Malaya Tribune, 7 March 1949

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  • 61 1 MALAYA Tribune PEOPLE FOR WHE PEOPLE Tel: "Tribune, Spore. Larger Sales Than Any Afternoon Paper In Malaya Phone: 5811/8 Nine Lines Published simultaneously at 8i ngapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang. EIGHT PAGES. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE: E Maurict Olovm, c/o
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  • 308 1  -  Collapsed After England Finals From TEOH SENG KHOON LONDON, Sunday. Lim Chuan Ceok, non-playing captain of Malaya's Thomas Cup badminton team, has been admitted to University College Hospital in London suffering from an internal haemorrhage. Lim, who steered the Malayans to triumphant victory
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  • 99 1 A.P. CANTON. Sun. The Preach light cruiser Bisson was reported today to have been detained by the Chinese Naw at Kwangchouwan. on the Uuchow peninsula in the goathwest Kwantung province for taking aboard silver bullion from the Bank of Indochina which was not authid Its manifest.
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  • 110 1 U.P. HOLLYWOOD. Sun.—Nora Eddington Flynn, wife of Screen Star Errol Flynn, said today that she will leave for La- Vegas, Nevada, next week to sue for immediate divorce. She said they agreed to a tcniative settlement which will give her custody of their two children. Flynn
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  • Article, Illustration
    5 1 LIM CHUAN GEOK
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  • 36 1 A.P. WARSAW, Sun.—Three thousand employees in the Government's railway yards in the lower Silcsian city of Wroslaw today demanded that the French Government permit the return to Poland of Polish workers from France. —A.P.
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  • 76 1 U.P. KEY WEST. FLORIDA. Sun. President Truman landed at Key West today to »>egin a 13-day vacation. His special plane landed at the Boca Chica naval ai»- base. Truman, who will return to Washington on March 19. said he will be working almost as hard as
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  • 239 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Nine new Methodist ministers were ordained Deacons and Elders at the closing session of the Malaya Annual Conference of the Methodist Church at Wesley Church yesterday morning. At the Ordination Service, the Revs. G. D. Tambyanathan, Paul K. Sneid and Lav Gie
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  • 29 1 A.P. VATICAN CITY, Sun.—Popular contributions are to be sought for the construction of a powerful new Vatican radio transmitter, it was announced by the Vatican. —A.P
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  • 80 1 The Royal Air Force Vampire jet fighter piloted by Flight Lieutenant O. Francis, which made a forced landing when it flew to Hong Kong about a month ago, returned to Tengah yesterday afternoon. The machine flew here from Labuan, doing the 800-mile journey In two and a
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  • 183 1 MOSCOW. Sun. M Andrei Vyshinsky, new Soviet Foreign Minister, who replaced M. Vyacheslav Molotov in a reshuffle announced on Friday night, has already made his first public appearance in his new post. This was yesterday when he attended a Kremlin reception given by Marshal Stalin to a
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  • 43 1 Regular, train service on the Shanghai-Nanking railway was thrown Into chaos when the worker* seized the train and threatened to inarch i Shanghai on Feb. 13. Picture shows the train arriving in Nanziang loaded with strikers.— A P. Picture. A.P. Picture.
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  • 265 1 A.P. NEW DELHI, Sunday.—lndia's Prime Minister Pandit Nehru said in New Delhi on Sunday that the nations which participated in the recent Asian conference on Indonesia are to ex> plore the possibilities of "wider svenues of cooperation." The Premier said that the participating; nations
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  • 103 1 A.P. LONDON. Sun. increased production of Malaya and Indonesia tin mines last year boosted world tin output more than 20.000 tons above consumption, the Tin Study Group reported yesterday. Output for 1948 totalled 159,300 tons. This Is an increase of 34,800 over 1947. Malaya
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  • 22 1 A.P. VIENNA. Sun—The Soviet Occupation authorities have prohibited the distribution of an anti-Communist pamphlet issued by the Austrian Socialist Party—A.P.
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  • 92 1 Reuter. MOSCOW, Sun. The next session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR will open on Thursday mi the Kremlin and over 1.000 delegates from all parts of the Union will attend. Premier Stalin is expected to be present, as well as M. Molotov, M. Anastas Mlkoyan,
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  • 75 1 To-day is Nomination Day for the Singapore Municipal Elections. At the Victoria Hall, between noon and 1 p.m.. candidates must present themselves for nomination before the Returning Officer, Mr. W.W. Duncan, the Municipal Secretary. It is expected that ther-; will be 27 candidates, unless there arc
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  • 388 2 A.P. and U.P. BANGKOK, Sanday. TWENTY-THREE men suspected of being involved in 1 Jast week's attempted coup were brought before the criminal court yesterday under machine-gun es. cort. They were charged with being involved in rebellious activities—both inside and outside Siam. The accused included Lord Mayor
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  • 111 2 Dr. W.M. Oydo, C.W.G., Director of Economic Activity In tht Commission Genera! for the "United Kingdom In South East Asia, will lead the U.K. Delegation to the International Rice Commission whh-h ouentf in Bangkok today. Other awimlirfn of the delegation are: Dr. H.W. 0.8. E.,
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  • 162 2 A Malay Dental Officer has been awarded the Senior Fellowship offered to the Federation of Malaya by the Australian Government last year. He is Che Nuruddin bin Salleh. Dental Officer. Kuala Lipis, 32-yoar-old son of Toh Muda Haji Akil, J.P., a member of the Pahang State
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  • 140 2 'Positive Action' Answer To Reds Reuter. CALCUTTA, Sunday.—Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. British Commissioner General in South East Asia, said last night that Communism could not be suppressed by any negative action. He was on his way to Singapore after the fournation Commonwealth conference in New Delhi on Burma. "We have
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  • 88 2 VIRGINIA CLAY and Lee Sullivan (popularly known as "The Queens of Boloney") who have been entertaining at the Raffles Hotel, make their final bow before the Singapore public next Saturday before emplaning on Tuesday for Kuala Lumpur. The pair expect to make an extended tour of the
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  • 118 2 Reuter. CALCUTTA, Sun. FourI teen people were remanded Ito police custody here yesterday when appealed in court "as a result of arrne 1 raids last week in whicn six (peoule, including tftree j weiQ murdered. An ammunition factory i-t Dum, near here, and the British engineering
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  • 299 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday.—A woman terrorist leader was shot dead when Gurkhas and Police raided a bandit camp in the Jelendong area of Jelebu yesterday afternoon. The bandits were preparing a meal when security forces swooped on the camp. Seven male bandits managed to escape. Four clips
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  • 483 2  -  fllM NEWS by OSWALD HENRY THE MEMPHIS BOARD OF CENSORS, (in the 1 1.5.) topped by Lloyd Binford, are waging a w;»r against coloured screen, stage and radio star Lena Home. No apparent reason has been given tor the move, nor is there
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 306 2 WEMnnmm BLUE NETWORK Sports Round-Up, 7.15 Child- rin Market Report in Amoy. icn's Programme. 8.15 News. 9.15 Pciping Drama, 9.45 ENGLISH PROGRAMMES 0 Listeners' Personal Talk in Arts. 10.00 News in 10.55 a.m. to 12.00 noon. Choice. 9.00 Close Down. Cantonese Amoy. 10.15 Schools' Broadcast. Light Songs, 10.30 "A Topic
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  • 139 3 U.P. MOSCOW, Sunday. Stalin yesterday received the Korean government delegation visiting Moscow which arrived on Thursday and was cerernoniousiy welcomed at the rail" station by high Soviet official' including Vice Premier Mikoyan and Vice Minister uf Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko. Andrei Viehineky who assumed the office
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  • 63 3 A.P. MANILA. Sun.—* no Philippine Air Lines today reported a 1948 prolit of 552.922 pesos (U*****,461). Colonel Andres Soriano, millionaire naturalized U.S. citizen who is PAL president, said this compared with a loss of 2.487,--218 pesos in 1947. The airline, the largejt in the Orient, is a ioint
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  • 145 3 Reuter. COLOMBO, Ccylcn, Sun. Bulldocero, tractors and 'catcrullars" have begun work on a £12,000,000 plan to transform Ceylon's eastern jungles into >uddy fields and sugar plan'a„ion:;. The scheme. Ceylon's biggest )ost\var agricultural and indus.iial enterprise since the war, is expected to be completed in f
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  • 227 3 Bandsman Hurry Lawrence,. enor. Bang his way to the top D spite of strong opposition j rem ether vocalists at the second "Talentime Show j sponsored by Radio Malaya at the British Council Hall last week. Bandsman Lawrence of the Devonshire Regiment band sang the favourite
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  • Article, Illustration
    38 3 Andrei Vyshinsky, former deputy Foreign M*nister icbo replaces Mr. Molotov in the Soviet Foreign Ministry seen here in characteristic pose uhi n he denounced Marsh ill's self-help plan for Europe in the United Nations Asscin My.
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  • 101 3 U.P. CALCUTTA, Sun. Police j yesterday confiscated all arms and ammunition of the muni-1 tions plants in Calcutta and I .suburbs to prevent possible repetition of las! vveek«-nd'.s raldg. Police feared there might be outbreaks in the threatened rail and postal workers Strike originally
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  • 185 3 MR. A. SLEEP, retiriug British Adviser of Johore m State paid a warm tribute to all those battling the emergency in Malaya at a garden party held in his honour at the Istana Besar, Johore Bahru, yesterday Mr. Sleep will shortly be going on leave prior
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  • 112 3 The Bugle-Band ol the Sin gapore Battalion of the Boy i\ igade, ye.sterdav led 2: nembers, in smart bine uQi forms, and marching in thre»s :o attend a church parade. The pcrade, under the com.land Ol (.'apt. <'hua Si:.l. t'liati, itte kded the Straits Chinese ?resbyteTtah Church
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  • 65 3 A.P. SHANGHAI, Sun Police say they are looking for Ting Tze-chi.nn, a tailor with a temper. They say he resented so much being exicled by a landlord ttmt he went back and set the house on lire. One man died in the resulting lire, which
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  • 81 3 U.P. MUNICH. Sun. Heinrich Hock. Munich zoo director, said he could produce a living missing l:nk" it he tried. After 25 yi ATS of cross breeding' experiments in evolution in the reverse. Heck says he had turned out animals extinct for more than 300 years. He believe,;
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  • 529 4 CRITICISM is not a thing which Communists normally tolerate. With them it is largely a question of "be my comrade or I will bash your head In." Though Marxian dialectics affirm that truth is arrived at by the clash of contradictory ideas, the Communists do not,
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  • 1611 4  -  by SPENDER DINGWALL AT the end of the Nineteenth Century I was a citizen of New Zealand. I intended to do my duty to my country b; producing a family; I did not have, in those days, to obtain a licence from a
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  • 1041 4 DRITAIN'S man in the v street wa s probably little the wiser when he learned the other day from his newspaper that a team of scientists has been working at the Telecommunications Research Establishment at Malvern on infra-red detection, or, in other words, seeing warmth. But
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  • 598 4  -  By S. FEW people know what en is; but Livv, '.he famous Roman writer an described it in all r o soesa ar: a one-eye :eature guarding gold treasure Pliny, anothei Roman writer, regarded as the father of natural history, described some other extraordinary beings, living high up
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  • 234 4 U.P. UUNDREDS of drunken 11 Pigs and stocking-footed cattle have been smuggled silently across the Dutch border Into Belgium within the past two years. Hooves of cattle arc cleverly muffled with specially constructed socks made of thick burlap. To prtvent mooing the mouths of the cattle are smeared
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  • 678 5 Communist Future Plans A.P. NEW YORK, Sun. Does Moscow feel the time is npe for reviving the Lenin dream of world revolution: A new Comintern Communist international embracing the Communists of all the world may be taking shape. Events of the past two weeks form a
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  • 65 5 AP. gm. An ex-policc-his rag and association of 7 out of the subI 'Imis of a sort of *jLi lf :tic capitalism. \-policeman Go re to Tokyo from and jobless he m a subway ;aited. collecting which he sold earning enough His methods and ted other subway
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  • 102 5 A.P. MANILA, Sun. —House speaPerea indicated today Congress may ask that rnmunist leaders .pr ited for illegal association. Perez told a reporter he will soon transmit to the Secretary of Justice a report completed hv the House Committee on Un-Filipino Activities. The report recommended that
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  • 56 5 A.P. SHANGHAI, $un. Shanghai's foreign residents may soon be embroiled in Labour troubles organize! s are attempting to persuade all servants in households of foteigners to join the Shanghai Municipal Union of Cooks in foreign employ." The organizers don't say what minimum wage the
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  • 27 5 Salei I Virginia) Sun. IVfnty-year-old Negro. Clark a Navy veteran was fowd guilty of breaking Virgßttan Law by marrying a white woman.
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  • 59 5 A.P. MANILA, Sun. Three salvage tugs moved out of Manila today to aid a ccmcnt-loadrd merchant vessel aground 100 miles to northwest. The 3,000-ton Chinese registered ship. Union Power, ran ashore on Friday near Palauig point, on the coast of Zambales province. She was en route from Moji, Japan
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  • 65 5 Dr. Walter Exiton fright' of the leraeM Foreign Office show* nrmietice terms betircrn Ins country and Egypt to Colonel Vigaei Yadin ice.ntf). chin 01 operations of the /.s-nit.J Aunt, before th* wigwtng m Rkodee on February 24. Th* armistice teas agreed upon after ate weeks of
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  • 50 5 U.P. LILLE. FRANCE. Sun Alfred Sgard emerged from ctnemcnt here today and went .o the town hall for identification paper*.' He found that Town Hall records listed him as dead since 1919. Sgaid will now have to go to court to prove he is still alive. —U.P.
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  • 191 5 U.P. MANILA, Sun. Congressman Hermenegildo Atienza, a Manila liberal, has made a speech on the House floor in which he urged a re-examination of the Philippines' foreign policy in view of the reported changes in United States global strategy and the advance of Communism in
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  • 490 5 A.P. NANKING, Fri. Top Nationalists and Red leaders in the opposing capitals of Nanking and Peiping today are mapping strategy for the peace talks that are soon to start. Basic questions of peace or war, coalition or division, even unity within respective camps and
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  • 36 5 Reuter. CREYTOWN. NATAL. Sun. roe South African Government is prepared temporally to 'ncrease the bonus payable to Indians wishing to return to India. Dr. T. E. Donges, Minister of the Interior, announced here tonight.—Reuter.
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  • 82 5 U.P. CANTON, Sun After March 28 taxi drivers in Canton who have red cloth on the seats of their cabs may be put in prison. The municipal government has passed a law outlawing rod doth because it symbolises communism. The law states that pedicab
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  • 99 5 A.P. TEHERAN. Sun. A new puss law passed by parliament last week provided for th c suppression of any newspape and the arrest the writer concerned if any insults to the Shah, the Royiil Family or to the chiefs ol foreign governments ate published. The said
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  • 77 5 A.P. NEW DELHI. Sun The legislative Assembly in New De'hi on Saturday granted the government permission to withdraw a Bill to ban strikes in the essential services in India. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru moved the withdrawal, explaining that the situation in India had improved except for
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  • 117 5 A.P. RANGOON. Sun. The Karens holding positions south of the railtown of Myitnge have gone to the offensive, it was officially stated yesterday. A government communique said that a strong Karen force had advanced north-east in the direction of Mandalay and had contacted government troops. It said "severe
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  • 228 6 gELDOM do the Dutch liners Willem Ruys and Ruys meet at Singapore. It has happened only once since war ended and it will happen again this week. The Willem Ruys arrives on Wednesday and the Ruys the day after. They will be in port together. Both
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  • 295 6 A.P. THE market opened steady op Saturday and a fair amount ot business was done at a quarter cent higher than the previous day. Reviewing the rubber commodity market during the week. Lewis and Peat (Singapore) Ltd. said: "Although there has been no unusual buying powerin tin- mraket
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  • 54 6 Reuter. BUENOS AIRES, Sun.—Two thousand five hundred tons of hessian from India valued at about £750.000 were destroyed when a large warehouse was burned down here yesterday, it was learned today. The hessian, intended for the baling of grain, were part ot HO,OOO tons being imported from India
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  • 54 6 A.P. LONDON, Sun—The Board of Trade Journal said on Friday that Britain's rayon output hit a new monthly peak of 21,300,--000 pounds in January. The previous lecord was 21 000.000 last November. The output of continuous filament yarn was 13,800,000 pounds in January and the staple fibre output
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  • 84 6 THE Commander in Chief Far Eastern Station, ViceAdmiral Sir Patrick Brind, R.N.. is due at Singapore this month on his return from a visit to Hongkong and China. Admiral Brind will return to. Singapore in the sloop Alert. He will be accompanied by Lady Brind and
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  • 898 6 (Frf/m A Market CorrJ JHE week's slide on the London Stock Exchange was nowhere so marked as in Sterling Tins and it was not long before Malayan markets were also affected. Dollar Tins led by Petaling registered progressive daily declines. Sydney at one
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  • 102 6 were again active in the peppe*.' market on Saturday and Lampong Black pepper gained a further $2. Muntok white peeper and Sarawak white pepper also went up another $2. There were short covering deals in copra. Saturday's prices Were SAGO FLOUR: Lingga Sarawak $11. Siak SAGO SEED
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  • 453 7 Ooi—Mendez Match Most Vita/ (From TEOH SENG KHOON, Tribune Staff Reporter and member of the Thomas Cup Team in England.) CUSPENSJE and sleepless nights are now over and everyone is happy at the outcome of Malaya's encounter against both the Americans and the Danes in
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  • 87 7 U.P. COLOMBO. Sun. Asa demonstration of Pakistan's goodwill to Ceylon the first cricket team to leave Pakistan since she became a Dominion, wouid come out to Ceylon, said Mr. Salim Khan. Pakistan Trade Representative in Ceylon, wno has just returned after a vis'c to Pakistan. The
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  • 140 7 A.P. NEW YORK, Mar. 6. Joe Lcuis' announcement that he has Efczard Charles and Jersey Joe Valcott under contract to fight this summer for his recently vacated world hcavyweignt title has been denied by Sol Strauss director of the Twentieth Century Sporting Club. Loins, recently turned fight promoter,
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  • 104 7 U.P. MONTREAL, Sun—Johnny Samis, 28 year old Vancouver shuttle star, yesterday won the Canadian badminton championship when he defeated Derryl Thompson, also of Vancouver. Samis was finalist to Dick ***** of Toronto in 1948. This year he was a member of Canada's Thomas Cup Team, which
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  • 101 7 The Malayan Chess Federation will be holding a Malayan Chess Championship and two other Tournaments at the opening of their First Chess Congress at Penang from April 15 to 17. All chess enthusiasts are invited to attend and to participate in the championship and congress. The Tiger
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  • 115 7 Reuter. HONG KONG. Sun. The Singapore Combined Services rugger team were fortunate to leave the colony with victories in all their three mate hes p'aye.l here as Hong Kong definitely had the upper hand in today's game against the Hong Kong Services and dub, dominating three
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  • 154 7 Deadly bowling characterised the cricket match between the S.C.R.C. and the Police at the Depot, Thomson Road, yesterday, which ended In a win for the Chinese by H3 runs. Four batsmen on each side were out for a "duck." The Chinese batted first ano scored
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  • 349 7 Reuter. LONDON, Sunday. THE Army beat the Royal Navy in the second 1 of the season's inter-services rugby tournament games at Twickenham by a goal, two dropped goals, a penalty goal and three tries (23 points) to a penalty goal (three points)— the widest
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  • 491 7 Reuter. LONDON. Sunday.—Snow practically every where except in London interfered with football today, although considering the atrocious conditions there were few surprising results. Two League three North games, Accrington versus Rochdale and Barrow versus Crewe did not even start, and two others, the Second Division match
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  • 83 7 The results of the first rounu matches of the Singapore Chess League Championship are as follows: Chinese Swimming Club (4i Singapore Chess Club II (3D, Combined Colleges II til J. E. C. Chess Club (s>; C Y. M. A. (1) Combined Colleges I (sr, Y. M. C.
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  • 109 7 PLAYING for the first time under a new name, the Hotspurs XI formerly the Spitfires trounced the Aston Athletic Club by six goals to one in a friendly soccer match at the Victoria School ground yesterday. Rex Lee opened scoring for the Hotspurs in tihe first
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  • 37 7 Reuter. ADELAIDE, Sun.—Sir Donald Bradman, who sprained an ankle while fielding in ids farewell match for South Australia against Victoria on Saturday, may not be able to take any further part in the game.— Reuter.
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  • 231 8 SUN FO'S CHOICE —QUIT OR BE SACKED NANKING, Sunday.—Premier Sun Fo today appeared to be facing two alternatives to resign voluntarily or be forced out of office. Qualified observers viewed his resignation now as merely a matter of time. A late check with legislators today showed that they are still
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  • 32 8 A.P. LAS PAS, BOLIVIA, Sun.— Bolivia's new "National Unity" Cabinet was sworn in Saturday and told President Enrique Hertzog it would help him proserve a constitutional system in Bolivia.—A.P.
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  • 169 8 Reuter. ADEN, Sun. —The first of 860 military aged Yemenite Jews, granted permission to leave for Israel, flew from here today soon after the Aden Government had asked Yemen to stop the trek of Jews into the protectorate. Yemenite Jews were said to be arriving in Aden
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  • 29 8 A.P. TEL AVIV, Sun. Moshc Shertok, L-racli Foreign Minister changed his name on Sunday, it was reported here. That his name is was not disclosed. —A.P.
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  • 190 8 A.P. BERLIN, Sunday.—The Soviet Union has served notice that it would not recognise nor accept the Western German State, now being formed under the guidance of Britain, France and the United States. This warning came in a letter from Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky to General Lucius j>.
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  • 59 8 U.P. NJCW DELHI. Sun. Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru said today that he would not be able to accept President Truman's invitation to visit the United States "for some months" because ol heavy parliamentary duties. He told a press conference however that he hoped to take
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  • 88 8 U.P. BATAVIA, Sun. It whs learned tonight that leaders of the Dutch-sponsored Indonesian states have unexpectedly decided to support the Republican leaders presently exiled on Bangka island. Federalist leaders met on March 3 and unanimously adopted a resolution calling on Dutch High Commissioner Louis Beel to allow
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  • 74 8 A.P. LONDON, Sun. Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh went to Twickenham yesterday to see the Army trounce the Navy 23—3 in the inter-services championship Rugby match. It was the Army's biggest win ever against the sailors in the series and fully earned too.
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  • 84 8 MELBOURNE. Sun. Four persons were feared drowned today as a result of cyclonic rains which flooded northern and central Queensland rivers. The missing people were last seen at Aitken Island, 100 miles north of Rockhampton where 23 inches of rain fell. An aeroplane will drop food tomorrow
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  • 158 8 U.P. NEW YORK, Sunday.—George Killion President of the American President Lines, the only passenger ship service to the Far East, said his company's offices from Honolulu to New York were receiving many inquiries about travel to Japan, which is now facilitated under Gen. MacArthur's recent
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  • 145 8 U.P. WASHINGTON. Sun. -The Atlantic Pact negotiations are i scheduled to meet at the State Department tomorrow with the goal of creatiny the final draft j of the Atlantic Pact before the j end of the week. Drafting teams have beeh working individually throughOut the week-end. The
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  • 83 8 Reuter. A.P. SAIGON. Sun.--Six Vietnamese were killed and 44 injured. 12 seriously, by an explosive thrown this morning m the central market of Saigon. The market was full of people waiting for the arrival of fish when the explosion occurred. A dozen of the injured
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  • 107 8 Reuter. SYDNEY, Sun. Whethei a canary should be fed before a husband could be a matter for hot dispute, but a man and his wife who debated it recently were each lined £1 in a Sydney court because they chose tin middle of a lailway track as
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  • 58 8 Reuter. GUATEMALA CITY, Sun. The Guatemalan Foreign Office, in a statement issued to the press here, harshly criticised criticised the United States for its refusal to send a delegate to a conference of Latin American countries due to meet In Havana on March 15 to discuss the "fate"
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  • 36 8 Reuter. BRUSSELS, Sun. Belgian Communists tonight declared they would not take part in an aggressive War against Russia, thus following a line already announced by Communist leaders in Britain, France, Italy, and other countries.—Router.
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  • 31 8 Reuter. BATAVIA, Sun.—The Bataviasch Neusbiad, a Dutch language daily, today alleged that India recently refused a Dutch request to fry seriously wounded Dutcii soldiers over Indian territory to Holland.—Reuter
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  • 47 8 A.P. SAN FRANCISCO, Sun Globe Wireless said today its Manila station had picked up a distress signal from a Japanese ship aground and in danger of breaking up in the north part of Shimabara bay on the 1 west side of Kyushu A.P. I
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    47 8 Oil yusht-s from a new woU daacoocred at Wadk El Firan, Eaypt, near the Antjlo-Egyptian oilfit Ids. Thin one uxis acrid t n.t ally found soon after the discovert/ o/ ofJier xcells farther to the north in an arm badly in need of oil. A
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  • 166 8 A.P. LONDON, Sunday.—Britain has produced its first plutonium, the hard substance used for creating atomic power. The Ministry of Supply announced the news on Sunday and called it "one of the most important steps forward in the country's atomic energy programme.'* The plutonium was produced at Britain's
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  • 107 8 A.P. ST. LOUIS. Sun. Tne new Mississippi river towboat Harry 1 S. Truman Is going to try on Tuesday to beat the speed record set by the Robert E. Lee in 1870. The Lee made the trip fiom New Orleans to St. Louis
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  • 217 8 I ORD Milverton, director of the Colonial De- velopment Corporation, arrived in Singapore from England last night. "The Corporation has schemes being prepared for many projects in all British colonies," Lord Milverton said last night. Lord Milverton, who before his barony was conferred upon him
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  • 45 8 A.P. NEW YORK. Sun.—ln con-' junction with the International Refugee Organisation. UN Ro-i liet body, the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) major American agency aiding distressed Jews abroad, has helped to, evacuate nearly 4,000 Jewish refugees from war-threatened Shanghai in the past two, months.—A.P.
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  • 55 8 Reuter. RHODES. SUn.—The acting Palestine mediator. Dr. Ralph Bunche, today sent two of his assistants to Tel Aviv in an effort to break the deadlock which is holding up armistice talks between the Israelis and Lebanese. The main difficulty was saia to be the presence of Syrian
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  • 69 8 Reuter. LONDON, Sun. fasten England and Scotland lay today under a light carpet of snow from Portsmouth in the south to Northeastern Scotland after snow had been falling at intervals for 16 hours. In London, where the «;no-v waa the first this winter, the depth was only
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  • 64 8 A.P. NORFOLK. Virginia, Sun.— Two former United States destroyers hoisted the Chinese Nationalist flag Saturday and sailed for China. They arc manned by Chinese crews. The two warships are the last of a group of four to be take* 1 y Chinese crows from Norfolk to
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  • 42 8 U.P. GENEVA. Sun.—Trygve Lie. general secretary of the United Nations, Milted here from Amsterdam by plane today. He will confer with the heads of specialised United Nations agencies here on the co-ordina-i tion of special programs for undeveloped countries.—U.P.
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  • 204 8 OPELOUSAS. LOUISIANA, Sun. A 25-year-oid Negro charged with rape who was kidnapped from a "mob proof" lail here early today swam to safety in the Atchafala river while tiiabductors were flipping a coin to see which one would shoot him. Kenneth Dcvil'ier, town marshal at
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  • 84 8 A.P. MADRAS, Sum. Both the Government and the Raaaaj administrations arc prepared to meet the Communist raffcaai strike which is due to itcgin > n Mar. 9. a Government poke man said. The entire police force has been mobilised "ready to men any eventual! |Os if
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  • 93 8 T'N'T' MONDAY MORNING MARKET: Presbyterian Church Hall. Orchard Road. "BRITAIN IN PICTURES:" Exhibition, British Council Hall. Stamford Road. Y.W.C.A., International Fortnightly Club, Mr. Lec Siow Mong on "Chinese Family Life." 3, Raffles Quay—10 a.m.. Business and Professional Women's Club's presentation of the one act play "I'm
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  • 152 8 PAVILION: "Mv Dear Secre- tary" starring Laraine Day and j Kirk Douglas at 2. 4.15. 6 30. 9.30 p.m. CAPITOL: "l"p In Central Park". —11 a.m., 1.45, 4. 6-30 and 9.30 p.m. CATHAY: "On An Island with You". (in techmeolouri i with Esther Williams and I'etcr Lawford—11 a.m.. 145.
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  • 57 8 HADMINTON. L\W N itI^.( MS AMI CRK'KKI THE: Y.M.C.A.. Orchard M* SWrKB: S.A K V Snr guo. Tamil K.E.M.E. —J- Bcsar St*» v Jnr. A. Grp. 1. Kota W Tamil Brother Stadium: -Tnr. I> r r .v._ ueoar tius S.C. vs. v St. George's Roau. Fn2 |j?h S.R.C.— S.C.C.;
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  • 218 8 A.P. CANTON, Sun. Premier Sun Fo and his refugee cabinet left an unwelcome legacy when 'hey returned north—an almost lobbied cost of living. At the end of January before Sun's arrival prices in terms of foreign currency were low in Canton. A hotel room was about two-thirds
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