Malaya Tribune, 9 April 1947

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1 8 Malaya Tribune
  • 62 1 The Malaya Tribune B y THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE THE ONLY NATIONAL NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA Vow printed simultaneously in SingaporeKuala Lumpur, Ipoh Penang. 'Phone Numbers: Editor 5813 Editorial 5811 Advertising 5812 Circulation Accounts 5815 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS. The Malaya Tribune London Agents:—Messrs. Colin Turner
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  • 144 1 Rep t er) Government h artened by the Burma v ha agreed to back pay, A. Sandoi the JCSA Council, r precedent JCSA. being tffiluti 1 i Back Pay Counrnment emit".; n had agree pul nrith the bac* Dr. S am :'evealed thai j sent
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  • 89 1 t S ali Rep ncr) n 6CO men ant; >ne de ol Uu y 'ernmenl Dispell Canal Road, on ito get them I and vaccinat 1 smallpox. 'X in admittance, some even Lng hind the buildCentral Pr fact tnat c Station is just nit for
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  • 302 1 Many have lived there over 15 years Fate Of 30 Families To Be Decided Soon Reuter. NEW YORK, Apr. 9.—The fat. of HO Indians tJ reatened with deportation, who arc alleged to have tered the United States illegally, will bo decided short ly when Ihe
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  • 153 1 Reuter. EDINBURGH. Apr. 8. Lieut. Gen. Sir Philip Christison. Army Commaruier in Scotland, arid formvr C-in-C. Malaya, in the early ci ys of the re-occupation, .aid today in Edinburgh that when he accepted the surrender ol the Japanese General commanding in Java, he met an
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  • 27 1 11 a house in Blanco Court las ni^h 1 f wo armed Chinese robbed a Chi iese woman of $1 000 cash and jewellery.
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  • 25 1 A lone gunman held up a at 2 130 this morning in Rivei: Va'lev Road and, got away with $6 12.
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  • 107 1 (Tribune Staff Repor/er.) A red banner with white lettered words welcoming Dr. fanarir and all the other delegates of Indonesia wa> strung across Kallang Road this morning, while the Malay quarter in Arab Street was thick with the red and white hag of Indonesia hung on
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  • 153 1 Reuter U.P. PARIS, Apr. B—The French authorities in Casablanca, Morocco, today opened an official inquiry into last night's riot there between Senegalese and Moroccans in which 61 peonle were killed and 119 injured. The casualties were officially stated here tonight to be made
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  • 77 1 Reuter. DAR-ES-SALAAM. Tanganyi- ka. Apr B.— Sixty-one African i men and women have been arrested during inquiries Into alleged murders by the "lion I men" or witch doctors in Singid.i 1 district of Tanganyika. It was officially stated here today. The pclice expect to bring
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  • 59 1 Reuter. LONDON. Apr. 9. new "chief planner.' Sir Edwin Plowden. .tarts hi s job thi- < Wednesday* morning at the War Cabinet Office in Great George Street. He is starting with his own secretary and shorthand typist. Very soon his nucleus staff ol experienced planners—three
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  • 268 1 Exciting moments in bid to save Ford Reuter. DLaßOir. Apr. B.—While Henry Ford, the richest man in the world lay dying by the candle and lamp light at his Hooded estate at Dearborn, Michigan, last night an employee ran half a mile to his engineering laboratory to
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  • 212 1 (Tribune Stall Rep:r L er) Forty-live tna., involving 95 Japanese war criminals are due ior hearing tnroughout SEAC in toe near iuture. Singapore will deal with live of tne trials in w r h:ch seven accused wili face of the inhuman and brutal
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  • 49 1 NEW DELHI. Apr. 8. Mahatma Gandhi has sent a message to the Vietnamese expressing "full sympathy for the cause for which the people of Vietnam are fighting," it was reported here today. Gandhi said. "My heart is always with the oppressed people of the world."
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  • 344 1 (Tribune Stall Reporter) Smuggling of rubber into Singapore from the Netherlands Indies and West Borneo, which at one time had provided hundreds of thousands of dollars cl ar profit to local Chinese traders, is now on the decline with the recent tightening up of measures
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  • 122 1 'Tribune Staff Reporter) Blackmarketeers everywhere in Singapore enjoyed an undisturbed pertiod in their "trade" I owing to the Easter holidays taken by the raiding section of the Food Control Office. Food Officers resumed work on i Monday and brought to book I seven
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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    • 34 1 j Ip* wre* 1 Ideal Gifts I From Malaya I Beer Mugs fcb **J Tea Services I I Swot c Burette Sets I HP*'* Powder Bowls H jW. Candle Stands: Flower Vases par Mail
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  • 98 2 Ill i CO Madam Aug Seok Ch widow cf ivli*. Khco Tniam Hi ck, aged 68, at her resice :ce, 88. Jco Chia- Place, on Tuesoay. 4.50 p.m. She leaves beiJ iii one son, Koon Cheong. mree daughters, two daughters-» :-Iaw, one son-in-law, Quek San, four grana-scns-in-law and many
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  • 218 2 An urgent appeal for funds on behalf of the Indian orpnanage by tne Ramakrishna Mission was made by the outgoing j President of tne Mission. Swarm > Bhaswarananda, at the thir- <• teonth annual general meeting j of members of the Ramakrishna Mission. Singapore, yesterday. Swami
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  • 177 2 The R.A.F. Malcolm Club at R.A.F. Station. Changi, was crowded to capacity on Easter Monday evening when an Easter Fancy Dress Ball was held. Tiie R.A.F.'s own dance band provided the music for dancing w-hich began early in the evening and continued with
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  • 20 2 U.P. untitled Apr. 7 Deputy l r<Ntz:i l >r r.,. mel >?»"< r>4 t i'.. n 7..-: > ill fi "li ?,s
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  • 110 2 Three Chinese, Cnoo IGang Tai. Ng Chap Jee and Lim Ah Key, and two Indian Sepoys, Khary Mohamed and Mohbab Khan, were produced in the Fourth Police Court yesterday on a charge of loiter'ng in two taxi's on Tiong Bahru Road on the night of
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  • 197 2 MILAN, Apr. 8 —The brother-in-law and sister of Count Giovanni Pellegrini Malfatti, found murdered in the garden ol his luxurious villa on Lake Garden ten days ago, were held by the police today on suspicion of slaying: the 52-year-old millionaire and former officer of the
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 541 2 I ATIONS VACANT 11 ALNING IN WELFARE WOKK Applicants are invited for the 5 vacancies allotted to Singap< re tor a course for Colonial Social Welfare Officers at the London School of Economics. The curse begins in September, 1947. 2 The scholarships, tenable for a maximum period of two years,
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    • 520 2 EDUCATION YMCA. EVENING SHORTHAND CLASSES for beginners advanced students commencing Monday, 14th April 1947. tor aamission apply to Ihe General Secretary, V.M.C.A., Orchard Road. Mercantile Institution 209, Queen Street Phone 2370 MONTHLY sessions begin in Shorthand, Typewriting, Book- Keeping first week. MATHEMATICS: Elementary, i Additional and Mechanics for I Senior
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    • 295 2 JUST RECEIVED Shipping and Transport Code Appendix $120.00 Kelly Walsh Ltd. Booksellers Stationers Raffles Place. Singapore. The Travancore Forward Bank Ltd. (Incorporated in Travancore* with limited liability. t Head Office:— Kottayam, Travancore. Branches throughout Travancore and at Madras and other Important Centres in South India. AUTHORISED CAPITAL Rs. 50,09,000 Issued
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  • 150 3 of the st- t tanMa cca. now rere held thetr ftion at the Ta Monday. r and guests m a( re H.E. endy, Titular. Mr. C. F. 7 \lr I' G- Mahimdasa, 00 tv Hor.« -eng. Dr. C. J. j Pillal and the artists of
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  • 180 3 An inquiry into the death of a Japanese prisoner was conI ducted in the Singapore Corn i ner's Court yesterday by Vr w. G. Porter. The Japanese. L. cpl. Yoshino Shiseryuki, died as a result or a head injury received on March 10 while travelling Municipal in
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  • 220 3 Ho Kian Chong, a Singapore contractor and shippingowner was sentenced to rive years" rigorous imprisonment for unlawful possession of a .38 revolver and six rounds of ammunition, at the Third Assizes yesterday. He was found euilty by a maj oritv ot five
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  • 115 3 Kuala Lumpur. On Good Friday Lieutenant General Galloway. GOC Malaya Command and Mrs. Galloway visited the Army Children's School in Circular Road for the end of term prize-giving. Before Mrs. Galloway presented prizes, Mrs. Jones, Oueen's Army School Mistress in charge of the school,
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  • 66 3 Thirteen Chinese, alleged to have committed theft of 70 drums of oil worth $10,000 from a military dump at Woodlands on April 5. were charged with the offence before Magistrate Ahmad bin Ibrahim yesterday. All the accused claimed trial. In the case of the ninth accused,
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  • 223 3 Registration and Exemption irem registration under tne Societifes Ordinance will be resumed with effect trom 15ih April. 1947. states Gazette extraordinary notification. All Societies which are st ll in existence ana whicn were regis tered cr exempted under the Ordinance before 3uth April. 1941. should notify
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  • 573 3 Bus Strike Inquiry At tlio continued inquiry into the Traction Company dispute yesterday, Mr. Justice Jobling told the strike leader, Mr. Samy, that the strikers were inconveniencing the public of Singapore by not going back to work. Reiterating the statement he made la>t
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  • 68 3 Fioyd C. Henry, Division Manager. Far East, Paramount International Films, Inc., New York, who arrived by 8.0.A.C. from Calcutta on tour of inspection on Sunday. He will be staying in Singapore for a few days prior to returning to U.S.A. via London. Mr. He my held
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  • 51 3 The Sihgapore Lodge. Theosophical Society, is hoping to hold a series of lectures on a general theme entitled "Religions and World Pi ace". The first in this series will be from the point of view of "Judaism" and wdll be held at the Lodge premises on Thursday at
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  • 196 3 Surian, an Indian member of a gang of car strippers, was sentenced to eighteen months' rigorous imprisonment for housebreaking and the theft of throe complete wheels of a car, at the conclusion of a trial before Second District Judge T. T. Russell, yesterday.
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  • 89 3 ''ear Admiral J. Egerton, C.8., Flag Officer. Malayan Area today handsover a British minesweeper, the H. M. S. Minstrel to the Siamese Navy, at tne Naval Base The handing-over ceremony la expected to begin at 11 a.m. when the Rear Admiral will lnsnect both British
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  • 98 3 Richard Apperley-Jones (29». ot the m v "Nanmei" appeared in the Fourth Magistrate's Court yesterday en a charge of housebreakimr. He was alleged to have entered on the night of April 2 tne Cabin cf Mr. Arthur Donald Molnet. the Master, in order to commit theft
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  • 151 3 Lord Killearn. Special Commissioner in Soutn-Ea-t Asia, will leave Singapore fur Sydney by air on April 12 on an officio 1 visit to Australia at the invitation of the ttustralan Government. He will be accompanied by Lady Killearn and by Capt. D. F.
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  • 99 3 Suspected of being a leper, a j middle-aged Chines,. wom.ni, I Hoon Ah Moi. who appeared in the dock of the Fourth Police Court ycsUrday, with a young child on her back, was charged with theft of two bags and a basket of coal from the
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  • 29 3 DAMASCUS. April. 8.—The Foreign Ministers of the Arab States will meet in Damascus shortly to decide their procedure on Britain's submission of the Palestine issue to the United Nations
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  • 441 3 Bernard Newman, the ftmcus novelist and 3rjy-Story writer who is making a four-month lecture tour of the Far East for the War omce, spoke at R.A.F. Station, Changi, Singapore, yesterday on 'Spies in Fact and t ictioii." Mr Newman illustrated his
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  • 94 3 Two Sikhs who were loading a lorry inside a store of 223 BOD. Kirn Seng Road with baits of lcthing were caught red-hand-ed by a radio patrol in the early hours of the morning on June t, last year. One cf the Sikhs. Gijjan
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  • 31 3 ATik on Goethe will be yen by Sgt. J. Lindsay to The V.M.C.A. Literary and Debating Society at the V.M.C.A. premises "A" Orchard Road commencing 8.00 p.m. tonight.
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • 577 4 The cost of living is on the upgrade again. Official ceiling prices bear little relation to prices actually being demanded and paid in the markets and shops. The Food Control Department is very active and is doing almost everything except controlling prices. Arrests and summonses and even
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  • 141 4 An acute shortage of labour in Malaya finds the post-war administrations witli cut an immigration p !icy. Wastage over the last five years has been serious. Japanese brutality and mismanagement has resuited in scores cf thousands of deaths while other fac tors have combined to reduce
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  • 935 4  -  by Lim Keng Hor A remarkable feature of political activity m Malaya nowadays has been the fact that our councillors and spokesmen on public bodies are inarticulate. Whatever political "agitation" there has been since the inoccupation 18 months ago has been from spokesmen of associations
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  • 328 4 Letters* To The Editor 1 The People's Postbag Sir.—Picking up the trail of 'Progress whose letter on the question of a Malayan University appeared in your paper cf Tuesday, I feel that that this university topic demands of the thinking public serious consideration. I conscientiously believe
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  • 139 4 Sir.—Scores of lepers leave th? colony at Vi 0 Chu Kang Road every afternoon by public transpert for various destinations ana c-.me back at different late hours of the evening, each with an additional bundle. What their particular business is with the yet uninfected world. I cannot say. but
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  • 341 4 BERLIN.—in the heyday o! his power Adolf Hitler launched a potent weapon—tubercuI lasts— and it is still killing thousands of his own people and endangering the lives of j occupation troops, according to j American Military Government records in tne American zone alone. TB is killing Germms.
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  • 466 4 'From Jack Smyth, Reuters Correspondent). London today is the bigge: t diamond centre in the world. Sahs which reached the record figure Of £30.000.000 in 194 5 will almost certainly be exceeded this year, according to dia-mond-dealers who attribute the present "boom"' to the
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 92 5 I 8 A Japanese a Arai, serving as court martial en-age American murder of four Korean on B d Pie. Carl J. assailant who and then threw idside cliff. Havalda struck was st arching lor father who had not m a Jap bath. His id tlic
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  • 108 5 Reuter. Seattle, Apr 8 —Seven perli< ?ed ,o have been i i€ a bus plunged into a rivei he outskirts of colliding with an the bPGge. Some rescued from ed bus and revived by artificial respiration. Ri poi the number of engei the bus
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  • 42 5 rhe Special Arrangements, lied by th Government hi in April, 1946, for red uispersa] ol post patrial from Malaya il bi- ulseorriiniiMay 31. 194 <. The in 1 1 'pat ri I 'S BfC warned ii f th opportunity Limit specified
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  • 244 5 Members cf the Mar Thoma Syrian Church in South Malaya gave a reception to their new Minister, the Rt v. V. E. Thoma8.A.. 8.D.. at the St. Andrews School Hall, on Monday evening. A repre-entative gathering was present anions: whom were the BL-hop of
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  • 67 5 MALACCA, Apr. B.—A black panther, measuring four feet long and three feet high, was snared by a boar trap in Bukit Sengeh Estate, Jasin. A Chinese labourer unsuccessfully attempted to take the animal alive. Eventually a rope was passed around 'tfl necK and in the struggle
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  • 78 5 w Britain. April '■ui execution at n 1943 ol a 23-year- flight-lieutenant, as shot down, was charges against tazo H tdachi. at tiie ti :al today. 1 Badham alleged I' mmander of the 18th J.tpant.se Army in New Guinea, iailed to cont;ul his subordinates, who
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  • 340 5 (Tribune Stan" Reporter.) Teachers in mission schools receiving grants-in-aid Irom Government are the cinderellas of tne teaching profession. Though possessing identical qualifications as teachers in Government schools, Aided School teachers are not entitled to pensions and other concessions granted
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  • 62 5 The Chinese Appeal Committee sent a lefter yesterday morning to the Chinese Consul General reoucj-nrg him to exert his influence to have *he sentences passed on the 5 Japanese war criminals reviewed and to press for the arrest of other Japanese who had a hand
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  • 146 5 Reuter. Rangon, April a. The Burma Command Headquarters today i pen ed reports la the Burmese j press winch alleged that troops 'of the "Black Cat" 12th Army committed a series ol excesses Including daylight raping of Burmese women in the Pyinmana district in
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  • 225 5 Reuter. MUNICH. April 8. Four former high-ranking officers of the Nazi Brownshirt organisation appeared on trial here today charged with loading" the largest Nazi underground movement so far uncovered by the Allied occupation authorities in Germany. The defendants, ail former members oi tne crack d.
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  • 70 5 Reuter. Copenhage l. Anr. B.—King Christian the Tenth, 77-year-old King of Denmark, had a slight heart affection duri lg Eas-er Sunday, his condition is new sa isfaetory, a bulle-in issued here by his doctor said today. Three months ago, Kiig Chris Jan had a
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  • 67 5 Malacca. April 8. In a speeen at the farewell dinner given him by the Dressers Association last night. Mr. Mck Kttm Li at. who recently resigned from his post a< dresser at the Malacca General Hospital, enndemned the shelv.'ng of the scheme whereby dressers were
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  • 100 5 CALCUTTA. With a view to further streru; heni tg cultural relat ons between Ilt'ia and China, the Gcver: ment of Inaia have offered ;o Indian Students twelve studentships tenable in Chinese Universities for s udies in Chi; ese language and ohiiosophy. history, arts and crafts,
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  • 187 5 Reuter LONDON, April 8 A former member of the M.iay.m Civil S hrice, Mi. Aiwyn S. Hayncs, in a tetter to The Times today, commenting on Pandit Nehru's speech at the Asian Relations Conference, says: "It protests and proclaims over much. it may be a
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  • 121 5 Reuter. Brussels. Apr. 8 The report ,of the spec a! committee appointed by Xi tg Leopold 111 of the Belgians to investigate the i "truth of the Kirgs attitude j since 193o" has bee 1 competed j and Is to be submitted to the I
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  • 103 5 U.P. Honolulu. April B.—The Liberty ship Stephen S. Ausfn reported today that it was drifting 45J miles south of Midway after losing her propeller when the tail shaft broke. The ship said that It was in no danger of sinking. It« position was given as about
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  • 70 5 The written examinations of the Associated B(.ard of the Royc l Schools of Music will beheld in Singapore on October 4th 1C47. and all entries should be received by the Department of Elucaiion, Fuller.on Building, before June 8th. Candidates wishing to e"de<should apply i.i wrMng to the
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  • 33 5 U.P. LONDON. Apr 8.- "Stinker." Originally from the Falkland Islands, but of late from Monti video. Uruguay, arrived here unceremoniously yesterday as tnr tlrst penguin to cross the Atlantic in an airplane.—U P.
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  • 143 5 Mohmud bin Ghu'r.m Ali, who described himself as a land broker, was feu id guil y on a charge cf re'ainl g 303 hedsheets which had been stolen fiom 93 lidian Ge eral Hospi al, and sentence j to nfie months' rigorous imprisonme
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  • 190 5 Reuter. PATIALA, PINJAB, Apr. 8. —The Maharaja of Patfala, Pn.-ChanccHor (Deputy Chancellor; of the Indian Chamber of Princes, today urged the Indian princes to stop "sitting on the fence" and to take part in the Indian Constituent Assembly. Replying to an
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  • 394 5 International Commission Suggested U.P. LONDON, April 8. —An impartial International commission for the adjudication of India's communal problems was seen today as practical politics by Labour Party quarters directly interested in Indian affairs. These quarters said this suggestion was initially mooted list Decern
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  • 136 5 U.P. Bangkok, Apr. 8 -An antiPhibun demonstration was stacrea at the Phra Ifane ground in front of he Rcvai Paiuce this afernooi. It was broken up midway when part 0 f the thousands lv the audience Started to rush off for m unknown reason, pr-bably from
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  • 89 5 Reuter. New York. April 8. MUt in Reynolds, the Chicago pen manufacturer, was hoping to take 1 l! from the Newark airport. New Jersey, today in an attempt on a round the wo.rld flight record. H's flight, which wa. to have begun last Saturday, was delayed
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • 73 6 U.P. SHANGHAI, April B.— Convicted on forty counts of murder through miscarriage of justice and 12 counts of corruption, former Magistrate Koo Ying of Shangcheng, in southeast Henan, has been sentenced to death. Koo was magistrate in the isolated country eight years where he ruled as
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  • 326 6 (Tribune Financial Corr.) The share market opened after the holidays with a steadier un dertone than was prevailing at th close of business last Thursday but at the same time busines yesterday was rather more difficult to negotiate. In industrials. Alexandra Brick Ords could still be placed
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  • 183 6 (Tribune Market Cors.) Resumption of the rubber market yesterday morning saw a slightly steadier undertone for the higher grades and a fair I amount of business was transacted at a shade above last Thursday's closing price with buyers over at the close of business. The lower grades,
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  • 263 6 U.P Washington, Apr. 8. —President Joseph Beirne of the striking National Federation of Telephone Workers, said on Monday night that his union has "settled down for a long strike." Beirne told reporters, after a stormy 45-minu'.e conference with Federal Concilliation Director Edgar Warren,
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  • 92 6 Reuter. KARACHI. When a Premier's eyes are closed in the legislative assembly, he is not necessarily asleep. Mr. Ghulam Hussain (Sind Premier) made this clear when, during a recent discussion in (he assembly, an opposition member told the Speaker: "There is not a single
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  • 125 6 U.P. WASHINGTON. Arpil 7.—The U.S. Government claimed today that 54,000 of John L. Lewis' 400.000 soft coal miners "ignored" his safety strike and went hack to their pits. But, the bulk of the men. particularly in the great producing areas of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky.
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  • 57 6 A farewell party for Mrs. T. W. Hinch will be held at the Y.W.CA. hostel, Fort Canning, en April 11 at 5 p.m. The Y.W.CA. invites all members and friends to attend the party. The opportunity will also be taken to dedicate a piano to the memory
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  • 41 6 JAMESTOWN, New York Apr. B—The first settlement iin the day-old nation-wide telephone strike was announced by the Jamestown Federation of Telephone Workers who said they had accepted a nine per cent, wage increase. One hundred employees are effected.
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  • 301 6 U.P. Tokio. April B.—Sir William Webb, presiding judge at tne trial of Hidcki Tojo and 25 codefendant-, warned the defence that unless they tighten up their case the court may fix a time limit for the presentation of evidence. Srir WilHiam Webb Said: "If
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  • 114 6 U.P. Pearl Harbour. April B.—one Navy flier wa. killed and four escaped injury in three separate plane mirhap s during the cruise of the carrier Shangri-la from California to Hawaai. The Sahngri-la and the U.S.S. Antietam arrived to relieve the Carriers Princeton
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  • 82 6 SHANGHAI, Apr. B—The District Court has reserved for judgment tin April 14 the case of Frederick Mysberg. the Netherlands Manager of the American firm Abis and Company, who has held in jail for a month without bail on charges of violating the new Chinese currency regulations.
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  • 107 7 OFrom Onr Own Reporter) Malacca, Apr. 8. In cricket outing against Jie Muar Cricket Club, St. Peer's Brigade were robbed of victory owing to rain a id the game ended in a draw. The Brigade batted first ana Robert Foo thrashed the Muar bowlers to pass
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  • 103 7 Reuter. LONDON. Apr. 7. George Todd Mantoh. trainer who won the S akes on Saturday comp'e el a notable double at Kemptcn Park today when D. Barling's Gremlin. admirably ridden by Cliff Richards, easily bear the Frenc'i invaders in the £2 600 Queens Prize run over
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  • 322 7 Navy Win By Only Goal Nay y 1. Malay 0. Scoring the only goal in the match, the Navy debated the Malays to maintain their unbeaten record in. an S.A.F.A. League match played at Jalan Besar stadium, yesterday. The standard of play wU.
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  • 64 7 The following players will represent the C.V.M.A. Juniors in a friendly soccer match against the Johore English College on Saturday, at the St. Joseph's Inst, ground at 5. Michael Hendrolf. Good song. Anthony De Cruz. James Tan! Anthony Choong. Jean Pierre. Lav Heng Fook, Frank Pereira] Cheng
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  • 318 7 In a return cricket fixture played on Sunday, the RockUtes beat R.A.F. Tengah by 28 runs in a high scoring game. Batting first, tne Rocklites knocked up 227 for 9 'declared. J. Galistan top scoring with 107 (retired) played a chanceiess innings. W. Galistan
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  • 195 7 Reuter. NEW YORK. Apr. 8.—Miss Pauline Betz, United States and Wimbledon champion, and i Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Cooke have i been suspended from further amateur lawn tennis competi- tion, it was officially announced here today. The announcement followed a meeting of the amateur rules committee of
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  • 155 7 Reuter. LEIGH, April 8. A crowd of 10,000 beseieed the referee of the Rugby League match at Leifg Lancashire, yesterday when he took refuge m the players tent after the match After a 40-minutc; battle, in which mounted constables fought vainly to clear a
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  • 216 7 U.P. LONDON, Apr. B.—The remaining Easter holiday games in the English League today produced a spate of goals, no fewer than 33 being scored in six matches. Walsall's remarkable 8-0 win at Northampton was their biggest ever and a revenge for their heaviest defeat—suffered when
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  • 74 7 Reuter. GEORGETOWN, BRITISH GCINA, Apr. 7 Herbert McKenley, a native of Jamaica, ran the 220 yards in 20.4 seconds, which is claimed to be a world record on the curved track in the International Athletic Meeting here today. McKenly who is running for
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  • 658 7 U.P. London. -Women in most places are turning more and more to sport for leisure relaxation and their varying views on this trend make interesting reading. Mrs Menzies—formerly Miss Kay stammers, leading Bnu-n women lawn ienn:s player—spoke lor ail tne Bnusn g ris recently lii her
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  • 178 7 U.P. I LONDON.—Many of th e Brij ash girls who married American soldiers during the war may .soon be competing against their former compatriots in sporting events... For "instance G. I. j Wives"' have former a first-class basketball team at Clinton. Sou.h Carolina Ma.iy of 'he skiing
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  • 134 7 Reuter. New York. April 8 —Nat Roggers. match maker for the Twentieth Century Sports Club, who is leaving for London by plane today, will make an attractive offer to the winner of the Brice Woodcock-Joe Baksi fight, which takes place at Harringay on
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  • 41 7 JOHANNESBURG. April 8. The fight between Freddie Mills, British cruiserweight boxing champion, and Johnny Ralph, South African heavyweight champion, scheduled to take place here on Apr. 14 has been postponed indefinite ly because Ralph has an injured knuckle. 1
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  • 174 7 Reuter. LONDON, Apr. B.—Walter Hammond, captain of the England Test team, arrived in London airport today from Australia. He said the tour had been a great success ''even if we did not do as Well a 8 We would have liked." Hammond said there was
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  • 70 7 Tlu following will represent the Singapore Cricket Club in a soccer m itch ag unst the Jollilads Athletic Union the Padang this evening JC. Reeves. D. Brennan; J. G: ny: le: s. G. Donaldson: J. E. w. Karelle; P. R. Parton: E. Tendurel; w. C.
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous

  • 149 8 Reuter. LONDON. Apr 8.- Under the banner ol Three hundred thousand want to emigr«te, M the Evening News' unnamed shipp ng correspondent today wr t 1 ir.at more nan 3004)00 men. women and children planning t leave Britain stari new lives, are today creatine
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  • 118 8 Reuter. port TALBOT. Glamorgan, Wales. Apr. 8.- Accused of murder, a nine-year-old boy said: "I will not do it again." it wa? Mated by a police Inspector in the juvenile court here today. The b>y whose name was withheld is charged with thai i he
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  • 58 8 U.P. LISBON. Apr. 8 —Uneomirme i reports today ■aid that captured leaflet. passed surrepUousiy around Lisbon's strike-bound j nocks were written by French Communists and incited the Portuguese workers to agitation j against Prem.'er Salazar's g-;v- I ernment Many workers were arrested t dav alter their stoppage of
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  • 32 8 Reuter. untitled Apr. 8,- Four >i ':> :n'er:>7l'! ':> c" :e.e s-o c.e-pssa > Nl»>,i.<. a 'ci 2r:.'.,'.! N"7l' ov 7 l>' m (.'u cu'. ".->«. p 7l'' >> 15- v.u ll .-.ocu. .ldou s > i.ere —fleu.er.
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  • 248 8 Reuter and U.P. JFRUSALEM, Apr, 8. —Gunmen using silenced pistols embus* ed two CID plain clothes constables outSide the heavily guarded Musta'shfa police station tonighl and killed cne <2 them, seriously and wounded the ether and e--cap?d in the Crowd leaving a nearby cinema. The
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  • 35 8 U.P. Shanghai. April 8.—The Chinese Buddhist Abbot, Tai Hsu. who d ed three weeks ago. was cremated this noon in a solemn SMddhist ceremoiy. Tai Hsu cured numerous countries, inr.'.i I idia and Jzpan. U.P.
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  • 354 8 May Stay Until Civil War Is Ended Reuter. WASHINGTON, Apr. 8-—British naval, military and air missions are to remain in Greece until the Greek Government campaign against the guerilla forces in northern Greece h:;s been completed. Agreement to this effect was reached between
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  • 135 8 Inbune Crime Repoi\er> Because the victim of a h idup did not report to the police, a gang of what is behoved to be extortioners, has escaped arrest. E even days ac, >, a gang of Chinese wi. ~i pistols entered he house
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  • 50 8 Indian Wife Found Dead In Woolwich Reuter. LONDON, Apr. B.—The police, called to a house at Marybank, Woolwich dockyard, today found Abdul La/if, 24-year-old Indian, and his wife. Eva Eileen Latif, aged 25, dead from razor wounds in the throat. Inquests will be held at Greenwich next Monday. —Keuter. xelT
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  • 125 8 Reuter. Rangoon. April B. There is r\j trutn whatever in report* trom Rangoon last week that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had sent aeroplanes and pilots to Rangoon f r the use al the Anti-Fascist Pc pies" Freedom League in its electioneering campaign, the Political
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  • 331 8 Reuter. NEW YORK, Apr. 3.—SenoT Alvarez Del Mayo. Foreign Minister of the last Republican Government elected in said in New York today, on bis return from a visit to Europe, that the British were still hop***B to in.sta! a "kind of Greek Government in Spain."
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  • 134 8 Reuter. TIENTSIN. April 8. Chinese Communist rces were masking for another att ck on tne Unitctl States marine ammunition depot neaj langKu when discovered and uispersed by the United States Marines yesterday morning in the vicinity of Hsmgno and Chating, about 18 miles northeast of
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  • 52 8 Reuter. LONDOI,. Apr. 8 -Rugby k agu results: Halifax v. Eiill vu anger. 10 (abancloned I• r 53 minutes); Leeds 20, Bramlev 3 (abandoned after 60 ml iutes>, Wakefield Trinity 3. Salford o (abandoned at halftime); Feathers ton* Rover. 14, Hullklr.gSton Rovers 0 ima'ch abandoned after 60
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  • 182 8 EXTORTION CHARGES Because two men were allege 1 o have a le-noted to extort $50 by fciire 'c lirg their i. ten-v i vie im ha a ha id-grenade would he thrown into his shop, the pr secu'iag fficer requcs ed hgh bail whe 1 two
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  • 56 8 Reuter. MOSCOW, Apr. B.~Tba Soviet Arctic expedition has discovered a n?W 4 QOO-fe&t mountain chain In Central Taimyr 'northernmost part cf Siberia > and a river from Taimyr Lake which will be named Leningrad River. A special Poiar research expedition will <now be sent to explore further
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  • 135 8 Reuter. New Delir. Aprd B.—lndian shipowners and agents are to ways and means ul j builuir.tf up a merchant marine I adequate i) meet India's needs as a dominant trad n«[ power in the Far East at a comerence which opens in Bombay
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  • 104 8 IX NDON, Apr. v. The French Rugby ciub Static Prancais paying uheii first visit to Richm uu\ Surrey, v mode rate game to K< ssiyn Park by a foal and try to a penalty g<>ai iui a try. Brown a*id Crouch scoreti tries toi the Park,
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  • 124 8 Reuter. SYDNEY, Apr. X.—A imp of Melbourne eat lovers is planning a campaign 'o regulate kitten birth and promote a happier home life for eats. Sponsor of the campaign Is Miss Ka/e Greer, of South Varra. Miss Greer and other fa* lovers will form a Melbourne
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  • 261 8 Reuter. RANGOON. Apr. 9.—-Sutan Sharir Prime Minister, who is due in Sfn< aoon tod Ja?* here yesterday: Indonesian affairs an I i of flux, but we all hope for Ihe best." sta,e Hurrying back to Batavia m iruiia wr* re he attended
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  • 15 8 ii ices .»t 10 a m i„ I Sell rs: per tahU Buyer- $160
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  • 158 8 Reuter SHANGHAI, Ap. U 8 -Machine parts, printing plates and bank noies oi the Communist central printing p] ut in Yenan were c. pturerj by Gh vernment torces when tiiey stormed Uito Wuchia bsia, about 55 miles northeast al V.n.according to Chinese presss reports today.
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  • 157 8 Reuter. WASHINGTON. Apr. B.—The Department ol Agriculture l is announced the allocation for the second Quarter oi o. 1,504*700 bags of hundred-poun 1 weight of milled rice for commercial exports ana sntpaie United stales territories. 250 000 bags for export to the Phil ppines and 178
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  • 111 8 U.P. Batavia, April 8. Fan ny Minister ol th? Ind w Its Republican Governmen' Ur A X Gar.i. at o rre s aferenaesea this m rnlng. revealed tsst Mi government was prensrir* i Jbi year plan for reconstrttet'ts For thi<? our;- 1 se, i Be nations! f>nd
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 108 8 TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT Bright Periods, Showers lupV So t pv,rc wra'l er force st I'n > 24 hours frtm ::to; .oiay temped by (.he jR.A.F. Central Porecas «ng A r Command. Far East Bngkt periods, occasional showers in £fterzjoon, and even ;n*' locally ueavy. F ne tonight bright periods tomorrow.
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