Malaya Tribune, 18 June 1947

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    54 1 The Malaya Tribune iHE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE THE ONLY NATIONAL NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA 5 printed sin ulianeously in Singapore. Kuala Lumpur. Ipoh Penang. 'Phoi.e 5811 (Three Lines) "sy^ SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1947 TEN CENTS. The Malaya Tribune London Agents:—.>l«*ssrs. Colfo Turner I Id., Talbot House, -X. St. Martin's
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    No Rycena Rice For S'pore Yet
    119 1 Staff Reporter) nee substitute in üb^tance—rycena— H n ...ide its re-appearance re since last year. Ability of putting l the Singapore family i was short-lived, owing lifl .n importing the sub- sUtut-»-iporc rycena agent yesterday that he n? the rice position very closely for
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    Man Hurt In Riot
    50 1 c Sia!f >Rcpc, ier) let] broke ouv. among a rubber factory in Road resulted in one I seriousiy injured 'clock todayft r lie cars have been dis- I the scene and add reiniorcements are rushed up. c luse cl the riot is not yet m 'AT.
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    KILLEARN BACK TOMORROW
    22 1 Lord Killcarn left Sydney by an craft yesterday and ted to arrive at Kallang r «morrow at 2.30 p.m.
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    Truman Outvoted But Wins On Tax Veto
    106 1 Reuter. ASHixoTON. JUNE 17.— 4 House of Representatives lined President TruOC «V $4,000,000,000 ted States comestic iously anproved by *«*ss. I was 268 in favour of th rt veto and 137 for the veto. l ne acvocatesof the >n required a two- thirds
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    Jailbreak: Police Raid Dens
    196 1 I Tnbune Staff Reporter) Singapore poiicv carried out a series of raids en several suspected hide outs throughout the night in order to find the nine Jhinese prisoners who j arcke out cf Outram Road Jail -hree day., ago. In one place it was ascertain- ed
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    LAND OFFICE TAKING ACTION AGAINST SQUATTERS
    576 1 EVICTION PROCEEDINGS AGAINST 1,000 PERSONS (Tribune Staff Reporter) tres^trfon d r? mCC <? btainin g court action to evict t on P fnH tl2 n CrOV L n la ds m the Beac Road ReclamaNorfolk pbounded by Owen Road, Dorset Road. hom?no. v K
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    124 S'pore Unions
    73 1 (Tribute Staff Reporter) Only a very few trade unions remain unregistered today in books of 'the Singapore Registrar of Trade Unions. Today the figure stands at 124. Twenty four trade unions were registered this month up to yesterday. Fourteen employers' associations have been registered to date. Commenting
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    S'PORE RAINSTORM
    37 1 (Tribune Staff iieport^n Singapore experienced a severe rainstorm in the early hours of this morning, and later as office workers wercoming into town. Th c MeUorological Office reported a rainfall of .87 inch this morning.
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    Income Tax Appeal Dismissed
    134 1 Reuter. LONDON. JUNE 17.—An appeal which raised the substantial quesiion wheiher an order of the appellate. Assistant Commissioner. Rawalpindi Range, of Jan. 18. 1942. impos- j ing a nenalty of Rs. 14.000 un der section 28 of the Inaian 1 Income Tax Act. on Malix Damsaz
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    Reinforcements rushed to Arakan uprising
    180 1 Reuter. RANGOON, June 17.—Fresh reinforcements have been sent to the Arakan, in Southwest Burma, to help the combined military and police forces who have been operating against insurgents for nearly two months, Burmese newspapers reported to-day Official quarters in Rangoon say tne operation are ofitisfactory
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    Britain's New Car Tax Plan
    153 1 Reuter. LONDON, June 17. A chan-"* m the system of taxing British motcrca.s to assist the export drive was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Dr. Da.ton in the Commons today. Instead of the present horsepower tax there will be an annual flat rate
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    BEVIN IN PARIS FOR SAVE-EU ROPE CONFERENCE
    257 1 Paris. June 17. —Tne British j Fore'gn Minister. Mr. Bevin. landed at Le Bourget Airport near Paris this evening for his talks with the French Government on the Marshall plan for Europe. He was accompanied by Sir Fdjnund Hall Patch, an economic expert
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    JAP PLOT TO KILL STALIN
    185 1 U.P. Nuremberg. June 17 —A documert alleging that the Japanese p:ott e j to assassiratp Marshal Stair in Jaruary 1939 and succeeded in smugglirg t e n disgrurtled Russians equipped with bombs across the Soviet border to accomplish it, was pro.iuced irom the files of
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    "Back Pay" Men Owe The Govt. Some Money!
    289 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Government accounting £\3Lem is something which is beyond even the comprehension of Government employees, who are baffled by the mechanics of back pay calculations. Many European servants find that they owe Government money after the completion of an intricate
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    17 Deaths: 5 Nurses Suspect
    118 1 UP. Paris, June 17.—Ine suspects in the mysterious deaths of 17 •v .men pat.ents in hospital have been uown to live nurses, Uie police said today. Since the news of the cf the strange deaths s»nce 194* at the modern Macon hospitil cpi eta urea,
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    $30,000 To Re-Equip Perak Chinese Maternity Hospital
    336 2 IPOH, Tuesday.—A sum approximating $30,000 will be required for the re-equipment of the Perak Chinese Maternity Hospital in Kampar Road, states the annual report for 1946 to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association. The repcrt. submitted by the Presrdent of
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    DEATH OF PROMINENT PENANG CHINESE
    75 2 (From Our Own Reporter i PENANG. June 17.— The deatt) occurred this morning at the General Hospital of Mr. Lim Cheng Kung. prominent Penang Chinese. Mr. Lim was admitted to hospital only yesterday. He is survived by his widow, two sens, three daughters, one of
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    Blondes, Brunettes "Invade" Court
    112 3 Ui. Juvenile Court yesterdaj < \perienced an unexpected 'invasion" by about 39 attractive blondes and brunrttea who. much to the surpns. of those present, "dropp ii in" to watch proceedings in the cours r of an island educational tour. I be visitors were members th< V
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    Featureless With Small Turnover
    212 3 SHARE MARKET tribune Financial Corr.) Singapore share market rather featureless yesterday itii .1 comparatively small rer reported and Neaves wore dealt 70. Oammohs $5.82 i. Bre_ $23.55 ex div-. Collieries 52.42J, Cold Storages $6.95 and ers were taken in lair quanat $15 Steamships changndi at $2U.
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    Jeram Kuantan Rubber Ltd.
    127 3 Hie report of the direcrs oj The Jeram Kuantan Rubber Estate, Ltd., to £c submitted at their thirtyannual general meeting Singapore on Monday, June 23, shows a balance brought forward from the Previous year of $49,429. Deleting the debit ba- nee for the year amountto 56,385
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    34 3 untitled Andrew's Boys, Scouts are (J ing on June 28 in thoir school a dance in aid of then "woup and welfare fund." tictot the dance are c oh 1 r are admitted free.
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    Ex-Inspector Webb Jailed On New Charge
    290 3 es oi causing nurt during the occunation ura« C C ViI ,isv li t p aC 5 fresh ol voluntaausnrr hurt to P. F. Arikan on November 26 sentenced to four months imprisonment throughout the trial, Webbs young wife dark I and attractive, sat
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    CEYLON STRIKE SITUATION IS NOW EASIER
    148 3 Reuter. Colombo. June 17.—Four thousand men trickled back to work la strike t-fiend Colombo early today, alter a broadcar-, by the rv.j ister of Labour, although the C i r.tnent Workers Union and i other union: had called off their strike-. One thousand workers
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    Students Watch Assize Trial
    68 3 As part of the CUrriCU- j lam of civic teaching pro- vided at St. Andrew's School, Singapore, a batch 1 of about 20 students from the upper forms watched the proceedings at the Assize Court yesterday afternoon. The students, occupied ieats in the gallery and were
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    63 3 Reuter. SHANGHAI. June 17—The i lirst Chinese ship to visit Japan. 1 the s.s. Sai Chien, sailed for Kobe lav? this afternoon carryi ing over 1.000 tons of tung oil. i ■pcae 400 Japanese repatriated and some 16 Chinese offlicials to j j o in the international militaiy tribunal for
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    Untapped Revenue
    629 4 Readers of the Tribune Will have learned with interest, and pernapa not witnout some measure vi ao:--piise, of the exceedingly generous treatment accoraed the inhabitants of the Channel lsianas on their liberation fi o:n German occupation. As was to be expected, the islanders had rather a thin time
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    MALAYANS to TALKABOUT
    1119 4 ouperintendent of the Perak Chinese Maternity Hospi- al lor more than a quarter of a century, a past member of various Councils a n d Board; and one who has won Malayan honours in various spoils —that is the proud record of Dr. K. T. KHONG. MBE,
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    Cassandra
    602 4 SOME months ago, Cne of Admiral Lyrd's aviators, cruising around! i ver 75.000 square miles of territory near the South Pole that had never before been seen by man. dropped a bundle of hags for each ol the Unit ed Nations on the frooen wastes below. T: was a
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    Lotteries And Income Tax
    179 4 j Letters To Tin- [<j,fo r "J The People's Posibag Sir.-It U high time the Government instituted State Lotteries and income tax. Let the big shots and merchant princes, especially the BM kings, pay something, is the Government s i blind as to pretend that member,
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    B.M. Rice
    155 4 Sir.—lt is most laughable to read your headlines "Rice Crisis: Singapore's 'narrow escape' in your paper when there is a rumour current that 60 bags of rice headed for the B M. was recently running loose on the streets of Singapore «rith "prntc.-us-following in an accoaipannaj car. in
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    Matric, Examination
    100 4 Sir.—I hope your paper wiii help us, the students of Sin gapore, to appeal to the Education Dept., to allow the student of the School Certificate class*i to take the Matric Examination in June- Ail -chools finish the syllabus for the Examination in Std. VIII It is a
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    Do You Know?
    120 5 Do you know that the War Crimes Investigation Team in Taiping wants information regarding an incident that occurred in early 1944 m the valleys above the Sungei Siput and Lenggong area in Perak? Approximately 400 prisoner, mainly Chinese and a few Sakai were rounded up by the
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    GOVERNOR-GENERAL OPENS ART EXHIBITION
    371 5 (Tribune Art Critic) "These are the characteristics of the people oo Whom the future of this country depends. Knowing Uiem, one has confidence in that future/ said the Gov- 1 ernoi-GeneraI, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. when he de- cared open yesterday at Robinson Co. an exhibition
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    3 War Cemeteries In Pacific
    131 5 Three cemeteries in the Pacific will mark the graves of British sailors, soldier.s and airman who died in the war against Japan. The Imperial Commission announced recent y that at Rabaul (New Britain), Anbon (Dutch East Indies) and Makassar, the g ayes. "hich are in
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    Teas On Terrace Of Commons
    67 5 Reuter. London. June 17.—Teas on the terrace of the House of Commons were resumed en Monday for the nrsL time since 1939. Eacn member can take three guests at one time and tea for four costs e>. Eefore the war tea on the terrace was
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    POLICE RESCUE PENANG TOWKAY AFTER GUN DUEL
    499 5 Gangster Shot Dead (Tribune Staff Reporter) Penang, Tuesday.—The C. I. D. staged a 2 a.m. raid today at the creek hide-out of a gang near Port Weld and rescued Mr. Kee Hup Hor, the Penang councillor, who was kidr-pped from his residence near
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    MalayaMayHave Seat On Far East Commission
    153 5 Reuter. Shanghai. June 17.—A strong appeal for a change in the composition oi the Far Eastern Economic Commission to include Na tional representatives of the peoples of Burma, Ceylon, Malaya, Indonesia, and Vietnam was made by India's chief delegate R. K. Nehru in a
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    MADCAP DUO
    130 5 I Abbott and Co<;tello are always lire laugh.er-makers. but I dcubt whether they have produced qu.te ■O many laugh-rais ng gags sts in MGMs "Abbut Rod Ccstello in IcClywoOd" which corr.e.s to the Cathay for next Saturday nndn £ht the,* ana for general rcreenih* ntxt v.cc;;. Cosieilo starts
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    How A Police Informer Acted as Armed Robber
    434 5 How a Police informer played the role of an armed robber in the company of two other armed men at a house in Seletar on the night of March 27 last was revealed at the Singapore Assize Court yesterday when two Chinese
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    Juvenile Court Prosecutions
    191 5 (Tribune Staff Reporter) At the Juvenile Court yesterday a 15 year-old boy was fined $5 and order was made that one scale, two bamboo baskets, some vegetable; and eight eggs found jin hi s possession be confiscated. j The accused pleaded guilty to a 1 charge of
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    JAILBREAK: TAXI MAN QUESTIONED
    268 6 (Tribune Staff Reporter) The big manhunt in Singapore for the nine escaped remand Chinese prisoners is gathering momentum and developments are hourly expected, although none of the escapees have yet been recaptured. Yesterday, acting on information received, the C.I.D. pulled in the driver of a taxi
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    INQUIRY INTO DEATH OF SHIP'S CAPTAIN
    194 6 The inquiry into the death of Captain Charles E. Cleaver, oi the s.s. ''Perak" which commenced yesterday was adjourned for today in order to enable the Coroner to inspect the scene of the accident on the vessel. Mr. David Marshall represented the Straits Merchant
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    YOUTHFUL EXTORTIONER GETS THREE YEARS R.I.
    304 6 (Tribune Staff Reporter) KUALA LUMPUR, Monday.—Pleading guilty to a charge of having extorted $650 from the proprietor of the Cheong Kee coffee-shop at Suitan Street, a young Chinese named Tham Yew Chai, stated to be the son or a respectable Kuala Lumpur tailor, was
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    India's Offer To Income tax Evaders
    290 6 I Before referring cases of tax evasion to the Income--1 tax Investigation Commission, the Government of India wish to give persons concerned an opportunity id make a full disclosure of the extent of their evasion and appropriate pecuniary n stitution, says an API message.
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    POLICE RECRUITING LOCAL YOUTHS
    243 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday.—To cope with the needs of the present day in their fight against crime, the Malayan Police Force- is recruiting Malay, Chinese and Indian youths who are either locally born or who have ordinarily been resident in Malaya for 10 years out of the
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    More Japs Turn Christians
    73 6 Reuter. TOKYO, June 17.—The number of Christians in Ja oan has increased from some 250.000 before the war t 0 600,000 since Gen. Mac Arthur signed the surrender, according to the Japanese newspaper, Yomiuri, which predicted that this figure would shortly be 2,000,006. The American Bible
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    Rubber Market Remains Quiet
    142 6 (Tribune Market Corr.) The rubber marke.. opened unI changed yesterday morning owing to small factory support and a fair amount of business was transacted. In the afternoon further sellers appeared on the market. Buyers reduced thoir price by a quarter j cent but sellers were qmte
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    "Monty" In S'pore June 26
    221 6 Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG. GCVO DSO, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, will break his journey from England to Australia to visit Singapore for a few days at the end of this month. He is expected to arrive by air on
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    FILM MAGNATE WANTS TELEVISION CHARTER
    67 6 Reuter. LONDON. Jure 17.—Application has been mad.' on behalf of J. Arthur Rank. British film magnate, to th e Television Advisory Committee ior a charter to enable his organisation to televise programmes. If granted programmes will be televised from Cookham, Berks and seen on television
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    27 6 UP. LONDON. June 17.—The Exchange Telegraph reported that Auckland said that a series of earthquakes rocked Ncr Zealand's east coast. toppling chimneys and tumbling hillsides Into valleys.—UP.
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    Sing Tao Soccer For TB Fund?
    54 7 A reader writes:— "Being a keen foorball fan may I suggest iha* a mafth rr arr anged between the Sing Ja© Team and the Chinese Combined i S.C.F.A. Chines c Athletic in aid of T.B. rund? "I am sure this match will receive every
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    ROYAL ASCOT OPENS IN SUNSHINE
    277 7 June 17.—The Royal AS- I i the most fasnionable race meeting in the world, opened in 1 bi %ht s unshiße today with something approaching its pre-war I Slory. For the first time since 939, top hats and morning j .oats made their appearance, and
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    Clarke Rangers Beat B.O.D.
    268 7 In a cricket match on Sunday at Alexandra* the Singapore Clarke Rangers defeated the 223 BOD. by 45 runs. Greg de Silva and M. Shah bow.cd well for the Rangers to capture four wickets each for seven and five runs respectively. M. Shah (20 not out)
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    30 7 Reuter. LONDON. JUNE 16.—A process for preventing hsh hooks irom rusting, discovered by a metallurgical expert, has been tried out for a year &C Loo«> Cornwall, and proved a success—Reuter.
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    SING TAO TOURISTS ARE SUPERSTITIOUS
    784 7  -  Praise Local Soccer (By Our Soccer Reporter) The Sing Tan folks arc superstition. There are 17 players in this tour to South East Asian ports, the Continent of Europe, and England— the 'Mecca of Football" as Mr. K. K. Lee, the Hon. Secretary, aptly puts
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    County Cricket
    145 7 Reuter. London, June 17.—At Guildford, Surrey drew with Cambridge University. Cambridge University 200 (Australian McMahon, 3 for 20), Surrey, 260 and 119 for 4. At Hereford, Combined Services beat Worcestershire by 131 runs. Combined Services 87 and 238, Worcestershire 110 and 8-1 (Whitehead 5 for 10). At Swansea,
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    TO-DAY'S SPORTS
    44 7 Sing Tao vs. Singapore Com bined Civilians. Jalan Besar, 5.15 p.m. S.C.C. 2nd vs. Borneo Co. Ltd j Padang. 5 15 p.m. Mental Hospital RZCAS CScmbawangt hospital ground, 5.15 p.m. Malay Sports hmn. 2nd vs. S.J 1., school pound, 5.15 p m
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    SING TAO MEET COMBINED TEAM THIS EVENING
    163 7 Tough opposition will be provided Col bing Tao this evening when they mtet the Singapore Combined Civilian team which will be -elected from the followj ing ig players:— Webber. Chee BeUg; Abdm I Rahman. Chin Lye. LoWther; Harith, Vass, do Silva. Lim Swans;;
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    18 EVENTS FOR SINGAPORE AMATEUR ATHLETIC MEET
    340 7  -  (Bv Our Sports Reporter) Eighteen events have been drawn up for the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association 1947 Championships to be held on July 18 and 19 at Jalan Besar Stadium. The championships are open to civilians and the I Services. Entries close on
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    Olympic Contingents Will Live In Ships
    100 7 Reuter. STOCKHOLM. JUNE 16: rd Burghley, President of British Olympic Association atterrdtof the meeting ol the international Olympic nm' tee here, denied reports that London was late with arrangements for next years games and unable to carry them through adequately. Avery Brundage, President of
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    Seedings For Wimbledon
    54 7 I -WIMBLEDON, dings in the Wimbledon championships, to begin June 23, been announced as I follows: 1. Jack Kramer, United States. 2. John Bromwich. Australia. 3. Tom Brown, United States. 4. Dinny Pails, Australia. 5. Geoffrey Brown, Australia. 6. Aroslav Drobny, Czechoslovakia. 7. Yvon Petra, France. 8.
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    LONDON TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
    98 7 Reuter. LONDON. June 17. —Several Indian players are appearing in the London lawn tennis championships at Queen's Club which is serving as a curtain-raiser to next week's Wimbledon championships. In the secord round of the men's singles today. Pierre Pellizza (France) beat J. Mehta (India) 6—3. 6—4,
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    RAF Go Down to Malays Fighting
    523 7 0 M ?,A 2. RAF 1. o a ir A arC T y fl *«wnd**l turner! np to watch the S.A.F A League game at Jalan Besar yesterday When tne Malays Just managed to snaf") tu'f mints from fee i *2* a malnh which
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    THE "BABE" ACCEPTS LIFE MEMBERSHIP
    30 7 U.P. London. June 17.—Babe Didrikson Zahar:a> accepted life memberehip in the Oullane Qol: Club, whore -he won the British women's goll championship last week. —UP.
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    A Job For All Nations, Say U.S. President
    249 7 A Job Fo r All Nations, Say U.S. President SETTING THE WORLD RIGHT Reuter. NEW June 1..- e« Truman told graduates at Princeton University today mat small or weakened nations "might not be a Die to resist encroachments or totalitarian pressures" it the United states showed weakness. The President's address,
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    53 7 London, June 17—Britain has "instructed her Ambassador in Moscow to present an aide mernoirc to M. Vyacheslav Molotov. Soviet Foreign Minister, vigorously rejecting the latter's argument that Britain's request to see the evidence alleged to have implicated the former Premier Frrenc Nagy in a plot constituted an interference in Hungarian
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    Thrice-Married Woman Is Told: "Still Wife Of First Husband"
    356 8 (Tribune rftafT Reporter) IPOH. Tuesday. -Probably for the first time in the history ot* the Supreme Court in Perak. a Malay woman was charged with bigamY. She was attractive, thirtyKsh Bastiah bint] Abdul Kaum, whose case was first nen turned in
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    Weekly Report From Batavia
    120 8 BATAVIA. .Tune 17.—A Net- norland* military spokesman, ir I his weekly reDoit. gives ore J Dutch killed and two wourded I during military actions in ihe past week. At Medan ard Padang, N«»tI heriar.ds patrols were rirea upon several times with mortars and automatic weapons. In
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    SRC Beat GHQ At Cricket
    106 8 The SRC defeated a team from GHQ SEALF at cricket on Sunday last at Tanglin. by 15 runs. The SRC. batting first, scored 119. R. Jansen 28. F. Choppard 24. A. Watts 19 and G. Clarke 17. For GHQ. Fnizacklea took 5 V eke:., for
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    MOB TRAMPLES ON EXECUTED JAPS
    349 8 UP SHANHAI. June 17.—A Roman holiday atmosphere prevailed this afternoon as two former Japanese officers were paraded for two hours through the jammed streets of downtown Shanghai and Anally taken into a muddy field on the outskirts of the city and shot in the back
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    Doctor Falls To Death
    39 8 U.P. CAMBRIDGE, JUNE 17.-A postmortem was ordered on Dr. Douglas Ed. Lea. a 37-year-old radio biology researcher who n«arl7 70 feet to his death from a sixth storey window of Cambridge University library yesterday.—U. P.
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    KING AWAITS PERMIT TO REPAIR HOME
    167 8 Reuter. London. June i7.—The King, like many issnc* of other British householders, is tv-day j awaiting a decision from the Ministry cf Works as to whether i he may have repairs completed to his home. Before the Royal Family went to South Africa, work
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    BASKETBALL TOURISTS WIN AGAIN
    203 8 The Chung Seng basketball team from Manila chalked up their second victory in Singapore last night when they defeated S C< ir.bined S- langor Chinese team by a margin of 12 points at the Happy World. Forcing the pace from the start, Chung Seng made 1
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    Another Century To Robertson
    133 8 Reuter. London. June 17.—Cricket results: At Lerds, Middlesex drew with Yorkshire. Yorkshire 187. Middlesex 250 for 2 declared (Robertson 108. Brown 130, Edrich not out 54. Conrpton not out 50. Yorkshire 147 for 4 (Hutton 57). At Loughborough. Kent be t Leicestershire by 52 runs. Kent
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    BUS RAMS 2 HOUSES
    69 8 Last at the iunctio;*- of Jalar. Saltan an I Victoria a trolley bus rar c f '■he road and wrecked the f*o: t porticu s of two shop-houses. Fa'lmg timber hurt a Chireso carni nt r livh g ir the front r of ore o the
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    South Africans Win By Innings
    395 8 Reuter. O J TAUTON, Jun? 17—Some brisk hlttm* h, n Nourse in the first hour and-a-half 0 f nlav t steady bowling in the f tcrnoon enabled the Africans to beat Somerset by an in nines < 7 with an hour to spare nere. 3
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    EXHIBITION FIGHT FOR JOE LOUIS?
    93 8 SEATTLE. June 17.— Agent Fred Sommers said that heavyweight champion Joe Louis may stage an exhibition fight at Anchorage, Alaska, in early July. He said that an Anchorage promoter had telephoned offering Louis $10,COO with the privilege of 50 per cent, of the gate plu*
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    Johore Badminton Championships
    110 8 TUete was a large attendance tft tiie Johore Badminton Open played over the .veek-end in the Government Bqtffort School Hall, Kluang. Ismail M-irjan. 1941 champion, yon the Una! (.15-5, 15—1), I against Ng Ngoh Tee who for I many yeais bad held the Johore title. Results i
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      109 8 TODAY'S 1 WEATHER 1 REPORT y Becoming Fair With Bright Period Singapore weathtr forecast for 24 hours, from noon today. oy th« X A K. Cmti*J 'orccastmg Station. Air Command. Far Bast. Ciouay at Hrst becoming fair with br.ghr periods. Local thu.idery showers during the night Fair U m: i
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