The Straits Times, 4 December 1949

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  • 30 1 LARGEST NETT SALES IN MALAYA THE SUNDAY TIMES Sunday B<Utlon Of Tb« raits r tine a4l Singapore 9 re* Prasa. No. 749. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 592 1 LABOUR'S 2 GAINS: AMY WINS Highlights of keen election Sunday Times Staff Reporter LABOUR won two seats and an Independent one seat from the Progressives at yesterday's Municipal Elections in Singapo-e. The Progressives lost their working majority on the Municipal Commission. The composition of the Municipal Commission now is: Progressive
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    44 1 "IHE Commissioner-Genera i for South-East Asia, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, welcomes the Dutch Foreign Minister Dr. D. V. Stikker. at the Kalian; airport yesterday. The Netherlands Consul. Genera! Mr. A. M. L. Winkelman is in the background. Sunday Times picture. Story in Page three.
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  • 243 1 LJOW an unlicensed hawker, said to have been continually harassed by the police, found life too difficult and committed suicide by drinking caustic soda, by his wife's grave, was told in the Singapore Coroner's Court yesterday. In a death bed statement to the police, he
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  • 100 1 Siinda> Times Staff Corretpoudcnt KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. A EUROPEAN engineer Mr. V. T. Vale was killed at the sth mile. Klang Road yesterday when he was flung out of an armoured Jeep. Mr. Vale of the Alliance Engineering Company. Kuala Lumpur, was returning from
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  • 231 1 PROGRESSIVE J^HE President of the Progressive Party, Mr. C. C. Tan said he ■as very pleased to see that the people of Singapore were getting more used to "this municipal machinery." In one ward there was a I striking example of voters having risen above all
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    37 1 kJISS Amy Uycock, Singapore's second woman Municipal Commissioner and the youngest person ever to serve on that body. Newt of her election was given tremendous cheering by Progressive Parry supporters at fhe count last night.
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  • 62 1 NEW YORK, Sat. A wooden dormitory, housing 400 University of Oklahoma students burned to the ground early yesterday and officials said that they were "almost certain" that some students burned to death. The building's residentsall men -leapt from windows or fled through doorways in their
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  • 242 1 NINE SPECTATORS HURT Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturdady. MINE persons were taken to hospital and several others received minor injuries when temporary stands collapsed during this evening's football match on the Rifle Range ground between the Indian Tourists and Selangor Chinese. Taken
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  • 33 1 MESSRS C. E. N. Oehlers, Yap Pheng Ceck and S. F. Ho, three Nominated Municipal Commissioners due to vacate their offices today have been reappoinred to serve until 1952.
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  • 29 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Sat.— Mr. Tracy S. Voorhees, Under-Secretary of the U.S. Army, left by air yesterday for a conference in Toklo with General Mac Arthur.— A.P.
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  • 72 1 HONG KONG. Sat MR. Aw Boon Haw, the "Tiger Balm King"' suggested to the Hong Kong immigration authorities that they should simplify the procedure for the entry of Singapore and Malayan Chinese visitors to this colony. Hong Kong Government recently notified the Chinese in Malaya they
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  • 2909 2  -  E VEL YN SPILSB UR V E. V. TULLETT B y and •THE case of Alfred Arthur Rouse, coldblooded, calculating murderer, and dpceiver of at least a hundred women, presented features tha' were almost unknown to British courts. The defence claimed that
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  • 34 2 (WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED) NEXT SUNDAY— Spilsbury investigates the sequel to a party in a luxurious Mayfair flat, as a result of which the beautiful Mrs. Elvira Barney was acquitted on a charge of murder.
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  • 17 2 Extract from the official biography of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, to be published shortly by Harraps of London.
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  • 242 2 ■pROM desolate marshes in the Canadian nrairie province of Manitoba comes news of an experiment with ducks which promises not only to revolutionise war but may even change the pattern' of life on earth. Lieut. -Commander Peter Scott, who ranks high arrong British natural
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    36 3 MA. Day.d Kennard, of Ralio Malaya who hat recently returned from leave in Britain and the United States, will be heard tonight over the Blue network in a radio adaptation of the play The Shining Hour.
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  • 388 3 12-month trial period ends Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. "["HE Malayan Film Unit is to be a permanent department of the Federal Government and, if plans materialise, it will also be the best equipped in the Far East. The Colonial Development and Welfare
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    38 3 TENGKU Aminah (centre) wife of the Regent of Johore, talks to a 17-year-old cripple of the State Welfare Home at a fun fair held in Johore Dahru this week in conjunction with University Week in Johore. P.R. picture.
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  • 149 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A military ambulance crashed into a civilian ambulance at the junction of Cantonment Road and New Bridge Road on the evening of Sept. 13. This collision had its sequel In the Eighth Police Court yesterday when Ridzuan bin Ahmad, the youthful driver
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  • 51 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter QTOCKS of Japanese cloth are no longer available from India for Import, said Sardar Jogindra Singh, the Indian Trade Commissioner, in a Press statement In Singapore yesterday. He said that many inquiries regarding Japanese cloth had been received at his office
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  • 27 3 Sunday Times Correspondent SEGAMAT, Sat.— Mr. Mohan Singh of the tutorial staff of the Government English School has left Segamat on leave to India.
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  • 97 3 INSTEAD of an imperial pavilion at Lord's as a memorial to colonial cricketers killed in the war, paintings of Malaya's three main cricket grounds will be hung there next year. Mrs Rosemary Sheppard has completed the painting of the Selangor Club. The other two pictures will
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  • 43 3 Sunday Times Correspondent SEGAMAT, Sat.— Johore has constituted a Traffic Advisory Board comprising the Legal Adviser, State Engineer, Senior Registrar and Inspector of Vehicles the Chief Police Officer, Mr. P. V. Charry and Inche Abdul Karim bin Hltam.
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  • 89 3 HK CHARGES WITHDRAWN Sunday Times SUB Reporter T~)EALINGS in more than (HK) $1,000,000 were the subject of charges against Lim Soo Gan, managing director, and Scow Hong Tong, manager, of Kiaw Tong Enterprise of Telok Ayer Street in the Singapore First District Court yesterday. Lim was charged with selling <HKi
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  • 510 3 'PHE festival of church inu-;ic 1 which will take place at St. Andrew's Cathedral on St. Nicholas Day, next Tuesday. Is nothing new. The first festival was held in 1939. when Mr. K. A. Brown was choirmaster of the Cathedral, at which the other choirs which
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  • 121 3 1 plane brings 2 hopeful men Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE first commercial Constellation to land at Kallang brought a confident Netherlands Minister from Batavia yesterday and an equally hopeful Indonesian. After meeting all Indonesian leaders and preparing for the transfer of authority to the Indonesians, the Netherlands Foreign Minister,
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  • 63 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MR. A. W. Savage, Director of Civil Aviation in Singapore, told the Sunday Times yesterday that the use of Kalian? for big aircraft was an exploratory measure. He said that this would bridge the gap until plans for the joint civilian Air Force
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  • 99 3 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. MRS. Gorbex Singh, wife of Mr. Gorbex Singh, Kuala Lumpur school teacher and sportsman, died yesterday afternoon. She was cremated at the Loke Yew Road Crematorium. Aged 13, Mrs. Gorbex Singh came to Malaya from India 25 years ago.
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  • PAGE about People
    • 174 4 AT 89 years of age Haji Wan Mamat bin Megat Daud is manager of the Kajang (Kemaman) tin mines. A year ago his son. Haji Wan Ngah who was managing the mines, fought and killed a bandit before he was fatally shot himself With
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    • 113 4 TWO men with long records of Governnent service <\ee retiring Air. R. Kr'snnasamy, *he i 3 W.D. sanlor overseer, tjumr Perik Is retiring at :he agf oi 51 after 30 years' a o vernment service He a a s been forced to give uo working because of
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    • 275 4 |\R. Lim Ah Sitt. a lead- ing member of Muar's Chinese community and a Johore State Councillor, was born in a humble home at Batu Pahat. By hard work he has achieved success and. with success, the respect of all •communities. Dr. Lim says
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    • 272 4 FOR ALMOST three and a half years during the Japanese occupation a Filipino woman was private tutor in English to the Negn Royal Household at Srt Menanti, the seat of the fang di Pertuan Besar, and managed all the time to deceive the Japanese some of
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    • 172 4 CROM 1928 until the Japanese occupat.on. Mrs. Mane King lived on a rubber estate in Johore with frequent tr ds abroad to such places as Japan, Java and Tibet. Now after living for a while In Australia and flying 35.000 miles in the
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    • 157 4 Paintings Of P. Dickson Selangor MRS. Rosemary Sheppard, an artist, is in Singapore on a short visit from Kuala Lumpur, for the exhibition of her paintings which opens at John little's Gallery tomorrow Thirty of her paintings will be on view at the exhibition, most of them of Port Dickson
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    • 176 4 IuIR Tan Cheng Keat of Taiping who has recently been awarded a Government scholarship in dental surgery at the University of Malaya, is one of five brothers who had outstanding records at the King Edward VII School. The eldest. Mr. Tan Kheng Yeang who is a B.Sc.
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    • 113 4 NINETEEN YEAR OLD Raymond Barwick of the Royal Air Force, Changi believes that a long bike is the best way to spend one's birthday and that It's much nicer giving presents than receiving them on such an occasion. Recently, be hiked 20 miles with a fellow Rover. Ken
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  • 930 5 The best-kept secret of the year A Sunday Times reporter probes the mysteries of the Movie Ball fHIS year's bestkept secret in Singapore will be released to several thousand people at the Victoria Memorial Hall next Tuesday night. It is being Jealously, closely, guarded, this secret or secrets. But I
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  • 665 5  - TALKING OF BOOKS FfftooU' TWO excellent books have arrived in Singapore during the last week or so, each quite different but both, I suspect, destined to solve a good many Christmas gift problems this year as well as give the recipients a good deal of pleasure. The first is "The
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  • 1094 6  -  Sir Sydney Fremantle by Admiral Formerly Deputy-Chief of Naval Staff ARE Britain's defences today as sound and strong as they should be? The practice, on the opening of modem wars, is to launch a sudden attack upon your enemy with such strength that you calculate
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  • 710 6  - Population is YOUR affair T.C. KOH by VfUCH has been said of the late about the alarming rate of increase of the population of Singapore. And it is not a matter which concerns just a few people. It is one which concerns everybody, for the whole civic life of the
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  • 398 7 BUILDING BOYS' TOWN SOON Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE Singapore Boys" Town Appeal has now received $45,000 in gifts which is sufficient to enable the organisers to go ahead with building plans. The site has been cleared and in the course of the week it b> likely that important steps
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  • 45 7 Sunday Times Correspondent SEGAMAT, Sat. To provide greater facilities for the grazing of livestock, Jobore has reserved an area of over 600 acres in the mukims of Bukit Kepong and Grisek. both in Muar district, to be maintained by the State .'eterinary Surgeon.
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  • 23 7 The total amount collected in Malacca up to the end of NoYFCTiber 1949 for the University of Malaya Fund Is $29,186.
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  • 629 7 Court story of police trap Sunday Times Staff Reporter "f"HE story of a trap set by the Johore C.I.D. co-operating with the Singapore C.1.D., resulting in the arrest of a magistrate and a Sikh businessman on corruption charges, was told in the Sessions Court, Johore Bahru,
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    54 7 RIVAL Municipal elccHon agents in Rochore Ward. Singapore. smile for Hie Sunday Times cameraman outside Kota R»j« Malay School yesterday. They are (left) Dr. H. S. Moonshi. fatlier-in-Uw of the Labour candidate, Mr. S. M. A. H. Chisry. and S. A. Ali jgent foi Dr. H. S. Al-jumed. th« Progressive
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  • 16 7 Singapore. Sat. $292,871 down $2.87). London. Friday Dec. 2. Spott(i«7.l». Three months. B«yers <: 575.10.
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  • 207 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE 74-year-old Temenggong Koh, Dyak chieftain, 1 and his family left Singapore for Sarawak yesterI iy after a week during which they had their first train ride, flew over Singapore and |ohore and saw the jogct modern in an amusement
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  • 134 7 Sir: With reference to the story regarding the Danish floating trawl, it seems that Mr. T. W. Burdon. Singapore Fisheries Officer, has misunderstood the inventors principal object by stating that the method cannot be sponsored before it has been established that suitable fishing grounds are available.
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  • 64 7 Smgapo.e Chamber of Commerce Rubber Associati'/n's noon prices yesterday (Dec. 3) were tin cent* per lb > No. 1 RSiJ. Spot loose nominal 4b 47 F.OB. In bales Dec. No. 1 R.S.S. 46 47 No. 2 RJS.S. 45N 48 No. 3 R.S.S 44*« 45 R.M.A. 1 on reg. tender.
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  • 46 7 Sunday Times Correspondent MALACCA, Sat. MALACCA cinema-goers like adventure and cction films, say cinema managers here. "We draw large crowds if we screen pictures like Tarzan and the Three Musketeers", said one. Mandarin, Tamil. Malay and musical film* also draw good crowds.
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    • 227 7 Why success smiles. on vital, vigorous people is no secret. Recuperative sleep at ■ight gives them added tntrgj every day. They relax contentedly on the luxurious comfort of Slumberland. In the hottest nights a Slumberland remains delightfully cod because fresh air circulates within the mattress from ai- vents. Feel the
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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  • 604 8 THE SUNDAY TIMES SUNDAY, DEC. 4, 1949. LABOUR AND ITS POLICY /\UITE apart from the merits or demerits of birth control (and these have been argued almost ad nauseum in the Press, pulpit and platform) the Labour Party's decision that it is "repugnant and repulsi r e to the majority
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  • 1914 8  - Mawai— a new deal for squatters KATHLEEN HICKLEY by- A SHORT time ago, when the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. David ReesWilliams, was visiting Malaya, he said that the bandits were as much a problem for the civil administration as for the troops and police. He meant, of
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  • 479 8 Five minutes with the world's wittiest men— l CYDNEY SMITH, born at Woodford, Essex, 1771. too.. Holy Orders, and in 1831 was appointed a cannon of St. Paul's. Died, 1845. While at Edinburgh he helped to found the Edinburgh Review, proposing as its motto "Tenui musam meditamur avena":
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  • 439 8 By A Special Correspondent FIVE major British film exports to the U.S.A.— 'Quartet," "The Master of Bankdam." "Good Time Girl", "Red Shoes' and "Saraband"— have run into objections from the National Legion of Decency. This is the powerful anonymous behind the scenes group of women who determine
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    • 574 8 CLASSIFIED ADS. ENGAGEMENTS THE ENGAGEMENT is announced between Chong Yew, son of Mr Mrs. Cheong Poon and Kin Neo (Lily), daughter of Mr. Mrs. Chin Chye Fong. THE ENGAGEMENT Is announced between Mr. Andrew Goh, eldest son of Mr. it Mrs. Oo'i Boon Huat, anO Miss Ruby Cheang, second daughter
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  • 335 9 DEARER MEAT CAME AS SHOCK Shoppers are asking 'Why? 9 Sunday Times Staff Reporter JHOPPERS in Singapore have this week gone to their local dealers and market stalls to buy meat only to be told: "Of course, you know the price has gone up." These shoppers are all asking the
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  • 60 9 Sunday Times Correspondent j r-i^NANG, Sat.— Mr. 'Robert Wung, a Kedah planter atl..c;ied to Pelam Estate in Ku.im was married this afIcrnoon to Miss Joyce Wedge o. W R. A. F., Changi. The l.cv. T. Runyan officiated at i Wesley Methodist Church .vinony which was follow-
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  • 23 9 SEGAMA. Sat. The next I meeting of the Johore Council of Slate will be held at the Dewan on Dec. 20
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  • 287 9 Sunday Times Correspondent LJUNDREDS of people stopped and stared yesterday afternoon at the sight of young men clad in jungle green battle dress and carrying water bottles, heavy haversacks and sheath knives walking through the streets of Singapore. But there was no need for concern
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  • 39 9 BENTONG Fri. A fine of $200 was imposed at Temer- loh on a 23-year-old soldier, Trooper Malvee, for retaining two motor bus tyres and tubes worth $300 stolen from I the bus stand at Kuala Lipis.
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  • 203 9 Police know bandit leaders Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. IDENTITIES of some of the 1 major and of almost all minor terrorist gang leaders are known to the police. This information has been bi .'t up painstakingly from scraps of news divulged, often unwittingly, by surrendered bandits. Signs that
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  • 76 9 Sunday Times SUff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Sat THE floods In Pahang which a few days ago menaced several towns and a wide rural area are rapidly subsiding it was officiary stated today. The Jerantut ferry is pperating again and the Benta to Kuantan Road i s passable
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  • 92 9 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. FROM Tactical Headquarters of the 2nd Guards Brigade at Mentakab two days ago came the cry of troops flooded out by rain swollen rivers. They signalled to 2nd Guards Brigade headquarters in Kuala Lumpur "Tac HQ is
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  • 71 9 Sunday Times SUff Reporter The Chinese National Language School will hold its Fourth annual re-union din- ncr in conjunction with the school graduation on Friday, at 7.30 p.m. at the Strait? Chinese Methodist Church Hall. 3. Kampong Kapor Road. Present and past students wishing to join
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  • 156 9 Sunday Times Staff Reporter CLYINC foxes streaking over Lorong Ah Soo, off Paya Lebar at very low heights last Friday evening were "too much of a temptation" to two Singapore sportsmen. The two men, Mohd Ali bin Mohd Hashim and Harold Bruyns, were charged in
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  • 71 9 Sunday Times Staff Reporter TIHE winner of the first prize ot the Singapore Movie Ball presented by Eagle Lion Distributors Ltd. will be invited to visit Eagle-Lion studios in England on a sightseeing tour should he or she be in England during the next six
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  • 60 9 Sunday Time* ''orrespondent SEREMBAN. Sat. Two members sworn in at today's meeting of the Negri Sembilan I Council of State were Mr. W. Foulsham. recently appointed District Officer at Kuala Pilah in place of Mr. S. Angus who has gone home on leave, and Mr. S.
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  • 259 9 Sunday Times Staff Reporter rpHREE members of the four- man committee investigating cessation of work on the Pontian water tunnel, in a majority report to the Singapore Municipal Commissioners, have completely exonerated the Municipal Water Engineer. Mr F. G. Hill. In a minority report to
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  • 179 9 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. A 21-YEAR-OLD Malay girl knows all the secrets that the nine Malay Rulers discuss at their conferences. She is the only girl who has ever been allowed to sit among them and listen to their talk of the affairs
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  • 292 9 CRESH rewards totalling $4,200 have been offered by the Singapore C.I.D. in one attempted armed gang robbery, two murders and one theft. Unstipulated "big rewards" are also offered for information leading to the seizure of illegal presses, alleged to be used for printing documents
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    29 9 -■■■■■■■PHMMHOTHMIW-* DARBARA MUNN, who is stage manager for the new Singapore Repertory company which opens at the Victoria Theatre on Jan. 7 with Patrick Hamilton's "Gaslight." Mobile Foto picture.
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  • 115 9 KUALA LUMPUR, sat. A THREE-MEN de «ati;m headed by Syed Ibrahim bin Omar AlsatrofT of Singapore called on the Malay Rulers at the Istana Selansur last night bringing with them a memorandum urging the building of an Islamic college for the whole of Malaya. Tht* Sultan of
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  • 91 9 Sunday Times SUff Reporter Professor C. Ragusa, of Florence, whose exhibition at Raffles Hotel closed yesterday, has sold 22. Italian modern paintings in Singapore in just over a week. Professor Ragusa. said yesterday: "Singapore has shown a great appreciation for the work of the Italian moderns. The exhibition
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  • 877 10  -  Nat Gubbins by EIGHT Y-YEAR-OLD English actor A. E. Matthews, starring in the British Broadway hit "Yes. M'Lud," said of New Yorkers: "I watch people eat in restaurants here and they all look hi and overfed Brother, eat your steaks and chops. Drown yourself in malt
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    48 10 (Below): Film Stars Pauls Valenska of Czechoslovakia and |can Pierre Aumont of France (recently seen in Singapore in The First Gentleman) are in England for post synchronisation of the sound track of Three Men and a Cirl in which they acted in France. A. P. picture.
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  • 558 10 WHISKY GALORE: Pavilion, Shortly. THIS, surely, is one of 1 the most original themes yet selected for any film. Culled from the novel of the same title written by Compton Mackenzie who has collaborated in writing the screenplay it rollicks along on the understanding that a Scottish parish
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  • 156 10 Tuttiiio no Dxck Tracey or Robin Hood now in Communist China. Until the authorities themselves can make Alms for 'pro pagandising the people.' rilmgoers have to be content with seeing Soviet films with such titles as Life of Lenin," 'Lenin in October," and Lenin in 1918."
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  • 259 10 ZOLTAN Kedy is a contemporary Hungarian master and teacher at the Budapest Conservatory, whose mi c expresses a strong national feeling in terms of a brilliant modern orchestral technique. His "Hary I a not" suite it one of the most appealing items in the symphonic repertoire. The
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    • 22 10 I Hr -^e^3tt?9Vk It i» til Trollopes Sons Showrooms: 24, Raffles Place, Sirv^pore. Tel. SSOBO. (London) Ltd. Works: 947. Pasir Panjang Road.
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    • 290 10 ■sT^^r -jjjijfp^ presents she'll lilea b«st of ail becauit they brinf a promisa LA*"Ts>^ijiJL_Z. >^Bgfe|^ beaut y lnd freshness. IHere art somt suggestions that will jjjßffQsAstiSfi^^ showyour good taste in giving! PERFUME. Th« itt <X gifts world-ftmous Coty Perfumes thrt are symphonies in fragrance subtly different to match every personality
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    • 517 10 THE play this evening, at man Opera with Mozart's the usual time 8.30 "Magic Flute," Wagner canp.m., is a Radio Malaya not be far behind Next Repertory production of Tuesday at 9.45. the new Keith Winters familv drama hour for this series h" will The Shining Hour. Although *>e tor
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  • 1091 11  -  MARY HEATHCOTT by YOU all remember the fairy story in which the characters are given three wishes by a grateful fairy. The wishes generally turn out to be disastrous because of the stupidity or the cupidity of the recipients. An enterprising manufacturer of
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    453 11 How can a bossy woman be happy? My wife is generous and a jolly good housewife, but she has lost all her friends because she is bossy. I have kept up a sustained resistance for many years, otherwise 1 would have been completely obliterated. I am all right,
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  • 475 11  -  MARIE COUGH by- OUR old friend the lemon is a soui little chap, but do without him for a week or two and we soon realise how necessary and useful he is to a good cook— here 'n Malaya, of course, we are fortunate In
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  • 252 11 MAKE YOUR OWN GIFTS rfHE joy of being re- membered by old friends at Christmas is equalled only by the sense of panic their unexpected gifts can cause us. My suggestions this week are designed to set your minds at rest on this score. The designs are very simple. Necklets
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    • 317 11 PYORRHEA Is the Natural Enemy of Beautiful; Healthy Teeth 1 iitiii mi I May Be Victims! If gums bleed even a little when you brush your teeth take heed! Tender, bleeding gums are often the first warning signal of dread Pyorrhea, enemy of sound, attractive teeth. 4 out of 5
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    • 454 12 Be a Master of English Improve Your Speech and [Writing in a Few Hours II you would like to acquire Bd of good English lor bu Mir-.s professional and social l> .1,111 e. you are invited to apply i t a copy of "Word Mastery,' lvMi-ri by the Regent Institute.
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    • 92 12 REX JOHORE BAH.^r Last Day: 3.15—6.13 9 l.i "CHOON LOOI" in Mandarin To-morrow "DESERT AGENT" A Republic Srria' To-day's 11.30 am "Ha lme D "THIS IS THE h% IV' in TcchnV o vd PLEASANT W RELIEF with ALKA-SELTZER Alka-Seltzer's unique formula brings quick relief from the "arhe-all-over" feveri»h feelini; and
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    • 86 12 UKtAI V\OKI.»I Atlantir 3—7—9.13 "XILAM" (Malay) NEW WORLD Lido 2.30 6.30—9.30 ■LIGHTNING WARRIOR" Whole Serial I Ro>al 3—6—9 ■PL'GREE" I Hindustani Kmpire 2.30 p.m. Only "FIGHTING SEABEES" A Republic Plctnre JUST READY! MALAYAN LANDSCAPE CALENDAR 1950 lz PHOTOS BT C. A. GIBSON HILL Printed by WITHERBY CO., LONDON $3.00 INCLUDING
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    • 181 12 TODAY at 11 a.m. Columbia's "COVER GIRL' in Technicolor LAST 3 SHOWS: 3, 6, 0 9.15 p.m. Shaw Rro's 1 Attest Malax Success NJ LA M OPENING TOMORROW 20th Century-Fox's 'THAT LADY IN ERMINE' in Technicolor Indigestion? Htrt'ttomtthlnj worth knowing It's probably caused by exteu acid In your stomach. This
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 838 12 y j Mr wm i fl THIS WEEK THIS WEEK week should see you moving FOR YOU about on family business or FOR ALL following up some overseas CAPRICORN (Dec. 21 connection. TODAY: Don't spend much Jan. 19)— Some uncertainty CANCER (Jun. 21-^Jul. time alone. An ideal day about arrangements
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    • 430 12 FRENZIED FINANCE DERSUASIVK Pablo borrowed a watch with dishonest intent, and pawned it for five dollars. Then he sold the pawnticket to Tony for seven dollars, by impressing Tony with the fact that he'd be getting a watch worth much more for only seven dollars. Before Tony could get around
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    • 448 12 *JO doubt there are thousand v greatly preferable to a Kpade of players who never heard opening. of opening the bidding In a suit Mrs. Sobel explains that an containing only three cards. With opening bid of one club on a a hand such as: three-carder, or one diamond on
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    1215 13 'SHARPSHOOTER 41 takes you inside sport ¥F at first you don't 1 succeed, try, try again. No one believes that more than Ismail bin Marjan, Singapore Malay badminton champion. Since he came into the limelight. MarJan has been a consistent trier for the Singapore singles title. A
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  • 308 13 Film of Swedish soccer team for Singapore 'pHE all -conquering Swedish X HaLsingborr Association Football eleven, which trounced all opposition in Hong Kong after a successful Far Eastern tour, will soon be seen in action on ocal screens when a full-length movie record of their three games ir. Hong Kong
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  • 122 13 INDIANS AND LIEN HWA PLAY TODAY Sunday limes Seremban Sporls Correspondent SEATING arrangements havf been completed at the Seremban station padang, where today's big soccer match between the Indian touring team and the Lien Hw~ soccer side of Malaya will be played. The game will be In aid of the
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    24 13 fl YOUNG ALL-ROOND 5ft)W3M/W WHO HAS R£PR6SCNT£D SEMNCOR AT HOCKEY AND CSKXET.A Isr DIVISION CLUB FOOTBALLER ANO AH EXCELLENT fiPSEK AT TENNIS AND BADMINTON
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  • 40 13 »iday Tillies Parit Buntar Sports Correspondent KRIAN has lost the services cf of a us ful rugger player In J. S. McCullocn, who has gone to Klang 00 transfer. MoCulloch played as a forward In the Rrtan side.
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  • 118 13 UP.. CHONG KOW THYE, honorary secretary of the Singapore Chinese Football Association, told the Sunday Times yesterday that his Association had not granted permission to the Singapore Chinese footballers, Chu Chee Seng, Ha Tee Siang, Aw Boon Seong and Chia Boon Leong to play
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    • 196 13 Paris, New York and thm World t SINGAPORE v^y TO SAIGON /J/*L Connections for all Flf/fi'b parts of Indo'-Chlna I H)///j Arrivals from Saigon- I POC Thursday. 2.50 p... WML Departures tor Saigoi. y\f//J Fridiyt 8.30 a.m. I j/j/l lOOKINC OFFICI CENERAI AGENTS Union Building \V Mesugeriet Mantimet Tel *****
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 97 13 CROSSWORD SOLUTION Across: 1. Temperament: 9. Lime; 10. Scar; 12. Arid; 13. Cup -14. Care; 15. Betide; 16. Elates; 17. Era; 18. Rolled: 21. Rueful: 24. Oceans: 27. Demean; 29. Axe; 30. Shrewd: 33. Foible: 36. Lean: 87. Dye; 38. Dean; 39. Yard: 40. East: 41. Descendants. Down: 1. Tire;
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  • 499 14 'Include him in team for N.Z. without re-trial was now up to the S.O.S.C. committee ot management (of which Mr Strickland is the secretary) to do what they thought fit. "I have witnesses to support me that I asked for Saw Pak's Inclusion In
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    27 14 JOHORE'S Rugby XV who lost at Jobore Kahru yesterday by 17-0 to Singapore Civilians in their second H.M.S. Malaya fixture. (Report on Page 15). Sunday Times picture.
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  • 342 14 Sunday Times tugby Correspondent IN a game marked by vi. ->rous forward play a 1 tackling, Selangor beat Negrl Sembilan by a try and a penalty (six points) to nil in a return friendly rugger match played on the Selangor padang yesterday evening. This
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  • 303 14 Sunday Times Kuala Lumpur Sports Correspondent THE Indian football tourists demonstrated more 1 forceful tactics and better opportunism when they defeated the Selangor Chinese Recreation Club by three goals to one at the Rifle Range Road ground yesterday. The game was in aid of the
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  • 89 14 I*HE Singapore Women's Hockey 1 Association will invite 35 p'.ayers to take part In the women's first Colony trial, to be held on Tuesday on the SRC end of thr Padang. The selection committee has derided on a completely new system of choosing the
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    • 416 14 TfrjMSSm FREE "Engineering Opportunities" is yours for the asking It is the finest and most complete Hanobook oc successful Engineering Careen evir compiled. With a foreword by Professor A. M. Low, the eminent British Scientist, tl c revised and enlarged edition of this authoritative book should be in the hands
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  • 494 15 Prove too good for Johore Sunday Times Rugby Reporter Singapore Civilians 17; Johore 0. SINGAPORE Civilians were too good for Johore when they met for the second time in the H.M.S. Malaya rugger competition at Johore Bahru yesterday and ran out winners by 17 points (a
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  • 102 15 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. fHE All-Malayan civilian side for the annual rugby match against the Services on the Selangor Club padang on Dec. 17 was selected last night. Perak gets six places, Selangor and Singapore three each, Johore two and Penang one. The team
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  • 307 15 LOKDON, Sat. f IVERPOOL managed to\j maintain their unbeaten record when at home to Portsmouth today, each side scoring twice, while the other leading sides of the first division league Arsenal and Wolverhatipton battled to a one-all draw at Highbury. The full results were: ENGLISH I.tAOl
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  • 33 15 I'iRSO del Rosario, Orient featherweight champion, has signed for a return bout In Manila on Dec. 22 with Dado Marino. Del Rosario beat Marino a few months ago.— A.P U.P.
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  • 180 15 Sunday Times Penang Sports Correspondent T<HE Singapore R.A.F. went down to Penang by 1 eight points (a goal and a try) to three points (a try) in the second match of their Malayan tour on the Internatiopal Club ground, Penang yesterday. the R.A.F. played one
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  • 313 15 Sunday Times Malacca Sports Reporter A GOAL scored by Arumugam, Selangor's Insideleft, half a minute after the interval gave Selangor a one-nil victory over Malacca in their inter-State hockey match played oi. the Malacca Club padang yesterday evening. Good team work by the Selangor side
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  • 508 15 Sunday Times Badminton Reporter REPRESENTING the Eclipse Badminton Party, I Cheong Hock Leng had not much difficulty in beating the Thomas Cup player and Irish champion, Ong Poh Lim who played for Marigold 8.P., in straight sets of 13—6 and 1111.5 11. Eclipse 8.P.,
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  • 163 15 MAKY ITEMS FOR BAM. IPOH MEETING Sunday Times lpoh SporW Correspondent 'THE Badminton Association of Malaya will meet on Christmas Day in lpoh to discuss several important matters nertainins to the sport throughout the country. A list of 17 items is on the I agenda. They include two proposals by
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  • 22 15 IN a rugger fri?ndly played at Tengah. the Singapore Harbour Board beat RAJ 1 by nine ooints to three.
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  • 133 15 rpHE R.A.K Stletar beat the Singapore Police by 11 points (goal and two tries) to nil when they met at rugger at Seletar yesterday. Play ww even for most part: The RAF held slight advantages both In the scrum and in the loose. After end-to-end exchanges
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  • 75 16 THE Big Sweep, drawn on race 9 at Ipoh yesterday, resulted as follows: Total Pool $322,522. First: No. *****9 ($99,818). Second: No. *****0 ($49,909). Third: No. *****5 ($24,954). Starters (S 2,268 each): Nos. *****1, *****5, *****4, *****7, *****9. *****0, *****0, *****3, *****9. *****4, *****7. Consolation prizes ($l,OOO
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  • 2469 16 Many upsets at Ipoh races By EPSOM JEEP A THRILLING dead-heat between Dancing Fury and Frog second to be recorded by the cameragraph on the Malayan Turf highlighted the opening day of the Perak Turf Club December Meeting at Ipoh yesterday. Frog (Harper) finished brilliantly to
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  • 176 16 Sunday Times Racine Correspondent rU photo-finish camera again came in for criticism after tlu finished print had been posted slowing the finish of th> third ri ne at Jpoh yesterday. A section of the crowd were strongly of the opinion that Frog had debated Dancing
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  • 55 16 Sunday Tunes Ipoh Sports Correspondent THE Perak Turf Club have decided that the Perak "Derby", over a mile and a half to be run on April 10 1950 will be a handicap race for Class 1 horses. The race will carry $10,000 in stakes and
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  • 56 16 VICTORIA yesterday gained a first-Innings lead of 80 over South Australia In their Shefflpld Shield match at Adelaide. Victoria, overnight 323 for eight, brought their total to 364. to which South Australia replied with 284. At the close of play Victoria had scored two runs for no
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  • 37 16 THE following will play foi Singapore Cricket Club "B" XV against Royal Military Police tomorrow at 5.13 p.m. Lines; Rogues; Murphy, Postlethwalte, Marshall; Bennett, Dowllng; Harding. Sykrg Kaye Murray. Gould. Caslrin. Mills. "In*.
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