Malaya Tribune, 8 January 1949

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    Masthead
    62 1 The Malaya Tribune BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Larger Sales Than Any Afternoon Paper in Malaya. Printing Simultaneously Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh ft Penang. Telegrams: "Tribune Spore." Telephone: 5811 (9 lines). EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE: E. Maurice Glover c/a
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    DR. WU STARTS PROBE
    73 1 The Chinese Consul-General m Singapore (Dr. Wu PaakShmg) expects shortly to obtain clarification on the sinking byDutch air action of the two Singapore Chinese trading vessels in Sumatran waters Dr. Wu told the Tribune this morning that h e has since cabled the Chinese ConsulateGeneral in
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    ATTEMPT TO WRECK RAIL TRACK FOILED
    53 1 An attempt to wreck the railway track near a military dump at Paloh last night was foiled by troops who fired at the lone saboteur. Troops who were alerted by the noise of some one tapping on the railway line rushed out to investigate.
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    UN Men Get Diplomatic Immunity
    343 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) JHE United Nations and their representatives will have diplomatic immunity n Singapore. At the moment, the only U.N.O. civil "oincial in Singapore is Dr. Kaul. who is representing the World Health Organisation of th- UN. In Singapore, the United Nations is legal:v
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    REPUBLICANS BLOW OFF BRIDGES
    103 1 U.P. BAT AVI A. Fri.—The underground Republican radio claimed today that the Republicans have disrupted traffic in the Surakarta and Madiun area by dynamiting the main bridges as part of its hit-and-run tactics in guerrilla warfare In central and western Java. Dutch army headquarters denied earlier
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    The Men Who GO New Men
    11 1 MARSHALL Sa>» ETT ACHESON WEBB
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    All Quiet In Negev
    232 1 Reuter. LONDON, Fri—lsrael and Egypt snenced their guns in the south Palestine Negev desert today and prepared to negotiate after the United Nations Headquarters at Haifa had relayed to Tel Aviv Egypt's agreement to stop lighting. But a British Foreign Office spokesman declared in London today
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    Malayan Cup Team All Set
    152 1  -  (FROM JIMMY GLOVER London, Friday. Malayan Thomas Cup team turned out in full playing uniforms for the first time today wearing white flannels, sports shirts, pullovers blue ties and blue blazers. Several pictures were taken for special request of the America and Denmark Associations. Three
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    MARSHALL QUITS: NOW ACHESON
    332 1 Europe Reco very Programme r Will Go On U.P. and A.P. LONDON, Fri.--U.S. Secretary ni Slate, Mr. George Marshall, who has resigned orric\ coul.l rest assured that "we shall not rest until the European Recovery Programme that he f:itti?red is brought to fruition," stated British Foreign
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    Destroyer Deal Was His Work
    104 1 U.P. WASHINGTON, Fri.— i'he ne.. I.S. neer dary ot State, Oenn Acheson, \.i;s one of th.* lawyers who dr»-\. up the legal 10.-iu.ie.i-'s f,»r President ».»s «ve!l by \.lueh BHia.n acquired 50 Ameria.i desirnyers in exchange for bases during World War 11. Aeheson in a
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    Ache son Will Not Change Policy
    251 1 U.P. WASHINGTON, Fri.—Dean Achesoi:. wiio assume office as Secretary of State on January 20. is on Russia's black list. Acheaon was severely attacked by Moscow's Pravda and accused of slander against Russia in the final week of his service as UnderSecretary of State in
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    Hand To Hand Fighting In Tientsin
    123 1 STOP PRESS U.P. NANKING, Fri. —Commu- nist forces breached the outer defences of Tientsin, the big 1 North China port, and drove to within two miles of the centre of the city today. Fierce hand to hand fighting between Communist vanguards and Nationalist defenders
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    POLICE MEDAL FOR MALAYS
    120 1 Reuter. LONDON, Fri.—The British Colonial Police medal for gallantry has been awarded to two special constables of the Federation of Malaya Police, Mohamed Bin Mat and Krishna Rahadtir and to Lance Corporal Ramli bin Haji Ibrahim. Tlw citation states that on October 25 Mat and a
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    DUTCH HOLD SUKARNO IN BANKA ISLE
    206 1 LAKE SUCCESS, Fri.—J. H. Van Royen, Dutch delegates to the United Nations, t )ld tne Security Council today that .Indonesian Republican President Achmed Sukarno and true* other high-ranking Republican leader.; were now confined on the southern tip of the island of Banka. off the
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    Java War Brought Peace— van Royen
    109 1 Java War Brought Peace van Royen U.P. LAKE SUCCESS. Fri. J Dutch Delegate J. H. Van Royen told the Security Council today that the Dutch have now established "real peace" in Indonesia through the military action against the Indonesian Republic. Van Royen said the Dutch are now prepared to proceed
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    RADAR SYSTEM NOT UP TO MARK
    114 2 U.S. AIR OFFICERS say U.P. WASHINGTON, Friday. United States air force officers will readily admit that they do not consider the radar warning system on the east and west coasts of North America adequate at present. They will admit that there is no radar
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    Chen's Bad Bargain
    88 2 U.P. MANILA, Friday. A Chinese businessman, Chen Yungyin today thought he had a bargain when a woman offered him a baby boy for 400 pesos. Chen paid the money and took the baby in his arms. The next moment a man in the uniform of a policemen
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    NEW SECRETARY
    44 2 A.P., Reuter, U.P. NEW DELHI. Friday—A Royal Indian political agent in the princely state of Sikkim has been appointed secretary of the Asian conference on Indonesia called by India's Prime Minister. Pandit Nehru, it was officially annouced here today. —A.P.. Reuter, U.P.
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    Pretty Mlrh Dolly Cat-S herine Jeremiah, daughl ter of Mr*. Elsie Jere? miah and the late Mr. Arthur Jeremiah who ( was recently engaged to /Mr. William Gunn of 223 ) Base Ordinance Depot.
    32 2 Pretty Mlrh Dolly CatS herine Jeremiah, daughl ter of Mr*. Elsie Jere- miah and the late Mr. Arthur Jeremiah who was recently engaged to /Mr. William Gunn of 223 Base Ordinance Depot.
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    JAPAN TO BUY 91 SHIPS FROM US
    262 2 U.P. TOKYO. Fridsv a PLAN to permit Japan to charter or purchase 91 liberty ships from A th- United States was among Hie csurutd to Wa*mngton by the SCAP Economic Mission headed by Dr. Sherwood Fine, a reliable _i source told the United
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    SATURDAY SHOW ROUND-UP CATHAY
    213 2  -  RATING: Fair; Good; Very Good; Excellent. by OSWALD HENRY RATING FILM: "Tl»e Red Shoes" (in technicolour). STARS: Anton Walbrook, Mario* Goring, Moira Shearer, Leonlde Massine, Robert Helpmann, Ludmilla Tcherina, Albert Baaserman and Ksmond Knight. NO tribute is too great for this picture which stands out as
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    CAPITOL
    150 2 RATING FILM: "Gentleman's Agreement" STARS: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and John Garfield. I CAME away from this film in two minds. I liked it and I didn't. Its sincerity touched me, yet, I'm afraid, the generous slice of social preaching that it incorporated didn't quite ring the bell. However,
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    PAVILION
    149 2 RATING FILM: "Keeper of the Flame" STARS: Spencer Tracy and 'Katharine Hepburn. HERE is a fine film, with two excellent stars and a story that shocks as it satisfies. But it has one fault. It is dated. An anti-Fascist movie, it was macks for the war years, and when
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    REX
    149 2 RATING FILM: "Give My Regards To Broadway" STARS: Dan Daiiey, Charles tt'lnninger, Nancy Guild, Charles Ruggles and Fay Balnter. GOOD successor to "Mother Wore Tights" and "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" Dan Dailey really let's himself go in a musical after his heart. The picture brings to the
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    ALHAMBRA
    144 2 RATING FILM: "Sagebrush Law" STARS! Tim Holt, Cliff (Ukeleie Ike) Edwards and Joan Barclay. WESTERN' fans who crave far action, fistic battles, gun-duels and rough riding will find themselves amply rewarded when they see "Sagebrush Law" which highlights the exploits of popular Tim Holt The cowboy exerts superhuman efforts
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    Child Sold for 50 lbs. of potatoes
    138 2 Reuter-AAP. TOKIO Friday.—One Japanese who acted as a broker in the purchase and sale of school children into slavery, has been arrested, according to reports received here yesterday. Forty-six year-old Yasuji Suzuki of Wakamatsu City, was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of selling
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    AID SHOW
    31 2 "Rayuan Kenchana" Sandiwara will present a "Vaudeville Night" at the Happy World Stadium on Sunday at 8.30 p.m. in aid of the Singapore Malay Youths' Literary Association's education fund.
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      291 2 On Your Radio 1 Today BED NETWORK ENGILSH PROGRAMME 1.00 p.m. Dance Music; 1.30 News; 1.50 Interlude; 2.00 Light Music; 2.30 Swing Time; 2.45 Pot Pourri. 3.30 Songs of the Range; 4.00 Theatre Orchestra; 4.30 Tea Dance; 5.00 Sports Hour. 6.00 p.m. Programme Summary; 6.02 Dance Music; 6.40 Children's Programme;
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    HE DID NOT MIND BEING LONELY
    165 3 Reuter-AAP. CANBERRA, Fri.—On .Christmas Day a reporter encountered in the 'ounge of a Sydney hotel a man who said that be had been allowed out of a repatriation hospital tor iourleen. days and that he had no relatives or friends in Sydney. The reporter
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    OVERLOADED CHILDREN
    56 3 A.P. MOSCOW. Fri.—The Cen tral Committee of the Com munist Party has ordered youth organisation? to stop loading Soviet school children with social and out-of-school activities in the n terests of their studies, a decree said. It blasted the Education Minister and youth organisa tions for not seeing
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    FINEST CHILDREN
    72 3 A.P. CAPETOWN. Fri -Dr. T. W. B Osborn. a South African Member of Parliament and an cxoert on nutrition just back in Capetown from a visit to Britain, said today "children in Britain have been so well looked after that they must today be the finest children that
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    Japan: Bulwark Against Communism In The East
    586 3 U.P. TOKYO, Fri.—The attitude of the Western Allies toward conquered Japan changed noticeably in recent months because of the increasing intensity of the "cold war" betwien .Russia and her satellites and ths dem'-cmUc countries led by the United States and Or- at Britain.
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    P.I. DELEGATE
    41 3 Reuter. MANILA, Fri. BrigadierGeneral Carlos Romulo. chief Philippine- delegate to the United Nations, haa been appointed py President Quirino to represent the Philippines at the forthcoming Asian conference on Indonesia at New Delhi, it was officially announced here tonight.^Reuter.
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    IMMIGRANTS
    34 3 Reuter-AAP. CANBERA. Fri.—Australia will receive 70.000 immigrants from Britain during 1949. Mr. Arthur Calwell. Immigration Minister, said in a broadcast tonight. Another 40.000 immigrants would come from Europe and the L'nited States. Reuter-AAP.
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    'TOAD' PLAGUE WIPES OUT FOWL, FISH
    84 3 Reuter-AAP. BRISEANE, Fri. A weird plague of giant toads U wiping out fowl and Ash life around Mount Jukes, near Mackay. in Queensland. Originally imported to the area to combat cane beetles, the toads have multiplied amazingly. There are so many that they cover
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    They got their beer
    113 3 Reuter-AAP. ADELAIDE, Friday.— Bottled beer which wu In short supply through out the hrisima* an: New Year holidays in Australia was rationed by hotel keepers. Some adopted novel means of effecting an equitable distribution to their customers. Perhaps the most original and fair means was that
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    CHALLENGE TO THE YOUTH
    288 3 Reuter. MANILA, Fri.—Addressing the closing day of the Boys' and Girls' Week, Teodoro Evangelista, presidential executive secretary, called upon the youth "to prepare themselves for the challenge implied in our present economic, social and moral ilia." "I appeal to you, as a youth alking to the
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    PLAN FOR YOUTH
    480 4 THE $5,000,000 technical training scheme projected by the Federation Government opens new roads to the young men and women of Malaya. For too long youth's horizon has been limited. Boys and girls from middle-class homes can, for the most part, look only to clerkships, with little or
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    FUTURE OF CHINA HANGS IN THE BALANCE
    1286 4 I This is the last of the three articles on China hy Associated Press Staff Correspondents.] THE Chinese Government, battered by major military reverses and beset by economic collapse, exists on a day-to-day basis. It appears incapable of long-range planning. Every official, from
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    COLLABORATORS AS MINERS
    322 4 JUDICIAL officials here are today, just over four years after the Liberation reviewing with satisfaction the outcome of one of the biggest tasks they have ever undertaken. The task involved the rounding up. imprisonment and re-education of those delinquent Belgians who, in varying degree, collaborated with the
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    Berlin Bachelors: A Vanishing Race
    486 4 UP. THE marriage market is falling sharply in Berlm, but even so the city's bachelors are becoming a vanishing race. And when all the single men ilnally succumb to the lure of rare lodgings and furniture, it will still leave a host of female Berliners
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    4 5 TRIBUNE SATURDAY SCIENCE PAGE
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    Recipe For Attaining Old Age
    132 5 A.P. LONDON. Fri. Dr. Maurice Ernest, a biologist who has studied longevity for nearly 46 years, said yesterday that people should live to be 200 years old and he hopes to be one of them. He has 123 years to go yet to reach his
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    Wasp Saves Coconut Industry
    150 5 A.P. BERKELEY. CALIFORNIA. Friday. A little wasp from Java has just about saved the coconut industry on Saipan and Rota Islands. Dt. R. L. Doutt. of the University of California, reported today. When the Americans took over the island during World War II coconut production was
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    NEW MACHINES AND GADGETS
    352 5 Reuter. Quiet Engines ANNAPOLIS. MARYLAND, Fri.—The U. S. Navy is trying to develop ship engines that are so quiet that enemy listening devices wil! be unable to tear them Thi. experts have no illusions about budding a completely silent ship, but they hop- 1 to muffle
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    ELECTRONIC CONTROL OF MOTORS
    462 5 Electronic systems for controlling tha per formance of electric motors are toe4easing rapidly "in popularity and especially suitable where very fine degrees of sp?ed adjustment, reversal and similar functions are essential to the efficient operation of the plant. Electronic control possesses the important advantages of being
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    A Columbus, 0., Marine veteran (left) receives another x-ray to determine if the buUet lodged in bin heart by a Jan machine gun or rifle during the war has eluinged position. The x-ray (right) reveals th »f the bullet moves with the heat of the heart. The veteran prefers to remain unidentified, feeling that his condition might keep him from employmen*.
    146 5 A Columbus, 0., Marine veteran (left) receives another x-ray to determine if the buUet lodged in bin heart by a Jan machine gun or rifle during the war has eluinged position. The x-ray (right) reveals th »f the bullet moves with the heat of the heart. The veteran prefers to
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    Jet-Propelled Automobile
    53 5 Gstaad, Switzerland. FriA Swiss engineer has invented a jet-phopelled automobile. A small-scale experimental model recently achieved speeds up to 35 mph during test runs e n the airfield here. The designer. Hans Berger. of Thun. claims that his Arst fullscale experimental car will have a maximum »p*ed i
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    Hydraulic Scheme For New State
    148 5 Reuter-AAP. BANDUNG. Java.—The newly formed State of Pasundun Is to spend some t 0 ;,000.000 on a multi-purpose hydraulic scheme according to the Waterways and Reconstruction Department. The scheme provides for L A reservoir with a capacity of 1,000.000,000 cubic metres formed by building a
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    U.S. Navy To Probe Underwater Peaks, Valleys
    205 5 AP. WASHINGTON, Fri. The U.S. Navy is going to find out all it can about the ocean depths where onemv submarines may some day hide. A Navy announcement said two .seaplane tenders, the San I Pablo and the Rehoboth, will undertake an "extensive
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    Going Dry
    63 5 FOND DU LAC, Wisconsin, Friday. Mysterious gasoline well in the centre of the town is running dry after supplying fuel for the city's trucks for ten years. No one ever has been able to explain where the gasoline came from, but the refined low-octane fuel was good enough
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    DEATH
    29 6 On 6th. January, 1949 Mr. Chua Koon Lim of No. 367 Race Course Road, passed peacefully away, aged 42 years. The interment took place on 7th. January, 1949.
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    CHINESE PLAN SWANK POOL
    93 6 To cope with the large membership an dto provide extra amenities, the Singapore Chinese Swimming Club is planning for the building o: a large modern Swimming Pool, about four times the size of the present one. with filtration, Chlorination and pumping plant. When completed »t will
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    'BUKU KUNING' NOW ON SALE
    75 6 An interesting list of Malayan bus In eBS personalities is contained in the "bufcu kuning" or the new Malayan Trade Directory now on sale to the public. The Directory gives a very comprehensive and detailed picture of Malayan commercial concerns their business Interests, nameß of
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    Malaria On It's Last Legs In U.S.
    277 6 A.P. NEW YORK, Fri.—The United States is on the vergfc of completely ending malaria hi this country. About three more years use of the insecticide DDT should do it, said Dr. S. W. Simmons, of the U.S. public health seivice, Sav-nr.ah. Georgia, in
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    Demand For Philippine Lobsters
    221 6 Reuter. MANILA, Friday. An excellent opportunity for an industry lies in the fishing and marketing of Philippines spiny lobsters, it was revealed by H. W. Terhume. administrator of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Philippine Fishery Programme, and by officials of the Philippine Bureau of Fisheries.
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    TRANSPORT PLANE
    38 6 A.P. BRISTOL, Fri The world s largest transport plane, Britain's giant 100-paasenger airliner, is nearing completion and will be ready to take the air for the first time this spring, it was announced today. —A P.
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    Japs no longer heed occupation orders
    264 6 Japs no longer heed occupa tion orders A.P. TOKYO, Fri. The Japanese are being told they are not free to do as they please economically while remaining dependent on Amri.an aid. This is one of the broad Issues behind orders from Washington that General Mac Arthur direct the Japanese Government
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    Woodcock vs. Ralph
    115 6 Reuter. LONDON, Fri Bruce Woodcock. British heavyweight champion, will probably agree to terms to fight Johnny Ralph. South African title holder, in Johannesburg on March 26. the new date suggested by the promoters. Tom Hurst, Woodcock's manager, stated tonight: "The old contract is now washed up as
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      359 6 VEHS. EOfc SALE. FORD V 8 1938 model, 22 H.P. in fair condition. Write Box No. A 1951 M.T., Spore. (A.452) CORGI MOTOR SCOOTER, good condition, cheap running at 125 M.P.G. What offers. Box No. A 1952 M.T. S pore. (A.453) NOTICE TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ORDINANCE No. 22 of
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    Freeman to captain US against Malaya
    121 7 A.P. CHICAGO, Thurs. National badminton champion Eave Freeman of Pasadena, California, will captain the L.S. Thomas Cup team which will meet Malaya in the se-mi-finals tie in Glasgow. Scotland, February 21 and 22 The U.S. won the American t ne title by defeating Canada,
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    BOUSTEADS vs ROBINSONS
    58 7 The following players will represent Robinson's team against Boustead Sports Club at soccer on Monday, January 10. 1949, at Farrer Park at 5.15. Yto Peng Koon, Wee Hoon Kiat. Yem Bin Shukor, Yong Poh Chuan, Tarn Eng Kiat, Rahim. Heng Sin, Ong Kwee Wan. Kas. Ismail, A.
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    S.C.G DEFEATED BY BANKERS
    221 7 Playing brilliant hockey from start to finish, the H ong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation XI defeated the Singapore Cricket Club by two clear goals in thrilling game on the Padang yesterday. Immediately after De Silva slammed home the first goal for the Bank early in
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    COL. FOX TOP TRAINER OF YEAR
    586 7  -  Saddled 89 Winners 1948 RACES IN REVIEW By ALLAN LEWIS A review of the 1948 races brings to lij»r*t Lt. *f Col. Tom Fox as the trainer of the year and Frank Flannery as the year's most suevvesful jockey. The leading owners are Messrs.
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    ENGLAND'S CUP TEAM
    93 7 Reuter. LONDON, Fri. England's badminton team to meet Denmark in the European zone final for the Thomas Cup In Copenhagen on January 20 and 21 will be: N. B. Radford, of Surrey; H. R. Marsland, of Yorkshire; W. Shute, of Kent; K. L. Wilson, of Lancashire; H.
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    To Follow Jockeys Doesn't Pay
    65 7 To have followed the jockeys as a medium of picking wnners wjuUl not hurv been a profitable xeniure. Only three jockeys showed a profitable turn-orcr on the Inutis of one ticket on each winner. They are J<uk Tait, who re'tluse/.t the best return of $216.
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    TRAINERS
    103 7 Ist 2nd 3rd Stakes Lt. Col. T. L. Fox 80 61 59 $150.475 Van Breukelen 61 73 63 126.650 Neal Hobbs 71 55 67 125.790 Martin 53 51 64 104.230 Doc Rodgers 48 43 62 80.090 Jack Spencer 36 25 31 66.245 Haiiy Sleigh 31 25 3 0 54,590
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    JOCKEYS
    80 7 Ist 2nd 3rd Frank Flannery 54 45 39 Bill Lawler 49 37 42 Mickey Donnelly 47 48 39 Charlie Ellery 44 45 40 George Woods 40 28 29 Harry Gentles 34 41 49 Wally Bagby 33 49 33 Gordon Lartsdown 31 18 30 Albert Spencer 27 38 36 Jack
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    Recs, BOD Share Four Goals
    212 7 Kir Pal Singh enabled the 223 8.0.D. *o hold the Singapore Recs to a draw in a hockey match played on the Padang yesterday. The score was two-all. Scully played a magnificent game for the Recs and scored the two goals for his side. Stocky,
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    Tall Scoring At Hong Lim Green
    359 7 JHE Chinese forwards were in scoring form when they trounced the Singapore Colts by eight goals to three in a fast thrilling game at Hong Lim Green yesterday. Harry Fang netted four goals to give the Chinese a comfortable lead in the second half.
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    Davinder to play Freeman
    53 7 Reuter. LOS ANGELES, Friday—lnc'lan badminton players now touring in Canada are not expected here until Jan. 13 alter playing matches in Seattle and Oakland, Cab fornia, on their way. The challenge match between Davinder Mohan and the American champion. David Freeman, will be played here on
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    Walcott Hits Dashing 128
    197 7 JA.,SHEGPUR, Bihar, Fri.—The W-st Indies, fielding the remaining 11 fit men of their party, made an impres«ive start in theii U.reedav match against the Bihar Governor's XI i err scoring 445 for tfie loss of five wickets. The touring team, who have Aye m-.; un the
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    W. Indians Ask For Another Player
    86 7 KOMBA i, Friday.—A request that another player should be *ant tc reiniorce the depleted West Indies touring team has been cabled to Karl N unes, President of the West Indies Cricket I S Board of Control, by Anj thony De Mello, Presi- dent of
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      131 7 THERE HE Ij, fl GOTTA ADMIT YES- AND f WELL WE'RE V FINE, PEA\uT- :X. 1 0H MUBFRT 11 I I .j-i- *l MINOOT- TH' PROUD IT WAS A HARD YOU WILL HAVE BREAKIN' CAMP J THINK HUBERT NEEDS a DAHLING I JUST I WAS WORTH l urli HFI PRODUCT
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    BRITISH BARTER SHIP LOSES CARGO IN SUMATRA
    256 8 Dutch blamed by the agents (Tribune Staff Reporter) A British chartered ship engaged in Singapore A and Dutch Government sponsored bartor trade with Sumatra, has returned empty to Singapore, after discharging her $32,000 cargo at Djambi, which was then in Indonesian haiids. The
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    'RED PUTSCH' IN BERLIN FOILED
    69 8 A.P. BERLIN. Fri.—German Police today broke up what American authorities described as a "Soviet putsch attempt to seize political control in Western Berlin. The Communist-dominated "Democratic Bloc" of the Russian sector planned a meeting :n the elevated railway station in the Borough of KrcuzberColonel Frank
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    INCREASING AUSTRIAN DIVORCES
    67 8 A.P. VIENNA. Fri.—Tnc divorce rate in Austria has shown a sharp increase, according to Government stati:-lics. During 1!)47 there wen--13.543 divorces and 7f». 181 marriages. In the last year of peace. I!»3J>. there were only 8,1226 divorces. The Government report emphasised that 47 per cent of the
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    Called A German —Hangs Herself
    91 8 Reuter. PRESTON. Friday.—Because she was upset by people thinking she was German and was worried about her parents in the Russian zone. 24-year-old Australian voluntary worker hanged herself in Bilsborrow Church near Preston, declared the coroner at a Preston inquest today. A verdict of suicide
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    ATLANTIC UNION
    32 8 A.P. COPENHAGEN. Fri.—The Danish Government expects an official invitation to join the Atlantic Union talks in Washington within three weeks, a Foreign Office spokesman tolc the Associated Press tonight.— —A.P.
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    PLEA FOR A CUT IN RENT FAILS
    270 8 (Tribune Staff Reporter) MR. A. W. Bellamy. President of the Singapore ITI Rent Conciliation Board, yesterday UM the sub-tenant of a two-roomed apartment that the rent he was paying for th? two rooms was excessive, but the Board had no power U) reduce
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    Jack Evans Vetoed This But O.K'd That
    136 8 This 15-foot sign placed above the entrance of the Cathay Cinema to advertise the British ballet film "Red Shoes" was removed yesterday following an objection by the film censor. The sign is a copy by a local artist of the poster on the
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    SEAMAN THROWS DOUBT ON FATE OF S'PORE CAT FLIER
    282 8 CONFILCTING Dutch reports regarding the fate of Ralph Cobley. the English ex-army officer who was the pilot of a Catalina flying boat stranded in Sumatra, and the story of a seaman, newly returned from Sumatra, have caused confusion in Singapore. A
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    NO RISE IN RICE RATION
    385 8 THERE is little chance of a bigger rice ration for Malayans it was disclosed at the South East Asia Liaison conference which ended at the Cathay building, yesterday. The Malayan delegate said that although stocks were better than at this time last year, the Governments
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    DUTCH REPLY
    426 8 PENDING the arrival of detailed information about the alleged shooting of the •Soon Hin Lee' as reported by the Singapore Overseas Chinese Importers and Exporters \ssoeiation. the Netherlands Consulate Genera' has issued the follow lag statement: 1. The Singapore Overmen Chines Importers and exporters Association staled that they
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    CHINESE TOP LIST OF RECIPIENTS
    157 8 (Tribune Staff Reporter) f HtNESE head the list of persons who were given blood transfusions in Singapore hospitals last year. Out of a total number of 1.304 patients who benefitted from the Singapore Blood Bank, 1,005 were Chinese. Statistics kept ty the Blood Transfusion Service,
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    Songkhram Wants To Visit Singapore
    103 8 Reuter. BANGKOK, Thursday. PREMIER Songkhram told Reuter today that he was "very desirous" of visiting Singapore to return the courtesy paid him by Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. Circumstances, however, prevented him from making a trip presently or in ihe MW future, Songkhrani added, so he
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    What's On Today General
    57 8 SINGAPORE BATTALION OF THE BOY'S BRIGADE Officer's Training Class, R™byterian Church Hall, Orchard Road —3 p.m. SIEW SIN SI A: 22 anniversary celebration, Vienna Inn, 9 mile Bedok. Y.M.C.A., Orchard Road. "Humoresque"—Movie Circle film show —8 p.m. "THE COMEDY OF ERRORS:** Presented by the Little Theatre
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    Cinemas
    291 8 CATHAY: "The Rod Shoes' (in technicolour> with Anton VValbrook, Mariul Goring and Moira Shr-arer —1.30, 4. 6.45 and 9.30 p.m. "Julia Misbehaves, with Green Garson and Walter Pidgeon—midnight. ALHAMHKA "Sagebrush i Ixiw' with Tim Holt, Cliff Eldwards and Jo-in Barclay, plus 5 Walt Disney technicolour cartoons —1.45, 4.15, 6.45
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    Sport
    85 8 HOCKEY: LA. v. Army— Farrcr Park: Johore C.C. v. Shell S.C.—J. Bahru: S.R.C. v. Combined Changi—S RC. WEIGHTLIFTING: S pore v. S gor—New World 7.30 p.m. RUGBY: R.A.F. Seletar v. G.H.Q. Sigs.—Seletar; Nee Soon Garrison R.F.C. v. 221 Veh. Cov—J. Bahru: G.H.Q. FARELF v. S.C.R.C.—Tanglin; Police v. Naval Base—Thomson
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    200,000 BICYCLES ORDERED
    121 8 Reuter. BIRMINGHAM. Fri—Singapore promises to become one of the worlds most bicycle-minded cities. Ten thousand bicycles a month are being sent there by the Hercules Company of Birmingham and a Singapore importer Mr. T. V. Mitchell has ordered 200.000. There should soon be enough machines for city
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