Malaya Tribune, 4 February 1949

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  • 63 1 The Malaya Tribune BY THE PFOPLE FOR THE PFOPI E Larger Sales Than Any Afternoon Paper in Malaya. Printed Simultaneously huala Lumpur, Ipoh d Penang. Telegrams: "Tribune Spore." Telephone: 5811 (9 lines). EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE: E. Maurice Olover,
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  • 90 1 STOP PRESS A.P. K\, I VIA, Thurs.— Dvftel) ..rtiehiN mecSkaai today 10 confirm <>r deny a report that Seth"Tiands is discussing inimedia'e cat«h!HlMW—t cf a inited Stati <>f Indorse t'a Stone* abool mii Ii discti 5i.,,,, ar*> v **!i-< witle.'y h. n- «:mI ;i
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  • 105 1 Reuter. LONDON, Than.— Prime Minister Clement .-uilee has sent a message of congratulations and good wishes to the Hon'ble Mr. I). S. Senana- I \akt-, i'retoier of Ceylon, on the nrst anniversary of Oj ion's independence. •As tittHM »»f th." oldest nieinher of the Commonwealth \\e ha\e
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  • 68 1 MEN from five companies, of the Reya' Pionrer Com* (Ovloni. with I'.niisti and (Wlonese etficers, parauej at Woodlands, Singapore Ibis morning. Lt. tol. K. 11. S. Popham, Commanding Oilier, unfur'ed the Ceylon Hag to Ine rob of drums of the Dev»n<,' hand. Col. I'ophain congratu at'*d the Ceylonese
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  • 41 1 Thirty-ive Chine ■c, behi he members of rwerri societies, were held by m Singapore CXD. last night, rhe (iaiubling Supr**mm Section arrested 12 j t nines,-. One Chhteae, suspected of a member <»/ the shiPjwe Chhwsc Anti-Uritish uas arrested.
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  • 336 1 Flying 'Eyes' Seek Bandit Hide-Outs A.P. tary%T v P d N R^s u^Co.„„ ial Cnder Secre that Britain .rtMfcL »ipe out the Co m r„ls t an re o^r t r in W t0 Jungfe" vaWre he Stressed the to: ueidy a two-fold programme 1. Work
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  • 59 1 A.P. TAUNTON, Thursday. Sir William Stampes' mare 'Granite* put her best foot forward on Wednesday night and became the toast of the party. Poio-playing Stampes said he took her along to a formal dance here to "encourage people to ride." "She never put a foot vrong." he announced
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  • 48 1 AAP. WASHINGTON, Thursday. —The United States State Department said today reports of fighting on the frontier between lorthern and southern Korea were exaggerated. Press reports said a force of more than 600 had entered American-occupied southern Korea from northern Kor** I formally, Russian-occupied) threatening civil war.—
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  • 67 1 A.P. LONDON, Thurs— Britain's colonial empire, -'resident Truman's •world fair deal" would play it biggest role in Africa and Maiava, Colonial Under Kecretarv, David Rees Williams, said today. Kees Williams stressed that nothin? definite could be Naid until Truman's inaugural address was followed up hy
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  • 66 1 U.P. LAKE SUCCESS. Thurs. The British United Nations delegation issued a formal denial today of recent charges that the Arab states had been allowed to recruit British-held prisoners of war for military operations against Israel. The British also denied that Nazi prisoners of war
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  • 73 1 Reuter. NEW DELHI, Thurs.—lndian Prime Minister Pandit Nehru told Parliament today it was not possible to dismiss British personnel on the Indian High Commissioner's staff in London "merely on racial grounds" after the tiansfer of power in August, 1947. He was replying to a question on criticism of
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  • 30 1 Miss Ckri.-tina Kg Yew IVrk of Singapore, one of the two Malayan nurses to be awarded the A.I.F. Nursing Scholarships for 1949. Story on Page S.
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  • 240 1 Reuter. Wrote Cardinal BUDAPEST, Thurs.—Cardinal Josef Mindszenty, Prince Primate of Hungary, at the close of the first day of his trial on treason charges here today admitted that he had written to the American Legation about 10 days ago asking for a car and a
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  • 33 1 U.P. VENICE. Friday.—Edorado Vecchiato. 50-year-old inventor of Venice, claims to have developed a secret defence mechanism against the atomic bomb. He says it arrests the vertical movement of the bomb.-U P.
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  • 168 1 A.P. LONDON. Thurs.—A highly placed British Government official said today that it is "extremely unlikely" that Britain will approve any change in the political status of Penang. The informant, who is in close touch with Malayan affairs, said that Sir Henry Gurney, High Commissioner for the Federation,
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  • 368 1 Reuter. LONDON, Thurs. Viscount Hall, First Lord of the Admiralty, reemphasised in the House of Lords tonight Britain's determination to maintain her position in Hongkong. liOrd Walcran, Conservative, said the Kuomintang (Chinese Government Pare*) was almost t>ounu to call. The Chinese Communists would then take
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  • 262 1 U.P. LONDON, Thurs. Winston Churchill pleaded today for a Parliament of Europe "which will present the conception of a United Europe in concrete and definite form." Churchill spoke to 800 diplomats, leaders of international organizations and members of Parliament in the London Guild Hall after
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  • 261 1 U.P. WASHINGTON, Thurs.—President Truman told the press today that the United States will not enter into any talks on the world situation with Russia or any other power outside of the United Nations. Truman reaffirmed at a news conference that the United States will handle
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  • 71 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Thurs. The United States Navy will be forced to lay up 70 more hips, including 15 first-class line vessels, and cut its strength by 30.000 men to meet President Truman's 1950 budget, Mr. John Sullivan. Navy Secretary, disclosed today. Thiee Essex class carriers,
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  • 148 1 Reuter. RANGOON, Thurs.—Burma Government troops today drove Karen insurgents out of a large part of Insein town, 11 miles north of Rangoon, and the Karens tonight were still retreating. An omcia' communique announced this atter an ali-out Government attack to lecapture the city today in which Burma
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  • 93 1 Reuter. NEW DELHI, Thurs. The Indian Government tonight asserted that their action in denying transit across or landing in India to Dutch planes neither contravened the International Civil Aviation agreement signed at Chicago nor represented unilateral application of sanctions against the Netherlands. "The so-called
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  • 328 2 GANDHI STILL INSPIRES GOVT U.P. WASHINGTON, Wed. AXE year after Mahatma Gandhi's assassination v finds the memory of that Indian leader strong enough to "inspire" the government to plan "multi-purpose schemes to raise the standard of living" throughout the country, said Lady Rama Rau,
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  • 48 2 A.P. MADRAS, Thurs.—The Government of Madras has decided t o renovate 25.000 ponds in the province for agricultural purposes. Revenue Minister Kaia YenKata liao told the legislature that the scheme would cost RS. 100.000,000 and result in the irrigation of four million acres •I land.—A.P.
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  • 39 2 A.P. COPENHAGEN, Thurs. Nylon hosiery is being made in Denmark now by the Scandinavian American Nylon Hosiery Co., in Naerum, near Copenhagen. At present, the output L reserved for export or for urchase in dollars. —A P
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  • 574 2 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Thurs.—The last of the '•black" and "grey" markets are now disappearing in the United States. Sheet steel, a few popular makes of car, and flats are about the only things left on which buyers are willing to pay premiums. Otherwise, American consumers can now
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  • 80 2 A.P. NEW YORK, Thurs.—Gift shipping from the United States of new and used clothing in any quantity, except clothing made from linen and certain synthetic textiles, may be sent anywhere in the world without obtaining licences, says the U.S. Department of Commerce. Department officials clurificd this
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  • 95 2 Reuter. LONDON. Thurs.-Children in the West London borough of Chelsea, unappreciative of the efforts ot instrumentalists taking part in open-air band concerts, have "stuck pins in the bandsmen, tied their chairs together and thrown things down the trumpets." These juvenile efforts to brighten the proceedings were
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  • 81 2 A.P. WARSAW. Thurs. In Poland, the merger of politics' parties means the consolidation, too. of newspapers. The journal "Glos Luau. since 1945. had been the mouthpiece of Polish Communists and Moscow propagandists. Likewise. the "Robotnik" espoused the cause of Polish leftwing Sociitlist s Now there's one
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  • 241 3 The Malay Nationalist Party is jxpected to lead a massdemonstration soon against Australia's decision to deport Mrs. O'Keefe. Indonesian wife of an Australian national. Where the proposed demonstration will be held has not been disclosed. The mass-demonstration will be launched purely on moral grounds. Inche
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  • 46 3 KJ \l v UJMFOB. Thur*.— The number of ■jnofl detained under gßwrgeaej Regu'atlons II m ~n Jsnnnty 31, 1949, h ">.705. or these 5.0!>2 are Chi- S9C Ma'ays, Indian*. S Euraslw. 4 Safcafe :»n<' *W« e-lhers. There "ere 31 arrests in the Federation yesterday.
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  • 120 3 fruvo revenue oflicers searche 1 I the S.S. Choy Sang and found a paper parcel in a dirty nun. As they hfted the h( aw pared the wrapping gave way amd ninety-. :giu bars of gold fell Mt Hua Cheng Yong (34> a member of
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  • 183 3 THE Overseas Union Bank, a new establishment catering for all classes of clients, will open tomorrow in Meyer Chambers. Tile oank, whose Managing Director is Mr. Lien Ying-chow, has a paid up capital of Ss2 million, with a total reserve capital of S?10 milliDn. "The
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  • 286 3 MISS Christina Ng Yew Peck, a Staff Nurse of the General Hospital, Singapore, and Miss Chan Peng Chim of Kuala Lumpur, have been chosen for the A.I.F. Nursing Scholarships for 1949. Both nurses arc to travel to Australia lor their two year post graduate training
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  • 81 3 Young Ong Sai Lam told a hawker* Tarn Jin on February 1 that he had to pay up $1» and join Gang 18. it was alkfged in the First District Court yesterday. Tarn Jin said he had no money and Ong then threatened to assault
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  • 37 3 SINGAPORE parents are perturbed that their sons in the school cadet corps may be drafted to fight communist gangs in Malaya. Several Chinese parents have asked that their sons be dropped out from cadet corps.
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  • Article, Illustration
    38 3 Mr. A. 11. OBNhtSi son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert lVter Cardoza was rcc.nt'v married to Mir.s Christine (Hiveiro daughter off Mr. and Mr*. John lOfrunttM (Hiveiro at the Church «>f St. Joseph, \ietoria street, Singapore.
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  • 187 3 DURING a salvage operation at Tanjong l'agar uti Jumi;- 22, a Malay diver, Ahmat bin Mahomed Noor, (°4) < n lapsed through fatigue while working on the sea-br.l .*>'» U t Jeep, and died before he was brought to the surlaee. The dicing party
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  • 22 3 POHoe ai rested a man in the Baling area who was trying to sell a Japanese rifle, yesterday.
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  • 500 3 A 10 hp. Ford taxi No. SC37I confiscated bo the Eighth Poiice Court Magistrate and taken over for the use of the Customs Department la being paid for in instalments by Mr. V. Kesavan Kutty, of Sembawang Road, Singapore. He still has six payments
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  • 162 3 Swindon. Wiltshire, Thurs. —The death of an octogenarian church sexton here has ended a lifetime search for a gold altar reputed to have been hidden in a network of subterranean tunnels by monks at the time of the Reformation. The sexton, Jacob Reeves-,
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  • 253 3 The Singapore branch of the Overseas League has cabled an invitation to Mr. Anthony Eden to address its members when he passes through the Colony on his world tour. Capt. G. Wright the chairman of the provisional committee of the Singapore Branch announced this
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    • 299 3 SCHOOLS LEARN CHINESE in the Singapore Chinese Mandarin School, 122-126, Prinsep Street, Singapore. Explanations in English) New Class for late applicants commencing February 3rd, 1949. Mondays and Thursdays—s.3o p.m. to 7.00 p.m. Class Teacher, Mr. Y. C. Yang, 13.A. Fee $3/- per month. (T. 594) VACANCIES exist in the Chung
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    • 259 3 55u N«« <- FOR SALE Parkinson Gas Cooker used only six months, good condition. $150/- or nearest offer. Box A2OIK M.T., SpOTC. (Z. 023) FUR SALE on« AmeriCHii made eft. deep freeze La excellent running order —$1,200. One sliding glass door teak woo l bookcaae fITS<W One inlaid wood dining
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    • 89 3 FOR SALE PLYMOUTH Saloon 1945 model in excellent condition, new whitewall tyres., radio, taxed, insured. $2,750 Phone 0288. (A.631» VAUXHALL SALOON 14 H.P. 1939 model in perfect order, upholstery paint good. Price Nine Hundred. Subject to offer. Apply r > <. Cairnhill Road. (A.f>:;i i FOR SALE Indian M/cycle sh.p.
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    • 64 3 COIFFURE STYLE YOUR HAIR at Maison Moderne. Ladies Hair Dressing Salon 120. Orchard Rd. Phone *****. (8j639) TUITION KuußMaW'B MUSIC STUDIO Director Prof. Otto Foorman special Piano Tuition 148 Moulmein Road, 126 Orchard Road (2nd Flooi). Telephone 4."39. (8.638 i BALLROOM DANCING: Learn correct dancing economically. First class facilities for
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  • 476 4 THE housing experts look into the future and 1 see a new and shining city arising on the site of Singapore. Before them are the suggestions of Sir Patrick Abercrombie, world famous expert on town planning, and the report of the Sennett Housing Committee. In their enthusiasm for
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  • 1207 4  -  BY ALEX SINGLETON A.P. Correspondent. WHO will run Russia if death, illness or retirement ends Josef Stalin's long reign as boss of the Soviet Union? No one can say for sure. No one outside the forbidding walls of the Kremlin oan crystal-gaze into the inner operations
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  • 585 4 A.P. IS FRANCO going to fall? Do the Spanish people like Franco? Are things pretty grim in Spain? These are the questions most frequently asked tn'.'j correspondent on his return after three and a half yea is in Spain. The answer, lumped together: Foreign
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  • 214 4 Reuter. THE Iraqi government is understood to have drawn up an official application to the Bank of International Settlements for a loan to help it finance three major public works schemes considered here to be vital to the development of the country. The three schemes
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 260 4 I ANNOUNCEMENT We have reat pleasure in announcing the official opening ot OVERSEAS UNION BANK Ltd. MEYER CHAMBERS, RAFFLES PLACE, SINGAPORE. On sf/i Ftfk, 1949 at 9a.m. This Bank is equipped to handle all branches of banking business and will offer uniform satisfactory service to all classes and all nationalities.
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    • 80 4 ACCOMMODATION MERCANTILE HOSTEL 13, Queen Street. Vtvommodation a valla Me* for -ttudont* and paying guests. It pays you to stay at the Hostel with or without, board Apply Superintendent. VEHSTVOR SALE FOR SALE Four Jeeps in good running order. Apply Box E229,' Malaya Tribune, Singapore. E^LACtTI |L WHITE J I?
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  • 111 5 Reuter. MA A J LA. J hum The for gold "treasureIn Bataan hiitt i& People from all parts tht v ai-battered prom Central Luzon t oping to a certain win the Bataan Marivalem, imtt lv north of Manila, as ii' IM spread that a i.
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  • 210 5 Reuter. MANILA. Thurs.—The or-d-r to shoot civilians on sigh', burn Filipino homes, and destroy the city of Manila was issued three or four days before the Americans entered Fort McKmiey. south- Manila, on Feb. I>. 1945. According to reliable reports in Manila, this
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  • 373 5 U.P. m TOKYO, Thursday. JHE custom of premarital courtship still has a long way to go before penetrating into the rural areas of Japan, although the Occupation has instilled it to a much larger degree in the big cities, according to a United Press survey.
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  • 213 5 U.P. NEW YORK, Thurs. IN 1929. Richard Cor'.>ett., an Englishman, was tried at Draguignan, France, for killing his mother who was suffering from a cancer. He was acquitted after testfying: "I loved my mother. 1 killed her because I loved her. Science could not
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  • 53 5 A.P. SYDNEY, Thurs. Figures released by the Australian statistical bureau for wool exports in five months ended Nov. 30 show France took 104.038,000 pounds of greasy woo., which was more than any other country. The United States took 24.102.000 pounds: Russia 15,711.000 pounds; Italy 30 989-->o<) pounds and
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  • 140 5 A new type of Government sponsored household service, designed to provide efficient part-time help for Britain's busy house wives Is now well under way, and is expected to turn out more than 700 students this year. The new scheme—which is entirely separate from the existing local authorities Home
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  • 126 5 Reuter. CUPAR. FIFESHTRR. Thurs. A widower ilungetously ill in hospital here was married while receiving a blood tr;»ns fusion. The widower, Thomas I Plunkett, had intended to marry his fiancee. Miss Agnes Adamson. at Whitsun. As she sat at his bedside he asked in a
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  • 579 5 A.P. GENEVA, Thurs. All is not brotherly love among the four language groups in Switzerland's 25 cantons. Despite a large measure of national solidarity, the popular picture of the Swiss in short leather pants yodelling friendly greetings to each other in four language is mainly
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  • 58 5 A.P. PARIS, Thurs.—Frenchmen vith families are paid more han single men, the Government says. In. the Paris region, a man with four children, whose wife does not work, gets 18,250 francs monthly (US$3O) in addition to his salary. For a father of eight children, the
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  • 363 5 U.P. NEW YOBK, ftanday. ILN November fc. Wlc>. society women, eiub women soi htlogists and scores of curious people jainm cd the courtroom at Littleton, Colo. For one week they battled each day for seats at the trial of Dr. Harold E. Blazer,
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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    • 58 5 %1C FTUOT- By Michael Q-Malley and Ralph Lane VT. II A^liJ^ TH* WAY I 6tfT IT Fl<S6£<?EQ 1 LESSEE, N<?W... I J 7 MA' TAINT mpf A. «n" THAT yEZZIR?...AN BY J U6M/ X .STki IN THl* CRITTER'S SAPFev,WITH I/ V AHA.' 1 F^ I It'll STILL SHA^VanV V THROAT/
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  • 182 6  -  Eager To See Cup Team In Action (From JIMMY GAAGLOVER LONDON, Thurs. THE Malayan Thomas Cup team will play exhi- bition singles and doubles matches' on Saturday for the benefit of patients and staff of the Harefield Hospital. The exhibition was arranged through the efforts
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  • 101 6 VICTORIA, British Columbia. Thurs. A study of possible sites on the British Columbia coast for a big aluminium plant will be mado this Spring. J. Louis Reynolds, j Vice President of Reynolds j Metals Corporation naid fol- t lowing a conference with Canadian officials. "It
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  • 51 6 Reuter and AAP. SYDNEY, Thurs. Austra- lian Olympic swimmer Bruce set an Australian record of) 26.8 seconds for 55 yards freestyle in Sydney during January. His time clipped one-fifth of a second off Bruce Taylor s record, which was established at the 1948 State championships.— Reuter and
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  • 125 6 A.P. NEW DELHI, Thurs.—lndu ropes to be self-sufficient in ;alt by the end ol 1951—but jnly it the progress in production is maintained and the transport position gradually improves. An official committee reDorted India annually consumed 2.500,000 tons of salt on the basis
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  • 45 6 The Ui*m\ for the Th»- j mas Cup fund now J stands at *****.90. Contributions, how- ever small, are welcome. a They should be address- J ed to the Tribune Tho- mas Cup Fund, e/o Malaya Tribune Press Ltd., Anson Road, -Sin- gapore.
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  • 135 6 The following arc the soccer fixtures of Jollilads Athletic Union for the month of Febru iry 5 v. B.M.H. Farrer Park; j v W'T Kranji. Kranji; 10. P. and T.. Geylang Stadium 12: t Robinsons. Geylang Stadium; 13 HM.S. Terror. Naval Base: 17: v. Ist.
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  • 37 6 A sports mooting for the election of office-mmVCR for the Cricket. Football. Athletics and Tenais Sections will be held by the Singapore Recreation, Club on Feb. 7 at 6.30 p.m at th? Club premises.
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  • 267 6 Reuter. DURBAN, Thurs —At least £236,000 is needed for Indian sufferers, excluding shopkeepers, in the recent Durban riots, two Indian organisations said here today. The Natal Indian Congress and the Natal Indian Organisation sent a joint letter,, giving these details of minimum needs to the
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  • 50 6 NEW DELHI. Thurs.—A Government committee has recommended that Indian manufacture of radio sets be stepped up sharply. The committee proposes that 80*000 in expensive rets aud 20.000 expensive sets t>p built i" India this y«-ar. Production would be expanded to 150.000 sets by 1951.
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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    • 417 6 NOTICES SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY Applications are invited for the post of Dresser with dispensing experience in the Municipal Health Department commencing salary in Grade IV ($9O-$lO-sllo> plus Cost of Living Allowance. Applications on forms obtainable from the Municipal Health Office should be submitted to the Municipal Secretary in scaled covers marked
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    • 221 6 NOTICE SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY Tenders are invited for the i SUPPLY OF GALVANISED STEEL UNSOCKETED TUBES OF NOMINAL BOREB fc H TO 2V" for the Water Department. Tenders close at 4 p.m. on Tuesday. 15th March. 1949. Tender Form and Specification from Municipal Secretariat. Room No. 235. sTngapore MUNICIPALITY Tenders are
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    • 38 6 CHINESE SALESMEN'S ASSOCIATION Due to unavoidable circumstances the 12th Anniversary Celebration and General Meeting of this Association are postponed from sth and 6th to 19th and 20th February of which members and friends are kindly requested to note.
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    • 286 6 On Your Radio Today BLUE NETWORK. "From Heaven to Earth", in Cantonese, 10.00 News in ENGLISH PROGRAMMES Amoy St Cantonese. 10.15 1300 Viva America. 1330 "Over A Cup of Tea" in News. 1345 Dance Music. Mandarin. 10.30 Mandarin 1400 Close Down. 1800 Pro- Dance Music. 11.00 Close gramme Summary. 1802
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  • 93 7 A.P. LONDON, Thurs, Welterweight! Billy Graham (f New fort and Tony Jamiro of ToungstOWß, Ohio, will be lightin c before a capacity crowd at •a\ Arena on Monday The promoter, Jack Solomons, nnounced that all the 10.40 C its have been sold. arc likely to top U5.00C.
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  • 76 7 A.P. AIN TREE, Thurs. Eightythree horses have been entered fSf the one mile Lincolnshire Handicap due to be run on March 19. The Lincolnshire Handi- I cap is the first leg of Bri- f tish horse racings spring •double." The second leg |g the Grand National Steeplechase to
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  • 58 7 The following will repn sent the S.C. E C. in a hockey gam against G.H.Q at TlngTin today; Lee Ah Chic: Cheang Tnun Stew, Lav Hock Chye: Au Tr.t Chu, Goh Chin Chye. Farr Km Hock: £wee Lim Chai Hon Yam. Harry Fang Khoo Ong Lee. Low Kee
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  • 65 7 Th* Tamil Brotherhood As°ch»tkm of Singapore, have Jomnd i table tennis team. Indians interested in table tennis arc kindly requested to contact the Hon. Indoor Garnet Secretary. c o No. 2. Rambotan Road, off Joo Chiat Place, oini,'aporc. The Tamilians will play their 57 rrte *My fixture
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  • 35 7 A.P. WMWoo. Thursday. AI Mutt. 22 c J* lm s Oyweight ehaav to of Burma, has signed HJra Undon fight on Feb. 8. •train !°T ta rounds in C L< lp ohnSOn f
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  • 107 7 U.P. Akron, Ohio, Thurs The family of Sammy Baroudi. the 22-year-old Negro fighter who died in Chicago six hours after a knock-out by Ezzard Charles, today sued Charles for $15,000. charging that he took "unfair advantage" of the late Baroudi by illegally" hitting him below the
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  • 51 7 The following have selected to represent C.V.M.A. at cricket ageinst Raffles' College tomorrow at 2 p.m. on the College grounds; R. Perry, J. de Souza. V. Ferrer. If. Leong, c Woodford, J. Galistan. M. Swyny. W. Ponniah. Dass, J. DAlmcida, P. Scully. (Jnr.i and G.
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  • 41 7 Reuter. London. Thursday. The Australian Rugby League touring team sailed for home from Tilbury tonight on the "Strathcden'. They paid tribute to British sportsmanship and declared that they had enjoyed their visit and learned a lot from it Reuter.
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  • 32 7 U.P. WELLINGTON, Thurs. The first New Zealand Women.; softball team to make an overseas tour will go to Australia in March to participate in an international tournament in Melbourne.—U.P.
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  • 41 7 A.P. NEW YORK, Thurs The New York Yankees on Wednesday sigued on their lirat Negro baseball player outfielder Luis Marquez of the Baltimore elite Giants and became the 6th Major League Club to hire a Negro athlete. —A.P.
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  • 226 7 Nic 6 a P ore Chinese Football Association last khan a COn t red a P 1 0^^1 fr °m the Aryan Gymthis a an ]l}^ n representative side, to tour Singapore sionaii« j m atter has been referred to the Profes Th T a
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  • 822 7 Steps To Improve Standard Of Racing (From ALLAN LEWIS) IPOH, Thurs. X en try of 211 horses for the Perak Turf Club's three-day meeting beginning from Feb. 16 again emphasises the fact that the poorer class of horses are well in the majority in this
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  • 268 7 mtl LONDON, Thursday. T k kof Ule draw for the fift *> «>und of the Football Association Cup, which is to be played on Feb. has gone to the favourites Yeovil Town, the non-League "giant-killers" of the competition. Portsmouth, Derby County, Wolverhampton, Blackpool or
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  • 14 7 London, Thursday.—Hospitals Cup tie: St. Thomas's Hospital 19, King's College Hospital 9,—
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  • 48 7 Reuter. New York, Thursday. The dtaw for the 1949 Davis Cup! competition will be made next Tuesday in the United Nations building here by Mr. Trygvc Lie. Secretary General of the United Nations. Twcntyseven nations have challenged the United States lolders of the trophy Rcutci
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  • 51 7 A.P. San FranciaCQ, Thursday. Mrs. Vicki Manalo Draves, Olympic diving champion. Uit Wednesday for Manila on a Philippine Air Lines plane for a three-week exhibition tour sponsored by the Manila Chamber ot Commerce. Accompanied by her husband, she is due in the Philippines on Friday.
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  • 130 7 THE Singapore Pentangular Rugby tournament key match between the Combined R.A.F. and the S.C.C. will be played at the 11. A.F. Maintenance Base, Seletar, tomorrow. Air Commodore, P. G. H. Carter. C.8.E.. the Base Commander, has extended an invitation to all members of the public who
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  • 313 7 AMATEUR BOXING m (Tribune Staff Reporter) T LvT„r. e hn A r t Ur Boxing Association At a meeting of the Association's executive Committee yesterday, it was decided to ascer! contr buunn h f f SP rtS CoUncil what contribution it was
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  • 30 7 Melbourne. Thursday. John 1 Bromwich. Frank Sedgman and Bill Sidwell were named on Wednesday to represent Australia in the Davis r'up tennis competition this war.
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  • 461 7 JJESPITE two picture goals by their centre forward J. Stanley, the Johore Cricket Club went down to the s.K.c. in a thrilling hockey game at the Padang yesterday. Three quick goals in the first half enabled the S.R.C. to beat the visitors by three-two.
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  • 120 7 A.P. WIEN, Thurs.- Doctors on Thursday said there was stiJl a slight chance that Eva Pawlik. European women's skating champion, will be able to take part in the world championships at Paris later this month. Miss Pawlik is suffering from an attack of
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  • 73 7 U.P. AROSA. SWITZERLAND, I Thursday —The United States amateur ice-hockey team and the Arosa Ice-Hockey Ciub tied 10 to 10 today in the first game in its Swiss tour for the Americans, who are headed for the word championship matches in Sweden later this month. The Americans
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    • 30 7 ..uh—'"— "ROUND V Hubert is Pi FiGHT THIS ROUND v? ?Juß- T !l!l a RIV ,S A HURT C«AMPIO»iI FwHV DON i gu A W •s- V~-'<■-? if |limllHlMlMMHH sll^
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  • 529 8 Stanley May, Be Deported Reuter. LONDON, Thurs.. I ABOI/RITE John Belcher resigned from ParL liament today as a result of the findings of the Lynskey tribunal which investigated alleged graft in high government circles. Belcher, 43. announced his resignation to a hushed and jammed House of
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  • 224 8 (Tribute Staff Repr/rtcrj SINGAPORE may soon have a Rhythm Club of its own. like many of the other capitals of the world, if an experiment being carried out on Sunday proves a success. For the first time Singapore will be treated to a twohour "swing session"
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  • 686 8 JUDGMENT was delivered by Mr. Justice Brown J in favour of Ban Hin Lee Bank Ltd., in the action which they brought against the United Chinese Bank Ltd., to recover the sum of $31,840 on a draft issued by the
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  • 32 8 Reuter. SAN FRANCISCO, Tnurs.— The United States Navy's giant new Lockhead Constitution left today on its hist flight to Wash- ngton, carrying 74 passengers and a crew of 16. Reuter.
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  • 37 8 A MILAN pohdmnn n#e* <* mint d* U<: >r lo locare Comma** *rZ Zrhen Mikm mk, oi the targe* arms hide-ante ,n Itrty > notice acted am mfonmaUam g*mm tk*m ft* a aging C<nnmuru.st m
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  • 212 8 SEGAMAT. Thurs. —A patrol of Scaforth Highlanders shot dead the leader of a bandit killer-squad in an ambush at Geylang Tenang Kampong yesterday. Five sub-machine gun magazines containing 83 rounds of ammunition were recovered from the body. The Seaforths were trailing the squad which had seriously
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  • 107 8 A.P. LONDON. Thurs. Meat trade sources predicted yesterday that Britain may suffer a further reduction of her scant meat ration as her corned beef stocks are running low. The Government on January 8 ordered the weekly ration to be reduced to lOd worth of
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  • 233 8 (Tribune Staff Reporter) (JINGAPORE will shortly become an international meeting place for delegates from Far Eastern countries, except China, who are expected to attend the annual council of the Far East Division of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. The conference will be held
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  • 211 8 Washington. Thursday. Chairman Elmer Thomas, of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today asked for an investigation of the Ameri-can-financed British whect purchases in Canada. Foreign Recovery Chief Paul Hoffman had earlier in the day said that the British purchases of Canadian wheat actually saved the
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  • 521 8 VILLAGER SHOT BY TROOPS KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs SEVENTY leading Malays of Kerling, a 41 miles north of Kuala Lumpur are to pi to the Government against the shooting Malay by Security Forces in Kampong Jawa about a mile from Kerling, on the night of
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  • 82 8 A.P. OSLO, Tliurs. H.M.S. Royal Sovereign, the British battleship which was lent tc the Soviet Union during the war and which is being returned, was sighted off Meagen late on Wednesday night. At dawn today the Russian naval vessel, Getaki, left Meagen, presumably to escort
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  • 42 8 U.P. LONDON. Thurs. Britain I today strongly applauded the American stand against a pri- j vate meeting between President Truman and Marshal Stalin. A Foreign Office spokesman said his government was in full agreement with Acheson's rejection of Stalin's offer.—U.P.
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  • 62 8 COLOMBO, Thurs was today preparing foi the day-long celebration I of the first rs independence. A marathon relay four points in north, c ut and west Ceylon, cor Colombo, will highhgh: th< pro. gramme. First runnel already on the roads m message on behalf of youth. The
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  • 55 8 CEYLON TAMILS' ASSOCIATION, 11 Handy Roav fortnightly meeting—6.:>0 m Y.W.C.A. P I O N E K S (TOWN), Fort Canning Visit .o Jubilee Park —4 p.m. Y.M.C.A. Orchard Read Morning French Classes —9 a m M.-\lay Class—5.30 p.m. Screening of medical rilms on "Anaesthetics" (sponsored by
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  • 155 8 CATHAY: "Scott of the Antarctic (in technicolour with John Mills—1.45, 4.15, 6 45 a"d J.30 p.m. ALHAMBRA: "Sea Rai iors (Serial»—1.30, 5.30 and 915 m. CAPITOL: "Red Rivor with tohn Wayne—1.45. 4. 6.30 and LIB p.m. REX: "G-Men vs. The Black Dragon" (Full Serial)—12.30. 1.30 and 8.30 p.m. PAY1
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  • 11 8 HOCKEY: r R.C. iODCA—S.K.C S J.H.Q. r A RE LI'
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