing a forty /oot bu-taj |H ears across aiuiddv river in Va!a province, Souti movr!< fast, and h^v^ ht J ha* been doing it for year* but W groove*
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • 224 3 Tribune Staff Reporter j bid to build up a bettor road-safety sense in the Colony, the Singapore Permanent Safety Committee last week decided to award medals and certificates to professional drivers with clean records. Safety First certificates will be issued to drivers who
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  • 118 3 Mr. N. N. Leicester, another Singapore lawyer, thinks that no change in the present d»voice laws of the Colony should he made to make divorce easier. Leicester pointed out that ivfore tiie divorce law of the Colony was amended in 1941, it was difficult to obtafn
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  • 187 3 Tribune Staff Reporter JJINGAPORE tin dealers expect to open the free market on November 16 with good buying orders no heavy stocks. Trade opinion turned last week in favour of the British Ministry of Supply's new tin price arrangements. Malayan producers
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  • 92 3 Tribune Staff Reporter k very few Chinese Jiving in A the Co'ony arc returning to China today because of the Fptuation in Communist occapU\\ territories* There is however, no restriction, and anyone wishing to travel to China can do so provided they are equipped
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  • 31 3 MALACCA, Saturday. The President of the Church Worker?' Association. Malacca, announces that $255ri waraised for the Christ Church funds at the fete held recently at Banda Hilii School.
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    46 3 Mr. and Mrs. Anthony A. Gomel, who were recently i iarriet at the Holy Family Church, Katong. The gnmrn 4* the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Gomez, The bride was formerly Miss Daisy Spencer, damrfrter of Mr and Mrs. 4. A. Spencer.
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  • 46 3 V.YOMLNG, Sat. Late it among students at Fre. mon: County High School, Wyoming, is brightiy colou ed hair many different coloured locks forming a dazzling j ••ombination. the most popular style being one lock of red and one of green on the I lorchead.
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  • 273 3 Tribune Staff Reporter SEVENTEEN year old Malay youth. JafTar bin Amad, who had previously pleaded guilty to two charges of abetment of house-breaking said he wished to retract the plea. His reason: "I was afraid I would be assaulted by the police." After hearing
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  • 27 3 H. E. the Governor of Singapore. Sir Franklin Gimson, will broadcast a Poppy Day Appeal at 7.12 p.m. today from Radio Malaya. Singapore.
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  • 27 3 BERKS, Sat. A Lull which ran into a, photographer's anop and studio lr> Broad-street, Reading, Berks, without injuring anyone, was shot by a policeman.
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  • 72 3 The Singapore t'eriimoent mxirty Commit to. |>ians to set up a Junior First Council comprising boys and gtrt* from the senior classes In the Colony* schools. Sehooicht'dri n trill hr b*etor«d on asp* ctft of road discipline an safety measures. For a »tart stress mil
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  • 242 3 Tribune Staff Reporter DUILT to stand for centuries, the biggest if not the oldest temple in Malaya, the Siang Lim See Temple at Kirn Keat Road, is 65 years old. "The temple was built by towkay Lav Kirn Pong, after he had a
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  • 61 3 MALACCA. Sat.- Ma!ac ca's Chief Police Officer, Mir. R. E. W. Harper, told the press that 20 "pirate" taxis have gone out of business, and owners of 35 lorries have been prosecuted since the establishment of a Traffic Branch in Malacca early las' mtmth. But, he said, much
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  • 130 3 Tubunt i?iaf! ICep rfer A notice of appeal has been lodged on behalf of E. Ii Battat and Kang Woon Geok. two well-known business men. i under sentence of six months' and three months' rigorous imprisonment. respectively, for offences under the Finance Regulations?. They
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  • 13 3 The University of Malaya Fund now stands at j $1,383,752.73. I
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  • 296 3 Tribrine Staff Reporter JT was a strange?! coincidence that brought two famous risen to Singapore last week, exactly four years to a day after their last visit here. The visitors were Field Marshal Sir William Slim, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, en
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  • 135 3 Nearly 2,000 guesb; and members of the Selangor Health and Strength Association attended a party given yesterday by the Association at its Robinson Road premises. Singapore, tc celebrate the opening of a Singapore office. The President of the Association. Mi. Wong Hoi Onn, who
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  • 119 3 THE ship with square runnels, Meaaagerle* Marl time's 14.000-ton Marechal Jbjßfrc, will be seen in Singapore for fcKe last time wtoen to the Far East next month. The Marechal Joffre Is to be reconverted Into a luxury liner—with a one ROTND funnel—at the
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  • 304 4 Tribune Staff Reporter THE Singapore Association has sent a memoran--1 dum to Government asking for government servants and private citizens to be treated equally when assessing their income-tax payments. The Association's argument centres around the deductions allowed under the Ordinance for private
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  • 166 4 r:E Singapore Association has written to the Colony's Financial Secretary about an Income Tax ruling which it says has been made "with utter disregard of the convenience of the tax paying public." The ru,.iig is mat a reiund of income tax on dividends paid by companies
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  • 125 4 unday Tribune Staff Reporter rELVE new institutions will be erected for the Singapore Welfare Department at a total cost of $1,582,150 next year. The biggest of these will De a Rural Settlement for homeless persons at Bukit Timah, costing $530,100. A new Boys' Home
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  • 151 4 Tribune Staff Reporter The Singapore Municipality's $830,000 housing •scheme for labourers is already underway. Four blocks of two storied lines have already been completed at Lorong Lala t. (Pictured above) Once a swamp and refuse dump infested \>«tu nies, l-alat —File*' Lane —has now a new
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  • 240 4 Tribune Staff Reporter IPOH, Saturday. DANTAI Remis Rehabilitation Settlement is provr ing to be Government's top problem. Floods have ruined settlers' crops and in some cases forced them to shelter in neighbouring areas. About jOO women and children had to be moved to transit
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  • 40 4 At the end of last year there weie 1,700 registered aliens in Singapore 957 meu and 743 women. Among them were 12 Russians. Tne largest number of aliens wear the Dutch 448. French Indians were next with 267.
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  • 41 4 Lee Kam oiV.»y, a.iv j-#ow Meng, 24, were sentenced to four months' rigorous imprisonment after they pleadea guilty in the Second Poiice Court yesterday to theft of 40 brass foot valves and dishonestly retaining three stolen chokes, respectively.
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  • 37 4 Last year the Police recovered 156 weapons. 285.802 rounds of ammunition and 629 hand-grenades. Seventy nine arrests were made in connection with the recovery of arms. liPft) of the ammunition recovered was from old dumps.
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  • 55 4 Well! You've got a nerve Says Amy as Tommy, the cat, strides away after kissing her. jn»a manner Ls one of offended dignity as he stalks away. Fancy making such a song and dauce about it. The girls he kisses don't usually uawi this much! In fact, he'd have you
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  • 279 4 ABOUT fifteen years ago. a few men and women in Singapore formed themselves into a society to help Malaycraftsmen in their struggle for survival against the inroads of machine-made wares and ornaments from ahead. Thus was born the Malayan Arts and Crafts Society,
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    • 111 4 SINGAPORE OD.D. SOOTHES »1 COMFORTS JK ENDS IRRITATIO* fjf\ Wh\ doe* Singapore J 'Ik Foot usually clear up y A after a few applications k. /1 of D.D.D. Prescription 'I The reason ia that this germ-killing liquid ..> healer penetrates the skin tissue*, drives out the germ*, checks in- ftaramation
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    • 186 4 OUTLAS i \LL OTHER BRANDS/ According to the tests which must closely approximate average use—the "General Purpose lf ohm Intermittent Test" of the American Standards Association. mrl Made at Slngapore in the most S —o modern battsry Vn v fact ny in the J "EVEREADY" /Ov b**** l4 B give
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  • 281 5 NEW LAW SAYS, BOOKS OR STAY AT HOME Child Waitresses' Days Are Numbered Tribune Staff Reporter THE days are numbered for the thousands of children employed in restaurants, amusement centres and public places in Singapore. For before the end of this, or the beginning of next year, the Colony's Children's
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  • 44 5 Next year, the Singapore Government will spend only half of what it has been spending this year on scientific and cultural institutions in Britain. This year, our contribution to suppor: these institutions was $48 575. Next year,, it will be $24,279.
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  • 214 5 Tribune Staff Reporter UEADS of Singapore girls' schools have not banned the use of cosmetics by their pupils, but they strongly object to it. They say, "Schoolgirls should look plain, simple and natural." They also say "No" to permed heads.
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  • 170 5  -  Says Mr. Stack TRAFFIC accidents have dropped in Johore and A.S.P. Stack, the State Traffic Chief puts it down to better driving. However, he is not too pleased with the trishaw llders. He says "They don'r seem to have any road sense and are a nuisance.'
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  • 63 5 ■1 im Lok Chye. 34, Tan Kirn ng. and Tan Leong. 34, were fined $«0 each in the Fourth Police Court yesterday for stealing a piece of wood worth $5 from the Municip il catchment at Bukit Timah Road. Tan Kirn Cheng and Tan Leong
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  • 53 5 Fifteen out of sixteen Chi nese arrested last year on charge? of forging fifty 50--cents notes, have been banished. A printing press and v number of blocks for printing notes were seized. Eight of those arrested were commited for trial, two turned crown witnesses and
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  • 154 5 Tribune Staff Reporter IN Singapore today there is a Malay woman who 1 has travelled 156 miles to sell her mats and baskets "It's no joy ride for me," says Alus, "For I make the trip in an open lorry with five others and
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    149 5 My Happiest Moment ONE morning I was at the front gate to meet the postman when vaty dog Heppo was suddenly attracted by something on the other aide of the road. He dashed across the road right In the path of an army truck. I screamed and
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  • 500 5 AS a child I was very eager to become a Christian but found It hard as none of my family are Christian*. When I wa» 15 my mother allowed me to go to church without being baptized but soon she began to notice how my behaviour
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  • 254 5 Tribune Staff Reporter fJIVE the local boys a chance, and perhaps a ship's ticket to the United Kingdom says Mr. Fred J. Barretto, head of the'Barretto Shipping and Trading Company, Singapore. Mr. Barretto, a local boy who made good, plans to
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  • 53 5 A Chinese woman and her son knelt in the Fourth Police Court yesterday and wept. The woman asking the Magistrate to have mercy on her half-blind husband. Lim Oee Cheow, who was charged with hawking without a licence. Lim also shed tears in tne dock. He
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  • 159 5 Anew post-war Eurooean birth record was established in Johore during September when five babies -a boy and four girls —were born. This is attributed to the establishment of first, class wards in the General HosDital. It was the habit of European mothers to go to
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  • 48 5 A new air service betweeu Holland and Australia will be established next year by KLM. Terminals will probably be Sydney and Amsterdam. Holland has no air agreement with Australia. Qantas Empire Airways Constellations which pass through Indonesia are looked upon as charter aircraft.
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  • 122 5 Tribune Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S Serabawang airfield may be the fl headquarters of Malaya's Auxiliary Air Force. The airfield is now an R.A.F. station. Recruitment for the M.A.A.F. is due to start early next year. The R.A.F. have, it is understood, acquired a number of Tiger
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  • 75 5 Two Malay youths. Hassan bin Ali and Abdullah bin Said, pleaded guilty before the Second District Judge yesterday to charges of thcfl of a bicycle bell valued at $4.80 and theft of clothing worth $20.50. Hassan, who had three previous convictions, was sentenced to nine
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  • 161 5 CHINESE women with their tiny bound-feet in elaborately embroidered shoes are scarce in Singapore today. This "lotus-foot" fashion la said to have been ordered by an Emperor of ancient China. Here is the story behind the Emperor's order: 'New Look' Thousands of years
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  • 2540 6  -  lIV Vera Ardmore MONDAY evening began with one of Singapore's shuttle services from one party to another. .A number of hosts had pick ed the same nignt as th United Nations had chosen for their cocktail party on the balcony of the Victoria Hall. The doors of the
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    • 186 6 Salon of Beauty By American, Trained Operators i AT The Tavern Tel Tanglin Road. 6045. MISS ETHNE I $inga§H»re I S To go to Singapore thought rather a bore i But after some toangUn' t hare joined the Tan- i j S OLIVER BERTRAM. S t dip info loveliness... and
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    2104 7  -  From Jimmy Glover ,LONDON, Saturday. SURELY one of the strangest meetings that ever occurred in this country took pee this week when exLuftwaffe Captain Herbert Schneider greeted the man he had come to Britain to find— the man who shot him down in a dogfight over Holland in
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  • 85 7 DOUGLAS Salter, still smarting from one hour and twenty minutes delay m getting a phone number, could not stand it when Ingrid Bergman as "St. Joan" cried "Oh my voices, speak to me/ He scud she must be having trouble with the telephone, too. •f 07HEN RAF
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  • 587 8 TUOT long ago, you may remember, we told the story of a traveller, bound from Singapore to Saigon, who found himself enmeshed in our own brand of red tape over the little matter of a quarter of a pound of butter. It took him two hours
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  • 1162 8  -  The only things French in the Foreign Legion are the* language, the pay and the wine. By LIONEL HUDSON rE three soldiers of the French Foreign Legion I were drinking Alsatian beer at the Gialam Airport, Hanoi, in north Tonkin. They told me their stories while they
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  • 803 8 THE story began in a dentist's chair, between two tooth extractions. "Arc you interested in music?", asked the dentist. "Well. I am", was my mildly surprised answer. "Would you care to come to the Albert Hall next Saturday? The programme includes the first
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  • 544 8  -  By- Hal Boyle ARE you sleeping your hair away? Well, if you're getting bald, the chances are— says Angelo Mantello—that the way you sleep has a lot to do with it. Mantello is a midd'e-aged barber from Wilson, Connecticut, who spent four decades listening
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    • 75 8 Eye Care consists of more than Just "buying glasses." I 4. */> Bye comfort and visual efficiency depends primarily upon professional services of a qualified eyesight epecialist a S. CHONG, OPT., D. Fully equipped with modern instruments. t 8/4X5-4 A WE? /DIARY ONE DAY TO A PAGE 2 50 104
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    • 103 8 the C X^'x^mX Speed is today's criterion to rail on important prospr«*.<* abroad, to rrarh foreign markets ahead of competition, m >r* and more arMeawafce busin< men are taking advantage of the opporttin.D» the World's. QMaat A.rlinr o!Tfr* It pays to win extra days for doing m<re without- having to
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  • 923 9  -  By V. B. METTA WESTERN people are familiar with two forms of marriage—that which results from mutual choice and that which is arranged by the parents of the bride and bridegroom; in other words, love marriage and the marriage of convenience. But in Ceylon
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  • 532 9 Oberammergau. Germany. THIS tiny Bavarian village's 300-year-old Passion Play, which has* not been presented since 1934. will be given in 1950. with •he help of American authorities. A $300,000 loan to finance the play will go toward repairing the Play House and
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  • 171 9 IF you happen to be dream- ing about castles, there are plenty of English squires who would be glad to help you make your dreams come true. For a price, that is. The castles of a lot of landed British gentry are getting to be
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  • 838 9  -  By JIMMY GLOVER THE history of the Flood family, well known to readers of "The Sun is My Undoing," is continued in Marguerite Steen's new novel, "Twilight of the Floods," (Collins, 12s. 6d >, published this month. This is a monumental work of over 350.000 words.
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  • 135 9 WHAT was described as "a storm in a golden teacup led to a 45-year-old Indian hotel manager, Dakshing Ranjau Bannerjee, being fined £500 at Uxbridge for fraudulently trying to avoid export restrictions on six gold coffee cups and saucers and 12
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  • 1064 10  -  By J. C PARK-HILL Fmay not be generally known that the great paper industry in Europe owes its origin to ancient wars. In the middle of the Bth century the Arabs defeated a Chinese army near Sarharkand and learnt the art of paper-making from their
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  • 793 10  -  By HUGO WATTS LITTLE is known about the origin of the now familiar postage stamp. One French writer declares that they were in use in Paris in the of Lous XIV. Another tells us that on August 16th, 1693. M. de Velayer established
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  • 489 10  -  By CONSTANCE SHARPE AQUARIUS JAl£ 21— FEB. 18 Strfue for all you're worth to stabilise your financial position or to get necessary backing. Be ambitious and aim high: the influences are favourably and good progress can be mdae. PISCES FEB. Iu—MARCH 20. You will make new friends, both in
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  • 782 10  -  By J. W. TAYLOR NOTTINGHAM S famous Goose Fair, first officially recorded in 1541, but conventionally dating back 665 years from the Charter of Ldward I in 1284, recently ended on a note far more peaceful than was the case m 1764. when
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  • 141 10 LONDON Sat.—A £20 fine for a stolen kiss was reduced to 40s. by the Lord Chief Justice. Lord Goddard. The fine was imposed on Percy Warrington at Newcas-tle-under-Lyme for kissing a girl against her will. Warrington lost his £5-a-week job as a corporation labourer
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  • 243 11 not i vwoop m\n\ ii* Hi yBV cms 1 Who doesn't! Male actors often spoil a romantic scene jdst ileal anther kiss from Betty; Ann or Linda. HOLLYWOOD. WO ONE has, ever taken a poll among male movie-gpers tp see. how many
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  • 283 11 HARK and handsome GeoJJ rge Raft, star of the new French Foreign Legion film, Outpost In Morocco," soon to be seen in Singapore through. United Artists release, can. point to one of the remarkable Hollywood records—49 years a top star with each passing year increasing
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  • 100 11 r:E combined film fan clubs of Mexico, joined in voting curvaceous, red-tressed Susan Hayward this year's choice for, the coveted title of the Number One "mucha muchacha" girl. Loosely interpreted, "mucha muchacha" means pulchritude, plus. Poise, personality and beauty are the three deciding factors used
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  • 44 11 ROBERT Young, has been picked by 500 professional models as America's bestdressed man. Excellence of sartorial taste and personality projection were the criteria considered by the students and graduates of the Barbizon School of Modelling. New York City, in casting their votes.
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  • 233 11 YOU can compare whatever characteristics you see in Grable's kiss with those of Linda Darnell's. Actors who have co-Gtaired with both Grable end Darnell will tell you what can obviously be seen here—that Linda wears more lipstick than Betty. Hollywood has never heard any complaints about either, however.
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  • 244 11 11TIDMARK will tell you, too, ft that Gene Tierney's kiss is no less enjoyable than any of the others whom he's tested during his movie career. Richard Conic, Ticrney's .costar in her last complete picture,. t'.Whirpool," will confirm Widmark'a -judgment. So will Tyrone Power, Dana Andrew? and
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  • 121 11 JOAN DAVIS smokes a pipe far the first and what she hopes is the last time, for a scene in Columbia's "The Travelling Saleswoman." The comedienne gets involved with a wild tribe of Apache Indians in the comedy and as a gesture of friendliness has to take
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  • 249 11 SUSAN HAYWARD. interviewed by a reporter the other day said: "I've played girls on the screen who were no good, and fine and noble women, and I'll take the witches from now on tor my movie roles. I like the ones who are hard and
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  • 135 11 ALAN LADD has his missing belt again* because a Nova Scotian girl has a conscience. The belt of Ladds new camel's hair topcoat disappeared 10 months ago in Halifax, Nova Scotia, when a mob of people swarmed around Ladd and other stars at a
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  • 210 11 VICTOR MATURE plans to give his mother, Mrs. Marcellius, the time of her life, when she visits the film capital shortly. "It'll be different from last time," said Vie. "I was living in a tent on the back lot of a friend's place. I
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  • 44 11 A WHITE ROSE FOR JTJfcJA," a new and as y*t unpublished •novel by Led""Hasten, has been purchased by RKO Radio. The author alw wrote tho story for. "tt'B Only Money," .recently (ompßfetad RKO Radto-film starring Frank Sinatra, Jane Russell and Groucbo Marx.
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    27 11 This provoeaUfe pose is beingstruck up for the publicity camera by pint-alced Paramount ■tar Olffa San Juan. You'll be seeling her soon in a new pictare.
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  • 234 11  -  IBy IMractor BERNARD RNOWXJGSJ FH3R me. the perfect woman would seem to be someone with faults—but endearing faults. In-the film "The Perfect Woman" this creature is a robot; as the professor who invents her says, "She does exactly as she Is tend. She can't talk back, can't
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  • 387 12 WOMAN'S PAGE IU TH MILLET WOMEN ARE SO NICE -BUT ONLY iN VERY SMALL QUANTITIES INDIVIDUALLY and in small groups women are pretty nice people. But something seems to happen to them when they lose their individuality in a crowdWatch the women next time you go shopping and see if
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  • 131 12 IF a sun tan deepens lines in your skin, makes pores suddenly expand, roughens texture or accentuates dryness, better keep shy of Old Sol and take your tawny complexion out of a bottle. Warning of how savage sun can be to the older woman, one famed beautician says
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  • 327 12 LEAVE guessing game to the children. The "guesswhat" approach is too coy for the mature woman who values her reputation for poise. The woman, for example, who starts her telephone conversation with "Guess who this is? is imposing on her listener's patience and
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  • 189 12 When A Mem Highers Her Hem.. HEMLINES have climbed noticeably higher since you wore those warm-weather duds which are going back into wardrobe service. So any ankle-slapping leftovers wi'l probably need shortening f you want long airts t«j I.xk as tp'c-thc minute as newer fashions do. fashions do. When taking
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  • 30 12 SOLIDIFIED perfumes not only keep the hairline fresh, but help to eliminate wisps and sideboards which can be so destructive t to a well-groomed look.
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  • 46 12 HINTS IN making iced tea or coffee, .mix the beverage in a china or pottery pitcher first and then pour into your tall glasses. This will save you glass breakage. Incidentally ice cubes should not be dropped carelessly into glasses they might chip the fine crystal.
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  • 370 12 Telling Tales GIRDLES ARE' On TellTale GO od FOR YOU Eve' Shadows THE appearance of dark circles under the eyes is frequently a problem of the older woman. If this under-eye discoloration distresses you, it can be camouflaged with make-up. Naturally you should determine what causes the discoloration it may
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  • 1212 13 TEIK LIM'S STATEMENT STARTLING, BASELESS. BADMINTON NOTES v. by Our Special Correspondent UNTIL the publication of Mr. Teik Lim's statement it ua» the impression oi moat of the leading pLayers and officials in Malaya that permission of the BAM or at least the state
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  • 233 13 THE Singapore Cricket Club beat Johore by 14 points (a goal, a penalty goal, two tries) to 8 (a goal, a try) at rugger on the padang yesterday. Donough'opened the score for Johore with a try three minuter after start. Pennell equalised for the
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  • 125 13 For the second year In succession, the Straits Chinese Methodist Youth Fellowship won the Singapore District Inter-Chapter M.Y.F. badminton tournament when they beat the Tcluk Ayer M.Y.F. by five matches to nil in the final yesterday and thus retained the Lim Chuan Geok Challenge Cup. The
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  • 50 13 Captain of the Indian touring soccer team, Rathnam, kicked oft the match between Indian Recreation Club and H.M.S. Triumph at Farrer Park, yesterday. The game ended in a 2-1 victory for I.R.C. Mrs. Tangavelu presc I ed a medal to Rathnam, on behalf of the I.R.C.
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  • 347 13 Xo. 4 ONE of the difficulties in writing a weekly column sucn as this is the need to confine each column to a single aspect of picture taking. Because of limitations in space, we must discuss exposure one week, proper focus another time, and
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  • 478 13 See how much you know about soccer by answering the quiz below. Score Aye points for each correct answer. If you chalk 40 and above—excellent; 35—good; SO lo 30—fair; 15 and below—you should go to the Stadium mor* often. 1. The goalkeeper bounces the ball on
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  • 349 13 GOLF... by BEX HOGAN >o. 44 LONDON Our Ryder Cup victory turned into a Mexican Stand-off after all. We lost our money and escaped with the silver mug and our lives. Not that our worthy links opponents were responsible. No. 10 Downing
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  • 171 13 S.R.C. forwards, in spite of being a man short, were in deadly form yesterday when the Police wpre beaten at hockey by three goals to one on the Padang. Thp match provided plenty of thrills, for it was fast and clean. Left wing Ebert played
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  • 61 13 The Singapore Traction Co. Employees' Union wi'; present a silver cup to tho winner of the match between the Indian touring socce» team and the Malayan Indians at Jalan Besar Stadium, today. The Cup will be presented by Mrs. C. a,. Hutchings, wife of the President
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  • 97 13 The Municipal Workshops defeated the Municipal Transport Section by four goals to nil for the Municipal Engineer's soccer Cup at Farrer Park yesterday. Mr. G. Edmond, donor. presented the Cup. C.V.M.A. defeated Queen's Street Boys' Club by six goal* to nil in the second round of the Singapore
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  • 225 14 A TOTAL Of $11.681,64 has been received for tho Singapore Badminton Hall Fund. The donations received up lo Oct. 25 arc: Mr John Laycock 1.000.00; My.M. J. N*nwie 100.00; Usefu' Badminton Party 50.00: Mi. Claude da -Suva 100.00; Mr. 'Philip Hoalim 250.00; Mr. J. A.
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  • 85 14 MALACCA. Sat.— Klebang Tennis Party retained the Falconer Shield yesterday, with High School Tennis Club runners-up. Wesley Church lost tne right for second place when they were beaten three nil by the" Klebang Party. The Malacca Club from which much was expected played only two
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  • 42 14 The second round fixtures of the S.A.F.A. Cup Competition are: Nov. 2 Rovers S.C. vs. S.R.C. Nov. 4 R. Navy vs. RAF Changi; Nov. 10 BOOCA vs. C. Casuals; Nov. 11. Kota Raja vs. C.A. or P. Brani United.
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  • 29 14 Kalong Boys' Club beat Malay settlement Boys' Club threenil at Telok Kurau English School yesterday. in the second round of the Singapore Boys' Cup soccer competition.
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  • 441 14  -  28-0 VICTORY IN H. M. S. MALAYA RUGGER By LUKE ANG THE Singapore Combined Services ran through a 1 weak Negri Sembiland-Malacca XV to defeat them by 28 points* (five goal», one try) to ml in an H M.S. Malaya rugger match at Jalan Besar Stadium, yesterday.
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  • 202 14 WRESTLING fans, who saw handsome Ty Layton TT six-foot five and 357 lbs. of perfectly developed bone and muscle, grapple with George Zblsko at the Great World Arena last night, may see him again as Tarzan in the movies a few years hence. For
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  • 340 14 Reuter. LONDON. Saturday Following aif the results of today's home soccer raat< h> ENGLISH IrVU Pulsion 1. Aston Villa 1. Stoke 1. Blackpool 2, Bolton 0. Charlton 1, Burnley 1. Everton 1. Derby 2. Fulham 0. Liverpool 1. Huddersfu ld 1. W. Biomwu h A 1. Manchester
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  • 695 14 TODAY is the day for the Indian soccer Jurists U: make up for their disappointing display against the Sino-Malays on Wednesday. In this, the second match of their tour, they meet the Malayan Indians, representing the cream of Indian soccer talent in Malaya. The visitors
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  • 413 14 THERE are two men in the city who are vitally interested in the news of the drownings along the Colony beaches. One of them is Mr. Roland Lyne, General Secretary of YMCA and representative of the Royal Life Saving Society in Singapore.
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  • 67 14 Reuter. MELBOURNE, Sat. Mr. A Bagser's Delta scored an easy two lengths victory today it* the Victoria Derby run here over one and a half miles. Delta had been heavily supported for the Melbourne Cup and its latest success was expected to make him a
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  • 371 14 By LIKE ANG fFHE Raffles Institution rugby team will visit Batu Pahat after their School Certificate examinations in December for a return match with the Government English School there. The team also plans to meet other school teams from the other various towns in
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  • 2156 15 From ALLAN LEWIS KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday A DELUGE one hour before the first race made conditions today .the las* <|ay of the Selangor Turf Club's October Meeting;, the worst race goers have experiencefl for some time. TJie track which can, be best described
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    • 169 15 NEW STAR CINEMA I'asir Panjang TONIGHT ONLY at 7 p.m. 9.36 p.m. Tom Tyler in "PHANTOM of the WEST" (Whole Serial) TOMORROW (one night) "NARGIS" (Hindustani) QUEENS Today At 11.00' A.M. Double Feature Programme Joe E. Brown in "DARING YOUNG MAN" Plus "COWBOY CANTEEN" 50 Cts. To All Seats. Last
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  • 69 16 Mrs. H. B. Amstutz (second from the right) was guest speaker at a luncheon party of the Business and Professional Womens' Club yesterday In honour of the president," Mrs. B. Rogers, who is going on leave to Australia at the end of the
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  • 500 16 ECAFE Signs Off 4 "DON 'T-faU-lnto-the-Soviet-sentimeiital-trap" A warning by the British delegate Mr. P. J H. Stant yesterday, at the dosing session of the M Aia, helped to swing opinion against a Soviet resolution. The Soviet resolution was to instruct the ECAFE Secretariat
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  • 242 16 I OONG PAN YAP (Lucky Strike) created the bigL gest ypset thus far in the Singapore Badminton Championships when he eliminated Cheong Hock Leng (Eclipse) in the quarter-final of the Clerical Union Hall last night. Hock Leng was the favourite, but he met hi* Waterloo
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  • 64 16 CHICAGO, Sat.—Joe Louis, retired world heavyweight champion, is to box Pat Valentino (San Francisco) in a ten-round exhibition bout at Chicago on Dee f b" national Boxing Club announced today. Louis is now making an exhibition tour in the United States. He declared earlier this
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  • 121 16 Reuter. LONDON, Sat.—An international badminton competition for women on the lines of th© newly inaugurated Thomas Cup t \t-nt for men may -soon be introduced. The competition has been u> taui's top ranking woman player Mrs. H. S. Cber, who has offered to present a
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  • 35 16 CHICAGO. Sat. Panch"» Gonzales. former Uniteii States amateur lawn tennis champion, defeated Jack Kramer, world professionai champion, here in the second match of their nationwide professional tour 9—7, I—6,1 —6, o—4.
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  • 193 16 ONE of the biggest of recent weddings took place yesterday eve ning, when Miss Liliane Elizabeth Mcxon was married at St. Andrew's Cathedral to Mr. Philip Thomas Gunton. The bride is the daughter of Mi. and Mrs. ri. W. Moxon, of Harper. Gilntlan and Co., Ltd., and the
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  • 215 16 A.P. WASHINGTON, Saturday. THE U S. Agriculture Department reports that con- tinued large imports of food for most of the Far East appear to be the "only means of avoiding widespread suffering" there in the crop year 1949--1950. The Department made the statement
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  • 126 16 The first joint meeting of the Select Committee of the Legislative Councils of the Federation of Malaya and the Colony of Singapore to examine and report on the Rubber Packing and Shipping Control Bill wi l be held on November 7 In the Conference
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  • 282 16 SEVENTY-ONE passengers. Of whom 15 landed in "'ng'Tore, arrived here in the cling American President Lines' the President Polk. One of the round-the-world trippers is 21-year-oid Miss Sa'ly Ann Brown, who got this voyage as a gift from her fa'.hc:- for graduating from Stanford
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  • 67 16 Following have bmW to represent S.A.L.:-I' in match of badrniti'on Fairwind B.P. at the Unton H«M on Nov I Chan Mun Kit. Chan S« Aziz bin Ahmad. Lim Hor. Quek Chiap Soon, El Kuans. A. Majid. G. B. Wong Tuck Wah. 0 Parties and Clubs desiro have matches
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