The Straits Times, 11 January 1948

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  • 18 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NETT SALE IN MALAYA No. 650 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, JANUARY 11. 1948 PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 619 1 VILLAGES MAROONED BY FLOODS THIS Chinese woman refugee from the Kota Tinggi floods has not seen her husband since he went to work on Wednesday and was cut off by floods at his place of 'work. She is with her three small children at the Kota Tinggi Hospital. No news
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  • 95 1 RANGOON. Saturday. BURMA'S first step towards the socialisation of the agricultural industry was announced today in a new Act empowering the Government to take control of all land exceeding 50 acres belonging to any Individual or group. Under the new powers the Government is able to
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  • 19 1 ■yWHIAKEMAL BEYATLJ, a 1 well-known poet, has been appointed as the first Turkish Ambassador to Pakistan. Reuter.
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  • 26 1 PARI" Saturday. Five miners were killed and 40 injured today in a fire damp ex plosion at a coal mine near Forbach.— A.P.
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  • 148 1 BUSY DAY FOR K.L. AIRFIELD Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. INCREASING use of Kuala Lumpur aerodrome by 1 Service and commercial passenger planes, as a result of disruption of road and rail communication with Singapore, reached a peak today when within 12 hours, 16 planes landed or took
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  • 82 1 LONDON, Saturday VTEGOTIATIONS were start--1.1 ed today among the sixteen Marshall Plan nations on the advisability of holding a Paris Conference next month, showing the United States Congress they were going ahead to help themselves toward economic recovery and not depending entirely on American aid. Great
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  • 221 1 rpHE aircraft carrying Indonesian Premier Amir A Sjarifuddin, former Premier Sutan Shahrir and Foreign Affairs Minister Haji Agoes Salim, which left Singapore yesterday morning for Jogjakarta, returned yesterday afternoon carrying Vice-Premier Mohammed Hatta in addition to> the original party. The plane picked up Mohammed Hatta at
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  • 90 1 Sunday Time* "taft Reporter. THE Sunday Times understands that "new money" applications for the $25,000,000 3i per cent Municipal Loan launched a week ago already considerably exceed the amount which will be available if all holders representing $21.--000.000—of the 1928 5 per cent Loan decided to
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  • 79 1 LONDON, Saturday.— The British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin. has had a full discussion with M. Rene Masslgli, French Ambassador in London, on the Anglo-Ameri-can proposals for strengthening the bi-zonal economic council at Frankfurt. Following the receipt of instructions from Qual d'Orsay, M. Maeslgll sought
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  • 55 1 Mac Arthur commemorative coins, ordered by the Philippine Government under a law passed by the Philippine Congress, are scheduled to arrive in Manila soon from the United States mint. One hundred thousand silver pieces bearing General MacArthur's likeness have been ordered, to commemorate the American landing in
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  • 40 1 SHANGHAI, Saturday. The Bureau of Social Affairs has banned the sale of nylons in response to persistent requests from Chinese businessmen, since over 100 silk factories were forced to close through preference of women for nylons. UP.
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  • 37 1 The songs he made famous including "You are my heart's delight" will be played at the funeral service for Richard Tauber in London tomorrow if Mrs. Tauber, formerly actress Diana Napier, consents. Reuter.
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  • 214 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter HAJI Agoes Salim, Foredgn Minister of the Republic of Indonesia, ls certain to retain the sharpest humour of any of ihe negotiators in the next critical days of the Dutch-Indonesian dispute. While the Premier of the Republic. Dr. Amir Sharifuddin. gravely presented
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  • 155 1 ASBURY PARK, New Jersey, Saturday. DOUCE today confiscated a cache of 5,200 combat knives and 126 tons of surplus Army explosives which they said had been gathered by Zionists for illegal shipment to Palestine, and the New York region of the Alien Assets Administration
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  • 125 1 LAKE SUCCESS, Saturday. THE United States won its first test in the Sovietboycotted "Little Assembly" of the United Nations, when the Assembly decided to shelve for more than two months the debate on the ''Big Five" veto power. The organisation adopted a plan for a delayed
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  • 23 1 Mr. Winston Churchill will be offered the freedom of Perth. Scotland, when he visits (he city in May, says Reuter.
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  • 200 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PARIT BUNTAR, Saturday. D ANISHMENT was recommended by the Parit Buntar D District Judge yesterday for an extortioner whose victim was missing for a month after making a secret report which led to the accused being trapped. The extortioner, Lim Weng Siah,
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  • 108 1 HONOLULU. Saturday. MAJOR GEN. JOHN LUCAS, retiring chief of the United States Army Advisory Group In China, said today that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-ehek was not discouraged by the recent setbacks at the hands of the Communists. He said "Chiang ls stubborn and will never stop fighting,"
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  • 264 1 Strike goes on: more talks today Sunday Times Staff Reporter EIGHT hours of talk yesterday between the Singapore Harbour Board and the Singapore Harbour Labourers' Union, lasting to nearly midnight, failed to end the strike of 5,000 Singapore dock labourers, which began on Friday afternoon. Discussions will be resumed at
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  • 25 1 Strikes by German workers for more food spread from the industrial Ruhr into the American occupation zone yesterday says A.P. from Berlin.
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  • 44 1 JERUSALEM. Saturday. SIX hundred Arab fighters who crossed the Syrian border into Palestine yesterday were driven back by British troops and Spitfire fighter planes. Britain has made strong representations to the Syrian Government over the Mrder crossing.— A.P. and U.F.
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  • 56 3 SINGAPORE WEEDING. MR and MRS. I. B. RAMSA V after their weddine at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, yesterday afternoon. The bride was formerly Miss Jean Lavina Grlce Renton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reirton, of Singapore. The bridegroom, of Harrisons and Crosfleld, Ltd., is the son of Mr. and
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  • 128 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. 11/ITH Chinese New Year approaching, the public Tl are advised to take social care to lock up their houses and keep their jewellery in safe custody. A police note issued today states that violent crime is expected to
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  • 54 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. —The Council of Legal Education has agreed to hold their examination Latin at Kuala Lumpur on Apr. 26. Candidates who wish to enter for either of these examinations should apply immediafey to the Secretary. Council of Legal Education, 7, Stone Buildings.
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  • 72 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter, KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. rjEVERAL hundred men are »3 concentrated between I Labis and Kluang working [fast to repair the damaged railway line so that train services may be resumed as early as possible. Yesterday. 200 skilled construction workmen from Malayan Railways went
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  • 47 3 Tile latest Government Gazette names the following men as Municipal Commissioners for Singapore from Jan. 1: Mr. Ng Sen Ghoy, Mr. J. A. Elias, Mr. S. F. Ho, Mr. C. E. Collinge, Mr. |L. Cresson, Mr. A. Corbet, and Mr. G. E. N. Oehlers.
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  • 492 3 LOKE DEMANDS RELEASE OF CATHAY 'Requisition unjustified 9 Sunday Times Staff Reporter |UR. Loke Wan Tho, millionaire owner of the Cathay Building in Singapore, has lodged an official request with the Commissioner of Lands for the de-requisitioning of the building "as quickly as possible." He told the Sunday Times that
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  • 118 3 LIM LIKES HIS LITTLE TIN HUT Sunday Times Staff Reporter. Mm Ah Chans, the 53--year-old former ricksha puller who lives in a homemade, ramshackle hut built of oil drums and rotting wood behind the South Bridge Road police courts in Singapore, doesn't want to "move house". Twice in the pa
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  • 106 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter JOINED Dy passers-by, two traffic policemen last eight arrested two men after a chase along Orchard Road and recovered a loaded revolver. The chase followed a holdup In a sundries shop In Emerald Hill Road about 8.30 p.m. when two men demanded $100
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  • 184 3 AIRMAN GETS FILM ROLE Sunday Times Staff Reporter BRIAN Neely, Singa--1 pore R.A.F. sergeant, has been chosen to double for Donald Houston, costar with Jean Simmons in "Blue Lagoon." He is being released from the R.A.F. tomorrow and hopes to fly to Australia almost immediately. Mr. Frank Launder has cabled
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  • 115 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. rE following are the results of the Michaelmas Bar Examinations which were held at Kuala Lumpur in September, 1947: Roman Law: Second daw, 8. S. Gill. Constitutional Law and Legal History: Third Claw, K. L. Dcvuer, S. 8. Gill 8.
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  • 89 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THIA Thiang Sla, master of the vessel "Hang Heng," was fined $400, In default four months' rigorous imprisonment. In the Singapore Police Court yesterday, under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance. He was convicted of failing to fly a pennant on arrival
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  • 111 3 Sunday Time* Staff Reporter ONE man, named Tan Ah Ngee, was the complainant in two cases of extortion mentioned in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday. It was alleged that two parties had threatened him with death in order to extort cash from him at
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  • 184 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter AUSTRALIA has granted permission for 12 Malay ix divers to enter the country to work in the pearl fishing industry among the islands off the north-west Vustralian coast. One is an English-speaking veteran of nine-years oearl-diving who is returning to his former
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  • 76 3 WORKING GIRLS of all nationalities in Singapore will be able to attend bi-week-ly evening classes in English and Chinese at cost of $1 a month. Trained women teachers will conduct the classes at a club to be opened tomorrow at the Havelock Road Child Feedine
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  • 145 3 Sunday Times Staff IU porter pOMPLETE rehabilitation of l^> Singapore's Botanic gardens may be achieved by the end of th e year, the Director of Public Works told the Sunday Times yesterday. He said that restoration work on many important buildings would require a long
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  • 211 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MOT°"-CYCLING is twice as popular in Singapore as it was in 1941. The number of motor-cycles in the Colony, 1,800, is almost dour'e what it was in the few months before the Japanese occupation. But the ordinary cyle has declined in popularity,
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  • 33 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A 14-year-old Chinese cyclist was seriously Injured In the thigh in a collision with a car near Lorong 40. Geyi lang Road, at g p.m. yester-
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  • 82 3 1 dLst Churches In Singapore are: Wesley Church (Port Canning) 10 a.m., 5. 50 p.m.; Straits Chinese Methodist Church (Kampong Kapor) 9 a.m., 10 a.m., 4 p.m. and S p.m.; Pays Lebar Methodist Church (opposite Police Station) 0 a.m., 10 a.m.; Oeyl&ng Straits Chinese 3
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  • 46 3 MEMBERS of the Pul Chew Association, Singapore, yesterday entertained their incoming president. Mr. Chong Thutt Pitt, to dinner at the association's premises in Hokien Street. The association, formed about 80 years ago, is the premier organisation of the Hakka community in Singapore.
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  • 46 3 T A test supplement to the; Li Government Oa%e 1 1 c names the male and female leper hospitals, Trafalgar, Singapore. as "prisons" within the meaning of the Prisons Ordinance. Some "lock-up wards" In the General Hospital are also named as prisons.
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  • 461 4  -  Bob Gilmore Australian Newsletter l by 1 MELBOUNE, Dec 31 (by Air Mail). THROUGH his widely syndicated newspaper column, Australia's only professional wise man Professor Walter Murdoch, was asked this week probabiy the most important question facing this continent: "Who are the most desirable migrants?" Professor Murdoch's answer
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    40 4 MISS AUSTRALIA OF 1947.— Miss Judy Gainford. 20--year-old New South Wales brunette, will shortly start a chaperoned tour of Britain and the United States. Photographic model and radio announcer, she is five feet six inches tall and weighs 126 pounds.
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  • 340 4 MANY of the older Chinese in the Northern Settlement still refer to Penang's new Municipal Commissioner, Mr. C. P. LISTON, as "the son of Dr. Liston," a fine tribute to a man who left his mark in Penang. The late Dr. Liston left Malaya in 1923 and
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    531 4 I ATEST issue of the Li Malayan Nature Journal is a double number, devoted to an "Introduction to Malayan Birds," written by Mr. G. C. Madoc, M.8.0.U., of the Malayan Police Force, with black and white illustrations, three of which are reproduced here by Drs. B. D. Molesworth and
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    490 4 EAST or West, fantasy is the keynote of the cartoon strips. While "Tarzan" is the by-word for thrilling adventure among the English educated, the Chinese superman, "Si Jin Kooi," performs feats as amazing as the western hero, and claims the rapt attention of young and old alike among
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  • 361 5 9,053 callers in Singapore Sunday Times Staff Reporter OINGAPORE'S Telephone Exchange is dealing *3 with almost treble the number of lines it had when the BJHJL handed over the exchange in April, 1946. There are altogether 9,053 subscribers to the Oriental Telephone Company's exchanges in Hill Street
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  • 51 5 rpHE Chinese Foodstuffs As--1 sociation, Singapore, will present a special flag to the X.P.M. ship Van Huetz, at a ceremony on board the vessel tomorrow at 3 p.m. This flag will replace the one lost during the war. The ceremony will be followed by a
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  • 72 5 30 DIE OF T.B. IN ONE WEEK Sunday Times Staff Reporter T ATEST Singapore health statement shows that 30 people died of tuberculosis and that 32 new tuberculosis cases were reported in the week ending January 3. Three new leprosy cases were reported in the same week. Other main causes
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  • 104 5 TELUK ANSON, Saturday. A SPECIAL committee of I Malays has been formed. under the chairmanship of Inche Yah to encourage students of the Malay Girls! School, Teluk Anson, to study j cooking, sewing, embroidery, j home sanitation, table-tennis and hockey. All subjects will i be taught
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  • 39 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SEREMBAN. Sat. There will be a ceremonial opening of the Negri Sembdlan Assizes on Monday at 10.30 a.m. by Mr. Justice E. N. Taylor. There are 15 cases on the list.
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  • 274 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MEPALESE medicine-men, self-styled expert* in IN herbal medicine, charms, magic (both black «ad white) and reading fortunes, are back again h Singapore, earning a scanty living from the credulous and enlarging their experience of the world. On their long journey from
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  • 68 5 The Singapore Chamber of! Commerce Rubber Association's j prices at noon yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Cts. Cts. per Ib. per lb. No. 1 R.S.S. Spot I loose nominal 42K 42% No. 1 R.SS. fob in bales Jan. 42% 43 No. 2 R.S.S. fob in bales Jan. 42 'i 42
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  • 34 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter The Singapore Stamp Club will hold a social meeting at the Palm Court, Capitol Restaurant, on Jan. 13 at 5.15 p.m. This will be an allauction evening.
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  • 41 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE Special Commissioner in South-East Asia, Lord Killearn, accompanied by Lady Killearn, left Singapore by air yesterday morning to visit China and Japan. They are expected to return towards the end of this month.
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  • 117 5 NEW DRIVE TO GET RECRUITS NOW STARTING Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. ANEW recruiting drive for the Malay Regiment is starting on Monday. The regimental selection board tours the States of Perak, Kedah and Province Wellesley during the next two weeks. All applicants must be between 18 and
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  • 90 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PENANG. Saturday. THE Singapore dock strike and the Johore floods are expected to strengthen toe rubber market in North Malaya. A leading Penang rubber merchant said toAiy that with shipments held up in Singapore, there would be a great demand for upcountry
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  • 208 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. A COMMITTEE has been formed in London to arrange for the distribution of food parcels sent to England by the "Spare Time and Talent Enterprises" recently established in Kuala Lumpur to raise funds for food for British people. The
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    • 465 5 M A .fitDAsic I wvsHvw^ZTZZTZn^*^^ iCritique; 9.?0 BBC Radio Newsreel: RADIO MALAYA I s PORE HIGHLIGHTS 9« Voices in Harmony: 10.00 1 p.m. Jullen Foorman Orch.' n <i*\ ma* «v« clD npr» Radio Cinema: 10.30 Navy Mixture--1.40 Music: 5.03 Music; 5.30 Hall RADIO MALAYA (SPORE). 11.00 All Serene; 11.45 Close
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  • 622 6 THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE, JAN. 11, 1948. Stern Remedy TWO and a half years have passed since the defeat of the Axis powers and the Allies are further from agreeing on the peace treaties with Japan and Germany than they were in 1945. This failure in international accord is one
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  • 1747 6  - BIRDS OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND C.A. GIBSON-HILL by who made collections there in 1939 and 1940 fHRISTMAS ISLAND lies out in the Indian Ocean, about 180 miles south of Java Head. It was given its name by a certain Captain William Mynors, who discovered it on Christmas Day, 1643. The island
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  • 145 6 I^HIS year, because It is L Leap Year, you will have an extra day on your hands. What are you going to <t& with it? Somebody has had the Idea that it would be a good thins; to give Feb. 29 to somebody who needs It.
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  • 553 6  -  F. HENRY by •THERE is a hitherto 1 obscure area in the cortex of the brain, little more than a square inch in area, which apparently has supercontrol over, the body's subconscious emotional reactions. When it is removed animals become more than ten times as active as
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  • 111 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. THE Rev. Norman Goodall, secretary of the International Missionary Council, London, arrived in Singapore yesterday evening by air from Colombo. He is touring India, .Ceylon, Malaya, Burma. Australia and New Zealand with the aim of securing unity among the various churches
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  • 89 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. A EUROPEAN, Mr. Jack Tate. was commended yesterday by Mr. W. G. Porter, the Singapore Coroner, for helping a British soldier who, it was stated, had been thrown o<T when a jeep skidded at the seventh mile, Bukit Timah K
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  • 576 7 CLASSROOMS WILL BE PACKED TOMORROW Many pupils turned away Sunday Times Staff Reporter TOMORROW the Christmas holidays end for 20,000 Singapore schoolchildren and they return to schools which, the Department of Education states, are beginning to settle down to pre-war standards. A spokesman of the Singapore Teachers' Union, however, claimed
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    50 7 MRS. C. S. K. BOVELL, C.S.P.C. in Johore Bahru, hcft'ds his daughter, Susan Jane, after she was christened at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, on Friday. Mrs. Bovell smiles at his air of uncertainty. Godparents were Mr. L. F. Knight, C.P.O. Johore Bahru, and Mrs. Knight. Senior Inspector Hisham bin NawawL
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  • 159 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A 25-YEAR-OLD Singapore Chinese was wounded by police fire yesterday when he ran away after burglary had been attempted in a house in Dunearn Road. The man was taken to the General Hospital and after a bullet was extracted from his left
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  • 86 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter! PENANG, Saturday. Atom dollar-note, was produced as an exhibit in a District Court case in which a police constable, Abdul Latiff was charged with theft. Latiff was alleged to have snatched five dollars from a bus inspector. The complainant. Chee Tiang
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  • 52 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter Four masked Singapore Chinese forced their way through a back door into a squatter's hut in Kirn Chuan Road. Paya Lebar, at 1 a.m. yesterday morning, and seized $200 in cash and goods from two Chinese women. Two of the robbers were armed
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  • 259 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A 31 -YEAR-OLD officer of the Johore Police Force, Senior Inspector Hisham bin Nawawi, will be presented at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow with the Colonia Police Medal in recognition of his courageous work in fighting the bandit menace in Johore State. Joining the Police
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  • 173 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter FOURTEEN destitutes who ran away whenever they r saw Social Welfare Department men are now living, quite content, at a home in Bushey Park, Singapore. Af>aid to entrust themselves to the Welfare Department's care, the 14 men resisted for months
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  • 304 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A SINGAPORE delegate to the recent 1.L.0. conference in New Delhi told the Singapore East-West Society's latest forum that workers' delegates had succeeded with most of their amendments except a 10-year time limit for implementation of 1.L.0. schemes in Asia. The
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  • 185 7 GANGSTERS TOOK REVENGE Sunday Times staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. BFX3AUSE an ex-member of the Green Dragon Mountain Society, Yee Thong, alias Chun Poh, had refused to disclose the hiding place of his gang's arms to a rival gang, he was dragged from his home in Salak South and killed,
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  • 168 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE Salvation Army Boy's Home received the largest of the grants by the Social Welfare Department, Singapore, to voluntary charitable organisations in 1947, an official statement says. The Boys' Home received $12,000 and the Women' 3 Industrial Home received $10,000. Oth-i-
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  • 198 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PENANG, Saturday. rE Pcnang artist, Mr. Yong Mun Sen, has been asked to accept a commission to paint a series of Malayan pictures for exhibition at the British Industries Fair. The Fair is to be held in London in May
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  • 24 7 Sunday Times Staff Reportec Raffles Museum, Singapore which Princess Elizab?th sent to the Governor, Sir Franklin for the gold casket Singapore
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  • 39 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE Indian Goodwill Mission will arrive in Singapore today and will be received by the Singapore Regional Indian Congress. The Congress will entertain the visitors to a teaparty during their stay in Singapore.
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  • 215 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter OINGAPORE l.as said goodbye for the present to J further imports of expensive American cloths such as sharkskin and buckskin with which the !<" market has been flooded during the past few months at the cost of precious U.S. dollars. The Singapore Import
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  • 70 7 BAIL of $2000 was allowed Ng Aik. a 30-year-old Cantonese, who was charged in the Singapore Sixth Police Court yesterday, with criminal breach of trust of $76.50. Ng was alleged to have committed the offence between August and December last year, while he was employed
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  • 43 7 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent TELOK ANSON, SaturdayTwenty cases of smallpox have been reported in the Lower Perak district for the week ending Jan. 9. Out nf these, two were fatal All the cases are from Rungkup and Bagan Datoh areas.
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    • 149 7 LOTTERY FINE Neo Bah Soon, an young Hokklen, was fined $200, in default three months, in Singapore yesterday for assisting in a lottery. I SPIRIT MEASURES m "QUICK SERVE" "QUICK SERVE" Bottle Measures SIM 4H M Tots to One Dottle "QUICK SERVE" Bottle Measures if Bise 4 21 1 3
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  • 438 8 THIS WEEK FOR YOU CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20). Contract and business C affairs will improve. Clinch s; some project offered or be- p gun last week. If you are n connected with shipping you g should find unusual success il right now. AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19).
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  • 413 8 1. Where are (a) the Rand; (b) the Punjab; (c) the Riviera; (b) the Steppes; (c) The Klondyke; (f) the Needles? 2. What important substance will Britain gain from extending groundnut planting in Africa 3. Who was the last Viceroy of India? 4. What kind
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  • 124 8 ALLEN, Isaacs, Lewis, and Ellsworth are four good friends who have fallen into the habit of lunching together and taking turns in paying the W After three luncheons, the question was who should pay next. Isaacs argued that he had paid for the last one arid that it
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  • 55 8 IN a zoo cage with eight corners there is a monkey in each corner, seven monkeys before each monkey, a monkey on each monkey's tall. What's the number of monkeys? -jj jo iooj; a; aq Pino* sXa^oota mAM wrr»o *n v«n nTOWs o* aq pinoj £*****1 ify*. 'ifttt
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  • 421 8 WINNIG CONTRACT BRIDGE WHEN partner has dopole& an opposing suit bid of one, there are times when the responder will have to take out on a complete bust. Not infrequently the respander's best suit will consist of four v the ten or Jack; he may have an outside king or
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    • 27 8 I'ri -llrnnol Oil $4. 00 A Hcnnol Pomade $4 80 rarh. (Duty extra for Malayan Union) Sole Agents: NAIVA MOHAMEn SONS. Kinnpore, Kuala Lumpur i Pnnana 1
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 302 8 Sunday Times Crossword ACBOSS Look out! (4), 47. Custom (3); 1. King's son Otasy <«> (6) fabrte M>. Vessel (3); 11. Ar- Orgsa (5): 2. Urgent 1. r.ved (4); 12. Gratify to excess Hints (4): 4. Mistake (5); >. 45(6); 14. Mysterious (6); 16. Day sent (8); 7. Diplomacy (4);
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  • 782 9 MARY HEATHCOTT TELLS OF HER LONDON, Dec. 29 (by Air Mail. TN Ireland, they eat soda bread and the girls are mad about dancing. Coffee is still a good present to send to friends in France. In Holland you can still buy a Dutch cheese for
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  • 281 9 QALADS need never be •J dull and monotonous however often you have them, if you know a few of these "secrets" which show you how to change radishes, onions, celery and cucumber into colourful flowers. Give your salads that "special look by using these tricks which are
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  • 579 9 My otherwise marvellous wife has the exasperating habit of stealing all my thunder when we entertain, or are entertained by, my friends. She tells my stories, uses \my brightest "mots," relates my doings, and I cannot get a word in. We are newly married and I am so
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  • 571 9 IF you were suddenly told you had to walk down a large room full of people all staring at you, how would you feel about it? Awkward and fussed, or quite sure of yourself? Would you be in a panic about your clothes or the heels
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  • 112 9 Across: 1. Prince; 5. Sateen; 10 Urn; 1!. Came; 12. Pamper; 14. Occult: 16. Eve; 17. Sonnet; 19. Ride; 21. Reed; 22. Spa; 24. Dil! 25. Every; 27. Sias; 28. Ort- 29 Ores; 30. Otter; 32. Ewes- 33. Aye; 34. East; 37. Snag; 39. Pastel; 41. Ago; 42.
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  • 291 10 Johore Plans For Soccer Season Sunday Times Johore Bahru Correspondent pLANS are already afoot for I this year's soccer season which starts in March. It is proposed, as a kick off, to begin the year's programme with a six a side soccer competition and *lr. L. Day, President of the
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  • 476 10 GIANTS FALL IN CUD 3rd ROUND Arsenal lose at home LONDON, Saturday. r[E Football Association Cup once again lived up to its reputation for surprises when in the third round matches today some of the leading teams including the mighty Arsenal fell to lowly rivals. Besides the sensational defeat of
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    24 10 AN Egyptian, Mahmoud Karim, won the British squash racquets championship, held at the R.A.C. Club, Pall Mall. Karim is seen playing in the final.
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  • 124 10 •THE identity of "Mad Monk" 1 masked sensation in Singapore wrestling, who had won 19 fights I by knockouts, was revealed at the Happy World last night following his defeat at the hands of Dara Singh. He is William Massey of the R.A.S.C. Dara Singh won the
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  • 70 10 Barrow 0, Rochdale Hornets 0; Bradford Northern 17, Featherstone Rovers 8; Bramley 0, Huddersneld 34; Bellevue Rangers 7. 3 win ton 5; Dewsbury 7, Leeds 3; Halifax 8, Worklngton Town 10; Hull 40, York 2; Hunslet 8, Castleford 8; Kelghlcy 7, Batliy 8; Leigh 12, Liverpool Stanley 0;
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  • 229 10 THE Singapore Chinese Football Association started their inter-district league yesterday with a "B" Division game between the Jellicoe Lads and the Naval Base Keow Kam XI at Jalan Besar Stadium. The Jellicoe Lads won by a solitary goal scored in the first half by
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  • 124 10 Sunday Time* Carresyswdwit rjLA ying on the Johore Trade I School ground yesterday, Singapore beat Johore Bahru District by five goals to one in a game of hockey. Major Boyne, who struck good form, scored three goals In the second half. Karim scored the first
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  • 194 10 KING KONG ZBISKO DRAW KINO Kong won his $1,000 side-bet with George Zbisko when they drew in the main feature bout in the 1 wrestling promotion at the Great World Arena last night. Zbisko was trapped on several occasions in the dreaded Double Nelson. He was saved by the gong
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  • 290 10 *pHE fact that good women badminton players are ran in Singapore makes it easier to have a ranking list, but It is practically impossible to get ten good players. One must take into account that if a player deserves place on this list, she must
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  • 462 10 Indoor Tennis Meet By "VOLLEY" THE tennis exhibition matches played in the covered stadium in the Happy World in the first week of December last, gave local players a new experience they played on a cemented surface, under artificial lights, and in very noisy surroundings. The
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  • 159 10 County Championship: Cornwall 14. Dorset and Wilts 3: 'Lancashire 11, Cheshire 0. Clnb Matches: Blackheath 14, Harlequins 7; Ouys Hospital 18, Wasps 9; London Irish 15, O.M.T. 0; London Scottish 6, Rosslyn Park 6; Middlesex Hospital 3, London Hospitals 8; C^l Cranlelghans 3, Old Mill Hill inns 3;
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 181 10 ON TOP in QUALITIES and LOW in PRICES CARPETS of MODERN TASTE f A visit will convince Straits Grpet Emporium (Carpet Specialists) 8, De Souza Street •ft rUflles r!»««. Singapore Phone 83C66 Every Drop ot Sovereign's ESSENCE OF CHICKEN means far combined strength of A HUNDRED CHICKENS! obtainabla at: Singapore
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  • 86 11 DEL MONTE (CALIF), Sat. rPHE oddest field id the history 1 of top-flight golf tournaments teed off tcday for the annual Bing Crosby $10,000 (U.S.) l«--ttonal profess nal meet. The field includes movie actors, prize fighters, football stars and baseball executives. All receipts go to
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  • 659 11 MOST COSTLY HORSE STARTS TRAINING Best gallops on K.L. track. By EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. CASILY the most valuable racehorse in the country H> at the moment, Oriental has begun serious train ing. He was taken out by Charlie Ellery this morning for a tryout with Electroplate (Tankard). Fightin
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    26 11 LADYKALANG(D»wson«P). who recently scored her maiden victory on the Malayan Turf, seems U be retaining her form. She did a splendid tryoat at Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
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  • 235 11 Turf Personalities—No. 17 By Epsom Jeep /\NE of the biggest importers of racehorses for the \f Malayan turf is Mr. Max lan Wheatley. A keen horseman and a fine judge of horses, he has brought about 80 horses to this country from Australia. The excellence of
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  • 98 11 Sunday Times Correspondent *pHE Krian hockey team will be travelling to Kuala f"p»^ today to meet the Kuala Tc*wg™ r district in their first-round replay 1 in the Perak inter -district hockey knockout competition. The first match, played at Parit Bun tar. resulted in a
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  • 457 11 R. BARTH REPLIES TO PERAK UMPIRE RONNIE Banh, captain of the Singapore hockey team, has written a letter to the Sunday Times in reply to the statement last week by Mr. Venasi, Perak umpire for the game at Kuala Lumpur on Dec 20 between Singapore and Perak which was abandoned
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  • 45 11 Following snimmfcig events for juniors will be held at the Singapore Swimming Club today at 10.30 a.m.: one-length freestyle for boy* inder 16, onelength free-style for girls under 16, one-breadth free-style for boys under 13 and «oe-breadth freestyle for girls vnder 13.
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  • 319 11 THE following are the weights for the first 1 day's races in the Selangor Turf Club's January meeting to be run on Saturday: norses, i i»sk 1, uiv. i, 3| run. COUNSEL II 9.04 GOLD MEDALLIST 9 02 ECLIPTIC 8.09 GAMEBOROUUH 8.09 LYNCHBURO 8.07 SOME CLASS 8.05
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  • 1155 12 Exciting play in rugby final From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. WITH a try scored by John Ritchie in the third minute of play and a penalty kicked by Littledyke ten minutes after the start of the second half, Penang beat the Singapore Services by six
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  • 518 12 WHE indoor championships X of the Singapore Lawn Tennis Association to be held next month at the Happy World promises to be a very interesting international tournament. Well-known tennis players from Great Britain, Switzerland. Australia, America and Franco will be playing against Singapore's leading exponents of
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  • 523 12 HOBART, Saturday. Pthe fii. of the two three-day fixtures with Tasmania, which began today, Amarnath caused some surprise when, winning the toss, he sent Tasmania in to bat first on a good, fast wicket. The home side were all out for 142, Rangachari distinguishing himself by ttw»
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  • 60 12 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. THE inter-State hockey match between Selangor and Negrl Sembi'aa cm the railway padang this evening was abandoned after the interval owing to the muddy nature of the ground. There i were no goals scored. The match was called oT after
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    37 12 MaJ. D. Vaughan's First of the Dandic V. Mooney up, falls at the second onen ditch in the new King George VI steeplechase at Kempton Park, bringing down J. Dowdeswell on Mrs. C. D. Wilson's Battling Pepulas.
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  • 172 12 TRUCK FLOATS MAY TAKE HORSES TO KL Sunday Times Staff Reporter WITH rail and sea t r anspor t- ation unavailable. Major A. M. Heddle has decided to make an attempt to take to Kuala Lumpur his candidates for the coming Selangor races by means of a novel method. He
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  • 218 12 KOALA LUMPUR, Saturday. COLLOWING are the provisional r fixtures in the H.M.B. Malaya Cup soccer competition for 1946, as officially released by the secretary of the Football Association of Malaya. NORTHERN SECTION May 1: Kedah ts. Penang, Perak vs. Pahang, Seiangor ts. Services. May 23: Perak
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  • 102 12 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. rpHE North side selected for X the annual match against the South was selected today, with Maurice Pestana as taptain. The match will be played on Jan. 24. at Singapore, in accordance with the decision made by the Malayan Rufby
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