The Straits Times, 26 December 1948

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    18 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NEIT SALE IN MALAYA No. 700. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1948. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    PLANTERS TOOK GUNS TO PARTIES
    109 1 PLANTERS TOOK GUNS TO PARTIES Christmas on the watch iimisTM AS in a Sing, ore home. There never was »nch v a tree since last year 1 there won't be another such i till next JJhristmas. With balloons, < ackers, tinsel, toy docs. grt-«MieryY eot ton wool, lan Win whlsi.Js.
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    56 1 CkiAKLU f'EOI'AM. lixs been entertaining people in clu!)s and eeneerH since he was 16, in London. A3 a 40-year-old ILK. »"«>rporal (above,) wiln MM yean 1 Army «ervu he la still at it, wit'i his 'Charlie PeopaUV. sho*" which has cßteriaim .1 h ndreds of Servicemen anil women on Singapore
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    Stunned, shot: then he let go
    225 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. HRISTMAS week-end saw unabated vigilance in the tight against banditry. One special constable had to be stunned with a pistol butt and shot through the right hand before he would relinquish his rifle to three Chinese thugs.
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    DUTY REMITTED
    50 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Sat.— A Gazette notification states that the High Commibsioner, in exercise of powers conferred upon him under the Estate Duty Enactment, has remitted the whole of the estate duty payable on the death of the late Sultan of Perak. Sultan Abdul Aziz.
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    Meal took wings
    58 1 THATCH AM. Sat. WILFRED Buttolf and Monty Hayes each won a Christmas duck in a canteen raffle. In true Christmas spirit, they loosened the bonds of the trussed ducks so that the birds could stretch their legs. The two Christmas dinners were last seen headed for London
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    SWEEP ENDS IN KEDAH
    99 1 Sunday Times Sian* Reporter IPOH, Sat. A SECURITY force of the 1/6 Gurkhas, a K.0.Y.L.1. company and a police detachment finished an operation south of the BalingKuala Ketil road. Kedah. this week. One bandit was killed and 16 captured. A bandit camp was destroyed. The Gurkhas
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    REDS WANT TO KNOW
    27 1 AGUSTA. Sicily, Sat. Russian technicians took over the Italian battleship Olulio Ce.sare for a thorough Inspection before acct-D,...- the warship as r^naratlb. U.P.
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    SINGAPORE MALAYS PROTEST TO U.N.
    112 1 THE 6,000-strong Malay Union of Singapore, at a meeting yesterday, strongly protested against the "inhuman" Dutch police action in Indonesia, and appealed to the United Nations to t-»ke immediate action against the Netherlands. The meeting resolved to send a resolution to the British Foreign Secretary
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    JINNAHS MEMORY
    50 1 MORE than 4.000 Muslims yesterday commemorated I the birthday of the founder of Pakistan, the late Mohamed All Jlnnah. at a mass meeting held at Jalan Besar Stadium. The meeting was organised I by the Overseas Pakistan i League and presided over by Mr. S. I. O. Alsagon.
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    GAS TAPS BLAZED
    44 1 Preparation of Christmas dinner caused gaa consumpt ion in Singapore to rocket. On Friday (Christmas Ewe over 900,000 cubic feet of gas was used. On a normal day. only i about 700,000 cubic feet of gas is consumed in the Colony.
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    CHRISTMAS HELP
    23 1 LONDON, Sat— Fift; shiploads of "Christmas boxes valued at thousands of dollars have arrived In Britain under the Marshall Aid programme.—Reuter.
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    59 1 MALAYANS at the fourth session of the I.N. Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East. They are dm v left) Mr. Andrew Gilmour. dp' ;;>> for Mali i and North Borneo; Mr. P. S. Scrivener, Deputy Commissioner-General in South-East Asia; Tuan ii iii Mohanu Eusoff, delegate for IVlalaya and
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    Singapore invited to Canada fair
    152 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SINGAPORE hat received an invitation to take part in the Canadian International Trade Fair, to be held in Toronto between May 30 and June 10. The Canadian Trade Commissioner, Singapore, Mr. Paul Sykes, has discussed the invitation with an official of
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    His Holiness sees precipice ahead
    173 1 VATICAN CITY, Saturday. POPE Pius XII, broadcasting yesterday over the Vatican Radio, drew a sorrowful picture of 1948. Once again, he said, the world was menaced by war; 1948 at first had seemed the start of a surge towards true peace; today "it seems instead
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    MODERN STYLE
    32 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. FATHER Christmas, com- plete with a sack of toys, landed in an Auster aircraft on the middle of Malaya district Headquarters area yesterday.
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    Dutch allege Republican plot in Java
    313 1 Dutch allege Republican plot in Java WASHINGTON, Saturday. THE DUTCH today claimed possession of secret Indonesian Republic documents which they said would prove that the Republic had plant for large-scale military operations in Indonesia to start next month. The claim was made by the Netherlands' representatives to the United Nations,
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    GOOD OFFICES COMMITTEE: CEASE FIRE'
    103 1 BATAVIA. Sat. THE United Nations Good Offices Committee today delivered to the Dutch and Republican delegations copies of yesterday's Security Council resolution calling on both sides "to cease lire." The Committee asked both parties to facilitate the movement of military observers to areas where fighting
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    ARABS BAN 'TIMES'
    21 1 DAMASCUS. Sat.— The London Times has been banned by the Syrian Government for 'propagating misleading Zionist" news.— Reuter.
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    TO RECOGNISE ISRAEL
    19 1 OTTAWA. Sat— The Canadian Government will recognise the state >>t Israel, It waa announced heve today—Reuter.
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    The Singapore-Kranji Railway
    1269 2 The Singapore-Kranji Railway DECENTLY 1 offered a piece of advice to sportsmen about what to do when meeting a police patrol while out shooting. Now I want to give a bit of advice about shooting Flying Foxes at night; always wear a white suit. It is safer and you will
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    GAMES FOR THE PARTY
    440 2 pHRISTMAS and New Year are the times lor a party and it is the time when hosts and hostesses put their thinking caps on to find new games for their guests. Here is one that is guaranteed, to break the ice at even the roldest beginning.
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    SALAD VEGETABLES
    286 2  -  KEBUN <ty ii.i'-:'i:ii.M-:i:i ALTHOUGH one is rather inclined t»i buy all vegetable requirements from tli« market there are quite a number which I pe;sonally think should c ?rown at home. Most of them do not t.:..e up a great amount of roo.n and even a small garden should
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    SPECTACULAR DROP IN CRIME
    445 3 Spore police have control Siinday Times Crime Reporter SINGAPORE crime has dropped spectacularly this year. In some categories the special emergency police powers have quartered the 1947 figures. The officer in charge of C.1.D., Mr. E. V. Fowler, believes that crime in the Colony is now
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    'Learn Chinese' drive
    118 3 'Learn Chinese' drive Sunday Times Staff Reporter SEREMBAN, Sat. THE Seremban Chinese Read--1 ing Circle is to make a drive next year to get more members to learn Chinese at its evening class. The Circle also plans to hold a stamp exhibition. Started towards the end of 1 1945 by
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    CHINESE SCOUTS' ASSOCIATION SOON
    53 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S seven Chinese Boy Scout troc are to form a local associt tion under the Colony's Boy Scouts' Association. Proceeds from a Chinese Scout display, to be given at a performance of Sheum's Circus at Racecourse Road tomorrow night, will go to
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    ROBBERY CHARGE .
    44 3 ROBBERY CHARGE Sunday Times Correspondent i SEQAMAT, Bat. Charged with armed robbery, 48-year-old Ooh Toh was produced In the Segamat Court tod^y and remanded in police custody. He Is alleged to have taken bales of cloth from a Chinese shop at Simpang Jabi, Segamat.
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    Flowers bloom for Christmas boom
    196 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter lIEAVY demands for corsages, bouquets and flower 11 baskets during the festive season have caused prices of flowers to soar to nearly twice their normal figures, the Sunday Times discovered in a survey of Singapore flower shops. Dealers said that in
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    PENANG TRADE FAIR
    168 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PENANO, Saturday. BEGINNING yesterday and to continue for the next ten days Is a mammoth trade fair which is being h Id in the New World amusement park to commemorate the ninth anniversary of the opening of the Park. There are 51 stalls,
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    Ticket system welcomed
    193 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. ONE hundred and ninety minor traffic offences have been compounded by the Kuala Lumpur traffic polioe since the pre-war system was re-introduced under an emergency regulation on Dec. 1. Its re-introdution followed representations made to Government by the Automobile Association
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    VOTING BLACK SPOT IS CITY
    220 3 Sunday Timei Staff Reporter WITH five days more to go, only approximately 3,300 people have taken the trouble to have their names placed on the register for the first elections of Singapore Municipal Commissioners next April. Registration began or November 19 and will close on
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    BOYS' CLUB IN MALACCA
    90 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MALACCA, Saturday. MALACCA Boys' Jubilee Club committee has decided to use the Club's endowment fund to erect a building capable accommodating up to 200 boys. The club will hand the completed building over to the Government, says the secretary (Mr. K. T.
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    SULTAN'S GIFTS
    32 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUANTAN, Sat.— The Sultan of Pahang visited the district hospital this week, and presented wounded Malay Regiment soldiers with packets of chocolates, sweets, prunes and cigarette*.
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    Back home and glad of it
    630 4  -  808 GILMOkE ,-~by- AUCKLAND, Dec. 18. WITH neither bunting nor bands New Zealand this week welcomed home the last "Kiwi"' occupation troops from Japan. Th. cv brought back witn them New Zealand flags that had been lowered for the last time over Camp Wellington,
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    OLDEST UNION
    851 4  -  ROY FERROA by THE Chinese Engi- neering Association, 57-years-old. with branches throughout the Federation and Singapore, and with thousands of members, first came into being as the Kee Hee Hong in Province Wellesley in the third quarter of last century. About 1875 a few of the elder Chinese
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    HOLLYWOOD AIM
    540 4 OF her latest novel, HEADLESS ANGEL, Vicki Baum's publishers claim she "has taken two years to write this book and has blended in it the patient research of the historical novelist and the art of the experienced story teller." Much of this is true. The earlier part of
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    POLICE LEARN THE3Ss
    620 5 and one is 'shoot 9 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. SIGNIFICANT of these turbulent days 3 it the fact the policeman, the upholder of civil law and order, today receives a semi-military training. The recruit is intensively trained in his predominating role of today that
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    QUIET SHARE BUSINESS
    248 5 Sunday Times Financial correspondent r |'HE share market experienced another quiet period in the short business week and the turnover in all sections was the si Mesr for the year. Tin shares improved in sentiment and some buying inquiry developed at the lower levels and industrials maintained
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    WHATS ON IN K. L. TODAY
    41 5 PAVILION: Man-eater of Kumaon. ODEON: Drums of the Congo SEX: Melody Time. MADRAS: The Sea Hound. CATHAY: Virhitra Vanltha (Tamil). CENTRAL: Demon Land. EMPIRE: Captain Fury COLISEUM: Wake TJp and Dream. HINDUSTAN: Swarga Sec ma
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    MALACCA
    19 5 CATHAY: Forever Amber. CAPITOL: Albuqorrqu* SAVOY: Cbe Meng Chao Kang Ttea. Rex: RelenUess. NEW RIM TO The Phantom.
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    IPOH
    18 5 R! BY: River Lady. ODLON: Preoentiivr Lily Mars. SUN: The Emperor Waltz. GRAND: Burn 'Em Up Barnes
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    SEREMBAN
    17 5 PLAZA: My Wild Irish Rose. CATHAY: I Wonder Who* Kissing Her Now. SAPPHIRE: Apoorva Chintamanl (Tamil).
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    PENANG
    27 5 REX: Adventures uf Robin Hood. CATHAY: River Lady. ODEON: Call Northside 777. UDO: King •f the Forest Rangers. GLOBE: Carnival in Costa Rica. WINDSOR Rajimukthi Tamil
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    Wider choice for STC now
    179 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter '|X> give the Singapore Traction Company wider selection in its choice of vehicles, an amendment to the S.T.C. Ordinance was introduced into the Singapore Legislative Council last week to empower the Company to increase the weight of its vehicles. "Because of
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      137 5 WJ V T «E MATT.ER vyiTH I CONTRACTS. IF ONLY I WAS M MCE S0 FULL 1 f] P|V m^^ OFTEN A SIGN THAT YOUR FOOD I IM DOING A ■MsW.Jft^/V |lS NOT SUPPLYING THE NOURISH- 1 I U)T BETTER I \\l j MENT NECESSARY TO REPLACE I TH| S
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    DEATH
    31 6 KUOK— On 25th. December, 1948. Kuok Keng Kang, S.M.J. of Johore Bahru. Deeply regretted. Funeral takes place on Monday 27th D cember, 1948. from No. 10, Ja'an Mahmudlah, Johore Bahru.
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    SINGAPORE, Dec. 26, 1948. ALL FOR YOU
    441 6 SINGAPORE, Dec. 26, 1948. ALL FOR YOU OHRISTMASTIDE is the \j time for giving presents, material things not always, unfortunately perhaps, reflecting what we would really wish to give. There are immaterial things which, if they could be transmuted into tangible form, would make excellent presents, particularly In the world
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    WHAT HE SAID
    100 6 THE acting Director of Public Relations, Federation of Malaya, writes that the views of the AttorneyGeneral of the Federation of Malaya as expressed in the Federal Legislative Council meeting of December 16th were incorrectly presented In this column last week. He writes: The criticism of the At-torney-General
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    Heredity And Sex Determination
    1785 6  -  DR. 'J. N. DEE' I by A RECENT happy event of national interest and importance has made very many people ask why it is still not possible to determine deforehand what sex an expected child is ffoing to be. After all, the possibilities are little more
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    WANTED — AN AUTHOR
    836 6  - WANTED AN A UTHOR S. C. George by vyiTH mucn diligent thumbing of an inadequate dictionary, I have at last read Kesah Pelayaran Abdullah. In doing so I nave made the acquaintance of one of the most fascinating and lovable characters in Malayan literature. He is Raffles's old clerk, Munshi
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    SCHOOL WILL RISE FROM BOMB RUBBLE
    526 7 SCHOOL WILL RISE FROM BOMB RUBBLE $500,000 plan for St. Xavier's Sunday Times Staff Correspondent PENANC, Saturday. QUT of the ruins and rubble lying heaped up along Farquhar-street for the past four years the result of blasting out of existence the living quarters of Hirohito's much-vaunted marines by Allied long-range
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    FISH TRAIL LED TO DEAD MAN
    179 7 FISH TRAIL LED TO DEAD MAN Sunday Times Staff Reporter SEGAMAT, Sat. TBRAHIM bin Cteman, a 1 young Malay padl planter ot Kampong Temayong, Labis, today told the Segamat Coroner how fish-scales scattered on a river bank had led him to the gruesome remains ol his 80-year-old father, Osman bin
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    TO WED IN TAIPING
    52 7 SITIAWAN, Saturday— Mr. George Deva, ikkam Paul, Assistant Inspector of Indian Schools, North Perak, son of the late Rev. Ponnlah Paul, and Miss Esther Rajammal, second daughter of the late Dr. G. Abraham and Mrs. R. Abraham, will be married on Monday afternoon at All Saints'
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    FELL IN FRONT OF CAR
    42 7 SEGAMAT, Sat. Ismail bin Osman, a young Malay who fell off his bicycle in front of a car on the Muar road, was run over and killed. The Segamat Coroner returned a verdict of death by misadventure.
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    WOMEN WARD OFF THE SUN
    197 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. II'OMEN workers in Malaya have improved in health and are dressing themselves better, thinks Mr. R. C. D. Houghton, the Commissioner for Labour in the Federation. Many of them, he says in his annual report, possess bicycles and
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    Unionists to be told: Carry on
    158 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SEREMBAN, Saturday. SEVEN thousand rubber workers in Negri Sembilan will soon be told to resume their pre-emergency trade union activities. The men who will tell them that they need have no fears as long as they operate within the law,
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    23 ACCIDENTS
    17 7 Twenty three accidents were reported to the Singapore police on Christinas Eve. None was fatal.
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    K.L. VICAR LEAVING
    99 7 Sunday Times Staff "porter KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. CANON R. C. Moore, rt-lring vicar of Selangor, is leaving for England on Jan. 28. Canon Moore, who is 57, was ordamed In 1915, just before he served in the army. He first came out to the East In 1932,
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    Soldiers' Home for Singapore
    233 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter \\ORK will be started in the very near future on a Sandes Soldiers' Home in the Pasir Panjang area of Singapore, not. far from the Alexandra Military Hospital. The site was earmarked nearly a year ago, but plans were held up until
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    TAKEN AFTER GUN BATTLE
    87 7 Sunday limes Staff Reporter SEGAMAT, Saturday. TWO young Chinese, arrest--1 ed near Serakek after a gun battle between a security force and four terrorists on Nov. 25 in which a bandit leader was shot dead, were today committed for trial at the next Johore Assizes by
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    36 7 MR. S. VADIVELU, f^rts 1™ secretary of the First Perak Rover Scouts, who has been selected as a cadet sub-inspector of the Singpore Police. He was given a farewell party last week by the Perak Rovers.
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    59 7 I TNLIKE pre-bandit days, the Federation policeman is n>.\ trained on military lines. Marksmanship h of the U hi,hr.i importance in the training course, and a hi h degree of accuracy ran b- attained only by intensive practice. The sand -ba* fed butts at the Federation police depot (above) are
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    MUSLIM 'RESIGN' CALL
    42 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PENANO, Sat. Penang Muslims, opposing the move to withdraw the Settlement from the Federation, on Wednesday demanded the resignation of Mr. d. E. Thyeto Khan and the Hon. A. M. Abubakar from the Secession Committee.
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    Many claims for lost silver
    173 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A PPLICATIONS for marked and unmarked silver in the possession of the Singapore Custodian of Property have been received from all over the world following hit announcement in the press that he had silver worth $150,000, lost in Malaya after the
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    YOUTH ANSWERING CALL OF CHURCH
    198 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter IPOH. Saturday. 'THE present-day Malayan youth is answering the call of religion— despite modern influences. This is the opinion of four Ipoh ministers interviewed by the Sunday Times this week. Father Chew, of St. Michael's Church, said that a change of
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    NEGLIGENT DRIVER, UNINSURED, FINED
    70 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SEGAMAT, Sat A young Chinese who drove his car at great speed, lost control at a corner and left the road near Cha'ah village was today fined $35 in the Segamat Court for negligent driving. He was Ong Cheng Huat, 22--year-old tyre
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    Censor bans SO films
    232 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter EMFTY full-length filmt and one Russian n«wsr««4 have been banned this year from exhibition in cinemas in Malaya and Singapore by the Pan-Malayan Film Censor, Mr. Jack Evans. Chief reasons for banning five British, eight Chinese, two Indian, one Arabic and 34
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    300SEAMENA AT XMAS DINNER
    77 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MORE than 300 merchant seamen from ships 'n port ate Christmas dinner at the Marine Hostel, Singapore on Friday night. The two Port Chaplains, the Rev. R. J. Lloyd (Missions to Seamen) and the Rev. Father J. B. Fox (R. C. Chaplain
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    GALA SHOWS ON
    27 7 TAIPING. Sat. As from yesterday, local Taiphig entertainments are puttinn on gala shews. They report good business. A circus provides rollicking fun for children.
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    What the Stars Foretell
    365 8 THIS WEEK FOR YOU CAPRICORN (Dec. 23— Jan. 20). A better social week than anything else. Be cautious in I usiness because/the holidiy spirit is all -pervading. Leave expansion plans until later on. AQUARIUS (Jan. 21Feb. 19).— Not one of your best weeks. You may have
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    How Much Do you know
    240 8 IF YOU cay answer the entire list of queries in this quiz, all will tie well. Even if you can answer only some of the queries, all will be well. For any correct answer will be well done. 1. Napoleon met his waterloo at Waterloo
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    TEST OF VISION
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    SIGHT TO SEE
    45 8 FERE is no such thing as a RISCO, of course, but put two more letters in front of it, and also repeat them after It, and you'll s«e something that's a sight! -adoofft-iad »A«q no£ pu« ire pa« aoo; ad *nd :w>nn|os
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    Wining contract bridge
    379 8  - Wining contract bridge The Joker ■a WHEN you already have shown the full strength of your hand, any further bid usually Is considered to be rebiddlng the same values unless a forcing situation exists that obliges you to speak once more. This applies whether you have a weak, fair or
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    Fashion Front"
    197 9 Fashion Front BARE shoulders are the just above the knee and swathes over the shoulders, rule for evening. Off w>™ over yer V short shorts Rising from this fichu is a the shoulder cap sleeves, or of white pique. Trimmings collar of heavy lace which fichu necklines are ways of
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    GLOOMY VIEW
    975 9  -  MARY HEATHCOTT by DV the time you read this, we in England will know the truth of the gloomy prophecies about our Christmas dinner: to be or not to be turkey. The prophets say we shall be lucky to see a quarter of a bird. All English turkeys
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    449 9 have two daughters, one 19 a?id the other 17, both very much grown-up. They earn between them $100 a week and not one penny do they contribute towards their keep. My wife sees nothing wrong with this and encourages their selfishness by further spoiling. I have long given
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    NEW YEAR Look
    47 9 NEW YEAR Look §TART the New Year with this slick afternoon gown in pastel pink silk crepe. Sun-ray pleats form cape sleeves and a panel down the centre- front of the wide skirt. This gown is -worn with a belt and ballet shoes of gold kid. VIRGINIA.
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    Tasty recipes from India
    389 9 THE ingredients of these dishes are, of course, easy to buy in Malaya. The first recipe is enough for six to eight people. Mutton Karma h YOU NEED:— Two pounds mutton, one piece of green ginger the size of a thumb, six tablespoons or margarine or
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    Here & There
    205 9 Here There BRETON onion salesmen have come, to visit us again "First time for ten years" smiled the one who came to my door there has, of course, been a war .now that my eyes have become accustomed to seeing red, green, blue, berets on the heads of Englishmen, his
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    CROSSWORD SOLUTION
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    BIG SPORTS SCHEME FOR 1949
    579 10 Malaya seeks world laurels Sunday Times Kuala Lumpur Sports Reporter j'HERE is likely to be a move by certain sports officials next year to overhaul Malayan sport, oust its out-of-date ideas and bring about a minor revolution. The men behind the campaign are prominent sports
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    THE YEAR IN REVIEW Penang scored many successes
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    SLIPPERY COURT SPOILS GAMES
    605 10 BADMINTON NOTES BY THE CAPTAIN AUARTER-PINAL ties in the junior doub'«« championship played at the Puau English Girls' School Hall last Saturday produced some interesting games which were, however, marred to some extent by the slippery court, as the hall had been used for a dance
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    Perak Malays hold tourney
    209 10 Sunday Times Ipoh Sports Reporter THE flrst post-war Perak Malays' 1 badminton championship tournament began yesterday In ths Perak Turf Club premises at Ipoh, where In all 83 games were sche- duled to be played In three days. This Includes three mixed doubles, 1 a women's
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    2 NOTABLE FEATS BY NEGRI SEMBILAN
    354 10 Sunday Times Seremban Sports Correspondent r rWO outstanding features in Negri sport this year remain vivid in the minds of sportsmen and sport enthusiasts in the State— the winning of the Malaya Cup and the lowering of Singapore's colours at hockey last week-end, when
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    MALAYS WIN 6-0
    50 10 T)ISPLAYINO superiority in aU| departments, the Muar Malays. trounced the Malacca Muslims six-nil at soccer on the MUar Club pa/dang on Friday. Mohd. Mahat. the Muar centre-; forward played a great game and netted three times for his side. Other scorers were Jalil Majid (3) and Ibrahim.
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    Australia is now supreme
    783 11 BRADMAN TELLS. WHY The Don's own story. ..s Thua the greatest disability England saffered this year in bowling was the injury, loss of form, and subsequent omission of Wright. I have a high opinion of Wright He la a nrst-class slow bowler. In good or bad
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    368 11  -  FEATHER By LIKE all other badminton-playing countries, new Zealand has been hampered by the lack of suitable halls, the scarcity of shuttles and the high price of playing equipment. Now the New Zealanders are waking up and. through the keenness of all players and
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    KEDAH SUNROCS HELD
    31 12 IN an Inter-State soccer friendly at the Westlands School ground. Penang, on Friday tht Kedah Sunrocs were held o a goalless draw by the Penang Indian Recreation Club.
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    K.L. SIKHS DRAW
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    SCORES
    2387 12 6th victory for Indian Heather From EPSOM JEEP INDIAN H«ath«r, winner of this y«ar* Free Handicap at Bukit Timah, chalked up hit sixth win to r ike his place among th« first frhree stakes winners of this season at Penang yesterday, the first day of the Penang Turf Club
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    Negri has strong XV
    139 12 NEORI'S rugger performance this year has been a great Improvement on .he past season. After going I through a series of overwhelming defeats last year, the Negrl State rugger fifteen has a side which Is today capable of giving a good game to any team in
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    DON'S MATCH WAS TWOFOLD SUCCESS
    380 12  -  JUSTIN ARTHUR By CRICKET lovers In Australia agree that the Bradman testimonial match which was played in Melbourne recently, was not only successful financially (net taking were £A 7,484) but also gave a terrific stimulus to Australian cricket. Masterly batting by Bradman and Arthur Morris,
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