Sunday Tribune (Singapore), 19 December 1948

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    Masthead
    35 1 B 7 rrif rropir for TtVr__tf •YHIA_A\S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER The Sunday Tribune w _!__Ei_^ Simultaneously m Singapore *_Kpaffa I umpur, Ipoh Penang. Telegrams: Tribune Singapore Telephone: 5811 (9 Mnes). ""SI-TEEV PAGES SINGAPORErPKCE.;iBER"'r{rT94B; PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    BIG RATES DECISION THIS WEEK
    330 1 BIG RA TES DECISION THIS WEEK (Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter) SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY'S MULTI-MILLION 0 SPECIAL PROGRAMME FOR 1949 WILL BE PIGEON-HOLED IF TUESDAY'S MEETING OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WILL NOT APPROVE A BILL ASKING FOR 124 PER C ENT RATE SURCHARGE FOR NEXT YEAR. The Bill, which is to re-enact
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    Charlie's Aunt
    42 1 Charlie's Aunt > LONDON, S»t. Prln- I i ce*s Margaret told her t friends at a I»ndon ho- S 1 rial function, "Now that L they have named Prince J Charles, 1 suppose I am i Charlie's aunt," Intimates I reported toda> U.P.
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    Montors Found Guilty
    109 1 THE firm of Montor Ltd. was yesterday found guilty on two charges under the Finance Resrulations. Th- First District Judge Mr. E. P. Shanks, said he was deferring sentence pending the trial of 12 other charges pre f erred against th*.' firm und three of its three
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    GIANT WAVE?
    29 1 KKDONIM) BEACH, California. Saturday. Giant wave:: mashed tn. seawall here toda,. flooding home and injuring many persons and forcing 50 fjmihes to evacuuuc w.i., front buildings. U.P
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    FRESH CLASHES
    28 1 lIANGOON. Satuniay. Fresh clashes were repoi ..ed today iuvWcen Goveimncut Iruopd and Karen Insurgents In Mk K&reuni state about tJm Pules noi Lneast of Rangoon. Reuter.
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    Last Minute Effort
    46 1 BATAVIA, Saturday. U.S. delegate 11. Merle Cocuran a.rived here itom Jogjakarta today aboard a U.S. Air Force transport. iniwoi.iod .-.ounces said Mr. Cocnian wan Oailjftag a last .iiiuutc Republican appeal to ..ie Dutch. seeking a peaceful solution of tbe lndonesian- UUvCii coofiict. U.P.
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    Meet Bonnie Prince Charlie
    39 1 THE PICTURE WE'VE i BEEN WAITING FOR This A. P. pi:tu re o/* Princess Elizabeth with her son, Prince Charles of Edith j burgh was radioed to Sydney, Australia, and reached Spore \by airmail last
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    Xmas Trees In Peiping
    256 1 PEIPING, Sat. —Foreigners bought X'Mas trees and prepared to celebrate Yule Tide, ?ocie what may to Peiping. They ■flopped to tiie tone of machinrgun and mortal fire from just outside the north-western walls while trenches are dug on the edge of Glacis open space, fringing the
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    SEIGRIST SILENCE
    169 1 TANIUONG PINANG, Sat. In tbe trial against three American pilots accused of gun-running, the Indonesian judge of Tandjong Pinang yesterday silenced pilot Con°nie Seigrist, who according to Judge W. Weisfeld. had in- suited the Indonesian government. Seigrist had complained about food and lodging m the Indonesian prison immediately
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    The Loves Of Carmen
    65 1 The Loves Of Carmen l Beginning to-morrow, the Morning Tribune will J publish m erial form the wtory that gave Rita 1 t llaywonh her greatent 1 dramatic role. Written from the f screenplay, it gi\e> you J the high-lights of Pros- I per Vlerim.es briUiant !no\el. 1 The film
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    TELL THE PEOPLE KUALA KUBU
    521 1 TELL THE PEOPLE KUALA KUBU Just after dawn last Sunday morning, twenty-four out of twenty-five Chinese, suspected of being bandits, were shot dead while attempting to escape from a patrol of police and Scots Guards. A report of the affair, which took place m the Kuala Kubu area of sa
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    Air Girl To Be Guest Of Prince
    177 1 Air Girl To Be Guest Of Prince PUNGPIT Chulasevok. Siam'* first air hostess is thrilled. Just before she came to Singapore yesterday she was invited to England for a twomonth holiday by Siamese j Prince Chula. *T hope it won't be too cold", she said. Stewardess Chulasevok leaves for England
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    CARS HEAD CRASH LIST
    68 1 Civilian vehicles, mostly private cars, were responsible for 523 traffic accidents out of t total of 621 cases reported last month. Ninety-eight cases involved military vehicles. Most of these accidents were along Bukit Timah Road. Changi Road, East Coast Road and Orchard Road. Of the total
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    CHIANG'S LUCK STARTS TODAY
    68 1 SHANGHAI, Sat. Chinese astrologers "looked at their horoscopes today and said Chiang Kai-shek's 12-year "cycle of misfortunes" would end at midnight tonight. When the Year of the Rat last began 12 years ago (a full Chinese calendar cycle). Chiang entered his "bad cycle they say. That's
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    DISSOLVED
    34 1 The "Gerakan Angkatan Mud a Malaya" iGeram» ha.officially disbanded after a letter from the Colonial Secretary stating that the Governor-ln Council was not prepare^ to mak,. an order declaring it a political Association.
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    HELD UP
    25 1 The Russian ship Mechanik Apanasiev which was scheduled to reach Singapore last Thursday for rubber, has been dehiyed at Bombay by engine trouble.
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    NO RENT RECEIPTS
    139 1 (Siindiy Tribune Reporter) JUO Municipal voter will be ro *a quired to produce rent re ceipts or to state the actua amount he pays to prove bone fides. A statement issued yesterda> by Mrs. A. S. M. Hawkins, Sup* crvisor of Municipal Elections says that m completing
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      53 1 'The shooting ol twenty -(our Chinese who attempted to escape from a patrol of police and Scots Guards requires more explanation if the public conscience is to be satisfied that such drastic action was unavoidable It has the macabre air of an execution— an execution without trial/'-MALAYA TRIBUNE, DECEMBER 16.
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    Indian Girl Writes Chinese
    208 2 (Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter) J^ S Malaya's first Indian l i girl to receive a compre- prehenslve education of "Kok Yul", the national I i i language of China, is at- tractive 16-vear-old, Miss j S Victoria Ezekiel. I I At the age o£ five she
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    Ist Malay Convent
    273 2 (Hundiy Tribune Reporter) IF plans now being worked out by the Singapore Malay Women's Welfare Association prove successful, Singapore will have thc first Malay Convent m Malaya, run along Islamic lines, by the middle of next year. The proposed Malay Convent will be open to girls of
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    Old Boss Is Boss Again
    112 2 Old Boss Is Boss Again (Sunday Tribune Reporter) Group Captain E. A. Healy. former Airport Manager, Lydda, will once more serve under Air Vice-Marshal S. E. Storrar. Director of Civil Aviation. Malaya, his boss m Palestine a short while back. G/Capt. Healy will be the new Airport Manager at Kallang.
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    BOY'S BRIGADE MIXED SOCIAL
    77 2 i The Seventh Singapore Com- pany, Boys Brigade, will hold their first 'mixed' social m St. i Andrew's School Hall tomorrow J at 7.00 p.m. Highlights of the evening. i entertainment will be a 'hulaJ hula' dance by one of the company's boys, six prize games,
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    Big Opium Haul Made At The Causeway
    177 2 WHEN a brand new Plymouth automobile rolled I TT up to the Woodland Customs Station on the l morning of December 3, customs officers v/ern waiting for it. Somewhere m that car was concealed opium worth $14,000. destined for Malacca. The driver of
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    MONEY MILL
    60 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) It will take at leaat two year_ before paper currency of all denomination leas than a I Dollar can he withdrawn. There arc 80,000.000 pieces m circulation now, which arc returned at the average rate of 150.000 piece* per day. A total of 2,780.000 cupio-
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    PROCESSOR'S WIFE STAGES A PLAY
    79 2 PROCESSOR'S WIFE STAGES A PLAY (Sunday Tribune Reporter) |||RS. Dorothy Morrell. popu--1" lar stage and radio actress, will stage "From a Servant Girl to Saint at the Grand Christmas variety Concert to be held at the British Council Hall next Thursday. Mrs. Morrell is the wife of Professor Morrell of
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    Help From Britain For Local Camp
    345 2 (Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter) Singapore lepers will receive more assi stance this time from tne British Empire Leprosy Reiiet •und to which local Lepei Welfare Committee are now connected. The Committee was looking forward to linancial and material assistance foi its 371 inmates ;rom
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    He Turned Squatter Huts Into A New Suburb
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    ONE MAN'S IDEA GIVES HOMES FOR 75 PEOPLE
    401 3 And There Are Shops, Too (Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter) JHIS is tho story of Mr. X, house-humin* Singapore European who not only found himself a home but founded a housing colony for 75 others. It all began last year when Mi. X
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    Singapore To Supply 'Upper Air' Maps
    211 3 (Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter) THE setting up of radar-wind- finding station?! m Singapore and other South East Asian centres for research into the "upper upper air" to provide the world with a complete map on this section of air was recommended by the International
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    LOST AND FOUND
    214 3 (Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter) Ponnusamy met his son Vitumalai for the first time m eight months at the office or the Immigration Department. The four-year-old boy did not recognise him the first time and shrank away from him. It took a lady Social Welfare worker the best
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    The Knack
    70 3 He has an uncanny knack of holding his classes and showing just how to defy every civilised cooking regulation. An Army Observer writes: "I saw him show some Incredulous Grenadiers they appeared incredulous, although deep m their hearts as good soldiers they knew that what they saw being
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    Sgt. 'Wangle' —Jungle Chef
    375 3 Sgt. 'Wangle —Jungle Chef HOG tired and ravenously nunu gry, a British soldier -probably a civilian this time last year sits down m a thick Malayan jungle, miles from civilisation or the nearest eari'a^rn road. He is on the trail of Communist bandits. In his featherweight pack is possibly a
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    AROUND TOWN
    3130 4  -  Vera Ardmore by Kallang Setting For Of fire Party Dressy War. D Rehearsals Gay Kay-L JPoW Stage IMar- r LITTLE did Elizabeth Arden think when she started spring-cleaning the feminine facial two decades ago that in 1948 her fame would spread East of Suez In such a fashion
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    Froth Blowers In Britain Roar. At Red Tape' Beer
    414 6 Froth Blowers In Britain Roar. At Red Tape' Beer I ONDON, Sat. An angry cry was raised m Briu tain recently. From the sixteenth century timbers of the "Duke's Arms" to the elegent plush of the "Tired Footman" it echoed, gathering strength with every sip and gulp m the nations
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    Britain Without Atomic Defence
    143 6 Britain Without Atomic Defence SYDNEY, Sat.— Dr. David F. Martyn, head of Australian radar research, said today Britain would be Indefensible m atomic warfare, but the number of atomic bomb- which could be made m the future could not cripple cither Russia or the United States. Dr. Martyn, recently returned
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    ISLE OF MAN CONSCRIPTS
    86 6 TYNWALD. Isle Of Man. Sat. The Manx Parliament has approved conscription now because its leaders expressed fear that the world "is living on the edge of a volcano and the slightest spark might set it alight." The island's parliament turned down a similar proposed a year
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    NO DOLLARS NO APPLES NO FISH
    223 6 NO DOLLARS NO APPLES NO FISH LONDON. Sat. Canadian Minister of Agriculture James G. Gardiner said today that Canada had not defaulted on her trade agreement with Britain, but that deliveries had been cut short because of the United Kingdom's dollar shortage. Speaking at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce luncheon
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    NANKING IS TIRED OF RUNNING AWAY
    697 6  -  Harold K. Milks A Million Wait In Fear, Anxiety For The Red Invaders By (A. P. Correspondent) RANKING. Sat.— China's national capital is a city of strange contrasts as its million people wait with a mixture of anxiety and indifference the expected arrival of
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    IMPORTED MAIZE
    26 6 LONDON, Saturday— Lord Lucas told th fc Lord*, that Britlan expected approximately 100,000 tons of maize to be imported from the United States— UP
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    MINERALS IN FIJI
    28 6 SUVA, FIJI. Sat.— Britain is financing a $70,500 geological search for expl- 4 **Hi<» minerals m Fiji. Suva Public Relations Office announced re- cently. U.P.
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    WHITE RUSSIAN FEAR
    43 6 LAWRENCE. Massachusetts, Saturday. The State Department has agreed to help thc pretty Mrs. Lvdia Bowern Sharkey, White Russian widow of a United States soldier, flee China before thc advancing Communists reach her Shanghai home, the young woman's father-in-law said.- U.P
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    'Sydney' Damage Is Not Sabotage
    114 6 'Sydney' Damage Is Not Sabotage PLYMOUTH. Sat A.imi Sir Robert L. V.uroett "g£ mander-in Chief, Plymouth said here today the OMMd by six steel bolts fou nrt last Wednesday m a of Australia's new light Jlreran carrier Sydney were "trtSS and now under repair "Exaggerated statements some of which are
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    Communism Can Spread No Farther
    103 6 NEW YORK, Sat.-^Senator Robert A. Taft said on his return from Europe aboard the lmer America that communism could spread no farther without the help of the Red Army Asked if communism was becoming stionger m Europe Taft replied "no". "The general opinion m til
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    LONDON LETTER
    1715 7  - LONDON LETTER Jimmy Glover From Distribution Dept. trouhlr about news- paper nun is they talk (ftlh j wr.tr) too much. I an as guilty ax the rest. L,_rt week 1 was complaining about tin- heat. j 3-r,e following morning I w t off tv the My without m y overcoat,
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    FUTURE HOME OF 'BRITISH RACE'
    168 7 BRISBANE, Sat. One of the many fascinating aspects of Australia's immigration r?tory is the move to bring large numbers of young children here from England and every effort is being made to give the youngsters a good start m life m the new land m
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    THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE SUNDAY, DEC. 19. 1948. BETTER LATE...
    362 8 THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE SUNDAY, DEC. 19. 1948. BETTER LATE... London Agents Messrs. Colin Turner, Ltd., Talbot House, 98, St. Martin's Lane WC. 2. THE decision of Sir Henry Gumey\ the High 1 Commissioner, to appoint a committer to investigate the squatter problem is welcome. It might have come sooner, but
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    JIM THOMPSON AND THE SELK OF SIAM
    1466 8  - JIM THOMPSON AND THE SELK OF SIAM HI. A. Friederieh n ex-secret agent and two ex- horse dealers have revived an industry that once gave glamour and colour to the court of Bangkok By THE ■llMworittfl 01 Siam are tho fattest and healthiest on earth. They a 'so are the
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    IS ICE-CREAM THE WORST FOOD ON EARTH?
    848 9  - IS ICE-CREAM THE WORST FOOD ON EARTH? N.V.M. Gonzalez By TIIK Hanunoo aie not an unintelligent people they have their own culture and their own system of writing btjt then are some things they just can't figure out. Ime is. why the civilised peoples go m for wars, and the
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    Oh, I Must Have Done It Subconsciously'
    896 9  -  JEAN WESESMAN by I DON'T LET THAT HAPPEN TO YOU THESE clays, mt are apt to hear a great deal about tho subconscious mind yet how many of U_ really understand what this means? Psychological terminology has become fashionable, and thr sub-consciou«? Il
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      My Family Before My Films
      949 11 My Family Before My Films -BENNETT «qHE can't keep hoajst, sh.ij can t cook, but what she linows alout men would All a book.'' ThSI i tii way pert, dafk-hairc<; .1 >o Uennett, the lady with tin blue eyrs. has been I <■♦!. jt'H anything but the truth. *V a*ys.
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      THEN AND NOW
      1391 11 THEN AND NOW j I I AMIB \< X TO THE TWENTIES i i i__ l £u tht l» if t,,n ,0 are the starlets of 2(1 years J ago. The group was snat petl m Hollywood m 1«>29, I few are famous today. <S ,«-rs have Wled out. Marlin-
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    POLICE UPROOT SLAVERY
    865 12 J Famous Spore Crime*... _\o 11. Herman llappa I S IN thc early thirties there was a slave market m Singapore. Healthy, young and attractive Javanese women could be purchased for $100, sometimes less. Some of them made a contract with thc agent or seller for five
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    Great Port Loses Trade
    188 12 Great Port Loses Trade NEW YOKKS waterfront is slowly bMt surely losing ground m tho battle for foreign trado as lirni after firm switches its shipping orders to other ports. Thc battleground is the Middle West tho nations broad basket where agents from ambitious ports along the east and gulf
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    Cutting Rates
    71 12 The east coast ports manage to sink their differences sufficiently to link up to stop gulf ports stealing their businoss. They arc asking all rail and steamship firms to cut their freight rates so that they will be m a better position to compete. New York, however, will
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    'WILL MALAYA CET TO THE FINAL?'
    1063 13 Sunday Tribune Special Sports Feature Our llovs j i Keep Til The Doubts Creep In By Tribune llnaluii ii Inn < ori-«'*| M »mlen I JJNCLE SAM caused a sensational upset oy nla overwhelming victory over the Canadians m tne final of tne American
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    DOPE OR STIMULANT: POSER for SPORTS OFFICIALS
    544 13  -  Vernon Morgan V AFFICIALS, turf, sreyv hound and now even athletic, are continually exercised w'th the problem of determining what le an artificial stimulan* and how far it shoul.l bo allowed or forbidden. The dividing line between dope and a stimulant ia almost
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    HOCKEY RULES
    417 13 "Bully -off" and "Slicks" IF the standard of hockey m the Colony is to improve the players should have as complete a knowledge of the rules of the game as the umpires. For the benefit of our hockey-playing readers, every week from today this column will devote itself
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    AUSTRALIAN BOXING TO GET NEW BLOOD
    477 14  -  Geoffrey Pownall NEGOTIATIONS UNDER WA V By Sydney. WITH the importation of French, American and Englisn ooxers tnis season, Stadiums Ltd., controllers of professional boxing m Australia, are preparing for a boxing boom. I'.>r months Australian champions tvno have outfought likely talents m the
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    How The Local Lads Rank
    142 14 How The Local Lads Rank J I There are Bat ollieial S i gradings of boxer* in Australia, hut the follow- j ing is the unofTicial sum- i ming up of the three c most prominent lads in i T* each class: 1 HEAVYWEIGHT: Have Sands (champion), Jack Twist, Doug
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    He Began By Accident
    227 14 (Sunday Tribune Stan' Reporter) TWENTY-six years ago a little boy of tinmen went out swimming without knowing anything about swimming. The result was that the little boy was nearly drowned. But unlike other little boys this one was m no way daunted by the incident. He
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    200 14 Singapore Water Polo League Championships In 1940 and 1941 was skippered by him. Since the end of the war Siew Sun has again taken up his enviable position m the ranks of the Colony's swimmers. He said that he reached his present peak through sheer determination and hard
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    BOAT RACE
    23 14 NEW YORK, Sat. The Harmsworth Trophy speed boat race will be held next summer for the tirst time m 16 years.
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    Big Improvement In Colony Hockey
    274 14  -  MALCOLM GODDER By TOE dark clouds which hung over thc Singapore Hockey Association proposal of s?nd:ng a team to the next world Olympics m 195* are lifting rapidly. When the current season was m iv inlarcy the general opinion was that the standard of play
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    SINGAPORE LOST TO SELANGOR
    421 15 ALL BLUES RUGGER COMPETITION KIALA LlxrfPUß, Satuiuiy. CKLANGOK Asians overcame a tremendous weight disadvantage when they beat Singapore convincingly by 19 points (two goals, a penally, a try and a drop goal) to 6 points (two penalties) th. All Blues competition played here today. Selangor started
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    $50 For The Fund-One Bottle Of Whisky
    187 15 $50 For The FundOne Bottle Of Whisky A WELL known Singapore sportsman, who wishes to remain anonymous, has given the Tribune Thomas Cup Fund a surprise Christmas naekage a case containing twelve hoi th*, of "Challenge" Scotch Whisky, valued at $135. He said: My idea is that everyone who contributes
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    SINGAPORE TROUNCE MALACCA
    69 15 SINGAPORE TROUNCE MALACCA MALACCA. Sat. Displ.iy•ng good stick work and fine combination. Singapore beat Malacca by four goals to nil m an inter-State hoc.ccy fix;urc played here today. Within ten minutes of th( opening. Andrew Clarke scored the first goal for Singaport a few minutes later. Prutt not ched the
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    Singapore Hopes To Revive 'Pro9 Boxing
    312 15 Singapore Hopes To Revive 'Pro 9 Boxing BOXING NOTES (By X.0.) I AST week's at tenu dance at the Happy World Stadium indicated that there is every hope of a revival of professional boxing m Singapore, thanks to the Services fighters. Fans came to see Jimmy Neweli and Jimmy Welch-
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    SCRC XI
    63 15 The following have been selected to represent the SC. R.C. m a hockey match against S.C.C. on Dec. 21: Lee Ah Chlo, Lav Hock Chye; Chcong Thiam Slew. Gau Kee Sirang; Goh Chin Chye; Cheah Kirn Swcc; Swee Lim Swang; Chai Hon Yam; Khoo Ong Lee; Harry Fang:
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    44 15 The following will represent V.M.C.A. at billiards against a team from R.A.F. (Tengah) at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Y.M. C.A. "A" Orchard Road Ec Thian Hin. Ou Siew Leng. D. R. Burrow. J. G. Darbyshire, Robert Lim, Reserves Lee Joh Ming.
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    SIX DAYS TO CHRISTMAS!
    68 16 SIX DA YS TO CHRISTMAS! BUT THEY HA YE STAR TED CELEBRA TING ALREADY TOP: Miss Kwik Poh Leng concentrates JM»<j on her playing during a week-end conceit given by the pupils of the Far Eastern Music School. RIGHT and BELOW: The poor children are never forgotten during Christmas. Here
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    THE BIG HEART FOR XMAS
    107 16 THE Singapore V.M.C.A. I Movie Circle is celebrating Christmas week with the j screening of "The B:g Heart"— a really breezy X'mas film, j complete with the spirit oi <. Santa Claus for its members who now number well over 100. j When the Circle
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    Dancers Did Not Walk Out
    90 16 Dancers Did Not Walk Out Miss Nancy Ho, President ot the Cnhnret c;irls" Association. denied that the New World Caburei gifts walked out o i Friday Bight at a pie-anangod signal. She maintained that tht walk-out was due to a European patron refusing to give coupons to a hostess v/ith
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    IN APPRECIATION
    38 16 LONDON. Sat. Thc Committee of the Surrey County Cricket Club has presented a silver salver to H. D. G. Leveson Q owes m recognition of his 50 years association and advice with the club. A. P.
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    410 16 RLUE NETWORK PROGRAMMES IN ENGLISH ir.OO m. Sunday Morning concert of popular classics; 9.30 South America. Take It Away-Half an hour of music from Latin America; 10.00 Tin Pan Alley Fhteen minutes of piano medley; 10.15 Hit Parade Featuring some of four favourite stars from stage,
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    INVITATION TO JAPAN 'REBUFFED'
    112 16 SYI >NK\ -/> v invUaUou lo Tend an AustraiUui tennis team ♦o Japan In 15>49 has been re- buffed by thc Lawn Tennlfl A sociation of Australia. Sir Norman Brookes, the pt. Mdcnt, told delegates at 1 [council meeting of the Association that, m the circumstances,
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    Parties Spoil City Lads
    105 16 Parties Spoil City Lads SYDNEY.- -Mickty Hill, who comes from Brisbane, Queensland, is the only city-born-and-raised boxer to hold an Australian title at present Hill Is the flyweight champion; all other titles an* held by fighter* who have come from country districts. Jimmy Shnrman, well-known boxing showman, thinks that too
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