Malaya Tribune, 11 January 1949

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    62 1 The Malaya Tribune BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Larger Sales Than Any Afternoon Paper in Matoya. Printed Simultaneously Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh A Penang. Telegrams: "Tribune Spore." Telephone: 5811 (9 lines). EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE: E. Maurice Glover, c/o
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    On Their Way To The Cathedral
    66 1 There was a <*c eminla! opening of the Singapore Assize* tor 1949 at the Supreme Court yesterday morning. In the front row are the mace-bearers. Centre row (from left to right): Mr. Justice Brown, Vr. Justice GordonSmith (acting Chief justice) and Mr. Justice Taylor.
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    China Left To The Future
    115 1 U.P. WASHINGTON, Mon.—President Truman's budget message today left to the future the decision on the amount of new American aid, if any, that may be given to Nationalist China. Discussing foreign assistance the message said "The scope and magnitude of several of our other current
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    Only Russia Can Help Chiang
    187 1 Reuter. LONDON, Mon.—With the Chinese Com munists showing no disposition tor political compromiee, it is not clear how the "big four" could effectively mediate in the present military situation unless the Communists were ready voluntarily to cease hostilities dm 'in, discussions. Only the Soviet Government,
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    ONE SHOGUN TELLS ANOTHER
    71 1 U.P. TOKYO, Mon. General Mac Arthur told Emperor H»rohito today that the occupying powers do not expect him to abdicate to share responsibility for the war, Japanese sources disclosed tonight. During the surprise visit the emperor paid Mac Arthur. the general told Hirohito that his job
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    RECEIVED BY POPE
    30 1 A.P. VATICAN CITY, Monday. Pope Pius XII on Monday received Bergo Wersbach-Hadg-mar and members of the Austrian delegation negotiating a commercial agreement with the Italian government.- A.P.
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    Thomas Cup Team Meat Doner
    74 1 (FROM JIMMY QLOVER). LONDON, Monday. SIR GEORGE THOMAS, Bafonet, donor of the magnificent Thomas Cup, will meet memebrs of the Milan badminton team tomorrow afternoon at the Cleveland Hotel, where they will be entertmined to tea by Mr. Lim Chuan Geok, manager and non-playing captain
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    JEWS WITHDRAW TROOPS FROM EGYPT
    236 1 Israel Rejects U.K. Protest Note Reuter. TEL AVIV, Mon.—All Jewish troop.- have been withdrawn from Egyptian territory, an official Israeli statement said tonight. Israeli troops had been about three m'l.s ovjr the Egyptian bord3r in the Rafah v/hero the Egyptians counter-attacked shortly b;fore the ceas3fire
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    MARRIOT'S DENIAL
    45 1 A.P. HAIFA, Monday. Cyril Marriot. British consul In Haifa, emphatically denied on Monday press reports that he had advised Britons to evacute Israel. Six British piisoners of war were deported by the Israeli military authorities in Haifa on Monday to the United Kingdom.—A.P.
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    Reds Claim Big Hsuchow Victory
    160 1 Reuter. LONDON, Mon. Chinese Communist radio, picked up in San Francisco, said today all Government troops encircled south of Hsuchow, 200 miles north of Nanking, "were completely wiped out by 10 a.m. today" after a four-day battle. Last reports from Government sources estimated the troops,
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    NEW DELHI MEETING IS IMPORTANT
    244 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Mon. Diplomatic absrvers here are awaiting an early British pronouncement of more positive policy on Indonesia, hoped tonight that it would allay some of the anti-Western sentiment recently developed in Asia. Great importance was attached to the week-end conference between British Foreign Secretary
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    Queen Mary 'fogged'
    45 1 U.P. NEW YORK, Mon. The I'r.er Queen Mary, due to arrive here this afternoon, v/as leld up by fog outside New York harbour and will not dock until 12 a.m. GMT. The iog closed in as the huge ship approached quarantine. -U.P.
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    NO BRITISH U.N. PROTEST
    116 1 A.P. LONDON, Mon. Britain has decided against protesting to the U.N. Security Council over the shooting down of five R.A.F. planes by Israel, responsible British diplomats reported on Monday night. The disclosure came shortly after the U.S. State Department called both Britain and Israel to treat
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    U.N. Committee To Visit Soekarno
    228 1 Reuter. BATAVIA, Mon.—The United Nations Good Offices Committee today requested facilives to visit the Republican leaders detained by the Dutch on Banka island off Sumatra. The Dutch authorities have told correspondents here that the Committee will not b<> prevented from visiting Banka to which theie
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    New Naval Chief Here
    108 1 Vice-Admiral Sir Patrick Brind. the new C-in-C British Pacific Fleet, arrived in Singapore on the P. and O. liner, s.s. Canton this morning. Sir Patrick's party on board consisted of Lady Brind. their daughter Lady Mary Twysdon, and Flag-Lieu tenant W. D. S. Scott, R.N. The
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    8 CHINESE HELD
    20 1 Eight Chinese believed to be concerned in secret society activities were arrested by the C.I.D. last night.
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    Trans Say Coolie Days Are Over
    151 1 Reuter. LONDON, Mon. —Sing:a?»"r»' *';iovi' realise that the day of coolie labour is over for ever" said the 1»47 labour annual report of Singapore Issued In Lontlv>n today. "Never again will It l*e possible for aerodromes to be built with coolies using hoes and
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    Walks For A Living
    78 2 MISS "Peggy" (Margaret) Robertsbaw, of the Dunlop factory at Liverpool, has walked more than 28,000 miles testing footwear in all sorts of weather, on city streets and across every kind of country road. She has been walking five days a week for nine years. With the
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    American Aviation Climbed To New Heights In 1948
    168 2 WASHINGTON, Mon.—United States aviaMon shook off its postwar depression and climbed to great new heights in 1948. This was the year of the Berlin airlift--the year the transport plane fed and wanned an entire city in the cold war with Russia. Air
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    SUFFERED BIG LOSS
    186 2 Then came the reports of President Truman's air policy commission and the congressional aviation policy board. Together they became the lodestar of American air power, charting the course toward aerial rearmament, a strong aircraft manufacturing industry, sounder commercial aviation and intensified aeronautical research and development. In the
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    U.S. YOUTHS LEARN 'CRIME DOES NOT PAY'
    280 2 U.P. WASHINGTON. Mon. ACCORDING to government statisticians, juvenile delinquency in tine United States is on the decrease. Official records show that in 1947 the rate of arrests of persons under 18 years of jftfee was only 4.7 per cent of all arrests contrasted
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    'They won't die for Hirohito'
    149 2 U.P. WASHINGTON. Mon. R'chard L. Deverall, recent chief of labour educat >n in Japan, said that in? post-war labour movement is "at once the hope of democracy in the Orient, and it's bitterest eemy." Deverall, on a lecture lour of Midwest U.S. cities said Japan's
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    Germany Produces More Oil
    123 2 U.P. FRANKFURT, Monday. Though West German oilfields today produce 205,000 tona more oil than they did in 1936,. 70 per cent of Bizonia'g consumption still has to be imported, the Bipartite Commerce and Industry Group announced here. The considerable post-war production rise is due to the
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    TRUMAN NOMINATES
    38 2 U.P. WASHINGTON. Mon.—President Truman today formally submitted Dean Achesons nomination as Secretary of State to the Senate. He also j formally submitted the nominj ation of Budget Director James Webb to be Undersecretary of State. U.P.
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    He's A 'Glorified Rubber Stamp'
    253 2 NEW DELHI, Mon.-The President of the Indian Republic, except during national emergencies, will be—in the words of a dissident member of the Indian Constituent Assembly— 'a glorified rubber stamp for the acts of his government." In normal times, his position will an.vlagous to that of
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    CERTIFICATE FOR CREECH JONES
    54 2 A.P. Kingston, Jamaica, Monday. Alexander Bustamonte, coloured Jamaican Communications Minister who visited London last year, approved of both the British Colonial Minister. Mr. Arthur Creech Jones and Food Minister John Strachey. "Creech Jones is the best of the whoje Socialist Party," he said "Strachey is also
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    'NO COMMENT'
    39 2 U.P. NEW YORK, Mon. General Dwujht Eisenhower, former army leader currently president of Columbia University, today responed with a "no comment to the rumour that he had been mentioned as potential administrator of the Kashmir plebiscite. U.P.
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      217 2 ON YOUR kAbit) fODAY BLUE NETWORK Summary; 7.05 Interlude: p, olt non rir>« rw„ English programmes 7.15 Talk: 7.30 Popular Re- 11.00 Close Down. 1.00 p.m. Lunch time quest; 8.15 News In Malay INDIAN PROGRAMMES music by the Radio Or- 8.30 Music Magazine 9.00 1.15 pm Time Slanal chestra; 1.30
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    Mohamed— The Peace Maker
    719 3  - Mohamed The Peace Maker MALAY SPOTLIGHT K By M.S. Daud THE spotlight today is focussed on one of the greatest benefactors to mankind Mohammed the Prophet of Islam and Messenger lation. His 1422 nd birthday anniversary is being celebrated today throughout the Muslim World, and by more than half of
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    'A HARMLESS LITTLE BROOK'
    261 3 A.P. ZURICH, Switzerland, Mon.- The American and British soidiers who lay in the r.n l and snow outside Cassino that winter of lirta and spring of 1944 won't believe it, but a c wfew military expert has described Italy's liapido River as 'a harmless little brook.''
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    WHITE HOUSE REPAIRS
    54 3 Washington. Mon. The cost of repairs to the White House has jumped from an original estimate of $1,000,000 to $4,000,000. it was disclosed today. The President's new budget revealed that repair estimates quadrupled as architects and engineers dug deeper into the interior of the executive mansion examining
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    Czechs Want Apprentices
    105 3 Reuter PRAGUE, Mon. Czechoslavak industry Is threatened with a shortage of new apprentic ©8 The main reasons for this are the raising of the school feavihg age by one year and the economic circumstances which lowered the country's birth rate in the early *****. During 1948, 91.000
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    Gold And Diamond
    49 3 A.P. Dar-Es-Salaam, Monday. Last year's diamond exports from Tanganyika topped the £1,000 000 mark for the first time an increase of 50 per cent, over the 1047 figures. Gold production last year was valued at over £500,000 while exports of mica increased to over £60.000. -A.P.
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    Graceful Sails
    103 3 Boxing Day treat for th:« p.wple of Capetown, South Airiea, was the stght oi the Danish iull-rigged sailing ship "Danmark" leaving on her re urn to Copenhagen. Manned by 117 cadets, the Danmark s.'t sail from Copenhagen on September 10, calling at MaJe ra and Teneritfe and was
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    NEWSPAPER WAR IN ENGLAND
    129 3 Reuter. LONDON. Mon. The London newspaper Daily Mirror today reported a circulation of over 4.000.000 copies and claimed to be the first newspaper in the world to achieve so big a net daily sale. Circulation increases became possible again only last week when the Government lifted
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    Banico Grons A Horn
    126 3 U.P. MANILA, Mob. Press reports from Legaspi C'ily in Southeastern Luzon said toddy that a septuagenarian farmer, Julian Banieo, had developed a flveineh "horn" en the left cheek ami wan now under observation at the Albay provincial hospital. Banieo who is the father of 13 children,
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    'BLACK FRONT' ALIVE
    119 3 Reuter. BERLIN, Mon.—Gen. Lucius D Clay American military Governor in Ctermany t od*y that Nazi-minded nation ahstic groups arc again rfcfng their heads. In his monthly report for November, he said: "One of these movements to pUck Otto Strasser's infamous Black Front' under the seemingly innocous name
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    THINK AGAIN, MR. BEVIN!
    491 4 |T is about time that Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and his colleagues in the Cabinet thought a little more realistically about the role Britain should play in Asia. That Mr Bevin's approach to Asian ailairs leaves much to be desired is made obvious by the divergence
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    THE POLITICAL CHESSBOARD IN W. GERMANY
    1011 4  -  by ROBERT LLOYD THE West German Constituent Assembly which has been in session here since the beginning of September 1948, may still fail to give birth to a West German State. After four months of labour, a draft text of nearly 150 articles passed
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    Kuala Kubu
    742 4 j'ostbai; Sir, Inasmuch as the security forces deserve public gratitude for their fight against terrorism, the Tribune group deserve public gratitude for their fight in upholding the principle that the public MUST BE TOLD THE FACTS. I see that the Tribune group is fulfilling the true function of
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    HEAVIEST SPENDING IN CANADA'S HISTORY
    166 6 OTTAWA, Sun. Canada, at the end of 1948, after 3» L years of restless peace finds herself involved in the heaviest spending in her peacetime history and the prospect that it will keep increasing. Gradual reconstruction of the regular forces that were torn down at
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    Chips May See Own Premiere
    114 6 IN England, on his scrond visit. Is Australian screen star Chips Rafferty, star of "THE OVERLANDERS," who recently finished his second Ealing studios film, "EUREKA STOCKADE," which Michael Ralcon produced in Australia with Harry Watt directing. Chips flew to England recently via Singapore. He hopes
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    Squash Rackets Results
    113 6 A.P. LONDON. Monday. Mile Miriam borman of Belgium defeated Miss M. J. Mayer of London 9-2. 9-1, 9-2 in the first round of the British amateur quash rackets championships >n Monday. She is the best of the Coninental entries and the only me seeded. Madame M. Yon
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    NEW STARS FOR OLD
    372 6  -  3 Brilliant New Comers By JACK HAND, A.P. Sports Writer A.P. NEW YORK. Harry Markson's search for new talent to bolster sickly fight gates at Madison Square Garden has resulted in an all-star show for January 14 featuring three brilliant newcomers Vince Foster of Omaha, Roland
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    CUP TEAM'S FIRST DAY OFF
    116 6  -  (From Jimmy Glover LONDON, Monday. THE Malayan Thomas Cup team had their fiist moments of real leisure when they were given a day off yesterday by their captain, following a week of intensive training. The players took this opportunity of visiting their friends in London.
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    CUP FUND WHISKY NOW $25
    107 6 CIX of (he twelve bottles of O "Challenge" Scotch Whisky donated to the Tribune Thomas Cup Fund by a well-known Singapore sportsman are still unclaimed. So we are reducing the target of %50 and a bottle will go to everyone who gives $2$ or more
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    EVANS PADDON BEATEN IN JERSEYVILLE H'CAP
    73 6 Reuter-AAP. Bobby Kemp won the event by more than his handicap of 12 seconds over Paddon. with Jim Saul and Charlie Edwards finishing second and third respectively. Paddon was fourth. Earlier in the day, after Kemp had retained his Central North Coast two-mile championship,
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    Mitchum Convicted
    57 6 A.P. LOS-A NGELES, Mon. Movie star Robert Mitchum was convicted Monday of conspiracy to possess Marijuana (Hassiah). Convicted with him were two eodefendentn actress Li»a Leeds M, and Robin Ford, a salesman. The three were arrested on Sept. 1 hi a midnight raid on a secluded cottage where,
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    SOCIALISTS CRITICISED
    91 6 U.P. LONDON. Mon. Briti* i Socialist efforts to gain support foro the Indonesian Republicans were roundly criticized by the Financial Times today. The Financial Times' columnist "Observer" said the spectacle of British Socialists join-ng voices with Nehru in denouncing the Dutch is "not a pretty one." "No Socialists
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    SHORTAGE OF BOWLERS
    341 6 Reuter AAP. WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Monday. DEARTH of young first class bowlers in New Zealand is presenting the selectors with a stiff problem in their search for an attack to face England's strong batting side on the tour of England this summer. In the Plunkett Shield series,
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    93 Entries For Grand National
    493 6 (From VERNON MORGAN, Reuters' Sports Editor) LONDON, Mon.- Although Britain's world famous steeplechase, the Grand National, is not due to be run until March 26 over the four and a half mile Aintree course considerable interest has already been aroused in this year's race by
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    15 Women Wrestlers Train Secretly
    51 7 A.P. VIENNA, Monday. V team of Austrian women has left for a series of "catch-as-calch-can" wrestling in Italy. The 15 girls on th«> team trained for months behind the elose:l ĕmntn of a Vienna gymnasium but refused to display their talents—even to reporters or photographers.—
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    S.C.C, 'B' Beat Changi R.A.F.'s
    116 7 IX a rugger ma ten on the padang yesterday, the S.C.C. "B" found no difficuly in defeating l.ie R.A.F. "B" i Changi), to the tune of 18 pts to 6. The civilian.-; fielded a more formidable team with Darrocke and Geeks playing a very vigorous
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    Non-Title Bout
    27 7 LONDON, Monday.—Promoter Jack Solomons said on Monday that the Irishman, Rinty Monaghan, world flyweight champion, would have a nontitle bout in London on Feb 7.
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    YEOVIL TIPPED TO WIN OUP
    352 7  -  Mannidft Aston Villa FOURTH ROUND OF F.A. TOURNAMENT (By JAMES CHAMBERS. A.P. Spots Writer A.P. bK. ft LONDON, Mon. yEOVIL, the giant killer of the English Foot» ball Association Cup tournament, w.u*» successful in its draw for its fourth round match on Jan. on Monday.
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    PITCH NO HELP TO BOWLERS
    212 7 Reuter. PORT ELIZABEIiI, r>:on.- -Ea«t?r Province made a spirited reply to the Marylenone cricketing tourists here today and stored 325 for the loss of six wickets. They occupied the crease througnout the day as George Mann declared for MCC at the Saturday total of 450
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    ASCOT GOLD CUP RACE
    114 7 A.P. LONDON. Monday—Black Tarquin, New Yorker William Woodwards American colt, tops 37 entries for the 19A.C running of tfa<- Ascot Gold Cup —Britain's most coveted raci outside the three-yoar-ol< The two and a half mile ract will be run during the Royal Ascot meeting: June 14-17.
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    U.S. Hockey Team Tour Europe
    61 7 BOSTON. Monday. A ltiman squad representing the CS. Amateur Hockey Association and led by playercoach Jack Riley, former Dartmouth ice captain, has sailed from New York for an 84--game European tour Booking.- call for visits to England, France, Switzerland and Sweden before and after the
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    Racial Prejudice In Sullivan Cup Denied
    121 7 U.P. of theAmaLTr Danil there was any raeia °S d nied todi v tU l voting which aelecl Sullivan Trophy athlete in the UnlteS States 6 outstar J r -X j Ferris said the Negro Harrison Dillard eceived more votes In th e southern
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    Canucks for the Games
    24 7 OTTAWA, Mon.—Canada will send about 65 athletes, plus 10 officials, to the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland New Zealand.
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    SCRC HOCKEY
    74 7 The following are requested !to turn up for the S. C. R. C. >n a hockey match against tne Indian Association at Urn Green this evening at b P.m. Lee Ah Chio. Lav Hock Chy e Cheong Thiam Siew. Cheah Kirn Swee. Goh ChLn Chye. Gan Kee Slang.
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    30 Nations Meet At World Soccer
    132 7 Reuter. inclnrifn/Yh' Mon TT Entrie s from 30 nations, Wa m lJ?? c Drovlslonal entry of E.*leid. wales. Scotland and Northern Ireland have been received by the International F> fccfl Federation (F.1.F.A.) for the world fa loa tournament Spam. Sweden. swi&hL. me list of
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    ITALY'S NO. I
    58 7 Rome. Monday.—The Italian Tennis Federation has ranked Gianni Cucelli No. 1 player in Italy. He Is followed by: 2. Marcello; 3. (tied) Vanni Canepclc cello Del Bello; 3. (tied* V anni Canepclc Carlo Sad a 5. Rolan Do Del Bello; 6. Marto Belardinelli; 7. Rcnato Gori; 8.
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    Exiled King Leopold of Belgium (Left) and the Duke of Windsor Hhar* an umbrella during their foursome golf match at the Golf Cluh Df< MsjMlflleu, near Cannes, January 1 rhe two were playing »ith the Princess De Rethv, wife of Leopold end Count D'Arcangnes.—A.P.
    45 7 Exiled King Leopold of Belgium (Left) and the Duke of Windsor Hhar* an umbrella during their foursome golf match at the Golf Cluh Df&lt; MsjMlflleu, near Cannes, January 1 rhe two were playing »ith the Princess De Rethv, wife of Leopold end Count D'Arcangnes.—A.P. -X,'
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    SCFA HAVE NO GROUND YET
    194 7 JHE annual report of the Singapore Ch:;,ere .Football Association described as "r.irr.iirkable" the fact that the Association, whi&lt;•?» represents 15 football clubs with mem! tv.ship running into thousands, is still without sorter ground of its own. The leport will be presented to members at the
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    LUCAS WINS
    45 7 RYE. England. Monday P. B. Laddie Lucas. 33-yea old British Walker Cup pi ly er. Sunday won o:ie of ihe Britian's major amaUur gou tournaments. Play was for th f Pr-5.. lent's putter by Oxford anJ Cambridge University aluni:: He defeated the forrr^r
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    F. A. CUP THIRD ROUND REPLAYS
    273 7 Reuter. The following are the football fixtures for Saturday. Jan. 15F.A. CUP THIRD ROUND REPLAYS. Bolton wanderers v. Aston Villa. Huddersfield Town v Queens Park Rangers. City v. Birmingham Liverpool v. Nottingham Forest. FIRST DIVISION Arsenal v. Sheffield Utd. Blackpool v. Sunderland. Manchester C.
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    Chinese New Year Games
    288 7 tfOUR inter state hockey matches will be !&gt;Liyetl here during the Chinese New Year Hnli days. Perak, Malacca, Johore, and Negri St-mbi-lan will play Singapore In a scries of games. Perak and Negri are expectled to provide the stiffest op- position. Negri beat Singapore jby three
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    S'PORE WIN
    37 7 KUALA LUMPUR. With a pack which combined better and with threes whose passing was surer the Singapore police won a 6-ni! (a try and a penalty) victory over the Selangor police on the Padang yesterday.
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    Chinese, Malays, Will Get Together
    235 8 LEADERS of the Chinese and Malay communities in the Federation and Singapore held informal talks at the Corner Out at Penang on Sunday, at which communal co-operation and harmony was the man: .subject discussed. It was reliably understood that a joint Sino-Malay committee was set
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    'U.S. Should Send Observer To New Delhi'
    97 8 U.P. NEW YORK, Mon.—Writer Louis Fischer urged today that the United States send a "sympathetic observer" to the New Delhi conference on January 20. He ,aid this could lead to 'effective action" on Indonesia because the United States government already shares .vith numerous
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    JOBLESS RIOT, POLICE FIRE
    102 8 U.P. BARI. Italy, Monday. Two columns of police armoured cars left Bari today for Andria, 30 miles west, where rioting mobs of unemployed barricaded the gendarmerie in their barracks and besieged nearby land-owners in their villas. Crowds of armed workers protesting their non-employ-ment, low unemployment benefits
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    JOHORE SPENDING $709,990 ON ISLAM
    176 8 Anti-Red Bulwark Needed Now (Tribune Start Reporter* DECAUSE Islam represents i bulwark against Communism, the Johore Governmen 1 suites that it plans to spend $709,990 on religiou i naming this year. This represents an increase of approximately $350,000 over last year's allocation for this purpose.
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    In The Mukims
    134 8 Religious training in Johore takes place in the Malay and Arabic schools. All the 20.000 Malay boys and girls who attend school receive lessons on the Islam religion in the afternoon. Religious training classes are being organised in the districts, villages, and mukims. Many of them are
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    Left Bike – It Was Lifted
    115 8 Left Bike It Was Lifted (Tribune Staff Reporter) QIX strokes of the rotan, six months rigorous imprisonment and a year's police supervision, was the penalty Mr. F. B. Oehlers (Third Police Magistrate) gave Ng Ah Hoe yesterday when Ng was found guilty of stealing a bicycle belonging to Ong Ah
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    While There's Rice There's Hope
    28 8 CHIEF CROP All member-, of the family on this farm oi the Indonesian Republic are busy planting rie. in flooded fields near Jogjakarta.
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    Muslims Want Own Religious College In Malaya
    236 8 (Tribune Staff Reporter) THE Muslim Religious Conference When it met at the All-Malaya Muslim Mis-n i.ary Society's premises in Geylant* on Sund.y—decided to request Sultans of tha Malay States and prominent Muslims to finance Centra. Muslim Religious College either in Singapore or th
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    Pandan Village Now A Town
    239 8 THE 1,500 inhabitants of Pandan Village today walk with their heads held high. Tney have reason to feel proud. Their village has been raised to the status of a township. They will now receive the benefit of Government supervision in sanitation, control of lands, construction
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    MOUNTBATTEN VISITS VENICE
    50 8 A.P. TRIESTE, Mon. H .M.S Liverpool, flying the flag of Rear Admiral Earl Mountbatten left Trieste today for Venice. During his stay here Earl Mountbatten called on Major Gen. T. G. Airey. commander of forces in Trieste, and on Major Gen. William A. Hoge. deputy to Airey—A.P.
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    Hard Up, Then Hard Labour
    92 8 (Tribune Staff Reporter) JOHN LQIHS Denton (18) and K. Alcock (20). were in need of cash for the New Year's celebrations. So, on SO December, they went into the mi'itary workshop at Ayer Raja Road and walked away with a tyre and an inner-tube. They
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    Schools' Plea For Increase In Pupil Roll
    234 8 (Tribune Staff Reporter) A deputation from private schools and certain aided schools in the Colony will ask thDirector of Education for an extension ot enrolment concessions for the current school year which started yesterday Owing to lack of accommodation, schools were permitted during
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    POLICE FIRE
    74 8 A.P. BOMBAY. Mon. One refugee was injured when Bombay police fired on demonstrators supporting the R. S. S. at Chembur refugee camp, it was revealed today. The demonstrators demanded the release of arrested R. S. S members being held by the police. Police have banned till Jan 15
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    NEW SECURITY ORDERS IN FEDERATION
    202 8 Jyo-APPEAL security orders directed prLx auly at squatters, but applying to ail who live In areas infested by terrorists, were announced at Kuala Lumpur last night. Banishment or imprisonment are penalties provided under the new orders, which are supplementary to the Emergency Powers me hiign
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    26 8 A.P. ZARAGOZA. SPAIN, Tucslay.—Having eaten meat from iheep bitten by mad dogs, 300 inhabitants of the town of Codo are undergoing anti-rabies treatment.— A.P.
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    Salt Fish Trade Dwindling
    99 8 {Tribune Staff Reporter) SINGAPORE'S salt flsh 0 export trade with the Netherlands East Indies has been dwindling since the liberation due to foreign exchange restrictions imposed by the Dutch. Thousands of fishing folk along the east coast of the Peninsula who supply most of th e
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    Y.M.'s Big Expansion Plans
    108 8 (Trifmne Staff Reporter) TO meet the increasing de- mand by members for hostel accommodation, the the Singapore V.M.C.A. is planning to erect a new wing containing 40 single rooms. The estimated cost is $85,000. The V.M.C.A. is also appealing for funds to enable repairs and alterations
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    WAR PLANS FOR CYPRUS
    77 8 U.P. LIMASOL, Cyprus, Monday. —Press reports said today that British warships are expected at Cyprus ports "very soon No estimate of the number and types of warships expected was given. The press also said that British military construction would begin soon. including three airports, the enlarging
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    CADELL ARRIVES IN S'PORE
    69 8 Air Commodore C. S. Cadell, Managing-Director of international Air Radio arrived in Singapore last night from Bangkok. The Commodore who is paying a n unofficial visit to the Colony is on his way to Burma to make plans for the Jistallation 0 f 12 new radio
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY General
    60 8 SINGAPORE STAMP CLUB: Special all-auction social meeting, Capitol lte.Jtaurant —5.15 p.m. POLICE BAND: Waterloo Street —5.30 p.m. to 6.3j p.m. Y.M.C.A. Orchard Road. Jramophone Concept—8 p.m. TRINITY COLLEGE, Sophia Road: Oral Interpretation by Mrs. Celeste Amscutz, —7 p.m.; Lite and Teachings of Jesua by Rev. John
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    Cinemas
    242 8 CATHAY: "The Red Shoes" (in technicolour) with Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Leonide Massine, Robert Helpmann, Esmond Knight, Albert Basserman and Ludmilla Tcherina —1.3*1, 4, 6.45 and 9.30 p.m. ALHAMBRA: 'Variety Time," with Edgar Kennedy, Leon Errol, Frankie Carle, Pat Rooney and Miguelito Valdes 1.45, 4.14, 6.45 and
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    Sport
    42 8 HOCKEY: State hockey trial —S.RC.; G.S.C. hockey trial— S.R.C.; S.C.C. Women v. S.C.C. Rugby team—S.C.C.; S.C.R.C. v. I. A.— Hong Lim Green; B.O.D.C.A. v. C.Y.M.A.—St. George s Rd.; G.H.Q. Sig. Regt. v. 1st Spore Ar,./ Regt.— Tanglin. GYMNASTICS: YMCA j.30 p.m.
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    Payroll Hold-Up
    44 8 U.P. BOMBAY, Mon. F,»ur armed robbers today escaped with more than" 300,000 rupees (U.S. $100,000) from the headquarter of Tata, India's biggest industrial organization here. The money, in cash, was carried in four boxes and being taken to Tata's mills for pp'ripv.—lT.P.
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