The Straits Times, 28 November 1948

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    22 1 FINAL EDITION f THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NEIT SALE IN MALA YA No. 696. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1948. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    GLADYS MARY BACK IN SPORE
    239 1 GLADYS MARY BACK IN SPORE Dutch free owner Sunday Times Staff Reporter. THE 26-ton tug Gladys Mary, which kept a rendezvous with a Catalina flying-boat said to be carrying arms from the Philippines to Airabu Island in Indonesia more than two months ago, arrived back in Singapore in the early
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    31 1 AM. Kin:; on his last pubX lie appearance on Nov. 11. He had to walk over much uneven ground in Bedfordshire and it is thought that this aggravated his let trouble.
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    Straits-born Chinese to confer
    129 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter r |'HE Sunday Times under- stands that a meeting of prominent Chinese will Oe held this week-end in Singapore to discuss the present situation in Malaya with legard to the future of rhe Straits-born Chinese. The meeting is expected 'o fc. attended
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    BEHIND THE CURTAIN
    31 1 GENEVA. Sat.—More than 28.000 Greek children have been evacuated by the M&rkos guerillas to Communist dominated countries of Eastern Europe, the League of Red Cross Society disclosed yesterday—A.P.
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    fUAN APPEALS TO U.S. CONGRESS
    59 1 NANKING. Sat. China's Legislative Yuan today sent an urgent appeal to the United States Congress urging immediate aid to avert Chinas collapse "in America's self interest." The appeal said if China should lose to the Communists, who are the "tools of an aggressive international bl.>c,"
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    ATLANTIC TALKS SOON
    30 1 LONDON. Sat. Sevenpower talks in Washington for the preliminary study of an Atlantic Union pact will be called in the very near future, probably next week.— Reuter.
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    U.N. FUND FOR FAR EAST CHILDREN
    44 1 LAKE SUCCESS, Sat.— The United Nations International Children's Emrrgency Fund will establish headquarters for the Far East at Manila. ]t will direct a U553,300,000 programme in eight nations and six British territories including Singapore and the Federation.— A.P.
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    ALY MAY BE THERE
    23 1 WASHINGTON. Sat.-Dlp-lomatic sources expect that Italy will be Invited to join the projected North Atlantic security pact.— UP. I
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    First Eurasian terror victim
    199 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. ERRORISTS this morning dragged a Eurasian clerk, Lionel Edmonds, from his house on Vimy Estate about 20 miles from Kuala Lumpur, and shot him dead in the compound. Edmonds was the first Eurasian victim of the terrorists since the
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    Reds claim to be near Nanking
    153 1 Reds claim to be near Nanking NANKING. Saturday. FIGHTING of unprecedented ferocity was today reported raging round Llnpi. 35 miles above Pengpu. as Government forces battled desperately to stop the Red advance. Fu Tsyp-yei. North China Nationalist commander said in Peiping that he plans to engage 280.000 Reds in Hopei
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    SOVIET ZONE REORGANISED
    38 1 BERLIN, Sal MAH3HAL Sokolovsky, Soviet military governor in Germany, has ordered reorganisation of the German Economic Commission controlling the Soviet Zone's economy. Members of the Economic Commission will be increased from 36 to 101.— Reuter.
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    LAST RITES FOR P.M.
    19 1 ATHENS, Sat.— M. Themistocles Sophoulis, tiling 88--years-old Greek Premier, today received the Holy Sacrament —Reuter.
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    THEY THREW IT OVERBOARD
    68 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter i MORE than 100 Malay and! Chinese stevedores who jettisoned 1,500 tons of bauxite from the grounded American freighter Amelia Earhart last week are now in Singapore. The men were sent from Kuching and now will leave for their homeland by the
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    Gunman shopper
    96 1 Sunday Times Correspondent BENTONG. Saturday. AN armed Chinese who was shot dead by security forces In the Bentong-Man-chis road area yesterday is believed to have been going shopping for his comrades. An officer with the forces said: "He was strolliru down the road carrying a rotan basket in
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    2 new houses every day
    70 1 JVJORK than two houses or shops have been completed every day so far this year by the Singapore Housing Trust. Actual figures are 646 houses and 54 >hops actually finished at the end of last week. Number of new houses started this year to date
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    AMERICANS FLEE CHINA CIVIL WAR
    41 1 SHANGHAI, Sat. TW O hundred American evacuees are scheduled to leave Shanghai aboard a US. Army transport on Tuesday. U.S. consular officials said that a third party is expected to evacuate on December ~t. A P
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    5 HELD IN PERAK
    19 1 Five arrests under the Emergency Regulations were made In Perak during the last 24 hours.
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    Malayan cement works planned
    114 1 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. FINAL agreement is expected *oon for erection of a cement works for Malaya planned by Malayan Collieries and the Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers. This is disclosed by Mr. J. Drysdale. chairman of Malayan Collieries, in the statement to be
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    FOUGHT FIERCELY, FELL TO BANDITS
    167 1 I TERRIFIC battle with grenade, pistol, and sten gun -f* was fought by Mr. George Alexander Swanson, 36--years old assistant manager of Johore Labis Estate, before he was killed by about 15 bandits on his estate on Friday. One special constable, who helped to keep
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    THIEVES GO TO CHURCH, SCHOOL
    67 1 LONDON, Sat. •^HIEVES with a new angle on crime are touring Britain, stripping lead sheeting from roofs mostly churches and schools. It fetches as much as £70 a ton. The latest town to suffer is Croydon (Surrey) where two school roofs have been stripped. Croydon's
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    Squatters go to China but will return
    343 1 Squatters go to China but will return Sunday Times Statt Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. /CHINESE squatters from troubled areas in the Federation are packing up and returning to their homeland by hundreds every month. Their "emigration" is entirely voluntary. They are paying their own expenses. Every one, however, has applied
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    SEEKING END TO INDIES DISPUTE
    32 1 BATAVIA, Sat.— The Dutch Cabinet delegation to Indonesia, told to seek a "definite solution" to the three-year-old constitutional dispute with the Republicans, arrived at Jogjakarta today.— Reuter.
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    53 1 THE Royal Artillery (Plymouth) band, touring the Far East f for th« first time photographed yesterday while playing for troops at Blakang Matl. The band arrived this week from Hong Kong and leaves for upcoantry next month. This evening the band will give a concert from 9.15 p.m. in the
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    Wires cut so 'wires' go by wireless
    86 1 TERRORIST sabotage of 1 telephone lines has disrupted communications between the north and the south of Malaya, and tele:ommunicatlons officials have appealed to the public to restrict trunk calls until the service has been restored. Lines have been cut in several places between
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    Shooting wild pig with a machine-gun
    1357 2 Shooting wild pig with a machine-gun 1 HAVE already told you that the Volunteer camps at Raffles Lighthouse, in the pre- World War I era, were like picnics with guns thrown in. I recall one delightful camp there at which Capt. B. B. Caldbeck, the Volunteer Adjutant, was present Lieut.
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    ROYAL TRAGEDIES
    527 2 I MHBuma^^^ 'pHE arch-consei vaA tive, who continually bemoans the "good old days." Is almost as big an idiot as the longhaired revolutionary who thinks that Utopia can be reached in a flash by upsetting all the values of the past and by mak'ng a complete break with
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    GALLOP UP ORCHARD ROAD
    522 2 GALLOP UP ORCHARD ROAD CVLD TIMER asked v the other week whether any old resident remembered Abrams' Livery Stables in Orchard Road. I remember them well in the 1912--1914 period. Motor cars were few and far between in those days and the Tuan Besars in general used private rickshas; some
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    Worried?
    151 2 MR. DALE CARNEGIE once wrote a book on "How to Win Friends and Influence People." He nas sold over 3,500.000 copies t > people who had to have the matter explained to them, and so he Is now trying again with "How to Stop Worrying and Start living." Thia
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    TRADE SCHOOL TO START CLASSES
    61 3 THE Junior Technical (Trade) School, Balestierj Road, Singapore, will com- mence classes in Mechanical Engineering and Domestic Engineering on Jan. 10, 1949. Applicants must have passed standard five in an English school. Particulars and forms of application can be obtained from the Acting Superintendent of
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    MALARIA IS AT ITS LOWEST EBB
    62 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. MALARIA seems to be at' a lower ebb in Malaya now than at any time In living memory, says the Malaria Advisory Board, but adds ;i warning against a sense of false security. Malaria admissions to Selangor Government hospitals in 1947
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    WHISKY RACKETEERS' CHANCE
    463 3 Short supply at Christmas Sunday Times Staff Reporter gETWEEN now and Christmas blackmarketeers in Malaya are looking forward to a rich harvest peddling whisky at $22 a bottle nearly twice as much as the controlled retail price of $10.95. For certain favoured brands they expect to get
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    Chinese scouting improves
    151 3 i^HINESE scout troops in V.' Singapore Increased to seven with the Investiture of 28 boys of the Chung Hwa Institution yesterday. The first Chinese scout troops was sworn in at the Chinese High School In December last year. Today there are seven Chinese scout troops with more
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    MODEL PLANE COMPETITION
    111 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MEMBERS of six model aeroplane clubs will be taking part in a flight competition at Seletar Airfield, by permission of the Royal Air Force, on the morning of Dec. 12. The clubs are the R.A.F. Model Flying Clubs at Seletar. Changi. Tengah and
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    NO BOOK, BUT THEY READ
    265 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter READ INC a book without the book, that it what students at the King Edward VII College of Medicine propose to do in their library. They will read scientific papers, kept in foreign libraries, on a screen in a micro-film reader.
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    NEW MOON
    37 3 The new moon tomorrow will be celebrated at the Sinhala Buddhist Temple, Outram Road, by illumination at 0 p.m., chanting of sutras at 6.15 p.m.. Buddha puja at 7 p.m. and a sermon at 7.30.
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    55 3 PUTTING the cake nrter their wedding at St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday are Mr. and Mrs. H. Salt. The bride was formerly Miss Doreen Hynes, daughter of Mrs. Haynes, of Crediton, Devonshire, who flew out for the wedding, and the late Mr. A. C. Hynes, former chief manager of the Hongkong
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    NEW JOHORE CINEMA
    93 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. EARLY next year Johore Bahru is to have a $150,000 ci*- ma hall which will be eg lipped with the latest devices. The site of the new cinema, the Rex, la on Jalan Wong Ah Pook, a few yards past
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    U.S. information centre in Spore
    156 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A FORMER Lieutenant-Commander of the United States Navy, Mr. W. Henry Lawrence, is expected in Singapore about the middle of January to re-open the U.S. Information Education Service Centre here. Mr. Lawrence was scheduled to arrive in Singapore from Tokio, where
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    Delay sought in R.A.F. case
    439 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. UNEXPECTED application for postponement of the R.A.F. generators case was made by one of the accused, David Wolf Ginsberg, in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday. He complained that delay in issuing deposition provented him engaging counsel. The court was hearing preliminary
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    RETURN FARES CUT
    33 3 AANTAS Empire Airways and V 8.0.A.C. yesterday announced a reduction of 50 per cent, in return fares for school-children on vacational travel between the ages of twelve and eighteen years.
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    INCOME TAX OFFICERS
    81 3 MR. T. EL ROBERTSON has been appointed a Comptroller of Income Tax for the Federation and Singapore. He has gone to Singapore to act in the absence of Mr. D. H. Tudor who is going on leave. Mr. O. A. Bridgeman is acting Comptroller In the Federation.
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    TOWN PLANNING FILMS
    74 3 THE films "The Way We Live" (story of town planning in Plymouth) and "New Town" (a 'Charlie' coloured cartoon on town planning) will be screended at the Victoria Theatre at 5.30 p.m. on Dec. 1, 2, 3 and 4 in conjunction with the housing and town planning
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    Nawasavat is not in Penang'
    49 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PENANG, Sat. THE Siamese Consul, Mr. Nai Chal Suwanna. has refuted a report in the Siamese Press that the former Prime Minister Luang Dhamrong Nawasavat, wanted in connection with the abortive coup de'tat In Bangkok last month, is in Penang.
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    WAR ON DIPHTHERIA HOTS UP
    914 4  -  Lint Tian Joo By OINGAPORE MUNI- CIPAUTY's campaign against diphtheria and whooping cough among the city's infant.- is gaining momentum. Every day hundreds of tiny children are immunised in the city's infant welfare centres free of charge against these two killer diseases. At each of
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    HENRY'S MEDAL
    249 4  - HENR Y'S MEDAL Geoffrey Boland by IF you get into a Singapore taxi with a St. Christopher medal fastened to the Inside of the cab, you will know you are riding with Henry. Henry Is a character. He Is a 24-year-old Straitsborn Chinese and is a taxi driver because he
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    Australian Paul Robeson
    446 4  -  BOB GILMORE by MELBOURNE, Nov. 18. CK)R the first time r an Australia aboriginal has dined at Sydney's Hotel Australia. He Is handsome tenor Harold Blair, who v ad a continent-wide radio audience when he —nor w i th the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. He aspires to be
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    FARMER (65) FEARS THE SEA
    419 5 Will not go to cinema Sunday Times Staff Reporter. CINGAPORI it an island surrounded by the sea an d a venerable old Chinese farmer living in the Braddell Road area of the Island does not like it at all. He stays away from it and
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    LETTER TO THE EDITOR KEEP WOMEN OUT OF DANGER'
    152 5 LETTER TO THE EDITOR KEEP WOMEN OUT OF DANGER' In reply to 'B" of Kuala c Lumpur it so happened, as is r usual in these days of emer- t gency, that the Police, Army and R.A.F. Indulged in a s strike against the bandits at a time, when for
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    46 5 LIEUT.-COn. \>. O. U ALTON, of the Green Howards, arrived in Malaya last week to take command of the Third Battalion, Malay Regiment. He hay been commanding the Green Howards for the year. In World War II be saw service in the Middle East, India and Burma.
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    Tribesmen set good example
    215 5 Sunday Times Correspondent SECAMAT, Saturday. lAKUN tribesmen who abandoned their settlement on the upper reaches of the Sungei Segamat on the borders of Pahang because they were attacked by bandits and who travelled to Segamat, are now learning the benefits of community feeding and living. Already
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    SIX MONTHS FOR BREACH OF TRUST
    56 5 SEREMBAN, Saturday. MERAJ, a Punjabi, was sen--111 tenced yesterday to six months' hard labour by the magistrate, Tungku Syed Abdullah, for breach of trust. MeraJ was said to have received $70 from Mohamed bin to send a money order for 100 rupees. He had
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    NAD SAMSU STILL
    31 5 NIBONO TEBAL, Sat. Tan Peng Chap was fined $250 or three months by the magistrate, Mr. Tay Hooi Soo for possession of a still for manufacture of samsu.
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    SHARE PRICES SAC ON WEEK
    507 5 vJHARE markets during the past wetk were quiet and k prices sagged except in the case of one or twe industrials. Factors causing this depression were: the rail in the price of rubber to the lowest level for months: developments in North China: and. as
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    RUBBER
    53 5 Th« Singapore Chamber of Commere* Rubber Association's noon prices yesterday Nov. 27 were, in cents per lb. No. 1 R S.S Spot Iooh nominal 35** 36 P. OB. in bales Dec No. 1 R.S.S. 35 S. 35% No. > R.S.S. U 35 No. S R.S.S. 33 7 34', Ton*
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      341 5 B nin Variety; 4.00 Mr». L. N. Thorn* 5.40 Pacific Mallbag; 8.30 World All x presents her choice of records: News; 6.46 Soft Lights and Sweet SIM a a dabk 4. SO Programme Preview for th*' Music; 7.19 Famous Overtures: ■wvArvai leaning week; 4.40 Sunday Sere- j 7.48 National Fair;
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    THE SUNDAY TIMES SUNDAY, NOV. 28, 1948. NO ROOM TO PLAY
    636 6 THE SUNDAY TIMES SUNDAY, NOV. 28, 1948. NO ROOM TO PLAY SO many expensive and urgent needs the plans j for medical services, educa- tlon and housing are i thronging on Singapore today that there Is danger of one of Its less published needs falling out of sight the need
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    BOOKMAKING IS BIG BUSINESS
    1427 6 by a Punter "TN Malaya our racecourses are peculiar in that no bookies are allowed or recognised. All bookmaking is illegal, but I doubt whether a better specialised bookie system exists anywhere in the world," wrote Mr. R. H. de S, Onraet, former In-spector-General of Police,
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    A LOT OF OLD JAW
    286 6 JAW pieces of some of the oldest primatesremote and ancient relatives of present-day monkeys and apes who lived in North America about 50,000,000 years ago— hare Just been added to the collections of the Smithsonian Institution. They belonged to creatures of the middle Eocene period
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    Town Malays drop national dress
    999 6 Town Malays drop national dress says C. H. E. DET OINGAPORE Malay men have forgotten that their race has a national dress worthy of their pride. They have lost the art and desire to wear this dress. That is the impression one gets after spending a Hari Raya Haji among
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      11 6 for better tea-time* Finest Broken Orange Pekoe Price $2.00 per Ib
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    PLEASURE PIER PROJECTED FOR KATONG
    296 7 PLEASURE PIER PROJECTED FOR KATONG Will cost over $1, 000, 000 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SINGAPORE will have in the not too distant future a $1,000,000 pleasure pier complete with dance pavilion, if a scheme now being investigated by a group of interested business men in the Colony takes practical
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    Mystery fsays the Coroner
    114 7 Mystery f says the Coroner 'THE Singapore Coroner, Mr. Choor Singh, yesterday recorded an open verdict at the inquest on Kong Le* Patt, an Inmate of the Mental Hospital. Knng was in an ambulance or. hU way to the General Hospital for an abdominal operation when he died. Post-mortem evidence
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    57 7 moo kit. of the seianV gor detective force, who has been awarded the Colonial Police Medal for gallantry against the terrorists. A former MPAJA man, fhoo Kit Joined the police eleven months ago and during operations against the terrorists, has been in several fun battles in which he showed, as
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    ESTATE STRIKE IN MALACCA
    32 7 MALACCA, Saturday. ON£ hundred and twentj tamil labcuiers of Tebolang Estate. Tebong, Malac:a, have been on strlk< since last Monday, The labourers denandec in increase In tappin^ rates
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    GUN CLUB PLANS A CHRISTMAS SHOOT
    69 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter rPHE Singapore Oun Club will A hold a Christmas shoot on Boxing Day as "house warm- j Ing" for the new clubhouse which has recently been built j on their range. The shoot will Include a t pistol competition among
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    CARNIVAL FOR FOOD PARCELS
    88 7 MRS. E. M. F. Ferguson, chairman of Spare Time and Talent Enterprises <T'NT), the voluntary organisation sending food parcels to Britain, hag organised a Christmas carnival at her home at 59. Orange Road, next Saturday. The carnival will last from 4 p.m. to midnight and will
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    $150,000 dub for Indians
    154 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A $150,000 club house for the Singapore Indian Association will go up in January at Balestier Plain. A feature of the plan of the building is a large hall and a lounge which can be linked up by opening folding doors to
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    DATO ONN GIVES A PARTY
    55 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. DATO and Datin Onn held a cocktail party which was followed by a dinner last night at the Royal Johore International Club. The Su H an and Sultanah of Johore were present as were the officers of the Skymaster in which Dato
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    POLICE BAND
    38 7 By permission of the Commissioner of Police (Mr. R. E. Foulger). the Singapore Police Band will Play at Fairer Park on Dec. 1 and at Waterloo Btreet on Dec. 7 between 5.30 p.m. and 6.30 p.m.
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    S'PCRE STAMP CLUB
    49 7 THE Singapore Stamp Club has elected the following office-bearers for the financial year starting on Oct. 1, 1948: president, Dr. D. E. C Mekie; hon. secretary, Mr. Leong Hong Hee; committee: Mrs. Weinberg, Messrs. J. B. Neubninner, Llm Hak Tee, Robert Cheong and H. G Rodyk.
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    SWIMMER IS DROWNED
    102 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A 18-YEAR-OLD Singapore swimmer, Ng Cheng Bwee, was drowned while diving io the Tiger Swimming Pool, Paslr Panjang Road, yesterday morning. Ng was brought up unconscious from the water by 8 lifeguard when he failed tr come up from a dive from th«
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    Wife saved his life
    99 7 Sunday Times Staff Ke»x t JOHORE BAHKI Sat. WHEN his wife brought him his evening meal Ramasamy, an estate labourer of Plentone, told her he was goinx to commit suicide and proceeded to hang himself with the cloth he was wearint*. The wife gave the alarm
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    OPIUM PILLS
    21 7 MUAR, Sat— For having six pills of reprepared chandu dross, Goh Keng Teck was bound over for six montha.
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    $11 million on the right side
    129 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MALAYA showed a favourable trade balance of more than $11,000,000 in October, when exports totalled $146,506,722 against imports of $135,382,608, according to statistics available yesterday. The heaviest trade was done with the United States ($51,783,827), the United Kingdom ($47,632,827) and
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    NEW POWERS FOR POLICE CHIEFS
    70 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. NEW Emergency Regulations will give Chief Police Officers powers to declare special areas wherever it appears to them to be necessary or expedient, that more than ordinary precautions should be taken to prevent malicious injury to persons or
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    RALLY AT VISIT OF CHIEF SCOUT
    78 7 THE Commonwealth Chief Scout (Lord Rowallan), will arrive at Singapore on Dec. 20 on hU way to the Pan-Pacific Scout Jamboree lr Australia. There will be a rally at Singapore on Dec. ?1. out the cream of Malayan Scouts will not be present as
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    THE WOMEN WITH EAGLE EYES
    287 7 FIFTEEN eagle-eyed Singapore wo*- en wanted to shoot so they Joined the men and shoot shoulder to shoulder with the best of them. Slim, medium-height Mrs. A. W. Baigent, who Is acting as the honorary treasurer of the S.R.A., told the Sunday Times that the
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    Singapore leads in social survey
    309 7 junudy i imes jrarT iveporrer OINCAPORE'S lead in the field of colonial scientific K social survey work is attracting the attention of the world outside, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare, told the Sunday Times yesterday. The Colonial Social
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    655 BABIES BORN IN WEEK
    54 7 Babies born within Municipal limits of Singapore in the week-ended Nov. 20 numbered 655. There were 166 deaths in the period; chief causes were tuberculosis (19) and pneumonia (18). Fresh cases of tuberculosis reported In the week were 81. There were five cases of diphtheria
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    Labour party meets today
    270 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter 'I'HE newly -formed Labour Party of Singapore expect t to make a start with 5,000 labourers and wageearners as members, the interim chairman, Mr. M. A. Majid, told the Sunday Times yesterday. Today, the party meets at the People's Education Association Hall,
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    SMALLPOX IN P.I.
    20 7 The Singapore Government is a gazette last night declared the Philippine Islands is i gmali-pox infected area.
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    GIRL LINGUISTS
    33 7 CIXTEEN out of the 21 students from Perak whc are offering French as a subject for their Cambridge School Certificate examination are girls. The examination begins on Nov. 2J througout Malaya.
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      993 8 THIS WEEK FOR YOU -What the Stars Foretell-i SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23- PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21). GEMINI (May 22-June VIRGO (Aug. 24 -Sept. 22). Dec. 22).— If you stick to —Guard against a health 22).— Continue plans begun —A fairly good week if you familiar routine this week, upset. Be really
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      177 8 V 7 wan you must be practical (or the best possible results. .ccess. some contractive advance in your career, if you are artistic. 1 Sunday Times Crossword ACROSS DOWN 2, 4 and 23 Ood Blew Them J (5) 2 T delight *»«.w *> j /.x n 8 >: PWoral poem
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      430 8 HOW wUl the new laws affect your bridge game? Here are some or the Important lawi that are, or should be, universally enforced The one rule that Is enforced In almost all bridge games is tk revoke. Under the new code of laws the penalty for a revoke has been
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    XMASDAY AHEAD
    689 9 MARY HEATHCOTT sees LONDON, Nov. 14 MOW not so very far away Christmas is rushing at us with the speed of a flying bomb and London's shops are geared for the great December battle. A dozen assorted Father Christmasses preside over the various toy fairs, lights are bright
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    Pleats all day
    100 9 PLEATS are playing an important part in this season's fashions. Sun-ray pleats are back again, they look perfect on the longer skirt. Sketched here are three ways of looking fa-shion-right. The 'Renoir' neckline on an afternoon gown above left i is filled in icith rows of pleated
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    Party fashions for children
    315 9 FROCKS for the party season are top fashion news right now Children first: Little girls' party dresses have followed Mother's fashion line and hems have dropped. These Kate Greenaway styles ar<» very pretty and becoming, though not so good for romping. Among the designs I sawrecently
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    Time to make the pudding
    428 9 IF you have not al- ready made your Christmas cakes and puddings it is high time you got down to it. Although hard to believe, Christmas is only four weeks away and here In Malaya we can have real pre-war fare. Here are three recipes
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    ANN TEMPLE
    644 9 There urt some people whom I just can't call by their Christian names. It's not a question of disliking them but of some constraint that 1 can't overcome. Does this indicate some hidden antagonism between us? CHLOE. NOT necessarily. There's such a thing as being naturally inimical— the
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    LEAGUE LEADERS GET A SHOCK
    483 10 LONDON, Saturday. J)ERBY COUNTY and Newcastle United, first and second respectively in the First Division, were surprisingly beaten today, a day of fog which caused the postponement or abandonment of many matches, including some of the F.A. Cup first round ties. Newcastle's defeat was a
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    WICKETS FALL AT LAHORE
    94 10 LAHORE. Sat. FIFTEEN wickets fell In yesterday's play In the game between Pakistan and the West Indies. Eight Pakistan wickets fell for the addition of only 44 runs to yesterday's score, and at close of play the West Indies were 188 for seven. Gomez wat most
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    RUGBY UNION
    66 10 International Trial Match (Eng- lish): Whites 3. Colours 14. County Championship: Cornwall 14, Somerset 6; Devon 6. Dorset and Wilts 9. Club Matches: Blackheath 3. Harlequins 6; Quys Hospital 6, London Irish 6; Abertlllery 0, Neath 8; Aldershot Services 0, University College Dublin 6; Bath 11, Strond 0:
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    JOGINDAR WINS
    70 10 AT th« Happy World last night, Jogindar won in the sixth round against Coutlnho who was disqualified for foul tactics. Ho Wah Peng won by a knock-out In the fifth round against Boodh Singh. Tiger Arrat won by a submission. In the seventh round against Smiling Pang after
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    RUGBY LEAGUE
    75 10 Australian Tour: Halifax 8. Australians 10. League Games: Barrow 10 Wigan 7; 'Castleford v Batley; •Dowsbury v Bellevue Rangers: •Featherstone Rovers 20. Hunslet 10; •Huddersfleld v Wakefleld I Trinity: Hull Kingston Rovers 37; Bramley 2: 'Kelghley v Bradford Nor herrf; 'Leeds v Hull; 'Leigh v Worklngton Town; Liverpool
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    WEIGHTS FOR IPOH RACES
    314 10 WEICHTS for the first day of the Park Turf Club December Meeting, next Saturday, are: CLASS 3, DIV. 1— S Fun. gtr. Kimbolton 9.00 Gay Aggie 8.00 Polish Bride 8.09 Lord Bright House 8.09 Frederick 7.11 Fanfarade 8.04 Grand Trim 7.11 Golden News 8 02 Grand
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    Second Day
    162 10 Weight* for four races on the second day (Dec. 8) are: CLASS t, DIV. 1— Maidens— 6F. Jack's Sister Clll 8.00 Darling 9 00 Kentucky II 7.12 Cetewayo 8.07 Dakota 7.10 Blue Print 8.07 Everbrlght 7.07 CLASS t DIV. 2— Maidens— 6F. Longchamps Shining II 9.00 Willow 8.11
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    More aid for Cup fund
    69 10 Sunday Times Malacca Sports Reporter IN inter-State match in aid of the Thomas Cup fund will be played between Malacca and Negrl Sembilan at Serejnban early next month, Mr. Utherman Das, secretary of the Malacca Badminton Association, told the Sunday Times yesterday. He added that
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    Kota Raja keep winning form
    315 10 Kota Raja 3 S.C.F.A 1 THE best team the Singapore Chinese Football Association could field failed against Kota Raja, who maintained their irresistible form to win by three goals to one at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. With the game favoured by fine weather, a
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    LAW MAY PLAY No. 3 SINGLES
    434 10  -  FEATHER Badminton Notes .by MALAYA'S Thomas Cup team will sail on the Carthage next Thursday with the best wishes of badminton enthusiasts throughout Malaya. They are confident that their representatives will win the first international badminton champ* lonship and bring home the tro- phy
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    KO BY KING KONG
    80 10 AT the Great World last night. King Kong knocked out Jell Goldstein in the second round. Arjarr Das knocked out All Riza Bey In the second round of the main supporting bout. Other results were: Tiger Joginder beat Curly Connors by two falls to one in
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    Gagan Cup goes to Wolters
    503 10 Gagan Cup goes to Wolters In gala mood WIEVE WOLTERS, outstanding boy swimmer of the Singapore Swimming Club, won with ease the 30 metres Junior club chani- pionshlp event for the trophy presented by Mr. J. A. Oagan at the Junior swimming gala held at c Club pool yesterday. Wieve,
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    Things that were left unsaid...
    2510 11 Things that were left unsaid THE DON SPEAKS OUT Bradman s own story j I OOKINC back on my experiences while leading the Australian cricket team, I feel some things can be said that had to be left unsaid while I was taking part in the matches. These days the
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    RUSSIAN POOL FINAL
    29 11 Sunday Times Raub Correspondent MAT Plan Yu.«uf (scratch t boat Adam Sudln (scratch) 300 17S !in the Raub Government Club's Russian Fool handicap final oa Friday.
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    JOHORE TO PLAY SELANGOR TODAY
    289 11 Smi<U> Times Segaiaat sports 'orrrspiuidriil JOHORE meet Selangor in their return inter-State hockey match at Segamat today, and If no last-minute itbdrawab weaken the fide Johore should give the visitors a hard fight. Johore have played six InterState matches thus far and con- siderlng the
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    S'PORE SCORE 3-0 WIN OVER SELANGOR
    725 12 S 'PORE SCORE 3-0 WIN OVER SELANGOR Home defence was too good Sunday Times Staff Reporter almost impregnable defence and the excellent opportunism of Coutts, at insideleft who scored two goals, gave Singapore an easy passage against Selangor whom they beat by three goals to nil in an inter-State hockey
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    The Rest beat Scotland
    512 12 rhe Rest 14; Scotland m I >LAYING the major portion of the game with onl) 1 thirteen men. The Rest beat Scotland in their rugb} 'international" on the Padang yesterday by 14 points (i (oal and three tries) to 1 1 (a goal and two tries).
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    FEDSEC WERE GAME LOSERS
    247 12 nLAYINO with men. FEDSEC I went down 6 mely to the Singapore Harbour Board Club by three points (try) to IS (two goals and a penalty goal) In a rugger match at Raeburc Park yesterday. FEDSECS try came after they had lost the services of their
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    MORNEY SCORES 3RD CENTURY
    63 12 BRISBANE. Saturday. J. Moroney (122) became the third century-maker of the Innings when New South Wales carried their score to 499 against Queensland today in the first of the Sheffield Shield games this season. Before stumps were drawn Queensland had lost two wickets for 71 runs,
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    Third Singapore title for Peng Soon
    403 12 to two to »>.. the r'ijTp i ,i for tr- ii'it tune. H :■> v, Men's douoiog final: W-... Fcv.g Set and Teoli P i& Ho?i Mty- > rioter beat On? J*j Idm a. d Tan Chong Tee (Mnil old) IC-8, 14-M (3-1). Singapore
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    NBA SUSPENDS FORMER CHAMPION
    149 12 PATERSON. NEW JERSEY, Saturday. A BE Greene, pf ldent of the 1 /i. "ational Boxing Assocla- tlon. announced today that the former world middleweight champion, Rocky Grazlano has been- suspended from boxing in all parts of the world under N.B.A. supervision. This Includes Brltalr Cute, Mexico.
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    Penang draw with Perak
    118 12 Sunday Times Ipoh Sports Reporter DERAK and Penang drew In 1 their hockey encounter at [poh yesterday, there being no scoring by either side. Perak started promisingly and harassed the Penang defence for the first 15 minutes. However, they gradually lost the initiative and yielded to
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    ASIANS LOSE AT SELETAR
    206 12 R.A.F. Seletar. weakened by injuries, beat the Singapore Asians, playing with fourteen men. by 16 points (two goals, a try and a drop goal) to three (a try). In their rugby match at Seletar yesterday. The Singapore Asians turped up one man short, and played with
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    SCOTS WIN IN IX
    42 12 SCOT S WIN IN IX nday Times Kuala Lumpur Sports Reporte. AFTER very hard wcrk on a wet greasy ground which did not favour faat rugby, Scotland triumphed by six points (two trie*) to nil over The Rest in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
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    TWO QUICK TRIES SETTLE ISSUE
    129 12 Sunday Times Penan Sports Reporter PENANG won their first match in the All Blues rugby competition against Perak by 12 points (three tries and a penalty goal) to three points (a try) on the Victoria Green. Penang. yesterday. Penang were undoubtedly the better £lde. but
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      243 12 IPOH RACES SATURDAY 4th DECEMBER SPECIAL AIRCRAFT LEAVES SINGAPORE LEAVES PENANG 8.30 A.M. 12.15 P.M. FOR IPOH RETURN FLIGHT LEAVES IPOH FOR SINGAPORE AT 9-30 A.M. ON SUNDAY MALAYAN AIRWAYS LTD ICOULDN? yS| (COUGHING!_ %t£jjL The more I coughed the more 1 L V rhad to cough. You can't get
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