Malaya Tribune, 31 October 1949

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  • 64 1 MALAYA Tribune BY THE ton mt PEOPLE Tel: Tribune" Spore LARGER SALES THAN ANY 'afternoon PAPER IN f MALAYA 1 Phone 3811/3 Nine Una Published simultaneously at Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang. EIGHT PAGES. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE E. Maurice
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  • 515 1 Dato Tan Cheng Lock Reveals Five-Point Plan For Squatters THE Malayan Chinese Association now has 103,000 members and is aiming to raise its strength to half a million. This was disclosed by Dato Tan Cheng Lock at a meeting of the General Committee at which he
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  • 25 1 A.P. SEMARANG, Central Java, Sun. -Dutch military authorities expressed growing concern yesterday over the number of Indonesian soldiers deserting from the Dutch colonial army.—A.P.
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  • 89 1 U.P. WASHINGTON. Sun. A State Department spokesman said Friday night that the United States ConsulGenet al in Mukden and four of his staff, arrested by Chinese Communist police for alleged y beating up a Chinese, may be tried by a Communist "people's court"
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  • 45 1 Reuter. LONDON, Sun. Communist Peking Radio today reported an outbreak of plague in the north China province of Chahar. Quoting the New China News Agency the radio said 49 people had died and doctors were working 20 hours a day.—Reuter.
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  • 61 1 Reuter. HONGKONG, Sun. —Twelve people were injured when the Star Ferry Company's crossharbour launch rammed a sea wall .after failure to stop at the wharf. The impact was so powerful that the ferry boat bounced off and headed for a nearby pier. A ferry following, however, rushed to
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  • 60 1 Another Strike Threat In U .S. PITTSBURGH, Sun.—The United States, already reeling from the impact of the steel and coal strikes, today prepared for another body blow from the chief of the United Mlneworkers, John L. Lewis. With the strike of 880,000 soft coal diggers entering its seventh week, Lewis
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  • 290 1 Tribune Staff Reporter PENANG, Sunday. The Working Committee of the Malayan Chinese Association met this evening at the Penang Chinese Chamber of Commerce and agreed to accept non-Chinese as associate members provided they comply with the same qualifications required of Chinese who join the
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  • 141 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Sun.—Tlie United States Navy announced tonight that 77 ships, including five aircraft carriers, were being withdrawn from active service as an economy move because of decreased funds. The announcement followed the disclosure that navy and marine corps strengtn would be reduced by 54,891
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  • 27 1 Reuter. KARACHI, Sun.—Mr. Shoaid Quereshi, former Foreign Minister of Bhcpal, has oeen appointed Pakistan's first ambassador to Moscow, it was announced here today.— Reuter.
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  • 124 1 X LIT ANG, Sun.—Two persons were injured when a Tiger Moth piloted by Mr. CHw c!_ Mesurier. Singapore Flying Club's ptiler Instructor, crashed iftid turned somersault on a water-logged field as it took off at Kluang's Air Day on a acrobatic flight this
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  • 126 1 A.P. LONDON. Sun.—A final cut of the Socialist scissors wi'l clip the powers of the British House of Lords today. The "upper house will now be able to delay laws for only one year. Formerly the nobleman can holdup legislation for two. This is
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  • 30 1 U.P. BOGOTA, COLOMBIA. Sun.—Political fighting in Colombia is raging unabated in the countryside with 175 persons killed in one twentyfour hour period, said reports reaching Bogota today.—U.P.
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  • 30 1 A.P. PRAGUE, Sun. —Czechoslovakia's Communist leaders today reviewed a two hours' parade of Czech military power in celebration of the 31st anniversary of the founding of the republic.—A.P.
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    46 1 Why are all my friends dressed in rags and tatters? Is there a slump? That is perhaps what the little monkey thought at the Hallowe'en "Hard Times 'party at the American Club on Saturday but jacko we lear n had a fine time later.
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  • 268 1 A.P. PARIS, Sunday. AMERICAN experts are working out a Marshall Plan to help stop Communism in Asia. The strategy so far planned is to put the project to the U.S. Congress next summer with a request for U551,000,000,000 to US$l, 250 million. Smaller
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  • 69 1 IPOH, Today.—The Malayan Badminton Association have received an invitation from the Australian Badm'Lton Association to send fiv* of the top-flight badminton stars to Australia in 1951 comprising of three man and two women. All expenses will be met by the Australian Association. The tears will spend
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  • 36 1 Reuter. SOFIA, Sun. Qen. Ivan Kinov, Chief of the Bulgarian General Staff, and Gen. Boyan Bulgaroanov, Chief of the Army Political Department, have been relieved of their posts under a decree published here today.—Renter.
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  • 115 1 U.P. LONDON. Sun.—A Buckingham Pa'ace source said today that there is a "strong possibility" that Princess Margaret may visit Canada and the United States next summer. Princess Margaret may first go to Canada in July, attend the official celebrations of the Highland Light Infantry of Canada
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  • 83 1 Reuter. HONGKONG, Sun.—Communist China's marine forces have been augmented by five Nationalist gunboats whicn deserted in the estuaries of the Peart and West Rivers, according to pro-Communist reports here. The craft consist of two small gunboats and three unidentified escort vessels. They left their blockade
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  • 75 1 Reuter. SAN FRANCISCO, Sun. The Chinese Communist Party, in a Peking Communist radio broadcast heard here today, "warned" the United States Supreme Court to revoke th e prison sentences of the 11 American Communist leaders. The Party's Central Committee also "warned" the Australian and Greek Governments
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  • 154 1 STOP PRESS Field Marshal Sir William Slim, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, spoke with Colonel Verle D. Miller, I S Military Liaison Officer, Singapore shortly before taking off today in a R.A.F. York aircraft bound for Colombo and the U.K. He was accompanied by
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  • 100 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Today. Within fifteen minute* yesterday afternoon commencing at 3.30 p.m., a large party of bandits held up seven vehicle* at the forty seventh mile Jerantut Road in the Kuala Lipis area. Two of these were police vehicles. According to meagre reports received the
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  • 61 1 LONDON, Sun. King George the Sixth sent a message to President Ismet.lnonu of Turkey to honour the 26th anniversary of the Republic The King said: "It gives me great pleasure, Mr. President, to send you our most warm and sincere good wishes for the
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  • 247 2 -fIicYCLES designed for the .Far Eastern markets D are a special feature at this year's Cycle and Motor Cycle Show at Earls Court, London, which opened at the end of last week. Firms report proraises of large orders. One big fittn (Hercules') had
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  • 159 2 MR. Karl Koller, 59-year-old retired builder of San Francisco is travelling round the world in a wheelchair because he lost his legs five years ago. Mr. Koller and his daughter Rita arc passengers in the President Polk now in Singapore. Mr. Koller says his
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  • 38 2 Reuter. SOFIA. Sun. The Bulgarian Communist Party Central Committee has sent a telegram to Australian Prime. Minister Joseph Chifiy protesting "most energetically against the imprisonment of Mr. L Sharkey, General Secretary of the Australian Communist Party.—Reuter.
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  • 119 2 LAKE SUCCESS, Sun. A Pakistan delegate said today that if the United Nations goal of raising living standards of the peoples of the world were to be reached, there had to be international action to relieve the "miserable economic set-up" in underdeveloped countries. Mohammed
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  • 94 2 Reuter. Speaking on the committee debate on employment conditions throughout the world the Pakistan delegate declared that the United Nations could not adequately study the problem "without extending its purview to agriculture and studies of employment arising from it." The root'cause of unemployment was the same in
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  • 29 2 A.P. BEIRUT, Sun. With winter coming and relief funds running iow, Lebanese Relief running predict a crisis soon among hundreds of thousands of Arab refugees from Palestine.—A.P.
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  • 150 2 TUR. Khaw Kai Boh, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Malaya, travelled to London to marry the talented musician. Miss Tan Chwee Geok (both are Singaporeans), at Golder's Green on Saturday afternoon. The ceremony was largely attended. Mr. Khaw bought a new car for a motoring honeymoon which
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  • 25 2 Were you there: A part of the audience who heard the debate on the United Nations Organisation at Raffles Institution last week.
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  • 101 2 The Inter parliamentary Union, which was lately formed from national groups in India. Parkistan, Ceylon, and the Philippines, may be-fore-long extend its -activities to Afghanistan. Burma, Biam and Indonesia. The diplomatic representatives in London of these eight states were entertained on Thursday nig*at at the House of
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  • 105 2 A.P. LONDON. Sun. Britain's sailor King George VI will inspect the officers and men of sloop H.M.SAmethyst at Buckingham Palace at 11.30 a.m. on **ov. 17. Buckingham Palace officially announced that the King will hold the inspection in the Palace ballroom. The announcement said
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  • 28 2 Ten top-mnkUg V.S. Communist. !«vo JtewTofk Otlp V Oov«n, ™n ifr™ KeWg .entenced and ItneJ for criminal <-on«plr« oj to oxetthrm. th, I Gov
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  • 216 2 U.P. LONDON, Sunday. DRITISH diplomatic and colonial representatives in D the Far East will discuss the effect that British recognition of 'the. Communist Government vi China would have on their respective territories when they meet in Singapore next week, a reliable source said in
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  • 62 2 A.P. HONGKONG. Sun.—The British cruiser Belfast was ordered today to proceed Rl highspeed to Pratas Island to aid 600 stranded passengers on a Chinese LST danamg ship tank) who are urgently in need of water. The British hospital ship Mairer is providing the Belfast with additional
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  • 40 2 U.P. SAN FRANCISCO. Sun Mrs. Bessie Hayes. 68-year-old Secretary oi the rfa:.mateo County Traffic Safety Commission, was cited by south San Francisco police Saturday night for driving her car over the double linecausing two otner cars to collide.—U.P.
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  • 53 3 Lady Gurney tutting the tape when she de- ciartnl open the 19th. i M. A. H. A. Exhibition in j HuaUi Lumpur !ast wee!;. The -Exhibition -on a smaller wale this year j was he'd at the Chinese Assembly Hall and closed yesterday. P. K.
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  • 97 3 A.P. Fortaleza. Brazil. Sun. Dorn Jose Tupinamba Da Fronta, Bishop of Sobral. frowns on "weddings de luxe.' in fact, he won't have them in Sobml churches. He does not like the in?? and noise, "the turning of the church into a cheap theatre,
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  • 218 3 U.P. LONDON, Sunday. ■DUSSIA is following the Chinese Communist advances 'teten by step" and plans to ensnare Pakistan in the"Sovkt pattern of conquest in Asia according to a document released by the International Committee lor the study of European ques- tions. The Committee, which includes
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  • 85 3 The Ali-Indonesia League of Singapore last nigiK Honoured tire Republic cf TnHoaeina delegation to Liie ECAFE conference with a "MMkun kcehil" at Sattan tiatt, Kampong Ge!:-.m. But the guest.; of honour, wove not there. They had 'eft for Jogjakarta when ECAFE closed on Saturdti. The League
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  • 413 3 —SIR FRANKLIN CIMSON Jjlß Franklin Qimson, Governor of Singapore, in a Poppy Day Appeal broadcast last -night, urged the people of Singapore to remember those, who paved the way to victory by helping ''those member of the brotherhood of man, who have
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  • 97 3 U.P. TOKYO. Sun. The Indian elephant. "M Is s Indira." which arrived in Japan recently as a gift to Japanese children from Prime Minister Nehru, was the «tar of Municipal employees field meet here today. The elephant was engaeed in a tug of
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  • 82 3 U.P. NEW YORK. Sun. A malpi automobile manufacturer today announced plans to shut down '.protruction at t\vo main plants next month ueeause of steel shortage wnile a railroad union official predicted that additional cuts were impending in the train service. Nash Motors announceu at
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  • 52 3 A.P. PRAGUE, "Sun. The Czech government, seeking more men for factories and mines, has begun putting women into another job heretdfOTe filled by men that of hotel porter. The first women porter* went into service in •Fraatiskovy Lazne, a northern Bohemian resort town, (and are reported doing
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  • 58 3 A.P. MOSCOW, Sun. A splar observatory for the Academy of Sciences of the Republic in Northern Azerbaijan is to be built o nthe southern slopes of the Caucasus Range. The Literary Gazette said the new observatory is to be equipped with two solar 'telescopes, double astrbgraphs
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  • 61 3 The Tungku Mahkot; J of Johore, Sir Umail Mr Ibrahim, inspecting the Guard-of-Honour of tho 1 Johore Police, Special Constables and Kampong Guards at the medal presentation parade test Saturday at -Ihe Johore Police Depot, Johore 1 Bahru. Wifh him are A ASP J. S. O'Neill,
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  • 186 3 SEGAMAT, Sunday. A PARTY Of Kampong Guards and Auxiliary Police A ambushed and killed a Chinese bandit in the Jemeriteh area yesterday. A .38 revolver and 26 rounds of ammunition were recovered. Six'padks'holding two pistol holsters, medicine, a 3-star cap and a quantity of cloth
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  • 23 3 A.P. The Government has decided to assimilate in Delhi about 300.000 ret usees frevi Pakistan. The original quota was only 100.000.—-A.P.
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  • 605 4 TWO sentences stand out in Dato Tan Cheng Lock's long and meaty presidential address to the Malayan Chinese Association (see this page). Says the Sage of Malacca: "It is high time the people of Malaya became more interested in Malayan politics. However a man may think he
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  • 3132 4  -  "A State which is incompetent to satisfy different races condemns itself; a State which labours to neutralise, to absorb, or to expel them, destroys its own vitality... By TAN CHENG LOCK President of the Malayan Chinese Association, in a speech to the General Committee
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  • 69 5 British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin (seated at desk) smiles happily as he receives (left to right); United States Senators William E. Jenner, Republican, Indiana; Allen J. EUender, Democrat, Louisiana: Theodore F. Green, Democrat, Rhode Island; Homer Ferguson, Republican, Michigan, Julius C Holmes, Minister of the L.S. Embassy
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  • 224 5 LONDON Sun.—Frederick (Scarface) Mitchell, the man who was sentenced to death In 1920 for the murder of a Borstal officer—then reprieved—was found hanged in his cell at Brixton Prison. The story of Mitchell is the story of a man who had almost as many
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  • 21 5 Reuter. MARSEILLES, Sun. The French steamer Montebeliard arrived here from Saigon tocUiv with 695 soldiers repatriated from Indochina. —Reuter.
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  • 195 5 HASTINGS, Sunday. MRS. Matilda Coppins received a letter from the King and Queen at the Salvation Army home, St. Leonards, where she lived. It began, "Dear Madam," and congratulated her on being 107 to-day. "Fancy me being 'Madam' to the King
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  • 32 5 Reuter. LONDON, Sun. Possibility of resuming trade with Shanghai, under blockade by the Chinese Nationalists, was discussed at a shipping conference in London last week, it was learned yesterday. —Reuter.
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  • 66 5 BRISTOL, Sun. —Awakened by a rustling noise during the night Mrs. June Walker, of Salt well Avenue, Whitchurch, Bristol, switched on the light to investigate. In the empty fireplace *£ie found a live but sooty six-inch long goldfish. A possible theory is that a bird snatched
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  • 48 5 U.P. PARIS. Sun. The Free Czechoslovakia Committee announced here today that new uranium deposits reputedly "twenty times larger than the Canadian deposits" have been discovered by Czechoslovakian scientists about 37 miles Southwest of Prague. The Committee- said that the deposit is under Soviet control.—U.P.
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  • 219 5 LONDON, Sun. THE best way to keep a woman in her home? that was the question put to the conference of the National Society of Children's Nurseries in London recently. The answer —"Give her regular opportunities of leaving it"
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  • 231 5 LONDON, Sunday. AN the run somewhere in the British Isles is an Irishman who has "demobbed" himself 250 times from the R.A.F. and collected 250 ration books and identity cards. Senior Scotland Yard officers recently visited Eire to interview
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  • 111 5 A.P. MANILA. Sun. Nineteen convicted Japanese war criminals. 14 of them condemned to the gallows, were baptized Christians todayAmong them were men who had been judged guilty of mass killings of civilians, of torture and of cannibalism. They had been Buddhists or declared
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  • 55 5 Ca ly Carlton, 20, arrives In V v York after a visit to the E glish Channel island of Jersey. A Philadelphia, Pa., girl, Cathy entered a beauty contest while visiting a cousin on the island and won first place in a competition with 50 girls
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  • 173 5 LINCOLNSHIRE, Sunday. "FARM boy John met farm girl Fannie on the platform of a North Lincolnshire railway station. "I was going to Market Raseri fair with another young girl when I first met John," said Fannie. "On the platform were three boys who looked like
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  • 64 5 U.P. LONDON. Sun. Prince Aly Khan. Rita Hayworth's husband had a close brush with death and injury today when one engine of his two-motored plane cut out a few seconds after It took off from Paris. Ambulances and fire engines lined the runway as the fast
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  • 33 5 U.P. BERLIN, Sun. Wilhelm Pieck, the President of the German Soviet zone said today that all German prisoners of war, except "criminals" would be repatriated from Russia by January the Ist.—U.P.
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  • 739 6 (From a Market Correspondent) ALTHOUGH a fsu vofumc of business was written, Malayan markets had what must be regarded as a mosr disappointing "Week. Even tlie announcement Of arrangements for an interim tin buying price,, which might have been regarded as bullish, could do nothing
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  • 96 6 Reuter. MANILA. Sun. South Korea is to secure a Ghee of the hitherto virtually 100 percent American- dominated apple market of the Philippines, according to official advices just received in Manila. Korea's offer, either on a barter or cash basis, payment to be made in
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  • 65 6 A.P. WASHINGTON, Sun. A MMT»timc Commission report predicts that devaluation of foreign currencies will result m higher governments .TObsidles to American shipping companies. The report forecast exchange reductions will bring lower freight rates. This would require greater U.S. operational subsidies to meet foreign competition. The
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  • 163 6 U.P. WASHINGTON, Sun. The Federal Reserve Board estimated today that the coal and steel strikes have cut the nation's industrial production to the lowest level since February, 1946. While President Trfiman groped anxiously for a strike solution outside the TaftHartley Act. the Board
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  • 28 6 Reuter. TOKYO. Sun. The Siamese Government has demanded reopening of negotiations on the purchase of Japanese rolling stock because of the devaluation of the pound sterling.—Reuter.
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  • 107 6 AAP. CANBERRA. Sun. The Australian Aluminium Commission has under its control proven bauxite deposits in Australia sufficient to maintain aluminium production at the rate of 10.000 tons a year for 100 years, according to the Commission's fourth anmual report. Because of tailing overseas shipping
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  • 103 6 The rubber commodity market on Saturday was idle with hardly any business passing and no interest taken by dealers. Closing- prices in cents per pound: Buyers Sellers No. 1 Nov. RSS 44 1/8 44 3/8 No. 2 Nov. RSS 32 5/8 42 7 3 No. 3 Nov. RSS
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  • 156 6 Copra continued a firm and active market on Saturday. London ■toefcs were reported to be low ond demand is inere;'.-iii>; in Singapore, Storks in the Colony market ere estimated at about 2.000 tons at the momerti. B4ac k pepper continued lo cane on Saturday. Sellers quoted $10 less
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  • 81 6 A.P. KARACHI, Sun. Commercial interests here arc pressing the Government to lift the seven-yea i-old ban on trade with South Africa. Karachi traders are inteicsted in South African coal and gold. The supply of coal from India has been stopped as a iesult
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  • 397 6 U.P. HONGKONG Sun. The civil war in China is practically over and businessmen in Hongkong had better get ready to trade with the new Communist regime, the Far -Eastern River stated. The Review, which often reflects the views of big business and financial
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  • 824 7 fkmim Made To Sweat For Victory THE Indian Football Tourists beat the Malayan Indians by two goals to one at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday, but it is a victory thfey cannot be proud of. Presented with a number of scoring
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  • 119 7 At the ree<-nt Qua Iran- j gular Hock 'v Meet in Ipoh, several Federation i hockey officials were keen that an All-Malaya team tour Macao and Hong- kong and then meet the C hampions of the world —the All India Team. They sa.~
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  • 55 7 Reuter. SURREY. Sun. E. L. Choong of Malaya yesterday beat the English international H. J. Wingfield 15—6, 15—2 to enter the final of the open badminton tournament here. In the final Choong will meet K. R. Greasley of Northampton who defeated another English international. N.
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  • 83 7 Speaking on behalf of the Singapore team who visited Ipoh for the Quadrangular Hockey meet at Ipoh, Mr. G. E.N. Oehlers and Mr, Raymond Manjoot (president and secretary of the Singapore Hockey "Association) expressed gratitude and thanks for the hospita'ity offered them by the Perak H.A.
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  • 60 7 king KONG the Hungarian giant wrestler met his Waterloo at the Great World Arena on Saturday night when he was knocked by Ray Anderson, one of the three American wrestlers, in the third round of match. Ray's compatriot, "Tarzan" Ly Layton managed to gain the decision over
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  • 57 7 Reuter. P ATI A LA. Sun. The Commonwealth cricket team scored 383 for four wickets by clor?e of play on the day of their match against North Zcne here yesterday. Frank Worrell, the West Indies Test player, made 154. Norman Oldfleld, the Northamptonshire County batsman, scored 103 and
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  • 26 7 A.P. LONDON. Sun.—Swallow Tail, a highly regarded three-year-did colt has been bought for USfIOO.OOO for export, the Anglo-Irish Bloodstock Agency announced Saturday. —A.P.
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  • 66 7 U.P. NEW YORK. Tues.—Exfeatherweight champion Sandy Saddler graduated into the lightweight ranks tonight with little effort by scoring a technical knockout at the end of the ninth round over Demarco before 13 thousand fans at Madison Square harden. Slender, brown-skinned Saddler gave Paddy such a terrific head
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  • 566 7 By SHUTTLE TWO ties in the men's doubles (quarter-finals) provided the fireworks in the Singapore Badminton Championships played before a large crowd at the Clerical Union Hall last night. The players, fought each other almost to a standstill. The "rubber" decided each event. When
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  • 194 7 A.P. THE New York Herald Tribune paid a special tribute in Its dltorial today to Marcel Cerdan, the French boxer who died with 47 others when an Air France Constellation airliner crashed and burned On a mountain peak in the Azores on Friday. "Each circle of
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  • 534 7 Reuter. LONDON, Sunday. IN their quest for a centreforward to replace injured 1 Jackie Milburn against Ireland on Nov. 16, Eng- land's soccer selectors cast a wide net at yesterday's League matches. One of the men being watched v/as Tommy Lawton who
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  • 39 7 Reuter. SYDNEY. Sun. —Australia will contest every event at next year's Empire Games m Auckland, according to the Secretary of the Australian Empire Games Federation, Jim Eve. He said Australia would send a mmimum of 147 athletes—Reuter.
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    54 8 Isaac Patch, 37, U.S. Emba ,s> Attache at Prague, relaxes In the loung of Nueremberg's Grand Hotel after travelling with his wife and daughters from the Czech Capital. He ImJ been given 21 hours to leave Czechoslovakia alter being named by the Czech security officials as "Director of
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  • 364 8 Reuter LONDON, Sunday. Jack Townley's four-year-old colt Sterope will go down to history as one of the finest handicappers of all time after his brilliant performance this week in winning the Cambridgeshire Handicap for the second successive year carrying top weight under the most trying
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  • 113 8 Reuter. BELGRADE. Sun.—Hungarian frontier guaids opened fire or a 200-yard wide stretch of Yugoslav territory with automatic weapons on Tliui-sday last, the Yugoslav Ministry of the Interior announced today. The incident, the biggest yet to occur on the frontier between the two countries, was at
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  • 25 8 Reuter. SAIGON, Sun.—King Nor. dom Cihanouk of Cambodia arrived here today on his return from Paris, and continued by plane to Pnompenh. —Reuter.
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  • 16 8 Reuter. PRAGUE, Sun. President K'icment Gottwa'd today announce an amnesty for 127 Roman Catholic priests.Reuter.
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  • 173 8 U.P. LONDON. Sun. Reliable reports from eastern Europe indicated today that the Soviet Union is holding six or seven army divisions Yugoslavia's frontiers. Ostens'bly these are to protect the Russian lines of communication into Austria as permitted under the peace treaties with Rumania
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  • 172 8 Twenty-two year-old Miss Margaret Wong, attractive China National Aviation Corporation hostess, winner of a Hongkong Rediffusion prize has not decided finally to make her free air trip to Malaya She would very much like to see Japan or Manila. Miss Wong was awarded
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  • 106 8 LONDON, Sun.—S. Lee of London won his world professional championship heat against the Canadian, Con Stanbury, at Battersea. London, yesterday afternoon when he took the fifth frame to gain a winning lead of 18 to 11. Each player won three of the frames this afternoon for
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  • 81 8 U.P. oth'DAl, Japan, Sun.—one Japanese was kil'ed and two other Japarese and two Koreans were wounded in a clash between rival Japanese and Korean stteet vendors in Tsukidate, a town in the Miyagi prefecture. The trouble brewed a fight over the premium money take from »tall keepers and
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  • 37 8 A.P. MANILA, Gun.—A mare named Pagoda won the photofinish sixth race at Santa Ana race track today to pay off U551,231,25 to one in parimutuel betting. Only US$B had been placed on Pagoda to win.—A.P.
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  • 165 8 U.P. and A.P HONGKONG. Sun. The Nationalist Cabinet in Chungking today announced plans for building China's depleted armies from its estimated 500,000 centered troops to at least 2.500 000. General K. S. Nieh. Deputy Secretary of the Cabinet, announced that appropriations had been
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  • 162 8 U.P. NEW YORK, Sun—Famous French chanteuse. Ed'th Piaf, 30, her lips trembling with grief sang songs .i->v/Ut her departed sweetheart tonight only a few hours after she had learned of the death of her boxer ;rieud, Marcel Cerdan. Her eyes were reddened with
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  • 79 8 Reuter. THE HAGUE, Sun.—The Indonesian Republic plans to build an air force of five fighter squadrons and up to five transport squadrons after the transfer of sovereignty by Holland, Air Vice Commodore Suryadarma, Indonesian Chief of Air Stuff said here today. Commodore Suryadarme, who is attending the
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  • 32 8 Reuter. THE HAGUE, Sun. Dele gates to the Indonesian conference here have agreed to accept Dutch debts in Indonesia totalling 4,300,000,000 guilders, it was learned in conference circles today.— Reuter.
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  • 213 8 U.P. LONDON, Sunday. A British Trades Union Congress spokesman said today that 124 trades A union organizations in 55 countries and 19 colonies have been invited to the London conference next month to establish a new anti-Communist trade union international.
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  • 165 8 PONTA GELGADA AZORES. Sun. —The crash of the Air France Constellation in which forty-eight persons died was blamed today on apparent radio failure and the consequent effofi to land on the wrong island in the Azores. The investigators who flew here after the crash said
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  • 199 8 A.P. HONGKONG. Sun.—Hongkong can take a lesson from Irving Berlin. That is the opinion of Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for the David Rees-Williams who advised at a press conference here last night that the Colony adopt as a theme the hit number from Berlin's musical "Annie
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  • 107 8 Reuter. CALCUTTA, Sun. The eigthv-dav-o'd strike of 24.000 workers of the Calcutta Corporation was called off today and workers were asked by the Joint Committee of their unions to lesurne work immediately. The terms of settlement ar rived at between the Strike Ccmrnittee end
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  • 158 8 A.P. MANILA, Sunday. DRESIDENT Elpido Quirino announced today that a preliminary conference for the organization of a non-Communist Union of South East Asian countries would be held in the Philippines next January or February. Premier Nehru of India is reported ready to participate. Romulo and
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  • 89 8 A.P. LOS ANGELES, Sun.—Sir Oliver Franks, British Ambassador to Washington, told reporters here that "if Hong Kong la attacked, we will defend ourselves. That will mean war." "But of course, I have no wav of knowing what is m the minds of
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  • 166 8 A.P. MANILA, Sun. A Kansas City railroad executive today opposed efforts of the accused Filipino widow of the late George C. Murray to obtain rights of administering the estate of his murdered son. Through legal counsel here, Jerry Murray, father of the slain arms agent and surplus
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    75 8 Chinese stewardesses have been added to Canadian Pacific Airlines' weekly flights between Vancouver, British Columbia, and the Orient. Each 3S-passenger "Empress of the Air" will carry a fully trained Chinese girl as well as a Canadian stewardess to look after language problems and make Oriental passengers feci more
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  • 335 8 THE HAGUE, Sunday. A provisional constitution for the United States of Indonesia was signed here yesterday, but an authoritative Indonesian source said disagreement over New Guinea might still threaten final success of the negotiations. Unless there is a hitch the Dutch plan to transfer sovereignty over
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  • 82 8 U.P. BATAVIA, Sun. Dutch military authorities are prepared to release all TNI and civilian prisoners taken since the 16th of August (when the Java cease fire order was issued), if the Republicans are also prepared to release the federal officials captured or abducted by the Republican
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  • 130 8 NEW YORK, Sua. Natural rubber coming into the United States exceeds prewar volume and excels prtwar volume and excels preward E. Bellows, Eastern Division Sales Manager for the General Tire and Rubber Company. In a meeting of 150 automobile and tire dealers held here
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  • 45 8 MUNICIPAL COMMISSIONERS' Meeting at 2.15 p.m. Y.W.C.A. Cooking Class 'Paltry and Cakes) at 5 p.m. at 5. Raffles Quav. CHINESE Y.M.C.A.: Evangelical Meeting by Mr. Wilson Wane 7.30 p.m. INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS ASSOCIATION Life class British Council Centre Stamford Road 6 p.m.
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  • 151 8 CATHAY: "Christopher Colunbus" with Fedric March 11 a.m. 1.45. 4.15, 6.45 and 9.30 p.m. CAPITOL: "Joan of An" with Ingrid Bergman. 10.50 a.m.. 4, 6.45, and 8.30 p.nu A I.HAM BK A: "Sky Raiders 12.30. 4.30 and 8 30 p.m. PAVILION: "The Lost On* with Ncllv Corradi at 2,
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