The Straits Times, 29 January 1950

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    27 1 LARGEST NETT SALES IN MALAYA THE SUNDAY TIMES Sunday SdUloa Of TIM Strmiim > tta»«c ilii|i|lll IM« VMM No. 757. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    PHIBUNS GOTO ARMY CHIEF
    297 1 PHIBUNS GOTO ARMY CHIEF Exile or die ultimatum Sunday Times Correspondent BANGKOK, Saturday. QIAM'S Prime Minister, Marshal Phibun Songkram is reported today to have ordered the exile of his deputy Army Commander-in Chief, Lieut. -General Kach Songkram, the man who engineered the coup which brought Phibun into power two years
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    33 1 INDONESIA'S President Soekamo (centre) and his Minister for External Affain, Anak Agung, chat with Hie President's mother during a visit to Bali. Both the Minister and the President's mother are Balinese. A.P. picture.
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    WESTERLING: AWFUL MASS MURDER'
    165 1 WESTERLING: AWFUL MASS MURDER' JAKARTA, Sat. fiHE United Indonesian IsX lam Party's executive board declared today that the activities of renegade leader Westerllng are "awful mass murder and the Indonesian people should aid the Government in connection with the arrest of party leaden Tjokrosujoso and Karta-vina-ta." "If it later appears
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    TWO NATIONS IN SEARCH
    69 1 EDMONTON, (Canada) Sat. Rescue planes of two nations focused today on the mountainous, blizzard-infest-ed Yukon territory in search of a U.S.. Air Force plane which vanished two days ago with 44 persons aboard. Among the 36 passengers were a mother and a child. Air rescue services
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    U.N. HELP FOR SINGAPORE '
    29 1 U.N. HELP FOR SINGAPORE LAKE SUCCESS, Sat.— The United Nations International Emergency Fund announced yesterday It will spend U5527,000 in Singapore and US$lO4,OOO in Malaya on approved projects.— AJ».
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    14 ESTATE ARRESTS
    44 1 Snndar Time* SUIT Correspondent BENTONO, Sat Following the murder by bandits of Mr. W. M. M. Mac Donald, assistant manager of Sabal Estate, Bentong, yesterday morning, police arrested 14 labourers In the Kemasul division of the estate for identity card offences.
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    AUSTRALIA NOT READY FOR MAO
    111 1 SYDNEY. Sat. AUSTRALIA'S Minister for A External Affairs. Mr. Percy Spender, said today that Australia does not propose for the time being to recognise the Government of Communist China. Mr. Spender returned to Sydney from the conference of British Commonwealth Foreign Ministers at Colombo. He
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    MILITARY CHIEFS
    49 1 WASHINGTON, Sat.— The U.S four top military leaders will leave here tomorrow for a yen-day visit to American installations in the Far East. The four joint Chiefs-of-Staff are General Omar Bradley, chairman; General Lawton Collins, Army; General Hoyt Vandenberg, Air Force; and Admiral Forrest Sherman, Navy. A.P.
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    Mystery manhunt follows N.S. fire
    193 1 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent SE'EMBAN, Saturday DOLICE are still seeking a mysterious Chinese for questioning in connection with yesterday morning's fire at Kampong Limbok, Seremban, which burnt down three attap houses and made more than 30 Chinese homeless. The police believe that the fire originated
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    CHURCHILL'S STORY
    106 1 fHE third volume of Mr. I 1 Churchill's War Memoirs are now appearing daily In the. Straits Times. In this narrative, the series carries the progress of events np to the outbreak of war with Japan. It touches on many incidents of burning interest lo the people of
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    MAN OF steel'
    41 1 Melbourne. Sat. Mr. Harold Darling, often called Australia's "Man of Steel" has died at his home in Melbourne. He had been a leader in the expansion of Australia's iron and steel industry for the past 27 years.— A.P.
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    3 SCs KILLED IN JOHORE
    75 1 Sunday Tillies Staff Corresponden KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. TttIREE special constables X were killed this morning during a bandit raid on Sungel Papan Estate In the Kota Tlnggl area of Johore. Police reinforcements were rushed to the estate shortly after the attack but the bandits escaped.
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    FIRE THREAT TO CAPE TOWN
    65 1 CAPE TOWN, Sat. A great fire sweeping down the slopes of Table Mountain tonight threatened two residential areas overlooking the city. The fire became worse after the brigades had thought they had held it In check, according to a fire brigade chief. Thousands of volunteers
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    ANTI-GOVT. POSTERS
    41 1 Sunday Time. Staff Cacreafio— ent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat.— Three anti-Government .posters, one in Jawi and two in Chinese, were found posted on trees close to a coffee stall on the roadside near Blrapang Lawan, In the Kuala Kangsar area.
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    55 1 MR. YUEN TUCK WENG ami hi. brfdo Mi*s Kw.k Lm Khoon, who were married at the Singapore) Registry on Friday. Mr. Yuen is the younger son of Mr. and Mr*. Yuen Peng Kuan of Singapore, and Miss Kwefc is the third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kwek Moh Err, also
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    Malaya's national debt
    126 1 fund»y Times staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Mat ivi ,m«H ALAYA owed a national debt to the planters and miners and their staffs who had carried on throughout the emergency, declared the Rev. b. S. T. Evans, speaking at the funeral at Cheras Road cemetery thla morning
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    3 BANDIT SUSPECTS ARRESTED
    34 1 S»n*ky Times Staff Cor i *-s'»ondeui KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. Two Indians and a Chinese woman, suspected at being bandit agents, were arrested In the Bahau area ol Negrl Sembllan yesterday.
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    U.S. ARMS FOR PACT NATIONS
    62 1 WASHINGTON, Sat— One thousand million dollars worth of guns, tanks, arms and ammunition began moving to American ports today for shipment to Atlantic Pact nations. The Pact quickened to life yesterday when President Truman approved a secret master defence plan, and seven European nations signed
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    TWO DETECTIVES' WERE ROBBERS
    149 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter "TWO Chinese posing as detectives yesterday morning stopped a 22-year-old Singapore woman and her young daughter who were in a trishaw at the junction of Owen Road and Cambridge Road, and robbed them of $480 in jewellery. The two men examined the
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    Tar flung at shop
    67 1 Sunday Time* Staff Correspondent PENANC. Sat. BEACH Street branch of Chop Tong Aik, one of PeMang's leading departmental stores, was tarred last night by unknown man who threw an electric bulb at the premise*. The bulb exploded against the signboard, smearing it with tar. No damage
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    School warning about vampires
    172 1 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent PENANC, Saturday. AT least one Penang school has warned its pupils against talking with strangers or going out with them because of the widespread rumours that a vampire coupt* is begging for alms and stalking victims. "There is nothing in this vampire
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    Big day of sport
    87 1 rE Sunday Times carries foil reports in its sports pages today of yesterday's main sporting; events. At Jalan Besar stadium in the end-of-season Rugby classic. South beat Nortb with a but minute penalty to win by one point. In the annual Nortb v South hockey match
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    17 KILLED IN RAIL CRASH
    41 1 HONG KONG Sat.—Seventeen people were killed and 60 seriously injured when two trains on the Tientsln-Pukow railway collided recently. According to the New China news agency the Minister of Communications announced this In Peking yesterday.— Reuter-AAP.
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    TO MOSCOW
    24 1 KARACHI, Sat.— Premier Llaquat All Khan of Pakistan will visit Moscow in May, before going on to Washington, it is announced. AJ>.
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    I am content —Mrs. Osman
    205 1 I am content —Mrs. Osman Sunday Times Staff Reporter kJRS. Phyllis Osman, the Australian wife of a Singapore Malay who was deported from Australia nearly two years ago, is noti "very keen" on returning to her homeland in spite of, the new Australian Government's revised immigration policy. She told the
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    AUSTRALIA ASKS FOR ARRESTS
    87 1 TOKYO. Sat.— Gen. MacArthur announced that he had ordered the Japanese Government to arrest 43 Japanese suspected war criminal* for transfer to Manus Island for trial by an Australian court. The arrests will be in addition to 92 prisoners already held at Sugamo Prison <>n behalf
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    MASTERS OF MONEY
    2141 2  -  PAUL BRICKHILL Introducing fry He made millions, unseated kings and sowed the seed of wars, but he knew not love a^ fascinating series of articles in which the stories of men who made millions are told from a new and more intimate angle HMMHMMM^mAitaflHBaaMHiiH SIR BASIL ZAHAROFF,
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    A MERCY KILLING-WAS IT JUSTIFIED?
    526 2 A MERCY KILLING-WAS IT JUSTIFIED? IN the United States Dr. Herman Sander, aged 40, awaits his trial for the alleged "mercy" murder of a woman who had been suffering from incurable cancer for 18 months. fte is said to have injected air into her veins to end her ordeal. He
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    ALTER THE LAW, THEY PLEAD
    81 2 n ISTINGUISHED men \J of science, medicine >< and the law have signed << a petition to the United Nations pleading that the laws relating to << "mercy killing" be al- >> tered. ?< They say that Article K 5 of the Declaration of Human
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    SCHEME TO PROBE T.B. PROBLEM
    320 3 Dr. Garlick's report Sunday Tntes Staff Reporter SUGGESTIONS for assessing the true magnirude of Singapore's tuberculosis problem are contained in a report submitted to the Council of the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association by Dr. G. H. Garlick, director of the SATA Clinic. Dr. Garlick believes that
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    HE JUMPED WHEN THE GUNS FIRED
    141 3 Sunday Times SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPTJH, Sat. 'TERRORISTS In Negrl Sembiian have been shelled by night by 25 pounders of the 26th Field Battery, Royal Artillery. Areas attacked were those in which bandits were thought to be on the move. In two nights 300
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    CHARGED FOR EXTORTION
    99 3 Sunday Times SUB Correspondent SEGAMAT, Sat. UEARINO will be resumed in the Segamat Sessions Court on Monday in the case against 21-year-old former auxiliary police constable, Wong See Piaw, of Batu Anam, charged with extortion of $800. The complainant, a Chinese tapping contractor on Paya Lang Estate,
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    FINED $1,000 FOR 200 SACKS
    64 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat.— Tay Yeok, of Malacca, was fined $1,000, In default six months' imprisonment at Johore Bahru for attempting to export 200 gunny sacks. He told the Court that he was unaware that empty sacks were on the prohibition list, but they were found
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    ANTI-BANDIT PLANS
    21 3 TAIPING, Sat. Community leaders of Taiping will meet at the Cantonese Association on Monday in connection with anti-bandit month.
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    To London in 30 hrs. by Comet
    239 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE new British jet Comet airliner, which cruises at 490 mile* an hour compared with the American Constellation's speed of 275 m.p.h., will be seen in Singapore towards the end of this year on a trial run. The chairman
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    YOUTH FOR CHRIST TEAM COMING
    76 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter An International Youth For Christ Team from the United Kingdom is on a world tour and will visit Singapore tomorrow after a campaign in Australia and New Zealand. A special meeting has been arranged at Bethesda, Bras Basah Road, tomorrow at
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    RUBBER
    67 3 Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's noon prices on Saturday (Jan. 38) were in cents per Ib.: Bayer SeUer No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose nominal SOU Mtt fob. In bales Feb. MO. 1 R.S.S. 60% 50% No. 3 R.SJS. 49% 50 No. 3 R.S.B. 49% 494 R MA. 1
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    Tin Prices
    19 3 SINGAPORE, Saturday Jan. 28. $287.25 Down $1.25. London, Friday, Jan. 27. Spot £606. Three months buyers £583.15.
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    HOMELESS SET $100 GIFTS
    65 3 HOMELESS SET $100 GIFTS Sunday Times SUIT Cerrespondea ALOR BTAR, Sat.—Thirtytwo families, rendered homeless by the recent -fire at Kuala Kedah, will each receive $100 worth of food, clothing and other gifts from the Kedah Chinese Chamber of Commerce. The distribution is expected to be made tomorrow These gifts were
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    COMPLAINTS AGAINST VALUATIONS
    45 3 Banday Times Stall Curresponden SEGAMAT, Sat.— The last day for making complaints gainst valuations and assessments on buildings hi the Kota Tinggi Town Board area for this year is Jan. 30. The books containing the valuations and assessments are opened for inspection.
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    BRIDGE AT KLANG SINKS IN MUD
    118 3 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. QNE of Hie two pontoon bridges spanning the river at V^ Klang (Selangor) has sunk its northern end, temporarily defeating P.W.D. technicians who ever since the bridges were laid down by liberating troops in 1945, have fought
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    St. John Abbulance
    37 3 Sunday Times SUIT Reporter All divisional superintendents and senior officers of St. John Ambulance Brigade are asked to attend a meetIng at 5.30 pjn. on Wednesday at the Brigade headquarters at Stamford Road, Singapore.
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    PENANG MAY VOTE NEXT YEAR
    87 3 PENANG MAY VOTE NEXT YEAR Sunday Time* Staff Corresponden PENANG, Sat. MUNICIPAL elections should be held in Penang from December 1951, according to a recommendation which the Elections Committee is expected to make following its first meeting yesterday afternoon. The meeting was closed to the Press, but the Sunday Times
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    Durians are here again
    264 3 Durians are here again Sunday Times Reporter A SMELL which some will analyse as chemical, but others dismiss as cheese, pervades the atmosphere of Singapore now. Yes. last week the durians came to town. In back streets off South Bridge Road, in Kampong Java, hi dockland near Kenpel Road and
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    DROVE WITHOUT LICENCE
    27 3 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent SEGAMAT, Sat. Caught driving a car without a licence, 29-year-old Shee Eng Kee was fined $15 by the Segamat Magistrate.
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      325 3 simcapork Pencil* Please; 10.15 American land 1 B. IS Thai; 8.45 Dutch; 9M Band Concert; 10.90 Great Expec- Kuoyu; 8.30 Burmese; 9.46 Pro--9.00 Programme Summary; 9.02 tattoo*: 11.00 Popular Olaaritt; gramme Summary and Interlude: Morning music; 9.30 Latin Amerl- 11.30 south America; 13.00 Ma- 10.00 Radio Newi Reel; 10.16 ca:
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      He averted a clash
      185 4 SENIOR Inspector Salleh bin Abdul Rahman, recent recipient of the Colonial Police Medal, 1b one of Kedah's most popular sportsmen. He has represented the State not only at soccer, but also at cricket and rugger. Born in Alor Star on Christmas Day 1918, Inche Salleh joined
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      96 4 f\HE Raden Ayu Nancy Marinah Razman binte Mo\j hamea Asdjam of Kuala Kangsar it the first woman 1 n donesian c ommunity In Perak. The wife of Yang Mulla man secretary to the Sultan o f Perak, she was educated at the M c t hodist Girls' School After aepreriage
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      Left alone with an ambulance
      169 4 Left alone with an ambulance /CORPORAL Abdul Aziz bin Wahid All a retired hospital assistant, durln« the war drove an ambulance alone under enemy fire from Perak to Singapore. Mobilised at the outbreak of the war, CpL Aziz served with the Medical Unit at Ipoh. When evacuating to the south
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      His wife shared the danger
      240 4 His wife shared the danger THE European master of a Singapore dredge now operating in the sea off Collyer Quay, Is today working on the same vessel in which he and his wife were subjected to Japanese bombing and strafing attacks shortly before the Island's surrender. He is Mr. E.
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      HER DREAM CAME TRUE
      265 4 A pre-war dream to start her own library some day "which will be open to everybody," nas come true for Mrs. J. O. Pattenden of Seremban Eighteen months ago she started her own library known a s the "Everym a n's Library" which today has about
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      Lawyers 40 busy years in Malaya
      211 4 Lawyers 40 busy years in Malaya MR. C. D. D. Hogan who last week was again elected chairman of the Penang Bar Committee, has had an Interesting career throughout his 40 years' stay In Malaya. At present senior partner of Hogan, Adams and Allan, he well remembers the three years
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      A tourist centre—but not yet
      180 4 A tourist centre— but not yet QINGAPORE can be easily developed as a tourist centre but not so long as present finance regulations apply, says Mr. T. Van Kooten. Singapore manager of Royal Rotterdam Lloyd and one of the oldest Dutch residents in the colony, who Is going on retirement
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    BOYS' TOWN GRAPPLES WITH THE FUTURE
    750 5  -  KATHLEEN HICKLEY by QNE of Singapore's most urgent social problems today is the future of its young people. The Singapore Director of Education, Mr. A. W. Frisby, said recently that there are about 200,000 children of school age in Singapore at the moment. You
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    The popular choice
    495 5 The popular choice XT EXT, we called In. on the engineering shop, which is the most popular vocational choice with the boys. Here. In a well equipped machine-shop about 30 youngsters were learning, under expert tuition., precision work in metal. A new Brother instructor had Just arrived from Canada, and
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    Income Tax is an obstacle
    269 5 MR. McDermott, who had joined us during the tour of Inspection, explained the future plans for Boys Town. "We are doing what we can right now," he said, "but lack of accommodation is keeping our numbers down. We have nearly 60 boys at the moment,
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    Jet bombers for R.A.F.
    183 5 n A.F. bomber squadrons t" will be equipped with Canberra twin-Jet aircraft by the end of this year— a date much earlier than the Air Ministry expected. For this reason Britain will now receive from the U.S.A. under the North Atlantic arms aid plan only about
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    PARENTS AND MARRIAGE
    564 6 'Control Outmoded/ Says Majority Reader survey LETTERS from men and women in all parts of Malaya and Singapore have been reaching The Sunday Times commenting on last week's survey Ms Parental Control in Marriage Outmoded?' The majority of the letters claim that it is. Mr. Ponnudurai of
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    THE MATCHMAKER'S LAMENT
    185 6 A PROFESSIONAL matchmaker in Penang, with a record of having "arranged" over 100 Chinese marriages in the past 30 years, sighs for the good old days when parents invariably sought the advice and services of an official "go-between" for the betrothal of their children. She says: It
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    Own Temple
    933 6 have a boy friend who is deeply in love with me My family and especially my mother, like him very much. I love him too. Wt cannot think of settling down just yet cs he is not in a position to support a family and it will be
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    Provided a twohour debate
    713 6 CINCAPORE S East-West Society spent more than two hours on Thursday evening debating points raised in The Sunday Times survey on parental control in marriage. About 100 people representative of all communities debated the issue keenly and here are some of the points made by speakers
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      495 6 WHICH, AILMENTS DO YOU SUFFER? Your doctor will tefl you that often these ar« slim of MINERAL A VITAMIN DEFICIENCY warnings that you>« not gattlng enough Minerals md Vitamins which Nature demands you to hay*. Th« cooktd-out foods you tat aren't giving you enough for four netdi. Heed tfcts* warnings
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    'RID US OF FINANCE CONTROL'
    373 7 Chinese plea to Govt. Sunday Times Staff Reporter COMPLETE freedom from foreign exchange control is urged in a memorandum to the Singapore Government by 20 Chinese trading organisations, who have asked for the liberalisation of the Finance Regulations. If the regulations are continued in their
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    25 7 Mr. and Mrs. L. Dawson, who were recently married at the Church of St. Joseph, Sentul. Mr. Dawson is attached to the Telecoms Department, Malacca.
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    NO FLOUR' COST THEM $275 FINES
    132 7 A CHINESE woman and a youth, the proprietress and salesman of a sundries shop in Jalan Kayu, Seletar, pleaded guilty in the Singapore Second District Court yesterday to a charge of refusing to sell wheat flour. They were 25-year-old Llm Chew Lian who was
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    Vested interests'
    79 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THI Singapore Government may be approacnedl shortly for the formation of a Finance Committee with *n unofficial majority of vested interests to assist the Controller of Foreign Exchange if continuance of foreign exchange control is enforced. This was one of the resolutions adopted »t
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    TAXI DRIVER CHARGED
    76 7 Sunday Times SUff t'orrtspondr n JOHORE BAHRU, Sat Retnam, a taxi driver, who was charged in the Police Court today with wrongfully confining a woman told the Magistrate that the woman was his wife and that she was willing to settle the matter out of Court. The
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    PIRATE' TAXIS BLACK-LISTED
    181 7 Sunday Times Correspondent SECAMAT. Saturday. AS a result of complaint* by bus and taxi operators against cars operating as 'pirate" taxis, the Road Transport Department in Johore had drawn up a black list and the numbers of the cars involved nave been supplied to the police. In
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    FATHER OF 10 PLEADS FOR LENIENCY
    74 7 Sunday Time* SUff Correspondent SEREMBAN. Sat.— A plea for leniency on the grounds that he had ten small children to support was made by Liew Pak Cheng, 43-year-old Chinese, when he claimed trial before the Seremban Magistrate, Tuan Sheikh Abdullah, to a charge of
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    Sir Franklin is surprised
    319 7 CIR Franklin Cimson, Governor of Singapore, who it on leave at hit Yorkshire home, it surprised to find that the "significant eventt in Malaya, with their disturbing and sinister portents" have failed to arouse the keenest interest of the people of Britain. Interviewed at his home
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    41 7 EVELYN de SoMsi. djughre. of Mr. am 4 Mr*. Victor de Soy xi of Singapore. hat returned home after studying at rhe Melbourne Conservatoire of Music, where til* WON h«r Teachers and Performers Diploma. Mim de Soux* is a« excellent Soprano.
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    BANDITS CHASED NEAR IPOH
    61 7 IPOH. Sat— A police jungle squad made contact with a large force of bandits behind Ampang. near Ipoh yesterday, but the bandits fled after an exchange of fire Police and military who followed up recovered the I tents which the bandits had stolen from the Boy
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    3 CASES TO OPEN COURT
    136 7 Sund.i> Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU. Sat THE first se&sion of the Johore Bahru Juvenile Court wajs held today before Mr. W. B. Sutherland assisted by Inche Azlzah Blnte Jaffar and Dr. Ismail bin Abdul Rahman. A Chinese boy. charged with stealing $50 from Mr.
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    MALACCA POST
    43 7 Sunday Times SUff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sat.— Dr. E. C. Vardy. formerly of the General Hospital Johore Bahru. has been posted to Malacca where he takes charge of the T.B. Hospital. Daring his leave he took a specialist's course In Switzerland.
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    SAMPAN MEN ON $5,000 BAIL
    103 7 Sunday Times SUff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sat A SAMPAN Intercepted off the coast of Ayer Bfclol, Pnntian. by a Customs laoaeh la alleged to have carried six :ases of liquor, 10 tin cartora of matches, and nine bags of Slam rice. The crew had no
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      THE NAME OF HOLLAND
      360 8 WHEREVER there is disorder or uncertainty on a national scale there arise men W ho —in the name of whatever cause seek to make confusion worse confounded. Adventurers, they are called, or rogues or Idealists. Such a man was Wolfgang Kapp, who in 1920 wrested control
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      A GENERAL IS FRANK
      214 8 rE very frank and informative statement by General Sir John Harding on the progress of the army's anti-bandit operations in Malaya is timely and welcome. It should do much to temper criticism both in Malaya and the United Kingdom of the conduct of the campaign. The
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    The Russians batten on North China
    1046 8  - The Russians batten on North China MARTIN HUTTON LAST ENGLISHMAN, OUT SAYS by INTO The Sunday Times office one morning last week walked an elderly Englishman a Londoner still speaking with an unmistakable Cockney twang and asked "Do you want to know what Is happening in the north of China?
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    30 8 THE Tjnjong Keling mosque at Malacca clearly shows the early Chinese influence on the ancient port's architecture. It has none of the Moorish design brought to Malaya by the Arab*.
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    THE BENEFITS OF LEAVE
    1173 8  - THE BENEFITS OF LEA VE T. C. KOH by WHEN the boss goes off the deep end more often than usual and is irritable most of the time, it is not a wild guess to say that his leave is almost due. The impatience he shows is just the result
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    47 8 THIS phofo. part oMndiai con tributior. to the Human Righto" Exhibition In Pirit. depict! the |uitice of Jahjngii. 'It illuitrjtci Ml* Italy of the Emperor |ih»(igir, whe ordered tt» irreit of Hi* Cmpreu Nur-|»h«» en th« compUint of a poor woman wttOM kusaaaa 1 had betn killed
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    HELPED MYSELF TO A RIFLE'
    173 9 HELPED MYSELF TO A RIFLE' Sunday Times Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. AN ex-member of the Malacca Volunteer Force and a member of the Auxiliary Police, Abdul Samat bin Suboh. was sentenced by Mr. Justice Laville at the Muar A.vuzes to 18 months' imprisonment for possession of arms and ammunition. Samat
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    CONSTABLE KILLED, 2 HURT IN CRASH
    50 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. One police constable was killed and two others were injured when a weapon carrier overturned at the 32nd mile Cherang Ruku-Pasir r ateh roac. in Kelantan on Thursday. The dead man was Ismail Mn Ariffin. of Cherang Ruku 1 ollce station.
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    PROMINENT CHINESE HELD IN MALACCA
    36 9 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Sat. A PROMINENT member of the Chinese community here, Mr. Tan Kee Cak, was detained yesterday on a warrant of detention. No further information is available.
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    RADIO TOWN' SOON FOR MALAYA
    373 9 RADIO TOWN' SOON FOR MALAYA Land cleared in Johore Sunday Times Staff Reporter |y| ALAYA will soon have its own self-contained "radio town" in the heart of the rubber growing area of Tebrau, eight miles north of Johore Bahru. The transmitters around which the town will be built will be
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    CANADA & MALAYA
    52 9 CANADA MALAYA Sunday Times Staff Reporter The Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs, Mr. Lester B. Pearson, will broadcast on "Canada and her Relations with Malaya" j tonight at 7.10 p.m. over the Blue Network of Radio Ma- 1 laya. Mr. Pearson recorded the talk before leaving for Hong
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    VAMPIRE AT 40,000 FEET
    58 9 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A ROYAL Air Force Vampire jet-fighter made a 40--minute trial flight ova r Singapore yesterday, reaching a speed of 510 m.p.h and at one time attaining an altitude of 40.000 feer. The plane flew ovei the city for 25 minutes In the
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    LUXURY AT LUNCH TIME
    468 9 Our Fashion Correspondent Writes On- DEFORE a crowd of ha Hess women at Raff Us Hotel, Doris Ceddes, at a fashion parade luncheon, showed hats large and small between the consomme and the entree on Friday. Among the dozens of spectators watching society mannequins turn their
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    RATIONING UNIT
    28 9 The Mobile Rationing Unit will continue to visit the rural areas of Singapore next month to attend to the ration card problems of the rural folks.
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    ABDUCTED, THEN STABBED TO DEATH
    71 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat.— Yesterday afternoon four Chinese, two armed with pistols, entered the house of 48-year-old Chua Kum Cheng and his wife at the 23rd mile, Johore Bahru Pontian road and abducted Chua. As the wife was on her wav to the police station she
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    Angry tigress on the prowl
    208 9 Sunday Times Staff Reporter lOHORE BAHRU, Saturday. AN angry tigress whose mate was killed a few weeks ago is on the prowl with two cubs near Johore Bahru in the area between Pasir Plangie and the airstrip behind Majedie barracks. Local shikaris have been keeping
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    INDONESIA'S EXAMPLE
    88 9 Sunday Times staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat "If the people of Malaya could only borrow five per cent, of the nationaJ spirit of the Indonesians, I believe it would raise the standard of the people here" said Dato Onn bin Jaafar speaking at a tea party given by
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    CHINESE NEW YEAR QUEEN CONTEST
    147 9 Sunday TUnes SUIT Reporter CINGAPORE will have its first unofficial Chinese New Year on Feb. 18 at film star parade sponsored by a group of trade organisers at the Happy World Stadium. TUe N«w Year Quatn;_aiill— htu awarded a gold medal, a ladlo. and will
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    12 Malays for Sandhurst
    248 9 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent ikl J KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. |N a broadcast on the Malay Regiment last night. Brigade Major D. E. O. Morris revealed that up to 12 vacancies for training ,t Sandhurst Military Academy would be allotted to the Malay Regiment in August this
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    New danger threatens drug addicts
    237 9 New danger threatens drug addicts Sunday Time* Staff Reporter A NEW danger it threatening the lives of Singapore opium addicts, who must satisfy their smoking craze somehow. It is "opium water," a we.-tk solution of opium which is being peddled by "quacks. With supplies of opium harder to obtain, the'
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    SUCCESSFUL AT ORAL ENGLISH
    92 9 Sunday Times SUIT .Reporter Eighteen persons have passed in the recent Oral English test of the Singapore Education Department. Certificates are now available for them at the Education Department. The successful candidates are: Abdul Razak bin Jaafar, Edward Fung, E. Sundra Moorthy, George Tseng, Koo Pak
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    65 9 THE Rev. K. R Aim. wh« arrived in Singapore yesterday by KLM Constellation, to attend the Methodist Churches conference here from Feb. I to Feb. 5. He will be returning to Medan, Sumar j, when the conference finishes. Delegates from Malaya. Burma, Borneo and Sumatra will be attending this conference
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    POLICE OFFICER TRANSFERRED
    54 9 Sunday Times Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sat— Mr. G. B. Folliott has been transferred from Johore Bahru :o KJuang to relieve Mr. I D. Mac Donald. 0.5. P.C., Kluang, who has gone on leave. Mr. Folliott. since his return from leave last month, has been acting as Deputy
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    DEATH
    28 9 COLOMB: At Kuala Lumpur, on Jan. 28. 1950. Mr. U. C. Colomb. Service at' St. Mary's Church. 11.45 a.m. and tr.erire to Cheras Road, Cemetery for interment.
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    Sitting on the Fence
    812 10  -  NAT GUBBINS by u/HILE most of the political leaders were busy writing manifestos for most of the newspapers, and thousands of readers were losing sleep thinking up prize-winning election warcries for the masses, I have produced thp following slogans for particular groups of people: For spivs
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    HIGHLIGHTS RADIO
    578 10 HIGHLIGHTS RADIO RADIO Malaya's play for tonight Is an N.B.C. University Theatre adaptation of Graham Greene's novel Brighton Rock. Graham Greene, who specialises in novels about people concerned with or bordering on the underworld of big cities. Is In the front line among modern novelists. Already this year two of
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    Sunday CINEVIEW
    766 10 Sunday CINEVIEW PRINCE OF FOXES 0 Mistress Kalmus, where are thou roaming? This Renaissance tapestry calls for the most subtle and lovely gradations of coloured photography. Not only the Venetian canals and cy-press-tipped landscapes reminiscent of an Old Master, which were actually filmed in Italy, but also the great halls
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    RECORDS WORTH HEARING
    298 10 MENDELSSOHN was fend ot attaching titles to his works. He said that Beethoven had led the way with his 'Pastoral Symphony' and be was content to follow. As in nearly all Mendelssohn's orchestral pieces, the scoring of his 'Son and Stranger' overture is exquisitely done and receives
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      360 10 KM-1 It's so easy to wave your hair yourself A TONI HOME PERM M COSTS ONLY J Already millions of regular Toni^™ mat have proved how eaty it is H to gire yourself a lovely, long- BGHSji^^ '*^B luting Tonl perm at horne as easy aa rolling your hair in
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    LADY, IS YOUR HAT STRAIGHT?
    794 11  -  MARY HEATHCOTT by IN the air hostesses* quarters at New York's La Guardia airport. I am told, a large notice is pinned beside one of the mirrors. It reads: "Stewardesses, IS YOUR hat straight; make-up neat; hair length correct; blouse clean; insignia on, costume Jewellery
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    Substitute for lobster
    434 11  -  MARIE GOUGH by ONE usually associates lobster with salad and masses of mayonalse— very good it is, too, served that way. As a change, however, it is a good idea to try some of the less well known but none the less delicious ways of serving It.
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    111 11 IF you ar« a sporty girl and a champion at tennis and badminton, if you are awful at both but still keen, this tennis drtss iletti is pretty enough to distract the onlookers. The dross is double breasted with wide revert and two neat rows of buttons. The skirt has
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    TEN WOMEN I ENVY MOST
    972 11  - TEN WOMEN I ENVY MOST EVE PERRICK by FIRST, LADY MOUNTBATTEN, a woman who for 30 of the fir§t 50 years of this century has always been right tn the picture. Lady Mountbatten shares with the present Mrs. Clark Gable a sense of timing. She was the first of the
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      382 11 TO WAKE >^^^ FEELIN6 J TIRED FjL Mow rises iffl What a oad stan loi day's work If you H^ wake up feeling tired gt and listless, Instead •f being brisk and full of energy. Ore unman who can appreciate the difference from her own experience writes to iw: "Before
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      296 11 MO/X aspro is SO SUCCESSFUL row RHEUMATISM W AU7NO/UMS say Wmj^^BSz -*4BSSSv IHl|2^& <daal Lssr ASPRO' |iv« potitiv* and direct action m^^^Li-'^'i^J^f^ L^7 againtt lh» pain of rheumatism There ii t Hf; ?7V 'TMsir JSSST r >>on or «•>'» which can be l»en from the V• 4u!aaaaw Issr fallowing statement
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      1651 12 m^M i— WHOREAD lfffWlffl»Myfl!Wf9» miSit^fofflSi^-^M^f^^^^KMßS^^^K^Bßßfii^^M IN the Nice home the other I afl evening, the dinner dishes II I I Jg y i*W Hi M had been done and put away, I ■^mbY.^bl HlliJ IhOH l^m A bY -^sPk. II and the four members of the "^'^j^V bHt mtw sW
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    OFF THE RECORD
    1363 13 SHARPSHOOTER 41 takes you inside sport L^OR encouraging 1 Malayan weightlifters to greater fame there Is no one like humorous looking Oscar State, one of Britain's authorities on the "iron game". Oscar, who is the founder and secretary of the British Empire Weightlifting Federation and organising secretary
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    Councillor gives hockey trophy
    84 13 Councillor gives hockey trophy MR. Balwant Singh, a member of the Singapore Legislative Council, has presented a challenge shield for annual hockey competition between Royal Navy and Royal Naval Police Sikhs in honour of the inauguration of the Indian Republic. The first match, played on Friday at the Naval Base,
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    Perak Chinese R.C. to take up cricket again
    331 13 Sunday Times Ipoh Sports Correspondent 'FHE premier Chinese sports club in Perak, the 1 Perak Chinese Recreation Club, which used to field a formidable cricket side in the old days of Perak cricket, is re-entering the arena after a lapse of nearly
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    SRC-CSC hockey final on Feb. 7
    240 13 SINGAPORE Recreation Club and Ceylon Sports Club, who have the strongest hockey teams in the Colony, will clash in the flnal of the S.H.A. tournament on Tuesday, Feb. 7, on the Padang (S.R.C. end). A thrilling game is assured as both clubs are fielding
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    60-MILE TRIP, BUT NO GAME
    69 13 I Sunday Times Park Buntar Sports Correspondent TTtE Krlan rugby team were A bitterly disappointed on Saturday last week when they travelled 60 miles to Sungel Patanl to play their return fixture only to find that they had no opponents. The Sungel Patanl side had
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    100-mile cycle race for Ipoh
    70 13 Sunday Time* Ipoh Sports Correspondent A 100-MILE road race has been planned for cyclists in connection with Federation Day celebrations In Ipoh. Fifteen competitors are expected to take part In the race v/hlch Is to be from Ipoh to Taiping and back. The event Is
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    FARRER PARK SOCCER
    24 13 FATHUL Karib Ist XI Will play a soccer friendly against Singapore Harbour Board Police at Farrer Park tomorrow at 5.15 pjn.
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    CROSSWORD SOLUTION
    84 13 Aenw: 1. Boiler. 4, Houses. 9. Indescribable. 12, Tours. 13. Huff. 1% Bee. 16, Scar. 17, Art 19, Bar. 10, Staid. 31. Robin. 23. Imp. 25, Alp. 27, Huge. 28, Foe. 30, Etch. 31, Hours. 33, Subterraneous 34, Steady. 35, Spasms Down: 1, Blithe. 2, Indefatigable. 3, Erst.
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    S.R.C. SPORTS OFFICIALS
    67 14 I*HE following were elected sports I officials of the Singapore Recreation Club at a sports meeting held recently: Football: A. Clarke (capt.): R. Henderson (vice-capt.) D. Miller (Convenor). Cricket: J. Sanderson (capt.); E. le Merder (vice-capt.) E. A. Milne (convenor). Tennis: K. le Mercier (capt); Dr. o.
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    SOUTH SNATCH WIN IN RUGBY
    1164 14 1 -point margin in exciting game Sunday Times Rugby Reporter COUTH beat the North in the annual rugby football classic yesterday, played at Jalan Besar, Singapore, by two tries and a penalty goal (nine points) to a goal and a penalty goal (eight points). The
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    Wolves held: Spurs beat Sunderland
    498 14 F.A. CUP— FOURJH ROUND LONDON, Saturday. ABOUT 700,000 people turned out in bitterly cold wither to se« the 16 Football Association fourth round Cup ties today. Over a quarter of a million witnessed the five matcher played in London. The Cup holders, Wolverhampton Wanderers, were
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    MCFAWIN6-1 IN MANILA
    48 14 MANILA, Sat rrtHE Malayan Chinese FA. X made a successful start in their Manila tour when they beat a team of the National Collegiate Athletic Association this evening. Before a crowd of 3.006 the Chinese trounced the home team six-one at the Biza Memorial Stadium.
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    SJ.I. HAS NEW SPORTS MASTER
    129 14 r. J. DftTid, who has Rev. Bro. Charles as Sports Master of St. Joseph's Institution. Singapore, is drawing up a comprehensive programme ."or the school's sporting activities for the current His first work is the resurfacing of the cricket pitch. Wori is propressing steadily. The
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    St Andrew's win
    42 14 rS St. Andrew's School von a four-one victory over the Hotspurs In a friendly game of soccer at WoodsvUle yesterday. Jeow Kirn netted three goals for the School, and Cham Poh cr.e. Hotspurs' only goal was scored by Omar.
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    NSW gain Ist innings leadoflB9
    162 14 SYDNEY, Sat. >JEW South Wales, Sheffield Shield holders, gained a flrst-innings lead of 189 over Victoria on the second day of their Shield match here, then lost four second -Innings wickets for 89.. New South Wales lost their two remaining flrst-innings wickets for the addition
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    KOROSCENKO WINS
    58 14 rMIL Koroscenko knocked out Ei Ty Layton In the 46th minute in the main event at Great Worlo. Arena last night. The other results were: Princrt Bhupinder beat Napolitano in fonr rounds. Le Masque beat Tiger Amat In five rounds. The fightbetween Dara Dass and Wlldca 1 Hassan
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    France-Ireland draw
    22 14 PARIS, Sat. IJRANCE and Ireland drew thret F points each In the R-igbv Union International match hero this afternoon.— Reuter.
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    SOM PONG HERE TODAY
    43 14 SINGAPORE'S >■■■!- terweight boxing champion, Som Pong is due 10 arrive in Singapore hy plane this evenin* from Bangkok. Som Pong is 5. d :fl to fight the Australian Alfie Sands a, the H u>r> World arena on Feb. 10.
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      64 14 Ah 1 A ll attractive glass will be given Mr. V\ free with every four dozen F rinks purchased between January 20th and m February 10th. A Chinese New Year will 7j be a happy one with drinks m that are Famous for Flavour. J PLACE YOUR ORDERS EARLY!! A
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    COLONIALS C.C. OFFICIALS
    89 15 At the annual general meeting of the Colonials Cricket Club held at the Colonials Chummery the following were elected officebearers for the year 1950: President. Alwyn E. Delllkan; vice-president. P. Mlckelwalthe; hon. secretary, Harry Taylor; Hon. treasurer, Earl M. O. Wolff; auditor, D. B. Dharmasena; cricket captain.
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    Valberg comes 2nd in jump
    49 15 MALAYAN high jumper Lloyd Valbergr, in a contest in a local high jump event at a small meeting close to the Empire Games Ardmore Camp, finished second to Englishman Peer Wells with a leap of six feet. Wells cleared six feet two inches. Reuter-A.A.P.
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    1950 HOCKEY TEST' DRAWN
    605 15 Strong defence saves South Sunday Times Seremban Sports Reporter J^ORTH hockey team maintained their unbeaten record when they drew with the South XI in the seventh annual encounter played at Seremban for the first time yesterday, each side scoring: two goals. This is the third time
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    79 15 AFTER nine days' quarantine at Karachi, two South African athletes lan De .longh (high jumper and hurdler) and wrestler Martine Jooste (right), arrived in Singapore yesterday. They were scheduled to leave for Australia, thence to the Empire Games in Auckland, New Zealand, this morning. Both expressed the fear that the
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    5th Coy. win swim gala
    333 15 'THE Fifth Company of th e Boys' Brigade (Singa- pore Battalion) won the inter-company championship at the Brigade's first annual swimming gala held yesterday at the Gillman pool. 1 Second to the winners' total of 22 points was the First Company with 16V2 points. Fifteen
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    IBRAHIM HITS 128
    183 15 THE Cricket Club of India had scored 259 for three wickets by the close of play In their three-day match against the Commonwealth touring team, which opened In Bombay on Friday. The Indian Test player, K. C. Ibrahim, scored 128, while Uday Merchant, brother of India's Test
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    R.J.I.C GOLF TOURNEY
    57 15 Sunday Time* Jubure Bahru Sport* Reporter. rpHE qualifying rounds, over 18 holes (stroke), for the men's golf championship at the Royal Johore International Club will begin on Wednesday, Feb. J. The first round Is to be completed by Feb. 11. The semi-flnato will be played on Feb.
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    AUSTRALIAN TITLE TO MISS BROUGH
    55 15 MELBOURNE, Sat. T OUISE Brough of California, 1 won the women's blngles title In the Australian tennis championships today, defeating Torts Hart of Florida, 6-4, T 6. C-4.-John Bromwlch and Adrian Qulst won their eighth doubles title by beating Jaroslav Drobny and Eric Sturgess, 8-3
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    C.S.C. v. ARMY
    59 15 CEYLON Sports Club hoc*°y team against the Army on the St. George's Road ground today at S pm will be: V. N. Plllal; R. Nadarjah, 8. Nagalah; G. Krlshnan, V. Ramallngam, A. C. Shegaran 8. Kulaslngham. 8. K. Sundram, W. Ponnlah, A. Karlm and O. Thuralslngham. Roserres:
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    S.CC SOCCER MEETING
    38 15 ALL player members, potential members and persons Interested In assisting to administer the soccer section of the Singapore Cricket Club are requested to attend a meeting which will be held on the dub premises tomorrow.
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    FOUR HORSES SCORE DOUBLES AT IPOH
    2456 16  - FOUR HORSES SCORE DOUBLES AT IPOH EPSOM JEEP John Ham wins trophy race From FOUR horses— Nachtegiial, Briany (they deadheated on Wednesday), Young Lucius and Spithead scored doubles at Ipoh yesterday, the last day of the Perak Turf Club January meeting. Brightest feature of the day was the splendid performance
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    BIG SWEEP
    57 16 Total Pool: $381,400. First: No. *****0 (1118,955). Second No. *****6 ($59,477). Third: No. *****5 ($29,736). Starters: ($3,3«4 each): Nos: *****2, *****9, *****5, *****7, *****1. *****5, *****8, *****3. ****** Consolation Prises ($l,OOO each): Nos: *****2, *****3, *****0, *****4, *****6; *****7, *****9 *****4 *****1, *****5. DOUBLE TOTE FIRST DOUBLE. Two
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    ARCHERY CHAMPIONSHIPS TODAY
    156 16 IN preparation for the All- Malayan Archery championship which Is to be held at Johore Bharu on Sunday, Singapore Archery Club members have been practising at their new club grounds. In order to Increase the popularity of this sport, the Singapore Arrlurv Club has recently purer- •sed
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    ANSON A.A. OFFICIALS
    130 16 ANSON Athletic Association officers for 1950 were elected at the 15th annual general meeting held at No. 52 A, Nelson Road, Singapore recently. They were: Patrons: Messrs. Scow Kirn Hock, Tan Hock San, Koh Beng Quee, Chua Wan Seng, Ong Yew Buay, Koh Teck Kwa, and Wee
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    WILLOW SHIELD CRICKET
    30 16 THE Australian Schoolboys 1 ciicIcet team will meet the Singapore Combined Schools' XI In their annual Willow Shield match on the B.R.C. padang at 11 a.m. today.
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    Louis puts up plucky fight
    221 16 Sunday Times Koala Lumpur Staff Correspondent f RITICS who had ffiven Tony Louis of Koala LumX/ par little chance against hard-hitting Mok Kai Khoon of Singapore, were provided with a surprise when the veteran Loots not only fought his younger opponent punch for punch for
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    Epsom Jeep' fips 5 winners
    34 16 "rPSOM Jeep," Sunday limes racing reporter, lipped five straight winners at yesterday's Ipoh races. (They were: Nachtcuaal ($l5), Young Lucius ($37), Tempest ($l7), Spithead ($35) and John Ham ($l5).
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    PWD SPORTS CLUB OFFICE-BEARERS
    99 16 'THE following have Deen elecled to the committee of 'lie Public Works Department Spoils Club, Singapore, for 1950: President, Mr. K. A. Gardiner; vice-president, Mr. A. C. Wilson; hon. secretary, Mr. M. K. Shahabuddh:; hon treasurer, Mr. R. 3. Mani; chairman. Board of Games: Mr. F.
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    S.C.R.C. WIN 2-1
    21 16 SINGAPORE Chinese Recreation Club defeated the Hospital Assistants Union 3—l at hockey on Hong Urn Green on Friday.
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