Malaya Tribune, 7 April 1947

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  • 51 1 The Malaya Tribune THE PEOPLE FQ/g THE PEOPLE THE ONLY NATIONAL NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA Now printed simultaneously in Singapore Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh Penang. 'Phone Numbers: Editor 5813 Editorial 5811 Advertising 5812 Circulation Accounts 5815 aCHT PAGES SINGAPORE^ MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1947 PRICE TEN CENTj. The Malaya Tribune MONDAY, APRIL 7,
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  • 205 1 WOULDN'T HALF-MAST FLAG FOR ROYAL FUNERAL Reuter. S, Apr. C—Tlie leftist political organisai Mifj today that their opposition to the i not changed by King George of the and charged that the 'new King as L. larked George's political actions
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  • 147 1 Reuter. SALISBURY. RiuKlesi.i. Apr. 6. EveryoiK in Rhodesia was today preparing to receive the Royal family who are due to arrive by air tomorrow on th«first visit by a reigning sovereign to this colony, established by Cecil Rhodes to whose grave the King and Queen
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  • 48 1 U.P. DUDLEY. Apr. 6—A lire early today damaged one wing oi Himley Hall, the ancestral home of the Earl of Dudley, who sold it recently to the National Coal j Board for £45,000. The Coal 1 Board was converting the buiiding for its headquarters.—U.P-
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  • 66 1 I EM. Apr. 6.—The lrgun Zvai I cused the j Illegal defease ri ig the giound twi en Jews in I uto nt was m 'd» in a (organisation s V ic< ol Fighting d: "We do not 0* flg] I is with the British
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  • 34 1 Reuter. <i A soldier three wounded was derailed toe abotcurs near Diw kg 29 miles easl of t occurred in where 70 .ops o< had prev.ously m i wolen. Kmtcr
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  • 25 1 Reuter. nth Wales. Apr. were killed and an explosion at V at Glais in Ne> yesterday. the explosion is Reuter.
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  • 89 1 U.P. LONDON, *z>r, 6—Radio Moscow tonight quoted the New Times that the war against Germany and Japan cost Russia $357,000,000,000. in addition to $128,000,000,000 loss from German destruction and looting :n Russian territory. The New Times rjzid that while the Anglo-Americans have expressed. great concern that Germany
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  • 144 1 Reuter. CALCUTTA. Apr. 6.—Shots fired from a house in Howrah. :i suburb of Calcutta, wounded two people and led to the arrest iqf 11 persons by the police, a Bengal Government communique stated tonight. Altogether 2.353 persons have been arrested here since the outbreak of communal
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  • 361 1 U.P. LONDON, Apr. 7—Foreign policy rebels m the Labour Party last night claimed the support of 40 to 50 ncr cent of the party's rank and file for their demand front against Russia. Hi-closure They based their claim in part on the disclosure that delegates
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  • 142 1 U.P. LONDON, April 7- —The Reynolds News said yesterday that prominent Blackpool Union leaders have received threatening letters signed with the swastika, warning them to "clear out of politics." Blackpool was a hotbed of Fascism before the war and W. A, Giles. Secretary of
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  • 143 1 'Tribuni Crime Reporter) The Singapore CID have made the first arrests in what is believed to be a big plot to loot valuablel engme oi from the military dump at the 14* mile. Woodlands. Thousands >! gallons of cylinder oil have been stolen from
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  • 75 1 U.P. Santiago (Chile>, April 6.Two were killed and at least ten were seriously injured as Communists and Socialists clashed on the eve of nationwide municipal elections on Sunday. The dead were polit:cal followers, killed when rival groups lought while setting up election posters in the streets.
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  • 106 1 U.P. HOLLYWOOD. Apr. 6 —Orson Welles, triple-threat star of movie world. praised the Harvard Lampoon, in answer to the collegiate publication's nomination of him as the worst actor" of 1946. Actor, writer and producer. Welles said: "I think Lampoon as an institution is much
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  • 113 1 Reuter. SHANNON AIRPORT. Eire. Apr. 6—A United States Constellation airliner, bound for London from New York, hit an air pocket over Shannon airport tonight causing the plane to drop. It is believed that one passenger was seriously injured. The passenger, a Mr. Freide of New
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  • 99 1 U.P. Paris. April 6 —An estimated 1.000 Socials you'-hs, dressed i i blue shirts and red ties, paradei hrough down .own Paris today with placards denouncing h? "Fascism menace and the de Gaulle menace" The ycu'hs. celegates to f he a mual na ional congress of Scc'alis,
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  • 109 1 Mr. S. K. Chettur. the Representative of the Government of India in Malaya, will leave Singapore for Kuala Lumpur tonight on a 15-day tour of upcountry areas. The main object of this tour will be tc-study the conditions ol Indian nations on the east
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  • 67 1 U.P. MUNDESLEY BEACH (England). Apr. 6.—George Johnson. 41. and hU fiancee Miss Winifred Fcx went for a stroll on Mundeslev beach yesterday. Johnson dashed ahead in an effort to find pathway up a cliff. There was a sudden explos'on When Mir., Fox reached the scene .she
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  • 36 1 U.P. Teheran, April 6.—Rebel forces were reported to be retreatir.g across he Iraq border totay aLer the fall of their main centre of resistance a Osmou. 12 ki omcires from the fron.ier. —U.P.
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  • 98 1 (Tribune Crime Reporter) Two shooting incidents werq reported in Singapore yesterday. Near Kallang Bridge, one of two men shot a Chinese in the face* as he was coming off a sampan, and robbed him of $100 cash. At the BOD, Alexandra, a sentry is said to have
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  • 84 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Thanks to the smart work of the detective police, three Tamils, two of whom were armed with loaded pistols, were surprised at Market Street last night shortly after 8 o'clock and arrested The Tamils were seen prowling around the vicinity and
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  • 91 1 Reuter. Pittsburg. Apr. 6. Little hope is held for the resumption of soft coal production as the United States' 400,000 bituminous miners are apparently satisfied to extend indefinitely the six-day mourning period for 111 Centralia mine explosion victims until the Federal Government certifies that all
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  • 52 1 Reuter. CAIRO, Apr. 6.—The British Embassy here issued a sa ement tonight declaring there was no truth In the allegation published in the Egyptian mv gazine Akher Saa that nine destroyers, purchased by Egypt from the United States Government, were disarmed at the request of the British Govern-
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  • 227 2 One-Eyed Ace Was Flying To Meet His Wife A Mosquito aircraft from tile United Kingdom v/hich took ofT from Seletar airfield for New Zealand carrying Wing-Commander B. R. Hoare, the famous oneeyed Battle of Britain air ace, and his'navigator, Flight Lieutenant J. Colvin,
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  • 85 2 U.P. FRANKFURT. Apr. 5: Four former SA officers, charged with instituting a secret Nazi underground organization, will go on trial on Tuesday before a general military court in Munich. The oiganization was designed to carry on Nazi ideology and German military tradition, and had connections in
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  • 22 2 Reuter. COPENHAGEN, Apr. 6.—Princess Caroline Mathilde of Denmark, wife of Prince Khud. today underwent a small brain operation at Aarhus hospital.— Reuter.
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  • 131 2 Members of the 3rd Singapore Company Girls' Life Brigade attached to the Fairfield Girls School held a colourful enrolment service yesterday at the school hall. Looking smart in their navy j blue uniform, with dark blue I belts, they were urged by Mrs. Rowland Lynee. Commander of
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  • 218 2 GBS SAYS HE IS ALREADY OF A GHOST! U.P. LONDON, Apr. 6.—George Bernard Shaw believed he is three-quarters of a ghost today but doesn't believe he will ever be a whole one, according to the Spiritualist newspaper "Psychic News" in an ex- j elusive interview with the I noted playwright
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  • 237 3 Reuter. RANGOON, Apr. Chaiymar\ of Huripa s interim t rnnn i Aunj San, who rece*Uy Vis|ted London, m a brcadcast tw%bt denounced the political iriies opposed to the Atm-Hrifctst Peapfej' Freedom eas enemies of Burmese people" aild -decisive action against them. Speaking ever Rangoon radio
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  • 199 3 Conscription Reuter. LLANDUDNO Wales, Apiil 6. m gj Government's deeth period of cunsenpt.' n irom 18 to 12 nti iken alter further (cowltatior with the Chiefs of ol Defence, v A Liiidi r. declared here Winston Chur- Opposition and r, who 1 kst night ised
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  • 43 3 Reuter. NEW DELHI. Apr. B,—lndonesian delegates to the InterA>:an conference here stated today tht negotiations were ■to way for the purtie United States ol aircraft which are expected I operate between Batavia and bin a month. Inter.
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  • 41 3 n. April s.—The British J wwn nt will take further iction r.ver the 15 Saviet-born British sabjects who far nt bet-n allowed to r hu-bands in the Brill was autherita- today. Earlier, sn in Moshave been unsuccessful.
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  • 286 3 London, Apr. 3.—What makes men fight? A group of U S. scientists is trying to solve the world's most pressing problem by studying the social behaviou. of dogs They have chosen dcgs because, they spy. no animal more closely resembles man in
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  • 97 3 Reuter. PARIS, Apr. 6.—Gejza Racgejac, the Czechoslovak Consul in Paris, was found murdered this morning in a sidestreet near Palais de ChaiUot in the fashionable west and of Paris. The police said that Racgejac was severely bruised about the head apparently from a blunt
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  • 58 3 U.P. LONDON, Apr. 6. Six people were killed and three injured seriously when a great bull elephant ran amok in a native village of Mohamadpur. an Exchange Telegraph dispatch reported today. The elephant ran riot through the village and caused a panic for several hours
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  • 47 3 U.P. BOLOGNA. Apr. 5: The decomposed bwdy of a nea-b..ia child was discovered in a package m.dled from Milan to Btpfogna tcday. The addresses of the sender :.nd receipient were non-evist-cpjt and the Milan post fi clerks were unable to identify the bundle.—U P.
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  • 439 3 Reuter. LONDON, Apr. s,—Forecasting that America and Russia would be the chief protagonists in a coming third world war, Bob Edwards in his presidential address at the Independent Labour Party conference to-day said: "Their interests, economic and political, challenge each other in any parts of
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  • 387 3 (Tribune Sftftff Reporter) Amidst cries of "No return to work until the mquiry is over/ a general meeting of the •Singapore Traction Company strikers last night unanimously voted to continue the strike, despite advice offered them by Mr. Justice J Obling,
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  • 263 3 London, Apr. 3. After accusing Mr. Justice Hallett of prejudging isi :ase, a /Jefendant, appearing in person, in the King's Bench Division, packed up his papers, put on his coat and walked out of court when invited to cross-examine the fiist witness. He was Captain
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  • 59 3 Under the ouspicies of the War Depar!mev Civilian staff Afs~. Si a meeting of represent a'ives from he reshra.nc'ie.V of GHQ SEALF. Tanglin, was held yesterday The follcwiig office bearers were eec ci:— Mr. B. L. Narang( Braich Chaumat:); Mr. Wee Tsiiro: Teck (Hen. Branch
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  • 78 3 U.P. Tcfc'o, April 6.—Gay. little 13--year-cid Prince Akihiio sto'e the show tram his Emperor father today as tne Imperial Family attended the annual Bpriha E:\viva*l carnival. de;p wltnrrj the wallet msat-rirg» pi'ac grounds. K>hi o. dessed in b acl* goi buttoned student uniform, rose
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  • 230 3 Reuter. SYDNEY, April G. Four Avro Anson planes, bought for a song from the Disposals Commission, took off from Kingsford Smith Airport, Sydney, to fly in formation to England in easy stages. Sycney business man, Mr. E- ie M.cii.ree, of Cremorne. who
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  • 55 3 U.P. LONDON, Apr. o.—Cattle, sheep, waterfowl juid fish had riotous weekend in Morayshire, ScotJ*nL when a Coleburn distillery worker turned nn the wrons faucet and 800 gallons of fine whisky went into the creek instead of into casks. Th-. water tasted of whisky three miles d;,wn. The
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  • 23 3 pea:. A',a 3.—i ißar'i h Red Cioss cable: its Loi:--r cfttec ha all rjeAk f smfire la be na d.e to
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  • 579 4 Back Pay claimants in Malaya will have noted events in Burma with interest, in that country, Government servants appear to have reaped the rewards of persistence; the Government has capitulated to their demands. It is reported that the Government of Burma's decision was arrived at following an ultimatum
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  • 846 4 Reuter. This month, f -uv clcci ticns will t-kc place in JaI pan: the HoUCc of Repre- sontativr.;, tlio HoU&C Of Councillors, the Chef Exo.cutivrs of prefectures* cities, town, villages and wards, and the members for all the local assemblies in Japan. This scries
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  • 198 4 It would be unjust, in this moment of her extinction, to overlook altogether the better side of Prussian character and achievement. Harsh authoritarianism, rigid bureaucracy, blind obedience, and brutal militarism were only too often a corporate expression of individual characters in themselves loyal, industrious. Uhrifty. patient,
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  • 384 4 Letters To The Editor Sir. -Some weeks ago I read a very interesting article on the winning battle which our Police are wag'ng against the criminal but bemoaning the public's socalled "lack of co-operation" in making prompt reports etc. A few days later I
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  • 137 4 Sir.—Degrading though capital punishment is. there are times when it is justified and Kawamura and Oishl are than worthy 0 f death. Normally a public hanging would be a beastly spectacle but in this case the enormity of the crime is such that bereaved members of the
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  • 173 4 Sir.—l wish to call your attention to your article in to-dayV Sunday Tribune page 2. The article in question is "Women missionary i s snubbed because she preaches to Japanese POWs." The states "that she is b. ing sunbbed by a number of British sailors at the
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  • 166 4 Sir—Stallholders in the temporary market at Seng Poh rtoad. Tiong Bharu. have received notices from the Municipal authorities to demolish their huts by the end of May. Certain considerations arise. The market serves a large population living in Tiong Bharu and the adjoining kampongs. In this case,
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  • 781 4 (From Guy Bettany, Rev tcr's Corrs. in Stuttgart) The difficulties of postwar travel in at least some parts of Europe are strikingly illustrated by a journey from Stuttgart to Berlin undertaken recently by a fair haired young German girl. Before the War, the journey took
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 356 5 —For attacking a man said to have boasted s conquests with women, a 40-year-old hus- A: sentenced at the Old Bailey to eight months' Leonard Samuel pucker, of LeoJ, fHarlesden, admitted magUe Weils with c u» him bodily harm. p prosecuting, ex- Christinas Mr.
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  • 68 5 Kinking, April 6.—A reparations commission source said today that China will get more loan i jOu.uio tons in the first bttcfi ol Japanese reparation reteaaed by bCAP. H" -aid these reparations will k removed to China in two bitches. SCAP already had announced i Japanese
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  • 67 5 Abou sn voti'ig people rrom chapters of the Sapor* Mf hocbst Youth Fel>P lor a Uvo-aay Reion Good Frir'ay and SaUir- ;1 'he Mothodist Sc'iooi, ilV a Lrbar. was to give tnosc a period of serious for more effective es in their respective "mmi ic.s a
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  • 22 5 jSAN DiEuo, California, Apr. 1 3. plane which fetched from a ship 700 Me>:can coast Eig'it ore feared dead
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  • 160 5 U.P. Washington. April 6.—A1l locals in nine western states were officially motified by the National Federation of Telephone Workers to stand by for the strike "definitely set" for 6 am. Monj day. but Government Labour exI perts here are hopeful that the nationwide telephone
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  • 70 5 Reuter. Frankfurt. April 6.—Eduard Guerton, an official at Floridsdorf concentration camp, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Dachau military court after he had been found guilty of unleashing a dog on a Polish prisoner, hanging him with his own hands in
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  • 76 5 U.P. Nuremberg, April 6. —Jail authorities announced today that Herbert Backe, 51, Assistan' Minister of Agriculture under Hitler, hanged himself with handKerchieis about midnight. Backe, wno was awaiting trial in the case against the Nazi Ministry of Food and Agriculture, tied several handkerchiefs together, looped them over the
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  • 55 5 Reuter. Berlin, April 6.—Hans Kallenbach, 51-year-old engineer, has been arrested by the police here and charged with killing Wilhelm Porsch, a Berlin watchmaker, in a struggle fought out with heavy hammers which Kal lenbach alleged both men seized during a violent argument. Kallenbach, who was himself seriously
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  • 198 5 Reuter. TTENTSIN, Apr. 6.—Between 2 000 and 3,000 men of the Communist 75th regiment, operating in East Hopei Province, supported by four artiicry pieces, took part in yesterday's early morning attack on a United States marine ammunition depot near Tangku, 35 miles east of Tientsin,
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  • 172 5 U.P. Washington, Apr. 6.—Nathan Keenig, a member of the United States Food Mission to Japan and Korea, said in a speech here that the Japanese will continue t j need food from the United States for S >me time unless they can bring
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  • 108 5 U.P. Shanghai, April 6 —Four-hun-dred houses, mostly Chinese mat-sheds, were destroyed In mne separa'e fires which gu ted scattered areas of the city, killnese Ching Mng Festival for lng two children and injuring three firemen. In one mammoth blaze, in tne Nantao area, more than
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  • 176 5 LONDON. Apr. 3 There died at h.s home in Bakerstree*-. W.. the Churchill you did not know. Major John Strange Spencer brother 01 Winston Churchill. He was born 67 years ago. And he did these things: Fought in the Boer War when he was 19;
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  • 51 5 Reuter. TIENTSIN, Apr. 6.—Fourteen U.S. Marines of the 16 wounded during yesterday's attack near Tangku were flown to a Tientsin hospital where two are considered to be in a critical condition. Six Chinese dead were left behind by the attackers, but the actual Chinese casualties are believed to be much
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  • 189 5 Reuter. Paris. April 6.—Madagascar insurgents surrendered their arms to the French forces, at Anjezcrobe. about 30 miles northeast of Antananarivo, according to reports reaching here from Madagascar. Meanwhile, no reports have been received concerning tne tate ol tne inhabitants of the nearby town oi Arababe.
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  • 357 5 London, Apr. 3.—Fear of loneliness and unhappiness of a possible separation was given in an alleged statement read to the Oxford magistrates as a husband's reason for the "mercy-killing" of his wife. 1 The husband, Montague Barfoot, 51-year-old G.P.Q. inspector, was said to have walked
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  • 339 5 Prices quoted below are per picui we»gn< except where otherwise stated. Pooastuf fs: Yesterday's quotations were "Meehoon": Kedab $65; £!am No. 1 $85: Indo-China $3U. Rice: Siara No. 1 $83: No. 2 $34: Rangoon $60. Oiii' 'iiu«»' >' -ham No 1 $75; Rangoon $45. •Quia" Muittcca:—Superior quality $42
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  • 48 5 NEW YORG, Apr 3 —Marry Thaw, milMona re playboy, who shot arc litec S-anford White on Madison Squara roof garden 40 years ago, died in Miami aged 76. Thaw, who escaped from an asylum after being found guilty but insane, was later freed on rr\rial.
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  • 243 5 Reuter. NEW YORK* Apr. 6.—President Truman, in an address at the Democratic Party Annual dinner, said that "it is necessary that we maintain sufficient military strength to convince the world that we intend to meelf our responsibilities." Pointing out that the world was looking
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  • 57 5 U.P. Havana; April 6.—At least two were- injured 'it), .nightlong street fighting in where ihe -Auientiop .(Government) and Jornmunist political parties, clashed in a struggle for the contrbTof.the Cuban Wotkers-Con-federation! Fighting'began last week, as 2.000 delegates tso Congress gathered- in Havana, for an all-out political 'struggle,
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  • 72 5 U.P. FOGGIA (Italy). Apr. 6Seven civilians and four Carab 4 n eri were wounded during a not in a small village of Squinzaho, near here yesterday. l A large crowd of demonstrators, protesting against the increase ot tne cost or living, attacked local .officials,
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  • 52 5 Reuter. NEW YORK. Apr. 5. Milton Reynolds, a Chicago pen manufacturer, who is to attempt to beat the record round-the-world flight of 91 hours 14 minutes made by Howard Hughes, millionaire film producer in 1938 is held up at Newark, New Jersey airport by bad weather
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  • 162 5 Reuter. TOKIO. April 6.- Louis Saillant. head of the four-man delegation of the World Federation of Trade Unions who have completed'a fortnight's tour studyconditions in Japan and Korea, said today that he "bitteriy resented" tiie treatment received by the delegation in the United t.ites-controlled
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  • 103 5 (From Our Own Reptrterj KUALA LUMPUR, April 6— The Governor has appointed He Ec Yew Him of Malacca to be a member of the Union Advisory Council in place of Mr. Tan Eng Chye, who recently resigned. Mr. Ec Yew Him is a Justice
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  • 658 6 Selangar-Nesri Chinese 3. Singapore Malays I. A record crowd saw first-class football at Jalan Besar yesterday when the Selangor-Negri Chinese, playing a more scientific game, than they did on Friday, outclassed the Singapore Malays at their own game, beating the local side by three
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  • 167 6 Reuter. LONDON. April. 6—History will be made when England players fly to the Continent for the Switzerland and Portugal matches, for it will be the first time that a full England international side Will have travelled by air. Hitherto the Football Associa- tion
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  • 108 6 JTrom Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, April 6—By winning all the doubles games Jn. the inteT-State Tennis yesterday and today, Perak beat Selangor. Perak won two of the six singles only. Results of doubles played today were (Perak players mentioned first): Lope Aziz and Lincoln Leong
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  • 99 6 (From Our Own Reporter) KUALA LUMPUR, April .6 The two-day cricket match between Selangor Club and Singapore cricket Club was abandoned this afternoon owing to heavy rain. The match began on Saturday when the Selangor Club, batting first, scored were all out for
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  • 43 6 Last night's boxing scheduled to take place at the New World arena has been postponed to Friday owing to the rain which continued until at 7.30 last night. Soon after the decision was made, the lights in Jalan Besar area failed.
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  • 32 6 SIOCGHOLM. Apr. 3.—Reg Parnell and George Abeca.ssis. driving British E.R.A.'s were firs and second in the 78-mile international car race outside S ockhoira. Winner's speed: 72.3 m. p. h.
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  • 328 6 Rugby Round-up Reuter. LONDON, Apr. 6.—At Llanelly, the Welsh team's encounter with Nuneaton was abandoned shortly after the Interval. Pontypool and Northampton decided to play a ->hort time but with the players becoming so mud-spattered as to be unrecognisable, the referee stDpped the
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  • 144 6 Reuter. LONDON. April 6.—Five million fans who invest more than £2.000.000 weekly on football pools read with interest this week that a company has been formed to run a pool on county cricket. There is one essential difference between football pools as they now exist
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  • 27 6 PARIS. Aor. 3.— Thp world's firs* wine nirjeline. 9 m'Je long is beirg built a* Algiers to run w'ne to tankers in the harbour.
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    • 93 6 "One Of The Most Memorable Pictures Of Our Time" Daily Herald Today Five Shows 10.30 sun —1 30—4—6.30— 9.30 p.m. A. J. CRONIX S Unforgettable Novel! NEXT CHANGE The Most Hilarious Idea In Film History! MONTY WOOLEY And GRACIE FIELDS WOOLLEY FIELDS 3.30—6—8 30 p.m. "Raja Rajeswari" (hi Tamil) HI
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  • 399 7 Reuter. <s*y Vernon Morgan) LONDON, Apr. 6.—ln extolling the prowess oi Indian badminton players who competed in the British championships and suggesting that not only must India's number one player, George Lewis, be one of the world's best, but that India
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  • 67 7 The Singapore Hospital Assistants and Dressers Association Hockey and Table Tennis teams returned yesterday after a successful tour to Malacca where they beat the Malacca Hospital teams by two goals to one at hockey and by five games to four at Table Tennis. Scorers in
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  • 277 7 own Reverter) fjR, April 6 imlnton Cham- w reached the ill present the I mers after the I be played toChampion, fight with the nun and MalaWong Peng 15 io. 13-13 (5-l>. :unner-up, Lin rxtended by el Wong Peng Durai ana ins had to fight doubles
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  • 80 7 Reuter. COPENHAGEN. Apr. 6.—Prahth Nath of India was beaten J the semi-finals of the men's angles in t he international badminton tournament by Poul ■fa ct Denmark 7-15. 15-12, 15-10 h the semi-final of the mixed doubles Davinder Mohan, India, n d Inger Sorensen were bea--5 by
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  • 346 7 Reuter. LONDON. Apr. 6.—There is bad news for British athletics th:s week in the statement tnac after all Trinidad and Jamaica are to enter their own individual teams for next year s Olympiad. This means that Macdonald Bailey, perhaps the fastest sprinter in Europe, if
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  • 509 7 THE BOAT RACE Reuter. LONDON, Apr. 6. —Many people are now asking why is it that Cambridge won the inter-varsity boat race so easily after all the critics had predicted that Oxford who started favourites would win Or that the race would be one of
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  • 36 7 SOCCER Selangor-Negri Chinese vs. SC.FA.. Jalan Besar, 5 p.m. CRICKET CSC. vs. Ceylon Youths of Selangor, Thomson Road, 11 a.m. CSC. vs. Combined R.A.F., Changi. 11 a.m. S.C.C. vs. Singapore Non-Ben-ders. Padang. 2 p.m.
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  • 412 7 Saturday's Big International LONDON. Apr. 6 —The Englang w. Scotland international is always one of the ot the British soccer season, and next Saturday s match at the Wembley Stadium is no exception even though the odds are heavily in favour ot England. The
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  • 235 7 Reuter. LONDON, Apr. 7.—History points to Charlton Athletic, the most successful cup-fighting team of recent years, capping a great performance over five years by winning the Football Association Cup this year. They are the third team to make an appearance in the final
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  • 251 7 Fi ial acceptances for the ttvrd cay of he Selangor Races at Kuala Lumpur today: RACE 1 HORSES. Class 1, Div. I, mile and 1 fur: Ccurtenal 10.03 Bo:rah 8.03 Goa s Ski a 8.03 Fcur Winds 8.00 Win .The Peace 7 .12 HORSES. Class 3.
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  • 308 7 LONDON, Apr. 6.—The National Coal Board have purchased a Olock of tickets for the England verses Scotland game on Apr. 12 and 450 for the Rugby League final on May 8, both fixtures like the Cup final being fixed for Wembley. So mining
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  • 58 7 Reuter. LIVERPOOL. Apr. 6. One msn was taken to hospital with rib injuries and several people fainted when a queue almost a mile long waited to purchase tickets for the Cup semi-final replay between Liverpool and Burnley broke into disorder. Sixteen thousand tickets were sold in two
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  • 46 7 MALACCA, Sat.—In the first holiday encounter with the Malacca Indians, the Singapore Clarke Rangers lost to the home team by 14 runs. Playing on a treacherous wicket, the Indians who batted first collected 70 runs and the visiting Rangers replied with 56 after a stubborn stand.
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  • 577 7 Muddy wickets and a slow drizzle marred the Singapore-Selangor State Cricket match on the Padang yesterday, the game ending in an unsatisfactory draw. At the close of play yesterday Selangor were all out for 141 runs, while Singapore had scored 97 runs lor seven
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  • 255 7 (From Our Own Reporter) Ipch. Mar. 6.—Rain again Interfered in the secoid day's play of the Inter-State* cricket fixture between Perak Bind Peoang which was played here today. PERAK—FIRST INNINGS Suppiah c Boon Choo h Anares 8 Earn Heck c Boon Choo b Stewart
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 41 7 TIDE TABLE fODA¥ ~,r HIGH WATER: 9 rt 3 in. WW WATER: am. inches. 11 Pji I ft. 5 in. I'OMOKKOW 124/, HIGH WATER. 1240 P]n 8 it 9 in. 62n J' 0W WATER. Jgajß 5 nches. 83j 2 11 iin.
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  • 55 8 The amount of new life assurance business written by the Oriental Government SecurityLife Assurance Co.. Ltd. last year was:—loB.72B policies assuring R5.286.330.095. This figure while shewing an :ncraese cf over Rs. 31 4 crores in the sum assured over the figure for 1945. constitutes a
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  • 53 8 London. April 5.— Conservative candidates won 337 seats out of 456 which they contested in local government elections, according to figures issued by the Conservative Central Office. The votes polled by Conservative candidates totalled 417.000. Labour candidates contesting 455 seats were returned in 153 cases with a total
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  • 163 8 Reuter. LONDON, Apr. 6.—Most places in Britain have had their coldest and wettest Easter for many years so far and holiday crowds at seaside resorts have been spending mcst of their time indoors. The beaches were almost defertcd at Southend today and motorists
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  • 198 8 Reuter. LONDON. Apr. 6.— Rear-A-dmiral Constantine Rodionov. £ov:et Ambassador to Greece has delivered a note to the GreeK Government denying the authenticity of the interview, purporting to be with Generalissimo Scalin. published :n three Atheunewspapers. Moscow radio reported today. The note handed to
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  • 47 8 Reuter. SAIGON, Apr. 6—Obeying Vietminh orders. 80 per cent, ot Annamite transport companies here have suspended all traffic. The Vietminh had distributed leaflets ordering that all transport should De suspended for five days, fa'ling which vehicles would be attacked and -et afire Reuter.
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  • 162 8 U.P. Washington, April 6. John L Lewis and the Government squared off for a renewal of open warfare today and early reports from the nations coalfields incated that the mine leader will be booked by almost the solid refusal of 400 000
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  • 86 8 MOSCOW. Apr. 6.-When the Anglo-Russian treaty revision talks are resumed nere next Tuesday, it is believed that both sides will pioduce draft texts known to bo ready with both < sides, ana will try to hammer out a common text for a revis- ed treaty of
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  • 166 8 Reuter. SHANGHAI. Apr. 4.—The re j organisation of the Chinese Government, wiiich has been 1 progressing at the slowest pace I -.wing to difficulties raised by the minority parties, is expected to move a step nearer compie- tion within the next 24 hours "wh.
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  • 50 8 Reuter. LONDON, Apr. 6.— Herbert Backe, a former Nazi Minister, ccmmitted suicide in Nuremberg priscn where he was awaiting trial as a top-ranking Nazi, Hamburg radio said today Quoting a United States repori. Backe hanged himself with a "rope" made from several handkerchiefs, the report said.Peut.r.
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  • 37 8 Reuter. Calcutta, April 5.—About 7,000 employees of the Bata shoe factory went on strike here today r nging the number of industrial and clerical workers now on strike to 20.000. In addit'on, 8000 tramway workers have work*—Reuter-
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  • 159 8 Reuter. Nanking. April 6.—Government troops In Hcpei province have captured the cty ol Yungtsmg, 40 miles ot south of Peiping. aci cording to Cfrncse press dis- patches received here to-day. I Yungtsing is located in the heart of a triangle formed by Peip'ng. I Tientsin and
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  • 133 8 U.P. BUCHAREST. Apr. 6—Runway inflation wa> developmg in Rumania today and the government was reported to have abandoned the struggle to save the present currency. The most significant price increase was the announcement by the Ministry of National Economy that a kilogram of rationed corn <maze>
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  • 51 8 U.P. London. Apr. 5.—A Hereford bull was sold a: Sydney stud sales for 2 350 guineas Australian, the Aus ralian News and Information Bureau announced toaay. A second bull was bough for 1 850 guineas Tie prices were among the r.'ghest recorced recently toi .stud bulls.—U
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  • 404 8 Reuter. Strasbourg, Apr. 6.~Ge nertU Charles De Gaulle declared here today that rf ever a new tyranny should menace all or part of the World "we are assured in advance that the United .States and Fiance will be in agreement to
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  • 148 8 HASTINGS, England, Apr. 6.*—Winston Churchill, Britain' wartime Premier and Conservative Member of Parliament, will be opposed at the next election which is due in 1950 by a Commonwealth Party whq Will advocate a "socialist foreign policy," it was announced here after a private
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  • 357 8 'We Saw Nothing' London, Apr. 3.—Sixty scientists of various nationalities have been conducted round the Government's atomic energy research station at Harwell, near Didcot in Berkshire. No British newspaperman has been allowed by the Ministry of Supply to penetrate this" closely guarded place. The scientists
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  • 68 8 U.P. JERUSALEM, Apr. 5: A general Army alert was ordered for Monday noon when the Jerusalem High Court was expected to announce its decision on the appeal of the terrorist Dov Gririer. now under sentence to hang. The judgement will automatically become the tmis for the
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  • 101 8 SHANGHAI. Apr. 6.- The Sin Waii-pao. .leading newspaper and a pro-Kuomintahg organ, said today' that an Aviation Treaty, between China and British already bad been drafted by- trie Civil Aeronautics Com mission in Nanking and the i draft was expected to be .forwarded to" the.Executive Yuan j
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  • 188 8 Reuter. LONDON. Apr. 6.-The South Africa Committee of the Bri- tish India League today puoI iished a statement on condition, in South Africa maue b> a retired Royal Navy officer. Lieutenant J. R. Towner, who is now serving in the Merchirt Navy. "The
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  • 49 8 Calcutta, April 7.—A Communist rr'st Par.y communique said tof*y the nol'ce killed nine persons and injured 15, when they opened fire into a group of oea58n rear Jalpaiguri, in Bengal on Fricay. The communists said the police a tack occurred during a of 'he r'ee harves' with landlord represen'atives
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  • 110 8 Reuter. LONDON. Ap 6 using guns. raz„ knuckl,-c;uM ir East Und ten™ reoucio^j£s Luodoa Rent »2 cent ptopi, h v Mua-,': todays KtUiig ,i th wh.-n tic called tr' 1 *m**m t, mg tenant rr quentiv al „ur ft: b<giunii.« resent t al." d TheS<'
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  • 86 8 CAIRO. Apr. 6: A t::r was discoverer aboard the Br.Ush ship Empire Bin! i Tiiursday offal wHk t. was en rouu- from Haifa t., Pr Said, it was announced txhy The Empire Rival lod br>: used to dfp; irt ißegai XnU immigrants from P!•
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  • 163 8 That the time wa> b I preaching when the CM revert to its former ruling only available for membu I and their guests was a p I stressed by Mr F G h... I dent of the Singapore Swin Club, at the annual genen meeting ol the
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  • 34 8 nr J'* v PARIK. Apt Mentael. p sdvi-er to roi Petain v. dent on Fndav. at va the rrench here today rtiy The doctor wa on trial on indignity, h
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  • 15 8 LONDON Apr Rodionov S Greece has to Moscow. nounced last ni*W
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  • 28 8 Mr. Ltv Kirn c pore Chinese to the East-West "Eastern and n m Thurs I V.M.C.A. Ore visitor int. r< will be v- 1«
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    • 15 8 BULLION Gold bullion prices at* 10 a.m. today were: Sellers: 5163 per Uhil Buyers: $158
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 112 8 TODAYS WEATHER REPORT Showers This Afternoon I S ngapore weak er for c st for 24 Yon frrm neo 1 oaay I ccmpi ed by the R.A.F Central l«orecas tog Station, Air Com- j niand. Far East: Clounv wi h occasional modera c io heavy showers tnis afterWtl. Fair nrght.
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