Malaya Tribune, 5 March 1949

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    62 1 MALAYA Tribune ifcel: 'Tribune, Spore. Larger Sal en Than Any Afternoon Paper in Malaya i Phone: 5811 3 Nine Lines Published simultaneously at Si ngnpart, Kuala Lumpur, Ivoh and Pmang. TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE Ht?s2* XBPRESJSNTATIVB: E. Maurice Glover, c/o Newspaper
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    Molotov Gets The Sack WALK – OUT AT SEAFARERS' BOARD
    703 1 Molotov Gets The Sack WALK OUT AT SEAFARERS' BOARD Close And Screen Register—Sea men Leaders Demand Mr. M. A. Majid and Mr S C King, the Seamen's representatives, ualked out of yesterday s meeting of the Seafarers' Administration Board after de mambns that the unemployed..Seamens' register should be closed at
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    Sun Fo Flayed
    98 1 A.P., U.P. NANKING. Fri.--The First meeting of the Legislative Yuan was convened this morning in an atmosphere distinctly hosti'e to Premier Sun Fo. The legislators rejected by acclamation his formal request framed last month requesting the Chinese Parliament to meet in South China. Several legislators denounced as
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    BILL'S TOUR
    32 1 A.P. LONDON. Fri. The War Office announced today that Sir William Slim, chief of the Imperial General Staff, will torn the Middle East monad for twelve days beginning on Monday.—A.P.
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    Special Badminton Edition Tomorrow
    84 1 A SPECIAL edition of the Sunday Tribune will be published tomorrow morning as soon as the final All-Eng-land Badminton Championships results are received. It will be priced at only five cents. It will contain full reports of all the finals, including special reports by our onn
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    Hongkong Must Not Be Second Malaya.
    198 1 U.P. LONDON, Friday.—Hongkong is threatened with a repetition of events in Malaya, Leonard D Gammans, Conservative M.P., warned in an article in the Daily Mail today. In his article, headed Hongkong must not be a Malaya". Gammans, who has recently returned from a tour
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    SEVEN FIREMEN DIE IN BLAZE
    61 1 A.P. CHARLETON. West Virginia. Fri.—Seven firemen died here today during an eight-hour battle with a fire which destroyed two shops and caused damage estimated at US$l,OOO,OOO. Thirteen other firemen were taken to hospital. Most of the dead were trapped when the first floor of one
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    PATHANS ATTACK
    37 1 Reuter. NEW DELHI, Fri—Six Btk ancr State nolicemen were killed and one injured when 30 Pathans from Pakistan attacked a police patrcl The Pathans. mounted on camels, attacked the patrol on the Indian-Pakis-tan border. —Reuter
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    ATTLEE IN BERLIN
    29 1 A.P. BERLIN. Fri.—The British Prime Minister. Mr. Clement Attlee. landed in Berlin on Friday night on an inspection tour of Britain's share in the allied airlift.—A.P.
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    Hussars Officer Gets M.C.
    215 1 A.P. LONDON, Fri. The London Gazette announced tonight the award of the Military Cross to Second Lieutenant John Leopold Sutro, of the Fourth Queen* Own Husanrs, foi fighting his way out of a Malayan guerilla ambush. Trooper Harry Whittaker Smith won the Distinguished Conduct Medal for
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    'COLD' TALKS
    33 1 RHODES, Fri.—lsraelis and Tranjordanians held their first formal joint meeting today in an atmosphere so frigid that even formal introduction between the two delegations was disregarded. The meeting lasted 14 minutes.
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    MORE UNEMPLOYED
    26 1 A.P. WASHINGTON, Fri. Unemployment in the United States increased another 550,000 in February to a total of 3,200,000, the Census Bureau reported today. —A.P.
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    BURMA REJECTS INDIA'S OFFER
    136 1 U.P. NEW DELHI. Fri. Informed quarters here said today that Burma had rejected India's offer of mediation between the Burmese Government and the Karen rcbe's. Government sources said that Burma's Attorney General, U Chan Tun. notified Prime Minister Pandit Nehru that Burma was entirely capable of
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    Ooi, Freeman Reach Finals
    1521 1 Reuter. lIARRINGAY ARENA, London, Friday.— Dr. Dave Freeman of California, champion of the United States, and Ooi Teik Hock of Penang, champion of Malaya will tomorrow afternoon in this famous stadium do battle fgr the AllEngland badminton title, emblematic of the world championship. Freeman reached the
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    Vishinsky Succeeds Molotov
    59 1 A.P. LONDON, Today.—Moscow Radio quoted by Soviet Monitor in London on Friday night stated V. M.. Molotov has been "released from his duties as Soviet Foreign Minister" and A. L Vishinsky has been appointed to succeed him. The radio, also announced that A. I Mikoyan was released
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    POLICE KILL 3 SIAMESE MINISTERS
    92 1 Reuter. BANGKOK, Fri. -Siamese police today killed three former cabinet ministers and one former Member of Parliament "whi.e attempting a breakaway". The four were slain while under an escort following their arrest for alleged plotting to overthrow the Pibul Songkram Government. The dead are: Thongin
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    DIRECTORS GAOLED
    37 1 A.P. BERLIN, Fri. —Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American military governor, today approved jail sentences ranging from 18 months to eight years imposed on directors of the giant L G. Farben Trust as war criminals. —A.P.
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    Scissors Caser: Lang Gets Six Years
    148 2 ping Thye Long, a young Chinese barber saloon assistant, was found guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, and sentenced to six years' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice Taylor in the Assize Court yesterday. Lang was charged with the murder of a Chinese
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    IN MEMORIAM
    34 2 j Members of the Singapore i Toochew l-.ee Clan Mutual Help Society will pay respects to the relics of their ancestors and celebrate the first anniversary of the Society sometivie next month.
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    HEALING SCAR
    45 2 rim gaping < Uiixill on the premises of Kinds' ■College London, was J nmiti- by a wartime Get* man bomb. Rubble is now being cleared from the „crater ami on the wrecks' ed tdte new underground 5 laboratories VHH be buUi for the co'lejre.
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    TENANT ASKS FOR RENT CUT
    248 2 Mrs. H.M. Ellis, tenant of house No. 21, Thiam Soo Avenue, who pays a monthly rent of $500 less municipal charges, asked for a reduction of her rent at yesterday's sitting of the Rent Conciliation Board. Mrs. Ellis said that she paid $600 for the
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    His Back Was Bare
    171 2 Teo Ah Hln appeared In the j Fourth Police Court yesterday without a shirt on his back Too. the Prosecution said. wtfl tound hiding behind a mosjuito net on l«eb. 24 at the Nre Camh by in L E.P of the R*A S.C. Training School. Teo
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    "I SAW SHOT FIRED"— MURDER WITNESS
    538 2 "I SAW SHOT FIRED MURDER WITNESS XL ALA LUMPUR, Friday. A Chinese woman witness today told the preUminary enquiry here into a tentative charge of murder against a police corporal, 36 years old Jahn Mohamed, that she saw the corporal fire a shot at the killed man, a Chinese named
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    UNION BANS PRESS
    41 2 The second annual general meeting of the Government Clerical Services Union w s held in the Civil Service Association Canteen yesterday. Union officials declined to admit the Press to the meeting or to give them any nasNi ance.
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      271 2 (IllESMl!* BLTJE NETWORK Songs; 12.45 News; 1 p.m. It With Music" 11 nm Close Down. Close Down. ENGLISH PROGRAMMES 7 P m Programme Summary; 7.05 Malay Music by INDIAN PROGRAMMES ENGLISH PROGRAMMES Pancharan Belia Kronchong ~R 1 p.m. Programme Sum- Party, J. B.; 8.15 News; 8.30 i* s Time Signal,
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    India Suppliant To Netherlands
    119 3 Reuter. THE HAGUE, Friday. India has asked the Dutch Government for permission to fly over Indonesian territory in a projected Indian air service between Calcutta and Sydney, it was learned here today. The Indian Government's request was submitted to Dr. Louis Heel, Dutch High Commissioner in
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    MALAY YOUTH
    37 3 Students of the Tar.gl:n Malay Youth English Classes are to present a sandiwara entitled "Salah Asohan" or "Wrong Upbringing" at the Kota Raja Club tonight to raise funds for the improvement of the Class es.
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    KILLED IN EXPLOSION
    104 3 A party of labourers were dumping empty ammunition tins into trenches, on the aftei noon of Feb. 25 suddenly heard a loud explosion. They then found the mutilated body of a 20-year-old Mala- coolie, Yahaya bin Idris, At Yahaya's inquest yesterday, Capt. H. Franks, giving expert evidence,
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    ENTRIES WANTED FOR DOG SHOW
    346 3 Dogiovcrs in Singapore are being slow in entering tin dogs foi the Malayan Kenn »i Association's Dog Show 10 be held on March 26 at t> c Happy World. Mr. E L. Wil Hams would like to know why. He is one of the organisers
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    No forgers
    70 3 Tbt* <<overnment of Singapore wl!! invite lenders for (he issue of currency worth SlO millions on March Ift 194 i). The fenders will be subject to the genera! conditions governing the issue and repayment of the Colony of Singapore Treasury ItlVs Copies of the conditions together with the
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    SUNDAY SERMON
    21 3 Rev. J. W. Kathjrgamar will preach in the Singapore Tamil Methodist Church, 1, Short Street, tomorrow at 9.00 a.m.
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    WOMEN CELEBRATE PROPHETS BIRTHDAY
    151 3 Nearly a thousand Muslim women from all over Singapore yesterday nocked to the gaily-decorated grounds of the Istana Kampong Gelam to celebrate the 1422hd Birthday Anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad. The celebration, headed oy Che Fat'mah binti Haji Harun J.P., opened with reading of tr\ Quran
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    DUTCH DRIVEN OUT OF JOGJA CLAIM
    293 3 THE Indonesian Republican News agency, Antara, claimed yesterday that Republican guerilla forces seized control of Jogjakarta, the former Republican capital on March 1 and held it for four days in face of Dutch attempts to recapture the town. The agency said the attack was
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    Englishman Was A Vagrant
    129 3 Two days ago a 43-ycai-oid Englishman. Thomas Franklin talked into a police station and .old the police that he had no money, work or place to live. Franklin, appeared in the Second Police Court yesterday and pleaded guilty to a charge of vagrancy. He had come
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    SPCK Celebrate Founders' Day
    101 3 List year the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge celebrated its 250 th anniversary. Their annual Founders' Day (March Bth) this year will be observed as a day of thanksgiving to close the year of celebrations. A Choral Communion will be celebrated in St. Andrew's Cathedral at
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    RIDING THE WILD HORSE
    523 4 POLITICAL parties and semi-political associations in colonial areas either die young r Vu ffllcted with P re mature old age they slobber impotently because of their inability to leave any conspicious mark upon the political history of their respective countries xm i s S Particularly so
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    DAYS OF EXILE ARE OVER
    490 4 FORMER Rambhai Barni of Slam, widow of King Prajahhipok, will steer clear of politics after her impending return to Siam. She is returning in April after nearly 14 years in exile imposed by war and the turbulence of oriental politics. The 4S-years-old exQueen hopes it
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    SOME PEOPLE SLEEP IN SHALLOW WATERS
    1366 4  -  Science is displaying a lively interest in weather. In Death Valley, Californi a, men die from heat as they lie asleep and in Oimekon people who spit find that their saliva freezes before it reaches the ground. By D. COMPTON JAMES INFA. WEATHER comparisons
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    People Without A Country
    759 4 EUROPE'S displaced-persons camps reflect in miniature the pageantry of traditions and the medley of cultures which make eastern Europe a nationalist patchwork. There is exquisite beauty in the Ukrainian embroidery, Cossack singing, Polish festivals, Esthonian leathercraft, and Latvian woodcraft one finds in the DP camps. It
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    CHIANG URGED TO QUIT CHINA
    395 5 U.P. SHANGHAI, Friday.—lncreasing pressure is, being brought on Chiang Kai-shek to reaffirm that he is through with Chinese politics for ever and to lsave China in order to remove one of the biggest in the path of peace, in the opinion of an unofficial but
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    DENMARK DECIDES
    22 5 A.P. COPENHAGEN, Fri.- Den--1 mark has decided to take part in the talks for a North Atlan:ic defence alliance. A.P.
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    Dutch appeal to UN
    208 5 A.P. CCESS, Fri.—Thc appealed to the ns to cooperate in talks the Dutch i to set underway h "i,[ague on March 12. diatc American rci A U.S. spokesVnierica would oppose J!v kiticipattop at The unless Indonesian p in Naders, whom the nftch have arrested, agreed to
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    Songkram Muzzles The Press
    134 5 Reuter. BANGKOK. Fri. Police applied the fcrat newspaper ccusorsmp in the present cnsid yesterday. Censors screened all news in one Chinese language newspaper plus two Siamese language newspapers officially designated 'ieitwing." Simultaneously highest police plus government autnorities refused officially to confirm or deny widely circulated reports
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    Sick Cow Starts Riot, 7 Men Die
    114 5 A.P. CANTON, Friday.—Seven employees of the Can-lon-Hankow railway were brutally killed yesterday afternoon by wounded soldiers at Chenehow, South Hunan, near Kwantung. i Hearty a thousand soldiers noted after attempts to seize a cow on a cattle train were resisted. The soldiers, from
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    C 47 CRASHES
    22 5 A.P. SAX ANTONIO. TEXAS. Nine persona were reporttolled in the mountain crash American Air Force C-47 sport in Mexico.—A.P.
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    Truman Flays Traitors
    87 5 U.P. WASHINGTON. Fri.- President Truman at a press c nfcrence today described the leaders of the American Communist Party as "traitors". His remarks about the Communist ieadcrs came when a reporter asked him for his re- j action to the statement yesler- day by top American Communists,
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    Sought Peace From Reds
    83 5 This is the peace mission from Nationalist China which flew to Communist-held Peipiny in an attempt to end the cii>il MHir. The three peace deir gates are, (left to riyht): Dr. W. W. Yen, Mr. Tsang Shih-chiao and Mr. Kinng Yung. At e.rtrrme right is Mr.
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    HE CHASED THE WRONG MAN
    51 5 A.P. CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, Fri. —Patrolman Sam Snipe and J. H. Morgan chased a speeding car. All they could see were two tail lights. When the officers caught the "victim,'' he turned out to be Patrolman O. C. Fitts. who had been chasing another fast diiVCi.
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    Kills Crying Son With Tie
    129 5 NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND, Friday. A 20--year-old father was convicted of manslaughter here on Thursday after admitting that he put a tie around his baby's neck to stop it from crying. The father, Kenneth Roy Haslam, was sentenced f o five years' imprisonment Haslam told the court
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    Killer Drinks Victims' Blood
    142 5 LONDON. Friday —Well informed sources said today that the vampire killer, who drank the blood of his victims and burned their bodies to ashes in sulphuric acid baths, has confessed to Scotland Yard. I'-Mhaps seven persons are known to have been killed in one of the
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    U.N. Aid Asked
    76 5 Reuter. LAKE SUCCESS, Fri. India asked the United Nations today to draw up a plan for financing economic development of the world's under-developed areas. Mr. B. R. Sen, during the economic and social council debate on development of economically backward areas. nM that "financial assistance will not
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      423 5 NOTICE The Publishers of The Commercial Directory of Malaya, regret to inform subset ibers that due to some unforeseen circumstances the printing of the second issue is unavoidably delayed. Those subscribers who wish to have their money refunded, please write to the Publishers (P.O. Box 149) stating the amount paid
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    SHARE PRICES ATTRACT BARGAIN HUNTERS
    873 6 SINGAPORE, Friday. Continued weakness in the London market generally further depressed local prices. Current prices are beginning to attract bargain hunters. Singapore share quotations today as given by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were as follows Buyers Sellers Atlas Ice 14.00 15.00 4>x. Brick Pref. 2.77
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    RUBBER MARKET
    124 6 A.P. THE rubber commodity market opened steady yesterday. A fair amount of business was done at about ft cent higher than the previous day. Closing prices were Buyers. Seller. j No. 1 March RSS 36% 36% No. 2 March RSS 34% 35 ft No. 3 March RSS 33
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    Along The Godowns
    70 6 L'difh Mof'er (14): Kinpin- Humble (Sheers Wharf): Tjipondok (4? 43): Baku (40 41); Mmehuris (38 39); Tong Hal (Si 37): Cye'op* (S3 34): Pacific .Stronghold (SI 32): Plancius (17 18); Maxwell Brands (»1 22); f uki. n (Tt 21); Hai Tien <23 26): *tagen (29); Wakdt- (90);
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    LONDON STOCKS SLUMP AGAIN
    139 6 A.P. 1 ONDON, Friday. Stock exchange prices slumped yesterday for the second consecutive session, but made a partial recovery towards the close of business. The last hour advance was attributed to covering operations. Brokers said that there were no signs of real support. During the first
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    Produce Market
    113 6 WHILE mort produce markets weie dull yesterday more speculation in the pepper market pushed Lampong black pepper further up by $4. Muntok and Sarawak white peppet gained a further $2. Coconut oil gained a doll a v« sterday. Yesterday's prices were SAGO FLOUR: Lingga llfift, Sarawak lit, Sink
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    MANILA GOLD
    51 6 SAN FRANCISCO. Fri. Gold is soiling in Manila's free market at from US$44 to U5547.50 an ounce, said Mr. F. B. Morehouse, Philippine mining engineer. He is general manager of the Atok Big Wedge Mining Company, whose stock opened for trading on the San Francisco stock exchange on
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    ONIONS FROM AUSTRALIA
    34 6 THE Dutch freighter Tjipondok, which arrived at Singapore yesterday, brought 1,500 tons of general cargo from Australian ports. Among the cargo were 350 tons of onions and 10.000 cases of apples.
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    BYRON-A DANGER
    861 7  -  Close Finish Expected In Cup Race By ALLAN LEWIS TODAY is Spring Cup day at Bukit Timah, and punters should witness one of the most exciting races when the main event of the afternoon is run over one mile for Class I, Division I horses. Although I pick
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    73 7 Race I—COURTESAN I Roctida'e J Be'lta Race I —MMM V Z Eastern Pic-! tare! Maestro Outsider: Sweet Memor> Fair Flower Race 3—FAIR FLOWK.C Christinas Knight Ovation Race 4—HIGH PORT Electroplate Madasari Outsider: Fortune's Vn\ourite Rare S—EMPIRE ROSE Eddy Fraser Congo Outsider: Red Hackle. Race 6—PRINCESS GLIWEVERE I
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    JOLLILADS XI
    45 7 The following players are equested to turn up for the oOllilads Athletic Union against the Chinese High School on Sunday at Geylang Stadium at 5.15 p.m.; Narayna, Rasak, Kader, Ghani, Sapee, Sintha, Muniyandi, Salahudin. Tobing, Hussien, Doll ah, Hassan, Ahmat, Krishnasamy, Jubii, Baskaran.
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    RACE CARD
    641 7 THE following are acceptors and non-acceptors, weights and probable jockeys for today's races, the last day of the Singapore Turf Club's Spring Meeting. The Big Sweep will be drawn on Race Seven and the Double Totes on Race Two and Four and Five and Eight. RACE ONE 2.15
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    001 ENTERS FINAL
    995 8 Wong Fares Badly Against Freeman From JIMMY GLOVER LONDON, Friday. 001 Teik Hock, the Malayan champion, battled his way to the finals when he beat Carl Loveday of the U.S.A. in the semi-finals of the All-England badminton championships by 15-6, 15-5. Ihe American who had in his
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    43 8 Mrs. Cheong Hock Chye and family wish to thank all relatives and friends who attended night visits, sent wreaths, letters of condolences, telegrams, donations to A.C.S. Building Fund, lent cars and attendance at the funeral of the late Mr. Cheong Hock Chye.
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    Results
    158 8 M«>n's Singes Semi-Finals. Dave Freeman beat Wong IVng Soon 15—2, 15—lj Ooi Teik Hock beat Car! Loved*v 1 .">—()—s—s. Men's Doubles Quarter FinalVeok Teck Chye and Chan Km Lo—l ,M a ,>ou Hotm and Oie Vnsen 15—8. 15— n I). Freeman and W. Roger, beal Davinder Mohan 1 a'
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY General
    47 8 iwi u« ANSON ATHLETIC ASSO '"iWlON. monthly gencri meeting 7.30 p.m. at 52 A Nei°Y.M.C.A. Orchard Road, 1 o m" Singapore Chess CI J."» Championship Round one. p.m. Schoolboys Chess Cha nP, ("HINESE Y.M.C.A. Chesi Club 7 p and talkie club 7.30 p.m*.
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    Cinemas
    178 8 I'AVILION: "My Dear Secreary" with Laraine Day, Kirk Douglas. Kcenan Wynn. Helen Walker—2, 4.15. 6.30 and 9.30 CAPITOL: "The Lady In Ermine" (in technicolour) with 3etty Grable and Douglas Fairbanks, Jnr. 11 a.m., 1.45, 4, 3.30 and 9.30 p.m. CATHAY: "High Wall, with Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter ind Herbert
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    43 8 SOCCER: S.A.F.A. LEAGUE —Junior A-Chinese S.A. vs Chinese E.A Geylang; R.A.F. Sembawang vs. B.O.D.C.A., Sembawang Junior B —CYMA vs. Indonesian B St. Geors Road SINGAPORE CHESS CLTjR Championship. First round, o p.m., Schoolboys championsnip, third qualifying round. 3-15 p.m. Y.M.C.A. Orchard Road
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    Rovers Win 4—1
    325 8 (Tribune Staff Reporter) ROVERS 4: RAF CHANGI 1: DOVERS Sports Club, last year's Division I soccer champions, scored an easy four goals to one victory over R.A.F. Changi in a Senior League fixture at Jalan Besar stadium, yester. day. Hero of the game was Rovers' centre half
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    POLICE SHARE POINTS
    71 8 THE Junior, A. Group B League game between the Singapore Police and the Singapore Harbour Board Auxiliary Police XI ended In in thrilling one-all draw at Thomson Road ground yesterday. Harbour policemen fielded a slight'y better balanced team and led by a goal at the end of
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    ATOM TALKS
    30 8 A.P. LONDON, Fri. The Board of Trade Journal announced today that a world conference on atomic energy chemical developments will begin in England on March 28 -A P
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    "Seeds Of Destiny" Nets $40 Million
    554 II/VII "Seeds of Destiny." the U.S. > Ai my made film which won an Academy Award in 1946, has quietly emerged as the champion money-winner of all time. In the three years of its existence- without ever being shown in a public theatre "Seeds of
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    Even Dog Pictures Hark Into The Past
    416 II/VII A.P. HOLLYWOOD, Saturday. The American movie industry seems to be living in the past. Almost every studio has in production at least one film dealing with a previous era. Cycles are common in Hollywood. The easiest thing to start here is a trend.
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    STUDIO GOSSIP
    251 II/VII A.P. I ARAINE Day i s interested in the film versi9n of 'The Middle Window," but she doesn't like the idea of going abroad to make it. "I feel it is unfair to the workers in the industry," she says. "Things are bad enough for them, without making
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    New Gas For Bread making
    429 II/VII A.P. BELLEVILLE NEW JEFSEY, Friday The bread most Americans eat is undergoing a revolutionary chemical change without anyone realizing it The Agene. a gas used for a quarter of a century to age white flour, is coming out. In its place is an entirely new
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    BURIED FOR 32 YEARS
    190 II/VII ARRAS. France. Fri. Searchers today dug into a subterranean army field hospital buried since the patients and doctors were suffocated when a shell sealed off their communication trench in 1918. Skeletons of the patients were found on their cots lined up in rows a'ong the walls.
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    Holiday Camp
    75 II/VII Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY, Sun.—An English syndicate has announced plans to erect a holiday camp at Kisma. on the South Coast of New South Wales, at a cost of ABOO,OOO. A spokesman said that it was hoped that the New South Wales Government would permit early construction of the camp,
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    POLIO FUND
    34 II/VII POST ELIZABETH A national campaign has been organized to raise $2 000,000 for polio research in South Africa. Committees have been formed in South Africa and South West Africa to collect subscriptions
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      219 II/VII PUZZLE < OHM K Many of us have the yearning to travel round the world but few can afford it. The other alternative is read all about these countries and to see all travel films available. If you have not, this quizz should whet your appetite to know more: RIVERS
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    School For Atomic Defence
    212 VI/III KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, Biloxi, Mississippi. AFTER a long period oi m crecy the Air Force disclosed that the United States is training a crew of experts to counteract radiological effects of atomic blasts under recommendation of the Atonvc Energy Commission Radiological defense schools in the
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    POLISH MIGRANTS
    80 VI/III CANBERRA. Fri.— Ex-Sei-vice Polish migrants have a chance to become naturalises Australians in less than the usual time. The Australian Minister for Immigration (Mr. Calwell) has stated that he will exercise his powers under the Naturalisation and Citteenship Act and to count service under British command during the
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      206 VI/III hi #,i,m:s I" Cmens. rne*£, now-) UU~JI F sr4Y rtt£R€ HI <tll A 1771 Fn/fMr, A (lUV.VOlumi blighter, I WmC£ fATIES ~y THERE KEEP THAT PIECE OF /aa/m rwem w*o it'-ths* V I V/ww jwr cm? /or ~<. after m, i had r \BEsr thing to do is to seem
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      109 IV/V fjUUP WO NKSHT TRAIN THRU HERE..."aNP THE LAJLk VTHING'iS CLOSED TMI6 LME BUT f CAN'T TAIL Hllfc CpHEN A SOLUTION! AND EASY HE r mstvke: 7"wb .vjl,, .-Lw!'' t olv n WHrS-7 nevermind WHO fercripeJ 1 DOMT KMOW NOTHING- IT ABANDONED NEAR f LOOK AT TH' NOD GET THIS,]I riDi
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      243 IV/V VM€ HIM My >■•« I Belli? mid Ralpti ?o ttcUMI I AMGHT V and HOA YOU. CUDDIES MAUOV, 'I YVMitK rUK /V»Y tXfc UV'tNtK^- y GO lELL GRANDMOTHER LI TELL MQ'i MAIAOY HCW W I M£k;P m K!r-T A rOOI «iort rtort trWi WOW DO YOU THINK I YOU TELLING
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