Sunday Tribune (Singapore), 5 February 1950

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    19 1 TribunE Published simultaneously at Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jpoh n>ul Pcnang. SIXTEEN PAGES SINGAPORE, SVNDAIf, FEBRUARY 5, 1950. TEN CENTS.
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    FIGHTER CRASHES ON CARRIER DECK
    186 1 Tribune Staff Reporter. SINGLE-ENGINED naval fighter crashed and caught fire on the deck of the aircraft-carrier Triumph yesterday while she was on deep sea exercise some miles off the Naval Base. The pilot and two telegraphists were badly burned The Triumph turned beck from the
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    WE DON'T NEED THE ARMY — FOULGER
    132 1 WE DON'T NEED THE ARMY FOULGER Tribune Staff Reporter THE Army will not be asked to guard vital installations against Communist sabotage. Mr. R. E. Fougler. Commissioner ol Police, said last night: "We can handle ♦he situation ourselves. Naturally we have increased our vigilance to the utmost." It is expected,
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    Tse (tung) Chanties
    66 1 Tse (tung) Chanties The Mayfalr Association will give a concert on board the 'Hal Hsuan' at 10 o'clock this morning for the ship's crew. The Hal Hsuan was the first Chinese ship to fly the flag of Communist China m Singapore harbour. Some 40 members of the Association will take
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    Nine Smart Girls
    293 1 Tribune Staff Reporter J^INE local girls will soon wear the white starched veils of nursing sisters m Singapore's hospitals. A selection board which sat during the middle of December last year has promoted those girls from senior and staff nurse rank. This wil' bring the total number
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    A DAY AT THE RACES.....
    37 1 Singapore's Spring Meeting gave a flying start to live 1950 season yesterday— and the old search for fliers was on again. Question: How many New Year resolutions, we won&r, also took wings?
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    BANDITS BURN DOWN A TOWN
    215 1 BANDITS BURNDOWNATOWN 1,000 Homeless After Dawn Attack Tribune Staff Reporter IPOH, Saturday The little town of Simpang Tiga, a few miles from Sitiawan, lies m smouldering ruins this morning and more than a thousand people are homeless after a near dawn attack by a gang of seventy bandits. The bandits
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    Siam Evicts A British Missionary
    91 1 BANGKOK. Sat.- -The Government has ordered the eviction from Siam of the Reverend J.W. Baldwin, a British missionary, as the result of protests by the Burmese Embassy m Bangkok that he was "using Siam as a base for actively aiding Karen rebels." When the order
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    AW BOON HAW SUES FOR LIBEL
    62 1 HONGKONG, Sat.— Titfer Balm King Aw Boon Haw, today filed a suit for libel against the pio-Comrnunist Ta Kung Pao. No specific sum was asked m the complaint, but there were reports the amount might be HK53,000.000. Aw bases his case on the newspaper's
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    MOSCOW PUTS H-BOMB DOWN TO THE FAIRIES
    75 1 LONDON. Sat. After a three-day silence. Radio Moscow today declared that I- resident Truman's hydrogen bomb announcement was a "myth and a fairy tale", intended to make Congress pass a gigantic mil''irv budget. Belittling the Presidents announcement as "me hydrogen bogey of Wall
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    ESCAPED REDS AS PRIEST
    158 1 RANGOON, Sat.—Disguised as a biack-robed priest, Mr. A. D. Paul, an employee of the Economic Co-opera-tion Administration has arrived here after escaping from Kunming. China. Paul said he slipped out of Kunming last month after the Communists decreed that no Americans, and no persons with American
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    Flour Short For New Year?
    454 1  - Flour Short For New Year? Lawrence G. Mani By UXPECT a price ramp m flour unless the Malayan Governments adjust allocations to the two territories before Chinese New Y^ar. As th" allocations stnr.d, say responsible manufacturers, the Federation will have too much, and Singapore will have too little. That can
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    On The Other Foot...
    49 1 On The Other Foot... CIGAR hoarders are now selling off their stocks at 50 cents to $1 below the controlled price of 524 a picul. Others have sugar going bad m their godowns. Application* have been made to Singaj>ore Government for permission to re-export. They have been turned down.
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    TWO PROGRESSIVES MAY QUIT THE PARTY
    427 2 TWO PROGRESSIVES MAY QUIT THE PAR TY DISAGREE OVER WATER ENGINEER'S JOB Tribune Staff Reporter A SPLIT m Progressive Party is threatened over A the stand to be taken on the appointment of a deputy water engineer for the Municipality. Two elected Commissioners, Mr. Sandy G. Pillay (City Ward) and
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    New Year Gifts For Aged Chinese
    134 2 New Year Gifts For Aged Chinese FIVE kattlea of rice, a katti 01 sugar, a towri, tin of condensed milk and two dollars m cash will be given on Tuesday week to 5.U00 Chinese, aged sixty and over as a New Year gift by Ruiune and Run Run Shaw. The
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    80,627 JOIN UP FOR THE MONTH
    58 2 Enrolmtn: n^urt-s lor the Anti-Bandit Month total 80.627 as on the evening ol February o. General enrolment began on Monday last and has be'-n under way for six day* now. Kedah and Perlic top the list with 33.000 volunteers. Kelantan comes .second with 17.800
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    'Saras Appointment Was Master Strok-C-G
    309 2 Tribune Stall Reporter. MR Malcolm Mac Donald, the C 0 lit mi 88 io np r General said yesterday that the Ceylon Government "made a master stroke for fostering the bei possible relations between Ceylon and Malaya" when they appointed Mr. Saravanamuttu &ft their Commissioner
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    ...AND MEETS AN OLD FRIEND
    186 2 I lII*. J Arrive*... HR. Philip C. Jessup, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large, arrived m Singapore yesterday m a USAF Dakota from Jakarta. Among those who greeted him on arrival at *he airport was an old Malayan friend, Mr. Lee Kong Chian, the Malayan Rubber magnate. D:. Jcssup
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    Malay with sword faces 40 bandits
    115 2 Malay with sword faces 40 bandits Soiemban, Sat. When forty bandits attacked Karapon# TelckonK. m the Jelebu district, on Thursday evening. Bahaman bin AH, a Kampon^ Guard, threw down his shotgun, and with a sword m hand made a dash for the bandits. Bahaman was met by a hail of
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    VARSITY FUND
    14 2 1 he .s >unv,ox State I 'mv Kity Appeal Fund now totals
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    Cathedral Wedding
    104 2 THE marriage of Mr. .mthur Hamfttton D'Anyers Willis to Miss BllSftbethg Snow, of Sydney, Australia, took pluoo at WL Andrew's Cathedral yesterday. Thr bi ide, who woto a cl:i seal of silver brocade and carried a bouquet Of white gladioli, was given away by Mr. Roy Ban*. Mr.
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    First Deposit
    61 2 First Deposit First to open ;in j account In Singapore's newest hank, ihe Tit;ei Balm Kirn's luini; Khiaw bank, was Dr. I.sm Boon Ken«. the irrutid old man of the Singapore ('him s<> COMmunitv. Picture shous Dr. l.im lilliriK up his pa\im;-in slip, while Dr. I'm* Voon Rai. one of
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    A Whole Floor For 3 People
    154 2 A Whole Floor For 3 People ■THE I'irsi ili»or ol the Chung Khiaw bank ;h hi Id 1.50t) guests at the opening ceremony yesterday, will have only three occupants from lomorn two bank officials and v lady secretary. The two officials will be the Managing Director. Mr. Lee Chi-e Shan
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    APPOINTMENT
    32 2 Ml DJC. D.n-.i. v.8.L.. M.C.S., has been appointed C'lnk of the Singapore Executive Council f'om Jaouan :.0, lf»50 m place of Mi. J. b Hodgkinsor., it vva- offlci announced last night
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    Mr. Lee Shook Hands 3,000 Times
    213 2 Mr. Lee Shook Hands 3,000 Times Ww Hank k !is: Tribune Stall RejMirter. ANE of the most tired men m Singapore yesterday afternoon was Mr. i<ee Chee Shan, managing director of Singapor's new bank, the Chung Khiaw bank. He shook hands about 3,000 timrs: He stood smiling m the doorway
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    Old Cars May Go Off The Roads
    123 2 Old Cars May Go Off The Roads OLD motOl cat and other motor vehicles, con.sidered to he unfit 01 un afe for use. may bo taken off Singapore Roads. The life of these "old crocs" however. Mrs entirely m the hands of the Registrar of Vehicles for Municipal OOMmissionei ha*
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    ALL FOR 'THE MONTH'
    36 2 ITie Rak ra of the Malay State- have cancelled all ceremonies m connection with theiv forthc meeting at the ron: Rulen on F°: 22 of the AntiBandit Month, it was officially announced.
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      148 2 ON YOUR RADIO TODAY BLUE NETWORK louriles-name <he flrst Ihnp fi- «<l Musi.-- i-i- i» m!r? >t.m- l lt^'V i orrcrt r dtr A win a |.rizi-; Tune; 1»| < I osK im»w\" mar>; !».O,' !>;,„, c Mum, X «•«■> ■"A «»reain or Pa.ssiMn 1 ...00 V M Time Kinal
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    U.S.I. WARNS TRADERS: 'NO BIG PROFITS'
    263 3 U.S. I. WARNS TRADERS: 'NO BIG PROFITS' DAYS OF HUGE TURNOVERS ARE ENDED— DR. ZAIN Tribune Staff Reporter SINGAPORE trndrrs und others dealing with the I mted States of Indonesia are welcome bnt they must be content with normal pronts. Their days of reaping high profits overnight, as they used
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    INDIAN CLOTH MAY COST MOM IN MALAYA
    123 3 IMDI a Bhe Is on xport prices ol il< s Mr. Joi.inc: -1 TradComre yesU rd i En cloU nttm At India is ta I prices i i» Hi Hue ram i n t On >u},< Tim-.- cloth "nr dvi will bo cut
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    They ask, she tells
    123 3 Paaaeacers eettinf .iH" plapea at KnHtnf V rp rt hayt lots oi t|uesliou> l»» .i ;i X.L.M. ground hosUfSS. blunde liv*»ndoi> i.»- !).;> who s**enis t«» have all th answers m thai pretu head fit hers. Being usually ,>n< of the first to meet a newl>
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    Voice keeps chasing him wherever he goes
    287 3 Tribune Staff Reporter PASTOR H. M.S. Richards, well-known American Seventh Day Adventist radio preacher, said yesterday m Singapore: "My voice keeps chasing me around the world. "I've heard my voice m several places, ana recently m Bangkok arid Manila." Hp explained tnat a
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    HOUSEBREAKER GETS 18 MONTHS
    50 3 T an Too Kee Ml sentenc- by th« First District Judge yesterday to 18 months' hard lrtl>our for brcakins into a house at Geytan* Roail on Jan. 23. Tian's ?ontrncr is to bo follow, (i by two y« ars" police Mip-rvision. H' l^ad three reviou* convirtionF.
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    SHB Spent $10,000,000 On Repairs Last Year
    189 3 SHB Spent $10,000,000 On R epairs Last Year THE Singapore Harbour Board spent 1 $10 414 664-15 on the restoration of property damaged during the war, including r ep a >rs and maintenance that were neglected daring the'JapaneSei°nCthrrepo rt of the Harbour Board for the year ended June 3 P
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    ACSU BARS PRESS FROM ANNUAL MEET
    81 3 ACSU BARS PRESS FROM ANNUAL MEET The Third Annual Delegates 1 Conference oi the Singapore Army Civil Rer vice (Jniott, being held Bi Ihc Union's premises m ii Bridge Road today. will be burred to the Presk. A statement will be issued. however, alter the confer once. Delegates have been
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    A MUSICIAN, HIS FIDDLE AND DAUGHTER
    67 3 A MUSICIAN, HIS FIDDLE AND DAUGHTER 3-OHORE, Sat— A Chinese musician, his violin and 13--vrar-oia daughter appeared m the Police Court today. They *ere charged with bof »finii for aima. r The fathar. r-han Moo.. 40 Xyed hi-- Chinese fiddle *T',. nis dfeurMer sans. But they had no permit to
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    BANDITS FIRE AT PLANTER
    60 3 KLUANO. bat— Mr R. h. Clarke assist lr.t ir.an p,t oi kengam EsUto. BCCCpniK*'-^ 1 by a Special ».V.:?H "•-•Ic escort escaped through :i »nuu i«o--1 bush vh,., feuintos to v estate m a i^fcg" 1 'V r mile Kcngair.-'.Ciu:. r< «m at 11.55 p.m. l>:t
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    THE CIGA RETTE AGENT COULDN'T BUY A CIGARETTE
    134 3 DECEN'i ii f.imcu.- brand landed at KsJlang .m<i couid not buy a packet < i d cites. n«" ftad a k>t ol monc> -but it vv;: ;i l foreign cvi i «'tic;. Howcvoi. the worried look disappeared from his l>u>w Many othor.-
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    DON'T SEND ME TO PRISON, CANE ME-SAYS YOUTH
    251 3 DON'T SEND ME TO PRISON, CANE ME-SA YS YOUTH STOLE FROM DUMB GIRL Tribune Staff Reporter. JWENTY-fivc year-old Yeo Siew Hong yesterday pleaded: "Don't send mo to prison, give m<> a few strokes of the rotan instead," when he was convicted for stealing $10 from a dumb Indian girl. The
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    Sibu: Trial Begins Tomorrow
    67 3 Sibu: Trial Begins Tomorrow The trial of the ten men accused of conspiracy to murder the Governor 91 Sarawak. Mr. Duncan SU wart, and other officials Is due to begin tomorrow at Sibu. small township ninety miles up the Rejang RWer m Sarawak. The defence of the accUfl ed will
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    THREE GOT AWAY, BUT NOT FOR LONG
    81 3 THREE GOT AWAY, BUT NOT FOR LONG SEGAMAT. SaL- A patrol ol Ist 2nd Gurkha Rifles captured six Jjandit BgenU while operating deep m (be junglt' yosttrduy. Three ul the prisoners escaped but were recaptured after ,t hot pursuit. The agents have all Identified The Police have nou identified the
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    Pneumonia
    50 3 Pneumonia claimed nvc 'ivi'.s th(^ lushest any dit^aac duiing th< Week tndiii^ Jar.. 28. F.B. came .-ccornl with 23 death. Eptritifl Uiixd with 17 The total number oi deaths during tlu week" was 106 against I^3 of tho previous week. The total numbo- i I babies hoin wa 851.
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      166 3 Your grandfather has such bright and perfect teeth, my son, because he has always used Gibbs Dentifrice. You know how good it tastes, too, and it cobts me so link. Dentifrice X-CO itriK 10 D. f.itbb I m LONDON, I \OkJMt THE AGONY OFjPpflMB. PILES \MW\ i.rks ulf'tdin; 1 prevent.,
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    WENT FOR A ROW DURING THE CURFEW
    71 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat.— Forty-nine year old Tan Up Puan pleaded guilty m the Magistrates" Court today to a charge of breach of curfew orders In Sungel Masai. Plentcng area. Lip Puan was caught rowing a boat at 11 p.m. on Feb. 2. Sentence
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    REVENUE COLLECTORS
    30 4 MALACCA. Sat. The Resident Commissioner. Mr. G. E. C. Wisdom told the Press today that two Deputy Collectors of Land Revenue would be appointed m the near future.
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    S'PORE ORDERS STEEL FOR NEW POWER STATION
    318 4 Tribune Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners have rushed through an oraer with a 13 ÜBtod Kingdom firm for 3,800 tons of steel to be used for the neu $60,000,000 power station scheme at Labrador, Pasir Panjang. The steel will form the main structure
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    S.V.C. Seek Ten Young Men To Round-up 300
    311 4 S. V.C. Seek Ten Young Men To Round-up 300 Tribune Staff Reporter l IEUTENANT-COLONEL R. W. Watson-Hyatt, commanding officer of the Singapore Volunteer Corps, is looking for ten keen, young combat -trained officers to help him m his 1950 drive for 300 new recruits. "This is a young man's army,
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    Out To Make Us Laugh
    86 4 Out To Make Us Laugh Out from England on a visit to friends m Singapore. Y"-kshiro-bnrn Barbara Knox-Marshe has joined the Singapore Kepertory Company as a comedienne. Tunoesque. with a rich, deep voice. Barbara was born less than two miles from the Howarth parsonage, childhood home of the famous Brontes.
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    SECOND SESSION OF ASSIZES OPENS TOMORROW
    61 4 SECOND SESSION OF ASSIZES OPENS TOMORROW The second session of the Colony Assizes for the current year opens m the Hign Court tomorrow. Only two persons are on trial. One is facing a charge or causing' nun »m commuting robbery; the other faces charges of criminal breach cf trust and
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    Housing Shortage Delays Water Extension Scheme
    198 4 Housing Shortage Delays Water Extension Scheme Tribune Staff Reporter THERE is likely to be a delay m carrying out pro--1 jects connected with the Singapore Municipality's large-scale water extension scheme at Johore. The cause is the lack of accommodation for the tern norarv staff required on the job. J The
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    2,888 APPLY FOR FEDERAL CITIZENSHIP
    73 4 2,888 APPLY FOR FEDERAL CITIZENSHIP MALACCA. Sat. me Resident Commissioner, Mr. G. E. l\ Wisdom, told the Press today that to aate 2.888 applications for Federal citizenship had been received and 1.099 applicants had ween accepted. Mr. Wisdom said that 40 non-Knglish educated Chinese and Indians had failed m tncspoken
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    BANDITS BURY BANDIT AFTER POLICE BATTLE
    79 4 BANDITS BURY BANDIT AFTER POLICE BATTLE JOHOUE BAHUU, bai A Ponce i*rty foU'jwtng tne trail of a hand ~r ltm«tfcia wno laulrc* A.tk Loo Si»ii Kstate on Sco. 1 found me Dec: of a iy-\oui--)id t;• «oit bun <! a Ece San Estate yetterj «v. The young jaiia-t wr, ?«riously
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    'Fathers Must Urge Sons To Volunteer'
    134 4 'Fathers Must Urge Sons To Volunteer' FATHERS must encourage their sons and elders must persuade the youngsters to take an active part m the Malayan People's Anti-Bandit Month campaign. Said Mr. Tay Chek Ming. President of the Selangor Teochew Association last night, when appealing to the Teochew community over Radio
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    SUGAR SHOP MAN FINED
    44 4 Ng Chen Moh was tinea $50 m the Second District Court yesterday wnen n«admitted that he fulled to display a price ta^ for his sugar m a conspicuous place. Ng is the proprietor of a shop at Keng Cheow Street.
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    'REP' REHEARSES TWO SHOWS AT THE SAME TIME
    183 4 AUTSIDE bookings for the V Victoria Theatre, have so shortened the Singapore Repertory Company's rehearsal schedule that the company is now rehearsing two snows at once. The Repertory Company's next production is Jean Cocteau's "The Eagle has Two Heads", and while closing
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    Dr. Sun Yat Sen Set To Work Here
    298 4 N*. 12— Is S'aai ©5 China's llistfmv Tribune Staff Reporter I^EW Singaporeans will realise that a page m China's history was written m a a simple two■torey house m Singapore. For the local Chinese community this house No. 12 Tai Jin Road
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    M.C.U. HOLDS DANCE
    30 4 MALACCA. Sat. The Malacca Clerical Union will hold a social and dance at the Meng Seng Charitable Association. Wolferstan Road, on Feb. 11. Prizes will be given
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    Do Fence Us In!
    47 4 Municipal Commissioners will m future be fenced away from the crowd at Jalan Besar Stadium games. Last month they voted $200 for a special enclosure with twelve seats to be built at the stadium. Only Icmmissioners will be allowed lo occupy these >eats!
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    A Gayer Chinese New Year
    108 4 A Gayer Chinese New Year fHINESE New Year which v» begins on February 17 will be celebrated with far greater gusto and gaiety than last year. More than 600.000 Chinese m Singapore will greet the New Venr with Ya" 1 I asts and cracker firing. A Singapore Chinese fruit importer
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    QUACKS DUPE DRUG ADDICTS
    185 5 QUACKS DUPE DRUG ADDICTS THEY'RE GIVING THEM COLOURED WATER Tribune Staff Reporter DAC KKTEERS seeking to sooth the nerves of time addicts m Singapore are making substantial profits by injecting their patients with coloured water. They are resorting to water because morphine stocks are dwindling due to constant oolite seizure.
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    Parbury Buttons For S.V.C. Marksmen
    116 5 Parbury Buttons For S.V.C. Marksmen MARKSMANSHIP unong the Singapore Volunteer Corps Is to be encouraged by the revival of "Parbury Bv**on" awards These are silver buth used lo be presented volunteers who got onr 'possible' at a shoot. Lt. Col. R. W WatsonHyatt, commanding officer of the Corps sr.id yesterday
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    ARE YOU an ex-RAMC MAN?
    114 5 ARE YOU an ex-RAMC MAN? THERE must be hundreds of ex-Malayan Royal Army Medical Corps. Royal Army Dental Corps, and other medical units who do not know the existence of the R.A.M.C. Association, said the Secretary. Warrant Officer V. Dick. The Association, which has been existing for 18 months, has
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    WANTED: A VET. SURGEON
    75 5 Municipal Commlsstonci i will advertise m the United Kingdom f ftr >t a Veterinary Suig<on. The man. ap[tointt'i wul be made Deputy to the pi m ni t< nary Surgeon In Class II of tho Senior Officers Ralary Scheme. He will receive a salary ran^in^ fiom
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    STRATFORD CO. GO ON THE AIR TONIGHT
    116 5 STRATFORD CO. GO ON THE AIR TONIGHT THREE members of the 1 Stratford-on-Avon Memorial Theatre Company, who passed through Singapore on their way home rrom Australia on Thursday, will give a recorded iniervlew over Radio Maiaya today at 8.30 p.m. They are. Clement McCallim. Harold Casket and Robert Hardy. The
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    Plan To Streamline Maternity Service
    202 5 Plan To Streamline Ma te rn ity Se rvice JOHORE DEALS WITH 40,0C0 WOULD-BE MOTHERS A YEAR Tribune Staff Reporter lOHORE Government is planning to introduce a modernised Maternity Service to help the 40.000 would-be mothers who seek advice and treatment each year m the State. The scheme is still
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    BOOTS FOR FIREMEN
    32 5 i ni hiiitHijUM' Munu-ipuuiy will buy 150 pain of ankle boots from the Klitisn Stores Disposal Board for $1,500. The boot- are tor tn<men of the City Fire Brigade.
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    Pat Tells The Boys Where They Get Off
    108 5 BLONDE Patricia Harding who operates the Qantas Information d < g k at Raffles Hotel dislikes imparting information regarding herself. Opened only a fortnight ago, a «reat many men have made use of the desk. They ask about the time and date
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    SAMBO TAKES TO THE BOTTLE
    143 5 SAMBO TAKES TO THE BOTTLE WHEN the doctor said. "Jennie must stop feeding nei p--»< %:> had v .'.rv "Liry Quentin numing an: and ill circles. Who wouldn't wit:l five b.ibv ('< r Spaniels to look after? .»ir« Quenuu solved the problem however, by !> >» 1 1)\\ Ing i
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    IT WAS BLACK MONDAY, BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT GO TO SCHOOL
    222 5 IT WAS BLACK MONDA Y, BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT GO TO SCHOOL Tribune Staff Reporter. IT was "real Black Monday" for more than 200 men. women and children when the Anglo-Malay Evening school re-opened its doors for the first time this year. They were told: "We're full up and besides,
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    LIFE – SAVERS
    31 5 LIFE SAVERS Thr Singapore Safety First committee plans to form a Lite-saving and Coastguard organisation In the Colony. A preliminary meeting is b ing held tomorrow evening to filtfflH the questions
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    Slight Drop
    107 5 Last year's figures, however, showed a slight drop from those of 1948, when there were 2,605 marriages, 1.546 divorces and 122 revocations as against 2,380 marriages 1,238 divorces, and 129 revocations. The greatest numbers of marriages and divorces were recorded during the Japanese Occupation. An authoritative Muslim source
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    Motor Club Gives $1,500 To Charity
    113 5 Motor Club Gives $1,500 To Charity The Singapore Motor Club contributed more than $1,500 to various the charity bodies that assisted ttie club m various ways at motor rallies, the Hon. Treasurer ul the Club. Mr. L. E. G. Soagroatt. reports m his annual accounts of the year. Mr. Seagroatte
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    ARTISTS OUT TO CAPTURE SOEKARNO
    87 5 ARTISTS OUT TO CAPTURE SOEKARNO Two Singapore artists— a photographer and sculptor —intend to "capture" President Soekarno m Jakarta shortly. Mr. Wong Ka Foo. Sibu-born ace cameraman, will fly over "when the trouble Is over." A winner of a silver medal at the Singapore Photographic Exhibition Wong has taken pictures
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    96,277 BIKES IN SINGAPORE
    46 5 One thousand, nine hundred and thirty more bicycles took to the roads m January, state* a Vehicles Department report issued yesterday. There are now 96,277 registered bicycles. There are however. 167 fewer trisha riders. An Increase of 465 moior cars were recorded.
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    SAID 'NO FLOUR'
    47 5 Chong Pener Teo, proprietor of a shop at Yeo Chu Kang Road, was fined $200 at the Police Court yesterday. He said he had no ticur for sale when a Food Control Inspector visited hi.s shop on Feb 3 A. search proved he had.
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    SER VICEMEN ASK FOR PROXY VOTE
    212 5 MORE than half of the eligible- to- vote members of the throe armed services m the Far East have applied for permission to mak" a proxy vote In the U.K. general election this month. Service spokesmen ure unable to give a definite L-stimate of
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    'FIFTY DIVORCES FOR EVERY 100 WEDDINGS
    136 5 'FIFTY DIVORCES FOR EVERY 100 WEDDINGS Tribune Staff Reporter pOR every 100 marriages among Muslims m the Colony for the past 28 years, there have been about 50 divorces, according to available statistics. This does not mean, however, that 50 out of every 100 Muslim weddings m Singapore end m
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      270 5 I lie i f*Hr i 1\ I I i tP/'x that reminds me.... I U A t^^ A I'll FII d ill gg|i| >CORIC TIPPED j yaW —^^Ba^^^afW^^^^^ Uimßßßßfc'S^^t^^Bß^K^y^^^^^^^-^B^BBala^a^MB a MMß3C^a^u^iA!—^CßK*Jf i» j^ai^aMa^aia^^a^^MaMßala^a^a^al You have noi really tried get rid of those rheumatic pain>. aches and btitine^s until >ou have
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    THIS SINGAPORE..
    3009 6  -  VERA ARDMORE JACQUES FMCQUOT. a young cflicei \vii3 tfcfl jn been domobbrd from thy French army m lndo-China. won freedom from a German prison camp by making; a marriage bargain with a bcautilul Au.arian girl. But Jacqurs did not marry the girl. She married someone else, and la-
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    THIS LONDON...
    2201 7  -  JIMMY GLOVER I 4 about i.uvj ana s my read i bjv it ad vie- about i! what the v. 'i dressed wo- 6 mm will w( ar, and l will try and do my stuff by the men folk. i youi man w tailor bag check suit,
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    THEY BLUSHED WHEN
    87 7 THEY BLUSHED WHEN- MR. John Dumeiesq^e. of P.adio Malaya, tried Vo make me blush by crltictstng ray description ol Chief .Ttts'.iee liurrav-Jlynflicy'g tic last week, scoffing, How can a tip >:r dkrU led AND eonsetvative°" approaching election must he DrcyiDg on his mind. Mv dic,ion;\;y (which ncv<>: lepve.? my sukw
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      218 7 Better Office Work Terry Anglepoise Lamp Its finger-tip adjustability focuses GO-wntt non-»laro illumination with 25-watt bulb on any required Spot— savea at lemat r ,o', on lighting bills. i Factory Representatives: T.Y. MITCHELL CO., LTD. SI\(;,\I»OKR kVXLA LUMPUB PENANti I I ■'ir > A* w "^Ji Ho^gant I Lyy r
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    THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE THE MIDDLE MEN
    656 8 THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE THE MIDDLE MEN LONDON REPRESENTATIVE E. Maurice Glover, Malaya Tribune, Office, 143. Fleet Btreet, London, E.C. 4. SUNDAY. JAN. 22, 1950 A MAN came into the office the other day, sat down, lit a cigarette and said, "I am going to tell you what is wrong with
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    THE DUCE IS DEAD BUT HE RULES FROM HIS GRAVE
    1228 8 THE DUCE IS DEAD BUT HE RULES FROM HIS GRAVE A YOUNG RED is I "rescued" during a I police Communist! clash m Rome. I NOWHERE m th* West is the cold war warmer than m Northern Italy. Backed by an undercover army of 40,000 trained "Partisans of Peace," Palmiro
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    THE STORY OF MARY ATTLEE
    728 8 MARY ATTLEE looks at life through the eyes of coloured folk. A profile of the Prime Minister's elder sister, who is as little known to us as she is famous among the Native poor of Cape Town South Africa. ONCE a week a mobile canteen
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    MANKIND IS TRYING TO PLAY GOD
    652 8  - MANKIND IS TRYING TO PLAY GOD HAL BOYLE By- MANKIND has been trying to play Ciod for a long time. Soon it will ha\e the chance to play the role out to the last curtain fall. The new hydrogen bomb tlw latest demon m our long cosmic cornedy is already
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    WIND POWER
    104 8 BRITAIN land of ultramodern windmills. That is the dream of E. V. Guiding, a British expert on rural electrification and vnnd power. He told a meeting of the Institute of Physics that 600 wind-driven generator! on Britain's hill-tops and around the coast could produe enou tricity to •aye
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      CHURCHILL SUMMONS HIS 10 SHADOWS
      1186 9 ONE afternoon recently Winston Churchill struggled in f <> Ma heavy black overcoat, took a stick m enr hand and a freshly lit rigar m th«> ether, and drove from his Westerham home to ins town house m Hyde Park G i H worked m
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      SECRET CHANGES
      141 9 TWO of the secret changes being made m the Polish At my by Russia's Marshal Konstantin Rokossovski have leaked out. General Vagrovsky went down. A former militaiy attache m London, hr was lcmoved ftom his key po.-t aa chief of the (kpa!tment for political education. He was replaced
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      Merry Killer
      175 9 WHILE Dr. Hermann Sander was awaiting trial for the "mercy killing" of an incurable patient. New York's District Attorney began probing subt'er euthanasia methods attributed to 77-year-old Dr. Abraham Lincoln Goldwater. The doctor had told the Euthanasia Society of Ameiica that m incurable cases he sometimes prescribed a
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      Total War Jitters
      171 9 rTAL-WAR fear m Washington ieached a new high as a Press-inflamed public speculated fearfully on the potentialities of the H-bomb, the biggest block-buster of all Lithuium hydride (UH), not a uranium compound, but a whitish-grey salt not unlike baking powder m appearance. Senator E. C. Johnson triggered
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      WINDFALL FOR TOURISTS
      212 9 ONLY a few astute prospective holiday-makers seized the chance to buy Italian lite legally at an unofficially high rate exchange m London Wiihin a couple of days the price had shortened. The opportunity came when the Treasury relaxed a rule about British citizens' "blocked lira accounts" (balances
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      MONEY TALKS — AND SO DID 500 DEPUTIES
      319 9 MONEY TALKS A ND SO DID 500 DEPUTIES PRIME Minister Geoige? Bidault thrust his left hand into hi? jacket pocket and looked at the French Xaticnal Assembly as he might have looked at a history class when he was a piofcsso: yean ago. His subject was historical all right, but
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      IT FRIGHTENS THE OLD FOLKS
      115 9 IT FRIGHTENS THE OLD FOLKS ROBERT Copping, foinu-r headmaster of Horsley Hall freedom school, thtw a birthday party at Kensington s Milestones Hotel recent'y. Self-possessed children mtorwovc among the adult Pesta "lancing m the ballroom. Fiom a bar decorated with freaooea of romping chilfircn, a barman served food and liquor
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      MEN AGAINST THE SEA
      279 10 MEN AGAINST THE SEA lioU Back the Siva, by Aden Dooinrd, translated from th»* Dutch by Harrows Mussey Ilolnemnnn, I'!-. f><! i ADEN DOOLARD is a wellknown Dutch writer who made hia nputation as foreign correspondent the Dutch Socialist newspaper Htt VulJc, and wrote an indictment of Nczi policy. Clocked
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      THE STARS LOOKED ON AND ON....
      272 10 THE STARS LOOKED ON AND ON.... hy Mias venens, trn'ns!atP'l b> I); ott tvci't (Editions Poetry I-on-don, Etn\, Wl'Mnni Campion. 12s. «d.). A W HENCE DURRELL. L himself a poet with a By ionic enthusiasm foi Greece, has introduced this book uv rczis wncm ho calls one oi the greatest
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      TWO DOLLARS PER PLAY
      197 10 Adversary m the Hocae, hy lr\ir.^ Stone (Falcon Press, \'is. 6d.). AS a young man Irving Stono wrote IT full-length play^ m two years and made 34 dollars out cf thorn. He woiki d oiT tho homicidal impulse that must have resulted b> writing murder stories
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      THE YOUNG IN LOVE
      267 10 Tb»» Vounu Ma' Mimn, by T. 11. Nt'wby (Cape, »s. M.). DURING the war P. H. Newby was with the li.A.M.C." m Egypt, and later lectured m Kns;lish Litciaturo at Cairo University. Now, at 31 i^ack m England with his wifr and «!.tuj?htor, he has Jivo
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      Crazy Fringe Of London Life
      431 10 Court Circular, by Sewell Stokes (Michael Joseph, 10s. 6.d). APROEATION officer's Ptory might be expected to be cither sentimental or sociological, but Mi. Stokes' story is primari'.y amusing. It can be read as a series of entertaining adventures on the crazy fringe of London life,
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      HAVE FUN WITH THE Stars
      571 10  - HAVE FUN WITH THE Stars CONSTANCE SHARPE By AQIAKHS JAX. 21— FEB. IS. Don t take pro. ■/iwe.s made to ii<m by business Mtsociafes. ne\<jhbuurs and acquaintances too seriously: othcruis? yon iriU find yourself let down. In-laws will be helpful and utlt ofjtr I'ood advice. rrscts FEB. 19 MARCH 90.
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      THE DUCE TELLS HIS OWN STORY
      156 10 THE DUCE TELLS HIS OWN STORY lemolrs, 1U43-1943, by Benlto Mussolini (Welflenfflil and WHILE Mussolini was .-till aiive, Winston Churchill ca!lcd him a jac!:rtl. After hi? death from thr K" ll^^ of> partisans who dragged his hulk t--ridd!cd corpse to Milan and strlmg it Up. upside down, with the l>octy
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      KARL MARX LET THEM DOWN
      324 10 The God that Failed, EdJ'^l by liirhard C rossnian. M.I (Ihuuish Hamilton, VSn 6sL). RICHARD ("Dick' i Ctossman, Labour M.P.. and Labour candidate for Coventty. Assistant Editor of the A T eir Statesman, and a leading figuie m the "Keep Left" group of Socialist intellectuals,
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      Crime Department
      332 10 Edmund Crispin's Frequent Hearses (Gollanz, 9m. takes Inspector Humbleby and Superintendent Capsticl (no connection with Capsttcic of the Yard) to a f»ln studio where they investigate the death of Gloria Scott pmall-part actress with big-timo connections. While the detectives seek a reason why Gloria should have jumped ofi
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      ART AND ANTIQUES
      68 10 Pnmitani ty i". tlMr.-:.)?! r. (l'h<M'nl\ ffcL). COW Ci Editor J i has d Is a Follow Antiquil Histori- iste and ratters iloubtni hl^ futhor the I known for hi r| 'iitnittire. I boo ui-als rttUrc cf the fir-ant P' 1 intl m fa.^Mionthc unpre--1 'v r.nnituip
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      ITS JUST MURDER, HE SAYS
      211 11 ITS JUST MURDER, HE SAYS HOLLYWOOD. BEING a II i actor, says G rphy. Is matt thai. jusL a far- <m a n. People all over 111 world know scrf?n players so well they ire leneraHy regarded as friends, aim ws as members of the family, he Sa>s. Murphy recently
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      Hooping 'Buster'
      56 11 Hooping 'Buster' HOLLYWOOD. IN one of tlio yrai'p most unusual castings. Universa Ilntermtional Studios signed one 'Bjstoi Kelly" for a scene m the movie "Free Fo* All" m the aim, Buster" v.-r.i be soon hop-nT)^ into the lap of tin picture's star, actress Ann Blyth. 1 Buffer" is a grasshopper
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      TALE OF A TOE
      83 11 TALE OF A TOE I 1171LLLAM IIOLDEN In If beginning to think j his hip ttm miiH> be «x--ceptionaUy photogrenic. lit his la- r nir^ >upset lioiilt>\-ard," the picture opened with a el»se-up of lan identification tag- being tied to his big toe m thjc city morgue. His laU*>i assignment
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      CO-PAR TNER IDA WILL DIRECT THIS ONE
      164 11 HOLLYWOOD. fONCURRENT with Federal Bureau of Investigation's warning that the United States is laced with the worst wave of set crimes m its history. Filmakers. Inc. revealed for th<- first time the subject of their initial RKO Radio production. Nice Girl." "Wee Girl"
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      WHAT'S IN A NAME?
      58 11 TWO KATHLEENS. Byron and Ryan, are causing name trouble on the "Prelude To Fame" set at Pinewood. Because their Christian names are the same, director Fergus McDonnel e'ecided to call them by iheir surnames. But Byron and Ryan sound so alike that even tnis caused confusion.
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      GLAMOR AT ITS NAUGHTIEST
      957 11 GLAMOR AT ITS NAUGHTIEST BA TH TUB SCENES ARE A HOLLYWOOD TRADITION HOLLYWOOD. NOT LONG AGO, a Hollywood studio sent out "R.S.V.P." invitations to filmtown reporters and columnists asking if they would care to see a star cb ng a bath tub scene for a new picture. Th«v cxnected to
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      BOX-OFFICE 'POISON'— NOW MONEY-SPINNERS
      449 11 HOLIA WOOD. WAR FILMS, which Hollywood studio heads considered poison at the box-office while memories of th? late conflict were still fresh, are making a lucrative return to the screen. After World War Two. the studios halted production of battl" dramas ar.ci i omt> predicted that
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      PRETTY PIPER
      46 11 Ann Pean-p, brin* groomed by I ni\rrsaj-liit«>rnati<>nal for future stardom, takes things rasf lollovmiiK tin* romplt'tion it her most important hcjreen role tit l.ii«- m. Hi.- i.-« him -ulonr Him, "BaCdaii," clarnnic \i :i v rwn <>'Har», r.mi Christian and NiuuttUt I r i
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      HE'D RATHER BE AN ELECTRICIAN
      292 11 HOLLYWOOD DRODUCER-Director Don- Hartman was getting downrieht discourager!. H' •>' interviewed so many small boys treeUes were otnctng wildly inside his eyeballs— gr^at big black ones, at that. He was beginning to wonder why he'd ever got involved m the picture business, particularly m his
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      STUDIO GOSSIP
      269 11 STUDIO GOSSIP PANDHO HERMAN. Who will produce a movie version of .^ir Walter Soott'i ouvel Ivanhoe" m Knir'and next Way, >.iys In- will be unuiiif to un any of England's old castle.- as location SIU'.S Barman, who recently return.-d from England where hie rearched for backgrounds, said Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios will
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      NAIL-POLISH IS NOT EXCLUSVE TO HANDS
      193 12 NAIL -POLISH IS NOT EXCLUSVE TO HANDS '■X) prevent the gold-coloured clasp or other metal ornamentation on your new handbag from tarnishing, paint the m<tal lightly with clear nail polish. v.i. jii polisi car "fully applied with qu c:. even s. ■<)': i. is equally ;>■ ;i for kc fpln
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      Face-Powder And Hair Don't Agree
      211 12 Face -Powder And Hair Don't Agree I(EEPING foundation and face powder out of the 11 hairline is next to impossible, if make-up is to do a good cover-job. But there's no reason why the graying dust of powder or the gummy streaks of a foundation should stay m the hairline
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      EXERCISE GIVES NEW LIFE TO HEAVY LEGS
      236 12 THE trim, svelte legs of a mature woman may not provoke whistles of approval from the crowd, but they'll give her the boost toward the look of youth and well-being that she wants. It takes work to slim heavy legs at any time.
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      BEFORE SEVEN
      37 12 SKILFUL draping and sort outlines are a feature of this formal toy frock. Originally made In purple wool, any material can be used for a frock to wear m Singapore, or take home on leave.
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      Show Off Your Best Points
      292 12 Show Off Your Best Points MAKING th m si "i on ).i I; ;ia;r La a tTiCk vc.iL'i: many a less-tnan-b'.i.M! vi ac ress has used to turn ordinary {;<»«».i looks i utni '-.1. 11 acu can do this, .1 >x iris i rj on i has a >.ji par
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      CLEANLINESS COMES FIRST
      251 12 THE discovery that black- heads arc poika-dotting QOi chin or forehead :iough to give- any girl worry. Although working th c tiny biackhiads out with lin^ornails is the worst possibl approach to this problem, its the one to which girls often resort. Mauling the skin until ""wounds"
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      REGULAR INSPECTION WILL SAVE DOLLARS
      205 12 THE key to one of Hollywood's "best -dressed'" grooming routines 11 In her daily wardrobe Inspection. Every day she lines up her ihosi on a table top to check for any slight unevenness m heel lifts. Any pair with heei lift* a fraction oil balance
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      180 12 I r TMIS IS IKITERESTIKJ'. IT SAYS t._T^. f THE iii.E OF 3ff.Cl.E-RASL£ --11/ I grumt VOi I TUA.T ov;r» ci (-irbTVIaI /a\ Z' '-but, one. rotten thing we ain't got— is CpTu//rr him"- the. lowest I I crsj v%, r X t v v > T^ f T^ /A
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    AUSTRALIA'S WORLD TITLE CONTENDER
    1354 13  -  JOHN SEIFFERT SEGGUJ FOREMOST among Austra- Han boxers for 1949 was Dave Sands, national middle, light-heavy and heavyweight champion, and Britisa Empire 1 middleweight titlcholder. The 23-year-old aborigin had fougnt himtelf oui of opponents m his own country before he went, to the United Kingdom to
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    Snapshort Corner Reflectors Brighten Shadows
    408 13 Snapshort Corner Reflectors Brighten Shadows I \o. 17 MY neighbour became quite curious last Sunday. He looked puzzled when he saw me shifting around a sheet of white cardboard as I was posing the family for their latest snapshot. "Getting kind of fancy, aren't you?" he yelled. I soon explained
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      702 13 ~Ufi6e uto-Kien want to know tAej&tfca A wise chopper continually keep* :i watch on pnc(>s m thr Bhops markets where she buys. When local fish is expensive, she buys lroz^n imported fish more often. When the general level of prices rises, she 1 iinds out why, so that she knows
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    1950—AN IMPORTANT YEAR FOR SPORT IN MALAYA
    1494 14  - 1950— AN IMPORTANT YEAR FOR SPORT IN MALA YA LINESMAN By j \«v» ill Vs. I *outh \\h FIIHIS y. v Bhould go down 1 hi tile annals of Malayan :•> ort ski the greatest >n its Wstory, bar 194:; and the ThOlrta: Cup. W Ir.ive our ivpn s* rit
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    60 14 Fighting Machine Jabbai bin Jaffar (above) one <n ts:'- irauinj: Malay: m local boxing, will lake a crack at Kid t abaaella m thi Happy Woiid StadUsun or h;*h. 10 wiirn nronioU r Rasak holds his second 1930 promotion. This >■■> an Important bout for Jabbar .i> bis i»- ai
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    970 16 MALAYANS OUT BUT SHOW PLUCK AUKLAND, Sat. TWO of the Malayan contestants m the Enmire (iames made a plucky show 1 today, but rouUI nc< equal the stiff competition from other Km pi re entrants. N X Ltaag C'hfeiig finished last \m
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    75 16 and M.-s. Frank H. Khm c after t)u -r unUltny at the Church <>ur Lady of Lvurdt t, yesterday. Th< bud*, who \(>>.vu gotOM of u-Jiitr lure and earned Arum hlu s, tctl i Miss Pln'mnn .'m Joseph. Bht WOM f/n en away by her father, Mr. Clarence
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