Malaya Tribune, 20 November 1949

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  • 55 1 SUNDAY Tribune BY THB PEOPLB FOR THB PEOPLE S'pw NATIONAL NEWSPAPER Phone 5311/1 i'nt)ii.\hrd xititulianrouxiii at Singapore, X .mm iMntpur, tpoh a ml I'mnnn. SIXTEEN PAGES. SINGAPORE SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS. THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE E. Maurice Glover, Malaya Tribune, Office, 143, Fleet Street, London, E.C.
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  • 22 1 EXCLUSIVE TO THE TRIBUNE—'Eastern Approaches", the best-seller IMCii:: that tells the a mazing story of the Modern Scarlet Pimpernel starts today EIGHT
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  • 1205 1 Penang wants a Royal Commission fo enquire into its grievances against the Federation. This is the alternative to Secesjion in a Petition now being studied in Whitehall. The Petition, released for publication to-day, is 11-page document setting out more than twenty grievances. These range
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  • 108 1 A.P. BALTIMORE. Sat. Sir Thomas Beecham gives this explanation of why it is the custom in some places to rise when the Hallelujah Chorus irom Ha.ndci's Messiah is played:— "There was a menster festival in Westminster Abbey attended by the King of England.
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  • 111 1 Reuter. GLOUC ESTER, Sat —The Ministry ot Labour has been isked to put Its instructions in English— not Latin. The request was made in a letter Irom the Employment Committee of the Forest ot Dean Pai liamentar) Division. The Committee was study'K>ok from
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  • 148 1 S Of the majority oj the ittfor mcd people o\ the Settlement 0/ Penang and Province U clleslew Respectfully Shsweth: J j THAT Penang was given THAT Federal citizen- ate to the benefits it i ship operates harshly against British subjects of the Settlement. THAT the Settlement's
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  • 77 1 YESTERDAY, last day of the Bukit Timah meeting, was a da\ ol righting finishes, with the sun mazing and the crowd roaring. This wan the Sport •>! Kings at its royal Vs.. TOP: Lord Frederick u-in- */</ th-t second iace by half a length flVtn
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  • 43 1 Tin metal changed hands in Singapore and Penang yeserday at OMH a picul, ang over Friday's price. Tin circles expect a much better market this week vhen big foreign buyers are ikr'y to be attracted by the caeap pi ice.
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  • 202 1 Vampire Scares House-wives Tribune Staff Reporter UOUSEWIVES in Katong have been alarmed by rumours that a "vampire" is at large in the district, and has already claimed a victim. The vampire is said to be a Malay woman, and the victim a woman friend who failed to keep a promise
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  • 47 1 A.P. RANGOON. Sat. A Buddh st monk, Upazin Pu. is facing a charge of stealing a stone image of Buddha from th~ Shwe Dagon Pagoda (Temple of the Gold Domei. He is alleged to have sold the image to a fence for Burmese Rs. 100.—A.P.
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  • 71 1 Motorists are advised to avoid Collyer Quay to-mor-row when work will begin on resurfacing the road. One half of the road wil' be closed, and the remaining half divided into two lanes of tiaffic. Entrance and exit to Clifford Pier car par park
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  • 17 1 Vienna police have ordered bathing costumes to be paintod on nudes' photos in the shops.
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  • 184 1 A.P. TOKYO, Sat. To-day's Washington announcement of a conference of American diplomats in Bangkok in January is seen here as further evidence of close woiking relations between America and Britain on Fat East problems. Commonwealth Foreign Ministers are meeting in Colombo. a
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  • 361 1  -  By OSCAR FERNANDEZ LABOUR Commissioner Mr. Pat Johnson, yesterday handed into the Municipality, a draft bill which aims to smash fhe tea-money racket in Singapore by controlling the letting and sub-letting oi all houses. I The Bill is expected to go before the Commission at
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  • 80 1 i A CHINESE bandit will Im go to the microphone t y of Radio Malaya's Red Network at 5 p.m. to- morrow to tell his own story of why he joined the Caaaaaaalsta and N why he surrendered. An V l.nglish translation will be given over
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  • 150 1 A.P. TOKJ.O, Sat. The Chiaese Communists growled threateningly yesterday at •.hf Portuguese government ot Macao, accusing it of a "provocative act" in helping a cr pp'ed Nationalist gunboat. According to a Peipmg broadcast, monitored here, the gunboat was damaged near Macao in a brush with
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  • 31 1 A.P. OTTAWA. Sat.—There is no foundation for rumours ihat Princes- Margaret is gcing to visit Canada, the Prime Minister, Mr. Louis St. Laurent ted the House of Commons yesterday.—A.P-
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • 317 2  -  Says New Body Formed In London From JIMMY GLOVER LONDON, Saturday. ANEW organisation formed in London, known as the "Malayan Forum," with the object of discussing current Malayan problems and achieving unity among the various peoples of Malaya, considers the inclusion of Singapore in
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  • 28 2 MALACCA. Sat. The ordinary and special meetings of the Malacca Municipal Commissioners will be held on Wednesday. Nov. 23. at the Municipal Office at 10 a.m.
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  • 168 2 MALACCA. Sat. —A Chinese. Chee Ah Choon, was fined a total sum of $1,150 or in default 12% months' gaol in the Malacca Circuit Magistrate's Court today, when he j was convicted on three j charges of being in possession of illicit liquor and distilling
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  • 59 2 MALACCA, Sat.—A small Chinese boy was accidentally knocked down by a motor-car. believed to have been a black Austin "10." at Buriga Raya Road at 8.30 p.m. on Saturday (Nov. 12). The driver of the vehicle and any one who saw the incident are requested to report
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  • 31 2 MALACCA, Sat. Tuan Syed Jaafar Aibar. U.M.N.O. information officer. Southern Division, will be in Malacca from Nov. 27 till Dec. 7 to give talks on U.M.N.O. throughout the settlement.
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  • 69 2 Mr. Oswald Henry, a member oi the Tribune editorial staJL laailll I Mai Chnstabel Proctor at S.. Andrew's Ca'heural yesterday atternoon. The bride, wearing a tulle surmounted* with small lilies, and a sown, which -die designed herself, of white embossed lull** over a white
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  • 273 2 PENANG, Saturday. DENANG City fathers this morning announced that they were prepared to pay housing allowances to Municipal staff retrospectively from August 1. 1947. This announcement was made in a Press statement by the Deputy Municipal President, Mr. H. G. Hammett this morning.
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 487 2 On Yp ur Radio Today BLUE NETWORK b > hmv, com mm.v i iathk ENGLISH PRO(;R\MMK> ORCHESTRA; 1.00 Close Down; 9.00 a.m. Programme Sun.- If? >r ?f ramm Summar> 7.05 raary; 9 02 Moraine music; 9.30 l" l t 5 r V° K d, Y, J ,a S" ,ne: Eatin
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  • 391 3 llftfcwi SI mIT Ueporli r SIXTEEN families of Municipal junior 13 officers will receive -a Clufetmas present next month. They will move into new and comfortable homes which tne Municipality has built Gkmetr eau Avenue. Two four-storey blocks of flats wm oe
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  • 37 3 The staff of Gammon (Ma- lava» Ltd.. topped the donations tj Boys' Town Funci this week with $440. i The total amount collected has increased by $1,915.31 i over the week, and la now 112.527.47.
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  • 257 3 BANDITS WANT TO QUIT— BUT FEAR KILLERS' Tribune Stan" Reporter SEKEMBAN, Saturday. MALAYAN bandits are fed up with the imrdsliips they have to endure and are dissatisfied with their leaders. Four young Chinese bandit members of the notorious "Tai Kwee gang, who surrendered recently with a number of other terrorists
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  • 279 3 Tribune Staff Reporter A BRITISH government officer who maintained law and order among 1.800 people without a policet man or gaol in a group of islands lying in the Indian Ocean sailed into Singapore last week. He is handsome, twenty-seven year-old Eric De
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  • 34 3 The University of Malaya Fund reached $1,751,872.40 by Friday night. The amount previously acknowledged was $1,662,508.59. Of the new donations, only one is anonymous, this being a gift of $2,000 signed "Wellwisher."
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  • 143 3 Tribune Staff Reporter METHODISTS in South East A 4: will elect a T1 bishou whet they meet in Kuala Lumpur :or th. South East Asiii Ontval Conference *****1 February 1 to 5 next 3'eav. Delegates elected toy tour I regional conferences will (orm
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  • 72 3 The Cnion Benevolent Society which is believed to be the only society in Singapore of its kind, has now 100 members —all of whom work. Or used to work, in the Union Building. The secietary of the society. Mr. Yeo Kirn Teng. explained yesterday that
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  • 189 3 Tribune Reporter. MRS. L. F. NIGHT, wife of the Chief Police Officer. Johorc, will play Santa Claus to operational troops serving in Johore this Christmas. She hcpes to send at least a bottle of beer and a packet of cigarettes to each
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • 223 4 'Never Too Old To Learn-English' Tribune Staff Reporter TWO generations meet as students in a new private school paints forget they are parents and children are just children once the school bell Tcilo RMqr area— The school-the City BverJM Schoo in the
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  • 37 4 NAN CHIAU JIT PAO AGE 3 The Singapore Chinos.' newspaper, Chiau Jit Pao, will celebrate its third anniversary to day. The directors are holding a tea party this afternoon at the Great World Cabaret at 2 p.m.
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  • 151 4 Tribune Staff Reporter IT'S no swimming and sunbathing for Miss Nellie I T on «h« is a b?«utv exp?v: unci r.he cannot afford to ruin her complexion. "I have got to act as a model for my customers all the time," she says. "And
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  • 89 4 Tribune Staff Repor.'er SINGAPORE has gone Samba crazy. This is revealed by a leading Singapore music s tore, P.ing rosby still rules the ro«.st among crooners. Coming close on his heels are Dick Haymes, l'erry Como and Frank Sinatra. Doris Day and Diana »ha« share honours
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  • 375 4 Prison Inguity Commission Seeks Tribune Staff Reporter I OCALLY born Asian officers attached to Singapore prisons have been recommended for promotion to higher ranks by the Prison Inquiry Commission. The Commission holds that when vacancies occur for promotions to the rank of Superintendent or Chief
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  • 153 4 THE bear on this tunnel Itf not a Russian bear. It, is a Golden bear the insignia of the Pacific Far East Line. Inc. The Golden bear found on the funnels ol all the fine's ships, was in Singapore last week when the Admiral Arthur
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  • 83 4 Mr. Otto Foorman is offYrine a scholarshio cf one year's free tuition to the winner of his final talcntime conest to be held in March 1950. The scholarship will include free books necessary for a one year's course in any branch of music that his studio teaches. So
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  • 40 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat Mr. C. J. W. Dobree, who was Deputy Chief Police Officer. Johore, left by air ye.-;terday for Kota Bahru with Mrs. Dobree to take up his now appointment as C.F.O. Kclan- < tan.
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  • 48 4 MALACCA. Sat.—A public meeting of all Indians in the Municipal area of Malacca has been called lor Nov. 27 at 4.30 p.m. to elect a representative or representatives for possible appointment to the Malacca Municipal Commission. The meeting wi l be held at the Malacca Indian Association.
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  • 361 4 [yjOVIE-MINDED Singaporeans and school children, in particular will soon be given an opportunity of learning the mysteries of the atom through the efforts of a Singapore firm. Following requests from various quarters, the firm's executives got in touch with London and
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • 290 5 WATER RATIONING! Tribune Staff Reporter LiONS of dollars will have to b* spent before Singapore can be free from the fear of water rationing, say exoerts in the Colony c 'Sn°n r n e Municipal Commissioners have alrerdv manned to spend 5t.200.000
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  • 241 5 Tribune Staff Reporter CIX large hoiiday bungalows and a clubhouse are being constructed in Telex Mata Ikan, on" Cliangi Road, for the Municina. staff. Ice bungalows are within a stone's throw of the sea and they are expected to be completed
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  • 89 5 Although there were more blood donors in October tnan in any of the previous six months, the Singapore Blood Bank is still in a precarious position. More blood donors are wanted. There were 301 donors in October as compared with 201 in May when response was the
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  • 109 5 MALACCA, Sat. Commissioner William Booth Davey of the Salvation Army will address a meeting at the Methodist Girls' School hall here on Wednesday. November 23, at 7 p.m. Mr. Davey was appointed a Travelling Commissioner by Genera! Albert Crsborn and has been an officer of
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  • 28 5 MALACCA, Sat. The next press conference of the Resident Commissioner, Malacca, the Hon. Mr. G. E. C. Wisdom, is on Tuesday. Nov. 22. at 10 a.m.
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  • 207 5 Left Home Because Father Slapped Him..... Now He's Slapped Every Day Dun Bruno Stanislaus, the funny man with the big red nose in Kamala's Circus, Singapore, left home at the age of ten because his farther slapped him. Reason: Kruno played truant. However, strange to say Bruno is now making
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  • 45 5 MALACCA. Sat. Boon Mcc, a sign-board painter was fined $50 yesterday for causng hurt to his wife, in a summons case, by S. Bon Bernard. Circuit Magistrate. Alice was acquitted on a cross-summons charge of hav- ing used criminal force on her husband.
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  • 139 5 Tribune Staff Reporter MR. Gerald Hawkins, Secretary for Defence in 111 Singapore, will retire from Government service in March, next year. He said yesterday, "I intend la spend my retirement in Uiu Pahang reading rooks and visiting the King George V National Park."
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  • 196 5 Tribune Staff Reporter THERE is a man in Singapore who recognises his prospective customers by their shoes. He is Hon Choy. fiftysix year old shoe shine boy, who has set up business on a pavement in the heart of the city. Hon Choy
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  • 394 5 Tribune Staff Reporter A recommendation that prisone:s in Singapore be paid for the work they do ij made by the Prison Inquiry Commission. The Commission holds tha 1 tins will produce good results and enable Ihe offender to save money for his needs when ne
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  • 61 5 Numerous prizes including a free air trip to Holland for a couple in the spring of next vcar, are beine offered in a "World Contest sponsored by three Dutch organisations. Entry forms for the competition will shortly be distributed in Singapore by X.L.M. on behalf of
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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    • 82 5 SITS: VACANT. ACCOUNTANCY, Cost Ac. counting, Company Secretaryship, Book-Keeping. A six months' "Intensive Method' Diploma Course (Recognised by Professional Bodies for admission as Associate or Fellow) will qualify you for higher status by spare-time postal study. For details, write now: The Principal. London School ot Accountancy, 12 Duke Street. St
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    • 244 5 BATTERIES OUTLAST ML OTHER BRANDS/ According to the teats which most closely approximate >i',ruf„ use—the "General Purpose-t, ohm Intermittent r««l uf the American Standards Association. Made at Slngapore In the most s —6 modern battery factory In the "EVEREADY" A. batteries give X V>> > ou FRESH y POWER. BRIGHTER
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  • 2553 6  -  BY VERA ARDMORE INTO Singapore last week flew a Douglas DC3, and out of it climbed a sharp-faced grey-haired man in a twi-light-biue uniform with four gold ring;, on the cuffs. People made way for him and called him "Captain" and on on S occasion, even "Admiral. Sam
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  • 145 6 FOND parent at the Swimming Club, who considered it an advantage that "the children were Quiet, even if they were disorganising the cushions a little, was peeved when a man complained about their manners. He asked crossly if the man ,had anything to do with the committee, only
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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    1765 7  -  From JIMMY GLOVER LONDON, Sat. I ET Us talk this week about films -British films and Mr. J. Arthur Rank, and his efforts to do something to bolster an important dollar-earn-ing industry which he, of a'i individual- in the country, has striven so hard to bring to fruition
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 195 7 FROM DISCOMFORT >• ANO RESTRICTIONS, j i FROM BLLTJ AND 1 /> ptNS D twos. NO CHAFING, A T EITHER *dg| r s Q'Screet AS WELL AS DAINTY NO CHANCE OF tfffl £MSARRASSMENT, AND WEAR mi AT j you ukb T^LtylW SUCH HAGS OF MIND pKSgj /S PRICELESS j\ jp
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    • 16 7 Salon of Beauty By American Trained Operators AT The Tavern Tel. Tanglin Road. 6040. MISS ETHNE
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    • 244 7 Polishes as it cleafis A shining example] of all that a polish should frfe f*L *g& Polish iithehoiisewife s N $f Inend The poliih is in tsSSv the waddinj and no rubbmf cloth is re- -*f< (DMiied It doesn't sptM I Ivt ffl jfe. if or spot, leaves no un-
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  • 326 8 DITY the poor tailors of China who will now have to cut their cloth to suit the new ideology of revolutionary Communism. The sartorial style of the decadent bourgeoisie and the reactionary aesthetic values incorporated in the New Look must now be discarded in favour of the
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  • 210 8 riTZROY Maclean, whose book we are serialising today, is a remarkable young man. He has managed to squeeze a glistening drop of adventure out of a world which offers less and less scope for the traveller and explorer who plunges into the unknown. This is not to say
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  • 5610 8  -  BUT THE FORBIDDEN BEYOND HELD FASCINATING SECRETS Q Today the Tribune begins publication of the most remarkable story of personal adventure published in recent times. Fitzroy Maclean's exploits have earned for him the titles of "The Modern Scarlet Pimpernel" and "The Second Lawrence
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  • 280 9 A TH^^ fI JS THE Miss Ruth Fischer, who wrote this blunt article describing Marshal Tito as a danger to the Kremlin, is a sister of Gerhart Eisler, the German-born Communist who was recently in court in London. An anfti Communist herself, she gave evidence against her
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  • 239 9 BUT when the stiffening resistance of the United States was implemented in th< Truman Doctrine and reted in aid to Greece, Turand Italy, then the ag--ive mood in nearby Belgrade dampened quickly. For the Kremiin. it may appear a -ound policy to be surroundI by a protective belt
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  • 248 9 Like Tito, his coUeagues in other Balkan countries have discovered that to consolidate their power and carry out their programmes, they need first of all a period of peace. Once their minority government had been installed, with Moscow's help, they began to dream of a future in
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  • 119 9 THE carriers of Tito's message of "National" Communism find ready listeners everywhere in the Balkans. Even in that unlikely spot, Albania, which with the fierce nationalism of very small countries resents the plight of several hundred thousand brother Albanians in Yugoslavia, Trotskyites and followers of Tito have been
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  • 145 9 But it is inadequate to equate Tito's and Stalin's regimes as two totalitarian dictatorships without meaningful differences. Tito's courageous revolt represents, in its essence, the revolt of a young and undeveloped but talented people against the voracious monster all set to devour it. Tito wants recognition in the Comintern
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  • 187 9 STALIN'S children came unwillingly into the news recently. From Stockholm, unreliable stethoscope for ling the Russian pulse, reports were cabled that Stalin had chosen his eldest son Vassili as his successor. Originally, said the gossips, StaUn favD wed his only daughter Svetlana. Then she had a love
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  • 221 9 ON the night of April the 29th this year, the British Phosphates Commission vessel EDEXBAXK pulled out of Brisbane with three membei 9 of the Brisbane Criminal Investigation Branch on board. The ship had been diverted 500 miles to pick up the three
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  • 197 9 The murderer had timed his crime to coincide with the absence of the Island's police officer on holidays, and the island constable left in charge knew little about crime detection. The Edenbank steamed through tropical seas for seven days before the detectives had their first glimpse of
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  • 227 9 They found the bungalow in a lonely sector of the island, cut off from the main community. In the bedroom were twin beds, standing close together, and covered with an outsize mosquito net. Allen had been stabbed to death at the foot of his bed. Mrs. Allen had
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  • 199 9 WORKING up to 12 houis a day the detectives took 12 prints—lo fingers and a print of each palm—and noted the size of footwear of more than 1.500 people. Few of the islanders had heard of fingerprinting, and were apprehensive as they watched the three men
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  • 231 9 IN all the major zoos of the western world recently, including Regent's Park and Edinburgh, the directors were discussing an almost unbelievably dramatic letter which had arrived from South Germany marked "Confidential." It was addressed to all members of the International Association of Zoo Directors. The
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  • 155 9 THE American people were told this week of new peaceful uses of atomic energy. The news came from John D. Hickerson, United States Assistant Secretary of State. He told representatives of the United Nations that radioactive isotopes now had been shipped by the United
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  • 135 9 Hickerson's statement on the U.S. programme for the peaceful uses of atomic energy was prompted by a speech made by Andrei Vishinsky. The Soviet Union's Foreign Minister told the U.N. General Assembly that his country was using atomic energy to raze mountains, irrigate deserts, and clear jungles. Hickerson's
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  • 160 9 IN Elizabeth, New Jersey, a Santa Claus arrived early, by helicopter, and was given permission to land in the downtown area, .to the delight of the children. As for turkeys, mainstay of Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts, the official word was that they would be plentiful —41 million, second
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  • 127 9 "Sir Thomas's manner of conducting would be fascinating to witness by itself for gestures, facial expression and posture were it not that through them be seemed to be another instrument interpreting the music by time. It had its theatrical side, to be sure, for Sir Thomas is a good
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  • 206 9 THE new Canadian Parliament recently (a) produced a cocktail made of gin and cider, and (b) hung a portrait of Clement Attlee on the wall of the corridor leading to its restaurant. The cocktail arose out of a second introduction of Finance Minister Douglas Abbott's budget, which the
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  • 74 9 YOUNG Nigerians have started a dollar drive of their own. They are writing to Americans in Florida offering to exchange tusks, crocodile skin handbags, ebony carvings and diamond rings for U.S. merchandise and dollars. The other day the Florida Postal Inspector's Office reported that "the "Nigerians invariably fail
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  • 401 10 A Warning To Britain I On Kenya LAST CHAM B IN AFRICA, BY NEGLEY FARSON (Gollancez, 155.) WITH a wealth of diverting detail, but a dearth of final conclusions. Negley (Way of a Transgressor) Farson recently tried to startle lethargic Britons out of their apathy towards African
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  • 595 10 FEARFIL JOY by JOYCE (WRY (MICHAEL JOSEPH, 12s. 6d.) IT his Oxford home, mafic lively by his four young sobs. Joyce Cary began his writing career 25 years Since then, this qvhet, yet pruvecative. Irishman's output, has included 11 no/els as well as poetry and political
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  • 202 10 Nelson The Sailor by (>pt. Russell Grenfell R,N. (Faber Bs. Cel.). BRITAIN'S greatest seaman is taken down from his column and fearlessly analysed by the man v;ho wrote The Bismark Episode. Nelson emerges from Captain Grenfefl s literary salvoes with only supcrficia'. wounds, he cannot fail
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  • 621 10  -  HAVE FUN WITH THE STARS By CONSTANCE SHARPE Aot Awirs JAW HI- FEB. 18. Wednesday lUtji be the highlight of the week: motif y matters wil >mprove and f.'j ranqements that hire It' i h-nifjing fire will fiunUu settled on that day. In the hnmt. tfu wck will be
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  • 33 11 nt'v\ mmi provocative stmly of former Samuel Goldwyn star May*, now with I'ni.ecl Artists singaporeans will soon -<»• !ur (.i with t.f.irne, Huft in the I. A. release, •Ked I.itfht."
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  • 236 11  -  THIS IS THE STORY OF COLUMBIA'S AGE PHOTOGRAPHER, ROBERT CGBURN, WHOM MOViE STARS HAVE REASON TO RESPECT. IN HIS OP NION, RITA HAYWORTH-NOW A PRINCESSIS STILL 'THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLD." AS FAR AS HOLLYWOOD GOES, FiLM-MEN HAVE A HUNCH THAT RITA WILL
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  • 144 11 ONE morning she was taken to a small gallery and given a costume to wear. A man studied her features and then posed her. He took some pictures. Then he changed her pose. And he took some more pictures. The result was that Hayworth became one of filmtown'n
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  • 382 11 OH, Betty Grable's legs are nice," Coburn will admit, "and Linda Darnell's eyes are beautiful. But Hayworth "We had quite a problem with her when she made the switch from musicals to drama. The 'still-room' had to record a complete change in her pictorial personality. We changed her
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  • 138 11 Colour wizard COBURN is a leader in the in the colour photograph} field. His colour pictures h mg ii: the offices cj mos' of Hollywood's pt and nu moguls. He is the sole Hollywood photographer wh:> has developed a perfect prtjcca? of transferring colour photographs from their usual celluloid print
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  • 107 11 ANN SOTHERN gave op a c.irerr as a concert plan Ist to act on the stage and screen, and is now returning to her first love by way of piano instruction to her talented five-year-old deujhter, I'utncia Ann. COBURN is a connoissucr of beauty. As a photographer
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  • 227 11 AH, but there is one woman for winch he would gladly sacrifice iu3t about everything. She js the girl whom this photographer of beautiful women considers the best. Rrta Hayworth. Coburn is waiting for her even now. There are many Hollywood men, from movie moguls to agents and
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  • 225 11 WHEN director Gregory Ratoff was in Rome, filming the Edward Small production. •'Black Magic." for United Artists, with Orson Welles and Nancy Guild co-starred, he ordered his production department to secure 300 of Rome's most beautiful women to play in scenes portraying the lavish Court of
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    55 11 Movie actress Vera Ralston Hports a .\oung fortune in jewel*. The e;ir-rings, necklace and bracelet*. from a Hollywood antique collection, are valued at $250,000. They are suppose*! to have been given to the Empress Josephine by Napoleon. The necklace alone contain* 20 *quare-cut diamonds ranging in IM from
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  • 79 11 XHIRLI- V TEMPI l: >>, defence of HoUffWOO* as place of happy and enduring marriages): "The truth about us doesn't often yet out because the private lives of the vast majority are too normal to make news. Even the transient players, flu ertras, have a fine record of
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  • 622 13  -  by Our Special Correspondent fHR fact that the game of badminton has a very much bigger following now than before the war and that its followers have spread from tbe English-speaking to the non English speaking sections of the public was evidenced
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  • 402 13 CiOLF by BEX UO(>A\ \o. 53 If the United Golf Association adopts the i ule recently put into effect by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, tournament golf will be speeded up to tb? benefit of the fans. Slowness of play
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  • 404 13 Snapshot Corner Ao. 4 4 FEW week? ago we talked with one of the leading maker* of still and movie cameras and other photographic equipment of all sort.";. We wanted an idea of what was in good supply for your Christmas giving what photographic items might
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  • 68 13 So you think you know soccer? Well, lent your knowledge by answerthe questions below. (Answers P. 14) 1. The linesman is certain he is right but the referee has failed to see or ignored his flag signal. (an he enter the Held of play to contact Ihe referee?
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  • 65 13 13. How does a game j j start f I 4. Can an indirect free I kick In* award -d I f against a defending I side inside the penalty area. I 5. What are the offences? S 6. Suppose the ball on be- I ing dropped by the
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  • 55 13 I 7. A player touches the I ball before it reaches the ground when dropped by the referee? 8. What is meant by offside J). What is the meaning ot and what determine an "out of pla>" position? 10. What i** the punishment for Interfering 2 from an "out
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  • 61 13 The Khalsa Association team to meet the AdmiraltyLocal Staff Union in the Singapore Hockey Association knock-out tournament today at the Naval Base wiM be: Sodager Singh; Cheranjit Singh. Sewa Singh Bajwa; Mohinder Singh Wasan, BS. Soin. Scwa Singh; Wassan Singh, Gerrom, Harbhajan Singh, Mohinder Singh and
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  • 864 14 Boxing m with il«c fifoTes off By THE SPECTATOR IT'S strange how easily a man can steal a show especially a boxing show —and it has happened again. Take the case of Brian Robertson. At the recent Happy World promotion there was more enthusiasm
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  • 115 14  -  BY THE SPECTATOR. AN important change has taken place in Singapore ooxine plans, tt was lear.it offielallv, yesterday. Promoter Hazak has completed arrangement for the immediate transfer o his programme from the Happy World to the Grea World. The first big promotion at the
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  • 262 14  -  By LUKE ANG n/HEN the Singapore District (Army) X\ meet the Roval Air Force in the second game of the Singapore Rugby Football Quadrangular competition Jfllan Besar Stadium on Wednesday their forward pack will be their strongest a*set. Another rtrong department in the
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  • 27 14 SAN FRANCISCO. Sat. Bcxing fans in the Philippines will have to wait Febiuary 10 ot see the Docuson Brothers. Bernard and Baxie. pet form. A.P.
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  • 190 14 iFKOM r\\(.K. IS> 1. No. he cannot. A tn*y have deliberately ignur. l t: signal and the 1 in. -man must accept- this ruling. A le- has power to dispells- with a linesman if that individual Unfitly interfere." with the. COBrrol ''f tb< game. BefCTMfl ana hiKs-man
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  • 2559 15  -  McPhe rson Spectacular On Lord Frederick By ALLAN LEWIS gRIGHT EYES, cleverly ridden by Jack Jones, won the main sprint at Buldt Timah yesterday, the last day of the Singapore Turf Club's Winter' Meeting. Leading from start to finish she beat a brilliant
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    • 278 15 y TODAy( I MPM Mli it? ilnPil 1.45; ».16; itiaßi*'R-condition:: ouo'-l 6909 6.45 8.30 p.m. IT'S A COMEDY STEMPEDE! "MNTAH DARAT" (MALAY) Free Gift! Patrons holding $2.50, «2.00 $1.50 tickets will be presented with a photo of th star, Miss E. Joenara. Morning Matinee Today at 11 a.m. Universal* Technicolor
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  • 260 16 A.P. NEW V ORK, Saturday. A DUTCH representative said yesterday his Goveniment and the new United States of Indonesia (USI) would confer on any question of recognition of Red China. J. H. Van Royen, Netherlands Ambassador to Canada, who was active in The
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  • 41 16 Reuter. LONDON, Sat. Four of the word's six main opium producer* India, Turkey. Yugoslavia, and Persia —Will meet in Ankara shortly to discuss opium production. RWBla and Ethiopia, the two jther opium producers, will not take pait. -Reuter.
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  • 28 16 Passengers fiom Jeddah wi'l be subject to quaiantine restrictions, according to a notification in a Gazette Extraordmary issued yesterday, it is reported that, .-mali-pcx exists in Jeddah.
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  • 49 16 U.P. WASHINGTON, Sat. All export controls on rice wil: ba Ml ted en December 31, the date on wh eh International Rice Allocations expire. The decontrol oider affects all types of rice and permits unlimited sh pments anywhere withou t validated cxpoit licenses. -U.P.
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  • 33 16 Reuter. NEW DELHI, Sat. Twenty-five leaders of business, industry and education in America, including six University Presidents will vi-it Indta for the lndo-Am-erican Conference, opening here on Dec. 12,- Reuter.
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